$50; First Cong. Ch., $25 136.25
Andover. West Cong. Soc. 50.00
Ashland. Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 13.25
Belchertown. Mrs. R. W. Walker 5.00
Beverly. LEGACY of Mrs. Betsey Butman, of Dane
St. Ch. to const. CARRIE T. BUTMAN, L.M. 30.00
Beverly, Dane St. Ch. and Soc. 70.15
Boston. “A Friend” 5.00
Boston Highlands. Eliot Cong. Ch., $122.60;
Immanuel Cong. Ch., $100; Mrs. Livermore, $2 224.60
Boxborough. Mary Stone 10.00
Brookline. Harvard Ch. and Soc., $112.52;—
Mrs. Seaman’s Infant Class, $50, _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._;—F. Winthrop White, $10; “A Friend,” $8 180.52
Brocton. “A Friend” 15.00
Cambridgeport. G. F. Kendall 10.00
Clinton. “A Friend” 50.00
Danvers. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 100.00
Dorchester. Village Ch. Sab. Sch., $25.10;
“E. P.” $1 26.10
East Hampton. Payson Cong. Sab. Sch. 50.00
East Somerville. Franklin St. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 52.58
East Templeton. Joel Fairbanks 5.00
Enfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00
Fitchburgh. ESTATE of Deborah B. Thurston, by J.
Baldwin, Ex. 50.00
Framingham. Plymouth Cong. Sab. Sch. 2.25
Georgetown. First Cong. Ch., _for Talladega_ 6.01
Grafton. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 41.43
Great Barrington. Mrs. J. M. Chapin 5.00
Haverhill. Centre Cong. Ch. 86.00
Hingham. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.23
Holliston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $49.12; “Bible Christians
of District No. 4,” $25 74.12
Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00
Lawrence. South Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.37
Lowell. Thomas Hunt 5.00
Lynn. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.30
Marblehead. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 78.00
Mattapoisett. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.75
Medford. Mystic Cong. Ch. and Soc., $117.10; “A Lover of
the Cause,” $38 155.10
Medway. Village Ch. and Soc. 100.86
Middlefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 48.76
Monson. Mrs. C. O. Chapin and her S. S. Class,
_for Indian Boys, Hampton Inst._ 11.00
Natick. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 50.00
Newton. Eliot Cong. Ch. and Soc. 125.00
Newton Centre. “A Friend” 10.00
Newton Highlands. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $54.17; “Willing
Hands and Cheerful Givers,” $10 64.17
North Amherst. Mrs. A. M. Smith 2.00
Northampton. “A Friend” 150.00
Norfolk. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.00
Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.49
Petersham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 1.22
Pittsfield. South Cong. Ch. and Soc., $29;
First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $25.24 54.24
Reading. “A Friend” 5.00
Rutland. First Cong. Ch. 14.00
Salem. “A Friend” 10.00
South Boston. “H. J. B.” 1.00
South Hadley. Mt. Holyoke Sem. (ad’l) 5.00
South Weymouth. Union Cong. Ch. 108.80
Sunderland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 60.00
Taunton. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $104.77;
Union Cong. Ch. and Soc. $12.34 117.11
Templeton. Trin. Cong. Sab. Sch. 6.27
Tolland. Rev. J. H. J. 1.00
Uxbridge. “A Friend” 2.00
Wakefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.98
Watertown. Phillips Cong. Ch., $100, to const. MISS
LAURA STAFFORD GREEN, JOHN S. ABBOTT and EDWARD
STOCKIN, L. M’s; Corban Soc. of Phillips Cong. Ch.,
$18.70, ad’l, to const. MRS. C. L. WOODWORTH, L. M. 118.70
West Barnstable. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
West Boylstown. Mrs. Polly Ames, deceased, $3; Geo. W.
Ames, $3 6.00
Westhampton. Cong. Ch. 21.00
Westminster. “A Friend” 2.00
West Newbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
West Stockbridge. Rev. H. M. Hazeltine and Family 5.00
Worcester. Central Cong. Ch. 141.23
Worcester. ESTATE of Rev. M. G. Grosvenor, by
David Manning, Ex. 1,500.00
Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00
RHODE ISLAND, $1,747.00.
Bristol. Mrs. De Wolf Rogers, $500; C. De Wolf,
$500, _for Fisk U._ 1,000.00
Little Compton. United Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00
Pawtucket. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00
Providence. Central Cong. Ch., $700; Plymouth Cong. Ch.,
$11.50; Mrs. J. W. D., 50c. 712.00
CONNECTICUT, $3,082.58.
