American Missionary

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The American Missionary
November 1888
Volume XLII. No. 11.

CONTENTS
EDITORIAL NOT QUITE FREE--ENCOURAGING RESPONSES TO OUR APPEAL THE MOHONK CONFERENCE ORDINATION--THE YELLOW FEVER THE SAMARITAN WOMAN GENERAL SURVEY OUR SCHOOLS--CHURCH WORK--MOUNTAIN WORK--THE INDIANS--THE CHINESE--WOMAN'S BUREAU--FINANCES STUDENT'S LETTER STRUGGLES IN THE "LONE STAR STATE" THE CHINESE REVIEW OF THE YEAR BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS RECEIPTS

NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION,
Rooms, 56 Reade Street.

Price, 50 Cents a Year, in Advance.
Entered at the Post Office at New York, N.Y., as second class matter.

American Missionary Association.

President, Rev. Wm. M. Taylor, D.D., LL.D., N.Y.
_Vice-Presidents._
Rev. A.J.F. Behrends, D.D., N.Y. Rev. Alex. McKenzie, D.D., Mass. Rev. F.A. Noble, D.D., Ill. Rev. D.O. Mears, D.D., Mass. Rev. Henry Hopkins, D.D., Mo.
_Corresponding Secretaries._
Rev. M.E. Strieby, D.D., 56 _Reade Street, N.Y._ Rev. A.F. Beard, D.D., 56 _Reade Street, N.Y._
_Treasurer._
H.W. Hubbard, Esq., 56 _Reade Street, N.Y._
_Auditors._
Peter McCartee. Chas. P. Peirce.
_Executive Committee._
John H. Washburn, Chairman. Addison P. Foster, Secretary.
_For Three Years._ Lyman Abbott, Charles A. Hull, J.R. Danforth, Clinton B. Fisk, Addison P. Foster,
_For Two Years._ S.B. Halliday, Samuel Holmes, Samuel S. Marples, Charles L. Mead, Elbert B. Monroe,
_For One Year._ J.E. Rankin, Wm. H. Ward, J.W. Cooper, John H. Washburn, Edmund L. Champlin.
_District Secretaries._
Rev. C.J. Ryder, 21 _Cong'l House, Boston._ Rev. J.E. Roy, D.D., 151 _Washington Street, Chicago._
_Financial Secretary for Indian Missions._
Rev. Chas. W. Shelton.
_Secretary of Woman's Bureau._
Miss D.E. Emerson, 56 _Reade St., N.Y._

COMMUNICATIONS
Relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the Corresponding Secretaries; letters for "THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY," to the Editor, at the New York Office.
DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS
In drafts, checks, registered letters, or post-office orders, may be sent to H.W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York, or, when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or 151 Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member.
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.

The American Missionary.
VOL. XLII. November, 1888. No. 11.
American Missionary Association

NOT QUITE FREE.
In the November MISSIONARY of last year, the financial statement bore the simple and joyous heading "FREE." This year we are compelled to prefix two qualifying words. Our books closed September 30, with a balance of $5,641.21 on the wrong side. While we regret that there should be any debt, we rejoice that it is no larger.
The receipts applicable to current expenses fell off somewhat during the year, while the expenditures, owing to general growth and some special demands were greater than last year. The first of September, therefore, found us confronting an impending debt. The appeal which we felt constrained to make for September, and which was made under some special disadvantages as compared with last year, was met with so hearty a response in gifts and in expressions of interest in our work, as to move us to gratitude to God and thankfulness to our friends. A few of the donors gave $1,000 each, but the larger share of the responses contained remittances of less than $100. Many of the sums were quite small, and some of them indicated great self-sacrifice on the part of the donors. A few brief extracts, all that our limited space will allow, from a small portion of the letters received, will be found below.
We thank God and take courage. We believe that our friends who remembered us in the past will not forget us in the future, and that our wants in October, and in all the following months, will not be forgotten because they were so well remembered in September. One thousand dollars a day represents our needs for carrying on the work in its present development.
_Encouraging Responses to our Appeal._
"I would like to send you more, but I send you the last dollar I have ($71.00,) and must trust the Lord for means