NEGRO RELIGION.
Negro religion is as varied as the character and grade of its professors: some as dignified as African princes, others as wild as children playing at church. And yet, who shall say that either extreme is the more acceptable to Him who looks through outward demonstrations at the hearts of worshippers? One of their own utterances perhaps best expresses the idea:
“We has our own ways ob doin’ things; white folks don’t allus understand us, but de Lord seems to get along with us putty well, an’ dat’s all we need care fur.”
White folks do not understand, and certainly cannot but be amused at seeing an old black woman, whose gray wool is bound up in a brilliant turban, moving in slow, undulating waves of a mystic dance up and down the church aisles, and round its altar, as she chants forth her testimony to “de leadin’s of de Lord all dese eighty years”; but they can quite appreciate the reverence which sends every one to his knees at the words, “Let us pray,” and sometimes wish that the custom might prove possible of transplantation. Quaint and racy words sometimes come from these colored preachers. “Ta’n’t no use dodgin’,” said one the other day; “yer may poke yer head dis way and stick yer feet dat way, but yer can’t go round yer grave; yer may shut yer eyes and make b’lieve yer don’t see it, but ye’s got to tumble inter it, after all. Dere it is, right in yer path. Is yer all ready?”
“I can’t read much,” said a preacher; “I can’t say all dem long, hard names. I couldn’t read a word when the good Lord Jesus found me, in the South Caroliny cane-brake; but I taught myself to spell out de name ob Jesus, and now I can read all ’bout how He carries sinners to heaven; dat’s ’nough.”
We were present at a communion service in which there was nothing calculated to draw a smile. Tears of apparently genuine earnestness stood in many eyes, and suppressed sobs mingled with the rich, quaint hymns in many parts of the room. The preacher was a young man, who drew a moving picture of the crucifixion, which, in its pathos, simplicity, and correct diction, would have done honor to any white preacher in the land. But one point, that of the substitution of w for r, marked the speaker as one of that subject race, which, in thus slowly rising from barbarism, while it loses much that is amusing to the merely curious observer, is steadily gaining in what pertains to the dignity of manhood, and the well-being of immortal souls.—Illustrated Christian Weekly.
RECEIPTS
FOR MAY, 1878.
| MAINE, $111.42. | |
| Augusta. John Dorr | 15.00 |
| Bangor. First Cong. Ch. | 31.42 |
| Brewer. First Cong. Ch. $6.40, and Sab.Sch. $2.50; Dea. J. Holyoke $5.10 | 14.00 |
| Hallowell. Miss Mary Flagg $10; Hon. H.K. Baker $2, for Printing Press, TalladegaC.; “A Friend” $1, for Student, Tougaloo,Miss. | 13.00 |
| Houlton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 2.00 |
| Oak Hill. —— | 30.00 |
| Wells. “A Friend” | 5.00 |
| Wild. Rev. D. D. T. | 1.00 |
| VERMONT, $259.62. | |
| Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 15.00 |
| Brownington and Barton Landing. Cong.Ch. and Soc. | 13.25 |
| Clarendon. Mrs. N. J. Smith | 5.00 |
| East Arlington. Rev. Chas. Redfield | 10.00 |
| Jericho Centre. Miss J. Graves | 2.00 |
