Berea. Cong. Ch. 3.80
Charlestown. Cong. Ch. 9.50
Cincinnati. Columbia Cong. Ch. 14.10
Cleveland. Euclid Av. Cong. Ch. 14.04
Cuyahoga Falls. Cong. Ch., $13.85, and Sab.
Sch., $8.51 22.36
Grafton. Mrs. Sally Tuttle 5.00
Harmar. Cong. Ch. 54.60
Hudson. By H. E. Riker 4.95
Huntsburgh. Cong. Ch., _for Emerson Inst._ 0.50
Jersey. Mrs. Lucinda Sinnet, $50; Mrs M. H., $1 51.00
Lodi. Cong. Ch., $9; Ladies’ Miss. Soc. $1 10.00
Mantua. Cong. Ch. 4.00
Mesopotamia. S. O. Lyman 15.00
Newark. “A Friend” 1.00
Oberlin. Second Cong. Sab. Sch. $30, _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._;--Second Cong. Ch.
$10; Mrs. J. F. B. $1 41.00
Painesville. First Cong. Ch. (of which $1.50
from Mrs. Albert Morley _for Straight U._). 30.21
Randolph. W. J. Dickinson 10.00
Ravenna. Cong. Ch. 22.67
Rootstown. C. S. S. 0.51
Springfield. O. H. Anderson, $10; First Cong.
Ch. and Soc. $6.07 16.07
INDIANA, $86.12.
Fort Wayne. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. 15.00
Michigan City. Cong. Ch. 71.12
ILLINOIS, $919.97.
Belvidere. M. C. Foote 2.00
Chesterfield. Cong. Ch. 4.00
Chicago. Col. C. G. Hammond. _for Howard U._ 500.00
Creston. A. B. McCrea 5.00
Elmwood. Cong. Ch. $24.05; Mrs. I. B. Reede,
$10 34.05
Farmington. Cong. Ch. 80.14
Greenville. Cong. Ch. 2.00
Hennepin. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Hutsonville. C. V. Newton 2.00
Kewanee. Woman’s Miss. Soc. _for Tougaloo U._ 2.00
Malden. Cong. Ch. 20.00
Mendon. Cong. Ch. 29.00
Newark. Horace Day and Wife 5.00
Oak Park. Cong Ch., $45.10; Geo. Van Zant, $10 55.10
Ottawa. Cong. Ch. 35.28
Paxton. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Shaw 5.00
Peru. First Cong. Ch. 16.50
Port Byron. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. 5.50
Providence. Benj. Dexter 10.00
Saint Charles. Dean Ferson 2.00
Sparta. P. B. Gault 2.00
Sycamore. First Cong. Ch., $85.90; “A Friend,”
$3 88.90
Wayne Station. Cong. Ch. 4.50
MICHIGAN, $473.06.
Canandaigua. Cong. Ch. 4.60
Homestead. Morris Case 5.00
Jackson. “A Friend,” $300; Cong. Ch., $38;
Miss Eliza Page, $30, to const. MISS S.
LOUISE OVIATT, L. M. 368.00
Littlefield. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch. 11.55
Morenci. Cong. Ch. 6.00
Northport. Cong. Ch. 5.08
Port Huron. First Cong. Ch. 42.00
Saint Clair. Cong. Ch. 15.83
Warren. Rev J. L. Beebe 5.00
White Lake. Robert Garner 10.00
WISCONSIN, $402.67.
Alderly. Mrs. E. Hubbard, $3; Mrs. Ann Reid, $2 5.00
Appleton. Mrs. Ann S. Kimball 25.00
Beloit. First Cong. Ch. 170.57
Brant. Mrs. E. W. Scott 4.45
Burlington. Cong. Ch. 4.91
Clinton. Cong. Ch. 23.75
East Troy. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Genesee. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Geneva Lake. Presb. Ch. 12.00
Leeds. Cong. Ch. 5.04
Madison. First Cong. Ch. 50.00
Milwaukee. Spring St. Cong. Ch. 22.58
New Richmond. First Cong. Ch. 22.06
Racine. Mrs. E B 0.51
Waukesha. First Cong. Ch. 20.00
Windsor. Cong. Ch. 16.80
IOWA, $466.02.
