In addition to the above receipts, the Association has received from Daniel Hand the munificent gift of one million eight hundred and ninety-four dollars and twenty-five cents ($1,000,894.25) to be known as the Daniel Hand Fund for The Education of Colored People.  The income only of this Fund is to be used.  The amount received as income from this Fund for the nine months to September 30, is $36,999.71.  This amount is not included in the current receipts stated above, but is a Special Fund and has been appropriated under the terms and conditions of the Trust.  From this income we have not only aided more than three hundred students who otherwise would not have had the privilege of attending any school, but have also greatly enlarged our school accommodations at Chapel Hill and Beaufort, N.C., Phoenix, S.C., Thomasville and McIntosh, Ga., Selma, Ala., and New Orleans, La.  Another year will afford opportunities to a much greater number of pupils, and will still further enlarge our school facilities in the special lines of work contemplated by this gift.  It was a noble gift from a noble man and it will do a noble work.

The overwhelming majority of the Southern Negroes are still found in the rural districts, where schools are few and far apart.  It is expected that the gift of Daniel Hand will take educational privileges to thousands of these in the country and on the plantations, who but for this must have lived as in the blackness of night.

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It has been found that with the West ever growing, and Congregational churches multiplying, the field of our Western District Secretary was too large for him possibly to cover it all.  Hence this immense district has been divided, and another has been established with its centre at Cleveland, Ohio.  Rev. C.W.  Hiatt, a graduate of Wheaton College and Oberlin Seminary, has been placed in charge of this district, and has already entered upon the work.  We bespeak for him a hearty welcome from the churches.

Prof.  Edward S. Hall, a graduate of Amherst College and a teacher of long and successful experience, has been chosen a Field Superintendent for the Southern work, and entered upon his duties at the beginning of our year.

We again make grateful acknowledgment of our indebtedness to the American Bible Society for its grants of Bibles, and to the Congregational Sunday-school and Publishing Society for its grants of books and lesson helps, to our poorer churches and Sunday-schools.

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This much we report.  But how little can figures and words present the needs of these great fields.  How little idea can they convey of the extent of the work done by our earnest, self-sacrificing, faithful and able missionaries.