Street Prayer Meeting, with much useful and instructive matter
for family reading, etc., etc. The price is two cents per copy or
$5 per annum, and to induce circulation throughout the country
we offer the following special terms: To clubs of five we shall
send the DAILY WITNESS, separately addressed, by mail, postpaid,
for $20 a year, or $5 per quarter. In the latter case 78 copies
delivered, will only cost $1. At that rate who would be without a
New York daily paper, equally valuable for the business man and
his family? We hope clubs will be formed in every city, town and
village that is reached by the morning mails from New York on the
same day.

                        THE WEEKLY WITNESS

Commenced with January, 1872, and is near the completion of its
eighth year. It at present issues 54,000 weekly, which go to
subscribers all over the Union. Its issues from the beginning
have been over twenty millions of copies, each containing a
great variety of very interesting matter, namely: News of the
day, Prices Current, Financial Report, Spirit of the New York
Daily Press, Home Department (consisting chiefly of Letters
from Ladies), with a column of letters from children; General
Correspondence from all parts of the country, much of it valuable
for intending colonists; Departments for Agriculture, Temperance,
Sabbath-School, Religious Reading, including Daily Report of
Fulton Street Prayer-meeting; Serial and other Stories. It gives
more reading matter than any other religious weekly, and has
probably fully 300,000 readers, as many copies serve more than
one family. It has drawn forth unsolicited commendation from
thousands of readers, many of whom pronounce it the best paper
for the family and the country they ever saw. The price is $1.50
a year; clubs of five will be supplied for $6 a year, the papers
being addressed separately and postpaid.

                         SABBATH READING.

This small, neat eight-page weekly paper is filled with the
choicest reading matter suitable for the Sabbath day, among which
is one first-class sermon in each number. The matter in this
paper is all different from what appears in the WEEKLY WITNESS.
It has no news or advertisements, editorials or communications,
but is just a choice selection of good, religious, temperance
matter, suited for all classes and all regions, and specially
suited for distribution as a most acceptable tract. Price one
cent per copy, or 50 cents per annum. Ten copies (520) to one
address for a year, postpaid, for $4; or 100 copies for $35. This
is found to be an excellent weekly for the more advanced classes
in Sabbath-schools.

All the above terms are cash in advance, and the papers stop when
subscription expires unless previously renewed. Sample copies of
any or all of them will be sent free if applied for by postal
card or otherwise.

The above publications will be sent on approbation for a month
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cents; SABBATH READING, 5 cents, or sample copies free.

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                        THE WORLD FOR 1880.

The year 1880 promises to be one of the most interesting
and important years of this crowded and eventful century.
It will witness a Presidential election which may result in
re-establishing the Government of this country on the principles
of its constitutional founders, or in permanently changing the
relations of the States to the Federal power. No intelligent man
can regard such an election with indifference. THE WORLD, as the
only daily English newspaper published in the city of New York
which upholds the doctrines of constitutional Democracy, will
steadily represent the Conservative contention in this great
canvass. It will do this in no spirit of servile partisanship,
but temperately and firmly. It will be as swift to rebuke what
it regards as infidelity to Democratic principles or to the
honorable laws of political conflict on the part of its friends
as on the part of its foes. It will uphold no candidate for
office whom it believes to be unworthy of the support of honest
men, and accept no platform which it believes to misrepresent
or to contradict the true conditions of our national prosperity
and greatness. As a newspaper THE WORLD, being the organ of no
man, no clique and no interest, will present the fullest and the
fairest picture it can make of each day’s passing history in the
city, the State, the country and the world. Its correspondents in
the chief centres of life and action on both sides of the ocean
have been selected for their character not less than for their
capacity. It will aim, hereafter as heretofore, at accuracy first
of all things in all that it publishes. No man, however humble,
shall ever be permitted truly to complain that he has been
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however powerful, shall ever be permitted truly to boast that it
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During the past year THE WORLD has seen its daily circulation
trebled and its weekly circulation pushed beyond that of any
other weekly newspaper in the country. This great increase has
been won, as THE WORLD believes, by truthfulness, enterprise,
ceaseless activity in collecting news, and unfaltering loyalty to
itself and to its readers in dealing with the questions of the
day. It is our hope, and it will be our endeavor, that these may
keep what these have won, and that THE WORLD’S record for 1880
may be written in the approbation and support of many thousands
more of new readers in all parts of this Indissoluble Union of
Indestructible States.

=Democrats= everywhere should inform themselves carefully alike
of the action of their party throughout the country and of the
movements of their Republican opponents. A failure to do this
in 1876 contributed greatly to the loss by the Democracy of the
fruits of the victory fairly won at the polls.

Our rates of subscription remain unchanged, and are as follows:

Daily and Sundays, one year, $10; six months, $5.50; three
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THE MONDAY WORLD, containing the Book Reviews and “College
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Old subscribers who send $1 before December 28, for a renewal of
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                     THE THIRTY-FOURTH VOLUME

                              OF THE

                       American Missionary,

                               1880.

We have been gratified with the constant tokens of the increasing
appreciation of the MISSIONARY during the year now nearly past, and
purpose to spare no effort to make its pages of still greater value
to those interested in the work which it records.

Shall we not have a largely increased subscription list for 1880?

A little effort on the part of our friends, when making their own
remittances, to induce their neighbors to unite in forming Clubs,
will easily double our list, and thus widen the influence of our
Magazine, and aid in the enlargement of our work.

Under the editorial supervision of Rev. GEO. M. BOYNTON, aided
by the steady contributions of our intelligent missionaries
and teachers in all parts of the field, and with occasional
communications from careful observers and thinkers elsewhere,
the AMERICAN MISSIONARY furnishes a vivid and reliable picture
of the work going forward among the Indians, the Chinamen on the
Pacific Coast, and the Freedmen as citizens in the South and as
missionaries in Africa.

It will be the vehicle of important views on all matters affecting
the races among which it labors, and will give a monthly summary of
current events relating to their welfare and progress.

Patriots and Christians interested in the education and
Christianizing of these despised races are asked to read it, and
assist in its circulation. Begin with the next number and the new
year. The price is only Fifty Cents per annum.

The Magazine will be sent gratuitously, if preferred, to the
persons indicated on page 412.

Donations and subscriptions should be sent to

                     H. W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,
                                      56 Reade Street, New York.

                          TO ADVERTISERS.

Special attention is invited to the advertising department of the
AMERICAN MISSIONARY. Among its regular readers are thousands of
Ministers of the Gospel, Presidents, Professors and Teachers in
Colleges, Theological Seminaries and Schools; it is, therefore,
a specially valuable medium for advertising Books, Periodicals,
Newspapers, Maps, Charts, Institutions of Learning, Church
Furniture, Bells, Household Goods, &c.

Advertisers are requested to note the moderate price charged for
space in its columns, considering the extent and character of its
circulation.

Advertisements must be received by the TENTH of the month, in order
to secure insertion in the following number. All communications in
relation to advertising should be addressed to

                    J. H. DENISON, Adv’g Agent,
                                     56 Reade Street, New York.

☞ Our friends who are interested in the Advertising Department of
the “American Missionary” can aid us in this respect by mentioning,
when ordering goods, that they saw them advertised in our Magazine.

  DAVID K. GILDERSLEEVE, Printer, 101 Chambers Street, New York.

Transcriber’s Notes:

All instances of “D.D.” changed to “D. D.” to be consistent with
the majority of the text.

“reponse” changed to “response” on page 355. (the following
response was adopted)

“maintainance” changed to “maintenance” on page 360. (provision
for the maintenance of professorships)

“onmoving” changed to “on moving” on page 380. (signifies a great
providential on moving the conversion)

“usuages” changed “usages” (among the early usages of New England)

“sancity” changed to “sanctity” on page 383. (Respect the
sanctity of his family.)

Repeated “t” in broken word “import-tant” removed when the
word was rejoined on page 396. (In seven of our most important
treaties)

“whatsover” changed to “whatsoever” on page 407. (to bear
whatsoever ills)

“it” changed to “at” on page 412. (the Will should be made at
least two months before)

“Steal” changed to “Steel” on page 413. (Fine Large Steel
Engraving.)

Both “post-paid” and “postpaid” appear in the advertisements.
The differences were left, assuming the differences reflect the
wishes of the advertisement authors.