Chapter III: Part 3

Antwerp. Cong. Sab. Sch., by Mrs. Ira H. Abell 25.00
Batavia. Mrs. A. D. L. 1.00
Binghamton. Sheldon Warner 10.00
Brooklyn. Central Cong. Sab. Sch., $10, _for the
poor in Plym. Sab. Sch., Charleston, S. C._;
—Mrs. H. Dickinson, $2; O. W., 50c. 12.50
Canastota. E. B. Northrop, $5; Mr. and Mrs. R. H.
Childs, $5 10.00
Clear Creek. Cong. Ch. 1.50
Clifton Springs. MRS. ANDREW PEIRCE, to const.
herself L. M. 30.00
Cohoes. Mrs. I. Terry 5.00
Coxsackie. Rev. M. Lusk 5.00
East Bloomfield. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $35.57;
Mrs. E. S. $1 36.57
Ellington. Cong. Ch. 7.50
Felts Mills. Joel A. Hubbard and family 30.00
Franklin. First Cong. Ch. 29.58
Fredonia. Mrs. Thos. W. Stevens 5.00
Fillmore. L. L. Nourse 5.00
Fulton. J. C. Galispie, Almon Bristol, and T. W.
Chesebro, $5 ea.; F. S., 50c. 15.50
Gouverneur. Mrs. H. D. S. $1; Miss B. R. S., 50c. 1.50
Hopkinton. First Cong. Ch. 3.00
Hudson. Mrs. D. A. Jones 15.00
Jamesport. L. I. “Friends” 10.00
Locust Valley. Mrs. Sarah Palmer 5.00
Marcellus. First Ch., $20; Mrs. L. H., 45c. 20.45
Marion. Cong. Ch. 30.00
Millbrook. Mrs. J. W. C. 1.00
New York. Broadway Tab. Sab. Sch., $50, _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._;—Holman Liver Pad Co., 7.75, _for
Emerson Inst._; E. S., 50c. 58.25
New York Mills. H. N. Porter, D. D. 10.00
Newark Valley. Cong. Ch. 5.00
North Franklin. Mrs. Mary P. Foote 5.00
Oneonta. Mrs. L. J. S. 1.00
Perry Centre. Ladies Benev. Soc., $16.35 and Bbl.
of C. by Mrs. G. K. Sheldon 16.35
Plattsburgh. G. W. Dodds 5.00
Rochester. Gen. A. W. Riley 25.00
Sag Harbor. Mrs. A. E. Westfall, $10; A. E. W., 50c. 10.50
South Stockton. Adelia Eaton 4.00
Success. Sab. Sch. by J. H. Benjamin, Supt. 20.00
Syracuse. Miss A. W. D. 0.50
Tompkinsville. Mrs. Maria Snyder 2.00
Victor. Mrs. Emeline Lewis 50.00
Walton. First Cong. Ch., $58.53; Agavine Miss.
Soc., $10;—Chas. S. Fitch, _for Mendi M._, $5 73.53
West Chazy. Daniel Bassett, $5;
Rev. L. Prindle, $2 7.00
West Farms. J. A. 1.00
Westfield. Mrs. J. B. S. 1.00
West Greece. S. B. B. 0.50
Whitesborough. J. Symonds 5.00
Whitney’s Point. Mrs. E. Rogers 2.00
—— “A Friend” 25.00

NEW JERSEY, $108.50.

Belleville. J. B. 0.50
Camden. James E. Simpson 2.00
Clayton. “A Friend,” _for Lady Missionary, Nashville,
Tenn._ 25.00
Colt’s Neck. Reformed Ch. 5.00
Newfield. Rev. Chas. Willey 10.00
Newark. Belleville Av. Cong. Ch., J. H. Denison, $30,
to const. MISS CARRIE DENISON, L. M.;
Miss H. Miller, $4, _for Student Aid, Raleigh,
N. C._; Mrs. R. W. S., $1;—$1 36.00
Paterson. Benj. Crane 20.00
Roseville. Ladies of Home M. Soc., by Mrs. L. Hannah 10.00

PENNSYLVANIA, $36.62.

Allentown. C. M. 0.50
Centre Road Station. J. A. Scovel 10.00
Cowdersport. Mrs. John S. Mann 5.00
East Brook. James H. Patton 5.00
Hermitage. W. F. Stewart, $5; Miss Ellen Porter, $1 6.00
Philadelphia. W. P. F. and Mrs. S. D. 1.00
West Alexander. John McCoy and Wife 5.00
Wurtemburg. Mrs. T. E. Liebendorfer, $2;
Others, $2.12 4.12

OHIO, $428.24.

