Bennington. Mrs. M. B. K. 0.50
Bradford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 35.35
Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l) 0.50
Burlington. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 165.36
Clarendon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (of wh. $3 from
“Mrs. G. M. H.”) $17.40; Cong. Sab. Sch. $8.02 25.42
Danby. Rev. L. D. M. 0.50
Dorset. Cong. Sab. Sch. 25.00
East Barnard. Levi Belknap 2.00
Montpelier. Bethany Ch., to const. REV. JOHN H.
HINCKS, L. M. 32.00
North Walden. S. W. O. 0.50
Peacham. ESTATE of Ezra C. Chamberlin, by Wm. R.
Shedd, Ex. ($60 of which to const. MISS JANE E.
CHAMBERLIN and MISS JENNIE C. WATTS, L.M’s) 500.00
South Londonderry. “A Friend” 5.00
Springfield. “Springfield Mission Circle,” _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 150.00
Springfield. Mrs. F. P. 1.00
Swanton. Harry Smith 5.00
West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.46
West Fairlee Centre. Cong. Sab. Sch. 14.10
West Rutland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $16.10;
Mrs. L. W. $1 17.10
Westminster West. ESTATE of Almira Goodhue, by
Homer Goodhue, Ex. 150.00
Westminster West. Cong. Sab. Sch. 11.00
MASSACHUSETTS, $3,959.55.
Agawam. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.71
Andover. Mrs. J. B. Clough $10; C. H. G., 25c. 10.25
Ashby. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 10.00
Ashfield. B. H. 0.54
Ayer. Mrs. C. A. Spaulding, _for Theo. Student,
Talladega C._ 70.00
Bolton. “A Friend,” _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 20.00
Boston. Walnut Ave. Cong. Sab. Sch. $132.16; Rev.
Chas. Nichols $25 157.16
Braintree. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.00
Brocton. Joseph Hewett $5; Mrs. Baalis Sanford,
box of C. 5.00
Brookline. Harvard Ch. and Soc. 69.21
Buckland. Cong. Ch. 9.55
Byfield. Mrs. Jerusha B. Root $30, to const.
MARTIN NELSON ROOT, M.D., L.M.; Cong. Ch. and
Soc. $5.75 35.75
Cambridge. No. Ave. Cong. Ch. 74.91
Charlton. Cong. Sab. Sch. 14.66
Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 48.22
Concord. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $20; Thomas P.
Carlton $2 22.00
Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 87.02
Dorchester. Thomas D. Quincy 2.50
Dunstable. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.16
East Charlemont. Cong. Ch. (of which $1.75
from “Carpenter Bees,” _for Colored Girls_) 21.00
East Longmeadow. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 1.00
East Medway. Mrs. M. N. M. $1; E. B. D. $1 2.00
Fall River. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc. 126.89
Feeding Hills. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.17
Framingham. Plymouth Cong. Sab. Sch. $14.40;
Mrs. E. H. $1 15.40
Groton. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc. 36.02
Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch. 3.56
Hadley. Mrs. E. Porter $5; Mrs. Eliza
Huntington $2 7.00
Holden. Cong. Sab. Sch. $15; Cong. Miss. Ass’n $6,
_for Wilmington, N. C._ 21.00
Holliston. Cong. Sab. Sch. 10.00
Holyoke. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.97
Hopkinton. First Cong. Sab. Sch. $121.87;
Mrs. P. J. Claflin $100. 228.87
Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 41.88
Lexington. Hancock Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.47
Lowell. Mrs. S. L. P. 0.50
Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 58.72
Manchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00
Marshfield. Rev. E. Alden, 2 packages of books.
Medway. ESTATE of Clarissa A. Pond, by A.
Pond, Ex. 135.00
Medway. Mrs. A. D. Sanford, box of C.
Melrose. E. N. C. 0.50
Methuen. ESTATE of Joseph F. Ingalls, by
Samuel G. Sargent and Will. C. Sleeper, Ex’s. 959.09
Middleborough. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00
Middlefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.
