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. XXXIII. FEBRUARY, 1879. No. 2. * * * * * _American Missionary Association._ * * * * * We are happy to greet our elder sister, _The Missionary Herald_, or perhaps we should name a more venerable relative yet, as in the seventy-fifth year of its age it renews its youth. Always valuable, it promises in future to be more full of information as to the work of the American Board, and more comprehensive in its view of the missionary work at large, while it enlivens its pages with illustrations and adds a bright department for the young folks. We welcome our brother Strong to the editorial chair, and the _Herald_ to its future, and we trust ever-increasing, career of usefulness. * * * * * A new Sunday School Jubilee Concert Exercise, relating to the work of the American Missionary Association, has been prepared by the Rev. G. D. Pike, upon the basis of one arranged by Rev. A. E. Winship, of Massachusetts. This is brought down to date as to its facts and figures, and will be accompanied by a brief for the use of those who are to lead and to make addresses, giving facts in greater detail, and incidents as material with which to make the meetings of deeper interest. The paper includes Jubilee Songs and statements in regard to the work for the meetings. Any Sabbath-school wishing a supply of this exercise will be furnished gratuitously with the number required, by applying to Rev. G. D. Pike, at the New York office, 56 Reade Street. * * * * * The _Christian At Work_ concludes a long and appreciative notice of Dr. Strieby's recently published address upon the "Work of Half a Generation," with the following paragraph: