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Spring Integration Essentials
Table of Contents
Spring Integration Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more
Why subscribe?
Free access for Packt account holders
Preface
How enterprise integration challenges can be solved
Who are the players?
Why Spring Integration?
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Getting Started
Setting up STS
Creating your first project
STS visual editor
Spring Integration Scala DSL
Summary
2. Message Ingestion
Working with message channels
Channel types
Spring implementation of channels
Selecting a channel
Publish-subscribe channel
Queue channel
Priority channel
Rendezvous channel
Direct channel
Executor channel
Scoped channel
Datatype channel
Error handling on channels
Persisting and recovering channels
Channel interceptors
Summary
3. Message Processing
Message endpoints
Gateways
Synchronous gateways
Asynchronous gateways
Service activators
Delayers
Transactions
Summary
4. Message Transformers
Introducing message transformers
Working with XML payload
The marshalling transformer
The unmarshalling transformer
 XPath transformers
Validating XML messages
Beyond default transformers
Content enrichers
Header enrichers
Payload enrichers
Claim check
Incoming claim check transformer
Outgoing claim check transformer
Summary
5. Message Flow
Routers
Payload-type router
Header value router
Recipient list router
XPath router
Error message exception-type router
Default output channel
Using annotations
Filters
Using a Java class to act as a filter
Configuring a filter as a message endpoint
Splitters
Aggregators
Correlation strategy
Release strategy
Message store
Resequencers
Chaining handlers
Summary
6. Integration with External Systems
Working with files
Prerequisites
Reading files
Behind the scenes
Filters
Preventing duplicates
Concurrent access
Writing files
Naming the file
Target directory
Dealing with existing filenames
File transformers
FTP/FTPS
Prerequisites
Downloading files from the FTP server
Incomplete files
Uploading files to the FTP server
Avoiding partially written files
FTP outbound gateway
FTPS support
Social integration
Prerequisites
Receiving tweets
Sending tweets
Twitter search outbound gateway
Enterprise messaging
Prerequisites
Receiving messages – the inbound adapter
The polling adapter
The event-driven adapter
Sending messages – the outbound adapter
 Gateway
The inbound gateway
The outbound gateway
HTTP
Prerequisites
The HTTP inbound gateway
The HTTP outbound gateway
Web services
Prerequisites
The inbound gateway
The outbound gateway
Database SQL
Prerequisites
Datasource
Reading from the database – the inbound adapter
Transaction support
Writing to the database – the outbound adapter
Inbound and outbound gateways
Stream processing
Prerequisites
Reading from a stream
Writing to a stream
Summary
7. Integration with Spring Batch
Spring Batch
Prerequisites
Defining a Spring Batch job
The Spring Batch job language
ItemReader
ItemWriter
Spring Batch and Spring Integration
 Launching the job
Tracking the status of a batch job
The other way round
Summary
8. Testing Support
Prerequisite
Testing messages
Testing headers
Handling errors
Testing filters
Splitter test
Summary
9. Monitoring, Management, and Scaling Up
Monitoring and management
JMX support
Prerequisites
The notification listening channel adapter
The notification publishing channel adapter
The attribute polling channel adapter
The tree polling channel adapter
The operation invoking channel adapter
The operation invoking outbound gateway
The MBean exporter
Tracking the message
Wire tap
Control bus
Scaling up
Threading
Scaling the state
Message store
Claim check
 Summary
10. An End-to-End Example
Prerequisites
Setting up
Ingesting data
Ingesting data from the RSS feed
Ingesting data from an FTP server
Filtering the data
The aggregator
The correlation bean
The completion bean
The aggregator bean
The splitter
Transformation
The DB transformer
The JMS transformer
The mail transformer
Router
Integration
Database integration
Prerequisites
The gateway
The service activator
Gateways for updating and reading the feeds
Sending a mail
Putting messages on to the JMS queue
Exporting as an MBean
Summary
Index
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Credits
Author
Chandan Pandey
Reviewers
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About the Author
Chandan Pandey is an Oracle Certified Enterprise architect with more than 10 years of
experience in designing, coding, and delivering enterprise applications using various tools
and technologies. He has always been amused by the power of software that reduces the
boredom of repetitive tasks and introduces agility and efficiency. He firmly believes that
tools, technology, and methodology are a medium to provide a solution and would like to
be positioned as a solutions expert rather than limiting his identity to a framework or tool.
This is reflected in the breadth and depth of his work; he is proficient not only in
traditional languages and frameworks such as Java/JEE and Spring, but also in Groovy
and Grails, Vaadin, and Play Framework, to name a few. His domain experience varies
from blogging applications, web frameworks, content management systems, and finance,
to networking & telecom. For him, the end result should be extendable, scalable, secure,
and easy-to-use systems!
He believes in community ecosystems and tries to share his learning with larger audiences.
He writes regularly at www.chandanpandey.com, and this book is a step forward to
connect with the community.
When he is not working or writing, he likes to go on road trips with his family to explore
new avenues—be it spiritual, historical, or just a leisure tour! India being his home
country, he is never short of surprises and variety!
Acknowledgments
I would like to thank the team at Packt Publishing. Richard, thanks a lot for finding my
blog on Spring Integration and presenting me with an opportunity to share my knowledge
in a more formal way and with a wider audience, and thanks for answering all of my
questions with such patience—a few of which often took pages! I would like to thank
Sharvari and Ritika, who are the content development editors for this book. Sharvari’s
support and help with the technical review and incorporation of subsequent feedback was
unprecedented. Aman Preet, the technical editor of the book, did a brilliant job with the
final edit.
The greatest support is not what we see but the silent love and prayers of all our well-
wishers. My parents’ blessings have always been with me. They are not technical and they
do not understand what I do—but their unflinching confidence in me that whatever I am
doing must be correct not only pumps up my confidence, but also puts a lot of
responsibility on me. I hope I will not disappoint them ever.
Without a supportive family, it’s extremely difficult to achieve anything significant—and I
consider myself lucky on that front. I am indebted to the charming smiles of my 2-year-old
son, Aadish, and my 4-year-old daughter, Aashirya—their innocent smiles always remind
me that happiness is beyond material success or anything else. As for my better half,
Priyanka, I honestly believe that her work is more creditable than mine. Bringing up two
small kids without any help from me, while at the same time supporting me throughout
this assignment—a simple “thanks” will be too small a word for her, so I will leave it up
to her to understand my gratitude!
About the Reviewers
Marten Deinum is a Java/software consultant working for Conspect. He has developed
and architected software, primarily in Java, for small and large companies. He is an
enthusiastic open source user and a longtime fan, user, and advocate of the Spring
Framework. He has held a number of positions, including that of a software engineer,
development lead, coach, and a Java and Spring trainer. He has also authored the book Pro
Spring MVC: with Web Flow, published by APress.
