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FORTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,

FOR THE YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30TH, 1889.

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GENERAL SURVEY.

The American Missionary Association finds its commission in the words
of the Master, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to
every creature."

It does not choose its fields of labor because the people in them are
black, or red, or yellow, or white; but because they are those
for whom Christ died and to whom he commanded the glad tidings of
salvation to be preached. In the fields to which it providentially has
been called, it seeks to bring the gospel to every human being who has
it not in its purity as an uplifting power.

In nineteen States and Territories we are laboring--six in the West
and thirteen in the South. In ninety-four schools and one hundred and
forty-two churches we have been directly teaching and preaching the
gospel during the past year. In them have 456 missionaries wrought
with holy purpose. 12,132 pupils have been taught in our schools; more
than seventeen thousand have received instruction in Bible truth in
our Sunday-schools; 782 conversions have been reported. $3,160.14 have