The American Missionary - Volume 50, No. 4, April 1896 by Various Edition 1, (December 12, 2006) CONTENTS Editorial Jubilee Year Fund. Our Industrial Work. The School and Church. The Year of Jubilee. A Jubilee Fund of $100,000 in Shares of $50 Each. The South. Notes by the Way. A Home Mission Work Little Understood. Talladega College, Ala. Lincoln Academy, All Healing, N.C. A Gracious Revival Obituary. HON. SEYMOUR STRAIGHT. MISS EVELYN E. STARR. Bureau of Woman’s Work. COLORED WOMEN’S WORK. WORK AT McLEANSVILLE, N. C. RECEIPTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1896. 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 mail matter. AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. PRESIDENT, MERRILL E. GATES, LL.D., MASS. _Vice-presidents._ REV. F. A. NOBLE, D.D., Ill. REV. HENRY HOPKINS, D.D., Mo. REV. ALEX. MCKENZIE, D.D., Mass. REV. HENRY A. STIMSON, D.D., N. Y. REV. WASHINGTON GLADDEN, D.D., Ohio. _Honorary Secretary and Editor._ REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D.D., _Bible House, N. Y._ _Corresponding Secretaries._ REV. A. F. BEARD, D.D., REV. F. P. WOODBURY, D.D., _Bible House, N. Y._ REV. C. J. RYDER, 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._ GEORGE S. HICKOK. JAMES H. OLIPHANT. _Executive Committee._ CHARLES L. MEAD, Chairman. CHARLES A. HULL, Secretary. _For Three Years._ SAMUEL HOLMES SAMUEL S. MARPLES, CHARLES L. MEAD, WILLIAM H. STRONG, ELIJAH HORR. _For Two Years._ WILLIAM HAYES WARD, JAMES W. COOPER, LUCIEN C. WARNER, JOSEPH H. TWICHELL, CHARLES P. PIERCE. _For One Year._ CHARLES A. HULL, ADDISON P. FOSTER, ALBERT J. LYMAN, NEHEMIAH BOYNTON, A. J. F. BEHRENDS. _District Secretaries._ REV. GEO. H. GUTTERSON, _21 Cong’l House, Boston, Mass._ REV. JOS. E. ROY, D.D., _153 La Salle Street, Chicago, Ill._ _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; letters relating to woman’s work, to the Secretary of the Woman’s Bureau. DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS In drafts, checks, registered letters, or post-office orders, may be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, Bible House, New York; or, when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or 153 La Salle Street, Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars constitutes a Life Member.