MARCH, 1880.
No. 3.
American Missionary Association.
We are glad to be able to announce the safe arrival of Prof. Chase at Sierra Leone, about the 8th of January, and hope before our next issue to receive valuable advices from him.
We call attention to the Thirty-third Annual Report of the Association, recently published. In addition to the general survey which was read at the Annual Meeting at Chicago, and the minutes of that grand gathering, we have given, as usual, a detailed report of our work, and we suggest to pastors and others who may desire to inform themselves in regard to particular aspects of it, that if they will notice, they will find all this matter so classified in the Report that they can easily select just what they want. Thus, after the list of institutions and teachers, they may find the following headings: Delay in Opening Schools, Quality of the Work, Closing Exercises, Industrial Departments, Growing Favor, Buildings, Rented Property, Libraries, Student Aid, Religious Character of Schools, Colored Teachers, Theological Departments. The Church Work and other main departments are analyzed in the same way. We have done this, hoping to make the Report a helpful document and one easily used by the friends of the Association. Dr. Storrs’ sermon is also printed with it.
Miss Parmelee’s paper, read before the Woman’s Meeting at the Anniversary in Chicago, excited so much interest at the time and since, and gave so vivid, so faithful and so sympathetic a view of the perils of the girls of the South, that we have, besides giving a portion of it in a former Missionary, re-printed it in full, and have sent it largely to the Christian women of our churches. We beg them to read it, remembering that its statements are facts, and that the evils of which it speaks are among the better class of the colored women of the South, and hardly suggest the depths below, in which the mass are at home, and into which education and enlightenment only make the fall more fatal. May God’s spirit move the hearts of our Christian women to save their sisters.