Vol. XXXVII.
MARCH, 1883.
No. 3.
American Missionary Association.
Our receipts for the first four months of the present fiscal year, ending Jan. 31, 1883, amounted to $85,555.11, an increase of $1,661.72 over the amount received for the corresponding months of the previous year. The legacies, however, this year, have amounted to $25,141.83, against $9,191.72 for the year before, showing a falling off in collections and donations of $14,288.39. We desire, therefore, to remind our readers that the enlargement so greatly needed and so deeply felt by the friends who attended our last annual meeting and reviewed the work of the Association cannot be accomplished unless the receipts are greatly increased.
We devote considerable space in this issue to a report of a week’s work by our lady missionaries. We believe that what they are doing is vital to the welfare of the families from which many of our students come, and wish to commend the work and workers to the prayers and sympathies of the patrons of this Association.