Amesbury and Salisbury. Union Cong. Ch. and
Soc. 12.00
Andover. Cong. Ch. 3.29
Ashfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $45.35; Henry
Taylor, $5 50.35
Barre. E. C. Sab. Sch., to const. GEO. E.
ALLEN and P. H. BABBITT, L. M’s 60.00
Beverly. Dane St. Sab. Sch., _for Student,
Talladega C._ 10.00
Bolton. “A Friend,” _for Pupils, Atlanta U._ 30.00
Boston. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc. 455.82
Boston. Russell Sturgis, Jr., $25, _for
Pupils, Atlanta U._;——Mrs. E. P. Eayrs, $10;
Union Ch., _for Freight_, $3; “A Friend,” $1 39.00
Boston Highlands. Eliot Cong. Ch. 104.01
Braintree and Weymouth. Union Ch. and Soc. 25.00
Brimfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., $15;
Ladies of Second Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C. and
$2 for _Freight_; Mrs. P. C. Browning, $10;
Mrs. J. S. Upham, $3 30.00
Brookfield. Evan. Cong. Ch. 60.00
Cambridgeport. Ladies’ Aux. of Pilgrim Ch., 2
boxes of C. _for Mendi M._
Chelsea. Mrs. M. E. J., 50c.; Mrs. P., 50c.;
—— 2 Bbls. of C. 1.00
Conway. Cong. Soc. to const. MRS. CATHARINE
ADAMS and S. BAXTER ALLIS, L. M’s 66.40
Curtisville. C. L. D. 1.00
East Braintree. Circle of Ladies, $36, _for
Pupils, Atlanta U._;——R. A. F., 50c. 36.50
East Bridgewater. Union Ch. and Soc. 18.89
East Weymouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.13
Everett. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.66
Franklin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 24.16
Florence. A. L. Williston, for John Payson
Williston, deceased 25.00
Gardner. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
Grantville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 44.00
Grafton. Evangelical Cong. Sab. Sch., $13.10
and Bedding, _for Pupils, Atlanta U._ 13.10
Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 62.35
Holliston. S. T. 0.72
Housatonic. Housatonic Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.51
Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 31.27
Lancaster. ESTATE of Sophia Stearns, by W. W.
Wyman, EX. 7.00
Lanesville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.00
Lee. H. M. C. 0.50
Leicester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.00
Lowell. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Moore (of which
$300 _for Chinese M._, and $60 to const.
ALBERT MONROE MOORE and JAMES AUGUSTINE
MOORE, L. M’s) 500.00
Lowell. Eliot Cong. Sab. Sch. 5.30
Littleton. Otis Manning 25.00
Millbury. Second Cong. Ch., _for Pupils,
Atlanta U._ 26.30
Milford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.22
Newburyport. North Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.24
North Beverly. Mrs. Rebecca Conant 5.00
Northborough. “A Friend” 5.00
Northbridge Centre. Cong. Sab. Sch. 3.25
North Easton. Miss Helen Ames, _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00
Norton. Young Ladies of Wheaton Sem., _for
Pupils, Atlanta U._ 21.00
Paxton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.00
Pepperell. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.37
Reading. Rev. W. H. Willcox, _for Pupils,
Atlanta U._ 100.00
Rockport. Mrs. Nancy Brooks 10.00
Salem. South Cong. Ch. and Soc., $68.85; “A
Friend,” $5 73.85
Sherborn. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. and Soc. and Sab.
Sch. 20.00
Somerville. Broadway Cong. Ch. 7.00
South Dennis. Cong. Ch. 9.70
South Braintree. Cong. Sab. Sch. 12.00
South Egremont. Cong. Ch., $22; D. D., $1 23.00
South Framington. South Cong. Ch. and Soc. 86.00
South Weymouth. “Friend” 0.50
Spencer. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 190.45
Sunderland. J. M. 0.50
Templeton. J. L. 1.00
Uxbridge. “A Friend” 2.00
Warren. Cong. Ch., to const. CHAS. H. WALKER
and MRS. ALLEN BURBANK, L. M’s 70.00
Watertown. Corban Soc., 2 Bbls. of C.
West Andover. Cong. Ch. 19.00
Westborough. Freedmen’s Miss. Ass’n., Bbl. of
C. and $2 _for Freight_ 2.00
West Boxford. Cong. Ch. (proceeds of a Fair)
$33; Cong. Ch. and Soc., $12.02 45.02
West Brookfield. MRS. HARRIET A. WHITE, to
const. herself L. M. 30.00
Winchendon. North Cong. Ch. and Soc. 80.46
Winchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 96.88
Worcester. Union Ch., $77.45; Salem St. Ch.
and Soc. (Mon. Con.) $22; Central Cong. Ch.
