Your Committee are convinced that not less than a THOUSAND DOLLARS a day are imperatively demanded to perfect the admirably organized plans of the Association, even for the present, to say nothing of the pressing needs of the early future.-- [FINANCE COMMITTEE'S REPORT ADOPTED BY ANNUAL MEETING AT SALEM.] * * * * * THE FIGURES. _Receipts:_ Col. & Don. Estates. Total. Oct. 1, 1884, to Jan. 31, 1885 $66,078.97 $9,605.91 $75,684.88 Oct. 1, 1883, to Jan. 31, 1884 69,941.52 9,809.35 79,750.87 --------- --------- --------- Decrease $3,862.55 $203.44 $4,065.99 * * * * * Where the color-sergeant plants the standard, there the soldiers are expected to rally. The Finance Committee at the Salem meeting inscribed on the A. M. A. standard $365,000 needed for 1884-5, and called upon the churches to advance to the support. _The Figures_ showing receipts of our treasury indicate just how far the churches have come up in response to the call. Had we received the $1,000 a day recommended, our total receipts would be $123,000, as against the $75,684.88 now reported. Will not the captains of our church hosts rally the forces to an immediate advance? One-third of our fiscal year has already passed. The showing is not what we had hoped, but time enough remains to make up for the deficiency. Will our friends please bear these things in mind? * * * * * DEATH OF REV. G. D. PIKE, D. D. In the death of Dr. Pike, which occurred in Hartford, Conn., Jan. 29, the American Missionary Association has lost a most earnest and successful worker. Repeated and protracted attacks of throat and lung troubles during the last two or three years, terminating in an illness that confined him to his room for three months, gave warning to his friends of the approach of death. But with the hopefulness peculiar to the disease, and especially characteristic of himself, he entertained almost to the last the expectation of recovery. Yet death had no terror; on the contrary, while he wished to live for the sake of his family and the Association, he personally welcomed death with the most joyful feelings.