The American Missionary Association.

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., 6; S. C., 2; Ga., 13; Ky., 6; Tenn., 4; Ala., 14; La., 17; Miss., 4; Texas, 6. Africa, 2. Among the Indians, 1. Total 76.

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, 31. Total 51.

Teachers, Missionaries and Assistants.—Among the Freedmen, 284; among the Chinese, 22; among the Indians, 11; in Africa, 13. Total, 330. Students—In Theology, 102; Law, 23; in College Course, 75; in other studies, 7,852. Total, 8,052. 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 YorkH. W. Hubbard, Esq., Treasurer, 56 Reade Street.

BostonRev. C. L. Woodworth, Dis’t Sec., Room 21 Congregational House.

ChicagoRev. Jas. Powell, Dis’t Sec., 112 West Washington Street.

MAGAZINE.

This Magazine will be sent, gratuitously, if desired, to the Missionaries of the Association; to Life Members; to all clergymen who take up collections for the Association; to Superintendents of Sabbath Schools; to College Libraries; to Theological Seminaries; to Societies of Inquiry on Missions; and to every donor who does not prefer to take it as a subscriber, and contributes in a year not less than five dollars.

Those who wish to remember the American Missionary Association in their last Will and Testament, are earnestly requested to use the following

FORM OF A BEQUEST.

“I bequeath to my executor (or executors) the sum of —— dollars in trust, to pay the same in —— days after my decease to the person who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the ‘American Missionary Association’ of New York City, to be applied, under the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, to its charitable uses and purposes.”

The will should be attested by three witnesses [in some States three are required—in other States only two], who should write against their names, their places of residence [if in cities, their street and number]. The following form of attestation will answer for every State in the Union: “Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said [A. B.] as his last Will and Testament, in presence of us, who, at the request of the said A. B., and in his presence, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.” In some States it is required that the Will should be made at least two months before the death of the testator.

THE CONGREGATIONALIST FOR 1881.

The publishers of The Congregationalist have never been better prepared to make an entertaining and instructive paper for the family than now. Our contributors embrace such names as

Prof. AUSTIN PHELPS, D. D.,ROSE TERRY COOKE,

Rev. J. T. DURYEA, D. D.,SUSAN COOLIDGE,

President S. C. BARTLETT,MARION HARLAND,

Rev. L. W. BACON, D. D.,Rev. THEO. L. CUYLER, D. D.,

Rev. WASHINGTON GLADDEN,Rev. W. F. CRAFTS,

GEO. E. WARING, Jr.,Rev. GEO. LEON WALKER, D. D.,

Mr. C. C. COFFIN,RAY PALMER,

JULIA C. R. DORR,

And many others who have attained a national reputation.

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Our Sabbath-school Department for 1881 is under the charge of the Rev. A. F. Schauffler, of New York, who is known as one of the most suggestive writers and thinkers on this subject in the country.

Our Children’s Department is sustained by such writers as Mr. C. C. Coffin, Ernest Ingersoll (on Natural History), W. J. Rolfe, Clara Erskine Clement, and others equally eminent, and it will be found entertaining and instructive to all, both to young and old.

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“GREAT SUBJECTS,”

And from the pens of some of the most eminent thinkers in the land, is destined to attract wide attention. Among the writers are Ex-President Woolsey, Gen. J. R. Hawley, Hon. Dorman B. Eaton, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Dr. Geo. M. Beard and Rev. Noah Porter, D. D. The large space of four columns a week, on an average, is devoted to our “Literary Department.” It is gotten up wholly in the interest of our readers, and we receive frequent testimonies to its value.

With seven persons on our regular editorial staff, including Rev. A. H. Clapp, D. D., in New York, who, besides other matter, furnishes a letter every week, the reader will find The Congregationalist in all its departments fully abreast of the times. It touches subjects of current interest to the religious public every week, not only by its editorial articles, but by a great amount of paragraphs and short matter such as all are glad to read. We offer no premiums, but are now expending upon the columns of the paper itself what otherwise might be required for that purpose. The amount of money paid out sometimes in a single week to writers for The Congregationalist now exceeds the sum expended in this way for six months or a year a quarter of a century ago.

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