CONTENTS.


EDITORIAL.
Page.
So Far—Pamphlet No. 7[65]
Paragraphs[66]
Arthington Mission—A Parallel[67]
Latest News from Rev. H. M. Ladd[68]
Map of Mission in Eastern Africa[69]
The Slave Music of the South, by Rev. Geo. H. Griffin[70]
Round the World[72]
Revival News[73]
General Notes—Africa, Indians, Chinese[74]
Benefactions—“Missionary Papers”[ 76]
A Blind Sampson, by Rev. A. J. Biddle[77]
THE FREEDMEN.
Twenty Years After Freedom (with cuts)[78]
Emerson Institute, Mobile, Ala., Burned[80]
THE INDIANS.
Christmas at Spokan Falls, W. T., Etc.[82]
THE CHINESE.
Clippings from forthcoming Annual Reportof our California Auxiliary[82]
CHILDREN’S PAGE.
Boy Life in China[83]
RECEIPTS[84]

American Missionary Association,

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President, Hon. WM. B. WASHBURN, Mass.

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.

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THE

American Missionary.


Vol. XXXVI.

MARCH, 1882.

No. 3.


American Missionary Association.