OLIVER CHURCH and REV. CHAS. M. PEIRCE, L.M’s 60.71
Middleton. ESTATE of Mrs. Catharine Merriam
Wilkins, by Francis P. Merriam, Ex. 100.00
Monson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.60
New Bedford. Miss H. M. L. 1.00
Newburyport. Mrs. J. B. 0.50
North Adams. Cong. Ch. 27.68
Northampton. First Cong. Ch. 47.06
Newton. Eliot Cong. Ch. and Soc. $150.64;
Mrs. C. F. R. $1 151.64
Newtonville. Mrs. J. W. Hayes 25.00
North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00
Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $21.39;
L. W. 50c 21.89
Pittsfield. James R. Jones 15.00
Princeton. H. N. M. 5.00
Quincy. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 37.00
Salem. Geo. Driver 5.00
Shelburne. Cong. Ch. 9.61
South Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
Southfield. W. H. E. 0.50
South Framingham. South Cong. Ch. and Soc. 88.00
South Hadley. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.00
South Hadley Falls. First Cong. Ch. $42;
Cong. Ch. and Soc. $41 83.00
South Plymouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.13
South Weymouth. Union Cong. Ch. 30.00
Spencer. Ladies’ Benev. Soc. 20.00
Springfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $38.55;
Hope Cong. Ch. $21.55; South Cong. Ch. $12.96 73.06
Sudbury. U.E. Ch. and Soc. 25.50
Sutton. R. L. 1.00
Templeton. J. L. $1; L. M. 50c. 1.50
Tolland. Mrs. N. E. S. 0.50
Waltham. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 36.50
Warwick. Trin. Ch. and Sab. Sch. 12.00
Webster. First Cong. Ch. 25.00
Westborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc., M. C. Coll.
$26.93; Cong. Sab. Sch. $56.02; Mrs. W. F.
Morse $5 87.95
West Brookfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 26.75
Westhampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.50
West Springfield. Park St. Ch. 15.00
Williamsburgh. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.14
Williamstown. First Cong. Ch. 15.39
Wilmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 41.80
Winchester. P.S. $1; “Two Children” 86c. 1.86
Worcester. Salem St. Ch. M. C. Coll. 19.10
—— “A Friend” 250.00
—— “A Friend” 20.00
RHODE ISLAND, 27c.
Providence. Rev. W. P. Doe, box of books.
Slaterville. M. J. T. 0.27
CONNECTICUT, $2,583.80.
Ansonia. Cong. Ch. 26.71
Avon. Miss L. A. A. 0.50
Berlin. Second Cong. Ch. 10.00
Birmingham. Cong. Ch. 46.38
Bolton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
Bristol. Cong. Sab. Sch. 10.00
Broad Brook. Cong. Ch. 11.00
Darien. Cong. Ch. 35.50
East Hartland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.24
East Woodstock. ESTATE of George A. Paine, by
John Paine, Ex. 646.15
Fairfield. Cong. Ch. 54.42
Farmington. Cong. Ch. 63.52
Groton. Cong. Sab. Sch. 10.44
Guilford. “Lea.” 10.00
Haddam Neck. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.15
Higganum. Mrs. R. Reed $1.25; Mrs. R. G. $1;
Mrs. G. T. G. $1 3.25
Huntington. N. T. and D. L. $1 ea. 2.00
Killingly. Miss E. F. Jencks 5.00
Ledyard. Cong. Ch. 8.75
Mansfield. Second Cong. Ch. 7.00
New Haven. Howard Ave. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $22;
College St. Ch. $10; Centre Ch. (ad’l) $5;
A. T. $1 38.00
North Branford. Cong. Ch. 22.00
Norwich. Mrs. J. M. Huntington, _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 5.00
Plantsville. Mrs. E. Hotchkiss, _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 5.00
Plainville. Dea. L. H. Carter, _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 50.00
Prospect. B. B. Brown $10: Andrew Smith $5 15.00
Putnam. Estate of Chandler A. Spalding, by
Emily Spalding and Calvin D. Williams, Ex’s 1,046.63
Rockville. Second Cong. Ch. 118.65
Saybrook. Cong. Ch. 8.81
Sherman. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.75
South Coventry. Cong. Ch. 47.84
Southington. Cong. Ch. 18.17
Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 31.94
Westford. Cong. Ch 5.00
West Hartford. Cong. Ch. 85.00
West Stafford. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 1.00
Windham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.00
Windsor Locks. Cong. Ch. 65.00
Woodbury. Mrs. E. L. Curtiss 10.50
Woodfords. Dr. E. C. 0.50
NEW YORK, $1,197,84.
