American Missionary Association,
56 READE STREET, N. Y.
PRESIDENT.
Hon. E. S. TOBEY, Boston.
VICE-PRESIDENTS.
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CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.
Rev. M. E. STRIEBY, D. D., 56 Reade Street, N. Y.
DISTRICT SECRETARIES.
Rev. C. L. WOODWORTH, Boston.
Rev. G. D. PIKE, New York.
Rev. JAS. POWELL, Chicago.
EDGAR KETCHUM, Esq., Treasurer, N. Y.
H. W. HUBBARD, Esq., Assistant Treasurer, N. Y.
Rev. M. E. STRIEBY, Recording Secretary.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
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Alonzo S. Ball, A. S. Barnes, Edward Beecher, Geo. M. Boynton, Wm. B. Brown, |
Clinton B. Fisk, Addison P. Foster, E. A. Graves, S. B. Halliday, Sam’l Holmes, |
S. S. Jocelyn, Andrew Lester, Chas. L. Mead, John H. Washburn, G. B. Willcox. |
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THE
AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
Vol. XXXIII.
SEPTEMBER, 1879.
No. 9.
American Missionary Association.
FORWARD!
Dedicated to the American Missionary Association, by the Author,
REV. ELI CORWIN, D.D., JACKSONVILLE, ILLS.
Strike, valiant warrior, strike!
Be foremost in the fight,
And wield the battle-axe of truth
With all a giant’s might;
He ventures in no doubtful cause
Who champions the right.
Build for the ages, build!
Lay the foundations strong,
Through all the circling centuries
Of wretchedness and wrong;
The tribute of the after times
May to this age belong.
Work, then, with courage, work!
He labors not in vain,
Who, leaning on the Mighty Arm,
Counts every loss a gain;
Since we may reach the glory goal
Through pilgrimage of pain.
Pray, weary watcher, pray!
Upon the promise rest;
Faith seems to see a rising sun
Sink in the darkening west;
And, in the morrow’s prophecy,
Is comforted and blest.
We take from the columns of the Christian Intelligencer, the organ of the Reformed (Dutch) Church, the ingenious and suggestive article by Dr. Chamberlain, entitled “Winding up a Horse.” We are sure it will be read.
There is good sound sense in the very practical contribution on Children’s Influence in Missions, or rather on interesting children in the work of Missions, on the Children’s page. The heart which is interested intelligently in such work in its youth will never be likely to grow too busy or too old to follow the progress of the years, and the hand which has learned early to drop its pennies into the Lord’s treasury will hardly be found clenched upon its dollars in riper years.
Next month brings us around to another Annual Meeting. Our financial year ends with the last day of this month (September). Our books will be closed then for the year, and our balance will be struck. This is our reminder to all, either churches or individuals, who have intended to contribute to our work during the current year. Let your gifts be sent in speedily and as liberally as the Lord may have prospered you. Every cent received during the next thirty days helps this year’s showing. Do not let us go back of the standard maintained during the last three years! Our ambition is to report expenses all met and debt all gone.
The report that the yellow fever has returned to Memphis has long before this reached the ears of our friends. We hope that the evil will not be so great as it was last year, and yet its immediate effect upon our work has been more suddenly felt than then. The people flee more eagerly from a scourge the severity of which they hold in horror enhanced by the recent memory of its infliction. The church at Memphis is scattered; pastor and people have left it; a faithful janitor is caring for its and the school property. The church at Chattanooga, too, has been largely deserted, and its attendants have fled to the mountains. Of course this is but a temporary interruption. The three or four hundred dollars which was sent to us last year for the relief of the colored sufferers accomplished an amount of physical relief, and indirectly of spiritual good, almost beyond belief. We shall be glad to superintend the disbursement of any like moneys which may be sent to relieve the poorest of the poor in this their special distress.
“Oh, how great is Thy goodness, which Thou hast laid up for them that fear Thee; which Thou hast wrought for them that trust in Thee, before the sons of men!”
As a father lays up for his children against a future need, so the psalmist felt that the Heavenly Parent had done for those that fear Him; so, in sight of the sons of men had He wrought such goodness for them. It is a great thing to realize the daily dispensing of such divine favor, but a greater to learn that Infinite Love has gone before to treasure up the riches of goodness. It was a marvel of blessing that God wrought before the sons of men in all the world for the American children of bondage in their emancipation. But more than this: He had laid up beforehand treasures of Christian anti-slavery sentiment and charity, to be disbursed among them in the lines of educational and Christianizing processes, and, with divine forethought. He had prepared a system for the administration of this relief. Distinguished among other provisions of this kind were the rise and the preparatory training in principle and method of the American Missionary Association. We know not which the more to admire, the wisdom or the goodness of such fore-ordaining. It is the privilege of its constituency to be the almoners of such bounty.