A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member. Correspondents are specially requested to place at the head of each letter the name of their Post Office, and the County and State in which it is located. THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. * * * * * VOL. XXXII. MAY, 1878. No. 5. * * * * * _American Missionary Association._ * * * * * We are glad to recognize in the columns of papers friendly to our work, articles, items and condensations from the pages of the MISSIONARY. It is a matter of far less moment to us to be credited than to be copied. What we want is, to have the minds of the American people filled with the facts which may lead them to appreciate the importance of the work in which we are engaged. Further than that, we shall be glad to have them use the A. M. A. as the almoner of their charities, so far as they may prefer this channel. But, above all, we want the general work to be known and prosecuted. Use us, then, friends—use us freely—we feel no cuts, even of sharpest scissors, if you insert us into your own circulation. Only, when it will serve your ends, as well as ours and the common good, add at the end: “For particulars, see AMERICAN MISSIONARY.” * * * * * One of our missionaries in the South, who has had long experience in the work, and has made close observations, writes thus in respect to the need of a female missionary: “BROTHER STRIEBY: I feel that it is necessary to have a female missionary in this city. There is work to be done which only such a worker can do—a work in the homes of the people, with the _women_, young and old. We are not reaching the women as we should. A man cannot do the needed work. The women of the North want to do something for their colored sisters of the South. Here is an opportunity for them. The homes of these people must be reached. As many of them are, morality is well-nigh impossible. The vice that is engendered in them is frightful. Do, my brother, give me a missionary. Do beg the Christian women of the North to help in this matter. Oh, the fearful degradation and ruin that stream from some of the homes of these people!” * * * * * Rev. Mr. Cutler, of Chattanooga, Tenn., desires to acknowledge, through us, the receipt of one dollar, from “Tennie’s Yankee Friend,” West Medway, Mass. Mr. C. has received from various sources, in response to his plea for this poor girl, sums amounting to about seventy-five dollars.