Produced by Cornell university, Joshua Hutchinson, Donald Perry and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net The American Missionary February, 1889. Vol. XLIII. No. 2 CONTENTS. EDITORIAL. OUR LIST OF GOOD SAMARITANS AN EXPLICIT WARNING--PRIVILEGES OF LIFE MEMBERSHIP THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY--THE ROMAN CATHOLICS AND THE FREEDMEN NOTES FROM NEW ENGLAND DEATH OF PROF. A. HATCH LIST OF OUR FIELD WORKERS CONVENTION OF COLORED ROMAN CATHOLICS AMONG THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAINS ITEMS FROM THE FIELD THE CHINESE. GLIMPSE AT SHADY SIDE ANNIVERSARY OF CHINESE MISSIONS BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK. THE MOUNTAIN GIRLS RECEIPTS * * * * * 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. * * * * * American Missionary Association. President, Rev. Wm. M. Taylor, D.D., LL.D., N.Y. _Vice-Presidents._ Rev. A.J.F. Behrends, D.D., N.Y. Rev. F.A. Noble, D.D., Ill. Rev. Alex. McKenzie, D.D., Mass. Rev. D.O. Mears, D.D., Mass. Rev. Henry Hopkins, D.D., Mo. _Corresponding Secretaries._ Rev. M.E. Strieby, D.D., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._ Rev. A.F. Beard, D.D., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._ _Recording Secretary._ Rev. M.E. Strieby, D.D., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._ _Treasurer._ H.W. Hubbard, Esq., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._ _Auditors._ Peter McCartee. Chas. P. Peirce. _Executive Committee._ John II. Washburn, Chairman. Addison P. Foster, Secretary. _For Three Years._ J.E. Rankin, Wm. H. Ward, J.W. Cooper, John H. Washburn, Edmund L. Champlin. _For Two Years._ Lyman Abbott, Chas. A. Hull, J.R. Danforth, Clinton B. Fisk, Addison P. Foster. _For One Year._ S.B. Halliday, Samuel Holmes, Samuel S. Marples, Charles L. Mead, Elbert B. Monroe. _District Secretaries._ Rev. C.J. Ryder, _21 Cong'l House, Boston_. Rev. J.E. Roy, D.D., _151 Washington Street, Chicago_. _Financial Secretary for Indian Missions._ Rev. Chas. W. Shelton _Field Superintendents._ Rev. Frank E. Jenkins. Prof. Edward S. Hall. _Secretary of Woman's Bureau._ Miss D.E. Emerson, _56 Reade St., N.Y._ COMMUNICATIONS Relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the Corresponding Secretaries; letters for "THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY," to the Editor, at the New York Office. DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS In drafts, checks, registered letters, or post-office orders, may be sent to H.W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York, or, when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or 151 Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member.