Col. & Don. Estates. Total.

Oct. 1, 1884, to Jan. 31, 1885 $66,078.97 $9,605.91 $75,684.88
Oct. 1, 1883, to Jan. 31, 1884 69,941.52 9,809.35 79,750.87
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Decrease $3,862.55 $203.44 $4,065.99

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Where the color-sergeant plants the standard, there the soldiers are
expected to rally. The Finance Committee at the Salem meeting
inscribed on the A. M. A. standard $365,000 needed for 1884-5, and
called upon the churches to advance to the support. _The Figures_
showing receipts of our treasury indicate just how far the churches
have come up in response to the call. Had we received the $1,000 a
day recommended, our total receipts would be $123,000, as against the
$75,684.88 now reported. Will not the captains of our church hosts
rally the forces to an immediate advance? One-third of our fiscal
year has already passed. The showing is not what we had hoped, but
time enough remains to make up for the deficiency.

Will our friends please bear these things in mind?

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DEATH OF REV. G. D. PIKE, D. D.

In the death of Dr. Pike, which occurred in Hartford, Conn., Jan. 29,
the American Missionary Association has lost a most earnest and
successful worker. Repeated and protracted attacks of throat and lung
troubles during the last two or three years, terminating in an
illness that confined him to his room for three months, gave warning
to his friends of the approach of death. But with the hopefulness
peculiar to the disease, and especially characteristic of himself, he
entertained almost to the last the expectation of recovery. Yet death
had no terror; on the contrary, while he wished to live for the sake
of his family and the Association, he personally welcomed death with
the most joyful feelings.

Dr. Pike was born in Topsfield, Mass., Aug. 6, 1831, graduated from
Dartmouth College in 1858, and from Andover Theological Seminary in
1861. He was ordained associate pastor with Rev. Austin Richards, D.
D., of the Olive Street Congregational Church, Nashua, N. H., April
23, 1862, and remained in that position till May 1, 1865. He was
acting pastor at East Hampton, Conn., from 1865 to 1867, and during
the latter year he entered the service of the Association as agent,
residing in Rochester, N. Y. In 1870 he beca