Look at a few eloquent figures.  This American Missionary Association, not yet fifty years old, has one hundred and thirteen missionaries at work among the Negroes, the sadly neglected white mountaineers and the newly arrived immigrants in the Southern States.  It has established and maintains there one hundred and thirty-six churches; also five chartered institutions of learning, eighteen normal and graded schools, and thirty-seven common schools, served by two hundred and sixty instructors.  Among the Indians it has half a dozen churches and three times that number of schools, sixty-eight missionaries and teachers; among the Chinese in this country, sixteen schools, thirty-five missionaries and teachers.  Its expenditures during the year footed up a little over $366,000—­a little over a thousand dollars a day.  What a work these figures represent, not merely for the Christian religion, but for civilization, for morals, for good citizenship!

The American Missionary Association ought to have at least half a million dollars to work with, this year, and Hartford should show well up toward the top in the list of contributors.

* * * * *

“THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.”

The rich treat which this number of the MISSIONARY presents may well suggest the privilege and duty not only of reading, but also of circulating it.  Let each reader possess himself of these important facts and figures—­these broad views as to the great work laid on the hearts of American patriots and Christians—­and then hand the magazine to some neighbor.  Let us suggest farther, that the MISSIONARY, in its monthly issues, is full of the same sort of facts and thoughts, and should be more widely read—­it 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.

* * * * *

BRIEF NOTES.