Chapter II: Part 2

Friday, October 21.—At 8 A.M. we took the cars for Cairo. Arriving at the station, we found a large omnibus waiting for us, and we were driven to Shepard’s Hotel, where we have been assigned very pleasant rooms. This is a very fine hotel for this part of the world. In front and around it is a garden filled with tropical trees and shrubs. Two fountains dash their cooling spray high into the air, and there is a small menagerie, from which the table is often supplied.

Here, as on the Galata Bridge, in Constantinople, the past and the present, the east and the west, flow together. The latest fashions from Paris, and the garb of the time of Abraham, the luxuriance of Oriental wealth and splendor, and the miserable poverty and nakedness of the oppressed “fellahin,” all pass before one like the shifting figures of a kaleidoscope. It is a most interesting and absorbing scene, to be found nowhere else in the world.

Saturday, October 22.—Called at the American Consulate the first thing this morning, but found it closed. We were bothered with a host of dragomans and donkey-boys, but they are finding out that people who speak Turkish and Greek and French as well as English, and a few words of other languages, are “one too many” for them! We took a little walk alone about the European portion of the city, to get the hang of the place. Some of the residences and public buildings are very fine. In some places you quite forget that you are not in Paris. To-day, our Consul-General, Hon. Simon Wolf, has been formally presented to the Khedive in great pomp. The Khedive always makes a great display on these occasions, and presents the new Consul with a fine Arabian horse. We called again at the Consulate, and were glad to receive our letters from home. We talked up our contemplated trip with some of the officials, and gained valuable information.

Sunday, Oct. 23.—Judge Farman, from the United States, called early this morning. He is very kind, and is doing all in his power to pave the way for us to the favor of the officials here. As he was to leave on Monday for Alexandria, he asked us to go with him to the Consulate, where he told them what he wanted done for us. A number of Arabic interpreters have been recommended to us for our trip, but we take our time in the choice of a proper man. We find that it will be necessary to take an Arabic interpreter and a cook from here.

We attended the Mission Church, under the care of the United Presbyterians this morning, and greatly enjoyed being among our own people again. I presented my letter of introduction to Drs. Lansing and Watson, and found them to be very agreeable gentlemen, and at once greatly interested in our work.

Monday, October 24.—Called at the Consulate again this morning, and had an interview with our Consul-General, Mr. Wolf. We found him to be a very pleasant man, bright and energetic, and anxious to promote our interests in every way possible. He proposed to present us to the Khedive and to introduce us to Sir Edward Malet, the English Consul, to whom we have letters from the British Foreign Office, and to General Stone, who is in a position where he can help us greatly.

October 25.—I’m trying to pick up Arabic, but I find a donkey-boy better help than a book. We tried this method this morning, and started for the bazaars. I rode “Yankee Doodle,” a very smart little donkey, and Doctor rode “Champagne Charley.” We went through the gold and silver bazaars and the Turkish bazaars and the shoe bazaars, and various other departments. Here I aired my Turkish and my Greek. Everywhere we went there was a gentle murmur in our ears, “Bakhshish,” “Bakhshish.” We have got accustomed to it now, and rather like it; in fact, we feel quite lost without it.

Wednesday, October 26.—We went this morning to call upon Sir Edward Malet, K. C. B., with our Consul. I presented our letter from the Foreign Office, and we were very cordially received. He gave us some good advice and considerable information, and promised to get us the necessary letters. He also requested us to report to him the state of the slave trade on our return. We find that we have to move very cautiously. The slave trade is a touchy question in some quarters, and proselytism is another. In order to obtain any favor, we are obliged to emphasize the educational part of the work proposed.

Thursday, October 27.—Dr. Lansing called again this evening. He has a man he wants to send with us as far as Khartoum selling the Scriptures. He also thinks that there are some from among the tribes we hope to reach in their schools now who will work in with us in time.

Friday, October 28.—In the P.M. we went with Dr. Lansing and a party of friends to see, or rather hear, the Howling Dervishes. It was something unearthly, devilish, and never to be forgotten. Doctor and I began to calculate our chances if their religious enthusiasm and fanaticism should lead them to turn upon us. There has been a great revival of Mohammedanism lately and fanaticism. After this we went to the old synagogue, where there is a manuscript of the law written by Ezra. This is actually the case Dr. Lansing affirms. He intends to examine it more thoroughly some day, but it is very carefully guarded. Then we visited the old Roman gates of New Babylon and also attempted another church, but found it closed; we finished up with a drive on the fine Shubra avenue. There we saw the Khedive and a vast turnout of handsome carriages and handsomer occupants.

Sunday, October 30.—Attended the mission church and heard Mr. Helditch on Psalm cxxxix. 18. Met some Americans there who expressed great interest in our work. Remained quietly in our rooms the rest of the day.

Monday, October 31.—Wrote nearly all day. Received our circular letters from the Government to the authorities in Soudan and the Equatorial Provinces. Had a very friendly call from Sir Edward Malet, K. C. B., who offered himself for any further services he could render.

Tuesday, November 1.—Called at the Consulate. Our baggage, which we sent overland by express, has not come yet, but we are told to give it time—everything needs plenty of time. In the afternoon we called by appointment at the Consul’s residence. Here we met several gentlemen who knew all about the Soudan; one had been there, and another was an intimate friend of the Pasha, the Governor-General. The Consul then took us around and introduced us to Gen. Stone. In his position of Commander-in-Chief he can do more for us than any one else, and he knows more than any one else about Soudan and the Nile. He received us very cordially and seemed eager to do what he could for us. With maps before us he gave us much valuable information in regard to positions and healthfulness. He also put us in the way of transportation across the desert at the least expense of time and money. He strongly advises us to have headquarters at Berber, and in establishing our stations not to stop at the Sobat, but to go on to Fatiko. He is also going to furnish us letters to the Governors. We dined this afternoon at the American Mission House with Mr. and Mrs. Harvey, and spent a very pleasant evening with the teachers. I conducted prayers in the girls’ department, and saw there several children who had been brought down as slaves from the very tribes to which we are going. They seemed to be very bright and intelligent. If we find as good material as that we shall have no cause to complain.

