LETTERS TO THE TREASURER.
We give a few extracts from letters recently received expressing interest in and motives for pressing our work, and containing substantial contributions to its continuance. We could print many such letters every month if we had room for them:
I inclose a pocket-piece (a gold half-dollar), held and valued for many years, to pay subscription to The American Missionary for one year.
Respectfully,
I. M. S.
My little son, the morning he died, on being asked what should be done with the little money he had so carefully invested in the new four per cent. $10 certificates issued April 1st, said his father should have it to distribute as he thought best among the benevolent societies, and I send you one-third of it, and the balance to the Board and Home Missions.
This is very precious money. Put it where it will do the most for the cause.
A. L. W.
Inclosed find draft on the American Exchange Bank for $200, my subscription to your society for the Freedmen for the year 1879. I have heretofore given $100, but it seems to me very important that the Freedmen should be educated as fast as possible. As many of the educated men as possible should be kept in the Southern States to assist in educating the colored people and helping them to stand up for their rights.
R. L.
Inclosed please find $5 for the American Missionary Association. As I am now nearly ninety years old, this, in all probability, is my last contribution to this good object. With my prayers for this and every object of Christian benevolence,
I am yours truly,
C. H.
The other day, when I thought that our loved American Missionary Association was in debt, when I thought that our kind Father in heaven had given us such overflowing crops in the past season, and blessed us in every department (almost), it struck me that there was something wrong in the supporters of the noble cause. Well, let the time past suffice that we have been slack; let us come up to the work.
Please find inclosed $25 for the old debt, $15 to constitute (in part) two life members of the American Missionary Association, and oblige yours,
A Friend.
In the Congregationalist of last week, I noticed your “Appeal” in behalf of the American Missionary Association, to which I respond by inclosed draft for $24, pension for one quarter, for service in the War of 1812.
An abolitionist from my first consideration of the enslaved in our country, induced by the movement and utterances of the great agitator—now happy, I trust, in his reward—I still feel that, though their chains are broken, they are objects of sympathy and aid in their anxiety and effort to become intelligent and useful citizens. There is no department of benevolent effort to which I more cheerfully contribute.
With respectful regards,
Yours truly,
O. G.
From Grenada, Mass.
Inclosed find six dollars ($6), which you will please accept from our Sunday-school as a thank-offering for what the American Missionary Association has done for us in the past. We would gladly have made it more, but the pressure of so many conflicting claims made it impracticable. We are just now paying for a new organ.