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Life and Light

Vol. L February, 1920 No. 2

Sign Posts Along the Way

A Report of Home Base Work Given at Providence by Mrs. C. H. Mix

Many years ago this Httle message came to a friend of mine, from her mother, on her birthday, "Another milestone along life's way for thee erected."

When I began to think about this birthday meeting of our Woman's Board, for I like to think of the Board as a life rather than an organization, this little message came to my mind.

We ask two things of a mile stone. First, we look to see if we are on the right road, and, second, we ask the mile stone to tell us how far we have come. In other words, the mile stone means to us direction and progress.

Let us stop for a little and ask of this mile stone which we reach today whither we are tending and what progress we have made.

The first sign I see points to what, for the sake of the figure, I have called Togetherville. This is not a new sign. Wt have seen it long upon our mile stones. I am sure many of you remember when a few years ago we devoted one session of a Branch Officers' conference to the discussion of this question of union in the work of our auxiliaries, whether the work of the Board could best be done by a separate society or by a centralized organization which brought all the work of the women under one head, with committees in charge of the different Branches. Whichever way the weight of the argument seemed to fall at that time, it is certainly true that more and more the second plan is being adopted in our churches, and we know our Board work has not suffered as a result.

Then two years ago we took a very definite step in this direction when the Conquest Campaign was started with close co-operation

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of effort between the Woman's Board and the Home Missionary Federation. Today we are to hear of the progress of this plan, but we may say now that the movement is still going on, more and more taking shape along the lines which were clearly in mind at its beginning.

If we look to the mission field we find the progress toward this goal has been much more rapid there than with us at home. There practical union has been working for years, and we hear of union colleges, union hospitals and union work of all kinds. Not only this, but there has been division of territory to prevent over- lapping of effort. This is in strong contrast to many places here, where churches so crowd each other that they fairly tread on each other's toes in their effort to find standing room.

During the year just closing I find that our Board has been represented on nine different interdenominational movements. Some of these are of long standing, like the Student Volunteer Movement and the Summer Schools of Missions at Silver Bay and Northfield. Others are new, such as the Rainbow Campaign for recruits, which swept over our land in such a wonderful way and is still going on, and the Interchurch World Movement, which looms ever larger in our vision.

Certainly w^e can be sure of both direction and progress toward the goal of Togetherville.

Next, it seems to me I see signs pointing toward the fair city, not of Greater Boston or Greater New York, but of Greater Efficiency. This city is still far away, and only now and then do we catch glimpses of the sunlight on its towers as we reach some high place on the road, but we are surely on the way.

One sign of this is the idea steadily growing in favor that we as Branches should assume the full support of our missionaries instead of taking a little slice of work here and another there. Along the same line and in close touch with it is the growing feeling of responsibility for the work as a whole. More and more our auxiliaries are coming to feel that they must support the work because it is their work, not because of some personal appeal or some especially attractive object. You have all heard

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of the two strangers who once dropped into a missionary meeting. After hstening for a while, one asked the other, ''Can you tell what they are talking about?" And his companion answered, "As near as I can make out. they seem to be holding a memorial service for Sister Mattie Giving." I am thankful that Sister Mattie has had a resurrection and is taking an active part in the affairs of many of our auxiliaries.

There are some very definite ways in which we as Branch officers can help along the progress toward this particular goal. We might adopt, in a small way, the deputation idea and send out visitors to our churches to study the field and give encourage- ment and help where they are needed. Then it would help if we should sometimes, ask ihe presidents of auxiliaries to attend our Branch Executive meetings, where they could hear the discussions of plans and problems.

In the auxiliaries, the work is often wonderfully well done, but it is confined to a small circle. I wonder if we are not neglecting the men of our churches by not giving them greater opportunity to know of the work we are doing. Some years ago the American Board and the Woman's Board held an institute in a church I know, and the meetings aroused much interest. One of the deacons of that church, in talking of one of the addresses to his wife afterwards, said, 'T was amazed. I had no idea such things were true." She replied, 'T have known that for a long time." Is it possible for our auxiliaries to carry the knowledge and spirit of missions to the whole church?

There are many ways by which this can be done: by study classes, by general meetings with a stereopticon lecture, or perhaps some dramatic presentation, or in a larger way by the Church School of Missions, which has been tried with great success in some of our churches.

Another great help on our way to Greater Efficiency is a definite aim for each auxiliary toward which to work. If each auxiliary should adopt at the beginning of the year a definite aim — first, in the amount of money to be raised ; second, as to new members to be gained ; and third, as to education to be

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accomplished, and hold to this aim through the year, we should find ourselves traveling rapidly on toward this goal.

On through the streets of the city of Greater Efficiency I see the road stretching far toward the peace and rest of fair Adequate Town. Ask our Appropriations Committee, our Candidate Committee and all the other committees, and I am sure they will tell us they often turn longing eyes toward that far-away haven. But far away though it seems, there are surely signs to point the way. The very fact that we have squarely faced the financial needs of our work and that the Branches have given such ready and loyal responses to the call is one sure sign.

Another sign is the increasing emphasis being placed upon the gift of life. Through the Rainbow Campaign, in summer con- ferences, everywhere, the call is sounding, and our young people are hearing.

But these signs point only to the adequate support and manning of work already in hand. What about the fields still waiting to be entered ? The challenge will surely come when the Federation Deputation returns with a new vision of great needs and great opporttniities. Does the task seem too great? 1 am sure many of you have heard Sergeant Ruth Farnam, that wonderful woman who, after living for forty years a life of ease and luxury, was so transformed by the vision of a great need that she has given her property, her income, her time, and more than all, has given herself, in labors and hardships beyond our power to imagine that she might help the suffering people of Serbia. I heard this woman say, '*A11 my life I liave believed that what ought to be done can be done." Do we believe it?

In one of the training camps for officers over in France, there was a quiet man called Sergeant Murray. So very quiet and retiring was he that scarcely any one paid any attention to him, which seemed to exactly suit him. His special domain was one of the upstairs beds in the long double row of bunks which lined the sides of the crude building where the men lived. One day, as he was sitting in his bunk going over some papers, one of his comrades passed and saw on the floor where it had

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fallen unnoticed a paper which he instantly recognized as the certificate for the Distinguished Service Medal. Sergeant Murray was much embarrassed when the paper was returned to him, and still more so when he was asked for the story which went with it. '*Oh, it was nothing, nothing at all," he said. Then the man in the next bunk spoke up, "That isn't all he has, either. He has the Croix de Guerre, too." "Now, you must tell me all about it," demanded the man who had picked up the paper. Sergeant Murray blushed and finally said, *'Well, you see, I was there." "Where?" broke in his questioner. "Why, just there, and I sort of stayed there, and that was all there was to it."

"Just listen to the man! You can't put me ofif that way. I want to know how you got those medals."

But that was all he would say : "I was just there and just stayed there." Then his neighbor spoke again. "If he won't tell you, I will." And in spite of protests from the little Sergeant, this is the story which was told :

Sergeant Murray, then only Private Murray, was sent with a half company to hold a series of shell holes until reinforcements could be brought up. These shell holes were connected by trenches, and the men were equipped with machine guns, hand grenades and their own rifles. It happened that the enemy was especially interested in this same line of shell holes, because if they could break down the defense they could go through the line at this point. Heavy shells and incessant machine gun fire were turned against the little line of defenders with such force that one by one the officers were killed or wounded, until not one was left able to take command. Many of the men, too, had fallen, and they were in danger of being thrown into confusion and disaster. Then it was that Sergeant Murray took charge. He went from shell hole to shell hole, forming the men into new squads, appointing squad leaders, distributing ammunition and food as far as they would go, and always carrying cheer and encouragement to the men. This he did for long hours, until finally reinforcements arrived, long after they had been expected. When the story was finished. Sergeant Murray said, "You see, it

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was just as I said. I was just there, and I sort of stuck there, and that was all." Then he caught up his cap and fairly ran from the room to escape any further talk about it.

After all, didn't he put it pretty w^ell? We are here, and our part is to stick to the road, while we press toward our goal, always remembering in all our endeavor : "It is not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts."

For five days, from December 31, 1919, to January 4, 1920, over 7500 students met in a great convention at Des Moines,

represented with a variety of points of view almost as wide as the distances the students had travelled. It would be hard indeed to estimate what this meant in fellowship, in increased interest in the needs of the great world, and in a new spirit of service.

The purpose of this meeting? It was the Eighth International Convention of the Student Volunteer Movement of North America, held to consider the challenge of the world in this year, to the student body of the United States and Canada. Early in the proceedings Dr. John R. Mott, the presiding officer, brought out the achievements of the Student Volunteers in the thirty-five years since that first meeting in 1886 when the little band of eight students signed up for foreign service in the name of Christ.

In all the fine and challenging addresses of the week the note of service was struck again and again by such great leaders as Robert E. Speer, Sherwood Eddy, Dr. Zwemer, Dean Charles R. Brown, Dr. S. Earl Taylor, Bishop Oldham, Bishop McDowell, Dr. J. Campbell White and Mrs. Helen Barrett Montgomery. For each of the sessions in the Coliseum a theme was assigned to which the addresses of the session were related. These included such inspiring subjects as "A New World for a New Year,"

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The Student Gathering at Des Moines.

Iowa. With the alumni, Board secretaries and missionaries, the total rose well over 8000. One thousand colleges and some forty-five nations, besides Canada and the United States, were

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''Christianizing the International Social Order," "The Call of the Churches to the Colleges," "The Failure of the Non-Christian Religions," "The Appeal of Hard Things" and "The Making of a Life at its Highest and Best."

Although these general sessions were of the greatest inspira- tional value, the smaller group conferences held each afternoon proved of very real help and most suggestive to those definitely contemplating answering the call. On one afternoon the entire Convention divided into six smaller groups to consider the needs and the modern tendencies in different countries. One group studied China, another the Near East, another Africa, and so on, each being led in its thought by some of the outstanding leaders, both national and missionary, of the country under consideration. To the China group the educational, medical, political and spiritual needs of the country were presented by a notable list of speakers, including ^Irs. Thurston, President of Ginling College, Dr. Hume of the Yale-in-China Mission, Bishop Roots, Dr. W'arnshuis, Mr. and ]Mrs. Lew and ^Ir. Yen, all of China. The need of China was perhaps best summed up in the words of one speaker, as follows: "There is a vast perception among the Chinese leaders themselves, growing in articulate form, that these things (united government, commercial reconstruction, adequate educational system, social reconstruction, reconstruction in sanita- tion and hygiene) can not be had unless based upon religion. They look with despair upon the other religions as a basis for these great changes. Their long experience as a civilized nation leads them to realize that without morality there can be no individual national or family life and without adequate religion morality is not possible."

The group meetings of another afternoon were devoted to various aspects of missionary work — educational, medical, evangelistic, agricultural. Of these, as was perhaps natural, the largest attendance was at the educational section where some two or three thousand were present to listen to such experts as Dr. Clement Saunders of India, President Bliss of Beirut, Mrs. Thurston, Rev. Alden H. Clark of our own American Board

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Mission in India, and Dr. T. H. P. Sailer, of Teachers' College, Columbia University.

On Saturday afternoon each denomination met by itself for a general acquaintance session and to consider the immediate needs of its body on the foreign field. Our Congregational group, 350 strong, met in one- of the Congregational churches of Des Moines. We were fortunate in having present a number of missionaries from ten of our large missions, each^of whom had an opportunity to meet the students personally during the reception following the meeting. Mr. Clark, Acting Candidate Secretary of the American Board, presided and brief talks were given by Mrs. Daniels, Miss Ella Hoxie, representing the W. B. M. I., Dr. Robert A. Hume, representing the National Council, Professor Harlan P. Beach of Yale, Mr. Miller of ]\Iadura, ]\Ir. Leroy of Africa, Dr. Hemingway of China, Dr. Pettee and ]\Ir. Harada of Japan, Dr. Haskell of Bulgaria and Mr. Stafford, a student of the Yale delegation. A distinct tribute was paid ^liss Olive Vaughan of Had j in, Turkey, for w^hom the conference was one of the first events since her arrival in this coimtry. Every student present counted it a privilege to see and listen to this heroic w^oman who for five years, alone at her post, has been representing America among the Turks and Armenians. The final devotional service was led by Dr. Sherwood Eddy, who brought out the responsibility of every Congregation- alist in view of our glorious heritage. His words were a direct challenge. To add to the good fellowship of the gathering, the Congregational churches of Des Moines united in asking the Congregational delegation to be their guests at supper. The invitation was most cordially accepted by many, students and missionaries alike, who were made to feel thoroughly at home. As one delegate remarked, "This meeting was more real fun than any other of the Convention. It was such a nice family group."

