The Missionary Herald (November, 1860)

The Missionary Herald (November, 1860). Contains: Annual report (including some 1000 names of members present, foreign missions i.e. Cyrus Hamlin & D. W. Marsh from Turkey), the report also includes a section on the Slave Trade in Africa (The French Government promises to discontinue their “emigrant” traffic), it goes on to question whether it’s “expedient” for the Commissioners of the Foreign Missions to “memorialize” the Congress of the U.S., or the President on the subject of African slave trade? However ultimately it is decided to memorialize the Congress of the U.S., or the President only if the slave trade “interferes with the proper missionary work”, [interesting to note the beginning of the Civil war was only 5 months away], Mission to Western Turkey [Erzroom, Armenia], The War & killings in Syria “exceed a hundred thousand” and Anglo-American assistance to the thousands of refugees…