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“I bequeath to my executor (or executors) the sum of ——­ dollars, in trust, to pay the same in ——­ days after my decease to the person who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the ’American Missionary Association,’ of New York City, to be applied, under the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, to its charitable uses and purposes.”  The Will should be attested by three witnesses.

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THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.

VOL.  XLIII.  FEBRUARY, 1889.  No. 2.

American Missionary Association.

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OUR LIST OF GOOD SAMARITANS.

This number of the MISSIONARY contains the annual list of our workers, who go down the Jericho road to care for those who have been wronged, the poor and ignorant, who need the Gospel.  Our ministers and teachers are not like the priest and the Levite, who looked upon the poor man and then “passed by on the other side;” nor do they merely pity and utter words of sympathy.  They take right hold and help.  They “pour in the oil and the wine,” and they build the inns—­that is, the churches and schoolhouses where they instruct and help the needy ones till they can take care of themselves and help to take care of others—­the most genuine kind of assistance.

It must be remembered that this requires expenditure.  The oil and the wine, the inn and the constant attendance, call for money.  Our constituents, who furnish this, want the work done and well done, and they are willing to pay for it.  But sometimes they need to be reminded of the cost.  At our last Annual Meeting, the “two pence” which they had during the year put into our hands, counted in American money, amounted to $323,147.22; and they said:  “Whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again I will repay thee.”  We are very careful to watch the receipts and expenditures, and we find that for the three months since the Annual Meeting, we have received from all sources $66,958.43; whereas, the current expenditures for the three months require about $86,000.  We give this timely notice that they who commit to us this work may remit to us what is needed.