The American Missionary — Volume 34, No. 10, October, 1880

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. , 13; Ky. , 7; Tenn. , 4; Ala. , 14; La. , 12; Miss. , 1; Kansas, 2; Texas, 6. Africa, 2. Among the Indians, 1.Total 70.

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. ; Savannah, Macon, Atlanta, Ga. ; Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala. ; Memphis, Tenn. , 12. Other Schools, 24.Total 44.

Teachers, Missionaries and Assistants.—Among the Freedmen, 253; among the Chinese, 21; among the Indians, 9; in Africa, 13. Total, 296. Students—In Theology, 86; Law, 28; in College Course, 63; in other studies, 7,030. Total, 7,207. Scholars taught by former pupils of our schools, estimated at 150,000. Indians under the care of the Association, 13,000.

WANTS.

1. A steady INCREASE of regular income to keep pace with the growing work. 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 accommodate 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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The American Missionary Association will hold its Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting in the City of Norwich, Conn. , on the 12th, 13th and 14th of October, 1880. The several sessions of this meeting will be held in the Broadway Church, Rev. L.T.Chamberlain, D. D. , Pastor. The opening session will begin at 3 o’clock P. M. of Tuesday, the 12th, when the Report of the Executive Committee will be read. In the evening, at 7.30, the Annual Sermon will be preached by the Rev. Wm.M.Taylor, D. D. , of the Broadway Tabernacle, New York City. The citizens of Norwich will receive and cordially entertain all friends of the work of the Association who, desiring to attend, shall make application for entertainment before the first day of October. The Chairman of the Committee of Entertainment, Charles E.Dyer, to whom all such applications should be addressed, will send out, on the above date, cards of hospitality, introducing those who have made known their purpose of attending, to the host by whom they will be entertained.Those receiving such cards will please communicate at once with the person to whom they are introduced, announcing their purpose of attending, at what time they will arrive in Norwich, and whether they will remain during the meeting, so that hospitality may have no unnecessary burdens to bear.Those failing to receive such a card by the 6th of October will please inform the Chairman of the fact.An early application will greatly lighten the burden of the Committee, and will be duly appreciated.Those paying full fare one way to attend the meeting, will be furnished free return tickets on the following railroads: New York and New England, New London and Northern, Norwich and Worcester, Worcester and Nashua, Stonington, Boston and Providence, Boston, Barre and Gardner, Passumpsic, Central Vermont; and by steamers of the Norwich and New York Line.The Conn.River Road will sell round trip tickets to those who attend the meeting.

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