should have a _larger list of paying subscribers_.
Please read the subjoined letter from a converted Chinaman and then "go
and do thou likewise."

LOS ANGELES, CAL., Sept. 25, 1889.

_Dear American Missionary:_

I am sorry to say that I have utterly forgotten to pay you
for the _American Missionary_ for the year 1889. Now I beg
your pardon for that. You know I have used to send the money
through our pastor Dr. Pond, but since I had left San
Francisco visiting missions in different towns and cities
and therefore the _American Missionary_ did not reached me
while I am away from Los Angeles, so my attention of paying
for it was dropped from that point. Now I sent you _one
dollars_ including a new subscriber, our brother Jue King.
While I am writing this note another brother came in who
wish to get one also, and therefore have to send you $1.50,
one dollar & 50 cents. This brother name Leung Chow, Los
Angeles. Address Jue King's to the same P.O. Box as mine and
oblige. God bless the American Missionary.

Respectfully yours,

LOO QUONG.

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BRIEF NOTES.

REV. C.J. RYDER, DISTRICT SECRETARY.

A little swarm of "Busy Bees," in Dover, N.H., have been making honey
for the needy children in one of the missions of our Association. Their
gift, amounting to sixty-five dollars, has been used to furnish a
Reference Library for the school at Wilmington, N.C. Special rates were
kindly given us on books by the Congregational Sunday-school and
Publishing Society and other firms in Boston, so that this sixty-five
dollars furnished a number of very useful books. Have not these "Busy
Bees" in New Hampshire set a good example to other children's societies?

Speaking of the Sunday-school and Publishing Society reminds me of two
things. The first is the kindly interest and generous help of that
society in the work being done by the Association in various fields.
Literature is abundantly supplied from their press, and in some
instances they have sent colporteurs and missionaries into the various
fields, who do a grand good work.

The other thing suggested by reference to this society is a queer
contribution which was brought in to Mr. Hall, a missionary of the
Association at Fort Berthold, Dakota. I chanced to be there when it was
brought in. Mr. Hall had told the Indian boys and girls of the useful
w