Skip to main content

Full text of "Home Missionary, The (April 1906-March 1907)"

See other formats 


IBB— !  WW 

HHHHiHflflil^BB 


Digitized  by  the  Internet  Archive 

in  2012  with  funding  from 

LYRASIS  Members  and  Sloan  Foundation 


http://www.archive.org/details/homemissionaryap80amer 


APRIL,   1906 


VOL.  LXXX,  NUMBER  I 


m 


THE  HOME 
MISSIONARY 


m& 


1826 


SAMUEL  J.  MILLS, 

Home  Missionary  Statesman, 

THOS.  C.  RICHARDS 

AARON  FOSTER, 

Father  of  the  National  Society6 

ELIZABETH  FOSTER  KELSEY 

WESTERN  NEED  AND  BENEVOLENCE, 

AUSTIN  RSCE 

PROGRESS  OF  FINANCIAL  CAMPAIGN, 

D.-0.  SHELTON 


1906 


E1CHTIETH  ANNIVERSARY 


Entered  at  the  Post  Office  at  New  York,  H.  Y.,  ae  seeonrf  class  [mail]  matter. 


CONTENTS 


&  For    APRIL,    iqo6.  Jt 


SAMUEL  J.  MILLS,   HOME    MISSIONARY  STATESMAN.     (Illus- 
trated.)    Thomas  C.  Richards        .  .  .  .  .  .1 

AARON    FOSTER,  FATHER  OF    THE    NATIONAL    SOCIETY. 

(Illustrated.)     Elizabeth  Foster  Kelsey        .....  6 

EDITOR'S  OUTLOOK 8 

Eighty  Years — Home  Missionary  History — Congratulations         . 

WESTERN  NEED  AND  BENEVOLENCE 

Austin  Rice  ••••••••         JO 

PROGRESS  OF  THE  FINANCIAL  CAMPAIGN 

Don  O.  Shelton        ......  #  .         13 

THE  LOST  SIXTY  PER  CENT 

Grace  C.  White        ........        17 

CONGREGATIONALISTS  AND  THE  KINGDOM, 

Program  of  the  Eightieth  Annual  Meeting  .  .  .  .19 

GO  FORWARD! 21 

FROM  THE  FRONT  LINE 22 

The  Latest  from  the  Arctic— Bearding  the  Lion  in  His  Den— Christmas 
Among  the  Slovacs  —  The  Southern  Prospect  —  The  Plague  of 
Sectarianism. 

THE  DESTINY  OF  AMERICA 

III.     A  Blot  on  the  Nation.     William  W.  Jordan  .  .  .21 

WOMEN'S  WORK  AND  METHODS 27 

Home  Missionary  Literature  for  Children— Again,  What  of  These?— 
The  Evolution  of  a    Church — Her  Chief  Business. 

APPOINTMENTS  AND  RECEIPTS 31 

WOMAN'S  STATE  ORGANIZATIONS  ....        36 


PER    YEAR,     FIFTY     CENTS 

THE      HOME      MISSIONARY 

Published  monthly,  except  in  July  and  August,  by  the 
Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society 

287    FOURTH    AVENUE,  NEW    YORK    CITY 

FNTEBCD   AT   THE    POST   OFFICE,   AT    NEW   YORK,    N.    Y.,    At   SECOND   OLAIS    ImaIlJ    MATTER 


THE      HOME      MISSIONARY      ADVERTISER 


fiF 


WING  PIANOS 

Are  Sold  Direct  From  the  Factory,  and  in  No  Other  Way 

You  Save  from$75to$200 


When  you  buy  a  Wing  Piano,  you  buy  at  wholesale. 
You  pay  the  actual  cost  of  making  it  with  only  our  whole- 
sale profit  added.  When  you  buy  a  piano,  as  many  still  do— 
at  retail— you  pay  the  retail  dealer's  store  rent  and  other 
expenses.  You  pay  his  profit  and  the  commission  or  salary 
of  the  agents  or  salesmen  he  employs— all  these  on  top  of 
what  the  dealer  himself  has  to  pay  co  the  manufacturer.  The 
retail  profit  on  a  piano  is  from  $75  to  $200.  Isn't  this  worth 
saving? 


SENT  ON  TRIAL 

WE    PAY    FREIGHT 
No  Money  in  Advance 


Anywhere 


We  will  place  a  Wing  Piano  in  any  home  in  the  United 
States  on  trial,  without  asking  for  any  advance  payment  or 
deposit.  We  pay  the  freight  and  all  other  charges  in  advance. 
There  is  nothing  to  be  paid  either  before  the  piano  is  sent  or 
when  it  is  received.  If  the  piano  is  not  satisfactory  after  20 
days'  trial  in  your  home,  we  take  it  back  entirely  at  our  ex- 
pense. You  pay  us  nothing,  and  arc  under  no  more  obliga- 
tion to  keep  the  piano  than  if  you  were  examining  it  at  our 
factory.  There  can  be  absolutely  no  risk  or  expense  to  you. 

Do  not  imagine  that  it  is  impossible  for  us  to  do  as  we 
say.  Our  system  is  so  perfect  that  we  can  without  any 
truuble  deliver  a  piano  in  the  smallest  town  in  any  part  of 
the  United  States  just  as  easily  as  we  can  in  New  York  City, 
and  with  absolutely  no  trouble  or  annoyance  to  you,  and 
without  anything  being  paid  in  advance  or  on  arrival  either 
for  freight  or  any  other  expense.  We  take  old  pianos  and 
organs  in  exchange. 

A  guarantee  for  12  years  against  any  defect  in  tone,  action, 
workmanship  or  material  is  given  with  every  Wing  Piano. 


Small,  Easy 
MONTHLY 


Payments 


In   37   years    over   40,000    "Wing  Pianos 

have  been  manufactured  and  sold.  They  are  recom- 
mended by  seven  governors  of  States,  by  musical  colleges 
and  schools,  by  prominent  orchestra  leaders,  music  teach- 
ers and  musicians.  Thousands  of  these  pianos  are  in 
your  own  State,  some  of  them  undoubtedly  in  your  very 
neighborhood.  Our  catalogue  contains  names  and  ad- 
dresses. 

Mandolin,  Gnitar.Harp,  Zither,  Han  jo — 

The  tones  of  any  or  all  of  these  instruments  may  be  re- 
produced perfectly  by  any  ordinary  player  on  the  piano  by 
means  of  our  Instrumental  Attachment.  This  improve- 
ment is  patented  by  us  and  cannot  be  had  in  any  other 
piano.  WING  ORGANS  are  made  with  the  same  care 
and  sold  in  the  same  way  as  Wing  Pianos.  Separate  or- 
gan catalogue  sent  on  request. 


The  Book 

of  .Complete 
lnfonftoficm 
about 

Pianos 


YOU  NEED  THIS  BOOK 

If  You  Intend  to  Buy  a  Piano— No  Matter  What  Make 

A  book — not  a  catalogue — that  gives  you  all  the  information  possessed  by 
experts,    It  tells  about  the  different  materials  used  in  the  different  parts 
of  a  piano ;  the  way  the  different  parts  are  put  together ,  what  causes  pianos 
to  get  out  of  order  and  in  fact  is  a  complete  encyclopedia.    It  makes  the 
selection  of  a  piano  easy.    If  read  carefully,  it  will  make  you  a  judge  of 
tone,  action,  workmanship  and  finish.   It  tells  you  how  to  test  a  piano 
and  how  to  tell  good  from  bad.    It  is  absolHtely  the  only  book  of 
its  kind  ever  published.    It  contains  166  large  pages  and  hun- 
dreds of  illustrations,  all  devoted  to  piano  construction.    Its 
name  is  "The  Book  of  Complete  Information  About  Pianos." 
We  send  it  free  to  anyone  wishing  to  buy  a  piano.    All  you. 
have  to  do  is  to  send  us  your  name  and  address. 


351 


WING  &  SON 

■3§2  West  13th  Street,  New  York 


1868- 


-37tn  YEAR- 


-1905 


Send  a  Postal  To-day  while  you  think  of 
it,  just  giving  your  name  and  address  or  send  us 
the  attached  coupon  and  the  valuable  book  of  in- 
formation, also  full  particulars  about  the  WING 
PIANO,  with  prices,  terms  of  payment,  etc., 
will  be  sent  to  you  promptly  by  mail. 


WING 

&S0N 

351-382  W.I3th 
St.,  New  York 


Send  to  the  name  and 
address  written  below, 
the  Book  of  Complete  In- 
formation about  Pianos,  also 
prices  and  terms  of  payment 
on  Wing  Pianos. 


When    writing    to    advertisers    please    mention    The    Home    Missionary 


THE 


HOME 


MISSIONARY 


ADVERTISER 


A  BOOK  NECESSARY  TO  THE 
STUDENT  OF  HISTORY  AND 
THE    STUDENT   OF  MISSIONS 

LEAVENING     THE 
NATION 

THE  STORY  OF    AMERICAN   PROTESTANT    HOME   MISSIONS 

By  JOSEPH  B.  CLARK,  D.D. 

Secretary  of  the  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society 

12  mo,  illustrated,  362  pages,  net  $1.25 

Student's  Edition,  Red  Paper  Covers,  50  Cents 

JAMES  S.  DENNIS  D.D.,  Students'  Lecturer  on  Missions,  Princeton,  1893 
and  1896. 

"I  know  of  no  book  on  Home  Missions  so  informing  and  valuable  to  an  earnest 
reader  as  'Leavening  the  Nation.'  A  careful  and  thoughtful  perusal  cannot  fail  to 
put  one  into  historic  sympathy  with  the  missionary  enterprise,  and  awaken  an  intelli- 
gent comprehension  of  its  immense  import.  It  is  a  happy  combination  of  history 
and  heroism,  and  patriotism  and  pious  achievement,  of  expansion  in  its  best  light, 
and  the  noblest  aspects  of  the  making  of  a  great  nation." 

FOR    SALE    BY 

THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


287   Fourth  Avenue, 


New  York. 


Rudolph  Lenz 

Printer 

62-65    Bible    House 

New    York 


The  Home  Missionary 

For  the  Promotion  of  Christian  Civilization  in  Our  Country 

Published  monthly,  except  July  and  August,  by  the 
Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society. 


What  some  readers  generously  say  about  it: 

"Our  splendid  Home  Missionary" 

"  A  credit  to  the  denomination  " 

"  A  gem  of  rare  value  and  beauty  " 

"  The  best  Home  Missionary  Magazine  in  the  Land  " 

"  The  pictures  alone  are  worth  double  the  subscription  " 

"  The  ablest  Missionary  Magazine  that  comes  to  my  Table" 

"  You  have  surpassed  yourself  in  the  December  Number  " 

"  I  take  most  of  the  popular  magazines,  but  I  read  the  Home 
Missionary  first  " 

"  When  shall  we  have  one  magazine  just  like  this,  for  all?" 

"I  am  not  ashamed  to  leave  the  Home  Missionary  on  my 
parlor  table" 

"  Miss  Reynolds'  article  on  'Why  Despise  the  Immigrant?' 
is  a  classic  " 

a  t  rjijjg  Tragedy  of  the  Excluded  '  is  more  thrilling  than  any 
novel " 

"  The  Home  Missionary  is  the  most  interesting  magazine 
with  which  I  have  any  acquaintance  " 

"  I  read  the  Home  Missionary  from  cover  to  cover  and 
wish  it  was  twice  as  large  " 

sf  Reading  '  From  the  Front  Line  '  has  given  me  an  entirely 
new  idea  of  home  missionaries  and  their  work" 

"  I  open  every  number  fearing  you  have  dropped  the  pace, 
but  not  so.    How  do  you  keep  it  up?" 

"  lam  a  life  member,  entitled  to  the  magazine  free;  but  I 
crave  the  privilege  of  subscribing  " 

"'David  Barton's  Day  Dream  '  ought  to  be  sent  as  a  leaflet 
to  every  man  who  has  gone  from  the  country  to  the  city  " 

"  Send  me  twenty-five  copies  for  distribution  among  my  peo- 
ple.   I  believe  I  can  send  you  twenty-five  new  subscribers  " 


The  New  Year  Begins  with  the  April  Number.     Now  is  the  time  to  subscribe. 
PER  YEAR,  FIFTY  CENTS. 


THE    HOME    MISSIONARY, 

287     FOURTH     AVENUE,  NEW     YORK:     CITY. 


<!    o 
t-3     to 

PL,      u 


THE 

HOME  MISSIONARY 


VOL.  LXXX 


APRIL,  1906 


No.  1 


SAMUEL  J.  MILLS 

Home  Missionary  Statesman 

By   J^ev.  Thomas  C.   Richards,  Torrington,   Connecticut 


i  i 


I 


INTEND,  God  willing,   that 

the  little   influence    1    have 

shall  be  felt  in  every  state  in 

Union."  ' 


the 

So  wrote 
Samuel  J. 
Mills  in  a  let- 
ter declining 
an  invitation 
to  settle  in 
the  Western 
Reserve. 
That  inten- 
tion was  car- 
ried out  and 
h  e  became, 
not  only  a 
home  mis- 
sionary, but 
a  home  mis- 
s  i  o  n  a  r  y 
statesman  of 
high  rank. 

His  plans 
for  missions 
had  always 
included  the 
West  as  well 
as  the  East. 
The  hero  of 
the  haystack 
had  talked 
with  the 
Brethren  (the 
secret  for- 
eign mission- 
ary society  formed 
about  a  mission   "to 


SALMON    GIDDINGS 
First  resident  pastor,  St.  Louis 
By  courtesy  of  "The  Congregationalist" 

at    Williams) 
our  own  con- 


tinent "  and  "to  the  heathen  tribes 
to  the  westward."  When  he  made 
his  imperial  projects  for  the  King- 
^^^  dom    of  God 

and  planned 
with  Gordon 
Hall,  some- 
times it  was 
of  "cutting  a 
path  through 
the  moral 
wilderness  of 
the  west  to 
the  Pacific," 
and  s  o  m  e- 
times  it  was 
of  Africa 
and  South 
America. 

This  is  not 
the  place  to 
discuss  the 
question  why 
Mills  did  not 
go  out  with 
the  first  for- 
eign mission- 
aries. But 
before  they 
were  o  r - 
dained  Prof. 
Moses  Stuart 
of  Andover 
wrote  to  the 
Mission  a  r  y 
Society  of 
Connecticut  in  regard  to  Mills  and  a 
companion,     J.     F.     Schermerhorn. 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


Their  plans  included  a  missionary 
tour  through  the  West  as  far  as  New 
Orleans.  They  not  only  expected  to 
preach,  but  to  ''collect  accurate  and 
extensive  in- 
formation re- 
specting the 
state  of  reli- 
gion and  the 
church  in  all 
the  new  set- 
tlements." 

How  dar- 
ing the  plan 
was  is  readily 
seen  when 
we  remember 
that  Ver- 
m  o  n  t  and 
Western  New 
York  were 
the  usual 
home  mis- 
sionary fields 
at  this  time. 
Less  than 
nine  years 
before  the 
entire  trans- 
Missis  si  ppi 
region  had 
been  trans- 
ferred to  the 
American 
flag  and  was 
largely  an 
u  n  k  n  o  w  n 
country  to 
Protestant- 
ism. Young  Mills,  only  twenty-nine 
years  old,  set  out  on  horseback  July 
3,  181 2,  from  his  home  in  Torring- 
ford,  Connecticut,  determined  that 
whether  the  Constitution  followed 
the  flag  or  not  the  Bible  should.  He 
went  by  the  way  of  Albany  and  the 
Mohawk  valley  to  the  Great  Lakes, 
then  south  to  Marietta,  Ohio,  where 
he  met  Schermerhorn.  They  fol- 
lowed the  Ohio  valley,  visiting  Cin- 
cinnati and  the  towns  of  any  size  on 
either  side  of  the  river  in  Indiana 
and  Kentucky.  After  just  touching 
Illinois  they  made  their  way  to  Nash- 
ville,   Tennessee.       Here    they    met 


SYLVESTER   LARNED 
First  pastor  First  Presbyterian  Church,  New  Orleans 
Died  of  yellow  fever  on  his  24th  birthday 
By  courtesy  of  "The  Congregationalist" 


"Old  Hickory."  General  Jackson, 
with  1,500  Tennessee  troops,  was 
making  ready  to  go  down  the  river 
to  Natchez.  He  offered  the  young 
missionaries 
pass  age  on 
his  boat. 
They  accept- 
ed and  went 
to  work 
among  the 
officers  in  be- 
half of  the 
Tennessee 
Bible  So- 
ciety. These 
rough  and 
ready  back- 
woodsmen 
understood 
this  manly 
appeal  made 
in  the  name 
of  God  and 
native  land 
and  made  a 
subscription 
of  one  hun- 
dred dollars 
for  the  Bible 
Society. 
Mills  wrote  : 
"As  these 
vol  un  teer  s 
had  little 
prospect  of 
contend  ing 
with  the  bay- 
onet and  the 
sword  we  endeavored  to  bring  them 
to  act  against  principalities  and  pow- 
ers and  spiritual  wickedness  in  high 
places,  and  as  you  see,  sir,  not  with- 
out some  success.  We  were  treated 
with  great  attention  by  the  general 
and  officers  and  were  more  obliged 
to  them  for  their  subscription  made 
to  the  Tennessee  Society  than  if  it 
had  been  made  to  us." 

Mills'  next  meeting  with  these  sol- 
diers was  on  his  second  visit  to  the 
Southwest — just  after  the  battle  of 
New  Orleans.  There  were  hundreds 
of  sick  and  wounded,  besides  all  the 
British    prisoners.     There    was    not 


SAMUEL    MILLS 


a  single  chaplain  with  the  Kentucky 
troops.  The  young  minister  visited 
the  sick,  wounded  and  prisoners, 
preached  to  the  living,  ministered 
to  the  dying  and  buried  the  dead. 
Unsparingly  he  gave  himself  to  the 
work  and  there  was  real  meaning  in 
the  ' '  God  bless  you  "  that  came  from 
the  lips  of 
men  who 
usually  spoke 
God's  name 
only  to  pro- 
fane it. 

New  Or- 
leans, with 
twenty-f  ou  r 
thousand 
people,  had 
not  a  single 
Protestant 
church.  The 
Roman  Cath- 
olic bishop, 
D  u  b  o  u  r  g, 
told  these 
missionaries 
that  he  had 
been  all  over 
France  and 
had  never 
seen  so  wick- 
ed a  city.  In 
his  opinion, 
there  were 
not  ten  Bi- 
bles in  all  the 
Catholic 
families  of 
the  state. 
Sunday  was 
one  carnival 
of  dancing, 
gambling 
and  theater. 
More  actual 
sin  was  com- 
mitted on  that 
week    besides. 


AMERICAN  OCCUPATION 
By  courtesy  of  "The 


day  than  all  the 
Mills  and  Scher- 
merhorn  stayed  in  the  city  several 
weeks  preaching  in  the  court-house. 
Under  the  French  and  Spanish 
regime  Protestant  worship  had  been 
banned.  Under  the  new  govern- 
ment Governor  Claiborne  and  twelve 


members  of  the  legislature  signed 
the  call  which  Mills  drew  up  for  the 
organization  of  a  Louisiana  Bible 
Society.  Father  Antonio  and  the 
bishop  promised  their  co-operation 
in  the  circulation  of  the  Scriptures. 
Thus  was  started  a  new  force  for 
righteousness  in  the  Queen  City  of 
the  South- 
west. 

The  jour- 
ney home 
across  Mis- 
sissippi and 
Georgia  was 
st  renuous, 
indeed, 
t  h  rough 
swamps  and 
s  a  vannahs, 
cane  brakes 
and  creeks, 
on  half  fare 
and  some- 
times no  fare 
at  all.  Ap- 
parently 
they  touched 
at  no  post- 
office  from 
New  Orleans 
to  Athens, 
Georgia,  a 
journey  of 
more  than 
three  weeks. 
Mills  reached 
his  home 
July  6,  1813, 
after  an  ab- 
sence of  a 
year  and 
three  days. 
He  had  cov- 
ered a  dist- 
ance of  about 
three  thous- 
and miles  and  had  traversed  nearly 
every  state  and  territory  in  the 
Union.  Swimming  his  horse  across 
creeks,  sleeping  on  the  deck  of  a  flat 
boat,  tramping  through  nearly  im- 
penetrable canebrakes  and  swamps, 
he  had  kept  steadfastly  on.  In  log 
house,  schoolhouse  and  state  house, 


OF  NEW  ORLEANS, 
Congregationalist" 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


in  rude  church  and  no  church  at  all, 
he  had  preached  the  gospel.  To  the 
pioneer  hungry  for  the  bread  of  life 
and  to  the  prodigal  who  had  tried  to 
get  beyond  the  reach  of  God  and  the 
gospel,  he  had  spoken  the  word  in 
due  season.  His  eye  had  been  quick 
to  see  the  spiritual  and  moral  desola- 
tion in  all  that  region  that  promised 
so  much  worldly  prosperity.  His 
ear  had  been  quick  to  hear  the  great 
cry  from  the  prairies  of  the  West  and 
the  savannahs  of  the  South  for  the 
Bible,  that  their  children  should  not 
grow  up  ignorant,  godless  heathen. 
He  came  back  to  God's  country  to 
make  God's  people  see  the  sights  and 
hear  the  cries  that  he  had. 

For  the  next  year  he  made  his 
headquarters  at  Andover.  He  was 
busily  engaged  writing  to  Bible  so- 
cieties and  missionary  societies  and 
urging  them  to  send  men  and  Bibles 
to  this  "God-forgetting  and  God- 
provoking  portion  of  our  country." 
When  Governor  Claiborne  took  pos- 
session of  New  Orleans  in  1803  it 
was  not  until  after  a  long  search  that 
a  Bible  could  be  found  to  administer 
the  oath  of  office  to  the  new  United 
States  officials;  the  one  used  was  a 
Latin  Vulgate  procured  from  one  of 
the  priests.  It  was  to  remedy  such 
a  condition  and  distribute  five  thous- 
and French  Testaments  as  well  as 
English  Bibles  and  tracts  that  Mills 
set  out  with  Daniel  Smith  from 
Philadelphia  in  August,  1814. 

They  went  through  Pennsylvania 
to  Ohio;  thence  by  the  way  of  Vin- 
cennes,  Indiana,  and  Shawneetown, 
Illinois,  to  St.  Louis,  which  they 
reached  early  in  November.  St. 
Louis  at  this  time  was  a  tumble-down 
French  village  of  2,000  people,  about 
one-third  of  whom  were  Americans. 
Though  probably  not  the  first  Prot- 
estant preachers,  they  were  among 
the  earliest  and  were  the  first  to  see 
the  strategic  importance  of  what 
they  felt  was  to  be  a  mighty  city. 
In  spite  of  the  revelry  and  drunken- 
ness, in  spite  of  mock  celebrations 
of  the  Lord's  Supper  and  the  burn- 
ing of  the  Bible,  there  were  a  num- 


ber of  people  who  were  anxious  for  a 
Protestant  preacher.  They  would 
have  gladly  kept  this  modern  Saul 
and  Barnabas,  but  the  missionaries 
could  not  leave  the  wider  work  un- 
done. Mills  wrote  back  East,  how- 
ever, urging  the  sending  out  of  "  a 
young  man  of  talents,  piety  and  lib- 
erality of  mind."  Smith  pressed  on 
to  Natchez,  where  he  helped  dedicate 
the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  and 
Mills  went  on  to  New  Orleans  to  su- 
pervise the  distribution  of  Bibles 
and  do  a  heroic  work  among  Wel- 
lington's veterans,  who  were  pris- 
oners, and  the  backwoodsmen, 
wounded  and  sick,  who  had  won  the 
battle  of  New  Orleans. 

Every  letter  the  missionaries 
wrote  home  was  full  of  appeal.  The 
whole  country  from  the  Lakes  to  the 
Gulf  seemed  to  them  like  the  valley 
of  the  shadow  of  death.  Darkness 
and  gloom  rested  on  it.  Would  not 
the  people  of  the  East  send  out  light 
and  truth?  "  Surely,  if  there  be  any 
bowels  of  mercy,  their  cries  will  not 
be  heard  in  vain.  It  is  not  the  voice 
of  strangers  and  foreigners.     They 


ELIAS    CORNELIUS 

Founder  of  First  Presbyterian  Church 
New  Orleans 


SAMUEL    MILLS 


are  members  of  the  same  civil  com- 
munity with  us.  Many  of  them  are 
fellow  citizens  with  the  saints  and  of 
the  household  of  God.  Some  once 
enjoyed  with  delight  the  Sabbath, 
the  sermons  and  sacraments  of  New 
England.  And  their  hearts  still  re- 
tain their  relish.  Their  eyes  are 
constantly  looking  toward  the  East. 
Their  prayers  ascend  daily  that  God 
would  incline  the  hearts  of  their 
brethren  to  remember  them  and  send 
some  one  to  break  the  bread  of  life." 
The  report  of  Mills  and  Schermer- 
horn,  a  pamphlet  of  fifty  pages, 
"sheds  more  light  on  the  state  of  the 
destitute  parts  of  our  country  than 
any  or  all  other  documents  then  in 
existence." 
It  was  read 
and  dis- 
cussed in 
Europe  b  y 
such  men  as 
Dr.  Chal- 
mers. Mills 
followed  u  p 
the  reports 
with  person- 
al appeals  to 
the  young 
men  of  An- 
dover  Semi- 
nary. The 
first  year  ten 
or  twelve 
heroic  souls 
responded  to 
this  bugle 
call,  "For- 
ward!" Mills' 
enthusiasm 
was  highly 
contagious. 
His  friend, 
Salmon  Gid- 
dings,  grad- 
uate of  Wil- 
liams and 
An  d  o  v  e  r  , 
reached  St. 
Louis  in 
April,  1816. 
first  resident 
St.   Louis,   but   the   apostle  of   Mis- 


JOHN    M.    PECK 
Pioneer  Baptist  in  Missouri 
Courtesy  of  ''The  Congregationalist" 


He  became, 
Protestant 


not   only 
pastor 


souri,  organizing  fourteen  churches 
in  twelve  years.  Elias  Cornelius 
went  on  to  New  Orleans  and  organ- 
ized a  church  only  to  welcome  as 
pastor  the  eloquent  and  chivalrous 
Sylvester  Larned,  who  died  at  his 
post  of  yellow  fever  on  his  twenty- 
fourth  birthday.  Daniel  Smith  went 
back  to  Natchez  and  Robinson  went 
out  to  St.  Charles. 

The  synod  of  Pittsburg  were  so 
wrought  up  by  Mills'  report  in  the 
Connecticut  Evangelical  Magazine 
that  they  began  at  once  "vigorous 
measures  for  the  education  of  prom- 
ising young  men,  with  a  view  to 
their  becoming  ministers  of  the  gos- 
pel and  missionaries."  Prof.  Ebe- 
nezer  Porter 
wrote  from 
A  n  d  o  v  er  , 
July  24,1815, 
to  the  secre- 
tary of  the 
Missionary 
Society  of 
Connecticut: 
"  We  are  so 
disturbed 
with  calls  for 
missionaries 
and  pastors, 
w-h  i  ch  we 
cannot  sup- 
ply, that  I 
have  delayed 
until  the  last 
mail  before 
your  August 
meeting.  In- 
deed, broth- 
er, we  know 
not  what  to 
do  but  to 
pray  the 
Lord  to  raise 
up  more  la- 
borers. Un- 
der the  sol- 
emn pressure 
of  this  sub- 
ject we  are 
now  building  two  education  societies 
in  Boston  and  vicinity  on  the  Con- 
necticut plan." 


THE  FATHER  OF  THE  NATIONAL 

SOCIETY 


By   Elizabeth   Foster   Kelsey 


AT  the  end  of  eighty  years  of  home 
missionary  history  it  is  a  grateful 
duty  to  call  up  to  memory  the  men 
who,  with  prophetic  wisdom,  laid 
foundations  on  which  their  successors  have 
been  building  for  fourscore  years.  Three 
names  deserve  special  mention:  Nathaniel 
Bouton,  Aaron  Foster  and  John  Maltby, 
all  of  them  students  at  Andover  in  1825. 

The  "stage  coach  incident"  is  familiar 
in  which  Bouton,  Foster  and  Hiram  Cham- 
berlain, also  a  student  at  Andover,  took 
part.  Without  doubt  the  idea  of  a  na- 
tional home  missionary  society  was  con- 
ceived in  that  conference  between  these 
three  earnest  young  men  on  the  way  from 
Andover  to  Newburyport.  To  one  ot  them, 
however,  Aaron  Foster,  belongs  the  special 
honor  of  having  first  outlined  the  scope  and 
function  of  such  a  society.  This  he  did  in 
an  address  delivered  before  the  Porter 
Rhetorical  Society  in  the  winter  of  1S25,  in 
which  he  advocated  earnestly  the  necessity 
of  a  national  society  for  sending  out  mis- 
sionaries, and  especially  for  the  settlement 
of  pastors  in  distinction  from  itinerant 
workers.  A  few  days  later  the  Andover 
Society  of  Inquiry  held  a  special  meeting  at 
which  John  Maltby  of  the  senior  class  read 


an  essay  on  the  "  Necessity  of  increased 
exertion  to  promote  missions  in  our  West- 
ern states,"  and  pleaded  especially  for  the 
unification  of  all  agencies  of  philanthropy, 
patriotism  and  Christian  endeavor  "into 
one  vast  reservoir  from  which  a  stream 
shall  flow  to  Georgia  and  to  Louisiana,  to 
Missouri  and  to  Maine."  In  these  two 
addresses  by  Aaron  Foster  and  John  Maltby 
the  idea  of  a  national  home  missionary  so- 
ciety was  first  embodied  in  speech,  and 
under  the  providence  of  God  the  minds  of 
many  home  missionary  leaders  had  been 
prepared  for  the  message. 

We  are  pleased  to  present  to  the  readers 
of  the  Home  Missionary  a  sketch  of  the 
career  of  Aaron  Foster,  the  father  of  na- 
tional home  missions,  prepared  by  his 
daughter,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Foster  Kelsey. 
Mrs.  Kelsey  remarks  in  a  private  letter: 
"  Dr.  Bouton  was  a  frequent  visitor  at  my 
father's  house  in  East  Charlemont  during 
my  girlhood,  and  the  American  Home 
Missionary  Society  and  its  beginning  were 
often  the  theme  of  conversation.  Dr. 
Bouton,  there,  always  attributed  to  my 
father  the  conception  and  first  suggestion 
ofsuch'a  society." — Ed. 


AARON  FOS- 
TER was 
born  in  Hills- 
boro,  New  Hamp- 
shire, in  1794.  He 
fitted  for  college  at 
Kimball,  Union 
Academy,  and  grad- 
uated from  Dart- 
mouth College  in 
1822  and  from  An- 
dover Seminary  in 
1825.  Intbeautumn 
of  that  year  he  en- 
tered the  service  of 
the  American  Home 
Missionary  Society, 
in  whose  creation  he 
had  so  honorable  a 
part,  and  was  one  of 
its  first  missionaries, 
sailing  for  South 
Carolina,    where    he 


AARON    FOSTER 


ministered  to  two 
churches,  Lawrence 
and  Abbeville,  forty 
miles  apart.  The 
third  year,  Pendle- 
ton being  added  to 
his  charge,  he  rode 
sixty  miles  from  end 
to  end  of  his  parish. 
In  1829  he  rode 
north  in  company 
with  his  parishioner, 
Vice-President  John 
C.  Calhoun.  From 
Philadelphia  he 
writes:  "  My  aver- 
age has  been  a  little 
more  than  fifty  miles 
per  day  and  my  horse 
is  full  of  life."  Pur- 
chasing a  covered 
buggy  in  Boston  he 
drove    to   Cornish, 


AARON    FOSTER 


7 


New  Hampshire,  and,  on  August 
12th,  married  Dorothy  Ashley  Lea- 
vitt.  Their  wedding  journey  was 
a  drive  of  six  weeks  with  this  same 
horse  to  their  parish  in  Pendleton, 
South  Carolina. 

In  1832  they  returned  North.  In 
connection  with  that  event  Mr.  Fos- 
ter writes :  ' '  We  left  the  South  after 
a  residence  of  seven  years,  coming 
away  from  the  midst  of  more  tears 
than  I  have  ever  seen  on  any  other 
occasion  at  the  parting  of  pastor  and 
people.  Eighteen  slaves  were  re- 
ceived into  the  church  on  the  last 
Sabbath.  My  influence  there  was 
much  broader  than  it  has  been  in 
any  place  in  the  North,  and  I  am 
reconciled  at  the  idea  of  not  having 
spent  the  ministry  of  my  life  there, 
only  when  I  consider  the  condition 
of  slavery  in  which  to  leave  my  chil- 
dren." 

His  health  being  greatly  impaired 
he  went  on  a  farm  in  Northern  New 
York,  but  directly  continued  his 
ministry  in  Fort  Covington  and  Con- 
stable. After  ten  years  he  went  to 
the  Robinson  church  in  Plymouth, 
Massachusetts,  and  subsequently  to 
East  Charlemont,  Massachusetts, 
where  the  last  twenty-two  years  of 
his  long  ministry  of  forty-four  years 
were  passed.   Here  he  was  known  as 


the  beloved  "  Father  Foster  "  of  all 
Franklin  county. 

In  185 1  he  was  sent  by  the  Ameri- 
can Peace  society  as  delegate  to  the 
World's  Peace  Congress  in  London. 
In  1855  he  was  sent  to  Boston  to  the 
convention  called  to  amend  the  con- 
stitution of.  the  state,  where  he  de- 
voted himself  successfully  to  secure 
for  women  their  property  after  mar- 
riage. 

His  acquaintance  with  the  states- 
men and  public  men  of  his  time, 
both  in  this  country  and  Great  Brit- 
ain, was  extensive.  For  many  years 
he  was  a  correspondent  of  Seward, 
Sumner  and  Dawes,  but  most  of  his 
life  was  passed  in  small  country  par- 
ishes from  choice,  "because,"  he 
said,  "having  a  small  property  he 
could  afford  to  preach  the  gospel  for 
little  pay  where  other  men  could 
not." 

After  coming  North  he  was  not 
again  in  the  employ  of  the  Home 
Missionary  Society,  but  he  preserved 
through  life  an  unflagging  interest 
in  its  welfare.  He  was  a  man  of 
great  energy,  of  broad  views  and 
wide  interests,  of  intrepid  faith  in 
God  and  His  providences,  and  in 
Jesus  Christ  his  Saviour.  He  died 
April  10,  1870. 


THE     HOME     MISSIONARY     WORK,     MORE     THAN    AUGHT 
ELSE,    HAS    BEEN   THE    UNDERGIRDING  OF    THE    SHIP 
OF  STATE  IN    THE    WRENCHING    SEAS    OF   HISTORY.— 
James  L.    Whit  on. 

IN   THE    FINAL    SUMMING    UP    OF    FORCES    WHICH    HAVE 
GONE  TO    THE    MAKING    OF    THE    NATION  WHAT   IT   IS 
THE  FIRST  PLACE  WILL  BE   GIVEN  TO   HOME  MISSION- 
ARY   ENTERPRISE.       IT     WILL     BE    A    SAD    DAY    FOR     OUR 
COUNTRY  WHEN  THE  CHURCH  WITHHOLDS  HER  AID  FROM 
THIS  WORK.  —  Thomas  B.  McLeod. 


THE      CONGREGATIONAL      HOME      MISSIONARY     SOCIETY 
STANDS  FOR  THE  HIGHEST  AND   FINEST  PATRIOTISM. 
I  PLACE  IT  FIRST  AMONG  OUR  BENEVOLENT  SOCIETIES 
AND  KNOW  OF  NOTHING  MORE  HELPFUL  TO    THE    WHOLE 
COUNTRY  AND  THE  WORLD.—  S.  D.  L.  Penrose. 


EDITOR'S  OUTLOOK 


Eighty  Years 

THE  home  missionary  "move- 
ment "  antedates  its  organ- 
ized form  as  a  national  en- 
terprise about  forty  years.  As  early 
as  1788  the  Congregational  churches 
of  Connecticut  were  sending  their 
best  pastors  into  the  new  settlements 
as  missionaries  four  months  at  a 
time.  Soon  the  general  association 
of  the  state  relieved  the  churches  of 
the  burden  and  continued  to  bear  it, 
until,  in  1798,  the  Connecticut  Mis- 
sionary Society,  the  first  of  its  kind 
in  history,  assumed  and  expanded 
the  work.  Massachusetts  followed 
in  1799,  and,  before  1826,  other  soci- 
eties in  New  England  and  New  York 
had  multiplied,  each  of  them  work- 
ing independently  and  with  the  in- 
evitable result  of  overlapping,  con- 
fusion, and  unequal  distribution  of 
missionary  funds. 

The  time  for  the  first  unification 
of  home  missionary  agencies  had 
come,  and  their  consolidation  took 
effect  in  the  spring  of  1826  when 
one  hundred  and  twenty-six  dele- 
gates, representing  all  interests,  met 
in  New  York  and  constituted  the 
American  (now  the  Congregational) 
Home  Missionary  Society. 

That  this  historic  body  was  made 
up  of  wise,  far-sighted  men,  finds 
proof  in  the  fact  that  the  constitu- 
tion, then  framed,  survives  to  this 
day  almost  without  change.  That 
they  were  guided  by  a  higher  wisdom 
than  their  own  is  demonstrated  by 
the  wonderful  fruitage  of  the  past 
eighty  years;  823,000,000,  contrib- 
uted by  the  churches  and  disbursed 
by  the  society  and  its  auxiliaries  for 
national  evangelization;  ten  states, 
after  different  periods  of  depend- 
ence, brought  to  strength  and  self- 
support;    every  state   and  territory 


of  the  Union  entered  by  its  mission- 
aries, and  four-fifths  of  all  our  Con- 
gregational churches  the  direct  fruit 
of  its  fostering  care.  Here  is  a  rec- 
ord to  make  glad  every  Christian 
heart  and  deserving  of  a  grateful 
and  jubilant  celebration  at  the  com- 
ing anniversary. 

In  the  judgment  of  the  churches 
the  time  has  now  come  for  a  second 
unification  of  home  missionary  forces 
Whether  "too  long  deferred"  or 
not,  it  has  come  by  a  natural  evolu- 
tion. Its  demand  does  not  spring 
from  any  failure  of  earlier  methods, 
but  is  due  to  their  abundant  success. 
As,  one  by  one,  states  have  gradu- 
ated from  missionary  dependence  to 
self-support,  the  original  area  of  the 
national  society  has  contracted  un- 
til more  than  half  a  million  square 
miles  of  territory,  once  its  natural 
field  of  labor,  have  passed  over  from 
its  care  to  independent  state  control. 
Many  times  that  area,  however,  re- 
mains, to  be  entered  and  subdued 
by  the  national  society,  and,  in  time, 
to  be  developed  and  brought  to  the 
goal  of  self-support.  More  than 
seven  Jiu mired  devoted  men  are  still 
bearing  the  society's  commission  in 
the  newer  settlements  of  the  land — 
four  times  as  many  as  were  employed 
by  the  society  in  the  first  year  of  its 
history.  These  men  are  on  the 
front  line  of  Christian  civilization 
and  appeal  to  every  Congregational 
church  in  the  country  for  loyal  sym- 
pathy and  generous  support. 

So  much  for  the  past.  What  of 
the  future?  The  key  note  of  the 
new  constitution  is  unification.  In 
the  spirit  of  unification  the  society 
was  born  eighty  years  ago.  In  this 
fresh  demand  of  the  churches  for 
another  unification  of  home  mission- 
ary  forces    many   hope  and  believe 


EDITOR'S  OUTLOOK 


they  see  the  promise  of  new  birth  to 
this  honored  society,  its  wider  oppor- 
tunity, its  grander  victories,  and  a 
more  honorable  share  than  ever  in 
the  evangelization  of  America.  So 
may  it  be! 

Home  Missionary  History 

It  is  a  fitting  moment,  in  connec- 
tion with  our  eightieth  anniversary, 
to  remind  state  home  missionary  so- 
cieties and  state  associations  of  the 
supreme  importance  of  systematic 
effort  to  preserve,  each  state  for  it- 
self, the  current  annals  which  are 
one  day  to  make  up  the  complete 
story  of  national  home  missions. 
Even  to-day,  at  the  end  of  only 
eighty  years,  that  story  would  be 
vastly  richer  and  more  inspiring  had 
more  care  been  early  taken  to  pre- 
serve, not  only  documents,  but  a 
continuous  narrative  of  events  not 
officially  recorded,  but  which  supply 
the  necessary  light  and  shade  of  any 
true  home  missionary  story. 

Some  state  bodies,  we  believe, 
recognize  in  their  constitutions'  the 
office  of  -\  state  historian.  Would  it 
not  be  well  to  make  that  custom  uni- 
versal? What  nobler  service  could 
any  man  or  woman  covet  than  to  be 
keeper  of  the  rolls,  the  chronicler  of 
God's  dealings  with  the  churches  for 
the  inspiration  of  children  and  chil- 
dren's children? 

This  work  has  been  well  begun. 
"The  Iowa  Band,"  by  Dr.  Adams, 
is  a  finished  record  of  a  great  event. 
Its  value  must  grow  with  the  years. 
Michigan,  Minnesota  and  California 
have  kept  their  semi-centennials  and 
the  facts  are  enshrined  in  volumes 
of  permanent  value.  Oklahoma  did 
wisely  to  mark  the  ten-year  limit 
with  a  celebration,  the  fragments  of 
which,  though  historically  rather  in- 


complete, will  be  welcome  matter  to 
the  future  annalist. 

The  latest  successes  in  this  line 
belong  to  Kansas  and  Nebraska. 
The  facts,  figures,  portraits  and 
comments  in  Dr.  Dougherty's  "Me- 
morial Volume  "  on  the  occasion  of 
the  Kansas  Semi-centennial  are  a 
specially  rich  mine  for  the  future  ex- 
plorer, who  will  cordially  bless  the 
careful  hand  that  labored  before  him. 
The  first  fifty  years  of  Nebraska 
Congregationalism  have  been  lately 
summed  up  by  Rev.  Motier  A.  Bul- 
lock of  Lincoln  in  a  bound  volume 
of  357  pages  crowded  with  informa- 
tion of  the  highest  value,  which,  but 
for  this  splendid  memorial,  would  in 
a  few  years  have  been  lost  forever. 

All  these  states  have  done  well  and 
others  might  be  included  in  the  roll. 
If  possibly  anything  is  left  to  be  de- 
sired in  many  of  these  state  mono- 
graphs it  is  a  little  more  flesh  for  the 
bones;  not  that  statistics  can  be 
avoided,  but  that  something  more 
of  narrative  to  moisten  their  dryness 
would  be  acceptable.  And  how 
easily  done!  There  is  nothing  more 
romantic  than  early  state  history 
and  no  class  of  men  or  women  have 
had  a  larger  share  in  clothing  it  with 
romantic  interest  than  home  mis- 
sionaries and  their  families. 

Congratulations 

The  Home  Missionary,  entering 
its  eightieth  year,  to  The  Congrega- 
tionalist,  passing  its  ninetieth  year, 
sendeth  greeting.  The  birthday 
number  is  a  joy  to  the  eye  and  a 
feast  of  pleasant  memories.  Most 
heartily  we  wish  to  our  Congrega- 
tionalist  increasing  years,  perennial 
youth  and  abundant  entrance  into 
the  Congregational  homes  of  the 
land. 


WHO    THAT    KNOWS    THE    LABORS   OF  THE   CONGREGA- 
TIONAL     HOME     MISSIONARY    SOCIETY    DOTH     NOT 
LOVE    IT!         ITS    RECORD    IS    A    SHINING     PAGE    OF 
AMERICAN  HISTORY.— Charles  E.  Jefferson. 


WESTERN  NEED  AND  BENEVOLENCE 


By  Rev.   Austin    Rice 


Walla    J  Valla,     Washington 


4  4 


] 


S  the  West  of  age?"  Should 
not  "the  Golden  West"  cease 
to  need  aid  from  the  older 
states?  Probably  many  visitors  to 
the  Pacific  this  year  asked  themselves 
such  questions  and  answered  them 
in  the  affirmative.  In  contrasting 
the  vast  and  growing  prosperity  of 
Washington  with  the  barren  hills 
and  close  economy  of  New  England, 
one  feels  surprised  and  indignant 
that  the  hard-earned  money  of  the 
older  section  should  be  asked  for  the 
support  of  the  gospel  in  the  new 
region.  Most  ministers  recently  from 
the  East  are  thus  astonished  and  in- 
dignant. I  confess  to  much  sym- 
pathy with  the  position  that  the 
West  should  be  self-supporting  in  a 
religious  way.  I  should  like  to  see 
the  recent  editorials  of  The  Congre- 
gationalist  widely  read  in  the  West. 
They  are  needed  and  wholesome. 
But  I  am  afraid  that  they  will  do 
harm  in  the  East,  and  they  are 
founded  on  a  considerable  misappre- 
hension of  real  conditions  here. 
They  do  us  an  injustice,  and  they 
may  dampen  missionary  contribu- 
tions from  stronger  states. 

To  begin  with,  the  traveler  sees 
the  prosperous  places  beside  the  rail- 
roads; he  sees  Tacoma,  Seattle  and 
Spokane.  He  does  not  see  the  small 
hamlet,  the  mining  camp,  the  new 
settlement,  or  the  homesteader's 
cabin.  When  our  Eastern  friends 
visit  us  we  eagerly  place  our  best 
before  them;  we  gather  chickens  and 
melons;  we  polish  the  silver  and  we 
boast  of  our  state,  until  perhaps  they 
draw  wrong  inferences  concerning 
our  daily  fare. 

Are  we  doing  so  little  for  ourselves 
in  the  support  of  religion?  Let  us 
compare  Washington  and  Massachu- 
setts, using  the  Year-Book  of    1905 


as  the  standard.  Obviously  the  only 
fair  test  is  on  the  basis  of  church 
membership.  Others  may  give  to 
philanthropy,  but  the  mainstay  of 
the  gospel  must  be  from  Christians. 
In  Massachusetts  the  average  Con- 
gregationalist  paid  $15.02  for  the 
support  of  his  local  church ;  in  Wash- 
ington, $13.60.  For  benevolence 
Massachusetts  gave,  per  capita, 
$5.16;  Washington,  $2.45.  Total  for 
the  work  of  the  Master  in  the  Bay 
State,  820.18;  in  the  Pacific  state, 
$16.05.  The  difference,  while  con- 
siderable, is  not  overwhelming. 

NO    RENTED    PEWS 

Look  now  at  some  things  which 
make  the  situation  more  difficult  in 
the  new  region.  Compare  systems  of 
money  raising  for  local  church  sup- 
port. In  the  wealthier  chrrches  of 
Massachusetts,  the  home  expenses 
are  met  by  pew  rentals  and  the  parish 
system.  Thus,  persons  who  desire 
to  attend  church — and  naturally  in 
an  older  region  the  desire  both  re- 
ligiously and  socially  is  stronger — 
pay  a  large  sum  even  though  they 
may  not  be  Christians.  On  the  other 
hand,  in  Washington,  every  church 
of  every  denomination  has  the  free 
pew  system.  We  believe  this  is 
truer  to  the  spirit  of  the  Saviour.  At 
any  rate  no  other  plan  is  practicable 
here.  The  state  exempts  from  taxa- 
tion only  free  churches,  and  there  is 
not  a  rented  pew  in  Washington! 
But  if  the  churches  of  Massachusetts 
were  dependent  solely  for  home  sup- 
port on  voluntary  contributions,  as 
we  are,  it  maybe  questioned  whether 
they  would  raise,  per  capita,  even 
the  meager  dollar  and  a  half  more  a 
year  than  their  sisters  in  Washing- 
ton' Perhaps  they  might  not  raise 
so  much. 


WESTERN  NEED  AND  BENEVOLENCE 


THE    AGE    OF    THE    CHURCHES 

The  oldest  church  in  this  state  is 
only  in  its  forty-first  year,  and  of 
the  nearly  150  churches  the  average 
age  is  between  ten  and  fifteen  years. 
Of  the  slightly  over  600  churches  in 
our  mother  state,  more  than  a  third 
are  over  a  century  old,  and  an  ad- 
ditional forty  are  over  two  centuries 
of  age,  or  about  250  that  have  seen 
more  than  a  hundred  years.  A 
church  in  which  children,  grand- 
children and  great  -  grandchildren 
have  been  nurtured,  has  an  entirely 
different  hold  on  the  community, 
and  can  make  a  far  more  effective 
appeal  to  Christian  and  non-Chris- 
tian givers  than  one  not  fifteen  years 
old.  Deep  roots  bring  greater  fruit. 
Churches,  like  colleges,  depend  upon 
accumulated  love.  Is  it  fair  to  ex- 
pect a  college  like  Whitman,  with, 
exactly  twenty  men  who  have  been 
graduated  long  enough  to  attend  a 
decennial  reunion,  to  have  the  same 
financial  resources  as  Amherst  or 
Williams?" 

The  East  has  a  great  advantage 
over  the  West  in  its  more  staple  and 
steady  pastorate.  According  to  the 
Year-Book,  only  about  a  tenth  of 
the  Congregational  churches  of 
Massachusetts  were  without  pastors, 
but  in  Washington  nearly  a  third 
were  pastorless.  A  far  larger  pro- 
portion of  our  ministers  have  to 
spread  themselves  very  thin  over 
two,  three,  and  sometimes  six  places, 
but  the  large  distances  and  small 
membership  make  this  unavoidable. 
Our  Western  churches,  with  an  aver- 
age membership  scarcely  of  sixty, 
with  an  intermittent,  and  often  a 
non  -  resident  pastorate,  are  at  a 
great  disadvantage  compared  with  a 
state  whose  churches  average  nearly 
two  hundred  in  membership,  and 
have  a  permanent  and  resident  min- 
istry. And  this  hindrance  is  par- 
ticularly marked  when,  having  raised 
the  local  expenses,  we  attempt  out- 
side benevolent  effort. 

Our  wealth  is  exaggerated.  I  do 
not    mean    our    natural    resources. 


These  are  boundless.  Our  confidence 
is  strong.  But  these  resources  are 
undeveloped.  Our  greatest  income 
is  from  agriculture.  This  is  of  small 
relative  rank  in  Massachusetts,  Yet 
according  to  the  Federal  census  of 
1900  the  gross  value  of  the  agricul- 
tural products  of  Washington  was 
less  than  those  of  Massachusetts. 
The  last  five  years  have  undoubtedly 
changed  these  proportions  in  the  one 
item  of  agriculture,  but  it  is  proba- 
bly true,  to-day  as  then,  that  the 
manufacturing  output  of  the  older 
state  is  nearly  twelve  times  as  great, 
and  twice  as  much  per  capita.  A 
standard  magazine  recently  pub- 
lished a  map,  showing  the  geographi- 
cal distribution  of  millionaires 
throughout  the  nation.  Washington 
had  only  six.  They  were  thick  in- 
deed near  Boston  and  New  York. 
Vast  as  our  resources  may  be,  the 
accumulated  wealth  of  the  country 
is  still  in  the  great  banking  and 
manufacturing  centers  of  theEast. 

I  think  also  that  the  casual  visitor 
fails  to  realize  what  real  effort  the 
West  is  making  toward  religious 
self-support. 

PROGRESS    TOWARD    SELF-SUPPORT 

During  the  administration  of  Su- 
perintendent Scudder  in  Washing- 
ton,between  half  a  dozen  and  a  dozen 
churches  have  come  to  self-support 
annually.  Forty  churches  ask  no 
aid  to-day.  Many  more  consent  to 
harsh  doubling  up  of  fields  to  save 
home  missionary  grants.  For  such 
no  aid  is  asked.  We  do  not  plead 
'  'geography, "  but  opportunity.  New 
places  are  opening  faster  than  we 
can  handle  them.  If  ten  churches 
bravely  rally  to  self  -  support  this 
year,  there  are  at  least  twice  that 
number  of  new  fields  needing  the 
preacher.  Whatever  may  be  the 
rightfulness  of  asking  the  poor  of 
New  England  to  give  to  the  West, 
we  know  there  are  splendid  spiritual 
investments  in  these  opening  calls 
for  the  accumulated  and  surplus 
wealth  of  the  East. 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


We  are  striving  to  help  ourselves. 
Doubtless  some  fields  do  far  too  little 
for  themselves  and  lean  too  readily 
on  missionary  aid.  But  that  failing 
is  not  confined  to   the  Pacific  slope. 

I  once  heard  a  church  member  in 
the  Empire  State  say :  "If  the  Home 
Missionary  Society  wants  a  Congre- 
gational church  here,  let  them  pay 
for  it!"  We  hope  in  Washington  to 
follow  Northern  California  to  self- 
support,  perhaps  within  a  decade. 

And  are  there  not  other  standards 
of  devotion  besides  those  of  the 
pocketbook?  Other  tests  of  effi- 
ciency? Take  rate  of  gain.  In  in- 
crease of  gain  over  last  year  in  gifts 
to  foreign  missions,  the  Pacific  slope 
led  the  whole  country!  Is  it  not 
much  to  be  bringing  young  and  old 
to  a  confession  of  the  Lord  Jesus? 
In  additions  to  church  membership 
by  confession  Washington  did  pro- 
portionately more  than  twice  as  well 
as  Massachusetts.  Is  it  not  some- 
thing   to    be  fashioning  ideals  in  a 


region  so  young,  so  critical,  so  big 
with  promise?  A  noted  educator, 
not  of  this  state,  has  said:  "  Wash- 
ington is  to  be  the  conscience  of  the 
Pacific  coast."  A  former  United 
States  senator  from  Washington  is 
reported  as  declaring:  "  The  group 
of  young  men  who  came  out  under 
the  Home  Missionary  Society  in  the 
early  nineties,  have  done  more  to 
raise  the  educational  standards  of 
the  State  of  Washington  than  all 
other  human  agencies  combined." 

If  such  investments  appeal  to  the 
Christians  of  New  England  as  still 
well  worth  while,  surely  they  will 
continue  to  aid  the  West  liberally 
during  the  brief  time  in  which  we 
are  seeking  ability  to  stand  on  our 
own  feet.  If  the  time  should  ever 
come  when  Massachusetts  should 
need  help  from  Washington  to  meet 
her  problems,  the  younger  state  will 
be  found  helpful.  —  The  Congrega- 
tionalist. 


T 


HE  MORE  I  SEE  OF  AMERICA  AND  THE  WORLD  THE 
MORE  CONVINCED  I  AM  THAT  THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 
HOLDS  THE  KEY  TO  THE  SITUATION.—  Francis  E.  Clark. 


THE  NATION  OWES  A  DEBT   TO   THE   HOME   MISSIONARY 
SOCIETY    WHICH    HAS    NEVER    BEEN    FULLY    UNDER- 
STOOD   AND     WHICH     WILL    APPEAR    GREATER    THE 
MORE  THE  CONDITIONS  OF  OUR  NATIONAL  DEVELOPMENT 
ARE  STUDIED.— Albert  J.   Lyman. 


THIS  CENTURY  OF   HOME   MISSIONS   IS  THE  SALT  WHICH 
HAS    SAVED    THIS    COUNTRY,    THE    MORAL    DYNAMIC 
WHICH  HAS   GIVEN    POWER    TO    ALL    OTHER    FORCES 
THAT  HAVE   MADE  A    GREAT    SELF-GOVERNING    PEOPLE.— 
Albert  E.  Dunning. 


THE  PROGRESS  OF  THE  FINAN- 

CIAL CAMPAIGN 

THE  PROMPT  AND  EARNEST  CO-OPERATION  OF 

EVERY  CONGREGATIONALIST  REQUIRED 

By   Don  O.  Shelton 

HTHE    financial    cam- 
JL        paign  in  behalf  of 

orable,    the    response    has 

been  gratifying  and  more 

a  fund  to  free  the 

than  the  sum  aimed  for  has 

Congregational      Home 

been  secured. 

Missionary   Society    from 

Churches  in  many  states 

debt,    goes    forward    with 

have  made  or  are  about  to 

encouragement. 

make     special     offerings. 

But  energetic  action  is 

The  offering  of  the  Broad- 

still required  on  the  part 

way     Tabernacle,      New 

of  hundreds  of  pastors  and 

York,    was    equal    to   the 

churches.      All    responses 

regular  annual  church  con- 

thus far  received  show  that 

tribution,  with  an  average 

in  no  instance,  where  effort 

special  gift  of  $  l  per  mem- 

has been  put  forth  in  be- 

ber, added. 

half  of  a  special  offering, 

The     First    Congrega- 

has there  been  other  than 

tional  Church,  Springfield, 

a    cordial    and  liberal    re- 

Mass.,   Rev.    Dr.    F.    L. 

sponse. 

Goodspeed,     pastor,     not 

The  securing  of  an  ex- 

only    made     its     regular 

tra  special  offering  equal  to 

annual    offerings    to    the 

fifty    cents    per     resident 

state   and    national    home 

member,    has     not    been 

missionary  societies,  but  a 

found     difficult.       Even 

special  offering  to  the  na- 

when   conditions    for    the 

tional  society  amounting  to 

taking  of  a  special  offering 

more  than  $500. 

have  seemed  to  be  unfav- 

The Church  of  the  Re- 

deemer,  New  Haven,  Ct., 
Rev.  Dr.  W.  L.  Phillips, 
pastor,  made  an  offering  of 
over  $450  in  excess  of  the 
amount  contributed  last 
year. 

The  offering  of  the 
Congregational  Church  at 
Plainfield,  N.  J.,  Rev.  C. 
E.  Goodrich  pastor,  was 
$300  in  excess  of  that  of 
1905. 

The  Congregational 
Church,  Brighton,  Mass., 
made  an  extra  offering 
equal  to  more  than  $1  per 
resident  member. 

The  First  Congrega- 
tional Church,  Walla 
Walla,  Wash.,  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Austin  Rice,  pastor, 
made  a  special  gift 
amounting  to  about  $300, 
or  more  than  $1  per  resi- 
dent member. 

The  offering  of  the 
Tompkins  Ave.  Church, 
Brooklyn,  at  this  writing, 
March  20,  is  reported  as 
being  fully  $1,600  more 
than  in  any  recent  year, 
and  other  sums  are  to  be 
added. 

The  Italian  Church  at 
New  Haven,  Ct.,  se- 
cured an  extra  gift  equal 


to  fifty  cents  per  resident 
member. 

The  German  Church, 
Brooklyn,  whose  member- 
ship is  made  up  largely  of 
people  of  limited  means, 
obtained  a  special  offering 
equal  to  more  than  $  1  per 
resident  member.  This 
church  has  thirty  members, 
all  of  whom  are  laboring 
people.  The  pastor  of  the 
church  received  last  year 
as  salary  $294,  out  of 
which  he  supported  him- 
self, his  wife  and  two  chil- 
dren. When  asked  how  he 
did  it,  he  said  that  they  had 
had  one  meal  every  day, 
some  days  two  meals,  and 
occasionally  three  meals. 
This  little  church  has  con- 
tributed, unsolicited,  $34 
toward  the  payment  of  the 
debt,  an  amount  equal  to 
more  than  $ 1  per  resident 
member.  One  of  the  women 
scrubs  floors  for  a  living, 
aside  from  taking  care  of 
her  own  children.  She  gets 
for  this  $4.50  per  week. 
Her  contribution  was  $  1. 

The  pastor  of  a  church 
in  Illinois  expresses  the 
sympathetic  action  of 
members  of  his  church  in 
these  words: 


Your  appeal  for  funds  received 
and  I  am  glad  to  state  we  can 
forward  a  small  contribution 
from  our  church.  Our  annual 
meeting  was  held  yesterday  and 

a  fund  of  $ has  been  raised 

and  the  ladies  of  the  committee 
recommended  that  it  be  set  aside 
for  a  kitchen,  which  we  need. 
But  when  it  was  ascertained 
that  the  work  of  the  Congrega- 
tional Home  Missionary  Society 
was  suffering,  it  was  voted  to 
send  the  money  to  your  society 

and  also«$ additional,  that 

had  been  handed  to  me  for  mis- 
sionary purposes.     Therefore,  I 

enclose  a  draft  for  $ ,  and 

only  wish  it  was  more. 

The  Secretary  of  one  of 
our  denominational  Theo- 
logical Seminaries,  who 
sends  a  generous  offering, 

writes: 

I  have  received  and  read  your 
earnest  appeals  for  special  con- 
tributions towards  the  debt  of 
your  society  with  painful  inter- 
est. It  is  sad  to  think  of  the 
blessed  work  of  the  society  being 
crippled,  when  it  is  so  greatly 
needed.  In  1S47  I  was  ordained 
as  a  home  missionary  in  my  na- 
tive village  in  Connecticut,  Sec- 
retary Badger  preaching  the  ser- 
mon. And  I  came  the  same 
year  to  Chicago  with  a  commis- 
sion from  the  society  to  find  or 
make  a  place  for  service  in  Illi- 
nois or  Wisconsin.  I  served 
under  that  commission  one  year 
when  it  was  renewed,  but  not 
needed,  as  the  church  of  which 
I  was  the  pastor  came  to  self- 
support.  As  a  resident  for 
fifty-nine  years,  I  can  testify  to 
the  great,  blessed   work  of  the 


society  in  this  great  West,  and 
have  gladly  made  annual  contri- 
butions to  its  work,  either 
through  the  national  or  state 
societies.  The  church  of  which 
I  am  a  member  will  take  its 
annual  collection  in  March. 
Please  find  enclosed  a  contribu- 
tion towards  the  debt. 

From  a  growing  town 
in  Colorado,  this  sugges- 
tive letter  comes: 

Though  my  means  are  very 
limited  I  feel  it  my  duty  to  send 

the  enclosed  $ in  response  to 

the  appeal  in  recent  numbers  of 
The  Congre g  ationalist .  There 
is  no  church  here  yet,  but  we 
have  a  rapidly  growing  commu- 
nity.    We  need  a  church  badly. 

Another  friend,  enclos- 
ing a  contribution,  says: 

I  am  sorry  to  send  this  small 
amount  when  your  need  is  so 
great,  with  such  a  heavy  burden 
of  debt.  If  I  had  a  million  dol- 
lars to  give,  it  should  joyfully 
go  for  the  work  in  this  our  dear 
native  land,  where  it  is  so  much 
needed. 

A  pastor  of  a  home  mis- 
sionary church  in  Penn- 
sylvania, writes: 

I  beg  to  thank  you  for  the  ar- 
ticles in  The  Home  Missionary 
presenting  the  condition  of  the 
Home  Missionary  Society  finan- 
cially, and  pleading  for  a  better 
support  from  the  churches  of  the 
denomination.  It  has  been  hint- 
ed, and  there  is  a  great  deal  of 
truth  in  it,  that  pastors  of 
churches  are  very  slow  in  their 
efforts  to  bring  such  matters 
before  their  congregations,  and 
plead  with  them  for  liberal  con- 


tributions  toward  the  Home 
Missionary  Society.  My  present 
charge  never  made  an  effort 
along  this  line,  and  since  my 
advent  here  a  few  months  ago,  I 
have  been  trying  to  sow  among 
them  the  seed  of  mission  work 
and  spirit,  and  though  a  small 
charge  yet  we  reaped  a  harvest 
of  $ last  Sunday,  and  I  ex- 
pect to  be  able  to  garner  in  more 
again  in  the  near  future,  in  order 
to  free  the  society  from  the 
"shackles"  that  bind  it  at  pres- 
ent. Would  to  God  that  pastors 
would  arouse  their  congrega- 
tions from  this  lethargical  sleep! 
That  is  all  that's  needed;  they 
have  the  means  and  I  believe 
that  thousands  of  Congrega- 
tional people  throughout  the 
country  would  be  up  and  doing. 
The  Home  Missionary  is  sent 
to  pastors  of  churches,  while 
few,  if  any,  of  the  congregations 
know  anything  about  the  con- 
dition of  the  Home  Missionary 
Society.  I  will  read  that  article 
"The  Christian  Conquest  of 
America,"  at  our  next  Christian 
Endeavor  meeting.  I  am  in 
sympathy  with  the  Home  Mis- 
sionary Society  and  will  do  my 
very  best  for  it,  not  because  I 
receive  aid  from  it,  but  because 
it  is  the  teaching  of  our  Master 
for  the  promulgation  of  His 
Kingdom. 


The  present  urgent 
financial  needs  of  the  Con- 
gregational Home  Mis- 
sionary  Society,  if  known 
to  every  Congrega- 
tional church  in  America, 
would  unquestionably  re- 
sult in  a  response  that 
would  entirely  liquidate 
the  debt  and  afford  a  gen- 
erous sum  for  the  begin- 
ning  of  the  work  of  the 
new  year. 


We  again  invite  the 
earnest  co-operation  of 
every  pastor  and  worker 
in  behalf  of  the  speedy 
completion  of  this  cam- 
paign. 

At  this  writing  (March 
20),  $218,000,  is  required. 
If  this  matter  is  taken  up 
promptly  in  ALL  the 
churches  it  will  still  be  pos- 
sible to  secure  the  whole 
sum  before  the  annual  meet- 
ing at  Oak  Park  in  May. 

The  campaign  must  go 
on  until  the  whole  bur- 
den of  debt  is  removed. 
Until  then  there  will 
be  no  Congregational 
home  mission  advance. 
Until  then  every  phase 
of  the  work  will  be 
restricted. 

Will  you  help  at  once 
to   the    utmost   of    your 

ABILITY? 


Please  cut  out  this  slip  and 
mail  with  your  contribution  to 
the  Congregational  Home 
Missionary  Society,  287  Fourth 
Avenue,  New  York. 

Herewith  find  $ _ , 

being  a  special  contribution  to 
the  work  of  the  Congregational 
Home  Missionary  Society. 

ATa>ne 

Street __ 

Town  or  City __ State 

Church 


THE  LOST  SIXTY  PER  CENT 


By   Grace   C.  White 


West  Brcokfield,  Massachusetts 


IT  WAS  the  time  of  the  annual 
conference  of  churches,  and  the 
members  and  delegates  of  one 
particular  group  of  twenty-one 
churches  in  the  south  part  of  Win- 
chester County  had  assembled  in  the 
newly  built  church  in  Gilbertledge 
for  the  two  days'  conference.  The 
weather  was  perfect,  the  season  not 
the  busiest,  the  invitation  to  come 
to  Gilbertledge  urgent,  and  the  fine 
new  edifice  inviting.  What  wonder, 
then,  that  attendance,  not  only  of 
ministers  and  delegates,  but  of  others 
from  the  various  churches,  was  un- 
usually large. 

Reports  of  the  work  and  the 
strength  of  the  churches  were  in 
progress  and  all  had  seemed  to  be  in 
a  blessed  condition  of  usefulness  un- 
til Rev.  Mr.Markley,  the  new  minis- 
ter at  Whitton,  who  had  been  set- 
tled just  fourteen  months,  rose  to 
give  his  report. 

An  attitude  of  expectancy  awaited 
the  splendid  report  he  could  give. 
His  face  seemed  to  sadden  as  he  re- 
turned the  cordial  greeting  of  the 
conference,  and  then  simply  made 
the  following  statement:  "My 
church  seems  to  be  the  only  one 
yet  heard  from  that  has  not  grown 
in  power  as  well  as  in  members.  I 
can  only  report  twelve  additions  by 
profession,  two  by  letter,  and  a  loss 
in  the  power  of  the  church  of  sixty 
per  cent."  He  sat  down  and  buried 
his  head  upon  his  hands. 

The  effect  of  this  statement  and 
his  manner  can  hardly  be  described. 
His  two  delegates,  Deacon  Harper 
and  Mrs.  Professor  Mason,  looked 
and  felt  bewildered,  confused,  mor- 


tified. What  could  he  mean?  A 
loss  of  sixty  per  cent  in  their  church? 
They  could  think  of  only  four  mem- 
bers who  had  died,  and  those  had 
been  elderly  people  who  had  not  been 
active  in  church  work  for  years,  and 
the  active  membership  of  the  church 
was  360!  Explanation  of  this  start- 
ling statement  would  surely  be  forth- 
coming, but  the  next  report  had  been 
called  and  was  being  given. 

Shortly  before  noon  Deacon  Har- 
per received  by  the  usher  a  note  from 
Mr.  Markley  saying  that  he  had 
heard  since  coming  there  that  an  old 
school  friend  of  his  chanced  to  be  in 
town  that  day  at  the  bedside  of  a 
sick  sister,  and  he  felt  that  he  must 
speak  a  word  to  his  friend;  should 
not  remain  for  dinner  at  the  church, 
but  would  return  at  the  opening  of 
the  afternoon  session.  Deacon  Har- 
per read  and  handed  it  to  Mrs. 
Mason  who  quietly  took  her  pencil 
and  wrote  below  it:  "Then  there  is 
nothing  for  us  but  to  go  somewhere 
else,  too;  we  can't  stay  here  for  din- 
ner and  be  asked  about  a  condition 
in  our  church  which  we  know  noth- 
ing about,  neither  can  we  put  him  in 
an  equivocal  position  by  saying  that 
we  do  not  know.  I  think  if  he  goes 
we  must,  but  where?  " 

Deacon  Harper  turned  the  paper 
over  and  wrote:  "We'll  go  to  my 
cousin  Kate's,  just  a  little  out  of  the 
village ;  there's  nobody  else  here  from 
Whitton,  and  minister,  delegates 
and  church  will  be  safe  there." 

Very  early  in  the  afternoon  ser- 
vices the  moderator  called  upon  Mr. 
Markley,  asking  him  in  behalf  of  the 
people,  many  of  whom  had  urgently 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


requested  to  know  more  about  the 
Whitton  church,  to  come  forward 
and  speak  upon  the  subject. 

Stepping  to  the  front  he  was 
handed  one  of  the  slips  of  paper 
bearing  the  request  which  read: 
"  Please  ask  Mr.  Markley  to  tell  us 
about  the  calamity  that  has  befallen 
Whitton.  Nobody  seems  to  have 
heard  of  it." 

As  he  read  it  aloud  the  house  was 
almost  painfully  still.  How  sad  and 
pale  he  looked  as  he  laid  the  paper 
down  and  said:  "My  friends,  the 
calamity  that  has  befallen  my  church 
is  Death!  It  has  veritably  been  a 
'  destruction  that  wasteth  at  noon- 
day,'and  worse  than  a  'pestilence 
that  walketh  in  darkness,"  for  it  has 
crept  steadily  forward  in  all  the  light 
of  day,  and  laid  low  its  victims  un- 
resistingly, until  the  Whitton  church 
has  suffered,  as  I  reported  this  morn- 
ing, a  loss  of  sixty  per  cent." 

An  audible  moan  swept  through 
the  audience,  and  eyes  were  filled 
with  sudden  tears.  "  Death,"  he 
continued,  "  has  sorely  afflicted  us, 
and  its  destructive  hand  is  not  yet 
stayed;  and,  moreover,  it  is  of  that 
kind  which  is  most  heartbreaking, 
for  it  is  not  the  death  of  the  body ; 
that  we  have  been  spared  from  re- 
markably, but  it  is  the  death  of  the 
soul's  interest  in  God's  work;  that 
interest  that  must  live  and  grow  in 
order  to  uphold  and  advance  His 
kingdom  in  the  dark  corners  of  the 
earth.  Though  this  condition  in  a 
neighboring  church  may  have  been 
unknown  to  you  there  is  not  a  cor- 
ner of  the  far-away  land  that  has 
not  felt  the  blow  and  been  in  a  meas- 
ure crippled  by  it;  for,  as  I  said, 
sixty  per  cent  of  my  church  have 
become,  I  don't  know  when,  nor 
why,  nor  how,  but  I  do  know  that 
they  are  now  dead  to  the  promises 
they  made  to  further  God's  kingdom 
and  spread  His  gospel.  Only  forty 
per   cent   of   my    church    now    give 


anything  to  missions,  home  or  for- 
eign. But  the  loss  is  not  simply  the 
sixty  per  cent — it  is  a  threefold  loss; 
first,  the  loss  of  growth  to  our  own 
souls;  second,  the  loss  to  the  people 
who  are  hungering  and  thirsting  for 
a  knowledge  of  the  way  of  salvation 
our  money  could  bring  to  them; 
third,  the  loss  to  every  church  in  the 
conference  that  they  do  not  have  in 
us  the  stimulus  of  a  burning  and 
shining  example  of  a  church  whose 
members  all  give  as  the  Lord  has 
prospered  them.  The  sixty  per  cent 
I  mentioned  is  only  the  loss  to  our 
church;  it  is  as  great  to  the  mission- 
ary cause;  it  is  as  great  to  this  con- 
ference. How  can  we  stand  before 
God,  accountable  for  a  loss  to  His 
cause  of  three  times  sixty  per  cent?" 

He  would  have  ceased  speaking, 
but  there  was  a  clamor  for  him  to 
continue.  Never  had  a  plea  for  mis- 
sions so  laid  hold  upon  a  conference. 
Each  minister  and  his  delegate  won- 
dered what  their  report  would  have 
been  if  they  had  heard  this  talk  first. 
Each  seemed  to  remember  how 
urgent  had  been  the  calls  from  mis- 
sion fields  and  feared  lest  they  were 
heeding  them  too  late.  The  report 
of  the  afternoon  meeting  spread  rap- 
idly, for  the  second  day's  meeting 
was  still  larger  than  the  first,  and 
from  Whitton,  eighteen  miles  away, 
came  a  great  delegation,  all  members 
of  Mr.  Markley's  church;  among 
them  were  ten  business  men  who 
seemingly  had  long  ago  forgotten 
the  cries  from  mission  fields. 

When  the  usual  missionary  collec- 
tion was  taken  near  the  close  of  the 
services  it  surpassed  any  conference 
collection  on  record,  and,  on  a  sheet 
of  paper  pinned  to  a  large  check  from 
the  Whitton  church  delegation,  were 
the  words:  "For  very  love  of  our 
minister  physician,  whose  heroic 
treatment  has  roused  their  con- 
sciences and  will  save  his  sixty  per 
cent." 


CONGREGATIONALISTS  AND  THE  KINGDOM 


EIGHTIETH  ANNUAL  MEETING 

OP    THE 

Congregational    Home    Missionary   Society 

OAK  PARK,  ILL.,  MAY  8,  9  and  10,   1906 


PRO  GR A  M 

SUBJECT    TO   CHANGE 

TUESDAY  EVENING,  MAY  8th 

7:30    Devotional  Exercises 

7:45     Eighty  Years  of  Achievement  Washington  Choate,  D.D.,  Secretary  C.  H,  M.  S. 

8:10    Address:  Home  Missions  and  the  Kingdom 

Henry  Churchill  King,  D.D.,  President  of  Oberlin  College 
9:00    The  Communion  Service        .         In  charge  of  the  General  Association  of  Illinois 

WEDNESDAY  FORENOON,  MAY  9th 

business  session 
9:00    Devotional  Service 
9:15     Business:  Reports;  The  New  Constitution ;  Election  of  Officers 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  Women's  Home  Missionary  unions  will  be  held  in  the 
Second  Congregational  Church. 

AFTERNOON 

Topic  :  Our  Opportunity.      Things  we  ought  to  do 

2:15     Hymn  and  Prayer 

2:25    Address:  Our  Opportunity  in  the  New  West 

Rev.  Frank  K.  Sanders,  Ph.D.,  Boston,  Mass. 
2:55    Address:  Our  Opportunity  in  the  New  Eastern  Frontier 

Rev.  F.  E.  Emrich,  D.D.,  Secretary  Mass.  H.  M.  S. 
3:20    Address:     Our  Opportunity  in  Our  Cities 

Rev.  Josiah  Strong,  D.D.,  New  York, 

President  American  Institute  of  Social  Service 

4:10    Address:  America  a  Christian  Nation  .        .        Professor  Edward  A.  Steiner, 

Iowa  College,  Grinnell,  Iowa 

EVENING 

Topic:  Inspiration  from  Life 

7:30    Devotional  Service 

7:50    Address,    Rev.  J.    D.    Kingsbury,   D.D.,   Missionary   Superintendent  of   Utah, 

Idaho,  etc. 
8:10    Address,  Rev.  Chas.  Stelzle,  Superintendent  of  Department  of  Church  and  Labor, 

Presbyterian  Board  of  Home  Missions,  Chicago,  111. 
8:30    Address     .         .         .         Rev.  William  G.  Puddefoot,  Field  Secretary  C.  H.  M.  S. 
8:50    Address     .         .        President  George  A.  Gates,  Pomona  College,  Claremont,  Cal. 


2o  THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 

THURSDAY  FORENOON,  MAY  ioth 

Topic  :  Our  Co-operating  Agencies 

9:00  Devotional  Service 

9:20  The  Church  Building  Society 

9:50  The  S.  S.  and  Publishing  Society 

10:20  The  Education  Society 

10:50  The  American  Missionary  Association 

11:20  Federated  Co-operation 

The  speakers  for  this  session  will  be  selected  by  the  secretaries  to  represent  the  work 
of  home  missions  as  undertaken  by  each  organization 

AFTERNOON 

Topic:  Our   Undeveloped  Resoitrces 

A  Rally  Session  for  Pastors,  Church  Officers,  Sunday  School  Officers  and  Teachers  and 

Young  People's  Societies 

2:15     Devotional  Service 

2:25     The  Children  .         Rev.  Henry  H.  Kelsey,  Fourth  Church,  Hartford,  Conn. 

2:50    The  Young  People      Rev.  Ernest  Bourner  Allen,  Washington  Street  Congrega- 
tional Church,  Toledo,  Ohio 
3:15     The  Men,  Fred  B.  Smith,  Secretary  of  Religious  Work,  International  Committee, 

Y.  M.  C.  A. 
3:50    The  Women  (Speaker  to  be  announced) 
4:15     These  Forces  Organized  Don  O.  Shelton,  Associate  Secretary  C.  H.  M.  S. 

EVENING 

Topic:    The  Purpose  and  the  Power  of  God 

7:30    Devotional  Service 

7:50    Address     Rev.  A.  Z.  Conrad,  D.D.,  Park  Street  Congregational  Church,  Boston, 
Mass. 
8:30     Address     Rev.  Newell  D wight  Hillis,  D.D.,  Plymouth  Church,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Presentation  of  diplomas  to  the  graduating  class  of  Chicago  Theological  Seminary 
by  President  Joseph  H.  George,  D.D. 

We  have  come  to  a  Crisis  Year.  It  is  hoped  by  the  many  friends  of  the  society  that 
the  adoption,  this  year,  of  the  plan  approved  last  year  at  Springfield,  will  help,  but  it  will 
not  mark  and  open  a  new  era  of  aggression  unless  the  pastors  and  the  churches  of  the 
whole  country  respond. 

The  eightieth  annual  meeting  of  the  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society,  to  be 
held  at  Oak'  Park,  Illinois,  May  8,  9  and  10,  comes  at  this  crisis.  Shall  we  not  then  face 
forward  and  shall  not  the  resolve  spoken  there  be  repeated  in  all  the  churches  ?  Will 
you  not  make  this  question  personal  ? 

I  believe  we  shall  have  the  greatest  home  missionary  meeting  of  our  history,  and 
that  it  will  mark  the  beginning  of  a  new  era.  My  faith  is  in  the  churches  in  which  there 
is  the  blood  and  faith  of  the  Pilgrims.  They  have  never  yet  failed  in  a  crisis.  To  insure 
such  a  meeting  and  issue  one  thing  is  necessary,  namely,  the  attendance  of  a  great  num- 
ber of  pastors  and  representative  laymen  from  all  parts  of  the  country. 

HENRY  H.  KELSEY, 

Chairman  of  Committee  on  Annual  Meeting. 


GO  FORWARD! 

WITHIN  the  last  few  years  two  new  demands  for  home  missionary 
service  have  made  themselves  felt,  but  thus  far  the  Congregation- 
alists  of  America  have  paid  but  small  heed  to  them  compared  to 
the  magnitude  of  the  necessity. 

The  first  is  the  duty  of  meeting  the  immigrant  at  the  new  frontier, 
which  is  the  port  of  New  York,  and  so  bringing  him  into  contact  with 
Christian  civilization  that  he  may  become  a  patriotic,  God-fearing 
American  citizen. 

The  second  is  the  duty  of  heeding  the  cry  of  the  great  cities  and  estab- 
lishing the  church,  with  all  its  ministry  of  varied  service,  among  the 
throngs  of  poor,  oppressed  and  neglected  workers  who  crowd  the  tene- 
ments and  lodging-houses  in  every  great  center  of  population. 

For  eighty  years  the  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society  has 
been  a  potent  force  for  enlightened  civilization  and  patriotic  citizenship. 
Following  the  ever-receding  frontier  from  the  Hudson  river  to  the  Rocky 
Mountains,  and  westward  to  the  shores  of  the  Pacific,  the  money  of 
Eastern  Congregationalists  has  been  transmuted  into  churches,  Sunday- 
schools  and  Christian  colleges.  No  hardships  have  been  too  great  for 
the  missionaries  of  this  society,  and  their  record  of  high  achievement  is 
written  large  in  every  state  and  territory.  There  is  yet  great  need  for 
home  missionary  service  in  the  West,  but  the  old  frontier  has  disappeared, 
and  one  after  another  each  state  will  assume  the  burden  and  privilege  ot 
caring  for  its  own  organized  church  work  in  all  the  country  districts. 

The  immigrant  and  the  city  are  now,  and  will  constitute  for  years  to 
come,  the  great  home  missionary  problem,  to  be  dealt  with  along  the 
lines  of  patriotism  and  Christian  civilization. 

More  than  a  million  people,  from  all  the  countries  of  Europe,  have 
landed  in  New  York  during  the  past  twelve  months.  A  few  of  them  have 
received  welcome  and  help  at  the  time  of  their  arrival  as  the  result  of 
organized  philanthropy.  So  far  as  we  know,  however,  no  home  mission- 
ary organization  or  church  society  is  taking  upon  itself  any  special  re- 
sponsibility at  the  new  frontier.  Yet  there  is  an  opportunity  and  a  respon- 
sibility for  prompt  and  generous  action  almost  boundless.  The  ten 
million  dollars  which  a  single  man  has  given  for  educational  work  in 
the  South  would  erect  and  operate  for  a  score  of  years  in  New  York  a 
welcoming  home  for  immigrants  that  would  achieve  results  whose  value  to 
the  America  of  this  century  cannot  be  computed.  Practically  speaking, 
the  cost  of  meeting  every  immigrant  who  lands  at  this  port  and  introduc- 
ing him  in  some  helpful  way  to  the  church-going  community  in  which 
he  is  to  locate,  would  be  comparatively  insignificant  as  relating  to  the 
individual. 

We  are  merely  inviting  attention  in  this  article  to  these  two  great 
opportunities  and  responsibilities,  the  immigrant  and  the  city.  They 
are  intimately  associated.  The  need  is  steadily  growing  more  acute. 
Home  missionary  responsibility  at  the  beginning  of  the  twentieth  century 
is  infinitely  greater  than  it  was  in  T826  when  this  society  was  organized. 
Let  us  go  forward!  W.   B.   H. 


FROM  THE  FRONT  LINE 


The  Latest  from  the  Arctic        Bearding  the  Lion  in  His  Den 


MANY  readers  are  in  close  sym- 
pathy with  Mr.  Burnett  and 
with  his  work  at  Valdez, 
Alaska.  Very  few  probably  appre- 
ciate how  invaluable  is  such  sympa- 
thy to  a  Christian  worker  away  out 
beyond  the  front  line  even  and  on 
the  very  rim  of  the  frozen  north. 
Says  Mr.  Burnett  in  a  recent  letter: 

We  have  done  nothing  this  quarter.  It 
has  been  one  continuous  storm  of  wind  and 
snow  and  the  cold  has  been  extreme.  For 
two  whole  weeks  we  missed  services  alto- 
gether. The  people  could  scarcely  go  out 
of  doors  and  it  was  impossible  to  heat  the 
church  to  a  temperature  above  zero.  Even 
in  my  own  cabin  I  could  feel  no  heat  three 
feet  away  from  the  stove.  I  have  to  pull 
all  my  work  close  up  to  the  fire,  sleep  in 
my  clothes,  and  never  let  the  fire  go  out  to 
keep  from  freezing.  It  has  been  gloomy 
enough,  both  inside  and  outside,  yet  there 
is  always  some  hopeful  feature  that  pre- 
vents complete  despair.  The  last  meeting 
of  the  quarter  was  full  of  interest.  Here 
is  a  mystery  that  I  cannot  understand.  In- 
terest will  sometimes  go  down  until  the 
spiritual  atmosphere  is  twenty  below  zero; 
then,  all  at  once,  it  will  jump  up  to  boiling 
point.  During  the  bad  weather  our  attend- 
ance was  reduced  to  about  seven,  but  last 
Sunday  morning  it  was  pretty  well  filled 
and  the  weather  was  as  bad  as  ever. 

We  believe  this  field  is  going  to  be  much 
enlarged  this  coming  spring.  Two  railroad 
camps  are  being  established,  one  two  and 
the  other  four  miles  from  town.  They  will 
have  about  two  hundred  men  in  each. 
There  we  must  arrange  to  have  services  at 
least  once  a  month.  The  managers  seem 
to  sympathize  with  that  plan.  I  have  been 
trying  also  for  some  time  to  get  permission 
to  hold  a  short  service  in  the  dance  hall 
Sunday  evenings  after  our  regular  church 
service.  I  think  I  shall  make  it  go.  There 
is  no  other  way  to  reach  these  poor  fellows 
than  to  go  and  preach  to  them  where  they 
are.     They  will  not  come  to  us. 


The  following  Colorado  experience 
is  another  illustration  of  the  wisdom 
of  not  being  too  much  afraid  of  lions 
in  the  way.  Says  a  Colorado  pastor 
concerning  one  of  his  out-stations: 

We  tried  to  hold  our  meetings  in  an  old 
abandoned  schoolhouse  which  served  as  a 
dance  hall,  but  the  people  said  that  they 
did  not  like  to  go  there  and  so  they  stayed 
away.  The  new  schoolhouse  was  conven- 
ient and  centrally  located,  but  everybody 
said  the  school  board  would  never  give  their 
consent,  and,  as  one  of  these  men  was  said 
to  be  very  profane  and  an  avowed  skeptic 
as  well  as  a  Roman  Catholic,  we  somehow 
hesitated  to  approach  him.  No  one  of  the 
few  who  attended  the  meetings  would  un- 
dertake to  interview  the  board,  and,  feeling 
that  something  must  be  done,  I  mustered 
up  courage  to  do  it. 

I  first  met  a  member  of  the  board  who 
had  been  at  our  services  two  or  three  times 
and  he  gave  his  consent  so  far  as  he  was 
concerned.  Next  I  went  to  a  second  mem- 
ber who  gave  his  consent  with  equal  readi- 
ness, and  so,  gathering  courage,  I  pro- 
ceeded to  the  next  and  bearded  the  lion  in 
his  den.  Everyone  had  said  it  would  do  no 
good,  he  would  never  consent,  and  he  would 
most  likely  give  me  a  volley  of  abuse  sea- 
soned  with   profanity.      So   meeting   him 

with  fear  and  trembling  I  said:  "  Mr. , 

I  have  been  trying  to  have  a  Sunday  school 
in  this  place  for  the  last  year,  but  have  not 
been  able  to  gather  one  in  the  old  school- 
house.  I  should  like  to  give  it  a  trial  up  in 
the  new  house  if  I  can  get  your  consent, 
and  I  should  like,  also,  to  hold  a  preaching 
service  there  twice  a  month."  He  straight- 
ened'himself  up  and  looked  me  full  in  the 
face  and  I  expected  to  hear  him  turn  loose 
as  had  been  predicted,  but  to  my  surprise 
he  said  very  earnestly  and  kindly:  "You 
have  more  than  my  consent.  Go  ahead  and 
use  the  building  and  help  yourself  to  the 
fuel,  and  if  anyone  objects  I'll  bring  you  a 
load  of  coal  myself.  Sunday  school  and 
preaching  is  just  what  we  need  here,  and 
as  soon  as  my  baby  gets  a  little  older  I  will 


FROM    THE    FRONT    LINE. 


23 


bring  her  to  Sunday  school."  So  the  Lord 
had  gone  before  and  opened  the  way,  and 
we  organized  the  school  next  Sunday  with 
thirty  present.  There  are  only  six  pro- 
fessed Christians  in  the  community.  Most 
of  the  younger  people  have  been  reared 
without  the  gospel  and  are  very  godless. 

Christmas  Among  the  Slovacs 

It  may  be  new  to  some  of  our 
readers  that  there  is  anything  possi- 
ble in  the  way  of  Christmas  that  is 
not,  in  some  particular,  Christian. 
The  following  report  reveals  a  differ- 
ence. It  also  discloses  some  of  the 
special  difficulties  on  the  part  of  con- 
verted Slovacs  in  making  their  con- 
fession of  their  new  faith  before  the 
world.  Says  Miss  Antonia  Bartunek 
of  McKeesport,  Pennsylvania: 

I  am  glad  that  I  can  give  a  few  encourag- 
ing facts.  First,  the  work  of  our  Martha 
Woman's  Sewing  Society.  This  last  quar- 
ter was  of  great  interest.  We  were  work- 
ing very  hard  to  have  a  bazaar  before 
Christmas.  Having  so  few  real  workers 
we  had  to  bear  some  self-sacrifices.  But 
our  bazaar  took  place  on  December  14  and 
the  result  was  quite  encouraging.  We 
cleared  forty-six  dollars  which  were  given 
to  missionary  work.  This  success  stirred 
up  our  ladies  for  better  things  and  they 
are  talking  of  another  bazaar  in  the  spring. 

We  also  had  a  very  happy  Christmas  be- 
cause five  of  our  young  people  joined  the 
church.  We  rejoiced  when  these  young  peo- 
ple gave  themselves  to  Christ.  Just  lately 
some  young  people  who  were  afraid  to  tes- 
tify before  others  have  done  so,  not  only 
with  words,  but  with  deeds.  We  receive 
great  blessings  in  our  Christian  Endeavor 
meeting  and  we  cannot  but  rejoice  when 
we  see  the  difference  between  our  young 
and  our  older  Christians  and  those  who  are 
not  yet  converted.  Our  people  celebrate 
Christmas  time  the  same  way  as  American 
Christians,  but  some  of  our  people  who  are 
not  Christians  celebrate  it  quite  differently. 
I  heard  of  one  man  who  had  twenty-five 
boarders.  He  bought  twenty-five  barrels 
and  three  boxes  of  beer  for  Christmas,  also 
three  gallons  of  whisky  and  a  whole  pig 
which  weighed  one  hundred  pounds.  First 
they  went  to  church  in  the  morning  and 
then  kissed  each  other  in  the  family;  that 
is  what  they  call  a  Christmas  love  kiss ;  after 
that  they  begin  to  drink  and  eat  as  long  as 
there  is  anything  in  sight.  The  result  of  it 
all  is  fight,  woe,  sorrow,  as.  stated  in  Prov- 
erbs 23:29. 


The  Southern  Prospect 

The  following  from  Rev.  George 
E.  Bates  of  Birmingham,  Alabama, 
tends  to  confirm  the  hopeful  views 
of  Drs.  Jenkins  and  Kirbye  and 
Major  Evans  as  expressed  in  the 
February  number  of  The  Home  Mis- 
sionary.    Says  Mr.  Bates: 

There  is  a  great  future  for  our  churches 
in  the  South  under  wise  leadership  and  in- 
spiration. Perhaps  our  greatest  immedi- 
ate need  is  a  strong  church  in  Birmingham, 
the  strategic  center  of  the  state,  to  serve 
as  headquarters  for  our  denomination. 
Central  church,  Atlanta,  is  doing  this 
effectively  in  Georgia.  Every  church  of 
our  order  in  the  state  is  stronger  for  the 
presence  of  that  splendid  edifice  and  pastor 
and  people.  A  similar  institution  in  Birm- 
ingham will  do  more  for  Alabama  than  any 
other  one  thing  could  do,  but  it  will  cost 
considerable  money  at  the  start.  In  a  few 
years,  however,  such  a  church  would  be 
self-sustaining  and  able  to  contribute  to 
other  churches.  All  it  needs  is  the  right 
kind  of  a  start.  We  are  a  unit  so  far  as 
membership  is  concerned  and  in  our  pur- 
pose to  secure  a  central  location.  Several 
excellent  families  have  come  to  us  and 
there  is  promise  of  several  more. 

The  Plague  of  Sectarianism 

We  all  know  what  it  is,  we  all  con- 
demn it,  but  no  one  has  been  wise 
enough  yet  to  discover  the  sufficient 
remedy.  No  missionary  pastor 
wants  it.  It  is  a  curse  wherever  it 
is  found.  The  following  picture  is 
a  fair  illustration  of  the  widespread 
feeling  among  missionary  workers 
upon  this  unspeakable  evil: 

Thanksgiving  brings  union.  With  glad 
hearts  we  worshiped  together  and  for  a 
while  we  forgot  all  our  sectarian  differ- 
ences. Ours  is  not  a  large  city,  but  large 
enough  for  one  minister  of  the  gospel. 
The  Roman  Catholics  have  a  church  and  a 
priest  comes  once  a  month.  The  M.E. 
church  has  a  building  and  a  minister  on  the 
ground  twice  a  Sunday.  The  constant 
conflict  of  sectarian  feeling  is  seen  every 
day  and  to  a  sensitive  mind  it  is  almost  in- 
tolerable. Federation  or  no  federation,  the 
continuous  conflict  in  the  name  of  Christ 
goes  on  between  parties  who  do  not  seem 
to  belong  either  to  Peter  or  Paul.  I  cry 
out  with  weeping  and  with  groans:  "  What 
shall  we  do?  " 


THE    DESTINY    OF    AMERICA 


III.    A  BLOT  ON  THE  NATION 


By   Rev.  William  W.  Jordan,   D.D. 


Clinton .    Mas  sack  us  tits 


SALT  LAKE  City,  in  its  fertile 
valley,  4200  feet  above  the  sea 
level,  is  the  principal  commun- 
ity of  one  of  the  strongest  religious 
sects  ever  founded  upon  error.  Their 
history  has  led  many  at  a  distance 
to  ask:  What  is  the  truth  concern- 
ing them?  Have  they  been  misrep- 
resented? Why,  if  founded  on 
error,  have  they  grown  and  become 
a  power  in  the  land?  To  these  ques- 
tions, by  inquiries  of  friends  and 
citizens  who  have  lived  for  years 
among  them,  and  in  a  long  conver- 
sation with  a  prominent  Mormon, 
during  my  brief  visit  in  Salt  Lake,  I 
endeavored  to  learn  the  answer,  and 
give  you  the  results: 

1.  One  reason  for  the  growth, 
power  and  permanency  is  found  in 
their  agricultural  possessions. 

2.  Another  is  found  in  the  large 
income  of  the  church  from  its  tith- 
ing system.  A  tithe  of  all  the  in- 
come of  all  its  people  is  faithfully 
paid  into  the  church  and,  with  this 
large  income,  they  have  been  able 
not  only  to  build  an  important 
ecclesiastical  establishment,  but  to 
send  their  missionaries  all  over  the 
world.  The  annual  tithe  is  said  to 
be  ovei  $1,700,000.  Salt  Lake  City, 
their  principal  center,  has  grown 
from  6,000  in  1*53  to  65,000  in  1905. 
While  not  such  a  paradise  as  Mor- 
mon literature  portrays,  it  is  a  pros- 
perous city,  with  many  handsome 
buildings.  Rows  of  poplars  line  its 
streets,  and  along  the  curb  in  all  its 
streets  run  continually  streams  of 
clear  water  brought  from  the  neigh- 
boring Wasatch  Mountains. 

The    principal    buildings    of     the 


church  are  contained  in  the  Temple 
Block,  a  space  of  ten  acres  in  the 
center  of  the  city,  enclosed  with  a 
high  wall.  In  different  ways  they 
have  attempted  to  reproduce  ancient 
Jerusalem.  The  great  temple,  its 
largest  building,  covers  an  area  of 
21,850  feet,  and  its  highest  tower  is 
222^  feet.  It  cost  84,000,000  and 
was  twenty  years  in  building.  Be- 
side the  temple  is  the  tabernacle, 
the  place  where  worship  is  held 
every  Sunday  afternoon.  This  is  one 
of  the  most  remarkable  auditoriums 
in  the  world;  can  hold  10,000  people, 
and  its  acoustics  are  so  wonderful 
that  at  one  end  we  distinctly  heard 
a  pin  drop  on  the  gallery  over  200 
feet  away,  and  understood  whispered 
words.  The  great  organ  in  the  tab- 
ernacle has  been  called  the  finest  in 
the  world.  It  has  5500  pipes,  and 
cost  $115,000.  The  regular  choir 
number  about  500  voices.  Near  the 
tabernacle  is  the  assembly  hall  for 
smaller  gatherings.  There  are  three 
other  and  smaller  temples  elsewhere 
in  Utah.  All  this  ecclesiastical 
stronghold  is  made  possible  through 
the  tremendous  income  from  a  well 
administered  system  of  tithing. 

3.  Another  reason  for  their 
growth  is  found  in  the  perfection  of 
their  organization.  Their  govern- 
ment is  hierarchical,  and  ecclesiasti- 
cal authority  is  supreme.  They 
seem  to  combine  the  old  and  new  dis- 
pensations in  a  singular  way.  There 
are  two  priesthoods,  the  Aaronic, 
which  they  mildly  claim  was  con- 
ferred on  Joseph  Smith,  their  origi- 
nal prophet,  by  John  the  Baptist; 
and    the    Melchizedek,    which     was 


THE    DESTINY   OF  AMERICA 


25 


also  conferred  on  Joseph  Smith  by 
the  Apostles  Peter,  John  and  James, 
who  came  from  heaven  and  laid 
their  hands  upon  him.  The  supreme 
authority  is  vested  in  the  First 
Presidency,  consisting  of  a  president 
and  two  counsellors.  Then  come 
the  twelve  apostles,  bishops,  priests, 
patriarchs,  seventies  and  elders. 
In  Salt  Lake  City  there  are  twenty- 
four  ecclesiastical  wards,  each  of 
which  is  presided  over  by  one  bishop 
and  two  helpers.  A  relief  society  of 
women  visit  the  poor  and  sick  in 
each  ward.  There  is  a  chapel  in  each 
ward  where  morning  service  of  the 
nature  of  Sunday  school  is  held,  and 
an  afternoon  service  of  worship  is 
held  in  the  central  tabernacle.  The 
first  Sunday  in  each  month  is  Fast 
day,  and  the  people  give  the  price  of 
the  breakfast  and  dinner  which  they 
do  not  eat,  to  help  the  poor  and  sick 
in  their  own  ward.  There  is  some- 
thing impressive  about  this  organi- 
zation, which  is  said  to  work  with 
the  accuracy  and  regularity  of  a  ma- 
chine, and  to  exercise  a  careful  sup- 
ervision over  the  religious  and  polit- 
ical life  of  the  people.  Years  ago  the 
Mormons  were  accused  of  many  dark 
and  secret  deeds  in  support  of  their 
system.  The  machine  was  said  to 
work  in  the  dark.  It  is  a  system  of 
well-nigh  absolute  authority,  which 
makes  them  religiously  and  politi- 
cally a  unit;  though  they  deny  that 
they  are  banded  politically.  And 
in  their  perfect  organization  we  find 
an  added  reason  for  their  power. 

4.  Another  reason  for  their 
growth  is  their  active  missionary  ef- 
fort, by  which  they  are  continually 
adding  to  their  numbers.  These  peo- 
ple constantly  maintain  an  energetic 
propaganda  through  literature  and 
preaching.  Two  thousand  mission- 
aries are  continually  in  the  field. 
Many  are  in  the  South  and  West  of 
this  country.  Some  in  the  East. 
Last  year  one  was  preaching  on  Bos- 
ton Common.  But  it  is  from  the  con- 
tinent of  Europe  most  converts 
come;  won,  many  of  them,  by 
golden  promises  of  the  privileges  of 


the  new  world;  some  by  misrepre- 
sentation. Steamers  from  Europe 
bring  groups  of  these  converts, 
guided  by  a  Mormon  missionary. 
To-day  the  Mormons  are  said  to 
number  300,000,  and  to  be  constant- 
ly increasing.  They  reside  princi- 
pally in  Utah  and  in  adjoining 
states.  Surely  they  teach  lessons  to 
the  true  church  by  the  generosity 
and  faithfulness  of  their  giving;  by 
their  perfect  organizations;  by  the 
earnestness  with  which  they  propa- 
gate their  cause. 

5 .  We  naturally  ask :  What  are  the 
beliefs  of  these  people?  Some  arti- 
cles of  faith,  the  atonement,  repent- 
ance, baptism,  etc.,  they  hold  in 
common  with  a  large  part  of  the 
church  universal;  but  they  have  be- 
liefs peculiar  to  themselves.  They 
believe  the  Bible  to  be  of  God;  and 
the  Book  of  Mormon  also  of  divine 
origin ;  the  one  written  for  the  old 
world,  the  other  for  the  new.  The 
prophet  of  the  19th  century  was  di- 
rected by  an  angel  of  God  to  the 
spot  where  the  records  from  which 
the  Book  of  Mormon  was  written 
were  hidden.  They  claim  to  have 
revived  early  Christianity  by  divine 
authority,  and  to  possess  the  gifts 
of  tongues,  prophecy,  visions,  heal- 
ing, all  the  miraculous  powers  found 
in.  the  early  church.  They  are  the 
Latter  Day  Saints.  Early  Christ- 
ianity became  corrupted.  "The 
Father  and  Son  appeared  again  in 
these  latter  days,"  to  quote  their 
words,  "  and  revealed  anew  the  gos- 
pel." They  account  for  their  origin 
in  the  following  remarkable  manner: 
Joseph  Smith,  a  young  man,  became 
exercised  in  mind  during  a  relig- 
ious revival.  One  of  his  parents  was 
a  Methodist,  the  other  a  Presbyter- 
ian. Falling  into  a  trance  he  heard 
a  voice  say:  "  Do  not  ally  yourself 
with  either,"  and  was  told  that  he 
was  to  be  the  leader  of  a  restored 
Christianity.  "  The  hands  of  divine 
personages  were  laid  upon  him,"  and 
he  became  Prophet  Joseph  Smith, 
through  whom  the  church  of  Christ 
was  to  be  re-established!   In  spite  of 


26 


THE   HOME   MISSIONARY 


the  irrational  claims  it  contains, 
there  is  much  of  beauty  of  power  in 
their  statement  of  faith. 

6.  But  the  chief  question  is: 
What  is  the  moral  character  of  Mor- 
monism,  and  its  influence  to-day. 

A — It  is  founded  upon  error,  if 
not  upon  deception.  Whether  Joseph 
Smith  was  sincere  and  self-deceived 
we  cannot  tell,  it  is  difficult  to  be- 
lieve that  the  intelligent  leaders  of 
Mormonism  actually  think  to-day 
that  the  hands  of  John  the  Baptist 
and  the  apostles  were  laid  on  Joseph 
Smith  or  that  their  church  really 
possesses  the  gift  of  tongues,  proph- 
ecy, healing,  etc.  There  seems  to  be 
among  them  a  considerable  accept- 
ance of  the  principle  that  the  end 
justifies  the  means,  if  they  can  but 
gain  and  retain  power  over  the  peo- 
ple. Mormonism  is  a  corruption  of 
Christianity;  a  mingling  of  truth 
with  error.  The  revelations  which 
their  leaders  claim  to  have  received 
have  often  borne  more  resemblance 
to"  earth  than  heaven.  As,  for  in- 
stance, that  which  permitted  a  plu- 
rality of  wives  or  "  celestial  mar- 
riages," as  they  are  styled  in  their 
statement  of  faith.  It  was  a  striking 
coincidence  that  when  it  became 
known  that  Utah  could  not  be  ad- 
mitted to  statehood  while  polygamy 
was  practiced,  their  leader,  Wood- 
ruff, immediately  had  a  revelation 
from  heaven  that  polygamy  should 
be  "suspended  indefinitely." 

B — To  do  full  justice  we  must  say 
that  Mormonism  lays  emphasis 
upon  honesty  in  business,  merciful- 
ness, kindness  and  such  virtues. 
People  of  Salt  Lake  say  that  Mor- 
mons are  at  least  as  honest  in  busi- 
ness as  other  men ;  many  of  them 
agreeable  friends,  neighbors,  citi- 
zens, that  some  had  delightful 
homes  and  are  upright  in  character. 
It  is  probable  that  the  best  phases  of 
Mormonism  are  to  be  seen  in  the 
cities.       They    emphasize   what    we 


sometimes  call  "practical,  every 
day  religion."  But  we  feel  that  these 
lives  and  characters  are,  in  spite  of 
their  system,  not  because  of  it.  Every 
sect  founded  on  error  contains  many 
members  who  are  better  than  their 
beliefs.  It_  is  apt  to  contain,  also, 
some  who  join  it  from  evil  motives 
only.  No  sect  is  to  be  judged  either 
by  its  best  or  worst  representatives 
alone. 

C — The  chief  question  of  all  is: 
What  of  the  polygamy  which  is 
under  the  ban  of  law,  both  human 
and  divine?  A  moment's  reflection 
teds  us  that  it  is  contrary  to  the 
truth  of  God,  an  evil  which  must  be 
essentially  destructive  of  the  divine 
institution  of  marriage,  of  the  home 
and  of  the  best  character  of  children. 
Its  corrupting  influence  is  said  to  be 
apparent  to-day  in  a  degree  in  the 
life  of  the  young  people  of  that  city. 
It  is  indefensible  and  under  the  ban 
of  the  law.  Has  it  actually  been 
abandoned?  By  the  masses  of  the 
people  it  has  been,  we  are  told; 
many  of  the  leaders  are  said  to  still 
practice  it, but  not  openly. Testimony 
before  Congress  confirmed  this  last 
year.  And  the  newspapers  of  Salt 
Lake  recently  said  that  the  prophet, 
who  had  been  on  a  journey,  had 
"returned  to  his  homes."  Notice 
the  plural!  Mormonism  is  an  insti- 
tution which  is  fairer  outwardly 
than  it  is  inwardly.  And  yet  it  is  a 
mysterious,  perplexing  fact  that 
some  qualities  so  good  should  exist 
among  them  in  common  with  other 
qualities  so  different. 

The  hopeful  fact  for  the  future  is 
this:  that  under  influences  of  true 
Christianity  and  civilization,  which 
constantly  increase  about  them, 
they  are  gradually  being  emanci- 
pated from  error.  In  spite  of  them- 
selves they  will  inevitably  become 
educated  out  of  wrong  conditions. 
The  truth  will  make  them  free! 


WOMEN'S  WORK  AND  METHODS 


Home  Missionary  Literature  for 
Children 

To  the  Editor  of  the  Home  Missionary : 

I  HAVE  been  much  interested  in 
the  reference  made,  in  the  last 
two  numbers  of  your  magazine, 
to  literature  for  children.  I  have 
felt  the  want  very  keenly,  and  in 
writing  in  different  directions  and  to 
different  societies  I  have  been  sur- 
prised and  disappointed  at  the  lack 
of  literature  fitted  to  excite  mission- 
ary interest  in  small  children.  I 
have  also  been  surprised  to  learn  that 
my  own  work  seems  to  be  quite  un- 
usual. 

For  some  time  we  have  had  a 
Young  People's  Missionary  Society, 
which  studied  both  foreign  and  home 
missions.  There  was  no  age  limit; 
consequently  it  was  hard  to  interest 
all  ages  at  the  same  time.  For  this 
reason  we  decided  to  make  two  sep- 
arate societies.  I  took  all  under 
nine  years  of  age.  We  meet  once  a 
week  and  carry  it  on  with  kinder- 
garten methods.  We  have  enrolled 
about  fifty  boys  and  girls  from  two 
to  nine  years  of  age,  with  an  aver- 
age attendance  of  twenty-five  or 
thirty.  We  meet  for  one  hour.  The 
first  fifteen  minutes  are  devotional, 
with  a  short  talk  about  missions, 
appropriate  stories  and  songs.  Then 
we  have  marching  and  kindergarten 
games.  Next,  some  work  is  done, 
pasting  pictures,  streaming  papers, 
etc. ,  with  the  idea  of  doing  this  work 
for  some  one  else.  Plenty  of  oppor- 
tunity is  given  for  personal  work, 
and  with  our  closing  exercises  there 
is  always  a  feeling  of  pleasure  and 
profit  to  old  and  young. 

The  children  bring  voluntary  con- 
tributions and  it  seems  wonderful 
what  we  have  been  able  to  do.  We 
furnished  oranges  for  a  mission  Sun- 
day school  for  Christmas,  gave  a 
large  basket  of  provisions  to  a  hospi- 
tal for  Thanksgiving,  provided  din- 


ners for  several  poor  men,  collected 
picture's,  toys,  cards  and  clothing  for 
a  Southern  school.  The  Ladies' 
Missionary  Society  sent  two  barrels 
and  at  least  one-third  of  the  contents 
came  through  our  kindergarten. 

Perhaps  the  greatest  result  has 
been  seen  in  the  interest  aroused 
among  mothers.  Many  homes  that 
we  could  not  interest  in  missions 
have  been  attracted  through  their 
children  and  we  are  gaining  numbers 
for  the  older  societies.  We  have  no 
lack  of  helpers  in  this  work,  for  the 
mothers  bring  their  little  ones  and 
find  the  work  so  interesting  that 
they  come  regularly  and  assist  us 
greatly.  Two  young  ladies  are 
deeply  interested;  one  is  our  treas- 
urer and  the  other  presides  at  the 
piano.  Of  course,  we  do  a  great 
deal  of  singing,  for  this  is  what  chil- 
dren like.  But  for  outside  help  in 
preparing  for  the  meeting  there  has 
been  very  little,  and  here  is  where  I 
have  felt  the  need  of  literature  suited 
to  the  very  young.  They  are  so 
eager  to  learn  and  listen  so  intently 
and  report  at  home  what  they  hear 
that  I  have  longed  for  more  facts- 
from  our  national  societies  to  tell 
them. 

Pardon  the  length  of  my  story. 
It  is  written  with  the  hope  of  mutual 
helpfulness.  Perhaps  others  will  be 
led  to  follow  our  example,  beginning 
with  the  tiniest  children,  and  have 
them  grow  up  with  knowledge  and 
interest  in  our  missionary  work. 

E.  F.  N. 

Newburg,  N.  Y. 


Again  "What  of  These?" 

I  was  much  interested  in  the  article 
"And  What  of  These?"  in  the  Janu- 
ary Home  Missionary.  May  I  com- 
mend it  for  earnest  consideration- 
and  add  something  in  the  way  of  de- 
scribing definitely  what  one  worker 
feels  she  needs? 


.2  8 


THE   HOME   MISSIONARY 


From  observation  of  successful 
work  conducted  with  material  pre- 
pared for  the  children  by  the  W.  B. 
M. ,  let  me  ask  why  we  cannot  have  in 
books  of  forty  pages  or  less,  courses 
•of  ten  or  twelve  lessons  on  definite 
fields,  as  for  example,  the  Southwest 
•or  Spanish-speaking  citizens?  Begin 
with  the  history  of  the  territory,  its 
climate,  resources,  native  peoples, 
their  customs,  superstitions,  advan- 
tages or  their  lack  of  them.  Then 
let  the  pioneer  missionary  work  be 
introduced,  leading  up  to  what  is 
being  done  by  our  own  denomination 
for  education,  for  planting  Sunday 
schools,  for  organizing  churches,  for 
social  reform.  Let  some  mention 
be  made  of  other  forces  in  the  field, 
whether  better  equipped  than  we;  if 
■our  work  lies  close  to  theirs,  how  we 
•co-operate;  if  together  we  do  not  at 
all  adequately  cover  the  ground,  let 
that  be  manifest.  The  closing  lesson 
may  give  the  special  kind  of  work 
most  needed  and  the  special  appeal 
that  field  makes  to  American  pa- 
triotism. Add  a  bibliography  of  in- 
teresting, available  reading  for  the 
class  leader.  Put  a  flag  upon  the 
cover  and  there  is  no  doubt  in  my 
mind  of  its  enthusiastic  reception. 

We  cannot  depend  on  stories  of 
particular  children,  nor  particular 
schools  and  churches — too  much  de- 
pendence is  put  upon  that  sort  of 
material  already.  A  touching  story 
may  appeal  to  the  heart  at  the  time, 
as  no  far-reaching  presentation  of 
facts  would,  and  such  appeals  are 
legitimate,  but  in  the  long  run  we 
are  a  reasoning  people  and  certainly 
to  lay  foundations  for  the  future  we 
need  definite  knowledge  of  the  whole 
field,  as  carefully  presented  as  any 
like  material  in  our  best  public 
schools,  that  there  may  be  built  into 
the  lives  of  our  young  people  a  rea- 
son for  the  faith  that  is  in  them  and 
this  faith  manifest  itself  in  works. 
"  He  cannot  love  his  country  who 
does  not  work  for  it."  We  may  be 
making  history  fast  in  the  United 
States,  let  us  have  the  truth 
about    the    present    in     the    broad- 


est and    sanest  sense    of    the   term. 

Children  have  respect  for  the 
things  they  have  to  study.  Provide 
a  map,  let  the  teacher  explain,  drill 
over  and  over  again  on  the  facts  and 
then  use  as  much  time  as  she  wishes 
in  story  and  biography.  She  may 
duplicate  her  questions  on  thin 
paper  which  the  children  may  at 
each  lesson  paste  into  their  books 
between  the  leaves.  They  will  en- 
joy being  expected  to  remember 
what  they  have  learned.  Why  can 
we  not  know  a  little  more  of  the 
workers  in  these  fields?  A  pamphlet 
for  the  leaders  describing  the  work- 
ers should  accompany  each  course. 
We  learn  to  name  the  workers  on  the 
foreign  field  and  pray  for  them  as 
the  women's  name  appear  in  the  cal- 
endar, why  may  we  not  know  as 
much  of  the  workers  on  the  home 
field?  Are  they  not  as  heroic  and 
as  worthy? 

There  are  an  increasing  number  of 
interesting  and  valuable  concert  ex- 
ercises for  children  and  young  peo- 
ples' societies,  and  these  are  to  play 
an  important  part  in  home  mission- 
ary work,  because  the  parents  and 
the  uninterested  will  the  more  read- 
ily come  out  to  hear  such  exercises, 
than  if  the  facts  were  otherwise  pre- 
sented;  but  for  the  children  them- 
selves there  enters  into  all  public  ex- 
ercises so  much  of  the  element  of 
showing  off  that  these  exercises  can 
in  no  sense  take  the  place  of  regular 
meetings  for  the  reverend  and 
thoughtful  study  of  the  coming  of 
the  kingdom  of  God  in  our  own 
native  land. 

Two  objections  meet  this  appeal 
for  new  material.  A  card  to  each 
of  the  five  homeland  societies  will 
bring  an  abundance  of  material, 
some  of  which  give  the  historical 
background.  Has  not  the  minister 
a  basket  full  on  the  attic  floor,  a 
drawer  in  his  desk  full  and  a  pile  on 
his  bookcase?  Why  more?  Because 
we  women  workers  are  most  of  us 
engaged  in  Sunday  school  work,  in 
foreign  missionary  work,  in  women's 
clubs    and    our   own    home-making. 


WOMEN'S  WORK  AND  METHODS 


29, 


It  is  quite  too  much  to  ask  that  we 
arrange  and  digest  all  this  material, 
which,  when  so  arranged  cannot  be 
put  into  the  hands  of  the  children, 
which  is  an  important  point  I  am 
sure.  The  distribution  to  them  of 
leaflets  without  sequence  or  logical 
connection  cannot  answer. 

Secondly,  it  is  said  that  the  socie- 
ties are  overburdened  and  have  no 
extra  money  or  men  to  use  in  the 
preparation  of  this  work.  It  is  not 
so  much  that  we  are  asking.  Each 
society  might  undertake  one  course, 
one  in  which  its  work  was  most  con- 
cerned perhaps.  An  arrangement 
might  be  made  with  other  denomin- 
ations by  which  the  Young  Peoples' 
missionary  movement  could  prepare 
the  major  part  and  each  denomina- 
tion complete  with  the  account  of ' 
its  own  work.  The  cost  of  the  books 
would  be  paid  in  part  at  least  by 
those  who  used  them  and  a  great 
deal  of  material  now  sent  out  by  the 
societies  would  be  saved.  That  the 
results  would  not  be  far  and  away 
beyond  those  obtained  from  present 
methods  seems  certain.  It  is  a  mis- 
take that  we  need  to  wait  or  search 
far  to  find  some  one  to  do  such  work. 
Any  of  our  representatives  on  the 
field  could  furnish  material  for  those 
lessons  for  which  the  material 
already  printed  by  the  societies  and 
the  books  of  any  good  public  library 
would  not  suffice.  The  preparation 
would  not  be  difficult,  and  with  one 
course  a  year  prepared,  the  expense 
would  not  be  great. 

At  present  we  older  people  study 
the  Negro,  the  Immigrant,  the  In- 
dian, the  Mormon,  Alaska,  the 
Island  possessions,  each  of  them 
every  year,  and  repeat  the  process 
indefinitely.  How  much  will  the 
children  and  young  people  know  if 
we  propose  to  use  the  same  method 
with  them?  The  boys  are  the  ones 
to  reach,  because  as  yet  they  are  un- 
organized, and  because  they  are  the 
citizens  of  the  future.  We  can  reach 
them  from  the  standard  of  patriot- 
ism if  we  have  the  material.  The 
societies  will  act  gladly  when  there 


is  a  clear  demand  for  a  particular 
line  of  material.  Why  cannot  the 
women  (whom  I  presume  will  do- 
almost  all  the  teaching  in  children's 
mission  study  classes)  come  to  some 
agreement  through  these  columns  as- 
to  what  they  do  need?  In  the  mean- 
time, perhaps  the  societies  will  co- 
operate to  the  extent  of  preparing 
for  us  a  bibliography  complete,  and 
perhaps  annotated,  of  all  material 
now  available,  grouped  by  subjects- 
and  not  societies. 

Anxious  Worker. 

The  Evolution  of  a  Church 

I  have  been  in  the  home  mission- 
ary work  almost  ten  years,  but  this. 
is  the  most  difficult  work  I  have  ever 
found.  Were  it  not  for  the  splendid 
opportunity  ahead,  I  might  feel  in- 
clined to  give  it  up,  but  with  so 
manifest  an  opportunity  before, 
there  is  no  turning  back.  Forward 
is  the  word.  We  arrived  on  the  4th 
of  November,  and  were  met  at  the 
depot  by  a  few  friends  and  taken  in 
out  of  the  sunshine.  The  climate  is 
simply  delightful.  Here  we  are  in 
the  midst  of  winter  with  our  streets 
dry  and  dusty,  no  frost  in  the 
ground  and  the  sun  shining  like  a 
June  day.  I  have  traveled  over 
nearly  every  part  of  this  country, 
but  I  have  never  found  the  climate 
and  surroundings  that  approach  this 
place. 

I  found  that  preaching  services- 
and  Sunday  school  have  been  sus- 
pended for  months.  The  people 
never  had  a  prayer  meeting  of  any 
kind.  It  is  a  new  experience.  More- 
over, they  have  no  place  for  services. 
I  began  to  look  about  to  find  one, 
and  a  Christian  business  man  went 
with  me.  The  only  place  on  the 
hill,  that  is,  the  residence  part  of  the 
city  at  all  available,  was  a  building 
erected  for  an  armory  at  the  time  of 
the  Spanish  -  American  War.  We 
were  told  that  this  was  held  at  so 
high  a  rent  that  we  could  not  afford 
to  take  it.  However,  it  was  the 
only  place,   and  we    drove  out  into 


3° 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


the  country  to  see  the  owner.  When 
I  made  known  our  errand  he  said  at 
once,  "You  can  have  it  and  welcome." 
We  did  not  think  that  too  exorbitant 
a  price  and  commenced  at  once  to 
put  it  in  shape  for  the  following  Sun- 
day. Meanwhile  the  matter  had 
been  widely  advertised,  and  a  goodly 
company  came  out.  We  held  two 
services.  The  following  Sunday  we 
organized  a  Sunday  school  and  had 
twenty-three  at  the  first  session.  We 
also  commenced  a  meeting  that  has 
developed  into  a  Christian  Endeavor 
society.  The  work  has  continued  to 
grow  from  the  first  day.  We  found 
some  twenty-two  names  on  the  list 
as  members  when  we  arrived.  We 
have  now  thirty-six,  and  I  have  a 
list  of  nearly  fifty  more,  many  of 
whom  will  soon  come  to  us.  Our 
Sunday  school  has  grown  to  nearly 
ninety.  We  have  two  Endeavor 
societies  and  a  cradle  roll  of 
twenty-three  and  a  Ladies'  Aid 
Society  of  sixteen.  We  are 
planning  to  erect  a  church  in  the 
spring  and  have  about  §1,200.  We 
hope  to  have  a  plant  that  will  cost 
four  to  five  thousand  dollars.  The 
people  are  enthusiastic,  though  some 
hang  back,  but  when  we  get  the 
band  wagon  at  the  top  of  the  hill 
they  will  be  all  readv  to  jump  in. 

S.  B.  C. 
Idaho. 

Her  Chief  Business 

A    True  Incident 
The  shadows  of  death  were  falling 
around  a  Christian  woman.      In  less 


than  three  hours  she  must  enter  the 
hospital  and  submit  to  a  critical  ope- 
ration in  which  her  life  would  hang 
in  the  balance.  She  had  attended 
to  all  earthly  business;  her  will  was 
written ;  messages  were  left  her 
friends,  and  putting  the  thoughts  of 
possible  disaster  out  of  mind,  or 
(which  is  more  probable),  feeling  that 
there  was  no  better  place  in  which  a 
departing  pilgrim  should  be  found 
she  hastened  to  the  missionary  meet- 
ing. 

In  a  few  hours  she  was  to  depart 
and  be  with  Christ.  What  could  be 
more  fitting  than  parting  fellowship 
with  his  people  as  they  met  to  plan 
the  wider  extension  of  his  kingdom. 
She  had  always  felt  that  the  mission- 
ary work  was  supremely  important, 
and  the  glad  hours  spent  with  the 
Christian  workers  would  be  an  in- 
spiration to  her  as  she  went  forth  to 
her  fate.  With  tender  prayers  for 
the  redemption  of  our  land  and  sweet 
mission  hymns  ringing  in  her  ears 
she  breathed  the  prayer  of  trust: 
"  What  time  1  am  afraid  I  will  trust 
in  Thee,"  and,  falling  asleep  on  the 
operating  table,  she  passed  peace- 
fully, as  victors  pass,  to  be  forever 
with  the  Lord. 

"  We  who  are  about  to  die  salute 
thee,  O  Caesar,"  said  the  gladiators 
of  old  as  they  passed  into  the  arena 
before  the  emperor.  The  heroines 
are  yet  with  us.  Blessed  are  they 
who  pass  hence  with  words  of  love 
and  loyalty  to  Christ  on  their  lips. 
Thrice  blessed  those  whose  last 
thoughts  are  for  the  spread  of  the 
kingdom!  E.  P.  H. 


NO  MISSIONARY  ORGANIZATION  THAT  WAS  EVER 
FORMED  HAS,  TO  MY  MIND,  A  NOBLER  RECORD  THAN 
THE  CONGREGATIONAL  HOME  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY. 
IT  HAS  MADE  THE  PILGRIM  POLITY  NATIONAL  AND  CAR- 
RIED THE  SPIRIT  OF  NEW  ENGLAND  ACROSS  THE  CONTI- 
NENT. ITS  MONUMENTS  ARE  IN  A  THOUSAND  CITIES  AND 
HAMLETS  AND  IT  IS  NOT  DEAD.  ITS  BEST  WORK  IS  IN  THE 
FUTURE.— Frits    IV.   Baldwin. 


APPOINTMENTS  AND  RECEIPTS 


APPOINTMENTS 


February,  1906. 


Not  in  commission  last  year. 


Berry,  John  Erving,  N.  E.  Brainerd,  Minn. ;  Butler, 
Jesse  C.,  Tallassee,  Ala. 

Cameron,  Donald,  Lakeside  and  Chelan,  Wash.; 
Carlson.  Chas.  G.,  New  Brighton,  Minn.;  Coffin, 
Joseph,  Atlanta,  Ga. 

Gafert,  Fred.,  Sioux  Falls,  So.  Dak.;  Gasque,  Wal- 
lace, Gilmore,  Gj. 

Jenkins,  Richard  L. ,  Shenandoah,  Pa. 

Jones,  W.  C,  Pittsburg,  Pa. 

Kendall,  Robert  B.,  Sanford,  Fla. 

Payne  H.  C,  Marion,  Litchfield  and  Fingall,  No. 
Dak. 

Snyder,  Harry  A.,  Forks  and  Quillayute,  Wash. 

Waldron,  Geo.  B.,  New  Smyrna,  Fla. 

Re-com  m  issioned. 

Bolger,  Thomas  F.,  Pearl,  Idaho. 

Chase,  Samuel  B.,  Lewiston,  Idaho;  Cram,  Elmer  E.,- 
Renville  and  outstations,  No.  Dak.;  Crawford,  Otis 
D.,  Granada,  Minn. 


Deakin,  Samuel,  Cowles,  Neb.;  Dowding,  Henry  W., 
Monterey,  Pa. 

Greenlee,  Clyde  W. ,  New  Plymouth   Idaho. 

Jones,  D.  L.,  Ipswich,  So.  Dak. 

Knapp,  Geo.  W.,  Riverton  Neb.;    Knight,  Plutarch 
S.,  East  Salem  and  Willard,  Or.;  Knudson,  Albert  L., 
Barstow  and  outstations,  Cal. 
m  Ludlow,  T.  V.,  Lawnview,  Okla. 

McKay,  Chas  C.  Atlanta,  Ga.;  Michael,  Geo., 
Walker,  Minn.;  Miller,  Henry  G.,  Jerome,  Ariz. 

Nichols,  J.  H.,  Drummond  and  Turkey  Creek, 
Okla. 

Perry,  Augustus,  C,  Suches,  Ga. 

Reid,  Dwight  H.,  General  Missionary  and  Evan- 
gelist, Wash. 

Single,  John,  Alliance,  Neb.;  Spalding,  Geo.  B., 
Red  Lodge,  Mont.;  Spanswick,  Thos.  W.,  North 
Branch,  Minn.;  Stover,  W   B.,  Alva,  Okla. 

Tillman,  William  H.,  Atlanta,  Ga. 

Upshaw,  W'lliam  L.,  Portland,  Or. 

Waldo,  Edwin,  Mt.  Dora  and  Tangerine,  Fla.; 
Winslow,  Jacob,  Interlachen,  Fla. 


RECEIPTS 


February,  ic 


For  account  0/  receipts  by   State  A  uxiliary   Societies, 
see  page  33. 

MAINE-$577.52. 

Bangor,  Mrs.  W.  G.  Duren  and  Miss  M.  F.  Duren,  2; 
.Bath,  Central,  special,  52;  Cornish,  5.80;  East  Baldwin, 
5.47;  East  Machias,  5;  Holden,  13;  Machias,  Center  St., 
7.75;  Maine,  20;  Minot,  Martha' and  Delia  Washburn, 
10;  Portland,  State  St.,  400;  Scarboro  Benev.,  5; 
Bethel,  6.50:  Skowhegan,  A  Friend,  10;   South  Berwick, 

D.  B.  Sewall,  35. 

NEW  HAMPSHIRE -$788.61;  of  which  legacy,  $500. 

Claremont,  H  Sentes,  10;  Deerfield,  Ch.,  10;  ;Epping, 
9.78;  Hampstead,  S.  S.,  5;  Hanover,  Miss  F.,G.  Cowles,  1; 
Hudson,  Estate  of  Esther  A  Warner,  500;  Keene,  1st, 
50;  Mrs.  B.  H.  Britton,  1;  A  Friend,  20;  Langdon,  Mrs. 
C.  B.  Holmes,  H.  L.  Prentiss,  E.  B.  Prentiss,  2;  Man- 
chester, Franklin  St  .  100;  H.  P.  Huse,  25;  A  Friend. 
10;  Milford,  R.  Converse,  5;  Orfordville,  2.50;  C.  E.,  1; 
Portsmouth,  E.  P.  Kimball,  25;  West  Concord,  M.  C. 
Rowell,  2;  West  Lebanon,  9.33. 

VERMONT— $156.69. 

Brattleboro,  Swedish,  1.59;  Barton  Landing,  Miss  A. 
B.  Jones,  1;  Essex,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  Marrs,  Mrs.  C. 
Williams  and  Mrs.  C.  E.  Greene,  3;  Fairlee,  A  Friend, 
100;  Hyde  Park,  1st,  1.80;  Milton,  S.  S.,  1.6°;  Montpelier, 
E  B.  Rublee  10;  Proctor,  Mrs.  B.  F.  Manley,  .50; 
Richmond,  C.  E.,  6.50;  Saxton's  River,  Mrs.  R.  J.  Petten- 
gill,  5;  Vermont,  A  Friend  for  the  debt,  20;  Walling- 
ford,  Miss  C.  M.  Townsend,  2;  Wilmington,  Mrs.  H.  F. 
Barber.  1.20;  Wolcott,  1.50;  Woodstock,  A  Friend,  1. 

MASSACHUSETTS— $4,168.28;      of       which     legacies, 
$1,500. 

Mass.  Home  Miss.  Soc,  by  Rev.  J.  Coit,  Treas.:  By  re- 
quest of  donors,  555.49;  Amesbury,  Union,  1.21;  Am- 
herst, E.  F.  Barrow,  1;  Andover,  M.  W.  Bell,  5;  A 
Friend,  1;  A  Friend,  25;  Ashby,  A  Friend.  25;  Ashfield, 

E.  M.  Howes,  .50:  Attleboro,  S.  S.,  13.75;  Berkley.  Two 
Friends,  55;  Beverly,  Mrs.  E.  B.  Foster,  5;  Blandford, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  B.  Hayden,  2;  Boston,  C.  M.  Ziegler, 
5;  Bridgewater,  M.  C.  Dingwell,  5;  A.  Radzamroski,  2; 
Brockton,  Mrs.  E.  J.  Kingsbury,  2:  Centerville,  L.  H. 
M.  S.,  5;  Chicopee,  3rd  S.  S.,  18.63;  Danvers,  Mrs.  O.  L. 
Carleton,  1;  Dennis,  C.   E.,  4;  Dorchester,  Central,  10; 


Fall  River,  M.  K.  Lincoln,  5;  Foxboro,  "  Whatsoever" 
Circle  of  King's  Daughters,  5;  Hatfield,  Estate  of  S. 
H.  Dickinson,  475;  Haverhill,  Cletss  No.  n  West  S.  S., 
4;  French,  10;  Leominster,  F.  A.  Whitney,  15;  Leverett, 
Miss  H.  Field,  1;  Lincoln,  Miss  J.  A.  Bemis,  10;  Lowell, 
O.  M.  Bancroft,  2;  C.  A.  Lathrop,  5;  Mrs.  E.  F. 
Wheeler,  3;  Ludlow,  Life  Member,  1;  Lynn,  Central, 
56;  Maiden,  1st,  A  Friend,  25;  Mattapoisett,  18.50;  Med- 
ford,  Mystic  Ch.,  Mrs.  M.  A.  Hildreth,  10;  Methuen, 
A.  M.  Reed,  1;  Middleboro,  Central  S.  S.,  10;  Needham, 
Sherman  and  his  little  friends,  .20;  New  Bedford,  Trin. 
People's  Christian  Alliance,  5;  Trin.  Mission  Guild, 
10;  No.  C^E.,25;  Newburyport,  Prospect  St.  S.  S.,  7.70; 
Belleville 'Progressive  Miss.  Club,  4;  Newton  Center, 
Lady  Frieod,  50;  Northampton,  Mrs.  L,.  S  Sanderson, 
.50;  No.  Andover,  Trin.,  10;  Mrs.  A  M.  Robinson,  2; 
No.  Cambridge,  Mrs.  M.  E.  Hidden,  10;  Petersham,  "A. 

D.  M.,"  100;  Pittsfield,  Pilgrim  Mem.  S,  S.,  5;  E.  D. 
Davis,  2;  W.  R.  A.  Wilson,  10;  Roxbury  "Mother  and 
Son,"  700;  Mrs.  G.  M.  Babcock,  2;  Salem,  A  Friend, 
Tab.  Ch.,  25;  So.  Hadley,  A  Friend,  2.50;  Southampton, 
S.  S.,  4.22;  Southbridge,  3.46;  South  Weymouth,  Mrs.  M. 
A.  Fearing,  5;  Spencer,  Mrs.  M.  T.  Hunter,  1;  Spring, 
field,  1st  Ch.  of  Christ,  209  99;  Miss  C.  E.  Coe,  .50;  T. 
H.'  Hawks,  25;  Mrs.  E.  J.  Wilkinson  30;  Sudbury, 
Mrs.  L.  S.  Connor,  25;  Swampscott,  A  widow's  mite, 
3.50;  O.  B.  Ames,  10:  Taunton,  C.  M.  Rhoades,  50; 
Templeton,  A.  D.  T.,  5;  Ware,  Estate  of  Mrs.  Miranda 
H.  Lane,  1,000;  Waverly,  D.  H.  Holmes,  10;  Westboro, 
Mrs.  S.  Converse,  2;  West  Boxford,  2nd,  3.63;  Westfield, 
Miss  E.  M.  Beebe,  1;  West  Medway,  C-  A.  Adams,  2; 
Westminster,  C.  E.,  5;  Williamstown,  Estate  of  Mary  E. 
Woodbridge,  25;   Worcester,  "In  remembrance  of  J. 

E.  S.  and  E.  P.  S.,"  5:  C.  E.  Hunt,  25. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Assoc,  (of  Mass.  and  Rhode  Island),  Miss 
L.  D.  White,  Treas.:  For  Salary  Fund,  215;  Brighton, 
1st  Aus.,  25;  Lexington,  Mi^s  J.  E.  Johnson,  1;  Natick, 
Aux.  add  1,  2;  Needham,  A  Friend,  4;  Randolph,  Miss  A. 
W.Turner,  100.  Total,  347. 
RHODE  ISLAND  -$153.55. 

Bristol,  S.  P.  Hasbrouck,  2;  Central  Falls,  Mrs.  E.  L. 
Freeman,  5;  Peacedale,  20.26;  Mrs  M.  E.  Bushnell,  20; 
Providence, "Pilgrim,  52.94;  Union,  25;  Plymouth  S.  S., 
18.35;  Miss  M.  E.  Fowler,  5;  A.  G.  Thompson,  5. 

CONNECTICUT— $5,312.28;  of  which  legacies,  $1,325.52. 
Miss.  Soc.  of  Conn.,  by  Rev.  J.  S.  Ives,  28.86;  Salaries 


32 


THE    HOME    MISSIONARY 


of  Western  Supts..  675;  Bridgewater,  S.  S.,  10.63;  Can- 
terbury, 1st,  3.50;  Champlin,  J.  W.  Crosby,  5;  Chaplin, 
6.79;  Connecticut,  In  memory  of  S.  P.  C,"  25;  Coventry, 
1st,  19.72;  J.  P.  and  F.  J.  Kingsbury,  5;  Deep  River,  25, 
Derby,  2nd,  50.78;  S.  S.,  15;  Elmwood,  G.  T.  Goodwin 
and  friends,  2;  Fairfield,  J.  F.  Burr,  1:  Farmington,  S.  S., 
8.24;  Gilead,  S.  S. ,  5;  Greenwich,  J.  P.  Kelley,  10;  Groton, 
35.13;  Guilford,  1st  Friends,  2;  Hampton,  1st,  10  12; 
Hartford,  Asylum  Hill,  A  Friend,  15;  Windsor  Ave  , 
1,178.94;  Miss  A.  M.  Stearns,  5;  Ivoryton,  A  Friend, 
500;  Ledyard,  8  63;  Mansfield  Center,  C.  E.,  10;  Monroe, 
A.  Wheeler,  10;  Middletown,  Mrs.  H.  L.  Ward,  5;  New 
Britain  From  Estate  of  Rev.  L.  H.  Pease,  150;  South, 
15;  New  Haven,  Mrs.  C.  H.  Curtiss.  10;  S.  E.  Daggett, 
35;  Mrs  G.  P.  Hawk  s,  1 ;  New  London,  Estate  of  New- 
ton Fuller,  200;  1st,  A  Friend,  25;  2nd,  10;  Mrs.  L.  E. 
Learned,  5;  M.  T.  Gridley,  10;  New  Milford,  1st  C.  E., 
10;  Newtown,  25;  C.  E.,  7;  Norwalk.  Estate  of  Julia  Sey- 
mour, 1,125.52:  Norwich,  1st  C.  E.,  12.60;  W.  S.  Pal- 
mer, iq.50;  North  Woodstock,  Friends,  2.50;  Plantsville, 
''A.  E.  U.,"  5;  Pomfret  Center,  Individuals  in  Cong. 
Ch  .  15:  Putnam,  2nd,  67.11;  Stafford  Springs,  A  Friend, 
1;  Stratford,  S.  S.,  15;  Tolland,  32.60;  Wallingford,  1st,  150; 
Waterbury,  Rev.  W.  T.  Holmes,  5;  West  Avon,  C.  E.,  5; 
West  Stafford,  3.5S;  Wethersfield,  S.  S.,  12;  Windham, 
18.52;  Windsor,  "Friends,"  40. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  C.  S.  Thayer,  Treas., 
498;  Hartford,  Mrs.  M.  E.  Stone,  10;  1st,  Special,  30; 
Centre,  Y    W.  H.  M.,  40;  Norwalk,  Special,  2^. 

Total,  603. 
NEW  Y0RK-$i,6o8.8o. 

Angola,  Miss  A.  H.  Ames,  5;  Bangor,  1st,  18.70;  Brook- 
lyn, Willoughby  Ave.,  Chapel  of  Clinton  Ave.  Ch., 
16.18;  E.  J.  Dickinson,  1;  H.  Hentz,  5:  G.  W.  Mabie, 
10;  A  Friend,  25;  Buffalo,  Mrs.  S.  C.  Whittemore,  20; 
Carthage,  1st.  10;  Clifton  Springs.  Mrs.  A.  Peirce,  10; 
Clinton,  M.  E.  Fuller,  1;  Cortland,  H  E.  Ranney,  50; 
Dongan  Hills,-  E.  P.  Foote,  10;  Fairport,  Mrs.  E.  M. 
Chadwick,  25:  Fishkill-on-Hudson,  Mrs.  M.  T.  Kellogg, 
25;  Fredonia,  H.  T.  Fuller,  10;  Gloversville,  1st,  161;  M. 
D.  Mills,  1;  Lake  Grove,  Mr.  and  Mrs  C.  Brown,  3; 
Middle  Island,  J.  B.  Wilder,  1:  Moravia,  1st,  32.35; 
Munnsville,  Miss  M.  C.  Gaston,  5:  New  York  City,  Christ 
Cong.  Ch.,  22.iq;  Mrs.  S.  F.  Blodgett,  25;  H.  E. 
Boardman.  5;  "  Little  Morris'  Birthday  Gifts.  In 
Memorium,"  10;  E.  McKean,  2;  Mrs.  L.  B  Paislev, 
5;  Mrs.  A.  P.  Smith,  10:  Mrs.  C.  L.  Smith,  2=;;  W. 
Taylor,  5:  A  Friend,  .50:  Northfield,  22.43;  Norwich,  1st, 
37.15;  Oxford,  10.56;  Portland,  5;  S.  S.,  2;  Riverhead, 
Sound  Ave.,  35;  Rochester,  Mrs.  A.  E.  Davison,  2; 
Rodman,  Mrs.  C.  B.  Dodge,  1;  Salamanca,  20;  Spencer- 
port,  Mrs.  S.  L.  Bush,  1;  Syracuse,  Mrs.  I  C.  Rhoades, 
10;  Union  Square,  Rev.  J  Sharp,  2;  Utica,  A  Life 
Member,  s:  Wantagh;  Nemo,  10;  Warsaw,  66.67;  Wells- 
ville,  M.  F.   Lewis,  3;  Woodhaven,  1st,  n. 80. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.    J.    J.    Pearsall,   Treas.: 

Binghamton,  1st,  50;  Brooklyn,  Clinton  Ave.  L.  G..  54; 
Tompkins  Ave.  L.  B.  S..  50;  Park,  10:  Ch.  of  the  Pil- 
grims, 500;  Buffalo,  Pilgrim,  10;  Canandaigua,  50;  New 
York  City,  Broadway  Tab.  S.  W.  W.,  35;  Orwell,  11; 
Poughkeepsie,  25;  Syracuse,  Plymouth  Bible  School, 
14.18.    Total,  80.91. 

NEW  JERSEY— $292.18. 

East  Orange,  1st,  40.38;  Swedish  Free;  2.50;  Glen 
Ridge,  50;  Haworth,  S.  S.,  4.30;  Jersey  City,  A  Friend,  1; 
Newark,  Miss  K.  L.  Hamilton.  2;  Plainfield,  J.  L. 
Jenkins,  ?,  Upper  Montclair,  Christian  Union,  170; 
Vineland,  W.  E.  Bates,  20. 

PENNSYLVANIA— $131.35. 

Received  by  Rev.  C.  A.  Jones,  Blossburg,  S.  S.,  1; 
Horatio,  Mrs.  T.  Griffiths.  1;  Kane,  S.  S.,  Primary 
Dept.  "Nest  Egg,"  5;  Meadville,  6.60;  Scranton,  Provi- 
dence, 15.    Total,  28.60. 

Allegheny,  Slovak,  19;  Bangor,  Welsh,  8;  Corry,  Ch. 
Friends,  2.50;  W.  M.,  5;  Delta,  Welsh,  5;  Duke  Center, 
Rev.  J.  Cunnincham,  5;  Ebensburg,  So.  Ch..  5;  Foun- 
tain Springs,  Christ  Ch..  2.50;  Pittsburg,  Swedes,  4; 
Ridgway,  1st  S.  S.,  6.25:  Shenandoah,  3;  Susquehanna; 
1^50;  Titusville,  Swedes  2;  Warren.  Scand.  Bethel,  5, 
West  Pittston,  1st,  5;  Wilkes-Barre,  2nd,  5;  1st  Welsh,  5. 

DISTRICT  OF  COLUMBIA— $34. 
Washington,  1st,  25;  Mrs.  E.  D.  Bliss,  4;  Mrs.  A.  F. 

Ellis,  5. 

VIRGINIA— $1. 

Hampton,  Miss  M.  T.  Oalpin,  1. 


NORTH  CAROLINA— $22. 

Tryon,  Ch.  of  Christ,  22. 
GEORGIA— $27. 

Augusta,  "A  Friend,"  25;  Mineral  Bluff,  2. 

ALABAMA— $.50. 
Stroud,  Rev.  L.  P/Culpepper,  .50. 

LOUISIANA,!$io. 

Jennings,  1st,  C.  E. ,  10. 
FLORIDA— $5.46. 

Careyville,  .25;'Destin,  East  Pass,  1.85;  Ormond,  Mrs. 
M.  E.  Tupper,  2;  Potolo,  Carmel,  Westville,  1st,  1.36. 

TEXAS— $2. 

Denison,  1st,  1;  Florence,  E   Barnes,  1. 
INDIAN  TERRITORY— $.50. 

Received  by  _Rev.  J.  [H.  t  Parker,  Sulphur,  Rev.  L.  B. 
Parker,  .50. 

OKLAHOMA,  $74. 

Received  by  J.  H.  Parker,  Casbion,  add'l,  1;  Kingfisher, 
Union,  in  part,  50.  =  Total,  51. 

Coldwater,  R-v.  L.  S.  Childs  and  family,  5;  Hennes- 
sey, 18. 

NEW  MEXICO— $31.80. 

Received  by  Rev.  J.  D.  Kingsbury,  D.D.,  Los  Ranches  d 
Atrisco,  21.80;  Seboyetta,  Miss  O.  E.  Gibson,  10. 

ARIZONA— $130. 

Arizona,  A  Friend,  100;  Mesa,  Mrs.  O.  J.  Greene,  30 
KENTUCKY— $2. 

Berea,  Ch.,  i.8o;>S.S.,  .20. 

OHIO— $144-37- 

Cincinnati,  J.  W.  Hall,  s;  Elyria, 'Ladies  of  1st,  2^, 
Greenwich,  A.  M.  Mead.  1;  Oak  Hill,  Welsh,  6;  Oberlin' 
Mrs.  L.  G.  B.  Hills,  10;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  V.  Metcalf : 
to  const.  H.  P.  Smith  an  Hon.  L.  M.,  50;  Oxford,  'K,'. 
5;  Painesville,  M.  A.  Murray,  25;  Toledo,  Wash.  St., 
11.87;  Friends,  5;  Friends,  .50. 

INDIANA-$i93.4i. 

Indianapolis,  Rev.  A.  G.  Detch,  3. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs  A.  D.  Dsvis,  Treas.: 
Anderson,  S.  S.,  1.50;  Angola,  5;  Cardonia,  2;  Caseyville> 
6;  Elkhart,  13.50;  Indianapolis,  Plymouth,  S.  S.,  6; 
King's  Daughters,  10;  Ladies'  Union,  77.25;  Trinity, 
8.91;  Peoples,  23;  Mayflower,  S.  S.,  7.38;  Orland,  S.  S., 
3  30;  Ridgeville,  C.  E.,  1;  Shipshewana,  5;  Terre  Haute, 
1st,  30;  S.  S.,  3.77;  West,  S.  S.  class,  J.  Pedler,  1.50; 
C.  E.,  1.50.  Total,  206.61.  Less  expenses,  16.20. 
Bal  ,  190.41. 

ILLINOIS— $615.15. 

111.  Home  Miss.  Soc,  by  Rev.  A.  M.  Brodie,  D.D.,  by 
request  of  donors,  235;  received  bv  Rev  M.  E.  Evrsz, 
D.D.,  Bowmanville,  7.69:  Chicago,  Rev.  G.  S.  F.  Sav- 
age, 2;;  Mrs.  T.  M.  Turner,  1;  Elmwood,  8.25;  W.  M.  S.. 
4.81;  Leland,  Mrs.  S.  L.  Lord,  3;  Lexington,  E.  F. 
Wricht,  5;  Lyonsville,  43;  Onarga,  Miss  R.  M.  Kinney: 
4;  Ontario,  S.  S.,  4;  Pecatonica,  Rev.  J.  Wilcox  arid 
wife,  5;  Polo,  Mrs.  L  H.  Barber,  25;  Princeton,  J.  B. 
Allen,  10;  Rockford,  1st  S.  S..  10;  2nd,  171.16;  Mrs.  L. 
C.  Rose,  2;  Roscoe,  Mrs.  M  Ritchie,  2;  Roseville,  15.64; 
Wheaton,  College,  10;  Woodburn,  Ladies  Soc.  5;  Two 
Friends,  2. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  A.  O.  Whitcomb,  Treas.: 
Elgin,  16.60. 

MISSOURI -$452.84. 

Grauby,  1st,  by  Rev.  A.  F.  C.  Kirchner,  .76;  Kansas- 
City,  Rev.  F.  L.  Johnston,  9.62;  Kidder,  C.  E.,  6:  Mead- 
ville, W.  M.  S.,  A  member,  4;  St  Joseph,  Tab.,  A 
member,  25;  Tab.,  H.  N.  and  E.  S.  Keener,  2;  St. 
Louis,  Fountain  Park,  44.31:  German,  1st,  10.86;  Reber 
Place,  16;  Springfield,  1st  Ch.  and  S.  S.  add'l,  5.60. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  A.  D.  Rider,  Treas.  r 
Aurora,  1.65;  Bonne  Terre,  25:  Cole  Camp,  2.15:  De  Soto,  j; 
Eldon,  1;  Green  Ridge,  .60;  Hannibal,  1.15:  Kansas  City, 
1st,  L.  U.,  20;  Clyde,  30.55;  Beacon  Hill,  3:  Prospect 
Ave.,  2;  S.  W.  Tab.,  2.47;  Kidder,  3.75;  Lebanon,  6.50; 
Maplewood,  12;  Meadville,  2.40;  Neosho,  8;  Old  Orchard, 
3.90;  Pierce  City,  2;  St.  Joseph,  24.75;  St.  Louis,  1st  Sr., 
L.  M.  S.,  50.40;  Y.  L.  Asso.,  g;    Compton  Hill,  3.30. 


APPOINTMENTS  AND   RECEIPTS 


33 


Fountain  Park,  8.85;  Immanuel,  1.10;  Memorial,  4.30; 

Pilgrim,  W.  A..  76.44;  Reber  Place,  3;  Union,  L.  A., 

2;  Sedalia,   1st,  10.43;    2nd,  2;  Vinita,  I.  T.,  3.     Total, 

328.69. 

MICHIGAN— $2,139.75;  of  which  legacy,  $2,000. 

Allendale,  Estate  of  Amanda  A.  Cooley,  2.000;  Ann 
Arbor,  S.  B.  Chickering,  2;  A  Friend,  1.25;  Benzonia, 
Mrs.  M.  E.  C.  Bailey,  1;  Detroit,  1st  Woman's  Assoc, 
10;  A.  B.  Lyons,  5;  A  Friend,  5;  Grand  Rapids,  V.  A. 
Wallin,  10;  Hudson,  Mrs.  C.  B.  Stowell,  100;  Olivet, 
Two  Friends,  .50;  Saginaw,  Mrs.  A.  M.  Spencer,  5. 

WISCONSIN— $21.80. 

Beloit,  Rev.  H.  W.  Carter,  1;  Miss  S.  Blaisdell  1; 
Clintonville,  Scand.,  4.35;  Eau  Claire,  C.  A.  Bullen,  2; 
Elkhorn,  Mrs.L.  M.  Greene,  5;  Milwaukee,  G.E.Loomis, 
2;  Platteville,  Mrs.  B.  Beardsley,  5;  Waupun,  1st  S.  S., 
1.20;  Whitewater,  A  Friend,  .25. 

IOWA,  $88.06. 

Iowa  Home  Miss.  Soe.,  Miss  A.  D.  Merrill,  Tres.: 
41.71;  Council  Bluffs,  G.  S.  Rice,  5;  Glenwood,  C.  E. 
Carey,  5;  GrinneU,  Alice  Hostetter,  1;  Emma  Hos- 
tetter,  1;  Maquoketa,  8.35;  Newton,  Miss  B.  E.  Smith, 
10;  Riceville,  Mrs.  D.  W.  Kimball,  5;  Salem,  W.  M.S., 
5;  Walker,  Miss  S.  A.  Trevor,  1;  Waterloo,  Rev.  E. 
Adams,  5. 

MINNESOTA— $930. 69. 

Received  by  Rev.  G.  R.  Merrill,  D.D.,  Freeborn,  6! 
Medford,  special  for  debt,  10;  Minneapolis,  Fremont 
Ave.,  43.75;  Mayflower,  12.50;  Park  Ave.,  15.92;  Pil- 
grim, add'l,  12.28;  Plymouth,  101;  Vine,  add'l,  4.45, 
New  Ulm,  7.76;  St.  Paul,  Atlantic,  4;  Cyril  Chapel, 
Bohemian,  47;  People's,  65;  Sberburn  10;  Stewart,  S.S.; 
2;  Wayzata,  6.     Total,  347.66. 

Alexander,  C.  H.  Raiter,  10;  Belview,  3.31;  Cannon 
Falls,  23;  Chokio,  17.75;  Clarissa  and  Bertha,  isf,  1.70; 
Felton,  2.50;  Glencoe,  Mrs.  F.  L.  Thoeny.  1;  Granada, 
C.  E  ,  2.50;  Kasota,  Swedes,  3;  Lyle,  1st,  50;  Lamberton, 
Union,  7;  Minneapolis, Plymouth,  25;  Mrs.  I.  E.  Hale.  50; 
Mis*  M.  Mason,  1;  Rev.  S.  V.  S.  Fisher,  10;  New  York 
Mills,  5.81;  St.  Paul,  Plymouth,  25;  Silver  Lake,  F.  R. 
C.  E.,'  10;  South  St.  Paul,  C.  W.  Clark.  10;  Stillwater, 
Grace,  6.25;  Ulen,  2.50;  Verndale,  C.  E.  McMillan,  .50; 
Winona,  1st,  75. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  W.  M.  Bristoll,  Treas.: 
Austin.  10.95;  Bagley,  2;  Benson,  S.  S.,  1.65;  Faribault,  5; 
Lake  City,  20;  Lamberton,  2;  Mantorville,  2;  Minneapolis, 
1st.  9;  Plvmouth,  to  const.  W.  M.  Wadworth  an 
Hon.  L.  M..  50;  Park  Ave.,  28.46;  Como,  10;  Lyndale, 
23;  Tremont  Ave.,  5;  New  Ulm,  1.15;  Spring  Valley, 
Friend,  20;  St.  Paul,  50.    240.21. 

KANSAS -$20. 
LaCrosse,  J.H.  Little,  10;  Sabetha,  Dr.  H.  Reding,  10. 

NEBRASKA— 194.50. 

Brewster,  G.  H.  Brewster,  Mem.,  2;  Burwell,  S.  S., 
3.50;  Camp  Creek,  7.80;  Center,  1st,  1.2s;  Crete,  L.  E. 
Benton,  2;  L.  P.  Matthew,  5:  Grand  Island,  Mrs.  H.  E. 
Clifford,  2;  Hemingford,  3;  Holdrege,  33.75;  Inland  and 
Liberty  Creek,  German,  22;  Loomis,  6;  Minersville,  2.20; 
Waverly,  Swedish  Emanuel,  4. 

NORTH  DAKOTA— $180.27. 

Received  by  Rev.  G.  J.  Powell,  Amenia,  102;  Elbowoods, 
Indian,  3;  Glenullen,  15.    Total,  1.20. 

Coldwater,  Salem,  German,  18.77:  Haase,  .50;  Harvey, 
1st,  7;  Michigan  City,  22.50;  Mohall,  Rev.  J.  E.  Jones.  3; 
Pratt,  Pilgrim,  1;  Renville,  Rev.  E.  E.  Cram,  5;  Rose 
Hill,  2.50. 

SOUTH  DAKOTA— $188.45. 

Received  by  Rev.  W.  H.  Thrall,  Badger,  u;  Belle  Fourche, 
W.  M.  Soc,  5;  S.  S.,  5;  Pastor  and  wife.  5;  Bowdle, 
7.50;  Carthage,  Rev.  M.  Doty  and  wife,  5;  Duncan,  7.50. 
Total,  45. 

Columbia,  C.  E.  Soc.  3;  De  Smet,  4;  Estelline,  20;  Henry, 
2.75;  Lake  Preston,  5;  Milbank,  Ch.,  Rev.  A.  Murrman, 
received  bv  Rev.  J.  D.  Kingsbury,  D.D  ,  16;  Mission 
Hill,  12;  Ree  Heights,  A  Friend,  10;  birthday  box,  1; 
Sioux  Falls,  German,  4.25;  South  Shore,  12;  Troy,  3;  Val- 
ley Springs,  6.25;  Wessington  Springs,  26.70:  Winfred,  5; 
A  Friend,  2;  Worthing,  10.50. 

COLORADO— $320.82. 

Received  by  Rev.  H,  Sanderson,  Coal  Creek,  10;  Flagler, 
Rev.  E.  A.  Blodgett,  1;  Rye,  4.65.    Total,  15.65. 


Boulder,  Mrs.  H.  D.  Harlow,  25;  Colorado  City,  1st,  4; 
Colorado  Springs,  Hillside,  15.2s;  and  Fountain.  20.75; 
Mrs.  F.  Hobbs,  8;  Denver,  Pilgrim,  25.10;  Fort  Collins, 
German,  5;  New  Castle,  1st,  5;  Nucla,  C.  F.  Wood,  1; 
Otis,  8.25;  Pueblo,  Irving  Place,  10. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Miss  I.  M.  Strong,  Treas.: 
Colorado  Springs,  2nd,  8;  Denver,  Piymouth,  85;  2nd, 
Jr.,  5;  Boulevard,  41;  S.  S.,  9:  Fruita,  6;  Montrose,  5; 
Pavonia,  C.  E.,  1.77;  Bye,  5;  Silverton,  6.45;  Telluride, 
5.60.    Total,  177.82. 

WYOMING— $4. 

Cheyenne,  1st  Ch.  Jr.  Miss.  Band,  4. 
MONTANA.  $112.55. 

Received  by  Rev.  W.  S.  Bell,  Aldridge,  Dr.  W.  P.  Rey- 
nolds, 5:  Billings,  53.30;  S.  S.,  2.43;  Columbus,  5;  Helena, 
24;  Red  Lodge,  S.  S.,  10;  Wibaux,  1.57.     Total,  101.30. 

Wibaux,  11.25. 

UTAH,  $89. 

Salt  Lake  City,  Phillips,  87;  Sandy,  2. 
IDAHO,  $118. 

Received  by  Rev.  J.  D.  Kingsbury,  D.D.,  Challis,  10; 
Ladies'  Miss.  Soc,  40;  Weiser,  Woman's  Aux.,  10. 
Total,  60. 

Burke,  Union,  14;  Gibbonsville,  1st,  6;  Mountain  Home, 
1st,  26;  Mullan,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  T.  Cooley,  2;  Pearl, 
10. 

CALIFORNIA— $802. 90. 

Southern  Cal.  Home  Miss.  Soc,  by  S.  H.  Herrick, 
Treas.,  Los  Angeles,  1st,  200;  Ladies'  Aid,  11.57;  East 
Side,  5.50;  Plymouth  S.S.,  13.25;  National  City,  3.56; 
Ontario,  Bethel  C.  E.,  14;  Ventura,  35.53.     Total,  283  35. 

Woman's  H  M.  Union,  Mrs.  E.  C.  Norton,  Treas., 
369.55.    Final  total,  652.90. 

Compton,  47.50;  Eagle  Rock,  1;  Los  Angeles,  R.  Prim- 
mer. 1;  Oakland,  Mrs.  E.  S.  Morse  and  Miss  Morse,  r; 
A  Friend,  2;  Pasadena,  Rev.  O.  Anderson,  5;  Miss  M. 
L.  Barton,  10;  Mrs.  E.  S.  Baldwin,  2;  Pacific  Grove, 
Mayflower  S.  S.,  25;  San  Diego,  Mrs.  S.  H.  Townsend, 
10;  San  Jacinto,  4;  Little  Lake,  2;  San  Louis  Obispo,  1st, 
25;  San  Rafael,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  D.  Hale,  10;  Stockton, 
M.  Hardy,  4.50. 

OREGON— $20.72. 

Beaverton,  8.72;  Hubbard,  Miss.  Ave.,  3;  Portland,  H. 
N.  Smith  and  family,  1.50;  Sherwood  and  Tualatin,  2.50; 
Stafford,  German,  Mr. Keller,  5. 

WASHINGTON— $354  62. 

Washington  H.  M.  Soc,  Rev.  H.  B.  Hendley,  Treas.: 
Bethel,  2.56;  St.  John,  5;  Seattle,  Columbia,  7;  Union, 
24.60;  Tacoma,  1st,  239.90.     Total,  279.06. 

Aberdeen,  Swedes,  4.50;  Chewelah,  1st,  20;  Clear  Lake, 
5;  Everett,  1st  S.  S.,2.26;  Hillyard,  Miss  M.  Lancas- 
ter, 8;  Newport,  Hope,  16;  Tolt,  12.80;  Washtucua,  Ply- 
mouth, 7. 

ALASKA— $7.50. 

Valdez,  Alaska  C.  E.,  7.50. 
CUBA-$4.33. 

Matanzas,  Cuba;  El  Re  dentor,  4.33. 

FEBRUARY  RECEIPTS. 

Contributions $15,107.73 

Legacies 5*325-52 

$20,433. 25 

Interest 1,106.26 

Home  Missionary 98.30 

Literature 45-6i 

Total — $21,683.42 

MASSACHUSETTS  HOME  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY. 

Receipts  in  February,  1906. 

Rev.  Joshua  Coit,  Treasurer,  Boston,  Mass. 

Acton,  South,  C.  E.,  15;  Amesbury,  Estate  of  Abby  R. 
Webster,  236.61,  Ashland,  7.33;  Attleboro  Falls,  Central, 
C.  E.,  1.40;  Bedford,  16.12;  Boston,  Charlestown,  Win- 
thrnp,  13.83;  Dorchester,  Romsey,  6.20;  2nd.  10; 
Ellis'  Mendell  Fund,  135;  Roxbury,  Walnut  Ave., 
16;  S.  S.,  25;  Italian  Hall,  15;  R.  H.  Stearns,  100; 
Bradford,  Ward  Hill,  6;  Income  of  Brimbecom  Fund, 


34 


THE   HOME   MISSIONARY 


20:  Brockton,  Porter,  S.  S.,  10;  Burlington,  9.85;  Chelms- 
ford, Central,  ax;  Chelsea,  1st,  18.19;  Cohasset,  2nd,  8.44; 
Dedham,  "JB.,"  10;  Dover,  11.57;  Dunstable,  Evang.,  38.50; 
Fitchburg,  Finns,  7.92;  German,  2;  Globe  Village,  Evan. 
Free;  2.97;  Gloucester,  Trin.  C.  E.,  5;  Groveland,  12.82; 
Hanover,  2nd,  2.50;  Harvard,  7;  Hawley,  1st,  1.50;  Hollis- 
ton,  1st,  .28.45;  Ipswich,  Essex  No.  Conf.  25.30;  Law- 
rence, Trin.  8.42;  United,  16;  Littleton,  6.50;  Lowell,  1st, 
Trin.  16.04,  Lynnfield,  South,  2.25;  Marion,  J.  Pitcher 
Fund,  45.63;  Middletown,  4.85;  Millbury,  Estate  of  Lydia 
A.  Morse,  135;  New  Bedford,  Estate  of  J.  A.  Beauvais; 
2,000;  North,  19.58;  Oxford,  1st,  60;  Peabody,  5;  Pittsfield, 
French,  10;  Quincy,  Finn,  2.37;  The  Cape,  7.80;  Income 
of  D.  Reed  Fund,  60;  Rochester,  1st,  C.  E.,  1;  Sandwich, 
1;  Sharon,  16.91;  Swampscott,  Miss  S.  A.  Holt,  10;  1st, 
22.25;  Income  of  tiwett  Western  Fund,  50;  Walhalla, 
No.  Dakota,  Miss  H.  E.  Spear.  3;  Walpole,  Estate  of 
Clarissa  Guild,  1,000;  Westhampton,  20;  West  Hartford, 
Vt.,  Mrs.  F.  P.  Wheeler,  i.n;  Westminster,  Friend  H., 
3.25;  Westport,  Pacific  Union  S.  S.,  26.50;  West  Spring- 
field, Park  St.,  36. 13;  Weymouth  Heights,  1st.  53.72;  In- 
come of  Whitcomb  Fund,  50;  Whitinsville,  Extra 
Cent  a  Day  Band,  14.73;  Wilkinsville,  Miss  D.  W.  Hill, 
30;  Winchester,  131,23.33;  S.  S..  15;  Worcester,  Estate  of 
Mrs.  H.  W.  Damon,  2.41, 

Designated  for  Andover  School  of  Theology,  Bos- 
ton, A.  S.  Johnson,  15;  H.  H  Proctor,  15;  Holyoke, 
2nd,  15;  Springfield,  South,  15;  West  Newton,  H.  B.  Day, 
15;  Designated  for  Italians,  Atlanta,  5;  Brookline,  Miss 
White,  3r;  Designated  for  the  C.  H.  M.  S.,  Boston, 
Brighton,  313.24;  Roxbury,  Eliot,  50,  Walnut  Ave., 
S.  S.,  2<;;  Boxboro,  14;  Fall  River,  Broadway,  4.  Granby, 
32.50;  Haverhill,  West.  15.75;  Lynn,  North,  J.  C.  E.,  5; 
South  Royalston.  2nd,  8.50:  Springfield,  Olivet,  45;  War- 
ren, S.  J.  Arnold;  5;  Worcester,  Adams  Square,  5; 
Liquidation  of  1st.  Nat'l,  500;  Freetown,  Assonet, 
12  50;  Boston,  3rd.  Nat'l  Bank,  16. 

THE  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY  OF   CONNECTICUT. 

Receipts  in  February,  1906. 

Ward  W.  Jacobs,  Treasurer,  Hartford. 

Goshen,  S.  S.,  19  56;  Killingworth,  5;  New  Canaan,  Jun- 
ior C.  E.  for  C.  H.  M.  S.  for  Junior  work  in  Cuba, 
5;  New  Haven,  United,  200;  Redeemer,  for  Italian 
work,  25;  Westville,  18.67;  Norwalk,  S.  S.,  19.25;  North 
Guilford,  25;  Norwich,  1st,  51.92;  Old  Saybrook,  8;  for  C. 
H.  M.  S.,  8;  Ridgefield,  1st,  C.  E.,  9,  Somers,  3.50;  Stam- 
ford, Long  Ridge,  6;  Thomaston,ist,  special,  9.  i8;Torring- 
ton,  Center,  for  Italian  work,  110.35;  Wethersfield, 
57.75;  Woodstock,  1st,  12.25;  C.  E.,   17.64. 

W.  C.  H.  M.  TJ.  ot  Conn.,  Mrs.  George  Follett, 
Sec,  Hartford,  1st,  S.  S.  Home  Department  for 
work  among  Italians  in  Hartford,  11.80;  The  Litch- 
field Northwest  Conference,  for  C.  H.  M.S.,  15.86; 
A  Friend,  25;  M.  S.  C,  634.87;  C.  H.  M.  S.,  28.86; 
Total   $663.73. 

NEW  YORK  HOME  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY. 

Receipts  in  February,  1906. 

Clayton  S.   Fitch,  Treasurer,  New  York. 

Buffalo,  Plymouth, 8;  Gasport,  12.34;  Homer, 22.85;  S.S., 
20;  Lockport,  East  Ave.  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  19:  Middletown, 
North,  5;  Roland,  S.  S.,  5;  Syracuse,  Good  Will,  31.79; 
Goodwill  S.  S.,5.06. 

W.  H.  M.  TJ.,  as  follows:  Brooklyn,  Plymouth  W.  H. 
M.  S.,  50;  Tompkins  Ave.,  Pri.  S.  S..  15:  Buffalo,  1st 
K.  G.  W.  C.  5;  Middletown,  1st,  L.  G.,  8;  New  Village, 
W.  H.  M.  S.,  5;  Oswego,  W.  H.  M.  S..  10;  Syracuse, 
Plymouth  B.  S.,  1;  W.  H.  M.  U.,  180.    Total,  403  04. 

OHIO  HOME  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY. 
Receipts   in  February,  1906. 
Rev.  C.  H.  Small,  Treasurer,  Cleveland. 

Brighton,  1.50;  Brookfield,  10;  Bluescreek,  2.10:  Centen- 
nial, 4.34;  Coolville,  10;  Cincinnati,  Storrs,  W.  M.  S.,  5; 
C.  E.,  5;  Jr.  C.  E.,  3;  Boy's  Club,  3;  Per.  2.50;  Chagrin 
Falls,  C.  E.,  2;  Cleveland,Union,  10;  S.  S.,  n;  Pilgrim, 
160.61;  S.  S.,  5;  Hough  Ave.,  C.  E.,  5;  Trinity,  5; 
North,  C.  E.,  2;  Columbus,  South,  9;  Eagleville,  S.  S.,  1; 
C.  E.,  1.25;  Granville,  3;  Ireland,  3.16;  Kelloggsville,  3.55; 
Lima,  1st  3;  Lodi,  18.25;  C.  E.,  5;  Mantua,  130;  Newark, 
1st,  C.  E.,  5;  Oberlin,  1st,  Prof.  Currier,  6;  Pierpont, 
2.25;  C.  E.,  4.15;  Jr.  C.  C.,  50;  Rochester,  ;;  Saybrook, 
3.10;  Toledo,  1st,  80;  Birmingham,  6.45;  Twinsburg,  S.  S., 
5.14;  Wakeman,  C.  E.,  10.  Total,  547.85.  Cleveland, 
Pilgrim,  for  Bohemian  Work,  160.61. 


OHIO  WOMAN'S  HOME    MISSIONARY  UNION. 
Receipts  in   February,   1906. 
Mrs.  George  B.  Brown,  Treasurer,  Toledo. 

Akron,  ist„  W.  M.  S.,  42;  Ashtabula,  1st,  W.  M.  S. 
5.50;  Brownhelm,  W.  M.  S..  5;  Chatham,  W.  M.  S.,  5; 
Claridon,  W.  M.  S.,  to;  Cleveland,  Euclid.  W.  A.,  48.75; 
Y.  L  ,4.50;  Franklin,  W.  M.  S.,  6;  Pilgrim,  W.  A., 
23.80;  Columbus,  Eastwood.  W.  M.  S..  140.  Collinswood, 
W.  M.  S.,  2.80;  Edinburg,  W.  M.  S.,  5;  Kent,  W.  M.  S., 
7;  Mansfield,  Mayflower,  W.  M.  S.,  8;  Marietta,  1st,  15; 
Mt.  Vernon,  W.  M.  S.,  12;  Newark,  Plymouth,  W.  M. 
S.,  6;  Noith  Ridgeville,  S.  S.,  2.50;  Springfield,  1st,,  S.  S. 
20;  Unionville,  W.  M.  S.,  3.50;  W.  Williamsfield,  W.  M. 
S.,  10;  Williamsfield.  W.  M.  S.,  5;  Youngstown,  Ply- 
mouth, W.  M.  S.,   8.     Total $256:75 

Total  for  general  work 802.60 

Grand  total 963.81 

ILLINOIS  HOME  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY. 

Receipts  in  January,  1906. 

John  W.  Iliff,  Treasurer,  (Chicago,  111. 

Albion,  1st,  38.65:  Alton,  118.22;  Bloomington,  30.40; 
Buda,  S.  S.,  5.45;  Chicago,  Douglass  Park,  1.20;  1st, 
15.03;  New  England,  ig;o3;  North  Shore,  55.98:  Pil- 
grim, 35;  Plymouth,  30.94;  South,  53.17;  University, 
S.  S.,  6.90;  Warren  Ave  ,  56.65:  Dundee,  C.  E.,  15;  De- 
catur, 19.75:  Dover,  15.80;  Galesburg,  Central,  35.86;  Gene- 
see, 35.50;  Glencoe,  27.14;  Godfrey,  S  S.,  15.55;  Grayslake, 
S.  S.,  2.38;  Granville,  ('.  E..  20:  Harvard,  10;  Ivanhoe, 
C.  E.,  6:  LaMoille,  13.88:  Lyonsville,  C.  E  ,  7.50;  Malta, 
5.  Marshall,  S.  S.,  6;  Mendon,  C.  E..  10;  Moline,  2nd.  C. 
E  ,  7  50;  Mounds,  4;  Oak  Park,  1st,  76.2?;  2nd,  86.94;  Pay- 
son,  14.91;  Providence,  10;  Ravenswood,  45:  Rollo,  12.10; 
Roberts,  C.  E.,  3.13;  Sherrard,  1;  Spring  Valley,  C.  E., 
1.50;  Sycamore.  74  42:  Wataga,  7.70;  Wilmette,  19.70;  Win- 
netka,  27.50;  Yorkville,  C.  E.,  2.66;  S.  S.,  6.22; 

Illinois  W.  H  M.  U  ,  328.08;  Rockford,  Floyd  Smith,  1; 
Joliet,  Rev.  S.  Penfield,  7;  Payson,  L.  C.  Seymour, 
193.64;  Chicago,  Victor  F.  Lawson,  100;  Rev.  E.  M. 
Williams,  50.    Total,  less  exchange,  1,786.90. 

Receipts  in  February,  1906. 

Albion,  1st,  4.75;  Amboy,  C.  E.,  2.50:  Boaz,  1.90;  Cale- 
donia, C.  E.,  5;  Canton,  65.90;  Carpentersville,  C.  E  ,  10; 
Chicago,  New  England,  members'  special,  200;  Fifty- 
second  Ave  ,  9.70;  Dover,  100;  Fox  Lake,  S.  S.,  1:  Gales- 
burg, E.  Main  St.;  38.35;  Joliet,  Welsh,  5;  Mattoon. 
40.80;  McLean,  15.3c;  Oak  Park,  3rd,  ig  23;  Plainfield, 
12:75;  Rockford,  2nd,  S.  S.,  6.04;  Shabbona,  26.80;  Spring- 
field, 1st,  C.  E.,  8;  Vienna,  13.59;  West  Chicago,  C.  E., 
4.68. 

Illinois  W.  H.  M.  U.,  282.17;  A.  M.  Brodie,  20;  W. 
Dickinson,  1;  S.  Illinois,  Rallies,  3.55;  J.  G.  Brook, 
supply  fee,  15.     Total,  913.06. 

MICHIGAN  HOME  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY. 

Receipts  in  February,  1906. 
Rev.  John  P.  Sanderson,  Treasurer,  Lansing. 

Ada,  1st,  3.50:  2nd,  2.35;  Allegan,  5  07;  Atlanta  and  Big 
Rock,  10;  Bangor,  1st,  5.64;  West,  10;  Belding,  20;  Clin- 
ton, S.  S.,  10;  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  12.50;  Covert,  16;  Detroit, 
1st  S.  S.,  20;  Dowagiac,  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  5;  Gaylord,  40.52; 
Hancock,  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  5;  Ironton,  3;  Jackson,  1st  S.  S., 
10;  Lamont,  15;  Lansing,  Plymouth,  145.27;  Luzerne,  3.50; 
Manistee,  7  26;  Mio,  2;  Pittsford,  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E  ,  2;  Pratt- 
ville,  4;  Ray,  Union  Ch.,  6.60;  Rochester,  12;  Ryno,  .50; 
Saginaw,  Genesee  St.,  1;  Stanton,  13.50;  Ypsilanti,Y.  P. 
S.  C.  E.,5. 

W.  H.  M.  U.,  by  Mrs.  E.  F.  Grabill,  Treas.,  117.50. 
Total,  s'3-7'- 

MICHIGAN  WOMAN'S  HOME  MISSIONARY  UNION. 

Receipts  in  January,  1906. 

Mrs.  E.  F.  Grabill,  Treasurer,  Greenville. 

Charlotte,  L.  B.  S.,  25;  Detroit,  Brewster,  W.  A  ,  10; 
North  Cong.  Ch.  Union,  5.55;  WToodward  W.  Union, 
37.50;  Grand  Ledge,  W.  H.  M.  U.,  5.50;  Greenville,  W.  H. 
M.  S.,  2.95;  Hudson,  W.  M.  S.,  2;  Interest,  10;  Jackson, 
1st,  W.  H.  M.  S.,  40;  Port  Huron,  1st  Cong.  Ch.  Union, 
5;  Three  Oaks,  W.  M.  U.,  12.50;  Ypsilanti,  Jr.  C.  E.  Soc. 
4.    Total,  160. 


APPOINTMENTS   AND    RECEIPTS 


35 


Receipts  in  February,  1906. 

Ann  Arbor,  W.  H.  M.  S.,  56.22;  Bay  City,  W.  A.,  12; 
Charlevoix,  W.  H.  M.  S.,  5;  Chelsea,  W.  M.  S.,  2787; 
Clare,  W.  H.  M.  U.  (for  1905),  15;  Clinton,  W.  M.  S., 
10;  Eaton  Rapids,  W.  H.  M.  S.,  10;  Frankfort,  W.H.M.S., 
5;  Grand  Rapids,  East.  H.  and  F.  M.  S.,  10;  Plymouth 
W.  M.  S.,  12;  Smith,  2;  Greenville,  W.  H.  M.  S.,  of 
which  io.4oisThankoffering,  11  90;  Highland,  W. M.S., 
6.40;  Hudson,  5;  Jackson,  W.  H.  M.  S.,  20;  Mattawan, 
W.  H.  M.  U.,  5;  Middleville,  W.  H.  M.  S.,  5;  Owosso, 
W.  M.  U.,  10.57,  Thankoffering,  2o.57;Red  Jacket,  W. 
M.  S.  Special  gift  Home  Missions,  30;  Rochester,  L. 
M.  S.,  5;  Special,  5;  Rodney,  Penny-a-week,  2.25;  St. 
John,  W.  H.  M.  S.,  12.50;  Sidney,  W.  H.  M.  S.,  5: 
Mrs.  C.  B.  Stowell,  100;  Three  Oaks,  W.  M.  S.,  9.70. 
Total,  403.41. 

Young  People's  Fund. 

Litchfield,  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  2;  Onekama,  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E., 
2.     Grand  total,  407.41. 

DONATIONS  OF  CLOTHING,   ETC. 

Received  and  Reported  at  the  Rooms  of  the  Woman's  Home 
Missionary  Association,  Boston,  Mass.,  from  Dec  1,  1905  to 
March  1,  1906,  Miss  Mary  C.  E.  Jackson,  Secretary. 

Adams,  Aux.,  3  bbls.,  245;  Amherst,  1st  and  College 
Chs.,  2  boxes,  144;  2nd,  Ch.,  W.  M.  S.,  bbl.,  92.15; 
Andover,  South  Ch.,  S.  D.  of  W.  U.,  bbl.  and  ca<=h, 
92.45;  Attleboro,  2nd  Cong.  Ch.,  bbl.,  50;  Auburndale, 
Aux.,  4  bbl.,  173.55;  Brookline,  Harvard  Ch.,  Aux.,  5 
bbls.  and  2  boxes,  811.62;  Cambridge,  1st,  Aux.,  1  bbl. 
and  1  box,  146.20;  Concord,  Aux.,  2  bbls.,  172;  Dalton, 
L.iS.  S.,  2  bbls.,  196.38;  Dedham,  L.  B.;S.,  3  bbls.,  143.83; 
Dorchester,  Pilgrim  Ch'.,  H.  M.  Dept.  of  W.  U.,  2  boxes 
and  cash,  192;  2nd  Ch.,  2  bbls.,  121.83;  Everett,  1st  Ch., 
L.  M.  and  A.  S.,  bbl.,  48.50;  Franklin,  B.  S.,  bbl.  and 
box,  133.52;  Gloucester,  W.  M.  S.,  box  and  cash,  117.78; 
Granby,  L.  B.  S.  box.  38.27;  Hampton,  N.  H.,  W.  M.  S., 
cash  and  bal.,  76.47;  Hinsdale,  B.  Soc.  bbl.,  74.63;  Hol- 
yoke,  2nd  Ch.,  Aux.,  2  boxes,  265;  Hyde  Park,  1st  Ch., 
Jr.  C.  E.,box  16;  W.  H.  M.  XL,  bbl.  of  bks.,  41.63; 
Jamaica  Plain,  Cent.  Ch.  Aux.,  bbl.,  90;  Keene,  N.  H., 
Court  St.  Ch.,  2  boxes,  129.22;  Lexington,  Hancock 
Ch.,  box  and  bbl.,  122.34;  Lowell,  Eliot  Ch.,  Aux.,  2 
boxes,  265;  Kirk  St.  Ch.,  box,  113  96;  Lynn,  Central 
Ch.,  box,  291.28;  Medford,  Mystic  Ch..  2  bbl.,  105.71;; 
Middleboro,  Central  Ch.,  H.  M.  C,  2  bbl.,  1:5;  Milford, 
box,  60;  Natick,  1st  Ch.,  H.  M.  S.,  cash  and  bbl.,  76.96; 
Newbury,  Aux.,  bbl.,  76;  Newport,  R.  I.,  United  Ch., 
W.  A.,  box,  200;  Newburyport,  North  Ch.,  Powell 
M.  C,  box,  97;  Newton,  Eliot  Ch.,  W.  A.,  2  bbls.,  168; 
Aux.,  2  bbls.,  90;  Newtonville,  Aux.,  box,  125.37;  New- 
ton Center,  Aux.,  4  bbls.,  2  boxes  and  fur  coat,  486.43; 
North  Adams,  L.  B.  Soc,  bbl.  and  cash,  85;  Northamp- 
ton, Edwards  Ch.,  H.  M.  S.,  bbl.,  52;  North  Leominster, 
pkg.,  1.50;  Pawtucket,  L.  H.  M.jS.,  box,*2io;  Peabody,So. 
Ch„  Aux.,  bbl.  and  box,  92;    Pepperell,   Aux.,  bbl., 


104.82;  Pittsfield,  1st  Ch.,  F.  W.  Soc,  box,  92  65;  Provi- 
dence, R.  I.,  Central  Ch.,  Aux.,  2  boxes  and  Christmas 
box,  412.59;  Union  Ch.,  2  boxes,  379.50;  Roxbury,  Wal- 
nut Ave.  Ch.  Aux.,  bbl.,  35:  Immaunel  Ch.,  Aux., 
bbl.,  112.98;  Salem,  Tabernacle  Ch.,  2  bbls.  and  box, 
275'.  Somerville,  1st  Ch.,  H.  M.  Br.  of  L.  A.  S.,  box, 
50.90;  West  S.,  A  Friend,  carriage  robe,  5;  Southbridge, 
an  electric  seal  cape,  25;  Sherborn,  bbl.,  36.56;  Spring- 
field, Memorial  Ch.,  aux.,  cash  and  2  bbls.,  129.50; 
Park  Ch.,  K.  D.  C.  2  boxes  120.37;  Stockbridge,  2  bbls. 
and  cash,  125;  Topsfield,  bbl.,  60;  Walpole,  Aux.,  bbl., 
100;  Waltham,  Aux.,  cash  and  2  bbls.,  135;  Warren, 
Aux.,  box,  163.50;  Watertown,  P.  S.  S.,  2  bbls.,  248.63; 
Westboro,  Aux.,  2  bbls.,  112;  Westfield,  1st  Ch.,  L.  B.  S\, 
2  boxes,  174.55;  West  Newton,  Aux.,  box,  bbl.  and  fur 
coat,  160.76;  Wellesley,  W.  H.  M.  Dept.  and  friends  in 
Natick,  bbl.,  40;  Whitinsville,  box,  259.69;  Winthrop, 
Union  Cong.  Ch  ,  B.  U.,  bbl.,  56.55;  Wollaston,  1st  Ch  , 
L.  B.  S..  box,  88;  Worcester,  Piedmont  Ch.,  B.  U.,  bbl., 
125.33.    Total,  10,104.50. 

DONATIONS  OF  CLOTHING,  ETC. 
Reported  at  the  National  Office  in  January,  1906. 

Atlanta,  Ga.,  L.  U.  of  Central  Ch.,  cash  and  bbl., 
158.58;  Brooklyn,  N.Y.,  L.  B.  S.  of  South  Ch.,  box, 
143. n;  Marion  L.  Roberts,  pkgs;  Collinsville,  Conn.,  H. 
M.  S.  of  Ch.,  2  boxes,  137.11;  Danville,  Vt.,  W.  H.  M. 
S.  of  Ch.,  bbl.,  58.15;  East  Orange,  N.  J.,  Trinity  Ch., 
2  boxes,  155.86;  Farmmgton,  Conn.,  L.  B.  S.,  bbl., 
148.63;  Hartford,  Conn.,  L.  A.  3.  of  Windsor  Ave.  Ch., 
'  bbl.,  75.30;  Montclair,  N.  J.,  Y.  W.  M.  S.  of  1st  Ch., 
2  bbls.,  145.15;  New  Britain,  Conn.,  W.  H.  M.  S.  of 
South  Ch.,box,  108. 59;New Haven,  Conn., L.  A.  S.,  Ch.  of 
Redeemer,  bbl.,  120;  Dwight  Place  Ch.,  2  bbls,  97.02; 
L.  H.  M.  S.  of  1st  Ch.  of  Christ,  14  boxes,  2,666.80; 
New  York  City,  N.  Y.,  pkgs.,  100;  Norfolk.  Conn.,  L.  H. 
M.  S.,  bbl.,  178;  Preston,  Conn.,  L.  S.  S.  Ch.,  cash  and 
bbl  ,  61.75;  Ridgway,  Pa.,  W.  M.  S.  of  1st  Ch.,  box  and 
bbl.,  58;  Southport,  Conn.,  pkg.;  St.  Albans,  Vt,  Ch., 
bbl.,  121;  Windham,  0.,  L.  H.  M.  S.  Ch.,  bbl,  42. 

Total $4,57S-i4 

Reported  at  the  National  Office  in  February,  1906. 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  L.  B.  S.  of  Central  Ch.,  2  bbls..  126; 
L.  B.  S.  of  Central  Ch.,  4  bbls.,  250;  Hadley,  Mass., 
Ladies'  Club  of  1st  Ch.,  2  bbls.,  100;  Hartford,  Conn.. 
Center  Ch.,  bbl.,  95.12;  Manchester,  N.  H,  L.  B.  Ass'n, 
of  Franklin  St.  Ch.,  2  bbls.,  160;  Montclair,  N.  J.,  W. 
H,  M.  S.  of  1st  Ch.,  box  and  bbl.,  104.03;  New  London. 
Conn.,  Ladies'  Guild  of  2nd  Ch.,  1  bbl.,  51.03;  Poquo- 
nock,  Conn.,  Ch.,  bbl.,  141.94;  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  H.  M. 
S,  of  North  Ch.,  bbl.,  92.75;  St.  Johnsbury,  Vt,  W. 
Ass'n  of  North  Ch.,  2  bbls.,  125;  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  L.  A.  S, 
of  1st  Ch.,  bbl.,  74.57;  51.30;  Toledo,  0.,  Central  Ch., 
bbl.,  58.75;  Wethersfield,  Conn.,  L.  A.  S.  of  Ch.,  bbl. 
and  cash..  45.    Total,  1  475.49. 


I  WAS  BROUGHT  UP  TO  BELIEVE  THAT  THE  CONGREGA- 
TIONAL HOME  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY  IS  ONE  OF  THE 
MOST  IMPORTANT  AGENCIES,  IF  NOT  THE  MOST  IM- 
PORTANT, FOR  THE  MAINTENANCE  AND  EXTENSION  IN 
OUR  NEWER  STATES  OF  PURE  RELIGION  AND  GOVERN- 
MENT. I  HAVE  NEVER  DEPARTED  FROM  THAT  DOCTRINE. 
—  Franklin    Carler. 


IT   MAY   BE    DOUBTED    WHETHER   THE    COUNTRY    COULD 
HAVE    BORNE    THE    STRAIN  OF   THE  CIVIL  WAR  WITH- 
OUT THE  LEAVENING    INFLUENCE    OF   THE  HOME   MIS- 
SIONARY SOCIETY.—  Lyman  S.  Rowland. 


WOMAN'S    STATE    ORGANIZATIONS 


OFFICERS 


1,  NEW  HAMPSHIRE,  Female  Cent.  Institution, 
organized  August,  1804;  and  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  June,  i8go.  President,  Mrs.  James  Minot, 
Concord;  Secretary,  Mrs.  M.  W.  Nims,  5  Blake  St., 
Concord;  Treasurer,  Miss  Annie  A.  McFarland,  ig6 
N.  Main  St.,  Concord. 

2,  MINNESOTA,  IVoman's  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  September.  1872.  President,  Miss  Catharine 
W.  Nichols,  230  E.  gth  St.,  St.  Paul;  Secretary, 
Mrs.  S.  V.  S.  Fisher,  2131  E.  Lake  St.,  Minneapolis; 
Treasurer,  Mrs.  W.  M.  Bristoll,  2826  Chicago  Ave., 
Minneapolis. 

3,  ALABAMA,  Woman's  Missionary  £/*70»,  organized 
March.  1877;  reorganized  April,  1889.  President, 
Mrs.  M.  A.  Dillard,  Selma;  Secretary,  Mrs.  E.  Guy 
Snell,  Talladega- Treasurer,  Mrs.  A.  W.  Homey,  425 
Margaret  Ave.,  Smithfield,  Birmingham. 

4,  MASSACHUSETTS  AND  RHODE  ISLAND,  (having 
certain     auiliaries     elsewhere).      Woman's     Home 

Missionary  Association,  organized  February,  1880. 
President,  Mrs.  Wm.  H.  Blodgett,  645  Centre  St.. 
Newton,  Mass.;  Secretary,  Miss  Mary  C  E.  Jackson, 607 
Congregational  House,  Boston;  Treasurer,  Miss  Lizzie 
D.  White,  607  Congregational  House,  Boston. 

5,  MAINE,  Woman ' s  Missionary  A  uxiliary,  or- 
ganized June,  1880.  President,  Mrs.  Katherine  B. 
Lewis,  S.  Berwick;  Secretary,  Mrs.  Emma  C.  Water- 
man, Gorham;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  Helen  W.  Hubbard,  79 
Pine  St.,  Bangor. 

6,  MICHIGAN,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  May,  1881.  President,  Mrs.  C.  R.  Wilson, 
65  Frederick  Ave.,  Detroit;  Cor.  Secretary,  Mrs.  Percy 
Gaines.  298  Hudson  Ave.,  Detroit;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  E. 
F.  Grabill,  Greenville. 

7,  KANSAS,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union,  or- 
ganized October,  1881.  President,  Mrs.  J.  E.  Ingham, 
Topeka;  Secretary,  Mrs.  Emma  E.  Johnston,  1323  W. 
15th  St.,  Topeka;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  W.  A.  Sloo,  1112  W. 
13th  St.,  Topeka. 

8,  OHIO,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union,  or- 
ganized May,  1882.  President,  Mrs.  C.  H.  Small. 
iq6  Commonwealth  Ave.,  Cleveland;  Secretary  and 
Treasurer,  Mrs.  G.  B.  Brown,  2116  Warren  St.    Toledo. 

9,  NEW  YORK,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  October,  1883.  President,  Mrs.  William 
Kincaid,  483  Greene  Ave..  Brooklyn:  Secretary,  Mrs. 
Charles  H.  Dickinson,  Woodcliff-on-Hudson,  N.  J.; 
Treasurer,  Mrs.  J.  J.  Pearsall,  153  Decatur  St.,  Brook- 
lyn. 

10,  WISCONSIN,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  October,  1883.  President,  Mrs.  T.  G.  Gras- 
sie,  Wauwatosa;  Secretary,  Mrs.  J.  H.  Dixon,  1024 
Chapin  St.,  Beloit;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  Erastus  G.  Smith, 
64Q  Harrison  Ave.,  Beloit. 

11,  NORTH  DAKOTA,  Woman's  Home  Missionary 
Union,  organized  November,  1883  President,  Mrs.  E. 
H.  Stickney,  Fargo;  Secretary,  Mrs.  Silas  Daggett, 
Harwood;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  J.  M.  Fisher,  Fargo. 

12,  OREGON,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union,  or- 
ganized July.  1884.  President,  Mrs.  E.  W.  Luckey, 
707  Marshall  St.,  Portland;  Cor.  Secretary,  Miss  Mercy 
Clarke,  39s  Fourth  St..  Portland;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  C. 

F.  Clapp.  Forest  Grove. 

13,  WASHINGTON,  Including  Northern  Idaho, 
Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union,  organized  July. 
1884;  reorganized  June,  1889.  President,  Mrs.  W.  C. 
Wheeler,  424  South  K.  St.,  Tacoma;  Secretary,  Mrs. 
Herbert  S.  Gregory,  Spanaway;  Treasurer,  E.  B.  Bur- 
well,  323  Seventh  Ave.,  Seattle. 

14,  SOUTH  DAKOTA,  Woman's  Home  Missionary 
Union,  organized  September,  1884.  President,  Mrs.  H. 
K.  Warren,  Yankton;  Secretary,  Mrs.  A.  C.  Bowdish, 
Mitchell:  Treasurer,  Mrs.  A.  Loomis,  Redfield. 

15,  CONNECTICUT,  Woman's  Congregational  Home 
Missionary  Union  of  Connecticut,  organized  January, 
1885.  President,  Mrs.  Washington  Choate,  Green- 
wich; Secretary,  Mrs.  C.  T.  Millard,  36  Lewis  St., 
Hartford;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  Chas.  S.  Thayer,  64  Gillett 
St.,  Hartford. 

16,  MISSOURI,  Woman' s  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  May.  1885.  President,  Mrs.  M.  T.  Runnels, 
2406  Troost  Ave.,  Kansas  City;  Secretary,  Mrs.  C.  W. 
McDaniel,  2729  Olive  St.,  Kansas  City;  Treasurer, 
Mrs.  A.  D.  Rider,  2524  Forest  Ave.,  Kansas  City. 

17,  ILLINOIS,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  May,  1885.  President,  Mrs.  B.  W.  Firman. 
1012  Iowa  St.,  Oak  Park;   Corresponding  Secretary,  Mrs. 

G.  H.  Schneider. 919  Warren  Ave.,  Chicago;  Treasurer, 
Mre.  A.  O.  Whitcomb,  463  Irving  Ave.  Douglas 
Park  Station,  Chicago. 


18,  IOWA,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union,  or- 
ganized June,  1886.  President,  Mrs.  D.  P.  Breed, 
Grinnell;  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Mrs.  H.  K.  Edson, 
Grinnell. 

19,  NORTHERN  CALIFORNIA,  Woman's  Home  Mis- 
sionary Union,  organized  June,  1887.  President,  Mrs. 
F.  B.  Perkins,  600 Seventeenth  St.,  Oakland:  Secretary, 
Mrs.  E.  S.  Williams,  Saratoga;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  J.  M. 
Haven,  1^29  Parrison  St.,  Oakland. 

20,  NEBRASKA,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  November,  1887.  President,  Mrs.  J.  E. 
Tuttle,  1313  C  St.,  Lincoln:  Secretary,  Mrs.  H. 
Brose,  2904  Q  St.,  Lincoln;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  Charlotte 
J.  Hall,  2322  Vine  St.,  Lincoln. 

21,  FLORIDA,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union,  or- 
ganized February,  1888.  President,  Mrs.  S  F.  Gale, 
Jacksonville;  Secretary,  Mrs.  W.  H.  Edmondson,  Day- 
tona;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  Catherine  A.  Lewis,   Mt.  Dora. 

22,  INDIANA,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  May,  1888.  President,  Mrs.  W.  A.  Bell,  121 1 
Broadway,  Indianapolis;  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Mrs. 
Anna  D.  Davis,  1608  Bellefontaine  St.,  Indianapolis. 

23,  SOUTHERN  CALIFORNIA,  Woman's  Home  Mis- 
sionary Union,  organized  May,  1888.  President  and 
Secretary,  Mrs.  Kate  G.  Robertson,  Mentone;  Treas- 
urer, Mrs  Katharine  Barnes,  Pasadena. 

24,  VERMONT,  IVoman's  Home  Missionary  Union. 
organized  June,  1888.  President,  Mrs.  Rebecca  P, 
Fairbanks.  St.  Johnsbury;  Secretary,  Mrs.  Evan 
Thomas,  Essex  Junction;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  C.  H. 
Thompson,  Brattleboro. 

25,  COLORADO,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  October,  1888.  President,  Mrs.  J.  C. 
Gorsuch,  753  S.  Pearl  St.,  Denver;  Secretary, 
Mrs.  F.  D.  Baker,  3221  Franklin  St..  Denver; 
Treasurer,  Mrs.  I.  M.  Strong,  P.  O.  Box  177,  Denver. 

26,  WYOMING,  Woman's  Missionary  Union,  or- 
ganized May,  1893.  President,  Mrs.  P.  F.  Powelson, 
Cheyenne;  Secretary,  Mrs.  H.  B.  Patten,  Cheyenne; 
Treasurer,  Miss  EdithMcCrum,  Cheyenne. 

27,  GEORGIA,  Woman's  Missionary  Union,  organized 
November,  1888;  new  organization  October,  1898. 
President,  Mrs.  H.  H.  Proctor,  Atlanta:  Secretary,  Miss 
Jenn'e  Curtiss,  Mcintosh;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  H.  T.  John- 
son, Rutland. 

29,  LOUISIANA,  Woman's  Missionary  Union,  or 
ganized  April,  1889.  President,  Mrs.  L.  St.  J.  Hitch- 
cock, 2436  Canal  St.,  New  Orleans;  Secretary,  Mrs.  A. 
L.  DeMond,  222  S.  Roman  St.,  New  Orleans;  Treasurer, 
Miss  Marv  L.  Rogers,  2420  Canal  S*\.  New  Orleans. 

30,  ARKANSAS,  KENTUCKY  AND  TENNESSEE, 
Woman's  Missionary  Union  0/  the  Tennessee  Associa- 
tion, organized  April,  i88g.  President,  Mrs.  G.  W. 
Moore.  926  N.  Addison  Ave.,  Nashville, Tenn.;  Secre- 
tary, Mrs.  J.  E.  Smith,  Chattanooga,  Tenn.;  Treasurer, 
Mrs.  J.  C.  Napier,  Nashville. 

31,  NORTH  CAROLINA,  Woman's  Missionary  Union. 
organized  October,  1889.  President,  Mrs.  C.  Newkirk, 
Mooresville;  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Mrs.  H.  R. 
Faduma,  Troy. 

32,  TEXAS,  Woman's  Horn*  Missionary  Union,  or- 
ganized March.  1890.  Secretary,  Mrs.  Donald  Hinck- 
ley. Dalla«;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  A.  Geen.  Dallas. 

33,  MONTANA,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  May,  1890.  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Mrs.  W. 
S.  Bell.  611  Sprue  St.,  St.  Helena. 

34,  PENNSYLVANIA,  Woman's  Missionary  Union, 
organized  June.  i8go  President,  Mrs.  E.  E.  Dexter, 
Philadelphia;  Secretary,  Mrs.  W.  H.  Chapin.  Wil- 
liamsrjort:  Treasurer,  Mrs.  David  Howells,  Kane. 

35,  OKLAHOMA,  Woman's  Missionary  Union,  or- 
ganized October  i8go.  President,  Mrs.  O.  W.  Rogers. 
Medford;  Secretary,  Mrs.  C.  M.  Terhune,  El  Reno; 
Treasurer,  Mrs.  Cora  Worrell,  Pond  Creek. 

36,  NEW  JERSEY,  Including»District  of  Columbia, 
Maryland  and  Virginia.  Woman's  Home  Missionary 
Union  0/  the  New  Jersey  Association,  organized 
March.  1801.  President,  Mrs.  John  M.  Whiton,  Plain- 
field;  Secretary,  Mrs.  Allen  H.  Still,  Westfield; 
Treasurer,  Mrs.  G.  A.  L.  Merrifield,  Falls  Church,  Va. 

37,  UTAH,  Including  Southern  Idaho.  Woman's 
Missionary  Union,  organized  Mav,  1891.  President, 
Mrs.  C.  T.  Hemphill  Salt  Lake  City.Ut'h;  Secretary, 
Mrs.  L.  E.  Hall,  Salt  Lake  Citv.  Utah;  Treasurer,  Mrs, 
A.  A.  Wenger.  563  Twenty-fifth  St.,  Ogden.  Utah; 
Treasurer  for  Idaho,  Mrs.  G.  W.  Derr,  Pocatello,  Idaho. 

41,  IDAHO,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union,  or- 
ganized 1895.  President,  Mrs.  R.  B.  Wright,  Boise; 
Secretary,  Mrs.  C.  E.  Mason,  Mountain  Home,  Treas- 
urer, Mrs.  G.  W.  Derr,  Pocatello,  Idaho. 


iffitiNBrolHIBP 

HHF 


Home   Missionary  Society 

Twenty-second  Street,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Eenry  C.  King,  D.D.,  President 

Washington  Choatb,  D.D., 
ary  Corresponding  Secretary 

n  O.  Shelton,  Associate  Secretary 
William  B.  Howland,  Treasurer 


Executive  Committee 


F,  D.D.,  Chairman  Rev.  LIVINGSTON  L.  TAYLOR,  Recording  Secretary 

S.  P.  Cadman.  D.D.  c.  C.  West 

F\D.  Frank  L.  Goodspeed,  D.D.  George  P.  STor^wni 

[an  Sylvester  B.  Carter  Rev.  Henry  H.  Kflsey 

George  W.  Hebard  Rev.  Frederick  Lynch 


Field  Secretary,  REV.  W.  G.  Puddefoot,  South  Framingham,  Mass. 
Field  Assistant,  Miss  M.  DEAN  Moffatt. 


Superintendents 


Moritz  E.  Eversz,  D.D.,  German  Department,  153  La  Salle  St.,  Chicago,  111. 
Rev.  S.  V.  S.  Fisher,  Scandinavian  Department,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 
Slavic  Department,  Cleveland,  Ohio 


Edw.  D.  Curtis,  D.D.-- Indianapolis,  Ind. 

S.  F.  Gale,  D.D Jacksonville,  Fla. 

Geo.  R.  Merrill,  D.D. Minneapolis,  Minn. 

Alfred  K.  Wray,  D.D... Carthage,  Mo. 

Rev.  W.  W.  Scudder,  Jr West  Seattle,  Wash. 

Rev.  W.  B.  D.  Gray ^ Cheyenne,  Wyo. 

Harmon  Bross,  D.D Lincoln,  Neb. 

Rev.  A.  T.  Clarke Fort  Payne.  Ala. 

Frank  E.  Jenkins,  D.D Atlanta,  Ga. 

Tex 
W.  H.  Thrall,  D.D Huron,  S.  Dak! 


Rev.  G.J.  Powell. Fargo,  N.  Dak. 

Rev.  H.  Sanderson Denver,  Colo. 

J.  D.  Kingsbury,  D.D.  (New  Mexico, 

Arizona,  Utah  and  Idaho) , 

Salt  Lake  City 

Rev.  John  L.  Maile Los  Angeles,  Caf. 

Rev.  C.  F.  Clapp Forest  Grove,  Ore. 

Rev.  Charles  A.  Jones,  75  Essex  St.,  HackcnsacK  in   | 

Rev.  W.  S.  Bell Helena,  Mont. 

Rev.  T-  Homer  Parker Kingfisher,  Okla. 

Geo.  L.  Todd,  D.D. Havana,  Cuba 


Secretaries  and  Treasurers  of  the  Auxiliaries 

Rev.  Charles  Harbutt,  Secretary Maine  Missionary  Society 34  Dow  St.,  Portland,  Me. 

W.  P.  Hubbard;  Treasurer "  "  " Box  1052,  Bangor,  Me. 

Rev.  A.  T.  Hillman,  Secretary New  Hampshire  Home  Missionary  Society Concord,  N.  H. 

Alvin  B.  Cross,  Treasurer "  "  "  "      Concord,  N.  H. 

Charles  H.  Merrill,  D.D.,  Secretary.. Vermont  Domestic  "      St.  johnsbury,  Vt. 

J.  T.  Richie,  Treasurer "  "  "  -" St.  Johnsbury,  Vt. 

P.  E.  Emrich,  D.D.,  Secretary.. .Massachusetts  Home  "  "      )  609  Cong' 1  House, 

Rev.  Joshua  Coit,  Treasurer "  "  "  "      \  Boston,  Mass. 

Rev.  J.  H.  Lyon,  Secretary Rhode  Island        "  "  "      Central  Falls,  R.  1. 

Jos.  Wm.  Rice,  Treasurer "■  '"  "  "  "      Providence,  R.  I. 

Rev.  Joel  S.  Ives,  Secretary. ..Missionary  Society  of  Connecticut Hartford,  Conn. 

Ward  W.  Jacobs,  Treasurer "  '"  " Hartford,  Conn. 

Rev.  C.  W.  Shelton,  Secretary ..New  York  Home  Missionary  Society,  Fourth  Ave.and22d  St.,  New  York 


Clayton  S.  Fitch,  Treasurer.. 

Rev.  Charles  H.  Small,  Secretary Ohio 

Rev.  Charles  H.  Small,  Treasurer " 

A.  M.  Brodie,  D.D.,  Secretary Illinois 

John  W.  Iliff,  Treasurer " 

Homer  W.  Carter,  D.D.,  Secretary. .Wisconsin 

C.  M.  Blackman,  Treasurer " 

T.  O.  Douglass,  D.D.,  Secretary Iowa 

Miss  A.  D.  Merrill,  Treasurer " 

William  H.Warren,  D.D.,  Secretary  ..Michigan 
Rev.  John  P.  Sanderson,  Treasurer 


Fourth  Ave.  and  22d  St. .  New  York 

Cleveland,  Ohio 

Cleveland,  Ohio 

)  153  La  Salle  St., 

\  Chicago 

Beloit,  Wis. 

Whitewater,  Wis. 

Grinnell,  Iowa 

Des  Moines,  Iowa 

Lansing,  Mich. 

_ .  _ Lansing,  Mich. 

Rev.  Henry  E.  Thayer,  Secretary Kansas  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society ..Topeka,  Kan. 

H.  C.  Bowman,  Treasurer "  "  "  "  "       ...Topeka,  Kan. 

Rev.  J.  K.  Harrison,  Secretary California  Home  Missionary  Society San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Geo.  H.  Morgan,  Secretary Congregational  City  Missionary  Society St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Prof.  F.  A.  Hall,  Superintendent "  "  "  " St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Lewis  E.  Snow,  Treasu.er ■"  "  "  "       St.  Louis,  Mo. 


LEGACIES  —  The  following  form  may  be  used  in  making  legacies  : 

I  bequeath  to  my  executors  the  sum  of  dollars,  in  trust,  to  pay  over  the  same  in 

months  after  my  decease,  to  any  person  who,  when  the  same  is  payable,  shall  act  as 

Treasurer  of  the  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society,  formed  in  the  City  of  New  York,  in  the 

year  eighteen  hundred  and  twenty-six,  to  be  applied  to  the  charitable  use  and  purposes  of  said 

Society,  and  under  its  direction. 

HONORARY  LIFE  MEMBERS  — The  payment  of  Fifty  Dollars  at  one  time  constitutes  an 
Honorary  Life  Member. 


H  MATTER  OF  HEAL 


in 


POWDER 

Absolutely  Pure 

HAS  NO  SUBSTITUTE 

warn 


AND  SA 


lorTAeJoi 

and 

JBdOi, 


SfiESiq 


ol 


NO  BABY'S  SKIN  TOO  DELICA  S  USE 

NO  STAIN  THAT  Will  WOT  1MSAPP       EFOREIT 


MAY  1906 


V0LLXXXNUMBER2 


1    W 


\    / 


T HE  HO M E 
MISSIONARY 


1826 


The  JVonderland  of  the  North- 
west JV.  IV.  Scudder 

A  Trip  through  the  Hay  Stack 
Country         F.  E.  Emrich 

Romance  of  Home  Missions  in 
Oklahoma         O.  B.  Loud 

The  Call  of  the  Home  Field 

S.  B.  Capen 


1906 


OCHTIETH  ANNIVERSARY 


fit 


Entered  at  the  Post  Office  at  NewYork,  N.Y.as  second  dias^fliailjmatter. 


PRESBYTERIAN  HISTORICAL  SOCIETY. 


CONTENTS 


je  For   MAY,    1906. 


THE  WONDERLAND  OF  THE  NORTHWEST.     (Illustrated.)   Rev. 

W.  W.  Scudder,   Jr 37 

A  TRIP  THROUGH  THE  HAYSTACK  COUNTRY.  (Illustrated.) 

F.  E.  Emrich,  D.  D 42 

THE  ROMANCE  OF  OKLAHOMA  HOME  MISSIONS.    (Illustrated.) 

Rev.  Oliver  B.  Loud  .......        48 

EDITOR'S  OUTLOOK  .......        57 

A  Fruitful  Decade— The   Thoughtful  Subscriber— After   Many   Days 

TIMELY  TRUTHS  TERSELY  TOLD 

Redeeming  the  Waste.     N.  McGee  Waters  .  .  .  59 

The  Higher  Patriotism.     Henry  H.  Hamilton  .  .  .  .60 

The   Business   Way.     O.   D.   Crawford   .  .  .  .  .61 

THE  CLAIMS  AND  NECESSITIES  OF  THE  HOME  FIELD 

Samuel  B.   Capen  .  .  .  ....        62 

THE  DESTINY  OF  AMERICA 

IV.    Ultimate  America.    William  W.  Jordan     ....        64 

AN  IMMIGRANT  BOY   THINKS 

John  A.  Shedd 67 

FROM  THE  FRONT  LINE 68 

The  Woman  Missionary  in  Wyoming — The  Winter  Visitor-Making 
for  Righteousness— A  Temperance  Incident — A  Touch  of  Nature — The 
Revival  Record — This  is  Business — A  Good  Year 

A  JUNIOR  HOME  MISSION  TEXT-BOOK      ....  71 

A  SUGGESTIVE  LETTER 71 

THE  OPINION  OF  AN  EXPERT 72 

APPOINTMENTS  AND    RECEIPTS 73 


PER    YEAR,     FIFTY     CENTS 

THE      HOME      MISSIONARY 

Published  monthly,  except  in  July  and  August,  by  the 

Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society 

287    FOURTH    AVENUE,           NEW    YORK    CITY 

ENTERED   AT  THE    POST    OFFICE,    AT    NEW   YORK,    N.   V.,    At   EE0OND   OLAM    [mAIl]    MATTER 


T  H?E      HOME      MISSIONARY      ADVERTISER 


r 


WING  PIANOS 

Are  Sold  Direct  From  the  Factory,  and  in  No  Other  Way 

You  Save  from$75to$200 


When  you  buy  a  Wing  Piano,  you  buy  at  wholesale. 
You  pay  the  actual  cost  of  making  it  with  only  our  whole- 
sale profit  added.  When  you  buy  a  piano,  as  many  still  do— 
at  retail— you  pay  the  retail  dealer's  store  rent  and  other 
expenses.  You  pay  his  profit  and  the  commission  or  salary 
of  the  agents  or  salesmen  he  employs— all  these  on  top  of 
what  the  dealer  himself  has  to  pay  co  the  manufacturer.  The 
retail  profit  on  a  piano  is  from  $75  to  $200.  Isn't  this  worth 
saving? 


SENT  ON  TRIAL 

WE    PAY    FREIGHT 
No  Money  in  Advance 


Anywhere 


We  will  place  a  Wing  Piano  in  any  home  in  the  United 
States  on  trial,  without  asking  for  any  advance  payment  or 
deposit.  We  pay  the  freight  and  all  other  charges  in  advance. 
There  is  nothing  to  be  paid  either  before  the  piano  is  sent  or 
when  it  is  received.  If  the  pianc  is  not  satisfact  ory  after  20 
days'  trial  in  your  home,  we  take  it  back  entirely  at  our  ex- 
pense. You  pay  us  nothing,  and  arc  under  no  more  obliga- 
tion to  keep  the  piano  than  if  you  were  examining  it  at  our 
factory.  There  can  be  absolutely  no  risk  or  expense  to  you. 

Do  not  imagine  that  it  is  impossible  foi  us  to  do  as  we 
say.  Our  system  is  so  perfect  that  we  can  without  any 
trouble  deliver  a  piano  in  the  smallest  town  in  any  part  of 
the  United  States  just  as  easily  as  we  can  in  New  York  City, 
and  with  absolutely  no  trouble  or  annoyance  to  you,  and 
without  anything  being  paid  in  advance  or  on  arrival  either 
for  freight  or  any  other  expense.  We  take  old  pianos  and 
organs  in  exchange. 

A  guarantee  forl2years  against  any  defect  in  tone,  action, 
workmanship  or  material  is  given  with  every  Wing  Piano. 


Small,  Easy 
MONTHLY 


Payments 


In   37  years   over  40,000   "Wing  Pianos 

have  been  manufactuied  and  sold.  They  are  recom- 
mended by  seven  governors  of  States,  by  musical  colleges 
and  schools,  by  prominent  orchestra  leaders,  music  teach- 
ers and  musicians.  Thousands  of  these  pianos  are  in 
your  own  State,  some  of  them  undoubtedly  in  your  very 
neighborhood.  Our  oatalogue  contains  names  and  ad- 
dresses. 

Mandolin,  Guitar, Harp,  Zither,  Banjo— 

The  tones  of  any  or  all  of  these  instruments  may  be  re- 
produced perfectly  by  any  ordinary  player  on  the  piano  by 
means  of  our  Instrumental  Attachment.  This  improve- 
ment is  patented  by  us  and  cannot  be  had  in  any  other 
piano.  WING  ORGANS  are  made  with  the  same  care 
and  sold  in  the  same  way  as  Wing  Pianos.  Separate  or- 
gan catalogue  sent  on  request. 


■■*■ 

'     \    . 

.  -     ft  ■ 

■  -||,.  ■ 

The  Book 

*  of  .Complete 

IfffOJTrtBthNV 

about 

Pianos 

#rs     , 

\.,:>~% 

YOU  NEED  THIS  BOOK 

If  You  Intend  to  Buy  a  Piano— No  Matter  What  Make 

A  book — not  a  catalogue — that  gives  you  all  the  information  possessed  by 
experts,    It  tells  about  the  different  materials  used  in  the  different  parts 
of  a  piano ;  the  way  the  different  parts  are  put  together ,  what  causes  pianos 
to  get  out  of  order  and  in  fact  is  a  complete  encyclopedia.    It  makes  the 
selection  of  apiano  easy.    If  read  carefully,  it  will  make  you  a  judge  of 
tone,  action,  workmanship  and  finish.   It  tells  you  how  to  test  a  piano       J^  *&  '<v£ 
and  how  to  tell  good  from  bad.    It  is  absolutely  the  only  book  of       Jyjyfy 
its  kind  ever  published.    It  contains  166  large  pages  and  hun-  ^r  .&  \°  j 

dreds  of  illustrations,  all  devoted  to  piano  construction.    Its 
name  is  "The  Book  of  Complete  Information  About  Pianos." 
We  send  it  free  to  anyone  wishing  to  buy  apiano.    All  you 
have  to  do  is  to  send  us  your  name  and  address. 


WING  &  SON 

35l-3§2  West  13lli  Street,  New  York 

1868 37th  YEAR 1905 


Send  a  Postal  To-day  while  you  think  of 
it,  just  giving  your  name  and  address  or  send  us 
the  attached  coupon  and  the  valuable  book  of  in- 
formation, also  full  particulars  about  the  WING 
PIANO,  with  prices,  terms  of  payment,  etc., 
will  be  sent  to  you  promptly  by  mail.  sZS.t&L*' 


WING 
&S0N 

351-382  W.I3th 
St.,  New  York 


Send  to  the  name  and 
address  written  below, 
the  Book  of  Complete  In- 
formation about  Pianos,  also 
prices   and  terms  of  payment 
on  Wing  Pianos- 


When     writing     to     advertisers     please    mention    TnE    Home    Missionary 


THE 


HOME 


MISSIONARY 


ADVERTISER 


A  BOOK  NECESSARY  TO  THE 
STUDENT  OF  HISTORY  AND 
THE    STUDENT   OF  MISSIONS 

LEAVENING     THE 


NATION 


THE  STORY  OF   AMERICAN   PROTESTANT    HOME   MISSIONS 

By  JOSEPH  B.  CLARK,  D.D. 

Secretary  of  the  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society 

12  mo,  illustrated,  362  pages,  net  $1.25 

Student's  Edition,  Red  Paper  Covers,  50  Cents 

JAMES  S.  DENNIS  D.D.,  Students'  Lecturer  on  Missions,  Princeton,  1893 
and  1896. 

"I  know  of  no  book  on  Home  Missions  so  informing  and  valuable  to  an  earnest 
reader  as  'Leavening  the  Nation.'  A  careful  and  thoughtful  perusal  cannot  fail  to 
put  one  into  historic  sympathy  with  the  missionary  enterprise,  and  awaken  an  intelli- 
gent comprehension  of  its  immense  import.  It  is  a  happy  combination  of  history 
and  heroism,  and  patriotism  and  pious  achievement,  of  expansion  in  its  best  light, 
and  the  noblest  aspects  of  the  making  of  a  great  nation." 

FOR    SALE    BY 

THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


287   Fourth   Avenue, 


New  York. 


Rudolph  Lenz 

Printer 

62-65    Bible    House 

New    York 


THE       HOME       MISSIONARY        ADVERTISER 

A  JUNIOR  TEXT  BOOK 

FOR  HOME  MISSION  STUDY 


We  take  great  pleasure  in  announcing  for  the  season  of  1906-07,    an  admir- 
able home  mission  study  text-book  for  juniors,  entitled, 


COMING    AMERICANS 


BY  MISS  KATHERINE  R.  CROWELL 


Miss  Crowell's  earlier  books  in  this  series  have  been  received  with  great 
favor.  COMING  AMERICANS  will  be  illustrated  with  over  fifty  striking  pic- 
tures of  foreigners. 


COMMENTS  ON  MISS  CROWELL'S  JUNIOR  TEXT  BOOK 

''The  Children  will  most  certainly  be  interested  and  instructed." — The  Mis- 
sionary Review  of  the  World. 

"These  exceedingly  creditable  publications  for  Juniors  meet  a  very  decided 
need.  I  am  not  at  all  surprised  that  other  denominations  (than  the  Presbyterian) 
are  making  use  of  them." — Dr.  Harlan  P.  Beach. 

"Will  interest  juniors  and  seniors  alike." — The  Moravian,  Bethlehem,  Pa. 
PRICE  IN  PAPER,  TWENTY  CENTS ;  CLOTH,  THIRTY=FIVE  CENTS. 


For  copies,  address 

CONGREGATIONAL  HOME  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY, 
287  FOURTH  AVENUE,  NEW  YORK. 

When    writing   to    advertisers    please    mention    The    Home    Missionary 


THE        HOME        MISSIONARY        ADVERTISER 


HEROES 


OF  THE  CROSS 
IN   AMERICA 

..BY.. 

Don  0.  Shelton 


The  First  Home  Mission  Text 

Book    in    the    Forward 

Mission  Study  Series 

For    Mission  Study  Classes 
in  Young  People's  Societies 

For  "Women's  Home  Mission 
Unions 

For  General  Reading 


302  Pages.  Handsomely 
Bound.  Illustrated.  Cloth,  50 
Cents.  Paper,  35  Cents.  Postage 
JO  Cents  Extra. 


Just  now,  when  the  attention  of  the  world  is  focused 
on  Oregon  and  Marcus  Whitman,  there  is  a  growing 
appreciation  of  those  rugged  pioneers  who  coveted  the 
western  country  for  God.  Don  O.  Shelton,  who  is  held 
in  such  esteem  in  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association, 
seized  the  right  moment  to  present  in  "Heroes  of  the 
Cross  in  America,"  a  group  of  biographies  of  five  Amer- 
ican pioneer  missionaries,  David  Brainerd,  John  M. 
Peck,  Marcus  Whitman,  John  L.  Dyer  and  Joseph  Ward. 
These  men  had  the  woods  entitling  of  Kit 
Carson,  the  Jail  li  and  endurance  of  Paul  ,and 
the  loving  spirit  of  David  Livingstone.  It  is  a 
well  written  book,  full  of  interest,  as  well  as  information. 
Frank  W.  Ober,  Editor  Association  Men. 

The  book  Is  extremely  interesting.  It 
will  appeal  at  once  to  the  general  reader, 
young  or  old,  because  it  has  the  human  touch  that 
always  tells;  and  to  those  who  make  its  subjects  a 
study  it  will  reveal  the  secret  of  true  happiness,  of  ser- 
vice, and  of  nobility  of  character.  Row  here  in  the 
same  number  of  pages  can  one  find  more 
matter  that  makes  for  righteousness,  for  true 
Americanism.  Pastors  who  wish  to  awtken  a  re- 
vival spirit  in  their  churches  could  not  do  a  more  ef- 
fective thing  than  to  secure  the  reading  by  their  members 
of  such  a  book  as  this. — The  Rev.  Howard  B.  Grose, 
Editorial  Secretary  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society. 

Amission  study  text-book,  but  full  of  living 
human  interest.  Pastors  and  young  people  will  find 
the  volume  an  excellent  basis  for  definite  home  mission 
study. — The  Missionary  Review  of  the  World. 

It  fills  a  long  unoccupied  place  in  our  missionary 
literature.  Its  appeal  to  the  heart  along  per- 
gonal biographical  lines  is  at  once  direct 
and  decisive.  I  shall  certainly  use  it  soon 
as  a  text-book  with  our  young  people.  It 
ought  to  be  in  every  Sunday  school  library.  Every 
young  people's  society  ought  to  secure  copies  and  circu- 
late them  among  its  members. — The  Rev.  Ernest 
Bourner  Allen,  Toledo,  Ohio. 

Questions,  literary  references,  and  lists  of  topics 
for  discussions  make  it  a  serviceable    text-book. 

— The  Outlook. 

The  marginal  titles  are  a  great  boon  to  students 
as  well  as  to  the  general  reader,  while  the  questions 
for  study  following  each  chapter  invite  and 
almost  compel  a  careful  reading. — The  Rev. 
Dr.  J.  B.  Clark,  Author  of  "Leavening  the  Nation." 


COPIES     SENT  POST-PAID   ON 
RECEIPT  OP  PRICE.  ADDRESS 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


287  Fourth  Avenue 
NEW  YORK  CITY 


feaw  DE  LUXE  SETS 

AT    THE    COST    OF    THE    SHEETS 

We  have  on  hand  a  few  sets  of  Hawthorne's  Masterpieces  and  History  of  Literature,  de  luxe  edition, 
in  which  some  of  the  volumes  are  slightly  marred — not  enough  to  impair  their  real  value,  but  sufficiently 
to   prevent    their  shipment  as  perfect  stock  at  the  regular  price,   $35  a   set.      Rather  than    rebind  such 

a  small  lot  we  offer  them  at  about  the  actual  cost  of  the 
sheets.  For  all  practical  purposes  these  sets  are  as  good  as 
new.  They  contain  no  torn  or  soiled  pages,  and  the  damage 
to  the  binding  is  so  slight  that  even  an  expert  could  hardly 
detect  it  except  by  careful  examination.  This  is  indeed  a  rare 
opportunity  for  those  who  appreciate  really  good  books. 

Hawthorne's  Masterpieces 
and  History  of  Literature 

Unquestionably  the  best  and  most  satisfactory  work  of  its 
kind  ever  published.  It  contains  complete  selections  from  all 
the  leading  authors,  a  history  of  literature,  short  biographical 
sketches  of  authors,  critical  essays  on  the  literature  of  each 
period,  etc.,  etc.  Edited  by  Julian  Hawthorne,  assisted  by 
many  of  the  foremost  writers  and  critics  of  the  day.  Com- 
plete in  10  massive  volumes,  containing  5,000  pages  and  over 
1,000  illustrations,  including  portraits  of  famous  authors. 
Bound  in  half-leather,  de  luxe  style. 

The  Gist  of  Everything  Worth  Reading 

The  Masterpieces  and  History  of  Literature  is  the  one  in- 
dispensable work  for  the  home.  It  takes  the  place  of  thou- 
sands of  separate  volumes,  as  it  gives  the  best  and  most 
important  works  of  all  authors.  Complete  novels  and  chapters 
of  fiction,  humorous  sketches,  poetry,  philosophy,  history, 
travel,  science,  oratory,  letters,  essays,  translations  from 
foreign  literatures,  brief  description  of  the  world's  great 
books,  biographies  of  authors,  etc.,  etc. — all  are  included.  It 
s  a  whole  library  in  itself,  summing  up  mankind's  best  and 
noblest  thought — the  chaff  separated  from  the  wheat.  No 
book  lover  can  afford  to  be  without  this  great  aid  and  key  to 
literature. 


TEN    BE.\U  HFIL    VOLUMES 


FREE— for  5  Days 

We  will  send  you  the  complete  set,  10  beautiful  volumes,  for  five 
days'  examination,  if  you  mail  the  accompanying  coupon  promptly. 
Note  our  liberal  offer.      We  prepay  all  express  charges.      You 
run  no  risk  whatever.     The  regular  price  of  the  work  is  $35.00; 
we  offer  these  few  slightly  rubbed  sets  at  $16.50  ;  payable 
$1.00  a  month. 


.0 


.0 


The  University  Society 

78  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York 


—jpj 


THE 

HOME  MISSIONARY 


VOL.  LXXX 


MAY,  1906 


No.  2 


THE    WONDERLAND    OF    THE 


NORTHWEST 


Marvelous  Development  of  Washington — Its  Brilliant  Promise- 
Unsurpassed  Opportunity  for  Congregational  Home  Mis- 
sions— It  Must  be  Improved  at  Once. 


-An 


IN  attempting 
year's  work  in  this  rapidly  ex 
panding  Northwest,  the  camera 
must  be  planted  so  as  to  command 
two  prominent  facts  that  stand  out 
before  all  others  and  that  are  as  hard 
to  focus  as  are  approaching  and  re- 
ceding objects  in  the  same  photo- 
graphic view.  They  are,  first  a  de- 
velopment, material  and  congrega- 
tional, greater  than  the  region  has 
ever  known  before  and  looming  up 
with  accelerating  speed ;  and  second, 
a  missionary  appropriation,  the  small- 
est in  our  history  and  vanishing  with 
equally  alarming  rapidity.  The  old 
prophet  has  given  us  the  only  emi- 
nence on  which  we  can  plant  our 
tripod:  "Not  by  might  nor  by  power, 
but  by  my  Spirit  saith  the  Lord;" 
for  certainly  there  is  no  other  van- 
tage ground  from  which  faith  can 
view  and  reconcile  boundless  oppor- 
tunity with  shrunken  resources. 

The  Development  of  the  State 

The  material  growth  of  Washing- 
ton has  been  rapid  enough  in  the 
past  to  double  the  population  of  her 
cities  in  the  last  four  years.  This  of 
itself  is  fast  growth,  and  has 
severely  taxed  the  Christian  forces 
on  the  ground  in  their  effort  to  keep 
abreast  of  this  advance.  No  great 
section    of   the    United    States    has 


By  Rev.  W.  W.  Scudder,  Jr., 
Missionary  Super  in  tenden  t 
to     picture     the-     grown  faster.     From  present  indica- 


tions, however,  the  furious  pace  set 
in  the  last  six  months  will  throw  all 
previous  records  into  the  shade. 

Down  the  .north  bank  of  the  Col- 
umbia are  rushing  construction 
crews  for  250  miles  of  track  that  will 
open  fully  half  of  the  southern  bor- 
der counties  of  the  state,  hitherto 
reached  only  by  water  or  rough 
wagon  roads.  From  Portland  to 
Puget  Sound  presses  the  Union 
Pacific,  200  miles,  putting  enthu- 
siasm throughout  the  southwestern 
part  of  the  state,  a  region  compara- 
tively backward  in  recent  develop- 
ment, but  responsive  now  to  great 
possibilities.  Along  the  Snake  River 
is  squirming  a  railroad  that  will  open 
a  portal  to  the  great  fruit  wealth  of 
the  southeast,  while  extensions  into 
the  mountains,  both  steam  and  elec- 
tric, will  develop  a  second  inland 
empire,  of  which  the  growing  city 
of  Lewiston  is  the  center.  From 
Spokane  northward  to  the  British 
lines  is  projected  another  line 
through  virgin  forests  and  hitherto 
almost  inaccessible  lakes  of  beauty 
and  mines  of  wealth.  Through  the 
northern  counties  of  Stevens,  Okan- 
ogan and  Chelan,  teeming  with 
home  seekers  and  famous  for  graz- 
ing, mining,  timber  and  fruit,  is 
being  built  a  line  that  it  is  said  will 


REGRAD1NG   OF    SEATTLE,     REQUIRING    THE    REMOVAL    OF    THE    CITY  S 

FINEST    HOTEL. 


cross  the  entire  state,  leap  the  Cas- 
cades and  drop  down  to  the  Sound  at 
Bellingham,  which  is  raising  a  mil- 
lion dollars  bonus  for  the  expected 
road.  Up  the  rich  Yakima  Valley, 
paralleling  the  Northern  Pacific, 
the  surveyors  have  run  their  surveys 
and  the  roadbeds  are  being  thrown 
up  for  two  or  more  transcontinental 
systems — an  impetus  under  which 
values  are  shooting  skyward,  and 
families  are  flocking  in  in  droves, 
while  in  the  Sound  cities  of  Seattle 
and  Tacoma  in  the  struggle  for  ter- 
minal facilities,  blocks  and  blocks 
change  hands  at  fancy  prices  and 
fortunes  are  made  in  a  day.  Elec- 
tric lines  skirting  150  miles  of  Puget 
Sound  and  gridironing  the  regions 
suburban  to  cities  like  Bellingham, 
Everett,  Seattle,  Tacoma,  Spokane, 
Walla  Walla,  are  securing  franchises 
and  surveying  rights  of  way;  and 
others  are  connecting  by  direct 
routes  large  centers  of  population 
that   have    hitherto  had    connection 


through  devious  and  expensive  ways. 
Numerous  irrigation  projects  open- 
ing up  the  arid  tracts  of  the  great 
Columbia  basin,  from  the  Cascades 
to  the  Idaho  mountains,  and  placing 
on  the  lands  that  were  considered 
worthless,  values  of  $500  to  $1,000 
per  acre,  are  transforming  sand  and 
sage  bush  into  one  of  the  most  beau- 
tiful and  productive  garden  spots  in 
the  world.  It  will  be  no  astonishing 
thing,  if  within  three  years  the  steam 
and  electric  trackage  of  the  state 
should  be  doubled.  This  may  easily 
mean  half  again  the  present  popula- 
tion,with  a  proportionate  percentage 
of  increase  in  new  centers  that  must 
have  the  gospel  laid  in  with  their 
foundations.  To  evangelize  half  as 
many  new  towns  as  the  state  now 
has,  will  be  a  tremendous  problem 
for  the  denominations  now  here,  re- 
quiring as  great  a  missionary  ex- 
penditure as  any  in  the  past. 

That    this    is    not    an    isolated   or 
mushroom  development  can  be  seen 


WONDERLAND  OF  THE  NORTHWEST 


39 


foy^what  is  going  on  all  around  us. 
The  railroad  building  boom  has 
struck  the  entire  west.  East  and 
south  of  us  are  vast  projects  of  this 
kind.  Large  railroad  and  mining 
ventures  in  British  Columbia  and 
Alaska  are  stimulating  the  rapid  de- 
velopment of  a  huge  empire  to  the 
north  with  a  climate  and  conditions 
not  unlike  the  north  of  Europe, 
capable  of  sustaining  millions  of  the 
human  race.  A  new  line  of  the 
largest  freight  steamers  in  the  world 
with  the  most  perfect  passenger  ac- 
commodations on  the  Pacific  has, 
during  the  year,  been  put  in  most 
successful  operation  with  the  Orient. 
This  position  of  Washington,   with 


her  unrivalled  natural  resources,  the 
northern  Middle  States  behind  her, 
the  Orient  in  front  of  her,  the  splen- 
did civilization  of  the  other  Pacific 
states  to  the  south,  and  the  fascin- 
ating possibilities  in  the  north  to 
which  she  is  the  natural  gateway, 
show  us  that  all  this  activity  is  of  no 
temporary  character,  but  the  strong, 
healthful  beating  of  the  heart  of  one 
of  the  most  wonderful  areas  of  future 
industry  on  the  globe.  We  have, 
further,  but  to  remind  ourselves  that 
the  progress  of  Washington  is  being 
made  by,  and  in  the  midst  of,  a  popu- 
lation over  seventy-five  per  cent 
native  American,  homogeneous, sym- 
pathetic with   American  ideals  and 


SECOND    AVE.     AND    CHERRY    ST.,    SEATTLE. 


WONDERLAND  OF  THE  NORTHWEST 


41 


free  democratic  churches,  and,  as  far 
as  climatic  conditions  can  effect 
character,  with  one  of  the  finest  cli- 
mates in  the  world,  to  see  the  great 
opportunity  that  lies  spread  out  be- 
fore the  Congregational  churches  of 
our  country. 

The    Development   of    our    Work 

For  five  years  our  churches  have 
been  struggling  to  meet  these  oppor- 
tunities in  spite  of  decreasing  funds. 
In  some  measure  they  have  suc- 
ceeded. Sixty  or  seventy  new 
churches  have  been  organized  and 
supported  because  an  equal  number 
of  other  organizations  have  agreed 
to  make  room  on  our  missionary  rolls 
by  assuming  self-support.  It  has 
taken  large  sacrifice  on  the  part  of 
men  and  fields  to  do  this.  To-day 
we  face  a  work  of  unprecedented  ex- 
pansion with  resources  cut  in  two. 
In  1901,  we  received  in  round  num- 
bers, $23,000.  For  1906,  for  a 
greater  work,  $12,000.  Under  the 
seven  retrenchments  necessitated  by 
the  debt  of  the  Home  Missionary 
Society,  we  have  cut  in  past  years  so 
deeply,  that  this  year,  rather  than 
butcher  the  whole,  we  have  taken 
from  our  list  nearly  forty  churches 
which  must  be  provided  for  by  local 
contribution  or  must  die.  We  may 
be  able  to  raise  in  the  state  enough 
to  save  many — possibly  all — of  them, 
for  the  emergency  is  calling  out  a 
most  gratifying  response. 

But  suppose  we  do.  What  about 
these  new  opportunities?  Shall  we 
turn  back  and  face  the  past,  content 
with  conserving  what  we  have? 
Every  pastor  in  the  state  says  "No." 
No  church  is  willing  to  sound  a  re- 
treat. Our  active  and  intelligent 
laymen  tell  us  this  is  no  time  to  call 
a  halt,  and  are  pledging  extra  and 
generous  support.  But  Washington 
cannot  take  this  territory  alone.  She 
has  great  resources,  but  they  are  yet 
in  the  early  stages  of  development. 
The  $500,000,000  that  it  is  estimated 
the  year's  railroad  expansion  will  de- 
mand is  not  her  money;  it  will  come 
from  without  her  borders.     But  she 


will  soon  pay  good  returns  on  it. 
The  $25,000  we  need  yearly  for  five 
years  to  meet  this  phenomenal  situa- 
tion we  cannot  yet  raise  ourselves,  but 
we  will  double  our  own  gifts  and  pay 
good  dividends  on  Christian  invest- 
ment. Can  we  have  the  needed 
capital,  that  spiritual  progress  be  not 
distanced  by  material  advance? 
When  will  our  churches  begin  to  give 
for  home  missions  on  a  scale  com- 
mensurate with  the  greatness  and 
importance  of  the  work? 

The  year's  work  though  seriously 
hampered,  shows  much  to  encourage. 
Seventy-six  missionaries  have  been 
serving  about  125  fields  and  out- 
stations.  Seven  churches  have  en- 
tered on  self-support  with  nearly  ten 
more  waiting  to  cross  the  line  in 
April.  Nine  new  churches  have 
been  organized,  largely  in  important 
centers  in  our  cities  and  in  county 
seats.  Two  parsonages  and  ten  new 
church  buildings  have  been  built,  in- 
cluding several  of  the  finest  edifices 
in  the  state.  Three  parsonages  and 
seven  new  churches  are  being  erected 
and  seven  churches  have  added  ma- 
terial improvements.  In  over  thirty 
fields  energetic  services  have  been 
held,  in  many  with  marked  success, 
and  the  year  ends  with  our  churches 
as  a  whole  well  manned  and  prosper- 
ous. We  are  carrying  at  least  a 
third  larger  work  than  we  were  in 
1900  at  an  annual  expenditure  for 
the  new  year  of  nearly  $12,000  less 
from  the  National  Society  than  we 
were  then  using.  That  our  churches- 
can  do  this,  double  their  benevo- 
lence, improve  their  financial  con- 
dition and  send  sixty  or  more  of  their 
number  to  self-support,  shows  how 
largely  they  have  increased  in  abil- 
ity to  help  themselves,  and  how 
steadily  they  have  reduced  their  ap- 
plications for  aid.  A  few  years  more 
of  generous  encouragement  will 
mean  self-support  in  this  state  with 
double  our  present  work  and 
strength.  But  continued  retrench- 
ment will  necessitate  the  loss  of  this 
greatest  opportunity  that  has  come 
to  us  in  the  Northwest. 


A     TRIP     THROUGH     THE     HAY 
STACK     COUNTRY 

By  F.  E.  Emrich,  D.D. 


REV 


LEVI  PARSONS,  MISSIONARY  TO  PAL- 
ESTINE 


ON  THE  monument  in  Mission- 
ary  Park,    Williamstown,   we 
find  the  name  of  James  Rich- 
ards.    James  Richards    was    an    in- 


habitant of  Plainfield.  This  is  hay- 
stack year  in  the  history  of  the 
American  Board.  It  was  suggested 
to  the  writer  of  this  article  that  a 
trip  through  the  haystack  country 
might  be  of  interest  in  showing  the 
contribution  of  the  little  country 
churches  of  western  Massachusetts 
to  the  evangelization  of  the  world. 

We  visited  Goshen,  Conway,  Buck- 
land,  Shelburne,  Charlemont,  Haw- 
ley  and  Plainfield,  contiguous  towns 
in  the  counties  of  Franklin  and 
Hampshire.  In  taking  this  trip  we 
first  came  to  the  college  city  of 
Northampton,  the  home  of  Jonathan 
Edwards,  the  place  where  David 
Brainerd  died  and  was  buried.  At 
Northampton  one  begins  to  learn 
the  changes  going  on  in  the  old  Bay 
State.  One  of  the  largest  schools 
in  this  city  has  not  a  single  native 
American. 

We  take  the  trolley  up  through  the 
famous  Mill  river  valley  to  Williams- 
burg, where  we  take  a  team  for  the 
trip. 


HOME  OF  LEVI  PARSONS,  GOSHEN,  MASSACHUSETTS 


A  TRIP  THROUGH  THE  HAYSTACK  COUNTRY 


43 


Through    the    land   of    brown  heath  and 

shaggy  wood, 
The  land  of  the  mountain  and  the  flood. 

For  the  first  five  miles  there  is  a 
gentle  and  continuous  ascent  on  the 
well-kept  state  road  generously  pro- 
vided by  our  commonwealth. 

Goshen  is  a  small  town  with  a  fine 
outlook  from  its  village  center. 
Here  we  find,  in  the  comfortable 
parsonage,  a  cultured,  refined  man 
maintaining  the  ideals  of  the  New 
England  ministry.  At  his  hospita- 
ble board  we  meet  the  ex-state  sen- 
ator and  counselor,  Alvan  Barrus, 
whose  interest  in  the  welfare  of 
the  country  towns  is  well  known 
throughout  the  western  part  of  the 
state.  This  town  has  sent  out  into 
the  world  missionaries  like  Levi 
Parsons,  Horatio  Bardwell,  J.  F. 
Crosset  and  Calvin  Cushman.  Here 
was  reared  Amos  Dresser,  one  of  the 
founders  of  Lane  Theological  Semi- 
nary, and  Levi  Parsons,  one  of  the 
first  missionaries  of  the  American 
Board  to  Asia  Minor,  who  was  an 
uncle  of  the  Hon.  Levi  Parsons 
Morton,  formerly  vice-president  of 
the  United  States.  Goshen,  whose 
population  in  1880  was  724,  has  sent 
out  twenty-five  ministers. 

The  day  following  we  drove  twelve 
miles  to  Conway,  a  beautiful  hill- 
town  in  the  hills  of  Franklin  county. 
In  this  village  we  see  the  library 
erected  by  the  late  Marshall  Field 
in  honor  of  his  father  and  mother 
who  lived  and  died  in  this  town. 
Conway  has  always  had  rare  intel- 
lectual ministers.  Here  Prof.  Sam- 
uel Harris  and  Rev. 
George  M.  Adams,  D.D., 
began  their  ministry. 
Conway  has  always  been 
noted  for  its  interest  in 
missions,  home  and  for- 
eign. In  looking  up  the 
traditions  of  the  town  I 
had  an  interview  with  a 
lady,  who  might  well  be 
described  as  a  New  Eng- 
land nun — retiring,  shy 
and  devoted  to  the  high- 
est interests  of  the  King- 


dom.     Her  father  was  a  farmer  and 
also  kept  a  private  school.     In  this 
school  he  had  as  a  scholar  Marshall 
Field.     The  morher  of  this  family  of 
two  sons  and  two  daughters  a  few 
days  before  her  death  dedicated  one 
son  to  the  service  of  foreign  missions 
in  China.      He  grew  to  young  man- 
hood and  entered  Amherst  College 
and  was  in  his  third   year  when  the 
call  of  his  country  came,  and  he  went 
to  the   front   with   a   Massachusetts 
regiment  as  color-bearer.     With  the 
flag  of  his  country  in  his  hand  he  fell 
before  the  enemy   at  Port  Hudson. 
The  other  brother  remained  at  home, 
but  two  of  his  daughters  have  been 
engaged  in  the  work  of  the  Ameri- 
can   Missionary    Association.       One 
of   the    sisters,    a    graduate   of    Mt. 
Holyoke  and  a  teacher  for  quite  a 
number  of  years,  went  to  Pretoria, 
Transvaal,  So.  Africa,  to  organize  a 
school  after  the  pattern  of  Mt.  Hol- 
yoke in  that  city.     She  died  at  her 
post,   and    there    my    New  England 
nun  closed  her  story.      "But    what 
have  you  done?  "  I  asked,  and  learned 
that  for  more  than  twenty-five  years 
she  had  been  a  faithful,  self-sacrific- 
ing teacher  among    the   negroes   in 
the  South.     Then  she  told  me  of  a 
Howland    family.     The   father  and 
mother    were    missionaries    of    the 
American  Board.     They  returned  to 
America  with  four  children.     These 
children    were  taken  into  different 
homes    in    Conway    where    they   re- 
ceived a  Christian  education.     Two 
of  the  brothers  were  ordained  at  one 
time  in  the  old  village  church  in  Con- 


-v^J"X,<^M 

! 

■  1 

"^sir^oJt  m      H  M    1 

>i 

:] 

m  ^T   1 

i 

tjv\ 

2rl 

•  ■• 

J; 

^  irfffitllr^^^^ 

~jtt 

TREES  PLANTED  BY  LEVI  PARSONS,  GOSHEN,  MASS. 


