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The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 05, May, 1890
The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 05, May, 1890
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    The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 05, May, 1890 - Archive Classics

    The Project Gutenberg EBook of The American Missionary, Vol. 44, No. 5,

    May 1890, by Various

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    Title: The American Missionary, Vol. 44, No. 5, May 1890

    Author: Various

    Release Date: April 18, 2005 [EBook #15647]

    Language: English

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

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    Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.

    The American Missionary

    May, 1890

    Vol. XLIV.

    No. 5.

    NEW YORK:

    PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION,

    Bible House, Ninth St. and Fourth Ave., New York.

    Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance.

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


    Contents

    Contents

    Editorial

    Removal

    Financial

    Our Mission In Alaska

    Southern Notes

    Facts About Ballard School

    Christian Negro Leaders

    Conference Of Educators

    A Prize Poem

    The South

    Notes In The Saddle

    Then And Now

    The Central South Association

    Six Days Shalt Thou Labor

    Encouraged And Thankful

    Tougaloo University

    The Indians

    A January Trip.

    The Chinese

    Our Chinese Work

    Bureau Of Woman's Work

    Notice Of Meeting Of State Unions

    Woman's State Organizations

    Receipts

    Notes


    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., Bible House, N.Y.

    Rev. A.F. BEARD, D.D., Bible House, N.Y.

    Rev. F.P. WOODBURY, D.D., Bible House, N.Y.

    Recording Secretary.

    Rev. M.E. STRIEBY, D.D., Bible House, N.Y.

    Treasurer.

    H.W. HUBBARD, Esq., Bible House, N.Y.

    Auditors.

    PETER McCARTEE.

    CHAS. P. PEIRCE.

    Executive Committee.

    JOHN H. WASHBURN, Chairman.

    ADDISON P. FOSTER, Secretary.

    For Three Years.

    S.B. HALLIDAY,

    SAMUEL HOLMES,

    SAMUEL S. MARPLES,

    CHARLES L. MEAD,

    ELBERT B. MONROE.

    For Two Years.

    J.E. RANKIN,

    WM. H. WARD,

    J.W. COOPER,

    JOHN H. WASHBURN,

    EDMUND L. CHAMPLIN.

    For One Year.

    LYMAN ABBOTT,

    CHAS. A. HULL,

    CLINTON B. FISK,

    ADDISON P. FOSTER,

    ALBERT J. LYMAN.

    District Secretaries.

    Rev. C.J. RYDER, 21 Cong'l House, Boston, Mass.

    Rev. J.E. ROY. D.D., 151 Washington Street, Chicago, Ill.

    Rev. C.W. HIATT, 64 Euclid Ave., Cleveland. Ohio.

    Financial Secretary for Indian Missions.

    Rev. CHAS. W. SHELTON.

    Secretary of Woman's Bureau.

    Miss D.E. EMERSON, Bible House, 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, Bible House, New York, or, when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass., 151 Washington Street, Chicago, Ill., or 64 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. 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.


    Ballard Normal School, Macon, Ga

    Teachers' Home And Girls' Dormitory, Ballard School, Macon, Ga.


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    The American Missionary.

    Vol. XLIV.

    May, 1890.

    No. 5.

    American Missionary Association

    Removal

    The Rooms of the American Missionary Association are now in the Bible House, New York City. Correspondents will please address us accordingly.

    Visitors will find our Rooms on the sixth floor of the Bible House, corner Ninth Street and Fourth Avenue; entrance by elevator on Ninth Street.

    Financial

    The first six months of our fiscal year have passed. The receipts for this period are from collections $101,509.44; from estates, $101,179.63; from income, $4,262.91; from tuition, $22,729,32; and from the United States Government for Indian Schools, $8,946.07. Total, $238,627.37.

    The meaning of these figures is clear. We rejoice in the enlarging beneficence of the living and of the dead, who live unto God. The tremendous pressure of our providential work is nearer to being felt and met by the American people than ever before. What the Association has done hitherto is no measure of what it has constantly been called to do and is now called to do. It can now meet a few more of the immediate demands urged upon it from its vast and necessitous field. As between faith and fear, we do not hesitate to take the way of faith. We thank God and take courage. Hitherto the Lord hath helped us; He will bless us.

    To our living friends we must say: Our work, like all living things, either grows or decays. Those

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