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  VOL. XXXIV.                                           NO. 4.


                                THE

                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.

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               “To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.”

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                           APRIL, 1880.




                            _CONTENTS_:


  EDITORIAL.

    PARAGRAPHS                                                97
    DEATH OF SECRETARIES BUSH AND DASHIELL—DEATH OF
      MISS DELL SAFFORD                                       98
    MISSIONARY PERIODICALS                                    98
    THROUGH THE LIGHT CONTINENT                               99
    TWENTY PER CENT                                           99
    THE NEW PLEA                                             100
    CONGREGATIONALISM IN THE SOUTH                           101
    IGNORANCE OF THE <DW64> QUESTION                          102
    AN ILLUSTRATED PRESS                                     103
    ITEMS FROM THE FIELD                                     104
    GENERAL NOTES                                            105


  THE FREEDMEN.

    VIRGINIA, CARRSVILLE—Large Ingathering                   106
    NORTH CAROLINA, MCLEANSVILLE—Facts about the
      Taught and the Teachers                                107
    GEORGIA—NO. 1 MILLER STATION—A Struggling Church,
      etc.                                                   109
    GEORGIA, MACON—A Lady’s S. S. and Missionary Work        110
    GEORGIA, MCINTOSH, LIBERTY CO.—Communion Season          110
    GEORGIA—Church and School must Work Together             111
    ALABAMA—Notes from Marion—Mrs. Geo