Part 6

Aurora. Cong. Ch. $4.50; Dea. O. S. 50c. 5.00 Austinburg. L. D. R. 27c.; F. J. R. 50c. 0.77 Brownhelm. Cong. Ch. 22.50 Chagrin Fall. “Earnest Workers,” $20, _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._;—Cong. Ch. $14.91 34.91 Chardon. —— 1.00 Cincinnati. Seventh St. Cong. Ch. 13.64 Claridon. L. T. Wilmot 10.00 Cleveland. Euclid Av. Cong. Ch., $20.29; Mrs. H. P. Hickox, $10;—Mrs. Coggswell, $2, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._—Miss M. P. 50c. 32.79 Columbus. Welsh Cong. Ch. 5.10 Delaware. Troedshewdalar Ch., $9; Wm. Bevan $5 14.00 Dover. Cong. Ch. 9.00 East Cleveland. Mrs. Mary Walkden, _for Mendi M._ 2.00 Elyria. Mrs. G., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 1.00 Fostoria. C. M. 1.00 Geneva. W. C. P. 1.00 Huntsburg. Cong. Ch., $28.50; L. G., 50c. 29.00 Lafayette. Cong. Ch. 8.50 Madison. Mrs. Sarah Warner 10.00 Mallet Creek. J. A. Bingham, M. D. 5.00 Mansfield. S. M. S. 0.50 Marietta. R. P., 50c.; Rev. I. M. P., 50c 1.00 Mechanicstown. Susan Manifold 2.00 Medina. Woman’s Missionary Soc., by Mrs. M. J. Munger, Treas. 7.00 Nelson. Dea. Harvey Pike 5.00 Newark. Welsh Cong. Ch., $9.30; Thomas D. Jones, $5 14.30 North Eaton. M. O. 0.50 Oberlin. J. W. Merrill, $100; Mrs. C. G. Finney, $20; P. B. H., 50c. 120.50 Painesville. Edward Little, $1.50; Rev. S. W. P., $1 2.50 Rootstown. Cong. Ch., $23; bal. to const. MRS. CHARLOTTE E. BICKFORD, L. M. 23.00 Saybrook. Sab. Sch. District No. 3, $5, _for Student, Tougaloo U._;—W. C. Sexton, $2 7.00 Sharon Centre. Mrs. R. A. 0.50 Sicily. S. W. Huggins 10.00 Springfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., Quar. Coll. 6.14 Steubenville. Adna Tenney 20.00 Strongsville. Free Cong. Ch. 6.00 Twinsburg. J. R. Parmelee 2.00 Wakeman. Cong. Ch., to const. MINOT PIERCE, L. M. 51.42 Wauseon. Cong. Ch. 16.75 Wellington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00 Welshfield. S. P. 0.51 Wooster. D. B. 1.00 York. Cong. Ch. 10.00 —— “A Friend,” _for Mendi M._ 35.50

INDIANA, $1.

Newville. Rev. A. D. 1.00

ILLINOIS, $998.47.

Amboy. Bureau Ass’n of Ill., by Mrs. H. T. Ford, Treas., _for Lady Missionary_, _Liberty Co., Ga._ 25.00 Beardstown. Cong. Ch. 5.00 Chandlerville. Cong. Ch. 7.00 Chicago. “A Friend,” $250, by E. W. Blatchford, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._;—N. E. Cong. Ch. (bal. Coll.) $109.22, and Mon. Con. Coll., $10.63;—Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., $50, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._;—Ladies’ Miss. Soc. of N. E. Ch. (of which $15 _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._), $25.75;—Miss R., $1, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._;—L. D. 50c. 447.10 Elgin. Mrs. Lovell, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 5.00 Evanston. Cong. Ch., $21.56;—J. M. Williams, $5, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 26.56 Fremont. Mrs. Robinson, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 5.00 Galesburg. “Friends,” by Mrs. S. R. Holmes, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 35.45 Geneseo. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 22.58 Highland. Cong. Ch. 20.00 Jerseyville. G. W. Burke 10.00 Kewanee. Gleaners of Cong. Ch., $25, _for Student Aid, Straight U._;—Mrs. C. L. C., $1. 26.00 La Harpe. Mrs. E. J. Nay, $2 2.00 Lamoille. Cong. Ch. 25.50 Lee Centre. Ladies’ Soc. of Cong. Ch., _for Lady Missionary, Liberty Co., Ga._ 15.03 Lewistown. Mrs. M. Phelps 50.00 Lisbon. G. K. 0.50 Mendon. Mrs. C. T. 1.00 Moline. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $25; Ladies’ Aid Soc. of Cong. Ch., $25; “A Friend,” $1, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 51.00 Oak Park. Girls’ Mission Band, $50; First Cong. Sab. Sch., $42.60, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 92.60 Peoria. Wm. Truesdell, $10; Moses Pettingill, $10; J. T. Rogers, $5; Rev. H. A. Stevens, $2, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._;—Mrs. E. Woodruff, $2 29.00 Polo. “Mrs. B. and M., Mrs. B., Mrs. P. and E. P.,” $18; “Three young friends,” $3.50, _for Lady Missionary, Nashville, Tenn._ 21.50 Pittsfield. Mrs. Elizabeth Carter 10.00 Princeton. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 16.25 Quincy. First Union Cong. Ch., $12.75; L. Kingman, $10. 22.75 Roseville. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 6.65 Saint Charles. W. B. Lyons and Wife 5.00 Sycamore. Rev. A. S. 1.00 Western Springs. Mr. Williams, $2; Mr. A., $1.; Miss J., $1, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 4.00 Winnebago. N. F. Parsons 10.00