Bellevue. Cong. Ch. 3.25
Davenport. Edwards Cong. Ch. 100.00
Denmark. Cong. Ch., $28.37, and Sab. Sch.,
$21.63 50.00
Dubuque. Cong. Ch. 13.00
Farragut. Cong. Ch. 17.85
Franklin. Cong. Ch. 5.37
Grinnell. Ladies, proceeds sale of lace work 17.55
Keokuk. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $31;--N. N. M.,
50c., _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._ 31.50
Manchester. Cong. Ch. 21.00
McGregor. Women’s Miss. Soc. 15.78
New Hampton. Women’s Cent. Soc. 2.00
Orchard. Cong. Ch. 4.30
Osage. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. 5.53
Postville. Cong. Ch. 13.89
Tabor. ESTATE of D. E. Woods, by Rev. John Todd 165.00
KANSAS, $14.25.
Manhattan. Mrs. Mary Parker 2.00
Onaga. Cong. Ch. 7.25
Wildcat. Mrs. S. D. Pierce 5.00
MINNESOTA, $261.93.
Austin. Cong. Ch. 16.96
Minneapolis. “Friends,” $150; Plymouth Ch.,
$22.11; Second Cong. Ch., $3 175.11
Northfield. First Cong. Ch. 52.66
Paynesville. By R. C. L. 1.00
Spring Valley. C. W. M. and Wife, $9.20; Cong.
Ch., $7 16.20
DAKOTA, $1.12.
Valley Springs. Jubilee Concert Exercise 1.12
CALIFORNIA, $50.
San Francisco. Rev. J. Rowell 50.00
WASHINGTON TERRITORY, $9.25.
White River. Cong. Ch. 9.25
TENNESSEE, $156.
Memphis. Le Moyne Sch. 156.00
NORTH CAROLINA, $55.10.
Dudley. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Raleigh. Washington Sch. 45.10
SOUTH CAROLINA, $265.90.
Charleston. Avery Inst. 265.90
GEORGIA, $210.16.
Atlanta. Storrs Sch. $190.50; Coll. $1 191.50
Macon. Lewis High Sch. 8.30
Liberty Co. Judge A. E. Fulton $5; Sam’l
Osgood $2; Dorchester Cong. Sab. Sch. $1.06;
Others, $2.30, _for Dorchester Academy_ 10.36
ALABAMA, $466.70.
Athens. Pub. Sch. Fund 158.00
Mobile. Emerson Inst. 160.80
Montgomery. First Cong. Ch. 100.00
Talladega. Talladega Coll. 47.90
LOUISIANA, $1.50.
Carrollton. Mrs. C. J. 0.50
New Orleans. Mrs. B. C. 1.00
MISSISSIPPI, $35.75.
Durant. E. W. _for Tougaloo U._ 0.50
Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., $27.25; M. H. Scott,
$5;--K. K. Koons for Student Aid, $3 35.25
MISSOURI, $46.54
Amity. Cong. Ch. 4.50
Saint Louis. Mrs. Rebecca Webb, $25; First
Cong. Ch. $17.04 42.04
INCOME FUND, $295.50.
Avery Fund 195.50
C. F. Dike Fund 50.00
General Fund 50.00
CANADA, $1.
Guelph. Rev. J. H. 1.00
SCOTLAND, $79.86.
Perth. North United Presb. Ch., Subscriptions,
£14; “Friend,” 10s.; I. Balman, _for Chinese
M. in Cal._, £2, by D. Morton 79.86
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Total 11,970.60
Total from Oct. 1st to July 31st $129,247.32
H. W. HUBBARD,
_Asst. Treas._
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RECEIVED FOR DEBT.
Greenville, Conn. Cong. Ch. $25.00
Jersey City, N. J. “A Friend” 20.00
Scotland. “A. P.” 1,000.00
---------
Total 1,045.00
Previously acknowledged in June receipts. 25,848.72
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Total $26,893.72
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Meriden, Conn. Centre Cong. Ch. $25.00
Paw Paw, Ill. First Union Ch. 10.00
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Total 35.00
Previously acknowledged in June receipts 311.39
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Total $346.39
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.
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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., 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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TO-MORROW’S WANT.
Looking ahead, we see that the coming claims upon us must be
greater than those of the past. The signs of the times indicate
that the Lord’s work is to be done upon a larger scale in the near
future; the progress, made and making, in our schools, and the call
for enlargement in our church work, will make increasing demands
upon us, until the time shall come when they shall be more largely
self-supporting than it is possible for them to be now. We have
done much--we are doing more--we must expect to do a still greater
work. Give us the means, and plan large things for us in the days
to come.
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