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. XXXV. MARCH, 1881. No. 3. * * * * * American Missionary Association. * * * * * We call attention to our new pamphlet (No. 6,) which contains the papers read at the woman’s meeting held at Norwich, Conn., Oct. 13th, in connection with our Annual Meeting. This has been published, and will be sent to those of our friends who express the wish to have it. * * * * * “Communion Sunday at Hampton,” by Miss Eustis, and Mrs. Chase’s “Sequel to a Begging Letter,” we are confident will each be read with very tender, almost tearful gratitude, and will thrill the reader with most sweet hopes of the triumphant success of our prayers and labors for the despised and wronged, but soon to be redeemed, races. The grace that is redeeming them is also sweetly touching the hearts of many with reference to them. * * * * * In this number of the MISSIONARY, the W. H. M. Association announces the purpose of bringing and keeping before the Christian women of our land their relation to the great work in which this Association is engaged. When the claims of the colored women of the South and of the Indian women of the West have been heard and recognized by their sisters of New England, we are confident that the work of elevating and saving them will receive a new and wonderful impulse. We call attention to the announcement and suggestions made. * * * * * The acceptance by Rev. Henry M. Ladd, of Walton, N. Y., of the position of Superintendent of the African missions of the A. M. A., and his readiness to enter upon the work by the 1st of February, was announced in the last number of the MISSIONARY. Mr. Ladd sailed for the Mendi mission on the 12th of February, and was followed on the 16th by Rev. K. M. Kemp, a native of North Carolina, and a graduate of Lincoln University, who, with his wife, are to re-enforce that mission. After a visit to our missions on the western coast, Mr. Ladd expects to enter upon an exploration of the Upper Nile basin for the purpose of locating the Arthington mission.