| New Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 39.37 |
| North Springfield. Chas. Haywood | 5.00 |
| Peru. Cong. Ch. | 10.00 |
| Rochester. Cong. Soc. | 15.00 |
| St. Albans. Mrs. J. Gregory Smith | 10.00 |
| Thetford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 19.00 |
| Wallingford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 69.00 |
| Wells River. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $30; C.W. Eastman $10 | 40.00 |
| Westminster West. Mrs. A. S. G. | 1.00 |
| Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 6.00 |
| MASSACHUSETTS, $4,078.34. | |
| Andover. Free Cong. Ch. and Soc. $30.81,to const. Charles W. Clark, L. M.—“Friends”$25, for Student Aid, TalladegaC. | 55.81 |
| Ashby. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 6.25 |
| Ashburnham. M. W. | 1.00 |
| Belchertown. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 32.00 |
| Boston. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc. $600.40.—“Howard”$500, for two Chapels.—Mrs.N. B. Curtis $200; Mrs. S. A. Bradbury$25.—Juvenile Class of Phillips Cong. Ch.$18.75, for Student, Talladega C. | 1,344.15 |
| Brocton. —— | 15.00 |
| Brookline. Howard Ch. and Soc. | 92.50 |
| Cambridge. Geo. H. Fogg | 20.00 |
| Charlestown. Ivory Littlefield (of which$25 for Chinese M) | 50.00 |
| Chelsea. Mrs. P. N. P. | 1.00 |
| Conway. Cong. Soc., to const. Dea. EdwinCooley and Mrs. L. L. Lee, L. M ’s | 70.45 |
| East Bridgewater. Union Ch. and Soc. | 25.09 |
| Easton. Cong. Sab. Sch. $30, to const.Everett C. Randall, L. M.; Cong. Ch.and Soc. $10.70 | 40.70 |
| Egremont. Cong. Ch. | 19.50 |
| Everett. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 33.88 |
| Florence. Florence. Ch. | 108.88 |
| Foxborough. D. Carpenter | 80.00 |
| Framingham. Mrs. T. F. $1; Mrs. S. M. B.$1 | 2.00 |
| Georgetown. “A Friend” | 10.00 |
| Greenfield. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. of First Ch.$18, for Student Aid, Atlanta U.—Ladies,Box of C. | 18.00 |
| Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $66.40; J. H.$1 | 67.40 |
| Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 15.00 |
| Lancaster. Estate of Miss Sophia Stearns,by W. W. Wyman, Ex. | 7.00 |
| Leominster. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 5.62 |
| Linden. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 4.00 |
| Lowell. M. Moore and wife $20.—Ladies ofFirst Cong. Ch., bbl. of C. and $1 forfreight, for Wilmington, N.C. | 21.00 |
| Lynn. North Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 9.47 |
| Malden. Mrs. C. F. Belcher, pkg. of papers. | |
| Mittineague. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 14.35 |
| Natick. Mrs. S. E. Hammond | 10.00 |
| Needham. N. S. R. | 0.50 |
| Newburyport. Mrs. T. C. Tyler $10; MissP. N. 50c. | 10.50 |
| North Andover Depot. F. D. F. | 0.50 |
| North Beverly. Mrs. Rebecca Conant | 15.00 |
| North Hadley. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 2.48 |
| North Orange. Cong. Sab. Sch. | 3.00 |
| Norton. Wheaton Fem. Sem., for StudentAid, Atlanta U. | 21.00 |
| Norton. Estate of John Hunt, by E. T.Jackson, Ex. | 804.75 |
| Orleans. Cong. Sab. Sch. | 10.00 |
| Paxton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 11.00 |
| Peru. Cong. Sab. Sch. | 3.50 |
| Phillipston. Mrs. J. L. | 0.50 |
| Plainfield. Albert Dyer | 2.00 |
| Pittsfield. James H. Dunham, to const.himself L. M. | 30.00 |
| Rochester. First Cong. Sab. Sch. | 30.00 |
| Salem. Tabernacle Ch. and Soc. $46.13;South Cong. Sab. Sch. $21.32 | 67.45 |
| South Abington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 22.07 |
| Somerville. Broadway Ch. and Soc. | 12.25 |
| South Weymouth. Union Cong. Ch. $55;Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. $36, to const.Mrs. Ellen A. Chandler, L. M. | 91.00 |
| Springfield. Olivet Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 27.67 |
| Ware. East Cong. Ch. and Soc. $313.85;First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $21 | 334.85 |
| Watertown. Phillips’ Ch. and Soc. $37.50;Phillips’ Sab. Sch. $10 | 47.50 |
| West Cummington. Rev. J. B. B. | 0.25 |
| Westfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ofwhich $5 from the late Mrs. Dickinsonand $5 from Miss Lizzie Dickinson) | 31.40 |
| West Newbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 7.00 |
| West Newton. Ann Miller | 5.00 |
| West Springfield. Prof. M. S. Southworth,for Student Aid, Atlanta U. | 25.00 |
| Wilbraham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 8.00 |
| Winchendon. North Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 101.00 |
| Winchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 101.31 |
| Woburn. Mrs. G. A. B. | 0.25 |
| Worcester. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.$55.56.—Plymouth Ch. $15, for printingpress, Talladega,—Mrs. C. M. F. and Dr.W. D. 50c. ea. | 71.56 |
| RHODE ISLAND, $81.15. | |
| Little Compton. Cong. Ch. to const. Rev.Wm. D. Hart, L. M. | 81.15 |
| NEW YORK, $1,282.03. | |
| Antwerp. First Cong. Ch. | 24.05 |
| Binghamton. First Cong. Ch. | 151.00 |
| Brooklyn. Mrs. M. E. W. $1; J. E. $1 | 2.00 |
| Gilbertsville Academy. Rev. A. Wood | 15.00 |
| Goshen. F. E. C. | 1.00 |
| Greigsville. Mrs. S. J. C. | 1.00 |
| Hamilton. O. S. Campbell, Mrs. M. Tompkinsand Mrs. S. K. Bardin $5 ea. | 15.00 |
| Harris Hill. Estate of Thomas Hutchinson,for Freedmen Foreign and Home M.,by John Berry | 18.00 |
| Irvington. Mrs. R. W. Lambdin | 5.00 |
| Lisle. Cong. Ch. | 5.34 |
| Madison. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 6.00 |
| Morrisville. Cong. Ch. | 30.14 |
| New Lebanon Centre. Ladies, by Miss E.W. Frary, Bbl. of C. | |
| New York. Estate of Edwin S. Dewing, byMrs. L. C. Dewing | 250.00 |
| New York. Mrs. Hannah Ireland $50; MissJ. F. $1 | 51.00 |
| Niagara. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., Bbl. of C., forTougaloo | |
| Orwell. Cong. Ch. | 11.00 |
| Oneonta. Mrs. H. Slade and others | 1.90 |
| Philadelphia. W. C. | 0.75 |
| Poughkeepsie. Mrs. M. J. Myers | 30.00 |
| Rochester. Emily Boardman, for StudentAid, Atlanta U. | 20.00 |
| Rodman. Cong. Ch. | 17.25 |
| Sag Harbor. Mrs. A. E. Westfall | 10.00 |
| Syracuse. Mrs. S. J. White | 10.00 |
| Union Valley. Sab. Sch., by Dr. J. Angel,Supt. | 1.25 |
| West Brook. T. S. Hoyt | 3.00 |
| Westmoreland. First Cong. Sab. Sch. | 2.85 |
| Williamsburgh. Estate of Lewis Chichester,by John M. Stearns and E. C. Wadsworth,Executors | 594.00 |
| Windsor. Mrs. Julia Woodruff | 5.00 |
| Wyoming. H. S. S | 0.50 |
| NEW JERSEY, $128.40. | |
| Newark. Belleville Ave. Cong. Ch. | 38.39 |
