Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, Karen Dalrymple, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by Cornell University Digital Collections.) The American Missionary (QUARTERLY) APRIL } MAY } 1900 JUNE } VOL. LIV. No. 2. * * * * * [Illustration: AVERY NORMAL INSTITUTE, CHARLESTON, S. C.] * * * * * NEW YORK: PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION, THE CONGREGATIONAL ROOMS, FOURTH AVENUE AND TWENTY-SECOND STREET, NEW YORK. * * * * * Price 50 Cents a Year in advance. Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as Second-Class mail matter. * * * * * CONTENTS. * * * * * PAGE FINANCIAL--SIX MONTHS 49 A WORD AS TO THE MAGAZINE 49 FIFTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING 51 TILLOTSON COLLEGE, AUSTIN, TEXAS (Illustrated) 52 AVERY NORMAL INSTITUTE, CHARLESTON, S. C. (Illustrated) 61 SOUTHERN FIELD NOTES 67 BITS OF EXPERIENCE IN THE INDIAN COUNTRY 69 CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORS OF A HIGHLAND SCHOOL AND VILLAGE (Illustrated) 72 OBITUARIES--MRS. MARY T. CHASE 74 MISS SUSIE T. CATHCART 75 A SUGGESTIVE SUBSCRIPTION 75 RECEIPTS 76 WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS 94 SECRETARIES OF YOUNG PEOPLE'S AND CHILDREN'S WORK 96 * * * * * THE 54th ANNUAL MEETING OF THE American Missionary Association WILL BE HELD IN SPRINGFIELD, MASS. October 23-25, 1900. * * * * * The AMERICAN MISSIONARY presents new form, fresh material and generous illustrations for 1900. This magazine is published by the American Missionary Association quarterly. Subscription rate fifty cents per year. Many wonderful missionary developments in our own country during this stirring period of national enlargement are recorded in the columns of this magazine. * * * * * THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. VOL. LIV. APRIL, 1900. No. 2. * * * * * FINANCIAL--SIX MONTHS.