The American Missionary. Volume 43, No. 03, March, 1889

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Various. The American Missionary. Volume 43, No. 03, March, 1889

TO THE PASTORS AND CHURCHES

A CALL FOR ENLISTMENT

THE SUPREMACY OF THE WHITE RACE IN THE SOUTH

THE TRAINING OF COLORED STUDENTS FOR THE EPISCOPAL MINISTRY

A MONTHLY CONCERT AND SUPPLEMENT

NOTES FROM NEW ENGLAND

ENGLISH AS IT IS NOT TAUGHT

CLIPPINGS

THE SOUTH

REVIVAL AT LE MOYNE INSTITUTE

EVERY-DAY LIFE

CROWDED SCHOOL-ROOMS

PARAGRAPHS

THE CHINESE

LOO QUONG'S APPEAL

BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK

WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS

CHRISTMAS AT FORT YATES, DAKOTA

MISS COLLINS

FOR THE CHILDREN

RECEIPTS FOR JANUARY, 1889

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Perhaps we never shall cease our urgent appeals for the "sinews of war." The growing work of this Association requires increasing funds to meet the enlarged demand. But we are beginning to feel the need of a greater force in the field. We sound forth the bugle note calling for recruits for the army of the Lord in our glorious warfare. We appeal to students in theological seminaries, colleges, normal schools and female seminaries, to consider the claims of this great work. We make this appeal with special urgency to the Congregational institutions of the land, for it is from this body of Christians that we receive nearly all the funds with which we carry on our work, and there is a special fitness that the sons and daughters of these churches should enter the field for which the funds are contributed.

But we wish to make a distinct announcement in connection with this appeal. We wish only to "get the best." The needy people for whom we labor have suffered such privations, and such absolute destitution of all adequate religious instruction, that we feel they are now entitled to as good as can be given them. We send no teachers to the field that are incompetent and without adequate experience. We do not believe that everybody is qualified to teach the Negroes, at least it is not fair to them, that we should employ those who cannot find occupation anywhere else. Good health, good training, good powers of discipline, a missionary spirit and a membership in some evangelical church, are the absolute essentials for all persons that we employ. We call for recruits, but we ask for only those that are well equipped, courageous and ready to endure hardness as good soldiers of Christ.

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Rev. J.B. Chase, of Hull, Iowa, wishes to complete his files of the American Missionary to have them bound for a public library. If any of our readers have the numbers for August and September, 1880, and April, 1878, that they can spare and willingly give, it would be a favor to us if they would mail them to the above address. Our edition for those months is exhausted.

A writer in the Richmond Dispatch proposes that the Negroes in the South be induced to voluntarily emigrate to Brazil, Mexico or other countries where they are wanted, and even the old plan of fifty years ago, to return them to Africa is again brought forward. To this last suggestion, the Yonkers Statesman replies:

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