When not working or answering questions on StackOverflow, he can be found in water,
training for triathlons or under the water, diving or guiding other people around.
Xinyu Liu graduated from George Washington University, Washington, D.C. He has
worked for healthcare companies, a state government agency, and a leading e-commerce
company with over 12 years’ intensive application design and development experience.
During his years of service, new application design and implementation methodologies
and strategies were established due to his efforts. His skills cover broad domains such as
web development, enterprise application integration, and big data analytics. He writes for
Java.net, Javaworld.com, IBM developerWorks, and developer.com on a variety of topics,
including web technologies, web security, persistence technologies, rule engine, and big
data. In addition, he worked on the review of the books Spring Web Flow 2 Web
Development, Grails 1.1 Web Application Development, and Application Development for
IBM WebSphere Process Server 7 and Enterprise Service Bus 7, all published by Packt
Publishing.
Special thanks to my son, Gavin Liu, and my wife, Xiaowen Zhou.
Luca Masini is a senior software engineer and architect, born as a game developer for
Commodore 64 (Football Manager) and Commodore Amiga (Ken il guerriero). He soon
converted to object-oriented programming and was attracted by the Java language since its
early days in 1995.
He worked on this passion for Java as a consultant for major Italian banks, developing and
integrating the main software projects for which he has often taken the technical
leadership. He made them adopt Java Enterprise in environments where COBOL was the
flagship platform, converting them from mainframe-centric to distributed.
He then shifted his focus toward open source, starting with Linux and then enterprise
frameworks with which he was able to introduce concepts such as IoC, ORM, and MVC
with low impact. He was an early adopter of Spring, Hibernate, Struts, and a whole host of
other technologies that gave his customers a technological advantage and therefore
development cost cuts in the long run.
After introducing these new technologies, he decided that it was time for the
simplification and standardization of development with Java EE. So, he’s now working in
the ICT department of a large Italian company where he introduced build tools (Maven
and Continuous Integration), archetypes of project, and Agile development with plain
standards.
Now, his attention is focused on “mobilizing” the enterprise and he is working on a whole
set of standard and development processes to introduce mobile concepts and applications
for sales force and management.
He has worked on the following books by Packt Publishing:
Securing WebLogic Server 12c
Google Web Toolkit
Spring Web Flow 2
Spring Persistence with Hibernate
Spring Batch Essentials
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“I would like to dedicate this work to my late grandmother. She was a living example
of unconditional love, integrity, and truthfulness. May god give me enough strength
and wisdom to build a character and live a life like hers!”
Preface
Software has been an integral part of enterprises and a key contributor to their growth. Be
it analytics, user experience, social marketing, decision support systems, or any other
functional domain, software has been used to aid smooth and efficient functioning.
Enterprises start small and grow over a period of time, and so does their software
dependency. Enterprise applications are developed over a period of time. The following
aspects pose certain challenges while dealing with enterprise software:
They are distributed across a set of domains, for example, payroll, inventory,
reporting, and social integration.
Each of these modules might have been developed independent of each other and
may be on different platforms, for example, employee self-portal in J2EE stack,
legacy records management on mainframes, CRM system using Salesforce, with
some real-time application in their proprietary implementation.
These modules need to interact with each other and with external systems as well.
They may have to consume data from external sources through SOAP services or
shared files, or they themselves have to share data though one of many data-sharing
techniques.
As software grows old, we need to introduce new platforms and replace existing
modules to alleviate the growing maintenance cost. A rip and replace strategy would
not work; rather, this should be done in a homogenous way without disturbing the
sanity of existing modules during the transitions.
Integration of these modules either inside organizations or with external partners is
inherently complex, requiring integration of heterogeneous endpoints. This is the kind of
scenario that Enterprise Application Integration tries to address. Enterprise Integration
Patterns (EIP) is a collection of standard enterprise challenges and how can they be
handled. Spring Integration is one of the implementations of the EIP that provides many
off-the-shelf components recommended by EIP.
How enterprise integration challenges can
be solved
Many approaches have been tried to make the integration simple without compromising
on vital aspects of enterprise, such as security, transaction, availability, reliability, and so
on. A few of the prominent methodologies used over time are Java Connector
Architecture (JCA), RMI, RPC, and CORBA for platform-agnostic integration, message
brokers with system adapter, and many more. Under the hood, they try to solve integration
issues through one of the following techniques:
Shared File: This is the simplest approach. Systems can write data in a predefined
format to a file, which can be read by other endpoints. An adapter might be needed to
convert a format between two different endpoints. Let’s consider an example, a daily
report used to be generated in a CSV file. Over time, the organization established a
web presence and reports need to be pushed online now. How can this be achieved?
The simplest way is to dump it in files that will be read by an adapter and fed into the
CMS system. A filesystem is simple but not the best solution; it is not transactional.
What if a particular file is corrupt, or what if at poll interval files are not available
due to network failure? This necessitates the introduction of a complex system that
has a retry mechanism, filter capabilities, and many more nonfunctional aspects such
as secure access, archival, and so on.
Shared database: This addresses a few of the challenges that are addressed by the
filesystem, such as transactional behavior, role-based access, performance tuning,
distributed support, and so on. The common mechanism is a set of join tables—one
application writes data in a schema that is understood by others. On the flip side, this
introduces tight coupling; if there is a change in schema, both the systems need to be
updated accordingly. Evolving applications will become a challenge, as they will
have to factor in the external system limitations. The integration effort might itself
start with lot of hiccups, for example, compatibility issues between the SQL provided
by database vendors of the application, data format, and types in their table. For
example, if one system stores only the date while the other stores the date with time
stamp, depending on need, at least one will have to change format.
Remote procedure calls: This mechanism introduces a paradigm where each system
can offer services by publishing the contract. These paradigms can be a method,
parameters, result, and error. For example, an EJB service or a SOAP service can be
exposed for providing raw data for a reporting module that renders it in multiple
formats. The most limiting aspect is synchronous behavior, where systems have to
wait for the result. There are other challenges such as serialization of data, network
