Part 7

_Demonstrated best_ by HIGHEST HONORS AT ALL WORLD’S EXPOSITIONS FOR TWELVE YEARS; viz: at PARIS. 1867; VIENNA, 1873; SANTIAGO, 1875; PHILADELPHIA, 1876; TWO HIGHEST MEDALS at PARIS 1878; and GRAND SWEDISH GOLD MEDAL, 1878. Only American Organs ever awarded highest honors at any. Sold for cash or installments. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES with new styles and prices, free

MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN CO., BOSTON, NEW YORK, or CHICAGO.

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CHURCH CUSHIONS

MADE OF THE

PATENT ELASTIC FELT.

For particulars, address H. D. OSTERMOOR,

P. O. Box 4004. 36 Broadway, New York.

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Meneely & Kimberly,

BELL FOUNDERS, TROY, N. Y.

Manufacture a superior quality of BELLS. Special attention given to =CHURCH BELLS=. ☞ Catalogues sent free to parties needing bells.

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DUDLEY’S PATENT

DIAGONAL

ROAD SCRAPER

THE BEST. THE CHEAPEST.

Weighs but 50 lbs., has Steel Cutter Plate, can be worked square or at any desired angle, and is rapidly superseding all other Scrapers where it is known.

Read the following:

One says: “It will do more work than two of the common kind.”

Another: “It is worth more than all the old kind that can be made.”

“I would not take 25 dollars for mine, if I could not get another.”

“With a yoke of oxen and boy to drive, I can scrape and finish up in five hours as much road as I can with any scraper known to me in ten hours, beside doing it better and easier both for myself and team.”——J. DAVIS, Hartford.

“For working roads it will soon supersede the old scoop. I consider it one of the best simple inventions of the age.”——G. P. BELDEN, Dover Plains.

“Leaves a road in better shape, and is easier for man and team, than any scraper I ever saw.”——J. S. KINNEY, Washington.

Send for circular.

S. H. DUDLEY, Bantam Falls, Litchfield County, Ct.

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YESTERDAY’S WORK.

We point to the record of results of our work among the Freedmen during the last fifteen years, as indicating a degree of progress and an amount of fruitage rarely equaled in the same length of time. We base our claims for generous gifts, now and in the years to come, upon this showing, confident that this is the best argument we can make. Is it too much to claim to have been faithful over a few things, or to ask that we be trusted with what may be needful for the many which are at hand?

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TO-DAY’S NEED.

The pressing need of to-day may be seen from the following _appeal_, which has appeared in some of the religious papers:

“The end of the school year of the American Missionary Association is near at hand. Its Teachers and Missionaries must soon return North, and will need the balance of their small salaries to enable them to do so. This necessary demand makes a special drain upon our treasury, and we, therefore, earnestly appeal to our friends to enable us to meet it without debt. We hope that churches whose collections occur now will make them as large as possible and remit promptly; and we ask our friends, in whose heart is a warm love for the cause, to come to our relief with special contributions for this emergency. In behalf of the Executive Committee,

M. E. STRIEBY, _Cor. Secretary_.”

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TO-MORROW’S WANT.

Looking ahead, we see that the coming claims upon us must be greater than those of the past. The signs of the times indicate that the Lord’s work is to be done upon a larger scale in the near future; the progress, made and making, in our schools, and the call for enlargement in our church work, will make increasing demands upon us, until the time shall come when they shall be more largely self-supporting than it is possible for them to be now. We have done much——we are doing more——we must expect to do a still greater work. Give us the means, and plan large things for us in the days to come.

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ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT.

We invite special attention to this department, of which our low rates and large circulation make its pages specially valuable. Our readers are among the best in the country, having an established character for integrity and thrift that constitutes them valued customers in all departments of business.

To Advertisers using display type and cuts, who are accustomed to the “RULES” of the best Newspapers, requiring “DOUBLE RATES” for these “LUXURIES,” our wide pages, fine paper, and superior priming, with =no extra charge for cuts=, are advantages readily appreciated, and which add greatly to the appearance and effect of business announcements.

Gratified with the substantial success of this department, we solicit orders from all who have unexceptionable wares to advertise.

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

J. H. DENISON, Adv’g Agent, 56 Reade Street, New York.

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☞ 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.

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DAVID H. GILDERSLEEVE, Printer, 101 Chambers Street, New York.

Transcriber’s Notes:

Obvious punctuation errors were corrected.