The American Missionary — Volume 35, No. 6, June, 1881

The American Missionary — Volume 35, No. 6, June, 1881
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American Missionary Association,


56 READE STREET, N.Y.




PRESIDENT.


Hon.E.S.TOBEY, Boston.


VICE-PRESIDENTS.






    

  • Hon.  F.D.Parish, Ohio.
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  • Hon.  E.D.Holton, Wis.
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  • Hon.  William Claflin, Mass.
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  • Rev.  Stephen Thurston, D.D., Me.
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  • Rev.  Samuel Harris, D.D., Ct.
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  • Wm.C.Chapin, Esq., R.I.
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  • Rev.  W.T.Eustis, D.D., Mass.
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  • Hon.  A.C.Barstow, R.I.
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  • Rev.  Thatcher Thayer, D.D., R.I.
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  • Rev.  Ray Palmer, D.D., N.J.
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  • Rev.  Edward Beecher, D.D., N.Y.
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  • Rev.  J.M.Sturtevant, D.D., Ill.
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  • Rev.  W.W.Patton, D.D., D.C.
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  • Hon.  Seymour Straight, La.
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  • Rev.  Cyrus W.Wallace, D.D., N.H.
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  • Rev.  Edward Hawes, D.D., Ct.
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  • Douglas Putnam, Esq., Ohio.
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  • Hon.  Thaddeus Fairbanks, Vt.
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  • Rev.  M.M.G.Dana, D.D., Minn.
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  • Rev.  H.W.Beecher, N.Y.
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  • Gen.  O.O.Howard, Oregon.
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  • Rev.  G.F.Magoun, D.D., Iowa.
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  • Col.  C.G.Hammond, Ill.
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  • Edward Spaulding, M.D., N.H.
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  • Rev.  Wm.M.Barbour, D.D., Ct.
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  • Rev.  W.L.Gage, D.D., Ct.
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  • A.S.Hatch, Esq., N.Y.
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  • Rev.  J.H.Fairchild, D.D., Ohio.
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  • Rev.  H.A.Stimson, Minn.
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  • Rev.  A.L.Stone, D.D., California.
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  • Rev.  G.H.Atkinson, D.D., Oregon.
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  • Rev.  J.E.Rankin, D.D., D.C.
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  • Rev.  A.L.Chapin, D.D., Wis.
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  • S.D.Smith, Esq., Mass.
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  • Dea.  John C.Whitin, Mass.
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  • Hon.  J.B.Grinnell, Iowa.
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  • Rev.  Horace Winslow, Ct.
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  • Sir Peter Coats, Scotland.
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  • Rev.  Henry Allon, D.D., London, Eng.
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  • Wm.E.Whiting, Esq., N.Y.
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  • J.M.Pinkerton, Esq., Mass.
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  • E.A.Graves, Esq., N.J.
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  • Rev.  F.A.Noble, D.D., Ill.
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  • Daniel Hand, Esq., Ct.
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  • A.L.Williston, Esq., Mass.
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  • Rev.  A.F.Beard, D.D., N.Y.
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  • Frederick Billings, Esq., Vt.
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  • Joseph Carpenter, Esq., R.I.
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  • Rev.  E.P.Goodwin, D.D., Ill.
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  • Rev.  C.L.Goodell, D.D., Mo.
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  • J.W.Scoville, Esq., Ill.
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  • E.W.Blatchford, Esq., Ill.
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  • C.D.Talcott, Esq., Ct.
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  • Rev.  John K.McLean, D.D., Cal.
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  • Rev.  Richard Cordley, D.D., Kansas.
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  • Rev.  W.H.Willcox, D.D., Mass.
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  • Rev.  G.B.Willcox, D.D., Ill.
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  • Rev.  Wm.M.Taylor, D.D., N.Y.
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  • Rev.  Geo.M.Boynton, Mass.
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  • Rev.  E.B.Webb, D.D., Mass.
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  • Hon.  C.I.Walker, Mich.
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  • Rev.  A.H.Ross, Mich.
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CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.



Rev.M.E.STRIEBY, D. D. , 56 Reade Street, N.Y.



