Vol. XXXIV.

No. 8.


THE
AMERICAN MISSIONARY.


“To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.”


AUGUST, 1880.

CONTENTS:

EDITORIAL.
Annual Meetings[225]
Financial Notice[225]
Paragraphs[226]
Hard Cases[228]
Teacher or Missionary, Which?[229]
Wrongs of the Poncas[230]
The Negro on the Indian[231]
Eadle Keahtah Toh[232]
Black Missionaries for Africa:Rev. G. D. Pike, D. D.[235]
Items from the Field[237]
African Notes[238]
THE FREEDMEN.
Atlanta University—Talladega College[239]
Berea College: Secretary Strieby[242]
Tougaloo University: Pres’t De Forest[243]
Brewer Normal School: J.D. Backenstose[244]
Storrs School, Atlanta, Ga.—Woodbridge, N. C.[245]
Alabama: Rev. W. H. Ash[247]
THE CHINESE.
Mission Work Among the Miners[248]
RECEIPTS[250]
Constitution[253]
Aim, Statistics, Wants[254]

NEW YORK.

Published by the American Missionary Association,
Rooms, 56 Reade Street.


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