Xo printed outline or report could possibly give a real idea of the Convention. It could not reproduce its broad scope nor even catch the fineness of its spirit. It was a convention of many problems — problems presented by the speakers and leaders, and,

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almost as challenging problems presented by the student body, both by its widely diverse viewpoint and its often restless tempera- ment. The results? Those are hard to measure and impossible definitely to foretell. We may confidently assume that they will indeed be far-reaching — in numbers volunteering for service on the field and in numbers at home, standing firmly behind them when they go. Very wisely the Student Volunteer Movement has made it a definite policy not to bring any pressure to bear upon the students to decide suddenly their life work while under the sometimes emotional influence of the Convention itself. It is left for sober consideration in the weeks and months thereafter. We believe those months will show an unusually strong response in numbers and enthusiasm. Quite as important is the fact that the other thousands for whom actual foreign service is impossible go back to the life of their colleges and their home churches with a new idea of the bigness of the task and with a new vision of their own relation to and responsibility for it.

The greatest result of all, perhaps, is the spiritual result, for no one, we believe, could leave the conference without some spiritual blessing. Again and again, in every address, in every challenge, in every song, in every prayer, the keynote of the Convention was struck, the power in individual life, in family life, in college life, in national and international relations, the dynamic power of Jesus Christ and the call to His service.

"Christ," said one of the speakers, *'has always been the sufficient authority. Ours is the adequate response." Perhaps that response, felt even when not expressed by thousands of students at Des Moines, may best be given in the words of the stirring Conventfon Hymn: —

"Lead on, O King Eternal,

The day of march has come.

Henceforth in fields of conquest,

Thy tents shall be our home.

Through days of preparation

Thy grace has made us strong.

And now, O King Eternal,

We lift our battle song."

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There are two new books which are on sale at the Board Rooms, to which we desire to call especial attention. "Conscripts of Conscience," Mrs. Mason's charming serial, with j^g^ its appeal for medical workers on our mission

Publications. fields, is concluded in this number. It has been published by Fleming H. Revell Company in tasteful cloth binding and is a very desirable addition to mission- ary or Sunday school libraries, as well as most suitable as a gift book to a girl friend. Price one dollar. See Mrs. Joseph Cook's notice of this book on page 90.

"The Tragedy of Bitlis," already reviewed in Life and Light, is the s'ory of the Bitlis station, written by the graceful pen of Miss Grace P. Knapp, herself a daughter of the station. In its pages we meet our old friends, the Misses Ely, and learn anew the story of iheir deathless courage. We also find vivid pictures of younger workers like Miss Shane and Miss MacLaren. This book also is to be coveted for missionary libraries. The price is one dollar. Please send your orders to Miss Helen S. Conley, 14 Beacon Street.

Mrs. Cook's article, "The New Goal," published in the January number of Life and Light, has been reprinted and has already been sent out in considerable numbers to the Branches. Please do not hesitate to order these leaflets for your auxiliary women, as we wish the financial aim of the Woman's Board of Missions to be well understood throughout our constituency.

We desire to thank the many friends who in response to the notice that it has been found necessary to raise the price of Life AND Light after February 1, to seventy-five The Increased cents a year, have responded so cordially and p'rice^"^^^^" with such kind words about the magazine. As women dearly love a bargain Miss Conley is kept refreshingly busy in these days entering renewals and new subscriptions at the old price of sixty cents. But before this reaches our readers that day of grace will If&ve passed. It looks as if there would be fewer "delinquents" this year, which means

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a great saving in time, strength and postage. But if you did not succeed in getting in at the old rate do not let anyone convince you that seventy-five cents is too much to pay for Life ani> Light.

The cards to be used in preparation for the United Day of Prayer for World Wide Missions may be obtained from Miss

Conley for free distribution in any number ^ Q^ll desired. Please send your orders promptly and

to Prayer. join in praying for this Nation wide Day of

Prayer. Programs to be used at group or local meetings may also be had at one cent per copy.

The remarkable opportunity today to impress China's four hundred millicn people with Christian ideals, was emphasized at a conference of 100 Chinese and foreign Conference Christian workers in Shanghai, Dec. 16 to 20.

in China. The Conference was called by the China Con-

tinuation Committee, which is the Interchurch representative in China. A Women's Conference, under the same auspices, will be held January 2 to 8 after the arrival at Shanghai of the notable women's deputation sent out by the Federation of Woman's Boards of North America. The invitation to the December conference said :

''The Interchurch World Movement of North America, in seeking to extend the movement to other lands, has approached the China Continuation Committee with the request that this Committee serve as the representative of its field department in endeavoring to promote a united forward-movement of the Christian forces in China. Several of the summer conferences of missionaries and individual missions have likewise requested the Committee to serve the churches in promoting such a movement.

"Our Executive Committee has given this matter much thought during the past few weeks. It is convinced that there are special reasons at the present time which make some united effort on

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the part of the Christian forces urgently needed. The present patriotic movement is deeply stirring the Christian body through- out China, as well as others. There is much restlessness both within and without the church. Many non-Christians are looking to the church as having a possible solution of China's needs. Others are convinced that Christianity is not able to meet these needs and that help must be sought elsewhere. Both classes are accessible as never before.

"The Christians are banding themselves together in different parts of the country in eft'orts that are most praiseworthy, but are in many instances accompanied by serious dangers. They feel conscious of possessing in Christ what the nation most needs but are at a loss to know how to make His power bear upon the present situation and are eager for guidance.

'Tn the opinion of the Executive Committee there is no more urgent question before the Christians of China today than how best to take advantage of the present unique opportunity to make known the power of Christ for individual and national regeneration.

The Committee of Reference and Counsel of the Foreign Missions Conference of North America has appointed a special committee of one hundred to arrange a suitable The Centenary celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of of Medical ^j^^ establishment of Medical Missions.

Missions. ^g^^ j^^^ Scudder, M. D., sailed for

India and began his work as a medical missionary. Fifty years later, in January, 1870, Clara Swain, M. D., went to India to begin medical work for women and children. We celebrate therefore a Jubilee as well as a Centennial.

The celebration will not take the form of a drive or a campaign, but will be educational. Interesting items and articles will appear in the press and an attractive program has been arranged for union meetings which it is hoped may be held throughout the country during the latter part of March. The complete program may be obtained after February first from ]\Ir. F. P. Turner.

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25 Madison Ave., Xew York City. It will include valuable historical material arranged by Mrs, Caroline Atwater Mason, a telling interview with Rev. C. H. Patton, D. D., who has just returned from the Orient, a capital dramatic presentation, "The Doctor's Dilemma," by Mrs. E. C. Cronk, and an appeal to young men and women for service, by Helen Barrett Mont- gomer)% with other interesting features.

It is impossible as we go to press to give any adequate report of the great Conventions of the Survey Conference of the The Interchurch Interchurch A\'orld Movement at Atlantic City,. World followed closely by the Foreign Missions Confer-

Movement. ence in Xew Haven. Outstanding addresses,, surveys and stereopticon views strove to place before the seventeen hundred delegates from thirty-four Protestant denominations,, representing one hundred forty different Boards, the immense task to be undertaken in the next few months. The slogan, "The Whole Church Facing its Whole Task for the Whole World," was most impressive. The adoption of the resolutions to endorse the Interchurch Movement, following the report of the Commission of which Professor E. D. Burton was chairman, marked one of the most impressive moments of the Conference.

THE FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF THE WOMAN'S BOARD

Receipts Available for Regular Work, December 1 — 31, 1919

	From Branches	From Other Sources	From Legacies and Reser\'e Legacy Fund	Income from Investments and Deposits	TOTAL
1918.... 1919 ...	$11,297.97 17,813.56	$121.25 11.25	$615.00 463.95	$1,098.95 1,140.80	$13,133.17 19,429.56
Gain Loss .....	16,515.59	$110.00	S151.05	$41.85	$6,296.39
October 18— December 31, 1919
1918. ... 1919. ...	$19,632.78 29,909.60	S408.71 1,373.25	Sll,145.20 14,716.59	SI. 456. 45 1,586.49	S32,643.14 47,585.93
Gain Loss ....	$10,276.82	S964.54	$3,571.39	S130.04	514,942.79

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Touring with a Board Secretary

By Alice M. Huggins, Tunghsien, China

ISS Helen Calder of the Woman's Board had been in China just three days when she came here to go with me on a country trip to see a typical country church.

The place selected was Yungletien, some sixteen miles away, and we went in Peking carts, in approved missionary fashion. \Mien- ever I have gone to the country before, I have always gone on a donkey, but this time we had to take our bedding and stay all night, so there was nothing to do but to ride in a cart. We started out Saturday morning about eleven o'clock. Mrs. Stelle and Mrs. Frame were there to see us off, and were all ready to laugh at our awkwardness in climbing on, but we decided that we would walk, and so they missed their fun. W^e walked about six miles, ate our lunch and then rode most of the rest of the way.

As I say, it was my first experience with a Peking cart. So long as the carter would run along by the side we were all right. Miss Calder sat on one side and I on the other in front with our feet sticking cut on the shafts ; but when he w^anted to ride,

one of us had to crawl inside and then. Oh, the bumping and jostling and shaking back and forth! But it wasn't a hard trip. The weather was perfect, warm for this time of the year, with no wind. Miss Calder was, of course, very much interested in all the things she saw along the way.

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meet great streams of people and found out that they were in the midst of the annual temple fair. Everyone was in holiday humor and they had all kinds of. paper things that might correspond to our toy balloons at home. We arrived at half -past four and so had time to take a look at the fair. We went into the city and saw the street chapel and then came back along the streets where the men were displaying their wares. Everything was being put up for the night, but we managed to buy a few little things to give our hostesses' children.

Pastor King and His Family

After having eaten supper, which was prepared for us by our Chinese friends, we started off with them to see the play. It was my first experience at a Chinese theatre and I was delighted with the chance. We went with the Bible woman and the daughters of our host and hostess and sat in a box at the edge of the crowd. The theatre was out of doors, of course, with a coverecl platform

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at one end where the actors played. The crowd all stood in front, hundreds and hundreds of them, as they stood in Shakespeare's theatre. Around the edge of the open space were any number of carts drawn up, all crowded with people, who from this vantage point could see and hear much better. Behind them were the boxes made of straw matting for the sides and top, with a very narrow bench without back.

The Bible woman who was. with us could tell us what it was all about. From seven until about nine we heard five or six plays. The first one was very interesting. A girl was mistreated by her stepmother, compelled to grind grain at the mill, which she could barely turn, make any number of clothes out of little pieces of cloth and various other impossible things. She managed to do all this by the help of a husky "devil" who appeared on the scene, helped to grind out the grain with great haste, carried her sack of meal, and did all of the other things she was supposed to do, besides keeping the stepmother's club from hitting the virtuous maiden. All this, of course, was sung in high falsetto.

The rest of the plays did not strike me as so interesting. Most of them were from Chinese history, all stories well -known to the crowd, which for the most part was quiet and seemed to be enjoying itself immensely. When anyone got noisy a man from the stage would lean over and yell out to them to keep still, right in the midst of the play, no matter what was going on. The costumes were all very wonderful, without much variation, however. A number of parts were taken by little children and I don't see how their voices ever carried to the edge of that great crowd. This Chinese play is certainly in a class by itself, and having seen and heard it, one can never forget it.

We were entertained, not as one is entertained in an ordinary Chinese home, because Pastor and Mrs. Kung and old Mrs. Wang, the Bible woman, are all well acquainted with foreign ways. We had our cots on top of the k'ang in their guest room, and slept peacefully through till morning, in a well-ventilated room.

Sunday morning we saw their Sunday school and their women's

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meeting and attended church service, at which Miss Calder spoke and I translated. I wish I could tell you how impossible it is to make you comprehend what those simple words mean !

We didn't start back until about one o'clock, so didn't get here until about six, going back as fast as we could go and riding practically all the way. My back is tired yet, but I wouldn't have missed the trip for quite a bit. Miss Calder probably got a great many more thrills out of it, but I got a good many myself because it was my first trip to that place, my first ride in, a Peking cart and my first attempt at being an interpreter.

The other two days of the time, we have been showing her as much as possible of our work in Tunghsien, the schools and hos- pitals and evangelistic work. I managed to get two missionary boxes while she was here, so she had the fun of seeing how they look at this end of the line, and she could also feel our satisfaction in getting some things ready for Christmas.

Coming Out of Church

Board of the Pacific

President, Miss Henrietta F. Brewer. 770 Kingston Ave., Oakland Editor, Mrs. E. R. Wagner, 355 Reed St., San Jose Home Secretary, Mrs. C. A. Kofoid, 2616 Etna St., Berkeley

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Recent -departures from San Francisco include Dr. George M. Rowland and Mrs. Sistare for Sapporo, Japan. Mrs. Rowland

is spending the winter at the Peabody Missionary

Home in Pasadena, California.

