Grand Rapids. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for
Woodville, Ga._ 30.00
Greenville. Mrs. E. Middleton 2.00
Hudson. Cong. Ch. 21.54
Kensington. John Thompson 2.00
Litchfield. Woman’s Miss. Soc. 12.00
Port Huron. First Cong. Ch. 43.80
Romeo. “A Friend,” $20, _for Indian M._; and
$20, _for Tillotson C. and N. Inst._, and to
const. CHARLES FAIRFIELD, L. M. 40.00
Saint Clair. Cong. Ch. 12.28
Somerset. Cong. Ch. 20.00
Unadilla. Mrs. Agnes D. Bird 2.00
Wayne. Cong. Ch. 16.00
White Lake. John Garner 2.00
IOWA, $510.89.
Anamosa. Cong. Ch., $3.50, and Sab. Sch., $3.95 7.45
Belle Plaine. J. P. Henry, $5; Mrs. C. M.
Henry, $5; Freddie and Josie Henry, 50c. ea. 11.00
Cincinnati. Wm. T. Reynolds 5.00
Cresco. Cong. Ch. 6.50
Davenport. Rev. J. A. Reed, _for Stone Hall,
Talladega C._ 10.00
Davenport. Rev. J. G. Merrill, _for
President’s House, Talladega, Ala._ 50.00
Des Moines. Cong. Ch. (of which $100 from Hon.
Saml. Merrill) 173.28
Dunlap. W. S. Preston, _for furnishing a room
in Stone Hall, Talladega C._ 35.00
Grinnell. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 39.26
Humboldt. Mrs. L. K. Lorbeer, $2; Mrs. L. A. W., $1 3.00
Le Grand. L. M. Craig. _for Tougaloo U._ 12.00
Lyons. First Cong. Ch. 24.00
Monterey. Cong. S. S. Class, _for Chinese M._ 0.50
Muscatine. Cong. Ch. 42.85
Muscatine. Capt. W. A. Clark, _for Stone Hall,
Talladega C._ 5.00
Osage. General Association of Iowa 10.00
Osage. Woman’s Missionary Soc., $4.50 _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._, and $4 _for Lady
Missionary, New Orleans, La._ 8.50
Tabor. Cong. Ch. 63.00
Wayne. Cong. Sab. Sch. 4.55
MISSOURI, $23.35.
Holden. “Mrs. S. E. H.”, _for ed. of Indians,
Hampton N. and A. Inst._ 2.00
Stewartsville. Cong. Ch. 13.58
Webster Groves. Cong. Ch. 7.77
WISCONSIN, $213.41.
Bloomington. Cong. Ch. 4.50
Brandon. “Busy Bees.” _for Student Aid,
Tougaloo U._ 11.18
Eau Claire. Cong. Sab. Sch. 5.00
Geneva. Woman’s Miss. Soc., _for Lady
Missionary, Talladega, Ala._ 10.00
Geneva Lake. Presb. Ch. 36.57
Highland. Cong. Ch. 15.00
La Crosse. Boy’s prayer meeting, Cong. Ch. 11.00
Menominee. Cong. Sab. Sch. 9.00
Milton. Woman’s Miss. Soc., _for Lady
Missionary, Talladega, Ala._ 2.50
Milwaukee. Spring St. Cong. Ch. Miss. Soc.,
_for Lady Missionary, Talladega, Ala._ 10.00
Monroe. “Our Family Missionary Box,” 4.75
New Richmond. First Cong. Ch. 16.98
Waupun. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (of which $5 _for
Chinese M., and_ $5 _for Indian M._) $57.63;
Cong. Sab Sch., $15 72.63
West Salem. Mrs. Mary L. Clark, Box of Books
and Papers, and $2.30 _for freight, for
Macon, Ga._ 2.30
White Water. Woman’s Miss. Soc., _for Lady
Missionary, Talladega, Ala._ 2.00
KANSAS, $5.25.
Meriden. L. A. 0.25
Topeka. Justin Hillyer 5.00
MINNESOTA, $107.34.
Austin. Cong. Ch. 21.64
Elk River. Cong. Ch. 3.68
Faribault. Cong. Ch. 25.18
Glyndon. Mrs. S. N. Millard 3.66
Hutchinson. Cong. Ch. 2.00
Minneapolis. Plymouth Cong. Ch., $30.20;
“Cash,” $1 31.20
Plainview. Woman’s Cent. Soc. 7.50
Red Wing. Mrs. J. B. N. 0.50
Saint Charles. Cong. Ch. 6.98
Saint Peter. Mrs. Jane A. Treadwell 5.00
NEBRASKA, $11.13.
Crete. Cong. Ch. (of which $6.34 _for Cal.
Chinese M._) 10.13
Red Cloud. Cong. Ch. 1.00
DAKOTA TERRITORY, 50c.
Bon Homme. Rev. D. B. N. 0.50
WASHINGTON TERRITORY, $18.75.
New Tacoma. Mrs. E. T. 1.00
Skokomish. Cong. Mission Ch., _for Indian M._ 17.75
NORTH CAROLINA, $5.00.
Wilmington. Cong. Ch. 5.00
SOUTH CAROLINA, $219.75.
Charleston. Avery Inst., Tuition 219.75
TENNESSEE, $2.71.
Chattanooga. Cong. Sab. Sch. 1.71
Nashville. E. P. G. 1.00
GEORGIA, $136.35.