| Orange. Trinity Cong. Ch. | 70.01 |
| Trenton. Misses A. P. and S. T. Sherman,for Indian pupil | 20.00 |
| PENNSYLVANIA, $47.75. | |
| Farmers’ Valley. Mrs. E. C. O. | 1.00 |
| Pittsburgh. E. P. | 0.50 |
| Prentiss Vale. Rev. M. W. Strickland $20;C. L. Allen $10.25, to const. Miss AbbieL. Spiller L. M. | 30.25 |
| Providence. E. Weston | 5.00 |
| Sewickley. Miss Lucy Bittinger | 6.00 |
| Washington. Mrs. H. H. Templeton | 5.00 |
| OHIO, $368.71. | |
| Berea. Cong. Sab. Sch. | 1.30 |
| Belpre. Cong. Sab. Sch. | 16.50 |
| Cincinnati. Western Tract and Book Soc.,Books and Tracts val. $45.18, for SavannahMission | |
| Cleveland. S. W. Pierson | 5.00 |
| Clifton. J. K. | 1.00 |
| Collinwood. Union Sab. Sch., for StudentAid | 21.00 |
| Eagleville. E. M. T | 0.50 |
| Elyria. First Presb. Ch. $61.28 and Sab.Sch. $40 | 101.28 |
| Fredericktown. A. H. Royce | 10.00 |
| Madison. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 43.66 |
| Marietta. Rev. I. M. P. | 0.25 |
| Martinsburgh. Church Property | 74.62 |
| Norwalk. Cong. Ch. | 8.55 |
| Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch. | 12.02 |
| Paddy’s Run. Cong. Ch. | 20.25 |
| Ravenna. Young People’s Miss. Soc. $10,for Student Aid, Talladega C.—HowardCarter $10 | 20.00 |
| Seville. Mrs. Julia Hulburt | 5.00 |
| Sharon Centre. Mrs. R. A. | 0.25 |
| Sheffield. Cong. Ch. | 10.50 |
| Springfield. First Cong. Ch. (Quar. Coll.) | 7.03 |
| Willoughby. Miss Mary P. Hastings | 10.00 |
| INDIANA, $25. | |
| New Corydon. George Stolz | 5.00 |
| Orland. Union Sab. Sch., for Student Aid | 5.00 |
| South Bend. R. Burroughs | 15.00 |
| MICHIGAN, $202.75. | |
| Benzonia. “Friends” $10 bal. to const.Chauncey Bush, L. M.; “A Friend” $1 | 11.00 |
| Chelsea. John C. Winans | 5.00 |
| Clinton. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. | 5.00 |
| Covert. Cong. Sab. Sch., for Talladega | 8.00 |
| Detroit. Rev. C. C. Foote $25; J. C. H. $1 | 26.00 |
| Flint. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., for Fisk U. | 10.00 |
| Grand Rapids. T. B. W. | 0.25 |
| Hillsdale. Mathews Joslyn | 100.00 |
| Lansing. Ag’l Coll., Mrs. R. C. K., Mrs. W.J. B., Mrs. G. T. F., Mrs. A. J. C. andMrs. R. G. B. $1 ea.; Mrs. C. L. I. 50c. fora Missionary, Memphis, Tenn. | 5.50 |
| Oceola. B. F. Batchelder and Mrs. SarahE. A. Batchelder $2.50 ea. | 5.00 |
| Romeo. Cong. Sab. Sch. $20; Mrs. J. T. $1,for Missionary, Memphis, Tenn. | 21.00 |
| Royal Oak. Cong. Ch. $5.—Mrs. C. S. C.$1, for Missionary, Memphis, Tenn. | 6.00 |
| IOWA, $215.85. | |
| Ames. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 10.50 |
| Bowen Prairie. —— | 7.00 |
| Clinton. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. $15, forFisk U.—H. R. W. 50c. | 15.50 |
| Cincinnati. Wm. T. Reynolds | 2.00 |
| Cresco. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 8.65 |
| Denmark. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., for Fisk U. | 22.00 |
| Dubuque. Mrs. S. N. M. | 0.50 |
| Genoa Bluff. Cong. Sab. Sch., for StudentAid | 4.27 |
| Grinnell. Cong. Ch. $37.50; “Friend,”gold ring and 43c. | 37.93 |
| Hampton. “A Friend” | 2.00 |
| Kellogg. Cong. Sab. Sch., for Student Aid | 5.00 |
| Keokuk. Mrs. E. M. Wilson | 5.00 |
| Mason City. First Cong. Ch. | 5.70 |