Albion. L. S. 1.00
Binghamton. “A Friend” (ad’l) $12.50; Mrs. J. E.
Bean $10 22.50
Brooklyn. Plymouth Church $329.15; Central Cong.
Ch. $182.50; Mrs. Mary E. Whiton $15; Mrs.
William Bane, packages books and C. 526.65
Cleveland. Rev. W. S. T. 0.60
Eagle Harbor. A. P. 0.48
Geneva. Mrs. G. F. Milton (of which $5 for Student
Aid) 10.00
Himrods. Mrs. G. S. Ayres 5.00
Homer. Mrs. E. B. Dean 5.00
Hume. Mrs. L. H. P. and Mrs. J. H. 1.00
Ithaca. First Cong. Ch. 11.52
Martinsburgh. Mrs. W. Arthur 2.00
Medina. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. of Presb. Ch., by Lina
Burroughs, box of C. and books.
New York. Broadway Tabernacle Ch. $440.93.
—“Pilgrim Band,” Broadway Tab. Sab. Sch.
$11.41, _for Student Aid._—“A Friend,” package
_for Memphis, Tenn._ 452.34
Norwood. “A Friend,” by Rev. C. H. Rowley 4.37
Nineveh. Reuben Lovejoy 100.00
Oxford. Ass’d Presb. Soc. 9.58
Rome. John B. Jervis 25.00
Saratoga Springs. S. C. 0.50
Syracuse. Mrs. C. C. Clarke 6.80
Troy. Mrs. E. C. S. 1.00
Utica. Mrs. Cornelia Hurlburt 10.00
West Brook. T. S. H. 0.50
West Winfield. L. Bucklen 2.00
Wolcott. H. M. Hamilton, box of books.
NEW JERSEY, $101.50.
Montclair. First Cong. Ch. (in part) 100.00
Phillipsburg. H. P. M. 0.50
Trenton. Mrs. E. B. F. 1.00
PENNSYLVANIA, $15.
Philadelphia. Mrs. S. L. Chester 5.00
Pittsburgh. Sam’l Boyd 10.00
OHIO, $910.87.
Akron. Cong. Ch. 81.70
Andover. Cong. Ch. 9.71
Bellevue. Cong. Ch. 23.50
Cincinnati. Rent, _for the poor in New
Orleans_ 78.72
Cleveland. Euclid Ave. Cong. Ch. 18.80
Deerfield. Mrs. Wm. Penn 10.00
Geneva. First Cong. Ch. 20.50
Huntington. First Cong. Ch. 23.25
Kent. First Cong. Ch. 15.50
Lenox. “A Friend” 5.00
Mallet Creek. Dr. J. A. Bingham 5.00
Marysville. Ladies’ Home Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch. 6.50
Mechanicsburgh. Mrs. M. K. H. 1.00
New Richland. E. J. 1.00
North Benton. Mrs. M. J. H. 0.50
North Ridgefield. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 1.15
Oberlin. ESTATE of Mary I. Hulburd, by Hiram
Hulburd, Ex. 50.00
Oberlin. L. F. 1.00
Penfield. B. R. 1.00
Plymouth. Estate of Henry Amerman, by J. H.
