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. SEPTEMBER, 1882. NO. 9 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—Financial 257 AMENDMENTS TO CONSTITUTION—School Work for Indians 258 CASTE ON THE CARS 259 ADDRESS OF THE REV. GEO. M. BOYNTON 260 MISPLACED BENEVOLENCE—Benefactions 263 GENERAL NOTES—Africa, Indians, Chinese 264 ITEMS FROM THE FIELD 266 THE FREEDMEN. SOUTHWESTERN CONGREGATIONAL ASSOC. 267 TEACHERS’ INSTITUTE AT MEMPHIS 269 SUNDAY-SCHOOL INSTITUTE AT TOUGALOO 269 GO HOME TO THY FRIENDS—A Rice Plantation (Cut) 270 WORK AT FLORENCE, ALA.—Topeka, Kansas 271 THE INDIANS. VARIETY IN MISSIONARY LIFE 272 INDIANS SPEAKING ACROSS A CHASM (Cut) 273 INDIANS AT HAMPTON 274 THE CHINESE. THE PENALTY OF PROSPERITY 275 YAKUT VILLAGERS (Cut) 277 CHILDREN’S PAGE. THE BOY WHO GREW UP IN A COTTON PATCH 278 RECEIPTS 279 THE PROPOSED CONSTITUTION 284 * * * * * 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