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FINANCIAL 1
FRESH LEAFLETS FOR 1900 1
THE PROGRESSIVE SOUTH 2
GREETING TO PORTO RICANS 3
PIONEERS IN PORTO RICO 5
FISK UNIVERSITY 12
CHEYENNE AND ARAPAHOE INDIANS 20
SOUTHERN FIELD NOTES 24
NEWS FROM ARCTIC ALASKA 26
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORERS AMONG THE INDIANS 28
LINCOLN MEMORIAL SUNDAY 31
RECEIPTS 32
WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS 46
SECRETARIES OF YOUNG PEOPLE'S AND CHILDREN'S WORK 48
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.
FINANCIAL.
The receipts to December 31st, the first quarter of the fiscal year, are ,586.98 more than for the same period last year--an increase in donations of ,874.52, in income of 0.20, and in tuition of ,652.58--a decrease in estates for current work of ,830.32 under the policy of reserve legacy account.
We are greatly cheered by this increase in donations. We appreciate the cordial response of the churches, Sunday-schools, Endeavor Societies and individuals to the necessities of this great work. We call especial attention to the efforts which are being made to increase the gifts of this Association for the current year thirty-three and one-third per cent. This is the amount of increase which the Council Committee of Fifteen have asked from the churches. The large work demands at least this per cent. of addition to the gifts for the current year. Will not each individual church and Sunday-school see that their contribution for this year is at least a third larger than for the former year?
In addition to this amount needed for the work which has been established in other years, the claims of Porto Rico are pressing. Ten thousand dollars was a very conservative estimate of the amount that was needed at once in this new island territory. The churches, and especially the Sunday schools, have responded generously in bringing up the gifts to about half this amount. There is imperative need immediately for the full amount, properly and energetically to press the work in Porto Rico along the lines of Christian education and evangelization.
FRESH LEAFLETS FOR 1900.
"Annual Statistical Leaflet."
"Annual Report, 1899."
"Universal Brotherhood Through Christ," Sermon by Rev. C. H. Patton, D.D.
"Michael E. Strieby," Sec. J. E. Roy, D.D.
"The Hand of God or Failure," Rev. H. A. Stimson, D.D.
"What Has Been Done for the Indians," Rev. J. R. Nichols, D.D.
"The Evangelical Side of Missionary Work," Rev. Sydney Strong, D.D.
"Why and How?" Rev. Gerald H. Beard, Ph.D.
"The Americans in the Southern Mountains," Rev. Archibald Hadden.
"The Story of Three Million Highlanders," Rev. M. N. Sumner.
"In the Cypress Swamps," Miss C. F. Knowlton.
"Difficult Problems with Pleasing Results," Prof. J. L. Wiley.
"Fisk University," Prof. J. G. Merrill, D.D.
"Pioneers in Porto Rico," Sec. C. J. Ryder.
"Christian Endeavorers Among the Indians," Prof. F. B. Riggs.
"People Passed By," by a Missionary.
"The Debt of Our Country," Sec. C. J. Ryder.
"Arctic Alaska," Mr. W. T. Lopp.
"Christian Endeavorers and the A. M. A.," Rev. Francis E. Clark, D.D.
"Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians," Rev. W. M. Wellman.
These leaflets may be had for personal use and distribution on application to this office.
THE PROGRESSIVE SOUTH.
It is encouraging to note the signs of progress at the South towards meeting the heavy responsibilities of the situation. It is a mistake to imagine that the Southern situation does not improve from year to year. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, appreciate the trend of events and the necessity for the elevation of the depressed millions with whom they are intermingled. The Southern tragedies of murder and violence have awakened the same horror in their hearts as throughout the country at large. There is a rising sentiment against lynching and for enforcing justice by the cold and passionless execution of law. There is a strong desire to give the advantages of education to both the ignorant whites and the ignorant blacks. There is a growing sympathy for the beneficent efforts to this end which are put forth from the North.
These immense masses are the burden not only of the South, but of the American people at large. Ignorant labor is shiftless and wasteful labor. The growth of varied and inter-related manufactures cannot rest upon a labor element of clumsiness and stupidity. Civil duties demand intelligence and morals. The best patriotism of the South joins hands with that of the North in the elevation of the lowly and ignorant. What has been done is only the initiation of the ten times more which must be done.
It is a significant fact that the last national census showed that the white illiteracy of the South was deeper than even the foreign illiteracy of the North; while that of the Southern black population was fearfully darker. Both public and private efforts are being made in countless communities of the South to begin the lifting of this great burden. Some of the States have already taken encouraging measures in this direction. While there are reactions, the general tide is that of progress. It is easy to make too much of the violent reactionary outcries of a few Southern newspapers. It must be remembered that these shrill expostulations against progress are comparatively isolated and do not represent the general and deliberate sense of the intelligent South. The day has come when intelligent leaders, North and South, can unite their efforts and push forward the work of popular upliftment throughout the South. The lesson of the hour is not that of impatience and denunciation, but of mutual sympathy and co-operation. The hopeful progress of the past is a presage to the magnificent progress assured to the immediate future.
No more timely words have been spoken than those of a Southern philanthropist when he said: "The Negro must be educated. It is absolutely necessary to both races that his education go on. In our extremity we look to wise and just people in the Northern States to help us to help both races."
F. P. W.
GREETINGS TO PORTO RICANS.
At a meeting of the representatives of the different benevolent societies of our Protestant denominations who are entering upon mission work in Porto Rico a committee was appointed to draw up a paper containing a greeting to these people. The paper was to be published in Spanish and English. The copies in English were to go especially to the missionaries to be scattered among English-speaking people. The Spanish translation was intended for the native Porto Ricans. This paper was signed by representatives of different denominations as will be seen. This broad, comprehensive and loving message from the Christians of America to the people of Porto Rico, who are now a part of our own country, must meet the approval of all those interested in the progress of the Kingdom of God rather than some narrow denominational victory. This greeting to the Porto Ricans is as follows:
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