The American Missionary — Volume 36, No. 9, September, 1882

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

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Interest Net to Investors

In First Mortgage Bonds

ON IMPROVED FARMS

In Iowa, Minnesota and Dakota,

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60,000 TONS USED IN 1881.

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Manufacturers of

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

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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.

Transcribers Notes

Obvious printer’s punctuation errors and omissions corrected.Unusual spellings suspected to be the original author’s were retained.Differences in hyphenation retained due to the multiplicity of authors.

“Steet” changed to “Street” on the inside cover in the CORRESPONDING SECRETARY listing.

Moved the drawing of the Rice Plantation from page 270 to 271 to allow the drawing to be placed between paragraphs.

Moved a few lines of text from the bottom of page 272 to the top of page 274 to allow the drawing to be placed between paragraphs on page 273

“Aarrisville” changed to “Harrisville” in the New Hampshire section of the Receipts on page 279.

Total for the Pittsfield entry on page 280 changed from 8.81 to 88.81 to agree with individual amounts listed on the line. Other arithmetic anomalies in the RECEIPTS section could not be corrected.

“Sacrament”, changed to “Sacramento” on page 283.

Changed “it” to “is” and “blankes” to “blanket” in the Hartford Woven Wire Mattress advertisement on page 285.(the Hartford Mattress is cleanly....Requires nothing but a blanket)