VOL. XXXIII.

No. 8.

THE
AMERICAN MISSIONARY.

“To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.”

AUGUST, 1879.

CONTENTS:

EDITORIAL.
Annual Meeting[225]
Pains of Retrenchment[225]
Freedmen’s Missions Aid Society[227]
Missions in Central Africa[228]
Education of Freedmen[229]
Congregationalism in the South—Its Relation to the African Race[230]
Death of a Teacher[232]
Items from the Field[232]
General Notes[233]
THE FREEDMEN.
Atlanta University—Tenth Anniversary[235]
Talladega College—College, Farm and Seminary[237]
Berea College—Crowded Commencement[238]
S. C., Orangeburg—School Closing—Religious Life[240]
Georgia, McIntosh—Call for a Lady Missionary[240]
Georgia, Forsythe—Temperance and Religion[241]
Alabama, Florence—Corner-Stone of a Church Laid[241]
Tennessee—Teachers’ Institute[242]
Tennessee—By-ways of Tennessee[243]
AFRICA.
Mendi Mission—Explorations—Industrial Work[245]
THE CHINESE.
Notes and Clippings: Rev. W. C. Pond[246]
CHILDREN’S PAGE.
My Home in Indian Territory[249]
LETTERS TO THE TREASURER—Words of Cheer[250]
RECEIPTS[251]
Work, Statistics, Wants, &c.[254]