The American Missionary — Volume 36, No. 7, July, 1882

For beauty of gloss, for saving of toil,

For freeness from dust and slowness to soil,

And also for cheapness ’tis yet unsurpassed,

And thousands of merchants are selling it fast.

Of all imitations ’tis well to beware;

The half risen sun every package should bear;

For this is the “trade mark” the MORSE BROS.use,

And none are permitted the mark to abuse.

A PICTORIAL COMMENTARY

ON

ST.MARK’S GOSPEL

BY THE

REV.EDWIN W.RICE.

“The Pictorial Commentary on Mark, issued by the American Sunday-school Union, and prepared for it by the Rev.E.W.Rice, is the most compendious work of the kind with which we are familiar, presenting, as it does, not only the results of the latest and best scholarly investigation, but also the comments and reflections of many spiritually-minded writers at home and abroad.”

Price, only $1.Postage Free.

The most useful present to your Pastor, Superintendent or Teacher is

THE DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE,

EDITED BY THE

Rev.PHILIP SCHAFF, D.D., LL.D.

(SECOND EDITION.)

All who have examined it have given this work THE HIGHEST COMMENDATION.It is “The People’s Dictionary,” because it is HANDY, POPULAR, CHEAP.

Crown octavo, cloth, handsomely bound, 400 engravings, 12 colored Maps, 958 pages. Price, only $2.50. Postage Free.

THE

AMERICAN S.S.UNION,

1122 CHESTNUT ST., PHILADELPHIA; 10

BIBLE HOUSE, NEW YORK.

ESTABLISHED THIRTY YEARS.

Catalogues Free on Application.

Address the Company either at

BOSTON, MASS., 531 Tremont Street;

LONDON, ENG., 57 Holborn Viaduct;

KANSAS CITY, Mo., 817 Main Street;

ATLANTA, GA., 27 Whitehall Street;

Or, DEFIANCE, O.

OVER 95,000 SOLD.

THE TRAVELERS

Life and Accident Insurance Company

OF HARTFORD, CONN.,

FURNISHES EVERY DESIRABLE KIND OF PERSONAL INSURANCE.

LIFE AND ENDOWMENT POLICIES

of all safe and well-approved forms, on the Low Rate, All Cash, Stock Plan.Ample security definite contract and policies non-forfeiting.No dividends or profits, no assessments, and no disappointed expectations, but cash insurance payable promptly at maturity.

GENERAL ACCIDENT POLICIES

by the year or month, written by Agents at short notice.Principal sum payable in case of death by accident, or weekly indemnity for wholly disabling injury.They cover accidents happening in all lawful occupations, traveling or not, at home or abroad.

REGISTERED GENERAL ACCIDENT TICKETS

insuring $3,000 against death by accident, or $15 per week for total disability, at twenty-five cents a day, or $4.50 for thirty days.They are much used by travelers, and may be obtained at the Company’s local agencies or railway stations.

LIFE AND ACCIDENT POLICY COMBINED,

being a regular Life policy with weekly indemnity feature attached, giving the insured complete protection for life and limb under one contract.The cost is about the same as ordinary mutual premiums for life policies alone.

THE TRAVELERS

is relatively one of the strongest companies in the world. Its resources are estimated at a minimum market value; its investments are made in the most conservative manner; its surplus to policy holders is twenty-five per cent. of the gross assets; its management is proverbially energetic and honest, and its record is clean. Upon such a basis it confidently offers THE BEST in all forms of personal insurance.

As musical culture increases it demands in musical instruments for home, church, or school, excellence in tone, tasteful workmanship, and durability.

SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE.

STUDENTS ^AND TEACHERS

(MALE OR FEMALE),

CAN EASILY MAKE

$100 A MONTH

SELLING

HEADLEY’S NEW BOOK

“PUBLIC MEN OF TO-DAY,”

A NATIONAL Volume of 800 large octavo pages. The more than 300 life-like PORTRAITS will sell the book in every community. Every State represented. All want the book. No competition. Terms liberal; 500 more salesmen wanted; choice of territory given.

