COURT SQUARE THEATRE, SPRINGFIELD, MASS.
PLACE OF FIFTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING.


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CONTENTS.


Page

Financial—Nine Months

[97]

Editorial Notes

[97]

Indian Progress

[102]

Light and Shade

[104]

COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES:

Fisk University, Tenn.

[106]

Talladega College, Ala.

[108]

Straight University, La.

[110]

Tougaloo University, Miss.

[113]

Grandview Institute, Tenn.

[115]

Pleasant Hill Academy, Tenn.

[115]

Fort Berthold Indian School, N. D.

[116]

A Tribute To Rev. A. J. F. Behrends, D.D.

[118]

Richard Salter Storrs, D.D.

[119]

Obituary—Prof. A. K. Spence—Rev. W. S. Alexander, D.D.

[121]

Porto Rico Notes

[122]

Loss of Supplies for Alaska

[124]

Department of Christian Endeavor

[125]

RECEIPTS

[128]

Woman's State Organizations

[142]

Secretaries of Young People's and Children's Work

[144]


THE 54th ANNUAL MEETING
OF THE
American Missionary Association
WILL BE HELD IN
SPRINGFIELD, MASS
October 23-25, 1900.
SERMON: REV. NEWELL DWIGHT HILLIS, D.D.


The AMERICAN MISSIONARY presents new form, fresh material and generous illustrations for 1900. This magazine is published by the American Missionary Association quarterly. Subscription rate fifty cents per year.

Many wonderful missionary developments in our own country during this stirring period of national enlargement are recorded in the columns of this magazine.


THE
American Missionary


Vol. LIV.JULY, 1900.No. 3.