Vol. XXXII.
DECEMBER, 1878.
No. 12.
American Missionary Association.
ABSTRACT OF THE THIRTY-SECOND REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE A. M. A.
The Report opens with an expression of thanks to God for the general prosperity of its work, obituary notices of the Rev. Silas McKeen, D. D., of Bradford, Vt., a Vice-President, and Mrs. Benjamin James, of the Mendi Mission, and a brief review of the marked progress of the last thirty-two years in the line of its aim and effort.
The Freedmen.
The educational work of the Association has been vigorously sustained, with increasing numbers, and at the cost of great self-denial on the part of both teachers and pupils. New buildings have been erected for the Emerson Institute at Mobile, Ala., for the Lewis High School and Norwich Chapel at Macon, Ga., for the Straight University at New Orleans, La., and for the Beach Institute at Savannah, Ga., under the supervision of Prof. T. N. Chase, of Atlanta. They are simple but commodious, and admirably adapted for their uses, better located than formerly, and cost no more than the insurance received for the buildings which they replace. The institutions of the Association are excellently located.