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VOL. XXXII.                                                No. 6.

                               THE

                      AMERICAN MISSIONARY.

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              “To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.”

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                           JUNE, 1878.




                           _CONTENTS_:


  EDITORIAL.

    PARAGRAPHS                                                161
    PRINCIPLES AND PLANS                                      162
    DEPARTURE OF THE AZOR.—THE INDIAN BOYS AT HAMPTON         163
    A SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONCERT                                   164
    AN EDUCATED MINISTRY.—ATLANTA AND FISK UNIVERSITIES       165
    NEWS FROM THE CHURCHES                                    168
    ITEMS FROM THE SCHOOLS.—GENERAL NOTES                     169


  THE FREEDMEN.

    STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY                                       172
    VIRGINIA: Additions to the Church—An Indian’s
      Creed—A Good Beginning                                  174
    SOUTH CAROLINA: History of “Avery” Graduates              174
    GEORGIA: Pilgrim Church and Sunday-School—Band of
      Hope—Twitchell School.—School  Children Farming—
      Their Parents Buying Farms.—A Growing School—A
      Literary Society                                        175
    MISSISSIPPI: An Old School—Temperance Work—The
      Gourd Family                                            176
    THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY               177
    THE INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONVENTION.—ANNUAL
      MEETING OF THE SOUTH-WESTERN CONF