Vol. XXXIII.
JULY, 1879.
No. 7.
American Missionary Association.
The time has come when our schools at the South are closing the year’s work. In this number will be found communications from Hampton, Fisk, Straight, Tougaloo, Howard, and Beach. All of them give reports encouraging and hopeful. The change wrought in those who go forth from these institutions by their few years of study and discipline is marvelous, and the contrast in all the course and influence of their lives with what it might have been may well satisfy all who have taken part in so good a work.
The Boston anniversary day has come and gone again. The last hour of the morning was given to the work of this Association. Secretary Woodworth read a brief report of work. Rev. P. B. Davis, of Hyde Park, spoke from his observations in a recent tour among our schools and churches. Rev. Albert H. Heath, of New Bedford, spoke of this continent as the mens’ battle-ground for the settlement of the great questions which have never been decided, and argued that, having the opportunity and the ability, we are under obligation to help the three despised races.