44 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


way  for  work  in  foreign 
missions,  and  the  sister 
gave  her  life  to  service 
among      the       Indians. 
The    writer,    when    he 
had   been  in   this   com- 
pany,  felt  that   he  was 
among  the  great  heroes 
of   faith.      At   nightfall 
we  drove  over  to  beau- 
tiful     Ashfield      where 
George  William   Curtis 
loved  to  come  and  where 
Prof.  Charles  Eliot  Nor- 
ton spends  his  vacation. 
In    the    morning    we 
wended  our  way  to  the 
birthplace     of      Mary 
Lyon,  the  founder  of   Mt.  Holyoke. 
In    an    out-of-the-way    place,    away 
from  the  village,  six  or  seven  miles 
from  the  railroad,  we  found  the  spot. 
As  we  climbed  to  the  top  of  the  hill 
over   which  she  was  accustomed  to 
walk  on  her  way  to  the  village  school 
four  miles  away,  we  wondered  what 
gave  Mary  Lyon   the  vision  of  the 
world-wide    field.       We    are    accus- 
tomed to  hear,   in   these  days,  that 
Americans  have  at  last  the  vision  of 
world-wide  activity,  but  long  before 
1898  there  were  American  souls  like 


HOME  OF  FIDELIA  FISKE 


CHURCH,  TOWN  HOUSE  AND  PARSONAGE,  GOSHEN,  MASS. 

Mary  Lyon  and  James  Richards, 
who,  from  their  mountain  heights, 
had  the  vision  of  the  needs  of  the 
world  and  the  coming  kingdom. 

We  descended  into  the  valley  of 
the  Deerfield,  crossed  the  river  into 
beautiful  Shelburne  Falls,  and  went 
to  Shelburne  Centre.  Here,  for 
years,  the  Rev.  Theophilus  Packard, 
D.D.,  trained  young  men  for  the 
ministry.  In  this  parish,  which, 
unlike  many  country  parishes,  has 
not  been  depleted  of  its  young  men 
and  women,  was  born  and  reared  the 
Rev.  Pliny  Fiske,  D.D.,  one  of  the 
earliest  missionaries  of  the  American 
Board,  and  his  niece,  Miss  Fidelia 
Fiske.  With  the  pastor  we  drove  to 
the  top  of  the  ridge  overlooking  the 
beautiful  Connecticut  valley.  Mon- 
adnock  loomed  up  on  the  north, 
Wachusett  on  the  southeast,  Mt. 
Tom  and  Mt.  Holyoke  to  the  south, 
and  the  Berkshire  Hills  to  the  west. 
We  did  not  wonder  that  these  souls 
had  the  vision  of  the  coming  of  the 
glory  of  the  Lord.  We  stopped  be- 
fore an  abandoned  house,  once  the 
home  of  the  Fiske  family,  and  to  us 
it  was  a  veritable  Penuel.  Here,  in 
the  midst  of  winter,  came  Fidelia 
Fiske  from  Mt.  Holyoke  College  to 
tell  her  mother  that  she  had  heard 
the  call  of  the  women  of  Persia, 
"  Come,  and  help  us."  The  mother 
rebelled  and  then  the  daughter  said  : 
"  Let  us  pray,"  and,  on  bended  knee, 


HILL  BACK  OF  MARY  LYON'S  HOME,  BUCKLAND,  MASSACHUSETTS 


they  laid  the  matter  before  the  King, 
the  mother  finally  saying:  "Who 
am  I  to  withhold  my  child  from  the 
Master  who  has  done  so  much  for 
me  and  the  world?"  She  had  seen 
the  glory  of  the  Lord,  heard  his 
voice  and  said:   "  Here  am  I." 

We  wended  our  way  back  into  the 
valley  of  the  Deerfield,  driving  along 
the  banks  of  the  river,  beautified  by 
trees  set  out  for  miles  by  the  hands 
of  beauty-loving  New  England  farm- 
ers.    We  stopped  to  rest  at  Sunny- 


CONGREGATIONAL  CHURCH,  PLAINFIELD,  MASS 


bank  Manse,  East  Charlemont, 
where  abides  the  Rev.  Lyman  Whit- 
ing, D.D.,  the  oldest  Congregational 
minister  in  the  United  States.  Eor 
sixty-five  years  he  has  preached  the 
gospel  west  and  east,  and,  although 
nearing  his  ninetieth  year,  he  still 
maintains  his  habits  of  study,  loves 
his  Greek  Testament,  is  a  counselor 
and  friend  of  the  young  ministers, 
and  beloved  pastor  of  this  home  mis- 
sionary church. 

Ascending  for  six  miles  up  the 
mountain  to  Hawley  we 
pass  by  Poverty  Corner, 
where  the  meeting  house 
stood  in  the  time  of  Haw- 
ley's  glory,  with  a  Sunday 
school  of  300  members.. 

Hawley  has  sent  into 
the  ministry  more  than 
twenty  men.  This  is  the 
home  of  Rev.  Jonas  King, 
D.D.  He  was  the  only 
son  of  a  farmer.  The 
farm,  to-day,  is  in  an  out- 
-of-the-way  part  of  the 
town  on  a  road  which  has 
been  given  up.  He  at- 
tended school  in  Plainfield, 
heard  the  call  of  the  mis- 
sionary need,  and  the 
father  laid  on  the  altar  his 
only  son.     Jonas  King  be- 


PARSONAGE  OP  REV.  MOSES  HALLOCK,  PLAINFIELD,  MASSACHUSETTS 


came  one  of  the  learned  men  and  the 
pioneer  of  the  American  Board  in 
Syria.  Hawley's  glory  is  not  alto- 
gether in  the  past.  Even  though 
foreign-born  peoples  are  coming  in 
to  take  the  place  of  the  native  stock 
the  old  New  England  spirit  abides 
in  the  homes.  We  were  entertained 
at  the  home  of  one  of  the  deacons  of 
the  church  occupied  by  the  father, 
mother,  and  two  daughters,  and  a 
young  Italian,  a  workman  on  the 
farm.  In  this  neighbor- 
hood there  are  six  Italians, 
some  of  whom  come  to 
the  house  evenings  to  be 
taught  English  by  one  of 
the  daughters,  a  school 
teacher,  who  was  at  home 
on  her  vacation.  The 
next  morning  at  breakfast 
when  our  good  deacon, 
standing  at  the  head  of 
the  table,  offered  up  a 
prayer  of  thanks,  beauti- 
ful and  chaste  in  its  lan- 
guage, the  young  Italian 
standing  reverently  by  his 
side,  the  writer  could  not 
help  feeling  that  here  he 
saw  one  way  of  solving 
the  problem  of  "How   to 


reach  the  incoming  foreigner. "  This 
young  foreigner  was  coming  into 
touch  with  the  better  side  of  our 
American  Christianity. 

The  next  morning  we  drove  over  to 
Plainfield.  This  was  the  birthplace  of 
Charles  Dudley  Warner  and  is  one  of 
the  rare  New  England  towns  among 
the  hills.  Here  lived  for  nearly  fifty 
years  Rev.  Moses  Hallock,  the  pastor 
of  the  church  in  Plainfield.  We  stood 
before    the  story   and  a  half   house 


""      i 


MILL  OF  THE  "MOUNTAIN  MILLER' 


A  TRIP  THROUGH  THE  HAYSTACK  COUNTRY 


47 


LYMAN     WHITING,    D.D.,    EAST    CHARLE- 
MONT,  MASSACHUSETTS 

which  was  his  parsonage  during  his 
ministry.  Here  he  taught  a  boys' 
classical  school,  fitting  boys  for  col- 
lege. Here  studied  William  Cullen 
Bryant,  Marcus  Whitman,  James 
Richards,  Pliny  Fiske,  Jonas  King 
and  Levi  Parsons. 

This  little  church  has  had  a  rare 
history  in  the  cause  of  foreign  mis- 
sions. James  Richards  went  to 
Ceylon,  and  his  brother,  William,  to 
the  Sandwich  Islands.  Since  1815 
this  little  church  in  Plainfield  has 
not  been  without  a  foreign  mission- 
ary on  the  foreign  field  and  there 
have  been  times  in  the  history  of  the 
church  when  four  have  been  on  the 
foreign  field.  Before  leaving  the 
town  we  must  not  forget  to  take  a 
look  at  the  mill  of  "  The  Mountain 
Miller."     Mr.  James  Beals,  a  humble 


man  led  to  Christ,  gave  himself 
devoutly  to  the  work  of  doing  good. 
After  his  death  the  Rev.  William  A. 
Hallock,  D.D.,  wrote  a  tract  entitled 
"The  Mountain  Miller,"  giving  an 
account  of  the  conversion  and  Chris- 
tian activity  of  this  humble  man. 
Within  five  years  over  three  hundred 
thousand  copies  of  this  tract  were 
distributed.  It  was  translated  into 
German  and  French  and  other  Euro- 
pean languages.  Travelers  from 
abroad  have  come  to  see  the  spot. 
The  reading  of  the  tract  in  days  gone 
by,  like  the  reading  of  the  "Dairy- 
man's Daughter,"  has  led  many  a 
soul  to  Christ  and  inspired  Chris- 
tians to  a  more  hearty  work  for  the 
Lord. 

So  we  closed  our  trip  in  the  hay- 
stack country. 


r^- 

-r  -   ^~     -._._     -     -  - 

-             -          -   .    ■      -, 

.       .^-^s,^ 

H^"' 

|'T 

%.'.  -  -    - 

0-'-.  '•'■ :'- 

M.       - 

dJl 

1 

II  ■ 

{- 1 .    '      * 

ifflllB 

1            j 

• 

•_    N 

%k\ 

!.":.            **«. 

•"-ni-t^m'  '-- 

L           I        [      ^ 

• 

m 

WMnnlJM 

CHURCH      AND      PARSONAGE,      HAWLEY, 
MASSACHUSETTS 


THE  CONGREGATIONAL  HOME  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY  HAS 
HAD  A  LARGE  WORK  IN  THE  MAKING  AND  STRENGTH- 
ENING OF  THE  REPUBLIC.  IT  HAS  DONE  ITS  WORK  WITH 
THE  HIGHEST  WISDOM  AND  SUCCESS  AND  WAS  NEVER  MORE 
NEEDED   THAN  IT  IS   NOW.—  Alexander  McKenzie. 


THE  ROMANCE  OF  OKLAHOMA  HOME  MISSIONS 
By   Rev.   Oliver   B.   Loud 


N  the  nineteenth 
century  the  people 
of  the  United  States 
spread  from  the  At- 
lantic to  the  Pacific. 
As  Professor  Elson 
has  written  in  the 
able  introduction  to 
his  recent  History 
of  the  United 
States:  "In the  past 
hundred  years  we 
have  been  the  great- 
est colonizer  of  all 
countries  though  this  fact  has  been 
disguised  by  the  further  fact  that  our 
colonies  have  become  coequal  states, 
a  thing  unknown  before  in  history." 
There  will  be  continued  in  the  twen- 
tieth century  such  a  marvelous  ex- 
ample of  the  settling  of  a  great  area 
and  of  the  development  of  cities  and 
commonwealths  as  will  probably  be 
unique  in  the  story  of  civilization. 
Some  of  the  remarkable  illustrations 
of  this  colonization  are  occurring  at 
the  present  time  in  Oklahoma  and 
Indian  territories,  which  are  soon  to 
be  united  in  one  great  state.  May 
the  people  of  this  commonwealth 
bring  forth,  indeed,  the  ablest  con- 
stitution of  government  and  the 
most  inspiring  Christian  civilization 
ever  yet  known! 

It  was  as  recently  as  April  22, 
1889,  that  this  colonization  of  Okla- 
homa as  a  territory  first  began. 
Washington  Irving  had  described 
the  budding  charms  of  the  "  Land 
of  the  Fair  God  "in  "A  Tour  of  the 
Prairies. "  Its  resources  had  become 
well  known  to  many  who  lived  in 
Kansas,  in  Texas  and  other  states 
near  by.  At  last  began  in  the  early 
seventies  the  agitation  for  the  open- 
ing to  settlement  of  this  promising 
domain  under  the  name  of  "Okla- 
homa." When  the  restraint  was 
finally  removed  from  about  three 
million  acres  the  pent-up  longings 
of  urgent  home-seekers  spurred  them 


on  in  one  wild  rush  for  homes;  and, 
in  the  interval  of  a  few  hours,  farms 
were  claimed,  towns  and  cities  estab- 
lished, and  an  ever-increasing  popu- 
lation and  prosperity  commenced  for 
Oklahoma.  Again  and  again  were 
various  portions  of  the  territory 
taken  up  at  openings  by  these  wild 
races,  and  Oklahoma,  with  an  area, 
population  and  wealth  surpassing 
that  of  almost  any  one  of  our  states 
upon  admission,  stood  knocking  at 
the  door  of  the  Union  with  a  citizen- 
ship eager  for  the  full  rights  and 
privileges  enjoyed  in  the  states  from 
which  it  had  come. 

Given,  then,  a  great  territory  be- 
ing colonized  piece  by  piece,  an  in- 
rushing  people  eager  for  their  own 
advantage  and  coming  from  the 
young  and  ambitious  of  every  state 
and  territory;  given  towns  and  cities 
springing  up  in  months,  in  days, 
sometimes;  given  schools  and 
churches,  organizing  and  building 
and  engaging  teachers  and  preach- 
ers, what  shall  the  Congregational 
churches  do?  Leave  a  great  state 
without  Congregational  churches? 
By  no  means!  Send  in  a  superin- 
tendent and  missionaries,  of  course, 
under  the  direction  of  their  great 
organized  charity,  the  Home  Mis- 
sionary Society,  and  call  upon  the 
Church  Building  Society  for  help. 
This  was  done,  and  since  August  of 
the  year  of  the  first  rush,  the  Rev. 
J.  H.  Parker,  now  of  Kingfisher,  has 
been  giving  his  best  thought  and 
efforts,  either  as  general  missionary 
or  as  home  missionary  superintend- 
ent, to  organizing  Congregational 
churches.  He  may  be  said  to  have 
had  the  honor  of  an  important  part 
in  starting  and  sustaining  all  the 
churches  of  our  denomination  in  this 
territory  and  in  the  Indian  Territory 
also.  The  Year  Book  reports  sev- 
enty-eight churches.  Of  these  prob- 
ably not  more  than  three  or  four  are 
yet  able   to   do  and  endure  without 


THE  ROMANCE  OF  OKLAHOMA  HOME  MISSIONS 


49 


help  from  the  Home  Missionary  Soci- 
ety. Governor  Ferguson  reports  for 
Oklahoma  seventy-nine  Congrega- 
tional church  buildings,  forty-four 
parsonages  and  property  valued  in 
all  at  $152,379.  This  is  manifestly 
a  field  that  must  be  protected,  fos- 
tered and  encouraged  to  grow. 

There  never  was  a  grander  op- 
portunity for  any  organization 
of  churches  in  America  than  is 
presented  to  the  Congregational 
churches  of  these  United  States  to 
make  Oklahoma,  as  the  new  state, 
one  of  the  strongholds  of  our  denom- 
ination. Think  of  it!  About  eighty 
church  organizations  and  more  than 
that,  counting  Sunday  schools  and 
outstations,  imbued  with  and  organ- 
ized under  Congregational  ideals, 
waiting  for  the  campaign,  the  in- 
sistent, militant,  onward  and  upward 
march  into  victory.  These  churches 
want  to  believe,  first  of  all,  that  they 
have  an  urgent  lesson  to  teach  un- 
der an  enthusiastic  and  high-spirited 
ministry,  rich  with  the  traditions  of 
the  past  and  eager  to  realize  the 
ideals  of  the  denomination  in  the 
present.  The  stress  might  well  be 
laid  on  fellowship,  evangelization, 
perseverance  for  the  ideals  of  the  Con- 
gregational denomination.  Where 
are  the  young  men,  fresh  and  eager 
for   active    service  in  the  ministry, 


young  and  vigorous  and  knightly, 
who  will  come  to  the  task?  Fellow- 
ship! By  that  is  meant  working  to- 
gether and  soliciting  before  coming, 
and,  after  coming,  the  attention  and 
interest  of  our  great  churches  in  the 
attempt  to  take  Oklahoma  and  In- 
dian territories  by  storm  for  the  best 
methods  of  serving  Christ.  Evan- 
gelization! By  that  is  meant  the 
insistent  and  persistent  call  of  our 
churches  for  all  men  to  become  con- 
victed of  sin,  repent  and  accept  sal- 
vation through  Christ.  Persever- 
ance! By  that  is  meant  the  deter- 
mination to  stand  firm  for  the  right 
in  Oklahoma,  not  for  six  months  or 
a  year  or  two,  but  for  years  and 
years,  to  grow  old  in  the  service,  to 
have  an  honorable  part,  a  long  and 
distinguished  career  in  building  up 
the  empire  state  of  Oklahoma.  Okla- 
homa has  been  a  magnificent  oppor- 
tunity for  a  Congregational  band  of 
ministers  for  fifteen  years.  It  is  yet. 
But  the  members  of  such  a  band 
must  be  Congregationalists,  born 
and  reared  such,  educated  men  of 
commanding  personalities,  eager  to 
preach  salvation  with  all  their  might, 
earnest  to  do  their  part  in  society, 
civil,  political  and  literary,  and 
finally,  determined  to  persevere 
through  doubts  and  difficulties  "the 
machinations    of    enemies    and    the 


LAWTON    BORN    IN    TENTS    IN    ONE    DAY 


PICNICING    IN    OKLAHOMA. 


misgivings  of  friends  "  until  success 
crowns  their  efforts.  For  such  a 
body  of  young  preachers  Oklahoma 
cries  out.  The  interest  of  the  east- 
ern churches  in  home  missions  will 
be  strengthened  by  it.  Oklahoma 
people  will  know  that  Congrega- 
tionalism stands  for  something.  God 
will  give  the  increase! 

Many  are  the  interesting  and 
promising  fields  for  work  in  Okla- 
homa; many  probably  more  so  than 
the  one  that  is  to  be  described  in 
what  follows,  which  is  cited  as  the 
city  best  known  to  the  writer  and 
which  incidentally  reveals  in  its  con- 
ditions many  of  the  difficulties  and 
opportunities  connected  with  an 
Oklahoma  pastorate. 

In  190 1  the  government  opened 
the  Kiowa-Comanche  country  by 
registration  for  the  homesteads  and 
public  auction  for  the  city  lots.     This 


plan  was  found  much  more  orderly 
and  satisfactory  than  the  former 
openings  by  "rushes"  or  "races." 
Three  great  counties  with  their  sev- 
eral county  seats  were  organized. 
Lawton,  now  a  populous,  bustling 
city,  the  county  seat  of  Comanche 
county,  was  then  a  cow  pasture. 
Comanche  county  is  larger  than  Del- 
aware. From  Lawton  to  Boston  is 
about  the  same  distance  as  from 
Lawton  to  San  Francisco.  Lawton 
is  very  nearly  as  far  from  Chicago 
as  from  New  Orleans;  about  as  far 
south  as  Atlanta  and  a  little  east  of 
the  center  of  our  country.  Lawton 
is  four  hundred  and  forty-five  miles 
southwest  of  Kansas  City,  one  hun- 
dred and  eighty-nine  miles  north- 
west of  Dallas  and  ninety  miles 
southwest  of  Oklahoma  city.  At 
Boston  take  one  of  the  many  palatial 
trains  for  Chicago.     There  the  jour- 


THE  ROMANCE  OF  OKLAHOMA  HOME  MISSIONS 


53 


ney  to  Lawton  will  be  only  half  com- 
pleted. So  far  is  one  Congregational 
home  missionary  church  from  the 
strong  churches  of  the  denomina- 
tion, and  undoubtedly  some  words 
in  this  article  will  be  influenced  by 
its  sense  of  loneliness  and  weakness 
on  the  very  frontier  of  the  south- 
west. 

The  history  of  Lawton  is  a  unique 
one,  dating  only  from  August  6, 
1901,  when  the  United  States  gov- 
ernment realized  $483,000  for  the 
lots  sold  in  the  original  town  site. 
The  Congregational  church  bought 
a  lot  then  for  $465,  now  worth  $1,000 


and  more,  so  much  have  the  lots  in- 
creased in  value  as  the  city  has  pro- 
gressed. Any  newcomer  must  be 
surprised  at  the  progress  that  this 
city  and  the  surrounding  country 
have  made  in  only  four  years.  Prob- 
ably he  will  be  astonished  that  the 
city  is  so  remarkably  well  governed 
and  that  the  people  are  so  loyal  to 
the  government  and  so  obedient  to 
the  laws.  The  best  of  advantages 
in  society,  school  and  church  are 
already  being  developed. 

Few  cities' have  so  much*in  and 
about  them  of  interest  to  the  visi- 
tor;   the    mountains    with    scenery 


COMANCHE    INDIAN    TWINS 


GERONIMO,    CHIEF    OF    THE    APACHES 


of  surpassing  beauty ;  the  mountain 
streams  abounding  in  fish;  the  wood- 
lands; the  Indians,  their  villages 
and'schools,  and  Fort  Sill  with  its 
many  attractions.  „  The  artist  finds 
in  the  prairie,  ths  valleys  of  the  riv- 
ers and  creeks,  the  rocks,  the  land- 
scapes and  the  water-views  much 
that  he  longs  to  transfer  to  his  can- 
vas, and  no  part  of  Oklahoma  has 
more  of  these  natural  beauties  than 
Comanche  county.  In  the  hurry  and 
bustle  of    business  people  from  the 


states  of  the  Union  are  constantly 
meeting  upon  our  streets.  Inter- 
mingled with  them  are  Indians  and 
soldiers,  Indian  chiefs  and  army  offi- 
cers, a  few  foreigners  and  a  very 
few  negroes.  There  is  in  all  this  an 
unusual  combination  of  modern  hus- 
tle and  the  primitive  wildness  and 
aboriginal  customs  of  the  Comanches 
which  has  its  own  peculiar  charms.*" 
Lawton  has  at  this  writing  five 
banks,  an  electric  light  plant,  an  ice 
factory,   cold  storage,  three  cotton- 


THE  ROMANCE  OF  OKLAHOMA  HOME  MISSIONS 


55 


gins,  two  elevators  and  one  flour- 
mill,  besides  large  business  interests 
in  all  lines.  A  handsome  city  hall, 
court-house  costing  $30,000,  water- 
works at  $53,000,  a  sewerage  system 
and  a  modern  brick  schoolhouse  have 
just  been  completed,  which,  with  the 
new  schoolhouses  to  cost  about 
$75,000,  indicate  the  importance  this 
city  is  expected  to  attain. 

In  the  city  of  Lawton  the  First 
Congregational  Church  was  organ- 
ized with  thirteen  members  August 
25,  1901.  After  a  long  and  weari- 
some struggle  its  building  was  dedi- 
cated on  September  27,  1903.  Rev. 
Mr.  Bente,  the  pastor,  was  then 
called  to  another  field  and  the  church 
has  since  had  three  successive  pas- 
tors and  at  times  been  pastorless. 
The  writer  has  been  its  minister 
since  June,  1904.  The  question 
comes  now  whether  or  not,  under 
the  present  stress  of  circumstances 
and  the  great  debt  of  the  Home  Mis- 
sionary Society,  the  Lawton  church 
can  furnish  support  to  a  pastor. 
There  is  every  reason  why  it  should 
be  sustained.  It  is  a  mission  church 
and,    just    at    present,    is    burdened 


with  the  expenses  incident  to  build- 
ing and  furnishing  its  house  of  wor- 
ship, making  it  literally  impossible 
for  the  church  to  get  along  without 
help. 

The  church  is  situated  at  one  of 
the  most  strategic  points  in  Okla- 
homa. It  is  a  mistake  to  think  that 
any  church  can  have  the  field  to  it- 
self in  a  city  of  this  size  and  of  such 
prominence.  All  the  leading  denom- 
inations, after  careful  investigation, 
are  putting  in  larger  plants  and  in- 
curring debt,  because  they  deem  this 
center  of  great  importance  in  their 
organized  work.  It  is  hardly  wise 
for  Congregationalists  to  neglect 
their  opportunity  to  have  a  success- 
ful church  in  Lawton,  because  of 
what  is  often  carelessly  called  the 
"  wasteful  competition  of  churches." 
Whatever  the  ideal  conditions  might 
have  been  in  Oklahoma,  if  the  de- 
nominational leaders  could  have 
come  to  some  agreement  in  the  effort 
to  supply  pastors  and  churches  for 
the  rapidly  developing  rural  districts 
and  the  many  new  towns  and  grow- 
ing cities,  the  fact  is  that  in  a  city 
of  the  size  of  Lawton,  with  its  cen- 


RACING    ON    THE    MAIN    STREET    OF    LAWTON 


56 


THE   HOME   MISSIONARY 


tral  position,  the  leading  denomina- 
tions are  bound  to  organize  and  build 
if  they  possibly  can.  Rev.  Mr.  Bente 
with  his  gospel  tent  was  first  on  the 
ground. 

Is  this  city  a  missionary  field  then? 
Most  certainly,  for  none  of  these 
churches  could  support  a  pastor  and 
equip  a  plant  without  the  help  of 
their  missionary  societies  in  grant- 
ing money  and  making  loans.  That 
is  to  say,  all  the  leading  denomina- 
tions recognize  Lawton  as  a  mission- 
ary field  of  importance.  Is  this  a 
missionary  field  for  Congregational- 
ists?  Certainly  it  is  if  they  stand 
for  any  special  principles  or  empha- 
size the  cardinal  truths  of  the  gos- 
pel. Surely  the  Congregational 
church  has  a  mission,  not  alone  to 
the  people,  but  to  the  churches  of 
other  denominations  in  their  forma- 
tive conditions  in  this  new  commu- 
nity. Is  this  a  mission  field?  Cer- 
tainly it  is  if  the  opportunity  is 
wanted  to  minister,  at  close  quar- 
ters, to  some  five  thousand  of  the 
unchurched,  or  to  teach  the  great 
principles  for  which  the  denomina- 
tion stands  and  present  the  gospel, 
in  the  Congregational  way,  to  the 
people  of  a  rapidly  growing  city  and 
county. 

As  the  people  of  this  territory  of 
Oklahoma  are  about  to  unite  with 
the  people  of  Indian  Territory  in  one 
great  state,  hold  a  constitutional 
convention,  adopt  their  constitution, 
elect  their  officers,  frame  their  laws 
and  send  representatives  and  sena- 
tors to  the  National  Congress  it  is  a 
time  of  great  significance  in  Okla- 
homa. God  be  praised  for  every 
good  pastor  in  these  two  territories! 
God  be  thanked  for  every  church 
organization  here !  Justice  ought  to 
be  done  to  the  Indians  and  to  the 
mixed  races  as  well  as  to  the  white 


men.  The  temperance  question 
must  be  decided  aright.  The  money 
from  the  school  lands  must  be  appro- 
priated fairly.  Who  shall  estimate 
the  importance  of  the  choice  of 
Christian  men  for  these  offices  of 
peculiar  responsibility? 

Here  in  Lawton,  forty-two  miles 
from  the  nearest  Congregational 
mission  church  and  ninety  miles  from 
the  nearest  self-supporting  church, 
thank  God  for  the  church  and  the 
preacher  who  are  proclaiming  the 
message  of  Congregationalism  to 
men  and  churches!  It  is  a  message 
of  pressing  importance  to  Oklahoma 
at  this  crisis.  The  Congregational- 
ist,  mindful  of  his  obligations  to  God 
and  of  his  personal  responsibility 
must  be  selj '-governing 'and  must  also 
take  an  intelligent  part  in  the  gov- 
ernment of  his  church  and  state. 
Above  all,  he  ought  to  recognize  his 
own  sinfulness,  repent  of  his  sins  and 
seek  Christ,  a  Saviour,  Redeemer 
and  Lord. 

The  First  Congregational  Church 
of  Lawton  was  never  so  successful, 
influential  or  promising  as  it  is  to- 
day. It  has  more  than  doubled  its 
resident  and  working  membership 
under  its  present  pastor.  It  is  eager 
to  do  all  that  the  support  of  the 
churches  will  enable  it  to  do.  Shall 
it  live  or  not? 

Above  all,  the  pastor  of  the  Law- 
ton  church  is  a  believer  in  organized 
charity  and  eager  to  see  the  Congre- 
gational churches  so  organized  in 
their  charities  that  all  mission 
churches  shall  be  treated  fairly,  at 
the  best  possible  saving  of  expense. 
He  longs  for  Oklahoma  churches  to 
become  self-supporting,  and  for  that 
reason  asks  that  the  encouraging  in- 
terest of  the  strong  churches  be 
manifested  in  the  weak  ones  in 
Oklahoma. 


THE  WORK  OF  THE  CONGREGATIONAL  HOME  MISSIONARY 
SOCIETY  IS  ONE  OF  THE  MOST  HEROIC  AND  PROPHETIC 
IN  OUR  HISTORY  AS  A  NATION.  ITS  LEADERS  HAVE  BEEN 
NOT  ONLY  GOOD  AND  TRUE  MEN,  BUT  MEN  OF  VISION  AND 
INSPIRATION,  AND  NOT  A  FEW  OF  THEM  STATESMEN  OF  A 
VERY  HIGH  ORDER.  —Amory  H.  Bradford. 


EDITOR'S  OUTLOOK 


A  Fruitful  Decade 

BY  a  striking  coincidence,  the 
Annual  Meeting  at  Oak  Park, 
May  8th,  9th  and  10th,  is  the 
exact  anniversary  of  that  historic 
convention  which  met  at  the  Brick 
Church,  New  York,  May  10th,  1826, 
to  constitute  the  American,  now  the 
Congregational,  Home  Missionary 
Society.  Such  a  coincidence,  hap- 
pening without  premeditation,  may 
well  be  regarded  as  a  happy  augury 
for  the  future. 

Between  these  two  dates  stretch 
eight  complete  decades  of  organized 
Congregational  Home  Missions — an 
enterprise  which  has  been  described 
by  a  high  authority  as  "One  of  the 
greatest  Christian  movements  which 
the  world  has  yet  witnessed."  The 
achievements  of  the  Home  Mission- 
ary Society  are  familiar  to  the 
churches,  and  their  value,  as  esti- 
mated by  our  denominational  lead- 
ers, may  be  read  in  golden  words, 
scattered  through  the  pages  of  the 
April  and  May  issue  of  this  maga- 
zine. From  decade  to  decade  the 
home  missionary  movement  has  ad- 
vanced with  a  steadily  swelling  cre- 
cendo,  up  to  the  very  hour  when  the 
churches  meet  at  Oak  Park,  with  the 
purpose  by  God's  blessing,  of  giving 
it  a  yet  larger  life  and  power. 

The  eighth  and  now  closing  decade 
of  the  series,  has  been  no  exception 
to  that  rule.  A  troubled  period  it 
has  been,  but  as  successful  as 
troubled.  Embarrassed  by  failing 
receipts  in  the  face  of  enlarging  op- 
portunities and  demands — straitened 
by  frequent  debts  that  have  per- 
plexed its  managers  and  added  to 
the  sacrifices  of  its  missionaries — agi- 
tated by  earnest  discussion  of  new 
policies  and  methods — nevertheless, 


the  Home  Missionary  Society  is  per- 
mited  to  look  back  upon  ten  years 
of  fruitful,  and  in  some  respects  the 
most  fruitful,  missionary  service  of 
its  long  history. 

Four  states,  California  (North), 
Kansas,  Nebraska  and  California 
(South),  after  long  dependence  upon 
outside  help  have  declared  for  self- 
support,  a  record  of  deve  opment 
without  a  parallel  n  any  previous 
decade. 

In  the  item  of  additions  to  the 
churches,  "  on  confession  of  faith,'" 
which  is  the  highest  visible  test  o 
efficiency,  the  home  missionary 
churches  have  furnished  twenty  per 
cent  of  all  such  additions,  a  ratio 
that  has  been  exceeded  only  once  in 
the  previous  seventy  years. 

In  spite  of  oppressive  debts  and 
frequent  retrenchments,  nine  hun- 
dred and  eighty-tzvo  cJiurches  have 
been  added  to  the  Congregational 
roll  by  the  Home  Missionary  Society, 
the  largest  increase,  but  one,  in  these 
past  eight  decades  of  denominational 
life. 

The  number  of  churches  which 
have  graduated  from  dependency  to 
self-support,  in  the  same  ten  years, 
has  never  been  exceeded  but  once 
before,  in  any  similar  period  of  the 
Society's  history. 

The  invested  funds  of  the  National 
Society  have  increased  $133,000 
within  the  last  twelve  months,  and 
are  greater  by  $100,000  than  they 
were  ten  years  ago;  while  the  wills 
made  in  its  favor,  already  probated 
and  maturing  under  varied  condi- 
tions, were  never  of  greater  prospec- 
tive value  than  they  are  to-day. 

Such  facts  as  these,  collated  with 
care  from  the  Society's  records,  tell 
the  story  not  of  "decadence,"  but 
of  accomplishment ,  in  the  face  of  seri- 


5« 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


cms  obstacles.  They  stand  to  the 
honor  of  the  outgoing  Executive 
Committee,  and  they  summon  the 
churches  to  renewed  confidence, 
courage  and  faith. 

The  Thoughtful  Subscriber 

Rather  more  than  one-half  the 
mailing  list  of  the  Home  Missionary 
is  occupied  by  the  names  of  those 
who  are  entitled  to  it  without  charge. 
All  life  members  and  all  pastors  of 
contributing  churches  are  thus  privi- 
leged. The  custom  is  a  wise  one 
and  the  privilege  is  due.  We  would 
not  intimate  that  life  members  pay- 
ing fifty  dollars  for  membership  and 
pastors,  opening  their  pulpits  to  the 
claims  of  home  missions  every  year, 
are  not  fully  entitled  to  the  Home 
Missionary  Magazine  without  fur- 
ther cost. 

Nevertheless  we  cannot  but  be 
pleased  with  the  following  letter,  re- 
ceived from  the  pastor  of  a  contrib- 
uting church:  "  I  receive  the  Home 
Missionary  as  a  pastor  free;  but 
please  accept  the  enclosed  three  dol- 
lars for  your  publication  fund." 

Similar  letters  have  been  received 
from  life  members  containing  some- 
times the  price  of  one  subscription 
and  sometimes  that  of  ten  "to  be 
added  to  the  publication  fund."  We 
have  no  demand,  nor  even  request 
to  make  in  the  matter,  but  we  can- 
not help  the  thought  that  voluntary 
subscriptions  of  this  kind  from  one- 
half  of  those  who  are  fully  entitled 
to  the  magazine,  and  who,  without 


any  sacrifice  at  all,  could  easily  pay 
them,  would  probably  double  the 
publication  fund  and  set  free  an 
equal  amount  of  the  general  funds 
of  the  Society  for  the  use  of  the  field. 
The  suggestion  is  commended  to  all 
"thoughtful  subscribers." 

After  Many  Days 

Probably  no  man  in  his  line  of 
effort  is  more  often  rewarded  with 
immediate  responses  to  his  appeals 
than  our  Field  Secretary,  Rev.  W. 
G.  Puddefoot.  But  it  is  not  given 
to  many  missionary  pleaders,  seven- 
teen years  after  an  appeal,  to  receive 
such  a  letter  as  the  following;  the 
writer  of  which  we  refrain  from 
naming  at  his  own  request: 

My  Dear  Sir:— 

You  may  remember  some  years  ago 
when  you  spoke  at  our  missionary  meeting 
that  one  of  the  members  said  to  you  that 
he  hoped,  some  time,  to  be  able  to  support 
a  missionary  in  the  West.  I  am  the  person 
referred  to.  If  you  will  call  on  me  at  my 
office  I  will  be  glad  to  have  a  talk  with  you 
and  something  will  result  from  it. 

The  call  was  promptly  made,  and 
something  did  result;  a  check  for 
$r,ooo.  We  congratulate  the  giver 
on  the  pleasure  he  has  in  store  of 
supporting  four  missionaries  for  the 
coming  year  at  the  West.  We  con- 
gratulate the  field  secretary  on  the 
carrying  power  of  his  message,  and 
we  congratulate  the  Society  on  pos- 
sessing the  services  of  an  advocate 
whose  words  are  so  long  and  so  fruit- 
fully remembered. 


TTOME  MISSIONARY  WORK  MUST  BE  REGARDED  AS  THE 
BEGINNING  OF  ALL  THINGS  IN  OUR  OPERATIONS  TO 
EXTEND  THE  KINGDOM  OF  GOD.  IT  CREATES  AND  IN- 
CREASES THE  BASE  OF  SUPPLIES.  WHEN  ITS  HISTORY  SHALL 
BE  FINALLY  WRITTEN  THE  CONGREGATIONAL  HOME  MISSION- 
ARY SOCIETY  WILL,  I  BELIEVE,  BE  SET  IN  THE  FRONT  RANK  OF 
THOSE  AGENCIES  WHICH  HAVE  HELPED  TO  MAKE  AMERICA 
THE  FOREMOST  CHRISTIAN  COUNTRY  AND  THE  MOST  PROS- 
PEROUS COUNTRY    IN   THE    WORLD.—  Watson  L.  Phillips. 


TIMELY  TRUTHS-TERSELY  TOLD 


Redeeming  the  Waste 

[Part  of  a  Home  Missionary  sermon 
preached  in  Tompkins  Avenue  Church, 
Brooklyn,  by  the  pastor.  At  the  close  of 
the  service  the  people  contributed  $2,600 
towards  the  society 's  debt,  in  addition  to 
their  regular  gift  of  $8oo.~\ 

MOST  great  fortunes  have  been 
made  by  saving  what  other 
men  have  thrown  away.  The 
farmer  utilizes  the  soil  which  the 
hunter  wastes,  and  he  grows  rich. 
The  lumber  man  utilizes-  the  logs 
which  the  farmer  burns,  and  he  is 
made  rich.  The  tanner  utilizes  the- 
bark  which  the  lumberman  wastes, 
and  he  is  made  rich.  The  pulp  mill 
man  uses  the  branches  and  tops 
which  the  tanner  leaves,  and  he 
grows  rich.  The  miner  comes  along 
and  takes  the  coal  which  none  of 
these  other  men  saw,  and  he  grows 
rich.  The  coke  man  comes  and  saves 
the  gas  in  the  coal,  and  he  grows 
rich,  and  at  last  the  gas  man  comes 
and  takes  the  odor  which  the  coke 
man  wastes,  dilutes  it  with  water, 
and  sells  it  for  light,  and  that  odor, 
mixed  with  water,  makes  him  a  mil- 
lionaire. The  man  who  shows  us 
how  to  save  the  waste  of  the  world 
is  a  benefactor.  He  shows  us  how 
to  utilize  the  wandering  winds 
and  the  ship  has  come  and  the  ocean 
is  a  highway.  He  shows  us  how  to 
utilize  the  steam  and  the  railroad 
has  come,  binding  together  distant 
lands  with  links  of  steel.  He  shows 
us  how  to  utilize  the  waste  power  of 
the  idly  flowing  river  and  our  corn 
is  ground  and  our  wheat  made  into 
flour.  He  shows  us  how  to  use  the 
waste  force  of  electricity  and  we 
have  wings  for  our  voice  and  we 
have  light  for  our  nights.  What  we 
call  civilization  is  simply  learning  to 
use  what  the  barbarian  wastes.  The 
wastes  of  the  world  are  the  wealth 
of  the  world. 


Christ  applied  this  method  to  re- 
ligion. He  set  out  with  the  materials 
at  hand.  He  proposed  to  bring  in 
the  kingdom  of  God  by  utilizing  the 
moral  and  spiritual  waste  about 
Him.  Look  at  His  leaders.  Out  of 
all  the  influential  classes  not  one 
followed  Jesus  while  He  was  yet 
alive.  Nicodemus  and  Joseph  needed 
His  martyrdom  to  declare  their  alle- 
giance. Paul,  the  first  scholar  of  the 
church,  did  not  come  until  after- 
wards. Jesus  was  compelled  to  build 
His  kingdom  out  of  the  lowly. 

This  is  the  imperial  truth  about 
Christianity  and  we  have  need  in  our 
own  day  to  emphasize  it.  There  is 
no  place  where  the  wastes  of  society 
are  so  awful  as  in  the  great  city  and 
it  is  there  that  the  church  is  almost 
in  despair.  Here  are  our  slums, 
where  little  children  are  born  with 
the  taint  of  moral  leprosy  on  them 
from  the  cradle.  Here  are  our  pris- 
ons, and  they  are  teeming  with  life. 
Our  children's  courts  hear  a  story 
every  day  that  would  break  your 
heart.  Everywhere  there  is  drunk- 
enness and  crime;  every  night  vice 
holds  a  carnival.  Every  day  greed 
makes  merchandise  out  of  the  poor. 
The  slums  grow  year  by  year,  and 
each  year  the  tides  of  degeneracy  rise 
higher  and  higher.  That  voice,  tel- 
ling of  our  waste,  is  heart-breaking, 
and  like  the  voice  of  Rachel,  weep- 
ing over  her  children. 

A  hundred  different  remedies  are 
being  applied.  We  are  opening  hos- 
pitals; we  are  organizing  charities; 
we  are  opening  soup  houses.  Our 
ministers  and  our  workers  are  run- 
ning their  feet  off  and  are  fairly 
scouring  the  tenement  houses  to  find 
here  and  there  a  Bible-reading  man, 
a  Sunday  keeping  family  and  a 
church-going  class.  We  shall 
never  succeed.  The  day  Rome  died 
she  had  more  charities  than  ever  be- 
fore.    Money  is  not  enough.     A  full 


6o 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


belly  and  a  good  coat  do  not  make  a 
man  a  Christian.  Sins  of  the  slums, 
all  of  them,  grow  ranker  on  the 
boulevard.  We  have  need  to  remem- 
ber that  the  genius  of  Jesus  Christ 
lay  in  the  truth  which  he  held — 
that  God  does  not  carry  on  the  work 
simply  to  save  out  of  the  ruin  and 
the  wreck  of  it  a  few  kings  or  bish- 
ops, or  a  few  ministers,  or  a  few 
deacons,  or  a  few  fine  folks.  He  is 
not  satisfied  to  gain  the  respectable 
and  the  worth  while.  He  demands 
more  than  the  industrious,  the  law 
abiding,  the  church  going,  and  the 
home-loving  people.  His  wealth 
comes  by  gathering  up  the  broken 
pieces;  He  has  come  to  seek  and  to 
save  the  lost.  He  is  after  the 
sheep  of  the  mountain,  the  coin 
that  is  lost,  the  prodigal  and  the 
fallen.  He  means  to  have  the  min- 
ing camps  and  the  saloons  and  the 
dives  and  the  slums.  The  gospel  is 
not  sugar  to  keep  the  people  sweet, 
nor  salt  to  keep  moral  people  from 
spoiling.  It  is  the  leaven  that  will 
transfigure  and  regenerate  the  man 
of  sin  into  the  man  of  God.  Regen- 
eration is  the  watchword  of  the 
Christian  church.  "Ye  may  be 
born  again"  is  the  gospel  of  the 
hour.  The  purpose  of  Christ  is  to 
use  the  wastes  of  society  and  out  of 
them  to  make  up  the  wealth  of  the 
kingdom  of  God. 


«%^ 


^C^tsC-* 


Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 


The  Higher  Patriotism 

One  of  the  highest  human  virtues 
is  love  of  country.  The  Greeks, 
Romans,  and  Spartans  exalted  it. 
Among  most  nations  and  races 
patriotism  has  been  applauded.  Dur- 
ing the  Civil  War  there  were  notable 
instances.  When  the  call  for  volun- 
teers was  given  the  instant  response 
was:  "  We  are  coming  Father 
Abraham,  300,000  strong."  Doubt- 
less if  to-day  the  flag  were  again  en- 
dangered volunteers  for  its  defense 


would  rise  up  from  all  parts  of  the 
land.  We  thank  God  that  no  such 
test  is  needed.  Yet,  even  to-day, 
there  is  a  call  for  true  patriotism 
and  its  expression.  There  has  hard- 
ly been  a  time  when  the  highest  in- 
terests of  our  country  demanded 
more  prayerful  thought  and  sincere 
efforts  of  all.  Great  is  the  national 
prosperity,  but  how  about  the  pro- 
gress of  Christian  civilization? 

Immigrants  are  among  us  from 
all  parts  of  the  world  with  different 
theories  of  life  and  varied  motives. 
Are  we  molding  them  upon  the 
principles  of  the  highest  civilization 
or  not?  Can  our  cities  be  called 
Christian,  and  are  we  laboring  to- 
gether with  patriotic  zeal  for  their 
redemption?  Is  it  self  we  are  think- 
ing of  most  or  is  it  the  common 
weal?  The  true  missionary  spirit  is 
the  highest  form  of  patriotism.  Are 
we  inculcating  that  spirit  in  the 
minds  of  our  children  and  youth? 
Are  we  proving  by  our  support  of 
our  missionary  societies  that  we  are 
truly  Christian  patriots? 

The  wealth  of  the  land  is  given  for 
such  a  time  as  this.  Wealthy  men 
will  prove  their  patriotism  by  conse- 
crating riches  to  the  spiritual  wel- 
fare of  the  country.  During  the 
Civil  War  Cornelius  Vanderbilt  pre- 
sented his  new  steamer  named  ' '  The 
Vanderbilt "  as  a  gift  to  the  Federal 
government.  It  had  cost  him  $800,- 
000,  and  Congress  passed  a  vote  of 
thanks.  The  gift  was  an  expression 
on  his  part  of  patriotism.  Is  it  too 
much  to  expect  of  our  millionaires 
to-day  patriotic  gifts  commensurate 
with  the  missionary  needs  of  this 
country?  In  fact,  the  crisis  is  so 
great  that  nothing  but  the  generous 
benefactions  of  the  rich  can  deter- 
mine it  successfully. 

There  were  financial  crises  during 
the  great  war  when  rich  men  sprang 
forward  to  the  aid  of  the  govern- 
ment. There  are  financial  crises  to- 
day in  more  than  one  of  our  mission- 
ary societies  which  nothing  but  the 
generous  outpouring  of  wealth  can 
bring  to  a  happy  issue.  For  one  who 


TIMELY   TRUTHS— TERSELY   TOLD 


61 


loves  his  country  and  believes  that 
mission  work  is  essential  to  its 
highest  good,  such  giving  can  be 
nothing  but  a  satisfaction.  Let 
more  men  of  means  try  it.  There 
is  such  an  experience  as  joy  in  cost- 
ly sacrifice.  Let  men  prove  it.  We 
raise  monuments  of  Washington 
and  Lincoln,  of  Grant  and  Sherman. 
Their  patriotic  devotion  is  enshrined 
in  the  hearts  of  millions,  and  a 
peaceful  and  prosperous  land  is  the 
fruit  of  their  devotion.  The  oppor- 
tunity for  generous  and  consecrated 
gifts  was  never  greater  than  it  is  to- 
day. Memorials  more  precious  than 
monuments  of  bronze  and  granite 
are  in  reserve  for  men  to  whom  God 
has  given  great  wealth  and  who  will 
devote  it  patriotically.  Their  names 
will  be  enshrined  in  the  hearts  of  in- 
creasing millions  of  Americans  and 
the  approval  and  rewards  of  Heaven 
will  be  theirs. 

i"tj2yuA.i.|  n\  r\u/v^jjLrc  ^^. 

York,  Maine. 

The  Business  Way 

As  to  money.  It  is  coined  man- 
hood. It  represents  brain  and 
heart.  We  are  confronted  by  the 
searching  question,  are  you  coin- 
ing man  into  money  or  money  into 
man?  "What  is  needed  is  not  sim- 
ply an  increased  giving,  but  a  radi- 
cally different  conception  of  our  re- 
lations to  our  possessions.  What 
right  has  anyone  who  has  light  on 
this  subject  to  believe  he  has  given 
himself  to  God,  if  he  has  not  given 
his  possessions?"  "Thirteen  of 
Christ's  twenty-nine  parables  turn 
on  a  financial  pivot."  "Christ  gave 
to  money  one-seventh  of  the  recorded 
space  in  the  sermon  on  the  Mount." 
"The  offering  of  money  to  God  gen- 
erally involves  sacrifice.  It  becomes, 
therefore,  at  times,  an  even  more 
spiritual  exercise  than  prayer  itself, 
as  it  is  more  expensive  and  is  a 
greater  public  evidence  of  sincerity 
and  love." 


Turning  from  benefits  and  duties 
in  giving,  we  lift  our  eyes  to  the 
whitened  field.  The  cry  for  harvest- 
ers comes  up  from  every  quarter, 
echoed  by  the  calls  from  empty  mis- 
sionary treasuries  that  make  our 
hearts  ache.  How  must  our  Lord 
suffer  over  our  mismanagement  and 
selfishness !  Wealth  and  ease  abound 
in  Christian  homes  while  churches 
and  missions  are  pinched  and  souls 
are  perishing  for  lack  of  the  helpers. 
We  believe  all  these  ills  can  be 
remedied  by  the  use  of  God's  finan- 
cial plan. 

The  National  Council's  Committee 
says:  "So  far  as  known  the  weekly 
envelope  system  is  the  best  plan  for 
systematizing  the  matter  (of  giving) 
yet  devised."  Secretary  Northrop 
quotes  another  thus:  "All  the  en- 
velope systems  are  eventually  the 
same,  in  that  they  call  for  a  deliber- 
ate dedication  and  a  faithful  dis- 
tribution of  alms.  Giving  is  lifted 
above  spasm  and  whim,  is  independ- 
ent of  the  weather  and  the  seasons 
and  the  state  of  one's  health.  It 
teaches  one  to  deal  in  the  large  with 
Christian  stewardship  and  soon  in- 
spires a  useful  contempt  for  claptrap 
and  trickery  in  church  support." 
He  advises  that  all  churches  shall 
practice  weekly  offerings  for  benefi- 
cence, as  well  as  for  current  ex- 
penses, bringing  both  kinds  under 
the  pledge  system. 

Says  President  Harris:  "The  pas- 
tor must  devise  a  plan,  must  present 
it,  must  advocate  it,  must  get 
the  sanction  of  his  church  for 
it,  must  preach  to  the  people 
about  it,  must  pray  publicly  for 
God's  blessing  upon  it."  Another 
says:  "Inform,  inform,  inform,  and 
the  money  will  come."  Our  faith 
in  the  people  for  this  is  confirmed  by 
another,  who  says :  '  'Once  informed, 
my  people  are  ready  to  give."  "The 
demand  is  the  command." 

Granada,  Minn. 


THE  CLAIMS  AND  NECESSITIES  OF  THE  HOME  FIELD 

From  the  address  of  Hon.  Samuel  B.  Capen  delivered  at  the  Third  Annual  Conference 

of  Eastern  College  Men  upon  the  Claims  of  the  Christian  Ministry  at 

Hartford,  Connecticut,  April  i,  1906. 


THE  home  field  has  a  claim  upon 
the  minister  because  he  is 
really  teaching  the  whole 
world.  By  our  own  naturalization 
laws  we  are  not  living  for  ourselves 
or  by  ourselves;  we  throw  the  gates 
wide  open  and  take  these  new  men 
from  across  the  sea  into  partnership 
and  give  them  a  share  in  the  govern- 
ment. New  York  is  the  largest  He- 
brew city  in  the  world  and  one  of 
the  largest  German  and  Irish  cities. 
These  immigrants  touch  their  friends 
constantly  in  the  homeland.  As 
proof  of  this  see  the  tremendous 
amount  of  money  that  is  sent  abroad 
in  small  sums  every  Christmas  time. 
When,  therefore,  we  touch  these 
lives,  we  are  practically  reaching  the 
whole  world. 

The  minister  in  the  homeland  is 
not  only  the  leader  in  spiritual 
things,  but  the  dynamic  of  civic 
righteousness.  The  peril  of  the 
United  States  is  not  from  without, 
but  from  within.  Corruption  and 
graft  are  everywhere.  The  minister, 
as  the  leader  of  moral  forces  in  the 
community,  is  necessarily  a  recog- 
nized power  in  this  field,  and  his  in- 
terest is  two-fold:  First,  indirectly, 
because  he  preaches  the  moral  truths 
which,  when  followed,  make  corrup- 
tion impossible,  and  again,  directly, 
for  in  all  our  crises  he  is  leader  and 
spokesman. 

The  home  field  has  another  claim 
upon  the  ministry  as  a  necessary 
base  of  supplies  for  mission  work 
abroad.  The  army  in  the  field  must 
have  support  at  home  or  it  will  be 
defeated.  It  is  universally  recog- 
nized by  those  who  are  responsible 
for  our  foreign  missionary  societies 
that  their  greatest  problems  are  not 
now  in  the  foreign  field,  but  here  at 
home.     We  have  too   many  pastors 


in  our  churches  who  somehow  seem 
to  think  that  missions  are  an  inci- 
dent in  the  life  of  a  church.  In  real- 
ity, the  church  exists  only  to  be  a 
missionary  church,  and  the  church 
that  does  not  recognize  this  has 
ceased  to  be  a  church  after  Christ's 
model;  it  is  only  a  religious  club. 
Certainly  it  is  true  that  the  people 
in  the  pew  are  waiting  to  be  led  and 
they  are  waiting  for  the  pastors  to 
lead  them.  There  have  been  no  fail- 
ures in  foreign  missions  anywhere 
except  in  some  of  our  churches  at 
home. 

We  can  change  the  cannibals  in 
the  Fiji  Islands  and  make  them  so 
far  Christian  that  a  woman  to-day 
can  go  in  safety  from  one  end  of  the 
islands  to  the  other  unattended. 
We  can  change  the  high-class  Brah- 
min so  that,  with  an  invalid  outcast 
whom  he  would  not  look  at  a  few 
years  ago,  he  is  now  willing  to  sit  up 
all  night  and  feed  with  a  spoon.  All 
these  things  foreign  missions  have 
done  and  can  continue  to  do.  What 
it  has  not  yet  done  here  in  the  home- 
land is  to  change  the  selfishness  of 
our  own  people  into  a  spirit  of  sacri- 
ficial interest  for  the  saving  of  the 
world. 

While  our  church  members  give, 
on  the  average,  only  two  cents  a 
week  to  save  the  millions  for  whom 
we  are  responsible,  we  have  little  to 
boast  of.  Contrast  this  with  the 
generosity  of  Christians  across  the 
sea.  The  native  Zulu  Christians 
have  taken  the  full  support  of  all 
their  own  churches  and  are  contrib- 
uting money  to  send  the  gospel  to 
others.  At  the  time  of  the  famine 
in  India,  when  the  native  Christians 
were  paid  out  of  the  general  fund 
twenty  cents  a  week  for  their  sup- 
port, they  insisted  on  giving  ten  per 


THE  CLAIMS  AND  NECESSITIES  OF  THE  HOME  FIELD      63 


cent,  of  it  back  again  to  the  mission- 
aries for  church  work.  There  is  a 
native  Christian  pastor  in  China, 
formerly  a  gambler,  with  a  large 
family  and  a  salary  of  $50  a  year, 
who  gives  twenty  per  cent  of  it  for 
missionary  work.  These  men  are 
not  exceptions;  they  represent  the 
sacrifices  which  native  Christians  are 
ready  to  make.  It  is  good  general- 
ship to  strengthen  ourselves  at  the 
weakest  point.  We  need  pastors 
here  at  home  with  a  passion  for  mis- 
sions. It  is  a  material  age.  Our 
people,  as  a  whole,  love  ease  and 
luxury;  we  want  everything  for  our- 
selves first  and  we  need  pastors  more 
than  ever  who  will  have  the  courage 
to  preach  to  us  in  no  uncertain  terms 
about  Christian  stewardship.  We 
want  ministers  who  will  not  be  afraid 
to  tell  the  people  in  the  pews  that 
the  money  they  have  is  not  their 
own,  but  that  it  is  God's  money 
which  they  hold  in  trust,  and  that 
the  question,  when  the  claim  of  mis- 
sions is  presented,  is  not:  How  much 
of  our  money  will  we  give  to  the 
Lord?  but  rather,  how  much  of  the 
Lord's  money  are  we  going  to  keep 
for  ourselves? 

We  have  been  dwelling  upon  work 
especially  in  the  older  parts  of  our 


country.  But  think  for  a  moment 
of  the  claims  and  the  needs  of  new 
communities  at  the  West.  Here  is 
a  chance  for  molding  towns  and 
cities  from  the  start.  In  such  places 
a  man  may  shape,  not  only  his  own 
community,  but  the  commonwealth. 
We  are  all  proud  of  South  Dakota 
and  the  high,  moral  character  of  its 
people.  But  who  helped  draft  the 
splendid  constitution  of  that  com- 
monwealth with  its  important  safe- 
guards? It  was  Joseph  Ward,  pio- 
neer missionary  and  president  of 
Yankton  College.  Some  of  you  re- 
member the  story  of  North  Dakota 
when  the  Louisiana  lottery  came 
near  fastening  itself  upon  that  young 
state.  Who  rallied  the  forces  of 
righteousness,  leading  the  people  to 
the  state  capitol,  and  drove  this  en- 
emy of  the  race  out  of  the  nation 
until  it  finds  to-day  no  resting-place 
anywhere  in  the  United  States?  It 
was  Henry  Clay  Simmons,  another 
pioneer  missionary  and  president  of 
Fargo  College.  It  is  impossible  to 
over-rate  the  importance  of  a  faith- 
ful minister  in  these  new  communi- 
ties and  it  makes  an  infinite  differ- 
ence whether  the  minister  or  the 
saloon  gets  in  its  work  first. 


THE  CONGREGATIONAL  HOME  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY  IS  ONE 
OF  THE  GREAT  AGENCIES  WHICH  HAVE  KEPT  THE  CROSS 
ABREAST  OF  THE  FLAG  IN  THE  WESTERN  MARCH  OF  CIVILI- 
ZATION. IT'S  STORY  IS  ONE  OF  HEROIC  SACRIFICE  AND  OF 
PRICELESS  SERVICE.— Josiah  Strong. 

WE  ARE  LEARNING  THAT  RELIGIOUS  AND  POLITICAL  IN- 
TERESTS INTERTWINE;  THAT  IF  CHURCH  AND  STATE 
ARE  DIVORCED  IN  FORM,  THEY  MUST  NOT  BE  IN  SPIRIT. 
THE  HOME  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY  HAS  GRANDLY  PROCLAIMED 
AND  LIVED  THIS  TRUTH,  AND  ITS  PAST  SERVICE  IS  GUAR- 
ANTY FOR  EVEN  MORE  TELLING  SERVICE  IN  THE  FUTURE. 
—  Harry  P.  Dewey. 

WHAT  THE  COUNTRY  WOULD  HAVE  BEEN  WITHOUT  THE 
HOME  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY  IS  TO  BE  SEEN  IN  THE 
CONDITION  OF  MOST  OF  OUR  LARGE  CITIES,  CONGREGA- 
TIONALLY  AT  LEAST.  THE  COUNTRY  WOULD  HAVE  BEEN 
HEATHEN  SO  FAR  AS  WE  ARE  CONCERNED,  AND  WE  WOULD 
HAVE  BEEN  DENOMINATIONALLY   DEAD.—  Henry  A.  Stimson. 


THE    DESTINY    OF   AMERICA 

IV.     ULTIMATE  AMERICA 
By   Rev.  William  W.  Jordan,   D.D. 
Clinton .    Ma ssachusetts 


IT  is  inevitable  that  one  who  looks 
upon  the  past  and  present  of 
America  should  ask,  what  will 
this  nation  become?  What  shall  Ul- 
timate America  be,  in  wealth,  power 
and  character?  The  question  forces 
itself  upon  one  who  crosses  the  con- 
tinent to  the  Pacific  coast.  That 
represents  the  ultima  thule,  the 
farthest  shore  of  the  latest  and  great- 
est nation.  The  Aleutian  Islands 
extend  beyond,  yet  our  western  sea- 
board is  practically  the  frontier. 
And  the  question  is  one  that  both 
awes  and  fascinates  him  who  studies 
it.  He  who  thinks  on  Ultimate 
America  must  think  large  thoughts, 
and  should  offer  deep  prayers.  He  is 
like  him  of  whom  the  poet  sings: 

"  Then  I  dipt  into  the  future,  far  as  human 

eye  could  see ; 
Saw  the  vision  of  the  world,  and  all  the 

wonder  that  would  be." 

i.  We  estimate  Ultimate  America 
by  her  progress  hitherto.  This  coun- 
try represents  ages  of  physical  de- 
velopment. On  top  of  the  Rocky 
Mountains  men  find  seashells  which 
show  that  waters  once  reigned  above 
those  mountains,  or  of  their  upheaval 
preceded  the  present  peace  of  nature. 
In  the  Forestry  Building  of  the  Port- 
land Exposition  stood  a  section  of  a 
giant  cedar  whose  size  proclaimed 
hundreds  of  years  of  age,  yet  it  grew 
out  of,  and  its  roots  enveloped 
the  prostrate  trunk  of  another  cedar 
of  yet  larger  size,  the  wood  of  which 
is  sound  and  strong  to-day.  These 
are  reminders  of  the  ages  through 
which  this  country  was  preparing  to 
receive  its  chosen  people;  preparing 
for  its  destiny ! 

Take  a  century  of  the  history  of 
the  nation.     The   Portland   Exposi- 


tion represents  a  page  of  our  history. 
One  hundred  years  ago,  in  1805,  only 
twenty  odd  years  after  the  surrender 
of  Yorktown,  Lewis  &  Clark  pene- 
trated that  western  wilderness. 
There  was  then  not  a  steamboat 
upon  our  rivers,  not  a  telegraph  pole 
nor  a  rod  of  railway  in  the  country. 
In  1902  there  were  203,132  miles  of 
railway;  1,089,212  miles  of  telegraph 
wire,  and  the  tonnage  of  its  steam 
vessels  was  3,418,088.  So  large  a 
part  of  our  present  development  is 
contained  within  that  hundred  years ! 
The  Exposition  fittingly  commemo- 
rated that  progress. 

2.  We  measure  Ultimate  America 
also  by  some  features  of  her  advance- 
ment in  the  present. 

One  is  the  rapidity  of  her  growth 
in  wealth,  and  in  the  development  of 
her  resources.  One  hundred  years 
ago  in  New  England  the  father  labo- 
riously cultivated  the  little  crop  of 
maize  by  hand.  To-day  on  five 
thousand  acre  farms  in  western  states 
steam  plows,  reapers,  threshers, 
almost  do  the  work  alone!  It  is  the 
rate  of  progress  that  is  astonishing. 
The  monthly  average  of  building  per- 
mits to-day  in  the  little  city  of 
Seattle  is  over  700  a  month,  or  8,400 
in  a  year !  These  are  but  indications. 
To  us,  in  the  conservative  East, there 
is  something  astonishing  in  the 
energy  and  enterprise  of  the  western 
spirit.  At  Spokane,  I  saw  a  picture 
of  the  rising  sun,  which  bore  upon 
its  face  the  words:  "Stop  off  at 
Spokane!" 

Another  feature  is  the  rapid  growth 
of  population.  The  center  of  popu- 
lation in  this  country  has  reached 
the  Mississippi  river,  and  the  incom- 
ing tide  of  immigration  in  a  familiar 


THE  DESTINY  OF  AMERICA 


65 


fact.  In  the  single  year,  1903,  it 
amounted  to  857,046;  in  the  ten 
years  previous,  4,151,807.  Yet  to-day 
the  United  States  has  an  average 
population  of  but  fourteen  to  the 
square  mile,  while  Great  Britain  has 
290  and  Belgium  482.  If  we  con- 
tinue to  increase  in  the  ratio  of  re- 
cent years,  we  shall  in  fifty  yeais 
have  300,000,000  of  people,  and  when 
we  become  as  densely  populated  as 
Great  Britain  we  shall  have  1,000,- 
000,000  of  people! 

Think  of  the  composite  character 
of  that  nation.  How  many  nation- 
alities welded  into  one!  People  of 
nearly  every  tribe  and  tongue  and 
nation.  In  addition  to  the  Chinese 
which  abound  in  the  West,  there  are 
100,000  Japanese  on  the  Pacific 
Coast,  and  they  are  still  pouring  in. 
Gangs  of  the  little  brown  men  are 
working  upon  the  railroads.  Large 
numbers  of  Greeks  also  are  section 
hands  on  western  railroads,  and  work 
in  the  smelters.  The  sons  of  classic 
and  storied  Greece,  of  the  land  of 
Socrates  and  Plato,  toiling  in  far  off 
America!  In  fact,  we  are  English, 
Irish,  Scotch,  German,  French, 
Italian,  Chinese,  Japanese,  and 
many  other  nationalities,  but  we  are 
all  Americans!  A  recent  speaker 
said:  "To-day,  among  American 
citizens,  we  find  such  names  as  Mr. 
Gee  Gam,  Mr.  Novinski,  Mr.  Sasubo, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Left  Hand  Bear,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Little  Dog,"  from  the 
United  States  of  Alaska.  The  flag 
floats  over  many  peoples,  but  seems 
to  awaken  patriotism  with  them  all, 
and  to  mold  them  into  Americans. 

Another  feature  of  our  present  de- 
velopment is  the  outstretching  of  our 
commerce.  The  Oriental  steamer  at 
Seattle  dock  possessed  for  us  peculiar 
interest,  because  she  was  a  connect- 
ing link  with  ancient  Asia — Asia, 
hoary  with  age,  mysticism,  supersti- 
tion. She  suggested  the  mighty  com: 
merce  now  developing  on  the  Pacific 
Coast.  A  single  order  from  Russia 
of  185,000  barrels  of  flour,  shipped 
from  Seattle!  Another  of  51,000 
tons  of  compressed  hay  for  the  Phil- 


ippines. Our  trans-continental  rail- 
roads complete  themselves  in  steamer 
lines  to  Alaska  and  the  Orient.  Two 
of  those  steamers  lately  built,  each 
carry  28,000  tons  dead  weight;  that 
is,  each  of  them  will  carry  as  much 
freight  as  would  fill  100  freight 
trains  of  twenty-five  cars  each;  2,500 
freight  cars!  Think  of  the  size  of 
such  a  ship!  The  Minnesota,  of  the 
Great  Northern  line,  on  her  maiden 
voyage,  carried  seventy  fully 
equipped  Baldwin  railway  locomo- 
tives, as  one  item  of  her  cargo.  This 
commerce  is  but  in  its  infancy.  The 
great  markets  of  Japan,  China,  Man- 
churia and  Korea  will  ere  long  open 
up  a  mighty  trade  upon  this  coast. 
The  lines  of  it  are  going  out  into  all 
the  earth,  and  the  swift  kneels  of 
that  commerce  which  cut  the  waters 
and  leave  no  mark  upon  its  surface, 
are  knitting  the  nation  together 
more  rapidly  than  we  think.  Travel 
and  trade  are  needles  which  thread 
the  life  of  the  world  into  one! 

3.  Because  of  her  size,  resources, 
and  the  character  of  her  institutions, 
America  has  a  capacity  for  growth 
in  wealth  and  power  which  belongs 
to  few  nations.  Disaster  may  wreck 
her.  Many  an  ancient  empire  which 
is  now  but  a  name,  beheld  in  the 
future,  as  she  does  to-day,  only 
cloudless  prosperity.  If  she  forgets 
God  she  will  surely  perish.  But  if 
she  continues  her  progress  in  the 
ratio  of  recent  decades,  in  material 
prosperity  at  least,  she  must  soon 
necessarily  leave  other  nations  be- 
hind her.  Ultimate  America,  there- 
fore, is  a  synonym  for  almost  un- 
limited wealth  and  power.  This  is 
affirmed  not  in  self  glorification,  nor 
in  forgetfulness  of  other  great  na- 
tions, but  as  the  inevitable  result  of 
existing  conditions.  It  is  certainly 
not  cause  for  boasting.  Whether  it 
is  cause  for  rejoicing  remains  to  be 
seen. 

We  can  but  dream  of  that  future 
which  we  shall  not  be  here  to  see. 
This  is  the  twentieth  century,  what 
of  the  twenty-first,  twenty-second 
and  twenty-third.     Can  we  presume 


66 


THE    HOME    MISSIONARY 


to  describe  to-day  the  advances  in 
civilization  which  will  be  found  one 
hundred  years  from  now?  All  life  is 
progress.  Man's  face  is  toward  the 
future,  and  he  is  forging  ever  to  the 
front.  The  race  tends  onward  and 
upward!  The  world  rolls  out  of 
darkness  into  light,  and  the  morning 
cometh.  And  the  world  is  growing 
one.  I  stood  by  the  Golden  Gate 
near  San  Francisco,  where  the  foam 
seemed  whiter,  and  sky  and  sea  a 
softer  blue,  and  through  whose  rocky 
portal  the  ships  sailed  out  to  all  the 
earth,  and  realized  how  near  the  old 
world,  Europe  and  Asia,  has  come 
to  us  on  both  sides  of  this  country. 
In  sympathy  and  humanity,  through 
common  interest,  increasing  intelli- 
gence, international  fellowship,  their 
shores  are  beginning  to  touch  ours 
closely.  We  remember  that  "he 
hath  made  of  one  all  nations  for  to 
dwell  upon  the  face  of  the  earth," 
and  we  catch  a  vision  of  that  day 
when  "the  kingdoms  of  this  world 
are  become  the  kingdoms  of  our 
Lord  and  of  his  Christ." 

4.  What  then  of  the  destiny  of 
Ultimate  America?  What  is  her 
destiny?  We  cannot  study  the  geo- 
graphical position,  natural  endow- 
ment, institutions,  and  probable  de- 
velopment of  this  country,  without 
believing  that  she  has  a  unique  place 
in  the  world  plan  of  the  Eternal, 
that  He  has  given  her  a  great  mis- 
sion in  the  Christianization  of  the 
world.  She  must  not  be  false  to  that 
trust  nor  recreant  to  that  mission. 
This  is  holy  ground.  Her  mission- 
aries have  given  their  lives,  her 
patriots  have  shed  their  blood  in  this 
faith.  By  holding  to  high  ideals  in 
her  national  life,  by  confessed  alle- 
giance to  God,  and  by  active  propa- 
gation of  Christianity,  America  may 


exercise  a  tremendous  influence  in 
the  world's  redemption.  Her  soil  is 
sown  with  the  graves  of  those  who 
have  lived  and  labored  for  God.  By 
the  faith  and  consecration  of  her 
founders  she  is  pledged  to  the  king- 
dom of  Christ!  She  will  fail  of  her 
destiny  if  she  fails  in  her  allegiance 
to  God.  But  if  she  does  not  lose 
sight  of  the  spiritual  and  eternal  in 
the  material,  of  that  righteousness 
which  exalteth  a  nation;  of  the  tra- 
ditions of  her  past,  and  of  those 
standards  and  aims  which  give  per- 
manence and  character  to  a  nation; 
if  she  gives  the  light  she  has  obtained 
to  the  whole  world  and  recognizes- 
her  mission  to  mankind,  then  she 
will  fulfill  her  destiny,  and  she  will 
become  "a  crown  of  beauty  in  the 
hand  of  the  Lord,  and  a  royal' 
diadem  in  the  hand  of  her  God." 

It  is  a  far  cry  from  the  Atlantic- 
to  the  Pacific,  but  it  is  a  farther  cry 
in  history  from  Plymoth  Rock  to  the 
Golden  Gate!  And  all  that  lies- 
between  is  dear  to  us.  We  pray  that 
she  may  not  fail.  Let  us  give  our- 
selves individually  to  labor  that  she 
may  not  fail! 

One  evening  in  Denver,  I  stepped 
out  into  the  darkness,  and  there  high 
up  on  the  Capitol  dome  was  my 
country's  flag  in  colored  electric 
lights.  With  the  play  of  electricity 
its  folds  were  apparently  waving 
upon  the  breeze  in  beauty.  The  flag 
that  is  dear  to  us  all !  And  I  said  to 
myself,  his  heart  must  be  dead  in- 
deed who  is  not  stirred  at  such  a 
sight,  that  symbol,  the  memories 
which  awakens,  and  that  for  which 
it  stands!  And  his  heart  must  be 
dead  also,  who  for  such  a  country  is 
not  willing  to  give  himself  to  help 
her  fulfill  her  great  destiny  in  the 
hand  of  God ! 


BUILD  A  BRIDGE  FROM  INDIFFERENCE    TO   THE 
MISSIONARY  COMMANDS  OF  JESUS  CHRIST  TO 
JOYFUL  OBEDIENCE  THERETO.     OUT  OF  WHAT 
MATERIALS  ?     KNOWLEDGE  AND  ACTIVITY. 


AN 

IMMIGRANT 

BOY 

THINKS 


BY 

JOHN 

A. 
SHEDD 


ITS   easier  to  male  a  Christian  American  of  us  to-day  than 
it  will  he  ten  years  from  now. 

We  are  the  boys  who  will  make  the  very  best  or  the  very 
worst  hind  of  Americans. 

It  is  very  nice  for  you  to  educate  and  elevate  your  children 
for  the  future,  but  if  you  forget  us  now  your  children  will  have 
some  unpleasant  reminders  from  us  later  on.  When  you  better 
our  future  you  better  the  future  of  your  children  also. 

We  have  been  told  that  America  is  a  Christian  nation. 
Now  is  your  time  to  prove  it  to  us. 

We  are  just  "  common  people  "  and  so  we  want  to  hear  the 
message  from  the  Man,  of  whom  the  Book  says:  "The  common 
people  heard  him  gladly'' 

I  have  brought  a  healthy  body  to  this  country  ;  it's  about  all 
the  capital  I  have.  If  it's  left  alone  God  only  knows  what  trouble 
it  may  make  you.  Are  you  going  to  educate  my  head  and  soul  so 
that  I  may  be  a  blessing  to  my  adopted  country  ? 

Tour  public  schools  are  great  I  How  they  help  our  ignorant 
heads  !  But  we  have  souls  also,  and  what  is  going  to  help  them? 
My  father  came  from  a  queer  country  and  so  he  has  some 
queer  ideas  in  his  head;  I  do  believe  some  of  those  ideas  are  in 
?ny  head,  too  !  It  will  take  real  smart  teachers  to  teach  me  the 
way  I  ought  to  be  taught. 

I've  heard  a  great  deal  about  "  dying  for  one's  country."  I 
just  wish  some  one  would  help  me  to  get  ready  to  live  for  my  coun- 
try, for  I  expect  to  live  a  long  time. 

When  father  gets  "cheap  help  "  on  the  farm  he  says  he  gets 
"  cheap  harvests  "  every  time.  So  I  am  wondering  what  kind  of 
harvests  you  will  get  if  you  hire  your  teachers  and  preachers  as 
cheap  as  you  can. 


FROM  THE  FRONT  LINE 


The  Woman  Missionary  in 
Wyoming 

PERHAPS  Wyoming,  with  its 
crude  frontier  conditions  and 
long  distances  and  often 
dreary  discomforts,  might  seem  the 
last  place  for  woman's  work.  It  is 
under  just  such  conditions  that  the 
woman  of  physical  strength  and  mis- 
sionary daring  is  most  needed  and 
best  appreciated,  all  of  which  is  well 
illustrated  in  the  following  from 
Mrs.  S.  Abbie  Chapin: 

It  was  remarked  by  someone  when  I  came 
to  take  up  work  in  Wyoming  that  they  did 
not  see  why  a  woman  was  sent.  When  I 
asked  why,  the  reply  was:  "  Oh,  she  can't 
stand  what  a  man  could."  I  do  not  know 
what  more  a  man  could  have  been  required 
to  do,  and,  with  so  many  discouragements, 
I  do  not  know  but  a  man  might  have  accom- 
plished less. 

I  divide  my  time  about  equally  between 
two  places.  At  T.  the  people  live  on 
ranches  and  are  well  scattered.  During  the 
last  five  months  I  have  stopped  at  twenty- 
nine  different  homes  out  or  thirty-four  and 
I  have  been  at  several  places  more  than 
once.  At  first  this  mode  of  living  reminded 
me  of  dear  old  Vermont  where  I  began  my 
work  as  a  missionary.  But  I  missed  the 
large,  comfortable  farmhouse  and  spare 
rooms.  Here  families  have  from  one  to 
two  rooms  and  some  of  them  a  few  more. 
There  are  log-houses  and  sod-houses  and  a 
few  modern  frame  buildings.  In  Vermont, 
we  thought  by  boarding  around  in  different 
homes  we  might  more  easily  reach  the 
hearts  of  the  people;  so  I  thought  I  would 
try  the  same  experiment  in  Wyoming.  At 
one  home  the  housewife  asked  me  if  I 
knew  how  to  make  pumpkin  pies.  I  replied 
that  I  knew  how.  I  made  the  pies  and  the 
lady  said:  "  After  this  we  are  going  to  tell 
our  superintendent  to  send  us  women 
preachers.  They  make  pies."  A  Catholic 
woman  was  very  ill  and  could  get  no  one 
to  care  for  her,  so  for  a  week  I  turned 
nurse  and  housekeeper.  There  were  four 
little  children,  the  youngest  a  baby.  With 
my  other  work  in  the  home  I  made  forty- 
five  pounds  of  butter. 

During  the  past  two  months  I  have  been 
giving  more  of  my  attention  to  G. ;  have 
had  two  weeks  of  meetings  with  increasing 
interest.  The  people  show  a  desire  to  help 
in  the  work  which  is  decidedly  encourag- 
ing, although  the  workers  are  few.     At  one 


evening  session  we  had  thirty-two  out;  five 
were  men;  four,  children;  seven  were  from 
the  dance-hall;  five  were  women  church 
members  and  eleven  were  from  the  lower 
class  of  questionable  character.  At  T. 
there  have  come  into  town  within  a  week 
some  three  hundred  men  who  are  to  be  em- 
ployod  on  the  government  ditches.  They 
will  be  continually  changing  and  hard  to 
reach.  The  streets  are  full  of  drunken 
men,  and  shooting  and  stabbing  is  going 
on  during  the  day  and  night. 

The  Winter  Visitor 

We  are  glad  to  report  the  follow- 
ing testimony  from  Rev.  G.  B.  Wal- 
dron  of  New  Smyrna,  Florida. 
There,  and  at  many  other  Southern 
points,  the  winter  visitor  is  a  familiar 
character.  He  is  not  always  a  help 
to  the  church,  and  is  sometimes  a. 
sad  hindrance.  We  congratulate  the 
church  of  New  Smyrna  on  having 
secured  a  better  variety.  Says  Mr. 
Waldron: 

There  are  many  winter  residents  here 
who  have  been  coming  for  several  years. 
They  remain  from  four  to  six  months  and 
many  of  them  own  their  own  homes.  I  am 
happy  to  say  they  are  a  church-going  class, 
and  that  the  most  delightfully  cordial  and 
helpful  relations  exist  between  them  and 
the  churches  of  this  town. 

Making  for  Righteousness 

The  home  missionary  church  is. 
something  more  than  a  preaching 
institution.  Often  and  often  it  must, 
join  in  the  fight  for  social  purity  and 
civic  righteousness,  as  Rev.  O.  A. 
Stillman,  of  Buffalo,  Wyoming, 
clearly  shows  in  the  following  re- 
port: 

While  we  have  not  been  making  a  great 
record  for  attendance  at  services  the  solid 
influence  of  church  and  pastor  has  been  on 
the  gain.  Last  autumn  the  district  attor- 
ney started  proceedings  against  a  family  in 
this  city  to  take  away  two  young  girls  who 
were  being  brought  up  in  evil  ways.  While 
I  had  been  working  for  two  years  to  get 
the  authorities  to  act  in  this  case  I  did  not 
appear  as  prosecutor  in  any  way,  except 
that  both  the  officers,  sheriff  and  district 
attorney,  and  the  judge  as  well,  consulted 


FROM  THE  FRONT  LINE 


69 


me  frequently  as  to  the  disposition  to  be 
made  of  the  children.  After  a  very  inter- 
esting fight  in  the  court  we  succeeded  in 
having  the  children  taken  away  from  the 
parents  and  placed  in  the  custody  of  the 
Children's  Home  Society  of  Sioux  Falls, 
South  Dakota,  and  we  are  hearing  very 
good  reports  from  them.  From  the  very 
beginning  Buffalo  has  always  been  a  wide- 
open  town ;  taking  advantage  of  a  tempo- 
rary difficulty  among  the  gamblers  and 
acting  with  the  sheriff  we  have  succeeded 
in  shutting  down  public  gambling  entirely, 
and  so  successfully  that  I  hardly  think  it 
will  ever  be  resumed.  These  things  have 
all  taken  much  time  and  thought  and  we 
regard  them  as  a  legitimate  part  of  the 
duty  of  a  church. 

A  Temperance  Incident 

One  of  our  earnest  German  work- 
ers in  Missouri  tells  the  following  to 
illustrate  the  value  of  temperance 
teaching  to  children. 

An  illustration  of  the  lasting  good  of 
teaching  a  temperance  lesson  to  a  class  boy 
is  as  follows:  Raymond,  a  bright  little  fel- 
low in  my  wife's  class,  son  of  a  business 
man  in  this  city,  was  accustomed,  after  the 
German  fashion,  to  drink  beer  and  wine  at 
home,  and  sometimes  would  go  into  the 
saloon  with  his  father  when  downtown. 
One  chilly  day  this  winter,  father  and  son 
were  both  standing  on  a  street  corner  wait- 
ing for  a  car.  "Come  on,  my  boy,"  said 
his  father,  "let's  go  into  this  saloon  and 
warm  up."  But  the  little  fellow  begged 
off  and  at  last  he  said:  "  I  can't  go  into  that 
place,  father;  our  Sunday-school  teacher 
told  us  last  Sunday  that  saloons  were  hell 
holes,  and  it's  dangerous  to  drink  what  they 
sell."  And,  with  tears  in  his  eyes,  he 
begged  his  father  not  to  go  in.  The  father 
was  touched  and  had  probably  never  before 
thought  of  the  peril  to  many  which  lies  in 
the  saloon.  He  did  not  go  in  and  has  never 
been  in  since.  He  has  also  kept  the  stuff 
out  of  his  house  and  is  now  a  strict  temper- 
ance man.  I  heard  this  story  from  his  own 
lips,  and  he  told  it  with  overflowing  grati- 
tude. 

The  Touch  of  Nature 

Not  a  little  of  the  home  mission- 
ary's work  is  to  administer  good 
cheer  to  the  lonely  and  the  unprivi- 
leged. The  humble  home  described 
by  one  of  our  workers  in  Nebraska 
is  one  of  a  countless  number  whose 
only  wealth  seems  to  consist  in  a  few 
sacred  memories,  a  cheerful  content 
and  a  thorough  trust  in  God. 


We  have  one  very  constant  family  con- 
sisting of  man,  wife  and  baby,  coming  in 
five  and  one-half  miles  in  nearly  all  kinds 
of  weather.  I  visited  them  some  time  ago 
and  found  a  house  about  sixteen  by  eight- 
een feet  or  so,  one  room,  with  an  old  dis- 
carded cook-stove,  a  bed,  three  chairs,  a 
little  table  and  a  bureau.  The  brave  little 
wife  was  trying  to  keep  some  house  plan's, 
for  home  cheer  by  carrying  them  down 
into  the  cellar,  a  hole  in  the  ground,  every 
night.  Also  she  proudly  showed  me  three 
little  goldfish  in  a  tiny  glass  jar,  saying: 
"  I  have  to  put  these  in  the  bureau  drawer 
every  night  to  keep  the  water  from  freez- 
ing, but  I  like  to  keep  them  because  they 
were  given  to  me  before  I  was  married." 
I  drove  back  from  that  humble  home  in  the 
evening  gloom  thinking  about  many  people 
and  many  things.  Yes  it  is  worth  while, 
and  the  love  of  God  passeth  knowledge. 
The  light  and  warmth  of  life  do  not  depend 
on  electric  lights  and  steam  radiators. 

The  Revival  Record 

The  eightieth  year  of  the  Home 
Missionary  Society  just  closing  will 
rank  among  the  record  years  for 
revivals  among  the  missionary 
churches.  We  might  occupy  the 
whole  magazine  with  the  story  of 
the  Spirit's  work  in  answer  to  faith- 
ful preaching  and  prayerful  effort. 
The  following  from  Rev.  W.  L. 
Hadsell  of  Hyannis,  Nebraska,  is 
typical.     Says  Mr.  Hadsell: 

God  has  wonderfully  heard  and  answered 
the  prayers  of  his  people  by  reviving  these 
churches,  saving  sinners,  reclaiming  back- 
sliders, and  in  many  other  ways  in  which 
he  has  granted  his  servant  the  privilege  of 
seeing  the  fruits  of  his  labor.  Not  only 
our  own  two  churches  (Hyannis  and  Bing- 
ham), but  neighboring  churches  of  other 
denominations  here  in  the  Sand  hills  have 
shared  in  the  blessing.  For  twenty-one 
days  in  January  I  was  privileged  to  help 
the  Methodist  minister  at  Mullen  and  a 
score  or  more  of  hopeful  converts  was  the 
result.  Then  followed  the  three  weeks  at 
Hyannis  with  more  than  an  additional  score 
of  converts.  The  church  has  never  been 
in  a  more  hopeful  spiritual  condition. 
Petty  differences  and  some  hateful  feelings- 
have  been  put  aside  and  a  spirit  of  charity 
prevails  throughout  the  church. 

Among  other  results  has  been  a  decided 
growth  of  sympathy  and  good-will  in  the 
Ladies'  Aid  Society.  Never  have  the 
women  labored  more  zealously  or  accom- 
plished more  good.  They  have  recently 
realized  $90  by  a  social  affair  which  has  gone 
to  the  improvement  of  the  church  and  par- 
sonage, and  they  have  $100  more  in  their 


7° 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


treasury  for  other  helpful  uses.  Under 
this  wave  of  religious  interest  the  Sunday 
school  also  has  doubled  in  numbers,  and 
the  Christian  Endeavor  Society  has  added 
a  new  active  membership  of  twenty.  Per- 
haps one  of  the  most  marked  results  has 
been  the  readiness  of  the  members,  and 
especially  the  young  people,  to  take  an  act- 
ive part  in  our  meetings,  all  of  which  may 
read  like  a  humble  story  in  the  eyes  of  the 
larger  and  stronger  churches,  but  to  us 
here  it  means  much  and  it  is  nothing  but 
the  truth. 

This  is  Business 

We  are  happy  to  believe  that  pas- 
toral letters  are  becoming  more  fre- 
quent as  their  value  grows  more 
evident.  There  are  few  agencies 
more  effective  than  a  businesslike 
letter  from  pastor  to  people.  We 
take  pleasure  in  commending  the 
following  addressed  by  Rev.  E.  A. 
Cook,  pastor  of  Big  Timber  Church, 
Montana,  to  the  people  of  that 
•church  at  the  opening  of  the  year. 
It  means  business. 

Dear  Friend:  I  wish  you  a  happy  New 
Year.  How  can  we  make  this  year  a  hap- 
pier one  than  last  for  our  church  and 
community? 

An  encouraging  backward  look.  In  1905, 
eight  members  have  been  received  into 
the  church.  Our  Sunday  school  member- 
ship has  grown  from  sixty  to  over  a  hun- 
dred. Our  offerings  for  benevolence  which 
in  1904  were  $24,  were  for  the  past  year 
$58,  besides  the  money  given  for  the  poor. 
Our  note  at  the  bank,  nearly  $400  a  year 
•ago,  now  amounts  $58.35,  and  we  are  going 
to  wipe  that  out,  perhaps  to-morrow. 
During  the  last  month  we  have  had  Dr. 
Boyl's  splendid  lecture,  the  children's  can- 
tata and  that  given  by  the  choir — both  very 
successful.  Would  we  could  give  to  all  who 
have  helped  in  making  these  cantatas  and 
the  other  services  of  the  church  so  success- 
ful, the  thanks  their  hard  work  deserves! 

The  next  great  event  is  the  Annual  Meet- 
ing of  the  church,  to-morrow,  Wednesday 
evening  at  eight  o'clock.  Whether  a  mem- 
ber or  not  you]  are  urged  to  be  present, 
hear  the  reports  and  enjoy  the  social  and 
refreshments  at  the  close.  Don't  forget 
the  communion  service  next  Sunday  morn- 
ing, and  the  concert  by  the  Midland  Quintet 
on  Monday  night. 


Please  do  not  fail  to  put  your  name  on 
the  envelope  when  you  send  in  your  dime 
for  Congregational  Work,  which  is  to 
help  us  make  our  gifts  more  intelligent  as 
well  as  larger  in  the  coming  year. 

Remember  that  the  church  and  the  king- 
dom grow  by  individual  prayer  and 
work.  Let  us  come  to  the  annual  meeting 
and  plan  great  things  for  the  future  and 
then  each  of  us  do  his  part  to  bring  many 
to  Christ  and  into  the  church  this  year. 
"He  that  winneth  souls  is  wise." 

Faithfully  yours, 
E.  Albert  Cook. 


A  Good  Year 


Prof.  Frederick  A.  Hall,  Superin- 
tendent of  the  St.  Louis  City  Mis- 
sionary Society,  and  holding  the 
same  relation  to  the  National  Society, 
records  a  year  of  unusual  fruitful- 
ness  as  well  as  unusual  calamity 
among  the  assisted  churches  of  that 
city.      Says  Prof.  Hall: 

With  the  exception  of  two  churches  in 
St.  Louis,  all  show  a  gain  of  members  for 
the  year  ending  December  31,  1905.  The 
downtown  fields,  Olive  Branch  and  Union, 
have  had  an  unusually  prosperousyear, gain- 
ing considerably  in  numbers  and  to  a 
marked  degree  in  their  influence  over  the 
communities  in  which  they  are  located. 
In  both  these  churches  much  attention  has 
been  given  to  the  Young  People's  societies, 
and  men's  clubs  have  been  organized  to  in- 
terest the  young  men  in  municipal  matters, 
and  the  results  have  been  most  encourag- 
ing. 

Singularly,  both  churches  have  been 
visited  by  fire  within  the  past  six  weeks. 
Union  Church  is  already  in  better  condition 
than  before  its  fire,  and  Olive  Branch  will 
at  once  carry  out  some  long-desired  im- 
provements, now  that  the  fire  has  neces- 
sitated a  general  repair  of  the  building. 
The  women  of  Union  Church  met  with  a 
serious  loss  in  the  destruction  of  four  sew- 
ing machines,  the  working  materials  for 
the  winter  and  their  supply  of  dishes  for 
church  functions.  The  insurance  did  not 
cover  these  items,  and  the  loss  will  be 
severely  felt  unless  some  generous  friend 
helps  to  replace  these  articles.  A  revival 
last  winter  resulted  in  an  addition  of  about 
thirty  members  to  this  church  on  pro- 
fession. 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY  MOVEMENT  HAS  BEEN  THE  HEART- 
FORCE  OF  AMERICAN  CHRISTIANITY.  IT  HAS  NOT  BEEN 
CONGREGATIONALISM  SEEKING  TO  SPREAD  CONGREGATION- 
ALISM, BUT  CHRISTIANITY  WORKING  TO  SPREAD  CHRISTIAN- 
ITY. ITS  WAR  CRY  HAS  NOT  BEEN  OUR  COUNTRY  FOR  CON- 
GREGATIONALISM, BUT  OUR  COUNTRY  FOR  CHRIST.—/.  K. 
McLean. 


FROM  THE  FRONT  LINE 


7i 


A  Suggestive  Letter 

REV.  J.  L.  JONES,  of  lone, 
Oregon,  is  the  recipient  of  a 
letter  from  the  noted  Welsh 
Evangelist,  Evan  Roberts.  Having 
found  this  letter  stimulating  and  in- 
structive, Mr.  Jones  contributes  it 
to  the  Home  Missionary  for  the 
benefit  of  his  brethren  and  the 
churches.  Mr.  Roberts  writes  from 
Loughor,  Glum,  South  Wales: 

Dear  Brother:  I  think  the  great  need 
in  the  present  age  is  to  possess  the  true  and 
correct  meaning  of  worship. 

We  have  grown  selfish  in  our  past  life. 
We  go,  do  we  not,  to  receive  and  not  to 
give.  We  may  say  we  go  to  please  God, 
but  in  fact  when  we  find  the  true  motive  it 
is,  indeed,  self. 

We  possess  God's  Word  and  place  a  good 
portion  of  it  in  the  intellect,  but  do  not  let 
"The  Word"  fill  and  possess  our  soul. 

We  receive  Jesus  Christ  as  our  Savior, 
but  do  we  allow  Him  to  reign  as  our  King? 

Have  we   received   the   Power  from  on 


High  to  act  as  well  as  to  say  "  Thy  King- 
dom come." 

And  when  we  receive  the  power  does  it 
not  often  die  in  our  soul  through:  (1)  Fear 
of  the  adversary ;  (2)  fear  of  man  ;  (3)  self  in 
its  most  subtle  form,  contempt,  criticism. 

Now  dear  brother,  let  your  dear  people 
make  a  vow  to  allow  God  to  work  in  and 
through  them. 

(1)  To  read  the  Bible  daily  (a)  "Search 
the  Scriptures." 

(2)  To  pray  continually  (a)  "watch  and 
pray." 

(3)  Total  surrender  so  that  they  may  re- 
ceive the  baptism  of  the  spirit  and  fire. 

(4)  To  use  this  power  by  being  obedient 
regardless  of  satan,  man  and  self. 

May  God  bless  you  and  yours,  and  let 
your  people  come  to  church  to— 

(1)  Give  to  God  and  not  to  receive. 

(2)  To  please  God  and  not  satisfy  them- 
selves. For  if  we  come  to  receive  and  to 
satisfy  ourselves  are  we  not  selfish  and 
thereby  arrest  the  progress  of  the  king- 
dom? If  we  want  to  succeed  and  to  possess 
full  joy,  we  must  not  think  of  our  success 
and  our  joy  because  it  is  self,  but  God's 
will,  being  our  only  and  sufficient  joy. 

With  much  Christian  love  I  remain, 
In  His  service, 
Evan  Roberts. 


A  Junior  Home  Mission  Text- 
Book 

WORKERS  among  young  peo- 
ple in  all  our  Congrega- 
tional churches  will  be 
gratified  to  learn  that  a  home  mis- 
sion text-book  for  juniors  will  be 
available  for  use  next  fall  and  win- 
ter. It  is  entitled  "Coming  Ameri- 
cans," and  is  written  by  Miss  Kath- 
erine  R.  Crowell,  whose  junior  text- 
books have  justly  received  such  warm 
commendation. 

The  new  book  treats  in  a  graphic 
and  interesting  way  and  in  language 


that  can  be  readily  understood  by 
the  average  child,  the  gathering 
together  here  of  the  foreign-speaking 
multitudes. 

Not  least  among  the  valuable  fea- 
tures of  Miss  Crowell's  book  is  a  full 
and  suggestive  bibliography  of  the 
most  modern  literature  on  Christian 
work  among  foreigners  in  America. 

The  book  will  be  bound  in  paper 
and  in  cloth.  Paper  copies  will  be 
twenty  cents ;  cloth, thirty-five  cents. 
The  Congregational  Home  Mission- 
ary Society  has  secured  a  large  edi- 
tion of  this  admirable  book,  which  it 
is  expected  will  be  available  early  in 
May. 


THE  HISTORY  OF  THE  HOME  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY  IS  A 
HISTORY  OF  THE  BEST  AND  BRAVEST  DEEDS  THAT  HAVE 
BEEN  DONE,  AND  OF  THE  MOST  VALUABLE  AND  USEFUL 
WORK  THAT  HAS  BEEN  ACCOMPLISHED  IN  THE  BUILDING 
UP  OF  THE  SCHOOL,  THE  CHURCH  AND  THE  STATE.  INTI- 
MATE PERSONAL  KNOWLEDGE  OF  THE  SOCIETY  IN  ITS  PRACTI- 
CAL WORK,  AND  THE  LARGE  BENEFITS  IT  HAS  CONFERRED 
COMPEL  THE  ADMIRATION  AND  AFFECTION  OF  AT  ONCE, 
THE  PATRIOT,  THE  PHILANTHROPIST,  AND  THE  CHRIS- 
TIAN.—James  R.  Danforth. 


THE  OPINION  OF  AN  EXPERT 


THE  unparalleled  immigration 
record  of  the  past  year,  which 
promises  to  be  broken  again 
during  the  current  year,  has  called 
forth  a  flood  of  literature  on  the  sub- 
ject, ranging  all  the  way  from  the 
most  despairing  and  pessimistic  view 
possible,  to  the  opposite  extreme  of 
rose  color  and  optimism.  In  this 
wide  diversity  of  opinions  there  is  a 
healthful  tonic  in  the  calm  judgment 
of  an  expert.  Commissioner  of  Im- 
migration at  the  port  of  New  York, 
Robert  Watchorn,  in  a  recent  inter- 
view with  a  reporter  of  the  New 
York  Times,  has  summed  up  the 
situation  in  a  few  terse  paragraphs 
which  are  the  result  of  a  long  and 
enlightening  experience.  Says  Mr. 
Watchorn : 

"We  cannot  have  too  much  of  the 
right  kind  of  immigrants;  we  can- 
not have  too  little  of  the  wrong  kind. 
We  are  seeing  to  it  that  we  get  the 
right  kind — and  that  we  are  getting 
the  right  kind  I  am  certain.  Con- 
sequently, I  believe  that  increased 
immigration  of  the  kind  we  are  ad- 
mitting makes  for  the  national  weal. 

"The  prime  cause  of  immigration 
is  the  letters  of  foreigners  in  this 
country  written  to  relatives  and 
friends  and  to  foreign  newspapers. 
These  letter  writers  have  thrived  and 
they  spread  the  news  of  their  success 
abroad.  The  result  is  an  influx  of 
bright,  ambitious  men  and  women, 
the  brawn  and  backbone  of  any 
country. 

"Stop  the  United  States  mail  to 
Europe  for  one  year  and  you  would 
bring  foreign  immigration  to  an  ab- 
rupt and  almost  absolute  close. 

"Aliens  arriving  through  Ellis 
Island  last  year  brought  with  them 


money  aggregating  $938,660.  Shake 
more  than  eight  hundred  thousand 
Americans  together  and  send  them 
abroad,  and  I  doubt  if  they  will 
make  as  good,  certainly  no  better, 
showing. 

"Of  the  41,412  immigrants  arriv- 
ing here  last  January,  34,363  were 
between  the  ages  of  fourteen  and 
forty-four  years — formative  years  of 
youth  and  manhood,  splendid  years. 
Of  this  January  total  5,272  were 
under  fourteen  years  of  age,  and  only 
1,387  were  over  forty-four  years  of 
age.  So  what  did  we  get?  Was  it 
not  the  youth  and  strength  and  vigor 
and  ambition  of  foreign  lands? 

"Seventy  per  cent  of  the  aliens 
arriving  here  go  straight  out  west, 
out  upon  the  open  spaces  where  they 
are  needed.  Eighteen  per  cent  went 
to  the  New  England  states,  and 
only  twelve  per  cent  stayed  in  New 
York  City. 

"  In  New  York  State  at  the  pres- 
ent time  there  are  12,000  vacant 
farms.  This  is  the  case  to  a  greater 
or  less  extent  in  other  states.  Why? 
Because  the  native  born  youth  is 
hurrying  to  the  cities;  the  foreigners 
are  taking  their  places  out  on  the 
far  lands  and  open  spaces.  Can  you 
detect  anything  save  an  economic 
advantage  in  this  arrangement,  an 
advantage  that  cannot  but  fail  to 
accrue  to  the  National  welfare? 

"  If  a  steel  mill  were  to  start  in  a 
Mississippi  swamp  paying  wages  of 
$2.00  a  day,  the  news  would  hum 
through  foreign  lands  in  a  month, 
and  that  swamp  would  become  a 
beehive  of  humanity  and  industry  in 
an  incredibly  short  space  of  time.™ 

"American  wages  are  the  honey 
pot  that  brings  the  alien  flies." 


NO  ARMY  THAT  EVER  MARCHED  UNDER  OUR  COUNTRY'S 
FLAG  AND  ENDURED  HARDNESS  IN  THE  NATION'S 
CAUSE  MORE  ENTIRELY  DESERVES  THE  HONORS  OF 
PATRIOTISM  THAN  THE  DEVOTED  HOST  OF  MEN  AND 
WOMEN  WHO  HAVE  REPRESENTED  THE  CONGREGATIONAL 
CHURCHES  OF  AMERICA  ON  THE  FIELD  OF  HOME  MISSIONS. 
— Joseph  H.  Twichell. 


APPOINTMENTS  AND  RECEIPTS 


APPOINTMENTS 


March  1906. 


Not  in  commission  last  year. 

Aubrey,  Enoch  R.,  Rosetta,  Idaho. 

Dains.  Charles  H.,  Grand  Island,  Neb. 

Fairbanks,  Charles  G.,  Marian,    No.   Dak.;  Febre, 
John  Le,  Fingal  and  Lucca,  No.  Dak. 

Holman,  F.  H.  H.,  Ontario,  Ore. 

Newall,  A.  F.,  Kearney,  Neb. 

Palm,  William  J.,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

Sowles,  Dr.  L.  L.,  Ashton  and  Athol,  So.  Dak. 
Re-comm  issioned. 

Beatty,  Squire  T.,  Mazeppa,  Minn. 

Evans,  Thomas,  Taylor,  Neb. 

Garrison,  Spencer  C.,  Leavenworth,  Wash.;  Gasque, 
Wallace,  Gilmore,  Ga. 

Haecker,    M.    C,     Chickaska,   Ind.    Ter.;    Holford, 


David,  Douglas,  Alaska;  Howard,  T.  W.,  Rainy 
River  Valley,  Minn. 

Ioms,  Benjamin  G.,  Henry,  So.  Dak. 

Jensen,  Charles  J.,  general  missionary  in  Northern 
Wis.;  Jones,  William  C,  Pittsburg,  South  Side,  Pa. 

King,  W.  D.,  Omaha,  Neb. 

Lemmon,  W.  G.,  Guthrie,  Okla.;  Locke,  James  F., 
Round  Prairie,  Minn. 

Miller,  Henry  G.,  Jerome.  Ariz. 

Roehrig,  Otto,  Ransom  and  Ness  City,  Kan. 

Spangenburg,  L.  F.,  Dawson  and  Tappen,  No.  Dak.; 
Spencer,  J.  A.  H.,  Perkins,  Okla. 

Tillman,  W.  H.,  Atlanta,  Ga. 

Walker,  H.  E.,  Rutland  and  Tewankon,  No.  Dak.; 
Watt,  Richard.  Ceylon,  Minn.;  Wilbur,  George  H., 
Colville,  Wash. 


RECEIPTS 


March,  iqo6. 


For  account  of  receipts  by   State  A  uxiliary    Societies 

see  page  77, 
MAINE— $1334.72;  of  which  from  legacy,  $260.85. 

Maine  Miss.  Soc.,  by  W.  P.  Hubbard,  Treas.,  142.64; 
Amherst,  by  request  of  donor,  6;  Augusta,  Miss  A.  H. 
Snell,  3;  Benton  Falls,  Miss  M.  E.  Lunt,  4;  Bath,  Win- 
ter St.,  100;  Bluehill,  1;  Burlington,  2.95;  Eastport,  Cen- 
tral. 4.15;  Farmington,  "  Home  Ch.  and  Thank  You  " 
box,  2;  Foxcroft  and  Dover,  25.50;  Freeport,  Estate  of 
Daniel  Lane,  260.85;  Groveville,  A  Friend,  r;  Kenne- 
bunk,  M.  P.  S.,  2;  Kittery  Point,  1st,  S.  S.,  3;  Madison, 
20.30;  Mexico,  4.50;  New  Castle,  2nd,  22;  Norridgewock, 
Woman's  Aux.,  4.60;  Portland,  Woodford,  54.125  s.  S., 
6.04;  C.  E.,  6.32;  Jr.  C.  E.,  5;  High  St.,  add'l,  .30;  St. 
Lawrence,  10;  Saco,  1st,  74.04;  Solon,  5;  So.  Berwick,  20; 
So.  Paris,  G.  O.  Robinson,  50;  So.  Portland,  1st.  10; 
South  Gardiner,  Ch.  5;  C.  E.,  3;  Jr.  C.  E.,  4;  Standish, 
7;  Waterford,  Rev.  T.  S.Perry,  5.50;  Waterville,  37.31; 
West  Brooksville,  22.60. 

NEW  HAMPSHIRE-$283o.6o;of  whichlegacies,$2o63.4i. 
N.  H.  H.  M.  Soc,  by  A.  B.  Cross,  Trea.,  151;  Bath,  by 
request  of  donors,  W.  P.  Elkins,  1;  Bedford,  F.  F.,  5: 
Claremont,  W.  B.  M.  Aux.,  25;  Concord,  South  "  C." 
25;  Deerfield,  Ch.,Miss  L.  A.  Marston,  1;  Dover,  1st,  S. 
S.,  98.54;  Exeter,  Mrs.  D.  W.  Morgan,  5;  Hancock,  6; 
Hampstead,  5.59;  Hanover,  Dartmouth  Coll.  Ch.  of 
Christ,  125;  flopkinton,  Estate  of  Stephen  Kelly, 
2,008.41;  Hollis,  W.  J.  Rockwood,  5;  Hudson,  Estate  of 
E.  A.  Warner,  55;  Jaffrey,  Mrs.  N.  P.  Phelps,  1.50; 
Keene,  M.  J.  Heywood  5;  Lancaster,  50;  Lisbon,  Miss 
S.  E.  Merrill,  3;  Littleton,  C.  E.,  3;  Newport,  S.  H. 
Baldwin,  5;  Pittsfield,  33.56;  Rindge  H.M.  Bushwell, 
50;  Rochester,  1st,  10;  Two  Friend.--,  3;  West  Rindge,  G. 
G.  Williams,  100;  Mrs.  M.  A.  Williams,  50. 

VERMONT— $1884.62.^ 

Vermont  Dom.  Miss.  Soc,  J.  T.  Ritchie,  Treas.' 
1,111.23;  Barre,  40.82;  T.  A.  Lord,  4.40;  Benson,  I.  H' 
Childs,  5;  Brattleboro,  Center,  a  Friend,  6;  Mrs.  E.  H. 
Selleck,  1.  A  Friend,  5;  Bridport,  Two  Friends,  2; 
Burlington,  College  St..  S.  S.,  10;  Cambridge,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  S.  M.  Safford,  3;  Coventry,  14;  East  Berkshire,  13.10; 
C.  E.,  5;  Johnson,  J.  Holmes,  40;  Ludlow,  D.  F.  Cool- 
edge,  20;  Lyndon,  24;  Manchester,  S.  S.,  "The  Boys' 
Congress  "  and  "  Girls'  Nimble  Finger  Circle,"  15; 
Montgomery  Center,  6;  Morrisville,  C.  E.,  5;  Moscow,  S. 
S.,  3.83;  Newbury,  C.  E.,  7;Newfane,  5.68;  Newport,  15.02; 
North  Troy,  5;  Norwich,  Mrs.  C.  R.  Stimson.  15;  Orwell, 
add'l,  .25;  Mrs.  D.  W.   Clark,    19.28;  Pittsford,  43.28; 


Randolph  Center,  A  Friend,  20;  St.  Johnsbury,  South 
Ch.,  250;  Saxton's  River,  28;  Springfield,  A  Friend,  :; 
Stockbridge,  T.  S.  Hubbard,  5;  Stowe,  41.09;  Strafford,  11; 
Sudbury,  N.  R.  Nichols,  1;  Vergennes,  Misses  E.  and  E. 
Benton.  1;  Vermont,  A.  Friend.  2;  Westminister,  West, 
13.64;  Weston,  L.  P.  Bartlett,  1;  Windsor,  Mrs.  A.  E. 
Wardner,  5. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  C.  H.  Thompson,  Treas.; 
Bellows  Falls,  C.  E.,  5;  Brattleboro,  Ladies'  Ass'  n,  15; 
Chelsea,  C.  E.,  4;  Essex  Junction,  "Opportunity  Club, 
10:  Jeffersonville,  C.  E.,  5;  Rutland,  West  C.  E.,  5;  St. 
Johnsbury,  South,  Mrs.  Morse,  5;  Waterbury,  10;  South 
Duxbury,  A  Friend,  1.    Total,  60. 

MASSACHUSETTS— $11,301.29;  of  which  legacies, 
$1,320.29. 
Mass.  Home  Miss.  Soc,  by  Rev.  J.  Coit,  Treas.  By  re- 
quest of  donors,  3,245.28;  Amesbury,  Union,  24;  Am- 
herst, 1st,  85.77;  Twentieth  Century  Club,  20;  Andover, 
Scuth,  35;  South  S.  S.  Intermediate,  5;  West,  25.68; 
Sem.  Ch.,  81.50;  Two  Members,  1;  A.  L.  Bell,  2; 
Arlington,  Rev.  S.  C.  Bushnell,  50;  Ashburnham,  Clar- 
ence M.  Proctor  Fund,  3.53;  Attleboro,  2nd,  148.60; 
Auburndale,  Ch.,  25;  C.  Cutler,  10;  H.  Lamson,  25;  A 
Friend,  1;  Barre,  C.  E.,  2;  Belchertown,  21.52;  Blandford, 
1st,  13.65;  Boston,  Rev.  G.  A.  Hood,  30;  A.  T.  Belcher, 
20;  W.  E.  Murdock,  100;  C.  N.  Richardson,  10;  French 
Evan.,  5;  S.  S.,  2;  Bradford,  "  L.  H.  K.,"  5;  Brockton, 
1st,  50;  Brimfield,  2.50;  Brookline,  Leyden,  50;  Harvard, 
add'l,  10;  Harvard  S.  S.,  25:  Cambridge,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
H.  L.  Clark,  5;  Chicopee,  3rd,  11.05;  Concord,  T.  Todd, 
25;  Cummington,  S.  S.  Jr.  Dept.,  1.80;  Village,  19;  Dal- 
ton,  1st,  by  H.  A.  Barton,  to  const.  Mrs  A.  M.  L. 
Pomeroy,  D.  J.  Pratt,  H.  S.  Lawrence  and  L.  E. 
Ball,  Hon.  L.  Ms.,  200;  Danvers,  Maple  St.,  22.36:  Miss 
S.  W.  Wheeler,  10;  Dedham,  1st,  143.20;  Miss  M.  L. 
Burgess,  20;  Dorchester,  S.  S.,  10;  2nd,  of  which  25, 
from  Mrs.  E.  Torrey:  100;  Mrs.  L.  J.  West,  5;  Douglas, 
1st  S.  S.,  6;  East  Northfield,  Record  of  Christian 
Work,  2;  East  Longmeadow,  1st,  31.80;  Easton,  Evan,  40; 
Edgartown,  5.51;  Enfield,  Estate  of  J.  B.  Woods,  80; 
Fall  River,  Fowler,  41.17;  S.  S.,  5;  C.  E.,  6.04;  Fitchburg, 
A  Friend,  2;  Foxboro,  Miss  H.  L.  Dean,  2;  Granville 
Center,  3.50;  Groton,  Mrs.  B.  F.  Wyrcan,  5;  Hadley,  1st, 
10;  Halifax,  M.  S.  Thompson,  2;  Harwich  Port,  Pilgrim, 
1.25;  Haverhill,  West  S.  S.,  23.05;  West,  Home  Dept., 
1;  Haydenville,  C.  J.  Hills,  5;  Holyoke,  1st,  15.98;  1st  C. 
E.,  10;  2nd  S.  S.,  37.35;  J.  K.  Judd,  100;  B.  N.  Norton, 
10;  Hubbardston,  33;  Huntington,  "  In  Memoriam,"  25; 
2nd,  20;    Hyannis,  R.  J.  Bearse,  .50;   Hyde  Park,  Mrs. 


74 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


A.  L.  Loder,  25;  Interlake,  26.05;  Jamaica  Plain,  Mrs. 
R.  W.  Wood,  100;  Lancaster,  S.  R.  Merrick,  7.50;  Law- 
rence, So.  C.  E.,  2;  Lee,  M.  E.  G.,  50;  Leicester,  John 
Nelson  Memorial,  5;  D.  Bemis,  50;  Leominster,  F.  A. 
Whitney,  15;  Lincoln,  Woman's  Home  Miss.  Soc. 
add'l,  .50;  Woman's  Home  Miss.  Soc,  12.75;  Long- 
meadow,  1st  Ch  of  Chrin,  65.39;  Lowell,  W.  M.  S.  and 
C.  E.,  18;  J.  Rodgers,  100;  Ludlow  Center,  1st,  21;  Mai- 
den, Maplewood  S.  S.,  10;  Mrs.  B.  B.  Esan.  1;  In  Me- 
moriam,  10;  Massachusetts,  Friends.  150;  Maynard,  H. 
J.  Cobb,  10;  Middleboro,  Central,  66.80;  Monson,  115  72; 
Newburyport,  Prospect  St.  of  which  2.80  for  the  debt, 
77  83;  A  Friend,  3;  Newton,  1st,  75.58;  C.  C.  Stearns,  5; 
Newtonville,  Central,  40:  Newton  Center,  C.  H.  Bennett, 
10;  Northampton,  "The  Thirteen  Club,"  1;  S.  P.  Par- 
sons, 1;  "N.  C  20;  "N,  C,"  20;  North  Rochester,  12; 
Packardville,  Union,  5;  Pelham,  3:  Pepperell,  Mrs.  D. 
Goodwin,  5;  Petersham,  Miss  E.  B.  Dawes,  200;  Pitts- 
field,  Mrs.  T.  P.  Pingree,  50;  M.  Cobb,  50;  Plym- 
outh, Two  Friends:  1;  Provincetown,  S.  S.,  3.10;  Salem, 
Tab.,  Friends  20;  Sheffield,  7.78;  Shelburne,  18.88;  Rev. 
J.  Gray,  n;  South  Hadley,  1st,  10;  Mt.  Holyoke  College 
Y.  W  C.  A.,  50;  Mt.  Holyoke  College.  A  Friend,  10; 
"  X.  Y.  Z.,"  20;  Spencer,  1st,  500;  Springfield,  Estate  of 
Elam  Stockbridge,  1,000;  1st  Ch.  of  Christ,  501.12; 
South,  236.88;  So.  W.  H.  M.  S.,  of  which  25  "  from 
Helen  S.  Appleton,  100;  Faith,  72.82;  No.  Ch. ,  30; 
Park,  15.09;  E.  Brooks,  50;  C.  W.  Kilburn,  5;  Stur- 
bridge,  S.  E.  Hyde,  10;  Sudbury,  Mrs.  L.  S.  Connor,  5; 
Swampscott,  Mrs.  C.  L.  Warner,  5;  Taunton,  West, 
15  25;  Tewksbury,  32.13;  Tolland,  11.30;  Ch.  addl,  Rev. 
H.  A.  Coolidge,  2;  Townsend,  A  Friend,  2;  Turners 
Falls,  1st  C.  E.,  1.86;  Walpole,  2nd,  45;  Wellesley,  Leg- 
acy of  Miss  Sarah  M.Herrick,2s;Ch.,i6i.48;A  Friend, 
50;  Wellesley  Hills,  13  65; Wendell,  C.  E  ,  5;  West  Boylston, 
Mrs.  J.  C.  Dakin,  5;  Westboro,  Evan,  86.25;  West  Brook- 
field,  A  Friend.  3;  Westfield,  1st,  195.06;  2nd,  6.56:  West 
Gloucester,  14;  West  Granville,  5.75;  West  Stockbridge,  A 
Friend,  r;  Whitinsville,  Miss  A.  L.  Whitin,  500;  Whit- 
man, 43.53;  S.  S.,  10.67;  Winchendon,  North,  S.  S..  5; 
Mrs.  L.  A.  Hitchcock,  10;  Worcester.  Estate  of  Mary 
L.  Dana,  215.29;  Memorial.  12.87;  Piedmont,  20;  Peo- 
ple's Ch.,  A  Friend,  5;  Union.  23;  Mrs.  M.  E.  Averill, 
4;  E.  S.  Drury,  5;  C.  E.  Hunt,  50;  A.  L.  Smith,  10; 
A  friend  to  const.  Rev.  P.  H.  Epler  an  Hon.  L.  M., 
50;  A  Christian  Worker,  1;  Yarmouth.  12  75. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Assoc,  (of  Mass.  and  Rhode  Islands  Miss 
L  D.  White,  Treas.:  For  Salary  Fund,  287;  Natick, 
Mrs.  D.  Wight,  1;  Total,  288. 

RHODE  ISLAND    $132.00. 

Bristol,  1st,  S.  S.,  10;  Central  Falls,  50;  East  Provi- 
dence. Mrs.  H.  A.  Moore,  2;  Kingston,  H.  J.  Wells,  25; 
Pawtucket,  "  Cash,"  35;  Providence,  J.  M.  Lee,  10. 

CONNECTICUT— $5,871 .91  of  which  legacies,  $1,000. 

Miss.  Soc.  of  Conn.,  by  Rev.  J.  S.  Ives,  430.02;  Berlin, 
2nd,  50;  Mrs.  J.  B.  Smith,  10;  Bloomfield.  S.  S.,  18.70; 
Branford,  55;  H.  G.  Harrison,  25;  Bridgeport,  So.  Ch., 
8;  2nd,  264.36;  C.  E.,  10;  Girls'  Miss.  Circle,  10;  West 
End,  8.87;  C.  M.  Minor,  50;  Dea.  Hovey's  Bible  Class, 
2;  W.  W  ,  100;  Bristol,  1st,  80;  1st,  H.  B.  Wilcox,  5; 
H.  C.  Thompson  100;  X.  Y.  Z.,  30;  Brookfield,  52.20; 
Brooklyn,  18:  S.  S.,  5;  Burlington,  E.  G.  Stone,  5; 
Cheshire,  7;  Clinton,  51:  Colchester,  C.  E.,  5;  Collinsville, 
40.05;  Connecticut,  Enil,  3.18;  A  Friend,  400;  Friends, 
1.15;  Derby,  1st.  C.  E.,  9.57;  East  Glastonbury.  M.  T. 
Hutchinson,  20;  East  Hartford,  1st,  88.30;  Greenwich,  M. 
H.  S.,  5;  Friends,  g;  Groton,  S.  S.,  3;  Guilford,  1st,  40; 
Hartford,  4th,  167.48;  Asylum  Hill.  19^.40;  Windsor 
Ave.,  C.  E.,  special,  3,  Wethersfield,  Ave,  C  E.,  25; 
R.  W.  Cutler,  5:  Mrs.  S  W.  Robbins.  10:  E.  Hubbell, 
10:  Miss  E.  W.  Stone, io;Harwinton,  Ch.  toward  L  M'p. 
of  E.  Barber,  :o;  Lebanon.  M.  H.  Dutton,  ;  20;  Madison 
1st,  S.  S.,  io;Meriden,  Center,  112:32,  Ladies'  Benev. 
Soc  .  1st,  to  const.  Mrs.  H.  G.  Morse  an  Hon.  L.  M., 
50;  1st,  Ladies'  Guardian  Soc,  25;  Middlebury,  9.62; 
IMillford,  1st,  3  60;  Montville,  1st  6.16;  Mt  Carmel,  33; 
Morris,  6.20:  Naugatuck,  100;  Now  Britain,  So.  Ch., 
Friend,  5;  New  Haven,  Howard  Ave.,  46  77:  Ch.  of  the 
Redeemer,  630.43;  Italian,  22,  Mrs.  E.  H.  Barnes,  3.50; 
M.  D.  Moffatt,  1;  New  Preston.  Rev.  H.  Upson,  5;  New- 
town, Mrs.  S.  J.  Scudder,  25;  Miss  W.  E.  Scudder,  75; 
North  Haven,  2=;.  v>;  Mrs.  H.  C.  Thorpe,  2;  Norwich, 
Park,  35^30;  Old  Lyme  Estate  of  H.  H.  Matson,  1,000; 
Orange,  38;  Salisbury,  W.  B.  H.  M..  13:  Seymour,  8.45; 
A  Friend,  5;  Somersville  25:  South  Norwalk,  1st,  46.88; 
Southport.  700;  Mrs.  S.  C.  Sherwood,  200;  A  Friend, 
15.25:  Sonth  Windsor,  25;  Suffield,  Mrs  D.  W.  Goodale, 
1;  Stamford,  1st,  34.10;  Stratford,  1st    17.45;  Men   of   the 


Ch.,  26.50;  Terryville,  188.34;  Thomaston,  1st,  25;  "  M.  S. 
H.,"  10;  Torrington,  1st,  3.75:  Mrs  E.  Barbe-,  toward 
L.  M'p.,  25;  Waterbury,  Mrs.  H.  B.  Camp,  100;  Mrs.  E. 
M.  Stillman,  2;  D.  A.  Woodward.  2;  West  Avon,  3.50; 
West  Hartford,  A  Friend,  10  50;  Wethersfield,  S.  S.,  9.13; 
Whitneyville,  23.86;  Willington,  1.50;  Windsor,   S.  S.,  10; 

Correction:  Norwich,  F.  J.  Leavens,  1,000, 
should  be  credited  to  Norwich,  Broadway  Ch., 
erroneously  acknowledged  in  January  receipts. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  C.  S.  Thayer,  Treas.; 
5;  Hartford,  Center,  special.  80;  Y.  W.  H.  M.  C,  70; 
Higganum,  n;  Kensington,  Aux.  to  const.  Mrs.  E.  H. 
Olmstead  an  Hon  L.  M.,  50;  Newington,  Eunoean  H. 
M.  S  ,  6;  Norwich,  1st,  35.13:  Southington,  1st,  15.  Total, 
$272.13. 

NEW  YORK  -$8  996.74;  of  which  legacy,  100. 

N.  Y  H.  Miss.  Soc,  by  L.  L.  Fitch,  Treas.:  36;  Bait- 
ing Hollow,  442;  Binghamton,  1st,  171. 21;  Brooklyn, 
Tompkins  Ave  ,  2,422.81;  Central,  255;  Clinton  Ave., 
1,627.36;  Ch.  of  the  Pilgrim,  610.82;  Parkville,  10.15; 
Plymouth, 556. 40;  Puritan,  172.04;  Immanuel,  Y.  P., 
5;  E.  F.  C,  5;  J.  L.  Rob?rts,  5;  Camden,  1st,  26.25; 
Canaan  Four  Corners,  2.36;  Canandaigua.  200;  Candor,  9; 
Center  Lisle,  2.12:  Deansboro,  9;  De  Ruyter,  S.  S.,  5.10; 
Farmingville,  4;  Franklin,  60;  Friendship,  12;  Gaines,  30; 
S.  S  ,457;  C.,  3;  Gainsville,  20.13;  Gasport  Mrs.  W.  H. 
Dunbar,  io;Gloversville,  A  Friend,  25;  Hamilton,  19; 
Honeoye.C.  E.,  5;  Hopkinton,  25;  LeRoy,  B.  Ward,  25; 
Lincklaen,  4.55:  Miller's  Place,  Estate  of  Joseph  H. 
King,  100;  Morris,  A  P.  Felts,  1;  Mt.  Vernon,  1st,  S.  S., 
3;  L.  D.  Russell,  150;  Mt.  Vernon  Heights.  S.  S.,  5;  New 
Lebanon,  E  C.  Randall,  3  50;  New  Village,  1st,  3.15; 
New  York  City,  Armenian  Evan,  2.25;  Broadway  Tab., 
1,629.60;  Broadway  Tab.,  A  Friend.  25;  Broadway 
Tab  ,  A  Frieid,  i;  H.  A.,  1;  Miss  H.  C.  Bliss,  3;  Mrs. 
H.  M  Alger.  2;  Miss  M.  W.  Prentiss,  1;  Miss  J.  T. 
Ripley.  100;  North  Evans,  16.20-  Northfield,  10;  Ogdens- 
burg,  1st,  14.63;  Oxford,  J.  C.  Estelow,  5;  Perry  Center, 
F.  A  Kimberly,  10;  Randolph,  A.  G.  Dow,  10;  Rens- 
selaer Falls,  Mrs.  N.  E.  Doty,  5;  Mrs.  S.  Craig,  2; 
Rockaway  Beach,  1st,  15;  Roscoe,  Rev.  J.  W.  Keeler  and 
family,  4;  Saratoga  Springs,  New  England,  17.15; 
Spenoerport,  1st,  21;  Warsaw,  S.  S.,  10;  West  Bloom- 
field,  S.  S.,  4;  West  Groton,  4.52;  White  Plains,  A  Friend, 
5;  Wright,   A  Friend,  20. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  J.  J.  Pearsall,  Treas.: 
Brooklyn,  Central,  Zenana  Band,  250;  Puritan.  W. 
G.,  50;  Tompkins  Ave.,  Friends.  15:  Park  Ave  , 
Branch,  5;  Franklin,  C.  E.  S  ,  5:  Honeoye,  to:  New  York 
City,  Broadway  Tab.,  S.  W.  W..  10;  Richmond  Hill, 
Cradle  Roll.  .  =;o;  Rushville,  C.  E.  S.,  4.75:  Sherburne,  20; 
Walton,  10;  White  Plains,  Westchester,  L.  A.  S.,  50. 
Total,  430.25. 

NEW  JERSEY— $1,526.74. 

Atlantic  City,  A  Friend,  s;  Dover,  Beth.  Scand.  1; 
East  Orange,  1st,  S.  S.,  50:  "  K.,"  125;  Trinity,  154.35; 
Little  Ferry,  German  Evan.,  6;  Montclair,  1st,  450; 
Newark,  Bethlehem,  2;  Nutley,  St.  Paul's,  S.  S.,  5;  Pas- 
saic, 44:50;  Plainfield,  510.89;  S.  S.,  25. 

Woman's  H.  M  Union  of  the  N.  J.  Ass'n.,  Mrs.  G.  A.  L. 
Merrifield,  Treas.,  100;  East  Orange,  1st,  Woman's 
Soc  for  Christian  Work,  35;  Plainfield,  1st,  13.  Total, 
148. 

PENNSYLVANIA— $380. 83. 

Received  by  Rev.  C.  A.  Jones,  Edwardsdale,  Bethesda, 
S.  S.,  10;  Nanticoke,  Bethel.  15.50;  Wellsboro,  Cherry 
Flats,  5.    Total,  30.  so. 

Arnot,  Puritan,  2.50;  Audenried,  Welsh,  12;  Carbon- 
dale,  10.60;  Coaldale,  2nd.  2.25;  Corry,  9;  Delta  Bethesda, 
S.  S.  and  C.  E.,  2;  DuBois,  Swedish,  4.50;  Ebensburg, 
North  9.50;  Edwardsdale,  Bethesda,  13;  C.E.,  4;  Welsh, 
27.38;  Fountain  Springs,  Christ  Ch.,  2.50;  Hazleton,  Miss 
M  C.  Abbe,  1;  Lansford,  Welsh.  6.50;  Milroy,  White 
Mem  Ch.  19;  S.  S.,  7:  Nanticoke,  Moriah  Welsh,  4. 
Olyphant,  15,  Welsh,  15;  Philadelphia,  Rev.  E.  F.  Fales, 
5;  Plymouth,  Pilgrim, iS;Welsh  22;Scranton,  1st,  Welsh, 
5;  Puritan,  25;  Providence,  12;  Plymouth  S.  S.,  Thank 
offering.  380:  Shamokin,  605;  Shenandoah,  8;  South 
Sharon,  3:  Spring  Creek,  5.25:  Spring  Brook,  Welsh,  11. 15; 
Warren,  Bethlehem,  26.85;  Youngsville,  2.50. 

Woaixn's  H.  M  U.iioi  of  the  N.  J.  4s30.,  Mrs  G.  A  L. 
Marrifisld,  Treas.:  Gsrmintowa,  Pa.,  1st,  S.  S.,27. 


APPOINTMENTS   AND    RECEIPTS 


75 


MARYLAND— $13. 
Baltimore,  Associate  S.  S.,   12;  Pokomoke,   Mrs.  D. 
f  Wurrschmidt  and  Mother-in-law,  1. 

DISTRICT  OF  COLUMBIA— $515.46. 

Washington,  Ch.  of  the  Pilgrims,  19.70;  1st,  318,  of 
which  from  F.  W  Fairfield,  5;  Mrs.  J.  D.  B.  Chany, 
5;  Prof.  Ewell  10;  E.  S.  Cook,  20;  G.  P.  Whittlesey, 
40;  G.  E.  Whittlesey,  60;  H.  E.  Sawyer,  5;  Mt.  Pleas- 
ant, 172.76;  Lincoln  Temple,  5. 

VIRGINIA— $15. 

Portsmouth,  1st,  15. 

NORTH  CAROLINA— $84.07. 

Asheville,  Miss  M.  M.  Foote,  10;  North  Carolina,  Two 
Friends.  10;  Southern  Pines,  64.07. 

GEORGIA— $123.52. 

Atlanta,  68.15;  C.  E.,  6.37,  Ladies'  Union,  Central 
Ch.,  30;  L.  E.  Case,  1;  Miss  E.  P.  Harkins,  3;  Baxley, 
Friendship  and  Mt.  Olivet,  Surrency.  New  Home,  8; 
Bowman,  Rev.  M.  G.  Fleming  and  wife,  2.50;  Lindale, 
1;  Ocee,  2  50;  Tucker,  Union,  Lawrenceville,  New 
Trinity,  Stone  Mountain,  1. 

ALABAMA— $27.41. 

Received  by  Rev.  A.  T.  Clarke,  Andalusia,  Antioch,  2.50; 
Fredonia,  3.05:  Houston,  2.20;  Thorsby,  10.50;  Verbena,  1. 
Total,  19.25. 

Delta,  J.  S.  McDonald,  16;  Huntsville,  P.  M.  Green,  3; 
New  Hope,  C.  E.  Burke  tt,  5. 

LOUISIANA— $18.18. 

Hammond,  16.08;  S.  S.,  2.10. 
ARKANSAS— $4. 

Ft.  Smith,  C.  A.  H.,  1;  Newport,  Mrs.  E.  Voris,  3. 

FLORIDA— $167.98. 

Dayton,  57.38;  De  Funiak.  Mrs.  A.  H.  Miller,  1;  Eden 
and  Jensen,  7;  Georgiana,  Mrs.  M.  C.  Munson,  5:  Mel- 
bourne, 1st,  50;  New  Smyrna,  10;  Orange  City,  1st,  25  10, 
St.  Petersburg,  Rev.  J.  P.  Hoyt,  5;  Taylor,  Pearl 
Chapel  and  Pine  Grove,  3;  West  Palm  Beach,  S.  S.,  4.50. 
TEXAS— $121.50. 

Dallas,  Central.  25;  E.  Morgan,  25;  Central  S.  S., 
15;  Miss  R.  O.  Eldred,i5;  Ft.  Worth,  1st,  36;  Grice,  Pil- 
grim, 1;  Pruitt,  1st,  2:  Tyler,  1st,  2.50. 

INDIAN  TERRITORY— $15. 

Chickasha,  1st,  15. 
OKLAHOMA,  $306.77. 

Received  by  Rev.  J.  H.  Parker,  Kingfisher,  add'l,  56; 
Meridian,  3;  Otter,  4;   Parker,  9.75.    Total,  72.75. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  C.  E.  Worrell,  Treas.: 
Carrier,  6.80;  Hennessey,  1.50;  Medford,  n.86;  Oklahoma 
City,  Pilgrim,  10;  Harrison  Ave.,  3;  Ridgway,  2; 
Weatherford,  5.75;  other  churches,  3.20;  Jr.  ardC.  E., 
Societies,  3.43.    Total,  47.54. 

Agra,  21;  Anadarko,  St.  Peters,  colored,  2.55;  Bethel, 
4.75;  Cashion,  11.75;  Harmony,  14.46;  Hydro,  3.50; 
Cooperton,  Rev.  P.  Weidman,  1;  Guthrie,  20;  Manchester, 
C.  E.;  3.14;  Medford,  i=t,  18;  Minneha,  3;  Oklahoma  City, 
Pilgrim,  35;  Harrison  Ave.,  7.83;  Pond  Creek,  26;  Wau- 
komis,  Plymouth,  14.50. 

NEW  MEXICO— $91.10. 

Albuquerque,  Rev.  J.  D.  Kingsbury,  25;  Cubero,  19; 
Galnp,  18;  Holbrook,  7.10;  San  Mateo,  10;  Miss  O.  P.  Hes- 
ter, 2;  Seboyeta,  Mi:  s  Olive  Gibson,  10. 

ARIZONA— $21. 
Jerome,  1st,  n;  Nogales,  Trinity,  10. 

OHIO— $1,251.62. 

Ohio  H.  M.  Soc,  by  Rev.  C.  H,  Small,  Treas.: 
1,146.57;  Ashtabula,  Mrs.  J.  S.  Blyth,  5;  Austinburg,  Ch. 
and  S.  S.,  16;  Castalia,  J.  C.  Prentice,  .50;  Cleveland, 
Cyril,  13;  Cyril,  W.  M.  S.,  2:'  A  Friend, 
1;  Mrs.  L.  D.  Eldredge,  1;  Kelloggsville,  1; 
North  Fairfield,  12;  North  Monroeville,  2.05;  Ober- 
lin,  J.  F.  Parmelee,  1:  Rev.  S.  F.  Forter,  12;  P.  L.  A  , 
20;  Salem,  Mrs  B.  W.  Allen,  5;  Shandon,  2.50;  M.  P. 
Jones,  1;  Springfield,  Lagonda,  Ave.,  5;  Toledo,  Wash. 
St  Ch.,  5. 


INDIANA— $496.26. 

Received  by  Eev.  E.  D.  Curtis,  Elwood,  15;  Indianapolisi 
North,  7.73;  Marion,  10;  Michigan  City,  1st,  25. 
Miss  A.  E.  Sanborn,  63.23;  S.  S.,  3.50;  Boss,  1.25;  Ship- 
shewana,  n.75;  Terre  Haute,  L.  F.  Perdue,  5.  Total, 
117.46. 

Received  by  H.  Blunt,  Treas.,  Indianapolis,  Brightwood, 
5.60;  Union  Ch.,  25.50;  Orland,  60;  Terre  Haute,  Mrs.  M. 
West,  1.    Tctal,  92.10. 

Dunkirk,  Plymouth;  12.75;  Hammond,  26.50;  Indianapo- 
lis, People's,  30. 

Woman's  H.  M.  U.,  Mrs.  A.  D.  Davis,  Treas.; 
Angola,  Ladies' Guild,  5;  Jr.  C.  E.,  15;  Brazil,  Mrs. 
Andrews,  2;  Brightwood,  L.  A.,  5;  C.  E..  1;  Elkhart, 
26.25;  Fort  Wayne,  Plymouth,  l  8  Prayer  Circle,  2;  In- 
dianapolis, Mayflower,  22.34;  Trinity,  C.  E.,  2.36;  Ko- 
koma,  75:  C.  E.,  5;  Jr.  C.  E.,  5;  Portland,  4.50;  C.  E., 
5!  Terre  Haute,  Plymouth,  5;  West  Terre  Haute,  10;  Whit- 
ing, C.  E  ,  4.    Total,  217.45. 

ILLINOIS— $1,780.25;  of  which  legacy,  $10. 

Received  by  M.  E.  Eversz,  D.D.,  Chicago,  Rev.  M.  E. 
Eversz  and  family,  special.  10;  Quincy,  Mrs.  M. 
Meyercord.  1;  Jefferson  Park,  Trinity,  German,  S.  S., 
5;  Illinois  H.  M.  Soc,  by  request  of  donor,  6.  Total, 16. 

Anna,  S.  M.  Burnhart,  1:  Aurora,  Mrs.  S.  Hall,  5; 
Mrs.  E.  V.  Bridgham,  5;  Byron,  C.  E.,  10;  Cambridge, 
Estate  of  H.  G.  Griffin,  10;  Chicago  Miss  F.  E.  Oli- 
ver, 10;  Mrs.  H.  P.  JohDtson  and  M.  J.  Johntson,  15; 
J.  K.  Harmon,  1,000;  L.  Burnham,  5;  Chillicothe,  Ply- 
mouth, 2,Gridley,  S.  S.,  6;  Kewanee,H.  T.Lay  250;  Lodi, 
Miss  N.  E.  Slocum,  25;  Marseilles,  Mrs.  H.  E.  Baugh- 
man,  100;  Millburn,  21;  Moline,  Mrs.  S.M.  Atkinson,  20; 
Payson,  L.  K.  Seymour,  100,  Rockford,  2nd,  12.50;  Mrs. 
E.  W.  Chandler,  10;  M.  H.  Penfield,  100;  Seward,  20; 
Sycamore,  Mrs.  H.  Wood,    10. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  A.  O.  Whitcom,  Treas., 
10.75;  Rockford,  Mrs.  E.  W.  Chandler.  10.  Total,  20.75. 

MISSOURI— $343.49. 

Received  by  Rev.  A.  K.  Wray,  Grandin,  C.  E.,  Inter- 
mediate, 5;  Lamar,  5.    Total,  10. 

Braymer,  E.  D.  Hughes,  3;  Carthage,  1st,  30  65;  DeSoto, 
3.25;  Grandin,  11.53;  Republic,  5;  St.  Joseph,  Miss  L.  R. 
Tupper,  2;  St.  Louis,  Pilgrim.  42;  1st,  125;  Fountain 
Park,  50.31;  Sedalia,  Mrs.  Bowers,  1;  G.  H.  Bowers,  1; 
Springfield,  1st.  56.75;  German,  2. 

MICHIGAN— $108. 

Belding,  20;  Bellaire,  A  Friend,  1.  Hopkins  Station,  50; 
Charlotte,  1st:  Ladies'  Benev.  and  Miss.  Soc,  25;  Kala- 
mazoo, 5;  Milford,  S.  A.  Manzer,  Easter  offering,  5; 
Muskegon,  A  Friend,  1;  Olivet,  Mrs.  J.  E.  Swift,  1. 

WISCONSIN— $26.50. 

Berlin,  Miss  L.  Fitch,  5:  Burlington,  Miss  E.  A. 
Kautsky  5;  City  Point,  Scand.,  2;  Clear  Lake,  Swedes, 
2.50;  Lake  Mills,  Rev.  L.  E.  Osgood,  5;  Milwaukee,  Mrs. 
H.  M.  Ledyard,  1;  Roberts,  Ch.,  S.  B.  Osgood,  5; 
Viroqua,  J.  Billing,  1. 

IOWA,  $1,265.53;  of  which  legacy,  $500. 

Iowa  Home  Miss.  Soc,  Miss  A.  D.  Merrill,  Treas  . 
96.24;  Ames,  H  P.  Sayles,  1;  Church,  German,  special, 
22;  German  Woman's  Union,  special,  8;  Treynor. 
German,  806;  Elliot,  Mrs.  H.  and  Miss  L.  C. 
Barnes,  1.50;  Emmetsburg,  1st,  S.  S.,  S.90;  Marion,  E. 
A.  Jaquith  1;  Mooreville,  Mrs.  C.Smith,  403.25;  Polk 
City,  1st,  12.4^;  Sheldon,  R  W.  Aborn,  100;  New  Hamp- 
ton Estate  of  Dea.  Harrison  Gurley,  500;  Traer,  9  50. 
Williamburg,  C.  E.;  3.66. 

MINNESOTA— $898.71. 

Received  by  Rev.  G.  R.  Merrill,  Mankato,  10;  Mazeppa,  4 
Minneapolis,  Plymouth,  127.70;  S.  S.,  50;  Como  Ave. , 
36;  Morristown.  6;  New  Brighton,  5;  Plainview,  5.70; 
Waseca,  10.33:  Waterville,  Ladies' Soc,  2.50;  Rev.  and 
Mrs.  C  B.  Fellows,  10.    Total,  276.23. 

Burtrum,  Palmer,  5;  Grey  Eagle,  2:  Swanville,  3;  Cass 
Lake  10;  Crookston,  1st,  14;  Fertile,  Mrs.  D.  Vannet,  10; 
Granada,  34.50;  Hopkins.  Mizpab,  2;  Howard  Landing,  20; 
Mantorville  15.60:  Moorhead,  L.  A.  Huntoon.  10:  Nassau 
and  Marietta,  5;  North  Branch,  1;  St.  Anthony  Park,  42.86; 
St.  Clair,    1.25;    St.  Paul,  German,  3;   Sauk  Rapids  and 


76 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


Cable,  by  Rev.  W.  N.  Payne,  10;  Silver  Lake,  Free  Re- 
formed, 84;  Spencer  Brook  and  Athens,  Swedes,  4.66. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  W.  M.  Bristoll,  Treas.: 
Ada,  Aux.,  2;  Austin,  Aux.,  10.75;  Benson  Aux.,  1; 
Elk  River,  Aux,  4;  Faribault,  Aux.,  10.93;  C.  E.,  11; 
Moorhead  Aux.,  7;  Minneapolis,  1st,  Aux.,  21;  Ply- 
mouth, Aux.,  to  const.  Mrs.  C  A.  Daley  an  Hon. 
L.  M.,  50;  Park  Ave.  Aux.,  in  full,  to  const.  Mrs. 
Carrie  A.  Tupper  an  Hon.  L  M.,  33.13;  Bethany, 
Aux.,  1;  C.  E.,  5;  New  Ulm,  Aux.,  3;  Northfield,  Aux., 
to  const.  Mrs.  B.  G.  Lou,  an  Hon.  L.  M.,  50;  Sleepy 
Eye,  Aux.,  9;  St.  Paul,  Olivet  S.  S.,  10;  University  Ave. 
Aux.,  5;  Plymouth  Ch  Aux.,  2  75;  Miss  C.  S.  Pond, 
10;  Park,  6.25;  St.  Anthony  Park,  Aux.,  2;  Olivet, 
Aux.  8;  .South  Park,  Aux.,  1;  Pacific  Grove,  .40; 
Wabasha,  Aux.,  1;  Wadena,  C.  E.,  10;  Waseca,  Aux.,  5; 
Winona,  1st  Aux.,  50;  Zumbrota,  Aux.,  1;  Special  for 
Debt:  Spring  Valley,  Aux.,  9;  St.  Paul,  Peoples,  Aux., 
1.20;  Park.  Aux.,  .40;  C.  E..  1.20;  Atlantic,  Aux.,  1; 
Pacific,  Aux.,  .60.   Total,  344.61. 

KANSAS-$r7.25. 

Kansas,  Central  Asso.,  E.  H.  B.,  15:  Sedgwick,  N.  D. 
Goodell,  2  25. 
NEBRASKA -$2,381. 85. 

Received  by  Rev.  L.  Gregory,  Treas. :  Ainsworth,  88.65; 
Alma,  60;  Ashland,  49.70;  Aurora,  38.18;  Avoca,  25.50; 
Beatrice,  84.78;  Blair,  18.65;  Bloomfield,  60;  Cambridge, 
59.50;  Claris,  S.  S. .  3.50;  Comstock,  2;  Crete,  10;  E.  F. 
Stephens,  6;  Crofton.  1.25;  David  City,  go;  Doniphan,  W. 
H.  Gideon,  10;  Dunning,  1.25:  Dustin,  11.76;  Elgin,Park, 
28.50;  Fairfield,  9.70;  Grand  island,  3.45;  Harbine,  11.20; 
Hastings,  50;  1st,  18  03;  Havelock,  S.  S.,3;  Hildreth,  23.50; 
India  Creek,  1.10;  Jansen,  12;  Kearney,  26;  Lincoln,  1st, 
Mrs.  S.  A.  Campbell,  10;  Linwood,  33  37;  McCook,  33.25; 
1st,  6;  Milford,  6;  Naper,  8  65;  Naponee,  5;  Newman  Grove, 
14.80;  Noble,  1.05;  Omaha,  1st,  80;  C.  H.  Sampson,  2.50; 
Petersburg,  7  76;  Pickrell,  28;  Rising  City,  11.55:  Seward, 
62.04,  Ulysses,  12.50:  Wahoo,  11:  West  Cedar  Valley,  20; 
West  Point,  50;  Westcott,  4.30;  Wilcox,  16.55;  York,  50. 
Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  C.  J.  Hall,  Treas  ,  to  const. 
Mrs.  R  J.  Dresser  and  Mrs.  S.  Harris  Hon  L.  Ms., 
689.50.    Total,  1,966.02 

Bassett,  1  50:  Brunswick,  it:  Carroll,  Zion,  15;  Crawford, 
1st.  16;  Crete,  F.E. Craig, io;Farnam,io;Holdrege,  ist,6  25; 
Hyannis,  31;  Irvington,  add'l,  1.50;  Norfolk,  2nd,  14.44; 
South  Platte,  40;  West  Hamilton,  2  21;  Lincoln,  2.50;  Long 
Pine,  13.55;  Omaha,  1st,  1.50;  Palisade,  1st.  12.25;  Scrib- 
ner,  Ch.,  25;  Mrs.  H.  A.  Bow'us,  25;  Somerford,  1; 
Springview,  W.  G.  Brown,  2;  Trenton,  1st,  24.63;  Walmo, 
Mrs.  O.  Ostenberg.  1. 

NORTH  DAK0TA-$695.6o. 

Received  by  Rev.  G.  J.  Powell,  Argusville,  1;  Carring- 
ton,  43.69;  Colfax,  4.70;  S.  S.,5.i5;C.  E.,  1.60;  Coopers- 
town,  17.50;  S.  S.,  30;  C.  E.,  2.50;  Ladies'  Soc,  4  50; 
Dawson,  6;  Eureka,  4.65;  Fargo,  1st,  39;  Glenullin,  S.  S., 
32;  Hankinson,  S,  S.,  8.50;  C.  E.,  1.35;  Jr.  C.  E.,  1; 
Harwood,  2;  Hurdsfield,  5.35:  Inkster,  15;  Mayville, 
Ladies'  Soc.,2o;Michigan  City,Ladies,  Soc,  3i;0riska,5; 
Sentinel  Butte,  2.85:  Sykeston,  8.66;  S  S.,  4.43;  Valley 
City.  75;  Wahpeton,  Ladies'  Soc,  25;  Williston,  35.25;  S. 
S.,  1.75;  Ladies'  Soc,  10;  C.  E.,  5.    Total,  421.43. 

Antelope,  7';  Buchanan,  135  Carrington,  7.10;  C.  E.,  10; 
Cooperstown,  1st,  100;  Dwight,  1;  M.  R.  Olson,  13.12; 
Eureka,  4.65;  Fargo,  Scand.,  1.50;  Hesper,  6.50;  Hope, 
14.50;  Hurdsfield,  4.35;  Lakota,  21:  Manvel,  5;  New  Rock- 
ford,  1st,  n.i8;S.  S.,  10.82;  Ladies'  Social  Union,  10; 
Oberon,  14;  Oriska,  12.10;  Portland,  J.  Clarke,  1;  Rut- 
land, 3. 35;  Wyndmere,  3. 

SOUTH  DAKOTA— $662.2.5. 

Received  by  Rev.  W.  H.  Thrall;  Beresford,  23;  S.  S.,  5; 
Bethel,  5.28;  Canova,  12;  Centerville,  5.45;  Deadwood,  22; 
Dover,  5:  Erwin,  20;  Faulkton,  5.86;  Gettysburg,  4; 
Hoffunngsberg,  7.25;  Houghton,  5;  Hudson,  12.01;  Huron, 
57.65;  Ladies'  Aid,  30;  Parkston,  Friedenfeld,  9; 
Pioneer,  2;  Salem,  14.75;  Vermillion,  14.70;  Wessington 
Springs,  Rev.  and  Mrs.  J.  E.  Hughes,  10;  Yankton, 
37.71;  Zion,  9.    Total,  316.66. 

Albee,  6.10;  Anina  and  Templeton,  13.50:  Armour,  10; 
Beresford,  Mrs.  M.  C.  Hyde,  2;  Blumenthal,  German, 
9.75:  Cresbard,  4.50;  Elk  Point,  12.50;  Eureka,  6.02; 
Bethel  Ch.,  No.  2,  15;  German,  St.  Paul,  6.71;  Fair- 
fax, Hoffman's,  German,  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  3.15;  Ged- 
desburg,  Jacob  Schmierer,  1;  Ft.  Pierre,  25;  Gann 
Valley,  5;  Geddes,  1st,  10;  Greenleaf,  1;  Highmore,  21.85; 
Lead,  12;  Lebanon,  2;  Letcher    and    Loomis,  Rev.    G.  L. 


W.  Kilbon,  25:  Logan,  6.35;  Mekling,  2;  Myron,  12.50 
Rapid  City,  10;  Redfield,4o;  Ree  Heights,  12;  Revillo,  Rev. 
H.  G.  Adams,  10.82;  Rosette  Park,  5;  Sioux  Falls,  1st, 
13.25;  King's  Daughters,  5;Spearfish,  20. 

Woman's  H.  M.  U.,  Mrs.  A.  Loomis,  Treas.:  Clarke, 
10;  Redfield,  3.59;  Ree  Heights,  3.     Total,  16.59. 

C0L0RAD0-$i,624.i5. 

Received  by  Rev.  H.  Sanderson,  Colorado  Springs,  1st, 
57.75;  Creede,  10;  Denver,  1st,  25;  2nd,  100;  C.  E.,  2; 
3rd.  20;  Pilgrim,  6.97;  So.  Broadway,  4.05;  Grand 
Junction,  no;  Greeley,  20.55;  Lafayette,  Jr.  C.  E.,  9.20; 
Pueblo,  Pilgrim,  28.29;  Irving  Place,  1.75;  Rico,  10  55; 
C.  E.,  5:  Telluride,  54;  C.  E.,  10;  intermediate,  n; 
Ward,  C.  E.,  5.    Total,  401.11. 

Arriba,  7.45;  Englewood,  2.15;  Flagler,  15;  Fondis,  2; 
Trinidad,  7.75;  Ward,  4. 

Reported  by  W.  C.  Veazie: 

Brighton,  Platte  Valley,  2.56;  Rev.  R.  C. 
Byers.  10;  Claremont,  18  35;  Seiberc,  10.01  Colo- 
rado Springs,  1st,  97.85;  1st,  A  Friend,  25;  F.  R, 
Farr,  1;  Craig,  13;  Cripple  Creek,  1st,  45;  Denver,  ist- 
125;  Ohio  Ave.,  8625;  Plymouth,  350;  So.  Broad; 
way,  65;  S.  S.,  16  10;  Olivet,  30;  Eaton,  Ch.,  5.50; 
Men's  Kingdom  Extension  Soc,  9.50;  Elk  River,  7.40, 
Flagler,  8.85;  Fruita,  Union  Ch.,  23.58;  Union  S.  S., 
17.86;  Granada,  L.  J.  and  E.  M.  Sherman,  3;  Greeley; 
Park,  qo.68;  S.  S.,  7.20;  Longmont,  G.  D.  Rider,  10; 
Otis,  4;  Pueblo,  A  Friend,  5;  Minnequa,  6.36;  S.  S.,11.24 
C.  E.  Soc  ,  4.40;  Silverton,  1st,  25. 

W70MING-f;37  42- 
Buffalo,  Union,  3  50;  Lusk  aud  Manville,  5.05. 
Woman's  H    M.   Union,    Miss  E.    McCrum,    Treas. : 

Cheyenne,  1st,  28.87. 

MONTANA.  $173.60. 

Received  by  Rev.  W.  S  Bell,  Billings,  add'l,  52.77;  Butte, 
E.  B.  Howell  10;  Great  Falls,  Ladies'  Miss.  Soc,  by 
Mrs.  W.  S.  Bell,  4  50;  Missoula,  3;  Swedes,  4.55.  Total, 
74.82. 

Absarokee,  18.45;  Big  Timber,  Rev.  and  Mrs.  E.  A. 
Coos,  3.33;  Great  Falls,  45  85;  Laurel,  9;  Plains,  18:  Red 
Lodge,  4  15. 

UTAH,  $1.50. 
Utah,  A  Friend,  1.50. 

IDAHO,  $153.60. 

Received  by  Rev.  J.  D.  Kingsbury,  D.D.,  New  Plymouth, 
P.  R.  Ketchum,  10.60;  Lewiston,  Pilgrim,  2.75;  Moun- 
tain Home,  26;  Weiser,  1st,  85.25. 

Woman's  Miss.  Union,  Mrs.  G.  W.  Derr,  Treas.:  Boise, 
29. 

NEVADA- 25. 

Reno,  1st.  25. 
CALIF0RNIA-$2,223.9o. 

Southern  Cal.  Home  Miss.  Soc,  by  S.  H.  Herrick, 
Treas.:  Bakersfield,  25;  Bueua  Park,  5.70;  Los  Angeles, 
Vernon,  78;  Ontario,  Bethel,  194.69;  Panama,  6.25;  Perris, 
12:  Riverside  63.70;  1st,  Ch.  L.  A.,  10;  Santa  Ana,  50; 
Villa  Park,  50;  Whittier,  100;  Woman's  H  M.  U.,  904.66. 
1.500.  Corona,  25;  Highland,  25;  Los  Angeles,  Vernon,  25; 
Riverside,  28.     Total,  1,603. 

Bloomington,  3.35:  San  Bernardino,  Bethel,  10;  Chula 
Vista,  Friends,  3;  Compton,  6.0s;  Los  Angeles,  1st,  The 
Hildreth  Household.  25;  C.  J.  King,  1;  Mrs.  M.  D. 
Strong  4;  Pacific  Grove,  Mrs.  C.  E.  Boise,  In  memory 
of  S  W.  Boise,  500;  Pasadena,  Mrs.  H.  L.  Blake  3; 
Potrero,  M.  H.  Currier,  5;  San  Diego,  M.  Schaffnet,  10; 
Villa  Park,  1st,  50;  Whittier,  M.  i'.  Lyans,  50. 

Correction:  In  December,  receipts  from  Chula 
Vista,  Cal.,  4.20;  1st,  25,  should  be  Chula  Vista, 
29.20. 

OREGON— $282.37. 

Oregon  Home  Miss.  Soc,  by  M.  E.  Thompson-  Oregon 
City,  1st,  32.22;  for  debt,  80;  Portland,  Hassalo,  5.50. 
Total  (less  expenses  5),  112.72.  Received  by  Rev.  J.  D. 
Kingsbury,   D.  D.,   Huntington,  13.50. 

Albany,  1st,  10;  Cedar  Mills,  German,  4;  Condon, 
1st,  25;  lone,  12:  Laurelwood,  1.15;  University  Park,  4. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  C.  F.  Clapp,  Treas.,  30.63; 
Beaverton,   2.50;    Corvallis,    1st,   7.50;    Plymouth,   Mrs. 


APPOINTMENTS   AND    RECEIPTS 


77 


Bohannon,  .50:  Forest  Grove,  Mrs.  Abernethy,  5;  Gas- 
ton, 2. so;  Hillside,  2.50;  Patton  Valley,  2.50;  Portland,  1st, 
46.37.    Total,  100. 

WASHINGTON— $844. 32. 

Washington  H.  M.  Soc,  Rev.  H.  B.  Hendley,  Treas. 
Colfax,  5;  Coupeville,  25;  Deer  Park,  29.71;  Everett,  1st 
31.40;  Granite  Falls,  57-50;  North.  Bellingham,  4.25;  Puyal. 
lup,  3.50;  Ritzville,  40;  Seattle,  Pilgrim,  148.96 
Woman's  Soc,  57.50;  C.  E.,  1675;  University,  13 
Bethany.  5;  Beacon  Hill,  8;Tacoma,  1st,  5:  Walla  Walla 
1st,  300;  West  Seattle,  10;  N.  P.  Johnson,  1;  B.  Nelson 
1.    Total,  762.57. 

Eureka,  1st,  17;  Forks  and  Quillayute,  2;  Hartford,  1; 
Machias,  1;  Krupp,  J.  Jasmann.  special,  10;  Quincy,  W. 
G.  Schenerle,  wife  and  son,  1.50;  Adam  Weber.  1: 
Pleasant  Valley,  Bethel.  8;  Ritzville,  German,  17;  Steila- 
coom,  Oberlin,  7;  Sumner,  Mrs.  H.  Birge,  1;  Tacoma, 
Plymouth,  11  50;  Walla  Walla,  Varley,  3.75. 

LADRONE  ISLANDS-$5. 

Guam,  Missionary  Point,  Rev.  H.  E.  B.  Case,  5. 
TURKEY-  $50. 

Constantinople,  Dr.  and  Mrs.  G.  Washburn,  50. 


INDIA— $4.81. 

Vadala,  Rev.  A.  H.  Clarke,  4.81. 
ANONYMOUS— $6. 

I.  H.  U.,  1. 

MARCH  RECEIPTS 

Contributions $46,487.87 

Less  refunded  to  donors 126.42 

46,361-45 
Legacies 5,254-55 

Interest  _ 

Home  Missionary __ 

Literature 

Total 

Total  Net  Income  for    the    year 
ending  March  31,  1906; 

Contributions 

Legacies,  less  legal  and  estate  ex- 
penses   

Total 


$51,616.00 

278.01 

186.48 

53-85 

$52,134.34 

$166,146.27 

87,289  28 

$253,435-55 


Home  Missionary  receipts  and    literature    sales, 
viz.,  $1,770.37  credited  to  publication  account. 


AUXILIARY   STATE    RECEIPTS 


MASSACHUSETTS  HOME   MISSIONARY    SOCIETY. 

Receipts  in  March,  1906. 

Rev.  Joshua  Coit,  Treasurer,  Boston,  Mass. 

Andover,  Free  Christian,  60;  Ayer,  C.  E.,  5.38;  Berlin 
14.20;  Blackstone,  15.09;  Boston,  Boylston,  27.74;  Dorches- 
ter, Central,  50;  2nd,  Extra  Cent  a  Day  Band,  5;  Vil- 
lage, Ladies'  Aux.,  16;  A  friend,  5;  Swedes,  10;  Ches- 
ter, 4;  Chesterfield,  5.14;  Cummington,  Village,  11.25; 
Finns,  the  Cape,  8.25;  Fitchburg,  15.75;  Swedes,  15; 
Groveton,  N.  H.,  2.50;  Great  Barrmgton,  Housatonic,  32; 
Haverhill,  Union,  7;  Holland,  Ladies' Aux.,  15.75;  Holy- 
yoke,  2nd,  749.34;  C.  E.,  40,  HopkiDton,  14.55;  Ipswich, 
Linebrook,  11.50;  Lakeville,  Precinct;  24.55;  Leverett, 
Moores  Corner,  1:  Lynn,  Miss  A  S.  Bacheller,  10; 
North,  75.22;  Marlboro,  Levi  W.  Baker,  6;  Maynard, 
Finns,  4.50;  Melrose,  Highlands,  49.25;  Middleboro,  Cen- 
tral, 59.17;  S.  S.,  5.95; Newton,  1st,  6s.s8;New  Salem,  5.48; 
Northboro,  Miss  A.  A.  Adams,  .50;  Mrs.  S.  S.  Ashley, 
5;  Miss  Cora  Small,  1;  Howard  Smith,  .50;  Rev.  A. 
D.  Smith,  2;  Orange,  Central,  30.11;  Paxton,  1st,  15.35; 
Rev.  Geo.  H.  Pratt,  5;  Peru,  1;  Plymouth,  Italian,  80; 
Manomet,  15;  Quincy,  Finns.  3.15;  Park  &  Downs. 
4.98;  Income  of  Reed  Fund,  127.50;  Rockport,  Pigeon 
Cove,  10;  Salem,  Crombie  St.,  35.75;  Tabernacle, 
123.48;  Sandisfield,  7.70;  New  Boston,  15.80,  Somerset,  S. 
S.,  8.17;  Somerville,  Broadway,  61  75;  South  Hadley,  22; 
Springfield,  Eastern  Ave  ,  20,  Hope,  62.09;  Sutton,  1st, 
6.73;  Income  of  Wall  Fund.  70;  Wayland,  10.06;  Wen- 
dell, 9.25;  West  Boylston,  1st,  8.22;  S.  S.,  10;  West  Med- 
way,  27  65;  Weymouth,  So.,  24.54;  Income  of  Whitcomb 
Fund,  45;  Whitinsville,  Estate  Wm.  H  Whitin,  500; 
Woburn,  Scand.  Ev.  Free,  6.75;  Worcester,  Piedmont, 
2;  Plymouth,  442.40;  S.  S.,  10.33. 

Designated  for  Andover  School  of  Theology, 
Framingham,  Grace,  15;  Newton,  Center,is;  Designated 
for  Italian  work,  Boston,  4.07;  Brookline,  Harvard,  S. 
S.,  25;  Wellesley  Hills,  E.  C.  Hood,  50;  Designated  for 
Rev.  Mr.  Long,  Nogales,  Arizona,  55.60;  Designated  for 
C.  H.  M.  S..  Adams,  1st,  10;  Amherst,  North,  26.67; 
Andover,  Rev.  C.  C.  Torrey,  10;  South.  165;  A  Friend, 
100:  Belmont,  Plymouth,  26. 10;  Boston,  Boylston,  27.74; 
Charlestown,  1st,  S.  S.,  12.27;  Chesterfield,  10.20;  Dalton, 
Miss  Clara  L.  Crane,  100;  Mrs.  Louise  F.  Crane,  250; 
Easthampton,  Payson,  25;  Fitchburg,  C.  W.  Moechel,  5; 
Ispwich,  1st,  35.64;  Monastior,  Turkey,  4.40;  Newton, 
North,  S.  S.,  3.50;  Norfolk,  34.50;  Palmer,  Thorndike, 
1st,  9.65;  Rutland,  Friend,  .50;  Somerville,  Winthrop,  a 
Friend,  5;  Springfield,  Hope,  350;  Stockbridge,  40;  Three 
Rivers,  Union,  11. 15;  Upton,  1st,  2;  Watertown,  Phillips, 
114;  Wellesley  Hills,  66.34;  West  Boylston,  1st.  8.68;  West- 
hampton,  20;  West  Medford,  95;  Whitinsville,  Edward 
Whitin,  500;  Winchester,  1st,  237.25;  Worcester,  W. 
Spooner  Smith,  25. 


Woman's  H.  M.  Assn.,  Lizzie  D.  White.  Treas.: 
Salaries,  for  French  College,  70;  for  Italian  worker, 
35;  for  Polish  worker,  35;  Designated  for  C.  H.  M.  S., 
Brookline,  Harvard,  Aux.,  10;  Clinton,  Aux.,  30; North 
Adams,  Aux.,  35;  Norfolk,  Aux..  10;  Springfield,  Hope, 
Aux.,  50;  Worcester,  Mrs  F.  D.  Lothrop,  5;  Springfield, 
Hope,  Cheerful  Workers,  2.50 

SUMMARY. 

Regular.... _ $3,277.90 

Easter  School  of  Theology 30.00 

Designated  for  Italian  work 79-07 

Designated  for  Rev.  Mr.  Long,  Arizona 5560 

Designated  for  C.  H.  M.  S 2,33050 

W.  H.  M.  A.,  Designated  for  C.  H.  M.  S_.  142  50 

W.  H.  M.  A 4o.^ 

Home  Missionary 4  6q 

Total $6,060.26 

THE  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY  OF  CONNECTICUT. 

Receipts  in  March,  1906. 

Ward  W.  Jacobs,  Treasurer,  Hartford. 

Abington,  21;  Barkhamsted,  for  debt  of  C.  H.  M.  S. 
25;  Berlin,  2nd,  for  Italian  work  in  Berlin,  50;  Bridge- 
port, Olivet,  12;  King's  Highway,  for  C.  H.  M.  S., 
1.80;  Bristol,  100;  Brooklyn,  10;  Canterbury,  Estate  of 
Emblem  L.  Williams,  11.76;  Canton  Center,  25;  East 
Haddam,  1st,  3.29;  forC.  H.  M.  S.,  7.54;  East  Hampton, 
30.41;  East  Hartford,  South,  11.54;  East  Norwalk,  Swed- 
ish, for  debt  of  C.  H.  M.  S.,  14.75;  Greenwich,  Mianus, 
5;  Haddam,  1st,  19;  Hartford,  Zion,  Swedish,  7.15;  Glen- 
wood,  Special,  5;  C.  E.  3.26;  Higganum,  19;  Ivoryton,  C. 
E„  for  C.  H.  M.  S.,  15;  Kensington,  for  debt  of  C.  H. 
M.  S.,  23;  "Special  for  Italian  work,"  25;  Killingworth, 
C.  E.,  1;  Meriden,  1st,  for  debt  of  C.  H.  M.  S  ,  250; 
Dorcas  Society  for  debt  of  C.  H.  M.  S.,  10;  John  L. 
Billard,  personal,  for  debt  of  C.  H.  M.  S.,  20;  Mrs. 
John  L.  Billard,  personal,  for  debt  of  C.  H.  M.  S., 
10;  N.  L.  Bradley,  personal,  for  debt  of  C.  H.  M.  S., 
25;  Byron  K.  Gardner,  personal,  for  debt  of  C.  H.  M. 
S.,  5;  Walter  Hubbard,  personal,  for  debt  of  C.  H. 
M.  S.,  25;  Charles  F.  Lindsley,  personal,  for  debt  of 
C.  H.  M.S..  10; Center.  50;  Middletown,  ist,for  C.  H.  M. 
S  ,  45.25;  South.  Union  Society,  50;  Swedish,  4.25; 
Naugatuck,  160;  New  Haven,  Redeemer,  for  Italian 
work,  25;  Tavlor,  for  debt  of  C.  H.  M.  S.,  7;  North 
Madison,  for  debt  of  C.  H.  M.  S.,  18.68;  Oakville, 
20.61;  Plantsville,  Special  for  debt  of  C.  H.  M.  S.,  15; 
Portland,  1st,  Special  for  C.  H.  M.S.,  25;  Prospect,  15; 
Ridgefield,  1st,  25;  South  Manchester,  Swedish,  2.26; 
Talcottville,  for  debt  of  C.  H.  M.  S.,  46;  Thomaston,  1st, 


78 


THE   HOME   MISSIONARY 


12.87;  Eagle  Rock,  9;  Swedish,  for  debt  of  C.  H.  M. 
S,,  21;  Torrington,  Center,  for  Jtalian  work  in  Tor- 
rington,  66.45;  Washington,  Swedish,  for  C.  H.  M.  S., 
5;  Waterbury,  2nd,  Mrs.  W.  H.  Camp,  personal,  10; 
West  Haven,  1st,  26.40;  Westminster,  10;  Winsted,  2nd, 
George  M.  Carrington,  personal,  for  debt  of  C.  H. 
M.S.,  5;  W.  C.  H.  M.  U.,  of  Conn.,  Mrs.  George 
Follett,  Sec.  The  Berlin  Aid  Society,  for  Italian 
mission  in  Berlin,  60. 

M.  S.  C $1,406.25 

C.  H.  M.  S 430.02 

Total $1,836  27 

OHIO  HOME  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY. 
Receipts   in   March,  1906. 
Rev.  C.  H.  Small,  Treasurer,  Cleveland. 

Ashtabula,  [  Finnish,  2.60;  Belpre,  10;  Barberton,  15; 
Brownhelm,  9.63;  Chillicothe,  6.10;  Cincinnati,  Walnut 
Hills,  40.50,  Per.  25;  Storrs,  10:  S  S.,  2;  Cleveland, 
Franklin  Ave.,  8.50;  Euclid,  .54;  C.  E.,  10.20;  Grace, 
22.i9;S.  S.,  4.96;  C.  E.,  1.85;  Kinsman,  45;  W.,  10.35; 
C.  E.,  13;  S.  S.,  10;  Archwood  Ave.,  8;  Emanuel, 
Per.  5;  Hough  Ave.,  S.  S.,  25;  C.  E.,  5;  Bethlehem, 
52.98;  S.  S.,  3.29;  Trinity,  Per.  25;  Union,  W.  M.  S., 
4.  Plymouth,  n8;io;  Columbus,  Mayflower,  7;  Ply- 
mouth, 65;  Collinwood,  20;  1  hagrin  Falls,  30.25:  Cuyahoga 
Falls,  5.42;  C.  E.  1;  Conneaut,  15;  Per.  5;  Elyria,  1st, 
18.62;  Findlay,  W.,  2,  Fort  liecovery,  25;  Freedom,  5;  Gar- 
rettsville,  24.84;  Greenwich,  15;  Hampden,  10;  Huntsburg, 
Per.  2;  Jefferson,  22.50;  Lima,  1st,  2.^5;  Litchfield,  10; 
Lorain,  1st,  34.88;  C.  E.,  2;  Lucas,  15;  Medina,  225;  Mariet- 
ta, Harmar,  15;  Mansfield,  1st,  79.02; Nelson,  5;  Newport, 
Ky.,  20;  S.  S.;  10;  Norwalk,  7.29;  North  Amherst,  30; 
Newark,  1st,  5;  Plymouth,  13  50;  Oberlin,  1st,  Per.  6; 
D.,  101.15;  2nd,243,add,l,24.oi;Plain,i3.25:Radnor,  Per.  2; 
Ravenna,  16;  S.  S.,  15;  C.  E.,  5;  Ridgeville  Corners,  2.50; 
Ruggles,  3.81;  Shawnee,  W.  M.  S.,  5;  Stanleyville,  3; 
Sylvania,  5;  Springfield,  1st,  37.22;  St.  Albans,  2.5c;  Say- 
brook,  6.45.  Tallmadge,  65.25;  S.  S.,  34.79;  Troy,  3.65; 
Toledo,  Central,  10;  S.  S.,  15;  Birmingham,  9;  Washing- 
ton St.,  12.05:  Secretary,  Pulpit  Supply,  40;  Washing- 
ton, 12;  West  Park,  L.  A.,  5;  West  Williamsfield  n  25; 
Wayne,  5.20;  Windham,  10.50;  Wauseon,  17.50;  Vermillion, 
18.38;  S.  S.,  2.62;  C.  E.,  2;  York,  C.  E.,  2.50;  Zanesville, 
15.    Total.  $2,024.04- 


OHIO  WOMAN'S  HOME    MISSIONARY  UNION. 
Receipts   in   March,  1906. 
Mrs.   Georee  B.  Brown,  Treasurer,  Toledo. 
Austinburg,  C.  E.,  ^;  Eellevue,  W.  M.  S.,  5;  Ceredo,  W. 
Va.,    W.  M.  S.,  2;  Chillicothe,  Plymouth,  W.   M.  S.;'io; 
Cincinnati,  Plymouth,  L.  G.,  3.20;  Walnut  Hills,  W. 
M.  S.,  14;  Cleveland,   Denison   Ave.,   W.   H.  &  F.  M. 
S.,  5;  Grace,  W.  M.  S.,  5,   Pilgrim,  Jr.   Dept,  S.  S., 
2.80;  Cuyahoga  Falls,   W.  M.  S.  ,6;   Conneaut,  W.  M.  S., 
5;  S.  S.,  5;  Elyria,  1st,  W.  A.,  15;  East  Cleveland,  W.  M. 
S.,  5;  Geneva,  L.  G.,  10;  Lima,  C.  E.,  2;  Litchfield,  C.  E., 
8:  Madison,  W.  H.  &  F.  M.  S.,  3.68;  Marietta,  Harmar, 
W.  M.  S.,  5;  Medina,   W.   M.   S.,   10;  Oberlin,   2nd.  50; 
Painesville,  L.  E.  Coll.,   5.80;  Penfield,  L.   M.   S.,   1.40; 
Ravenna,  W.  M.  S.,  5;   Sandusky,  W.    M.  S.     9;   Spring- 
field, 1st,  W.  M.  S.,  12;  Toledo,  Central,   W.  M.  U.,  18; 
2nd,  J.  M.  B.,  5;  Washington  St.,  W.  M.  S.,  13;  C. 
E.,  5;S.  S.  25;  Wellington,  W.  A.,  17.50.  Total, $   298.38 
Total  for  general  work 2,024.04 

Grand  total 2,322.42 

NEW  YORE  HOME  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY. 
Receipts  in  March,  1906. 
Clayton   S.   Fitch,  Treasurer,  New  York. 
Brooklyn,    Swedish  Tabernacle,  6;   ist  Geriran,  34; 
Buffalo,  Fitch   Memorial,  9.79;   Sloane,  9.79;  Corning, 
11.30;  Dunton,  18.76;   Grand   Island,    12;   Lakeview,   (2)15; 
Newbnrgh,  23.65;  New  Bochelle,  9;  New  York,  Claremont 
Park,25;Longwood  Ave,   750;  a  friend,  W.  B.  H., 
.50;  Olean,  10;  Rensellear  Falls,  D.,   2;   Boscoe,  c.25:    Tall- 
man,  12.82;  Tremont,  15;  West  Winfield,  43.67;  Wilmington, 
10.50;  W.  H.  M.  Union,  115.    Total,  $395.53. 

DONATIONS  OF  CLOTHING,  ETC. 
Reported  at  the  National  Office  in  March,  1906. 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y., South  Ch.box,i57.6o;Middlebury,Conn. 
L.  A.  S.,  bbl.,   66;   New   Britain,  Conn.,  W.    H.    M.    S. 
South  Ch.,  box.,  ios.  17:  New  Haven,  Corn.,  Ch.   of  Pe 
deemer,  bbl.,  135;  Dwight  PI.    Ch.,   L.    B.  S  ,  bbl. 
101.69;  United  Ch..  3  boxes,  279.94;   st-  Johnsbury,  Vt. 
W.   Ass'n.  of  North  Ch.,  bbl..  100;  Sharon,  Conn ,  Sew- 
ing S.  of  Ch.,   bbl..  115;  Southport,  Conn  ,  L.  M.  S.,-of 
Ch.,   box,  61.42;   Stratford,  Conn.,  H.  M     Sewing  S., 
bbl.,  82.    Total,  $1.203.82.. 


I^HE  GREAT  WORK  OF  THE  CONGREGATIONAL  HOME  MIS- 
SIONARY SOCIETY  IS  AN  ESSENTIAL  PART  OF  THE  LIFE 
OF  THE  NATION.  IF  MONEY  HAD  NOT  BEEN  POURED  OUT 
GENEROUSLY  IN  THE  EARLY  YEARS  IN  PLANTING 
CHURCHES  IN  THE  NEW  WEST,  OUR  COUNTRY'S  HISTORY 
WOULD  HAVE  TO  BE  REWRITTEN  AT  MANY  POINTS.  IT  IS 
THE  RELIGIOUS  CHARACTER  OF  THE  STATES  THAT  HAS 
SAVED  US  FROM  DISASTER  IN  MANY  A  CRISIS.  — Samuet  B. 
Cafien. 

LET  EVERY  CONGREGATIONAL  CHILD  READ  CONNOR'S 
"THE  SKY  PILOT,"  AND  LET  HIM  THEN  BE  ASSURED 
THAT  THE  MINISTER  OF  THAT  STORY,  "  TENDER  AS  A 
WOMAN  AND  WITH  THE  HEART  OF  A  HERO,"  DID  A 
WORK  THAT  IS  TYPICAL  OF  WHAT  THE  CONGREGA- 
TIONAL HOME  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY  HAS  BEEN 
DOING  THROUGH  ITS  HUNDREDS  OF  FRONTIER  HEROES. 
—  Clarence  F.  Swift. 

THE  HOME  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY  WILL,  FOR  THE  FUTURE, 
TURN  ITS  ATTENTION  MORE  AND  MORE  TO  THE  NEEDS 
OF  THE  MASSES  OF  THE  FOREIGN,  THE  INDIFFERENT  AND 
THE  GODLESS  IN  OUR  EVER  GROWING  CITIES;  AND  I  AM 
CONVINCED  THAT  IT  WILL  PROVE  AS  POWERFUL  AND 
EFFICIENT  IN  THIS  MORE  DIFFICULT  FIELD  OF  THE  FUTURE, 
AS  IN  THAT  IN  WHICH  IT  HAS  ACHIEVED  SUCH  IMMEASURA- 
BLE RESULTS    IN   THE   PAST.— Robert  R.  Meredith. 


Congregational   Home   Missionary  Society 

Fourth  Avenue  and  Twenty-second  Street,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Henry  C.  King,  D.D.,  President 
Joseph  B.  Clark,  D.D.,  "Washington  Choate,  D.D., 

Editorial  Secretary  Corresponding  Secretary 

Don  O.  Shelton,  Associate  Secretary 
William  B.  Howland,  Treasurer 

Executive  Committee 

Watson  L.  Phillips,  D.D.,  Chairman         Rev.  Livingston  L.  Taylor,  Recording  Secretary 
Thomas  C.  MacMillan  S.  P.  Cadman,  D.D.  C.  C.  West 

Edward  N.  Packard,  D.D.  Frank  L.  Goodspeed,  D.D.  Georre  P.  Stockwell 

Rev.  William  H.  Holman  Sylvester  B.  Carter  Rev.  Henry  H.  Kelsey 

Silas  H  Paine  George  W.  Hebard  Rev.  Frederick  Lynch 


Field  Secretary,  Rev.  W.  G.  Puddefoot,  South  Framingham,  Mass. 
Field  Assistant,  MlSS  M.  DEAN  MOFFATT. 


Superintendents 

Moritz  E.  Eversz,  D.D.,  German  Department,  153  La  Salle  St.,  Chicago,  111. 

Rev.  S.  V.  S.  Fisher,  Scandinavian  Department,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 
Slavic  Department,  Cleveland,  Ohio 

Edw.  D.  Curtis.  D.D. : .Indianapolis,  Ind.        Rev.  G.  J.  Powell Fargo,  N.  Dak. 

S.  F.  Gale,  D.D Jacksonville,  Fla.        Rev.  H.  Sanderson Denver,  Colo. 

Geo.  R.  Merrill,  D.D Minneapolis,  Minn.        J.  D.  Kingsbury,  D.D.  (New  Mexico, 

Alfred  K.  Wray,  D.D... Carthage,  Mo.  Arizona,  Utah  and  Idaho), 

Rev.  W.  W.  Scudder,  Jr West  Seattle,  Wash.  Salt  Lake  City 

Rev.  W.  B.  D.  Gray Cheyenne,  Wyo.        Rev.  John  L.  Maile Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

Harmon  Bross,  D.D Lincoln,  Neb.        Rev.  C.  F.  Clapp Forest  Grove,.  Ore. 

Rev.  A.  T.  Clarke Fort  Payne.  Ala.        Rev.  Charles  A.  Jones,  75  Essex  St.,  HackensacK.xv.J. 

Frank  E.  Jenkins,  D.D Atlanta,  Ga.        Rev.  W.  S.  Bell Helena,  Mont. 

Tex.        Rev.  T-  Homer  Parker.. Kingfisher,  Okla. 

W,  H.  Thrall,  D.D Huron,  S.  Dak.        Geo.  L.  Todd,  D.D Havana,  Cuba 

Secretaries  and  Treasurers  of  the  Auxiliaries 

Rev.  Charles  Harbutt,  Secretary Maine  Missionary  Society 34  Dow  St.,  Portland,  Me. 

W.  P.  Hubbard.  Treasurer "  "  "        Box  1052,  Bangor,  Me. 

Rev.  A.  T.  Hillman,  Secretary New  Hampshire  Home  Missionary  Society Concord,  N.  H. 

Alvin  B.  Cross,  Treasurer. "  "  "  "      Concord,  N.  H. 

Charles  H.  Merrill,  D.D.,  Secretary.. Vermont  Domestic  "      _St.  Johnsbury,  Vt. 

J.  T.  Richie,  Treasurer "  "  "  " St.  Johnsbury,  Vt. 

F.  E.  Emrich,  D.D.,  Secretary Massachusetts  Home  "  "      )   609  Cong'l  House, 

Rev.  Joshua  Coit,  Treasurer "  "  "  "      „    \  Boston,  Mass. 

Rev.  J.  H.  Lyon,  Secretary Rhode  Island        "  "  "      Central  Falls,  R.  I. 

Jos.  Wm.  Rice,  Treasurer '■  "  "  "  "      Providence,  R.  I. 

Rev.  Joel  S.  Ives,  Secretary Missionary  Society  of  Connecticut Hartford,  Conn. 

Ward  W.  Jacobs,  Treasurer '■  "  "  Hartford,  Conn. 

Rev.  C.  W.  Shelton,  Secretary New  York  Home  Missionary  Society,  Fourth  Ave.  and 22d  St.. New  York 

Clayton  S.  Fitch,  Treasurer "       "         "  "  "         Fourth  Ave.  and  22d  St.  .New  York 

Rev.  Charles  H.  Small,  Secretary Ohio  "  "  "         Cleveland,  Ohio 

Rev.  Charles  H.  Small,  Treasurer "  "         Cleveland,  Ohia 

A.  M.  Brodie,  D.D.,  Secretary ...Illinois    .       "  "  "         \  153  La  Salle  St., 

John  W.  Uiff,  Treasurer "  "  "  "         J  Chicago 

Homer  W.  Carter,  D.D.,  Secretary.. Wisconsin      "  "  "         Beloit,  Wis. 

C.  M.  Blackman,  Treasurer "  "  "  " ...Whitewater,  Wis. 

T.  O.  Douglass,  D.D..  Secretary Iowa  "  "  "         Grinnell,  Iowa 

Miss  A.  D.  Merrill,  Treasurer "  "  "  "         Des  Moines,  Iowa 

William  H.Warren,  D.D.,  Secretary.. Michigan        "  "  "         Lansing,  Mich. 

Rev.  John  P.  Sanderson,  Treasurer..        "  "  "  "         Lansing,  Mich. 

Rev.  Henry  E.  Thayer,  Secretary Kansas  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society Topeka,  Kan. 

H.C.Bowman,  Treasurer "  "  "  "  "       Topeka,  Kan. 

Rev.  J.  K.  Harrison,  Secretary .California  Home  Missionary  Society.. San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Geo.  H.  Morgan,  Secretary .Congregational  City  Missionary  Society St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Prof.  F.  A.  Hall,  Superintendent "  "  "  "       - St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Lewis  E.  Snow,  Treasurer "  "  "  "       St.  Louis,  Mo. 


LEGACIES  —  The  following  form  may  be  used  in  making  legacies  : 

I  bequeath  to  my  executors  the  sum  of  dollars,  in  trust,  to  pay  over  the  same  in 

months  after  my  decease,  to  any  person  who,  when  the  same  is  payable,  shall  act  as 

Treasurer  of  the  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society,  formed  in  the  City  of  New  York,  in  the 

year  eighteen  hundred  and  twenty-six,  to  be  applied  to  the  charitable  use  and  purposes  of  said 

Society,  and  under  its  direction. 

HONORARY  LIFE  MEMBERS  — The  payment  of  Fifty  Dollars  at  one  time  constitutes  an 
Honorary  Life  Member. 


A  MATTER  OF  HEALTH 


Absolutely  Pure 

HAS  NO  SUBSTITUTE 


friliiEN 


BORATED 

TOILET 


Welcome  &  Refreshing 

as  the  first  flowers  of  Spring  is 
e  soothing  touch  of  MENKEN'S. 
Gives  immediate  and  positive  relief 
from  PRICKLY  HEAT,  CHAF- 
ING, SUNBURN,  and  all  skin 
troubles.    Mennen's  face  on  every 
box,  see  that  you  get  the  genuine. 
For  sale  everywhere,  or  by   mail 
2sc     Sample  free. 
Gerhard  Mennen  Co.,  Newark, N.J. 

Try  Mennen's  Violet  (Boratedl  Talcum. 


JEM13  SAPOLIO 


lorTJieToilet 

and 


NO  BABY'S  SKIN  TOO  DELICATE  FOR  ITS  USE 
NO  STAIN  THAT  Will  NOT  fflSAPPEAR  BEFORE  IT 


IUNE    I9O6 


VOL  LXXX,  NUMBER  3 


THE  HOME 
MISSIONARY 


v 


fend 


1826 


The 
Eightieth  Annual  Meeting 

of  the 

Congregational  Home 
Missionary  Society 

Oak  Park,  Illinois 

May  8,  9,  10,  1906 


«i«tittlllilMllfrltll 


"Proceedings  and  Addresses 


1906 


IUp 


■H 


E1CHTIETH  ANNIVERSARY 


l ^--r 


^ 


Entered  at  the  Post  Office  at  NewYork.N.Y.as  second  class  (mail)matter. 


PRESBYTERIAN  HISTORICAL  SOCIETY. 


r*s  r^  ^  t  nr»  tt*  ^t  »T*iO 

j 

^jVJ  IN    1   IL.1N    X  <J  ■ 

^                 For   JUNK,    1906.               & 

PORTRAIT   OF  CHARLES  S.   MILLS,   D.D.,  PRESIDENT    AND 

ADDRESS  OF  DIRECTORS  TO  THE  CHURCHES               Frontispiece 

THE  EIGHTIETH  ANNUAL  MEETING            .... 

79 

EDITOR'S  OUTLOOK           .... 
The  Meeting— What  it  Means  ? 

79 

ADDRESS  OF  WELCOME.     (Illustrated.)    William  E.  Barton,  D.D.       . 

82 

ANNUAL  ADDRESS  OF  PRES.  HENRY  C.  KING,  D.D.    (Illustrated.) 

84 

EXTRACT  FROM  ADDRESS  OF  REV.  CHARLES  STELZLE 

86 

REPORT  ON  THE  EXECUTIVE  COMMITTEE'S  REPORT 

H.  P.  De  Forest,  D.D 

87 

MEETING  OF  THE  NEW  BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS 

90 

OUR  OPPORTUNITY  IN  THE  NEW  WEST.     (Illustrated  )      Frank 
K.  Sanders,  Ph.D.    ........ 

92 

AMERICA  A  CHRISTIAN  NATION.      (Illustrated.)      Prof.  Edward 

95 

ADDRESS  OF  J.  D.  KINGSBURY,  D.D.     (Illustrated.)    . 

98 

ORGANIZING  OUR   CONGREGATIONAL  FORCES.      (Illustrated.) 
DonO.  Shelton          ........ 

101 

UNDEVELOPED    RESOURCES    IN    THE    CHILDREN    OF   OUR 
CHURCHES.     (Illustrated.)     Rev.  H.  H.  Kelsey 

104 

UNDEVELOPED  RESOURCES  IN  THE  YOUNG  PEOPLE    . 

(Illustrated.)     Rev.  Ernest  Bourner  Allen               .... 

109 

UNDEVELOPED  RESOURCES  IN  THE  WOMEN  OF  OUR 

CHURCHES.    Mrs.  A.  D.  West 

114 

GREETINGS    FROM    THE    CANADIAN    HOME    MISSIONARY 
SOCIETY.    E.  M.  Hill,  D.D 

117 

APPOINTMENTS  AND  RECEIPTS 

118 

PER    YEAR,     FIFTY     CENTS 

THE      HOME      MISSIONARY 

Published  monthly,  except  in  July  and  August,  by  the 

Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society 

287    FOURTH    AVENUE,            NEW    YORK    CITY 

ENTERED   AT   THI    POST    0"ICf.,    AT    NEW   YORK,    N.    Y.,    At    ttCOND   OLAM    [*AH.]    MATTE* 


THE      HOME      MISSIONARY      ADVERTISER 


WING  PIANOS 

Arc  Sold  Direct  From  the  Factory,  and  in  No  Other  Way 

You  Save  from$75  to$200 


When  you  buy  a  Wing  Piano,  you  buy  at  wholesale. 
You  pay  the  actual  cost  of  making  it  with  only  our  whole- 
sale profit  added.  When  you  buy  a  piano,  as  many  still  do— 
,  at  retail— you  pay  the  retail  dealer's  store  rent  and  other 
expenses.  You  pay  his  profit  and  the  commission  or  salary 
of  the  agents  or  salesmen  he  employs— all  these  on  top  of 
what  the  dealer  himself  has  to  pay  co  the  manufacturer.  The 
retail  profit  ou  a  piano  is  from  $75  to  $200.  Isn't  this  worth 
saving? 


SENT  ON  TRIAL 

WE    PAY    FREIGHT 
No  Money  in  Advance 


Anywhere 


We  will  place  a  Wing  Piano  in  any  home  in  the  United 
States  on  trial,  without  asking  for  any  advance  payment  or 
deposit.  We  pay  the  freight  and  all  other  charges  in  advance. 
There  is  nothing  to  be  paid  either  before  the  piano  is  sent  or 
when  it  is  received.  If  the  piano  is  not  satisfactory  after  20 
days'  trial  in  your  home,  we  take  it  back  entirely  at  our  ex- 
pense. You  pay  us  nothing,  and  arc  under  no  more  obliga- 
tion to  keep  the  piano  than  if  you  were  examining  it  at  our 
factory.  There  can  be  absolutely  no  risk  or  expense  to  you. 

Do  not  imagine  that  it  is  impossible  for  us  to  do  as  we 
say.  Our  system  is  so  perfect  that  we  can  without  any 
trouble  deliver  a  piano  in  the  smallest  town  in  any  part  of 
the  United  States  just  as  easily  as  we  can  in  New  York  City, 
and  with  absolutely  no  trouble  or  annoyance  to  you,  and 
without  anything  being  paid  in  advance  or  on  arrival  either 
for  freight  or  any  other  expense.  We  take  old  pianos  and 
organs  in  exchange. 

A  guarantee  for  12  years  against  any  defect  in  tone,  action, 
workmanship  or  material  is  given  with  every  Wing  Piano. 


Small,  Easy 
MONTHLY 


Payments 


In   37  years   over  40,000   Wing  Pianos 

have  been  manufactured  and  sold.  They  are  recom- 
mended by  seven  governors  of  States,  by  musical  colleges 
and  schools,  by  prominent  orchestra  leaders,  music  teach- 
ers and  musicians.  Thousands  of  these  pianos  are  in 
your  own  State,  some  of  them  undoubtedly  in  your  very 
neighborhood.  Our  oatalogue  contains  names  and  ad- 
dresses. 

Mandolin,  Gnifar.Harp,  Zither,  Banjo— 

The  tones  of  any  or  all  of  these  instruments  may  be  re- 
produced perfectly  by  any  ordinary  player  on  the  piano  by 
means  of  our  Instrumental  Attachment.  This  improve- 
ment is  patented  by  us  and  cannot  be  had  in  any  other 
piano.  WING  ORGANS  are  made  with  the  same  care 
and  sold  in  the  same  way  as  Wing  Pianos.  Separate  or- 
gan catalogue  sent  on  request. 


The  Book 

of.Gompfere 
Infonustipii- 
about 

Pianos 


YOU  NEED  THIS  BOOK 

If  You  Intend  to  Buy  a  Piano— No  Matter  What  Make 

A  book — not  a  catalogue— that  gives  you  all  the  information  possessed  by 
experts,    It  tells  about  the  different  materials  used  in  the  different  parts 
of  a  piano ;  the  way  the  different  parts  are  put  together ,  what  causes  pianos 
to  get  out  of  order  and  in  fact  is  a  complete  encyclopedia.    It  makes  the 
selection  of  a  piano  easy.    If  read  carefully,  it  will  make  you  a  judge  of 
tone,  action,  workmanship  and  finish.   It  tells  you  how  to  test  a  piano 
and  how  to  tell  good  from  bad.    It  is  absolutely  the  only  book  of      y^-^'i^ 
its  kind  ever  published.    It  contains  166  large  pages  and  hun-         Sy&  fc°  -^ 
dreds  of  illustrations,  all  devoted  to  piano  construction.    Its       rfr  A.  <& . 
name  is  "The  Book  of  Complete  Information  About  Pianos." 
We  send  it  free  to  anyone  wishing  to  buy  a  piano.    All  you 
have  to  do  is  to  send  us  your  name  and  address. 


will  be  sent  to  you  promptly  by  mail, 


351 


WING  &  SON 

■3§2  West  13th  Street,  New  York 


1868- 


-37th  YEAR- 


-1905 


Send  a  Postal  To-day  while  you  think  of 
it,  just  giving  your  name  and  address  or  send  us 
the  attached  coupon  and  the  valuable  book  of  in- 
formation, also  full  particulars  about  the  WING       x/-  -  -^ 
PIANO,  with  prices,  terms  of  payment,  etc.,      yx  ^Vji   - 


When    writing    to     advertisers     please    mention    Tiie    Home    Missionary 


THE 


HOME         MISSIONARY         ADVERTISER 


The 

Adirondack 

Mountains 

Are  now  about  the  most  central  of 
all  the  great  resorts.  They  have 
through  Pullman  sleeping  cars  from 
New  York,  Philadelphia,  Boston, 
Buffalo  and  Niagara  Falls  via  the 


NEWWRK 

(entral 

w      LINES    . 


A  night's  ride  takes  you  from  any  of 
these  places  to  the  center  of  the 
mountains  in  time  for  breakfast  next 
morning. 

For  a  copy  of  "The  Adirondack  Mountains  and 
How  to  Reach  Them,"  which  is  No.  20  of  the 
New  York  Central  Lines'  "Four-Track  Series," 
containing  a  fine  map  of  the  Adirondack  Mountains 
and  adjacent  territory,  with  useful  information  in 
regard  to  hotels,  camps,  lakes,  rivers,  etc.,  send 
a  two-cent  stamp  to  George  H.*  Daniels,  Manager 
General  Advertising  Department,  Room  66,  Grand 
Central  Station,  New  York. 


C.  F.  DALY 

Passenger  Traffic  Mgr. 
New  York 


W.  J.  LYNCH 

Passenger  Traffic  Mgr. 
Chicago 


A  JUNIOR  TEXT  BOOK 
FOR    HOME    M1SSS10N    STULl 

We  take  great  pleasure  in  announc: 
for  the  season  of  1906-07,    an  admin 
home  mission  study  text-book  for  juni 
entitled, 

Coming  American' 

BY  MISS  KATHERINE  R.  CROWELL 

Miss    Crowell's   earlier    books    in    tl 
series    have    been    received    with    grei 
favor.  COMING  AMERICANS  will  be  ilk 
trated  with  over  fifty  striking  pictures 
foreigners. 


Comments  on  Miss  Crowell's  Junior  Text  Bo« 

"The    Children   will  most  certainly 
interested  and  instructed." — The  Missio 
ary  Review  of  the  World. 

"These  exceedingly  creditable  public  I 
tions  for  Juniors  meet  a  very  decid.j 
need.  I  am  not  at  all  surprised  that  oth 
denominations  (than  the  Presbyterian)  a| 
making  use  of  them." — Dr.  Harlan  .1 
Beach. 

'  'Will  interest  juniors  and  seniors  alike 
—  The  Moravian,  Bethlehem,  Pa. 

PRICE  IN  PAP£R,  TWENTY  CENT5; 
CLOTH,  THIRTY=FIVE  CENT 


For  copies,  address 

Congregational  Home  Missionary  Socict 


287  Fourth  Avenue,  New  York. 


When     writing     to     advertisers     please     mention     The      Home      Mission  a  r 


12SI32I3 


^\ 


m 


THE  DIRECTORS'  FIRST  MESSAGE  TO  THE 
CHURCHES 

^1  HE  Board  of  Directors  of  the  reorganized  Congregational 

Home  Missionary  Society  at  its  first  meeting  at  Oak  Park, 
Illinois,  niters  a  strong  note  of  cheer  and  hope  to  the  churches 
and  pastors  of  our  land.  A  great  crisis  has  been  nobly  met,  and 
we  gratefully  acknozvledge  the  cordial  and  enthusiastic  support 
which  has  made  possible  this  movement  for  reorganization  in  the 
face  of  delicate  and  difficult  conditions  notv  so  happily  sur- 
mounted. The  attendance  has  been  large  and  representative  and 
the  spirit  and  the  addresses  most  delightful  and  inspirmg. 

Several  states  have  already  announced  their  determination  to 
become  "constituent"  or  " co-operating,,  at  the  earliest  possible 
moment,  and  to  exert  themselves  to  the  utmost  in  the  new  move- 
ment for  increased  efficiency  and  vigorous  self-support ;  and 
others  are  sure  to  follow. 

The.  board  plans  to  secure,  with  no  unnecessary  delay,  a 
General  Secretary  of  commanding  ability ,  zvho  shall  fully  embody 
the  new  spirit  of  the  hour ;  and  many  important  changes  must 
wait  until  such  secretary  shall  be  secured.  The  neiv  directors 
and  the  state  superintendents  have  held  delightful  conference  to- 
gether, and  the  outlook  is  full  of  promise. 

We  aim  to  realize  the  hopes  and  prayers  of  the  great  body  of 
Congregational  Christians  throughout  the  land,  and  confidently 
count  upon  you  all  to  make  our  efforts  a  success  while  we  seek  to 
execute  your  will  to  the  utmost  of  our  ability. 

Give  us  your  prayers,  your  counsel  and  your  confidence 
while  we  march  forward  to  achieve  new  victories  for  the  king- 
dom of  Christ  wherever  our  flag  floats. 


SSST^lScgl 


\j> 


H 


CHARLES     S.     MILLS,   D.D.,     ST.     LOUIS,     MISSOURI 
President  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society 


THE 

HOME  MISSIONARY 


VOL.  LXXX 


JUNE,  1906 


No.  3 


THE  EIGHTIETH  ANNUAL 
MEETING 


OAK  PARK,  ILLINOIS 

May    8th,    cjth,    ioth,    1906 


The  Meeting 

THE  addresses  that  follow  and 
occupy  the  major  portion  of 
this  number  tell  the  story  of 
one  of  the  record  meetings  of  the  So- 
ciety. It  was  in  Chicago,  twenty- 
five  years  ago,  that  the  National  So- 
ciety was  first  put  upon  wheels  and 
began  its  career  of  national  meetings, 
extending  from  Saratoga  to  Boston, 
Providence,  Springfield,  Hartford, 
New  Haven,  Syracuse,  Cleveland, 
Detroit,  Washington,  Omaha  and 
Des  Moines  and  completing  the  cir- 
cle where  it  began  at  Oak  Park, 
Chicago,  for  its  final  gathering 
under  the  old  constitution. 
!<*>  A  happy  feature  of  the  occasion 
was  the  combination  program,  in- 
cluding as  it  did  not  only  the  Na- 
tional Home  Missionary  Society,  but 
the  general  Association  of  Illinois, 
the  anniversary  of  the  Chicago  The- 
ological Seminary,  the  National 
Federation  of  Woman's  Organiza- 
tions and  the  other  four  homeland 
national  societies.  Here  was  the 
promise  of  unusual  fellowship,  a 
promise  abundantly  and  delightfully 
fulfilled.  The  felicitous  welcome  of 
Dr.  Barton,  pastor  of  the  First 
Church  of  Oak  Park,  was  splendidly 
redeemed  by  the  hospitality  of  its 
four  churches  and  their  people. 


The  contents  of  this  program  are 
worthy  of  careful  study  for  the 
breadth  of  outlook,  for  inspirational 
force  of  titles,  for  logical  sequence 
of  themes,  and  no  less  for  the  skill- 
ful choice  of  speakers  to  interpret 
and  enforce  them.  A  feast  of  good 
things  it  truly  was  and  our  Brother 
Kelsey  of  Hartford  to  whom  most  of 
the  labor  fell  is  fairly  entitled  to  his 
second  M.A.  as  a  Master  of  Assem- 
blies. 

The  meeting  was  fortunate  also  in 
its  presiding  officer,  President  King, 
of  Oberlin,  whose  unruffled  urbanity 
was  equal  to  every  occasion.  Dr. 
King's  annual  address,  found  on 
another  page,  while  complete  in  it- 
self, was  much  enlarged,  in  the  de- 
livery, by  extemporaneous  matter  of 
profound  interest,  which  we  greatly 
regret  our  inability  to  reproduce.  It 
was  worthy  of  the  hour,  and  touched 
finely  the  spiritual  chord  whose  vi- 
bration was  often  felt  throughout 
the  meeting. 

The  special  committee  on  the  re- 
port of  the  Executive  Committee 
are  charged  with  a  delicate  duty  and 
their  report  is  followed  always  with 
interest.  Dr.  De  Forest,  of  Detroit, 
chairman  of  the  committee  for  this 
year,  presented  a  report  distin- 
guished unusually  for  clear  compre- 
hension  of   the   subject   and   for   a 


8o 


THE   HOME   MISSIONARY 


most  generous  dealing  with  the  con- 
ditions which  have  beset  the  Execu- 
tive committee  during  the  last 
twelve  months.  The  Executive 
Committee's  report  was,  itself,  a 
document  of  unusual  interest,  and 
the  special  committee's  condensation 
of  the  story  of  the  year  was  a  gem 
in  its  way. 

The  business  meeting  of  Tuesday 
afternoon  was  attended  largely. 
From  the  beginning  the  spirit  was 
manifestly  irenic.  The  issue  before 
the  Society  seemed  to  be  accepted  as 
a  foregone  conclusion  and  scarcely  a 
note  of  dissent  was  heard  to  any 
feature  of  the  new  constitution  as 
proposed  at  Springfield  one  year  ago. 
The  choice  of  Rev.  Dr.  C.  S.  Mills, 
of  St.  Louis,  for  president  of  the 
new  society  was  not  only  an  ideal 
selection  in  itself,  but  a  logical  con- 
clusion of  the  labors  of  the  Com- 
mittee of  Five,  which  began  its  work 
two  years  ago.  Dr.  Mills  has  been 
not  only  the  chairman  of  that  com- 
mittee, but  the  life  and  spring  of  all 
its  labors.  To  his  wisdom  and  toil 
the  result  is  largely  due  and  when 
conducted  to  the  chair  on  Wednes- 
day evening  for  his  first  service  as 
president,  the  fitness  of  the  event 
was  recognized  by  prolonged  ap- 
plause of  the  great  audience. 

Touching  the  addresses  that  follow 
it  would  be  a  pleasure  to  say  much 
to  their  praise,  but  they  will  speak 
for  themselves.  Regarding  the  co- 
operating bodies  much  ought  to  be 
said  which  cannot  find  room  in  these 
pages.  It  is  but  fair,  however,  to 
note  that  the  first  annual  meeting  of 
the  National  Federation  of  Woman's 
Organizations  which  held  four  ses- 
sions on  Tuesday,  was  a  season  of 
delightful  interest  and  full  of  the  in- 
spiration of  hope  for  the  future. 
Addresses  by  Dr.  Kingsbury,  on  Ex- 
isting Conditions  of  Mormonism;  by 
Mr.  Henry  C.  Newell,  of  Piedmont 
College,  Georgia;  by  Mrs.  Ida  Vose 
Woodbury,  on  the  Slavery  of  To-day  ; 
by  Mrs.  Washington  Choate  on  the 
problem,  What  more  Can  the 
Women  Do?  by  Mrs.  Mary  L.  Mills, 


on  the  Problem  of  Immigration — 
made  up  the  missionary  feast  at  the 
church,  which  was  followed  by  an 
informal  but  delightful  reception  at 
the  home  of  Mrs.  B.  W.  Firman, 
president  of  the  federation.  We 
hope,  for  the  pleasure  of  the  women, 
to  be  able  to  present  to  them  in  the 
September  Home  Missionary,  under 
the  Woman's  Department,  the  ex- 
ceedingly practical  address  of  Mrs. 
Choate,  entitled  "What  More  Can 
the  Women  Do?" 

So  ended  the  eightieth  aniversary 
of  the  Congregational  Home  Mis- 
sionary Society  and  the  last  to  be 
held  under  the  constitution  which 
for  four  score  years  has  guided  and 
inspired  its  managers  and  mission- 
aries. May  new  methods  prove  a 
hundred  fold  more  fruitful  than  the 
old!  May  the  sons  see  more  of  the 
glory  than  their  fathers  ever  dream- 
ed of  and  the  time  be  hastened  when 
the  work  of  home  missions  as  we 
know  it  to-day  shall  be  finished,  be- 
cause triumphant  in  every  corner  of 
the  land! 

What  It  Means 

A  MACHINE  running  smooth- 
ly for  eighty  years,  almost 
without  a  patch,  turning  out 
from  one  decade  to  another  some 
rich  and  increasing  product,  de- 
serves to  be  well  spoken  of.  It  was 
a  pleasure  at  the  Oak  Park  meeting 
to  note  the  prevalent  disposition  to 
deal  fairly  with  the  past.  In  public 
discussion  and  in  private  conversa- 
tion, the  critical  spirit  was  noticea- 
bly absent.  The  people  have  been 
thinking  and  light  has  come  to  them 
that  the  idea  and  purpose  of  a  new 
home  missionary  regime  have  sprung 
not  so  much  from  the  failure  of  old 
methods  as  because  of  new  condi- 
tions which  the  old  methods  were 
never  framed  to  meet;  in  fact,  an 
evolution  rather  than  a  revolution. 
In  this  spirit,  if  we  apprehend  it 
aright,  the  new  constitution  with  its 
radical  departures  from  the  old  was 
adopted,  after  little  discussion,  and 
by  a  large  and  significant  majority. 


EDITOR'S  OUTLOOK 


What  it  all  means  and  how  it  will 
work  are  problems  for  the  future. 
Several  features  stand  out  with 
great  clearness. 

The  word  "Auxiliary"  has  dis- 
appeared from  home  missionary 
nomenclature  and  the  word  "  Con- 
stituent" takes  its  place.  Should 
this  change  result  in  any  decline  of 
the/  auxiliary  spirit  it  would  be  a 
change  for  the  worse.  But  it  must 
and  it  will  result  in  more.  "Con- 
stituent" implies  a  certain  degree 
of  responsibility  which  "  Auxiliary  " 
never  included,  and  responsibility 
means  duty.  The  majority  of  the 
directors  are  from  the  constituent 
states,  and  their  leading  and  active 
relation  to  the  future  management 
of  the  society  must  naturally  bring 
out  increased  revenues  for  its  sup- 
port. 

"Dependent  States"  have  also 
disappeared.  The  phrase  was  never 
a  welcome  one,  though  fairly  de- 
scriptive. These  states  are  now  to  be 
known  as  "Co-operating  States." 
The  change  is  a  vast  improvement, 
exalting  as  it  does  the  all  important 
feature,  that  even  while  a  state  is 
yet  dependent  it  is  one  member  of  a 
great  home  missionary  body,  work- 
ing together  with  others,  to  the 
measure  of  its  ability,  in  the  com- 
mon cause  of  national  evangeliza- 
tion. The  new  name  ought  to  pro- 
mote self-respect,  true  fellowship 
and  growing  independence,  and  it 
will. 

The  "Missionary  District"  is  but 
a  new  name  for  an  old  and  most 
familiar  fact.    It  stands  for  what  we 


are  wont  to  call  the  "frontier" 
where  organized  civilization  ends, 
and  beyond  which  it  is  scarcely 
known.  Here  has  always  been  the 
outfield  of  the  National  Society.  At 
many  points  it  has  been  entered,  at 
other  points  it  is  to  be  cultivated 
and  at  all  points  finally  it  is  to  be 
possessed  by  Christian  agencies.  To 
leave  it  alone  is  to  make  it  a  frown- 
ing menace  to  the  whole  country 
east,  west,  north  and  south.  Imagi- 
nary state  lines  are  no  barriers 
against  neglected  barbarism  and  the 
work  of  the  National  Home  Mission- 
ary Society  will  never  be  finished 
until  every  missionary  district  has 
been  made  a  co-operating  state, 
every  co-operating  state  a  constit- 
uent and  every  constituent  state 
able  to  grapple  unaided  with  its  own 
immigrant  and  city  problems. 

So  much  for  the  unification  of 
home  missionary  interests,  state  and 
national,  which  are  potentially  in- 
volved in  our  new  constitution.  One 
great  and  the  greatest  problem  re- 
mains. It  has  received  as  yet  but 
little  discussion,  and  we  shall  only 
name  it  here.  To  the  new  board  of 
directors  its  solution  may  be  safely 
left.  The  Equitable  distribution 
of  missionary  funds  is  the  supreme 
essential  to  the  complete  oneness  of 
Congregational  home  missions. 
Manifestly  here  is  a  delicate  prob- 
lem, but  it  will  be  solved.  Some 
method  will  be  found,  whereby  when 
one  member  suffers  all  will  suffer 
proportionally,  and  when  one  mem- 
ber rejoices  all  will  rejoice  together. 
For  only  so  are  we  one  body. 


Note. — Readers  of  the  Home  Missionary  for  June  will  find  spread 
for  them  a  rich  and  appetizing  feast.  Nevertheless,  although  several  extra 
leaves  were  added  to  the  table,  it  has  been  found  inadequate  for  the  gen- 
erous supply  furnished  at  Oak  Park.  Fortunately,  perhaps,  several  manu- 
scripts, though  faithfully  promised,  have  failed  to  materialize,  while  others 
of  great  value,  including  those  of  Drs.  Strong,  Conrad  and  Hillis,  have 
been  forced  out  for  the  want  of  space.  These  addresses,  however,  are  too 
highly  seasoned  to  be  in  any  danger  of  spoiling  and  it  is  our  hope  to  be 
able  to  present  them  later  in  an  attractive  form  for  general  distribution. 


ADDRESS    OF    WELCOME 
By  William  E.   Barton,   D.D. 


IT  IS  MY  pleasant  duty  to  say  a  word 
of  welcome  to  the  friends  who  have 
come  to  us  to  celebrate  this  con- 
junction of  anniversaries,  and  especially 
to  welcome  the  officers  and  members  of 
the  Congregational  Home  Missionary 
Society.  Our  friends  of  the  State  Asso- 
ciation who  have  been  working  here  for 
two  days  have  received  their  welcome  at 
the  hands  of  Mr.  Armstrong,  and  I  trust 
have  realized  how  welcome  they  are. 

I  open  the  doors  of  Oak  Park  to  you 
on  behalf  of  this  church;  and  on  behalf 
of  my  own  people  I  extend  to  you  our 
hospitality.  But  I  do  this  also  on  behalf 
of  the  other  churches  of  Oak  Park,  and 
their  honored  ministers,  who  join  us  in 
this  word.  This  is  a  home  missionary 
church.  For  the  first  four  years  of  its 
history  it  received  aid  from  this  very  so- 
ciety. In  the  fifth  year  of  its  existence 
it  began  to  contribute,  and  at  the  end  of 
its  eighth  year  it  held  a  jubilee,  celebrat- 
ing the  repayment  of  the  last  dollar  of 
money  which  it  had  received  from'  the 
Home  Missionary  Society.  The  society 
has  never  before  been  here  to  see  what 
kind  of  investment  it  made;  and  this  lit- 
tle home  missionary  church  I  now  show 
to  you  without  shame  or  apology  as  an 
illustration  of  finding  the  places  of  com- 
ing power  and  there  investing  a  little 
home  missionary  money.  It  has  not  been 
the  policy  of  this  First  Church  to  con- 
serve all  its  strength  within  itself,  but  to 
colonize,  and  plant  neighborhood 
churches  as  the  community  about  it 
grows;  and  this  is  the  plan  and  spirit  of 
the  other  Congregational  churches  here. 
So  we  present  the  hospitalities  of  a 
group  of  Oak  Park  Congregational 
churches,  and  say,  "  We  and  the  children 
whom  the    Lord  hath   given   us." 

Chicago  welcomes  you.  Chicago  is  the 
next  station  east  on  the  Northwestern 
railway.  It  belongs  to  Oak  Park,  if  not 
by  completed  moral  conquest,  at  least  by 
riparian  right.  The  Chicago  Congrega- 
tional churches  have  joined  in  your  in- 
vitation to  be  with  us. 

You  who  come  from  New  England  and 
other  perpendicular  lands  may  not  know 
it,  but  Oak  Park  is  set  on  a  hill.  Its 
highest  elevation  is  more  than  seven 
feet.  It  is  a  ridge,  running  parallel  with 
the  lake  shore,  and  was  originally  itself 
a  shore  of  Lake  Michigan,  whose  wa- 
ters bathed  the  feet  of  the  giant  oaks 
that  once  crowned  this  ridge  and  gave 
the  name  to  our  village.  Lake  street  was 
an  Indian  trail,  and  afterward  a  highway 
toward  the  west  for  immigrants.  When 
the  settler,  emerging  from  the  enterpris- 


WM.    E.    BARTON,    D.D. 

ing  mudhole  to  which  I  have  already  re- 
ferred, came  up  on  this  elevation,  and 
felt  the  crunch  of  gravel  beneath  the 
wheels  of  his  prairie  schooner,  he  drew 
up  his  panting  horses  and  was  glad  of 
the  future  Oak  Park.  In  those  days  it 
was  said  to  be  the  only  dry  land  between 
Chicago  and  the  Des  Plaines  river.  In 
popular  parlance  it  still  is  "  dry."  No 
glass  of  liquor  can  legally  be  sold  here. 
And  I  say  with  pride  in  this  community 
that  I  have  now  lived  in  it  for  more  than 
seven  years  and  never  have  heard  one 
citizen  express  an  opinion  which  by  any 
possible  interpretation  could  be  made  to 
mean  that  he  would  desire  this  to  be 
changed.  Please  God  it  shall  be  so  for- 
ever. 

Here  on  this  ridge  where  the  Indians 
camped,  we,  who  have  pitched  our 
teepees  here  and  found  it  pleasant  camp- 
ing ground,  make  cheerful  room  for  you 
by  the  fireside  in  our  wigwams,  and  hope 
you  will  enjoy  your  stay  among  us. 

I  welcome  you  on  behalf  of  the  Illinois 
Home  Missionary  Society,  your  daugh- 
ter. I  have  the  honor  to  be  its  presi- 
dent. The  six  years  of  my  directorate 
terminate  at  this  meeting,  and  my  presi- 
dency is  to  end  about  noon,  to-morrow, 
by  constitutional  limitation.  Neverthe- 
less, for  my  brief  space  of  power  I  mag- 


ADDRESS  OF  WELCOME 


83 


nify  mine  office,  and  as  president  of  the 
Home  Missionary  Society  of  the  Prairie 
State,  which,  yesterday,  paid  the  last 
dollar  of  its  outside  indebtedness,  I  re- 
joice that  you  are  with  us. 

You  have  come  to  this  point  midway 
between  New  England  and  the  great  west 
for  your  anniversary.  You  are  not  yet 
in  the  west.  No  man  of  us  here  has  yet 
seen  the  west,  or  determined  its  sunset 
boundary.     You  are  not  much  nearer  the 


west  than  you  were  at  home,  but  you  are 
a  thousand  miles  nearer  to  the  center; 
and  it  is  a  good  place  to  hold  this  meet- 
ing, and  from  this  remove  consider  the 
problems  of  home  missionary  work. 
And  we  all  hope  for  you  the  most  profit- 
able and  inspiring  meeting  in  the  history 
of  the  society,  and  rejoice  that  we  are 
permitted  to  share  with  you  its  inspira- 
tion and  profit.  Mr.  President  and 
brethren,  you  are  welcome. 


FIRST    CONGREGATIONAL    CHURCH,    OAK    PARK,,  ILL. 


THE     HOME    MISSIONARY    CHALLENGE 

PRESIDENT'S  ADDRESS 

By   Henry   Churchill  King,    D.D. 


WHEN  James  and  John  preferred, 
through  their  mother,  the  re- 
quest to  Christ  that  they  might 
sit,  the  one  on  the  right  hand  and  the 
other  on  the  left  in  his  kingdom,  he  met 
their  vaulting  ambition  with  the  discon- 
certing question,  "Are  ye  able?"  And 
so  it  seems  to  me  that  to  us  Americans 
and  Congregationalists,  so  certain  of  the 
leading  place  that  America  and  Congre- 
gationalism must  have  in  the  work  of  the 
world,  there  comes  a  similar  testing  home 
missionary  challenge:  You  have  great 
ambitions;  do  you  know  what  they  mean? 
are  you  really  able  to  meet  the  condi- 
tions? You  have  great  trusts  of  wealth, 
of  power,  and  of  leadership;  can  you 
stand  them?  And  the  immediate  home 
missionary  challenge  seems  to  me  to  be 
threefold:  The  challenge  of  the  reor- 
ganization of  the  society;  the  challenge 
of  the  debt;  and  the  challenge  of  match- 
less opportunity. 

And,  first,  the  challenge  of  the  reor- 
ganization. The  one  great  thesis  of  the 
course  in  Lotze's  Microcosmus,  which  I 
give  year  by  year  to  senior  and  graduate 
students,  runs,  "  Mechanism  is  absolutely 
universal  in  extent,  but  completely  sub- 
ordinate in  significance."  And  it  con- 
contains  in  itself,  perhaps,  the  whole 
heart  of  this  entire  reorganization  prob- 
lem. It  means  that,  on  the  one  hand, 
organization  is  absolutely  necessary,  but 
that  it  cannot  be  an  end  in  itself;  rather, 
that  it  is  means  only,  completely  subor- 
dinate to  the  ends  for  which  the  ma- 
chine exists,  machinery  to  be  used  and 
to  be  changed  according  to  changing 
needs.  It  means  also  that  the  mechan- 
ism ought  to  reflect  as  perfectly  as  pos- 
sible the  spirit  and  enterprise  for  which 
it  exists,  and  that,  therefore,  in  the  case 
of  the  Home  Missionary  Society,  it 
should  be  permeated  through  and 
through  with  a  democratic,  Christian 
spirit. 

The  supreme  merit  of  the  report 
of  the  Committee  on  Reorganization 
seems  to  me  to  be  that  it  honestly  seeks 
to  reflect  the  democratic  representative 
polity  of  the  denomination  in  an  unself- 
ish and  mutually  respecting  Christian 
way.  The  greatest  denominational  mis- 
take in  the  past  history  of  Congregation- 
alism arose  from  a  failure  of  its  own 
leaders  to  believe  in  their  own  democratic 
polity.  We  Congregationalists  have  very 
often  succeeded  in  being  rather  aristo- 
cratic   democrats.     We    cannot    afford   to 


repeat  one  of  the  great  blunders  of  our 
past,  and  I  am  sure  that  all  of  us  who 
believe  in  our  own  polity  must  rejoice  in 
those  changes  in  the  organization  of  the 
Home  Missionary  Society  that  make  it 
certain  that  it  will  be  democratic  and 
truly  representative  and  national,  to  a 
degree    not   possible    before. 

The  reorganization,  besides,  should 
have  power  of  adaptation  to  growing, 
changing  needs.  And  the  plan  as  recom- 
mended by  the  committee  seems  to  have 
this  thought  also  in  mind,  as  it  plans 
for  much  completer  unity  in  dealing  both 
with  the  ordinary  missionary  problems 
of  the  states,  with  the  city  missionary 
problem,  and  with  the  problem  of  our 
foreign  speaking  populations.  As  Amer- 
icans, proud  of  American  leadership  in 
the  industrial  world,  we  can  never  be 
satisfied  until  our  religious  organizations 
and  machinery  and  enterprises  are 
brought  up  to  a  level  of  efficiency  com- 
parable to  that  of  those  industrial  plans. 
For  American  industrial  leadership  has 
meant,  above  all,  the  willingness  to  set 
aside  with  the  greatest  promptness  any 
machinery  that  was  not  the  best  possi- 
ble that  could  be  had.  This  has  gone  so 
far  that  one  manufacturer  could  refer 
to  the  fact  that  after  his  own  company 
had  installed,  at  the  expense  of  many 
thousands  of  dollars,  a  new  lot  of  ma- 
chinery, and  then  found  that  a  subsequent 
invention  had  been  made  whose  product 
would  surpass  the  product  of  the  newly- 
installed  machinery,  before  a  wheel  had 
been  moved,  ordered  the  entire  new 
plant  out  and  the  newly-invented  machin- 
ery put  in  in  its  place.  It  is  a  spirit  like 
that  that  we  try  in  some  measure  to  rival, 
when,  with  the  greatest  pride  in  all  the 
work  that  has  been  accomplished  hither- 
to, we  still  insist  on  such  change  and 
adjustment  as  will  insure  still  larger  re- 
sults  for   the   immediate    future. 

I  judge  that  it  has  been  the  earnest  aim 
of  the  committee  to  urge  a  form  of  or- 
ganization that  should  insure  a  policy 
thorough-going,  honest,  open,  broad, 
democratic,  mutually  respecting,  coura- 
geous, but  not  rash;  a  policy  that  should 
show  real  trust  in  the  rank  and  file  of 
the  church,  put  needs  and  conditions 
squarely  before  them,  and  bring  home 
the  responsibility  to  those  who  must 
finally   bear  it. 

The  reorganization  certainly  should 
not  be  looked  upon  as  the  triumph  of  any 
party,  but  simply  as  the  triumph  of  un- 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY  CHALLENGE 


85 


HENRY     CHURCHILL    KING,     D.D. 

selfish  regard  for  the  interests  of  the 
kingdom,  whether  it  embodies  everything 
that  all  of  us  would  like  to  have  it  em- 
body, or  not.  We  may  all  well  remem- 
ber, in  entering  upon  a  period  of  hearty 
co-operation  under  the  new  organiza- 
tion, the  significant  principle  of  Miss 
Yonge's,  "  It  is  a  great  thing  to  sacri- 
fice, but  it  is  a  greater  to  consent  not  to 
sacrifice   in   one's   own   way." 

All  this  is  to  be  settled  now  and  here. 
I  am  exceedingly  glad  that  the  prospect 
of  carrying  through  the  reorganization 
successfully,  and  with  hearty  co-opera- 
tion, seems  so  assured.  But  this  does 
not  mean  that  there  should  fail  free, 
frank,  honest,  loving,  and  humble  discus- 
sion. We  need  all  the  light  that  can 
come  from  all  sources,  and  we  all  cer- 
tainly wish  to  take  the  steps  that  we  are 
to  take  at  this  meeting  in  the  light  of 
all  the  facts.  We  want  to  be  sure  that 
the  steps  taken  in  the  matter  of  organiza- 
tion at  this  meeting  are  large  steps  for- 
ward. And  the  first  challenge  of  the 
nome  missionary  situation  seems  to  me 
to  be  this  challenge  of  the  reorganiza- 
tion.    Are   we   able   to   match   up   to  the 


real  spirit  assumed  and  called  for  in  this 
reorganized  plan? 

There  is  beside,  secondly,  the  challenge 
of  the  debt.  The  increase  in  receipts 
for .  the  present  year,  and  the  response 
made  by  the  churches  to  the  appeals  for 
extra  help  in  the  reduction  of  the  debt, 
are  facts  of  real  encouragement.  Never- 
theless, the  debt  remains  at  essentially 
the  same  figure  as  last  year.  And  this 
debt  is  a  challenge  that  it  is  impossible 
for  the  Congregational  churches  of 
America  to  pass  unheeded.  For  the  debt 
means  several  things,  with  no  one  of 
which  we  can  be  satisfied:  It  means 
honest  obligations  unmet;  it  means  a  bad 
reputation  for  the  society;  it  means  lack 
of  enthusiasm  in  the  churches.  What  has 
happened,  that  we  should  fall  back  to  the 
standard  of  twenty  years  ago?  It  means 
deep  discouragement  of  the  workers  em- 
ployed, and  cruel  crippling  of  the  work 
they  undertake  that  costs  anguish  and 
life  and  souls.  If  we  could  translate  this 
crippling  into  concrete  terms,  how  im- 
possible it  would  be  for  us  to  allow  it  to 
go  on!  The  debt  means,  too,  utter  in- 
ability on  the  part  of  us  Congregation- 
alists  to  do  our  share  in  meeting  the 
critical  needs  of  the  home  missionary 
work  of  America.  And  that  means  de- 
nominational shame  and  real  national 
loss. 

And  beyond  all  this,  as  individual  mem- 
bers of  Congregational  churches,  we 
ought  not  to  forget  that  if  we  are  to  al- 
low our  work  in  this  direction  to  con- 
tinue on  the  present  low  plane,  we  shall 
simply  be  allowing  the  religious  and 
ideal  side  of  our  life  to  fall  behind  the 
material  gain;  and  we  shall  be  imperiling 
just  so  far  the  entire  higher  range  of  our 
individual  and  national  life.  Are  we  able 
to  meet  this  challenge  of  the  debt?  To 
see  to  it  not  only  that  it  is  abolished, 
and  not  only  that  we  come  back  to  the 
former  standard  of  our  work,  but  also 
that  we  push  vigorously  forward  to  larger 
achievements  than  any  yet  made,  as 
ought  naturally  to  be  the  case?  I  have 
so  much  faith  in  the  Congregationalists 
of  America,  that  I  cannot  doubt  that 
when  the  facts  are  really  recognized,  and 
the  responsibility  definitely  placed,  we 
shall  meet  to  the  full  this  challenge  of 
the  debt. 

And  beyond  the  challenge  of  the  debt 
is  the  challenge  of  the  great  opportunity 
and  need  of  America,  and  of  the  world 
for  America.  We  may  not  shut  our  eyes 
to  the  immense  immigration  still  contin- 
uing— nearly  fifty  thousand  in  a  single 
week  last  month — and  to  the  changing 
character  of  this  immigration,  which 
makes  it  certain  that  many  thousands  of 
those  now  coming  in  are  far  less  fitted 
for  ready  absorption  of  our  national  and 
religious  ideas  than  were  the  earlier  im- 


86 


THE   HOME   MISSIONARY 


migrants.  And  we  may  not  shut  our 
eyes  to  the  increasing  problems  of  the 
great  city,  and  of  our  foreign  popula- 
tion. And  while  we  recognize  with 
gratitude  the  immense  achievement  in 
the  way  of  assimilation  accomplished  by 
our  public  schools  and  by  our  churches, 
we  cannot  doubt  the  need  of  home  mis- 
sionary effort  of  the  most  vigorous  kind, 
while  one  hundred  and  sixty  cities  in  the 
United  States  contain  more  than  one- 
fourth  of  the  entire  population  of  the 
country,  and  more  than  one-half  of  these 
are  either  foreign  born  or  of  foreign 
parentage.  As  Dr.  Clark  has  pointed  out, 
"  In  all  the  chief  cities  of  the  land,  the 
foreign  element  not  only  holds  the  bal- 
ance of  power,  but  also  a  majority  of  the 
citizens."  And  we  must  not  shut  our 
eyes,  further,  to  the  fact  that  we  are  by 
no  means  done  with  the  home  missionary 
problem  in  any  of  our  states,  new  or  old; 
that  much  in  all  these  fields  remains  still 
to  be  done. 

And  yet,  none  of  these  great  needs- 
great  as  they  are — seem  to  me  to  consti- 
tute the  chief  challenge  of  our  oppor- 
tunity and  need.  That  seems  to  me 
rather  to  lie,  on  the  one  hand,  in  the  im- 
mense increase  in  our  wealth  and  power 
and  recognized  leadership  in  the  world, 
and,  on  the  other  hand,  in  the  danger 
that  we  shall  allow  ourselves  to  be  rated 
simply  with  the  sense  of  this  lower 
achievement,  and  fail  to  be  worthy  of  the 


trusts  implied.  The  American  people 
never  needed  more  John  Rae's  warning 
against  "  the  passion  for  material  com- 
fort." And  Lowell's  exhortation  ought 
still  to  ring  in  our  ears  "  Material  suc- 
cess is  good,  but  only  as  the  necessary 
preliminary  of  better  things.  The  meas- 
ure of  a  nation's  true  success  is  the 
amount  it  has  contributed  to  the  thought, 
the  moral  energy,  the  intellectual  happi- 
ness, the  spiritual  hope  and  consolation 
of  mankind.  There  is  no  other,  let  our 
candidates  flatter  us  as  they  may."  We 
are  in  great  danger  of  forgetting  Christ's 
solemn  warning  of  the  peril  of  riches: 
"  How  hardly  shall  they  that  have  riches 
enter  into  the  kingdom  of  God."  The 
logic  of  the  events  of  recent  months 
should  show  how  easy  it  is  for  the  haste 
to  be  rich  to  benumb  all  the  higher  fac- 
ulties, and  to  shut  our  eyes  to  the  real 
meaning  of  life.  How  heavy  is  the  price 
which  we  are  paying  for  material  pros- 
perity, if  we  are  willing  to  rest  in  it  as 
the  end!  And  how  imperative  it  is  for 
the  salvation  of  all  that  we  have  a  right 
to  call  true  life,  that  as  individuals  and 
as  a  nation  we  rouse  ourselves  to  meet 
the  challenge  of  our  gigantic  wealth  and 
power  and  leadership,  and  make  certain 
that  we  are  able  so  to  subordinate  all 
these  things  to  the  higher  ends,  that  we 
can  stand  the  challenge  of  our  greatest 
trusts,  and  of  our  greatest  ambitions,  be- 
cause we  are  ready  to  drink  of  Christ's 
cup,   and   so   to   share    in   his    glory. 


THE  SOCIAL  NEEDS  OF  WORKING  PEOPLE 


Extract  From  the  Address  of  Rev.   Charles  Stelzle 


I  WOULD  not  have  the  minister  discuss  social  theories.  But  the  Church  must  have 
a  message  with  reference  to  the  everyday  problems  of  the  working  man.  She  must 
apply  to  human  society  the  great  principles  of  Jesus  Christ — the  laws  of  justice,  of 
service,  of  love.  To  evade  the  issues  which  are  pressing  so  closely  upon  the  masses  of 
the  people  would  be  cowardice.  The  Church  cannot  afford  to  be  so  taken  up  with  the 
organization  other  forces  that  she  has  no  time  for  the  discussion  of  human  needs. 

No  amount  of  evangelistic  work  for  the  purpose  of  "reaching  the  masses"  can  ever 
take  the  place  of  a  bold  championing  of  the  common  people  in  their  brave  endeavor  to 
raise  their  standard  of  living.  They  need  the  gospel ;  but  while  we  give  it  to  them,  we 
■dare  not  forget  that  these  men  and  women,  and  especially  the  children,  have  bodies  as 
well  as  souls,  and  that  sometimes  these  bodies  cry  out  so  loudly  in  their  need  that  the 
appeal  to  the  soul  is  all  but  lost.  I  would  go  to  the  very  limit  with  any  man  in  an  aggres- 
sive evangelistic  campaign.  The  record  of  my  department  proves  this  assertion;  but 
more  and  more  comes  the  consciousness  that  the  effort  of  the  evangelist  must  be  supple- 
mented by  a  work  which  shall  not  stop  short  of  the  complete  emancipation  of  the  work- 
ing man. 


A    REPORT    ON    THE    REPORT    OF    THE    EXECUTIVE 

COMMITTEE 

Presented  by   H.  P.  DeForest  D.D.,  of  Detroit 


THE  executive  committee  has  reported 
to  the  society  without  unusual  com- 
ment the  record  of  a  year  of  exceptional 
difficulties  and  embarrassments.  The  adop- 
tion at  the  last  annual  meeting  of  a  new- 
method  of  organization,  which  however 
could  not  be  carried  into  effect  for  a  year, 
left  to  the  committee  the  difficult  task  of 
managing  a  period  which  belonged  wholly 
to  neither  regime ;  one  which  was  left,  like 
Matthew  Arnold's  sad  singer, 
"Wandering  between  two  worlds,  one  dead, 

The  other  powerless  to  be  born." 

It  was  a  trying  position  at  the  best,  but 
they  addressed  themselves  to  it  bravely, 
with  the  determination  in  the  foreground  to 
use  the  time  in  a  vigorous  effort  to  reduce, 
before  handing  the  reins  to  the  leaders  of 
the  new  era,  the  heavy  debt  which  had 
hampered  the  Society  so  seriously  for  two 
years.  And  now  that  the  year  is  done  and 
the  strenuous  effort  made,  they  are  forced  by 
no  fault  of  their  own,  nor  of  the  churches, 
nor  of  the  auxiliaries,  to  report  an  increase 
of  a  little  more  than  $3000  to  that  indebt- 
edness. 

Doubtless  there  prevails  largely,  not  only 
among  the  officers  and  the  Committees,  but 
in  the  large  body  of  the  Society's  friends 
and  supporters,  a  feeling  of  serious  trouble 
if  not  of  dismay  that  after  the  noble  effort 
of  the  past  year  this  should  be  the  end, 
But  there  are  many  considerations  which 
ought  to  temper  this  feeling  and  to  reassure 
us. 

How  has  this  financial  result  come  to  pass? 
The  Society  began  the  year  with  an  increase 
of  the  debt  of  1904  amounting  in  round 
numbers  to  $58,000,  making  it  in  all  $180, 
000.  In  the  effort  to  reduce  this  amount 
during  the  year  some  really  great  and  cheer- 
ing results  have  been  attained.  The  receipts 
from  the  churches  have  been  increased  by 
more  than  $60,000  and  the  receipts  from 
auxiliaries  have  more  than  doubled,  rising 
from  $9,000  to  $19,000,  and  making  the 
gross  increase  from  the   Society's  regular 


sources  more  than  $70,000; — nearly  75  per 
cent  increase  over  the  previous  year.  At 
the  same  time  expenditures  have  been  re- 
duced on  the  field  and  in  the  administration 
by  one-sixth ;  in  round  numbers  $42,000  in 
the  field  and  $7,000  in  expenses.  The 
double  effect  of  the  $70,000  gain  and  the 
$49,000  retrenchment  has  made!1  an  advan- 
tage to  the  treasury  over  the  previous  year 
of  $119,000;  $24,000  more  than  all  the  re- 
ceipts from  the  churches  and  auxiliaries  in 
1905. 

But  something  happened ;  those  forever 
uncertain  expectations,  the  legacies,  fell  off 
more  than  $60,000.  And  in  addition,  debts, 
pile  up  interest,  and  after  using  the  income 
from  investments  to  pay  that,  it  was  still 
necessary  to  increase  the  debt-balance  of 
the  income  account  $4,000  to  make  it  up. 
And  that  swerve  to  the  wrong  side  of  the 
ledger  of  $64,000,  added  to  the  $58,000  debt- 
increase  of  last  year, — in  all  $122,000, — 
wiped  out  the  $119,000  of  gain  and  left  us 
instead  with  an  increase  of  $3,000  to  the 
debt. 

As  was  said,  it  was  no  one's  fault :  officers 
and  committee  and  constituency  had  made 
herculean  efforts  with  splendid  results. 
And  the  failure  of  the  harvest  of  the  grave 
spoiled  all.  But  did  it  ?  Where  should  we 
have  been  with  only  receipts  equal  to  those 
of  the  previous  year,  and  no  reduction  of 
expenses?  In  debt  $300,000.  Let  us  grasp 
that  fact  and  be  thankful ! 

And  before  we  leave  this  matter  of  the 
noble  effort  made  during  the  year  let  us 
analyze  it  a  little  and  see  that  it  really 
means  a  loyal  endeavor  all  along  the  line 
with  a  surprising  unity  that  bodes  well 
for  the  continuance  of  that  real  interest  in 
home  missions  which  we  have  feared  was 
diminishing.  Only  twelve  states  out  of  the 
forty- six  enumerated  have  failed  to  increase 
their  gifts,  and  all  but  one  of  those  are 
purely  mission  districts,  most  of  them  at  the 
South.  Some  states  have  made  very  large 
proportionate  increase;  one  New  England 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


state  has  nearly  trebled  its  offering;  six 
scattered  from  Vermont  to  Oregon,  have 
nearly  or  quite  doubled  theirs ;  one  impor- 
tant state  in  the  Middle  West  has  sextupled 
its  contribution,  and  three,  whose  gifts  are 
necessarily  small  anyway,  have  mounted  to 
twelve  and  even  fifteen  times  their  last 
year's  sum. 

Among  the  larger  items  of  increase  we 
find  in  New  England  gains  of  $2,100,  $2,600, 
$12,500  and  $22,500;  in  the  Middle  States  of 
$1,200,  $1,400  and  $9,500;  in  the  West  two 
of  $1,100  and  others  of  $1,350,  $1,700,  $1,800 
and  $3,000.  In  addition  $130,000  have  been 
added  to  the  Society's  invested  funds,  more 
than  twice  as  much  as  has  been  missed 
from  legacy  returns  indicating  that  the 
tendency  to  give  from  large  estates  has  not 
died  out.  And  then,  as  a  last  echo  of  the 
cheer,  comes  the  little  list  at  the  end  of  the 
column,— bits  that  chink  into  the  contribu- 
tion box  from  quite  outside  our  constit- 
uency,— from  Canada,  Mexico,  Japan, 
Turkey,  Hawaii,  India,  and — the  Ladrone 
Islands,  all  wanting  to  take  a  hand  in  the 
game. 

Your  Committee  submits  that  this  re- 
sponse all  along  the  line,  like  the  rattling 
fire  of  musketry  at  a  signal,  with  now  and 
then  the  boom  of  a  cannon,  is  something 
that  ought  to  make  the  Society  glad  and 
full  of  hope  in  spite  of  that  vain  cry  of 
"Hark  from  the  tombs."  For  it  means  a 
spirit  that  is  not  going  to  be  crushed  by  an 
incidental  defeat. 

There  is  one  question  in  connection  with 
the  financial  affairs  of  the  Society  which  re- 
porting committees  have  felt  bound  to 
handle  of  late,  and  about  which  there  is 
such  keen  inquiry  abroad  in  the  land.  It  is 
the  question  of  the  proportion  of  receipts  to 
missionary  expenditures,  or  more  properly, 
of  missionary  expenditures  to  the  expenses 
of  running  the  machine.  I  allude  to  it  only 
to  call  attention  to  this,  that  while  perhaps 
figures  do  not  lie,  they  will,  unless  handled 
knowingly,  mislead  if  it  were  possible, — 
and  it  is  unfortunately  quite  possible, — the 
very  elect.  One  question  alone  is  pertinent, 
it  is  the  only  one  in  which  the  people  are 
really  interested,  viz. :  Out  of  every  dollar 
that  gets  into  the  treasury  from  whatever 
quarter  how  many  cents  get  to  the  real 
missionary  work,  and  how  many  stick  by 
the  way  to  pay  expenses  ?    And  the  answer 


to  that  is  very  easy  to  find.  (Eighty  cents 
out  of  every  dollar  gets  to  work.)  When 
$200,000  goes  to  the  field  and  $40,000  is  held 
to  pay  the  bills,  as  in  the  case  this  year, 
that  is  the  ratio,  and  it  seldom  varies  much. 

And  it  ought  to  be  added  that  a  good  part 
of  the  twenty  cents  that  is  held  for  expenses 
does  real  missionary  work  too.  Magazine 
and  circular,  field  agent  and  annual  meet- 
ing, the  shipping  of  books  and  clothing  are 
real  missionary  agencies  and  nearly  ten  of 
the  twenty  cents  goes  for  such  things.  Ex- 
penses of  this  sort  need  careful  guarding, 
but  they  are  not  in  the  nature  of  emoluments 
for  the  administration. 

We  turn  from  the  treasury  to  the  field,  to 
emphasize  the  fact  that  while  the  noble  in- 
crease of  $70,000  in  offerings  and  the  gift  of 
$130,000  additional  invested  funds  has  saved 
us  from  greater  disaster  and  revealed  a 
spirit  of  loyal  response  to  the  needs  of  the 
work,  the  heavy  debt  has  not  only  rendered 
the  enlargement  of  the  work  impossible,  but 
has  necessitated  still  further  retrenchment 
for  the  time  being.  And  that  has  involved 
the  lessening'by  136  of  the  force  of  mission- 
aries and  superintendents  and  the  decrease 
of  congregations  and  missionary  stations  by 
86.  The  decrease  of  6,895  in  Sunday  school 
and  Bible  class  pupils  (the  loss  in  two  years 
s  25,000),  is  only  partly  accounted  for  by 
retrenchment,  some  of  it  being  a  part  of  the 
widely  spread  falling  off  in  these  figures 
which  has  of  late  been  reported  by  our 
churches  generally.  And  on  the  other  hand 
the  increase  of  additions  to  the  churches  by 
nearly  700  in  spite  of  the  lessened  number 
of  stations,  is  a  note  of  vital  progress. 

It  is  the  retrenchment  that  is  the  most 
serious  feature  of  the  situation.  No  one, 
either  among  officials  or  churches,  wishes 
to  retrench.  It  is  a  dire  necessity,  to  be 
surmounted  at  the  first  possible  moment. 
In  view  of  the  unparalleled  prosperity  of 
these  passing  years,  of  the  unprecedented 
pushing  of  new  lines  of  railway  in  the 
Northwest  and  the  Southwest,  of  the  con- 
stant internal  extension  of  that  "frontier" 
which  some  have  said  no  longer  exists,  and 
of  the  swarming  immigration  which  is 
flooding  all  our  areas,  we  ought  to  be  girding 
ourselves  for  larger  work,  not  lesser.  And 
we  are  going  to  do  it.  Your  Committee 
suggests  that  the  temper  of  our  constituency, 
tested,  in  this  effort  to  relieve  the  society  of 


DR.    DE   FOREST'S   REPORT 


89 


debt,  and  foiled  only  by  the  failure  of  lega- 
cies, is  plainly  such  as  to  warrant  the  hope 
of  a  substantial  advance  when  we  have 
turned  this  sharp  corner,  and  under  new 
conditions  of  co-operation  between  state 
and  national  agencies  can  bend  all  our  ener- 
gies towards  the  best  results  for  the  whole 
country.  Our  constituency  of  states  is 
swelling.  Southern  California  assumes 
self-support ;  Nebraska  is  very  near  it ;  other 
states  are  not  to  be  left  long  in  the  rear. 

There  are  some  facts  concerning  the 
reasons  for  the  lessened  receipts  of  two 
previous  years  which  ought  to  be  consid- 
ered. Doubtless  some  of  it  is  due  to  the 
unsatisfied  feeling  in  many  states  reported 
by  the  Committee  of  five  a  year  ago,  and  to 
the  desire  for  a  closer  representation  in  the 
councils-of  the  Society,  and  a  larger  share 
of  the  local  responsibility  in  the  manage- 
ment of  their  missionary  work.  We  need 
not  discuss  that,  as  measures  are  already 
adopted  for  meeting  it. 

Some  of  that  falling  off  is  also  due  to  the 
fact  which  is  really  a  matter  of  deep  con- 
cern, that  the  changing  times,  the  shifting 
of  the  centers  of  interest  and  action  in  most 
lives,  and  the  coming  on  the  stage  of  a  new 
generation  whose  training  is  so  different 
from  that  of  their  fathers,  is  creating  a  tem- 
porary depression  in  all  church  interests 
and  raising  new  problems  in  our  benevo- 
lences, and  agressive  movements.  This 
for  the  time  is  reality;  but  it  is  not  final. 
The  new  need,  the  new  interests  and  the 
new  generation  will  get  adjusted,  perhaps 
sooner  than  we  think;  certainly  in  due  time. 