Berlin. Rev. J. Whittlesey 10.00
Bridgeport. Park Cong. Ch. 22.02
Bridgewater. Cong. Ch. 21.24
Bristol. “A Friend” 10.00
Burlington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.00
Canaan. “N.” 5.00
Clinton. ESTATE of Nancy Stanton, by
John A. Stanton and Lewis E. Stanton, Ex’s 200.00
Cromwell. Cong. Ch. 50.00
Danbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 132.12
Danielsonville. Westfield Cong. Ch. ($20 of which,
_for the Freedmen_), $90;—Mrs. S. S. D., 60c. 90.60
Durham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.00
Ekonk. Elizabeth W. Kasson 10.00
Enfield. First Cong. Ch. 50.00
Farmington. Cong. Ch. (Quar. Coll.) 65.08
Glastonbury. First Cong. Ch. 125.00
Giliad. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Brown, $5, _for a
Teacher, Tillotson Inst._, and $5,
_for Hampton Inst._ 10.00
Guilford. First Cong. Ch. 16.00
Hadlyme. “R.” 3.50
Hanover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.53
Hartford. First Cong. Ch. ($30 of which from DEA.
HOMER BLANCHARD, to const. himself, L. M.) 1,141.00
Hartford. Asylum Hill Cong. Ch., $176; Windsor Ave.
Cong. Ch., $20.26; J. N. Berdin, $5 201.26
Lebanon. First Cong. Ch., $43.33 to const.
CICERO GARLAND, L. M.; First Ch., $20 63.33
Middlebury. Cong. Ch. 30.56
Middlefield. Cong. Ch., to const. JAMES T. INGLIS,
L. M. 40.00
Milford. Plymouth Ch. 15.00
Moose Meadow. Dea. F. W. 1.00
New Haven. Third Ch., $14.65; “A Lady Friend,” $5;
“A Friend,” $5; W. C. Scobie, $2 26.65
Newington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 23.17
Norwich. Broadway Cong. Ch. (in part) 200.00
Pomfret. First Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 4.45
Portland. Cong. Ch., ($2.19 of which, _for Student
Aid_) 10.97
Putnam. “A Friend” 17.50
Rocky Hill. Cong. Ch. 9.25
Roxbury. “B. and S. J. B.” 3.00
Salisbury. Cong. Ch. 58.05
Saybrook. Old Saybrook Cong. Ch. 13.16
Sharon. First Ecclesiastical Soc. 41.69
Sherman. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.00
Simsbury. James Reid 5.00
Suffield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.62
Taftville. Cong. Ch. 11.00
Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 19.60
Westford. Cong. Ch. 5.00
West Haven. Cong. Sab. Sch. 30.00
West Hartford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 80.00
West Meriden. Edmund Tuttle, to const. MISS MINNIE L.
BEADLE L. M. 30.00
Wethersfield. H. Savage 5.00
Willimantic. Cong. Ch. 55.13
Wolcott. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00
Woodstock. First Cong. Ch. 20.10
NEW YORK, $2,095.75
Brentwood. E. F. Richardson. 15.00
Brooklyn. Plymouth Ch. 1,250.24
Brooklyn. Church of the Pilgrims 167.27
Brooklyn. E. D. New England Cong. Ch. 30.00
Carthage. A. V. 1.00
Cazenovia. Rev. S. W. 1.00
Champlain. Mrs. M. Hamilton 5.00
Derby. Jennette Bullock 2.00
Ellenville. Mrs. M. B. Holt 5.00
Hancock. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Holley. —— 5.00
Homer. Miss Nancy Knight 5.00
Martinsburgh. Horatio Hough, $5; A. H. A., $1 6.00
Newburgh. John H. Corwin, Pkg. of Reading Matter.
New York. S. T. Gordon. $100; E. L. A., 50c. 100.50
Nineveh. Reuben Lovejoy 300.00
North Lawrence. C. C. B. 1.00
Oneida. Edward Loomis 2.00
Poughkeepsie. First Cong. Ch. 17.33
Rochester. Plymouth Cong. Ch. 44.55
Rome. John B. Jervis 25.00
South Bangor. L. M. K. 0.50
Syracuse. Plymouth Ch. 72.36
Turin. Mrs. M. W. 1.00
West Camden. Mrs. A. L. C. 1.00
West Groton. Cong. Ch., $14; Nelson Cobb, $5 19.00
Whitney’s Point. Presb. Soc. 4.00
Yaphank, Mrs. H. M. Overton 5.00
NEW JERSEY, $13.00.
