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by right. Our missionary has
brought the matter plainly before me, so I desire that you will deduct
$2.00 every month, which will be one-tenth of my entire salary, and put
it where it will be used for the service of Christ."
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Rev. Frank G. Woodworth writes from Tougaloo University.
The school is progressing well. If we have the necessary
accommodations, I see no reason why the school should not enrol 500

pupils within the next two years. We have had nearly 340 thus far, and
probably will reach 375 by the end of the year, and we have refused
between 30 and 40 girls because we had no room for them.
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In the last MISSIONARY we gave quite an account of special religious
services held in connection with the Le Moyne Institute, Memphis,
Tenn. In the brief extract below, from a letter of Prof. Steele's, we see
some pleasant results:
"Our special meetings in connection with Mr. Wharton's stay of two
weeks are closed. There have been some eighty or more conversions in
church and school; over sixty are students in school. The work seems
very genuine."
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The announcement of the winners of the Tunis Quick prize for
grammar and spelling has been made by the faculty of Rutgers College.
The prize was equally divided between James E. Carr of New York
City, and Milton Demarest of Oredell, N.J. Carr is colored. Last year he
took the highest honor at the grammar school commencement,
delivering the valedictory and winning a prize scholarship. He has only
one eye.
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We would continue to remind pastors and churches of our Leaflets,
which we will be happy to furnish, on application, to those taking
collections for our Association.
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NOTES FROM NEW ENGLAND.
I recently spoke in a manufacturing town in New England. In the
forenoon service, a man, evidently an operative in one of the mills, sat
in a front pew with a whole row of little children beside him, his wife at
the end of the line with a baby in her lap. In the evening, the same man
and family, minus the mother and baby, occupied the same pew. After
the service, this man came to me, and with deep emotion said: "I am
only a working man; you saw my large family of little children; every
penny I can earn counts, but I feel that I must divide the living of my
children with these poor people you have told us of to-day. We can get
on with poorer food to give them the gospel."
This was said in the accent that told that this Christian nobleman came

from old covenant-making and covenant-keeping Scotland! Not a very
"dangerous foreigner!" Money given from such extreme sacrifice is
sacred. Would this spirit were universal!
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The close relation existing between the work of the American
Missionary Association for the colored people in America, and that of
the American Board for the colored people in Africa, is most
interestingly illustrated by a contribution which has recently reached
this New England office. Rev. B.F. Ousley of Kambini, East Africa,
sends a contribution of ten dollars for the Theological Department in
Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. Mr. Ousley and wife are graduates of
Fisk University and went out as missionaries to Africa under the
American Board, four years ago. After these years of experience they
realize that Africa must be evangelized by colored people trained by
A.M.A. schools, and they make this generous contribution to this grand
work.
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A suggestion made in the Boston "Ministers' Meeting," on the question,
"How to conduct a prayer meeting," might be very appropriately
applied to missionary concerts and addresses. This was the suggestion:
"Keep the temperature warm, the atmosphere clear, and don't pommel
the Christians!" Applied to missionary concerts and addresses, this
sound advice would read: Keep the missionary temperature warm by
telling incidents of missionary experience; keep the missionary
atmosphere clear by presenting the grand hopefulness of the glorious
work, and don't pommel those who attend these meetings and give to
these causes!
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Patriotism is all aglow among the boys and girls of New England just
now! More than twelve hundred have enlisted recently in the army of
the "True Blues." Pastors, Sunday-school superintendents and teachers,
officers of Young People's Societies of Christian Endeavor, and other
missionary societies have been the enthusiastic recruiting sergeants,
and still there is demand for more recruits. Who will enlist next?
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In the last "Notes from New England," we recorded the gift of an aged
friend. Now comes this touching letter:

"Dear Sir:--Please