CONTENTS
| Page. | |
| Financial—Cost of Lady Missionaries | [65] |
| Paragraphs | [66] |
| A Permanent Necessity | [67] |
| General Notes | [68] |
| Benefactions | [70] |
| Connecticut Conventions—Items from the Field | [71] |
| THE SOUTH. | |
| Lexington High School (with cut) | [72] |
| A Week’s Work by Lady Missionaries Selma, Ala.; Savannah, Ga.; Atlanta,Ga.; Raleigh, N.C.; Montgomery, Ala.;New Orleans, La., Washington, D.C. | [73] |
| Vantage Ground Needed by Students | [80] |
| Cut of Ladies’ Hall, Tougaloo, Miss. | [81] |
| THE INDIANS. | |
| Work at S’Kokomish, W.T. | [83] |
| Indians Watching a Train (cut) | [85] |
| THE CHINESE. | |
| Comity | [ 86] |
| CHILDREN’S PAGE. | |
| Lady Agnes Hamilton | [88] |
| RECEIPTS | [89] |
NEW YORK.
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THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.
PRESIDENT.
Hon. Wm. B. Washburn, LL.D., Mass.
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.
Rev. M. E. Strieby, D.D., 56 Reade Street, N.Y.
TREASURER.
H. W. Hubbard, Esq., 56 Reade Street, N.Y.
AUDITORS.
M. F. Reading. Wm. A. Nash.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
John H. Washburn, Chairman; A. P. Foster, Secretary; Lyman Abbott, Alonzo S. Ball, A. S. Barnes, C. T. Christensen, Franklin Fairbanks, Clinton B. Fisk, S. B. Halliday, Samuel Holmes, Charles A. Hull, Samuel S. Marples, Charles L. Mead, Wm. H. Ward, A. L. Williston.
DISTRICT SECRETARIES.
Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Boston. Rev. G. D. Pike, D.D., New York.
Rev. James Powell, Chicago.
COMMUNICATIONS
relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the Corresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields, to the District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the “American Missionary,” to Rev. G. D. Pike, D.D., at the New York Office.
DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS
may be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York, or, when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or 112 West Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member.
FORM OF A BEQUEST.
“I bequeath to my executor (or executors) the sum of —— dollars, in trust, to pay the same in —— days after my decease to the person who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the ‘American Missionary Association’ of New York City, to be applied, under the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, to its charitable uses and purposes.” The Will should be attested by three witnesses.
WANTED
$375,000,
Efficiently to prosecute the work in hand.
CO-OPERATION
Of every Congregational minister, and of every office bearer in our Congregational churches to secure (a) an annual presentation or the work, and claims of the A. M. A. in every Congregational church; and (b) an annual contribution from every Congregational church in the country for this great work.
HELP
Of every Congregational Sunday-school superintendent to secure from his school a contribution to our “Student Aid Fund.”
AID
Of every Ladies’ Missionary Society to sustain our work among the colored women and girls.
ENDOWMENTS
For Professorships and Scholarships in our schools. The time has come when in our larger institutions the chairs of instruction should be endowed, that the Association may be left to enlarge its missionary work in other directions.
GIFTS
For the improvement of schools and churches already built, and the erection of additional buildings, imperatively needed.
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In every family for our monthly magazine,
THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY,
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THE
American Missionary.
Vol. XXXVII.
MARCH, 1883.
No. 3.
American Missionary Association.
Our receipts for the first four months of the present fiscal year, ending Jan. 31, 1883, amounted to $85,555.11, an increase of $1,661.72 over the amount received for the corresponding months of the previous year. The legacies, however, this year, have amounted to $25,141.83, against $9,191.72 for the year before, showing a falling off in collections and donations of $14,288.39. We desire, therefore, to remind our readers that the enlargement so greatly needed and so deeply felt by the friends who attended our last annual meeting and reviewed the work of the Association cannot be accomplished unless the receipts are greatly increased.
We devote considerable space in this issue to a report of a week’s work by our lady missionaries. We believe that what they are doing is vital to the welfare of the families from which many of our students come, and wish to commend the work and workers to the prayers and sympathies of the patrons of this Association.