latency, performance issues of a module, which can bring down the whole
application, and so on. From a security aspect, exposing the method name and
parameter invites hackers to exercise their creativity.
Messaging: This introduces the asynchronous model in which two heterogeneous
modules can interact through data over a predefined connection. The greatest
 advantage is decoupling—none of the systems are dependent on the availability of
the other and they can participate or withdraw from integration without impacting
other components. JMS is an example of message-based integration. Spring
Integration is based on this paradigm where multiple endpoints connect on to a
channel, produce or consume messages, and perform further processing based on
information in a message. We will deal with channel, endpoints, message payload,
and other concepts in the upcoming chapters.
Even if we use one of the preceding techniques, enterprise systems are way outward from
each other and all of them might not be working all the time. This necessitated the use of
middleware that can orchestrate reliable communication between these disparate
endpoints, typically called an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). In layman’s terms, ESB can
be defined as the middle man who enables communication to and fro between
heterogeneous interfaces.
Who are the players?
As we have been discussing, the problem of enterprise integration is complex and many
vendors have tried to address it in their own propitiatory ESB framework—earlier it used
to be dominated by commercial vendors such as Tibco, Vitria, IBM MQSeries, Oracle
SOA Suite, Microsoft BizTalk, and so on. Over time, the need for open source frameworks
became evident as smaller organizations grew. Their integration needs were limited and
were incapable of investing upfront with any of these biggies.
Some of the prominent open source integration frameworks, apart from Spring Integration,
are Camel, Service Mix, Mule ESB, Open ESB, and so on. A comprehensive comparison
of these frameworks is beyond the scope of this book but a small summary of two other
major open source frameworks, has been provided here for the sake of emphasizing
Spring Integration simplicity:
Mule ESB: It is a standard server, solutions are developed and deployed inside them.
Mule is one of the most prominent and stable solutions on the market. The point to be
observed here is that, it’s a container that holds the application.
Service Mix (SM): Apache Service Mix is built over JAVA legacy JBI (Java
Business Integration). Service Mix tries to solve almost all aspects of enterprise
integration by unifying the features and functionality of ActiveMQ, Camel, CXF,
ODE, and Karaf. It provides a complete, enterprise-ready ESB, exclusively powered
by OSGi. Since it tries to address a lot of modules, it is pretty bulky compared to
Spring Integration.
Why Spring Integration?
Spring Integration is an open source effort to address integration challenges; it is based on
the Spring Framework, which is the most widely used Java-based framework in
organizations. It introduces the simple POJO-based programming model to support
standard integration patterns.
It’s lightweight; all it needs is couple of jars for which Maven targets are readily available.
A quick comparison shows that the Service Mix download is around 55 MB while Spring
Integration is just 14 MB in size.
Spring Integration is just a set of standard Java libraries; the solution gets deployed in
the application instead of that application getting deployed in some containers, as in
the case of SM and Mule.
For enterprises that are already using Java and Spring, it eases the integration effort as it
follows the same idioms and patterns of the Spring Framework.
What this book covers
Chapter 1, Getting Started, explains how to set up the Eclipse IDE, a “Hello World”
program, and a brief introduction of how Spring ROO can ease the configuration aspects
even further. This will help overcome configuration nightmares and warm up developers
to a hands-on experience.
Chapter 2, Message Ingestion, introduces channels through which messages can be read
and processed. It describes the point-to-point and pub-sub models, which one is best suited
for a given scenario, how errors can be handled in a decoupled manner on a channel, and
finally how in-memory channels can be backed up with persistence for failover and
recovery solutions.
Chapter 3, Message Processing, explains how to define components that can apply
business logic on messages, introduces decoupled logging that can used for auditing, and
discusses adding transactional behavior.
Chapter 4, Message Transformers, deals with processing message formats, its conversion
to a homogenous format, and how annotations can help keep the configurations clean.
Messages can be introduced in heterogeneous formats such as XML, JSON, and so on that
need to be converted to a format understood by the system.
Chapter 5, Message Flow, will introduce flow aspects to messages such as filtering
messages that do not comply to validation rules, routing them to an error branch, splitting
messages, and redirecting them to components appropriate for their processing—waiting
for incomplete payloads, aggregating partial messages, and finally the chaining of
business processing handlers.
Chapter 6, Integration with External Systems, will give a hands-on overview of integration
points. Integration with external systems is the most interesting and powerful aspect of
Spring Integration—interaction with external systems is a matter of a few lines of
configuration. Spring Integration has introduced adapters, gateways, and other
components that make it a breeze to interact with filesystems, SQL, NoSQL persistence
store, HTTP services, and other widely used external entities such as different servers,
social media, and so on.
Chapter 7, Integration with Spring Batch, will introduce how to use Spring Integration and
batch module for scheduling, triggering, and monitoring batch jobs.
Chapter 8, Testing Support, will explain how to leverage the readily available mocks for
different components, what to test, and how much to test.
Chapter 9, Monitoring, Management, and Scaling Up, will cover using Spring Integration
configuration to leverage JMX to get performance statistics of different configured
components in the system. We will also peek into ways to scale up Spring Integration
components.
Chapter 10, An End-to-End Example, has an end-to-end hands-on example that will help
you to recollect concepts introduced in different chapters and reassert their understanding.
Code will be pushed to a social repository as GitHub, but this chapter will give users
enough instructions to use it and run it.
What you need for this book
You need a Java-based IDE, and Spring STS is recommended. JDK 1.6 and above is
required.
Who this book is for
This book is for developers who are already familiar with basic Java and Spring concepts.
Concepts of Enterprise Integration Patterns would be helpful but not mandatory. The book
has been presented in a hands-on manner; an end-to-end working example has been
picked, implemented, and explained throughout the chapters. This book would serve as a
strong companion for new developers trying out their hand on integration aspects, and as a
hands-on guide on how to use Spring Integration components for developers already
familiar with these challenges and looking for quick samples.
Conventions
In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different
kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their
meaning.
Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions,
pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: “Create a
Spring Integration project by navigating to File | Spring Project, as shown in the
following screenshot:”.
A block of code is set as follows:
<int:channel id="resultPersistenceChannel">
<int:queue message-store="messageStore"/>
</int:channel>