DISTRICT SECRETARIES.


Rev.C.L.WOODWORTH, Boston
Rev.G.D.PIKE, New York
Rev.JAS.POWELL, Chicago


H. W. HUBBARD, Esq., Treasurer, N.Y.
Rev.M.E.STRIEBY, Recording Secretary


EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.




    

  • Alonzo S.Ball,
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  • A.S.Barnes,
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  • C.T.Christensen,
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  • Clinton B.Fisk,
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  • Addison P.Foster,
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  • S.B.Halliday,
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  • J.A.Hamilton,
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  • Samuel Holmes,
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  • Charles A.Hull,
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  • Chas L.Mead,
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  • Samuel S.Marples,
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  • Wm.T.Pratt,
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  • J.A.Shoudy,
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  • John H.Washburn
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COMMUNICATIONS


relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the Corresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields to the District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the “American Missionary,” to Rev.  G.D.Pike, D.D., at the New York Office.


DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS


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 112 West Washington Street, Chicago, Ill.A payment of Thirty dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member.










Constitution of the American Missionary Association.


INCORPORATED JANUARY 30, 1849.




Art.I. This Society shall be called “The American Missionary Association.”


Art.II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct Christian missionary and educational operations, and diffuse a knowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and other countries which are destitute of them, or which present open and urgent fields of effort.


Art.III. Any person of evangelical sentiments,[A] who professes faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slaveholder, or in the practice of other immoralities, and who contributes to the funds, may become a member of the Society; and by the payment of thirty dollars, a life member; provided that children and others who have not professed their faith may be constituted life members without the privilege of voting.


Art.IV. This Society shall meet annually, in the month of September, October or November, for the election of officers and the transaction of other business, at such time and place as shall be designated by the Executive Committee.


Art.V. The annual meeting shall be constituted of the regular officers and members of the Society at the time of such meeting, and of delegates from churches, local missionary societies, and other co-operating bodies, each body being entitled to one representative.


Art.VI. The officers of the Society shall be a President, Vice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretaries, Treasurer, two Auditors, and an Executive Committee of not less than twelve, of which the Corresponding Secretaries shall be advisory, and the Treasurer ex-officio, members.


Art.VII. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting and disbursing of funds; the appointing, counselling, sustaining and dismissing (for just and sufficient reasons) missionaries and agents; the selection of missionary fields; and, in general, the transaction of all such business as usually appertains to the executive committees of missionary and other benevolent societies; the Committee to exercise no ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the missionaries; and its doings to be subject always to the revision of the annual meeting, which shall, by a reference mutually chosen, always entertain the complaints of any aggrieved agent or missionary; and the decision of such reference shall be final.


The Executive Committee shall have authority to fill all vacancies occurring among the officers between the regular annual meetings; to apply, if they see fit, to any State Legislature for acts of incorporation; to fix the compensation, where any is given, of all officers, agents, missionaries, or others in the employment of the Society; to make provision, if any, for disabled missionaries, and for the widows and children of such as are deceased; and to call, in all parts of the country, at their discretion, special and general conventions of the friends of missions, with a view to the diffusion of the missionary spirit, and the general and vigorous promotion of the missionary work.


Five members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for transacting business.


Art.VIII. This society, in collecting funds, in appointing officers, agents and missionaries, and in selecting fields of labor, and conducting the missionary work, will endeavor particularly to discountenance slavery, by refusing to receive the known fruits of unrequited labor, or to welcome to its employment those who hold their fellow-beings as slaves.


Art.IX. Missionary bodies, churches or individuals agreeing to the principles of this Society, and wishing to appoint and sustain missionaries of their own, shall be entitled to do so through the agency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed upon.


Art.X. No amendment shall be made to this Constitution without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present at a regular annual meeting; nor unless the proposed amendment has been submitted to a previous meeting, or to the Executive Committee in season to be published by them (as it shall be their duty to do, if so submitted) in the regular official notifications of the meeting.


