Vol. XXXIV. No. 5.

THE
AMERICAN MISSIONARY.

“To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.”

MAY, 1880.

CONTENTS:

EDITORIAL.
[Paragraphs]129
[Gen. Grant’s Reception at Straight University]132
[Old Nails Well Clinched]—[The Case in a Nut-shell]133
[Southern Negroes in New York City]—[Woman’s Home Missionary Association]134
[Eastern North Carolina]135
[Le Moyne Institute]136
[Anglo-Turkish Convention for the Suppression of the Slave-Trade]137
[H. M. Stanley on the Congo]138
[Jesus sat over against the Treasury]—[Gradations, Natural and Helpful]139
[Items from the Field]140
[THE FREEDMEN.]
[District of Columbia]—[Lincoln Mission], [Washington]141
[North Carolina], [Wilmington]—[Report of a Visitor]141
[North Carolina]—[Revivals in Raleigh]142
[Alabama]—[Conference of Cong’l Churches]143
"[Sunday-school Convention]145
"[Montgomery]—[Health-Talks, etc.]145
[Kentucky]—[The Land and the People]146
[AFRICA.]
[Extract from a Letter from Prof. Chase]148
[THE INDIANS.]
[Indian Boys at Hampton]149
[THE CHINESE.]
[Chapter of Items]150
[CHILDREN’S PAGE.]
[Albert Burton Jowett]152
[RECEIPTS]153
[Constitution]157
[Aim], [Statistics], [Wants]158