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THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY, NOW A QUARTERLY.

Some of our friends write us, saying that they do not receive the
"American Missionary" regularly. Perhaps these friends have not
noticed the announcement that our magazine is now a quarterly and not
a monthly. The last number was issued December, 1897, and this number
will appear March, 1898.

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LIST OF FIELD WORKERS.

We publish in this number of the magazine the annual list of our Field
Workers. We take pleasure in presenting this list, believing that it
will be valued, not only by the friends of these faithful workers, but
by many others who will be glad to trace their names and locations.
Our workers have been epoch makers. They entered upon the work during
the first year of the war and followed the advance of the Union
armies, and when at length the slaves became freemen, these teachers
and preachers were their guides in the paths of industry, knowledge
and piety. The work was opportune, for it needed a strong influence to
direct their uncertain steps in the new life that broke so strangely
upon them. Many of these workers have devoted well-nigh their active
life to this work, and gray hairs are adorning the temples of some
who entered the service in their early and vigorous youth. Their
achievements are the ample reward for their self-denying and useful
labors and are found in neat homes, family purity, skilled industry in
shop and on farm, in well-prepared teachers and in educated and pious
ministers of the gospel. Their work is multiplied by the successful
toil of hundreds and perhaps thousands who have been trained by them.
May God bless these workers and the peoples among whom they toil--the
Emancipated Slaves, the Indians on our Western border, the Highlanders
on our Southern mountains, the Chinese on the Pacific Coast, and the
heroic family in far-off Alaska.

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OUR INDUSTRIAL WORK.

The American Missionary Association was a pioneer in introducing
industrial training and work among the freedmen of the South. In May,
1867, the Association purchased a tract of land on which the buildings
at Hampton, Va., are now located, and agricultural and industrial
pursuits were immediately inaugurated. In 1872 a charter was obtained
and the property was turned over by the Association to a Board of
Trustees, and Gen. Armstrong, with his remarkable enthusiasm and
administrative skil