Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, KarenD and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by Cornell University Digital Collections) [Illustration: VOL. XXXVI. OCTOBER, 1882 NO. 10. THE American Missionary “THEY ARE RISING ALL ARE RISING, THE BLACK AND WHITE TOGETHER” 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.] CONTENTS. * * * * * PAGE. EDITORIALS. ANNUAL MEETING—Last Word, Financial 289 PARAGRAPHS 290 NATIONAL AID FOR NATIONAL EDUCATION 292 NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSEMBLY 293 ADDRESS OF MR. BUTLER R. WILSON 294 BENEFACTIONS 296 GENERAL NOTES—Africa, Indians 297 ITEMS FROM THE FIELD 298 THE FREEDMEN. STUDIES IN THE SOUTH 299 NEGRO PRAYER-MEETING (Cut) 301 AFRICA. DR. LADD’S JOURNAL 303 THE CHINESE. GOD ANSWERS PERSEVERING PRAYER 310 MISSIONARY CLASS IN CHINA (Cut) 312 CHILDREN’S PAGE. LETTER FROM AN AFRICAN BOY 313 A QUESTION OF COLOR 314 RECEIPTS 314 THE PROPOSED CONSTITUTION 318 * * * * * American Missionary Association, 56 READE STREET, NEW YORK. * * * * * PRESIDENT, HON. WM. B. WASHBURN, Mass. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. Rev. M. E. STRIEBY, D.D., _56 Reade Street N.Y._ TREASURER. H. W. HUBBARD, Esq., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._ DISTRICT SECRETARIES. Rev. C. L. WOODWORTH, _Boston_. Rev. G. D. PIKE, D.D., _New York_. Rev. JAMES POWELL, _Chicago_. COMMUNICATIONS 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. G. D. Pike, D.D., at the New York Office. DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS