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PROSPECTUS POR 1867.-VOLUME TWO.

THE

SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER.

A LIVE SUNDAY SCHOOL MONTHLY,

PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE CHICAGO SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION.

THE Publishers desire to express their appreciation of the popular favor which has marked the reception of THE TEACHER, during the past year. It has received the highest com mendation from Clergymen, Superintendents and Teachers, and has become the TEXT BOOK of Sabbath Schools in every section of the country. In its future conduct no effort will be pared to render it fully up to Sunday School needs, and eminently practical in every respect. We hope to make it a necessity to every School and to every l'eacher.

THE LESSONS AND QUESTIONS will be prepared by the Rev. EDWARD EGGLESTON. A Lesso will be given for EACH SABBATH IN THE YEAR. The QUESTION PAPER will be issued as usua GEOGRAPHICAL EXERCISES will be practically presented by ROBERT MORRIS, L L. D. OBJECT LESSONS will be furnished by Mrs. M. A. McGONEGAL, and others.

ILLUSTRATED PICTURE LESSONS for Primary Classes, will be given during the year by Dr BLACKALL.

COLLOQUIES AND OTHER CONCERT EXERCISES will occasionally be furnished by some of our best writers.

Among the articles upon general topics, we take pleasure in announcing the following: THE REV. JOHN TODD, D. D., will contribute a series written in his inimitable style. THE REV. JOHN M. GREGORY, L L. D, will furnish a series, which will be equally valuble with his "Seven Laws of Teaching," published last year.

THE REV. EDWARD EGGLESTON will supply several articles upon “Teacher Training." Besides these, we expect occasional articles from other contributors, of last year, among whom are:--R G. PARDEE, Rev. H. L. HAMMOND, Mrs. M. B. C. SLADE, Mrs. EMILY J. BUGBEE, New York. Rev. J. P. Cook, France, Miss FRANCIS E. WILLARD, Miss M. B. SLEIGHT, EMILY HUNTINGTON MILLER. W. H, GROSER, England, RALPH WELLS, Rev. ALFRED TAYLOR, MISS MARY E. ATKINSON, and others, with whom we are in correspondence.

ITEMS OF SUNDAY SCHOOL INTELLIGENCE will be carefully gleaned from every source. NEW MUSIC will be published each month, under the direction of Prof. H. R. PALMER, O Chicago. MAPS AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS will be given from time to time, during the year.

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE.

REV. EDWARD EGGLESTON, Chairman.

REV. Z. M. HUMPHREY, D. D., REV. E. G. TAYLOR, REV. CHARLES EDWARD CHENEY, Musical Editor, PROF. H. R. PALMER.

REV. H. L. HAMMOND.

Terms of the Teacher.

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Address, ADAMS, BLACKMER & LYON, Publishers,

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INDIANA.

THE accounts from the Orphan sylums are more than usually satisctory this month.

R. T. Reed writes that there are ow 72 in the Asylum, between 20 and 23 of whom are under four years of age, and that they have no serious sickness. Lucinda B. Jenkins and Ann Nichols have returned home, and Joanna P. Moore has been sent to that Asylum, as R. T. and D. Reed felt unequal to the task of managing the Asylum alone, particularly if there should be sickness, as there was last year, and the incessant rainy weather would be very likely to cause much sickness this fall.

The school at the Helena Asylum was to close 7th mo. 26th. Alida Clark writes that she hopes to see some of the scholars fitted by next summer to do something in the way of teaching. Abbie Rodgers, (the Principal of a female seminary in Michigan,) proposes to place a young colored girl there, at her expense, to be trained for teaching.

No. 8.

Education for Arkansas, has sent the following description of them:

"The school-house at Helena has been completed, and the one in this city, (Little Rock,) is approaching completion, being already inclosed. Both buildings will be good ones; all the rooms being light, well ventilated, healthful and every way pleasant. The one at Helena is intended for two teachers, and the one here for four. There is on each floor of the building here a teacher's room, which may be used as a library room, a room for conversational discipline, and, if needed, for a recitation room. I regard it as a very great convenience. The upper floor will be doubled to deaden the sound, the building will be well painted. both outside and inside, and all the rooms seated in the best manner. There will be four departments or grades: Primary, Intermediate or second Primary, Grammar, and Normal. The principal of the Normal Department--a man-to have general supervision of the whole, including care of building and premises, and outside deportment of pupils, all the teachers in the building to spend at least two hours on Friday or Saturday of each week under direction of principal, in muShe also writes that some new tual consultation, concerning the goods, purchased and shipped, had moral, physical and intellectual welreached there, and were being manu- fare and improvement of their pupils factured. "With twenty girls all nice- and themselves. An outline of the ly seated in our new sewing room, work done at these meetings together very busy, we turn off sewing rapid- with a careful report of the attendly. Seven shirts were made entirely ance and punctuality of each teacher, from 2 to 6 o'clock on Second-day, to be made as often as once in three and many other articles partly made." months to the Secretary of Indiana Reports have been received from Yearly Meeting of Friends, and to six schools for Sixth month, taught the State Superintendent of Educa by eight teachers; number enrolled, tion. Having built good, and in 208 males; 245 females; total 453; some respects model, school houses average attendance, 351; collected for we desire that the schools keep in tuition, $65,15; for books $5.20. them may be patterns of morality, The school houses at Helena and industry, order and neatness. With Little Rock are now finished. W. such schools in all our buildings, (six M. Colby, the Superintendent of in number,) we believe an impetus

Calvin Clark has improved rapidly, and is having the weeds cleaned out, but the rain falls almost daily.

may be given to the educational work, hitherto entirely unknown in the State."

