The American Missionary — Volume 32, No. 09, September, 1878

The American Missionary Association.

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 towards the Indians. It has also a mission in Africa

STATISTICS.

Churches: In the South—In Va. , 1; N. C. , 5; S. C. , 2; Ga. , 11; Ky. , 5; Tenn. , 4; Ala. , 12; La. , 12; Miss. , 1; Kansas, 2; Texas, 4. Africa, 1. Among the Indians, 2.Total, 62.

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. ; Macon, Atlanta, Ga. ; Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala. ; Memphis, Tenn. ; 11; Other Schools, 7.Total, 26.

Teachers, Missionaries and Assistants—Among the Freedmen, 209; among the Chinese, 17; among the Indians, 16; in foreign lands, 10. Total, 252. Students—In Theology, 74; Law, 8; in College Course, 79; in other studies, 5,243.Total, 5,404.Scholars taught by former pupils of our schools, estimated at 100,000.Indians under the care of the Association, 13,000.

WANTS.

1. A steady Increase of regular income to keep pace with the growing work in the South. 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 accomodate 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.

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No.1.—History of the Association.

No.2.—Africa: Containing a History of the Mendi Mission, a Description of the Land and the People, and a presentation of their claims on America.

No.3.—The Three Despised Races in the United States; or, The Chinaman, the Indian, and the Freedman.An Address before the A.M.A., by Rev.Joseph Cook, of Boston, Mass.

No.4.—The Educational Work. Showing the nature and reality of the black man’s needs; the way to help him; the sentiment of Southern men; the work of the Romish Church; the wants of the A. M. A.

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