CONTENTS

EDITORIAL.
PAGE
Happy New Year,[1]
Paragraphs,[2]
Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs,[3]
What Some Women Are Doing. Rev. A. H. Bradford, D.D.,[4]
The Indian Problem. Pres. J. H. Seelye, D.D.,[7]
Address of Rev. Dr. C. I. Smith,[10]
Well Said. Rev. A. G. Haygood, D.D.,[11]
THE SOUTH.
Notes in the Saddle. Supt. C. J. Ryder,[12]
A Contrast,[14]
BUREAU OF WOMAN’S WORK.
Annual Report of the Secretary,[16]
Work Among the Freedmen. Miss Bertha Robertson,[19]
Work Among the Indians. Miss H. B. Ilsley,[23]
RECEIPTS,[27]

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American Missionary Association.

President, Hon. Wm. B. Washburn, LL.D., Mass.

Vice-Presidents.

Rev. A. J. F. Behrends, D.D., N.Y.
Rev. F. A. Noble, D.D., Ill.

Rev. Alex. McKenzie, D.D., Mass.
Rev. D. O. Mears, D.D., Mass.

Corresponding Secretary.

Rev. M. E. Strieby, D.D., 56 Reade Street, N.Y.

Associate Corresponding Secretaries.

Rev. James Powell, D.D., 56 Reade Street, N.Y.

Rev. A. F. Beard, D.D., 56 Reade Street, N.Y.

Treasurer.

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

Auditors.

Peter McCartee.

Chas. P. Peirce.

Executive Committee.

John H. Washburn, Chairman.

A. P. Foster, Secretary.

For Three Years.
S. B. Halliday.
Samuel Holmes.
Samuel S. Marples.
Charles L. Mead.
Elbert B. Monroe.

For Two Years.
J. E. Rankin.
Wm. H. Ward.
J. L. Withrow.
John H. Washburn.
Edmund L. Champlin.

For One Year.
Lyman Abbott.
A. S. Barnes.
J. R. Danforth.
Clinton B. Fisk.
A. P. Foster.

District Secretaries.

Rev. C. L. Woodworth, D.D., 21 Cong’l House, Boston.

Rev. J. E. Roy, D.D., 151 Washington Street, Chicago.

Financial Secretary for Indian Missions.
Rev. Charles W. Shelton.

Field Superintendent.
Rev. C. J. Ryder, 56 Reade Street, N.Y.

Bureau of Woman’s Work.

Secretary, Miss D. E. Emerson, 56 Reade Street, N.Y.

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The American Missionary.

Vol. XLI.

JANUARY, 1887.

No. 1.

American Missionary Association.

1887.

The American Missionary wishes all its readers and friends a “Happy New Year.” The memory of the old year makes this salutation a hearty one. God has blessed our work in a signal manner both at the North and at the South. Our appeals have been heard and have met with generous responses. The religious press has rendered us most valuable aid. Friends have interested friends in our behalf. The debt has been almost wiped out. The year of 1886 stands conspicuous in its attestation of the favor God has given the Association in the eyes of the churches. Our greeting, therefore, is not merely formal. We have occasion to be grateful. Will our friends then please be assured of our gratitude, as entering upon the work of 1887 we wish for them, one and all, a “Happy New Year.”

This is the time to make resolutions. Good resolutions now formed and faithfully carried out will be certain to make the new year a happy one. We would suggest that the resolutions passed at the National Council at Chicago and adopted as its own by our annual meeting at New Haven, asking for $350,000 from the churches this year for our work, be approved by every reader of The Missionary, with this one added, “Resolved, that I will do my part as an individual to make these resolutions effectual.” If this resolution is heartily adopted and lived up to, then certain results will follow: (1) The sixty per cent. increase upon the contributions of last year, that the amount called for necessitates, will be secured. (2) A larger number of churches will be found among those contributing to the A. M. A. than has ever yet been recorded. (3) Special appeals will not be heard. (4) Demanded enlargement of work at a number of points will be made, and new fields entered. (5) Our missionaries will be made happy in the knowledge that their work is to be sustained.

We feel that we can ask God’s blessing upon all who thus resolve with an assurance of faith that the blessing will be bestowed where the resolution is kept.

One of the crying evils of the times is the severe tax put upon the eyes by reading small print. The American Missionary has been an offender in this respect, but it has seen the error of its ways and promises to try to do better. It has selected the first month of the new year in which to inaugurate the reform. Small print has been banished from its pages of reading matter. We trust that this effort of The Missionary to make its pages more readable will be responded to by a great increase in the number of its readers. The annual subscription is only fifty cents.

Notes in the Saddle, by Field-Superintendent Ryder, is a heading under which will be found, on another page, some good reading. We hope to continue these notes during the year. We caution our readers against falling into the phonetic craze when they read this announcement. We are not responsible for the way in which our Superintendent spells his name, but we presume he follows the analogy of “ancient tyme.” At any rate, he who in the saddle, with reins over the neck and speed unchecked, can make notes, must be an expert rider, no matter how we spell or pronounce his name.

We ask the special attention of our lady readers to the present number of The Missionary. They will find Miss Emerson’s report and the papers presented by Miss Robertson and Miss Ilsley at the New Haven meeting, which we print elsewhere, to be most interesting reading. We are very sorry that space does not permit us to also print the most excellent address of Mrs. St. Clair. Any lady who has the January Missionary in her possession and allows the next Woman’s Missionary Meeting to be a dull one, ought to be disciplined for not living up to her privileges. Just read this number through and see if you don’t think so too.

Immediately following the annual meeting, under the charge of Secretary Shelton, Rev. A. L. Riggs, with Pastor Ehnamani and the Santee School Indian students, started through New England upon a speaking and singing campaign in behalf of our Indian Missions. At the same time, Secretary Roy, accompanied by Rev. Geo. V. Clark, of Athens, Ga., an ex-slave and a child of the A. M. A., started in upon a similar campaign through Ohio. For six weeks, meetings were held almost every night in the week, with occasional meetings in the afternoon. On Sundays three meetings were usually held. Large audiences, sometimes crowded, even on week nights, have greeted and with interest listened to them. At Cleveland both forces joined, devoting a Sabbath to the Congregational churches in that city. The Monday evening following, a final meeting of the Ohio campaign was held in Oberlin, where the magnificent audience and spirit of the meeting were a worthy close to the series and in perfect keeping with the historic record of Oberlin on the subject of missions. Here the bands separated to meet at the end of one week in Oak Park, where Secretary Roy with his family resides, and where Secretary Shelton formerly resided. The Congregational church of Oak Park was crowded to its utmost capacity with those who came to attend the final meetings of the two campaigns and to listen to the singing and the speaking of both forces. A beautiful incident in this meeting was the solo singing of a slave song by Mr. Clark, the chorus to which was taken up by the Indian students; and another incident in the same direction was the rendering of a slave song, in the chorus to which both the audience and the students responded.

To repair the damage done our mission home and school buildings by the earthquake at Charleston a careful estimate calls for not less than $2,500. One of our teachers, Mr. E. A. Lawrence, has been meeting the emergency by holding school in a barn. The time has come when the necessary repairs must be made, both upon the home and school. Hundreds of scholars are waiting and parents are begging that Avery Institute be again opened. In response to our former appeals for Charleston some special donations have been received, but they are entirely inadequate to meet the emergency. We beg leave to remind our friends that the money needed to make these repairs must be furnished either by special contributions or else taken out of money already appropriated to other work. We trust they will not leave us to be compelled to do the latter. It may also be added that to delay these repairs much longer will result in the ruin of the buildings.