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) Entered at the Post-Office at New York, N.Y., as second class matter. [Illustration: VOL. XXXVI. FEBRUARY, 1882 NO. 2. 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.] CONTENTS. * * * * * EDITORIAL. Page. PARAGRAPH—THAT THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS 33 THE NASHVILLE CONFERENCE 34 PARAGRAPHS—BENEFACTIONS 36 GENERAL NOTES—Africa, Indians, Chinese 37 CHINESE FUNERAL PROCESSION (cut) 39 NEW APPOINTMENTS 40 THE FREEDMEN. BUILDINGS AT TOUGALOO, MISS.—By Rev. A. Hatch 46 CUT OF STRIEBY HALL 47 INDUSTRIAL WORK AT TOUGALOO—By Pres. G. S. Pope 48 MISSIONARY WORK AT NEW ORLEANS—By Miss Lena Saunders 50 STORRS CHURCH, ATLANTA, GA.—By Rev. Evarts Kent 51 AFRICA. EXTRACT FROM LETTERS OF REV. H. M. LADD 51 THE CHINESE. NOTES FROM THE FIELD—By Rev. W. C. Pond 52 CHILDREN’S PAGE. TESSIE 54 RECEIPTS 55 AIM, STATISTICS, WANTS, ETC. 62 * * * * * 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 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.