(ad’l) 80c.; Mrs. Elizabeth Grassie, $10;
Mrs. S. E. Bailey, $2 112.25
—— “A Friend” 1.00
RHODE ISLAND, $315.74.
Providence. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc. 300.00
Westerly. Pawcatuck Cong. Ch. 15.74
CONNECTICUT, $1,157.43.
Birmingham. Cong. Ch. (of which $25 from “W.
E. D.”) 49.02
Canaan. “A Mite” 1.00
Cornwall. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 15.85
Darien. Cong. Ch. 30.00
East Haddam. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 34.50
East Woodstock. ESTATE of Miss Hannah Smith,
by John Paine, Ex. 200.00
Enfield. First Cong. Ch. 14.54
Gilead. Cong Ch. 19.00
Greenwich. I. P. 0.50
Guilford. First Cong. Ch. 16.00
Hadlyme. Cong. Ch. 8.00
Hartford. A. W. 1.00
Hebron. First Cong. Ch., $20.32; L. W. R., $1 21.32
Killingworth. A. V. E. 0.51
Middlebury. Cong. Ch. 21.88
Middletown. Third Cong. Ch., to const. WILLIAM
SOUTHMAYD L. M. 30.00
New Haven. North Ch. $137.12; College St.
Cong. Ch., $51.87 188.99
Old Saybrook. Cong. Ch. 6.74
Plainville. “A Friend,” to const. CHARLES W.
MOODY, JOSEPH EDMONDS and JOHN LEOPARD, L.M’s 100.00
Putnam. Second Cong. Ch. 55.77
Rockville. Second Cong. Ch, $118.64;——Bible
Class Second Cong. Ch., $24, _for Student
Aid, Straight U._;——First Cong. Ch. $90.70,
to const. DEA. JACKSON GORDON and CHAS. E.
HARRIS, L. M’s 233.34
Saybrook. Second Cong Ch. 11.75
Simsbury. By Mrs. McLean, _for Atlanta U._ 2.00
Scotland. Cong. Ch. 11.25
Suffield. First Cong. Soc. 12.91
Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 25.56
Willimantic. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student
Aid, Straight U._ 25.00
—— “A Connecticut Clergyman” 20.00
NEW YORK, $2,395.58.
Antwerp. First Cong. Ch. 16.20
Brooklyn. Central Cong. Sab. Sch., E. R.
Kennedy. Supt., _for a Lady Missionary_ 100.00
Brooklyn. J. Davenport, $50; Park Cong. Ch.,
$5.71 55.71
Bergen. ESTATE of J. M. Hitchcock, by A. E.
Hitchcock, Ex. 289.54
Berkshire. First Cong. Ch., $17.80; Levi Bail
$2 19.80
Binghamton. Cong. Ch. 100.00
Buffalo. Miss. I. M. S. 0.50
Champion. Cong. Ch. 5.34
Danby. First Cong. Ch. 12.00
East Bloomfield. ESTATE of Miss Phebe Gauss,
by C. W. Bradley, Adm’r, to const. MRS.
HORACE TAYLOR, MRS. MAURICE FIELD, MRS.
HARRY GODDARD, MRS. JAMES COLLINS, LORIN H.
BRUNSON, AUGUSTUS BUELL, JOHN A. GAUSS and
ROBERT F. CODDING, L. M’s 250.00
Fort Edward. W. F. G. 1.00
Greenwich. Proceeds of Claim on Cong. Ch.
Property 668.44
Groton. Storrs A. Barrows 30.00
Jamestown. Mrs. S. A. Bly’s Sab. Sch. Class,
$4.22, and “Friends” in Cong. Ch., $4.03 8.25
Lake George. Rev. Henry S. Huntington ($5 of
which _for Chinese M._) 10.00
Lenox. Amos S. Johnson 5.00
Mexico. Mrs. J. M. Brown, $1.50; Mrs. J. K.
S., $1; J. D., 50c.; G. T., 25c. 3.25
Newburgh. JOHN H. CORWIN, $30, to const.
himself L. M., also Box of Papers 30.00
New York. Broadway Tabernacle Church 531.39
Nineveh. Reuben Lovejoy 200.00
Oak Hill. Mrs. Caty Hall 5.00
Oswego. First Cong. Sab. Sch., and H. L. Hart,
$25, _for Student Aid, Straight U._——Cong.
