After the address of Secretary Powell before this body, May 13, 1885, a committee consisting of Rev. James Brand, Rev. Enoch F. Baird and Thos. C. Reynolds was appointed to report upon it. We subjoin the report, which was adopted:
Your committee appointed to report upon the speech of Secretary Powell beg leave to call attention to but one of the many points of interest in the address. That is, that the American Missionary Association is now in debt to the amount of $30,000, and that unless special efforts are made by the churches, the end of the year will see a debt of $40,000. It is manifest that this will necessarily mean the suspension of some forms of mission work, the crippling of others and the sad embarrassment of this grand organization for years to come. It need not be; it ought not to be; if Christian men and women do their duty, it will not be. Your committee therefore propose this resolution:
Resolved, That we, the members of this association, will individually urge upon the churches under our charge the duty of making earnest and special efforts during the remainder of the year to relieve the American Missionary Association from this impending calamity.
"GRAVE OF LOVEJOY"—CORRECTION.
Editor American Missionary.—Dear Sir: Did Brother Imes (June No., p. 168) misunderstand Father Johnson, or has the old man forgotten? There was no "hasty burial by the river." The body remained all night in the warehouse, was taken to the house the next day and buried from the house in the cemetery. Johnson dug two graves there; the first in a spot afterward taken for a road or walk, and the second where the remains now lie. The memorial tablet was put there in good faith by an editor of Alton, who greatly admired Lovejoy's defense of the freedom of the press. But will there never be a more appropriate monument? Is "Spare him now he is buried" all that is ever to be said over the grave of Elijah P. Lovejoy?
H. L. Hammond.
WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THE CHINESE?
A momentous, an urgent, and a very hard question!