But  still  another  cause  has  been  suggested 
within  the  Committee  which  lifts  the  cloud 
of  apprehension  to  a  degree.  It  is  the  fact 
generally  that  in  the  last  ten  years  the  home 
expenditures  of  the  churches  have  consider- 
ably increased,  and  not  so  much  by  the  pay- 
ment of  larger  salaries  or  the  increase  of 
their  own  luxuries  of  worship,  as  by  the 
constant  taking  on  of  new  enterprises  of 
local  work,  most  of  them  as  truly  mission- 
ary in  their  purport  as  those  undertaken  by 
our  organized  societies.  That  there  is  an 
increase  of  interest  on  the  part  of  the 
younger  element  in  our  local  problems  in 
city  and  country,  due  to  more  complicated 
conditions,  increasing  sociological  problems 
and  rapid  immigration,  is  beyond  question. 
And  most  of  these  enterprises,  barring  a  few 


fashionable  fads,    are  not  only    good    but 
necessary. 

Still  farther,  our  Society  has  not  hitherto 
included  in  its  operations  the  vast  work  of 
city  evangelization,  which  has  been  conduct- 
ed by  city  societies,  and  has  often  called  for 
as  much  expenditure  on  the  part  of  our 
churches  as  the  home  missionary  work  of 
state  and  nation.  It  is  in  the  new  program 
for  this  Society  to  embrace  that  work  also, 
so  far  as  practicable.  The  money  for  it  is 
already  being  paid  by  the  churches,  and  it 
has  sometimes  been  difficult  to  meet  this 
great  and  growing  need  without  lessening 
the  amount  given  to  the  wider  work.  But 
that  is  not  a  note  of  indifference  to  mission- 
ary work. 

We  submit,  therefore,  that  it  is  not  to  be 
too  hastily  concluded  that  a  temporary  less- 
ening of  receipts  is  due  wholly,  or  mainly,  to 
the  lapse  of  missionary  interest.  And  that 
is  pre-eminently  gratifying.  For  if  the  in- 
terest is  there  and  living,  though  finding 
more  expression  in  other  forms  than  hereto- 
fore, it  is  a  constantly  available  source  of 
hope  and  help,  and  will  respond  on  call,  as 
has  been  clearly  shown  in  the  response  of 
the  year  now  closing. 

Let  us  hope  and  believe  that  the  increased 
responsibility  and  call  for  co-operation 
which  the  new  method  of  administration 
will  put  upon  our  forces  all  over  the  land 
will  result  in  an  increase  of  support  not 
merely  spasmodic  but  permanent. 

And  as  we  pass  from  the  old  era  into  the 
next  it  is  most  fitting  that  we  recognize 
with  hearty  appreciation  and  gratitude  the 
loyal  and  devoted  labors  of  the  officers  and 
the  Executive  Committee  in  the  past  and 
not  least  in  this  eightieth  year;  and  that  we 
assure  them  that  instead  of  being  unduly 
depressed  by  the  failure  to  lessen  the  debt, 
we  are  as  a  body  greatly  cheered  by  the 
efforts  made  and  the  results  attained  in  this 
most  difficult  of  situations  during  the  past 
year.  It  is  not  success  but  effort  loyally 
made  that  is  the  real  victory  for  a  man  or 
a  society. 

"What  I  aspired  to  be 
And  was  not,  comforts  me," 
sings  Rabbi  Ben  Ezra.  And  what  we  have 
aspired  to  do  and  tried  to  do  with  all  our 
hearts  tells  more  of  our  real  spiritual  value 
than  aught  else,  especially  when  the  causes 
of  temporary  failure  were  not  within  our 
control.  There  is  a  voice  speaking  unto 
the  children  of  Israel  that  they  go  forward ; 
and  may  the  spirit  of  the  Master  gird  us  all 
more  efficiently  than  ever  for  the  work  of 
God  and  the  help  of  His  Kingdom. 


MEETING  OF  THE  BOARD  OF   DIRECTORS  OF 

THE  CONGREGATIONAL  HOME 

MISSIONARY  SOCIETY 


AT  the  annual  meeting  of  the 
Society,  held  in  Oak  Park, 
Illinois,  on  the  9th  of  May, 
the  Board  of  Directors  as  provided 
for  under  the  reorganization  of  the 
Society,  was  elected.  Rev.  Charles 
S.  Mills,  D.D.,  as  President  of  the 
Society,  is  chairman  of  the  board. 

At  once,  upon  the  adoption  of  the 
constitution  and  the  election  of  the 
new  officers  and  directors,  the  board 
assembled  to  take  up  the  many 
points  of  business  that  required 
their  immediate  attention. 

Sixteen  members  of  the  board 
were  present,  together  with  the 
president  of  the  Society,  Dr.  Mills. 
Rev.  Livingston  L.  Taylor  was 
elected  clerk  of  the  board. 

The  first  duty  of  the  board  of 
directors  was  to  consider  the  appli- 
cation of  the  Congregational  Home 
Missionary  Society  of  Nebraska, 
through  its  president,  Rev.  John  E. 
Tuttle,  for  admission  as  a  constituent 
state.  Favorable  action  upon  this 
application  was  the  initial  act  of  the 
new  board. 

Dr.  John  E.  Tuttle  was  elected 
by  the  Society  a  director  from 
Nebraska,  and  at  once  took  his  seat 
in  the  board. 

The  following  committees  were  ap- 
pointed: 

The  Executive  Committee :  One 
year — Rev.  S.  Parkes  Cadman,  Rev. 
Harry  P.  Dewey,  Mr.  John  F. 
Huntsman,  Mr.  Charles  C.  West; 
Two  years — Mr.  James  G.  Cannon, 
Mr.  W.  Winans  Freeman,  Rev.  H. 
H.  Kelsey,  Rev.  L.  L.   Taylor. 

On  Refutations  for  the  Executive 
Committee :  Rev.  Livingston  L. 
Taylor,  Mr.  W.  W.  Mills,  Mr.  R.  D. 
Benedict. 

On  the  Nomination  of  a  General 
Secretary:     Rev.    Charles   S.    Mills, 


Rev.  H.  H.  Kelsey,  Rev.  E.  L. 
Smith. 

On  the  Debt  of  the  Society  :  Rev. 
H.  H.  Kelsey,  Rev.  S.  Parkes  Cad- 
man, Rev.  E.  M.  Vittum. 

On  Finance:  Mr.  W.  W.  Mills, 
Mr.  R.  D.  Benedict,  Mr.  John  F. 
Huntsman. 

On  Work  among  Foreigners :  Rev. 
W.  E.  Barton,  Rev.  S.  H.  Woodrow, 
Rev.  Frank  T.  Bayley. 

On  City  Missionary  Societies :  Rev. 
L.  H.  Hallock,  Rev.  John  E.  Tut- 
tle, Rev.  L.  L.  Taylor  and  Mr.  H. 
Clark  Ford. 

Application  was  received  from  the 
Home  Missionary  Society  of  South 
Dakota  for  admission  as  a  co-opera- 
ting state.  This  was  referred  to  the 
executive  committee,  with  power  to 
receive  the  state  as  such  when  the 
constitutional  requirements  had 
been  duly  met. 

The  appropriations  for  missionary 
grants  and  operating  expenses, 
which  had  been  tentatively  adopted 
by  the  former  executive  committee, 
were  approved  and  continued  for 
the  year  ending  April  1st,  1907, 
with  instructions  to  the  executive 
committee  to  consider  all  possible 
economies. 

The  present  official  force  was  con- 
tinued in  office. 

The  executive  committee  was  in- 
structed to  take  into  consideration 
the  whole  matter  of  collecting 
agencies  and  to  report  at  the  Janu- 
ary meeting  of  the   board. 

Action  was  taken  looking  toward 
the  consolidation  of  Florida, 
Georgia  and  Alabama  as  a  single 
missionary  district. 

It  was  voted  that  the  minimum 
proportion  of  funds  for  home  mis- 
sionary work  to  be  raised  on  the 
field  to  qualify    for    admission  as   a 


FIRST    MEETING   OF   THE    DIRECTORS 


9i 


co-operating  state  be  twenty  per 
cent. 

Initial  steps  were  taken  for  receiv- 
ing the  state  of  Washington  as  a 
co-operating  state  when  the  consti- 
tutional requirements  shall  have 
been  complied  with. 

Plans  were  also  initiated  for  the 
fullest  presentation  of  the  needs  of 
the  entire  field,  east  and  west,  at 
the  January  meeting  of  the  board  of 
directors;  and  it  was  voted  that  the 
executive  committee  be  instructed 
to  ask  the  executive  committee  of 
each  constituent  state  to  submit  to 
it  on  or  before  December  1st,  a 
proposition  as  to  the  proportion  of  re- 
ceipts which  it  will  pay  into  the 
treasury  of  the  national  society  on 
the  general  basis  of  the  "  Illinois 
Plan,"  and  the  amount  beyond 
which  all  contributions  shall  go  to 
the  national  treasury;  and  that  this 
proposition  shall  be  subject  to  the 
review  of  the  board  of  directors  at 
its  January  meeting. 

The  proposed  financial  basis  of 
arrangement  between  constituent 
states  and  the  national  society  is  as 
follows: 

"The  board  of  directors  under- 
stands that  the  new  plan  of  reorgani- 
zation involves  the  agreement  on  the 


part  of  each  constituent  state  society 
(1)  to  pay  such  proportion  of  its 
funds  into  the  national  treasury  as 
may  be  mutually  agreed  upon  be- 
tween the  state  society  and  the 
national  society ;  and  (2)  to  pay  all 
funds  into  the  national  treasury  be- 
yond a  certain  definite  amount 
mutually  agreed  upon  in  the  case  of 
each  state,  as  subject  of  said  per- 
centage. 

"In  determining  the  amount  to 
be  so  proportionately  divided  and  in 
establishing  the  proportion,  all  lega- 
cies and  all  funds  explicitly  desig- 
nated by  the  donors  for  some  specific 
work  are  to  be  excepted. 

"All  other  funds  coming  from 
the  state,  whether  paid  into  the 
state  or  national  treasury  up  to  the 
specific  amount  determined  upon, 
are  to  be  subject  to  this  mutual 
agreement. 

"It  is  understood  that  this 
arrangement  will  not  go  into  effect 
until  April,  1907,  the  mutual 
arrangements  being  determined  at 
the  January  meeting  of  the  board  of 
directors." 

The  first  address  of  the  directors 
to  the  churches  will  be  found  on 
another  page. 


Directors  : 


Rev.  Chas.  S.  Mills,   President,  Missouri.  Rev 

Rev.  Raymond  Calkins,  Maine.  Rev 

Rev.  Geo.  E.  Hall,  New  Hampshire.  Mr. 

Rev.  Henry  Fairbanks,  Vermont.  Rev 

Rev.  S.  H.  Woodrow,  Massachusetts.  Rev 

Mr.  John  F.  Huntsman,  Rhode  Island.  Rev 

Rev.  H.  H.  KeLsey,  Connecticut.  Rev 

Rev.  S.  Parkes  Cadman,  New  York.  Rev 

Mr.  W.  W.  Mills,  Ohio.  Mr. 

Rev.  W.  E.  Barton,  Illinois.  Rev 
Rev.  George  R.  Leavitt,  Wisconsin. 


E.  M.  Vittum,  Iowa. 

Bastian  Smits,  Michigan. 
Edwin  Tucker,  Kansas. 

John  E.  Tuttle,  Nebraska. 
.  E.  L.  Smith,  Washington. 
.  L.  H.  Hallock,  Minnesota. 
.  H.  C.  Herring,  Nebraska. 

Livingston  L.  Taylor,  New  York. 
Robert  D.  Benedict,  New  York. 

Frank  T.  Bayley,  Colorodo. 


OUR  OPPORTUNITY  IN   THE  NEW  WEST 

By    Rev.   Frank   K.   Sanders,   Ph.  D. 

Secretary  of  the  Congregational  Sunday  School  and  Publishing  Society 


T 


'HE  APPEAL  of  the  West  is  historic. 
Since  earliest  times  it  has  been  stir- 
ring the  imagination  and  quickening  the 
consciences  of  our  Congregational  folk.  But 
the  West,  which  has  been  the  goal  of  our 
activity,  has  not  remained  unchanged.  One 
hundred  years  ago,  when  New  England 
had  thoroughly  organized  for  home  mis- 
sionary work,  the  West,  which  challenged 
the  attention  of  our  fathers,  was  the  more 
distant  portion  of  New  York  and  the 
western  reserve.  It  was  then  that  Ohio 
and  New  York,  Southern  Michigan  and 
Northern  Illinois  received  that  inefface- 
able stamp  which  characterizes  this  central 
region  to-day  and  makes  it  the  very  strong- 
hold of  all  that  Congregationalism  repre- 
sents. Eighty  years  ago  this  very  week 
The  Congregational  Home  Missionary 
Society  was  organized,  in  order  to  reach 
with  greater  effectiveness  that  country, 
still  a  pioneering  land.  It  was  seventy- 
five  years  ago  (1829)  that  Yale  sent  forth  a 
band  of  eleven  young  men,  headed  by  Bald- 
win and  Sturtevant,  to  plant  an  enduring 
Christian  civilation  throughout  Northern 
and  Central  Illinois.  Fifteen  years  later 
(1843)  a  similar  band  from  Andover  laid 
strong  and  sure  the  Congregational  begin_ 
nings  of  Iowa.  At  that  same  time  the  un- 
known coast  region  of  California  and  Ore- 
gon began  to  attract  attention  and  caused 
a  great  enlargement  of  the  range  of  Con- 
gregational vision.  Only  after  the  Civil 
War,  with  the  rapid  settlement  of  our  re- 
maining territory  did  there  come  that  de- 
velopmsnt  of  ths  great  middle  West,  which 
began  to  reveal  its  psrmanent  possibilities, 
its  boundless  extent  of  fertile  prairies,  its 
oceans  of  stately  forests,  its  inexhaustible 
stores  of  mineral  wealth,  resources  even 
yet  unexploited  beyond  their  mere  begin- 
nings. 

Some  twenty  years  ago  we  seemed  to 
have  ranged  the  utmost  limit  of  our  coun- 
try. In  some  fashion  it  had  been  covered. 
We  feebly  realized  its  possibilities.     It  had 


expanded  far  beyond  its  power  to  exploit 
and  there  came  a  period  of  quiescence  and 
slower  growth,  appealing  not  so  much  to 
the  pioneering  instinct  as  to  that  deeper 
passion  inherited  from  our  fathers,  which 
finds  its  satisfaction  in  the  love  of  perma- 
nent institutions.  Then  our  hearts  thrilled 
at  the  appeal  of  the  new  West  and  its  edu- 
cational needs.  We  devoted  ourselves  to 
establishing  and  developing  the  territory 
already  won.  The  great  western  region 
itself  seemed  to  give  its  energies  to  the 
strengthening  and  development  of  re- 
sources already  apprehended  rather  than 
to  the  discovery  of  those  unknown. 

But  this  period  has  passed.  To-day,  our 
great  western  region,  a  domain  far  more 
vast  than  any  that  captured  the  ambition 
of  a  Caesar,  is  approaching  a  new  and  final 
stage  of  development,  a  development 
which  is  partly  political,  which  is  promi- 
nently industrial  and  which  must  be  like- 
wise religious.  The  West  has  at  last  at- 
tained to  that  self-knowledge  which  is 
promotive  of  self  restraint.  It  is  ceasing 
to  waste  its  resources.     It  now   measures 


SANDERS.      D.D. 


OPPORTUNITY    IN    THE    NEW   WEST 


93 


them.  Conditions  are  coming  into  being 
which  are  creating  this  very  year  a  newest 
west,  with  which  it  is  to  be  our  duty  and 
privilege  to  deal  in  the  decade  immediately 
before  us.  Although  these  conditions  are 
just  coming  to  effectiveness,  they  will  in  no 
respect  brook  delay  on  our  part.  If  we  are  not 
prepared  in  some  fashion  to  grapple  with  the 
situation  thus  developed,  our  opportunity 
in   a  very   few  years  will  be  wholly  gone. 

The  first  of  these  conditions  is  the 
throwing  open  to  gradual  settlement,  by 
those  desiring  homesteads,  of  the  vast 
tracts  of  arable  land  so  long  reserved  for 
Indian  occupation.  Beginning  with  this 
year  a  deliberate  policy  of  allotment  of  in- 
alienable land  to  the  Indian,  his  settle- 
ment thereon  and  the  sale  for  his  benefit 
within  a  limited  period  of  the  property 
thus  vacated,  is  to  be  put  into  force.  This 
means  that  during  the  next  four  or  five 
years  many  millions  of  fertile  acres,  hith- 
erto ranged  mainly  by  cattlemen  and  their 
vast  herds,  will  become  available  for  homes 
and  farms.  There  are  upwards  of  twenty 
of  these  reservations  which  will  be  opened, 
including  Indian  territory,  which,  by  itself, 
includes  almost  as  great  an  acreage  as  all 
the  New  England  states  put  together,  in- 
cluding Maine. 

A  second  condition  which  is  producing  a 
newest  west  is  the  availability  for  agricul- 
tural purposes,  by  reason  of  new  methods 
of  farming  of  vast  sections  of  country, 
mainly  between  the  Missouri  and  the 
Rockies,  a  region  hitherto  remanded  to  the 
cattle  range  on  the  basis  of  ten  acres  to  a 
cow.  Only  a  month  or  so  ago  I  saw  an  ad- 
vertisement by  the  St.  Paul  road  which 
stated  that  in  South  Dakota,  between  the 
Missouri  and  the  Black  Hills,  along  the 
line  of  its  latest  extension,  there  were  farms 
in  great  abundance  to  be  had  on  reasonable 
terms.  This  semi-arid  land  we  are  told, 
even  without  a  full  supply  of  water,  can 
now  grow  a  good  grade  of  wheat  and  on 
terms  which  are  profitable,  at  least  to  the 
owner  of  a  good  sized  farm.  This  means  a 
vast  extension  of  population  and  perma- 
nent civilization  in  the  Western  Dakotas, 
in  Montana,  in  Nebraska,  in  Kansas,  in 
Colorado  and  the  Panhandle.  Its  fertility, 
when  water  can  be  furnished  by  irrigation 
or  artesian  wells,  is  equal  to  that  of  the 
best  prairie  soil. 


Few  of  us  are  able  to  realize  the  signifi- 
cance of  the  third  condition  which  I  would 
mention,  the  projects  for  storing  up  the 
surplus  in  the  water  sheds  of  the  rivers  of 
Montana,  Idaho,  Nevada,  Utah,  Colorado 
and  New  Mexico,  in  order  to  convert  the 
arid  land  of  the  adjacent  valleys  or  plains 
to  fruitfulness.  It  is  a  wonderful  fact  that 
a  sandy  desert,  apparently  given  up  to  the 
production  of  sage  brush,  when  afforded 
a  reasonable  supply  of  pure  water,  becomes 
a  permanently  productive  soil,  capable  of 
being  repeatedly  and  continuously  cropped. 
At  Phoenix,  Arizona,  or  wherever  the  tem- 
perature is  relatively  even  and  warm,  it  is 
possible  to  grow  five  crops  a  year.  Land  thus 
watered  rises  in  value  from  a  dollar  an  acre 
to  one  hundred  dollars  or  more.  No  more 
beneficent  enterprise  was  ever  organized  in 
our  country  than  this  redemption  of  our 
waste  places,  altering  solitudes  into  hives  of 
industry,  turning  barren  acres  into  an  agri- 
cultural paradise  and  offering  abundant 
support  for  a  crowded  population.  The 
development  of  Phoenix  will  be  paralleled 
again  and  again.  In  these  irrigated  dis- 
tricts, now  visited  only  by  those  who  hurry 
across,  there  will  be  a  continuous  series  of 
homes. 

The  last  and  greatest  factor  in  the  forma- 
tion of  this  newest  West  is  the  strategic 
railroad  building  of  to-day.  Another  era  of 
rapid  railway  extension  has  apparently  be- 
gun, but  it  is  now  an  extension  of  the  keen, 
calm,  shrewd  and  profitable  sort.  It  aims 
not  merely  at  the  seizing  of  a  right  of  way, 
but  at  extension  which  justifies  or  meets 
the  cost  of  building.  It  is  no  longer  reck- 
less but  calculating.  It  develops  sections 
hitherto  out  of  reckoning  because  inacces- 
sible. All  this  winter  the  railway  kings, 
Messrs.  Harriman  and  Hill,  have  been  fight- 
ing for  the  possession  of  the  right  of  way 
along  the  north  bank  of  the  Columbia 
river.  Whoever  has  seen  that  southern 
portion  of  the  state  of  Washington  will 
know  that  it  is  indeed  a  prize  worth  strug- 
gling for.  The  railroad  which  is  being  built 
will  tap  a  country  as  large  as  Massachusetts, 
rich  in  timber  and  mineral  and  agricultural 
wealth.  Another  rich  reward  of  enterprise 
is  the  northern  third  of  Colorado  to  be 
entered  this  very  summer  by  the  Moffat 
Road.  The  undeveloped  portions  of  South 
Dakota  and  of  Wyoming  are  sufficient  to  re- 


94 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


ward  the  utmost  rivalry  of  the  St.  Paul,  the 
Northwestern  and  the  Burlington,  at  this 
very  time.  These  corporations  are  not  in- 
vesting millions  of  dollars  for  amusement 
merely. 

The  one  who  knows  his  West  chiefly  from 
books  of  adventure  can  hardly  realize  the 
enduring  possibilities  of  this  tremendous 
domain.  There  is  no  more  promising 
country  to-day  than  the  imperial  states  of 
Washington  and  Oregon,  than  the  newly 
opening  state  of  Oklahoma,  as  large  as 
Illinois  and  setttled  we  are  told  by  an 
aggressive,  home-born  vigorous  race  of 
people.  The  communities  which  we  may 
expect  to  be  produced  by  irrigation  and  by 
railway  shrewdness  will  be  composed  in 
large  measure  of  independent,  self-reliant 
men  and  women  of  capacity.  There  is  a 
tendency  to  make  the  struggle  for  the 
establishment  of  civilization  a  material 
struggle.  The  resources  of  the  pioneer  are 
so  heavily  taxed  that  he  feels  the  need  of 
aid  in  securing  religious  leadership  and  per- 
manent institutions.  He  is  appreciative  of 
what  is  done.  He  is  responsive  to  oppor- 
tunity. He  values  the  consequent  develop- 
ment and  appropriates  it  as  his  own  to  be 
maintained  and  furthered. 

The  work  of  The  Congregational  Home 
Missionary  Society  in  this  newest  West  will 
look  as  never  before  toward  permanence. 
It  is  not  basing  itself  to-day  upon  the  gains 
of  the  mining  or  lumbering  industries,  a 
type  of  exploiting  which  brings  together 
great  armies  of  men,  but  only  as  temporary 
employees  and  for  the  purpose  of  extracting 
the  wealth  of  the  country  to  hand  it  over  to 
those  who  are  living  somewhere  else.  It 
is  being  founded  rather  on  agricultural  con- 
ditions, upon  communities  of  homes,  upon 
rapidly  growing  cities,  upon  sections  which 
are  realizing  their  vast  possibilities  for  the 
future.  It  is  a  promising  work  because  it  is 
not  merely  among  those  who  are  moving 
to  and  fro  and  living  upon  a  daily  or  yearly 
wage,  but  because  it  deals  with  those 
who    are    planning    to    secure  a    home  to 


develop  their  property  and  to  become  per- 
manent citizens  of  their  adopted  common- 
wealth. 

Our  work  in  the  great  West  is  in  every 
sense  of  the  word  a  great  investment  for 
Congregationalism.  The  best  organized 
Congregational  church  to-day  is  outside  of 
New  England,  the  one  which  gives  mo^t 
largely  in  proportion  to  its  resources,  and 
the  one  which  exerts  the  most  far-reaching 
influence  upon  the  denominational  body. 
The  great  responsibilities  of  Congregation- 
alism to-day  are  being  shared  by  the  churches 
scattered  from  the  Atlantic  to  the  Pacific. 
In  the  list  of  the  ten  strongest  churches  of 
our  order  would  be  included  those  located 
in  eight  different  states. 

It  may  be  a  matter  of  question  whether 
the  Central  West  has  already  become  the 
stronghold  of  Congregationalism,  but  there 
is  no  question  that  it  is  rapidly  becoming  so. 
The  resourcefulness,  the  responsiveness,  the 
statesmanlike  tendencies  of  our  churches  in 
this  pioneering  realm  we  can  rely  upon  half 
a  century  hence,  if  we  believe,  as  I  am  sure 
we  do,  in  the  mission  which  Congregation- 
alism has  still  in  our  beloved  country.  If 
the  ideals  and  practices  which  it  represents 
are  those  which  can  ill  be  spared  in  these 
developing  portions  of  our  land,  it  becomes 
our  privilege  and  duty  to  respond  once  more 
as  our  fathers  responded  in  the  past,  and  as 
we  ourselves  replied  a  generation  ago  to  the 
call  of  God  in  this  newest  West.  Let  us 
determine  that  so  far  as  in  us  lies  we  will 
share  in  the  heroic  enterprise  still  to  be  ex- 
ecuted there,  that  we  will  join  with  others  in 
the  laying  of  foundations  broad  and  deep  of. 
a  civilization  which  will  not  alone  be  splen- 
didly material,  but  which  will  be  definitely 
Christian.  Thus  shall  we  guarantee  to  our 
beloved  country  that  continuing definiteness 
of  religious  growth  which  has  been  its  glory 
and  its  safeguard  in  the  past,  and  which  will 
enable  it  in  the  century  to  come  to  continue 
its  encouraging  influence  on  behalf  of  all 
that  makes  for  freedom  and  for  righteous- 
ness in  the  world. 


AMERICA     A      CHRISTIAN      NATION 


By   Prof.  Edward  A.   Steiner,   Iowa  College 


THIS  IS  a  bold  challenge,  rather 
than  a  proud  boast,  an  ardent 
hope,  rather  than  an  achievement. 
Even  though  an  honored  chief  justice  of 
the  United  States  declares  that  legally 
we  are  a  Christian  nation,  even  though 
vociferous  orators  with  one  foot  on  Cal- 
vary and  the  other  on  Plymouth  Rock, 
lead  us  from  Capernaum  to  Concord 
field  and  from  Jerusalem  to  Washington, 
and  wrapping  the  cross  in  the  stars  and 
stripes  declare  the  two  to  be  one, — the 
challenge  still  stands. 

I  am  no  more  in  the  mood  than  are 
you,  for  legal  and  historic  facts,  and 
much  less  in  the  mood  for  the  elaborate 
horrors  of  fervid  oratory.  I  am  here  as 
you  are  here,  drawn  by  this  challenge,  a 
challenge  flung  at  us  by  the  mobs  of 
Northern  and  Southern  cities,  committing 
wanton  murder  and  burning  the  huts  of 
innocent  people,  under  the  shadow  of' 
the  Christian  churches.  We  are  chal- 
lenged by  the  speech  of  cool-headed 
business  men  who  openly  assert  that 
every  "  nigger  "  ought  to  be  hanged,  and 
boast  that  they  would  be  ready  to  play 
hangman.  We  are  challenged  by  the  ac- 
tion of  the  hotel  keepers  in  the  capital  of 
my  state  and  in  other  cities,  who  refuse 
shelter  to  honored  servants  of  the  church 
because  they  are  of  another  color  This 
challenge  comes  to  us  daily,  with  dis- 
heartening emphasis,  and  as  a  nation  we 
are  rearing  again  the  "  Middle  wall  of 
partition "  broken  down  by  the  Christ, 
we  are  narrowing  the  boundaries  of  fel- 
lowship, and  we  are  not  realizing  the 
great  dream  of  the  brotherhood  of  man. 

We  are  challenged  by  the  hate  which 
divides  classes  and  masses  and  by  the 
gathering  gloom  of  discontent  which 
ripens  into  strikes  attended  by  all  the  hor- 
rors of  war;  we  are  challenged  by  gall- 
ing poverty,  dire,  distressing  and  unre- 
lieved; challenged  by  clogged  wealth,  by 
flaunting  and  ill-gotten  gains  which  are 
daily  increasing  in  menacing  power.  And 
this    is    no    empty    phrasing. 

There  is  not  a  man  among  us  to  whom 
the  very  words  of  his  sacred  message 
have  not  been  flung  back  in  derision, 
and  whose  arrows  as  he  shot  them  have 
not  turned  back  at  him  wounding  him  to 
bleeding  and  to  tears.  You  men  have 
met  this  challenge  on  the  frontiers,  you 
have  met  it  on  the  crowded  city's  streets, 
and  you  have  heard  it  in  the  roar  of  the 
two    great    seas. 

Abashed,  you  have  turned  away  from 
legislative  halls,  where  corruption  gov- 
erned, and  lust  of  wealth  controlled; 
confused  and  ill  at  ease,  you  have  passed 


through  colleges  and  universities  founded 
by  the  fathers  and  with  the  fathers' 
ideals — for  you  found  that  they  have 
drifted  from  their  moorings  of  faith  and 
often  as  undemocratic  as  unChristian, — 
and  we  are  here  to-day  face  to  face  with 
one  of  the  great  agencies  of  the  church, 
yet  knowing  not  if  it  has  been  used  as  it 
ought  to  have  been  used  to  enthrone  the 
Christ  over  the.  conscience  of  the  nation. 
It  is  no  child's  play,  this;  no  easy  task, 
meeting  the  challenge;  no  easy  task,  to 
wean  a  nation  from  the  golden  calf  to 
turn  its  face  to  smoke-ridged  Sanai,  to 
snatch  away  these  "  Blind  makers  of  the 
noise  "  and  compel  them  to  listen  to  the 
gentle  voices  of  seers  and  sages,  to  cool 
the  burning  lava  stream  of  hate  that  it 
may  become  the  river  which  "  Makes 
glad  the  city  of  God,"  to  arrest  the  hur- 
rying feet  of  men  from  their  wild  pur- 
suit of  golden  dust  and  teach  them  to 
"  Walk  softly "  over  this  earth,  making 
them  to  seek  the  enduring  wealth  of  the 
vast  to-morrow.  To  meet  each  day  an 
inflowing  tide  of  strangers,  alien  in 
speech,  in  race,  in  faith,  and  convert  them 
into  citizens  and  heirs  of  the  kingdom. 
The  task  is  an  heroic  one,  passing  the 
strength  of  man,  the  challenge  is  a  daring 
one  and  we  are  here  to  meet  it  and  to 
win  back  the  lost  heroic  spirit  without 
which  we  cannot  meet  it. 

The  heroic  spirit  must  be  won  back, 
for  without  it  we  can  not  pre?ch  the 
story  of  the  cross  to  men  who  daily  offer 
up  their  lives  at  the  mouth  of  the  mine, 
before  the  grates  of  fiery  pits,  and  on 
the  backs  of  fast  flying,  jarring  engines. 
We  have  no  ground  of  appeal  to  the 
young  men  of  our  country  to  give  them- 
selves to  this  service,  and  the  ever  les- 
sening few  who  respond,  come  as  list- 
lessly as  we  call.  They  go  to  that  sem- 
inary which  promises  the  most  coddling, 
and  the  three  years  of  preparation  for 
the  greatest  task  ever  undertaken  by  man, 
a  task  demanding  the  noblest  devotion 
and  the  most  heroic  self-sacrifice,  are  re- 
garded by  many  men  as  a  physical,  in- 
tellectual and  moral  vacation;  and  at  the 
end  of  such  years  is  it  a  wonder  that 
these  same  men  hold  themselves  ready 
to  go  to — the  highest  bidder? 

I  have  been  told  by  a  professor  in  one 
of  our  theological  seminaries,  that  he 
could  not  get  a  m£.n  to  go  to  a  neglected 
church  to  preach  one  sermon,  without 
the  assurance  of  a  sufficient  compensa- 
tion. I  should  like  to  fire  all  theologues, 
and  I  am  not  sure  that  I  should  not  fire 
the  professors  who  permitted  them  to 
grow  into  a  brood  of  nested  limpids. 


96 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


PROF.     E.     A.     STEINER 

We  cannot  win  America  for  Christ, 
with  cadets  who  are  soft  to  the  touch, 
who  dare  not  face  the  brunt  of  battle, 
who  pick  the  safest  way  to  the  front,  and 
who  turn  their  backs  to  the  foe.  Our 
colleges  are  full  of  young  men  who  are 
waiting  for  the  heroic  call,  but  they  want 
heroic  men  to  lead  them.  Young  men 
are  waiting  to  be  led  in  solving  the  great 
social  problems,  waiting  to  be  led  by 
great  men  who  themselves  have  sacri- 
ficed to  be  disciples  of  Jesus;  men  who 
have  withstood  the  allurements  of 
wealth,  who  have  had  the  courage  to  re- 
main poor,  who  have  had  faith  enough 
to  believe  that  the  ravens  always  feed 
the  prophets, — and  ravens  have  no  swal- 
low tails. 

Young  men  are  waiting  for  some  of 
us  to  help  solve  the  race  problem,  by 
facing  the  mob,  and  sheltering  one  of 
God's  children  by  our  own  bodies, — if 
necessary, — ready  for  the  sacrifice.  They 
are  waiting  for  us  to  be  consumed  by  the 
divine  passion  for  the  souls  of  men. 
And  shall  they  wait  in  vain?  If  we  are 
to  help  in  making  America  a  Christian 
nation,  we  need  efficient  training  and  ef- 
ficient   organization. 

I  am  loath  to  bring  here  a  charge  which 
I  believe  needs  to  be  made  and  needs  to 
be  made  by  some  one.  We  all  whisper 
it  in  the  closet,  but  it  needs  to  be  pro- 
claimed from  the  house-tops.  What  I 
say  has  been  substantially  said  to  me  by 
the  presidents  of  two  theological  semi- 
naries, by  a  number  of  professors,  and 
by  nearly  every  minister  with  whom  I 
have  spoken  upon  this  subject.  Some 
one  ought  to  say  it,  and  it  is  this:  Our 
men  as  a  rule  are  not  trained  for  the 
task  which  awaits  them.  I  do  not  know 
where  the  fault  is;  I  do  not  know  whose 
the   fault  is;   but   I  believe  that  it   would 


advance  the  cause  of  the  kingdom  of 
God,  if  the  entire  curriculum  of  some 
of  our  theological  seminaries  were 
thrown  overboard  and  a  fresh  start 
made.  The  curriculum  as  it  is,  is  _  ad- 
mirably adapted  to  certain  conditions 
which  belong  more  to  the  past  than  to 
the  present;  but  for  the  hand-to-hand 
grapple  with  sin,  for  the  fierce  fight,  and 
for  the  winning  of  men's  allegiance  to  the 
law  of  Jesus,  it  is  ill  adapted.  At  least 
my  experience  is,  that  a  large  number 
of  men  who  go  out  to  preach  are  ineffi- 
cient, and  it  is  the  business  of  the  theo- 
logical seminaries  to  find  out  the  reason. 

I  am  not  at  all  in  favor  of  moving  any 
of  our  seminaries  nearer  to  any  univer- 
sity; the  further  from  the  purely  scho- 
lastic atmosphere  and  the  nearer  to  the 
problem,  the  better.  I  am  not  at  all  in 
favor  of  sending  our  best  men  to  Berlin 
and  Leipsic  to  become  more  entangled 
in  the  meshes  of  criticism.  I  am  in 
favor  of  sending  them  among  Poles, 
Italians  and  Slovaks,  to  learn  their 
speech,  to  discover  their  genius,  their 
weakness  and  their  strength,  and  to  dis- 
close these  things  to  the  churches.  The 
settlements  do  it;  we  don't.  The  foreign 
problem  in  America  will  not  be  solved  by 
the  foreigner  but  by  the  American,  and 
by  that  American  who  knows  the  for- 
eigner and  who  has  discovered  the  point 
of  contact. 

I  shall  heartily  support  any  new 
movement  which  tends  to  make  our  or- 
ganization more  effective,  even  if  it  does 
demolish  some  cherished  idols.  We  can- 
not afford  to  rest  ourselves  back  upon 
our  past.  History  is  good  for  inspira- 
tion; achievement  must  be  our  inspira- 
tion. It  is  not  a  question  of  what  has 
been,  but  of  what  is  to  be. 

If  we  are  to  win  America  to  Jesus 
Christ,  to  the  Christ  of  the  Gospel,  to 
the  law  of  the  Gospel;  if  America  is  to 
be  a  Christian  nation  in  very  truth, — we 
dare   not   go   on   as  we   have  gone   on. 

We  are  face  to  face  with  forces  strong- 
ly organized,  menacing,  encroaching  and 
demanding;  yet  we  are  losing  the  power 
to  make  true  the  dreams  of  the  past,  or 
to   realize  the   ideals   of  the   Fathers. 

Like  a  Heaven-born  gift  the  spirit 
came  upon  us  at  Des  Moines;  men  trav- 
eled from  coast  to  coast  that  they  might 
meet  and  plan.  They  groaned  in  travail 
like  the  proverbial  mountain,  and  like  it 
brought  forth  a  mouse,  and  that  a  costly 
one.  Thus,  again  and  again  our  ineffi- 
ciency in  carrying  out  plans  has  robbed 
us   of  the   fruits   of  our   ideals. 

The  frontiers  are  almost  lost  to  us  be- 
cause of  our  inefficiency,  and  the  heart 
of  the  great  cities  is  closed  to  us  for  the 
same  reason.  In  the  very  home  of  our 
denominational  interests,  our  power  and 
influence    are    far    below    that    which    we 


AMERICA  A  CHRISTIAN  NATION 


97 


who  worship  from  afar,  imagine.  This 
may  not  argue  the  fact  that  America  is 
less  Christian,  but  it  does  prove  that  we 
have  a  smaller  place  in  making  it  the 
Lord's  than  we  might  have  and  than  we 
ought  to  have  by  virtue  of  that  history 
which  inseparably  links  us  to  the  national 
weal  or  woe.  We  cannot  afford  to  lose 
our  place  in  the  forefront  of  the  battle, 
and  if  we  lose  it  it  will  be  not  only  be- 
cause of  our  inefficiency  but  because  of 
our  unfaith.  Above  all,  we  need  an  un- 
swerving faith  to  believe  that  the  Gospel 
of  Jesus  Christ  is  able  to  save  to  the 
uttermost;  that  out  of  all  the  struggle 
and  the  strife  the  one  King  who  will  be 
victorious  is  Jesus;  that  the  one  throne 
which  will  stand  forever  is  the  throne  of 
the  Christ,  and  that  the  Gospel  is  the 
"  One  power  unto  salvation."  We  need 
a  sublime,  unswerving  faith  in  the  di- 
vine remedy,  that  it  is  the  only  remedy 
that  will  "  Subdue  the  nations  under 
him." 

Slowly  but  surely,  all  those  who  boldly 
went  forth  to  cure  the  ills  of  man  in- 
other  ways,  are  coming  back  to  the 
cross,  seeing  in  it,  and  in  it  alone,  the 
"  Healing  for  the  hurt  of  my  people." 
Slowly  but  surely  men  are  regaining  the 
faith  lost,  faith  that  the  church  is  still 
destined  to  be  the  instrument  in  God's 
hand  to  make  all  men  see  "  What  is  the 
height  and  depth,  and  length  and  breadth 
of  the  love  of  God." 

We  who  are  in  the  church  need  this 
faith  supremely,  for  our  arms  are  almost 
palsied  from  lack  of  faith,  and  our 
tongues  are  caught  in  the  paralysis  of 
doubt. 

This  great  new  world,  with  its  inheri- 
tance and  its  vast  opportunities,  this  fo- 
cussing point  of  the  world's  interests,  this 
gathering  place  of  the  Lord's  hosts,  this 
meeting  place  of  all  the  kindred  from  all 
the  nations  of  the  earth,  must  be  saved 
for  the  sake  of  those  who  long  for  the 
better  days  of  the  kingdom;  for  the  sake 
of  those  who  believe  that  here,  the  Lord 
is  working  out  the  supreme  problem  for 
the  sake  of  those  who  are  coming — who 
have  put  their  trust  in  us,  and  who  need 
our  help  and  our  inspiration;  for  the  sake 
of  those  who  come  here  hungry  for  our 
ideals,  finding  here  the  same  old  idols. 

I  plead  with  you  because  I  believe 
that  we  have  something  still  to  bequeath 
to  this  nation.  It  is  not  done  with  us, 
we  are  not  done  with  it.  Our  fathers 
helped  to  found  it;  we  shall  help  to  save 
it.  _  Our  fathers  were  at  the  corner-stone 
laying;   we   and   our  children    shall   be   at 


the  dedication.  We  are  not  disintegrat- 
ing; we  must  not  disintegrate.  We  must 
not  prove  a  failure.  We  cannot  prove  a 
failure  if  we  are  true  to  the  past,  faith- 
ful to  the  present  and  alert  for  the  fu- 
ture. 

I  speak  as  I'  have  spoken  because  I 
have  faith  to  believe  that  we  shall  not 
turn  corners  before  this  challenge.  I 
have  faith  in  this  Congregational  church, 
faith  in  its  ideals  and  I  have  faith  in  its 
men.  I  have  faith  in  you  that  you  will 
wipe  out  the  debt  of  this  society,  and 
with  it  our  mistakes,  that  you  will  start 
anew  heroically,  methodically  and  full  of 
faith. 

Brethren,  this  country  is  worth  sav- 
ing for  the  Kingdom,  and  the  Kingdom 
is  not  very  far  away  from  it.  For  un- 
derneath our  wrongs  on  land  and  sea, 
underneath  or  hunger  for  silver  and  gold, 
underneath  our  vain  and  heathen  boasts, 
there  is  a  keen  conscience  awake  to  its 
wrongs,  alive  to  its  perils.  For 
though  America  worships  the  golden 
calf,  it  knows  it  is  but  a  calf,  and  it  can 
be  made  to  listen  to  the  thunderous 
voice  from  Sinai  when  there  is  a  Moses 
who  comes   down  its  steep  descent. 

Though  America  is  boastful,  and 
proud  of  her  pre-eminence,  she  is  also  in 
the  throes  of  discontent,  and  she  knows 
of  the  day  of  her  humiliation.  Though 
America  is  not  a  Christian  nation,  yet 
she  knows  she  ought  to  be,  and,  by  the 
grace  of  God,  she  must  be.  For  the  na- 
tions of  the  earth  are  awaiting  her  dic- 
tates of  peace  and  tremble  when  she 
draws  the  hilt  of  her  sword,  and  we  must 
speed  the  day  when  she  will  say  to  the 
nations  of  the  world,  armed  to  the  teeth: 

"Ground  Arms!  Furl  the  battle  flag, 
stop  the  mouth  of  gun  and  cannon,  and 
let  babes  and  sucklings  speak  to  still  the 
enemy  and  the  avenger."  I  believe  that 
a  time  is  coming  when  a  Secretary  of 
War  shall  come  to  Chicago, — not  to 
plead  for  soldiers  to  put  down  possible 
insurrections  at  home, — for  we  shall 
govern  justly  and  deal  out  equity;  if  he 
pleads  for  soldiers,  it  will  be  as  we  plead 
to-day,  for  heroes  who  will  wear  the 
panoply  of  faith  and  who  will  wield  the 
sword  of  the  spirit.  The  time  is  com- 
ing in  America,  if  we  are  faithful  and 
believing,  when  a  Secretary  of  the  Navy 
will  come  to  plead  for  more  battleships; — 
not  to  guard  our  coasts  and  our  trade, 
but  to  go  out  to  conquer  the  world  for 
this  same  King  Jesus,  and  the  proudest 
ship  which  shall  lead  the  fleet  will  be 
called — "  The  Morning  Star."  And  may 
the  Lord  speed  that  day! 


ADDRESS  OF  J.  D.  KINGSBURY,  D.D. 


SEVENTY  miles  up  the  beautiful 
canon  of  the  Weiser  River,  in 
Idaho,  is  planted  the  little  terminal 
city  of  Council.  There  is  always  an  em- 
phasis to  be  placed  on  a  terminal  city. 
There  the  railroad  stays  for  a  time,  look- 
ing and  thinking  whether  it  will  go  up 
Horner  Creek  into  the  Seven  Devils  re- 
gion, or  whether  it  will  still  follow  up 
the  Weiser  River  nearer  to  its  source 
and  strike  down  to  the  Little  Salmon  to 
make  its  connection  with  the  transconti- 
nental lines  in  the  upper  regions.  That 
is  a  terminal  city.  It  is  the  supply  point 
for  all  the  region  round  about.  Here 
come  the  saloons;  here  come  the  gate- 
ways of  hell;  and  a  motley  people  hav- 
ing all  sorts  of  business  enterprises;  and 
it  is  a  strategic  point  where  we  must 
plant  the  gospel.  And  so  we  planted  a 
Hero  of  the  Cross  there.  I  do  not  know 
how  I  can  better  introduce  him  than  by 
a  little  characteristic  incident.  He  dared 
say  something  about  the  saloon,  and  the 
good  women  came  into  the  parsonage 
on  the  next  morning  and  said:  "  Pastor, 
you  must  not  go  to  the  little  spring  to 
get  water,  to-morrow,  for  the  saloon 
man  is  to  be  there  with  his  friends  to  do 
you  harm."  "  Thanks,"  said  the  Hero, 
and  on  the  morrow  he  took  his  two  pails 
and  started  for  the  spring  whistling  so 
loud  that  he  made  the  welkin  ring  and 
that  everybody  might  know  he  was  after 
water.  Sure  enough,  there  was  the  sa- 
loon man  and  his  friends,  and  before  the 
saloon  man  had  a  chance  for  the  onset, 
his  hand  was  stretched  out  to  Smith  with 
"A  royal  good  morning  to  you!  This  is 
a  morning  that  makes  a  man  feel  as  if 
he  wanted  to  do  good!  Give  me  your 
hand.  Smith!  By  the  way,  Smith,  do  you 
know  the  boys  up  at  the  school-house 
are  disturbing  me  while  I  preach?  You 
have  the  most  influence  of  any  man  in 
the  town  and  you  must  keep  the  boys 
quiet  while  I  preach!"  "Foster,  I  will 
do  anything  you  want,"  so  Smith  kept 
guard  while  the  gospel  was  preached  by 
our  young  hero. 

There  is  always  an  angel  presence 
there — I  speak  reverently — there  is  al- 
ways an  angel  presence  in  a  missionary 
home.  It  was  peculiarly  so  in  the  little 
terminal  city.  The  hectic  flush  was  al- 
ready on  her  cheek  when  I  first  saw  her, 
but  she  was  out  among  the  people;  she 
was  at  the  bedside  of  the  sick.  She  won 
the  hearts  of  all  the  people.  "  Where 
have  you  been?"  I  said  to  her  one  day. 
I  had  been  waiting  for  her,  and  the  lit- 
tle children  said  she  took  some  goodies 
from  the  pantry  and  went  away  saving 
she    would    not    be    gone    long.     "  Where 


have  you  been?  You  should  have  been 
taking  care  of  yourself,"  I  said.  "  I  have 
been  taking  care  of  my  sick  neighbor. 
There  was  nobody  to  take  care  of  me." 
By  and  by,  near  the  Christmas  time,  life 
was  at  its  lowest  ebb,  and  while  the 
Christmas  bells  were  ringing,  the  sweet 
spirit  passed  upward  to  the  eternal  Easter 
morning.  Oh!  what  an  emphasis  on 
Christian  work  it  was  that  day  when  we 
laid  her  down  to  rest!  The  stores  were 
all  closed;  the  freighters  lingered  before 
they  hitched  their  long  teams  to  the 
wagons  to  go  back  into  the  copper  re- 
gion; even  the  saloons  closed,  and  it 
seemed  as  if  the  whole  city  were  in  tears, 
and  the  emphasis  which  was  laid  upon 
that  woman's  work  bv  her  life,  by  her 
death,  meant  more  than  all  the  work  she 
had  done  in  the  days  of  her  strength.  Oh! 
woman!  she  is  the  angel  presence  in  the 
missionary   home! 

By  and  by  it  was  said  to  me,  "  Do  you 
know,  thirty-six  miles  away,  over  the 
range,  there  is  a  valley  thirty  miles  long 
and  no  gospel;  there  is  a  beautiful  little 
village — we  call  it  '  Meadows.'  Yes,  but 
they  have  not  signified  very  much  anxiety 
about  having  the  gospel."  I  want  you 
to  know  there  are  two  kinds  of  people, — 
those  who  bear,  and  those  who  for-bear. 
These  were  those  who  for-bear.  They 
were  horse  racing;  they  were  gambling; 
they  had  everything  that  was  evil;  they 
actually  absolutely  did  not  want  the  gos- 
pel! I  said  to  Foster,  "  I  know  you  have 
Engine  Valley  fifteen  miles  down  south; 
you  have  Middle  Forks  seven  miles 
south;  and  you  have  Mickey  eleven  miles 
farther;  and  the  White  School  House 
four  miles  away;  you  are  serving  all 
those  people,  but  what  shall  we  do  with 
Meadows?  They  have  no  gospel  there!  " 
And  I  knew  what  the  dear  boy  would 
say.  "  Give  me  money  enough  to  buy 
another  horse  and  I  will  go  there  to-mor- 
row! "  And  so  he  went.  He  had  a  cold 
reception;  they  did  not  want  the  gospel; 
they  were  joined  to  their  idols.  But  I 
want  you  to  know  that  the  missionary  of 
the  Cross  bears  the  message  of  that 
eternal  Father  who  sits  on  the  great  white 
throne,  that  Father  whose  heart  has  a 
throb  of  interest  and  feeling  and  fellow- 
ship with  every  child  of  earth;  and  he 
who  goes  in  the  spirit  of  Him  who  came 
from  heaven  to  bring  the  Father's  mes- 
sage, he  will  so  bear  that  message  that 
God's  children  will  certainly  listen  to 
the  voice  of  the  Father  above.  So,  by 
and  by,  it  happened  that  the  people  be- 
gan to  come  and  listen  and  say  "  Oh, 
this  reminds  me  of  earlier  days,"  and 
they  were  tender,  and,  by  and  by,  they 
were  on  their  knees  and  praying,  and 
the     interest     increased     and     the     Holy 


J.   D.   KINGSBURY'S  ADDRESS 


99 


Spirit  was  in  all  the  assemblies,  and  they 
were  testifying,  and  so  the  work  went  on 
until  it  was  said  to  me:  "Why,  the  peo- 
ple in  Meadows  want  a  church;  there  are 
some  who  are  converted  there  and  they 
want  the  gospel  and  a  minister  to  live 
with  them."  And  my  hero  had  gone 
away  and  another  hero  was  in  his  place, 
and  I  said:  "Will  you  go  up  to  Mead- 
ows? Go  up  before  me  while  I  look  for 
the  minister,  and  see  how  many  people 
there  are  who  want  to  unite  with  the 
church,"  and  so  he  went,  while  I  dropped 
over  into  Colorado,  only  about  eight 
hundred  miles  from  where  I  was,  and 
there  I  found  my  minister,  and  back  over 
the  country  I  came.  Did  you  ever  take 
a  sleigh  ride  over  the  snow  six  feet  deep, 
where  the  horses  meet  and  have  to  drop 
out?  Oh!  one  horse  down,  and  another 
up,  and  down,  and  both  down,  and  the 
driver  looking  on  with  serenity,  and  I 
was  ready  to  jump  out  twenty  times,  but 
the  driver  said,  "  Sit  still,"  and  so,  sure 
enough,  in  a  little  while  the  old  sleigh 
tipping  and  turning,  was  up  and  off  , 
again,  with  the  bells  jingling  and  away 
we  went!  It  made  me  think  of  that  re- 
port of  Finnegan's,  you  know.  They  told 
him  he  used  too  many  words  in  making 
his  report,  so  he  reported,  "  Over  about 
and  up  again.  Finnegan."  It  was  just 
like  my  ride.  Oh,  rare  and  beautiful  was 
that  ride  over  six  feet  of  snow,  there  in 
the  little  valley  five  miles  wide  and  thirty 
miles  long  to  the  village  where  they 
were  waiting  for  the  organization  of  the 
church.  They  could  hardly  wait  for 
Sabbath  day  to  come.  And  on  that  day 
the  large  hall  of  the  town  was  filled  with 
people,  and  we  were  to  organize  in  the 
evening,  and  long  before  the  hour  of 
service  came,  they  came  to  ask  if  I 
wasn't  coming  to  service.  They  had 
double-seated  the  hall;  every  seat  was 
filled  and  people  sitting  on  the  floor;  the 
place  was  filled  to  overflowing.  And  I 
preached  to  them  the  gospel.  Oh!  that 
stillness!  Oh,  that  evidence  of  the  spirit 
of  our  God!  Something  different  from 
anything  ever  felt  in  other  assemblies, 
and,  by  and  by,  when  the  preaching  ser- 
vice was  over,  I  said:  "Those  who  are 
to  enter  into  a  covenant  with  each  other 
and  with  their  God,  come  forward,"  and 
they  came  forward  and  formed  a  large 
semi-circle,  and  there  entered  into  a 
covenant  with  the  Lord.  We  couldn't 
re-seat  these  people — couldn't  tell  where 
they  came  from;  their  seats  had  been 
taken,  and  I  said:  "We  will  celebrate  the 
Lord's  Supper  standing  and  our  first 
passover  with  staff  in  hand,  and  any 
others  who  will,  come  up  and  celebrate 
with  us."  Oh,  the  most  tender  sacra- 
ment of  my  life!  And  after  the  sacra- 
ment was  over  and  the  right  hand  of  fel- 
lowship given,  we  sang::  "  Blessed  be  the 


tie  that  binds,"  and  I  never  heard  it  sung 
in  churches  or  chapels, — never  heard  it 
sung  as  tenderly  as  by  that  great  throng 
of  people. 

When  I  was  a  little  boy  they  showed 
me  a  picture  of  a  banyan  tree  and  told 
me  it  would  reach  out  its  limbs  and  drop 
down  and  take  root  again.  The  church 
of  Council  was  just  like  that;  it  just 
reached  out  and  dropped  into  the  earth 
and  rooted  again.  So  with  the  Church 
of  our  God;  believe  it!  It  is  to  become 
a  growth  which  shall  cover  the  earth, 
and  the  church  that  does  not  reach  out 
and  have  the  missionary  spirit,  and  the 
missionary  purpose  and  the  missionary 
zeal,  has  forgotten  the  mission  of  heaven 
on  which  it  was  sent  into  a  sin-cursed 
world! 

Pretty  soon  I  was  at  the  headquarters 
at  Salt  Lake  City,  and  there  I  opened 
a  letter  from  my  boy.  Don't  you  know 
I  used  to  be  up  in  Nebraska  and  down 
in  the  northeast  corner  of  Nevada  (you 
omitted  that)  in  the  gold  camps.  And 
I  was  a  carpenter  and  a  minister  and  a 
lawyer.  They  harmonize  pretty  well.  I 
have  worked  at  the  law  and  the  carpenter 
work  during  the  week  and  preached  the 
gospel  on  Sunday.  I  have  had  no  help 
from  anybody.  But  I  wrote  my  boy:  "I 
thought  you  were  up  in  Nebraska  doing 
good  work.  I  shall  be  with  you  next 
Sabbath  day  and  you  shall  have  help!" 
The    Salt    Lake   people    once    in    a    good 


J.    D.    KINGSBURY,    D.D. 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


while  do  a  good  thing  as  well  as  once  in 
a  while  a  bad  thing,  and  they  put  in  my 
hands  some  money  and  said:  "  You  will 
pretty  soon  have  a  call  from  Nebraska; 
take  this  money  and  have  it  on  hand." 
And  so  it  was;  soon  I  was  riding  in  the 
stage  over  a  smooth  road  and  the  flow- 
ers were  blooming  on  the  way;  and  when 
I  got  to  the  camp  (you  must  excuse  a 
little  egotism — I  have  to  tell  it  once  in  a 
while),  there  I  saw  myself  announced  in 
a  public  place  (in  a  saloon  it  was)  as  "  A 
Big  Gun  from  Salt  Lake  City  Will 
Preach!  Everybody  Come!  All  the 
Boosters  Come!  "  I  have  been  in  all  the 
public  places, — that  means  the  saloons;  I 
am  never  afraid  to  go  where  I  behave 
myself.  I  go  where  God  sends  me.  I 
saw  all  the  machines  where  the  men 
gamble.  I  said  to  the  boys,  "  We  are  to 
have  worship  on  Sunday."  "  Yes,  we'll 
come!  Don't  you  worry  about  us!" 
And  so  on  the  Sabbath  day,  there  were 
as  many  people  as  the  school-house 
would  hold;  saloon  keepers  and  gamblers 
came;  and  old  Jack  Wheatland,  who  mar- 
ried in  this  fashion:  "And  God  Al- 
mighty pronounce  you  man  and  wife," — 
had  the  worst  saloon  in  the  camps, — and 
I  told  them  about  the  Father's  love,  and 
I  did  not  say  "You  wandering  boy!" 
I  said  "  We  are  all  wandering  and  we  all 
want  to  come  back  to  the  Father."  Oh, 
the  boy's  heart  melts  when  you  tell  him 
about  the  Father's  love!  Oh,  such  a 
tender  response  that  time!  And  they 
said:  "We'll  have  a  church;  we'll  build 
a  house  of  God;  and  we'll  do  the  most 
of  it  ourselves."  And  when  I  was  held 
up  in  the  wash-out  I  drew  up  a  plan  of 
a  church  which  I  would  like  to  see  up 
there,  and  it  was  to  cost  $3,000,  and  I 
sent  it  back,  and  they  sent  me  word  they 
were  going  to  build  after  my  plan.  They 
said:  "We  can  raise  pretty  near  $3,000." 
Oh,  the  boys!  They  come  from  high 
schools,  and  colleges  and  universities.  A 
boy's  heart  can  be  touched.  Tempted? 
Falling?  Why  not?  Far  away  from  the 
benediction  of  a  father's  love;  far  away 
from  a  mother's  tenderness  and  "  The 
Girl  I  Left  Behind  Me."  There  is  the 
saloon,  the  gambling  hell,  and  the  house 
of  shame,  and  all  the  agencies  of  sin  and 
Satan,  and  no  church!  Why  shouldn't 
the  boy  fall?  Don't  you  know  that  light- 
ning up  there  goes  zig-zag?  They  say 
the  air  meets  resistance  and  it  is  turned 
aside  and  becomes  zig-zag.  I  saw  a 
cloud  hanging  over  Salt  Lake  City  so 
heavily  charged  with  electric  power  that 
it  sent  a  bolt  straight  across  the  valley — 
one  red  hot  bolt!  The  young  man  never 
goes  straight   down   to  wickedness,   he  is 


restrained  by  the  home  and  the  love  and 
the  benediction  he  finds  there.  But  send 
him  out  into  the  camps  where  he  finds 
nothing  but  Satan  and  sin.  Tell  me! 
Tell  me  if  it  is  strange  the  poor  boy  is 
so  tempted  by  sin  that  he  plunges  soon 
straight  down  into  hell  and  nothing  can 
save  him  but  the  gospel  of  our  God. 

The  question  before  this  beloved  so- 
ciety is  "  Shall  the  boys  have  the  gospel 
of  our  Lord  which  shall  save  them  from 
sin  and  from  the  loss  of  all  things  and 
the   destruction   of  character? " 

One  thing  more.  You  hear  a  great 
deal  said  about  the  education  of  the  men. 
They  had  a  meeting  one  night  in  the 
camp.  Forty  men  from  college;  but  they 
had  forty  others  who  were  not  as  well 
educated.  The  university — that  is  the 
morning  dawn  where  he  learns  a  little 
science,  a  little  philosophy  and  a  little 
history, — but  these  years  in  the  desert 
where  he  has  been  studying  by  a  broader 
guage;  where  he  has  faced  death  with  the 
breath  of  the  desert;  he  knows  its  low 
moan;  to  suffer  in  the  canon  alone  be- 
cause duty  calls  him;  he  knows  that  lad- 
der,— love,  duty,  loyalty,  destiny, — and 
he  knows  what  it  is  to  have  his  compan- 
ion fall  at  his  side,  and  he  builds  a  little 
fence  about  him  and  moves  on  to  the 
call  of  duty.  He  is  the  man  who  grad- 
uates in  the  university  of  the  wilderness. 
He  is  the  man  with  the  large  outlook 
who  asks  the  missionary  not  for  some 
delicate  essay  full  of  its  negations,  but 
who  asks  in  sound  soberness,  "  Is  there 
an  eternal  Father  who  gives  to  His  chil- 
dren an  eternal  hope?  Is  there  an  ever- 
lasting arm  in  which  weary  man  may  lie 
down  and  rest?"  And  our  missionary 
is  the  man  who  preaches  of  Him  who 
was  manifest  in  the  flesh,  justified  in  the 
spirit;  who  preached  unto  the  Gentiles, 
believed  in  the  world,  was  received  up 
into  glory,  and  is  coming  again  by  and 
by  when  the  elements  will  melt  with  fer- 
vent heat,  to  bring  to  Himself  all  those 
who  accept  the  offer  of  salvation.  So 
our  missionary  is  the  man  who  preaches 
the  gospel  of  love,  the  gospel  of  hope, 
the  gospel  of  eternal  life,  unto  those  men 
who  feel  the  need  of  it  in. their  very  souls. 
Over  the  trail  he  goes;  up  the  canon  he 
goes;  the  happiest  man  in  the  universe! 
The  missionary  of  God,  conscious  at 
every  step  of  the  presence  of  his  Lord 
the  Christ,  and  singing  as  he  goes, 
"  I  will  go  where  Thou  wilt  have  me  go, 
dear  Lord, 

Over  mountain,  or  plain,  or  sea, 

I'll    say   what   Thou   wilt   have   me   say, 
dear  Lord, 

I'll  be  what  Thou  wilt  have  me  be." 


ORGANIZING    OUR    CONGREGATIONAL    FORCES    FOR 

ADVANCE 


By    Don    O.    Shelton 


New    York    City 


ANY  plan  of  campaign  for  the  advance- 
ment of  Congregational  home  mis- 
sions, to  be  at  all  adequate  in  the  present 
emergency,  must  include  as  one  of  its  funda- 
mental purposes  the  systematic  enlistment 
and  training  of  all  our  forces.  These  forces, 
to  be  promptly  organized  and  utilized,  are 
the  children  and  young  people,  the  women 
and  men  of  the  churches. 

Enlist  All  the  Forces 

It  seems  reasonable  to  hope  that  as  aridity 
has  compelled  widespread  association  of 
effort  in  several  great  western  states,  so  the 
need  of  a  home  mission  awakening  and 
quickening  will  insure  immediate  and 
hearty  and  general  co-operation  on  the  part 
of  all  the  people  in  our  churches.  Wesley's 
well-known  motto,  slightly  modified,  "All 
at  it  and  always  at  it,"  methodically,  may 
wisely  be  our  battle-cry  this  new  year. 

In  the  interest  of  this  crusade  we  must 
aim  to  set  at  work  our  whole  army  of 
church  members.  The  ultimate  success  of 
our  home  mission  movement  in  this  age 
depends  on  our  ability  to  lead  members  of 
the  churches  to  give  personal  thought  and 
time  and  energy  to  the  furtherance  of  this 
great  cause. 

But  are  the  classes  just  named  really 
forces  ?  Yes,  but  to  a  large  extent  un- 
harnessed and  unused.  The  organizing 
touch  is  required  to  lead  them  into  effective 
expression.  For  this  essential  task  we  may 
find  an  incentive  in  the  fact  that  the  age  in 
which  we  live  is  distinguished  chiefly  as  one 
in  which  tremendous  forces  were  compre- 
hended and  directed  to  do  the  work  which 
they  were  always  inherently  capable  of  do- 
ing. In  our  denomination  is  a  force  whose 
full  co-operating  strength  is  largely  unde- 
veloped and  unutilized. 

Always,  one  of  the  essential  needs  is  a 
creative,  organizing  administration.  This 
vast,   inherently  strong  force  is  capable  of 


doing  all  that  needs  to  be  done.  It  is  our 
privilege  to  unlock  it  and  afford  it  adequate 
means  of  expression. 

The  Adequacy  of   a  Simple  Plan 

What  is  the  organization  required  for  ad- 
vance ?  Such  only  as  will  facilitate  the 
effective  doing  of  the  work  in  hand.  To 
organize  effectively  is  to  use  means  that 
will  guarantee  ends.  Thorough  organiza- 
tion implies  neither  the  excess  nor  defect  of 
machinery.  It  excludes  all  that  blocks 
progress.  It  includes  only  that  required  for 
the  largest  productiveness. 

Any  organized  plan,  to  be  highly  effect- 
ive, must  be  in  harmony  with  the  most 
modern  methods.  Precedent  should  not 
direct  in  our  present  movements,  unless  the 
following  of  the  precedent  promises  to  in- 


DON    O.      SHELTON 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


sure  the  highest  present  good.  Ancient 
gcod  is  frequently  present  unwisdom  and 
destructiveness.  When  a  method  becomes 
rutty  it  is  presumably  ineffective.  Calhoun, 
replying  to  a  speech  made  by  Mr.  Clay  in 
the  Senate,  in  which  precedent  had  been 
quoted  by  Mr.  Clay,  said:  "To  legislate 
upon  precedent  is  to  make  the  error  of 
yesterday  the  law  of  to-day."  Life  insures 
growth.  Where  there  is  life  there  will  be 
change.  As  much  good  sense  may  be 
shown  in  modernizing  methods  for  further- 
ing missionary  intelligence  and  obtaining 
missionary  funds,  as  in  the  modernizing  of 
business  methods.  No  aspiring  and  suc- 
cessful business  man  to-day  is  working  on 
precisely  the  plan  and  method  which  he 
used  five  or  even  two  years  ago.  Hence 
the  methods  of  a  home  missionary  society 
must  be  such  as  will  secure  the  end  aimed 
at.  However  glorified  by  precedent,  the 
method  that  fails  to  get  the  desired  result 
to-day  is  worthless  and  can  not  be  too 
quickly  dropped.  I  am  referring  now 
chiefly  to  methods  for  the  arousing  and 
holding  and  augmenting  of  home  missionary 
interest. 
A  Committee  of  Three  in  Every  Church 

For  the  prompt  organization  of  our  forces 
there  are  reasons  numerous  and  urgent: 

i.  A  wider  and  closer  contact  with  its 
constituency  is  an  imperative  need  of  the 
Society.  How  is  this  to  be  secured  and 
maintained  ?  By  bringing  individual  mem- 
bers of  local  churches  into  a  close  and  re- 
sponsible relationship  with  the  Society. 
"Living  movements,"  as  Cardinal  Newman 
said,  "do  not  come  of  committees."  Never- 
theless, great  causes  are  strengthened  and 
furthered  by  delegated  co-operative  effort. 
As  one  important  step  towards  a  closer 
affiliation  between  the  Society  and  the 
churches  there  ought  to  be  secured  the 
appointment  of  three  representative  co-op- 
erating members  in  each  local  church,  one 
to  represent  the  adult  membership,  one  to 
represent  the  young  people's  society  and 
one  to  represent  the  Sunday  school.  These 
three  persons  would  be  channels  of  com- 
munication between  the  Society  and  the 
local  church.  They  would  facilitate  the  dis- 
tribution of  literature,  promote  the  system- 
atic study  of  home  missions,  and  co-operate 
with  their  pastors  in  securing  intelligent  and 
regular  giving. 


I  covet  the  enlistment  and  active  co-oper- 
ation of  the  strong  youDg  business-men  of 
the  churches. 

It  is  of  fundamental  importance  that  the 
entire  constituency  of  the  Society  be  kept 
acquainted  with  the  great  opportunities  for 
extension  before  the  Society  and  with  its 
administrative  affairs  and  financial  needs. 
It  is  evident  that  such  local  co-operating 
committees  of  three,  in  regular  communica- 
tion with  the  Society,  would  foster  a  deep- 
ening and  increasingly  fruitful  interest  in 
home  missions.  By  such  means  we  would 
rapidly  multiply  propagandists. 

Cultivate   the   Small   Giver 

2.  A  second  pressing  reason  for  this 
simple,  but  thorough,  form  of  organization 
is  the  necessity  of  securing  at  once  the  help 
that  can  be  given  by  the  vast  army  of  small 
givers.  While  many  members  of  our 
churches  are  unable  to  give  largely,  yet  they 
are  willing  to  give  something.  Their  small- 
er offerings,  if  made  systematically,  would 
in  the  aggregate  be  sufficient  to  make  pos- 
sible a  new  and  grander  era  in  denomina- 
tional home  mission  history.  This  vast 
army  of  smaller  givers  can  be  reached  and 
enlisted  by  means  of  the  three  co-operating 
members  in  each  local  church. 

The  immediate  enlistment  of  all  the  mem- 
bers of  the  churches  in  this  way  is  made 
necessary  by  the  fact  that  the  income  of  the 
Society  ought  to  be  increased  one-third  at 
once.  We  ought  never  to  be  satisfied  until 
we  raise  it  to  the  highest  point  it  has  ever 
reached  and  then  we  ought  not  to  be  satis- 
fied. Just  now  we  have  reason  to  be  pro- 
foundly grateful  for  the  increase  in  contri- 
butions of  $70,500  over  last  year,  but  we 
must  press  on  for  a  steady  advance.  The 
income  of  the  Society  must  be  heaved  out 
of  the  rut  it  has  been  in  for  so  many  years. 
Have  not  our  ideas  of  what  a  home  mission 
crusade  ought  to  be,  been  altogether  too 
small  and  conventional  and  inadequate? 
We  must  re-introduce  the  heroic  note  and 
and  put  into  the  work  initiative  and  audacity, 
and  cultivate  the  active  interest,  not  only 
of  those  able  to  give  largely,  but  also  of  the 
much  large  number  of  those  whose  smaller 
gifts  would  be  a  strong  reinforcement  to  the 
treasury. 

These,  therefore,  are  two  leading  reasons 
for  the  prompt  and  thorough  reorganization 
of  our  forces  in  the  Sunday  schools,  in  the 


ORGANIZING   CONGREGATIONAL    FORCES 


io3 


young  people's  societies  and  in  the  adult 
membership:  i.  Because  of  the  need  of 
a  cotnprehensive  campaign  for  the  enlight- 
enment of  all  the  people  of  the  churches  as 
to  the  present  unexcelled  opportunities  in 
America  for further  Christian  initiative 
and  conquest.  2.  Because  knowledge 
promotes  interest  and  deepening  interest 
augments  gifts. 

Wherever  there  is  a  lack  of  concern  for 
oui  home  mission  cause  I  am  convinced 
that  it  is  owing,  not  so  much  to  prejudice  or 
opposition,  as  to  insufficient  knowledge  of 
need  and  opportunity. 

A   Continuous   Educational  Campaign 
Needed 

Nothing  else  seems  to  be  more  needed 
than  a  wide-spread,  persistent  educational 
propaganda.  Knowledge  creates  interest. 
Interest  impels  to  active  co-operation.  It  is 
not  the  sporadic,  intermittent,  fitful,  anec- 
dotal, annual  appeal  that  builds  up  an  intel- 
ligent and  a  contributing  constituency. 
There  is  required  rather  the  unfolding  of  the 
primary  truth  that  unselfish  serving  of 
others  is  a  leading  mark  of  the  Christian 
character;  and  also  the  clear  and  more 
systematic  and  methodical  presentation  to 
all  the  people  of  the  churches  of  the  fact 
that  unexampled  opportunities  for  evangel- 
istic, pastoral  labors  and  the  founding  of 
churches  are  now  presented  in  this  country. 

No  doubt  most  of  us  recognize  the  year 
just  closed  and  the  one  just  entered  on  as 
crisis  years  in  the  work  of  this  noble  Society. 
By  the  generous  aid  of  a  large  number  of 
devoted  Christian  people  financial  wreckage 
was  averted  last  year.  It  is  imperative  now 
that  we  act  quickly  and  heartily  and  unan- 
imously and  in  an  intensely  methodical  and 
practical  way. 

This  broad  policy  that  has  been  outlined 
at  this  annual  meeting,  this  constitution  that 
has  been  adopted, — of  what  worth  are  they  ? 
They  are  valuable  as  time  tables  and  balast- 


ed  steel  rails  are  valuable  in  the  railroad 
service,  but  of  little  consequence  without 
power  and  a  high  objective  in  the  organiza- 
tion possesing  them. 

The  tug  and  stress  of  the  work  will  begin 
when  the  convention  ends.  This  cause  is  to 
be  made  highly  effective  only  by  prayerful, 
intelligent  and  enthusiastic  action  on  the 
part  of  a  great  multitude  of  people. 

Now,  by  faith  in  God,  by  quick  aggressive- 
ness, and  by  an  immediate  mobilization  of 
all  our  forces,  we  have  it  in  our  power  not 
only  to  prevent  disintegration  but  to  insure 
the  dawning  of  a  brighter  denominational 
home  mission  day. 

Looking  out  on  the  future  I  am  optimistic 
because  I  am  confident  that  in  our  churches 
there  are  many  thousands  of  loyal,  faithful, 
self-sacrificing  men  and  women,  whose 
hearts  are  in  unison  with  the  will  of  their 
.  Master.  And  I  am  hopeful,  too,  because  if 
we  are  obedient  to  the  Word  and  Spirit  of 
our  Lord  we  shall  have  his  constant  guid- 
ance and  co-operation.  'He  that  abideth 
in  me,  and  I  in  him,  the  same  bringeth 
forth  much  fruit ;  for  without  me  ye  can  do 
nothing.  Ye  have  not  chosen  me,  but  I 
have  chosen  you,  and  ordained  you,  that  ye 
should  go  and  bring  forth  fruit, and  that  your 
fruit  shall  remain,  that  whatsoever  ye  shall 
ask  of  the  Father  in  my  name,  He  may  give 
it  you."     (John  XV:  5,  16.) 

But  we  must  show  our  faith  by  the  wisdom 
and  energy  and  thoroughgoingness  of  our 
woiks.  We  shall  not  have  a  home  mission 
advance  unless  it  is  fore  planned,  unless  it 
is  sought  for,  unless  it  is  wrought  for.  The 
members  of  our  churches  are  numerous 
enough,  and  loyal  enough,  and  responsive 
enough  to  the  calls  of  opportunity  and  duty, 
to  make  possible  a  steady  forward  home 
mission  movement.  It  is  our  privilege  to  be 
equal  to  the  need  of  the  hour  by  promptly  or- 
ganizing all  our  forces  for  a  steady  ad- 
vance. 


THE  UNDEVELOPED    RESOURCES    OF    OUR  CONGRE- 
GATIONAL CHURCHES  IN    THE  CHILDREN 

By    Rev.    Henry    H.    Kelsey 


Hartford,    Connecticut 


THE  THEME  for  this  afternoon  is  "The 
Undeveloped  Resources  of  Our 
Churches."  We  Congregationalists  have 
great  resources  of  power,  of  which  we  are 
justly  proud.  We  can  and  must  develop 
and  use  them.  We  are  here  to  inquire  how. 

In  the  four  addresses  of  the  afternoon  we 
shall  cover  the  whole  field  only  as  the  chil- 
dren, the  young  people,  the  men  and  the 
women  include  all  the  brain  power,  cul- 
ture, wealth  and  institutional  strength  of 
the  denomination. 

I  am  to  speak  of  "  Our  Undeveloped 
Resources  in  the  Children."  This  is  the 
greatest  theme  of  the  four,  for  it  includes 
them  all.  If  we  can  win  and  hold  the  chil- 
dren, we  have  the  young  people,  the  men, 
and  the  women,  and  I  am  so  much  of  an 
optimist  that  I  think  it  can  be  done. 

I  will  state  what  I  want  to  say  in  three 
propositions  and  then  endeavor  to  illus- 
trate and  prove  them. 

r.  The  children  of  the  vicinity  of  our  in- 
dividual churches  constitute  the  real  Home 
Mission  field  of  each  church.  We  shall  win 
the  grown-ups  of  this  country  for  Christ 
only  as  we  win  the  children  of  individual 
communities. 

2.  Ths  children  are  the  source  of  the 
church's  growth,  and  from  them  must 
come  its  force  of  future  workers. 

3.  The  children  can  be  won  and  trained 
for  service,  and  the  one  institution,  by 
which  it  can  be  done  is  the  Sunday  school. 

Now  to  prove  these  three  propositions,  I 
want  to  say: 

First:  That  the  church  to-day  does  grow 
from  the  Sunday  school  and  has  done  so 
fo  •  thirty  years.  A  careful  student  has  es- 
timated that  four-fifths  of  the  increase  of 
the  church  comes  from  the  Sunday  school. 
This  is  our  experience  with  the  Sunday 
school  as  an  institution,  only  partly  estab- 
lished in  the  esteem  of  the  church,  an  1  only 
partially  developed  and  used. 


Second:  We  are  in  the  beginning  of  an 
era  of  Sunday  school  development.  Some 
call  it  "The  Sunday  School  Age."  The  sub" 
ject  of  the  religious  education  of  children 
has  now  the  attention  of  all  thinkers.  Sun- 
day school  workers  are  getting  out  of  the 
rut  of  conventionalism.  The  Toronto  Con- 
vention is  declared  to  have  been  as  differ- 
ent from  the  Denver  Convention  as  day- 
light is  from  darkness.  This  change 
marked  the  progress  of  but  three  years. 
The  progress  and  results  of  organized  Sun- 
day school  work  are  most  gratifying 
wherever  live  and  up  to-date  men  are  at 
the  head  of  the  work.  We  are  in  the  first 
year  of  anew  advance  in   world  conquest. 


REV.     H.      H.      KELSEY 
Hartford,  Conn. 


THE   CHILDREN    OF   THE    CHURCHES 


i°5 


We  are  just  finding  out  that  there  is  but 
one  way  to  succeed  and  that  is  by  winning 
the  children  to  Christ  and  training  them 
for  Christian  service. 

Third:  The  opportunity  of  the  churches 
is  clearly  revealed  by  these  four  facts: 

1.  Our  Protestant  churches  have  or 
may  have  practically  the  entire  Protestant 
population  between  five  and  fourteen  years 
of  age  in  their  hinds;  except  in  rare  in- 
stances all  Protestant  parents  prefer  to 
have  their  children  in  some  Sunday  school. 
If  they  are  not  sent  voluntarily,  a  sympa- 
thetic call  can  easily  secure  their  attend- 
ance. 

That  is,  we  can  have  the  children  if  we 
really  want  them  and  will  really  go  after 
them. 

2.  These  children  are  usually  Com- 
mitted to  us  for  their  religious  instruction, 
with  the  sympathetic  help,  or  at  least  the 
good  will  of  their  parents.  They  all  want 
to  have  their  boys  and  girls  helped  to  be 
good  nun  and  women.  In  most  instances 
they  depend  entirely  upon  the  Sunday 
school  for  their  religious  education  and 
training. 

3.  We  have  these  children  during 
the  years  of  impression.  Their  characters 
are  being  molded  and  set  during  these 
formative  years  before  adolescence. 

4.  We  have  these  boys  and  girls  in 
our  care  until  they  are  well  into  the  adoles- 
cent period  when  they  decide  the  question 
of  their  religious  life.  If  they  leave  the 
school,  they  do  so  because  they  have  de- 
cided to  cut  free  from  the  church.  If  they 
remain,  it  is  because  they  have  decided  to 
be  Christians  and  to  join  the  church  and 
stand  by  it. 

Fourth:  The  churches  which  have  the 
best  Sunday  schools,  the  churches  in  which 
the  Sunday  school  has  the  place  the  im- 
portance of  its  work  demands,are  uniformly 
growing  churches. 

There  may  be  here  and  there  an  excep- 
tion. It  is  possible  that  a  pastor  may  not 
use  his  opportunity,  or  that  a  Sunday 
school  may  be  attached  to  a  partially  par- 
alyzed church;  but  it  takes  a  good  deal  of 
effort  for  such  a  church  to  die.  It  takes  a 
genius  of  a  minister  to  prevent  its  growth. 

In  his  recent  book  Dr.  Rainsford  says: 

"  I  have  already  said  that  the  chief  re- 
sult of  our  work  on  the  East  side  here  in 


New  York  was  that  we  got  hold  of  the 
young.  I  emphasize  this  because  my  ex- 
perience leads  me  to  feel  strongly  that  the 
way  to  reach  a  neighborhood  is  to  reach 
the  children.  I  do  not  think  a  man's  min- 
istry in  a  district  begins  to  tell  until  the 
end  of  ten  years;  that  is,  until  the  children 
he  has  taken  hold  of  as  little  fellows  begin 
to  reach  young  manhood  and  womanhood. 
So  if  I  were  asked  how  to  reach  a  neigh- 
borhood, I  should  say,  '  Get  hold  of  the 
young — the  c/iildre7i.'  " 

President  Charles  Cuthbert  Hall,  of 
Union  Theological  Seminary,  recently  said 
to  his  students,  looking  back  upon  his 
twenty  years'  pastorate: 

"  If  what  I  know  now  I  had  known  years 
ago  I  ~ould  have  made  my  church  five-fold 
stronger.  If  I  could  live  it  all  over  again 
I  would  try  to  do  more  for  the  Sunday 
school.  I  didn't  begin  to  conceive  how  to 
use  my  school.  Pastors  too  often  let  the 
Sunday  school  go." 

I  have  made  a  careful  study  of  Year 
Books  recently  and  have  discovered  some 
very  interesting  facts.  For  example:  I 
found  that  the  Disciples  of  Christ  gained 
in  the  years  1890-1904,  92  per  cent;  and  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church  gained  45  per 
cent.  Our  gain  was  28  per  cent.  This 
was  not  so  very  discouraging  when  I  found 
that  the  Baptists  had  gained  but  27  per 
cent  and  the  Methodists  but  26  per  cent. 

Then  I  looked  up  the  Sunday  School 
statistics  of  these  denominations  and  here 
I  found  a  record  to  make  us  think. 

In  the  ten  years,  1 894-1904,  the  Disciples 
of  Christ  gained  2,104  churches,  370,965 
members  and  179,013  in  their  Sunday 
schools. 

The  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  the 
years  (1893-1903)  gained  890  churches,  202, 61 1 
members  and  120,988  in  their  Sunday 
schools. 

The  Methodists  in  the  years  1 894-1905 
gained  2,343  churches,  161,161  members, 
and  68,776  in  their  Sunday  schools. 

The    Presbyterians   in   the  years   1893- 

1903  gained  546  churches,  198,911  members, 
and  136,628  in  their  Sunday  schools. 

We  Congregationalists  in  the  years  1894- 

1904  gained  494  churches  (taking  out  the 
statistics  of  Hawaii),  83,857  members  and 
lost  14,940  in  our  Sunday  schools. 

Other  denominations  have  not  gained  in 


io6 


THE    HOME    MISSIONARY 


Sunday  school  enrollment  as  much  as  in 
church  membership,  but  they  have  all 
gained;  we  actually  lost. 

In  1890  we  had  106,887  more  in  Sunday 
school  than  in  churches;  in  1904  we  had 
4,401  less.     We  lost  5,482  in  1904. 

I  looked  up  the  record  of  a  few  states, 
thinking  I  might  locate  the  trouble.  I 
found  it  general. 

New  York  in  ten  years  gained  13 
churches  and  6,054  members  and  lost  3,480 
in  Sunday  schools. 

Illinois  in  ten  years  gained  35  churches 
and  7,849  members,  and  lost  1,961  in  Sun- 
day schools. 

Ohio  in  ten  years  lost  4  churches,  gained 
4,570  members,  and  lost  235  in  Sunday 
schools. 

Massachusetts  in  ten  years  gained  22 
churches,  7,157  members  and  gained  2,835 
in  Sunday  schools. 

Connecticut  in  ten  years  gained  15 
churches  and  3,212  members  and  lost  2,641 
in  Sunday  schools. 

Tell  me,  friends,  is  there  any  future  for 
a  church  that  is  losing  her  constituency  of 
children  and  young  people  and  is  confes- 
sedly failing  to  win  adults  through  conver- 
sion ?  In  1904,  2,306,  or  39  per  cent  of  all  our 
churches;  in  1905,  41  per  cent,  received  not 
a  single  new  member  on  confession.  Breth- 
ren, this  situation  is  worse  than  simply 
alarming;  it  is  awful.  In  all  our  great  de- 
nomination, justly  proud  of  its  schools  and 
colleges,  we  have  but  twelve  Sunday 
schools  of  1,000  or  more  members  and  that 
counting  in  mission  schools,  home  depart- 
ments and  cradle  rolls  and  only  113  schools 
having  500  or  more  members! 

We  are  here  for  plain  speech — let  me 
speak  plainly.  We  have  some  of  the  finest 
Sunday  schools  that  can  be  found  any- 
where, and  in  no  department  of.church  work 
are  there  more  devoted  workers  or  is  there 
more  effective  work  done,  but  I  ask  you  to 
judge  whether  I  speak  the  truth  when  I 
say: 

1.  That  the  majority  of  the  Sunday 
schools  in  our  Congregational  Churches  are 
managed  conventionally  as  a  regular  part 
of  the  machinery  of  the  church.  And  any 
church  or  department  of  a  church,  or  any 
other  enterprise  that  is  managed  conven- 
tionally lacks  life,  lacks  enthusiasm,  is  un- 
progressive;  and  a  Sunday  school  so    man- 


aged holds  its  own  with  difficulty.  There 
must  be  life  and  enthusiasm  in  any  institu- 
tion that  interests  and  holds  children  and 
young  people. 

2.  We  try  to  take  care  of  our  own  chil- 
dren rather  than  the  children  of  the  com- 
munity. The  typical  Congregational 
Church  wants  to  be  a  church  of  the  best 
families  in  town.  It  wants  intellectual 
preaching.  These  ideas  we  inherit.  We 
do  not  instinctively,  without  some  compel- 
ling necessity  or  a  strenuous  effort,  limber 
up  for  action  and  set  out  to  win  a  commun- 
ity for  Christ.  Therefore,  we  do  not  try 
to  get  other  children  into  our  Sunday 
schools.  This  is  why  we  have  so  few  large, 
popular  Sunday  schools.  We  scarcely  hold 
our  own,  and  we  are  bringing  into  the 
church  and  its  service  only  a  fraction  of 
our  own  young  people. 

3.  In  the  endeavor  of  the  last  ten  years 
to  improve  our  Sunday  schools  we  have  be- 
gun at  the  wrong  end.  We  have  tried  to 
make  our  schools  better  by  making  the 
lessons  harder.  We  have  tried  to  make 
both  teachers  and  scholars  do  more  work 
before  we  had  awakened  in  them  more  in- 
terest in  the  school.  If  you  try  to  make 
the  lessons  harder  before  you  have 
awakened  a  new  enthusiasm,  you  will  make 
your  school  smaller  every  time.  And  that 
is  just  what  we  have  done.  I  did  it  till  I 
saw  my  mistake.  We  ministers  have  done 
excellent  work  in  many  cases  in  catechism 
and  nurture  classes,  but  in  these  we  reach 
only  a  few  of  the  better  children  of  the 
school.  The  nurture  class,  necessary  and 
efficient  as  it  is,  at  the  best  cares  only  for  a 
selected  few. 

4.  But  the  trouble  is  deeper  than  conven- 
tionality of  management  or  defective 
courses  of  lessons.  The  real  trouble  is  in 
the  place  the  average  Sunday  school  has  in 
the  esteem  of  the  church.  In  how  many 
Congregational  churches  does  the  Sunday 
school  have  as  much  official  recognition 
and  official  attention  as  the  choir?  Which 
is  most  essential  to  the  church's  life?  I  am 
not  to  criticise  choirs,  or  the  churches  for 
having  choirs  and  good  ones,  but,  brethren, 
listen:  Where  does  the  church's  increase 
come  from?  What  institution  in  any 
church  is  essential  to  its  life?  Why  do  the 
churches  think  they  must  have  good  music? 
To  please  the  aesthetic  taste  of  adult  Chris- 


THE    CHILDREN    OF   THE    CHURCHES 


107 


tians.  And  we  spend  our  money  for  that, 
and  the  deacons  and  committee  men  look 
out  for  that.  Yes,  and  how  much  money- 
does  the  average  church  spend  for  the 
maintenance  of  its  Sunday  school?  How 
many  churches  by  any  official  action  show 
that  they  appreciate  the  value  of  a  boy? 
The  deacons  are  very  glad  to  welcome  him 
into  church  membership,  if  he  is  a  good 
boy.  But  in  how  many  churches  is  there  a 
place  for  the  normal  boy,  bubbling  over 
with  fun  and  excess  of  energy?  How  many 
boards  of  church  officials  show  any  appre- 
ciation of  the  critical  years  of  adolescence 
and  study  to  meet  that  crisis  in  the  life  of 
both  boys  and  girls  so  that  they  may  be 
then  held  and  made  to  love  the  church,  be- 
cause it  provides  for  them  so  much  help 
and  pleasure? 

Just  then  is  the  time  we  lose  them,  and 
is  it  difficult  to  see  why?  Let  something 
be  wrong  in  the  choir  gallery,  or  the  pul- 
pit, and  somebody  gets  busy.  But  how 
many  boards  of  trustees  hold  special  meet- 
ings to  discuss  the  inefficiency  of  the  Sun- 
day school  and  to  plan  and  provide  for  do- 
ing the  utmost  that  the  church  can  do  to 
win  every  child  of  the  neighborhood  not 
cared  for  by  other  churches,  and  to  interest 
every  boy  and  girl  and  hold  them  as  young 
men  and  young  women  in  the  service  of  the 
church? 

Friends !  We  need  not  lose  them — we  can 
win  and  hold  them  and  we  shall  when  the 
churches  wake  up  and  give  attention  to 
this  business. 

It  is  the  old  Congregational  way  to  think 
that  religion  is  an  affair  of  adult  life,  and 
we  have  aimed  the  endeavor  of  our 
churches  at  the  adult  Christian.  The 
work  of  the  Sunday  school  has  been  and  is 
still  too  often  looked  down  upon  as  un- 
worthy the  devotion  of  strong,  brainy,  cul- 
tured men  and  women.  The  only  way  we 
can  get  teachers  and  Sunday  school  work- 
ers in  most  cases  is  to  enlist  boys  and  girls 
of  the  high  school  age,  and  that  almost  by 
compulsion.  The  Sunday  school  gets  on  as 
it  can  in  the  average  church,  pays  its  own 
bills,  gets  its  own  workers  as  it  can,  and 
usually  does  its  work  in  rooms  designed 
primarily  for  other  uses.  This  institution 
which  brings  in  four-fifths  of  her  member- 
ship, this  agency  by  which  the  church  can 
in  a  generation  win  and  transform   a  com- 


munity, too  often  does  its  work  without 
the  support  of  the  brains  and  money  and 
care  even  of  the  best  people  in  the  congre- 
gation. 

Have  I  overdrawn  the  picture?  If  this  is 
not  the  trouble,  where  is  it?  Something 
is  wrong,  that  we  should  produce  and  ex- 
hibit such  a  record  of  failure  as  we  are  now 
doing.^ 

Does  some  one  say  there  are  fewer  chil- 
dren in  our  Congregational  families  than 
there  were  twenty  years  ago?  I  reply  that 
there  are  not  fewer  children  in  our  coun- 
try. In  towns  and  cities  all  over  the  coun- 
try the  capacity  of  the  public  schools  is 
being  increased;  doubled  in  many  in- 
stances. 

Our  country  is  not  short  of  boys,  and  is 
not  going  to  be.  But  it  is  short  of  Chris- 
tian men  and  will  be  if  we  do  not  win  these 
boys  to  Christ.  How  rarely  do  we  see  the 
transformation  of  unsaved  men  !  But  we 
can  make  Christian  boys,  and  the  boys  are 
here,  thousands  of  them,  somebody's  boys, 
if  not  the  sons  of  our  deacons. 

To  justify  my  optimism,  let  me  give  you 
an  experience.  I  know  somewhat  intimate- 
ly a  church  in  a  conservative  New  England 
city,  a  down  town  church,  whose  pastor, 
because  the  children  about  his  church 
seemed  to  be  mostly  foreigners,  whom  he 
could  not  get  into  his  Sunday  school,  sadly 
concluded  that  he  must  be  content  to  min- 
ister to  a  procession  of  adults.  Eighteen 
months  ago  he  secured  an  assistant  who 
knew  how  to  manage  a  Sunday  school  and 
the  two  went  at  the  problem  and  this  is 
the  record.  In  eighteen  months  the  en- 
rollment has  changed  from  566  to  1,050. 
The  average  attendance  has  increased  from 
271  in  1904,  to  nearly  500,  and  the  offer- 
ings for  benevolence  increased  four  fold. 
These  500  are  most  all  of  them  under 
twenty-five  years.  The  adult  classes  are  com- 
paratively small.  Note  what  else  has  hap- 
pened. The  morning  congregations  began 
to  increase  till  now  it  is  about  one-third 
larger  than  a  year  and  a  half  ago ;  and  the 
number  of  devoted  workers  in  the  church 
who  take  responsibility  has  more  than 
doubled,  and  the  finances  have  come  up, 
and  everything  has  come  up  except  the  car- 
pet, which  must  come  up  before  it  is  worn 
to  shreds.  In  these  eighteen  months  145 
have  been  added  to  the  church,  and  of   the 


io8 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


S2  received  on  confession,    59   were  young 
people  from  the  Sunday  school. 

The  real  problem  of  home  missions  is  not 
the  problem  of  a  few  thousand  more  dol- 
lars with  which  to  help  feeble  churches  and 
support  a  few  more  missionaries.  The  real 
lack  is  of  life  and  enthusiasm  in  the  indi- 
vidual church.  The  church  that  is  winning 
the  children  of  its  community  and  holding 
'  the  interest  of  its  young  people  and  train- 
ing them  in  service  will  have  life  and  en- 
thusiasm. To  win  the  young  life  of  this 
country  to  Christ  is  to  solve  the  real  prob- 
lem of  home  missions  and  to  our  shame 
we  have  to  face  the  fact  which  our  Year 
Book  publishes  to  the  world,  that  we  are 
not  doing  it. 

Professor  Graham  Taylor  in  a  recent  let- 
ter says: 

"  There  seems  to  be  a  terrible  slump  in 
church  work  throughout  the  country,  with 
here  and  there  a  notable  exception." 

If  you  find  a  church  that  is  "slump- 
ing," simply  marking  time  or  losing 
ground,  go  look  up  its  Sunday  school;  go 
find  out  how  much  interest  the  officers  of 
the  church  take  in  the  life  and  interests  of 
the  boys  and  girls.  I  venture  to  say  that 
in  forty-nine  out  of  every  fifty  cases  of 
such  stand-still  or  decaying  churches  you 
will  find  that  its  Sunday  school  is  conven- 
tional, sleepy,  out-of-date,  trying  to  exist 
apart  from  the  interest  and  fostering  care 
of  the  church. 

Why  do  our  communities  give  such  intel- 
ligent care  for  the  public  schools?  Because 
in  them  are  our  future  voters,  fathers, 
mothers,  citizens.  The  public  schools  are 
transforming  a  generation  of  alien  Italians, 
Slavs  and  Polacks  into  Americans.  At 
the  present  showing,  our  churches  are  not 
only  not  attempting  to  make  Christian 
fathers,  mothers,  citizens,  of  these;  we  are 
failing  to  hold  in  the  church  our  own,  and 
I  repeat  the  assertion  that  we  need  not 
fail. 

But  this  is  a  home  missionary  meeting 
and  you  have  given  us  a  Sunday  school  ad- 
dress. Yes;  for  brethren,  we  fail  in  home 
missions  if  we  fail  in  our  Sunday  schools. 
The  new  organization  will  avail  nothing  if 
we  lose  the  young  life  from  the  churches. 

Brethren,  I  am  bold — this  is  the  biggest 
subject  on  this   whole  program.     We  have 


been  asking  how  we  can  win  to  Christ  the 
foreigner?  How  save  our  cities?  How  win 
the  people  of  these  new  empires  in  the 
west?  How  preserve  the  spiritual  vigor  of 
old  New  England?  How  christianize 
America?  Howl  Win  her  children  to 
Christ  and  train  them  for  Christian  service. 
There  is  no  other  way.  There  is  no  other 
agency  by  which  it  can  be  done  but  the 
Sunday  school,  and  it  has  got  to  be  done  in 
your  church,  in  every  church ;  and  it  can 
be  done;  and  we  must  doit;  and  we  must 
do  it  now. 

There  may  be  a  pastor  or  Sunday  school 
worker  here  who  says:  I  believe  all  you 
say,  but  tell  us  how  to  do  it.  That  is  easy, 
Here  are  six  practical  suggestions: 

1.  Organize  the  Sunday  school.  It  isn't 
half  done  in  most  instances. 

2.  Modernize  the  Sunday  school.  Don't 
begin  with  the  lessons  by  making  them 
harder ;  begin  by  making  the  school  more 
interesting. 

3.  Get  enthusiasm.  Enthusiasm  is  fire  ;and 
fire  makes  steam;  and  steam  is  power;  and 
power  makes  things  go. 

4.  Use  choirs  of  boys  and  girls.  They  beat 
your  paid  quartette  by  200  per  cent.  Use 
both.  The  Junior  choir  will  bring  out  to 
church  both  the  children  and  the  parents 
and  add  a  new  element  of  interest  to  the 
service. 

5.  Work  for  a  big  school.  Yes;  work  for 
a  big  school  in  every  church.  Go  for  the 
other  children ;  and  you  will  get  some 
every  time. 

6.  Get  the  deacons  and  society's  commit- 
tee and  all  the  church  at  it.  Make  them 
see  that  this  is  the  big  and  only  thing  doing. 

Say:  If  you  knew  that  a  rich  vein  of 
ore  lay  between  ten  and  fifteen  feet  below 
the  surface  and  that  the  riches  of  a  great 
mine  were  there,  would  you  spend  your 
time  and  money  in  sinking  a  shaft  100  or 
1000  feet? 

The  undeveloped  resources  of  the 
church's  life  and  power  lie  near  the  sur- 
face in  the  children  under  fifteen  years  of 
age. 

Success?  Why,  it  is  just  as  sure  as  that 
you  try — if  you  do  it  with  heartiness,  and 
with  the  Master's  love  for  men  and  chil- 
dren. 


OUR    UNDEVELOPED      RESOURCES  —  THE 

PEOPLE 
By  Rev.  Ernest  Bourner  Allen 


YOUNG 


WE  ARE  duly  warned  by  the  work 
confronting  us  that  this  is  not  a 
time   for   fireworks,    but   for   the 
massing  of  facts,  the  declaration  of  prin- 
ciples,    and    the     adoption     of     practical 
plans. 

The  Undeveloped  Resources 

How  to  get  the  most  out  of  everything 
is  the  problem  of  life.  The  capitalist 
seeks  to  keep  all  his  money  at  work. 
The  manufacturer  utilizes  the  wastes  of 
production  to  increase  the  output. 
Scientific  experts  are  investigating  the 
wastes  of  society.  They  declare  that  we 
are  great  spendthrifts  of  vital  forces. 

We  know  little  as  yet  about  using  the 
forces  of  nature.  Suppose  we  could  har- 
ness a  ton  of  hay  and  an  hour  of  sun- 
shine. Chemists  say  there  is  enough 
power  in  a  single  acre  of  grass  to  drive 
all  the  mills  and.  steam  cars  in  the  world 
if  it  could  be  concentrated  upon  the  pis- 
ton rod  of  an  engine.  Scientists  say 
there  is  enough  energy  in  less  than  fifty 
acres  of  sunshine  to  run  all  the  machin- 
ery of  the  world  if  it  could  be  concen- 
trated. There  is  electricity  enough  in 
sky  and  mountain  to  shatter  a  ship  at  a 
touch  or  to  shake  a  continent. 

Up  in  Northern  Michigan  on  the 
shores  of  Portage  lake  there  are  tons  of 
reddish  sand.  That  sand  is  from  the 
rocks  crushed  in  the  stamp  mills,  then 
washed  by  the  water  to  secure  the  free 
copper  that  falls  to  the  bottom  of  the 
pans.  But  there  is  enough  copper  left  to 
color  the  sand.  It  is  not  released  and  se- 
cured by  the  water-washing.  No  eco- 
nomical processes  for  saving  it  are  now 
known.  Any  man  who  can  invent  an 
•economical  method  of  extracting  it  will 
win  fame  and  fortune  for  himself  and 
■others. 

We  are  making  progress  though  there 
are  vast  areas  of  undeveloped  territory 
■everywhere  in  the  universe.  There  are 
100,000,000  acres  of  swamp  land  in  the 
United  States.  Three-fourths  of  it  has 
been  surveyed.  Now  it  is  proposed  to 
drain  and  reclaim  it.  Health  and  harvest 
will  be  multiplied.  7,000,000  acres  in  the 
■everglades  of  Florida  will  be  bright  with 
life.  The  famous  Dismal  Swamp  will  be 
no  more! 

The  everglades  of  many  a  life,  the  dis- 
mal' swamp  of  debt  into  which  we  seem 
and  only  seem  to  be  passing,  will  yet  be 
reclaimed  by  wholesome  irrigation.  Let 
us  survey  the  bogs.  It  is  necessary  and 
not  discouraging.  Let  us  dig  deep 
ditches  of  opportunity  and  let  in  the  sun- 


light of  education.  There  are  great 
things  here  to  be  saved  and  they  are  po- 
tential with  mighty  values. 

The  farmer  is  breaking  up  his  fallow 
ground.  Chemistry  and  common  sense 
have  taught  him  the  rotation  of  crops. 
The  scientist  has  told  him  how  to  draw 
nitrogen  from  the  air,  and  transmit  it  in 
the  form  of  nitrates  through  plant  life 
into  the  wasted  soil,  till  harvests  are  300 
per  cent,  greater  and  a  continent  has  been 
added  to  the  food-producing  area  of  the 
world! 

In  the  realm  of  spiritual  dynamics  the 
problem  is  really  solved.  It  is  possible 
to  harness  divine  power  to  human  lives. 
The  divine  husbandman  can  break  up,  re- 
claim, renew  all  fallow  or  forsaken 
'  ground  in  the  church  and  world.  The 
nitrate  is  near  to  replenish  wasted  acres, 
secure  prodigious  harvests  and  increase 
the  area  providing  the  bread  of  life,  by 
continental  additions.  We  ought  to  be 
as  eager,  persistent,  and  heroic  in  our 
endeavor  to  develop  the  vast  latent  en- 
ergy of  the  Kingdom  as  the  farmer,  the 
capitalist  or  the  chemist,  in  his  realm. 
Ours  is  neither  a  problem  of  power  or  of 
poverty  but  of  waste  and  undeveloped 
values.  We  need  a  prophet  of  values 
who  shall  show  us  the  "  acres  of  dia- 
monds "  at  our  door.  We  need  an  in- 
ventor of  christian  policies  which  shall 
enable  us  to  use  what  we  have  to  do 
what  we  ought.  Once  let  the  tremendous 
resources  God  has  left  in  our  church  be 
fairly  developed,  the  biggest  task,,  of  mis- 
sions in  Chicago  or  Cathay,  in  America 
or  the  universe,  will  never  lack  for  men 
or  money.  May  God  help  us  to  find  the 
way! 

The  Strength  of  Numbers 

What  are  the  facts  which  give  us  hope 
and  light? 

There  are  5,000,000  young  people  in  the 
various  young  people's  and  kindred  or- 
ganizations of  the  churches  to-day.  They 
constitute  28  per  cent,  of  the  member- 
ship. We  count  as  young  people  all  un- 
der the  23rd  year.  That  means  that  an 
army  of  100,000  must  be  recruited  every 
week  to  keep  the  ranks  full.  The 
churches  are  enrolling  approximately 
30,000  young  people  and  65,000  in  the 
Sunday-school  every  seven  days.  No 
matter  what  mistakes  we  have  made  in 
the  past,  here  is  our  work  to  grip  this 
tremendous  opportunity.  Some  of  this 
army  of  100,000  are  coming  week  by  week 
into  your  society. 

Our  Congregational  young  people  num- 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


ber  163,000.  We  enlist  3,200  per  week, 
450  per  day,  to  keep  the  ranks  full  up  to 
the  23rd  year.  We  enroll  13,000  more  in 
the  Sunday-school.  For  this  army  in 
what  Joseph  Cook  called  the  "  teachable 
twenties  "  there  must  be  a  vast,  unending 
campaign  of  education.  Multitudes  are 
in  their  "  tender  teens."  Life  is  in  the 
gristle  and  we  can  shape  it.  By  and  by 
it  will  be  in  the  bone  and  you  must 
break  it  to  change  it. 

We  cannot  too  often  repeat  certain 
current  and  commonly  accepted  facts 
based  upon  wide  inquiry  and  the  results 
of  the  newer  psychology  and  pedagogy. 
Our  educators  seem  to  be  aroused  to 
their  meaning  more  than  the  church  it- 
self. With  far  different  meaning  than 
when  he  spoke  to  Judas  we  may  hear  our 
Lord  crying:  "What  thou  doest,  do 
quickly."  The  vast  majority  of  all  who 
are  now  22  years  old  will  be  dead  in  30 
years.  There  are  about  three  genera- 
tions on  the  stage  at  a  time.  One  is  in 
training  and  holds  the  future.  Another 
is  in  service  and  makes  the  present.  One 
is  moving  out  and  represents  the  past. 
Each  generation  in  service  must  seek  to 
evangelize  and  educate  its  own  genera- 
tion. Failure  to  do  it  endangers  the 
present  and  disastrously  mortgages  the 
future. 

Over  90  per  cent,  of  the  evangelical 
church  members  in  America  were  con- 
verted before  they  were  23.  Only  2  per 
cent,  of  those  who  pass  that  age  are  ever 
converted.  The  most  frequent  age  for 
conversion  is  16  in  girls  and  17  in  boys. 
The  age  of  greatest  religious  interest 
rises  from  10  years  to  12,  reaches  its  ze- 
nith at  about  15,  then  steadily  decreases 
to  24,  save  for  a  slight  reaction  at  19. 
The  age  of  conversion  follows  nearly  the 
same   lines   of   fluctuation. 

In  other  words,  the  period  when  we 
reach  our  children  and  youth  is  identical 
with  the  period  when  the  habits  of  life 
are  formed.  We  know  that  this  is  true 
of  habits  of  body,  brain,  language  and 
work,  but  we  have  not  begun  to  measure 
its  meaning  in  the  realm  of  missionary  in- 
terest and  giving.  The  heroic  and 
imaginative  age  is  on  in  youth.  No  pic- 
tures of  life  can  so  clearly  and  compre- 
hensively satisfy  this  craving  as  the  story 
of  missionary  endeavor  and  motive. 
What  are  we  doing  to  meet  it?  Here  are 
instincts  and  impulses  ripening  in  logical 
and  chronological  order. 
"  There   is  a  tide  in   the   affairs   of  men, 

Which,  taken  at  its  flood,  leads  on  " 
to  missionary  conquest,  if  proper  objects 
are  provided;  omitted,  we  spend  our  days 
in  the  "  shallows  and  miseries  "  of  debt 
and  indifference.  President  Coucher  is 
right,  therefore,  when  he  declares: 
"  Young  people  must  be  the  prime  ob- 
jective in  the  world's  evangelization,  for 


REV.    ERNEST    BOURNER    ALLEN 

during  youth,  if  ever,  the  foundations  of 
a  christian  life  are  laid,  and  the  trend  of 
greatest  usefulness  determined." 

Great  leaders  are  developed  in  youth. 
From  Samuel  to  the  Baptist,  from  the 
Christ  to  the  leaders  to-day,  it  has  been 
true.  The  church  must  look  after  its 
boys  and  men  as  never  before.  From 
one-third  to  one-fourth  of  our  church 
members  are  boys  and  men;  two-thirds 
to  three-fourths  are  girls  and  women. 
In  general  the  men  hold  the  money  and 
the  women  do  the  work.  If  we  could 
transpose  the  situation  our  debts 
and  duties  would  be  fulfilled  to-morrow. 
The  campaign  must  not  only  reach  the 
boys  and  men,  but  train  them  in  the 
habits  of  correct,  christian  stewardship. 
It  will  take  more  than  an  annual  sermon, 
more  than  a  daintily  printed  booklet, 
more  than  a  comparison  with  annual 
American  chewing  gum  expenditures, 
more  than  convention  resolutions,  to  do 
it.  It  is  heart-aching,  back-breaking, 
blood-sweating  work.  It  must  begin — ■ 
begin,  mark  you — in  every  christian 
home.  It  must  be  reinforced  by  every 
Sunday-school  teacher  and  every  pulpit. 
It  must  have  a  plan. 

There  are  to-day  $25,000,000,000  in  the 
hands  of  church  members  in  America. 
It  will  amount  to  $50,000,000,000  in  twenty 
years.     In  thirty  years  the  vast  majority 


THE  YOUNG  PEOPLE  OF  THE  CHURCHES 


of  the  people  who  hold  this  wealth  in 
trust  from  God  will  be  dead.  Shrouds 
have  no  pockets.  The  christian  or  non- 
christian  youth  of  to-day  will  hold  this 
vast  treasure.  What  will  they  do  with 
it?  What  are  they  being  taught  to  do 
with  it?  Do  they  with  lustful  eyes  re- 
gard it  as  their  own,  or  the  Lord's?  For 
the  90  per  cent,  awakened,  converted  and 
started  in  systematic  co-operation  with 
the  church,  the  question  is  practically 
settled  before  they  are  23. 

"  Childhood  shows  the  man  as  morn- 
ing shows  the  day,"  said  Milton.  The 
first  faint  streaks  of  light  do  not  make 
midday  but  they  are  its  prophecy.  To 
despise  beginnings  is  to  covet  disaster. 
A  two-cent  dawn  may  make  a  thousand- 
dollar  day.  Two  cents  a  week,  a  post- 
age stamp  promise,  would  not  only  mean 
$165,000  a  year  for  Home  Missions  from 
our  Congregational  young  people  but  it 
would  prophesy  millions  in  a  generation, 
with  the  growth  of  the  idea  of  christian 
stewardship.  Despising  the  day  of  small 
things  may  lead  to  bankruptcy  to-mor- 
row. Waste  of  the  littles  has  been  a' 
fault    of   a    negligent    church. 

So  strongly  have  others  felt  this  that 
a  distinguished  college  president  recently 
declared:  "The  incompetence  of  the 
church  is  more  to  be  feared  than  the  in- 
fidelity of  the  world."  The  church  and 
the  home  are  responsible  for  the  pres- 
ent conditions  of  missionary  effort.  We 
reap  as  we  have  sown.  Upon  home  and 
church  is  laid  the  obligation  to  seek  the 
conversion  and  development  in  christian 
character  of  every  child,  likewise  "  his 
efficient,  personal  co-operation  with  the 
church  in  world  evangelization."  No 
parental  obligation  was  ever  abrogated 
by  Christ  and  laid  on  the  church.  If 
christian  homes  fulfill  their  duty  they 
will  train  intelligent  missionary  enthusi- 
asts. 
The  Duty  of  the  Pastor  and  Church 

What  have  we  been  doing,  brother  pas- 
tor, to  direct  the  vast  forces  of  our 
youth?  We  have  used  them  as  a  mine, 
and  tried  to  get  something  out  of  them. 
We  must  use  them  as  a  Key,  fit  to  un- 
lock our  doors  of  opportunity.  The 
fact  is  that  much  of  the  ignorance  and 
indifference  in  Sunday-school  and  young 
people's  society  to-day  is  simply  the  re- 
flex of  the  church  and  the  pastor.  From 
them  our  youth  have  caught  the  mumps, 
the  measles  and  the  whooping  cough  of 
neglect.  These  things  are  "  catching " 
and  they  reveal  the  company  our  youth 
are  in. 

Take  these  facts,  for  example.  It  is 
only  five  years  ago  that  Prof.  Wells,  of 
the  Christian  Endeavor  World,  sent  out 
to  over  1,800  pastors  questions  about 
young  people's  work.  "  What  plan,"  he 
asked  them,  "  have  you  for  directing  and 


encouraging  your  C.  E.  society? "  Out 
of  nearly  1,700  replying,  243  had  some 
plan  and  1,420  had  no  plan.  If  this  ap- 
palling and  indicting  proportion  holds 
in  all  our  young  people's  societies,  then 
one-seventh  have  some  sort  of  pastoral 
leadership,  six-sevenths  have  none.  The 
Congregational  churches  have  3,500  so- 
cieties. Their  average  membership  is  46. 
Three  thousand  societies  have  no  over- 
sight; 150,000  young  people  are  doing 
something,  blindly,  where  they  ought  to 
be  encouraged  and  led  to  do  large 
things.  Herein  may  lie  the  reason  that 
as  Congregationalists  our  societies  have 
lost  one-fourth  of  their  membership  in 
six  years.  We  cannot  lay  it  to  race  sui- 
cide or  the  eruption  of  Vesuvius. 
"  The  fault,  dear  Brutus,  is  not  in  our 
stars, 
But  in  ourselves,  that  we  are  under- 
lings." 

Think  of  the  tremendous  reach  of  the 
influence  when  a  youth  is  secured  as  a 
friend  and  leader  in  missionary  service. 
Think  how  slight  the  weight  which  may 
throw  the  scales  on  the  side  of  adequate 
evangelization.  A  breath  of  air  may  af- 
fect the  destiny  of  a  raindrop  2,000  miles 
away,  but  the  word  of  a  teacher  may 
reach  the  remotest  corner  of  the  uni- 
verse. The  vibrance  of  a  child's  laugh- 
ter or  the  sound  of  a  church  bell  may 
precipitate  an  avalanche,  but  a  mother's 
whisper  or  a  pastor's  look  may  impel  a 
youth  to  become  a  Whitman  or  a  Living- 
stone, a  Ward  or  a  Pitkin. 

Where  he  got  it  I  do  not  know;  but  I 
am  glad  that  one  of  our  twelve-year-old 
Sunday-school  boys  has  this  motto  over 
his  desk  at  home  "  On  to  the  ministry." 
It  worthily  stands  by  the  side  of  the  girl- 
ish purpose  of  the  noble  sovereign,  Vic- 
toria, when  in  youth  they  told  her  she 
would  some  day  be  queen.  It  was  her 
soul's  awakening.  "  I  will  be  good,"  she 
said.  Timothy  and  Paul,  Moffatt  and 
Mills,  Spear  and  Mott,  Hamlin  and 
Neesima, — these  all  were  called  in  child- 
hood or  youth.  It  costs  less  and  you  get 
more  to  train  a  boy  to  love  and  give  to 
missions  than  to  try  to  subtract  paleozoic 
pennies  from  the  plethoric  pocket-book  of 
his  penurious  paternal  progenitor! 
A  Budget  op  Plans 

No  plan  is  a  sure  specific.  It  is  not  a 
panacea.  Nor  is  it  guaranteed  to  cure  in 
30  days  or  money  refunded.  All  plans 
wear  out  when  merely  schemes.  They 
live  when  they  grip  fundamentals.  They 
must  be  adapted  to  times  and  places. 
There  will  be  many  schemes  offered  and 
exploited  but  we  shall  never  get  away 
from  the  fundamental  need  for  teaching. 

The  Lord's  Summons  to  seek  and  save 
the  world;  the  christian's  personal  Re- 
sponsibility for  the  work  of  evangeliza- 
tion; the  principle  of  Stewardship  in  re- 


IT2 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


lation  to  all  wealth,  power  or  ability; 
the  strategic  Opportunity  of  the  times 
and  of  youth  in  this  generation;  the  in- 
finite Resources  of  Him  who  sends  us 
"forth  to  war";  the  place  of  .Prayer  in 
our  strenuous  endeavor;  and  the  Vic- 
tory which  is  promised  in  the  name  of 
King  Emmanuel. 

(i)  We  must  enlarge  the  number  and 
scope  of  our  Mission  Study  classes.  The 
campaign  of  education  must  never  cease. 
The  enrollment  must  include,  several 
times  before  he  is  twenty,  every  youth  in 
the  church  and  school.  Our  war-cry 
must  be,  "  Classes  in  every  church;  all 
our  youth  in  a  class  every  four  years." 

Every  society  should  have  two  classes 
at  least.  The  pastor  should  organize  a 
third.  Let  him  remember  that  when 
Rome  widened  her  conquest  she  short- 
ened her  sword.  Close  range  work  by 
the  pastor  will  lead  to  conquest.  I  am 
at  least  as  busy  as  the  average  pastor, 
but  I  have  had  six  classes  in  the  last 
eighteen  months.  Let  Senior  Endeavor- 
ers  lead  classes  among  the  Juniors. 
Interest  waits  on  information  and  action 
on  direction.  One  interested  man  or 
woman  can  inaugurate  a  mighty  cam- 
paign. Are  you  interested?  Will  you 
lead? 

(2)  We  must  increase  the  preparation 
and  circulation  of  attractive  literature. 
Much  may  be  wasted.  Not  all  seed  .gets 
into  good  ground.  Some  of  it  will  be 
put  under  carpets.  But  any  that  gets  on 
good  ground  brings  immense  fruitage. 
We  dare  to  be  as  prodigal  in  sowing  as 
the  forces  of  evil.  It  is  quite  possible 
to  be  penny-wise  and  pound  foolish. 

Let  us  remember  that  an  Ohio  liquor 
dealer  advised  his  associates  to  create 
appetite  in  the  boys  on  the  ground  that 
nickels  spent  in  this  way  would  return 
in  dollars  later  on.  If  we  train  our 
youth  we  cannot  afford  to  be  stingy  with 
the  supplies.  Facts  arouse  feeling  and 
feeling  will  crystallize  into  action. 

(3)  Let  us  put  the  Home  Missionary 
magazine,  that  arsenal  of  facts  and  in- 
spiration, into  the  hands  of  every  pastor, 
the  president  of  every  Endeavor  society, 
the  chairman  of  every  Missionary  com- 
mittee, and  of  every  Sunday-school 
superintendent.  If  we  cannot  induce 
them  to  take  it,  if  the  mission  study 
class  will  not  furnish  it,  if  the  society 
cannot  get  it,  then  let  us  donate  it. 

(4)  Let  us  have  more  missionary  les- 
sons in  the  Sunday-school.  They  must 
be  incorporated  adequately  in  the  Inter- 
national and  all  other  lesson  systems. 
Until  we  get  them  let  us  have  quarterly 
or  more  frequent  presentation  by  the 
pastor  or  any  competent  leader.  This 
might  be  made  coincident  with  the  of- 
fering for  missions,  in  which  the  school 
should  share.     Missionary  text  books  for 


Sunday-schools  are  now  available.  They 
are  suggestive  and  helpful.  We  need 
more  literature  for  instruction,  informa- 
tion, inspiration. 

One  text-book  every  school  already 
possesses.  Our  Baptist  brethren  are 
right  when  they  print  this  syllogism  on 
their  leaflet  about  Foreign  Missions  and 
the    Sunday-school: 

"  The  Bible  is  the  text-book  of  the 
Bible-school;  the  Bible  is  the  text-book 
of  missions;  therefore  the  Bible-school  is 
the  place  for  teaching  missions." 

Over  and  over  again  let  us  declare  that 
the  Sunday-school  is  the  church  at  work 
studying  and  teaching  the  Word.  It  is 
the  place,  therefore,  as  Dr.  Capen  well 
says,  to  teach  about  giving  and  to  dignify 
it;  to  teach  denominational  duty;  to  fix 
habit  in  the  right  direction;  to  show 
that  the  largest  results  come  through 
responsible  agencies,  such  as  our  church 
Missionary  Boards.  All  this  implies  the 
training  of  the  teacher  in  these  funda- 
mentals. 

(5)  Let  us  have  more  sermon  instruc- 
tion on  the  missionary  fields,  forces, 
needs  and  leaders  to-day.  That  pastor 
is  almost  inexcusable  who  does  not  feel 
and  cannot  communicate  the  fire  that 
burns  in  these  things.  The  christian 
conquest  of  America  is  a  tale  of  thrilling 
historic  interest  and  prophetic  with 
power.  It  is  all  right  to  preach  about 
"Gladstone,  the  Christian  Premier"; 
"Washington,  the  father"  etc.;  and 
"  Lincoln,  the  savior  of  his  country." 
But  we  need  as  much  at  least  to  know 
of  the  Brainerds  and  Becks,  the  Wards 
and  Whitmans,  who  have  leavened  the 
nation  and  saved  the  republic.  Let  other 
Brainerds  read  of  Eliot  as  Martyn  read 
of  Brainerd  and  Pitkin  of  Martyn.  We 
can  make  our  churches  familiar  with  the 
biographies  of  the  builders. 

(6)  Let  us  reprint  and  retell  the 
story  of  the  Iowa  Band  and  their  later 
worthy  imitators.  Why  should  these 
get  out  of  print,  out  of  mind,  out  of  ser- 
vice? 

(7)  Furthermore  we  must  preserve 
and  arouse  our  denominational  con- 
sciousness. If  we  have  a  denominational 
mission  we  have  a  denominational  duty. 
If  we  have  a  denominational  duty  we 
must  preserve  our  consciousness.  We 
have  no  more  right  to  commit  denom- 
inational suicide  than  to  commit  personal 
suicide, — indeed  less  right,  for  the  effects 
would  be  fatal  to  far  more  people  and 
interests. 

We  must,  therefore,  make  more  of  de- 
nominational and  missionary  catechisms. 
We  must  see  that  suitable  excerpts  find 
place  in  our  local  church  papers,  calen- 
dars, year  books.  Stock  cuts  and  mate- 
rial should  be  prepared,  made  accessible. 
A   step    in   the   right    direction   has    been 


THE  YOUNG  PEOPLE  OF  THE  CHURCHES 


113 


made  by  many  pastors.  Recent  valuable 
contributions  on  "  Congregational  Faith 
and  Practice,"  by  Dr.  Anderson;  and  on 
"  Congregationalists:  Who  They  Are, 
What  They  Do,"  by  Dr.  Prudden,  are  il- 
lustrations  in  point. 

Direction. 
We  need  (1)   clear  and  repeated  state- 
ments of  the  work  which  can  be  accom- 
plished    by     specific     sums     of     money. 

(2)  Suggestions  as  to  the  division  of 
gifts  will  be  useful.  That  is,  if  a  given 
society  can  raise  $io_,  let  us  have  a  sug- 
gestion as  to  its  division  among  the  va- 
rious    Boards     based     on     their     needs. 

(3)  Let  us  enforce  the  fact  that  while 
it  is  right  to  give  all  we  can  to  needy 
people  in  San  Francisco  it  is  not  right 
to  starve  home  missionaries  in  Montana 
or  Michigan.  Sympathy  and  sense  must 
walk  hand  in  hand. 

(4)  Some  form  of  the  Station  plan  of 
the  American  Board  and  of  shareholding 
by  the  young  people's  societies  or  Sun- 
day-schools will  be  effective.  With  $50 
you  can  support,  in  a  measure,  a  home 
mission  field,  have  it  assigned  to  your 
society,  receive  reports  as  to  its  condi- 
tion, become  identified  with  its  life,  needs 
and  progress.  Two  or  more  societies 
might  be  grouped  together  to  raise  this 
sum. 

(5)  Smaller  gifts  can  be  applied  to 
specific  objects.  Many  societies  could 
support  a  home  missionary's  out-station. 
Some  of  these  pioneer  preachers  have 
two  or  three  remote  and  needy  fields 
where  they  preach,  in  addition  to  the 
central  station  where  they  live.  (6)  Some 
societies  might  give  the  cost  of  a  horse 
or  carriage  or  both;  might  pay  the  cost 
of  repairs  or  of  shoeing  the  horse,  or  of 
feeding  him.  Others  could  pay  for  a 
ton  of  coal,  or  more  as  needed.  They 
might  furnish  the  money  to  send  a  faith- 
ful missionary  to  the  Association,  or  to 
provide  him  with  books  and  papers. 
Where  there's  a  will  to  do,  there's  a  way 
to  co-operate. 

(7)  In  all  this  work  the  pastor  must 
take  the  lead,  advise  with  his  young  peo- 
ple, direct  their  plans  and  encourage 
their  culmination.  If  500  pastors  were 
to  do  it  next  month,  there  would  be  500 
societies  and  2,500  young  people  enlisted 
in  specific  help  for  home  missionary 
freedom  and  extension. 

Expansion. 

Finally,  ought  we  not  to  keep  alive  in 
our  churches  the  large  and  victorious 
faith  of  William  Carey,  enunciated  in  his 
historic  appeal: 

"  Expect  great  things  from  God; 
Attempt  great  things  for  God." 

Let  us  ask  for  large  and  definite 
things  in  money.  We  need  Congrega- 
tional christians,  with  hearts  afire  for 
God,  to  rally  the  rank  and  file  by  the  in- 
spiration of  great   gifts.     We  need   Con- 


gregational young  people  who  here  and 
now  consecrate  themselves  to  the  splen- 
did life  work  of  making  money  for  the 
Kingdom. 

It  will  do  us  good  to  hear  again  and 
tell  afar  the  testimony  of  Alpheus  Hardy,, 
of  Boston.  He  was  speaking  to  a  Fra- 
ternity at  Amherst  College,  and  this  is 
what  he  said: 

"  I  am  not  a  college  man,  and  it  was 
the  bitter  disappointment  of  my  life 
that  I  could  not  be  one.  I  wanted  to  go 
to  college  and  become  a  minister;  went 
to  Phillips  Academy  to  fit.  My  health 
broke  down,  and  in  spite  of  my  deter- 
mined hope  of  being  able  to  go  on,  at 
last  the  truth  was  forced  on  me  that  I 
could  not.  To  tell  my  disappointment  is 
impossible.  It  seemed  as  if  all  my  hope 
and  purpose  and  interest  in  life  were  de- 
feated. '  I  cannot  be  God's  minister,' 
was  the  sentence  that  kept  rolling 
through  my  mind. 

"  When  that  fact  at  last  became  cer- 
tain to  me,  one  evening,  alone  in  my 
room,  my  distress  was  so  great  that  I 
threw  myself  flat  on  the  floor.  The 
voiceless  cry  of  my  soul  was,  '  O  God,  I 
cannot  be  thy  minister-'  _  Then  there 
came  to  me  as  I  lay  s.  vision, — a  new 
hope,  a  perception  that  I  could  serve  God 
in  business  with  the  same  devotion  as 
in  preaching,  and  that  to  make  money 
for  God  might  be  my  sacred  calling. 
The  vision  of  this  service,  and  its  nature 
as  a  sacred  ministry,  were  so  clear  and 
joyous  that  I  rose  to  my  feet  and  with 
new  hope  in  my  heart  exclaimed  aloud, 
'  O  God,  I  can  be  thy  minister!  I  will 
go  back  to  Boston.  I  will  make  money 
for  God,  and  that  shall  be  my  ministry.' 

'  From  that  time,'  continued  Mr. 
Hardy,  •  I  have  felt  myself  to  be  as 
much  appointed  and  ordained  to  make 
money  for  God  as  if  I  had  been  permitted 
to  carry  out  my  own  plan  and  been  or- 
dained to  preach  the  Gospel.  _  I  am  God's 
man,  and  the  ministry  to  which  God  has 
called  me  is  to  make  and  administer 
money  for  him,  and  I  consider  myself 
responsible  to  discharge  this  ministry 
and  to  give  account  of  it  to  Him.'  " 

Some  of  us  may  go  home  and  lead  our 
young  people  to  make  the  same  splendid 
resolve.  We  may  put  before  them 
some  such  concrete  consecrative  purpose 
as  this: 

"  God  helping  me,  I  will  earn  and  give 
to  the  Lord  all  the  money  I  can,  as  long 
as  I  live.  It  belongs  to  Him,  and  I  want 
to  be  a  good  steward  of  what  He  gives 
me.  I  may  not  be  able  to  spend  all  my 
time  in  direct  work  for  Him,  but  I  will 
try  to  support  freely  all  others  who  can. 
If  the  Lord  lets  me  handle  a  great  deal 
of  money,  I  will  try  to  be  proportionately 
generous  and  not  give  a  dime  where  I 
should  give  dollars.  With  His  help  I 
will  grow  in  the  grace  of  giving  as  well 
as  of  living." 


OUR    UNDEVELOPED    RESOURCES   IN    THE    WOMEN 

OF  THE  CHURCHES 

By   Mrs.  A.  G.  West,  Worcester,   M^ss. 


THERE  is  no  record  of  a  Woman's 
Missionary  Society  at  Rome  or 
Corinth  in  Paul's  day.  Indeed  we 
have  reason  to  believe  that  the  great 
"  Missionary  to  the  Gentiles  "  might  not 
have  looked  with  approval  upon  such  an 
organization.  And  yet  nobody  in  all  the 
centuries  since  has  ever  gone  so  straight 
to  the  heart  of  women's  missionary  prob- 
lems as  did  St.  Paul  in  his  letters  to  the 
Roman  and  Corinthian  Christians.  He 
was  not  writing  of  missionary  problems, 
but  of  the  needs  of  individual  character; 
nevertheless,  the  eternal  principle  he 
laid  down  is  just  as  true,  and  just  as 
fundamental  in  the  case  of  the  Christian 
organization  as  in  that  of  the  individual 
life,  the  great  underlying  principle  of  a 
three-fold  nature,  compounded  of  the 
physical,  the  intellectual,  and  the  spir- 
itual. It  is  with  the  resources  of  a  three- 
fold womanhood  that  we  have  to  do,  a 
three-fold  womanhood  in  missionary  or- 
ganizations. 

I  saw  once  a  composite  photograph  of 
a  college  class  of  200  girls.  It  was  not  a 
group  picture,  but  a  single  face,  the  typi- 
cal college  girl  of  erect  pose,  self-reliant 
air,  quiet  dress  of  fashionable  cut,  fluffy 
hair  rolled  back  from  the  face,  the  pic- 
ture of  one  individual  college  girl, 
though  200  different  girls  sat  for  the 
photograph.  Exactly  so  with  a  woman's 
missionary  organization.  It  is  a  unit, 
with  the  identical  features  of  the  average 
Christian  woman,  all  of  her  besetting 
weaknesses  and  every  one  of  her  splendid 
resources.  The  organization  differs  from 
the  individual  simply  in  the  fact  that  its 
assets  and  liabilities  are  not  the  average, 
but  the  sum  total  of  the  twenty  or  two 
hundred  sets  of  individual  assets. 

O  the  wealth  of  the  Congregational 
church  in  its  woman  power!  Four  hun- 
dred thousand  women  considerably  above 
the  nation's  average  in  inheritance  and 
education,  and  every  one  of  the  400,000 
standing  for  ten  times  as  many  units  of 
force.  Why  ten  times?  Because,  com- 
pared with  the  Oriental  woman  who  lis- 
tened that  long  ago  day  on  the  Mount 
of  Olives  when  Jesus  told  the  talent  par- 
able, it  is  a  poor  helpless  creature  to-day 
in  this  favored  land  that  does  not  have 
at  least  ten  talents   at   her  command. 

We  have  grown  into  a  habit  of  think- 
ing it  modest  and  becoming  to  claim  only 
one  talent,  or  at  most  two.  I  defy  any 
woman  here  to  sit  down  and  count  her 
gifts  on  her  fingers,  and  not  find  the  fin- 
gers   too    few    for    the    count.     We    have 


given  a  wrong  meaning  to  the  words  "  a 
gifted  woman."  We  shrink  from  apply- 
ing the  name  to  ourselves,  as  if  it  car- 
ried self-praise.  But  suppose  we  think 
of  the  word  in  its  true  meaning,  a  woman 
whose  life  is  full  of  blessings  bestowed, 
and  who  of  us  will  not  claim  the  adjec- 
tive? Out  of  our  manifold  blessings  let 
us  for  a  moment  count  those  that  are 
transferable,  that  carry  the  power  to  en- 
rich our  neighbor's  life  as  well  as  our 
own.     See  how  inspiring  the  list  will  be! 

To  begin  at  the  very  lowest  type  of 
resource,  dead  metal,  gold,  silver,  brass, 
things  which  Jesus  told  his  first  appren- 
tice band  of  missionaries  they  need  not 
burden  themselves  with.  In  these  days 
of  national  prosperity,  there  is  not  one 
of  us  but  controls  the  spending  of  money. 
According  to  the  recent  summary  in  a 
Chicago  daily,  of  the  great  benevolences 
of  the  past  year,  it  was  proved  that  a 
large  share  of  the  nation's  wealth  is  in 
the  hands  of  women.  The  trouble  with 
our  disquieting  account  books  is  not  that 
we  handle  so  little  money,  but  that  we 
spend  it  with  such  idiotic  inconsistency. 
Christian  Stewards  spending  barely  $1  in 
each  $75  on  distinctively  Christian  work! 
Who  of  us  could  face  without  a  flush  of 
mortification  a  classified  list  of  our  last 
year's  expenditures,  the  two  classes 
headed  respectively  "  Per  order  of  Con- 
science "  and  "  Per  order  of  Madam 
Grundy?  " 

But  money  is  far  from  being  our  only 
material  endowment  capable  of  being  put 
to  our  neighbor's  service  with  a  view  to 
advancing  the  interests  of  the  Kingdom 
of  Heaven.  We  have  guest  chambers 
have  books  and  pictures  to  send  on  er- 
that  may  receive  an  angel  unawares.  We 
rands  of  inspiration.  Even  the  empty 
flour  barrel  has  a  missionary  potentiality. 

A  grade  higher  than  dead  material, 
come  our  physical  endowments,  ten  tal- 
ents here,  not  counting  the  gray  matter 
of  the  brain.  How  much  power  of  this 
class  goes  to  waste,  either  through  over- 
sight or  deliberate  misuse!  A  story-tell- 
ing power  that  might  make  missionary 
history  fascinating,  resorts  to  silly  gos- 
sip that  dulls  the  sympathies  of  both 
speaker  and  listener.  Fingers  that  might 
make  a  needle  lift  a  missionary  house- 
wife's burden  and  set  a  woman  free  for 
higher  task,  shame  themselves  by  sewing 
trifles  not  worth  the  thread  wasted.  An 
artistic  hand,  that  could  keep  a  frontier 
Sunday-school  supplied  with  bewitching 
lesson    charts,    fritters    away    its    skill    on 


THE  WOMEN  OF  THE  CHURCHES 


"5 


dinner  cards.  A  faithful  New  England 
woman  once  said,  "  We  have  no  money 
to  give,  and  I  can't  talk  in  meeting,  but 
I  can  tramp  for  missions,"  and  effective 
service  she  rendered  with  her  conse- 
crated feet.  The  "  Great  Commission " 
to  human  lips  was  simply  "  Ye  are  my 
witnesses."  Witnesses  are  not  expected 
to  give  the  lawyer's  plea,  nor  the  judge's 
charge,  but  only  to  tell  "what  great 
things   the    Lord  hath   done" 

The  psychological  effect  upon  an  au- 
dience, of  beauty  of  face  or  garments,  is 
a  topic  never  seen  on  a  missionary  pro- 
gramme. Is  it  wise  to  ignore  it  alto- 
gether, when  one  of  the  commonest  ob- 
jections made  to  missionary  work  by  the 
frankness  of  youth  is  "  I  don't  want  any- 
thing to  do  with  missions  if  it  will  end  in 
my  dressing  like  that!  "  Attractiveness 
in  externals  is  a  talent  to  be  reckoned 
with  on  earth  and  accounted  for  in 
heaven. 

There  is  another  physical  gift  granted 
to  some  women,  a  gift  more  precious 
than  beauty  of  face,  namely:  winsomeness 
of  manner,  the  power  to  please,  the  in- 
stinct to  say  the  right  thing  at  the  right 
time.  This  talent,  diligently  cultivated, 
becomes  a  pre-eminent  qualification  for 
leadership.  The  pages  of  history  record 
plenty  of  women  who  have  used  the 
precious  gift  for  evil  purpose.  Political 
ambition  has  often  resorted  to  it  with 
great  success.  But  among  missionary 
agencies,  who  ever  hears  it  named?  If 
the  thought  does  cross  the  mind,  it  is 
brushed  aside  as  a  political  device  savor- 
ing of  evil.  We  associate  the  idea,  for 
some  unaccountable  reason  with  nets  and 
traps.  In  reverent  memory  of  a  scene 
at  gray  dawn  by  the  Lake  of  Galilee 
when  Jesus  made  his  weary  disciples  the 
significant  promise,  "  I  will  make  you 
fishers  of  men,"  would  it  be  an  ignoble 
resolve  on  our  parts  to  promise  that  we 
will  cultivate  whatever  power  of  person- 
ality we  may  possess,  for  the  deliberate 
purpose  of  increasing  our  missionary  ef- 
ficiency. We  choose  our  friends.  What 
motive  has  hitherto  most  often  guided 
the  choice?  Have  we  ever  stooped  to 
anything  so  low  as  sordid  self-interest? 
What  would  happen  if  every  one  of  our 
400,000  should  set  out  to  make  one  new 
friend,  with  a  view  to  the  advancement 
of  the  Kingdom  of  Heaven  upon  earth? 

If  there  is  one  class  of  gifts  that  (more 
than  any  other)  women  are  shy  to  ac- 
knowledge, it  is  the  gifts  of  intellect.  But 
over-modesty  in  this  respect  leads  many 
a  woman  to  pass  by  a  wide  open  door. 
To  be  truthful  with  ourselves  is  better 
than  to  be  self-depreciating,  and  is  vastly 
more  advantageous  to  the  cause  of  mis- 
sions. Every  single  intellectual  gift  that 
a  woman  can  use  in  home  or  social  life, 
in  school  or  club,  in  literature  or  journal- 
ism, or  professional  life,  has  its  rich  op- 
portunity in  the  missionary  organization. 


If  our  Congregational  women  would,  for 
just  one  year  tithe  their  intellectual  ex- 
penditures, it  would  give  a  marvellous 
impetus  to  the  cause  of  missions. 

We  women  are  said  to  be  weak  in 
"  Constructive  thinking."  This  is  per- 
haps due,  in  part,  to  the  fact  that  we  live 
in  a  conventional  age,  when  it  is  looked 
upon  as  inadvisable  to  depart  far  from 
established  grooves.  However  that  may 
be  in  domestic  or  social  affairs,  there  are 
certainly  no  grooves  in  mission  work  so 
deeply  worn  as  to  jar  society  seriously  if 
women  should  depart  therefrom  and  re- 
sort occasionally  to  original  plan- 
nings.  Here  is  a  wide  field,  and  a  be- 
seeching call,  for  "  constructive  think- 
ing." It  is  high  time  for  us  to  stretch 
forth  these  withered  minds  of  ours. 
How?  Exactly  as  we  do  other  things 
that  we  have  not  done  hitherto,  by  trying 
and  failing,  and  then  trying  over  again, 
and  again,  until  we  succeed,  in  skating, 
or  making  puff  paste,  or  leading  in 
prayer,  as  the  case  may  be.  For  instance, 
•  what  better  service  to  missions  could  a 
woman  of  brain  talent  render,  than  to 
work  out  an  enticing  scheme  of  "  asso- 
ciate membership  "  in  the  mission  circle, 
corresponding  somewhat  to  the  "  Home 
Department "  of  the  Sunday-school,  by 
which  all  of  the  "  shut-ins,"  and  the 
school  or  office  women,  and  the  hundreds 
of  other  "  too  busy "  people  could  be 
entrapped  into  partnership  with  those 
who  are  free  to  attend  the  meetings.  Or 
let  some  one,  who  understands  children, 
invent  a  type  of  missionary  programme 
that  shall  appeal  to  the  small  boy,  and 
shall  fix  forever  in  his  growing  mind 
three  facts,  one  for  each  side  of  his  little 
three-fold  nature,  the  material  fact  that 
he  has  a  pair  of  hands  good  for  work 
as  well  as  play;  the  intellectual  fact  that 
some  other  boy,  just  as  dear  as  he,  has 
not  half  his  chance;  and  the  spiritual  fact 
that  Christ  can  multiply  a  boy's  small  en- 
deavor to-day,  just  as  easily  as  he  mul- 
tiplied the  little  lad's  loaves  and  fishes  in 
Galilee. 

The  Old  Testament  story  of  the  wid- 
ow's cruse  of  oil  was  a  parable  given  to 
teach  the  twentieth  century  woman  the 
use  of  her  intellectual  resources.  She 
may  spend  her  brain-power  sparingly  on 
self-indulgent  trifles,  and  find  it  steadily 
degenerating.  But  if  she  pours  it  out 
lavishly  in  service  for  others,  at  the  Mas- 
ter's bidding,  she  will  find  to  her  amaze- 
ment that  it  not  only  wastes  not,  but 
actually  increases  with  the  using  This  is 
a  literal  physiological  fact,  to  which  many 
an  experimenting  Christian  will  grate- 
fully testify. 

Then  to  come  to  the  third  and  high- 
est class  of  resources,  our  marvellous 
powers  of  heart  and  soul.  Human 
knowledge  stands  only  on  the  threshold 
of  acquaintance  with  the  scope  of  these 
powers.     But   the   glory   and   triumph   of 


n6 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


the  new  birth,  as  a  conscious  child  of 
God,  is  that  it  opens  a  door  into  a  world 
full  of  power  hitherto  closed  to  us. 
With  blind  eyes  opened,  and  deaf  ears 
unstopped,  and  dumb  lips  anointed,  and 
palsied  hands  new-nerved,  we  are  priv- 
ileged to  begin  here  and  now,  this  side 
of  the  pearly  gates,  upon  our  part  of 
heavenly  service.  Look  in  the  New  Tes- 
tament for  guide  posts  to  this  new  life 
of  service,  and  you  will  be  startled  to 
see  how  plain  becomes  the  teaching  we 
have  mis-read  so  long.  Directions  that 
before  seemed  so  impracticable,  about 
love  and  sacrifice  and  wonder-working 
and  power  in  prayer,  interpret  them- 
selves    easily     to     the     spirit-filled     life. 


They  were  never  meant  to  apply  to  the 
old    self-centered    existence. 

a  missionary  society  signs  its  own  death 
warrant  when  it  turns  all  its  thoughts  to 
culivating  its  material  resources  as  of  par- 
amount importance.  On  the  other  hand, 
the  society  which  turns  its  best  energies  of 
thought  and  purpose  to  exalt  and  develop 
and  utilize  its  spiritual  resources,  opens 
a  door  for  itself  into  life  and  growth  and 
boundless    efficiency. 

Not,  that  upon  this  material  earth,  the 
Kingdom  of  God  can  come  without  the 
large  use  of  material  agencies,  but  that 
Christ's  promise  stands  for  the  organiza- 
tion, no  less  than  for  the  individual  soul, 
"  Seek  ye  first  the  Kingdom  of  God,  and 
all  these  things  shall  be  added  unto 
you." 


R-EV.     W.     G.     PUDDEFOOT 


THE  above  portrait  was  intended  to  accompany  the  address  of  Mr.  Puddefoot  at 
Oak  Park.  As  no  stenographer  was  found  equal  to  the  feat  of  reporting  him,  and 
as  the  speaker  himself  found  it  equally  difficult,  there  is  nothing  left  but  to  present  the 
speaking  likeness  of  our  field  secretary,  without  his  speech. 


GREETING  FROM  THE  CANADIAN  HOME  MISSIONARY 

SOCIETY 
E.   M.   Hill,   D.D.,   Montreal 


I  BRING  greetings  from  a  society,  50 
years  young,  to  our  big  sister  that 
has  made  eighty  years  of  splendid 
history. 

Representing  the  Canadian  Home  Mis- 
sionary Society,  I  am  not  sure  but  we 
have  a  right  here,  instead  of  a  guest's 
privilege.  Eighty  years  ago  you  chose 
a  large  name  for  your  society.  It  had 
the  magic  word  AMERICAN  in  it.  Now 
we  whose  pleasure  it  is  to  dwell  north  of 
the  line  that  divides  us  modestly  claim 
that  we  are  inside  that  adjective.  And 
when  you  changed  your  name  to  Congre- 
gational, some  of  us  up  there  do  not  feel 
that  you  shut  us  out.  The  growing  self- 
consciousness  and  self-respect  of  the 
Canadian  nation  has  put  an  end  to  any 
dreams  of  political  annexation.  Canada 
has  become  too  rich  and  promising  to 
relish  being  annexed,  and  she  has  re- 
sources and  problems  enough  on  her 
hands  to  care  for  annexing  yours.  But 
our  various  churches  are  co-operating 
and  will  do  so  more  and  more.  The 
great  parliament  of  man  can  only  come 
through  a  service  of  man  for  Christ's 
sake,  that  knows   no   distinctions. 

The  Canada  Congregational  Missionary 
Society  represents  a  small  group  of 
churches,  less  than  150  in  number.  But 
one  of  our  assets  is  our  pride  in  our  sis- 
ter down  here.  Her  prestige,  her  lib- 
erty, her  fine  organization  are  something 
for  us  to  conjure  with.  We  know  your 
record  down  from  the  days  of  Marcus 
Whitman,  through  the  Illinois  Band,  the 
Iowa  Band,  the  Dakota  and  Washington 
Bands,  and  all  your  work  in  saving  Amer- 
ica for  Christ.  We  have  not  been  able 
to  do  large  things.  Canada  has  been 
largely  pioneered  by  Scotch  Presbyte- 
rians and  English  Methodists  and  Epis- 
copalians. We  have  had  to  make  our 
way  among  highly  organized  churches 
with  strong  denominational  loyalty. 
These  churches  have  done  a  fine  work 
for  Home  Missions  and  we  praise  them 
for  it.  But  in  the  last  three  years  our 
northwest  has  been  growing  by  leaps  and 
bounds,  and  we  want  to  do  a  worthy  work 
there. 

I  have  been  told  that  your  Iowa 
has  lost  10,000  citizens  within  a  few  years, 
if  not  in  one  year.  Where  are  they? 
You  know  how  the  lion  and  the  lamb  lie 
down  together.  Well,  out  there  on  our 
eastern  prairies  we  have  found  the 
British  lion  and  the  lambs  of  your  fold 


together.  Those  prairies  were  hungry 
for  them  and  they  were  very  appetizing 
to  our  railway  and  land  companies. 
Those  men  from  your  western  states 
are  the  best  immigrants  we  receive. 
They  need  no  nursing  and  no  bounty. 
They  know  where  to  go  and  how 
to  get  there.  They  are  energetic 
and  resourceful.  Every  one,  it  is  calcu- 
lated, is  worth  $5,000  to  the  country  be- 
cause of  his  manhood,  and,  on  an  aver- 
age, every  one  brings  $2,000  worth  of 
goods  with  him.  They  are  attracted  be- 
cause they  can  sell  their  well-tilled  farms 
for  $40  an  acre,  and,  without  going  far, 
get  new  ones  for  $5  or  $10,  and  raise 
wheat  that  your  millers  have  begun  to 
buy  to  raise  the  standard  of  their  flour. 

Seven  years  ago  the  Canadian  govern- 
ment began  to  advertise  our  wheat  fields 
throughout  your  states.  It  was  met  by 
cynical  smiles  when  it  began.  But  200,000 
of  your  people  have  come  up  there  in 
response.  They  have  come  40,000  a 
year,  and  60,000  are  expected  this  year. 
They  cannot  make  exact  statistics,  but 
out  of  31,000  a  year  ago,  7,500  came  from 
Minnesota,  7,000  from  North  Dakota, 
2,500  from  Iowa,  1,700  from  Montana, 
and  1,500  each  from  Wisconsin,  Illinois 
and  Michigan.  Of  all  these,  nine-tenths 
are  farmers.  To-day  Canada  is  forging 
ahead  more  rapidly  than  any  other  na- 
tion. There  is  a  belt  of  farm  land  there 
1,000  miles  long  and  500  miles  wide. 
Only  one  acre  in  30  is  under  cultivation. 
Two  hundred  million  acres  are  fit  for 
cultivation.  You  think  it  is  a  cold  coun- 
try. But  the  isothermal  line  makes  a 
sharp  bend  to  the  north  when  you  go 
west  of  Winnipeg,  and  more  grain  is 
raised  to  an  acre  than  in  your  western 
states,  and,  on  account  of  the  longer 
summer  days  in  the  north  the  grain 
ripens  in   a  smaller  number  of  days. 

At  this  juncture  of  history  we  bring 
our  greetings  to  you,  and  I  close  by  say- 
ing, First,  we  do  not  ask  for  your  money. 

Second,  we  would  welcome  co-opera- 
tion, guidance  and  perhaps  superinten- 
dency,  for  we  have  not  the  experience 
and  organization  to  enable  us  to  work 
most    wisely. 

Third,  I  want  to  send  out  through  your 
state  officers  and  ministers  an  earnest  re- 
quest that  the  names  of  emigrating  ad- 
herents be  sent  to  our  secretary,  with  the 
locality  where  they  are  going.  His  name 
is  Rev.  William  Mcintosh,  McLeod 
street,       Ottawa,       Canada. 


APPOINTMENTS  AND  RECEIPTS 


APPOINTMENTS 


April,    iqo6. 


Not  in  commission  last  year. 

Andrewson,  A.  J.,  District  missionary  in  So.  Min- 
nesota. 

Campbell,  Harry  M.,  Orange  City.  Fla.;  Coffin,  Jos- 
eph, Missionary  and  General  Missionary  in  Georgia. 

Davis,  Volentine  T.,  Prirtt,  Texas. 

Herrick,  Solomon  G.,  Cocoanut  Grove,  Fla. 

Kendall,  Robert  R.,  New  Smyrna  and  Sanford, 
Fla  ;  Krook,  Cornelius.  Pomona,  Fla. 

Laybourn,  G.  M.,  Meadows,  So.  Idaho;  Luter,  Elves 
D.,  Panasoffkee  and  Moss  Bluff,  Fla. 

Meyer,  William  H..  Clackamas  Ore. 

Ober,  Miss  S.  E.,  Myers  Falls,  Wash. 

Pearson,  L  O  ,  Dunning  and  Viciaity,  Neb.;  Pharr, 
Theodore  A  ,  Dothan,  Ala.;  Pope,  G.  S.,  Oacoma,  So. 
Dak. 

Eawson  George  H  ,  Curtis,  Neb  ;  Riley,  William 
W.,  Oil  Center,  Cal.;  Rose,  Lancon,  P.,  Tavares,  Fla. 

Sanderson,  H.,  Villa  Park,  Denver,  Colo. 

Thompson,  E.  L.,  Denver,  Colo.;  Triplet,  H.  M., 
Shickley,  Neb. 

Walton,  George  B.,  New  Smyrna,  Fla. 

Re-commissioned. 

Albrecht,  George  E..  Minneapolis,  Minn.;  Anderson 
C  G.,  Kasota,  Minn.;  Andrewson,  Severt  M.,  Winona, 
Minn. 

Bolin,  N,  J.,  B'gers,  Minn.;  Baker,  W.  H.,  Cary- 
ville,  Fla.;  Barber,  Jerome  M.,  Beaverton,  Ore.; 
Bartholomew,  Noyes  O.,  Denver,  Colo..  Bates,  George 
E.,  Birmingham,  Ala.;  Bickford,  Warren  F.,  Musko- 
gee, Ind.  Ter.:  Bishop,  A.  W.,  Sparks  and  Forest 
Grove,  Okla.;  Bloom,  Karl  J.,  Clear  Lake,  Wis. ;  Bobb, 
Joseph  C,  Whitewafer,  Colo.;  Branan,  S.  R.,  Clio, 
Ala.;  Brown,  Albert  R.,  Mankato,  Minn.;  Brown,  Dan- 
iel M.,  Chamberlain,  So.  Dak.;  Byers,  Ralph  C, 
Brighton,  Colo. 

Cheadle,  Stephen  H.,  Colorado  Springs,  Colo.; 
Childs,  Luca  i  S.,  Coldwater  and  Pleasant  View, 
Okla  ;  Clark,  Orville  C  ,  Missoula.  Mont.;  Clews, 
William,  Fairmont,  Ind.;  Collins,  George  B.,  Mc- 
Loud,  Okla  ;  Corneliussen,  F.  A.,  Jame-itown,  N.  Y.; 
Crabtree,  Allan,  Sherman,  Texas;  Craig,  John  E., 
Farnam,  Neb.;  Croker,  John,  Bertrand,  Neb.;  Curtis, 
Norman  R.,  Pueblo,  Colo. 

Dahlgren,John  A.,  Dover,  N  J.;  Davies,  William  C, 
Olyphant,  Penn  ;Detch,  Albert  G.,  Indianapolis.  Ind. ; 
Dyer,  Thomas  L.,  Dunkirk,  Ind.;  Dyrness,  C.  T., 
Editor  of    Evan%  listen; 

Eckel.  Frank  E\Rye,  Colo  ;  Edgar,  E.  H.,  Julesburg, 
Colo.:  Euglund.  Theodore,  Plainrield,  N.  J. 

Fellows,  C  B.,  General  Missionarv  and  Evangelist 
in  Minnesota;  Frazee,  John  H.,  Knoxville,  Tenn.; 
Fulgham,  Philip  O.,  Shipshewana  and  Oatario,  Ind.; 
Futch,  James  M..  Elarbee,  Fla. 

Gallagher,  George  W.  Geddes,  South  Dakota; 
Garvin,  Hugh  C.,  Jenning,  Oklahoma,  Gasque, 
Wallace,  Gilmore,  Ga  ;  Gray,  David  B.,  Gen- 
eral Missionary  in   Oregon. 

Hecker,  M.  C.  Chickasha.  Indian  Territory;  Hagg- 
quist,  Frank  G.,  Wojd  Lake  and  Doctors 
Lake,  Wis.:  Haughland,  Lars  N..  Maple  Valley  and 
Pulcifer,  Wis.;  Healey,  SullivanS.,   Helena,   Mont.; 


Heglin,  Samuel  S.,  Gettysburg,  So.  Dak.;  Herrick,  E. 
P.,  Matanzas,  Cuba;  Hodges,  H.  A.,  Weatherford, 
Okla.;  Hullinger,  F.  W  .  Colorado  City,  Colo.;  Hyatt, 
Albert  R.,  Okarche,  Okla. 

Jackson,  Preston  B.,  Plains,  Montana;  Je- 
linek,  Joseph,  Milwaukee,  Wis.;  Johnson,  Har- 
ry W.,  West  Duluth,  Minnesota;  Johnson, 
John  E.  V.,   Titusville,   Penn. 

Kirchner,  A.  F.  C,  Granby,  Mo.;  Kraemer,  J.  H., 
Hay  Springs,  Neb. 

Lange,  J.  G  ,  General  Missionary  in  Oklahoma; 
Lemmon,  William  G.,  Guthrie,  Okla.;  Lindslay,  Edwin 
E.,  New  York  Mills,  Minn.;  Loud,  Oliver  B.,  Lawton, 
Okla. 

McCallie,  Thomas  S.,  Chattanooga,  Tenn.; 
McCoy,  Clifford  C  ,  Vinton,  La. ;  McDowell,  Henry  vi., 
Joplin,  Mo.;  McKay,  Chas.  G,  Atlanta,  Ga.;  McRae, 
Isaac,  Havelock,  Neb.;  Mason,  James  D.,  Waterville 
and  Morristown,  Minn.;  Miller,  Willie  G.,  Deerland 
and  Dorcas,  Fla.;  Moncol,   A.  J.,   Braddock,   Penn.; 

Nellor,  Charles  H.,  Pendleton,  Ore.;  Nelson,  A.  P., 
General  Missi  nary  Work  in  Minnesota  and  Wis- 
consin; Nelson,  Chas.  E.,  Hoboken,  N.  J.;  Nelson, 
Frank,  Warren,  Penn  ;  Newton,  W.  H.,  General  Mis- 
sionary in  Alabama,  Nichols,  J.  H..  Drummond, 
Okla.;  Noble,    Mason,    Lake    Helen.  Fla. 

Okerstein,  JohnF.,  General  Missionary  in  Minn,  and 
Wis.;  Olson,  C.  F.,  Spencer  Brook,  Minn.;  Owen,  Ed- 
ward P.,  Paruna,  Okla.;  Owen,  Richard  H.,  Beaver 
Creek,  Ore. 

Paine,  Samuel  D.,  Melbourne,  Fla.;  Parker, 
Lawrence  J.,  General  Missionary  in  Okla- 
homa; Parks,  Avery  G.,  Nvmore,  M  nn  ;Perrin,  David 
J.,  Springfield,  So.  Dak.;  Pershing,  J^mes  E.,  Vinita, 
Ind.  Ter.;  Peterson.  Samuel,  Lake  City,  Minn.;  Peyton, 
Frank,  Pond  Creek,  Okla.;  Powell,  Katharine  W., 
Custer,  So.  Dak. 

Randies,  Walter  M.,  Minersville,  Penn.;  Ray, 
George  W.,  Fort  Worth,  Texas;  Richards, 
James  N.,  New  Cattle,  Colo.;  Richards,  William  J. 
Egg  Harbor  City,  N.  J.;  Rowan,  William  L.,  Coil- 
bran,  Colo. 

Salvado,  J.  Fortuny,  Guanajay,  Cuba;  Scoggin, 
Alexander,  Verden,  Okla.;  Searles,  George  R., 
Naper,  Neb.;  Simpkin,  Peter  A.,  Salt  Lake  City; 
Skeels,  Henry  M.,  Denver,  Colo.;  Smith,  Alexander 
D.,  St.  Paul,  Minn.;  Smith,  J.  A..  Sulphur  Spring  and 
Kremmling,  Colo.;  Smith,  Zwingle  H.,  Willov  Lakes 
and  Pitrodie,  So.  ^ak.;  Smythe,  Charles  M.,  Hub- 
bard. Ore.;  Someillan,  H.  B.,  Guanabaco,  Cuba; 
Squire,  Guy  P.,  Wheaton,  Sunbeam,  B^ulah  and 
Rockham  Miss'on.  So  Dak.;  Stover,  William  B., 
Alva,  Okla.;  Streeter,  Clayton  M,  Trinidad,  Colo.; 
Stutson,  Henry  H  ,  Biwabik,  Minn. 

Thomas,  Owens,  South  Sharon,  Penn.;  Tillman,  Wil- 
liam H.,  Atlanta,  Ga.;  Todd,  Geo.  L.,  Havana,  Cuba; 
Townsend,  Stephen  J.,  Avon  Park  and  Frost  Proof, 
Fla. 

Vining,  Roscoe  W.,  Susquehanna,    Penn. 

Waldo,  Edwin  A.,  Mt.  Dora  and  Tangerine,  Fla.; 
Weatherwax,  Franklin  W  ,  West  Palm  Beach.  Fla.; 
Weese  De,  F.  M  ,  Denver,  Colo.;  White,  Levi,  Indian- 
apolis, Ind.;  Williams,  D.  T.,  Blossburg,  Penn.. 
Wiltberger.  Louis  W.,Payonia,  Colo.;  Wrigley,  Francis; 
Garvin,  Minn. 

Yarrow,  Phillip  W.,  St    Louis,  Mo. 


APPOINTMENTS   AND   RECEIPTS 
RECEIPTS 


n9 


April,  1906. 


For  account  of  receipts  by  State  A  uxiliary    Societies 

see  page  121. 
MAINE— $164.20. 

Bangor,  Central  Ch.,  142.80;  Bristol,  12;  Castine,  A 
Friend,  2;  Portland,  Rev.  C.  Harbutt,  5;  Springfield,  E. 
C.  Knight,  2.40. 

NEW  HAMPSHIRE— $278.40;  of  which  legacy,  $8.25. 

N.  H.  H.  M.  Soc,  by  A.  B.  Cross,  Treas.,  by  request 
of  donors,  31.20;  Dover,  1st,  Ch.,  W.  H  M.  Soc,  50.50; 
East  Derry,  1st,  6.15;  Gilmanton,  J.  W.  Sanborn,  1; 
Greenfield,  Estate  of  Jacob  Gould,  8.25;  Hooksett,  13.10; 
Jaffrey,  Mrs.  N.  P.  Phelps,  1;  Keene,  1st,  30;  Lyme,  A 
Friend,  i;Walpole,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  G.  Barnett,  15; 
West  Lebanon,  13.20. 

P.  C.  I.  and  H.  M.  Union,  of  N.  H.,  Miss  A.  A.  McFar- 
,and,  Treas.,  108. 

VERMONT— $250.61. 

Barton,  21.66;  Bennington  Centre,  Old  First,  17;  Brat- 
tleboro,  A  Friend,  2;  Danville,  Mis.  L.  Moore,  1;  Middle- 
bury,  18;  Newport,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  F   Ranney,  4;  Mrs. 

A.  D.    Lane,  .50;  Anonymous,  .60;    North  Bennington, 
special,  110.35;  Stowe,  add'l,  .50. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  C.  H.  Thompson,  Treas. : 
Brattleboro,  Ladies'  Assoc. ,  75. 

MASSACHUSETTS— $3,340.62;      of      which     legacies, 

$490.96. 

Mass.  Home  Miss.  Soc,  by  Rev.  J.  Coit,  Treas.  By  re- 
quest of  donors,  887.55;  Agawam,  6.54;  Allston,  S.  S., 
7.78;  Amherst,  No.  Ch.,  A  Friend,  8.25;  Andover,  So. 
Ch.,  E.  P.  and  T.  F.  Pratt,  2;  Ashbumham,  1st 
22.17;  Ashby,  "  L.  H.,"  5;  Auburndale,  127.23;  Belcher- 
town,  1;  Bernardston,  Goodale  Memorial,  4.54;  Boston, 
Roxbury,  Immanuel,  50;  A  Friend,  250;  Brockton,  A 
Friend,  1;  Dedham,  A  Friend,  5;  Dorchester,  J.  D.  Stod- 
dard, 10;  Dudley,  C.  E.,  5;  East  Longmeadow,  1st,  16  20; 
Fairhaven,  Estate  of  Henrietta  D.  Woodman,  95.96; 
Pitchburg,  Estate  of  Lydia  H.  Wood,  295;  Groveland, 
12;  Hatfield,  81.80;  Haverhill,  Centre  Ch.,  in. 44;  A 
Friend,  1;  Holliston,  A.  T.  Daniels,  2;  Hyde  Park,  O.  J. 
Perry,  5;  Lawrence,  C.  F.  Prescott,  1;  Lee,  Legacy  of 
Mary  S.  Daniel,  100;  J.  L.  Kilbon,  5;  W.  May,  3; 
Leominster,  F.  A.  Whitney,  15;  Lowell,  W.  L.  Davis, 
5;  Middleboro,  Central,  5;  Putnam,  C.  E.,  5;  Monson, 
58.19;  Natick,  1st,  S.  S.,  27.04;  New  Bedford,  Trinitarian, 
61.49;  A  Friend,  10;  Newton,  1st,  247.03;  Newton  High- 
lands, A  Friend,  50;  Northampton,  1st,  Dorcas  Soc, 
special,  50;  Edwards,  125.28:  "  N.  C  ,"  15;  Northfield, 
A  Friend,  5;  North  Wilbraham,  13.87;  Norwood,   Mrs.  J. 

B.  Hale,  2;  Princeton,  1st.  17.69.  Quincy,  Bethany, 
91.98;  S.  S.,  10;  Home  Dept.,  5;  Rockland,  M.  N.  Shaw, 
10;  Rowley,  1356;  Salem,  Tab.,  27;  So.  Boston,  Phillips, 
37.05;  South  Deerfield,  Mrs.  E.  H.  Strong.  1;  Somerville, 
Mrs.  E.  V.  S.  Webster,  2:  Springfield,  Faith  Ch., 
Knights  Militant,  5:  E.  A.  Alvord,  2;  E.  L.  Tully,  10; 
Spencer,  Mrs.  J.  P.  Burnaby,  5;  Taunton,  M.  A.  Tidd, 
2;  Townsend,  28.09;  Walpole,  2nd.  S.  S.,  10.39;  Wellesley, 
Coll.  Prof.  C.  E.  Cummings,  5;  Westport,  Pacific 
Union.  2.50;  Windsor,  P.  E.  Turner,  2;  Worcester,  Pil- 
grim, 21. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Assoc,  (of  Mass.  and  Rhode  Island),  Miss 
L.  D.  White,  Treas.:  Salary  Fund,  215. 

RHODE  ISLAND— $25.50. 

Elmwood  Station,  S.  J.  Gilman,  .50;  Newport,  Mrs. 
M.  A.  Baxter,  25. 

CONNECTICUT— $8,817.83;  of  which  legacies,  $4,811. 

Miss.  Soc.  of  Conn.,  by  Rev.  J.  S.  Ives,  210.50;  for 
salaries  of  western  supts.,  675;  total,  885.50. 

Berlin,  2nd,  30;  Estate  of  Harriet  N.  Wilcox,  4,520; 
Bethel,  Mrs.  F.  Judd,  1;  Bloomfield,  7.35;  Bozrah,  Mrs. 
M.  A.  Bosworth,  1;  Branford,  Miss  B.  Linsley  .50;  F. 
M.  Cook,  2;  Bridgeport,  E.  L.  Beers.  3;  G.  P.  Carroll, 
1:  Bristol,  1st,  102.34;  Broad  Brook,  Ch.,  13.37;  C.  E.,  10; 
Brooklyn,  Estate  of  Mary  E  Ensworth,  24.87;  Crom- 
well, 1st,  67.91;  Past  Hampton,  A.   A.   Bevin,   1;   C.   C. 


Bevin,  1,  E.  D.  Barton,  r;  East  Hartford,  S.  L.  Bissell, 
1;  Goshen,  Estate  of  Mrs.  Julia  E.  Cook,  291;  Greenwich, 
North,  13.72;  Groton,  21.77;  Hampton.  Mrs.  J.  W.  Cong- 
don^;  Hartford, Asylum  Hill,  6.75;  Wethersfield  Ave., 
20;  L.  Burritt,  2;  Kent,  C.  E.,10.  Middlebury,  C.  E.,  12; 
New  Britain,  South,  S.  S.,  30;  "  C.  S.  P.,"  1;  D.  N. 
Camp,  100;  New  Haven,  Ch.  of  the  Redeemer,  add'l, 
1;  S.  E.  Baldwin.  300;  Miss  M.  H.  Bradley,  5;  "  M.  J. 
C."  5;  Mi's.  E.  A.  Whittlesey,  5;  New  Milford,  1st, 
Eastrr  offering,  84.31;  Norwich,  Broadway,  of  which 
1,000  for  the  debt,  2,005;  Pine  Orchard,  E.  D.  Sheldon, 
5;  Rockville,  F.  Gilnack,  10;  Shelton,  38.18;  Southington, 
1st  S.  S.,  19.08;  Stonington,  is>t,  12.84:  Waterbury,  A 
Friend,  3;  W  ndsor,  1st,  58.84. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  C.  S.  Thayer,  Treas. , 
3;  Milford.  Plymouth,  16;  New  London,  1st  Ch.  of 
Christ,  5;  Norwich,  Taftville,  C.  E.,  2;  Sharon,  Aux., 
Mrs.  E.  M.  P.  Hertzell;  25;  Mrs.  E.  O.  Dytr,  1;  So. 
Windsor,  1st,  1.50;  Winsted,ist,  Aux.,  25.  Total,  78.50. 


NEW  YORK- 


80.25;  of  which  legacies,  37.47. 


N.  Y.  H.  Miss.  Soc,  by  C.  S.  Fitch,  Treas.:  5;  Bing- 
hamton,  A.  P.  Jacques,  15;  Mrs.  H.  C.  Osterhout,  25; 
Brooklyn,  S.  S.  of  the  Ch.  of  the  Pilgrims,  20;  F.  N. 
Tyler  1;  Buffalo,  Mrs.  J.  R.  Wilson,  15;  Camden,  1st, 
add'l,  1;  Eldred,  9;  Ellington,  12;  Friendship,  n;  Gaines,. 
Miss.  Union,  5;  Groton,  31.08;  Ilion,  Mrs.  E.  M.  King- 
man. 5;  Kiantone,  7.25;  Lisle,  Ch.,  3.77;  C.  E.,  2.63;, 
'  Newark  Valley,  1st,  21.77;  New  Haven,  12.65;  New  York 
City,  Forest  Ave.  C.  E,  10;  Rev.  L.  Francs.  D.D., 
51.22;  Oswego,  W.  B.  Couch.  4.85;  Phoenix,  1st,  20; 
Plainfield,  Welsh,  10;  Port  Leyden,  14.60;  Port  Chester, 
A  Friend,  1;  Portland,  E.  M.  Brown,  5;  Rensselaer  Falls^ 
"  D.,"  Easter  offering,  2;  A  Friend,  5;  Rockaway 
Beach,  1st,  S.  S.,  17;  Rodman,  11.25;  Skerry,  2.72;  Smyrna, 
1.25;  Spencerport,  1.86:  Summerhill,  3o;Warwarsing,  Estate 
of  Clarinda  Strong,  12.60;  West  Bloomfield,  21.10. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  J.  J.  Pearsall,  Treas., 
Brooklyn,  South,  W.  M.  Circle,  100:  Canandaigua,  14.65; 
Howells,  L.  A  S..  7;  Madrid,  10;  Mt.  Veinon,  10;  Moravia; 
Mrs.  W.  C.  Tuthill,  to  const.  Mrs.  J.  D.  Bigelow  an 
Hon.  L.  M.,  75;  New  York  City,  Broadway  Tab..  S. 
W  W.,  ig;  Senaca  Falls,  Aux.,  5;  Walton,  5;  Tflhitft 
Plains,  L.  A.  S.,  10.    Total,  $255.65. 

NEW  JERSEY— $209.04. 

East  Orange,  1st,  47.87;  Elizabeth,  g.^q:  Hackenfack- 
Mrs.  C  A.  Jones,  Easter  offering,  10;  Montclair,  1st, 
S.  S..  25;  Watchung  Ave.  S.  S..  5;  M.  M.  Richards, 
5;  Nutley,  Miss  L.  Clements,  1;  Passaic,  40;  Plainfield, 
C.  E.,  4.62;  Woodbridge,  Friend,  1. 

Woman's  H.  M  Union  of  the  N.  J.  Ass'n.,  Mrs.  G.  A.  L. 
Merrifield,  Treas. :  Montclair,  1st,  to  const.  Mrs.  W. 
Miller  an  L.  M.,  60.20. 

PENNSYLVANIA— $228.68 

Received  by  Rev.  C.  A.  Jones,  Pittsburg,  Puritan,  5; 
Cambridge  Springs,  Mrs.  R.  C.  Quay,  1;  Catasauqua, 
Welsh,  13;  HuDtersville,3.45;  Kane,  Ch.,77;  S.S.,  3o;tW. 
H.  M.  S.,  18;  C.  E.,  is;  Lansford,  English,  37.73;. Le- 
Raysville,  8;  Philadelphia,  Snyder  Ave.,  special,'.  10; 
Ridgway,  Miss  P.  Little  1;  Scranton,  A  Friend,  .50; 
Siglerville,  4;  Taylor,  1st,  Welsh,  5. 

MARYLAND— $101.63. 

Baltimore,  Associate  Ch.,  88.76;  C,  E.  12.87. 
DISTRICT  OF  COLUMBIA— $1. 

Washington,  Mrs.  D.  B.  Humphrey.  1. 
NORTH  CAROLINA— $30. 

Southern  Pines,  Mrs.  A.  M.  Foster,  30. 

GEORGIA— $12.90. 

Buford,  Duncan's  Creels,  3.50:  Calhoun,  New  Pros- 
pect and  Doerun,  5;  Dawsonville  Holly  Creek  and 
Suches,  Pleasant  Union,  2;  Leville,  Williford  end 
Asbury  Chapel,  1;  Wilsonville,  Rockey  Hills,  1.40. 

ALABAMA— $6.38. 

Received  by  Rev.   A.  T.    Clarke,  Fairhope,  2;  Channa 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


hatchee,  Watson's   Chapel,   .80;  Mobile,  ist,    i.oi;  Mt. 
Olive,  1.37;  Tallassee,  ist,  1.20. 

LOUISIANA— $11.70. 

Hammond,  5. 

W.  M.  U.,   Miss  M  L.  Rogers,  Acting  Treas.:  Ham- 
mond, 6  70. 
FLORIDA— $136.62. 

Avon  Park,  Union  Evan.,  8.70;  Jr.  C.  E.,  1;  Rev.  S. 
J.  Townsend,  5;  Prof.  E.  L.  Richardson.  5;  Careyville, 
.35;  Interlachen,  8:  Lake  Helen.  35;  Ormond,  Union,  21.57; 
Sari  Mateo,  "  L.  A.  S."  2;  West  Palm  Beach,  50. 

TEXAS— $2. 
Cleburne,  Mrs.  E.  Phillips,  2. 

OKLAHOMA,  $95.23. 

Boone,  Ridgeway,    15;  Grant   Co ,    Pleasant   View, 
19.76;    Hennessey,     6.78;      Independence,      1st,     1;    Jen- 
nings,  1st,   16;    Lawton,  16.59;   Medford,    7.25;  Okarche, 
12.85. 
NEW  MEXICO— $5.50. 

Albuquerque,  5.50. 
TENNESSEE-$3o.34. 

Knoxville,  Pilgrim,  28;  La  Follette,  ist,  2.34 

OHIO— $2,269.50;  of  which  legacy,  $2,244. 

Atwater,  Estate  of  Mrs.  Mary  Brush,  2,244;  Batavia, 
Mrs.  G.  H.  Lee,  2;  Claridon,  16  50;  Marietta,  ist,  A 
member,  2;  Oberlin,  ist,  M.  L.  Fowler,  5. 

INDIANA-$57.35. 

Alexandria,  ist,  10.15;  Bremen,  22.50;  Indianapolis, 
Covenant  10;  Rev.  A.  G.  Detch,  3;  Laporte,  Rev.  J. 
Schaerer,  1.70;  Michigan  City,  Immanuel,  10. 

ILLINOIS— $140  25. 

Received  by  Rev.  M.  E  Eversz,  D.D.,  Ivanhoe,  Fre- 
mont, German,  5;  Fall  Creek,  German  Zion,  75; 
Naperville,  German,  5;  Waukegan,  German  Ebenezer, 
9.25.    Total,  94.25. 

Amboy,  Mrs.  M.  Thompson,  1;  Chicago,  W.  Dickin- 
son, 25:  Mrs.  M.  B.  Holyoke,  5;  E.  F.  Richter,  5; 
Geneseo,  A  Friend,  10. 

MISSOURI— $520.98. 

Meadville,  6.10;  Springfield,  German,  A  Friend,  5. 

Woman's  H.  M  Union  of  Missouri,  Mrs.  A.  D.  Rider, 
Treas.:  Aurora,  Ch.,  2.80;  L.  M.  S.,  4.25;  Carthage,  31; 
Eldon,  Ladies'  Aid,  2.50;  Hannibal,  2;  Kansas  City,  Bea- 
con Hill,  1;  ist,  Brooklyn  Ave.  Branch,  36.45;  McGee 
St.  Branch,  65;  Ivanhos  Park,  6.65;  Prospect  Ave., 
L.  A  ,2.80;  Roanoke.  1;  S.  W. Tabernacle,  L.  A.,  2.75; 
Westminster,  42.80;  Kidder,  5.75:  Lebanon,  4;  Maplewood, 
6;  Old  Orchard,  2;  Pierce  City,  2;  St.  Joseph,  23.09;  C.  E., 
Div.  A.,  8;  St.  Louis,  Compton  Hill,  4  80;  First  Sen., 
L.  M.  S.,  60;  Fountain  Park,  W.  A.,  13.30;  Memorial, 
2  40;  Pilgrim  W.  A.,  Sen.  Dept,  137.26;  Jun.  Dept, 
16.18;  Plymouth,  2;  Reber  Place,  7  50;  Springfield,  ist, 
25.50;  Pilgrim,  1.80;  Webster  Groves,  W.  A.,  31.30;  Wil- 
low Springs,  4;   Windsor,  2.    Total $559.88 

Less  Expenses 50.00 

Grand  Total 509.88 

MICHIGAN— $15.35. 

Ada,  1.35;  Allegan,  ist,  12;  Battle  Creek,  Miss  E. 
Whittlesey,  2. 

WISCONSIN— $37.50. 

Burlington,  Plymouth,  S.  S.,  10;  Wauwatosa,  25 
Whitewater,  Rev.  E.  C.  Barnard,  1;  Wood  Lake  and 
Doctors  Lake,  Swedes,  1.50. 

IOWA,  $123  43- 

Alden,  Ch.,  A  Friend,  1:  Avoca,  German,  5;  W.  H. 
M.  Union,  5;  McGregor,  Mrs.  J.  N.  Gilchrist,  25;  Min- 
don,  German,  27,88;  Muscatine,  German,  25;  New 
Hampton,  German,  4.55;  Oskaloosa,  ro;  Traer,  A  Friend, 
20. 

MINNESOTA— $779.71. 

Received  by  Rev.  G.  R.  Merrill,  Minn.:      Ceylon,  5;   Mar- 


shall, 170;  Minneapolis,  Park  Ave  ,  100.01;  Pilgrim' 
80.47;  Plymouth,  70.62;  A  Friend,  12;  Rev.  and  Mrs- 
M.  B.  Morris.   10.   Total,  448.10. 

Clarissa  and  Bertha,  1  .75;  Cambria.  Salem,  5; 
Dawson,  18.05;  Excelsior,  Rev.  E.  E.  Rogers, 
50;  Fairmont,  ist.  26.04;  S.  S.,  12;  Freedom,  2.50;  Lake 
City,  38.50;  Mcintosh,  ist.  1.50;  Minneapolis,  Fifth  Ave., 
80;  New  York  Mills,  1.50;  St.  Paul,  Pacific,  42.75;  Spring- 
field and  Salina,  Rev.  R.  P.  Upton,  21.45;  Wabasha, 
ist,  17.87;  Winona,  Lakeside,  Scand.,  3.70;  Zumbrota,  A 
Friend,  In  Memoriam,  4.50. 

KANSAS-$32.42. 

Kansas  Home  Miss.  Soc,  by  H.  C.  Bowman,  Treas.  J 
By  request  of  donors;  3;  Herndon,  ist,  German,  3.97! 
Leoti,  Mrs.  G.  W.  Buell,  2;  Traer,  St.  John's,  German, 
6;  Wichita,  Fairmont  Ave.,  W.  M.  Soc.,  17.45. 

NEBRASKA— $194.64 

Alliance,  German,  4.45;  Cowles,  Rev.  S.  Deakin,  5; 
Fairfield,  Mrs.  G.  H.  Wright,  5;  Hastings,  German, 
Mrs.  G.  Amen,  5;  Long  Pine,  14.10;  Plainview,  Thank 
Offering,  36  26;  Sutton  German,  33.33:  Waverly,  Swed- 
ish Emanuel,  5.50;  Wymore,  Sale  of  land,  86. 

•"  Correction— For  1.50  credited  in  May  number  to 
Omaha  First,  read  150. 

NORTH  DAKOTA— $208.27. 

Received  by  Rev.  G.  J.  Powell,  No  Dak. :  Dickinson, 
29;  S.  S.,  11;  Fargo,  ist,  16.29;  Plymouth,  S.  S..  5.  To- 
tal, $61.29. 

Anamoose,  ist,  17.95:  Blue  Grass,  German,  14.95;  A 
Friend,  16;  Carson,  John  Sheerer  and  family,  1.75; 
Cleveland,  Wirt  Mem.,  10.66;  Crary,  28;  Fingal,  10;  For  - 
man,  ist.  2;  Hurdsfield,  add'l,  1;  Kulm,  Postthal,  Ger- 
man; 7;  Mayville,  20:  Lucca,  8;  S.  S.,  4  67;  Velva,  5. 

SOUTH  DAKOTA— -$4g8.o8. 

Received  by  Rev.  W.  H.  Thrall:  Alcester,  16.70;  Goth- 
land, 5;  Mitchell,  60;  Yankton,  35.64.    Total,  117.24. 

Canton,  ist,  15;  Custer,  9;  Fairfax,  German  Hope,  21; 
Ft.  Pierre,  64.12;  Garretson,  ist,  10;  Henry,  10.50;  Lane,  5: 
Rapid  City,  add'l,  2;  Sioux  Falls,  German,  13;  South 
Shore,  13.50;  Wagner,  ist,  27.72;  Waubay,  ist,  11.25: 
Wessington  Springs,  50.65. 

Woman's  H.  M.  U.,  Mrs.  A.  Loomis,  Treas.,  128. 

COLORADO— $56.69. 

Claremont,  ist,s.2o;  Collbran,  6.05;  Cope,  10.06;  Hayden, 
ist,  20.75;  Highlandlake,  6.70;  Seibert,  2.37;  Whitewater, 
4.66. 

WYOMING— $21.35. 

Sheridan,  5.35. 

Woman's  H  M.  Union,  Mis 5  E.  McCrum,  Treas., 
Douglas,  16. 

MONTANA.  $89.45. 

Livingston,  89.45. 

IDAHO,  $17.25. 

Burke,  Uuion,  2;  Genesee,  ist,  5.25;  New  Plymouth, 
Plymouth,  2.50;  Priest  River,  7.50. 

CALIFORNIA— $91. 

Gottville,  Mrs.  P.  D.  Bunnell,  10;  Redando  Beach> 
18:  San  Bernardino,  Pethel.  1;  Sherman,  ist,  10;  Sierre 
Madre,  E.  N.  Emerson,  50;  Terminal,  Mrs.  C.  M.  Grout, 
2. 

OREGON— $72.79. 

Received  by  Rev.  C.  F.  Clapp,  Forest  Grove, 
iq  84;  Beaver  Creek,  St.  Peter's,  German,  19; 
East  Salem,  Central  and  Willard,  ist,  2.50;  New 
Era,    St.    John's,   German,    7;     Salem,    Rev.     P.   S. 

Knight,  10. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  C.  F.  Clapp,  Treas.: 
Beaverton,  4;  Gaston,  1;  Hillside,  5;  Patton  Valley,  2.45; 
Portland,  Miss.  Ave.,  2.    Total,  $14.45. 


APPOINTMENTS   AND    RECEIPTS 


Sylvan,  ist,  3.50;  Tekoa,  14;  Tolt,  1.50;   Trent,   3;   Wallula; 
3.31;  White  Salmon,  Bethel,  3. 
CUBA. -$5. 

Matanzas,  E.  P.  Herrick,  5. 
CANADA— $.50. 

Brantford,  Ont.,  W.  L.  Davis,  .50. 
TURKEY-  $5. 

Van,  MissS.  R.  Norton,  5. 


APRIL  RECEIPTS 

Contributions $12,182  98 

Legacies 7,591.68 

$19  774.66 

Interest 278.50 

Home  Missionary __ Si. 57 

Literature 8.45 

Total -..$20,143.18 


AUXILIARY   STATE    RECEIPTS 


MASSACHUSETTS  HOME   MISSIONARY   SOCIETY. 

Receipts  in  April,  1906. 

Rev.  Joshua  Coit,  Treasurer,  Boston,  Mass. 

Amherst,  2nd,  8;  South,  19.26;  Andover,  Free  Chris- 
tian, 25;  Ashburnham,  C.  E.,  1.30;  Ashby,  15.10;  Bald- 
winsville,  Memorial,  2;  Blandford,  2nd,  3.55;  C.  E.,  1.70; 
Boston,  Boylston,  17;  Dorchester,  Central,  2;  2nd, 
Extra  Cent  a  Day  Band,  5;  2nd,  5;  Italian,  8.87;  Ellis 
Mendell  Fund,  45;  Union,  151.01;  Income  of  Brackett 
Fund,  80;  Brimfield,  45;  S.  S.;s;  Brockton,  R.  C.  Gur- 
ney,  Annuity,  3,000;  Brookline.  Harvard,  no;  The 
Cape,  Finns,  9-80;  Cambridge,  Pilgrim  10.31;  Cash, 
12.50;  Chicopee,  1st,  22.50;  2nd,  24.84;  East  Braintree, 
Union,  24.45,  East  Douglas,  Estate  of  Albert  Butler, 
2,404.48;  Pall  River,  Central,  56.80;  Fitchburg,  Finn, 
12.50;  Rollston,  57.97;  Gloucester,  Trinity,  100;  Green- 
field, 2nd,  28.90;  Income  of  Gurney  Fund,  15;  Income 
of  Haile  Fund,  78.75;  Income  of  E.  J.  M.  Hale  Fund, 
30;  Haverhill,  Union.  1;  Lawrence,  Armenians,  50;  Leo- 
minster, 28.06;  Leverett,  Moores  Corner,  .59;  Lynnfield, 
7.50;  Maiden,  A  Fr'end,  362;  Maynard,  Finn,  7;  Medfield, 
20;  Melrose,  69;  Merrimac,  5.75;  Middleton,  C.  E.,  1.30; 
Newton,  Auburndale,  212.1s;  Eliot,  222;  North  And- 
ovor,  Trinitarian,  131;  North  Carver,  24.60;  North 
Chelmsford,2nd,7.i5;N!  Reading^. 21;  Otis,  3;  C.E,2;  Pep- 
erell,  29.10;  Pigeon  Cove,s;  Pittsfield,  French,  15;  Quincy, 
Finn,  2  90;  Reading,  ist,  30;  Income  of  Reed  Fund, 
76;  Salem,  Tabernacle,  9.7s;  Shirley,  10;  Somerville,  E. 
S.  Tead,  5;  So  Framingham,  Grace,  75. 6q;  Spencer,  ist, 
55  68;  Springfield,  Estate  Harriet  D.  Bartlett,  3,200, 
Park,  15.41;  Stoneham,  52.28;  Wakefield,  34.74;  Income  of 
Wall  Fund,  48;  Ware,  East  226.05;  ist'  I(5-87;  Webster; 
5.70;  Wellesley,  95.03;  Wendell,  2;  West  Hawley,  7.30; 
Westminster,  26.50;  Westwood,  Islington.  2;  Income  of 
Whitcomb  Fund,  53;  Income  of  Whitin  Fund,  225; 
Whitinsville,  1,917.14;  Estate  of  W.  H.  Whitin,  500; 
Williamstown,  ist,  160;  Williamsburg,  Haydensville, 
13-39;  Winchester,  ist,  7;  Worcester,  Swede,  6.50;  desig- 
nated for  Italian  work,  Wellesley  Hills,  E.  C.  Hood, 
50. 

Designated  for  C.  H.  M.  S.,  Barre,  40.50;  Barreville, 
N.  Y,  3.09;  Berkeley,  g.30;  C.  E.,  1.70;  Boston,  Norweg- 
ian, 10;  Bradford,  S.  W.  Carlton,  100;  Brimfield,  22; 
Brookline,  Harvard,  347.1s;  Charlemont,  20.44:  Chicopee, 
ist,  69.76;  Concord,  46.65;  East  Rochester,  22;  Fall  River, 
Central,  101;  Fitchburg,  Finn,  30:  Lawrence,  Riverside, 
10;  Lunenburg,  E.  C,  Ch.,  25;  Newbury,  44.94;  Quincy, 
Finn,  40;  Saugus,  18.3s;  So  Framingham,  Finn,  8.50; 
Grace,  C  E.,  10;  Sprinefield,  F.  C.  M.  Circle,  5;  Olivet, 
34.50;  Stockbridge,  26;  Ware,  ist,  12;  Watertown,  Phillip 
10;  Westhampton,  11.50;  Winchendon,  10. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Assn.,  Lizzie  D.  White,  Treas.; 
Salaries  for  Frenck  college,  70;  for  Italian  worker, 
35;  for  Polish  worker,  35;  designated  for  C.  H.  M. 
S.,  Bradford,  ist,  Church  of  Christ,  25:  Chicopee,Ladies' 
Aux.,  6  20;  Natick,  Ladies'  Aux.,  2;  Medford,  Miss  E. 
J.  Wilcox,  10;  Haydenville,  Aux.,  15. 

SUMMARY. 
Regular. $14,526.93 

Designated  for  Italian  work 50.00 

Designated  for  C.  H.  M.  S 1,063.64 

W.  H.  M.  A.,  Designated  for  C.  H.  M.  S 58.20 

W.  H.  M.  A 140.00 

Home  Missionary 1.50 

Total $15,840.27 

THE  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY  OF   CONNECTICUT. 

Receipts  in  April,  1906. 

Ward  W.  Jacobs,  Treasurer,  Hartford. 

Bridgeport.  King's  Highway,  6.13:  Bristol,  Swedish, 
for  debt  of  C.  H.  M.   S.,  3;  Brookfield,   54.20;  Collings- 


ville,  Swedish,  Pilgrim,  12.50:  East  Hartland.  12; 
Georgetown,  Swedish,  17;  Grassy  Hill,  for  C.  H.  M.  S., 
4;  Greenwich,  ist,  special.  15;  Hartford,  ist,  157.64;  2nd, 
400;  for  debt  of  C.  H.  M.  S.,  78;  S.  S.,  Special,  for 
debt  of  C.  H.  M.  S.,  100;  Park,  49.96;  Lisbon,  5.75;  New 
Haven,  Grand  Ave.,  61;  Redeemer,  for  Italian  work. 
25;  North  Madison,  12.01;  for  debt  of  C.  H.  M.  S.,  5.50 
South  Glastonbury,  4;  South  Manchester,  Swedish  Spe 
cial  for  debt  of  C.  H.  M.  S.,  12;  Thomaston,  ist,  13.89 
S.  S.,  Special,  25;  Torringford,  8.03;  for  C.  H.  M.  S.,  8, 
Westchester,  2.25;  From  the  late  Miss  Jessie  Usher,  of 
Higganum,    500. 

M.  S.  C .$1,381.36 

C.  H.  M.  S....      210.50 


Total .$1,591.86 

Correction:  March  receipts,  May  Home  Mission- 
ary, should  contain  contribution  from  ist  Church, 
,Meriden,  300,  for  the  M.  S.  C. 

OHIO  HOME  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY. 
Receipts   in  April, '1906. 
Rev.  C.  H.  Small,  Treasurer,  Cleveland. 

Ashtabula,  2nd.  5;  Canfield,  7;  Chatham,  7.50;  Cleveland, 
Bethlehem,  C.  E.,  10;  Emanuel,  8.10;  Garrettsville,  S. 
S.,  8.50;  Lodi,  S.  S.,  10;  Lorain,  ist,  19.18;  Medina,  18.50; 
Mesopotamia,  S.  S.,  2.50;  Oberlin,  ist.  8.  32;  Richfield,  5; 
Thomaston,  Miss  Davis,  5;  Toledo,  ist,  25;  Mayflower, 
2;  Tallmadge,  S.  S.,  1.70;  Personal,  2;  Youngstown, 
Plymouth,  7.86.     Total,  $153.16. 

OHIO  WOMAN'S  HOME    MISSIONARY  UNION. 

Receipts  in   April,  1906. 

Mrs.   George  B.  Brown,  Treasurer,  Toledo. 

Akron,  We-t,  W.  M.  S  ,  1.20;  Cleveland,  Bethlehem, 
C.  E.,  2;  Euclid,  W.  A  ,  33.67;  ist.  W.  M.  S.,  i4;  Pil- 
grim, W.  A.,  14;  Collinwood,  C.  E.,  5;  Columbus,  East- 
wood, W.  M.  S.,  2;  Greenwich,  W  M.  S..  2;  Hudson,  C. 
E.,  5;  Ironton,  W.  M.  S.,  22.76:  Mansfield,  Mayflower, 
C.  E.,  3  go;  Marietta,  ist.  W.  M.  S.,  10;  Toledo,  Wash- 
ington St.,  W.  M.  S  ,  3.    Total $118.53 

General  total $271.69 

NEW  YORK  HOME  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY. 
Receipts  in  April,  1906. 
Clayton  S.   Fitch,  Treasurer,  New  York. 

Antwerp,  27.29;  Bay  Shore,  11.05;  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  5; 
Binghamton,  Plymouth,  7;  Buffalo,  ist,  200;  Pilgrim,  10, 
Elmira,  St.  Luke's,  10;  Homer,  S.  S.,  35;  Little  Valley, 
32.26;  Norfolk,  4.27;  Richville,  S.  S..  5;  Syracuse,  Geddes, 
(2)  11.67:  South  Ave.,  12.53;  S.  S.,  12.61;  Troy,  ist,  Y. 
P  S.  C.  E.,  7;  Washington  Mills,  n.57;  W.  H.  M.  U,  as 
follows:  Candor,  W.  M.  S.,  10;  Richmond  Hill,  S.  S.,  5; 
Holland  Patent,  Welsh.  4.70;  Utica,  Pilgrim,  W.  M.  S.', 
10;  W.  H.  M.  U.,  3  85.  For  California,  Brooklyn, 
King's  Highway,  1.49;  Middletown,  ist,  78.  Total, 
$896.74. 

MICHIGAN  HOME  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY. 

Receipts  in  April,  1906. 

Rev.  John  P.  Sanderson,  Treasurer,  Lansing 

Ada,  ist,  4.50;  2nd,  2;  Addison,  S.  S.,  1.36;  Alamo,  16.50: 
Alba,  17;  Allegan,  S.  S.,  2.31;  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  2.50;  Allen- 
ville,  14  75;  Almont,  28.24;  S.  S.,  5  71;  Alpena,  15;  Alpine 
and  Walker,  3;  Armada,  S.  S.,  2.54;  Atlanta,  5;  Augusta, 
17;  Baldwin,  14.85;  S.  S  ,  .90;  Bancroft,  11.55;  Bangor, 
West,  16;  Baroda,  10.60,  S.  S.,  2.50;  Bass  River,  S.  S.,  1.40; 
Bay  City,  S.  S.,  15;  Bedford,  7.65;  Bellaire,  22  50;  S.  S., 
3.50;  Benton  Harbor,  99.52;  L.  U.,  14;  S.  S.,  14.29;  Y.  P. 
S.  C.  E.,  16;  Big  Prairie,  5;  Big  Rapids,   ist,   29;  S.  S.,  2; 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


Y.  P.  S.  C.  E..  10;  Breckenridge,  2;  Bridgman,  S.  S.,  3; 
Brimley.  5;  Butternut,  n.go;  Cadillac,  130.82;  Cannon,  1; 
Carson  City,  7;  Carson ville,  10;  Central  Lake,  15; «.  harlevoix, 
S.  S.,  4.11;  Cheboygan,  52.38;  Chelsea,  85;  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E., 
15;  Chesterfield,  2.70;  Clinton,  17;  Coloma,  S.  S.,  2.65; 
Columbus,  Oh.  and  S.  S.,  ii.ii;  Conklin,  10;  Constantine, 
14.14;  Cooks,  2;  Cooper,  5;  Coral,  2s;  Corinth,  2.75;  Covert, 
66.29;  Crystal,  17;  Custer,  11  76;  Delta,  4;  Detroit,  Boule- 
vard, 5;  Ford  St.,  15.32;  S.  S.,  13.07;  North,  34;  Wood- 
ard,  105;  Dexter,  S.  S.,  2;  Douglas,  7.47;  Dowagiac,  12; 
Y.  P.  S.  C.  E,  5;  Durand,  15;  East  Lake,  15;  Eastman- 
ville,  10;  East  Parish,  8:  Eaton  Rapids,  S.  S,  4.18;  Ells- 
worth, S.  S.,  1;  Essexville,  11.76;  S.  S.,  2.24;  Fenwich,  3; 
Frankfort,  7.35;  Freeland,  S.  S.,  1.45;  Fremont,  54.21;  S. 
S.,  11.62;  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  5;  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  Jr.,  3;  Fruit- 
port.  2.32;  Galesburg,  17.46;  Ladies'  Aid,  14.48;  Garden, 
20;  Gladstone,  7;  Grand  Haven,  2;  Grand  Junction,  15.60; 
Grand  Rapids,  2d,  S.  S.,  11;  South  Primary  S.  S.,  2.50; 
Grass  Lake,  10.26;  Hancock,  93.63;  Hart,  3s;  Hartford,  5; 
Helena,  6;  Highland  Sta  ,  S.  S.,  2.30;  Hilliards,  20;  Home- 
stead, 17.35;  S.  S..  .6s;  Honor,  12.20;  Hopkins,  1st,  7^5; 
Howard  City,  10;  Hudson,  25529;  Hudsonville,  2?;  Ironton, 
10;  Isabella,  2;  Jackson,  1st,  66.59;  S.  S.,  2  76,  Y.  P.  S.  C. 
E.,  9;  Plymouth,  24.50;  Jefferson,  5.15;  Johannesburg,  3; 
S.  S.,  8;  Kalamazoo,  135.04;  Kalkaska,  6,56;  L.  A.,  1.44; 
Y.,  10;  Y.  Jr.,  2;  Kenton,  S.  S.,  3;  Laingsburg,  .81;  Lake 
Ann,  5;  S.  S.,  1;  Lake  Linden,  5;  Lake  Odessa,  S.  S.,  3.23; 
Lakeview,  24.32;  S.  S.,  2;  Lamont,  10;  Lansing,  May- 
flower, 10;  Plymouth,  162.73;  Lawrence,  5;  Leroy,  20; 
Lewiston,  63.25;  Litchfield,  33.51:  Lowell,  7;  Ludington, 
65.43;  Mancelona,  S.  S.,  2.30:  Manistee,  65.06;  S.  S..  5; 
Mattawan,  12:  Maybee,  6  65;  Memphis,  20;  Merrill,  5;  Meta- 
mora,  10;  Michigan  Center,  14;  Moline,  S.  S.,  2.4s;  Y.  P. 
S.  C.  E.,  6.45;  Morenci,  27.75:  S.  S.,  5.25;  S.  S.  Primary 
Dept  ,  4;  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  5;  Muskegon,  1st,  45;  S.  S.,9.50; 
Highland  Park,  2.02;  Newaygo,  9;  New  Haven,  7;  S.  S  , 
1.30;  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E,  1. 11;  Newport,  S.  S.,  1.25  ;  North 
Adams,  S.  S.,  5;  Northport,  39.05;  S.  S.,  3.59:  Nunica,3.58; 
Old  Mission,  10.97;  Olivet,  S.  S.,  1.23.  Onondaga,  S.  S. 
1.25;  Otsego,  45.25;  Ovid,  21.82;  Tr.  C.  E  ,  1.50;  S.  S. 
9.48;  Owosso,  33.50;  S.  S.,  12.55;  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  15;  Perry' 


35.20;  Pine  Grove,  20;  Pittsford,  S.  S.,7  80;  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E., 
1.70;  Port  Huron,  1st,  400;  R(  ss.  Mem.,  10;  Sturges- 
Mem.,  2  90;  S.  S.,2.10;  Portland,  40;  Port  Sanillac,  S  S., 
2.50;  Rapid  River,  10;  Red  Jacket,  52.15;  Redridge,  4;  Reed 
City,  49:  Richmond,  4:  Rochester,  3;  Rockford,  S.  S.,  3.37; 
Rondo,  S.  S.,  2.66;  Roscommon,  S.  S.,  3.15;  Royal  Oak, 
10.87;  Saginaw,  1st,  14550;  Genesee  St.,  7:  S.  S.,  2; 
Salem,  2nd,  10.90;  Sandstone,  27;  Saranac,  21;  Saugatuck, 
19.20;  Shaftsburg,  3  40;  Shelby,  6.48;  S.  S.,  4;  Sheridan; 
2.96;  S.  S.,1.99;  Sherman,  11.10;  Somerset,  4.50:  S.  S.,  2; 
South  Boston,  10;  South  Lake  Linden,  10;  Standish,  13  £6, 
St.  Claire,  23.40:  S  S.,  8.55;  St.  Johns,  62;  St.  Joseph, 64. 17; 
S.  S.,  7.31;  Three  Oaks,  133-86;  Tipton,  8;  Tyrone,  7.55; 
Union  City,  42.36;  Vanderbiit,  27.15;  Vermontville,  58.cc; 
Vernon,  20.56:  1st,  S.  S..  3.50;  Hf  ppy  Endeai  or  Club, 
1.05;  Ladies' Society,  6;  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  5;  Vicksburg, 
40.25;  Victor,  7.74;  S,  S..  1.26;  Wacousta,  3.75;  Watervliet, 
S.  S.,  4.56;  Wayne,  34;  Webster,  10;  West  Adrian,  19.40: 
Wheatland,  17.85:  S.  S.,  4.50;  White  Cloud,  15;  Whitehall, 
15  05:  Wolverine,  8.95;  Wyandotte,  S.  S.,  7.67; 
Ypsilanti,  10;  S.  S  ,  9;  Anonymous,  344.71;  W.  H.  M. 
U.,  1,091.08;  Ir\ing  iroperty,  10;  C.  M.,  27-24.  Total; 
$5,987.72. 

DONATIONS  OF  CLOTHIKG,  [ETC. 

Reported  at  the  National  Office  in  April,  1906. 

Foxboro, Mass., Tracy  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.  and  Beihany  S- 
S.,  box,  37. 78;  Hartford,  Conn.,  Farmington  Ave.  C<  ng. 
Soc,  three  boxes  281.18;  H.  M.  S  ,  Center  Ch.,  bbl., 
12920,  W.  U.,4thCh  .box,  75.94;  Middletown,  Conn., 
L.  H.  M.  S.,  1st  Ch  ,  bbl.,  96.03;  U.  S.,  of  South  Ch., 
bbl  ,  89;  Montclair,  N.  J.,  W.  H.  M.  S.,  of  1st  Ch  ,  box 
and  bbl.,  122.26;  New  York  City,  Broadway  Taber- 
nacle, 15  boxes,  2,oig  68;  Norwich  Town,  Conn.,  1st  Ch.; 
bbl.,  25;  Rochester,  Mass.,  1st  Ch.,  bbl.  and  cash,  60; 
Stamford,  Conn  ,  L.  A.  S.,  1st  Ch.,  bbl.  and  pkg., 
267.47.  Strongsville,  0.,  L.  A.  S.  of  Ch.,  box,  28;  Weth. 
ersfield,  Conn.,  L.  A.  S.  of  Ch.,  bbl.  andcash,  10575 
Winsted,  Conn,,  H.  D.  of  W.  Ch.  U.,  1st  Ch.,  box 
78.88.    Total,.  $3,394.12. 


THE  NAME  OF  MENNEN 

is  associated  with  toilet  powder  as  no  other 
name  ever  has  been,  became  its  perfect 
purity  has  set  a  standard  for  the  world.  It 
is  known  the  world  over,  and  is  used  with 
confidence  wherever  it  is  known.  In  order 
that  the  purity  of  the  powder  may  be  pro- 
tected, and  Mennen's  box  be  a  guarantee 
of  Mennen's  Powder  inside,  Mennen's 
Borated  Talcum  is  now  put  up  in  a  box  that 
locks.  It  locks  the  powder  in,  and  locks 
the  pirates  out.  It  is  a  box  that  cannot  be 
refilled  without  mutilating  the  package. 

Mennen's  Borated  Talcum  has  won  the 
esteem  of  those  who  buy  it  and  the  trade 
who  supply  it,  by  its  perfect  purity  and  ab- 
solute uniformity.  In  the  nursery  it  is 
supreme,  because  it  is  sanitary  as  well  as 
soothing.  For  the  chafing  of  children,  net- 
tlerash,  prickly  heat,  etc.,  it  is  healing  as 
well  as  comforting. 

Mennen's  Borated  Talcum  claims  the 
first  place  on  every  toilet  table  by  reason  of 
its  multifold  usefulness  and  its  absolute  re- 
liability. Its  superiority  is  vouched  for  by 
leading  medical  authorities.  ~~^\ 

People  who  judge  powder  by  the  price 
and  think  it's  better  because  it  costs  more, 


would  be  surprised  to  know  that  many  o 
the  powders  which  sell  so  high,  cost, the 
dealers  only  half  what  Mennen's  Borated 
Talcum  costs.  !  (J~~ 

For  this  reason  imitations  are  pushed  and 
forced  on  you  by  dealers  because  their  profit 
on  them  is  much  larger  than  on  the  genuine 
article.  Purchasers  of  Mennen's  Borated 
Talcum,  the  original,  have  absolute  protec- 
tion against  fraud  and  imitation  in  the  new 
non-refillable  box.  If  it's  Mennen's  Box,  it's 
Mennen's  Powder.  If  it's  Mennen's  Pow- 
der, it's  the  best  that's  made.~.        Advt.    - 


Rudolph  Lenz 

Printer 

62-65    Bible    House 

New    York 


Congregational    Home    Missionary    Society 

FOURTH  AVENUE  AND  TWENTY-SECOND  STREET,  NEW  YORK,  N.  Y. 

CHARLES  S.  MILLS,  D.D.,  President 
H.  CLARK  FORD,   Vice  President 
WASHINGTON  CHOATE,  D.D.,  JOSEPH  B.  CLARK,  D.D., 

Acting  General  Secretary  Editorial  Secretary 

DON  O.  S  HELTON,  Associate  Secretary 
WILLIAM  B.  HOWLAND,    Treasurer 

Directors 

Charles  S.  Mills,  D.D.,  Chairman Missouri  George  R.  Leavitt,  D.D Wisconsin 

Rev.  Raymond  Calkins, Maine  Rev.   Bastian  Smits Michigan 

George  E.  Hall,  D.D New  Hampshire  Mr.    Edward  Tucker ... Kansas 

Henry  Fairbanks,  Ph.D Vermont  John  E.  Tuttle,  D.D Nebraska 

S.  H.  WOODROW,  D.D Massachusetts  FRANK  T.  BAYLEY,  D.D __Coloiado 

MR    John  F    Huntsman ..Rhode  Island  Mr.  Robert  D.  Benedict New  York 

Rev.*  H.  H.  Kelsey Connecticut  L.  H.  Hallock,  D  D._ Minnesota 

S.  Parkes  Cadman,  D.D .New  York  H.  C.  Herring,  D.D Nebraska 

Mr.  W.  W.   Mills Ohio  E.  L.  Smith.  D.D. Washington 

W.  E.  Barton,  D.D Illinois  Rev.  Livingston  L.  Taylor New  York 

E.  M.  Vittum,  D.D _ Iowa 

Executive  Committee 

WASHINGTON  CHOATE,  D.D.,  Acting  Chairman 
One  Year  Two   Years 

S.  Parkes  Cadman,  D.D.  Mr.  James  G.  Cannon 

Harry  P.  Dewey,  D.D.  Mr.   W.  Winans  Freeman 

Mr.  John  F.  Huntsman  Rev.  Henry  H.  Kelsey 

Mr.  Charles  C  West  Rev.  Livingston  L.  Taylor 


Field  Secretary,  Rev.  W.  G.  Pudcefoot,  South  Framingham,  Mass. 
Field  Assistant,  MISS  M.  DEAN  MOFFAT 


Superintendents 

Moritz  E.  Eversz,  D.D.,  German  Department,  153  La  Salle  St.,  Chicago,  111. 

Rev.  S.-  V.  S.  Fisher,  Scandinavian  Department,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 
Slavic  Department,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

Edw.  D.   Curtis,  D.D Indianapolis,  Ind.        Rev.  H.  Sanderson Denver,  Colo. 

Geo.  R.  Merrill,  D.D Minneapolis  Minn.        J.  D.  Kingsbury,  D.D (New  Mexico,  Arizona. 

Alfred  K.  Wray,  D.D Carthage,  Mo.  Utah  and  Idaho),  Salt  Lake  City. 

Rev.  W.  W.  ScudJer.  Jr West  Seattle,  Wash.        Rev.  C.  F.  Clapp ...Forest  Grove,  Ore. 

Rev.  W.  B.  D.  Gray Cheyenne,  Wyo.        Rev.  Charles  A.  Jones,  75  EssexSt.,  Hackensack, N.J. 

Rev.  A.  T.   Clarke        Fort  Payne,  Ala.        Rev.  W.  S.  Bell Helena,  Mont. 

Frank  E.  Jenkins,  D  D. Atlanta,  Ga.        Rev.  J.  Homer  I'arker Kingfisher,  Okla. 

W.  H.  Thrall,  D.D Huron,  S.  Dak.        Geo.  L.  Tudd,  D.D __ Havana,  Cuba. 

Rev.  G.  J.  Powell Fargo,  N.  Dak. 

Secretaries  and  Treasurers  of  Constituent  States 

Rev.  Charles  Harbutt,  Secretary Maine  Missionary  Society 34  Dow  St.,  Portland,  Me. 

W.  P.  Hubbard.  Treasurer "  "  "        -- Box  1052,  Bangor,  Me. 

Rev.  A.  T.  Hillman,  Secretary New  Hampshire  Home  Missionary  Society Concord,  N.  H. 

Alvin  B.  Cross,  Treasurer "  "  "      Concord,  N.  H. 

Charles  H.  Merrill.  D.D.,  Secretary. .Vermont  Domestic  "  "      St.  Johnsbury,  Vt. 

J.  T.  Richie,  Treasurer '*  "  "  "      T -St.  Johnsbury,  Vt. 

F.  E.  Emrich,  D.D.,  Secretary Massachusetts  Home  "  "      )  609  Cong'l  House, 

Rev.  Joshua  Coit,  Treasurer "  "  "  "      j  Boston,  Mass. 

Rev.  J.  H.  Lyon,  Secretary Rhode  Island        "  "  "      Central  Falls,  R.  I. 

Jos.  Wm.  Rice,  Treasurer "■  "  "  .         "  "      Providence,  R.  I. 

Rev.  JoelS.  Ives,  Secretary Missionary  Society  of  Connecticut Hartford,  Conn. 

Ward  W.Jacobs,  Treasurer "  '*  "  Hartford,  Conn. 

Rev.  C.  W.  Shelton,  Secretary New  York  Home  Missionary  Society,  Fourth  Ave.  and  226.  St.. New  York 

Clayton  S.  Fitch,  Treasurer • "       "         "  "         Fourth  Ave.  and  226.  St..  New  York 

Rev.  Charles  H.  Small,  Secretary Ohio  "  "  "         Cleveland,  Ohio 

Rev.  Charles  H.  Small,  Treasurer "  "  "  "         Cleveland,  Ohio 

Secretary Illinois  "  "  " I  153  La  Salle  St., 

John  W.  Iliff,  Treasurer "  ""  "  "         )  Chicago 

Homer  W.  Carter,  D.D.,  Secretary. .Wisconsin     "  "  "         - Beloit,  Wis. 

C.  M.  Blackman,  Treasurer "  "  "  " Whitewater,  Wis. 

T.  O.  Douglass,  D.D..  Secretary Iowa  '*  "  "         Grinnell,  Iowa 

Miss  A.  D.  Merrill.  Treasurer  .      "  "  "  "         ..Des  Moines,  Iowa 

Rev.  J.  W.  Sutherland,  Secretary.. Michigan        "  "  "         Detroit,.  Mich. 

Rev.  John  P.  Sanderson,  Treasurer..        'v  "  "  "         Lansing,  Mich. 

Rev.  Henry  E.  Thayer,  Secretary Kansas  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society.. Topeka,  Kan. 

H.  C.  Bowman,  Treasurer "  "  "  "  "       Topeka,  Kan. 

Rev.  S.  I.  Hanford,  Secretary Nebraska  Home  Missionary  Society 

Other  State  Home  Misionary  Societies 

Rev.  J.  K.  Harrison,  Secretary North  California  Home  Missionary  Society San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Rev.  John  L.  Maile,  Secretary South  "  "  "  "       ..... Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

City  Mission  Auxiliaries 

Prof.  F.  A.  Hall,  Superintendent. ..Congregational  City  Missionary  Society St.   Louis,  Mo 

Lewis  E.  Snow,  Superintendent "  "  "  " St.   Louis,  Mo. 


LEGACIES  —  The  following  form  may  be  used  in  making  legacies  : 

I  bequeath  to  my  executors  the  sum  of  dollars,  in  trust,  to  pay  over  the  same  in 

months  after  my  decease,  to  any  person  who,  when  the  same  is  payable,  shall  act  as 

Treasurer  of  the  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society,  formed  in  the  City  of  New  York,  in  the 

year  eighteen  hundred  and  twenty-six,  to  be  applied  to  the  charitable  use  and  purposes  of  said 

Society,  and  under  its  direction. 

HONORARY  LIFE  MEMBERS  — The  payment  of  Fifty  Dollars  at  one  time  constitutes  an 
Honorary  Life  Member. 


A  MATTER  OF  HEALTH 


Absolutely  Pure 

HAS  HO  SUBSTITUTE 


BORATED  TALCUM 


TOILET 


rjg^  •^■-■■^' 


The   Freshness  of   Roses 

and  balmy  June  d\vs  are  not  more  delightful  and 
refreshing  than  the  soothing  touch  of  Mennen's. 
Gives  immediate  and  positive  relief  from  Prickly 
Heat,  Chafing,  Sunburn  and  all  skin  troubles. 
Everywhere  used  and  recommended  by  physicians 
and  nurses  f"r  its  perfect  purity  and  absolute  uni- 
formity. Mennen's  face  on  every  box.  See  that 
you  get  (lie  renuine.  For  sale  every- 
where, or  by  mail,  25c.  Sample  free. 
Gerhard  3Iemicii  Co.,  Newark, X.J. 
Try  Mennen's   Y'wht  (Corated)    Talcum. 


HAND  $A 

Top  The  Toilet 


QUO 


NO  BABY'S  SKIN  TOO  DELICATE  FOR  ITS  USE 
NO  STAIN  THAT  WILL  NOT  DISAPPEAR  BEIORE  IT 


September 


50  Cents  a.  Year 


THE  HOME 
MISSIONARY 


Entered   at   the  "Post-Office,    at    New    York,    N.    Y.,    as    second-class    [mail]   matter 


IWjfiYie&IAM  HISTORICAL  SOCIETY, 


THE      HOME      MISSIONARY      ADVERTISER 


WING  PIANOS 

Are  Sold  Direct  From  the  Factory,  and  in  No  Other  Way 

You  Save  from$75to$200 


When  you  buy  a  Wing  Piano,  you  buy  at  wholesale. 
You  pay  the  actual  cost  of  making  it  with  only  our  whole- 
sale profit  added.  When  you  buy  a  piano,  as  many  still  do— 
at  retail — you  pay  the  retail  dealer's  store  rent  and  other 
expenses.  You  pay  his  profit  and  the  commission  or  salary 
of  the  agents  or  salesmen  he  employs— all  these  on  top  of 
what  the  dealer  himself  has  to  pay  co  the  manufacturer.  The 
retail  profit  on  a  piano  is  fr.om  $75  to  $200.  Isn't  this  worth 
saving? 


SENT  ON  TRIAL 

WE     PAY    FREIGHT 
No  Money  in  Advance 


Anywhere 


We  will  place  a  Wing  Piano  in  any  home  in  the  United 
Stales  on  trial,  without  asking  for  any  advance  payment  or 
deposit.  We  pay  the  freight  and  all  other  charges  in  advance. 
There  is  nothing  to  be  paid  either  before  the  piano  is  scut  or 
when  it  is  received.  If  the  piano  is  not  satisfactory  after  20 
days'  trial  in  your  home,  we  take  it  back  entirely  at  our  ex- 
pense. You  pay  us  nothing,  and  are  under  no  more  obliga- 
tion to  keep  the  piano  than  if  you  were  examining  it  at  our 
factory.  There  can  be  absolutely  no  risk  or  expense  to  you. 
Do  not  imagine  that  it  is  impossible  for  us  to  do  as  we 
say.  Our  system  is  so  perfect  that  we  can  without  any 
trouble  deliver  a  piano  in  the  smallest  town  in  any  part  of 
the  United  States  just  as  easily  as  we  can  in  New  York  City, 
and  with  absolutely  no  trouble  or  annoyance  to  you,  and 
without  anything  being  paid  in  advance  or  on  arrival  either 
for  freight  or  any  other  expense.  We  take  old  pianos  and 
organs  in  exchange. 

A  guarantee  for  12  years  against  any  defect  in  tone,  action, 
workmanship  or  material  is  given  with  every  Wing  Piano. 


Small,  Easy 
MONTHLY 


Payments 


In    37   years   over   40,000   "Wing  Pianos 

have  been  manufactured  and  sold.  They  are  recom- 
mended by  seven  governors  of  States,  by  musical  colleges 
and  schools,  by  prominent  orchestra  leaders,  music  teach- 
ers and  musicians.  Thousands  of  these  pianos  are  in 
your  own  State,  some  of  them  undoubtedly  in  your  very 
neighborhood.  Our  oatalogue^con tains  names  and  ad- 
dresses. 

Mandolin,  Gnitar.Harp,  Zither,  Banjo — 

The  tones  of  any  or  all  of  these  instruments  may  be  re- 
produced perfectly  by  any  ordinary  player  on  the  piano  by 
means  of  our  Instrumental  Attachment.  This  improve- 
ment is  patented  by  us  and  cannot  be  had  in  any  other 
piano.  WING  ORGANS  are  made  with  the  same  care 
and  sold  in  the  same  way  as  Wing  Pianos,  Separate  or- 
gan catalogue  sent  on  request. 


\  YOU  NEED  THIS  BOOK 


The  Book 

Of  .Complete 
IntormafJon 
'   about 

Pianos 


If  You  Intend  to  Buy  a  Piano— No  Matter  What  Make 

A  book — not  a  catalogue — that  gives  you  all  the  information  possessed  by 
experts.    It  tells  about  the  different  materials  u«ed  in  the  different  parts 
of  a  piano;  the  way  the  different  parts  are  put  together,  what  causes  pianos 
to  get  out  of  order  and  in  fact  is  a  complete  encyclopedia.    It  makes  the 
selection  of  a  piano  easy.    If  read  carefully,  it  will  make  you  a  judge  of 
tone,  action,  workmanship  and  finish.   It  tells  you  how  to  test  a  piano         ss   a 
and  how  to  tell  good  from  bad.    It  is  absolmtely  the  only  book  of       j^-^^F 
its  kind  ever  published.    It  contains   166  large  pages  and  hnn-  /'A'  /. 

dreds  of  illustrations,   all  devoted  to  piano  construction.    Its 
name  is  "The  Book  of  Complete  Information  About  Pianos." 
We  send  it  free  to  anyone  wishing  to  buy  a  piano.    All  you 
have  to  do  is  to  send  us  your  name  and  address. 


WING  &  SON 

351-382  West  13th  Street,  New  York 

1868 37th  YEAR 1905 


Send  a  Postal  To-day  while  you  think  of 
it,  just  giving  your  name  and  address  or  send  us 
the  attached  coupon  and  the  valuable  book  of  in- 
formation, also  full  particulars  about  the  WING 
PIANO,  with  prices,  terms  of  payment,  etc., 
will  be  aent  to  you  promptly  by  mail.  //  &. 


When     writing     to     advertisers     please    mention    The    Home    Missionary 


H  E    HOME   MISSIONARY    ADVERTISERS 


SEPTEMBER 
llN  THE 
ADIRONDACKS 

No  finer  place  can  be  found  than  the 

Adirondacks  in  September. 

The  air   is    cool    and    bracing,    the 

scenery   beautiful   and  the  sense  of 

perfect  rest  that  comes  with  the  night 

is  delightful. 

This    wonderful    region    is   reached 

from  all  directions  by  the 


NEWYORK 

(entralJ 

^    LINES      v 


"America's  Greatest  Railroad." 

For  a  copy  of  "The  Adirondack  Mountains 
and  How  to  Reach  Them,"  send  a  two-cent 
stamp  to  George  H.  Daniels,  Manager  Gen- 
eral Advertising  Department,  Grand  Cen- 
tral Station,  New  York. 

C.    F.   DALY, 
Passenger  Traffic  Manager, 

NEW    YORK. 


Rudolph  Lenz 

Printer 

62-65    Bible    House 

New    York 


A  JUNIOR  TEXT  BOOK 
FOR    HOME    MISSION    STUDY 

We  take  great  pleasure  in  announcing 
for  the  season  of  1906-07,  an  admirable 
home  mission  study  text-book  for  juniors, 
entitled, 

Coming  Americans 

BY  MISS  KATHERINE  R.  CROWELL 

Miss  Crowell's  earlier  books  in  this 
series  have  been  received  with  great 
favor.  COMING  AMERICANS  will  be  illus- 
trated with  over  fifty  striking  pictures  of 
foreigners. 


Comments  on  Miss  Crowell's  Junior  Text  Book 

"The  Children  will  most  certainly  be 
interested  and  instructed." — The  Mission- 
ary Review  of  the  World. 

"These  exceedingly  creditable  publica- 
tions for  Juniors  meet  a  very  decided 
need.  I  am  not  at  all  surprised  that  other 
denominations  than  the  Presbyterian  are 
making  use  of  them." — Dr.  Harlan  P. 
Beach. 

"Will  interest  juniors  and  seniors  alike." 
—  The  Moravian,  Bethlehem,  Pa. 

PRICE  IN  PAPER,  TWENTY  CENTS  ; 

CLOTH,  THIRTY=FIVE  CENTS. 


For  copies,  address 
Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society, 

287  Fourth  Avenue,  New  York. 


When     writing     to     advertisers     please     mention     The     lHome      Missionary 


THE      HOME      MISSIONARY      ADVERTISER 


ORGANIZE  NOW  YOUR  HOME  MISSION  STUDY  CLASS. 

A     MILLION     IMMIGRANTS     A     YEAR! 


ALIENS 


OR- 


AMERICANS 


BYr 


Howard  B.  Grose 


The  New  Home  Mission 
Text  Book,  for  Mis- 
sion Study  Classes  in 
Young  People's  Socie- 
ties 

For  General  Reading 


300  Pages.     Handsomely 
Bound.  Illustrated. 
Cloth,  50  Cents.   Paper, 
35  Cents. 
Postage  8  Cents  Extra. 


SEND  ORDERS  TO 
THE 

CONGREGATIONAL 

HOME    MISSIONARY 

SOCIETY 

287  FOURTH  AVE.  NEW  YORK 


The  Latest  and   Best  Book  on 
this  Great  Subject 

ALIENS 

^OR 

AMERICANS? 

^[  This  volume,'  with  its  striking  grouping 
of  the  Fresh  Facts,  Figures  and  Features  of 
the  New  Immigration,  the  greatest  in  his- 
tory, will  not  only  instruct  and  inspire  those 
who  engage  in  Home  Misson  Study,  but  it 
will  prove  as  interesting  as  fiction  to  the 
general  reader. 

^[  The  interest  deepens  from  chapter  to 
chapter,  culminating  in  the  evangelistic 
necessities  and  possibilities.  Note  the  table 
of  contents. 

CONTENTS 

I.  The  Alien  Advance. 
II.   Alien  Admission  and  Restriction. 

III.  Problems  of  Legislation   and  Distri- 
bution. 

IV.  The  New  Migration. 
V.  The  Eastern  Invasion. 

VI.   The  Foreign  Peril  of  the  City. 
VII.   Immigration  and  the  National  Char- 
acter. 

VIII.  The  Home  Mission  Opportunity. 
^[  This  indicates  the  broad  scope  and  treat- 
ment. The  volume  is  finely  illustrated,  and 
contains  charts  and  tables, includingstatistics. 
^[  Send  sixty  cents  for  a  sample  copy,  in 
cloth.  You  will  wish  it  for  your  library. 
You  will  need  it  for  use  in  your  home-mis- 
sion study  class. 


WHAT    DOES   THIS    MEAN  FOR  AMERICA 


CONTENTS 


&  For   SEPTEMBER,    1906.  & 


THE  PROMISELAND  OF  THE  NORTHWEST     (Illustrated.) 

Rev.  S.  P.  Knight  .  .  .  •  .  .  .123 

SWEDISH  CONNECTICUT    (Illus'.rated.) 

Rev.  Joel  S.  Ives     .....  .  •♦  .       1^8 

SIGNIFICANCE  OF  A  NOBLE  GIFT     (Illustrated.) 

Professor  L.  F.  Miskovsky  .  .  .  .  .  .       J32 

EDITOR'S  OUTLOOK  .  .  .  .  .  .  .137 

After  Reorganization  What  ?— Shall  We  Respond  ? 

TIMELY  TRUTHS  TERSELY  TOLD 

Ten  Facts  About  Congregationalism.        .....       139 

For  Stability  Amidst  Change.         ......       140 

Wanted — New  Missionary  Hymns.  .  .  .  •  .141 

The  Village  Home  Missionary  Church-  ....       143 

THE  BATTLE  CRY:  $500,000  ANNUALLY  IN  CONTRIBUTIONS 

Don  O.  Shelton       .  . 144 


OUR  COUNTRY'S  YOUNG  PEOPLE 
Home  Mission  Text-Book,  1906  07 

For  Junior   Home   Mission   Study  .  .  . 

Missionary  Meetings  That  1  hrill.    Rev.  J.  F.  Cowan 
Is  It  True?     Rev.  Ernest  Bourner  Allen 
Reports  That  Cheer  ..... 

Number  of  Congregational  Churches  For  Foreign  Speaking  Peoples 


146 
146 
147 
150 
151 
151 


WOMEN'S  WORK  AND  METHODS 152 

What  More  Can  We  Women  Do?     Mrs.  Washington  Choate 

APPOINTMENTS  AND  RECEIPTS 154 


PER     YEAR,     FIFTY     CENTS 

THE      HOME      MISSIONARY 

Published  monthly,  except  in  July  and  August,  by  the 
Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society 

287    FOURTH    AVENUE,  NEW    YORK    CITY 

ENTIRES  AT  THE   POET  OFFICE     AT   NEW   YORK,    N.   V.,    A*  ECOONC  OLAIE    LhAIl]    MATTER 


THE 

HOME  MISSIONARY 


vol.  lxxx         SEPTEMBER,  1906 


No.  4. 


The  "Promiseland  of  the  Northwest 

By   Rev.   P.  S.  Knight,   Salem,   Oregon 

OREGON — ITS  MODEST  PAST,  ITS  PROSPEROUS  PRESENT,  ITS  PROMISING  FUTURE 

OUTLOOK    FOR    CONGREGATIONAL    HOME    MISSIONS 


O  floods,  no 
d  r*o  u  g  h  t  s  ; 
no  earth- 
quakes, 
cyclones  or 
tornadoes; 
no  failure 
of  crops; 
no  severe  winters  or  tropical  sum- 
mers; no  millionaires  or  starving 
poor;  no  business  booms  or  financial 
collapses;  quiet  homes  and  fruitful 
fields,  gardens  and  orchards;  a  law- 
abiding  people  with  orderly  modes 
of  life;  a  progressive  common  school 
system,  with  six  colleges  for  higher 
education;  gradual  development  of 
all  useful  industries;  steady  and 
normal  growth  of  towns  and  cities; 
an  area  one-third  larger  than  the 
six  New  England  states,  with  a 
population  one-sixth  as  large,  and  a 
capacity  for  supporting  ten  times 
its  present  number.  That  is  Oregon 
as  the  writer  knows  it  now  and  has 
known  it  during  an  actual  residence 
of  fifty-three  years. 

Oregon  is  not  a  Wonderland  and 
its  history  is  not  a  romance.  There 
has  been  little  of  the  sensational  in 
our  past  history.  It  may  be  freely 
admitted  that  our  state  differs  from 
all    others   in    the  far  West    in   this 


particular.  The  early  history  of 
California  was  a  romance.  The  late 
developments  of  Washington  have 
been  marvelous.  Oregon,  having 
within  its  borders  the  oldest  settled 
region  of  the  Northwest,  has  kept 
an  even  pace.  Sturdy  pioneers,  who 
with  their  families  faced  the  dangers 
and  hardships  of  the  long  journey  of 
the  plains,  began  to  settle  in  the 
Willamette  valley  as  early  as  1843. 
There  were  cultivated  farms  in 
Western  Oregon  years  before  Kansas 
or  Nebraska  had  known  the  touch 
of  a  plow.  Portland,  Oregon,  was  a 
town  of  twelve  hundred  or  two 
thousand  people  before  Omaha  was 
named  or  known.  Steamboats  were 
carrying  passengers  on  the  Willa- 
mette river  before  there  was  a  foot 
of  railway  west  of  the  Mississippi. 
Yet  in  material  development  Oregon 
has  lingered  far  in  the  rear  of  other 
regions  named. 

The  reasons  for  this  are  very  sim- 
ple. The  first  transcontinental  rail- 
ways found  their  terminal  at  the 
Golden  Gate  on  the  south  and  Puget 
Sound  on  the  north.  While  this  did 
not  hinder  many  home  seekers  from 
reaching  us  by  the  branch  lines,  it 
naturally  tended  to  locate  large  in- 


STREET    SCENE    IN    SALEM 


vestors  and  their  enterprises  to  the 
north  and  south  of  us. 

While  this  has  for  a  time  in  a  sense 
kept  Oregon  in  the  rear  of  her 
neighbors,  it  has  blinded  no  one  to 
her  final  possibilities.  These  pos- 
sibilities are  now  coming  to  the 
front.  In  the  last  few  months  many 
Eastern  capitalists  have  been  in- 
vestigating our  region  and  some  of 
them  have  been  investing.  Electric 
roads  are  being  talked  of  in  many 
directions,  several  franchises  have 
been   granted  by  towns  and  cities, 


rights  of  way  are  being  purchased, 
and  work  on  some  of  these  roads  has 
already  commenced.  New  railway 
enterprises  are  being  planned  to 
cross  our  mountains  and  bring  our 
unused  harbors  into  touch  with  the 
world.  In  addition  to  all  this,  en- 
ergetic home  builders  are  buying  our 
unimproved  lands,  and  it  seems  to 
all  close  observers  quite  certain  that 
in  the  matter  of  material  develop- 
ment the  day  of  small  things  is  in 
the  past  for  Oregon. 

But  in    "the   final  analysis"  what 


HOME    LIFE    IN    EARLY    OREGON 


does  it  all  mean  ?  What  does  it 
mean  to  those  who  are  working 
and  praying  for  "Christian  Civiliza- 
tion for  Our  Country  ?"  Surely  it 
can  mean  nothing  less  than  a  desire 
for   a    deeper  faith,   a   more    deter- 


mined purpose,  a  more  willing  sac- 
rifice, a  more  liberal  investment  of 
men  and  means  in  the  great  work 
before  us.  We  find  problems  hard  to 
solve  when  confronting  a  population 
of  five  people  to  the  square  mile.  Will 


POLK    COUNTY,    OREGON 


THE  PROMISELAND  OF  THE  NORTHWEST 


127 


the  problem  grow  less  as  the  number 
is  doubled  and  quadrupled  ?  The 
problem  with  us  is  not  how  many 
people  our  gold  and  silver  mines, 
coal  mines,  wheat  fields,  orchards, 
timber  lands  and  stock  ranches  will 
support  and  enrich.  What  kind  of 
people  shall  they  be  ?  is  the  great 
question  with  us.  As  the  balance 
of  power  in  our  nation  moves  west- 
ward what  kind  of  power  shall  it  be  ? 
Shall  it  make  righteousness  or  the 
opposite  in  our  national  life  ?  Is 
not  that  a  vital  question  for  the 
whole  nation  to  ask  and  try  to 
answer  ? 

A  sharp  pain  in  one  finger  tip  will 
stir  the  whole  body  to  action.  Why 
should  not  the  cry  of  a  soul  for  light 
in  the  remotest  region  of  our  country 
stir  the  whole  nation?  The  question 
of  how  this  or  that  needy  field  shall 
be  supplied  is  not  a  local  question. 
What  is  being  done  to  meet  and 
mould  the  foreign  elements  now 
flooding  the  Eastern  states  is  a  vital 
question  to  me.  What  is  being  done 
to  meet  similar  problems  here  is  a 
vital  question  to  my  Eastern  brother. 
To  those  of  us  who  are  trying  to  do 
our  best  in  the  Master's  service  there 
are  two  vital  questions :  First,  what 
can  we  do  to  meet  the  spiritual 
needs  of  souls  for  whom  the  Master 
died  ?  Secondly,  what  can  we  do 
to  prepare  boys  and  girls,  men  and 
women,  for  the  kind  of  citizenship 
that  our  country  needs  ? 

These  questions  are  not  only  vital 
to  all  Christians,  but  to  every 
Christian  and  every  true  citizen. 
To  every  true  Congregationalist 
they  must  have  special  interest. 
Congregational  work  is  not  new  to 
Oregon.  Our  church  at  Oregon 
City  was  organized  in  1843,  the 
oldest  church  of  our  order,  as  I  be- 
lieve, west  of  the  Missouri  river  and 
north  of  the  Mason  and  Dixon  line. 
In  1848  Dr.  George  H.  Atkinson  was 
on  the  field,  an  earnest  godly  man 
whose  works  succeed  him  and  whose 
memory  lingers  in  many  hearts. 
Eells,  Lyman,  Walker,  Marsh  and 
Dickinson — all  gone  to  their  reward 
— have  left  more   than    a  memory. 


SATOURELLE  FALLS,   COLUMBIA  RIVER 

Their  memory  is  blessed,  their  work 
a  blessing.  Our  beautiful  and  pros- 
perous college  at  Forest  Grove,  a 
number  of  vigorous  churches  in  dif- 
ferent parts  of  the  state,  illustrate 
what  small  beginnings  may  mean. 
There  were  few  small  beginnings  in 
their  day,  there  are  many  such  in 
ours.  Shall  ours  mean  as  much  to 
the  future  as  theirs  mean  now  to  us  ? 
Many  battles  are  to  be  fought.  Op- 
posing forces  are  to  be  overcome. 
There  are  other  burdens  on  the 
shoulders  of  those  to  whom  we  would 
cry  for  help.  We  would  make  no 
wordy  plea,  but  simply  lay  down  the 
facts  before  our  beloved  Society  and 
its  supporters.  Our  feet  are  within 
the  borders  of  the  Promiseland  of 
the  Northwest,  and  as  we  face  all 
the  doubts  and  fears,  all  the  opposi- 
tions and  uncertainties,  we  listen  to 
the  voice  of  Him  who  said  to  Israel : 
"By  little  and  little  I  will  drive 
them  out  before  thee,  until  thou  in- 
herit the  land." 


Swedish  Connecticut 


By   Rev.  Joel  S.   Ives, 

Secretary  of  the   Missionary  Society  of  Connecticut 


SCANDINAVIAN  immigration 
belongs  to  the  period  since 
the  Civil  war,  particularly  the 
last  twenty-five  years,  and  reached 
its  highest  record  in  1882  of  105,326. 
Its  fluctuations  in  general  have  cor- 
responded with  the    total  immigra- 


tion, except  that  the  last  few  years 
have  not  shown  a  corresponding  in- 
crease; 1903  showing  only  77,647 
and  1906  with  the  highest  total  yet 
reached,  1,102,980,  only  52,291. 
Since  1820,  Denmark,  Norway  and 
Sweden  have    sent  us  more  than 


SWEDISH    CHURCH,     WOODSTOCK DEDICATED     I  906 


SWEDISH  CONNECTICTT 


129 


million  and  three-quarters,  or  nearly 
one-twelfth  of  the  strangers  who 
have  entered  our  doors. 

Connecticut  receives  each  year 
enough  Scandinavians  to  make  a 
town  like  Norfolk,  Madison  or  Tol- 
land,   and    there  is  therefore  a    de- 


AS     IT     WAS 

mand  for  the  organization  of 
new  churches.  It  is  interest- 
ing to  note  that  in  the  last 
twenty  -  three  years  twenty- 
seven  churches  have  been  or- 
ganized and  services  are  reg- 
ularly held  in  all  but  two.  In 
fact,  the  Swedes  take  the  mat- 
ter into  their  own  hands,  as  for 
example  in  Granby,  where  Mas- 
sachusetts cuts  out  a  big  farm 
from  Connecticut,  land  was 
bought  up.  a  settlement  made, 
a  church  organized  and  a  meet- 
ing house  built  before  any 
news  of  the  same  had  reached 
missionary  office. 

Prof.  D.  N.  Camp,  president  of 
the  Missionary  Society  of  Connecti- 
cut, thinks  he  brought  the  first 
Swede  into  New  Britain,  as  Dr. 
Bowen  brought  the  first  into  Wood- 
stock. Work  was  begun  in  a  small 
way    which   soon    developed   into  a 


the 


special'a'class  in  the  South  Church, 
New  Britain,  then  the  employment 
of  a  missionary  and  the  organization 
of  a  church  with  aid  from  the 
Society  in  1884.  The  growth  of  the 
city  attracted  these  people  until  now 
with  a  population  of  more  than 
30,000,  one-half  is  Scandin- 
avian and  the  Rev.  Gustaf 
E.  Pihl  is  pastor  of  a  self- 
supporting  church  with  365 
members,  owning  an  excel- 
lent and  well  located  build- 
ing.   -■  ,     p   _. 

These  Teutonic  peoples 
from  Denmark,  Norway, 
Sweden  and  to  a  consider- 
able extent  Finland  —  al- 
though in  the  reports  Fin- 
land is  counted  with  Russia 
— are  of  contiguous  territory 
and  with  similar  language, 
ideals,  education  and  religion. 


AS     IT     IS 

It  would  seem  natural  that  there 
should  be  a  common  church.  The 
experiment  has  been  tried.  A  Scan- 
dinavian church  was  organized  in 
Bridgeport  in  1889,  but  it  was  of 
short  life,  while  the  Swedish  church 
organized   in  1895,  is  now  self-sup- 


i3° 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


porting  and  there  is  prospect  of  the  people  cannot  be  distinguished  as  to 
organization  of  a  Danish  church.  their  nationality.  English-Lutheran 
The  Norwegians  and  the  Danes  wor-      churches  are  being  formed  in    New 

England  that  find  their  constituency  in  the 
children  of  the  German  and  Swedish 
Lutherans.  All  our  churches  must  look  to 
the  strangers,  for  there  are  not  enough 
"natives"  to  maintain  them.  And  if  this 
is  true  to-day  it  will  be  unmistakable  to- 
morrow. 

More  than   1,500  are  enumerated   in   the 
Swedish  Congregational  membership,  and  it 
must  not  be  forgotten  that  the  Baptists  and 
the  Methodists  have  also    done    good  work. 
More    than    200    have    been    added  to    the 
rolls  during    1905,    the    church  property  is 
about    $105,000,    and    the    reported    bene- 
volences, $3,237.     This  makes  no    account 
of    the  large  number 
of  Swedish  parentage 
who    may   be    found 
in  most    of     our 
churches.        Indeed, 
the  largest  supporter 
in      one      of     our 
c  hurches    was    a 
Swede. 

An  interesting  ex- 
ample of  Swedish 
thrift  may  be  found 
in  the  beautiful  vil- 
lage on  Woodstock 
hill.      Soon  after  the 


REV.    ADOLPH   F. 
HOGBERG 

ship  in  harmony,  but 
the  cleavage  in  the 
temporal  kingdoms 
is  effective  in  re- 
ligious enterprises. 
The  Yankees  are  not 
the  only  people  who 
worship  along  the 
line  of  their  idiosyn- 
cracies.  Some  work 
has  been,  done  for  the 
Finns  and  the  Danes 
have  a  church  in 
Hartford,  having  al- 
ready begun  to  build  their  meeting  house;  and 
also  one  in  New  Haven,  with  meeting  house 
and  parsonage,  which  is  close  to  self-support 
under  the  efficient  leadership  of  Rev.  Ludwig 
Johnson,  who  is  architect  of  the  building  as 
well  as  pastor  of  the  church. 

Like  the  English  and  the  Scotch  we  must 
enumerate  these  kindred  of  our  mixed  an- 
cestry as  "  foreigners,"  but  they  are  so  much 
of  us  that  they  constitute  an  important  ele- 
ment in  the  twisted  cord  which  we  usually 
call  Anglo-Saxon.  King  Alfred  was  a  Dane 
and  Gustavus  Adolphus,  the  Swede,  shared 
in  the  struggles  of  the  sixteenth  century. 
The   second   and   third    generation    of   these 


REV.    ADOLPH 
LILJENGREN 


REV.    LARS  P.    BORG 


i%          -v         V      * 

&"''    3   :  ,'•  ? 

air             '1 

'£&  \?»*:«s 

*••  _.  *^jy  ! 

i@fk  A 

"'^w^ 

mM 

.   _    _ 

PARSONAGE,   SWEDISH  CHURCH,   THOMASTON,   CONN. 


organization  of  the  church  in  1890, 
an  old  blacksmith  shop  was  trans- 
formed into  a  tasteful  chapel,  as 
shown  by  the  accompanying  cuts. 
Because  the  Swedes  from  North, 
South,  East  and  West  Woodstock, 
as  well  as  from  Pomfret  come  up  to 
The  Hill  to  worship,  the  chapel 
proved  inadequate.  Rev.  Lambert 
T.  Lindholm,  the  pastor,  proved 
himself  a  prophet.  He  had  a  vision 
of  the  chapel  enlarged  and  made 
more  efficient.  Patient  toil,  with  the 
aid  of  the  Church  Building  Society, 
made  the  vision  a  reality.  A  new 
front  with  tower  and  bell,  new  foun- 
dations furnishing  needed  rooms, 
spliced  rafters  making  a  fine  audi- 
torium with  new  floor  and  pews,  and 
lo!  what  was  a  blacksmith  shop  still 
rings  true  with  notes  of  joy. 

•It  is  not  the  policy  of  the  Society 
to  encourage  a  new  Sweden  in  Con- 
necticut. It  would  be  up-hill  work 
were  we  to  try.     But  it  is  only  reason- 


able that  these  strangers  can  best 
worship  God  in  their  mother  tongue. 
Twenty  years  have  proved  it  a  wise 
expedient.  The  children  all  plan  to 
be  Americans  and  it  is  with  increas- 
ing difficulty  that  they  are  held  to 
the  dialect  of  the  old  people.  No 
better  way  has  been  devised  to  hold 
these  people  or  to  win  them;  while 
it  is  easy  to  see  where  we  have  lost 
by  failure  to  follow  this  policy. 

Not  less  then  fifty  localities  in 
Connecticut  are  regularly  reached 
by  Congregational  workers  to  pro- 
claim the  glad  good  news  of  God's 
great  love  in  the  language  that  is 
sweet  to  Swedish  ears.  How  they 
all  love  music!  No  wonder  Jenny 
Lind  captivated  America.  And 
what  a  joy  it  is  to  remember  that  in 
the  Home  where  we  shall  all  sing 
there  will  be  no  thought  of  race 
or  clime,  of  dialect  or  of  lineage.  We 
shall  be  in  the  Father's  House.  We 
shall  see  Him  and  shall  be  satisfied. 


