"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 AMERICAN MISSIONARY. * * * * * VOL. XLII. MARCH, 1888. No. 3 * * * * * American Missionary Association * * * * * We believe that if we do the work to which God has called us, he will move the hearts of his children to provide the money. By as much as our work is successful, it is expansive. They are following closely in the steps of the Master who are teaching and ministering unto the needy and the poor. We are confident that they can safely trust in his word, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you." If God sends our workers out he will send supplies. There is no limit to the measure in which God can work on Christian hearts, to move his children to give for those who have gone forth to "seek the kingdom of God and his righteousness." While God is abundantly blessing our work in our great and wide fields among four races, we may safely ask our Christian friends to appeal to him that we shall have not only the needful funds to carry on the work without debt, but also enough to enable us to enter the doors which he opens. We are needing _eight thousand dollars_ to keep our accounts balanced, and we ask those, in whose names we stand, to pray that all these things be added unto us. Has any pastor forgotten to take the collection? * * * * * Rev. C.J. Ryder, recently assigned to the District Secretaryship of our Eastern District, with rooms at Boston, will be found at the office in the Congregational House, March 1st. He will be ready to respond to invitations from the churches to present our cause, and can speak from a large experience in our widely-extended and varied work. We commend Mr. Ryder to the churches. * * * * * President Woodworth, of Tougaloo University, is in the North for a few weeks, and will represent the growing and very hopeful interests of Tougaloo, wherever he may be desired. Letters directed to our office in New York will be forwarded to him. Prof. Horace Bumstead, of Atlanta University, is now in the North to present the needs of that institution, and we trust that he will have large success. He will be happy to send the _Atlanta Bulletin_ to those who may write for it, addressing him at 148 Tremont Street, Boston. In the light of the large convention of Negroes lately held at Macon, Ga., the _Bulletin_ will be found exceedingly suggestive.