Wednesday, November 2.—Called at Consulate and received letters. We had the clerk translate the telegram which General Stone wrote for us to send to Souakim, with reference to transportation, into Arabic, and then we were advised to get General Stone’s seal to it.

Thursday, November 3.—We have found and engaged a good interpreter at a moderate price. We called on General Stone and obtained his seal to the telegram.

Friday, November 4.—Called at the Consulate. Sent telegram of General Stone to Marquette, at Souakim. It will take some days to get an answer from it. We are told to-day that the English steamer we intended to take down the Red Sea has been delayed for about ten days. It is better to pass our Quarantine here than at Souakim. This is our only consolation, for we are very anxious to be off now, although they all tell us that we are early yet.

Saturday, November 6.—We hope this week to see at least the beginning of the end of our waiting here. Much will depend on the answer to our telegram; some will depend on the letters from General Stone: much more will depend on the movements of that English steamer on the Red Sea.

It is not always possible to make circumstances.

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THE CHINESE.

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CALIFORNIA AND CHINA.

BY REV. W. C. POND.

The new fiscal year opens most hopefully. It began September 1, and the statistics for September which I have just compiled show a larger enrolment and a larger average attendance than was ever before reported in the whole history of our work. The figures are these: 15 schools; 661 pupils enrolled; average attendance, 332. Among these pupils are 200 who are reported as having ceased from idol-worship, and 137 who give evidence of conversion. There are other hopeful features—a good band of teachers and helpers, numbering 27, not one among them now whom I would like to have resign, and a spreading and deepening interest in this work among our churches, and peace in all our borders. The hoodlum element is measurably quiet, and we work without molestation, except as now and then the heathen cousins or uncles of some of our young converts try what virtue there is in stripes to exorcise from them the Christian devil. The boldness and the constancy which some who are still children—scarcely in their teens—have shown, declaring to their persecutors when dragged before an idol, “I will not worship it, though you kill me,” remind one of the legends of primitive Christianity.

But I turn from all points of interest in our work here to press once more on the members and friends of the Association the opportunity there is and the need there is for its commencing a

WORK IN CHINA.

I will venture to assume that much of what I myself have written before about this, and what Jee Gam wrote nearly a year ago, is still remembered. I am glad to say that in the populous districts from which our Chinese come there is now one American missionary—Rev. D.D. Jones—American, though born in Wales. Bro. Jones as a layman at Cheyenne, Wy. Ter., had his heart stirred for the Chinese in that place. Commencing a mission among them, he afterwards went to Chicago to do like work there, and then to Boston on a similar errand. At length he sought ordination, and went forth, appointed by no society, to become a self-sustaining missionary in China. It is a comfort to me to give to each of our returning Chinese a letter to him, though probably in many instances the probability of their seeing him is very small.

Is it asked: “What would we do by our mission, if we had it established?” We would, first of all, give a cordial Christian greeting at Hong Kong to every Christian Chinese returning from California: we would bring them off ship into an atmosphere warm with Christian love; we would bring them into meetings for prayer; and would then let them go out to their old heathen homes, baptized with the Holy Ghost. In the same spirit we would meet them as they come back on their return to California, calling for reports of their experiences, the temptations they have met, the testimony they have borne, and the results which have followed their words. Then, we would make our mission house at Hong Kong a rendezvous and training school for such of our Chinese as may be fitted or could become fitted for evangelistic work among their countrymen. We ought to raise up many such through our work in California. The wise word, “Africans for Africa,” has double wisdom when you read it “Chinese for the conquest of China for Christ!” They have the hard language already; they know from childhood the ways of the people; they know from personal experience the darkness, the fear, the soul-hunger and the woe of heathenism. It would not be wise to send them forth with no American supervision; but evidently here is a great force at present little used, that, properly directed, might be wielded for the salvation of multitudes, and the Christianization of the greatest empire of darkness the world now knows; perhaps has ever known.

“But isn’t the ground already occupied? How many missionary societies are already operating in and around Canton? Why add one more?” I have no statistics at hand, and speaking thus from general knowledge alone I must keep far within the truth; but I am surely safe in saying that of competent missionaries, either Chinese or foreign, there are not in the provinces of South China one to 100,000 people; I know that I am safe in saying that, in the districts from which our Chinese come there is not more than one to 350,000. I risk nothing, I think, in affirming that Central Africa has to-day more missionaries in proportion to its population than these districts of China to which I have referred. Certainly many a helper might be added before any society now on the ground could possibly find itself jostled by neighbors.

Besides, we should have our own special methods and our own special field, growing naturally out of the relationship between the mission here and the mission there; such that while we should largely enter into the labors of brethren who have preceded us; using the books that they have prepared; availing ourselves of various conveniences that they have contrived, we should in turn supplement and extend their work and multiply their joys. We should be then, not as competitors, but as co-workers—one in spirit and mutually helpful.

“But wouldn’t it cost too much?” Too much for what? Too much for the souls that would be saved? More that these souls are worth? Not one of our readers thinks this. But _this_ is the question: Would it not cost too much for our treasury to bear, loaded as it already is with such heavy responsibilities? I reply that it would not be very costly. Two American missionaries, a little property in Hong Kong, a rented chapel here and there in the larger villages and the small stipends of the Chinese evangelists; this would be all. It would not call for a larger sum unless, in the good providence and by the dear Spirit of God, it came to be, by virtue of its own success, a _large work_; and then contributions would flow in for it, so that by means of it the treasury would be enriched rather than depleted. I seldom prophesy; but I will venture to say this, that when the American Missionary Association has once taken hold of this work, and adopted as one of its mottoes: “China for Christ,” it will take but a brief period—a very few years—to give it such a place in all our hearts that we would sooner think of cutting off our right hands than of relaxing our grasp on that land as ours to be won for Christ.

