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Title: The American Missionary, Volume 43, No. 6, June, 1889
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THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY
JUNE, 1889
VOL. XLIII. NO. 6

CONTENTS
EDITORIAL.
FINANCIAL OUTLOOK VOICES FROM THE FIELD DIVIDING LINE BETWEEN THE TWO CENTURIES REV. C.W. HIATT PARAGRAPHS--THIS NUMBER--MRS. BORDEN SCHOOL ECHOES BOOK NOTICE NOTES FROM NEW ENGLAND FREDERICK DOUGLASS
THE SOUTH.
CHURCH BUILDING IN A DAY ITEMS FROM WHITLEY COUNTY TOUGALOO UNIVERSITY WORK AT HAMPTON DEVELOPING PATRIOTISM AMONG THE COLORED PEOPLE A NEGRO GIRL'S PROSE POEM
THE INDIANS.
ONE DAY'S MISSIONARY WORK WHAT SHALL WE DO ABOUT IT?
THE CHINESE.
METHOD OF CONDUCTING CHINESE SUNDAY-SCHOOLS
BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.
MEETING OF WOMAN'S STATE HOME MISSIONARY ORGANIZATIONS WOMAN'S MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION OF ALABAMA
FOR THE CHILDREN.
LETTER FROM A TEACHER IN GEORGIA
RECEIPTS
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NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.
Rooms, 56 Reade Street.
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Price, 50 Cents a Year, in Advance.
Entered at the Post Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class matter.
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American Missionary Association.
PRESIDENT, Rev. WM. M. TAYLOR, D.D., LLD., 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._
_Recording Secretary._
Rev. M.E. STRIEBY, 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._
J.E. RANKIN, WM. H. WARD, J.W. COOPER, JOHN H. WASHBURN, EDMUND L. CHAMPLIN.
_For Two Years._
LYMAN ABBOTT, CHAS. A. HULL, CLINTON B. FISK, ADDISON P. FOSTER.
For One Year S.B. HALLIDAY, SAMUEL HOLMES, SAMUEL S. MARPLES, CHARLES L. MEAD, ELBERT B. MONROE.
_District Secretaries._
Rev. C.J. RYDER, _21 Cong'l House, Boston_. Rev. J.E. ROY, D.D., _151 Washington Street, Chicago_. Rev. C.W. HIATT, _Cleveland, Ohio_.
_Financial Secretary for Indian Missions._ Rev. CHAS. W. SHELTON.
_Field Superintendents._
Rev. FRANK E. JENKINS. Prof. EDWARD S. HALL.
_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; letters relating to the finances, to the Treasurer.
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.
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 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.
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THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.

VOL. XLIII. JUNE, 1889. No. 6.

American Missionary Association.
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FINANCIAL OUTLOOK.
_The Figures._
Our receipts for seven months to April 30th are, from donations, $118,051.25, estates, $20,308.09, incomes, $4,829.21, tuition, etc., $22,719.89, United States Government for Indians, $9,540.87; total, $175,449.31. Our payments to April 30th are $203,777.45. Debt balance, $28,328.14.
_The Meaning of the Figures._
These figures mean a debt--growing at the rate of $4,000 a month. In passing "through the dark valley and shadow of"--debt, we walk with a goodly company. It is said that nearly every missionary society in Christendom reports a deficit this year. A common cause must underlie so broad a fact, and no one society deserves special censure.
_How we get into Debt._
A missionary society cannot make its expenditures as a man provides for his family--from day to day--but must lay out its plans for the year. The missionaries, the