is righteousness."

While God is abundantly blessing our work in our great and wide fields
among four races, we may safely ask our Christian friends to appeal to
him that we shall have not only the needful funds to carry on the work
without debt, but also enough to enable us to enter the doors which he
opens. We are needing _eight thousand dollars_ to keep our accounts
balanced, and we ask those, in whose names we stand, to pray that all
these things be added unto us. Has any pastor forgotten to take the
collection?

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Rev. C.J. Ryder, recently assigned to the District Secretaryship of our
Eastern District, with rooms at Boston, will be found at the office in
the Congregational House, March 1st. He will be ready to respond to
invitations from the churches to present our cause, and can speak from a
large experience in our widely-extended and varied work. We commend Mr.
Ryder to the churches.

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President Woodworth, of Tougaloo University, is in the North for a few
weeks, and will represent the growing and very hopeful interests of
Tougaloo, wherever he may be desired. Letters directed to our office in
New York will be forwarded to him.

Prof. Horace Bumstead, of Atlanta University, is now in the North to
present the needs of that institution, and we trust that he will have
large success. He will be happy to send the _Atlanta Bulletin_ to those
who may write for it, addressing him at 148 Tremont Street, Boston. In
the light of the large convention of Negroes lately held at Macon, Ga.,
the _Bulletin_ will be found exceedingly suggestive.

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The Indian Presbytery of Dakota, composed of converted Sioux Indians,
during the last ecclesiastical year gave $571 more to Foreign Missions
than _any other presbytery in the synod_, and during the last synodical
year gave to the nine Boards of that church $234 more than any of the
white presbyteries of the synod.

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Nannie Jones, a normal graduate at Fisk University, of the class of
1886, is to go, under the auspices of the American Board, to the
south-eastern part of Africa, about 600 miles from Natal. She is the
first single colored woman sent out by the American Board. She has been
adopted by the Ladies' Board of the Interior, whose head-quarters are at
Chicago.

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