Ch. M. C. Coll., $3.79 28.79
Oxford. Presb. Ch. 2.12
Prattsburgh. “H. A. H.” 5.00
Prottham. F. E. 0.25
Wellsville. First Cong. Ch. 13.00
West Farms. Rev. A. Wood, pkg. of books and
papers
West Yaphank. “Mrs. H. M. O.” 5.00
NEW JERSEY, $11.50.
Bound Brook. Cong. Ch. 5.50
Montclair. Mrs. J. H. Pratt’s Class in Cong.
Sab. Sch., _for a Student, Talladega. C._ 6.00
PENNSYLVANIA, $149.25.
Hyde Park. Thomas Eynon, to const. REV. E. B.
EVANS, L. M. 32.00
North East. B. T. Spooner 5.00
Philadelphia. Central Cong. Ch., to const.
DEA. WILLIAM CAMPBELL, DEA. SAMUEL A.
JOHNSON, and LEONARD O. SMITH, L. M’s 112.25
OHIO, $586.60.
Braceville. “S. P. I.” 1.00
Bryon. S. E. Blakeslee, _for Foreign M._ 5.00
Burton. Cong. Ch. 18.57
Claridon. “E. C. T.” 1.00
Cleveland. Mrs. S. A. Bradbury 25.00
Columbus. First Cong. Ch., to const PROF. JOHN
SHORT, REV. JOHN JONES, REV. E. I. JONES,
WALTER CRAFTS, and REV. HENRY F. TYLER, L.M’s 149.07
Columbus. Welsh Cong. Ch. 8.44
Freedom. Cong. Ch., $4.20; H. K., $5; “J. C.
B.,” $5 14.20
Huntsburgh. “Friends,” by E, L. Miller, _for
Ind. Sch., Talladega, Ala._ 3.00
Leatherwood. M. D. J. 1.00
Madison. “Earnest Workers,” _for Student, Aid,
Tougaloo U._ 30.00
Mansfield. First Cong. Ch., to const. CHAS. B.
JAMESON, L. M. 31.53
Marietta. First Cong. Ch. 73.65
Middlefield. “L. S. B.” 5.00
Nelson. Mrs. Julia A. Clark 30.00
Newark. “A Friend,” $60; Mrs. J. C. Wheaton,
$10, to const. MRS. MATILDA MCCRORY. L. M. 70.00
Oberlin. Oberlin Freedwoman’s Aid Soc., $75,
by Mrs. W. G. Frost, Treas. _for Lady
Missionary, Atlanta, Ga._;——“A Friend,” $5,
_for Student Aid, Fisk U._;——L. F., $1 81.00
Painesville. Ladies’ Soc., by Mrs. Cornelia H.
Greer. Pres., _for Missionary at Miller’s
Station, Ga._ 30.00
Saybrook. “Friends,” _for Freight_ 1.00
Springfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., Quar.
Coll 6.14
Willoughby. Mrs. A. K. 1.00
—— “A Friend” 1.00
INDIANA, $20.
Crawfordsville. Prof. C. Mills and Wife 20.00
ILLINOIS, $1,309.52.
Champaign. Cong. Sab. Sch. 25.00
Chicago. First Cong. Ch. 474.00
Chicago. South Cong. Ch., $11.79; W. S., 50c. 12.29
Elgin. Sab Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00
Galesburg. First Cong. Sab. Sch., $30, _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._;——“A Friend,” $15 45.00
Kewanee. Rev. J. F. L 1.00
Morris. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 1.00
Normal. Cong. Ch. 6.70
Oak Park. “A Friend” 10.00
Paxton. Cong. Ch. 3.00
Polo. Robert Smith 500.00
Rockford. Second Cong. Ch. $120.38; First
Cong. Ch., $36.25;——Ladies’ Aid Soc. First
Cong. Ch., $25, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 181.53
Tonica. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00
MICHIGAN, $70.76.
Almont. Mrs. A. R. 1.00
Benzonia. Rev. D. B. Spencer 3.00
Detroit. Fort St. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 6.00
Litchfield. Shining Light Mission Band of
Cong. Sab. Sch. 6.00
Olivet. Miss P. A. Stone, $5; Cong. Ch. Mon.
Con. Coll., $4.29 9.29
Pentwater. H. R. 1.00
Salem. Summit Missionary Aux., by Mrs. A.
Vansickle 5.40
Solon. Cong. Sab. Sch. 1.00
Vermontville. First Cong. Ch. 30.00
Webster. Cong. Ch. 8.07
WISCONSIN, $221.
