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[Illustration:  Daniel Hand]

THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.

VOL.  XLIII.  JANUARY, 1889.  No. 1.

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American Missionary Association.

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We present to our readers, on the opposite page, a picture of Mr. Daniel Hand from a photograph taken some time ago.  It presents the likeness of a man of fine physical proportions and with energy and intelligence impressed on the features.  The signature at the bottom of the picture is copied from one of Mr. Hand’s recent letters, and shows the remarkable physical vigor of a man in his 88th year.

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NEW YEAR’S GREETINGS.

The New Year opens upon us auspiciously, and we send forth our joyous greetings to our patrons at home, and to our fellow workers in the field.  Above all we thank God for putting us into this ministry for the poor and the ignorant, and for the success granted to us in prosecuting it.  We have had sorrows and anxieties, but they have been followed by consolations and deliverances.  The hand that penned the “Happy New Year” in our MISSIONARY for last January, is now silent in the grave, but the memory of Brother Powell’s life and character is so precious that it mitigates our loss.  The yellow fever prevented the opening of many of our schools, and awakened fears of widespread hindrance to our work throughout the South; but the scourge was restrained, and the work now goes on prosperously.  Our last fiscal year drew towards its close with the cloud of a large debt looming up, but our friends responded so generously to our appeals, that the year ended with a debt so small as to be only a salutary warning.