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FORTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,
For The Year Ending September 30th, 1889.
GENERAL SURVEY.
The American Missionary Association finds its commission in the words of the Master, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature."
It does not choose its fields of labor because the people in them are black, or red, or yellow, or white; but because they are those for whom Christ died and to whom he commanded the glad tidings of salvation to be preached. In the fields to which it providentially has been called, it seeks to bring the gospel to every human being who has it not in its purity as an uplifting power.