Atlanta. Atlanta U., Tuition, $37.50; Rent,
$6.00 43.50
Atlanta. Students and Teachers of Atlanta
University, _for Cal. Chinese M._ 85.00
Macon. Cong. Ch., $5; Lewis High School,
Tuition, 85c. 5.85
Woodville. Rev. J. H. H. Sengstacke, _for
Church building_ 2.00
ALABAMA, $39.11.
Marion. Cong. Ch. 3.00
Selma. First Cong. Ch., $7.25; Woman’s Miss.
Soc. of First Cong. Ch., $10 17.25
Talladega. Talladega C., Tuition 17.86
Tuskegee. “Friends,” by Mrs. M., _for Strieby
Hall, Tougaloo U._ 1.00
MISSISSIPPI, $2,022.95.
Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition 22.95
Tougaloo. State Appropriation 2,000.00
TEXAS, $2.30.
Corpus Christi. First Cong. Ch. 2.30
INCOME FUND, $1,266.78.
Avery Fund 711.41
Graves Library Fund 150.00
Theological Endowment Fund 404.37
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Total 21,112.60
Total from Oct. 1st to July 31st $190,824.79
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FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS.
Goshen, Conn. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for furnishing
a room_ $25.00
Previously acknowledged from Oct. 1st to June
30th 4,949.71
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Total $4,974.71
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FOR MISSIONS IN AFRICA.
Rehoboth, Mass. “A young brother in Cong. Ch.” $5.00
Previously acknowledged from Oct. 1st to June
30th 26,284.62
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Total $26,289.62
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ENDOWMENT FUND.
Buda, Ill. By Mrs. A. M. Haley, in memory of
Samuel Gordon Haley, for two Haley
Scholarships in Fisk U. $2,000.00
H. W. HUBBARD, _Treas._,
56 Reade St., N.Y.
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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, counseling, 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 to 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.
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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 toward the INDIANS. It has also a mission in
AFRICA.
STATISTICS.
CHURCHES: _In the South_—In Virginia, 1; North Carolina, 6; South
Carolina, 2; Georgia, 13; Kentucky, 6; Tennessee, 4; Alabama, 14;
Louisiana, 17; Mississippi, 4; Texas, 6. _Africa_, 2. _Among the
Indians_, 1. Total, 76.
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.; Savannah, Macon,
Atlanta, Ga.; Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis,
Tenn.—12. _Other Schools_, 31. Total, 51.
TEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.—Among the Freedmen, 284;
among the Chinese, 22; among the Indians, 11; in Africa, 13. Total,
330. STUDENTS—In Theology, 102; Law, 23; in College Course, 75;
in other studies, 7,852. Total, 8,052. Scholars taught by former
pupils of our schools, estimated at 150,000. INDIANS under the care
of the Association, 13,000.
WANTS.
1. A steady INCREASE of regular income to keep pace with the
growing work. 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., Treasurer, 56 Reade Street.
BOSTON Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Dis’t Sec., Room 21 Congregational
House.
CHICAGO Rev. Jas. Powell, Dis’t Sec., 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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During the coming month we will send free by mail a copy of the
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the list of American corrections which were not concurred in by the
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Annual Meeting.
* * * * *
The American Missionary Association will hold its Thirty-fifth
Anniversary in the city of Worcester, November 1-3.
On Tuesday, at three o’clock P. M., the Executive Committee will
render their Annual Report.
At 7.30 o’clock, Tuesday evening, the Annual Sermon will be
preached by Rev. C. D. Hartranft, D.D., of Hartford, Communion
following.
On Wednesday morning, papers will be read on topics of special
interest relating to the work.
Wednesday afternoon and Thursday will be occupied with Reports of
Committees and addresses thereon.
On Wednesday and Thursday evenings, there will be addresses from
Senator George F. Hoar, Judge A. W. Tourgée, President M. H.
Buckham, and other distinguished speakers.
The Committees on hospitality, reduction of railroad fares, and
other matters of detail pertaining to the meeting, will be duly
published in the religious papers.
The Executive Committee proposes the following amendments to the
Constitution of the American Missionary Association to be submitted
to the Annual Meeting for action thereon, viz.:
ART. III. Any person who contributes to the funds of the
Association may become a member thereof for the current year by
requesting to be enrolled as such at the time such contribution is
paid into the treasury of the Association, and any contributor to
the amount of thirty dollars, at one time, may, on request to that
effect, be enrolled as a Life Member.
ART. V. The Annual Meeting shall consist of the Officers, Life
Members who have been such prior to the first day of October
preceding the time of such meeting, such persons as have been
enrolled as members within one year prior to that date, and of
delegates from churches that have within the year contributed
to the funds of the Society, and from State Associations and
Conferences, each of such churches, associations and conferences to
be entitled to one delegate.
ART. VI. The officers of the Association shall be a President,
Vice-Presidents, Corresponding Secretaries, (who shall also keep
the records of the Association,) Treasurer, Auditors, and an
Executive Committee of not less than twelve members.
ART. VII. After “dismissing,” omit the parenthesis. Omit ART.
VIII., and number ARTS. IX. and X. respectively VIII. and IX.
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DAVID H. GILDERSLEEVE, PRINTER, 101 CHAMBERS STREET, NEW YORK.
Transcriber’s Notes:
Obvious printer’s punctuation errors and omissions corrected.
Inconsistent hyphenation retained due to various authors.
Missing letter “t” inserted in the word “at” on page 263. (having
its centre at London)
Missing digit inserted in the Newton entry on page 284. “1 0.00”
changed to “160.00”. Arithmetic used to derive the missing digit.
Missing “g” inserted into the word “Cong.” in the Pittsfield entry
on page 284.
“Tillottson” corrected to “Tillotson” in the first line of page 286.