Beloit. Second Cong. Sab. Sch. $15.90; Ladies,
_for Freight_, $2 17.90
Columbus. Olivet Cong. Ch. 13.00
Cookville. Cong. Ch. 5.65
Fulton. Cong. Ch. 10.35
Hartford. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 1.00
Liberty. Cong. Ch. 3.00
Rosendale. Cong. Ch. 30.00
Salem. Cong. Ch. 8.50
Wauwatosa. Cong. Ch., to const. HENRY PAYSON
GILLETT and MISS MARY S. EARLS, L. M’s 71.10
Watertown. Cong. Ch. 17.00
West Salem. Cong. Ch. 16.00
Whitewater. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for a Pupil,
Fisk U._ 25.00
Wilmot. Cong. Ch. 2.50
IOWA, $176.09.
Atlantic. Cong. Sab. Sch. 7.03
Burlington. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., $25,
_for Student Aid, Fisk U._;——Miss M. L., $1 26.00
Davenport. Cyrus Pitts 5.00
Durant. Cong. Ch. 6.00
Fort Madison. Francis Sawyer 15.00
Gilmau. Cong. Sab. Sch., $5; Rev. F. H.
Magoun, $2 7.00
Keokuk. Woman’s Miss. Soc., _for Lady
Missionary, Nashville, Tenn._ 31.75
Manchester. W. G. 1.00
McGregor. Cong. Ch. 21.31
Milton Junction. Cong. Ch. 6.00
Waltham. ESTATE of Miss Emeline Williams, by
Wm. Mason 50.00
MISSOURI, $27.50.
Breckenridge. Cong. Ch. 10.00
North Springfield. First Cong. Ch. 17.50
KANSAS, $10.45.
Atchison. Cong. Ch. 10.45
MINNESOTA, $41.35.
Afton. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Mankato. Cong. Ch. 3.50
Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch., $21.50; Rev. Edwin
S. Williams, $10, by W. Williams 31.50
Morris. First Cong. Ch. 1.35
COLORADO, $15.50.
Denver. A. R. B. 0.50
Pueblo. L. Sperry 15.00
UTAH, $5.
Uintah Valley. Miss E. C. Ayer 5.00
OREGON, $6.
Salem. John J. McFarland, $5; R. McC., 50c.;
A. B., 50c. 6.00
WASHINGTON TERRITORY, $13.50.
S’kokomish. Cong. Ch. of Christ 13.50
TENNESSEE, $168.65.
Memphis. Le Moyne School, $168.15; Prof. A. J.
S., 50c. 168.65
NORTH CAROLINA, $176.39.
Raleigh. Washington Sch. 20.90
Wilmington. Normal Sch., $150.80; Cong. Ch.,
$4.69 155.49
SOUTH CAROLINA, $260.25.
Charleston. Avery Inst., $257.50;——Cong. Ch.,
$2.25, _for African M._; A. W. F., 50c. 260.25
GEORGIA, $525.33.
Atlanta. Storrs School, $233.55; Atlanta
University, $98.50 332.05
Brunswick. S. B. Morse (ad’l) 9.00
Macon. Lewis High Sch. 38.75
Miller’s Station. Miss E. W. Douglass 10.47
Savannah. Beach Inst. 129.85
Woodville. Pilgrim Ch., $2.31; “Sons and
Daughters of Jerusalem,” $1.90; J. H. H. S., $1 5.21
FLORIDA, $30.
Saint Augustine. Rent 30.00
ALABAMA, $313.92.
Athens. Trinity Mission Soc., _for Mendi M._ 4.70
Mobile. Emerson Inst. 101.05
Montgomery. Pub. Sch. Fund 175.00
Talladega. Talladega College 33.17
MISSISSIPPI, $39.90.
Grenada. Sab. Sch., by Miss A. Harwood, Supt. 6.00
Tougaloo. Tougaloo University 33.90
LOUISIANA, $136.
New Orleans. Straight University 136.00
INCOME, $25.83.
—— Avery Fund 25.83
ENGLAND, $24.40.
Bishop Auckland. Joseph Lingford, £5 24.40
HOLLAND, $14.50.
Amsterdam. G. P. Ittmann, Jr., _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 4.50
Scheidam. Missionary Committee, _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 10.00
—————————
Total 12,071.77
Total from Oct. 1st to May 31st $104,598.55
H. W. HUBBARD,
_Ass’t Treas._
RECEIVED FOR DEBT.
East Woodstock, Conn. John Paine $5.00
Mecosta Co., Mich. 181.50
—————————
Total 186.50
Previously acknowledged in April receipts 25,532.22
—————————
Total $25,718.72
* * * * *
FOR NEGRO REFUGEES.