TREASURER'S REPORT.

weeks since by the interesting particulars they gave us.

I suppose thou knowest that our friend John Henry Douglas is now in Norway, my dear husband is traveling with him there, after having $13 00 accompanied him almost throughout 9 30 his journey in England and Ireland, 10 25 and some parts of the Continent, 105 40 where I had the privilege of being ...135 00 with them, so that we feel J. H. Douglas very much one of the family. I have not heard from them very lately, but trust they are well-the last accounts were good, but posts are not very regular where they are.

5 00

$287 95

W. T. CARPENTER, Treas.

With the money from the Holloway and Camden Road Ladies Ascociation, came the following interesting letter from our friend Christine Alsop:

STOKK NEWINGTON,

Near London, 6th mo., 26, 1867.) Dear Friend, TIMOTHY HARRISON:

"It is a little contribution from our local Ladies Association at Stoke Newington, from which thou hast already received casks of clothing for the Lauderdale Asylum, through our friends, Ellen and Sarah Ann Tylor. Our Association, though of small importance, is endeavoring to persevere in the good work, and as I think our interest will be kept up by our working for the Freed-people, I have urged our continuing our sewing circle, but we have, some of us, wished to contribute a little also towards education, we therefore send this little donation for that purpose, either for the Lauderdale Asylum or any other. As we have heard of the Lauderdale Asylum through our dear friend, J. H. Douglas, we feel interested in its prosperity, and, therefore, should prefer thee giving it to that, unless there should be, in thy estimation, another institution needing it worse. We have also another cask of clothing and material ready to be shipped, and we hope there will not be so much delay in its transmission as there was in the others. We do not continue our work in the summer, but hope to recommence in 9th mo. Our friends, Eli and Sybil Jones, kindly gave us a little fresh start two

I am sincerely thy friend,

CHRISTINE R. ALSOP."

THE labors of another year by our committee for the Freedmen are nearly finished. Thirteen teachers have been employed teaching schools in Arkansas and Mississippi, and five Friends have had charge of the two Asylums under our care. The schools are now all closed, and nearly all the teachers have returned home, part of their traveling expenses being kindly refunded by the Bureau.

The children at the Asylums have received rations from the Bureau, but the general care, clothing and education of them, has caused a heavy expenditure, which has been met partly by the handsome and timely contributions of our Friends in England, who have furnished a large amount of money and considerable clothing.

As the year closes the question naturally arises what is before us. We have endeavored to do our duty in their extremity, now what further is called for from us?

Congress has very nobly acted as the poor man's friend, by protecting and feeding the poor in the South, both white and black, appropriating a large amount of army clothing to clothe the naked, and by aiding those who wished but were not able to educate themselves. Five good school houses have been built in the State of Arkansas this Spring, which have cost from $4,000 to $6,000 each, and similar school houses have been built

in other States, to give more perma- Bureau would probably pay the travnency to that instrumentality which eling expenses to and from the work, will qualify the colored man for his and, we believe, that with proper new position in life, Congress having management, the Freedmen can pay already conferred upon him the right a considerable part of the cost of of citizenship, and by doing this the tuition. We are very desirous to probability is that in some places the continue the work where we have colored population, by having a ma- already obtained an influence for jority of votes, will, in time, exercise good over these people. legislative power; such power will, we trust, be used to enforce education and to establish asylums for the helpless and orphans.

If these are reasonable anticipations, and we think that they are, is it not of great importance to continue the good work done amongst the colored people by Benevolent Societies in the North? Should not those who have gained their confidence by actual acts of kindness, continue with and aid them by their counsel and experience in this great work of reconstruction?

Our Committee are now urgently solicited, both by the officers of the Bureau and by the colored people, to send teachers to Helena and Little Rock next fall, to occupy the new buildings lately put up, and with the prospect before us we should be glad, we should feel it our duty, to respond favorably.

To accomplish our work we need an able man for each of these places, who should hold meetings each week or fortnight with the parents. They need to be taught how to earn money, take care of it, and especially how to spend it. There is great necessity for this, they must be taught to be selfsustaining; we believe that an incalculable amount of good can now be done in this way. Below will be found a request from the Committee for such a Friend or Friends who will be willing to accept the position as a duty, labor earnestly and devotedly, and be satisfied with a moderate sal

To do this we need a man for each place of financial as well as educational ability; regular meetings must be held with the parents to teach them habits of industry and frugality, and to inculcate the necessity of paying weekly or monthly all or part according to their ability, for the tuition of their children.

This is an important missionary work; they need sympathy and instruction to become self-sustaining, and we should be glad to correspond with any Friend whose mind may be drawn in this direction.

On behalf of Committee,

T. HARRISON.

BOARD OF CONTROL.

As most of our readers are aware an association of the Executive Committees of the four Western Yearly Meetings of Friends for the "Relief of Freedmen," was formed in the fall of 1864, composed of delegates from each Executive Committee, the object being to devise some plan by which the Executive Committees of the several Yearly Meetings might most efficiently unite their labors. This Board of Control rented a room in Cincinnati, as the central point for the reception of clothing, &c., and employed a Shipping Agent there, they also employed an agent to travel in the South, to ascertain where this clothing was most needed, and see to its distribution. These expenses were to be defrayed by the different Yearly Meetings. During the winters of 1864–5, and 1865-6, about 800 THE Bureau has built large, good packages of clothing, &c., were shipschool houses at Little Rock, and ped through this agency for the relief Helena, Arkansas, and desired us to of suffering in the South. This cenfurnish teachers for them in the fall, tral board has also been of much sera man and two or three young wo- vice as a medium of intercourse with men being needed for each. The the General Government and Depart

ary.

J. D.