MICHIGAN, $414.22.

Almont. Cong. Ch. 38.59 Alpena. Mrs. S. Hitchcock 1.50 Benzonia. Rev. J. S. Fisher 25.00 Berrien Springs. Alexander B. Leeds 5.00 Birmingham. Rev. J. McC., $1; Mrs. D. D. S., $1 2.00 East Saginaw. ESTATE of Charles W. Wilder, by N. H. Culver, Admr. 100.00 Jonesville. Mrs. R. L. H. 0.50 Lodi. Eli Benton 50.00 Memphis. ESTATE of Chester L. Dudley, by James H. Dudley 25.00 Owosso. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $50, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._;—First Cong. Ch., $50 100.00 Paw Paw. H. R. 1.00 Saint Joseph. Cong. Ch. 16.03 Union City. Cong. Ch. 36.60 Vassar. Mrs. O. W. Selden 3.00 Whitehall. First Cong. Ch. 10.00

IOWA, $414.81.

Burlington. Sab. Sch. of First Cong Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00 Castalia. W. H. Baker and Family, to const. MRS. ALMIRA A. RICHARDS, L. M. 35.00 Cedar Falls. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady Missionary in New Orleans_ 5.00 Council Bluffs. Cong. Ch. 37.57 Creston. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. 16.26 Danville. Mrs. Harriet Huntington 5.00 Decorah. First Cong. Ch. 32.68 Des Moines. Cong. Ch. ($50 of which from ex-Gov. Samuel Merrill), $107.92; Ladies of Plymouth Ch. $11 118.92 Fifteen-Mile Grove. G. C. H. 1.00 Grinnell. Ladies of Cong. Ch. 36.83 Iowa City. Cong. Ch. 10.00 Le Grand. J. N. Craig, $3; T. P. C., $1 4.00 Lewis. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00 Marion. Mrs. R. D. Stephens, $25; “Willing Workers” of Cong. Ch., Box of C., _for Student Aid, Straight U._ 25.00 Montour. Cong. Ch. 12.54 Stacyville. Cong. Ch. 17.50 Seneca. Rev. O. Littlefield 10.00 Tabor. Miss J. E. Williams, $5, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._;—J. E. Williams, $2 7.00 Waterloo. Mrs. W. W. T. 0.51

WISCONSIN, $258.24.

Appleton. Mrs. M. C. P. 0.50 Beloit. “Friends” $5, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._;—Cong. Ch. (ad’l) $1 6.00 Cooksville. Ed. Gilley 5.00 Janesville. “Life Member” 10.00 Madison. First Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. J. H. OLIN, L. M. 30.00 Menasha. First. Cong. Ch. 40.00 Milwaukee. Spring St. Cong. Ch. 35.50 Racine. Mrs. M. B. Erskine 5.00 Sheboygan. David Ticknor 2.00 Walworth. Mrs. D. R. S. C. 1.00 West Salem. William Munson 50.00 Whitewater. Cong. Ch. 73.24

KANSAS, $14.15.

Manhattan. Mrs. M. P. 1.00 Topeka. First Cong. Ch. 8.00 Washington Creek. D. E. B. 1.00 Waushara. Cong. Ch. 4.15

MINNESOTA, $63.89.

Faribault. Cong. Ch. 27.27 Minneapolis. Plymouth Cong. Ch. 19.12 Morris. Cong. Ch. 1.52 Northfield. First Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 15.98

NEBRASKA, $7.

