Vol. LSEPTEMBER, 1896.No. 9.

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL.

The Jubilee Meeting—Up To Date

[273]

Only Thirty Days More

[274]

Jubilee Share Fund—Paragraphs

[275]

THE SOUTH.

A Negro Upon Self-Help And Self-Support

[276]

Beach Institute, Savannah, Ga.,

[279]

Ballard Normal School, Macon, Ga.

[280]

Brewer Normal School, Greenwood, S. C.

[281]

Talladega College Commencement

[282]

Snap Shots At Talladega Students

[283]

Albany Normal School, Albany, Ga.

[285]

Chandler Normal School, Lexington, Ky.

[286]

Extracts From Letter Of a Southern Pastor

[288]

Letter From a Former Student

[289]

Grand View Church

[291]

THE CHINESE.

Visits To Three Missions

[292]

BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.

The Association Jubilee

[295]


SHARES JUBILEE YEAR FUND.

[298]

RECEIPTS.

[299]


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President, Merrill E. Gates, LL.D., Mass.

Vice-Presidents.

Rev. F. A. Noble, D.D., Ill.

Rev. Henry Hopkins, D.D., Mo.

Rev. Alex. McKenzie, D.D., Mass.

Rev. Henry A. Stimson, D.D., N. Y.

Rev. Washington Gladden, D.D., Ohio.

Honorary Secretary and Editor.
Rev. M. E. Strieby, D.D., Bible House, N. Y.
Corresponding Secretaries.
Rev. A. F. Beard, D.D., Rev. F. P. Woodbury, D.D., Bible House. N. Y.
Rev. C. J. Ryder, D.D., Bible House, N. Y.
Recording Secretary.
Rev. M. E. Strieby, D.D., Bible House, N. Y.
Treasurer.
H. W. Hubbard, Esq., Bible House, N. Y.

Auditors.

George S. Hickok.

James H. Oliphant.

Executive Committee.

Charles L. Mead, Chairman.

Charles A. Hull, Secretary.

For Three Years.

For Two Years.

For One Year.

Samuel Holmes,

William Hayes Ward,

Charles A. Hull,

Samuel S. Marples,

James W. Cooper,

Addison P. Foster,

Charles L. Mead,

Lucien C. Warner,

Albert J. Lyman,

William H. Strong,

Joseph H. Twichell,

Nehemiah Boynton,

Elijah Horr.

Charles P. Peirce.

A. J. F. Behrends.

District Secretaries.

Rev. Geo. H. Gutterson, 21 Cong'l House, Boston, Mass.

Rev. Jos. E. Roy, D.D., 153 La Salle Street, Chicago, Ill.

Secretary of Woman's Bureau.
Miss D. E. Emerson, Bible House, N. Y.

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