Produced by Cornell University, Joshua Hutchinson, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. AMERICAN MISSIONARY APRIL, 1890. VOL. XLIV. NO. 4. CONTENTS EDITORIAL REMOVAL--REV. FRANK P. WOODBURY, D.D. INDIAN CIVILIZATION--EMIGRATION OF COLORED PEOPLE A COMPARISON THE STEREOPTICON IN NEW ENGLAND MRS. JANE TWICHELL WARE--PARAGRAPHS AN ENTERPRISING WOMAN THE SOUTH. DEDICATION OF CHANDLER NORMAL INSTITUTE CONGREGATIONALISM AROUND PARIS, TEXAS MISSION CHURCH--PROSPEROUS CHURCH THE WHITE CROSS LEAGUE BEREA AND TEMPERANCE--"BECCA MUST GO" THE INDIANS. STREAKS OF LIGHT--ELIZABETH WINYAN AN EXEMPLARY MOTHER THE CHINESE. TWO CHINESE ANNIVERSARIES ADDRESS. A COLORED MAN SPEAKS FOR HIS RACE REV. GEO. M. MCCLELLAN BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK. PARAGRAPHS NOVEL DISH--MANY-SIDED WORK WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS RECEIPTS. * * * * * NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION, Bible House, Ninth St. and Fourth Ave., New York. * * * * * 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.V. _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., _Bible House, N.Y._ Rev. A.F. BEARD, D.D., _Bible House, N.Y._ Rev. F.P. WOODBURY, D.D., _Bible House. N.Y._ _Recording Secretary._ Rev. M.E. STRIEBY, D.D., _Bible House, N.Y._ _Treasurer._ H.W. HUBBARD, Esq., _Bible House, N.Y._ _Auditors._ PETER McCARTEE. CHAS. P. PEIRCE. _Executive Committee._ JOHN H. WASHBURN, Chairman. ADDISON P. FOSTER, Secretary. _For Three Years._ S.B. HALLIDAY, SAMUEL HOLMES, SAMUEL S. MARPLES, CHARLES L. MEAD, ELBERT B. MONROE. _For Two Years._ J.E. RANKIN, WM. H. WARD, J.W. COOPER, JOHN H. WASHBURN, EDMUND L. CHAMPLIN. _For One Year._ LYMAN ABBOTT, CHAS. A. HULL, CLINTON B. FISK, ADDISON P. FOSTER ALBERT J. LYMAN. _District Secretaries_. Rev. C.J. RYDER, _21 Cong'l House, Boston, Mass._ Rev. J.E. ROY, D.D., _151 Washington Street, Chicago, Ill._ Rev. C.W. HIATT, _64 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio._ _Financial Secretary for Indian Missions._ Rev. CHAS. W. SHELTON. _Secretary of Woman's Bureau._ Miss D.E. EMERSON, _Bible House, 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