const. Rev. ALEXANDER and Mrs. Goshen, Coug, ch, and so. 281 10 75 26 40 80-1,655 21 101 67 55 0) 15.00 130 77 330 00 185.00 Plymouth, Cong, ch. and so. Thomaston, Cong. ch. and so., to const. ALBERT R. NETTLETON and JONATHAN M. PECK, II. M. Washington, Cong, ch. and so. Watertown, Cong. ch. and so. (of wh. from Eli Curtiss, to const. Rev. G. A. P. GILMAN, II. M., 100); Woodbury, North Cong, ch. and so. Middlesex county. John Marvin, Tr. Chester, Cong. ch. and so. (of wh. $20 for Zulu), 161 15 35 00-1,016 59 32 67 10 00-1,198 64 Clinton, Dr. D. II. Hubbard, Higganum, Cong, ch. and so. Grantville, Cong, ch. and so. 28 66 Killingworth, H., Jamaica Plain, Cent. Cong. ch. and Middletown, J. F. Huber, for Ma Portland, Cen. Cong. ch. and so. New Haven county. F. T. Jarman, 51 01 50.00 35.00 3.00 100 18.50 62 61-221 12 215 77 40 00 45 36 1200 Birmingham, Cong. ch. and so. (of wh. from G. W. Shelton, to const. C. W. SHELTON, H. M., 100); Guilford, 34 Cong, ch. and so. Milford, 1st Cong ch. and so. 300.54; Plymouth, Cong, ch. and so. 115; 415 54 New Haven, East ch. 15; 1st ch. m. c. 22.26; North ch. m. c. 8.10; South Britain, A Sister in Christ, Southbury, Cong, ch, and so. Waterbury, 1st Cong. ch. and so. 6.25: 2d Cong. ch. and so. 286; West Haven, Cong, ch. and so. m. c. Whitney ville, Cong ch. and so. Tolland county. E. C. Chapman, Tr. Columbia, Cong, ch. and so. Windham county. Rev. H. F. Hyde, Tr. Brooklyn, 1st Trin. ch. and so. Wauregan; Cong. ch. and so. Woodstock, 1st Cong. ch. and so. 71 10 292 25 12 25 13 50-1,239 77 Providence, Beneficent Cong, ch. and So. m. c. 52.23; Pilgrim ch, and so. 20.87; Miss Marsh, a thank-offering, 1; 74 10 CONNECTICUT. Fairfield county. Green's Farms, Cong. ch. and so. Huntington, Cong, ch. and so. Newtown, Cong. ch. and so. 193 07 52.48 14.09 102 30 New Canaan, Cong. ch. and so. Norwalk, 1st Cong. ch. and so, of wh. from Rev. 8. B. S. Bissell, to const. RENSSELAER H. BISSELL, H. M. Redding, Cong. ch. and so. 236 00 29 50-627 35 Hartford county. E. W. Parsons, Tr. Bristol, Ladies' Association, Canton Centre, Cong. ch. and so. East Avon, Cong, ch. and so. 8) 25 7669 21.00 Hartford, Pearl st. ch. and so. 730.04; Theol. Seminary m. c. 22; E. H. Perkins, 60; 802 04 Plainville, Cong, ch. and so.. to con stitute WALTER HART, H. M. 125; Mrs. C. Lewis, 1; 126 00 Plantsville, Cong, ch. and so, 149 16 Southington, Cong. ch. and so. (of wh. 100, with previous dona., to Livonia, 1st Presb, ch. and so. m. c. New York, Hariem Cong. ch. and so., North Bergen, Rev. S. Carver, Aurora, 1st Cong. ch. and so. 149.70; New England Cong. ch. and so. 38; 187 70 Brighton, Coug. ch., Granville F. Foster, 12 50 Chicago, Park Cong. ch. and so., to Dwight, 1st Cong. ch. and so. Roseville, Rev. A. L. Pennoyer and 3.00 46.00 27 00 16 63 MISSION SCHOOL ENTERPRISE MAINE. Mechanic Falls, Abby L. and Archie Eveleth, 1; Evelyn B. Hall, 2; NEW HAMPSHIRE.-Canterbury, Children, 2 c.; Claremont, "Pennies, for China," 5: New Boston, Presh. s. s., for teacher in India, 25: New Ipswich, Children's Fair, 2; Peterboro, Cong. s. s. 13.80; CONNECTICUT. Green's Farms, Cong. s. s. 25; South Killingly, "Corn-money," 2; NEW YORK. Deposit, 1st Presb. Society, PENNSYLVANIA. - Blairsville, Colored 8. 8. 6.80; Farmington, Cong. s. s. 4.56; MISSISSIPPI.Columbus, a little boy, OHIO. Cleveland, Mrs. Elisha Taylor, 3); Westminster s. s. 30; for education of a Chinese boy; Oberlin, Ladies' Miss'y Society, for support of Gauka, at Samokov, 25; Portsmouth, 1st Presb. s. s. 185; ILLINOIS Concord, Cong. s. s., for scholar in India, 21; Granville, Cong. s. s. 4.30; MICHIGAN.-Springport and Tompkins, Presb. 8. 8. WISCONSIN. Rosendale, Cong. s. s. DAKOTA TERRITORY.-Fort Sully, Louis Irvine and other children, TURKEY.-Erzroom, "Bobby," 11 36 1.00 228 20 12 15 25.00 270 00 72 65 100 25 30 10.00 18.00 500 00-1.049 20 8.00 5 23 9 34 6 95 55 00 4 35 12.00 490 63 $15,3-8 99 " 2,059 90 THE MISSIONARY HERALD. VOL. LXIX.- FEBRUARY, 1873.- No. II. THE KESSAB PARSONAGE. BY REV. L. H. ADAMS. THE pictures opposite are intended to represent, specifically, the houses provided by the Kessab people for their pastor at the respective dates, and generally, what civilization, following Christianity, must yet accomplish for the eastern peasant. As to the fact of the pictures, they represent actual existence. The new house is an exact representation of the parsonage built by the Kessab people in 1871, while the old house is one of a multitude. When you represent one house like this, you in fact represent any house of whole villages and hamlets. An Oriental builds as all his neighbors do, and never consults his own. So the old house for the pastor in Kessab is one of the hundreds there. The two houses are not far from the same ground dimensions, both built of the same materials less glass windows, and by native workmen, the first under native superintendence, the other without it.1 The second cost but $50 more than the other, including land a fact that has convinced the natives of the advantages of a plan, and previous preparation for building. taste. The new house (a part of the fence and walk not finished) betrays its own character tolerably well, but the old one needs a word of description, as illustrating one class of village houses in Turkey, numbered by scores of thousands. It consists of two rooms, each occupying an entire story without any partitions, or divisions. The door, of rude planks, and the only one in the house, measures about five and one half feet high and six feet wide, for the admission of a loaded animal, and opens into the lower story, which is allotted to all the domestic animals as a donkey or two, as many cows, a few goats, with a liberal intermixture of fowls- besides wood, farming tools, etc. Rude stone steps, in the back corner opposite the door, lead to the upper room. The floor of this room is a single course of rough boards, with capacious cracks, so that the heat from the animals below may help warm the occupants above, with the further convenience of allowing the good man, with a stick, to "hush up" his obstreperous donkey, and, in general, to keep order below, without descending. With but two small windows in the whole house, the air, in a winter morning, when 1 Under Mr. Adams' supervision, probably. ED. VOL. LXIX. |