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. Pike, D.D., 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, Rev. C. L. Woodworth. Dist. Sec., 21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or Rev. James Powell, Dist. Sec., 112 West Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member. Letters relating to boxes and barrels of clothing may be addressed to the persons above named. FORM OF A BEQUEST “I BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of —— dollars, in trust, to pay the same in —— days after my decease to the person who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the ‘American Missionary Association’ of New York City, to be applied, under the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, to its charitable uses and purposes.” The Will should be attested by three witnesses. The Annual report of the A. M. A. contains the Constitution of the Association and the By-laws of the Executive Committee. A copy will be sent free on application. THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. * * * * * VOL. XXXVI. NOVEMBER, 1882. NO. 11. * * * * * American Missionary Association. * * * * * This number of the MISSIONARY will reach our readers about the time of the assembling of our friends at the Annual Meeting. With the sum of $300,000 so nearly reached, with no debt upon our treasury, with a year of most successful work, with the addition of many large, commodious and much needed buildings, and with the dew of divine grace resting upon many of our churches and schools, we shall meet in our annual gathering with abundant causes of gratitude towards God for the past, and hope and courage for another year. Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian life, and none the less of missionary endeavor. We ask a place evermore in the prayers of God’s people. At our Annual Meeting it is our custom to spend a season of devotion on Tuesday afternoon in concert with all our workers in the field, who gather in their homes and schools and churches to lift up their voices in thanks and supplications with us for the blessing of God upon our work. We ask those of our Christian friends whose eyes may rest upon this page at that hour of worship to unite with us in it; and may we not hope that this suggestion, though received later, may stimulate to earnest supplication in behalf of our work? * * * * * THE WOMAN’S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.