Montclair. Mrs. J. F. Pratt’s S. S. Class, _for Student
Aid, Talladega C._ 3.00
Trenton. Geo. S. Grosvenor 10.00
PENNSYLVANIA, $26.50.
Canton. H. Sheldon 10.00
New Castle. Mrs. J. S. W. 1.00
North East. B. T. Spooner 5.00
Pittsburgh. E. P. 0.50
West Alexander. —— 10.00
MICHIGAN, $877.54.
Adrian. A. J. Hood. _for African, Indian and Chinese
M._ 10.00
Bridgeport. Cong. Ch. 1.00
Canandaigua. Cong. Ch. 2.70
Chelsea. John C. Winans 10.00
Grass Lake. Cong. Ch. 12.00
Hillsdale. M. J. 0.51
Middleville. Cong. Ch. 2.90
Morenci. Cong. Ch. 2.50
North Adams. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Olivet. BEQUEST of Dea. Henry Topping, by Albert
Topping 50.00
Olivet. A. T. 1.00
Port Huron. ESTATE of Mrs. M. J. Sweetser 750.00
Portland. Cong. Ch. bal. to const. MISS HATTIE
COLE, L. M. 4.00
Salem. Summit Miss. Soc. 4.22
Saint Clair. Young People’s Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch.,
$11.26, _for Lady Missionary, Memphis, Tenn._;
—Cong. Ch., $2.95 14.21
Saint Johns. G. B. 0.50
Utica. Rev. Wm. Platt 2.00
OHIO, $303.33.
Adams Mills. Mrs. M. A. Smith 10.00
Ashland. Mrs. Eliza Thompson 2.28
Brighton. Cong. Ch. 5.18
Cleveland. Heights Cong. Ch., $46; Euclid Ave.
Cong. Ch., $12.11; Mrs. F. M. S., $1 59.11
Columbus. Mrs. J. L. Bates, $5; Mrs. W. C., $1 6.00
Elyria. ESTATE of Miss Mary Burrill, by Mrs.
Charlotte Moore, Exec’x 25.00
Garrettsville. Cong. Ch. 12.00
Greensburgh. H. B. Harrington, _for Woman’s Work for
Woman_ 5.00
Harman. Cong. Ch. 2.00
Huntsburgh. Miss V. R. P., _for Ed. of Indians,
Hampton Inst._ 1.00
Lenox. Horatio Tracy 5.00
Lodi. Cong. Ch. 9.00
Medina. Woman’s Miss. Soc., by Mary J. Munger, Treas.,
_for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 10.00
Nelson. Cong. Ch. 11.00
Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch. 37.57
Painesville. First Cong. Ch. 30.73
Seville. T. B. Dowd 5.00
South Ridge. Mrs. Uraniah Haviland 2.00
South Toledo. Mrs. J. H. N. 0.51
Springfield. Cong. Ch. 8.40
Sulphur Springs. “Two Friends,” _for Student Aid,
Tougaloo U._ 10.00
Tallmadge. Cong. Sab. Sch., $24.55; Miss Josephine
Pierce, $6; “A Friend,” $10 40.55
Toledo. Edson Allen, _for Teacher, Raleigh, N. C._ 5.00
Youngstown. J. D. W. 1.00
ILLINOIS, $1,373.96.
Aurora. First Cong. Ch. 23.50
Chicago. C. G. Hammond _for Howard U._ 1,000.00
Chicago. First Presb. Ch., $100; Miss Haskell’s S. S.
Class, Lincoln Park Ch., $3 103.00
Dover. Woman’s Miss. Soc. 5.00
Evanston. Ladies of Cong. Ch. _for Lady Missionary,
Mobile, Ala._ 20.00
Galva. Cong. Ch. 21.15
Geneseo. Cong. Ch. 82.00
Gilman. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Maple Park. J. I. Snow 4.95
Marshall. Mrs. G. E. C. 0.57
Port Byron. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. 7.50
Princeville. Mrs. O. L. Cutter, $5; Mrs. Elmira Jones,
$5 10.00
Rochelle. “A Friend,” $5; W. H. Holcomb, Sen., $2 7.00
Shirland. Mrs. J. G. L. 1.00
Summer Hill. Cong. Ch. 5.25
Sycamore. Cong. Ch. 68.04
Waukegan. Cong. Ch. 5.00
WISCONSIN, $269.24.