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CHILDREN’S PAGE

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HOW A STRAIN OF MUSIC CALLED A WANDERER HOME.

(Toronto Evening News, October 10.)

They were two young girls, and both were inmates of a gilded palace of sin in the city. One was hardened in her sin—the other had waded only ankle deep into the black moat which circles the walls of perdition. The other night they went to hear the Jubilee Singers, and sat unnoticed in the gallery. The sweet, tender music, so touching and true to nature, entered like a limpid stream into the soul of the younger girl, and filled her whole heart. She leaned forward and caught every word, with her eyes shining and her red lips trembling. People turned round and wondered at the fair face, and watched her soul shining through her great eyes, but they never suspected who she was or whence she had come. There she sat, still and immobile, with her small gloved hands tightly clenched, and every nerve in her little body strung to an almost painful tension. All was still in the pavilion. The very gas lights held themselves motionless, as if afraid to make a sound. The great audience was hushed. And then a note sweet and tender, but full and rich as moonlight, swelled and rose like a sea, and then, like a shower of pearls falling through the sounding waters, a woman’s voice sang:

Bright sparkles in the church-yard,
Give light unto the tomb;
Bright summer—spring’s over—
Sweet flowers in their bloom.

The girl in the gallery gave a great, shuddering sob. The singer looked up and went on:

My mother, once—
My mother, twice—
In the heaven she’ll rejoice,
In the heaven once,
In the heaven twice,
In the heaven she’ll rejoice.

Again the girl in the gallery uttered a long, shuddering sob, and hid her white stricken face in her trembling hands. But still the music fluttered about her like the rustling of an angel’s wings:

Mother, don’t you love your darling child?
Oh, rock me in the cradle all the day.

She sat still and heard till the last cadence of the music had wandered out into the moonlight, where the angels, who wished to learn it off by heart, caught it up, and bore it in triumph into Heaven.

“I must go from here,” said the girl hoarsely. “Let me go, don’t follow me—I will be better soon.”

Her comrade reasoned with her, but she kept saying hoarsely. “Let me go—I will be better soon.”

She hurried out and fled like a frightened deer. She was mad! Her eyes were hot and dry—her brain was bursting, and all the while a wondrous choir was singing in her ears:

Bright sparkles in the church-yard,
Give light unto the tomb;
Bright summer—spring’s ever—
Sweet flowers in their bloom.

She fled like a hunted thing till the lights of the city were far behind and she was alone on a country road. She stopped to rest a moment, but the chorus went onward through the sky and she could not stop, for the words were beckoning to her:

“Your mother, once,
Your mother, twice,
In the heaven she’ll rejoice.”

Tireless she followed on, on, on, the long, long night. The moon went down and she got blind and staggered and groped upon her way, but still she said hoarsely, “I must go on. I’ll be better soon.”

In the morning a farmer threw open his door and saw lying on the steps the soiled figure of a girl. He picked her up and laid her on his own bed, and his wife laid the wild, pleading face against her warm bosom. A stream of music reached the ears of the dying girl.

“Mother, don’t you love your darling child?
Then rock me in the cradle all the day.”

She sank back with a weak, pleased smile. “Rock me, mother, that’s it—oh! how nice—how nice it is. Oh, rock me, rock me—rock me, mother. I am too tired to say my prayers to-night, mother. Let me sleep, mother, and kiss me, but let me sleep—sleep—sleep!”

And she closed her eyes and slept, and the choir in Paradise, lest they might wake her, sang softly:

“Her mother once—
Her mother twice—
In the heaven she’ll rejoice.
In the heaven once—
In the heaven twice—
In the heaven she’ll rejoice.”

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MISSIONARY VEGETABLES—A GOOD EXAMPLE.

_By C. H. Kellogg._

Last Spring, our Sabbath-school having become greatly interested in the work of Atlanta University, one of the lady teachers proposed to the superintendent that the boys in the school be asked to raise as their own during the season, corn, potatoes, cabbages, squashes, etc., these to be called “missionary vegetables;” and the girls were asked to make fancy articles, and in the Fall a fair held called a harvest festival. The boys and girls entered heartily into the enterprise, and last week we held the fair, which resulted in the raising of $80 for Atlanta University; this is to go toward supporting some worthy student. The money will be placed at the disposal of Miss Emma Beaman, one of the teachers, who was instrumental in awakening an interest here by giving us a talk in regard to her work at Atlanta. Is not this a good example for _other_ schools to imitate next Summer?

NORTH AMHERST, Mass., Oct. 17, 1881.

RECEIPTS FOR NOVEMBER, 1881.

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MAINE, $78.72.

Brewer. First Cong. Ch. $16.72
East Waterford. S. E. Hersey 2.00
Garland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00
Hallowell. Hon. H. R. Baker, _for Atlanta U._ 5.00
North Anson. “A Friend” 6.00
Searsport. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00
Thomaston. “A Friend” 2.00
Thomaston. Bbl. of C.
Woolwich. John Percy, deceased, by I. Percy 2.00
Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00

NEW HAMPSHIRE, $310.73.

Acworth. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
Amherst. L. R. Melendy, $25; Ladies’
Missionary Soc., $21, _for Student Aid,
Straight U._ 46.00
Amherst. Cong. Ch. 11.00
Auburn. Cong. Ch. 10.71
Colebrook. Cong. Sab. Sch. 17.61
Concord. Ladies of North Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
Bbl. and Box of C.
Derry. “Friends,” Bbl. of C., _for Washington,
D.C._
Exeter. MRS. WOODBRIDGE ODLIN, to const.
herself L.M. 30.00
Exeter. Hervey Kent, _for Atlanta U._ 25.00
Goffstown. Mrs. Mary A. Stinson, _for John
Brown Steamer_ 10.00
Hampstead. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 29.66
Hancock. E. W. 1.00
Hollis. Cong. Ch. 3.20
Lyme. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown Steamer_ 12.00
Manchester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const.
DEA. HORACE PETTEE, L.M. 31.05
Milford. Peter and Cynthia S. Burns 30.00
Nashua. J. G. Proctor 5.50
Northhampton. E. Gove 10.00
Pelham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l) 3.00
Salmon Falls. O. S. Brown, _for Atlanta U._ 25.00
South Newmarket. Ladies of Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
2 Bls. of C., _for Wilmington, N.C._

VERMONT, $416.96.

