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    The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 11, November, 1888
    The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 11, November, 1888
    The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 11, November, 1888
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      The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 11, November, 1888 - Various Various

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of American Missionary, Volume XLII. No. 11.

      November 1888, by Various

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: American Missionary, Volume XLII. No. 11. November 1888

      Author: Various

      Release Date: October 3, 2004 [EBook #13584]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY ***

      Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, John Hagerson, the Project Gutenberg

      On-line Distributed Proofreaders and Cornell University

      The American Missionary

      November 1888

      Volume XLII. No. 11.

      CONTENTS

      EDITORIAL

      NOT QUITE FREE—ENCOURAGING RESPONSES TO OUR APPEAL

      THE MOHONK CONFERENCE

      ORDINATION—THE YELLOW FEVER

      THE SAMARITAN WOMAN

      GENERAL SURVEY

      OUR SCHOOLS—CHURCH WORK—MOUNTAIN WORK—THE INDIANS—THE CHINESE—WOMAN'S BUREAU—FINANCES

      STUDENT'S LETTER

      STRUGGLES IN THE LONE STAR STATE

      THE CHINESE

      REVIEW OF THE YEAR

      BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK

      WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS

      RECEIPTS

      NEW YORK:

      PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION,

      Rooms, 56 Reade Street.

      Price, 50 Cents a Year, in Advance.

      Entered at the Post Office at New York, N.Y., as second class matter.

      American Missionary Association.

      President, Rev. Wm. M. Taylor, D.D., LL.D., N.Y.

      Vice-Presidents.

      Rev. A.J.F. Behrends, D.D., N.Y.

      Rev. Alex. McKenzie, D.D., Mass.

      Rev. F.A. Noble, D.D., Ill.

      Rev. D.O. Mears, D.D., Mass.

      Rev. Henry Hopkins, D.D., Mo.

      Corresponding Secretaries.

      Rev. M.E. Strieby, D.D., 56 Reade Street, N.Y.

      Rev. A.F. Beard, D.D., 56 Reade Street, N.Y.

      Treasurer.

      H.W. Hubbard, Esq., 56 Reade Street, N.Y.

      Auditors.

      Peter McCartee.

      Chas. P. Peirce.

      Executive Committee.

      John H. Washburn, Chairman.

      Addison P. Foster, Secretary.

      For Three Years.

      Lyman Abbott,

      Charles A. Hull,

      J.R. Danforth,

      Clinton B. Fisk,

      Addison P. Foster,

      For Two Years.

      S.B. Halliday,

      Samuel Holmes,

      Samuel S. Marples,

      Charles L. Mead,

      Elbert B. Monroe,

      For One Year.

      J.E. Rankin,

      Wm. H. Ward,

      J.W. Cooper,

      John H. Washburn,

      Edmund L. Champlin.

      District Secretaries.

      Rev. C.J. Ryder, 21 Cong'l House, Boston.

      Rev. J.E. Roy, D.D., 151 Washington Street, Chicago.

      Financial Secretary for Indian Missions.

      Rev. Chas. W. Shelton.

      Secretary of Woman's Bureau.

      Miss D.E. Emerson, 56 Reade St., N.Y.

      COMMUNICATIONS

      Relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the Corresponding Secretaries; letters for THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY, to the Editor, at the New York Office.

      DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS

      In drafts, checks, registered letters, or post-office orders, may be sent to H.W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York, or, when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or 151 Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member.

      FORM OF A BEQUEST.

      I BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of —— dollars, in trust, to pay the same in —— days after my decease to the person who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the 'American Missionary Association,' of New York City, to be applied, under the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, to its charitable uses and purposes. The Will should be attested by three witnesses.

      The American Missionary.

      VOL. XLII.

      November, 1888.

      No. 11.

      American Missionary Association

      NOT QUITE FREE.

      In the November MISSIONARY of last year, the financial statement bore the simple and joyous heading FREE. This year we are compelled to prefix two qualifying words. Our books closed September 30, with a balance of $5,641.21 on the wrong side. While we regret that there should be any debt, we rejoice that it is no larger.

      The receipts applicable to current expenses fell off somewhat during the year, while the expenditures, owing to general growth and some special demands were greater than last year. The first of September, therefore, found us confronting an impending debt. The appeal which we felt constrained to make for September, and which was made under some special disadvantages as compared with last year, was met with so hearty a response in gifts and in expressions of interest in our work, as to move us to gratitude to God and thankfulness to our friends. A few of the donors gave $1,000 each, but the larger share of the responses contained remittances of less than $100. Many of the sums were quite small, and some of them indicated great self-sacrifice on the part of the donors. A few brief extracts, all that our limited space will allow, from a small portion of the letters received, will be found below.

      We thank God and take courage. We believe that our friends who remembered us in the past will not forget us in the future, and that our wants in October, and in all the following months, will not be forgotten because they were so well remembered in September. One thousand dollars a day represents our needs for carrying on the work in its present development.

      Encouraging Responses to our Appeal.

      I would like to send you more, but I send you the last dollar I have ($71.00,) and must trust the Lord for means to support us until my next month's payment, and for means to go to the meeting of the A.B.C.F.M., in case I attend.

      Twenty-five cents of this money was from a woman 82 years old. She is almost helpless. The family in which she lives is very poor. She has not a penny that she calls her own. She said to me, 'Here is the widow's mite. I prayed that the Lord would send me something to give away. You please take it and send it where it will do the most good.' I send it to you trusting that with her prayers of faith, it may be useful.

      The writer of a letter enclosing a donation of $10 adds in a postscript in regard to the donor: "Mrs. A—— was born May 5th, 1787, and is an old contributor."

      "I have expended all my appropriation

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