Beloit. First Cong. Ch. 114.77
East Troy. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. 10.00
Columbus. Olivet Cong. Ch. 7.75
Hydes Mills. Rev. J. P. S. 1.00
La Crosse, Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 25.00
New Richmond. First Cong. Ch., $12.75;
Ladies’ Centennial Sew. Circle, $5 17.75
Oconomowock. Cong. Ch. 12.00
Racine. First Presb. Ch. 14.12
Rosendale. Cong. Ch., $25, and Sab. Sch., $7.85 32.85
Waukesha. First Cong. Ch. 34.00
IOWA, $170.57.
Amamosa. Cong. Ch., $4.60, and Sab. Sch., $3.31 7.91
Belle Plain. Correction—Cong. Ch., $5, ack. in
July number should read Mrs. L. A. Baker, $5.
Cresco. Cong. Ch. 3.70
Davenport. George W. Ells 10.00
Des Moines. Plymouth Cong. Ch. 60.00
De Witt. J. H. Price ($5, of which, _for Mag._) 10.00
Emerson. Mrs. E. H. D. F. 1.00
Farragut. Cong. Ch. 13.03
Grinnell. “Brewer Sisters,” _for Student Aid,
Raleigh, N. C._ 9.20
Osage. Woman’s Miss. Soc., $4.77; Cong. Ch.,
Mon. Con., $4.50 9.27
Sioux City. First Cong. Ch. 15.40
Tabor. Prof. A. S. McPherron 2.00
Toledo. Mrs. E. N. Baker 5.00
Traer. Cong Ch. 15.00
Vinton. Joseph Tenny Sen. 5.00
Wittenberg. Cong. Sab. Sch. 4.00
MISSOURI, $11.50.
Amity. Cong. Ch. 3.25
Breckenridge. Cong. Ch. 3.75
Webster Grove. Cong. Ch. 4.50
MINNESOTA, $183.41.
Alexandria. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Austin. Cong. Ch., $30.80; Mrs. S. E. Bacon, $10 40.80
Dexter. Rev. R. B. Wright 3.00
Elk River. Cong. Ch. 6.00
Faribault. Cong. Ch. 39.59
Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch., $20.98; First Cong. Ch.,
$13.81 44.79
Northfield. Mrs. C. N. S. 1.00
Saint Paul. Plymouth Cong. Ch. (Semi-Annual Coll.) 36.90
Sherburne. Cong. Ch. 1.00
Spring Valley. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.33
NEBRASKA, $6.00.
Exeter. Woman’s Miss. Soc., $5; Rev. B. A. D., $1, by
Mrs. J. A. Baker, Treas. 6.00
CALIFORNIA, $847.25.
San Francisco. Receipts of the California Chinese
Mission 847.25
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $11.00.
Washington. Mrs. A. N. Bailey, $10; Rev. M. P. S.,
$1 11.00
TENNESSEE, $12.50.
Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition 12.50
NORTH CAROLINA, $23.50.
Raleigh. Tuition 23.50
SOUTH CAROLINA, $605.35.
Charleston. Avery Institute 605.35
GEORGIA, $1.75.
Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition 1.75
ALABAMA, $99.01.
Mobile. Emerson Inst., Tuition, $3; Cong. Ch., $3;
“A Friend,” $1.91 7.91
Talladega. Talladega College, Tuition 91.10
MISSISSIPPI, $13.15.
Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition 13.15
INCOME FUND, $185.00.
—— Graves Library Fund 150.00
—— Scholarship Fund 35.00
SANDWICH ISLANDS, $1,000.00.
Sandwich Islands. “A Friend” 1,000.00
ENGLAND, $90.41.
