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. C. C. PAINTER, 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. JUNE, 1880. NO. 6 * * * * * American Missionary Association. * * * * * As we go to press, we are happy to announce the safe arrival of Prof. Thomas N. Chase, from our Mendi Mission. * * * * * _That 20 per cent._ increase in our appropriations, voted at Chicago, and voted also by the Executive Committee, has not as yet been furnished by our friends. We are compelled to urge it upon their attention that we are in danger of falling behind the appropriation, to our grief and the detriment of the work, unless they come gallantly to the rescue. * * * * * _Who Will do It?_—One of our missionaries in North Carolina suggests, and we cordially second the suggestion, that some of our friends send us the means for distributing 1,000 copies of the MISSIONARY to as many prominent men, clergymen and others, through the South. We are confident that a like sum of money could not be expended in a way to tell more favorably upon our work after the means have been supplied to carry it on. Will not some generous friend of the South send us the money? * * * * * _Tougaloo’s Plea._—Through its workers, this Institution puts in a most pathetic plea to the Executive Committee for an appropriation for a new building. How they inquire, can 120 persons be seated in a dining-room large enough for only 80? Or how can fifty girls be put into 16 small dormitories? The Executive Committee gives it up, and sends it along as too much of a 15-puzzle. The plea melts the hearts of us who have no money, so we make it to those who have, hoping some one will help to a solution of this problem. Fully as difficult is that propounded by President Ware, of Atlanta: Sixty-two girls in rooms fitted for forty, and prospects that the number cannot be kept down to that. It could be easily increased to one hundred next year. The $10,000, given from the Graves estate for a building, must be supplemented by $5,000 to make it adequate to pressing need. Who gives the answer to _this_? * * * * *