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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 the 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 spend $10 a month for five months. If we had 5,000 fifties we could have 5,000 students. $1,000 given to the Society, to be kept at interest, will support a student perpetually. $10,000 will endow a 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,
[[strikethrough]] Room 12, No.89 Park Row [[/strikethrough]]
(New Rooms) No. 239. Broadway

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

New York, May 4 1871

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

Confidential

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

My Dear friend: I cannot help feeling that the Lord may be honored by the result of our pleasant interview on Tuesday [[?]]. It seems to me that your noble University & our Wayland School may be mutually helpful if situated near together. Should either you or we finally conclude differently, no harm will have been done by the conference, surely. 

We estimate that these are at least 250000 (two hundred & fifty thousand) colored Baptists in the U.S. If you open the way, by a liberal & fraternal policy, such as you have heretofire manifested, the Howard University will reap the fruits beyond any poredventure[[?]], in the way of a generous patronage from these 250000, & their friends in the North & South.

And could you apply the $5000 due us from the Bureau for Augusta, in helping us pay Howard Unv'y Trustees for a first rate site, say further up 4 1/2 St. on higher grounds, and nearer your Unv'y building, you may be sure that our new building should not dishonor the grounds. Then we would put up the building at Augusta without Bureau aid. I may see you in Washington next week. 

Yours truly - James B. Simmons -