Part 6

Ashland. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., _for Tougaloo U._ 2.00 Big Rock. Cong. Ch. 20.00 Burlington. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00 Des Moines. Woman’s Miss. Soc. of Plymouth Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 20.00 Grinnell. ESTATE of Charles F. Dike, by Mrs. C. F. Dike, Executrix, 1,000.00 Grinnell. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. and Friends, $50, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._;—Cong. Ch., $27.25 77.25 Keokuk. Will Collier. Smith Hamill, and M. Messer, $5 ea.; X. X. C., 50c., _for Tougaloo U._ 15.50 Nevinville. Cong. Ch. 2.40 Traer. Mrs. C. H. Bissel, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 5.00 Waterloo. Rev. M. K. Cross 8.00

KANSAS, $16.50.

Bavaria. A. M. 0.50 Brookville. Rev. S. G. Wright 15.00 Eudora. Mrs. L. R. 1.00

MINNESOTA, $53.89.

Clear Water. Cong. Ch. 3.01 Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. 9.68 Plainview. Woman’s Cent. Soc. 7.10 Saint Paul. Plymouth Ch. 20.30 Zumbrota. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.80

NEBRASKA, $6.50.

Hastings. Mrs. N. C. B. 1.00 Fontanelle. “A Friend,” 5.50

MISSOURI, 50c.

Saint Louis. C. M. J. 0.50

CALIFORNIA, $299.65.

Los Angeles. Francis Wilson 15.00 San Francisco. Receipts of the California Chinese Mission 284.65

OREGON, $1.55.

Astoria. First Cong. Ch. 1.55

KENTUCKY, $5.05.

Berea. Cong. Ch. 4.55 Germantown. H. N. 0.50

TENNESSEE, $153.15.

Memphis. Le Moyne Sch. 153.15

NORTH CAROLINA, $133.24.

Raleigh. Washington Sch. 35.80 Wilmington. Normal Sch., $93.70; First Cong. Ch., $3.74 97.44

SOUTH CAROLINA, $271.75

Charleston. Avery Inst. 271.75

GEORGIA, $581.71.

Atlanta. Storrs Sch., $259.30; Atlanta University, $87 346.30 Macon. Lewis High Sch. 50.90 Savannah. Beach Inst. 184.51

ALABAMA, $921.81.

Athens. Pub. Sch. Fund, $270; Trinity Sch., $49.40 319.40 Blount Springs. J. Q. A. E. 0.50 Marion. Cong. Ch. 29.48 Mobile. Emerson Inst. 204.50 Montgomery. Swayne Sch. 175.00 Selma. Cong. Ch. 5.10 Talladega. Talladega College $174.28;—Governor Parsons, _for Aid of Pupils, Talladega, Ala._, $13.55 187.33

LOUISIANA, $138.75.

New Orleans. Straight University 138.75

MISSISSIPPI, $35.55.

Tougaloo. Tougaloo University 35.55

TEXAS, $3.

Brenham. Individuals, by Mrs. I. Howells, $2; D. C., $1 3.00

NOVA SCOTIA, $10.

Yarmouth. Yarmouth Tabernacle Missionary Asso., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 10.00

SANDWICH ISLANDS, $1,000.

“A Friend” 1.000.00

TURKEY, $10.

Van. Dr. G. C. Reynolds and Wife 10.00

INCOME FUND, $311.74.

General Fund 311.74 ————————— Total 11,904.68 Total from Oct. 1st to March 31st $77,638.09

H. W. HUBBARD, _Ass’t Treas._

RECEIVED FOR DEBT.

Hanover, N. H. Dartmouth College Ch. $50.00 Cromwell, Ct. M. G. Savage 13.00 New Haven, Ct. Centre Ch. 25.00 West Hartford, Ct. Charles Boswell 250.00 Crown Point, N. Y. Mrs. George Page 25.00 Madison, Ohio. Mrs. J. G. Fraser 3.00 Northville, Mich. D. Pomeroy 5.00 Saint Louis, Mo. Miss C. M. Janes 5.00 Woodville, Ga. St. Phillip’s Soc., $2; Band of Hope, $2.25 4.25 Tougaloo, Miss. Tougaloo University 50.00 ————————— Total 430.25 Previously acknowledged in Feb. receipts 24,488.97 ————————— Total $24,919.22

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RECEIPTS OF THE CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.

E. PALACHE, Treasurer.

_From Dec. 20th, 1878, to March 20th, 1879._

1. From auxiliaries: Petaluma Chinese Mission—(for room) $65.00 Sacramento Chinese Mission—(12 Annual Memberships) 24.00 Santa Barbara Chinese Mission—(4 Annual Memberships: Rev. J. W. Hough, D. D., $2; N. W. Winton, $2; Mrs. C. E. Huse, $2; Wong Ah Yon, $2) 8.00 —— 2.00 Collection Annual Meeting 2.50 Chinese Pupils 18.00 Stockton Chinese Mission—Mrs. M. C. Brown 4.00 Brown 4.00 Chinese Pupils 2.50 —————— Total 126.00 2. From churches: Oakland—First Cong. Ch. 36.15 Sacramento—First Cong. Ch. 7.00 San Francisco—First Cong. Ch. 49.50 San Francisco—Bethany Ch., I. C. H. 2.00 —————— Total 94.65 3. From individuals: Pescadero—Rev. W. C. Merritt 2.00 San Francisco—Rev. J. Rowell 20.00 Sonoma—“A Thank Offering” 10.00 —————— Total 32.00 4. From Eastern Friends: Bangor, Me.—Unknown, by Rev. G. W. Field, D. D., _for Barnes’ Mission House_ 12.00 Auburn, Mass.—Cong. Sab. Sch., by Horace Hobbs, _for Barnes’ Mission House_ 20.00 —————— Total 32.00 —————— Grand Total $284.65

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FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS.

Cambridge, Vt. Madison Safford $25.00 Groton, Mass. Mrs. Elizabeth Farnsworth 20.00 Haverhill, Mass. Gyles Merrill and Wife 50.00 Westfield, Mass. Miss E. B. Dickinson 100.00 Hartford, Conn. D. H. WELLS, to const. himself L. M. 50.00 Oriskany Falls, N. Y. Joseph C. Griggs 24.00 Union Springs, N. Y. Mrs. Mary H. Thomas 10.00 West Farms, N. Y. Daniel Mapes 100.00 Painesville, Ohio. Mrs. Reuben Hitchcock 100.00 ———————— Total 479.00 Previously acknowledged in Feb. receipts 1,627.17 ———————— Total $2,106.17

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Constitution of the American Missionary Association.

INCORPORATED JANUARY 30, 1849.

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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 to 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 by 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 in 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.

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The American Missionary Association.

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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., 12; Ky., 7; Tenn., 4; Ala., 13; La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2; Texas, 5. _Africa_, 1. _Among the Indians_, 1. Total 66.

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_, 18. Total 37.

TEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.—Among the Freedmen, 231; among the Chinese, 17; among the Indians, 17; in Africa, 14. Total, 279. STUDENTS—In Theology, 88; Law, 17; in College Course, 106; in other studies, 7,018. Total, 7,229. 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 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 YORK H. W. Hubbard, Esq., 56 Reade Street. BOSTON Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Room 21, Congregational House. CHICAGO Rev. 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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“I BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of —— dollars in trust, to pay the same in —— days after my decease to the person who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the ‘American Missionary Association’ of New York City, to be applied, under the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, to its charitable uses and purposes.”

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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