Here, then, is the call to us.  Begin with the Chinaman at your door.  Recognize that the Lord Jesus stands before you in him.  You prove your own faith; you “do it unto” your Lord; you forward the plan of God when you take him by the hand and gently entreat him for Christ.

For the same reason you will give your money to support the work of this Association.  No work has been more devoted, more upheld by prayer, more Christlike, or, we may add, more deservedly successful than that under the lead of our representative, Dr. Pond, on the Pacific Coast.  He has already surrounded himself with a band of trained Christian converts, who would be a joy in any field, and who are making themselves felt for good far and wide.  Their influence reaches to Chicago, St. Louis, and even Boston and New York.  It is ours to see that the Christian city they find here is not less Christlike than that which met them when they landed on our shores, and that the hoodlum of our Eastern cities no more represents the spirit of our churches than does he of San Francisco and of Oakland.  Let us be careful to show that our hand will be as promptly raised to protect the helpless Chinaman from insult on the street as it will be to lead his soul to Christ.  Let us insist upon it, as Americans and as Christians, that no distinction of race or of color shall stand between any man and his rights, either in the State or in the Church.  Then may we hope that all—­white and black, Chinaman and American—­will care less for rights and more for duties, and, in the joy of a true brotherhood, will labor together to bring in the day of the Lord.  In any case, let us, with all our multiform machinery, our conventions, our societies, our churches, be not so busy “saving souls” that we have not care to save men and women.

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REPORT OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.

BY F.J.  LAMB, ESQ., CHAIRMAN.

Your committee beg leave to report that they have had under consideration the matters committed to them.  They have been attended by your Treasurer, and they have examined his reports submitted, particularly the detailed statement of receipts and expenditures for the year closed; also statement of trust funds of the Association; also statement of resources and liabilities, and of the income of the Daniel Hand Educational Fund for the same period.  These statements come to us duly vouched for by the standing committee of auditors elected by the Association.  A summarized statement of receipts and expenditures has been printed and distributed at this meeting, which accords with the detailed report.  Other reports show that the invested funds of the Association, aside from the Daniel Hand Fund, are $230,875.78, being $500 more than in the previous year.  From the statement of resources and liabilities, we find that the various colleges, schools, stations, buildings, and property constituting what may be termed the plant of the Association, amount, at their estimated value, to $745,849.  This is a large sum, but the investment yields no pecuniary return to the Association.  It represents the fixed property with which the Association carries on its work, and the figures may serve in some measure to apprise us of the magnitude of the work being carried on by the Association.