Church contributions $95,843.37
Estates and legacies 15,194.10
Tuition from schools 18,781.58
Income from invested funds 4,829.21
Income from the United States Government 9,540.87

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Total $144,189.13

OUR PAYMENTS for the past six
months are $171,237.64
OUR DEFICIT is 27,048.51

The churches can easily take this out of the way if they will. We
believe that they will.

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CENTENNIAL.

These pages will come before our readers amid the enthusiastic
rejoicings of a great nation celebrating the one hundredth anniversary
of its Constitution--a Constitution that has been tried and found
worthy.

The greatest strain to which this great charter has been subjected in
the past hundred years has been occasioned by slavery. The crisis cost