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) July } Aug. } 1900 Sept.} Vol. LIV. No. 3. * * * * * [Illustration: COURT SQUARE THEATRE, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. PLACE OF FIFTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING.] * * * * * 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--NINE MONTHS 97 EDITORIAL NOTES 97 INDIAN PROGRESS 102 LIGHT AND SHADE 104 COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES: FISK UNIVERSITY, TENN. 106 TALLADEGA COLLEGE, ALA. 108 STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY, LA. 110 TOUGALOO UNIVERSITY, MISS. 113 GRANDVIEW INSTITUTE, TENN. 115 PLEASANT HILL ACADEMY, TENN. 115 FORT BERTHOLD INDIAN SCHOOL, N. D. 116 A TRIBUTE TO REV. A. J. F. BEHRENDS, D.D. 118 RICHARD SALTER STORRS, D.D. 119 OBITUARY--PROF. A. K. SPENCE--REV. W. S. ALEXANDER, D.D. 121 PORTO RICO NOTES 122 LOSS OF SUPPLIES FOR ALASKA 124 DEPARTMENT OF CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR 125 RECEIPTS 128 WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS 142 SECRETARIES OF YOUNG PEOPLE'S AND CHILDREN'S WORK 144 * * * * * THE 54th ANNUAL MEETING OF THE American Missionary Association WILL BE HELD IN SPRINGFIELD, MASS. October 23-25, 1900. SERMON: REV. NEWELL DWIGHT HILLIS, D.D. * * * * * 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.