Significance  of  a  Noble  Gift 

By   Prof.   Louis   F.   Miskovsky,   Oberlin 


^bitrfif^v  /&^±x^> 


BOHEMIAN  CONGREGATIONAL  PASTORS 


IT  IS  always  darkest  just  before 
the  dawn.  After  twenty  years 
of  dependence  upon  voluntary 
contributions,  when  the  committee 
in  charge  began  to  feel  apprehensive 
for  its  future,  the  Slavic  Depart- 
ment of  Oberlin  Theological  Semin- 
ary suddenly  becomes  the  recipient 
of  a  regal  endowment  of  $75,000, 
the  gift  of  Miss  Anne  Walworth, 
of  Cleveland,  O.  This  event  puts 
a  new  complexion  on  the  situation, 
and  while  it  relieves  the  tension  in 
one  direction,  it  creates  a  number 
of  problems  in  another.  It  goes  as 
a  matter  of  course  that  now  the  O. 
S.  D.  is  squarely  on  its  feet,  ad- 
equately equipped  from  the  financial 
standpoint  for  enlarged  efficiency 
and  usefulness.  Whereas  in  the 
recent  past  it  has  actually  had  to 
limit  its  attendance  for  lack  of  funds 
wherewith  to  support  its  students, 
it  can  now  admit  all  worthy  ap- 
plicants that  it  can  handle.  This 
means  that  there  need  be  no  dearth 


of  trained  missionaries  to  our  Bo- 
hemians, Slovaks  and  Poles  in  the 
future.  The  want  in  this  direction 
can  be  met  reasonably  well. 

What  is  now  needed  is  the  guaran- 
tee that  as  fast  as  the  Slavic  Depart- 
ment turns  out  missionaries,  they 
will  receive  employment  through 
our  denominational  agency,  the  Con- 
gregational Home  Missionary  So- 
ciety. This,  with  the  often  depleted 
condition  of  that  useful  organiza- 
tion's treasury,  has  actually  not  al- 
ways been  done.  In  a  number  of 
instances  our  graduates  have  had  to 
accept  commissions  from  other  de- 
nominations, because  the  C.  H.  M. 
S.  had  no  money  in  hand  to  employ 
them.  Of  course,  as  long  as  our  men 
actually  entered  the  ministry,  and 
did  the  work  of  evangelists  and  mis- 
sionary pastors  among  the  Slavs, 
this  was  not  a  dead  loss  to  the  king- 
dom. But  it  was  poor  denomina- 
tional policy.  Were  it  not  for  the 
fact  that   a  good  bit  of   the  money 


BOHEMIAN    CONGREGATIONAL    CHURCH,     ST.     PAUL,     MINN. 


contributed  for  the  maintenance  of 
the  O.  S.  D.  came  from  other  than 
Congregational  sources,  the  present 
writer  would  never  have  been  recon- 
ciled to  this  denominational  leakage. 
As  it  was.  his  denominational  honor 


and  pride  always  suffered  a  shock 
when  such  leakage  for  such  cause 
occurred.  And  he  views  the  present 
situation  with  solicitude  for  the  same 
reasons.  What  prospect  is  there 
that  the  O.  S.  D.  will  be  able  to  ful- 


THE  SIGNIFICANCE  OF  A  NOBLE  GIFT 


*35 


fill  its  mission  adequately  when  the 
C.  H.  M.  S.  can  give  it  no  assurance 
that  every  man  it  graduates  can  look 
to  the  C.  H.  M.  S.  or  any  other 
Congregational  missionary  agency, 
like  the  A.  B.  C.  F.  M.,  and  the  local 
missionary  unions,  for  employment 
and  ample  financial  support  ?  That 
is  the  question. 

This  is  the  heroic  age  of  Slavic 
missions,  the  years  of  sowing,  of 
planting,  of  watering,  of  tender 
nursing;  years  of  tutelage  and sacri- 


ond  best  record  for  benevolences  in 
the  denomination.  By  a  curious  co- 
incidence the  two  Bohemian  Con- 
gregational churches  having  the  best 
missionary  and  financial  records  are 
ministered  to  by  the  Prucha  brothers, 
both  recruited  by  the  O.  S.  D. 
Silver  Lake  has  just  dedicated  anew 
house  of  worship.  These  are  some 
of  the  signs  of  the  promise  and 
potency  of  Congregational  home 
missions  among  the  Slavs.  And  in 
order  that  they   may  be  effectively 


REV.  ANDREW  GAVLIK  AND  FAMILY,  DUQUESNE,  PA. 


fice.  But  they  are  indispensable  to 
future  growth  and  expansion.  Al- 
ready some  noble  harvesting  in  the 
Bohemian  work  has  been  done. 
Nearly  two  score  home  missionaries, 
and  at  least  two  foreign  missionaries, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hodous,  of  Foochow, 
China,  are  the  products  of  the  C.  H. 
M.  S.'s  work  among  the  Bohemians 
in  our  country.  Two  churches  have 
reached  self-support,  one  of  them, 
Silver  Lake,  Minn.,   having  the  sec- 


carried  on,  the  C.  H.  M.  S.  must 
have  the  hearty  and  adequate  sup- 
port of  the  rank  and  file  of  our  Con- 
gregational constituency.  Because 
of  the  large  deficit  facing  it,  the 
Society  has  been  compelled  to  post- 
pone the  appointment  of  a  successor 
to  the  late  Dr.  Schauffier  as  superin- 
tendent of  Slavic  missions,  a  policy 
which,  if  persisted  in,  would  result 
in  the  disintegration  of  this  im- 
portant branch  of  its  work.     In  the 


i36 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


judgment  of  the  writer,  a  national 
superintendent  is  a  conditio  sine  qua 
non  for  the  successful  furtherance  of 
Slavic  missions. 

The  other  enterprise  whose  pros- 
perity means  much  for  the  success 
of  our  Slavic  work  is  the  Schauffler 
Missionary  Training  School  in  Cleve- 
land. This  school  does  the  same 
work  for  women  that  the  O.  S.  D. 
does  for  men,  training  pastor's  as- 
sistants and  female  missionaries, 
visitors  and  Bible  readers,  whose 
work  in  the  cause  of  home  missions 
among  our  foreign  populations  has 
been  invaluable,  not  to  say  indis- 
pensable. For  this  reason  the  work 
of  the  Cleveland  school  is  worthy  of 
the  hearty  support  of  the  friends  of 
Slavic  missions.  At  present  it  is  in 
part  supported  by  the  Congrega- 
tional Education  Society,  which  has 
in  the  past  also  rendered  valuable 
aid  to  the  O.  S.  D.  The  crying  need 
of  the  school  is  that  which  the  O.  S. 
D.  has  happily  secured — an  adequate 
endowment.  With  these  two  educa- 
tional agencies  of  the  denomination 
for  carrying  on  the  Slavic  work  kept 
at  their  highest  point  of  efficiency 
through  adequate  financial  support, 
they  can  hope  to  realize  their  God- 
given  missions  to  the  fullest  capacity 
and  thus  only.  Since  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  Slavic  work  resembles  a 
three-legged  stool,  resting  as  it  does 
on  the  O.  S.  D.,  the  S.  M.  T.  S.  and 
the  C.  H.  M.  S.,  the  efficiency  and 
stability  of  the  whole  depend  on  the 
integrity  of  each  prop.  Weaken  or 
disable  any  one  of  them  and  the 
whole  structure  is  threatened  with  a 
collapse. 

The  prospect  of  such  a  calamity 
needs  only  to  be  mentioned,  and  it 
is  felt  to  be  intolerable.  With  the 
tide  of  foreign  immigration  on  the 
increase  (1,026,000,  souls  last  year,  of 
which  about  half  a  million  were 
Slavs,  more  than  1,000  for  every  day 
in  the  calendar),  the  seriousness  of 
the  problem  becomes  apparent.  And 
we  Congregationalists  who  have 
been  the  first  seriously  to  grapple 
with  the  problem  of  Slavic  missions 


and  to  achieve  marked  success  there- 
in, must  not  for  a  moment  think 
of  relinquishing  our  hold  upon  this 
work.  The  honor  and  welfare  of 
the  denomination  are  at  stake.  The 
heirs  of  Plymouth  Rock  must  not 
learn  the  meaning  of  retreat.  Our 
glorious  history  and  traditions  can 
brook  no  such  disgrace.  Plymouth 
Rock  is  a  rock,  and  not  a  mole-hill. 
Forzvard  be  our  watchword  ever. 
And  this  is  a  fine  opportunity  for  a 
forward  movement  in  our  Slavic 
missions. 

The  writer  will  surely  be  pardoned 
for  expressing  the  mingled  feelings 
with  which  he  received  the  good 
news  of  an  ample  endowment  for 
the  O.  S.  D.  In  casting  about  in  his 
mind  for  the  significance  of  the 
thing,  two  outstanding  thoughts 
have  possessed  him.  First:  the  great 
confidence  that  the  Lord  has  reposed 
in  the  recipients  of  so  generous  a 
gift.  Twenty  years  of  waiting, 
praying,  hoping  have  been  honored 
of  God  in  a  most  signal  way.  Second: 
The  responsibility  that  comes  with 
so  great  a  trust.  The  Lord  who  sent 
the  gift  wants  it  used  for  His  own 
glory  in  the  salvation  of  Slavic  souls. 
One  feels  the  pressure  of  the  burden, 
but  does  not  lose  heart;  for  He  who 
lays  it  on  us,  gives  help  to  bear  it. 
Yea,  He  bears  us  up,  burden  and  all, 
on  His  almighty  everlasting  arms. 
What  can  it  signify  but  that  He  is 
saying  to  us :  "  Up,  and  be  doing  my 
work  to  which  I  have  called  you.  Be- 
hold, I  have  greatly  blessed  thee." 

Congregationalists,  this  means  you 
as  well  as  us.  Do  you  realize  the 
situation  ?  The  Methodists  have 
recently  voted  an  increase  of  13  per 
cent  for  their  foreign  work  at  home; 
the  Presbyterians  have  been  drawing 
off  our  missionaries  into  their  work, 
and  we — have  been  cutting  off  and 
retrenching  until  the  heart  feels  sore. 
Is  this  the  reply  we  shall  make  to  the 
Lord's  challenge  ?  For  the  gift  of 
Presbyterian  money  as  endowment 
for  Congregational  work  is  a  chal- 
lenge to  us.  What  then  are  we  go- 
ing to  do  about  it  ? 


Editor's  Outlook 


After  Reorganization— What? 

IN  his  opening  address  at  Oak 
Park,  President  King  quotes 
from  Lotze:  "Mechanism  is 
absolutely  universal  in  extent,  but 
completely  subordinate  in  signifi- 
cance," which  means,  says  Dr.  King, 
that  organization,  while  it  is  abso- 
lutely neccessary,  "cannot  be  an  end 
in  itself,  but  only  a  means  completely 
subordinate  to  the  ends  for  which 
the  machine  exists."  The  applica- 
tion of  Lotze's  dictum  and  Dr.  King's 
interpretation  to  the  missionary 
situation  must  be  perfectly  obvious. 

While  it  is  far  from  true  that  the 
Home  Missionary  Society  has  been 
closed  for  repairs,  it  is  distressingly 
evident  that  for  many  months  the 
attention  of  the  churches  has  been 
turned  away  from  their  proper  mis- 
sionary work  to  the  problem  of  mech- 
anism. That  problem  is  now  dis- 
posed of  to  the  general  satisfaction. 
Reorganization  is  a  fact  accomp- 
lished, and  from  being  for  a  time  an 
absorbing  necessity,  it  is  henceforth 
completely  subordinate  to  the  ends 
for  which  the  reconstructed  machine 
exists. 

Shall  we  then  return  to  our  proper 
work? 

Never  have  more  serious  problems 
confronted  the  nation  than  confront 
it  to-day — the  immigrant  and  the 
city,  labor  and  capital,  political  cor- 
ruption and  high-handed  graft,  law- 
lessness and  thinly-veiled  anarchy, 
sordid  materialism  and  business  false 
dealing. 

At  bottom  these  are  all  home  mis- 
sionary problems.  For  whatever 
reformers  may  scheme,  whatever 
legislators  may  enact,  whatever  pen- 
alties the  courts  may  enforce,  though 
our  prisons  should  be  filled  with 
offenders,  and  honorable  names  be 
dragged  in  the  dust,  nothing  is  cura- 
tive, nothing  is  remedial,  nothing 
can  be  redemptive,  that  does  not 
touch  the  motives  of  human  conduct. 


Only  religious  ideals  can  do  that. 
Enthrone  these  in  the  thought  and 
conduct  of  the  people  and  you  have 
sweetened  the  springs  of  the  nation's 
life.  Stop  short  of  this  and  you 
have  healed  the  hurt  of  the  people 
slightly,  crying  peace,  peace,  and 
there  is  no  peace. 

It  is  just  here  that  a  home  mis- 
sionary society  whose  simple  func- 
tion is  the  planting  of  churches, 
enters  into  the  hidden  life  of  a  nation 
in  a  way  that  no  legislator,  nor  re- 
former, nor  politician  can  ever  do. 
Not  only  law,  order,  temperance,  re- 
spect for  the  Sabbath,  security  of 
life  and  property  and  the  claims  of 
humanity  are  thus  conserved  and 
fostered,  but  the  instinct  of  patriot- 
ism itself  in  which  the  very  life  of 
the  nation  consists,  finds  its  nursing 
mother  in  the  church  of  Christ;  and 
it  is  the  church  of  Christ,  with  its 
dominion  over  the  conscience,  with 
its  fellowship  of  kindred  minds,  with 
its  other  world  ideals  and  motives, 
and  its  home  for  the  soul,  which  the 
Home  Missionary  Society  embodies 
and  guarantees. 

To  exalt  this  broader  view  of  the 
Society  and  its  work  has  been  the 
constant  effort  of  The  Home  Mis- 
sionary, especially  during  the  last 
three  years.  Articles  of  great  value 
have  been  sought  and  printed  with 
the  purpose  of  enlightening  and  stim- 
ulating the  home  missionary  spirit 
of  the  churches.  The  value  and 
volume  of  this  literature  can  only  be 
appreciated  by  a  careful  review  of 
the  last  three  volumes  of  the  mag- 
azine. We  do  not  feel  it  amiss  to 
recommend  to  all  our  readers  a 
second  and  more  thoughtful  perusal 
of  the  contributions  of  Miss  Rey- 
nolds, Mr.  Adams  and  Miss  Batcheler 
on  the  Immigrant  question  (October 
and  November,  1904,  October,  1903), 
the  articles  of  James,  Allen  and 
Metcalf  on  the  Redemption  of 
the  City  (February  and  October, 
1904,  January,  1906),  the  stirring  ad- 


138 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


dress  of  Dr.  Sanders  on  the  Pos- 
sibilities of  the  West  (June,  1906), 
and  in  the  same  number  the  most 
enlightening  appeal  of  Dr.  Kelsey 
for  the  religious  training  of  the 
young.  Add  to  these  the  repeated 
appeals  of  Secretary  Shelton  and 
Ernest  Bourner  Allen  to  America's 
young  people,  which  can  be  found  in 
almost  any  number  of  the  magazine. 
Dr.  Kingsbury's  trumpet  notes  from 
the  Rocky  Mountain  region  are 
vibrant  enough  to  stir  the  very  dead, 
and  Emrich,  Ives  and  Harbutt  of 
New  England  have  contributed  to 
The  Home  Missionary  articles  that 
have  been  widely  quoted  in  the  sec- 
ular and  religious  press  of  the 
country.  Information  is  what  the 
churches  need  to  keep  them  up  to 
their  missionary  work.  They  will  find 
it  in  such  thrilling  stories  as  those 
of  Scudder  and  Loud,  Knight  of 
Oregon,  and  Merrill  of  Minnesota, 
and  Haecker  of  Indian  Territory. 

And  whatever  The  Home  Mis- 
sionary has  done  thus  far  it  proposes 
not  only  to  do  again,  but  to  do 
better  and  better.  There  are  able 
home  missionary  pens  and  we  have 
the  promise  of  their  help.  There  are 
tasteful  artists  that  know  how  to 
carry  home  truths  through  the  eye 
to  the  heart.  Let  our  friends  keep 
their  own  eyes  open  toward  the 
monthly  issue  of  The  Home  Mis- 
sionary and  they  will  find  leading 
and  light. 

Shall  We  Respond? 

There  will  be  many,  after  reading 
Professor  Miskovsky's  jubilant  article 
on  another  page,  to  thank  God  and 
offer  congratulations  to  the  gallant 
band  of  workers  that  have  stood  so 
loyally  and  for  so  many  years  by  the 
hard  pressed  Slavic  mission.  To 
some  it  has  seemed  at  times  almost 
a  forlorn  hope,  but  never  for  one 
moment  to  the  shining  vision  of  Dr. 
Schauffler.  We  have  often  seen  him 
discouraged,  but  never  cast  down; 
often  sorrowful  over  what  appeared 
to  him  to  be  but  a  faint  response  on 
the  part  of  the  churches,   in  whose 


behalf  he  was  laying  down  the  full 
measure  of  his  strength  and  life. 
But  these  moments  of  depression 
were  comparatively  few.  There  was 
always  hope  on  the  horizon,  and  that 
hope  has  now  been  fully  realized  in 
the  timely  endowment  of  the  Oberlin 
Slavic  Department  by  the  munifi- 
cient  bequest  of  Miss  Walworth. 
Under  the  circumstances  Professor 
Miskovsky's  earnest  challenge  to  the 
Society  is  natural  and  expected;  and 
it  is  nothing  but  reasonable.  Pro- 
vision for  tne  training  of  ministers 
and  helpers  is  now  complete  and 
doubtless  candidates  for  the  Slavic 
work  will  increase  in  number. 

The  critical  question  remaining 
for  the  Home  Missionary  Society  is 
that  raised  by  the  Professor — will 
we  respond  ?  With  its  inherited 
burdens  and  ever  expanding  work, 
what  promise  can  the  Home  Mission- 
ary Society  make  to  the  earnest 
leaders  of  the  Slavic  Department  for 
the  future  ?  How  far  may  we  rely 
on  the  churches  to  keep  its  foreign 
treasury  supplied  with  funds  suffi- 
cient for  the  employment  of  Slavic 
missionaries  as  fast  as  the  Slavic 
Department  at  Oberlin  and  the 
Schauffler  Training  School  at  Cleve- 
land, with  their  splendid  equipment, 
shall  turn  them  out  ? 

It  is  said  that  money  brings 
money.  There  is  every  reason  in 
this  case  why  it  should.  The  Slavic 
mission  is  fruitful  and  more  and 
more  abounding  in  promise.  The 
young  men  and  women  trained  and 
in  training  for  pastors  and  teachers 
are  of  excellent  quality.  You  may 
read  this  in  the  faces  of  the  pictured 
group  found  in  this  number  of  The 
Home  Missionary.  They  speak  for 
themselves.  The  heavy  stone  that 
blocked  the  way  of  Bohemian  min- 
isterial training  has  now  been  for- 
ever rolled  away.  Why  then  should 
not  the  Home  Missionary  Society 
by  the  aid  of  its  wise  and  fore- 
thoughtful friends,  respond  with 
alacrity  to  Professor  Miskovsky's 
call  of  "Forward!"  with  an  eager 
cry,  "We  are  coming  ?" 


Timely  Truths  Tersely  Told 


Ten     Facts    About     Congrega- 
tionalism 

FIRST:  It  represents  historical- 
ly a  propaganda  for  religious 
intelligence.  Our  Pilgrim 
and  Puritan  fathers  made  early  pro- 
vision for  an  educated  ministry, 
founding  Harvard  and  other  col- 
leges, that  in  them  such  a  ministry 
might  be  provided  for  their 
churches.  Beside  their  churches 
they  planted  school-houses.  They 
started  a  propaganda  of  intel- 
lectualism  which  has  planted  schools 
and  colleges  all  over  this  land  and  in 
other  lands. 

Second:  Congregationalism  is  a 
New  England  plant.  .The  New  Eng- 
land type  of  church  life  is  the  type 
which  has  been  propagated.  Of  all 
the  money  given  for  home  missions 
during  the  last  ten  years,  fifty-three 
per  cent  came  from  Massachusetts 
and  Connecticut.  Most  of  our  Con- 
gregationally  trained  ministers  have 
been  trained  in  our  four  New  Eng- 
land seminaries.  The  type  of 
church  life  which  these  students 
have  observed  here,  and  the  atmos- 
phere of  the  New  England  Church 
in  which  they  have  either  been 
brought  up  or  which  they  have 
breathed  during  their  ministerial 
training  has  given  to  them  the  ideal 
of  a  church  which  they  have  sought 
to  establish  wherever  they  have 
labored. 

Third:  The  Con  g  r  e  gationa  1 
church,  while  severely  democratic 
in  it§  government,  really  represents 
an  intellectual ,  and  often  social 
aristocracy.  This  is  not  of  intent, 
but  in  virtue  of  the  fact  that  in  the 
New  England  town  the  Congrega- 
tional church  is  the  oldest  church 
and  usually  has  the  best  families. 
Naturally,  Congregational  churches 
having  this  ideal  before  them,  desire 
to  have  their  membership  from  this 
class  of  families. 


Fourth:  As  a  result  of  these 
facts,  we  have  very  few  distinctly 
People's  churches.  We  have  not 
produced  this  type  of  a  democratic, 
popular  church  with  a  large  mem- 
bership. 

Fifth:  Because  of  the  prevalence 
of  this  ideal,  and  because  there  has 
been  no  central  organization  of  our 
churches  to  superintend  our  growth, 
particularly  in  the  cities,  we  are 
weak  in  cities  outside  of  New 
England.  Eighty-two  per  cent  of 
our  churches  are  in  the  country. 

Sixth:  Adultism  characterizes 
our  church  life  everywhere.  The 
type  of  sermon  which  our  men  are 
trained  to  produce  is  such  as  will  in- 
terest the  most  cultured  members  of 
the  congregation.  The  music  of  our 
churches,  our  paid  quartettes,  is 
designed  to  meet  the  taste  of  the 
more  cultured  adults.  Our  evange- 
listic endeavor  has  been  to  reach 
and  bring  into  the  church  adults. 
The  main  endeavor  of  our  churches, 
as  directed  by  their  officials,  has 
been,  and  still  chiefly  is,  aimed  to 
meet  the  interests  of  the  adult  rather 
than  of  the  child. 

Seventh:  The  Sunday  schools  of 
our  Congregational  churches  are 
rarely  of  the  popular  type.  We 
have  many  first  -  class  Sunday 
schools,  but  too  many  of  them  are 
conventionally  managed  and  contain 
only  children  of  the  families  of  the 
church.  They  are  designed  for 
them  and  them  only.  January  i, 
1905,  there  were  in  the  denomination 
only  thirteen  Sunday  schools  which 
had  an  enrollment,  including  Home 
Department  and  Cradle  Roll  and 
Mission  School,  of  1,000  or  more, 
and  only  113  that  had  500  members. 
This  in  a  denomination  which  has 
nearly  6,000  churches. 

Eighth:  These  small  Sunday 
schools  are  growing  smaller.  This 
results  from  the  decay  of  the  New 
England  type  of  family,    into  which 


140 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


fewer  children  are  born  than  former- 
ly, and  from  the  characteristics  al- 
ready mentioned.  Our  churches 
have  not  gone  out  after  other  peo- 
ple's children.  They  have  not  ex- 
pended brains  and  money  in  the  en- 
deavor to  interest  children  so  that 
those  outside  of  the  families  whose 
parents  sent  them  would  come  into 
our  Sunday  schools. 

Ninth:  The  result  is  that,  as  a 
denomination,  we  are  fast  losing  our 
constituency  of  children. 

Tenth:  We  must  change  our  type 
and  tactics  or  die.  That  is,  we  must 
develop  a  more  popular  type  of 
church  and  a  new  intelligence  and 
aggressiveness  in  cities.  Our  popula- 
tions are  massing  in  the  cities.  It 
is  there  only  that  we  can  reach 
them.  Then  we  must  develop  a 
new  spirit  and  method  in  respect  of 
children  and  young  people.  This 
last  is  the  supreme  thing.  We  must 
win  a  constituency  of  young  life  for 
our  churches,  for  our  self-preserva- 
tion, and  in  order  to  do  all  we  ought 
for  our  country. 

Henry  H.    Kelsey. 

Hartford,  Conn. 

For  Stability  Amidst  Change 

One  who  has  kept  watch  on  the 
movements  of  modern  thought  in  its 
groping  after  reality  finds  relief  as 
well  as  reality  in  contemplating  the 
movement  of  modern  missionary 
work. 

He  reads  books  in  which  erudite 
learning  attempts  to  reconstruct  the 
Bible  on  a  critico-historical  basis, 
and  he  finds  them  shelving  as  legend- 
ary and  unreal  much  that  has  long 
stood  for  real  history.  He  finds  more 
or  less  of  the  creeds,  in  which  the 
fathers  of  the  church  formulated 
their  understanding  of  the  Scrip- 
tures, pronounced  mythological  or 
fanciful.  Many  ancient  beliefs  seem 
as  if  shaken  by  earthquake.  Still, 
he  may  see  that  many  engaged  in 
these  unsettling  efforts  of  recon- 
struction, with  all  the  demolition 
it  involves,  are  Christian  scholars, 
men  of  faith  in  the  Holy  Spirit,  and 


that  he  may  wisely  hold  it  reason- 
able to  trust  them  for  the  outcome 
in  new  forms  of  thought  which  con- 
serve all  spiritual  values,  and  may 
prove  to  be  intellectually  stronger 
than  the  old. 

But  meanwhile,  for  relief  from  the 
present  perplexity  of  this  scene  of 
changeful  learning,  it  is  good  to 
turn  to  the  field  of  action.  It  is 
action  which  ever  kindles  the  torch 
that  illuminates  a  dark,  untrodden 
way.  It  is  in  action  that  the  ele- 
mental realities  disclose  themselves 
in  full  potency,  unaffected  by  the 
wordy  controversy  over  the  ancient 
forms  in  which  men  have  essayed  to 
express  their  belief  in  them.  In  the 
missionary  field,  afar  from  the  strife 
of  tongues  in  the  schools,  the  primal 
and  central  questions  of  spirit  to 
spirit,  questions  which  no  science, 
philosophy  or  criticism  can  solve, 
are  still  heard  and  answered  as  of 
old.  The  hunger  of  the  soul  for 
God  still  finds,  as  in  the  days  of 
Moses  and  Job,  a  satisfying  assur- 
ance of  the  mercy  that  forever  en- 
dures. The  penitence  of  the  return- 
ing prodigal  still  finds  itself  ac- 
cepted with  the  kiss  of  peace,  and 
faster  than  new  works  of  advanced 
learning  appear  new  houses  of  wor- 
ship rise  throughout  the  land. 
"Man,"  said  a  recent  writer,  "is  in- 
curably religious." 

Whoever  may  be  either  puzzled  or 
alarmed  by  the  incursions  of  critical 
learning  into  the  structure,  history 
and  contents  of  the  New  Testament, 
let  him  turn  for  reassurance  of 
stability  amidst  all  possible  change 
of  venerable  traditions  to  the  grand 
spectacle  of  the  missionary's  work  in 
planting  and  nurturing  Christian 
institutions  on  virgin  soil;  to  the 
responses  which  greet  the  words  of 
the  eternal  life  he  utters;  to  the  up- 
springing  of  morality,  charity  and 
social  progress  wherever  he  goes. 
The  religious  instinct  that  he  ap- 
peals to,  and  that  thus  responds  to 
him,  is  at  the  core  of  human  nature, 
and  older  far  than  the  Bible.  The 
Bible  grew  out  of  it,  and  would  grow 


TIMELY  TRUTHS  TERSELY  TOLD 


141 


again,  were  it  possible  for  the  Bible 
to  perish.  The  coast  line  may 
change,  and  man-made  structures 
be  swept  away,  but  the  sea  still 
beats  in  vain  upon  the  rock-bound 
shore. 

The  things  now  in  the  crucible  of 
criticism  belong  to  the  lower  realm 
of  knowledge  and  intellect  and  be- 
lief. The  eternal  realities  which 
religion  ever  strives  to  make  its  own 
belong  to  the  higher  realm  of  faith 
in  spiritual  values.  As  stars  above 
the  clouds,  so  these  abide  above  all 
vicissitude  in  the  realm  of  change- 
ful knowledge. 

"For  she  is  earthly,  of  the  mind; 
But  Wisdom  heavenly,  of  the  soul." 

It  is  these  to  which  the  missionary 
constantly  appeals,  these  that  attest 
themselves,  yesterday,  to-day,  and 
forever,  in  steadfast  response  to  his 
appeal.  Thus  the  missionary  in- 
terest to-day  supplies  the  doubting 
mind  with  a  wholesome  and  steady- 
ing balance  to  the  critical  interest. 
If  we  have  the  one,  we,  while  duly 
hospitable  to  the  other,  shall  be 
neither  warped  nor  unsettled  by  it. 


,^^L^)a1^^j2> 


New  York. 


Wanted  —  New    Missionary- 
Hymns 

The  Rev.  Henry  Van  Dyke,  D.D., 
recently  offered  a  couple  of  stanzas 
as  additions  to  our  national  hymn 
"America,"  for  the  sake  of  memo- 
ralizing  California  as  well  as  New 
England.  The  Boston  Herald  sug- 
gested that  he  was  equal  to  the  task 
of  giving  us  an  original  national 
hymn. 

These  facts  have  induced  the 
writer  to  express  the  thought  that 
he,  as  a  lover  of  hymns,  has  long 
entertained,  that  we  need  some  new 
missionary  hymns  both  home  and 
foreign.  The  best  old  missionary 
hymns  have  been  sung  so  often  that 
they  are  well  worn  by  use,  if  not 


worn  out.  This  is  the  sufficient 
evidence  that  they  are  great,  popular 
hymns ;  if  they  are  allowed  to  become 
somewhat  absolescent,  it  is  because 
of  the  superb  service  that  they  have 
rendered.  They  are  not  rusting  out. 
If  audiences  are  scrutinized  when 
these  hymns  are  announced  one  can 
scarcely  fail  to  notice  that  the  sing- 
ing lacks  the  old  spirit.  It  is  some- 
what formal  and  relatively  lifeless. 
The  words  and  the  tune  are  so 
familiar  and  have  been  so  frequently 
announced,  that  it  is  a  question 
whether  they  have  not  been  over- 
used. This  is  all  the  criticism  that 
the  writer  wishes  to  make.  Their 
intrinsic  merits  and  their  great  and 
long  history  are  acknowledged  and 
appreciated. 

But  why  have  we  had  so  few  new 
hymns  of  a  similar  character  ?  The 
late  Dr.  J.  E.  Rankin  wrote  hymns 
concerning  the  needs  of  our  great 
West  that  were  good,  but  they  do 
not  seem  to  have  ranked  with  his 

"God  be  with  you,  till  we  meet  again," 
nor  has  any  hymnist  in  any  denomi- 
nation whom  we  can  recall  written  a 
great  missionary  hymn  during  the 
last  generation.  It  is  useless  to  ad- 
vertise for  one  or  to  offer  a  prize. 
Such  hymns  come  as  an  inspiration 
if  they  come  at  all. 

Meanwhile  two  things  are  feasible : 
One,  to  revive  old  hymns;  another, 
to  try  to  nationalize  hymns  that  have 
found  favor  abroad.  There  is  a 
home  missionary  hymn  familiar  a 
generation  ago,  which  alludes  to 
California  and  might  easily  and  ap- 
propriately be  introduced  at  the 
present  time.  Its  origin  is  narrated 
by  Rev.  Henry  S.  Burrage,  D.D., 
in  his  volume  entitled  "Baptist 
Hymn  Writers."  It  was  written  by 
Mrs.  Frances  Anderson  (1849),  a 
daughter  of  Thomas  F.  Hill,  of 
Exeter,  England,  who  was  born  in 
Paris,  France,  January  30,  1819. 
She  married  George  W.  Anderson 
D.  D.,  of  Philadelphia,  in  1847.  Dr. 
Burrage  says: 

"A  home  mission  hymn,  written 
by  Mrs.  Anderson  in  1849,  is  in  many 


142 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


of  our  best  collections.  Dr.  George 
B.  Ide,  then  pastor  of  the  First 
Baptist  Church  in  Philadelphia,  had 
seen  some  of  Mrs.  Anderson's  poet- 
ical productions  in  the  Christian 
Chronicle,  and  as  he  wished  to  have 
a  home  mission  hymn  in  the  "Baptist 
Harp"  which  he  was  then  compiling, 
he  asked  her  if  she  would  write  one 
in  the  same  measure  as  Bishop 
Heber's 

"From  Greenland's  icy  mountains." 

Mrs.  Anderson  acceded  to  his  request, 
and  her  hymn  was  sung  for  the  first 
time  at  a  home  mission  meeting  in 
the  First  Baptist  Church,  Philadel- 
phia. Dr.  B.  M.  Hill,  corresponding 
secretary  of  the  American  Baptist 
Home  Mission  Society,  who  was 
present  and  read  the  hymn,  intro- 
duced it  with  the  remark,  "We  will 
now  sing  a  home  mission  hymn, 
written  by  a  lady  of  this  city,  and 
just  published  in  the  'Baptist 
Harp.":  The  hymn,  as  it  appeared 
in  this  collection,  is  as  follows: 

"Our  country's  voice  is  pleading, 

Ye  men  of  God,  arise ! 
His  providence  is  leading, 

The  land  before  you  lies. 
Day  gleams  are  o'er  it  brightening 

And  promise  clothes  the  soil ; 
Wide  fields  for  harvests  whitening 

Invite  the  reaper's  toil. 

Go  where  the  waves  are  breaking 

On  California's  shore, 
Christ's  precious  gospel  taking, 

More  rich  than  golden  ore; 
On  Alleghany's  mountains, 

Through  all  the  western  vale, 
Beside  Missouri's  fountains. 

Rehearse  the  wonderous  tale. 

Where  prairie  flowers  are  blooming. 

Plant  Sharon's  fairer  rose ; 
The  farthest  wilds  illuming 

With  light  that  ever  glows; 
To  each  lone  forest  ranger 

The  Word  of  Life  unseal ; 
To  every  exile  stranger, 

Its  saving  truths  reveal. 

The  love  of  Christ  unfolding, 

Speed  on  from  east  to  west, 
Till  all,  his  cross  beholding, 

In  him  are  fully  blest. 
Great  Author  of  salvation, 

Haste,  haste  the  glorious  day. 
When  we,  a  ransomed  nation, 

Thy  sceptre  shall  obey." 


There  is  a  hymn  written  by  the 
Rev.  H.  H.  Burton,  D.D.,  of  Hoy- 
lake,  England,  which  seems  to  be 
worthy  and  capable  of  adoption  in 
this  country.  Such  hymns  are  all 
the  better  for  being  international 
and  inter-denominational.  When 
the  jubilee  of  Queen  Victoria  was 
celebrated  in  1887,  Dr.  Stephenson 
(presumably  the  Rev.  T.  Bowman 
Stephenson,  D.D.,  L.L.D.),  asked 
Dr.  Burton  to  write  a  Jubilee  Ode. 
He  responded  and  his  words  were 
set  to  music  by  Sir  John  Stainer, 
Mus.  Doc,  and  sung  at  a  children's 
home  festival,  the  Children's  Home 
having  been  founded  by  Dr.  Stephen- 
son. After  the  festival  Dr.  Stainer 
wrote  Dr.  Burton  that  he  was  de- 
lighted with  the  words  and  suggested 
the  writing  of  a  patriotic  hymn  to 
the  tune,  in  the  hope  that  both 
words  and  music  would  outlive  the 
occasion  and  the  year  of  1887.  Dr. 
Burton  wrote  the  following  hymn 
which  is  in  the  British  Wesleyan 
Hymn  Book  of  1904: 

"O  King  of  kings,  O  Lord  of  hosts,  whose 

throne  is  lifted  high 
Above  the  nations  of  the  earth,  the  armies 

of  the  sky, — 
The  spirits  of  the  perfected  may  give  their 

nobler  songs; 
And  we.    Thy   children,    worship  Thee,  to 

whom  all  praise  belongs. 

Thou  who  didst  lead  Thy  people  forth,  and 

make  the  captive  free, 
Hast   drawn  around   our   native  land  the 

curtain  of  the  sea, 
To  make  another  holy  place,  where  golden 

lamps  should  shine, 
And    human    hearts    keep    loving    watch 

around  the  ark  divine. 

Our   bounds  of  Empire  Thou  hast  set   in 

many  a  distant  isle, 
And  in  the  shadow  of  our  throne  the  desert 

places  smile ; 
For  in  our  laws  and  in  our  faith  'tis  Thine 

own  light  they  see — 
The  truth  that  brings  to  captive  souls  the 

wider  liberty. 

Thy  hand  has  hid  within  our  fields  treasures 

of  countless  worth ; 
The  light,  the  suns   of  other  years,   shine 

from  the  depths  of  earth; 
The   very   dust,    inbreathed  by  Thee,    the 

clods  all  cold  and  dead, 
Wake  into  beauty  and  to  life,    to  give  Thy 

children  bread. 


TIMELY  TRUTHS  TERSELY  TOLD 


*4S 


Thou  who  hast  sown  the  sky   with   stars, 

setting  Thy   thoughts  in  gold. 
Hast  crowned  our  nation's   life,    and   ours 

with  blessings  manifold ; 
Thy  mercies  have  been  numberless;   Thy 

love,  Thy  grace,  Thy  care, 
Were  wider  than  our  utmost  need,    and 

higher  than  our  prayer. 

O   King  of  kings,    O  Lord  of  hosts,   our 

father's  God  and  ours! 
Be  with  us  in  the  future  years ;   and   if  the 

tempest  lowers, 
Look  through  the  cloud  with  light  of  love, 

and  smile  our  tears  away,' 
And  lead  us  through  the  brightening  years 

to  heaven's  eternal  day." 

The  words  were  set  to  the  music 
finally,  not  the  music  to  the  words. 
The  tune  composed  was  "Rex 
Regum"  (King  of  Kings).  The 
name  of  the  composer  is  a  guarantee 
of  its  quality.  The  third  stanza  is 
not  inappropriate  to  the  America  of 
to-day  since  our  distant  isles  now 
include  Porto  Rico,  Hawaii,  the 
Philippines  and  indirectly  Cuba. 
Our  Home  Missionary  Society  is  at 
work  in  Cuba,  our  American  Mis- 
sionary Association  in  Porto  Rico 
and  Hawaii,  our  American  Board  in 
the  Philippines,  and  our  Church 
Building  Society  wherever  it  can 
help.  Let  us  hope  that  wherever 
"the  throne"  (the  government) 
throws  its  shadow,  the  desert  places 
will  smile;  but  we  may  be  certain 
that  they  will  smile  wherever  the 
home  and  foreign  missionaries  cast 
their  shadows.  Without  doubt  their 
coming  will  make  it  "another  holy 
place." 

Let  the  living  hymnists  appear 
and  prove  themselves  the  Lord's 
prophets,  poets  and  patriots. 


(=^^^t^U^/^  /da-?au*. 


Boston. 


The   Village   Home  Missionary- 
Church 

Is  it  worth  while  ?  Does  it  pay  ? 
The  answer  depends  largely  on  the 
view-point.  As  a  mere  business 
proposition  it  may  seem  like  an  in- 
judicious investment!  A  positive 
waste  of  money.  But,  what  of  the 
higher,  the  spiritual  considerations  > 

The  writer  once  heard  a  knowing 
brother,  very  emphatically  declare,, 
in  an  associational  meeting:  "If  I 
could  have  my  way  there  would  no 
more  money  go  to  these  poor  little 
village  churches.  I  would  place  it 
all  in  the  large  cities  where  there 
would  be  speedy  returns!" 

This  of  course  would  be  the  correct 
business  view.  But  after  all,  what 
does  our  common  Christianity  stand 
for  ?  Is  it  business  or  beneficience  > 
It  should  not  be  so  much  a  question 
of  actual  material  results  for  dollars 
expended,  as  possibilities  of  spiritual 
enlargement,  and  the  actual  develop- 
ment of  Christ's  Kingdom  on  earth! 

Viewed  in  this  light,  the  little 
village  church  has  abundantly  prov- 
ed its  right  to  be.  From  these  tiny, 
obscure  centers  there  have  frequent- 
ly gone  forth  mighty  forces  to  leaven 
and  purify  the  social  life  of  the 
great  cities. 

The  little  church,  like  the  "poor," 
seems  to  be  an  abiding  factor  in  the 
world's  life.  It  should  not  be  de- 
spised, but  fostered  and  properly 
maintained. 

It  may  not  possess  the  glamour 
and  fascination  of  new  work,  out  on 
the  actual  frontier,  and  yet  it  does 
occupy  a  sort  of  frontier  of  its  own, 
and  has  a  prior  right  to  sympathy 
and  succor! 


Cowles,  Neb. 


THE     BATTLE     CRY:     $500,000 
ANNUALLY    IN  CONTRIBUTIONS 

FROM   CHURCHES  AND   INDIVIDUALS 
By   Don  O.  Shelton 


I 

COMPARISONS  often  cheer. 
The  report  of  the  Treasurer 
of  the  Congregational  Home 
Missionary  Society,  for  the  four 
months  ending  July  31,  shows  a  grat- 
ifying increase  in  contributions,  etc., 
over  the  contributions  received  in  the 
same  period  last  year.  The  receipts 
this  year  are  doubly  encouraging  from 
the  fact  that  the  receipts  in  1905  were 
considerably  in  excess  of  those  of  1904. 

RECEIPTS    (CONTRIBUTIONS    ONLY)    APRIL    l- 
JULY    31. 

Contributions,    etc.,     for   the   above   period, 
(legacies  not  included): 

ig°4 $29,278. 

1905 38,510. 

1906 44,049. 

The  very  encouraging  increase  in 
1905  over  the  previous  year  was  al- 
most wholly  the  result  of  the  response  of 
individuals  to  the  special  financial  needs 
of  the  Society.  The  added  increase  this 
year  is  also  owing  to  the  generous  giv- 
ing of  individual  members  of  churches, 
in  answer  to  personal  requests.  This 
comparative  table  of  receipts,  from 
contributions,  reveals  a  deep,  practical 
interest  in  the  work  of  the  Society  on 
the  part  of  many  friends. 


II 

BUT  comparisons 
sometimes  sad- 
d  e  n  .  Our 
Treasurer's  report  of 
receipts  from  legacies 
shows  decline,  instead 
of  gain. 

LEGACY  RECEIPTS,  APRIL  I- 
JULY  31. 

Legacy  receipts  only  for 
the  above  period  (contribu- 
tions,  etc.,  not  included): 

1904 $70,562. 

1905 31,667. 

1906 21,955. 

It  is  through  the 
unexpected  and  unpre- 
cedented decline  in 
legacy  receipts,  indi- 
cated above,  that  the 
financial  needs  of  the 
Society  are  now  so 
pressing  and  formid- 
able. 

Through  its  income 
from  legacies  the  So- 
ciety has  done  a  large 
part  of  its  past  work 
and    doubtless    legacy 


receipts  will  form  a 
large  part  of  its  future 
income. 

But  receipts  from 
legacies  in  process  of 
payment,  are  ungov- 
ernable, and  during  the 
past  three  years  have 
so  fluctuated  as  to  be 
undependable. 

Ill 

IT  IS  imperative, 
therefore,  that  gifts 
from  the  living  be 
increased  immediately 
and  extensively.  The 
Congregational  home 
mission  cause  will 
continue  to  be  im- 
perilled unless  mem- 
bers of  our  churches 
at  once  enlarge  their 
offerings.  In  a  re- 
illuminating  address, 
Dr.  Josiah  Strong  has 
shown  how  greatly 
the  resources  of  Con- 
gregationalists  ha  v  e 
enlarged  during  the 
past  ten  years.  Ac- 
cording to  his  fair 
estimate,  their  com- 
bined wealth  is 
$240,000,000  greater 
than  ten  years  ago. 
But      have     Con- 


gregationalists  given  in  accordance 
with  their  growing  ability*?  No;  they 
gave  ten  per  cent  less  to  benevolences 
last  year  than  ten  years  ago. 

With  their  financial  ability  so  large- 
ly increased  there  is  reason  to  expect 
an  immediate  and  generous  response 
to  the  urgent  financial  needs  of  the  Con- 
gregational Home  Missionary  Society. 
Opportunities  for  home  mission  service 
were  never  greater.  To  fail  to  take 
advantage  of  them  is  not  only  contrary 
to  the  known  will  of  the  Master,  but 
is  a  sure  means  of  spiritual  decay. 

How  much  money  from  members 
of  Congregational  churches  is  needed 
for  home  missions?  Not  less  than 
$500,000  annually,  (exclusive  of  all 
legacy  receipts).  An  amount  not  less 
than  this  is  essential  for  the  carrying 
forward  of  the  great  work  of  the 
National  and  State  Societies. 

$500,000  annually,  in  contributions 
from  members  of  Congregational  churches, 
must  be  our  battle-cry  I 

Think  of  it!  An  average  annual 
gift  of  only  $1  from  each  Congrega- 
tional church  member  would  more 
than  afford  this  grand  total. 

You  can  help  to  bring  the  total 
offering  of  your  church  up  to  this 
mark.  Will  you  not  pray?  Will 
you  not  work  ?  Will  you  not  give  ? 
Will  you  not  become  a  consequential 
force  in  behalf  of  securing  $500,000 
in  contributions  for  Congregational 
Home  Missions? 

Nowhere  but  forward! 


Our  Country's  Young  People 


HOME       MISSION 
TEXT     BOOK    r  9  o  6  -  o  7 

THE  new  home  mission  text- 
book is  ready.  Its  winning 
title  is,  Aliens  or  Americans? 
Its  author  is  the  Rev.  Howard  B. 
Grose,  Editorial  Secretary  of  the 
Baptist  Home  Mission  Society. 

The  quality  of  the  book  is  excel- 
lent. It  is  informational, but  not  dull. 
It  is  graphic  in  its  descriptions, 
but  not  extravagant.  Figures  follow 
figures,  but  not  tiresomely.  Fifteen 
pictures  and  seven  charts  and  maps 
illuminate  the  author's  plea. 

Dr.  Josiah  Strong  wrote  the  intro- 
duction. He  says  the  message  of  Mr. 
Grose's  book  is  "A  million  immi- 
grants! A  million  opportunities! 
A  million  obligations!"  Voiced  in 
Mr.  Grose's  attractive  way  it  is  a 
message  multitudes  will  eagerly 
listen  to. 

The  gist  of  the  argument  of  the 
book  is  in  these  sentences,  taken 
from  the  Preface: 

Immigration  may  be  regarded  as  a  peril 
or  a  providence,  an  ogre  or  an  obligation — 
according  to  the  point  of  view.  The 
Christian  ought  to  see  in  it  the  unmis- 
takable hand  of  God  opening  wide  the 
door  of  evangelistic  opportunity.  Through 
foreign  missions  we  are  sending  the  gospel 
to  the  ends  of  the  earth.  As  a  home  mis- 
sion God  is  sending  the  ends  of  the  earth 
to  our  shores  and  very  doors.  The  author 
is  a  Christian  optimist  who  believes  God 
has  a  unique  mission  for  Christian  America, 
and  that  it  will  ultimately  be  fulfilled. 
While  the  facts  are  in  many  ways  appal- 
ling, the  result  of  his  study  of  the  foreign 
peoples  in  our  country  has  made  him  hope- 
ful concerning  their  Americanization  and 
evangelization,  if  only  American  Christians 
are  awake  and  faithful  to  their  duty.  The 
Christian  young  people,  brought  to  realize 
that  immigration  is  another  way  of  spelling 
obligation,  must  do  their  part  to  remove 
that  tremendous  IF. 

Aliens  or  Americans?  is  a  highly 
creditable  text-book.    Questions,  fol- 


lowing each  chapter,  and  suggestions 
for  their  use,  enhance  its  value.  It 
contains  an  excellent  bibliography. 
We  most  heartily  commend  and 
recommend  Aliens  or  Americans? 
We  hope  that  a  class  for  the  study 
of  it  may  be  formed  in  your  young 
people's  society  and  in  your  church. 
"  Helps  for  Leaders"  will  be  imme- 
diately available.  Text-books  can 
be  had  at  the  following  rates:  in 
cloth,  50  cents,  postage  10  cents  ex- 
tra; in  paper,  35  cents,  postage  8 
cents  extra.  Address  the  'Congre- 
gational Home  Missionary  Society, 
287  Fourth  Avenue,  New  York  City. 

FOR     JUNIOR    HOME 
MISSION        STUDY 

Miss  Katharine  R.  Crowell  has 
written  a  capital  home  mission  text- 
book for  juniors.  It  is  entitled 
Coming  Americans,  and  is  amply  il- 
lustrated. All  who  are  seeking  to 
interest  children  in  the  study  of 
home  missions  will  find  it  of  excep- 
tional value.  Miss  Crowell  is  gifted 
in  writing  for  young  people,  as  her 
previous  books,  "  China  for  Juniors" 
and  "Alaska  for  Juniors,"  have 
shown. 

Leaders  of  Junior  Christian  En- 
deavor Societies  and  teachers  of 
boys  and  girls  in  Sunday  schools 
will  do  well  to  promote  the  wide 
reading  and  study  of  this  book. 
Many,  we  hope,  will  find  it  possible 
to  form  special  classes  for  juniors, 
for  its  study.  A  supplement,  for  the 
special  use  of  leaders,  will  be  fur- 
nished free  with  all  orders.  The 
price  of  Coming  Americans,  is  as  fol- 
lows: in  cloth,  35  cents;  in  paper, 
20  cents.  For  copies  address  The 
Congregational  Home  Missionary 
Society,  287  Fourth  Avenue,  New 
York  City. 


Meetings  that 

Hook  with 

Hooks 


MISSIONARY    MEETINGS 
THAT  THRILL 

By  John  F.  Cowan,   D.  D. 

Associate  Editor   The   Christian 
Endeavor  World 


Full  of  Points 

as  a  Box  OF 

Tacks 


I  WOULD  make  a  strong  plea 
for  monthly  missionary  prayer 
meetings  for  the  whole  church. 
The  young  people  have  theirs;  the 
women's  missionary  societies  have 
theirs.  The  men  are  more  neg- 
lected at  home  than  the  heathen  are 
abroad,  except  for  an  occasional 
missionary  sermon  or  address,  unless 
the  church  prayer  meeting  some- 
times deals  with  missions.  The 
policy  of  relegating  missionary  meet- 
ings to  the  women  and  children  is 
fatal.  More  than  anything  else 
missions  needs  the  men,  and  men 
need  missions. 

But  if  we  have  missionary  prayer 
meetings  for  the  church,  they  must 
he  of  the  kind  that  make  people  fall 
in  love  with  missions,  and  not  of 
the  kind  that  make  people  fall  out 
with  missions.  It  is  possible  to 
have    missionary    prayer    meetings 


IT  GIVES  us  great  pleasure  to  announce 
that  Dr.  Cowan,  who  is  one  of  the  as- 
sociate editors  of  The  Christian  En- 
deavor World,  one  of  the  very  brightest 
and  best  of  our  religious  papers,  has  com- 
ing from  the  press  of  The  Fleming  H. 
Revell  Company  a  book  entitled  "Helps 
For  All  the  Prayer  Meetings."  The  accom- 
panying excellent  article  from  his  pen  is  a 
sample  of  the  contents  of  the  new  book. 
Dr.  Cowan  writes  out  of  a  varied  practical 
experience.  For  three  years  he  taught  a 
class  of  leaders  of  young  people's  prayer 
meetings  at  the  Boston  Young  Men's  Chris- 
tian Association.  He  has  also  been  for 
three  years  on  the  faculty  of  the  Maine 
Christian  Endeavor  Summer  School.  Dr. 
Cowan's  new  book  is  designed  to  furnish 
practical  plans  and  suggestions  for  the 
prayer  meetings  of  the  young  people's 
societies,  and  of  the  church.  It  has  a  large 
number  of  plans  for  Missionary  meetings, 
covering  all  the  mission  fields  in  the  world. 
It  will  be  issued  in  the  fall. 


that  will  thrill.  The  fascination, 
the  heroism,  the  tremendous  world- 
conquest  of  missions  may  be  so  pre- 
sented as  to  lift  men  off  their  seats. 
It  is  the  more  common  experience, 
however,  to  have  missionary  meet- 
ings that  are  stereotyped,  and  dull 
and  dreary;  these  are  the  meetings 
that  drive  men  away  resolved  never 
to  go  to  another.  The  other  kind 
hook  them  with  hooks  and  fire  their 
souls  with  missionary  ardor. 

Nothing  fires  the  imagination  and 
makes  men's  nerves  tingle  like  hero- 
ism. Next  to  war  and  love,  mis- 
sions are  calculated  to  appeal  to  the 
young  mind  particularly,  but  to  all 
minds,  for  missions  are  the  embodi- 
ment of  adventure,  romance,  chiv- 
alry and  the  marvelous.  Missions 
are  the  firing-line  of  civilization's 
advance  around  the  world.  They 
are  the  modern  Alladin's  lamp, 
working  transformations  that  need 
only  be  shown  to  astonish  and  thrill. 
If  missions  are  not  interesting  in 
the  young  people's  prayer  meeting 
and  in  the  prayer  meeting  of  the 
church,  it  is  because  the  thrilling, 
glowing,  marvelous  facts  of  missions 
have  been  presented  in  a  tame, 
stupid  way. 

A  missionary  meeting  that  thrills 
must  have  its  facts  presented  with 
something  of  the  vividness,  the  elec- 
tric first-handedness  of  the  descrip- 
tions of  the  war  correspondent  who 
writes  on  the  field  of  battle.  The  mis- 
sionary facts  as  presented  in  many  of 
our  missionary  prayer  meetings  are 
more  like  the  colorless,  lifeless  re- 
ports that  read  as  if  they  had  been 
cooked  up  by  the  aid  of  an  encylo- 


148 


OUR  COUNTRY'S  YOUNG  PEOPLE 


pedia  in  the  newspaper  office.  Mis- 
sions are  the  livest,  nerviest,  realest 
thing  in  the  Christian  church.  The 
stupendous  blunder  of  the  ages  has 
been  that  missions  have  not  been  so 
presented  as  to  grip  the  men  of  the 
church — they  contain  all  the  ele- 
ments that  do  grip  men  in  other 
affairs. 

How  shall  we  make  these  facts  of 
adventure  and  daring  and  conquest 
stand  out  full-orbed  in  our  mission- 
ary prayer  meetings,  so  that  men  as 
well  as  women,  shall  be  fascinated 
and  won? 

First.  Pack  the  meeting  with 
fresh  facts.  Give  the  stock  mission- 
ary statements  and  stories  and  songs 
a  rest.  The  missionary  magazines 
and  libraries  are  full  of  up-to-date, 
vital  facts  that  are  calculated  .'to 
whet  the  edge  of  interest.  No 
activities  of  the  world  have  pro- 
duced a  literature  so  rich  in  strong, 
dramatic  elements  that  pique  in- 
terest and  make  hearts  glow,  as  the 
picturesque  and  heroic  conquest  of 
tribes  and  nations  to  the  arts  of 
peace  and  civilization  through  mis- 
sions. There  is  no  more  reason  that 
a  missionary  meeting  should  be  dull 
than  there  is  that  a  political  meet- 
ing on  the  eve  of  a  presidential  elec- 
tion should  be  dull.  Get  the  fresh, 
vibrating  facts. 

Second.  Where  are  such  telling 
facts  available? 

i.  Every  church,  Sunday  school 
and  young  people's  society  should 
have  a  missionary  library.  The 
Student  Yoluteer  library  of  sixteen 
volumes  may  be  had  for  ten  dollars. 
The  Conquest  Missionary  library  of 
the  United  Society  of  Christian 
Endeavor, consisting  often  volumes, 
may  be  had  for  five  dollars.  The 
mission-study  books,  prepared  by  the 
Young  People's  Forward  Missionary 
Movement,  representing  all  denomi- 
nations, are  sold  at  thirty-five  cents 
each,  paper;  fifty  cents,  cloth,  and 
cover  the  entire  field.  Any  of  these 
libraries,  or  any  of  a  score  or  two  of 
new,  bright,  captivating  books  on 
China,  Korea,  Japan,  Africa,  Alaska, 


America  and  all  the  ends  of  the 
earth  are  electric  with  big  facts. 
Besides,  in  the  public  library,  in  the 
pastor's  library,  in  the  Sunday 
school  library  and  in  many  of  the 
homes  of  the  church  are  books  on 
the  latest  phases  of  missionary  work. 

2.  Every  religious  denomination 
publishes  missionary  magazines  and 
illustrated  reports  that  abound  in 
the  most  interesting  details  of  mis- 
sionary life.  A  missionary  or  young 
people's  society  that  cannot  afford  a 
bound  library  may  make  one  that 
will  serve  a  good  purpose.  A  scrap- 
book  for  each  important  missionary 
field,  a  pair  of  scissors,  a  pot  of 
paste,  and  from  the  missionary 
magazines,  and  the  denominational 
and  other  religious  papers,  a  great 
abundance  of  items  that  would  en- 
liven and  enrich  a  missionary  meet- 
ing may  be  transferred. 

3.  For  the  young  people's  mis- 
sionary meeting,  especially,  the 
United  Society  of  Christian  En- 
deavor, Boston,  and  some  of  the 
denominational  missionary  boards 
publish  missionary  concert  exercises 
for  all  the  prominent  mission  fields 
that  have  enough  material  in  them 
to  make  most  interesting  missionary 
meetings.  Some  of  these  exercises 
by  the  denominational  boards  are 
furnished  free,  others  cost  from  one 
cent  to  ten  cents  a  copy.  Besides 
these,  the  denominational  boards 
have  a  great  variety  of  interesting 
leaflets,  pictures,  mimeographed  let- 
ters from  missionaries,  stereopticon 
slides  and  other  helpful  material, 
which  they  are  glad  to  furnish  free 
to  societies  of  their  denomination. 
I  have  been  amazed  at  the  great 
wealth  and  variety  and  excellent 
quality  of  printed  matter  available 
for  making  missionary  meetings 
striking  and  impressive.  A  simple 
letter  of  request  to  the  boards  stat- 
ing the  object  for  which  the  litera- 
ture was  wanted  sufficed  to  fill  all 
the  available  space  in  a  good-sized 
school  room.  I  am  sure  if  the  great 
majority  realized  what  helps  are  to 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


149 


be  had  for  the  asking,  their  meet- 
ings would  never  be  lean  nor  dull. 

4.  One  other  source  of  material 
with  which  to  make  missionary  in- 
formation vibrant  with  life  is  the 
returned  missionary,  the  traveling 
secretary  of  the  missionary  society, 
the  student  volunteer,  or  others  who 
are  living  links  with  missions  This 
class  of  speakers  should  be  used  and 
not  abused  in  planning  missionary 
prayer  meetings.  It  is  the  practice, 
particularly  of  some  young  people's 
societies  located  near  the  headquar- 
ters of  mission  boards,  to  plan  for  a 
speaker  from  headquarters  to  take 
charge  of  every  missionary  meet- 
ing. This  is  an  enervating  practice 
for  the  society.  One  meeting  that 
a  young  people's  society  carries 
through  itself  is  worth  half  a  dozen 
in  which  it  had  nothing  to  do  but 
sit  still  and  listen  to  interesting 
speakers.  It  is  likewise  true  of  the 
congregational  missionary  prayer 
meeting.  The  best  all-round  meet- 
ing will  be  the  one  in  which  the 
leader  distributes  the  work  of  prepa- 
ration among  the  largest  possible 
number.  If  there  are  extracts  to 
be  copied  from  books,  it  is  better 
for  a  dozen  to  do  the  copying  than 
for  one  to  do  it  all.  If  books  are  to 
be  gathered  and  searched,  it  is  bet- 
ter to  stir  up  the  whole  community 
as  far  as  possible  with  the  hum  of 
preparation.  Nothing  could  do 
more  to  pique  curiosity  concerning 
the  coming  missionary  meeting  and 
stamp  it  as  something  unusual  than 
to  have  it  announced  in  the  prayer 
meeting  that  all  the  books  in  the 
community  on  the  land  to  be  studied 
are  to  be  made  to  pour  out  their 
treasures  in  the  meeting.  "The 
advertising  man"  would  instantly 
recognize  the  value  of  these  tactics. 

Following  up  the  same  principle, 
the  crudest  outline  map  of  a  mission 
land  that  some  member  of  the  con- 
gregation or  society  draws  is  worth 
more  to  the  meeting  than  the  most 
expensive  map  that  could  be  bought, 
because  it  links  personality  to  the 
meeting.     This  secret  of  a  success- 


ful meeting  should  be  written  in 
bold  capitals  and  kept  before  the 
eye: 

"THE  MORE  YOU  GET  TO 
TAKE  PART  IN  THE  MEET- 
ING, THE  GREATER  THE  IN- 
TEREST IN  IT  AND  IN  MIS- 
SIONS." 

Third.  The  more  specific  your 
missionary  facts  are,  the  more  tell- 
ing they  are.  Never  call  your  meet- 
ing vaguely  and  tritely  "a  mission- 
ary meeting."  Announce  it  under 
some  definite  and  taking  title  as, 
"An  Evening  with  the  Hermit  King- 
dom," "China's Swarming  Children," 
"By  Sledge  Train  Through  Alaska," 
or  "  Going  to  School  with  Mountain 
Whites."  The  old-fashioned  mis- 
sionary meeting,  that  tried  to  cover 
the  entire  globe,  and  each  successive 
one  of  which  traveled  pretty  much 
over  the  same  beaten  track  as  all 
the  rest,  is  responsible  for  much  of 
the  prevalent  impression  that  a  mis- 
sionary meeting  is  bound  to  be  tire- 
some. If  there  are  twelve  mission- 
ary meetings  in  a  year,  each  one 
should  have  as  much  individuality 
as  each  month  of  the  year  has. 
Missionary  meetings  dull  ?  The 
Russo-Japanese  war  would  be  a  dull 
subject  if  we  treated  it  in  the  same 
way  that  we  treat  missions. 

Fourth.  The  facts  prepared  for 
a  meeting  on  China,  or  Alaska, 
should  be  presented  in  the  first  per- 
son instead  of  the  third.  Seldom,  if 
ever,  have  them  read  to  the  meet- 
ing. The  most  interesting  facts, 
droned  out  in  a  listless,  mumbling, 
impersonal  manner  will  lose  most  of 
their  charm.  The  most  common- 
place facts,  if  told  in  a  lively,  inter- 
ested, personal  way,  will  sparkle 
with  interest.  Things  told  are  worth 
ten  times  as  much  as  things  read. 
Get  your  speakers  to  tell  the  facts 
about  the  missionary  field  to  be  pre- 
sented as  if  they  had  just  come  from 
it.  Let  them  impersonate  some 
missionary,  traveler  or  writer.  Or 
let  them  impersonate  natives,  wear- 


i5° 


OUR  COUNTRY'S  YOUNG  PEOPLE 


ing    the   costumes    of    the    country. 

Fifth.  Harness  the  enthusiasm 
of  the  meeting  to  some  practical 
work.  There  ought  to  be  no  feeling 
without  doing.  Harness  the  emo- 
tion awakened  in  the  meeting  to  the 
giving  of  the  church.  If  it  is  a 
meeting  on  city  missions,  harness  it 
to  the  rescue  missions  of  the  com- 
munity that  need  workers  and 
money.  If  it  is  a  theme  that  incul- 
cates benevolence,  harness  the  sen- 
timent of  the  meeting  to  increasing 
the  number  of  tithe-givers  in  the 
church,  or  the  number  of  Tenth 
Legioners  in  the  young  people's 
society.  Harness  it  to  the  forma- 
tion of  a  mission-study  class  in  the 
young  people's  society,  to  the  pur- 
chase of  a  missionary  library,  to  the 
adoption  of  a  native  worker,  to  some 
attempt  to  lessen  the  horrors  of  the 
rum  traffic  among  the  dependent 
races. 

To  summarize  in  closing,  the  mis- 
sionary prayer  meeting  that  will 
make  people  fall  in  love  with  mis- 
sions, even  the  men  of  the  church, 


is  the  meeting  that  gives  them  fresh, 
vital  truths  about  the  inspiring, 
courageous  work  of  missionaries;  it 
is  the  meeting  that  utilizes  the  larg- 
est number  of  people  of  the  congre- 
gation or  young  people's  society  in 
preparing  and  presenting  the  pro- 
gramme ;  it  is  the  meeting  that  pre- 
sents truth  to  the  eye  as  well  as  the 
ear;  it  is  the  meeting  that  is  as  full 
of  definite  points  as  a  box  of  tacks; 
it  is  the  meeting  that  utilizes  the 
sentiment  it  arouses  in  some  definite, 
practical  missionary  work — some- 
thing "worth  while."  We  are  told 
that  the  Twentieth  Century  man 
must  be  convinced  that  a  thing  is 
"  worth  while." 

Is  it  "worth  while"  to  attempt 
through  the  prayer  meeting  to  make 
missions  seem  "worth  while"  to  the 
men  of  the  church  ?  If  so,  then 
what  better  plan  can  we  try  than — 
first,  presenting  things  about  mis- 
sions that  are  "worth  while,"  and, 
second,  giving  them  something  to 
do  for  missions  that  seems  "worth 
while  ?" 


Is  It  True? 

By  Rev.  Ernest  Bourner  Allen, 
Pastor    Was/ilmrton    St.   Congregational  Church,  Toledo,  Ohio. 


WE  are  told  that  a  man  stand- 
ing in  Castle  Garden,  where 
the  emigrant  ship  unloads 
its  myriads,  heard  the  physician  ex- 
claim: "It  will  take  this  nation  a 
hundred  years  to  expel  this  vice  and 
scrofula  from  its  blood." 

But    what    allowance  is  made  for 
the  optimism  born  of  the  fact  that 

"God's  in  His  Heaven?" 

There  are  great  corrective  and  heal- 
ing agencies  at  work.  God's  air 
and  sunshine,  the  purifying  ministry 
of  work,  the  uplift  of  freedom  and 
benediction  of  Christianity — surely 
these  are  mighty  factors  of  which 
we  must  take  account. 


And  the  nation  owes  something  to 
those  who  have  come  to  our  shores. 
What  plague  spots  have  been 
cleansed  by  the  searchlight  attack 
of  Jacob  Riis?  He  is  a  type  of 
scores  whose  leadership  and  loyalty 
have  made  the  Republic  stronger 
and  better.  The  emigrant  brings 
his  problem,  it  is  true,  but  he  like- 
wise brings  other  factors  which  are 
full  of  hope  and  which  give  a  whole- 
some opportunity  to  our  own  life  for 
its  Christlike  expression. 

Nor  is  a  hundred  years  a  long 
period.  It  is  one-tenth  of  one  of 
God's  days,  a  few  hours  on  the  dial 
of  time!  Let  us  be  optimists  ever, 
though  we  face  all  the  discourage- 
ments of  our  national  problems. 


REPORTS    THAT     CHEER 

Leaders  and  Members  of  Home   Mission  Study   Classes  Delighted 

with  Results  Obtained 


MANY  encouraging  reports  on 
the  home  mission  study 
classes  conducted  last  sea- 
son, have  been  received  and  heartily 
welcomed.  Miss  S.  Elizabeth  Knee- 
land,  of  Worcester,  Massachusetts, 
writes :  '  'I  feel  very  thankful  for  the 
success  of  our  home  mission  study 
class.  I  enclose  a  few  testimonials 
written  by  some  of  the  members." 
The  latter  are  so  full  of  encourage- 
ment that  we  trust  their  perusal  will 
lead  many  readers  of  The  Home 
Missionary  to  form  classes  in  local 
churches  and  young  people's  socie- 
ties this  fall. 

One  member  said: 

We  have  had  three  mission  study  classes» 
and  the  last  on  Heroes  of  the  Cross  in 
America  has  been  the  best  of  all.  I  have 
found  this  course  very  interesting,  instruc- 
tive and  inspiring.  It  has  brought  us  into 
touch  with  a  number  of  rare  spirits,  shown 
us  the  true  meaning  of  consecration,  the 
real  spirit  of  the  missionary  of  Christ  and 
has  acquainted  us  with  the  spiritual  needs 
and  opportunities  of  our  country.  Above 
all,  it  has  created  in  us  a  desire  and  pur- 
pose to  do  more  for  missions.  Each  meet- 
ing has  seemed  more  interesting  than  the 
one  before. 


Another  member  wrote: 

The  home  mission  study  class  has  helped 
me  to  understand  the  hardships  and  diffi- 
culties of  the  missionary,  to  appreciate  his 
untiring  zeal  and  to  understand  how  im- 
portant it  is  that  this  work  should  go  on. 

This  was  the  report,  in  part,  of 
one  member: 

If  we  were  just  looking  for  something 
interesting,  we  found  that ;  if  we  wished  to 
broaden  our  views  and  quicken  our  sym- 
pathies, I  am  sure  we  have  succeeded.  I 
never  realized  the  smallness  of  my  own  life 
so  fully  as  I  have  through  comparison  with 
these  grand  men  of  God,  the  pioneer  home 
missionaries. 

The  following  was  the  testimony 
of  another: 

This  has  been  the  most  interesting  of  all 
the  classes  to  me.  David  Brainerd  and 
Joseph  Ward  have  impressed  me  the  most. 
Untiring  in  their  zeal,  they  are  fit  exam- 
ples for  us  to  follow.  Anyone  studying  any 
one  of  the  lives  we  have  been  studying 
cannot  help  but  be  more  earnest  in  the 
cause  of  winning  souls  for  Christ. 
Although  it  has  been  hard  work  some  times 
to  find  time  to  study,  I  am  glad  that  I 
joined  the  class.  May  God  bless  the  other 
members  as  he  has  me !  And  a  double 
blessing  for  the  leader  who  has  put  so  much 
work  into  the  course ! 


Number  of  Congregational    Churches 

FOR      Fo 

REIGN  - 

Speaking 

Peoples,  with  their  Total 

Membership 

Churches 

Members 

Average  to 
a  Church 

Germans,         ...... 

170 

8,000 

47 

Scandinavians,           .            .            .            ... 

95 

7,495 

79 

Slavs,               ...... 

12 

636 

53 

All  other  nationalities,         .... 

102 

8,222 

78 

Including   Italians,    French,   Greek,  Armenian, 







Chinese,  Welsh,  etc., 

379 

24,353 

257 

Women's  JVork  and  Methods 


What   More   Can   We   Women 
Do? 

Mrs.  Washington  Choate 

Pr  aid  cut  of  the  Connecticut  State  iTn/o/i 

An   Address   Delivered    at    the    Woman's 

Federation  Meeting,  Oak  Park, 


Illinois 


T 


1 


HIS  question,  so  vital  and  es- 
sential to  our  work,  is  asked 
and  answered  in  varying 
moods  by  women  engaged  in  home 
missionary  work. 

In  an  enthusiastic  spirit  the 
question  is  now  approached,  and 
in  reply,  let  us  briefly  note  four  lines 
along  which  our  work  evidently  lies. 
Four  doors  thrown  wide  open  before 
us  which  we  are  clearly  called  to  enter. 

First.  Definite  and  aggressive 
work  for  children  and  young  people. 
The  work  of  our  five  national  societies 
lies  wholly  with  the  churches,  and 
from  necessity,  not  from  choice,  they 
have  to  deal  with  them  almost  at 
arm's  length,  while  to  us  women  is 
left  the  more  individual  work  of 
teaching  the  children.  This  care, 
which  is  largely  ours  in  the  family, 
largely  ours  in  the  day  schools,  large- 
ly ours  in  the  sunday-schools,  is 
wholly  ours  along  missionary  lines. 
Too  much  emphasis  cannot  be  laid 
on  the  importance  of  this  work,  for 
the  children  of  to-day  will  be  the 
men  and  women  of  to-morrow. 
Unless  these  children  can  be  reached 
and  interested,  the  stream  of  mis- 
sionary enthusiasm  will  run  dry. 
Now  to  carry  on  this  work  success- 
fully we  need  good  junior  literature. 
Quite  recently  a  few  articles  have  ap- 
peared in  the  Home  Missionary  on 
this  very  point.  By  literature  we  do 
not  mean  a  bit  about  the  Indians  fol- 
lowed by  an  equal  portion  about  the 
miners  and  then  Alaska,  but  a  well 
directed,  yet  simple  course  of  study 
on  Home  Missions,  developing  and 
expanding  as  it  progresses.  A  set- 
ting forth  to  them  of  the  hand  of 
God  in  our  past  history,  our  belief 
that  He  has  a  purpose  for  our  coun- 
try in  the  future,   the  necessity  for 


our  work  to  keep  it  a  Christian  na- 
tion and  the  wonderful  doors  of  op- 
portunity open  before  us. 

A  few  of  our  women's  home  mis- 
sionary organizations  can  provide 
their  own  material  for  young  people, 
but  the  great  majority  cannot.  Now 
as  this  work  of  educating  the  chil- 
dren in  home  missions  falls  to  us 
women,  and  because  in  caring  for 
them  we  are  training  the  givers  of 
the  next  generation,  it  does  not  seem 
to  be  amiss  for  us  to  ask  the  national 
societies  to  furnish  us  with  suitable 
material  for  our  work.  A  few  state 
organizations  have  made  such  re- 
quests, yet  all  of  us  know  the  scanty 
material  at  our  disposal.  Might  it 
not  be  well  for  us  to  authorize  the 
officers  of  our  federation  to  appeal 
to  our  national  societies  in  the  name 
of  our  forty  state  organizations, 
urging  them  to  provide  this  so 
greatly  needed  material  ? 

Second.  A  wider  use  of  the  space 
set  aside  in  the  Home  Missionary 
magazine  for  our  woman's  work. 
We  are  in  danger  of  too  greatly 
underestimating  the  need  of  self- 
expression.  It  is  of  great  value  to 
an  individual  and  also  to  an  organi- 
zation. We  occasionally  hear  some 
one  say,  "  Can  we  not  have  a  federa- 
tion paper?"  But  how  could  we 
maintain  a  frequently  appearing  is- 
sue if  we  cannot  utilize  three  pages 
in  a  monthly  magazine?  Why  ask 
for  more  when  we  do  not  use  our 
present  opportunities?  This  wo- 
man's department  was  perhaps  miss- 
ed by  some  from  the  May  number  of 
the  Home  Missionary,  but  few  knew 
that  it  was  omitted  because  there 
was  no  material  for  it.  We  women 
are  not  lacking  in  ideas  or  in  ability 
of  expression,  and  we  ought  to  utilize 
this  opportunity  that  is  afforded  us. 
It  is  a  valuable  means  for  exchange 
of  thought,  plan  and  method. 

Third.  A  greater  emphasis  should 
be  put  on  the  value  of  our  federa- 
tion. Those  in  the  front  line  realize 
its  necessity  and  dignity,  but  the 
rank  and  file  are  sadly  ignorant    re- 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


J53 


garding  it.  We  all  are  proud  of  the 
organization  of  our  foreign  work  in 
its  three-fold  division  of  Woman's 
Board,  Board  of  the  Interior  and 
Board  of  the  Pacific.  How  about 
our  home  work  ?  In  previous  years 
Mrs.  Caswell-Broad  held  our  forty 
state  organizations  together.  She 
visited  the  various  states,  carried 
information  from  one  to  another  and 
each  year  printed  a  small  booklet 
giving  items  regarding  the  work  of 
each  state.  When  she  retired  from 
this  work  the  National  Home  Mis- 
sionary Society,  in  view  of  its  shrink- 
ing receipts,  did  not  feel  that  they 
could  fill  her  place,  and  so  from  very 
necessity  our  state  organizations 
have  fallen  farther  and  farther  apart. 
Is  not  our  home  missionary  work 
worthy  of  a  center  that  we  may 
take  our  rightful  place  among  the' 
women  of  the  other  denominations  ? 
We  have  given  to  this  cause  thou- 
sands and  thousands  of  dollars,  years 
of  work,  service  and  talent  beyond 
estimate.  Is  it  all  of  so  little  value ; 
so  little  worthy  of  record  ?  Is  it 
not  a  satisfaction  when  asked: 
"What  are  you  doing?"  to  be  able  to 
say  address  Mrs.  B.  W.  Firman,  Oak 
Park,  Illinois.  She  is  the  president 
of  our  federation  and  from  her  you 
can  get  all  needed  facts.  Let  me 
give  an  illustration.  Last  fall  I  re- 
ceived a  letter  from  a  worker  in 
another  denomination  saying  they 
were  about  to  publish  a  book  on 
Woman's  Home  Missionary  Work 
among  the  Indians  and  Spanish- 
speaking  peoples.  Would  I  look  over 
the  matter  enclosed  and  see  if  it  was 
satisfactory?  A  prompt  reply  was 
asked  for.  Any  one  of  us  who 
knows  about  our  work  among  the 
Indians  and  Spanish-speaking  people 
would  have  been  mortified  at  the 
paucity  of  the  material  which  they 
had  secured.  I  drew  my  pen  through 
it  all  and  rewrote  more  fully  as  best 
I  could.  Forwarding  it  to  my  friend 
I  wrote:  "Hereafter,  for  any  authen- 
tic facts  regarding  the  work  of  Con- 
gregational women  in  home  mis- 
sions, address  the  president  of  our 
federation,"    and    I    forwarded    the 


entire  correspondence  to  Mrs.  Fir- 
man. In  the  rapidly  growing  litera- 
ture bearing  on  woman's  home  mis- 
sionary work  we  ought  to  be  proud 
to  have  our  record  stand  with  that 
of  others.  How  can  it  if  there  is  no 
center  from  which  information  re- 
garding our  work  can  be  secured  ? 
Fourth.  Above  all  else  is  it  given 
to  us  women  to  emphasize  ever  and 
always  the  imperative  need  of  a 
deeper  spiritual  life.  To-day  is  the 
day  of  organization.  We  talk  of 
committees,  plans,  methods,  debts, 
treasuries  as  if  they  were  the  chief 
things.  They  are  important,  but 
they  are  all  of  secondary  value. 
Over  and  above  them  all  muse  be  the 
indwelling  spirit.  Nowhere  in  the 
Bible  are  we  told  that  organizations 
or  committees  or  resolutions  can 
alone  do  the  work.  The  word  dis- 
tinctly says:  "Not  by  might  nor  by 
power,  but  by  my  Spirit,  saith  the 
Lord."  So  in  this  day  when  the 
things  of  this  world  and  the  methods 
and  spirit  of  this  world  call  so  loudly 
we  women  must  ever  keep  in  the 
fore  front  the  spiritual  standard  and 
the  spiritual  need.  One  woman's 
inner  life  enriched  will  set  in  opera- 
tion an  influence  that  will  endure  to 
the  end  of  time.  If  all  she  does  is 
to  give  you  five  dollars  for  the 
Indians,  there  is  a  chance  she  may 
never  repeat  the  gift.  This  effort 
to  deepen  spiritual  life  is  slow,  but 
it  never  fails.  A  miller  once  watch- 
ing his  mill  discovered  that  some 
small  stones  had  made  their  way  in 
between  the  wheels  and  were  imped- 
ing the  operation  of  the  machinery. 
What  did  he  do?  Tear  down  the 
mill,  get  new  machinery,  engage  a 
new  overseer,  give  up  his  business? 
No.  He  went  to  the  point  where 
the  water  entered  the  mill  and  lift- 
ing the  lever  let  it  come  in  in  greater, 
fuller  volume,  and  the  troublesome 
pebbles  were  swept  away.  So  let  us 
women  work !  Ever  busy  with  plans 
and  methods,  yet  never  forgetting 
to  put  our  chief  emphasis  on  that 
necessity  for  vital  friendship  with 
Christ  that  we  may  thus  become  the 
Daughters  of  the  King. 


Appointments  and  Receipts 


APPOINTMENTS 


May,  iqo6. 


Not  in  commission  last  year. 

Blanchard,  J.  L.,  Pueblo,  Col. 
Curtis,  Allen  L.,  Gann  Valley,  So.  Dak. 
Fasteen,  K.  F.,  Waverly,  Neb. 
Hyden,  Green  D.,  Blaine,  Wash. 
Jones,  John  D.,  Spokane,  Wash. 
Kinzer,  Addison  D.,  Arlington,  Wash. 
McGann,  W.  T.,  Kansas  City.  Mo. 
Ohlson,  Algoth,  Michigan  City,  Ind. 
Pope,  G.  S.,  Murdo,  Kennebex    and    Weston,   So. 
Dak.,  Powelson,  Alfred  P.,  Tacoma.  Wash. 
Snape,  William,  Kennewick.  Wash. 
Willard,  Sherman  A.,  St.  Joseph,  Mo. 

Re-commissioned. 

Asadoorian,  Avedis  M.,  Iroquois,  So.  Dak.:  Avery, 
Oliver  P.,  Oklahoma  City.  Okla.;  Awbrey,  Enoch  R., 
Summitt  and  Rosette,  Idaho. 

Battery,  George  J.,  -Comstock  and  Westcott,  Neb.; 
Beke»chus,  Edward,  Alexander  and  tWellmanville, 
Kan  ;  Bickers,  William  H.,  Willow  Springs,  Mo.; 
Bodine,  John  E.,  Hastings,  Okla.;  Bowron,  loseph, 
Bellingham,  Wash.;  Burkhardt,  Paul,  Ft.  Collins, 
Col  ;  Bushell,  Richard,  Black  Diamond,  Wash. 

Chapman,  Richard  K.,  Glenview,  Redstone  and 
Carthage,  So.  Dak.;  Conard,  William  J.,  Park  Rapids 
Circuit,  Minn.;  Cooke,  William  H.,  Steilacoom, 
Wash.;  Cooley,  Canfield  T.,  Mullan,  Idaho;  Curtis, 
Payson  L.,  Webster,  So.  Dak. 

Danford,  James  W.,  Hopkins,  Minn.;  Davis,  William 
V.,  Robinson,  Utah;  de  Derome,  Jules  A.,  Valley 
Springs,  So.  Dak.;  Donat,  Joseph,  Stockdale,  Penn. 

Earl,  James,  Brownton  and  Stewart,  Minn. 

Fisher,  Herman  P.,  General  Missionary  in  No.  Pac. 
Conf. 

Gavlik,  Andrew,  Duquesne,  Penn.;  Graham,  James 
M.,  Ft.  Payne  and  Ten  Broeck,  Ala. 

Haines,  Olivers.,  Anglen,  Wash.;  Harris,  Harry  R., 
Mcintosh,  Erskineand  Mentor,Minn.;  Hendley,  Harry 
B.,  Tacoma,  Wash.;  Holden,  Charles  W.,  Cortez, 
Col.;  Humphrey,  Oliver  M.,  Gage,  Okla. 

Ibanez,  Jose  M.,  El  Paso,  Tex. 

Johnston,  Frank  L.,  Kansas  City.  Mo.;  Jones,  Hugh 
W.,  Delta,  Penn.;  Josephson,  John  M.,  Missoula, 
Mont. 

Kershaw,  John,  Braddock,  Penn.;  King,  Willet  D., 
Omaha,  Neb.;  Kovac,  Andrew,  Allegheny,  Pa. 

Lewis,  J.  M.,  White  Salmon,  Wash.;  Luke,  Joshua 
C,  Carbondale,  Penn. 

McCoy,  Robert  C,  Iowa,  La.;  Mason,  Charles  E.,  Mt. 
Home,  Idaho;  Matthews,  James  T.,  Plymouth,  Penn.; 
Moody,  Edward  J.,  El  Reno,  Okla  ;  Newquist,  Karl, 
Glenwood,  Wis.";  Nickerson,  Roscoe  S.,  Vernal,  Utah. 

Painter,  Harry  M.,  Beulah  and  Almira,  Wash.; 
Preiss,  John  M  ,  Eureka,  Wash. 

Richardson,  David  A.,  Minneapolis,  Minn.;  Richard- 
son, William  L.,  Monroe,  Wash.;  Robbins,  Anson  H., 
Ree  Height,  So.  Dak. 

Schwab,  Elias  F.,  Kansas  City.  Mo. 

Thompson,  Ernest  L,  Denver,  Col. 

Wells,  Charles  W.,  Cathlamet,  Wash.;  Wilbur, 
George  H.,  Colville,  Wash  ;  Wyatt,  Charles,  Priest 
River,  Idaho. 

June,  iqo6. 

Not  in  commission  last  year. 

Alexander,  John  B.,  North  Highland,  Ga.;  Andrew- 
son,  A.  J.,  District  Missionary  in  So.  Minn. 

Coffin,  Joseph,  Atlanta,  Ga. 

Fox,  Miss  B  ,  Atlanta,  Ga. 

Gibbs,  James  N.,  Littleton,  Col. 

Hart,  Frank  W.,  Hermosa,  Fairburn,  Hayward, 
Tnlsom  and  Rockerville,  So.  Dak. 

Jones,  Winfield  S.,  Omega  and  Troy,  Ala. 

Knardahl,  C.  M.,  Editor  of  "Evangelisten";  Krook, 
Cornelius  N.,  Pomona,  Fla. 

Leggetts,  Thomas,  Bryant,  So.  Dak.;  Loos,  George, 


South  Milwaukee,  Wis.;  Luter,  Elves  D.,  Panasoffkee 
and  Moss  Bluff,  Fla. 

McCurry,  T.  B.,  Grady,  Ga. 

Olson,  Edward,  Aberdeen,  Wash. 

Peterson,  John  M.,  Fargo,  No.  Dak. 

Singer,  W.  L.,  Lawton,  No.  Dak.;  Smith,  J.  C. 
Provo,  Utah;  Symons,  Henry,  Lake  Park,  Minn. 

Tomlin,  David  R..  Kirkland,  Wash. 

Zavodsky,  Miss  Bertha,  Bible  Reader,  Desquesne 
and  McKeesport,  Penn. 

Re-com  missioned. 

Anderson,  C.  (i.,  Kasota.  Minn.;  Anderson,  Oscar  L., 
Marysville,  Wash.;  Asadoorian,  Avedis  M.,  Lebanon 
and  Logan,  So.  Dak. 

Baker,  W.  H.,  New  Home  and  New  Effort,  Fla.; 
Bascom,  George  S.,  Eureka,  No.  Dak.;  Bickford,  War- 
ren F.,  Muskogee,  Ind.  Ter.;  Blackburn,  J.  F.,  Gen- 
eral Missionary  in  Georgia;  Blodgett,  Earnest  A., 
Flagler,  Col.;  Blood,  C.  R.,  Douglas,  Wyo.;  Bolger,  T. 
F.,  Pearl,  Idaho;  Brewer,  W.  F.,  General  Missionary 
in  Georgia;  Burger,  Charles  C,  Waukomis,  Okla. 

Cameron,  Donald,  Lakeside  and  Chelan,  Wash.; 
Carden,  William  J.,  Bremen,  Ga.;  Carlson,  August  T., 
East  Orange,  N.  J.;  Chapin,  Miss  S.  A.,  Guernsey 
and  Torrington,  Wyo.;  Champlin,  Oliver  P.,  Oriska, 
No.  Dak.;  Chase,  Samuel  B.,  Lewiston,  Idaho;  Clark, 
Allen,  Manvel,  No.  Dak.;  Collins,  George  B., 
McLoud,  Okla.;   Cram,  Elmer  E.,  Renville,  No.  Dak. 

Farr,  John  T.,  Columbus.  Ga.;  Ford,  Jessie,  Baxley, 
Ga.;  Forrester,  James  C  Macedona  and  Hoschton, 
Ga. ;  Gasque,  Wallace,  Gilmore,  Ga.;  Green,  Edward 
F.,  Cowallis,  Ore. 

Haecker,  M.  C,  Chickasha,  Ind.  Ter.;  Harris, 
Thomas  B.,  Ft.  Valley,  Ga.;  Herbert,  Joseph,  Yakima, 
Wash.;  Hilliard,  Samuel  M.,  Frankford,  So.  Dak.; 
Holbrook,  Ira  A.,  Guthrie,  Okla.;  Home,  Gideon,  Lif- 
sey  and  Gaillard,  Ga. 

Jamarik,  Paul,  Elmdale,  Minn. 

Kendall,  Robert  R.,  Sanford,  Fla.:  Kilbon,  G.  L.  W., 
Letcher  and  Loomis,  So.  Dak.;  Kilian,  Miss  Anna, 
Bible  Reader,  Charleroi  and  Stockdale,  Penn.:  King, 
Christopher  C.,  Stone  Mountain  and  Dacula,  Ga. ; 
Kingsbury,  N.,  Hydro,  Okla.;  Koch,  Oscar  F.,  Chand- 
lers' Valley,  Penn.;  Lathrop,  Theodore  B.,  Cyanide, 
Mailland,  Savoy  and  Elmore,  So.  Dak.;  LeFebre,  John, 
Fingal,  No.  Dak.;  Lewis,  Franklin  C,  Rock  Spring-*, 
Wyo.;  Locke,  Robert  L.,  Cedartown,  Ga.;  Lyle, 
Andrew  J.,  Oakwood.  Ga. 

McDougall,  George  L.,  Green  River,  Wyo.;  McKay, 
Charles  G.,  Cox  Cross  Roads,  Atlanta,  Ga.;  Marcel, 
Miss  Helen,  Bible  Reader,  Allegheny,  Penn.:  Mer- 
rick, Solomon  G.,  Cocoanut  Grove,  Fla.;  Miller, 
Willie  G.,  Deerland  and  Dorcas,  Fla.;  Moxie,  Charles 
H.,  Mazeppa.  Minn.;  Moya,  Jesus  M.,  Los  Ranchos 
de  Atrisco,  N.  Mexico;  Newton,  Howell  E..  Lindale, 
Ga.;  Newton,  W.  H.,  General  Missionary  in  Alabama; 
Nichols,  T  H.,  Drummond,  Okla.;  Noble,  Mason,  Lake 
Helen,  Fla. 

Owens,  J.  F.,  Lovejoy,  Ga. 

Parr,  Walter  R.,  Anderson,  Ind.;  Paulu,  Anton, 
Vining,  Iowa;  Perry,  Augustus  C,  Sarepta  and 
Suches,  Ga.;  Peyton,  Frank,  Pond  Creek,  Okla. 

Quattlebaum,  Wilkes  H.  Kramer,  Ga. 

Read,  James  L..  Claremont,  Col.;  Reid,  David  H., 
Evangelist  and  General  Missionary  in  Washington. 

Schwabenland,  lohn  C,  Cedar  Mills,  Ore.;  Scoggin, 
Alexander  T.,  Verden,  Okla.;  Sinninger,  Norman  E., 
Hammond,  Ind.;  Smith,  Green  N.,  Baxley  and  Ritch, 
Ga.;  Smith,  William,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Taylor,  Horace  J.,  Anacortes,  Wash.;  Tillman,  Wil- 
liam H.,  Atlanta,  Ga.;  Townsend,  Stephen  J.,  Avon 
Park  and  Frost  Proof,  Fla. 

Vavrina,  Vaclar,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Walker,  Henry  E.,  Rutland,  No.  Dak.;  Warren,  Fred 
I.,  St.  Johns,  Ore.;  Weatherby,  Wade  H.,  Garden 
Valley,  Tex.;  Whalley,  John.  Mvron  and  Cresbard, 
So.  Dak.;  Wiggins,  H.  G.,  Esto,  Fla.;  Williams,  Star 
C,  Atlanta,  Ga. 


APPOINTMENTS  AND  RECEIPTS 


i55 


RECEIPTS 


May,  1906. 


MAINE -$23.77. 

Alva,  Mrs.  J.  A.  Jewett,  5;  Dedham,  2.50;  Farmington 
Falls,  Blake  Memorial,  8.60;  Gorham,  1.25;  No.  Harps- 
well,  C.  E.,  1.42;  Portland,  Mrs.  J.  H.  Dow,  5. 

NEW  HAMPSHIRE— $223.48. 

Bath,  W.  P.  Elkins,  1;  Bennington,  C.  E.,  5;  Frances- 
town,  24.20;  Meriden,  8.68;  The  Weirs,  Miss  E.  Beede,  1; 
Winchester,  Mrs.  P.  C.  Wheelock,  .50. 

F.  C.  I.  and  H.  M.  Union  of  N.  H.,  Miss  A.  A.  McFar- 
land,  Treas.,  183.10. 

VERM0NT-$io6.si. 

East  Middlebury,  Mrs.  J.  W.  Halliday,  5;  Hyde  Park, 
1st,  5.85;  Jamaica,  4;  Randolph,  Rev.  W.  T.  Sparhawk, 
3;  St.  Johnsbury,  North,  68.95;  Springfield,  9.71;  Swanton, 
S.  S.,  10. 

MASSACHUSETTS  —  $8,990.87;     of     which    legacies, 
$7,353.6S. 

Amesbury,  Main  St.,  67.50;  Auburndale,  10;  Amherst, 
College,  uh.  of  Chrisi,  97. 18;  Becket,  Uea.  S.  Barnes 
and  Mrs.  Huntingion,  1;  Dea.  Norcet,  .50;  Beverly, 
Dane  St.  Ch  ,  of  which  5  from  the  S.  S  ,  and  10  from 
Miss  M.  Lovett,  33  79;  Boston,  H.  Fisher,  200;  Chicopee, 
Mrs.  W.  T.  Hollister,  r;  Clinton,  E  tate  of  Richard 
W.  Foster,  4,500;  Dedham,  1st,  Extra  Two  Cent  a 
Week  Band  of  the  Allen  C.  E  ,  17.34;  Douglas,  Estate 
of  Aaron  M.  Hill,  1,500;  Easthampton,  R.  W.  Clapp,  5; 
W.  M.  Gaylord,  1;  Mrs.  Glung,  1;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  S. 
M.  Lyman,  3;  S.  A.  Meserve,  1:  East  Longmeadow,  1st, 
14;  East  Milton,  The  Harriet  W.  Gilbert  Miss.  Soc,  2; 
Enfield,  15;  Mrs.  H.  M.  Smith,  5;  Essex,  S.  S.,  10;  Fall 
River,  M.  R.  Hicks,  5;  J.  W.  Robertson,  66.07;  Fal- 
mouth, Mrs.  F.  E.  Wallace,  5;  Fitchburg,  L.  H.  Has- 
kell, 5;  Foxboro,  Mrs.  F.  O.  Bragg  and  Friends,  3; 
Gardner,  H.  E  Ball,  .50;  N.  Brooks,  2;  D.  R.  Collies 
.50;  Mrs.  S.  W.  Merritt,  1;  C.  C.  Rathburn,  1;  J.  P. 
Sawin,  1;  C.  H.  Stockwell,  1;  H.  H.  Smith,  1;  George- 
town, Ortho.  Memorial,  25.40;  Gloucester,  L.  E.  Davis, 
5;  Mrs.  J.  B.  Haskell,  1;  Grafton,  M.,  1;  Greenfield,  Mrs. 
H.  Slate,  1;  Greenwich  Village,  Mrs.  L.  Rice.  2;  Haver- 
hill, Miss  A.  Chaffin,  1;  West  S.  S.,  Class  No.  4,  1.50; 
Lawrence,  South,  2;  Lynn,  Mrs.  I.  K.  Holder,  1;  Miss 
L.  W.  Holder,  1;  Mittineague,  127.35;  Monson,  108.54; 
Natick,  1st,  54.40;  Newburyport,  Prospect  St.  add'l,  3; 
Newton,  1st,  18.25;  Newton  Center,  Estate  of  Mrs.  L.  E. 
Ward,  853.65;  Norfolk  Conference,  23.15;  Northampton, 
"Thirteeners  Club,"  1.50;  Northfield,  W.  Dickinson,  1; 
Norto0n,  Trin.,  10;  Palmer,  Mrs.  S.  J.  Ramsden,  1; 
PI  y  uth,  from  Estate  of  Amasa  Holmes,  2.50;  Mrs. 
E.  D.  Mellor,  5;  Raynham,  Mrs.  O.  K.  Wilbur,  1; 
Richmond,  10  37;  Roxbury,  Immaauel  S.  S.,  special,  20; 
Rutl  nd,  Mrs.  M.  L  Miles,  1;  Salem,  Pro.  Christo  Soc, 
Tab.  Ch.,  1;  F.  B.  Trotter,  r;  E.  K.  W.,  1;  W.  H.  W., 
1;  A.  Friend,  1;  Sheffield,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  P.  Bliss,  5; 
Shelburne,  Mrs.  E.  Taylor,  1;  Shelburne  Falls,  J.  R. 
Foster,  5;  Skeekonk,  A.  E.  Shorey,  5;  Somerville,  Mrs. 
M.  C.  Burkes,  1;  Southampton,  19.80;  Springfield,  Estate 
of  Sarah  H.  Goodale,  500;  Faith  S.  S.,  20;  Taunton, 
Trinitarian,  54.80;  Three  Rivers,  R.  C.  Newell,  5;  Ware, 
Silver  Circle,  10;  E.  M.  Gould,  1;  Miss  E.  Gould,  1: 
H.  E.  Marsh,  2;  G.  E.  Tucker,  5;  W.  F.  Winslow, 
.50;  Wareham,  1st,  45.30;  Warren,  J.  T.  Cutler,  1;  J. 
Moody,  5;  Webster,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  J.  Bates,  2;  Mrs. 
E.  K.  Stockwell.  10;  Wellesley  Hills,  E.  W.  Putney,  5; 
West  Becket,  Widow's  Mite,  .25;  Westboro,  G.  S.  New- 
comb,  .50;  J.  K.Warren,  M.D.,  5;  Westfield,  A  Friend, 5; 
A  Friend,  1;  Westford,  Union,  27;  West  Lynn,  Miss  E  D. 
Chadwell,  1;  Miss  C.  M.  Stanton,  1;  Miss  M.  R.  Stan- 
ton, 1;  West  Medway,  M.  B.  Boyden,  1;  West  Upton,  A.  P. 
Williams,  5;  Whitinsville,  A  Friend,  1;  A  Friend,  1 
A  Friend,  2;  Wilbraham,  1st,  7.50;  Williamstown,  Mrs 
J.  M.  Brookman,  1;  F.  Carter,  55;  J.  D.  Hewitt,  10 
Winchendon,  A  Friend,  2;  Worcester,  Central,  30.58 
J.  O.  Bemis,  5;  Mrs.  E.  A.  Harwood,  5;  Mrs.  W.  H 
Sawyer,  10;  Mrs.  C.  H.  Stearns,  5;  D.  A.  Walker.  5 
C.  E.  White,  1;  H.  A.  White,  1;  A  Friend,  5;  Friends, 
5;  Lake  View,  5.65. 

Woman's  H.  M  Assoc.  Cof  Mass.  and  Rhode  Island),  Miss 
L.  D.  White,  Treas.:  For  Salary  Fund,  215. 

RHODE  ISLAND -$339. 

Central  Falls,  "'A  Friend  for  the  Debt,"  25;  Kingston, 
S,  S.  Thankoffering,  12;   Providence,  In   Memory  of 


Mary  G.   Campbell,   300;    M.   C.    White,   1;    H.    O. 
White,  1. 

CONNECTICUT— $3,197.67;  of  which  legacy,  $1,006.63. 

Ansonia,  Mrs.  E.  Stellbacher,  1;  Brandford,  H.  G. 
Harrison.  20;  Bridgeport,  South,  6.15;  Mrs.  F.  A.  Par- 
sons, 5;  Mrs.  E.  Sterling,  s;  Bridgewater,  Mrs.  D.  D. 
Gor  on,  4;  Bristol,  Mrs.  S.  P.  Bartholomew,  10;  Mrs. 
M.  F.  Martin,  5;  O.  R.  Sheldon,  1;  Brooklyn,  Woman's 
Aux.,  2;  Burnside,  Miss  J.  A.  Spencer,  1;  Canton  Center, 
25;  Cheshire,  33.81;  G.  Keeler,  5;  Chester.  15.89;  Misses 
Bates  and  Smith,  1;  Mrs.  M.  A.  Brooks,  2.50;  Mrs. 
H.  C.  Brooks,  2.50;  Mrs.  M.  A.  Brooks  and  A  Friend, 
1;  Mrs  H.  D.  Selden,  5;  Miss  A.  E  Wilcox  and  Miss 
S.  A.  Wilcox,  1;  Two  Members,  1;  Clinton,  Estate  of 
George  W.  Hull,  1,006.63;  Colchester,  I.  M.  Keigwin, 
1;  Columbia,  A.  J.  Fuller,  1;  M.  L.  Fuller,  1;  H.  E 
Hutchins,  1;  J.  H.  Kneeland,  1;  Connecticut,  A  Friend, 
10;  Cornwall,  J.  E.  Calhoun,  20;  Cromwell,  1st,  7.50; 
Danbury,  Mrs.  H.  G.  Penfield,  10;  Danielson,  Ladies' 
Soc,  5;  Mrs.  H.  L.  Kingsbury,  1;  Eagleville,  G.  F. 
Ring,  1;  East  Hartford,  1st  S.  S.,  Kindergarten  Dep  , 
5.65;  Elmwood,  Mrs.  G.  T.  Goodwin,  1;  Franklin,  Miss. 
Soc.  5;  Gildersleeve,  E.  Cornwall,  1;  M.  A.  Cornwall,  1, 
Greenwich,  2nd,  12;  Guilford,  L.  D.  Chittenden,  5; 
Hartford,  Center  S.  S..  17;  Warburton  Chapel  S.  S., 
15.83;  F.  H.  Basson,  5;  Mrs.  F.  B.  Cooley,  25;  Mrs. 
J.  D.  Ellsworth,  5;  A.  House,  5;  Mrs.  F.  L.  Howard, 
1;  Mrs.  C.  C.  Kimball,  1;  J.  B.  Pierce,  5;  Mrs.  T.  W. 
Russell,  1;  A  Friend,  1;  A  Friend,  .50;  Jewett  City, 
Mrs.  M.  Grant.  1;  F.  L.  Leonard,  1;  Mrs.  J.  C.  Pan- 
ton,  1;  M.  E.  Soule.  .50;  Mrs.  H.  Stever,  1;  Lebanon, 
1st,  7.50;  Madison,  1st,  13.42;  S.  W.  Leete,  1;  Marion, 
R.  Newell,  .50;  Meriden,  Dr.  and  Mrs.  F.  P.  Griswold, 
5;  M.  J.  Northrop,  1;  G.  E.  Savage,  5;  W.  L.  Squire, 
.50;  Middletown,  E.  P.  Augur,  5;  Mrs.  J.  H.  Bunce,  1; 
Mrs.  J.  Cornwall,  .50;  Mrs.  T.  Gilbert,  1;  J.  D.  John- 
son, 1;  Miss  Tompkins,  1;  Milford,  1st,  25.36;  Plymouth 
S.  S.,  43.73;  Mrs.  O.  T.  Clarke;  5;  New  Britain,  South, 
2;  C.  Andrews,  1:  Mrs.  W.  H  Hart,  1;  W.  A.  House, 
1;  Mrs.  E  S.  McManus,  1;  South,  D.  O.  Rogers,  50; 
Mrs.  W.  H.  Stanley,  5;  M.  S.  Wiard,  1;  New  Hartford, 
North.  60;  New  Haven,  United,  505;  A  Friend,  25; 
Yale  University  Ch.  of  Christ,  22.1.63;  E  A. 
Burnett,  1;  F.  S.  Burnett,  1;  M.  G.  Gale, 
1;  Mrs.  H.  L.  Hall,  1;  Miss  H.  W.  Hough,  5; 
R.  M.  Munger,  4;  E.  L.  Washburn,  M.  D..  5; 
5;  A  Friend.  20;  A  Friend,  1;  New  London,  1st  Ch.  of 
Christ.  24.41;  New  Milford,  Mrs.  Anderson,  1;  Mrs.  M. 
Bostwick.  1;  G.  W.  Breinis:,  r:  E.  L.  Johnson,  1; 
Newington,  M.  E.  Belden,  3;  New  Preston.  D.  Burnham, 
5;  Northfield,  5.44;  No.  Stonington,  Mrs.  H.  Williams,  1; 
No.  Windham,  Mrs.  N  E.  Lanphear,  1;  Norfolk,  40; 
Norwalk,  Mrs.  C.  C.  Betts,  1;  Miss  E.  W.  Brown,  1; 
Miss  M.  A.  Hyatt,  1;  Mrs.  M.  E.  Mead.  1;  Norwich, 
2nd,  13.26;  C  Bard,  1;  Mrs.  A.  A.  Browning,  1;  O.  L. 
Johnson,  5;  Mrs.  S.  H.  Johnson,  5:  Mrs.  M.  A.  Pel- 
lett,  5;  Mrs.  A.  M.  Spaulding,  5;  Plainville,  Ladies' 
Benev.  and  H.  M.  Soc,  12;  Mrs.  O.  Hemingway,  1; 
Mrs.  J.  E.  Tillotson,  1;  A  Friend,  1:  Plantsville,  5; 
Pomfret,  C.  W.  Grosvenor,  1;  Miss  A.  Mathewson,  1; 
Putnam,  C.  E.  Child,  10:  Ridgefield,  A.  C.  Keeler,  6; 
Rockville,  A  Friend,  5;  Saybrook,  Miss  A.  Acton  and 
sister,  20:  "I.  N.  C."  100;  So.  Britain,  D.  M.  Mitchell, 
25;  So.  Manchester,  Center  Ch.  Ladies'  Benev.  Soc, 
Mrs.  A.  B.  Spencer,  5;  So.  Norwalk,  Woman's  Asso., 
5.10;  Miss  E.  Hoyt,  1;  F.  E.  Seymour.  1;  Southport, 
Mrs.  H.  T.  Bulkley,  5;  J.  H.  Perry.  5:  Miss  F.  Wake- 
man,  5;  Stafford  Springs,  37.84;  Stamford,  H.  Lockwood, 
5;  Stratford,  Mrs.  S.  A.  Fairchild.  5;  L.  B.  Wheeler, 
5;  Suffield,  M.  A.  Hemenwav,  1;  Thompson,  21.70;  West, 
port,  S.  S.,  5.50;  West  Suffield,  Rev.  J.  B.  and  Mrs. 
Doolittle,  5. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  C.  S.  Thayer,  Treas.: 
For  Salary  Fund,  355.82;  Bridgeport,  Park  St.  H.  M. 
D.,  5:  Essex,  L.  H.  M.  S.,  22;  Norwalk,  1st,  L.  B.  A., 
20.    Total,  402.82. 

NEW  YORK— $3,981.41. 

Angola,  Miss  A.  H.  Ames,  5;  Baiting  Hollow,  25.73; 
Berkshire,  1st,  30;  Brooklyn,  Central.  739.51;  Lewis 
Ave.,  178. qq;  South,  47.66;  Mrs.  J.  L.  Bennett, 
special,  5;  Geneva,  C.  A.  Lathrop,  2;  Hopkinton,  12.25; 
Jamestown,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  Underwood,  10;  Mount 
Sinai,  7.29;  New  York  City,  Broadway  Tab.,  7.26;  A 
Friend,  1,000;  A  Friend,  50;  A  Friend,  1;  A  Friend  , 


i56 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


.50;     Otto,    Miss    J.    P.    Holbrook,   6;     Parishville,    s; 
Poughkeepsie,  ist,  51;  Seneca  Falls,  1st,  6;  Willsboro,  is. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  J.  J.  Pearsall,  Treas.: 
Albany,  ist,  25;  Baiting  Hollow,  C.  E.  S.,  12.50;  Brooklyn, 
Tompkins  Ave.  S.  S.,  to  const.  A.  G.  Cooper  an  Hon. 
L.  M.,  50;  Home  Dept,,  11.36;  L.  B.  S.,  50;  Mrs.  J.  S. 
Ogilvie,  25;  "Friends,"  .50;  Central  L.  B.  S.,  1,260; 
Philon  Circle,  10;  Clinton  Ave.,  L.  B.  S  ,  35;  Lewis 
Ave.,  C.  E..  10;  Puritan,  W.  G.,  32.75;  Flatbush  Ave. 
Ladies'  Union,  special.  25;  Ch.  of  the  Pilgrims,  1; 
Buffalo,  ist  W.  G.,  83;  Clayton,  11.50;  Gloversville,  L.  B. 
S.,  40;  Greene,  11. 61;  Honeoye,  4.50;  Sherburne,  22;  War- 
saw, 37;  C.  E  ,  13;  to  const.  Mrs  A.  Cuthbert  an  Hon. 
L.  M.,  50;  East  Smithfield,  Pa.,  5.50.     Total,  1,776.22. 

NEW  JERSEY— $475.87. 

East  Orange,  ist,  31.45;  Swedish  Free,  2  so;  Elizabeth, 
W.  T.  Franklin,  20;  Olen  Ridge,  106.67;  Newark,  Belle- 
ville Ave.  Y.  P.  U.,  3;  Westfield,  293.25. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union  of  the  N.  J.  Asso.,  Mrs.  G.  A.  L. 
Merrifield,  Treas.:  Montclair,  ist,  8;  Newark,  ist,  10; 
Plainfield,  1st,  1.    Total,  19. 

PENNSYLVANIA— $259. 13. 

Audenried,  Jr.  C.  B.,  5;  Braddock,  ist  Slovak,  5;  Ger- 
mantown,  ist,  71.54;  Meadville,  W.  M.  S.,  5;  Mt.  Airy,  S>. 
R.  Weed,  100;  Philadelphia,  Rev.  E.  F.  Fales,  5;  Pitts- 
burg, Trinity  M.  P.,  special.  20.59;  Swedes,  4;  Ridg- 
way,  C.  E.,  15;  Warren,  Scand.  Bethel,  5. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union  of  the  N.  J.  Asso.,  Mrs.  G.  A.  L. 
Merrifield,  Treas  :  Germantown,  S.  S  ,  ist,  2;  Philadel- 
phia, Germantown,  ist,  S.  S.,  21.    Total,  23. 

DISTRICT  OF  COLUMBIA-$5o. 
Washington,  E.  Whittlesey,  .50. 

VIRGINIA— $16.12. 

Falls  Church,  16.12. 
ALABAMA-$n. 

Beloit,  O.  S.  Dickinson,  10;  Ozark,  Union  Hill,  1. 
ARKANSAS— $7. 

Gentry,  7. 

FLORIDA— $40.25. 

Mt.  Dora  and  Tangerine,  30;  Panasoffkee  and  Moss  Bluff, 
3.50;  Westville,  ist,  and  Potolo,  Carmel,  1.75. 

Woman's  H.  M.  UDion,  Mrs.  C.  A.  Lewis,  Treas.: 
Ormond,  5. 

INDIAN  TERRITORY— $6. 

Muskogee,  ist,  6. 
OKLAHOMA— $108.73. 

Binger,  3  87;  Deer  Creek,  7.35;  El  Reno,  46.50;  Hastings, 
10;  Oklahoma  City,  3.50;  Verden,  1.63;  Weatherford,  Zions 
German,  25. 

Woman's  M.  Union,  Mrs.  C.  Worrell,  Treas.,  10.88. 
NEW  MEXICO-$7. 

San  Rafael,  Mrs.  M.  A.  Savage,  2;  Seboyeta,  Mrs.  K. 
M.  Fullerton,  5. 

ARIZONA— $75. 

Black  Diamond,  10;  Pearce,  18;  Tombstone,  47. 
TENNESSEE— $9. 

Nashville,  Union,  g. 
OHIO— $82.74. 

Ohio  Home  Miss.  Soc,  by  Rev.  C  H.  Small,  Treas.: 
By  request  of  donors,  37;  Cleveland,  H.  J.  Clark,  5; 
Gomer,  Welsh,  to  const.  Rev.  W.  Surdival  an  Hon. 
L.  M.,  36.69;  Painesville,  S.  S.,  4.05. 

INDIANA— $35.70. 

Received  by  Rev.  E.  D.  Curtis:  Lowell,  Mrs.  S  P. 
Morey,  5;  Indianapolis,  Covenant,  2;  Terre  Haute,  28.70. 

ILLIN0IS-$24o.97. 

111.  Home  Miss.  Soc,  by  Rev.  W.  E.  Barton,  D.D., 
By  request  of  donors,  55;  Chapin.  "M.  P.,"  10.10;  Chi- 
cago, North  Shore,  20;  S.  B.  Osgood,  5;  Decatur,  Mrs. 
S.  L.  Hawthorn,  2;  Griggsville,  A  Friend,  .10;  High- 
land Park,  Rev.  N.  W.  Grover,  2;  Stillman  Valley, 
16.62. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  A.  O.  Whitcomb,  Treas  : 
Champaign,  10. 10;    Chicago,  Leavitt  St.,  1;    Forrest,  10; 


Lombard,  30;  Rock  Falls,  5;  Rockford,  2nd,  74.05.     Tot  a 

130.15- 

MI3S0URI-$77.69. 

Green  Ridge,  3.50;  Kansas  City,  S.  W.  Tab.,  36.60; 
Roanoke,  4  05;  St.  Louis,  ist,  30.54;  Springfield,  German, 
3- 
MICHIGAN— $356. 

Detroit,  ist,  350;  Grand  Rapids,  Miss  J.  A.  Manley,  5; 
Lawrence,  A  Member,  1. 

WISCONSIN— $13.56. 

Clintonville,  Scand.,  2.06;  Ekdall,  Scand  ,  1.50;  So. 
Milwaukee,  German  Evan.  Bethlehem,  10. 

IOWA— $90.26. 

Iowa  Home  Miss.  Soc,  by  A.  D.  Merrill,  Treas. 
30  26;  Cherokee,  Woman's  Union,  Mrs.  N.L.  Burroughs, 
Chicago,  111.,  to  const.  Mrs.  H.  L.  Phipps  an  Hon. 
L.  M.,  50;  Traer,  Woman's  Miss.  Soc,  10. 

MINNES0TA-$387.35. 

Received  by  Rev.  G.  R.  Merrill,  D.D. :  Glencoe,  20.311 
Minneapolis,  Fremont  Ave.,  add'l.  1040;  Pilgrim; 
add'l,  o;  Plymouth,  add'l,  164.78;  Princeton,  in  part. 
9.66;  St.  Paul,  Bethany,  21.80;  Wayzata,  3.20.  Total* 
236.15. 

Albert  Lea,  Rev.  T.  W.  Thurston,  1;  Ellsworth,  8-' 
Faribault,  90;  Hasty,  5;  Kasota,  Swedes,  3;  Mapleton> 
8.52;  Minneapolis,  38th  St.,  10.20;  Forest  Heights,  b.78; 
St.  Cloud  and  Sauk  Rapids,  Swedes,  5.15;  Twin  Valley,  ist, 
5- 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  W.  M.  Bristoll,  Treas.- 
St.  Paul,  St.  Anthony  Park,  Aux.,  3;    Spring  Valley 
S.  S.,5-55-     Total,  8.55. 
KANSAS— $5. 

Fall  River,  A.  Curry,  5. 
NEBRASKA— $111.14. 

Creighton,  21;  Franklin,  A.  C.  Hart,  5;  Hemingford,  25; 
McCook,  German,  28;  Olive  Branch,  German,  6;  Reno, 
10;  Thedford  and  Seneca,  n. 14;  Walbach,  Timber  Creek, 
German,  5. 

NORTH  DAKOTA— $153.95. 

Received  by  Rev.  G.  J.  Powell:  Cooperstown,  Ladies'  Soc, 
3;  Crary,  Ladies,  5;  Dazey,  5.85;  Dwight,  Ladies'  Soc. 
10;  Elbowoods,  3;  Eldridge,  S.  S.,  4;  Fargo,  ist,  Ladies1 
Soc,  29.75;  Fort  Berthold,  2;  Hillsboro,  27.31;  Mayville, 
Young  Ladies'  Soc,  10;  S.  S.,  10.07;  Melville,  2.26; 
Portland,  S.  S.,  4.48.     Total,  116.72. 

Granville,  ist,  10;  Lawton  and  Adams,  10;  Melville,  Ed- 
munds and  Rose  Hill,  7.50;  Michigan  City,  10.34;  Valley 

City,  Getchell,  10.    Total -$164.55 

Less  excess  in  collection  reported  in  January 

from  Blue  Grass _ _ 10.61 

Total $153  95 

Correction — Blue  Grass,  German,  60.61;  should  be 
50.    Erronejusly  acknowledged  in  March  Number. 

SOUTH  DAKOTA-$i73.go 

Received  by  Rev.  W.  H.  Thrall:  Vermillion,  42.96;  Acad- 
emy, 50;  Ashton,  6;  Athol,  6;  Belle  Fourche,  25;  Belmont, 
Christ.  German,  Wieland.  Nazereth,  .50;  Columbia, 
14.79:  Iroquois,  5:  Mission  Hill,  3;  Seneca,  6;  South  Shore, 
ist,  6;  Troy,  1;  Valley  Springs,  7.65. 

C0L0RAD0-$82.7i. 

Denver,  Pilgrim,  2.75;  Loveland,  German,  16.48;  Rye, 
ist,  7.33. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Miss  I.  M.  Strong,  Treas.: 
Boulder,  n;  Colorado  Springs,  isr,  18. go;  Craig,  1  25;  Den- 
ver, Plymouth,  25.     Total,  56.15. 

WY0MING-$22.45. 
Lusk  and  Manville,  22.45. 

NEVADA- $5. 

Logan,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  O.  G.  Church,  5. 
IDAHO -$30.30. 

Nora,  Swedes,  7.50;  Pocatello,  Ch.,  10.50;  S.  S  ,  5.20; 
Woman's  Aux.,  5;  Wallace,  2.10. 

CALIFORNIA -$2.80. 
Paso  Robles,  Plymouth,  2.80. 


APPOINTMENTS  AND  RECEIPTS 


i57 


0REG0N-$s6.85. 

Beaver  Creek,  St.  Peters,  German,  3.70;  Butteville, 
6.50;  Cluckamas,  1st,  6;  Lebanon,  A  Friend.  10;  Portland, 
Highland,  22.70;  Junior  Endeavor.  2.150;  St.  John,  New 
Era  German,  1.60;  Tualatin  and  Sherwood,  3.85. 

WASHINGT0N-$4o7. 50. 

Wash.  Home  Miss.  Soc,  by  Rev.  H.  B.  Hendley, 
Treas  :  Aberdeen,  1st  S.  S.,  40;  Beach,  2.50;  Bellingham, 
Plymouth,  5;  Bossburg,  2;  Colfax,  Plymouth.  40.75; 
Ferndale,  8.36;  Lowden's,  2  08;  McMillin,  .50;  Meyers  Falls, 
8;  Odessa,  German,  12.40:  Seattle,  Pilgrim,  67;  St. 
John,  8.25;  Spokane,  Westminster,  144.20.  Total, 
341.04. 

Anacortes,  Pilgrim,  11.46;  Odessa,  Hoffnungsbe'-g 
German,  15;  Ritzville,  Salems  Germans,  20;  Seattle, 
German,  1st,  12.50;  S.  S.,  2.50;  White  Salmon,  Bethel,  5. 

ALASKA-$i4.68. 
Douglas,  1st,  10;  Valdez,  C.  E.,  4.68. 

MAY  RECEIPTS. 

Contributions ...$11,918.08 

Legacies 8,360. 28 

$20,278.36 

Interest : __ 1,050.87 

Home  Missionary 83.66 

Literature 16. 87 

Total $21,429.76 

MAINE— $10. 
South  Berwick,  J.  Sewall,  10. 

NEW  HAMPSHIRE  -$200.-25;  of  which  legacy,  $94.26. 

Berlin,  17.30;  Berlin  Mills,  add'l.  10;  Hillsboro  Bridge, 
Miss  S.  W.  Tompkins,  5;  Hopkinton,  Estate  of 
Stephen  Kelley,  94.26;  Nashua,  Pilgrim,  46.18;  Roch- 
ester, 1st,  27.51. 

VERMONT— $754.73. 

East  Hardwick,  21.56;  Westminster,  West,  9.32. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  C.  H.  Thompson,  Treas.: 
Barnet,  n;  Barre,  Ladies'  Union,  12:  Barton  Landing,  10; 
Bellows  Falls,  Ladies'  Union,  15;  Bennington,  2nd,  W. 
H.  M.  S  and  S  S.,  10;  Berkshire,  East,  C.  E.,  5;  Bran- 
don, 12.40:  Bennington,  Guidehard  L.  A.  S.,  3;  Brattle- 
boro,  Ladies' Asso.,  12.63;  West,  W.  Asso.,  10;  Brid- 
port,  C.  E.,  5;  Burlington,  1st,  W.  Asso.,  15;  Opportu- 
nity Circle,"  8;  Coll.  St.,  28.07;  Cambridge,  C.  E.,  1; 
Castleton,  7;  Cornwall,  10;  Derby,  4;  Dorset,  2;  Duxbury, 
So.  Ch.,  1;  Enosburg,  4;  Essex  Junction,  Mt.  Mansfield 
Club,  1;  Fair  Haven,  5;  Fairlee  Center,  West,  4;  Ferris- 
burg,  7:  Franklin,  7.25;  Georgia,  g;  Granby,  7;  Greensboro, 
7;  Hardwick,  United  Workers.  8.25;  East,  10;  Irasburg, 
8;  Jamaica,  4;  Jefferson ville,  6;  Jericho  Center,  6;  Johnson, 
6;  Ludlow,  12.15;  Manchester,  8;  Middlebury,  10;  Mont- 
pelier,  Bethany  Miss.  Soc,  10:  Newbury,  15;  Newfane, 
Homeland  Circle.  4.30;  New  Haven,  Ladies'  Union.  5; 
Newport,i2;  Northfield,  5;  C.  E.,  4:  Norwich, 6. 00;  Orwell, 5; 
Peacham,  10;  Pittsford,  20.24;  Randolph,  W.  M.  Circle,  8; 
Centre,  C.E.,  2;  Richmond,  8;  Light  Bearers,  5:  Roches- 
ter, 3;  Royalton,  7:  Rupert,  6:  Rutland,  30;  West,  6; 
Springfield,  15;  St.  Albans,  20;  St.  Johnsbury,  North,  W. 
Asso.,  24.30;  South,  25;  Centre,  6;  E-'st,  Margaret 
Miss  Soc,  10;  Stowe,  g.60;  Swanton,  9;  Townshend,  5.37; 
Underhill,  Homeland  Circle.  8.50;  Vergennes,  12  20, 
Waitsfield,  Home  Circle  and  Ladies,  9  10;  Wallingford; 
7;  Wells  River,  4.53;  Westminster,  West,  8;  Weybridge, 
Ladies'  Aid  and  Miss.  Soc,  7;  Whiting,  7;  Windham,  6; 
Windsor,  6;  Winooski,  10;  Woodstock,  30.      Total,  723.85. 

MASSACHUSETTS-  $1 ,  849. 20. 

Mass.  Home  Miss.  Soc,  by  Rev.  J.  Coit,  Treas.,  92.24; 
Auburndale,  108.59;  Becket,  Mrs.  M.  E.  Bailor,  1;  H. 
Jennings.  .25;  O.  W.  Willis  and  Mrs.  M.  Geer,  .50; 
Berkley,  Friends,  60;  Buckland,  Mrs.  N.  E.  Howes,  1.50; 
Cambridgeport,  1st  Evan.,  50:  Dorchester,  2nd,  89.81; 
East  Bridgewater,  Mrs.  S.  E.  B.,  1;  A  Friend,  1:  East- 
hampton,  L.  A.  Ferry,  5;  A.  E.  Topliff  25;  East  North- 
field,  A  Friend,  10;  Essex,  20.05;  Grafton, "Evan.  S.  S., 
5.05;  Mrs.  I.  H.  Denniss,  1;  Granville  Center,  Willing 
Workers,  5;  Haverhill,  Mrs.  H.  H.  Stone.  5;  Mrs.  E. 
Webster,  2:  Center,  add'l,  1;  Holbrook,  Mrs.  E.  M. 
Spear,  50;   Holyoke,  E.  E.  Knowlton,  1;   Leominster,  F. 


A.Whitney,  15;  Lowell,  Eliot,  special,  41.13;  Paw- 
tucket,  38.06;  Lunenburg,  S.  S.,  1;  C.  E.,  1;  Mrs.  A.  K. 
Francis.  1;  Two  Friends,  1;  Ten  Young  Friends,  1; 
Manchester,  Mrs.  E.  A.  Rabardy,  5;  Milford,  Mrs.  J.  E. 
Tingley,  i.eo;  Milton,  1st  Evan.  (  h.  C.  E.,  5;  Monson, 
112.97;  Newton,  1st,  61  14;  Northampton,  1st  Ch.  of 
Christ.  250  20;  Northboro,  55.64:  Northbridge,  Rockdale, 
10;  North  Wilbraham,  Grace  Union,  15.47;  Petersham, 
Mrs.  E.  B.  Dawes,  200;  Pittsfield,  Miss  J.  W.  Redfield, 
10;  Raynham,  L.  C.  Knapp  1;  Rochester,  A.  Friend,  S. 
A.  Haskill,  1;  Rockland,  Mrs.  V.  Poole.  1;  Rowley,  M. 
A.  Howe,  1:  Roxbury,  In  memory  of  C.  E.  R.,  4;  Miss 

F.  Caldwell,  1;  L.  J.  Rice  1;  Mrs.  H.  G.  Rice,  1; 
Mrs.  A.  C.  Thompson,  25;  Miss  A.  M.  Weir,  1;  Salem, 
Mrs.  A.  Y.  Bigelow,  1;  S.  P.  Chamberlain.  1;  E.  M. 
Dugan,  1;  Mrs.  W.  D.  Northrup,  1;  Miss  H.  F. 
Osborne,  1;  Sheffield,  C.  C.  Leonard.  .50;  M.  R.  Leon- 
ard, .so;  Shelburne,  50;  Shelburne  Falls,  J.  WTilliams,  2; 
South  Darthmouth,  10;  Sturbridge,  1st,  24.40:  Taunton,  M. 

A.  Montgomery,  1;  Templeton,  Mrs.  M.  W.  Jewett,  5; 
Uxbridge,  Mrs.  J.  A.  Farnum,  1;  Mrs.  J.  McEwen,  1; 
Walpole.  Miss  A.  Z.  Cobb,  1;  Miss  H.  M.  Cobb,  1;  Miss 
C.  Crawford,  1;  Miss  A.  B.  Plimpton,  1;  Mrs.  H. 
Plimpton,  1;  Ware,  Mrs.  F.  L.  Bassett,  .50;  E.  E. 
Richardson,  2;  A  Friend,  1;  Webster,  1st,  2.25; 
Friends,  5.  no;  A  Friend,  5:  Miss  F.  J.  Elliott,  5; 
Wellesley,  Friends,  5.05;  Wellesley  Farms,  M.  F. 
Wheeler,  5;  S.  E.  Wheeler,  5;  Wellesley  Hills,  Mrs.  J. 

B.  Seabury,  1;  Westfield  Miss  N.  F.  Atwater,  3;  West 
Medway,  Mrs.  C.  A.  Shumway,  5;  West  Newbury,  Miss 
S.  C.  Thurlow,  1;  Whitinsville,  A.  L.  Whitin,  1; 
Worcester,  Union,  23;  Hope  Ch.,  Family  of  Mrs.  E.  G. 
Hall,  10:  Mrs.  J.  C.  Berry,  5;  Mrs.  M.  A.  Chamber- 
lain, 1;  H.  Prentiss,  1;  Miss.  A.  J.  Trask,  5;  Mrs.  C. 
W-  Woods,  5;  Piedmont,  21. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Assoc,  (of  Mass.  and  Rhode  Island"!,  Miss 
L.  D.  White,  Treas.:  Salary  Fund,  215;  Boston,  Mt. 
Vernon,  1.50.    Total,  216.50. 

CONNECTICUT-$i, 152.06. 

Miss.  Soc.  of  Conn.,  by  Rev.  J.  S.  Ives,  74.96;  Bridge- 
port, Park  St.,  252.75;  Bristol,  Mrs.  C.  Matthews,  1; 
A  Friend,  1;  A  Friend,  1;  Connecticut,  A  Friend,  200; 
Cornwall,  ?nd  of  which  n;  Special,  63;  Ellington, 
'  51.62;  Fairfield,  J  F.  Burr,  1;  Mrs.  M.  Lyon,  1;  Farm- 
ington,  S.  S.,  9;  Glastonbury,  T.  N.  L.  Tallbott.  1;  Hart- 
ford, Farmington  Ave  .  to  const.  Miss  A.  H.  Andrews 
an  Hon.  L.  M..  70;  Kent,  I.  Stewart,  100:  Lebanon, 
Friends,  5;  Middlefield,  1st,  Special,  30:  Middletown, 
Mrs.  C.  G.  Bacon,  2;  New  Britain,  South  and  S.  S  , 
15;  Miss  E.  G.  Rogers,  .50;  Mrs.  M.  A.  Sheldon,  1; 
Mrs.  C.  Silliman.  1;  Mrs.  S.  A.  Strong,  40;  H  F. 
Wells,  1;  New  Haven,  Mrs.  A.  R.  DeForest,  3;  M.  E. 
Landfear,  2;  Dwieht  Place.  118.24:  Bible  School,  25; 
Friends  2;  Norfolk,  C.  E.  Butter,  1;  Northfield,  Mrs. 
L.  S.  Wooster.  2.50;  Norwalk,  Mrs.  L  I.  Wilson,  5; 
Norwich,  Park  W  H.  M.  S.,  1;  Mrs  E.  Storer,  r;  So. 
Norwalk,  Miss  M.  Q    Smith,  1:    Stafford  Springs.  Mrs. 

G.  H.  Baker,  2;  Mrs.  J.  McLauehlin.  5:  Suffield,  N. 
Clark,  •?:  Vernon  Centre,  6.49:  West  Hartford,  A  Friend, 
30;  West  Haven,  C.  F.  Beck'ey   1. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union  of  Conn.,  Mrs.  C.  S.  Thayer, 
Treas.:  Groton,  1st,  Aux..  10;  Hartford,  1st  A  Friend, 
M  H.  M.  Club.  10.    Total,  20. 

NEW  YORK— $3,696.48;  of  which  legacies,  $2,712.50. 

N.  Y.  H.  Miss.  Soc,  by  C.  S.  Fitch, Treas.: 92.02;  Berk- 
shire, C.  E  ,  16;  Brooklyn,  Estate  of  H.  G.  Combes 
187.50;  Clinton  Ave  ,  add'l.  255;  Tompkins  Ave 
Branch  S.  S.,  20;  Chandlers  Valley,  Swedish,  2;  Eliza 
bethtown,  1st,  10.70:  Fairport,  D.  C.  Beecher.  1;  L.  B 
Howard,  t;  A.  M.  Loomis,  <;;  Friendship,  M.  Ham 
mond,  r;  Gasport.  S.  S.,  4.65;  Gloversville,  M.  D.  Mills 
1:  A  Fnend,  1:  Groton,  5.30:  New  York  City,  Legacy  of 
Mrs.  E.  P.  Clapp  525;  Broadway  Tabernacle.  25 
Manhattan,  to  const.  E.  E.  Slosson  and  Dr.  F.  Con- 
ger Smith  an  Hon.  L.  M.,  103  84:  A  Friend,  2;  Niagara 
Falls,  1st,  11.40:  Orient,  22.20:  Pelham,  Ch.  of  the  Cov- 
enant, 2.72;  Richmond  Hill,  Union  22.50:  Rochester,  G. 
H.  Clark,  to;  Rutland,  S  S  ,  4.80;  Sherburne,  A  Friend, 
5;  Spencerport,  E.  Barrett,  1;  S.  L  and  C.  L  Bush,  1; 
Miss  L.  B.  Clark  .50;  H.  B.  Harmon,  2;  Miss  C.  B. 
Sperry,  1:  A  Friend,  20-  Springville,  Mrs  S.  P.  Toslyn. 
1;  Syracuse,  T.  McE.  Vickers,  1;  Walton,  331.35;  War- 
warsing,  Estate  of  Clairinda  Strong,  2,000. 
NEW  JERSEY— $289.60. 

Dover,  Bethlehem  Scand.,  1.50;  Jersey  City,  E.  H. 
Neff,  4:  Little  Ferry,  German  Evan.,  6;  Newark,  1st, 
15  28;  Belleville  Ave.,  56.82;  Paterson,  Auburn  St.,  31. 


i53 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


Woman's  H.  M   Union  of  the  N.  J.  Ass'n.,  Mrs.   G.  A.  L.  MINNESOTA— $387.93. 

Merrifield,   Treas.:     Montclair,  1st,  175.  _      ,     ,  .      _         „„„.,,. 

Received  by  Rev.   6.    R.  Merrill:   Anoka,  8+q;   Austin, 

PENNSYLVANIA— $64.81.  5q.oi;  S.  S.,  29.52;  Medford,  add'l,  5;  Minneapolis,  Lowry 

„     ..    .     .     T  ■.„          ,        -r.    t>  ■     c.       1            it  Hill,  in  part  of  which  from  the  W.  H.  M.  Soc    to 

Braddock,  A.  J.  MoncM,  5;  Du  Bois,  Swedes  3;  Kane,  CQn       M       M         E    R          R        L    M           stewart. 

W.  M.  &.,  5;   Philadelphia,    Central,   46.81;    Plymouth,  ville,  I2.45.     Total,  169.43. 

Elm,  5  v" 

„..„..„_    *  Duluth,  Pilgrim.  Friends,  10;   Faribault,  10;    Granite 

MARYLAND— $4.25.  Falls!  j;  Mantorville.  Jr.  C.  E..  1:  Northfield,  A  Friend, 

Baltimore,  Canton,  4.25.  So:  Spencer  Brook,  Swedes,  1.82;  Spring  Valley,  1st,  9.50; 

Winona,  2nd,  5.75. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs    W.  M.   Bristol,  Treas.: 

Vienna,  L.  G.   Day,  5.  Brownton,  Aux.,  2:  Correll,  Aux.,  2;    Dawson,  Aux.,  7; 

,,„„„,,  PAunnij*     c  Excelsior,  Aux.,  v.  Faribault,  Aux.,  1.34;  C.  E.,  7;  Lyle, 

NORTH  CAROLINA-  !?  ;.  Aux    6;  Mantorvnie,  Aux.,  2.50;  Marshall,  Aux.,  12. 50; 

Dudley,  1st  W.  M.  I   in  le,    .  Minneapolis,  1st,  Aux  .  20;    Park  Ave..  38.39;  Fremont 

Ave.  Aux.,  15;  St.  Paul,  St.  Anthony  Park,  Aux.,  5; 

GEORGIA— $18.64.  Wabasha,  Aux.,  j.20;  Winona,  2nd,  4.50.    Total,  127.43. 

Demorest,  Union,  t8  64  KANSAS -$3. 

ALABAMA — $3.50.  Alexander  and  Wellmanville,  German,  3. 

Beloit,  O.  S.  Dickinson.  1;  Clio,  New  Hope,  2;  Mid-  NEBRASKA— $61.60. 
land  City,  Christian  Hill,  .50. 

„..-._,     4  ,  Brunswick,  2;  Grand  Island,  14;  Hallam,  German,  10; 

ILOKlDA— &16.55.  Hyannis,  20;  Lincoln,  2  50;  Sargent,  2.50;  Shickley,  10.60. 

Melbourne,  S.  S.,  5;  Sanford,  Peoples,  11.55.  NORTH  DAK0TA-$6o.62. 

TEXAS— .50.  Kulm,    German,    42.62;    Guadenfeld,    German,    J. 

Helena,  .50.  Gross,  1;  J   Miller,  1;  La  Moure,  German,  J.  Schlen- 

ker,    50;    Medina,   Friedens  German,    J.   Weber,    5; 

OKLAHOMA,  $4.  Hoffmugsthal,  German,  4.50.    Total,  54.62. 

Cashion,  4.  Marian,  4;  New  Home,  2. 

ARIZONA -$36.  SOUTH  DAK0TA-$3i5.i2. 

Received  by  Rev.   J.  D.  Kingsbury,  D.D.:    Prescott,  10;  Received  by  Rev.  W.  H.  Thrall:  Millbank,  50.31;  Rosebud 

Tucson    1st,  26.  and  Burrell,  3.50;  Vermillion,  add'l.  5.     Total,  58.81 

Elk  Point,  30  31;  Meckling,  2;  Selby,  Glucksthal   Ger- 

TENNESSEE— $10.  man,  19. 

Nashville,  Fisk  University,  10.  Woman's  H.  M.  U.,  Mrs.  A.  Loomis,  Treas.,  250;  Red- 
field,  2.    Total $362.12 

OHIO — $32.21.  Correction:    Less   error   in    coll.    April,    Ft. 

Columbus,  Plymouth,  15.10;   Mayflower  S.  S.,  12. n;  Pierre,  29;  Wessington  Springs,  18 47.00 

Toledo,  Wash.  St.,  Rev.  E.  B.  Allen,  5.  ^ 

Total $315.12 

INDIANA-$i3i.32. 

Fairmount,  1st,  4.82;  Indianapolis,  Covenant,  2.  C0L0RAD0-$i27.23. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.    A.    D.    Davis,    Treas.:  Received  by  Rev.  H.  Sanderson:  Denver,  3rd,  C.  E.,  6; 

Brightwood,  Ladies'  Aid,  1.50;  Work  to  Win,  .50;  Elk-  Association,   65:  Brighton,  Platte  \  alley,  10.58;  Flag - 

hardt,  C.  E.,  s;  Hobart,  6.25;  Indianapolis,  Mayflower,  of  ler>  5< ,    Kremmhng,  1st,  5;    Montrose,  Ch.,  93  28;    S.  S, 

which  25  special,  33  20;   S.  S.,  3;  North  .35;  Peoples,  447;  C.  E.,  2.25. 

j;  Plymouth,  Ladies'  Aid,  1;   Ladies'  Union,  4;  Cov-        WYOMING $211    s 

enant,  2;    trinity,  15;  Michigan  City,  20.20;  Terre  Haute,  „  _,     ...         '         „     . 

,st,  jo;  Plymouth,  10.      Total ' $I34.oo  Buffalo,  Union,  8.35,  Dayton,  2,. 

Less  expenses g.oo  CALIFORNIA-$5. 

Total 12500  Fresno,  Zions  German,  C.  E.,  5. 

ILLINOIS— $82.05;  of  which  legacy,  $50.  OREGON— $33. 10. 

Belvidere,   10:   Chicago,   West    Pullman,    1st,    u  2^;  Received  by  Rev.  C.  F.  Clapp,  Hillsboro,  25;  Albany,  1st, 

Princeton,  Instate  of  Rev.   E.  G.  Smith,  50;    Rockford,  ■*:  Cedar  Mills,  Germany,  2.50;  Portland,  r.6o. 

tst  S.  S„  6.70;  Toulon,  Jr.  C.  E.,  4.10.  WASHINGTON— $27.50. 

MISSOURI — Legacy,  $200.  Bellingham,  J.  J.  Donovan,  1.50;  Lakeside  and  Chelan, 

_A  _     .     t,  .           c  »,      j     a    t^       1  s;  Seattle,  Pilgrim,  20;  Spokane,  Lidger wood,  1. 

St.  Louis,  Estate  of  Almeda  A.  Douglas,  200.  3                      &       '      '    * 

MICHIGAN-Legacy,  $300.  CHINA-$5. 

Pang  Chuang,  The  Misses  Wyckoff,  5. 

Union,  Estate  of  H.  M.  Morse,  300. 

„„„„„„„     .               .     ..  ..               .  JUNE  RECEIPTS. 

WISCONSIN— $29  25;  of  which  legacy,  $4.  „,..,-*                                               *.<?  *  *    <- 

Contributions $6,64696 

Beloit,  1st.  16:  Clear  Lake,  Swedes,  2.25:   Clintonville,        Legacies 3,360.76 

Scand  .  1;  Milwaukee,  Esrate  of  E.  D.  Holton,  bal.,  4;  $10,007.72 

Princeton,  L.  A.  Soc,  5;  Wausau,  Scand.,  1.  Interest  1,089.50 

.-— .    .»  „  Home  Missionary 99.74 

IOWA,  $58.37-  Literature . 8.20 

Iowa  Home  Miss.  Soc,  by  A.  D.  Merrill,  Treas.:  53.37;  ,„       ,                                                              ~ 

Traer,  A  Friend,  5.  r°tal - $11,205.16 

Note— Owing  to  the  crowded  state  of  our  columns,  Auxiliary  receipts    are   deferred 
to  the  October  number. 


Congregational    Home    Missionary    Society 

FOURTH  AVENUE  AND  TWENTY-SECOND  wSTREET,  NEW  YORK,  N.   Y. 

CHARLES  S.  MILLS,  D.D.,  President 
H.  CLARK  FORD,   Vice  President 
WASHINGTON  CHOATE,  D.D.,  JOSEPH  B.  CLARK,  D.D., 

Acting  General  Secretary  Editorial  Secretary 

DON  O.  S  HELTON,  Associate  Secretary 
WILLIAM  B.  HOWLAND,   Treasurer 

Directors 

Charles  S.  Mills,  D.D.,  Chairman Missouri  George  R.  Leavitt,  D.D Wisconsin 

Rev.   Raymond  Calkins, Maine  Rev.   Bastian  Smits Michigan 

George  E.  Hall,  D.D New  Hampshire  Mr.   Edward  Tucker Kansas 

Henry  Fairbanks,  Ph.D. Vermont  John  E.  Tuttle,  D.D Nebraska 

S.  H.  Woodrow,  D.D Massachusetts  Frank  T.  Bayley,  D.D__ Colorado 

Mr.  John  F    Huntsman Rhode  Island  Mr.  Robert  D.  Benedict New  York 

Rev.   H.  H.  Kelsey Connecticut  L.  H.  Hallock,  D.D Minnesota 

S.  Parkes  Cadman,  D.D New  York  H.  C.  Herring,  D.D Nebraska 

Mr.  W.  W.  Mills Ohio  E.  L.  Smith,  D.D Washington 

W.  E.  Barton,  D.D Illinois  Rev.  Livingston  L.  Taylor New  York 

E.  M.  VlTTUM,  D.D .Iowa 

Executive  Committee 

WASHINGTON  CHOATE,  D.D.,  Acting  Chairman 
One  Year  Two  Years 

S.  Parkes  Cadman,  D.D.  Mr.  James  G.  Cannon 

Harry  P.  Dewe^,  D.D.  Mr.   VV.  Winans  Freeman 

Mr.  John  F.  Huntsman  Rev.  Henry  H.  Kelsey 

Mr.  Charles  C  West  Rev.  Livingston  L.  Taylor 


Field  Secretary,  Rev.  W.  G.  PuDbEFOOT,  South  Framingham,  Mass. 
Field  Assistant,  MISS  .M.  DEAN  MOFFAT. 


Superintendents 

Moritz  E.  Eversz,  D.D.,  German  Department,  153  La  Salle  St.,  Chicago,  111. 

Rev.  S.  V.  S.  Fisher,  Scandinavian  Department,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 
Slavic  Department  Cleveland.  Ohio. 

^..Indianapolis,  Ind.        Rev.  H.  Sanderson Denver,  Colo. 

Geo.  R.  Merrill,  D.D Minneapolis,  Minn.        J.  D.  Kingsbury,  D.D (New  Mexico,  Arizona. 

Alfred  K.  Wray,  D.D Carthage,  Mo.  Utah  and  Idaho),  Salt  Lake  City. 

Rev.  W.  W.  Scudder.  Jr West  Seattle,  Wash.        Rev.  C.  F.  Clapp .Forest  Grove,  Ore. 

Rev.  W.  B.  D.  Gray . Cheyenne,  Wyo.        Rev.  Charles  A.  Jones,  75  EssexSt.,  Hackensack, N.J. 

Rev.  A.  T.   Clarke        Fort  Payne,  Ala.        Rev.  W.  S.  Bell. Helena,  Mont. 

Frank  E.  Jenkins,  D  D. ...Atlanta,  Ga.    '  .  Kingfisher,  Okla. 

W.  H.  Thrall,  D.D ..Huron,  S.  Dak.        Geo.  L.  Todd,  D*.D... Havana,  Cuba. 

Rev.  G.  J.  Powell Fargo,  N.  Dak. 

Secretaries  and  Treasurers  of  Constituent  States 

Rev.  Charles  Harbutt,  Secretary Maine  Missionary  Society 34  Dow  St.,  Portland,  Me. 

W.  P.  Hubbard,  Treasurer "  "  '.' '      - Box  1052,  Bangor,  Me. 

Rev.  A.  T.  Hillman,  Secretary .New  Hampshire  Home  Missionary  Society Concord,  N.  H. 

Alvin  B.  Cross,  Treasurer "  "  "      Concord,  N.  H. 

Charles  H.  MerrilL  D.D.,  Secretary. .Vermont  Domestic  ".    ...St.  Johnsbury,  Vt. 

J.  T.  Richie,  Treasurer "  "  "  "      ,. St.  Johnsbury,  Vt. 

F.  E.  Emrich,  D.D.,  Secretary Massachusetts  Home  "  "      )  609  Cong'l  House, 

Rev.  Joshua  Coit,  Treasurer "  "  "  "      \  Boston,  Mass. 

Rev.  J.  H.  Lyon,  Secretary Rhode  Island        "  "  "      Central  Falls,  R.  I. 

Tos.  Wm.  Rice,  Treasurer "  "  "  "  " Providence,  R.  I. 


R 


ev.  JoelS.  Ives,  Secretary Missionary  Society  of  Connecticut Hartford,  Conn. 

Ward  W.  Jacobs,  Treasurer "  "  "  ' Hartford,  Conn. 

Rev.  C.  W.  Shelton,  Secretary ..New  York  Home  Missionary  Society,  Fourth  Ave.  and22d  St., New  York 

Clayton  S.  Fitch,  Treasurer "       "         "  "  "         Fourth  Ave.  and  22d  St.  .New  York 

Rev.  Charles  H.  Small,  Secretary Ohio  " Cleveland,  Ohio 

Rev.  Charles  H.  Small,  Treasurer "  " Cleveland,  Ohio 

Secretary Illinois  "  " I  153  La  Salle  St., 

John  W.  Iliff,  Treasurer "  "  "  " f  Chicago 

Homer  W.  Carter,  D.D.,  Secretary.. Wisconsin      "  "  "         Beloit,  Wis. 

C.  M.  Blackman,  Treasurer "  "  "  " Whitewater,  Wis. 

T.  O.  Douglass,  D.D.,  Secretary Iowa  "  " Grinnell,  Iowa 

Miss  A.  D.  Merrill.  Treasurer "  "  " Des Moines,  Iowa 

Rev.  J.  W.  Sutherland,  Secretary. .Michigan        "  "  "         Detroit,   Mich. 

Rev.  John  P.  Sanderson,  Treasurer..        "  "  "  "         Lansing,  Mich. 

Rev.  Henry  E.  Thayer,  Secretary...  Kansas  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society Topeka,  Kan. 

H.  C.  Bowman.  Treasurer "  "  "  "  "       Topeka,  Kan. 

Rev.  S.  I.  Hanford,  Secretary Nebraska  Home  Missionary  Society 

Other  State  Home  Misionary  Societies 

Rev.  J.  K.  Harrison,  Secretary North  California  Home  Missionary  Society San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Rev.  John  L.  Maile,  Secretary South  "  "       ...Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

City  Mission  Auxiliaries 

Prof.  F.  A.  Hall,  Superintendent... Congregational  City  Missionary  Society^ St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Lewis  E.  Snow,  Superintendent "  "  "  "       St.  Louis,  Mo. 


LEGACIES  — The  following  form  may  be  used  in  making  legacies  : 

I  bequeath  to  my  executors  the  sum  of  dollars,  in  trust,  to  pay  over  the  same  in 

months  after  my  decease,  to  any  person  who,  when  the  same  is  payable,  shall  act  as 

Treasurer  of  the  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society,  formed  in  the  City  of  New  York,  in  the 

year  eighteen  hundred  and  twenty-six,  to  be  applied  to  the  charitable  use  and  purposes  of  said 

Society,  and  under  its  direction. 

HONORARY  LIFE  MEMBERS  — The  payment  of  Fifty  Dollars  at  one  time  constitutes  an 
Honorary  Lift  Member. 


A  MATTER  QFHEALT. 


IMENNEN'S 


«ted  Talcum 

"fOILET 
POWDER 


NuN<* 


Absolutely  Pure 

HAS  HO  SUBSTITUTE 


The  Mennen  Caddie 

offers    instant   relief  from    chap9 

and  skin  roughness  which  keen 

fall  winds  bring  toout of  door  folks. 

MENKEN'S    BORATED 

TALCUM  POWDER 

soothes  and  heals  all  chafing  and 

chapping,  and  is  put  up  in  non- 

refillablc  box — Mennen's  face  on 

the  cover  guarantees  it's  genuine. 

For    sale    everywhere,    or    by 

mail  for  25  cts. 

GERHARD 
MENNEN  CO. 
Newark,  N.J. 

Try  Men- 

tien's  Violet 

Talcum 

Pouder." 


HAND  SAPOLIO 


Tor  The  Toilet. 


NO  BABY'S  SKIN  TQO  DELICATE  FOR  ITS  USE 
NO  STAIN  THAT  ULl  NOT  DISAPPEAR  BOTE  IT 


ill 


50  Cents  a  Year 


T H E  H O ME 
MISSIONARY 


VOLUME     LXXX 


NUMBER 


CHRISTIAN 

CIVILIZATION 

FOR 


CONGREGATIONAL 

HOME  MISSIONARY 

SOCIETY 

4  IS  AVE. 4  22.!i?5T. 
N  E  W    Y  O  R_  K. 


Entered   at   the  "Post-Office,   at    New    York,    N.    Y.,   as    second-class    [mail]   matter 


fBESBYTERIAN  HISTORICAL  SOCfETY* 


THE      HOME      MISSIONARY      ADVERTISER 


WING  PIANOS 

Are  Sold  Direct  From  the  Factory,  and  in  No  Other  Way 

You  Save  from$75to$200 


When  you  buy  a  Wing  Piano,  you  buy  at  wholesale. 
You  pay  the  actual  cost  of  making  it  \vith  only  our  whole- 
sale profit  added.  When  you  buy  a  piano,  as  many  still  do— 
at  retail— you  pay  the  retail  dealer's  store  rent  and 
expenses.  You  pay  his  profit  and  the  commission  or  salary 
of  the  agents  or  salesmen  he  employs— all  these  on  top  of 
what  the  dealer  himself  has  to  pay  to  the  manufacturer.  The 
retail  profit  ou  a  piano  is  from  $75  to  $-00.  Isn't  this  worth 
saving? 


ENT  ON  TRIAL 

WE     PAY    FREIGHT 
No  Money  in  Advance 


Anywhere 


We  Will  place  a  Wing  Piano  in  any  home  in  the  I 
States  on  trial,  without  asking  lor  any  advance  pavnient  or 
deposit.  We  pay  tue  freight  and  all  other  charges  in  In  I 
There,  is  nothing  to  be  paid  either  bei ore  the  piano  is  sent  or 
when  it  is  received.  If  the  piano  is  not  satisfactory  after  20 
days  trial  in  your  home,  we  take  it  back  entirely  at  our  ex- 
pense. You  pay  us  nothing,  and  are  under  no  mote  obliga- 
tion to  keep  ihe  piano  thin  if  you  were  examining  it  at  our 
factory.    There  can  be  absolutely  no  risk  i  to  you. 

Do  not  imarine  that  it  is  impossible  foi  us  to  do  as  we 
say.  Our  sy.-tem  is  so  perfect  that  we  can  without  any 
trouble  deliver  a  piano  in  the  smallest  town  in  any  part  of 
the  United  States  just  as  easily  as  we  can  in  New  York  City, 
and  with  absolutely  no  trouble  or  annoyance  to  you,  and 
without  anything  being  paid  in  advance  or  on  arrival  either 
for  freight  or  any  other  expense.  We  take  old  pianos  and 
organs  in  exchange. 

A  guarantee  forl2years  against  any  defect  in  tone,  action, 
workmanship  or  material  is  given  with  every  Wing  Piano. 


Small,  Easy 
MONTHLY 


Payments 


In    37   years    over   40,000    'Wing  Pianos 

have  been  manufactured  and  sold.  They  are  recom- 
mended by  si  by  musical  colleges 
anil  schools, by  prominent  music  teach- 
ers and  musicians.  Thousands  of  these  pianos  are  in 
your  own  State,  some  of  them  undoubtedly  in  your  very 
neighborhood.  Our  oatalogue  contains  names  and  ad- 
dresses. 

Mandolin,  Guitar.Hurp,  Zither,  Banjo— 

The  tones  of  any  or  all  of  these  instruments  may  be  re- 


YOU  NEED  THIS  BOOK 

If  You  Intend  to  Buy  a  Piano— No  Matter  What  Make 

A  book — not  a  catalogue— that  gives  you  all  the  information  possessed  by 
experts.     It  tells  about  tho  different  materials  used  in  the  different  parts 
of  a  piano;  the  way  the  different  parts  are  put  together,  what  causes  pianos 
to  get  out  of  order  and  in  fact  is  a  complete  encyclopedia.     It  maki 
selection  of  a  piano  easy.     If  read  carefully,  it  will  make  you  a  judge  of 
tone,  action,  workmanship  and  finish.    It  tells  you  how  to  test  a  piano         //   a 
and  how  to  tell  good  from  bad.    It  is  absohUely  the  only  book  of       sy^<$y&' 
its  kind   ever  published.     It  contains    166  large  pages  and  hun-  /^  A«    ' 

dreds  of  illustrations,   all  devoted  to  piano  construction.    Its 
name  is  "The  Book  of  Complete  Information  About  Pianos." 
"We  send  it  free  to  anyone  wishing  to  buy  a  piano.    All  you 
have  to  do  is  to  send  us  your  name  and  address. 


WING  &  SON 

351-3§3  Wert  13th  Street,  New  York 

1868 37th  YEAR 1905 


Send  a  Postal  To-day  while  you  think  of 
it,  just  giving  your  name  and  address  or  send   us 
the  attached  coupon  and  the  valuable  book  of  in- 
formation, also  full  particulars  about  the  VVING 
PTANO,   with  prices,   terms  of  payment,  etc., 
will  be  sent  to  you  promptly  by  mail. 

,  «?■* 


When     writing    to     advertisers     please    mention    The    Home    Missionary 


HE      HOME      MISSIONARY      ADVERTISER 


ORGANIZE  NOW  YOUR  HOME  MISSION  STUDY  CLASS. 


A    MILLION     IMMIGRANTS    A     YEAR! 


ALIENS 


OR: 


Howard  B.  Grose 


The  New  Home  Mission 
Text  Book,  for  Mis- 
sion Study  Classes  in 
Young  People's  Socie- 
ties 

For  General  Reading 


300  Pages.     Handsomely 
Bound.  Illustrated. 
Cloth,  50  Cents.   Paper, 
35  Cents. 
Postage  8  Cents  Extra. 


SEND  ORDERS  TO 
THE 

CONGREGATIONAL 

HOME    MISSIONARY 

SOCIETY 

287  FOURTH  AVE.  NEW  YORK 


The  Latest  and  Best  Book  on 
this  Great  Subject 

ALIENS 

=  OR 

AMERICANS? 

•([  This  volume,  with  its  striking  grouping 
of  the  Fresh  Facts,  Figures  and  Features  of 
the  New  Immigration,  the  greatest  in  his- 
tory, will  not  only  instruct  and  inspire  those 
who  engage  in  Home  Mission  Study,  but  it 
will  prove  as  interesting  as  fiction  to  the 
general  reader. 

If  The  interest  deepens  from  chapter  to 
chapter,  culminating  in  the  evangelistic 
necessities  and  possibilities.  Note  the  table 
of  contents. 

CONTENTS 

I.  The  Alien  Advance. 
II.  Alien  Admission  and  Restriction. 

III.  Problems  of  Legislation   and  Distri- 
bution. 

IV.  The  New  Migration. 
V.  The  Eastern  Invasion. 

VI.  The  Foreign  Peril  of  the  City. 
VII.   Immigration  and  the  National  Char- 
acter. 

VIII.  The  Home  Mission  Opportunity. 
T  This  indicates  the  broad  scope  and  treat- 
ment. The  volume  is  finely  illustrated,  and 
contains  charts  and  tables,includingstatistics. 
If  Send  sixty  cents  for  a  sample  copy,  in 
cloth.  You  will  wish  it  for  your  library. 
You  will  need  it  for  use  in  your  home-mis- 
sion study  class. 


WHAT   DOES   THIS   MEAN  FOR  AMERICA? 


THE 


HOME 


MISSIONARY 


ADVERTISERS 


OCTOBER 
IN  THE 
ADIRONDACKS 

No  finer  place  can  be  found  than  the 

Adirondacks  in  October. 

The  air   is    cool    and    bracing,    the 

scenery   beautiful  and  the  sense  of 

perfect  rest  that  comes  with  the  night 

is  delightful. 

This    wonderful    region    is   reached 

from  all  directions  by  the 


NEWYORK 

.(entral] 

V    LINES    J 


"America's  Greatest  Railroad." 

For  a  copy  of  "The  Adirondack  Mountains 
and  How  to  Reach  Them,"  send  a  two-cent 
stamp  to  George  H.  Daniels,  Manager  Gen- 
eral, Advertising  Department,  Grand  Cen- 
tral Station,  New  York. 

C.    F.   DALY, 
Passenger  Traffic  Manager, 

NEW    YORK. 


Rudolph  Lenz 

Printer 

62-65    Bible    House 

New    York 


A  JUNIOR  TEXT  BOOK 
FOR    HOME    MISSION    STUDY 

We  take  great  pleasure  in  announcing 
for  the  season  of  1906-07,  an  admirablt 
home  mission  study  text-book  for  juniors 
entitled, 

Coming  Americans 

BY  MISS  KATHERINE  R.  CROWELL 

Miss  Crowell's  earlier  books  in  thi 
series  have  been  received  with  grea 
favor.  COMING  AMERICANS  will  be  illus 
trated  with  over  fifty  striking  pictures  c 
foreigners. 


Comments  on  Miss  Crowell's  Junior  Text  Boo 

"The  children  will  most  certainly  b 
interested  and  instructed." — The  Mission 
ary  Review  of  the  World. 

"These  exceedingly  creditable  publics 
tions  for  Juniors  meet  a  very  decide 
need.  I  am  not  at  all  surprised  that  othe 
denominations  than  the  Presbyterian  ar 
making  use  of  them." — Dr.  Harlan  I 
Beach. 

"Will  interest  juniors  and  seniors  alike. 
—  The  Moravian,  Bethlehem,  Pa. 

PRICE  IN  PAPER,  TWENTY  CENTS; 
CLOTH,  THIRTY=FIVE  CENTi 


For  copies,  address 
Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society 

287  Fourth  Avenue,  New  York. 


When     writing     to     advertisers     please     mention     The      Home      Missionar 


r^  r^  xt  nr  i?  \t  t»  c 

J.              For    OCTOBER,    1906.              & 

IS  AMERICA  MAKING  CRIMINALS?     (Illustrated.) 

Minnie  J.  Reynolds            ....... 

159 

HOME  MISSION  PARABLE  FROM  NORTH  DAKOTA  (Illustrated.) 

167 

EDITOR'S  OUTLOOK 

Criminals — How  They  Are  Made             .            .            . 

170 

A  CLEAR  CALL  TO  CONGREGATIONAL  SUNDAY  SCHOOLS 

AND  YOUNG  PEOPLE'S  SOCIETIES 

Don  O.  Shelton      .            .            .            .            .             .            .            . 

171 

OUR  COUNTRY'S _YOUNG  PEOPLE 

What  Shall  Be  America's  tuture?            ..... 

172 

Mr.  Bryan's  Tribute  to  Christianity                       .            .            ♦            » 

172 

Home  Missions  and  the  Monthly  Magazines    .... 

173 

Waste  in  a  Great  State        .            .            .            .            ♦            . 

173 

Home  Missions  and  the  Daily  Papers        .            .            .            ♦            ♦ 

174 

The  Return  of  Dr.  Francis  E.  Clark          .            .            ..'■•• 

174 

Home  Mission  Opportunities  in  Great  Cities          .... 

175 

The  Unequalled  Text  Book  for  Mission  Study     .... 

176 

Bible  Studies  in  Missions — A  Commendable  Text  Book  . 

176 

To  Congregational  Young  People             ..... 

177 

Three  New  Pamphlets       ....... 

178 

Sprightly  Young  People's  Literature          ..... 

179 

have  a  Rousing  Home  Mission  Study  Rally 

180 

A  QUESTION  TO  BE  ANSWERED  BY  ACTION 

t.  (An  Appeal  to  Young  People.)    Rev.  Charles  A.  Jones  .          .             . 

180 

FROM  THE  FRONT  LINE 

The  General  Missionary     ....... 

182 

Cuba  as  a  Missionary  Field 

.         .         ... 

182 

Droppings  ot  Promise         . 

.... 

183 

Blessed  and  Grateful            .            . 

.         .         .         . 

183 

Without  Haste,  Without  Rest 

.... 

183 

The  Joy  of  Hardness         .            . 

... 

184 

A  Familiar  Story    .... 

.... 

184 

A  Significant  Revival        .            . 

, 

184 

PERSONAL  WORD  TO  CONGREGATIONALISTS 

Josiah  Strong          .    .  -       .            . 

185 

WOMEN'S  WORK  AND  METHODS 

The  Uttermost  Part.    Grace  A.  C.  White            .... 

186 

Counting  for  More  Than  One       .            .            .            .            .            . 

187 

APPOINTMENTS  AND  RECEIPTS       ..... 

188 

WOMAN'S  STATE  ORGANIZATIONS             .... 

194 

PER     YEAR,     FIFTY     CENTS 

THE      HOME      MISSIONARY 

Published  monthly,  except  in  July  and  August,  by  the 

Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society 

287    FOURTH    AVENUE,            NEW    YORK    CITY 

*NTEREB  AT  THE  RO»T  OFFJOE     AT   NEW  YORK,    N.  V.,    *t  EECOND  OLAM   [mail]    MATTER 


THE 

HOME  MISSIONARY 


VOL.  LXXX 


OCTOBER,  1906 


No.  5 


Is  America   Making    Criminals  f 

By   Minnie  J.   Reynolds 

AT  the  meeting  of  the  American  well  known  student  of  the  immigra- 

Social     Science    Association  tion    question,    gave   the    following 

held  in  New  York  last  spring,  statistics,  carefully  gathered  and  not 

Mr.   Prescott  F.   Hall,  of  Boston,  a  -  disputed. 


EACH    OP    THESE    BOYS    NEEDS    THE    CHURCH.       EACH    IS    A    HOME     MISSION    FIELD 

ALL    IN    HIMSELF 


i6o 


THE   HOME   MISSIONARY 


Comparing  the  number  of  adult 
male  prisoners  in  the  country  with 
the  whole  number  of  males  of  voting 
age,  it  is  found  that  foreign  born 
whites  are  150  per  cent  more  crimi- 
nal than  the  native  whites  of  native 
parentage.  But  the  native  white  of 
foreign  parentage,  the  son  of  the 
immigrant,  is  three  times  as  crim- 
inal as  the  native  element — 300 
per  cent  more — and  as  criminal 
again  as  the  foreign  born. 

Among  male  juvenile  offenders 
compared  with  the  male  population 
of  school  age  in  the  North  Atlantic 
states,  where  the  bulk  of  the  immi- 
gration settles,  the  foreign  born 
white  boys  furnish  nearly  three 
times  as  many  criminals  as  the  na- 
tive boys  of  native  parentage,  but 
the  American  born  sons  of  immi- 
grant parents  furnish  3^  times  as 
many  criminals  as  the  native  ele- 
ment, even  more  than  the  foreign 
born.  The  excess  of  criminality  is 
greater  among  boys  of  the  immi- 
grant class  than  amoag  adults. 

Figures  like  these  cannot    be    ig- 


nored or  covered  up.  They  must 
be  faced  and  explained.  Analysis 
reveals  that  while  the  immigrant 
furnishes  an  undue  proportion  of 
criminality  he  is  not  so  apt  to  be 
criminal  as  his  own  native  born  son ; 
and  that  the  boy  born  in  Europe  is 
not  so  apt  to  become  a  criminal  as 
his  own  brother  born  in  America. 
This  brings  us  squarely  to  the  title 
of  this  paper.  Is  America  in  the 
criminal  making  business  ?  If  so,  it 
is  a  poor  business  for  America  to 
be  in. 

We  have  always  claimed  that  no 
matter  how  poor  or  degraded  the 
immigrant  may  be,  so  great  is  the 
assimilative  power  of  American  life 
that  his  children  will  be  speedily  ab- 
sorbed and  become  indistinguishable 
from  the  rest  of  the  American  masses. 
That  this  has  been  the  case  with  a 
vast  number  we  know.  But  at  the 
present  moment  inexorable  statistics 
show  that  the  first  generation  on 
these  shores  tends  to  degenerate; 
that  the  American  born  sons  give  us 
more    criminals    than    the    peasant 


TEMPTATIONS    TO    THEFT 


TRUANT    OFFICER OFTEN    STREET    BOY  S    BEST    FRIEND 


born  fathers  who  came  here  to  es- 
cape crushing  Old  World  conditions. 
This  is  a  puzzling  problem  and 
not  a  pleasant  one  for  Americans  to 
face.  To  soothe  our  racial  pride 
the  proportion  should  be  the  other 
way  about,  but  it  is  not.  Of  the 
same  blood  and  ancestry,  why  should 
the  American  born  sons  of  immi- 
grants show  more  criminal  instincts 
than  their  own  fathers?  There  can 
be  but  one  deduction.  Something 
in  their  environment  impels  them. 
Individuals    cannot   always   be   ac- 


counted for.  But  facts  true  of  a 
class  can  always  be  assigned  a  rea- 
son. When  we  see  a  large  group 
of  people  in  which  the  sons  are  more 
criminal  than  the  fathers,  we  can 
only  conclude  that  some  cause  in 
their  environment  is  producing  this 
result. 

A  ray  of  light  is  thrown  upon  this 
apparently  incomprehensible  condi- 
tion by  a  little  story  from  a  foreign 
quarter  in  New  York.  A  boy 
was  found  crying  bitterly  after  a 
whipping     from     his     father.       "I 


DE    WITT    CLINTON    PARK BOYS 


AND    GIRLS 
YORK    CITY 


FARM      IN      THE    HEART    OF    NEW 


wouldn't  mind  the  lickin',"  he  sobbed 
resentfully,  "but  I  hate  to  be  licked 
by  one  of  these  blamed  immigrants. " 

The  story  is  quaintly  humorous, 
but  it  is  tragic  as  well.  The  Amer- 
ican born  son  of  foreign  parents  ac- 
tually despises  his  own  father  as  an 
immigrant.  We,  as  a  people,  de- 
spise immigrants — some  of  the  best 
of  us  and  all  of  the  worst  of  us.  It 
is  useless  to  say  we  do  not,  for  we 
do.  The  native  born  son  of  the  im- 
migrant catches  and  reflects  the 
general  feeling.  The  very  cult  of 
the  schools,  the  flag  salute,  the  ex- 
altation and  glorification  of  every- 
thing American  helps  it  along. 

Now  what  does  this  mean?  It 
means  the  loss  of  parental  control. 
The  personal  liberty  of  young  Amer- 
ica, his  offhand  attitude  toward 
parental  authority,  is  often  noted. 
He    argues,    and  disputes    with    his 


parents  and  pays  them  no  exagger- 
ated or  enforced  respect.  But  nev- 
ertheless he  feels  that  his  parents 
know  more  than  he  does;  that  it  is 
well  for  him  to  accept  their  advice 
and,  generally  speaking,  to  stand  on 
friendly  and  respectful  terms  with 
them.  His  common  sense  tells  him 
that  they  are  older,  wiser  and  more 
experienced  than  he. 

That  is  the  precise  difference  be- 
tween him  and  the  son  of  the  im- 
migrant. The  latter  thinks  he 
knows  more  than  his  own  parents, 
and  very  often  he  is  right.  Very 
likely  he  has  a  better  education  than 
they.  Perhaps  he  can  read  and 
write,  and  they  cannot.  With  the 
greater  adaptability  of  youth,  his 
quick  catching  on  to  the  life  of 
the  street,  he  may  actually  under- 
stand and  comprehend  American  life 
better  than  they.     In  the  incalcul- 


IS  AMERICA  MAKING  CRIMINALS? 


163 


able  matter  of  the  language  there  is 
a  great  gulf  between  them.  I  have 
heard  an  Italian  mother  angrily 
order  her  children  to  speak  Italian 
in  the  house.  Raised  in  the  schools, 
they  speak  English  as  a  native  lan- 
guage. She  speaks  not  a  word  of  it. 
Such  a  condition  would  prove  humi- 
liating to  most  American  mothers. 
I  know  of  an  educated  young  Jew  in 
New  York  who  is  actually  debarred 
from  conversing  on  a  vast  range  of 
subjects  with  his  parents.  They 
speak  only  Yiddish,  a  dialect  which 
lacks  the  words  to  express  thousands 
of  ideas  which  he  would  like  to  com- 
municate to  them.  Russian  parents 
on  the  lower  East  side  have  been 
known  to  oppose  their  children 
learning  English  because  of  the  loss 
of  parental  authority  entailed. 

This  English  speaking  boy  finds 
his  parents  more  ignorant  of  the 
laws,  customs,  history  and  traditions 


of  the  country  than  they  are  of  the 
language.  They  cannot  adequately 
advise,  guide  or  instruct  him.  All 
their  ideas  are  different  from  those 
he  encounters  in  school.  He  goes 
his  own  way,  and  in  350  per  cent 
more  cases  than  the  son  of  native 
parents  and  50  per  cent  more  cases 
than  the  foreign  born  boy,  that  way 
lands  him  in  jail.  The  slightly 
smaller  proportion  of  prisoners 
among  the  foreign  born  boys  shows 
the  proportionately  greater  hold 
which  his  parents  retain  over  him: 
He,  too,  is  under  the  ban.  He  him- 
self is  an  "immigrant." 

The  enonomic  independence  of 
the  immigrant's  son  widens  the 
breach.  Immigrants  are  very  poor. 
Ignorant  of  the  language  and 
methods  of  the  country,  their  wages 
are  the  lowest  paid.  "  Race  suicide '" 
is  unknown  among  them.  It  is 
natural  that  the  children  should  be 


DE    WITT    CLINTON    PARK SUGGESTIVE    LESSONS    IN    TRANSPLANTING 


164 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


put  to  work  at  the  earliest  possible 
moment.  And  the  minute  the  chil- 
dren begin  to  contribute  to  the 
family  expenses,  they  consider  them- 
selves entitled  to  throw  off  the  last 
vestige  of  parental  control.  What 
is  to  be  done  under  these  circum- 
stances? Patriotic  teachings  cannot 
be  eliminated  from  the  schools. 
The  child  of  the  immigrant  must 
learn  the  language,  must  be  Amer- 
icanized. A  gulf  must  necessarily 
grow  between  him  and  his  parents. 
It  cannot  be  helped.  But  into  this 
breach  must  step  a  friend. 

If  any  boy  on  earth  ever  needed  a 
friend  it  is  the  son  of  the  immi- 
grant. I  say  boy  because  the  boy 
is  a  more  obstreperous  and  danger- 
ous animal  than  the  girl  and  repays 
his  neglect  by  society  more  strenu- 
ously. But  the  girl  needs  the  friend 
as  much  as  he.  They  need  some  one 
to  step  into  the  breach  and  explain 
America  to  them,  bring  them  in 
touch  with  better  phases  of  Amer- 
ican life  than  they  find  in  the  street. 

The  public  schools  are  doing  a 
colossal  work.  But  statistics  show 
they  cannot  do  it  all ;  that  this 
breach  between  the  parent  and  the 
child  is  still  unfilled  and  dangerous. 
Settlements  are  doing  something. 
Churches  are  doing  something.  The 
state  is  doing  something.  But  all 
together  are  not  doing  enough. 
There  must  be  greater  efforts  if  de- 
generation is  to  be  prevented  in  the 
first  generation  of  native  born. 
America  is  today  in  the  position  of 
breeding  criminals  to  prey  on  her- 
self. There  will  necessarily  be  an 
undue  proportion  of  criminals 
among  adults  reaching  these  shores. 
Criminals  will  flee  hither  as  inevi- 
tably as  absconding  American  bank 
cashiers  flee  to  Canada.  But  we  top 
even  that  abnormal  criminal  per- 
centage with  the  native  born  sons  of 
immigrants  that  we  are  sending  to 
jail.  We  are  neglecting  the  chil- 
dren, and  we  are  getting  our  pay. 

These  boy  offenders  are  frequent- 
ly not  really  criminals.  Often  their 
first  acquaintance  with  the  jail  comes 


from  that  universal  instinct  of  all 
young  creatures — play.  It  is  as  na- 
tural for  a  boy  to  play  as  for  a  kit- 
ten or  a  puppy.  But  the  boy  has  no 
place  to  play  in  the  crowded  foreign 
quarters  where  he  lives.  He  breaks 
a  window,  or  scares  a  horse  or  hits 
someone  with  a  ball,  and  then  he 
runs  up  against  the  government  of 
America  in  the  shape  of  a  police- 
man. And  the  first  imprisonment 
is  apt  to  be  the  starting  point  in 
crime  for  the  shamed  and  hardened 
boy.  The  American  college  boy 
can  steal  signs  and  barber  poles, 
and  we  laugh  at  the  college  boy 
lark.  But  there  is  no  such  amused 
complaisancy  for  the  boy  offender 
of  the  foreign  quarter.  Yet  chil- 
dren playing  in  the  streets  of  the 
large  cities  are  an  undeniable  nusi- 
ance.  Play  should  be  recognized  as 
a  natural,  permanent  need  of  the 
child's  life  as  much  as  education  and 
equally  provided  for  by  the  state. 
The  young  cities  of  the  West  should 
take  warning  by  the  enormous  prices 
New  York  has  paid  and  provide 
ample  play  places  while  land  is  still 
cheap.  Statistics  of  every  neigh- 
borhood where  a  children's  play- 
ground has  been  opened  show  a  de- 
crease in  juvenile  misdemeanors. 

Work  has  its  dangers  as  well  as 
play  for  this  child  of  the  immigrant. 
Statistics  recently  published  as  to 
the  working  children  of  Chicago 
show  30,643  "working  papers"  given 
to  children  of  fourteen  in  the  last 
two  and  a  half  years.  Of  these 
children  three  and  a  fraction  per 
cent  were  born  of  native  parents; 
nine  and  a  fraction  per  cent  were 
foreign  born,  and  nearly  eighty-seven 
per  cent  were  native  born  of  foreign 
parents.  This  shows  well  enough 
who  is  doing  the  child  labor  of  the 
North.  It  is  precisely  the  class  fur- 
nishing the  abnormal  proportion  of 
criminals. 

I  happen  to  know  the  story  of  one 
such  child.  Susie  was  twelve  years 
old,  too  young  to  get  her  "working 
papers "  for  regular  employment. 
But    the    Christmas  season  was  on, 


IS  AMERICA  MAKING  CRIMINALS? 


'65 


and  the  "Christmas  spirit"  was 
sending  thousands  of  extra  shoppers 
to  buy  things  to  carry  messages  of 
love  and  good  will  to  friends.  A 
kind  law  permitted  Susie  and  others 
like  her  to  work  till  ten  or  eleven 
o'clock  at  night  for  two  weeks  before 
Christmas  that  the  Christmas  spirit 
might  be  satisfied. 

Susie  was  a  very   little,   ignorant 
girl.     The  tenement  house  life  she 


a  thief."  In  her  own  world  she  was 
branded  as  a  thief.  She  dropped 
out  of  school  because  of  it.  Her 
parents  made  her  life  miserable  over 
it  at  home,  and  in  every  childish 
quarrel  the  word  was  flung  at  her. 
It  followed  her  every  time  she  tried 
to  get  work.  Two  or  three  years  after 
— horribly,  hideously  young — Susie 
disappeared  from  home.  She  has 
not  been  heard  of  since,  and  that  is 


CHILDREN  S    AID    SOCIETY BOYS    BOUND    FOR    WESTERN    HOMES 


had  lived  was  very  poor  and  meagre. 
In  the  department  store  she  was 
surrounded  by  millions  of  glittering 
things.  She  took  a  trinket  worth 
fifteen  cents.  A  child  is  seldom  ar- 
rested for  a  thing  like  that.  In- 
stead she  was  discharged;  loudly, 
publicly,  angrily,  as  a  thief.  The 
story  went  all  over  the  quarter 
where  she  lived:  "Susie  got  fired 
from  Blank's  for  stealing:     Susie  is 


the  way  we  assimilated  Susie.  Do  we 
remember  the  petition,  "Lead  us 
not  into  temptation,"  when  we  per- 
mit the  little  children  of  the  poor 
to  be  plunged  into  the  glittering 
temptations  of  the  Christmas  stores? 
Ernest  Poole,  of  the  University 
Settlement,  spent  some  months,  by 
night  and  by  day,  in  studying  the 
assimilation  of  boys  in  the  street 
occupations     of      New     York.     He 


i66 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


found  near  Newspaper  Row  more 
than  one  hundred  boys  sleeping  in 
the  street.  Other  hundreds  he  found 
sleeping  in  stables,  condemned  build- 
ings, halls  of  tenements  and  back 
rooms  of  low  saloons.  In  Chinatown 
alone  he  found  twenty  young  boys 
whose  business  it  was  to  run  messages 
for  the  denizens  of  opium  dives,  and 
every  one  of  them  had  the  opium 
habit.  He  found  messenger  boys 
cooking  opium  pills  in  Chinese  dives. 
Of  the  messenger  boys  he  found  a 
large  number  doing  all-night  work 
between  all-night  houses  and  all- 
night  people.  That  is  the  way  we 
are  "assimilating"  these  boys.  He 
traced  a  number  of  heartrending 
life  histories  of  boys  plunged  into 
the  life  of  the  street  at  tender  years. 

"Corruption  of  morals,"  said  he, 
"spreads  among  the  street  boys 
like  a  new  slang  phrase.  Minds  al- 
ready old  are  'put  wise'  by  minds 
still  older." 

Out  of  about  one  hundred  news- 
boys talked  with,  sixty-six  were 
twelve  years  old  or  under,  thirty- 
seven  ten  years  old  and  eight  from 
six  to  eight  years  old.  They  sell  as 
late  as  two  A.  M.  An  express  com- 
pany was  found  employing  boys  of 
eleven.  They  began  work  at 
seven  A.  M.  and  made  their  last 
trip  at  nine  or  ten  at  night. 
On  Friday  and  Saturday  they  worked 
till  midnight,  and  sometimes  re- 
turned Sunday  morning  to  finish  up 
Do  we  "remember  the  Sabbath  day 
to  keep  it  holy,"  when  we  let  chil- 
dren be  worked  like  this?  America 
has  got  to  have  more  applied  Chris- 
tianity in  its  government.  All  these 
things  can  be  regulated  by  law. 
Why  should  the  advertising  circular 
which  we  toss  in  the  waste  basket 
be  brought  by  a  grown  man  who  has 
had  to  pass  a  civil  service  examina- 
tion, while  the  telegram,  which  per- 
haps means  life  and  death,  is  brought 
by  a  little  irresponsible  boy?  Merely 
a  difference  in  law.  If  there  is  any 
public   affair  into  which   Christians 


need  to  put  a  little  more  Christian- 
ity it  is  the  laws  which  safeguard 
and  protect  the  child  workers  of  the 
country.  We  can  let  the  matter 
alone,  of  course,  and  go  on  making 
the  sons  of  honest  men  into  jail- 
birds, as  we  are  doing  now;  but  we 
shall  pay  in  the  end.  The  earnings 
for  which  all  this  sacrifice  of  child 
health,  education  and  morals  is  go- 
ing on  are  absurdly  small.  Twenty- 
eight  newsboys  confessed  to  Mr. 
Poole  that  they  earned  less  than 
$1.00  a  week.  It  would  be  cheaper 
for  society  to  pay  their  wages  and 
compel  their  attendance  at  school 
than  to  provide  increased  jail  accom- 
modations later. 

The  child  of  the  immigrant, 
thrust  at  the  earliest  possible  mo- 
ment into  the  wage-earning  world, 
performing  to-day  the  child  labor  of 
the  North,  deprived,  in  the  crowded 
foreign  quarters,  of  the  child's  birth- 
right of  play,  clean  air  and  country 
life;  with  parents  too  ignorant  and 
bewildered  in  the  new  life  to  give 
him  the  guidance  and  training  he 
needs,  sending  350  per  cent  more 
of  his  number  to  jail  than  the  son  of 
the  native  born — this  child  needs  the 
church.  He  is  a  home  mission  field 
all  in  himself.  He  needs  mission 
schools  and  mission  workers  and 
mission  visitors.  He  needs  conse- 
crated, devoted  friends,  who  will 
know  his  circumstances  and  his 
needs  He  is  legally  as  much  an 
American  as  any  of  us.  No  foreign 
language  is  needed  to  reach  him.  I 
would  not  say  one  word  against  for- 
eign missions,  for  I  believe  in  them 
and  would  not  see  their  income  cur- 
tailed But  is  it  reasonable,  is  it 
logical,  is  it  good  sense,  to  carry  a 
fine  type  of  Americanism  to  distant 
lands  and  leave  this  native  born  child 
to  end  in  jail?  Is  it  the  old,  tradi- 
tional, glorious  mission  of  America, 
founded  for  faith  and  freedom  of 
conscience,  to  take  the  sons  of  hon- 
est men  and  transform  them  into 
criminals? 


A  Home  Mission  ^Parable  From 
North  Dakota 

By  Rev.   G.  J.  Powell,  Superintendent. 


EIGHT  years  ago  a  new  com- 
munity, twenty-five  miles 
'  from  a  railroad  filled  up  with 
settlers.  They  came  mainly  from 
Minnesota  and  Iowa.  They  were 
Americans  but  brought  up  in  differ- 
ent churches,  and  a  good  third  of 
them  were  Quakers. 

The  first  summer,  Sunday  schools 
were  started  a  few  miles  a  part  and 
later  came  together  in  the  largest 
sod  house  in  the  whole  settlement. 
Two-thirds  of  the  people  lived  in 
sod  houses.  As  they  met  in  their 
Bible  study  from  week  to  week  they 
found  it  pleasant  to  dwell  together 
in  unity  and  in  the  fellowship  of  a 
common  pioneer  life.  Then  they 
began  to  wonder  whether  they  might 
not  have  a  church  broad  enough  to 
take  them  all  in.  The  Quakers  said, 
"You  may  be  able  to  form  a  church 
that  will  suit  the  rest,  but  I  guess 
we  shall  have  to  have  our  own."  So 
they  planned  to  have  their  Iowa 
pastor  come  and  form  a  church. 
But  the  common  desire  to  keep  to- 
gether was  too  strong  for  them,  and 
a  committee  was  chosen  representing 
the  five  different  denominations, 
which  set  to  work  on  a  constitution. 
One  of  the  committee  was  a  school 
teacher  who  had  been  licensed  to 
preach  in  Minnesota,  and  was  a 
Congregationalism  The  constitution 
was  broadened  at  the  ordinances, 
and  the  Quakers  said  it  would  suit 
them  if  it  would  the  rest.  Word 
was  sent  to  the  Iowa  pastor  that  he 
was  not  needed  to  start  a  Friends' 
church.  The  school  teacher  who 
had  come  among  them  to  get  a  farm 
was  asked  to  be  their  spiritual 
leader,  the  people  offering  to  break 


his  prairie  for  him  and  give  him 
other  support.  He  lived  in  a  sod 
house  as  the  rest  of  them  did,  and 
to  "keep  the  wolf  from  the  door," 
the  first  winter  he  walked  seven 
miles  night  and  morning  to  his 
school. 

At  this  stage  of  the  work  the 
Home  Missionary  Society  was  need- 
ed to  support  the  minister,  and  the 
superintendents  of  the  Sunday 
schools  and  the  Home  Missionary 
superintendent  came  into  relation- 
ship with  the  church  to  advise  and 
to  help.  The  question  came  up  of  a 
location  for  the  new  frame  meeting 
house  which  must  now  be  built  for 
the  growing  needs  of  the  church. 
There  was  danger  of  a  division,  but 
one  of  the  deacons  who  had  objected 
to  a  site  four  miles  from  his  home, 
after  listening  to  a  talk  from  the 
superintendent  on  the  magnanimity 
of  Abraham  in  his  treatment  of  Lot, 
gave  up  his  opposition  and  declared 
himself  in  favor  of  the  site  which 
would  reach  the  needs  of  the  largest 
number  of  people. 

The  differing  views  as  to  the 
ordinances  threatened  another  divi- 
sion, but  this  danger  was  safely 
passed,  and  all  of  the  people  came 
out  into  a  larger  toleration  and  a 
new  view  of  the  spiritual  oneness  of 
believers. 

The  new  frame  church  was  built 
by  the  combined  efforts  of  the  new 
settlers,  some  giving  work  and  some 
money,  and  with  a  timely  grant 
from  the  Church  Building  Society. 
The  school  teacher  licentiate  had 
kept  on  his  way  as  pastor,  and  after 
three  years  of  faithful  work  and  at 
the  unanimous  request  of  the  church,. 


i68 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


he  was  ordained 
by  council  to  the 
Gospel  ministry. 
Then  the  rail- 
road cut  across 
one  corner  of  his 
large  parish,  es- 
tablishing a  town 
eight  miles  east 
of  his  country 
church,  and  an- 
other eight  miles 
west  of  it.  At 
both  of  these 
towns  services 
were  promptly 
started,  for  there 
were  members 
of  the  country 
church  near  each 
of  them. 

Preaching  ser- 
vices were  held  in 
unfinishedstores, 
banks,  primitive 
school  houses, 
etc.  At  great  per- 
son al  sacrifice 
Pastor  Slater  se- 
cured the  build- 
ing of  the  church 
at  Esmond.  He 
served  thechurch 
a  year  gratis  and 
also  put  in  about 
$300  of  his  own 
money. 

Times  were 
hard  and  money 
was  scarce  in  the 
new  town.  At 
the  other  new 
town,Maddock,a 
temporary  build- 
ing was  run  up, 
part  of  the  work 
being  done  by  the 
Home  Mission- 
ary Superinten- 
dent, some  by 
a  student  who 
was  helping  the 
church  at  that 
time,     and      by 


COLFAX  CHURCH    DEDICATED  FREE  OF 

DEBT     A     FEW      MONTHS      AFTER 

ORGANIZATION 


SOD  HOUSE  WHERE  HESPER   CHURCH 
MET  FOR  MORE  THAN  A  YEAR. 


TEMPORARY  CHURCH  AT  HADDOCK, 
NORTH   DAKOTA. 


Rev.  Mr.  Saund- 
ers of  Oberon. 
Recently  this 
temporary  build- 
ing was  sold  and 
a  fine  new  church 
edifice  has  been 
dedicated  free 
of  debt. 

For  eight 
years  now,  Pas- 
tor Slater  has 
carried  on  this 
missionary  work 
on  the  wide  field. 
With  the  excep- 
tion of  one  short 
break  his  hand 
has  been  upon  it 
all  the  time.  He 
preaches  at  all 
three  churches 
every  Sunday, 
making  a  Sab- 
bath-day drive  of 
thirty-five  miles, 
and  this  he  has 
kept  up  winter 
and  summer  in 
every  kind  of 
weather. 

Other  denomi- 
nations attempt- 
ed to  set  up  their 
work  in  each  of 
these  towns,  but 
as  yet  no  other, 
excepting  the 
Norwegian  Lu- 
therans, have 
succeeded  in 

jumping  Pastor 
Slater's  claim. 
He  is  today  the 
only  English 
speaking  minist- 
er in  a  territory 
forty  to  fifty 
miles  long  and 
fifteen  to  twenty 
miles  in  width, 
with  three  towns 
and  two  out-sta- 
tions to  care  for. 


A   HOME    MISSIONARY    PARABLE 


169 


Students  from 
colleges  and  sem- 
inaries have  ren- 
dered summer 
assistance.  Re- 
vivals  have 
broughtmany  in- 
to these  church- 
es. The  Esmond 
church  starting 
with  five  mem- 
bers, has  now 
forty  communi- 
cants, and  the 
others  have  made 
almost  equal  pro- 
gress. 

Sheldon  Slater, 
the  school  teach- 
er, without  col- 
lege or  seminary 
training,  going 
into  a  new  coun- 
try after  a  farm, 
was  called  from 
the  "breaking" 
plough  into  the 
ministry,  and 
like  Elisha,  went 
out  in  the  name 
of  the  Lord  to  do 
an  almost  unique 
work.  His  is 
one  of  the  long- 
est pastorates  in 
this  young  state, 
and  he  is  the 
only  missionary 
who  has  built  his 
third  church  on 
the  same  field. 
Home  Mission- 
ary and  church 
building  funds 
have  a  double 
value  when  thus 
backed  by  a  hear- 
ty co-operation 
and  consecrated 
lives.  One  young 
man  has  already 
gone  out  from  the 
Hesper  church  to 
study      for      the 


REV.   E.   E.   CRAM  AND  FAMILY, 
RENVILLE,   NORTH  DAKOTA. 


HOME  OF  REV.    SHELDON  SLATER. 


FIRST  SERVICE  AT  ESMOND, 
NORTH  DAKOTA. 


ministry  and  is 
now  at  Carleton 
college.  Several 
other  young  peo- 
ple are  students 
at  our  Phillips 
Academy  at  New 
Rockford,  and 
other  generous 
harvests  are  be- 
ing put  under  the 
sod  for  future 
garnering. 

Similar  stories 
of  heroism  and 
devotion  might 
b  e  multiplied. 
In  these  days, 
when  so  much  is 
said  against 
crowding  church 
work  into  places 
where  it  is  not 
needed,  we  claim 
that  our  mission- 
ary  work  in 
North  Dakota  is 
almost  entirely 
free  from  this 
criticism.  Near- 
ly half  of  our 
churches  are  in 
places  where 
there  is  no  other 
church.  Almost 
one  -  quarter  of 
the  whole  num- 
ber are  where 
thereis  no  church 
in  the  same  lan- 
guage, and  less 
than  one  -  third 
where  there  are 
other  churches 
speaking  the 
same  tongue. 
We  are  in  three 
places  with  the 
Baptists  and  six 
with  the  Presby- 
terians, and  in 
nearly  all  these 
the  churches  are 
self-supporting. 


Editor's  Outlook 


Criminals — How  They  Are 
Made 

WE  scarcely  need  commend  to 
readers  of  The  Home  Mis- 
sionary the  leading  article 
of  this  number  from  the  pen  of  Miss 
Reynolds.  Its  title  alone  would  be 
enough  to  guarantee  attention. 

The  writer  is  not  attempting  a  fresh 
treatment  of  the  possible  evils  of  for- 
eign immigration,  evils  such  as  many 
suppose  to  be  imported  every  year 
with  the  million  foreign-born  strangers 
that  reach  our  shores.  That  has  be- 
come a  familiar,  almost  a  trite  theme, 
and  concerning  its  merits  public  opin- 
ion is  divided.  Miss  Reynolds  ap- 
proaches the  subject  from  a  new  and 
little  considered  point  of  view.  She 
takes  up  the  problem  this  side  of  Ellis 
Island  and  other  ports  of  entry.  With 
well  supported  facts  and  figures  she 
has  made  it  startlingly  clear  that  an 
alarming  percentage  of  our  Ameri- 
can criminals  spring,  not  from  among 
the  foreign  born,  old  or  young,  but 
among  their  children  of  the  first  gen- 
eration, children  born  in  the  United 
States,  educated  in  the  free  schools 
of  America,  and  made  familiar  in 
many  costly  ways  with  American  his- 
tory, traditions  and  ideals.  Upon  this 
undisputed  fact,  so  alarming  in  its 
newness  and  so  bewildering  in  its 
complexity,  Miss  Reynolds  founds  an 
appeal  for  home  missions,  which,  in 
force  and  pertinence,  could  not  be  sur- 
passed. 

*     *     * 

The  causes  of  this  alarming  condi- 
tion are  admirably  stated  by  the 
writer  and  must  commend  themselves, 
we  believe,  to  all  reflective  readers  as 
sane  and  true.  The  loss  of  respect 
for  the  foreign-born  father  and 
mother,  the  insidious  spirit  of  inde- 
pendence on  the  part  of  the  child,  and 


these  unhealthily  nurtured  in  the 
free  irresponsible  air  of  America,  tend 
to  create  an  environment  full  of  peril 
to  American-born  boys  and  girls  of 
foreign  parentage. 

One  other  contributory  influence, 
and  in  the  opinion  of  some,  the  worst 
and  greatest  of  all,  might  be  named — 
young  people's  cheap  literature. 
Whoever  will  take  the  pains  and  can 
find  grace  for  the  task  to  read  criti- 
cally the  average  dime  novel  of  our 
day  will  find,  in  concentrated  form, 
ten  cents'  worth  of  daring  and  devil- 
try, of  thunder  and  blood,  of  lawless- 
ness and  passion,  mixed  in  lurid  col- 
ors, fitted  to  dazzle  and  enchant  the 
imagination  of  the  average  boy.  The 
result  of  much  reading  of  this  stuff 
can  be  nothing  but  debasing  to  the 
mind  and  corrupting  to  the  nature. 
True,  such  literature  violates  no  law, 
for  it  is  neither  obscene  nor  profane. 
It  simply  poisons  the  youthful  imagi- 
nation, destroying  all  taste  for  better 
things  and  leaving  the  boy  and  the 
girl  a  too  easy  prey  to  the  snares  of 
vice  and  crime. 

Two  significant  facts  of  recent 
occurrence  carry  their  own  meaning. 
A  Southern  boy,  wishing  to  make 
sure  that  the  real  horror  of  a  railroad 
wreck  was  equal  to  the  lurid  picture 
of  the  dime  novel,  made  deliberate 
provision  for  such  a  catastrophe  by 
turning  a  switch  and  cutting  a  mov- 
ing train  in  two.  Providentially  his 
murderous  plan  miscarried.  The 
other  fact,  which  is  enough  to  bring 
a  blush  of  shame  to  the  cheek  of  every 
American,  is  that  Germany  recently 
expunged  a  long  list  of  American 
publications  of  this  order  from  her 
import  tables.  She  feared  their  cor- 
rupting influence  upon  her  youth. 
Alas,  German  boys  must  now  come  to 
America,  if  they  would  take  their  first 
lessons  in  crime,  where  none  shall  mo- 
lest or  make  them  afraid ! 


A  Clear  Call  to  Congregational  Sunday 
Schools  and  Young  People 's  Societies 

SUNDAY  SCHOOLS  and  young  people's  societies  are  now 
invited  to  render  a  large  and  very  important  service  for 
the  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society. 

One  hundred  and  ninety-three  missionaries  of  the  society 
now  preach  the  Gospel  in  foreign  tongues;  thirty- eight  to 
Swedish  congregations;  eighty-nine  to  Scandinavian;  twenty 
to  Bohemian;  five  to  Polish;  seven  to  French;  two  to  Mexican; 
eight  to  Italian;  eight  to  Spanish;  six  to  Finnish;  two  to  Dan- 
ish; one  to  Greek  and  six  to  Armenian  congregations.  Added 
to  this  extensive  work  among  foreign  speaking  people  in  the 
United  States,  the  society  is  responsible  for  the  support  of  six 
Congregational  churches  in  Cuba — at  Havana,  Guanabacoa, 
Cienfuegos,  Guanajay,  Matanzas,  and  San  Antonio  de  los 
Banos.  The  pastors  of  all  these  churches  are  toiling  among 
the  poor.  They  are  doing. work  that  is  urgently  needed,  and 
they  are  doing  it  in  a  self-denying  spirit. 

.  For  the  carrying  forward  of  this  two-fold  work,  the  work 
in  Cuba  and  the  extensive  work  among  foreigners,  there  is 
needed  by  the  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society  this 
year  $35,000.  To  Congregational  Sunday  schools  and  Young 
People's  Societies  appeal  is  now  made  for  this  sum.  The 
amount  has  been  divided  into  1,750  shares  of  $20  each.  It  is 
believed  that  these  shares  will  be  readily  subscribed  for. 

Superintendents  of  Sunday  schools  and  chairmen  of 
missionary  committees  of  young  people's  societies  are  heartily 
invited  to  help  secure  the  fullest  possible  co-operation. 

The  first  two  individuals  to  whom  this  plan  was  made 
known  subscribed  for  a  share  each.  The  remaining  1,748 
shares  will  be  rapidly  taken,  it  is  believed,  provided  the 
children  and  young  people  of  the  churches  are  made 
acquainted  with  the  present  urgent  need  of  their  help. 

How  many  shares  will  YOUR  Sunday  school  take  ? 

How  many  shares  will  YOUR  young  people's  society 
take? 

Will  you  act  immediately,  and  state,  if  convenient,  by 
October  15,  the  number  of  $20  shares  for  which  your  Sunday 
school  and  young  people's  society  will  subscribe  ? 

SUBSCRIPTION  BLANK  FOR  SUNDAY  SCHOOLS 

The  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society 

287  Fourth  Avenue,  New  York  City 

The  Sunday  school  of  the church 

Town 

State 

will  be  responsible  for of  the  1,750  shares,  at  $20  each,  of  the 

fund  for  the  support  of  the  foreign  and  Cuban  work  of  the  Congrega- 
tional Home  Missionary  Society.  It  is  our  purpose  to  pay  the  subscrip- 
tion on  or  before ,  1906. 


w 


89 

4 

k 


m 


Our  Country's  Young  People 


WHA  T  SHALL  BE  AMERICA'S  FUTURE ?— MR.  BRYAN'S  TRIBUTE  TO  CHRISTIANITY— HOME 
MISSIONS  AND  THE  MONTHLY  MAGAZINES— WASTE  IN  A  GREAT  STATE— HOME  MISSIONS 
AND  THE  DAILY  PAPERS— THE  RETURN  OF  DR.  FRANCIS  E.  CLARK— HOME  MISSION  OP- 
PORTUNITIES IN  GREAT  CITIES— THE  UNEQUALLED  TEXT-BOOK  FOR  MISSION  STUDY- 
BIBLE  STUDIES  IN  MISSIONS— A  COMMENDABLE  TEXT-BOOK  —  TO  CONGREGATIONAL 
YOUNG  PEOPLE— THREE  NEW  PAMPHLETS—  SPRIGHTLY  YOUNG  PEOPLE'S  LITERATURE— 
HAVE  A  ROUSING  HOME  MISSION  STUDY  RALLY 

By    Uon    O.    Shelton 

AMONG    the    not-  what  shatt  of  President  Roosevelt, 

able    sayings  of  ,  at      the      bi-centenary 

the  past  month  FUTURE >  celebration     of     Christ 

must  be  included  those  '  church,  Oyster  Bay,  on 

September  8.  His  plea  for  Christianity  was  remarkably  vigorous.  He 
said  he  could  not  understand  "any  American  citizen,  who  has  the  faintest 
feeling  of  patriotism  and  devotion  to  his  country,  failing  to  appreciate  the 
absolute  essential  need  of  religion  in  its  broadest  sense  to  the  welfare  of 
this  Country." 

That  President  Roosevelt  is  one  of  the  most  stalwart  home  mission 
propagandists  of  our  time,  his  public  addresses  during  the  past  few  years 
have  demonstrated.  But  never,  so  far  as  we  know,  has  he  made  a  more 
forceful  appeal  for  aggressive  Christianity  than  on  this  occasion.  How  can 
the  results  of  one  hundred  years  of  home  mission  zeal  be  summarized  more 
admirably  than  in  the  following  brief  statement  ? 

If  it  were  not  that  in  our  villages  and  towns  as  they  have  grown  up,  the  churches 
have  grown  in  them,  symbolizing  the  fact  that  there  were  among  their  foremost  workers 
men  whose  work  was  not  for  the  things  of  the  body,  but  for  the  things  of  the  soul,  this 
would  not  be  a  nation  today,  because  this  would  not  be  an  abode  fit  for  civilized  men. 

President  Roosevelt's  appeal  for  the  multiplying  and  strengthening 
of  the  forces  for  good, — for  sincere  devotion  to  Christianity, — was  put  in 
these  unforgetable  words:  We  cannot  continue  as  a  Republic,  we  cannot  rise 
to  any  trite  level  of  greatness,  unless  that  greatness  is  based  upon  and  condition- 
ed on  a  high  and  brave  type  of  spiritual  life, 

IDEALS  dear  to  the  .,  _,     nr,rr,*T,<,  Chinese     Official,"     by 

,  r      11    i  MR.   BRYAN    S  ttt  •  1 1  •  t  • 

hearts   of  all   true  TRIBUTE  TO  William     Jennings 

Americans  are  set  ^rr_.  r  __  r  .  _.r_Tr  Bryan.       The  eloquent 

r      i.u    •       <it  CHRISTIANITY  ,•,/■     ,        ,    •     •  ^ 

forth  in   'Letters  to  a  little  book  is  in   answer 

to  "Letters  from  a  Chinese  Official,"  and  contains  several  passages  that  are 
strong  pleas  for  the  energetic  propogation  of  the  Christian  faith.  Mr. 
Bryan  shows  the  sterling  and  unparalleled  worth  of  the  Christian  religion. 
The  author  of  the  book  which  Mr.  Bryan  answers  claimed  for  the  China- 
man that  he  lives  up  to  the  ideal  of  Confucius,  and  also  asserted  that  the 
Christian  falls  below  his  ideals  and  that  the  ideals  of  the  latter  are  imprac- 
ticable and  impotent.     In  reply  to  this  assertion  Mr.  Bryan  says: 


OUR  COUNTRY'S  YOUNG  PEOPLE  173 

Let  me  admit,  without  qualification,  that  the  Christian  ideal  is  not  lived  up  to  any- 
where in  the  world ;  let  me  admit  that  the  best  Christians  everywhere  fall  below  the  con- 
ception of  life  presented  by  the  life  and  teachings  of  the  Man  of  Galilee,  and  still  I  will 
contend  that  one  who  follows  Christ  afar  off,  even  with  limping  step  and  many  a  fall, 
may  live  a  nobler  life  than  the  perfect  disciple  of  Confucius.  No  ideal  is  high  that  is 
fully  realized.  The  man  who  claims  for  his  ideal  that  instead  of  being  above  him,  it  is 
perfectly  embodied  in  his  life,  confesses  that  he  has  no  aspirations  for  improvement.  It 
is  the  glory  of  the  Christian  ideal  that  while  it  is  within  sight  of  the  weakest  and  lowliest 
it  is  still  high  enough  to  keep  the  best  and  the  purest  with  their  faces  turned  upwards. 

Mr.  Bryan  closes  his  illuminative  book  with  a  vigorously  written 
chapter  entitled  "Christianity  versus  Confucianism."  The  entire  book  de- 
serves a  thoughtful  reading  by  all  friends  of  home  and  foreign  missions. 

T3RIGHT  and  sug-  H0ME  MISSI0NS  AND  hand-  Some  of  'lt  is 
1-f  gestive  material  THE  MONTHLY  in  the  daily  papers,  as 
for  home  mission  meet-  MA  G  A  Z  I  N  E  S  indicated  on  the  next 
ings    is  often  near    at  page.     Much  of  value, 

also,  is  in  the  monthly  magazines.  At  least  four  of  the  September  maga- 
zines contain  articles  bearing  indirectly  and  yet  suggestively  on  home  mis- 
sions. We  begin  with  the  September  Outlook  (regular  issue  for  August 
25).  It  has  a  valuable  article  on  "  Reclamation,"  by  F.  H.  Newell,  describ- 
ing the  work  of  the  government  in  providing  for  the  irrigation  of  arid  and 
formerly  useless  lands  in  the  West.  The  author  writes  authoritatively,  as 
he  is  chief  engineer  of  the  government  reclamation  service.  He  says  that 
in  the  arid  regions  "  the  man  who  controls  a  spring,  although  he  may  own 
only  an  acre  of  ground,  may  be  the  lord  of  tens  of  thousands  of  acres  of 
valuable  public  land."  Within  the  three  years  ending  with  1908,  thirty- 
eight  millions  of  dollars  are  to  be  expended.  Why  ?  So  that  a  vast  area 
of  land  now  arid  may  be  fertilized.  Then  new  farming  communities  will 
spring  up.  Towns  and  cities  will  be  established.  New  home  mission  op- 
portunities will  abound.  Will  you  do  your  part  and  endeavor  to  lead  the 
members  of  your  church  to  do  their  part  in  evangelizing  and  Christianiz- 
ing these  great  districts  ? 

IN    Appleton's    Ma^a-  „_.„_„    T  XT     .  State  Going  to  Waste," 

■         •                 ■        1  WASTE    IN   A  uaii       t     r>                 tj 

sine    is    a    uniquely  ,,„_.,_   -,„.„,„  by  Allan  L.  Benson.    He 

,  - , ,  -  -j          ,.    ,         <<  a  GREAT  STATE  J  .,              ,,       ,.     •      ,- 

entitled    article,       A  writes  on  the  dissipation 

of  the  wealth  of  nature  in  a  single  state — Michigan.  "The  sight  of  Michigan' ^ 
6,000,000  acres  of  waste  land  is  enough  to  move  any  man  of  imagination  to 
indignation  and  action,"  he  affirms.  "Here,"  he  continues,  "is  a  sixth  of  a 
great  state  struck  down,  plundered,  and  abandoned.  From  Lake  Michigan  to 
Lake  Huron,  and  from  the  straits  of  Mackinac  almost  to  Grand  Rapids,  the 
lumber  baron  has  swept  through  with  colossal  stride,  felling  the  forests  that 
were  a  people's  heritage."  The  point  of  Mr.  Benson's  article  is  that  the  com- 
monwealth of  Michigan  has  failed  to  make  the  land  productive.  Furthermore, 
the  cutting  of  the  forests  has  resulted  in  an  intermittent  water  supply.  Now 
droughts  and  floods  alternate.  Mr.  Benson  estimates  that  the  annual  loss  to 
Michigan  is  $30,000,000  a  year.  Strong,  therefore,  is  the  reason  for  the 
reclamation  of  these  lands. 

The  suggestion  in  this  article,  home  mission  wise,  is :  The  costliness  to  the 
state  of  unused  opportunities  for  Christian  aggressiveness.  Forests  and  lands 
are  not  the  choicest  wealth  of  the  state.  Manhood  outweighs  dollars.  Are  there 
not  states  in  which  there  is  large  waste  in  character  because  of  neglect  by  the 
Christian  church?  Land  reclamation  is  important.  Waste  of  manhood  is  a 
calamity. 


174  THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 

THERE  is  much  val-  tj^kjut     *,iccTsi*TAnv  press.     Alert  missionary 

i  ,       ,  •  HOME     MISSIONARY  E    j   •*  u  4.1.  -n       • 

uable    home    mis-  T  ~  _  _,  _     T  ir     ~,  r.  _  find  items,  both  lllumina- 

.       •    ,       r  ITEMS     IN     THE  ,.  ...  .,, 

sion      material      tur-  _  .  T  T  ..    „  .  „  _  „  „  tive   and  instructive, with 

•  ,,1  , ,  j-i  DAILY    PAPERS  ,. 

nished     by     the     daily  committee  chairmen  can 

which  to  invigorate  home  mission  meetings.  The  habit  of  scanning  the  daily 
press  for  valuable  missionary  news  may  wisely  be  cultivated.  Paragraphs  on 
the  immigrant  problem ;  on  conditions  in  congested  sections  of  great  cities ;  on 
the  evident  need  of  evangelistic  zeal  as  revealed  by  the  untoward  state  of  multi- 
tudes in  our  modern  American  life ;  on  changing  commercial  and  industrial 
conditions  that  have  a  bearing  on  Christian  propaganda,  are  available  for  those 
who  think  and  search. 

We  give  below  recent  items  from  daily  papers : 

No  nation  can  live  unto  itself  alone  and  continue  to  live. — Elihn  Root,  in  a  speech 
in  South  America. 

I  return  more  deeply  impressed  than  ever  before  with  the  responsibility  which 
rests  upon  our  nation  as  an  exemplar  among  the  nations,  and  more  solicitous  that  we, 
avoiding  the  causes  which  have  led  other  nations  to  decay,  may  present  a  higher  ideal 
than  has  ever  before  been  embodied  in  a  national  life  and  carry  human  progress  to  a 
higher  plane  than  it  has  before  reached. —  Williams  Jennings  Bryan,  in  speech  in  New 
York  on  return  from  his  world-tour. 

The  following  from  the  New  York  Sun  is  one  of  the  instructive  items  on 
immigration  that  has  appeared  during  the  past  few  months : 

It  was  a  record  breaking  day  for  immigration  yesterday,  (March  31,)  for  11,383  steer- 
age passengers  arrived.  Most  of  them  were  Hungarians.  The  number  of  Jews  and 
Russians  who  arrived  was  unusually  small,  but  the  Irish  and  750  Portugese  made  up  for 
this. 

The  huge  crowd  came  on  seven  steamers.  The  Graf  Waldersee  brought  2,537,  the 
Rhein  2,399,  the  Cretic  2,100,  the  Citta  di  Milano  1,29s,  the  Pica  1,282,  the  Teutonic 
1,017  an<i  the  Brooklyn  750. 

The  biggest  day  for  immigrants  that  the  inspectors  remember  was  when  9,000  arriv- 
ed, but  these  didn't  all  land.  The  largest  number  recorded  to  have  landed  was  7,200. 
That  was  in  March,  1904. 

Commissioner  Watchorn  thinks  he  can  get  through  with  them  in  two  days.  In  the 
meantime  half  of  them  will  have  to  sleep  on  board  ship. 

THE  Home  Mission-  _„_  _mra.,  __  __,  other     friends    in    most 

1  ,  •  1  •    •  1  Mil    Kh  1  UjxN  Ur  JJK.  j  •    1 1  1 

ary     heartily     joins  _„..„.„     _      „  .  r„  cordially   welcoming,   on 

u  •  1 4-  •  a.     a  c  FRANCIS    E.     CLARK  ,  •  ,J         ,        a         • 

his     multitude     of  his    return    to    America, 

after  an  absence  of  over  a  year,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Francis  E.  Clark,  the  founder  and 
widely  honored  president  of  the  Christian  Endeavor  movement.  While  in 
Europe  Dr.  Clark  wrote  the  fascinating  story  of  the  growth  of  Christian 
Endeavor  societies  throughout  the  world.  It  has  just  been  published  and  is 
entitled,  "Christian  Endeavor  in  All  Lands."  Dr.  Clark  always  writes  delight- 
fully and  the  record  of  the  marvelous  development  of  Christian  Endeavor,  as  he 
portrays  it,  will  be  of  absorbing  interest  to  Christian  people  everywhere. 

Dr.  Clark  refers  to  the  recent  World's  Christian  Endeavor  Convention, 
held  at  Geneva,  as  being  full  of  encouragement.  In  a  personal  note  he  says : 
"You  would  have  rejoiced  had  you  been  at  Geneva  to  see  the  enthusiasm  and 
spiritual  devotion  of  the  young  people  from  many  lands  who  were  gathered 
there.  Certainly,  the  average  of  these  leaders  is  high.  The  meeting  was  a 
very  helpful  one."  One  helpful  session  was  closed  by  an  admirable  statement 
by  Dr.  Clark  of  what  the  Christian  Endeavor  movement  is.  The  summarized 
points  of  his  brief  address,  bearing  on  what  Christian  Endeavor  stands  for,  are : 

Christian  Endeavor  stands  for  spirituality  and  catholicity;  for  loyalty 
and  fellowship;  for  Christian  missions  at  home  and  abroad;  for  good  citizen- 
ship; FOR  PEACE  AND  GOOD  WILL;  FOR  BENEFICENCE;  FOR  HIGH  INTELLECTUAL  AT- 
TAINMENTS;    FOR   HIGH    DEVOTIONAL    ATTAINMENTS;    FOR  PURE    HOME    LIFE;   FOR  HONEST 


OUR  COUNTRY'S  YOUNG    PEOPLE 


i75 


BUSINESS   LIFE;   FOR   LOYAL    CHURCH    LIFE;   FOR   PATRIOTIC   NATIONAL    LIFE;    FOR  JOYOUS 
SOCIAL    LIFE,    AND  FOR   BROTHERHOOD'  WITH   ALL    MANKIND. 

As  Congregationalists,  we  have  strong  reason  for  gratitude  because  of  the 
fact  that  the  founder  and  wise  leader  of  this  noble  movement  is  of  our  fellow- 
ship. 


A  T      the      Minnesota  which     bears     on     one 

-**-  State  Fair,  Presi-  -^-^-j.*  „.._,,  TXT  phase  of  the  modern 
j  t       t      tt'ii      1  OPPORTUNITIES     IN        V  •     •  ,, 

dent    J.    J.    Hill    de-  GREAT  CITIES  home  mission  problem, — 

livered     an     address  '  "'  the  future  of  the  country 

church.  He  believes  that  the  tendency  of  immigrants  to  move  to  the  centers  of 
population  should  be  counteracted.  "National  ideas  must  be  readjusted  and 
agriculture  again  placed  in  the  forefront,"  he  said.  "There  must  be  a  national 
revolt  against  the  worship  of  manufacture  and  trade  as  the  only  forms  of  pro- 
gressive activity."  Commenting  editorially  on  President  Hill's  address,  the 
New  York  World  says : 

Invention  must  leave  the  factory  for  the  farm  if  we  are  to  solve  the  problem  of  feed- 
ing and  housing  the  50,000,000  more  who  will  require  our  care  within  twenty  years. 

Intimations  of  this  dangerous  shifting  of  rural  population  have  not  been  lacking. 
In  Kansas,  between  1895  and  1905,  forty-four  counties  lost  30,000  in  population,  while 
the  cities  of  the  state  increased  by  16  per  cent.  In  Iowa  the  farming  districts  suffered  a 
greater  loss.  In  New  York  twenty-eight  counties  outside  of  the  metropolitan  area  show 
a  decline  of  6  per  cent  from  their  aggregate  highest  population  since  1840.  By  the  cen- 
sus of  1900  one-third  of  the  entire  nation,  or  24,992, 119  persons,  live  in  cities  of  8,000  and 
upward.     In  i860  the  number  was  only  5,072,250  and  the  percentage  16. 

A  discouraging  symptom  of  these  changes  is  that  they  have  taken  place  during  the 
half  century  which  has  most  contributed  to  the  comfort  and  prosperity  of  the  farmer. 
During  the  time  that  the  mail-box  and  the  telephone  have  come  to  his  door  and  the  piano 
and  the  art  magazine  to  his  parlor,  and  while  he  has  enjoyed  better  mechanical  facilities 
for  harvesting  his  larger  crops,  better  roads  and  a  greater  security  of  life  and  property, 
the  drift  away  from  the  farm  has  become  most  serious. 

How  are  Congregational  churches  adapting  themselves  to  these  changing 
conditions?  Has  the  growth  of  Congregational  churches,  in  cities,  been  com- 
mensurate with  the  growth-  of  the  urban  population?  Is  the  denomination 
measuring  up  to  the  widening  opportunities  for  Christian  zeal  in  the  great  cen- 
ters of  America?     There  are  available  no  more  vivid    and    comprehensive 


Uncle  Sam  as  the  Magician. 

From  the  Evening  Herald  (Duluth) 


176  THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 

answers  to  these  vital  questions  than  those  contained  in  these  sentences  used 
by  Dr.  Josiah  Strong  in  his  telling  address  at  the  last  annual  meeting  of  the 
Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society: 

Examination  shows  that  there  are  in  the  United  States  178  cities,  of  8,000  inhabi- 
tants or  more,  in  which  there  is  no  Congregational  church.  That  is,  we  are  making  no 
attempt,  not  even  the  feeblest,  to  Christianize  a  third  of  our  cities.  Of  these  cities,  no 
have  from  S,ooo  to  15,000  inhabitants;  40  have  from  15,000  to  30,000;  17  have  from  30,000 
to  50,000;  5  have  from  50,000  to  75,000,  and  6  have  from  75,000  to  100,000. 

We  find  that  while  one-third  of  our  population  is  in  the  city,  less  than  one-fifth  of 
our  Congregational  churches  are  in  the  city;  that  while  66  per  cent  of  our  population  is 
rural,  upwards  of  82  per  cent  of  our  churches  are  rural.  That  is  to  say,  our  churches 
are  disproportionately  distributed  between  city  and  country  and  our  strength  is  where  it 
counts  least. 

The  salient  point,  to  be  kept  in  mind  and  acted  on  by  all  who  earnestly 
desire   the   progress   of   the    Kingdom   of   Christ,   is   this :    Congregational 

CHURCHES  TO-DAY  ARE  MOST  NUMEROUS  IN  THOSE  SECTIONS  OF  AMERICA  WHICH 
PEOPLE  ARE  LEAVING,  AND  FEWEST  IN  THOSE  SECTIONS  TO  WHICH  THEY  ARE 
GOING. 

A  vigorous  forward  home  mission  movement  in  great  cities  is  required. 

T^  HE  Bible  is  still  the  T„F  n  sirable  that  this  fact  be 

A     n;is^on,  text-book.         TEjn<_BooK  FOR  THE       ite™tecL    .  ,    f     f. 

As    books     for    mission         STUDy  Qp  mssWNS  There   is   peril   to   the 

study  multiply  it  is   de-  missionary  cause  in  the 

substitution  of  books  on  missions  for  the  Bible,  and  in  the  crowding  out  of  Bible 
study  by  the  study  of  missions. 

One  who  regularly  and  systematically  reads  and  studies  the  Bible  and  :s 
responsive  to  the  light  received  therefrom  will  have  a  growing  missionary 
impulse.  The  Bible  has  an  authority  and  a  force  and  an  impelling  power  pos- 
sessed by  no  other  book.  Hence,  in  the  thought  and  life  of  the  Christian,  it 
should  have  a  larger  place  than  any  other  book. 

•  Therefore,  the  study  of  mission  text-books,  valuable  and  necessary  as  it  is, 
should  be  subordinated  to  the  study  of  the  one  book  whose  teachings  are  the 
main  source  of  all  missionary  endeavor.  "My  words,  they  are  spirit  and  they 
are  life,"  said  the  Chief  of  Missionaries.  Those  who  comprehend  the  meaning 
of  this  statement  will  multiply  opportunities  and  occasions  for  the  studv  of  the 
Bible. 

A  TEXT-BOOK    of  _____   crr;m_c  -.-  „--  the     Bible.        "Bible 

f-\  „      ,  ,.,  BIBLE  STUDIES  IN  MIS-  c,     ,.        •      vr     •        „    • 

A  x      excellent       quality  _,,,-»--      _    ^^,r,rr~xr^  Studies   in   Missions     is 

u       114:         4-u  SIONS.    A    COMMEND-  ,,      ,.,,       vr     nu     ,      Tr- 

may     be     had     for     the  At>tt-  rrvr  n>/™_-  the  title;  Mr.  Charles  K. 

4-1  x  ABLE  TEXT-BOOK  ^u       .    '.,  ,,  ,, 

study     of     missions     in  Ober  is  the  author ;    the 

International  Committee  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association,  3  West 
29th  Street,  are  the  publishers.  The  book  is  divided  into  three  parts,  as  follows  : 
(1)  missions  in  the  Old  Testament;  (2)  missions  in  the  church  of  Pentecost; 
(3)  partnership  privileges.  The  topics  treated  suggestively  by  Mr.  Ober  are: 
"Missions  in  the  Life  of  Abraham  ;"  "The  Missionary  Outlook  of  the  Psalms  ;" 
"The  Prophetic  Visions  of  the  World-Wide  Kingdom ;"  "The  Church  of  Pen- 
tecost ;"  "The  Missionary  Leadership  of  the  Holy  Spirit ;"  "The  Missionary 
Providences  of  the  Early  Church  ;"  "Obstacles  Not  Necessarily  a  Hindrance  to 
Missions;"  "Prerogatives  of  Friendship;"  "The  Mission  of  the  Intercessor;" 
"Laying  Up  Opportunities,"  and  "What  Shall  We  Have  Therefore?" 

Missionary  committees  who  form  classes  for  the  study  of  this  valuable 
book  will  act  wisely.  It  would  be  worth  much  to  any  local  church  and  to  the 
missionary  crusade  if  a  mission  study  class  should  grasp  the  meaning  of  even 
one  of  Mr.  Ober's  suggestive  sentences.  For  example,  this:  The  chief  obstacle 
to  Christian  missions  is  the  lack  of  Christianity  in  Christians. 


OUR  COUNTRY'S  YOUNG  PEOPLE 


177 


yOUR        help        will        TO  CONGREGATIONAL       JeCt"        Congi^tioaal 

x  count    in    behalf    of        YOUNG    PEOPLE       y°ung   peoples   societies 
an      important      pro-  "  and  Sunday  schools  are 

asked  to  do  a  large  thing  for  Congregational  home  missions.  They  can  do  it, 
and  we  believe  they  will.  They  are  invited  to  provide  the  money  needed  for  the 
important  work  of  the  society  in  Cuba,  and  for  its  Foreign  work.  $35,000  is 
required  this  year.  This  amount  has  been  divided  into  seventeen  hundred  and 
fifty  shares  of  $20.00  each.  Every  young  people's  society  and  every  Sunday 
school  is  invited  to  become  responsible  for  as  many  of  these  $20.00  shares  as 
possible.  There  are  few  young  people's  societies  or  Sunday  schools  that  cannot 
subscribe  for  at  least  one;  there  are  many  that  can  take  two  or  more. 

The  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society  now  supports  five  churches 
in  Cuba.  On  their  important  work  for  children  Mrs.  Washington  Choate  has 
written  most  interestingly : 


The  Cuban 
children  are 
just  being 
taught  to 
read,  write 
and  spell. 
They  have 
not  had  the 
good  schools 
which  we 
have  in 
every  town 
and  city. 
There  were 
no  public 
schools  on 
the  Island 
until  five 
years  ago 
when  our 
government 
opened  large 
numbers  of 
them, and  to- 
day thous- 
ands of  Cu- 
ban children 
are  in  these 
schools. 

But,  more 
than  this, 
they  have 
heard  very 
little  of 
Christ  and 
His  love  for 
children. 
They  do  not 
know  what  a 
dear  friend 
He  will  be  to 
all.  We  have 
to-day  the 
opportunity 
to  tell  them 
this  old, fam- 
iliar story 
which      w  e 


THE  CONGREGATIONAL  CHURCH  AND  HOME  OF  MISSIONARY 
VENTOSA,  SAN  ANTONIO  DE  COS  BANOS,   CUBA 


know  so 
well.  The 
Congrega- 
tional Home 
Missionary 
Society  has 
six  mission- 
aries on  the 
Island  who 
are  preach- 
ing each 
Sabbath  and 
holding  Sun- 
day schools 
in  which  the 
children  are 
taught  the 
Bible.  There 
are  no  school 
buildings  or 
halls  where 
these  ser- 
vices can  be 
held,  so  each 
missionary 
has  the 
church  in  his 
own  home, 
using  his. 
largest 
room.  Here 
the  people 
come  in 
great  num- 
bers for  the 
church  ser- 
vices and  the 
Sunday 
school.  Of 
course  the 
lessons  are 
taught  in 
Spanish,  for 
very  few  Cu- 
ban children 
understand 
English.  It 
is  difficult  to 


178  THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 

get  the  lesson  leaflets  in  this  foreign  language.  They  are  very  fond  of  singing  the 
same  hymns  which  we  use,  though  the  hymn  books  look  strange  with  the  Spanish  words. 
The  bright  picture  cards  which  we  have  in  such  numbers  are  a  delight  to  them,  for 
they  love  the  bright  colors  and  are  always  glad  to  hear  the  Bible  stories. 

You  see,  therefore,  that  the  work  of  the  society  in  Cuba  is  of  deep  interest 
and  of  great  value.  It  must  be  preserved,  and,  if  possible,  extended.  And  the 
important  foreign  zvork  of  the  society  has  equally  strong  claims  on  Congrega- 
tional young  people. 

Missionaries  are  at  work  among  twelve  different  nationalities.  It  is  essen- 
tial now  that  $35,000  be  obtained  for  these  combined  far-reaching  activities. 

How  many  shares  Will  you  lead  your,  society  and  your  school  to 
take  ?  Will  you  act  promptly  ?  It  is  desired  that  all  of  the  five  hundred  shares 
he  subscribed  for  before  November  1st  next. 

The  first  two  individuals  to  whom  this  plan  was  mentioned  subscribed  for 
one  share  each.     Many  others  will  help  when  they  know  of  the  need.     Will 

YOU? 

^HREE    new    book-  ^  gational    Home    Mis- 

-*■   lets    have    just   been  .  —  sionary    Society,    which 

issued    by    the    Congre-  contain  fresh  and  inter- 

esting material,  of  value  to  Congregational  young  people.  "The  Purpose  and 
the  Power  of  God"  is  by  the  Rev.  A.  L.  Conrad,  D.D.  These  two  sentences 
indicate  the  point  that  he  chiefly  emphasizes :  "The  distinctive  feature  of  the 
religion  of  Jesus  Christ  is  its  dynamic.  Other  religions  had  high  ideals,  but 
were  impotent  to  realize  them."  In  "Christ's  Plan  of  Spreading  His  Kingdom," 
the  Rev.  Dr.  Newell  Dwight  Hillis  shows  that  the  genius  of  Christ's  plan  for 
spreading  his  evangel  of  love  is  His  own  words :  "Ye  are  the  light  of  the 
world."  One  paragraph  is  enough  to  indicate  the  richness  and  suggestiveness 
of  Dr.  Hillis'  appeal : 

If  there  is  any  one  word  I  would  like  to  give  to  these  young  theologs  now  leaving 
the  seminaries,  it  is  this  one — Keep  the  soul's  one  library  day,  Sunday,  for  the  great 
things  of  God.  Pour  around  men  a  flood  of  the  light  of  Him.  Create  an  atmosbhere 
about  them;  make  your  pulpit  your  throne  by  wielding  your  scepter  of  righteousnes  and 
love.  Lay  the  heart  of  God  upon  the  soul  of  man.  You  have  but  one  message — God  is 
love.  He  has  medicine  for  man's  wounds  and  sins.  This  does  not  minimize  the  import- 
ance of  politics  or  economics,  or  reform.  It  simply  magnifies  the  importance  of  the  soul, 
of  the  love  of  God,  of  the  Saviourhood  of  Jesus.  The  Master  understood;  He  was  too 
busy  saving  the  prodigal  out  of  his  rags,  the  Magdalen  out  of  the  flames,  Saul  out  of  his 
murderous  hate,  to  interfere  with  things  that  could  wait  till  Monday  night  and  Tuesday 
night— therefore  Christ  stood  loose  from  all  political  and  economic  theories  and 
reforms. 

In  his  "Our  Opportunity  in  the  City,"  Dr.  Josiah  Strong  has  made  an 
important  contribution  to  our  denominational  home  missionary  literature.  He 
presents  valuable  first-hand  information  and  applies  his  conclusions  with  force 
and  directness.  Referring  to  the  need  of  denominational  loyalty  and  states- 
manship, he  says: 

The  first  time  I  met  the  late  Dr.  John  Henry  Barrows,  then  pastor  of  the  First  Pres- 
byterian church  of  Chicago,  I  asked  him  if  it  was  true,  as  I  had  heard,  that  his  church 
was  originally  composed  of  twenty  members,  nineteen  of  whom  were  Congregationalists, 
and  one  of  whom  was  a  Presbyterian.  "No,"  he  replied,  "the  story  is  not  true.  There 
were  originally  twenty-six  members,  twenty-five  of  whom  were  Congregaiionalists,  and 
one  of  whom  was  a  Presbyterian."  I  suppose  that  is  the  reason  it  became  a  Presbyterian 
church. 

Such  an  incident  is  more  indicative  of  a  good  natured,  short  sighted  generosity  than 
of  an  all-around,  common-sense  and  Christian  statesmanship.  Our  denomination  would 
seem  to  be  cursed  with  sectarianism  as  little  as  any;  but  is  that  a  sufficient  reason  why  it 


OUR   COUNTRY'S   YOUNG    PEOPLE  179 

should  die  the  death?  The  dispersion  of  the  Jews  throughout  the  civilized  world,  after  the 
Babylonian  captivity,  served  to  scatter  a  soil  prepared  for  the  seed  of  Christianity.  It  is 
sometimes  thought  that  Congregationalists  were  a  chosen  people  elected  to  be  dispersed 
among  the  various  denominations  in  order  to  prepare  a  soil  for  the  seed  of  Christian 
union,  a  sort  of  martyr  denomination.  But  the  spirit  of  denominational  liberality  is- 
hardly  likely  to  commend  itself  to  other  bodies  if  it  is  found  to  be  punishable  by  death. 
I  believe  our  denomination  was  intended  to  live  for  the  glory  of  God  and  the  good  of 
humanity,  rather  than  to  die  for  the  glory  of  God  and  the  good  of  other  denominations. 

If  you  would  like  copies  of  these  excellent  pamphlets,  please  address  the 
Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society. 

DEMARKABLE  SPRIGHTLY  YOUNG  lears  in  producing 
A^  progress  has  been  pE0pLw3  LITERATURE  home  mission  literature 
made   in   the   past   three  tor      Congregational 

young  people.  Three  years  ago  the  supply  was  notably  scant.  Now  nineteen 
different  pamphlets,  programs  and  books  are  available.  They  cover  a  wide 
variety  of  topics.  They  are  not  humdrum.  They  are  forceful.  They  are 
interesting,  too. 

They  have  had  wise  usage.  Of  some  of  the  pamphlets  three  or  four  large 
editions  have  been  required.  They  have  been  attractive  chiefly  because  of  what 
is  in  them;  but  in  part,  also,  because  of  their  neat  and  thoroughly  modern 
typography. 

Are  you  a  chairman  or  a  member  of  a  missionary  committee  ?  Now  is  the 
time  to  form  a  home  mission  study  class.  Now  is  the  time  to  plan  home  mis- 
sion meetings  for  the  fall  and  winter  that  will  eclipse  in  snap  and  interest  and 
value  any  that  you  have  held  in  the  past.  Now  is  the  time  to  secure  pledges 
for  systematic  contributions  toward  the  support  of  Congregational  home  mis- 
sions. 

Literature  to  help  you  succeed  in  each  of  these  enterprises  is  ready.  Order 
what  you  need  to-day.     Below  is  the  list : 

Pamphlets 

The  Value  of  Organized  Missionary  Effort  Among  Young  People.  With  practical  sug- 
gestions.    By  Rev.  Ernest  Bourner  Allen. 

The  Debt  Young  People  Owe  Their  Country.     By  Rev.  Francis  E.  Clark,  D.D. 

Christianize  America !     We  Can.     We  Should.     By  Don  O.  Shelton. 

Higher  Ideals  of  Stewardship.     By  Don  O.  Shelton. 

How  to  Secure  and  Maintain  a  Trained  Leadership  in  Young  People's  Societies.  With, 
practical  suggestions.     By  Harry  Wade  Hicks. 

The  Value  of  a  True  Motive.     By  Don  O.  Shelcon. 

The  Far-reaching  Effects  of  Home  Mission  Work.     By  Rev.  Ernest  Bourner  Allen. 

The  Twentieth  Century  Crusade.     By  Charles  E.  Jefferson,  D.D. 

Why  Study  Home  Missions?    By  Don  O.  Shelton. 

Men,  and  the  Christian  Conquest  of  America.     By  Don  O.  Shelton. 

Programs 

Our  Duty  to  the  Stranger. 

What  the  Bible  Teaches  About  Giving. 

Jesus'  Work  for  His  Own  Country:  What  I  Can  Do  for  Mine. 

Ways  of  Consecrating  Ourselves  to  Our  Country. 

Our  National  Heritage:  or,  Leavening  the  Nation.     By  Rev.  Ernest  Bourner  Allen. 

Heroes  of  Home  Missions.     What  They  Teach  Us.     By  Rev.  Edward  A.  Sanderson. 

Home   Mission   Text-Books 

Heroes  of  the  Cross  in  America.     By  Don  O.  Shelton.     304  pages.     Illustrated.     Cloth,. 

50  cents;  paper,  35  cents;  postage,  8  cents  extra. 
Aliens  or  Americans?    By  Howard  B.  Grose.     333  pages.     Illustrated.     Cloth,  50  cents ;; 

paper,  35  cents.     Postage,  8  cents  extra. 
Coming  Americans.     By  Katherine  R.  Crowell.     60  pages.     Illustrated.     Cloth,  35  cents;; 

paper,  25  cents.     Postage  extra. 


i8o 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


THE  number  of  those       „,„_    ,    DA17..  0  Txr  -       augmented     through     a 
,  ,         r  HA VE  A   ROUSING  &     ,  ,       R    . 

who     are     to     form        HOME     MISSION       P°Pular     and     stirring 
your  home  mission  class  STUDY  PALI  Y        meeting   devoted   to   the 

this  fall  may  be  largely  consideration    of    the 

question,  "Why  Should  Everyone  Study  Home  Missions?" 

What  should  be  the  characteristics  of  such  a  popular  rally?  Tasteful, 
patriotic  decorations;  national  hymns;  responsive  readings  (see  programs  fur- 
nished by  the  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society)  ;  a  bright,  persuasive 
address  on  the  interest  and  value  of  home  mission  study ;  an  exhibition  of  the 
text-book,  "Aliens  or  Americans?"  and  the  securing  of  the  names  and  addresses 
of  those  who  will  join  the  class. 

Rightly  planned,  such  a  meeting  will  have  a  large  educational  value.  It 
will  give  a  new  idea  to  some  who  are  unacquainted  with  the  need  of  downright 
aggressiveness  on  the  part  of  the  Christian  church.  It  will  enlist  new  recruits 
for  home  mission  study. 

Aim  to  make  the  rally  worth  goine  ten  miles  to  attend! 


QUESTION       TO       BE      ANSWERED      BY      ACTION 

(An  Appeal  to  Young  People) 

By   Rev.   Charles  A.  Jones 

Hackensack,  New  Jersey 


THESE  are  the  days  when  the 
successful  issue  of  our  recon- 
structed society  draws  hard 
on  the  hearts  and  minds  of  those  at 
the  head  of  things.  If  we  Congrega- 
tionalists  are  to  hold  what  we  have 
already  gained  in  nearly  a  century  of 
labor,  if  we  are  to  retrieve  what  we 
have  already  lost  in  more  than  three 
years  of  increasing  retrenchment,  if 
we  are  to  take  the  future  with  all  its 
glowing  possibilities  as  a  battalion 
does  a  battery,  this  trite  question, 
What  can  our  young  people  do?  must 
be  answered  by  strenuous  action,  and 
speedily,  too.  To  delay  unduly  will 
mean  irretrievable  disaster  at  no  dis- 
tant date. 

In  the  heart  of  the  Alleghenies  is  a 
fairly  level  plateau,  surrounded  by 
hillocks,  yet  itself  2,000  feet  above 
sea  level.  Until  very  recently  it  was 
covered  with  a  dense  forest  whose 
shelter  was  sought  by  wild  beasts  and 
whose  streams  abounded  in  many 
choice  varieties  of  the  finny  tribes. 
But  the  woodman's  ax  has  reaped  its 
harvest,  leaving  only  a  vast  field  of 
stumps,  and  even  these  are  daily 
growing  less  numerous  as  teams, 
hooks  and  dynamite  do  their  effectual 
work.     Here  is  to  locate  a  large  glass 


plant.  And,  as  natural  gas  is  abun- 
dant, success  is  practically  assured. 
So  the  promoters  figure  that  where 
now  scarcely  a  house  stands,  within 
two  years  will  be  a  thriving  borough 
of  not  less  than  1,500,  and  in  ten 
years,  a  city  of  as  many  thousands. 
The  Swedish  Lutherans  and  the 
Roman  Catholics  have  been  advised 
that  a  church  of  their  faith  and  polity 
is  desired.  And  Congregationalism 
has  been  asked  to  wield  stroke  oar  for 
evangelical  Protestantism.  Ours  is 
the  chance  of  entering  the  ground 
floor  of  this  enterprise  and  not  wait- 
ing for  a  "split"  or  a  "quarrel"  as  the 
entering  wedge.  An  actual  fact 
faces  us.  We  can  get  the  man.  How 
about  the  money?  What  can  our 
young  people  do  for  home  missions  ? 

1.  They  can  learn  more  about  such 
actual  opportunities.  The  Pennsyl- 
vania offer,  in  a  way,  is  unique,  but  it 
is  no  more  urgent  than  fifty  other 
equally  interesting  possibilities  in  the 
same  state  and  an  equal  number  of 
other  states  and  territories.  Our 
country  wants  the  Pilgrim-Puritan 
faith  and  polity.  In  some  places  Con- 
gregationalism already  is  established, 
but  at  present  it  is  weak  and  uncer- 
tain in  its  gait,  like  a  little  child,  and 


A  QUESTION  TO  BE  ANSWERED  BY  ACTION 


181 


needs  a  stronger  somebody  to  take  its 
hand  until  it  can  walk  securely  alone. 
In  other  places  it  only  needs  a  decent 
start  and  it  will  go  like  a  prairie  fire, 
if  not  abused  nor  mismanaged.  The 
fields  are  white,  ready  for  the  harvest. 
Look  and  learn ! 

2.  They  can  think  more  about  these 
problems  so  vitally  connected  with 
our  denominational  life  and  progress. 
The  principles  for  which  we  stand  are 
the  principles  of  the  people,  for  the 
people  and  by  the  people.  Such  prin- 
ciples must  ultimately  prevail.  Other- 
wise, truest  liberty  will  eventually 
perish  from  the  earth.  This  will 
never  occur.  Truest  liberty  will  at 
length  triumph.  The  religious  su- 
premacy of  the  local  church  and  the 
fellowship  of  adjacent  churches  into 
a  national  federation,  if  not  actual 
organic  unity,  is  destined  to  win. 

3.  They  can  plan  for  a  more  gener- 
ous financial  support.  Money  is  ex- 
actly what  is  wanted;  nor  should  our 
National  Society  need  to  eke  out  a 
living  by  continual  begging.  No 
society  can  grow  in  a  night  like  a 
mushroom.  It  takes  time  and  care 
and  trouble,  lots  of  it.  Somebody 
must  worry  and  we,  too  often,  leave 
it  to  the  other  man.  If  you  have  a 
Young  People's  Society  of  any  sort 
connected  with  your  church,  suggest 
that  that  society  make  an  annual 
budget  of  finance  and  includes  therein 
$100  for  the  Congregational  Home 
Missionary  Society.  If  the  society 
numbers  twenty-five  members,  it  sim- 
ply means  that  each  member  becomes 
personally  responsible  for  not  more 
than  eight  cents  a  week.  What 
young  person  does  not  spend  that 
amount  a  week  to  very  little  purpose? 
Possibly  some  do  not,  but  others  will 
squander  ten  times  the  amount  in 
dress  or  amusements.  Here  are 
some  suggestive  facts  for  guilty 
persons.  If  all  the  evangelical 
Christians,  only,  in  the  United  States 
of  America  gave  to  home  missions  the 
worth  of  a  stamp  (2  cents),  $10,000,- 
000  would  come  at  once  into  the 
Lord's  treasury;  if  the  worth  of  a 
car-fare  (5  cents),  that  sum  would  be 
$50,000,000,   and   if   the   worth   of   a 


dish  of  ice-cream  (10  cents),  $100,- 
000,000  would  crowd  our  coffers.  We 
are  not  "too  poor"  to  treat  ourselves! 

4.  They  can  work  their  plan.  Here  - 
in  is  disclosed  the  real  weakness  of 
our  young  people's  societies.  They 
have  plans  by  the  score ;  they  fail  to 
work  them.  So  plans,  good  plans, 
expire  prematurely.  There  is  a  deal 
of  dreaming,  much  planning,  more 
preparing,  .but  very  little  actual 
achievement,  less  direct  issue,  and 
really  nothing  fundamentally  perma- 
nent. For  a  time  it  is  "all  at  it,"  but 
seldom  "always  at  it."  How  perti- 
nent +hen,  the  stock  phrase :  "Get 
busy."  Yes,  make  it  keep  busy! 
"Fervent  in  spirit,  serving  the  Lord." 

5.  Beyond  a  doubt  our  young  peo- 
ple's societies  can  succeed  best  at 
"team  work."  Individual  starring  is 
with  them  out  of  the  question.  The 
best  work  is  not  done  man  by  man. 
Two  are  better  than  one.  Co-opera- 
tion wins  when  competition  loses. 
"Together"  is  the  tocsin  of  the  age. 
Individual  players  do  not  make  the 
victorious  nine  or  the  champion 
eleven ;  it  is  the  ability,  skill  and  will- 
ingness of  each  and  all  of  the  various 
players  to  play  together.  A  "sacri- 
fice hit"  may  spoil  an  individual's  bat- 
ting record,  but  at  a  critical  point  in 
the  game  it  will  score  the  "man  on 
third"  and  win  out.  A  "pass"  may 
lose  to  the  punter  a  "goal  from  the-' 
field,"  but  result  in  a  touchdown  and  a 
goal,  the  highest  possible  score,  and  so 
win.  In  society  "team  work,"  let 
each  member,  strong  in  himself,  be 
his  fellow-worker's  right-hand  man 
and  success  will  not  need  to  wait  long, 
even  financial  success  in  home  mis- 
sionary work.  "We  can't  do  it,"  wails 
weary  Willie  and  fickle  Fannie. 

Emerson,  the  sage  of  Concord, 
replies :  "Always  do  what  you  are 
afraid  to  do ;"  and  General  Armstrong, 
Hampton's  endless  inspiration,  adds : 
"The  glory  of  the  age  is  doing  what 
can't  be  done."  If  there  is  anything 
in  these  epigrammatic  utterances,  and 
there  is  much,  use  it,  and  give  God  a 
chancee  to  help  you  to  do  something  at 
once  for  the  Congregational  Home 
Missionary  Society. 


From  the  Front  Line 


The  General  Missionary. 

THE  general  missionary  is  a  mod- 
est worker  and  seldom  mag- 
nifies his  calling  to  the  public 
eye,  but  many  a  church  that  is  ready 
to  perish  knows  his  value  and  the 
stimulating  help  of  his "  sympathy. 
The  following  is  a  fair  picture  of 
much  of  the  life  of  this  valuable  class 
of  laborers.  It  is  from  the  pen  of 
Rev.  David  H.  Reid  of  Washington. 
Speaking  of  a  church  recently  visited, 
Mr.  Reid  says : 

For  more  than  eighteen  months  this 
church  has  been  pastorless.  The  writer 
was  informed  by  a  former  pastor  that  Con- 
gregationalism in  that  town  was  dead  and 
buried  and  beyond  the  hope  of  resurrec- 
tion. With  these  words  still  fresh  in  my 
mind  it  was  with  some  feelings  of  trepida- 
tion that  I  ventured  upon  the  experiment 
of  resuscitation.  To  my  surprise  and  de- 
light, however,  I  discovered  that  in  place 
of  death  there  were  unmistakable  signs  of 
life,  growth  and  development.  Since  the 
departure  of  the  former  pastor  under  the 
indefatigable  leadership  of  Mrs.  C.  and  the 
few  remaining  members,  a  vigorous  Sunday 
school  with  an  average  attendance  of  sixty 
had  been  maintained,  and  whenever  a 
preacher  could  be  found  the  church  has 
held  a  service. 

