The development of this marvelous work has many thrilling chapters among the forty-nine that have been already written. They tell the story briefly of the devoted men and women who have been carrying on the blessed work of emancipation. They show how not less than 3,000 women have given of their best talent and strength to this Christ-like service. They speak of the perils by shotgun and by fire; of imprisonment, ostracism, and scorn; of persecution, that it was believed the progress of the age had made impossible in these later days, but which the State of Florida has been able to revive. But these chapters tell also how the truth has been setting many free, blacks and whites alike, bringing them into a truer conception of God's fatherhood, man's brotherhood through sonship by Jesus Christ.

The American Missionary Association finds its highest testimonial in the work itself, in its system of Christian schools, including graded primaries, academies, normal and industrial schools, in its colleges in each of five states, and in its advancing church work. Nay, its best testimonial is in the product from these schools and churches, the teachers and preachers, lawyers and doctors, the good farmers and mechanics, the upright mothers and fathers, the sweet though humble homes, the conscientious Christian citizens, in whose influence and leadership lies the hope of the African race. It finds its testimonial in the loyalty and devotion of its missionaries, their self-denial for the cause they love. It has seen a gifted woman from a home of comfort going year by year for twenty years to this work of emancipation for the "bound" in Georgia and Tennessee, among a despised people, and, when called from earth and earth's opportunities, leaving a liberal sum to continue the work of Christian education. It has seen many another consecrated missionary take from the savings of a lifetime, to enable the Association to light one more lamp for the dark places of the South, and not a few turn back three-fourths of their small salaries to help in sustaining the work. The liberality of the missionaries testifies not only to the genuineness of the work, but to the importance of the field and its irresistible appeal.

With such a history the American Missionary Association stands before the churches in this, its fiftieth, year. God has graciously widened the fields before it. The 4,000,000 of freed slaves are a race of 8,000,000 in our midst. "Never since the apostolic age has there been open to the church a field so vast, so urgent, so hopeful."

God has graciously widened the mission fields of the Association; the mountain regions of the South have been opened, and the gospel, carried with such personal risk fifty years ago, reaching only here and there a few, may be carried freely to the 2,000,000 of our mountain countrymen mentally and spiritually bound. God has graciously widened the fields. The Indian missions present their claim, for wherever a pagan Indian tribe remains there may the gospel be carried quickly and without personal harm. The providential call has been heard also, and answered by this Association, for the Chinese within our borders and the Eskimo on the Alaskan coast. The work of this Association may well be the glory of the churches. God has done His part. He has opened the fields, He has richly blessed every effort toward enlightenment and Christian civilization. The missionaries have done their part in prayer, in labor, in gifts, in voicing the earnest appeal of these poor, whose greatest need is Christian education and a pure gospel.

Now, the Association has come to its fiftieth year, the fiftieth chapter in its serial history. Standing always for emancipation, it is itself enthralled in the toils of a terrible debt. It trusted the churches; it believed that the action of the churches in separating their Indian work from the government, relinquishing $22,000, would be followed by $22,000 additional gifts from the people of God, that the Indian missions should not suffer loss. It believed that the growing claim of the Southern mountain work and the claim of this great African race in our midst would not be disregarded. It still believes in the churches. There has been only a temporary withholding. In the sisterhood of missionary societies, two have been freed from debt. Now by one grand concentration of gifts to the Jubilee Fund of the American Missionary Association, shall it not be enabled to celebrate a remarkable record, a marvelous work, a divine call to present widening fields of usefulness and a jubilee of financial freedom that by the grace of God shall last? May we not then confidently look for the opening of the windows of heaven, and the outpouring of such a blessing on home churches and mission fields as shall summon the attention of an indifferent and unbelieving world to the certain and rapid progress of the kingdom of God?

Jubilee Year Fund, Additional Shares.

Emeline J. Kellogg, Manchester, Vt.
Andrus March, Charlton City, Mass.
Caroline Crowell, Haverhill, Mass.
Christian Union Congregational Church, Upper Montclair, N. J.
Mrs. S. M. Cowles, Kensington, Conn.
Mrs. M. A. Bachelor, Whitinsville, Mass.
Mrs. C. A. Ransom, Wellesley, Mass.
Central Union South Church, Concord, N. H.
Two Friends, Wellesley, Mass., two shares.
Woman's Missionary Society, River Falls, Wis.
First Congregational Church, Great Barrington, Mass.
Rev. James W. Bixler, Trustee, New London, Conn.
Frank L. Andrews, Fall River, Mass.
Mrs. R. S. Curtis, Hampden, Me.
Second Congregational Church, Manchester, Conn.
Plymouth Congregational Sunday-school, Worcester, Mass.
Tabitha L. Cushman, East Los Angeles, Cal.
Congregational Sunday-school, Greenville, N. H.
"Debtor to the A. M. A.," Auburndale, Mass.
Mrs. Ellen M. Wellman, Malden, Mass.
W. H. M. A., Auxiliary of Church of the Pilgrimage, Plymouth, Mass.
Congregational Church, Yankton, S. D.
Walnut Hills Woman's Home Missionary Society, Cincinnati, O.
John M. Williams, Evanston, Ill.
Plymouth Congregational Church, Lawrence, Kan.
Mr. and Mrs. Gaylord Thomson, Medina, O.
Congregational Church, Granby, Mass.
Mrs. Lota B. White Wales, in memory of Rev. O. H. White, D.D., Dorchester, Mass.
A Friend, New Britain, Conn.
Friends, Milford, N. H., two shares.
Ladies in Second Congregational Church, West Winsted, Conn.
Miss Anna E. Farrington, through Woman's Home Missionary Union of North Carolina, Oaks, N. C.
Woman's Missionary Society, Hancock, Mich.
A Friend, Concord, N. H., two shares.
Mrs. S. A. Pratt, Worcester, Mass.
Evangelical Congregational Church, Westboro, Mass.
Congregational Church, Oakham, Mass.
Two Friends, Park Street Congregational Church, Boston, Mass.
Individuals in Congregational Church, Cumberland Centre, Me.
Belle Olinger, Williamsburg, Ky.
Mrs. W. H. Catlin, Meriden, Conn.
Woman's Association, First Church, Detroit, Mich.
Residents, Cumberland Gap, Tenn.

Previously reported,238
Subscriptions reported above,46
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Total number of shares reported,284