look down from a world redeemed, to a
world for whose redemption Christ lived and died. There will always be
legacies, and the American Missionary Association, so long as it follows
in the steps of Christ in such mission as it has, will not be forgotten.
The legacies will come, because they ought to come. The people of God
will remember this work in their wills because they ought to do this,
and God will take care that what Christian stewards ought to do, shall
be done.

We thank God for SPECIAL GIFTS. We thank God for LEGACIES. We also thank
God for the ability and faith and sacrifices of those who cannot plant
institutions or build or endow schools, but who live and give that which
provides for the unceasing CURRENT EXPENSES. Almost every one can do a
little more, and it is the many littles that make the difference between
a debt with a crippled work, and freedom from debt with healthful
growth. All along the lines, the calls for help are so urgent, that it
is painful for us, in the name of the church, to be constantly saying
"No!"

OUR RECEIPTS for the past six months (ending March 31) are as follows:

Church contributions $95,843.37
Estates and legacies 15,194.10
Tuition from schools 18,781.58
Income from invested funds 4,829.21
Income from the United States Government 9,540.87

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Total $144,189.13

OUR PAYMENTS for the past six
months are $171,237.64
OUR DEFICIT is 27,048.51

The churches can easily take this out of the way if they will. We
believe that they will.

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CENTENNIAL.

These pages will come before our readers amid the enthusiastic
rejoicings of a great nation celebrating the one hundredth anniversary
of its Constitution--a Constitution that has been tried and found
worthy.

The greatest strain to which this great charter has been subjected in
the past hundred years has been occasioned by slavery. The crisis cost
untold blood and treasure. The great strain of the next hundred years
will be what slavery has left behind it--a vast and growing black
population, and an imbittered race prejudice.

There is but one way to meet this strain of the coming century, and that
is by the education of the blacks. The task is g