Produced by Cornell University, Joshua Hutchinson, Donald Perry and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. SEPTEMBER, 1889. VOL. XLIII. NO. 9. CONTENTS EDITORIAL. ANNUAL MEETING THE TREASURY AS TO "METHODS" FIVE QUESTIONS A MID-SUMMER LEAF OF THE A.M.A. CATECHISM THE CARS, THE CHURCH, THE COURTS THE WORK OF THE A.M.A. AND FOREIGN MISSIONS ROME AND THE NEGRO NOTES BY THE WAY, _Dist. Sec'y C.J. Ryder_ THE SOUTH. HAND FUND HOWARD UNIVERSITY TILLOTSON INSTITUTE EXTRACT MISSIONARY VISITS A CALL FROM AUNT MARY THE INDIANS. LETTER FROM OAHE SCHOOL THE CHINESE. EVANGELISTIC WORK AT PETALUMA BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK. STATE ORGANIZATIONS PARAGRAPHS VISIT TO A MISSIONARY SUNDAY-SCHOOL OUR YOUNG FOLKS. THE FRESH DRINK. LETTER FROM AN INDIAN BOY. 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. ALEX. McKENZIE, D.D., Mass. Rev. F.A. NOBLE, D.D., Ill. 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 H. 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, CLINTON B. FISK, ADDISON P. FOSTER ALBERT J. LYMAN. _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 Sheet, Chicago._ Rev. C.W. HIATT, _64 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio._ _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; letters relating to the finances, to the Treasurer. DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS