The American Missionary. Volume 42, No. 11, November, 1888

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Various. The American Missionary. Volume 42, No. 11, November, 1888

NOT QUITE FREE

Encouraging Responses to our Appeal

THE MOHONK CONFERENCE

ORDINATION AT NEW ORLEANS

THE SAMARITAN WOMAN

Forty-Second Annual Report Of The Executive Committee,

General Survey

OUR SCHOOLS

CHURCH WORK

MOUNTAIN WORK

THE INDIANS

THE CHINESE

WOMAN'S BUREAU

FINANCES

Student's Letter

Struggles In The "Lone Star State."

The Chinese

Review Of The Year

Bureau Of Woman's Work

Woman's State Organizations

RECEIPTS FOR SEPTEMBER, 1888

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In the November MISSIONARY of last year, the financial statement bore the simple and joyous heading "FREE." This year we are compelled to prefix two qualifying words. Our books closed September 30, with a balance of $5,641.21 on the wrong side. While we regret that there should be any debt, we rejoice that it is no larger.

The receipts applicable to current expenses fell off somewhat during the year, while the expenditures, owing to general growth and some special demands were greater than last year. The first of September, therefore, found us confronting an impending debt. The appeal which we felt constrained to make for September, and which was made under some special disadvantages as compared with last year, was met with so hearty a response in gifts and in expressions of interest in our work, as to move us to gratitude to God and thankfulness to our friends. A few of the donors gave $1,000 each, but the larger share of the responses contained remittances of less than $100. Many of the sums were quite small, and some of them indicated great self-sacrifice on the part of the donors. A few brief extracts, all that our limited space will allow, from a small portion of the letters received, will be found below.

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An executor, in remitting a legacy of $500 says: "It is not due according to the terms of the will till next spring, but you may find it useful at this time to help out the year."

We have received from Oaks, North Carolina, towards the extinguishment of our debt, a contribution from forty-nine different persons, amounting to $5.66. This represents a degree of sacrifice, not surpassed, perhaps, by any who have contributed. Seventy cents of it were in cash; sixty-six cents were value in fodder; one dollar and thirty-four cents in potatoes and corn; one dollar and one cent in work.

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