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The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 11, November, 1889
The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 11, November, 1889
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    Title: The American Missionary, Volume 43, No. 11, November, 1889

    Author: Various

    Release Date: May 27, 2005 [EBook #15914]

    Language: English

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    The American Missionary


    November 1889

    Volume XLIII. No. 11


    Contents

    EDITORIAL.

    Free Once More

    The National Council

    The Colored Delegates

    The Mohonk Conference

    Notes from New England

    Death of Superintendent Hall and of Dr. Lane

    GENERAL SURVEY.

    The South

    Educational Work

    Church Work

    Mountain Work

    The Indians

    The Chinese

    Enlargements and Improvements

    Woman's Work

    Finances

    Daniel Hand Fund

    THE CHINESE.

    Review of the Year

    BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.

    Paragraphs

    Woman's Work in North Carolina

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

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

    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.

    Recording Secretary.

    Rev. M.E. Strieby, 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.

    J.E. Rankin,

    Wm. H. Ward,

    J.W. Cooper,

    John H. Washburn,

    Edmund L. Champlin.

    For Two Years.

    Lyman Abbott,

    Chas. A. Hull,

    Clinton B. Fisk,

    Addison P. Foster,

    Albert J. Lyman.

    For One Year.

    S.B. Halliday,

    Samuel Holmes,

    Samuel S. Marples,

    Charles L. Mead,

    Elbert B. Monroe.

    District Secretaries

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

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

    Rev. C.W. Hiatt, 64 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio.

    Financial Secretary for Indian Missions.

    Rev. Chas. W. Shelton.

    Field Superintendents.

    Rev. Frank E. Jenkins. Prof. Edward S. Hall.

    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; letters relating to the finances, to the Treasurer.

    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.

    NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—The date on the address label, indicates the time to which the subscription is paid. Changes are made in date on label to the 10th of each month. If payment of subscription be made afterward, the change on the label will appear a month later. Please send early notice of change in post-office address, giving the former address and the new address, in order that our periodicals and occasional papers may be correctly mailed.

    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. XLIII.

    NOVEMBER, 1889.

    No. 11.

    American Missionary Association.


    FREE ONCE MORE.

    At the close of our fiscal year in 1887, we were enabled to utter the joyful word Free, no debt darkening our balance sheet. Last year (1888) we were compelled to moderate our tone and say Not quite free, for a balance of $5,641.21 stood on the wrong side of our ledger. But now, in the good providence of God, we can say Free once more.

    Our receipts from all sources were $376,216.88; payments, including debt of last year, $371,745.21, leaving a credit balance of $4,471.67. For this good result we are in some measure indebted to legacies. But, under all circumstances, we rejoice in the past and look forward with hope to the future. The work we have in hand, with its grand results, as will be seen in the General Survey published in this number of the MISSIONARY, will encourage our friends, and the call there made for growth and enlargement, will, we are sure, stimulate them to increased contributions and more earnest prayer. The Survey will also contain a statement of the income and expenditure of the Hand Fund.


    THE NATIONAL COUNCIL.

    The gathering of this representative body of the Congregational churches of this country was the largest ever held. It grappled more fully than any of its predecessors had done with great questions touching the missionary and benevolent societies in their relations to the churches and to each other, and the consolidation of the missionary magazines. The most exciting topic discussed was that of the Georgia Congregational Churches, white and colored. The result reached on this point was that the

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