Chicago. Ladies of South Ch., _for Lady Missionary,
Mobile, Ala._ 5.50
Galesburg. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00
Galva. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., _for Student Aid, Fisk
U._ 25.00
Geneseo. Cong. Ch. 75.00
Highland Park. Mrs. Elisha Gray, $10; Fred. Fisher,
$5; Mrs. H. McD., $1, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 16.00
Kewanee. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady Missionary,
Savannah, Ga._ 20.00
La Harpe. Cong. Ch. 23.00
Moline. Charles Atkinson, _for President’s House,
Talladega C._ 100.00
Moline. Thomas Jewett, _for building Ladies’ Hall,
Tougaloo, Miss._ 75.00
Naperville. A. A. Smith 5.00
Oak Park. Cong. Ch. 56.45
Oak Park. Girls’ Mission Circle, _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 50.00
Prospect Park. Mrs. Emma Floyd 5.00
Rochelle. C. F. Holcomb 12.00
Rochelle. W. H. H., Sen., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 1.00
Rockford. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. of Second Cong. Ch.,
_for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00
Rockford. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00
Rockford. “Rockford Lamplighters,” _for Indian M._ 11.79
Streator. Samuel Plumb, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00
Sycamore. J. H. Rogers, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 104.00
Wataga. Cong. Sab. Sch. 9.00
Woodstock. Cong. Ch. 11.13
Wyamet. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 12.50
MICHIGAN, $366.53.
Alpena. First Cong. Ch. 134.00
Detroit. Woodward Ave. Cong. Ch., $65.25; E. P. B.,
56c. 65.81
Frankfort. First Cong. Ch. 3.40
Grand Rapids. Mrs. E. G. Furness 5.00
Hillsdale. J. W. Ford 2.00
Leland. Cong. Ch. 6.31
Litchfield. Mrs. J. B. S. 0.50
Mankato. Cong. Ch. 2.23
Moline. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 25.00
Olivet. Cong. Ch. 8.05
Romeo. Miss Mary A. Dickinson, _for rebuilding,
Tougaloo U._ 100.00
Summit. Woman’s Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch. 3.40
Warren. “A Friend” 5.00
Whitehall. First Cong. Ch. 5.83
IOWA, $130.64.
Atlantic. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. 27.57
Denmark. Isaac Field 15.00
Grinnell. T. P. Carleton 2.00
Keokuk. Mrs. E. M. Wilson 5.00
Iowa Falls. Cong. Ch. 9.90
Marshalltown. G. W. 0.50
Maquoketa. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 23.82
McGregor. Woman’s Miss. Soc. 16.40
Muscatine. Dr. I. L. Graham, _for furnishing room,
Stone Hall, Talladega, Ala._ 5.00
New Hampton. Ladies’ Cent. Soc. 2.45
Stacyville. Woman’s Miss. Soc. 3.00
Traer. Cong. Ch. 20.00
WISCONSIN, $160.68.
Arena. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady Missionary,
Talladega, Ala._ 2.00
Beloit. Mrs. S. M. Clary, $5, and Box of C., _for
Macon, Ga._ 5.00
Cooksville. Edward Gilley 5.00
Delavan. Cong. Ch. 45.00
Grand Rapids. Cong. Ch. 1.75
Leeds. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 0.50
Madison. First Cong. Ch. 50.00
Pewaukee. Cong. Ch. 7.00
Racine. First Presb. Ch. 33.43
Rockland. Thomas H. Eynon 10.00
Stoughton. Cong. Ch. 1.00
MISSOURI, $19.40.
Breckenridge. Rev. T. A. H. 0.50
DeKalb. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Athens, Ala._ 5.00
Kidder. Cong. Ch. 7.50
Saint Louis. Cong. Ch. 6.40
MINNESOTA, $71.21.
Austin. Mrs. S. C. Bacon 10.00
Minneapolis. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 20.00
Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. 24.46
Spring Valley. Cong. Ch. 16.75
KANSAS, $3.00.
Brookville. Rev. S. G. Wright, $2.50; Mrs. E. E. S.,
50c. 3.00
NEBRASKA, $28.45.
Omaha. “K. and C.” 10.00
Weeping Water. Cong. Ch. 18.45
CALIFORNIA, $3.00.
Rocklin. Cong. Ch. 3.00
OREGON, $20.00.
Portland. First Cong. Ch. 20.00
DELAWARE, $1.00.
Wilmington. Mrs. N. T. J. 1.00
NORTH CAROLINA, $15.00.
Wilmington. Cong. Ch. 15.00
SOUTH CAROLINA, $11.25.
Almeda. “Friends” by R. G. Holmes, _for Almeda, S.
C._ 11.25
TENNESSEE, $8.00.
Memphis. By Prof. A. J. Steele 8.00
GEORGIA, $256.60.
Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition, $253.60; Rent, $3 256.60
ALABAMA, $214.20.
Athens. Trinity Sch., Tuition 50.50
Marion. Cong. Ch. 2.05
Montgomery. Cong. Ch. 120.00
Selma. First Cong. Ch. ($2.35 _of which for Mendi
M._) 21.65
Talladega. Rev. H. B. De Forest, $10; Prof. Geo. N.
Ellis, $10, _for Needmore Chapel, Talladega, Ala._ 20.00
MISSISSIPPI, $13.10.
Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition 13.10
TEXAS, $57.75.
Austin. Tillotson C. and N. Ins., Tuition 57.75
INCOME FUND, $120.50.
Avery Fund, _for Mendi Mission_ 85.50
Greenwich, N.Y. Town Bonds, _for Straight U._ 35.00
SCOTLAND, $63.73.
Perth. No. United Presb. Ch., £9; “Friend,” by D.
Morton, 5s.; J. Balman, _for Chinese M._, £2;
“Friend,” _for “John Brown Steamer,”_ £2 63.73
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Total 16,906.79
Total from Oct. 1st to Aug. 31st $207,731.58
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FOR TILLOTSON C. & N. INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS.
Bridgeport, Conn. S. C. Kingman 100.00
West Haven, Conn. Mrs. Emeline Smith 10.00
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Total 110.00
Previously acknowledged from Oct. 1st to July 31st 4,974.71
————————
Total $5,084.71
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FOR MISSIONS IN AFRICA.
From Oct. 1st to July 31st $26,289.62
H. W. HUBBARD, _Treas._,
56 Reade St., N. Y.
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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, 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 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
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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, Gen. O. O. Howard, 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.
* * * * *
DAVID H. GILDERSLEEVE, PRINTER, 101 CHAMBERS STREET, NEW YORK.
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Transcriber’s Notes:
Spelling and puntuation were changed only where the error appears
to be a printing error. Capitalization and punctuation in the
Receipts section is inconsistent, and was retained as printed.
The remaining corrected punctuation changes are too numerous to
list; the others are as follows:
Page number 283 changed to 289 on title page.
Totals for Massachusetts changed to agree with heading.
Gratton changed to Grafton in receipts for Massachusetts.