CONSTITUTION.
Art. I. This society shall be called the American Missionary Association.
Art. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct Christian missionary and educational operations and diffuse a knowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own country and other countries which are destitute of them, or which present open and urgent fields of effort.
Art. III. Members of evangelical churches may be constituted members of this Association for life by the payment of thirty dollars into its treasury, with the written declaration at the time or times of payment that the sum is to be applied to constitute a designated person a life member; and such membership shall begin sixty days after the payment shall have been completed. Other persons, by the payment of the same sum, may be made life members without the privilege of voting.
Every evangelical church which has within a year contributed to the funds of the Association and every State Conference or Association of such churches may appoint two delegates to the Annual Meeting of the Association; such delegates, duly attested by credentials, shall be members of the Association for the year for which they were thus appointed.
Art. IV. The Annual Meeting of the Association shall be held in the month of October or November, at such time and place as may be designated by the Association, or, in case of its failure to act, by the Executive Committee, by notice printed in the official publication of the Association for the preceding month.
Art. V. The officers of the Association shall be a President, five Vice-Presidents, a Corresponding Secretary or Secretaries, a Recording Secretary, a Treasurer, Auditors, and an Executive Committee of fifteen members, all of whom shall be elected by ballot.
At the first Annual Meeting after the adoption of this Constitution, five members of the Executive Committee shall be elected for the term of one year, five for two years and five for three years, and at each subsequent Annual Meeting, five members shall be elected for the full term of three years, and such others as shall be required to fill vacancies.
Art. VI. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting and disbursing of funds, the appointing, counseling, sustaining and dismissing of missionaries and agents, and the selection of missionary fields. They shall have authority to fill all vacancies in office occurring between the Annual Meetings; to apply to any Legislature for acts of incorporation, or conferring corporate powers; to make provision when necessary for disabled missionaries and for the widows and children of deceased missionaries, and in general to transact all such business as usually appertains to the Executive Committees of missionary and other benevolent societies. The acts of the Committee shall be subject to the revision of the Annual Meeting.
Five members of the Committee constitute a quorum for transacting business.
Art. VII. No person shall be made an officer of this Association who is not a member of some evangelical church.
Art. VIII. Missionary bodies and churches or individuals may appoint and sustain missionaries of their own, through the agency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed upon.
Art. IX. No amendment shall be made to this Constitution except by the vote of two-thirds of the members present at an Annual Meeting and voting, the amendment having been approved by the vote of a majority at the previous Annual Meeting.
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When the Hymn and Tune Book, “Songs for the Sanctuary,” had outgrown its freshness, Mr. Joseph P. Holbrook, the Musical Editor, set about preparing the Worship in Song, and after years of labor offered it for publication, and it now stands before the churches. By common consent the general merit of the Songs for the Sanctuary was in the musical editing, and it is safe to say that the mantle that fell from that book dropped upon the shoulders of the Worship in Song. Holbrook’s later and newer book contains the result of his labor and experience through all these years, and his Worship in Song is clearly the greatest improvement that could be made.
In addition to the Hymns and Tunes, the book contains Dr. R. S. Storrs’ New Psalter, which has recently been edited and enlarged by Dr. Storrs, and contains also a brief statement by him of the value of responsive reading in churches. The selections of Psalms and Scripture for responsive reading is by far the best that has yet been published for Congregational and Presbyterian purposes, and, as the old edition was widely used, so this will be the standard and the best. The Worship in Song with Psalter, by Storrs and Holbrook, is a successful and popular combination.
Another Hymn and Tune Book of very great importance, on account of its giving standard classical music throughout, is Hall & Lasar’s Evangelical Hymnal. This book has already been adopted in Harvard College, Trinity College and other institutions, and is being favorably considered by many churches. It is a marked step in advance of all other Hymn and Tune Books, and is the recognized standard of the Church Hymn-book of the near future.
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