One  incident  that  occurred  in  the  Sunday 
school  the  first  Sunday  I  was  there  reveal- 
&[  some  of  the  spirit  animating  the  leaders 
and  members.  A  young  lady,  a  faithful 
scholar  was  to  leave  town  the  following 
week  to  pursue  her  studies  in  one  of  the 
schools  of  Seattle.  The  superintendent 
announced  the  fact  and  gave  expression  to 
the  sorrow  they  all  felt  in  losing  an  earnest 
and  valuable  member.  With  feelings  of 
deep  emotion  she  said:  "We  do  not  intend 
that  she  shall  forget  us  or  that  we  love  her, 
and  we  have  purchased  this  Bible  for  her 
as  an  expression  of  our  esteem  and  love." 
As  the  young  lady  came  forward  and  took 
the  gift  there  were  tears  in  many  eyes. 
This  revealed  to  me  the  spirit  of  the  peo- 
ple and  made  a  deep  impression  on  my 
mind. 

Another  thing  I  learned,  which  will  be  of 
interest  to  record.  Mrs.  C.  had  for  years 
been  a  leader  in  society  and  a  worldly 
woman  quite  indifferent  to  religious  claims. 
She  had  a  long  and  serious  illness  which 
necessitated  two  severe  operations,  the 
last  of  which  was  nearly  fatal  to  life. 
However,    she  passed  through  the    trying 


ordeal  and  was  then  strapped  to  a  bed 
where  she  had  to  lie  for  a  long  time.  Op- 
posite her  bed  in  the  hospital  on  the  wall 
there  was  a  picture  of  Christ  on  the  cross. 
Long  and  intently  she  gazed  upon  it  and 
said  to  herself:  "If  Christ  suffered  so  much 
for  me  I  ought  to  be  willing  to  lie  here 
and  suffer."  The  thought  had  a  strange 
soothing  effect  upon  her  mind  and  body 
giving  her  fortitude  and  patience.  In  the 
course  of  time  she  recovered  and  returned 
to  her  home,  but  the  experience  had  made 
a  lasting  impression  upon  her  character. 
Ever  since  she  has  taken  an  earnest,  active 
interest  in  religious  things.  Her  conver- 
sion evidently  took  place  in  the  hospital  by 
her  enforced  communion  with  that  picture. 
Before  leaving  this  "dead  and  hopeless 
field"  a  canvass  was  made  of  the  commun- 
ity for  the  purpose  of  securing  pledges  on 
the  salary,  if  a  pastor  could  be  provided. 
Six  hundred  dollars  was  pledged  and  a 
promise  from  the  mill  owners  of  a  house 
free  of  rent  to  be  used  as  a  parsonage. 
Churches  die  hard  and  can  never  die  where 
even  two  or  three  are  left  to  bear  witness 
and  do  faithful  work. 

Cuba   As   a   Missionary    Field. 

The  following  from  Rev.  Alfred 
deBarritt,  Cienfuegos,  Cuba,  has  more 
than  ordinary  weight  as  evidence. 
Mr.  deBarritt  has  been  upon  the 
Cuban  field  from  the  very  beginning, 
and  from  even  before  the  beginning, 
and  has  proved  an  earnest  and  enthu- 
siastic worker.  In  a  recent  letter  he 
says : 

"If  one  wishes  to  see  the  continuation 
of  the  Acts  of  the  Apostles  he  should  pay  a 
visit  to  Cuba.  He  could  buy  a  map  of  the 
island  and  place  a  pin  in  every  spot  where 
the  gospel  was  preached  eight  years  ago 
and  then  a  flag  where  it  is  preached  today, 
and  the  result  would  be  startling.  Pew 
people  realize  what  has  been  done  for  Cuba 
by  the  apostles  of  the  cross  during  the  last 
eight  years-  The  Congregational  Home 
Missionary  Society  has  been  honored  with 
a  full  share  in  this  blessed  work. 

Here  in  Cienfuegos  it  has  the  strongest 
evangelical  church  in  the  city  and  the  size 
of  the  congregation  is  only  limited  by  the 
size  of  the  building.  Here  we  have  church, 
parsonage,  and  church  school  with  night 
academy  all  in  one  humble  building,  so 
that  the  pastor  lives  most  of  the  time  in 
the  Patio  yard,  as  there  is  so  little  room  in 
the  house.  It  is  a  good  thing  we  have  no 
storms  of  snow  and  no  cold  to  drive  one 


FROM  THE  FRONT  LINE 


183 


inside,  and  during  the  rainy  season  the  dry- 
est  spot  is  often  outside  the  house  and  in 
the  yard  under  the  overhanging  roof. 

Seldom  a  Sunday  goes  by  that  some  one 
does  not  take  a  stand  for  the  new  life,  and 
at  the  time  of  writing  five  young  men  are 
waiting  the  opportunity  to  unite  with  the 
church.  The  gift  of  a  church  and  school 
building  to  this  city  at  this  time  would  be 
a  gift  that  any  man  might  envy  the  priv- 
ilege of  making,  and  would  be  worth  more 
to  this  country  than  a  regiment  of  soldiers. 

Thousands  of  young  Cubans  are  making 
their  way  to  the  United  States  to  receive 
an  education  and  the  fathers  from  the 
President  down  prefer  to  have  their  sons 
educated  in  the  land  of  the  stars  and 
stripes.  What  a  mighty  power  for  good 
would  a  Christian  college  be  here  and  how 
it  would  contribute  to  the  building  up  of 
the  church.  Thousands  have  come  from 
the  Roman  Catholic  church  without  any 
effort  on  our  part,  but  they  are  outside  the 
Kingdom  and  don't  yet  understand  the 
story  of  the  Cross.  The  daughters  of  the 
Mayor  of  this  city  went  to  a  Christian- 
school  in  North  America.  They  are  now 
disciples  of  the  Master.  One  of  the  bright- 
est lads  I  have  met  in  the  States  is  the  son 
of  one  of  our  chief  officials  and  a  member 
of  a  Christian  Endeavor  society  in  the 
state  of  Massachusetts.  One  of  our  own 
pupils  now  plays  the  small  organ  and  we 
are  sending  Christian  teachers  to  other 
schools  on  the  island  who  have  been  trained 
in  the  small  church  school  here.  All  this 
has  been  accomplished  without  church 
building  and  with  just  a  small  private 
house.  With  a  proper  equipment  for 
church  and  school  we  have  a  right  to  ex- 
pect great  things. 


night  he  surrendered  and  asked  to  be  en- 
rolled among  God's  people  and  when  amid 
the  summer  flowers  he  knelt  weeping  like 
a  child  to  receive  Christian  baptism  and 
confess  his  faith  in  the  Crucified,  the 
church  filled  with  worshippers  had  not  a 
dry  eye  and  God  was  praised  for  His  saving 
grace.  So,  with  here  a  bit  of  cheer  and 
there  a  song  of  joy,  the  way  is  lightened  as 
we  work  and  it  is  never  dreary.  We  shall 
be  rejoiced  when  the  shower  breaks  for 
which  we  have  prayed  and  toiled  and  for 
the  droppings  that  are  so  full  of  promise 
we  praise  the  Lord. 

Blessed  and  Grateful. 

The  joy  of  coming  to  self-support 
is  so  real  and  satisfying  that  no 
church  within  possible  reach  of 
it  should  be  willing  to  sacrifice 
the  great  happiness  which  always  fol- 
lows an  earnest  effort  towards  inde- 
pendence. Says  Rev.  John  E.  Gros.z, 
pastor  of  the  German  church  in  Love- 
land,  Colorado: 

At  a  special  meeting  lately  held,  the 
church  voted  for  self  support.  The  whole 
audience  arose  and  the  pastor  offered  a 
prayer  of  thanksgiving.  It  was  the  hap- 
piest moment,  I  think,  in  my  whole  pastor- 
al life,  and  certainly  in  the  history  of  the 
church.  By  a  hearty  vote  of  the  people 
the  pastor  was  authorized  to  write  a  letter 
of  appreciation  giving  expression  of  our 
gratitude  to  the  Congregational  Home 
Missionary  society  for  the  help  it  has  ren- 
dered. More  than  one  was  heard  to  say 
"We  shall  never  forget  our  mother." 


Droppings  of  Promise.  Without  Haste,  Without   Rest. 


Rev.  P.  A.  Simpkin,  of  Salt  Lake 
City,  has  for  some  time  held  the 
double  office  of  pastor  to  his  church 
and  chaplain  of  the  prison.  How  the 
two  are  sometimes  happily  blended 
and  used  to  promote  one  another  is 
seen  in  the  following  narrative  from 
his  pen.     Mr.  Simpkin  says : 

It  was  our  joy  to  receive  on  a  recent 
communion  a  man  and  his  wife  who  had 
been  for  many  months  subjects  of  our 
earnest  prayers  as  a  charch.  He  was  a 
man  in  high  social  position,  the  trusted 
employee  of  a  great  and  powerful  corpora- 
tion. One  day  accident  revealed  a  shortage 
in  his  accounts.  He  was  sent  to  the  grated 
house  on  the  hill  for  three  years.  Hard 
and  bitter,  but  broken  in  spirit,  he  listened 
perforce  to  the  message  of  life  as  preached 
by  the  chaplain.  Gradually  he  softened 
and  after  his  parole  he  became  a  constant 
attendant  on  our  church  services.      One 


This  motto  belongs  pre-eminently 
to.  the  Covenant  church  of  Indianapo- 
lis, and  to  its  indefatigable  pastor,  Mr. 
Detch.  We  have  had  frequent  occa- 
sion to  speak  of  their  plans  and  prog- 
ress. In  a  recent  letter  the  pastor 
says: 

The  new  addition  to  the  church  of  the 
public  library  and  classroom  is  completed 
and  with  gifts  of  furnace,  ceiling,  brass 
letters  and  metal  sheeting,  approaches  a 
value  of  $800  addition.  This  is  the  first 
section  of  the  new  plan  for  the  entire 
structure  to  be  finally  completed.  Septem- 
ber 1  is  fixed  for  dedication.  This  addition 
is  a  thirty-two  stone  front  with  two  cathe- 
dral windows  and  one  large  Roman  arch 
entrance,  eight  by  eleven  feet.  We  now 
have  one  hundred  feet  of  electric  and  gas 
lighting  on  the  outside,  and  when  the  en- 
tire plant  is  erected  there  will  be  a  stretch 
of  one  hundred  and  twenty  feet  of  electric 


i84 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


on  the  outside  of  the  building,  in  fact  the 
only  structure  so  lighted  in  the  city. 
Money  in  the  treasury  will  pay  for  the  ad- 
dition already  built,  with  the  exception  of 
about  $150  and  we  expect  to  pay  for  this 
complete  before  we  advance  on  the  front 
auditorium.  With  this  thirty-two  front 
addition  we  have  a  sixty  foot  front  on 
Market  street.  Our  membership  has  now 
reached  two  hundred  and  eighteen.  The 
people  are  alive. 

The  Joy  of  Hardness. 

Rev.  G.  Stanley  Pope,  of  Oacoma, 
South  Dakota,  has  devoted  most  of  his 
life  thus  far  to  missionary  pioneering. 
He  is  a  good  witness,  therefore,  to  the 
joy  of  enduring  hardness  in  the  gospel 
warfare.  We  commend  his  words  and 
his  spirit  to  the  young  graduate  of  the 
seminary  who  is  looking  for  a  becom- 
ing field  of  labor.  Says  Mr.  Pope  of 
one  recent  experience : 

We  organized  our  Sunday  school  in  a 
private  house  in  the  worst  blizzard  of  the 
season.  My  drives  have  been  in  winds  and 
through  rain  and  mud  and  in  the  first 
quarter  in  snow ;  sometimes  sleeping  in 
a  roadhouse  with  a  dozen  in  one  room  ten 
by  twelve.  But  pioneering  today  isn't 
what  it  was  fifty  years  ago.  The  young 
men  who  are  obliged  to  settle  down  in 
some  well  organized  eastern  church  in  view 
of  their  old  college  and  seminary  grounds 
are  losing  much  of  the  sweetness  and  most 
of  the  freshness  of  the  preacher's  life.  It 
is  worth  something  to  have  a  timid  woman 
come  to  one  at  the  close  of  the  service  and 
say  "I  want  to  thank  you  for  that  sermon. 
It  is  the  first  one  I  have  heard  for  five 
years."  Preachers  in  gospel-hardened 
communities  are  not  often  blessed  with  that 
reward.  I  would  not  exchange  the  thrill 
of  that  moment  for  a  year  of  luxury  in  a 
wealthy  eastern  church. 

A  Familiar  Story. 

The  variety,  the  necessity,  the  diffi- 
culty and  sometimes  the  peril  of  the 
home  missionary  work,  are  illustrated 
once  more  in  the  following  narrative 
from  Rev.  C.  W.  Holden,  of  Cortez, 
Colorado.     Says  Mr.   Holden: 

Out  about  ten  miles  is  a  good  Sunday 
school  which  really  forms  a  part  of  our 
work,  and  to  which  I  go  as  often  as  I  can 
get  a  horse.  Several  children,  some  very 
small,  came  to  our  Cortez  school  on  horse- 
back.    We  have  to  make  long  walks  some- 


times on  our  visitations,  as  we  usually  have 
no  other  way  of  going.  Recently  my  wife 
and  I  walked  five  miles  to  make  one  call. 
On  our  homeward  way,  to  save  a  mile,  we 
took  a  straight  course  through  the  sage 
brush.  Then  we  had  a  canyon  to  cross 
which  was  a  difficult  thing  to  do.  We  went 
down  a  deep,  narrow  trail,  zigzagging  be- 
tween the  rocks  till  we  reached  the  bottom. 
Casting  our  eyes  up  the  perpendicular 
banks  far  above  us,  we  felt  that  we  had 
been  delivered  from  a  great  peril,  as  we 
saw  great  quantities  of  earth  and  rock  that 
had  frequently  caved  in  and  might  have 
done  so  again  and  buried  us  alive.  Right 
there  we  were  delayed  a  long  time  search- 
ing for  a  narrow  place  to  cross  the  stream 
and  in  gathering  flat  pieces  of  rock  for  a 
bridge.  There  was  yet  one  more  climb  to 
make  even  higher  than  before,  up  the  steep 
rock,  before  reaching  the  homeward  level. 
During  this  last  stage  of  the  trip  we  called 
at  a  home  where  we  found  both  mother  and 
daughter  sick  in  bed  ;  no  doctor,  and  no  one 
in  the  house  but  a  small  boy.  At  once  we 
both  set  about  ministering  to  their  needs 
and  finding  medical  aid. 

Yes,  there  is  variety  enough  in  this  life, 
there  is  need  enough  all  around  us  of 
missionary  care;  there  are  difficulties  and 
there  are  perils,  but  above  all  there  are 
great  rewards. 

A  Significant  Revival. 

Great  is  the  blessing  of  a  true  re- 
vival, such  as  seems  to  have  visited 
the  city  of  Sherman,  Texas.  Says 
Rev.  Allen  Crabtree : 

The  Lord  has  graciously  visited  this 
place.  Through  the  efforts  of  Rev.  J.  Wil- 
bur Chapman  and  his  splendid  singers  the 
mayor  of  the  city  was  converted,  and  with 
scores  of  others,  has  united  with  the  First 
Baptist  church.  The  leading  banker  of 
the  city  was  also  converted,  and  in  com- 
pany with  about  a  hundred  others  united 
with  the  First  Methodist  church.  Other 
leading  citizens  have  declared  themselves 
openly  on  the  Lord's  side.  On  a  single 
Sabbath  there  were  two  hundred  and  three 
additions  to  our  churches,  and  many  more 
had  signed  cards  indicating  their  purpose 
to  join.  Our  own  little  band  has  been 
greatly  strengthened  by  these  additions. 
Following  the  revival  the  study  of  the 
Bible  has  been  begun  in  earnest.  Every 
Monday  night  at  our  church  there  is  a 
crowd  of  people  representing  nearly  all  the 
churches  of  the  city,  meeting  for  Bible 
study.  Historical,  biographical,  spiritual, 
analytical  and  topical  truths  arc  being  in- 
vestigated, and  within  the  last  two  months 
the  book  of  Genesis  has  been  covered. 


A    Personal    JVord    to 
Con  gr  eg  at  ion  alts  ts 

ARE  we  aware  that,  as  a  denomination,  we  are  giving 
materially  less  than  we  gave  ten  years  ago  *?  During 
that  time  the  wealth  of  the  nation  has  increased  about 
forty-five  per  cent  and  Congregationalists  have  had  their  due 
share.  And  yet,  as  a  denomination,  we  are  giving  ten  per  cent 
less  to  benevolence  than  we  gave  ten  years  ago.  Per  capita  we 
are  giving  thirteen  per  cent  less.  Meanwhile,  we  are  spending 
more  on  ourselves. 

This  indicates  an  unhealthy  spiritual  condition,  which  is 
conclusively  shown  by  the  fact  that  2,390  of  our  churches 
reported  not  one  addition  on  confession  of  faith  last  year. 
The  number  reported  ten  years  ago  was  1,632,  or  thirty  per 
cent  of  all.  Last  year  forty-one  per  cent  of  our  churches  were 
barren.  The  largest  percentage  of  barren  churches  reported  in 
any  other  denomination  was  twenty-nine. 

Small  wonder  that  the  debts  of  our  benevolent  societies 
are  piling  up  high  and  higher. 

If  the  average  Congregationalist  in  the  United  States  is  as 
prosperous  as  the  average  citizen  during  the  past  ten  years  the 
members  of  our  denomination  amassed  over  and  above  all  expenses 
and  all  gifts  some  $240,000,000.  What  are  we  doing  with 
it  ?  What  might  we  not  do  with  it  in  the  city  and  in  the 
world  if  that  and  we  were  really  consecrated.  Many  of  our 
churches  are  dying  of  eminent  respectability.  They  are  "coldly 
correct  and  elegantly  dull;"  fruitless  because  they  have  no  pas- 
sion for  humanity. 


JVomen's  IVork  and  Methods 


The  Uttermost  Part 

By   Grace   A     C.    White 

IT  was  Communion  Sunday,  and  in 
the  church  in  Pilgrim  five  ear- 
nest girls  stood  before  their 
minister  listening  reverently  to  the 
tender  words  of  advice  with  which  he 
was  concluding  the  service  of  receiv- 
ing them  into  membership  of  the 
church. 

Upon  the  audience  the  service  had 
seemed  to  make  a  deep  impression, 
and  one  could  easily  believe  that  they 
would  all  go  out  determined  to  live 
conscientiously;  but  especially  to  the 
five  girls,  as  a  new  and  almost  over- 
whelming thought,  came  the  pastor'.; 
reminder  that  they  were  now  God's 
accepted  missionaries,  under  covenant 
with  Him  to  minister  to  the  heathen 
and  lighten  the  uttermost  parts  with 
His  gospel  of  love. 

As  they  walked  slowly  homeward 
together,  the  words :  "You  are  under 
covenant  to  minister  to  the  heathen 
and  lighten  the  uttermost  parts," 
seemed  to  weigh  upon  them  heavily, 
and  they  asked  each  other  how  they 
could  do  anything  about  either  of 
those  things,  when  each  seemed  a 
necessity  to  the  small  corner  she  then 
filled. 

"I  understand  and  truly  mean  to 
accept  what  he  said  to  us  to-day  as 
the  rule  of  my  life,"  said  Laura,  "ex- 
cept that  about  having  responsibilities 
up  here  in  Pilgrim  for  the  heathen 
that  are  off  in  the  uttermost  part, 
when  he  knows  that  not  one  of  us  has 
much  means  to  do  with,  or  possibility 
of  being  spared  to  leave  home ;  and  it 
seems  to  me  I  can't  be  under  cove- 
nant to  do  an  impossible  thing." 

"It  seems  strange  to  me  that  he 
should  have  said  that  to  us,"  an- 
swered Caroline,  "for  when  you  think 
of  it,  it  does  not  really  apply  to  us. 
If  we  had  offered  ourselves  to  a  mis- 
sionary board  and  were  appointed  to 
a  foreign  field  it  would  have  been  all 


right,  but  as  Laura  says,  our  work  is 
at  home,  and  so  we  are  in  no  sense 
missionaries.  I  wish  we  could, 
though,"  she  added  with  a  heartfelt 
sigh,  "if  that  is  what  he  thinks  we 
ought  to  do." 

"What  is  it  that  you  are  wishing  so 
much  that  you  could  do  and  cannot?" 
asked  the  minister  who  had  overtaken 
them  as  he  reached  his  own  door. 
"Let  us  sit  together  here  on  the  porch 
and  talk  it  over ;  perhaps  we  shall  see 
some  way  to  its  accomplishment." 

"We  all  want,"  began  Laura,  glad 
to  lay  their  burden  before  him,  "to  do 
our  Christian  work  just  as  honestly 
and  earnestly  as  you  would  have  us 
do,  but  none  of  us  understand  what 
you  meant  by  our  being  missionaries 
and  having  responsibilities  for  the 
heathen,  and  the  uttermost  parts  of 
the  earth.  It  seems  as  if  there  is  no 
way  for  us  to  fulfill  that  duty,"  she 
added  with  a  choking  voice. 

"Ah,  now  I  see  what  is  troubling 
you,"  he  said,  encouragingly.  "You 
have  been  thinking  of  missionaries  as 
those  only  who  leave  home  and 
friends,  enduring  hardships  in  for- 
eign lands  to  work  for  Christ.  But  is 
that  the  only  meaning  of  missionary? 
And  is  that  far-away  land  the  only 
place  for  doing  missionary  work?" 

"But,"  said  Caroline,  "I'm  sure  you 
said  we  were  to  minister  to  the 
heathen  and  lighten  the  uttermost 
parts." 

"Surely  I  did ;  but  what  are  you 
going  to  do  with  the  heathen  who 
have  left  those  far-away  uttermost 
parts — not  waiting  for  you  to  come 
to  them,  but  are  presenting  them- 
selves at  our  own  doors,  obtaining 
work  in  all  our  industries  and  living 
in  our  communities.  They  are  no 
less  heathen  the  day  they  come  here 
than  they  were  the  day  before  they 
left  their  own  land,  and  surely  the 
Armenians  and  Bulgarians,  the  Ital- 
ians and  the  Turks,  the  Slavs  and  the 
Chinese,  in  fact,  all  who  have  come 


WOMAN'S  WORK  AND   METHODS 


.87 


among  us,  would  still  be  called 
heathen  if  by  some  power  they  could 
to-day  be  set  down  in  their  own 
lands. 

"Few  of  them  attend  any  church; 
most  of  them  do  not  speak  our  lan- 
guage; they  desecrate  our  Sabbath 
and  set  at  naught  the  teachings  of  the 
Bible.  They  largely  come  from  lands 
of  religious  intolerance,  and  in  the 
change  of  surroundings  to  the  liberty 
of  this  land  are  drifting  away  from 
the  only  religion  they  have  ever 
known,  having  no  hope,  and  without 
God  in  the  world. 

"Remember,  the  uttermost  part  is 
not  always  the  place  that  is  separated 
from  us  by  the  greatest  number  of 
miles,  but  is  as  well  that  part  which  is 
at  the  greatest  distance  from  God 
morally  and  spiritually.  Are  not  they, 
who  are  in  the  depths  of  sin  and  who 
are  outcasts  from  respectability,  in 
that  part  that  must  be  enlightened  and 
saved  by  the  gospel  of  love?  The 
promise  is :  'Ask  and  He  will  give 
thee  the  heathen  for  thine  inheritance 


and  the  uttermost  parts  of  the  earth 
for  thy  possession.'  I  think  you  all 
asked  Him  to  give  you  souls  to  save 
for  Him." 

"Indeed  we  did,"  said  Laura, 
"when  we  became  Christians,  and  we 
do  still." 

"Then  you  already  have  the  fulfil- 
ment of  that  promise  in  the  uttermost 
part  that  has  been  brought  to  your 
own  door,"  said  the  pastor  gently. 
"Here  is  your  work  and  your  posses- 
sions, and  although  you  will  do  all 
you  can  by  your  contributions  and 
prayers  to  support  the  work  in  the 
lands  you  cannot  go  to,  fail  not  to 
possess  the  uttermost  part  that  has 
come  to  your  door." 

The  eager  faces  before  him  were 
bright  with  understanding  now,  and 
as  they  parted  from  him  he  felt  that 
each  had  gladly  accepted  the  trust. 
He  could  not  have  told  exactly  why  it 
was,  but  at  the  close  of  that  hour  he 
felt  that  the  lack  of  missionary  spirit 
in  his  church  which  had  weighed  so 
long  and  heavily  upon  him  would  be 
there  no  longer. 


COUNTING  FOR  MORE  THAN   ONE 

A  WOMAN  whose  home  duties  were  insistent  was  bewailing  her  comparative 
uselessness  when  it  came  to  church  work  or  indeed  any  work  outside  of  her 
own  home.  "  I  go  to  church — when  I  can,"  she  said  rather  ruefully.  "  Even  then 
all  I  can  do  is  to  count  for  one.  I  can't  do  anything."  The  wise  woman  who  was 
listening  answered  of  her  wisdom  :  "  Nobody  ever  counts  for  just  one;  you  count 
for  everybody  you  ean  influence.  One  is  a  force  and  center  of  power  in  propor- 
tion to  the  number  of  people  he  can  influence.  Count  for  one,  indeed!  I  happen 
to  know  that  you  counted  for  six  people  in  church  this  very  last  Sunday.  It  was 
rainy,  you  know,  and  we  were  all  in  slippers  and  easy  gowns,  John  and  I  and  all 
three  of  the  girls.  '  There! '  said  I,  as  you  passed  the  window,  '  if  that  woman  can 
manage  to  get  her  work  out  of  the  way  and  go  this  rainy  morning,  I  won't  listen 
to  any  excuses  from  the  rest  of  you!'"  "Oh,  yes,"  put  in  the  other  blushingly, 
"  I  remember  all  about  it!  I  had  about  sixteen  minds  and  a  half  about  going  out 
in  the  wet,  but  Benny  was  at  home  with  his  lame  knee — you  know  he  got  hurt  at 
football — and  he  said,  '  Mother,  you  can  go  just  as  well  as  not.  I'll  look  after  the 
babies.'  So  I  went,  for  I  thought  there  would  be  a  slim  houseful  such  a  rainy  day, 
and  I'd  count  for  one  anyway."  "Just  so!"  nodded  her  friend  smiling.  "And 
you  counted  for  six  instead!  We  made  just  a  good  seatful.  It  was  funny  to  see 
the  minister's  look  of  astonishment  when  we  all  filed  in.  I  had  the  greatest  mind 
to  get  up  and  say  'twas  all  your  doing." — Congregationalist. 


Appointments  and  Receipts 


APPOINTMENTS 


July,   iqo6. 


Not  in  commission  last  year. 

Anderson,  Frank  O.,  Abercrombie,  No.  Dak. 

Brown,  Judson,  Index,  Wash. 

Carmichael,  Neil,  Rainier,  Ore. 

Hill,  C  L.,  Mankato  Circuit,  Minn.;  Hindley, 
George,  Red  Lodge,  Laurel  and  Elder  Grove,  Mont. 

Kelley,  E.  L.,  Kensal,  No.  Dak.;  Kingsbury,  Fred  L., 
Pomeroy,  Wash. 

Lathrop,  E.  A  ,  Tryon,  N.  C  ;  Lavisey,  William  F., 
Wilsonville,  Ga. 

McConaughey,  Frank,  Kalama,  Wash. 

Scherff,  F  C.  F.,  Norfolk,  Neb  ;  Snow,  Walter  A.. 
Ellis.  No.  Dak.;  Spillers,  Ashbel  P.,  New  Prospect 
and  Dawson  Ga.;  Steele,  John  T.,  Deer  Creek  and 
Cashion,  Okla. 

Walton,  S.  A  ,  Sulphur  Springs,  Colo. 

Re-commissioned. 

Barnett,  John  H.,  Indianapolis,  Ind.;  Bekeschus,  E., 
Alexander,  Kan.;  Burgess,  Edmund  J.,  Hennessey, 
Okla.;  Burnett,  William,  Vaidez,  AlasKa. 

Farrer,  William  D.,   Forman,    No.   Dak.;  Fleming, 


Moses  G.,  Zoar,  Ga.;  Fulgham,  Philip  O.,  Jamestown 
nd  Fremont,  Ind. 

Garvin,  H.  C,  Meta,  Mo.;  Graham,  James  M.,  Sec- 
tion and  Ten  Broeck,  Ala.;  Graham,  William  H., 
Powersville,  Ga. 

Haddan,  James  F.,  Doerum,  Ga.;  Heald,  J.  H.,  Gen- 
eral Missionary  among  Spanish,  New  Mexico;  Hea- 
ley,  Franklin  D.,  Chewelah,  Wash.;  Holton,  Horace 
F.,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 

Kozielek,  Paul,  Detroit,  Mich. 

Lansborough,  John  F.,  Granville,  No.  Dak.;  Long, 
Joseph  B.,  Nogales,  Ariz.;  Longnecker,  George  W., 
Berthold.  No.  Dak. 

McClane,  W.  R.,  International  Falls,  Minn.;  Moore, 
John  W.,  Wheatland,  Wyo. 

Olson,  Anton,  Swanville,  Minn. 

Pearson,  Daniel  J..  Fairfax,  Ga.;  Perkins,  Mrs.  Eliza 
B.,  Breckenridge,  Okla. 

Richert,  Cornelius,  St  Paul,  Minn.;  Roberts,  Owen 
W.,  Gaylord,  Minn.;  Roberts,  Robert  E.,  Turton,  So. 
Dak. 

Tillman,  William  H.,  Atlanta,  Ga  ;  Trcka,  Charles 
J.,  St.  Paul,  Minn. 


RECEIPTS 


July,  1906. 


For  account  of  receipts  by  State    A  uxiliary  Societies 
see  pagt  igi 

MAINE— $40.50. 

Cumberland  Center,  5.50;  Kennebunkport,  Mrs.  M.  P. 
Lord,  10;  Portland,  St.  Lawrence,  25. 

NEW  HAMPSHIRE— $158.42. 

N.  H.  H.  M.  Soc,  by  A.  B.  Cross,  Treas.:  Request  of 
djnors,  33.46;  Durham,  Ladies'  H.  M.  S.,  46.33;  Fran- 
cestown,  A  Friend,  12.50;  Gilmanton,  Mrs.  M.  E.  Kid- 
der, 10;  Tamworth,  ir.45;  West  Concord,  West  End,  7; 
West  Lebanon,  10.53,  Wilton,  2nd,  27.15. 

VERMONT— $411.62,  of  which  legacy,  $86.16. 

Burlington,  Estate  of  Mrs.  J.  F.  Hickok,  86.16;  Mrs 
M.  R.  Englesby,  50;  Castleton,  5:  Charlotte,  14;  Hart 
ford,  15;  Manchester,  82.46;  Middlebury,  R.  Lane,  10 
Peacham,  1st  36;  St.  Johnsbury,  Mrs.  O.  W.  Howard 
10;  Sharon,  A  Friend,  3;  Springfield,  Mrs.  J.  Hartness 


MASSACHUSETTS 

$986.01. 


3,996.62;     of     which    legacies, 


Mass.  H.  M.  Soc,  by  Rev.  J.  Coit,  Treas.:  By  re- 
quest of  donors,  1,261.27;  Amherst,  1st,  2.50;  Andover, 
J.  F.  Kimball,  10;  Prof.  J.  P.  Taylor,  10;  Ashby,  I.  H. 
Brooks,  10;  Blandford,  1st,  26.45;  Mrs.  w  E.  Hinsdale, 
1;  Boston,  J.  H.  Allen,  100;  Mrs.  M.  S.  Bennett,  50;  A. 
McLean  7.97;  C.  C.  Newcomb,  .1;  Brookline,  Mrs.  C. 
L  Goodsell,  25;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A  S.  Lovett,  30;  Cam- 
bridge, Mrs.  E.  C.  Moore.  10;  Canton,  Evan.,  47.55; 
Deerfield,  A  Friend,  75;  Dracut  Center,  6.60:  Dunstable, 
Mr*.  A.  M.  Rice,  1;  East  Bridgewater,  Mrs.  A.  Leland 
and  Mrs.  C.  Allen,  1;  A.  C.  Packard,  5;  East  Northfield, 
Mrs.  S.  C.  Holton,  1;  Mrs.  E.  H.  Porter,  5;  Fitchburg, 
Estate  of  Mrs.  L.  H.  Wood,  371.30;  Mr.  and  Mrs  E. 
J.  Davis  and  daughters,  15;  A  Friend,  5;  Florence, 
Mission  Circle,  5;  Foxboro,  Mrs  L.  H.  Deane,  2;  Glou- 
cester, A  Friend,  25;  Greenfield,  Estate  of  R.  W. 
Cook.  114. 71;  Hadley,  ist,  12.42;  Hampden,  15.45;  Haver- 
hill, West,  C.  E.,  4.12;  Haydenville,  13;  S.  S.,  3.67;  Hol- 
brook,  Miss  A.  M.  Thayer,  5;  Holyoke,  ist,  50;  Mrs  E. 
T.  Ba^g,  9;  Mrs.  C.  B.  Prescott  1;  Hubbardston,  Mrs. 
S.  D.  Stow,  15;  Hyde  Park,  H.  D.  Noyes.  25;  Interlaken, 
Mrs.  M.  C.  Ford,  10;  Jamaica  Plain,   C.  T.  Bauer,  10; 


Lawrence,  South,  C.  E.,  3;  Lenox,  H.  Sedgwick,  10;  Leo- 
minster, Orthodox,  by  A.  O.  Wilder,  Woodbury 
Fund,  120:  F.  A.  Whitney,  15;  Leverett,  Miss  H. 
Field,  1;  Mansfield,  Ortho.,  21.41,  Massachusetts,  "Two 
Friends,"  2;  Myricks,  S.  S.  of  Lakeville  and  Taunton 
Precinct.  7.89;  Newton  Highlands,  Mrs.  J.  F.  Wood 
and  Miss  E.  Packard,  150;  S.  E.  G.,  25;  Newtonville, 
Central,  125;  Northampton,  "Thirteenthers'  Club," 
3.60;  Miss  J.  B.  Kingsley,  25;  North  Weymouth,  Miss 
L.  A.  Eames,  5;  Oxford,  "X.,"  10;  Pittsfield,  M.  Burke, 
5;  ist,  25.50;  Rowley,  0;  Salem,  M.  S.  Hale,  1;  Sherburne, 
Dr.  O.  A.  Gorton,  100;  Shirley  Centre,  A  Friend,  10; 
Shrewsbury,  A  Friend,  5;  Somerville,  Mrs.  W.  H. 
Hodgkins.  15;  South  Amherst,  Miss  M.  L.  Dana,  1; 
Southbridge,  1.92;  South  Swansea,  Mrs.  H.  C.  Waters, 
20;  Spencer.  Mrs.  S.  A.  Temple  and  Mrs.  E.  Shum- 
way,  40;  Springfield,  So,  69.79;  Sunderland,  85.50;  Taun- 
ton, J.  E.  Sanford,  25;  Upton,  Miss  R.  E  Getchell.  1; 
Waltham,  Ladies'  Benev.  Soc,  15;  Wellesley,  Mrs.  S. 
A.  Loker,  5;  A  Friend,  25;  Westboro,  E.  W.  Newcomb, 
1:  Mrs.  B.  A.  Nourse,  1;  West  Bloomfield,  Mrs.  E.  M. 
Sherman,  10;  West  Brookfield,  C.  T.  Huntington.  5; 
Westfield,  2nd,  35;  West  Medway,  Rev.  A.  M.  Richard- 
son and  Mrs.  S.  P.  Clark,  1;  Worcester,  Estate  of 
Lois  C.  Pierce,  500;  Mrs.  E.  A.  Fawcett,  5;  J.  Logan, 
25;  J.  Wehinger,  1. 

Woman's  H.  M  Assoc,  (of  Mass.  and  Rhode  Island),  Miss 
L.  D.  White,  Treas.:  Millbury,  2nd,  Aux.,  15. 

RHODE  ISLAND -$150. 

Peace  Dale,  A  Friend,  100;  Providence,  A.  W.  Claflin, 
5°- 
CONNECTICUT— $2,773.43;  of  which  legacies,  $977.50. 

Miss.  Soc.  of  Conn.,  by  Rev.  J  S.  Ives,  167.80;  Bethle- 
hem, Pomperaug  Valley,  C  E.  Union,  6;  Black  Rock, 
44.43;  Mrs  M.  B.  Woodruff,  10;  Bloomfield,  12.57;  Bran- 
ford,  R.  Crane,  25;  Bridgeport,  Park  St.,  M.  L.  D..  10; 
Connecticut,  A  Friend,  500;  Danbury,  J.  Rider,  10;  Dur- 
ham, 5.25;  East  Woodstock,  15;  Fairfield,  160.30;  Glaston- 
bury, Mrs.  J.  L.  Williams,  100;  Goshen,  S.  S.  class, 
16.59;  Greenwich,  2nd,  S.  S..  24  68;  Guilford,  S.  B.  Cone, 
10;  E.  J.  Knowles,  1;  Hartford,  Estate  of  Miss  F.  B. 
Griswold,  7.50;  T-  B.  Bunce,  25;  A.  M.  Manning,  25; 
T  Upson,  10;  Higganum,  Mrs.  C.  A.  Scovil,  10;  Ivory- 
ton,  13;  Jewett  City,  2nd,  6.26;  Lebanon,  A  Friend,  5; 
Litchfield,  G.   M.   Woodruff,  10;  Meriden,   ist,  10;  Mrs. 


APPOINTMENTS   AND   RECEIPTS 


89 


A.  Porter,  25;  Middlefield,  Mrs.  M.  Lyman,  60;  L.  A. 
Mills,  25:  Milford,  1st,  13.96;  Moodus,  Mrs.  E.  W.  Chaf- 
fee, 10;  New  Canaan,  so;  New  Haven,  Mrs.  A.  W.  Archi- 
bald, 10;  Mrs.  C.  P.  Dwight,  25;  Mrs.  Keyes,  2;  Mrs. 
Phillips,  1;  F.  W.  Pardee,  2s;  New  London,  First  Ch. 
of  Christ.  25.40;  Norwalk,  J.  P.  Treadwell,  5;  Oxford, 
Mrs.  E.  M.  Limburner,  25;  Plainville,  55.70;  Salisbury, 
W.  B.  H.  M.,  14.85;  Sharon,  1st,  12.30;  Southington,  1st, 
H.  M.  S.,  n;  Stamford,  Mrs.  E.  B  Hoit,  50;  Suffield, 
A  Friend,  1.50;  Terryville,  Mrs.  W.  T.  Goodwin,  1; 
Washington,  1st.  55;  West  Hartford,  Estate  of  Mrs.  S. 
P.  Ray,  970;  First  Ch  of  Chri  t,  to  const.  Miss  J.  L. 
Faxon  and  H.  C.  Wells,  L.  Ms.,  107.34;  Miss  F-  H- 
Mix,  1.50. 


NEW  YORK- 


3.73;  of  which  legacy,  193.75. 


Angola,  Miss  A.  H.  Ames,  5;  Brooklyn,  Estate  of  H* 
G.  Combers,  93.75;  Borough  Park,  4;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  M' 
Merrill,  3;  Camden,  Ch.,  45;  S  S.,  5;  Canaan  Pour  Corners'. 
5.17;  Canandaigua,  58.35;  Carthage,  Ch.,  10.46;  S.  S.,  $1 
Churchville,  16  12;  Clinton,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  H.  Stan, 
ton.  10;  Fairport,  1st,  20;  Mrs.  E.  M.  Chadwick,  1' 
Gasport,  Ladies'  Miss.  Soc,  5.50;  Great  Valley,  E.  H' 
Hess,  10;  Homer,  Miss  E.  F.  Phillips  5;  Java  Village" 
Myron  Warner,  2.50;  Maine,  1st,  8.03;  New  York  City' 
Pilgrim,  24.40;  Pilgrim  0.  E.,  1;  Otisco  Valley,  Mrs.  M' 
J.  Pnsbie,  10;  Poughkeepsie,  1st,  Mrs.  T.  M.  Gilbert' 
10;  Riverhead,  Sound  Ave.,  37.60;  Roscoe,  Jr.  C.  E  ,  2' 
Rushville,  Whitman  Soc,  4;  Spencerport,  E.  L.  Day 
.50;  Mrs.  F.  N.  Webster,  .75;  Steuben,  1st,  Welsh,  12; 
Ticonderoga,  Aux.,  5;  Warsaw,  Friends,  10;  West  Cam- 
den, Mrs.  H.  M.  Green,  2.1" 

I  Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  J.  J.  Pearsall,  Treas.: 
Arlington,  N.  J  ,  Mrs.  A.  G.  W.,  special,  2;  Brooklyn, 
Central,  L.  B.  Soc  ,  16;  Canandaigua,  140.10;  New  Haven, 
Mrs.  S.  Johnson,  26;  Poughkeepsie,  S.  S.,  20.50.  Total, 
201.60. 

NEW  JERSEY— $205. 

East  Orange,  "K.,"  125;  Upper  Montclair,  Christian 
Union,  80. 

PENNSYLVANIA— $15.77. 

Minersville,  1st,  S.  S.,  7.70;  Neath,  8.07. 

MARYLAND— $15. 

Baltimore,  2nd,  C.  E.,  10;  Frederick,  M.  G.  Beckwith, 
5- 
DISTRICT  OF  COLUMBIA— $50. 

Washington,  1st,  C.  E.,  35;  M.  L.  Taylor,  15. 

GEORGIA— $6.50. 

Cedartown,  1st.  1;  Columbus,  1st,  2.50;  Duluth  Mission, 
2;  Serville,  Williford  and  Kramer,  Asbury  Chapel,  1. 

ALABAMA— $29.31. 

Received  by  Rev  A.  T.  Clark:  Opp,  Pleasant  Hill,  1; 
Phoenix,  2.80:  Dothan,  Newton's  Chapel,  1;  Fairview, 
i;Fredonia,  3.65;  Midland  City,  Rev.  S.  Long,  1;  Omega 
and  Troy,  6.65:  Shady  Grove,  2;  Tallassee,  1st,  1.50; 
Vaughan  School  House,  1;  Wesley  Chapel,  3.11;  Wright's 
Chapel,  4.60. 

FLORIDA— $7.81. 

Avon  Park,  Rev.  T.  T.  Townsend,  5.25;  Frostproof, 
1.26;  Interlachen,  1.30. 

TEXAS— 12.35. 

Paris,  D.  H.  Scott,  10;  Pruitt,  2.35. 
OKLAHOMA,  $3.60. 

Coldwater  and  Pleasant  View,  3.60. 
ARIZONA— $200. 

Prescott,  W.  E.  Hazeltine,  200. 

OHIO— $518.15. 

Atwater,  7.90;  Kingsville,  Mrs.  S.  C.  Kellogg,  8.25- 
Miss  E.  S.  Comings,  2;  Oberlin,  A  Friend,  500. 

INDIANA— $20.50. 

Received  by  Rev.  E.  D.  Curtis:  Elwood,  2.so;"Porter,  i6| 
Indianapolis,  Covenant,  2. 
ILLINOIS— $115. 


Batavia,  Mrs.  L.  C.  Patterson,  10;  Earlville,  J.  A. 
Dupee,  25;  Geneseo,  Miss  A.  Paul,  5;  Moline,  H.  Ains- 
worth,  10;  Ottawa,  Mrs.  E.  H.  Baldwin,  15:  D.  H. 
Wickwire,  10;  Stockton,  H.  M.  Herrick,  10;  Tiskilwa, 
S.  C.  Kellogg,  10;  Winnebago,  Mrs.  E.  Hunter,  20. 

MISSOURI— $382.40. 

Joplin,  1st,  11.35;  Kansas  City,  1st,  340.51;  St.  Louis,  1st 
30.54- 
MICHIGAN— $579.71;  of  which  legacy,  $499.50. 

Allendale,  Estate  of  A.  M.  Cooley,  499.50;  Bellaire,  S. 
M.  Youngs,  2.50;  Drummond,  1st,  Dr.  W.  T.  Strick- 
land, 10;  Eaton  Rapids,  Mrs.  A.  C.  Dutton,  5,  Grand 
Rapids,  Smith  Memo.,  2.71;  Kalamazoo,  Mrs.  E.  M. 
Knapp,  10;  Owasso,  Mrs.  L.  A.  Gould,  50. 

WISC0NSIN-$i8.2S. 

Beloit,  E.  B.  Kilbourn,  10;  Ogdensburg,  Bethany, 
Scand.,  Evan.,  3;  South  Kaukauna,  W.  S.  Mulford,  2, 
Wood  Lake  and  Doctors  Lake,  Scand.,  3.25. 

IOWA— $80.30. 

Iowa  Home  Miss.  Soc,  by  A.  D.  Merrill,  Treas.:  37.50; 
Alden,  Mrs.  E.  V.  Paterson,  5;  Farragut,  15  80;  Hart- 
wick,  Mrs.  L.  Mcllrath,  5;  Manchester,  Dr.  P.  E- 
Triem,  10;  New  Hampton,  Rev.  A.  Kern,  2;  Williams- 
burg, C.  E.,  5. 

MINNESOTA— $742.08. 

Received  by  Rev.  G.  R.  Merrill,  D.D.:  Marshall,  add'l., 
5;  Minneapolis,  Fifth  Ave ,  S.  S.,  10.45;  Plymouth, 
63.56;  Moorhead,  Dr.  C.  D.  Darro~w,  25;  Princeton,  n; 
Southeastern  Conference,  50:  Bagers,  Scand.,  1;  Mc- 
intosh, Erskine  and  Mentor,  2;  Minneapolis,  Plymouth, 
special  for  the  debt,  460.50;  Miss  H.  Griggs,  50;  New 
York  Mills,  1.50:  Solway,  1.40;  West  Duluth,  Plymouth, 
10.67;  Winona,  W.  H.  Laird,  50. 

NEBRASKA— $114.41. 

Received  by  Rev.  H.  Bross,  Danbury,  1.15;  Bazile  Mills, 
W.  C.  Brown,  10:  Dustin,  S.  S.,  6.25;  Hastings,  H.  Han- 
sen. 25;  Ogallala,  Rev.  J.  C.  Noyce,  5;  Omaha,  1st,  50; 
Sutton,  German,  17.01. 

NORTH  DAKOTA— $19.88. 

Received  by  Rev.  G.  J.  Powell,  Fargo,  Plymouth, 
Ladies,  2.50;  Michigan,  Ladies1  Soc,  3.80;  Oriska,  .31; 
Wahpeton,  1st,  13.27. 

SOUTH  DAKOTA— $105.81. 

Received  by  Rev.  W.  H.  Thrall:  Bowdle,  6.50:  Lake  Pres- 
ton, Mrs.  A.  A.  Keith,  20;  Academy,  33.50;  Armour,  10; 
Geddes,  11;  LaPrairie,  3.32;  Letcher  and  Loomis,  5  10; 
Meckling,  .50;  Reliance,  6.30;  Revillo  and  Albee,  7.59;  Wag- 
ner, 2. 

COLORADO— $41. 10. 

Received  by  Rev.  H.  Sanderson:  Rye,  S.  S.,  2.50;  Yam- 
pa,  14.60;  Collbran,  7;  Cortez,  6;  Denver,  Villa  Park,  10; 
Flagler,  1. 

IDAHO— $8. 

Summit  and  Rosette,  8. 
CALIFORNIA— $43. 

Berkley,  A  Friend,  28;  Nordhoff,  Mrs.  J.  R.  Gelett,  5; 
Santa  Barbara,  Mrs.  S.  R.  Waldron,  10. 

OREGON— $35.81. 

Received  by  Rev.  C.  F.  Clapp,  Forest  Grove,  5;  East  Salem, 
Central  and  Willard,  2.50;  lone,  5;  Mount  Tabor,  Mrs.  H. 
J.  Harding,  10. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  C.  F.  Clapp,  Treas.  j 
Gaston,  3.11;  Hillsboro,  2.50;  Hoodview,  7.70.  Total,  13.31 

WASHINGTON— $656. 

Received  by  Rev.  H.  B.  Hendley,  Treas.  Home  Miss.  Soc, 
Brighton  Beach,  10;  Ferndale,  2.50;  Pataha,  4;  Puyallup,  5; 
Snohomish,  10.75;  Seattle,  Plymouth,  600.    Total,  632.25. 

Kennewick,  1st,  12;  Walla  Walla,  5;  Yakima,  Nachez 
Valley,  6.75. 

ALASKA— $10.50. 

Valdez,  C.  E.,  10.50. 


[90 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


JULY  RECEIPTS. 

Contributions $9,557  64 

Legacies 2,642.92 


$12,200.56 


Interest .__ 966.44 

Home  Missionary 55-40 

Literature 4.63 

Total $13,227.03 


RECEIPTS. 


August,  1906. 


MAINE-$i7. 

Maine  Miss.  Soc,  W.  P.  Hubbard,  Treas-:  Searsport,  1st, 
12;  Lowell,  5. 

NEW  HA.MPSHIRE-$339.52;  of  which  legacies,  $153.52. 

Claremont,  M.  Page,  to  const.  Miss  S.  L.  Senter  an 
Hon.  L.  M.,  50;  Dover,  B.  Brierley,  10;  East  Sullivan,  C. 
E.,  Union  Ch.,  5;  Hampstead,  C.  E.,  5;  Hillsborough. 
Estate  of  Caroline  M.  Burnham,  115. 15;  Laconia,  90; 
Nashua,  Estate  of  Mrs.  L.  M.  Harris,  38.37;  Troy, 
Trin.,  19;  Warner,  A  Friend,  5;  Wilton,  2nd,  ad'd'l,  2. 

VERMONT— $1,261.70;  of  which  legacy,  $1,250. 

East  Dorset,  2;  Grand  Island,  Mrs.  M.  Ladd,  1;  Roches- 
ter, Mrs.  B.  D.  Hubbard,  3.70;  White  River  Junction, 
Estate  of  R.  C.  A.  Latham,  1,250;  Windsor,  Mrs.  S.  R. 
Baker,  5. 


of      which      legacies 


MASSACHUSETTS— $2,599.99; 

$1,728.05. 

Andover,  A  Friend,  50;  Belchertown,  Ch.,  27.57;  C.  E. 
2.93;  Boston,  Neponset,  Trin.  add'l,  Mrs.  J.  E.  Tuttle, 
1;  In  memory  of  a  home  missionary  and  his  wife, 
35;  E.  Torrey,  250;  Buckland,  S.  N.  Maynard,  1;  East 
Douglas,  Miss  A.  C.  Cornell,  3;  Fitchburg,  L.  A.  Hay- 
ward,  5;  "Life  Member,"  5;  Framingham,  E.  L.Keith, 
1;  Greenwich  Village,  Miss  L.  A.  Parker,  1;  Haverhill, 
E.  H.  W.,  1;  Hinsdale,  M.  B.  Emmons,  10;  Holyoke,  R. 
T.  Oakes,  5;  Leominster,  F.  A.  Whitney,  15;  Lowell, 
Miss  M.  E.  Tyler,  10;  Medford,  Mystic  Aux.,  Mrs.  M. 
A.  Hildreth,  10;  Milton,  "A  memorial  gift,"  10;  North- 
ampton, Estate  of  William  H  Harris,  728.05;  North- 
bridge,  Estate  of  Laura  A.  Brigham,  1,000;  Palmer,  L. 
H.  Gager,  100;  Peabody,  South,  93;  Pittsfield,  E.  D. 
Davis,  1;  Roxbury,  Mis=  I.  H.  Tufts,  5;  Rutland,  J.  B. 
Wells,  3;  Salem,  M.  Manning,  1;  South  Deerfield,  Ch., 
In  memoriam,  5;  South  Hadley,  46,95;  Warren,  E.  B.  Mc- 
Clenning,  1;  West  Medway,  S.  Knowlton:  10;  West  New- 
ton, E.  E;  Simmons,  5;  Williamsburg,  Ch.,  Mrs.  L.  D. 
lames,  100;  Williamstown,  R.  A.  Rice,  10;  Winchendon, 
North,  47.49. 

RHODE  ISLAND— $181. 

Kingston,  161;  Providence,  Free  Evan.,  15; A  Friend,  5. 

CONNECTICUT— $656. 78. 

Andover,  6.50;  Bethlehem,  16.10;  Boardman,  O.  W. 
Hoyt,  4.26;  W.  B.  Hawley,  12.01;  Bridgeport,  M.  W. 
Hovey,  10;  Collinsville,  C.  W.  Atwater,  100;  Fairfield, 
W.  S.  Jennings,  10;  Gaylordville,  Rev.  Mr.  Byles, 
5  15;  Greenwich,  2nd,  236.47;  S.  M.  Mead,  1;  Kensington, 
A.  Johnson,  1.50;  Mt.  Carmel,  10.50;  New  Milford,  1st, 
add'l.  .50;  Rev.  F.  A.  Johnson,  15.70;  Rev.  H.  K. 
Smith,  5.84;  New  Preston,  L.  M.  Sperry,  1;  Norch  Ston- 
ington,  51;  Norwich,  W.  H.  M.  S.,  Mrs.  H.  H.  Osgood, 
50;  Miss  M.  Greenman,  1:  Sherman,  W.  B.  Hawley, 
i2. 01;  Southlngton,  33.26;  Suffield,  1st,  14.50;  Torrington, 
E.  H  Talcott,  10;  West  Hartford.  "X.  Y.,"  30;  Windham, 
1st,  15.46;  Woodmont,  C.  H.  Tuttle,  9.03.  j 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  C.  S.  Thayer,  Treas.: 
Kensington,  5;  New  Milford,  Aux.,  1.     Total,  6. 

NEW  YORK— $108.45. 

Albion,  Mrs.  G.  G.  Anderson,  5.25;  Angola,  A  H 
Ames,  5;  Glpversville,  E.  W.  French,  1;  Honeoye,  Ch., 
15;  Massena  Center,  Mrs.  E.  C.  R.  Sutton,  5;  New 
Rochelle,  Swedish,  2.75;  New  York  City,  Miss  C.  C; 
Noyes,  10;  New  York  State,  A  Friend,  10;  Quaker  Hill. 
W.  H.  Osborn,  5.10;  Perry,  T.  McCall,  1;  Pitcher,  Ch., 
8;  North  Pitcher,  3.20;  Port  Leyden,  A  J.  Schroeder,  30, 
Sherbune,  1st,  S.  S.,  2.15;  Ticondevoga,  Mrs.  J.  Cook,  5. 

NEW  JERSEY— $2.50. 

East  Orange,  Swedes,  2.50. 

PENNSYLVANIA— $15.50. 


Received  by  Rev.  C.  A.  Jones,  Centreville,  6.50;  Pitts- 
burg, Puritan,  5;  Swedes,  4. 

DISTRICT  OF  COLUMBIA— $6. 

Washington,  D.  R.  Wright,  6. 
GEORGIA— $i.  60. 

Wilsonvile,  Rocky  Hill,  1.60. 

ALABAMA— $2.50. 

Received  by  Rev.  A.  T.  Clarke:  Brantley,  Oak  Grove, 
1.50;  Opp,  Pleasant  Hill,  1.    Total,  2.50. 

FLORIDA— $34. 

Cocoanut  Grove,  Union,  2;  Panasuffkee  and  Moss  Bluff,  2; 
Pomona,  Pilgrim,  30. 

INDIAN  TERRITORY— $4.52. 

Received  by  Rev.  J.  D.  Kingsbury,  Oktaha, 
Ladies'  Aid  Soc,  4  52. 

OHIO— $26.33. 

Oberlin,  i't,  S.  S.,  26.33. 
ILLINOIS— $292.02. 

Elgin,  1st,  268.26;  Sandwich,  J.  M.  Steele,  10. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  A.  O.  Whitcomb,  Treas.: 
DeKalb,  Jr.  C  E..  1;  Eola,  M.  B.,  1.20:  LaGrange,  M  B., 
2;  Rockford,  1st;  W.  S.,  6;  Rollo,  M.  B.,  .40;  Sheffield,  M. 
B.,  2. 4t;  Sterling,  Jr.  C.E.,   75.    Total,  13.76. 

MI3S0URI-$7o.3fi. 

Kansas  City,  Rev.  F.  L.  Johnston,  3  75;  Meadville, 
12.85;  New  Florence,  J.  Jeffers,  9;  St.  Louis,  Pilgrim, 
29.30;  St.  Joseph,  East  Side  Miss.,  15.46. 

MICHIGAN— $35. 

Detroit,  E.  D.  Foster,  25;  Kalamazoo,  A  Friend,  10. 
IOWA-$77.39. 

Iowa  Home  Miss.  Soc,  by  Miss  A  D.  Merrill,  Treas.: 
77.39;  Des  Moines,  Mrs.  A    C.  Parker,  1. 

MINNESOTA -$513.21. 

Received  by  Rev.  G.  R.  Merrill,  Ceylon,  15; 
Medford,  25;  Minneapolis,  Park  Ave.,  16.33;  Plymouth; 
76.68;  Owatonna,  S.  S.,  birthday  offering,  17. 10;  Silver 
Lake,  25.    Total,  176. n. 

Alexandria,  1st,  S.  S.,  2;  Braintree,  Peoples,  2;  Free- 
dom, 1st,  3;  Walker,  4.54. 

Woman's  H.  M.Union,  Mrs.  W.  M.  Bristoll,  Treas.: 
Anoka,  Aux.,  4  50;  Austin,  Aux.,  10  35;  Benson,  Aux.; 
2.50;  Big  Lake,  Aux.,  3;  Cannon  Falls,  Aux.,  8.50;  Edger- 
ton,  Aux.,  2.50;  Faribault,  Aux.,  41.21;  special,  5;  C.  E., 
7;  Lake  City,  Aux.,  25;  Marshall,  Aux.,  9.50;  Minneapolis, 
First,  Aux.,  7:  Vine,  Aux.,  4;  Fifth  Ave.,  14;  Montev- 
ideo, Aux.,  6;  New  Richland,  Aux.,  5;  Northfield,  Aux., 
50:  Rochester,  Aux.,  100;  St.  Paul,  Park,  S.  S.,  10;  Oli- 
vet, Aux.,  10.50.    Total,  325.56. 

KANSAS— $7. 

Blue  Rapids,  Mrs.  L.  S.  D.  Smith,  5;  Ransom  and  Ness, 
City,  German,  2. 

NEBRASKA— $44. 

Creighton,  4;  Franklin,  A  Friend,  5;  Friend,  German 
22;  Rising  City,  5;  Turkey  Creek,  German,  8. 

NORTH  DAKOTA— $36.40. 

Received  by  Rev.  G.  J.  Powell:  Dazey,  9:  Abercrombia,  3, 
Colfax,  2:  Berthold,M.  Pickering,  5;  Medina,  German,  5, 
Wyndmere,  1;  Dorcas  Soc,  2. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  J.  M.  Fishef,  Treas.: 
Cooperstown,  4.15;  Hankinson,  5.25.    Total,  9.40. 


APPOINTMENTS   AND   RECEIPTS 


191 


SOUTH  DAKOTA— $40.66. 

Chamberlain,  Ch.,  10;  C.  E..  2;  Selby,  Rev.  D.  G. 
Schurr,  German,  6;  Springfield,  18.41;  Valley  Springs, 
4.25. 

COLORADO -$102.44. 

Denver,  Pilgrim,  1.25;  Tort  Collins,  German,  8.23; 
Loveland,  ist,  German,  10;  Pueblo,  Minnequa,  1.31; 
Windsor,  German,  8.15. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Miss  I.  M.  Strong,  Tre^s.: 
Colorado  Springs,  1st,  20;  Cripple  Creefc,  6;  Eaton,  15;  Gree- 
ley) 5.50;  Hayden,  7;  Longmont,  5;  Pueblo,  1st,  10;  Tellu- 
ride,  5.     Total,  73  50. 

WYOMING— $19. 

Wheatland,  Union,  ig. 
MONTANA— $13. 

Helena,  1st,  13. 


CALIFORNIA— $15. 

Pasadena,  C.  W.  Keese,  15. 

OREGON— $33. 

Portland,  German  Ebenezer,  special.  22;  Mrs. 
Halm,  1;   Sherwood  and  Tualatin,  2;  Stafford,  German,  8. 

WASHINGTON— $572. 63. 

Wash.  H.  M.  Soc,  by  Rev.  H.  B.  Hendley,  Treas.: 
Special,  549.50;  Aberdeen,  Swedish,  3;  Chattaroy,  4.40; 
Lowell,  2;  Milan,  2.88;  Tolt,  1st,  9;  Wallula,  1.85. 

AUGUST  RECEIPTS. 

Contributions $3,996.93 

Legacies .Si^-S? 

$7,128.50 

Interest 805.50 

Home  Missionary --- 23.62 

Literature.. 6.50 

Total - $7,964.12 


AUXILIARY   STATE    RECEIPTS 


MASSACHUSETTS  HOME  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY. 
Receipts  in  May,  1906. 
Rev.  Joshua  Coit,  Treasurer,  Boston,  Mass. 
Amherst,  Zion,  1;  Andover,  Mrs  S  B.  Richardson,  30; 
Arlington,  Park  Ave.,  30;  Baltimore,  Md.,  Estate  J. 
Henry  Stickney,  2,979.65;  Belmont,  Plymouth,  13.49; 
Boston,  Boylston,  Ellis  Mendell  Fund,  50;  Dorchester 
Village,  S.  S.,  10;  Neponset,  Trinity  16;  Roxbury, 
Immanuel,  1,160.73;  Swede,  13.40;  Swedes  Rent,  12.50; 
Walnut  Ave.  C.  E  ,  10;  Cambridge,  1st,  53.33;  Chelsea, 
Central,  7.27;  Dalton,  Zenas  C  ane,  250;  Deerfield,  5; 
South,  40.23;  Easthampton,  1st,  26.74:  Everett,  Mystic 
Side,  g.05;  Finns,  the  Cape,  13.90;  Fitchburg,  Finns,  8; 
Rollstone,  10  50:  Foxboro,  Bethany,  16;  Framingham, 
Plymouth,  75;  Freetown,  As-onet,  2.60;  Gloucester, 
Bethany,  Ladies'  Soc  ,  25;  Grafton,  Evang.,  73.83; 
South  Union,  13.41;  Hanson,  ist,  4.50;  S.  S.,  1.10;  Hat- 
field, 35.75:  Haverhill,  Center,  47.75;  French,  10,  River- 
side, 19;  Hyde  Park,  ist,  40.05;  S.  S.,  7.57;  Lawrence, 
Samuel  White,  50;  Lincoln,  8;  Maynard,  Finn,  3;  Mel- 
rose, Highlands,  .10;  Middleboro,  North,  40;  Millbury, 
Worcester  South  Conf.,  38.31:  Millers  Falls,  10;  Mon- 
terey, An  Easter  Offering,  24;  North  Billerica,  Mrs.  E. 
R.  Gould,  12;  Northbridge,  Center   12;  Quincy,  Finns, 

4  24;  Income  of  D wight  Reed  Fund,  16,  Rochester,  ist, 
25;  Income  of  Sister  Fund,  80;  Somerville,  Prospect 
Hill,  26.04;  So.  Framingham,  Grace,  S.  S.,  3.71;  South- 
bridge,  5.31;  Globe  Village,  Evang.  Free,  22. 50;  Taun- 
ton, East,  9.60;  Townsend,  Estate  of  Walter  J.  Ball, 
250;    Waltham,  Trin.,  24.02;    Ware,  Brookfield  Conf., 

5  60;  West  Peabody,  21.80;  West  Tisbury,  ist,  28;  Income 
of  Whitcomb  Fund,  245;  Whitinsville,  Extra  Cent  a 
Day  Band,  14.06;  Whitman,  18.10;  Woburn,  North.  7; 
Worcester,  Old  South,  510.40. 

Designated  for  Italian  work,  Boston,  Daughters  of 
Immanuel,  5;  Designated  for  C.  H.  M.  S.,  East  North- 
field,  Miss  C.  T.  Barber,  1;  Fitchburg,  Swede,  g.96; 
Leominister,  North,  19.18:  Newton,  ist,  5:  North  Billerica, 
Mrs.  E.  R.  Gould,  6;  Reading,  Mrs.  Joseph  Spokes- 
field,  5;  Royalston,  ist,  6.35;  Worcester,  1. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Assoc,  Lizzie  D.  White,  Treasurer; 
Salaries  for  American  International  College,  140 
for  Italian  worker,  35;  for  Polish  worker,  35;  Desig- 
nated for  C.  H.  M.  S.,  Essex  Alliance,  36.75;  Lynn- 
field,  2nd,  Aux.,  2. 

SUMMARY. 

Regu'ar $5,606.14 

Designated  for  Italian  work. 5.00 

Designated  for  C.  H.  M.  S 53.49 

Designated  for  C.  H.  M.  S.  from  W.H.M.A.        38.75 

W.  H.  M.  A 210.00 

Home  Missionary 3.40 

Total -.$7,036.78 

Receipts  in  June,  1906. 

Agawam,  Feeding  Hills,  10;  Boston,  Cutler,  Grace 
B.,  1;  Friend,  100;  Friend,  15;  Ellen  Humphrey*  Es- 
tate, 100;  Income  of  Ellis  Mendell  Fund,  32;  Park 
St.,  62;  W.  Roxbury,  South  Evang.,  58;  Braintree,  ist, 
37;  Brockton  ist,  Friend,  10;  Buckland,  ig.70;  Cambridge, 


ist  S.  S.,  15;  Hope,  12.98;  Pilgrim,  21.43;  Charlton,  10; 
Chester  Center,  5.55;  Chesterfield,  3.17:  Chicopee,  ist,  3; 
Columbia,  Wash.  Jr.  C.  E.,  .50;  Fitchburg,  Finn.  12.10; 
Franklin,  9.80;  Income  General  Fund,  8;  Hale,  50; 
Hamilton,  ist,  n;  Ipswich,  ist  Jr.  C.  E.,  10;  Lancaster, 
10;  Lawrence,  Trinity,  41.63;  Lincoln,  Hartwell,  Jonas, 
200;  Maiden,  ist,  143.99;  Maynard,  Finn,  3.20;  Milford, 
44.21;  Milton,  ist,  29.27;  New  Salem,  C.  E.,  5;  Newton, 
ist,  52.15;  Highlands,  24.29;  Two  Friends,  100;  North- 
bridge,  Rockdale,  5:  Whitinsville.  Village,  S.  S  , 
137.66;  North  Brookfield,  ist,  31. 2^;  Northampton,  Flor- 
ence, 25.66;  Oakham,  10;  Quincy,  Finn,  3.64;  Income  of 
D.  Reed  Fund,  80;  Spencer,  Friend,  55.  Taunton,  Wins- 
low.  10;  Income  of  Wall  Fund,  10;  Waltham,  52.52; 
Westboro,  Estate  of  Harriet  S.  Cady,  1,385.06:  "West 
Newbury,  ist,  23;  Weymouth,  East,  Friend,  50;  South, 
Old  South.  10;  Estate  of  Josephine  L.  Dyer,  1,500; 
Income  of  Whitcomb  Fund,  198;  Whitman,  13.90;  In- 
come of  Whitney  Fund,  200;  Winchester,  ist,  234; 
Piedmont,  2;  Plymouth,  210.70;  Estate  of  Harriet  D. 
Bart'ett,  137.50;  Liquidation  ist  Worcester  Bank, 
500. 

Designated  for  Greek  work,  Winchester,  ist  C.  E., 
10;  Designated  for  work  in  Alaska,  Northbridge,  Whit- 
insville, C.  E.,  25;  Designated  for  work  of  Mrs. 
Gray.  Wyoming,  Boston,  Roslindale  S.  S.,  8.82;  Les- 
ignated  for  C.  H.  M.  S.,  Boston,  Allston  C.  E.,  10; 
Springfield,  Olivet,  33.25;  Chicopee,  ist,  1;  Worcester, 
Park  7.50;  S.  S.,  3.07. 

Woman's  H.  M  Assoc,  Lizzie  D.  White,  Treasurer: 
Salaries  for  Italian  worker,  35;  for  Polish  worker,  35. 

SUMMARY. 

Regular $6,155.86 

Designated  for  work  in  Alaska 25.00 

Designated  for  Greek  work.. 10.00 

Designated  for  Mrs.  Gray 8.82 

Designated  for  C.  H.  M.  S 54.82 

W.  H.  M.  S 70.00 

Home  Missionary .50 

Total $6,325  00 

Receipts  in  July,  1906. 

Auburn,  20.09;  Bedford,  Miss  E.  M.  Davis,  2  50;  Bever- 
ley, Swedes,  5;  Boston,  Boylston,  5;  Dorchester,  Vil- 
lage, L.  H.  M  Soc. ,20;  Friend,  50;  Friend,  5;  MissG. 
and  L.  Hilton,  5:  Brookline,  Harvard,  82.40;  Cambridge, 
Pilgrim,  n.37;  The  Cape,  Finns,  15.98;  Chicopee,  ist,  18; 
S.  S.,  3.18;  Income  of  Clark  Fund,  15;  Dennis,  South, 
7;  East  Bridgewater,  7.67;  Everett,  ist,  66.95;  Fall  River, 
Broadway,  10;  Fitchburg,  German,  16;  Rollstone, 
18.84;  Foxboro,  Miss  M.  N.  Phelps,  50;  Income  of  Frost 
Fund  50;  Income  of  General  Fund,  50;  Granby,  27.50; 
Greenfield,  2nd,  39.03;  Income  of  Gurney  Fund,  50; 
Hingham,  Evang.,  33.81;  Holbrook,  Winthrop,  28  64;  In- 
come of  Jessup  Fund,  150;  Leicester,  ist,  23.48;  Lever- 
ett,  ist,  10;  Marblehead,  ist,  25;  Marlboro,  Hope,  6.10; 
Union,  44.59;  Maynard,  Finn,  3.57;  Medford,  Mystic, 
108.65;  Income  of  Mendell  Fund,  50.32;  Methuen,  ist, 
22.65;  Nashua,  N.  H.,  Estate  of  Laura  M.  Harris,  38.37; 
Newburyport,   Mrs.  J.  W.   Dodge,  25;   Newton,  Eliot, 


192 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


320;  North  Brookfield,  1st,  5;  Norwood,  1st,  85.95;  Peru, 
5.85;  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  5;  Pittsfield,  1st,  23.82;  South, 
15.22;  Quincy,  Finn,  2.3g;  Income  of  Reed  Fund,  76.25; 
Rockport,  15.26;  Salem,  Tabernacle,  7;  Sandisfield,  New 
Boston,  2.50;  Income  of  Sister's  Fund,  120;  Southfield, 
5.50;  South  Framington,  Grace,  142.98;  South  Hadley,  12; 
Springfield,  Olivet,  18.50;  Taunton,  Union,  101  5s;  Ux- 
bridge,  1st,  30.07;  Wakefield,  33.74;  Wellesley,  5;  Wellesley 
Hills,  Mrs.  M.  B.  Davis,  2;  West  Barnstable,  C.  E.,  5; 
West  Stockbridge,  Center,  5;  Village,  23.50;  Income  of 
Whitcomb  Fund,  172.50;  Income  of  Whitin  Fund, 
120;  Income  of  Whiting  Fund,  20;  Worcester,  Estate 
of  Harriet  VV.  Damon,  16.67. 

Designated  for  Rev.  Mr.  Long,  Arizona,  Wellesley 
Hills  1st.  13.25;  Designated  for  Immigrants,  Westboro, 
Evang.  S.  S.,  2.74;  Designated  for  Italian  Mission, 
Boston,  Miss  G.  and  L.  Hilton,  10;  Designated  for 
C.  H.  M.  S.,  Auburn,  20.10;  Boston,  Miss  Mary  C.  Leav- 
itt,  5;  Middleboro,  24.85;  Somerville,  Prospect  Hill, 
iri.75;  South  Hadley,  1.50;  Worcester,  Plymouth,  1,000. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Assoc,  Lizzie  D.  White,  Treasurer: 
Salaries  of  Italian  worker,  35;  of  Polish  worker,  35. 

SUMMARY. 

Regular $6,219.94 

Designated  for  Rev.  Mr.  Long 18  25 

Designated  for  the  Immigrants 2.74 

Designated  for  the  Italian  Mission 10.00 

Designated  for  the  C.  H.  M.  S 1,163.20 

W.  H.  M.  A 70-00 

Home  Missionary "1.10 

Total $3,885.23 

Receipts  in  August,  1906. 
Rev.  Joshua  Coit,  Treasurer,  Boston,  Mass. 

Andover,  North,  L.  A.  R^a,  25;  Belmont,  Plymouth, 
1;  Bevoir,  Mo.,  Welch,  3. .,3;  Boston,  2;  Friend,  40;  Geo. 
A.  Hall,  50;  Dorchester,  Harvard,  26.70;  Income  of 
Brimbecom  Fund,  20;  Brockton,  Campello,  South, 
1  no;  Charlemont,  East,  6;  Concord,  Trinitarian,  16;  Dan- 
vers,  Maple  St..  87.27;  Edgartown,  42;  Everett,  Court- 
land  St.,  24.81;  Finns,  The  Cape,  22.95;  Fitchburg,  Roll- 
stone,  6.79;  Framingham,  Plymouth,  42;  South,  Grace, 
S.  S  ,  5.59;  Granville,  West,  4.75;  Hatfield,  42.09;  Holden, 
13  10;  Longmeadow,  5;  Maynard,  Finns,  1;  Medfield,  A 
Friend,  1;  Methuen,  add'l.,  2.36;  Newburyport,  North, 
23;  Phillipston,  10;  Quincy,  Finns,  2.80;  Hough's  Neck, 
12.43;  Wollaston,  25;  Randolph,  1st,  160.14;  S.  S.,  10;  In- 
come of  Reed  Fund,  60;  Sharon,  43  64;Somerville,  West, 
24.33;  So.  Hadley  Falls,  28.52;  Income  of  Swett  Wes- 
tern, 50;  Tolland,  7;  Upton,  1st,  11.04;  Ware,  Gilbertville, 
7s;  Wenham,  8:  Whitinsville,  E.-C.-a-Day-Band.  14.68, 
West  Springfield,  Park  St.,  39.55;  Wrentham,  Original; 
12.43;  Yarmouth,  25;  Designated  for  the  C.  H.  M.  S., 
Newton,   North,  C.  E.,  3. 

W.  H.  M.  A.,  Lizzie  D.  White,  Treas.:  Salaries  of  Pol- 
ish worker,  35:  of  Italian  worker,  35. 

SUMMARY. 

Regular $1,283.40 

Designated  for  C.  H.  M.  S 3.00 

W.  H.  M.  A 70.00 

Home  Missionary .50 

Total $',356  90 

THE  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY  OF  CONNECTICUT. 

Receipts  in  May,  1906. 

Ward  W.  Jacobs,  Treasurer,  Hartford. 

Ansonia,  German,  for  C.  H.  M.  S.,  4.50;  Berlin,  for 
Italian  work,  50;  Chaplin,  C.  E.,  for  work  among  for- 
eigners in  Connecticut,  5;  Ellington,  C.  E.,  for  State 
worK  among  foreigners,  5.43;  Glastonbury,  1st,  395.80; 
Grassy  Hill,  2;  Hartford,  Farmington  Avenue,  48.32; 
Danish,  for  debt  of  C.  H.  M.  S.,  13.50;  Middletown,  1st, 
49.29;  Montville,  5.90;  New  Britain,  1st,  135.21;  New 
Haven,  Redeemer,  34  25;  for  Italian  work,  25;  New 
London,  1st,  12.30;  Northfield,  5.44;  Old  Saybrook,  for  C. 
H.  M.  S.,  29.65;  Plainfield,  5.40;  Plantsville,  19.3s;  Riv 
erton,  12;  for  C.  H.  M.  S.,  5;  Sherman,  36.50;  Stafford 
Springs,  30;  Washington,  special,  ^6. is:  West  Avon,  3.80; 
West  Hartland,  for  C.  H.  M.  S.,  5;  Wrested,  1st,  Men's 
Club,  17.31;  for  C.  H.  M.  S.,  2nd,  203.10;  Woodstock, 
1st,  23;  W.  C.  H.  M.  U.  of  Conn.,  Mrs.  George  Follett, 
Secretary:  Goshen  Auxiliary,  for  Italian  work  in 
Connecticut,  22.40.    Total,  $1,240.60. 


M.  S.  C. $1,182.95 

C.  H.  M.  S 57.65 

Total $1,240.60 

Receipts  for  June,  1906. 

Ansonia,  German,  5;  Rerlin,  C.  E.,  special  for  Italian 
work,  40;  Branford,  25.50;  for  C.  H.  M.  S.,  25.50;  Cen- 
terbrook,  6.23;  Chaplin,  7.53;  Colchester,  19.82;  Sunday 
school,  8.73;  Danielson,  special  for  debt  of  C.  H.  M.  S., 
57.53;  Durham,  12.32;  for  C.  H.  M.  S.,  12.31;  East  Hart- 
ford, 1st,  add'l,  2;  Ellington,  51.62;  Essex,  1st,  40;  Exeter, 
in  Lebanon,  27;  Hartford,  1st,  135.04;  Talcott  Street, 
5;  Jewett  City,  C.  E.,  1;  Kensington,  special,  for  Italian 
work,  15;  C.  E.,  special  for  Italian  work,  10;  Milton, 
5;  New  Haven,  Humphrey  Street,  for  C.  H.  M.  S., 
47.35;  Redeemer,  for  Italian  work,  25;  New  Milford, 
98.61;  North  Woodbury,  19;  Norwich,  Broadway,  Young 
People's  Union,  special,  10.50;  Plainville,  Swedish, 
8.38;  Portland,  1st,  41.84;  for  C.  H.  M.  S.,  5;  Simsbury, 
13.60;  Terryville,  90.98;  Thomaston,  1st,  special,  11  74; 
Torrington,  French,  5;  Trumbull,  16;  C.  E.,  5;  West 
Haven,  1st,  13.20;  Winsted,  1st,  67.90;  The  Congrega- 
tional Union  of  New  Haven,  special,  25;  W.  C.  H. 
M  U.  of  Conn,  Mrs.  George  Follett,  Secretary, 
Griswold  Auxiliary,  2.50;  Norwich,  Broadway, 
Church  Miss.  Society,  special,  365.    Total,  $1,383.73. 

M.  S.  C $1,236.04 

C.  H.  M.  S _ 147.69 

Total $1,383-73 

Receipts  in  July,  1906. 
Bridgeport,  Black  Rock,  14.81;  Canterbury,  6;  Center- 
brook,  C.  E  ,  2;  Danielson,  37.54;  for  C.  H.  M.  S.,  20.11; 
East  Norwalk,  Swedish,  3;  Georgetown,  10;  Grassy  Hill, 
9.18;  Greenfield  Hill,  25;  Hartford,  1st,  66.26;  Litchfield, 
C.  E  ,  for  Italian  work,  11.60;  Lyme,  Grassy  Hill, 
C.  E.,  ■;;  Milton,  15;  New  Haven,  Howard  Avenue, 
16.30;  Plymouth,  14.62;  New  London,  1st,  15.71;  Putnam, 
2nd,  35  09;  Salem,  40;  Scotland,  5;  Shelton,  S.  S.,  24  69; 
Thomaston,  is<,  special,  10.97;  S.  S.,  special,  25;  Water 
town,  75;  S  S.,  16.50;  West  Hartford,  34.44;  Windsor,  1st, 
8.75.    Total,  $547.57. 

M.  S.  C $52746 

C.  H.  M.  S 20.11 

Total $547-57 

Receipts  in  August,  1906. 
Ward  W.  Jacobs,  Treas.,  Hartford. 

Bloomfield,  10.50;  Bridgeport,  2nd,  n  82:  Columbia,  10.85; 
for  C.  H.  M  S.,  10.85;  DeeP  River,  Swedish.  3;  Fairfield, 
50;  Green's  Farms,  14.71;  Guilford,  1st,  30:  Haddam,  1st,  6; 
tvoryton,  Swedish.  3.75;  Middletown,  3  d,  13  -.New  London, 
Swedish,  16;  Norwich,  Swedish,  12. to;  Old  Saybrook,  for 
C.  H.  M.  S..  25.25;  Plymouth,  n;  Sharon,  17.70;  Som- 
ersville,  6.25;  Southington,  8;  Stonington,  1st,  34. 43;  Suf- 
field,  1st,  31.87. 

W.  C.  H.  M.  U.  of  Connecticut,  Mrs.  Geo.  Follett,  Sec: 
Meriden,  1st,  Cheerful  Givers,  25;  Suffield,  ist,  L.  H. 
M   S,,  20.    Total,  $372.48. 

M.  S.  C,       $336.38 

C.  H.  M.  S.,     36.10    $372.48. 

NEW  HAMPSHIRE  HOME  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY. 

Receipts  in  April,  1906. 

A.  B.  Cross,  Treasurer,  Concord,  N.  H. 

Atkinson,   .50;   Bath,  W.  P.  Elkins,  i;   Candia,  n. 17; 

Dunbarton,  2.50;  Greenland,  35;   Hampton,  21.16;   Hudson, 

Caldwell  Buttrick,  10;  Lempster,  Marianna  Smith  and 

Mrs.  H.  P.  Bingham,  5;  New  Boston,  Estate  Lydia  A. 

Andrews,     835.58;       North    Hampton,    7;      Portsmouth, 

125:    North,    15.    Rochester,    Henry    M.    Plumber,   25; 

South  Merrimack,  Rev.  C.  S.  Haynes,  8;    Seabrunk  and 

Hamp  Falls,    10;    Warner,    11.25;    C.     E.,    5.      Total, 

$1,128.16. 

Receipts  in  May,  1906. 
Bath,  S.  S.,  3.60;    Claremont,   25;   East  Andover,  9; 
Greenfield,  C.  E.,  6:  Hollis,  g  22;   Loudon,  5.61;    Lynde- 
boro,  4.50;  North  Weare,  q.25;  Penacook,  15  39;  South  Sea- 
brook,  Rev.  W.  A.  Rand,  2;  Swanzey,  4.     Total,  $93  57. 

Receipts  in  June,  1906. 
Bath,  7;  Rev.  W.  P.  Elkins,  1;  Derry,  Central,  3789; 
Raymond,   15;  Surry,  C.    E.,   5;  Walpole,   27.55.    Total, 

$93.24. 


APPOINTMENTS   AND   RECEIPTS 


'93 


Receipts  for  July  and  August,  1906. 

Atkinson,  23.50;  Campton,  5.60;  Candia,  3.25;  Charles- 
town,  Mass.,  Anna  (r.  Lewis,  500;  Charlotte  G.  War- 
ren, 500;  Croydon,  6:  East  Jaffrey,  20.05;  Hanover,  Col., 
Ch.,  50*;  Hill,  25;  Hillboro  Centre,  8;  Jaffrey,  7;  Manchester, 
Franklin  St.,  124.13;  Meredith,  12;  Nashua,  Pilgrim, 
Ladies' Cir.,  15;  North  Barnstead,  5. n;  Salisbury,  4.40; 
Salmon  Falls,  Ch.  and  S.  S.,  22;  Tilton,  Bell  Keniston 
Est.,  27.63;  Webster,  1st,  40.93.    Total,  1,373.60. 

NEW  YOKE  HOME  MISSIONARY. 

Receipts  for  June,  1906. 

Clayton  S.  Fitch,  Treasurer. 

Brooklyn,  Ocean  Ave.,  10;   Willoughby  Ave.,  28.73; 

New  York,  Swedish,  10;  Lockport,   First,  92.02;  Ontario, 

5;  W.  H.  M.  U.,  50.  Total,  $195.75. 

Receipts  for  July. 

Brooklyn,  German,  2.50;  Cortland,  H.  E.  Ranney,  40! 
Hornby,  2.50;  Lisle,  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E..  2.41;  Moriah,  Estate 
of  Mrs.  Cyrenus  Reed.  10;  White  Plains,  277.82;  W. 
H.  M.  U  ,  as  follows:  Jamestown,  Mrs.  E.  O.  Morgan, 
10;  W.  H   M.  U.,  170.    Total,  $515.23. 

Receipts  for  August. 

Buffalo,  Fitch  Memo.,  8;  East  Rockaway,  12;  Washing- 
ton Mills,  10;  White  Plains,  10;  Willsboro,  20;  W.  H.  M. 
U.,  as  follows;  Homer,  Miss  E.  F.  Phillips,  5;  W.  IP 
M.  U.,  10.    Total,  $75. 

OHIO  HOME  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY. 
Receipts   in  May,  1906. 
Rev.  C.  H.  Small,  Treasurer,  Cleveland. 
Barberton,  20;  Chillicothe,  8.56;   Chardon,  13;  Chester,  1; 
Cincinnati,  Storrs,  personal,  2  50;    Lawrence  St.,  20; 
Cleveland,  Dennison  Ave.,  6;  Edinburg,  5  35;  Mansfield, 
Mayflower,  20;  Springfield,  1st,  1.22;  Secretary  Pulpit 
Supply,  60;  Toledo,  2nd,  20.75.    Total,  $178.38. 

Receipts  in  June,  1906. 

Ashtabula,  Finnish,  4;  Chester,  4.40;  Cleveland,  Hough 
Ave.,  62  45;  E.  Greenville,  1.50;  Hamilton,  4;  Eelley's 
Island,  Rev.  H.  R.  Core,  35;  Medina,  Conference  Fund 
Interest  42;  Newport,  Ey.,  5;  Painesville,  Union,  4;  Sul- 
livan, 6;  Toledo,  Washington  St.,  g.97;  Wellington,  35; 
Windham,  13.25.    Total,  $226.57. 

Receipts  in  July,  1906. 

Alliance,  Mrs.  Whippy,  5;  Belpre,  C.  E.,  5;  Coolville, 
7.49;  Centennial,  3;  Cincinnatti,  Plymouth,  5;  Storrs, 
2.50;  Cleveland,  Mizpah,  5.50;  Cyril  S.  S.,  5;  E.  Green- 
ville, .75;  S.  S.,  .60;  Ireland,  1  61:  Marietta,  1st,  160; 
Mt.  Vernon,  23;  Mecca,  S.  S.,  5;  Mineral  Ridge,  2;  Ober- 
lin,  2nd,  35.04;  1st,  34.09;  Penfield,  5;  Parkman, 
9;  Radnor,  10:  Rootstown,  K.  E.  S  ,  24.28;  Secretary 
Pulpit  Supply,  16;  Toledo,  Central,  40.80;  Windham, 
Mrs.  J.  S.  Johnson,  100         TotaL_ $505  66. 

Ohio  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union,   Mrs.   George 

B.  Brown,  Treasurer;  Barbertown,  5;  Brownheim,  10; 
Cincinnati,  Walnut  Hills,  2.65;  Cleveland,  1st.  W. 
A.,  14;  Park,  3;  Columbus,  Eastwood,  3.30;  Elyria, 
2nd,  12.50;  Lindenville,  5.65;  Lock,  1.80;  Marrietta, 
1st,    3.56;    C.    E.,    2.60;   Newport,  Ey.,  W.   M.   S.,  5; 

C.  E.,  5;  Painesville,  1st,  5.       Total $  79.06 

General  total..  584.72 


Receipts  in  August,  1906. 
Brighton,  1. 10;  Cleveland,  Euclid  Ave,  53.86;  Collin- 
wood,  12.50;  Columbus,  First,  120;  Huntsburg,  4.93;  S.  S., 
5;  Lenox,  10;  Oberlin,  Second,  25;  Springfield,  Lagonda 
Ave. ,  15;  Thompson,  4.55;  S.  S.,  5.78;  Vaughnsville,  16; 
Wayland,  10.     Total,  $283.72. 

OHIO  WOMAN'S  HOME  MISSIONARY  UNION. 
Receipts  in  June,  1906. 
Mrs.  George  B.  Brown,  Treasurer,  Toledo. 
Akron,  1st,  W.  M.  S.,  10;  Ashland,  W.  M.  S.,  3  10; 
Ashtabula,  1st,  W.  M.  S.,  10;  Bellevue,  W.  M.  S.,  4.25; 
Chardon,  C.  E.,  1.35;  Cincinnati,  Columbia,  W.  M.  S., 
2.80;  Old  Vine  St.  W.  M.  S.  10:  Cleveland,  Union, 
C.  E.,  3;  Elyria,  1st.  W.  A.,  13;  Geneva,  W.  M.  S.,  5; 
C.  E.,  5;  Lyme,  W.  M.  S.,  3;  Madison,  W.  M.  S.,  2.80; 
Mansfield,  1st,  W.  M.  S..  20;  Marietta  Harmar,  7.35; 
Norwalk.W.  M.  S.,  2.50;  Painesville,  Lake  Erie  College, 
personal,  25;  1st,  C.  E.,  2.50;  Rock  Creek,  S.  S.,  1.50; 
Ruggles,  W.  M.  S.,  25;  Springfield,  Lagonda  Ave., 
W.  M.  S.,  5;  Tallmadge,  W.  M.  S.,  10;  M.  B.,  2;  Toledo, 
Plymouth,  Jr.  C.  E.,  1;  Unionville,  S.  S.,  5;  West  Mill- 
grove,  C.  E  ,  .75;  Zanesville,  Jr.  C.  E.,  1.  Total, 
$181.90.    Grand  total,  $408.47. 

Receipts  in  August,  1906. 
Geneva,  C.  E.,  5;  Oberlin,   Second,  S.  S.,  5;  Strongs" 
ville,  W.  M.   S.,   3.55;  Toledo,   Central, W.  M.  S.,  480; 
Plymouth,  W.  M.  S  .  2.50;  First,  W.   M.  S.,  50.  Total, 
$70.85;  Grand  total,  $354.57. 

MICHIGAN  HOME  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY. 

Receipts  in  March,  1906. 
Rev.  John  P.  Sanderson,  Treasurer,  Lansing 
Armada,  61;  Bass  River,  6.06:  Beacon  Hill,  2.25;  W.  S.,  5; 
Benton  Harbor,  C.  E.,  5;  Benzonia,  100.50;  Breckenridge, 
2.50;  Bridgman,  14;  Brimley,  7.50;  Carmel,  4.50:  Carson 
City,  15.14;  Chase,  1.62;  Coloma,  6.25;  Copemish,  7;  Crystal, 
3;  Detroit,  Wordward  Ave.,  105.50;  Dexter,  1.20;  Mrs. 
Mattison,  3;  Echo,  3.50;  Flint,  35.43;  Grand  Haven,  3; 
Grand  Rapids,  1st,  25;  Plymouth,  n;  C.  E.,  5;  Harrison, 
22.25;  Hartland,  5;  Hersey,  3.15;  Hetherton,  5.50;  Hopkins 
Station,  29.80;  Johannesburg,  17;  Ealamazoo,  H.Montague, 
10;  Laingsburg,  13.50;  S.  S.,  2  50;  Lake  Odessa,  5:  C.  E.,  5; 
Lansing,  Plymouth,  30.26;  Merrill,  5;  Mio,  1;  New  Bal- 
timore, 5.46;  Northport,  C.  E.,  3;  Port  Sanilac,  5;  Red- 
ridge,  2.65;  S.  S.,  3:  Roscommon,  17,  so;  Salem,  1st,  12; 
Thompsonville,  21;  Watervliet,  18;  Whitehall,  C.  E.,  5; 
Wyandotte,  2;  Interest,  332.50;  W.  H.  M.  U.,  661;  Con- 
gregational Michigan,  6. 20.    Total,  $1,683.22. 

Receipts  in  May,  1906. 
Addison,  5.20;  Charlotte,  30;  Chassell,  S.  S.,  6.43; 
Clarksville,  2.50;  Copemish,  S.  S.,  1.11;  Detroit,  1st,  500; 
Mount  Hope  S.  S.,  2;  Essexville,  .50;  Freeport,  Church 
and  S.  S  .  17  51;  Gilmore,  5.50:  Leslie,  :st,  ig  50;  Man- 
celona,  1;  Olivet,  3. 32;  Rockwood,  4.15;  Rosedale,  10;  St. 
Joseph,  5;  Wolverine,  3;  Anonymous,  2.50;  Estate  of 
Stanley  H.  Mills,  Grand  Rapids,  10.    Total,  $629.22. 

RHODE  ISLAND  HOME  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY. 

Receipts  from  January  to  July,  1906. 

J.  William  Rice,  Treasurer,  Providence 

Barrington,  32  25;  Central  Falls,  58  97;  E.  L.  FYeeman 

100.  Chepachet,    to;   C.   E  ,   5;   Pawtucket,   Park  Place; 

C.  T.:  5;  Peacedale,  44.95;    Providence,  Beneficient,  79.96, 

C.  Eahl  782.02:  Union,  50;  Riverside,  1 ;  Slatersville,  11.50. 

Cent,  10;  E.,  rornton,   5;  Westerly,  Pawcatuck,    11.06; 

Total $1,206.71 


WOMAN'S    STATE    ORGANIZATIONS 


NATIONAL  FEDERATION  OF  WOMAN'S  STATE  OR- 
GANIZATIONS, President,  Mrs.  B.  W.  Firman,  ioia 
Iowa  Street,  Oak  Park,  111.      Secretary,  Miss  Annie 

A.  McFarland,  196  N.  Main  Street,  Concord.  N.  H. 
Treasurer,  Mrs.  A.  H.  Flint,  604  Willis  Avenue, 
Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

1,  NEW  HAMPSHIRE,  Female  Cent.  Institution, 
organized  August,  1804;  and  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  June,  i8qo.  President,  Mrs.  James  Minot, 
Concord;  "Secretary,  Mrs.  M.  W.  Nims,  5  Blake  St., 
Concord;  Treasurer,  Miss  Annie  A.  McFarland,  196 
N.  Main  St.,  Concord. 

2,  MINNESOTA,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  September,  1872.  President,  Miss  Catharine 
W.  Nichols,  230  E.  9th  St.,  St.  Paul;  Secretary, 
Mrs.  S.  V.  S.  Fisher,  2131  E.  Lake  St.,  Minneapolis; 
Treasurer,  Mrs.  W.  M.  Bristoll,  815  E.  18th  St., 
Minneapolis. 

3,  ALABAMA,  Woman's  Missionary  £/«/<?«, organized 
March  1877;  reorganized  April,  1889.  President, 
Mrs.  M.  A.  Dillard,  Selma;  Secretary,  Mrs.  E.  Guy 
Snell.  Mobile;  Treasurer,  Nellie  L.  Clark,  Marion. 

4,  MASSACHUSETTS  AND  RHODE  ISLAND,  (having 
certain  auxiliaries  elsewhere).  Woman's  Home 
Missionary  Association,  organized  February,  1880. 
President,  Mrs.  Wm.  H.  Blodgett,  64s  Centre  St.. 
Newton,  Mass. ;  Secretary,  Miss  Mary  C  E.  Jackson, 607 
Congregational  House,  Boston;  Treasurer,  Miss  Lizzie 
D.  White.  607  Congregational  House,  Boston. 

5,  MAINE,  Woman's  Missionary  Auxiliary,  or- 
ganized June,  1880.  President,  Mrs.  Katherine  B. 
Lewis.  S.  Berwick;  Secretary,  Mrs.  Emma  C.  Water- 
man, Gorham;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  Helen  W.  Hubbard,  79 
Pine  St.,  Bangor. 

6,  MICHIGAN,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  May,  1881.  President,  Mrs.  C.  R.  Wilson, 
6s  Frederick  Ave..  Detroit;  Cor.  Secretary,  Mrs.  L.  P. 
Rowland,  369  Fountain  St.,  Grand  Rapids;  Treasurer, 
Mrs.  A.  H.  Stoneman,  341  Worden  St.,  Grand 
Rapids. 

7,  KANSAS,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union,  or- 
ganized October.  1881.  President,  Mrs.  J.  E.  Ingham, 
Topeka;  Secretary,  Mrs.  Emma  E.  Johnston,  1323  W. 
isth  St.,  Topeka;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  J.  P.  Wahle,  1258 
Clay  St.,  Topeka. 

8,  OHIO,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union,  or- 
ganized May,  1882.  President,  Mrs.  C.  H.  Small, 
m6  Commonwealth  Ave.,  Cleveland;  Secretary  and 
Treasurer,  Mrs.  G.  B.  Brown,  2116  Warren  St.   Toledo. 

9,  NEW  YORK,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  October,  1883.  President,  Mrs.  William 
Kincaid,  483  Greene  Ave..  Brooklyn:  Secretary,  Mrs. 
Charles  H.  Dickinson,  WoodclifT-on-Hudson,  N.  J.; 
Treasurer,  Mrs.  J.  J.  Pearsall,  153  Decatur  St.,  Brook- 
lyn. 

10,  WISCONSIN,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  October.  1883-  President,  Mrs.  T.  G.  Gras- 
sie.  Wauwatosa;  Secretary,  Mrs.  J.  H.  Dixon,  1024 
Chapin  St.,  Beloit;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  Edward  F.  Han- 
son, Beloit. 

11,' NORTH  DAKOTA,  Woman's  Home  Missionary 
Union,  organized  November,  1883     President,  Mrs.  L. 

B.  Flanders.  Fargo;  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Mrs.  J. 
M.  Fisher.  Fargo. 

12,  OREGON,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union,  or- 
ganized July.  1884.  President,  Mrs.  E.  W.  Luckey, 
707  Marshall  St.,  Portland;  Cor.  Secretary,  Miss  Mercy 
Clarke,  39s  Fourth  St..  Portland;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  C. 

F.  Clapp  Forest  Grove. 

13,  WASHINGTON,  Including  Northern  Idaho, 
Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union,  organized  July. 
1884:  reorganized  June.  1889.  President,  Mrs.  W.  C. 
Wheeler,  302  N.  J.  St..  Tacoma;  Secretary,  Mrs. 
Edward  L.  Smith,  72s  14th  Ave.,  Treasurer,  E.  B.  Bur- 
well,  323  Seventh  Ave.,  Seattle. 

14,  SOUTH  DAKOTA,  Woman's  Home  Missionary 
Union,  organized  September,  1884.  President,  Mrs.  H. 
K.  Warren,  Yankton;  Secretary,  Mrs.  A.  C.  Bowdish, 
Mitchell;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  A.  Loomis,  Redfield. 

15,  CONNECTICUT,  Woman's  Coneregational  Home 
Missionary  Union  0/  Connecticut,  organized  January, 
1885.  President,  Mrs.  Washington  Choate,  Green- 
wich; Secretary,  Mrs.  C.  T.  Millaid,  36  Lewis  St., 
Hartford;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  Chas.  S.  Thayer,  64  Gillett 
St.,  Hartford. 

16,  MISSOURI,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  May.  1885.  President,  Mrs.  M.  T.  Runnels, 
1229  Garfield  Ave..  Kansas  City;  Secretary.  Mrs.  C. 
W.  McDaniel,  2729  Olive  St.,  Kansas  City;  Treasurer, 
Mrs.  A.  D.  Rider,  2524  Forest  Ave.,  Kansas  City. 

17,  ILLINOIS,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  May,  1885.  President,  Mrs.  B.  W.  Firman. 
1012  Iowa  St.,  Oak  Park;   Corresponding  Secretary,  Mrs. 

G.  H.  Schneider, 919  Warren  Ave.,  Chicago;  Treasurer, 


Mrs.  A.  O.  Whitcomb,  463    Irving    Ave.    Douglas 
Park  Station.  Chicago. 

18,  IOWA,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union,  or- 
ganized June,  1886.  President,  Mrs.  D.  P.  Breed, 
Grinnell;  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Mrs.  H.  K.  JJdson, 
Grinnell. 

19,  NORTHERN  CALIFORNIA,  Woman's  Home  Mis- 
sionary Union,  organized  June,  1887.  President,  Mrs. 
F.  B.  Perkins,  1689  Broadway,  Oak'and;  Secretary, 
Mrs.  E.  S.  Williams,  Saratoga;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  M.  J. 
Haven.  1320  Parrison  St.,  Oakland. 

20,  NEBRASKA,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  November,  1887.  President,  Mrs.  J.  E. 
Tuttle,  1313  C  St  ,  Lincoln;  Secretary,  Mrs.  H. 
Bross,  2904  Q  St.,  Lincoln;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  Charlotte 
J.  Hall,  2322  Vine  St.,  Lincoln. 

21,  FLORIDA,  Woman's  Horn'  Missionary  Union,  or- 
ganized February,  1888.  President,  Mrs.  S.  F.  Gale, 
Jacksonville;  Secretary,  Mrs.  W.  H.  Edmondson, 
Day  tona;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  Catherine  A  Lewis, Mt.  Dora. 

22,  INDIANA,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  May,  1888.  President,  Mrs.  W.  A.  Bell,  1211 
Broadway,  Indianapolis;  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Mrs. 
Anna  D.  Davis,  1608  Beliefontaine  St.,  Indianapolis. 

23,  SOUTHERN  CALIFORNIA,  Woman's  Home  Mis- 
sionary Union,  organized  May.  1888.  President  Mrs. 
Kate  G.  Robertson,  Mentone:  "Secretary,  Mrs.  H.  K. 
W.  Bent,  130  W.  Ave.,  Los  Angeles;  Treasurer,  Mrs. 
E.  C.  Norton.  Claremont. 

24,  VERMONT,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union. 
organized  June,  1888.  President,  Mrs.  Rebecca  P. 
Fairbanks.  St.  Johnsbury;  Secretary,  Mrs.  Evan 
Thomas,  Essex  Junction;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  C.  H. 
Thompson,  Brattleboro. 

25,  COLORADO,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  October,  1888.  President,  Mrs.  J.  C. 
Gorsuch,  753  S.  Pearl  St  ,  Denver;  Secretary, 
Mrs.  F.  D.  Baker,  3221  Franklin  St..  Denver; 
Treasurer,  Miss  I.  M.  Strong,  P.  O.  Box  177,  Denver. 

26,  WYOMING,  Woman's  Mission  try  Union,  or- 
ganized May,  1893.  President,  Mrs  P.  F.  Powelson, 
Cheyenne;  Secretary,  Mrs.  H.  B.  Patten,  Cheyenne; 
Treasurer,  Mrs.  J   W.  Morrall,  Sheridan. 

27,  GEORGIA,  Woman' s Missionary  Union, organized 
November,  1888;  new  organization  October,  1898. 
President,  Mrs  L.  B.  Norn*.  Marietta;  Secretary,  Miss 
Jenn'e  Curtiss  Mcintosh;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  M  J.  Keand, 
Athens. 

29,  LOUISIANA,  Woman's  Missionary  Union,  or 
ganized  April  1889.  President,  Miss  Mary  L. 
Rogers,  2436  Canal  St.,  New  Orleans;  Secretary, 
Mrs.  A.  L.  DeMond,  128  N.  Galvez  St.;  Treasurer,  Miss 
Lena  Babcock,  2436  Canal  S*\,New  Orleans. 

30,  ARKANSAS,  KENTUCKY  AND  TENNESSEE, 
Woman's  Missionary  Union  0/  the  Tennessee  Asso  ia- 
tion  organ'zed  April,  1889.  President,  Mrs.  G  W. 
Moore  926  N.  Addison  Ave  N^hville.Tenn  ;  Secre- 
tary, Mrs  R.  J.  McCann,  Knoxville  Tenn.;  Treasurer, 
Mrs    T   C  Napier   ^14  Capitol  Ave..  Nashville. 

31,  NORTH  CAROLINA,  Woman's  Missionary  Union. 
organ'zed  October.  1889.  President,  Mrs.  C.  Newkirk, 
Mooresville;  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Mrs.  H.  R. 
Faduma,  Troy. 

32,  TEXAS,  Woman's  Horn'  Missionary  Union,  or- 
ganized March.  1890  Secretary,  Mrs.  Donald  Hinck- 
ley Sanger  Ave.;  Dallas;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  A.  Geen, 
Dallas. 

33,  MONTANA,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  May,  1890  President,  Mrs  Victor  F.  Clark, 
Livingston;  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Mrs.  W.  S.  B  11, 
611  Spmc  S*  .  Helena. 

34,  PENNSYLVANIA,  Woman's  Missionary  Union, 
organized  J"ne.  1890  President,  Mrs.  E.  E.  Dexter, 
7*2  N  19th  St.,  Philadelphia;  Secretary,  Mrs.  Osgood, 
Ge'mantown;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  David  Howells,  Kane. 

35,  OKLAHOMA,  Woman's  Missionary  Union,  or- 
ganized October  1890  President,  Mrs.  O.  W.  Rogers, 
Medford;  Secretary,  Mrs.  C.  M.  Terhune,  El  Reno; 
Treasurer,  Mrs  Cora  Worrell,  Pond  Creek. 

36,  NEW  JERSEY,  Including  District  of  Columbia, 
Maryland  and  Virginia.  Woman's  Home  Missionary 
Union  0/  the  N'tv  Jersey  Association,  organized 
March.  1891-  President,  Mrs.  John  M.  Whiton,  Plain- 
field;  Secretary,  Mrs.  Allen  H.  Still,  Westfield; 
Treasurer,  Mrs.  G.  A.  L.  Merrifield,  Falls  Church.  Va. 

37,  UTAH,  Woman's  Missionary  Union,  organized 
Mav,  1891.  President,  Mrs.  C.  T.  Hemphill  Salt  Lake 
City.  Ut  h;  Secretary.  Mrs.  L.  E.  Hall.  Salt  Lake  City, 
Utah;  Treasurer,  Miss  Anna  Baker,  Salt  Lake  City, 
Utah 

41,  IDAHO,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union,  or- 
ganized 1895.  President,  Mrs.  R.  B.  Wright,  Boise; 
Secretary,  Mrs.  C.  E.  Mason,  Mountain  Home,  Treas- 
urer, Mrs.  G.  W.  Derr,  Pocatello,  Idaho. 


Congregational    Home    Missionary    Society 

.FOURTH  AVENUE  AND  TWENTY-SECOND  STREET,  NEW  YORK,  N.  Y. 

CH  \RLES  3.  MILLS,  D.D.,  President 
H.  CLARK  FORD,   Vice  Freiident 
WASHINGTON  CHOATE,  D.D.,  JOSEPH  P..  CLARK,  D.D., 

Acting  General  Secretary  Editorial  Secretary 

DON  O.   S  HELTON,  Associat"  Secretary 
WILLIAM  B.  HOWLAND,    Treasurer 

Directors 

Charles  S.  Mills,  D.D.,  Chairman Missouri  George  R.   Leav.tt,  D.D : Wisconsin 

Rev.  Raymond  Calkuss,        .Maine  Rev.   Bastian  Smits Michigan 

George  E.  Hall,  D.D _ New  Hampshire  Mr.   Edward  Tucker .Kansas 

Henry  Fairbanks,  Ph.D Vermont  John  E.  Tuttle,  D.D Nebraska 

S.  H.  Woodrow,  D.D..... Massachusetts  Frank  T.  Bayley,  D  D Colot  ado 

Mr.  John  F    Huntsman Rhode  Island  Mr.  Robert  D.  Benedict ..New  Yo'k 

Rev.   H.  H.  KELSEY. Connecticut  L.  H.  HallOCK,  DD Minnesota 

S.  Parkes  Cadman,  D.D .. New  York  H.  C.  Herring,  D.D Nebraska 

Mr.  W.  W.   Mills >. Ohio  E.  L.  Smith.  D.D _ Washington 

W.  E.  Barton,   D.D Illinois  Rev.  Livingston  L.  Taylor New  York 

E.  M.  Vtttum,  D.D Iowa 

Executive  Committee 

WASHINGTON   CHOATE,  D.D.,  Acting  Chairman 
One  Year  Two   Years 

S.  Parkes  C«dman,  D.D.  Mr.  James  G.  Cannon 

Harry  P.  Dewe"  D.D.  Mr.   W.  Winans  Freeman 

Mr.  John  F.  Huntsman  Rev.  Hrn-v  H.  Kblsey 

Mr.  Charles  C.  West  Rev.  I.ivi   gston  L.  Taylor 


Field  Secretary,  Rev.  W.  G.  Pu.j  .-EF0OT,  S  uth  P  amingham,  Mass. 
Field  Assistant^  MISS  M.   DEA.-l   JluFKAT. 


Superintendents 

Moritz  E.  Eversz,  D.D.,  German  Department,  153  La  Salle  St.,  Chicago,  111. 

Rev.  S.  V.  S.  Fisher,  Scandinavian  Department,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 
Slavic  Department(  Cleveland.  Ohio. 

Indianapolis,  Ind.        Rev.  H.  Sanderson Denver,  Colo. 

Geo.  R.  Merrill,  D.D Minneapolis,  Minn.        J.  D.  Kingsbury,  D.D (New  Mexico,  Arizona. 

Alfred  K.  Wray,  D.D Carthage,'  Mo.  Uiah  and  Idaho),  Salt  Lake  City. 

Rev.  W.  W.  Scudder.  Jr West  Seattle,  Wash.        Rev.  C.  F.  Clapp Forest  Gr-ve,  Ore. 

Rev.  W.  B.  D.  Gray Cheyenne,  Wyo.        Rev  Charles  A.  Jones,  75  EssexSt.,  Hackensack, N.J. 

Rev.  A.  T.   Clarke _Fort  Payne.  Ala.        Rev.  W.  S.  Bell Helena,  Mont. 

Frank  E.  Jenkins,  D  D .Atlanta,  Ga.  Kingfisher,  Okla. 

W.  H.  Thrall,  D.D.  100-operating)  Huron,  S.  Dak.        Geo.  L.  T.xld,  D*.D.. Havana,  Cuba. 

Rev.  G.  J.  Powell --Fargo,  N.  Dak. 

Secretaries  and  Treasurers  of  Constituent  States 

Rev.  Charles  Harbutt,  Secretary Maine  Missionary  Society _ 34  Dow  St.,  Portland,  Me. 

W.  P.  Hubbard,  Treasurer "  "  "        --- Box  1052,  Bangor,  Me. 

Rev.  A.  T.  Hillman,  Secretary New  Hampshire  Home  Missionary  Society Concord,  N.  H. 

Alvin  B.  Cross,  Treasurer "  iL  "      Concord.  N.  H. 

Charles  H.  Merrill.  D.D.,  Secretary. .Vermont  Domestic  "  "      St.  Johnsbury,  Vt. 

J.  T;  Richie,  Treasurer "  "  "  "      T -St.  Johnsbury,  Vt. 

F.  E.  Emrich,  D.D.,  Secretary Massachusetts  Home  "  "      I  609  Cong'l  House, 

Rev.  Joshua  Coit,  Treasurer lt  "  "  "      f  Boston,  Mass. 

Rev.  J.  H.  Lyon,  Secretary Rhode  Island        "  "  "      Central  Falls,  R.  I. 

Jos.  Wm.  Rice,  Treasurer '•  "  "  "  "      Providence,  R.  I. 

Rev.  Joel  S.  Ives,  Secretary Missionary  Society  of  Connecticut Hartford,  Conn. 

Ward  W.Jacobs,  Treasurer '"  "  "  Hartford,  Conn. 

Rev.  C.  W.  Shelton,  Secretary ..New  York  Home  Missionary  Society,  Fourth  Ave.  and  2ad  St., New  York 

Clayton  S.  Fitch,  Treasurer "       "         "  "  "      '  Fourth  Ave.  and  22d  St.  .New  York 

Rev.  Charles  H.  Small,  Secretary Ohio  "  "  "         . Cleveland,  Ohio 

Rev.  Charles  H.  Small,  Treasurer "  " Cleveland,  Ohio 

Rev.  Roy  B.  Guild,   Secretary Illinois  "  "  " I  153  La  Salle  St., 

John  W.  Iliff,  Treasurer "  "  "  "         )  Chicago 

Homer  W.  Carter,  D.D. ,  Secretary. .Wisconsin      "  "  "         Beloit,  Wis. 

C.  M.  Blackman,  Treasurer "  "  "  " Whitewater,  Wis. 

T.  O.  Douglass,  D.D..  Secretary Iowa  "  "  " Grinnell,  Iowa 

Miss  A.  D.  Merrill.  Treasurer  "  "  "  "         - Des  Moines,  Iowa 

Rev.  J.  W.  Sutherland,  Secretary. .Michigan        "  "  '  "         Detroit,   Mich. 

Rev.  John  P.  Sanderson,  Treasurer..        "  "  "  "         Lansing,  Mich. 

Rev.  Henry  E.  Thayer,  Secretary...  Kansas  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society Topeka,  Kan. 

H.  C.  Bowman.  Treasurer.. "  "  "  "       Topeka,  Kan. 

Rev.  S.  I.  Hanford,  Secretary Nebraska  Home  Missionary  Society - 

Other  State  Home  Misionary  Societies 

Rev.   T-  K.  Harrison,  Secretary North  California   Home  Missionary  Society .San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Rev.  John  L.  Maile,  Secretary South  "  "  '"  " Los  Angelas,  Cal. 

City  Mission  Auxiliaries 

Rev.  Philip  Yarrow,  Superintendent  Congregational  City  Missionary  Society  .  .St.   Louis,  Mo. 

Lewi's  E.  Show,  Superintendent "  "  "  " St.   Louis,  Mo. 


LEGACIES  — The  following  form  may  be  used  in  making  legacies  : 

I  bequeath  to  my  executors  the  sum  of  dollars,  in  trust,  to  pay  over  the  same  in 

months  after  my  decease,  to  any  person  who,  when  the  same  is  payable,  shall  act  as 

Treasurer  of  the  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society,  formed  in  the  City  of  New  York,  in  the 

year  eighteen  hundred  and  twenty-six,  to  be  applied  to  the  charitable  use  and  purposes  of  said 

Society,  and  under  its  direction. 

HONORARY  LIFE  MEMBERS  — The  payment  of  Fifty  Dollars  at  one  time  constitutes  an 
Honorary  Lift  Member. 


Pr"bf  Hiat  Soc 
1319  Walnut  st 

A  MATTER  OF  HEALTH 


MENNENY 


Borated  Talcum 

TOILET 
POWDER 


*akP 


Absolutely  Pure 

HAS  MO  SUBSTITUTE 


The  Mennen  Caddie 

offers    instant   relief  from   chaps 
and  skin   rou-thness  which   keen 
fall  winds  bring  toout  of  door  folks. 
MENNEX'S    BORATED 
TALCUM  POWDER 
soothes  and  heals  all  chafing  and 
chapping,  and  is  put  up  in  non- 
refillable  box — Mention's  face  on 
the  cover  guarantees  it's  genuine. 
For    sale    everywhere,    6r    by 
mail  for  25  cts. 
GERHARD 


NO  BABY'S  SKIN  TOO  DELICATE  FOR  ITS  USE 
NO  STAIN  THAT  WILL  NOT  DISAPPEAR  BEIORE  IT 


50  Cents  a  Year 


THE  HOME 
MISSIONARY 


Entered    at    the    Post-Office,    at    New    York,    N.    Y.,    as    second-class    [mail]    matter 


THE      HOME      MISSIONARY      ADVERTISER 


WING  PIANOS 

Are  Sold  Direct  From  the  Factory,  and  in  No  Other  Way 

You  Save  from$75to$200 


When  you  buy  a  Wing  Piano,  you  buy  at  wholesale. 
You  pay  the  actual  cost  of  making  it  with  only  our  whole- 
sale profit  added.  When  you  buy  a  piano,  as  many  still  do — 
at  retail — you  pay  the  retail  dealer's  store  rent  and  other 
expenses.  You  pay  his  profit  and  the  commission  or  salary 
of  the  agents  or  salesmen  he  employs— all  these  on  top  of 
what  the  dealer  himself  has  to  pay  co  the  manufacturer.  The 
retail  profit  on  a  piano  is  frpm  $75  to  $200.  Isn't  this  worth 
saving? 


SENT  ON  TRIAL 

WE    PAY    FREIGHT 
No  Money  in  Advance 


Anywhere 


We  will  place  a  Wing  Piano  in  any  home  in  the  United 
Stales  on  trial,  without  asking  for  any  advance  payment  or 
deposit.  We  pay  the  freight  and  all  other  charges  in  advance. 
There  is  nothing  to  be  paid  either  before  the  piano  is  sent  or 
when  it  is  received.  If  the  piano  is  not  satisfactory  after  20 
days'  trial  in  your  home,  we  take  it  back  entirely  at  our  ex- 
pense. You  pay  us  nothing,  and  are  under  no  more  obliga- 
tion to  keep  the  piano  than  if  you  were  examining  it  at  our 
factory.  There  can  be  absolutely  no  risk  or  expense  to  you. 
Do  not  imagine  that  it  is  impossible  foi  us  to  do  as  wo 
say.  Our  system  is  so  perfect  that  we  can  without  any 
trouble  deliver  a  piano  in  the  smallest  town  in  any  part  of 
the  United  States  just  as  easily  as  we  can  in  New  York  City, 
and  with  absolutely  no  trouble  or  annoyance  to  you,  and 
without  anything  being  paid  in  advance  or  on  arrival  either 
for  freight  or  any  other  expense.  We  take  old  pianos  and 
organs  in  exchange. 

A  guarantee  for  12 years  against  any  defect  in  tone,  action, 
workmanship  or  material  is  given  with  every  Wing  Piano. 


Small,  Easy 
MONTHLY 


Payments 


In    37  years   over   40.000    "Wing  Pianos 

have  been  manufactured  and  sold.  They  are  recom- 
mended by  seven  governors  of  States,  by  musical  colleges 
and  schools,  by  prominent  orchestra  leaders,  music  teach- 
ers and  musicians.  Thousands  of  these  pianos  are  in 
your  own  State,  some  of  them  undoubtedly  in  your  very 
neighborhood.  Our  oatalogue  contains  names  and  ad- 
dresses. 

Mandolin,  Guitar, Harp,  Zither,  Banjo— 

The  tones  of  any  or  all  of  these  instruments  may  be  re- 
produced perfectly  by  any  ordinary  player  on  the  piano  by 
means  of  our  Instrumental  Attachment.  This  improve- 
ment is  patented  by  us  and  cannot  be  bad  in  any  other 
piano.  WING  ORGANS  are  made  with  the  same  care 
and  sold  in  the  same  way  as  Wing  Pianoa,  Separate  or- 
gan catalogue  sent  on  request. 


\  YOU  NEED  THIS  BOOK 


The  Book 

ot.Camptete 
Information 

about 

Pianos 


II  You  Intend  to  Buy  a  Piano— No  Matter  What  Make 

A  book — not  a  catalogue— that  gives  you  all  the  information  possessed  by 
experts.    It  tells  about  the  different  materials  used  in  the  different  parts 
of  a  piano ;  the  way  the  different  parts  are  put  together ,  what  causes  pianos 
to  get  out  of  order  and  in  fact  is  a  complete  encyclopedia.    It  makes  the 
selection  of  a  piano  easy.    If  read  carefully,  it  will  make  you  a  judge  of 
tone,  aetion,  workmanship  and  finish.   It  tells  you  how  to  test  a  piano 
and  how  to  tell  good  from  bad.    It  is  absolutely  the  only  book  of        ss  m 
its  kind  ever  published.    It  contains   166  large  pages  and  hun-  /'jlV 

dreds  of  illustrations,   all  devoted  to  piano  construction.    Its       ^y  j     * 
name  is  "The  Book  of  Complete  Information  About  Pianos." 
We  send  it  free  to  anyone  wishing  to  buy  a  piano.    All  you 
have  to  do  is  to  send  us  your  name  and  address. 


Send  a.  Postal  To-day  while  you  thinlc  of 
it,  just  giving  your  name  and  address  or  send   us 
the  attached  coupon  and  the  valuable  book  of  in- 
formation, also  full  particulars  about  the  WING 
PIANO,  with  prices,  terms  of  payment,  etc., 
will  be  sent  to  you  promptly  by  mail. 


WING  &  SON 

391*383  West  13th  Street,  New  York 

1868 37th  YEAR 1905 


When      writing      to      advertisers    please     mention     The     Home     Missionary 


ORGANIZE    NOW    YOUR    HOME    MISSION    STUDY    CLASS. 


A     MILLION      IMMIGRANTS     A     YEAR! 


ALIENS 

AMERICANS 
2 


Howard  B.  Grose 


The  New  Home  Mission 
Text  Book,  for  Mission 
Study  Classes  in  Young 
People's  Societies 

For  General  Reading 


300      Pages.  Handsomely 

Bound.       Illustrated. 
Cloth,    50    Cents.      Paper, 
35  Cents. 
Postage    8    Cents    Extra. 


SEND    ORDERS   TO 
THE 

Congregational 

Home   Missionary 

Society 

287  Fourth  Ave.    New  York 


The  Latest  and  Best  Book 
on  this  Great  Subject 

ALIENS 

OR  = 

AMERICANS? 


This  volume,  with  its  striking  grouping  of 
the  Fresh  Facts,  Figures  and  Features  of  the 
New  Immigration,  the  greatest  in  history,  will 
not  only  instruct  and  inspire  those  .who  engage 
in  Home  Mission  Study,  but  it  will  prove  as  in- 
teresting as  fiction  to  the  general  reader. 

The  interest  deepens  from  chapter  to  chapter, 
culminating  in  the  evangelistic  necessities  and 
possibilities.    Note  the  table  of  contents. 


CONTENTS 


I. 

II. 

Ill, 

IV. 

V. 

VI. 

VII. 

VIII. 


The  Alien  Advance. 

Alien  Admission  and  Restriction. 

Problems  of  Legislation  and  Distribution. 

The  New  Migration. 

The  Eastern  Invasion. 

The  Foreign  Peril  of  the  City. 

Immigration  and  the  National  Character. 

The  Home  Mission  Opportunity. 
This  indicates  the  broad  scope  and  treatment. 
The   volume   is   finely   illustrated,    and    contains 
charts  and  tables,  including  statistics. 

Send  sixty  cents  for  a  sample  copy,  in  cloth. 
You  will  wish  it  for  your  library.  You  will  need 
it  for  use  in  your  home-mission  study  class. 


WHAT    DOES    THIS    MEAN    FOR    AFRICA? 


THE       HOME       MISSIONARY       ADVERTISER 


A    Junior    Text  Book 

HOME     MISSION     STUDY 

We  take  great  pleasure  in  announcing 
for  the  season  of  1906-07,  an  admirable 
home  mission  study  text-book  for  juniors, 
entitled,    . 

Coming  Americans 

BY  MISS  KATHERINE  R.  CROWELL 

Miss    Crowell's    earlier    books    in    this 
series     have     been     received     with     great 
favor.     Coming  Americans  will  be  illus- 
trated with  over  fifty  striking  pictures  of 
foreigners. 


Comments  on  Miss  Crowell's  Junior  Text  Book 

"The  children  will  most  certainly  be 
interested  and  instructed." — The  Missionary 
Review  of  the  World. 

"These  exceedingly  creditable  publica- 
tions for  Juniors  meet  a  very  decided  need. 
I  am  not  at  all  surprised  that  other  denomi- 
ations  than  Presbyterian  are  making  use 
of  them." — Dr.  Harlan  P.  Beach. 

"Will  interest  juniors  and  seniors  alike." 
— The  Moravian,  Bethlehem,  Pa. 

PRICE,  in  Paper,  25  Cents 

Cloth,  35  Cents 


For  copies,  address 
Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society 
287  Fourth  Avenue,  New  York. 


"The  20th  Century  Limited" 


The    Fastest    Long    Distance   Train  in  the 
World,    960    Miles    in    18    Hours,    via.  the 


NLWYORK 

Central] 

S.    LINES    J 


"America's    Greatest    Railroad" 

This  Magnificent  train  is  equipped 
with  Pullman  cars  of  the  very  latest 
design  which  have  made  the  New 
York  Central  service  so  deservedly 
popular.  Barber,  Fresh  and  Salt 
Water  Baths,  Valet,  Ladies'  Maid, 
Manicure,  Stock  and  Market  Reports, 
Telephone.   Stenographer,  etc. 

A  dozen  other  fast  trains  between. 
New  York,  Boston  and  Buffalo,  De- 
troit,   Cleveland,    Columbus,    Cincinnati, 
Indianapolis,    Chicago,     St.     Louis,    the 
West  and  Southwest. 

C.  F.  DALY,  Pass.  Trafic  Manager,  "Sew  York 


Rudolph  Lenz 

Printer 

62-65    Bible    House 

New    York 


CONTENTS 


For   NOVEMBER,   1906.  ^ 


CONSTERNATION  AMONG  THE  JEWS      Illustrated 

Joseph  H.  Adams 195 

THE  RUSSIAN  WELTER 200 

THE  ZINC  FIELD  AND  ITS  NEEDS      Illustrated 

Rev.  H.  H.  McDowell 201 

EDITOR'S    OUTLOOK 

The  Rusian  Horror 207 

That  North  Dakota  Parable 207 

The  Home  Missionary  Hymn 208 

Editorial  Notes 208 

TIMELY  TRUTHS  TERSELY  TOLD 

Unity  in  Diversity.     R.  R.  Meredith 210 

The  Mission  of  a  Christian  Republic     Washington  Gladden 210 

To  Serve  is  to  Rule.     N.  NcGee  Waters 211 

Durable  Values.     Newell  D.  Hillis 211 

A  Majestic  Task.  Nehemiah  Boynton 212 

A  GOOD  INVESTMENT      Illustrated 

Rev.  Charles  H.  Small 213 

OTHER  INVESTMENTS 214 

OUR  COUNTRY'S  YOUNG  PEOPLE 

Aliens  or  Americans? 215 

A  Clear  Call  to  Congregational  Sunday  Schools  and  Young  People's 

Societies 217 

Widening  Opportunities 218 

FROM  THE  THE  FRONT  LINE 

First  Impressions  of  Utah=-After  Sixteen  Years--A  Busy  Pastorate- -Not 

Remembering    the    Sabbath—How  it  Struck  the  Missionary--Cheering 

Signs  for  the  Preacher- -By  all  Means  to  Save  Some 219 

WOMEN'S  WORK  AND  METHODS 

Home  Missions,  The  Twentieth  Century  Patriotism.     Mrs.  G.  S.  Mills  .  .  .  222 

TO  PASTORS  AND  LEADERS  IN  SEARCH  OF  MATERIAL      224 

APPOINTMENTS  AND  RECEIPTS 228 


PER    YEAR,     FIFTY    CENTS 

THE    HOME    MISSIONARY 

Published  Monthly,  except  in  July  and  August,  by  the 
Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society 

287     FOURTH     AVENUE,  NEW    YORK    CITY 


YIDDISH    MAN    FROM    RUSSIA.      WTFE    AND    CHILDREN    MASSACRED 
WHILE  HE  WAS  AWAY  FROM  HOME 


THE 

HOME    MISSIONARY 


VOL.   LXXX 


NOVEMBER,  1906 


No.  6 


Consternation  Among  the  Jews 


By  Joseph  H.  Adams 


AMONG  the  alien  races  speeding 
westward  across  the  Atlantic  at 
this  time,  what  one  has  a  fairer 
claim  to  the  sympathy  of  the  New 
World  than  the  Russian  and  Polish 
Jew  ?  Behind  him  lie  misery  unspeak- 
able, torturing  memories,  a  looted 
home,  his  butchered  wife  and  children 
and  the  ruin  of  every  dear  hope  of  his 
life.   Landing  in  New  York,  in  place  of 


the  joyous  welcome  so  dear  to  the  im- 
migrant, he  finds  everywhere  con- 
sternation and  grief,  to  which  his 
coming  is  destined  to  add.  Over  on 
the  east  side  of  the  city,  that  section 
bounded  by  the  Bowery  on  the  west, 
by  the  river  on  the  east,  by  Houston 
Street  on  the  north  and  East  Broad- 
way on  the  south,  there  is  found  a 
population   of   many   thousands   who 


RUSSIAN   FAMILY.     SURVIVORS   OF   THE   RUSSTAN    MASSACRE 


196 


THE    HOME    MISSIONARY 


to-day  are  dumb  with  despair,  or 
frenzied  with  sorrow. 

The  distressing  news  from  all  yi-rts 
of  Russia  and  Poland  telling  of  the 
wholesale  massacre  of  their  race  has 
struck  terror  to  the  hearts  of  thou- 
sands among  the  poorer  class  of 
Polish,  Russian  and  Finnish  Jews. 
Many  of  them  in  their  simplicity,  fear 
trouble  in  this  country  as  a  reaction 
from  the  horrible  deeds  that  are  be- 
ing perpetrated  in  the  father-land, 
and  the  many  who  cannot  speak  or 
understand  our  language  and  are  not 
conversant  with  the  broctJ-minded 
American  policy,  fear  that  in  this 
country  there  may  exist  the  same 
feeling  against  them  as  in  Russia. 

Signs  of  mourning  are  every  where. 
Synagogues  are  daily  visited  by  multi- 
tudes who  flock  in  and  out  of  these 
temples  offering  sacrifices  for  the 
dead  and  prayers  that  mothers,  fa- 
thers, sisters,  brothers  and  friends 
still  in  Russia  may  be  spared.  Every 
night  throngs  gather  at  the  street 
corners  and  talk  over  the  latest  news 
from  home.  Lamentations  are  heard 
in  all  the  streets,  and  the  sounds  of 
wailing  for  the  dead  issue  from  nearly 
every  block. 

The  Jew  shows  grief  more  than 
most  other  aliens  and  it  takes  him 
longer  to  recover  from  affliction.  This 
applies  to  most  races,  or  individuals, 
who  are  hard  gainers  and  hard  losers. 
They  take  their  experiences  deeply. 
T^ong  faces  are  seen  on  every  hand, 
for  hardly  can  a  resident  in  the  Jew- 
ish quarter  be  found  who  has  not  lost 
some  relative  or  friend  and  who  is  not 
in  fear  as  to  what  the  near  future  has 
in  store  for  those  who  still  survive. 

They  who,  for  the  most  part,  have 
been  beaten  and  robbed  of  what  they 
had  and  were  fortunate  enough  to 
escape  death  are  too  timid  to  make  an 
attempt  to  leave  the  country,  while  the 
protection  offered  them  is  for  the 
present  as  little  or  nothing.  Ten 
chances  to  one  anv  travelling  Jew 
from  the  interior  of  Poland  or  Rus- 
sia would  never  reach  the  sea-coast  to 
embark  before  being  robbed  or 
murdered. 


The  conditions  in  Russia  are  worse 
than  any  one  in  this  free  and  prosper- 
ous land  can  possibly  imagine,  and  the 
half  has  never  been  told.  The  news 
is  carefully  suppressed  and  censors  at 
every  cable  outlet  cut  down  or  crop 
out  information  to  the  outside  world. 
Newspaper  dispatches  give  but  a 
meagre  idea  of  the  horrors  of  the 
situation ;  they  are  too  revolting  to 
print  in  detail,  and  too  terrible  for  the 
imagination  to  dwell  upon.  Helpless 
women  and  children,  butchered  and 
mowed  down  in  the  streets  like  cattle, 
a  brutal,  maniacal,  despotic  and  fiend- 
ish mob,  breaking  loose  at  times  in 
cities  and  towns  all  over  the  country, 
pillaging,  murdering,  and  brutally  as- 
saulting the  helpless  and  weak  with- 
out regard  to  age  or  sex ! 

The  mob  knows  not  why  it  is  doing 
this ;  they  are  simply  spurred  on  by  a 
fanatic  frenzy  to  abuse  and  maltreat 
the  Jew  beyond  all  limit  of  human  en- 
durance— robbing  him  of  his  worldly 
goods,  wrecking  his  shops  and  store- 
houses, and  when  the  worst  has  been 
done  to  his  property,  brutally  butcher- 
ing the  whole  family  and  flinging 
ttheir  bodies  into  the  streets,  or  over 
the  walls  into  the  river.  A  down- 
trodden race  is  always  a  grieving  and 
patient  one,  bearing  the  insults  and 
the  injuries  thrust  upon  them  with 
little  resistance  or  complaint,  enduring 
with  pain  what  others  would  resent 
and  hoping  against  hope  to  rise  again 
and  stand  among  the  nations  as  be- 
fore. 

The  greatest  congregating  place 
for  the  Jews  from  all  parts  of  the 
earth  is  found  in  the  United  States 
and  is  known  as  the  Jewish  quarter  of 
New  York  City.  Yet  this  section  does 
not  contain  all  the  race  in  one  city; 
they  are  scattered  from  the  Battery  to 
]-!igh  Bridge,  and  from  river  to  river 
all  over  Manhattan  Island.  Few  of 
our  people  realize  that  750,000  of 
ihis  race  reside  within  the  city  l.'mits, 
and  great  surprise  was  manifest  when 
the  mourning  parade  took  place  in 
the  early  days  of  last  December,  pass- 
ing up   Broadway  to   Union    Square 


h-l 

u 

P4 
o 

H 
W 

o 

P4 
w 

H 
Pi 
< 

a 


B 

o 

Ph 

o 

oi 
W 
H 
55 
W 
U 

< 

R 

H 
td 

53 


i                                                          ! '  '" 

*ij!                         '£' 

t# 

1'    ;-*  l1/i«*rfrli'ii        ^ 

'     1 

M 

fit          *p^r  "jg, 

■*■•           T  • 

V 

Ml3                                            * 

r 

I-— -,            .,-, . -~_ 1 _ _ : _— 

JEWISH  WEDDING  IN  A  SYNAGOGUE 


and  back  again  to  the  Jewish  quarter. 
Over  150,000  Russian  and  Polish 
Jews  filed  out,  that  day,  from  the 
sweat  shops  and  crowded  tenements 
of  the  East  Side,  each  with  the  emb- 
lem oj:  mourning  over  the  head  and 
shoulders.  Each  sect,  synagogue, 
congregation,  society,  and  fraternity 
had  its  leaders,  and  the  members 
quietly  fell  into  line  marching  along 
silently  to  the  mournful  dirges  of 
various  bands  distributed  along  the 
route. 

Signs  of  deep  mourning  were 
every  where  in  evidence,  showing  the 
vast  numbers  among  the  great  throng 
who  had  lost  near  relatives.  Most  of 
the  mourners  walked  with  eyes  on  the 
giound,  the  older  ones  in  the  attitude 
of  prayer,  slowly  swaying  their  heads 
up  and  down  as  the  custom  is  when 
wot  shipping  or  lamenting.  It  was  a 
solemn    and    pitiable    sight   to    watch 


this  mammoth  funeral  procession  fol- 
lowing their  memorial  banners  and 
mourning  the  friends,  who,  at  the 
hands  of  semi-barbarous  Russians  had 
been  butchered  and  their  bodies  burn- 
ed or  hacked  to  pieces,  or  thrown  in- 
to the  lakes  and  rivers. 

From  the  latest  reports  at  St. 
Petersburg,  Siedlce,  Warsaw,  and 
other  centers  of  disturbance,  the  most 
distressing  news  is  coming  in  such  as 
can  escape  the  censors.  In  many 
districts  telegraph  offices  are  closed, 
wires  are  down,  thereby  making  it  im- 
possible to  receive  full  and  adequate 
knowledge  of  the  true  situation.  In 
many  places  the  Jewish  shops  are 
closed  and  their  contents  seized  by  the 
mob  and  offered  for  sale  in  the 
open  streets ;  and  this  state  of  af- 
fairs is  countenanced  by  governors 
and  police  officials.  By  the  latest  re- 
ports   thousands    of    refugees    fleeing 


CONSTERNATION    AMONG    THE    JEWS 


199 


for  their  lives  have  invaded  the  sea- 
ports in  their  endeavor  to  embark  and 
get  out  of  the  country.  At  Siedlce 
the  massacre  has  so  far  outnumbered 
that  of  any  other  locality  in  Russia. 
The  trouble  was  precipitated  first  by 
the  effort  of  the  mob  to  loot  and  pil- 
lage the  Jewish  shops.  Their  owners 
naturally  tried  to  defend  their  proper- 
ty; this  opened  up  hostilities  and  the 


militia  took  a  hand  with  the  result,  so 
far  as  can  be  ascertained,  that  more 
than  one  thousand  Jews  were  slain 
and  their  bodies  mutilated.  That  not 
a  soldier  was  killed  or  even  hurt  is 
the  best  proof  that  little  or  no  resist- 
ance was  offered,  and  that  every  Jew 
in  sight  was  shot  without  warning. 
I?  the  true  story  could  be  gotten  at  it 
would  be  a  revelation  of  atrocities  far 


GROUP  OF  RUSSIAN  JEWS  JUST  ARRIVED  FROM  WARSAW  VIA  ITALY 


200 


THE    HOME    MISSIONARY 


outreaching  the  practises  of  the  dark- 
est periods  of  barbarism.  The  ques- 
tion will  soon  be  asked  in  seriousness, 
How  long  must  the  civilized  nations 
of  the  world  continue  to  be  mere 
lookers  on? 

To  the  thousands  of  these  affllicted 
exiles  who  are  fortunate  only  in 
escaping  with  their  lives,  shall  we  not 
extend  the  hand  of  Christian  sym- 
pathy. Nay,  have  we  not  a  gift  more 
precious  than  sympathy  to  offer?  The 
popular  impression  about  the  Jew  is 
that  he  is  hopelessly  bound,  beyond 
all  possibility  of  release,  to  the  tradi- 
tional errors  of  his  race  and  his  re- 
ligion ;  that  his  mind  is  steeled  against 
the  claims  of  Jesus  Christ  as  the  Mes- 
siah, and  that  all  Christian  missionary 
effort,  with  him  for  its  object,  is  hope- 
lesly  wasted  and  thrown  away.  This 
is  far  from  true.  With  the  Jew  as 
with  the  Roman  Catholic,  and  with 
other  followers  of  Old  World  creeds, 
there  is  evident  tendency  to  relaxation 
and  reaction,  resulting  in  the  throw- 
ing off  of  all  religious  restraints,  and 
leaving  thousands  of  young  Jews  with 
mind  and  heart  prepared  to  welcome 


new  impressions. 

The  New  York  City  Mission  So- 
ciety is  improving  the  opportunity 
thus  offered  with  many  tokens  of  suc- 
cess. On  one  of  the  most  solemn 
Jewish  fast  days,  the  Day  of  Atone- 
ment, Rev.  Mr.  Angel,  himself  a  con- 
verted Jew,  recently  preached  to  a 
large  Jewish  audience  on  "Repentance 
Toward  God  and  Faith  Toward  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ."  But  here,  as 
everywhere,  the  hopeful  element  in 
the  Jewish  problem  is  the  Jewish  boy. 
In  spite  of  warnings,  threatenings, 
and  physical  beatings,  boys  by  the 
hundreds  are  gathered  under  this  mis- 
sion effort  to  sing  the  songs  of  the 
church  and  to  listen  to  the  teachings 
of  Jesus  Christ.  We  must  not  de- 
spair of  the  Jew.  In  many  ways  he 
is  a  model  citizen,  though  often  de- 
spised. Here  in  a  free  country  new 
life  and  aspiration  are  coming  to  him. 
His  mind  is  opening  to  Christian 
truth,  and  to  those  of  his  race  who 
seek  homes  in  the  far  West  there  is  a 
bountiful  outlook  for  prosperity  and 
peaceful  living. 


The    Russian    Welter 

5 PEAKING  of  the  massacre  of  Jews  at  Siedlce  in  Poland,  "The  Outlook"  of 
recent  date  remarks:  "Even  the  barbarity  of  the  Kishinev  slaughter  seems  to 
have  been  surpassed,  and  in  this  case  even  more  plainly  than  at  Kishinev  the 
connivance  of  high  authorities  is  evident;  for  it  is  reported  that  Governor- 
General  Skallon  telegraphed  for  permission  to  use  artillery,  and  that  then  four  bat- 
teries opened  fire  down  streets  inhabited  by  thousands  of  Jews.  The  dispatches  also 
assert,  as  evidence  of  the  fact  that  the  massacre  was  planned  before  hand,  that  the 
soldiers  went  about  in  advance  warning  the  non-Jewish  people  to  hang  out  their 
ikons  so  that  they  might  remain  undisturbed.  The  only  excuse  offered  for  this 
wholesale  murder  is  that  certain  Terrorists  fired  from  roofs  and  windows  on  soldiers 
and  policemen  on  Saturday  last.  In  view  of  the  similar  excuses  given  for  former 
massacres  this  explanation  sounds  very  much  like  the  fabled  assertion  of  the  wolf, 
that  the  lamb,  drinking  below  him,  muddied  the  water  of  the  stream;  for  a  state  of 
terror  had  existed  in  the  town  for  many  days  and  it  is  far  from  probable  that  the 
Jewish  population  would  commit  acts  sure  to  bring  down  upon  them  fierce  re- 
prisals. This  massacre  at  Siedlce  is  a  frightfully  ironical  comment  on  last  week's 
declaration  by  the  Czar  of  a  firm  determination  to  preserve  order  and  to  introduce 
a  liberal  measure  of  reform,  with  the  specific  mention  of  the  immediate  abolition  of 
restriction  on  the  Jews.  It  is  only  one  more  evidence  of  the  extent  of  what  "The 
London  Spectator,"  in  an  illuminating  editorial  on  the  general  anarchy  of  Russia, 
calls  "The  Russian  Welter." 


The  Zinc  Field  and  its  Needs 


By  Rev.  H.  M.  McDowell 


THE  Zinc  Field  lies  largely  in 
Southwest  Missouri,  but  extends 
into  Kansas.  The  principal  part 
of  the  territory  referred  to,  is  called 
the  Joplin  district.  It  is  covered  over 
with  mills  and  honeycombed  with 
mines  The  accompaning  illustrations 
show  the  mills  where  the  stone  is 
crushed,  the  mineral  separated  and 
prepared  for  the  smelters  which  are 
located  principally  in  the  gas  belts,  just 
over  the  line  in  Kansas.  A  few  are 
in  the  district.  Last  year  a  pipe  line 
was  laid  from  the  Kansas  gas  fields 
through  the  district  which  furnishes 
gas  at  from  ioc  to  25c  a  thousand 
cubic  feet,  both  to  the  mines  and  for 
private  consumption. 

In  Jasper  County  there  is  a  popula- 
tion of  IOO,- 
000,  all  of 
which  are 
A  m  e  r  i  c  a  n 
citizens.  We 
have  no 
foreign  popu- 
1  a  t  i  o  n  here. 
We  are  ex- 
empt from 
the  strikes 
of  other  min- 
ing districts, 
and  other 
kinds  of 
mines. 

Many  peo- 
ple have  sup- 
posed  that 
Joplin,  Webb 
City,  Carter- 
v  i  1 1  e,  and 
Carthage  are 
mere    mining 


as  good  a  street  and  interurban, 
electric  railway,  as  one  will  find  any- 
where. There  is  at  present,  under 
construction  a  hotel,  which  is  to  cost 
the  builder  a  half  million  dollars. 

Carthage  has  a  population  of  10,- 
000,  and  as  fine  homes  as  anyone  need 
want.  Recently  one  of  the  beautiful 
residences  sold  for  fifteen  thousand 
dollars.  Carterville  and  Webb  City ; 
twin  cities,  five  and  six  miles  from 
Joplin,  have  a  combined  population  of 
20,000.  All  these  cities  are  supplied 
with  natural  gas  from  the  Kansas 
field,  and  with  electricity  from  the 
powerful  electric  plants,  located  in 
the  neighborhood. 

There  is  another  advantage  this 
district  has  over  other  parts  of  the 
country,  the  public  roads 
of  the  district.  The  photo- 
graphs show  the  piles  of 
crushed  rock,  "Tailings," 
which  come  from  the 
mines.  These  tailings  are 
free  for  the  use  of  public 
roads,  and  stretching  out 
in  every  direction  from 
Joplin  are  roads,  as  solid 
and  fine  as  any  turnpike. 
The  mine  owner  has  taken 
advantage  of  these  roads 
and  the  motor  cars  are  al- 
most as  familiar  to  the 
spectator  as  the  carriages. 


Rev.  H.  M.  McDowell 


camps.  These  towns 
and  cities  are  full  of  miners,  hundreds 
and  thousands  live  here  in  these 
towns.  The  street  cars  are  loaded 
morning  and  evening  with  them,  as 
they  go  to  and  come  from  the  mines, 
but  there  are  no  mills  inside  the  city 
limits. 

Joplin  is  a  city  of  40,000,  with  good 
homes,  splendid  business  blocks,  and 


Congregational  Church,    Joplin,  Mo. 


JOPLIN    PUBLIC    LIBRARY 


These  cities,  as  far  as  modern  con- 
veniences are  Concerned  vie  with  any 
'in  the  country  of  their  size.  Their 
Public  Schools  are  excellent,  uine 
thousand  children  of  school  age  in 
Joplin,  alone.  The  Carnegie  Library 
is  well  stocked  with  choice  books,  of 
which  a  few  are  read,  and  a  larger 
stock  of  novels,,  selected  by  public  de- 
mand, which  are  devoured  with 
greediness. 

Joplin  is  stragetic.  Located  near 
the  corner  of  the  state,  within  a  short 
half  hour  ride  of  Kansas,  an  hour  of 
Arkansas,  two  hours  of  the  new  state 
of  Oklahoma.  It  is  destined  to  be  the 
Great  City  of  the  Southwest. 

I  have  written  this  much  to  set  be- 
fore you  the  zinc  field  as  it  is,  briefly, 
and  now  I  come  to  the  matter  of  this 
field  in  its  relation  to  home  missions. 

Joplin  has  a  population  of  40,000, 
a  church  membership  of  six  thousand, 
less  than  one  in  six  profess  to  be 
Christians,  and  not  one  half  of  the  six 
thousand  are  regular  attendants  on 
church   services,   and  if  every  bit  of 


seating  capacity  was  used  in  all  the 
churches  in  the  city,  there  would  not 
be  room  for  anyone  but  the  church 
members  to  go  in  and  sit  down  at  the 
morning  service.  The  other  34,000 
would  have  to  stay  away  from  church, 
if  they  wanted  to  go.  Webb  City  and 
Carterville  are  not  as  well  off  as  Jop- 
lin. Carthage  is  very  well  provided, 
but  the  people  do  not  go  to  church  as 
they  might.  When  we  come  to  con- 
sider the  out  lying  camps,  we  face  a 
condition  which  is  appalling,  in  the 
neglect  of  religion,  and  the  endorse- 
ment of  evil,  and  in  the  fact  that  the 
class  of  religious  teaching  is  so  poor. 
For  example :  Badger  is  a  camp  over 
the  line  in  Kansas,  a  camp  of  three 
hundred  to  five  hundred  people. 
There  is  no  Sunday  School,  no  church 
service  worthy  of  the  name,  no  organ- 
izations, and  no  real  desire  for  these 
things. 

The  pastors  of  Webb  City  and 
Carterville  made  a  canvass  of  every 
house  in  a  camp  called  Prosperity. 
The  following  is  a  result  of  their  in- 


THE    ZINC    FIELD    AND    ITS    NEEDS 


203 


\  estigations :  A  population  of  1,300, 
not  counting  roomers  and  boarders  of 
which  there  were  probably  several 
hundred.  There  were  277  families 
canvassed,  these  families  averaged 
five  to  the  family.  One  hundred  and 
five  of  these  families  had  no  church 
relation  whatever,  and  did  not  care 
for  the  church,  or  its  services  enough 
to  express  a  preference.  One  hundred 
and  two  of  these  families  expressed  a 
preference,  but  had  no  church  con- 
nections. Seventy  families  professed 
to  have,  or  to  have  had  connection 
with  some  church.  Their  church  re- 
lation existed  not  locally,  excepting 
about  15  or  20  of  them,  but  scattered 
a1'  over  the  country  in  various  states. 
Of  these  seventy  families,  probably 
350  persons  in  all,  there  were  but  93 
yvho  were  then  or  had  been  connected 
with  the  church.  From  the  best  in- 
formation obtainable  there  were  in 
this  population  of  1,300,  ■fifteen  people 
who  belonged  to  the  local  church ;  the 
pastor  of  which  comes  once  a  month 
to  expound  the  Scriptures.  There  are, 
however,  two  or  three  little  groups 


which  gather  in  Sunday  Schools  led 
by  denominationalists,  too  weak  for 
church  organization.  This  is  true  of 
the  whole  district. 

This  expresses  the  conditions  very 
well  indeed,  the  field  has  been  scratch- 
ed over  with  the  rake  of  denomina- 
tional ism,  but  the  crust  of  selfish  in- 
difference has  not  been  broken;  the 
ground    lies     fallow    and    unbroken. 
What  is  needed  is  a  deep  and  abiding 
work    for    each    of    these    camps,   or 
towns,  such  as  is  being  done  at  Granby 
by     our     Missionary     pastor     there. 
Granby  is  a  town  of  2,500  people,  and 
a<-   I   understand   the   situation  never 
had  ?.  settled  pastor  until  our  church 
sent  one  into  the  field.    For  two  years 
patiently,    carefully,    in    self-sacrifice 
and  peril,  our  pastor  has  labored  al- 
most alone  until  the  seed  sown  begins 
to  ripen  for  the  sickle,  and  shows  the 
result  of  his  labors  in  a  little  garnered 
grain. 

Of  course  to  carry  on  this  work  re- 
quires men  and  money.  Some  months 
ag'O  I  wrote  the  Secretary  that  ten 
dollars  a  month  would  keep  a  Sunday 


ZINC  AND  LEAD  MINES,  JOPLIN 


204 


THE    HOME    MISSIONARY 


School  open  in  a  very  much  needed 
district  of  Joplin.  But  ten  dollars 
could  not  be  furnished,  and  determin- 
ed to  open  the  school  I  solicited  the 
help  of  our  State  Sunday  School 
Superintendent,  Rev.  J.  P.  O'Brien, 
who  came  April  ist,  and  organized  a 
Sunday  School.  The  six  months, 
just  closed,  showed  an  attendance  of 
twenty-five  a  Sunday.  Twenty-five 
young  children  secured  in  this  school 
without  any  special  effort  being  made, 
but  such  as  a  pastor,  with  enough 
work  elsewhere,  could  do.     We  have 


lieve  we  could  use  him  for  a  glorious 
work. 

The  saddest  things  we  find  here  are 
such  as  follows :  The  mine  operators 
do  not  go  to  church ;  the  miners  do 
not  go  to  church.  The  saloon,  the 
gambling  house,  and  kindred  houses 
of  vice,  together  with  the  Sunday 
theatre,  and  the  baseball  park  are  wide 
open  on  Sunday. 

What  is  to  be  the  end  of  a  city  such 
as  I  described  in  the  outset,  with  its 
population,  street  roads,  natural  ad- 
vantages, and  yet  a  city  that  is  allowed 


UNDERGROUND 


had  forty-two  in  attendance,  the  high- 
est number.  One  of  the  difficulties  we 
face  is  the  lack  of  workers  in  our 
First  church  who  are  willing  to  go  to 
the  Mission  and  teach  Sunday  after 
Sunday.  The  writer  taught  this  Mis- 
sion with  eighteen  to  twenty-four 
children  in  attendance,  alone.  No 
organist,  no  teachers.  A  missionary 
supported  by  our  Sunday  School  and 
Publishing  Society,  and  our  H.  M.  S., 
is  the  logical  plan  here.  If  we  had  a 
man  in  this  field,  a  city  missionary 
with  the  spirit  of  an  evangel,  willing 
to  do  the  work  of  an.  evangelist,  I  be- 


to  run  wide  open.  Saturday  night  is 
the  open  night,  until  ten,  twelve,  even 
two  a.  m.  Sunday  morning  m  men  are 
kept  at  work  and  even  though  they 
desire  to  attend  church,  they  are  not 
in  condition  to  go.  Saturday  evening 
is  pay-day.  Many  of  the  mine  opera- 
tors, either  for  convenience  or  for 
gain,  pay  their  men  off  in  the  saloons. 
The  wages  run  from  twelve  dollars  to 
twenty  dollars  a  week.  They  are  paid 
in  the  saloon,  the  saloon  man  cashes 
their  checks,  and  they  buy  from  him. 
They  treat  their  friends,  a  carousal  be- 
gins, which  lasts  until  Monday  morn- 


td 
*J 

> 
H 

O 

> 

> 
U 


H 

H 

r 
w 

en 

W 

s 


2o6 


THE    HOME    MISSIONARY 


ing,  when  unfitted  to  work,  these  men 
must  go  back  to  the  mines  for  their 
money  is  all  gone.  I  stood  at  a  point 
of  vantage  recently  and  counted 
thirty-six  men  go  into  a  saloon  in 
fifteen  minutes,  on  Sunday  afternoon. 

Just  at  the  present  time  we  need  a 
great  many  things  in  this  district,  but 
especially  do  we  need  the  means  to 
put  bur  Mission  Sunday  School  on  its 
feet.  For  four  hundred  dollars,  we 
could  buy  a  lot  and  build  a  chapel  that 
would  answer  all  needs.  The  house 
we  occupy  is  being  changed  into  a 
dwelling,  and  we  must  vacate  at  once. 
Vacate  and  no  visible  house..  Vacate 
and  let  the  Mission  die. 

This  is  purely  a  missionary  work. 
I  can  see  no  strong  church  growing 
out  of  it.  I  can  see  no  great  church 
building,  paying  into  your  benevolent 
societies  vast  sums.  It  is  a  missionary 
work.      A   taking   to    Christless   chil- 


dren, the  news  of  the  gospel,  opening 
up  in  the  midst  of  them,  a  chance  for 
a  higher  life. 

Our  Sunday  School  is  within  three 
blocks  of  a  public  school  building, 
which  enrolled  nearly  eight  hundred 
-'lildren,  below  the  eighth  grade; 
there  are  not  two  hundred  of  them  in 
Sunday  School  regularly.  If  ever 
there  was  need  for  a  mission,  here  is 
where  we  need  it. 

Oh  for  a  man  possessed  of  a  mis- 
sionary spirit  to  furnish  the  money  to 
pav  another  man's  salary  to  go  into 
this  field,  and  begin  a  campaign  and  a 
mission  for  Christ  and  the  Kingdom ! 
And,  Oh  that  we  had  the  means  and 
the  men  to  go  forth  and  enter  all  the 
fields  that  are  white  to  the  harvest! 
But  the  answer  is  not  heard,  "Here  am 
I."    But  the  harvest  is  ripe. 

"Pray  ye  therefore,  the  Lord  of  the 
harvest  to  send  forth  laborers  into  the 
harvest." 


ALEXANDER  MINE,  JOPLIN 


Editor's  Outlook 


The  Russian  Horror 

THE  opening  article  of  this  number 
will  find  many  sympathetic  read- 
ers to  whom  it  will  make  its  own 
*  appeal.  The  bewildered  question  of 
multitudes  of  people  on  two  hemi- 
spheres to-day  is  this — "Can  such 
things  be  under  the  Twentieth 
Century  sun?"  We  had  almost  for- 
gotten the  unspeakable  Turk  and  his 
atrocities,  when  he  is  fairly  eclipsed 
by  the  more  unspeakable  Russian  and 
his  thrice  horrible  butcheries.  Not 
for  centuries  has  the  world  been  called 
to  witness  such  wholesale  and  cruel 
massacre  of  men,  women  and  children, 
with  consent  of  government. 

Mr.  Adams  touches  only  lightly  the 
causes  of  this  terrible  condition.  They 
are  mixed,  and  not  easy  to  analyze. 
In  part,  no  doubt,  they  are  racial,  also 
largely  religious.  In  some  measure, 
the  blind  .  rage  of  the  Russian  is 
simply  retaliation  upon  an  innocent 
race  that  has  prospered  and  grown 
rich  amid  prevailing  adversity.  But 
whatever  the  causes  may  be,  they  are 
wholly  fanatical  and  without  the 
slightest  excuse.  Thus  far  other 
nations  have  looked  on,  silent  with 
horror.  No  united  protest  has  been 
raised,  doubtless  through  fear  of  in- 
flaming passions  already  unduly  ex- 
cited. But  the  tension  is  becoming  al- 
most too  strong  to  bear.  As  mass- 
acre follows  massacre,  adding  horror 
to  horror,  it  grows  to  be  a  serious 
question — How  long  can  Great  Brit- 
ain and  the  United  States,  the  leading 
Christian  nations  of  the  world,  con- 
tinue to  be  only  passive  spectators  of 
these  burning  outrages  upon  Christian 
civilization  ? 

The  home  missionary  aspect  of  the 
matter  must  not  be  overlooked.  Thou- 
sands of  expatriated  Russian  and 
Polish  Jews  are,  at  this  hour,  fleeing 
for  their  lives  toward  America.    New 


York  already  has  nearly  800,000  of 
this  race,  and  will  soon  have  a  million. 
They  are  peaceable  neighbors,  they 
are  good  citizens,  so  far  as  enlighten- 
ed. They  take  care  of  their  own  poor 
and  helpless ;  they  do  not  fill  our  jails 
and  are  seldom  to  be  seen  in  our  police 
courts.  They  belong  to  that  old  race  of 
which  we  read  every  morning  with  ad- 
miration in  our  Old  Testament  scrip- 
tures. Paul  was  a  "Hebrew  of  the 
Hebrews,"  and  he  is  to-day  the  central 
hero  of  the  Christian  Church.  Peter, 
John  and  James  were  Jews.  Our  Lord 
himself  chose  for  his  humanity  the 
lot  of  the  Jew,  and  his  kingdom  was 
planted  on  earth  by  converted  Jews. 
And  yet,  how  many  Christians  need 
a  vision  let  down  from  heaven  as 
much  as  ever  Peter  did  to  convince 
them  that  the  Jew  is  still  worth  sav- 
ing, or  even  salvable !  Much  evidence 
exists  to  the  contrary,  and  vast  en- 
couragement to  vigorous  missionary 
effort  among  this  race.  "To  the  Jew 
first  and  also  to  the  Gentile"  was  the 
missionary  law  of  the  First  Century. 
"To  the  Gentile  first,  and  also  to  the 
Jew"  may  well  be  the  missionary 
order  of  the  Twentieth  Century. 

That  North  Dakota  Parable 

Correctly  speaking,  a  parable  is  a 
similitude  that  might  become  a  real- 
ity. The  North  Dakota  parable, 
described  by  Superintendent  Powell  in 
the  October  Home  Missionary,  is  a 
similitude  already  become  a  reality, 
and  having  now  the  added  force  of  an 
object  lesson.  While  the  Dakota  ex- 
periment is  novel  it  is  not  absolutely 
new.  In  some  parts  of  New  England, 
depleted  by  emigration,  it  has  been 
tried  with  success.  Churches  left  to 
die  of  excessive  blood-letting  have 
survived  and  strengthened  each  other 
by  forming  a  church  trust.  And  what 
has  proved  salutary  for  churches  thus 


TIMELY  TRUTHS-TERSELY  TOLD 


Unity  In  Diversity 

TWO  things  are  perfectly  clear: 
first,  there  has  never  been  a  day 
in  the  history  of  the  Christian 
church  when  denominational  lines 
were  more  deply  marked  than  they 
are  to-day.  All  Christian  work  is  be- 
ing done  on  denominational  lines ; 
secondly,  there  has  never  been  an 
hour  when  the  Christian  church  was 
more  at  one  than  it  is  to-day.  We 
have  got  Christian  unity.  Every- 
where Christians  are  doing  Christ's 
work  in  all  sorts  of  ways,  in  the  most 
graceful  and  delightful  unity  of 
spirit?  We  are  not  afraid  to  talk  our 
views  freely  to  each  other.  There  is 
a  blessed  unity  in  the  Church  of  God. 
Now  those  two  things  are  not  in- 
compatible, and  our  wisdom  is  to  take 
them  as  we  find  them.  Let  us  work 
along  our  denominational  lines.  There 
is  where  God  has  placed  our  resources 
of  men  and  women,  and  I  believe 
there  is  an  abundance  of  them  in  the 
churches  to-day  if  we  make  the  right 
sort  of  call  for  them.  They  have 
never  failed  in  the  past.  Ah,  what 
grand  men  have  been  pastors  of  home 
missionary  churches  in  this  land,  and 
what  grand  women  have  been  their 
companions  and  the  mothers  of  their 
children  and  the  comfort  and  light  of 
their  homes !  They  have  left  for  our 
inspiration  an  example  of  heroic  self- 
abnegation  and  of  blessed  labor  for 
Christ.  We  read  of  a  French  artist 
who,  while  painting  his  masterpiece, 
became  imbued  with  the  idea  that  all 
the  great  artists  of  the  past  were 
present  in  spirit,  hovering  a  bright 
cloud  just  over  his  head,  to  see  how  he 
would  acquit  himself.  What  a  flood 
of  inspiration  must  have  beat  down 
upon  him  as  he  worked !  Brethren, 
T  have  sometimes  felt  a  holy  inspira- 
tion pouring  down  upon  me  as  I  have 
thought  that  the  great  cloud  of  wit- 
nesses that  have  entered  into  the 
heavens    from   the    fields   of    sacrifice 


and  toil  on  the  earth  were  looking 
down  upon  me  as  I  sought,  in  my 
humble  way,  to  prosecute  the  work ; 
but  all  of  that  glorious  galaxy  the 
brightest  is  the  missionary.  They  are 
all  stars  of  the  first  magnitude,  and 
the  pure  spirits  who  are  there  from 
our  home  missionary  fields  have  made 
sacrifices  as  great  and  achieved  victo- 
ries as  glorious  as  were  ever  made  and 
won  on  any  foreign  field  on  earth. 
Their  seed  abides  in  our  churches 
still,  and  when  this  Home  Missionary 
Society  gets  ready  to  enter  the  doors 
that  God  has  opened  to  it,  and  has 
the  requisite  funds  in  hand,  the  bugle 
call  will  bring  from  the  churches  the 
men  and  women  to  fill  every  pulpit 
that  is  set  up. 


The  Mission  of  a  Christian 
Republic 

A  philosophic  observer,  whose 
home  is  now  in  Washington,  said  to 
me  the  other  day,  "It  is  appalling  to 
any  one  who  lives  at  the  national 
capital  and  watches  what  is  going  on, 
to  see  the  extent  to  which  money  rules 
everything."  f 

This  tendency  does  not,  indeed, 
dominate  all  lives,  even  in  Washing- 
ton. There  are  a  good  many  yet  who 
have  not  bowed  the  knee  to  Mammon. 
There  is,  I  trust,  a  great  multitude  of 
those  who  do  not  mean  that  the 
nation  shall  be  faithless  to  her  ideals. 
And  among  them  there  is  none  whose 
purposes  are  clearer  or  whose  heart 
is  truer  than  the  man  at  the  head  of 
the  nation.  It  is  his  chivalrous  de- 
termination to  resist  the  aggressions 
of  greed,  to  put  an  end  to  the  rule  of 
the  spoilers  and  the  plunderers  and 
to  give  "a  square  deal"  to  the  poor 
man,  as  well  as  the  rich  man,  which 
has  won  for  our  President  the  love  of 
the  people. 


TIMELY    TRUTHS— TERSELY    TOLD 


211 


This  is  the  kind  of  leadership  which 
the  nation  must  follow  from  this  time 
forward.  It  must  not  sell  its  birthright 
for  gold.  It  must  be,  in  spirit  and 
purpose  and  character,  a  Christian 
nation.  It  must  incarnate  the  life  of 
Christ  in  its  national  life.  It  must 
therefore  identify  itself  with  the  great 
masses  of  the  common  people.  It 
must  make  them  know  and  feel  that 
it  is  their  country,  that  their  homes 
are  its  care,  that  their  welfare  is  its 
pride.  It  must  be  able  to  claim  the 
Messianic  royalty ;  it  must  stand  upon 
the  shore  of  either  sea,  lifting  up 
their  standard  and  saying,  "Behold 
my  divine  anointing :  I  have  a  right  to 
rule  because  I  free  the  slave,  I  lift  up 
the  lowly,  I  protect  the  poor." 


strong  arm  as  the  mother's  self-for- 
getting heart.  The  Old  World  aristo- 
crat believes  this,  and  so  for  the  past 
thirty  years  the  best  books  of  Eng- 
land have  been  written  by  the  nobility 
and  the  best  pictures  have  been  paint- 
ed by  children  of  noble  houses,  and 
the  best  reform  and  the  best  thought 
for  the  poor  have  come  from  those 
who  wear  soft  raiment  and  dwell  in 
kings'  houses.  There  is  not  a  harder 
working  man  in  Europe  than  Emperor 
William.  .  The  times  believe  in  the 
Christian  method.  The  age  expects 
great  things  of  the  Christian  disciple. 
At  last  all  men  know  that  any  man 
who  is  lifted  up  upon  the  cross  of 
sacrifice  will  draw  the  whole  world 
unto  himself. 


*■%&*<&/« 


^C^c^f 


Columbus,  O. 


Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 


To  Serve  is  to  Rule 

A  world,  a  lever,  a  fulcrum — there 
is  the  perfect  definition  of  perfect  op- 
portunity. The  might  of  opportunity 
lies  in  its  strategic  power.  The 
strength  of  the  arm  depends  on  where 
it  reaches  the  lever.  The  young 
Christians  of  America  are  made 
strong  by  the  strategic  opportunity — 
the  lever,  the  load  and  the  fulcrum  are 
met?  The  lever  is  a  symbol  of  the 
Christian  life  in  our  time.  For  the 
first  time  in  history,  our  time  has  a 
clear  recognition  of  the  primacy  of 
him  who  serves.  Men  have  said  the 
idle  man  is  the  gentleman.  The  kings 
of  the  earth  have  been  those  who  toil 
not,  neither  do  they  spin.  They  have 
refused  burden  bearing.  But  at  last 
the  scales  have  dropped  from  our 
eyes,  and  in  all  civilized  societies  it  is 
recognized  that  the  great  man  is  the 
man  who  does  more  than  other  folks. 

The  scientist  confesses  now  that  he 
was  wrong  when  he  said  the  world  be- 
longs to  the  strong?  He  preaches 
now  that  the  world  belongs  to  the 
gentle  also.  The  life  of  the  nation 
hangs   not  so  much   on  the   father's 


Durable  Values 

Our  fathers  founded  our  institu- 
tions and  handed  them  over  to  us. 
Our  task  it  is  to  guard  these  institu- 
tions, to  use  them  for  the  manufacture 
of  manhood  of  a  good  quality,  and  to 
hand  these  institutions  forward  un- 
impaired to  another  generation.  It  is 
a  little  thing  that  we  are  increased  in 
goods  if  our  sons  decay.  It  is  of 
small  consequence  that  our  towns  are 
crowded  with  stores,  and  our  stores 
stuffed  with  goods,  or  that  our  goods 
overtax  the  ships :  if  all  these  things 
on  the  outside  smother  men  and  the 
character  within.  We  do  not  have  to 
ask  the  good  God  for  material  trea- 
sure. He  has  already  granted  that" in 
abundance.  Rather  is  it  ours  to  ask 
Him  for  the  strength  to  dedicate  our- 
selves anew  to  the  work  that  our  fa- 
thers began.  To  care  for  the  Ameri- 
can home,  and  keep  its  ideals  bright; 
to  care  for  the  church,  and  spread  His 
truth  among  all  new  peoples.  To  care 
for  His  day,  and  keep  the  Sunday  as 
the  soul's  library  day  and  gallery 
day,  and  day  of  brooding.     To  keep 


'12 


THE    HOME    MISSIONARY 


alive  in  men  the  sense  of  God,  and 
His  loving  providence,  of  Christ,  and 
His  redemptive  mercy;  the  sense  of 
duty,  the  sense  of  sin,  the  sense  of 
sympathy  and  self-sacrifice,  and  the 
hope  of  immortality.  And  so  long  as 
we  hold  the  faiths  of  our  fathers,  love 
their  institutions,  and  spread  man- 
hood among  the  people,  that  long  will 
our  institutions  continue  firm  as  the 
mountains  and  the  stars,  and  all  the 
families  of  the  earth  will  look  to  the 
Republic  as  their  educator  and  leader 
in  liberty:  and  so,  through  us,  in  this 
new  land  shall  all  the  families  of  the 
earth  be  blessed. 


Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 


<$: 


A   Majestic   Task 

One  of  the  great  perils  which  beset 
the  church  to-day  is  the  under  esti- 
mate of  the  majesty  of  her  missionary 
task.  If  our  leading  men  are  content 
increasingly  to  do  greater  and  greater 
things  in  the  commercial  world,  and, 
at  the  same  time,  are  willing  to  do  less 
and  less  things  in  the  Church,  the  out- 
come is  inevitable.  They  must  be 
taught  to  do  as  great  things  in  the 
Church,  and  greater  proportionately, 
than  they  are  doing  in  the  great  out- 
side world.  They  must  respect  the 
proportions  of  the  enterprise  with 
which  they  are  entrusted. 

The  history  of  finance  is  interesting. 
First,  the  needs  of  philanthropy  are 
satisfied,  then  colleges,  then  libraries. 
Now  is  it  not  the  turn  of  the  churches 
and  the  missionary   societies?     Good 


nature  will  take  care  of  philanthropy, 
and  literary  aptitudes  will  look  out 
for  libraries ;  intellectual  cravings  will 
endow  colleges.  But  it  is  faith — 
simple  earnest  faith,  which  must 
lubricate  the  wheels  of  the  ark  of  thfj 
Lord.  Faith  opens  its  eyes.  Faith 
sees  but  does  not  shrink  before  the 
majesty  of  the  task.  To  save  Ameri- 
ca in  all  departments  of  her  life,  com- 
mercial, economic,  domestic,  civic,  as 
well  as  ecclesiastical,  is  the  missionary 
enterprise  of  the  Church. 

If  I  were  an  artist,  I  would  paint  a 
picture  which  I  believe  of  great  signi- 
ficance. It  would  represent  four  men 
seated  about  a  table — a  Catholic 
priest,  a  Presbyterian,  a  Methodist,  a 
Congregationalist.  Who  are  they? 
They  are  pioneers,  missionaries  to  a 
great  State.  And  what  are  they  do- 
ing? Feeling  the  need  of  education 
as  the  handmaid  of  piety.  They  are 
laying  the  foundation  for  what  has 
since  become  perhaps  the  greatest  uni- 
versity in  the  interior  of  our  country, 
the  University  of  Michigan. 

When  Senator  Tillman  speaks  and 
tells  us  in  imperious  tones  that  we 
must  leave  the  South  to  solve  its  own 
problem  alone,  we  inevitably  turn  to 
the  spirit  of  reciprocity,  and  reply  to 
him  that  no  part  of  America  can  be 
saved  except  every  other  part  of  it 
contributes ;  that  the  North  cannot  be 
saved  without  the  West;  that  all  to- 
gether make  the  music ;  either  marred 
and  all  is  mute.  The  spirit  of  recipro- 
city is  one  of  the  great  inspiring 
triumphs  of  home  missionary  work. 


Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 


mm 


A  Good  Investment 


By  Rev.  Charles  H.  Small 


A  STRIKING  instance  of  the 
value  of  well  placed  money  is  to 
be  found  in  the  Mt.  Pleasant 
Congregational  Church,  Washington, 
D.  C.  This  church  commemorates  its 
twentieth  anniversary  in  November  of 
this  year. 

In  the  spring  of  1886  the  writer 
was  sent  to  that  part  of  the  National 
Capital  then  known  as  Mt.  Pleasant. 
A  union  Sunday  School  had  been  in 
existence  for  some  years,  and  the  peo- 
ple were  ready  and  desirous  of  having 
a  church.  The  church  was  organized 
in  the.  fall  and  the  Home  Missionary 
Society  gave  a  liberal  support   which 


was  continued  in  diminishing  amount 
for  about  three  years  when  the 
church  became  self-supporting.  In 
all  about  $2,300  of  Home  Missionary 
money  was  put  into  the  work.  Contri- 
butions from  this  church  for  benevo- 
lences last  year  amounted  to  nearly 
$1,200.  An  investment  that  will  bring 
fifty  per  cent  after  twenty  years  is 
generally  considered  a  good  one. 
Since  the  beginning  the  church  has 
contributed  to  most  of  our  denomina- 
tional benevolences,  and  during  half 
that  time  has  made  contributions  to 
all  of  them.  From  the  money  side  it 
certainly  paid,  but  when  we  consider 


MT.    PLEASANT    CONGREGATIONAL    CHURCH,    WASHINGTON,    D.    C. 


214 


THE    HOME    MISSIONARY 


that  the  church  now  has  a  member- 
ship of  nearly  seven  hundred  and  a 


Rev.  M.  Ross  Fishburn 


Sunday  School  of  over  a  thousand,  it 
is  evident  that  it  paid  in  other  ways. 
The  influence  of  the  church  is  strong 
and  far  reaching. 

The  church  has  had  but  two 
pastors.  After  eight  years  of  service 
the  writer  resigned  and  was  followed 
by  Rev.  M.  Ross  Fishburn,  who  has 
been  with  the  church  twelve  years,  a 
remarkably  fruitful  pastorate. 

They  have  an  edifice  costing  over 
^00.000  dedicated  in  October,  1904, 
and  located  in  one  of  the  most  de- 
lightful sections  of  the  city — one  that 
has  had  a  steady  and  strong  growth 
from  the  beginning. 

It  is  such  investments  of  Home 
Missionary  funds  that  are  encourag- 
ing.   We  need  to  make  more  of  them. 


Other    Investments 


THE  good  investment  described  by  Secretary  Small,  together  with  the  pictures 
illustrating  it,  tell  their  own  story,  a  story  often  repeated  in  the  history  of 
home  missions.  On  a  hill  just  outside  of  Boston  one  can  stand  on  a  clear  day 
and  count  at  least  twenty  spires  of  churches,  all  of  them  among  the  strongest 
churches  of  the  Bay  State.  Every  one  of  them  was  a  home  missionary  plant;  every 
one  was  tided  over  the  helpless  days  of  infancy  by  a  home  missionary  grant.  It 
would  be  almost  true  to  say  that  every  one  of  them  had  courage  to  be  born  at  all 
by  the  promise  of  home  missionary  help.  They  are  to-day  fountains  of  benevolence, 
sending  their  golden  streams  to  the  ends  of  the  land.  The  first  church  named  on  the 
beneficiary  list  in  the  first  Annual  Report  of  The  American  Home  Missionary  So- 
ciety was  a  Presbyterian  church  in  central  New  York,  with  twenty-five  members, 
more  than  half  of  them  women.  This  church  dared  to  organize  just  thirteen  days 
before  the  Home  Missionary  Society  was  born,  on  the  strength  of  that  Society's 
promise  of  aid.  It  received  help  for  two  years,  amounting  in  the  aggregate  to  less 
than  one  thousand  dollars.  The  third  year  it  came  to  self-support,  and  for  these  eighty 
years  that  has  followed,  it  has  poured  a  constant  stream  of  gifts  into  our  benevo- 
lent treasuries,  amounting  to  hundreds  of  thousands  of  dollars;  it  has  sent  out  an 
army  of  Christian  young  men  into  the  ministry  at  home  and  abroad;  it  has  graduated 
noble  Christian  mothers  and  teachers  that  have  blessed  the  world,  and  thousands  of 
souls  on  earth  and  in  heaven  look  back  to  this  church  and  say  "we  were  born  there." 
It  is  not  improbable  that  but  for  the  timely  aid  of  a  home  missionary  grant,  extend- 
ing over  two  years,  this  church  would,  at  the  end  of  that  time,  have  filled  a  very 
short  grave,  marked  by  a  humble  stone  on  which  would  have  been  inscribed,  "Sacred 
to  the  memory  of  an  infant  church  that  died  in  its  second  year  of  poverty  and 
neglect."  What  is  a  Home  Missionary  Society  but  a  splendid  Christian  investment 
company,  that  pays  one  hundred  per  cent  here,  and  how  much,  hereafter,  only 
heaven  itself  can  reveal? — Ed. 


Our  Country's  Young  People 


By  Don  O.  Shelton 


Aliens  or  Americans? 

A     GRAPHICALLY      WRITTEN     WORK    BY 
HOWARD  G.  GROSE  ON  THE  INCOM- 
ING MULTITUDES. 

THERE  is  a  "nowness"  about  the 
questions  discussed  in  Howard  B. 
Grose's  new  home  mission  book, 
"Aliens  or  Americans?"  that  is  fasci- 
nating. The  author  believes  that  his 
subject  is  vital.  He  maintains  that 
the  problems  involved  in  the  Ameri- 
canization and  Christianization  of  the 
incoming  multitudes  are  the  most 
urgent  and  perplexing  problems  be- 
fore the  American  people.  "Immigra- 
tion," to  tise  his  own  words,  "may 
be  regarded  as  a  peril  or  a  providence, 
an  ogre  or  an  obligation — according  to 
the  point  of  view."  From  his  view- 
point immigration  is  an  immense 
e\  angelistic  opportunity. 

In  the  pointed  introduction  written 
by  Dr.  Josiah  Strong,  the  message  of 
the  book  is  briefly  summarized  thus : 
A  million  immigrants !  A  million  op- 
portunities!    A  million  obligations! 

Mr.  Grose  does  not  use  figures 
drily.  He  vividly  portrays  his  facts. 
He  shows  the  immensity  of  the  im- 
migration problem  by  saying  that 
enough  iliterates  came  in  1905  to 
make  a  city  as  large  as  Kansas  City 
or  one  larger  than  Indianapolis.  If 
this  city  of  illiterates  were  divided  in- 
to wards  by  nationalities,  the  Italian 
ward  would  have  100,000  more  than 
all  others.  That  one  ward  would  be 
as  large  as  the  city  of  Albany.  The 
ether  large  wards  of  illiterates  would 
"be  populated  as  follows:  Polish,  33,- 
000;  Hebrew,  22,000;  Slav,  36,000; 
Magyar  and  Lithuanian,  12,000; 
Syrian  and  Turkish,  3,000. 

A  broad  view  is  given  of  the  present 
methods    of    immigration    admission 


and  restriction.  That  his  readers  may 
more  adequately  realize  the  signifi- 
cance of  the  processes  at  Ellis  Island, 
Mr.  Grose,  in  a  series  of  word  pict- 
ures, helps  them  to  become  imaginary 
immigrants.  Aiming  to  adhere  closely 
to  facts,  he  takes  his  readers,  in  fancy, 
on  a  journey  with  the  immigrant  from 
his  European  home,  across  the  ocean 
in  the  steerage,  and  finally  through 
the  devious  but  essential  ways  at 
Ellis  Island. 

The  present  immigration  laws  are 
commended.  Inherently,  these  laws 
are  excellent;  their  weakness  is  that 
they  can  be  evaded  and  violated. 
How  this  has  been  done,  is  shown. 
An  illuminative  survey  is  given  of  the 
attempts  of  the  government  to  proper- 
ly regulate  and  restrict  immigration 
during  the  past  century.  This  is  fol- 
lowed by  a  description  of  the  process- 
es by  which  the  unfit  are  debarred. 
Inspectors  meet  many  trickeries.  Un- 
less alert,  they  are  chicaned.  "Immi- 
grants who  belong  to  the  excluded 
classes  have  been  carefully  coached  by 
agents  interested  in  getting  them 
through  the  examination.  Diseased 
eyes  have  been  doctored  up  for  the 
occasion ;  lame  persons  have  been 
trained  to  avoid  the  fatal  limp  during 
that  walk  (previously  described)  be- 
tween the  two  surgeons."  A  table  is 
presented  showing  the  numbers  and 
classes  excluded  for  the  last  twelve 
years. 

The    problems    of    legislation    and 
distribution  are  generously  discussed. 
It  is  evident  that  some  of  the  existing 
laws  should  be  strengthened.     Pres- 
ident   Roosevelt,    in    his    last    annual 
message,  recommended  that  immigra- 
tion through  Canada  and  Mexico  be 
restricted;  that  the  exclusion  laws  be 
made    more    stringent;   that    the    re- 
straints on  the  steamship  companies  be 


2l6 


THE    HOME    MISSIONARY 


heavier ;  and  that  the  penalties  for  en- 
ticing immigrants  be  severer.  Pro- 
posed legislation  is  dwelt  on  and  the 
chief  immigiation  bills  introduced  in 
Congress  during  1906  are  summa- 
rized. One  of  the  crucial  points  in 
modern  immigration  problems  is  that 
of  distribution.  This  Mr.  Grose  dis- 
cusses suggestively.  He  concludes 
that  remedied  congestion  will  mean 
increased  assimilation  and  decreased 
danger. 

One  chapter  deals  with  the  new  im- 
migration. It  is  asserted  that  the 
change  in  the  racial  character  of  im- 
migration in  the  last  ten  years  has 
been  so  great  as  to  make  necessary 
the  term  "new  immigration,"  to  dis- 
tinguish the  present  type  from  the 
former.  The  older  type  comprised 
largely  aliens  from  northwestern 
Europe:  The  Germans,  the  English, 
the  Irish,  the  Scotch  and  Welsh,  the 
Swedes  and  Norwegians.  The  newer 
prevailing  type  is  from  southeastern 
Europe  and  includes  Italians,  Hun- 
garians, Slavs,  Hebrews,  Greeks  and 
Syrians.  In  the  section  of  this  chap- 
ter given  to  the  Italians  such  interest- 
ing questions  are  discussed  as :  What 
are  the  leading  types  at  present? 
Are  they  desirable  as  a  class?  What 
is  their  record  in  this  country  as  to 
work,  citizenship,  thrift,  care  for 
education?  What  is  the  opportunity 
of  the  Christian  Church  among  them  ?  1 

Referring  to  the  eastern  invasion 
Mr.  Grose  says  that  the  Slavs  are  the 
least  known,  the  least  liked,  and  the 
least  assimilable  of  all  the  alien  races 
migrating  to  America.  He  quotes  the 
striking  utterance  of  a  Ruthenian 
priest,  Paul  Tymkevich,  who  said : 
"My  people  do  not  live  in  America. 
They  live  underneath  America. 
America  goes  on  over  their  heads." 
Over  a  million  and  a  quarter  of  Slavs 
are  now  here,  drawn  chiefly  by  oppor- 
tunities for  work  in  the  coal  fields. 

The  foreign  peril  in  the  city  is 
strikingly  discussed.  "You  can  kill  a 
man  with  a  tenement  as  easily  as  with 
an  ax,"  Jacob  Riis  once  said.  Hence 
the  means  to  be  used  for  the  improve- 


ment of  the  environment  of  the 
foreigner  are  worthy  of  careful  con- 
sideration. There  is  a  loud  call  for 
reform. 

Other  perils  which  he  vividly  de- 
scribes are  the  sweat  shop  evil,  the 
naturalization  evil,  and  the  evils  of 
poverty,  child  labor  and  child  neglect. 

The  effect  of  immigration  on 
national  character  is  discussed  with 
vigor.  The  best  way  to  assimilate 
sixty  different  nationalities  is  not 
easily  discoverable.  It  is  fundamen- 
tally important,  the  author  believes, 
that  this  large  problem  be  not  mini- 
mized, derided  or  misunderstood. 
For  its  solution  all  the  forces  of  the 
educational,  social,  political  and 
evangelical  life  of  the  nation  are  re- 
quired. And  in  that  solution,  he  as- 
serts, "is  involved  the  destiny  of  ulti- 
mate America." 

But  the  conditions  that  exist, 
though  perplexing,  afford  an  unparal- 
leled opportunity  to  the  nation.  It  is 
chiefly  an  opportunity  for  the  Chris- 
tian Church.  On  this  point  the 
author's  convictions  are  firm.  "The 
Christian  Church  must  seize  it  or  sink 
into  deserved  decadence  and  decay. 
Only  a  missionary  church  can  save  the 
world  or  justify  its  own  existence. 
The  manner  in  which  American  Chris- 
tianity deals  with  the  religious  prob- 
lems of  immigration  will  decide  what 
'part  America  is  to  play  in  the  evange- 
lization of  the  nations  abroad."  Mis- 
sionary effort,  broadly  planned,  mark- 
ed by  interdenominational  comity  and 
enlisting  the  best  thought  of  Chris- 
tian laymen,  will  bring  about  the  as- 
similation of  the  incoming  millions  so 
that  they  shall  become  a  part  of  a 
united  American  Christian  nation. 

Mr.  Grose  has  assembled  a  mass  of 
valuable  information.  He  has  pre- 
sented it  graphically  and  interestingly. 
He  has  written  in  a  fair  and  generous 
spirit.  He  has  produced  what  is  likely 
to  prove  to  the  average  general  reader 
the  most  informing  and  useful  book 
on  the  alien  invasion. 

D.  O.  S. 


^, 


<*$* 


V 


A  Clear  Call  to  Congregational  Sunday 
^Schools  and  Young  People's  Societies 


[f        £^  UNDAY  SCHOOLS  and  young  people's  societies  are  now  ik 

^^    invited  to  render  a  large  and  very  important  service  for  the  Jj£ 

Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society.  ^F 

One  hundred  and  ninety-three  missionaries  of  the  society  ^ 


"^f  now    preach    the    Gospel    in    foreign      tongues ;    thirty-eight   tc 

■%?  Swedish  congregations ;  eighty-nine  to  Scandinavian ;  twenty  to  §l§ 

Ifl  Bohemian ;  five  to  Polish ;   seven  to   French ;  two  to  Mexican ;  sjte, 

|||>  eight  to  Italian  ;  eight  to  Spanish ;  six  to  Finnish ;  two  to  Danish ;  g$% 

,§%  one  to  Greek  and  six  to  Armenian  congregations.    Added  to  this  ^ 

4£  extensive  work  among  foreign  speaking  people  in  the  United  ~«p 

^  States,  the  society  is  responsible  for  the  support  of  six  Congrega-  ^ 

^°  tional  churches  in  Cuba — at  Havana,  Guanabacoa,  Cienfuegos,  ||# 

"M?  Guana  jay,  Matanzas,  and  San  Antonio  de  los  Banos.    The  pastors  §^> 

HI  of  all  these  churches  are  toiling  among  the  poor.    They  are  doing  <|fe, 

$k,  work  that  is  urgently  needed,  and  the)''  are  doing  it  in  a  self-deny-  afo 

,sfe  mg  spirit.  ,  Jj£ 

^  For  the  carrying  forward 'of  this  two-fold  work,  the  work  ^ 

^  in  Cuba  and  the  extensive  work  among  foreigners,  there  is  needed  %§ 

*ffi  by  the  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society  this  year  $35,-  Ifl 

Ifl  000.     To  Congregational   Sunday  schools  and  Young  People's  ^, 

^  Societies  appeal  is  now  made  for  this  sum.    The  amount  has  been  &?& 

^f|  divided  into  1,750  shares  of  $20  each.     It  is  believed  that  these  J; 

shares  will  be  readily  subscribed  for.  .  ^ 

Superintendents  of  Sunday  schools  and   chairmen  of  mis- 

^jjP  mionary  committees  of  young  people's  societies  are  heartily  in- 

<*$?  vited  to  help  secure  the  fullest  possible  co-operation.  <J| 
Ifl                The  first  two  individuals  to  whom  this  plan  was  made  known 

<§j^  subscribed  for  a  share  each.    The  remaining  1,748  shares  will  be 

rapidly  taken,  it  is  believed,  provided  the  children  and  young  peo 


vgs 


pie  of  the  churches  are  made  acquainted  with  the  present  urgent  ^f 

lf|  need  of  their  help.  fH 

§%                How  many  shares  will  YOUR  Sunday  school  take  ?  §% 

SM               How  many  shares  will  YOUR  young  people's  society  take  ?  ^4 

gte                 Will  you  act  immediately,  and  state  if  convenient,  by  Novem-  ^ 

^  ber  15,  the  number  of  $20  snares  for  which  your  Sunday  school  ^ 

^  and  young  people's  society  will  subscribe?  ^ 

$                    SUBSCRIPTION   BLANK  FOR  SUNDAY  SCHOOLS  X 

»gp                            The  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society  J^ 

X                                  ?87  Fourth  Avenue,  New  York  City  ff 


<s&?                          The  Stmday  school  of  the church  ^ 

^  %0 

*                                            Town # 

f#                                                                State $ 

%%  will  be  responsible  for ,:..~'\f  the  1,750  shares,  at  $20  each,  of  #jj§ 

Sjk,  the  fund  for  the  support  of  the  foreign  and  Cuban  work  of  the  Con-  M& 

J£  gregational  Home  Missionary  Society.     It  is  our  purpose  to  pay  the  J£ 

^  subscription  on  or  before IQ07-  'sfl 


flfc 


*W 


«®S "d$S °e®$  o$i  <*&>  e^S  <=$*  <%*>  ^>  "^  *^»    <^iv 


2l8 


THE    HOME    MISSIONARY 


Widening  Opportunities 

LEADERS  of  Congregational  home 
mission  study  classes  using  Mr. 
Grose's  new  text  book,  "Aliens  or  Ameri- 
cans?" will  find  suggestive,  the  following 
statements  on  new  opportunities  for 
work     among     foreign-speaking    people. 

Rev.  C.  W.  Shelton,  Secretary  of 
the  New  York  Home  Missionary  So- 
ciety, writes : 

As  regards  the  foreign  work,  it  is  al- 
most limitless.  Four-fifths  of  our  four 
million  people  in  Greater  New  York 
have  foreign  born  parents.  We  have 
200,000  more  people  with  German 
parentage  in  New  York  than  we  have 
with  American  parentage.  In  four  years 
we  have  added  600,000  people  to  our 
population.  At  the  present  rate  of  in- 
crease between  the  census  of  1900  and 
1910  we  shall  add  1,600,000  people  to 
our  population.  The  statement  has 
recently  been  made  that  this  will  be  a 
greater  increase  than  all  the  states  west 
of  the  Mississippi  will  make  during  the 
same  time.  I  am  not  sure  of  this  fact. 
In  one  hour  and  twenty  minutes  on  one 
day  recently  we  had  definite  appeals  for 
work  among  four  nationalities  in  four 
different  parts  of  the  city. 

We  have  300,000  Italians  in  one 
section  of  Manhattan,  and  60.000  in  one 
ward  of  Brooklyn  where  work  could  be 
begun  at  once  if  we  had  the  means.  The 
Camp  Memorial  Church  is  our  onlv 
Frotestant  church  in  that  ward  of  over 
6c.ooo  people,  and  just  now  has  opened 
to  it  a  remarkable  opoortunity  for  work 
among  the  Jews   if  we   could   only  give 


the  assistance,  that  is  necessary. 

The  latest  estimate  of  Dr.  Laidlaw  is 
that  we  have  1,250,000  churchless  Pro- 
testants in  Greater  New  York.  This  is 
a  churchless  population  greater  than  the 
total  population  of  six  of  our  western 
states  and  territories. 


The  Rev.  Dr.  W.  E.  Barton,  of  Oak 
Park,  Illinois,  referring  to  the  need  of 
vigorous  work  in  behalf  of  foreign- 
speaking  people  in  that  state,  says : 

Illinois  stands  next  to  Pennsylvania  as 
a  mining  state.  We  have  hundreds  of 
thousands  of  miners,  living  in  the  dark- 
ness of  the  earth,  and  in  the  darkness 
also  of  their  inherited  traditions  and 
with  the  liberty  of  the  new  world  giving 
only  free  rein  to  untamed  passions  and 
undisciplined  wills.  To  shut  out  these 
men  is  impossible,  and  undesirable; 
they  are  here,  and  ought  to  be  here,  and 
are  coming  whether  they  ought  or  not. 
If  we  have  no  Gospel  for  them  (and  we 
ought  to  have")  we  surely  must  have  a 
Gospel  for  their  children. 

The  Rev.  C.  A.  Jones,  home  mission 
Superintendent  of  Pennsylvania, 
points  out  openings  at  twenty-one 
points,  for  the  undertaking  of  new 
work  among  Swedes,  Poles ,  Slavs, 
Italians  and  Hungarians.  Mr.  Jones 
adds  :  "Pennsylvania's  foreign  burden 
will  be  better  understood  when  it  is 
known  that  eighteen  per  cent,  of  Ellis 
Island's  product  finds  its  wav  to  the 
Keystone  state." 


A  New  Star  on  the  American  Flag. 
From  the  "Ohio  State  Journal"  (Columbus). 


From  the  Front  Line 


First  Impressions  of  Utah 

WITHOUT  naming  the  place 
or  writer,  we  think  the  fol- 
lowing a  very  fair  picture  of 
conditions  so  far  as  they  apply  to 
home  missionary  work  among  the 
Later  Day  Saints.  Says  the  missionary : 

This  being  my  first  experience  among 
the  Mormons,  I  am  slow  to  express  an 
opinion,  for  first  impressions  are  apt  to 
be  imperfect  and  to  be  changed  later. 

One  thing  I  notice  at  once;  it  is  a 
very  clannish  place.  A  "Gentile"  has  a 
great  deal  of  trouble  making  acquaintan-, 
ces  and  then  they  are  of  the  most  formal 
kind.  As  Catholics  do  not  attend  Pro- 
testant services,  so  Mormons  do  not  at- 
tend the  services  of  "Gentile"  churches. 
It  is  very  difficult  to  make  any  inroads 
among  them.  Many,  especially  those 
who  come  from  the  States,  are  of  this 
attitude,  viz.;  "we  know  what  you  have 
to  offer;  we  have  ourselves  been  Meth- 
odists, Baptists,  Presbyterians,  etc.;  we 
are  thoroughly  acquainted  with  your 
line  of  speech;  we  have  all  you  are  able 
to  offer,  and  in  addition  we  have  some- 
thing very  superior,  which  you  have  not. 
If  reference  is  made  to  our  being  mis- 
sionaries, or  even  ministers,  they  say  in 
substance,  "Why  does  your  church  send 
missionaries  out  here?  We  send  mis- 
sionaries to  your  state  back  East;  w0 
are  anxious  that  all  the  world  should 
know  the  true  Gospel  and  be  saved." 

You  can  imagine  the  difficulty  of  work 
among  such  a  people,  proud,  Pharisaic, 
self-satisfied;  looking  with  contempt  on 
yotB  and  your  message  and  your  pre- 
sumption in  appearing  among  them  as 
a  teacher  of  the  way  of  life.  And  yet 
there  are  exceptions  to  these  general 
'conditions,  and  they  furnish  the  enter- 
ing wedge — the  means  of  cleavage.  God 
has  his  own  among  all  tribes  and  in  all 
forms  of  religion,  and  they  see  clearly; 
they  see  the  fallacy,  live  under  it  for  a 
time,  bearing  it,  and  then  finally  break 
away.  Some  become  infidels,  losing 
their  way:  some  come  to  the  "Gentile" 
churches. 

The  Congregational  is  perhaps  better 
known  here  than  any  other  church,  be- 
cause of  the  numerous  day  schools  and 
academies  in  the  state.  In  some  com- 
munities the  people,  especially  the 
young,  have  scarcely  heard  of  any  re- 
ligion save  their  own.     (I  speak  of  those 


communities  which  are  largely  of  foreign 
descent).  But  they  have  heard  of  the 
Congregational  church  through  east- 
ern teachers.  I  preached  at  a  town  of 
4,000  last  night,  where  there  is  not  a 
"Gentile"  church.  I  had  twenty  to  hear 
me,  counting  myself.  Here  is  a  great 
field;  but  no  laborer;  we  need  more  men 
and  more  money.  You  cannot,  as  in  a 
heathen  country,  hope  to  disseminate 
the  principles  of  Christianity  by  scatter- 
ing copies  of  the  Bible.  The  Bible  is 
here;  it  is  well  read  by  the  people — es- 
pecially the  Old  Testament— and  the 
form  of  religion  found  therein  finds  a 
present  day  illustration  in  these  people. 
Jf  you  lived  in  a  strictly  Catholic  com- 
munity, you  might  allow  your  children 
to  attend  their  school,  but  you  would 
do  all  you  could  to  see  that  your  chil- 
dren did  not  absorb  that  religion.  That 
is  the  Mormon  attitude  toward  us. 

After  Sixteen  Years 

Many  friends  of  Rev.  P.  B.  Jack- 
son, of  Montana,  who  is  now  com- 
pleting his  sixteenth  year  of  almost 
continuous  service  in  the  Home  Mis- 
sionary Society,,  will  read  with  in- 
terest his  valedictory  words  given  be- 
low; and  will  join  with  him  and  with 
the  officers  of  the  Society  in  the  hope 
that  a  period  of  rest  will  restore  his 
health  and  insure  a  longer  service  in 
the  cause  he  loves  so  well.  He  writes : 

I  think  now,  indeed,  I  know  that  this 
coming  quarter  will  be  my  last  quarter 
of  service  under  the  Home  Missionary 
Society  for  a  long  time.  My  health  has 
srone,  and  I  simply  cannot  work  any 
farther.  It  makes  me  sad.  With  the  ex- 
ception of  one  year,  I  have  been  in  the 
the  employ  of  the  Society  about  sixteen 
years.  It  seems  hard  to  say  good-by, 
but  I  still  have  a  faint  hope  that  com- 
plete rest  will  enable  me  at  some  time 
to  renew  my  service  with  the  good  old 
Society.  Let  me  say,  while  I  am  on  it, 
that  in  all  these  sixteen  years  the  So- 
ciety has  never  once  done  anything  but 
the  square  and  generous  thing  by  me. 
I  am  profoundly  thankful  to  its  officers 
and  members  that  my  memory  of  its 
dealings  with  me  and  mine  must  always 
be  so  pleasant.  God  give  it  increasing 
usefulness! 


120 


THE    HOME    MISSIONARY 


A   Busy, Pastorate 

Southern  California  nas  now 
graduated  from  dependence  to  self- 
support,  at  least  so  far  as  the  National 
Society  is  concerned.  Much  mission- 
ary work  is  waiting  to  be  done,  but  it 
will  be.  carried  on  henceforward  by 
the  State  Society.  Rev.  George 
Robertson,  of  Mentone,  in  sending  in 
his  last  report  under  the  National  So- 
ciety says: 

During  my  brief  pastorate  here,  I 
have  conducted  sixty-five  funerals,  re- 
ceived into  the  church  by  letter  thirty 
eight,  and  on  confession  of  faith  thirty- 
seven,  making  seventy-five  people  in  all 
to  whom  I  have  had  the  pleasure  of 
giving  the  right  hand  of  fellowship.  No 
statistics  can  tabulate  the  work  done  by 
a  church  situated  as  this  church  is.  We 
are  in  the  midst  of  a  health  resort;  many 
sick  people  make  a  large  draft  upon  our 
sympathies.  We  know  no  denomination 
in  this  work.  My  duties  often  call  me 
into  the  families  of  Roman  Catholics 
Jews,  as  well  as  those  of  all  evangelical 
faiths.  How  much  the  churhes  of  the 
Home  Missionary  Society  are  doing  in 
this  work  of  Christian  sympathy  along 
this  coast,  it  would  be  difficult  to  enume- 
rate. 

We  have  been  able  thus  far  to  keep 
out  the  saloons;  but  this  has  not  come 
to  pass  without  a  number  of  hard  con- 
flicts, in  which  the  church  people  have 
won.  The  drink  devil  dies  hard.  Take 
away  the  Mentone  church,  and  in  a 
brief  two  years  I  believe  a  saloon  will 
occupy  its  place.  Three  years  ago  the 
vote  in  favor  of  the  saloon  in  this  pre- 
cinct was  61  to  62,  that  is,  the  anti-saloon 
party  won  by  a  single  vote.  A  year  ago 
we  had  another  contest  and  won  the 
fight  two  to  one.  This  shows  how  a 
good  sentiment  can  be  created  by  a 
church  and  a  Sunday  School.  My  con- 
viction is  that  the  Sabbath  School  work 
is  invaluable  as  a  force  in  moulding  the 
thought  of  homes  whose  fathers  and 
mothers  never  enter  the  church.  At 
least  this  is  more  than  a  dream  at  Men- 
tone. 

Not  Remembering  the  Sabbath 

A  peculiar  and  disheartening  fea- 
ture of  much  of  our  missionary  work 
is  in  the  disregard  of  the  Sabbath  day, 
not  by  the  enemies  of  religion,  but  by 


its  friends.     Says  Rev.  H.  R.  Harris, 
of  Minnesota: 

During  the  summer  months  our  aud- 
iences fluctuate  more  or  less,  especially 
on  fine  days  when  the  people  go  to  many 
picnics  held  by  various  Lutheran  congre- 
gations throughout  the  neighborhood. 
This  is  one  of  the  evils  connected  with 
a  foreign  population.  Picnics  are  held, 
public  dinners  served,  games,  such  as 
baseball,  croquet  and  other  sports,  all 
under  the  approval  of  the  church.  The 
pastors  encourage  them,  and  I  have 
many  times  been  invited  to  the  pastor's 
home  on  Sunday  afternoon  to  have  a 
game  of  croquet.  The  moral  effects  of 
these  conditions  is  anything  but  elevat- 
ing, while  the  Sabbath  day  is  looked  upon 
as  a  day  of  recreation  and  sport,  and  in 
the  Autumn  as  a  day  for  hunting.  But 
this  only  demonstrates  the  great  neces- 
sity in  this  and  all  foreign  communities 
of  an  aggressive  eveangelical  Gospel. 

How  it  Struck  the  Missionary 

Rev.  Samuel  Deakin,  of  Cowles, 
Nebraska,  a  veteran  worker  in  the 
Home  Missionary  Society,  enjoyed 
the  privilege,  with  many  others,  of 
attending  the  eightieth  anniversary  at 
Oak  Park.  His  impression  of  that 
meeting,  we  think,  will  be  echoed  by 
many  who  witnessed  its  outcome. 
Says  Mr.  Deakin: 

I  was  greatly  interested  in  this  Oak 
Park  meeting  and  truly  thankful  that 
the  perplexing  question  was  so  grandly 
solved.  How  frequently  the  apparently 
mountainous  difficulties  dwindle  into 
mole  hills  on  a '  nearer  approach,  es- 
pecially as  we  look  up  for  Divine  guid- 
ance and  enlightenment!  The  Oak  Park 
meetings  will  furnish  pleasant  and  in- 
spiring memories  for  many  days  to 
come. 

Cheering  Signs  for  thePreacher 

Rev.  E.  A.  Blodgett,  of  Flagler, 
Colorado,  is  altogether  justified  in 
taking  courage  in  his  work,  from  the 
signs  of  interest  described  in  the  fol- 
lowing: 

In  general  our  work  here  for  the  past 
quarter  has  been  very  helpful  and  en- 
couraging. There  are  continually  many 
simple  illustrations  which  go  to  show 
that  the  people  surely  have  an  interest  in 
the  enterprise. 

While    special    meetings   were   held   in 


FROM    THE    FRONT    LINE 


221 


one  field,  one  family,  consisting  of  fa- 
ther, mother  and  five  children,  were 
present  every  night.  They  drove  a 
distance  of  ten  miles  and  had  to  leave 
the  milking  until  they  returned,  because 
of  the  early  hour  at  which  they  had  to 
start,  yet  they  proved  faithful.  Another 
family  must  drive  thirty  miles  in  order 
to  attend  the  service,  and  this  they  did, 
and  frequently  do,  for  the  regular 
services. 

When  I  see  every  Sunday,  men  and 
women  that  I  know  have  had  to  arise  an 
hour  or  two  earlier  than  usual  in  order 
to  be  on  time  at  our  morning  services, 
and  when  I  see  those  whom  I  know  have 
a  very  early  dinner,  or  no  dinner  at  all, 
in  order  to  be  prompt  at  afternoon 
service,  and  at  the  evening  service  those 
who  have  had  to  drive  over  roads  hardly 
discernible  in  the  daylight,  over  a  prairie 
where  no  trees  or  fences  mark  the  way, 
where  to  be  lost  on  the  plains  and  to 
await  the  morning  light  is  a  common  oc- 
currence, when  all  this  I  know  takes 
place  every  Sunday,  I  do  rejoice  and  take 
courage,  for  I  know  God  is  leading  his 
people. 

"By  All  Means  to  Save  Some" 

The  records  of  all  our  foreign  de- 
partments are  full  of  missionary  ex- 
perience like  that  given  below,  which 
reminds  one  of  the  early  days  of  the 
Christian  Church  when  the  Gospel 
was  preached,  not  in  costly  temples, 
but  from  house  to  house.  Says  Miss 
Barbara  Slavinskie,  of  Bay  City, 
Michigan : 

The  first  two  months  of  the  past 
quarter  were  full  of  encouragement  to 
me,  and  the  past  month's  vacation  has 
not  seemed  to  change  the  aspect  of  the 


work.  My  plan  of  the  previous  quarter 
to  use  every  means  possible,  even  to  my 
own  personal  discomfort,  in  order  to 
gain  a  certain  family  has  seemingly 
proved  a  success.  I  have  been  able  so 
far  to  win  the  interest  and  confidence  of 
the  entire  family,  and  seven  of  the  chil- 
dren have  been  promised  for  my  Sunday 
School.  The  parents  have  been  influenc- 
ed to  such  an  extent,  that  I  think  before 
long  they  must  make  a  decision  for 
Christ,  and  I  trust  by  the  next  quarter 
I  shall  be  able  to  tell  something  of  their 
conversion.  The  return  of  my  first 
family  of  converts  to  the  city  has  been 
such  a  help  to  the  work,  and  it  is  en- 
couraging to  see  with  what  faith  and 
zeal  they  apply  themselves  to  reaching 
out  after  others.  Some  time  ago,  I 
walked  into  a  certain  Catholic  home 
here  rather  unexpectedly.  Gathered 
.there  were  one  or  two  outside  guests, 
and  the  entire  group  seemed  to  be  hav- 
ing quite  an  animated  argument  over 
something.  I  listened  to  catch  the 
drift  of  their  remarks,  and,  looking  up, 
saw  one  of  our  converts  the  center  of 
this  group.  He  had  an  open  Bible  be- 
fore him,  and  had  just  finished  reading 
the  story  of  the  "Wise  and  Foolish 
Virgins,"  which  had  evidently  been  the 
cause  of  this  heated  argument,  and 
which  was  being  sorely  criticized.  My 
■first  thought  was  to  come  to  the  man's 
relief,  as  there  were  too  many  against 
him,  bigoted,  prejudiced  and  wholly  out 
of  sympathy  with  him  in  his  new-found 
faith.  To  my  astonishment  and  delight, 
I  found  that  he  was  in  every  way,  not 
only  able  to  take  care  of  himself,  but  he 
talked  with  such  conviction  and  force, 
that  the  rest  had  to  remain  quiet  or  ac- 
cept the  truth  of  his  remarks.  Almost 
immediately  this  thought  came  to  me: 
"Surely  the  age  of  miracles  is  not  yet 
past,  when  God's  Word  has  wrought 
such  a  change  in  the  life  of  this  once 
ignorant,  uneducated  and  bigoted  man." 


Women's  Work  and  Methods 


Home  Missions,the  Twentieth 
Century  Patriotism 

By  Mrs.  G.  S.  Mills 

WHAT  are  Home  Missions? 
This  is  a  definition  that  has 
been  as  elusive  as  the 
Northwest  Territory,  which  be- 
gan in  Vermot  and  ended  in 
Alaska.  In  fact,  the  field  of  Home 
Missions  has  been  co-extensive  with 
this  same  Northwest  Territory,  but  we 
have  not  stopped  with  Alaska  but 
gone  on  to  the  Philippines,  and  turn- 
ing back  to  the  southeast,  to  Cuba  and 
Porto  Rico.  Where  Home  Missions 
will  lead  us  next  is  an  interesting 
speculation. 

And  the  work  itself  is  constantly 
changing  to  meet  new  needs.  When 
we  read  of  our  first  Home  Mission- 
aries, we  find  that  they  state  their 
object  to  be,  "to  Christianize  the 
heathen  of  North  America  and  sup- 
port and  promote  Christian  knowledge 
in  the  new  settlements  within  the 
United  States."  And  this  they  ex- 
pected to  do  mainly  by  preaching. 
But  now  what  is  expected?  Beside 
the  direct  religious  teaching,  a  mis- 
sionary must:  be  able  to  teach  almost 
everything  that  one  can  think  of — 
from  common  decency  to  common 
law. 

I  believe  we  have  made  a  mistake 
in  somehow  giving  the  impression 
that  the  religious  part  was  the  main 
part  of  missions.  It  is  the  main  part, 
if  we  mean  by  religious,  a  good  strong 
healthy  soul  in  a  healthy  body.  But 
there  are  still  many  people  who  seem 
to  think  that  a  kind  of  sentimental 
■-•oody-goodyness  is  all  there  is  to  re- 
ligion. 

I  do  feel  that  we  ought  to  think  of 
Home  Missions  in  these  days  as  em- 
bracing every  kind  of  work  that  looks 
toward  the  betterment  of  this  country 


— whether  distinctly  religious  or  only 
social,  intellectual,  or  moral. 

And  Patriotism,  "that  passion 
which  inspires  one  to  serve  one's 
country,"  should  be  a  motive  power 
behind  all  Home  Missionary  effort. 

If  we  accept  these  definitions,  there 
are  many  people  doing  missionary 
work  who  do  not  know  it,  and  there 
is  much  misionary  work  which  is  un- 
recognized as  such. 

I  believe  we  owe  our  sympathy  and 
help  to  all  societies  and  agencies  try- 
ing to  better  the  social  life  of  this 
country,  for  upon  this  depends  much 
of  the  success  of  the  religious  work 
pure  and  simple.  If  it  is  true  that  we 
are  to  "Save  America  to  save  the 
world"  and  "Save  New  York  to  save 
America,"  it  is  time  we  set  about  it  in 
earnest.  The  dangers  meanacing  this 
country  from  the  conditions  in  New 
York  City  are  not  to  be  lightly  passed 
over.  And  the  more  one  reads  of 
these  conditions  and  their  results,  the 
more  convinced  is  he  that  all  remedial 
agencies  must  begin  at  the  beginning 
— with  the  children — the  children 
native  born  and  the  children  foreign 
born. 

All  honor  to  those  workers  who  are 
bettering  child  life  in  our  cities, 
whether  by  influencing  legislation  or 
by  social  settlements,  or  mission 
churches.  And  all  honor,  too,  to  those 
brave  people  who  are  setting  forth  in 
the  printed  page  the  needs  of  these 
children. 

We  must,  I  say,  agree  with 
Owen  Kildare,  that  wonderful  pro- 
duct of  missionary  work  in  the 
slum,  when  he  says:  "I  cannot  rid 
myself  of  the  opinion  that  in  the  aid- 
ing of  the  children  lies  the  only  solu- 
tion of  our  social  troubles." 

And  there  are  the  hordes  of  immi- 
grants. What  shall  we  do  with 
them?  And  is  it  really  any  use 
to  try  to  make  good  American 
citizens  out  of  such  material?    O  ves! 


WOMAN'S    WORK    AND    METHODS 


223 


truly  it  is.  One  cannot  listen  to  a  mis- 
sionary whose  work  is  among  the 
foreign  population,  or  read  of  the  at- 
tainments of  the  children  of  foreign 
mrents  in  our  high  schools  and  col- 
leges, or  know  of  the  pride  of  some, 
not  all,  of  these  people  in  our  country, 
without  feeling  sure  of  the  ultimate 
success  of  such  work,  be  the  problem 
ever  so  difficult  and  the  outlook  ever 
so  dark.  Here  is  a  significant  item 
from  the  daily  paper,  that  I  chanced 
upon  just  as  I  had  set  down  these 
words.    It  is  a  suggestive  prophecy : 

"Unusual  interest  attaches  to  the 
graduating  exercises  of  the  Albuquer- 
que (N.  M.)  High  School  this  year, 
in  that  the  valedictorian  is  Sam  Ho 
Kee,  a  Chinese  boy  whose  exceptional 
ability  has  surprised  his  in- 
structors at  every  stage  of  his  High 
School  course.  Sam  Ho  is  easily  the 
leader  of  his  class  of  ten  young  men 
and  women  and  it  has  been  known  for 
some  time  that  the  valedictory  honor 
would  be  given  to  him.  Sam 
Ho  Kee  was  born  in  China  eighteen 
years  ago." 

And  what  can  we,  the  Christian 
women  of  America,  do  to  aid  in  this 
great  work?  So  much  of  exploiting 
of  wrongs  and  troubles  is  fruitless  un- 
less remedies  are  suggested.  Now  it 
is  beyond  my  ability  to  suggest  reme- 
dies which  you  can  apply  to  the  over- 
crowding in  city  tenements  to  the  evils 
of  sweat  shops,  to  the  keeping  out  of 
undesirable  immigrants,  and  kindred 
things,  but  I  have  a  remedy — an  old- 
fashioned  and  commonplace  one — to 
suggest  for  the  lack  of  interest  in  mis- 
sionary work,  and  it  is  this :  Teach 
the  children  that  the  true  missionary 


spirit  is  the  highest  form  of  patrio- 
tism. Children  easily  become  little 
patriots,  and  they  can  be  taught  that 
to  help  the  helpless  is  a  finer  thing 
than  to  know  how  to  salute  the  flag. 

Was  it  not  encouraging  to  note  in 
one  of  the  last  chapters  of  "Leavening 
the  Nation,"  that  the  contributions  for 
Home  Missions  from  our  New  Eng- 
land church  members  had  increased  in 
forty  years  ending  1902,  from  87 
cents  a  year  per  member  to  $1.43  per 
member?  I  must  confess  I  was  really 
surprised,  for  when  one  reads  of  so 
many  societies  in  debt  and  the  call  for 
retrenchment,  one's  first  thought  is 
that  the  contributions  are  falling  off. 
Now,  if  New  England  giving  is  in- 
creasing, what  is  the  trouble?  Is  it, 
possibly,  that  New  England  is  being 
left  to  bear  the  brunt  of  the  giving? 
That  the  churches  of  the  South,  the 
Middle  West,  and  West,  which  were 
once  missionary  churches  themselves, 
have  forgotten  their  obligations  ?  I  do 
,not  say  that  this  is  so.  I  only  know 
that  such  a  reason  is  being  suggested. 
But  if  it  is  so,  it  is  a  shame,  and  we 
surely  need  a  revival  of  patriotic  mis- 
sionary spirit  in  those  sections.  It  is 
not  enough  that  a  church  rise  from  a 
missionary  church  to  self-support,  it 
must  rise  again  to  a  missionary  church 
— though  missionary  in  the  sense  of 
giving  rather  than  receiving. 

Let  us,  then,  by  listening,  by  read- 
ing, by  teaching,  by  influencing,  by 
giving,  by  patient  continuance  in  well- 
doing, do  all  that  lies  in  our  power  to 
bring  about  the  kingdom  of  God  in 
America,  for  by  so  doing  shall  we 
best  serve  our  country  and  the  world. 


To  Pastors  and  Leaders  in  Search  of 

Material 

BELOW  will  be  found,  classified  according  to  their   subjects,   leading 
articles  that  have  appeared  in   the   Home  Missionary,  since  April, 
1903.    Our  surplus  of  copies  is  not  large,  but  so  far  as  they  will  go 
we  desire  to  distribute  them  to  all  who  are  in  need.    They  will  be  sent  with- 
out cost  on  request  accompanied  by  a  two  cent  stamp  for  postage  on  each 
magazine  ordered. 

Editor  Home  Missionary. 

IMMIGRATION. 

The  Great  Migration,  Margaret  G.  Batchelder October,  1903 

The  Great  Migration,  Rev.  P.  Sommerlatte  October,  1903 

Where   Immigrants   Settle November,   1903 

Children  of  the  Steerage,  Minnie  J    Reynolds October,   1904 

The  Tragedy  of  the  Excluded,  Jos.  H.  Adams April,   1905 

Why  Despise  the  Immigrant?     Minnie  J.  Reynolds December,  1905 

Other  Side  of  Immigration,  Francis  Curtis December,  1905 

The  Child  Immigrant,  J.  H.  Adams March,  1906 

Go  Forward,  W.  B.  H April,  1906 

Opinion  of  an  Expert May,  1906 

Is  America  Making  Criminals?     Minnie  J.  Reynolds October,  1906 

THE  CITY. 

Denver  Tabernacle,  Rev.  T.  A.  Uzzell February,  1904 

Camp  Memorial  Church.  New  York,  Rev.  W.  James February,  1904 

The  Pilgrims  at  Knoxville,  J    H.  Frazee,  D.  D April,   1904 

Chickasha,  Indian  Territory,  Rev.  M.  C.    Haecker May,   1904 

Cleveland — A  Notable  Church,  I.  W.  Metcalf October,  1904 

Italian  Superstitions,  Minnie  J.  Reynolds January,  1905 

Will  It  Pay?    Rev.  F.  H.  Allen January,  1906 

What  Are  We  Doing  in  the  City?  C.  E.  Jefferson,  D.  D January,  1906 

The  City  and  the  Slum,  Josiah  Strong,  D.  D January,  1906 

What  is  the  Remedy?  Lyman  Abbott,  D.  D January,  1906 

A  New  Situation,  T.  B.  McLeod,  D.  D January,  1906 

STATE  ARTICLES. 

Nebraska,  Investments  in.  Harmon  Bross,  D.  D April,  1903 

Connecticut — Is  it  Degenerating?  Rev.  J.  G.  R.  Wyckoff May,  1903 

Iowa,  William  Salter  and  Ephraim  Adams June,  1903 

Michigan — Our  Northern  Frontier,  W.  H.  Warren,  D.  D July,  1903 

Florida — The  Flowery  State,  S.  F.  Gale,  D.  D September,  1903 

Washington — Plea  for  the  Logger,  M.  Eells,  D.  D November,  1903 

California — The  Golden  State ,  Rev.  J.  K   Harrison December.  1903 

Dakota — Veterans.    Mission    Hill December,  1903 

Rocky  Mountain  District,  J.  D.  Kingsbury,  D.  D December,  1903 

Georgia — Empire  State  of  the  South,  F.  E.  Jenkins,  D.  D January,  1904 

Texas — Lone  Star  State,  Rev.  L.  Rees January,  1904 

New  Mexico — Empire  Building,  Rev.  J.  H.  Heald March.  1*904 

Maine — Away  Down  East,  Rev.  C.  Harbutt May,  1904 

Utah — Under  the  Foothills,  T.  D.  Kingsbury,  D.  D June.  1904 

Minnesota,  George  R.  Merrill,  D.  D September,  T904 

The  South,  Home  Amissions  in.  Rev.  T.  E.  Kirbye December.  1004 

Michigan  Again,  W.  H.  Warren,  D.  D March,  1905 

Utah — Awheel  and  Afoot  in  Mormondom,  Rev.  J.  D.  Nutting May,  1905 

Maine,  Northern,  Rev.  Charles  Harbutt September,  1905 


TO  PASTORS  AND  LEADERS  IN  SEARCH  OF  MATERIAL  225 

Wisconsin,  Northern,  H.  W.  Carter,  D.  D September,  1905 

New  Mexico,  Boys  and  Girls  of,  Olive  G.  Gibson. . October,  1905 

Minnesota — Mankato  Church  Militant,  Rev.  E.  D.  Parsons October,  1905 

Nebraska — The  Frontier,  Rev.  A.  E,  Ricker November,  1905 

Alaska  as  it  is,  Rev.  William  Burdett January,  1906 

The  South  of  Tomorrow,  F.  E.  Jenkins,  D.  D February,  1906 

XTtah,  An  Original  Letter  by  Norman  McLeod February,  1906 

California,  Southern,  Land  of  Sunshine,  Rev.  J.  L.  Maile March,  1906 

Washington — Wonderland  of  the  Northwest,  Rev.  W.  W.  Scudder May,  1906 

Massachusetts — Trip  Through  the  Hay  Stack  Country, 

F.  E.  Emrich,  D.  D May,  1906 

Oklahoma.     Romance  of,  Rev.  O.  B.  Loud May,  1906 

Oregon — Promiseland  of  the  Northwest,  Rev.  P.  S.  Knight September,   1906 

Connecticut  (Swedish),  Rev.  J.  S.  Ives September,   1906 

North  Dakota,  Rev.  G.  J.  Powell October,  1906 

FOREIGN. 

Activities  in  Cuba May,  1903 

Havana,  Conditions  in,  G.  L.  Todd,  D.  D November,  1903 

Countrymen  of  John  Huss  in  America,  H.  A.  Schauffler,  D.  D June,  1903 

The  Society's  Equipment  for  Foreign  Work November,  1903 

A  Gospel  for  Italians,  Rev.  J.  S.  Ives December,  1903 

Our  Mexico  Aborigines,  Rev.  A.  B.  Case March,  1904 

Spanish  People  in  New  York  City,  Dr.  C.  R.  Nugent March,  1904 

Scandinavians  in  the  Northwest,  Prof-  J.  A.  Jernberg June,  1904 

Italian  Connectucut,  Rev.  J.  S.  Ives January,  1905 

Henry  A.  Schauffler,  D.  D.,  E.  A.  Adams,  D.  D April,  1905 

A  Promising  German  Plant,  Rev.  W.  H.  Lawall November,  1905 

Swedish  Connecticut,  Rev.  J.  S.  Ives September,  1906 

Oberlin  Slavic  Department,  Prof.  L.  F.  Miskovsky September,  1906 

YOUNG  PEOPLE'S  DEPARTMENT 

The  Potency  of  Prayer,  Don  O.  Shelton April,  1903 

Activities  in  Cuba,  Various  Authors May,   1903 

Needed!  Leaders,  Don  O.  Shelton June,   1903 

Christ  in  Our  Cities,  Margaret  L.  Russell June,  1903 

The  Value  of  Organized  Missionary  Effort,  Ernest  Bourner  Allen July,  1903 

How  to  Scure  and  Maintain  a  Trained  Missionary  Leadership  in 

Missionary  Societies,  Harry  Wade  Hicks July,  1903 

The  Value  of  Motive,  Don  O.  Shelton , July,  1903 

The  Debt  American  Young  People  Owe  Their  Country,  Francis  E. 

Clark,   D.   D July,  1903 

The  Young  Men  in  a  Mining  Camp,  H.  S.  Miller September,  1903 

The  Value  of  Organized  Missionary  Effort,  Ernest  B.  Allen October,  1903 

Richard  Wells  Foster.    A  Young  Man's  Bequest  to  Home  Missions, 

W.  W.  Jordan November,   1903 

Young  People  in  Alaska,  Washington  Choate,  Thomas  Colye  and 

D.   W.   Crane ._ December,  1903 

A  Five  Minute  Missionary  Speech,  Margaret  L.  Knapp January,  1904 

A  Postage  Stampa  Week  For  Home  Missions,  William  Shaw..  ..February,  1904 
On    the    Ranch,    in    the    Cabin.    Among   the    Mountains,    J.    DS 

Kingsbury,  D.  D February,  1904 

Uninterested  in  Missions.     Why?     Don  O.  Shelton March,  1904 

Letters  to  a  Missionary  Committee.     I.  On  Getting  Ready,  Don 

O.   Shelton March,  1904 

King's  Trumpeters  Whom  I  Have  Known.    I.  Rev.  John  Nichols. 

W.    G.    Pnddefoot March,  1904 

King's  Trumpeters  Whom  I  Have  Known.     II.  Rev.  Rufus  W. 

Fletcher.     W.  G.  Pnddefoot April,   1904 

Letters  to  a  Missionary  Committee.     II.  On  Setting  Others  to 

Work,  Don   O.   Shelton May,  1904 

King's  Trumpeters  Whom    I   Have    Known.     III.      Rev.   James 

Hayes.     W.  G.  Puddefoot Tune,  1904 

(■Methods  Well  Worth  Knowing  About,  Mrs.  C  J.  Hawkins '.'.  '. '.  June!  1904 


226  THE    HOME    MISSIONARY 

Appreciation  and  a  Plea,  J.  Ash  Stook June,  1904 

r/ostage  Stamps  and  Christian  Standard  of  Giving,  Ernest  Allen. .  September,  1904 
King's  Trumpeters  Whom  I  Have  Known.     IV.     Rev.  William 

Howard  Watson.     W.  G.  Puddefoot October,  1904 

Missionary  Messages  to  Young  Men,  C.  A.  Jones October,  1904 

Far  Reaching  Effect  of  Home  Mission  Work,  Ernest  Bourner  Allen. October,   1904 

Value  of  Home  Mission  Study,  Watson  L.  Phillips November,   1904 

.ventieth  Century  Crusade,  C.  E.  Jefferson November,  1904 

Men  and  Mission,  Don  O.  Shelton November,  1904 

\  hy  Study  Home  Missions?  Don  O.  Shelton December,  1904 

How  Young  People  May  Help  the  Congregational  Home   Mis- 
sionary Society,  William  Shaw December,  1904 

What  Local  Young  People's  Societies  Can  Do  to  Aid  Home  Mis- 
sions, Charles  Luther  Kloss December,  1904 

King's  Trumpeters  Whom   I   Have   Known.     V.     Rev.    Francis 

Wigley.     W.  G.  Puddefoot. January,  1905 

Help  of  Strong  Laymen  Required,  Don  O.  Shelton February,  1905 

King's  Trumpeters  Whom  I  Have  Known.     VI.     Rev.  and  Mrs. 

Jerome  M.  Barber.     W.  G.  Puddefoot February,  1905 

King's  Trumpeters  Whom  I  Plave  Known.     VII.     Rev.  Abram 

Van  Auken.     W.  G.  Puddefoot May,  1905 

Home  Missionary  Intelligence  a  Need  of  College  Students.  Rev. 

Laura   H.   Wild June,  1905 

Why  Young  People  Should  Help,  Livingston  L.  Taylor June,  1905 

How  Young  People  May  Help,  William  Shaw June,  1905 

.  hy  Should  Young  People  Be  Interested  in  Home  Missions,  R 

DeWitt     Mallary September,  1905 

Home  Mission  Aphorisms,  J.  A.   Shedd October,  1905 

Reminiscences  of  Joseph  Ward,  E.  D.  Disbrow October,  1905 

Layman's  Part  in  the  Spiritual  Awakening,  J.  C.  Sherburne October,  1905 

What  Others  Do — What  Can  We  Do?  Ernest  Bourner  Allen November,  1905 

Heroes  of  the  Cross  in  America,  Charles  J.  Ryder November,  1905 

Missionary  Messages  to  the  Young  Men  of  the  Twentieth  Cen- 
tury, Charles  A.  Jones December,  1905 

King's  Trumpeters  Whom  I  Have  Known.     VIII.     Rev.  Erastus 

Curry,  D.  D.     W.  G.  Puddefoot December,   1905 

The  Destiny  of  America.     I.     The   Marc  hof  a  Nation,  W.  W. 

Jordan,  D.  D January,  1906 

William  Ross  of  Cowcaddens,  Don  O.  Shelton February,  1905 

The   Destiny  of  America.      II.     Resources   of  a   Nation,  W.  W. 

Jordan,  D.  D February,  1906 

The  Destiny  of  America.     III.     A  Blot  on  the  Nation,  W.  W. 

Jordan,  D.  D February,  1906 

The  Destiny  of  America.     IV.    Ultimate  America,  W.  W.  Jordan, 

D;    D ; May,  1906 

Organizing  Our  Congregational  Forces,  Don  O.  Shelton. June,  T906 

Undeveloped  Resources  in  the  Young  People,  Ernest  Bourner  Allen... June,  1906 
Undeveloped  Resources  in  the  Children  of  Our  Churches,  H.  H. 

Kelsey  June,  tqo6 

Missionary  Meetings  That  Thrill,  J.  F.  Cowan September,  1906 

WOMEN'S  WORK  AND  METHODS. 

One  Woman,  Mrs.  H.  S.  C.  Broad April,  1903 

The  Motive  That  Prevails.  Mrs.  Washington  Choate April,    1903 

Rugs  or  Crazy  Quilts,  Mrs.  L.  T.  Bailey April,  1903 

To  Every  One  a  Call,  Mrs.  L.  O.  Tead May,  1903 

Is  It  Coming?  Mrs.  Robert  McKinnon September,  1903 

Woman's  Way,  Mrs.  J.  L.  Hill September,  1903 

Summer  Outings  and  Home  Missions,     Mrs.  J.  G.  Fraser September,  1903 

Missionary  Studies,  Mrs.  G.  W.  Choate September,   1903 

A  Missionary  Call,  Mrs.  D.  R.  Barber October,  1903 

Giving,  The  Scripture  Law,  Mrs    T.  Q.  Moulton October,  1903 

A  Word  in  Season.  Mrs.  Washington  Choate November,  1903 

A  Vermont    Experiment November,  1003 

Epaphras,  Hope  Hillis December,  1903 

Mrs.  Broad  Among  the  Cowboys February,  1904 

Three  Reasons  for  Enthusiasm,  Rev.  Laura  H.  Wild February,  1904 

Picturesque  New  Mexico,  Miss  H.  DeBusk March,  1904 

Queer  Celebrations,  Mrs.  J.  H.  Heald April,  1904 


TO  PASTORS  AND  LEADERS  IN  SEARCH  OF  MATERIAL  227 

Then  and  Now,  Mrs.  T.  J.  Woodcock April,  1904 

Woman's  Work  at  the  Front,  Mrs.  L.  S.  Child. April,  1904 

Mrs.  Broad  in  Southern  Illinois May,  1904 

Babies  That  Grow  in  the  Garden,  Mrs.  J.  R.  Haecker May,  1904 

Mrs.   Broad  in  Michigan June,  1904 

Coeur  d'  Alene,  Mrs.  Broad September,  1904 

Responsibility  of  the  Senior  Auxiliaries,  Miss  G.  M.  Davis October,  1904 

A  New  Departure January,  1905 

Value  of  Missionary  Boxes,  Mrs.  S.  P.  Marshall .'March,  1905 

Statesmen  and  Truth  Tellers,  M.  L.  K April,  1905 

A  Word  to  the  Thoughtful May,  1905 

Are  You  Making  the  Best  Use  of  It? May,  1905 

The  Woman  Who  Runs  the  Society September,  1905 

Sunnyside  Missionary,  Mrs.  Grateful October,  1905 

An  Historic  Society October,  1905 

The  New  England  Woman  in  the  Southwest,  Dr.  W.  A.  Mowry.  .November,  1905 

Suggestions  in   Confidence December,  1905 

Something  of  Arizona,  Mrs.  Broad. January,  190O 

Woman  to  the  Front February,  1906 

Connecticut   Methods,    Sentence    Prayers    for    Home    Missionary 

Meetings     March,  1906 

Home  Missionary  Literature  for  Children April,  1906 

The  Evolution  of  a  Church April,  1906 

Her    Chief    Business April,  1906 

What  More  Can  We  Women  Do?  Mrs!  Washington  Choate September,  1906 

ANNUAL  MEETINGS. 

Two    Notable   Anniversaries May,  1903 

The  Providence  Meeting,  Addresses July,  1903 

The  City  of  the  Monks,  (DesMoines),  A.  L.  Frisbie,  D.  D September,  1903 

Seventy-eighth  Annual  Meeting,  Des  Moines,  Addresses November,  1904 

Springfield,  Mass.,  City  of  Homes,  F.  L.  Goodspeed,  D.  D May,  1905 

Seventy-ninth  Annual  Meeting  Springfield,  Mass.,  Addresses June,  1905 

Eightieth  Annual  Meeting,  Oak  Park,  111.,  Addresses June,  1906 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

President  Roosevelt's  Tribute  to  Home  Missions October,  1903 

Home    Missionary    Symposium January,  1904 

The  Louisiana  Purchase April,  1904 

Home  Missionary  Revival May,  1904 

The  Twelve  Missionaries,  Dr.  J.  M.  Whiton June,  1904 

Outstanding  Features  of  Home  Missions,  S.  P.  Cadman,  D.  D. ..  .December,  1904 
A  Hundred  Years  of  Home  Missions  in  the  West,  N.  D.  Hillis, 

D.    D December,  1904 

Picturesque  Missionary  Trip,  Rev.  W.  G.  Puddefoot January,  1905 

Systematic  Benevolence,  Rev.  C.  A.  Northop January,  1905 

The  Other  Side,  Mrs.  Busybody May,  1905 

Edward  Haughton  Ashman,  Rev.  E.  L.  Hood May,  1905 

The  Pale  Blue  Cashmere  Gown,  Sarah  S.  Pratt September,  1905 

Wanted,  Money  and  Men,  J.  D.  Kingsbury,  D.  D October,  1905 

David  Barton's  Day  Dream,  Mrs.  G.  H.  Rice December,  190s 

Samuel  J.  Mills,  Home  Missionary.  Statesman,  Rev.  T.  C.  Richards April,  1906 

Aaron  Foster,  Father  of  the  National  Society,  Elizabeth  Foster  Kelsey.  April,  1906 

Western  Need  and  Benevolence.  Rev.  Austin  Rice April,  iqo6 

TVip  Lost  Sixty  Per  Cent,  Grace  C.  White April,  1906 

Claims  and  Necessities  of  the  Home  Field,  S.  B.  Capen May,  1906 


Appointments  and  Receipts 


APPOINTMENTS 


September,    1906. 


Not  in  commission  last  year. 
Baer,    Allen   U.,   South   Shore,    So.   Dak. 
Bechtel,    Philip,    Windsor,    Colo. 
Chapin,    Miss  S.   A.,    Mission  Hill,   So.   Dak. 
Fox,    Miss   B.,   Atlanta,    Ga. 
Gulick,  Theodore  W.,  Clarissa,  Minn. 
Herbert,    Sherman   H.,    Hope,    Idaho. 
Herring,  John   P.,   Quillayute  and   Forks,   Wash. 
Johns,    Hannibal,    Bowdle,    So.    Dak. 
Jones,    Richard,    Brentford   and   Randolf,    So.    Dak. 
McCarthy,    Samuel   R.,   Spearfish,    So.   Dak. 
McCurry,   T.   B.,   Cedartown,   Ga. 
Miller,    K.    F.    O.,    Walla   Walla,    Wash. 
Mowry,    J.    R.,    Garrison,    No.    Dak. 
Osborn,  Joel,   St.   Joseph,   Mo. 
Schmidt,   George  J.,   Alliance,   Neb. 
Smith,  B.  L.,  Wagner,  So.  Dak. 
Wagner,   Conrad  J.,  Shelby,   So.   Dak. 

Recommissioned. 
Amundsen,    Albert,    Meckling,    So.    Dak. 
Adams,    Hubert    G.,    Revillo,    So.    Dak. 
Blomberg,    Carl   R.   A.,    Culdrum,    Minn. 
Carden,    William    J.,    Bremen,    Ga. 
Clarke,   A.  T.,  Thorsby,   Ala. 
Coffin,    Joseph,    Atlanta,    Ga. 
Crawford,   Otis  D.,   Granada,   Minn. 
Cunningham,  Robert  A.,  Nassau  and  Marietta,  Minn. 
Davies,  James,   Garretson,  So.  Dak. 
Dietrich,   Emil,  Washburn  and  Underwood,   No.   Dak. 
Essig,  Gottlieb,  New  Era,  Oregon. 
Fisher,   Herman   P.,   General  Missionary  in  No.   Pac. 
Conf.   Minn. 


Garvin,    Hugh    C,    Eldon,    Mo. 

Greenaway,  Brandon,  Winona,  Minn. 

Gregory,    Alfred  E.,   Bonesteel,   So.   Dak. 

Grob,    Gottfried,    Springfield,    Mo. 

Harris,    Harry    R.,    Mcintosh,    Erskine    and   Mentor 

Minn. 
Hoar,   Allen  J.,   Challis,   Idaho. 

Hughes,    John    E.,     Wessington    Springs,     So.     Dak. 
Jones,   John   E.,    Nekoma,    No.    Dak. 
Kirker,    James    K.,    Anamoose    and    Drake    Martin, 

No.  Dak. 
Larson,  Anton  R.,  Columbia  and  Houghton,  So.  Dak. 
land,  Nels  J.,  General  Missionary,  No.  Dak. 
McKay,    Charles    G.,    Atlanta,    Ga. 
McKinley,   George  A.,   Clear  Lake,  So.   Dak. 
May,  Thomas  F.,   Kellogg,   Idaho. 
Nelson,    Gustav   W.,    Albany,    Oregon. 
Nickerson,   Roscoe  S.,  Sandy,    Utah. 
Ober,    Miss   Sarah   E.,    Meyers   Falls   and   Bossburg, 

Wash. 
Parsons,    Edward,    Anina    and    Templeton,    So.    Dak. 
Pope,   George   S.,   Murdo   and  vicinity.    So.   Dak. 
Rockwood,   Arden  M.,   Portland,   Oregon. 
Smith,    Arthur    H.,    Cleveland,    No.    Dak. 
Spangenberg,   Louis  F.,  Dawson  and  Tappen,  No.  Dak. 
Spittell,   Jabez,    Estelline,    So.    Dak. 
Steele,  C.  M.,  Wibaux,  Montana  and  Sentinel,  Butte, 

No.    Dak. 
Stockwell,  Cyrus  K.,  Alexandria,  Ind. 
Tre  Fethren,   Eugene  B.,   Waubay,  So.  Dak. 
Umstead,    Owen,    Ahtanum,   Wash. 
Watt,  Richard,  Ceylon,  Minn. 
Whalley,  John,   Myron,   So.   Dak. 
Woodcock,  Albert  C,  Bagley,  Minn. 


RECEIPTS 


September,    1906. 


For  account  of  receipts  by  State  Auxiliary  Societies 

see  page  229. 
MAINE— $20. 

Maine  Miss.  Soc,  by  W.  P.  Hubbard,  Treas. 
By  request  of  donor,  10;  Bangor,  Mrs.  M.  L.  Clark, 
5;   Bridgeton,    A  Friend,   5. 

NEW   HAMPSHIRE— $32.03. 

N.    H.    H.    M.    Soc,     by     A.  B.     Cross,     Treas. 

Hillsboro   Bridge,    10;    Croyden,  Miss   A.    M.    Little- 

fleld,    10;   Hinsdale,    4.22;    Lee,  7.81. 

VERMONT— $73.81. 

Barton  Landing,  Mrs.  O.  H.  Austin,  3;  Mrs.  Bra- 
dish,  1;  Mrs.  M.  Fisher,  2;  Mrs.  C.  E.  Joslyn,  3; 
Bennington,  Mrs.  M.  W.  Hicks,  1;  Hubbardton,  2; 
Waterbury,  11.81;  Woodstock,   A  Friend,  $50. 

MASSACHUSETTS— $2,741.13;  of  which  legacies, 
$2,039.87. 
Mass,  Home  Miss.  Soc,  by  Rev.  J.  Coit,  Treas 
By  request  of  donors,  48.14;  Andover,  Estate  of  Ed 
ward  Taylor,  89.87;  Boston,  Miss  E.  Plimpton,  5 
Dedham,  First,  104.47;  Fairhaven,  1st.  Two  Mem 
bers,  1;  Fall  River,  Fowler,  add'l,  1;  Florence,  Mrs 
R.  B.  P.  Harris,  67;  Greenfield,  Mrs.  E.  L.  Stone 
1;  Haydenville,  8.78;  Newton,  1st,  54.87;  Northamp 
ton,  Estate  of  William  H.  Harris,  50;  Dorcas  Soc. 
1st,  50;  Plymouth,  Aux.,  10;  Quincy,  Bethany  C.  E. 
5;  Salem,  E.  E.  Kendall,  25;  Taunton,  Trin.,  2 
Mrs.  F.  Farnsworth,  1;  Topsfleld,  A  Friend,  2 
Townsend,  Estate  of  Walter  J.  Ball,  1,900. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Assoc,  (of  Mass.  and  Rhode  Isl- 
and), Miss  L.  D.  White,  Treas.  For  Salary  Fund, 
215;  Randolph,  Miss  A.  W.  Turner,  100.  Total, 
$315. 

Correction:    Leomister,  F.  A.  Whitney,  $15,  should 


read  F.  A.  Whitney,  $30;  erroneously  acknowledged 
in  July  receipts. 

CONNECTICUT— $1,735.27;  of  which  legacy,  $500. 
Miss.  Soc.  of  Conn.,  by  Rev.  J.  S.  Ives,  70.23; 
Berlin,  Miss  Julia  Hovey,  to  const.  Miss  F.  Rob- 
bins  an  Hon.  L.  M.,  50;  Bridgeport,  South,  S.  W. 
Baldwin,  50;  Black  Rock  S.  S.,  5.40;  Bristol,  1st, 
65.44;  F.  Bruen,  5;  Chaplin,  Mrs.  J.  Clark,  3; 
Darien,  J.  C.  Mather,  1;  East  Haven,  26.60;  Granby, 
1st,  7.25;  Greenwich,  2d,  Stillson  Benev.  Soc.,  to 
const.  Mrs.  F.  C.  Manvel,  Mrs.  A.  J.  Wakeman, 
Mrs.  G.  R.  Baldwin,  Mrs.  S.  B.  Mead,  Mrs.  A.  W. 
W.  Marshal],  Mrs.  A.  G.  Rennie  and  Mrs.  G.  V.  D. 
Titsworth  Hon.  L.  M*s.,  550;  Hartford,  "H.  S.  K.," 
10;  "M.  J.  and  L.,"  200;  New  Britain,  A.  N.  Lewis, 
10;  New  Haven,  C.  A.  Sheldon,  1;  Norfolk,  C.  E. 
Butler,  1;  Norwich,  Miss  Ellen  Meech,  100;  Old 
Lyme,  Estate  of  Mrs.  H.  H.  Matson,  500;  Salisbury, 
8.10;  Stratford,  4;  Suffield,  S.  S.,  15;  Westchester, 
2.25. 

Woman's  H.  M,  Union,  Mrs.  C.  S.  Thayer,  Treas., 
33;  Pomfret,   Aux.,  17.     Total,  $50. 

NEW   YORK— $22. 

Madrid,  1st,  12;  Oswego,  Mrs.  R.  A.  Bloodgood,  1; 
Rocky  Point,  C.  E.,  4;  Syracuse,  Mrs.  I.  C. 
Rhoades,  5. 

NEW   JERSEY— $47.93. 

Dover,  Bethlehem  Scand.,  1.15;  East  Orange,  1st, 
20.32;  Egg  Harbor  City,  5;  River  Edge,  1st,  21.46. 