FOOTNOTE:




[A] By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among others, a belief in the guilty and lost condition of all men without a Saviour;the Supreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning Sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the only Saviour of the world; the necessity of regeneration by the Holy Spirit, repentance, faith and holy obedience in order to salvation; the immortality of the soul; and the retributions of the judgment in the eternal punishment of the wicked, and salvation of the righteous.












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. , 6; S. C. , 2; Ga. , 13; Ky. , 6; Tenn. , 4; Ala. , 14; La. , 17; Miss. , 4; Texas, 6.  Africa, 2.  Among the Indians, 1.Total 76.


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, 31.Total 51.


Teachers, Missionaries and Assistants.—Among the Freedmen, 284; among the Chinese, 22; among the Indians, 11; in Africa, 13. Total, 330.  Students—In Theology, 102; Law, 23; in College Course, 75; in other studies, 7,852. Total, 8,052. 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.


Before sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A.M.A.office, as below:


New YorkH.W.Hubbard, Esq., 56 Reade Street.
BostonRev.C.L.Woodworth, Room 21 Congregational House.
ChicagoRev.Jas.Powell, 112 West Washington Street.


MAGAZINE.


This Magazine will be sent, gratuitously, if desired, to the Missionaries of the Association; to Life Members; to all clergymen who take up collections for the Association; to Superintendents of Sabbath Schools; to College Libraries; to Theological Seminaries; to Societies of Inquiry on Missions; and to every donor who does not prefer to take it as a subscriber, and contributes in a year not less than five dollars.


Those who wish to remember the American Missionary Association in their last Will and Testament, are earnestly requested to use the following


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The will should be attested by three witnesses [in some States three are required—in other States only two], who should write against their names, their places of residence [if in cities, their street and number].The following form of attestation will answer for every State in the Union: “Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said [A.B.]as his last Will and Testament, in presence of us, who, at the request of the said A.B., and in his presence, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.”In some States it is required that the Will should be made at least two months before the death of the testator.












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THE THIRTY-FIFTH VOLUME


OF THE


American Missionary.


1881.




Shall we not have a largely increased Subscription List for 1881?


We regard the Missionary as the best means of communication with our friends, and to them the best source of information regarding our work.


A little effort on the part of our friends, when making their own remittances, to induce their neighbors to unite in forming Clubs, will easily double our list, and thus widen the influence of our Magazine, and aid in the enlargement of our work.


Under editorial supervision at this office, aided by the steady contributions of our intelligent missionaries and teachers in all parts of the field, and with occasional communications from careful observers and thinkers elsewhere, the American Missionary furnishes a vivid and reliable picture of the work going forward among the Indians, the Chinamen on the Pacific Coast, and the Freedmen as citizens in the South and as missionaries in Africa.


It will be the vehicle of important views on all matters affecting the races among which it labors, and will give a monthly summary of current events relating to their welfare and progress.Patriots and Christians interested in the education and Christianizing of these despised races are asked to read it, and assist in its circulation.Begin with the January number and the new year.The price is only Fifty Cents per annum.


The Magazine will be sent gratuitously, if preferred, to the persons indicated on page 191.Donations and subscriptions should be sent to


H.W.HUBBARD, Treasurer,


56 Reade Street, New York.




TO ADVERTISERS.


Special attention is invited to the advertising department of the American MissionaryIt numbers among its regular readers very many frugal, well-to-do people in nearly every city and village throughout our Northern and Western States.It is therefore a specially valuable medium for advertising all articles commonly used in families of liberal, industrious and enterprising habits of life.


Advertisements must be received by the TENTH of the month, in order to secure insertion in the following number. All communications in relation to advertising should be addressed to


THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT,


56 Reade Street, New York.




Our friends who are interested in the Advertising Department of the American Missionary, can aid us in this respect by mentioning, when ordering goods, that they saw them advertised in our Magazine.




DAVID H.GILDERSLEEVE, PRINTER, 101 CHAMBERS STREET, NEW YORK.




Transcriber’s Notes


Obvious printer’s punctuation errors corrected.


Inconsistent hyphenation retained due to contributions by various authors.


“Millyille” changed to “Millville” on page 186.