has been
severely affected by the adverse times. Our mission schools and churches
are suffering. For the last three years our average current receipts have
been $93,000 less per year than during the previous three years. The work
has been cut $184,000 during these three years. If it had been fully
maintained the debt would have been three times as great as it is.*

*We are now confronted with the question of further and more disastrous
reductions, for our obligations must be met. The $100,000 borrowed for
mission work must be paid. We do not believe that the churches wish this
to be done by closing more schools and church doors against the poorest of
our countrymen throughout the Southern lowlands and mountains, amid the
Dakotas and Montana, from California to Florida.*

*The Association has come to the last half of its fiscal year. Up to this
time it has made no special plea for help. It has waited fraternally until
kindred organizations have received the aid they** so greatly needed. This
vast Christian service in the most necessitous fields of the continent is
as distinctively the trust of the churches as any of their enterprises
are. Shall it not now have the same equitable relief as has been given to
others? Has not the time now come for helping this suffering work? Will
not those who have charged the Association with this burden of service now
consecrate anew their benevolence to its relief and make this a Year of
Jubilee, to wipe out the last vestige of debt?*

*It is proposed to raise during the next six months a special Jubilee Year
Fund of $100,000 in shares of $50 each, with the hope and expectation that
these shares will be taken by the friends of missions without lessening
those regular contributions which must be depended upon to sustain the
current work.*

*The plea is urgent because the need is urgent. Will not all friends of
this great work, pastor and people, now heartily unite in one special
Christian endeavor to raise this American Missionary Association Jubilee
Year Fund?*

*Charles L. Mead,*
* Samuel Holmes,*
* Samuel S. Marples,*
* William H. Strong,*
* Elijah Horr,*
* William Hayes Ward,*
* Lucien C. Warner,*
* James W. Cooper,*
* Joseph H. Twichell,*
* Charles P. Peirce,*
* Charles A. Hull,*
* Albert J. Lyman,*
* Addison P. Foster,*
* Nehemiah Boynton,*
* A. J. F. Behrends*

*Executive Committee of the*
* AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.*

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