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EDITORIAL.

OUR LIST OF GOOD SAMARITANS

AN EXPLICIT WARNING--PRIVILEGES OF LIFE MEMBERSHIP

THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY--THE ROMAN CATHOLICS AND THE FREEDMEN

NOTES FROM NEW ENGLAND

DEATH OF PROF. A. HATCH

LIST OF OUR FIELD WORKERS

CONVENTION OF COLORED ROMAN CATHOLICS

AMONG THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAINS

ITEMS FROM THE FIELD

THE CHINESE.

GLIMPSE AT SHADY SIDE

ANNIVERSARY OF CHINESE MISSIONS

BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.

THE MOUNTAIN GIRLS

RECEIPTS

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.

Rooms, 56 Reade Street.

Price, 50 Cents a Year, in Advance.

Entered at the Post Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class matter.

American Missionary Association.

President, Rev. Wm. M. Taylor, D.D., LL.D., N.Y.

Rev. A.J.F. Behrends, D.D., N.Y. Rev. F.A. Noble, D.D., Ill. Rev. Alex. McKenzie, D.D., Mass. Rev. D.O. Mears, D.D., Mass. Rev. Henry Hopkins, D.D., Mo.

Peter McCartee. Chas. P. Peirce.

J.E. Rankin, Wm. H. Ward, J.W. Cooper, John H. Washburn, Edmund L. Champlin.

Lyman Abbott, Chas. A. Hull, J.R. Danforth, Clinton B. Fisk, Addison P. Foster.

S.B. Halliday, Samuel Holmes, Samuel S. Marples, Charles L. Mead, Elbert B. Monroe.

Rev. Chas. W. Shelton

Rev. Frank E. Jenkins. Prof. Edward S. Hall.

COMMUNICATIONS

Relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the Corresponding Secretaries; letters for "THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY," to the Editor, at the New York Office.

DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS

In drafts, checks, registered letters, or post-office orders, may be sent to H.W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York, or, when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or 151 Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member.

NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.--The date on the "address label," indicates the time to which the subscription is paid. Changes are made in date on label to the 10th of each month. If payment of subscription be made afterward, the change on the label will appear a month later. Please send early notice of change in post-office address, giving the former address and the new address, in order that our periodicals and occasional papers may be correctly mailed.

FORM OF A BEQUEST.

THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.

American Missionary Association.

OUR LIST OF GOOD SAMARITANS.

It must be remembered that this requires expenditure. The oil and the wine, the inn and the constant attendance, call for money. Our constituents, who furnish this, want the work done and well done, and they are willing to pay for it. But sometimes they need to be reminded of the cost. At our last Annual Meeting, the "two pence" which they had during the year put into our hands, counted in American money, amounted to 3,147.22; and they said: "Whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again I will repay thee." We are very careful to watch the receipts and expenditures, and we find that for the three months since the Annual Meeting, we have received from all sources ,958.43; whereas, the current expenditures for the three months require about ,000. We give this timely notice that they who commit to us this work may remit to us what is needed.

Let it be understood that the generous gift of that noble friend of the Negro race was not entrusted to us to do the work of the good Samaritans of the Churches. We are not permitted to use it for this. The yearly income of the Daniel Hand Fund is to do the work of Daniel Hand--no more. For this, God will reward him and generations will bless him, but he leaves the churches and individual Christians to carry on their own work as before and to reap the blessings of it. We cannot give the Daniel Hand Fund to the churches. We cannot expend it for the churches. It relieves no one of duty and privilege. It is limited also, to its use. The churches and the schools to which we are already committed call for a great increase in self-denial and benevolence.

Pastors and members of the churches, the work is increasingly great. It enlarges itself. Other denominations are increasing their efforts to meet the pressing emergency. Let it not be said that our churches--the first in the field and the most efficient--are falling behind in the ranks. Let our banner be ever at the front. Let us do our work.

AN EXPLICIT WARNING.

One of our missionaries was recently at the North soliciting aid in sustaining his work. His appeal was repeatedly met by the response: "The Association is rich--it has just had a gift of more than a million of dollars." When he explained that only the interest can be used, and this for educational work only, the reply was: "This interest can be used in payment of appropriations already made for schools, thus releasing just so much for other purposes."

PRIVILEGES OF LIFE MEMBERSHIP.

The question is sometimes asked in letters we receive, What are the privileges of a Life Member in the A.M.A.? We answer:

THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.

We have two objects in printing this magazine. First, to have it read, and, secondly, to have it paid for. The main purpose is the first, of course, for we wish to have it read if it is not paid for, yet we greatly prefer to have it both read and paid for. We believe that those who pay for it are most likely to read it, and for this reason we fear that this item will be seen only by those who do not need this reminder, but we draw the bow at a venture and tell our readers that the price of the magazine is 50 cents a year.

Our Annual Report, also, is ready for distribution. Those who wish it will please send us a postal card requesting it.

THE ROMAN CATHOLICS AND THE FREEDMEN.

Soon after the war the Roman Catholics seemed to have made a strong effort to win the Freedmen to their faith, and many Protestants felt a good degree of apprehension that the splendors of the ceremonial and the absence of race distinction might captivate the Negro. But the effort was unsuccessful and appeared for a time to have been abandoned. It has often been said, however, that the Church of Rome never surrenders an undertaking; it may delay and wait for more auspicious times, but in the end it perseveres. There are some indications of the renewal of the zeal of the Papacy for the Negro. The article in another part of the magazine, entitled "The Colored Catholic Congress," is an evidence.

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