BRAHAM LINCOLN CENT SOCIETY.

REV. SPENCER SNELL.

We at Talladega are doing what we can by our pennies toward getting the
American Missionary Association out of debt. The Abraham Lincoln Cent
Society, which grew out of our effort on Lincoln Memorial Day last
February to devise some organized plan by which we might help a little,
has been the means of putting a good many pennies collected from very
poor people into the treasury at New York. Besides organizing a cent
society here an appeal was sent to other American Missionary Association
churches and schools among the colored people asking that similar
societies be organized. A number of them acted upon the suggestion, some
of them sending their money here to be forwarded by the treasurer of our
society to the New York office, and others sending it direct.

The members of these societies are asked to give one cent daily, weekly,
or monthly, according to each one's financial ability. The object is to
give every colored man, woman and child who can be reached by these
societies an opportunity to do something for the American Missionary
Association, which has done, and is doing, so much for them.

As the new school year begins we renew our efforts in the society here,
and shall try to stimulate others in the hope that much more may be done
this year than was done last year in this humble way for the great
cause.

We are trying to have the colored people feel that they are members of
the American Missionary Association and that the work which the
Association is trying to do is their work, and that the debt which
burdens the Association is their debt, which they are to share in common
with the other lowly peoples on whose account the debt has been
incurred.

THE FIELD.

1895-1896.

The following list gives the names of those who are in the work of the
Churches, Institutions and Schools of the American Missionary
Association.

THE SOUTH.

Rev. Geo. W. Moore, Field Missionary.
" James Wharton, Evangelist.
" Gilbert Walton, General Mountain Missionary.

WASHINGTON, D. C.

THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT, HOWARD UNIVERSITY.

Rev. J. E. Rankin, D.D., LL.D., Washington, D. C.
" J. L. Ewell, A.M., " "
" Isaac Clark, A.M., " "
" Sterling N. Brown, A.M., " "
" George O. Little, D.D., " "
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