and dollars now in the treasury.
This result is not only gratifying in respect to the past, but it is
hopeful in respect to the future. We trust the constituents of the
Association, who are so deeply interested in the success of the work
entrusted to us, will see to it that the coming year shall terminate
as favorably as this.

DANIEL HAND FUND.

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 expe