Barnet. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.43
Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.00
Burlington. Winooski Ave. Cong. Sab. Sch., $48
(incorrectly ack. in Dec. number from Ct.)
East Dorset. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.02
East Poultney. A. D. Wilcox 5.00
Grafton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.16
Hartland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.24
Holland. Cong. Ch. 4.33
Jamaica. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.57
Jeffersonville. “A Friend,” to const. MISS
HELEN LUCRETIA MOODY, L.M. 30.00
Peacham. Ashley Blodgett 5.00
Saint Johnsbury. “A Young Man,” $5; ——, $1 6.00
Saint Johnsbury Centre. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00
Springfield. Mrs. F. Parks 100.00
West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.15
West Charleston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 23.25
West Danville. J. M. 1.00
West Derby. Rev. John Fraser 5.00
West Randolph. Susan S. Albin, $6; S. J. A.,
$1; Miss Betsey Nichols, $2 9.00
Woodstock. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.
REV. JAMES F. BRODIE, DEA. MASON W. LADD,
DEA. JUSTIN S. MONTAGUE, and CHARLES DANA,
L. Ms. 143.81

MASSACHUSETTS, $6,569.96.

Amherst. Faculty of Agl. College, _for
repairs, Talladega C._ 35.00
Amherst. Zion Chapel Sab. Sch., _for John
Brown Steamer_ 10.00
Andover. South Ch., The Little Gleaners, $27;
G. W. W. Dove, $100, _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 127.00
Ashfield. Ladies of Cong. Ch. and Soc. Bbl. of
C. and $1 _for freight_ 1.00
Ashland. Ladies of Cong. Ch. and Soc., Bbl. of
C.
Auburn. Cong. Ch. 42.82
Barre. Sab. Sch. of Ev. Cong. Ch. 48.43
Belchertown. By Rev. P. W. L., _for John Brown
Steamer_ 1.25
Bernardston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.00
Beverly. Dane St. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for
Washington, D.C._
Boston. Mrs. Emily P. Eayrs 5.00
Boston. Woman’s Home Missionary Association,
_for Lady Missionaries_ 113.53
Boston. M. W. Richardson, $25; H. Gardner,
$25; Edward Atkinson, $20; A. R. Turner,
Jr., $20, _for Atlanta U._ 90.00
Boston. Mrs. Thomas Kingsbury, _for
Charleston, S.C._ 5.00
Boylston. Ladies, 2 Bbls. of C.
Bridgewater. Central Sq. Trin. Cong. Ch. and
Soc., to const. LILIAN FRANCES SIMMONS, L. M. 40.55
Brockton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $50; Mrs.
J. R. Perkins, $5 55.00
Buckland. Dea. S. Trowbridge, $5; C. W.
Thayer, $5; “A Friend,” $5; Dea. F. F., 51c. 15.51
Cambridgeport. Ladies’ Mission Soc., $30, to
const. MRS. EDWARD KENDALL, L. M.; G. H. R.,
50c. 30.50
Chelsea. Central Ch. and Soc., $19.20; Third
Cong. Ch. and Soc., $11.09 30.29
Danvers. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const
JOHN S. ARMITAGE, ROLLAND B. FRENCH, WALTER
T. MARTIN and SOPHIA D. TAPLEY, L. Ms 120.00
Dedham. First Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 188.86
Dedham. A. W. Gates, _for John Brown Steamer_ 10.00
Dorchester. Miss E. Pierce 5.00
Easthampton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $42.02;
Payson Ch. Sab. Sch., $37.50 79.52
East Somerville. Ephraim Stone, _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00
Enfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00
Everett. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.77
Fall River. Wm. H. Jennings, $50; Other
visitors from Fall River, $312, _for Atlanta
U._ 362.00
Fiskdale. Mrs. A. S. 0.50
Fitchburgh. Calvinistic Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
$176.96; Rollstone Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
$166.44, to const. DUANE C. HARRINGTON,
CHARLES H. DOTEN, EDWIN C. BABBITT, GORDON
J. BUSHNELL and ANNIE E. FERSON, L. Ms 343.38
Fitchburgh. David Boutelle, $50; Miss L.
Boutelle, $10, _for John Brown Steamer_ 60.00
Framingham. Young Ladies Soc., _for Student
Aid, Talladega C._ 25.00
Framingham. George Nourse 5.00
Gardner. J. B. Drury to const. JOSEPH GRIMES,
L. M. 30.00
Globe Village. Sab. Sch. of Evan. Free Ch. 20.00
Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch. 100.00
Groton. “Mother and Daughter,” _for Freedmen,
Chinese and Indian M._ 30.00
Hatfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 71.00
Hinsdale. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 31.94
Holliston. “A Young Friend,” $5; “A Friend,”
$1; other friends, $3, _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 9.00
Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.59
Lancaster. Evan. Cong. Sab. Sch. 20.00
Lancaster. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., Bbl. and Box
of C. and $2, _for Freight_ 2.00
Lawrence. F. E. Clarke, _for Atlanta U._ 50.00
Lawrence. Eliot Cong. Ch. and Soc. 29.64
Lee. Cong. Sab. Sch. 75.00
Lowell. J. S. Ludlam, $50; A. G. Cumnock, $50,
_for Atlanta U._ 100.00
Lynn. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.78
Manchester. Mrs. Abby H. Trask 2.00
Marblehead. Hon. J. J. H. Gregory, _for
Student Aid, Talladega C._ 30.00
Medfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 171.00
Middleborough. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 28.00
Middleton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00
Milford. Geo. Draper, _for Atlanta U._ 100.00
Monson. Mrs. N. M. Field, $10, _for John Brown
Steamer_, and 50c. _for Mag._ 10.50
Newburyport. “Friends,” Bbl. of C., _for
Washington, D.C._
Newton Center. C. L. H. 0.51
North Amherst. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student
Aid, Atlanta U._ 90.00
Northampton. First Cong. Ch. 67.51
Northborough. Sab. Sch. of First Evan. Cong.
Ch., _for John Brown Steamer_ 10.00
North Hadley. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.00
North Somerville. “A Friend” 1.00
Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.25
Palmer. Mrs. E. G. Learned 5.00
Pepperell. Citizens of Pepperell, by C.
Crosby, Treas. Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ 10.75
Pittsfield. Mrs. H. M. Hurd, Package of
Bedding, _for Tougaloo U._
Plymouth. Mrs. C. W. P. 0.50
Princeton. Cong. Ch. 7.00
Rockland. Cong. Ch. 73.40
Rockport. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.94
Salem. Henry D. Sullivan, _for Atlanta U._ 50.00
Salem. “Friends,” Bbl. of C., _for Washington,
D.C._
Scotland. “E. F. L.” 0.50
South Abington. Miss C. H. Whitman, _for John
Brown Steamer_ 10.00
Southampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 35.00
South Boston. Phillips Cong. Ch. and Soc. 122.62
South Deerfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.16
South Framingham. Mrs. Geo. Cutler, _for
Student Aid, Talladega C._ 4.00
South Hadley. Mt. Holyoke Sem., “S.” 15.00
South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
$43.75, and Ladies Missionary Soc., $17.25,
to const. MRS. JULIA A. REED and MISS
FLORENCE E. DEANE L. Ms. 61.00
Stoneham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 1.50
Stoughton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00
Templeton. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
Tewksbury. W. H. Lathrop, $2 and Bundle of C. 2.00
Townsend. “A Friend” 7.00
Wakefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 57.93
Westborough. E. N. Forse, _for Wilmington,
N.C._ 10.00
Westford. Ladies of Cong. Ch. and Soc. Bbl. of
C., _for Savannah, Ga._
West Newbury. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,
$10; “A Friend,” $5 15.00
Winchendon. First Cong. Sab. Sch., $27.25; “A
Friend,” $5 32.25
Woburn. “By a Daughter,” in memory of a
departed Mother and of a S. S. Teacher, to
const. R. B. RICHARDSON, J. S. WHEELER and
MRS. E. V. BRIDGHAM, L. Ms. 100.00
Worcester. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
$140.36; Salem St. Ch., $110; Old South Ch.
and Soc., $31.30; H. M. Wheeler, $20; Mrs.
P. E. A., $1; Mrs. K. G. and Mrs. J. B. G.,
50c. ea.; E. J. R., 50c. 304.16
Worcester. “A Friend,” in the Annual Meeting
at Worcester ($500 _of which for Hampton N.
& A. Inst._ and $500 _for Berea College_) 2,340.00
Worcester. “A Father,” in the Annual Meeting
at Worcester, to const. three daughters Life
Members 90.00
—— “A Friend” 2.00
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6,502.34

