THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
Reading edition
“To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.”
NOVEMBER, 1879.
CONTENTS:
EDITORIAL.
Our Annual Meeting 321
Death of Rev. Wm. Patton, D. D. 321
Paragraphs 322
No Debt—No Deficit 323
Missionary Mass Conventions—Our New Men 324
The Mendi Mission 325
The Arthington Mission 326
Self-Protection: Extract from address of Rev. Albert H. Heath 326
Sunday-School Letters 329
Items from the Field 329
General Notes 331
THE FREEDMEN.
Part of a Tour through the Carolinas 334
Contrasts 335
Georgia, Atlanta: Economical Industrial Department 337
Georgia, Savannah: Revival—Work and Results 338
Alabama, Florence: New Church Building 339
Alabama, Talladega: Protracted Meetings 339
AFRICA.
Mendi Mission—Annual Meeting of the Missionaries 339
THE INDIANS.
A Tour Among the Clallam Indians 342
CHILDREN’S PAGE.
Cabin Prayer-Meetings—Which was the Hero? 344
RECEIPTS 346
Constitution 349
Work, Statistics, Wants, &c. 350
NEW YORK: Published by the American Missionary Association, Rooms, 56 Reade Street.
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