Beaver Crossing. Mrs. E. Taylor 2.00 Santee Agency. “A Friend of the Freedmen.” 5.00

DAKOTA, $51.05.

Yankton. Woman’s Miss. Soc., _for work among Women_ 51.05

WASHINGTON TER., $25.

Colfax. Rev. Cushing Eells 10.00 S’kokomish. Cong. Ch. 15.00

CALIFORNIA, $5.

Chico. Lewis H. Morse, 1 copy of Worcester’s Unabridged Dictionary Nevada City. Charles Hepler 5.00

MARYLAND, $100.

Baltimore. Rev. Geo. Morris, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 100.00

TENNESSEE, $230.55.

Chattanooga. J. W. H. 0.50 Memphis. Le Moyne Sch., Tuition 31.60 Nashville. Fisk University, Tuition, $193.10;—Fisk U., Thanksgiving Offering, $5.35 _for Lady Missionary, Nashville, Tenn._ 198.45

NORTH CAROLINA, $108.01.

Raleigh. Washington Sch., Tuition 7.60 Wilmington. Normal Sch., Tuition, $94.50; First Cong. Ch. $5.91 100.41

SOUTH CAROLINA, $342.50.

Charleston. Avery Inst., Tuition, $320.50;—Rev. T. Cutler, $20, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._—Cong. Ch., $2 342.50

GEORGIA, $596.01.

Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition, $215.60; Rent, 3; Atlanta U. Tuition, $94; Rent, $14.30;—Atlanta U., _for an Indian Student_, $50 376.90 Bellmont. Cong. Ch. 1.50 Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition, $53.35; Rent, $6.50 59.85 Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, $107; Sales, $50.76 157.76

ALABAMA, $523.60.

Athens. Trinity Sch., Tuition 31.00 Mobile. Emerson Institute, Tuition 201.25 Montgomery. Pub. Sch. Fund 175.00 Selma. Cong. Ch., $31.40; Rent, $5 36.40 Talladega. Talladega College, Tuition, $79.45; W. S., 50c. 79.95

MISSISSIPPI, $200.05.

Natchez. Rev. C. A. 0.50 New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition 110.00 Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition, $40.25; Rent, $48.80; by Rev. G. S. P., 50c. 89.55

MISSOURI, $18.05.

Ashburn. F. M. R. 1.00 Miami. Elijah Nichols 5.00 Neosho. “A Friend” 1.00 Saint Louis. First Cong. Ch. 11.05

INCOME FUND, $290.

—— Avery Fund 190.00 —— C. F. Dike Fund 50.00 —— General Fund 50.00

CANADA, $2.

Union. Nathan Taylor 2.00

PERSIA, $30.

Oroomiah. Rev. and Mrs. B. Labaree 30.00 ————————— Total 16,580.82 Total from Oct. 1st to Dec. 31st $43,157.87

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FOR MISSIONS IN AFRICA.

Leeds, Eng. Robert Arthington, conditional pledge £3,000 Brewer, Me. M. Hardy $100.00 Previously acknowledged in Nov. receipts 1,515.34 ————————— Total $1,615.34

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FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS.

New London, Conn. First Cong. Ch. $50.00 Brooklyn, N. Y. Clinton Ave. Cong. Ch. (A. S. Barnes) 500.00 Mendon, Ill. Mrs. J. Fowler 125.00 ————————— Total 675.00 Previously acknowledged in Oct. receipts 192.00 ————————— Total $867.00

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FOR NEGRO REFUGEES.

Bangor, Me. Miss Perham $2.00 Harwichport, Mass. Leonard Robbins 5.00 Coral, Mich. Benjamin H. Lewis 5.00 —————— Total 12.00 Previously acknowledged in Nov. receipts 5.00 —————— Total $17.00

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Receipts for December 17,367.82 Total from Oct. 1st to Dec. 31st $45,740.21 ==========

H. W. HUBBARD, _Treas._, 56 Reade St., N. Y.

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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 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.

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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., 13; Ky., 7; Tenn., 4; Ala., 14, La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2; Texas, 6. _Africa_, 2. _Among the Indians_, 1. Total 70.

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_, 24. Total 44.

TEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.—Among the Freedmen, 253; among the Chinese, 21; among the Indians, 9; in Africa, 13. Total, 296. STUDENTS—In Theology, 86; Law, 28; in College Course, 63; in other studies, 7,030. Total, 7,207. 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 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.