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THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.
PRESIDENT.
Hon. Wm. B. Washburn, LL.D., Mass.
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.
Rev. M. E. Strieby, D.D., 56 Reade Street, N.Y.
TREASURER.
H. W. Hubbard, Esq., 56 Reade Street, N.Y.
AUDITORS.
M. F. Reading. Wm. A. Nash.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
John H. Washburn, Chairman; A. P. Foster, Secretary; Lyman Abbott, Alonzo S. Ball, A. S. Barnes, C. T. Christensen, Franklin Fairbanks, Clinton B. Fisk, S. B. Halliday, Samuel Holmes, Charles A. Hull, Samuel S. Marples, Charles L. Mead, Wm. H. Ward, A. L. Williston.
DISTRICT SECRETARIES.
Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Boston. Rev. G. D. Pike, D.D., New York.
Rev. James Powell, Chicago.
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relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the Corresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields, to the District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the “American Missionary,” to Rev. G. D. Pike, D.D., at the New York Office.
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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 112 West Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member.
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“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.
WANTED
$375,000,
Efficiently to prosecute the work in hand.
CO-OPERATION
Of every Congregational minister, and of every office bearer in our Congregational churches to secure (a) an annual presentation or the work, and claims of the A. M. A. in every Congregational church; and (b) an annual contribution from every Congregational church in the country for this great work.
HELP
Of every Congregational Sunday-school superintendent to secure from his school a contribution to our “Student Aid Fund.”
AID
Of every Ladies’ Missionary Society to sustain our work among the colored women and girls.
ENDOWMENTS
For Professorships and Scholarships in our schools. The time has come when in our larger institutions the chairs of instruction should be endowed, that the Association may be left to enlarge its missionary work in other directions.
GIFTS
For the improvement of schools and churches already built, and the erection of additional buildings, imperatively needed.
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American Missionary.
Vol. XXXVII.
MARCH, 1883.
No. 3.