Introductory material

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.

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.

COMMUNICATIONS

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.

DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS

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.

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.

“I THINK I’D LIKE TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS WHEN I’M SIXTY.”

The gentleman who made the above remark carries a $10,000 endowment policy in the STATE MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, of Worcester, Mass. That sum will be paid to him at “sixty,” or to his family if he dies before reaching that age.

Thousands of men now living will need $10,000 when they become “sixty”—and their families will need it should they die before attaining that age. Both of these objects can be secured by the payment of a small sum each year to

THE STATE MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE CO.,

OF WORCESTER, MASS.,

Which is one of the OLDEST, STRONGEST and BEST companies in the United States.

This Company guarantees a CASH-SURRENDER value of every policy it issues after the second annual payment.

EXAMPLE.

1. An ordinary life policy, issued at the age of 30 for $10,000, annual premium $226.30. (The second and all subsequent premiums will be reduced by dividends.) After ten annual premiums have been paid, the guaranteed cash-surrender value is $909.80; the paid-up value $2,387.70, or more than gross premiums paid. The net cost for the past ten years of all similar policies has been $1,692.77, which reduced the cost of the insurance to $7.83 per $1,000 for each year.

This Company never disputes, or resists, an honest claim. It has been a party to only four suits in thirty-eight years—and in no case have the courts held a claim, resisted by the company, to be valid.

For full explanations, please call on or address

C. W. ANDERSON, General Agent,

145 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.

THE

American Missionary.

Vol. XXXVII.

APRIL, 1883.

No. 4.