LEGACY.

Marion. A. J. Hadley, Trustee under the Will
of John Pitcher 67.62
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6,569.96

RHODE ISLAND, $906.63.

Kingston. Cong. Ch. 21.63
Providence. Beneficent Cong. Ch., $200;
Pilgrim Cong. Ch. and Soc., $110 310.00
Providence. F. W. Carpenter, _for Bell for
Florence, Ala._ 50.00
Woonsocket. Charles Nourse, _for Atlanta U._ 25.00
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406.63

LEGACY.

Coventry. Estate of Mary Lincoln, by Joel M.
Spencer, Ex. 500.00
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906.63

CONNECTICUT, $1,656.23.

Bristol. “A Friend,” $15; Mrs. P. L. Alcott, $5 20.00
Cornwall. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for
John Brown Steamer_ 10.00
Dayville. Cong. Soc., _for John Brown Steamer_ 10.00
East Avon. Cong. Ch. 37.50
East Woodstock. Bbl. of C. and $2 _for Freight_ 2.00
Elliott. Wm. Osgood 2.00
Greenville. Cong. Ch. 33.10
Guilford. Daniel Hand 100.00
Hebron. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown
Steamer_ 10.00
Hartford. Pearl St. Cong. Ch. 104.84
Hartford. Roland Mather, _for Fisk U._ 50.00
Kensington. Miss E. Cowles 2.00
Killingly. E. F. Jencks, $5; L. G. Jencks, $5 10.00
Meriden. Mrs. S. F. S. B. 1.00
New Canaan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 23.52
Middletown. First Ch., $37.64; “A. B. C.,” $5 42.64
Milford. Plymouth Ch., $85; First Cong. Ch.,
$25 110.00
New Britain. Mrs. Louisa Nichols, $400; First
Ch. of Christ (ad’l), $30.35; South Cong.
Ch., $30 460.35
New Hartford. Samuel Couch 10.00
New Haven. Mrs. Eunice M. Crane, $10; “A
Friend,” $6.33; “L. M.” $5 21.33
New Haven. F. H. Hart for _Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 25.00
New Haven. S. W. Williams, _for John Brown
Steamer_ 20.00
New London. Mrs. D. H. and Mrs. H. S. C. 1.00
Newtown. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., _for John
Brown Steamer_ 10.00
North Haven. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Tillotson
C. and N. Inst._ 30.00
Northford. Cong. Ch. 22.00
Norwalk. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const.
MRS. JOHN F BENNETT, ALEXANDER JOHNSTON and
E. C. BISSELL L. Ms. 100.00
Norwich. Broadway Sab. Sch., _for Tillotson C.
& N. Inst._ 50.00
Old Lyme. “A Friend,” _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 5.00
Plantsville. L. A. 1.00
Plymouth. Cong. Ch. 14.50
Preston City. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.00
Salisbury. “G. B. B.,” _for John Brown Steamer_ 10.00
Stafford Springs. Mrs. S. M. D. 1.00
Stanwich. Charles Brush 100.00
Somers. C. B. Pease, _for John Brown Steamer_ 10.00
Somersville. Cong. Sab. Sch. 10.00
Somersville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown
Steamer_ 10.00
South Killingly. Cong. Ch. 8.00
Southport. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown
Steamer_ 10.00
South Windsor. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch.,
_for John Brown Steamer_ 10.00
Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 28.37
Waterbury. “A Friend,” _for John Brown Steamer_ 10.00
Westford. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., _for John
Brown Steamer_ 10.00
Westport. Cong. Ch. 27.64
Whitneyville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown
Steamer_ 30.00
Winchester. Cong. Ch. 13.44
Windham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00