Packer 400.00
Richfield. S. R. Oviatt $3; Mrs. S. Townsend
$2.50 5.50
Sandusky. First Cong. Ch., to const. REV.
JOSIAH STRONG and L. H. LEWIS, L. M’s. 60.00
Steubenville. Woman’s Miss. Soc. of First Cong.
Ch. 8.50
Toledo. Mrs. Eliza H. Weed 10.00
Wadsworth. Cong. Ch. $10; Geo. Lyman $5 15.00
Wauseon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.55
West Andover. Cong. Ch. 20.29
West Williamsfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.20
Youngstown. Woman’s Miss. Soc. 20.00
INDIANA, $21.67.
Fort Wayne. Cong. Ch. 14.67
Liber. J. R. Wells 5.00
Sparta. John Hawkswell 2.00
ILLINOIS, $945.82.
Alton. “Church of the Redeemer” 30.00
Aurora. New Eng. Ch. 20.00
Bloomingdale. S. S. Harrison 2.00
Champaign. Mrs. A. O. H. 0.60
Chicago. First Cong. Ch. 473.78
Chicago. Plymouth Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. $25, _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._—Three Subscribers $1 ea.;
Mrs. M. J. B. $1; Bethany Cong. Ch. 50c 29.50
Dunlap. Mrs. Elmira Jones 10.00
Galesburg. First Cong. Ch. 83.64
Geneseo. Cong. Ch. 143.80
Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. 14.00
Kewanne. Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Student Aid, Fisk
U._ 25.00
Lake Forest. Mrs. W. H. F. 1.00
La Harpe. Mrs. E. J. N. 1.00
Morris. Miss Narcissa Sample, _for Student Aid,
Tougaloo U._ 2.00
Morrison. Mrs. S. T. $1; Mrs. A. P. $1; A. M. S.
$1 3.00
Oak Park. Mrs. J. Huggins, _for Student Aid_ 10.00
Peru. Cong. Bible Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk
U._ 12.50
Plymouth. Cong. Ch. 14.00
Rockford. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., _for Student Aid,
Fisk U_. 25.00
St. Charles. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. 5.00
Sparta. Bryce Crawford $5; Robert Stevenson $2 7.00
Tolono. Mrs. L. Haskell 10.00
Tonica. Cong. Ch. 23.00
MICHIGAN, $132.41.
Detroit. Individuals, by Mrs. R. Nutting $2.75;
C. I. W. $1 3.75
East Saginaw. Cong. Ch. 25.00
Grand Rapids. E. Ball and Mrs. Avery $10
ea.; M. Wood $5, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00
Hudson. Cong. Ch. 10.66
Kalamo. Cong. Ch. 3.00
Lansing. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
Fisk. U._ 25.00
Muskegon. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk
U._ 25.00
Stanton. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid_ 10.00
Warren. Rev. J. L. Beebe 5.00
WISCONSIN, $145.60.
Big Springs. Cong. Ch. 1.25
Clinton. Cong. Ch. 21.00
Columbus. Cong. Ch. 8.18
Fort Howard. Mrs. C. L. A. Tank 2.00
La Crosse. Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Fisk U._ 50.00
Milwaukee. Hanover St. Cong. Ch. 8.00
Stoughton. Box of C. and $1 1.00
Warren. Cong. Ch. 17.00
West Salem. Cong. Ch. 27.17
IOWA, $2,695.54.
Burlington. Mrs. Hannah Everall 5.00
Cedar Falls. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid_ 2.00
Chester Centre. Cong. Sab. Sch. $16.50; Prairie
Gleaners $13.50; Mrs. D. B. D. $1, _for a Student,
Fisk U._ 31.00
Clinton. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 1.00
Des Moines. Ladies Miss. Soc., _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 10.00
DeWitt. Cong. Ch. 11.00
Dubuque. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 25.00
Dunlap. Cong. Ch. 9.06
Grinnell. ESTATE of Charles F. Dike, by Mrs.