Ashland. John Thomson 2.28
Austinburgh. N. A. 1.00
Bellefontaine. Mr. and Mrs. John Lindsay 10.00
Bellevue. J. S. 1.00
Berea. James S. Smedley 5.00
Burton. Miss E. E. P. 0.50
Chatham Centre. Cong. Ch. 18.81
Claridon. Cong. Soc. 13.50
Cleveland. Franklin Ave. Cong. Ch., $13.20;
John Foote, $10; Rev. H. Trautman, $5 28.20
Columbus. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00
Elyria. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 40.00
Four Corners. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Geneva. Mrs. S. Kingsbury 10.00
Granville. Thomas D. Williams 10.00
Kingsville. M. Whiting 20.00
Lenox. Cong. Ch. 9.25
Lyme. Cong. Ch. 17.88
Madison. Ladies Benev. Soc., $14.75, _for Student
Aid, Tougaloo U._; “Old Friend,” $5; W. H. S., $1 20.75
Moss Run. M. B. F. 0.50
Oberlin. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $25.50, _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._; Harris Lewis, $3. 28.50
Orwell. Rev. W. T. Richardson 5.00
Painesville. First Cong. Sab. Sch., $25, _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._;
First Cong. Ch. $18.57 43.57
Parisville. Rev. D. D. 0.50
Ruggles. Mrs. J. T. 0.50
Saybrook. Rev. A. D. Barber and Family 20.00
Seville. Julia Hulburt 10.00
Sharonville. J. H. 1.00
Sicily. Julian F. Cumberland 5.00
Springfield. W. A. F. 1.00
Tallmadge. Mrs. Harriet Seward 5.00
Toledo. Mrs. Eliza H. Weed,$10; By E. P. B., $1 11.00
Wellington. E. W. 0.50
Willoughby. Miss Mary P. Hastings 10.00
Windham. First Cong. Ch. 23.00

INDIANA, $17.50.

Fort Wayne. Cong. Ch. _for Chinese M._ 6.75
Madison. G. W. Southwick 5.00
South Vigo. Cong. Ch. 2.75
Sparta. Mrs. L. R. 1.00
Versailles. J. D. Nichols 2.00

ILLINOIS, $1000.32.

Albion. Mrs. Martha Skeavington 5.00
Avon. Mrs. Cylinder Woods, $5; “A Friend,” $5 10.00
Aurora. New Eng. Cong. Ch., $9.65;—Mrs. J. D.
Pike’s Sab. Sch. Class, $7; _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._; N. L. J., 50c. 17.15
Batavia. “W. E. M.” 20.00
Belvidere. ESTATE of Olney Nichols, by H. W. Pier,
Ex. 59.61
Byron. I. S. K. 1.00
Chicago. E. W. Blatchford, $112.50, _for Student
Aid, Talladega C._;—Union Park Cong. Ch. Sab.
Sch., $25, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._;
—New Eng. Cong. Ch., $10 147.50
Danville. Mrs. A. M. Swan 5.00
Denver. Thomas Graham 5.00
Farmington. Phineas Chapman 44.00
Galesburgh. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $50, _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._;—J. G. W., 50c. 50.50
Genesco. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 135.92
Hamlet. L. C. 1.00
Jacksonville. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 10.00
Lyndon. First Cong. Ch. 11.00
Kankakee. F. S. H. and J. H. 1.00
Kewanee. Cong. Ch., $102.73;—Cong. Ch. Sab.
Sch., $25, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 127.73
Knoxville. W. A., $1; Mrs. A. B., $1 2.00
Mendon. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 16.00
Milan. By Mrs. J. M. L. D. 1.00
Oak Park. J. W. Scoville 100.00
Ottawa. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 35.00
Paxton. “A Friend” 20.00
Peoria. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Griswold, _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 100.00
Polo. Penny Contribution, _for Lady Missionary,
Nashville, Tenn._ 1.00
Port Byron. A. F. Hollister, $6; Ladies’ Miss.
Soc., $5.50; Emma Hollister, $2.00 13.50
Princeton. Mrs. P. B. Corss 10.00
Rockford. Mrs. A. H. Perry 20.00
Roseville. Cong. Sab. Sch. (ad’l) 4.54
South Bend. R. Burroughs 10.00
Tonica. V. G. Lutz 5.00
Wauponsee Grove. Cong. Ch. 5.87
Woodburn. Nickel Miss. Soc., by Miss E. M.
Hollister, Treas. 5.00

MICHIGAN, $112.61.

