THE
AMERICAN MISSIONARY.

“To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.”

OCTOBER, 1879.

EDITORIAL.
The Annual Meeting—Paragraphs	289
Worker at Rest (Mrs. Peebles)—Death of Father Jocelyn	291
Random Suggestions	293
A Strong Appeal	294
Language of Equatorial Africa	296
Strange but True Story	297
Items from the Field	299
General Notes	300
THE FREEDMEN.
North and South—Some Things in Common	304
Reminiscences—“It’s the Color that Tells”	306
Tennessee, Nashville—Remarkable Conversion and Triumphant Death	309
Georgia, Byron—First Impressions	310
THE CHINESE.
The Beginning of Harvest—Ong Lune	310
CHILDREN’S PAGE.
Country School-Houses	313
RECEIPTS	314
Constitution	317
Work, Statistics, Wants &c.	318

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American Missionary Association,

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PRESIDENT.

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