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The American Missionary

(QUARTERLY)

  APRIL }
  MAY   } 1900
  JUNE  }

  VOL. LIV.
  No. 2.

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[Illustration: AVERY NORMAL INSTITUTE, CHARLESTON, S. C.]

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NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION,

THE CONGREGATIONAL ROOMS,

FOURTH AVENUE AND TWENTY-SECOND STREET, NEW YORK.

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Price 50 Cents a Year in advance.

Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as Second-Class mail
matter.

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CONTENTS.

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  FINANCIAL--SIX MONTHS                                               49

  A WORD AS TO THE MAGAZINE                                           49

  FIFTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING                                         51

  TILLOTSON COLLEGE, AUSTIN, TEXAS (Illustrated)                      52

  AVERY NORMAL INSTITUTE, CHARLESTON, S. C. (Illustrated)             61

  SOUTHERN FIELD NOTES                                                67

  BITS OF EXPERIENCE IN THE INDIAN COUNTRY                            69

  CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORS OF A HIGHLAND SCHOOL AND VILLAGE (Illustrated)  72

  OBITUARIES--MRS. MARY T. CHASE                                      74

              MISS SUSIE T. CATHCART                                  75

  A SUGGESTIVE SUBSCRIPTION                                           75

  RECEIPTS                                                            76

  WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS                                         94

  SECRETARIES OF YOUNG PEOPLE'S AND CHILDREN'S WORK                   96

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THE 54th ANNUAL MEETING

OF THE

American Missionary Association

WILL BE HELD IN

SPRINGFIELD, MASS.

October 23-25, 1900.

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The AMERICAN MISSIONARY presents new form, fresh material and
generous illustrations for 1900. This magazine is published by the
American Missionary Association quarterly. Subscription rate fifty
cents per year.

Many wonderful missionary developments in our own country during
this stirring period of national enlargement are recorded in the
columns of this magazine.

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THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.

VOL. LIV.     APRIL, 1900.     No. 2.

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FINANCIAL--SIX MONTHS.


The first six months of the present fiscal year of the American
Missionary Association closed March 31st. The receipts are
$18,961.74 more than for the same period last year. The increase in
donations is $10,699, and in estates $6,433.24, exclusive of the
reserve legacy account. The tuition and similar receipts are
$1,829.49 more than last year. This is a favorable and encouraging
showing. We gratefully acknowledge the generosity of the friends of
the great missionary work carried on by this Association, as evident
in their increased donations.

The payments during this period have been $17,595 more than for the
same months last year. The net balance, exclusive of the reserve
legacy account, is $1,366.74 more favorable than that for the first
six months of last year. The increase in current receipts has been
expended in the mission fields which have been so greatly crippled
by the enforced retrenchments during recent years.

The Association rejoices in its freedom from debt and in the
favorable showing for these first six months. The next six months
include the summer season, in which missionary gifts are often
greatly reduced and the income suffers. We would again remind the
pastors, Sunday-school superintendents, officers of Endeavor
Societies and Woman's Missionary Circles of the great and pressing
need upon the Association, both in old and new fields, among the
many millions for whom our faithful missionaries labor. Porto Rico
demands increased gifts. The field is opening with great hopefulness
both in educational and evangelistic lines. Word comes from
missionaries there urging reinforcements, which means more
consecrated money to meet this pressing necessity.

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A WORD AS TO THE MAGAZINE.


Letters frequently come to the editor of this magazine expressing
regret that it does not reach the subscriber regularly each month.
No one can regret this fact more than the editor. It must be
remembered that the magazine is no longer a monthly, but a
quarterly. This reduction in