PENNSYLVANIA,— $37.61. 

Braddock,  Slovak,  4;  Chandlers  Valley,  Swedes, 
2.50;  Du  Bois,  Swedes,  3;  Harford,  4.09;  Mahoney 
City,  2.35;  Philadelphia,  Germantown  1st,  10;  Scran- 
ton,  Tab.   S.   S.,   5. 

Received  by  Rev.  C.  A.  Jones:  Arnot,  S.  S., 
G.  W.  L.,  3;  Potterville,  1.85;  West  Warren,  1.82. 
Total,  $6.67. 


APPOINTMENTS  AND  RECEIPTS 


229 


VIRGINIA— $8. 

Received  by  Rev.  C.  A.  Jones,  Portsmouth,  "Nest 
Eggs,"  3;  Vienna,  L.  G.  Day,  5. 

ALABAMA— $1.25. 

Clio,  New  Hope,  1;  Midland  City,  Christian  Hill, 
.25. 

LOUISIANA— $2. 34. 
Hammond,    2.34. 

OKLAHOMA— $2. 
Willow  Creek,  2. 

OHIO— $15.96. 
Fredericksburg,   C.   E.,   2;   Buggies,  13.96. 

INDIANA— $4. 

Indianapolis,  Covenant,  2;  Rev.  A.  G.  Detch,  2. 

ILLINOIS— $10.15. 

Atkinson,  3.15;  Buda,  A  Friend,  5;  Chicago,  Mrs. 
A.  C.  Holman,  2. 

MISSOURI— $263.18. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  A.  D.  Rider,  Treas. 
Cameron,  10;  De  Soto,  3.33;  Kansas  City,  1st 
Brooklyn  Ave.  Branch,  13.12;  McGee  St.  Branch 
16.55;  S.  W.  Tabernacle  Ladies'  Aid,  5.33;  West 
minster,  33.33;  Maplewood,  5.58;  Meadville,  7.94 
Neosho,  10.67;  Old  Orchard,  W.  A.,  3.24;  St,  Jo 
seph,  R.  M.  S.,  10.50;  St.  Louis,  1st  Sen.  L.  M.  S 
36.42;  Memorial,  3.33;  Pilgrim,  W.  A.  Sen.  Dept, 
52.49;  Pilgrim,  W.  A.  Jr.  Dept.,  17.11;  Sedalia 
1st,  12;  Springfield,  1st,  19.80;  Vinita,  Ind.  Ter, 
2.44.      Total,    $263.18. 

WISCONSIN— $104.30. 

Wis.  Home  Miss.  Soc,  by  Rev.  G.  R.  Leavitt, 
D.D.,  100;  Clear  Lake,  Swedes,  3.30;  Wausau, 
Scand.,    1. 

IOWA— $91.08. 

Iowa  H.  M.  Soc,  by  Miss  A.  D.  Merrill,  Treas., 
66.08;  Manchester,  W.  M.  Wolcott,  10;  Muscatine, 
C.  E.,  2;  New  Hampton,   German,  3. 

Woman's  H,  M.  Union,  Mrs.  H.  K.  Edson,  Treas. 
Grinnell,   10. 

MINNESOTA— $1418.40. 

Received  by  Rev.  G.  R.  Merrill,  D.D.  Minneap- 
olis, Fremont  Ave.,  29;  Lowry  Hill,  200;  Pilgrims, 
21;   Park  Ave.  S.  S.,  8.07.     Total,  $258.07. 

Janesville,  Rev.  C.  L.  Hill,  1;  Lake  Benton,  11.62; 
St.  Paul,  Plymouth,  22.41;  Spencer  Brook,  Swedes, 
3.47. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  W.  M.  Bristoll,  Treas. 
Alexandria,  Aux.,  30;  Anoka,  5;  C.  E.,  5;  Bel- 
grade, Aux.,  6;  Brainerd,  1st,  Aux.,  12.50;  Cottage 
Grove,  Aux.,  7;  Crookston,  Aux.,  24;  Duluth,  Pil 
grim,  Aux.,  74;  Elk  River,  Aux.,  3.40;  Fairmont, 
Aux.,  10;  Faribault,  Aux.,  42;  Fergus  Falls,  Aux.' 
7;  Freeborn,  Aux.,  8.75;  C.  E.,  1.80;  Glencoe,  Aux-> 
7.50;  Glenwood,  Aux.,  10;  Grand  Meadow,  Aux., 
2.50;  Granite  Falls,  Aux.,  5;  Hancock,  Aux.,  3.50; 
Hasty,  Aux.,  1.75;  Hutchinson,  Aux.,  9.50;  C.  E., 
12;  Lakeland,  C.  E.,  5;  Little  Falls,  Aux.,  14;  Man- 
kato,   Aux.,   15;   Marietta,    Aux.,   2;   Marshall,   Aux., 


27.12;  Minneapolis,  1st  Aux.,  38.50;  Plymouth,  Aux., 
60;  Park  Ave.,  Aux.,  24.40;  Pilgrim,  Aux.,  50; 
Vine,  Aux.,  8.25;  Open  Door,  Aux.,  4.35;  Lyndale, 
Aux.,  15;  C.  E.,  7.50;  Fremont  Ave.,  Aux.,  13; 
Fifth  Ave.,  Aux.,  18;  Bethany,  Aux.,  8.75;  Lowry 
Hill,  Aux.,  35;  Linden  Hills,  Aux.,  8;  Montevideo, 
Aux.,  3.40;  Moorhead,  Aux.,  7.50;  Morris,  Aux.,  10- 
Owatonna,  Aux.,  39;  Paynesville,  C.  E.,  9;  Pelican 
Rapids,  Aux.,  9;  Plainview,  Aux.,  10;  Sherburne, 
Aux.,  2;  C.  E.,  5;  Spring  Valley,  Aux.,  15;  Stewart- 
ville,  Aux.,  8;  St.  Paul,  Plymouth,  Aux.,  24.09; 
Pacific,  Aux.,  14.50;  Atlantic,  Aux.,  13;  Park,  Aux., 
36.94;  St.  Anthony  Park,  Aux.,  11.25;  Olivet,  Aux., 
7;  People's  Aux.,  8;  Tyler,  Aux.,  4;  Verndale,  Aux., 
2;  Waseca,  Aux.,  2.88;  Winona,  1st  Aux.,  108; 
Worthington,  Aux.,  12;  Zumbrota,  Aux.,  7.50;  C.  E 
2;   Thank   Offerings,  108.70.     Total,   $1,121.83. 

NEBRASKA— $20. 10. 

Hyannis,  2.50;  Waverly,   7.10;   Sargent,  10.50. 

NORTH  DAKOTA— $91.87. 

Received  by  Rev.  G.  J.  Powell.  Ellis,  1.50; 
Fargo,  1st,  Ladies'  Soc,  9;  Harwood,  Ladies'  Soc, 
16.50;  Wahpeton,  Senior  C.  E.  Soc,  5.75;  Junior 
C.   E.   Soc,   1.     Total,   $33.75. 

Washburn    and    Underwood,    13. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  B.  H.  Stickney, 
Treas.     Crary,   3;    Cooperstown,   27.12;   Getchell,   15. 

Total,   $45.12. 

SOUTH  DAKOTA— $54.41. 

Received  by  Rev.  W.  H.  Thrall.  Bonesteel,  12; 
Wakonda,    2.65.      Total,    $14.65. 

Gann  Valley,  12.26;  Wagner,  2.50;  Willom  Lakes 
and   Pitrodie,   25. 

COLORADO— $7. 

Brighton,  Platte  Valley,  5;  Rocky  Ford,  Mrs.  T. 
S.  St.  John,  2. 

IDAHO— $33.35. 
Meadows,    3;    Weiser,    1st,    30.35. 

CALIFORNIA— $626;   of  which  legacy,   $600. 

Hyde  Park,  10;  Moneta,  Mrs.  L.  A.  Gillette,  1; 
Pasadena,  Mrs.  M.  E.  Coryell,  5;  G.  Longfellow,  10; 
San  Francisco,  Estate  of  Horatio  N.  Turner,   600. 

OREGON— $3.75. 

Cedar  Mills,  German,  3.75. 

Oregon:       Hillside    Ch.    Miss.    Soc,    $2.50.       Erron- 
eously   acknowledged    Hillsboro    in    October    Home 

Missionary. 

WASHINGTON— $109.40. 

Roy,    Ch.,   A   Friend,    25;    West   Branch,   7.60. 

Wash.  Home  Miss.  Soc,  by  Rev.  H.  B.  Hendley, 
Treas.:  Puyallup,  6.80;  Ritzville,  J.  D.  Bassett, 
20;  Sunnyside,  40;  Valdez,  Alaska,  10.  Total,  $76.80. 

September  Receipts. 

Contributions $4,436.45 

Legacies    3,139.87 

$7,576.32 

Interest   304.62 

Home  Missionary   53.25 

Literature     64.94 

Total $7,999.13 


AUXILIARY  STATE  RECEIPTS 


NEW  HAMPSHIRE  HOME  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY 

Receipts    in   September,    1906. 
Alvin  B.  Cross,  Treasurer,  Concord. 
Bath,    1;      Brentwood,      Amasa     C.      Fay,    16.67; 
Chichester,    10.01;    Hillsboro    Br.,    24;    Meredith,    3; 
So.   Merrimack,  15;   West  Rindge,   Mrs.   H.   M.   Bus- 
well,  100;  Herbert  E.  Wetherbee,  25.     Total  $194.68. 

MASSACHUSETTS  HOME  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY. 

Receipts  in  September,  1906. 
Rev.  Joshua  Coit,  Treasurer,  Boston,  Mass. 
Beckett,  North,  15;  Boston,  Boylston,  Ellis  Men- 
dell  Fund,  30;  Carver,  No.  1st.,  15;  Easthampton, 
1st.,  19.23;  Erving,  1.70;  Finns,  the  Cape,  25.80; 
Fitcbburg,  Rollstone,  12.75;  Gurney  Fund,  Income 
of  20;  Harwichport,  Pilgrim,  3.37;  Holyoke,  1st., 
108.19;  Ipswich,  South,  60;  Maynard,  Finns,  1.40; 
Orange,  No.,  10;  Oxford,  1st.,  30;  Quincy,  Finns, 
3.80;    Readville,    Blue   Hill    Evang.,    4;    Income   of 


Reed  Fund,  87.50;  Rutland,  15.85;  Sandisfield,  6.50; 
Shelburne  Falls,  132.57;  S.  S.  3.43;  Springfield,  Es- 
tate of  Harriet  D.  Bartlett,  388.52;  Stockbridge,  1st 
22.82;  Sudbury,  So.,  Estate  of  John  B.  Goodnow, 
1,000;  Swampscott,  S.S.,  1.91;  Income  of  Wall 
Fund,  70;  West  Boylston,  4.30;  West  Newbury, 
2nd,  5;  Income  of  Whitcomb  Fund,  45;  Winchester, 
Estate  of  Lucy  B.  Johnson,  300;  Worcester,  Finns, 
1.25. 

SUMMARY. 

Regular    $2,444.89 

Home  .Missionary  .50 

Total 2,445.39 

THE   MISSIONARY   SOCIETY   OF   CONNECTICUT. 

Receipts   in    September,    1906. 
Ward  W.   Jacobs,   Treasurer,   Hartford. 
Bethlehem,    Sunday    School,    Special     for     Italian 


230 


THE   HOME  MISSIONARY 


Work,  8;  Bristol,  1st.,  28.89;  Canaan,  Pilgrim, 
27.36;  Eastford,  8;  Franklin,  2;  Georgetown,  Swed- 
ish, 6.35;  Griswold,  Joseph  O.  Cross,  Personal,  .50; 
Haddam  Neck,  10;  Hig-ganum,  27;  Middletown,  1st., 
21.97;  North  Branford,  18.37;  North  Stamford,  5.50; 
Norwich,  Park,  Miss  Mary  A.  C.  Avery,  Personal, 
5;  Ridgefield,  1st.,  for  C.  H.  M.  S.,  34.13;  South 
Glastonbury,  6;  Union,  10;  Willington,  5;  West 
Suffield,   24.45;   Woodbury,   1st.,   12.31. 

SUMMARY. 

M.    S.    C $266.70 

C.  H.  M.  S 34.13 

Total $260.83 

NEW  YORK  HOME  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY. 

Receipts  for  September,  1906, 

Clayton  S.  Fitch,  Treasurer. 

Chenango   Forks,    15;    Oriskany   Falls,    5;    Osceola, 

8.65;     Perry    Center,    42;    Syracuse,     Pilgrim,    6.80; 

Wading    River,    30;      W.    H.    M.    U.,      as     follows: 

Patchogue,    C.    E.,    3;    W.    H.    M.    U.,    112.      Total, 

$222  45 

OHIO  WOMAN'S  HOME  MISSIONARY  UNION. 

Receipts  in  September,  1906. 
Rev.  C.  H.  Small,  Treasurer,  Cleveland. 
Alexandria,  11.17;  S.S.,  2;  Cincinnati,  No.  Fair- 
mount,  4.05;  Cleveland,  Lakeview,  5;  Pilgrim,  200; 
Canal  Dover,  1;  Hudson,  54.25;  Huntsburg,  Per- 
sonal, 5;  Jefferson,  22.50;  Lyme,  16.01;  Mission 
Circle,  10;  Personal,  1;  Lexington,  20;  North  01m- 
stead,  C.  E.,  8;  Saybrook,  M.  P..,  2.86;  Secretary, 
Pulpit  Supply,  6;  Thomastown,  3;  Toledo,  Second, 
O.  E.,  1.25;  West  Andover,  C.  E.,  5;  West  Wil- 
liamsfield,   12.25. 

Total $390.34 

OHIO    WOMAN'S   HOME    MISSIONARY    SOCIETY. 

Mrs.  Geo.  B.  Brown,  Treasurer. 
Receipts  in  September,  1906. 
Andover,  W.  M.  S.,  5;  Cleveland,  Mt.  Zion,  W. 
M.  S.,  4.20;  Cuyahoga  Falls,  W.  M.  S.,  1.25;  Fred- 
ericksburg, W.  M.  S.,  4.20;  Hudson,  W.  A.,  20.65; 
Lindenville,  W.  M.  S.,  2.65;  Marietta,  First,  C.  E., 
3.65;  Oak  Grove,  Mission  Band,  2;  Pittsfleld,  W. 
M.  S.,  2.20;  Sylvania,  W.  M.  S.,  2.80;  York,  W. 
M.    S.,    3.36. 

Total     $  51.96 

Grand   Total    442.30 


DONATIONS  OF  CLOTHING,  ETC. 

Reported  at  the  National  Office  from  May  1,  1906, 
to  October  1,  1906. 
Bloomfleld,  Conn.,  Ch.,  bbl.,  75.38;  Brooklyn,  N.Y., 
Miss  D.  Halliday,  package;  East  Haven,  Conn.,  Mrs. 
James  R.  Bourne,  box,  100;  Elmwood,  Conn.,  Ladies' 
Sew.  Soc,  bbl.,  69.58;  Glen  Ridge,  N.  J.,  Ch..  box, 
243.16;  Lancaster,  N.  H.,  box,  13.35;  Middleboro, 
Mass.,  Ladies'  Sewing  Circle  of  1st  Ch.,  75;  New 
London,  Conn.,  2d  Ch.,  Dorcas  Soc.,  2  bbls.,  220; 
South  Glastonbury,  Conn.,  Ladies'  Miss.  Soc,  box, 
60;  Talcottville,  Conn.,  Ladies*  Soc,  bbl.,  101;  Tor- 
rington,  Conn.,  Centre  Ch.,  Ladies'  Benev.  Soc, 
82.25;  Walton,  N.  Y„  Ladies'  H.  M.  Soc,  bbl.,  45; 
Washington,  Conn.,  Daughters  of  the  Covenant, 
bbl.,  30;  White  Plains,  N.  Y.,  Ladies'  Aid  Soc, 
box,  200;  West  Hartford,  Conn.,  Ch.,  125.64. 

Total    $1,440.36 

DONATIONS  OF  CLOTHING,  ETC. 

Received  and  Reported  at  Rooms  of  the  W.  H. 
M.  A.,  Boston,  Mass.,  from  March  1,  1906,  to 
July  1,  1906,  Miss  Mary  C.  E.  Jackson,  Secre- 
tary. 
Amherst,  1st  Con.  Oh.  Ben.  Soc,  1  box,  77.49; 
North  Ch.,  bbl.,  85;  Barre,  Evan.  Cong.  Ch.,  L.  H. 
M.  S.,  bbl.,  76.85;  Boston,  Old  South  S.  C,  boxes 
and  bbls.,  1,135.12;  South  Phillips  Ch.,  Aux.,  bbl., 
40;  Cambridge,  Pilgrim  Ch.,  D.  of  C,  bbl.,  50; 
Chelsea,  Central  Ch.,  Nat.  Work,  bbl.,  65;  Dalton, 
L.  S.  S.,  bbl.,  106.12;  Dorchester,  2d  Ch.  Aux.,  bbl., 
54.19;  Fall  River,  Central  Ch.,  B.  S.,  box,  109; 
Framingham,  South,  Grace  Ch.,  L.  A.,  bbl.,  100; 
Greenfield,  2d  Aux.,  box,  353.75;  Jamaica  Plain, 
Central  Ch.  H.  M.  Aux.,  bbl.,  81;  Lee,  L.  B.  Soc, 
2  boxes,  101.03;  Lincoln,  Aux.,  bbl.,  118.92;  Mai- 
den, 1st  Ch.  L.  B.  Soc,  bbl.,  94.75;  Medford,  West 
Aux.,  bbl.,  63;  Newton,  Eliot  Ch.  W.  A.,  2  bbls., 
83;  Newton  Centre,  L.  B.  and  O.  A.  Soc,  box, 
146.75;  Newtonville,  Aux.,  bbl.,  119.68;  Northamp- 
ton, Edwards  Ch.  Aux.,  box  and  bbl.,  86:  North 
Andover,  Trin.  Cong.  Ch.,  L.  B.  S.,  2  bbls.,  00.75; 
Oxford,  1st  Cong.  Ch.,  W.  M.  S..  bbl.,  55;  Pitts- 
field,  1st  Ch.  Ben.  Soc,  box,  133.60;  Providence, 
R.  I.,  Central  Ch.  Aux.,  5  boxes,  635.03;  Union  Ch. 
Aux.,  2  boxes,  325.50;  Salem,  Ben.  Soc.  of  South 
Oh.  and  L.  S.  of  Cromble  St.  Ch.,  2  bbls.,  149.73; 
Sharon,  Dorcas  Soc,  bbl.,  159.28;  Somerville,  Winter 
Hill  Aux.,  bbl.,  87.74;  Springfield,  1st  Ch.  Aux., 
5  1-2  bbls.,  558.63;  Hope  Ch.,  L.  B.  S.,  100;  West- 
field,  2d  Oh.,  L.  B.  S.,  bbl.,  154.65;  Winchendon, 
North  Ch.  L.  B.  S.,  box,  123.67;  Winchester,  Mis- 
sion Union,  bbl.,  84.64;  Wollaston,  1st  Cong.  Ch. 
Ben.  Soc,  box,  7;  W.  H.  M.  A.  Rooms,  box,  26. 
Total,    $5,807.87. 


7 HE- 


HOME    MISSIONARY    LIBRARY 

FOR  HOME  MISSION  STUDIES 

The  following  text-books  named  in  the  order  in  which  they  have  appeared  can  be 
obtained  from  the  rooms  of  the  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society,  287 
Fourth  Avenue,  New  York: 

LEAVENING  THE  NATION, 

cloth  $1.25;  paper  (student's  edition)  40  cents. 

HEROES  OF  THE  CROSS  IN  AMERICA, 

cloth  50  cents;  paper  35cents. 

COMING  AMERICANS, 

(juvenile),  cloth  35  cents;  paper  25  cents. 

ALIENS  OR  AMERICANS? 

cloth  50  cents;  paper  35  cents. 

Also  a  large  variety  of  home  missionary  literature  in  leaflet  form  consisting  of 
missionary  programs,  concert  and  responsive  exercises.  A  full  catalogue  will  be 
sent  on  application.  Take  note  also  of  the  classified  list  of  articles,  which  have  ap- 
peared in  "The  Home  Missionary,"  and  the  titles  of  which  are  published  in  the  cur- 
rent number. 


Congregational   Home   Missionary   Society 

FOURTH  AVENUE  AND  TWENTY-SECOND  STREET,  NEW  YORK,  N.  Y. 

CHARLES   S.    MILLS,    D.D.,    President 

H.    CLARK    FORD,    Vice-President 
WASHINGTON    CHOATE,    D.D.,  JOSEPH    B.    CLARK,    D.D. 

Acting-  General  Secretary  Editorial  Secretary 

DON    0.    SHELTON,    Associate   Secretary 
WILLIAM    B.    HOWLAND,    Treasurer 

DIRECTORS 

CHARLES  S.  MILLS,  D.D.,   Chairman Missouri         GEORGE   R.    LEAVITT,    D.D Wisconsin 

REV.    RAYMOND    CALKINS Maine         REV.    BASTIAN    SMITS Michigan 

GEORGE   E.   HALL,   D.D New   Hampshire         MR.  EDWARD  TUCKER Kansas 

HENRY   FAIRBANKS,    Ph. I) Vermont  JOHN   E.    TUTTLE,    I)  I)..                                   Nebraska 

S.    H.    WOODROW,    D.D Massachusetts         FRANK  T.   BAYLEY,   D.I) Colorado 

MR.  JOHN  F.   HUNTSMAN Rhode   Island         MR.    ROBERT  D.   BENEDICT New   York 

REV.    H.   H.   KELSEY Connecticut         L.   H.   HALLOCK,   D.D Minnesota 

S.   PARKES  CADMAN,   D.D New"  York         II.    C.    HERRING.    D.D Nebraska 

MR.    W.    W.    MILLS ". . . Ohio         E.   L.   SMITH.   D.D Washington 

W.   E.   BARTON,   D.D Illinois         REV.    LIVINGSTON    L.    TAYLOJ New    York 

E-  M.   VITTUM,   D.D Iowa 

EXECUTIVE     COMMITTEE 
WASHINGTON    CHOATE,    D.D.,    Acting    Chairman 

One  Year  Two  Years 
S.    PARKES   CADMAN,    D.D.  MR.   JAMES   G.    CANNON- 
HARRY   P.    DEWEY,    D.D.  MR.   W.    WINANS    FREEMAN 
MR.  JOHN    F.    HUNTSMAN  REV.    HENRY    II.    KELSEY 
MR.   CHARLES   C.    WEST  REV.   LIVINGSTON   L.    TAYLOR 


Field   Secretary,    REV.    W.    G.    PUDDEFOOT,    South    Framing]) 
Field    Assistant.     MJSS    M.    DEAN     MOFFAT 


SUPERINTENDENTS 
Mor'itz    E.    Eversz,    D.D.,    German    Department.    153    La    Salle    St.,    Chicago,     111. 
Rev.    S.    V.    S.    Fisher,    Scandinavian   Department.    Minneapolis,    Minn. 
Rev.    Chas.    II.    Small,    Slavic    Department,    Cleveland,    Ohio. 

Indianapolis,     Ind.         Rev.   II.   Sanderson Denver,   Colo. 

Geo.    R.    Merrill,    D.D Minneapolis,    Minn.         J.    D.    Kingsbury,    D.D (New    Mexico,    Arizona. 

Alfred    K.    Wray,    D.D Carthage.    Mo.  Utah    and    Idaho  i,    Salt    Lake   City. 

Rev.  W.  W.    Seudder,    Jr West   Seattle,    Wash.         Rev.  C.    F.    Clapp Forest   Grove,    Ore. 

Rev.  W.  B.   D.   Gray Cheyenne,   Wyo.         Rev.  Chas.  A.  Jones,    75  Essex  St.,    Haekensack,   N.J. 

Frank   E.    Jenkins,    D.D.,    The   South Atlanta,  Ga.  Rev.  W.    S.    Bell Helena,    Mont. 

W.   H.    Thrall,   D.D Huron,    S.    Dak Kingfisher,    Okla. 

Rev.   G.   J.    Powell Fargo,    N.   Dak.  Geo.   L.   Todd.   D.D Havana,   Cuba. 

SECRETARIES  AND   TREASURERS  OF   CONSTITUENT   STATES 

Rev.    Charles   Harbutt,    Secretary  .Maine   Missionary   Society 34  Dow  St..   Portland,   Me. 

W.    P.    Hubbard,    Treasurer "  "  "       Box    1052.    Bangor,    Me. 

Rev.   A.   T.   Hillman,   Secretary.  ..  New  Hampshire   Home   Missionary   Society Concord,    N.    H. 

Alvin  B.  Cross.   Treasurer "  "  " Concord,    N.    H. 

Chas.  II.  Merrill.  D.D.,  Secretary.  Vermont  Domestic   "  St.    Johnsbury,    Vt. 

J.   T.   Richie,    Treasurer *"  "        St.    Johnsburv,    Vt. 

F.    E.    Emrich,    D.D.,    Secretary. .  Massachusetts  Home  "        609  Oong'l  House, 

Rev.  Joshua  Colt,   Treasurer '.'  "  "        Boston,  Mass. 

Rev.  J.    H.    Lyon,    Secretary Rhode    Island         "  "        Central  Falls,    R.   I. 

Jos.   Wm.    Rice,    Treasurer "  "  "        Providence,    R.    I. 

Rev.  Joel   S.    Ives,    Secretary Missionary   Society   of  Connecticut Hartford,    Conn. 

Ward  W.   Jacobs,   Treasurer "  "  "  Hartford,    Conn. 

Rev.   C.   W.   Shelton,    Secretary ...  New  York    Home    Missionary    Society.    Fourth     Ave.     and  22d  St.,   New  York 

Clavton  S.   Fitch,   Treasurer "        "  "  "  Fourth     Ave.     and  22d  St.,   New  York 

Rev.  Charles  H.  Small,  Secretary-  Ohio  "  "  "       Cleveland,     Ohio 

Rev.  Charles  H.  Small,  Treasurer-.       "  "  "        Cleveland,     Ohio 

Rev.   Roy  B.   Guild.   Secretary Illinois  "        153    La    Salle    St.. 

John    W.    Iliff,    Treasurer "  "  "  "        Chicago 

Homer  W.  Carter,  D.D.,  Secretary  Wisconsin  "  "        Beloit,   Wis. 

C.   M.   Blackman,   Treasurer "  "        Whitewater,    Wis. 

T.    O.   Douglass,    D.D.,    Secretary .  Iowa  "        Grinnell,     Iowa 

Miss   A.    D.    Merrill,    Treasurer...      "  "        Des   Moines,    Iowa 

Rev.  J.  W.  Sutherland,  Secretary.   Michigan     >       "  "  "        Lansing,    Mich. 

Rev.  John  P.  Sanderson,  Treasurer  "  "  "  "        Lansing,    Mich. 

Rev.  Henry  E.  Thayer,  Secretary.  Kansas  Congregational  Home  Missionary   Society Topeka,     Kan. 

H.    C.    Bowman,    Treasurer "  "  "  "  "        Topeka.     Kan. 

Rev.   S.   I.    Hanford,    Secretary ...  Nebraska    Home    Missionary    Society 

OTHER   STATE   HOME   MISSIONARY   SOCIETIES 

Rev.   J.   K.   Harrison,    Secretary.  .  North    California   Home   Missionary   Society San   Francisco,    Cal. 

Rev.   John  L.   Maile,    Secretary ...  South  "  "  "        Los   Angeles,    Cal. 

CITY    MISSION   AUXILIARIES 

Rev.    Philip    W.    Yarrow Congregational   City  Missionary   Society St.    Louis,    Mo. 

Lewis   E.    Snow,    Superintendent..  "  "  "  "       St.    Louis,    Mo. 


LEGACIES — The  following  form   may  lie  used   in   making  legacies: 

I  bequeath  to  my  executors  the   sum   of  dollars,   in  trust,    to.   pay   over   the   same   in 

months  after  my   decease,   to   any   person  who,    when   the  same   is   payable,    shall  act   as 

Treasurer  of  the  Congregational  Home   Missionary   Society,    formed   in   the   City  of   New   York,    in   the 

year   eighteen   hundred    and    twenty-six,    to    be    applied    to    the    charitable    use    and    purposes   of    said 

Society, and   under   its   direction. 

HONORARY  LIFE  MEMBERS— The  payment  of  Fifty  Dollars  at  one  time  constitutes  an 
Honorary  Life  Member. 


Presby  Hist  Soc 
1319  Walnut  at 


A  MATTER  OF  HEALTH 


MENNENS 

B  o  r  a  t   e  d    Talcu  m  j 

TOILET 
POWDER 


Nun* 


Absolutely  Pure 

/MS  00  SUBSTITUTE 


OUTDOOR   CHILDREN 

a  ltliv  children.  Send  them  into  (lie  open  air,  but 
don't  neglect  to  protect  their  little  hands  and  faces 
from  the  painful  chapping  and  chafing  v\  hich  winter 

utdoor  sports  inflict  on  tender  skins.  The  best 
protection  is  the  daily  use  of 

ME NN EN'S  ?S?LAJfVoA^ 

Put  up  in  non-refillable  boxes,  for  your  protection. 

If  Mennen's  face  is  on  the  the  cover,  it's  genuine, 
'that's  a  guarantee  of  purity.  Delightful  after  shav- 
ing. Sold  everywhere,  or  by  mail  25  cts. 
Sample  free. 

Gerhard  Mennen  Co.     Newark,  N.  J. 

Try  Mennen's  Violet(Borated)Talcum  Powder 

(7/  has  the  scent  ot  fresh  cut  fields) 


— 


HAND  SAPOLIO 


Tor JAe  Toilet 


NO  BABY'S  SKIN  TOO  DELICATE  FOR  ITS  USE 
NO  STAIN  THAT  WILL  NOTfflSAPPEAR  BEFORE  IT 


DECEMBER  1906 


VOL  LXXX.  NUMBER  7 


W5> 


w 


THE  HOME 
MISSIONARY 


M7 


/f 


1906 


CHRISTMAS 


/  ,-— --\ 


m 


Entered  at  the  Post  Office  at  NewYork,;N.Y.as  second  class  (i 


PRESBYTERIAN  HISTORICAL  SOCIETY, 
JKt&BY  icniAiN  ni5iurt»uAL  SUUfEiTr 


- 

1 

\ 

/ 

1 ! 

THE     HOME     MISSIONARY     ADVERTISER 


WING  PIANOS 

Are  Sold  Direct  From  the  Factory,  and  in  No  Other  Way 

You  Save  from$75to$200 


When  you  buy  a  Wing  Piano,  ?ou  buy  at  wholesale. 
You  pay  the  actual  cost  of  making  it  with  only  our  whole- 
sale profit  added.  When  you  buy  a  piano,  as  many  still  do— 
at  retail — you  pay  the  retail  dealer's  store  rent  and  other 
expenges.  You  pay  his  profit  and  the  commission  or  salary 
of  the  agents  or  salesmen  he  employs— all  these  on  top  of 
what  the  dealer  himself  has  to  pay  co  the  manufacturer.  The 
retail  profit  on  a  piano  is  from  $75  to  $ 200.  Isn't  this  worth 
saving? 


SENT  ON  TRIAL 
Anywhere 


WE    PAY    FREIGHT 
No  Money  In  Advance 


We  will  place  a  Wing  Piano  in  any  home  in  the  United 
Stales  on  trial,  without  asking  for  any  advance  payment  or 
deposit.  We  pay  the  freight  and  all  other  charges  in  advance. 
There  is  nothing  to  be  paid  either  before  the  piano  is  sent  or 
when  it  is  received.  If  the  piano  is  not  satisfactory  after  20 
days'  trial  in  your  home,  we  take  it  back  entirely  at  our  ex- 
pense. You  pay  us  nothing,  and  are  under  no  more  obliga- 
tion to  keep  the  piano  than  if  you  were  examining  it  at  our 
factory.    There  can  be  absolutely  no  risk  or  expense  to  you. 

Do  not  imagine  that  it  is  impossible  foi  us  to  do  as  we 
say.  Our  system  is  so  perfect  that  we  can  without  any 
trouble  deliver  a  piano  in  the  smallest  town  in  any  part  of 
the  United  States  lust  as  easily  as  we  can  in  New  York  City, 
and  with  absolutely  no  trouble  or  annoyance  to  you,  and 
without  anything  being  paid  in  advance  or  on  arrival  either 
for  freight  or  any  other  expense.  We  take  old  pianos  and 
organs  in  exchange. 

A  guarantee  f  orl2years  against  any  defect  in  tone,  act  ion, 
workmanship  or  material  is  given  with  every  Wing  Piano. 


Small,  Easy 
MONTHLY 


Payments 


In  37  years  over  40,000  'Wine;  Pianos 
have  been  manufactuied  and  sold.  They  are  recom- 
mended by  seven  governors  of  States,  by  musical  colleges 
and  schools,  by  prominent  orchestra  leaders,  music  teach- 
ers and  musicians.  Thousands  of  these  pianos  are  in 
your  own  State,  some  of  them  undoubtedly  in  your  very 
neighborhood.  Our  catalogue  contains  names  and  ad- 
dresses. 

Mandolin,  Guitar, Ha  rp.  Zither,  Banjo— 

The  tones  of  any  or  all  of  these  instruments  may  be  re- 
produced perfectly  by  any  ordinary  player  on  the  piano  by 
means  of  our  Instrumental  Attachment.  This  improve- 
ment is  patented  by  us  and  cannot  be  bad  in  any  other 
piano.  WING  ORGANS  are  made  with  the  same  care 
and  sold  in  the  same  way  as  Wing  Pianos,  Separate  or- 
gan catalogue  sent  on  request. 


a,  YOU  NEED  THIS  BOOK 


The  Book 


Pianos* 


II  You  Intend  to  Buy  a  Piano— No  Matter  What  Make 

A  book — not  a  catalogue — that  gives  you  all  the  information  possessed  by 
experts.    It  tells  about  the  different  materials  used  in  the  different  parts 
of  a  piano;  the  way  the  different  parts  are  put  together ,  what  causes  pianos 
to  get  out  of  order  and  in  fact  is  a  oomplete  encyclopedia.    It  makes  the 
selection  of  a  piano  easy.    If  read  carefully,  it  will  make  you  a  judge  of 
tone,  aetion,  workmanship  and  finish.    It  tells  you  how  to  test  a  piano 
and  how  to  tell  good  from  bad.    It  is  absolutely  the  only  book  of 
its  kind  ever  published.    It  contains   166  large  pages  and  hun- 
dreds of  illustrations,  all  devoted  to  piano  construction.    Its 
name  is  "The  Book  of  Oomplete  Information  About  Pianos."        yy  S? 
We  send  it  free  to  anyone  wishing  to  buy  a  piano.    All  you 
have  to  do  is  to  send  us  your  name  and  address. 


WING  &  SON 

351-383  West  13th  Street,  New  York 


1M8- 


-37th  YEAR- 


-1905 


Send  a  Postal  To-day  while  you  think  of 
it,  just  giving  your  name  and  address  or  send   us 
the  attached  coupon  and  the  valuable  book  of  in- 
formation, also  full  particulars  about  the  WING 
PIANO,  with  prices,  terms  of  payment,  etc., 
will  be  sent  to  you  promptly  by  mail. 


When   writing  to  advertisers  please  mention  The  Home  Missionary 


THE       HOME       MISSIONARY       ADVERTISER 


«5 


"The    Twentieth    Century 

TRe  Fastest  Long  Distance  Train  in  the  World 
960  Miles  in  18  Hours,  via  the 


NEWYORK 

(ENTRAIJ 

*     LINES    {A 


"America's 

Greatest 


Railroad. ' 


This  Magnificent  train  is  equipped 
with  Pullman  cars  of  the  very  latest 
design  which  have  made  the  New 
York  Central  service  so  deservedly 
popular.  Barber,  Fresh  and  Salt 
Water  Baths,  Valet,  Ladies'  Maid, 
Manicure,  Stock  and  Market  Reports, 
Telephone,  Stenographer,  etc. 

A  dozen  other  fast  trains  between, 

New  York,  Boston  and  Buffalo,  Detroit,  Cleveland* 

Columbus,  Cincinnati,  Indianapolis,  Chicago, 

St.  Louis,  the  West  and  Southwest 

C.  F.  DALY,  Pass.  Trafic  Manager,  New  York 


Rudolph  Lenz 

Printer 

62-65    Bible   House 

New   York 


ORGANIZE    NOW    YOUR    HOME    MISSION    STUDY    CLASS 


A     MILLION      IMMIGRANTS     A     YEAR! 


ALIENS 

OR  — 

AMERICANS 


=BY  = 


Howard  B.  Grose 


The  New  Home  Mission 
Text  Book,  for  Mission 
Study  Classes  in  Young 
People's  Societies 

For  General  Reading 


300      Pages.  Handsomely 

Bound.       Illustrated. 
Cloth,    50    Cents.      Paper, 
35  Cents. 
Postage    8    Cents    Extra. 


SEND    ORDERS   TO 
THE 

Congregational 

Home   Missionary 

Society 

287  Fourth  Ave.    New  York 


The  Latest  and  Best  Book 
on  this  Great  Subject 

ALIENS 

OR 

AMERICANS? 


This  volume,  with  its  striking  grouping  of 
the  Fresh  Facts,  Figures  and  Features  of  the 
New  Immigration,  the  greatest  in  history,  will 
not  only  instruct  and  inspire  those  who  engage 
in  Home  Mission  Study,  but  it  will  prove  as  in- 
teresting as  fiction  to  the  general  reader. 

The  interest  deepens  from  chapter  to  chapter, 
culminating  in  the  evangelistic  necessities  and 
possibilities.    Note  the  table  of  contents. 


CONTENTS 


T. 

II. 

III. 

IV. 

V. 

VI. 

VII. 


The  Alien  Advance. 

Alien  Admission  and  Restriction. 

Problems  of  Legislation  and  Distribution. 

The  New  Migration. 

The  Eastern  Invasion. 

The  Foreign  Peril  of  the  City. 

Immigration  and  the  National  Character. 
VIII.    The  Home  Mission  Opportunity. 

This  indicates  the  broad  scope  and  treatment. 
The  volume  is  finely  illustrated,  and  contains 
charts  and  tables,  including  statistics. 

Send  sixty  cents  for  a  sample  copy,  in  cloth. 
You  will  wish  it  for  your  library.  You  will  need 
it  for  use  in  your  home-mission  study  class. 


WHAT    DOES    THIS    MEAN    FOR     AMERICA? 


CONTENTS 


For   DECEMBER,   1906. 


\ 

THE  PASSOVER  OF  THE  NATIVITY     Illustrated 

Rev.  E.  P.  Herrick 231 

THE  JEFFERSON  STREET  PLAYGROUNDS     Illustrated 

Rev.  Frank  L.  Johnson 237 

EDITOR'S    OUTLOOK 

Christmas 240 

THE  NIGHT  BEFORE  CHRISTMAS     Illustrated 

Minnie  J.  Reynolds 241 

NEBRASKA  EYES  IN  MONTANA     Illustrated 

Rev.  A.  E.  Ricker 246 

THE  PROBLEM  OF  THE  NATIVE  CHURCH  IN  NEW  ENGLAND 

Rev.  Thomas  Chalmers 250 

OUR  COUNTRY'S  YOUNG  PEOPLE 

Notes  of  the  Month.     Don  O.  Shelton 252 

Life  Among  the  Small  Eskimo  Folk.     Illustrated 254 

Out  of  the  Life  of  the  Home  Missionaries 

I.  From  the  Gambling  Den  to  the  Communion  Table,  Rev.  R.  B.  Wright. .255 

II.  Led  by  a  Little  Child.     Rev.  E.  J.  Moody 255 

THE  AMERICANIZING  OF  HANS:     A  Fable 

Rev.  H.  A.  Jump 256 

Trie  Progress  of  Home  Mission  Study 257 

FROM  THE  THE  FRONT  LINE 

Trie  Blessing  of  Fellowship 258 

A  Victory  for  the  Sabbath  Day 258 

A  Moral  Revolution  in  Alaska 259 

What  the  Missionary  Sees 259 

WOMEN'S  WORK  AND  METHODS 

Judicious  Advertising"Notes 260 

APPOINTMENTS  AND  RECEIPTS 262 

WOMEN'S  HOME  MISSIONARY  ORGANIZATIONS 266 


PER    YEAR,     FIFTY    CENTS 

THE    HOME    MISSIONARY 

Published  Monthly,  except  in  July  and  August,  by  the 
Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society 

287     FOURTH     AVENUE,  NEW    YORK    CITY 


INTERIOR    OF     HAVANA     CATHEDRAL,    CHRISTMAS    MORNING 


THE 

HOME    MISSIONARY 


VOL.   LXXX 


DECEMBER,  1906 


NO.  7 


•       • 


The  Passover  of  the  Nativity 

By  Rev.  E.  P.  Herrick,  Matanzas,  Cuba 


THIS    is    the    expressive    name 
given,  to    Christmas    in    Cuba, 
which  may  be  said  to  include 
the  day  of  the  Kings,  January  6th, 
beginning  with   Christmas   Eve,    (La 
noche  Buena). 

As  the  glad  season  draws  nigh  the 
steamers  are  crowded  with  visitors 
who  come  to  bathe  in  the  delicious 
tropical  sunlight,  enjoy  the  balmy 
breezes  waving  the  fronds  of  the 
palms,  and  witness  the  curious  Christ- 


mas customs.  Spain  taught  her 
Cuban  children  to  look  forward  to  it 
with  great  anticipation  and  recall  it 
with  reverent  regard,  yet  it  is  by  no 
means  worthily  observed.  Taught 
that  religion  is  a  round  of  rites, 
lather  than  the  ethical  fruitage  of 
spiritual  beliefs,  historic  Scripture 
events  are  not  rightly  understood  by 
the  Cubans ;  so  Christmas  has  degene- 
rated into  a  convivial  feast,  rather 
than  a  sacred  commemoration  of  the 


A   CUBAN   SUNDAY  SCHOOL  IN  TTTE  COUNTRY 


CHRISTMAS     SHOPPING    IN     HAVANA 


Incarnation  of  The  Christ.  It  has 
never  meant  to  the  Cuban  what  it 
does  to  us.  Tn  the  American  form  it 
is  regarded  as  an  exotic  from  the 
North. 

Nor  is  it  strange  that  a  land  where 
Ihe  sowing  of  dragons'  teeth  of  hate 
lias  brought  forth  harvests  of  armed 
warriors,  should  fail  to  grasp  the  true 
meaning  of  the  Gloria  in  Excelsis. 

Christmas  day  is  not  the  time  for 
the  giving  of  presents.  January  6th, 
or  the  Day  of  the  Three  Kings,  is 
dedicated  to  that  very  beautiful  idea 
and  custom  to  which  we  will  later 
refer. 

The  "Good  Night"  Christmas  Eve 
is  the  beginning  of  the  feast  of  joy. 
Even  the  poorest  have  made  provis- 
ion for  the  supper  of  "Noche  Buena." 
No  one  thinks  of  sleep  on  that  aus- 
picious night.  The  churches  are  all 
opened,  and  are  visited  by  gay  and 
often  irreverent  crowds,  apparently  in 
quest  of  diversion. 

Nature  is  lavish  in  her  provision 
for  decoration.  In  the  vicinity  of  the 
cities  many  trees  are  yearly  stripped 
to  supply  the  demand.  So,  while  we 
miss  the  evergreens,  which  we  always 
associate  with  Christmas,  other  deco- 
rations    even     more     beautiful     are 


furnished  by  the  palm  groves. 

The  Santa  Claus  legend  is  not 
known  save  as  introduced  by  the 
American.  The  mythology  of  the 
Germans  and  Norseman  has  not  in- 
fluenced Cuban  thought.  Arabic  and 
Spanish  tradition  and  practices,  rather 
than  Saxon  or  Scandinavian,  have 
shaped  popular  ideals. 

Nor  can  we  imagine  a  Santa  Claus 
with  his  reindeer  and  sleigh  toy-laden 
in  Cuba.  We  have  no  snow  over 
which  he  could  glide.  No  frosty 
stars  or  northern  lights  to  guide  him 
on  his  way.  No  chimneys  or  fire- 
places down  which  he  is  supposed  to 
come  in  quest  of  the  empty  stockings 
of  the  children  fast  asleep.  Yet  the 
birth  of  Him  who  came  "In  the  beauty 
of  the  lilies,"  is  recalled,  and  the  bell 
chimes  sound  sweetly  from  the  old 
Spanish  towers  as  the  clock  strikes 
the  midnight  hour  on  Christmas  Eve. 
The  night  is  given  up  to  feasting  and 
social  features.  Young  men  visit 
from  house  to  house,  drinking  the 
health  of  many  a  fair  hostess,  as  they 
smile  sweetly  upon  their  guests. 

American  and  German  residents 
import  fir  and  pine  trees,  load  them 
with  gifts  and  gather  their  children 
around  them,  who  are  thus  reminded 


THE   PASSOVER   OF  THE  NATIVITY 


233 


of  the  home  land,  but  few  Cubans 
have  yet  adopted  this  practice.  Lech- 
on,  or  roast  pig,  is  the  favorite  dish, 
with  Guanajo,  or  turkey.  The  squeals 
of  dying  porkers  blend  with  the 
music  of  the  Christmas  bells.  Lechon 
is  on  all  the  tables  and  is  sold  on  the 
street  corners.  It  is  washed  down 
with  red  wine  from  Spanish  vine- 
yards. At  twelve  o'clock  "Cock's 
Mass"  is  celebrated.  It  recalls  Peter's 
penitent  tears  on  hearing  the  familiar 
notes  of  the  Chanticleer,  but  seems 
strangely  out  of  place  on  Christmas 
Eve.  Just  before  midnight  there  is  a 
pause  in  the  celebration  of  the  mass 
that  the  great  crowd  may  listen  to  the 
crowing  of  the  rooster,  the  boys  often 
imitating  it  to  the  disgust  of  the, 
priests.  An  arrangement  like  a  cuckoo 
clock  is  used.  It  is  hinted  that  this 
strange  custom  is  to  be  henceforth 
suppressed,  as  it  has  been  so  severely 
criticised  and  ridiculed. 

Christmas  Day  is  given  up  to  diver- 
sion of  all  sorts,  and  to  social  features, 
with  church  for  the  devout  who  are 
few  in  number. 

A  Protestant  missionary  had  an  un- 
fortunate experience  in  his  introduc- 


tion of  Santa  Claus  to  a  Cuban  audi- 
ence. He  had  repeatedly  invited  a 
Catholic  family  to  attend  one  of  his 
services.  They  had  always  declined, 
as  their  priest  had  told  them  to  keep 
away,  as  the  Devil  was  there.  One 
Christmas  they  ventured  to  attend. 
The  church  was  ablaze  with  light, 
vocal  with  carols,  the  happy  children 
watching  the  tree  laden  with  gifts.  A 
church  official  personated  Santa 
Claus;  masked  and  unannounced,  he 
appeared  suddenly  clad  in  fur,  with 
rosy  cheeks  and  long  white  beard. 
The  sight  of  this  strangely  dressed 
person  greatly  alarmed  them.  They 
rushed  from  the  chapel  crying,  "The 
priest  told  us  the  truth,  the  Devil  is 
here ;"  and  nothing  could  induce  them 
to  return. 

The  Christmas  decorations  are 
elaborate.  Altars  are  decorated  with 
the  graceful  fronds  of  the  peerless 
royal  and  cocoa  palm.  Artificial 
flowers  of  every  hue  and  shape 
abound.  A  grotto  representing  the 
cave  of  Bethlehem  is  built.  In  the 
manger  is  laid  the  Christ  child,  while 
the  patient  mother  sits  beside  him  and 


^Bjj|||§r:  -I 

BftTfMI 

iilfiflf 

gal 

>  -       ,^4 

k^ ' 

safe!*    | 

Hrfl 

;,.-:/-■ 

- 

Hi 

i.-  ■■  .,    .  •-/:■""    '  ■--•  .- 

BSr  ll 

BIST. 

WPvi     *  _JBffHBi 

Hflilfi 

M^^p^^° 

'_:■ 

Wf^gaF^ 

■  SSSPW^ 

VOLANTE    EXCURSION",  CHRISTMAS   MORNING 


THE  PASSOVER  OF  THE  NATIVITY 


235 


San  Jose  (a  great  favorite  here)  is 
not  far  away.  As  usual  the  crown  is 
placed  on  the  Virgin  Mary's  brow  for 
the  Son  is  an  after-thought  in  lands 
given  up  to  Mariolatry.  This  crude 
representation  of  the  Nativity  is  visit- 
ed by  admiring  multitudes,  yet  there 
is  a  strange  lack  of  reverence  and 
deep  religious  feeling.  The  people 
seem  actuated  by  motives  of  curiosity 
in  quest  of  diversion,  as  one  might 
visit  a  Punch  and  Judy  show.  We 
miss  the  solemnity  and  seriousness 
which  one  notes  in  a  Mexican  audi- 
ence on  Christmas  days. 

The  Day  of  the  Kings  (El  Dia  de 
los  Reges),  January  6th,  rounds  out 
the  Christmas  season.  It  is  the  day 
of  gifts  as  Christmas  is  of  feasting. 
How  beautiful  and  fitting  the  custom 
of  associating  the  distribution  of  gifts 
with  the  coming  of  the  Magi — to  lay 
their  offerings  of  gold,  frankincense 
and  myrrh  at  the  feet  of  the  Holy 
Child.  It  is  biblical,  historically  sug- 
gestive, and  profitable. 

The  Cuban  mother  on  the  evening 
of  January  5th  tells  her  children  of 
the  Babe  of  Mary,  who  is  still  with 
the  Blessed  Mother  in  Bethlehem ; 
that  guided  by  a  star  the  three  Kings 
are  on  their  way  from  the  East  with 
rich  gifts  for  the  King  of  the  Jews, 
and  that  it  is  likely  that  the  Kings 
will  also  bring  them  something  if  they 
have  been  good.  So  they  have  their 
stockings  or  slippers  in  the  sleeping 
room  for  the  Kings  to  fill. 

Some  of  the  better  informed  may 
at  times  weave  in  tradition  (an  easy 
thing  in  a  Catholic  country) ,  and  fol- 
lowing the  teaching  of  the  venerable 
Bede  tell  them  of  Melchoir,  one  of  the 
Kings  who  came  so  long  ago,  "an  old 
man  with  white  hair  atid  long  beard," 
and  "Caspar,  the  red  cheeked,  beard- 
less youth,"  also  "Balthasar,  dark 
skinned  and  in  the  prime  of  life," 
representing  the  descendants  of  Shem, 
Ham,  and  Japheth. 

So  the  Cuban  child  looks  forward 
to  January  6th  with  great  expectation 
and  not  to  December  25th,  nor  is  he 


disappointed,  for  the  three  Kings  (or 
someone  in  their  stead)  leave  gifts  of 
varying  value  according  to  their  sta- 
tion in  life,  and  thus  the  joy  of  the 
\uletide  is  carried  over  into  the  glad 
New  Year. 

Can  the  Cubans  not  teach  us  some- 
thing from  this  unique  custom  to  us 
unknown?  Is  not  meditation  on  the 
coming  of  the  Wise  Men  to  the  cradle 
of  the  Christ  to  be  preferred  to  the  im- 
aginary Kris  Kringle  with  attendant 
myths  of  the  Norseland?  Biblical, 
historic  facts  are  to  be  preferred  to 
legends  of  heathen  origin,  however 
deeply  rooted  in  Anglo-Saxon  usage. 

Under  the  Spanish  rule,  January 
6th  was  the  chief  feast  day  of  the 
negroes  who  were  then  in  slavery. 
They  were  given  "carte  blanche,"  pa- 
rading the  streets  with  grotesque 
dress  in  the  bright  colors  of  Africa, 
from  which  many  of  them  had  been 
recently  brought.  They  danced  with 
savage  gestures  and  barbaric  contor- 
tions to  the  endless  beating  of  the 
African  drum,  which  once  heard,  can 
never  be  forgotten,  often  begging 
from  door  to  door,  but  they  no  longer 
have  the  last  day  of  the  Christmas- 
tide  to  themselves. 

Christmas,  1906,  finds  the  American 
government  again  in  charge  of  Cuba, 
and  "an  army  of  pacification"  in  the 
six  provinces  with  the  new  elections 
as  yet  an  unknown  quantity. 

Correctional  and  instructional 
forces  are  now  regnant  in  the  island, 
which  failed  to  put  into  practice  the 
Christmas  lessons  of  "Peace  and  good 
will."  The  politicians  and  disappoint- 
ed self-seekers  are  keeping  Lent, 
rather  than  Christmas. 

Whether  Christmas,  1907,  will  still 
find  the  American  Provisional  govern- 
ment here,  denends  upon  whether  the 
Cubans  shall  have  learned  these 
simple  lessons  which  Christmas  em- 
phasizes. 

Cuba  sadly  needs  the  peace  the 
gospel  brings,  which  evangel  the  Con- 
gregational Home  Missionary  Society 
and   kindred   societies,    are   proclaim- 


236 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


ing  through  their  missionaries.  The 
gospel  leaven  is  working  silently  but 
effectively,  changing  beliefs  and 
customs,  giving  new  civic  ideals, 
training  a  new  generation  to  turn 
from  vicious  usages,  and  decadent 
dogmas,  and  develop  the  virtues  which 
accompany  an  intelligent  Christian 
patriotism. 

As  a  result  of  the  training  of  the 
8,000  children  and  youth  in  the 
various  missions,  we  shall  witness  a 
more  rational  observance  of  the  great 
historic  feasts  of  the  church. 

Lent  will  not  always  be  a  continua- 
tion of  the  follies  at  the  Carnival  sea- 
son. The  Lord's  Day  will  be  increas- 
ingly hallowed  (a  thing  hitherto  un- 
known here).  The  convivial  features 
of  a  Christmas  will  give  way  to  a 
teaching  of  the  spiritual  meaning  of 
the  Incarnation  of  the  Son  of  God. 

From  strategic  positions  our  mis- 
sions are  sending  forth  their  resources 
to  occupy  the  land  in  the  name  of  the 
Master.  May  we  not  expect  that 
greater  victories  are  to  be  won  for  the 
cause  of  evangelical  truth,  than  any 
yet  chronicled?  that  the  Cuban  learn- 
ing from  Americans  shall  not  be 
servile  copyists,  but  develop  a  Cuban 
type  of  Christian  manhood,  following 


in  non-essentials  along  lines  best  suited 
to  his  race  ?  Culling  the  best  from  the 
old  and  new,  may  we  not  trust  that 
the  new  generation  may  impersonate 
better  than  any  of  their  ancestors  have 
done  in  Cuba's  long  pathetic  history, 
the  beauty  and  purity  of  the  Babe  of 
Bethlehem? 

May  "holiness  to  the  Lord"  be 
written  on  these  musical  bells  from 
over  the  sea,  as  they  peal  forth  their 
sweet  notes  on  Christmas  morn !  Cuba 
has  happily  been  delivered  from  the 
perils  of  fratricidal  war,  but  hate  and 
jealousy  still  linger;  love  is  yet  cruci- 
fied, yet  still  the  old  refrain  that  smote 
the  Shepherds'  ears  quivers  in  the  air : 
"Peace  on  earth  good  will  to  men." 
May  the  contending  factions  pause 
and  listen  to  the  refrain  which  can  end 
all  strife  and  usher  in  the  new  era  of 
fraternal  love !  We  pray  that  they 
who  so  recently  were  taking  each 
others  lives  may  learn  that  a  true  and 
lasting  peace  can  never  come  to  the 
island  they  profess  to  love,  save 
by  the  acceptance,  and  practice  of 
the  Gospel  of  the  Christ,  which  is 
now  within  reach  of  all ;  and  the 
cultivation  of  a  spirit  of  love  and 
good  will  to  man,  which  it  ever  in- 
culcates. 


NO    CHRISTMAS    IN    PRISON    WALLS 


The  Jefferson  Street  Playgrounds 

Conducted  by  The  Southwest  Tabernacle  Church,  Kansas  City,  Missouri 
Rev.  Frank  L.  Johnson 


DEDICATION   OF   JEFFERSON   STREET   PLAYGROUNDS 


THE  accompanying  cut  gives  a 
partial  view  of  the  crowd  that 
gathered  to  hear  the  address  of 
Hon.  Henry  M.  Beardsley,  Mayor  of 
Kansas  City,  at  the  formal  opening  of 
the  Jefferson  Street  free  playgrounds, 
Monday  evening,  June  18,  1906. 

The  lot  had  been  cleared  of  weeds 
and  rubbish,  which  had  accumulated 
for  years,  and  a  part  of  the  apparatus 
had  been  put  in  place  and  had  been  in 
use  for  a  few  weeks.  The  Mayor, 
who  is  also  deacon  of  our  First 
church,  and  President  of  the  Young 
Men's  Christian  Association,  had  been 
deeply  interested  from  the  first  and 
came  to  speak  to  the  boys  and  girls 
and  to  shake  hands  with  them,  al- 
though he  had  two  other  engagements 
with  large  commercial  organizations 
for  the  same  evening.  He  spoke  of 
what  had  been  done  and  what  is  be- 


ing done  in  other  places,  and  express- 
ed the  opinion  that  the  city  should 
belong  largely  to  the  children. 

The  Tabernacle  church,  (in  the 
background),  was  erected  seventeen 
years  ago.  The  lot,  100x145  feet, 
used  for  the  playground,  has  been 
vacant  and  had  become  the  resort  of 
a  rough  gang  who  hid  among  the  tall 
weeds  to  shoot  "craps,"  build  fires,  or 
escape  the  police.  Several  loads  of 
cans,  broken  crockery,  and  other  re- 
fuse, were  cleared  away.  The  labor 
necessary  to  do  this  was  donated  by 
the  men  of  the  church,  and  was  done 
evenings.  The  owner  of  the  lot,  living 
in  another  part  of  the  city,  gave  us  a 
lease  without  cost.  The  apparatus,  so 
far  installed,  has  not  thus  far  cost 
more  than  $20.  During  the  vacation 
months  of  summer  the  attendance 
averaged  probably  about  one  hundred 


238 


THE  HOME   MISSIONARY 


a  day.  Some  children  of  the  immedi- 
ate neighborhood  spent  most  of  their 
time  there,  and  one  mother  with  a 
large  family  and  scant  means,  said : 
"I  am  so  thankful  for  that  playground. 
My  children  never  ask  to  go  anywhere 
else  and  I  always  know  where  they 
are."  Tennis  and  basket  ball  drew  a 
large  number  of  young  people  who 
had  been  in  offices  and  stores  all  day. 
Results  soon  began  to  appear.  The 
father  of  one  young  lady,  who  had 
been  in  delicate  health,  remarked : 
"Emma    eats    like    a    harvest    hand," 


meet  a  neighborhood  need.  It  was 
the  first  one  to  be  opened  without  the 
help  of  the  city.  Later  the  Federation 
of  Women's  Clubs  opened  another  in 
the  north  opposite  the  Court  House, 
where  they  fenced  a  half  block,  put  in 
a  number  of  appliances  and  employed 
a  caretaker  at  $40  a  month.  This  has 
done  a  splendid  work  for  that  con- 
gested district.  The  People's  Church 
of  Kansas  City,  Kansas,  also  had  a 
playground  part  of  the  summer.  Of 
course  all  of  these  are  meagre  com- 
pared with  the  municipal  playgrounds 


CHURCH    AND    CORNER  OF  THE   PLAYGROUND 


and  all  "complain  of  feeling  much 
better."  The  men  who  had  put  in 
several  evenings  of  work  stood  by 
watching  the  play  and  said :  "We 
have  our  pay  in  seeing  what  a  good 
time  they  are  having." 

The  city  maintains  a  limited  num- 
ber of  playgrounds  in  the  public 
parks,  but  these  are  far  away  and 
they  are  accessible  to  those  only  who 
live  near  bv,  or  those  who  can  pav  a 
car  fare.  For  these  reasons  few  chil- 
dren have  enjoyed  them.  The  Jeffer- 
son Street  playground  is  an  effort  to 


in  St.  Louis,  Chicago,  Boston,  and 
other  cities ;  but  for  the  first  year  they 
have  won  universal  commendation ; 
have  promoted  public  interest  and 
child  study,  and  furnished  wholesome 
pastime  to  the  children. 

There  are  two  possibilities  in  a  bare 
spot;  if  it  a  bare  spot  of  land  it  may 
become,  through  neglect,  a  rubbish 
patch  and  an  unsanitary  resort.  It  is 
then  either  a  menace  to  health  or 
morals.  Or  such  a  patch,  under  culti- 
vation, mav  become  productive.  Our 
playground  is  an  effort  to  prevent  the 


THE  JEFFERSON   STREET  PLAYGROUND 


239 


former,  and  to  accomplish  the  latter. 
If  the  bare  spot  is  a  spot  of  life,  this, 
too,  has  a  double  possibility.  The  fa- 
miliar adage  assigns  the  idle  brain  to 
the  devil  for  a  workshop,  and  experi- 
ence proves  it  true.  The  President  of 
the  St.  Louis  Police  Commissioners 
said  before  the  State  Legislature,  "My 
observation  is,  that  a  great  majority, 
probably  ninety  per  cent,  of  the 
habitual  or  chronic  criminals  are  per- 
sons who  committed  their  first  offense 
against  the  laws  when  children  under 
sixteen  years." 

Statistics  show  that  the  increase  in 
juvenile  crime  in  the  summer  is  about 
sixty  per  cent  of  the  whole,  so  that 
probably  more  than  fifty  per  cent  of 
our  habitual  criminals  took  their  first 
steps  in  crime  during  the  summer  or 
vacation  season.  Vacation  in  the  city 
is  the  bare  spot  where  work  can  be 
fcund  for  only  a  small  part  of  the 
young  people,  and  the  street  is  the 
only  place  left  for  the  idle  months. 
The  vacation  school  and  the  play- 
ground are  efforts  to  turn  this  bare 
spot  to  wholesome  use.    The  police  of 


St.  Louis  report  a  decrease  in  juvenile 
crime  of  fifty  per  cent,  in  sections 
where  there  are  children's  play- 
grounds. We  may  therefore  conclude 
fiom  such  figures  that  about  twenty- 
seven  per  cent  of  our  habitual  crimi- 
nals would  not  have  gone  into  crime 
if  they  had  had  the  blessing  of  whole- 
some playgrounds.  I  have  been  in  the 
juvenile  court  more  than  once,  and  I 
have  always  found  the  idle  boy  or  girl 
on  trial.  Many  facts  support  the  re- 
mark of  Joseph  Lee :  "The  boy  with- 
out a  playground  is  father  to  the  man 
without  a  job." 

The  grounds  have  been  open  to  all 
without  regard  to  faith  or  race,  and 
there  has  been  no  effort  to  make  it 
advertise  the  church.  The  whole  en- 
terprise is  under  the  direction  of  a 
committee  of  the  men's  organization 
of  the  church  called  "The  Christian 
Service  League."  When  funds  can  be 
secured  they  will  provide  free  baths 
in  the  basement  of  the  church.  The 
appliances  of  the  playground  will  be 
multiplied,  and  a  larger  lot  will  be  se- 
cured for  a  school  of  horticulture. 


THE     PLAY     IS     ON 


Editor's  Outlook 


Christmas 

50  far  as  known  the  Home 'Mis- 
sionary during  eighty  years 
has  never  made  special  recog- 
nition of  Christmas.  It  attempts  very 
little  now,  only  enough  to  remind  its 
readers  of  the  vital  link  between  the 
birth  of  the  Christ  and  every  problem, 
purpose,  and  hope  of  home  missions. 
The  Church,  the  Nation,  Christian 
civilization  and  the  hope  of  the  world 
were  cradled  in  the  Bethlehem 
manger.  What  more  fitting,  there- 
fore, than  to  remind  ourselves  at  the 
Christmas  time  of  one  more  reason, 
and  that  the  chiefest  of  all,  for  being 
of  good  cheer,  and  for  holding  strong 
our  faith  in  the  future! 

Probably  no  Christmas  morning 
since  the  world  began  has  dawned  up- 
on more  churches  where  Christ  reigns 
in  worship,  upon  more  homes  where 
Christ  rules  in  love,  upon  more  hearts 
that  beat  in  loyal  devotion  to  Him,  up- 
on more  rulers  that  serve  Him,  or  up- 
on more  people  that  shape  their  lives 
to  His  will.  Once  at  least  in  the  year 
let  us  turn  our  eyes  toward  this 
brighter  side  of  the  shield !  It  wilt  be 
no  time  lost  in  the  batttle  that  still 
lies  before  us.  We  shall  come  down 
from  the  shining  vision  of  the  mount 
girding  our  loins  for  a  more  arduous 
struggle. 

Are  some  churches  asleep, — are 
ethers  worldly, — are  many  barren  of 
fruit, — do  the  wicked  seem  to  triumph, 
— does  evil  flourish  like  the  bay  tree, — 
do  reforms  lag  and  linger, — do  the 
righteous  faint  and  lose  heart, — does 
n.oney  canker  the  souls  of  good  men, 
— do  luxuries  enervate  the  spiritual 
l:fe. — does  the  love  of  pleasure  cor- 
rupt, and  do  low  passions  debase  our 
youth  ?  There  are  dark  snots  in  plenty 
if  we  choose  to'  brood  over  them,  but 


groanings  will  not  lessen  them.  Tears 
even  will  not  wash  them  away.  Our 
leader  is  the  Christ  of  Bethlehem, 
who  has  said,  "I  will  draw  all  men  un- 
to me."  We  fight  behind  a  captain 
crdamed  to  win.  His  Kingdom  is  a 
growing  Kingdom,  and  when  the  final 
victory  is  sung  we  shall  count  all  our 
fears  as  idle,  all  our  moments  of  des- 
pair as  lost  time  that  should  have 
been  given  to  prayer,  and  we  shall 
mourn  every  lack  of  faith  as  our 
blackest  sin.    And,  Therefore : 

To  the  widespread  army  of  mission- 
ary heroes,  under  whatever  banner 
they  march  or  fight,  so  be  that  banner 
bears  the  One  Name  of  the  Christ  of 
Bethlehem :  To  the  churches  of 
Christ  and  to  His  friends  who  bear 
these  toilers  on  their  hearts,  remem- 
ber them  in  their  prayers  and  minister 
to  their  support,  while  they  themselves 
lay  .the  real  foundations  of  Christian 
civilization :  To  one  and  all  in  the 
name  of  the  Christ  who  brought  hope 
to  the  world  through  the  manger  of 
Bethlehem,  The  Home  Missionary 
sends  Christmas  greetings  and  a 
hearty  God-speed ! 


Our  Christmas  story  needs  no  in- 
terpreter. We  are  happy  to  believe 
that  "Christmas  Cruelties"  are  never 
deliberately  inflicted.  In  the  exuber- 
ance of  our  love  of  friends  we 
thoughtlessly  lay  heavy  burdens  on 
the  servers  of  our  pleasure.  Miss 
Reynolds  would  have  us  remember 
that  the  true  Christmas  spirit  is  al- 
ways consistent  with  itself  and  the 
message  of  her  touching  story  is 
simple  and  homely  while  it  is  timely 
and  -practical.  "Do  your  gift-buying 
early,  and  be  thoughtful  of  the  army 
of  Christmas  toilers." 


The  Night  Before  Chrisimas 


A  Christmas  Story  for  Children  of  all.  Ages. 
By  Minnie  J.  Reynolds 


"  'Twas  the  night  before  Christmas, 
And  all  through  the  house, 

Not  a  creature  was  stirring, 
Not  even  a  mouse." 

WILLIE  GREY  had  heard  that 
poem  in  the  public  school  he 
went  to,  and  its  swinging 
rythm  pleased  him  very  much.  One 
of  the  children  had  spoken  it  at  school 
on  a  Friday  afternoon  two  weeks  be- 
fore Christmas,  and  the  first  two  lines 
stuck  in  his  memory  and  ran  over  and 
over  in  his  thoughts  during  the  next 
two  weeks. 

Willie  Grev  was  not  christened 
Willie  Grey.  Far  from  it.  His  real 
name  was  Guglielmo  Grigio.  This  is 
a  much  more  romantic,  high  flown  and 
poetic  sounding  name  than  plain 
Willie  Grey.  But  Guglielmo,  when 
he  came  to  this  country,  too  small  to 
remember  anything  about  Italy,  and 
had  been  raised  in  the  public  schools, 
was  extremely  anxious  to  be  consider- 
ed an  American,  having  learned, 
through  some  bitter  experiences,  that 
"dagoes"  are  not  thought  very  highly 
of.  In  the  same  block  with  him  lived  a 
good  natured  grocer  named  William 
Grey.  He  and  Guglielmo  compared 
notes,  and  found  that  they  had  the 
same  name ;  "Guglielmo"  meaning 
"William,"  and  "Grigio"  meaning 
"Grey."  The  next  time  Guglielmo  was 
promoted  a  grade  he  simply  gave  his 


new  teacher  the  name  of  William 
Grey,  and  said  no  more  about  it. 

The  teacher  looked  at  him.  His 
face  had  a  strangely  American  look, 
such  as  crops  out  so  astonishingly  in 
the  school  children  of  the  foreign 
quarters '  of  our  large  cities,  even 
when  they  are  born  on  the  other  side. 
But  she  noted  William's  melting  black 
eye,  and  she  knew  the  block  from 
which  he  came. 

"Surely  you  are  an  Italian,"  said 
she ;  "where  did  you  get  your  name  ?" 
"I  got  it  off  an  Irishman,  ma'am," 
said  Willie  honestly,  and  could  not 
understand  why  the  teacher  laughed 
so. 

This  was  a  happy  Christmas  season 
for  Willie,  because  it  brought  him  his 
first  regular  job.  He  was  intensely 
anxious  to  earn  money,  both  because 
he  was  ambitious  to  get  on  in  the 
world,  and  because  there  was  very 
great  need  of  money  in  his  home, 
and  because  he  was  very  fond 
of  his  mother.  They  had  lived  in 
great  comfort  and  prosperity  before 
his  father  died.  His  father  had  work- 
ed in  a  tunnel  under  the  East  River — 
a  "sandhog" — they  called  him,  and 
got  $4.00  a  day.  One  day  he  was 
brought  home  dead,  suffocated  in  a 
cave-in.  Ah,  well ;  they  knew  it  was 
a  dangerous  job ;  it  was  for  this  he 
e-ot  such  high  pay.  But  that  did  not 
make  it  anv  easier  to  bear. 


242 


THE   HOME   MISSIONARY 


His  mother  went  to  work  for  a 
ragpicker.  All  day  she  sat  in  a  dark 
basement,  picking  over  and  sorting 
the  foul  rags.  At  the  most  she  could 
not  earn  a  dollar  a  day.  The  two 
younger  children  went  to  the  Day 
Nursery.  Mrs.  Grigio  was  very 
thankful  for  the  Day  Nursery.  With- 
out it  she  would  have  had  to  take  the 
two  babies  with  her  into  the  basement 
where  she  picked  rags.  As  it  was  she 
knew  they  were  warm  and  fed  and 
well  cared  for  all  day.  The  two  older 
boys  went  to  school  with  Willie.  Mrs. 
Grigio  had  to  pay  $8.00  a  month 
rent  for  her  two  miserable  rooms.  As 
it  was  impossible  to  live  on  what  re- 
mained, she  rented  mattresses  on 
her  kitchen  floor  to  two  poor  "green- 
horn" immigrants  who  were  trying  to 
save  money  to  bring  their  families 
over  from  Italy.  Even  with  the 
money  from  her  lodgers  she  could 
only  feed  her  family  and  pay  the  rent. 
The  clothes  had  to  come  from  charity. 
So  it  was  no  wonder  Willie  wanted  to 
go  to  work. 

He  had  stayed  in  school  under  pro- 
test during  the  two  years  since  his  fa- 
ther's death ;  not  because  he  did  not 
love  his  school,  but  because  he  needed 
to  earn  money  so  much.  He  had 
found  one  job  very  quickly,  at  past- 
ing paper  bags.  But  the  truant  offi- 
cer had  searched  him  out  and  made 
him  go  back  to  school.  Mrs.  Grigio, 
highly  indignant,  had  gone  to  the 
"Day  Nursery  Lady,"  who  spoke 
Italian  and  whom  she  knew  to  be  her 
friend,  and  begged  her  to  take  the 
truant  officer  "off  her  back,"  as  she 
expressed  it;  by  which  she  meant  to 
induce  him,  either  by  means  of  in- 
fluence or  a  bribe,  to  relax  his  annoy- 
ing activity.  Mrs.  Grigio  considered 
this  a  perfectly  reasonable  request 
from  a  poor,  hardworking  mother 
who  needed  her  son's  aid  so  much. 
Tt  seemed  to  her  a  monstrous  thing 
that  her  familv  affairs  should  be  in- 
terfered with  in  this  way. 

The  Dav  Nurserv  Ladv  explained, 
gentlv  and  patientlv,  that  the  state 
~.ould  not  permit  children  to  be  put  to 


work  too  young;  that  in  order  to 
make  good  citizens  later  they  must 
have  time  to  get  their  growth,  and  to 
go  to  school  up  to  a  certain  age.  Mrs. 
Grigio  was  a  very  ignorant  woman. 
She  could  not  read  or  write,  but  was 
able  to  figure  things  out  in  her  own 
way.  She  listened  and  pondered  for 
some  minutes.  Then  she  threw  up 
hands  and  shoulders  in  the  indescrib- 
able Latin  shrug. 

"Lo  stato!"  said  she  contemptuous- 
ly; "the  state!"  What  has  the  state 
to  do  with  my  boy?  Will  the  state 
feed  him?  Will  the  state  buy  him 
shoes?  If  the  state  wants  to  make  my 
boy  a  scholar  let  it  pay  me  his  wages  !" 

The  Day  Nursery  Lady  had  not  a 
word  to  say.  She  translated  Mrs. 
Grigio's  remarks  to  a  colleague,  and 
said,  "I  believe  old  Caterina's  got  it 
right.  I  believe  the  state  ought  to 
pay  widows  whatever  the  children 
could  earn  during  such  time  as  it 
compels  them  to  remain  at  school.  It 
would  be  the  gainer  in  the  end.  "More 
than  that,"  she  continued  recklessly. 
"I  believe  the  state  ought  to  pay  old 
Caterina  what  she  can  earn  too,  and 
let  her  use  her  time  to  attend  to  her 
family.  I  believe  her  time  would  be 
more  valuable  to  society  caring  for 
her  family  than  picking  rags." 

"Oh,  keep  still,"  said  the  colleague ; 
"you're  talking  socialism." 

"I  don't  care  if  it's  anarchy,"  said 
the  Day  Nursery  Lady  spitefully. 

But  that  sad  disappointment  was 
past  now,  for  Willie  had  a  real  job  for 
the  Christmas  season.  That  kind- 
hearted  Irish  grocer  from  whom  Will- 
ie had  got  his  name,  had  a  big  boy 
who  drove  a  delivery  wagon  for  one 
of  the  great  department  stores,  and 
he  asked  Willie  if  he  wanted  to  help 
on  the  wagon  for  two  weeks  before 
Christmas.  Willie  found,  to  his  sur- 
prise, that  the  law  relaxed  its  clutch 
of  him  for  the  Christmas  rush.  The 
people  will  crowd  all  their  Christmas 
shopping  into  those  two  weeks,  and 
the  storekeepers  need  a  great  deal  of 
extra  help.  So  Willie,  a  proud  and 
happy  boy,    started   in   to   work   that 


THE  NIGHT   BEFORE  CHRISTMAS 


243 


rii  st  Monday  morning,  the  little 
Christmas  poem  singing  joyously- 
through  his  mind. 

But  as  the  two  weeks  proceeded 
Willie's  enthusiasm  had  worn  off. 
His  work  was  to  jump  off  the  delivery 
wagon  and  run  up  the  steps  to  the 
front  door,  or  down  to  the  basement, 
with  the  package,  ring  the  bell  and 
wait  till  the  servant  came  to  take  it 
in.  In  apartment  houses  he  had  to 
find  the  flat  he  was  in  search  of,  and 
in  those  houses  without  an  elevator 
this  was  often  a  wearisome  task,  read- 
ing the  names  on  door  after  door  in 
dim  halls,  or  calling  the  name  from 
floor  to  floor;  sometimes  finding  no- 
body at  home,  so  that  the  trip  must 
be  made  over;  always  nervously  con- 
scious that  Jim  would  scold  if  he  kept 


terested,  ambitious  to  work  swiftly 
and  deftly  at  sorting  out  packages, 
and  getting  all  those  for  the  same 
neighborhood  in  heaps  for  easy  de- 
livery. But  the  hours  were  crushing. 
From  the  first  they  had  got  to  work 
by  seven  o'clock  and  kept  it  up  till  ten 
at  night.  The  "Christmas  rush"  be- 
gins in  earnest  two  weeks  before 
Christmas.  It  was  "real  Christmas 
weather,"  as  the  ladies  in  their  beau- 
tiful sealskins  and  the  little  scarlet 
cloaked  children  said  to  each  other 
joyously.  But  Willie,  riding  twelve 
hours  a  day  in  the  delivery  wagon, 
found  it  too  cold  for  pleasure.  The 
child  was  insufficiently  clad.  The  Day 
Nursery  Lady  had  given  him  a  good 
warm  overcoat,  but  there  were  no 
flannels  under  it.    He  took  a  frightful 


THE     DELIVERY     BOY 


him  waiting  too  long.  Jim  was  not  a 
hard  man,  but  he  had  a  big  day's  work 
before  him,  and  wanted  to  get  through 
it  just  as  fast  as  possible.  He  always 
started  the  horse  as  soon  as  he  saw 
Willie  coming,  and  the  boy  had  to  run 
and  catch  on  behind.  Once  a  kind- 
hearted  woman,  noticing  the  tired, 
pinched  face  of  the  lad,  offered  him  a 
cup  of  hot  coffee.  Willie  longed  for 
it,  but  he  did  not  have  time  to  drink  it. 
Those  days  stretched  back  of  Willie 
now  like  a  black  nightmare.  He  could 
not  tell  one  from  the  other.  They  ran 
into  one  another,  and  seemed  to  ex- 
tend in  endless  perspective,  like  the 
clouds  of  demon  faces  in  Dore's  pic- 
tures.   At  first  he  had  been  keenlv  in- 


cold  the  first  day,  and  thereafter 
water  ran  continuously  from  his  eyes 
and  nose,  and  a  deep,  racking  cough 
shook  his  body,  and  brought  up  great 
mouthfuls  of  phlegm  from  his  lungs. 
His  food  was  not  hearty  enough  to 
brace  him  against  the  exposure  he  was 
suffering.  For  lunch,  those  long,  bit- 
ter days,  he  had  only  the  cold  bake- 
shop  food  brought  from  home  in  his 
pocket. 

But  worst  of  all  he  was  perishing 
for  sleep.  Each  day  it  was  midnight 
before  he  was  in  his  bed,  and  it  seemed 
to  him  he  had  scarcely  dropped  into 
a  heavy,  exhausted  lethargy  before  he 
was  aroused  in  the  black  darkness  of 
the  December  morning  to  go  to  work 


-44 


THE  HOME   MISSIONARY 


again.  For  the  last  two  or  three  days 
he  had  moved  in  a  sort  of  stupor.  He 
hardly  knew  what  he  was  about  when 
he  stumbled  out  in  the  morning.  He 
hardly  noticed  anything  as  they  drove 
through  the  brilliant,  crowded  streets, 
which  at  first  he  had  watched  with 
such  delight.  Yet  the  "Christmas 
rush"  had  reached  an  even  more 
furious  height;  it  was  become  a 
mania,  an  orgy  of  buying;  thousands 
of  richly  dressed  people,  hurrying, 
hurrying,  hurrying  in  and  out  of 
stores,  buying  millions  of  beautiful 
things  to  send  for  Merry  Christmas. 
And  every  moment  mountains  of 
bundles  grew  higher  in  the  basement 
of  the  great  store,  and  Jim's  face  grew 
grim  and  set  as  he  came  back  after 
each  trip  and  saw  what  was  waiting 
for  him  to  take  out  again.  It  had 
been  a  prosperous  year.  People  had 
money  to  spend,  and  they  seemed  to 
have  gone  mad  over  Christmas  shop- 
ping. 

"And  all  so  blamed  useless,  to  pile  it 
up  like  this,"  said  Jim  hotly;  "things 
are  just  as  good  in  summer,  and  a  lot 
cheaper.  The  stores  mark  everything 
up  for  Christmas.  Why  can't  the 
fools  buy  their  silly  truck  and  store  it 
away  in  their  bureau  drawers, 
'stead  of  killin'  you  and  me  for  a 
parcel  of  foolishness?" 

Jim,  through  repeated  experiences, 
had  lost  all  respect  for  Christmas.  He 
regarded  it  as  a  nuisance  and  a  fake, 
and  said  so  continuously  through 
these  last  days.  But  Willie  Grey  was 
too  tired  to  answer  a  single  word  to 
his  tirades. 

The  hours  had  grown  longer  and 
lenger  as  the  days  went  on,  and  the 
night  before  Christmas  the  strain  rose 
to  breaking  point.  They  had  been  out 
of  their  beds  since  five  that  morning. 
It  was  two  a.  m.  before  they  reached 
the  stable.  The  day's  work  had  been 
a  record  breaker,  and  it  had  been  bit- 
ter cold.  The  long  two  weeks  were 
finally  over;  it  was  the  night  before 
Christmas  at  last.  But  at  the  last 
moment  Jim  said,  "Be  on  hand  at 
seven,  kid." 


The  boy,  almost  stupid  with  cold 
and  fatigue,  was  galvanized  into  a 
moment's  interest. 

"What!  Have  we  got  to  work 
Christmas?"  he  exclaimed  in  astonish- 
ment. "Sure!"  said  Jim  grimly. 
"There's  thousands  of  bundles  been 
lyin'  in  that  there  store  for  days  and 
weeks  with  strict  orders  not  to  deliver 
to  the  person  they're  presents  for  till 
Christmas  day  itself.  There's  too 
many  other  folks  enj'yin'  themselves 
for  the  likes  of  you  and  me  to  have 
any  Christmas." 

Willie  thought  of  the  plans  for  to- 
morrow, cherished  for  weeks  past. 
There  was  to  be  a  turkey — the  Day 
Nursery  Lady  had  given  it  to  them. 
He  had  a  little  present  for  his  mother, 
the  first  present  he  had  ever  bought 
her  out  of  his  own  money.  He  had 
given  his  younger  brother  the  money 
to  get  it,  with  strict  injunctions  to 
secrecy.  There  were  presents  for  all 
the  younger  children  from  the  Day 
Nursery,  and,  he  suspected,  one  for 
himself  as  well.  It  was  to  have  been 
a  happy  day. 

He  did  not  cry,  or  even  think  much 
about  the  matter.  A  strangely  dizzy 
feeling  in  his  head,  and  a  sort  of 
dreadful  lethargy  creeping  over  him, 
seemed  to  prevent  him  from  thinking 
of  anything. 

"Well,"  said  he  dully,  "it's  no  use 
going  home,  then,  for  such  a  little 
while.  Guess  I'll  sleep  here.  Give  me 
a  blanket,  will  you?" 

Jim  threw  him  a  horse  blanket.  The 
boy  climbed  with  difficulty  into  the  de- 
livery wagon,  wrapped  the  blanket 
about  him,  and  almost  instantly  fell 
asleep.  Only  two  whispered  words 
dropped  from  his  lips  as  his  tired  body 
sank  to  the  hard  surface  like  a  broken 
stem — "Madre  mia,"  the  strange,  pa- 
thetic little  exclamation  of  the  Italian 
it-  distress,  "Mother  mine!" 

It  was  very  cold  that  night;  bitter 
cold.  The  stars  that  had  shone  so 
brightly  over  the  skaters  in  the  park 
glittered  like  points  of  steel  in  the  icy 
sky.  It  was  cold  when  the  last  gay 
dancers  called  "Merrv  Christmas"  as 


THE  NIGHT  BEFORE  CHRISTMAS 


245 


they  parted,  and  the  lights  were  turn- 
ed out  in  ball  rooms  heavy  with  the 
.  scent  of  roses.  It  was  cold  when 
C  Christmas  bells  broke  upon  the  frosty 
air. 

But  the  delivery  boy  did  not  rouse 
to  that  mellow  clamor.  It  was  very 
cold,  and  the  boy's  vitality  had  been 
sapped  by  the  hardships  of  the  past 
two  weeks.  That  is  what  the  doctor 
told  his  mother  when  they  brought 
him  home  to  her  Christmas  morning 
— frozen. 

Note :  It  is  a  significant  thing  that 
to  "Merry  Christmas"  and  other 
phrases  associated  for  centuries  with 
Christmas,  an  enlightened  public  con- 
sciousness should  have  added  in  recent 
years  the  expression  "Christmas 
Cruelties."  The  main  incident  in  the 
story,  "The  Night  Before  Christmas," 
the  freezing  to  death  of  the  boy  for 
the  reason  named,  occured  in  New 
York  four  years  ago,  and  a  small  item 
describing  it  appeared  in  the  various 
papers.  It  could  not  happen  now  in 
New  York,  but  it  might  in  any  one  of 
a  number  of  large  cities  in  the  north- 
ern states.  By  strenuous  effort  on 
the  part  of  the  friends  of  the  children 
the  laws  have  been  so  modified  in 
New  York  within  three  years  that  no 
child  under  the  regular  working  age, 
fourteen,  can  now  get  "working 
p9T^«-c"    for    the    Christmas    season. 


Children  under  sixteen  were  last  year 
prohibited  from  working  after  ten 
p.  m.,  and  this  year,  for  the  first  time, 
employers  are  forbidden  to  detain 
them  after  seven  p.  m.  It  remains  to 
see  that  these  laws  are  enforced,  and 
to  give  them  the  moral  support  of  an 
enlightened  public  which  alone  can 
render  them  efficacious.  The  states 
of  Massachusetts  and  Illinois  and  the 
cities  of  Buffalo  and  Denver  have  laws 
similar  to  those  of  New  York  City. 
Nowhere  else  is  protection  extended. 
The  case  in  the  story  was  an  extreme 
one — in  its  result,  not  in  the  fact  of 
its  yearly  recurrence  without  the  fatal 
outcome.  It  is  not  extreme,  however, 
but  very  common,  for  thousands  of 
young  girls  to  reach  home  at  midnight 
every  night  for  two  weeks  before 
Christmas,  and  in  consequence  begin 
the  winter  term  of  school  in  an  en- 
feebled and  devitalized  condition.  The 
men  and  boys  on  the  delivery  wagons, 
the  women  behind  counters,  suffer 
likewise  from  the  senseless  Christmas 
rush.  It  is  entirely  reasonable  to  be- 
lieve that  a  certain  percentage  of 
deaths  result  every  year  from  the 
hardships  of  that  season  intended  to 
bring  "peace  on  earth,  good  will  to 
man."  Any  enlightened  purchaser 
should  be  ashamed  to  postpone  his 
Christmas  shopping  beyond  December 
11. 


Nebraska  Eyes  in  Montana 


By  Rev.  A.  E.  Ricker 


IT  IS  eight  hundred  miles  from 
the  parsonage  among  the  farms 
of  central  Nebraska  to  the  home 
of  the  mine  host  in  the  Yellowstone 
Valley,  Montana.  And  that  journey 
affords  a  panorama  of  changing  con- 
ditions, striking,  significant.  At  the 
beginning  we  are  on  the  glorious 
Nebraska  prairies,  from  which 
Government  experts  tell  us,  are  to  be 
gathered  this  year  58,000,000  bushels 
of  wheat  and  275,000,000  bushels  of 
corn.  West  of  the  farms  we  come  to 
the  cattle  ranges — sand  hills  and  wide 
table  lands — where  busy  crews,  with 
mowers  and  two-horse  sweeps,  are 
gathering  the  one  product,  hay.  Be- 
yond, as  we  sweep  into  the  night, 
Newcastle,    Wyoming,    with    its    coal 


mining  interests,  widely  developing 
and  full  of  promise,  is  just  setting 
down  to  evening  quiet.  From  this 
point  on  are  the  vast,  monotonous, 
desolate  sage  brush  plains.  It  is  the 
mighty  pasture-land  of  the  sheep  and 
cattle  interests  of  the  great  North- 
west. In  the  early  morning  light,  at 
Crow  Agency,  we  look  out  on  the 
hills  that  skirt  the  Litttle  Big  Horn  to 
see  the  monuments  of  the  Custer  bat- 
tle field — pathetic  witnesses  to  the 
heroic  folly  of  that  July  day  in  1876. 
We  are  now  approaching  another 
factor  in  the  material  resources  of  the 
Northwest,  the  vast  river  valley  sys- 
tems of  Montana.  At  Fort  Custer  we 
saw  the  Big  Horn  sweeping  grandly 
down  from  its  far  ranges  among  the 


MOUNTAINS     OF     MONTANA 


NEBRASKA   EYES    IN    MONTANA 


247 


mountains,  and  now,  between  us  and 
the  northern  hills  twenty-five  miles 
away  a  line  of  verdure  marks  the 
course  of  the  majestic  Yellowstone. 

What  are  these  surveyor's  camps? 
These  tent-villages?  These  accumu- 
lations of  scrapers,  teams  and  work- 
men? Yes,  and  those  long  lines  of 
fresh  earth  ?  This  is  the  Crow  Agency 
certainly,  and  the  government  has 
thrown  it  open  to  settlement.  Vast 
irrigation  enterprises  are  on  foot ; 
400,000  acres  of  the  1,000,000  opened, 


Yellowstone  valley,  9,000  population, 
an  assessed  valuation  of  $3,000,000, 
modern  sewerage,  electric  light  and 
telephone  systems,  splendid  schools, 
fine  blocks  of  stone  store  buildings 
and  public  edifices,  and  a-thrill  with 
the  bustle,  stir,  energy,  and  expectancy 
of  typical  western  life.  Billings  claims 
the  distinction  of  being  the  largest  in- 
tend wool  shipping  point  in  the  world. 
Fifteen  million  pounds  of  this  product 
rind  market  here  annually.  This  year 
one  man  sold  his  "clip"  for  $750,000 — 


THE     CAMP 


are  to  be  watered.  What  does  this 
mean?  Wait.  Montana  is  eager  to 
realize  and  tell  the  world  in  eloquence 
spoken  in  millions  of  bushels  of  hay 
and  grain.  At  breakfast  time  we  are 
at  the  county  seat  of  Yellowstone 
county,  the  gem  city  and  prospective 
metropolis  of  Montana — Billings.  And 
it  is  a  captivating  city,  3,112  feet 
above  the  sea,  at  the  junction  of  the 
Burlington  and  Northern  Pacific  sys- 
tems in  the  heart  of  this  bewitching 


so  they  told  me ! 

Montana  is  great.  It  grips  one's 
imagination  and  heart.  Think  of  it — 
the  whole  population  of  the  United 
States  gathered  into  this  one  state, 
and  then  the  average  to  the  square 
mile  would  be  less  than  in  Belgium. 
And  its  mountain  areas !  Find  one 
this  side  of  the  Himalayas,  from 
which  flow  more  and  grander  river 
systems  than  from  those  mountain 
regions    contiguous    to    southwestern 


248 


THE    HOME    MISSIONARY 


Montana.  From  their  snow  laden 
shoulders,  down  through  stupendous 
canyons,  the  cool  breath  of  the  moun- 
tains comes  to  bring  the  seekers  for 
rest  refreshment  and  life. 

"I    saw  the  mountain   ranges   sweep 
The   horizon's  northern  line." 

The  peculiar  wealth  of  Montana  is 
of  course  its  minerals.  It  claims  to 
be  "the  treasure  state."  Men  are  still 
living  who  can  tell  you  from  memory, 
of  Alder  Gulch  and  its  contribution  of 
$60,000,000  to  the  world's  store  in 
three  years.  And  the  story  of  Last 
Chance  and  Anaconda  is  everywhere 
fa  miliar.  But  what  is  most  sugges- 
tive to  a  thoughtful  man  from  agri- 
cultural Nebraska,  is  the  transforma- 
tion wrought  by,  and  the  possibilities 
of,  irrigation.  It  is  a  great  word  in 
government  circles  just  now,  and  it  is 
a  word  to  conjure  with  in  Montana. 
And  the  Yellowstone  valley  and  its 
tributaries  bear  a  witness  to  its  power 
that  is  certainly  impressive.  On  the 
hills  north  and  south  the  dry  sage 
brush  wilderness,  but  in  the  irrigated 
valley,  prosperous  ranches,  with  wide 
acres  of  hay,  alfalfa,  oats,  wheat, 
sugar  beets,  and  a  wide  variety  of 
grains,  vegetables  and  fruit!  There 
are  95,000,000  acres  of  land  in  the 
state  and  it  is  claimed  that  ten  per 
cent  of  them  is  irrigable.  In  Yellow- 
stone County  alone  135,000  acres  are 
under  irrigation  now,  and  Billings  as- 
serts that  800.000  acres  more  will 
soon  feel  the  spell  of  coursing  streams 
and  blossom  as  the  rose.  We  drove  by 
wagon  from  Columbus  up  the  course 
of  the  Stillwater  for  forty-five  miles, 
to  pitch  our  tent  for  a  summer  outing 
among  the  Beartooth  mountains.  The 
valley  is  crowded  with  homes,  where 
prosperous  ranchers  gather  abundant 
harvests  of  hay  and  grain.  We  saw 
the  four  and  six  horse  grain  wagons 
coming  loaded  to  market ;  we  saw 
villages  of  hay  and  grain  stacks  grow- 
ing under  the  power  of  great  "bull 
rakes"  and  "stackers."  and  we  noted 
the  vast  ranges  for  stock  to  feed  on 


the  outlying  hills.  Here  is  a  pros- 
pect for  wealth  and  material  develop- 
ment in  Montana  that  will  some  day 
eclipse  her  mines. 

All  this  material  prospect  is  en- 
trancing. But  the  problem  that 
burdens  a  pastor's  mind  is  that  of  the 
spiritual  outlook  in  this  empire  of  op- 
portunity. Our  Congregational 
churches  are  but  sixteen  in  number, 
with  but  half  that  number  of  pastors. 
They  are  widely  scattered  and  are  too 
often  weak  and  even  pastorless.  A 
few,  like  the  churches  at  Billings, 
Great  Falls  and  Livingston  are 
flourishing  and  efficient,  but  the  total 
membership  of  the  state  amount  to 
only  889,  and  one  can  not  be  in  the 
state  and  confer  with  intelligent  peo- 
ple in  our  churches  even  a  few  days 
without  feeling  that  here  is  a  magnif- 
icent and  strategic  missionary  oppor- 
tunity. Great  days  of  growth  and  de- 
velopment are  surely  to  dawn  in  Mon- 
tana, and  now  in  Congregational  mis- 
sions must  the  foundations  for  the  fu- 
ture* be  laid. 

I  was  privileged  to  have  a  glimpse 
of  a  typical  missionary  field.  Absaro- 
kee  on  the  Stillwater,  thirteen  miles 
fiom  Columbus,  is  the  center.  From 
Columbus  up  the  Stillwater  to  "Wood- 
bine ranch"  at  the  foot  of  the  Bear- 
tooth  mountains,  forty-five  miles  this 
field  extends ;  with  the  Rosebud  and 
the  Fishtail  valleys,  settled  and  pro- 
ductive under  irrigation,  also  includ- 
ed. A  church  organization  with  a  house 
of  worship  at  Absarokee.  preach- 
ing points  at  Nye  and  Fishtail,  and 
school  houses  to  the  full  extent  of  the 
missionaries'  powers  of  endurance, 
And  people?  A  lady  living  at  the  ex- 
treme further  edge  of  this  field  told 
me  of  a  wedding  in  a  ranch  house  at 
which  were  over  a  hundred  guests. 
Hundreds  of  people  in  these  moun- 
tain valleys  are  living  with  the  slight- 
est possible  religious  advantages.  On 
this  field  for  a  year  Mr.  W.  A.  Lip- 
pencott,  of  Chicago  Seminary,  has 
labored  faithfully,  and  his  name  is 
honored  and  loved  far  and  wide.  Be- 
side sustaining  the  work  at  Absarokee 


NEBRASKA.   EYES    IN    MONTANA 


249 


he  gathered  believers  together  at 
Fishtail,  planned  to  organize  and  to 
build  a  house  of  worship  as  the  fruit- 
age of  his  year  of  toil.  And  the  ma- 
terial was  in  immediate  prospect  for 
both.  But  the  representative  of  our 
Congregational  Home  Missionary 
cause  comes,  and  with  a  sad  counte- 
nance, shakes  his  head,  because  for- 
sooth our  empty  missionary  treasury 
can  promise  no  support  to  the  infant 
church !  So  the  young  missionary's 
ardent  .hopes  are  dashed,  and  the 
splendid. opportunity  in  that  needy  and 
promising  field  sacrificed.  It  makes 
my  cheeks  burn  with  shame,  and  my 
heart  move  with  indignation.     Do  we 


Congregationalists  put  a  ban  on  suc- 
cess, and  by  our  parsimony  penalize 
evangelization,  and  that  in  the  very 
gateways  of  our  opportunity?  Now 
Mr.  Lippencott  has  gone  back  to  his 
seminary  studies,  the  Absarokee 
church  is  vacant,  no  organization  was 
effected  in  the  Rosebud  valley,  and 
what  shall  be  the  fate  of  that  frontier 
field?  No  wonder  that  Superinten- 
dent Bell  entered  his  earnest  plea 
in  a  recent  issue  of  the  Congrega- 
tionalist  and  cried  out  for  support ; 
for  he  knows  well  that  the  Absarokee 
field  is  but  typical  of  what  waits 
to  be  done  in  a  hundred  valleys  of 
Montana. 


THE     UPPER     STILLWATER 


The  Problem  of  the  Native  Church 
in  New  England 

By  Rev.  Thomas  Chalmers    Manchester,  N.  H. 


IN  1870  the  New  England  states 
ranged  as  follows  in  population : 
Massachusetts,  Maine,  Connecti- 
cut, Vermont,  New  Hampshire,  Rhode 
Island.  Only  two  of  the  six,  Massa- 
chusetts and  New  Hampshire,  retain 
the  same  relative  positions  to-day. 
Vermont  has  dropped  from  fourth  to 
sixth  place,  Rhode  Island  has  ad- 
vanced from  sixth  to  fourth  place,  and 
Connecticut  has  exchanged  places 
with  Maine  and  now  stands  second  in 
the  list.  There  has  been  no  falling  off 
any  where.  Even  Vermont,  where 
conditions  have  changed  least,  has 
added  13,090  souls  to  her  net  popula- 
tion in  the  thirty  years.  The  bulk  of 
the  increase  has  come  to  Southern 
New  England.  We  could  therefore 
reasonably  expect  the  southern  states 
to  show  most  strikingly  the  effects  of 
the  changing  conditions.  But  the 
state  which  has  really  undergone  the 
greatest  change  in  the  character  of 
her  population  in  the  past  thirty  years 
is  New  Hampshire.  On  either  side  of 
her,  Maine  and  Vermont  have  been 
but  slightly  disturbed.  The  foreign 
stock  (by  which  I  mean  the  foreign 
born  and  the  children  of  foreign  born) 
has  made  a  gain  of  over  18  per  cent 
on  the  total  population  of  New  Eng- 
land in  the  thirty  years.  But  in  New 
Hampshire  it  has  made  a  gain  of  27 
per  cent.  In  1870  your  purest  Yankee 
was  to  be  found  in  the  Granite  State, 
where  86  per  cent  of  the  people  were 
native  born  and  the  children  of  native 
born  Americans, — 16  per  cent  above 
the  average  for  all  New  England.  In 
1900  the  native  stock  in  New  Hamp- 
shire had  fallen  to  59  per  cent  of  the 
whole,  only  7  per  cent  above  the 
average  for  all  New  England.  This 
great  change,  which  is  still  going  on, 
results  from  a  two  fold  process,  (1) 
an  actual  decrease  in  native  popula- 
tion, which  is  true  also  of  Maine  and 
Vermont,  and  (2)  a  great  inflow  of 
foreign  born.  h 


The  native  population  of  Maine  in 
1870  was  535,264.  By  the  census  of 
1900  it  had  fallen  to  494,732.  The 
native  population  of  Vermont  fell  in 
the  same  period  from  246,936  to  226,- 
298  and  in  the  same  period  the  native 
stock  in  New  Hampshire  fell  from 
273,708  to  243,264.  The  actual  loss 
in  native  stock  which  these  three 
northern  states  have  suffered  in  thirty 
years  would  create  a  city  of  pure 
Yankees  larger  than  Portland,  Con- 
cord and  Burlington  combined,  while 
the  net  gain  in  foreign  stock  in  these 
three  states  in  the  same  period  would, 
if  brought  together,  create  here  a  city 
the  size  of  Montreal.  If  we  would 
represent  to  our  minds  the  changed 
conditions  in  these  three  states  during 
thirty  years,  let  us  imagine  all  the  peo- 
ple of  Portland,  Concord  and  Burling- 
ton moving  out  of  their  homes  and  far 
away  beyond  the  borders,  and  all  the 
people  of  Montreal  pouring  in  to  take 
their  places.  New  Hampshire  alone 
has  lost  native  stock  enough  in  thirty 
years  to  populate  two  cities  as  large  as 
Concord  and  Portsmouth,  and  has  re- 
ceived a  net  increase  of  foreign  stock 
equal  to  the  combined  population  of 
Manchester,  Nashua,  Concord,  Dover 
and  Portsmouth.  The  loss  in  native 
stock  added  to  the  gain  in  foreign 
stock  creates  the  problem  of  our  chang- 
ed conditions.  Considering  that  the 
native  stock  is  the  constituency  of  our 
American  churches,  we  might ,have 
reason  to  fear  and  expect  a 
proportionate  falling  off  in  our 
church  membership  and  strength. 
Such  however  is  not  quite  the  fact. 
Speaking  of  our  Congregational 
Churches,  Vermont  has  actually 
made  a  net  gain  of  1,648  in  mem- 
bership in  the  last  quarter  of  a 
century  against  a  net  loss  in  native 
population.  From  the  following  table 
it  will  be  seen  that  Maine  reports  a  net 
'loss  of  only  172  members  in  the  same 
period. 


PROBLEM  OF  THE  NATIVE  CHURCH  IN  NEW  ENGLAND    251 


Northern  New  England 


1881 

Churches 

N.  H 187 

Maine 238 

Vermont.  ...  198 


Total ....  623 


Mass 526 

Conn 298 

R.  1 25 

Total 849 

Grand  total  1472 


Members 

1905 
Churches 

Members 

20134 
21400 

188 
260 

19253 
21228 

20083 

210 
658 

21731 

61617 

60989 

Southern  New 

England 

9H39 

55598 

5324 

611 

330 

42 

1 1663 1 

64569 

9766 

152361 
213978 


983 

1641 


190966 

251955 


In  New  Hampshire  where  the 
changing  conditions  have  been  more 
marked,  the  loss  in  Congregational 
Church  membership  has  shown  a 
tendency  to  become  chronic.  In  place 
of  the  20,134  members  reported  in 
our  Year  Book  twenty-five  years  ago, 
our  last  Year  Book  reports  19,253.  A 
similar  falling  off  is  apparent  in  the 
membership  of  the  Baptist  churches 
of  the  state.  Tho  there  has  been  a 
small  gain  reported  by  the  Baptists 
each  year  for  the  past  five  or  six  years 
their  membership  in  the  State  is  small- 
er to-day  than  it  was  ten  years  ago. 
In  fact  they  have  fewer  members  and 
fewer  churches  than  they  had  back  in 
the  forties  and  fifties — the  days  of 
their  fathers  and  grandfathers.  The 
Methodists  of  the  state  report  a  net  loss 
in  membership  of  nearly  1,500  in  ten 
years,   with    a   corresponding   loss   in 


Sunday  School  membership,  altho  the 
past  two  years  show  a  gain.  Taking 
the  past  quarter  century  as  a  period, 
the  Congregatipnalists  reached  their 
high  water  mark  in  membership  in 
1S97,  tne  Methodists  in  1896,  the  Bap- 
tists in  1897.  The  Baptists  declined 
steadily  from  1897  to  1901  and  then 
started  on  a  moderate  but  steady  up- 
grade which  still  continues.  The 
Methodists  declined  almost  steadily 
from  1896  to  1903  when  they,  too, 
started  on  an  upgrade  which  still  con- 
tinues. The  Congregationalists  have 
declined  steadily  since  1897.  The  de- 
crease still  continues,  but  the  loss  of 
^8  this  year,  as  compared  with  268 
last  year,  and  350  the  year  before,  in- 
dicates a  slackening  in  speed  down- 
ward, and  justifies  our  belief  that  we 
are  now  at  the  lowest  point  in  the 
toad. 


Our  Country's  Young  People 

Notes  of  the  Month 


By  Don  O.  Shelton 


A  YEAR  of  excellent  service  has 
been  rendered  by  the  Woman's 
Home  Missionary  Union,  of 
Ohio.  Reports  presented  at  their  an- 
nual meeting,  held  at  Pilgrim  church 
Cleveland,  in  October,  indicated  a 
year  of  vigorous  and  fruitful  activity. 
A  sympathetic  audience  was  present 
at  the  last  meeting.  The  officers  of 
i  the  Union  and  Rev.  Dr.  Dan  F.  Brad- 
ley, pastor  of  the  Pilgrim  church,  by 
their  cordial  welcome,  made  it  pos- 
sible for  the  representative  of  the 
National  Home  Missionary  Society  to 
speak  under  the  most 'favorable  con- 
ditions. An  address  on  "The  Present 
Wide  Opportunities  in  America  for 
Christian  Aggressiveness,"  was  fol- 
lowed by  a  very  striking  and  graphic 
description  of  the  Haystack  meeting 
of  the  American  Board  by  Dr.  Brad- 
ley.. He  described  the  sessions  of  this 
meeting  so  vividly  as  to  clearly  im- 
press and  greatly  help  his  listeners. 


At  Champaign,  111.,  on  the  following 
Sunday,  it  was  my  privilege  to  speak 
at  the  two  services  of  the  First  Con- 
gregational church,  of  which  the  Rev. 
Franklin  L.  Graff  is  pastor,  and  in  the 
afternoon  to  the  students  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Illinois.  Mr.  Graff  highly 
values  his  splendid  opportunity  at 
Champaign  and  his  faithful  ministry 
is  bringing  forth  fruit.  He  has  recent- 
ly formed  a  Bible  class  for  young  men. 
On  the  Sunday  that  I  was  present,  the 
class  was  led  by  Professor  Edward 
Davenport,  Dean  of  the  Agricultural 
College.  His  conduct  of  the  class  was 
refreshing  and  instructive.  He  com- 
mented in  a  delightfully  illuminative 
way  on  various  New  Testament  pass- 
ages selected  from  the  teachings  of 
Christ.      Anion?    his    forceful    utter- 


ances, were  the  following: 

The  large  issues  of  life  are  thought  out 
far  in  advance. 

Previous  deliberation  is  a  fortification. 

Think  out  the  issues  of  life  and  settle 
them  once  for  all. 

I  left  the  session  of  the  class  ardent- 
ly wishing  that  in  every  Congrega- 
tional church  in  America,  similar 
groups  of  men  might  be  brought  to- 
gether for  Bible  study  under  equally 
efficient  leadership. 


The  sessions  of  the  annual  conven- 
tion of  the  Illionois  State  Young 
Men's  Christian  Association,  held  at 
Aurora,  in  October,  were  of  deep  in- 
terest. The  personnel  of  the  conven- 
tion was  striking  and  impressive. 
Nearly  all  the  delegates  were  under 
twenty-five  years  of  age  and  most  of 
them  were  college  students.  Their 
sympathetic  and  appreciative  attitude 
was  an  inspiration  to  the  speakers. 
Under  the  wise,  faithful  and  effective 
leadership  of  Mr.  I.  E.  Brown,  the 
state  secretary,  and  his  capable  asso- 
ciates, Mr.  Bruner  and  Mr.  Bowman, 
and  the  successive  college  secretaries, 
the  Associations  of  Illinois  have  stead- 
ily grown  in  strength  and  efficiency, 
and  now  rank  among  the  most  effec- 
tive of  any  within  the  great  Associa- 
tion brotherhood.  It  is  well  worth  a 
journey  to  Illinois  and  return  to  have 
the  privilege  of  spending  three  days 
within  the  radius  of  the  personality  of 
Mr.  Brown  and  his  associates.  No 
achievement  of  the  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association  movement  is 
greater  than  the  genial  and  stalwart 
type  of  Christian  manhood  it  has  de- 
veloped. 

Dr.  Gunsaulus  opened  the  conven- 
tion with  an  eloquent  oration  on  Sir 
Georsfe    Williams.      Another    notable 


YOUNG    PEOPLE'S  DEPARTMENT 


253 


feature  was  the  graphic  story  of  his 

world   tour,   given  by   Mr.    Fred   B. 

Smith. 

*    *    * 

The  Congregational  churches  of 
Chicago  have  made  a  fine  beginning  in 
their  organized  work  for  young  men. 
The  men's  clubs  of  the  various  church- 
es have  formed  The  Young  Men's 
Congregational  Union,  under  the 
presidency  of  Mr.  Lloyd  Harter. 
Notable  vitality  marks  the  organiza- 
tion. The  development  of  a  vigorous 
inner  life  and  the  expression  of  that 
life  in  effort  for  the  bringing  of  in- 
dividuals into  union  with  Christ,  are 
the  primary  aims  of  the  leaders.  In- 
dividual and  group  study  of  the  Bible 
are  urged. 

On  the  evening  of  October  29 
the  Union  celebrated  its  first  annual 
banquet.  Over  three  hundred  repre- 
sentative men  of  the  Chicago  churches 
were  present.  Never  in  a  Congrega- 
tional church,  have  I  spoken  to  such  a 
fine  company  of  earnest  men.  And  I 
infer  that  it  was  the  evident  unusual 
earnestness  of  these  men  that  also  im- 
pressed Mr.  Fred  B.  Smith,  who  also 
made  an  address.  The  leaders  of  the 
movement,  particularly,  are  determin- 
ed to  put  first  things  first  and  to  bring 
important  things  to  pass.  They  are  not 
playing  with  the  great  work  of  the 
churches.  They  have  taken  as  their 
battle-cry:  "An  adequate  work  for 
men  in  every  Congregational  church 
in  Chicago." 

In  the  nobililv  of  their  objective 
they  are  setting  a  splendid  example 
to  the  other  young  men's  clubs  in 
Congregational  churches.  Altogether 
too  many  of  these  have  been  mere 
social  organizations.  They  have  not 
taken  hold  of  any  big,  essential  task. 
In  their  meetings  they  have  dealt  v,  ith 
questions  that  are  of  minor  importance 
as  compared  with  the  fundamentally 
important  question :  How  to  bring 
the  men  of  our  churches  into  living 
union  with  Jesus  Christ,  to  the  end 
that  they  may  have  power  for  effective 
Christian  service.  They  have  not 
stood   bravely    and    determinedly    for 


the  really  important  things :  for  sys- 
tematic reading  and  study  of  the 
Bible;  for  the  maintenance  of  a  life 
of  prayer;  for  individual  zeal  in  be- 
half of  the  salvation  of  individuals. 
They  have  met  for  self-entertainment, 
rather  than  to  further  the  highest 
ends  of  the  church.  As  a  result  of  all 
this  many  of  them  have  been  nearly 
as  useless  in  winning  victories  for  the 
church,  as  a  painted  cannon  on  a 
painted  canvas  would  be  on  a  battle- 
field. 

A  radical  change  must  come,  if  our 
Congregational  churches  are  to  be 
saved  from  decline  and  decay. 

Simple  and  fundamental  as  it  is, 
this  truth  needs  to  be  taught,  and 
repeated,  to  the  men  of  the  churches : 
Without  study  of  the  Bible,  without 
prayerfulness,  without  obedience  to 
the  plain  commands  of  Christ,  a 
strong  spiritual  life  cannot  exist  or  be 
maintained. 

We  hope  the  men  in  the  Chicago 
churches  will  prosecute  their  excellent 
work  to  the  finish  and  declare  their 
purpose  widely,  until  we  shall  come 
to  have  a  national  movement 
among  the  men  of  the  Congregational 
churches  of  the  country,  with  this 
objective :  An  adequate  work  for  men 
in  every  Congregational  church  in 
America. 


One  of  the  appreciative  listeners  at 
the  banquet  in  Chicago  was  the  Rev. 
Dr.  J.  A.  Adams,  editor  of  The 
Advance.  By  a  very  kindly  introduc- 
tion he  made  the  way  easy  and  delight- 
ful for  one  of  the  speakers,  at  least. 
Our  home  mission  cause  has  no  more 
ardent  friend  than  Dr.  Adams.  His 
vigorous  words  in  behalf  of  it  have 
been  supplemented  by  deeds  equally 
effective.  In  the  financial  campaign 
last  year  The  Advance  proved  a  most 
reliable  and  helpful  ally.  The  strong 
influence  of  the  paper  is  shown  by  the 
fact  that  a  home  mission  article  in  its 
pages  led  one  of  its  readers  to  send 
bis  check  for  $1,000  to  the  Treasury 
of  the  Society. 


From  Ridgeway's,  November  10,  1906 

I.      Tungus   children   riding  a   reindeer,  one  of  their  favorite  amusements.     2.    A 
group  of  children  of  the  frozen  land.     3.  Aiding  a  newly  born  reindeer  calf. 

LIFE  AMONG  THE  SMALL  ESKIMO  FOLK  IN  ALASKA 
IN  1900  The  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society  organized 

A  CHURCH  IN  THE  MINING  CAMP  AT  NOME,  ALASKA.  AFTER  THREE  YEARS 
ASSISTANCE  BY  THIS  SOCIETY  THE  CHURCH  BECAME  SELF-SUPPORTING.  UNDER 
THE  LEADERSHIP  OF  THE  PASTOR  WORK  IN  BEHALF  OF  THE  NATIVES  OF  ALASKA 
WAS  UNDERTAKEN  IN  THE  VICINITY  OFNOME,  AND  HAS  BEEN  MOST  SUCCESS- 
FULLY PROSECUTED.  THIS  MISSION  WORK  AMONG  THE  ESKIMOS  IS  ONE  OF 
THE  SECONDARY  FRUITS  OF  THE  CONGREGATIONAL  HOME  MISSIONARY  SO- 
CIETY'S   CHURCH    PLANTING    IN    ALASKA. 


Out  of  the  Life  of  the  Home 
Missionaries 

I.    FROM  THE  GAMBLING  DEN  TO  THE  COMMUNION  TABLE 

By  Rev.  R.  B.  Wright 


SEVERAL  years  ago  I  was  call- 
ed to  take  up  work  in  a  fron- 
tier town,  and  during  the  first 
few  weeks  I  called  upon  a  woman  who 
had  been  an  occasional  attendant  up- 
on-the  services,  and  found  her  in 
great  trouble.  She  said  that  her  hus- 
band was  drinking  and  gambling  so 
that  she  had  hardly  enough  money  for 
the  necessities  of  her  family.  The 
woman  was  discouraged  and  told  me 
that  the  night  before,  with  her  little 
boy,  she  went  to  the  gambling  den  at 
two  o'clock  in  the  morning  to  get  her 
husband.  She  was  also  in  a  rather 
backslidden  state  religiously,  but  had 
been  a  member  of  the  church  in  her 
earlier  days,  in  the  east.  Before  I 
went  away  I  prayed  with  the  wife  and 
children,  and  in  the  course  of  the 
prayer  I  prayed  very  earenestly  for  the 
husband  and  father,  that  he  might  be 
led  away  from  his  cups  and  the  gam- 
ing table,  and  that  he  might  be  led  in- 
to the  love  and  the  service  of  God  and 
-His  church.  When  the  man  came 
home  that  night  to  supper,  the  little 
boy  said  to  him,  "Papa,  the  preacher 


has  been  here  to-day,  and  he  prayed 
for  you."  And  then  he  told  him  the 
words  I  had  uttered  in  the  prayer. 
The  next  Sunday  morning  the  woman 
was  amazed  when  her  husband  told 
her  that  he  was  going  to  church  with 
her,  for  she  had  ceased  to  ask  him  to 
go.  From  that  day  he  was  as  regular 
at  the  church  as  I  was,  and  in  a  few 
weeks,  as  regular  at  the  prayer  and 
young  people's  meetings.  About  two 
months  later  he  united  with  the 
church,  and  to-day  is  one  of  the  most 
loved  and  faithful  officers  of  the 
church,  and  a  prominent  business  man 
of  the  city.  In  giving  his  experience, 
he  said  that  when  his  boy  told  him 
the  preacher  prayed  for  him,  the 
thought  flashed  through  his  mind,  "If 
any  body  else  is  praying  for  me,  it  is 
time  for  me  to  begin  to  pray  for  my- 
self." From  that  time  the  saloon 
lost  its  attraction  for  him,  and  the 
gaming  table,  and  a  little  later,  his 
tobacco  bag  was  thrown  away.  He  is 
a  clean,  strong,  Christian  man,  a  living 
example  of  what  God  can  do  for  lost 


II.    LED  BY  A  LITTLE  CHILD 


ON  a  certain  field 
been  called  to  labor,  I  became 
convinced  that  members  of  the 
church  were  indifferent  to  their  spirit- 
ual needs  and  very  worldly ;  in  fact, 
it  seemed  as  though  nothing  short  of 
a  miracle  could  move  them.  Many 
sinners  were  loudly  decrying  our  ef- 
forts to  build  up  Zion.  Discourage- 
ment seemed  much  in  evidence  when 
the  incident  happened  that  was  effect- 
ive in  breaking  down  every  barrier, 
in  opening  a  wide  door  of  success, 
and  in  saving  one  hundred  precious 
souls.  A  certain  physician,  with  his 
wife  and  a  family  of  three  children, 
became   so  bitter   against  the   move- 


By  Rev.  E.  J.  Moody, 
El  Reno,  Oklahoma. 
where  I  had  ment  that  while  under  the  influence  of 
intoxicants,  he  obliged  his  whole 
family  to  make  a  certain  vow;  the 
substance  of  that  vow  being  that  none 
of  them  should  ever  enter  that  church 
again.  One  of  the  children,  a  boy, 
had  heard  several  sermons,  and  on 
this  night,  when  the  vow  was  forced 
upon  them,  I  had  spoken  briefly  on 
card  playing  as  a  means  to  deaden  and 
lead  any  from  God,  and  that  fathers 
and  mothers  assumed  a  great  respon- 
sibility in  allowing  it  in  the  home. 
Now,  this  was  a  favorite  pastime  in 
the  family  referred  to,  so  this  little 
boy  remarked  upon  this  occasion, 
"Well,  the  preacher  said  it  is  wrong 


256 


THE   HOME  MISSIONARY 


tc  do  this;"  and  reached  up  for  the 
cards  and  thrust  them  into  the  stove. 
Then  the  storm  broke,  and  the  vow 
was  taken,  though  forced  upon  them. 
But  the  seed  was  sown.  It  lodged  in 
this  wicked  father's  heart.  The  Holy 
Spirit  watered  it.  In  three  nights  he 
was  in  such  agony  and  depth  of  con- 
viction that  he  was  the  first  to  break 
this  wicked  vow,  removed  his  bitter 
opposition,  came  into  the  church,  was 
the  first  one  to  bow  before  God,  was 


gloriously  saved,  and  his  whole  family. 
He  afterwards  was  raised  to  a  high 
office  of  public  trust.  At  the  present 
writing,  or  at  least  so  long  as  I  kept 
in  touch  with  him,  which  was  many 
years,  he  maintained  his  Christian  in- 
tegrity. And  while  we  who  hoped  for 
a  revival  were  possibly  looking  for  the 
reformation  to  start  by  some  other 
and  possibly  by  some  greater  instru- 
mentality, a  little  child  led  us,  and 
God's  word  was  vindicated. 


The  Americanizing  of  Hans: 

A  FABLE 
By  Rev.  Herbert  A.  Jump,     Brunswick,  Maine 


HANS  was  a  German  immigrant 
boy,  and  he  had  been  in  the 
United  States  only  a  few 
months  when  he  began  to  attend  the 
public  school. 

One  morning  as  he  was  entering 
the  school-building  a  rough  hand  was 
laid  upon  his  shoulder.  He  turned  in 
alarm.  There  stood  a  big  fellow 
whom  he  had  often  watched  leading 
the  games  on  the  roof-garden. 

"Dutchy,  I  want  your  pencil.  Hand 
it  over.     Quick!" 

"Vat  for  you  want  mein  pen-cil?" 
asked  Hans. 

"Never  mind  'vat  for.'  Give  it  up 
or  I'll  thump  yer  jaw  into  jelly." 

"Thump"  and  "jaw"  and  "jelly" 
were  words  unintelligible  to  Hans, 
but  he  understood  the  tone.  He 
grasped  his  pencil  more  tightly  and 
started  to  run.  But  by  accident — or 
was  it  intended? — another  boy  got  in 
his  way,  he  was  thrown  to  the  ground, 
and  a  moment  later  his  assailant  was 
strutting  off  richer  to  the  extent  of  a 
lead-pencil.  This  was  the  first  step  in 
the  Americanizing  of  Hans. 

The  next  experience  befell  him  one 
recess  as  he  was  looking  over  the  new 
reader  which  he  had  just  bought  at 
the  teacher's  request. 

"Hello,  Sauerkraut,"  growled  a 
rough  voice  in  his  ear,  "What  are  you 


reading?"  It  was  one  of  his  class- 
mates. 

"Mein  book.  Warum?"  answered 
Hans. 

"But,  you  fool,  that  isn't  the  book 
you  want.  That  is  the  book  for  the 
American  boys.  This  is  the  one  the 
new  German  boys  like  you  read  out 
of" — and  he  drew  from  his  pocket  a 
torn  and  dirty  volume. 

"Nein,  nein,  sie  haben  wrong,"  pro- 
tested Hans. 

"No,  I'm  not  wrong.  But  I'll  tell 
you  what  I'll  do,  Dutchy.  I'll  change 
books  with  you,  and  then  you'll  be  all 
right."  And  before  Hans  compre- 
hended the  situation  the  trade  had 
been  effected.  The  book  he  found  in 
his  hand  was  a  worn-out  and  useless 
copy  of  the  same  text-book  which  his 
benefactor  was  now  carrying  triumph- 
antly up-stairs.  This  was  the  second 
step  in  the  Americanizing  of  Hans. 

Remembering  these  two  experiences 
Hans  took  refuge  behind  a  barrier  of 
cold  suspicion  when  a  third  school- 
mate, some  days  later,  essayed  con- 
versation. 

"Nein,  I  vill  do  nodings  mit  you 
Americans,"  declared  Hans. 

"But,  Hans,  I  want  to  help  you," 
said  his  companion.  "Our  Sunday 
School  teacher  last  Sunday  told  us  to 
be  good  Christian  boys,  to  find  some 
other  lonely,  friendless  boy  and  try  to 


THE  PROGRESS  OF  HOME  MISSION  STUDY 


257 


give  him  a  good  time.  Won't  you 
come  to  my  house  and  play  horse  this 
afternoon  ?" 

Then  Hans  relieved  his  mind. 
"Jah,  jah,  I  know  how  ve  play  horse. 
You  vill  say,  'Hans,  you  be  de  horse, 
I  be  de  drifer,'  und  den  you  club,  club, 
club  leetle  Hans  till  he  be  von  sausage. 
Und  den  you  say,  'Nein,  ve  no  play 
horse  no  more,  ve  play  store,'  und  you 
gif  me  moneys  vor  mein  marbles,  und 
ven  I  go  mein  home  to,  mein  vader 
he    say,    'Hans,   you    von,    pig    fool! 


Hire  moneys  is  no  moneys,  it  is  tins!' 
Nein,  nein,  I  do  nodings  mit  you 
Americans.  I  like  me  petter  die 
Deutscher  vay." 

And  the  third  step,  which  ought  to 
have  been  the  first  step,  in  the  Amer- 
icanizing of  Hans  never  came. 

Moral:  The  progress  of  "Benevo- 
lent assimilation"  has  several  ends, 
and  sometimes  we  do  not  begin  it  at 
the  right  end.  Is  not  the  missionary 
end  the  right  end? 


THE  PROGRESS  OF  HOME  MISSION  STUDY 


Kalamazoo,  Michigan. 

SINCE  our  study  of  "Heroes  of 
the  Cross  in  America"  there 
has  been  a  marked  change  in 
the  attitude  of  many  of  our  members 
toward  missions.  In  the  study  they 
became  familiar  with  the  lives  of  a 
few  missionaries  and  found  them  in- 
tensely interesting.  Now,  during  our 
regular  missionary  meetings,  the 
ycung  people  are  ready  to  take  part. 
These  meetings  are  among  our  most 
interesting  ones.  The  missionary 
committee  is  no  longer  composed  of 
only  certain  people  and  avoided  by  all 
others.  All  feel  that  it  is  one  of  the 
most  important  of  the  committees  and 
are  ready  to  co-operate  in  its  work. 

This  change  in  our  Society  we  feel 
is  due  to  the  reading  of  the  books  in 
our  missionary  library,  and  most  of  all 
to  the  Mission  Study  class. 

— Lena  M.  Bartlett. 


Worcester,  Massachusetts. 

Enheartening  reports  are  reaching 
us  relative  to  the  home  mission  study 
classes  using  Mr.  Grose's  admirable 
text-book,  "Aliens  or  Americans." 
The  Rev.  Clifton  H.  Mix,  pastor  of 
the  Pilgrim  Congregational  church, 
Worcester,  Massachusetts,  writes : 
"We  report  in  our  church  four  home 
missions  study  classes  with  a  total 
membership  of  fifty.  The  class  work 
has  been  very  satisfactory  and  the 
classes  are  most  interested.  We  will 
probably  have  two  or  three  more 
classes  later  in  the  winter." 

East  Orange,  New  Jesrsey. 

Rev  F.  Q.  Blanchard,  pastor  of  the 
First  Congregational  church,  East 
Orange,  New  Jersey,  says:  "The 
text-book,  'Aliens  or  Americans,'  is 
excellent  in  every  way,  and  our  young 
people  are  much  interested  in  it.  I 
think  they  are  enjoying  the  meetings 
very  much." 


From  the  Front  Line 


The  Blessing  of  Fellowship 

THERE  is  no  hardship  the  mis- 
sionary has  to  endure  greater 
than  the  isolation  of  himself 
and  family  from  the  society  and  sur- 
loundings  in  which  he  has  lived  previ- 
ous to  taking  up  missionary  work. 
Long  distances  separate  him  from 
other  ministers  and  the  educational 
and  uplifting  influence  that  the  city 
minister  may  have.  The  home  mis- 
sionary seldom  sees  a  brother  minister, 
and  when  one  does  happen  along  it  is 
a  time  of  refreshing  to  his  soul."  So 
writes  Rev.  A.  C.  Woodcock  of  Min- 
nesota, and  adds : 

In  view  of  the  help  and  inspiration  the 
city  pastor  could  give  to  the  missionary 
and  also  of  the  better  understanding  of 
the  work  of  the  missionary  that  would 
result  the  Home  Missionary  Society  of 
Minnesota  last  year,  October,  1905,  ap- 
pointed a  committee  of  three  to  secure 
a  visitation  of  all  the  home  missionary 
churches  during  the  year.  This  was 
done.  Several  pastors  from  the  cities 
had  a  part  in  this  work.  Each  pastor 
was  assigned  several  home  missionary 
churches  which  he  visited,  giving  each 
a  sermon  and  conferring  with  the  mem- 
bers and  bringing  to  the  home  mission- 
ary and  his  family  new  inspiration,  and 
the  feeling  that  he  was  not  altogether 
forgotten.  The  report  of  these  visita- 
tions was  given  at  the  meeting  of  the 
Home  Missionary  Society  during  its  an- 
nual meeting  this  month,  October.  We 
believe  this  visitation  resulted  in  great 
good,  not  only  to  the  missionary  and  the 
field  visited,  but  it  gave  the  visitors  new 
insight  into  missionary  work  and  its 
needs. 

One  of  the  pressing  needs  of  the  home 
missionary  pastor,  as  revealed  by  these 
reports,  was  the  lack  of  books  in  the 
missionary  library.  While  the  city  pas- 
tor and  others  who  have  the  means  must 
have  the  latest  books  in  order  to  do 
their  work,  the  missionary,  because  of 
lack  of  money,  must  do  without  them. 
It  was  reported  that  many  of  these  mis- 
sionaries had  none  of  the  latest  books 
in  their  libraries.  And  these  men  need 
them  as  much  as  any  men  in  the  Chris- 
tian ministry.  This  fact  is  one  that  is 
often  overlooked  by  those  who  wish  to 
help  the  missionaries.    Thev  need    cloth- 


ing for  their  bodies,  and  food  they  must 
have,  but  they  cannot  do  their  best  work 
without  the  best  books,  that  they  may 
have  food  for  their  minds. 

Here  is  the  way  one  city  pastor  helped 
a  missionary  and  a  missionary  church. 
He  came  from  Minneapolis  to  Bagley, 
300  miles.  His  church  paid  his  expenses 
here  and  return.  He  spent  five  days 
with  us,  preaching  every  night  and  giv- 
ing us  a  great  spiritual  uplift.  The 
good  result  of  those  five  days  spent  in 
this  missionary  field  by  this  busy  city 
pastor  cannot  be  estimated,  and  I  believe 
he  enjoyed  it  and  got  great  good  out  of 
his  work  here.  Will  not  others  take  a 
hint  from  this  and  do  likewise? 

A  Victory  for  the  Sabbath  Day 

With  the  law  of  God  and  the  civil 
law,  both  of  them  on  the  side  of  re- 
form, churches  are  often  fainthearted 
beyond  what  is  reasonable.  It  is  with 
great  pleasure  that  we  record  below 
the  courage  of  one  church  which  has 
consulted  its  faith  more  than  its  fears 
and  obtained  a  great  victory.  Says 
the  pastor: 

The  feature  of  the  quarter  has  been 
the  protest  of  the  churches  against  Sun- 
day baseball.  At  A.  a  simple  request 
from  the  pastor  was  sufficient  to  stop  it; 
at  B.  the  same  request  accomplished  but 
little.  The  matter  was  then  referred  to 
the  churches,  Congregational  and  Metho- 
dist, and  the  following  protest  was 
drawn  up: 

Whereas,  the  management  of  the  base- 
ball nine  of  this  town  have  placed  them- 
selves on  record  as  favoring  the  Sunday 
game,  and: 

Whereas,  such  playing  is  in  direct 
violation  of  the  law  of  the  state  and 
tends  to  breed  contempt  for  all  law, 
and: 

Whereas,  such  playing  is  a  blot  upon 
the  good  name  of  our  town  and  a 
menace  to  the  children  of  our  homes, 
and: 

Whereas,  such  playing  is  an  offense  of 
the  Christian  people  of  the  town,  and, 
as  we  believe,  contrary  to  the  law  of 
God.  therefore: 

We,  representing  the  Methodist  and 
Congregational  churches  of  the  town, 
and  in  accord  with  the  vote  of  such 
churches  do  hereby  enter  an  emphatic 
protest  against  what  to  us,  is  a  desecra- 
tion of  the  Sabbath.  And  we  do  hereby 
request,  as  our  civil  and  moral  right,  the 


FROM    THE    FRONT    LINE 


259 


discontinuance  of  Sunday  ball  playing  in 
B.     Signed  by  Committee. 

The  churches  unanimously  endorsed 
the  protest  and  authorized  the  committee 
to  present  it  to  the  ball  management. 
This  was  done  at  a  special  meeting  call- 
ed for  the  purpose.  At  first  little  satis- 
faction was  received.  The  liquor  element 
seemed  to  be  the  controlling  factor  back 
of  the  whole  thing.  The  reasonableness 
of  the  protest  was  appreciated  by  at  least 
one  member  of  the  Board.  We  pushed 
them  for  a  definite  answer  one  way  or 
the  other.  They  evaded  the  issue,  and 
the  conference  came  to  an  unsatisfying 
close.  The  committee  was  unanimous, 
however,  in  thinking  that  more  vigorous 
measures  were  in  order,  and  it  was  de- 
cided to  appeal  to  the  civil  law.  They 
were  saved  from  this  necessity  at  the 
last  moment,  by  receiving  word  from  the 
manager  that  Sunday  ball  playing  would 
be  discontinued. 

A  Moral  Revolution  in  Alaska 

Even  in  the  frozen  North,  where 
moral  conditions  become  too  bad  to  be 
endured,  they  sometimes  reform 
themselves,  or  more  accurately,  they 
stir  up  the  moral  and  religious  senti- 
ment of  the  community  to  efficient 
action.  Says  Rev.  William  Burnett  of 
Valdez,  Alaska: 

I  have  had  to  turn  to  my  commission 
several  times  this  quarter,  to  make  sure 
I  was  a  missionary  and  not  a  United 
States  Marshall.  We  have  had  the  most 
stirring  experience  I  have  ever  gone 
through  in  Alaska,  and  the  end  is  not 
yet.  We  have  come  to  an  open  rupture 
with  the  lawless  .elements,  and  I  am 
proud  of  the  fact  that  we  were  able  to 
muster  sixty-nine  men  who  take  a  firm 
stand  for  righteousness.  I  have  tried  all 
along  to  avoid  any  bitter  collision  with 
the  evil  element,  but  things  have  come  to 
such  a  shocking  pass  that  is  it  impos- 
sible to  avoid  it  any  longer.  We  had  to 
do  something  in  self-defence,  it  was 
forced  upon  us.  We  sent  an  appeal  to 
the  President  and  a  protest  to  the  At- 
torney General  in  regard  to  the  way 
things  were  being  run  in  Alaska,  which 
resulted  in  our  district  judge  receiving 
orders  to  close  all  dens  of  vice  and  to 
prohibit  all  gambling.    These  places  have 


been  shut  up,  and  now  their  friends  are 
on  the  war  path  in  earnest,  but  the  right 
is  coming  out  victorious. 

During  the  summer  I  received  appeals 
to  visit  several  little  towns  along  the 
coast  between  Valdez  and  Dutch  Harbor, 
and  took  advantage  of  a  little  steamer 
running  to  the  westward  to  inspect  con- 
ditions in  seven  of  these  places.  I  will 
not  attempt  to  describe  the  awful  spirit- 
ual need  in  these  wild  towns.  They  are 
all  little  settlements  of  from  one  to  five 
hundred  people,  and  in  every  one  of 
them  I  found  a  few  faithful  souls  thank- 
ful for  even  a  brief  service  while  the 
boat  stopped,  and  all  of  them  surely  in 
need  of  more. 

I  am  ashamed  and  sorry  to  say  that 
some  of  the  missionaries  sent  to  parts 
of  Alaska  have  done  a  vast  injury  to  the 
cause  of  Christ,  by  their  personal  con- 
duct and  their  grossly  dishonest  methods 
of  trading  with  the  natives.  In  conse- 
quence a  number  of  missions  have  been 
abandoned.  What  can  be  done  for  these 
people  I  am  in  great  doubt.  I  wish  it 
were  possible  for  some  official  of  the  So- 
ciety to  visit  my  field  and  inspect  for 
themselves  the  conditions. 

What  the  Missionary  Sees 

The  General  Missionary  enjoys  a 
a  point  of  view  denied  to  his  more 
limited  brother  missionary.  Says  Rev. 
H.  P.  Fisher,  who  has  been  traveling 
extensively  in  Northern  Minnesota: 

The  lives  of  some  of  the  people  in 
this  great  North  are  pathetic  in  the  ex- 
treme Often  I  go  into  places  which 
very  few  men  live  who  do  not  swear 
habitually  or  indulge  in  even  worse 
habits.  The  children  never  saw  a  man 
before  who  did  not  swear.  They  do  not 
know  what  to  make  of  me  on  that  ac- 
count. The  prayer  that  I  offer  is  often 
the  first  one  that  the  people  living  in 
that  house  have  ever  heard.  There  are 
men  and  women  who  know  what  the 
church,  with  her  sacred  ministers  meant; 
but  years  of  loneliness  and  worldliness 
have  nearly  blotted  out  such  memories. 
In  some  places  the  people  are  suspicious 
because  of  some  experiences  with  im- 
posters,  or  with  men  who  may  have 
meant  well,  but  who  did  harm  by  some 
extravagant  acts  or  unreasonable  words; 
yet  we  are  giving  men  the  Gospel. 


Women's  Work  and  Methods 


Judicious  Advertising 

YOU  will  surely  join  us  on  Tues- 
day my  dear  Mrs.  James." 
They  were  coming  out  of 
the  morning  service  at  which  the 
minister  had  given  a  pressing  invita- 
tion to  the  women  to  rally  for  the 
year's  work  of  the  Woman's  Benevo- 
lent Society.  The  James's  were  new 
comers,  and  were  regarded  as  an 
acquisition.  Mr.  James  was  in  a  good 
business  and  his  wife  had  Uaen 
brought  up  as  the  daughter  of  a 
country  minister.  Her  sympathy  with 
the  benevolent  work  of  the  church 
might  be  safely  counted  upon.  Hence 
Mrs.  Allen  felt  justified  in  putting  her 
invitation  in  the  declarative  rather 
than  the  interrogatory  form. 

"You  are  very  kind  Mrs.  Allen/' 
she  smilingly  replied.  "My  sym- 
pathies are  certainly  with  the  women 
in  their  missionary  efforts,  but  I  must 
think  over  the  question  of  joining 
another  society.  I  am  in  so  many 
things.  You  see,  I  came  from  the 
Mayflower,  and  the  Mayflower  So- 
ciety has  a  sort  of  hereditary  claim. 
Then  my  great-grandfather  was  a 
Revolutionary  soldier  and  I  am  one 
of  the  Daughters.  I  am  also  a 
Colonial  Dame,  though  I  doubt  if  I 
look  the  part;  and  there  is  the  New 
England  Society  and  my  College  Club 
— and  so  many  other  things ;  I  must 
think  it  over.  My  husband  sometimes 
laughingly  declares  that  he  will  have 
to  hire  a  mother  to  look  after  the  chil- 
dren." 

So  they  separated  and  Mrs.  Allen, 
a  slightly  discouraged  President,  walk- 
ed slowly  home,  reflecting  upon  the 
small  chances  of  Christian  benevolence 
among  so  many  competing  claims, 
patriotic,  social  and  educational. 
Reaching  home  a  thought  occurred  to 
her. 

"Perhaps,"  she  said  to  herself,  "we 
have  been  over  modest.    What  do  the 


women  of  this  church  know  of  the 
work  of  our  Society  outside  a  small 
circle  of  faithful  workers  ?  What  does 
Mrs.  James  know?  I  believe  it  is  time 
to  let  in  the  light." 

Monday  night,  at  the  dinner  table, 
Mrs.  James  opened  a  rather  bulky  let- 
ter, and  after  glancing  it  through 
passed  it  over  to  her  husband. 
"Harry,"  she  said,  "please  read  this." 

There  was  silence  for  some  minutes 
broken  at  last  by  the  head  of  the 
house.  "Nellie,"  said  he,  "this  is  real 
business."  Again,  silence  while  the 
reading  went  on. 

"Nell,"  said  he  looking  up,  "do  you 
know  what  this  means?  I  have  been 
listening  for  years  to  notices  from  the 
pulpit  about  some  Woman's  Mission- 
ary Society,  and  the  only  picture  it 
has  called  up  has  been  the  Sewing 
Society  of  my  boyhood,  one-tenth  part 
work,  six-tenths  talk  and  the  rest  tea 
and  cakes.  But  this  is  genuine  busi- 
ness. Do  you  know  what  these  women 
have  accomplished  in  the  past  ten 
years  ?  Listen !  They  have  prepared, 
packed  and  forwarded  twenty  boxes 
of  family  supplies,  two  each  year,  to 
home  missionary  pastors  ;  and  evident- 
ly, they  have  contained  no  jumble  of 
old  duds  and  second  hand  clothing, 
for  their  cash  value,  'conservatively 
estimated,'  so  it  says,  has  been  $5,000. 
Why,  Nell,  think  of  the  days  and 
weeks  of  cutting  and  fitting !  And  see 
here,  twice  in  this  time  they  have  come 
to  the  help  of  the  home  missionary 
treasury  with  money  gifts  amounting 
to  $750,  and  added  to  that,  they  sub- 
scribed $1,750  to  the  General  Howard 
Roll  of  Honor.  It  is  simply  marvelous, 
and  that  isn't  all.  Here  is  $250  for 
a  scholarship  in  Fisk  University,  and 
eighty-six  dollars  to  San  Mateo  and 
$135,  to  the  mountain  whites  of 
Tennessee,  furnishing  two  dormitories, 
named  for  our  former  and  present 
ministers'  wives.  Why,  Nell,  do  you 
think  the  people  have  any  idea  of  it 
all? 


WOMAN'S   WORK   AND  METHODS 


261 


But  there's  better  and  better;  all 
this  time  they  have  been  raising 
$2,500  for  missionary  grants  to  in- 
dividual pastors.  The--  have  nearly 
brought  one  church,  in  Salt  Lake 
City,  to  self-support;  at  this  very 
moment  they  are  actually  raising  the 
last  $200  on  the  pastor's — Mr.  Simp- 
kins — salary.  It  sounds  incredible,  I 
would  almost  doubt  the  figures  if  they 
had  not  come  from  Mrs.  Allen.  Just 
listen  to  the  grand  total,  $10,322  in 
cash  and  boxes  during  these  ten  years ! 
If  the  men  had  raised  this  thousand 
dollars  a  year  for  home  missions,  in 
addition  to  their  church  collection,  it 
would  have  been  the  talk  of  the  town. 
I  humbly  take  back  all  I  ever  said 
about  women's  business  methods."   . 

Mrs.  James  had  listened  to  the 
rising  tones  of  her  husband's  voice 
with  a  flushed  face  and  some  amuse- 
ment. She  knew  how  keen  and  often 
too  critical  were  his  business  judg- 
ments. "Harry,"  said  she,  "do  you 
wish  me  to  add  this  Society  to  all  the 
others  ?" 

"Well,  my  dear,  I  don't  know  about 
adding.  Why  not  try  a  little  judicious 
subtracting?  You  know  I  am  glad 
you  are  a  Mayflower,  but  really  that 
vessel  is  a  little  old  is'nt  it?  I  am 
proud  that  your  great  ancestor  fought 
in  the  Revolution,  but  that,  too,  is  a 
rather  dead  issue ;  and  as  for  Colonial 
Dames,  I  think  I  like  one  down  to 
date  much  better.  I  tell  you,  you  said 
yesterday  that  you  needed  $25  to 
make  you  ready  for  that  Revolution- 
ary function  at  the  Academy,  next 
week.  If  you  are  willing  to  omit 
that  function  for  once,  here  is  $25  for 
Mr.  Simpkins'  salary.  Nell,  I  honor 
from  the  ground  up,  any  man  who  will 
make  a  square  fight  against  Mormon- 
ism  for  six  years  as  he  has  done  in 
Utah,  and  is  just  winning  out  with  a 
self-supporting  church.  There's  the 
Revolutionary  soldier  for  me,  the 
hero  of  1906,  and  I  feel  personally  in- 
debted to  him." 

Mrs.  James  sprang  up  brightly 
from  her  chair,  and  running  round  to 
her  husband's  side,  laid  her  hand  upon 


his  shoulder.  "Harry,"  she  cried, 
"you  are  right ;  I've  been  some  foolish 
and  a  good  deal  selfish.  If  the  May- 
flower means  anything  it  means  help 
for  our  country.  I  am  going  to  be  a 
Daughter  of  the  Modern  Revolution 
and  work  for  the  new  redemption  of 
America.  You  have  had  to  call  me  by 
a  good  many  names,  henceforth  you 
may  call  me  a  Home  Missionary  Wo- 
man." 

The  Woman's  Home  Missionary 
Union  of  the  New  Jersey  Association, 
held  its  annual  meeting  in  the  Chris- 
tian Union  Congregational  Church 
ir  Upper  Montclair  on  October  25th. 
An  interesting  program  had  been  pre- 
pared, including,  besides  the  usual  re- 
ports, a  stirring  address  on  "The 
Pressing  Need  of  the  Great  West,"  by 
F.  K.  Sanders,  Ph.  D.,  Secretary  of  the 
Sunday  School  and  Publishing  So- 
ciety, and  one  by  Miss  Lydia  Finger, 
of  Redfield  College,  South  Dakota, 
and  one  by  Mrs.  Washington  Choate, 
on  "Our  Federation." 

A  conference  on  the  subject  "Op- 
portunity With  Ability  Makes  Re- 
sponsibility," brought  home  to  the 
hearts  of  all  present  the  grave  respon- 
sibility of  every  American  citizen,  man 
or  woman,  in  this  great  work  of  Home 
Missions. 

The  treasurer's  report  was  received 
with  special  joy  and  gratitude.  The 
financial  aim — $2500 — for  which  the 
Union  has  been  striving  for  six  years, 
was  not  only  reached,  but  the  contri- 
butions lacked  only  a  few  dollars  of 
being  $3,000. 

The  National  Federation  of  Wom- 
en's State  Home  Missionary  Organ- 
izations has  received,  through  Dr. 
Bradley,  an  invitation  from  the  Pilgrim 
Church,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  to  hold  its 
regular  annual  meeting  with  them  in 
October,  1907,  in  connection  with  the 
National  Council  and  the  Annual 
Meetings  of  our  missioary  societies. 
This  invitation  has  been  accepted.  Let 
us  keep  it  in  mind  during  the  coming 
rronths  and  early  prepare  for  an  in- 
spiring gathering! 


Appointments  and  Receipts 


APPOINTMENTS 


October,  190<>. 


Not    in    commission    last    year. 
Barnes,  Orville  A.,  North  Branch,  Minn. 
Cross,    Edward   W.,    Esmond,    Girard    Lake 

and   Goa,   No.   Dak. 
Dickensheets,  John  Q.  Iroquois,  So.  Dak. 
Eckel,  John  O.,  General  Missionarv  in  Ariz. 
Flint,    Joseph    F.,    Sawyer    and    Minot,    No. 

Dak. 
Holloway,  John  W.,  Newark,  N.  J. 
Moorehouse,  G.    E.,   Astoria,   Oregon. 
Tracy,  Henry  C,   Vernal,  Utah. 

Recommissioned. 
Benedict,  Arthur  J.,  Tombstone.  Ariz. 
Benton,  John  A.,  Gallup,  New  Mex. 
Bormose,  Niels  N.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Camfield,  Lewis  E.,  Academy,  So.  Dak. 
Garden,   William   J.,   Bremen,   Ga. 
navies,  James,   Garretson,   So.   Dak. 
Gasque,  Wallace,  Gilmore,  Ga. 
Green,  George  E.,   Ft.  Pierre,  So.  Dak. 


Hindley,    George,    Red   Lodge,    Laurel    and 

Elder   Grove,   Mont. 
Johnson,  Elmer  H.,  Marion  and  Litchfield, 

No.  Dak. 
Jones,  William  C,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Lathrop,  Edward  A.,  Tryon,  N.  C. 
Lindquist,  August  J.,  Du  Bois,  Pa. 
Martin,  M.  A.,  Webster,  So.  Dak. 
McKay,     Charles     G.,     Atlanta     and     Cox's 

Cross  Roads,   Ga. 
Olin,  David   P.,  Milaca,   Minn. 
Palm,  William  J.,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 
Perrin,  David  J.,  Belle  Fourche,  So.  Dak. 
Pope,  George  S.,  Oacoma,  So.  Dak. 
Reger,  O.  W.,  Center,  Nebr. 
Roehrig,  O.,  Ransom,  Kan. 
Starring,    George    H.,    De    Smet    and    Lake 

Henry,   So.   Dak. 
Switzer,  Miss  Annie  E.,  Dayton,   Wyo. 
Young,  Arthur  G.,  Sawyer,  No.  Dak. 
Young,  David  K.,  Portsmouth,  Va. 


RECEIPTS 


October,  1906. 


For  account  of  receipts  by  State  Auxiliary  Societies 

see  page  264 
MAINE — $121.25. 

Alfred,  C.  E.,  10;  Portland,  "Philip  Smith 
and  others,"  75.50;  A  Friend,  10;  Skowhe- 
gan,  Women's  Miss.  Soc,  25.75. 

NEW  HAMPSHIRE — $80.76. 

Campton,  1st,  5.26;  Littleton,  69;  New 
Ipswich,   Children's   Fair,   6.50. 

VERMONT — $67.20. 

Benson,  12;  Brownington,  C.  E.,  2;  Dor- 
set, Rev.  Parsons  S.  Pratt,  25;  North  Ben- 
nington, C.  E.,  10;  Weybridge,  1st,  8.20; 
Woodstock,  Mrs.  H.   S.  Brooks,   10. 

MASSACHUSETTS  —  $6,5S9.S9;  of  which 
legacies,  $4,872.15. 
Andover,  A  Friend,  5;  Baldwinsville, 
Mrs.  M.  J.  Baker,  10;  Boston,  G.  F.  Brad- 
street,  10;  G.  A.  Fuller,  10;  Box  ford,  1st, 
21.55;  Brockton,  Montello,  Waldo,  2.35; 
Chelsea,  Central,  105.90;  Danvers,  1st, 
77.25;  Dedham,  Miss  M.  C.  Burgess,  10; 
Dennis,  S.  S.,  1.14;  Dorchester,  2d,  65.22; 
Fall  River,  M.  E.  Hawes,  1 ;  Haverhill, 
West  S.  S.,  1.50;  Holbrook,  J.  Hathaway, 
2;  Jamaica  Plain,  A  Friend,  17.50;  Lan- 
caster, W.  H.  Blood,  10;  Leominster,  F.  A. 
Whitney,  30;  Mansfield,  Orthodox,  15.75; 
Melrose,  50;  Mittineague,  25.55;  New  Bed- 
ford, Trin.  S.  S.,  19.78;  Newburyport,  C.  A. 
Bliss,  25;  Newton,  Estate  of  Andrew  J. 
Stearns,  4,817.35;  Northampton,  Dorcas 
Soc.  of  the  1st,  50;  Edwards,  17;  A  Friend, 
12.88;  Petersham,  C.  E.,  20;  Plymouth,  Es- 
tate of  Amasa  Holmes,  2.50;  Rutland,  Wo- 
man's Union,  Mrs.  C.  W.  Dodge,  .50;  Spring- 
field,  South,    48;    Tyringham,   A   Friend,    5; 


Warren,  1st,  25.62;  Westhampton,  S.  S., 
35;  Worcester,  Estate  of  James  White, 
54.80;  Piedmont,  23;  Union,  23;  Miss  S. 
Averill's  S.  S.  class,  of  which  .50;  from 
Miss  L.  Larned,  3. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Assoc,  (of  Mass.  and 
R.  I.),  Miss  L.  D.  White,  Treas.,  for  Salary 
Fund,   $935.75. 

RHODE  ISLAND — $61. 
Providence,  Central,  61. 

CONNECTICUT — $1,379.64. 

Bloomfield,  C.  E.,  5;  Cromwell,  1st, 
36.68;  Darien,  1st,  50;  Goshen,  24.24;  Green- 
wich, 2d  S.  S.,  11.92;  "In  Memoriam,"  5; 
Hampton,  1st,  15.74;  Hartford,  C.  E.,  Wind- 
sor Ave.,  1.50;  Harwinton,  15.91;  Mrs.  E. 
Barber,  5;  Kent,  1st,  6.68;  Manchester,  Mrs. 
J.  Bidwell,  2;  Meriden,  W.  H.  Catlin,  25; 
Middlebury,  24.60;  Milford,  Plymouth  S.  S., 
14.18;  New  Haven,  Ladies'  Benev.  Soc, 
Dwight  Place,  5;  A  Friend,  1,000;  Norfolk, 
A  Friend,  2;  Northfield,  Mrs.  H.  Morse,  5; 
Norwich,  P.  Huntington,  5;  Mrs.  E.  Storer, 
1;  Salisbury,  W.  B.  H.  M.,  12.75;  Somers- 
ville,  16.25;  Southington,  Aux.,  Add'l,  1; 
Taftville,  20.25;  Thompson,  20.69;  Water- 
town,  32;  Windsor,  1st,  5.25. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union  of  Conn.,  Mrs.  C. 
S.  Thayer,  Treas.,  Terryville,  Ladies'  Ben. 
Soc,    10. 

NEW  YORK — $1,581.47;  of  which  legacies, 
$952.60. 

Albany,  E.  T.  Strong,  20;  Brooklyn, 
Tompkins  Ave.,  444.50;  Flushing,  1st, 
46  04;  Morristown,  8.33;  New  York  City, 
"C    O.    E.,"    100;    Portville,   Estate   of   Mrs. 


APPOINTMENTS    AND  RECEIPTS 


263 


Amelia  M.  Nichols,  460.42;  Wawarsing,  Es- 
tate of  Clarinda  Strong,  492.18;  West  Ban- 
gor, Mrs.  O.  Adams,  10. 

NEW  JERSEY — $602.92. 

Received  by  Rev.  C.  A.  Jones,  Morris- 
town,  Swedes,  2.65;  East  Orange,  1st, 
59.41;  1st,  Charles  L.  Beckwith,  25;  "K," 
1.25;  Vineland,  Ch.,  5.17;  S.  S.,  1.39. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union  of  the  N.  J.  Assoc., 

Mrs.  G.  A.  L.  Merrifield,  Treas.,  298.15; 
Plainfield,  of  which  $1  for  debt,  74.55; 
Westfield,   for   debt,    11.60.      Total,    $384.30. 

PENNSYLVANIA — $4,814.80;  of  which  leg- 
acy, $4,750. 
Received  by  Rev.  C.  A.  Jones,  Dn  Bois, 
Swedish,  $5.50;  Minersville,  4;  Allegheny, 
Slavic,  13;  Minersville,  1st,  .66;  Philadel- 
phia, Estate  of  W.  H.  Wanamaker,  4,750; 
Ridgway,  1st,  Kingdom  Extension  Soc, 
40.39;  Shenandoah,  1st,  1.25. 

DISTRICT   OF    COLUMBIA — $69. 

Washington,  1st,  34;  C.  E.,  35. 

GEORGIA — $33.27. 

Baxley,  Friendship  S.  S.,  Children's  of- 
fering, 2.50;  Mt.  Olivet,  .82;  Danielsville, 
Zoar  and  Middleton,  New  Hope,  1;  Lifsey 
and  Gaillards,  5;  North  Highland,  .25,; 
Pearson,  Union  Hill,  10.40;  Sarepta,  Holly 
Creek  and  Suches,  Pleasant  Union,  1;  Se- 
ville, Williford  and  Kramer,  Asbury 
Chapel,  .50;  Waycross,  White  Hall,  8;  Wil- 
souville,  Rocky  Hill,  3.80. 

ALABAMA — $20.25. 

Received  by  Rev.  A.  T.  Clarke,  Heflin, 
Fairview,  1.25;  Bascon,  4.15;  Blackwood, 
3.50;  Central,  Balm  of  Gilead,  1;  Equality, 
3.13;  Mt.  Olive,  3;  Newton's  Chapel,  .87; 
Omega  and  Troy,  2.35;  Tallassee,  1st,   1. 

LOUISIANA — $30.07. 

Iowa,  2;  Kinder,  1st,  8.07;  Roseland,  15; 
Vinton,   5   . 

FLORIDA — $5.25. 
Avon  Park,  5.25. 

TEXAS — $15.55. 

Forth  Worth,  Annual  meeting  of  the 
Assoc,  12.05;  Pruitt,  3.50. 

OKLAHOMA — $1.60. 

Cold-water  and  Pleasant  View,  $1.60. 

OHIO — $107. 

Ohio  H.  M.  Soc.,  by  Rev.  C.  H.  Small, 
Sec,  25;  Ashtabula,  Finnish,  32;  Oberlin, 
1st,    "C,"    10;    P.    L.    A.,    15;    Toledo,    C.    E. 

Tracy,   25. 

INDIANA — $2. 

Indianapolis,  Rev.  A.  G.  Detch,  2. 


ILLINOIS — $649.30;  of  which  legacy,  $500. 
Chicago,  Mrs.  T.  B.  Wells,  2;  Geneva, 
1st,  2.65;  La  Grange,  1st,  40.15;  Moline,  1st, 
96.50;  Morrison,  Estate  of  William  Wal- 
lace, 500;  Payson,  Rev.  D.  B.  Eells,  5. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  A.  O.  Whit- 
comb,  Treas.  La  Grange,  Miss.  Band,  2; 
So.  Chicago,  1st  Jr.  and  Int.  C.  E.,  1. 

MISSOURI — $268.54. 

Carthage,  A  Friend,  100;  St.  Louis,  1st, 
30.54;  Pilgrim,  118;  A  Thank  Offering,  20. 

MICHIGAN — $840;  of  which  legacy,  $499.50. 
Michigan  Home  Miss.  Soc,  by  Rev.  J.  P. 
Sanderson,  Treas.,  340.50;  Allendale,  Estate 
of  A.  M.  Cooley,  499.50. 


WISCONSIN — $256.15. 

Beloit,  Mrs.  L.  M.  Hill,  250;  Maple  Valley 
and  Pulcifer,  Scand.  Free,  3.15;  Ogdens- 
burg,  Bethany  Scand.  Evang.  Free,  1; 
Wood  Lake  and  Doctors  Lake,   Swedes,   2. 

IOWA — $74.43. 

Iowa    Home    Miss.    Soc,    by    Miss    A.    D. 
Merrill,   Treas.,  74.43. 
MINNESOTA — $344.91. 

Received    by    Rev.    G.    R.    Merrill,    D.D., 
Barnesville,    4.16;    Clearwater,    5;    Madison, 
25;   Minneapolis,   Fremont  Ave.,   add'l.,    66 
Pilgrim,  add'l.,   20;  Plymouth,  add'l.,  88.27 
E.   P.   Stacy,    25;   Morris,   8;    Ortonville,    16 
Paynesville,  22;   St.  Charles,  in  part,  10.30 
Biwabik,  7;   Brainerd,   15;   Fertile,   15;   Mc- 
intosh, Erskine  and  Mentor,   2;  New  York 
Mills,   2;   Nymore,   1st,    2. IS;    St.   Cloud,  La- 
dies' Aid  Soc,  3;  St.  Paul,  University  Ave., 
5 ;  Waterville  and  Morristown,  4. 

NEBRASKA — $58. 

Bertrand,  Woman's  Miss.  Soc,  19;  Ger- 
mantown,  German,  24;  Olive  Branch,  Ger- 
man,   15. 

NORTH  DAKOTA — $44.82. 

Received  by  Rev.  G.  J.  Powell,  Buxton, 
2.50;  Caledonia,  2.25;  Cuminings,  3;  Fargo, 
1st,  Ladies,  8.13;  Fessenden,  Ladies,  2.50 
Jamestown,  Ladies,  5;  Junior  C.  E.,  1.40 
Woman's  Meeting,  4.28;  Buchanan,  4.50 
Fessenden,  German,  4.26;  Granville,  2 
Kensal,   5. 

SOUTH  DAKOTA — $161.42. 

Aberdeen,    2.50;    Beresford,     Mrs.     H.     S 
Bridgman,  .50;   Cresbard,  7.50;  Flora,  3.30 
Oacoma,  8.55;  Eureka,  German  Parish,  25 
Ipswich,    5;    Meekling,    2;    Rapid    City,    1st, 
20.20;   S.   S.,   5. 

Received  by  Rev.  W.  H.  Thrall;  Bon 
Homme,  5;  Houghton,  1.87;  Tyndall,  10; 
Vermillion,    22;    Watertown,    33;    Webster, 

10.     Total,  $81.87. 

COLORADO — $352.05. 

Received  by  Rev.  H.  Sanderson,  Crested 
Butte,  15.45;  State  Assoc,  6.50.  Total, 
$21  95. 

Colorado  Springs,  P.  C.  Hildreth,  15; 
Denver,  4th  Ave.  S.  S.,  14;  Flagler,  1; 
Kremmling,  1st,  5;  Sulphur  Springs,  1st, 
6.35;  Whitewater,  Union,   2.50. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Miss  I.  M.  Strong, 
Treas.,  20;  Colorado  Springs,  1st,  33.85; 
Crested  Butte,  35;  Cripple  Creek,  10;  Den- 
ver, 1st,  25;  3d,  6.40;  Pilgrim,  5.35;  So. 
Broadway,  12.60;  Plymouth,  30;  Fountain, 
5;  Greeley,  12.45;  Grand  Junction,  26.40; 
Longmont,  C.  E.,  15;  Manitou,  8;  Montrose, 
12.20;  North  Denver,  4;  Trinidad,  5;  White- 
water, 20.     Total,   $286.25. 

WYOMING — $138.29. 

Woman's  Missionary  Union,  Miss  E.  Mc- 
Crum,  Treas.  Cheyenne,  1st,  64.62;  Girls' 
Miss.  Soc,  12.67;  Jr.  Miss.  Band,  6;  Doug- 
las, 1st,  15;  Lusk,  1st,  15;  Sheridan,  1st, 
5;   Wheatland,   1st,   20.      Total,   $138.29. 

MONTANA — $18. 

Received  by  Rev.  W.  S.  Bell.  Columbus, 
Ladies'  Miss.  Soc,  8;  Helena,  Ladies'  Miss. 
Soc,  10;  by  Mrs.  W.  S.  Bell,  Treas.,  Wo- 
man's Miss.  Union, 

IDAHO — $34.80. 

Challis,  4.80. 

Woman's  Missionary  Union,  Mrs.  G.  W. 
Derr,  Treas.     Pocatello,  30. 


264 


THE   HOME   MISSIONARY 


CALIFORNIA — $65.25. 

Pasadena,  1st,  15.25;  Mrs.  J.  Keese,  50. 

OREGON-«.$20.50. 

East  Salens,  Central  and  Williard,  1st, 
2.50;   Portland,   Ebenezer,   18. 

WASHINGTON — $968.15. 

Wash.    Home    Miss.    Soc.,    by    Rev.    H.    B. 

Hendley,   Treas.,   $576.95. 

Arlington,  1st,  United,  4;  Black  Dia- 
mond, Pilgrim,  5;  Kirkland,  1st,  6;  Marys- 
ville,    1st,    3.70;     Wallula,    1;      AVashongal, 

Bethel,   16.50. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  by  Rev.  H.  B. 
Hendley,  to  constitute  Mrs.  W.  C.  Wheeler, 


Mrs.    W.     C.     Davie    and    Mrs.     S.     Rogers 
Hon.  Life  Members,   $330. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Wash.,  Mrs.  C.  F. 
Clapp,  Treas.  Gaston,  15;  Hillside,  5;  Pat- 
ton  Valley,  5.      Total,  25. 

October   Receipts. 

Contributions    $   8,303.28 

Legacies    11,574.25 

$19,877.53 

Interest    305.41 

Home   Missionary    42.07 

Literature    224.05 

Total    $20,449.06 


AUXILIARY  STATE  RECEIPTS 


MASSACHUSETTS  HOME  MISSIONARY 
SOCIETY. 
Receipts  in  October,  1906. 
Rev.  Joshua  Coit,  Treasurer,  Boston,  Mass. 
Andover,  Ballardvale,  58.55;  Seminary, 
305;  Amesbury,  Union,  8;  Ashfield,  15.06; 
Ayer,  S.  S.,  .75;  Barnstable,  Hyannis,  20.25; 
Beverly,  Dane  St.,  225;  Boston,  Boylston, 
5;  Italian,  10.27;  Park  St.,  72;  Roibury, 
Eliot,  71.83;  Dorchester,  2d,  5;  Village, 
15.75;  Income  of  Brackett  Fund,  80;  Brook- 
line,  Harvard,  60.14;  Cambridge,  Pilgrim, 
8.62;  Falmouth,  1st,  37;  Wnquoit,  2.36; 
Finns  of  Cape,  16.65;  Fitchburg,  Finn,  4; 
Rollstone,  18.70;  Franiingham,  So.  Grace, 
57.07;  Gardner,  1st,  150;  Gill,  8;  Gloucester, 
Bethany,  100;  Greenfield,  2d,  33.46;  Green- 
wich, 12.35;  Groton,  Union,  28.14;  E.  P. 
Shumway,  80;  General  Fund,  21;  Gurney 
Fund,  Income  of,  37.50;  Haile  Fund,  In- 
come of,  50;  Hale  Fund,  Income  of,  30; 
Hanson,  5.50;  Holbrook,  Winthrop,  81.97; 
Holyoke,  2d,  243.62;  Hyde  Park,  Clarendon 
Hills,  9.25;  Longmeadow,  1st,  Benev.  Asso. 
93.78;  Lynn,  Cen.  S.  S.,  6.45;  Maynard,  19.35 
Medford,  Union,  43.06;  Millbury,  1st,  9.96 
Millis,  Ch.  of  Christ,  16.46;  Monterey,  2 
Newbury,  1st,  23.40;  New  Marlboro,  6 
Newton,  Eliot,  95;  1st,  51.37;  Northfield, 
Trim,  96.82;  Pepperell,  45.41;  Prescott, 
12.25;  Raynham,  1st,  8.33;  Reading,  138.50; 
Reed  Fund,  Income  of,  86;  Rollins  Fund, 
Income  of,  40;  Salein,  South,  10;  Sisters' 
Fund,  Income  of,  80;  Southville,  5;  South- 
bridge,  3.26;  Southwick,  5.64;  South  Had- 
ley,  15.54;  South  Sudbury,  Memorial,  7.02; 
Springfield,  Hope,  50;  Olivet,  17.50;  O.  L. 
Lawrence,  2;  Townsend,  19.81;  Wakefield, 
31. OS;  Wall  Fund,  Income  of,  48;  Walpole, 
Estate  of  Clarissa  Guild,  3,408.62;  Warren, 
1st,  100;  Wenham,  2;  Westboro,  77;  Wey- 
mouth, North  Pilgrim,  13.45;  Whitcomb 
Fund,  Income  of,  53;  Whitin  Fund,  Income 
of,  300;  Whitman,  11.76;  Winchester,  Es- 
tate of  Lucy  B.  Johnson,  300;  D.  N.  Skill- 
ings  Fund,  132.50;  Woburn,  Lad.  Char. 
Reading  Soc,  30;  Scand.,  10.32;  AVorcester, 
Friend,  in  memory  of  M.  P.  C,  50;  Finn, 
1.68;  Piedmont,  3;  Plymouth,  33.53;  Tat- 
nuck,  C.  E.,  1;  Designated  for  work  in 
Wyoming,  Ludlow,  "Precious  Pearls,"  3; 
Designated  for  Rev.  Mr.  Long,  Arizona, 
Wellesley  Hills,  1st,  3.50;  Designated  for 
work  in  Alaska,  Whitinsville,  C.  E.,  33.50; 
Designated  for  C.  H.  M.  S.,  Bedford,  Miss 
E.  Davis,  1;  Springfield,  Hope,  75. 

AVOMAN'S    HOME    MISSIONARY    ASSOCI- 
ATION, 
Lizzie  D.  White,  Treasurer. 

Salaries,  Amer.  International  College, 
140;  Greek  Worker,  200;  Italian  Worker, 
135;    Polish   Worker,    70. 

Summary. 

Regular $7,604 .  64 

Designated  for  Work  in  Wyoming  .  3.00 

Designated  for  Work  in  Alaska     ..         33.50 


Designated  for  Rev.   Mr.   Long   in 

Arizona    3.50 

Designated  for  C.  H.  M.  H 76.00 

W.  H.  M.  A 545.00 

Home  Missionary    1.00 

Total $8,266.64 

NEAV    HAMPSHIRE    HOME    MISSIONARY 
SOCIETY. 
Receipts  in   October,   1906. 
A.    B.    Cross,    Treasurer,    Concord. 
Ackworth,   21.53;    Chester,   4.34;   Concord, 
1st,  25;  Franconia,  5;  Greenland,  A  Friend, 
100;    Lancaster,    Coos    and    Essex    Confer- 
ence,   4.14;    Littleton,    13;    Lyndeboro,    Rev. 
Austin    Dodge,    1;    Ossipee,    25;    Plymouth, 
13.06,    Sullivan,   S.    S.,    5.39;    Washington,    7. 

THE   MICHIGAN  HOME  MISSIONARA 

SOCIETY. 

Receipts   in   June,  July   and   August. 

Rev.    John    P.    Sanderson,    Treas.,    Lansing. 

Ann  Arbor,  80.58;  Bradley,  1.59;  Cannon, 
7.20;  Chase,  2.50;  Conkiin,  2.07;  Custer, 
3.25;  Detroit,  Woodward  Ave.,  53.75;  S.  S., 
4.65;  Dundee,  10;  East  Paris,  7;  Echo,  1.50; 
Flat  Rock,  7;  Frankfort,  C.  E.,  2;  Garden, 
5;  Grand  Rapids,  1st  S.  S.,  19;  Hartland,  7; 
Hersey,  4.50;  Highland  Sta.,  3.50;  Johns- 
town and  Barry,  10;  Merrill,  5;  Mio,  .60; 
Old  Mission,  12.03;  Olivet,  50;  Ovid,  C.  E., 
2;  Ransom,  4.65;  Redridge,  2;  Romeo, 
60.33;  St.  Clair,  12.80;  South  Haven,  S.  S., 
3.90;  Suttons  Bay,  3;  AVayland,  6.31;  West 
Adrian,  20.27;  Apsilanti,  20;  C.  E.,  5;  W.  H. 
M.  U.  of  Mich.,  377.54;  Sale  of  Nashville 
property,  1,500;  Congregational  Michigan, 
15;  Library  Fund,  54.  Total,  $2,386.52. 
Receipts  for  September,  1906. 

Bangor,  1st,  3;  Bass  River,  10;  Brecken- 
ridge,  2.50;  Flat  Rock,  3.50;  New  Haven, 
4;  Standish,  2.25;  Interest,  37.50;  AV.  H. 
M.  U.  of  Mich.,  70.02;  Congregational  Mich- 
igan,  1.40;   Library  Fund,  25.    Total,  $159.17. 

OHIO    HOME    MISSIONARY   SOCIETY. 

Receipts  in   October,   1906. 

Rev.    C.    H.    Small,    Treasurer,    Cleveland. 

Andover,  6.55;  Akron,  1st,  175;  S.  S.,  10; 
Barberton,  20;  Centennial,  3.25;  Coolville, 
4.26;  Columbus,  North,  18.10;  Cleveland, 
East  Madison,  4.60;  Cincinnati,  North  Fair- 
mount,  S.  S.,  12;  C.  E.,  5;  Jr.  C.  E.,  1;  Ham- 
ilton, 1;  Huntington,  AV.  Va.,  17.52;  Ire- 
land, 2.58;  Jefferson,  22.50;  Kent,  15.75; 
Lorain,  1st,  1;  Medina,  224.88;  S.  S.,  20; 
A.  I.  Root,  25;  Oberlin,  2d,  30.96;  Penfield, 
5;  Shandon,  17.01;  Toledo,  Washington  St., 
6.14;  AVilliamsfield,  7.10;  AATest  Park,  6; 
AVest  Andover,   5.54.      Total,   $667.74. 

Received  from  the  Ohio  Woman's  Home 
Missionary  Union,  Mrs.  Geo.  B.  Brown, 
Treasurer,   Toledo: 

Alexis  W.,  3;  Andover  W.  M.  S.„  3;  Ash- 


APPOINTMENTS  AND  RECEIPTS  265 

land  W.  M.  S.,  2.85;  Ashtabula,  1st  W.  M.  S.,  45;    Toledo,    Central,    W.    M.    S.,    2.20;    1st, 

5;   Austinbiirg,  10;  Aurora,  C.   E.,   5;   Belle-  W.  M.   S.,   50;  Plymouth,  S.  S.,   1.70;  Twins- 

vtie  W.  M.   S.,   6;  Belpre  W.  M.   S.,   12;  Ber-  burg  W.   M.    S.,    8.40;   Wakeman,   W.   M.    S., 

lin  Heights  W.  M.  S.,  1.40;  C.  E.,  2;  Burton  3.80;  Wellington  W.   M.   S.,   6.30;   West  An- 

W.    M.    S.,    9.75;    Personal,    6.25;    Chardon  dover,   W.   M.    S.,   2.10;   West   Williamsfield 

W.  M.  S.,  5.30;  Cincinnati,  Plymouth  W.  M.  W.  M.  S.,  5;  Youngstown,  Elm  St.  W.  M.  S., 

S.,  3;  Walnut  Hills,  C.  E.,  3.50;  Clarksfield  7.20.     Total,  $482.88;  Grand  Total,  $1,150.62. 
W.  M.  S.,  1.40;  Cleveland,  Archwood  W.  M. 

S.,  8.40;  C.  E.,  2;  Bethlehem  W.  M.   S.,  5.60;  DONATIONS    OP    CLOTHING,    ETC. 

E.  Madison  W.  M.  S.,  7;  Euclid,  Y.  L..,  3.90;  „  ,    ,         „      „ 

Pranklin    W.    M     S       2  40'    1st    W     A,    14-  Reported  at  the  National  Office  in  October, 
JLakeview  W.  M.  S.,  1.75;  Pilgrim  W.  M.  S.',  190e- 

11.20;  Trinity,  7;   Columbus,  Mayflower  W.  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  Mrs.   O.    E.   Leffingwell, 

M.   S.,   5;  North  W.  M.   S.,   4;   Plymouth  W.  box,    53.40;    A   Friend,   package,    25;    Clare- 

M.  S.,  18.20;  Conneaut  "W.  M.   S.,   6.45;  S.   S.,  mont,  N.  H.,  L..  A.,  bbl.,  56;  Fairport,  N.  Y., 

5;   C.   E.,   1.50;   Elyria,  1st  W.  A.,  7;  Green-  "W.    H.    M.    U.,    box,    bbl.    and    cash,    108.62; 

wich  W.  M.   S.,   1;  Kirtland,  W.  M.   S.,   2.55;  Ithaca,  N.  Y.,  1st,  box,  125;  Lockport,  N.  Y., 

Lima,  1st,  4.76;  Lodi  W.  M.  S.,  5.64;  Lorain,  1st,     Woman's     Guild,     box,     82.79;     Lyme, 

W.    M.    S.,    16.50;    S.    S.,    2;    Mansfield,    1st,  N.  H.,  box,  119.23;  Maplewood,  Mo.,  L.  M.  S., 

W.   M.    S.,    7;    Mayflower,   C.    E.,    1.10;   Mari-  bbl.,    120;   New   Haven,   Conn.,   Pilgrim   Ch., 

etta,  1st,  C.   E.,   1.35;  Harmar,  W.  M.   S.,   7;  H.    M.    Aux.,    95.07;    Newtown,    Conn.,    bbl., 

Oak   Grove  W.   M.   S.,    4;   Marysville,   C.   E.,  15;  Norwich,  Conn.,  Park  Ch.,  W.  H.  M.  A., 

2;    W.    M.    S.,    8.40;    Mt.    Vernon    W.    M.    S.,  two  boxes,  180;   St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  L.   S.,   box, 

7.32;    Newark,    Plymouth    W.    M.    S.,    2.40;  129.50;   Sherburne,  N.  Y.,  1st,  W.  H.  M.   S., 

New  London    W.M.S.,  7;    Norwalk  W.M.S.,  1 ;  box  and  cash,  85.99;  Stonington,  Conn.,  2d, 

Oberlin,  2d,  C.   E.,  2;  L.  S.,  27;  Painesville,  box    and    bbl.,    164.10;    Suffleld,    Conn.,    1st, 

1st,    W.    M.    S.,    18.80;    Jr.    C.    E.,    3;    Plain  bbl.,  104.55;  West  Cornwall,  Conn.,  No.  Ch., 

W.    M.    S.,    2.80;    Ravenna    W.    M.    S.,    3.40;  L..    B.    S.,    bbl.,    101;    Williamstown,    Mass., 

Richfield  W.  M.  S.,   6.40;  Ruggles  W.  M.  S.,  1st,  W.  M.   S.,   two   boxes,   80;   Yonkers-on- 

4.20;    Sandusky    W.    M.    S.,    5;    Springfield,  Hudson,   N.   Y.,   Mrs.    Don.    O.    Shelton,    two 

1st,   W.   M.    S.,    7.75;    Tallmadge,   W.   M.    S.,  boxes.       Total,  $1,645.25. 


T HE- 


HOME    MISSIONARY    LIBRARY 

FOR  HOME  MISSION  STUDIES 

The  following  text-books  named  in  the  order  in  which  they  have  appeared  can  be 
obtained  from  the  rooms  of  the  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society,  287 
Fourth  Avenue,  New  York: 

LEAVENING  THE  NATION, 
BY   J.    B.    CLARK. 
Cloth   $1.25;    paper      (student's  edition)  40  cents. 

HEROES  OF  THE  CROSS  IN  AMERICA, 

BY   DON   O.    SHELTON. 
Cloth  50  cents;  paper  35  cents. 

COMING  AMERICANS, 

BY  KATHERINE  R.  CROWELL.  ,' 

(Juvenile),  cloth  35  cents;  paper  25  cents. 

ALIENS  OR  AMERICANS? 

BY    HOWARD    B.    GROSE. 
Cloth  50  cents;  paper  35  cents. 

Also  a  large  variety  of  home  missionary  literature  in  leaflet  form  consisting  of 
missionary  programs,  concert  and  responsive  exercises.  A  full  catalogue  will  be 
sent  on  application.  Take  note  also  of  the  classified  list  of  articles,  which  have  ap- 
peared in  "The  Home  Missionary,"  and  the  titles  of  which  are  published  in  the  Nov- 
ember number. 


WOMAN'S  STATE   ORGANIZATIONS 


NATIONAL  FEDERATION  OF  WOMAN'S  STATE 
ORGANIZATIONS,  President,  Mrs.  B.  W.  Firman, 
1012   Iowa   St.,   Oak   Park,    111;    Secretary,   Miss  Annie 

A.  McFarland,  196  N.  Main  St.,  Concord,  N.  H. ; 
Treasurer,  Mrs.  A.  H.  Flint,  604  Willis  Ave.,  Syra- 
cuse,   N.    Y. 

1,  NEW  HAMPSHIRE,  Female  Cent.  Institution, 
organized  August,  1S04;  and  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  June,  1890.  President,  Mrs.  James  Minot, 
Concord;  Secretary,  Mrs.  M.  W.  Nims,  5  Blake  St., 
Concord;  Treasurer,  Miss  Annie  A.  McFarland,  196 
N.   Main  St.,   Concord. 

2,  MrNNESOTA,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  September,  1872.  President,  Miss  Catharine 
W.  Nichols,  230  E.  9th  St.,  St.  Paul;  Secretary, 
Mrs.  S.  V.  S.  Fisher,  2131  E.  Lake  St.,  Minneapolis; 
Treasurer,  Mrs.  W.  M.  Bristol,  815  E.  18th  St.,  Min- 
neapolis. 

3,  ALABAMA,  Woman's  Missionary  Union,  orgau- 
ized  March,  1S77;  reorganized  April,  1S89.  President, 
Mrs.  M.  A.  Dillard,  Selma;  Secretary,  Mrs.  E.  Guy 
Snell,   Mobile;   Treasurer,   Nellie  L.   Clark,   Marion. 

4,  MASSACHUSETTS  AND  RHODE  ISLAND  (hav 
ing  certain  auxiliaries  elsewhere).  Woman's  Home 
Missonary  Association,  organized  February,  1880.  Presi- 
dent, Mrs.  Wm.  H.  Blodgett,  645  Centre  St.,  Newton, 
Mass. ;  Secretary,  Miss  Mary  C.  E.  Jackson,  607  Con- 
gregational House,  Boston;  Treasurer,  Miss  Lizzie  D. 
White,   607  Congregational  House,   Boston. 

5,  MAINE,  Woman's  Missionary  Auxiliary,  organ- 
ized June,  1880.  President,  Mrs.  Katherine  B.  Lewis, 
S.  Berwick;  Secretary,  Mrs.  Emma  C.  Waterman,  Gor- 
ham;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  Helen  W.  Hubbard,  79  Pine  St., 
Bangor. 

6,  MICHIGAN,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  May,  1881.  President,  Mrs.  C.  R.  Wilson, 
65  Frederick  Ave.,  Detroit;  Cor.  Secretary,  Mrs.  L.  P. 
Rowland,  369  Fountain  St.,  Grand  Rapids;  Treasurer, 
Mrs.  A.  H.  Stoneman,  341  Worden  St.,  Grand  Rapids. 

7,  KANSAS,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union,  or- 
ganized October,  1881.  President,  Mrs.  J.  E.  Ingham, 
Topeka;  Secretary,  Mrs.  Emma  E.  Johnston,  1323  W. 
loth  St.,  Topeka;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  J.  P.  Wahle,  1258 
Clay  St.,  Topeka. 

8,  OHIO,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union,  organ- 
ized May,  1SS2.  President,  Mrs.  O.  H.  Small,  196 
Commonwealth  Ave.,  Cleveland;  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer, Mrs.   G.   B.  Brown,  2116  Warren  St.,   Toledo. 

9,  NEW  YORK,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  October,  1883.  President,  Mrs.  William  Kin- 
caid,  483  Greene  Ave.,  Brooklyn;  Secretary,  Mrs.  Chas. 
H.  Dickinson,  Woodcliff-on-Hudson,  N.  J. ;  Treasurer, 
Mrs.   J.   J.   Pearsall,  153   Decatur  St.,    Brooklyn. 

10,  WISCONSIN,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  Oct.,  1883.  President,  Mrs.  T.  G.  Grassie, 
Wauwatosa;  Secretary,  Mrs.  J.  H.  Dixon,  1024  Chapin 
St.,   Beloit;  Treasurer,   Mrs.  Edward  F.  Hanson,  Beloit. 

11,  NORTH  DAKOTA,  Woman's  Home  Missionary 
Union,   organized  November,   1883.     President,   Mrs.   L. 

B.  Flanders,  Fargo;  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Mrs.  J. 
M.   Fisher.  Fargo. 

12,  OREGON,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union,  or- 
ganized, July,  1S84.  President,  Mrs.  E.  W.  Luckey, 
707  Marshall  St.,  Portland;  Cor.  Secretary,  Miss  Mercy 
Clarke,  395  Fourth  St.,  Portland;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  C. 
F.  Clapp,  Forest  Grove. 

13,  WASHINGTON,  Including  Northern  Idaho,  Wo- 
man's Home  Missionary  Union,  organized  July,  1884; 
reorganized  June,  1SS9.  President,  Mrs.  W.  C.  Wheeler, 
302  N.  J.  St.,  Tacoma:  Secretary,  Mrs.  Edward  L. 
Smith,  725  14th  Ave.;  Treasurer,  E.  B.  Burwell,  323 
Seventh  Ave.,  Seattle. 

14,  SOUTH  DAKOTA,  Woman's  Home  Missionary 
Union,  organized  September,  18S4.  President,  Mrs.  H. 
K.  Warren,  Yankton;  Secretary,  Mrs.  A.  C.  Bowdisli, 
Mitchell;  Treasurer,   Mrs.  A.  Loomis,   Redfielil. 

15,  CONNECTICUT,  Woman's  Congregational  Home 
Missionary  Union  of  Connecticut,  organized  January, 
1885.  President,  Mrs.  Washington  Choate,  Greenwich ; 
Secretary,  Mrs.  C.  T.  Millard,  36  Lewis  St.,  Hartford; 
Treasurer,  Mrs.  Chas.  S.  Thayer,  64  Gillett  St.,  Hart- 
ford. 

16,  MISSOURI,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  May,  1SS5.  President,  Mrs.  M.  T.  Runnels, 
1229  Garfield  Ave.,  Kansas  City;  Secretary.  Mrs.  C. 
W.  McDaniel,  2729  Olive  St.,  Kansas  City,  Treasurer, 
Mrs.    A.   D.    Rider,   2524   Forest  Ave.,    Kansas   City. 

17,  ILLINOIS,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union,  or- 
ganized May,  1SS5.  President,  Mrs.  B.  W.  Firman, 
1012  Iowa  St.,  Oak  Park;  Cor.  Secretary,  Mrs.  G.  H. 
Schneider,  919  Warren  Ave.,   Chicago;  Treasurer,   Mrs. 


A.   O.   Whitcomb,  463   Irving  Ave.,   Douglas  Park  Sta- 
tion,  Chicago. 

18,  IOWA,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union,  organ- 
ized June,  18S6.  President,  Mrs.  D.  P.  Breed,  Grinnell; 
Secretary  and  Treasurer,   Mrs.   H.   K.   Edson,   Grinnell. 

19,  NORTHERN  CALIFORNIA,  Woman's  Home 
Missionary  Union,  organized  June,  1SS7.  President, 
Mrs.  F.  B.  Perkins,  1689  Broadway,  Oakland;  Secre- 
tary, Mrs.  E.  S.  Williams,  Saratoga;  Treasurer,  Mrs. 
M.  J.  Haven.  1329  Harrison  St.,   Oakland. 

20,  NEBRASKA,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  November,  1887.  President,  Mrs.  J.  E.  Tut- 
tle,  1313  C  St.,  Lincoln;  Secretary,  Mrs.  H.  Bross, 
2904  Q  St.,  Lincoln;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  Charlotte  J. 
Hall,  2322  Vine  St.,  Lincoln. 

21,  FLORIDA,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union,  or- 
ganized February,  1S88.  President,  Mrs.  S.  F.  Gale, 
Jacksonville;  Secretary,  Mrs.  W.  H.  Edmondson,  Day- 
tona;   Treasurer,    Mrs.   Catherine  A.    Lewis,    Mt.    Dora. 

22,  INDIANA,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union,  or- 
ganized May,  1888.  President,  Mrs.  W.  A.  Bell,  1211 
Broadway,  Indianapolis:  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Mrs. 
Anna  D.  Davis,  1608  Bellefontaine  St.,   Indianapolis. 

23,  SOUTHERN  CALIFORNIA,  Woman's  Home 
Missionary  Union,  organized  May,  188S.  President, 
Mrs.  Kate  G.  Robertson,  Mentone;  Secretary,  Mrs.  II. 
K.  W.  Bent,  130  W.  Ave.,  Los  Angeles;  Treasurer, 
Mrs.   E.   C.   Norton,  Claremont. 

24,  VERMONT,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  June,  1888.  President,  Mrs.  Rebecca  P.  Fair- 
banks, St.  Johasbury;  Secretary,  Mrs.  Evan  Thomas, 
Essex  Junction;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  C.  H.  Thompson, 
Brattleboro. 

25,  COLORADO,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  October,  1888.  President,  Mrs.  J.  C.  Gor- 
such,  753  S.  Pearl  St.,  Denver;  Secretary,  Mrs.  F.  D. 
Baker,  3221  Franklin  St.,  Denver;  Treasurer,  Miss 
I.    M.   Strong,    P.  O.    Box   177,   Denver. 

26,  WYOMING,  Woman's  Missionary  Union,  organ- 
ized May,  1893.  President,  Mrs.  P.  F.  Powelson,  Chey- 
enne; Secretary,  Mrs.  H.  B.  Patten,  Cheyenne;  Treas- 
urer,   Mrs.  J.   W.   Morrall,   Sheridan. 

27,  GEORGIA,  Woman's  Missionary  Union,  organ- 
ized, Nov.,  1SS8;  new  organization  Oct.,  189S.  Presi- 
dent, Mrs.  L.  B.  Norris,  Marietta;  Sec'y,  Miss  Jennie 
Curtiss  Mcintosh ;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  M.  J.  Keand,  Athens. 

29,  LOUISIANA,  Woman's  Missionary  Union,  organ- 
ized April,  1889.  President,  Miss  Mary  L.  Rogers, 
2436  Canal  St.,  New  Orleans;  Secretary,  Mrs.  A.  L. 
DeMond,  128  N.  Galvez  St. ;  Treasurer,  Miss  Lena 
Babcock,    2436   Canal   St.,    New   Orleans. 

30,  ARKANSAS,  KENTUCKY  AND  TENNESSEE, 
Woman's  Missionary  Union  of  the  Tennessee  Association, 
organized  April,  1SS9.  President,  Mrs.  G.  W.  Moore, 
926  N.  Addison  Ave.,  Nashville,  Tenn. ;  Secretary,  Mrs. 
R.  J.  McCann,  Knoxville,  Tenn, ;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  J. 
C.   Napier,   514  Capitol   Ave.,    Nashville. 

31,  NORTH  CAROLINA,  Woman's  Missionary  Un- 
ion, organized  October,  18S9.  President,  Mrs.  C.  New- 
kirk,  Mooresville;  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Mrs.  H.  R. 
Faduma.   Troy. 

32,  TEXAS,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union,  or- 
ganized March,  1890.  Secretary,  Mrs.  Donald  Hinckley, 
Sanger  Ave.,  Dallas;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  A.  Geen,  Dallas. 

33,  MONTANA,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  May,  1890.  President,  Rev.  Alice  Barnes 
Hoag,  Orr;  Secretary,  Mrs.  J.  W.  Heyward,  Billings, 
Treasurer,   Mrs.   W.  S.  Bell,  611  Spruce  St.,  Helena. 

34,  PENNSYLVANIA,  Woman's  Missionary  Union, 
organized  June,  1S90.  President,  Mrs.  E.  E.  Dexter, 
742  N.  19th  St.,  Philadelphia;  Secretary,  Mrs.  Osgood, 
Germantown;   Treasurer,    Mrs.   David  Howells,   Kane. 

35,  OKLAHOMA,  Woman's  Missionary  Union,  organ- 
ized October,  1890.  President,  Mrs.  0.  W.  Rogers, 
Medford;  Secretary,  Mrs.  C.  M.  Terhune.  El  Reno; 
Treasurer,    Mrs.    Cora    Worrell,    Pond   Creek. 

36,  NEW  JERSEY,  Including  District  of  Columbia, 
Maryland  and  Virginia.  Woman's  Home  Missionary 
Union  of  the  New  Jersey  Association,  organized  March, 
1891.  President,  Mrs.  John  M.  Whiton,  Plainfield;  Sec- 
retary, Mrs.  Allen  H.  Still.  Westfield;  Treasurer,  Mrs. 
G.    A.    L.    Merrifield,    Falls   Church,    Va. 

37,  UTAH,  Woman's  Missionary  Union,  organized 
May,  1891.  President,  Mrs.  C.  T.  Hemphill,  Salt  Lake 
City,  Utah;  Secretary,  Mrs.  L.  E.  Hall,  Salt  Lake 
City,  Utah;  Treasurer,  Miss  Anna  Baker,  Salt  Lake 
City,   Utah. 

41,  IDAHO,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union,  or- 
ganized 1895.  President,  Mrs.  R.  B.  Wright,  Boise; 
Secretary,  Mrs.  C.  E.  Mason.  Mountain  Home,  Treas- 
urer,  Mrs.    G.   W.  Derr,    Pocatello,    Idaho. 


Congregational   Home   Missionary  Society 

FOURTH  AVENUE  AND  TWENTY-SECOND  STREET,  NEW  YORK,  N.  Y. 

CHARLES   S.    MILLS,   D.D.,    President 

H.    CLARK    FORD,    Vice-President 
WASHINGTON   CHOATB,   D.D.,  JOSEPH    B.    CLARK,    D.D. 

Acting  General  Secretary  Editorial  Secretary 

DON   0.  SHELTON,   Associate  Secretary 
WILLIAM    B.     HOWLAND,    Treasurer 

DIRECTORS 

CHARLES  S.   MILLS,  D.D.,  Chairman Missouri         GEORGE   R.   LEAVITT,    D.D Wisconsin 

REV.    RAYMOND    CALKINS Maine         REV.    B ASTIAN   SMITS Michigan 

GEORGE   E.   HALL,   D.D New   Hampshire         MR.  EDWARD  TUCKER Kansas 

HENRY   FAIRBANKS,    Ph.D Vermont         JOHN   E.    TUTTLE,    D.D Nebraska 

S.   H.    WOODROW.    D.D Massachusetts         FRANK  T.   BAYLEY,   D.D Colorado 

MR.  JOHN   F.   HUNTSMAN Rhode  Island         MR.   ROBERT  D.   BENEDICT New  York 

REV.   H.   H.   KELSEY Connecticut         L.   H.   HALLOCK,   D.D Minnesota 

S.   PARKES  CADMAN,   D.D New  York         H.    C.    HERRING,    D.D Nebraska 

MR.    W.    W.    MILLS Ohio         E.   L.   SMITH,   D.D Washington 

W.  E.   BARTON,  D.D Illinois         REV.    LIVINGSTON   L.   TAYLOR New  York 

E.  M.  VITTUM,  D.D Iowa 

EXECUTIVE    COMMITTEE 

WASHINGTON   CHOATE,    D.D.,    Acting   Chairman 

One  Year  Two  Years 

S.   PARKES   CADMAN,    D.D.  MR.  JAMES  G.   CANNON 

HARRY   P.   DEWEY,   D.D.  MR.  W.    WINANS    FREEMAN 

MR.  JOHN   F.   HUNTSMAN  REV.   HENRY    H.    KELSEY 

MR.   CHARLES  C.   WEST  REV.   LIVINGSTON   L.   TAYLOR 


Field  Secretary,    REV.   W.    G.    PUDDEFOOT,   South   Framingham,    Mass. 
Field    Assistant,    MISS    M.    DEAN    MOFFAT 


SUPERINTENDENTS 
Moritz    E.    Eversz,    D.D.,    German    Department,    153    La    Salle    St.,    Chicago,    111. 
Rev.   S.   V.  S.   Fisher,   Scandinavian  Department,   Minneapolis,   Minn. 
Rev.    Chas.    H.    Small,    Slavic    Department,    Cleveland,    Ohio. 

j Indianapolis,     Ind.         Rev.  H.  Sanderson Denver,   Colo. 

Geo.    R.    Merrill,   D.D Minneapolis,   Minn.         J.    D.   Kingsbury,   D.D (New   Mexico,    Arizona, 

Alfred   K.    Wray,    D.D Carthage,    Mo.  Utah   and  Idaho),    Salt   Lake  City. 

Rev.  W.  W.    Scudder,   Jr West  Seattle,   Wash.         Rev.  C.   F.   Clapp Forest   Grove,   Ore. 

Rev.  W.  B.   D.   Gray Cheyenne,  Wyo.         Rev.  Chas.  A.  Jones,   75  Essex  St.,   Hackensack,   N.  J. 

Frank   E.   Jenkins,   D.D.,   The  South Atlanta,  Ga.         Rev.  W.    S.    Bell Helena,    Mont. 

W.   H.   Thrall,   D.D Huron,   S.   Dak Kingfisher,   Okla. 

Rev.  G.  J.   Powell Fargo,   N.   Dak.         Geo.  L.  Todd,  D.D Havana,  Cuba. 

SECRETARIES  AND  TREASUF.ERS  OF  CONSTITUENT  STATES 

Rev.   Charles   Harbutt,   Secretary  .Maine  Missionary   Society ' 34  Dow  St.,  Portland,  Me. 

W.    P.    Hubbard,    Treasurer "  "  "       Box    1052,    Bangor,    Me. 

Rev.   A.  T.  Hillman,  Secretary. ..  New  Hampshire  Home  Missionary  Society Concord,    N.    H. 

Alvin  B.  Cross,  Treasurer "  "  "  "  "       Concord,    N.    H. 

Chas.  H.  Merrill,  D.D. ,  Secretary.  Vermont  Domestic   "  "  "       St.    Johnsbury,    Vt. 

J.  T.   Richie,   Treasurer "  "         "  "  "       St.    Johnsbury,    Vt. 

F.    E.    Emrich,    D.D.,    Secretary ..  Massachusetts  Home  "  "       609  Cong'l  House, 

Rev.  Joshua  Colt,   Treasurer "  "  "       Boston,  Mass. 

Rev.  J.   H.   Lyon,   Secretary Rhode  Island        "  "  "       Central  Falls,   R.   I. 

Jos.   Wm.    Rice,    Treasurer "  "  "  "  "       Providence,    R.    I. 

Rev.  Joel  S.   Ives,    Secretary Missionary  Society  of  Connecticut. Hartford,    Conn. 

Ward  W.  Jacobs,  Treasurer "  "  Hartford,    Conn. 

Rev.  C.  W.  Shelton,   Secretary.  ..  New  York    Home   Missionary    Society,    Fourth    Ave.    and  22d  St.,   New  York 

Fourth    Ave.    and  22d  St.,  New  York 
"       Cleveland,     Ohio 


.  .  .Cleveland,     Ohio 

.153   La   Salle   St., 

Chicago 

Beloit,  Wis. 

.Whitewater,  Wis. 
. . .  .Grinnell,  Iowa 
.  Des  Moines,  Iowa 
.Lansing,  Mich. 
.Lansing,    Mich. 


Clayton  S.  Fitch,  Treasurer. 
Rev.  Charles  H.  Small,  Secretary.  Ohio 
Rev.  Charles  H.  Small,  Treasurer.       " 
Rev.   Roy  B.   Guild,  Secretary.  ...  Illinois 

John   W.    Iliff,    Treasurer 

Homer  W.  Carter,  D.D.,  Secretary  Wisconsin 

C.  M.  Blackman,  Treasurer " 

T. ,  O.   Douglass,   D.D.,    Secretary.  Iowa 
Miss   A.    D.    Merrill,    Treasurer...      " 
Rev.  J.  W.  Sutherland,  Secretary.  Michigan 
Rev.  John  P.  Sanderson,  Treasurer  " 

Rev.  Henry  E.  Thayer,  Secretary.  Kansas  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society Topeka,    Kan. 

H.    C.    Bowman,    Treasurer "  "  "  "  "       Topeka,    Kan. 

Rev.   S.   I.   Hanford,    Secretary. . .  Nebraska   Home    Missionary   Society , 

OTHER  STATE  HOME  MISSIONARY  SOCIETIES 

Rev.   J.   K.   Harrison,    Secretary. .  North    California   Home   Missionary   Society San    Francisco,    Cal. 

R*T.  John  L.   Maile,   Secretary. .  .South  "  "  "  "       Los   Angeles,    Cal. 

CITY   MISSION   AUXILIARIES 

B«t.    Philip   W.    Yarrow Congregational  City  Missionary  Society St.    Louis,    Mo. 

Lewis  E.    Snow,   Superintendent..  "  "  "  " St.   Louis,   Mo. 


LEGACIES — The  following  form  may  be  used  in  making  legacies: 

I  bequeath  to  my  executors  the  sum  of  dollars,   in  trust,   to  pay  over  the  same  in 

months  after  my  decease,   to  any  person  who,   when  the  same  is  payable,   shall  act  as 

Treasurer  of  the  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society,   formed  in  the  City  of  New  York,   in  the 

year   eighteen   hundred   and   twenty-six,    to   be    applied  rto   the    charitable   use   and   purposes  of   said 

Society,  and  under  its  direction. 

HONORARY  LIFE  MEMBERS — The  payment  of  Fifty  Dollars  at  one  time  constitutes  an 
Honorary  Life  Member. 


AMATTER  OF  HEALTH 


*AKfR<? 


Absolutely  Pure 

HAS  MO  SUBSTITUTE 


MENNEN'S 

B    ORATED      TALCUM 

TOILET  POWDER 


-^--- ***mm 

Any  Child 

who  has  enjoyed  the  benefit  of 
Mennen's  Bornted  Talcum  Toi- 
let Powder  daily  since  birth  Is 
free  from  the  painful  chapping 
and  chafing  which  conies  with, 
winter  weather. 

Mennen's 

soothes  and  heals, and  if  used  dal- 
ly, enables  the  most  tender  skin  to 
resist  the  ill  effects  of  changing 
conditions  of  weather. 

Put  up  in  non-refill  able  boxes, 
for  your  protection.  If  Mennen's 
face  is  on  the  cover,  It's  genuine, 
that's  a  guarantee  of  purity. 
Delightful  after  shaving.  Sold 
everywhere,  or  by  mail  25  cents. 
Sample  Free. 

Gerhard  Mennen  Co.,  Newark,  N.  J. 

Try  Mennen'sViolet(  15orated) 
Talcum  Powder.  It  has  the 
scent  of  fresh  cut  Violets. 


■HBhMHK 


Hxn< 


THE,     MM 

Wfwmi  YEAR  R0UND\ 
f#  NOEOUALS  FOUND-  N 
/  FOR  DIRTS  MOST  DEADLY  FOE 
|\  YOUASKMEWHY?  > 
I  \  I  ANSWER*  / 
TRY 


50  Cents^  a  Year 


THE  HOME 
MISSIONARY 


Entered    at    the  "Post-Office,    at    New    York,    N.    Y.,    as    second-class    [mail]    matter 


THE     HOME       MISSIONARY      ADVERTISER 


S= 


WING  PIANOS 

Are  Sold  Direct  From  the  Factory,  and  in  No  Other  Way 

You  Save  from$75to$200 


When  you  buy  a  Wing  Piano,  you  buy  at  wholesale. 
You  pay  the  actual  cost  of  making  it  with  only  our  whole- 
sale profit  added.  When  you  buy  a  piano,  as  many  still  do — 
at  retail — you  pay  the  retail  dealer's  store  rent  and  other 
expenses.  You  pay  his  profit  and  the  commission  or  salary 
of  the  agents  or  salesmen  he  employs— all  these  on  top  of 
what  the  dealer  himself  has  to  pay  co  the  manufacturer.  The 
retail  profit  on  a  piano  is  fi»m  $75  to  $200.  Isn't  this  worth 
saving? 


SENT  ON  TRIAL 

WE    PAY    FREIGHT 
No  Money  in  Advance 


Anywhere 


We  will  place  a  Wing  Piano  in  any  home  in  the  United 
Stales  on  trial,  without  asking  for  any  advance  payment  or 
deposit.  We  pay  trie  freight  and  all  other  charges  in  advance. 
There  is  nothing  to  be  paid  either  before  the  piano  is  sent  or 
when  it  is  received.  If  the  piano  is  not  satisfactory  after  20 
days'  trial  in  your  home,  we  take  it  back  entirely  at  our  ex- 
pense. You  pay  us  nothing,  and  are  under  no  more  obliga- 
tion to  keep  the  piano  than  if  you  were  examining  it  at  our 
factory.  There  can  be  absolutely  no  risk  or  expense  to  you. 
Do  not  imagine  that  it  is  impossible  foi  us  to  do  as  we 
say.  Our  system  is  so  perfect  that  we  can  without  any 
trouble  deliver  a  piano  in  the  smallest  town  in  any  part  of 
the  United  States  just  as  easily  as  we  can  in  New  York  City, 
and  with  absolutely  no  trouble  or  annoyance  to  you,  and 
without  anything  being  paid  in  advance  or  on  arrival  either 
for  freight  or  any  other  expense.  We  take  old  pianos  and 
organs  in  exchange. 

A  guarantee  for  12  years  against  any  defect  in  tone,  action, 
workmanship  or  material  is  given  with  every  Wing  Piano. 


Small,  Easy 
MONTHLY 


Payments 


In   37  years   over  40,000   Wing  Pianos 

have  been  manufactured  and  sold.  They  are  recom- 
mended by  seven  governors  of  States,  by  musieal  colleges 
aud  schools,  by  prominent  orchestra  leaders,  music  teach- 
ers and  musicians.  Thousands  of  these  pianos  are  in 
your  own  State,  some  of  them  undoubtedly  in  your  very 
neighborhood.  Our  catalogue  contains  names  and  ad- 
dresses. 

Mandolin,  Guitar, Harp,  Zither.  Banjo— 

The  tones  of  any  or  all  of  these  instruments  may  be  re- 
produced perfectly  by  any  ordinary  player  on  the  piano  by 
means  of  our  Instrumental  Attachment.  This  improve- 
ment is  patented  by  us  and  cannot  be  had  in  any  other 
piano.  WING  ORGANS  are  made  with  the  same  care 
and  sold  in  the  same  way  as  Wing  Piauos.  Separate  or- 
gan catalogue  sent  on  request. 


\  YOU  NEED  THIS  BOOK 


The  Book 

oi. Compete 
. .  intortwripn  * 
abeut 

Pianos^ 


_:J 


II  You  Intend  to  Buy  a  Piano— No  Matter  What  Make 

A  book — not  a  catalogue — that  gives  you  all  the  information  possessed  by 
experts.    It  tells  about  the  different  materials  usod  in  the  different  parts 
of  a  piano ;  the  way  the  different  parts  are  put  together ,  what  causes  pianos 
to  get  out  of  order  and  in  fact  is  a  complete  encyclopedia.    It  makes  the 
selection  of  a  piano  easy.    If  read  carefully,  it  will  make  you  a  judge  of 
tone,  action,  workmanship  and  finish.   It  tells  you  how  to  test  a  piano 
and  how  to  tell  good  from  bad.    It  is  absolutely  the  only  book  of 
its  kind  ever  published.    It  contains   166  large  pages  and  hun- 
dreds of  illustrations,   all  devoted  to  piano  construction.    Its 
name  is  "The  Book  of  Complete  Information  About  Pianos." 
We  send  it  free  to  anyone  wishing  to  buy  a  piano.    All  you 
have  to  do  is  to  send  us  your  name  and  address. 


WING 
&S0N 


Send  a  Postal  To-day  while  yon  think  of 
it,  just  giving  your  name  and  address  or  send 
the  attached  coupon  and  the  valuable  book  of  in 
formation,  also  full  particulars  about  the  WING 
PIANO,  with  prices,  terms  of  payment,  etc.,       /^js'JJ 
will  be  sent  to  you  promptly  by  mail.  /SsF&t 


WING  &  SON 

351-383  West  13th  Street,  New  York 

1868 37th  YEAR 1905 


4* 

*%W  351-382  W.I3th 
Pi$/y  St..  New  York 

Send  to  the  name  and 
address  written  below, 
the  Book  of  Complete  In- 
formation  about  Piano*,  also 
prices  and  terms  of  payment 
on  Wing  Pianos. 


When  writing  to  advertisers  please  mention  The  Home  Missionary 


PniSJTFNTT^ 

VjU1>    1    L1M    1   O 

Jk             For  JANUARY,   1907.              ± 

IMMIGRATION-WHAT  IT  MEANS.     Illustrated 

267 

THE  BOON  OF  IMMIGRATION.     Illustrated 

Newell  Dwight  Hillis 

....  274 

EDITOR'S   OUTLOOK 

282 

THE  ISLAND  OF  DISENCHANTMENT     Illustrated 

Mary  Kay  Hyde 

284 

OUR  COUNTRY'S  YOUNG  PEOPLE 

Dr.  Kingsbury's  Message 

A  Missionary  Processional  Hymn     Rev.  C.  A.  Jones 

287 
289 
292 

RECENT  WRITERS  ON  IMMIGRATION... 

293 

WOMEN'S  WORK  AND  METHODS 

The  Evangelization  of  the  Immigrant     Illustrated 

Mary  Wooster  Mills 

296 

APPOINTMENTS  AND  RECEIPTS 

302 

PER    YEAR,     FIFTY    CENTS 

THE    HOME    MISSIONARY 

Published  Monthly,  except  in  July  and  August,  by  the 
Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society 

287     FOURTH     AVENUE,               NEW    YORK 

CITY 

ROBERT  WATCHORN,  COMMISSIONER  OF  IMMIGRATION. 
NEW  YORK  CITY 


THE 

HOME    MISSIONARY 


VOL.  LXXX 


JANUARY,  1907 


NO.  8 


Immigration— What  It  Means 

By  Commissioner  Robert  Watctiorn 


IF  YOU  have  ever  noticed  after  a 
rain  storm  an  accumulation  of 
water  in  the  ditches,  you  have 
seen  that  the  water  which  is  backed 
up,  when  released  carries  with  it  all 
the  debris  within  reach  and  hurries  it 
along  to  the  place  where  it  finds  an 
outlet;  and  as  this  great  stream  of 
immigration  has  increased  from  year 
to  year  it  has  necessarily  brought  with 
it  some  debris  which  seriously  affects 
the  problem.  The  stream  can  never 
be  too  large  if  it  is  all  good;  but,  as 
I  have  said,  it  has  become  so  volumi- 
nous that  it  has  picked  up  a  lot  of 
debris,  and  that  is  why  a  great  many 
people  are  agitating  this  question  who 
never  before  gave  it  any  consideration. 

A   certain   Lord   B visited   Ellis 

Island  not  long  ago,  and  as  we  stood 
watching  the  streams  of  humanity 
pressing  toward  the  railways  that  go 
to  the  far  west,  (and  you  know  about 
seventy-five  per  cent,  of  the  immi- 
grants do  go  west,  notwithstanding 
the  cry  that  they  all  settle  in  the 
cities),  suddenly  asked: 

"Where  are  all  these  fellows  going? 
Where  are  they  all  going?"  I  said: 
"I  will  stop  them  and  find  out."  So 
I  halted  the  stream  and  said:  "Let 
me  see  your  ticket.  Montana,  pass 
on ;  Idaho,  pass  on ;"  and  so  on,  many 
states  being  represented  in  destina- 
tions shown. 


"Bless  me,"  he  said,  "what  fine  fel- 
lows they  are — what  splendid  fellows ! 
Where  are  they  from?"  "Well,"  I 
replied,  "those  in  the  last  batch  are 
from  Huntington,  England,  and  some 
are  from  Essex,  and  Sussex,  and  they 
are  all  going  out  west  where  they  ex- 
pect to  own  farms  of  their  own  in- 
stead of  having  to  pay  rent  to  some 
landlord."  He  looked  astonished,  and 
then  said :  "That's  a  great  loss  to  any 
country — a  great  loss."  After  a 
pause  I  said:  "I  should  like  to  show 
you  the  reverse  side  of  this  picture  if 
you  will  allow  me.  There  is  another 
batch  about  to  leave;  I  should  like 
you  to  see  them  and  tell  me  what  you 
think  of  them."  I  gave  the  signal  for 
the  deporting  officer  in  charge  to  bring 
them  along,  and  he  marched  about  one 
hundred  and  twenty  of  them  in  front 
of  us.  Now,  I  do  not  think  that  any- 
one in  good  conscience  could  have 
called  them  a  fine  looking  lot.  They 
had  gone  through  the  winnowing 
machine  at  Ellis  Island  and  had  been 
found  wanting.  So  these  one  hund- 
red and  twenty,  halt  and  maimed  and 
blind  and  unfit  in  various  ways,  came 
along  and  his  lordship  turned  up  his 
nose  and  said:  "What  a  sorry  lot  of 
people — what  a  sorry  lot !  Where  are 
they  going?"  I  said,  "They  are  go- 
ing to  England."  "But  why,  why  to 
England?      They    are    not    English." 


From  stereograph,  copyright  1904,  by  Underwood  &  Underwood,  N.  Y. 


FAREWELL    TO    THE    FATHERLAND 


"No,"  I  said,  "they  are  not  English, 
but  your  country  allowed  them  to 
ccme  into  England  and  acquire  a 
temporary  residence  there,  and  our 
law  requires  us  to  send  them  back 
(when  they  are  not  the  right  sort)  to 
the  country  whence  they  came.  They 
came  to  us  from  England;  back  to 
England  they  must  go." 

"Aha!"  he  said,  "I  see;  I  see."  I 
then  said:  "I  think  your  country 
looks  at  this  matter  from  a  wrong 
point  of  view."  "Why  so?"  "Be- 
cause as  you  saw — that  sturdy  lot  of 
people  going  west  to  Idaho,  Montana, 
etc. ;  they  came  from  England ;  you 
have  seen  the  last  lot  who  are  being 
deported  to  England;  you  have  taken 
these  last  in  exchange  for  the  first, 
and  the  exchange  is  not  a  good  one. 
Now,  why  is  it  not  possible  for  you  to 


co-operate  with  the  United  States  in 
reserving  England  for  those  who  can 
and  will  work?"  And  I  tell  you,  my 
friends,  that  it  is  humane  to  legislate 
and  to  enforce  law  so  as  to  discourage, 
if  not  to  forbid,  the  emigration  of  the 
unfit  and  undesirable.  It  is  wise 
legislation  which  says  to  a  man  before 
he  leaves  home:  "In  order  to  get  in- 
to the  land  that  is  flowing  with  milk 
and  honey,  you  must  be  able  to  render 
seme  service.  You  cannot  go  over 
there  and  loaf.  What  they  want  to- 
day in  the  United  States  is  laborers — 
men  and  women  who  will  work."  As 
the  President  of  the  United  States 
has  said  in  his  magnificent  epigram, 
which  it  seems  to  me  might  almost  be 
called  the  substance  of  the  immigra- 
tion problem :  "We  cannot  have  too 
many   good   immigrants,  and  we   do 


not  want  any  bad 
ones." 

There  have. been 
many  propositions 
as  to  how  to  settle 
this  question, 
whom  to  admit 
and  whom  to  ex- 
clude, and  Congre- 
gationalists  will 
doubtless  have  a 
great  deal  to  say 
finally  in  the  mat- 
ter. The  agitators 
always  have  their 
day ;  they  make 
impossible  propositions;  and  then 
sensible  people  come  to  the  rescue  and 
settle  the  thing;  and  just  so  this 
question  will  finally  be  settled.  Now, 
I  do  not  think  any  of  us  should  be 
carried  away  by  the  unintelligent  talk 
that  has  filled  the  air  for  some  time 
past  by  people  who  would  close  the 
door  absolutely  and  allow  no  more  to 
enter.  There  have  been  those  who 
favored  a  law  that  should  discriminate 
against  the  illiterate,  but  I  am  almost 
tempted  to  say  that  in  the  interest  of 
the  United  States,  certainly  in  the  in- 
terest of  those  who  have  her  indus- 
trial   and   commercial   supremacy    at 


heart,  the  reverse  program  would  be 
the  better  one ;  namely,  to  close  the 
door  against  those  who  are  educated 
and  let  in  those  who  are  not,  for  the 
simple  reason  that  we  are  educating 
our  own  people,  and  the  educated  ones 
that  come  here  from  Europe  come  to 
compete  with  our  own  educated  peo- 
ple. What  we  want  are  those  who 
will  take  hold  of  the  pick  and  shovel. 
A  graduate  of  Yale,  Harvard,  of  a 
high  school,  or  commercial  college, 
has  not  time  for  the  pick  and  shovel — 
he  would  have  served  his  school  time 
to     little     purpose  if  he  had. 

Not     long     ago  on  West  Street  in 
front    of    one     of 
those      remarkable 
institutions   known 
as    a    ship's    chan- 
dlery,   there    hung 
an    old-time    mud 
anchor,  such  as  lit- 
tle sloops  used  to 
use  to  anchor,  an  T 
one  day  an   Irish- 
man     in      passing 
stopped  to  examine 
it.    He  looked  at  it 
so  long  and  intently 
that  at  last  the  own- 
er    of     the     store 


Photographs,  Underwood  &  Underwood,  N.  Y. 
LIFE    IN   THE   STEERAGE 


2J0 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


thought  there  must  be  something 
wrong  with  the  man  and  he  called  a 
policeman  who  ordered  him  to  move 
on.  "Sure,  and  I'm  doin'  nobody  no 
harm,"  he  said.  "What  are  you  do- 
ing here  so  long?  he  was  asked.  "I 
was  just  awatchin'  to  see  the  man  who 
would  use  that  pick;  I  thought  I  was 
the  king  of  the  pick  and  shovel  gang, 
but  I  see  I'm  not  in  it."  Now,  what 
this  country  really  and  truly  needs 
are  those  who  will  use  the  pick,  not 
as  big  a  pick  as  a  mud  anchor,  but 
just  a  pick  that  will  do  the  work. 
There  is  probably  no  question  asked 
as  often  as  this  one: 

"Where  do  they  all  go?  What  do 
they  all  find  to  do?"  Of  course  those 
who  ask  this  have  given  no  thought 
to  the  question  of  political  economy; 
If  they  had  they  would  know  that  the 
more  people  come  the  more  there  is 
to  do  for  those  who  are  here.  Work 
begets  work;  people  occasion  work 
and  make  markets,  and  so  long  as  they 
come  in  robust,  healthy  fashion,  there 
cannot  be  too  many,  and  they  will  all 
help  to  augment  the  supremacy  of  the 
United  States  as  a  commercial  entity 
and  power.  It  is  not  twenty-five  years 
since  political  economists  of  the 
United  States  with  pride  compared 
the  commerce  of  this  great  nation  with 
the  commerce  of  Germany;  twenty 
years  ago  they  began  to  compare  it 
with  the  combined  commerce  of 
Germany  and  France ;  and  fifteen 
years  ago  they  even  had  the  audacity 
to  compare  it  with  that  of  Great 
Britain;  and  twenty-five  years  hence 
they  will  reckon  it  with  the  combined 
commerce  of  the  countries  of  Europe. 
Do  you  suppose  for  a  moment  that 
the  Almighty  who  created  such 
miracles  as  the  Grand  Canyon  of  the 
Colorado,  the  magnificent  Yellowstone 
Park,  and  hundreds  of  other  more  or 
less  equally .  magnificent  things,  will 
stop  at  that?  No,  He  is  going  to  per- 
form a  miracle  with  the  human  race, 
and  do  it  right  here  where  a  man  is 
free  and  independent  and  where  each  • 
can  work  out  his  or  her  own  destiny ; 
and  he  who  would  have  us  close  the 


door  against  anyone,  man  or  woman, 
who  would  contribute  to  the  consum- 
mation of  that  great  end  is  not  wise 
and  is  not  patriotic.  And  he  who 
would  open  the  door  and  let  in  any- 
one who  would  tend  to  retard  that 
consummation  is  equally  unwise  and 
unpatriotic. 

Many  delegations  come  to  Ellis  Is- 
land, and  they  are  always  interesting 
and  no  doubt  interested.  Last  Sat- 
urday one  of  forty-five  boys  from 
Brooklyn  came — boys  ranging  from 
twelve  to  fifteen  years  of  age.  They 
came  into  my  office  and  asked  me  to 
make  them  an  address.  I  said  "All 
right,  boys ;  I  am  very  busy,  but  never 
mind,  come  right  in."  Then  I  said, 
"now  boys,  what  part  of  this  building 
would  you  like  me  to  show  you  first?" 
One  little  fellow  at  once  rose  from 
his  seat,  stepped  right  out  in  front 
and  said  "The  restaurant!"  Now  do 
you  know  why  these  immigrants  flock 
to  us  in  ever  increasing  numbers. 
They  are  looking  for  the  American 
restaurant.  That  is  the  truth;  and 
they  come  because  those  who  have 
come  before  them  have  written  home 
and  have  told  them  how  good  the 
steak  is,  how  well  it  is  cooked;  that 
when  pay-day  comes  there  is  always 
enough  money  to  buy  for  themselves 
and  the  children- — an  experience  they 
never  had  before.  They  come  here  in 
response  to  those  missives  of  love  that 
are  written  in  the  hours  of  enthusiasm 
born  of  the  first  possession  of  a  dol- 
lar. That  is  what  brings  them;  and 
so  long  as  the  prosperity  of  this  land 
continues  these  missives  of  love  and 
encouragement  will  cross  the  ocean 
and  immigrants  will  come  in  response 
to  them,  all  finally  to  be  moulded  into 
the  likeness  of  good  Americans.  That 
is  why  I  do  not  believe  in  this  propo- 
sition to  shut  out  people  solely  because 
they  cannot  read  and  write,  and  even 
those  who  do  advocate  it  do  so  be- 
cause the  mass  of  illiterate  people  may 
cast  illiterate  ballots.  But  for  that  a 
remedy  has  already  been  provided. 

A  new  naturalization  law  went  into 
effect  the  twenty-seventh  day  of  Sep- 


From  stereographs,  copyright,  1905,  by  Underwood  &  Underwood 


ENTERING  THE  LAND  OF  PROMISE 


tember,  1906 — it  is  scarcely  a  month 
old — and  as  soon  as  it  became  opera- 
tive the  danger  of  an  illiterate  electo- 
rate was  averted.  No  person  entering 
the  United  States  after  the  twenty- 
seventh  day  of  September,  1906,  may 
become  naturalized  until  he  has  re- 
sided in  the  United  States  for  five 
consecutive  years.  If  he  leaves  be- 
fore the  five  years  have  elapsed  he 
cancels  all  his  time  and  must  begin 
anew  on  his  return.  And  further,  at 
the  end  of  five  years'  consecutive 
residence  he  cannot  be  naturalized  un- 
less he  is  able  to  go  into  open  court 
and  ask  the  court  in  the  English  lan- 
guage to  naturalize  him,  and  even 
then  he  cannot  be  naturalized  unless 
he  is  able  to  sign  his  own  application 
in  the  presence  of  the  court,  and 
furnish  a  certificate  of  landing  issued 
by  the  Federal  Bureau  of  Immigration 


and  Naturalization.  So  that  does  away 
once  and  for  all  with  the  dread  of  an 
illiterate  electorate.  Now,  it  may  be 
your  duty  sometime  to  speak  to  your 
Congressman  about  this  question — 
and  I  know  Congressmen  always 
listen  to  Congregationalists — and  it  is 
important  that  you  should  be  able  to 
speak  intelligently.  Those  who  op- 
pose the  present  immigration  policy 
always  contend  that  it  is  a  crime  to 
let  a  man  break  up  his  home  way  off 
in  the  Balkan  mountains  somewhere, 
spend  his  little  all  to  come  over  here, 
and  then  send  him  back  hopeless  and 
penniless.  Now  the  truth  is,  the  sum 
total  of  those  deported  is  comparative- 
ly small — not  more  than  three-quar- 
ters of  one  per  cent — and  it  will  test 
the  wit  of  man  to  devise  a  plan  that 
Will  prevent  the  hardships  incident  to 
these  deportations  or  to  avoid  their 


2J2 


THE   HOME   MISSIONARY 


necessity  without  doing — in  a  measure 
— violence  to  the  sacred  principle  of 
the  right  of  expatriation. 

In  1903  the  first  fine  was  imposed 
on  steamship  lines  for  bringing  peo- 
ple to  the  United  States  afflicted  with 
a  loathsome,  contagious  disease.   Prior 
to  that  time  all  the  hospital  space  on 
Ellis    Island,    and    all    the    space    we 
could  hire  in  Brooklyn  and  Hoboken 
was  taken  up  with  those  thus  afflicted ; 
but  now  when  the  steamship  lines  must 
pay  a  fine  of  one  hundred  dollars  for 
each  person  thus  afflicted,  the  number 
has     fallen     off     quite     considerably. 
They  say  "If  we  get  only  forty  dollars 
for  a  ticket,  and  have  to  pay  a  fine  of 
one    hundred    dollars   to   the    United 
States   Government   for   each   person 
not  up  to  the  mark  in  this  way,  and 
then    have    to    take    them    back    for 
nothing,  where  do  we  profit?     We'll 
leave  them  at  home."    So  if  it  is  wise 
legislation   to   impose    a   fine    of    one 
hundred  dollars  on  account  of  those 
afflicted  with  painful  and  contagious 
diseases  that  are  a  menace  to  all  who 
might  associate  with  them,  would  it 
not  be  equally  sound  legislation  to  im- 
pose   on    steamship    lines    a    fine    for 
bringing  to  our  shores  the  insane,  the 
weak  and  feeble-minded,  or  those  af- 
flicted in  any  way  unfitting  them  for 
self-support?    Obviously  it  would  be. 
In  fact  it  seems  so  patent,  so  plain,  so 
obvious,  that  it  is  not  susceptible  of 
argument. 

I  hope  when  Congress  meets  that 
this  sort  of  legislation  will  receive 
favorable  consideration,  and  that 
those  who  are  to  frame  the  bills  re- 
lating to  immigration  will  take  this 
view  of  the  matter  rather  than  the 
absurd  and  ridiculous  view  that 
tends  to  shut  out  everybody  on  numer- 
ical  ground   only. 

An  Irishwoman  and  her  two  boys, 
aged  respectively  ten  and  twelve, 
came  into  my  office  to-day  to  pro- 
test against  what  she  called  the  unjust 
and  unwarranted  decision  of  the  In- 
spectors to  send  her  back  to  Ireland. 
"Why,"  she  said,  "my  husband  is  in 
Erie,  Pa. ;  he  has  sent  for  me  and  the 


two  boys.     We  have  closed  out  every- 
thing at  home.     The  idea  of  sending 
us  back  to  Ireland  is  all  wrong;  it  is  to 
Erie  we  want  to  go."     I  investigated 
the    record    and    found    that   the    ten 
year  old  boy  had  been  pronounced  by 
the  examining  physician  to  be  feeble- 
minded.   Now  I  contend  that  a  feeble- 
minded person  should  never  be  admit- 
ted.    It  would  be  bad  to  have  to  take 
care  of  him;  but  that  is  not  all,  for 
in  the  course  of  time  he  might  become 
the    father    of    some    American-born 
feeble-minded     children.       I     agreed 
with  the  Inspectors  who  had  rendered 
the  decision,  and  insisted  on  their  go- 
ing back,  notwithstanding  that  the  fa- 
ther was  in  Erie.     I  went  up  to  the 
feeble-minded  boy,  placed  my  hand  on 
his  head  and  asked  him  his  age;  he 
did  not  seem  to  know  he  had  any  age. 
I    then    said,    "Can    you    read'    and 
write?"     And  what  do  you  think  his 
mother  said — "He  cannot,  Sir,  but  the 
boy  behind  him  can  read  and  write  for 
both  of  'em."    Fortunately  we  are  not 
permitted  to  allow  one  immigrant  to 
answer  for  another.     Under  the  im- 
migration  law  every  alien  must  an- 
swer for  himself  and  not  for  another. 
In  the  latter  part  of  August  I  visit- 
ed Fiume,  Hungary,  and  boarded  one 
of  those  huge  passenger  carrying  ves- 
sels   while  it    was    taking    on    board 
some    2300    Hungarians    destined   to 
New  York — strong,  sturdy,  vigorous 
young    men    and    equally    vigorous 
women — the  latter  for  the  most  part 
destined  to  join  their  husbands  in  the 
United  States,  a  great  number  of  them 
being  accompanied  by  their  children. 
Just  before  the  steamer  left  the  pier 
on  her  westward  voyage  the  Governor 
of    Fiume — Count    Narko — came    on 
board.      He    is    a   well-known    Hun- 
garian statesman  and  very  accomplish- 
ed gentleman:  a  man  cultured  by  ed- 
ucation and  broadened  by  travel,  and 
fully  competent  to  consider  the  emi- 
gration problem  of  Hungary  in  an  in- 
telligent  manner.      After   conversing 
with  him  for  some  time  on  general 
topics  I  said,  as  we  looked  out  on  the 
great  mass  of  immigrants  on  board: 


IMMIGRANTS  ARRIVING  AT  ELLIS  ISLAND 


"You  are  letting  us  have  a  fine  lot  on 
this  boat,  Count."  He  instantly  re- 
plied: "I  do  not  want  to  discuss  it. 
The  thought  of  the  subject  always 
distresses  me.  The  loss  to  Hungary 
is  so  pronounced,  so  incalculable,  that 
I  always  turn  away  from  the  sight  of 
my  countrymen  and  countrywomen 
leaving  our  shores.  Hungary  is  suf- 
fering a  serious  drain.  I  wish  you 
Americans  did  not  pay  such  high 
wages.  It  is  useless  for  us  to  attempt 
to  restrain  them,  considering  the  at- 
tractions which  your  country  offers 
them."  To  which  I  replied:  "I  do 
not  think  the  thoughtful  people  of 
America  will  ever  regret  the  coming 
to  America  of  such  people  as  these ; 
and  perhaps  some  day,  in  the  provi- 


dence of  God,  they  will  come  back  to 
you  either  in  person  or  in  spirit  and 
influence,  and  who  shall  say  that  they 
may  not  revolutionize  Hungary  eco- 
nomically and  bring  about  an  indus- 
trial situation  here  more  approximate 
to  that  which  now  prevails  in  the 
United  States?" 

And,  my  dear  friends,  it  is  this 
thought  I  would  leave  with  you  by 
way  of  conclusion :  That  it  is  from 
this  land  and  from  her  institutions 
that  there  will  go  out  a  great  light 
that  will  ultimately  brighten  the 
whole  earth,  not  only  industrially  and 
commercially,  but  spiritually.  The 
United  States  is  the  world's  exampler, 
and  by  it  the  world  must  ultimately 
be  led  to  a  higher  plane  of  existence. 


The  Boon  of  Immigration 


By  Newell  Dwight  Hillis 


FOR  city  and  country  alike  the 
present  year  has  been  most  pro- 
pitious. Other  summers  have 
been  bountiful,  but  this  year  the 
heavens  have  sent  quadruple  treas- 
ure upon  the  land.  From  every 
quarter  comes  the  story  of  unex- 
ampled harvests,  and  soon  the  farmers 
will  be  rich  beyond  all  their  dreams. 
Great  is  the  treasure  for  the  Republic 
through  herds  and  flocks,  through 
shocks  of  corn  and  sheaves  of  wheat! 
Great  also  the  wealth  through  vine- 
yard and  orchard,  but  the  greatest  and 
most  unmixed  good  fortune  that  has 
come  to  the  Republic  during  the  year 
will  be  its  crop  of  immigrants. 

Think  of  it!  A  million  new  work- 
men or  mothers  of  future  workmen 
this  year.  The  other  day  I  saw  400 
young  men  who  had  landed  but 
twenty-four  hours  before.  They  filled 
a  train  and  were  under  the  charge  of 
a  railway  official.  They  were  going 
900  miles  west  of  New  York  to  work 
upon  the  new  grades  and  bridges  of  a 
railroad  whose  track  was  being 
straightened  and  shortened.  "What 
will  you  pay  these  men?"  I  asked  the 
official.  "Oh,  $1.50  a  day  and  their 
board."  "Each  man  then,"  I  answered, 
"is  worth  to  the  country  $500  a  year. 
Each  one  of  these  immigrants  repre- 
sents a  steam  engine  costing  $10,000. 
and  bringing  in  $500  at  5  per  cent." 
"All  of  that,"  was  the  official's  reply. 

But  a  million  immigrants  means 
300,000  of  these  men.  If  each  work- 
man represents  a-  loom,  a  small  ship, 
an  engine  or  a  house,  costing  $10,000 
and  producing  $500  a  year,  it  is  as  if 
the  Old  World  had  sent  the  Republic 
a  free  gift  of  three  billions  that  will 
oroduce  for  us  next  year  150  millions. 

These  newcomers  also  represent  the 
picked  men  and  women  of  the  work- 
ing classes  of  the  Old  World.  Those 
who  read  some  pessimist's  statement 


about  the  diseased  and  criminal  class- 
es that  are  coming  to  this  country  will 
feel  troubled  by  the  thought  of  a  mil- 
lion immigrants.  But  the  man  who 
goes  to  Ellis  Island,  who  will  study 
the  people  leaving  not  one  steamer, 
but  twenty  steamers,  will  conclude  his 
personal  investigations  with  enthu- 
siasm for  the  newcomers  and  with 
high  hope  for  his  country ! 

THE  IMMIGRANTS  ARE  NOT  THE  WORST, 
BUT  THE  BEST  CLASSES. 

Just  now  politicians  are  talking 
about  bills  to  restrict  immigration. 
Impulsive,  our  people  may  go  to  an 
extreme.  The  theorists  are  already 
organizing  and  preparing  to  carry 
laws,  that  will  halve  the  present  im- 
migration. But  the  whole  question  is 
one  of  fact,  and  the  simple  fact  is  that 
our  newcomers  are  the  strongest, 
healthiest,  most  intelligent  and  re- 
sourceful of  the  Old  World  peoples. 

Within  the  past  five  years  one 
Italian  city  of  a  hundred  thousand 
people  has  sent  one-fourth  of  its 
families  to  this  country,  and  those 
who  came  to  us  represented  the 
families  from  whom  that  city  had 
hoped  the  most. 

It  is  not  an  easy  thing  for  any  youth 
to  leave  his  home  and  start  out  to 
make  his  fortune.  It  is  still  more  dif- 
ficult for  a  youth  to  leave  his  native 
land  as  well  as  his  family  ties  behind 
him.  The  pioneer  who  can  go  out 
into  a  new  land  must  be  a  man  of  iron 
strength,  courage,  self-reliance,  with 
confidence  in  his  own  resources. 
Given  a  family  of  six  sons  and 
daughters  in  Ireland  or  Scotland,  in 
Switzerland  or  Italy,  which  one  of 
the  six  children  will  emigrate? 

It  is  always  the  strongest  and 
brightest  son  and  daughter. 

Superficial  men  say  that  the  immi- 
grant produces  the  slums  in  New 
York.     No  conception   can   be  more 


THE   GATEWAY   OF  THE    NATIONS 


foolish  or  false.  The  simple  fact  is 
that  South  Ireland  and  certain  cities 
of  Italy  are  in  danger  of  becoming 
slums,  because  their  best  sons  and 
daughters  have  removed  to  this  coun- 
try, leaving  the  children  who  are  weak 
of  nerve,  with  poor,  starved  blood  and 
spindle  shanks,  not  quite  equal  to  the 
battle  in  a  new  country.  Remaining 
at  home  in  South  Ireland  or  Italy, 
these  who  do  not  emigrate  produce 
the  problem  of  poverty  and  misery  in 
the  country  and  the  slum  problem  in 
the  city. 

Recently  one  of  our  magazines  pub- 
lished a  long  article  on  the  slum 
districts  of  New  York,  saying  that 
these  districts  were  produced  by  the 
immigrants.  In  the  last  three  years 
two  million  inmmigrants  have  come 
to  New  York.  Did  the  slum  districts 
of  New  York  increase  by  two  mil- 
lions? As  a  matter  of  fact  the  popu- 
lation of  New  York  increased  by  only 
a  tithe  of  two  millions,  and  a  large 
percentage  of  this  gain  was  through 


native  blood  coming  up  to  the  city  to 
make  its  fortune.  Our  social  settle- 
ment workers  have  long  ago  found 
out  that  the  foreigner  stays  in  the  city 
of  New  York  just  long  enough  to  ac- 
cumulate monev  to  get  to  the  mine  or 
factory,  but  especially  to  the  land. 

What? 

Immigrants  make  the  slums ! 

Why,  the  three  greatest  slum 
centres  of  the  world  are  where  the 
population  is  absolutely  pure,  with- 
out a  mixture  of  immigrant.  The 
very  heart  of  the  slum  centre  of  East 
London  is  pure  English.  The  very 
heart  of  the  slum  centre  of  Glasgow  is 
pure  Scotch.  The  very  heart  of  the 
slum  section  of  South  Ireland  is  pure 
Irish,  without  a  mixture  of  foreign 
blood.  All  three  sections  have  lost 
their  brightest  sons  by  emigration  to 
Australia  or  Canada  or  the  United 
States.  The  weaker  ones  of  the 
family  staved  in  the  old  home  and 
sunk  into  the  abyss. 

Men  who  sit  in  the  office  or  study 


276 


THE   HOME  MISSIONARY 


and  write  essays  on  the  "perils  of  im- 
migration" may  be  pessimistic,  but  I 
affirm  without  fear  of  contradiction 
that  no  man  has  ever  gone  to  Ellis 
Island  and  studied  the  immigrants 
landing  from  ten  successive  ships 
without  passing  through  a  revulsion 
of  sentiment  or  becoming  as  optimis- 
tic about  our  newcomers  as  the  men 
who  have  charge  of  our  immigration, 
who  are  best  qualified  to  report  upon 
it. 

THE  REPUBLIC    NEEDS  5,000,000  WORK- 
MEN. 

So  far  from  one  million  immigrants 
overstocking  the  country,  the  Repub- 
lic now  is  in  need  of  5,000,000  work- 
men. The  interior  States,  the  Rocky 
Mountain  States  and  especially  the 
States  of  the  Pacific  coast,  are  like  a 
dry  and  thirsty  land.  The  waters  of 
immigration  are  taken  up  and  absorb- 
ed by  the  States  on  the  Atlantic  coast. 
Only  now  and  then  does  a  foreigner 
cross  the  Rocky  Mountains.  Our 
native-born  sons  are  $2  and  $3  a  day 


men.  The  public  schools  have  de- 
veloped many  hungers  in  them  and 
raised  the  scale  of  living.  The  Ameri- 
can will  not  do  the  drudgerv  involved 
in  opening  up  a  new  country. 

The  great  West  wants  5,000,000 
immigrants.  These  men  are  needed 
to  tear  up  the  sagebrush  of  Montana 
and  Idaho  and  Wyoming  and  Colorado. 
They  are  needed  to  dig  the  irrigation 
ditches  and  open  up  streams  in  the 
desert.  They  are  needed  to  tear  up  the 
wild  prairie  soil  of  the  Dakotas  in  the 
North  and  Texas  in  the  South.  Why, 
the  Lone  Star  State  alone  wants  20,- 
000,000  people.  Indeed,  the  question 
how  to  secure  immigrants  for  the  Pa- 
cific coast  is  the  most  pressing  ques- 
tion of  the  day.  Oregon  and  Wash- 
ington are  overcitied  and  undercount- 
ried.  One-half  of  the  population 
lives  in  the  cities  and  large  towns,  but 
a  city  like  Seattle  or  Portland  must 
have  a  farming  country  to  support  it ; 
and  the  only  hope  of  securing  a  farm- 
ing countrv  is  through  the  immigrants 


POLACK    GIRLS 


THE  BOON   OF  IMMIGRATION 


277 


who  will  still  do  pioneer  work,  lay  the 
foundations  of  towns,  grade  the  rail- 
roads, dig  irrigating  ditches,  tear  up 
the  sagebrush  and  cover  the  great 
plains  with  rich  harvests.  Until  these 
immigrants  are  brought  in  the  econo- 
mic problem  cannot  be  solved. 

We  have  cities  in  the  Mississippi 
Valley  -and  we  have  cities  on  the  Pa- 
cific coast,  and  the  freight  bills  involv- 
ed in  carrying  goods  across  these 
long  unsettled  areas  represent  enor- 
mous industrial  waste,  and  the  only 
way  out  of  it  is  to  cover  the  Rocky 
Mountain  States  with  little  towns  and 
develop  agricultural  resources  through 
newcomers  who  will  still  work  for 
$1.50  a  day. 

IMMIGRANTS  ARE  MAKING  A  NEW  WEST 

But,  it  is  said,  the  immigrants  flock 
to  the  cities  and  they  will  not  go  to 
the  lands.  The  opposite  is  the  fact. 
The  immigrant  stays  in  the  factory 
town  or  city  for  a  little  time  until  he 
gets  enough  money  to  start  for  the 
land,  and  then  he  goes  into  the  West. 
Take  the  great  rich  State  of  Minne- 
sota. One  vast  section  of  Minnesota 
was  settled  by  Swedes,  Norwegians 
and  Danes.  What  wealth  is  theirs ! 
What  splendid  farms !  What  houses, 
barns  and  granaries !  How  prosper- 
ous the  towns  look !  What  schools 
and  churches ! 

In  a  town  surrounded  by  these  peo- 
ple, Rochester,  Minn.,  there  is  to-day 
a  hospital,  the  fame  of  whose  sur- 
geons has  gone  out  through  all  the 
world.  Physicians  from  London  and 
Paris,  New  York  and  Philadelphia 
have  gone  to  Rochester  to  study  that 
marvelous  Hospital.  But  do  these 
immigrants  stand  for  the  public 
school,  the  high  school  and  the  col- 
lege? Go  to  the  University  of  Min- 
nesota for  the  answer.  Already  it  is 
fifth  or  sixth  among  the  oreat  univer- 
sities of  this  country.  The  most 
striking  thing  in  the  great  audience  is 
the  proportion  of  flaxen-haired  blonds. 
These  young  men,  who  are  studying 
for  law  and  medicine,  for  the  great 
arts  and  handicrafts  are  the  children 


of  foreign-born  parents.  And  these 
foreigners  have  built  the  richest  sec- 
tion in  one  of  the  richest  States  in  the 
Union. 

A   MARVELOUS   STORY 

The  achievements  of  some  of  these 
immigrants  read  like  a  romance. 
Forty  years  ago  a  German  mother 
took  her  little  boy  of  eleven  years  of 
age  to  the  church.  On  the  way  home, 
she  reminded  the  child  that  there  were 
ten  mouths  to  fill,  that  the  winter 
would  be  long,  that  already  the 
family  had  but  two  meals  a  day  and 
that  on  the  morrow  he  must  go  with 
another  family  to  Antwerp  and  set  sail 
for  America  and  earn  money  and  send 
it  home  to  help  support  the  other 
children.  That  night  she  sewed  one 
silver  coin  and  one  gold  coin  in  the 
boy's  pocket,  and  gave  the  family  of 
immigrants,  with  whom  the  child  was 
to  travel,  money  for  the  steerage 
ticket.  Three  weeks  later,  the  boy  of 
eleven  found  himself  on  a  wharf  in 
New  York  deserted  by  the  German 
family,  who  did  not  want  to  be  troubl- 
ed with  him. 

The  child  knew  not  a  word  of  the 
English  language.  He  was  determin- 
ed not  to  spend  the  precious  coins  his 
mother  had  given  him.  In  the  dusk 
of  the  cold  autumn  evening  he  saw 
people  carrying  bundles  to  the  ferry- 
boat. Unable  to  speak  a  word  of  the 
language  he  began  to  carry  the 
bundles  without  making  any  bargain 
as  to  what  he  was  to  receive.  Soon 
the  boy  picked  up  coppers  enough  to 
pay  for  his  lodging,  his  supper  and 
breakfast. 

Because  he  knew  little  about  the 
city  and  much  about  the  farm,  he  left 
the  city  behind  him  and  walked  into 
the  country.  One  night  he  came  to  a 
farmer's  house  in  Connecticut,  where 
he  lived  until  he  was  fourteen, 
and  then  he  made  his  way  to  Chicago. 
There  he  worked  for  a  man  near  the 
stock-yards,  who  gave  him  a  bed  in 
the  barn.  One  night  as  he  was  going 
to  the  barn  he  heard  two  stock  drovers 
querying  where  they  could  sleep,  in- 
asmuch as  the  little  hotel  was  full. 


