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The American Baptist Home Mission Society Solicits your hearty co-operation, your liberal contributions, and your effectual and fervent prayers. Any Baptist church that Pays Ten Dollars can be represented by a delegate at the annual meeting; Thirty Dollars will constitute you or your friend a Life Member; and one hundred Dollars a Life Director. Give as you love your country. give as you love Christ. give as Christ gave for you. Give while you live; and before you die say in your Will: "I gave and bequeath to the American Baptist Home Mission Society, formed in the City of New York in eighteen hundred and thirty-two, the sum of ..... dollars for the purposes of the Society". The following table will show the constant growth of our work during the past five years:

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| For the year ending | Receipts. | Missionaries. | Baptisms. | Sermons Preached. | | Families Religiously Visited. | Addition to the Church. | Prayer-Meetings Attended. | Churches Organized. | Meet'g-houses Erected. | Children in Sabbath School. |

| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | 

| March 31, 1863.... | $ 35,383 67 | 96 | 494 |  | 7,208 | 12,248 | 764 | 4,358 | 17 | 4 | 5,060 
| March 31, 1864.... | 60,355 69 | 173 | 892 |  | 12,525 | 26,036 | 1,343 | 4,696 | 36 | 12 | 14,540 |
| March 31, 1865.... | 105,309 65 | 248 | 2,134 | 17,268 | 40,171 | 3,668 | 5,190 | 57 | 14 | 22,021 | 
| March 31, 1866.... | 119,870 85 | 327 | 4,151 | 22,558 | 56,778 | 6,550 | 12,792 | 89 | 19 | 23,661 | 
| March 31, 1867.... | 176,899 08 | 367 | 7,236 | 31,679 | 81,113 | 11,101 | 18,902 | 132 | 31 |  | 38,713 |

American Baptist Home Mission Rooms, 
No. 39 PARK ROW.
New York, Dec 5, 1867

Rev. Jay S. Backus, D. D.
"James B. Simmons, } Corresponding Secretaries. 

Rev Chaplain Manly
Richmond Va

Dear Brother
Miss Susan Drummond of Brooklyn N.Y. says she has been a Teacher of the A. Missionary Association for four years last past but is not now and does not feel able to act longer as permanent Teacher but she asks of you as she was teacher in Portsmouth Va. and wished to take down and distribute clothing and Books &c &c in her school this winter that you will furnish her with a free pass there and to return.
This is her request and not mine but all I have no doubt as she says Pardon me for troubling you with this, you will know if she is entitled to the sympathy and assistance of the Bureau and if so forward Pass to my [care?]
Respectfully
J.S. Backus