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NORTH AMERICA FOR CHRIST.

SPEAKING WITH TONGUES.——This society speaks with tongues. Its Missionaries preach the gospel in eleven different languages. Home Missions help Foreign Missions. Success on this continent means victory on the other continents. "The field is the world." The work is one.

THE RIGHT ROUTE to conquest of Africa for Christ, is through our Seminaries for training colored Baptist preachers in the South. Our beloved Missionary Union need thoroughly trained colored missionaries who can endure the African climate. Numbers in our schools desire to go to Africa. We have seven schools in seven Southern states for training colored pastors and missionaries. These schools embrace properties worth $100,000, and are paid for! But our very prosperity embarrasses us. We greatly need funds to keep these schools in operation. Help! help!! 

METHODS OF HELPING.——$50 will support a student for the school year. An individual or a Church, or a Sabbath School, or a Bible class, or a sewing circle, can sent $10 a month for five months. If we had 5,000 fifties we could have teachership. $20,000 will found a School.

A PROMISING STUDENT from our school in Richmond, Va., received a prize of $25 for passing the best examination upon entering the Freshman Class of a Northern University. He was born a slave.

AMERICAN BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY, 
Room 12, No. 39 Park Row,
New York, April 8th 1871

For the work in behalf of the Continent, Address,
Rev. JAMES B. SIMMONS, Cor. Sec. 

Maj. Gen. O. O. Howard
Washington D. C.

Dear Sir: 

[[stamped]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamped]]

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For plans and stirring facts, see the other side of this sheet.
Gen. Whittlesey's of yesterday is rec'd? I have no authority to consent to any diminution whatever. 
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I hope you have enjoyed the respite, which your numerous cares & arduous public labors rendered so essential to your continued health. May your life long be spared.

Your excellent article, on education as a political necessity, I sent to several of our papers & it has been printed. I have a dozen copies of it & mean to send them to other papers. It is good seed corn.

I wish you would read my letter to you of March 7th 1871 at your earliest convenience & give me your reply. We are urgent for the $25.00 at N. Orleans, the $5000. at Augusta & the $3000. at Raleigh I do not know how to put our friends off any further.

Yours truly & paternally
James B. Simmons

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