Vol. XXXIV.

No. 10.

THE
AMERICAN MISSIONARY.

“To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.”

OCTOBER, 1880.

CONTENTS:

EDITORIAL.
Our Annual Meeting—Paragraphs[289]
Paragraphs[290]
Jubilee Singers[291]
Atlanta’s Colored People—Common Sense for Colored Men[292]
Our Schools and the Common School System[293]
A New South, not a New England in the South[294]
Mtesa and the Religion of his Ancestors[296]
Begging Letter[297]
African Notes[299]
Items from the Field[300]
THE FREEDMEN.
Colored Cadetship[302]
North Carolina, McLeansville—Revival Interest[302]
South Carolina, Greenwood[303]
Georgia—Midway Anniversary[304]
Georgia—Atlanta University and Temperance[305]
Alabama—Shelby Ironworks[305]
Alabama—Florence—Outside Work[306]
Mississippi—Tougaloo University[307]
THE INDIANS.
S’kokomish Agency: Rev. Myron Eells[308]
Sisseton Agency: Chas. Crissey[309]
THE CHINESE.
Sermon by Jee Gam[310]
CHILDREN’S PAGE.
Chinese and Chinese Customs[312]
RECEIPTS[313]
Constitution[317]
Aim, Statistics, Wants[318]