The American Missionary

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Title: The American Missionary - Volume 50, No. 6, June 1896
Author: Various
Release Date: November 21, 2006 [Ebook #19890]
Language: English
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The American Missionary - Volume 50, No. 6, June 1896
by Various

Edition 1, (November 21, 2006)

CONTENTS
Editorial The Jubilee Year Fund. FIFTY-DOLLAR JUBILEE SHARES. THE ACCEPTABLE MITES. NO COLOR-LINE IN CLEVELAND. ORANGE PARK NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL IN FLORIDA CLOSED BY THE SHERIFF. OUR CHURCHES. THE TALENTED TENTH. ALASKA MISSION. The South. HISTORY OF A CHURCH IN ALABAMA. MEETINGS AMONG THE HILLS AND AT A CONVICT CAMP. A BRIGHT AND CANDID VIEW OF OUR MOUNTAIN WORK. REVIVALS. ITEMS FROM THE FIELD. The Indians. REVIVAL--LIBERAL CONTRIBUTIONS. Crow Agency, Montana The Chinese. Jubilee Year Fund, Additional Shares. RECEIPTS FOR APRIL, 1896. WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS

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
In drafts, checks, registered letters, or post-office orders, may be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, Bible House, New York; or, when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or 153 La Salle Street, Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars constitutes a Life Member.
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.--The date on the "address label" indicates the time to which the subscription is paid. Changes are made in date on label to the 10th of each month. If payment of subscription be made afterward the change on the label will appear a month later. Please send early notice of change in post-office address, giving the former address and the new address, in order that our periodicals and occasional papers may be correctly mailed.

FORM OF A BEQUEST.
"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. JUNE, 1896. No. 6.

The Jubilee Year Fund.
Extract from the appeal of the Executive Committee of the American Missionary Association:
*Fifty Dollars a Share.*
It is proposed to raise during the next six months a special Jubilee Year Fund of $100,000 in shares of $50 each, with the hope and expectation that these shares will be taken by the friends of missions without lessening those regular contributions which must be depended upon to sustain the current work.
FORM OF A PLEDGE.
Share, $50. $100,000.
THE JUBILEE YEAR FUND OF THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.
I hereby take ..... shares (Fifty Dollars each) in the Jubilee Year Fund of the American Missionary Association, to be paid before the close of the fiscal year, Sept. 30, 1896.
Name . . . . . . .
P. O. Address . . . . . . . .

FIFTY-DOLLAR JUBILEE SHARES.
In the last number of THE MISSIONARY we gave the gratifying report of 34 shares taken for this fund, and in the present number we have the pleasure of adding 75 more. We are fully aware of the difficulties under which we send