<int-jdbc:message-store id="messageStore" data-source="someDataSource"/>

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lines or items are set in bold:
public interface ChannelInterceptor {
Message<?> preSend(Message<?> message, MessageChannel channel);
void postSend(Message<?> message, MessageChannel channel, boolean sent);
boolean preReceive(MessageChannel channel);
Message<?> postReceive(Message<?> message, MessageChannel channel);

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menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: “clicking the Next button
moves you to the next screen”.
Note
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Tips and tricks appear like this.
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Selling Prayers in a Chinese Temple (Cut) 179
 CHILDREN’S PAGE.

Ted’s Temperance Society 181

OBITUARY.

Miss Sarah A. G. Stevens 183

RECEIPTS 183
 American Missionary Association,
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President, Hon. WM. B. WASHBURN, Mass.

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.

Rev. M. E. STRIEBY, D.D., 56 Reade Street, N.Y.

TREASURER.

H. W. HUBBARD, Esq., 56 Reade Street, N.Y.

DISTRICT SECRETARIES.

Rev. C. L. WOODWORTH, Boston. Rev. G. D. PIKE, D.D., New

York.
Rev. JAMES POWELL, Chicago.

COMMUNICATIONS
relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the Corresponding
Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields, to the District Secretaries; letters
for the Editor of the “American Missionary,” to Rev. G. D. Pike, D.D., at the New
York Office.

DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS

may be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York, or, when
more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Dist. Sec.,
21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or Rev. James Powell, Dist. Sec., 112
West Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time
constitutes a Life Member. Letters relating to boxes and barrels of clothing may be
addressed to the persons above named.

FORM OF A BEQUEST.
“I bequeath to my executor (or executors) the sum of —— dollars, in trust, to pay
the same in —— days after my decease to the person who, when the same is
payable, shall act as Treasurer of the ‘American Missionary Association’ of New
York City, to be applied, under the direction of the Executive Committee of the
Association, to its charitable uses and purposes.” The Will should be attested by
three witnesses.

The Annual Report of the A. M. A. contains the Constitution of the Association and
the By-Laws of the Executive Committee. A copy will be sent free on application.
 THE

American Missionary.
Vol. XXXVI. JUNE, 1882.
No. 6.
 American Missionary Association.

The receipts for April were $29,519.61, an increase of nearly 38 per

cent. over those of last year. The total receipts for the seven months
ending April 30, are $161,542.16, being $35,632.25, or 28 per cent.
more than for the corresponding months last year. If this ratio of
increase is continued for the remaining five months of the fiscal year,
the $300,000 will be obtained, and we shall close the year without a
debt, notwithstanding the unusually heavy expenses that the
progress of our work has necessitated. These cheering facts, we
hope, will stimulate our friends to realize the expectations of the
annual meeting, and the pressing needs of the field.

John F. Slater, Esq., of Norwich, Conn., has enrolled his name with
Peabody, Seney and others as the wise benefactors of mankind, by
the appropriation of a million of dollars for the education of the
colored people of America. This munificent fund he has entrusted to
the care of a Board of Trustees, made up of persons well known for
their patriotism and their philanthropy, and from whose honorable
character a wise administration of the trust may be expected. Mr.
Slater has not only shown his generosity in the gift, but his wisdom
as well in the broad and liberal instructions to his trustees. The letter
containing these directions is a model of wise forethought, guarding
against the limitations so often imposed on executors and trustees,
which, in changes of circumstances, often render the gift well-nigh
useless. This letter, we believe, will have a salutary influence on
other donors in this respect.
We have no means of knowing the benefit that may accrue to the
A. M. A. from the income of Mr. Slater’s benefaction, which will
probably amount to $50,000 or $60,000 per annum. We only know
that the Association has a large educational work among the people
whom Mr. Slater wishes to benefit, and we believe that the Board of
Trustees will wisely discriminate as to the amount to which we are
entitled. In any contingency, however, that amount will probably not
be so large as to release our friends from the responsibility of
continuing and even increasing their donations to meet the demands
of our constantly enlarging work.