NORWEGIAN 


HOLLAND 
DANISH    BOY  AND   GIRL 


RUSSIAN 


LITTLE  MEN  AND  WOMI 


AT  EL  LIS  ISLAND  N.  Y. 


28o 


THE   HOME  MISSIONARY 


"You  can  have  my  bed  for  25  cents 
apiece,"  said  the  boy.  That  night  he 
spent  in  a  blanket  in  the  hay.  After 
that  he  made  it  his  task  each  night 
after  the  work  was  done  to  find  two 
drovers   who   would   hire  his  bed. 

One  morning  one  of  the  drovers 
told  him  about  a  steer  that  had  broken 
its  leg  on  the  car  and  why  the  beef 
packers  would  not  buy  this  steer.  The 
boy  took  $10  from  his  purse,  bought 
the  steer,  in  the  belief  that  the  ox's 
leg  was  sprained  and  not  broken. 
Soon  he  began  to  buy  and  sell  cattle. 

Twelve  years  passed.  ( hie  morn- 
ing the  city  of  Chicago  was  in  ashes. 
The  cashier  of  the  First  National 
Bank,  after  two  days,  reached  the 
ruins,  whose  ashes  covered  his 
safety  vault.  Just  then  this  young 
German  appeared  on  the  scene  and 
accosted  the  banker. 

"Are  the  vaults  safe?"  was  the  first 
question.  His  next  sentence  was  a 
proffer  of  help. 

"You  will  need  money,"  he  said  to 
the  cashier.  Well,  I  have  just  sold  a 
lot  of  cattle  in  New  York  City  and 
have  $150,000  in  the  bank  down  there, 
and  you  can  have  it  all." 

That  man  is  to-day  one  of  the  rich- 
est merchants  in  Chicago,  and  is 
worth  many  millions  of  dollars.  There 
came  a  day  when  he  bought  the  great 
house  and  estate  in  Germany  where 
his  father  and  mother  had  worked  as 
peasants. 

This  story  could  be  multiplied 
manv  times.  Think  of  what  Scotch 
immigrants  have  done  in  this  country 
in  finance !  Think  of  what  English- 
men have  done  in  our  business  !  Think 
of  what  the  Scotch  Irish  have  done 
in  onr  law.  government  and  el- 
oquence !  Think  of  our  German  im- 
migrants !  Garibaldi,  who  freed  Ttaly, 
crime  as  an  immigrant  to  our  shores. 
He  lived  in  Brooklyn  and  Staten  Is- 
land, and  here  learned  to  love  liberty 
and  our  free  institutions.  From  our 
countrv  he  derived  the  inspiration  and 
strength  that  equinned  him  to  return 
to  Rome  and  with  Mazzini  emanci- 
pate   Italy.      One    of    the    brightest 


pages  in  the  history  of  this  Republic 
holds  the  names  of  our  immigrants. 

IMMIGRANTS    AND    GRIME 

It  is  said  that  our  immigrants  re- 
present the  criminal  classes.  Doubt- 
less some  criminals  come  to  our 
shores.  It  is  said  by  our  police  that 
when  a  man  commits  murder  and 
wants  to  hide  himself  he  starts  for 
Broadway,  New  York.  The  criminal 
knows  that  there  is  no  ambush  like  a 
crowd.  The  multitudes  hide  him. 
He  is  safer  amidst  the  surging 
throngs  than  in  a  solitary  forest.  So 
the  foreign  criminal  seeks  cover  in 
thje  multitudes  that  crowd  on  the  ship. 
But  there  is  no  reason  for  believing 
that  the  number  of  these  is  large. 
Careful  analysis  of  the  statistics  of 
crime  does  not  show  that  the  last  two 
million  of  our  immigrants  have  affect- 
ed these  statistics.  Furthermore, 
there  are  crimes  and  crimes. 

Carl  Schurz,  one  of  our  most  emi- 
nent public  men  and  patriots,  broke  the 
law  of  his  country  because  that  law  re- 
presented despotism.  Garibaldi  was  a 
criminal,  judged  by  the  laws  of  de- 
spotic Italy.  To-day  Tolstoi  is  a 
criminal.  Maxime  Gorky,  who  wishes 
to  come  to  our  country  could  be  re- 
turned as  a  criminal  because  he  has 
broken  the  laws  of  Russia,  whose 
despotism  he  is  seeking  to  overthrow. 
Suppose  your  student  brother  had 
been  exiled  to  Siberia  for  criticising 
the  Czar's  conduct  of  the  war.  Sup- 
pose your  mother  had  been  stripped 
to  the  back,  tied  to  the  tail  end  of  a 
cart  and  flogged  through  the  street 
for  defending  her  son  and  criticising 
the  Czar!  Would  you  not  break  the 
laws  of  Russia  if  you  were  living 
there?  Recentlv  four  young  men 
landed  in  New  York  from  Servia.  All 
were  represented  as  criminals,  but  the 
crime  of  each  consisted  in  resisting 
the  tyranny  of  a  government  diat  he 
was  trying  to  reform.  Yet  there  is 
not  an  American  living,  with  a  drop 
of  blood  in  his  veins  or  a  spark  of  the 
old  fire  in  his  heart  who  wouldn't 
have  made  a  similar  protest  against 
oppression  and  misgovernment. 


MAGYAR   WOMAN 


In  the  fourth  century  the  forest 
children  began  their  movement.  One 
column  had  a  base  resting  in  the 
forests  of  Russia,  and  one  column  had 
its  base  resting  on  the  seas  of  Hol- 
land. Soon  the  two  columns  met  like 
the  point  of  a  wedge  on  the  north  of 
Italy,  and  the  forest  children  broke 
through  the  Roman  wall  and  swept 
down  upon  the  Eternal  City.  Pour- 
ing in  their  new  tides  of  life  and 
blood,  they  saved  the  worn-out  fami- 
lies Of  old  Rome  and  they  carried  civi- 
lization over  Europe. 

Under  some  similar  impulse  falling 


from  above,  the  people  of  the  Old 
World  are  now  coming  to  the  Repub- 
lic. They  are  coming  to  stay  and  to 
build  homes,  but  they  will  write  back 
to  the  Old  World  and  become  the 
missionaries  of  liberty  in  the  old 
lands  where  despotism  reigns.  With 
intermarriage  the  bloods  will  be  cross- 
ed. Herbert  Spencer  believed  that 
with  this  crossing  would  come  a  new 
and  higher  type  of  man.  From  the 
viewpoint  of  science  he  ought  to  be 
die  best,  tallest,  strongest,  handsom- 
est and  most  intelligent  type  of  man 
the  world  has  ever  seen. 


Editor's  Outlook 


A  Question  of  the  Hour 

THERE  are  many  such  questions, 
bewildering  thoughtful  minds  by 
their  number  and  -complexity. 
Yet,  if  one  may  judge  from  the  rapid 
increase  of  immigration  literature,  and 
the  continuous  demand  upon  our  mis- 
sionary boards  for  information,  no 
one  question  of  the  hour  is  just  now 
exciting  so  wide  attention  or  receiving 
more  careful  study  than  the  problem 
of  foreign  immigration.  We  are 
happy  to  contribute  to  the  discussion 
two  notable  addresses  made  at  the 
October  meeting  of  the  Brooklyn 
Congregational  Club.  They  were 
taken  stenographically  for  The  Home 
Missionary,  and  corrected  by  their 
authors. 

Commissioner  Watchorn  occupies  a 
point  of  view  enjoyed  by  no  other 
man  in  America.  For  three  hundred 
and  sixty-five  days  in  the  year  he  is 
in  close,  practical  contact  with  the  im- 
migration problem  in  all  its  phases. 
His  observation  and  experience  lead 
him  to  desire  some  changes  in  the  im- 
migration law.  for  the  purpose  of  re- 
ducing the  number  of  undesirable 
aliens ;  but  beyond  this,  the  word  "re- 
striction" is  not  found  in  all  his  creed. 
He  quotes  and  warmlv  approves  the 
famous  dictum  of  President  Roose- 
velt : — -"We  cannot  have  too  many 
good  immigrants  and  we  do  not  want 
any  bad  ones." 

Dr.  Hillis  is  a  great  traveler  in  his 
own  country,  and  wherever  he  goes 
he  makes  a  study  of  public  opinion. 
He  comes  back  to  say  to  his  Brooklyn 
brethren,  in  words  as  strong  as  his 
eloquent  utterance  can  make  them : 

"Great  is  the  treasure  for  the  Re- 
public through  herds  and  -flocks, 
through  shocks  of  com  and  sheaves  of 
wheat,  hut  the  greatest  and  most  un- 
mixed good  fortune  tliat  has  come  to 
the  Republic  during  the  year  will  be 
its  crop  of  immigrants." 


It  is  noteworthy  that  in  both  of 
these  addresses,  and  in  most  of  the 
recent  literature  on  the  subject,  the 
tone  of  despair  which  marked  the  dis- 
cussion of  this  question  not  twenty- 
five  years  ago  is  totally  absent.  The 
conditions  have  been  more  closely 
studied ;  light  has  grown  and  the 
"menace  of  foreign  immigration"  has 
almost  totally  disappeared.  America 
is  to-day  actually  bidding  for  the  im- 
migrant. The  congestion  of  foreign 
elements  in  large  cities,  which  has 
been  a  fruitful  cause  of  alarm,  is  now 
discovered  to  have  been  an  exaggera- 
tion. Congestion  there  is  without  a 
doubt,  but  not  to  the  extent  supposed 
or  imagined.  Professor  Willcox  of 
Cornell  University,  and  formerly  con- 
nected with  the  census  office,  clearly 
demonstrates  from  a  searching  study 
of  the  figures  that  fully  eighty  per 
cent  of  those  who  land  at  our  ports 
of  entry  find  their  way  in  a  few 
months  into  the  wide  spaces  of  the 
West  and  South. 

Altogether,  here  are  the  strongest 
motives  for  a  vast  increase  of  home 
missionary  effort  for  the  foreigner. 
It  is  proved  beyond  the  last  doubt 
that  this  foreigner,  from  whatever 
land  he  may  come,  is  convertible  into 
an  American  citizen  and  an  American 
Christian,  and  that  for  this  very  pur- 
pose he  has  been  driven  to  these 
shores.  We  are  pleased  to  note  that 
our  own  Education  Society  is  moving 
to  increase  the  trained  force  of  foreign 
speaking  missionaries.  That  is  well 
and  necessitates  at  once  a  correspond- 
ing activitv  on  the  part  of  our  church 
planting  society.  The  two  movements 
are  strictly  reciprocal ;  more  trained 
pastors,  more  churches  to  employ 
them ;  more  churches,  more  men  to 
pastor  them.  Indeed,  along  all  lines 
of  church  founding  and  church  build- 
ing, of  Sunday  school  planting  and 
ministerial  education  for  foreigners, 
this  is  the  hour  of  a  glorious  and  un- 


EDITOR'S  OUTLOOK 


283 


precedented  opportunity.  All  denomi- 
nations of  Christians,  however  divided 
by  sect,  Protestants  and  Catholics 
alike,  may  work  in  harmony  for  the 
foreigner.  Congregationalists  have 
their  share  with  the  rest,  and  should 
welcome  it  eagerly.  With  joined 
hands,  with  one  heart,  with  consecrat- 
ed gifts  of  time  and  money,  and  with 
quenchless  faith  in  the  future  of 
America,  let  us  face  this  question  of 
the  hour! 

A  Notable  Gathering     0 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  Board  of 
Directors  of  the  Home  Missionary 
Society  (January  23-27),  promises  to 
be  an  event  of  uncommon  interest. 
The  Executive  Committee  have  made 
extensive  arrangements  for  the  ac- 
commodation, not  only  of  the  Direc- 
tors, but  of  the  Secretaries  of  the 
Constituent  States  and  the  Superin- 
tendents of  the  Co-operating  States 
and  Missionary  Districts,  all  of  which 
are  invited.  The  gathering  will  in- 
clude about  sixty  official  representa- 
tives of  the  Home  Missionary  in- 
terests of  our  churches,  and  they  will 
come  from  every  part  of  the  Union. 

Through  the  influence  of  Mr. 
James  G.  Cannon  of  the  Executive 
Committee  the  Hotel  Gramatan, 
situated  at  Bronxville,  about  twenty 
minutes  ride  from  New  York,  has 
been  secured  for  the  accommodation 
of  those  in  attendance  upon  this 
erathering.  Here  the  Directors  will 
hold  their  annual  meeting  and  tran- 
sact the  important  business  which  de- 
volves upon  them  by  the  Constitution. 

The  proceedings  of  the  Executive 
Committee   during  the   year   will   be 


carefully  reviewed  and  every  interest 
of  the  Society  will  be  discussed. 

Not  the  least  interest  of  the  occas- 
ion, however,  during  the  four  days  of 
this  gathering,  will  be  the  sessions  of 
the  State  Secretaries  and  Superinten- 
dents. Questions  of  great  practical 
interest  will  be  considered.  Papers 
will  be  read  which  will  form  the  basis 
of  discussion.  "How  to  get  Compe- 
tent Men  for  Home  Mission  Church- 
es," "How  to  Secure  the  Co-operation 
of  Men  in  the  Churches,"  "The  Secre- 
tary's and  Superintendent's  Oppor- 
tunity for  Leadership,"  "The  Sources 
of  Supply,"  "The  Treasuries  of  the 
East,"  "The  Fountains  of  the  West," 
"Our  Vantage  Point  as  a  Financial 
Organization,"  "Effective  Money 
Raising  Campaigns,."  "The  Home 
Missionary  Society  as  an  Evangelistic 
Force."  These  are  but  a  part  of  the 
themes  that  will  occupy  the  attention 
of  the  meeting. 

On  Friday  evening  a  reception  and 
social  gathering  will  be  held  at  the 
hotel  and  a  special  train  from  New 
York  will  be  provided  for  the  accom- 
modation of  a  large  number  of  guests 
representing  the  churches  of  the  city. 

On  Sunday,  January  27th,  follow- 
ing the  convention,  the  pulpits  of 
New  York  and  Brooklyn,  and  to  some 
extent  those  of  New  Jersey,  will  be 
occupied  by  these  missionary  visitors. 
From  the  scope  of  this  occasion  as 
outlined  above  it  will  be  seen  that  the 
plan  is  unique.  No  such  combined 
meeting  for  business  and  missionary 
arousing  has  probable  ever  been  held, 
and  it  may  well  mark  the  beginning  of 
a  new  era  of  Home  Missionary  zeal 
and  accomplishment. 


The  Island  of  Disenchantment 


By  Mary  Kay  Hyde 


HOLLA  NDESE 

A  sad  faced  Madonna.  One  would  think  the  woman  had  never  known  what 
J\  it  was  to  smile.  Dry,  shiny  eyes  that  refuse  to  shed  more  tears. .  Tragic 
despair  pictured  in  every  feature. 

Eight  days  now  she  has  waited  at  Ellis  Island  for  her  husband  who  is  no 
farther  away  than  Jersey  City,  but  zvho  as  yet  remains  unreached  by  letters  or 
telegrams.  People  who  can  neither  read  nor  write,  easily  make  mistakes  in 
giving  or  understanding  addresses. 

Telegrams  have  been  sent  to  Jan  Beals  Hals,  and  to  Jans  Hals  Beals,  and 
to  Beals  Hals  Jans,  and  so    on.    As  yet  no  response. 

The  woman  strides  up  and  down  like  a  tragedy  queen,  her  little  boy  by  her 
side.  .... 

On  a  bench  sits  huddled  the  golden-haired,  blue-eyed  little  daughter,  zvhose 
fat  cheeks  are  literally  blistered  by  ttt°  scalding  tears  still  flowing  down  her 
face  to  be  mopped  away  with  a  handkerchief  already  dripping. 

A  hasty  call  from  an  official!  Good  news!  The  husband  is  found!  He 
will  be  here  to-morrozv  morning.  The  overstrained  woman  faints  in  the  arms 
cf  the  missionary 

IRELAND 

Loquacity  is  relief  in  time  of  trouble.  The  foreigner  shut  in  to  herself  by 
the  strangeness  of  her  tongue,  suffers  more  than  do  those  of  English  speech 
who  can  more  readily  relate  their  sufferings  to  sympathetic  ears  and  hearts. 

An  Irish  zvoman  "with  ioo  pounds  in  the  bank  at  home,  mum','  has  zvaited 
a  week  without  being  permitted  to  land.  She  has  with  her,  five  children  and 
the  address  of  her  husband  "in  Culluraydo,  mum."  The  innocent  soul  brought 
only  a  little  more  than  enough  of  her  fortune  to  buy  tickets  for  herself  and 
children  as  far  as  New  York,  supposing  it  was  but  a  short  distance  to  her  ulti- 
mate destination. 


THE  ISLAND  OF  DISENCHANTMENT  285 

"Sure,  I  have  coozins  in  the  city.  Couldn't  I  find  thim  and  shtay  until  me 
man  sends  the  money  ?" 

Meanwhile  her  husband  having  received  the  telegrams  sent  by  the  officials, 
determines  to  come  to  Nezv  York  himself,  and  -waiting  to  settle  up  his  affairs. 
delays  matters  a  few  days  longer.  In  his  impatience,  however,  he  sends  tele-r 
gram  after  telegram  to  his  wife. 

"  Is  your  husband  crazy?'  they  ask  her,  'that  he  kapes  wiring  and  wiring?' 
"Indade  he's  not  crazy  at  all.  No!  But  it  shows  that  he  pays  me  some  at- 
tintion!  " 

She  and  her  children  with  their  large,  soft,  lustrous  blue  eyes  and  black 
hair,  look  neat  and  tidy.  She  laments  being  shut  in  "with  the  hikes  0"  thim," 
as  she  designates  the  other  occupants  of  the  cell-like  room. 

"Me  heart  is  squeezin'  up  in  me,  lest  something  happen  to  the  child er  and 
they  get  sick,"  she  frets.    "But  we'll  be  out  0'  here  by  Monday." 

"And  then  you  have  to  take  the  long  journey  to  Colorado?" 

"O,  no,  mum.  Me  husband  'II  not  be  going  back.  It's  all  Chinaze,  it  i£ 
out  there.    He'll  shtay  here  zvith  me  and  the  childer." 

"Going  to  live  here  in  Nezv  York?" 

'Yis,  here  or  in  Brook — lyn.-   Me  husband  can  find  zvork  there,  anyway!* 

"What  does  your  husband  do?" 

"Sure,  he's  a  miner,  mum." 

CHARLEY 

Charley  left  home  zvith  his  steamship  ticket  and  five  dollars.  When  he 
declared  his  financial  standing  and  his  intention  of  going  to  Winnipeg  to  join\ 
his  brother,  naturally  he  was  detained. 

He  was  bright,  ambitious,  energetic,  and  expected  to  go  immediately  to 
work  when  he  reached  this  country.  Of  the  distance  to  Winnipeg  and  of  the 
expense  of  such  a  journey  he  had  no  idea.  It  zvas  two  weeks  after  his  arrival, 
before  a  letter  and  check  reached  him  in  reply  to  a  letter  sent  to  his  brother. 

TIM  MY 

Timmy  had  tzvo  hundred  dollars  beside  his  steamship  ticket,  zvhen  he  left 
his  home  with  the  definite  purpose  of  going  to  his  uncle  in  Texas. 

But  Timmy  awoke  one  day  at  the  end  of  a  severe  attack  of  sea-sickness  on 
the  voyage,  to  find  his  two  hundred' dollars  gone. 

Of  course  his  story  met  with  little  credence  among  the  officials.  His 
straightforward  appearance,  however,  was  in  his  favor,  and  won  the  good 
graces  of  at  least  one  person  in  authority. 

Telegrams  and  letters  zvere  sent  to  Timmy' s  uncle  in  Texas,  but  no  re- 
plies were  forthcoming.  Timmy  zvas  detained  and  his  case  deferred  for  a  whole 
long  mouth.  People  then  lost  faith  in  Timmy  and  his  story,  and  he  was  about 
to  be  deported,  when  there  came  from  Texas  a  telegram,  "What  do  you  know 
of  the  whereabouts  of  Timothy  Donalds?" 

The  uncle  had  been  absent  from  his  ranch  on  a  long  trip,  and  on  his  re- 
turn found  the  accumulation  of  letters  and  telegrams.  Faith  in  Timmy  was  re- 
stored, and  in  due  season  he  was  sent  on  his  way  rejoicing. 

KATIE 

Katie  landed  in  this  country  with  fifty  cents  and  her  sister's  address  in\ 
Boston. 

The  sister  zvas  written  to,  and  replied,  promising  to  find  Katie  "a  place" 
and  to  send  her  money  for  a  railroad  ticket  out  of  "next  zveek's  wages!' 

"Hozv  did  you  expect  to  get  to  your  sister  zvith  so  little  moniey?"  she  was 
asked. 


286  THE   HOME  MISSIONARY 

"O,"  she  replied  ingenuously,  "I  thought  I'd  go  up  the  road  and  knock  at 
the  first  door,  and  ask  the  folks  to  let  me  stay  until  I  could  find  Norah."     ' 

THE  SHADOW   OF  AN   EARLY  CRIME 

Francisco  had  come  to  the  New  World  to  begin  a  new  life.  The  shadow 
of  an  early  misdeed  had  followed  him  up  to  manhood,  and  he  had  fled  across 
the  seas  thinking  to  be  free. 

When  a  little  boy,  he  with  several  other  urchins  made  a  raid  on  the  Poor- 
Box  of  the  Church.  Not  because  the  boys  needed  or  desired  the  money,  but 
simply  as  a  mischievous  prank.  A  custodian  discovered  them  in  time  to  catch 
Francisco.  The  other  lads  escaped.  He  was  arrested  and  sent  to  jail  for  three 
months. 

The  story  of  this  escapade  and  of  its  punishment  clung  to  him.  Although 
he  grew  up  to  Be  a  good,  honest,  truthful  boy,  perhaps  the  more  so  for  his  bitter 
experience,  he  was  aivare  of  the  atmosphere  of  mistrust  continually  surround-* 
ing  him,  and  he  found  it  hard  to  obtain  a  situation  where  he  could  earn  a  living. 
After  many  years  of  struggle  he  gave  up  in  desperation  and  sailed  for  America 
where  no  one  knew  him  or  his  story. 

Arrived  at  Ellis  Island,  he  passed  satisfactorily  all  examinations  until  sud- 
denly came  the  question: 

"Were  you  ever  an  inmate  of  a  prison?" 

Francisco  recoiled  as  if  from  a  blozv  in  the  face!  His  embarrassment  zvas 
apparent.    The  question  was  repeated  slowly  and  with  significant  emphasis. 

Francisco  threw  back  his  head  bravely,  and  told  the  whole  pitiful  little  tale 
truthfully  without  reservation,  but  with  a  plea  at  the  close. 

"You  won't  keep  me  out  for  that,  will  you?"  he  wailed.  0,  you  don't 
knozv  what  this  means  to  me!  Do  let  me  stay  and  make  a  good  name  for  my- 
self in  this  country  of  yours!"  t 

Francisco's  case  zvas  deferred,  and  the  patient  "Board"  zvhich  has  to  hear 
and  decide  so  many  cases  daily,  in  spite  of  Francisco's  pleadings  and  promises, 
and  against  the  conviction  of  many  of  their  own  number,  decided  to  abide  by 
the  letter  of  the  law,  and  the  young  man  who  had  set  sail  with  such  eager,  hope- 
ful ambitions,  zvas  deported  zvith  a  broken  heart,  anguished  soul,  and  zvith  a 
prospect  of — what? 

BEYOND    ALL   HOPES   AND  DREAMS 

Thomas  wrote  to  his  aunt  in  New  York  announcing  his  anticipated  arrival 
in  that  city  and  asking  her  to  meet  him. 

Thomas  zvas  a  little  chap  when  his  aunt  came  to  the  Nezv  World  to  earn 
her  living  as  a  "hired  girl."  Nozv  she  zvas  married  to  a  coachman  and  zvore] 
silk  gowns  and  feathers  and  high  heels,  while  Thomas  zvas  grozvn  into  an 
aivkzvard,  clumsy  gossoon  of  tzventy-tzvo,  all  legs  and  arms,  but  zvith  a  bit  of  a» 
fortune. 

The  aunt  was  ashamed  of  him.    It  zvas  evident  to  Thomas. 

He  zvas  ashamed  of  her  for  being  ashamed  of  him!  His  zvarm  Irish  heart 
bumped  in  his  breast.  He  told  her  simply  that  he  zvould  not  go  to  her  home, 
he  would  look  out  for  himself. 

When  Aunt  Ellen  crosses  Broadzvay  nozv-a-days,  isn't  she  that  proud' 
shure,  to  be  escorted  safely  across  the  street  by  her  nephezv  zvith  his  brass  but- 
tons and  white  gloves ! 


Our  Country's  Young  People 

Why  Form  Home  Mission  Study  Classes  ? 

j-  tOME  missions  deal  with  living  problems,  with  problems  related  to  the 

J^j[    immediate  moral  and  spiritual  needs  of  the  American  people.    Interest 

and  instruction,  therefore,  wait  on  the  intelligent  study  of  home  missions. 

Why  study  the  home  mission  problems  of  to-day  f 

They  are  urgent.  We  have  an  American  frontier.  Differing  in  many 
respects  from  the  frontier  of  fifty  years  ago,  it  is  no  less  insistent  in  its  need  of 
the  Gospel.  Into  new  communities  the  Christian  church  must  go.  And  in  old- 
et  communities,  too,  readjustment  and  readaptions  are  necessary.  Many 
churches  in  eastern  states,  once  a  dependable  and  an  aggressive  evangelizing 
force,  now  require  aid  similar  to  that  which  they  once  gave  so  heartily  and  so 
generously.  The  gradual  drift  of  the  constituency  of  rural  churches  tozvard 
urban  life  has  lessened  their  financial  vigor.  Out  of  strength  they  have  become 
iveak. 

And  in  our  new  possessions  there  are  vast  and  sacred  interests,  and  a  fresh 
set  of  conditions,  to  be  met.  Then,  too,  every  year  enough  foreign  speaking^ 
peoples  come  to  this  country  to  populate  fifty  cities  with  twenty  thousand  in- 
habitants each.  Hozv  are  these  changing  and  formidable  conditions  to  be  dealt 
withf  What  measure  of  money  and  aggressiveness  are  required?  How  are 
our  American  frontiers  to  be  evangelised  and  Christianized f    These  questions 

are  living. 

*  *  * 

Twenty  millions  of  people  are  zvithin  the  compass  of  our  national  life  en- 
tirely outside  all  churches, — Jezvish,  Roman  Catholic,  or  Protestant.  No  other 
question  ought  to  be  of  more  lively  interest  to  all  Christian  men  and  women, 
than  this: — How  is  the  Gospel  to  be  made  vital  to  these  millions? 

*  *   * 

Ignorant  of  it,  they  will  continue  to  be  alienated  from  the  life  which  Christ 
came  to  give.  The  battles  these  millions  are  fighting  against  the  forces  of  evil 
will  be  lost  apart  from  the  quickening  and  sustaining  power  of  Him  zuho  said, 
"I  am  come  that  ye  might  have  life,  and  that  ye  might  have  it  more  abundant- 
ly." Luther's  great  zvords  zvere  not  only  for  his  century.  They  are  for  this,  too: 

"In  our  ozvn  strength  we  nought  can  do, 
To  trust  it  zvere  sufte  losing; 
For  us  must  fight  the  Right  and  True, 
The  man  of  God's  own  choosing. 

Dost  ask  for  his  name? 
Christ  Jesus  zve  claim; 
The  Lord  God  of  Hosts; 
The  only  God, — vain  boasts 
Of  others  fall  before  Him." 

It  is  because  of  the  need  so  vividly  voiced  in  these  zvords  that  the  home 
mission  cause  is  so  tremendously  important.     It  is  related  to  the  highest  in- 


288  THE   HOME  MISSIONARY 

terests  of  the  Kingdom  of  our  Lord.  While  it  exists  primarily  for  the  exten- 
sion of  the  Kingdom  of  Christ  among  those  who  are  in  this  country,  the  sway 
of  home  missions  is  zvorld-zvide.  America  will  be  a  world-force  for  righteous- 
ness to  the  extent  that  the  principles  of  Christ  control  the  characters  of  the  peo- 
ple. To  the  degree  that  the  light  He  has  brought  is  obeyed,  will  the  United 
States  be  a  nation  set  on  a  mountain,  its  light  unhidden. 

The  moral  and  religious  quality  of  a  nation  determines  the  depth  and  last- 
ingness  of  its  effect  for  good  on  other  nations.  To  the  extent  that  the  prin- 
ciples of  Christ  are  taught  with  zvisdom  and  vigor,  the  nation  will  strengthen 
morally  and  religiously. 

Aggression  is  required  that  the  weak  places  may  be  made  strong.  Great 
sections  of  our  country  are  yet  unevangelizcd  and  un christianized.  In  Wyom- 
ing there  is  a  country  with  12,000  inhabitants,  in  which,  up  to  September, 
1904,  there  was  but  one  town  in  which  evangelical  services  ivere  held  regularly. 
Even  now  there  are  but  a  few  tozvns  in  the  county  with  such  services,  though 
there  are  three  mining  tozvns,  within  a  radius  of  three  miles,  having  a  combined 
population  of  3,000.  In  the  country  it  is  said  a  rural  population  of  fully  6,000 
have  never  had  the  help  of  a  Christian  minister  of  any  denomination. 

The  study  of  home  missions  widens  vision.  "We  then,  that  are 
strong,"  said  Paul,  "ought  to  bear  the  infirmities  of  the  weak  and  not  to  please 
ourselves."  Certainly!  But  how  are  the  strong  to  learn  of  the  weak  and  their 
infirmities? 

Is  therte  a  surer  way  than  that  by  which  members  of  a  home  mis- 
sion study  class  acquire  such  knowledge?  Much  of  our  acquaintance  with  teal 
conditions  must  come  through  those  who  have  given  special  study  to  the  press- 
ing problems  of  our  complex  modern  life. 

*  *   * 

The  number  of  those  zvho  are  weak  and  in  need  of  the  help  of  the 
strong  is  far  greater  than  most  of  those  who  are  measurably  intelligent  respect- 
ing conditions  in  America,  can  imagine.  In  America  are  the  great  armies  of 
the  illiterate;  the  vast  sumerged  multitudes  in  our  great  cities;  the  throngs  of 
foreigners  zvho  are  zvithout  competent,  or  even  sympathetic,  leadership. 

*  *  * 

An  intelligent  study  of  home  missions  will  promote  a  growing 
faith  in  the  power  of  the  Gospel.  The  past  century  of  home  mission  his- 
tory is  abundantly  encouraging.  At  the  beginning  of  the  last  century  one  per- 
son in  every  fourteen  was  a  member  of  the  Protestant  evangelical  church.  At 
the  beginning  of  this  century  one  person  in  every  four  zvas  a  member  of  the 
Protestant  evangelical  church.  The  Protestant  church  grew  more  rapidly  than 
the  population.  This  encouraging  progress  zvas  due,  in  a  large  meausre,  to  the 
heroism  and  self-denial  and  faithfulness  of  the  pioneer  home  missionaries  and 
their  families. 

The  study  of  home  missions  will  increase  practical,  definite  in- 
terest in  the  home  mission  cause.  As  we  think,  we  are;  and  as  we  are,  we 
go.  It  is  those,  zvho,  through  the  study  of  what  has  been  achieved,  and  of  zvhat 
it  is  essential  now  to  do,  zvho  will  come  to  have  the  required  practical  intelligent 
interest  in  this  chief  of  causes.  It  is  those  zvho  think  on  the  needs  of  their) 
fellow-men  and  come  into%a  sympathetic  attitude  tozvard  them,  zvho  are  likely 


OUR  COUNTRY'S  YOUNG  PEOPLE 


289 


to  go  forth  to  meet  those  needs. 

*    *    * 

~\T  T F  heartily  commend  to  the  Congregational  young  people  zvho  are  to  form 
VV  home  mission  study  courses  at  the  beginning  of  this  year,  the  admirable 
text-book  by  the  Rev.  Howard  B.  Grose,  "Aliens  or  Americans?"  We 
have  already  commended  Mr.  Grose's  book  in  these  zvords:  He  has  assembled 
a  mass  of  valuable  information.  He  has  presented  it  graphically  and  interest- 
ingly. He  has  written  in  a  fair  and  generous  spirit.  He  has  produced  what  is 
likely  to  prove  to  the  average  general  reader  the  most  informing  and  useful  book 
on  the  alien  invasion. 

The  book  contains  three  hundred  pages,  is  handsomely  bound  and  fully 
illustrated.  Price,  in  cloth,  fifty  cents;  in  paper,  thirty-five  cents.  For  copies, 
addresss    Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society,  28J  Fourth  Avenue,  N.  Y. 


Dr.  J.  D.  Kingsbury's  Message 

REV.  J.  D.  Kingsbury,  D.  D.,  the  widely  beloved  home  missionary 
SUPERINTENDENT   OF    SOUTHERN   IDAHO,    MEXICO,   UTAH,    ARIZONA,    AND 
NEVADA,  AND  A  SPECIAL  REPRESENTATIVE  OF  THE  EXECUTIVE  COMMITTEE  ON 
THE  MISSIONARY  FIELD,  HAS  SENT  TO  THE  PASTORS  OF  CHURCHES  IN  HIS  TERRI" 
TFRY  THE  FOLLOWING  VERY  HELPFUL  AND  SUGGESTIVE  LETTER.      It   HAS   IN   IT  A 
MESSAGE  OF  VALUE  TO  ALL  YOUNG   PEOPLE  OF  CONGREGATIONAL   CHURCHES.       It 

contains  a  great  deal  that  is  applicable  to  the  lives  and  work  of  all 
Christian  men  and  women. 

Dr.  Kingsbury's  strong  hold  on  the  affections  of  those  who  are 
intimately  acquainted  with  him  is  explained  in  part  by  his  sym- 
PATHETIC  AND   CPIEERING   ATTITUDE   TOWARD    HIS    ASSOCIATES.       In   A   PERSONAL 

note  just  received  from  him,  he  refers  in  tpiis  way  to  the  pastors  on 

breathe  the 
very  spirit  of 
the  Gospel: 
We  have  come  to 
the  season  when 
our  Church  zvork 
is  most  fruitful. 
We  expect  rich 
harvests  in  the 
zvinter  time  and 
look  for  the  in- 
gathering  of 
many  and  the  up- 
building of  the 
kingdom  of  our 
God. 

You  are  al- 
ready trying  to 
find  hozv  you  may 
render  a  better 
personal  service. 
May   I,   as   your 


rHE      HOME      MIS- 

SION  field: 
"They  are  ear- 
nest, .  FEARLESS, 
self-sacrificing 
men.  it  stirs 
one's  blood  to 
see  how  they 
receive  and  act 
upon  any  loving  | 
suggestion.  one 
of  the  inspira- 
tions of  my  life 
is  the  acquaint- 
ance with  the 
men  at  the 
front, — the  sol-  1'^,. 
diers  of  Jesus  '# 
wpio  give  all 
for  service  and  the  south  extends  a  welcome  to 
love."  Words  desirable  immigrants. — From  the 
SUCH     as    these  Constitution  (Atlanta). 


290  THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 

heipf  ul  brother,  suggest  some  things  which  belong  to  the  experience  of  my  life? 

i.  We  must  remember  our  personal  relationship  to  Jesus  Christ 
Our  Lord.  The  beginning  of  all  Christian  life  is  in  close  fellowship  with  Him. 
All  labor  is  lost  if  zve  go  far  from  Him.  In  the  ministry  we  are  His  chosen\ 
ones.  We  go  at  His  bidding.  We  bear  His  message.  We  do  His  will.  What- 
ever we  do  is  for  His  sake  and  in  His  name.  He  goes  before  us,  shows  the 
way,  plans  for  us  and  keeps  constant  oversight  as  the  work  goes  on.  He  knows 
every  family,  moves  upon  every  heart.  We  folloiv  on,  in  close  confidence  and 
obedient  love. 

Commune  with  your  Lord.  Open  your  heart  to  Him.  Let  personal  life 
melt  into  penitent,  humble  prayer.  Take  His  promises.  Rest  upon  His  word. 
Come  close  to  Him,  and  your  soul  shall  be  bathed  in  His  love,  and  your  union 
with  Him  shall  be  sweet,  tender,  and  you  shall  know  the  meaning  of  those 
words,  "Abide  in  Me  and  I  in  you."  The  secret  of  pozver  with  men  is  com- 
munion ivith  God. 

We  are  to  believe,  with  no  doubt,  in  the  constant  presence  of  our  Lord. 
That  word,  "Lo  I  am  with  you"  is  forever  true. 

He  is  zvith  you  in  the  study,  in  the  pulpit,  in  pastoral  zvork.  He  goes  with 
you  from  house  to  house.  You  are  never  alone.  His  Spirit  zvhispers  to  you) 
gives  comfort,  interprets  the  Word,  helps  to  understand  each  daily  providence. 

It  happens  nozv  as  in  the  olden  time,  and  is  true  for  us,  "It  is  not  ye  that 
speak,  but  the  Spirit  of  your  Father  that  speaketh  in  you." 

2.  We  must  never  forget  that  the  pattern  of  our  ministry  is  after 
the  life  of  our  Lord.  When  He  zvas  a  missionary  on  earth  He  knezv  the 
People,  their  homes,  their  joys,  their  woes.  He  knezv  the  secret  avenues  lead- 
ing to  the  aching  heart,  and  along  those  silent  pathzvays  of  thought  and  feel- 
ing he  bore  the  message  of  love. 

Would  we  be  like  Him?  We  must  knozv  men,  enter  into  their  fellozvship, 
share  life  zvith  them.  We  must  knozv  the  strong,  active,  successful  men.  We 
must  know  the  weak,  the  helpless,  the  neglected.  Our  gospel  must  bring  heal- 
ing to  the  sick,  comfort  to  those  zvho  are  ready  to  die.  The  pastor's  very  pres- 
ence is  the  suggestion  of  an  immortal  hope. 

Go  lovingly,  hopefully,  prayerfully  from  house  to  house,  for  you  bear  a 
Father  s  love  of  His  needy  children. 

j.  Take  the  children  into  your  heart.  Our  Lord  took  them  in  His 
arms.  They  did  not  fear  Him.  So  the  minister  of  our  Lord  zvill  love  the 
children.  Is  he  the  shepherd?  These  are  his  lambs.  IV e  must  not  get  too  far 
azvay  from  child  life.  There  is  something  wrong  when  children  shrink  from 
us,  and  that  wrong  is  in  us.  Our  life,  our  loving  service,  our  piety  must  be 
such  as  to  attract  the  child  life. 

This  child  nature  never  dies.  'God's  child  may  wander  far  and  long,  till 
the  years  are  very  late,  but  lie  is  still  a  child.  We  are  all  children.  We  speak 
to  those  zvho  call  themselves  old,  but  they  are  children  still.  It  is  a  beautiful 
emphasis  laid  on  child  life  in  the  zvords  of  our  Lord:  "Verily,  I  say  unto  you, 
zvhosoever  shall  not  receive  the  kingdom  of  God  as  a  little  child,  he  shall  not 
enter  therein." 

4.  Your  Parish  is  not  merely  the  place  where  your  members  live. 
Our  Lord  zvent  into  the  country.  He  knezv  the  "regions  round  about."  Would 
we  follow  Him?  We  must  go  out  on  the  prairie,  up  into  the  hills,  into  far  azvay 
places,  where  God's  children  live  in  seclusion. 

Your  realm  extends  to  the  place  zvhere  you  meet  the  Held  of  your  neigh- 
boring pastor.  We  are  to  cover  the  earth.  Your  wider  Parish  is  your  little 
world  in  which  you  carry  the  gospel  to  every  creature. 


YOUNG  PEOPLE'S  DEPARTMENT  291 

Be  an  evangelist,  your  ozvn  evangelist,  among  all  the  people  far  and  near. 
Look  not  for  some  other  one.  Reverently  say  to  the  waiting  Lord:  "Here  am 
I.    Send  me."  - 

5.  In  order  to  have  the  largest  influence,  have  a  care  for  your  own 
spirit.  Be  compassionate,  tender,  sympathetic,  untiring,  bearing  with  patience, 
to  all  men,  the  inspiring  theme  of  all  the  Christian  centuries,  "God  is  love." 

Have  hope  for  all  men.  No  child  is  so  far  removed  that  he  may  not  hear 
his  Father's  voice.    There  is  always  hope. 

We  serve  a  leader  zvho  knows  no  fear,  whose  plans  never  fail.  He  has, 
taught  us  to  believe  in  the  beautiful  parable  of  the  rain  and  the  snozv.  "Sd 
shall  my  word  be  that  goeth  forth  out  of  my  mouth;  it  shall  not  return  unto 
me  void,  but  it  shall  accomplish  that  which  I  please,  and  it  shall  prosper  in  the 
thing  whereunto  I  sent  it." 

My  Dear  Brother,  evangelize  your  Church.  Expect  immediate  results:, 
Bring  souls  into  the  Kingdom  this  very  season.  Remember  the  words  of  our 
Lord:  "Say  not  ye,  There  are  yet  four  months  and  then  cometh  the  harvest ? 
Behold,  I  say  unto  you,  Lift  up  your  eyes,  and  look  on  'the  fields;  for  they  are 
zvhite  already  to  harvest." 

Affectionately  Ever, 


Encouragements 


By  Samuel  McLanahan 

There  are  manifest  encouragements  for  prosecuting  this  zvork.  Just  set- 
tling in  this  nezv  land,  under  nezv  conditions,  these  people  of  foreign  speech  are 
unusually  accessible  to  new  formative  influences.  The  comparatively  nezv  gos- 
pel has  a  peculiar  charm  and  impressiveness  for  them  when,  in  this  strange  land, 
it  comes  to  them  in  their  ozvn  tongue,  wherein  they  were  born.  Dr.  Emrich  of 
the  Congregational  Church  recently  illustrated  this  by  the  feeling  which  he  him- 
self has  for  the  German  he  learned  at  his  mother's  knee,  and  cited  the  pathos^ 
with  which  Jacob  Riis,  that  genuine  American,  alludes  to  his  old  Danish  home 
and  his  old  Danish  language.  Work  among  them  brings  returns.  Over  three 
hundred  Protestant  Magyars  presented  themselves  as  applicants  for  church 
membership  upon  the  first  Sunday,  when  it  zvas  proposed  to  organise  a  Hun- 
garian Protestant  Church  among  them  at  Perth  Amboy,  N.  J.  In  twenty-two 
years  Rev.  Antonio  Arrighi,  the  Italian  Presbyterian  minister  of  New  York  has 
received  1,200  Italians  into  the  church  on  profession  of  faith  and  has  been  in- 
strumental in  sending  fourteen  students  into  the  ministry.  In  evidence  of  con- 
version, in  missionary  zeal  and  in  liberality  converts  among  the  people  who  do 
not  speak  English,  shame  many  English-speaking  Christians. 


A  Missionary  Processional  Hymn 

"All  nations  shall  serve  him,"  Psalms  72:11. 
By  Rev.  Charles  A.  Jones, 
Home  Missionary  Superintendent  of  Pennsylvania 


Kane.    C.  M.  D. 


Charles  Arthur  Jones,  1906. 


j3j  J  jN  iUIh-j 'U-Uigj 


3fc 


* 


"5T  ■      -ff 


1.  From    ev  '  ry    clime    and   coun-try  We   gath-er  in  His  name.  Who,   mold  -  ing  men  and  na—tions, 


ASIC'S  c  S 


■a     g      a 


-<&-  -©- 1*- 


£ 


s=ns 


P 


L  a  I 


z£z£:: 


±=£ 


Unison 


J   *    ■  ifr*    Hi:  I  ■•  r.    g    c  1  *?       ll  •■  c    T  T 


*i:  '  l':  I  f    f  'y-f 


£    r  f '  f! 


^ 


F 

For   -   ev  -  er    is     the     same:       His     way     is     ev-er    wide  -  ning,     His     truth  to  tull-ness  glows, 


*=3=R 


£: 


1* f     '   fi  ' 


Haiirciy 


•  J*4  «l  1  <-l 


S 


^^s 


^C5 


=ff 


-Sr 


His      life       is       so       a   -   bun    -   dant 


It       e  -  ven        o   -    ver   -   flows.  A  .  .  .  men  ! 


^£*feS~ 


SUS 


* 


^ 


7^-f»— ft- 


g  t  r 


2.  The  world  is  Thine,  O  Master ! 

Sower  and  reaper,  guide ; 
The  harvest  quickly  whitens, 

Full  sheaves,  not  tares  abide : 
The  weary,  heavy-laden. 

The  sin-oppressed  and  blind 
Can  know  the  Love,  unfailing, 

Most  wonderful  and  kind. 

3.  Breathe  Thou  upon  us.  Spirit ; 

Inspire  each  throbbing  heart 
To  richer,  fuller  service 

Where  all  can  find  a  part, 
Till   earth   shall   know  no   sorrow, 

Till  heaven  full  joy  shall  gain, 
And  over  all,  triumphant, 

Emmanuel  shall  reign ! 

AMEN. 


Some  Recent  Writers  on  the 
Immigration  Problem 


HOWARD  B.  GROSE 

TP  WO  questions  confront  us 
squarely  as  we  approach 
this  subject.  First,  the  com- 
mon one,  What  do  we  think  of 
the  immigrant?  And  second, 
the  less  common  but  not  less 
important  one,  What  does  the 
immigrant  think  of  us?  It  will 
do  us  good  as  Americans  and  as 
Christians,  to  consider  both  of 
these  frankly.  Honestly  what  is 
your  attitude  toward  the  ordi- 
nary immigrant?  Do  you  want 
him  and  his  family,  if  he  has 
one,  in  your  church?  Do  you 
not  prefer  to  have  him  in  a  mis- 
sion by  himself?  Would  you 
not  rather  work  for  him  by 
proxy  than  with  him  in  person? 
Do  you  not  pull  away  from  him 
as  far  as  possible  if  he  takes  a 
seat  next  to  you  in  the  car? 
Actual  contact  is  apt  to  mean 
contamination,  germs,  physical 
ills.     He  is  ignorant  and  uncul- 


tured. You  desire  his  conver- 
sion— in  the  mission.  You  wish 
him  well — at  a  convenient  dis- 
tance. You  would  much  more 
quickly  help  send  a  missionary 
to  the  Chinese  in  China  than  be 
a  missionary  to  the  Chinaman  in 
America,  would  you  not?  Think 
it  over,  Christian,  and  determine 
your  personal  relation  to  the  im- 
migrant. Is  he  a  brother  n«in, 
or  a  necessary  evil?  Will  you 
establish  a  friendly  relation  with 
him,  or  hold  aloof  from  him? 
Does  your  attitude  need  to  be 
changed  ? 

What,  now,  do  you  suppose 
this  "undesirable"  immigrant 
thinks  of  America  and  Protes- 
tant Christianity?  What  has  he 
reason  to  think,  in  the  light  of 
his  previous  dreams  and  pres- 
ent realizations?  What  does 
Protestant  Christianity  do  for 
him  from  the  time  he  reaches 
America?  What  will  he  learn 
of  our  free  institutions  in  the 
tenement  slums,  or  labor  camps, 
or  from  the  "bosses"  who  treat 
him  as  cattle — that  will  teach 
him  to  prize  American  citizen- 
ship, desire  religious  liberty,  or 
lead  a  sober,  respectable  life? 
If  we  are  in  earnest  about  the 
evangelization  of  the  immigrant 
we  must  put  ourselves  in  his 
place  occasionally  and  get  his 
point  of  view.  When  we  think 
fairly  and  rightly  of  the  immi- 
grant, and  treat  him  in  real 
Christian  wise,  he  will  soon  come 
to  think  of  us  that  our  religion 
is  real,  and  this  will  be  a  long 


KATHARINE  R.   CROWELL 

step  toward  the  change  we  de- 
sire him  to  undergo.  We  shall 
never  accomplish  anything  until 
we  realize  that  the  coming  of 
these  alien  millions  is  not  acci- 
dental but  providential. — From 
"Aliens  or  Americans?" 

Just  think  over  the  best 
Americans  you  know,  or  know 
about.  You  are  studying  "United 
States  History,"  of  course.  Now 
— think !  You  want  great  Ameri- 
cans, you  know.  Begin  with 
Washington,  and  think  down — 
or  up! — to  this  very  Sunday. 
You  may  have  five  minutes.  So 
write  down  the  list.  Ready? 
Now,  check  off  those  who  be- 
lieved the  Bible  and  tried  to  live 
up  to  its  teachings.  Great 
Americans,  I  said;  that  means 
men,  and  it  means  women,  too. 
Everyone  is  checked.  I  thought 
so!  and  on  this  Sunday  and  all 
Sundays,  and  through  the  week 
beside,  it  is  this  kind  of  Ameri- 
can that  we  want  to  make  of  all 
the  children  whom  we  saw  com- 
ing in  at  Ellis  Island,  and  of  all 
who  have  come  since ;  for — 
think     a     moment — every     day 


since  we  were  there,  the  chil- 
dren have  been  streaming  in — 
under  the  Flag.  They  will  all 
be  twenty-one  years  old  some 
day!     And  so  will  you. 

So  on  Sundays  and  on  other 
days,  Christian  people  are  trying 
to  help  the  foreign  boys  and 
girls  to  become  that  kind  of 
Americans. — "Coming  Ameri- 
cans" (Juvenile). 


ISABELLE  HORTON 

The  presence  in  our  cities  of 
foreign  population  in  crowded 
districts  is  a  challenge  to  mis- 
sions. It  costs  something  in 
money  to  send  a  missionary 
across  seas  to  Africa,  to  China, 
to  India,  and  to  support  him 
there ;  it  costs  more  in  loss  of 
life  and  health  from  unfavorable 
climate  and  unaccustomed  ways 
of  living.  Providence  is  now 
sending  the  nations  to  us.  Since 
1857,  three  hundred  thousand 
Chinamen  have  come  to  dwell 
among  us,  paying  their  own 
transportation  and  expenses. 
They  burn  incense  to  idols  in 
their  joss-houses  in  New  York 
and  Chicago.    Catholic  Italy  and 


atheistic  Bohemia  are  within  our 
gates.  The  appeal  of  Africa  in 
America  is  not  less  imperative 
because  it  lacks  the  glamour  of 
distance.  The  churches  are 
awaking  to  this  need,  but  the 
awakening  is  not  swift  enough 
for  the  crisis.  There  must  be 
a  multiplication  of  effort,  and  an 
increase  of  efficiency  along  all 
lines.  The  battle  must  be  won 
within  the  present  quarter 
century. 

Enough  is  being  done  to  in- 
spire greater  effort.  The  Con- 
gregational Church  points  with 
pride  to  the  fact  that  in  the  past 
twenty  years  it  has  increased  the 
number  of  its  German  churches 
in  America,  from  twenty  to  one 
hundred  and  forty-two ;  its  Bo- 
hemian, from  none  to  forty- 
nine  ;  its  Scandinavian  to  one 
hundred  and  ten.  This  is  large- 
ly due  to  home  missionary  ef- 
forts. First,  a  lone  woman,  go- 
ing through  alley  and  byway, 
making  friends  with  the  chil- 
dren and  coaxing  them  into  a  lit- 
tle Sunday  service ;  then  a  Sun- 
day school  organized  over  a  shop 
or  a  saloon,  perhaps ;  next  a  mis- 
sion with  its  appeal  to  fathers 
and  mothers ;  then  a  church 
with  a, building  and  pastor  of  its 
own — this  is  the  history  that  re- 
peats itself  in  the  progress  of 
missions  as  we  seek  to  aid  in 
answering  our  own  prayer,  "Thy 
Kingdom  come."  Presbyterian 
and  Baptist,  Methodist  and  Lu- 
theran Reformed  have  done 
enough,  at  least,  to  forever  set- 
tle the  question  whether  foreign- 
ers are  accessible  to  the  Gospel. 
They  can  be  reached  by  loving 
ministry  and  faithful  preaching, 
here  as  well  as  in  lands  over  the 
seas. — From  "The  Burden  of  the 
City." 

It  would  be  wrong  to  say  that 


the  foreign  people  who  now 
come  to  us  will  dull  our  religious 
faculties  and  make  them  less  im- 
pressionable.    Nothing  could  be 


PROF.    E.    A.    STEINER 

further  from  the  truth ;  for  es- 
sentially they  are  a  religious  peo- 
ple, and  even  now  there  are 
taking  place  among  them  great 
religious  developments.  I  believe 
that  in  the  crude  state  in  which 
the  present  immigrant  comes  he 
is  ready  for  the  best  the  church 
can  give  to  him.  No  one  church 
is  equal  to  the  task,  and,  antag- 
onistic as  they  may  be  towards 
one  another,  I  believe  the  nation 
needs  both  the  Protestant  and 
Catholic  types ;  that  the  field 
now  is  so  large  and  the  problem 
so  difficult,  that  they  both  need 
to  put  forth  their  best  efforts. 
Each  needs  to  prove  Lessing's 
story  of  the  "Three  Rings ;" 
each  needs  to  prove  that  it  has 
the  true  ring,  the  true  message 
of  redemption,  and  it  can  prove 
that  best  by  living  its  best,  and 
by  noblest  endeavor  for  those 
children  of  men  who  have 
brought  to  our  doors  the  prob- 
lem of  Christianizing  the  whole 
world. — "From  "On  The  Trail 
of  the  Immigrant." 


Women's   Work  and  Methods 


THE  EVANGELIZATION  OF  THE  IMMIGRANT 
By  Mary  Wooster  Mills 


SECRETARY    GROSE,    by    his 
recent    admirable    book    "Aliens 
or    Americans,"    has    compelled 
the   reading  public   to   give   attention 
to  the  immense  problem  now  confront- 
ing the    American   people.      And   the 


is  a  conscience-awakener.  After 
reading  it,  there  is  for  the  intelligent, 
American,  Christian  woman  no  evad- 
ing of  the  awful,  immediate,  impera- 
tive obligation  toward  our  brothers 
and  sisters,  coming  to  us  from  over 


THE    SCHAUFFLER    MISSIONARY  TRAINING  SCHOOL 


eyes  of  many,  who  have  heretofore 
given  little  thought  to  the  question  of 
Immigration,  have  been  opened. 
Secretary  Grose's  statistics  are  sur- 
prising and  his  statements  convincing. 
No  wonder  that  after  reading  it  we, 
too,  ask  with  him  regarding  the  im- 
migrants, "What  is  the  church  of 
America  to  do  with  them  ?"  What  she 
can  do,  she  ought  to  do  and  do  quick- 
ly. If  his  first  book  is  an  eye-opener, 
his  second,  "The  Incoming  Millions" 


the  sea.  Secretary  Grose  tells  of  what 
is  actually  being  done  by  the  churches 
and  by  the  benevolent  and  philanthro- 
pic organizations  of  our  country. 
Pitifully  inadequate  as  it  all  is,  it  is 
nevertheless  encouraging  to  know  that 
a  beginning  has  been  made  in  the  right 
direction. 

It  may  be  well  just  now,  while  the 
attention  is  aroused  and  the  conscience 
alert  to  call  to  mind  one  of  the  first 
established,  and  best  equipped  agen- 


WOMEN'S  WORK  AND  METHODS 


297 


cies  for  carrying  on  effective,  evange- 
listic effort  among  the  foreign  peo- 
ples in  America.  This  is  The  Schauf- 
fler Missionary  Training  School  of 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  founded  twenty 
years  ago  by  that  modern  missionary 
hero  and  "Apostle  to  the  Slav," 
Henry  A.  Shauffler,  D.  D. 

Beginning  work  among  the  Slavic 
people  of  Cleveland  twentv-five  years 
ago  he  stood  almost  alone  for  years, 
with  few  helpers,  meagre  facilities, 
and  very  little  support.  To  meet  the 
needs  of  the  work  and  to  secure  what 
is  known  on  the  foreign  field  as 
"native  helpers,"  The  Schauffler  Mis- 
sionary Training  School,  then  known 
as  the  Bible  Readers'  Home  was 
established.  Seven  different  nation- 
alities have  been  trained  in  this  school. 
They  are  working  in  thirteen  different 
states,  carrying  the  gospel  into  the 
homes,  among  women  and  children, 
with  courage  and  zeal  and  effective- 
ness. Quiet  and  unheralded  as  the 
work  of  this  school  is,  it  has  been  just 
the  foundational  work  needed,  and  far 
reaching  in  its  results.  Sunday 
schools  begun,  churches  established, 
communities  transformed,  have  been 
the  unvarying  record  which  has  fol- 
lowed the  labors  of  the  graduates  of 
this  school. 

Now,  at  length,  it  would  seem  the 
Home  Missionary  Societies  of  the 
churches  are  awaking  to  the  needs  of 
just  this  kind  of  work,  which  Dr. 
Schauffler,  with  his  prophetic  eye,  be- 
gan in  such  humble  guise  twenty  years 
ago.  They  are  asking,  "Where  are 
the  women  who  can  carry  for  us,  in 
the  language  needed,  our  message  of 
love  and  sympathy  to  our  alien  sis- 
ters?" Certainly  women  are  needed, 
and  here  let  Mr.  Grose  speak.  "If 
the  alien  women  among  the  incoming 
millions  are  to  be  evangelized,  It  will 
be  done  by  American  women  who  are 
filled  with  this  Christ-like  spirit  of 
personal  service."  The  American 
woman,  sweet  of  spirit  and  full  of 
self-sacrificing  devotion  can  do  much, 
— infinitely  more  than  is  now  being 
done.     But  there  is  one  who  can  do 


more,  and  can  do  it  with  far  greater 
effectiveness.  That  one  is  the  trained, 
cultured,  consecrated,  spiritually 
minded  young  woman,  herself  of  the 
race  whom  she  would  serve. 

Far  too  long  have  we  waited  for 
these  trained  young  women.  Far  too 
long  have  we  forgotten  what  our 
women  of  foreign  speech  crave  most 
in  this  new  country.  Far  too  long 
have  we  neglected  to  use  the  only 
adequate  means  of  Americanizing  our 
foreigners  by  evangelizing  their 
homes ;  and  surely  "it  is  high  time  to 
awake  out  of  sleeo."  There  is  no 
school  in  the  country  so  well  equipped, 
so  efficient  in  its  work,  so  economical- 
ly administered,  so  adapted  for  large 
service  among  our  foreign  women  and 
little  children,  so  competent  to  supply 
the  immediate  demands  of  the  Mis- 
sionary Societies  as  The  Schauffler 
Missionary  Training  School;  for  it 
has  been  doing  this  very  kind  of 
work  now  recognized  as  vitally  neces- 
sary all  the  years  of  its  existence. 

Go  with  me  if  you  will  to  western 
Pennsylvania,  among  its  one  hundred 
thousand  Slovak  miners  and  opera- 
tives, and  watch  that  sweet-faced, 
brave,  young  Slovak  woman,  a  grad- 
uate of  the  School,  going  in  and  out 
among  the  homes  of  these  people, 
reaching  a  helping  hand  to  that  moth- 
er, who,  with  many  little  children  has 
just  come  from  the  far  away  country, 
and  with  no  word  of  English  to  tell 
her  heart-ache  for  a  friend.  See  how 
the  faces  of  the  children  light  up  as 
they  hear  that  beautiful  story  of  the 
Babe  of  Bethlehem,  told  by  one  who 
speaks  not  only  their  own  tongue,  but 
the  language  of  the  wonderful  new 
country  as  well.  If  these  children  are 
to  be  made  over  into  Americans  with 
a  real  love  for  our  people  and  our 
principles,  who  so  well  fitted  to  do  it 
as  she  who  comes  to  them  at  the  hour 
of  their  greatest  need  with  sympathy 
and  helpfulness! 

Or  go  to  Detroit,  with  its  seventy 
thousand  Poles,  and  see  that  young 
missionary,  a  graduate  of  the  School, 
bringing  the  newly  arrived  mothers  to 


FACULTY  AND  STUDENTS,   I906-7 


church  and  the  children  to  Sunday- 
school,  teaching  them  to  sew,  cook, 
sing,  play  the  organ,  and  a  hundred 
things  new  and  strange  and  wonder- 
ful. See  how  in  every  perplexity,  the 
mothers  fly  to  their  missionary,  and 
see  her  when  sickness  comes,  blessing 
the  entire  family  with  her  healing 
ministrations. 

Or  again,  go  to  Chicago,  with  its 
third    largest    Bohemian    city    in    the 


world,  and  see  that  great  primary 
Sunday  school  class  of  tiny  Bohemian 
tots,  too  young  to  know  any  tongue 
save  that  of  their  mother,  and  hear 
them  recite  the  stories  of  the  Bible, 
and  the  Gospel  Hymns  of  praise, 
taught  by  that  consecrated  and  train- 
ed young  Bohemian  graduate  of  the 
School. 

Or  visit  with  me  the  Juvenile  Court 
of  Cleveland  some  morning,  and  ob- 


CLASS  OF   I905 


CLASS  OF   I906 


serve  those  tiny  boys,  not  yet  out  of 
dresses,  and  those  little  girls,  scarcely 
able  to  talk  plain,  who  have  been  ar- 
rested for  theft  or  disorder  because 
their  only  home  was  the  street;  and 
see  that  young  woman,  at  home  in  five 
languages,  trained  in  the  School,  act- 
ing as  Court  interpreter  and  becom- 
ing sponsor  for  these  tiny  waifs,  fol- 
lowing them  up  day  after  day  with  the 
loving  care  of  a  mother,  until  they  can 
be  rescued  from  their  dangerous  en- 
vironment. 

Or  go  to  New  England  with  me  and 
visit  Holyoke  and  New  Britain  and 
see  those  two  Polish  girls  from  Po- 
land, trained  in  the  School,  doing 
pioneer  work  among  their  own  peo- 
ple in  these  cities ; — work  as  truly 
pioneer  and  as  beset  with  difficulties, 
as  was  that  of  Judson  or  Paton  or 
Livingston. 

After  seeing  its  work,  and  investi- 
gating its  record,  and  considering  its 


opportunities,  ask  yourself,  whether 
right  here  is  not  the  place  to  find  the 
answer  to  our  question  and  the  solu- 
tion of  our  problem. 

Note  that  the  School  has  already  its 
building,  its  wide  field  for  practical 
service,  embracing  thirty  different 
nationalities,  that  it  has  no  debt,  and 
already  a  small  endowment,  and  a 
corps  of  teachers  many  of  whom,  not 
only  know  the  languages,  but  the 
characteristics  and  peculiarities  of  the 
races  they  train ;  who  have  themselves 
had  long  years  of  experience  in  direct 
missionary  work  among  the  foreign- 
ers, and  have  thereby  learned,  not  only 
what  the  young  woman  in  training 
needs,  but  what  those  need  to  whom 
she  goes. 

Note  that  the  School  is  situated  in 
the  leading  city  of  the  growing  Middle 
West  with  three-fourths  of  its  four 
hundred  thousand  of  foreign  birth  or 
parentage ;  that  it  is  mid-way  between 


300 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


those  other  large  cities,  New  York 
and  Chicago,  which  have  the  same 
proportion  of  foreigners ;  and  that  it 
has  already  reached  out  its  helping 
hand  in  every  direction  in  our  country, 
to  the  North  and  the  South,  the  East 
and  the  West  as  occasion  has  called. 
Note  again  that  it  is  not  a  Cleve- 
land School  except  in  location,  for  its 
students  remain  in  Cleveland  only 
long  enough  to  graduate ;  nor  is  it 
Congregational  only,  though  begun 
and  carried  on  under  Congregational 
auspices,  for  it  is  giving  its  graduates 
to  Methodists,  Presbyterians,  Dis- 
ciples and  Methodist  Protestants.  Nor 
does  it  confine  its  ministrations  to  our 
own  country,  for  Austria  claims  the 
service  of  one,  and  of  China's  mission- 
aries, one  is  there  because  of  the 
personal  Christian  work  of  some  of 
these  young  women.  Not  interstate 
alone,  not  interdenominational  alone, 
but  international  in  its  influence ;  may 


it  not  be  the  very  agency,  under  God, 
to  be  used  in  meeting  this  great  and 
pressing  problem  of  immigrant  assimi- 
lation ? 

It  is  lacking  nothing  in  appropriate- 
ness of  location,  its  home  in  the  very 
heart  of  American  Poland  and  Bo- 
hemia ;  lacking  nothing  in  opportunity, 
its  parish  the  wide  world ;  lacking 
nothing  in  faculty  equipment  its  teach- 
ers living  on  little  and  giving  long 
hours  of  service ;  lacking  nothing  in 
historic  setting,  no  name  known  bet- 
ter in  missionary  annals  than  Schauf- 
fler ;  lacking  nothing  in  its  future  pos- 
sibilities, for  thirty  million  foreigners 
await  its  service ;  it  is  lacking 
only  one  thing,  the  means  to 
enlarge  its  scope  and  increase 
its  facilities,  treble  its  graduates, 
meet  the  ever  enlarging  demands 
upon  it,  and  enter  successfully 
the  ever  widening  field  of  its 
activity. 


Up-to-Date 


MRS.  WILLIAM  KINCAID,  President  of  the  Woman's 
Home  Missionary  Union  of  New  York  State  has  prepared 
a  tasteful  leaflet  with  the  above  title,  giving  in  the  form  of 
questions  and  answers  a  resume  of  the  work  accomplished  by  the 
New  York  women  during  the  past  year,  and  their  proposed  work 
for  the  coming  twelve  months.  From  this  statement  it  appears 
that  the  New  York  State  Union,  since  its  organization  twenty- 
three  years  ago,  has  raised  for  home  missions  $202,017.61.  This 
sum  has  been  contributed  by  Ladies'  Societies,  Christian  En- 
deavor Societies,  Sunday  Schools,  Children's  Bands,  and  Indi- 
viduals. The  Union  has  nearly  four  hundred  auxiliaries  of  which 
ninety-three  are  young  people's  societies.  It  works  through  the 
five  home-land  organizations,  contributing  proportionally  to 
each,  and  not  the  least  value  of  this  little  leaflet  is  the  incidental 
information,  it  contains  with  respect  to  these  home-land  societies. 
A  similar  leaflet  was  issued  last  year  by  the  New  Jersey  State 
Lmion,  entitled,  "Our  Work  in  a  Nutshell."  This  title  well  ex- 
presses the  scope  and  purpose  of  both  these  leaflets.  In  these 
busy  days,  with  their  multitudinous  appeals,  the  gift  of  condensa- 
tion is  invaluable.  Here,  in  ten  pages  of  an  envelope  leaflet,  is 
contained  everything  that  one  need  to  know  for  an  intelligent 
comprehension  of  the  home  missionary  work  of  our  churches. 

The  ladies  of  New  York  have  set  their  mark  for  the  current 
year  to  raise  $15,000. 


Appointments  and  Receipts 


APPOINTMENTS 


November,    1906. 


Not   in    Commission   last   year. 
Blanchard,  J.  L.,  Denver,  Colo. 
Hollinger,   Edward   S.,    Portland,   Ore. 
Evans,  Harry,   Ipswich,   So.   Dak. 
Gray,  Thomas  R.,  Sedalia,  Mo. 
Hammer,  Henry  A.,  Wellston,  Okla. 
McCurry,   T.   B.,   Grady,   Ga. 
Mathews,  James   L.,   Bearhead,   Fla. 
Ruder,   Peter,   Traer,   Kan. 
Spivey,    Garrian    M.,    Svea    and    Westville, 

Pla. 
White,  W.  D.,  Omega  and  Linwood,  Ala. 

Reconimissioned. 
Andrewson,  S.  M.,  Clintonville,  Wis. 
Bobb,  J.   C,   Fountain,  Colo. 
Bnrkhardt,  Paul,  Ft.  Collins,  Colo. 
Carden,  William  J.,  Bremen,  Ga. 


Claris,  Allen,  Manvel,  No.   Dak. 
Davies,   David   F.,    Catasauqua,   Penn. 
De  Barritt,  Alfred,  Cienfuegos,  Cuba. 
Eckel,  J.  O.,  Blanchard,  Ariz. 
Futch,  James  M.,  Elarbee,  Fla. 
Gasque,  Wallace,   Gilmore,  Ga. 
Griffith,  Thomas  L.,  Cambria,  Minn. 
Huelster,  Anton,  Michigan  City,  Ind. 
Ireland,  Edwy  S.,  Lopez  Island,  Wash. 
Jones,  John  L.,  lone,  Ore. 
McKay,  Charles  G.,  Atlanta,  Ga. 
Miller,  Albert  C,  Willow  Lake,  So.  Dak. 
Nelson,  Frank,   Titusville  ,Penn. 
Patterson,    George    L.,    Colorado    Springs, 

Colo. 
Preston,  Hart  L.,  Trent,  Wash. 
stillmann,  Orson  A.,  Buffalo,  Wyo. 


MAINE — $10.27. 
6.2S7°nth  Bristo1'  Un{on,   4;   South  Freeport, 
NEW  HAMPSHIRE— $29.87. 
Le^ano^Ts'.    10  ^     W°nla>     1Q'     Wes* 
VERMONT — $255.79. 

Brownington  and  Barton  Landing,  32  79 

l^ga^lY,!^8-*6'647-24'       °f      which 

lt«i  i  ?  i  ?j  h-X  re(3uest  of  donors,  116. 
n™«  £. ls«t'  Si1^  Bo^ord,  1st,  .35;  S.  S.,  25; 
SlSVWh"'^  S.,.Home  Dept.  15 
^fnf-fiK  '  h  Thanksgiving  Offering,  10; 
F,tchburg,  Mrs.  E.  A.  Salmond,  5;  Hatfield 
w  w  '  Haverhill,  West  S.  S.,  to  const.  Rev 
w  !  u  P^Pbar  an  Hon-  L.  M.,  50;  E.  W 
Welch,  5.35;  Holyoke,  1st,  23.37;  Lancaster, 
Woman  s  Aux.,  15;  Lowell,  Estate  of  Lu- 
anda R.  Parker,  5.41;  High  St.,  70.92; 
Lynn,  No.  S  S  9.32;  New  Bedford,  Trin! 
i-f  V'  ™-*  i?r10',  New*o»»  Center,  Estate  of 
Mrs.  L.  E.  Ward,  1,480.67;  Newtonville,  A 
Friend,  25;  Northampton,  "M.  C,"  20;  Sa- 
lem, Tab.,  21;  Springfield,  North,  59.25; 
Stockbridge,  Miss  A.  Byington,  100;  Ware, 
Silver  Circle,  15;  Watertown,  Estate  of 
Mrs.  Jane  Snow,  871.66;  Williamstown,  1st 
b.  S.,  10;  Worcester,  Miss  A.  J.  Bradley,  50. 

RHODE  ISLAND— $215.60,  of  which  legacy, 

™Pawtucket>    Estate    of    Hugh    McCrum, 
207;  Saylesville,  Memorial,  8.60. 

CONNECTICUT— $2,852.19,    of    which    leg- 
acy,  $371.42. 

Miss.  Soc.  of  Conn.,  by  Rev.  J.  S.  Ives, 
86.69.  For  salaries  of  Western  Supts., 
1,350.      Total,   $1,436.69. 

Ansonia,  1st,  32.42;  Berlin,  Estate  of 
Harriet  N.  Wilcox,  371.42;  Bridgeport, 
South  S.  S.,  25;  Collinsville,  60.18;  Crom- 
well, 1st,  E.  S.  C,  40;  Ellington,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  C.  Bradley,  1.50;  Greenwich,  2d,  93; 
Hadlyme,  9.35;  Hartford,  Mrs.  M.  A.  Wil- 
liams, 20;  Meriden,  Center  C.  E.,  20;  Mid- 
dletown,  1st,  S.  S.,  25;  3d  S.  S.,  12.62;  New 
Haven,  A  Thank  Offering,  "M.  J.  C,"  10; 
New  London,  1st  Ch.  of  Christ,  22.40;  New- 
town, S.  S.,  20;  Norwich,  1st,  17.75;  North 
Haven,    S.    S.,    16.46;    Plainville,   A    Friend, 


RECEIPTS 

November,    1906. 


30;  Shelton,  15;  Southington,  A.  R.  Pender, 
1;  Southport,  130;  Stafford  Springs,  40.40; 
Wauregan,  Mrs.  J.  A.  M.  Atwood,  50;  West 
Suffield,  A  Friend,   2. 

"Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  C.  S.  Thayer, 
Treas. :  Salary  Fund,  150;  Bridgeport,  So. 
Ch.  L.  Benev.  Soc,  45';  New  Britain,  1st, 
150;  Wethersfield,  C.  E.,  5.     Total,  $350. 

NEW  YORK — $10,318.65;  of  which  legacies, 
$9,375. 

Angola,  A.  H.  Ames,  5;  Bridgewater,  20; 
Brooklyn,  Estate  of  Mrs.  C.  S.  Buck,  7,000; 
Estate  of  Ralph  Dunning,  $2,375;  Clinton 
Ave.,  37;  East  Bloomfield,  1st,  12.59;  Ithaca, 
1st,  61.52;  Miller's  Place,  S.  S.,  1.75;  New 
York  City,  North,  25;  Bethany  S.  S.,  20; 
Riverhead,  Sound  Ave.,  31.10;  Sherburne, 
1st,   716.34;   Westmoreland,  1st,   13.35. 

NEW  JERSEY — $12. 

Bloomfield,  Mrs.  J.  Oakes,  5;  East  Or- 
ange, Swedes,  2.50;  Plainfield,  Swedes,  4.50. 

PE  NN  S  YL  VANI A — $126. 

Philadelphia,  Central,  121;  Warren,  Beth. 
Scand.,   5. 

GEORGIA — $32. 

Atlanta,   Central,   Ladies'   Union,   32. 

ALABAMA— $5. 

Received  by  Rev.  A.  T.  Clarke:  Anda- 
lusia, Antioch,  2 ;  Ashland,  2 ;  Strond,  Mount 
Pisgah,  1. 

LOUISIANA — $5. 
Bay  on   Blue,    5. 

FLORIDA — $5. 

Lake   Helen,   1st   S.    S.,    5. 

TEXAS — $34. 

Dallas,  1st  S.   S.,  20;  El  Paso,  3;  Garden 
Valley,  Galena,  1;  Sherman,  Rev.  A.  Crab- 
tree,  10. 
TENNESSEE — $40. 

Knoxville,  Pilgrim,   40. 
OHIO — $46.25. 

Ashtabula,    Finnish,    1.25;    Oberlin,    Rev. 
H.   B.   Hall,   25;   Ravenna,  Mrs.   C.   C.    Can- 
field,   20. 
INDIANA — $7. 

Alexandria,  5;  Indianapolis,  Covenant,  2. 
ILLINOIS — $190.10. 

Received  by  Rev.  M.  E.  Eversz,  D.D., 
Peoria,  German  Reformed,   5. 

Alton,  S.  S.(  7.02;  Highland  Park,  R.  W. 


302 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


Patton,  50;  Payson,  J.  K.  Scarborough,  100; 
Wheaton,  College  Ch.  of  Christ,  28.08. 

MISSOURI — $493.29. 

Bon  Terre,  1st,  75.37;  Joplin,  1st,  9;  Kan- 
sas City,  Rev.  F.  L.  Johnston,  9.37;  Pros- 
pect Ave.,  10.50;  Kidder,  8.15;  C.  E.,  2; 
Maplewood,  14.85;  Nichols,  3.05;  St.  Louis, 
Pilgrim,  361. 

MICHIGAN — Legacy,   9499.50. 

Allendale,  Estate  of  Amanda  M.  Cooley, 
499.50. 

IOWA — $114.60. 

Iowa  Home  Miss.  Soc.,  by  A.  D.  Merrill, 
Treas.,   114.60. 

MIN  NE  S  O  T  A — $415.42. 

Received  by  Rev.  G.  R.  Merrill:  Benson, 
11.20;  Glenwood,  2;  Hancock,  36;  Minne- 
apolis, Plymouth,  88.27;  Montevideo,  35; 
Morris,  30;  Northfield,  J.  W.  Strong,  D.D., 
25;  Rochester,  5;  Sauk  Center,  19.  Total, 
$251.47. 

Ashley,  12;  Audubon,  1.55;  Backus,  .70; 
Brook,  30;  Brownton  and  Stewart,  30.50; 
Calloway,  30;  Clarissa,  6.95;  Crookston,  10; 
Culdrum,  Swedes,  2;  Dugdale,  .90;  Edger- 
ton,  11;  Eldred,  .31;  Ersklne,  1.21;  Hack- 
ensack,  .85;  Janesville,  Rev.  C.  L.  Hill,  1; 
Kasota,  Swedes,  3;  Lake  Park,  1.55;  Lock- 
hart,  .45;  Lyle,  1st,  50;  Maplebay,  1.45  Ma- 
pleton,  S.  S.,  .86;  Mazeppa,  1st,  4.01;  Mrs. 
O.  D.  Ford,  5;  Mentor,  1.31;  Nymore,  1.16; 
Park  Rapids,  1.71;  Plummer,  .44;  Shevllu, 
.41;  Solway,  .93;  Turtle  River,  11.75;  Win- 
ger,  .35. 

KANSAS — $2. 

Ransom,  Ebenezer  German,   2. 

NEBRASKA — $23.75. 

Arlington,  Ch.  of  Christ,  1.25;  Springfield, 
A  Friend,  2.50;  Sutton,  German,  20. 

NORTH  DAKOTA — $119. 

Abercromble,  2.50;  Colfax,  1;  Eldridge, 
6.50;  Fredonia,  German,  10;  Harvey,  Ger- 
man Bethlehem,  2;  Eigenheim  German,  8; 
Hope  German,  2;  Kinlin,  German,  Miss. 
Rally,  75;  Jamestown,  12. 

SOUTH  DAKOTA — $392.52. 

Received  by  Rev.  W.  H.  Thrall:  Howard, 
A  Friend,  190.97;  Revillo,  10.30;  Rev.  H.  G. 
Adams,   5.     Total,   $206.27. 

Bonesteel,  6;  Fairfax,  German,  Bethle- 
hem, 30;  Hope,  German,  20;  Java,  Israel's 
German,  15;  Johannes  German,  15;  Special 
for  Debt,  4;  Johannesthal,  German,  5;  Sioux 
Falls,  German,  16.75;  Tyndall,  51.20;  Valley 
Springs,  3.50;  Wagner,  1st,  2.80;  Worthing, 
17. 


COLORADO — $104.70. 

Received  by  Rev.  H.  Sanderson.  Rye, 
C.  E.  Soc,   6.80. 

Colorado  Springs,  1st,  14.40;  DENVER;Pil- 
grim,  5.60;  Eaton,  Men's  Kingdom  Exten- 
sion Soc,  22;  Highland  Lake,  3.40;  Long- 
mont,  1st,  42.50;  Rye,  1st,  5;  Trinidad,  1st,  5. 

WYOMING — $2.75. 

Woman's  Missionary  Union,  Miss  E.  Mc- 
Crum,  Treas.     Rock  Springs,  2.75. 

MONTANA — $10. 

Received  by  Rev.  W.  S.  Bell.     Laurel,  10. 

UTAH — $20. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Miss  A.  Baker, 
Treas.     Special,  20. 

OREGON — $143.31. 

Oregon  Home  Missionary  Soc,  by  M.   E. 

Thompson,  Treas.  Portland,  1st,  42.91; 
Hassalo,  22.40;  Sunnyside,  25;  St.  John's, 
Special,  10.     Total,  100.31. 

Beaver  Creek,  German  St.  Peter,  25; 
Beaverton,  Bethel,   8;   St.  John's,  1st,   10. 

Correction:  Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs. 
C.  F.  Clapp,  Treas.,  Gaston,  15;  Hillside,  5; 
Patton  Valley,  5.     Total,  $25. 

Erroneously  acknowledged  in  October 
Receipts  under  Washington  instead  of 
Oregon. 

WASHINGTON — $118.25. 

Aberdeen,     Swedes,     3.25;     Ritzvllle,     1st 

German,  50;  German  Zions,  70. 

Total    $123.25 

Less  $5  erroneously  acknowledged 
in  June  from  Lakeside  and 
Chelan    5.00 

Balance     $118.25 

CANADA — $5. 

Mille  Roches,  Ont.,  Mrs.  A.  J.  Barnhart,  5. 

ALASKA — $18.75. 

Douglas,   10;   Valdez,  8.75. 

November  Receipts. 

Contributions $10,504.14 

Legacies    12,810.66 

$23,3 

Interest    1,5 

Literature   

Home  Missionary 

Total    $25,098.76 


14.80 
93.18 
04.23 
86.55 


STATE  SOCIETY  RECEIPTS 


THE     MISSIONARY     SOCIETY     OF     CON- 
NECTICUT. 

Ward  W.  Jacobs,  Treasurer,  Hartford. 
Contributions   for   month   of  October,  1906. 

Ashford,  6.50;  Bridgeport,  King's  High- 
way, 6.52;  Bristol,  1st,  16.56;  Cheshire,  21; 
Colebrook,  14.85;  Ellsworth,  7.36;  Foxon, 
7.25;  Haddam  Neck,  Mrs.  E.  O.  Lundquist, 
Personal,  .75;  Hartford,  1st,  for  C.  H.  M  .S., 
83.69;  Harwinton,  7.84;  Ivoryton,  Swedish, 
5;  for  C  .H.  M.  S.,  3;  Kent,  1st,  7.02;  Litch- 
field, 1st,  48.27;  Meriden,  1st,  Rev.  J.  S.  Ives, 
Personal,  10;  New  Britain,  1st,  38.69;  New 
Haven,  Emanuel,  Swedish,  10;  Simsbury, 
1st,  16.72;  Somersville,  3.75;  Southport,  52; 
South  Windsor,  2d,  18.07;  Stamford,  7.54; 
Stamford  and  Greenwich,  Swedish,  6; 
Thomaston,  1st,  for  work  at  Eagle  Rock, 
23.87;  Waterbury,  2d,  661.73;  Westbrook, 
10.32;  Westford,  5;  West  Stafford,  6;  West 
Woodstock,  14.30;  Wethersfleld,  70.30;  W.  C. 
H.  M.  U.  of  Conn.,  Mrs.  George  Follett,  Sec- 
retary, Hartford,  1st,  Mrs.  F.  B.  Cooley, 
Personal,    for  work   among  Foreigners   in 


Connecticut,    50;    Bequest   of   Catharine    J. 
Barnum,  late  of  New  Preston,  Conn.,   500. 

Total    $1,739.90 

M.    S.    C $1,653.21 

C.  H.  M.  S 86.69 

$1,739.90 

MASSACHUSETTS      HOME      MISSIONARY 
SOCIETY. 
Receipts  in  November,  1906. 
Rev.  Joshua  Coit,  Treasurer,  Boston,  Mass. 
Amesbury,    Main    St.,     20;     Assonet,    12; 
Athol,    47.79;    Barre,    38.50;    Beverly,    Dane 
St.,    5;    Blackstone,     17;     Boston,     Central, 
522.24;     Old     South,     2,590;     Park     St.,     6; 
Charlestown,  Winthrop,   20.88;  Dorchester, 
2d,  Friend,   10;   Roxbury,  Eliot,  151.75;  Ja- 
maica Plain,  Central  S.  S.,  29.39;  1st,  196.56 
Braintree,     1st,     Member,     4;     South,     15 
Brockton,   Porter,    200;    South,    S.    S.,    22.50 
Cambridge,    No.    Ave.,    162;    Chelmsford,    2 
Chicopee  Falls,  2d,  25.66;  Clinton,  German 
5.50;  Danvers,  Maple  St.,  H.  D.  S.  S.,  28.92 
Falmouth,  Woods  Hole,  5;  Finns,  the  Cape, 


APPOINTMENTS  AND  RECEIPTS 


303 


11.75;  Fitchburg,  Finn,  12;  Foiboro,  Beth- 
any, 21.49;  Payson  Est.,  5;  Gloucester, 
Bethany,  15;  Income  of  Hale  Fund,  50; 
Harwich,  20.70;  Hinsdale,  47.89;  Holbrook, 
Winthrop,  4.05;  Ipswich,  So.,  5;  Lawrence, 
Armenians,  50;  Lexington,  Hancock,  75; 
Leominster,  No.,  17.27;  S.  S.,  2;  Lowell, 
Friend,  100;  Lunenburg-,  7.68;  Marshfield, 
2d,  11.77;  Maynard,  Finn,  3.50;  Medford, 
"West,  40;  Medway,  Village,  13.91;  Methuen, 
5;  Montague,  Turners  Falls,  5.47;  Newbury, 
1st,  1;  Orange,  Central,  30.74;  Petersham, 
100;  Quincy,  Finns,  2.75;  Wollaston,  81.07; 
Rochester,  Bast,  5;  Salem,  Tabernacle, 
11.50;  Sharon,  42.09;  Springfield,  Olivet, 
24.10;  Taunton,  Trim,  265.87;  Webster,  40; 
Westhampton,  24;  "West  Springfield,  1st, 
20;  Income  of  Whiteomb  Fund,  295;  Whit- 
insville,  B.  Cent-a-Day  Band,  13.21;  Wor- 
cester, Finn,  1;  Wakefield,  Mrs.  J.  C.  Whit- 
ing1, for  Annuity,  1,000;  Washington  Nat'l 
Bank,  24;  Designated  for  Mr.  De  Barrit's 
work,  Melrose,  Junior  Dept.,  S.  S.,  1.75; 
Designated  for  C.  H.  M.  S.,  Concord,  Trim, 
3.10. 

SUMMARY. 

Regular    $6,643.50 

designated    for    Mr.    De    Barrit's 

Work    1.75 

Designated  for  C.  H.  M.  S 3.10 

Home. Missionary 2.50 

Total $6,650.85 

THE     MISSIONARY    SOCIETY     OP     CON- 
NECTICUT. 
Receipts  in  November,  1906. 

Ward  W.  Jacobs,  Treasurer,  Hartford. 

Rolton,  8;  Bristol,  Swedish,  4;  Chester, 
12.73;  Colli  nsvi  He,  30.70;  Coventry,  2d, 
10.75;  East  Hartford,  1st,  1.22;  East  Haven, 
1;  Exeter  (in  Lebanon),  8.81;  Glenwood, 
C.  B.,  1.30;  Granby,  Swedish,  3;  Hartford, 
1st,  for  Italian  work,  10;  Kensington,  for 
Italian  work,  25;  Lisbon,  10;  Madison, 
35.42;  Manchester,  2d,  132.66;  for  C.  H.  M.  S., 
132.66;  Merlden,  1st,  S.S.,  13.16;  Meriden,  1st, 
5;  Mianus,  12;  Middefield,  92.59;  Middle- 
town,  1st,  55.72;  Naugatuck,  Swedish,  6; 
Napaug,  20.81;  C.  B.,  10;  New  London,  1st, 
14.85;  Northford,  10;  Old  Saybrook,  6.15; 
Plainville,  Swedish,  5;  Plantsville,  43.40; 
Rocky  Hill,  26.12;  South  Britain,  6;  for 
C.  H.  M.  S.,  6;  Thomaston,  1st,  8.97;  Swed- 
ish, 10;  Waterbury,  Bunker  Hill,  7.54;  West 
Cornwall,  C.  E.,  10;  Woodbridge,  12.05;  To 
be  used  for  Foreigners  in  Connecticut, 
3.73;  Woodstock,  1st,  14.53;  W.  C.  H.  M.  V. 
of  Conn.,  Mrs.  George  Follett,  Secretary, 
Bridgeport,  South,  Ladies'  Benevolent  So- 
ciety, for  work  among  Foreigners  in  Con- 
necticut, 16. 

Total    $847.87 

M.  S.  C $709.21 

C.  H.  M.  S 138.66 

$847.87 

NEW  YORK  HOME  MISSIONARY 

SOCIETY. 

Receipts  for  the  Month   of   October,   1906. 

Clayton  S.  Pitch,  Treasurer. 

Brooklyn,  1st  German,  2.90;  Danby,  10.40; 
Hornby,  1.25;  Lakewood,  15;  Middletown, 
North,  12.50;  New  York,  Armenian,  10.76; 
Pulaski,  33.50;  Roscoe,  10;  Saratoga,  55; 
Spencerport,  Friends,  2;  W.  H.  M.  U.,  215. 
Total,   $368.31. 

NEW  YORK  HOME  MISSIONARY 

SOCIETY. 

Receipts  for  the  Month  of  November,  1906. 

Clayton  S.  Fiteh,  Treasurer. 

Black  River  &  St.  Lawrence  Association, 

16;    Brooklyn   Hills,    10;    Chenango   Forks, 

Y.    P.    S.,    8;    Chenango    Forks,    Special,    5; 

Chenango  Forks,  A.  M.  Wood,  15;  De  Buy, 

ter,   6;    Homer,   20.39;    Hornby,    1.35;   Iron- 

ville,  2d,  10;  Johnsonburg,  1st,  3;  New  Ro- 

chelle,  2.75;  New  York,  Finnish,  10;  Perry 


Center,  10;  Rensselaer  Falls,  20.50;  Syra- 
cuse, Pilgrim,  5.25;  Danforth  Cheveliers 
.35;    Tallman,   6;   W.   H.   M.   U.,   65.      Total, 

NEW    HAMPSHIRE    HOME    MISSIONARY 
SOCIETY. 

Receipts  in  November,  1906. 

Alvin    B.    Cross,    Treasurer,    Concord. 

Bennington,  5.50;  Boscawen,  20.01;  Can- 
dia,  6.65;  Chester,  6.50;  East  Alstead,  5.79- 
Franklin,  22;  Gil  sum.  10;  Ho  I  Us,  10  04 : 
Keene,  20.89;  Milton,  8.50;  Newport,  17i73: 
Surry,  5.     Total,  $138.61. 

OHIO   HOME  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY. 

Receipts  in  November,  1906. 

Rf,v'  C'  5;  Small»  Treasurer,   Cleveland 

A  pfcklt7re,St'A58LA^ahnla  Fir^r  33  75; 
w„  i  •  ett'  1'  Ashtabula,  2d,  Rev.  W  H 
Woodring,  5;  Ashland,  22.86;  Brookfleld 
15;  Cincinnati,  Storrs,  C.  B.,  1;  Cincinnati 
Storrs,  Personal,  2.50;  Lawrence.  St  1$ 
Cleveland,  Cyril,  41;  Collinwood?  { 2.50 '■'  Col 
lumbus,  Plymouth,  Mrs.  L.  A.  Converse  5  • 
friend,  1;  Rev  T.  P.  Jenkins?  7 ;  Kent! 
J.  G.  Getz,  5;  H.  L.  Spellman,  5;  Little  Mus- 
k  ngum,  1  80;  Mansfield,  1st,  S.  A.  Jennings 

9'^^^'  2UM2r£tta'  lst  (Branchef); 
^5^^al,la' 18;  C.  E.,  20;  New  London,  15  • 
North  Monroeville,  Mrs.  Truesdall,  1;  Mrs 
Robbins,  1;  Oberlin,  lst,  46.91;  Mrs  Brad- 
shaw,  1;  Mrs.  Whipple,  1;  Panetville,  25; 
Tallmadge,  Per.,  1.50;  Toledo,  2d,  Per  1: 
York,  8.     Total,   $382.32.  '      ' 

n^°  wMrs"  ,Ge°rge  B.  Brown,  Treasurer 
Toledo    Ohio  Missionary    Union, 

Cleveland,  Euclid  Ave.  W.  A.,  20;  Snrinir- 
fleld,  1st  W.  M.  S.,  2.50.  Total,  22  50  Gen- 
eral Total,  $404.82. 

DONATIONS    OF    CLOTHING,    ETC., 

Reported  at  the  National  Office  in  Novem- 
ber, 1906. 

oi^ron'  Ohio'  West  Ch->  W.  M.  S.,  bbl., 
S1.37;_   Bangor,    N.    Y.,    W.    M.    S.,    bbl.,    22- 

cash,  95;  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  Olivet  Ch., 
Montgomery     Miss.     Soc,     box     and     bbl. 

139.68;  South  Ch.,  Woman's  Beneficent  Soc! 
and  Wednesday  Workers,  2  boxes,  432  35- 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  Central  Ch.,  Zenana  Band', 
2.  bbls.,  185;  Lewis  Ave.  Ch.,  box,  157.73- 
Canandaigua,  N.  Y.,  lst  Ch.,  W  H  M  S 
box  and  2  bbls.,  173.50;  Cleveland,  Ohio! 
Euclid  Ave.  Ch.,  box  and  bbl.,  180.25;  Dan- 
ville, Vt.,  Ch.,  package,  20.80;  Darien, 
Conn.,  lst  Ch.,  bbl.,  59;  Dover,  N.  H.,  1st 
Ch.,  Ladies'  H.  M.  S.,  box  and  bbl.,  99.70- 
East  Jaffrey,  N.  H.,  Cheerful  Helpers,  62- 
Greenwich,  Conn.,  2d  Ch.,  box,  300.07;  Hart- 
f oflv c«nn>  4th  Ch.,  Woman's  Union,  box, 
181.50;  Homer,  N.Y.,Ch.,  box,  51.71;  Littleton, 
N.  H.,  Ladies'  Soc,  bbl.,  58.10;  Manchester, 
N.  H.,  Franklin  St.  Ch.,  Ladies'  Benev.  Soc, 
2  bbls.  and  cash,  145;  Middletown,  Conn., 
lst  Ch.,  Ladies'  H.  M.  Soc,  bbl.,  101.42 
Milford,  Conn.,  Plymouth  Ch.,  W.  M.  S , 
bbl.,  65;  New  Haven,  Conn.,  Ch.  of  the  Re- 
deemer, 2  bbls.,  135;  Humphrey  St.  Ch., 
Ladies'  Aid  Soc,  box  and  2  bbls.,  245.43; 
Norwich,  Conn.,  Broadway  Ch.,  W.  H.  M.  S  , 
4  boxes,  216.01;  Oakville,  Conn.,  Union  Ch., 
Ladies'  Aid  Soc,  box  and  bbl.,  63;  Old  Say- 
brook,  Conn.,  lst  Ch.,  L.  H.  M.  S.,  2  bbls  , 
140;  Redding,  Conn.,  W.  H.  M.  Aux.,  bbl., 
55.62;  Rockville,  Conn.,  Union  Ch.,  Ladies' 
Aid  Soc,  box,  175;  St.  Johnsbury,  Vt.,  North 
Ch.,  W.  A.,  box,  100;  Stonington,  Conn., 
Six  Members  of  the  "Ten-Minutes-a-Day" 
Soc,  bbl.,  50;  Webster  Groves,  Mo.,  lst  Ch., 
W.  A.,  box,  bbl.  and  package,  195;  West- 
ville,  Conn.,  Ladies'  Miss.  Soc,  bbl.,  59. 
Total,  $4,121.91. 


WOMEN'S  STATE   ORGANIZATIONS 


„J!fH2NAI'  FEDERATION  OF  WOMAN'S  STATE 
ORGANIZATIONS,  President,  Mrs.  B  WKInnl 
1012  Iowa  St.,  Oak  Park,  111;  Secretary  Mtag AnS 
A.    McFarland,    196    N.    Mato'st      &     NT 

STn"  V*™"    A'    H-    F1Ult'    6°4   W1111S   A;«-  'S*t*[ 

1,  NEW  HAMPSHIRE,  Female  Cent.  Institution 
organized  August,  1804;  and  Home  Missionary  Union 
£fna,±?d  CJUDei  189°-  PrMid«t,  Mrs.  James  Minot 
Concord;  Secretary,  Mrs.  M.  W.  NIms.  5  Blake  St 
Concord;  Treasurer,  Miss  Annie  A.  McFarland,  196 
JN.  Main  St.,   Concord. 

2,  MINNESOTA,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  September^  1872.  President,  MlssO.tharlne 
W.  Nichols  230  B.  9th  St.,  St.  Paul;  Secretary, 
Mrs.  S.  VS.  Fisher,  2131  B.  Lake  St.,  Mlnneapol^ 
Treasurer,  Mrs.  W.  M.  Bristol,  815  B.  18th  St  Min- 
neapolis. ' 

8,  ALABAMA,  Woman's  Missionary  Union,  organ- 
lied  March,  1877;  reorganized  April,  1889.  President, 
Mrs  M.  A.  DUlard,  Selma;  Secretary,  Mri  E  Guy 
Snell    Mobile;  Treasurer,  Nellie  L.  Clark,  Marlon. 

4,  MASSACHUSETTS  AND  RHODE  ISLAND  (hav 
Ing  certain  auxiliaries  elsewhere).  Woman's  Home 
Missonary  Association,  organized  February,  1880  Presi- 
dent, Mrs.  Wm.  H.  Blodgett,  645  Centre  St.,  Newton, 
Mass.;  Secretary,  Miss  Mary  O.  B.  Jackson,  607  Con- 
gregational House,  Boston;  Treasurer,  Miss  Lizzie  D 
White,  607  Congregational  House,  Boston. 

5,  MAINE,    Woman's  Missionary  Auxiliary,    organ- 
ized June,  1880.     President,  Mrs.  Katherlne  B    Lewis 
S.  Berwick;  Secretary,  Mrs.  Emma  C.  Waterman,  Gor- 
ham;  Treasurer,  Mri.  Helen  W.  Hubbard,  79  Pine  St 
Bangor.  ' 

«,  MICHIGAN,  Woman'a  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  May,  1881.  President,  Mrs.  O.  R.  Wilson 
65  Frederick  Aye.,  Detroit;  Cor.  Secretary,  Mrs.  L.  p' 
Rowland,  369  Fountain  St.,  Grand  Rapids;  Treasurer! 
Mrs.  A.  H.  Stoneman,  341  Worden  St.,  Grand  Rapids. 

7,  KANSAS,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union,  or- 
ganized October,  1881.  President,  Mr».  J.  B.  Ingham 
Topeka;  Secretary,  Mrs.  Bmma  E.  Johnston,  1323  w' 
15th  St.,  Topeka;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  J.  P.  Wahle  1258 
Clay  St..  Topeka. 

8,  OHIO,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union,  organ- 
ized May,  1882.  President,  Mrs.  C.  H.  Small.  196 
Commonwealth  Aye.,  Cleveland;  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer, Mrs.  G.  B.  Brown,  2116  Warren  St.,  Toledo. 

8,  NEW  YORK,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  October,  1883.  President,  Mrs.  William  Kln- 
cald,  483  Greene  Ave.,  Brooklyn;  Secretary,  Mrs.  Chas 
H.  Dickinson,  WoodclIff-on-Hudson,  N.  J. ;  Treasurer, 
Mrs.  J.  J.   Pearsall,  153  Decatur  St..   Brooklyn. 

10,  WISCONSIN,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  Oct..  1883.  President,  Mrs.  T.  G.  Grassle, 
Wauwatosa;  Secretary,  Mrs.  J.  H.  Dixon,  1024  Chapln 
St..  Belolt;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  Edward  F.  Hanson,  Belolt. 

11,  NORTH  DAKOTA,  Woman's  Home  Missionary 
Union,  organized  November,  1883.  President,  Mrs.  L. 
B.  Flanders,  Fargo;  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Mrs.  J. 
M.   Fisher,  Fargo. 

12,  OREGON,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union,  or- 
ganized, July.  1884.  President,  Mrs.  B.  W.  Luckey, 
707  Marshall  St.,  Portland;  Cor.  Secretary,  Miss  Mercy 
Clarke,  395  Fourth  St.,  Portland;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  C. 
F.  Clapp,  Forest  Grove. 

13,  WASHINGTON,  Including  Northern  Idaho,  Wo- 
man's Home  Missionary  Union,  organized  July,  1884; 
reorganized  June,  1889.  President,  Mrs.  W.  0.  Wheeler, 
302  N.  J.  St.,  Tacoma:  Secretary,  Mrs.  Edward  L.' 
Smith,  725  14th  Ave.;  Treasurer,  E.  B.  Burwell,  323 
Seventh   Ave..   Seattle. 

14,  SOUTH  DAKOTA,  Woman's  Home  Missionary 
Union,  organized  September,  1884.  President,  Mrs.  H. 
K.  Warren.  Yankton;  Secretary,  Mrs.  A.  C.  Bowdlsh, 
Mitchell:  Treasurer,  Mra.  A.  Loomis,   Redfleld. 

15,  CONNECTICUT,  Woman's  Congregational  Home 
Missionary  Union  of  Connecticut,  organized  January, 
1885.  President,  Mrs.  Washington  Choate,  Greenwich; 
Secretary,  Mrs.  C.  T.  Millard,  36  Lewis  St.,  Hartford; 
Treasurer,  Mrs.  Chas.  S.  Thayer,  64  Gillett  St.,  Hart- 
ford. 

18,  MISSOURI,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union, 
organized  May,  1885.  President,  Mrs.  M.  T.  Runnels, 
1229  Garfield  Ave.,  Kansas  City;  Secretary,  Mrs.  C. 
W.  McDanlel,  2729  Olive  St.,  Kansas  City,  Treasurer, 
Mrs.    A.   D.    Rider,   2524   Forest  Ave.,    Kansas  City. 

17,  ILLINOIS,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union,  or- 
ganized May,  1885.  President,  Mrs.  B.  W.  Firman. 
1012  Iowa  St.,  Oak  Park;  Cor.  Secretary,  Mrs.  G.  H. 
Schneider,  019  Warren  Ave.,  Chicago;  Treasurer,  Mrs. 


«on0'chTchago°mb'  ^  IrTta«  Ave"  D^-  "■*  ** 

^B,^i%^7^fr^T^  vraA  ,««*- 

Secretary  and  Treasurer  M™  W  /*  BPed'  Qrlaae^. 
19,  NORTHERN MMiSorIu  '  w^™'  f^11' 
Missionary  Union,  orgaXd ^'  jJt  =ome 
Mrs.  F  B  Perkins  i«ao  t>  J"ue'  •"«".  President, 
tary,   Mrs    E     of  tomm         B™adway,   Oakland;   Secret 

2904    Q    St.      L  nco  n      Tr«!    ret*ry.'    Mr8-    H-    Bron, 
Hall,  2^22  Vine^T V^r™'    ^     Chartott«    '• 

ganized^uart,  S^Pres^Zt  ^"T^  ™0*'  <*' 
Daytona;  Secretary?  Mrs    TO "    R W1,  £  M"  Winslow, 

Missionary  Union,  organized iff  K'J°? 
«S  \0 ^  NoS^fare-mont1"8  Aawta"'   *— "^ 

banks,  St.  Johnsbury  sTcrttarV  U^4^  Falr" 
Essex  Junction;  Treasure"  j£s  O  h™^ P0*"' 
Brattleboro.  "    u-    H-    Thompson, 

org^nlzTo'ctob^'lsT^p'8  ?°m'  Mi^onary  Union, 

per,  653  So.  Logan  St     Denv^  T«f.*   Mrs-   J°el  Har- 

Sweet,  1460  Franklin  <?r     n™  '  Trfasurer.  Mrs.  L.  D. 

retary    Mr,    1  L    Elan  hard  S  Joung  People's  Sec- 

88,    WYOMINfi    w««.   .  '  !2.67.GayIord  St.,  Denver. 

•zed  Mar^3NpVesTd°eTMrs*TF^Powe!0n'  Pr- 
emie; Secretary,  Mrs    H "p. v„£ '  F-  {nelson,  Ohey- 

o„»'fc« capiM  a;,..  Nibs     •     ■ J- 

32,    TEXAS,   Woman's   Home  Missinnartr  ttv,,-,,.. 
ganized  March,  1890.      Secretary,  5fa fnSSd Hockley"" 

3TrMOTNTA^AaSWrreM,?reriJrrS-  A-  S^.  S^' 
Hoag,  Orr;  Secretary,   Mrs.  J.  W    Hevward     nmwf 

742  N.  19th  St^  Philadelphia;  Secretary,  Mrs'  Osgood 
sToSkSrTw''  Mr.S-  ^a-'d  Howells  •  Kane  ' 
.,  I'  r?5"?S?'  Woman's  Missionary  Union,  orzan 
Ized  October,  1890.  President,  Mrs.  0.  W Rogers 
Medford;  Secretary,  Mrs.  C.  M.  Terhune  Fl  B«n«  I 
Treasurer,    Mrs.    Cora    Worrell,    Pond Creek  ' 

36,  NEW  JERSEY,  Including  District ^f"col,,mhU 
UnYofofth?^  VirTglD,a-  W^'b  Hole0' M^onS 
1891  Pr(SLNr3Wx/erS?7,Asf?ci,ltion'  ozonized  MaTc? 
1891.    President,  Mrs.  John  M.  Whlton,  Plalnfleld-  Sec 

G •     T  TMr9MA1,,efln,?-  ^,"-  Westneld;'TreisuV^'Mr1: 

o^    -rii,  Merrifleld.    Falls  Church,    Va 
m     '  ^^   Woman'B   Missionary   Union,    organized 
an     rnih-  Psresidtent-  M/9-  C  T?Hemphm    Saft  Uk. 
Citj,    Utah;    Secretary,    Mrs.    L.    B.    Hall     Salt    Lak^ 

815:  utet:  TreaBllrer•  Mlss  Anna  B"ke"'  S»*  SK 

41,  IDAHO,  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Union  nr 
eanlzed  1895.  President,  Mrs.  R.  B.  Wright  Boise- 
Secretary,  Mrs.  O.  B.  Mason,  Mountain  Home  Treaa' 
urer,  Mrs.   G.   W.  Derr,   Pocatello,   Idaho 


Congregational    Home   Missionary   Society 

FOURTH  AVENUE  AND  TWENTY-SECOND  STREET,  NEW  YORK,  N.  Y. 

CHARLES   S.    MILLS,   D.D.,    President 

H.    CLARK    FORD,    Vice-President 
WASHINGTON   CHOATB,   D.D.,  JOSEPH    B.    CLARK,    D.D.  j 

Acting  General  Secretary  Editorial  Secretary 

DON   0.   SHELTON,   Associate  Secretary 
WILLIAM    B.    HOWLAND,    Treasurer 

DIRECTORS 

CHARLES  S.   MILLS,  D.D.,   Chairman Missouri  GEORGE   R.   LEAVITT,    D.D Wtaconsia 

REV.    RAYMOND    CALKINS Maine  REV.    BASTIAN   SMITS Mlehl*a» 

GEORGE   E.   HALL.   D.D New  Hampshire  MR.  EDWARD  TUCKER ....Kuni 

HENRY  FAIRBANKS,   Ph.D Vermont  JOHN   E.    TUTTLE.   D.D ...Nebraska 

S.   H.   WOODROW.   D.D Massachusetts  FRANK  T.  BAYLEY.  D.D ".. Colorado 

MR.  JOHN  F.   HUNTSMAN Rhode  Island  MR.   ROBERT  D.  BENEDICT ..New  York 

REV.   H.   H.   KELSEY Connecticut  L.   H.   HALLOCK,   D.D Minnesota 

S.   PARKES  CADMAN,  D.D New  York  II.    C.    HERRING.    D.D .Nebraska 

MR.    W.    W.    MILLS Ohio  E.  L.   SMITH,   D.D Washington 

W.  E.  BARTON,  D.D Illinois  REV.   LIVINGSTON   L.   TAYLOR New  fork 

E.  M.  VITTUM,  D.D .Iowa 

EXECUTIVE    COMMITTEE^ 

WASHINGTON   CHOATE,    D.D.,    Acting   Chairman 

One  Year  Two  Years 

S.    PARKES  CADMAN,    D.D.  MR.  JAMES  G.   CANNON 

HARRY   P.   DEWEY.   D.D.  MR.   W.    WINANS    FREEMAN 

MR.  JOHN   F.   HUNTSMAN  REV.   HENRY    H.    KELSEY 

MR.  CHARLES  C.   WEST  REV.  LIVINGSTON  L.   TAYLOR 


Field   Secretary,    REV.    W.    G.   PUDDEFOOT,    South   Framingham,    Mass. 


SUPERINTENDENTS 
Moritz    E.    Eversz,    D.D.,    German    Department,    153    La    Salle    St.,    Chicago,    111. 
Rev.   S.   V.   S.   Fisher,   Scandinavian  Department,   Minneapolis,   Minn. 
Rev.    Chas.    H.    Small,    Slavic    Department,    Cleveland,    Ohio. 

Indianapolis,     Ind.         Rev.  H.  Sanderson Denver,   Colo. 

Geo.    R.    Merrill,   D.D Minneapolis,   Minn.         J.    D.   Kingsbury,   D.D (New  Mexico,    Arizona, 

Alfred    K.    Wray,    D.D Carthage,    Mo.  Utah   and  Idaho),   Salt   Lake  City. 

Rev.  W.  W.    Scudder,   Jr... West  Seattle,   Wash.  Rev.  C.   F.   Clapp Forest   Grove,   Ore. 

Rev.  W.  B.  D.   Gray Cheyenne,  Wyo.         Rev.  Chas.  A.  Jones,   75  Essex  St.,   Hackensack,  N.J. 

Frank   E.   Jenkins.    D.D.,   The   South Atlanta,  Ga.  Rev.  W.    S.    Bell Helena,    Mont. 

W.   H.  Thrall,   D.D Huron,   S.   Dak.         J.  D.  Kingsbury,  D.D.. Oklahoma  City,  Okla. 

Rev.   G.  J.   Powell Fargo,   N.  Dak.         Geo.  L.  Todd,   D.D „ Havana,   Cuba. 

SECRETARIES  AND  TREASURERS  OF  CONSTITUENT  STATES 

Rev.   Charles   Harbutt,   Secretary.  Maine  Missionary   Society .34  Dow  St.,  Portland,  Me. 

W.    P.    Hubbard.    Treasurer "  "  "      Box    1052,    Bangor,    Me. 

Rev.*  A.  T.  Hillman,  Secretary. ..  New  Hampshire  Home  Missionary  Society Concord,    N.    H. 

Alvin  B.  Cross,  Treasurer "  "  "  "  "       ....Concord,    N.    H. 

Chas.  H.  Merrill.  D.D. ,  Secretary.  Vermont  Domestic   "  "  "       St.   Johnsbury,    Vt. 

J.  T.   Richie,   Treasurer "  "         "  "       St.    Johnsfoury,    Vt. 

F.    E.    Emrich,    D.D.,    Secretary. .  Massachusetts  Home  "       609  Cong' 1  House, 

Rev.  Joshua  Colt,  Treasurer "  "  "  "       Boston,  Mas*. 

Rev.  J.   H.   Lyon,   Secretary Rhode  Island        "  "       Central  Falls,   R.   I. 

Jos.   Wm.    Rice,    Treasurer "  "  "  "  "       Providence,    R.    I. 

Rev.  Joel  S.   Ives.    Secretary Missionary  Society  of  Connecticut .Hartford,    Conn. 

Ward  W.  Jacobs,  Treasurer "  "  " Hartford,    Conn. 

Kpv.   C.  W.   Shelton.   Secretary...  New  York    Home   Missionary    Society,    Fourth    Ave.  and  22d  St.,  New  York 

Clavton  S.   Fitch.  Treasurer "       "  "  "  "         Fourth    Ave.  and  22d  St.,  New  York 

Rev.  Charles  n.  Small,  Secretary.  Ohio  "  "  "       Cleveland,     Ohio 

Rev.  Charles  II.  Small,  Treasurer.       "  "  "  "       Cleveland.     Ohio 

Rev.   Roy  B.   Guild,  Secretary Illinois  "  "  "       153   La    Salle   St., 

John    W.    IlifT.    Treasurer "  "  "  "       .153   La  Salle   St.,    Chicago 

Homer  W.  Carter,  D.D. ,  Secretary  Wisconsin         "  "  " Beloit,  Wis. 

C.   M.   Blaokman,   Treasurer "  "  "  " Whitewater,    Wis. 

T.    O.   Douglass,   D.D..    Secretary.  Iowa  "  "  " Grinnell,    Iowa 

Miss   A.    D.    Merrill,    Treasurer...      "  "  " Des  Moines,    Towa 

Rev.  J.  W.  Sutherland,  Secretary.  Michigan  "  "  " Lansing,    Mich. 

Rev.  John  P.  Sanderson,  Treasurer  "  "  "  " Lansing,    Mi^h. 

Rev.  Henry  E.  Thayer,  Secretary.  Kansas  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society Topeka,    Kan. 

H.    C.    Bowman.    Treasurer "  "  "  "  "        Tin^kn.    Kan. 

Rev.   S.   T.   Hanford.    Secretary ...  Nebraska   Home    Missionary   Society Lincoln,   Neb. 

Rev.  Lewis  Gregory,  Treasurer 

OTHER  STATE  HOME  MISSIONARY   SOCIETIES 

Rev.   J.   K.   Harrison,    Secretary. .  North    California   Home   Missionary   Society San    Francisco,    Oal. 

Rev.  John  L.   Maile,   Secretary. .  .South  "  "  "  " Los   Angeles,    Cal. 

CITY    MISSION    AUXILIARIES 

Rev.    Philip   W.    Yarrow Congregational  City  Missionary  Society St.    Louis,    Mo. 

Lewis   E.   Snow,    Superintendent..  "  "  "  "      St.   Louis,   Mo. 

LEGACIES — The  following  form  may  be  used  in  making  legacies: 

I  bequeath  to  my  executors  the  sum  of  dollars,  in  trust,   to  pay  over  the  same  In 

months  after  my  decease,   to  any  person  who,   when  the  same  is  payable,   shall  act  as 

Treasurer  of  the  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society,   formed  in  the  City  of  New  York,   In  the 

year   eighteen   hundred   and   twenty-six,    to   be    applied  ito   the   charitable   use   and    purposes   of   said 

Society,  and  under  its  direction. 

HONORARY  LIFE  MEMBERS — The  payment  of  Fifty  Dollars  at  one  time  constitutes  an 
Honorary  Life  Member. 


AMATTERQF  HEALTH 


*im& 


' 


Absolutely  Pure 

HAS  MO  SUBSTITUTE 


MENNEN'S 

BORATED        TALCUM 

TOILET    POWDER 


riennen's    Borated   Talcum 
Toilet  Powder 

used  daily  renders  the  most  tender  skin  proof  against 
chapping  and  the  usual  ill  effects  of  wind  and  weather. 
Mermen's  soothes,  heals,  and  preserves  the  most  deli- 
cate complexion.  Put  up  in  non-reflllable  boxes,  for 
your  protection.  If  Mennen's  face  is  on  the  cover,  it's 
genuine,  that's  a  guarantee  ol  purity.  Delightful 
after  shaving.  Sold  everywhere,  or  by  mail  25  eta. 
Sample  free. 

Gerhard    Mermen    Company 

Newark,  N.  J. 

Try  Mennen's  Violet  (Borated)  Talcum 

Powder. 
It  has  the  scent  of  fresh  cut  Violets, 


February 


50  Cents  a  Year 


ii .  i~ii 


THE  HOME 
MISSIONARY 


Entered    at    the    Post-Office,    at    New    York,    N.    Y{,    as    second-class  {mail]   matter 


^otiX  iuii/um  niaiuruuALSUUM 


THE     HOME     MISSIONARY     ADVERTISER 


WING  PIANOS 

Are  Sold  Direct  From  the  Factory,  and  in  No  Other  Way 

You  Save  from$75to$200 


When  you  buy  a  Wing  Piano,  >Tou  buy  at  wholesale. 
You  pay  the  actual  cost  of  making  it  with  only  our  whole- 
sale profit  added.  When  you  buy  a  piano,  as  many  still  do— 
at  retail — you  pay  the  retail  dealer's  store  rent  and  other 
expenses.  You  pay  his  profit  and  the  commission  or  salary 
of  the  agents  or  salesmen  he  employs — all  these  on  top  of 
what  the  dealer  himself  has  to  pay  co  the  manufacturer.  The 
retail  profit  on  a  piano  is  from  $75  to  $200.  Isn't  this  worth 
saving? 


SENT  ON  TRIAL 

WE    PAY    FREIGHT 
No  Money  in  Advance 


Anywhere 


We  will  place  a  Wing  Piano  In  any  home  in  the  United 
States  on  trial,  without  asking  for  any  advance  payment  or 
deposit.  We  pay  the  freight  and  all  other  charges  in  advance. 
There  is  nothing  to  be  paid  either  before  the  piano  is  sent  or 
when  it  is  received.  If  the  piano  is  not  satisfactory  after  20 
days'  trial  in  your  home,  we  take  it  back  entirely  at  our  ex- 
pense. You  pay  us  nothing,  and  are  under  no  more  obliga- 
tion to  keep  the  piano  than  if  you  were  examining  it  at  our 
factory.    There  can  be  absolutely  no  risk  or  expense  to  you. 

Do  not  imagine  that  it  is  impossible  foi  us  to  do  as  we 
say.  Our  system  is  so  perfect  that  we  can  without  any 
trouble  deliver  a  piano  in  the  smallest  town  in  any  part  of 
the  United  States  just  as  easily  as  we  can  in  New  York  City, 
and  with  absolutely  no  trouble  or  annoyance  to  you,  and 
without  anything  being  paid  in  advance  or  on  arrival  either 
for  freight  or  any  other  expense.  We  take  old  pianos  and 
organs  in  exchange. 

A  guarantee  forl2years  against  any  defect  in  tone,  action, 
workmanship  or  material  is  given  with  every  Wing  Piano. 


Small,  Easy 
MONTHLY 


Payments 


In   37  yean   over   40,000   "Wing  Planes 

have  been  manufactured  and  sold.  They  are  recom- 
mended by  seven  governors  of  States,  by  musical  colleges 
and  schools,  by  prominent  orchestra  leaders,  music  teach- 
ers and  musicians.  Thousands  of  these  pianos  are  in 
your  own  State,  some  of  them  undoubtedly  in  your  very 
neighborhood.  Our  oatalogue  contains  names  and  ad- 
dresses. 

Mandolin,  Guitar, Harp,  Zither,  Banjo— 

The  tones  of  any  or  all  of  these  instruments  may  be  re- 
produced perfectly  by  any  ordinary  player  on  the  piane  bjr 
means  of  our  Instrumental  Attachment.  This  improve- 
ment is  patented  by  us  and  cannot  be  had  in  any  other 
piano.  WING  ORGANS  are  made  with  the  aame  care 
and  sold  in  the  same  way  as  Wing  Pianoi.  Separate  or- 
gan catalogue  sent  on  request. 


£  YOU  NEED  THIS  BOOK 

II  You  Intend  to  Buy  a  Piano— No  Matter  What  Make 

A  book — not  a  catalogue — that  gives  you  all  the  information  possessed  »f 
experts,    It  tells  about  the  different  materials  used  in  the  different  parts 
of  a  piano ;  the  way  the  different  parts  are  put  together ,  what  causes  pianos 
to  get  out  of  order  and  in  fact  is  a  complete  encyclopedia.    It  makes  the  //  <  -  <f» 

selection  of  a  piano  easy.     If  read  carefully,  it  will  make  you  a  judge  of        /s^*£rS 
tone,  aet ion,  workmanship  and  finish.   It  tells  you  how  to  test  a  piano         SS  *.*  „™ /S 
and  how  to  tell  good  from  bad.    It  is  absolutely  the  only  hook  of 
its  kind  ever  published.    It  contains   168  large  pages  and  hun- 
dreds of  illustrations,  all  devoted  ta  piano  construction.    Its 
name  is  "The  Book  of  Complete  Information  About  Pianos." 
We  send  it  free  to  anyone  wishing  to  buy  a  piano.    All  you 
have  to  do  is  to  send  us  your  name  and  address. 


WING  *  SON 

M1-3S9  West  18th  Street,  NtwYoik 


YEA* 


4tM 


Send  a  Pcstal  To-day  while  you  think  of 
it,  just  giving  your  name  and  address  or  send   us 
the  attached  coupon  and  the  valuable  book  of  in- 
formation, also  full  particulars  about  the  WING 
PIANO,  with  prices,  terms  of  payment,  etc., 
will  be  sent  to  you  promptly  by  mall. 


Whin  writing  to  advertistri  please  mention  The  Home  Mission  aet 


r  n  \T  T  F  \T  T  Q 

\j  vJ  IN    I   £L  IN    1  o 

*            For  FEBRUARY,   1907.              & 

OKLAHOMA,  THE  NEW  STATE     Illustrated 

J.  D.   Kingsbury,  D.D 

305 

THE  CENTENNIAL  STATE     Illustrated 

314 

A  NEW  MOVEMENT  IN  SOUTH  DAKOTA     Illustrated 

W.  Herbert  Thrall,  D.D 

319 

ACTION  OF  THE    EXECUTIVE  COMMITTEE   UPON    THE    RESIG- 

324 

EDITOR'S    OUTLOOK 

Tfie  Work  and  Methods  of  the  Congregational  Home   Missionary  Society,, 

325 
325 

OUR  COUNTRY'S  YOUNG  PEOPLE 

327 
328 

NEEDED:    NEW    ZEAL    FOR    THE     CHRISTIAN     CONQUEST     OF 

t- 

AMERICA 

330 

THE  CHURCH  AT  EASTER  CORNER 

332 
334 

AN  APPEAL  TO  THE  EYE     Illustrated 

WOMEN'S  WORK  AND  METHODS 

What  Does  Congregationalism  Mean  ?      Margaret  L,  Knapp 

335 
337 

APPOINTMENTS  AND  RECEIPTS 

339 

PER    YEAR,     FIFTY    CENTS 

THE    HOME     MISSIONARY 

Published  Monthly,  except  in  July  and  August,  by  the 
Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society 

287     FOURTH     AVENUE,                NEW    YORK     CITY 

(i)    APRIL   22,    1889. 


THREE  VIEWS   OF  OKLAHOMA   CITY 
(2)    APRIL   24.    (3)    THREE  WEEKS  LATER. 


THE  CITY   NOW   HAS  40,OCK 


THE 

HOME    MISSIONARY 


VOL.  LXXX 


FEBRUARY,  1907 


NO.  9 


Oklahoma,  The  New  State 

By  J.  D.  Kingsbury,  D.  D. 


AN   IDEAL  INDIAN  REALM 

EARLY  in  the  last  century  lead- 
ing men,  in  Congress  and  else- 
where, formed  the  idea  of 
establishing  a  great  Indian  empire. 
The  old  maps  pictured  a  vast  central 
realm,  and  gave  it  the  name  Indian 
Territory.  It  was  far  off  from  our 
commerce  and  our  civilization.  The 
nation  hardly  dreamed  that  white 
settlements  would  ever  approach  near 
enough  to  hear  the  war-whoop  of  the 
savages  or  be  disturbed  by  their  wild 
orgies. 

It  was  not  supposed  possible  that 
these  people  could  ever  come  into  our 
citizenship.  The  purpose  was  to  per- 
petuate their  tribal  relations  and  to 
protect  them  in  their  own  separate 
forms  of  government. 

So  it  came  to  pass  that  Creeks  and 
Seminoles,  Choctaws  and  Cherokees, 
and  many  lesser  tribes,  were  gathered 
on  this  great  Reservation. 

Christian  people  sent  missionaries, 
the  government  established  agencies 
and  schools,  and  under  the  fostering 
care  of  the  nation  and  the  benign  in- 
fluence of  Christian  missions,  it  was 
believed  the  great  problem  would 
find  its  solution. 

A  nation  within  the  nation,  foreign 
in  language,  customs  and  laws,  and 
subject  only  to  national  authority  in  so 
far  as  it  should  be  necessary  to  pre- 
vent maurauding  warfare  or  what- 
ever might  threaten  our  peace  and 
safety. 


In  the  experience  of  years  this  idea 
was  gradually  discarded.  The  tide 
of  migration  moved  rapidly  westward, 
and  not  only  reached  the  borders  of 
the  Indian  country,  but  flowed  around 
it  and  on  to  the  Pacific  Sea.  The 
white  man  had  an  insatiate  desire  for 
more  land.  It  was  found  that  the  In- 
dian could  be  civilized.  It  was  made 
equally  certain  that  the  keeping  of  a 
wild  nation  in  its  savagery  and  hostile 
instinct  was  a  constant  menace  to  all 
our  institutions. 

The  changing  policy  of  moving  the 
tribal  domains,  distributing  land  in 
severalty,  and  bringing  the  red  men 
into  closer  relation  to  our  national 
life,  was  but  the  following  of  the 
logic  of  events. 

OPENING  OF  THE  TERRITORY 

When  most  of  the  tribes  which 
could  be  moved  had  been  assigned 
their  reservations,  it  was  found  that 
there  was  still  a  large  inland  realm 
not  needed  for  the  Indian  tribes. 
Wistful  eyes  turned  toward  this  sur- 
plus of  land.  It  was  fertile.  The 
climate  mild — corn  and  cotton  would 
grow  side  bv  side — it  was  a  tempting 
country.  Men  made  raid  into  it,  settl- 
ed towns,  established  homes,  but  were 
driven  out  by  Military  authority. 

It  was  proposed  to  organize  it  into 
a  new  State.  Congress  frowned  on 
that  for  ten  years. 

Finally,  March  4,  1889,  a  bill  pass- 
ed the  national  Congress  opening  this 


OKLAHOMA  FRUITS 


territory  to  settlement,  and  April  22 
of  that  year  was  fixed  as  the  date  of 
opening. 

Tens  of  thousands  of  people  gath- 
ered, waiting  the  hour. 

At  sound  of  pistol  shot,  at  high 
noon  men  on  horseback,  in  wagons,  on 
foot,  on  bicycles — on  the  trains,  made 
the  mad  rush  for  land. 

Jostled,  pushed,  thrown  down, 
sometimes  trampled  on,  bruised,  dis- 
abled but  never  abating  the  hot  haste, 
they  passed  on.  It  was  a  vast  multi- 
tude. They  often  claimed  the  same 
land,  sometimes  compromising,  some- 
times fighting,  so  eager  were  they  in 
the  frenzied  passion  for  land. 

One  hundred  thousand  people  came 
in  between  noon  and  sunset.  As  the 
evening  shadows  fell,  hardly  a  single 
quarter  section  remained  unclaimed. 

Cities  of  10,000  people  were  settled, 
and  stores  and  saloons  and  hotels,  and 
even  places  of  worship  sprang  into 
being,  and  over  the  rolling  praries, 
far  and  near,  were  the  thousands  of 
tented  homes,  and  other  thousands 
under  the  open  sky — sleeping  and 
dreaming  of  the  beautv  and  blessing 
of  this  new  home  in  the  wilderness. 
For  twelve  months  and  more  they 
lived  with  no  other  law  than  the 
general  statutes  governing  the  public 
domain.  But  there  was  order,  life 
and  propertv  were  safe.  These 
were  home  seekers,  they  easily  became 


neighbors  and  all  was  well. 

IN    THE    HEART    OF    THE    INDIAN 
COUNTRY 

In  June,  1890,  the  Territory  was 
created.  There  were  six  counties, 
Logan,  Payne,  Kingfisher,  Canadian, 
Oklahoma  and  Cleveland.  There  was 
added  the  strip  of  land  in  the  north 
which  Kansas  wanted  and  Texas 
longed  for. 

It  was  called  "No  Man's  Land," 
and  at  one  time  settlers  made,  as  they 
thought,  a  State,  called  it  Cimarron, 
sent  a  delegate  to  Congress,  only  to  be 
ignored.  This  strip  of  land  was  call- 
ed Beaver  County,  and  given  to  the 
infant  territory.  It  was  separated 
from  the  Territory  by  a  hundred 
miles,  a  sort  of  Colony  in  the  West. 

The  original  Oklahoma  was  a  little 
realm  compared  with  that  which  now 
bears  the  name.  It  was  in  the  heart 
of  the  Indian  Reservations.  Through 
the  Indian  lands  it  was  fifty  miles,  as 
the  crow  flies,  to  Kansas — one  hun- 
dred miles  to  Texas  on  the  west — 
and  on  the  east  was  the  long  stretch 
of  reservations  one  hundred  miles  to 
the  borders  of  Missouri. 

Subsequent  changes  enlarged  the 
boundries. 

In  1891  the  Iowa,  Sac,  Fox  and 
Pottawatomie  lands  were  added  on 
the  east. 


OKLAHOMA  THE  NEW  STATE 


307 


In  1892  the  Cheyennes  and  Arapa- 
hoes  gave  up  their  hunting  grounds  in 
the  west. 

The  next  year  the  land  which  had 
been  granted  to  the  Cherokees  as  a 
perpetual  hunting  ground  was  pro- 
cured, and  once  more  there  was  an 
eager  struggle  for  homes  in  the  north. 

Twenty-four  thousand  people  gath- 
ered on  the  Kansas  line,  and  again  at 
the  sound  of  a  gun,  the  people  showed 
the  truth  of  that  saying :  "Men  desire 
nothing  so  much  as  land." 

In  the  struggle  weak  men  went  to 
the  ground,  but  women  were  many 
times  guarded  and  helped  by  the 
stronger  sex,  even  at  the  risk  of  loss. 


The  spirit  of  chivalry  still  lives.  One 
man  was  knocked  senseless,  and  when 
he  woke  no  one  was  near,  and  the  rich 
claim  where  he  fell  had  been  left  for 
him,  which  he  hastily  secured. 

Again  in  1895  and  1896  other  lands 
were  added,  and  it  was  discovered 
that  Texas  had  been  too  greedy  and 
Greer  county  was  taken  from  her 
domain  to  increase  the  growing  Ter- 
ritory. 

Other  lands  were  added  on  the 
south  and  in  the  northwest,  and  the 
boundaries  of  Oklahoma  were  com- 
plete. 

THE  LAND  OF  THE  FAIR  GOD 

The     name     Oklahoma,     meaning 


OKLAHOMA  SCENERY 


3o8 


THE    HOME    MISSIONARY 


either  "Red  Man's  Country"  or  the 
"Beautiful  Land,"  was  given  to  the 
realm. 

But  the  Indians  had  their  own 
name.  To  them  it  was  the  "Land  of 
the  Fair  God." 

The  dwellers  on  these  rolling  prai- 
ries were  deeply  religious.  Their  re- 
ligion was  crude,  grotesque,  super- 
stitious, but  it  was  the  veneration  of 
the  human  heart — it  was  religion. 

It  mingled  with  their  festivities,  it 
had  to  do  with  the  chase,  the  healing 
of  sickness  and  their  success  in  war. 
All  life  was  under  the  care  of  the 
Great  Spirit,  and  in  that  land,  shield- 
ed from  earthly  gaze  by  the  draperies 
of  crimson  and  gold  in  the  sky,  was 
that  sweet  dream  of  the  Indian  heart 
— the  Happy  Hunting  Ground,  where 
the  tribes  would  gather  and  life  would 
be  renewed  in  the  great  hereafter. 
We  do  well  to  recognise  the  better 
thought  of  the  races  in  whose  foot- 
steps we  walk — and  whose  lands  we 
inherit. 

THE  CHEROKEE  BRAVE 

A  Cherokee  brave  had  slain  one  of 
his  tribe  in  the  heat  of  angry  dispute. 
He  was  tried  by  his  chief  and  before 
the  council,  the  trial  was  with  orderly 
solemnities  befitting  any  high  court. 
He  was  condemned  to  die. 

His  chief  said,  "My  son,  your  life 
is  not  sought  to  gratify  the  enmity  of 
your  brothers  or  to  meet  the  policy 
of  revenge."  "The  Great  Spirit  is  of- 
fended and,  while  you  live,  His  frown 
is  a  shadow  over  our  wigwams — an 
evil  spirit  will  bring  sickness  and 
death — the  deer  will  escape  us  in  the 
chase — our  foes  will  overcome  us  in 
war  and  the  heavens  will  be  dark  to 
the  Cherokee.  While  six  moons 
come  and  go  you  shall  go  anywhither, 
as  you  will,  but  when  the  last  moon 
is  full  in  the  skv  vou  will  return  to 
die." 

The  Cherokee  was  silent.  He  dis- 
appeared— some  said,  "He  will  not 
return." 

But,  when  the  last  moon  was  full, 
there  was  a  large  gathering  about  the 


council  plot.  All  day  long  they 
waited  in  silence.  But  when  the  sun 
went  down  one  lone  figure  appeared 
in  the  distance.  It  was  the  returning 
Cherokee.  He  took  his  place  in 
silence  against  the  cottonwood  tree, 
bared  his  heart  and  received  the  fatal 
dart.  The  sacrifice  of  life,  the  maj- 
esty of  law  and  the  recognition  of 
God  were  not  wanting  in  the  Indian 
life. 

THE   WIDE  AREA 

The  old  Indian  Territory  is  dissolv- 
ed. The  hunting  grounds  of  the 
Creeks,  Seminoles,  Choctaws,  Chero- 
kees  and  all  the  tribes  change  into 
fertile  farms — Oklahoma  takes  in  as 
a  new  state  all  the  wide  domain.  She 
has  69,869  square  miles.  New  Eng- 
land has  66,465.  The  land  is  a  roll- 
ing prarie.  No  mountains  except  in 
the  far  east  and  in  the  southwest.  It 
is  a  land  of  rivers  and  fountains.  The 
Arkansas,  which  bursts  from  the 
gorges  of  the  Rockies  and  waters  the 
arid  wastes  of  Colorado  and  Kansas, 
flows  through  the  northern  part.  The 
Cimarron  and  North  and  South 
Canadian  drain  the  central  portion. 
The  Red  forms  the  southern  bound- 
ary. 

A  multitude  of  smaller  streams  flow 
into  these  great  water  courses. 

There  is  no  part  of  the  land  which 
has  not  its  river  or  brook.  The  rain- 
fall avarages  twenty-four  inches  in 
the  west,  thirty  in  the  central  part 
and  thirty-four  in  the  east.  The  land 
"drinketh  the  rain  of  the  water  of 
heaven." 

AN    EMPIRE   OPENING   IN   A   DAY 

The  stranger  who  visits  this  realm 
for  the  first  time,  is  surprised  to  see 
the  land  all  under  cultivation.  Farms 
have  not  only  been  located  but  the 
houses  are  built,  the  land  is  ploughed, 
the  fields  are  covered  with  crops.  The 
state  is  only  seventeen  years  old. 

But  it  has  grown  from  nothing  to 
a  population  of  1,500,000.  It  has 
great    cities     with     costly    buildings, 


3H) 


THE    HOME    MISSIONARY 


KIOWA    HOME,  OKLAHOMA 

banks  and  stores,  and  mercantile 
blocks,  and  beautiful  residences  and 
street  railways  and  many  factories, 
and  a  net  work  of  railways  reaching 
everywhere,  and  making  haste  to 
bear  the  products  of  the  fertile  lands 
to  the  markets  of  the  world.  The 
quiet  observer  who  becomes  a  travel- 
er and  crosses  these  rolling  prairies, 
finds  large  cities  which  have  grown 
suddenly — Ardmqre  and  McAlester 
and  Chickasha  and  Tulsa  with  12,000 
— Enid  and  Guthrie  and  Shawnee 
with  15,000;  Muskogee,  20,000; 
Oklahoma  City,  40,000.  There  are 
thirty-two  cities  that  have  each  over 
2,500  people — and  all  this  in  seven- 
teen years. 

The  new  state  will  cast  ten  electoral 
votes  at  the  Presidential  election — the 
?:,me  as  Kansas  and  more  than  half 
as  many  as  Massachusetts.  Only 
twenty-four  of  the  older  states  will  be 
entitled  to  a  larger  delegation  in 
Congress.  Tt  is  an  infant:  but  let  the 
older  states  "look  to  their  laurels." 


It  comes  to  the  front  as  a  young 
man  comes  to  his  majority,  in  the 
consciousness  of  strength  and  with 
eager  haste  to  take  part  in  on  going 
life — an  empire  in  its  early  years. 

LOOK  AT   ITS  PRODUCTS 

There  is  little  waste  land,  no  bogs 
or  swamps  or  deserts,  every  acre  is 
ready  for  the  plough. 

There  are  a  few  forests  in  the  east 
and  south,  beautiful  trees  fringe  the 
rivers  and  brooks. 

But  there  is  no  land  to  level  for 
irrigation,  there  are  no  forests  to 
clear,  the  land  is  ready,  the  farmer 
has  but  to  thrust  in  the  plough. 

It  is  an  inspiring  sight  to  look  on 
the  corn  fields  stretching,  and  the 
cotton  with  opening  snowy  ball,  and 
the  wheat  fields  under  the  breath  of 
the  prairie  breeze,  bending  gracefully 
like  a  rare  offering  before  God. 

Tabulate  the  items — never  fear  that 
the  figures  will  cause  a  blush,  Nature 
is  lavish  with  her  gifts: 

Cotton    $28,688,000.00 

Corn   28,436,000.00 

Wheat    12,723,000.00 

Broom    Corn 1,483,000.00 

Oats   6,022,000.00 

Kaffir   Corn 1,000,000.00 

Eggs    2,439,000.00 

Butter    2,175,000.00 

Cheese    9,000.00 

Castor  Beans 13,000,00 

Potatoes    89,000.00 

Sweet   Potatoes 10,000.00 

Coal  and  Oil 6,500,000.00 

Total $89,587,000.00 

If  we  should  add  from  manufac- 
tures and  live  stock  and  foreign  plants 
and  fruit,  we  would  have  figures  that 
would  stagger  the  intellect  and  make 
it  impossible  to  believe. 

The  young  state  took  9  gold 
medals,  64  silver  and  27  bronze  at  the 
St.  Louis  fair.  Let  the  older  states 
feel  proud  of  the  young  daughter 
coming  up  to  share  the  duties  and 
take  her  part  of  the  honors  of  the 
mtion's  life. 


OKLAHOMA  THE  NEW  STATE 


3ii 


NO    TERRITORIAL    DEBT 

The  cost  of  bridges  has  been 
$1,501,569  in  Oklahoma  Territory 
alone. 

Cost  of  public  buildings,  $1,162,652. 
The  daily  average  attendance  in  pub- 
lic schools  is  90,238,  and  the  expend- 
iture for  schools  $1,488,109,  and  cost 
of  school  houses  $2,593,848. 

All  these  bills  are  paid,  and  the 
treasury  has  on  hand  the  sum  of 
$234,920. 

The  older  and  richer  states  indulge 
in  bonded  debts.  But  Oklahoma 
pays  as  she  goes.  The  treasury  of 
Indian  Territory  would  make  a 
showing  equally  favorable,  but  the 
figures  are  mingled  with  national  ap- 
propriations. The  new  state  has  its 
two  Universities,  one  Agricultural 
College,  three  Normal  Schools,  School 
for  Deaf  Mutes,  twenty-three  Acad- 
emies, and  3,609  common  schools, 
with  total  enrollment  of  215,925. 

The  Territorial  University  has  daily 
reading  of  the  Word  of  God  and 
prayer. 


All  this  is  paid  for  and  money  in 
the  treasury,  and  our  credit  is  good. 

The  new  state  has,  what  no  other 
state  has,  a  University  for  her  colored 
people. 

CHURCHES   AND    CHURCH    WORK 

In  the  first  opening  of  Oklahoma 
all  denominations  entered  the  field 
with  eager  'and  friendly  rivalry. 

People  of  all  sects  were  found  in 
every  locality,  and  they  joined  in  one 
church.  Our  beloved  Superintendent 
Parker  was  early  in  the  field,  leading 
the  Congregational  host  and  establish- 
ing churches  in  the  whole  realm. 

The  early  days  were  full  of  sacri- 
fice. In  the  places  where  now  the 
people  live  in  homes  of  comfort  and 
beauty  the  pioneers  lived  in  dugouts, 
often  on  an  earth  floor,  and  with 
primitive  furnishings.  The  sacrifices 
which  were  made  would  form  a  pa- 
thetic page  in  a  history  which  may 
never  be  written. 

It  often  happened  that  a  church 
was  formed  with  no  original  congre- 
gational members  and  with  a  preacher 


CARNEGIE   LIBRARY,   OKLAHOMA    CITY 


CHURCH    GROUP,    OKLAHOMA    CITY 


from  another  sect.  Our  policy  is  so 
flexible,  so  democratic  and  so  full  of 
common  sense  that  it  is  adapted  to 
these  early  emergencies. 

Many  of  our  best  pastors  and  most 
useful  church  workers  to-day  came 
from  other  churches  in  the  pioneer 
days.  We  thank  God  for  a  church 
polity  which  unites  all  people,  who 
believe  in  Jesus  Christ  and  His 
gospel  of  salvation,  under  any  pastor 
who  knows  his  Bible  and  knows  his 
God,  and  is  fitted  to  teach  in  holy 
things  and  to  lead  on  to  the  better 
life  and  to  the  larger  hope  under  the 
banner  of  love. 

SACRIFICES  FOR  THE  LORD 

The  new  church  was  to  be  ded- 
icated at  Fort  Cobb.  A  loyal  Con- 
gregationalist  living  in  the  new  town 
of  Bangor  went  to  attend  the  services. 
He  was  so  inspired  with  the  dedica- 
tion that  he  determined  to  erect  a 
House  of  God  at  home.  Old  mem- 
ories came  back.  His  heart  filled  with 
the  thought  of  home  and  worship  in 
far-a-way  New  England.    He  left  the 


solemn  service  with  a  purpose.  He 
took  stove,  hammer  and  iron  wedges 
and  feathers  and  went  alone  to  a 
ledge  of  sandstone  rock,  miles  away, 
and  quarried  stone  for  the  foundation 
of  a  church.  When  he  had  finished 
his  first  task  he  said  to  his  neighbors, 
"We  must  have  a  house  of  worship," 
"I  have  quarried  stone  for  the  founda- 
tion." The  people  responded.  One 
woman  volunteered  to  drive  the  team 
and  haul  the  stone.  Another  woman 
drove  the  team  for  lumber.  The  work 
was  divided — all  had  part,  every  one 
contributed.  The  blacksmith  was  liv- 
ing on  an  earth  floor.  But  he  said, 
I  will  some  how  find  a  way  to  help. 
He  paid  $20.  The  building  was 
completed  by  the  sacrifice  of  the  peo- 
ple. It  was  a  copy  of  the  church  at 
Fort  Cobb.  Then  they  added  a  neat 
parsonage.  It  is  a  little  town  of  258 
people.  They  are  paying  $350,  and 
free  parsonage  for  the  Gospel. 

WHY   HELP   A   PEOPLE   SO   RICH? 

It  is  often  said,  "These  people  have 
lars:e    cities,    sfreat    realms    of    fertile 


OKLAHOMA  THE  NEW  STATE 


313 


country.  They  have  Council  houses, 
Libraries,  Colleges  and  Art  rooms. 
They  live  in  luxury.  Why  should  we 
contribute  our  money  to  give  them  the 
Gospel  ?"  Wealth  does  not  bring  piety. 
Ginning  mills  and  wheat  mills  and 
prosperous  trade  and  banks  do  not 
make  sure  for  the  people,  the  house  of 
worship  and  the  ministry  of  the  Word. 
Rich  people  need  to  be  converted  as 
well  as  poor  people.  Nineveh  was  a 
great  and  rich  city.  But  it  needed  the 
missionary. 

Here  is  a  new  empire  created  in  the 


From  these  points  let  the  Gospel 
radiate  to  the  regions  round  about! 

The  churches  must  have  nerve 
centers,  with  which  all  organized  life 
has  vital  connection. 

We  must  build  again  at  the  State 
Capitol.  Make  there  a  place  of  spirit- 
ual-power. That  central  church  must 
lend  its  helpfulness  /to  the  towns  and 
country.  It  must  strengthen  and  give 
heart  to  Seward  and  Victory  and 
Harmony  and  Bethel  and  Vittum. 

We  must  go  down  to  Camanche 
realm,  where  Lawton  has  its  master- 


FIRST    SUNDAY    SCHOOL   IN  OKLAHOMA   CITY 


wilderness.  It  has  come  suddenly  to 
its  inheritance  of  riches  and  affluence 
and  great  wealth. 

Its  future  is  a  mighty  possibility.  It 
is  to  be  at  once  the  dwelling  place  of  a 
vast  population.  It  is  traveling  on  with 
a  strange  rapidity  to  its  place  among 
the  leading  states  of  the  Union. 

It  is  of  infinite  consequence  that  the 
strong  current  of  its  life  should  be 
guided  by  the  religion  of  our  fathers. 
We  must  take  strategic  points  and 
establish  there  the  institutions  of  the 
Gospel — strategic  points  in  the  places 
where  business  has  its  centers. 


ful  place  on  the  borders  of  the  "Big 
Pasture,"  and  make  Lawton  a  center 
of  evangelizing  power  in  the  new 
opening  country  which  is  sure  to  have 
cities  and  towns,  and  thousands  of 
homes  in  the  wilderness  transformed 
and  blossoming  as  the  rose. 

Muskogee  and  Ardmore  and  Tulsa 
and  Shawnee,  and  all  the  strong 
centers  of  commercial  power  should 
suggest  to  us  opportunities  for  larger 
work  in  this  time  of  marvelous 
growth. 

Heaven  speed  the  work  of  God  in 
the  new  State  of  Oklahoma! 


The  Centennial  State 


By  Rev.  R.  T.  Cross 


REV.  R.  T.   CROSS, 
A    COLORADO   PIONEER 

COLORADO  has  just  been  cele- 
brating the  discovery  of  Pike's 
Peak.  The  celebration  naturally 
centered  at  Colorado  Springs.  The 
Peak  was  first  seen  by  Pike  Novem- 
ber 15,  1806.  It  was  not  named  for 
him  until  long  after  he  fell  in  battle 
in  1813.  On  September  26,  1906  it 
was  formally,  on  its  summit  in  a  snow 
storm,  christened  with  his  name. 

Firty  years  after  its  discovery  the 
Peak  and  the  region  around  it  were 
still  practically  unknown,  except  to 
the  Indians,  a  few  adventurous  trap- 
pers and  the  caravan  of  California 
gold  seekers,  whose  route  of  travel 
was  far  north  or  far  south,  and  who 
saw  the  Peak  only  on  the  distant 
horizon. 

In  the  decade  from  1856  to  1866 
gold  was  discovered,  in  1858,  in  Cher- 
ry Creek,  then  in  Clear  Creek,  around 
Fairplay,  in  California  Gulch,  etc. 
The  great  rush  of  gold  seekers  was 
in    1858-60.      In    1863    Rev.    William 


Crawford  started  the  First  Congre- 
gational Church  in  the  Rocky  Moun- 
tains at  Central,  which  was  then  the 
metropolis  of  the  state,  Denver  being 
a  small  place.  The  next  year  church- 
es were  started  in  Boulder  and 
Denver.  During  this  decade  the  state 
had  no  railroads.  All  travel  across  the 
great  plains — five  hundred  miles  or 
more — was  by  wagon,  horseback  or  on 
foot.  It  was  the  pioneer's  decade,  a 
decade  of  hardship  and  of  heroism,  of 
Indian  wars  and  civil  war. 

In  the  decade  1866-76  railroads 
came.  In  1867  the  Union  Pacific 
reached  Cheyenne,  leaving  Colorado 
and  Denver  off  to  the  south  of  what 
was  then  supposed  would  always  be 
the  chief,  if  not  the  only  line  of  travel 
across  the  continent.  In  1870  a  rail- 
road reached  Denver.  In  1872  the 
Denver  and  Rio  Grande  Railroad, 
narrow  gauge  then,  started  south  to 
make  towns  and  create  business  as  it 
went.  Perhaps  no  better  example 
was  ever  known  of  a  railroad  starting 
a  city  on  a  broad  and  generous  plan 
than  the  founding  of  Colorado  Springs 
in  1872.  In  1874  we  had  but  seven 
churches  in  Colorado,  yet  in  that  year 
Colorado  College  was  started,  follow- 
ed of  course  by  our  first  church  at 
Colorado  Springs,  now  the  center  of 
a  group  of  churches.  There  was  then 
no  railroad  in  the  mountains  except  a 
few  miles  up  Clear  Creek.  A  few 
tourists  came  and  looked  at  a  little 
scenery  along  the  edge  of  the  moun- 
tains and  a  few  climbed  Pike's  Peak. 
\t  the  close  of  the  decade  there  were 
about  five  hundred  miles  of  irrigation 
ditches. 

During  the  next  decade,  1876-86, 
there  was  marked  growth.  A  great 
boom  followed  the  Leadville,  the  San 
Juan  and  the  Elk  Mountain  discover- 
ies. Railroads,  mostly  narrow  gauge, 
pierced  the  mountains  many  hundred 


THROUGH    THE    CANYON 


miles.  A  home  missionary  superin- 
tendent was  sent  us  in  1878,  and  dur- 
ing the  decade  thirty-six  new  church- 
es were  started,  seven  of  them  in  Den- 
ver.    It  was  a  booming  decade. 

And  so  were  the  first  seven  years 
of  the  next  decade,  1886-96.  Denver 
grew  rapidly  and  so  did  the  state.  In 
the   last  three  years  the  hard  times 


struck  both  of  them  hard;  yet  in 
that  decade  forty-six  Congregational 
churches  were  started. 

During  the  decade  just  closing, 
1896-06,  there  has  been  substantial 
prosperity  in  spite  of  serious  labor 
troubles  during  part  of  the  time. 
Forty-eight  churches  have  been  start- 
ed, all  of  them  in  the  last  eight  years. 


MATERIAL   RESOURCES   OF    COLORADO 

From  1880  to  1900  the  value  of 
farm  products  increased  from  $5,000,- 
000  to  $33,000,000.  Much  beet  sugar 
land  is  held  at  $200  per  acre,  and 
much  fruit  land  at  $1,000.  There  are 
nearly  fifteen  thousand  miles  of  main 
irrigating  canals,  which  water  about 
five  million  acres.  In  only  two  of  the 
many  river  valleys,  the  Cache  le  Poud- 


re  and  the  Big  Thompson,  are  thirty- 
nine  reservoirs,  in  which  over  six 
billion  cubic  feet  of  water  are  stored 
for  the  dry  season.  Under  the  impulse 
of  the  Campbell  system  of  cultivation, 
which  raises  good  crops  without  ir- 
rigation where  the  rainfall  is  fourteen 
inches,  the  land  of  the  great  plains  in 
eastern  Colorado  is  rapidly  rising  in 
value. 

Tn   iqoo  there  were  three  thousand 


3i8 


THE    HOME    MISSIONARY 


eight  hundred  and  sixty-five  manu- 
facturing establishments  in  Colorado, 
with  a  capital  of  $103,000,000.  In 
1903  the  manufactured  products  in 
Denver  were  worth  over  $44,000,000. 
The  three  hundred  establishments  of 
Pueblo  produced  $50,000,000  worth, 
$21,000,000  from  one  company.  Nine 
sugar  factories  produce  one  hundred 
million  pounds  of  sugar  from  sugar 
beets.  A  power  company  with  a  capi- 
tal of  over  $22,000,000  has  just  been 
organized  to  turn  the  dashing  tor- 
rents of  the  mountains  into  electric 
energy  for  the  state. 

The  product  of  the  smelters  of 
Colorado  in  1903  was  over  $44,000,- 
000.  Coal  underlies  some  twenty 
thousand  square  miles,  and  in  1903 
nearly  eight  million  tons  were  mined. 
Building  stone  occurs  in  mountain 
masses.  Twenty-two  kinds  of  marble 
are  found. 

With  a  dry  atmosphere  full  of 
•ozone,  with  more  than  three  hundred 
pleasant  days  in  the  year,  and  with 
unlimited  scenic  attractions,  the  tourist 
travel  is  large  and  is  constantly  grow- 
ing larger.  For  the  transportation  of 
her  grains,  vegetables,  fruits,  sugar, 
stone,  metals,  manufactures,  live  stock 
and  tourists,  Colorado  has  five  thou- 
sand miles  of  railroad,  and  the  num- 
ber is  increasing. 

Among  other  things  the  state  pro- 
duces an  immense  amount  of  politics. 
But  things  are  quiet  now  that  a 
Methodist  minister  and  college  presi- 
dent has  been  elected  governor,  and 
capitalists  are  investing  immense  sums 
in  the  state.  It  is  a  splendid  time  for 
Christians  to  invest  largely  in  Home 
Missions. 

Colorado  was  admitted  to  the 
Union  August  1,  1876.  A  few  weeks 
later  the  writer  reached  his  new  field 
of  labor  at  Colorado  Springs,  and  in 
October  attended  the  State  Associa- 
tion at  Longmont,  where  it  met  again 
this  year.     Seven  churches,  including 


Cheyenne  in  Wyoming,  were  repre- 
sented by  twenty-two  ministers  and 
delegates.  My  room-mate  was  Jere- 
miah Porter  of  blessed  memory.  He 
did  many  eood  things  in  his  long  and 
useful  life.  Perhaps  he  will  be  long- 
est remembered  from  the  fact  that  he 
organized  the  first  church  of  any  de- 
nomination in  Chicago.  In  1876  he 
was  chaplain  at  Fort  D.  A.  Russell, 
near  Cheyenne. 

At  Longmont  we  agreed  to  pray 
daily  for  each  church  and  minister  in 
the  state,  and  some  did  so  for  a  long 
time. 

What  is  the  fruitage  after  thirty 
years?  The  churches  have  increased 
thirteenfold,  from  eight  to  one  hun- 
dred and  three ;  the  number  of  mem- 
bers twenty-twofold,  from  four  hun- 
dred and  two  to  eight  thousand  nine 
hundred  and  ninety-three ;  the  admis- 
sions nineteenfold,  from  seventy-two 
in  1876  to  one  thousand  three  hun- 
dred and  fifty-seven  in  1905  ;  the  Sun- 
day school  membership  twentyfold, 
from  five  hundred  and  nine  to  ten 
thousand  three  hundred  and  two;  the 
benevolences  thirty-fivefold,  from  $41 1 
in  1876  to  $14,374  in  1905.  When 
Deacon  Mead  welcomed  us  to  Long- 
mont in  1876  he  said :  "I  thought 
there  would  be  more  of  you."  Some 
one  answered :  "We  are  not  many 
but  much."  This  year  we  can  say: 
"We  are  not  so  very  many  but  we  are 
more." 

We  are  talking  about  self-support. 
If  we  put  Michigan  in  place  of 
Indiana  there  is  now  an  unbroken  line 
of  self-supporting  states  from  Mass- 
achusetts westward  to  western  Ne- 
braska and  Kansas.  When  Colorado 
reaches  self-support  that  line  will  ex- 
tend from  the  Atlantic  Ocean  to  and 
into  the  Rockv  Mountains.  Then  by 
and  by  we  shall  have  a  transcontinen- 
tal line  of  self-supporting  states.  God 
speed  the  day !  Let  us  also  speed  that 
dav! 


The  New  Movement  in  South 

Dakota 


By  W.  Herbert  Thrall,  D.  D. 


MORE  than  one  half  of  the 
entire  area  of  South  Dakota 
lies  west  of  the  Missouri 
River.  The  railroads  built  to  this 
river  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century 
ago.  But  a  mutual  compact  has  held 
them  from  crossing  over.  Only  a 
very  small  district  in  the  extreme 
southwest  corner  of  the  state  known 
as  the  Black  Hills  has,  until  now, 
heard  the  scream  of  the  locomotive. 
All  the  rest  of  this  great  expanse  of 
rolling  praries,  bestudded  now  and 
again  with  some  few  cone-shaped 
buttes,  had  been  quite  exclusively  the 
abode  of  the  Indians  upon  their  reser- 
vations or  the  common  herding 
ground  of  vast  droves  of  cattle.  This 
great  stretch  of  plateau  land  might 
of  course  tell  many  thrilling  stories  of 
the  real  frontiersman's  life.  No  one 
from  the  wonderfully  picturesque 
scenery  of  the  Black  Hills  to-day  lays 
claim  to  being  an  "old  settler"  unless 
he  came  there  at  latest  early  in  1876 
when  every  white  man  was  under 
United  States  law,  a  trespasser  upon 
Indian  rights. 


The  days  of  the  ox  team  freighters, 
"Bull  whackers,"  who  carried  by 
wagon,  or  by  many  wagons,  anchored 
together  all  produce  to  the  early  set- 
tlers hundreds  of  miles  overland,  have 
been  familiar  only  recently  to  some  of 
the  younger  among  us.  The  Dead- 
wood  coach  is  still  extant  and  fre- 
quently makes  the  sixteen  mile  pic- 
turesque trip  from  Deadwood  to 
Spearfish,  catching  on  the  way  a  far 
off  view  of  Buttes  in  North  Dakota 
more  than  a  hundred  miles  away.  But 
even  to  us  who  are  not  "  tender  feet" 
it  sounds  like  folk  lore  to  hear  from 
the  lips  of  the  president  of  our  Black 
Hills  Woman's  Missionary  Society 
how  she  came  out  there  as  a  bride, 
riding  more  than  two  days  and  nights, 
sitting  up-right  in  a  stage  which  was 
so  crowded  that  no  one  when  asleep 
could  fall  over. 

The  spring  and  fall  "round-ups" 
are  still  with  us,  but  must  soon  disap- 
pear before  the  coming  of  the  rail- 
road locomotive  like  dew  before  the 
rising  sun.  And  it  is  the  rising  sun 
for  a  new  day  in  South  Dakota.    Vast 


J 

"4' 

'*■  .:..    : 

JiMjP*^"~"l£"          „ 

- ;  : 

flSJNJff^^ 

W     ft 

4 

j<m 

l£U£ 

*  JBS^P' 

'~*^^H 

MURDO,    SOUTH    DAKOTA,    IN    EARLY    DAYS 


ROUND-UP    WEST    OF    THE    MISSOURI 


wealth  has  been  produced  for  these 
years  on  this  common  herding  ground 
hundreds  of  miles  in  extent.  "Round- 
up crews"  have  for  weeks  carried  on 
their  systematic  work  of  branding 
young  cattle  before  the  calf  was  sepa- 
rated from  the  mother.  A  steer  which 
slipped  through  this  cordon  of  wagons 
and  horse-back  riders  of  the  bands  oi 


branders  went  over  until  the  next 
round  up,  when,  known  as  a  nameless 
"maverick,"  it  became  the  prize  of  the 
round-up  crew. 

The  cattle  of  this  general  herding 
ground  might  often  come  out  of  the 
winter  so  weak  that  the  "staggers" 
was  not  unknown,  a  disease  suggestive 
of  insanity  perhaps  through  weakness. 


THE   DEADWOOD    COACH 


THE  NEW  MOVEMENT  IN  SOUTH  DAKOTA 


321 


But  these  steers  fed  on  the  uncut  wild 
glasses  of  Dakota  cured  in  the  ground, 
have  for  years  competed  in  the  market 
with  stall-fed  cattle  raised  by  the 
more  eastern  farmers.  The  immensity 
of  this  business  in  the  past  may  be 
suggested  by  the  statement  that  the 
annual  shipment  of  cattle  from  the 
one  station  of  Belle  Fourche  has 
varied  from  sixty  to  eighty-five  thou- 
sand head.  It  is  estimated  that  this 
year  about  one  and  a  half  million 
pounds  of  wool  and  thirty  thousand 
head  of  sheep,  and  as  many  as  two 
thousand  head  of  horses  were  shipped 
from  that  one  point. 

Heretofore  this  cattle  business  has 
called  for  some  little  missionary  work. 
This  has  been  more  especially  true 
among  the  small  ranchmen.  One  of 
our  missionary  appointments  is  named 
after  one  of  the  brands  most  common- 
ly known  in  the  vicinity,  "W.  G."  Flat 
appointment.  But  large  cattle  busi- 
ness means  a  limited  population. 
Roaming,  unbranded  cattle  call  for 
little  missionary  effort,  those  who  own 
them  living  for  the  most  part  in 
bordering  towns  like  Fort  Pierre, 
Spearfish  and  Belle  Fourche,  except 
during  the  semi-annual  round-up 
seasons.  But  now,  west  of  the  Mis- 
souri, the  day  of  the  small  ranch  man 
and  the  grain  farmer  has  come.  Here- 
after every  ranchman  must  hold  title 
to  or  rent  his  land. 

That  for  which  South  Dakota  has 
long  waited  and  watched  and  worked 
and  prayed  has  at  last  come, —  a  rail- 
road across  its  borders  from  east  to 
west;  and  it  has  come  three  times 
over.  For  three  railway  lines  are  now 
building  across  the  Missouri  River  to 
the  west.  A  fourth,  the  Minneapolis 
and  St.  Louis,  which  is  now  building 
from  Watertown  to  Aberdeen  and  be- 
yond to  the  Northwest  and  also  due 
west  is  expected  some  day  soon  to 
cross  the  Missouri  at  a  fourth  point. 
Thus  a  great  domain  is  being  prac- 
tically added  to  our  state.  It  is  like 
the  discovery  of  a  new  empire.  Nine- 
teen hundred  and  six  will  go  down  in- 
to history  ns  a  great  year  in  the  com- 


BRANDING  CATTLE 


mercial  history  of  South  Dakota. 

Then  there  is  the  great  Belle 
Fourche  Project  as  it  is  called, — a 
United  States  government  project  of 
irrigation  which  will  cost  $2,500,000 
and  more.  A  reservoir  of  water  is 
being  built  eleven  miles  long  and 
more  than  five  miles  wide.  The  main 
dam  now  being  built  will  be  more 
than  one  mile  long,  ninety-two  feet 
high,  five  hundred  feet  thick  at  the 
base  and  one  hundred  feet  at  the  top. 
The  inlet  canal  is  some  seven  miles 
long  and  sixty  feet  wide  at  water- 
line  level.  From  this  will  branch  out 
smaller  canals   ramifying  through   an 


area  about  thirty  miles  long  by  twenty 
miles  wide.  All  this  supply  of  water 
will  be  furnished  from  the  diverted 
streams  without  disturbing  their 
natural  flow,  simply  making  use  of 
the  spring  over-flow  which  has  here- 
tofore run  to  waste.  It  is  estimated 
that  a  farming  population  of  some 
ninety  thousand  will  be  supported  by 
this  land  "under  the  canal."  And 
this  project  is  right  in  the  midst  of  a 
county  whose  area  is  7,834  square 
miles,  about  as  large  as  the  state  of 
Massachusetts,  a  county  which  has 
one  school  district  forty  miles  by  fifty 
miles    with    as    yet    but    seventy-two 


THE  N.TW  MOVEMENT  IN  SOUTH  DAKOTA 


323 


pupils,  as  one  of  the  directors  inform- 
ed me.  It  is  a  county  which  has 
eighty-eight  townships  only  thirty- 
one  or  thirty-two  quarters  of  which 
have  as  yet  "been  taken."  The  rankly 
growing  rich  grasses  show  that  rich 
soils  are  abundant.  What  possibilities 
open  up  to  a  prophetic  eye  in  the  near 
future  for  such  a  country. 

An  empire  is  building.  Shall  pillars 
of  strength  or  of  weakness  be  put  in- 
to her  framework?  Shall  religion  or 
commercialism  be  the  regnant  spirit? 

More  than  nine  hundred  miles  of 
new  railway  are  being  built  in  one 
year,  with  new  towns  every  ten  miles 
and  inland  villages  everywhere.  This 
bare  statement  seems  sufficiently  sug- 
gestive even  to  one  not  familiar  with 
scenes  where  towns  spring  up  as  in'  a 
night.  Some  of  these  towns  are  in 
the  midst  of  a  well  developed  farm 
country  where  the  farms  have  been 
tilled  for  twenty  years  or  more;  for 
example,  Brentford  in  Spink  county 


tants,  and  Gregory  with  six  hundred, 
are  in  the  midst  of  farms  which  were 
settled  during  the  Rosebud  Reserva- 
tion movement.  Other  towns  like 
Murdo  in  Lyman  county,  or  Quinn  in 
Pennington,  precede  the  farm  popula- 
tion, or  at  least  are  set  down  in  a  very 
sparsely  settled  country.  When  I 
visited  Draper  in  July  I  stabled  my 
horse  in  a  tent  livery  and  found  a 
straw  mattress  in  a  tent  lodging  house. 
The  aspiring  city  was  then  but  a  few 
days  old. 

Some  six  new  fields  calling  for  six 
new  men  have  already  thrust  them- 
selves upon  us  without  the  seeking. 
An  average  of  $250  to  each  field  in  a 
raw  civilization  would  be  a  small  sti- 
pend. Where  will  we  find  the  extra 
$1,500  annually?  And  yet  larger 
possibilities  undeveloped  would  then 
remain  entirely  untouched.  These 
are  some  practical  problems  which 
push  themselves  upon  us  as  practical 
Americans. 


SPEARFISH  CANYON 


consists  to-day  of  two  bank  buildings, 
a  hotel,  a  livery  stable,  a  store  or  two, 
all  partially  built  and  set  down  in  the 
midst  of  a  field  of  wheat  in  some  of 
the  richest  farm  land  of  that  county. 
Herrick,  with   four   hundred   inhabi- 


Do  you  ask  what  work  we  already 
have  in  the  region  west  of  the  Mis- 
souri River?  We  have  some  eight 
churches  and  a  dozen  or  more  mission 
stations  in  lumber  and  mining  camps. 
Four  of  the  churches  are  now  receiv- 


324 


THE    HOME    MISSIONARY 


ing  missionary  aid.  We  this  year  are 
expending  $755-  One  of  our  sister 
Protestant  denominations  which  usual- 
ly shows  economy  and  far  sighted 
wisdom  in  its  missionary  enterprises 
apportioned  this  year  for  this  same  dis- 
trict $4,100.  But  the  great  district  be- 
tweenRapid  City  in  the  Hills  and 
Oacoma,  two  hundred  and  fifteen 
miles,  and  Rapid  City  and  Fort  Pierre 
one  hundred  and  sixty-eight  miles 
east  by  railway  has  been  entirely  un- 
titled and  unclaimed  by  any  denomina- 
tion until  now. 

This,  then,  in  brief  is  a  glimpse  of 
the  opportunity  of  the  hour  in  South 
Dakota.  What  part  are  we  as  Con- 
gregationalists  to  take  in  this  empire- 


building  in  the  newer  Dakota?  This 
is  a  question  for  the  Congregational 
churches  of  America  to  answer;  and 
answer  it  somehow  we  must  in  this 
crucial  hour.  May  ours  be  the 
Master's  answer.  Let  the  silver  and 
gold,  ours  but  in  trust,  be  poured  into 
the  treasury  of  the  C.  H.  M.  S. ;  and 
may  the  faith  and  love  of  which  the 
gifts  are  but  expressions,  re-echo  in 
the  ears  of  those  who,  at  the  front, 
are  pushing  forward  the  battle  lines 
of  the  King  until  South  Dakota  shall 
own  allegiance  to  Him  alone.  May 
this  glimpse  of  empire-building  in  our 
America  give  us  all  a  larger  vision  of 
onr  King  and  of  His  Kingdom,  and 
of  ourselves  as  under  His  command! 


Action  of  the  Executive  Committee  Upon  the 
Resignation  of  Don  O.  She/ton 


"The  Executive  Committee  record 
their  sincere  regret  at  the  withdrawal 
of  Secretary  Don  O.  Shelton  from  the 
Executive  force  of  this  Society.  Four 
years  ago  the  need  of  additional 
strength  in  the  office  was  clearly 
recognized ;  and  after  careful  search 
for  the  right  man,  Mr.  Shelton  was 
called  to  the  position  of  Associate 
Secretary.  He  brought  energy,  con- 
secration, devotion  and  fertility  of 
method  which  have  been  telt  to  a 
marked  degree  in  all  the  relations  of 
the  Society  to  the  sustaining  churches, 
which  has  been  the  special  field  of  his 
activity.  A  great  body  of  the  young 
people  of  our  churches  has  been 
touched  and  awakened  to  a  knowledge 
of  the  work  of  Home  Missions  and  an 


interest  in  this  work.  Sunday  Schools, 
Young  People's  Societies,  Mission- 
ary conventions  have  felt  the  power  of 
his  personality  and  the  force  of  his 
appeal. 

In  counsel  his  judgment  has  been 
ever  helpful ;  in  confronting  the  prob- 
lems that  stand  before  us  as  the 
church  planting  arm  of  the  denomina- 
tion, he  has  shown  wisdom,  patience 
and  perseverance. 

The  Executive  Committee  and  the 
officers  deeply  regret  that  the  call  of 
a  new  work  must  separate  him  from 
the  association  and  co-operation  of 
four  years  of  fellowship  which  have 
brought  a  constantlv  deepening  ap- 
preciation of  his  qualifications  for  this 
work." 


Editor's  Outlook 

The  Resignation   of  stimulating  gifts,  and  in  multiplying 

appeals    by    his    pen    and    his    voice, 

Secretary  Shelton  which  will  have  a  permanent  value. 

If  wonder  should  be  felt  that  a  man 

THE  retirement  of  Secretary  so  manifestly  fitted  for  long  and 
Don  O.  Shelton  will  be  re-  growing  influence  as  a  missionary 
ceived  with  surprise  by  many,  secretary  should  turn  aside  to  any 
and  with  regret  by  all  who  know  other  work,  the  solution  must  be 
him  and  his  work.  For  four  found  in  the  fact  that  he  returns  to 
years  he  has  given  himself  with  an  old  and  early  love, — his  love  of  the 
rare  devotion  to  the  duties  of  his  of-  Bible  and  to  his  deepening  conviction 
fice.  Pastors  and  churches  have  wel-  that  to  interpret  and  enforce  its  teach- 
comed  him  warmly,  and  have  felt  the  ing-s  is  fundamental  to  all  true  mis- 
inspiration  of  his  presence  and  his  sionary  spirit,  and  absolutely  essential 
words.  To  a  large  circle  of  young  to  the  welfare  of  the  nation.  With 
people  he  has  endeared  himself  pecul-  this  high  and  noble  view  of  the  work 
iarly,  and  many  of  them  will  date  he  enters  upon  new  duties,  carrying 
their  first  interest  in  home  missions  to  with  him  the  esteem  and  love  of  his 
his  contagious  enthusiasm.  For  the  official  brethren  and  followed  by  their 
Home  Missionary  Society  he  has  done  warmest  wishes  and  most  earnest 
much    in    promoting    confidence,    in  prayers  for  his  success. 

The  Work  and  Methods  of  the  Congregational 
Home   Missionary  Society 

(It  is  to  be  assumed  that  most  of  the  adult  membership  of  our  churches  are 
fairly  well  acquainted  with  the  object  and  methods  of  the  Home  Missionary  So- 
ciety. But  to  a  large  body  of  more  youthful  members  they  are,  by  necessity, 
less  familiar.  It  is  chiefly  for  the  benefit  of  this  latter  class,  which  we  earnestly 
desire  to  interest,  that  the  following  statement  is  put  forth:) 

I. 

PLANTING  THE  CHURCH 

TO  plant  the  Church  of  Christ  in  destitute  communities  is  the  prime  object 
of  the  Society.  There  are  many  such  communities  in  the  West  and 
South,  and  even  in  the  longer  settled  states  of  the  North  and  East.  Be- 
fore the  days  of  rural  free  delivery,  the  United  States  Postal  Directory  some- 
times added  nearly  one  thousand  new  post  offices  to  its  list  every  year.  Most 
of  these  mean  a  community,  destitute  as  yet,  of  religious  privileges.  The  home 
missionary,  bearing  the  Society's  commission,  enters  and  explores.  He  gathers 
the  Christian  people  together,  explains  his  mission,  and  appoints  a  public  serv- 
ice. Wherever  the  people  are  so  minded,  he  assists  them  in  organizing  a 
church,  in  gathering  the  children  into  a  Sunday  school,  and  in  starting  a  sub- 
scription for  the  support  of  a  pastor.  So  a  new  center  of  religious  influence  and 
Christian  civilization  is  established. 

II. 

SUSTAINING  WEAK  CHURCHES 

Many  churches  in  new,  and  sometimes  in  old  communities,  are  unable  by 
any  measure  of  sacrifice  to  raise  a  living  salary  for  a  pastor.    This  is  particular- 


326  THE    HOME    MISSIONARY 

ly  true  of  young  churches  in  new  city  wards.  Without  some  help  from  outside 
they  would  surely  die.  In  this  distress  they  apply  to  the  Home  Missionary  So- 
ciety for  help.  If  the  case  is  worthy  and  the  promise  of  growth  is  hopeful,  the 
Society  listens  to  their  appeal  and  makes  a  grant  of  money  to  supplement  what 
the  people  are  able  to  raise,  thus  making  up  a  living  salary.  So  the  pastor  be- 
comes a  missionary  of  the  Society.  In  eighty  years  four-fifths  of  the  entire 
body  of  Congregational  churches  in  the  United  States  have  either  been  planted 
in  the  way  described,  or  have  received  aid  in  their  time  of  need. 

III. 

SELF-SUPPORT 

It  is  expected  and  demanded  that  churches  thus  planted  or  sustained,  shall, 
as  their  ability  increases,  graduate  from  a  condition  of  dependence  and  them- 
selves become  contributors  to  the  Society's  treasury  for  the  help  of  those  still 
•n  need  of  assistance.  Thus,  during  the  last  year,  sixty  such  churches  have  as- 
sumed the  entire  support  of  their  own  Gospel  ordinances,  and  during  the  last 
eighty  years  about  three  thousand  five  hundred  such  churches  have  been 
brought  to  self-support. 

IV. 

FOREIGN   SPEAKING  CHURCHES 

During  the  past  twenty-five  years  the  Society  has  turned  its  attention 
especially  to  foreign  speaking  people.  Three  foreign  departments  were  opened 
in  1883  and  skilled  superintendents  were  appointed  to  direct  missionary  work 
among  the  Scandinavians,  Germans,  and  the  Slavic  races.  The  work  has 
grown.  More  than  two  hundred  of  the  Society's  missionaries  are  preaching 
every  Sabbath  in  thirteen  different  tongues  to  as  many  nationalities,  and  during 
these  twenty-five  years  more  than  three  hundred  foreign  Congregational 
churches  have  been  planted  and  are  being  nurtured  to  strength  and  self-support. 
Where  foreign  churches  cannot  yet  be  gathered,  missionaries  are  trained  and 
appointed  to  visit  the  people  in  their  homes  and  to  instruct  them  in  religious 
truths.  No  part  of  the  Society's  work  is  more  hopeful  or  rewarding  than  this 
Twenty-five  years  of  success  have  proved,  beyond  the  last  doubt,  that  the  immi 
grant  of  every  land  and  of  nearly  every  grade  is  convertible  into  an  American 
citizen,  a  devout  Christian,  and  even  into  a  loyal  Congregationalist. 

V. 

KEEPING  THE  CHURCHES  INFORMED 

Not  the  least  important  aim  of  the  Society  is  to  inform  and  enlighten  the 
churches  as  to  their  missionary  work.  A  valuable  and  growing  body  of  litera- 
ture has  thus  been  developed  which  is  offered  to  the  churches,  for  the  most  part, 
without  cost.  The  Home  Missionary,  now  in  its  eightieth  year,  is  a  current 
history  of  the  home  missionary  movement  down  to  date,  and  if  the  testimony  of 
many  readers  may  be  accepted,  it  is  the  best  magazine  of  its  kind — and  only 
fifty  cents  a  year.  Congregational  Work,  with  its  home  missionary  department, 
has  30,000  subscribers —  at  ten  cents  a  year.  Missionary  leaflets  for  old  and 
young, — consisting  of  concert  exercises,  programs  for  missionary  meetings, 
vigorous  appeals,  material  for  home  missionary  sermons  and  addresses,  and 
stories  of  interest,  have  multiplied  to  several  hundred.  They  are  in  constant 
demand  and  are  to  be  had  on  request.  It  is  assumed  that  the  continued  interest 
of  our  churches  in  their  home  missionary  work  is  dependent  upon  a  widely  dis- 
seminated and  carefully  nurtured  intelligence.  To  this  end  enlightening  litera- 
1ure  has  never  been  economized.  No  church,  no  pastor,  no  missionary  leader, 
or  teacher,  need  remain  in  ignorance  of  the  Work,  Methods  and  Achievements 
of  The  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society. 


Our  Country's  Young  People 


A  Personal  Word 

THE  hearty  response  that  has 
come  during  the  past  four 
years  from  a  very  large  num- 
ber of  pastors  and  members  of  Con- 
gregational Churches  throughout  the 
country  to  personal  letters,  and  to 
articles  and  appeals  published  in  the 
pages  of  The  Home  Missionary, 
seem  to  justify  the  printing  of  the  fol- 
lowing communication: 

December  3,  1906. 

The  Executive  Committee ,  of 

the  Congregational  Home 

Missionary  Society. 

Gentlemen  : 

There  has  been  a  growing  convic- 
tion in  my  mind,  for  several  years, 
that  my  energy  should  be  concen- 
trated on  forms  of  Evangelistic  work 
in  New  York  City,  and  in  behalf  of  an 
organized  National  movement  for  the 
furtherance  of  Bible  study. 

The  opportunity  for  the  achieve- 
ment of  this  two-fold  purpose  having 
come  to  me,  I  have  decided  that  it  is 
my  duty  to  take  prompt  advantage  of 
it. 

Therefore,  I  present  herewith  my 
resignation  as  associate  secretary  of 
the  Congregational  Home  Missionary 
Society,  with  the  request  that  it  take 
effect  on  January  31,  next,  or  as  soon 
thereafter  as  in  your  judgment  the 
interests  of  the  work  committed  to  my 
care  will  permit.  I  have  been  led  to 
take  this  step  after  long  and  careful 
consideration,  and  while  it  is  not  easy 
to  sever  the  pleasant  relations  that 
have  existed,  I  feel  it  my  duty  to  do 
so. 

In  looking  back  over  the  four-year 
period  of  my  connection  with  the  So- 
ciety, it  is  encouraging  to  discover 
several  signs  of  progress.  A  brief 
summary  of  advances  made  in  work 


for  which  I  have  had  special  re- 
sponsibility, other  than  that  of  the 
regular  routine  work  of  the  office,  and 
that  connected  with  public  speaking 
and  home  mission  conferences,  may  be 
of  interest. 

(1.)  The  Home  Missionary  has 
been  thoroughly  modernized  in  its 
typography.  In  its  new  form  and 
style,  and  under  the  editorship  of  Dr. 
Clark,,  it  has  won  renewed  favor 
throughout  the  churches.  Further- 
more, through  a  large  increase  in  its 
receipts,  its  cost  to  the  Society  has 
been  greatly  reduced. 

(2.)  Nearly  all  of  the  important 
literature  of  the  Society  has  also  been 
modernized,  and  in  attractiveness  is 
probably  unsurpassed  by  that  of  any 
other  home  missionary  organization. 

(3.)  An  entirely  new  and  valuable 
literature  for  young  people  has  been 
built  up.  Twelve  attractive  booklets, 
filled  with  fresh,  definite  and  practical 
suggestions  have  been  issued,  and  a 
large  variety  of  programmes  for 
young  people's  meetings  have  been 
supplied.  It  was  my  privilege  to 
write  the  first  home  mission  study 
text-book,  published  by  the  Young 
People's  Missionary  Movement.  It 
has  had  a  large  use,  not  only  among 
young  people  of  our  own  denomina- 
tion, but  among  the  young  people  of 
the  Presbyterian,  Baptist,  and  various 
other  religious  bodies.  Its  publica- 
tion and  use  marked  the  beginning  of 
a  new  era  in  home  mission  interest 
among  young  people. 

(4.)  In  connection  with  the  finan- 
cial interests  of  the  Society,  so  far  as 
contributions  from  living  donors  is 
concerned,  unusual  progress  has  been 
made.  The  receipts  of  the  National 
Society  from  living  donors  last  year 
were  over  $70,000  in  excess  of  the  re- 
ceipts from  that  source  the  previous 
year,  and  were  in  excess  of  the  re- 
ceipts from  living  donors  during  any 
one    year    of   the   last   twelve   years. 


328 


THE    HOME    MISSIONARY 


This  notable  advance  of  last  year  has 
been  maintained  thus  far  during  the 
present  year. 

I  am  very  thankful  for  the  many 
kindnesses  and  courtesies  that  have 
been  shown  me  throughout  these 
years,  and  I  wish  to  express,  heartily, 
to  members  of  both  the  present  and 
former  Executive  Committees,  my 
gratitude  therefor. 

I  shall  treasure  also  through  the 
coming  years  the  remembrance  of  my 
very  hanov  association  with  those 
with  whom  it  has  been  my  privilege  to 
be  affiliated  in  the  office. 

I  shall  count  it  a  privilege  to  co- 
operate in  any  way  within  my  power 
in  furthering  the  interests  of  the  So- 


ciety in  future  years.    I  am, 
Yours  very  sincerely, 

Don  O.  Shelton. 

In  response  to  the  request  of  the 
Executive  Committee,  I  have  arranged 
to  give  as  large  a  part  of  my  time  to 
the  work  of  the  Congregational  Home 
Missionary  Society,  in  February  and 
March,  as  my  new  work  will  permit. 
This  continued  affiliation  with  the 
work  of  the  Society  will  afford  op- 
portunity for  further  communications 
through  the  pages  of  The  Home  Mis- 
sionary. 


Missions  in  the  Sunday-school 


HINTS   AND   SUGGESTIONS 


THE  Young  People's  Missionary 
Movement  has  just  issued  a 
valuable  work  on  The  Sunday 
School  and  Missions*  It  contains  a 
report  of  the  conference  on  this  sub- 
ject held  last  summer  at  Silver  Bay, 
Lake  George.  Within  its  pages  are  a 
variety  of  excellent  suggestions  as  to 
the  importance  and  place  of  mission 
study  in  Sunday  schools.  The  ad- 
dresses, several  of  which  are  printed  in 
full,  indicate  that  the  benefits  ascribed 
to  the  conference  are  not  overdrawn. 
Readers  of  The  Home  Mission- 
ary, we  are  sure,  will  find  useful  the 
practical  plans  suggested  at  this  con- 
ference. 

Our  first  selection  is  from  the  ad- 
dress given  by  Dr.  John  Franklin 
Goucher,  permanent  chairman  of  the 
committee.     He  said,  in  part: 

The  library  method  is  giving  away  to 
the  laboratory  method.  'Activity  opens 
all  the  channels  of  approach  to  the  soul.' 


*The     Sunday     School     and     Missions: 

Young  People's  Missionary  Movement, 
156  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York.  Single 
copies  50  cents;  three  copies  $t,  prepaid. 


The  divine  promise  is,  'If  ye  do,  ye  shall 
know.'  Soul  culture  results  from  or  con- 
sists in  its  reactions.  The  knowledge  of 
God  must  come  by  expression  and  ac- 
tivity. Neither  the  aim  nor  the  method 
of  the  Sunday  school  has  kept  pace  with 
the  progress  in  secular  education  during 
the  past  decade.  The  teaching  function 
has  been  exalted  and  is  becoming  more 
and  more  of  a  science.  The  tendency  of 
all  first-class  schools  is  'away  from 
words  to  things,  from  symbols  to  ob- 
jects, from  text-books  to  laboratory, 
from  learning  by  rote  to  learning  by  do- 
ing.' The  Sunday  school  faces  a  dilem- 
ma. It  must  become  a  giant  or  it  will 
become  a  dwarf.  If  this  Conference 
should  result  in  a  clear  vision  of  the 
problem  which  childhood  presents  and 
should  call  the  church  to  address  her- 
self with  singleness  of  purpose  to  de- 
velop, through  the  church  school,  prac- 
tical and  comprehensive  methods  ade- 
quate to  the  problem  of  utilising  child- 
hood as  the  great  opportunity  and  re- 
sponsibility in  the  evangelization  of  the 
world,  it  would  mark  an  epoch  in  the 
advancement  of  the  Kingdom. 

On  the  place  of  mission"  study  in 
the  Sunday  school,  from  the  view 
point  of  Sunday  school  editors,  Mr. 
Charles  G.  Trumbull,  editor  of  The 
Sunday    School    Times,    gave    some 


OUR  COUNTRY'S     YOUNG  PEOPLE 


329 


wise  and  helpful  hints.  Mr.  Trum- 
bull said  that  the  Sunday  school  is  not 
a  branch,  or  a  department,  or  a  child 
of  the  church.  "The  Sunday  school 
IS  the  church,  engaged  in  the  most 
important  work  that  God  permits  men 
to  do.  It  is  the  church  engaged  in 
carrying  out  the  great  commission, 
making  disciples,  or  learners,  of  all 
men."  j 

The  Hon.  Samuel  B.  Capen,  LL.D., 
President  of  the  American  Board, 
spoke  on  the  place  of  mission  study 
in  the  Sunday  school  from  the  view- 
point of  the  missionary  boards.  Re- 
specting the  offering  in  the  Sunday 
schools  he  said,  in  part: 

It  is  essential  that  we  dignify  the  of- 
fering by  treating  it  with  more  rever- 
ence. In  too  many  of  our  Sunday 
schools  it  is  regarded  as  an  incidental 
and  almost  an  unimportant  matter.  En- 
velopes are  passed  around,  and  little  or 
nothing  is  said  about  the  gift  either  from 
the  superintendent  or  the  teacher.  Oft- 
times  the  Sunday  school  knows  nothing 
about  the  object  to  which  it  is  contribut- 
ing, and  the  whole  method  is  too  often 
utterly  unworthy  of  this  part  of  the 
worship.  It  is  essential  that  we  give  it 
a  better  name.  Above  all  things  else, 
let  us  never  call  this  offering  to  God  a 
'penny  contribution.'  It  is  no  wonder 
that  the  older  children  beerin  to  despise 
it,  thinking  it  only  belongs  to  the  little 
children  in  the  infant  department.  That 
was  a  cutting  sarcasm  in  a  magazine 
article  which  said:  'Bring  up  a  child  to 
contribute  a  copper  cent,  and  when  he  is 
old  he  will  not  depart  from  it.'  A 
friend  told  me  recently  of  his  experience. 
He  was  away  from  home  on  a  summer 
vacation  and  at  the  close  of  the  Sunday 
school  the  superintendent  came  to  him 
and  asked  him  if  he  had  not  made  a 
mistake  in  the  contribution.  When  he 
expressed  his  surprise  at  the  question 
the  superintendent  replied,  'I  found  a 
nickel  in  the  box  and  I  thought  you  must 
have  made  a  mistake,  and  here  is  four 
cents  back  again.'  It  never  dawned  on 
this  superintendent  that  any  one  could 
give  over  a  cent  at  such  a  time.  Let  us 
do  away  forever  with  the  word  'collec- 
tion' and  'contribution'  and  call  it  an  'of- 
ferinsr,'  which  has  in  it  some  thought  of 
sacrifice.  By  recognizing  these  things  it 
will  help  us  much  to  teach  our  children 
the  great  truth  of  Christian  stewardship. 

Evidently  one  of  the  brightest  ad- 
dresses  given   at  the   conference  was 


that  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  A.  L.  Phillips, 
on  "Missionary  Work  Through 
Existing  Organizations."  The  humor 
in  Dr.  Phillips'  address  was  for  a 
purpose,  though.  This  fact  is  in- 
dicated by  the  following  selection : 

One  summer  vacation  I  was  a  litttle 
bit  bothersome  to  my  mother  and  fa- 
ther, and  they  found  out  that  there  was 
an  old  field  school  near,  and  they 
thought  they  had  better  send  me  to  it  to 
keep  me  out  of  mischief.  So  I  went,  and 
I  have  been  glad  of  it  ever  since.  I 
didn't  learn  anything  in  the  world  but 
mischief.  We  played  a  lot  of  things, 
marbles,  mumblepeg,  town-ball — didn't 
have  baseball — leapfrog,  and  all  that  sort 
of  thing.  Right  out  on  the  large  play- 
ground in  the  woods  we  had  an  insti- 
tution called  a  'Flying  Jinny.'  It  was 
made  by  cutting  down  a  sapling  about 
breast  high  and  cutting  a  shoulder  on  it, 
and  then  putting  on  a  big  plank  with  a 
hole  in  it.  Then  you  sit  on  one  end  and 
your  girl  on  the  other,  and  go  round 
and  round  and  have  a  lot  of  fun.  You 
could  ride  until  you  had  to  fall  off. 
That  was  a  great  institution,  the  'Flying 
Jinny.'  You  know  they  have  taken  it 
up  into  modern  life  now,  and  they  call 
it  a  merry-go-round,'  but  it  is  the  identi- 
cal old  thing.  •  It  has  now  a  steam 
engine  that  runs,  and  also  plays.  It  runs 
around  on  a  platform  on  which  are  lions, 
and  horses,  and  sofas,  and  elephants,  and 
giraffes,  and  all  sorts  of  things.  You  pay 
your  nickel  and  you  ride.  But  the  cu- 
rious thing  about  the  'Flying  Jinny'  and 
the  'Merry-go-round'  is  that  when  you 
get  on  it  you  think  you  are  going  some- 
where, you  think  you  are  doing  some- 
thing, but  you  get  off  where  you  got  on. 
I  have  seen  the  whole  Sunday  school  on 
the  'Flying  Jinny.'  The  pastor  gets  on 
and  rides  for  once  the  noble  lion.  The 
superintendent  chooses  the  giraffe  be- 
cause he  likes  to  ride  high.  The  choir 
leader  is  there  on  a  beast — nameless 
here,  but  that  makes  a  noise.  Ever  seen 
any  Sunday  school  like  that?  Here  is  a 
great  world  lying  in  darkness  and  sin, 
but  here  we  are  just  riding  around,  just 
riding  around.  Are  you  on  it?  I  have 
got  off,  and  I'm  going  to  stay  off. 

The  volume  contains  a  useful  bib- 
liography, classified  in  part  as  follows : 
Principles  of  education :  principles  of 
religious  education :  childhood ;  ado- 
lenscence ;  principle  of  teaching ;  Sun- 
dav  <=chool  teaching :  organization  and 
methods ;  grading  and  curriculum ; 
suggestions  to  parents. 


Needed  I  New  Zeal  for  the 

Christian  Conquest 

of  America 


THE  Rev.  H.  H.  Kelsey, 
pastor  of  the  Fourth  Con- 
gregational Church,  Hartford, 
Ct,  has  been  giving  special  con- 
sideration to  present  conditions 
in  Congregational  churches. 
While  Mr.  Kelsey  acknowledges 
the  noble  service  record  of  the 
Congregational  churches  and 
states  that  their  gifts  have  en- 
riched the  nation  and  the  world, 
and  still  do,  and  will,  he  finds 
that  there  are  aspects  of  the 
situation  in  our  Congregational 
churches  in  this  present  which 
may  well  cause  every  Congre- 
gationalist  to  inquire  whether 
for  the  sake  of  the  country,  the 
world,  and  the  Kingdom,  we 
ought  not  now  to  give  a  new 
heed  to  the  nurture  and  develop- 
ment of  our  own  life.. 

We  have  stopped  growing.  In 
the  decade  1884-1894  our  average 
gain  was  125  churches  a  year.  In 
1890,  we  added  168  churches.  In 
the  decade  1894-1904  we  added  but 
57  per  year.  In  1904,  our  gain 
counting  out  Hawaii,  was  but  two, 
and  in  1905  we  added  but  three 
churches.  This  stopping  of  growth 
followed  immediately  the  de- 
crease of  receipts  by  the  Home 
Missionary  Societv.  In  the  year 
1880,  Congregationalists  ranked 
first  in  point  of  numbers  in  the 
United    States,  in    1890  we   ranked 


tenth,  and  in  1900  eleventh;  now 
we  must  be  twelfth,  or  lower. 
This  humiliating  record  means 
that  our  individualism  in  church 
life  is  proving  its  weakness  for 
conquest  in  these  times.  It  also 
discloses  our  lack  of  generalship 
in  denominational  affairs.  It  also 
shows  what  has  happened,  and 
will  happen,  as  long  as  our  Home 
Missionary  Society  is  compelled  to 
cut  off  appropriations  from  all  mis- 
sionary fields  and  workers.  This 
record  means  that  we  have  op- 
portunities in  city  and  country 
from  the  Hudson  River  to  the  Pa- 
cific, which  we  cannot  enter. 

Mr.  Kelsey  shows  that  we 
are  not  a  soul-winning  church. 
2,390,  or  41  per  cent  of  our 
churches  did  not  add  a  single 
member  on  confession  in  1905. 
He  points  out  that  we  are  losing 
our  constituency  of  young  peo- 
ple. "In  1900,"  he  says,  "the 
membership  of  our  Sunday 
schools  exceeded  the  member- 
ship of  our  churches  by  106,887. 
In  1905  there  were  15,586  less  in 
our  Sunday  schools  than  in 
church  membership.  Such  a  loss 
as  this  does  not  obtain  in  any 
other  denomination." 

His  fourth  important  state- 
ment is  to  the  effect  that  we  are 
not  producing  our  own  ministers. 
His  fifth  point  stated  in  his  own 
language,  is  as  follows : 


We  are  increasing  in  wealth  and 
proportionately  in  the  home  ex- 
penses of  the  churches,  but  during 
the  period  in  which  wealth  has  in- 
creased approximately  fifty  per 
cent  we  have  made  no  increase  in 
reported  benevolent  gifts;  rather 
are  we  giving  $100  less  per  church 
now  than  we  gave  in  1894. 

What  do  these  facts  mean? 
Mr.  Kelsey  says  that  if  they 
mean  anything  they  indicate  a 
waning  spiritual  life  and  de- 
crease of  aggressive  energy. 
With  all  the  loyalty,  he  contin- 
ues, and  generous  giving  and 
ardent  Christian  life  in  our 
churches,  alas,  for  the  revelation 
of  denominational  loyalty  and 
Christian  patriotism  disclosed  by 
the  treasury  of  our  Home  Mis- 
sionary Society.     He  continues: 

The  trouble  is  deep  in  the  life  of 
the  churches,  and  its  remedy  is  not 
in  any  new  organization  of  home 
missions,  or  other  form  of  denomi- 
national activity.  Needful  and 
helpful  as  such  measures  may  be, 
they  will  be  superficial  and  ineffi- 
cient unless  they  produce,  or  are 
the  product  of  a  radical  change  in 
the  life  and  local  endeavor  of  our 
churches.  We  may  not  blink  our 
eyes  and  ease  our  consciences  by 
smooth  words;  we  must  face  these 
facts  before  the  throne  in  our  pul- 
pits, in  our  Sunday  schools,  in 
every  parish. 

That  there  may  come  a  new 
era  of  progress,  Mr.  Kelsey  says 
we  must  have  three  things: 

1.  A  new  denominational 
leadership. 

2.  A  new  birth,  in  pulpit  and 
pew,  of  evangelistic  purpose  and 
passion.     And 


3.  A  nezv  conception  of  the 
function  of  our  Home  Mission- 
ary Society,  and  such  support 
from  all  the  churches  as  will  en- 
able it  to  take  prompt  advantage 
of  over  200  present  definite  op- 
portunities for  founding  new 
churches  among  foreigners  and 
in  cities. 

These  specific  opportunities,  as 
shown  by  additional  reports  re- 
ceived from  Home  Missionary 
State  Secretaries  and  Superin- 
tendents within  the  past  few 
days,  now  aggregate  308.  Con- 
servative statements  by  men  who 
are  thoroughly  acquainted  with 
the  home  mission  needs  of  the 
various  states  show  that  there 
are  now 

04  opportunities  in  Cities  for  the 
planting  Congregational 
churches  in  small  towns; 

63  such  opportunities  for  the 
undertaking  of  new  work  a- 
mong  foreign-speaking  peo- 
ples; and 

94  opportunities  in  Cities  for  the 
forming  of  Congregational 
churches  without  encroach- 
ment on  the  work  of  any  other 
denomination. 

The  generous  financial  aid  of 
all  new  and  old  friends  of  the 
Congregational  Home  Mission- 
ary Society  is  required  that  these 
splendid  opportunities  for  ex- 
tension may  be  met. 


The  Church  at  Easter  Cornet 


By  Rf.v.  Charles  N.  Sinnett 


I  was  traveling  over  the  prairie  one 
dark,  oppressive  spring  day  when 
I  found  that  the  main  trail  which 
I  had  been  following  divided  into  so 
many  smaller  ones  that  I  was  uncer- 
tain which  one  to  follow.  As  no 
house  was  near  where  I  could  make 
inquiries  about  my  way,  I  was  very 
glad  when  I  heard  quick  hoof-beats 
behind  me.  The  rider  of  the  fleet 
pony  gave  me  a  cheery  greeting. 
When  I  told  him  of  the  point  which  I 
desired  to  reach  he  said,  "Take  either 
of  those  right  hand  roads.  They  seem 
to  widely  diverge,  but  they  all  lead  to 
Easter  Corner  where  you  see  the 
white  church." 

"Easter  Corner,"  I  said  with  keen 
surprise  when  I  had  thanked  the  man 
for  his  kindlv  helping.  "  I  have  never 
heard  of  that  place  before." 

"We  had  little  chance  for  choice 
about  the  name,"  the  man  smiled. 
"The  first  people  who  moved  here 
were  Yankees.  They  seldom  feel  at 
home  unless  a  town  has  a  center  and 
a  corner  to  it,  or  has  a  port,  or  ville, 
at  the  end  of  it.  Good  solid  folks  they 
are,  too.  They  hold  as  fast  to  the 
Bible,  and  all  good  things,  as  they  do 
to  old  New  England  names.  When 
there  were  only  three  families  of  them 
here  they  started  a  Sunday  school,  and 
made  plans  for  having  a  church  built 
as  soon  as  that  was  possible." 

"Thev  must  have  worked  hard,"  I 
said,  "for  that  is  a  good  church.  And 
there  is  no  village  near  it  as  yet,  only 
the  scattered  houses  on  the  prairie." 

"True,"  said  the  stranger,  "and  on 
the  Sabbath  nearly  every  seat  in  the 
church  is  filled  when  it  is  at  all  pos- 
sible for  the  people  to  get  out.  To- 
morrow is  Easter,  and  I  am  one  of  the 
committee  to  go  and  see  each  family, 
and  aid  in  all  ways  we  can  those  who 
cannot  easily  get  ready  for  that  pre- 
cious service." 


"Well,  there  was  always  one  great 
difficulty  in  the  way  of  building  yon- 
der church.  That  was  the  sturdy 
blacksmith  who  came  here  from  a 
Western  neighborhood  where  he  had 
never  been  used  to  the  customs  and 
services  which  the  Yankees  and 
Scotch  people  here  counted  as  all-im- 
portant for  a  community  which  want- 
ed to  prosper.  The  defiant  way  in 
which  he  announced  that  no  one 
would  ever  see  him  in  church,  or  his 
children  in  the  Sunday  school,  made 
many  of  the  people  look  askance  at 
him.  He  was  a  stout,  brawny  man,  and 
when  he  brought  his  hammer  down  on 
the  anvil  to  emphasize  what  he  said 
and  thought,  he  knew  that  some  of 
the  people  would  go  away  and  call 
him  a  stumbling  block.  And  that  only 
seemed  to  make  his  heart  harder." 

"Can  I  not  see  this  man  as  I  go  by 
the  church  at  the  Corner?"  I  asked. 

"Yes.  Be  sure  and  grasp  him  by 
the  hand.  The  grip  which  he  will  give 
you  in  return  will  assure  how  strong 
he  is,  and  that  his  strength  goes 
steadily  out  for  the  helping  of  Chris- 
tianity. T  wish  he  nriVht  tell  you  the 
story  of  his  life.  But  he  will  not  do  it. 
He  only  once  spoke  of  that  emphatic- 
ally. That  was  the  day  when  we  felt 
sure  that  a  church  would  be  built  at 
the  Corner. 

"Yes,  sir,  but  for  that  man  who 
seemed  the  greatest  barrier  to  the  pro- 
gress of  the  church  we  might  not 
have  had  that  comfortable  building 
for  many  a  year.  He  would  say  it 
was  all  the  work  of  the  young  minister 
who  came  to  preach  to  us  early  in  the 
spring  of  1889.  But  we  all  have  our 
way  of  putting  the  story — though 
there  will  never  dawn  the  day  when 
any  of  us  will  leave  that  noble  student 
preacher  out  of  the  victory  which  was 
wrought  for  the  truth  here.  His  first 
sermon  had  nothing  striking  about  it. 


THE  CHURCH  AT  EASTER  CORNER 


333 


But  when  he  came  to  make  his  visits 
from  house  to  house  we  saw  clearly 
how  the  Lord  was  with  him. 

"The  first  week  he  was  with  us  he 
asked  all  who  were  interested  in  the 
work  of  the  church  to  meet  him  at 
the  school  house  on  Friday  night. 
And  many  of  us  went  there  with  good 
hearts.  We  hoped  that  the  founda- 
tions of  much  future  good  might  be 
laid.  But  there  was  not  one  among  us 
but  was  thrilled  with  surprise  when, 
just  as  the  meeting  was  about  to  be 
opened,  the  sturdy  blacksmith  came 
into  our  midst,  with  his  entire  family. 

"Then  our  young  preacher  rose  to 
his  feet  with  such  a  joy  on  his  face  as 
seemed  to  give  us  a  relief  from  all 
embarrasment,  fear  and  doubt.  He 
said  in  that  quiet,  even  tone  of  his, 
'Mr.  Leonard,  I  am  glad  to  see  you 
here.  We  are  to  make  plans  for  the 
future,  and  you  can  greatly  help  us.' 

"  T  know  what  you  mean  by  the 
future,'  the  blacksmith  said  with  the 
tears  chasing  each  other  down  his 
cheeks,  though  his  voice  had  in  it  the 
clear  ring  of  the  hammer  on  the  anvil. 
'The  coming  Sunday  is  Easter.  You 
want  to  plan  for  that,  and  for  build- 
ing a  church.  I  don't  know  much 
about  the  Easter — only  that  it  means 
Jesus  rose  from  the  dead,  and  is  here 
to  help  us  roll  things  into  line.' " 

"  'That  is  your  way  of  putting  it, 
and  its  good  enough  for  me,  he  said 
turning  to  the  young  minister,  and 
bringing  his  hand  down  emphatically 
on  the  desk  before  him.  'And  you  and 
Him  have  helped   roll  me  into  line.' 

"  'Neighbors,'  he  said,  suddenly 
turning  to  us  his  fat  glowing  face, 
'you've  talked  of  me  as  a  stumbling 
block,  the  rock  which  needed  to  be 
rolled  out  of  the  way,  and  I've  deserv- 
ed it.  But  you've  made  a  mistake  as 
well  as  I — in  the  way  you  put  this 
thing  into  speech.  This  young  minis- 
ter made  me  see  the  whole  thing  when 
he  came  calling  down  our  road.  I 
stood  at  the  door  of  my  shop  as  I  had 
when  the  other  preachers  here  came 
along   on    their    calls.      I    challenged 


him  as  I  did  them,  'that  is  my  house. 
No  one  of  us  go  to  church.  If  you 
dare  to  go  near  the  door  I  will  toss 
you  over  yonder  wire  fence.' 

"  'He  looked  straight  into  my  face 
and  said,  'We  need  your  help,  and 
some  time  you  will  gladly  ask  me  to 
your  home.'  He  shot  this  feeling 
through  and  through  me,  'you  are  out 
of  the  way,  but  you  will  come  into 
line.  You'll  be  like  the  big  stone  in  a 
wall — or  the  corner  stone  of  the 
church  we  must  build  here.  I'm  not 
going  to  do  this.  God  will  do  it.'  I 
seemed  to  feel  like  a  big  stone  which 
is  on  a  dray,  stoneboat,  or  whatever 
you  call  it — and  being  moved  on  to  a 
place  where  I'd  always  help  to  hold 
something  up. 

"  'He  looked  at  me  as  I  look  at 
something  I'm  making  when  it  is  red 
hot  from  the  fire,  and  I  strike  it  till 
the  sparks  fly  right  and  left;  but  his 
was  God's  hammer  of  love.  All  he 
said  was,  'We  shall  want  you  at  the 
meeting  with  us  Friday  night.'  He 
went  on.  And  I  am  here.  I  believe 
in  God's  work  and  will  help  in  all 
things  good.  These  are  hard  seats — - 
we  can  have  some  better  ones  before 
Easter  Sunday.' 

"Then  he  suddenly  turned  to  the 
young  minister  and  said,  T  hope  I've 
made  no  mistake  about  God  wanting 
to  roll  all  the  barriers  and  stones  into 
line:  nor  in  coming  right  along  as 
soon  as  I  felt  Him  moving  me?" 

"And  then  we  all  with  glad  hearts 
made  answer  with  our  young  minister, 
'you  are  right.  God  bless  you !  God 
bless  you !'  And  then  with  prayer, 
praise,  and  hymns,  we  laid  the  sure 
plans  for  the  building  of  yonder 
church.  Is  it  any  wonder  that  we  in 
our  gratitude  named  the  spot  'Easter 
Corner,'  when  God  so  clearly  taught 
us  our  duty  toward  all  the  stones  and 
barriers  which  we  say  lie  in  our  path- 
ways ?" 

"It  is  a  true  name,"  I  said  grateful- 
lv.  "I  will  see  this  noble  blacksmith. 
The  story  of  his  conversion  shall  be 
told." 


An  Appeal  to  the  Eye 

THE  accompanying  chart  is  furnished  by  Miss  M.  C.  E.  Barden  of  Lewis 
Avenue  Congregational  Church,  Brooklyn,  who  is  an  experienced  mis- 
sionary worker,  and  has  had  gratifying  success  in  interesting  children 
and  young  people  in  home  and  foreign  missions.  Miss  Barden's  experience 
has  taught  her  the  value  of  the  eye-gate  as  a  means  of  impressing  great  truths. 
A  very  brief  study  of  the  outlines  of  this  chart  will  demonstrate  its  value  for 
this  purpose.    Pages  of  statement  and  appeal  would  not  make  its  meaning  more 

clear  than  it  now  reads  to  the  eye.     "Our  Church," "Our  Neighborhood." 

— "Our  Land," — "The  World,"  tell  the  whole  story  of  the  Kingdom  of  God  on 
earth  and  the  stages  by  which  it  is  coming  and  to  come.  This  chart,  when  en- 
larged and  hung  before  a  group  of  young  people,  has  proved  to  be  of  immediate 
interest  and  great  practical  use.  With  the  printed  cut  for  a  guide,  a  bright  boy 
with  an  ordinary  facility  in  drawing  can  make  the  necessary  enlargement  and 
may  receive  an  impression  that  will  last  for  a  life  time.  We  commend  it  to 
children  of  all  ages,  to  mission  class  teachers  and  leaders,  and  to  pastors,  who 
find  it  useful  at  times,  to  demonstrate  to  the  eye  the  missionary  function  of  the 
Church  of  Christ,  concerning  which  they  preach  so  often  to  the  ears  of  their 
people. 


Women's  Work  and  Methods 


What  Does  Congregationalism 
Mean? 

By  Margaret  L.  Knapp 

NOT  a  creed;  not  that  our  an- 
cestors came  over  in  the  May- 
flower; it  means  something  else| 
It  means  a  way  of  government  accord- 
ing to  which  the  power  to  shape  the 
policy  of  the  church,  and  to  decide 
what  its  course  shall  be,  belongs  to  its 
membership,  and  not  to  its  officers  or 
committees.  It  is  government  by  the 
whole  body,  and  not  by  a  few.  In 
practice,  prudential  and  business  com- 
mittees are  often  given  considerable 
freedom  so  long  as  it  is  understood 
that  they  are  not  the  power;  the 
church  itself  is  the  power.  This  way 
of  governing  a  church  is  severely 
democratic. 

It  is  being  said  of  us  to-day  that 
there  is  more  ignorance  among  us  of 
our  own  church  principles  than  is  met 
with  in  any  other  denomination. 
Certainly,  a  very  weak  spot  in  our 
women's  organizations  is  their  uncon- 
scious want  of  loyalty  to  the  Congre- 
gational spirit.  That  this  want  of 
loyalty  is  unconscious  it  would  be 
hardly  fair  to  doubt.  After  consider- 
able study  into  the  causes  of  it  I  am 
convinced  that  one  cause  is  this: 

Many  clubs  in  their  inexperience 
start  out  with  a  constitution  more  or 
less  copied  from  their  State  Unions, 
allowing  their  executive  committee  to 
exercise  the  powers  of  a  board  of 
directors.  This  is  wrong  in  principle. 
A.  State  Union  is  an  Association  of  so- 
cities,  and  as  such  is  obliged  to  give 
quite  full  powers  to  a  board  of  di- 
rectors in  order  that  its  business  may 
^e  done  between  its  annual  meetings. 
The  Congregational  idea  does  not  ad- 
mit of  a  board  of  directors  in  the  case 
of  an  individual  club.  Its  reason  for 
existing  is  to  bring  out  the  powers  of 
all,  and  its  business  should  be  done  as 
far  as  possible  in  executive  sessions  of 
the  whole  body.     x\ll  plans  involving 


taxation,  raising  money,  entertain- 
ments, etc.,  should  be  brought  for- 
ward at  the  general  meeting,  and  the 
will  of  the  members  ascertained,  be- 
fore the  executive  committee  are  al- 
lowed to  make  any  arrangements. 
People  often  feel  it  to  be  a  breach  of 
etiquette  to  express  their  real  opinions 
after  matters  have  been  arranged  in  a 
private  session,  and  brought  forward 
for  a  merely  nominal  vote.  Remem- 
ber that  it  is  for  the  membership  to 
shape  the  policy  of  the  club,  not  for 
the  executive  committee.  The  club 
has  rights  over  the  executive  commit- 
tee; the  executive  committee  has  no 
rights  over  the  club.  As  this  point  is 
often  misunderstood,  I  will  give  a 
few  actual  instances  of  what  is  not 
correct  under  Congregational  rules : 

A  retiring  president  announces  to 
her  club  of  grown  women  that  she 
has  been  so  fortunate  as  to  secure  for 
them  a  president  whom  she  is  sure 
they  will  all  like.  No  election  is  held, 
and  the  members  are  not  asked  what 
their  will  is;  they  are  "instructed"  to 
receive  the  president's  choice.  This 
is  not  allowable. 

The  chairman  of  a  committe  is  re- 
sponsible to  the  club,  and  must  act  ac- 
cording to  her  instructions,  but  no 
other  officer  has  ex-oMcio  rights  to 
overrule  her  arrangements  without 
consulting  her.  Once  the  committee 
for  part  of  a  church  entertainment 
asked  a  young  college  man  to  give  the 
necessary  readings.  At  the  final  re- 
hearsal the  person  who  proposed  the 
affair  told  him  that  she  thought  she 
would  read  it  herself,  took  the  book 
out  of  his  hand,  and  left  him  to  retire 
to  a  back  seat  without  a  word  of 
thanks  or  apology.  The  chairman 
felt  the  discourtesy  to  her  friend,  and 
declined  to  serve  again. 

When  a  program  has  been  ap- 
proved and  printed  it  becomes  the 
property  of  the  club,  and  cannot  be 
set  aside  except  by  a  general  vote. 
Should  any  emergency  arise  when  it  - 
is   necessary   for  the   executive   com- 


33^ 


THE    HOME    MISSIONARY 


mittee  to  act  for  the  club,  it  is  not 
enough  to  notify  those  who  have  al- 
ready prepared  their  papers  that  they 
will  not  be  read ;  they  must  be  con- 
sulted, and  their  consent  must  be  ob- 
tained. 

It  would  generally  be  permitted  to 
an  executive  committee  to  vote  money 
in  the  treasury  to  its  regular  objects, 
when  there  was  no  time  to  call  a 
meeting;  but  they  have  not  the  right 
to  fix  a  tax  without  submitting  it  to 
the  members  for  approval.  What 
members  vote  to  tax  themselves  is  one 
thing ;  but  it  is  not  for  any  committee 
in  a  church  society  to  say  how  many 
members  shall  contribute.  Honorary 
members  with  no  vote  and  no  privi- 
leges should  not  have  tickets  sent  to 
them  to  sell.  Girls  not  members  who 
are  asked  to  wait  on  table,  should  not 
be  expected  to  pay  for  their  luncheon. 
Not  the  amount  of  the  tax  on  tea,  but 
the  fact  that  they  had  no  voice  in  the 
matter,  was  what  brought  about  the 
revolt  of  the  Colonies.  Great  differ- 
ence of  opinion  exists  about  some  of 
these  ways  of  raising  money,  and  if 
they  are  chosen  they  must  at  least  be 
equ;table  to  all. 

Auxiliaries  making  these  mistakes 
may  be  doing  very  good  work  in  some 
ways,  but  they  are  not  Congregational 
in  spirit  or  method.  Congregational- 
ism is  democracy  of  government. 
Would  that  I  could  make  these  words 
stand  out  on  the  page  so  that  every 
woman  who  reads  them  would  take 
them  to  heart!  There  are  lines  of 
cleavage  in  our  large  city  churches 
which  have  no  right  to  exist.  Ways 
of  raising  money  shut  out  the  poorer 
women  of  the  congregation  from  par- 
ticipation. Girls  come  home  from  col- 
lege eager  to  serve,  and  are  ignored 
by  the  very  society  which  should  wel- 
come them,  or  they  find  themselves 
ciphers  at  a  meeting  where  all  that  is 
of  importance  has  been  practically 
settled  by  a  few  beforehand ;  and  thev 
have  no  choice  but  to  form  circles  of 
their  own,  where  the  members  are  on 
an  equality. 

If  you  are  forming  a  new  auxiliary, 


do  not  admit  in  your  constitution  such 
a  phrase  as :  "All  matters  requiring 
debate  may  be  referred  to  the  exec- 
utive committee;"  it  is  not  sufficiently 
democratic  for  the  individual  club. 
"It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  executive 
committee  to  execute  the  will  of  the 
club,  and  to  assist  it  to  develop  its 
plans" — this  is  the  idea  to  follow. 
Change  your  committees  often  enough 
to  avoid  any  "government  within  a 
government"  system.  At  the  begin- 
ning of  the  year,  call  for  the  members' 
opinions  as  to  the  policy  they  wish  to 
adopt  for  the  coming  season — what 
kind  of  a  program  they  want,  what 
ways  of  securing  offerings — and  then 
allow  the  executive  committee  to  put 
those  plans  in  shape.  Give  oppor- 
tunity for  new  suggestions  at  every 
meeting.  You  will  find  that  mem- 
bers who  have  sat  silent,  hitherto  will 
be  willing  to  express  themselves  when 
the  right  atmosphere  is  secured. 

Members  say :  "Oh,  there's  no  need 
of  being  "too  parliamentary"  so  long 
as  the  'spirit'  is  all  right."  I  do  not 
know  what  they  mean  by  that.  The 
spirit  of  an  organization  is  never 
right  when  there  is  any  disposition 
not  to  respect  the  members'  rights 
equally.  Justice,  equality,  democracy, 
are  not  parliamentary  notions,  they 
are  principles  which  our  church  repre- 
sents The  time  has  now  come  when 
the  women  of  our  denomination  must 
master  those  principles  if  they  do  not 
wish  to  become  a  drag  on  the  wheels. 
With  a  whole  nation  moving  more  and 
more  toward  democracy,  the  Congre- 
gational Church  never  had  a  larger 
mission  before  it  than  it  has  to-day. 
How  far  are  you  exemplifying  its 
ideas  in  the  conduct  of  your  own 
organization  ? 

A  Real  Live  Missionary 

By  Grace  C.  White 

THE  CHAIRMAN  of  the  Mis- 
sionary  Committee   voiced   the 
feelings  of  the  whole  commit- 
tee when  she  said,  "We  must  devise 
some  wav  of  reviving  the  interest  of 


WOMEN'S  WORK  AND  METHODS 


337 


our  Church  in  Missions  and  also  of 
creating  an  interest  where  there  is 
none.  Four  conditions  seems  to  face 
us :  first,  our  monthly  concerts  are 
poorly  attended ;  second,  our  younger 
Christians  feel  no  interest,  no  re- 
sponsibility, then  thirdly,  the  few  who 
remain  faithful  are  greatly  dis- 
couraged ;  and  all  the  while  the  fourth 
fact  remains,  that  we  cannot  do  away 
with  missions,  they  are  the  life  of 
the  Church.  What,  then,  are  we  go- 
ing to  do?" 

The  other  four  members  looked 
equally  perplexed. 

"I  think,"  said  Mrs.  Daniels,  "that 
we  ought  to  get  some  one  from  the 
field  to  come  and  speak  to  us.  It  is 
so  different  listening  to  an  eye  witness 
who  has  been  in  the  thick  of  the 
fight."  There  were  nods  of  approval 
as  she  added,  "It  is  the  extraordinary 
speaker  that  draws  attention,  and  a 
real  live  missionary  is  an  extraordi- 
nary person." 

"I  like  that  suggestion,"  said  Mrs. 
Farnum  the  chairman,  "and  it  is  a 
long  time  since  we  have  heard  a  real 
live  missionary." 

"Yes,  and  I  well  remember  that 
time,"  said  Miss  Buck,  "when  a  mis- 
sionary came  to  us  from  Armenia  and 
the  church  was  full,  and  the  collection 
for  her  school  was  eighty  dollars."  A 
smile,  which  o-rew  into  a  gentle  laugh 
went  round  as  Mrs.  Farnum  remark- 
ed, "We  can  trust  you  Miss  Buck  to 
remmber  the  details  of  all  our  former 
triumphs  for  missions,  and  were  it  not 
for  you  we  should  have  given  up  long 
ago  in  despair." 

"Oh,  it  is  no  credit  to  me,"  she  ex- 
claimed, "for  a  missionary  spirit  was 
as  much  a  part  of  my  inheritance  as 
my  eyes."  "What  else  could  I  have 
with  the  family  record  of  my  great 
uncle  as  one  of  the  first  missionaries 
to  the  islands  of  the  Pacific, — and  my 
two  aunts,  one  of  them  a  missionary 
to  India,  the  other  to  China  and  my 
own  sister  in  Turkey? 

"If  we  have  a  returned  missionary," 
said  the  president,  "it  would  cost  us 
a  few  dollars  for  fares  and  other  pos- 


sible expenses ;  have  we  enough  money 
in  the  treasury  ?"  Miss  Buck  reported 
seven  dollars  to  the  good,  and  moved 
that  one  of  the  committee  be  appoint- 
ed to  write  to  the  rooms  and  obtain  a 
speaker.  This  was  heartily  approved 
and  Miss  Buck  was  appointed  to  take 
charge  of  the  first  meeting.  The  next 
day  she  called  on  the  minister's  wife, 
and  between  the  two  certain  plans 
were  laid  for  reviving  missionary  in- 
terest in  the  Delpont  Church — plans 
that  did  not  come  to  light  until  some 
time  after.  But  enough  leaked  out  to 
excite  curiosity  and  to  impress  the 
people  that  there  was  something  of  a 
treat  in  store  for  them  at  the  next 
missionary  concert,  as  the  committee 
has  secured  Miss  Eniligna  Kcub  who 
was  to  speak  on  missionary  work  in 
Bulgaria,  wearing  native  dress.  The 
name  was  convincingly  foreign,  and 
curiosity  to  see  and  hear  increased. 
The  church  was  well  filled  when,  with 
the  last  stroke  of  the  bell,  the  pastor 
and  Miss  Kcub  entered.  Such  a  treat 
as  she  gave  them!  Such  a  portrayal 
of  the  self-denying  life  of  a  mission- 
ary to  that  country!  Such  a  plea  for 
greater  missionary  spirit  at  home! 

By  request  of  Miss  Kcub  the  pastor 
announced  that  the  collection  would 
go  directly  to  the  treasury  of  the  mis- 
sionary committee  to  be  applied  by 
them  to  whatever  field  they  thought 
most  needy.  The  experiment  had 
been  a  success  and  the  collection  was 
over  forty  dollars,  the  only  regret  of 
the  committee  being  that  after  all  of 
Miss  Buck's  labors  she  was  obliged  to 
be  away  from  the  meeting.  It  could 
not  have  been  better,  it  was  told  her. 

Miss  Buck  had  been  so  successful 
in  the  first  attempt  that  the  committee 
ventured  to  ask  her  to  take  charge  of 
a  second  meeting.  Again,  the  church 
was  filled  to  its  seating  capacity,  when 
the  pastor  and  the  speaker,  with  the 
unpronouncible  name  of  Miss  Rehtse, 
dressed  as  became  the  rank  of  a  high 
caste  Hindoo  widow  came  in.  She 
spoke  of  life  in  India,  its  child 
widows,  its  terrible  customs,  its  per- 
secutions, its  famine  of  soul  and  body, 


338 


THE   HOME   MISSIONARY 


its  need  of  the  bread  of  life.  The 
audience  was  deeply  moved,  thrilled, 
and  the  collection  excelled  the  pre- 
vious one. 

The  next  two  monthly  concerts 
were  to  be  given  to  Home  Missions, 
and  again  the  committee  asked  Miss 
Buck,  who  was  acknowledged  to  be 
the  best  speaker  in  the  church,  to  take 
charge  of  the  meeting  and  to  occupy 
the  time.  She  hesitated.  On  two 
previous  occasions  the  house  had  been 
rilled  and  the  people  were  moved  to 
generous  giving;  could  she  make  the 
needs  of  the  home  land  equally  at- 
tractive? Well,  she  would  do  her 
best.  It  was  even  discussed  whether 
it  might  not  be  better  to  hold  the 
meeting  in  the  chapel,  and  so  provide 
for  a  smaller  audience.  But  fortun- 
ately, as  the  event  proved,  the  church 
was  opened  and  the  people  remember- 
ing the  double  treat  they  had  already 
enjoyed  crowded  the  house,  some  of 
them  doubtless  wishing  that  they  were 
to  hear  another  "live  missionary." 
But  with  Miss  Buck's  first  sentence 
their  attention  was  won.  "It  is  good 
to  be  at  home,  to  speak  freely  as  in 
the  home  circle  of  what  the  other 
members  are  doing  in  Christian 
America,  our  America  so  beautiful 
compared  to  Bulgaria  or  India,  so 
generous,  so  prosperous  and  yet  so 
much  in  need  of  our  united  efforts  to 
keep  her  true  to  Christian  ideals." 
There  was  a  charm  in  the  speaker's 
manner  and  in  her  voice,  though  they 
had  heard  it  so  often  which  kept  them 
in  eager  attention.  Could  these  things 
be?  These  stories  of  the  frontiers, 
heroism  of  the  Mountain  Whites,  of 
Southern  conditions,  of  mill  popula- 
tions in  New  England?  It  was  thrill- 
ing and  wellnigh  incredible,  and  to 
the  surprise  of  the  people  themselves 
the  collection  taken,  in  spite  of  the 
committees  fears,  was  the  largest  yet. 
The  time  for  the  fourth  and  the 
last  concert  of  the  season  came.  No 
field  had  been  designated,  but  the  pas- 
tor gave  notice  that  something  in  the 


nature  of  a  confession  would  be  made 
to  the  audience.  Again  the  house  was 
filled  ;  after  a  service  of  song  the  pastor 
rose  and  stated  that  it  was  the  mis- 
sionary committee  for  whom  he  was 
to  make  confession.  They  had  been 
so  nearly  in  despair  over  the  lack  of 
interest  in  missions  that  it  had  been 
decided  to  secure  two  missionaries, 
"real  live  ones"  to  speak,  and  the  mat- 
ter had  been  left  in  the  care  of  Miss 
Buck?  The  decision  to  have  such 
speakers  was  announced,  when  it  was 
found  that  they  could  not  be  had  from 
any  quarter. 

"Miss  Buck,  after  consulting  with 
me,  decided  to  use  the  gift  of  in- 
personation  which  God  had  given  her, 
and  to  appear  before  you  in  the  garb 
of  a  Bulgarian  to  plead  that  country's 
need.  For  weeks  she  studied  the 
situation,  went  to  converted  Bul- 
garians in  one  of  our  cities  and  gath- 
ered information  as  to  customs  and 
conditions,  secured  her  wardrobe  and 
appeared  before  you. 

"Another  month  came  and  no  re- 
turned missionary  was  available.  This 
time  after  more  diligent  study  Miss 
Buck  appeared  as  a  Hindoo  widow, 
and  surely,  no  genuine  Hindoo  could 
have  stirred  us  more  deeply.  If  you 
had  spelled  her  foreign  name  back- 
wards her  secret  would  have  been  be- 
trayed. But  neither  in  Miss  Eniligna 
Kcub  or  in  Miss  Rehtse  did  you 
recognize  Miss  Esther  Angeline  Buck 
whom  you  know  so  well. 

"But  last  month  you  knew  your 
speaker  and  still  your  interest  did  not 
wane  and  your  contribution  was  a 
generous  one.  So  now,  it  is  that  the 
committee  would  have  me  confess  to 
you,  that  they  have  been  at  fault  in 
not  making  the  subject  more  attrac- 
tive to  you  in  the  past;  for  it 
has  been  proved  by  this  exper- 
iment that  it  is  the  subject  clearly 
presented  and  not  the  person  that  has 
held  your  interest.  It  is  their  hope 
and  mine  that  the  interest  will  never 
fiasf  a^ain." 


Appointments  and  Receipts 


APPOINTMENTS 


December,  1906 


Not  in  commission  last  year. 


Curry,  D.  L.,  Washtucna,  "Wash. 

Dabzelle,  George,  Lusk  and  Manville,  Wyo. 

Hemenway,  Prank  W.,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

Jackson,  John   A.,   Columbus,   Mont. 

Junkin,  B.  A.,  Granby,  Mo. 

Kern,  Andrew,  Inland,  Nebr. 

McArthur,  W.  W,.   Englewood,  Colo. 

Nisson,  Neil,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 

Porter,     John,      Sulphur     Springs,      Grand 

Forks  and  "Williams  Fork,  Colo. 
Rice,  Charles  "W.,  Lusk  and  Manville,  Wyo. 
Woodruff,   Lyle    D.,   Big   Timber,   Mont. 

Recommissioned. 


Alhrecht,  George  E.,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 


Bjorklund,  Ernest  V.,   St.   Cloud  and   Sauk 

Rapids,  Minn. 
B'obfo,  J.   C,   Fountain,   Colo. 
Capshaw,  Benjamin  P.,  Baltimore,  Md. 
Clark,   O.    C,    Missoula,    Mont. 
Fisher,  Herman  P.,   General  Missionary  in 

Northern   Pacific   Conference,  Minn. 
Holbrook,  Ira  A.,  Guthrie,  Okla. 
Jenney,  E.  "W.,  General  Missionary,  So.  Dak. 
Jones,  John  E.,  Nekoma,  No.  Dak. 
Jones,  Richard,  Brentwood,  So.  Dak. 
Jorgensen,  Jens  C,  Ogdensburg,  Wis. 
Peters,  John,   Fertile,  Minn. 
Slavinskie,  Miss   Barbara,   Bay  City,  Mich. 
Smith,  Zwingle  H.,  De  Smet,  So.  Dak. 
Stover,  Howard  C,  Council,  Idaho. 
Thompson,  Thomas,  "Worthing,  So.  Dak. 
Washington,  Alonzo  G.,  Burtrum,  Minn. 


RECEIPTS 

December,  1906 


MAINE — $11. 

"Wells,  2d,  6;  Winslow,  5. 

NEW  HAMPSHIRE — $136.76. 

Bristol,  9.35;  Claremont,  26.44;  Frances- 
town,  15.45;  Lebanon,  42.73;  Pelham,  18; 
Sanbornton,  24.79. 

VERMONT — $220.07. 

Barre,   2.50;   Benson,  C.    E.,   11;   Bridport, 

S.  S.,  1.14;  Brattleboro,  Central,  146.48; 
Cornwall,  S.  S..  5;  Dorset,  S.  S.,  10;  Mc- 
Indoes,  13.95;  North  Bennington,  S.  S.,  15; 
Williston,  15. 

MASSACHUSETTS — $2,034.03;  of  which 
legacy,  $16.56. 
Mass.  Home  Miss.  Soc,  by  Rev.  J.  Coit, 
Treas.  Bv  request  of  donor  for  Cuban 
Work,  1.75.  Alllston.  52.55;  Attleboro,  2d, 
75.08:  Auburndale.  25;  Boston,  A  Friend, 
25;  Bridgewater,  Central  Sq.,  4.65;  Chico- 
pee,  3d,  4.02;  Chicopee  Falls,  2d,  20;  Clif- 
tondale,  1st,  22;  Cohasset.  2d.  20;  Coleraine, 
5:  Dalton,  1st,  to  const.  W.  E.  Tilton,  T.  E. 
Warren.  C.  A.  Drake.  Mrs.  H  Hall  and 
P.  W.  Fritsch.  Hon.  L.  Ms.,  263.04:  Dud- 
ley, 1st.  Mrs.  C.  E.  Bateman,  1.51;  Enfield, 
M.  A.  Smith.  25;  Falmouth.  1st  S.  S.,  5.53; 
Fitchburs:,  Calvinistic,  143.04;  Granville 
Center.  10;  Hadley,  1st  S.  S.,  5;  Holyoke, 
A.  H.  Dawlev,  1;  Lee,  S.  S..  25;  Lenox,  H. 
Sedgwick,  25;  Leominster,  F.  A.  Whitney, 
15;  Manchester,  10.10;  Monson,  Ch.,  106.19; 
Mr.  F.  A.  "Wheeler's  class  in  S.  S.,  2.03; 
TVewburyport.  Estate  of  Miss  H.  H.  Savory, 
16.56;  Belleville,  48.10;  Whitefleld,  25;  New- 
ton, 1st,  71.53;  Central.  140.39:  North  An- 
dover,  25;  Palmer.  2d.  40.95:  Pittsiield,  Pil- 
grim Memorial,  C.  E.,  5:  Rehoboth,  8.05; 
Roxbnry,  Walnut  Ave.  S.  S.,  20  :  Royal- 
ston,  1st.  16.31:  Shirlev.  Miss  P.  M.  Lee,  6; 
Somerville,  Winter  Hill,  20:  S.  S.,  12.67; 
Southbridge,  4.75:  So.  Deerfield,  Mrs.  H.  A. 
Maynard,  3;  South  Weymouth,  Mrs.  M.  A. 
Fearing,  1;  Swampscott,  1st  S.  S.,  3.84; 
Tewksbury,  9:  Tvngsboro,  Evan.,  2;  Web- 
ster, 5.30:  Westfleld,  1st  Ladies'  Benev. 
Soc,  1:  "West  Groton.  5  02:  "West  Somer- 
ville,  Day  St.  S.  S.,  8.07:  Winchester,  2d,  1; 
Worcester,  Union,   20;  Hope,  18. 

"Woman's  H.  M.  Assoc,  (of  Mass.  and 
R.   I.),  Miss  L.  D.  White,  Treas. 

Salary  Fund      $454 

Groton,  Mrs.  E.  P.  Shumway,  to 
const.  Mrs.  J.  T.  Sawyer  an  Hon. 
L.  M 50 


$504 


RHODE  ISLAND — $357.36. 

Rhode  Island  H.  M.  Soc,  by  J.  William 
Rice  Treas.  Providence,  Beneficent,  50.47; 
Union,    234.49.      Total,    $284.96. 

Bristol,  30.34;  Providence,  Beneficent, 
S.  S.,  20;  Free  Evan.,  14.50;  Woonsocket, 
Globe  C.  E.,  7.56. 

CONNECTICUT — $8,631.36;  of  which  lega- 
cies, $6,225.09. 
Miss.  Soc.  of  Conn.,  by  Rev.  J.  S.  Ives, 
138.66;  Berlin,  2d,  35;  Bridgeport,  7.47; 
H.  Bassett,  1;  M.  A.  Bassett,  1;  S.  S.  Bas- 
set, 1;  L.  C.  Stadtler,  1;  Clinton,  add'l,  1; 
Cornwall,  2d  S.  S.,  Thanksgiving  offering, 
3;  Derby,  1st,  7.13;  East  Haven,  32.19;  El- 
linsrton,  M.  E.  Charter,  .50;  Miss  E.  Delano, 
1;  Mrs.  Judson,  1:  Mrs.  E.  Miller,  .25;  Miss 
A.  Pease,  .50:  C.  P.  Pease,  1;  Mrs.  G. 
Thompson,  1:  J.  Thompson,  3;  Fair  Haven, 
Pilgrim.  19.26;  Glastonbury,  1st  Ch.  of 
Christ  S.  S..  6.20;  Goshen,  Lebanon,  44; 
Greenwich.  North,  31.26;  Groton.  S.  S.,  5.15; 
Guilford,  1st,  85;  Hartford,  Farmington 
Ave.,  to  const.  Mrs.  J.  R.  Gordon  and  H. 
H.  Goodwin  Hon.  L.  Ms.,  95.17;  4-th  S.  S., 
19.91:  Huntinarton,  4;  Kent.  1st.  4.19;  Madi- 
son, 1st,  6;  Mianns,  Mrs.  W.  M.  Brown,  5; 
Middletown,  1st,  2:  S.  S..  21.69:  Milford,  1st, 
3.69;  1st  Ch.  of  Christ  S.  S.,  8;  Nepang,  A 
Friend,  3;  North  Haven.  97.29;  New  Haven, 
Plvmouth.  20:  New  London,  2d.  382.03;  Nor- 
folk. 314.91;  Norwalk.  1st.  87.54;  Norwich, 
Buckingham  S.  S..  15;  Old  Lvme,  Estate 
of  Mrs.  H  H.  Matson.  600:  Ridgebury,  6; 
Salisbury,  W.  B.  H.  M..  8.50:  South  Nor- 
walk. 1st,  44.16;  Stanwich.  19:  Stratford, 
1st,  19.62;  Terryville,  Mrs.  W.  T.  Goodwin, 
1;  Union-^ille.  1st  Ch.  of  Christ,  50;  Vernon 
Centre,  20:  "West  Hartfnrfl,  1st  Ch.  of 
Christ,  84  95:  WethTsfield.  Estate  of  Susan 
"Ruck,  5,625  09;  Whitneyville,  15:  Woman's 
Miss.  Soc,  12;  Windsor,  1st,  9.05;  Winsted, 
1st,   200. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union.  Mrs.  C.  S.  Thayer, 
Treas.  Salarv  Fund,  45;  Hartford.  1st,  T. 
W.  H.  M.  Club,  150:  So.  Ch.  S.  S.,  Primary 
Dept..  Special,  25:  Thompsonville.  Mrs.  S. 
E.  Cha.cin.  5:  Wallingford,  1st,  L.  B.  S., 
175.      Total,   $400. 

NEW  YORK — «t.722.4«. 

Briarcliff,  152.64:  Brooklyn,  Tompkins 
Ave..  800:  South  S.  S.,  25:  Mrs.  A.  Bur- 
roughs. 25:  Binghamton.  1st.  72.46:  East 
Side,  16;  Cambria.  S.  S.,  3.50;  Clifton 
Snrings.  Mrs.  F.  M.  Eddy.  5;  Greene,  1st, 
23.97:  Itbaoa,  Bal.,  5.35;  Java,  7.83:  Java 
Village,    2.85;    Lysander,    2.75;    Morrisville, 


34Q 


THE    HOME    MISSIONARY 


11.50;  Mt.  Vernon  Heights,  5;  Munnsvtlle. 
1st,  7.56;  Newburch,  1st  S.  S.,  12;  New  York 
City,  Broadway  Tab.  Bible  School,  20;  For- 
est Ave.  S.  S.,  15;  C.  Zabriskie,  Special,  40; 
Oswego,  Quaker  Hill,  King's  Daughters' 
Circle,  10;  Richford,  8.46;  Sayville,  25.24; 
Syracuse,  H.  H.  Bassett,  1;  Wellsville,  to 
const.  Rev.  W.  T.  Sutherland,  D.D.,  and 
G.  E.  Brown,  Hon.  L.  Ms.,  102.70;  "West 
Bloomfield,  28.80;  West  Groton,  13.61, 
White   Plains,   S.    S.,    35.73. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  J.  J.  Pear- 
sail,  Treas.  O.  C.  and  D.  Assoc,  coll.  at 
Annual  Meeting,  13.22;  Aqnebogue,  20; 
Brooklyn,  Tompkins  Ave.  L.  B.  S.,  5;  Can- 
andaigua,  13.35;  Fulton,  Oswego  Falls,  10; 
Groton,  7;  Homer,  Aux.,  51.31;  Lockport, 
1st,  25.13;  Oswego,  L.  H.  M.  S.,  for  the 
debt,  20;  Patchogue,  C.  E.  S.,  5;  Richmond 
Hill,  Union  S.  S.,  26;  Sherburne,  41.50; 
Utica,  Bethesda,  C.  E.  S.,  5.    Total,  $242.51. 

NEW  JERSEY — $266. 

Dover,  Beth.  Scand.,  1.28;  East  Orange, 
1st  S.  S.,  25;  Trinity,  19.07;  Haworth,  1st, 
4;  Montclalr,  1st,  150;  Watchung,  35;  Or- 
ange, Valley,   31.65. 

i 
PENNSYLVANIA — $155.60. 

Received  by  Rev.  C.  A.  Jones.  Bloss- 
burg,  2d,  10;  Le  Raysvllle,  "Sunbeams," 
3.60.    Total,   13.60. 

Berwyn,  J.  C.  Newcomb,  10;  Braddock, 
1st,  12;  Slovak,  10;  Chandler's  Valley, 
Swedes,  2.50;  Du  Bols,  Swedes.  2.50;  Ebens- 
burg,  1st,  45;  Mllroy,  White  Memorial  S.  S., 
25;  Philadelphia,  Kensington,  10;  Snyder 
Ave.,  10;  Pittsburgh,  Swedes,  4;  Wilkes- 
Barre,  Puritan,   11. 

DISTRICT    OF    COLUMBIA — $16.44. 

Washington.   1st,   6.44;   D.   R.   Wright  ,10. 

GEORGIA — $25. 

Atlanta,  Rev.  W.  F.  Brewer.  5;  Fort  Val- 
ley, 1st,  8;  Gaillard,  5.75;  New  Prospect 
and  Dawson,  3.25;  Rev.  A.  P.  Spillers,  3. 

I 
ALABAMA — $11.75. 

Received  by  Rev.  A.  T.  Clarke,  Gate 
City,  2.35;  Belolt,  C.  E.,  5;  Christian  Hill, 
4.40.  SI  1T1 

FLO  RDD  A — $30.49. 

Dayton.  S.  S.,  10;  Mt.  Dora,  15.20;  Tan- 
gerine, 5.29. 

TEXAS — $100. 

Austin,  T.  H.  Evans,  to  const.  H.  G. 
Evans  an  Hon.  L.  M.,  100. 

INDIAN  TERRITORY — $35.53. 
Vinlta,    1st,    35.53. 

OKLAHOMA — $5. 

Drummond,  Puritan,  5. 

TENNESSEE — $55.72. 

Memphis,  Miss.  Soc,  Strangers'  Ch., 
55.72. 

OHIO — $28. 

Berlin  Heights,  3.50;  Garretsville,  Mrs. 
H.  N.  Merwin,  10;  Mansfield,  1st,  10;  Mar- 
blehead,    1st,    4.50. 

INDIA  N  A — $41 .55. 

Anderson,  Hope.  16.20;  Angola,  15.35; 
Indianapolis,    Covenant,    2;    Michigan   City, 

Immanuel,    8. 

ILLINOIS — $114.61. 

111.  Home  Miss.  Soc.,  by  J.  W.  Illff,  Treas., 
26.08;  Chicago,  North  Shore,  20;  Galva,  1st, 
33.13;   Providence,   10;    Sherrard,   20. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  A.  O.  Whit- 
comb,  Treas.  So.  Moline,  S.  S.,  .40;  Tonica, 
C.   E.,   5.    Total,    5.40. 


MISSOURI — $667.72. 

Cameron,  1st,  50;  Cole  Camp,  6.35;  Kan- 
sas City,  Westminster,  103.16;  Kidder,  Bal., 
.50;  St.  Joseph,  Tab.,  46.44;  St.  Louis,  Pil- 
grim, 288;  Union,  12;  1st  German,  5;  Hyde 
Park,  5;  Sedalia,  1st,  24;  Springfield,  Pil- 
grim, 2.25;  Webster  Groves,  Old  Orchard, 
8.70. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  A.  D.  Rider, 
Treas.       Bonne    Terre,     25;      Kansas      City, 

Westminster,  33.33;  St.  Louis,  Pilgrim  W. 
A.  Sen.  Dept.,  48.71;  Jr.  Dept,  5.45;  Pil- 
grim Workers,   3.83.     Total,   $116.32. 

MICHIGAN — $29. 
Detroit,  1st,   29. 

WISCONSIN — $2. 

Fond  du  Lac,  J.  A.  Bryan,  1;  Wausau, 
Scand.,  1. 

IOWA — $167.92. 

Iowa  Home  Miss.  Soc,  by  A.  D.  Merrill, 
Treas.,   163.75;  Kalo,  S.  S.,  4.17. 

MINNESOTA — $707.44. 

Received  by  Rev.  G.  R.  Merrill.  Fari- 
bault, Rev.  J.  H.  Albert,  25;  Fergus  Falls, 
25;  Freeborn,  Rev.  W.  Fisk,  10;  Glyndon, 
25;  Grand  Meadow,  23;  Minneapolis,  Ply- 
mouth, Mrs.  Irene  Hale,  25;  Drummond 
Hall,  20;  Prospect  Park,  M.  E.,  4.85; 
Friends,  by  Rev.  G.  P.  M..  50;  Montevideo, 
add'l,  2.50;  Rochester,  W.  J.  Eaton,  25; 
Sank   Center,   7.      Total,    $242.35. 

Detroit,  1st,  5;  Elm  dale,  Slavic.  10;  Fair- 
mont, C.  E.,  12.50;  .Tanesville,  Rev.  C.  L. 
Hill,  2;  New  York  Mills.  1.50;  Rainy  River 
Valley,  5:  St.  Paul.  6;  C.  E.,  2;  Silver  Lake, 
Free  Reformed,   80.70. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  W.  M.  Bris- 
toll,  Treas.  Alexandria,  C.  E.,  10;  Austin, 
Aux.,  10.59;  Duluth,  Pilgrim,  C.  E..  20; 
West  Plvmouth,  Aux.,  5:  C.  E.,  5;  Excelsior, 
Aux..  12.70;  C.  E.,  5;  Hancock,  C.  E.,  15; 
Hawley.  Aux..  3;  Hutchinson,  C.  E.,  10; 
Mantor-^ille.  Aux.,  7:  C.  E.,  5:  Marshall, 
C  E.,  10;  Medford,  C.  E..  5;  Minneapolis, 
Plvmouth  Aux.,  40;  Drummond  Hall.  S.  S., 
20:  Park  Ave..  Aux..  23.10;  C.  E.  10:  Pil- 
grim, C.  E.,  10;  Como  Ave.,  C.  E.,  10:  St. 
Louis  Park,  Aux..  5:  Lvnrtale.  Aux.,  2:  Fre- 
mont Ave..  C.  E..  10:  Thirtv-eierhth  St.. 
Aux..  5:  Montevideo,  C.  E..  10:  Morris.  C. 
E..  10:  New  Ulm.  Aux.,  4;  New  York  Mills, 
Aux.  2:  Ortonville,  Aux.,  4:  Owatonna,  C. 
E.,  3;  Sauk  Center,  Aux,  14;  Silver  River, 
C.  E.,  10:  Stillwater.  C.  E.,  1:  St.  Paul, 
South  Park.  Aux.,  4;  Winona,  1st,  C.  E.,  20. 
Total,   $340.39. 

