The American Missionary

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Title: The American Missionary - Volume 50, No. 4, April 1896
Author: Various
Release Date: December 12, 2006 [Ebook #20093]
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The American Missionary - Volume 50, No. 4, April 1896
by Various

Edition 1, (December 12, 2006)

CONTENTS
Editorial Jubilee Year Fund. Our Industrial Work. The School and Church. The Year of Jubilee. A Jubilee Fund of $100,000 in Shares of $50 Each. The South. Notes by the Way. A Home Mission Work Little Understood. Talladega College, Ala. Lincoln Academy, All Healing, N.C. A Gracious Revival Obituary. HON. SEYMOUR STRAIGHT. MISS EVELYN E. STARR. Bureau of Woman's Work. COLORED WOMEN'S WORK. WORK AT McLEANSVILLE, N. C. RECEIPTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1896.

NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION, Bible House, Ninth St. and Fourth Ave., New York.
Price, 50 Cents a Year in advance.
Entered at the Post Office at New York N. Y., as second-class mail matter.

AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.
PRESIDENT, MERRILL E. GATES, LL.D., MASS.
Vice-presidents.
REV. F. A. NOBLE, D.D., Ill. REV. HENRY HOPKINS, D.D., Mo. REV. ALEX. MCKENZIE, D.D., Mass. REV. HENRY A. STIMSON, D.D., N. Y. REV. WASHINGTON GLADDEN, D.D., Ohio.
Honorary Secretary and Editor.
REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D.D., Bible House, N. Y.
Corresponding Secretaries.
REV. A. F. BEARD, D.D., REV. F. P. WOODBURY, D.D., Bible House, N. Y. REV. C. J. RYDER, D.D., Bible House, N. Y.
Recording Secretary.
REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D.D., Bible House, N. Y.
Treasurer.
H. W. HUBBARD, Esq., Bible House, N. Y.
Auditors.
GEORGE S. HICKOK. JAMES H. OLIPHANT.
Executive Committee.
CHARLES L. MEAD, Chairman. CHARLES A. HULL, Secretary.
For Three Years.
SAMUEL HOLMES SAMUEL S. MARPLES, CHARLES L. MEAD, WILLIAM H. STRONG, ELIJAH HORR.
For Two Years.
WILLIAM HAYES WARD, JAMES W. COOPER, LUCIEN C. WARNER, JOSEPH H. TWICHELL, CHARLES P. PIERCE.
For One Year.
CHARLES A. HULL, ADDISON P. FOSTER, ALBERT J. LYMAN, NEHEMIAH BOYNTON, A. J. F. BEHRENDS.
District Secretaries.
REV. GEO. H. GUTTERSON, 21 Cong'l House, Boston, Mass. REV. JOS. E. ROY, D.D., 153 La Salle Street, Chicago, Ill.
Secretary of Woman's Bureau.
MISS D. E. EMERSON, Bible House, 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; letters relating to the finances, to the Treasurer; letters relating to woman's work, to the Secretary of the Woman's Bureau.

DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS
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"I give and bequeath the sum of ---- dollars to the 'American Missionary Association,' incorporated by act of the Legislature of the State of New York." The will should be attested by three witnesses.

THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY
VOL. L. APRIL, 1896. No. 4.

Jubilee Year Fund.
of the American Missionary Association
*It is now fifty years since the **AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION** was organized. Its work and history are before the churches. We have reason to rejoice in the accomplishment of the past. We are grateful to God for this ministry of grace to His needy ones. We have come now to the semi-centennial year of the Association. We propose to celebrate the Fiftieth Year, and to acknowledge the goodness of God to us in the past.*
*But we find ourselves in this present time in distress. Our work has been severely affected by the adverse times. Our mission schools and churches are suffering. For the last three years our average current receipts have been $93,000 less per year than during the previous three years. The work has been cut $184,000 during these three years. If it had been fully maintained the debt would have been three times as great as it is.*
*We are now confronted with the question of further and more disastrous reductions, for our obligations must be met. The $100,000 borrowed for mission work must be paid. We do not believe that the churches