CONTENTS

Page.
EDITORIAL.
Annual Meeting—This Number—Vacation Days[225]
Congregationalism South[226]
General Notes[228]
Benefactions[230]
THE SOUTH.
Anniversary Reports—Berea College[231]
Atlanta University[232]
Cut of Atlanta University Buildings[233]
Lewis High School[234]
Avery Normal Institute[236]
Beach Institute[237]
Brewer Normal Institute[238]
Goliad, Texas—Fayetteville, Ark.[239]
A Cotton Plantation (cut)[240]
THE INDIANS.
Testimony of an Indian Agent[241]
THE CHINESE.
Mission Work in May[243]
BUREAU OF WOMAN’S WORK.
Notes on Meetings of State Societies[245]
Gleanings from Correspondence[246]
Work at the Dakota Mission[247]
CHILDREN’S PAGE.
A Little Merchant[248]
RECEIPTS[250]

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, D.D., Boston. Rev. G. D. Pike, D.D., New York.

Rev. James Powell, Chicago.

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THE

American Missionary.

VOL. XXXVII.

AUGUST, 1883.

No. 8.

American Missionary Association.

The thirty-seventh Annual Meeting of the American Missionary Association will be held in the Central Congregational Church, Brooklyn, New York (Dr. A. J. F. Behrends’), commencing Tuesday, October 30, at 3 o’clock P.M. Rev. J. L. Withrow, D.D., of Boston, will preach the sermon. Other addresses and papers, and also arrangements relating to the meeting, will be announced hereafter.

We give in this number of the Missionary additional reports of eight of our educational institutions, and also a cut of the college buildings of Atlanta University. The new Stone hall, which is the centre building, is 124 feet in length, three stories high, with a basement, and contains president’s and treasurer’s offices, class rooms, Graves library room, chapel, which will seat comfortably 400, besides lecture rooms, dormitory room, etc., etc.