NEW YORK, $1,597.20.

Albany. Sab. Sch. Coll., by W. S. Brower, _for
Talladega C._ 16.76
Angelica. Mrs. F. A. R. 0.50
Arcade. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown
Steamer_ 3.00
Brooklyn. Plymouth Church, $264.16; Tompkins
Ave. Cong. Ch., $125; Miss E. O., 50c. 389.66
Brooklyn. “Friends,” Bbl. of C., _for
Washington, D.C._
Brooklyn, E. D. New Eng. Cong. Ch. 25.47
Buffalo. “R. W. B.,” First Cong. Ch., to
const. REV. GEO. B. STEVENS, LEWIS H. BROWN,
RUSSELL K. STRICKLAND, L. Ms. 200.00
Camden. R. H., _for John Brown Steamer_ 1.00
Clifton Springs. Mrs. Andrew Peirce 25.00
Cincinnatus. Coll. Union Thanksgiving Service 15.00
Cohoes. Mrs. N. U. 1.00
Crown Point. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,
_for John Brown Steamer_ 10.35
Crown Point. Miss A. McDonald 5.00
Deansville. “L.” 5.00
Durham. Mrs. Hannah Ingraham 3.00
Fillmore. L. L. Nourse 5.00
Gaines. M. & B. H. 1.00
Homer. “Friends,” _for Student Aid, Talladega
C._ 18.39
Livonia. Mrs. Calvert, _for Student Aid,
Storr’s Sch., Atlanta, Ga._ 5.00
Ludlowville. Sydney S. Todd 5.00
Malone. First Cong. Ch. 53.72
Marcellus. First Cong. Ch. 3.32
Newark Valley. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 31.79
New York. A. R. Whitney, $50; Chas. S. Smith,
$50; John H. Inman, $50; W. H. Caswell, $25,
_for Atlanta U._ 175.00
Norwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $31.12, to const.
MARY S. THORP, L. M.; Mrs. R. A. Barber, $10 41.12
Norwich. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John
Brown Steamer_ 10.00
Oxford. Cong. Ch. 10.42
Parma. Mrs. Ezekiel Clark 5.00
Patchogue. Cong. Ch. 12.00
Penn Yan. Chas. C. Sheppard ($10 of which _for
John Brown Steamer_) 160.00
Perry Center. Ichabod Miner 5.00
Ransomville. John Powley 5.00
Sherburne. First Cong. Ch. 76.70
Utica. Bethesda Welsh Cong. Sab. Sch., _for
John Brown Steamer_ 10.00
West Chazy. Rev. L. Prindle 2.00
West Farms. Daniel Mapes, _for Tillotson C. &
N. Inst._ 100.00
Westfield. Mrs. L. S. 1.00
—— “A Friend” 5.00
—— “A. H. C.” 5.00
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1,447.20

LEGACY.

Utica. Estate of Job Parker, by T. & M. M.
Parker, Executors 150.00
———————
1,597.20

NEW JERSEY, $241.13.

East Orange. Trinity Cong. Ch. 155.38
Newfield. Rev. Chas. Willey 10.00
Paterson. Tabernacle Sab. Sch. Concert Coll.,
_for John Brown Steamer_ 20.75
Stanley. Anna M. Samson 5.00
Trenton. Barker Gummere, _for John Brown
Steamer_ 50.00

PENNSYLVANIA, $137.00.

Carlisle Barracks. C. M. S. 1.00
East Smithfield. Rev. C. H. Phelps 5.00
Erie. “W.,” _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst._ 50.00
North East. C. A. T. 1.00
Philadelphia. R. Garsed, _for Atlanta U._ 50.00
West Alexander. Thomas McCleery, to const.
MRS. JENNIE D. SHELLER, L. M. 30.00

OHIO, $373.78.

Bellefontaine. Mrs. John Lindsay, _for
Atlanta, Ga._ 5.00
Bellevue. Elvira Boise, $25; S. W. Boise, $20 45.00
Circleville. Harness Renick, _for John Brown
Steamer_ 10.00
Claridon. L. T. Wilmot, bal. to const. MRS.
ALICE N. KELLOGG, L. M. 10.00
Cleveland. Plymouth Cong. Church, $43.80; Mrs.
H. M. P., $1 44.80
Edinburg. Cong. Ch. 20.00
Hartford. Mrs. E. B. 1.00
Madison. Mrs. M. P. St. John, _for Freight_ 2.00
Marysville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 10.00
Mount Vernon. First Cong. Ch. 127.98
Oberlin. J. W. Merrill 25.00
Oberlin. Rev. Geo. Thompson and family, _for
John Brown Steamer_ 10.00
Painesville. Ladies of First Ch., box of
school supplies, _for Athens, Ala._
Ruggles. Cong. Ch. 25.00
Strongsville. Free Cong. Ch. 10.00
Walnut Hill (Cincinnati). E. W. Hyde 15.00
West Farmington. Mrs. M. A. Sprague 5.00
Weymouth. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
Tougaloo U._ 8.00

ILLINOIS, $803.30.

