124,000. But our receipts were reduced in increasing measure
each year by a total of $224,000. Further reduction? Yes, as soon as
possible, under present engagements, if it must be so. Is this the
decision of the Christian people in the churches? Is it wise? Is it
necessary? Must the life-blood of these missions to the poorest, the
most needy of all the peoples in America be shed? Does not the condition
of these lowly and helpless millions cry out to God against it?

The American Missionary Association has been providentially called to
minister to the down-trodden, the submerged millions of our common
country. Their distressful needs are in danger of being left aside in
the pressure of other worthy appeals for aid. Will not the thoughtful,
the large-minded and large-hearted, who lead in every benevolent service
of the churches, come to the rescue of this imperiled Christian service?
Will they not make this fiftieth year of the American Missionary
Association a year of jubilee by bringing an advance of at least a
hundred thousand dollars before the assembling of our great Boston
Convention in October?

BISHOP HAYGOOD.--The recent death of Atticus G. Haygood of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South has removed a very useful man from
among those who are conscientiously engaged in the uplifting of the
colored people and in promoting harmony between the two races in the
South. In the writing of his books and his numerous articles for the
press, in his conscientious administration of the Slater Fund and in his
work as Bishop, he has rendered a permanent benefit to his church and
the country.

PAMPHLETS AND ADDRESSES.

Since the publication, in a recent number of THE MISSIONARY, of
the list of the documents ready for distribution on application of our
friends, we add the following:

Annual Report of the Association.

Sermon by Rev. WM. HAYES WARD, D.D., "Instead of thy Fathers
shall be thy Children."

Citizenship and Christianity, by Rev. SHERROD SOULE.

The Debt of Our Country to the American Highlanders During the
War, by Secretary C. J. RYDER. (Reprint, illustrated.)

"GREAT TRUTHS SIMPLY TOLD" is the title of a most excellent
little book compiled by Prof. George L. Wood, of Philadelphia. A special
fund has been contributed by a friend interested in the circulation of
this useful little volume, which makes it possible for us to offer to
our missionaries a limited number, if they will write asking for the
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