relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the Corresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields to the District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the “American Missionary,” to Rev. Geo. M. Boynton, at the New York Office. DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS may be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York, or when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or 112 West Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member. THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. * * * * * VOL. XXXIV. FEBRUARY, 1880. No. 2. * * * * * American Missionary Association. * * * * * _A Public Opportunity to Contribute Once a Year._—That is, we think, a modest claim for the almoners of your bounty to make. Will you secure it for us in your church this year? * * * * * We need very much two communion services—one for the Midway church, Golding’s Grove, Ga., and the other for the new church at Cypress Slash. Who will send them to us? * * * * * A pastor of an M. E. Church South, in Georgia, asked us by mail, the other day, for a hundred copies of the AMERICAN MISSIONARY to put on a Christmas tree for members of his church, that he might thus awaken more interest in the missionary cause. We sent them. This is the first time we were ever asked to send our publications as “Christmas greens.” * * * * * How the angels must smile when they see a man whom God has greatly prospered carefully take a hundred dollars out of a hundred thousand that he has laid away, and hear him say to himself, with a chuckle of self-complacency: “Yes, we are only stewards; we must deal generously by these good causes; I will give that to the Lord.” A pauper giving crumbs in charity to the King on whom he depends for daily bread! But then there are some who do not give even the crumbs.—_Congregationalist._ * * * * *