Vol. XXXVI.
NOVEMBER, 1882.
No. 11.
American Missionary Association.
This number of the Missionary will reach our readers about the time of the assembling of our friends at the Annual Meeting. With the sum of $300,000 so nearly reached, with no debt upon our treasury, with a year of most successful work, with the addition of many large, commodious and much needed buildings, and with the dew of divine grace resting upon many of our churches and schools, we shall meet in our annual gathering with abundant causes of gratitude towards God for the past, and hope and courage for another year. Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian life, and none the less of missionary endeavor. We ask a place evermore in the prayers of God’s people. At our Annual Meeting it is our custom to spend a season of devotion on Tuesday afternoon in concert with all our workers in the field, who gather in their homes and schools and churches to lift up their voices in thanks and supplications with us for the blessing of God upon our work. We ask those of our Christian friends whose eyes may rest upon this page at that hour of worship to unite with us in it; and may we not hope that this suggestion, though received later, may stimulate to earnest supplication in behalf of our work?
THE WOMAN’S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.
The arrangement for co-operation between the A. M. A. and the W. H. M. A. has ceased. A few words of explanation are proper. From an early period of our work among the Freedmen, we have employed lady missionaries, and found them exceedingly useful. When the W. H. M. A. was formed, we entered into co-operation with it in the hope that a larger number of such missionaries might be sent into the field. It was found, however, that with the office of one society in New York and the other in Boston, it was impossible to have such constant consultations as to appointments, places and work as would avoid all misunderstandings and complications. We have, therefore, felt it our duty, though with reluctance and with all respect for the zeal and earnest Christian purposes of the W. H. M. A., to sever our connection with it.