By the time this number of the Missionary reaches our readers our Annual Report for 1880 will be through the press. We shall be happy to forward it to any of our friends who will send us their name and address, signifying their desire to have it.
This number of the American Missionary contains a complete list of the names of the persons appointed for the current year to the different fields where this Association carries on its work at home and abroad. We commend the work and the workers to the great Lord of the harvest, and to all those who utter the prayer He has taught us to offer, “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, in earth, as it is in heaven.”
It is the belief of this Association that conversion is the proper door into the kingdom of science, as well as to the kingdom of Heaven. Our teachers and pastors, therefore, seek to bring those who come under their instruction to a knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus, in order that they may be qualified to know aright and properly appropriate all knowledge. We are glad, therefore, to be able to refer our readers to letters from the field, in this number, as evidence that revival work is going on at different points throughout the South.
Letters from our various stations at the South remind us, as we would remind our friends, that this winter is a hard one for the colored people, and that our missionaries really need more money and more clothing to distribute than in ordinary winters. We quote from one letter, which must serve for all: “As I write, the ground is covered with snow to the depth of about six inches, the first we have seen since 1876. By reason of the unprepared condition of the poor people here, living in open shanties and scantily supplied with clothing and food, this season of excessive cold is especially hard to endure.” Contributions of money and clothing to relieve this pressing and immediate want may be sent to the care of H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade street, New York City.
We are glad to know that the Rev. A. D. Mayo, one of the editors of the Journal of Education, is making an extended tour of the South, and will hold Teachers’ Institutes and deliver courses of lectures in its chief educational centres. We shall await with great interest the report of what he sees and learns during his visit, and expect valuable suggestions from one who, to his wide experience as an educator shall add an accurate knowledge of the present condition of that part of the country.