An earnest effort is made in Congress to secure a large appropriation

for general education—the fund to be distributed on the basis of
illiteracy. Something of this kind is imperatively needed to meet the
demands of our growing and diversified population, and especially of
the six millions of blacks recently emancipated and enfranchised,
with nearly a million of their number unable to read or write the
ballot they cast. In addition to these, about three-fourths of a million
of the white population of the nation are equally illiterate. If to these
we add the Indians, and the uneducated immigrants crowding to our
country, we have an illiteracy of startling magnitude demanding the
most efficient measures for its overthrow. There can be no question
of the duty of the nation in this respect. A very marked change in
public sentiment, especially in the South, is manifesting itself, and
there is a fair prospect of the success of some well-digested bill for
this purpose. The A. M. A. has taken an active part in pressing this
matter upon the attention of Congress. No bill can benefit our
schools directly, and the efforts we put forth are purely for the
advancement of intelligence among the people. Our work is mainly
in preparing educated and spiritual leaders, and the more rapidly the
masses can be elevated the more effective and wide-spread will our
efforts become.

Rev. J. E. Roy, D.D., Field Superintendent, is again in the New York

office, where his assistance has been desired each summer by the
committee; serving also in the absence of Rev. Dr. Pike, occasioned
by sickness.
The Commencement of Berea College, Kentucky, will take place
Wednesday, June 21. College exercises in the forenoon. In the
afternoon an address from Rev. R. G. Hutchins, D.D., of Columbus,
Ohio.

Rev. Dr. Herrick Johnson, of Chicago, has made a manly and Christian
fight against theatres. A little volume of 82 pages, entitled “Plain
Talks about the Theatre,” embodies his views, and is entitled to a
candid reading.

Those of our readers especially interested in the establishment of the

Arthington Mission will be pleased to read in the African notes,
published in this number of the Missionary, reports of continued
activity on the part of different organizations in the vicinity of
Khartoum.
 COLORED JOURNALISM IN THE SOUTH
Our colored brethren have been by no means lacking in journalistic
ambition. Considering the short space of time they have had in
which to develop the literary talent, I think they have done
remarkably well. There have been many undertakings in this line,
and of course a good many failures. Having seen in the Western
States a great many ephemeral newspapers, which ran their course
briefly and then vanished away, I am prepared to say that the
percentage of newspaper failures is no greater among the negroes
than the whites. Newspapers are very frail and mortal creatures, and
to many of them it is appointed to die. Few of them can lay claim to
immortality; like the human race, most of them die in infancy. Yet
there are now more than fifty papers published by colored men,
mostly in the Southern States. The State of Georgia has five; North
Carolina has seven. As the general intelligence of the people
increases, the usefulness of these papers also enlarges. There is a
good deal of race pride among the colored people, and they greatly
enjoy the achievements of their race, whether in the field of
journalism or elsewhere. Of course they are not trained to habits of
close criticism and literary discrimination. Like all whose education
has not been very extensive, they delight in high-sounding phrases
and long, sonorous words. Most of their editorials are somewhat
open to criticism in this line, yet there are not a few examples of
crisp, clear, terse, vigorous English which are refreshing to read in
these pedantic days.
As a general thing these papers are edited by the younger
generation of men, graduates from the A. M. A. colleges or
elsewhere. No others have sufficient ability or perseverance to make
a success in this line. They are mostly Christian men, and they print
many articles upon temperance and other practical virtues, which
are sadly needed here both among black and white. So these papers
exert a widespread and generally beneficial influence, going into
many homes that have no other reading. Like his white brother, the
negro sometimes forgets to “pay the printer,” and hence there is an
occasional suspension for lack of funds. So there is in the North as
well.
More and more, as they increase in knowledge and in property, there
will be a greater demand for good newspapers. The schools and
colleges of the A. M. A. are calculated to have a wide influence in
this field, training up writers and thinkers who shall through their
periodicals exert a great deal of power. Besides preaching and
teaching, there is to be in the future of the Anglo-African a vast field
of usefulness in journalism. The power of thinking, and of putting
thought into effective words, is to be more and more developed in
these schools. Here then is a new argument for the thorough and
adequate maintenance of the church and school work, to raise up
men and women from among this patient race who shall prove, even
as many of them are proving now, that “the pen is mightier than the
sword.” The occasional crudity of expression, the extravagant
adjective and preposterous grammar, must and will give place to
true thinking and correct expression, under the steady polishing and
mental training of our schools. Fresh vigor, greater power, wider and
more salutary influence of the newspaper, will follow the inexact and
“scattering” articles which have more or less prevailed, inevitably.
 THE KIND OF UNIVERSITY MOST NEEDED IN
THE SOUTH.
BY PROF. HORACE BUMSTEAD, ATLANTA UNIVERSITY, GA.

