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The American Missionary

(QUARTERLY)

  July }
  Aug. } 1900
  Sept.}

  Vol. LIV.
  No. 3.

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[Illustration: COURT SQUARE THEATRE, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. PLACE OF
FIFTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING.]

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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--NINE MONTHS                                           97

  EDITORIAL NOTES                                                  97

  INDIAN PROGRESS                                                 102

  LIGHT AND SHADE                                                 104

  COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES:

    FISK UNIVERSITY, TENN.                                        106
    TALLADEGA COLLEGE, ALA.                                       108
    STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY, LA.                                      110
    TOUGALOO UNIVERSITY, MISS.                                    113
    GRANDVIEW INSTITUTE, TENN.                                    115
    PLEASANT HILL ACADEMY, TENN.                                  115

  FORT BERTHOLD INDIAN SCHOOL, N. D.                              116

  A TRIBUTE TO REV. A. J. F. BEHRENDS, D.D.                       118

  RICHARD SALTER STORRS, D.D.                                     119

  OBITUARY--PROF. A. K. SPENCE--REV. W. S. ALEXANDER, D.D.        121

  PORTO RICO NOTES                                                122

  LOSS OF SUPPLIES FOR ALASKA                                     124

  DEPARTMENT OF CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR                                125

  RECEIPTS                                                        128

  WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS                                     142

  SECRETARIES OF YOUNG PEOPLE'S AND CHILDREN'S WORK               144

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THE 54th ANNUAL MEETING

OF THE

American Missionary Association

WILL BE HELD IN

SPRINGFIELD, MASS.

October 23-25, 1900.

SERMON: REV. NEWELL DWIGHT HILLIS, D.D.

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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.     JULY, 1900.     NO. 3.

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FINANCIAL.

Nine Months, Ending June 30th.


The receipts are $237,141.25, exclusive of Reserve Legacy Account, an
increase of $24,922,63 compared with last year. There has been an
increase of $15,751.36 in donations, $5,800.96 in estates, $852,26 in
income and $2,518.05 in tuition.

The expenditures are $249,148.75, an increase of $21,699.95 compared
with last year. The debt showing June 30th, this year, is
$12,007.50--last year at the same time $15,230.18.

We appeal to churches, Sunday-schools, Christian Endeavor Societies,
Woman's Missionary Societies and individuals, and also to executors
of estates, to secure as large a sum as possible for remittance in
July, August and September. The fiscal year closes September 30th. We
hope to receive from all sources every possible dollar. The
Association closed the year 1897-98 without debt, and the year
1898-99 without debt, and it earnestly desires to close this year,
1899-1900 without debt.

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[Sidenote: Annual Meeting, Oct. 23d-25th.]

The Fifty-fourth Annual Meeting of the American Missionary
Association is to be held in Springfield, Mass., October 23d-25th.
The Court Square Theatre has been secured,