VOL. XXXV. NO. 8. THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. * * * * * “To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.” * * * * * AUGUST, 1881. _CONTENTS_: EDITORIAL. PARAGRAPH—The Mendi Mission 225 ILLUSTRATION—Mission Home, Mendi Mission 228 DEATH OF REV. KELLY M. KEMP 230 AFRICAN NOTES 230 FREEDMEN FOR AFRICA: Rev. Lewis Grout 232 ADDRESS AT NASHVILLE: Sec’y Strieby 233 BENEFACTIONS 236 CHINESE AND INDIAN NOTES 237 THE FREEDMEN. ANNIVERSARY REPORTS—Continued. Ga.: Atlanta University 238 Ala.: Talladega College 240 Texas: Tillotson Institute, Austin 242 S.C.: Avery Institute, Charleston 242 Ga.: Lewis High School, Macon 243 THE CHINESE. ANNIVERSARY AT STOCKTON 245 WOMAN’S HOME MISS. ASSOC’N. TWENTY MINUTES A-DAY WORKING SOCIETY 247 CHILDREN’S PAGE. GRACIE’S MISTAKE: Mrs. Harriet A. Cheever 248 RECEIPTS 250 LIST OF OFFICERS 254 CONSTITUTION 255 AIM, STATISTICS, WANTS, ETC. 256 * * * * * NEW YORK: Published by the American Missionary Association, ROOMS, 56 READE STREET. * * * * * Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance. Entered at the Post Office at New York, N.Y. as second-class matter. [Illustration: MAP OF PROTESTANT MISSION STATIONS IN AFRICA.] THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. * * * * * VOL. XXXV. AUGUST, 1881. NO. 8. * * * * * _American Missionary Association._ * * * * * We publish on the opposite page a map of Africa, upon which is represented, by crosses, the location of the different Protestant mission stations of that continent. The Mendi Mission on the West Coast, and the proposed Arthington Mission in the Nile Basin, are specially indicated by dotted lines. We give, also, elsewhere a cut of the Mission Home at Good Hope Station, Mendi Mission. * * * * *