THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
Reading edition
“To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.”
FEBRUARY, 1878.
CONTENTS:
EDITORIAL.
Paragraphs 33
Gifts from the Field 34
African Evangelization 35
Life of Edward Norris Kirk, D.D. 36
News from the Churches 37
Central South Conference—Is the Negro Dying Out? 38
African Emigration 39
Indian Notes 41
Chinese Notes 43
NEW APPOINTMENTS.
The Southern Field 44
Among the Chinese—Among the Indians—Mendi Mission, West Africa 48
AFRICA.
Our New Missionaries 48
Kaw Mendi, Sherbro, W. Africa. Rev. J. M. Williams 49
COMMUNICATIONS.
Poetry. “Christ in the Person of the Poor.”—Replacing the Burned Buildings 50
Campaign in Massachusetts. Dist. Sec’y Powell, of Chicago 51
American Missionary Association. From the Fisk Expositor 53
THE CHILDREN’S PAGE 54
RECEIPTS 55
CONSTITUTION 59
WORK, STATISTICS, WANTS, &c. 60
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