Calumet. Robert Dobbie 10.50
Covert. F. C. 0.57
Cross Village. Rev. A. A. C. 1.00
Detroit. F. M. S. 0.50
Dexter. Dennis Warner 10.00
East Saginaw. Mrs. Miriam Seymour 2.00
Flint. H. Whittlesey 2.00
Jackson. Mrs. R. M. Bennett 1.50
Kalamazoo. Mrs. M. J. Kent 5.00
Lowell. Mrs. E. A. Yerkes 5.00
Marshall. D. H. Miller 5.00
Olivet. “A Friend,” _for Talladega C._ 0.25
Owasso. Mrs. F. G. D. 0.50
Romeo. Miss T. S. C., $1; Miss M. A. J., $1 2.00
Saint Johns. A. J. B. 0.50
Somerset. Cong. Ch. 18.87
Stockbridge. W. B. C. 1.00
Summit. Missionary Society, by Mrs. A. Vansickle 6.67
Union City. First. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 24.75
White Lake. Robert Garner and wife 15.00

WISCONSIN, $227.26.

Appleton. First Cong. Ch. 20.20
Beloit. First Cong. Ch. $30, _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._; Mrs. B. D. $1; W. P. 51c. 31.51
Brandon. Rev. H. W. C. 0.50
Bristol. Wis. Branch of W. B. M. S. 10.00
Cheboygan. A. D. and D. B. 50c., ea. 1.00
Clinton. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Selma, Ala._ 15.79
Fond du Lac. H. S. M. 0.50
Geneva. Presb. Ch. Quar. coll., $19.25; W. H. H.,
50c. 19.75
Kenosha. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.27
La Crosse. First Cong. Ch. 15.44
Mazomanie. R. L. 1.00
Mukwanago. Cong. Sab. Sch. 3.00
Sparta. Cong. Ch., $52; Cong. Sab. Sch., $29.34;
Mission Band, $8.96, to const. MISS LYNTHA FRANCK,
MRS. O. L. IRWIN and J. R. SKILLMAN, L. M’s 90.30
————. By L. S. Bingham 2.00
Racine. Mrs. D. D. N. 1.00
Rockland. Thomas H. Eynon 10.00

IOWA, $444.27.

Anamosa. Ladies of Cong. Ch. 5.00
Bowensburgh. ESTATE of Eliza B. Spencer, by Richard
Eells, Ex. 100.00
Big Rock. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Burlington. Cong. Ch. 70.36
Clay. Cong. Ch. 4.50
Cleveland. Ladies of Cong. Ch. 10.00
Des Moines. Plymouth Sab. Sch., $10;
“Friends,” $13, _for Student Aid_;
—T. E. Brown, $10; Mrs. A. W. Rollins, $5, _for
Repairs, Talladega C._ 38.00
Dubuque. Mrs. S. N. M. and Mrs. J. B., 50c. ea. 1.00
Dunlap. Cong. Ch. 26.66
Grinnell. Cong. Ch. and Boys’ S. S. Class, $26.22;
Miss S. Whitcomb’s S. S. Class, $5, _for Student
Aid_, and A. Steele, $5, _for Repairs,
Talladega C._ 36.22
Marion. Mrs. A. W. Shedd, $5, _for Student Aid_;
J. T. S., 50c. 5.50
McGregor. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. 17.70
Monticello. Ladies of Cong. Ch. 5.00
Muscatine. Cong. Ch., $36.05, and a Sewing Machine,
_for Talladega C._ 36.05
New Hampton. Dea. Gideon Gardiner, $5; Ladies’ Miss.
Soc., Quar. Coll., $1.60 6.60
Newton. Rev. S. A. A. 0.50
Osage. Cong. Ch., $10.75; Woman’s Miss. Soc., $5.50;
Mrs. G. W. Smith, $1.50 17.75
Rockford. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., by Mrs. O. J. Green,
Treas. 2.68
Sherrills Mount. Rev. J. R. 1.00
Tabor. J. F. S. 0.50
Traer. Rev. C. H. Bissel, $5; Infant Class Cong. Sab.
Sch., $2.25; Mrs. Ames, $2 9.25
Waterloo. Leavett & Johnson, _for Talladega C._ 40.00

KANSAS, $16.00.

Leavenworth. Prof. L. A. Stone ($1 of which _for
Chinese Mission_) 3.00
Meriden. “A Friend of Missions” 10.00
Topeka. Justin Hillyer 3.00

MINNESOTA, $86.41.