| McGregor. Cong. Ch. $12.42; Woman’sMiss. Soc. 12.01 bal. to const. MissCatharine Gilchrist, L. M. | 24.43 |
| Monticello. Cong. Ch. | 16.50 |
| Muscatine. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. | 25.00 |
| Oskaloosa. Rev. Asa Turner | 10.00 |
| Stuart. Cong. Ch. | 6.00 |
| Tipton. William Coutts | 5.00 |
| Traer. Mrs. C. H. B. | 1.00 |
| Williamsburg. Welsh Cong. Ch. | 1.87 |
| MISSOURI, $35. | |
| St. Louis. First Cong. Ch. | 35.00 |
| WISCONSIN, $266.40. | |
| Albion. S. G. A | 0.25 |
| Arena. Cong. Ch. | 5.00 |
| Fon du Lac. Cong. Ch. | 42.93 |
| Hartford. R. F. | 1.00 |
| Keshena. S. J. Marshall, M. D. | 6.00 |
| Madison. Cong. Ch. | 68.47 |
| Mazo Manie. Cong. Ch. $8.10; Cong. Sab.Sch. $2.40 | 10.50 |
| Menomenee. “A Friend” | 50.00 |
| Milwaukee. Spring St. Cong. Ch. | 25.00 |
| Oconomowoc. J. S. Kenyon | 5.00 |
| Plymouth. Cong. Ch. | 5.00 |
| Wauwatosa. Cong. Ch. $37.—Cong. Sab. Sch.$10.25, for Student Aid | 47.25 |
| MINNESOTA, $25.43. | |
| Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. $22.80; PilgrimCong. Ch. $1.38 | 24.18 |
| Morris. Cong. Ch. | 1.25 |
| KANSAS, $1. | |
| Burlingame. A Friend | 1.00 |
| NEBRASKA, $14.65. | |
| Linwood. Union Sab. Sch. | 1.00 |
| Weeping Water. Cong. Ch. | 13.65 |
| COLORADO TER. 50c. | |
| Littleton. H. C. W. | 0.50 |
| CALIFORNIA, $30. | |
| Madison. Mrs. Tyler Thacher to const.herself L. M. | 30.00 |
| OREGON, $32. | |
| Salem. Cong. Ch. to const. Dea. John J.McFarland, L. M. | 32.00 |
| MARYLAND, $50. | |
| Baltimore. Rev. Geo. Morris, for Fisk U. | 50.00 |
| TENNESSEE, $193.50. | |
| Covington. H. C. Gray, for rebuilding S. U. | 1.00 |
| Memphis. Le Moyne Sch. | 119.65 |
| Nashville. Fisk University | 72.85 |
| NORTH CAROLINA, $231.22. | |
| Raleigh. Washington Sch. | 126.22 |
| Wilmington. Normal Sch. $98.73; Cong.Ch. $6.27 | 105.00 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA, $228.50. | |
| Charleston. Avery Inst. | 223.50 |
| Orangeburgh. Ladies’ Miss. Ass’n of Cong.Ch., for Mendi M. | 5.00 |
| GEORGIA, $214.20. | |
| Atlanta. Atlanta University $103.—M.Blanche Curtiss $5, for Student Aid, AtlantaU. | 108.00 |
| Columbus. R. P. Lewis, for Atlanta U. | 5.00 |
| Macon. Lewis High Sch. | 51.20 |
| McIntosh. Rev. Jos. E. Smith, for StudentAid, Atlanta U. | 50.00 |
| MISSISSIPPI, $65.55. | |
| Tougaloo. Tougaloo U. | 65.55 |
| LOUISIANA, $152.75. | |
| Houma. Rev. A. E. P. A. | 0.50 |
| Lake Peigneur. Cong. Ch. | 2.00 |
| New Iberia. Cong. Ch. | 5.25 |
| New Orleans. Straight University $144.50;W. A. C. 50c. | 145.00 |
| TEXAS, 50c. | |
| Goliad. S. M. | 0.50 |
| ALABAMA, $746. | |
| Mobile. Emerson Inst. | 154.75 |
| Montgomery. Pub. Fund | 420.75 |
| Selma. Cong. Ch. | 11.35 |
| Talladega. Talladega Col. $126.15.—Cong.Sab. Sch. $30; B. L. $1, for Farm; WillisFerry $2, for Ind. Dept. Talladega C. | 159.15 |
| INCOME FUND, $3,511.82. | |
| Avery Fund, for Mendi M. | 2,286.82 |
| Le Moyne Fund | 770.00 |
| Hammond Fund | 350.00 |
| Estate of Dr. M. C. Williams | 35.00 |
| Estate of Sarah J. Nason | 35.00 |
| Estate of A. Miner | 35.00 |
| CANADA, 16.08. | |
| Guelph. Rev. J. H. | 1.00 |
| Sherbrooke. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. | 15.08 |
| —————— | |
| Total | 14,812.30 |
| Total from Oct. 1st to May 31st | $118,122.26 |
H. W. HUBBARD
Ass’t Treas.