New Haven, Conn. Amos Townsend $20.00
Mexico, N. Y. Edward Halsey 1.50
Newark Valley, N. Y. “A Friend” 10.00
Prottham, N. Y. Joseph Copps 1.00
Xenia, Ohio. Mrs. Sarah S. Monroe 5.00
Homer, Ill. Cong. Ch. 13.10
Lodi, Mich. “Friends” 93.00
Fulton, Wis. Cong. Ch. 15.00
College Springs, Iowa. Cong. Ch. 11.28
——————
Total 169.88
Previously acknowledged in April receipts 67.00
——————
Total $236.88
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 to 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., 12;
Ky., 7; Tenn., 4; Ala., 13; La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2; Texas, 5.
_Africa_, 1. _Among the Indians_, 1. Total 66.
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_, 18. Total 37.
TEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.——Among the Freedmen, 231;
among the Chinese, 17; among the Indians, 17; in Africa, 14. Total,
279. STUDENTS——In Theology, 88; Law, 17; in College Course, 106;
in other studies, 7,018. Total, 7,229. 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.
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 Street.
MAGAZINE.
This Magazine will be sent, gratuitously, if desired, to the
Missionaries of the Association; to Life Members; to all clergymen
who take up collections for the Association; to Superintendents of
Sabbath Schools; to College Libraries; to 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’ 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 [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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CHEAP AND EFFICIENT AID
FOR COLORED PREACHERS.
(_From Weekly Witness, June 19th, 1879._)
We ask the attention of our patriotic and philanthropic Christian
readers to the letters from colored preachers which we publish
to-day. These letters show the great acceptability and usefulness
of the _Witness_ to colored preachers, and we hope they will induce
many to send them a gift so highly appreciated. For every dollar
sent to the colored ministers’ fund, we will send the _Weekly
Witness_ to a colored preacher for one year. The first year of this
effort we obtained the addresses of upwards of 2,000 preachers, to
whom we sent the _Witness_. The whole number of preachers is said
to be about 5,000. The second year we only sent it to preachers
who asked for it, and only about 800 did so. Several have since
written regretting that the paper was stopped. It would have been
continued had they signified their desire to receive it. We think
it likely that with the present excitement concerning emigration,
many more could be reached, besides renewing these 800 as their
time expires. Will our friends keep this fund supplied, that we may
again advertise for the addresses of colored preachers wishing to
receive the _Witness_? The best and perhaps only way of reaching
the colored people of the South with instructive and elevating
reading matter is through their religious teachers; and, as will
be seen from the letters, they make a good use of the _Witness_ in
that way.
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_To the Editor of the Witness._ CULLODEN, GA.
DEAR SIR: Allow me space in your columns to acknowledge my thanks
to our Northern friends, that they have interest enough in us to
furnish the colored ministers here with the _Witness_; this is a
grand way to diffuse Christian intelligence among a down-trodden
race. May God bless them and you. You shall have my prayers for
your success. I see that my subscription will expire on the 15th;
please continue my paper for another year.
I am yours, etc.,
A. J. WILSON.
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_To the Editor of the Witness._ ANNISTON, ALA.
DEAR SIR: I spent three sessions in Talladega College and
Theological Department. During the three months’ vacation of each
year I taught school at Anniston, Ala., my present location. During
this time the President of the Woodstock Iron Co. had an eye upon
my work. They have shown their sympathy by the erection of a neat
little cottage, which has done its part as a parsonage. Besides,
they pay a portion of my salary for teaching. I have charge of the
colored school of this town. I commenced labor here in April, 1875.
Since that time many have reformed and become stalwart Christian
men and women. I claim only to have been an instrument in God’s
hands to the salvation of souls.
Now to the dear friend who sends me the _Witness_. You may rest
assured that your donation has not been as pearls cast before
swine; it is as bread upon the waters, and if it doesn’t return to
you in this life, it certainly will greet you in the far better
land. I prize the _Witness_ next to my Bible. It has been to me
strength in weakness, light in darkness, a means of peace in times
of trouble; in short, it has been food to my soul.
_The Witness_ is valuable to me in a two-fold sense. First, the
motive which prompted the giver; second, the vast amount of
information it contains which I could not find or get elsewhere. My
only wish and constant prayer are that every colored preacher on
the globe may have the _Witness_. I am fraternally yours in Christ,
P. J. MCENTOSH,
Pastor First Congregational Church, Anniston, Ala.
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POWERS SHOP, LAURENS CO., S. C.
DEAR EDITOR: I have been kindly furnished with your valuable paper
since last August to the present time. I am certainly grateful for
the kindness of the friend that paid for it. May God bless him
ten-fold. Inclosed in this you will please find an order for your
valuable paper, _The Weekly Witness_. I induced six young gentlemen
to pay twenty-five cents each, thereby raising the required sum.