Various. The American Missionary. Volume 44, No. 01, January, 1890
NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS
AFRICA.—ITS SHADOW AND SUNSHINE
CONVENTIONS OF COLORED PEOPLE
SCHOOL ECHOES
ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT EATON,
THE SOUTH
FIELD NOTES
REVIVAL AT WASHINGTON, D.C
A GLAD THANKSGIVING
STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY, NEW ORLEANS
TILLOTSON INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS
THE INDIANS
MISSIONARY LIFE AMONG THE DAKOTA INDIANS
NEW CHURCH AT FORT YATES, NORTH DAKOTA
THE CHINESE
CHINA FOR CHRIST
BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK
MASS MEETING OF THE WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNIONS
WORDS FROM OUR ANNUAL MEETING,
WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS
RECEIPTS FOR NOVEMBER, 1889
THE DANIEL HAND FUND,
CURRENT RECEIPTS
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The New Year opens upon this Association auspiciously. The setting sun of our old year went down in a bright sky. Revivals of religion and an increased membership was the joyful record of our churches; by the generous aid of the Daniel Hand Fund, our schools showed a greatly enlarged attendance, and the faithful work of the teachers brought forth most satisfactory results; the threatened debt that darkened several months of the year was happily averted by good showing on the right side of the ledger.
It is from this bright setting sun of the last year that we turn with faith and hope to the opening of the new year. We believe, the work is the Lord's and that he will provide. But our faith alone will not save us. It is our duty to inform and arouse our constituents as to the needs and urgency of our work. We will specify in a few particulars:
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3. but this is not all. a work so vital to the interests of the nation and of the cause of christ needs to be uplifted by the prayers of god's people. deliverance cannot come from political parties, governmental authority or theories of industrial reform. the power of god must be in it. we therefore respectfully but earnestly ask our brethren in the ministry to remember this work in their prayers in the great congregation, and we ask our fellow christians to remember it in the prayer-meeting, at the family altar and in the closet.
"Now, concerning the collection." These are not the words of a begging agent, but of Paul the Apostle, and they come from his pen just after he had closed that wonderful fifteenth chapter of First Corinthians on the glorious resurrection and the victory over death and the grave. These words are fit, therefore, in any assembly and at the close of any discourse however exalted. Brethren remember the "collection."
