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During the coming month we will send free by mail a copy of the Revised Edition of the New Testament (Oxford Edition, limp cloth, red edges), a very handsome book, to any subscriber who will renew his subscription to the Witness now, by sending us $1.50 by money order, bank draft, or registered letter. Even if subscription is not due until next year, by remitting the amount now, the subscription will be extended and the Testament sent at once. This is the edition authorized by the English and American committees, and it contains a history of the revision and an appendix giving the list of American corrections which were not concurred in by the English committee.

A club of three copies of Witness for a year, directed separately, will be sent for $4 remitted direct to this office, and also three copies of this Testament.

A club of six Gems of Poetry for a year will be $4, and three copies of Revised New Testament will be sent gratis with it.

A club of nine Sabbath Reading will be sent for a year for $4, and three copies of Revised New Testament gratis.

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THE THIRTY-FIFTH VOLUME

OF THE

American Missionary.

1881.

Shall we not have a largely increased Subscription List for 1881?

We regard the Missionary as the best means of communication with our friends, and to them the best source of information regarding our work.

A little effort on the part of our friends, when making their own remittances, to induce their neighbors to unite in forming Clubs, will easily double our list, and thus widen the influence of our Magazine, and aid in the enlargement of our work.

Under editorial supervision at this office, aided by the steady contributions of our intelligent missionaries and teachers in all parts of the field, and with occasional communications from careful observers and thinkers elsewhere, the American Missionary furnishes a vivid and reliable picture of the work going forward among the Indians, the Chinamen on the Pacific Coast, and the Freedmen as citizens in the South and as missionaries in Africa.

It will be the vehicle of important views on all matters affecting the races among which it labors, and will give a monthly summary of current events relating to their welfare and progress. Patriots and Christians interested in the education and Christianizing of these despised races are asked to read it, and assist in its circulation. Begin with the January number and the new year. The price is only Fifty Cents per annum.

The Magazine will be sent gratuitously, if preferred, to the persons indicated on page 256. Donations and subscriptions should be sent to

H. W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,
56 Reade Street, New York.

TO ADVERTISERS.

Special attention is invited to the advertising department of the American Missionary. It numbers among its regular readers very many frugal, well-to-do people in nearly every city and village throughout our Northern and Western States. It is therefore a specially valuable medium for advertising all articles commonly used in families of liberal, industrious and enterprising habits of life.

Advertisements must be received by the TENTH of the month, in order to secure insertion in the following number. All communications in relation to advertising should be addressed to

THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT,

56 Reade Street, New York.

Our friends who are interested in the Advertising Department of the American Missionary, can aid us in this respect by mentioning, when ordering goods, that they saw them advertised in our Magazine.

DAVID H. GILDERSLEEVE, PRINTER, 101 CHAMBERS STREET, NEW YORK.