CONTENTS

Page.
EDITORIAL.
Financial—School AnniversariesSouth[193]
National Educational Assembly—Conferenceof Missionaries[194]
Mendi Mission—John Brown Steamer[195]
General Notes[196]
Indian Encampment (cut)[198]
Benefactions[199]
THE SOUTH.
Anniversary Reports—Hampton Institute[200]
Fisk University[201]
Talladega College[203]
Straight University[204]
Tougaloo[205]
Howard University—WilmingtonNormal School[207]
Emerson Institute[208]
Le Moyne Institute[209]
THE INDIANS.
Catholic Missions—Recent Changes[211]
THE CHINESE.
Anniversaries—Work During Apriland May[212]
BUREAU OF WOMAN’S WORK.
To the Ladies of the CongregationalChurches[213]
Mission Homes—Letter from Mrs.Chase[214]
A Mission Home (cut)[215]
Questions and Answers[216]
CHILDREN’S PAGE.
About Giving Pennies[217]
RECEIPTS[218]

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H. W. Hubbard, Esq., 56 Reade Street, N.Y.

AUDITORS.

M. F. Reading. Wm. A. Nash.

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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.

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THE

American Missionary.


Vol. XXXVII.

JULY, 1883.

No. 7.