C. F. Dike, Exec’x. 2,500.00
Grinnell. Mrs. S. H. Bixby $4.—Hon. J. B. G.,
50c., _for Mag._ 4.50
Hampton. Mrs. W. P. B. 1.00
Kellogg. Mrs. Dunn 5.00
Keokuk. “Signature” 10.00
Maquoketa. Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch. 13.53
McGregor. Mrs. R. G. and Mrs. E. P. D 0.50
Muscatine. Henry Hoover, _for Student Aid, Fisk
U._ 5.00
Osage. Woman’s Miss. Soc., bal. to const. MRS.
LUCRETIA DEERING, L. M. 5.85
Sheldon. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid_ 1.10
Waltham. ESTATE of Miss Emeline E. Williams, by
William Mason 50.00
Waterloo. Woman’s Cent. Soc. 5.00
MINNESOTA, $47.45.
Minneapolis. Plym. Ch. 23.75
Rushford. Cong. Ch. 3.00
Spring Valley. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.30
Tivoli. L. H. 1.00
Zumbrota. First Cong. Ch. 8.40
KANSAS, $66.32.
Blue Rapids. Cong. Ch. 3.35
Eureka. Cong. Sab. Ch. Sch., _for Student Aid_ 3.12
Lawrence. Second Cong. Ch. $3; Rev. A. M. R. $1 4.00
Leavenworth. Mrs. S. A. Cutts 5.00
Meriden. “A Friend of Missions” 10.00
Russell. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Topeka. First Cong. Ch. 20.00
Wabaunsee. “First Ch. of Christ” 15.85
NEBRASKA, $31.50.
Nebraska City. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid_ 1.50
Schuyler. By Rev. A. Dresser 30.00
CALIFORNIA, 51c.
Madison. Mrs. N. N. T. 0.51
TENNESSEE, $461.26.
Chattanooga. Rent $300; Church Coll. $10.26 310.26
Chattanooga. Rev. Temple Cutler, _for Student Aid,
Tougaloo U._ 13.00
Maryville. Prof. P. M. B. 0.25
Memphis. Le Moyne Sch. 137.75
NORTH CAROLINA, $290.40.
Raleigh. Pub. Sch. Fund $150; Washington
Sch. $8.20 158.20
Wilmington. Normal School $121.75; Cong. Ch.
$7.40 129.15
Woodbridge. Tuition 3.05
SOUTH CAROLINA, $220.55.
Charleston. Avery Institute 220.55
GEORGIA. $417.61.
Atlanta. Atlanta University 109.00
Atlanta. “A Friend” $58; Rev. S. S. Ashley $12,
_for Student Aid._—Prof. T. N. Chase $25 95.00
Macon. Lewis High Sch. 62.70
Savannah. Rent $83.33; Tuition $67.58 150.91
ALABAMA, $388.09.
Athens. Trinity Sch. 26.00
Mobile. I. G. 0.50
Montgomery. Pub. Fund 225.00
Selma. Rev. Fletcher Clark, _for Student Aid,
Tougaloo U._ 6.35
Talladega. Talledega College 130.24
MISSISSIPPI, $64.05.
Jackson. Byron Lumley $10; J. Stadeker & Son $5,
_for Barracks, Tougaloo_ 15.00
Tougaloo. Tougaloo University 43.05
Tougaloo. W. P. Dulaney, M. D., _for Barracks_ 5.00
Yazoo City. Hon W. D. Gibbs _for Barracks,
Tougaloo_ 1.00
LOUISIANA, $137.
New Orleans. Straight University 137.00
TEXAS, 50c.
San Antonia. G. W. W. 0.50
CANADA, 50c.
Camlachie. Rev. J. M. G. 0.50
ENGLAND, $900.95.
Freedmen’s Missions Aid Soc., _for Mendi Mission_ 900.95
SCOTLAND, $200.
