COLORADO, $16.95.
Denver. Cong. Ch. 15.45
Greeley. "Evans" 1.50
CALIFORNIA, $9.
Benicia. Mrs. N. P. S. 1.00
Mojave. W. F. Montague 8.00
OREGON, $16.55.
Forest Grove. Jos. W. Marsh $10; Cong. Ch. $5;
Mrs. S. H. P. $1 16.00
Forest Grove. S. T. W. 0.25
Portland. W. W. 0.30
WASHINGTON TER., $15.
Skokomish Agency. Cong. Mission Ch. of Christ 15.00
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $36.
Washington. Christmas Gift from the Officers
and Students of Howard University, _for the
Debt_ 36.00
VIRGINIA, $5.25.
Farmville. T. N. W. 0.25
Salem-Fauquier. Catherine V. Mead 5.00
TENNESSEE, $326.17.
Chattanooga. First Cong. Ch. $20.32
Christmas Gift, _for the Debt_; Chattanooga
Band of Hope No. 1, $20 _for the Debt_ 40.32
Memphis. Le Moyne Sch. 132.60
Memphis. Second Cong. Ch., _for the Debt_ 40.00
Nashville. Christmas Gift from
Teachers, Workers and Students of Fisk
University, _for the Debt_ 113.25
NORTH CAROLINA, $304.77.
Raleigh. Public Fund $100; Washington Sch.
$16.50 116.50
Wilmington. Normal Sch. $178; Cong. Ch. $10.27 188.27
SOUTH CAROLINA, $218.21.
Charleston. Avery Inst. 211.86
Charleston. Plymouth Ch., _for the Debt_ 3.35
Columbia. Prof. F. P. B., _for Student
Aid, Atlanta U._ 1.00
Orangeburgh. Cong. Ch., _for the Debt_ 2.00
GEORGIA, $539.76.
Atlanta. Atlanta University 248.35
Byron. Cong. Ch. 2.00
Macon. Lewis High Sch. 53.10
Macon. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., _for the debt_ 12.25
McIntosh. The Sisters’ Benev. Ass’n of Liberty
Co., Christmas gift, _for the debt_ 15.60
Savannah. Rent $150; Beach Inst. $58.46 208.46
ALABAMA, $340.50.
Athens. Cong. Ch., _for the debt_ 15.00
Montgomery. Public Fund 220.80
Selma. First Cong. Ch. $7.42, and Sab.
Sch. $12.58; E. C. Silsby $5, _for the debt_ 25.00
Selma. First Cong. Ch. 7.20
Talladega. Talladega College 72.50
LOUISIANA, $114.50.
New Orleans. Straight University 114.50
MISSISSIPPI, $107.80.
Tougaloo. Tougaloo University 77.80
Tougaloo. Church and School, _for the debt_ 30.00
MISSOURI, $13.60
Cahoka. Cong. Ch. 3.10
Index. W. B. Wills 10.50
TEXAS, $1.
Corpus Christi. Rev. S. M. C. 1.00
ENGLAND, $10.
London. Wm. Saunders, _for Student Aid, Atlanta
U._ 10.00
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Total $17,516.42
Total from Oct. 1st to Dec. 30th $42,305.54
H. W. HUBBARD,
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Concord, N. H. ESTATE of Irenus
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Constitution of the American Missionary Association.
INCORPORATED JANUARY 30, 1849.
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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; this 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.
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_The American Missionary Association._
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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 accommodate 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.
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his presence, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto
subscribed our names as witnesses.” In some States, it is required
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