ART.  III.  Members of evangelical churches may be constituted members of this Association for life by the payment of thirty dollars into its treasury, with the written declaration at the time or times of payment that the sum is to be applied to constitute a designated person a life member; and such membership shall begin sixty days after the payment shall have been completed.  Other persons, by the payment of the same sum, may be made life members, without the privilege of voting.

Every evangelical church which has within a year contributed to the funds of the Association, and every State Conference or Association of such churches, may appoint two delegates to the Annual Meeting of the Association; such delegates, duly attested by credentials, shall be members of the Association for the year for which they were thus appointed.

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THE CLOSE OF OUR FINANCIAL YEAR.

These pages may fall into the hands of some of our constituents before the close of our fiscal year, September 30th.  We hope that the opportunity will be embraced by church treasurers to remit promptly funds designed for us, and that benevolent friends who have intended to aid us during the year will carry out their purpose at once.  The outlook is encouraging and we shall hail with joy and gratitude the day of deliverance from debt.

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LETTERS FROM CONTRIBUTORS.

“Again I have the pleasure of enclosing for the general use of the American Missionary Association a draft of one hundred dollars.  The Lord bless the work of the dear workers in the field.  My love to them.”

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“Many years ago I used to contribute to the funds of the American Missionary Association.  My husband and I supported a teacher under its auspices, but times have changed and we are not able to do that now.  For many years I have ceased to send any money to your treasury, for I thought what little I could afford would do no good at all.  But seeing in the September MISSIONARY some contributions of a few dollars, I send the enclosed five dollars.  If each one interested in the cause would do that, it would help some.  My interest is unabated in your great and glorious work for humanity and immortal souls.”

FROM A MISSIONARY IN CHINA.

“Enclosed we send twenty-five dollars, which please accept as our subscription to the American Missionary Association work for the current year.  We are more and more interested in this work, especially in view of the hateful prejudice that exists in many parts of the South against the colored people and those who have so nobly espoused the cause of their education and Christianization.  This low-minded prejudice is very similar to what we have to endure here in the interior of China, yet it is harder to bear because coming from those who pretend to be enlightened Christians, while here those who indulge in personal abuse are mostly of the lowest and most ignorant heathen, though they are often backed up by the literati.”