| RECEIVED FOR DEBT. | |
| Amherst, Mass. Mrs. R. A. Lester | 50.00 |
| Barnstable Co., Mass. “A Traveler” | 5.00 |
| Holbrook, Mass. Mrs. C. S. Holbrook | 100.00 |
| Holbrook Mass. Miss Sarah J. Holbrook | 25.00 |
| North Abington, Mass. Mrs. A. S. Reed | 20.00 |
| Hartford, Conn. “A Friend” | 500.00 |
| Brooklyn, N. Y. Julius Davenport | 25.00 |
| Goliad, Texas. Rev. Mitchell Thompson | 5.00 |
| Helena, Texas. Cong. Ch. | 5.00 |
| —— Payment on Land in Mich. | 150.00 |
| —————— | |
| 885.00 | |
| Previously acknowledged April receipts | 9,637.72 |
| —————— | |
| Total | $10,522.72 |
Constitution of the American Missionary Association.
INCORPORATED JANUARY 30, 1849.
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 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.
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 in 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.
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., 11; Ky., 5; Tenn., 4; Ala., 12; La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2; Texas, 4. Africa, 1. Among the Indians, 2. Total, 62.
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.; Macon, Atlanta, Ga.; Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn.; 11; Other Schools, 7. Total 26.
Teachers, Missionaries and Assistants—Among the Freedmen, 209; among the Chinese, 17; among the Indians, 16; in foreign lands, 10. Total, 252. Students—In Theology, 74; Law, 8; in College Course, 79; in other studies, 5,243. Total, 5,404. Scholars taught by former pupils of our schools, estimated at 100,000. Indians under the care of the Association, 13,000.
WANTS.
1. A steady Increase of regular income to keep pace with the growing work in the South. 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 accomodate 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 St. |
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.
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DURING THE SUMMER,
Will Publish Articles Appropriate to the Season.
A STORY OF CALIFORNIA LIFE.
By R. W. Raymond.
THE CITIES IN SUMMER.
THE PARIS EXPOSITION.
STAR PAPERS.
By Henry Ward Beecher.
“LETTERS FROM MY LIBRARY.”
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“NEW YORK STREET LABORERS.”
In a Series of Interviews with Themselves.
“OUR NEIGHBORS—THE POOR:
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LECTURE-ROOM TALKS.
INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY-SCHOOL LESSONS.
By Rev. Lyman Abbott.
Correspondence from Missions in all Parts of the World.
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THE THIRTY-SECOND VOLUME OF
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ENLARGED AND IMPROVED.
SUBSCRIPTION DEPARTMENT.
We publish 25,000 copies per month, giving news from the Institutions and Churches aided by the Association among the Freedmen in the South, the Indian tribes, the Chinese on the Pacific Coast, and the Negroes in Western Africa. Price, Fifty Cents a Year, in Advance.
OUR NEW PAMPHLETS.
No. 1.—History of the Association.
No. 2.—Africa: Containing a History of the Mendi Mission, a Description of the Land and the People, and a presentation of their claims on America.
No. 3.—The Three Despised Races in the United States; or, The Chinaman, the Indian, and the Freedman. An Address before the A. M. A., by Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston, Mass.
No. 4.—The Educational Work. Showing the nature and reality of the black man’s needs; the way to help him; the sentiment of Southern men; the work of the Romish Church; the wants of the A. M. A.
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