six years. In 1855 a severe hemorrhage compelled him
to give up the missionary work. After a short rest he began his work
of preaching the gospel. He had successful pastorates in Illinois
and Ohio; afterwards he practiced medicine in Geneva and St. Charles,
Ill., at which latter place he died. He was successful as a physician
and continued to the end a loyal servant of Christ, was deacon,
treasurer and Sunday-school Superintendent, besides being always ready
to do with his might what his hands found to do.

S.

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FORTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,

FOR THE YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30TH, 1889.

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GENERAL SURVEY.

The American Missionary Association finds its commission in the words
of the Master, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to
every creature."

It does not choose its fields of labor because the people in them are
black, or red, or yellow, or white; but because they are those
for whom Christ died and to whom he commanded the glad tidings of
salvation to be preached. In the fields to which it providentially has
been called, it seeks to bring the gospel to every human being who has
it not in its purity as an uplifting power.

In nineteen States and Territories we are laboring--six in the West
and thirteen in the South. In ninety-four schools and one hundred and
forty-two churches we have been directly teaching and preaching the
gospel during the past year. In them have 456 missionaries wrought
with holy purpose. 12,132 pupils have been taught in our schools; more
than seventeen thousand have received instruction in Bible truth in
our Sunday-schools; 782 conversions have been reported. $3,160.14 have
been reported as given in our mission churches for benevolence, and
$21,658.57 for their own expenses--again over last year of $660.03 in
benevolence and $2,322.62 in church expenses. Besides all this and all
that in various ways has failed to be reported to us, have been
the vacation work of our students, the large work of our previous
graduates, the indirect results of many kinds, and the unknown results
and influences of great power and far-reaching importance which have
gone forth from our institutions and missionaries whose only possible
record is in God's Book of Remembrance.

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THE SOUTH.

In the South, we are directly reaching three classes--the colo