A university, in the old-world sense of the term, is an institution

where all the branches of the higher education are taught, and these
alone. In our country the name is often adopted by institutions as a
prophecy of what they hope to become, while their present work is
almost wholly that of elementary instruction—a work which they
expect eventually to outgrow.
So far as the institutions of the American Missionary Association are
concerned, I am inclined to think that there is a nobler ideal to be
realized under the name of university than any feeble imitation of
older institutions. A field is open here in the South for the
development of an institution such as the world has not yet seen,
and which, in a somewhat new but not unnatural sense, would
justify its claim to be called a university.
The university which missionary effort can make most useful in the
South is one that shall represent, in their most perfect form, all the
successive grades of education from lowest to highest. It should be
prepared to train ordinary pupils of all ages rather than extraordinary
ones of mature age only. It should also provide ample facilities for
normal and industrial training, now so much needed in all the South.
But especially it should magnify and dignify the work of primary
instruction, regarding this as a permanent feature of its work, and
not as an unavoidable evil to be shaken off as soon as possible. It
should neither undervalue nor neglect the higher education. This
should be held up as a worthy object of aspiration for all who show
themselves fitted to receive it, by thorough work lower down. Such
an institution would present, under one management, a
kindergarten, or something like it, a graded school, a normal school,
an industrial department, an academy, a college, and in course of
time the professional schools.
In favor of such a university several reasons may be given. In the
first place, the interests of the higher education would be better
served by such an institution than by one devoted to the higher
education alone. It is taken for granted that the Freedmen and their
descendants, for whom largely our institutions are established,
should, like all other people, have the opportunity of the higher
education given them to the extent of their ability to receive and use
it. The welfare of the masses demands that we train up leaders of
intelligence and principle. That this work is not being overdone at
present is evident from the fact that only ninety-one college students
are reported in all the institutions of the American Missionary
Association put together, and only about fifty in all have ever been
graduated from our college courses since our work in the South
began. Now, the principal reason why our work in the higher
education has been so limited, has been the great scarcity of
suitable material for college classes; and the reason of this scarcity
has been that our preparatory departments have not been able to
get hold of their pupils early enough. Pupils come to us heavily
handicapped by a lack of proper training, moral and intellectual, in
early childhood. Now, who can doubt but that the universities that
are going to have the best college classes twenty years from now,
and do the best work, will be those that soonest put the
kindergarten, or some equivalent of it, underneath all their present
courses of study, and thus manipulate the entire education of their
pupils from the age of five onward? A thoroughness and symmetry
of training could be realized by such an arrangement which would be
scarcely possible under any other.
But a second reason in favor of such a university is the invaluable
help it would render to the cause of general education. Here let it be
explained that it would not be the purpose of the proposed
institution to take the work of preparation for college out of the
hands of preparatory schools elsewhere; nor would it expect to carry
all its own beginners through to the end of its higher courses. It
would, however, if properly manned and equipped, expect to show
what might be called specimen work from the bottom to the top of
an education. Such work would be a stimulus to all other schools of
whatever grade, and the methods employed in these schools would
gradually come to be patterned after those in vogue at the
university. The more the lower work of the university was duplicated
elsewhere, the more would its own recruiting ground for the higher
courses be enlarged, and the wider would its influence become.
A third reason in favor of such a university concerns the association
of normal and industrial departments with the collegiate. It should
be our aim to cultivate manhood and womanhood rather than mere
scholarship. The culture we give must be guarded from selfishness.
The practical uses of all education must be kept prominently in view,
and especially the urgent need of trained teachers and artisans. The
dignity of labor must be emphasized. On the other hand, our normal
and industrial work should be guarded from the narrow and
materialistic spirit into which such training is sometimes apt to fall.
Now, the association of all these departments under one general
management will surely bring to each from the others some salutary
restraint or broadening influence.
In connection with the practical aim of such a university, I desire to
specify two features which should characterize it, both of them
rendered necessary by the same cause—the almost entire lack of
true homes among the people we are seeking to uplift. In
consequence of this deplorable lack, two duties press upon us: first,
to obviate the difficulties arising from this cause in our present
educational work, and second, to remove the cause.
The first of these duties suggests the kindergarten, already
proposed. I use this term for the lack of a more convenient one;
contending simply for some system of training for children under the
usual school age. Among cultivated people, and even the intelligent
farmers and artisans of cultivated communities, every home is a
kindergarten—a preliminary training-school for the eyes, hands,
brains, and hearts of toddling and prattling humanity. Very few such
are to be found among the poorer classes of the South. Hence arises
the necessity of beginning our work earlier than elsewhere, and
using appliances which elsewhere might seem superfluous. But it will
not be enough to have the kindergarten composed entirely of day
scholars from the neighborhood. There should be a special building
for a children’s home, with an able matron and assistants in charge
of it. Into this could be gathered from a wider territory as large a
number of little boarders as might be thought desirable. The
inestimable advantage of this arrangement would be that a
considerable number of children would thus be separated from their
unfortunate surroundings for twenty-four hours each day instead of
six, and for seven days in the week instead of five. From this
number, in after years, would undoubtedly come our best material
for the college and normal classes.
But a second pressing duty is to help the growth of true homes
among these people. This must be done largely through the girls
who come under our care. For this also a separate building should
be provided as a housekeeping school. It should be constructed like
an ordinary dwelling-house, with such conveniences within and
around it as civilized people aim to secure. It should not be too
large, lest the coziness of home be lost. It should have a parlor with
pictures and books. It should have a garden with flowers and shade
trees. Above all it should have the most commodious and convenient
kitchen and pantry that can be arranged. Let a dozen girls together
occupy this house for a fortnight at a time—all those in the
university taking their turn in the course of the year. Let some good
woman, as near like Mrs. Cornelius or Marion Harland as can be
found, be put at the head, and let her teach these girls how to cook,
sweep, dust, make beds, set the table, wash the dishes, and in
general how to make home as attractive as our Christian civilization
knows how.
Finally let it be observed that such a university would be simply an
expansion of what is now being done in our present higher
institutions, and which the force of circumstances has compelled us
to do. Why should we not accept it cheerfully as the mission which
Providence has given us, and by a deepening and broadening
process convert our present universities into something that shall
bring new honor to the cause of Christian education?
 BENEFACTIONS.
The late Thomas M. Reed, of Bath, Me., bequeathed $3,000 to
Bangor Theological Seminary.
Mr. Reed, of Boston, has given $5,000 to the Hampton N. and A.
Institute.
Mr. Ahok has given £10,000 towards the Methodist College in Fuh
Chou.
Sir Erasmus Miller has given £10,000 to endow a pathological chair
at an institution in Aberdeen, Scotland.
Yale College is to receive $50,000 for a laboratory from Messrs.
Thomas and Henry Sloan, in honor of their father, William Sloan.
Thomas McGraw, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., has given $50,000 for the
endowment of the President’s chair at Amherst College.
Mr. Holloway, of England, has conveyed to the trustees of the
Enghaman Institution, for the higher education of women, £400,000
for endowment purposes.
Iowa College has received $1,500 to be known as the Ellingwood
Scholarship Fund for the education of ministers.
Hackettstown Seminary, N.J., has received $15,000 from Mr. Geo. I.
Seney, of Brooklyn, N.Y., for the liquidation of its debt of $36,000,
which is now entirely provided for. The property of the institution
cost $175,000.
Mr. John F. Slater, of Norwich, Conn., has given $1,000,000 to a
Board of Trustees, the income of which is to be applied for the
education of the recently emancipated race in America.
We are happy to report that our appeals for endowment for
Talladega College have met with additional responses since the
statement given in our February number. One friend has given
$5,000 towards the endowment of the President’s Chair, and another
has pledged $5,000 for the Theological Department.
 GENERAL NOTES.
AFRICA.

