NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.--The date on the "address label" indicates the time to which the subscription is paid. Changes are made in date on label to the 10th of each month. If payment of subscription be made afterward the change on the label will appear a month later. Please send early notice of change in post-office address, giving the former address and the new address, in order that our periodicals and occasional papers may be correctly mailed. FORM OF A BEQUEST. "I give and bequeath the sum of ---- dollars to the ’American Missionary Association,’ incorporated by act of the Legislature of the State of New York." The will should be attested by three witnesses. THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY VOL. L. JUNE, 1896. No. 6. The Jubilee Year Fund. Extract from the appeal of the Executive Committee of the American Missionary Association: *Fifty Dollars a Share.* It is proposed to raise during the next six months a special Jubilee Year Fund of $100,000 in shares of $50 each, with the hope and expectation that these shares will be taken by the friends of missions without lessening those regular contributions which must be depended upon to sustain the current work. FORM OF A PLEDGE. Share, $50. $100,000. THE JUBILEE YEAR FUND OF THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. I hereby take ..... shares (Fifty Dollars each) in the Jubilee Year Fund of the American Missionary Association, to be paid before the close of the fiscal year, Sept. 30, 1896. _Name_ . . . . . . . _P. O. Address_ . . . . . . . . FIFTY-DOLLAR JUBILEE SHARES. In the last number of THE MISSIONARY we gave the gratifying report of 34 shares taken for this fund, and in the present number we have the pleasure of adding 75 more. We are fully aware of the difficulties under which we send forth the call for responses to this much-needed fund. Other appeals have been made, and are still pressed upon the churches, all of them worthy of the generosity with which they are met. But the ability of the churches to meet the demands of their varied mission work is not exhausted, and the spirit of consecration among the followers of Christ, even when self-denial must be practiced, has not reached its limit. We therefore urge our appeal with strong confidence that we shall not be felt to be intruders, but that we are simply trying to fulfill the duty imposed upon us in carrying the Gospel to the most needy and destitute in our land. We must repeat the plea made by our Executive Committee that in giving to this Jubilee Fund, the contributions for our regular work, to which we are committed and whose claims we cannot repudiate, may not be neglected. THE ACCEPTABLE MITES.