Audubon. Cong. Ch. 2.40
Austin. Union Cong. Ch. 25.77
Excelsior. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Hamilton. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Medford. J. W. Powell’s Sab. Sch. Class 2.00
Minneapolis. Plymouth Cong. Ch., $19.64; Second
Cong. Ch., $1.60 21.24
Northfield. “Friends,” $7, and Bbl. of C. _for
Talladega C._; A. L., $1 8.00
Plainview. Primary Class Cong. Sab. Sch. 2.00
Saint Paul. Plymouth Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.,
_for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 10.00
Spring Valley. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 5.00

NEBRASKA, $29.00.

Freemont. Cong. Ch., $5; and Sab. Sch., $8 13.00
Lincoln. J. G. E. 1.00
Nebraska City. “A Friend,” $10; Woman’s Missionary
Soc. of First Cong. Ch., $3.50; Individuals, $1.50 15.00

CALIFORNIA, $5.00.

Chico. Lewis H. Moss 5.00

WASHINGTON TERRITORY, $8.01.

White River. Cong. Ch. 8.01

TENNESSEE, $587.25.

Memphis. Le Moyne Sch. 117.15
Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition, $245.10; Prof. A. K.
Spencer, $200, _for Fisk U._;—Soc. for Evan. of
Africa in Fisk U., $25, _for a Pupil, Mendi M._ 470.10

NORTH CAROLINA, $131.36.

Dudley. Tuition 6.45
Raleigh. Washington Sch. Tuition 16.25
Wilmington. Normal Sch. Tuition, $82.50; Sales,
$22; Cong. Ch. $4.16 108.66

SOUTH CAROLINA, $320.50.

Charleston. Avery Inst., Tuition, $317.50;
—Plymouth Cong. Ch., $3, _for Mendi M._ 320.50

GEORGIA, $550.69.

Atlanta. Storrs School Tuition, $185.60; Rent, $3;
Atlanta U., Tuition, $97; Rent, $16.50 312.10
Athens. J. G. H. 0.51
Hawkinsville. M. B. C. 0.50
Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition, $48.15; Rent, $4;
First Cong. Ch., $8 60.15
Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, 118.50; Sales,
$58.93; Rent, $10 187.43

ALABAMA, $418.14.

Mobile. Emerson Inst., Tuition, $179.45; Cong. Ch.,
$2 181.45
Montgomery. Public Fund 175.00
Talladega. Talladega Col., _Tuition_, $61.19;
Rev. J. W. R., 50c 61.69

MISSISSIPPI, $57.97.

Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition, $47.77; Rent, $10.20 57.97

MISSOURI, $18.00.

Bridge Creek. I. R. W. 0.50
Index. W. B. Wills, $10; P. M. Wills, $5; F. P. M.,
$1; Others, $1.50 17.50

LOUISIANA, $96.25.

New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition 96.25

———— ——, $25.00.

Jubilee Singers, _for Dept. Natural Science, Fisk U._ 25.00

INCOME FUND, $195.50.

Interest _for Mendi M._ 45.50
Graves Library Fund 150.00

CANADA, $20.00.

Guelph. First Cong. Ch. 10.00
Sherbrooke. Thomas S. Morey 10.00

LABRADOR, $10.00.

Labrador. Rev. S. R. Butler 10.00

BULGARIA, $10.00.

Bulgaria, Samokov. “Wanderer” 10.00
————————
Total 15,665.32
Total from Oct. 1st to Jan. 31st $58,823.19

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FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INST., AUSTIN, TEXAS.

Exeter, N. H. Mrs. Augusta F. Odlin 100.00
Hartford, Conn. Mrs. Henry A. Perkins 100.00
Worcester, Mass. John B. Gough 50.00
New York, N. Y. Mrs. C. P. Stokes 100.00
——————
Total $350.00
Previously acknowledged in Dec. receipts 867.00
———————
Total $1,217.00

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FOR SCHOOL BUILDINGS, ATHENS, ALA.

Charlotte, Mich. Cong. Ch. 36.00
Minneapolis, Minn. “Friends” 300.00
——————
Total $336.00
Previously acknowledged in Nov. receipts 83.00
——————
Total $419.00

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FOR NEGRO REFUGEES.