—W. F. Mieville has been appointed English consul at Khartoum.

—Ambassadors from Abyssinia have gone to Cairo to regulate the
question of the frontiers and to seek the appointment of consuls of
the two countries—of Egypt and of Abyssinia.
—After working with an indefatigable zeal to gather the means
necessary to the establishment of a new mission, Mr. Coillard will set
out with his wife in May to found a station between the Zambeze
and Lake Bangueolo.
—Mgr. Taurin Cahaque, apostolic vicar, has made from Harrar an
excursion among the Gallas and founded a station around which he
hopes to gather a Christian colony.
—The council of ministers at Cairo has decided upon the complete
abolition of slavery in Egypt. Abdelkader Pasha has been nominated
Governor of Soudan. A special administration of the Soudan has
been created at Cairo with the purpose of making out the statement
of receipts and expenditures of that province and of re-organizing
the military service with a view of maintaining order upon the
Abyssinian frontier. It will take measures for the complete
suppression of the slave trade.
—A company with a capital of 150,000 livres sterling has been
formed under the name of River Gambia Trading Company, to
develop commerce on the Gambia, which is navigable for 640
kilometers.
—The Church Missionary Society has established at Lokodja, near
the confluence of the Niger and the Bénoué, a school to teach the
native instructors the English language and the language spoken
along the lower Niger.
—Mgr. Lavigerie, promoter of the missions of Algeria, has transferred
to Malta the college which was formerly at St. Louis, to prepare a
medical faculty for the Negroes of Equatorial Africa and the Soudan.
—A dispatch from Tripoli to the English Journal announces that 600
native Algerians of the Chambas tribe have proceeded to Ghadamès
to demand the punishment of the Touaregs who assassinated the
missionaries and ill-treated the Chambas.
—In a war between the tribe of the Paums and that of the Veys,
sustained by the government of Liberia, the latter have been beaten
and in part massacred, and the survivors have fled to Cape Mount,
where help has been given them by the American missionaries. The
government of the United States has sent the ship Essex to aid the
troops of Liberia against the Paums who intercept communication
between Monrovia and the northwest whence they obtain palm oil.
—Dr. Krapf, one of the pioneers of missionary work in Central Africa,
has just died. Entering the service of the English missions in 1837,
he sailed on the Tiger, the Choa and the Amhara. Not being able to
enter the country of the Gallas by the north, he conceived the
project of attacking the continent by the east, and in 1844
commenced with his friend Rebmann the mission of Mombas. His
travels gave impulse to the discoveries of the last 25 years. Since
1856 he has been living at Wurtemberg, occupying himself with
literary works upon the languages of eastern Africa.
INDIAN MEDICINE MAN.
 THE INDIANS.

—The Superintendent of the Indian School at Caddo recently

prepared a concert exercise with an illuminated Jacob’s Ladder. The
sides and steps were covered with tissue paper of different colors.
On each step were five wax tapers which lighted up cornucopias
filled with candies. A lecture was given on Jacob’s Dream,
accompanied with appropriate music, etc. Over 80 Indian children
were in attendance. The occasion is said to have been a grand and
beautiful one, cheering beyond thought to the heart of the Christian
workers.
—Rev. S. G. Wright, of Leech Lake, Minn., writes: Our school was a
real success. Several of our scholars began a life of prayer during the
winter, and all were much improved. The Christian women who were
converted when we were here before still regularly sustain a prayer
meeting. We have just buried one of our staunch Christian men. His
daily life in all places was a living testimony to the power of the
Gospel to save even this poor despised people. In his long sickness
of five months he exemplified the patience of the Gospel.
—Tindestak, Alaska, is a Chilcat village of 16 houses and 162 people.
Each of the houses cost the Indian owners over a thousand dollars.
Their desire, however, for the Gospel was so great that the whole
population left the village last October and moved to the new
mission station at Willard that they might have school and church
privileges.
 THE FREEDMEN.
REV. JOSEPH E. ROY, D.D., Field Superintendent, Atlanta, Ga.