Chicago. Union Park Cong. Sab. Sch., _for
Student Aid, Talladega C._ 66.90
Chicago. Rev. E. N. Andrews, $15; Cash, 28
cents 15.28
Danvers. Cong. Ch. 11.30
Galesburg. “A Friend” 25.00
Jacksonville. J. M. L. 1.00
Lee Center. MRS. MARTIN WRIGHT, $30, to const.
herself L. M.; Cong. Ch., $8.67, and Sab.
Sch., $3.12 41.79
Lockport. First Cong. Ch. 8.80
Lombard. First Ch. 9.75
Mendon. Mrs. J. Fowler, _for John Brown
Steamer_, and to const. REV. ROBERT KERR and
WILLIAM HAYES, L. Ms. 100.00
Metamora. Cong. Ch., _for African M._ 26.05
Morrison. Cong. Ch. ($30 of which to const.
ROBERT WALLACE, L. M.) 50.00
Paxton. “A Friend” 25.25
Peru. First Cong. Ch. 12.90
Princeton. Cong. Ch., _for Lady Missionary in
Ga._ 24.00
Rockford. First Cong. Ch., $52.82; T. D.
Robertson, $20 72.82
Roscoe. Mrs. A. A. Tuttle ($2 _of which for
Indian M._) 5.00
Savoy. Mrs. H. B. 0.51
Waverly. Cong. Ch., $24.55, and Sab. Sch.,
$12.10 36.65
Woodburn. Cong. Ch. 16.65
Woodstock. Cong. Ch. 3.65
——————
553.30

LEGACY.

Galesburg. Estate of Mrs. W. C. Willard, by
Prof. T. R. Willard, Ex. 250.00
——————
$803.30

INDIANA, $10.25.

Evansville. Rev. J. Q. Adams and wife, _for
Student Aid, Straight U._ 10.00
Indianapolis. R. R. W. 0.25

MICHIGAN, $1,010.22.

Adrian. A. J. Hood 10.00
Ann Arbor. James D. Duncan 10.00
Battle Creek. Cong. and Presb. Sab. Sch., _for
Student Aid, Talladega C._ 12.00
Benton Harbor. O. E. 1.00
Benzonia. Amasa Waters 10.00
Detroit. First Cong. Ch. 147.30
Galesburgh. “Friends,” _for furnishing room,
Michigan Floor, Stone Hall, Talladega C._ 25.00
Grass Lake. First Cong. Ch. 15.00
Greenville. Cong. Ch. 50.88
Greenville. Hon. E. C. Ellsworth, _for
furnishing room, Michigan floor, Stone Hall,
Talladega C._ 35.00
Kalamazoo. First Cong. Ch., $113.38; “*” $5 118.38
Pontiac. Cong. Ch., $15.91, and Sab. Sch., $3 18.91
Romeo. Miss Mary A. Dickinson, _for John Brown
Steamer_ 25.00
South Haven. Clark Pierce 10.00
Sparta Center. Mrs. C. I. Martindale 2.00
Union City. “A Friend” ($30 of which for life
membership) 500.00
Warren. “The Lord’s Money” 5.00
West Adrian. Sab. Sch. Missionary Soc. 5.25
Ypsilanti. Rev. G. H. G. 0.60
Northport. First Cong. Ch. 8.90

WISCONSIN, $104.59.

Arena. Woman’s Miss. Soc. _for Lady
Missionary, Talladega, Ala._ 1.30
Beloit. Mrs. S. M. Clary. Box C. and $2.75
_for freight, for Macon, Ga._ 2.75
Blake’s Prairie. Cong. Ch. 3.00
Elkhorn. Cong. Ch. 10.84
Fort Howard. Rev. D. C. Curtiss, _for Macon,
Ga._ 2.00
Fox Lake. D. W. Stuart 11.70
Geneva. G. Montague 10.00
Mazo Manie. Cong. Ch. 2.24
Rosendale. Woman’s Miss. Soc., _for Lady
Missionary, Talladega, Ala._ 3.00
Sheboygan. “Friends,” Box of C. and $2.95 for
freight, _for Macon Ga._ 2.95
Watertown. Cong. Ch. 7.31
Waukesha. Young Ladies’ Miss Soc., _for Lady
Missionary, Talladega, Ala._ 16.25
West De Pere. Cong. Ch. 25.25
West Salem. Cong. Ch. 6.00

IOWA, $272.44.

Alden. Mrs. E. Rogers 2.00
Belle Plaine. “A Few Friends,” _for Lady
Missionary, New Orleans, La._ 4.70
Bradford. Cong. Sab. Sch. 6.00
Chester Center. Cong. Ch. 41.07
Council Bluffs. Mrs. Mary B. Swan, _for
furnishing room, Stone Hall, Talladega C._ 35.00
Creston. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. of Pilgrim Cong.
Ch., _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._ 15.00
Decorah. G. C. Winship, $5, _for John Brown
Steamer_, and $5 _for African M._ 10.00
Des Moines. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for furnishing
room, Stone Hall, Talladega C._ 35.00
Green Mountain. “Mrs. H. L. C.,” _for Lady
Missionary, New Orleans, La._ 25.00
Green Mountain. “R. & H. M. S.” 10.00
Magnolia. Rev. L. P. S. 1.00
Marion. “Willing Workers,” $30; Mrs. R. D.
Stephens, $25, _for Student Aid, Straight U._ 55.00
Montour. Cong. Ch. ($1 _of which for Talladega
C._) 22.67
Montour. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., _for Lady
Missionary, New Orleans, La._ 7.00
Montezuma. C. W. Herron, _for Mendi M._ 3.00

MINNESOTA, $31.18.

Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. 27.18
Monticello. Rev. H. A. H. 0.50
Morris. Cong. Ch. 3.50

KANSAS, $1.00.

Osawatomie. C. H. C. 1.00

NEBRASKA. $23.00.

Blair. Cong. Ch. 3.00
Humboldt. Jared B. White ($10 _of which for
John Brown Steamer_) 20.00

MISSOURI. $10.00.

Kirksville. J. S. Blackman 10.00

COLORADO, $15.00.

Colorado Springs. Young Peoples’ Soc., _for
Student Aid, Talladega C._ 15.00

CALIFORNIA. $50.00.

San Francisco. Rev. J. Rowell, _for John Brown
Steamer_ 50.00

MARYLAND, $147.23.

Baltimore. First Cong. Ch. 147.23

TENNESSEE. $243.80.

Chattanooga. Ida K. Ferrand, _for Atlanta U._ 2.50
Memphis. Le Moyne School, Tuition 241.30

NORTH CAROLINA, $201.50.

Wilmington. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Wilmington. Normal School. Tuition 196.50

SOUTH CAROLINA, $276.58.

Florence. M. E. Ch., by Rev. F. L. Baxter,
_for John Brown Steamer_ 2.08
Charleston. Avery Institute, Tuition 274.50

GEORGIA, $906.41.

Atlanta. S. M. Inman, $50; Richard Peters,
$25, _for Atlanta U._ 75.00
Atlanta. Atlanta University, Tuition 105.05
Atlanta. Storr’s Sch., Tuition. $435; Rent, $15 450.00
Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition 80.11
Macon. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Savannah. Beach Institute, Tuition, $151.25;
Rent, $10 161.25
Savannah. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 30.00

ALABAMA, $360.62.

Anniston. Tuition 7.50
Athens. Rent 2.00
Marion. Cong. Ch. 2.37
Mobile. Emerson Institute, Tuition 154.90
Mobile. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Montgomery. Public Fund, $175; Ladies’ Miss.
Soc., $5 180.00
Selma. First Cong. Ch., $8.15; E. C. S., $1 9.15

MISSISSIPPI, $65.20.

Tougaloo. Tougaloo University, Tuition 65.20

LOUISIANA, $120.50.

New Orleans. Straight University, Tuition 120.50

TEXAS, $177.25.

Austin. Tillotson C. & N. Inst. Tuition 172.25
Paris. Rev. J. W. Roberts, _for John Brown
Steamer_ 5.00

CANADA, $10.00.

Unionville. Rev. Edward Ebbs 10.00
—————————
Total $17,128.71
Total from Oct. 1 to Nov. 30 33,880.78
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H. W. HUBBARD, _Treas._,
56 Reade St., N.Y.

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.”

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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.

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ART. III. Any person of evangelical sentiments,[A] who professes faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slaveholder, 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.

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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.

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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.

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ART. VI. The officers of the Association shall be a President, Vice-Presidents, Corresponding Secretaries (who shall also keep the records of the Association), Treasurer, Auditors, and an Executive Committee of not less than twelve members.

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ART. VII. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting and disbursing of funds; the appointing, counseling, sustaining and dismissing 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.

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ART. VIII. 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.

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ART. IX. 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 toward the INDIANS. It has also a mission in AFRICA.

STATISTICS.

CHURCHES: _In the South_—In District of Columbia, 1; Virginia, 1; North Carolina, 6; South Carolina, 2; Georgia, 18; Kentucky, 7; Tennessee, 4; Alabama, 14; Kansas, 1; Arkansas, 1; Louisiana, 18; Mississippi, 4; Texas, 6. _Africa_, 3. _Among the Indians_, 1. Total, 82.

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, Tex.—8. _Graded or Normal Schools_: Wilmington, N.C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S.C.; Savannah, Macon, Atlanta, Ga.; Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn.—11. _Other Schools_, 35. Total, 54.

TEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.—Among the Freedmen, 319; among the Chinese, 28; among the Indians, 9; in Africa, 13. Total, 369. STUDENTS.—In theology, 104; law, 20; in college course, 91; in other studies, 8,884. Total, 9,108. 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., Treasurer, 56 Reade street.
BOSTON Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Dis’t Sec., Room 21
Congregational House.
CHICAGO Rev. Jas. Powell, Dis’t Sec., 113 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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drawn and engraved by the best artists, will, as heretofore, appear weekly in its pages.

“=THE POST-OFFICE BOX=,” into which little hands have dropped their missives in such numbers that it has been found necessary to enlarge it, and through which subscribers have obtained charming glimpses of the =Domestic Life and Surroundings of Children= in every clime, will continue to be at the service of those of its readers who, for the purpose of eliciting or imparting information, or of effecting exchanges of articles of youthful interest, may desire to communicate with the =BOYS AND GIRLS IN EVERY QUARTER OF THE GLOBE=, whose eyes scan eagerly from week to week the columns of that favorite, sympathetic and humanizing department.

The bound volume for 1881 has been gotten up in the most attractive manner—the cover being embellished with a tasteful and appropriate design. It will be one of the most handsome, entertaining and useful book for boys and girls published for the approaching holidays, and will receive =A CORDIAL WELCOME IN EVERY HOME= into which it may find its way.

TERMS.

FOUR CENTS a Number. SINGLE SUBSCRIPTIONS, one year, $1.50 each: FIVE SUBSCRIPTIONS, one year, $7.00—payable in advance: postage free. Subscriptions will be commenced with the Number current on receipt of order, unless subscribers otherwise direct.

The Third Volume will begin with No. 105, to be issued November 1, 1881. Subscriptions should be sent in before that date if possible.

Bound Volume for 1881, containing Nos. 53–104, inclusive, $3.00, postage prepaid. Cover, cents—postage 13 cents additional.

Remittances should be made by _Post-office Money Order or Draft_, to avoid risk of loss.

Address HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE, NEW YORK.