Newton, Mass. Elliot Ch. and Soc. 117.50
Sing Sing, N. Y. Mrs. Harriet M. Cole, to const.
REV. ALBERT P. MILLER, L. M. 30.00
Union City, Mich. Mrs. Sarah B. Clark, $5; Mrs. L.
W. Clark, $5; Mrs. Lee, $3; Juv. Miss. Soc., $3 16.00
——————
Total 163.50
Previously acknowledged in Dec. receipts 17.00
——————
Total $180.50

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Receipts for January 16,514.82

Total from Oct. 1st to January 31st $62,255.03
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H. W. HUBBARD, _Treas._,
56 Reade St., N. Y.

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Constitution of the American Missionary Association.

INCORPORATED JANUARY 30, 1849.

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ART. I. This Society shall be called “THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.”

ART. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct Christian missionary and educational operations, and diffuse a knowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and other countries which are destitute of them, or which present open and urgent fields of effort.

ART. III. Any person of evangelical sentiments,[A] who professes faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slave-holder, or in the practice of other immoralities, and who contributes to the funds, may become a member of the Society; and by the payment of thirty dollars, a life member; provided that children and others who have not professed their faith may be constituted life members without the privilege of voting.

ART. IV. This Society shall meet annually, in the month of September, October or November, for the election of officers and the transaction of other business, at such time and place as shall be designated by the Executive Committee.

ART. V. The annual meeting shall be constituted of the regular officers and members of the Society at the time of such meeting, and of delegates from churches, local missionary societies, and other co-operating bodies, each body being entitled to one representative.

ART. VI. The officers of the Society shall be a President, Vice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretaries, Treasurer, two Auditors, and an Executive Committee of not less than twelve, of which the Corresponding Secretaries shall be advisory, and the Treasurer ex-officio, members.

ART. VII. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting and disbursing of funds; the appointing, counselling, sustaining and dismissing (for just and sufficient reasons) missionaries and agents; the selection of missionary fields; and, in general, the transaction of all such business as usually appertains to the executive committees of missionary and other benevolent societies; the Committee to exercise no ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the missionaries; and its doings to be subject always to the revision of the annual meeting, which shall, by a reference mutually chosen, always entertain the complaints of any aggrieved agent or missionary; and the decision of such reference shall be final.

The Executive Committee shall have authority to fill all vacancies occurring among the officers between the regular annual meetings; to apply, if they see fit, to any State Legislature for acts of incorporation; to fix the compensation, where any is given, of all officers, agents, missionaries, or others in the employment of the Society; to make provision, if any, for disabled missionaries, and for the widows and children of such as are deceased; and to call, in all parts of the country, at their discretion, special and general conventions of the friends of missions, with a view to the diffusion of the missionary spirit, and the general and vigorous promotion of the missionary work.

Five members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for transacting business.

ART. VIII. This society, in collecting funds, in appointing officers, agents and missionaries, and in selecting fields of labor, and conducting the missionary work, will endeavor particularly to discountenance slavery, by refusing to receive the known fruits of unrequited labor, or to welcome to its employment those who hold their fellow-beings as slaves.

ART. IX. Missionary bodies, churches or individuals agreeing to the principles of this Society, and wishing to appoint and sustain missionaries of their own, shall be entitled to do so through the agency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed upon.

ART. X. No amendment shall be made to this Constitution without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present at a regular annual meeting; nor unless the proposed amendment has been submitted to a previous meeting, or to the Executive Committee in season to be published by them (as it shall be their duty to do, if so submitted) in the regular official notifications of the meeting.

FOOTNOTE:

[A] By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among others, a belief in the guilty and lost condition of all men without a Saviour; the Supreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning Sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the only Saviour of the world; the necessity of regeneration by the Holy Spirit, repentance, faith and holy obedience in order to salvation; the immortality of the soul; and the retributions of the judgment in the eternal punishment of the wicked, and salvation of the righteous.

The American Missionary Association.

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AIM AND WORK.

To preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with the almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted its main efforts to preparing the FREEDMEN for their duties as citizens and Christians in America and as missionaries in Africa. As closely related to this, it seeks to benefit the caste-persecuted CHINESE in America, and to co-operate with the Government in its humane and Christian policy towards the INDIANS. It has also a mission in AFRICA.

STATISTICS.

CHURCHES: _In the South_—In Va.,1; N. C., 5; S. C., 2; Ga., 13; Ky., 7; Tenn., 4; Ala., 14; La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2; Texas, 6. _Africa_, 2. _Among the Indians_, 1. Total 70.