Albyns. Miss S. L. Ropes 10.00
Northampton. On Doddridge Scholarship, _for Fisk U._,
£16 13_s._ 4_d._, by Dr. O. H. White 80.41
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Total 18,515.39
Total from Oct. 1st to July 31st $145,497.49
* * * * *
RECEIPTS OF THE CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION
_From April 20th, to July 17th, 1880._
I. From our Auxiliaries, viz.:
Sacramento Chinese Mission:
Chinese monthly collections $20.75
Ten Annual Memberships (seven Chinese) 20.00—40.75
Santa Barbara Chinese Mission:
Chinese monthly collections 15.00
Five Annual Memberships 10.00—25.00
Stockton Chinese Mission:
Chinese monthly collections 10.00
Five Annual Memberships 10.00
Plate collections at Annual Meeting 8.65—28.65
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$94.40
II. From Churches:
Grass Valley Cong. Ch. (Mrs. H. Scott) $2.00
Riverside Cong. Church collection 9.00
San Francisco Plymouth Church (collection
at Union meeting) $12.75; Bethany
Church—Chinese, $3.00 15.75
Santa Cruz Cong. Church 7.75
—————
$34.50
III. From Individuals:
Oroville:
M. C. W. $1.60
San Francisco:
Messrs. Balfour, Guthrie & Co. 100.00
„ Parrott & Co. 50.00
„ Pope & Talbot 50.00
J.J. Felt, Esq. 25.00
Messrs. E. Ransome & Co. 25.00
„ Rogers, Meyer & Co. 25.00
„ Wright & Sanders 25.00
„ C. Adolphe, Low & Co. 20.60
„ Williams, Dimond & Co. 20.00
„ Taber, Harker & Co. 20.00
George W. McNear, Esq. 20.00
A Friend 20.00
R. P. Tenney, Esq. 10.00
Capt. J. E. Chapman 10.00
W. L. Booker, Esq. 10.00
A. Bannister, Esq. 10.00
John F. Merrill, Esq. 10.00
Israel W. Knox, Esq. 10.00
Messrs. Eppinger & Co. 10.00
„ Macondray & Co. 10.00
„ James Sennett & Co. 10.00
A. Crawford, Esq. 5.00
H. Hughes, Esq. 5.00
Cash, through R. B. Forman, Esq. 15.00
——————
$516.60
IV. From Chinese:
In Marysville:
Regular collections $4.70
Special collections 19.25
One Annual Membership 2.00—25.95
In Oroville 0.30
In San Francisco 0.50
—————
$26.75
V. From Eastern Friends:
Bangor, Me., E. R. Burpee, Esq. 50.00
Amherst, Mass., Mrs. Rhoda A. Lester 100.00
Norwich, Conn., Mrs. S. A. Huntington, to
constitute REV. WM. S. PALMER a Life-Member 25.00
———————
$175.00
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Grand Total $847.25
Of which from Chinese at least 101.50
E. PALACHE, _Treasurer_.
* * * * *
FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INST., AUSTIN, TEXAS.
Exeter, N. H. Collected by Mrs. Odlin and Mrs. Eliza U.
Bell $22.00
Andover, Mass. John Smith 250.00
Easthampton, Mass. Mrs. C. G. Williston 100.00
Hartford, Conn. John B. Eldredge 100.00
New Britain, Conn. Collected by Mrs. E. H. Wells,
$24, and Box of Bedding 24.00
Norwich, Conn. “A Friend” 400.00
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Total $696.00
Previously acknowledged in June Receipts 4,607.00
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Total $5,303.00
* * * * *
FOR NEGRO REFUGEES.
Grand Rapids, Mich. South Cong. Ch. 4.25
Previously acknowledged in June Receipts. 432.50
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Total $436.75
* * * * *
FOR MISSIONS IN AFRICA.
Leeds, Eng. Robert Arthington, conditional pledge,
£3,000.
London, Eng. Freedmen’s Missions’ Aid Soc.,
£378 6_s._ 8_d._ 1,825.72
Beaver Crossing, Neb. Mrs. E. T. 1.00
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Total $1,826.72
Previously acknowledged in April Receipts 4,749.76
————————
Total $6,576.48
Receipts for July $21,042.36
Total from Oct. 1st to July 31st $158,494.31
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H. W. HUBBARD, _Treas._,
56 Reade St., N. Y.
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 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.]
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.,
13; Ky., 7; Tenn., 4; Ala., 14, La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2; Texas, 6.
_Africa_, 2. _Among the Indians_, 1. Total 70.
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_, 24. Total 44.
TEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.—Among the Freedmen,
253; among the Chinese, 21; among the Indians, 9; in Africa, 13. Total,
296. STUDENTS—In Theology, 86; Law, 28; in College Course,
63; in other studies, 7,030. Total, 7,207. 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., 56 Reade Street.
BOSTON Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Room 21 Congregational House.
CHICAGO Rev. Jas. Powell, 112 West Washington Street.
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