



Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, KarenD and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This
file was produced from images generously made available
by Cornell University Digital Collections)









    VOL. XXXV.                                          NO. 8.

                                THE

                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.

                 *       *       *       *       *

               “To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.”

                 *       *       *       *       *

                           AUGUST, 1881.




                            _CONTENTS_:


  EDITORIAL.

    PARAGRAPH—The Mendi Mission                            225
    ILLUSTRATION—Mission Home, Mendi Mission               228
    DEATH OF REV. KELLY M. KEMP                            230
    AFRICAN NOTES                                          230
    FREEDMEN FOR AFRICA: Rev. Lewis Grout                  232
    ADDRESS AT NASHVILLE: Sec’y Strieby                    233
    BENEFACTIONS                                           236
    CHINESE AND INDIAN NOTES                               237


  THE FREEDMEN.

    ANNIVERSARY REPORTS—Continued.
      Ga.: Atlanta University                              238
      Ala.: Talladega College                              240
      Texas: Tillotson Institute, Austin                   242
      S.C.: Avery Institute, Charleston                    242
      Ga.: Lewis High School, Macon                        243


  THE CHINESE.

    ANNIVERSARY AT STOCKTON                                245


  WOMAN’S HOME MISS. ASSOC’N.

    TWENTY MINUTES A-DAY WORKING SOCIETY                   247


  CHILDREN’S PAGE.

    GRACIE’S MISTAKE: Mrs. Harriet A. Cheever              248


  RECEIPTS                                                 250

  LIST OF OFFICERS                                         254

  CONSTITUTION                                             255

  AIM, STATISTICS, WANTS, ETC.                             256

                 *       *       *       *       *


                             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.




[Illustration: MAP OF PROTESTANT MISSION STATIONS IN AFRICA.]




                                THE

                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.

                 *       *       *       *       *

             VOL. XXXV.      AUGUST, 1881.      NO. 8.

                 *       *       *       *       *




_American Missionary Association._

       *       *       *       *       *

We publish on the opposite page a map of Africa, upon which is
represented, by crosses, the location of the different Protestant
mission stations of that continent. The Mendi Mission on the West
Coast, and the proposed Arthington Mission in the Nile Basin, are
specially indicated by dotted lines. We give, also, elsewhere a cut
of the Mission Home at Good Hope Station, Mendi Mission.

       *       *       *       *       *


THE MENDI MISSION.

SUGGESTIONS, WITH EXTRACTS FROM JOURNAL.

REV. H. M. LADD.

Much of the mission work in Africa, at least upon the West Coast,
has a basis in industrial work of some kind. Many causes have
conspired to hinder this branch of civilizing work at the Mendi
Mission. Without stopping to specify what these may have been,
no one can doubt that the chief reason why the saw-mill at Avery
has failed to be a source of income to the Association, is the
difficulty of transporting the lumber to market. This mill, with
a circular and an upright saw, with a good head of water during
the larger part of the year, and with timber near at hand, is the
only mill of the kind on the West Coast. There is a good demand for
such lumber as the mill can produce, but the chief market is 120
miles distant. No one in Africa, however much he might want lumber,
would be guilty of going 120 miles