INSTITUTIONS FOUNDED, FOSTERED OR SUSTAINED IN THE SOUTH.—_Chartered_: Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega, Ala.; Atlanta, Ga.; Nashville, Tenn.; Tougaloo, Miss.; New Orleans, La.; and Austin, Texas, 8. _Graded or Normal Schools_: at Wilmington, Raleigh, N. C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S. C.; Savannah, Macon, Atlanta, Ga.; Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn., 12. _Other Schools_, 24. Total 44.

TEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.—Among the Freedmen, 253; among the Chinese, 21; among the Indians, 9; in Africa, 13. Total, 296. STUDENTS—In Theology, 86; Law, 28; in College Course, 63; in other studios, 7,030. Total, 7,207. Scholars taught by former pupils of our schools, estimated at 150,000. INDIANS under the care of the Association, 13,000.

WANTS.

1. A steady INCREASE of regular income to keep pace with the growing work. This increase can only be reached by _regular_ and _larger_ contributions from the churches—the feeble as well as the strong.

2. ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS for our higher educational institutions, to accommodate the increasing numbers of students; MEETING HOUSES for the new churches we are organizing; MORE MINISTERS, cultured and pious, for these churches.

3. HELP FOR YOUNG MEN, to be educated as ministers here and missionaries to Africa—a pressing want.

Before sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A. office, as below:

NEW YORK H. W. Hubbard, Esq., 56 Reade Street.
BOSTON Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Room 21 Congregational House.
CHICAGO Rev. Jas. Powell, 112 West Washington Street.

MAGAZINE.

This Magazine will be sent, gratuitously, if desired, to the Missionaries of the Association; to Life Members; to all clergymen who take up collections for the Association; to Superintendents of Sabbath Schools; to College Libraries; to Theological Seminaries; to Societies of Inquiry on Missions; and to every donor who does not prefer to take it as a subscriber, and contributes in a year not less than five dollars.

Those who wish to remember the AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION in their last Will and Testament, are earnestly requested to use the following

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 [in some States three are required—in other States only two], who should write against their names, their places of residence [if in cities, their street and number]. The following form of attestation will answer for every State in the Union: “Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said [A. B.] as his last Will and Testament, in presence of us, who, at the request of the said A. B., and in his presence, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.” In some States it is required that the Will should be made at least two months before the death of the testator.

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THE THIRTY-FOURTH VOLUME

OF THE

American Missionary,

1880.

We have been gratified with the constant tokens of the increasing appreciation of the MISSIONARY during the past year, and purpose to spare no effort to make its pages of still greater value to those interested in the work which it records.

Shall we not have a largely increased subscription list for 1880?

A little effort on the part of our friends, when making their own remittances, to induce their neighbors to unite in forming Clubs, will easily double our list, and thus widen the influence of our Magazine, and aid in the enlargement of our work.

Under the editorial supervision of Rev. GEO. M. BOYNTON, aided by the steady contributions of our intelligent missionaries and teachers in all parts of the field, and with occasional communications from careful observers and thinkers elsewhere, the AMERICAN MISSIONARY furnishes a vivid and reliable picture of the work going forward among the Indians, the Chinamen on the Pacific Coast, and the Freedmen as citizens in the South and as missionaries in Africa.

It will be the vehicle of important views on all matters affecting the races among which it labors, and will give a monthly summary of current events relating to their welfare and progress.

Patriots and Christians interested in the education and Christianizing of these despised races are asked to read it, and assist in its circulation. Begin with the next number and the new year. The price is only Fifty Cents per annum.

The Magazine will be sent gratuitously, if preferred, to the persons indicated on page 94.

Donations and subscriptions should be sent to

H. W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,
56 Reade Street, New York.

TO ADVERTISERS.

Special attention is invited to the advertising department of the AMERICAN MISSIONARY. Among its regular readers are thousands of Ministers of the Gospel, Presidents, Professors and Teachers in Colleges, Theological Seminaries and Schools; it is, therefore, a specially valuable medium for advertising Books, Periodicals, Newspapers, Maps, Charts, Institutions of Learning, Church Furniture, Bells, Household Goods, &c.

Advertisers are requested to note the moderate price charged for space in its columns, considering the extent and character of its circulation.

Advertisements must be received by the TENTH of the month, in order to secure insertion in the following number. All communications in relation to advertising should be addressed to

THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT,
56 Reade Street, New York.

☛ =Our friends who are interested in the Advertising Department of the “American Missionary” can aid us in this respect by mentioning, when ordering goods, that they saw them advertised in our Magazine.=

DAVID H. GILDERSLEEVE, Printer, 101 Chambers Street, New York.

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