AFTER THE SOWING, THE REAPING.

BY SUPERINTENDENT ROY.

It was at Athens, Ga., a city whose classical name has had

associated with it the University of the State. Sixty-five years ago,
my father’s pastor at Basking Ridge, N.J., Dr. Robert Finley, left there
a church of 600 members and an academy in which he had trained
Theodore Frelinghuysen, Senator Dayton and other such men, to
come and serve a church of only a score of members, and the
University as its President. I look up here his sepulchre and learn of
the savor of his godly influence.
In 1867 the Knox Institute is built, a large two-story frame structure,
with four school-rooms in it. For four years this is occupied by our
Northern teachers. Meantime students are going forward from the
“Knox” to Atlanta University; and then some of the advanced
students of the latter institution are sent one by one, to serve as
principals with colored assistants. In this way came S. B. Morse,
John McIntosh and J. G. Hutchins. The last-named receives an
appointment to a clerkship in Washington, and a recent graduate of
the University, Paul E. Spratlin, is appointed as Principal with three
lady assistants. Morse has now a position in the Custom-House at
Savannah, and McIntosh is a representative of Liberty County in the
legislature.
The Superintendent finds that the time has come to start a church.
The building is repaired and one of its rooms fixed up for a chapel.
Mr. George V. Clark, a student of the “Atlanta” and a graduate of the
Theological Department of the Howard University, is secured. He,
with his yoke-fellow Spratlin, starts a Sunday-school, a prayer
meeting and preaching services. Affinity draws to them friends who
are longing for something more quiet, orderly and intelligent in
church life. Then a revival this spring adds eight disciples to the nine
who are ready to come into a new church by letter. And so a Council
meets here on the 14th of April to recognize the church and ordain
the pastor. They find everything in an orderly condition. There are
present from Atlanta Prof. C. W. Francis, Pastor Evarts Kent and his
delegate, Deacon A. J. Delbridge and Superintendent Roy; from
Marietta, Pastor E. J. Penney; from Macon, Pastor S. E. Lathrop;
from Orangebury, S.C., a delegate; also Rev. Dr. C. W. Lane, Pastor
of the Presbyterian Church in this city. Professor Francis is made
moderator and Rev. E. J. Penney, scribe. The church process and the
examination of the candidate are heartily approved.
By the courteous invitation of the African M. E. Church, the public
services are held at night in their house of worship, which is packed
with an assembly of 500 people. The sermon is an eloquent
portrayal of the Apostle Paul’s desire and prayer to God for Israel
that they might be saved. The moderator propounds the Confession
and Covenant and gives to the new church the right hand of
fellowship. Mr. Lathrop then presents a royal octavo Bible printed in
Boston in 1822 and bearing in gilt letters on the front cover the
inscription “Mary Walker, 1828,” who has herself now reached the
age of four-score and five. The book seems to be good for another
fifty-four years of service. Mr. Lathrop also presents from the
Congregational Church at Chagrin Falls, Ohio, a communion set in
good condition, although it has been used by that body of believers
for forty years. Deacon Delbridge makes the best suggestion,
namely, that as they are now enjoying the fruit of the prayers and
labors of the abolitionists, of whom at the time they had known
nothing, so now the new church is to enjoy this hallowed service for
the Lord’s table which has come to them from Christian friends
whom they had never known. Professor Francis states that Rev. Mr.
Walker, who at the University had taught some of these same
members, had come from that church in Chagrin Falls, and so had
doubtless used these same communion vessels before them. The
crowning gift of the occasion is that of Mr. S. D. Smith, of Boston, of
one of his American organs, which is used for the first time on this
occasion. It would do him good if sometime he could catch the voice
of these lowly poor as they bless God for his thoughtful and
abounding beneficience in this line. The prayer of ordination as
offered by Rev. Evarts Kent is apposite and touching. The charge is
delivered by Prof. Francis, who, alluding to his having led this man to
school, to Christ and along the paths of learning, says that it is no
new thing for him to be charging this candidate, but as this is about
his last chance he must improve it well. The right hand is given by
Mr. Penney, a cousin and schoolmate of the new pastor. The address
to the church is delivered by Dr. Lane. His venerable appearance, his
cordial manner and his gracious words are a benediction to the
occasion. Dr. Lane having been baptized by Dr. Edward Payson, was
thirteen years of age when he was removed with his father’s family
from Portland, Me., to Georgia. When I first came to look up this
matter, I went to him for advice and found him ready with sympathy
and co-operation. When Mr. Clark came the Doctor offered him the
use of his library, gave him judicious counsel, and, by a writing,
turned over to him a monthly appointment three miles out, in a
house which his church had built as a union place of worship for the
colored people.
On the Lord’s day, the eight who come by profession receive baptism
at the hand of the pastor by immersion in the Oconee, which flows
by the city. At night I have the privilege of participating with the
church at their first communion season, when the ancient vessels of
the Lord’s house, new to this band of disciples, enter upon their new
round of service.
After the sowing, the reaping. The Knox School and the Atlanta
University have been growing the timber for this house of the Lord.
Several of the members have had that training and the teachers
were thus prepared. It takes time to raise up a native ministry. A few
years ago a boy who was a porter in an Atlanta hotel was started on
his way to school, and now the same comes along the Christian
pastor, ripened under the sun of our Southern institutions, an able
minister of the Word. Much of our fruitage has been gathered into
other churches. Now we garner up something of our own harvest.
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