Classicly

The American Missionary — Volume 32, No. 01, January, 1878 issue by various authors.

Year after year the work of the American Missionary Association goes on with steady increase. We glide from one year to another noiselessly, and take up on the New Year’s Day the same tools we dropped when the signal came that the working hours of the old year were ended. One seems very much like the other, and yet, as we look back, we find that each year has, to some extent, a character and a work of its own. Changes come unheralded, proportions vary; each phase is now conspicuous and now in almost eclipse, while the whole work goes on