MARCH, 1887.

THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY
VOL. XLI.
NO. 3.

EDITORIAL.
PAGE
Financial—A Good Idea,	65
Extracts from Correspondents,	66
Thy Kingdom Come—Paragraph,	68
We Are Verily Guilty Concerning Our Brother,	69
Does the Higher Education Befit the Negro?	71
Some Change Needed,	73
New Light in the South,	74
Paragraph—Death of Mr. Weir,	75
THE SOUTH.
Notes in the Saddle. Supt. C. J. Ryder,	75
Dedication of Ballard Building,	77
Our School of Observation—Charleston, S. C.,	79
Cumberland Mountains,	80
THE INDIANS.
A Visit to the Dakotas,	82
THE CHINESE.
From Rev. F. B. Perkins,	84
BUREAU OF WOMAN’S WORK.
Extracts from Letters—Letter from Jennie Cox,	86
FOR THE CHILDREN.
Letter from a Coloured Boy to his Teacher—Letter from Mrs. A. A. Myers,	88
RECEIPTS,	89

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