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. JUNE, 1879. NO. 6. * * * * * American Missionary Association. * * * * * We are in receipt of several communications suggesting that we, as an Association, should do something for the relief of the negro emigrants to Kansas. We are compelled to say to this, however, that 1. We cannot divert funds from our overdrawn treasury from the work to which we are pledged and the responsibilities we have definitely assumed. 2. Our legitimate work is with the Freedmen in the South, where our schools and churches are, and where the mass of the people will be for a very long time yet. 3. That assistance to reach their destination has been given to them from many sources, and that their greatest need of help for a time will be after reaching Kansas, in securing and settling upon lands. 4. That we cherish the deepest interest in the suffering multitudes who have already left their homes, and will cheerfully transmit, for friends who may prefer to send through us, such moneys as may be designed for this specific object, and will use our utmost diligence to see that they accomplish the end for which they are set apart. * * * * * MONEY WHICH COSTS MONEY. It is unfortunate, perhaps, that the agents of the beneficence of the churches and Christian people of the land should be compelled so often to “rise and explain,” but the necessity will in all probability continue so long as there is a possibility of misunderstanding facts and figures. We are all creatures of association, and things which are coupled together are apt to make unwarranted impressions on our minds. For instance, the name of the American Missionary Association has been of late passing the rounds of the public press in connection with large sums of money. $150,000 to four of its institutions from the Stone estate; $20,000 for Fisk University from the Graves legacy; $20,000 from the estate of Deacon James Smith, of Philadelphia; $12,000 announced last month from the Avery estate, and which is to be increased to about $18,000; $15,000 from Mr. Arthington, of Leeds. All this sounds very rich and prosperous, and our contributors say: “They are rich and increased in goods. For a time, at least, they will do well. Let us thank God for their prosperity, and turn to those whose wants are more pressing than theirs can be.”