Mrs. John Rowland and Mrs. Barbara

Howland Barber, with her baby son, left in December for Mexico City, Mexico. It has been a great privilege to have these friends in our midst this year, though their stay and Mrs. Rowland's hurried coming was fraught with such tragic import. Mrs. Barber carries with her the hearts of all who came to know her during this sojourn, and her loyal championship of the misunderstood Mexicans has had great influence. Her plans for the future are as yet unsettled; at present she will help l\er father in his work by translation and similar pursuits which her command of Spanish enables her to do.

Dr. and Mrs. Danjo Ebina of Kyoto, Japan, are spending the month at the Hotel Stewart, San Francisco, and are being widely entertained by the local Japanese and the Congregational churches of the Bay Region.

Dr. Lucy Bement of Shaowu is the latest arrival from China on the S. S. "China," and reports a rough passage. She has in her care little Elizabeth Bliss, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Edward Bliss, of Shaowu, and is taking her back to Newburyport, Mass., where she will be placed in school. It was hoped that Dr. Bement would spend some time in California before going east, but as circumstances decreed otherwise, we must wait until her furlough is near its end, when we feel sure she will give us a little of her time.

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The State Training Conference for leaders under the Inter- church World Movement in San Francisco is just ended. The team of speakers from headquarters passes at Training ^^^^ Angeles to take charge of a similar

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of Interchurch.

To judge by the response to this, the first practical introduction which the local churches have had to this movement, it will be the mightiest effort the church has made in decades. The bold sweep of the plans, the remarkable results in co-operation already attained are such as to create the greatest enthusiasm. People are only too willing to follow where the leadership is confident and capable, idealistic yet practical. This gathering of leaders and workers has put new life and vigor into every effort being made to bring in the Kingdom.

Celebrating Peace Sunday at Umzumbe, South Africa

By Amy Bridgman Cowles

FTER almost four years of necessary changes before our Umzumbe church could build up again, in response to a call from the people our new pastor came. He is with us now, so big in heart, so consecrated, so grand, so fatherly. We all love him! Rev. Cetywayo Goba is his name. Oberlin friends may remember him for he spent a year in Oberlin once, helping with the revision of our Zulu Bible.

We had had so many troubles at Umzumbe we decided to give Pastor Goba a big reception, and to have a gala time and a good time to celebrate his coming, and the coming of peace, at last ! So we invited the whole country round to our reception. We invited all our branches and outstations, then sent special mes- sengers with invitations to the nine Chiefs into whose territories our work extends. The great day came at last, and twelve hundred people came to greet the new pastor and to hear his opening address. Our little church could not half hold the crowd, so we seated them upon the grass on the hillside in front of our house.

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It was really a wonderful company that sat before us that Sunday. The day was cloudy and still, and all was quiet and reverential as our twelve hundred guests came in groups along the pathways, and silently seated themselves upon the grass. Perhaps two-thirds of the number were Christians. These sat directly in front and all were clean and neatly clad in European dress. On their left were our heathen friends, grand old savages, many of them. The men wore the usual skin aprons, and had feathers in their hair and countless ornaments of beads and skins about necks and arms. The women had their hair done up in red clay and grease, and wore skin kilts with blankets wrapped over all. There is something splendid about our Zulus. They stand up so straight and strong and big, and are withal so dignified and kindly. It always gives one a thrill of admiration to talk with them, and we are glad to be working to save this finest of all African races.

On benches, in front of this company, sat our evangelists. Beside them their Royal Highnesses, the Chiefs, with their indimas or head men. Mr. Cowles and Pastor Goba sat directly in front, of course, and under the shade of a big tree my dear old mother, now in her eighty-sixth year, sat with me close by, while Frederick made his escape from all this formality and sat with the heathen men under another tree. We were all in our Sunday best, of course, for this was a great day, and I even wore a hat to church for the first time since coming to Umzumbe!

Of course there were long speeches. Mr. Cowles' words of greeting came first, greetings to our pastor, to the Chiefs, to our evangelists, to the delegates from our outstations. Then how proud we were when Pastor Goba stood up, six feet tall, and with his 250 pounds weight, looking every inch a Chief. Dressed in black and scrupulously clean, as to shirt collar, etc., he took the Bible in his hand and in a grand speech told the assembled multitude how he had come here as God's messenger, to preach God's word, to do God's work. He closed with an expression of absolute loyalty to the American Board, to our Zulu Mission and to us. In quaint Zulu idiom he told the people that if any

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one came running to him with complaints, they would discover that he was the Supervisor, and if any one came running to the Supervisor they would find that the Supervisor was he, meaning by this that he and ^Ir. Cowles were solid and stood together absolutely. This was the best possible way for Pastor Goba to settle for all time any hope of disloyalty which might have been lurking in some dusky breast before him. There are many schismatic bodies in our ^Mission now which are at heart anti- white, anti-European. One such has been trying to start right here in our station, but thanks to the firmness of two of our Chiefs it is having a hard time to live.

Responses from our evangelists and delegates followed Pastor Goba's address, also expressions of regret were sent in by Chiefs who could not come. All the speeches were of course interspersed with singing and such a volume of song as it was which burst from these hundreds of throats ! If you want to hear heavenly music just come and hear our Zulus sing. Our Africans are certainly wonderful in their power of lungs.

Our exercises closed with nice speeches from the Chiefs. Chief Msebenzi, just back from France, was truly grand. He stood up six feet tall and handsome as could be with his light bronze skin. Msebenzi was in full military' dress, khaki, brass buttons, cockade hat, leggins, russet boots. His aide-de-camp was in full heathen dress, skin apron, feathers in hair, snufi" box, spoons, etc. The two men made a handsome pair and a striking contrast, though in heart I suspect the khaki-clad Chief was not so very different from his feather be-decked head man, for both are heathen. Chief Msebenzi made a fine speech of appreciation, as did the other chiefs. Pastor Goba then pronounced the benediction out there under the trees and the blue sky — so near to God. The whole company adjourned for refreshments. Then my busy time began.

We had been working for a week beforehand to make ready for the feast. It was not a seven course dinner, my friends, but it w^as no joke to feed twelve hundred husky Zulus. I would certainly have gone under had it not been for the splendid help given me by

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my Christian Endeavor girls and by Deacon Kumalo and others. Of course we had no white folks to help us. When at last the crowd arrived to be fed everything was ready and steaming hot. Since early dawn pots of meat and rice and samp and gravy had been boiling. All was done to a finish when our royal guests were escorted to the dining room door — the former dining room of Umzumbe Home. The tables were all set with white cloths, and enameled ware plates and cups, and tin spoons (Umzumbe cut glass). Bouquets of bright bouganvillia were on every table, with plates of oranges and bananas from our garden besides. It was gay and the grandest table those Chiefs had ever sat at, with the probable exception of our guest from France. We seated the Chiefs at the head of the tables with their head men beside them. Chief Msebenzi at the head of his table sat up as straight as an arrow, and looked every inch royal. The other Chiefs were not so distinguished looking, though dignified and courtly and gracious. About fifty men sat at the tables at a time. Not a woman was allowed, of course. That would have been shocking! My Christian Endeavor girls, dressed in white with white aprons, flew about at the beck and call of everybody. Now and again my head waitress would roll up her eyes and give me a look of despair, but the girls all kept their heads very well and I was proud of them. The din of conversation was enough to take the roof of¥, and as for table manners, even my ears, dull of hearing, could hear the crowd eat and it was not faint, distant sounds either. Afterwards, the streams of tea soaked into our once white table cloths, the bones and banana skins and spilled-over rice would have made New England senses tingle, but fortunately I was born in Africa! Nevertheless the whiteness of these same table cloths, and the shininess of the spoons left their impression, and were an educative influence. In a room adjoining we had spread a special table for ten. Pastor Goba and our evangelists. How dainty was their eating in contrast to that on the other side of the partition. Christian gentlemen these were, sitting at the table like white folks, so polite to each other and to the waitresses. Good table manners and cleanliness, two of the by-products of Missions were in evidence that day.

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sat in groups on the grass and ate samp and sweet potatoes and taro bulbs from the pans of food which our church people had brought. As far as possible a dash of hot gravy was poured over the samp, so that none might go away without at least tasting of the beef which was, of course, the outstanding feature of our feast. As soon as the eating was over the Chiefs expressed their gratitude, said their good-byes, shook hands and departed. By sundown the twelve hundred had all gone, disappearing in all directions over the hills along the countless paths which converge here in ''this city set on a hill."

At seven o'clock my Christian Endeavor girls went home after voluntarily washing the dishes. Then we were left quite alone with the silence and the crickets and the cry of the whip-poor-wills, and there was only a pair of horns, a hide, the hoofs and a few bones left as reminders of the day's festivities. And a new era had begun for this old station of my father's. And wasn't it wonderful that the celebration of Peace at Umzumbe was coinci- dent with the World's Peace Sunday ! We have thought of it since, the difiference between your Peace Sunday and ours, but oh ! how we hope that Peace at Umzumbe will mean as much for the Kingdom of God in this w^hole region as we hope that the World Peace will eventually mean for this topsy-turvey old world of ours !

Why Have Foreign Missions

Because in China there is one Protestant mission station to every 400,000 of population. One-tenth of one per cent of the population are evangelical Christians.

Because in India there is one Protestant mission station to every 350,000 of population. Three-fifths of one per cent is a liberal estimate of the evangelical Christians among the native population.

Because in Japan there is one Protestant mission station to every 190,000 of population. Evangelical Christians total one- sixth of one per cent.

Because in Africa, the isles of the sea, and on many another continent, there are countless millions of souls hungering for the Bread of Life. — Inferchurch Newsletter.

Field Correspondents

Miss Anna Isabel Fox writes from Cagayan Station. P. I.:

In June, as planned, I opened the dormitory. Seven lovely girls came from various parts, to stay all the year, and two teachers, who came for the month of the institute, were glad to find a home here. Mrs. Laubach was still here, and we turned the big sala into sleeping quarters for the girls. Really, I knew that this dormitory work w^as a splendid opportunity for doing personal work, but it is much easier than I thought. One of the teachers was baptized while she was here, and went back to Mambajao with a fuller realization of Christ than she had ever had before. Her yoimger sister desires baptism as soon as we think she is ready. One of the other girls was quite a Catholic when she came, but after these two and a half months she has become much interested, and began going with the only Bible woman we have, to watch her teach Sunday school in the nearby villages. The result is that she is beginning an earnest study of the Bible, and more than that, she is helping in one of those same little Sunda) schools.

Our one Bible woman is my companion and assistant. We have prayers morning and evening. All the girls speak and understan^i English, and I take the morning time and have been trying to give them some idea of the Bible, that their church withholds I read and explained the Book of Mark, and then turned to the Old Testament, and have started the history of the Jewish race. They have been much interested. In the evening the prayer^ are in the dialect, and Miss Chacon leads them. The girls all sing well and have given special selections in the church service. I have been very fortunate in my first group of girls. They took church-going for granted, and every Sunday finds them ready to go with me. They also go to Christian Endeavor in the evening, and I think that the older ones will all be readily won

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for Christ ere the school year closes and they return to their homes.

I hope seven does not seem like too small a number. Many ot the dormitories have begun with less, and soon there will be more, girls. In fact, the governor is to place two young nieces under my care in another month, and next year we expect the old houst to be full to overflowing. A Filipina girl is a carefully guarded young person, and to be entrusted with the care of them is ai once a privilege and a responsibility. The girls themselves are sweet and attractive and not much of a problem. It is the boys that cause the trouble. I had heard of serenades in silly novels and sentimental plays, etc., but we have the real article here, i have begun to dread the moonlit nights, for then it is that all the lovemaking and also many of the marriages take place. The girl across the street was the recipient of many serenades, and I used to laugh about them. Now that I have a family of my own it has become one of the serious problems. One night, all ready for bed, I was about to tell the girls that it was bedtime when there came a wild, loud burst of music. It kept up, and I looked out to see if we could possibly be the target for such a racket. Evidently we were, and it is not the custom to protest, so wo waited till the din should cease. Did you have an idea that a serenade was sweet and soft and low? Well, they very often are not. That one lasted more than an hour, and the silence that followed was much appreciated. Two days later there was another, and I began to feel anxious. Saturday night we were awakened by more singing, and I jumped out of bed and went to the window to investigate. There was a crowd of high school boys in the street below. We were all about desperate, and Miss Chacon and I finally begged them to stop. They were rude and sang and sang till someone threw stones, and then they got angry and got a policeman, and things were lively for a little. I assure you the whole thing would have done for a comic opera. But anyway, we have not had more than one serenade since, but just the same I would like to draw a heavy curtain over the moon every time it is full.

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The httle school downstairs is most interesting. Fifty-three cunning children fill the benches, and they surely are adorable. We have two teachers, and the work seems to be going very .nicely. At present the best teacher is very ill, and I am taking her her place. This little school was started by Mrs. Laubach and I am carrying it on, but we are in sad need of proper equipment. I feel ashamed of the little we have in the way of proper furnishings and other things.

I tried to plan a series of classes for Bible women and gathered several of the girls who were interested, and we started to have work for an hour every day. Then one of the best was sent to a neighboring barrio to teach, another found that she could not study her school lessons and the Bible work, too ; two found the extra class too much after a day of teaching, and the last refused to work with me alone. Some way will have to be found to free those girls from the other work and give them a

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systematic Bible course. But it could not be done this year as 1 had no funds at all and they must have some way of support. But our work is calling for them and we must have well trained Bible women. I look forward to the time when we will have a real training school for them. We will make a definite start next year, and it must, and will grow, for it is the important thing.

Miss Sara E. Snell writes from Smyrna, Turkey:

In spite of, or rather perhaps because of, the vivid descriptions of our buildings to which I had listened, I was happily surprised by the appearance of our school. Of course, I saw first our attractive big parlor and the two bedrooms Miss Mills had taken such pains to arrange for Miss Perkins and myself. I had also been in so many run-down little colleges in America that I had become rather used to overlooking the surface of an institution and seeing just the spirit underneath. But to be perfectly frank, we are terribly shabby in lots of small ways, and we lack much equipment which would be taken for granted in America. I suppose it would hardly pay to put much money into repairing and painting now, for our main disadvantage, our situation in the crowded heart of the city, is a sufficient reason for building at Goez Tepe as soon as practicable. It is so noisy here and there is no privacy and worst of all no room for the girls to exercise or play. Our site at Goez Tepe is so wonderfully beautiful that I am most anxious for us to get there — it will be a continual inspiration to beautiful thinking and living and the health and vitality of the girls should be greatly increased.

Later. I have just returned from the Communion Service of our missionary church and I realize more than ever before what a beautiful fellowship we have here as a group. I have found everyone so fine. Miss Mills has a most wonderful ability for carrying all the innumerable affairs and burdens of this school and never losing for a moment her composure or joy fulness. She took us right in at once and let us share in the various decisions just as though we had been here long enough to make our judgment of value.

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I have been thrilled by the possibilities of new opportunities here, and I'm glad to say that although I consider my teaching somewhat temporary since I am assigned to evangelistic work, I am intensely interested in all our school problems and life and believe I shall enjoy the actual teaching though I feel rather unprepared for it. We have made two big ventures of faith and have decided to open a separate school for Turkish girls with Miss Greene in charge, and also the teacher-training department under Miss Perkins, which we feared at first, could not begin till next year. But we must have another teacher if possible, though by various combinations of our program we have made a schedule which three American teachers, Miss McCallum, Miss Pinneo, and myself, can handle with the Greek and Armenian teachers; but it means pretty heavy work and we may find it difficult to help with the numerous other activities in the school.

We are hoping so much that our Turkish school may be the beginning of work for the Mohammedans and that we can branch out in various ways, while Miss Perkins has a great desire to extend her work by summer schools in the Interior and courses in the city for the Greek or Armenian teachers in the native schools who know English.

I have been particularly impressed by the high esteem in which our work and that of the International College seems to be held, and surely there is great need for missionary work here. The city is beautiful in its location and surroundings and picturesque in its structure and yet I am often so aware of the dirt, poverty, shiftlessness, degradation, and especially of the terrible brutality to the animals, which must react on the people. I have met many fine people of various nationalities and yet I know that moral con- ditions in the city are very bad among many groups. So little is done for the masses of the people of all those things we take * for granted in America. I have only seen one park, there are absolutely no playgrounds for the children, there are no decent amusement places, etc. It makes me eager to try to begin my own special work though I shall want always to keep in close contact with the school.

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For the past two weeks I have had one hour of Greek study a day with one of our Greek teachers. I hope during the year to keep up at least two hours a week which will be a beginning, and next year I must have more time for it so we really must have • another teacher. In Smyrna we have never done enough apparently toward insisting that new missionaries get a thorough mastery of the language with the result that none of us can do much work which requires any one of the native languages.

A Sunday in Korea

By Helen B. Calder

ACH day brings some new experience or impression. Today's was first in that line of experiences — namely, rising in PyengYang at three a. m. to catch an early

train and riding by glorious moonlight through the sleeping city and watching Venus climbing up in the sky to herald the near approach of the sun. The Presbyterian Compound is just outside of the old city wall, very near the Korean City and some small Korean villages. My Sunday there will be one of the vivid memories of my trip — one of the most glorious views in the world from the top of the old city wall, built about the time of David, and then other views, equally inspiring, of the Korean Christians gathered in the morning for Sunday school and in the afternoon for church services.

The day began with a call on one of the oldest Christians, Nisi, who has been a Christian for over twenty years (the work is only twenty-five years old) and who is now seventy-three. She told us that she and the Lord, "just we two, live here all alone." A little low room with a tiny kitchen adjoining and a store-room in the tiny courtyard, everything of the simplest. She was .studying her Sunday school lesson with Bible and hymn-book spread out before her on the floor. She was much pleased to have us call and at once took up her Bible and said, *T will read you a little of Isaiah 63." Then she called on me to pray, and then

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she prayed. She proceeded to put on her Sunday best white clothes and we all went to Sunday school together.

It is always an event to be recorded when an Oriental child treats me as a human and not a queer animal, so that is another bright spot in my Korean Sunday. A little child about four shook hands and smiled at our first appearance and then (partly because she liked the feeling of my kid gloves) she kept coming back to put her hands in mine. But she smiled each time. She cuddled beside us during the longj^rayer and when, in the midst of it, the primary Sunday school in the rooms below began to sing, ''Wlien He Cometh to Make Up His Jewels," she joined right in with her shrill childish voice.

declaration of independence, has been in prison many months.

Since last Wednesday when I left Japan, I have passed from hot house roses, blooming profusely in Miss Judson's garden, to frost covered fields and coal fires, from rice fields of Japan to corn fields of Manchuria, through which we are now passing. But most interesting of all is the change in the people, from kimona to white nightdress and now to Chinese blue since we crossed the Yalu, each group being a little taller than the last. Today we are conscious of being really in Asia — first queues and small feet and greater evidences of dirt and poverty than I have yet seen, also much broader spaces, barer, more rugged mountains — a big, new country.

Biinging Their Beds to the Bible School, Pyeng Yang

Many of the Christian women came to speak with us, and they are certainly radiant Chris- tians. The pastors of two of the churches we visited are still in prison, but the work goes right on. One pastor's wife lost her son in the perse- cution of seven years ago, and her husband, one of the signers of the

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By Caroline Atwater Mason

{^Concluded)

A Critical Commission .

Laughing merrily at their little byplay, they seated themselves at a small table in an airy alcove, ordered such luncheon as the place provided, thus initiating the threatened interview.

"First of all," !Mary began, 'Vou are not yet at the end of your troubles, Major Balfrey. You are now at my mercy. Have I thus far bored you with congratulations?"

"Indeed you have not" ; the IMajor spoke with slight asperity.

have felt your silence keenly."

"Not until half an hour ago have I heard a word of these honors which are falling thick and fast upon your head. \\'hy have you not informed me of them?"

"There was something about it in the papers," he said, frowning.

"Do I have time to read papers?" she cried. "Please realize that I am getting ready for graduation — it is only two weeks off."

"Ah, I see. Unluckily for myself I have never been able to devise measures by which I could gain personal admission to your presence, not having been invited to visit your house. You could hardly have looked for me to send you announcement — "

''Hardly !" Mary interrupted, then stretched out her hand, her face beaming with unfeigned pleasure. "I am perfectly delighted that you have received such recognition, Dr. Balfrey, that you are going in for such splendid service. ^ly congratulations."

"My thanks — they are honest to match."

"When do you sail?"

"Day after tomorrow."

For a while their talk was of the work in France, the necessitous and dreadful conditions, the demand for reconstruction in the habits of life of the people, and the like, then of the Major's interesting prospect of collaboration with French surgeons. But

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at last, perceiving that he was not minded to hold the conversation over long on himself, Mary, with a little toss of her head, declared that Major Balfrey was by no means to imagine that she envied him.

"I have honors and opportunities myself, if you please," was her challenge.

"I have not the slightest doubt of that," he answered. ''Cum laude for your diploma — that goes without saying, — "

"Something better than that," Mary broke in, flushing high; "here it is, right in my pocket," and opening a small leather bag which lay beside her she took out a letter and laid it before her companion.

"Am I to read it?" he asked gravely.

"You can, but I am afraid you are not interested enough for that. Simply, it is, in effect, my commission from our Mission Board to go out to China in September, there to engage as a Christian missionary in the practice of Christian medicine and surgery."

"My honors, so called, are small beside that. Dr. Earle," the Major said gently, handing her back the letter. "Perhaps only you and I, being together as we were in caring for Ilien Siu, can comprehend the full significance of this commission. I am glad your way to go to China is clear."

Mary's eyes gave her response.

"How about your family?" Major Balfrey asked, presently. "This must have a painful side for them, I am sure, as well as for you."

"They are made of the right stuff, if I do say so," Mary replied. "Of course it is not precisely easy for any of us. I sent them word of my change of plan the week that Ilien died. The next morning I received a telegram from my really illustrious grand- mother, a message of just two Latin words: 'Nunc Dimittis'."

"Now that was good, very good," responded Balfrey.

"My mother wired too, saying that if I am to practice medicine she considers China preferable to America — that sounds as if she felt it better to have me out of sight. That really isn't her point

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of view ; she meant exactly what she said. My brother wrote me a rather humorous letter, with a serious touch, though. The gist of it was; if a good time in life is what you're after, stay here; if it's service of fellow-men, China is all right."

"Very well put, and true enough in a way," commented the Major thoughtfully. ''But I haven't a doubt that a 'good time in life' would also be your portion, Mary Earle, — if you'll excuse my leaving off the title this once — were you to be in Labrador or Madagascar or China. 'The mind is its own place.' Perhaps you have heard that mentioned before."

Mary smiled happily and turned to receive the maid entering at the moment with a tray containing enticing service of luncheon for two.

The sun streamed through a row of pink and white tulips set in the alcove window ; the white curtains billowed back and forth in the breeze; the fragrance of a jar of mignonette on the sill was wafted about the two who sat to break bread together as if they had been friends of long standing.

Uppermost in Mary's mind, however, was the sense that she really hardly knew this man facing her now at short range ; that like a craven coward, she shrank from intruding upon his personal life in pursuance of her commission. Moreover, the spur which her courage had received from the melancholy, never before, she thought, absent from his eyes, failed her now. Something of buoyancy in his mood seemed to have touched even that haunting shadow; for the moment it had vanished. None the less she had given her word to do this thing and must not falter.

"Major Balfrey, may I talk with you of my friend, Constance Chilton?" she began valiantly enough as she perceived the ^lajor's interest in strawberries flagging-.

Surprise was distinctly perceptible.

"Most certainly," was the answer, "but it is strange to find that you know each other."

"I met her on the Cumberland when we crossed, you know, or perhaps "

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"Yes, it is true. I did know later that she was on the ship but not at the time. That was on the whole fortunate, perhaps."

In her heart Mary thanked the Major for this opening. Quick in the up-take she remarked, ''You will not, I am sure, take it ill of me if I am so bold as to let you know that Miss Chilton confided in me on ship-board the story of the very sad affair. . . Mary hesitated, then advanced again to the attack, the Major showing no disposition to give further openings, 'T was convinced of her very real distress of mind, Major Balfrey, and of the sincerity of her regard for you."

He bent his head in acknowledgment of her statement, a plait of perplexity between his brows, but he did not speak.

''Her sense of duty in severing your relations, however mistaken it may now seem, struck me as honest."

"I see," commented the Major dispassionately. "Miss Chilton is a very charming girl."

Some quality in this comment seemed to augur ill for Mary's errand. Goaded to action she plunged resolutely ahead.

"Yes, she is a charming girl, but she is also a brave girl, brave enough to dare to do the unusual — "

"Why is she not brave enough to speak for herself instead of laying upon you an uncongenial task?"

"I do not blame her for that, Major Balfrey. Any sensitive girl would shrink from herself approaching, — in her own behalf — a man — "

"A man whom she had once promptly — released — so to speak, for reasons sufficiently obvious, no doubt. Yes, Mary Earle, I agree with you on that entirely, and we must not allow the charm- ing Miss Chilton to approach such a faux pas by the twentieth part of one poor scruple."

Mary was silent in her turn. Obviously the initiative had passed to the Major. He did not appear to find it embarrassing.

"Let me help you. Miss Chilton has been, we will say, so brave, or so unusual, as to ask you to mediate between herself and me with a view to restored relations."

A pause, but no comment.

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"But thus far you have not carried out her commission, have not stated her position, finding it not altogether easy. That is right. Now, I have known Miss Chilton longer than you have; probably I know the reactions of her temperament better. For her own sake you must refrain from performing her errand in order to save her from inevitable awkwardness. If Miss Chilton knew the future to which I stand committed she would necessarily have to beat a second retreat."

"But indeed, Major Balfrey, I think there you are mistaken. Although she did not mention it to me, I can see now, looking back at this last conversation with her, that Miss Chilton must have known then of your being called to go to France. I do not think that would cause her the slightest hesitation."

"Very true. How about China? I am going to China, Dr. Earle, when I have done a year's work in France."

Mary was blankly astonished.

"As an investigator?" she asked. "On the Rockefeller Foundation ?"

"Not in the very least," was the quick response. "Under the Red Cross?"

"Under the Cross of Christ. There is for me no other name. If they will take me I am to go out, just as you are going now, as a medical missionary. I have worked more or less among the Chinese in this city and have become strongly interested in them, have got a little hold on their language. There is real character foundation there to build upon. But China needs the Christian religion more than she needs modern medicine — and that is a good deal to say. I should not care to go on a simply scientific or humanitarian basis."

Before Major Balfrey had finished speaking, Mary had definitely withdrawn Constance Chilton from the running. There was nothing more for her to say on that head. But a few words still belonged to the Major.

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China, after a year or so in France, as a missionary, and that • learning this you fek it wiser not to proceed further. She will be very grateful to you. So shall I, Mary Earle. But I am grateful to you for very much higher service than this. Until I met you I did not quite know how divine a thing a woman may become when her life is inspired by the love of Christ."

As he spoke with solemnity she had not known in him hitherto, Minot Balfrey's face showed the reality of his homage.

**I have much to thank you for," he continued. "You have helped me. to become, like yourself, a conscript of conscience. Surely if the war has taught us anything, — and if it has not, we are incapable of learning, — it is that life is given us not for self- gain, self-pleasing, self-ministration, but for service. The question for a mature Christian man or woman becomes simply, where is the need greatest for the kind of service I can render?"

"And looking into this question you have found China the answer?" asked Mary, finding voice at length. *Tt might almost seem as if you ought to remain on in France on this tuberculosis commission. You can do so much."

"There is, of course," he answered seriously, " a prodigious work to be done in France and I am glad to have a part if only a very small one, in that. It is possible I may find it best to remain beyond the year I have set for myself, but I think not."

"My heart aches for France."

"Yes, France appeals to us poignantly because we see her ravaged to the verge of apparent peril of sinking from a high plane of national life to a lower. This peril is not, I believe, a real one. France has wonderful resiliency, she will spring back to her proper level as tempered steel will spring after compression. The case is wholly different with China. There is a (non- Christian nation which has never risen to a high plane of human life, but beholds it from afar and reaches out for it. The disaster, should the Church of Christ fail to go to her aid now and help her up to the higher plane, would be enormous."

"Yes, it would be too dreadful to think of," Mary echoed, then, with emotion added. "How I wish Ilien could have known that you are to go and work among her people, Major Balfrey."

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"She did know it."

Mary's joy and wonder did not need the words they could not find.

"Yes, in that hour I had with her, the evening before she died, you remember? I told Ilien that I had fully decided, soon or late, to go to China as a medical missionary."

"Was she able to speak? to make you know what it meant to her?"

For a moment Balfrey did not reply, then, with an irrepressible quiver in his voice, he said very low :

"Her eyes said all . . . but after a little I heard the child murmur words of Scripture . . . brokenly . . . they were not easy to recognize, but in the end I divined them. . . ." Lower still his voice fell as he repeated, ''Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone, but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit/'

When he spoke again the Major said in his wonted, matter-of- fact manner :

"When you think of it, if there had been no other reason, a man in my place could have done no less than volunteer for this service." Noting Mary's questioning glance, he added, "I shall always have the thought to carry with me that it was the shock of unexpectedly seeing my poor, shot-up countenance, after the long interval in which we had not met, which caused the accident to Ilien. Now I suppose it may be time to look at our watches."

Mary rose. The moment, surcharged with emotion, must fortunately be shaped by the outward conditions about them.

"Yes, you may have a few things to do, sailing day after to- morrow," she remarked, smiling faintly. "I shall not see you again," she added. They moved together to the door.

"No, not on this side. But in 1920 or '21, if I am, as I hope to be, in China, then we shall meet there, is it not so ?"

"China is a very large country. Major Balfrey."

"But that is unimportant. We shall meet, Mary, if you permit it. That is a privilege which only you could deny me."

The End.

(Copyrighted by the Federation of Woman's Foreign Mission Boards of North America.)

Prayer		Encircling
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AROUND THE COUNCIL TABLE WITH OUR PRESIDENT A Band of Intercessors

It is not a new organization. There are no meetings connected with it, necessarily. It involves no outlay of money. What then, is the Band of Intercessors in the Woman's Board? It is an Attempt to Estimate Prayer at its True Value.

In the great Interchurch World Movement of the day, and in our own denominational plans there is a desire on the part of all leaders to emphasize prayer as well as money. In our own Woman's Board plans for 1920 we are in hearty sympathy with this great aim and long to do everything possible to promote and enforce it. Our Branch leaders have already received a letter from the Treasurer and copies of the Interchange, in which we urge that companies of praying women be engaged all over our field to take upon their hearts the burden of these great move- ments. Throughout the year we want to keep this need before you all. It is not meant that certain women should be picked out to be the ones to pray. Rather, we urge that all pray, and pray much. Yet in order to make a general truth effective it is often well to form some definite plan of smaller scope within the larger one. So, in this case, we believe that there are women in every organized group and throughout the churches who foi^ some reason are not able to enter into active service and yet can do effective work for the cause in quiet moments of prayer. In the Hartford Branch, it has been proposed at a large conference of leaders that such a Band of Intercessors be sought for in every church, and that the names of those who will make it a part of their earnest purpose this year to pray, be sent to the secretary of the Branch in order that she may realize what response is given to this request. \Miether or not this method appeals to other

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Branches, it certainly will be quite in harmony with the desires of all Branch leaders and local church leaders to bring before our constituency this great need of prayer, and all will be willing to ask for a response from any who are ready to pledge themselves as Intercessors for 1920.

Prayer Means Energy from God.

This is a truth we seem very slow to grasp. Perhaps it is diffi- cult for us weak human children to realize that we can come before God and actually prevail to call forth from Him great energy and power which will work through the activities of ourselves and other people. Are we not more apt to think of prayer as an exercise which invigorates our own inner life and keeps us in the consciousness of God's presence? And are we not apt to overlook the greater fact that "the effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man avail eth much" ? Sometimes in the morning service at church when we are thinking of the needs of the great world, perhaps some definite needs of a certain mission field, we are troubled that in the so-called "long prayer" our pastors confine their requests to our own personal needs, and seem to ignore the fact that if we all prayed with concentration and purpose and love we might become a powerful Band of Intercessors to draw from God divine energy which would work for the relief of all these great needs in the world. It must be true that God's hand is stayed from doing all that He might because millions of us do not beseech Him with earnest desire to do this. There is much involved in such beseechings of God — a passion in our own hearts for these ends to be realized, and love for humanity, a concentra- tion of thought and purposeful devotion of time. In a word, there is a great self-cultivation involved in this, and often a sacrifice. Prayer costs. On the other hand much is involved in God, Himself. He cannot accomplish certain purposes which He needs to accomplish unless His children are fitted in their own hearts and lives to work with Him and carry them out. Divine energy and human energy must work together. God waits for us and we shall have to wait for God as long as we are not ready to be faithful, self-sacrificing Intercessors.

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There is comfort in this idea of a Band of Intercessors for the older women and the Shut-ins. How many times do we hear the aged saints of our churches, who used to be active, who really helped to build up the structure of the Woman's Board, exclaim, "I am of little use now; I can no longer take an active part." Personally, I always feel humbled in their presence because I am conscious that they have attained a ripe spirituality and must have more power with God than many of us who hold offices and make speeches and go hither and yon about the country. We want to pray, too. We pray on the wing sometimes, when we lie in our beds at night, and even on the train as we come and go. But for these aged saints, how many quiet hours they may spend in the retirement of their own homes, reading and thinking about the great movements of the Church of Christ and growing into the realization of their possibilities until they can pray with such fervor and passion as to become ''effectual" intercessors with God. We ask you, who are leaders in the Branches and auxiliaries to pass on the thought in your meetings and in your calls among the church people, seek out the aged ones, the shut-ins, who feel so unnecessary to the work of Christ, tell them that we need them all, that we value them and lean upon them and we would like to enroll their names as belonging to the Band of Intercessors of the W'oman's Board. Perhaps we should tell them that they will do the most availing york of any class of workers in the movements of the time. The Interchurch World Movement may be greatly forwarded by one earnest prayer of some feeble, aged woman who loves the Kingdom of God increasingly with increas- ing years, and who can plead with God to do great things in these very present times for that Kingdom. Let us sound the note of prayer from the beginning to the end of 1920. Let "Intercessors" be one of our New Year keynotes in our missionary work. Then we shall escape certain dangers, like the danger of pessimism, the danger of dependence upon organization, the nervous haste which results from reliance upon oneself and the exaltation of money above its rightful place. Nothing can be more spiritual than money. Let us spiritualize it in 1920 by prayer. The one aim will help the other aim.

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A True Story of 'Tillow Prayers/'

Miss S was laid aside from active work in the church

because of a heart trouble which brought increasing weakness upon her. She became very frail and could no longer go out from home to attend her loved missionary meeting nor to serve on any of the committees where she had been so useful. However, there was one refuge left for her. No, let us not call it a refuge, which seems to indicate a retired, personal-comfort sort of an experience. Let us rather call it an activity, and this woman was able to appreciate that and it was an activity in which she could engage. It was simply prayer. More than once she testified that at night when she could not sleep she would pray for hours for these loved objects of the Kingdom of God. Surely that must have been a happy and contented soul because she realized that she was still in the ranks of real workers. She worked by prayer. There are many true stories like this. If you know of any pertaining to your own groups of women why not bring them out to the light and tell them for the inspiration they will be to others? And why not now, all of us, before we grow infirm and aged, make ourselves members of the Band of Intercessors?

JOIN THE BAND OF INTERCESSORS

M. L. D.

A LENTEN PRAYER CARD.

Instead of a direct appeal for money to accompany the Lenten envelope, as has been our custom, it has seemed wise to relate the Lenten message this year to the Gift of Prayer. Remembering that our Lord as He en- tered into His Passion for the world's redemption gathered about Him His nearest and dearest and offered that most wonderful of all His re- corded prayers — John XVII — what time could be more fitting than the Lenten season for the formation of a Band of Intercessors in every Auxiliary which shall continue as a part of the society's life — service? The envelopes and cards, or the cards alone, may be had for free dis- tribution on application to Miss Helen S. Conle3^

Our Book Table

Conscripts of Conscience. By Caroline Atwater Mason. Pub- lished by Revell Co.; pp. 156. Price, $1.00.

This story, now running in Life and Light^ will be concluded in the Februan- number of this magazine. The fact that over a hundred new subscriptions have come in in consequence of this serial speaks well for Mrs. Mason's standing among our readers, Mrs. ^lason wrote the United Study book, ''World Missions and \\'orld's Peace," and also edited this year's text-book, *'A Crusade of Compassion." While she has written several most valuable books, perhaps the one which has had widest circulation was the very timely "Little Green God."

The present volume, published by Revell, can he had at the Board Rooms or any bookstore for $1.00, and helps to illustrate *'A Crusade of Compassion." Our alert missionary experts have already approached the young women who have been engaged in relief work with the army to continue much-needed service in mission fields for one or more years. Naturally these young women find it hard to take up the trivial round of country' and city life, and they do not shrink from hard places where they can make their lives worth while.

With such young women ^Irs. Mason's story deals. As one of them says, 'Ts not the question for us, if we are Christians, not where we can gain most, but where we are needed most? We can find our way now to go on this strange new adventure in Christ's name without much hesitation because of having once heard and answered marching orders when we volunteered to go overseas."

This is the stimulating idea of the story, and it doubtless will appeal to many detached young women who have no binding home ties.

With such educators as the presidents of Wellesley and Bryn ^lawr and our own secretary. Miss Calder, studying the needs of women in the Far East, there will be, when their story is told, a tremendous impetus for college graduates to seek their life work in foreign fields. G. h. c.

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Making a Chinese Background for the Young People's Society

The spring months offer a fine opportunity to our young people's societies for a real acquaintance with our friends in China. The topics suggested for the Christian Endeavorers for April 25th and June 27th are ''Christianizing Industry in China" and "Christianizing Education in China." The following sugges- tions may be used to make those meetings count for more in the society. They may also be used in any young people's society other than Christian Endeavor.

1. Systematic study. If possible have a mission study class for as many members as possible. If this is not feasible, let the committee in charge of the two program meetings meet for study for a few weeks before the April meeting. Use "New Life Cur- rents in China" by Mrs. Gamewell, with the "Suggestions to Leaders" prepared by Mabel E. Emerson. This group will find it much easier to have a good meeting later from the greater familiarity with modem China, aflForded by such a class study. <

2. Make some use of the dramutic in the meeting. One good way to accomplish this will be to have the committee work out one or two impersonations from their study, on some theme suggested. For example, a five-minute impersonation with this as a "starter" — "Fifteen years ago, I graduated from Yale Uni- versity and sailed to China" ; or "I am a Chinese high school girl." An exercise such as "What Four Bills Can Do in China" will also prove suggestive. There are many vivid details available in our current magazines which would make most telling charts or blackboard exercises.

3. Circulate some of the fascinating books on China, fiction included, passing them about and checking up the members who have really read them. Use "Foreign Magic" (Cochran), "My Chinese Days" (Alsop), "Peking Dust" (Lamotte), "A Chinese Quaker" (Eyster), "A Memorial of Horace Tracy Pitkin"

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(Speer), "Changing Chinese" (Ross), "Village Life in China" (Smith), "Two years in the Forbidden City" (Princess Der Ling), "Notable Women of China" (Burton).

4. Give a play to finish the study/ "Broken China" is the best possible one; "Ears of the East" is also good, and "Slave Girl and School Girl." Use as many people as possible in com- mittees and in the caste. Let your "poster experts," of which every society is sure to have at least one, get up an attractive poster or two for this play or to advertise study class or regular meetings. They will, if they are not real artists, wish for picture help. This may be found in such magazines as "World Outlook." You can write for special back numbers on China. Address: "World Outlook," 150 Fifth Avenue, New York City, N. Y.

5. Give a Chinese Social if the play is out of the question. At this you can play Chinese games, guessing games limited to Chinese objects or names, charades on China, etc. Refreshments, decorations, music, all can be of an oriental flavor.

6. Make vivid through programs and study the work done by our Congregational representatives in China — the men and women who are representing you and me in their friendship for the Chinese people. See to it that certain names and, if possible, faces become familiar to the young people here. Make a list of not more than ten men and women, Congregational workers in China. Assign each to a group of the members of the society. Let them find out about their type of work, its needs, its oppor- tunities, something about their lives and the people among whom they work. Let them report to the society. If possible let each group write to its missionary, not expecting a letter in reply, but considering this as a gift to help the missionary in his task, to show that we are behind these proxies of ours. Let the group pray definitely, in their individual prayers and in the society, for their representative.

7. Specialise, as a society, in the work of Mary McClure, the young people's representative in Shansi. China. Take a financial interest in her. Know her and know about her. The letter extract given below will be of interest. She is young, new to tlie

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work, and sometimes, we suspect, lonely for American young people. She needs every bit of backing we can give her in interest, sympathy, prayers and money.

The missionary chairman of a certain young people's society said not long ago: "O dear, it is so hard to find the kind of people good for the missionary committee." "Why," said the Board Secretary in surprise, "What kind do you have to have?" "O," was the reply, "They must know a lot about missions and missionaries and foreign countries and everything." "Do you think so?" was the answer. "That's not my idea of a missionary committee. I think that job needs two kinds of people, — good planners, and good doers. Of course, any kind of specialists will come in handy."

Any kind of specialists — yes, indeed! We have already men- tioned artists and people clever at posters and what they can do. Then there are the music people, good at finding foreign music and working it in, and sticklers for really good and appropriate hymns. There are the actors, the dramatic coaches, the refreshment experts, the decorators, the statistics people who are good at making charts, the good mixers for keeping things lively and interesting — all these may apply. Then there are those all-round people with plenty of vim, who, merely given the task of taking the whole wide world as a source for material and the task of making snappy, bright, interesting meetings, will use their wits and make snappy, bright, interesting meetings or know the reason why.

News from Shansi

Christmas Eve marked the end of Mary McClure's first year in Shansi. It is especially timely, therefore, that a letter much delayed but describing an interesting summer trip has just come to our office. We believe it will be interesting to many of the young people, whose especial representative Miss McClure is. We therefore quote from it.

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mention is made in Chinese history 250 years before Christ. It was one of the most dehghtful, as well as one of the most inter- esting, of my experiences since coming to China, and I want to share it with you while the memory is still vivid. - "In order that we might get an early start from Fenchow Tuesday morning, it was planned that we leave the valley Monday evening and spend the night in the city, and just at sunset time we packed our supplies and bedding on the backs of our donkeys and set out on our eight mile walk to the city. We reached the plain just as the brilliant radiance of the sunset was at its height, bringing out in sharp relief the jagged tops of our rugged old Shansi mountains, and reaching out to touch with its rosy finger tips group after group of filmy white clouds, until the whole heavens were aglow.

'The next morning we awoke to the patter of rain drops, not on our window panes, for there are no such in the heat of our Shansi summers, but on the roof and the thirsty ground which for days had been parched and dry in the summer sun. And you can imagine our dismay when we were wide awake enough to realize that it wasn't the gentle patter of a passing shower, but the steady rain from a leaden sky which at this season of the year is liable to last for days, making the sunken roads impassable and swelling the rivers to flood proportions. At 6.30 we met, as agreed, at Mr. Pye's for breakfast and to talk over the situation, and the consensus of opinion was that we had best wait until a little later in the morning and see if the weather man then had anything more promising to say to us. At ten the clouds had lightened sufficiently so that the rain had ceased except for an occasional shower, and the word came that we would start as soon as donkeys enough for our party of eleven could be brought in. Eight of the animals were soon ready, but the other three didn't come and didn't come, and when they were finally brought in they had saddles instead of the panniers which were necessary for our baggage. This caused further delay, and it was noon before our cavalcade passed out of the compound gate and started on its way.

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"I wish I could send you a snapshot of that procession (the eleven of us perched high on our *ju t'ao's' (bedding) which were stretched across our well-filled panniers), as it wound in and out the narrow streets of Fenchow to the South Gate. The rest of the afternoon was spent in getting adjusted to our high location so that we could more easily preserve our dignity and incidentally our balance, and opening and shutting our umbrellas as one shower after another passed over our heads. Occasionally a donkey would slip or stumble in the muddy road and, of course, its rider perched high above and with nothing to hold on to would find himself quite unexpectedly in close contact with Mother Earth. My donkey was a sure footed little beast but I also had my turn before the afternoon was over, and Til never forget the sensation of that first rapid descent down the donkey's long neck, the hesitation just for a second as I came to her ears and then the realization that I was standing on my two feet on the ground in front of her nose. It's a fine substitute for a roller coaster or shoot-the-chutes !

To he Concluded.

Woman's Board of Missions

Mrs. Frank Gaylobd Cook, Treasurer

Receipts Dec. 1—31, 1919

Eastern Maine 'Branch. — Mrs. J. Gertrude Denio, Treas. 347 Hammond St., Bangor. Bar Harbor, Aux., 27.15, C. R., 12.85; Bucksport, Elm St. Ch., 25. S. S.. 6; Calais, Aux. (Th. Off., 30), 59; Cherryfield. S. S., 3.25; Deer Isle, Sunset Ch., 2; Dennysville, Ch.,2; Eastport, S. S., 6.11; Fox- croft and Dover, Ch., 12, S. S., 25; Jonesport, Sawyer Mem. Ch., 5; Presque Isle, Ch., 10; Stonington Ch.. 1; Thomaston, Aux., 16, Union, First Ch., 3,

Western Maine Branch. — Miss Annie F. Bailey, Treas., 132 Chadwick St.. Portland. Inc. H. E. Douglass Mem^ Fund, Fund, 14; Alfred, Ladies' Union, 7.81; Auburn, High St. Ch., Aux., 40, S. S., 10, Cheer- ful Givers, 20; Bath, Central

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Ch., Aux., 4.50, Winter St. Ch., Aux.. 100, S. S., 50; Biddeford, Aux., 7.50; Cape Elizabeth, Spurwink Ch., Aux., 12; Denmark, Aux., 9, C. E. Soc, 2; Dixfield, Ch., 1; East Baldwin Ch., 2; Freeport, Aux., 12; Gorham. Aux., 50; Harrison, Aux., 8; Lebanon Center, Aux., 3; Madison, Aux., 10; New Sharon, C. E. Soc, 5; Norway, Aux., 10; North Bridgton, C. E. Soc, 5; North Yarmouth, Walnut Hill Ch., Aux., 4; Portland, State St. Ch., 100, Aux., 68.56, Prim, and Inter. S. S., 4.75, St. Lawrence Ch., S. S., 32, Dau. of Cov., 5, West Ch.. Aux., 7, Williston Ch., C. E. Soc 12; South Portland, Bethany Ch., Aux.. 10; San- ford, Aux., 20; Skowhegan, Aux., 5.25; Solon, Ch., 1; South Paris, Aux., 10, S. S.,

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10; Vassalboro, Adams Mem. Ch., 1.62, Riverside Ch., 76 cts; Waterford, Aux., 8.33; Wells, Aux., 10.70; Westbrook, Aux., 25.27, S. S., 3.11. War- ren Ch.. Aux., 25, S. S., Prim. Dept., 25.51; West Newfield, Ch., 3; Woolwich, Jr. S. S., 2; York Village, Aux., 25, 802 67

Total, 1,018 03

NEW HAMPSHIRE

New Hampshire Branch. — Mrs. Jennie Stevens Locke, Treas., 21 South Spring St., Concord. Off. at Ann. Meet., 44.65; Andover, Ch., 2, S. S., 2.57; Barnstead, North, Ch. 4; Can- terbury, Ch., 6; Charlestown, Evang'l Ch., 7.20; Claremont, S. S., 5; Concord, First Ch., Aux., Th. Off., 22.27. South Ch., Aux., Th. Off., 30.52; Conway, Second Ch., 10.73; Derry Village, Central Ch., W. F. M. S., (to const. L. M. Mrs. Mamie Knott Saltmarsh), 25; Dover, First Parish Ch., F. M. S., (25. of wh. to const. L. M. Mrs. Sarah A. Seavey) (Th. Off., 21), 29; Dunbarton, Ch., 3.61; East Andover, S. S., 10; East Sul- livan, Ch., Mrs. A. A. Ware, 2; Exeter, Aux. Th. Off., 45; Greenville, Ch. and S. S., 3; Hampton, S. S., 6.64; Han- over, Ch. of Christ at Dart- mouth College, 31.08; Henni- ker, Ch., 23; Hill, Ch., 13; Hiilsboro Center, Ch., 2; Hollis, Ch., 18.74; Lancaster, C. E. Soc. 3.99; Lebanon, West, S. S., 30; Littleton, Aux. (25. of wh. to const. L. M., Mrs. Caroline F. Page), 25.14; Lyme, Aux., Th. Off., 17, S. S., Prim. Dept., 3.50; Lyndeboro, Ch., 5; Mont Vernon, Ch., 2.50; Nashua, Miss. Outlook, Soc, 10, First Ch., Adelphian Club, 7.80; Newcastle, Ch., 2.04; North Ware, Ch., 7; Ossipee, Ch., 2.40; Pembroke, Ch., 5; Raymond, Ch., 10; Rochester, First Ch., 35.10; Wilmot. Ch., 2; Winchester, Ch., 41; Wolfe- boro, Fannie M. Newell Miss. Soc. (to const. L. M. Miss Elizabeth A. Brewster), 25, 581.48 Portsmouth. — Mrs. Martha J.

Kimball, 100-00

Total, 681.48

VERMONT

Vermont Branch. — Mrs. W. O. Lane, Treas., 55 Cliff St., Burlington. B a r r e, Aux.,

17.60; Bennington, Second Ch., Aux., Th. Off., 32.50, Ch. School, 76.46; Benson, S. S., 2.50; Berkshire, East, Aux., 15, S. S., 5.62; Bethel, S. S.. 3.30; Braintree, East, and Brookfield, West, Ch., 5; Brattleboro, Aux., Th. Off. (25. of wh. to const. L. M., Mrs. F. Z, Dickinson), 75.70; Burlington, College St. Aux., add'l Th. Off., 1.50, First Ch., Aux. (Th. Off., 135), 153; Castleton, Aux., 36.88, C. E. Soc, 6.12; Charlotte, Ch., 14.08; Chelsea, Aux., Th. Off., 22.43, C. E. Soc, 10. S. S., 3.19; Chester Aux., Th. Off., 26; Cornwall, Aux., Th. Off. (25. of wh. to const. L. M., Mrs. J. S. Wing), 26.30; Corinth, East, Aux., Th. Off., 18.91; Coventry, Ch., 7; Craftsbury, North, Aux., add'l Th. Off., 2. S. S., 6.20; Danby, Ch., 18; Danville. Aux., Th. Off., 30; Dorset, Ch., 6.85; Duxbury, South Ch., 7; Essex Junction, Aux., Th. Off., 12; Glover, West, Aux., Th., Off., 16.40; Guilford, Ch., 4.20; Hardwick, Aux., Th. Off., 13; Hardwick, East, Aux., Th. Off., 8.73, S. S., 5; Hartford, West, Ch.. 3.60; Teffersonville, S. S., 3.92; Jericho, Aux., 4; Jericho Center, Aux., 22; London- derry, Ch., 7.28; Manchester, Aux. (Th. Off., 30.75), 48.62, S. S., 3.50; Middlebury, Aux., Th. Off., 31.85; Middletown Springs, Aux., Th. Off., 11; Montpelier, Bethany Ch., Aux., Th. Off., 17.12; Morrisville, First Ch., 6.45, Aux., Th. Off. (25. of wh. to const. L. M. Mrs. G. C. Goodlife), 26.05; New Haven, Ch.. 18.66; Nor- wich, Aux., add'l Th. Off., 1.75, S. S., 3.50; Randolph, Bethany Ch., Aux. (to const. L. M. Mrs. H. W. Cheney), 25; Richmond, Aux., 13; Roches- ter, First Ch., Aux., Th. Off., 15.15, S. S., 1; St. Tohnsbury, First Ch., S. S., I. t. Class, 1, North Ch., Aux. (Th. Off. 70.15), 95.30; Saint Johns- bury, East, Third Ch., S. S., 5; Salisbury, Aux., 10; Sax- tons River, Ch., 45.50; Shore- ham, S. S., 6; Thetford. North Ch., 11; Tyson, Ch., 3.36; Waterbury, Aux., Th. Off., 33; West Glover. S. S., 9.50; Westminster West, Aux., Th. Off., 12.25; Weybridge, Ch., 21.21; Williamstown, Aux., Th. Off., 11; Wilmington, Ch., 2; Windsor, Old South Ch., 25; Woodstock, S. S., 15.74, 1,258 78

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Friend, 165; Friend, 165; 330 00

Andover and IVoburn Branch. — Miss Minnie C. Messenger, Treas., 24 Ashland St., Mel- rose Highlands. Andover, Ab- bot Academy, 85, Phillips Academy Ch., S. S., 12.78, South Ch.. 162, Aux. (25 of wh. to const. L. M. Mrs. Alice Purington Holt), 64.45, S. S., Home Dept., 25; Bur- lington. Ch. of Christ, 8.70; Carlisle, Ch., 20.25; Lawrence, United Ch., Aux., 39; Lexing- ton, Hancock Ch., Jr. C. E. Soc, 5; Lowell, Eliot Union Ch., 17.95; First Ch., S. S. Jr. Dept., 10; Melrose, First Ch., Ch. Sch., 22.61; Melrose High- lands, Ch.. 82.73; Montvale, Prim. Class, S. S., 1.55; North Andover. Trinitarian Ch., Aux., 22.50, S. S., 8.25; North Chelmsford. Aux., 7; Wake- field, S. S.. 20; Wilmington, Ch.. 6, S. S., 10, Jr. C. E. Soc, 7; Winchester, First Ch., 247.50, Miss. Union, 235, Sec- ond Ch., 2.35; Winchester Highlands, Miss Jennie G. Ev- erett, 3; Woburn, First Ch.. 87.50. S. S., 24, North Ch., 19.71, S. S., 9, 1,265 83

Barnstable Association. — Mrs. Charles A. Davis, Acting Treas., South Dennis. Center- ville, South Ch., 5.15; East Falmouth. Ch., 4; North Fal- mouth, Ch., 6; West Barn- stable, Ch., 2, S. S.. 1, 18 15 Berkshire Branch. — Miss Mabel A. Rice, Treas., 118 Bradford St.,, Pittsfield. Adams. North- field Corner Class, 2; Becket, North Ch., 3.27; Dalton, Aux., 18.32, S. S., Home Dept., 25. Jr. C. E. Soc, 2; Hinsdale, Aux., 15.93; Lanesboro, Ch., 3; Lenox, C. E. Soc, 5; Otis, S. S., 8; Pittsfield, First Ch., Aux., 50, South Ch., Aux., 18.19; Richmond, Aux., 46.50; Less expenses, 3.84. 193 37 Boston. — Mrs. L. M. H. Jewett, 2 00 Essex Xorth Branch. — Mrs. Leonard H. Xoyes, Treas., 15 Columbus Ave., Haverhill. Georgetown. First Ch., 25.17; Haverhill. Bradford Ch., 42.50; Centre Ch., 45.60, Ch. Guild. 30. Xorth Ch., 56.25, Ward Hill Ch., 11.26; Ipswich, Line- brook Ch., 10.71; Xewburyport, Mr. James White Hale, 130, Mrs. S. R. B. Pingree, 2, Cen- tral Ch., Aux., 43.75. C. E. Soc, 5; Rowley Ch., 8, 410 24 Essex South Branch. — Mrs. A. Lawrence Perkins, Treas., 27

Chase St., Danvers. Danvers. First Ch., 37.91, Ladies' Benev- olent Soc. 2.25; Essex, C. R. and Mission Helpers, 5; Ham- ilton, First Ch., 15.73; Lynn, First Ch., Aux., 62.58, S. S., 22.42; Lynnfield, Centre Ch.. , 8.25, South Ch., Aux., 10; Middleton, Aux., 1.25; Salem, Crombie St. Ch., S. S., 6.35. South Ch., 7.50, S. S., 4.30, Tabernacle Ch, S. S., Prim. Dept., 7.87; Swampscott, Aux., First Ch., 1.50, S. S., 8.28, 201 19

Franklin County Branch. — Miss J. Kate Oakman, Treas., 473 Main St.^ Greenfield. Buckland, Prim. S. S., 2.05; Colrain, Ch., 23; Conway, Aux., 27.50; Deer- field, South, Aux., 25.25; Gill, Ch., 7; Greenfield, First Ch., 3.40, Second Ch., Aux., 99.50, S. S., 11.50; Heath Aux., 19; Montague Aux., 12; Millers Falls, Aux., 11; Northfield, Aux., 47. C. R. and Mothers, 16.23; North Orange, S. S.,

^ 18 cts.; Orange, Aux., 5; Sunderland, Aux., 37, Turners Falls Ch., 22, 368 61

Hampshire County Branch. — Miss Harriet J. Kneeland, Treas., 51 Harrison Ave., Northamp- ton. Amherst, Aux., 41.43, Hope Ch., 5; Amherst, North, 14,^ Amherst, South, Aux., 27; Cummington, Village Ch., 33; Florence. Aux., 100; Hatfield,

5. S., 5; North Hadley, M. C, 2; Williamsburg, Mrs. Lyman James, 100; Worthington, Ch.,

6, 333 43 Middlesex Branch. — Mrs. Walter

S. Fitch, Treas., 13 Dennison Ave., Framingham. Framingham, Plymouth Ch., Plymouth Guild, 10, S. S., 2.55; Marlborough, First Ch., 25; Northboro, S. S., Prim. Dept., 6; Saxonville, Ed- wards Ch., 9; Wayland, Trin. Ch., S. S., 5; Wellesley, Wel- lesley College, Christian Assoc., 250, 307 55

Norfolk and Pilgrim Branch. — Mrs. Elijah Ball, Treas., 136 Marlboro St., Wollaston. Braintree, First Ch., Aux., 35.05, M. H. K., 15; Bridge- water, Central Square Ch., 11.90; Brockton, Lincoln Ch., Miss. Soc, 10, Porter Ch., Aux., 10; Campello, South Ch., 350, Aux., Th. Off., 68.51, Miss Leonard, IS; Co- hasset, Second Ch., Aux., 16.40; Manomet. Ch., 4; Mil- ton, First Evang'l Ch., 21.86; Scituate Center, Ch., 15; " Sharon, First Ch.. 42.27, Aux., Th. Off., 27.81; Stoughton. Aux., Th. Off.. 25; Weymouth

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& Braintree, Union Ch., 7.30; Weymouth, South, Old South Union Ch., 29.15, Aux.. 95.16; Whitman, Ch., 37.79, Ch. Sch., 4.95; Wollaston, S. S., 20, 862 15

North Middlesex Branch. — Mrs. Flora M. Kimball, Treas., Lit- tleton. Acton, C. E. Soc, 6; Fitchburg, C. C. Ch., 98.02, Rollstone Ch., W. M. S., 90; Littleton, Aux., Miss Celia M. Houghton, 20, Miss S. Eliza- beth Houghton. 20, 234 02

Old Colony Branch. — Mrs. How- ard Lothrop, Treas., 3320 North Main St., Fall River. Attleboro Falls, Central Ch., 2.12; Attleboro, North, Old- town Ch., 3; Attleboro, South, Bethany Ch., S. S., CI., 5; Berkeley, S. S., 3.60; Fall River, Friend, 100; Marion, Ch., 7.51; Mattapoisett, S. S., 7.50; New Bedford, First Ch., S. S., 4, Trinitarian Ch., 85; North Rochester, Ch., 4.80; Somerset, Aux., 12; Taunton, Winslow Ch., 23.21; Wareham. First Ch., W. M. S. 13. 270 74

Scituate. — Estate of Miss Mary

F. Perry, 11 25

Springfield Branch. — Mrs. Mary H. Mitchell, Treas., 1078 Worthington St., Springfield. Thorndike, S. S., 2; Westfield, First Ch., S. S., 30, 32 00

Suffolk Branch. — Miss Margaret D. Adams, Treas., 1908 Beacon St., Coolidge Corner Branch, Boston. Friend. 300. Friend, 50; Allston, Woman's Assoc., 50; Beachmont, S. S., Prim. Dept., 25 cts., Boston, ^ Old South Ch., Aux., 3.50, Union Ch., Aux., 35, Monday Eve. Miss. Club, 20; Boston, South, Phillips Ch., S. S., C. R., 10.86; Brighton, Ch., Mrs. C.

B. Travis, 5; Miss E. L. Travis, 5, Aux. (25 of wh. to const. L. M., Mrs. W. H. Monroe), 130; Brookline, Ley- den Ch., Aux., 50, S. S., 34.54; Cambridge, North Ch., 76.02, Pilgrim Ch., W. M. S., 40, S. S., 21.50; Prospect St. Ch.,

C. E. Soc, 10, S. S., 25; Can- ton, Evang'l Ch., 81.17; Dor- chester, Central Ch.. S. S., 7, Pilgrim Ch., Inter. C. E. Soc, 3, Romsey Ch., S. S., Prim. Dept., 11, Second Ch., Mrs. Arthur T. Brasee, 5, Mrs. E. S. Farwell, 1, S. S., 20; Foxboro, O. J. S., 5; Hyde Park, Clar- endon Ch.. 2; Jamaica Plain, Boylston Ch.. Jr. C. E. Soc, 2, Central Ch., Aux., 72.75; Mansfield, Woman's Union,

49.50; Neponset, Trinity Ch., Stone Aux., 11, S. S., Jr. Dept., 7.50; Newton, Eliot Ch., Woman's Assoc. (25 of wh. by Mrs. W. O. Trowbridge to const. L. M. Mrs. George Angier), 525, Eliot Helpers, 16, S. S., 70, North Ch., 18; Newton Centre, First Ch., Woman's Benev. and Ch. Aid Soc, 375; Newton Highlands, W. F. M. S., 30; Newtonville, Central Ch., Woman's Assoc., 200; Norwood, First Ch., 120. W. F. M. Dept., 114.52; Ros- lindale, Ch., 6; Roxbury, Imm.- Walnut Ave. Ch., For. Dept.. 67.50, S. S., 18.28; Roxbury, West, Woman's Union, 24.30; Somerville, Broadway-Winter Hill Ch., Aux., 15, C. E. Soc, 15; Walpole, S. S., 10.50; Waltham, C. E. Soc, 5; Wa- verly, S. S., 14.43; Wellesley Hills, Aux. (Th. Off., 124.35), 146.35, 2.935 47

Worcester County Branch. — Miss Sara T. Southwick, Treas., 144 Pleasant St., Worcester, Barre, Ch., 18.75; Clinton, German Ch., 9.10; Dana, Ch., 1.50; Graft9n, Evang'l Ch., 46.95; Leominster, Pilgrim Ch., S. S. 6.22; Northbridge, Rockdale Ch., S. S., 2.62; Oxford, Ch., 29,85; Paxton, S. S., ^2.52; Petersham. Ladies' Union, 42.75; Princeton, First Ch., 46.20; Shrewsbury S. S., 6; Southbridge, Union Ch., 7.50; Sturbridge, First Ch., 5; War- ren, S. S., 3; West Boylston, Aux., 10.62; Worcester, Adams Square Ch., Aux., 6.30, Cen- tral Ch., S. S., 16; Hope Ch., W. M. S.. 37.50, Old South Ch.. 305, Park Ch., 9.38; Pil- grim Ch., S. S., 50.26; Plymouth Ch., Woman's As- soc., 221.09, Union Ch., 39.38, 923 49

Total 8,699 49

LEGACIES

Walpole.— yiiss Elizabeth Plimp- ton, by Henry P. Kendall, Extr., 985 26

Worcester. — Ella M. Sibley, by John B. Scott, Extr., 406 59

Total 1391 85

RHODE ISLAND

Providence.— OS. at Ann. Meet., 130 GO Rhode Island Branch. — Miss Grace P. Chapin. Treas., 150 Meeting St., Providence. Int. on bank bal. 7.87; Alton, S. S., 5; Barrington, S. S., 6.39; Newport W. F. M. S., 22; Pawtucket, Darlington Ch.. S. S., Prim. Dept., 6. Park Place Ch., Pro Christo Soc, 75, Qui

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Vive Class, 3; Providence, Mrs. Charles W. Bubier, Oflf. at W. B. M. Ann Meet., add'l, 500, Academy Ave. Ch., Girls' Miss. Club, 15, Benefi- cent Ch., Mrs. Alexander Mc- Lellan, 1, Mrs. Alice F. Porter, 10. Central Ch., Mrs. William B. Greenough, 5, Free Evang'l Ch., Women's Guild, 50, Ply- mouth Ch., Women's Prayer and Miss. Cir. (Th. Off., 19.60), 25.35; Providence, East, United Ch., S. S., 11.72; Riverpoint, S. S., 20, Amey B. Clarke Mem. Cir., 2; Sayles- ville, Aux., 17.04; Tiverton, Bliss Four Corners Ch., 9.03; Westerly, Miss Julia E. Smith, 5, C. E. Soc, 5; Wood River Junction, Ch., 1; Woonsocket, Globe Ch., S. S., 55.21, C. E. Soc, 7, 864 61

. Total, 994 61

CONNECTICUT

Bristol.— Mr. C. F. Barnes, 625, Mr. F. F. Barnes, 125, Mr. H. C. Barnes, 125, Mr. Louis L. Beach, 12.50, Mr. Frank Bruen, 50, Mr. George W. Hull, 6.25, Mr. E. H. Funck, 6.25, Mr. William S. Ingraham, 1000, Mrs. William S> In- graham, 125, Mr. Arthur W. Jepson, 2.50, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Judd, 75, Mrs. E. E. Newell, 62.50, Mr. and Mrs. Edson M. Peck, 25, Mrs. D. P. Rumsey, 125, Mr. Frank H. Saxton, 75, Mr. William E. Sessions, 1250, Mr. W. K. Ses- sions, 62.50, Mr. Charles T, Treadway, 750, Miss Lucy M. Treadway. 207.50, Mr. Henry B. Wilcox, 6.25, 4,716 25

Eastern Connecticut Branch. — Miss Anna C. Learned, Treas., 255 Hempstead St., New Lon- don. Int. Ella S. Craigin Fund, 13.57, Int. Martha S. Harris Fund, 50; Miss Caroline T. Gilman, 25; Miss Elizabeth B. Huntington, 10; Central Village Ch., 2; Chaplin, C. E. Soc, 2; Danielson, Aux., 31.21; Eastford. Ch. and Ch. Sch., 30.09; Goodyear, United Ch., 3; Griswold, C. E. Soc, 5; Hampton, Ch., 2.50; Jew- ett City, Aux., Th. Off., 5.90; Killingly, Aux., 29; Lebanon, Aux., Th. Off., 6; Montville, First Ch., 10; New London, First Ch., Aux. (Th. Off., 45.62), 59.02; North Stoning- ton, Ch., 30, Aux., 7.74; North Woodstock, S. S., 2.45; Pom- fret, Aux., 15; Putnam, Sec- ond Ch., Aux. (Th. Off., 70), 85, C. R., 31.41; Stonington,

First Ch., Aux., 14, Second Ch., S. S.. ^.75; Taftville, Ch., 22.50; Willimantic First Ch., 49.25, S. S., 14.71; Windham, First Ch., 50; Woodstock, Aux., 12, 627 10

Hartford Branch. — Mrs. Sidney W. Clark, Treas., 40 Willard St., Hartford. Avon, Ch., 14; Berlin, Aux., 35; Bloomfield, First Ch., S. S., 17; Bristol, Ch., 188; Buckingham, Aux., 15; East Hartford, First Ch., S. S., 6.50; East Windsor, First Ch., 7.20; Hartford, Asylum Hill Ch., S. S., 8, Center Ch., Warburton Chapel, 19.62, Plymouth Ch., 13; Man- chester, Second Ch.. 1.95; New Britain, South Ch., Aux., 192, Y. W. Aux., 5, S. S., 30; Plainville, Aux., 50; Rocky Hill, Ch., 3.12; Simsbury, First Ch. of Christ and S. S., 31.52; Somers, S. S., 22.10; South Manchester, Swedish Ch., 5; Suffield, F. M. S., 23; Unionville, S. S., 6.16; West Stafford, Ch., 2; Wethersfield. Gift Steward, Mrs. Henry Buck, 20, 715 17

New Haven Branch. — Miss Edith Woolsey, Treas., 250 Church St., New Haven. Int. Sarah E. Frost, 4; Bridgeport, Olivet Manley Fund, 20; Mrs. H. P. Ch., 15; Brookfield Center, Aux., 21.60; Cheshire, Aux., 31.90, S. S., 12.52; Cornwall, First Ch., C. E. Soc, 10, Sec- ond Ch., Aux., 26; Danbury, Aux., 5; Falls Village, Ch., 8.60; Goshen, Off. at Centen- nial Sandwich Is. Mission, 23, O. J. S. Girls, 25, C E. Soc, 25; Greenfield, Ch., 15, Green- wich, C. R., and Prim. S. S., 6.74; Guilford, First Ch.. Aux., 118, S. S., 29.50, C. R., 1; Haddam, C. E. Soc, 10; Ivoryton, Aux., 32; Kent, Aux., 36.15; Killingworth, Aux,. 6.75; Litchfield, Aux., 58.87; Meriden, Center Ch., Aux., 78, First Ch., Aux. (25 of wh. to const. L. M. Mrs. J. W. Phillips), 400. S. S., 24; Middletown, First Ch., Aux., 156.51; Milford, First Ch., Aux., 46, Plymouth Ch.. 10.60, Aux., 20; Monroe, Ch., 7; Nepaug. Ch., 14; New Canaan, Aux., 25; New Haven, Ch. of the Redeemer, Aux., 134, Dixwell Ave. Ch., Aux., 50; United Ch., Mont- gomery, Aux., 8.30; Newtown, Aux., 36; Northfield, S. S., 5.25; North Greenwich, Aux., 7; North Madison, Aux., 9; North Woodbury, North Ch.,

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17.50,

Aux.,

5.82,

Aux.,

19.50;

South

36.75; Norwalk, Aux., 25; Plymouth, S. S., 8.50; Port- land, First Ch., 17.39, Aux., S. S., 2.32; Ridgefield, 8.31; Salisbury, Ch., Aux., 62.30; Saybrook, 31; Seymour, Aux., Sherman, Aux., 36.50; Britain, Aux., 2; South Norwalk, C. E. Soc. 10, S. S., 15; Stamford, Aux., 32.65; Stratford, Gift Stewards, 6, Aux.. 27; Thomaston, S. S.. 7.78; Torrington, Center Ch., 100., S. S., 69.05; First Ch., C. E. Soc, 8.94, Harwinton Ch.. 13.89; Trumbull, S. S., 6.23; Washington, Aux.. 72.70; Waterbury, Bunker Hill Ch., 22.50, Aux., 3; Watertown, First Ch., 152.24, Aux., 32, S. S., 13.20; Westbrook, Aux., 13.50; Whitneyville, Aux., 28, S. S., 5.04; Winchester, C. E. Soc., 15. S. S., 3.68; Winsted. First Ch., Aux., 31.05, Second Ch., 35, C. E. Soc, 15; Wol- cott, Ch., 4, 2, Terryville. — Mr. Charles I. Allen,

587 63 25 00

Total, 8,671 15

NEW YORK

New York State Branch. — Mrs. Charles E. Graff, Treas., 46 So. Oxford St., Brooklyn. Aque- bogue, S. S., 10.90; Berkshire. Woman's Union, 33; Brooklyn, Miss Josephine L. Roberts, 20, Central Ch., W. F. M. S., 185, Flatbush Ch., Woman's League, 46, Ocean Ave. Ch., Woman's League, 46.50, C. R., 10, St. Paul's Ch., Jr. Guild, 5; Buffalo, First Ch., Women's Guild, 273.75, Fitch Mem. Ch., In-as-much Cir., 15, Just Ten S. S. Class, 5, Pilgrim Ch., W. M. S., 50, Plymouth Ch., W. M. S., 10; Canandaigua, Aux., 195; Catskill, Mrs. Charles E. Willard, 3.80; Chappaqua, First Ch., S. S.. 1.55; Chenango Forks, Wom- an's Assoc., 15; East Rock- away, Bethany Ch., 5; Elmira, Park Ch., W. M. S., 50; Fair- port, W. F. M. S., 55; Flush- ing, Broadway Ch., S. S., 12; Hamilton, Second Ch., W. M.- S., 18.50; Honeoye, L. M. S., 20; Jamestown, First Ch., 66.50, Woman's Miss. Union (to const. L. M. Miss Eva Brown Batcheller), 25, S. S., 23.76; Madison, Mrs. Duane Neff, 5: Middletown, North St. Ch., Bible Gleaners, 5; Mt. Sinai and Miller's Place, C. E. Soc, 10; Mt. Vernon, First Ch., Miss. Soc, 5; Osceola, S. S., 1.14; Oxford, Outlook Club, 25.75; Phoenix, Ch., 5.20; Richmond Hill, Union

Ch., W. M. S., 20; Rockaway Beach, First Ch., 10; Roscoe Ladies' Miss. Soc, 10; Sala- manca, W. M. S., 20; Sayville, S. S., 8.95; Utica, Bethesda Ch., Dr. Gwesyn M. B., 10; Walton, Mrs. C. S. Wyckhoff, 5, First Ch., Miss. Helpers, 2, W. M. U., 66; West Winfleld, W. M. S., 25; White Plains, Miss Louisa W. Wood, 10, 1,445 3

NEW JERSEY

New Jersey Branch. — Miss Martha N. Hooper, Treas., 1475 Columbia Rd., Washing- ton, D. C. D. C, Washington, First Ch., Aux., 200, Mt. Pleasant Ch., S. S., 8.90; N. J., Friend, 10; Cedar Grove, Union Ch., 6.81; Chatham, Stanley Ch., Ch. School, 6.20; East Orange, First Ch., Aux., 210. Trinity Ch., Y. W. Aux., 20; Elizabeth, First Ch., 5; Montclair, Watchung Ave. Ch., 22; Plainf^eld, Aux., 100, S. S., 133.27; Riyer Edge, First Ch., 5.08; Upper Montclair, Aux., 100; Westfield, First Ch., S. S., 31.48; Va., Portsmouth, Ch., 5.63,

PENNSYLVANIA

Pennsylvania Branch. — Mrs. David Howells, Treas., Kane. Auden- reid, Horeb Ch., 12; Braddock, Slovak Ch., 5; Coaldale, First Ch., 6; Duquesne, Slovak Ch., 16; Ebensburg, First Ch., 86.85; Edwardsville. Welsh Ch., 37; Glenolden, Ch., 15; Harford, Ch., 3.38; Milroy, White Mem. Ch., 21.27; Philadelphia, Park Ch., 10. Snyder Ave. Ch., 25; South Ebensburg, Bethany Ch., 6; Spring Brook, Ch., 7.75; Wilkes Barre, Puritan Ch., 42.56.

SOUTHEAST BRANCH

Southeast Branch. — Mrs. C. E. Enlow, Treas., Winter Park, Fla. Fla., Pomona, First Ch., S. S., 2.04; West Tampa, Union Ch., 7.50; A^. C, Wil- mington, First Ch., S. S., 10,

Total for December

Donations 17, Buildings 5, Extra gifts for 1920 Specials

Legacies 1

864 37

293 81

19 54

824 81 024 75 630 00 467 00 391 85

Total, 25,338 41

Total from October 18, 1919 to December 31, 1919

Donations 31,282 8ji

Buildings 7,53$ 00

Extra gifts for 1920 2.283 00

Specials 878 25

Legacies 7.734 49

Total, 49,714 59