Glasgow. Mrs. Ann McDowell, _for a Teacher_ 200.00
TURKEY, $10.
Van. Dr. Geo. C. Raynolds and wife 10.00
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Total 17,557.13
Total from Oct. 1st to April 30th $103,309.96
H. W. HUBBARD,
_Ass’t Treas._
RECEIVED FOR DEBT.
Brewer, Me. M. Hardy 25.00
Portland, Me. “A Member of State St. Ch.” 50.00
Manchester, N. H. C. B. Southworth 50.00
Boston, Mass. Mrs. Nancy B. Curtis 500.00
East Claremont, Mass. A. P. Leavitt 50.00
Rockport, Mass. “A Friend” 5.00
Woodworth, Wis. Rev. Thomas Gillespie 10.00
Meriden, Kansas. A Friend of Missions 10.00
Chattanooga, Tenn. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 16.00
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716.00
Previously acknowledged March receipts 8,921.72
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Total $9,637.72
RECEIVED FOR TILLOTSON C. AND N. INST., AUSTIN,
TEXAS.
Glastonbury, Conn. J. B. and W. S. Williams 400.00
Englewood, N. J, “A Friend” 2.50
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402.50
Previously acknowledged Feb. receipts 422.00
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Total $824.50
* * * * *
Constitution of the American Missionary Association.
Incorporated January 30, 1849.
* * * * *
ART. I. This Society shall be called “THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY
ASSOCIATION.”
ART. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct
Christian missionary and educational operations, and diffuse a
knowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and other countries
which are destitute of them, or which present open and urgent
fields of effort.
ART. III. Any person of evangelical sentiments,[A] who professes
faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slaveholder, or in
the practice of other immoralities, and who contributes to the
funds, may become a member of the Society; and by the payment
of thirty dollars, a life member; provided, that children and
others who have not professed their faith may be constituted life
members without the privilege of voting.
ART. IV. This Society shall meet annually, in the month of
September, October or November, for the election of officers and
the transaction of other business at such time and place as shall
be designated by the Executive Committee.
ART. V. The annual meeting shall be constituted of the regular
officers and members of the Society at the time of such meeting,
and of delegates from churches, local missionary societies,
and other co-operating bodies—each body being entitled to one
representative.
ART. VI. The officers of the Society shall be a President, Vice
Presidents, a Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretaries,
Treasurer, two Auditors, and an Executive Committee of not less
than twelve, of which the Corresponding Secretaries shall be
advisory, and the Treasurer ex-officio, members.
ART. VII. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting
and disbursing of funds; the appointing, counselling, sustaining
and dismissing (for just and sufficient reasons) missionaries
and agents; the selection of missionary fields; and, in general,
the transaction of all such business as usually appertains to
the executive committees of missionary and other benevolent
societies; the Committee to exercise no ecclesiastical
jurisdiction over the missionaries; and its doings to be subject
always to the revision of the annual meeting, which shall, by a
reference mutually chosen, always entertain the complaints of any
aggrieved agent or missionary; and the decision of such reference
shall be final.
The Executive Committee shall have authority to fill all
vacancies occurring among the officers between the regular annual
meetings; to apply, if they see fit, to any State Legislature
for acts of incorporation; to fix the compensation, where any
is given, of all officers, agents, missionaries, or others in
the employment of the Society: to make provision, if any, for
disabled missionaries, and for the widows and children of such as
are deceased; and to call, in all parts of the country, at their
discretion, special and general conventions of the friends of
missions, with a view to the diffusion of the missionary spirit,
and the general and vigorous promotion of the missionary work.
Five members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for
transacting business.
ART. VIII. This society, in collecting funds, in appointing
officers, agents and missionaries, and in selecting fields
of labor, and conducting the missionary work, will endeavor
particularly to discountenance slavery, by refusing to receive
the known fruits of unrequited labor, or to welcome to its
employment those who hold their fellow-beings as slaves.