Apply at once to

S.S.SCRANTON & CO.,

HARTFORD, CONN.

31 & 33 Vesey St.

P. O. Box 4235, NEW YORK

Stores, Hotels, Boarding Houses, Restaurants, Club Agents, and large consumers will find it to their interest to send Postal Card to the above address, and get the latest terms.

N.B.—Beware of imitators.

☞ NO HUMBUG.

60,000 TONS USED IN 1881.

One ton will build two miles of staunch three-strand Barb Fence.One strand will make an old wooden fence impassable to large cattle.One strand at bottom will keep out hogs.

Washburn & Moen Man’f’g Co.,

WORCESTER, MASS.,

Manufacturers of

Patent Steel Barb Fencing.

A STEEL Thorn Hedge.No other Fencing so cheap or put up so quickly.Never rusts, stains, decays, shrinks nor warps.Unaffected by fire, wind or flood.A complete barrier to the most unruly stock.Impassable by man or beast.

No other Fence Material so easily handled by small proprietors and tenants, or large planters in the South.

Shipped on spools containing 100 pounds, or eighty rods of Fencing.Can be kept on the Reel for transient uses.

CHEAPEST, BEST AND MOST EFFECTIVE OF FENCES.

Send for Illustrative Pamphlets and Circulars, as above.

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 toward the Indians. It has also a mission in Africa

STATISTICS.

Churches: In the South—In District of Columbia, 1; Virginia, 1; North Carolina, 6; South Carolina, 2; Georgia, 13; Kentucky, 7; Tennessee, 4; Alabama, 14; Kansas, 1; Arkansas, 1; Louisiana, 18; Mississippi, 4; Texas, 6. Africa, 3. Among the Indians, 1.Total, 82.

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, Tex. —8. Graded or Normal Schools: Wilmington, N. C. ; Charleston, Greenwood, S. C. ; Savannah, Macon, Atlanta, Ga. ; Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala. ; Memphis, Tenn. —11. Other Schools, 35.Total, 54.

Teachers, Missionaries and Assistants.—Among the Freedmen, 319; among the Chinese, 28; among the Indians, 9; in Africa, 13. Total, 369. Students.—In theology, 104; law, 20; in college course, 91; in other studies, 8,884.Total, 9,108.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 directed on second page cover.

THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.

We are anxious to put the American Missionary on a paying basis. We intend to make it worth its price, and we ask our patrons to aid us:

1.More of our readers can take pains to send us either the moderate subscription price (50 cents), or $1.00, naming a friend to whom we may send a second copy.

2.A special friend in each church can secure subscribers at club-rates (12 copies for $5 or 25 copies for $10).

3.Business men can benefit themselves by advertising in a periodical that has a circulation of 20,000 copies monthly and that goes to many of the best men and families in the land.Will not our friends aid us to make this plan a success?

We nevertheless renew the offer hitherto made, that the Missionary 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.

Subscriptions and advertisements should be sent to H.W.Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade street, New York, N.Y.

Transcriber’s Notes

Obvious printer’s punctuation errors and omissions were corrected.The arithmetic errors in receipts were not corrected.

Moved a few lines of text from the top of page 214 to the bottom of page 212 to allow the drawing to be placed between paragraphs on page 213.

Added missing “s” in “was” on page 202.(that arose from their decks was this)

Added missing “n” in “anniversary” on page 205.(Our theological anniversary exercises)

Corrected “Taladega” to “Talladega” in the New Lisbon entry on page 219.

Changed “it” to “is” and “blankes” to “blanket” in the Hartford Woven Wire Mattress advertisement on page 221.(the Hartford Mattress is cleanly....Requires nothing but a blanket)

Changed “Superintentent” to “Superintendent” in the American S.S.Union advertisement on page 223.(your Pastor, Superintendent or Teacher)

Added missing “i” in “insuring” in The Travelers advertisement on page 224.(insuring $3,000 against death)