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    The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 06, June, 1890
    The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 06, June, 1890
    The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 06, June, 1890
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      The Project Gutenberg EBook of American Missionary, Volume 44, No. 6,

      June, 1890, by Various

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      Title: American Missionary, Volume 44, No. 6, June, 1890

      Author: Various

      Release Date: June 11, 2005 [EBook #16036]

      Language: English

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

      Produced by Cornell University, Joshua Hutchinson, Erika

      Q. Stokes and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at

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      The American Missionary

      June, 1890.

      VOL. XLIV. NO. 6

      CONTENTS

      EDITORIAL.

      Removal

      Dr. Storrs on the Negro Problem

      Missionaries to Alaska

      In a Nutshell

      Higher Education of the Colored People

      Spring Conferences

      Mississippi Immigrants

      Notes from New England

      Music's Mission

      Items

      THE SOUTH.

      Our School Work

      Our Church Work

      Revival at Wilmington, N.C.

      Ballard School, Macon, Ga.

      Dreary Picture of Place and People

      Report from Mountain Schools

      The King's Daughters Society

      THE INDIANS.

      Our S'kokomish Mission

      THE CHINESE.

      Jottings

      BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.

      Paragraphs—State Missionary Unions

      OUR YOUNG FOLKS.

      Letter from a Teacher

      Woman's State Organizations

      RECEIPTS.

      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.

      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., 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.

      the American Missionary.

      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.

      DR. STORRS, ON THE NEGRO PROBLEM.

      Not long since Rev. R.S. Storrs, D.D., preached a sermon in his own pulpit, presenting the claims of the American Missionary Association for the annual collection in its behalf from the Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn, N.Y. This sermon appeared in print in one of the daily papers, and attracted the attention of a benevolent gentleman deeply interested in the Christian education of the colored people, who was so impressed with the great value of the address, that he has furnished the Association with the means to print a large edition for general circulation. This we have done, and we presume that already, many of our readers have had the opportunity of reading this eminently wise and timely utterance on one of America's greatest problems. Should any one desire an extra copy, we will gladly furnish it on application.

      Although the discourse has had large circulation, we cannot resist the temptation to extract a few of its forcible utterances on some very important points.

      Permanent popular liberties have their only sure foundation in sound moral conditions practically universal. We must secure these among those to whom we have given the ballot, and who are to be henceforth citizens with ourselves. Otherwise, we are building our splendid political house on the edges of the pestilential swamp from which fatal miasmatic odors are rising all the time. Yes, we are building our house on piles driven into the thick ooze and mud of the pestilential swamp itself. We are building our cities, which we think are so splendid, and which are so in fact, as men built

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