ART. IX. Missionary bodies, churches or individuals agreeing
to the principles of this Society, and wishing to appoint and
sustain missionaries of their own, shall be entitled to do so
through the agency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually
agreed upon.
ART. X. No amendment shall be made in this Constitution without
the concurrence of two thirds of the members present at a regular
annual meeting; nor unless the proposed amendment has been
submitted to a previous meeting, or to the Executive Committee
in season to be published by them (as it shall be their duty to
do, if so submitted) in the regular official notifications of the
meeting.
FOOTNOTE:
[A] By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among others, a
belief in the guilty and lost condition of all men without a
Saviour; the Supreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning Sacrifice
of Jesus Christ, the only Saviour of the world; the necessity
of regeneration by the Holy Spirit, repentance, faith and holy
obedience in order to salvation; the immortality of the soul; and
the retributions of the judgment in the eternal punishment of the
wicked, and salvation of the righteous.
* * * * *
_The American Missionary Association._
* * * * *
AIM AND WORK.
To preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy
with the almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has
devoted its main efforts to preparing the FREEDMEN for their
duties as citizens and Christians in America and as missionaries
in Africa. As closely related to this, it seeks to benefit the
caste-persecuted CHINESE in America, and to co-operate with
the Government in its humane and Christian policy towards the
INDIANS. It has also a mission in AFRICA.
STATISTICS.
CHURCHES: _In the South_—In Va., 1; N. C., 5; S. C., 2; Ga., 11;
Ky., 5; Tenn., 4; Ala., 12; La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2; Texas,
4. _Africa_, 1. _Among the Indians_, 2. Total, 62.
INSTITUTIONS FOUNDED, FOSTERED OR SUSTAINED IN THE SOUTH.
_Chartered_: Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega, Ala.; Atlanta,
Ga.; Nashville, Tenn., Tougaloo, Miss.; New Orleans, La,; and
Austin, Texas, 8; _Graded or Normal Schools_: at Wilmington,
Raleigh, N. C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S. C.; Macon, Atlanta,
Ga.; Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn.; 11;
_Other Schools_, 7. Total, 26.
TEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS—Among the Freedmen, 209;
among the Chinese, 17; among the Indians, 16; in foreign lands,
10. Total, 252. STUDENTS—In Theology, 74; Law, 8; in College
Course, 79; in other studies, 5,243. Total, 5,404. Scholars
taught by former pupils of our schools, estimated at 100,000.
INDIANS under the care of the Association, 13,000.
WANTS.
1. A steady INCREASE of regular income to keep pace with the
growing work in the South. This increase can only be reached
by _regular_ and _larger_ contributions from the churches—the
feeble as well as the strong.
2. ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS for our higher educational institutions,
to accomodate the increasing numbers of students; MEETING HOUSES,
for the new churches we are organizing; MORE MINISTERS, cultured
and pious, for these churches.
3. HELP FOR YOUNG MEN, to be educated as ministers here and
missionaries to Africa—a pressing want.
Before sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A.
office, as below.
NEW YORK H. W. Hubbard, Esq., 56 Reade Street.
BOSTON Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Room 21, Congregational House.
CHICAGO Rev. Jas. Powell, 112 West Washington St.
MAGAZINE.
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Theological Seminaries; to Societies of Inquiry on Missions; and
to every donor who does not prefer to take it as a subscriber,
and contributes in a year not less than five dollars.
Those who wish to remember the AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION in
their last Will and Testament, are earnestly requested to use the
following:
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,” 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 [in some States
three are required—in other States only two], who should write
against their names, their places of residence [if in cities,
their street and number]. The following form of attestation will
answer for every State in the Union: “Signed, sealed, published
and declared by the said [A.B.] as his last Will and Testament,
in presence of us, who, at the request of the said A.B., and in
his presence, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto
subscribed our names as witnesses.” In some States, it is
required that the Will should be made at least two months before
the death of the testator.
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