KANSAS — $5.40. 

Alexander,  German,   5.40. 

NEBRASKA — $160.18. 

Crete,  German.  25:  Genoa,  Miss  M.  A. 
Pugslev.  4:  Grand  Island,  Pilgrim  German, 
2.80;  Hastings.  German.  40;  Lincoln,  1st, 
German.  25:  McCook,  German,  30;  New- 
castle, 1st.  S  S..  2.88:  Norfolk,  Zion  Evan. 
German,    10.50;    Princeton,  German,    20. 

NORTH  D\KOT\4 — $^8527- 

Received  by  Rev.  G.  J.  Powell.  Arerus- 
vlile,  1:  Coonerstown.  Ladies'  Soc,  3.85; 
Crnrv.  Ladies'  Soc,  5.75:  Hankinson.  C.  E., 
4.07;  Junior  C.  E.,  1;  Harwood,  2;  Michi- 
gan, Ladies'  Soc,  4;  Rose  Valley,  2.70. 
Total     $24.37. 

Blue  Grass,  Bethel  German,  8.22;  St. 
Marks.  German.  15:  Coonerstown,  1st.  118.- 
67;  Finley,  Park,  9.01;  Hankinson,  10. 

SOUTH  DAKOTA — $157.78. 

Received  bv  Rev.  W.  H.  Thrall.  Albee, 
8.46;  Badger,  4  28;  Canova,  2.67;  Dover, 
1.03:  Erwin,  2.62;  Mitchell,  9.42.  Total, 
28.48. 

Aberdeen,  Plvmouth,  5.60:  Hosmer,  Ger- 
man, 5.02;  Five  German  Churches,  40.28; 
Parkston,   23. 


APPOINTMENTS  AND  RECEIPTS 


341 


Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  by  Mrs.  A.  Loo- 
mis,  Treas.  35.40;  For  Alaska,  10;  Cuba, 
10.     Total,   $55.40. 

COLORADO — $239.26. 

Claremont,  1st,  28.70;  Craig  and  Mabel, 
3;  Cripple  Creek,  C.  E.,  4;  Denver,  Ply- 
mouth, 104.30;  Ft.  Morgan,  German,  6.40; 
Rocky  Ford,  United  German,  10;  Garfield 
Creek,  1;  Greeley  Park,  41.46;  Manitou,  1st, 
16;  New  Castle,  5;  Faonia,  First,  11.25; 
Windsor,    German,    8.15. 

UTAH — $9.50. 

Ogden,  1st,  4;  Vernal,  Kingsbury,  5.50. 

CALIFORNIA — $1,647. 

Fresno,  Ch.  of  the  Cross,  German,  32.50; 
T.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  2.50;  Woman's  Miss.  Union, 
12.50;  Zion's  German,  37;  Los  Angeles,  A 
Friend,  1st,  Special,  25;  Ventura,  Estate  of 
Harriet  W.  Mills,   1,537.50. 

OREGON — $69.54. 

Received  by  Rev.  C.  F.  Clapp.  Forest 
Grove,  38.54;  Cedar  Mills,  German,  10; 
Beaverton,  Bethany,  German,  5;  Freewater, 

16. 


WASHINGTON — $424.55. 

Wash.  Home  Miss.  Soc.,  by  Rev.  H.  B 
Hendley,  Treas.  Dayton,  1st,  45.75;  S.  S. 
in  part,  7;  Everett,  1st,  41.20;  C.  E.,  10.86 
Ferndale,  S.  S.,  5.83;  Medical  Lake,  14 
Ritzville,  1st,  62.75;  Seattle,  Columbia,  18 
Spokane,  Pilgrim,  43;  Tolt,  2.70;  Wash 
ougal,  Bethel  S.  S.,  3.89.     Total,  $254.98. 

Brighton  Beach,  15;  Clear  Lake,  7;  Fern- 
dale,  Rev.  T.  H.  Hill,  for  debt,  10;  Kalama, 
1st,  40;  Pomeroy,  1st,  17.60;  Ritzville,  Im- 
manuel  German,  20;  Salem,  German,  8; 
Seattle,  Union  S.  S.,  40;  Skokomish,  2; 
Snohomish,  7.97;  Union,  Mrs.-  S.  M.  Eells, 
2. 

SANDWICH   ISLANDS — $20. 
Honolulu,  Hawaii,  S.   S.,   20. 

December  Receipts. 

Contributions     $10,712.14 

Legacies    7,779.15 

$18,491.29 

Interest    1,409.98 

Home  Missionary    105.66 

Literature    175.84 


Total,    $20,182.77 


STATE  SOCIETY  RECEIPTS 


MASSACHUSETTS      HOME      MISSIONARY 

SOCIETY. 

Receipts  in  December,  1906. 

Rev.  Joshua  Coit,  Treasurer,  Boston,  Mass. 
Amherst,  North,  33.91;  South,  30.39;  An- 
dover,  West,  Member,  5;  S.  S.,  5;  Arling- 
ton, 107.60;  S.  S.,  5;  Ashby,  6;  Barnstable, 
West,  10;  Boston,  cash,  1.30;  Boylston,  El- 
lis Memdell  Fund,  560;  A  Friend,  20;  Nor- 
wegian, 10;  Old  South,  494.60;  Shawmut, 
87.82;  Allston,  85.51;  Brighton,  53.96;  Dor- 
chester, Pilgrim,  63.31;  S.  S.,  11.48;  Rox- 
bury,  Highlands,  50;  Walnut  Ave.,  S.  S., 
20;  Jamaica  Plain,  add'l,  1.15;  Braintree, 
1st,  17.76;  S.  S.,  5;  Bridgewater,  East, 
Union,  9.70;  Scotland,  C.  E.,  3.50;  Brock- 
ton, Wendell  Ave.,  29;  Cambridge,  1st, 
246;  Prospect,  S.  S.,  27.16;  Cohasset,  Beech- 
wood,  5;  2d,  29.67;  Conway,  15;  Cumming- 
ton,  West,  7;  Duxbury,  Pilgrim,  4;  East- 
hampton,  Payson,  125;  Falmouth,  East,  4; 
Finns,  the  Cape,  17.75;  Fitchburg,  Finn, 
5.90;  Framingham,  Grace  S.  S.,  -  12.30; 
Franklin,  13.30;  Gardner,  1st,  5.51;  Gen- 
eral Fund,  Income  of,  25;  Gloucester,  West, 
9;  Goshen,  17.41;  Great  Barrington,  1st, 
51.60;  Greenfield,  2d,  75;  Hanover,  2d,  8.30; 
Heath,  5;  Hinsdale,  19.53;  Estate  of  Justin 
Ferguson,  25;  Holbrook,  E.  Holbrook,  .50; 
Holyoke,  2d,  93.64;  Hudson,  1st,  20;  Hyde 
Park,  1st,  40.32;  Lancaster,  6.10;  Lanes- 
boro,  2;  Lee,  510;  Lawrence,  Lawrence  St., 
172.57;  Riverside,  5;  Lincoln,  144.35;  Lynn, 
1st,  36.02;  Maiden,  1st,  97.63;  Marshfield, 
28.30;  Mass.,  a  Friend,  10;  Maynard,  Finns, 
4.50;  Mendell  Fund,  Income  of,  50.32;  Mid- 
diet  on,  5.02;  Montague,  Turners  Falls, 
add'l,  15;  Newburyport,  3.92;  Newton,  Eliot, 
S.  S.,  25;  West,  2d,  238.46;  North  Attle- 
boro,  Oldtown,  5;  North  Easton,  Swede, 
10;  Northampton,  Edwards,  128;  Palmer, 
1st,  9.13;  Pittsfield,  Pilgrim  Mem.,  6.45; 
Plymouth,  Pilgrimage,  7.08;  Plympton,  12; 
S.  S.,  and  C.  E.,  6;  Provincetown,  1st,  12; 
Q.uincy,  Finn,  2.23;  Reed  Fund,  Income  of, 
180;  Revere,  Beachmont,  5;  Rochester,  No. 
4,  28;  Rockport,  18.25;  Shrewsbury,  54.85; 
Southville,  5;  South  Hadley  Falls,  13.05; 
Springfield,  Memorial,  18.51;  Taunton,  East, 
10.55;  Winslow,  39.16;  Templeton,  9;  Wall 
Fund,  Income  of,  30;  Warren,  1st,  24;  Wel- 


lesley  Hills,  1st,  66.01;  West  Brookfield, 
10.45;  Westfield,  2d,  30;  West  Newbury,  1st 
C.  E.,  12;  West  Springfield,  1st,  S.  S.,  20 
Weymouth,  North,  Pilgrim,  add'l,  1.55 
Whately,  30;  Whitcomb  Fund,  Income  of, 
168;  Whitney  Fund,  Income  of,  200;  Wil- 
mington, 8.68;  Winchester,  Shillings  Fund, 
52.50;  Winchendon,  1st,  10;  Woburn,  Mont- 
vale,  3;  Worcester,  Bethany,  13.50;  Finn, 
3.34;  Plymouth,  66.28;  Designated  for  Ar- 
menian Work,  Lawrence,  Lawrence  St.,  50; 
Designated  for  Work  in  Alaska,  Granby, 
C.  E.,  10;  Designated  for  Work  in  Cuba, 
Boston,  Berkeley  Temple,  15;  Designated 
for  Mr.  De  Barrit's  Work,  Fall  River,  1st 
S.  S.,  15.28;  Melrose,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Steven- 
son, 3.47;  Designated  for  Rev.  Mr.  Long, 
Arizona,  Wellesley  Hills,  25;  Designated 
for  C.  H.  M.  S.,  Boston,  Brighton,  35.97; 
Roxbury,  Highland,  50;  Dudley,  1st,  5; 
Wellesley   Hills,    25. 

W.  H.  M.  A.,  Lizzie  D.  White,  Treasurer. 
Salaries,  American  International  College, 
70;   Italian  Worker,  40;   Polish  Worker,  35. 

Summary. 

Regular    $5,343.92 

Designated  for  Armenian  Work  . .  50.00 

Designated  for  Work  in  Alaska  . .  10.00 
Designated  for  Work  in  Cuba,  Mr. 

De  Barritt   33.75 

Designated    for    Rev.     Mr.    Long, 

Nogales,  Arizona   25.00 

Designated  for  C.  H.  M.  S 115.97 

Home  Missionary  6.40 

W.  H.  M.  A 145.00 


Total,   $5,730.04 

THE     MISSIONARY     SOCIETY     OF     CON- 
NECTICUT. 

Receipts  in  December,  1906. 

Ward  W.  Jacobs,  Treasurer,  Hartford. 

Barkhamsted,  10;  Berlin,  2d,  for  Italian 
mission  work,  50;  Bridgewater,  9.23; 
Bridgeport,  Park  Street,  65.50;  Bristol,  1st, 
48;  Burlington,  6;  Chaplin,  9.66;  Clinton, 
Special,  53.17;  Derby,  1st,  6.47;  Eastford, 
from  Estate  of  Mrs.  Eliza  Huntington,  5; 
for  C.  H.  M.   S.,   10;   East   Granby,   6;   East 


342 


THE    HOME    MISSIONARY 


Haddnm,  1st,  10.57;  for  C.  H.  M.  S.,  16.29; 
Kast  Haven,  32.19;  East  Windsor,  81.97; 
Grassy  Hill,  C.  E.,  4;  Greenwich,  S.  S.,  10; 
Griswold,  3 ;  for  C.  H.  M.  S.,  9 ;  Guilford,  45 ; 
Haddani,  10;  Haddam  Neck,  4;  Hanover, 
11.89;  Hartford,  Park,  68.35;  Kensington, 
15;  Liberty  Hill  Mission,  12;  Lyme,  1st,  20; 
Madison,  1st,  Ladies'  Missionary  Society,  8; 
Mansfield,  1st,  33.31;  Meriden,  1st,  25;  Rev. 
Joel  S.  Ives,  Personal,  5;  Dorcas  Society, 
5;  Granite  League,  10;  Mianus,  8;  Middle 
Haddani,  10;  Middletown,  3d,  C.  E.,  5;  MI11- 
ington,  5;  Morris,  6.70;  Mt.  Carmel,  21.87; 
Mystic,  56.32;  New  Britain,  South,  352.01; 
Newington,  34.81;  New  Haven,  Redeemer, 
25;  New  London,  2d,  382.02;  New  Preston 
Hill,  1st,  10;  North  Windham,  9.09;  Norfolk, 
108.35;  Norwalk,  1st,  50;  Norwich,  Broad- 
way, 297.95;  Park,  52.56;  Orange,  25.29; 
Oxford,  17.93;  Plainfield,  4.50;  Plymouth,  8; 
Poquonock,  4.11;  Preston,  19;  Rocky  Hill, 
C.  E.,  14.70;  Somers,  9.90;  Somersville,  5; 
South  Glastonbury,  3.50;  South  Windsor, 
1st,  18.37;  2d,  4.13;  Staffordville,  2;  Talcott- 
vile,  250;  for  C.  H.  M.  S.,  141.80;  Sunday 
School,  for  C.  H.  M.  S.,  25;  Thomaston,  1st, 
Special,  5.89;  Union,  8.10;  Westbrook,  8.68; 
West  Hartford,  75.12;  West  Haven,  1st, 
12.25;  Wilton,  15;  Winchester,  2.10;  Win- 
sted,  2d,  9.26;  Woodbridge,  8.23;  W.  C.  H. 
M.  U.  of  Conn.,  for  work  among  Foreign- 
ers, 25;  Bequest  of  Susan  Buck,  late  of 
Wethersfield,  part  of  residiuum,  1.842.54. 
Total,    $4,717.67. 

M.   S.   C *5 $4,516.58 

C.  H.  M.  S 201.09 

$4,717.67 

Correction. — Merlden,   1st   S.   S.,   13.16,   in 

November   Receipts,    should    read    18.16. 

RHODE}    ISLAND    HOME    MISSIONARY. 
SOCIETY. 
Receipts  in  December,  1906. 
Jos.   William   Rice,   Treasurer,   Providence. 
Auburn,  Swedish,  5;  Central  Falls,  86.21; 
Chepachet,    18;    East    Greenwich,    Swedish, 
5;  Howard-Franklin,  10;  Providence,  Ben- 
eficent,   E.    S.    Clark,    50;    Beneficent,   71.37; 
Central,    41;   Pawtuckct,  Park   Place,   6.28; 
Plymouth,     11;     Union,      122.05;     Woman's 
Home    Missionary   Association,    Special    for 
two  Churches,  200.     Total,  $625.91. 

NEW    HAMPSHIRE    HOME    MISSIONARY 
SOCIETY. 
Receipts  in  December,  1906. 
A.    B.    Cross,    Treasurer,    Concord. 
Bartlett,    7.85;    Bath,    15.33;    Center   Har- 
bor,  2;   Chester,   6.50;    Colebrook,   10;    Con- 
cord,   333.26;    Conway,    12;    Durham,    21.75; 
East    Alstead,    5.79;    Exeter,    64.35;    Gilsum, 
24;    Greenville,    8;    Hebron,    10;    Henniker, 
40.50;  Hudson,  18.27;  Kensington,  13;  North 
Weare,   5;    Portsmouth,   410;    Reed's   Ferry, 
32;    Salem,    4.06;    Walpole,    17.15;    Warner, 
10;    West    Manchester,    25;    Wilmot,    14.65; 
Winchester,  110.      Total,   $1,220.66. 

THE     NEW     YORK     HOME     MISSIONARY 
SOCIETY. 
Receipts  in  December,  1906. 
Clayton  S.  Fitch,  Treasurer. 
Albany,  First,   85.87;   Sunday   School,   10; 
Angola,  5;   Brooklyn,  Swedish   Tabernacle, 
7;  Buffalo,  First,  100.50;  Pilgrim,  5.50;  Ply- 
mouth,   5;    M.    E.    Priesch,    16.87;    Denmark, 
7.10;    Ellington,   Church,    S.    S.,    and    Y.    P., 
11.75;  Gainesville,  15;   Mt.  Vernon  Heights, 
10;  Owegq,  12;  Orient,  Estate  of  Helen  A. 
Terry,    475;    Paris,    15;    Plainfield    Center, 
Y.    P.,    5;    Westmoreland,   S.    S.,    15;   W.   H. 


M.  U.  as  follows:  Brooklyn,  Pilgrim  W.  H. 
M.  U.,  30;  Ithaca,  L.  M.  S.,  3;  Syracuse, 
Pilgrim,    2.70;    W.    H.    M.    U.,     15.       Total, 

$852.29. 

OHIO    HOME   MISSIONARY    SOCIETY, 

Receipts  in  December,  1906. 

Rev.    C.    H.    Small,    Treasurer,    Cleveland. 

Aurora,  21;  Andover,  Personal  5;  Akron, 
First,  14.66;  West,  17.50;  Bellevue,  13.45; 
Claridon,  12.75;  Cleveland,  Hough  Ave., 
54.05;    Franklin    Ave.,    C.    E.,    5;    Union,    L. 

A.  S.,  5;  Columbus.  Mayflower,  C.  E.,  5; 
Washington  Ave.,  10;  Dover,  30.93;  S.  S., 
2;  C.  E.,  2.07;  Fairport,  6;  Ironton,  Per- 
sonal, 2;  Jefferson,  22.50;  Kelleys  Island, 
S.  S.,  5;  Klrtland,  5;  Lodi,  5;  Lyme,  8; 
Madison,  10;  Medina  Conference  Fund,  In- 
terest, 42;  Nelson,  5;  Newton  Falls,  17.04; 
North  Olmsted,  20;  Oak  Hill,  10;  Pitts- 
field,  6;  Painesville,  S.  S.,  share,  20;  Rad- 
nor, 15;  S.  S.,  20;  Jr.  C.  E.,  5;  L.  A.  S., 
10;  Rootstown,  Personal,  3;  Rootstown, 
19.47;  Strongsville,  20;  South  Newbury,  7; 
Sherodsville,  8;  South  Radnor,  6;  Toledo, 
Washington  St.,  36.20;  Birmingham,  30; 
Wakeman,  3.41;  Wellington,  25;  Wey- 
mouth, 2.50;  Youngstown,  Elm  St.,  10. 
Total,    $602.53. 

From  the  Ohio  W.  H.  M.  U.,  Mrs.  George 

B.  Brown,   Toledo,  Ohio,  Treasurer. 
Alexis,   4.70;   Ashland,  Jr.   Dept.   S.   S.,   1; 

Ashtabula.  Second  W.  M.  S.,  28;  Cincinnati, 
North  Fairmount  W.  M.  S.,  8;  Old  Vine 
W.  M.  S.,  10;  Cleveland,  North  W.  M.  S.,  2; 
Park  W.  M.  S.,  1.25;  Gomer  L.  L.  L.,  1.68; 
Huntsburg,  K.  E.  S.,  8;  Huntington,  W. 
Va.,  W.  M.  S.,  15;  North  Fairfield,  W.  M.  S., 
2.80;  North  Ridgeville,  W.  M.  S.,  2.20;  Ober- 
lin,  Second,  L.  S.,  40;  Sandusky,  Mrs.  Jor- 
dan's S.  S.  Class,  2;  Springfield,  First,  C.  E., 
25;  Strongsville,  C.  E.,  1.40;  Toledo,  Cen- 
tral, Personal,  5;  Unionville,  Jr.  C.  E.,  .50; 
Wellington,  Jr.  C.  E.,  2.45.  Total,  $160.98; 
Grand    Total,    $763,51. 

DONATIONS  OF  CLOTHING,  ETC., 

Reported  at  the  National  Office  in  Decem- 
ber, 1906. 
Bellingham,  Wash.,  1st,  W.  M.  S.,  box, 
45;  Binghamton,  N.  Y.,  1st,  three  boxes 
and  cash,  243.35;  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  Tomp- 
kins Ave.,  Ladies'  Benev.  Soc,  three  bbls., 
406.76;  South  Ch.,  Ladies'  Benev.  Soc,  box, 
198.78;  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  1st,  Lend-a-Hand 
Circle,  box,  123.70;  Chester,  Conn.,  Ladies' 
Benev.  Soc,  bbl.,  96;  Colchester,  Conn., 
Ladies'  Benev.  Soc,  box;  Easton,  Conn., 
bbl.,  51.70;  Eaton,  N.  Y.,  M.  S.,  box,  30; 
Exeter,  N.  H.,  Phillips  Ch.  M  S.,  bbl.,  75; 
Guilford,  Conn.,  1st,  W.  H.  M.  S.,  bbl., 
100;  Hampton,  N.  H.,  W.  M.  S.,  bbl.  and 
cash,  66.50;  Hartford,  Conn.,  1st,  two  bbls., 
174.02;  Hudson,  Ohio,  1st,  W.  A.,  bbl.  and 
cash,  56.50;  Moline,  111.,  1st,  L.  A.  S.,  bbl. 
and  two  boxes,  83.63;  Montclair,  N.  J., 
1st,  two  boxes  and  four  bbls.,  212.02;  New 
Haven,  Conn.,  Ch.  of  the  Redeemer,  L.  A.  S., 
box  and  two  bbls.,  192.95;  Norwalk,  Conn., 
1st,  L.  B.  S.,  box  and  cash,  153;  Norwich, 
Conn.,  1st.  H.  M.  S.,  bbl.,  100;  2d,  L.  H. 
M.  S.,  box,  95;  Peacham,  Vt.,  Aux.,  W.  H. 
M.  U.,  two  bbls  and  cash,  71.67;  Perry 
Centre,  N.  Y.,  1st,  W.  M.  U.,  bbl.,  58.98; 
Stratford,  Conn.,  H.  M.  Sew.  Soc,  two  bbls., 
165;  Warsaw,  N.  Y.,  Ch.,  box,  155.60;  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  1st,  W.  H.  M.  S.,  two  bbls., 
102.76;  Mt.  Pleasant,  W.  M.  S.,  two  boxes, 
377.25;  Winchester,  Conn.,  Ladies'  Benev. 
Soc,  bbl.,  47.30;  Windsor  Locks,  Conn., 
L.  H.  M.  S.,  bbl.  and  cash,  84.76.  Total, 
$3,567.13. 


Congregational   Home  Missionary  Society 

FOURTH  AVENUE  AND  TWENTY-SECOND  STREET,  NEW  YORK,  N.  Y. 

CHARLES   S.    MILLS,    D.D.,    President 

H.    CLARK    FORD,    Vice-President 
WASHINGTON   CHOATE,   D.D.,  JOSEPH    B.    CLARK,    D.D. 

Acting  General  Secretary  Editorial  Secretary 

DON   O.   SHELTON.   Associate  Secretary 
WILLIAM    B.     IIOWLAND.     Treasurer 

DIRECTORS 

CHARLES  S.  MILLS.  D.D..  Chairman Missouri         GEORGE   R.   LEAVITT,   D.D Wisconsin 

REV.    RAYMOND    CALKINS Maine         REV.   BASTIAN  SMITS Michigan 

GEORGE  E.  HALL.   D.D New  Hampshire        MR.   EDWARD  TUCKER Kansas 

HENRY   FAIRBANKS,    Ph.D Vermont        JOHN  E.   TUTTLE.   D.D Nebraska 

S.  H.  WOODROW,  D.D Massachusetts        FRANK  T.   BAYLEY,    D.D Colorado 

MR.  JOHN  F.   HUNTSMAN Rhode  Island         MR.    ROBERT  D.   BENEDICT New  York 

REV.   H.   H.   KELSEY Connecticut        L.  H.  HALLOCK,   D.D Minnesota 

S.   PARKES   CADMAN,   D.D .New  York        H.  C.  HERRING,  D.D Nebraska 

MR.    W.    W.   MILLS Ohio        E.  L.  SMITH.   D.D Washington 

W.  E.  BARTON,  D.D Illinois        REV.  LIVINGSTON  L.  TAYLOR New  York 

E.  M.  VITTUM,  D.D Iowa 

EXECUTIVE   COMMITTEE 

WASHINGTON  CHOATE,    D.D.,    Acting    Chairman 

One    Year  Two   Years 

S.    PARKES  CADMAN,  D.D.  MR.  JAMES  G.  CANNON 

HARRY    P.    DEWEY,    D.D.  MR.  W.    WINANS    FREEMAN 

MR.  JOHN    F.     HUNTSMAN  REV.  HENRY  H.   KELSEY 

MR.  CHARLES   C.   WEST  REV.  LIVINGSTON   L.    TAYLOR 

Field  Secretary,    REV.    W.    G.    PUDDEFOOT,    South    Framingham,    Mass. 

SUPERINTENDENTS 

Morltz   E.    Eversz,    D.D.,    German   Department,    153   La   Salle   St.,    Chicago,    111. 

Rev.   S.   V.   S.   Fisher,   Scandinavian  Department,   Minneapolis,   Minn. 

Rev.   Chas.   H.   Small,   Slavic  Department,   Cleveland,   Ohio. 

Indianapolis,    Ind.         Rev.   H.   Sanderson Denver    Colo 

Geo.   R.   Merrill,  D.D Minneapolis,   Miun.        J.  D.  Kingsbury,  D.D (New  Mexico    Arizona 

Alfred  K.   Wray,   D.D Carthage,    Mo.  Utah  and  Idaho),   Salt  Lake  City! 

Rev.  W.  W.  Scudder,  Jr West  Seattle,  Wash.         Rev.  C.  F.  Clapp Forest  Grove    Ore 

Rev.  W.  B.  D.   Gray Cheyenne,  Wyo.         Rev.  Chas.  A.  Jones,  75  Essex  St.,   Hackensack,   N.  j' 

Frank  E.  Jenkins,  D.D.,  The  South Atlanta,  Ga.         Rev.   W.   S.   Bell Helena    Mont 

W.   H.  Thrall,   D.D Huron,   S.   Dak.         J.  D.  Kingsbury,  D.D Oklahoma  City,  Okla. 

Rev.  G.  J.  Powell Fargo,  N.  Dak.         Geo.  L.  Todd,  D.D Havana,  Cuba. 

SECRETARIES  AND  TREASURERS  OF  CONSTITUENT  STATES 

Rev.  Charles  Harbutt,  Secretary. .  .Maine  Missionary  Society 34  Dow  St.,  Portland,  Me. 

W.  P.  Hubbard,  Treasurer "  "  "       Box  1052,   Bangor,   Me. 

Rev.  A.  T.  Hillman,  Secretary ....  New  Hampshire  Home  Missionary  Society Concord,   N.  H. 

Alvln  B.  Cross,  Treasurer "  "  "       Concord,   N.  H. 

Chas.  H.  Merrill,  D.D.,  Secretary. .  Vermont   Domestic   "  "  " St.   Johnsbury,  Vt. 

J.  T.   Richie,  Treasurer "  "  "  "  "       St.   Johnsbury,  Vt. 

F.  E.  Emrich,  D.D.,  Secretary Massachusetts  Home  "       609  Coug'l  House,  Boston,  Mass. 

Rev.  Joshua  Coit,  Treasurer "  "  "       609  Cong'l  House,  Boston,  Mass. 

Rev.  J.   H.  Lyon,  Secretary Rhode  Island        "  "  "       Central  Falls,   R.I. 

Jos.  Wm.  Rice,  Treasurer "  "  "  "  "       Providence,    R.I. 

Rev.   Joel  S.   Ives,   Secretary Missionary  Society  of  Connecticut Hartford,   Conn. 

Ward  W.  Jacobs,  Treasurer "  "  Hartford,    Conn. 

Rev.   C.   W.   Shelton,   Secretary New  York  Home  Missionary  Society Fourth  Ave.   and  22d  St.,  New  York 

Clayton  S.   Fitch,  Treasurer "        "  "  "  "       Fourth  Ave.  and  22d  St.,  New  York 

Rev.  Charles  H.  Small,  Secretary. .  Ohio  "       Cleveland,   Ohio 

Rev.  Charles  H.  Small,  Treasurer..      "  "  "  "       Cleveland,   Ohio 

Rev.  Roy  B.  Guild,  Secretary Illinois  "  "       153  La  Salle  St.,   Chicago 

John  W.  Iliff,  Treasurer "  "  "  "       153  La  Salle  St.,   Chicago 

Homer  W.  Carter,  D.D. ,  Secretary. Wisconsin  "  "  "       Beloit,   Wis. 

C.  M.   Blackman,   Treasurer "  "  "       Whitewater,   Wis. 

T.  O.Douglass.  D.D.,  Secretary ...  Iowa  "  " Grinnell,   Iowa 

Miss  A.  D.  Merrill,  Treasurer.....     "  "  "  "       Des  Moines,  Iowa 

Rev.  J.  W.  Sutherland,  Secretary ..  Michigan  "  "  "       Lansing,    Mich. 

Rev.  John  P.  Sanderson,  Treasurer.  "  "       Lansing,    Mich. 

Rev.  Henry  E.  Thayer,  Secretary.  .Kansas  Congregational  Home  Missionary   Society Topeka,    Kan. 

H.  C.  Bowman,  Treasurer "  "  "  "       Topeka,    Kan. 

Rev.  S.  I.  Hanford,  Secretary Nebraska     Home  Missionary  Society Lincoln,   Neb. 

Rev.  Lewis  Gregory,  Treasurer....  "  "  "       Lincoln,   Neb. 

OTHER   STATE   HOME   MISSIONARY   SOCIETIES 

Rev.  J.  K.  Harrison,  Secretary. . . .  North  California  Home  Missionary  Society San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Rev.  John  L.  Maile,  Secretary South  "  "  "  "       Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

CITY  MISSION  AUXILIARIES 

Rev.  Philip  W.  Yarrow Congregational  City  Missionary  Society St.   Louis,   Mo. 

Lewis  E.  Snow,   Superintendent....  "  "  "  "       St.   Louis,   Mo. 


LEGACIES — The  following  form  may  be  used  in  making  legacies: 

I  bequeath  to  my  executors  the  sum  of  dollars,  in  trust,   to  pay  over  the  same  in 

months  after  my  decease,  to  any  person  who,  when  the  same  is  payable,  shall  act  as 
Treasurer  of  the  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society,  formed  in  the  City  of  New  York,  in  the 
ysar  eighteen  hundred  and  twenty-six,  to  be  applied  rto  the  charitable  use  and  purposes  of  said 
4kel*ty,and  under  its  direction. 
9  HONORARY  LIFE  MEMBERS— The  payment  of  Fifty  Dollars  at  one  time  constitutes  an 
Honorary  Life  Member. 


WE  OLD  RELIABLE 


*AwM 


POWDER 

Absolutely  Pure 

HAS  NO  SUBSTITUTE 


BORATED    TALCUM 

TOILET  POWDER 


v         WRITE  TO  MENNEN 

if  your   druggist   does  not   sell    Mennen's  Borated 
Talcum  Toilet  Powder,  and  receive  a  free  sample. 

Most  dealers  do  sell  Mennen's,  because  most  people 
know  it  is  the  purest  and  safest  of  toilet  powders — pre- 
serves the  good  complexion,  improves  the  poor  one. 
Put  up  in  non-ref  illable  boxes,  for  your  protection.    If 
Mennen's  face  is  on  the  cover,  it's  genuine  and  a  guar- 
antee of  purity.    Delightful  after  shaving.  Sold  every- 
where, or  by  mail  25  cents.    Sample  Free. 

GERHARD  MENNEN  CO.,  Newark,  N.J. 


Try  Mennen's  Violet  (Borated)  Talcum  Powder.    It  has  the  scent 
of  fresh  cut  Parma  Violets. 


*** 


v*v 


Isn't  it  easy? 

to  make  r\ouse-c!ear\ir\§ 
half  play  wf\er\  all  the 
hard  dirty  work,  from 
sir\kclear\ir\§  to  brass 
poIishir\§  isdorvewitK 
a  bow  I  of  water,  a  soft 
clotK.arxd  a  cake  of 

SAPOLIO 

|  CLEANS- SCOURS -POLISHES') 


March 


50  Cents  a  Year 


THE  HOME 
MISSIONARY 


VOLUME     LXXX 


NUMBER   lO 


CHRISTIAN 

CIVILIZATION 

FOR. 


CONGREGATIONAL 

HOME  MISSIONARY 

SOCIETY 

4™  AVE.S  22.C1PST. 
NEW    Y  O  R^  K 


Entered   at   the    Post-Office,    at    New    York,    N.    Y.,    as    sec 


THE     HOME       MISSIONARY      ADVERTISER 

WING  PIANOS 

Are  Sold  Direct  From  the  Factory,  and  in  No  Other  Way 

You  Save  from$75to$200 


When  you  buy  a  Wing  Piano,  you  buy  at  wholesale. 
You  pay  the  actual  cost  of  making  it  with  only  our  whole- 
sale profit  added.  When  you  buy  a  piano,  as  many  still  do— 
at  retail — you  pay  the  retail  dealer's  store  rent  and  other 
expenses.  Vou  pay  his  profit  and  the  commission  or  salary 
of  the  agents  or  salesmen  he  employs— all  these  on  top  of 
what  the  dealer  himself  has  to  pay  co  the  manufacturer.  The 
retail  profit  on  a  piano  is  fnom  $75  to  $200.  Isn't  this  worth 
saving? 


SENT  ON  TRIAL 

WE    PAY    FREIGHT 
No  Money  In  Advance 


Anywhere 


We  will  place  a  Wing  Piano  in  any  home  in  *  je  United 
States  on  trial,  without  asking  for  any  advance  payment  or 
deposit.  We  pay  the  freight  and  all  other  charges  in  advance. 
There  is  nothing  to  be  paid  either  before  the  piano  is  sent  or 
when  it  is  received.  If  the  piano  is  not  satisfactory  after  20 
days'  trial  in  your  home,  we  take  it  back  entirely  at  our  ex- 
pense. You  pay  us  nothing,  and  are  under  no  more  obliga- 
tion to  keep  the  piano  than  if  you  were  examining  it  at  our 
factory.    There  can  be  absolutely  r.o  risk  or  expense  to  you. 

Do  not  imagine  that  it  is  impossible  foi  us  to  do  as  we 
say.  Our  system  is  so  perfect  that  we  can  without  any 
trouble  deliver  a  piano  in  the  smallest  town  in  any  part  of 
the  United  States  just  as  easily  as  we  can  in  New  York  City, 
and  with  absolutely  no  trouble  or  annoyance  to  you,  and 
without  anything  being  paid  in  advance  or  on  arrival  either 
for  freight  or  any  other  expense.  We  take  old  pianos  and 
organs  in  exchange. 

A  guarantee  for  12  years  against  any  defect  in  tone,  action, 
workmanship  or  material  is  given  with  every  Wing  Piano. 


Small,  Easy 
MONTHLY 


Payments 


In   37  years   over  40,000   "Wing  Planoa 

have  been  manufactured  and  sold.  They  are  recom- 
mended by  seven  governors  of  States,  by  musical  colleges 
and  schools,  by  prominent  orchestra  leaders,  music  teach- 
ers and  musicians.  Thousands  of  these  pianos  are  in 
your  own  State,  some  of  them  undoubtedly  in  your  very 
neighborhood.  Our  oatalogue  contains  names  and  ad- 
dresses. 

Mandolin,  Guitar, Harp,  Zither,  Banjo— 

The  tones  of  any  or  all  of  these  instruments  may  be  re- 
produced perfectly  by  any  ordinary  player  on  the  piano  by 
means  of  our  Instrumental  Attachment.  This  improve- 
ment is  patented  by  ns  and  cannot  be  bad  in  any  other 
piano.  WING  ORGANS  are  made  with  the  same  care 
and  sold  in  the  same  way  as  Wing  Pianos..  Separate  or- 
gan catalogue  sent  on  request. 


The  Book 


YOU  NEED  THIS  BOOK 

If  You  Intend  to  Buy  a  Piano— No  Matter  What  Make 

A  book — not  a  catalogue — that  gives  you  all  the  information  possessed  by 
experts.    It  tells  about  the  different  materials  used  in  the  different  parts 
of  a  piano;  the  way  the  different  parts  are  put  together ,  what  causes  pianos 
to  get  out  of  order  and  in  fact  is  a  complete  encyclopedia.    It  makes  the 
selection  of  a  piano  easy.    If  read  carefully,  it  will  make  you  a  judge  of 
tone,  action,  workmanship  and  finish.    It  tells  you  how  to  test  a  piano 
and  how  to  tell  good  from  bad.    It  is  absolutely  the  only  book  of 
its  kind  ever  published.    It  contains  166  large  pages  and  hun- 
dreds of  illustrations,  all  devoted  to  piano  construction.    Its 
name  is  "The  Book  of  Complete  Information  Abont  Pianos." 
W»  send  it  free  to  anyone  wishing  to  buy  a  piano.    All  you 
have  to  do  is  to  send  us  your  name  and  address. 

Send  a  Postal  To-day  while  you  think  of 
it,  just  giving  your  name  and  address  or  send   us 
the  attached  coupon  and  the  valuable  book  of  in- 
formation, also  full  particulars  about  the  WING 
PIANO,  with  prices,  terms  of  payment,  etc., 
will  be  sent  to  you  promptly  by  mail. 


♦>; 


'WING 
&  SON 

351-382  W.I3th 
St..  New  York 


I 


WING  &  SON 

351-389  West  13th  Street,  New  York 

1868 37th  YEAR 1905 


Send  to  the  name  and 

^j^/X         address  written  below, 

■  jS^/Y        '««  Book  of  Complete  In- 

V^Ar       formation  about  Pianos,  also 

prices  and  terms  of  payment 

on  Wing  Pianos. 


»»ru    *  ruing    to   «ulveru»er>   please  tnr. 


POISJTFXTTQ 

- 

~] 

LiUl\    1   LIN    1  o 

*               For    MARCH,    1907.                ^ 

AN  HISTORICAL  HOME  MISSIONARY  GATHERING-EDITORIAL     344 

ADDRESS  OF  PRESIDENT  CHARLES  S.  MILLS,  iTO 

THE  SECRETARIES  AND  SUPERINTENDENTS  

346 

PROBLEM  OF  MINISTERIAL  SUPPLY.    W.  Douglas  Mackenzie, 

349 

PROBLEMS  OF  LAY  CO-OPERATION.  James  G,  Cannon,      

353 

TEMPTATIONS  OF  SECRETARIES 

To  The  Neglect  of  Intellectual  Culture,   C,  H,  Small. 

361 

To  The  Neglect  of  Prayer,   Horace,  Sanderson   

362 

To  Neglect  the  Study  of  the  Bible,     George  R.  Merrill, \ 

364 

PROBLEMS  OF  SUPERINTENDENTS  iAND  SECRETARIES 

....  366 

. . ,      371 

THE  FINANCIAL  PROBLEM. 

. . .     374 

APPOINTMENTS  AND  RECEIPTS 

379 

TO  LIFE  MEMBERS 

...    384 

INDEX  TO  VOLUME  LXXX 

ii.  iii  iv 

PER    YEAR,     FIFTY    CENTS 

THE    HOME    MISSIONARY 

Published  Monthly,  except  in  July  and  August,  by  the 

i 

Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society 

i 

287     FOURTH     AVENUE,               NEW    YORK 

CITY 

Charles  S.  Mills,  D.  D.,  President  Congregational  Home 
Missionary  Society 


Hubert  C.  Herring,  D.  D.,  General  Secretary  Congregational 
Home  Missionary  Society 


THE 

HOME    MISSIONARY 

vol.  lxxx  MARCH,    1907  no.  10 

An  Historic  Home  Missionary 

Gathering 


W 


INTRODUCTORY 

ILL  IT  WORK?"  zi'as  the  only  question  left  unsettled  at  Oak  Park. 
"It  does  work"  is  the  united  verdict  upon  the  January  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Directors  at  Hotel  Gramatan. 


It  was  more  than  a  business  meeting  of  Directors.  It  zuas  the  grandest 
rally  of  Home  Missionary  leaders  ever  convened,  sixty  all  told,  representing 
every  point  in  our  "far  flung  battle  line"  from  the  Atlantic  to  the  Pacific,  from 
the  Canada  border  to  Cuba.  It  z.vas  even  more  than  a  Rally.  It  zvas  a  Revela- 
tion— a  revelation  of  unity,  of  that  unity  long  prayed  and  hoped  for  in  the 
Home  Missionary  army,  and  now  proved  by  absolute  demonstration  to  exist. 

*  * 

The  most  delicate  of  all  the  problems  of  reconstruction,  and  perhaps  the 
most  threatening,  that  of  the  equitable  distribution  of  missionary  funds,  zvas 
faced  and  solved.  Every  secretary  and  superintendent,  as  in  duty  bound,  plead- 
ed his  utmost  need.  In  no  single  instance  zvas  the  need  unduly  magnified.  It 
could  not  well  be  magnified.  Yet  when  the  distribution  of  probable  receipts  zvas 
announced,  no  one  was  heard  to  clamor  for  more  than  his  share,  or  to  disparage 
the  claims  of  his  brother.  For  the  time  being  all  state  lines  zvere  wiped  from 
the  map.  The  country,  as  a  zvhole,  zvas  made  the  issue.  The  only  competition 
possible  for  the  next  twelve  months  will  be,  not,  zvho  shall  get  the  most  for  him- 
self, but  zvho  zvill  raise  the  most  of  the  general  fund  for  all.  Here  is  the  prime 
test  of  unification,  and  in  its  triumphant  demonstration  at  Bronxville  lie  all 
hopes  of  the  future.  Debt  has  now  become  a  common  burden,  to  be  lifted  by  a 
common,  effort.  The  redemption  of  America,  and  nothing  less  than  America, 
has  been  made  the  common  aim,  and  every  Home  Missionary  appeal  for  money, 

zvherever  made,  has  nozv  a  continental  breadth. 

*  * 

The  Gramatan  Inn  is  builded  upon  a  rock,  not  a  bad  symbol  for  a  meeting 
of  wise  men  engaged  in  nation  building.  It  is  more  home  than  hotel,  and  this 
homelike  environment  contributed  not  a  little  to  the  delightful  fellozvship  of  the 
week.  In  one  large  room  met  the  tzitenty  Directors,  all  but  one  of  the  Board 
being  present,  and  he  in  Europe.  Tzventy-six  hours  were  given  to  the  business 
prescribed  by  the  Constitution,  sometimes  by  themselves,  sometimes  in  joint  ses- 
sion zvith  officers,  secretaries  and  superintendents..  Thus  every  interest  had  its 
chance  to  be  represented ,  every  step  taken  was  taken  in  the  light  of  experience; 


INTRODUCTORY  345 

and  it  is  needless  to  add,  zvith  President  Mills  in  the  chair,  no  time  was  lost  in 
aimless  discussion.  A  generous  portion  of  each  session  zvas  given  to  prayer  and 
the  Spirit's  guidance  zvas  manifest. 

*  * 

While  the  directors  zvere  directing,  secretaries  and  superintendents,  in 
another  spacious  room,  were  having  heart  to  heart  talks  on  the  vital  interests  of 
their  work  and  their  fields.  Here  zvas  another  revelation,  not  nezv  to  those  of- 
ficially connected  with  the  Society,  and  ought  not  to  be  nezv  to  the  churches, — 
0.  revelation  of  the  spirit  of  the  zvatchmen  on  the  walls.  We  earnestly  entreat 
every  reader  of  The  Home  Missionary  to  begin,  continue  and  never  stop  until 
he  has  completed  the  reading  of  the  pages  that  follow,  given  mostly  to  the 
papers  of  these  men  at  the  front.  He  should  know  these  men,  their  spirit,  their 
trials  and  temptations,  their  ambitions  and  sacrifices,  all  of  which  are  strongly 
reflected  in  these  papers.  We  have  not  only  consecrated  men  on  the  front  line, 
but  we  have  statesmen. 

*  * 

The  Gramatan  meeting  zvas  happy  in  its  conception,  happy  in  its  environ- 
ments, happy  in  its  program  and  its  personnel,  most  happy  in  its  outcome,  spirit- 
ual, social  and  practical.  That  which  contributed  not  a  little  to  its  good  cheer 
and  success  was  the  united  action  of  the  Directors  at  their  first  session,  in  the 
election  of  a  General  Secretary,  and  his  prompt  acceptance  of  the  office. 

*  * 

Those  who  know  him  best,  find,  in  Dr.  Herring,  rare  qualifications  for  the 
place ;  consecration,  tact,  leadership ,  a  commanding  presence  and  power  in  pul- 
pit and  on  platform.  They  knozv  him  as  zvisely  aggressive,  yet  zvfisely  conserva- 
tive, aware  when  to  pull  the  throttle  and  when  to  push  the  brake,  and  added  t{ 
these  natural  gifts,  an  acquired  experience  of  nine  years  as  pastor  of  our  lead^ 
ing  church  at  Omaha  in  a  typical  Home  Missionary  state,  where  he  has  been  an 
acknowledged  leader  in  Home  Missionary  administration.  It  zvould  be  difficult, 
indeed  it  was  difficult,  to  find  in  all  the  land  a  man  uniting  in  himself  so  many 
and  so  varied  natural  gifts,  and  so  immediately  equipped  with  experience  for  all 
the  demands  of  a  General  Secretary  of  Home  Missions. 

*  * 

All  things  are  in  order  for  a  grand  advance, — a  President  zvho  commands 
universal  confidence  and  esteem,  a  General  Secretary  having  every  potential 
quality  for  success,  state  leaders  of  expert  knozvledge  and  of  tried  ability,  and 
in  the  Home  Missionary  army,  upon  whom  all  results  under  God  depend,  a  nezv 
esprit  de  corps  that  means  united  action,  increasing  gifts  and  ultimate  victory. 


Address  of  President  Mills  to  the 
Secretaries  and  Superintendents 


(Spoken  informally  and  re-produced 
at  the  request  of  the  editor) 


Dear  Friends: — The  word  "ad- 
dress" is  one  of  the  most  over-worked 
terms  in  the  English  language.  It 
may  designate  an  elaborate  oration,  or 
the  simplest  form  of  speech.  I  desire 
it  to  be  distinctly  understood,  then, 
that  I  do  not  come  here  this  after- 
noon with  any  formal  pronounce- 
ment, but  to  speak  with  the  utmost 
simplicity,  on  behalf  of  this  Board,  to 
you,  beloved  friends  and  fellow-work- 
ers. 

It  is  very  difficult  to  put  into  any 
words  whatsoever  the  profound 
emotions  that  fill  our  hearts  as  we 
greet  you  here.  There  is  an  honor 
which  we  are  accustomed  to  give  to 
the  pioneer  who  tames  the  forest 
primeval  and  makes  the  soil  bring 
forth  abundant  harvests ;  that  honor 
we  also  give  to  you  who  likewise 
penetrate  the  wilderness  and  sow 
therein  the  seed  of  the  kingdom. 
There  is  an  honor  which  we  give  to 
the  soldier  who  follows  the  flag  of  his 
country  in  fearless  devotion ;  that 
honor  we  bestow  upon  you.  for  we 
recognize  that  on  many  a  field  you 
have  proved  your  valor  as  soldiers  of 
the  cross.  There  is  an  honor  which 
we  give  to  the  statesman  directing  af- 
fairs political ;  that  honor  we  ascribe 
to  you,  believing  that  you,  too,  are 
molding  in  no  small  measure  the 
destinies  of  our  mighty  common- 
wealths as  you  grapple  with  their 
deepest  problems  and  bring  the  Gos- 
pel to  their  solution.  There  is  a  con- 
spicuous honor  that  we  give  to  the 
counselor,  the  man  with  the  experi- 
ence and  the  wisdom  to  voice  a  worthy 


judgment  in  the  great  issues  of  the 
day ;  that  honor  we  give  to  you. 
Mindful  of  the  long  years  of  your 
noble  service  and  your  intimate 
knowledge  of  the  facts,  we  shall  pay 
the  greatest  deference  to  your  sug- 
gestions and  shall  look  to  you  con- 
tinually for  counsel.  We  would  share 
with  you  the  labor  of  our  cause  and 
we  would  have  yon  share  with  us  the 
responsibility  of  its  direction.  When 
a  man  wishes  to  apply  to  another 
some  term  to  designate  his  most  in- 
timate association  and  affection,  he 
calls  him  friend ;  and  that  term  we  ap- 
ply to  you.  We  greet  you  in  the 
spirit  not  only  of  respect,  but  of  love ; 
we  would  draw  you  to  our  hearts 
with  all  tenderness ;  we  would  offer 
you  our  affection  as  we  ask  for  yours. 
In  this  spirit  we  enter  upon  this  ses- 
sion, confident  of  the  guidance  of  the 
Lord  and  that  the  result  of  our  de- 
liberations will  aid  mightilv  <n  the  ex- 
tension of  the  Kingdom  of  our  Lord. 

I  desire  in  connection  with  this 
greeting  to  say  a  few  words,  if  I  may, 
concerning  our  present  situation. 
Some  of  us  go  back  at  this  hour  to 
that  conference,  so  different  in  its 
spirit,  held  in  this  city  two  years  ago. 
We  remember  that  then  there  were 
great  differences  among  the  brethren 
and  that  state  and  national  organiza- 
tions seemed  to  be  working  at  cross 
purposes,  greatly  to  the  distress  of  all 
concerned.  I  allude  to  that  meeting, 
not  to  review  its  sad  experiences — 
peace  to  its  ashes — but  only  to  sound 
the  note  of  good  cheer  in  the  evident 
and   marked   progress   which   has   al- 


ADDRESS  OF  DR.  MILLS 


347 


ready  been  made.  Here  we  sit,  an- 
ticipating no  note  of  discord,  one  in 
spirit  and  in  aim,  filled  with  a  pro- 
found sense  of  the  work  to  be  done 
and  assured  that  God  has  led  us  out 
into  a  large  place.  It  is  a  great  for- 
ward step. 

We  have  had  in  these  years,  we 
may  say,  three  problems  to  work  out: 

i.  The  first  was  the  problem  of 
organization.  The  old  scheme,  honor- 
ed in  years  past  and  adequate  then  for 
its  purpose,  could  not  meet  present- 
day  conditions.  The  new  plan,  found- 
ed upon  the  fundamental  principles  of 
representative  American  democracy, 
has  been  adopted,  after  extended  dis- 
cussion, with  practical  unanimity.  No 
voice  of  criticism  is  heard.  We  have, 
then,  the  working  plan. 

2.  The  second  problem  was  that  of 
leadership.  Here  was  a  mighty  or- 
ganization emerging  into  new  life  and 
reasserting  in  the  terms  of  to-day  its 
commission  for  the  conquest  of 
America  in  the  name  of  Christ.  Its 
mission  and  its  constitution  demanded 
a  great  leader.  He  must  be  a  man 
of  large  vision,  competent  to  deal 
with  the  national  work  in  the  national 
spirit;  a  masterful  man,  with  marked 
characteristics  of  leadership ;  a  practi- 
cal man,  not  only  able  to  see  the  vision 
and  to  grasp  the  great  problems  but 
to  make  things  move ;  a  man  of  varied 
experience,  removed  from  any  sus- 
picion of  provincialism ;  a  tactful  man, 
knowing  how  to  conciliate  as  well  as 
how  to  command ;  a  winsome  man, 
drawing  men  close  to  himself,  becom- 
ing the  living  link  binding  all  the 
parts  in  one  mighty  organism.  And 
with  all  these  gifts  he  must  have  plat- 
form power  of  so  high  an  order  as  to 
be  welcome  in  any  church  in  the  land 
and  to  prove  himself  a  master  in  our 
great  assemblies.  For  eight  months 
the  Board  of  Directors,  through  a 
special  sub-committee,  have  sought 
this  man.  They  have  taken  counsel 
not  only  of  one  another,  but  of  the 
wisest  leaders  in  all  sections.  They 
have  examined  all  of  our  best  men 
whom  they  considered  eligible.     They 


have  eliminated  very  few  as  pre- 
empted for  other  service,  for  they  felt 
they  had  a  cause  which  could  lay 
claim  on  nearly  any  one.  Their  main 
question  was  where  to  find  a  man  who 
could  measure  up  to  this  place  of  com- 
manding power  and  opportunity.  We 
rejoice  beyond  measure  that  we  can 
say  to  you  to-day  that  we  have  found 
such  a  man — may  I  not  say,  the  man 
— one  who,  we  believe,  in  tempera- 
ment, in  training,  in  experience,  in 
personality,  possesses  in  unusual  de- 
gree the  qualities  of  the  ideal  which 
we  have  set  before  us.  That  man  is 
Dr.  Hubert  C.  Herring  of  Omaha. 
( Great  applause,  all  present  rising  to 
greet  Dr.  Herring).  I  shall  soon  give 
you  the  pleasure  of  listening  to  his 
personal  greeting. 

But  may  I  say  to  you,  dear  brethren 
from  the  front,  that  the  same  spirit  of 
leadership  which  we  have  sought  in 
this  choice  we  must  seek  also  on  the 
wide  field.  To  this  Board  the  church- 
es have  committed  a  sacred  trust ; 
none  is  more  precious.  It  is  not 
enough  for  us  to  know  that  this  or 
that  man  is  good  of  heart,  is  earnest 
in  purpose,  and  has  served  the  Society 
honorably  for  many  years.  We  are 
compelled  to  scrutinize  every  section, 
and,  with  all  respect  to  the  past,  to 
ask.  Is  the  work  well  done?  Is  the 
leader  efficient?  And  if  he  is  not  we 
must  see  that  such  a  leader  is  pro- 
vided. We  say  these  words  in  the 
utmost  tenderness,  but  we  feel  that 
this  is  the  hour  in  which  this  policy  of 
efficient  administration  must  be  rec- 
ognized. 

3.  A  third  problem  was  that  of  the 
actual  working  of  the  new  machinery. 
This  is  the  hour  of  its  test.  For  the 
first  time  in  the  history  of  this  So- 
ciety its  entire  force,  superintendents, 
secretaries  and  Board  of  Directors, 
are  met  together  to  listen  to  what 
shall  be  said  by  one  after  another  of 
its  state  leaders.  The  Reorganizing 
Committee,  in  planning  for  such  a 
gathering  as  a  part  of  the  new  consti- 
tution, saw  in  imagination  the  effect 
that    this    panoramic    recital    would 


348 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


have  upon  the  individuals  composing 
this  group.  For  instance,  it  is  one 
thing  for  Mr.  Harbutt  and  Mr.  Cal- 
kins and  a  little 'group  of  men  with 
them  to  determine  in  the  city  of  Port- 
land what  the  state  of  Maine  should 
expend  out  of  what  it  can  raise.  It  is 
another  thing  for  them  to  come  down 
here  and  make  their  statement  and 
then  listen  to  what  the  man  from  Min- 
nesota, and  the  man  from  Montana, 
and  the  man  from  Oklahoma,  shall 
have  to  say;  the  needs  of  other  sec- 
tions, thus  trenchantly  set  before 
them,  moving  their  hearts  and  shap- 
ing their  judgment  as  to  what  their 
own  state  should  expend.  And  so 
likewise  for  us  all.  Let  us  open  our 
souls  for  this  recountal,  each  desiring 
not  his  own  good  only,  but  the  good 
of  all. 

We  have  been  told  that  the  new 
plan  would  not  succeed  because  it  de- 
pended absolutely  upon  the  unselfish- 
ness of  those  representing  the  state 
organizations.  We  have  come  to  the 
crucial  hour ;  the  results  of  this  con- 
ference will  determine  in  large 
measure  whether  the  labors  of  these 
years  have  been  in  vain. 

Feeling  in  anticipation  the  critical 
nature  of  this  point,  I  wrote  last  May 
to  Dr.  Emrich,  of  the  Massachusetts 
Home  Missionary  Society,  our  pivotal 
state,  pointing  out  that  the  representa- 
tives of  the  State  Societies,  who 
should  go  to  New  York  in  January 
with  definite  propositions  for  the  sup- 
port of  the  national  work  through 
these  states,  should  be  empowered  to 
change    these    proposals    in    case    the 


Board  of  Directors  should  so  desire; 
for  if  each  Society  should  go  up  with 
a  cast  iron  proposition  the  National 
Board  would  be  helpless.  I  received 
at  once  in  reply  the  letter  which  I  now 
hold  in  my  hand,  a  letter  over-flowing 
with  the  sacrificial  spirit,  declaring 
that  Massachusetts  would  not  come  up 
to  this  meeting  with  any  hard  and 
fast  proposition,  but  with  the  earnest 
desire  and  the  determined  purpose  to 
do  everything  in  her  power  for  the 
evangelization  of  the  country.  A  few 
days  later  there  came  from  him  a 
second  letter,  saying  that  he  had  laid 
my  letter  and  his  reply  before  the  Ex- 
ecutive Committee  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Society  and  that  they  had  di- 
rected him  to  write  that  they  fully  en- 
dorsed his  statements.  "Our  repre- 
sentative to  the  meeting  in  January," 
he  said,  "will  be  empowered  to  make 
any  arrangement  that  may  be  deemed 
best  at  that  time.  He  will  go  up  with 
the  one  desire  to  carry  on  the  work  in 
the  length  and  breadth  of  the  land. 
The  committee  will  do  all  they  can  to 
keep  the  national  work  to  the  front." 
The  voice  of  this  beloved  man  thus 
seems  in  this  hour  to  call  to  us  from 
across  the  seas,  whither  he  has  gone  to 
repair,  if  possible,  the  health  broken 
by  all  too  strenuous  devotion  to  the 
cause  on  behalf  of  which  we  are  here 
met  together ;  and  I  repeat  these 
words,  not  only  for  the  sake  of  his 
message,  but  because  I  trust  that  the 
spirit  of  the  old  Bay  State,  the  chief 
fountain  of  our  supply,  is  simply 
tvoical  of  that  which  shall  animate  all 
the  states  and  all  our  hearts. 


(This  address,  after  a  personal 
word  from  Dr.  Herring,  the  singing 
of  the  Doxology  and  the  offering  of 
prayers  of  thanksgiving,  was  followed 
by  a  panoramic  exhibit  of  the  work  in 
the  various  states  and  by  a  definite 
proposition  from  each  state  in  turn  as 
to  its  part  in  contributing  to  the  re- 
sources of  the  national  enterprise. 
Later  each  secretary  and  superinten- 
dent was  called  in  to  meet  the  Board 


alone,  when  the  most  searching  ques- 
tions were  asked  as  to  the  way  in 
which  the  figures  had  been  made  up. 
Every  man  showed  the  most  heroic 
spirit,  a  willingness  to  make  all  pos- 
sible sacrifices  in  the  interests  of  the 
national  work,  an  asset  of  untold 
significance  and  a  harbinger  of  the 
noblest  results,  both  in  the  gathering 
of  the  largest  resources  and  the  render- 
ing of  the  best  service  on  the  field). 


The  Problem  of  Ministerial  Supply 

By  W.  Douglas  Mackenzie,  D.  D., 
Hartford  Theological  Seminary 


IN  EVERY  Christian  land,  where  the 
population  grows  and  moves,  the 
problem  of  Home  Mission  work  is 
constant  and  heavy.  But  it  is  not 
too  much  to  say  that  in  -this  land  the 
work  is  enormous.  If  the  churches 
were  lax  in  their  performance  of  this 
task,  whole  regions  would  in  one  genera- 
tion be  reduced  to  paganism  and  des- 
pair. The  chief  problems  are  created  by 
the  bewildering  rapidity  with  which  our 
cities  are  spreading  out  their  borders,  by 
the  silent  and  steady  flow  of  settlers  into 
new  districts,  into  far  off  and  obscure 
regions,  by  the  gradual  depopulation  'of 
regions  in  the  northeast,  which  were 
once  the  homes  of  thrifty  farmers  and 
.villagers.  And  all  these  conditions  are 
made  still  more  difficult  for  the  church 
to  deal  with,  by  the  vast  immigration  of 
races  which  do  not  speak  the  English 
language,  and  which,  when  they  have 
learned  it  for  commerce,  refuse  to  em- 
ploy it  in  social  intercourse  among  them- 
selves and  in  the  exercises  of  religion. 

The  Congregational  Home  Missionary 
Society  is  the  accepted  organ  of  the  de- 
nomination, through  which  alone  our 
churches  are  able  to  bear  their  part  in 
this  almost  boundless  labor.  I  am 
asked  to  address  you  on  one  phase  of 
the  manifold  work  which  is  laid  upon  us 
by  the  directors  and  officers  of  this  So- 
ciety, namely,  "The  Supply  of  Ministers 
for  the   Home   Missionary  Field." 

Whoever  looks  through  the  Congrega- 
tional Year-Book  will  be  amazed  to  find 
that  in  some  States  three-quarters  of  the 
churches  have  less  than  one  hundred 
members;  and  also  that  in  some  States 
more  than  half  of  the  churches  could  not 
raise  $500  a  year  for  a  pastor's  salary, 
without  the  magnificent  labors  and  sup- 
port of  the  Congregational  Home  Mis- 
sionary Society. 

These  facts  do  of  themselves  consti- 
tute a  situation  of  the  gravest  kind,  and 
one  which  confronts  this  Society  and  its 


officers  day  by  day  in  every  year.  It  is 
the  business  of  the  Society  to  get  the 
matter  so  placed  before  the  denomina- 
tion as  a  whole,  that  every  church  shall 
understand  it  and  be  brought  to  consider 
it  frankly  and  without  flinching  or  fear. 
But  beyond  these  already  existent  mis- 
sion churches,  there  lie  in  every  city  and 
in  every  growing  district  of  the  land  the 
untabulated  calls  for  the  church,  with  its 
gospel  of  Divine  mercy  and  human  kind- 
ness. Many  of  these  fall  upon  your 
ears,  my  brothers,  continually;  and  I 
know  that  they  are  a  burden  and  a  per- 
plexity from  which  you  cannot  turn 
away,  nay,  rather  which  you  must  con- 
tinually seek  out  in  new  quarters,  that 
the  work  of  saving  the  nation  may  pro- 
ceed. There  are  many  sides  to  this  task 
and  I  am  concerned  with  one  of  them, 
viz.,  the  supply  in  adequate  numbers  of 
the  right  kind  of  men. 

It  is  evident  to  all  who  know  the  field 
that  in  our  home  mission  work  we  lack 
in  numbers  and  we  lack  in  quality.  For 
many  of  the  most  needy  districts  it  is 
hard  to  find  any  pastor  at  all,  and  many 
of  those  who  are  appointed  are  not  fit 
to  do  the  best  work.  The  unfit  men  in- 
clude among  other  varieties  two  im- 
portant classes:  Those  who  have  zeal 
and  fair  ability  without  adequate  educa- 
tion, and  those  who  have  had  education 
even  in  our  best  seminaries  and  yet  fail. 
Of  the  last  class  many  are,  alas!  without 
the  real  passion  for  souls  without  which 
no  man  can  win  a  hearing  on  the  mis- 
sion field,  whatever  he  may  do  in  a  three 
thousand  dollar  suburban  dormitory; 
and  some  have  the  earnestness,  but  it  is 
paralyzed  by  an  innate  genius  for 
blundering,  which  no  college  or  semi- 
nary can  stifle  or  eradicate.  You  have 
all  touched  these  classes  and  suffered 
from  the  shock. 

It  is  quite  evident,  of  course,  that  our 
recognized  Congregational  seminaries 
are  not  sending  out  enough  men  to  meet 


35o 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


this  ever  growing  demand.  The  last 
Year-Book  shows  that,  in  the  senior 
classes  there  recorded,  less  than  one 
hundred  were  about  to  enter  the  ministry 
of  this  wide  spread  and  powerful  de- 
nomination. When  you  subtract  from 
that  number  those  who  were  destined  for 
the  foreign  field  or  for  teaching,  or  for 
the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association, 
as  well  as  other  forms  of  religious  serv- 
ice, the  number  is  still  further  and  in- 
deed much  reduced.  It  is  no  wonder, 
then,  that  our  state  missionary  societies 
find  it  necessary  to  take  the  best  men 
they  can  get  wherever  they  come  from 
and  however  poor  their  education.  And 
it  is  no  wonder  again,  that  in  many 
cases  the  churches  so  served  remain 
small  in  membership  and  are  unable  to 
pay  an  adequate  salary. 

I  need  not  stay  to  discuss  at  any 
length  the  reasons  why  many  young  men 
■do  not  enter  the  home  ministry.  Apart 
from  influences  which  lie  in  the  general 
drift  of  social  and  religious  life,  of  which 
many  are  hostile  to  the  choosing  of  this 
career,  there  are  sufficiently  powerful 
causes  at  work  within  the  field  as  we  are 
surveying  it  here.  The  abnormally  low 
salaries  which  are  offered,  the  uncertain 
tenure  of  pastorates,  especially  among 
churches  which  rejoice  to  assert  their 
democratic  independence,  the  uncertain 
chances  of  promotion,  which  so  often 
depends  on  superficial  and  spurious 
qualities  instead  of  solid  work  and  quiet 
but  steady  power, — all  these  must  be 
reckoned  with.  They  all  have  their  part 
in  producing  that  general,  moral  and 
spiritual  atmosphere,  as  subtle  and  per- 
vasive as  the  ether,  amid  which  it  is  hard 
for  many  a  youth  to  see,  and  feel,  and 
accept  the  glory  of  preaching  Christ  and 
life  eternal  to  his  fellow  men. 

The  contrast  is  often  drawn  between 
home  and  foreign  fields;  and  the  ques- 
tion is  raised  why  so  many  even  of  the 
noblest  and  ablest  men  go  out  to  other 
lands  from  our  seminaries,  who  cannot 
be  captured  for  the  needy  places  at 
home.  Personally,  I  believe  that  in  the 
matters  already  described,  the  balance 
of  mere  attractiveness  is  all  in  favor  of 
the  foreign  field.   Not  only  is  the  average 


salary  abroad  higher  in  cash  than  that 
paid  to  missionary  pastors  at  home,  but 
as  a  rule  it  goes  further  in  purchasing 
power.  Moreover,  it  is  paid  regularly. 
It  is  raised  wholly  by  a  great  and  power- 
ful organization,  with  whom  it  is  a 
world-wide  honor  to  be  connected. 
Again,  the  foreign  missionary  loses  no 
self-respect  in  his  social  status,  from 
having  an  inadequate  income  among 
people  of  his  own  race  and  culture.  As 
a  rule  he  represents  a  high  civilization 
in  the  midst  of  ignorance  and  degrada- 
tion. Pie  has  large  affairs  under  his  di- 
rection. His  intellectual  life  is  stimu- 
lated, his  capacity  for  initiation  and 
organization  and  administration  is  stead- 
ily called  forth  and  developed.  And 
above  all  he  has,  in  far  the  majority  of 
cases,  the  joy  of  seeing  wide  and  signi- 
ficant results,  wrought  into  the  life  of 
whole  communities  by  his  labors.  He 
has  made  his  great  sacrifices,  and  he 
makes  them  continually;  but  as  a  rule 
they  do  not  include  the  conditions  which 
we  have  seen  to  inhere  so  deeply  in  the 
pastorates  of  these  mission  fields  at  home. 
How,  then,  are  we  to  deal  with  this 
situation?  I  need  not  pause  to  argue 
the  statement  that  the  very  life,  the 
health  and  vigor,  not  to  speak  of  the 
continued  credit,  of  our  denomination  as 
Congregationalists  depend  on  the  way 
in  which  we  deal  with  the  facts  before 
us.  There  are  many  and  various  signs 
that  we  have  come  to  a  critical  period  in 
the  history  of  our  denomination.  Much 
depends  upon  the  ideals  and  the  energy 
of  our  leaders.  We  have  won  for  our- 
selves, and  by  our  example  we  have  won 
for  others  the  great  principle  of  freedom. 
But  we  are  like  the  whole  American 
nation  which  has  also  won  freedom,  an 
unparalleled  freedom  for  every  citizen, 
and  now  faces  the  great  task  which 
arises  out  of  that.  That  task  is,  how  to 
combine  efficiency  of  government  with 
the  inextinguishable  freedom  of  the  in- 
dividual. So  with  us,  how  shall  we  com- 
bine denominational  efficiency  with  Con- 
gregational and  personal  freedom?  And 
let  me  now  be  so  bold,  nay,  so  audacious, 
as  to  say  here,  that  no  people,  no  organ- 
ization, can  grapple  with  that  problem 
as  the  leaders  and  members  of  this  So* 


THE  MINISTERIAL  SUPPLY 


35i 


ciety  can.  You  have  the  immense  ad- 
vantage of  presiding  over  the  central 
home  work  of  our  churches,  the  basis 
on  which  everything  must  rest.  If  you 
fail,  the  heart,  the  confidence  goes  out 
of  our  churches.  Our  foreign  work  will 
languish,  our  educational  institutions 
will  be  driven  into  other  hands  for  sus- 
tenance, and  for  contact  with  real  his- 
tory. And  you  can  do  this  thing!  The 
Congregational  Home  Missionary  So- 
ciety and  institution  as  no  other  is  or 
ciety  an  dinstitution  as  no  other  is  or 
can  be.  You  have  organic  relations 
more  close  than  even  the  National 
Council  with  the  active,  the  living  work 
of  our  state  and  local  associations  and 
conferences,  with  our  ministers,  with  our 
colleges,  seminaries,  aye,  and  with  the 
hearts  of  the  praying  people  of  God.  We 
need  a  regeneration  of  our  methods  nf 
co-operation,  and  this  Society  can  give 
it  to  us.  It  will  need  statesmanship,  it 
will  need  that  this  Board  of  Directors 
and  their  secretaries  from  all  over  the 
country  become  individually  and  col- 
lectively clear,  by  private  study  and 
mutual  conference,  by  organization  and 
loyal  co-operation,  both  about  the  end 
and  the  means.  Then  it  can  be  done, 
and  the  Congregational  Home  Mission- 
ary Society  will  bring  efficiency  into  oui 
freedom  and  a  new  history  to  our 
principles  and  ideals. 

There  are  three  great  departments  in- 
to which  your  work  for  efficiency  will 
naturally  divide  .  itself.  We  must  have 
efficiency  in  our  ministry.  And  the  three 
must  be  pursued  together.  We  cannot 
possibly  succeed  in  any  one  of  them 
alone.  Moreover,  if  we  did  so  succeed 
for  a  while,  it  would  be  in  vain.  For  the 
steady  growth  of  the  denomination  over 
the  whole  vast  country  depends  on  all 
three  and  not  any  one  of  these  depart- 
ments. 

I  can  only  speak  of  the  third.  How 
can  the  Society  promote  the  increase  of 
the  ministry  of  our  churches  both  in 
numbers  and  in  quality?  And  the  first 
two  answers  will  take  us  at  once  into 
problems  of  polity,  showing  that  I  was 
right  in  saying  that  this  Society  must 
deal    not    with    a    part,    but    with    many 


sides  of  our  denominational  life,  if  it  is 
to  do  its  great  work  of  evangelizing 
Americt.  First,  it  must  secure  some 
uniform  method  and  a  higher  standard 
for  fixing  ministerial  standing.  At  pres- 
ent this  matter  is  with  us  in  a  state  of 
chaos.  As  soon  as  we  can  get  new  state 
associations,  acting  through  their  local 
associations,  to  take  the  matter  up  seri- 
ously, we  shall  find  many  precious 
benefits  arising  therefrom.  It  will  af- 
fect the  responsibility  of  the  churches 
for  salary,  for  supplying  vacant  pulpits 
with  pastors,  and  vacant  pastors  with 
pulpits.  It  will  stimulate  the  movement 
for  ministerial  life,  which  ought  to  be 
called  the  Ministerial  Pension  Fund. 
When  all  these  things  have  been  effect- 
ed, the  ministerial  office  will  begin  to 
appear  in  its  own  proper  dignity  before 
the  churches.  Second,  we  ought  to  make 
wide  use  of  lay  preaching.  A  conversa- 
tion which  I  had  recently  with  a  Con- 
gregational lay  preacher,  member  of  a 
prominent  Massachusetts  church,  re- 
vealed to  me  the  desire  of  many  of  his 
kind  to  undertake  this  work.  It  would 
again  involve  a  consideration  of  prob- 
lems in  polity.  But  there  are  districts  in 
the  country  where  help  of  this  kind 
could  be  found.  Groups  of  churches 
could  be  formed  under  the  care  of 
ministers,  who  would  visit  them  in  turn 
as  preachers  and  pastors,  and  who  would 
arrange  for  their  regular  visitation  by 
lay  preachers.  There  are  male  teach- 
es in  public  schools,  in  academies,  in  col- 
leges, there  are  young  and  earnest  men 
in  all  our  towns  who  could  be  interested 
in  this  work.  And  from  their  ranks 
there  would  come  forth  many  who  have 
proved  themselves  fit  for  the  regular 
ministry  and  whose  hearts  are  aflame 
for  it.  I  know  this  is  not  a  popvdar 
proposal.  But  it  succeeds  admirably  in 
other  denominations,  and  among  our 
own  Congregational  brethren  in  Eng- 
land, who  are  not  noticeably  inferior  to 
us  in  intellect,  the  system  is  gaining 
ground. 

And  now  as  to  those  who  are  or 
should  be  in  the  regular  ministry.  I  do 
not  know  of  any  Home  Missionary  State 
Secretary   who   would    not    rather   get    a 


!52 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


trained    man    than    an    untrained    one,    if 
the  former  comes  within  his  reach.     But 
as  we  have  seen  he  is  compelled  to  take 
many    whose    training    has    been    most 
meagre,  and  some  who  have  never  been 
beyond   an   academy    or    a    high    school. 
What  are  we  to  do  with  them?     Evident- 
ly we  must  give  them  as  good  a  training 
as  we  can.     And  wherever  possible  this 
training   should    be    superintended    by    a 
committee   of  the   state   association,   co- 
operating with  the  state  secretary  (polity 
again!)       It    should     lead     first    to     the 
obtaining  of  a   license  and   later  to   full 
ordination.       There     are     two     methods 
which   can  be   employed,  viz.,  the   hold- 
ing of  summer  schools  or  institutes  and 
the  conducting  of  a  curriculum  in  general 
and     theological     education     by     corres- 
pondence.    The   Institute  should  not  be 
regarded  as   a  place   of  intellectual   and 
social  recreation  and  amusement,  but  an 
occasion    for    actual    study.      From    my 
own  experience  in  work  of  this  kind,  I 
can  bear  testimony  to  its  real  educational 
and    inspirational    value.      For    the    cor- 
respondence work,  in  order  to  save   ex- 
pense and  create  uniformity  of  standards 
and    of    efficiency,    there    ought    to    be 
either    one    central    bureau,    or    a    few 
centers  in  different  parts  of  the  country. 
But  for  the  doing  of  all  this  work  I  be- 
lieve profoundly  that  this  Society  can  do 
no  wiser  thing  than  to  create  at  once  a 
Board   of    Education.      Of  course   if   the 
National     Council     were     to     appoint     a 
Board  at  its  next  meeting,  this  Society 
would  then  need  to  have  a  Committee  on 
education    to   keep    itself   in   touch    with 
that  Board.     But  this  Society  can  begin 
these   operations   at   once,   and   speaking 
as  an  educator,  I  wish  fervently  that  you 
would  undertake  them  in  such  a  way  as 
to  prepare  for  and  hasten  the  more  com- 
plete denominational  organization,  which 
we    all    hope    is    drawing    nearer    every 
year. 

All  the  educational  work  which  I  have 
described  is,  we  all  feel,  less  than  the 
ideal.  It  is,  we  all  hope,  of  a  temporary 
character  and  should  give  place  in  other 
generations  to  a  more  uniformly  edu- 
cated ministry.  Only  a  few  of  the  men 
trained  by  Institutes  and  correspondence 


bureaus  could  hope  to  occupy  any  place 
of   prominence    in    the    regular    ministry. 
It  would  therefore  be  the  duty  and  the 
joy  of  every  wise  state  secretary  to  pick 
out  from  time  to  time  those  young  men 
who,  as   lay  preachers,  or  as  licentiates, 
or    as    ordained    pastors,    give    unusual 
promise  and  send  them  on  to  the  semi- 
naries.     He   would   do   this   even  at   the 
cost    of    increasing    his    own    immediate 
difficulties,  with  his  eye  upon  the  future 
results.     If  such  a  policy  were  pursued 
in    all    the    states    the    results    would    be 
very  great  indeed,  in  the   future  history 
of  our  denomination.     There  are  among 
us     two     classes     of     seminaries,     those 
which   demand   a   college   degree,   or   its 
equivalent     in     private     education,     for 
entrance     upon     their     curriculum,     and 
those  which  do  not  make  such  a  demand. 
Each    kind    of    seminary    is    absolutely 
necessary  in  the  present  condition  of  the 
country   and   of   the    churches.      Each   is 
doing  grand   and   most   honorable   work 
according  to  its  wisdom,  in  zeal  and  true 
devotion    of    spirit.      It    matters    not    at 
present     how     this     differentiation     has 
arisen.     It  is  here  and  in  view  of  all  its 
results  we  must  thank  God  for  it.     The 
work   of  the   educational    department   of 
the   Society,  through  its  secretaries  and 
their  various  state  committees  must  con- 
sist in  part  of  advising  young  men  who 
are  found  full   of  promise  to  go  to  one 
or  another  of  these  classes  of  seminaries. 
Men  who  are  twenty-three  years  of  age 
or  more  ought,  as  a  rule,  to  be  advised  to 
go  to   one    of   the   seminaries   which    do 
not     demand     college     standing.       Men 
younger  than  that  should,  as  a  rule,  be 
advised    to    take    a    college    course.      If 
they  are   taken    from   business   or  other 
work  where   they  have  earned   a  salary, 
or  from  the  pastorate,  they  ought  to  re- 
ceive aid  throughout  their  course.     That 
is    only    fair   and    honorable.      It    is    the 
solemn  and  holy  duty  of  the  denomina- 
tion which   calls   them   to  its   service   in 
the   name   of  Christ,   to  make   that   pro- 
vision for  them.     And  here  this  Society 
ought    to    make    living   and    co-operative 
connection    with    its    sister    society,    the 
Congregational       Educational      Society. 
All    through    their    college    course    these 


LAY  CO-OPERATION 


353 


young  men  should  be  supervised, 
especially  as  to  their  interest  in  Chris- 
tian work,  whether  paid  or  unpaid.  And 
their  summers  should  be  employed  in 
mission  work.  In  this  and  other  col- 
lateral ways  the  Congregational  Home 
Missionary  Society  can  set  itself  to 
work  to  solve  its  own  problem.  The 
other  institutions  which  are  concerned, 
the  Education  Society,  the  denomina- 
tional colleges,  the  denominational  semi- 
naries, are  ready  to  co-operate  with  it, 
and  will  be  found  most  powerful,  if  their 
aid  is  directly,  and  earnestly,  and  sys- 
tematically sought  and  used.  But  at 
present  they  are  separated  from  one 
another,  helpless  in  co-operation,  wait- 
ing for  the  hand  of  power  that  shall 
bring  them  into  the  consciousness  of 
one  life  and  one  task.  That  hand  is 
here.  This  Society,  let  me  repeat,  can 
brnig  them  together,  and  in  so  doing  can 
help  to  fill  the  mission  fields  with  the 
true,  trained  and  strong  men  which  it 
needs  to  make  its  weak  churches  strong 
and  its  barren  fields  fruitful. 

I   know  some  will   say  that  this   does 


not  afford  any  prospect  of  immediate  re- 
lief. And  I  answer  that  no  sudden  cure 
is  available  for  the  diseased  conditions 
with  which  we  are  dealing.  You  cannot 
raise  the  salaries  before  you  have  strong- 
er churches,  you  cannot  have  stronger 
churches  until  you  have  a  more  secure 
status  for  their  pastors,  and  you  cannot 
have  a  secure  status  for  an  uneducated 
ministry  any  more  than  you  can  for  an 
unspiritual  ministry.  These  three  things 
all  hang  together, — living  salaries  and 
secure  standing  and   efficient  training. 

The  whole  denomination  is  looking 
just  now  for  guidance  and  inspiration, 
and  I  as  a  loyal  and  devoted  Congrega- 
tionalism am  among  the  eager  watchers 
of  the  sky  for  signs  of  hope.  I  have 
fixed  my  hope  here  in  the  new-born 
policy  of  this  new-born  Society.  Here 
we  have  men  who  can  do  things  rather 
than  talk  them,  men  who  live  for  the 
evangelizing  of  this  great  nation,  men 
who  will,  I  am  persuaded,  interpret  their 
task  in  the  largest  way  and  undertake  it 
with  invincible  wisdom  and  courage  and 
faith. 


Problem  of  Lay  Co-operation 

By  James  G.  Cannon,  New  York, 

Of  the  Board  of  Directors    and  Executive  Committee 


IN  DISCUSSING  the  topic  which  is 
before  us  this  evening,  viz:  "The 
Securing  of  the  Co-operation  of  the 
Men  of  the  Churches,"  I  propose  to 
present  it  to  you  in  two  phases,  First: 
How  to  Secure  the  Co-operation  of  the 
Men  in  the  Work  of  the  Congregational 
Home  Missionary  Society,  and,  Second: 
How  to  Secure  their  Co-operation  in  the 
Work  of  our  Churches. 

In  speaking  on  this  subject,  I  wish  it 
to  be  distinctly  understood  that  I  am 
not  approaching  it  in  any  but  the  most 
kindly  spirit,  and  any  criticism  I  may 
make  of  the  present  methods  of  carrying 
on  the  work  of  the  Society,  of  ministers 
or  laymen,  in  connection  with  our 
churches,  is  not  made  in  a  spirit  of  fault- 
finding, but  comes  only  from  a  desire  on 
my  part  to   put   before   this    representa- 


tive gathering  of  Directors,  Superinten- 
dents and  Secretaries  of  the  Home  Mis- 
sionary Society,  the  facts  as  I  see  them. 
I  have  been  a  member  of  the  Congre- 
gational Church  for  several  years,  but 
until  I  was  invited  to  become  a  member 
of  the  Executive  Committee  of  this  So- 
ciety, its  claims  had  never  been  presen- 
ted to  me  as  an  individual  in  connection 
with  its  work.  I  had  listened  to  address- 
es from  the  pulpit  on  Home  Missionary 
topics,  but  the  fact  that  the  Society  was 
a  real,  vital  force  and  organization  in 
this  country,  and  one  that  needed  my 
support,  had  never  been  presented  to  me, 
and  there  is  no  doubt  in  my  mind  that 
the  same  is  true  of  many  of  the  laymen 
of  the  Congregational  Church,  and  they, 
therefore,  do  not  feel  keenly  their  re- 
sponsibility for  the  support  and  promo- 


JAMES    G.    CANNON 


tion  of  the  Home  Missionary  work. 

Evidences  of  this  fact  are  abundant 
and  present  the  most  serious  difficulties 
to  the  future  development  of  this  So- 
ciety's work. 

I  am  aware  that  a  re-organization  was 
attempted  last  year  in  connection  with  the 
Society,  and  a  great  deal  has  been  said 
and  written  about  its  condition,  but  I 
believe  that  if  a  more  determined  and 
careful  effort  had  been  made  among  the 
laymen  of  the  Congregational  Churches 
to  secure  a  living  constituency  for  the 
support  of  the  Society,  and  if  its  affairs 
had  been  adjusted  to  up-to-date  methods 
of  raising  funds,  it  would  have  been  very 
much  more  successful  in  its  ministrations 


to  the  needs  of  Congregationalism  in 
this  country.  The  trouble  is  that  we 
have  received  only  temporary  relief 
from  the  ills  to  which  the  Society  is  sub- 
jected by  hysterical,  periodical  pressure 
being  brought  to  bear  on  the  churches; 
but  an  abiding  working  basis  will  never 
be  realized,  until  some  plan  has  been 
discovered  that  will  fix  this  phase  of 
church  work  as  a  living  responsibility 
upon  the  most  efficient  laymen  of  our 
organization.  Tt  is  no  slight  change,  but 
a  radical  reform  that  is  necessary  to  re- 
deem this  Society  from  the  "Annual  Col- 
lection" and  the  "Missionary  Barrel." 

In  contrast  to  the  unquestioned  lack  of 
participation    of    the    men    most   vital    to 


LAY  CO-OPERATION 


355 


this  effort,  is  the  equally  unquestioned 
fact  that  if  properly  organized  and  pre- 
sented, no  form  of  Christian  activity 
would  be  more  heartily  supported  than 
this.  The  Congregational  Home  Mis- 
sionary .Society  has  an  appeal  that  is  ir- 
resistible to  the  mind  of  the  conscien- 
tious Christian  layman,  and  will  chal- 
lenge the  active  participation  of  the  best 
men  in  the  United  States,  if  the  affairs 
of  the  Society  are  placed  before  them  in 
a  comprehensive  business  way,  and  the 
real  facts  made  known  to  them.  There 
has  been,  as  I  said  a  moment  ago,  an  at- 
tempt to  reorganize  this  Society,  but  in- 
stead of  a  thorough-going,  business-like 
assembling  of  the  facts  regarding  the 
work  to  be  done  and  putting  in  print  a 
statement  of  the  needs  by  states,  counties 
and  cities,  and  a  program  of  what  would 
be  required  to  encompass  the  situation 
for  ten  years  in  advance,  there  has  been 
a  frantic  cry  of  an  annual  deficit  and  to 
pay  the  debt,  combined  with  a  generally 
destructive  criticism  of  the  entire  work 
of  the  Society,  so  much  so  that  in  some 
sections  of  the  country,  this  criticism  has 
undoubtedly  resulted  in  creating  unrest 
and  a  feeling  of  distrust  on  the  part  of 
the  constituency  of  the  Society.  These 
tendencies  are  decidedly  detrimental  to 
the  best  results.  I  feel,  however,  from  a 
careful  study  of  the  work  of  the  Society, 
revealed  by  investigations  I  have  made, 
that  much  of  this  criticism  is  unwar- 
ranted, and  it  is  time  a  halt  was  called 
on  this  indiscriminate  comment,  and  that 
a  statesmanlike  position  was  assumed  by 
the  Society.  We  want  a  definite  end  in 
view,  and  I  think  that  the  Congregational 
laymen  of  this  country  should  be  brought 
more  into  its  councils  and  in  direct  re- 
lation with  its  work. 

In  the  past,  dependence  has  been 
placed  almost  exclusively  on  the  annual 
church  collections,  for  the  support  of 
Home  Missionary  work.  This  method 
of  collecting  money  is  inadequate  and 
out  of  date.  It  does  not  reach  the 
wealthy  men  of  our  congregations.  The 
methods  that  are  now  pursued  in  pre- 
senting the  work  to  the  churches  should 
be  entirely  revamped,  and  an  individual 
constituency  appealed  to  directly  by  the 


Society. 

A  proper  financial  secretary,  competent 
to  deal  with  this  class  of  people,  should 
immediately  be  put  into  the  field,  and  a 
layman  who  is  thoroughly  familiar  with 
the  modern  methods  of  handling  this, 
sort  of  solicitation  should  be  called  to 
the  nvork.  The  Society  should  then 
single  out  and  cultivate  men  of  wealth 
in  the  denomination,  and  appeal  directly 
to  them  for  liberal  gifts.  Those  of  us 
who  are  familiar  with  financial  affairs  in 
our  churches,  know  that  if  any  specially 
large  collection  is  desired,  to  insure  its 
success,  a  plan  of  operation  must  be 
marked  out,  and  no  matter  what  the  ap- 
peal from  the  pulpit  may  be,  the  collec- 
tion must  be  underwritten  by  the  men 
of  the  congregation  before  it  is  taken  up. 
Church  collections  and  appeals  have  be- 
come a  by-word  among  thorough-going 
business  men  of  to-day,  and  they  require 
more  than  the  so-called  Home  Mission- 
ary address  to  reach  them  for  a  gift  that 
amounts  to  anything.  These  modern 
methods  for  the  raising  of  money  must 
be  adopted  by  this  Society,  if  it  is  going 
to  live  and  continue  to  do  its  work. 

This  is  an  age  of  progression  and 
business  men  are  attracted  by  things  that 
are  succeeding.  Therefore,  you  must 
give  them  information  and  facts  con- 
stantly about  what  is  being  done.  One 
appeal  a  year  from  the  pulpit  does  not 
reach  them.  Theories  and  air  castles  do 
not  attract  them,  and  the  day  has  gone 
by  when  you  can  expect  to  secure  neces- 
sary funds  for  this  work  by  spread- 
eagle  talks  from  the  pulpits  of  our  Con- 
gregational Churches.  Men  want  facts, 
and  they  want  them  put  before  them  con- 
stantly of  what  the  Society  is  doing,  not 
always  with  a  plea  for  money,  but  with 
the  thought  that  the  .receiver  has  at 
heart  the  great  religious  needs  of  this 
country. 

The  laymen  in  every  church  should  be 
given  something  to  do  in  connection 
with  the  carrying  out  of  the  plans  for 
this  work,  and  I  believe  that  this  So- 
ciety can  be  made  a  great  power,  if  our 
Congregational  Churches  would  appeal 
to  their  laymen  along  right  lines  and  we 
had  the  right  to  establish  in  each  a  Com- 


356 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


mittee  on  Home  Missionary  work.  One 
of  the  great  troubles  in  the  past  in  con- 
nection with  this  work,  has  been  that 
you  have  allowed  the  approach  for 
money  to  be  the  one  avenue  of  com- 
munication between  the  Society  and  the 
churches.  Bear  in  mind  that  the  con- 
scientious Christian  layman  always  likes 
to  do  something  for  any  given  object  in 
addition  to  paying  the  bills.  It  is  also 
imperative  that  the  young  men  of  our 
denomination,  laymen,  and  I  should  say 
pastors,  too,  should  be  more  systemat- 
ically and  vigorously  cultivated.  From 
my  investigation  of  the  work  of  the  So- 
ciety, we  do  not  utilize  them  to  any  great 
extent,  and  while  the  elderly  men  of  our 
denomination  are  doing  splendid  work, 
a  plan  ought  to  be  inaugurated  at  once, 
for  the  enlistment,  in  behalf  of  Home 
Missions,  of  the  vigorous  young  business 
men  and  the  young  aggressive  pastors 
of  our  churches.  The  methods  of  this 
Society  should  be  changed  so  that  young 
men  who  have  ability  and  wish  to  do 
great  things  for  the  Master,  would  find 
its  service  inviting.  It  is  clear  to  my 
mind  that  as  it  is  organized  at  present, 
its  service  is  not  inviting,  and  in  its  ex- 
isting condition  I  should  think  twice  be- 
fore advising  any  young  man,  whose  am- 
bition it  was  to  enter  upon  Christian 
service  in  a  large  and  effective  way,  to 
accept  appointment  in  any  of  our  Home 
Missionary  Societies. 

I  note  in  Article  V,  Section  4,  of  the 
new  Constitution,  which  was  adopted  at 
Oak  Park,  on  May  9th,  the  fact  that 
"'the  membership  of  the  Board  of  Direc- 
tors and  of  the  Executive  Committee 
shall  be  divided  as  equally  as  practicable 
among  ministers  and  laymen."  I  note 
that  out  of  a  membership  of  twenty-one, 
there  are  only  six  laymen  on  the  Board. 
After  an  observation  of  twenty-five  years 
in  active  Christian  work,  and  a  careful 
study  of  this  situation,  I  believe  that  the 
Governing  Board  of  the  Home  Mission- 
ary Society,  if  you  expect  to  attract  the 
laymen  of  the  United  States  to  its  stand- 
ards, should  be  composed  at  least  of  a 
good  working  majority  of  business  men. 
The  minister,  by  his  very  habits  of  life, 
and  the  demands  of  his  profession,  can- 


not be  expected  to  be  an  expert  in  the 
business  world,  and  I  believe  the  entire 
affairs  of  the  Society  would  be  more 
vigorously  carried  forward  if  they  were 
more  largely  in  the  hands  of  laymen. 

If  the  names  of  the  prominent  laymen 
of  the  denomination,  men  who  have 
achieved  great  things  in  commerce  and 
politics,  could  be  associated  with  this 
Society  as  its  leaders,  I  believe  it  would 
command  the  confidence  of  the  entire 
I.  nited  States  to  such  an  extent  that  the 
needs  of  the  Society  would  be  fully  real- 
ized. 

To  turn  now  somewhat  from  this  sub- 
ject, I  desire  to  call  your  attention  to 
another  part  of  our  work  which  I  think 
has  been  steadily  neglected.  I  believe 
that  another  reason  why  this  Society  has 
not  been  successful  in  appealing  to  lay- 
men, is  the  fact  that  they  believe  that 
many  of  the  churches  which  the  Society 
is  now  attempting  to  support,  should  be 
put  on  a  thoroughly  self-supporting 
basis.  The  number  of  Home  Mission- 
aries receiving  aid  from  the  National  So- 
ciety alone  (not  including  those  receiv- 
ing aid  from  the  State  Societies)  last 
year  was  about  625,  of  which  250  have 
been  receiving  aid  from  three  to  five 
years;  125  for  from  five  to  ten  years; 
and  250  for  more  than  ten  years.  I  be- 
lieve that  here  is  a  condition  which 
should  be  immediately  remedied.  There 
is  a  great  danger  of  pauperizing  the 
Churches  when  a  fixed  sum  is  .handed 
out  to  them  each  year,  and  my  knowl- 
edge leads  me  to  the  conviction  that  in 
altogether  too  many  cases,  the  aim  of 
these  Churches  is  not  to  become  self- 
supporting,  but  to  so  conduct  their  affairs 
that  they  will  be  sure  to  receive  gratuity 
from  the  Home  Missionary  Society  year 
in  and  year  out.  I  should  like  to  see 
placed  before  the  Board  of  Directors  of 
this  body,  a  carefully  prepared  list  of  the 
Congregational  Churches  that  have  been 
receiving  our  support  constantly  for 
ever  ten  years,  and  note  whether  they 
are  located  in  sparsely  settled  districts, 
or  if  some  are  not  located  where  Christ- 
ian work  should  become  quickely  self- 
supporting.  I  believe  that  too  large  a 
number  of  them  hang  on  to  our  support 


LAY  CO-OPERATION 


357 


from  year  to  year  and  will  continue  to 
do  so  just  as  long  as  they  can  secure  it. 
My  idea  is  that  this  Society  should 
procure  at  once,  one  or  two  bright, 
active,  young  men,  as  business  secre- 
taries, who  should  visit  each  individual 
church,  make  a  study  of  its  condition 
and  of  its  field,  encourage  its  Pastor 
and  people  to  become  self-supporting, 
and  at  the  same  time  place  in  their 
hands,  the  most  up-to-date  methods  of 
raising  money  in  Church  work.  This 
would  put  the  work  of  this  Society,  from 
a  business  point  of  view,  before  each  one 
of  these  Churches,  and  endeavor  to 
bring  them  to  self-support  during  the 
coming  year.  I  believe  that  a  large 
number  of  l^men  in  this  country  are  in 
line  to  become  interested  in  this  work 
as  soon  as  some  such  method  as  this  is 
pursued,  and  they  are  given  to  under- 
stand that  we  propose  to  have  business 
secretaries  who  are  arranging  their 
fields  with  reference  to  promoting  self- 
support  on  the  part  of  each  Church. 
These  wovild  constitute  an  agency  of  su- 
pervision which  is  much  needed  in  the 
carrying  forward  of  our  work. 

With  these  business  secretaries  con- 
stantly in  touch,  by  letter  or  by  visit, 
with  the  Churches,  I  am  sure  it  would 
bring  about  a  better  state  of  things,  as 
far  as  the  salaries  of  the  ministers  of 
these  Churches  are  concerned,  and  also 
their  special  needs  could  be  brought  to 
the  attention  of  laymen  throughout  the 
country  in  connection  with  our 
Churches,  and  certain  special  Churches 
could  be  assigned  to  some  large  and 
prosperous  Church  to  assist,  until  they 
become  self-supporting. 

I  am  thoroughly  convinced  that  we 
will  not  reach  the  heart  of  this  whole 
matter  until  we  come  in  closer  sympa- 
thy with  each  one  of  these  Churches 
that  we  are  supporting  and  release  many 
of  them  from  the  pauperizing  system 
which  is  now  in  force. 

I  believe  that  in  connnection  with 
these  secretaries,  a  vitalizing  work  could 
be  done  for  the  Home  Missionary  cause. 
1  think  you  will  agree  with  me  that  very 
often  the  Home  Missionary  preachers, 
who  are  found  at  work  in  the  more  re- 


mote points,  are  lacking  in  that  rugged 
manhood  that  appeals  to  men,  and  very 
often,  too,  they  are  lacking  in  resource- 
fulness. I  heard  of  a  bright  young  min- 
ister, a  college  graduate,  fine,  attractive 
fellow,  who  said  that  he  had  quite  a 
number  of  men  in  his  Church,  but  he 
really  did  not  know  what  he  could  give 
them  to  do.  If  these  business  secre- 
taries took  up  each  individual  case,  and 
as  laymen  pointed  out  to  the  Home  Mis- 
sionary some  of  the  modern  methods 
that  are  being  utilized  to  attract  and  use 
men,  and  in  Church  organization,  I  be- 
lieve they  would  be  extremely  helpful  to 
these  men  who  are  anxious  to  do  things, 
but  do  not  know  how. 

These  business  secretaries  could  co- 
operate with  the  Church  Building  So- 
ciety and  other  Congregational  So- 
cieties, and  would  be  a  very  great  help 
in  assisting  Churches  to  raise  money 
with  which  to  pay  for  their  buildings 
and  to  pay  off  debts,  and  I  have  no- 
doubt  these  Societies  would  be  willing 
to  pay  part  of  the  travelling  expenses  of 
such  men.  I  can  see  many  ways  in  which 
these  laymen  secretaries  could  be  help- 
ful, but  I  have  not  the  time  now  to 
discuss  them.  I  could  enumerate,  also, 
many  other  things  which  I  believe  could 
be  done  in  this  Society  to  attract  laymen 
to  its  work,  and  I  would  urge  upon  the 
Board  of  Directors,  very  earnestly,  some 
of  the  things  which  I  have  suggested. 

Turning  now  to  the  second  part,  the 
question  of  "Securing  the  Co-operation 
of  the  Men  of  the  Churches,"  I  would 
place  first  and  foremost,  the  idea  of  a 
better  business  organization  and  manage- 
ment of  the  Churches.  Having  been  an 
officers  in  two  of  the  largest  Churches  in 
New  York  City,  for  a  period  of  over 
twenty-five  years,  and  a  close  observer  of 
the  methods  employed  generally  by 
Churches  throughout  the  country,  I  would 
say  that  as  a  rule  the  business  manage- 
ment of  our  Churches  is  sadly  deficient. 
One  of  the  things  that  repels  many  ac- 
tive business  men  from  taking  a  part  in 
the  work  of  the  Church,  is  the  disregard 
of  all  business  principles  in  the  conduct 
of  its  finances,  and  what  might  be  called 
its  business  operations.     Many  Churches- 


W.  Winans  Freeman, 
Of  the  Executive  Committee 


Rev.  S.  I.  Hanford, 
Nebraska  Secretary 


SOME  NEW  HOME  MISSIONARY  OFFICIALS 


Rev.  J.  W.  Sutherland, 
Michigan  Secretary 


Rev.  Roy  B.  Guild, 
Illinois  Secretary 


LAY  CO-OPERATION 


359 


are  run  in  the  most  hap-hazard,  un- 
businesslike way  possible,  and  they  seem 
to  think  that  the  Lord's  work  can  be 
conducted  along  lines  that  in  any  other 
business  would  not  be  tolerated  for  a 
moment.  Our  Churches,  each  year, 
should  place  before  their  business  men 
a  definite  budget  of  receipts  and  expend- 
itures, and  this  budget  should  be  raised 
along  business  lines,  so  that  the  work 
of  the  Church  will  commend  itself  to  the 
best  men  in  the  community  in  which  it 
is   located. 

You  cannot  secure  large  results  in 
Church  work  without  adequate  expendi- 
true  of  m6ney,  and  business  methods  of 
bookkeeping  and  accounting,  should  be 
used  in  handling  the  large  sums  of 
money  which  come  into  the  hands  of 
the   Churches. 

The  Churches  must  more  and  more 
put  the  responsibility  for  their  manage- 
ment upon  the  laymen,  and  when  this 
is  done,  they  will  rise  to  the  occasion. 
In  many  of  our  Churches  the  manage- 
ment of  the  Religious  Work  and  the 
iinances  is  left  largely  with  the  Pastor, 
who  in  very  few  instances  has  had  any 
training  along  business  lines,  and  he  is 
expected  in  many  cases  to  raise  money, 
conduct  the  services  of  the  Church,  and, 
in  fact,  take  the  management  of  all  its 
affairs  into  his  own  hands.  The  weak- 
ness to-day  in  the  Church  organization 
is  the  fact  that  our  General  Assemblies, 
Synods,  Conferences  and  Councils,  are 
conducted  by  the  Pastors  of  our 
Churches,  and  while  I  am  not  for  one 
moment  disparaging  the  work  of  these 
noble  men,  to  my  mind  this  condition 
should  be  remedied,  and  the  Pastors" 
should  put  to  the  front,  more  and  more, 
the  sagacious,  far-sighted,  business  man. 
The  minister  is  very  often  "the  Church" 
and  burdens  are  placed  upon  him  which 
have  no  business  to  be  placed  there,  and 
•which  should  be  assumed  by  the  lay- 
men, and  I  believe  that  if  more  of  an 
effort  was  made  by  our  ministers  to  roll 
off  these  burdens  on  the  laymen,  they 
would  be  assumed  and  carried.  I  am  a 
firm  believer  in  organization  for  Com- 
mittee service,  of  the  lavmen  in  our 
Churches.      In   too  many   Churches,   the 


Pastor  is  doing  practically  all  the  work, 
and  even  in  Churches  where  some  com- 
mittee work  is  organized,  the  Pastor  as- 
sumes more  of  the  leadership  than  it  is 
wise  for  him  to  do. 

I  am  aware  that  the  Church  is  a  volun- 
tary organization,  and  it  is  difficult  for 
Pastors  to  rise  to  the  occasion  and  place 
the  responsibility  on  laymen,  but  if  they 
would  do  more  of  it  through  Committee 
service,  their  Churches  would  attain 
greater  success 

There  are  53,000  laymen  members  of 
the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association 
in  the  United  States  alone,  who  are  mem- 
bers of  various  Committees,  and  this 
largely  accounts  for  the  success  of  the 
Association.  The  persistent  search  for 
laymen  who  know  how  to  do  things,  and 
harnessing  them  up  to  the  movement,  is 
responsible,  in  a  large  degree,  for  the 
Association's  continued  growth  and  pros- 
perity. 

It  is  not  sufficient  that  our  Churches 
should  have  boards  of  thrustees,  elders 
and  deacons,  but  there  should  be  plans 
whereby  an  opporunity  could  be  given 
to  the  laymen  to  initiate  some  part  of 
the    Church    work. 

Our  Churches  are  not  using  their  lay- 
men in  a  way  that  will  bring  out  the 
best  that  is  in  them.  They  are  all  ex- 
pected to  conform  to  one  rule  of  doing 
Church  work,  according  to  the  denomin- 
ation of  which  they  are  a  member.  Cive 
the  laymen  in  your  Church  more  of  an 
opportunity  to  handle  enterprises  along 
the  line  of  their  own  thought,  and  they 
will  surely  rise  to  the  occasion. 

Let  our  Churches  and  leaders  main- 
tain more  of  an  open  mindedness  toward 
criticism,  and  be  instantly  on  the  alert 
for  discovering  weak  spots  in  their 
work.  This  attitude  will  keep  the 
Churches  from  "dry  rot."  There  has 
been  too  much  of  the  infallible  attitude 
and  lack  of  open  mindedness  toward 
criticism  of  our  Church  methods. 
Church  bigotry  is  too  often  mistaken  for 
Church  loyalty.  I  do  not  say  this  to 
the  disparagement  of  our  Churches, 
but  I  believe  it  to  be  a  plain  statement 
of    a    real    fact.      Our    Churches    should 


s6o 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


realize  that  definite  results  are  essential 
to  success,  and  should  be  glad  to  receive 
suggestions  and  criticisms  from  laymen, 
that  these  results  may  be  obtained.  Too 
many  Churches  assume  that  because 
they  are  Christian  organizations  their 
existence  is  justified,  even  though  no 
growth  or  definite  results  can  be  shown. 
The  Church  should  study  the  power  of 
adaptation  and  the  work  in  which  the 
laymen  are  engaged.  They  should  be 
more  flexible  in  their  methods.  Many 
Churches  are  pursuing  the  same  methods 
that  they  did  fifty  or  one  hundred  years 
ago.  What  the  Church  needs  to-day  is 
a  better  Church  organization,  and  what 
we  need  is  a  better  Congregational 
Home  Missionary  organization.  I  mean 
not  so  much  in  Church  government  as 
in  organization  for  the  real  spiritual 
work  of  the  Church.  In  inviting  men  to 
enter  its  fellowship,  in  providing  for  the 
best  social  interests  of  the  men,  and  in 


enlisting  men  for  actual  service,  to- 
gether with  organization  for  aggressive 
evangelistic  work.  Pastors  and  Church 
workers  should  be  more  anxious  to  get 
men  into  the  Christian  life  than  into  any 
particular      Church      or      denomination. 

No  greater  need  exists  among  churches 
to-day  than  that  Christian  work  should 
rise  above  denominational  lines,  and  that 
we  should  all  get  shoulder  to  shoulder 
for  the  extension  of  the  Kingdom  of 
Jesus  Christ,  regardless  of  who  gets  the 
glory,  only  that  the  Kingdom  may  come. 
Jesus  Christ's  great  business  in  life  was 
not  inventing  creeds  (though  they  may 
have  come  out  of  it)  the  discovery  of 
new  laws  of  the  universe,  or  remodelling 
this  world  we  live  in,  but  in  teaching 
men  how  to  live  a  God-like  life. 

When  we  all  stand  shoulder  to 
shoulder  in  the  great  business  He  was 
engaged  in,  other  things  will  take  a 
lower   plane    in    the    Church   and   in   our 


A   GROUP    OF  SUPERINTENDENTS 


1 emptations  of  Secretaries  and  Superintendents 


TBe  Temptation  to  neglect 
Intellectual  Culture 

By  Rev.  Charles  H.  Small,  Ohio 

IT  WOULD  have  been  better,  no 
doubt,  if  some  older  secretarial  sin- 
ner had  had  this  subject.  I  am 
rather .  young  in  the  service,  but  I 
have  sinned  and  come  short  of  my  duty. 
Aly  inquiries  have  revealed  that  my  ex- 
perience is  the  common  experience,  and 
that  .we  are  all  of  us  sinners,  and  have 
left  undone  those  things  that  we  ought 
to  have  done.  But  it  is  not  thereby  ap- 
parent that  we  are  no  more  worthy  to  be 
called  secretaries.  One  brother  of  some 
years  standing,  while  regretting  his 
neglect,  finds  compensation  in  the  con- 
stant contact  with  all  sorts  of  people 
and  problems,  particularly  with  intel- 
lectual superiors,  which  is  a  greater  in- 
tellectual stimulus  than  much  reading, 
and  he  feels  that  markedly  scholastic 
habits  would  tend  to  put  one  out  of 
touch  with  his  constituency  in  sympathy 
and  in  amount  of  service  which  a  travel- 
ing missionary   representative    must   be- 


REV.    C.    H.    SMALL 


stow.  One  brother  says,  "If  I  had  begun 
this  service  at  thirty  years  of  age,  at 
sixty  I  should  be  as  dry  as  the  mummy 
of  Pharoah  without  any  of  his  attractive 
features."  You  would  scarce  take  him 
to  be  sixty,  but  he  certainly  has  no  re- 
semblance  to  a  mummy. 

If  the  proper  study  of  mankind  is  man, 
we  are  diligent  students,  but  books,  alas, 
we  see  them  not,  we  read  them  not. 
There  seem  to  be  several  reasons  com- 
mon to  us  all,  why  we  do  not  do  any 
great  amount  of  solid  reading,  such  as 
we  did  in  the  pastoral  office. 

ist.  We  do  not  have  to.  While  we 
preach  as  often  as  most  ministers  and 
make  as  many  addresses,  we  do  not 
have  to  prepare  new  sermons  and  new 
addresses  very  often.  We  have  no  need 
of  a  barrel,  a  little  keg  will  answer  our 
purpose  for  a  long  while. 

2nd.  We  are  constantly  traveling  and 
are  away  from  home  so  much  that  it 
destroys  the  habit  of  systematic  study 
and  reading.  I  find  that  while  on  the 
road  the  best  I  can  do,  generally,  is  the 
newspapers  and  periodicals,  and  now  and 
then  a  bit  of  a  book. 

3rd.  Pressure  of  correspondence  and 
practical  and  perplexing  problems  take 
time  and  strength.  When  I  get  home  at 
night,  after  a  day  in  the  office,  I  do  not 
find  myself  in  condition,  mentally  and 
physically,  to  read  and  enjoy  such  a  book 
as  Sabatier's  or  one  of  Fairbairn's. 

Our  work  gives  us  sometimes  interest- 
ing study.  All  of  us,  no  doubt,  have 
made  more  or  less  study  of  the  history 
of  our  own  state.  I  welcomed  the 
Slavic  work  because  it  led  me  to  study 
the  history  and  characteristics  of  this 
interesting  people. 

I  do  not  think  that  we  are  sinners 
above  all  who  are  in  the  ministry.  I 
wonder  if  your  observation  is  not  like 
mine,  that  there  are  comparatively  few 
ministers  who  pay  much  attention  to  in- 
tellectual development.  They  put  in  just 
enough,  mostly  from  homiletic  helps 
and  periodicals  to  grind  out  two  ser- 
mons, and  after  a  year  or  two,  ask  us  to 
help  them  roll  their  little  barrel  into  a 
better  pulpit. 

We  will  admit,  no  doubt,  that  we  do 
not  read  as  much  as  we  ought,  nor  as 
much  as  we  should  like  to  read,  but  will 
we  admit  that  we  do  not  read  as  much 
as  we  might?  I  believe  that  one  result 
of  this  conference  will  be  that  we  shall 
do  a  little  more  along  this  line. 


362 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


The  Neglect  of  Prayer 

By  Rev.  Horace  Sanderson,  Colorado 

DOUBTLESS  there  is  danger  in 
these  days  of  large  undertakings 
and  strenuous  exertion  of  neglect- 
ing the  very  important  matter  of 
prayer.  Affairs  of  vast  concern  are  en- 
trusted to  us,  and  we  are  apt  to  substi- 
tute for  divine  help,  human  effort.  No 
degree  of  toil  and  planning,  no  amount 
of  manuscript  and  printers'  ink  can  be 
substituted  for  the  fervent  appeal  to 
God,  for  assistance  in  the  time  of  need. 
We  do  not  pray  over  our  work  as  we 
shouid:  we  do  not  really  cry  unto  God 
for  help.  We  are  carrying  tremendous 
loads,  and  we  are  doing  it  alone  instead 
of  seeking  help  from  One  who  is  able 
to  bear  the  burden  for  us. 

The     need     of     prayer     in     our    work 
is     very    apparent.       One     cannot     read 
the    life    of    George    Muller    of    Bristol, 
without  being  convinced  that  he  was  a 
man  who  knew  the  value  of  prayer.     It 
was  his  habit  to  pray  and  read  his  Bible 
on   his   knees,    and   when   he    prayed   he 
expected    answers    to    his    prayers,    and 
he   was   not   disappointed.      Here   was    a 
man  that  wanted  money  for  the  Lord's 
work,  and  he  simply  asked  the  Lord  for 
it,  and  he  received  over  $7,000,000.     He 
was    an    unwearied    intercessor,    and    he 
asked,    and    he    received.     We    have   the 
same   promise   that  he  had,  and  yet  we 
fail  to  receive,  because  we  are  not  daily 
and    frequently    communing    with    God. 
Mr.  Muller  never  wearied  in  interceding, 
and    he    was    not    discouraged    by    any 
seeming  delay.     It  is  said  that  he  prayed 
for  over  sixty  years   for  the  conversion 
of  a  certain  man,  and  although  the  man 
was   not   converted   during  Mr.    Muller's 
life  time,  yet  Mr.  Muller  said,  "I  expect 
to  meet  that  man  in  heaven."     Knowing 
what  we  need,  God  still  commands  us  to 
ask,    for   this    is    His    way    of    giving. us 
what    He    desires    that    we    shall    have. 
"Ask    and   ye    SHALL    receive."      Matt 
7:7.     The  thing  for  us  to  do  is  to  ask, 
and  yet  I  believe   God   does  give  some- 
times when  we  have  not  asked  for  a  par- 
ticular thing,  because   He  sees  what  we 
need  to  have,  and  in  His  great  love,  He 
anticipates    our   need.      A    child    of   God 
may  pray  but   little,  and  when  he  does 
pray,   do   it   in   such   a   mechanical   man- 
ner   that    while    asking,    he    is    doubtful 
about  the  result.     To  such  an  one  God 
says,  "Ye  have  not  because  ye  ask  not." 
James  4:2.     It  is  so  important  to  pray, 
and  we  cannot  be  called  a  very  loyal  fol- 
lower of  our  Master,  if  we  neglect  this 
necessary  habit.     To  know  how  to  pray, 
and  to  get  answers  to  our  prayers  is  the 
great    thing.       We     should     be     definite 


in  our  asking,  and  pray  for  something, 
and  expect  the  answer.  Let  us  at  least 
in  our  family  and  private  devotions  call 
the  special  Church  by  name,  or  the 
brother  by  name,  and  expect  an  answer. 
Prayer  helps  us  in  our  daily  living,  and 
the  lack  of  prayer  may  dwarf  our  spirit- 
ual life.  Yielding  to  the  temptation  to 
neglect  prayer,  is  the  reason  we  doubt 
the  efficacy  of  prayer.  We  get  spiritual 
power  for  our  work  through  communion 
with  Him,  the  power  that  makes  the 
world  GO  and  succeed. 

Our  family  prayer  ought  not  to  take 
the  place  of  our  own  private  devotions, 
for  secret  prayer  is  absolutely  essential. 
We  cannot  carry  this  great  load  alone, 
it   is  too   serious,  and  too   difficult,   and 
we  must  roll  the  burden  off  upon  Him. 
How  restful  we  may  be  in  our  work  be- 
cause   we    have    tarried    with    Him   until 
we    have    His    mind    about    that   we    are 
called  upon  to  do!     There  can  be  noth- 
ing great  accomplished  in  our  work  ex- 
cept through  prayer.     The  kind  of  work 
we  do,  is  shown  by  the  kind  of  prayers 
we    offer.      I    am    quite   sure   we   do   not 
spend  time  enough  upon  our  knees.     Our 
power  and  success  come  from  Him,  and 
not    from    our    long    experience    in    the 
work.     Let  me   illustrate  what   I   mean, 
by  an  incident  in  our  work  in  Colorado. 
We  were  called  to  Collbran  to  dedicate 
a  new  church  building.     After  a  ride  of 
over  400  miles  on  the  train,  and  a  twenty- 
five-mile  stage  ride  in  the  snow  and  mud, 
we  arrived  at  our  destination  and  found 
that  little  preparation  had  been  made  for 
the  business  in  hand.    No  stove  had  been 
placed  in  the  church,  and  the  snow  was 
falling.     The  roads  were  almost  impass- 
able,   and    on    Sunday    morning    only    a 
small  audience  assembled.     A  temporary 
stove  failed  to  warm  the  building,  and  it 
was    a    question    whether   the    dedication 
ought  not  to  be  postponed.     We  needed 
$1,300  to  dedicate  free  of  debt,  and  from 
a     human     standpoint     there    were     not 
sixty    dollars     in    the    audience.      What 
could  we  do?     We  could  pray,  and  this 
we  did.     The  Lord   gave  us  over  $1,300 
that   day.   and  the  church  was   given   to 
Him.     It  was  a  direct  answer  to_  prayer, 
for  HE  did  it.     How  prayer  relieves  us 
of    all    worry,    and    divides    the    respon- 
sibility   with     God!       One     result    from 
prayer  is  the  consciousness  that  when  we 
pray  we   are   with    Him,   and   this   alone 
should  cause  us  to  lift  our  thoughts  to 
Him  very  frequently.     A  little  girl  often 
came    into    her    father's    study,    and    dis- 
turbed him  at  his  work,  and  this  in  the 
face  of  frequent  reproof.    Appearing  one 
morning  at  the  door  she  was  asked  with 
some  severity  what  she  desired.     Her  re- 
play  was:      "Nothing    only    to    be    with 


TEMPTATIONS  OF  SUPERINTENDENTS 


363 


REV.    HORACE    SANDERSON 

you."  I  think  it  is  blessed  to  come  to 
Him  sometimes  when  we  do  not  stand 
in  special  need,  but  just  want  Him.  God 
desires  that  prayer  shall  be  a  joy,  a  real 
outburst  of  the  heart,  and  true  love  must 
pray.  It  is  the  life  that  we  live  every 
day  that  prays.  Feeble  praying  springs 
from  a  feeble  spiritual  life  that  has  but 
little  vital  power.  Lack  of  prayer  is  the 
chief  cause  of  the  lack  of  blessing,  and 
often  our  prayers  are  narrow,  and 
simply  for  ourselves,  rarely  thinking  of 
others.  I  heard  a  prayer  in  a  large  Con- 
gregational Church  one  Sunday  morning 
recently,  and  the  pastor  prayed  for  no 
person,  for  nothing  outside  of  the  four 
walls  of  his  church.  No  mention  was 
made  in  any  way  of  missions.  (This 
church  was  not  in  Colorado).  Our 
power  in  prayer  depends  upon  what  we 
are,  upon  our  condition  before  God,  and 
poverty  of  spiritual  life  may  be  the  rea- 
son why  so  many  prayers  are  unanswer- 
ed. The  ability  to  pray  grows  with 
activity  and  develops  the  deepest  spirit- 
ual life.  Man  can  as  well  live  physically 
without  eating,  as  spiritually  without 
praying.  It  is  by  coming  to  Him  very 
frequently  in  prayer  that  we  are  able  to 
maintain  our  spiritual  life  in  these  busy 
days,  and  if  we  neglect  coming  to  Him, 
we  simply  die  spiritually.  Dr.  Phillips 
Brooks  describes  a  sign  in  a  store  win- 
dow announcing  "Limp  Prayers. "_  The 
advertisement  offered  a  certain  kind  of 
prayer  book  for  sale.  Dr.  Brooks 
thought  the  sign  was  applicable  to  many 
prayers  he  had  heard.  I  am  afraid  there 
is  far  too  much  praying  of  that  kind.  If 
we  would  pray  more,  we  must  live  more 
for  Him.  for  it  is  really  the  life  that 
prays.     God  demands  right  living.     We 


cannot  indulge  in  any  known  sin  or 
doubtful  habit  or  pleasure,  and  expect 
answers  to  our  prayers.  You  can  usual- 
ly tell  from  hearing  a  person  pray 
whether  he  is  in  the  habit  of  praying.  It 
is  hard  work  for  some  to  pray,  they  do 
not  seem  to  enjoy  it.  They  pray  because 
they  are  almost  forced  to  it.  Quantity  in 
prayer  is  of  less  consequence  than 
quality.  It  is  not  how  much  we  say,  but 
what  we  pray  that  is  of  real  value. 
John  Trapp  says,  "God  takes  not  men's 
prayers  by  length,  but  by  weight.  The 
divinity  of  our  prayers  is  that  which  He 
so  much  esteemeth."  How  easy  it  is 
for  us  to  get  indolent  in  prayer  Too 
often  we  start  off  in  our  work  without 
praying  at  all,  or  else  if  we  do  pray  we 
grow  weary  and  cease  before  He  ans- 
wers. Possibly  if  we  had  been  a  little 
more  in  earnest,  and  a  little  more  per- 
sistent, the  answer  would  have  been 
granted.  One  of  the  great  fascinations 
of  metaliferous  mining  is  the  fact  that 
the  next  shot  may  make  the  owner  or 
leaser  a  millionaire,  and  he  goes  on  for 
years  stimulated  by  this  one  thought. 
He  dislikes  to  stop,  for  the  answer  may 
be  his  in  just  a  few  moments.  But  a 
miner  sometimes  in  sheer  despair  may 
become  absolutely  discouraged,  and 
leave  his  claim,  when  possibly  one  more 
effort  would  have  made  him  immensely 
rich.  He  has  given  up,  and  another 
comes  along  and  takes  his  claim,  and 
with  one  shot  gains  the  prize.  How  true 
this  is  in  our  prayer  life.  We  stop  just 
when  God  is  about  to  answer,  and  if  we 
had  only  persevered  a  little  while  longer 
the  answer  would  have  come.  The 
leaders  for  God  have  always  been  men 
of  prayer.  They  knew  how  to  take  hold 
upon  God,  and  bring  the  blessing  down. 
They  knew  how  to  say,  "I  will  not  let 
thee  go  except  thou  bless  me."  Better 
to  neglect  almost  anything  else,  rather 
than  to  neglect  prayer,  for  the  neglect- 
ing of  it  means  barrenness  in  our  lives. 
There  is  a  temptation  to  neglect  prayer 
for  missions.  Prayers  are  often  heard 
in  churches  where  the  missionary  work 
is  never  alluded  to.  Wherever  a  pastor 
fails  to  interest  his  people  in  missions, 
there  the  community  looks  upon  a 
church  too  listless  to  appreciate  the  op- 
portunity within  its  own  boundaries. 
"Like  pastor,  like,  people."  A  revival  of 
prayer,  praver  for  missions,  for  world 
wide  missions,  is  needed.  We  cannot 
carry  forward  our  great  Chistian  enter- 
prises without  this  prayer  revival. 
Churches,  ministers,  secretaries  and 
stiperintendents  are  awakening  to  the 
need  of  such  a  revival.  Brethren,  it  is 
surely  coming,  we  can  see  the  signs  of 
its  near  approach,  in  fact,  the  prayer  re- 
vival is  here. 


364 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


Neglect  of  the  Scriptures 

By  Geo.  R.  Merrill,  D.  D., 
Minnesota 

ONE  of  the  most  cruel  words  I  have 
seen  in  print  was  a  statement  made 
m  a  number  of  "The  Advance," 
under  the  name  of  a  somewhat 
prominent  pastor,  to  the  effect  that  men 
of  our  calling,  representatives  of  the 
various  Benevolent  Societies,  were  not 
ordinarily   "spiritual   men." 

I  am  not  referring  to  this  utterance 
for  the  sake  of  denying  the  charge,  or 
noting  the  lack  of  charity  in  the  whole- 
sale arraignment.  I  rather  bow  my 
head  meekly  to  the  rod,  and  have  said  to 
myself,  as  now  I  say  to  yon,  that  when 
a  man  and  minister  who  has  a  reputa- 
tion for  gentleness  and  fairness,  and  who 
has  had  unusual  opportunity  from  the 
place  of  his  residence  to  observe  men  of 
our  sort,  can  deliberately,  and  over  his 
own  signature,  put  in  print,  in  a  relig- 
ious journal,  a  statement  of  such  import, 
and  no  editor  run  his  blue  pencil  through 
it,  and  no  one  of  the  thousands  of  pas- 
tors and  prominent  laymen  who  are  in 
familiar  relations  with  hundreds  of  us, 
secretaries  and  superintendents,  hasten 
to  send  to  the  paper  a  denial  of  the 
charge,  it  becomes  us,  at  least,  seriously, 
and  with  a  due  sense  of  what  it  means, 
to  consider  if  it  may  not  be  a  true  wit- 
ness, and  if  in  the  judgment  of  pastors 
and  people,  we  are  not  failing  to  make 
the  impression  that  we  are  "Spiritual 
men." 

We  will  not  juggle  with  words,  or  try 
too  much  to  refine  upon  them.  A  spirit- 
ual man  is  just  a  spiritual  man;  a  man 
evidently  in  touch  with  God;  a  man 
whose  trust  is  clearly  not  in  schemes, 
but  in  spiritual  forces;  whose  standards 
of  success  are  not  according  to  men,  but 
according  to  God;  who  is  plainly  ac- 
quainted with  God,  and  is  taking  su- 
preme pains  to  please  Him. 

Most  assuredly,  for  our  work's  sake 
we  ought  to  be  such  men. 

We  are  constantly  called  upon  for  the 
exercise  of  a  wisdom  that  is  more  than 
human  in  the  choice  and  location  of  men. 
The  placing  of  a  given  man  in  a  given 
field  may  make,  or  mar,  both  the  man 
and  the  field.  One  called  upon  thus  to 
exercise  infallibility  as  a  daily  duty,  be- 
comes self-confident  and  self-sufficient, 
if  he  is  not  in  such  contact  with  the 
divine  Wisdom  that  it  can  use  him  as  a 
channel.  The  difficulties  in  the  church- 
es which  call  for  our  counsel  and  adjust- 
ment, are  often  such  as  can  only  be  re- 
solved by  spiritual  forces  at  great  pres- 
sure, and  unless  the  Superintendent  is 
at   home    with    those    forces    and    knows 


how  to  be  used  by  them,  he  is  likely  to 
fail. 

The  conditions  of  our  work  bring  us 
in  contact  with  the  seamy  side  of  as- 
sociated Christian  life;  we  have  to  know 
the  imperfect  satisfaction  of  many  of  the 
Lord's  people  when  money  is  in  ques- 
tion. Unless  we  are  in  such  touch  with 
God,  and  such  fellowship  with  the  divine 
purpose,  that  we  can  discern  the  per- 
fected sainthood,  in  what  to  ordinary 
vision  is  a  very  human  block,  we  shall 
find  it  hard  to  hold  to  that  high  estimate 
of  the  church,  as  the  household  of  God 
and  the  body  of  Christ,  and  that  gracious 
optimism  about  a  particular  company  of 
so-called  saints  that  are  so  large  factors 
in  success. 

We  are  building  churches,  putting  our 
personal  impress  upon  the  religious  life 
not  of  individuals  and  congregations, 
but  of  communities  and  great  states. 
Every  consideration  which  calls  for 
genius  and  great  spirituality  in  a  pastor, 
is  accented  and  emphasized  in  its  appli- 
cation to  the  missionary  leader. 

If  we  are  not  spiritual  men,  in  a  large 
and  commanding  measure,  the  reason  is 
not  far  to  seek. 

Spirituality  is  a  product,  not  a  gift; 
the  result  of  forces  that  can  be  named, 
and  not  an  endowment  Any  lack  of  it 
must  be  directly  traced  to  the  neglect 
of  the  disciplines  which  invariably  pro- 
duce it. 

Of  those  disciplines,  the  use  and  study 
of  the  Scriptures  is  one  so  prominent, 
that  where  it  is  neglected  we  may  not 
expect  to  find  a  spiritual  man. 

Whatever  else  we  say,  or  fail  to  say, 
about  the  Bible,  we  cannot  fail  to  agree 
that  it  is  the  record  of  God's  revelation 
of  Himself;  and  that  the  wonderful 
thing  about  it  is,  that  by  the  record,  the 
revelation  still  reveals;  that  on  the 
record,  as  on  a  carriage  or  vehicle,  God 
Himself  as  a  real  God,  a  living  God,  is 
still  actually  borne  to  men,  so  that  the 
man  who,  with  desire  of  heart  to  see 
God,  and  be  in  contact  with  Him,  applies 
himself  to  the  Bible,  finds  God  borne  to 
him,  in  the  largest  degree  in  which  he 
is  capable  of  receiving  Him. 

It  may  freely  be  granted  that  God  has 
other  vehicles  by  which  He  reaches  men, 
but  as  compared  with  this,  they  are  in- 
efficient and  incompetent;  so  that  he 
who  neglects  this,  fails  to  be  in  that 
complete  contact  with  God  that  fills,  and 
empowers,   and   satisfies. 

Tt  is  suggested  in  the  tonic,  that  there 
are  temptations  in  our  life  to  neglect 
this  primary  discipline  that  makes  for 
spiritual   life   and   power. 

T  speak  out  of  considerable  pastoral 
experience,  when  T  say  that  such  temnta- 
tion  besets  the  nastor;  to  use  the  Bible 
chieflly  as  a  book  of  texts:  to  consult  it 


TEMPTATIONS  OF  SUPERINTENDENTS 


365 


chiefly  for  means  and  preparation  to  in- 
fluence others;  to  feel,  that  hustle  and 
bustle  in  parish  work  and  in  varied 
forms  of  church  activities  are  of  more 
importance  than  the  quiet  hour,  and  con 
tact  with  men  more  imperative  than 
contact  with   God. 

This  pastoral  temptation,  which  all  of 
us  who  have  been  in  the  pastorate  recog- 
nize, and  to  which  we  confess  we  have 
too  often  yielded,  is  intensified  and 
made  an  easier  matter  to  yield  to,  on 
our  part,  who  cannot  command  the 
blessed  privacies  of  the  study,  or  regular 
hours  to  make  use  of  them;  who  at  best, 
can  only  have  an  office,  and  even  from 
that  must  be  absent  considerabe  and  reg- 
ular portions  of  time;  whose  study  must 
be  the  railway  car  or  the  waiting-room  at 
the  junction. 

And  when  one  can  reach  the  office,  the 
accumulated  mail,  especially  if  in  the 
stress  of  the  Society's  treasury  you  can- 
not afford  a  clerk,  and  the  waiting  call- 
ers, who  complain  they  have  been  in 
twice  before  and  you  were  not  in,  are 
impatient  of  any  time  taken  from  them, 
to  be  even  a  little  while  with  the  Lord. 

In  the  cars,  reading  is  so  dangerous  to 
the  eyesight,  and  at  the  cross-roads 
where  we  wait  for  the  next  train,  the 
conditions  are  not  favorable  for  study 
and  meditation. 

It  is  a  "variegated"  temptation  with 
indolence,  and  care  for  health,  and  de- 
votion to  the  interests  of  the  people  we 
wish  to  help,  attractively  blended  to- 
gether.    No  wonder  we  yield  to  it. 

But  we  must  know  it  for  what  it  is, — 
a  temptation,  to  be  met  and  to  be  over- 
come. No  less  than  of  other  men,  is  it 
true  of  us,  that  we  influence  men  by 
what  we  are;  that  spiritual  fabrics  are 
best  builded  by  spiritual  men;  that  life 
is  only  begotten  of  life;  and  that  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ  said  "The  words  that 
I  speak  unto  you  they  are  spirit  and 
they  are  life." 

A  help  of  highest  utility  is  to  get  your- 
self under  obligation  to  some  paper  or 
magazine,  to  furnish  each  week  an  art- 
icle on  the  current  Sunday  School  les- 
son. 

If  there  is  a  consideration  attached, 
all  the  better;  but,  at  least,  your  local 
paper  will  be  glad  of  a  weekly  column, 
and  when  once  you  have  promised  it, 
though   I   do   not   deny  it  will   be   more 


G.    R.    MERRILL,    D.    D. 

than  a  little  irksome  at  times,  and  that 
it  will  be  difficult  to  meet  promptly,  the 
inexorable  demand  for  "copy,"  you 
will  do  it  for  your  word's  sake.  So  you 
will  be  held  to,  at  least,  some  regular 
and  consecutive  study  of  the  Bible, 
which  will  be  fruitful  in  a  thousand 
ways.  I  count  myself  a  good  witness  in 
this,  since  for  over  thirty  years,  with 
pay  and  at  request,  without  pay  and  of 
my  own  offer,  I  have  not  failed  to  be  so 
under  bonds,  and  have  been  helped  by 
these  bonds  more  than  I  can  tell. 

My  dear  friend,  Dr.  Wayland  Hoyt, 
gave  to  me  some  four  years  ago  a  plan, 
which  after  trial  by  two  men  before  him, 
had  come  to  him,  and  had  been  used  by 
him  for  a  year,  with  such  profit,  that  he 
passed  it  on  to  me.  It  was  to  read 
through  the  New  Testament  each  month 
in  the  year,  not  for  critical  purposes,  but 
just  for  saturation;  and  with  a  copy  kept 
in  the  pocket,  it  is  not  difficult  for  men 
like  us  to  catch  the  moments  for  the 
daily  portion.  After  three  years  and 
more  of  trial  myself,  I  pass  it  on  to  my 
brethren,  as  full  of  large  helpfulness  in 
keeping  one  in  love  with  the  book,  and 
in  conscious  touch  with  God.  The  grasp- 
ing of  large  areas  in  one  sitting  of  the 
record  of  God's  revealing,  somehow  has 
a  quality  of  its  own,  and  the  radical  de- 
liverance from  text-hunting  into  the 
grasping  of  whole  books,  is  most  health- 
ful and  clearing  to  the  vision. 


Superintendents'  Problems 


Practical  Problems 

By  Rev.  W.  W.  Scudder,  Jr., 
Superintendent,    Washington 

FROM  a  personal  standpoint  the 
superintendency  is  a  demoraliz- 
ing business.  Its  constant  road 
life  is  calculated  to  destroy  health, 
wreck  studious  habits,  sap  the  spirit- 
ual life,  and  ruin  family  order,  for  it 
imperiously  pushes  aside  the  most 
sacred  customs  and  duties  in  each  of 
these  spheres.  The  man  must  travel 
in  strain  and  discomfort,  can  have  no 
regular  hours  for  food,  sleep,  study  or 
devotion  and  must  for  days  and  weeks 
neglect  his  family.  There  is  no  honor- 
able escape.  If  he  accepts  the  trust 
he  must  do  these  things,  and  in  some 
way  overcome  their  disintegrating  in- 
fluences. If  he  is  worth  anything  in 
his  business,  he  is  too  valuable  a  man 
to  waste  his  time  at  home.  He  ought 
to  feel  guilty  if  he  spends  an  idle  Sab- 
bath. His  churches  need  his  personal 
inspiration,  and  he  should  be  out 
every  Sunday  in  incessant  touch  with 
his  field. 

If,  therefore,  a  man  is  endowed 
with  executive  ability  for  this  office, 
his  first  and  chief  problem  is  this : 
"The  heart"  out  of  which  are  "all  the 
issues  of  his  life;"  for  if  he  can  keep 
strong  in  body,  grow  intellectually, 
deepen  his  spiritual  life  and  preserve 
a  loving  well  ordered  home  circle,  out 
of  which  daily  inspiration  shall  come 
to  sweeten  and  strengthen  his  own 
life,  and  to  which  he  can  in  turn  carry 
the  broader  vision,  wisdom  and  char- 
acter that  his  work  should  give  him, 
he  need  not  greatly  fear  other  prob- 
lems. Having  solved  the  greatest — 
that  of  self-adjustment  and  self- 
mastery — he  will  grow  daily  more  ef- 
ficient in  mastering  the  remainder. 

Now  this  thing  can  of  course,  in 
large  measure,  be  done,  though,  I  be- 
lieve, at  an  infinitely  harder  effort 
than  is  required  in  the  pastorate,  and, 
apparently  to  one  self,  usually,  with 


less  success.  Nevertheless,  under  the 
best  conditions,  the  system  is  one  that 
tends  to  make  one  a  man  of  petty  de- 
tails, and  to  develop  on  one  side  a 
habitless,  and  on  the  other  a  sort  of 
machine  life.  Possibly  in  some  of  us 
there  is  not  much  more  to  develop, 
and  the  system  reaps  its  legitimate 
deserts.  But  the  denomination  suf- 
fers. 

Out  of  this  grows  a  related  problem 
— we  have  no  men  who  are  appointed 
to  represent  our  denomination  in  ec- 
clesiastical and  secular  affairs  as  do 
the  officials  of  other  bodies  (with  the 
single  exception  of  our  recently  en- 
dowed National  Council  Moderator). 
Congregationalism  suffers,  as  did 
America,  when,  with  democratic  sim- 
plicity she  appointed  ministers  but  not 
ambassadors  to  foreign  courts.  Our 
national  representatives  ranked  last,  in 
certain  functions  did  not  rank  at  all, 
to  our  political  disadvantage.  Our 
great  Congregationalists  seek  the  pas- 
torate, not  the  superintendency.  From 
the  former  position  they  have  looked 
down  on,  rather  than  up  to,  the  latter. 
The  practice  in  our  denomination  has 
not  been  to  secure  the  greatest  leader 
for  this  office,  possibly  because  it  has 
been  a  one  society  affair.  And  yet  no 
position  gives  such  power  to  mould 
our  denominational  life  as  does  this. 
There  is  a  call  for  larger  men.  The 
superintendent  has  stepped  up  from  a 
society  agent  to  a  state  official,  and 
movements  are  on  foot  to  combine  the 
position  with  the  advisory  bishopric 
of  the  United  Brethren,  and  to  make 
him  the  chief  official  in  the  state. 
Many  will  regard  this  trend  with  sus- 
picion, for  it  has  its  perils.  But  it  will 
probably  be  tried  if  indications  are  to 
be  trusted,  giving  some  of  us  the 
chance  to  step  aside  for  the  larger  men 
that  must  follow,  for  the  greatest  will 
be  none  too  big  for  the  opportunity. 
But  this  cannot  happen  without  a 
radical  change  in  the  superintendency 
that  will  allow  greater  development  of 


PRACTICAL  PROBLEMS 


567 


personality.  No  great  leader  will  be 
content  to  accept  a  position  where  his 
talents  will  be  buried  by  executive  de- 
tails. If  he  can  really  be  the  pastor  of 
a  state,  he  should  prefer  it  to  the  pas- 
torate of  a  church.  But  if  his  chief 
duties  must  be  those  of  state  book- 
keeper and  typewriter,  collector  and 
cashier,  financial  promoter,  general 
auditor  of  disordered  accounts,  mend- 
er of  broken  institutions  and  adjuster 
of  ecclesiastical  rows,  these  do  not  ap- 
peal to  a  man  of  pastoral  or  prophetic 
instincts,  or  of  statesmanlike  mould. 
I  have  no  admiration  for  the  politi- 
cal system  of  Methodism.  But  it  is 
certainly  wise  in  the  separation,  into 
the  offices  of  Bishop  and  Presiding 
Elder,  of  the  duties  we  have  crowded 
on  the  superintendent.  We  combine  a 
faint  aroma  of  the  Bishop  with  a  huge 
bulk  of  Presiding  Elder.  It  frequently 
happens  that  the  odor  soon  evaporates, 
leaving  a  residuum  of  very  practical 
executive  calibre — a  very  useful  com- 
modity, but  not  always  first-class. 
Neither,  from  the  natural  limitations, 
can  the  superintendent  discharge  well 
this  part  of  his  duties.  The  field  of 
a  Presiding  Elder  is  about  twenty-five 
churches.  A  superintendent,  often 
without  help,  has  from  forty  to  one 
hundred  and  fifty  missionary  church- 
es and  all  the  self-supporting  churches 
to  touch  and  influence,  if  he  is  big 
enough  to  win  such  recognition.  But 
the  comparison  is  worse  yet.  The 
Methodist  system  of  yearly  appoint- 
ments avoids  those  constant  gaps  and 
changes  (amounting  often  to  more 
than  fifty  in  a  year)  whose  slow  and 
careful  adjustment  exhausts  half  a 
superintendent's  time,  to  say  nothing 
of  the  other  ways  in  which  they  in- 
crease and  hinder  the  work;  so  that 
even  the  efficiency  of  the  Presiding 
Elder  plan  is  denied  him;  while  he 
shoulders  from  four  to  ten  or  twenty 
times  his  detail  work.  Without  time 
for  necessary  self-culture,  this  system 
of  details  tends  to  devour  efficiency 
and  power  for  the  larger  sphere  he  is 
increasingly  expected  to  fill.  If  the 
superintendent  is  expected  to  be  a  man 


REV.    W.    W.   SCUDDER 

of  this  type,  he  should  have  a  smaller 
field  of  work.  If  his  duties  are  to  be 
of  the  larger  inspirational  character, 
he  can  have  even  larger  territory,  but 
must  have  sufficient  general  mission- 
ary help  to  be  relieved  of  much  that 
can  just  as  well  be  done  by  another. 
Even  then  he  must  be  constantly  on 
the  go,  out  every  Sunday  and  often 
through  the  week  in  intimate  touch 
with  his  whole  field ;  but  he  could  thus 
secure  much  time  to  serve  the  larger 
interests  of  the  denomination  that  are 
now  caring  for  themselves.  Personal- 
ity should  not  be  swallowed  up  by  ad- 
ministration. 

Turning  next  to  the  personal  prob- 
lems involved  in  his  relation  to  his 
fellows,  they  are  as  many  as  the  vary- 
ing personalities.  To  instinctively  sense 
the  unworthy  and  the  fit,  to  kind- 
ly check  the  one,  to  adapt  the  other 
to  a  field,  and  then  to  fit  oneself  into 
his  needs  and  confidence  so  as  to  win 
his  love  as  a  brother;  to  become  to 
him  a  spiritual  comrade,  an  intellec- 
tual stimulus,  a  practical  adviser,  a 
sympathizing  friend,  an  appreciative 
critic,  an  administrative  assistant,  a 
loyal  supporter  in  all  his  good  work,  a 
tireless  worker,  unsparing  of  self,  ask- 
ing no  service  harder  than  one  is  will- 
ing to   do  himself;  to  keep  in  such 


368 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


close  friendship  with  all  parties  or 
possible  factions  that  they  cannot 
scrap  in  his  presence,  managing  to 
unify  around  himself  all  interests  and 
affection,  so  as  to  spread  harmony 
with  all  its  genial  effects,  ever  holding 
self  in  the  background,  ever  pushing 
forward  pastors  on  councils  and  con- 
ferences, sorrowing  with  the  unfor- 
tunate, helping  the  failures  to  try 
again,  patiently  shouldering  blame  for 
their  mistakes  and  misunderstandings, 
securing  as  far  as  possible  deserved 
promotion,  shunning  favoritism  as  one 
would  the  devil,  inspiring  all  with  the 
ideal  that  all  true  advancement  in  the 
ministry  is  due  to  ability  and  adapt- 
ability, rather  than  to  favoring  posi- 
tion, and  with  a  modest  thankful 
spirit,  carrying  about  the  Master's 
cure  for  the  restlessness  and  soreness 
that  springs  from  disappointed  ambi- 
tion, selfishness,  envy  or  conceit.  Here 
is  a  bunch  of  very  practical  problems 
— problems,  too,  far  better  solved,  if 
one  is  not  overloaded  with  executive 
drudgery. 

INSTITUTIONAL   PROBLEMS 

These  are  mainly  concerned  with 
the  planting  and  the  care,  of  churches. 

With  regard  to  the  planting  of  our 
Congregational  Churches,  I  had  al- 
most said  the  superintendent  has  no 
problem,  for  we  have  no  system  (un- 
less it  be  one  of  repression  where 
others  are  first  on  the  field),  and 
under  our  method  of  turning  our  pi- 
oneer work  over  to  the  Sunday  School 
Society,  he  has  little  hand  in  deciding 
where  beginnings  shall  be  made.  And 
vet  some  of  the  most  serious  prob- 
lems that  he  will  have  to  deal  with 
are  wrapped  up  in  these  beginnings. 
It  is  not  wise  to  plant  an  orchard,  or 
church  a  state,  without  plans.  Where 
do  we  sit  down  to  decide  what  pro- 
portion of  our  churches  should  be  in 
the  city,  what  proportion  in  the  coun- 
try ;  what  proportion  of  perpetual 
missionary  charges  we  can  afford  to 
carry;  in  what  counties  or  districts 
our  entire  denominational  forces 
should  be  massed,  until  we  intelligent- 


ly and  surely  capture  them  one  by  one, 
thus  establishing  schools  and  resultant 
churches,  in  groups  that  can  be  cared 
for  with  least  waste,  and  the  max- 
imum help  of  fellowship  touch  ?  These 
things  cannot  be  done  without  con- 
sulting and  co-operation  of  all  work- 
ers. The  Sundav  School  Society,  for 
instance,  has  not  means  to  do  the  ex- 
pensive work  of  developing  schools  in 
cities  that  shall  grow  into  strong 
churches.  Accordingly  it  scours  the 
country  districts,  where  expenses  will 
be  light,  and  we  have  a  great  crop  of 
country  churches.  None  too  many! 
We  want  them  all.  But,  suppose, 
while  this  is  done,  another  plan  is  sup- 
plementing this,  by  which,  in  consulta- 
tion with  interested  laymen  in  a  Con- 
gregational club  or  city  extension  so- 
ciety, and  with  the  Home  Missionary 
forces,  two  or  three  Sunday  Schools 
a  year  should  be  started  in  large 
centers,  equipped  with  buildings  and 
provided  with  pastors.  (In  this  way 
we  have  in  Washington  grown  several 
strong  city  churches  in  the  last  two 
years,  with  no  detriment  to  the  coun- 
try work  whatever;  and  there  is  a 
heap  more  sense  in  it  than  going  in  op- 
posite ways  with  stiff  backs  and  turn- 
ed up  coat  collars). 

Now,  however,  where  the  seed  hap- 
pens to  sprout  we  cultivate  the  tree. 
Where  the  call  comes,  or  the  Sunday 
school  develops,  we  plant  the  church. 
While  much  of  the  work  must  develop 
in  this  spontaneous  way,  it  ought  to  be 
supplemented  by  plans  which  will 
secure  important  locations  that  have 
been  overlooked,  and  develop  there 
the  needed  constituency,  and  the 
whole  be  put  under  careful  state  direc- 
tion. 

This  most  important  function  is 
given  over  to  the  only  organization  we 
have  that  is  not  under  some  measure 
of  state  control — our  Sunday  School 
Society.  It  ranges  usually  where  it 
will,  with  no  state  advisory  board,  no 
consultation  with  the  state  organiza- 
tion as  to  where  work  should  be  push- 
ed, or  how  it  is  to  be  supported. 

That  this  pioneer  work  is,  on  the 


PRACTICAL  PROBLEMS 


369 


whole,  admirably  done,  is  not  the 
point.  The  system  is  wrong,  opening 
up  the  chance  of  saddling  the  state 
with  a  one-sided  development,  and 
some  unwise  projects  on  the  one  hand, 
and  on  the  other  of  losing  valuable 
openings  and  endangering  much  of  the 
splendid  work  that  is  done,  through 
lack  of  support.  Thousands  of  dol- 
lars of  missionary  money  and  whole 
counties  have  been  lost  to  us  through 
such  lack  of  co-operation.  The  ad- 
vance guard  should  support  its  scouts ; 
but  the  scouts  must  move  with  refer- 
ence to  that  advance  guard  and  not 
go  off  on  cross  country  runs.  To 
secure  the  right  sharing  of  these  re- 
sponsibilities, and  plans  for  a  uniform 
work,  each  state  should  require  both 
superintendents  with  their  assistants 
to  conduct  this  local  work  with  the  full 
knowledge  and  oversight  of  the  same 
executive  committee,  thus  securing  co- 
operation and  consultation,  avoiding 
friction  and  waste,  and  easily  doubl- 
ing the  efficiency  of  the  work  as  a 
whole.  This,  in  some  states  is,  I 
understand,  being  inaugurated.  This 
should  not  check,  in  the  slightest  de- 
gree, the  range  and  rein  of  the  Sun- 
day School  Society,  which  should  be 
as  free  as  before,  but  by  fraternal 
counsel  more  wisely  direct  both 
agencies  in  their  common  work.  We 
want  team  play,  not  fancy  records. 
Under  such  careful  co-operation,  our 
denomination  would  not  become  a 
country  organization,  and  our  cities 
stand  neglected. 

In  the  case  of  the  churches,  I  pass 
matters  of  detail,  to  consider  the  more 
fundamental  question  of  the  superin- 
tendent's personal  attitude  in  it  all. 
In  moving  among  them,  he  has  the 
choice  of  appearing  as  the  representa- 
tive of  one  of  our  six  societies,  or  the 
representative  of  the  denomination,  (a 
role  that  opens  to  him  more  than  to 
any  other,  and,  of  course,  largely 
modifies  his  work).  To  secure  for 
that  church  a  decreasing  grant,  to  as- 
sist it  evangelistically,  to  bring  it  to 
self-support,  and  to  draw  from  it  each 
year  a  large  Home  Missionary  offer- 
ing, may  fulfill  the  letter  of  this  law. 


But  to   so   win   its  acquaintance  and 
confidence  as  to  be  able  to  develop  in 
it    a     Congregational     consciousness, 
good  business  methods,  and  a  mission- 
ary spirit  and  organization  that  will  be 
broad    and    inclusive   of    all    our   in- 
terests, is  the  real  ideal,  a  much  more 
colossal  work,  of  far  wider  scope,  tak- 
ing more  time  and  effort,  with  often- 
times slower  financial  results,  but  in 
the    end    producing    a    sturdier    and 
therefore  a  more  fruitful  growth.     I 
believe    for    his    Society    financially, 
even,  he  will  accomplish  far  more  by 
this  broad,  impartial  attitude,  by  de- 
pending on  carefully  developed  plans, 
and  by  making  his  message  usually  a 
spiritual  one,   rather  than  an  appeal 
for   funds.     The  very   worst   system 
imaginable  is  to  train  the  churches  to 
depend  on  his  personal  presentation 
alone  to  raise  their  share  of   Home 
Missionary   funds.      This   method   of 
course  has  large  value.     Information 
will  always  be  needed,  but  let  that  be 
supplemental.     Organize  them  so  that 
they  will   do  their  duty,  even  if  he 
should   not   come   around.      I   would 
give  more  for  one  chance  to  sit  down 
with  the  officers  of  a  church  and  help 
plan    a    system    of    benevolence    that 
they  were  to  work,  than  to  have  ten 
opportunities  to  draw  out  gifts  by  the 
other  method  alone.     His  chief  prob- 
lem here  is  to  secure  the  training  of 
the    churches,    through    associational 
action,    through    pastoral    help,    and 
personal  visitation  for  intelligent  self- 
government,    self-initiative    and    fra- 
ternal obligations. 

PROBLEMS  FINANCIAL 

They  lurk  behind  every  church, 
they  stare  at  the  superintendent 
through  every  slat  in  the  schedule, 
then  they  mass  themselves  together 
into  a  bogie  as  big  as  Nebuchadnez- 
zar's image,  with  withering  shanks  of 
retrenchment,  a  very  lean  belly,  tight- 
ly strapped  by  the  straining  girdle  of 
"the  average  salary,"  and  a  scowling 
head  of  self-support ;  and  this  gloomy 
conglomerate  walks  with  him  by  day 
— and — sleeps  with  him  by  night. 
You've  all  "had  him."  If  you've 
learned  how  to  "lay  him,"  please  tell 


3/0 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


me,  for  I'd  like  to  "do  him." 

Two  problems  under  this  general 
head,  particularly  interest  me,  as 
timely  and  important,  and  well  worth 
our  comparing  experiences  over. 

(i)  The  systematizing  of  a  state's 
benevolence. 

For  the  first  time  our  National 
Council  Committee  and  our  national 
societies,  have,  with  dignified  delibera- 
tion, screwed  up  courage  to  defy  the 
old  precedents  of  independent  aimless- 
ness,  and  to  give  us  the  state  aportion- 
ments  on  benevolence  that  we  have 
waited  for  so  long.  (If  we  had  had 
them  five  years  ago,  we  would  not 
have  been  saddled,  as  we  are,  with  a 
galling  debt). 

Here  is  one  of  the  greatest  oppor- 
tunities ever  put  in  our  hands.  If 
rightly  worked,  every  pastor,  every 
church,  and  every  layman,  will  re- 
spond to  this  business-like  ideal. 

The  superintendents  are  probably 
the  men  to  see  that  this  is  done,  for 
no  one  else  will  so  naturally  be  ex- 
pected to  lead.  By  associational 
action,  through  strong  general  and 
local  committees,  they  must  plan,  in- 
spire, drive — for  it  will  take  ceaseless 
and  skillful  pushing  to  get  a  state 
thoroughly  organized  and  moving 
along  this  line.  No  work  just  now  is 
more  vital.  Every  national  society 
ought  to  recognize  the  superintendent 
as  the  natural  agent  for  this  accom- 
plishment, should  consult  him  con- 
stantly, and  back  him  with  vigor.  A 
pledge  system,  adaptable  to  any 
church  in  the  state,  with  some  simple 
means  for  the  gathering  of  these  of- 
ferings, should  be  put  in  the  hands  of 
every  church  committee,  and  each 
church  made  to  feel  keenly  that  it  is 
guilty  of  a  breach  of  Congregational 
fellowship,  if  it  fails  to  do  for  at  least 
attempt  to  do)  its  share.  The  small 
expense  for  installing  such  a  system 
would  doubtless  be  gladly  borne  pro- 
portionatelv  bv  our  national  societies. 

(2)  Supplementing  the  regular 
benevolence  of  the  churches. 

"The  kingf  is  dead !  Lone  live  the 
king!"    The  day  of  large  gifts  to  our 


national  secieties  has  gone  by.  The 
day  of  large  gifts  to  our  national  so- 
cieties has  just  dawned. 

The  American  Board  has  done  well. 
There  are  thousands  waiting  to  do  the 
same,  yes,  better  for  us. 

We  need  one  million  for  Home  Mis- 
sions. We  can  have  it  if  we  will  go 
at  it.  None  of  our  societies  is  as 
strongly  entrenched,  so  widely  organ- 
ized, commanding  so  many  officials 
and  influential  boards  that  are  in  touch 
with  the  consecrated  wealth  of  our 
states.  Why  cannot  we  apportion  this 
out  among  us  and  raise  it,  coupling  it 
with  the  incentive  of  large  local 
grants  if  accomplished,  so  we  can 
touch  the  heartstrings  of  local  and 
national  denominational  loyalty?  In 
every  state  stands  a  long  line  of 
wealthy  men,  who  are  giving  gen- 
erously to  outside  charities,  but  scant- 
ly  to  our  cause,  because  they  have  not 
realized  its  importance.  One  of  the 
quickest  ways  to  get  them  to  realize 
that  we  have  a  big  thing  on  hand,  and 
one  that  demands  giving  on  a  plane 
commensurate  with  its  importance,  is 
to  enlist  them  for  large  subscriptions. 
And  they  will  do  it  for  Home  Mis- 
sions as  quickly  as  for  any  work  in  the 
world,  when  they  once  awaken  to  the 
need.  Every  state  can  have  a  list  of 
100  men,  who  are  now  giving  $5  and 
less.  Many  towns  will  furnish  one  or 
two  each,  and  some  a  dozen.  Some 
states  can  swing  a  $1,000  list.  In  all 
we  should  try  so  to  enlist  them  that 
this  will  be  the  beginning  of  a  larger 
scale  of  benevolence.  By  this  means 
a  great  enthusiasm  can  and  should  be 
roused  for  giving  to  home  missions  on 
a  generous  scale ;  and  to  reach  self- 
support,  a  state  will  not  need  to  wait 
until  it  can  muster  population  enough 
to  raise  its  needed  support  at  the  rate 
of  one  dollar  per  member,  which  has 
been  the  usual  rule,  reached  ordinarily 
within  a  period  of  about  fifty  years. 

PROBLEMS    CO-OPERATIVE 

( 1)  The  most  difficult  and  im- 
portant of  these  is  the  problem  of 
comity.     In  the  growing  West,  where 


PRACTICAL  PROBLEMS 


37 1 


no  one  knows  how  large  a  town  may 
become  within  a  year,  the  principles 
are  harder  of  application,  and  the 
other  denominations  are  exceedingly 
shy  of  any  restraining  principles.  I 
have  discovered  also,  that,  as  in 
politics,  little  can  be  expected  outside 
of  the  realm  of  personal  friendship. 
From  a  Puritan  standpoint  it  is 
strange  to  say  that  friendly  feeling 
will  usually  weigh  more  than  a  comity 
principle.  But  it  is  so.  When  this 
also  seems  inoperative,  a  vigorous 
protest,  and  if  necessary,  a  stiff  fight 
or  two  may  win  a  respectful  peace. 

(2)  The  problem  of  co-operation, 
giving  us  the  most  trouble  within  our 
own  ranks,  is  found  in  the  relation  be- 
tween Home  Missionary  and  Sunday 
School  Society  workers.  How  fric- 
tion can  rise  one  can  readily  see.  But 
why  it  should  continue,  when  it  might 
so  easily  be  oiled,  it  is  hard  to  under- 
stand. It  would  not  be  surprising,  if 
■in  half  our  states,  for  half  of  their 
history,  our  work  .should  be  found  to 
have  been  seriously,  and  at  times 
ruinously  blocked  by  an  antagonism, 
that,  if  not  reaching  open  friction,  at 
least  has  caused  wide  waste  by  pre- 
venting all  co-operation. 

The  very  first  duty  of  superinten- 
dents is  to  work  together  in  harmony. 
If  they  cannot  do  this,  they  should  let 
some  one  else  try.  As  I  have  else- 
where intimated,  this  is  not  altogether 
a  superintendent's  problem.  Lack  of 
national  adjustment  of  the  two  works, 
under  state  regulation,  is  responsible 
for  much  of  it.  Inefficient,  conceited 
and  mischief  breeding  men  have  some- 
times been  allowed  to  remain  in  of- 
fice in  spite  of  state  protest.  We 
carefully  match  horses  in  selecting  a 
team.  How  often  by  mutual  con- 
ference of  our  two  societies  have  the 
men  who  are  to  be  running  mates  been 
selected  with  a  view  to  harmony  of 
action?  It  may  be  that  many  of  the 
sins  of  the  men  should  be  sent  up  to 
headquarters  if  it  should  be  found  that 
lack  of  adaptation  on  the  field  is  the 
natural  result  of  lack  of  co-ordination 
in  the  national  organizations.     I  be- 


lieve that  two  of  the  most  helpful 
things  that  could  happen  would  be, 
first  a  joint  understanding  by  these 
two  societies,  and  then  a  joint  tour  of 
the  states  by  their  secretaries,  investi- 
gating and  reconciling  differences,  re- 
moving their  causes  (whether  they  be 
men  or  methods)  recommending  help- 
ful changes,  installing  definite  plans 
of  co-operation,  well  safeguarded  by 
a  common  state  control,  and  letting  us 
all  know  that  in  these  important  posi- 
tions we  must  work  together  if  we 
work  at  all. 

But  Home  Missionary  superinten- 
dents can  solve  most  of.  this  problem. 
An  unalterable  determination  to 
work  together,  frank  and  constant 
conference  over  plans,  difficulties,  con- 
ditions of  the  fields,  mutual  advice, 
carefulness  in  seeing  that  the  courte- 
sies of  the  denomination  are  extended 
to  the  Sunday  school  men  in  council 
invitations,  dedications,  conferences, 
and  on  committees ;  cordial  encourage- 
ment and  backing  of  their  self-sacri- 
ficing work  and  public  appreciation  of 
their  generous  and  kindly  help,  doing 
everything  possible  to  give  their 
splendid  labors  the  place  of  esteem 
they  should  have  among  the  churches  ; 
in  short  a  brotherly  interest  in  each 
other's  business — it  is  bound  to  draw 
us  together  in  a  most  helpful  and  hap- 
py relation. 

Among  a  host  of  problems  I  have 
selected  a  few.  But  they  seemed  to 
me  the  most  far-reaching,  the  most 
vital  to  denominational  efficiency,  and 
problems  within  reach,  worth  discus- 
sing, because  capable  of  some  happy 
and  practical  solution. 

Adminstrative  Problems 

By  Rev.  Henry  E.  Thayer,  Secretary, 
Kansas 

IN  PRESENTING  this  paper.  T  shall 
have  a  care  to  distinguish  between 
those  problems  which  belong  to  the 
Secretary  as  such,  and  those  which 
refer  to  the  Superintendent.  This  is  not 
easy,  as  the  responsibilities  interlock,  and 
every  secretary  is  superintendent,  and 
every  superintendent  has,  under  the  new 
organization,  largely  the  cares  of  the 
secretary. 


372 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


ist.  There  is  the  Problem  of  Main- 
tenance of  Internal  Strength  of  the 
Churches  of  the  State.  1  may  seem  on 
the  ground  of  the  superintendent,  but 
here  our  problems  are  one.  If  we  are  to 
take  strength  out  of  the  churches  for 
missionary  service,  we  must  see  that  they 
are  strong  in  spiritual  life.  If  we  demand 
of  our  churches  worthy  young  men  for 
the  ministry,  and  money  for  missions, 
we  must  see  that  the  base  of  supplies  is 
not  forgotten.  If  there  are  to  be  good 
working  churches,  there  must  be  care  to 
maintain  the  evangelistic  spirit  and 
harmonious  life. 

Not  much  will  be  done  without  the 
leadership  of  the  pastor  in  iny  church. 
A  pastorless  church,  or  a  chuich  with  a 
weakly  leadership  is  not  much  uf  a  force 
in  service.  The  very  necessities*  oi  a 
Constituent  state  demand  that  every 
church  be  well  manned.  Perhaps  there 
may  be  in  the  state  a  bureau  of  minister- 
ial supply,  but  the  secretary  is  the  one 
most  interested,  and  in  the  western  states 
he  above  all  others  will  be  active  in  fill- 
ing vacant  churches  and  promoting 
evangelistic  spirit. 

2d.  The  Problem  of  Missionary  Ed- 
ucation. 

(a)  The  secretary  will  set  the  objec- 
tive and  the  measure  of  service.  Church- 
es will  naturally  want  to  confine  their 
efforts  to  a  small  territory,  and  will  de- 
sire that  the  demands  upon  them  shall 
not  be  great.  He  must  have  the  vision 
of  large  things,  and  be  equal  to  the  in- 
spiration needed  to  make  the  vision  real. 

(b)  Organization  of  local  unions  will 
need  the  oversight  of  the  secretary.  He 
will  be  aided  by  strong  and  efficient 
helpers,  but  in  the  last  analysis  he  must 
see  to  the  existence  and  efficiency  of  the 
local  Home  Missionary  Unions. 

(c)  It  is  for  the  secretary  also  to  see 
to  the  lines  of  missionary  study.  Our 
people  are  not  selfish,  nor  are  they  lack- 
ing in  spirituality,  but  they  are  not  in- 
formed as  to  the  great  facts  that  inspire 
our  Society  to  largest  service.  They  are 
ready  to  do  great  things  _  when  they 
know  the  need  of  large  service. 

3rd.  The  Problem  of  Fellowship.  The 
secretary  deals  with  Cor.gregationalists, 
both  pastors  and  churches.  They  can 
be  led  by  the  love  of  Christ  to  the  ends 
of  the  earth;  they  can  not  be  driven 
across  the  line  of  freedom.  He  must  be 
the  friend  of  every  pastor,  and  thewise 
counsellor  in  all  things  that  pertain  to 
church  life. 

And  he  must  win  the  confidence  of  the 
churches  also.  He  is  no  politician,  but 
the  people  must  know  him,  and  find  in 
him  a  friend.  He  can  afford  to  make  no 
mean  addresses  when  he  speaks  in  their 
pulpits.  They  are  worthy  of  his  best, 
and  so  he  is  on  his  mettle  continually  to 


keep  his  platform  work  in  line  with  what 
he  would  have  made  it  as  a  pastor  and 
even  better.  He  is  the  friend  and  as- 
sociate in  the  homes  of  the  people,  and 
is  not  afraid  to  spend  his  strength  in  be- 
ing entertained, — talking  large  interests 
when  his  sleep  has  been  short  for  pre- 
vious nights,  winning  by  personal  contact 
their  enthusiasm  for  the  cause  that  he 
loves.  There  is  a  distinct  place  for  the 
secretary  in  the  hearts  of  the  people. 
Large  interests  depend  upon  the  pastor 
alone,  but  there  is  a  part  of  the  home 
missionary  service  which  results  from  the 
personal  contact  of  the  people  with  the 
leader  of  the  state  interests.  He  must 
ntr^er  seen1  to  be  a  better  man  than  the 
p;is«n  r,  he  must  make  the  pastor's  hold 
upon  the  people  stronger,  and  the  people 
in  our  churches  must  have  immediate 
contact  with  the  one  whose  business  is 
the  fellowship  of  the  churches  in  home 
missionary  service. 

4th.  The  Administration  of  Home  Mis- 
sionary Funds.  One  purpose  of  aiding  a 
home  missionary  field  is  to  develop  self- 
help.  It  is  not  an  infrequent  experience 
to  have  a  church  that  desires  missionary 
aid  put  this  question  before  it  has  tested 
its  own  strength,  "How  much  missionary 
aid  can  we  get?"  Church  trustees  will 
say,  "We  will  get  what  we  can  from  the 
Society,  and  then  see  if  we  can  put  up 
the  rest  of  the  pastor's  salary."  The 
secretary  must  insist,  in  sending  applica- 


REV.    H.   E.  THAYER 


PRACTICAL  PROBLEMS 


373 


lion  blanks,  that  not  till  the  ground  has 
been  thoroughly  canvassed  will  the  So- 
ciety come  to  the  rescue.  It  is  a  beg- 
garizing  policy  to  give  any  fifty  dollars 
that  a  church  can  raise  among  its  own 
people  or  in  its  own  community. 

It  is  not  simply  that  the  demands  of 
our  fields  force  us  to  make  our  money 
go  as  far  as  possible,  but  it  is  a  part  of 
the  duty  of  the  weaker  organizations  to 
make  the  work  of  securing  funds  easy. 
If  any  church  is  allowed  to  shirk  and  re- 
ceive aid  when  it  ought  to  pay  its  own 
bills;  if  it  excuses  the  selfishness  of 
certain  rich  men  within  its  membership, 
it  makes  it  hard  to  apoeal  for  the  needs 
of  our  great  work.  In  general  it  may  be 
said,  every  home  missionary  field  should 
be  a  worthy  argument  with  those  who 
must  furnish  the  money  for  our  service. 

5th.  The  Financial  Problem.  The 
secretary  must  see  that  his  Society  has  a 
good  credit.  Calls  may  be  many  and 
urgent,  and  sentiment  may  seem  to  de- 
mand expenditure,  but  the  appropriations 
must  not  exceed  the  normal  income.  A 
debt  at  the  close  of  a  year  is  very  dis- 
couraging to  the  donors. 

The  checks  of  the  Society  must  be  as 
good  as  gold. 

Every  state  will  have  to  borrow  at 
some  time  in  every  year.  There  are  dry 
seasons  when  the  churches  will  not  remit 
for  this  work.  Pastors  will  go  away  in 
the  summer  and  forget  that  the  mission- 
ary needs  his  salary  as  well  as  them- 
selves. We  shall  do  what  we  can  to  ed- 
ucate our  people  to  regularity  of  service, 
but  it  will  be  true  that  the  Society  must 
have  a  credit  that  its  missionaries  may 
not  go  without  their  well   earned   dues. 

In  its  local  relations  a  Congregational 


Church  is  an  individuality.  It  chooses 
its  creed,  calls  its  ministers,  orders  its 
exercises  to  suit  itself  and  God.  No  one 
will  meddle  with  it  in  its  oneness  of  ex- 
istence. 

But  in  its  missionary  relations  it  is 
another  something,  it  is  an  element  of  a 
collectiveness.  It  has  joined  its  energies 
with  others  that  they  may  together  do 
what  would  in  no  measure  be  possible  to 
one  church  alone.  In  the  collectiveness 
the  voluntary  element  is  not  possible;  a 
certain  share  of  responsibility  rests  upon 
each  member  of  the  body.  Indeed  there 
can  be  no  steadiness  of  home  missionary 
service,  _  no  safety  in  making  appropria- 
tions till  the  churches  in  any  state 
acknowledge  that  they  are  a  fellowship, 
and  that  the  mutual  responsibilities  are 
just  as  sacred  as  the  obligations  that  any 
local  church  may  contract. 

Indeed  I  am  sure  that  if  anything  shall 
make  our  new  National  Organization  a 
failure^  it  will  be  the  indisposition  to 
recognize  that  in  missionary  service  the 
unit  of  effort  is  a  collectiveness,  and  that 
each  church  has  surrendered  its  will  to 
the  opinion  of  the  whole.  It  may  be 
necessary  in  some  states  to  promote  the 
spirit  of  mutuality  before  the  problem  of 
constituent  relation  with  the  National 
Society  is  possible.  Perhaps  the  accep- 
tance of  a  place  in  the  new  organism  will 
create  the  sense  of  co-operation,  but  to 
my  mind  the  great  obligation  laid  upon 
the  Congregational  Churches  to  make 
this  land  Christian,  is  incompatible  with 
the  idea  that  any  church  or  set  of 
churches  should  say  that  this  service  can 
be  left  to  the  uncertain  choice  of  an  in- 
dividual  church. 


Editorial  Note — We  suffer  this  month  from  embarrassment 
of  riches.  Our  space,  as  a  magazine,  is  a  procrustean  bed, 
which  must  be  made  to  fit  at.  any  cost.  If,  in  the  process, 
some  amputations  have  been  found  necessary,  they  have  given 
quite  as  much  pain  to  the  editor  as  they  will  give  to  the  author. 
Three  papers  of  special  value  have  been  entirely  withdrawn  and 
are  held  in  reserve  for  future  issue.  If  our  readers  wish  to  enter 
into  a  full  understanding  of  the  new  home  missionary  era,  they 
should  make  a  careful  study  of  the  contents  of  this  number. 


The  Financial  Problem 


Tfie  Treasures  of  the  East 

S.  H.  Woodrow,,  D.  D., 
Springfield,  Massachusetts, 
Of  the  Board  of  Directors 

THE  subject  assigned  to  me  has  an 
alluring  sound.  The  treasures  of 
the  East.  At  once  there  floats 
before  our  eyes  a  vision  of  oriental 
splendor,  rich  garments,  gold  and  silver, 
and  precious  stones.  The  subject  was 
evidently  not%  intended  to  include  orient- 
al splendor,  but  only  a  section  of  the 
bleak  coast  of  the  United  States.  The 
line  between  East  and  West  has  moved 
westward  several  times  since  our  wise 
forefathers  placed  the  Charles  river  as  a 
remote  boundary  beyond  which  the 
country  was  not  habitable.  Population 
has  travelled  westward  across  the  Con- 
necticut, across  the  Hudson,  across  the 
Ohio,  across  the  Mississippi,  across  the 
plains,  over  the  mountains  till  it  touches 
the  Pacific. 

For  the  purposes  of  this  address  I 
have  confined  my  attention  to  what  is 
strictly  East — New  England,  New  York, 
New  Jersey  and  Pennsylvania.  Beyond 
these  states  has  come  to  be  known  as 
the  "Middle  West." 

What  have  been  and  what  are  the 
treasures  of  the  East? 

Very  early  in  the  history  of  Christ- 
ianity we  hear  of  wise  men  who  came 
from  the  East;  they  did  not  come  empty 
handed  ;  they  brought  gifts  of  "gold  and 
frankincense  and  myrrh"  to  lay  at  the 
feet  of  the  infant  Saviour. 

Out  of  our  little  rock-ribbed,  snow- 
bound East  have  gone  the  wise  men  who 
have  laid  the  foundations  of  the  Empire 
States  of  the  great  West.  From  little 
hamlet  and  hillside  farm  have  gone  the 
men  who  have  founded  the  colleges  and 
reared  the  churches  that  have  moulded 
the  intellectual  and  shaped  the  religious 
life  of  the  New  States.  Out  of  the  East 
have  gone  the  men  of  sturdy  character, 
of  liberal  education,  of  Christian  states- 


manship, who  were  best  fitted  for  Em- 
pire building.  The  religious  conviction 
of  the  Puritan,  the  commercial  enterprise 
of  the  Dutchman,  the  brotherly  love  of 
the  Quaker  were  all  combined  in  these 
hardy  pioneers.  Business  enterprise  and 
missionary  zeal  have  cerried  the  sons 
and  daughters  of  the  East  not  only 
through  the  length  and  breadth  of  this 
lc-nd  but  also  throughout  the  entire 
world.  The  spirit  of  the  pioneer,  the 
state-builder,  the  educator,  the  mission- 
ary was  in  their  blood. 

Like  that  noble  Roman  Matron,  we 
would  point  to  the  sons  and  daughters 
whom  we  have  given  to  other  states  and 
to  the  world  and  say,  "These  are  our 
jewels."  The  richest  treasures  of  the 
East  have  been  in  Christian  homes,  pro- 
gressive schools,  and  spiritual  churches. 

The  most  valuable  output  of  the  East 
has  been  strong  manhood  and  virtuous 
womanhood,  both  consecrated  to  the 
highest  ideals.  Men  and  women  who 
had  their  dreams  and  visions  and  who 
in  a  practical,  common-sense  fashion 
went  to  work  to  realize  them. 

Their  motto  would  be,  "Do  noble 
things,  not  dream  them  all  day  long." 

But  these  wise  men  of  the  East  usual- 
ly had  some  gifts  in  their  hands,  some 
cash  in  their  pockets,  and  a  little  deposit 
in  the  bank.  This  was  proof  of  their  wis- 
dom. They  remembered,  "That  the 
heart  of  the  prudent  getteth  knowledge," 
but  they  did  not  forget  that,  "A  man's 
gift  maketh  room  for  him,  and  bringeth 
him  before  great  men. 

The  value  of  industry  and  the  import- 
ance of  small  savings  were  the  two  les- 
sons that  were  most  emphasized,  es- 
pecially in  New  England.  Poor  Richard, 
who  was  a  Boston  boy,  transplanted  to 
Philadelphia,  has  best  expressed  these 
maxims  in  his  almanac. 

Tt  was  these  small  economies  and 
these  little  savings  which  have  won  for 
the  East  the  reputation  of  niggardliness. 
The  sufficient  answer  to  such  charge  is 
the    <tre->m    of    benefience    tliat    through 


TREASURES  OF  THE  EAST 


375 


the  years  has  flowed  from  the  East  to 
every  part  of  this  land  and  to  every  part 
of  the  world  where  missions  have  been 
planted.  There  is  probably  not  a  col- 
lege in  the  West,  except  the  State  col- 
leges, that  has  not  been  aided  by  Eastern 
money.  There  is  not  a  state  west  of 
Massachusetts  that  has  not  been  aided  in 
its  church  and  mission  work  by  the 
Treasures  of  the  East.  There  is  not  a 
Mission  Station  in  the  world  that  has 
not  been  helped  by  Eastern  money; 
there  is  not  a  tidal  wave,  a  famine,  or 
an  earthquake  anywhere,  that  does  not 
meet  with  a  ready  response  from  the 
"Treasures  *of  the  East."  The  bulk  of 
these  gifts  are  from  the  stores  of  those 
who  have  saved  a  little  at  a  time.  While 
the  East  has  taught  industry  and  thrift 
it  has  also  taught  the  duty  of  giving  to, 
every  worthy  object, — libraries,  schools, 
churches,  missions. 


SAMUEL  H.  WOODROW,  D.  D. 

Many  have  denied  themselves  all  the 
luxuries  and  some  of  the  necessities  of 
life  in  order  that  they  might  leave  a  few 
hundreds  or  thousands  to  some  benevo- 
lent object.  It  is  the  lack  of  these  old- 
fashioned  savers  and  givers  that  makes 
the    appalling    decrease    in    gifts    to    our 


Mission  Boards.  Their  descendants,  if 
they  had  any,  belong  to  the  class  who 
sneer  at  small  economies  and  mortgage 
their   homes    to   buy   automobiles. 

The  East  of  to-day  is  not  the  East  of 
fifty  or  even  twenty-five  years  ago. 
There  have  been  great  changes  in  the 
native  population  and  greater  changes 
caused  by  the  inrush  of  foreigners.  If 
present  conditions  contimie,  New  Eng- 
land will  have  to  be  rechristened  New 
France  or  New  Italy,  and  New  York 
may  have  to  be  called  New  Jerusalem, 
not  for  its  Godliness,  but  for  its  Ghetto. 

It  is  not  necessary  to  burden  you  with 
statistics.  At  last  people  are  awakening 
to  the  situation.  Books  and  magazine 
articles  are  being  written,  investigations 
are  going  on,  and  Congress  is  being  im- 
plored to  shield  us  from  a  part,  at  least, 
of  this  foreign  invasion. 

In  the  last  five  years  4,446,000  immi- 
grants landed  upon  our  shores  and  85 
per  cent,  of  them  settled  in  the  States 
that  1  have  called  Eastern.  In  1905 
1,026,499  immigrants  landed.  They  were 
distributed  as  follows:  New  York,  31 
per  cent.;  Pennsylvania,  20  per  cent.; 
Massachusetts,  7  per  cent.;  New  Jersey, 
6  per  cent.;  Connecticut,  3  per  cent.; 
Maine,  New  Hampshire  and  Vermont,  3 
per  cent.,  making  69  per  cent  for  this 
cent,   for  this    Eastern  group. 

The  only  states  that  had  anything  like 
this  increase  were  Illinois,  with  7  per 
cent,  and  Ohio  with  5  per  cent. 

Efforts  are  being  made  looking  toward 
a  distribution  of  these  immigrants  so 
that  they  will  not  settle  in  such  large 
numbers  near  the  ports  of  entry, — Bos- 
ton and  New  York. 

The  results  of  this  immigration  must 
be  evident.  The  increase  of  population 
in  the  Eastern  States  is  not  of  the  old 
American  stock,  with  their  high  ideals 
of  learning,  religion,  and  philanthropy, 
but  of  the  conglomerate  peoples,  who  as 
3ret  are  seeking  little  but  food,  clothing 
and  shelter. 

Whether  they  ever  seek  higher  things 
will  depend  upon  what  we  can  do  for 
them.  With  a  giving  constituency  that  in 
the  nature  of  the  case,  cannot  be  largely 


376 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


increased,  and  with  a  stupendous  foreign 
problem  at  our  very  doors,  the  "Treas- 
ures of  the  East."  that  have  flowed  to 
every  State  and  Nation  will  have  to  be 
turned  into  local  missionary  enterprises. 
This  problem  becomes  the  more  obvious 
when  it  is  known  that  there  is  a  city  in 
Massachusetts  having  a  population  of 
104,000  where  85  per  cent,  of  the  people 
are  foreign  born.  Eighty  years  ago 
there  was  not  a  Congregational  church 
in  Massachusetts  receiving  Home  Mis- 
sionary aid,  except  such  help  as  some 
stronger  church  in  the  vicinity  might 
give.  To-day  there  are  160,  thirty  of 
them  among  foreign  speaking  people. 

Other  states  in  the  Eastern  group  are 
in  like  condition.  The  decrease  of 
native  populations  in  the  hill  towns  has 
left  what  were  formerly  strong  church- 
es weak  and  discouraged.  The  influx 
of  foreigners  into  sections  of  cities  has 
driven  out  the  native  Americans  and 
left  churches  without  any  local  consti- 
tuency. Then  there  is  the  work  that 
should  be  done  for  the  "strangers  with- 
in our  gates." 

All  this  calls  for  wisdom,  foresight 
and  consecration  upon  the  part  of  those 
who  would  maintain  the  character  and 
integrity  of  our  American  institutions. 
When  all  this  has  been  said  it  would 
be  wrong  to  leave  the  impression  that 
the  East  is  poor.  There  is  immense 
wealth  in  the  group  of  states  I  have 
mentioned.  We  were  never  so  rich  as 
now.  The  trouble  is  we  were  never 
so  extravagant  as  now,  never  so  bent 
upon  spending  money  for  our  own 
pleasure.  A  sermon  on  self-denial  be- 
fore a  well-to-do  church  would  be  met 
with  a  complacent  smile.  The  doctrine 
of  self-denial  for  the  good  of  others  is 
deader  than  the  doctrine  of  original  sin. 
Instead  of  practicing  thrift  and  sav- 
ing in  order  to  have  something  to  give 
to  worthy  causes,  the  popular  custom  is 
tc  live  up  to  or  even  beyond  one's  in- 
come in  order  to  "make  a  fair  show  in 


the  flesh."  Young  people  must  begin 
in  their  scale  of  expenditures  ahead  of 
where  their  fathers  left  off,  even  if  they 
have  only  a  fraction  of  their  fathers'  in- 
come. 

The  announcement  of  large  gifts  has 
also  had  a  discouraging  effect  upon 
small  gifts.  Men  ask,  what  is  the  worth 
of  my  mite  against  the  other  man's  mil- 
lions? There  is  also  a  latent  feeling 
that  these  large  gifts  will  do  all  the 
work  and  that  the  smaller  gifts  can  be 
withheld  without  injury  to  the   cause. 

Self-denial,  saving,  and  giving  of  the 
old-fashioned  kind  are  still  practised  in 
Maine,  New  Hampshire  and  Vermont, 
and  in  the  rural  districts  of  the  other 
Eastern  States,  but  not  much  I  fear  in 
the  cities  and  by  the  younger  generation. 
Upon  the  farms  and  in  the  villages 
there  are  the  pious  souls  who  save  and 
deny  themselves  that  they  may  enjoy 
the  luxury  of  giving  for  the  kingdom  of 
their  God.  The  idea  of  stewardship 
will  have  to  be  re-emphasized.  Perhaps 
we  need  another  Francis  of  Assisi  to 
preach  and  illustrate  the  blessings  of 
poverty. 

With  increasing  riches  there  comes 
an   increasing  tendency  to   rob   God. 

The  Scripture  rule,  "Every  man  as 
God  has  prospered  him,"  must  be 
preached  with  power.  The  dimes  and 
the  dollars  are  needed  as  well  as  the 
thousands  and  the  millions.  Mites  be- 
come mighty  when  there  are  enough  of 
them. 

The  only  power  that  can  unlock  the 
"Treasures  of  the  East"  and  open  "The 
Fountains  of  the  West,"  is  a  genuine 
revival  of  religion  that  will  give  men  a 
realizing  sense  of  the  presence  and 
power  of  God,  and  an  adequate  sense  of 
the  importance  of  the  world's  salvation. 
When  the  heart  opens  to  receive  Christ 
in  His  fulness,  the  pocket  opens  to 
furnish  means  for  the  establishment  of 
His  kingdom  of  righteousness  and  love 
in  the  United  States  and  in  all  the 
world. 


Our  Vantage  Point  as  a  Financial  Organization 

By  Rev.  H.  H.  Kelsey, 
Of  the  Board  of  Directors  and  Executive  Committee 


1WAS  asked  to  speak  upon  this  sub- 
ject, because  I  chanced  to  quote  in 
the  hearing  of  the  committee  a  re- 
mark of  Secretary  Patton  of  the  Ameri- 
can Board,  who  once  said  to  me  that  the 
Home  Missionary  Society  ought  to  get 
money  more  easily  than  any  other  of 
our  societies  because  it  has  the  organ- 
ization. 

The  problem  of  raising  money  for  any 
cause  is  the  problem  of  getting  its  ap- 
peal adequately  presented  to  the  indi- 
vidual giver.  This  cannot  be  done  ef- 
fectively for  a  great  constituency  with- 
out organization.  If  we  were  facing  this- 
problem  to-day  without  any  organiza- 
tion we  should  try  to  produce  one  like 
that  one  which  we  now  have,  that  is,  we 
should  secure  first  a  strong  central  ex- 
ecutive and  then  executive  heads  in 
each  state  or  large  section  through 
which  we  might  reach  the  pastor  of 
every  church  in  that  section,  and 
through  him,  if  possible,  get  our  appeal 
to  the  individual  giver. 

This  is  just  what  we  now  have.  Our 
organization  now  covers  the  entire  field 
of  solicitation  and  it  ought  to  be  very 
effective,  for  it  is  not  the  organization 
of  the  churches  as  such  through  state 
and  local  conferences,  which  are  as 
much  related  to,  and  the  agent  of,  our 
other  societies,  as  to  us.  We  have  a 
distinct  home  missionary  organization 
which  is  perfectly  articulated  from  the 
central  office  to  the  individual  church. 
All  of  our  state  organizations  are  now 
parts  of  one  whole,  organically  related 
to  the  central  executive,  all  having  one 
business  and  interest,  namely,  the  propa- 
ganda of  home  missions.  These  state 
organizations  are  now  in  most  instances, 
and  we  trust  soon  will  be  in  every  in- 
stance, the  organization  of  the  churches 
so  that  every  state  executive  shall  be 
elected  by  the  churches  and  so  be  im- 
mediately related  to  them.  Thus  we 
have  an  organization  which  ought  to  be 


effective  for  an  aggressive  propaganda 
for  its  purpose.  With  a  strong  central 
executive,  such  as  we  have,  with  the 
churches  of  every  state  committed  to 
this  cause,  it  ought  to  be  easily  possible 
to  get  information  to  every  pastor  and 
through  him,  to  awaken  the  enthusiasm 
of  every  church  and  impress  upon  every 
man  the  opportunity  and  responsibility 
of  these  days,  and  the  special  respons- 
ibility and  opportunity  of  Congrega- 
tionalists;  this  is  the  condition  of  the 
general  contributor. 

Now  you  are  saying  this  organization 
is  all  right,  and  secure,  and  there  is  no 
question  of  opportunity  and  responsibil- 
ity— will  it  work?  The  trouble  you  will 
say  is  with  the  pastors,  and  then  with 
the  members  who  do  not  give.  This  is 
true,  but  we  must  work  our  organiza- 
tion. If  it  is  an  organism,  if  there  is  a 
thrill  of  pleasure  or  pain  in  one  part, 
the  entire  organism  is  effected  unless 
there  is  paralysis  in  some  part  which 
will  not  permit  transmission  of  sensa- 
tion. 

Given  a  secretary  an  executive  head 
whose  vision  is  clear  and  his  heart  on 
fire,  such  as  we  now  have,  and  about  him 
gathered  a  keen,  loyal  and  enhusiastic 
body  of  advisers  in  his  associates  in  the 
office  and  in  the  executive  committee, 
such  as  we  now  have,  as  keen,  and  as 
loyal  and  as  enthusiastic  men  as  our 
church  can  produce;  given  an  equally 
loyal,  clear  visioned,  devoted  body  of 
state  secretaries  with  their  executive 
boards  and  state  directors,  such  as  we 
have,  and  two  conditions  of  effective 
organization  are  fulfilled  The  life  and 
enthusiasm  of  the  central  office  will  be 
felt  in  the  office  of  every  state  executive. 

It  is  not  surprising  if  in  these  first 
few  months  of  experiment  under  this 
new  order,  when  we  have  been  waiting 
for  a  completed  organization  and  for  the 
practical  definition  to  ourselves  of  the 
new  relation,  great  progress  in  work  or 


3/8 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


increase  in  gifts  to  the  treasury  have 
not  been  secured.  But  these  are  com- 
ing if  there  is  nowhere  in  the  organism 
any  deadness  or  indifference,  which 
would  cause  failure  of  function.  The 
state  secretaries  and  state  directors 
will  catch  the  large  vision  and  fire  of  the 
chief  executive,  and  the  plans  wrought 
out  in  the  New  York  office  will  be  taken 
up  and  carried  into  effect  in  all  parts  of 
the  country. 

We  have  brought  a  new  auxiliary  in- 
to being  in  the  office  of  the  state  direct- 
or. He  is  the  intermediary  between  the 
National  and  state  executive,  and  his 
hearty  co-operation  will  add  a  new  re- 
source of  energy  for  the  development  of 
the  constituency  he  represents.  I  be- 
lieve the  duty  of  the  state  director  must 
be  considered  as  including  far  more 
than  attendance  upon  the  two  meetings 
a  year  of  the  Board.  It  is  my  judgment 
that  he  must  become  with  the  state 
secretary  an  agent  for  the  development 
of  home  missionary  interests  in  the 
state  he  represents. 

T  have  thus  far  mentioned  but  two 
factors  in  the  organization.  The  third 
factor  is  the  pastor,  the  executive  of 
the  individual  church.  Here  we  have  a 
problem.  During  the  campaign  of  last 
year  we  have  the  evidence  in  the  New 
York  office  that  in  every  instance  in 
which  the  pastor  presented  the  appeal  to 
his  congregation  the  response  was  im- 
mediate, and  the  instances  are  few  in 
which  the  total  amount  asked  for, 
namely,  fifty  cents  per  member,  as  an 
extra  offering,  was  not  secured.  This 
was  an  illuminating  experience.  Had 
this  been  done  by  every  pastor  in  the 
land,  as  they  were  asked  to  do,  our  en- 
tire debt  would  have  been  paid.  It  is 
fair  to  presume  that  in  nine-tenth  of  our 
churches  an  average  fifty  cents  would 
have  been  given  had  all  the  pastors  re- 
sponded as  some  did. 

Granted  that  the  presentation  of  the 
cause  of  home  missions  from  the  pulpit 
and  the  collection  are  conventional,  and 
in  themselves  ineffective  as  a  method  of 
raising  home  missionary  money,  it  still 
remains  that  when  this  is  done  by  a 
well-informed,      clear-visioned,      enthus- 


iastic pastor,   the   result   is   sure. 

Now  it  is  the  function  of  the  state 
secretary  to  study  the  pastors  and 
churches  of  each  several  state  one  by 
one,  and  to  see  to  it  that  each  man  is  in- 
formed, has  a  vision,  and  gets  on  fire. 
It  is  the  business  of  these  executive 
heads  of  states  to  get  into  contact  with 
the  individual  pastor  and  to  convey  to 
him  the  life  of  the  organism,  to  give 
to  him  vision  and  purpose  and  convey  to 
him  enthusiasm,  and  develop  a  sense  of 
the  obligation  and  opportunity  which  is 
thrilling  the  soul  of  the  executive  head. 

We  should  pause  here  to  say  that  the 
executive  head  of  all  this  enterprise 
from  whom  all  our  inspiration  comes 
and  whose  passion  should  thrill  all  our 
souls,  is  Christ. 

This  function,  above  described,  of  the 
state  secretary  can  be  fulfilled,  and 
when  it  is  done  to  the  limit  of  the  sec- 
retary's ability  it  is  my  conviction  that 
there  are  few  pastors  who  will  not  re- 
spond and  become  alive  and  enthusiastic, 
and  do  well  their  work  in  the  local 
church  and  get  money  from  the  indi- 
vidual  givers   in   their   congregation. 

Brethren,  have  I  presented  an  ideal? 
I  have  also  described  the  actual  and  the 
possible  of  our  present  situation.  The 
few  who  have  said  that  the  new 
order  will  not  work  have  based 
their  fear  upon  their  opinion  that  the 
organization  would  fail  at  the  point  of 
the  state  secretary.  They  have  said  that 
the  state  organizations  will  first  look 
out  for  themselves,  that  is,  that  the 
organism  would  find  itself  paralyzed  at 
that  point.  If  their  fears  should  be 
justified  in  any  single  instance  there 
thij  organization  would  fail  to  be  ef- 
fective. If  ever,  in  any  instance,  it 
should  become  true  that  the  state  sec- 
retary and  organization  instead  of  con- 
veying the  appeal  of  the  National  So- 
ciety and  its  work  to  the  individual 
should  prevent  or  modify  that  appeal, 
then  the  new  order  is  a  failure  in  that 
instance.  But  we  have  the  demonstra- 
tion in  this  meeting,  that  this  is  not  true 
to-day,  nor  will  be.  We  have  here  the 
demonstration  of  the  utter  loyalty  of 
every   state    representative   to   the   cause. 


Appointments  and  Receipts 


APPOINTMENTS 


January,  1907 


Not  in  commission  last  year. 


Arnold,  Lewis  T).,  Aokeley,  Minn. 
Bandy,'  Paul   S.,   Red  Lodge  Mont. 
Brown,  A.  A.,  Gregorv  and  Dixon,  So.  Dak. 
Burgess,   Hubert   F.,    Sunnyside,    Wash. 
Clark,  E.   E.,   Plymouth,   Penn. 
Davis,   Arthur,    Pleasant   Valley    and    Dur- 

and,  So    Dak. 
Hinckley,  Mrs.  Ahbie  R.,  Fairfax,  So.  Dak. 
Huntley,   Abi   T.,   Gann   Valley,    So.    Dak. 
James,  David  M.,   Ree  Heights,   So.   Dak. 
Jenkins,  R.   G,  Arnot,  Penn. 
Konehar    Miss    Anna,    Braddock,    Penn. 
Larke,  B.,  Biwabik,  Minn. 
McCurry,   T.   B.,   Grady,   Ga. 
May,  Nelson  H,  Draper,  Murdo  and  Speirs, 

So.  Dak. 
Mygatt,   Albert   E.,   Herrick,   So.   Dak. 
Price,  John  M.,  Tolt,  Wash. 
Behm,  Henry  C,  Anamosa,  No.  Dak. 
Reid,   John,   Tacoma,   Wash. 
Saunders,   E.   E.,   Heaton,   No.   Dak. 
Thirloway,   Timothy,   Green   River,  Wyo. 
Thomson,   Ludwig,    Ontario,    Oregon. 
Waters,   Silas   A.,    Jennings,    Okla. 

It  ecom  missioned. 

Barnett,  J.   H,   Albion,   Penn. 

Bayne,    John    J.,    Joplin,    Mo. 

Blackburn,    J.    F.,    General    Missionary    in 

West  Fla. 
Coffin,  Joseph,  Atlanta,  Ga. 


Cram,   E.   E.,   Max   Bass,   Pilgrim   and  Sims 

out    stations,    No.    Dak. 
Curry,    D.    G.,    Washtucna    and    Kahlotus, 

Wash. 
Earl,  James,  Brownton  and  Stewart,  Minn. 
Eckel,  Frank  E.,  Pueblo,  Irving  Place  and 

Grove,  Colo. 
Gafert,  Fred,  Sioux  Falls,  So.  Dak. 
Hawkesworth,       Charles       W.,       Arlington, 

Wash. 
Isakson,  Andrew  J.,  Warren,   Penn. 
Josephson,  J.  M.,  Missoula,  Mont. 
Kendall,  Robert  R.,   Sanford,   Fla., 
Leeds,   Paul,    General   Missionary    in   La. 
Morach,  Jacob,  Eureka,  So.  Dak. 
Osinek,  Miss  Antonia,   St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Paine,  Samuel  D.,  Melbourne,  Fla. 
Payne,   Wilbur  N,   Sauk  Rapids,  Minn. 
Perkins,  Mrs.  Eliza  B.,  Breckenridge,  Okla. 
Roberts,  Robert  E.,  Columbia,   So.  Dak. 
Smith,  J.   A.,  Gage,  Okla. 
Snow,    W.    A.,    Ellis    and    out    stations.    No. 

Dak. 
Todd,  John   W.,   Centerville,    So.    Dak. 
Tomlin,  David   R.,   Kirkland,  Wash. 
Tornblom,   August    F.,    Pittsburg,    Pa. 
Townsend,    Stephen   J.,   Interlachen,    Fla. 
Turner,  Leonard  A.,  Seward,  Okla. 
Welles,  S.  B.,  Mohall,   Tolley  and  out   sta- 
tions.  No.   Dak. 
Woodruff,  Purl  G.,  Crestview,  Fla. 
Young,   A.    G.,   Abercrombie,    Christine   and 

Hickson,   So.   Dak. 


RECEIPTS 

January,  1907. 


MAINE. — $375.30. 

Bangor,  Central,  67.6  4;  Bath,  Central, 
57.20;  Eastport,  Central,  1.46;  Farmington, 
M.  F.  Cushman,  5;  Kenduskeag,  2;  Minot 
Center,  The  Misses  Washburn,  10;  Port- 
land, High  St.,  2;  State  St.,  200;  Ladies  of 
the  Bethel  Ch.,  25;  Skowhegan,  A  Friend, 
5; 

NEW     HAMPSHIRE. — $784.18;      of     which 
legacy  $123.30. 

Derry,  1st,  2;  Central  S.  S.,  4;  Exeter, 
Mrs.  E.  S.  Hall,  452;  Hanover,  Estate  of 
Mrs.  Susan  A.  Brown,  123.30;  Keene,  F.  B. 
Sawyer,  5;  Lyme,  37;  Manchester,  1st,  82.- 
95;MiIford,  1st,  20.65;  New  Hampshire,  An 
Aged  Friend,  25;  New  Hampshire,  "W," 
10;  Pike,  Bethanv,  13;  West  Lebanon, 
9.28. 

VERMONT. — $571.33. 

Brattleboro,    "M.    F.    T.,"    2;    Burlington, 

1st,  150;  College  St.,  73.10;  Chester,  Mrs. 
G.  H.  White,  1;  Guilford,  1.75;  Norwich, 
Mrs.  C.  R.  Stimson,  13.75;  Proctor,  Union, 
€0;  Rutland,  Mrs.  E.  Aiken,  .50;  St.  Johns- 
bury,  North,  71.58;  Vergennes,  10;  Wood- 
stock, A   Friend,   .50. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  C.  H. 
Thompson,  Treas.  A  Friend,  5;  Barton,  C. 
E.,  13.35;  Berkshire,  East,  6.50;  Brattle- 
boro, West,  C.  E.,  10;  Burlington,  1st, 
Woman's  Assoc,  50;  College  St.,  10;  Chel- 
sea, C.  E.,  4;  Dorset,  8;  Fairfax,  Mrs.  For- 
syth and  Miss  Hunt,  3;  Glover,  4;  Man- 
chester, 10;  Nimble  Finger  Circle,  25;  New- 
bury Center,  Ladies,  4.30;  Randolph,  Beth- 
any,    Miss     Circle,     5;     Springfield,     9;     St. 


Johnsbury„No  W.  Assoc,  20.     Total  $187.15. 

MASSACHUSETTS. — $8,172.92;       of      which 
legacies,    $3,848.75. 
Mass.    Home   Miss    Soc,   by  .Rev.    J.    Coit, 
Treas. 

By   request   of  donors $265.32 

Adams,  1st,  127.87;  Amesbury,  M.  P.  Sar- 
gent, 2;  Amherst,  1st,  S.  S.,  6.37;  College, 
Ch.  of  Christ,  5;  Boston,  Estate  of  Mrs. 
E.  J.  W.  Baker,  4.32;  Charlestown,  Estate 
of  Hannah  B.  Sweetser,  1,300;  Dalton, 
Zenas  Crane,  250;  Dorchester,  2nd,  103.02; 
East  Longmcadow,  1st,  S.  S.,  5;  Fairhaven, 
1st,  of  which  60.60,  from  Damon  Fund, 
74.10;  Gardner,  1st,  S.  S.,  20;  Hadley,  Es- 
tate of  J.  B.  Porter,  34.43;  1st,  28.61;Hat- 
field,  Estate  of  S.  H.  Dickinson,  2,185; 
Haverhill,  M.  A.  Nichols,  100;  A  Friend,  2; 
West  S.  S.,  13.42;  Leominster,  F.  A.  Whit- 
ney, 15;  Lowell,  1st,  22.18;  Kirk  St.,  350; 
H.  O.  Keyes,  10;  Magnolia,  Union,  12; 
Mansfield,  Orthodox,  24.32;  Milbury,  2nd, 
67.28;  Milton,  1st,  Evan  Ch.,  C.  E.,  5;  Mon- 
tague, 21;  Natick,  1st,  25;  Newbury  port, 
Bible  School,  Prospect  Ch.,  18.50;  Newton 
Centre,  A  Friend,  100;  Newton  Highlands, 
A  Friend,  50;  North  Amherst,  Estate  of 
Ellen  E.  Fisher,  200;  Northampton,  Estate 
of  W.  H.  Harris,  50;  First  Ch.  of  Christ, 
249.17;  Dorcas  Soc,  1st,  50;  A  Friend,  10; 
North  Wilbraham,  Grace  Union,  18;  Peter- 
sham, "A.  D.  M.,"  100;  Pittsfield,  1st  Ch. 
of  Christ,  7;  Roxbury,  I.  H.  Tufts,  5;  Shel- 
burne,  to  const.  Mrs.  M.  Davenport  an 
Hon.  L.  M.,  50;  Southampton,  25.12;  S.  S., 
11.61;    South    Egremont,    6:95;    South    Fra- 


38o 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


ininghani,  A  Friend,  1,000;  Spencer,  1st, 
23/. il;  springbeiu,  instate  of  .Levi  Graves, 
75;  Soutn,  117.24;  E.  J.  Wilkinson,  50; 
Topstieiu,  6;  Westboro,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  A. 
Winsor,  10;  West  Broukluid,  a.  S.,  20; 
\\  i  i  Kin  sou  vil  it-,  Miss  C.  W.  Hill,  to  const. 
Dr.  J.  Taylor,  Jr.,  an  Hon.  L.  M.,  50;  Wili- 
iainstown,  J.  H.  Hewitt,  5;  Worcester, 
Central,  363.68;  Piedmont,  23;  Mrs.  H.  F. 
Fay,    5;    Yarmouth,    Mrs.    M.    Matthews,    4; 

Woman's  H.  M.  Assoc,  (of  Mass.  and 
R.  I.)     Miss  L.  D.  White,  Treas. 

For  Salary   Fund $177 

RHODE!   ISLAND. — $286.15. 

East  Providence,  Newman,  20;  Little 
Compton,  United  Ch.,  31.04;  Pawtucket, 
140.7  3;  Providence,  A  Departed  Friend, 
43.38. 

Rhode  Island  H.  M.  Soc,  by  J.  William 
Rice,   Treas.;  Providence,  Pilgrim,   51. 

CONNECTICUT — $5,136.17;  of  which  lega- 
cies,   $2,228.15. 

Miss.  Soc.  of  Conn.,  by  Rev.  J.  S.  Ives, 
401.09;  Bridgewater,  S.  S.,  11.54;  Bristol, 
A  Friend,  25;  Cheshire,  Mrs.  F.  N.  Hall, 
1.;  Connecticut,  "In  Memory  of  S.  P.  C„" 
25;  Connecticut,  A  Friend,  500; 

Cornwall,  First  Ch.  of  Christ,  232.50; 
Danbury,  1st,  102.60;  East  Wood- 
stock, 14;  Ellsworth,  S.  S.  and  C.  E., 
20;  Enfield,  1st,  S.  S.,  20;  Ladies'  Benev. 
Soc,  20;  Fairfield,  Estate  of  Morris  W. 
Lyon,  970;  Groton,  S.  S.,  4.56;  Guilford, 
Miss  C.  T.  Sage,  100;  Higganum,  S.  S.,  9.04; 
Jewett  City,  2nd,  5;  Litchfield,  Legacy  of 
Maria  D.,  Stoddard,  100;  Middlefield,  Mrs. 
M.  E.  Lyman,  60;  Milford,  Plymouth  S.  S., 
14.34;  Monrose,  4;  New  Britain,  1st,  S.  S., 
42.11;  New  Haven,  In  Memory  of  "C.  B. 
N.,"  200;  New  London,  1st  Ch.  of  Christ, 
27.33 ;New  Milford,  In  Memory  of  J.  S. 
Turrell,  5;  New  Preston,  111.90;  North 
Branford,  Estate  of  Luther  Chedsey,  7.06; 
Northfield,  5.36;  North  Haven,  Miss  A.  M. 
Reynolds,  200;  Norwalk,  1st,  S.  S.,  30; 
Norwich,  1st,  863;  S.  S.,  7.83;  2nd,  87.74; 
S.  S.;  3;  Greeneville,  5;  Old  Lyme,  76; 
Pomfret,  1st,  42.95;  Rockville,  Bible 
School,  22.50;  Southington,  36.05;  Stafford 
Springs,  C.  E.,  20;  Stratford,  Mrs.  L.  Bur- 
rett,  3;  Waterbury,  From  Estate  of  Claris- 
sa, M.Allen,  1,077.66;  West  Hartford,  Estate 
of  A.  P.  Talcott,  73.  43;  Westminster,  6; 
West  port,  Saugatuck,  40.93;  Wilton,  3.62; 
Windsor,  A  Friend,  50. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  C.  S.  Thayer, 
Treas.,  50;  Bridgeport,  Trumbull,  7.50; 
Hartford,  1st,  Y.  W.  H.  M.  Club,  50;  So. 
Ch.  Aux.,  60;  Mrs.  F.  B.  Cooley,  100;  So. 
Norwalk,  25;  Thompson,  11.     Total,  $303.50. 

NEW   YORK $1,409.14;    of   which    legacy, 

$2.50. 

Angola,  A.  H.  Ames,  5;  Brooklyn,  South, 
200;  Lewis  Ave.  S.  S.,  30;  S.  S.  of  the  Ch. 
of  the  Pilgrims,  20;  Park  S.  S.,  11;  Flat- 
bush,  to  const.  Rev.  L.  T.  Reed  an  Hon. 
L  M.,  50;  F.  N.  Tyler,  2;  Clifton  Springs, 
Mrs.  C.  D.  Dill,  50;  Cortland.  H.  E.  Ran- 
ney,  100;  Elbridge,  14;  Fairport,  20;  Fish- 
kill-on-Hudson,  Miss  M.  T.  Kittredge,  10; 
Honeoye,  52.85;  Hopkinton,  Estate  of  C. 
A.  Laughlin,  2.50;  Jamesport,  4;  James- 
town, 1st,  161.96;  Mt.  Vernon,  1st,  10;  New 
Lebanon,  S.  S.,  5;  New  Yrork  City,  Broad- 
wayTab.,  add'l,  16;  North,  22.85;  Trinity, 
12;  Mrs.  T.  P.  Sanborn,  2;  Mrs.  A.  P.  Smith, 
10;  R.  Turner,  5;  Northfield,  Union  Miss. 
Soc,  21.84;  Oxford,  15;  Riverhead,  21.35; 
C.  E.,  10;  Rochester,  12.92;  Rutland,  S.  S., 
5;  Smyrna,  Miss.  Soc,  5;  Syracuse,  Good 
Will,  65.18;  Tarrytown,  Mrs.  S.  V.  Childs, 
10;  Utica,  Plymouth,  27.38;  Bethesda, 
Welsh,  10;  West  Camden,  Mrs.  H.  M. 
Green,   2;  Woodhaven,   1st,   19.28. 

Woman's   H.  M.  Union,   Mrs.  .J.   P.   Pear- 


sail  Treas.  Brooklyn,  Puritan,  S.  S.,  20; 
Tompkins  Ave.  L  B.  S.  Salary  Fund,  95; 
Special,  110;  Flushing,  S.  S.,  5.38;  New 
York  City,  Broadway,  Tab.,  66;  Riverhead,. 
Sound  Ave.  S.  S.,  16;  Syracuse,  Plymouth, 
39.90;  Watertown,  Emmanuel,  C.  E.,  15.75. 
Total,   $368.03. 

NEW   JERSEY $247. 

East  Orange,  Trinity  S.  S.,  10;  "K,"  125; 
Glen  Ridge,  102;  Somerville,  "In  Mem- 
orian,"   10. 

PENNSYLVANIA — $373.22;  of  which  lega- 
cy,  $250. 

Received  by  Rev.  C.  A.  Jones,  Miners 
Mills,  5;  Audenried,  Welsh,  10.90;  Duke 
Center,  Rev.  J.  Cunningham,  5;  Edwards- 
ville,  Welsh,  10;  Mount  Carniel,  1st,  5.50; 
S.  S.,  20;  Philadelphia,  Estate  of  W.  H. 
Wanamaker,  250;  Central,  10.60;  Park. 
10.83;  Pittston,  13.14;  Plymouth,  Welsh,  10; 
Scranton,  1st,  Welsh,  10;  Sharon,  S.  S., 
4.75. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.   D.   Howells, 
Treas. 
Treas.     Ridgway,  7.50. 

MARYLAND. — $25. 

Baltimore,  Associate,    25. 

DISTRICT  OF   COLUMBIA. — $5. 
Washington,  Lincoln   Temple,    5. 

VIRGINIA. — $9. 

Begonia,    Bethlehem,     8;     Miller    School, 

C.   E.  Simon,   1. 

GEORGIA $52.20. 

Atlanta,  Marietta  St.,  5;  E.  U.  King; 
Bradley,  Friendship,  Surrency,  New  Home, 
and  Ritch,  Antioch,  1;  Cedartown,  1st,  1; 
Columbus,  1st,  2.50;  Concord,  1.55;  Dacula, 
2;  Danielsville,  Zoar,  1.80;  Fort  Valley, 
add'l,  1;  Hartwell,  Liberty,  2.25;  Hoschton, 
4;  Sardis,  Oxford,  4;  Lawrenceville,  New 
Trinity,  5.30;  Llfsey  and  Gaillard,  3;  Lin- 
dale,  2.50;  Middleton,  New  Hope,  3.15;North 
Highland,  .25;  Oakwood,  Liberty  Chapel 
and  Ocee,  5;  Sarepta,  Holly  Creek,  and 
Suches,  Pleasant  Union,  1;  Seville,  Willi- 
ford  and  Kramer,  Asbury  Chapel,  1;  Stone 
Mountain,  Earnest  Grove,    3.90. 

\  i,  AB  AM  A.^— $12.75. 

Received  by  Rev.  A.  T.  Clarke,  Coker, 
3.13;  Birmingham,  Pilgrim,  8.25;  Tallassee, 
1st,    1.37. 

ARKANSAS, — $10. 
Rogers,  1st,   10. 

FLORIDA. — $32.95. 

Crestview,  1st,  8.70;  Eden,  4.25;  Key 
West,  1st,   20. 

TEXAS.— $41  94 

Dallas, '  Central,     18.64;     Pruitt,    1st,     3.05; 

Sherman,  St.  Paul's,  20.25. 

OKLAHOMA. — $22.27. 

Coldwater  and  Pleasant  View,  17.27; 
Hastings,   5. 

ARIZONA. — $52.30. 

Received  by  Rev.  J.  D.  Kingsbury,  D.  D.,. 
Prescott,  50.30;  Humboldt,  Union,  2. 

TENNESSEE. — $39.75. 
East  Lake,  39.75. 

KENTUCKY. — $1.20. 
Korea,  1.20. 

OHIO. — $2,201.88;  of  which  legacy,  $2,111.- 
82. 

Akron,  West.  20;  Burton,  10;  Geneva,  S. 
S  ,  4  80;  North  Fairfield,  18.35;  Oberlin,  Mrs. 
J.     F.     Siddall,     10;     Tallmadge,     Estate    of 


APPOINTMENTS  AND  RECEIPTS 


38i 


Daniel  Hine,   2,111.82;  Twinsburg,  26-91. 

INDIANA. — $89. 

Elwood,  S.  S.,  20;  Indianapolis,  May- 
flower, 17;  Covenant,  2;  Muncie,  J.  A.  Daly, 
50. 

ILLINOIS. — $622.57. 

Amboy,  1st  C.  B.,  2.60;  Friends,  25;  Car- 
pentersville,  1st,  10.57;  Dundee,  C.  E.,  10; 
Elva  Station,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  Ward,  5; 
Moline,  Mrs.  S.  M.  Atkinson,  500;  Naper- 
ville,  C.  B.,  5;  Polo,  Ind.  Presb.  Ch.,  29.90; 
Strawn,  1.50 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  by  Mrs.  A.  O. 
"Whitcomb,  Treas.,  Big  Woods,  M.  B.,  .65; 
Elgin,  1st,  W.  S.,  25;  Granville,  Prim.  S.  S., 
2.35;   Strawn,  C.   B.,   5.     Total,   $33.00 

MISSOURI. — $933.23. 

B'reckenridge,  20;  Kansas  City,  1st,  54; 
Evanhoe,  Park,  20;  C.  C.  Hoffman,  25; 
Lebanon,  1st,  33.39;  Pierce  City,  1st,  24.15; 
St.  Joseph,  S.  S.,  20;  St.  Louis,  1st,  52.83; 
Pilgrim,  248;  Springfield,  1st,  25.80;  Ger- 
man, 16.80;  "Webster  Groves,  1st,  34.03. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mo.,  Mrs.  A.  D. 
Rider,  Treas.  Cole  Camp,  2;  De  Soto,  1; 
Green  Ridge,  1;  Hannibal,  1;  Kansas  City, 

Beacon  Hill,  2.50;  1st,  C.  E.,  5;  Brooklyn 
Ave.  Branch,  Priscilla  Soc,  5;  McGee  St. 
Branch,  L.  U.,  35;  Ivanhoe  Park,  2.32;' 
Prospect  Ave.,  2.10;  Roanoke  Boulevard, 
2.25;  S.  W.  Tab.,  L.  A.,  3;  Westminster, 
20;  Kidder,  4;  Lebanon,  4;Maplewood,  16; 
Old  Orchard,  W.  A.,  3.06;  Pierce  City,  1; 
St.  Joseph,  29;  St.  Louis,  1st  St.,  L.  M.  S., 
69.  50;  Fountain  Park,  W.  A.,  13.55;  Hope, 
10;  Memorial,  3;  Pilgrim,  W.  A.,  Sr.  Dept., 
69.29;  Junior  Dept.,  23.73;  Pilgrim  workers, 
3.93;  Union  L.  A.,  3;  Sedalia,  1st,  9; 
Springfield,  1st,  13;  German,  L.  M.  S.,  1; 
Vinita,  Ind.  Ter.,  1.       Total,  $359.23. 

MICHIGAN. — $  900. 

Detroit,  A  Friend,    900. 

WISCONSIN. — $1.50. 

Wood  Lake  and  Doctors'  Lake,  Swedish, 
1.50. 
IOWA. — $157. 

Iowa  Home  Miss.  Soc,  by  A.  D.  Mer- 
rill, Treas.,  128;  Farragut,  18;  Sibley,  Mrs. 
G.  W.  Baxter.  1. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  H.  K.  Edson, 
Treas.,  10. 

MINNESOTA. — $397.50. 

Received  by  Rev.  G.  R.  Merrill,  Arco,  8; 
Hutchinson,  8;  Minneapolis,  Fremont  Ave., 
addl.,  8;  Plymouth,  addl.,  105.93;  New  Rich- 
land, 25;  Round  Prairie,  5;  St.  Paul,  Olivet, 
14.40;  Peoples,  50;  Sauk  Center,  12;  231.33; 
Bagley,  10;  Barnesville,  C.  B.,  2;  Brainerd, 
3;  Cannon  Falls,  Swedish,  2;  Cream,  Rev. 
C.  L.  Hill,  1;  Custer,  208;  Duluth,  Pilgrim, 
96.93;  Garvin,  2.08;  Mcintosh,  Ersklne  and 
Mentor,  2.50;  Milaca,  1st,  3;  Minneapolis, 
Forest  Heights,  10.08;  North  Branch,  2.50; 
Silver  Lake,  5;  J.  S.  Jerabek,  22.30;  Tyler, 
C.   E.,   2;  West  Duluth,  Plymouth,   3. 

KANSAS. — $50.75. 

Centralia,  M.  Page  to  const.  Mrs.  F.  E. 
Hall    an    Hon.    L.    M.    50;Munden,    Rev.    J. 

Rundus,  .75. 


NEBRASKA. — $48 
Cornles,    1st,     6 
5;    Grafton,    10.50 


35. 


Germantown,    German, 

Hallam,    German,    8.35; 

Olive   Branch,    German,    6;    Shickley,  12.50^ 

NORTH  DAKOTA.— $66.74. 

Received  by  Rev.  G.  J.  Powell,  Heaton, 
1,;  Washburn,  3.45;  4;45;  Anamoose,  2.46; 
Cando,  3;   Elbowoods,  Women's  Sew.   Soc, 


11;  Esmond,  3;  Hesper,  5;  Maddock,  4; 
Sawyer  Highlands  and  Emmanuel,  1.58; 
Wogansport,  Miss  M.   O.   Osgood,   1. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  E.  H.  Stick- 
ney,  Treas.  Fargo,  1st,  Women's  Union, 
10;     Hankinson,    Ladies,     Aid,     20;     C.     E. 

1.25.      Total,   $31.25. 

SOUTH    DAKOTA. — $260.95. 

Received  by  Rev.  W.  H.  Thrall,  Beulah, 
20;  Iroquois,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  Baldridge, 
100;  Lane,  5.10;  Plainview,  5;  Wessington 
Springs,  30.     Total,  $160.10. 

Academy,  37.50;  Albee  and  Revillo, 
1;  Clear  Lake,  1st,  5.05;  De  Smet, 
1st,  2;  Garretson,  Rev.  J.  Davis,  5;  Henry, 
5.75;  Ipswich,  5;  Loomis,  22.50;  Myron,  4; 
Wanbay,  2.52. 

Received  by  Rev.  T.  L.  Riggs.  Buffalo, 
1.31;  Cheyenne  River,  3.90;  Little  Moreau, 
1.04;  Lower  Cheyenne  River,  1.13;  Moreau 
River,  .67;  Oahe,  1;  Virgin  Creek,  1.48. 
Total,   $10.53. 

COLORADO. — $203.85. 

Received  by  Rev.  H.  Sanderson,  Colorado 
Springs,  2nd,  4.65;  Denver,  3rd,  55.16.  Total, 
59.81. 

Ault,  5;  Boulder,  C.  E.,  2.50;  Collbran, 
10.71;  Eaton,  C.  E.,  10;  Fountain,  2;  Love- 
land,  1st,  German,  44.18;  Pueblo,  Minnequa, 
7.35. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  L.  D.  Sweet, 
Treas.  Denver,  1st,  Ladies'  Aid,  25;  Third, 
8;  Pilgrim,  5.52;  Plymouth,  Primary  Dept. 
S.  S.,  11.33;  Cripple  Creek,  4.35;  Pueblo, 
Pilgrim,    3.10;   Tampa,   5.      Total,    62.30. 

UTAH. — $22. 

Sandy,  1st,  12;  Salt  Lake  City,  Phillips, 
10. 

IDAHO $48.50. 

Hope,  1st,  11.51;  S.  S.,  2.82;  Kellogg, 
Plymouth,  16.50;  Pocatello,  S.  S.,  10.30; 
Thornton,  2;  S.   S.,  1.67. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  G.  W.  Derr, 
Treas.     Mountainhome,  3.70. 

CALIFORNIA. — $205. 

Nordhoff,  Mrs.  I.  R.  Gelett,  5 ;  Pacific 
Grove,  Mrs.  C.  E.  Boise,  200. 

OREGON. — $93.20. 

Beaver  Creek,  St.  Peter,  6.25;  East 
Salem,  Central  and  Willard,  1st,  2.50;  lone, 
2.50;  New  Era,  St.  John,  3.25;  Portland 
Highland,  50;  Rainier,  Crystal,   3. 

Woman's  H.  M.  Union,  Mrs.  C.  F.  Clapp, 
Treas.,   25.70. 

WASHINGTON. — $1,131.47. 

Wash.  H.  M.  Soc,  Rev.  H.  B.  Hendley, 
Treas.  Special,  366;  Alberton,  5.21;  Bell- 
ingham,  1st,  70.66;  Cheney,  S.  S.,  2.50; 
Christopher,  25;  Colfax,  Plymouth,  40;  Mc- 
Millin,  2;  No.  Yakima,  1st,  40;  Oak  Park, 
3.82;  Odessa,  Immanuel,  10;  Orting,  Ch. 
and  S.  S-,  7.85;  Pleasant  Valley,  4.50;  Port 
Gamble,  $3.35;  Puyallup,  20;  Quilliute,  1; 
Seattle,  University,  43;  Spokane,  West- 
minster, 53;  Sprague,  8.25;  Springdale, 
3.90;  Sylvan,  5;  Tacoma,  1st,  115;  West 
Seattle,  S.  S.,  10;  Wallace,  Idaho,  20.80. 
Total,    $860.84. 

Ahtanum,  1st,  30;  Almira  and  Beulah,  10; 
Anacortes,  Pilgrim,  6.75;  Arlington,  United, 
3;  Beach,  1st,  10.30;  Blaine,  8;  Chewelah, 
7.50;  Colville,  5;  Edison,  12.68;  Lope*  Is- 
land, 13;  Seattle,  Pilgrim  Ch.,  of  which  100, 
Special,  129.10;  Tacoma,  Plymouth,  18.50; 
Washougal.  Bethel,  5;  Yakima,  Nachez 
Valley,  11.80. 


THE  HOME  MISSIONARY 


z& 


HAWAII. — $25. 

Makanai,   Foreign    Protestant    Ch.,   25. 

BULGARIA. — $10. 

H ulg aria,    "W.    W.,"    10. 

January  Receipts. 

Contributions     $16,569.24 


.Legacies     8,564.52 

$25,133. 7& 

Interest    1,435.80' 

Home     Missionary 159.30 

Literature     915(> 

Total,    $26,S20.36 

ALASKA $5.50. 

Valdez,    5.50. 


STATE  SOCIETY  RECEIPTS 


OHIO    HOME    MISSIONARY    SOCIETY. 

Receipts  in  January,  1907. 

Rev.  <  'has   II.   Small,  Treasurer. 

Akron,  First,  S.  S.,  50;  Andover,  C.  E., 
2;  Ashtabula,  Finnish,  6;  Aurora,  Jr.  C.  E., 
9;  Burberton,  Personal,  1;  Bellevue, 
Delta  Alpha  Club,  5;  Carmel,  2;  Centen- 
nial, 1.50;  Cincinnati,  Columbia,;  11.65; 
Plymouth,  S.  S.,  3;  Walnut  Hills,  C.  E., 
5;  Charlestown,  8.75;  C.  E.,  1.25;  Cleve- 
land, First,  5.50;  Euclid  Ave.,  47.48;  Beth- 
lehem (Mizpah),  C.  E.,  5;  Lakeview,  5; 
I  in  man  u<- 1  4,  S.  S.,  3;  Hough  Ave.  Inter- 
mediate C.  E.,  1;  Kinsman,  Personal,  2; 
Columbus,  North  S.  S.,  13.81;  First,  Per- 
sonal, 5;  Coolbille,  12.91;  Elyria,  First.  64; 
S.  S.,  6;  Second,  8;  Garrettsville,  20;  Hud- 
son, 16.17;  Huntsburg,  Personal,  5;  In- 
terest, 7.01;  Ireland,  2;  Kingsville,  Per- 
sonal, 8.33;  Litchefield,  4;  31adison,  17.61; 
S.  S.,  12.25;  Mansfield,  First,  Personal,  10; 
Marysvilie,  20;  Medina,  Personal,  30;  Mt. 
Vernon,  25.55,  Personal,  2;  Newport,  Ky., 
Personal,  1;  N.  Monroeville,  2.91;  N.  Ridge- 
ville,  4;  Oberlin,  First,  59.79;  Oberlin, 
Second,  17.19;  Painesville,  First,  32.42; 
Penfield,  5;  Sandusky,  41.57;  Steubenville, 
24.16;  Strongsville,  S.  S.,  5;  Somerdale, 
Personal,  5;  Tallmage,  Personal,  10;  To- 
ledo,  Central,    50.13;   Washington   St.,    8.56. 


Total $735.53 

From  The  Ohio  Woman's  Home  Mission- 
ary Union,  Through  Mrs..  George  .B. 
Brown,  Treasurer. 

Columbus,  Eastwood  W.  M.  S.,  12;  Me- 
dina W.  M.  S.,  9;  Toledo,  Washington  St., 
W.  M.  S.,  25;  Wellington,  W.  A.,  12;  Will- 
iamsfield,  W.  M.  S.,   5. 

Total    $63.00 


Grand    Total $798.53 

MASSACHUSETTS      HOME      MISSIONARY 
SOCIETY. 

Receipts   in   January,   1907. 

Rev.  Joshua  Colt,  Treasurer,  Boston,  Mass. 
Abington,  1st,  53.47;  Acton,  10;  Agawam, 
4.32;  Amherst,  1st,  217.07;  Andover,  Semi- 
nary, 150;  South,  336.58;  Rev.  C.  C.  Torrey, 
5;  Barnstable,  Centerville,  4.21;  Cotuit,  7; 
Beauvais,  Fund,  Income  of,  50;  Bedford, 
24.25;  Boston,  Mrs.  J.  A.  Lane,  40;  Armen- 
ian, 50;  French,  10;  Shawmuadd'l,  50; 
Boylston,  Ellis  Mendell  Fund,  455;  Brac- 
kett,  Fund,  Income  of  40;  Bridgewater, 
Scotland,  3;  Brockton,  Campello,  So.,  250; 
Brookfield,  7.28;  Brookline,  Grace  G.  White, 
7;  Harvard,  S07.67;  Levden,  221.35;  Cam- 
bridge, 1st,  24.41;  Pilgrim,  12.86;  A  Friend, 
2;  Charlton,  12;  Chatham,  3.96;  C.  E.,  1.85; 
Chesterfield,  10;  Chicopee,  3rd,  42.03; 
Clark  Fund.  Income  of,  15;  Cummington 
Village,  21.43;  Dalton,  Mrs.  Z.  M.  Crane, 
300;  Miss  C.  Crane,  300;  W.  Murrav  Crane, 
250;  Dedham,  Allin  S.  S.,  10.70;  Deerfield, 
So.,  Mrs.  L.  M.  Smith.  5;  Douglas,  Ea., 
18.13:  Falmouth,  No.,  12;  Fall  River,  1st, 
155.35;  Fitchburg,  Finn,  12.05;  Rollston, 
11.89-     Swedish,     15;     Foxboro,     Mary     N. 


Phelps,  50;  Framingham  So.,  Grace,  75.30, 
S.  S.  2.82;  Plvmouth,  20;  Frost  Fund,  In- 
come of,  50-  General  Fund,  Income  of, 
20;  Gloucester,  Trinity,  162.98;  Gur- 
ney  Fund,  Income,  50;  Hall  Fund, 
Income,  of,  60;  Hardwick,  Gilberts- 
ville,  77;  Haverhill,  Bradford,.  25.- 
59;  North,  60.30;  Ipswich,  1st,  36.92;  So., 
30;  Jessup  Fund,  Income  of,  150;  Lan- 
caster, Evang.,  13.52;  S.  S.,  5;  Lawrence,. 
So.,  7;  Leicester,  1st,  56.38;  Lenox,  15.30; 
Leominster,  S.  S.,  7.16;  Ortho,  50;  Leverett,. 
Moores  Corner,  5;  Lincoln,  30;  Long- 
meadow,  Lad.  Benev.  Soc,  15;  Lowell,  1st, 
Trin.,  44.66;  Marlboro,  L.  M.  Baker,  8; 
Maynard,  Finn.,  3.50;  Medford,  Mystic,  20; 
Medway,  Village,  13.09;  Mendell  Fund,  In- 
come of,  90.42;  Merrimac,  Pilgrim,  13.23; 
C  E.,  Middleboro,  Cent.,  S.  S.,  5.55;  Mid- 
dlefield,  6;  MiUbury,  Mrs.  L.  S.  Putnam,  5; 
Natick,  So.,  John  Eliot  Church,  6;  1st, 
30.48;  Newburyport,  Mrs.  J.  W.  Dodge,  25; 
North,  39.24;  Whitefleld,  10;  Newton,  Eliot, 
99  34-  1st,  65.03;  Norfolk,  C.  E.,  10;  North- 
bridge,  Rockdale  C.  E.,  2;  Philadelphia, 
Pa.,  L.  M.  Harmon,  5;  Pittsfield,  1st,  128.01; 
©.uincy,  Bethany,  84.64;  Finn,  5.44;  Reed 
Fund,  Income  of,  76.25;  Revere,  1st,  11.17; 
Rockland,  1st,  40.50;  Rockport,  9.26; 
Royalstou,  So.,  5;  Saxonville,  Edwards,  2; 
Sisters  Fund,  Income  of,  120;  Somerville, 
Franklin  St.,  7.98;  South  Hadley  Center, 
16.70;  Springfield,  Mrs.  S.  C.  Parsons,  1; 
Sturbridge,  C.  E.,  4.50;  Swampscott,  1st, 
11  25-  "T,"  Mass.,  10;  Truro,  5.27;  Union, 
3;  Wall  Fund,  Income  of,  8;  Walpole,  2nd, 
17;  Waltham,  1st,  12.68;  Swede,  11;  Ware, 
1st  S  S.,  10;  Wellfleet,  1;  Wendell,  4.11; 
Wentworth,  N.  H.,  5;  Westwood,  Islington, 
1;  West  Boylston,  26.50;  Weymouth,  Old 
So.,  2.50;  Whitcomb  Fund,  Income  of,  15  2.- 
50;  Whiting  Fund,  Income  of,  20;  Whitin 
Fund,  Income  of,  120;  Whitman,  15.60; 
Wilbraham,  1st,  51;  Williamsburg,  Hay- 
denville,  1;  Williamstown,  White  Oaks, 
5  42;  Winchendon,  No.,  21.12;  Winchester, 
1st,  335.48;  Windsor,  8;  Woburn,  1st,  205.- 
62;  Mission  Study  Class,  10;  Worcester, 
Finn,  1.40;  Worcester,  Park,  6.43;  Pied- 
mont,   4.20;    Yarmouth,    1;   West.    4.50. 

Designated  for  Italian  work,  Dorchester, 
Pilgrim,  C.  E.,  5;  Designated  for  Easter 
School  of  Theology,  Boston,  R.  H.  Stearns, 
15;  Andover,  J.  P.  Taylor,  15;  Dalton, 
Zenas  Crane,  15;  Clara  L.  Crane,  15; 
Lowell,  Jacob  Rogers,  15;  Newton,  F.  A. 
Day,  15;  Washington,  D.  C,  W.  M.  Crane, 
15;  Whitinsville,  A.  F.  Whitin,  30;  Will- 
iamston,  J.  H.  Den'son,  15;  Designated  for 
C  H  M  S,  No.  Adams,  70.10;  Swampscott, 
1st,    S    S.,5  50;   Worcester,   Adams    Sq.,    5. 


W.  H.  M.  A.,  Lizzie  D.  White  Treasurer. 
Salaries  American  International  Col- 
lege, 70;  Italian  worker,  40;  Polish  work- 
er, 35;  Boston,  for  Amer.  International 
College,   25. 

Summary. 

Regular    •  •  •  •  • *7'220/„„ 

Designated   for  Italian   Work .  500 

Designated    for    Easter    School    of       ,  _... 

Theology     150.00 

Designated  for  C.   H.  M.  S 80.60 


APPOINTMENTS  AND  RECEIPTS 


383 


W.    H.   M.   A 170.00 

Home    Missionary 14.90 


Total,   $7,641.20 

NEW    HAMPSHIRE    HOME    MISSIONARY 
SOCIETY. 

Receipts    in   January,    1907. 

Alvin  B.  Cross,  Treasurer,  Concord. 
Andover,  6;  Concord,  30.23;  East  And- 
over,  10.50;  Gilmantown,  10;  Hanover,  100; 
Lancaster,  26.10;  Manchester,  45.53;  Nash- 
ua, 60;  Newmarket,  10;  North  Hampton, 
7.80;  Somersworth,  10;  Stratham,  6;  Tilton, 
29;  Winchester,  1;  Wolfeboro,  19.17:  Total, 
$371.33. 

RHODE      ISLAND      HOME      MISSIONARY 
SOCIETY. 

Receipts    in   January,    1907. 

Jos.  William  Rice,  Treasurer,  Providence. 
Auburn,  Swedes,  5;  Harrington,  7.50; 
Central  Falls,  86.21;  26.58;  Chepachet,  18, 
13.25;  East  Greenwich,  Swedish,  5;  East 
Providence,  United,  8.13;  Howard,  Frank- 
lin, 10;  Newport,  United,  138.52;  Paw- 
tucket,  170.31;  Park  Place,  6.28;  Swedish, 
5;  Peacedale,  9.62;  Providence,  Beneficent, 
121.37;  Central,  41;  Plymouth,  11;  Pilgrim, 
31.10;  Union,  122.05,  100;  Slatersville,  C.  E., 
12.75;  S.  S.  10;  Tiverton  Four  Corners, 
7.73;  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Associa- 
tion, Special,  200;  Woman's  Home  Mission- 
ary Association  for  Franklin  Church,  25. 
Total,    $1,191.50. 

THE     MISSIONARY     SOCIETY     OF     CON- 
NECTICUT. 

Receipts    in    January,    1907. 

Ward  W.  Jacobs,  Treasurer,  Hartford. 
Burrville    Chapel,    47    cents;    Colchester, 

41.43;  Sunday  School,  3.71;  Danielson,  42.- 
51;  for  C.  H.  M.  S.,  22.46;  Elmwood,  Sun- 
day School,  10.20;  Enfield,  1st,  42;  Farm- 
ing-ton, 120.82;  Hartford.  1st,  147.25;  Hawes 
Fund  for  C.  H.  M.  S.,  31.44;  Asylum  Hill, 
196.20;  Windsor  Avenue,  22.05;  Danish, 
10;  Italian,  2.01;  Ledyard,  19.30;  Middle- 
town,  South,  71.25;  New  Britain,  1st,  for 
Italian  Work.  92.85;  for  C.  H.  M.  S.,  117.25; 
New  Haven,  Plymouth,  23  92:  Redeemer, 
for  Italian  work,  25;  Northfield,  5.37; 
North    Norfolk,    Sunday    School,    1.17;    Nor- 


wich, 1st,  49.15;  Old  Lyme,  10.50;  Portland, 
1st,  6.60;  Rockville,  82.48;  Salisbury,  25; 
Sharon,  4.48;  Southing-ton,  8.81;  Stamford 
and  Greenwich,  Swedish,  3.50;  Suffield, 
1st,  together  with  previous  contributions, 
to  constitute  Mrs.  J.  E.  Phelps  and  Mrs. 
George  S.  Phelps,  both  of  Suftield,  Honor- 
ary Life  Members,  58.67;  Wauregan,  50; 
West  Hartland,  10;  Westport,  13.50;  Will- 
iamsville,  C.  E.,  15;  Wilton,  19.57;  Wolcott, 
20;  The  Congregational  Union  of  New 
Haven,  for  Italian  Work,  50;  W.  C.  H. 
M.  U.  of  Conn.,  Mrs.  George  Follett,  Sec- 
retary, Hartford,  1st,  Y.  W.  H.  M.  Club, 
25;  Hartford,  2nd,  Auxiliary,  special,  26. 
Total,    $1,542.   28. 

M.    S.    C $1,371.13 

C.    H.    M.    S 171.15 


$1,542.28 

DONATIONS    OF    CLOTHING,    ETC., 

Reported  at  the  National  Oflice  in  January, 
1907. 
Branford,   Conn.,   C.    E.,   bbl.,    58.47;    Chil- 
licothe,     Ohio,     box,     29;     Cincinnati,    Ohio, 

Walnut  Hills;  H.  M.  S.,  box,  50;  Dainelson, 
Conn.,  West  Killingly,  box,  40;  East 
Orange,  N.  J.,  1st,  bbl.,  85;  Trinity  Ch., 
two  bbls.,  157.78;  Hanover,  N.  H.,  W.  H. 
M.  S.,  two  boxes,  90;  Ironton,  Ohio.  1st, 
W.  M.  S.,  bbl.,  16.93;  Middletown,  Conn., 
1st,  L.  H.  M.  S.,  bbl.,  69.25;  Moravia,  N.  Y., 
1st,  Miss  Union,  box,  68;  New  Britain, 
Conn.,  South,  W.  H.  M.  S.,  two  boxes,  375.- 
46;  New  Haven,  Conn.,  Howard  Ave.,  L.  H. 
M.  S.,  box,  68.11;  New  Milford,  Conn., 
Ladies'  Sew.  Soc,  two  bbls.,  150;  Norwich, 
Conn.,  Broadway,  W.  H.  M.  S.,  two  boxes, 
163.92';  Park,  W.  H.  M.  A.,  two  boxes,  80; 
Oberlin,  Ohio,  2nd,  L.  S.,  bbl.  and  package, 
163.10;  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  North,  H.  M.  S., 
box  and  bbl,  116.24;  St.  Johnsbury,  Vt., 
North,  W.  A.,  box,  100;  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  1st, 
Ladies'  Aid,  two  bbls.,  125;  South  Man- 
chester, Conn.,  1st,  Ladies'  Benev.  Soc, 
box  and  bbl.,  229.73;  Thompson,  Conn.,  1st, 
Ladies  bbl.,  141.89;  Torringford,  Conn., 
Ladies'  Sew.  Soc,  bbl,  40.33;  Torrington, 
Conn.,  Centre  Ch.,  bbl.  and  cash,  52;  Upper 
Montelair.  N.  J.,  W.  M.  and  Aid  Soc,  two 
bbls,  202;  Y.  L.  M.  and  Aid  Soc,  box  and 
bbl.,  207.86:  Waverly,  111.,  1st.  H.  M.  S., 
bbl.,  31.95:  Wellsville,  N.  Y.,  W.  M.  Union, 
box,  142  17:  Wilton,  Conn.,  L.  H.  M.  S., 
bbl.,  78.66;  Windham,  Ohio,  Helping  Hand 
Soc.   bbl.,   46.      Total,    $3,178.85. 


Rudolph  Lenz 

Printer 

62-65    Bible   House 

New   York 


50  Cents  a  Year 


THE  HOME 
MISSIONARY 


Can  the 
HOME    MISSIONARY 
be  made  Self-supporting? 
We  believe  it  can. 

Ten  thousand  life  members  are  now  receiving  the  maga- 
zine free.  This  is  their  undoubted  right,  and  no  one  would 
seek  to  abridge  it. 
On  the  other  hand  it  is  also  the  undoubted  privilege  of  these 
ten  thousand  life  members  to  surrender  this  right,  if  they  prefer,  and 
make  themselves  paying  subscribers.  And  why  not?  Ten  thousand 
paid  subscriptions  at  fifty  cents  a  year,  or  five  cents  a  month  for 
the  magazine  year,  will  make  The  Home  Missionary  self-support- 
ing. Ten  thousand  paying  subscribers  will  thus  set  free  $5,000 
which  are  desperately  needed  upon  the  missionary  field. 

Ts  there  any  easier  sacrifice,  any  more  gracious  service  which 
the  life  members  of  the  Home  Missionary  Society  can  render 


to  its  treasu 


What  will  you  do? 


Please  address  all  replies  to  the 

HOME  MISSIONARY 

287  FOURTH  AVENUE, 
New  York. 


THE 


HOME  MISSIONARY 


FOR  THE  YEAR   ENDING 


MARCH,    1907 


VOL.   LXXX 


NEW    YORK 

CONGREGATIONAL    HOME    MISSIONARY     SOCIETY 

FOURTH    AVENUE    AND   TWENTY-SECOND    STREET 
1907 


Index  to   the  Home   Missionary 

Department  Headings  and  Leading  Articles   in  Capitals. 


Address  of  Welcome,  W.   E.  Barton.. 

Adams,   Joseph  H.,    (Article) 

After  Many  Days 

Af ler   Sixteen    1  ears 

After    Reorganization,   What? 

Again,   What  of  These? 

Alaska,  Moral   Revolution  in 

Allen,  E.  B.,  (Portrait  and  Address)  .  . 

Aliens    or    Americans? 

AMERICA  A  CHRISTIAN  NATION 
(Illustrated),    Edward   A.    Steiner.. 

AMERICA,  IS  IT  MAKING  CRIM- 
INALS (Illustrated),  Minnie  J. 
Reynolds      

Americanizing  of  Hans,  H.  A.  Jump.  . 

APPEAL  TO  THE  EYE  (Illustrated), 
Miss   M.    C.   E.    Barden 

Barden,  Miss  M.   C.   E.,    (Article) 

Barton,  W.  E.,  (Portrait  and  Address) 

Bearding  the   Lion    in   his   Den 

Bible  Studies  in  Missions— A  Com- 
mendable    Text-book 

Blessed  and   Grateful 

Borg,    L.    P.,    (Portrait) 

Business  Way,   The  O.   D.  Crawford.. 

By  All  Means  to  Save  Some 

CANADIAN  H.  M.  SOC,  GREETINGS 
PROM    E.    M.    Hill 

Cannon,   J.   G.,    (Article) 

CENTENNIAL  STATE,  THE  (Illus- 
trated),   R.    T.    Cross 

Chalmers,    Thomas,    (Article) 

Cheering  Signs  for  the  Preacher 

Children  of  our  Congregational 
Churches,  The,  H.  H.  Kelsey 

Children,  Home  Missionary  Literature 
for   E.    F.    N 

Choate,  Mrs.   Washington,    (Article)  .  . 

Christian   Conquest   of  America 

Christmas    

CHURCH  AT  EASTER  CORNER, 
C.   N.   Sinnett 

CLEAR  CALL  TO  CONGREGA- 
TIONAL YOUNG  PEOPLE'S  SO- 
CIETIES AND   SUNDAY   SCHOOLS, 

Clear  Call  to  Sunday   Schools 

Congratulations     

Congregationalism,  Ten  Facts  About, 
H.  H.  Kelsey 

Congregationalism,  What  does  it 
Mean?   Margaret    L.    Knapp 

Cornelius,   Elias,    (Portrait) 

Counting  for  More  Than  One 

Cowan,   J.   F.,    (Article) 

Criminals — How  They  Are  Made 

Cross,   R.   T.,    (Article) 

Crowell,   Katharine  R.,    (Selection) .  . . 

Cuba  as  a  Missionary  Field 

De  Forest.    H    P.,   (Report) 

DESTINY  OF  AMERICA,  William  W. 
Jordan     24 

Dr.    Kingsbury's   Message 

Droppings   of   Promise 

Durable  Values,   N.  D.   Hillis 

EDITOR'S     OUTLOOK 

8.    57,   137,    170,    207,   240,   282, 

EIGHTIETH  ANNUAL  MEETING, 
OAK   PARK,   ILL 

EIGHTIETH  ANNUAL  MEETING, 
(Program)     

Eighty     Years 

Emrich,   F.    E.,    (Article) 

Evolution  of  a  Church,  S.  B.  C 

Familiar    Story,    A 

FATHER  OF  THE  NATIONAL  SO- 
CIETY, (Illustrated),  Elizabeth 
Foster   Kelsey 

Fellowship.    Blessing    of 

FINANCIAL    CAMPAIGN 13, 

Foreign  Speaking  Congregational 
Churches    

Foster,   Aaron.    (Portrait) 

FROM  THE  FRONT  LINE.    22,  68,  219, 

From  the  Gambling  Den  to  the  Com- 
munion Table,   R.   B.   Wright 

"Fruitful    Decade.    A 

Gavlik.    Andrew    and    Family,     (Por- 


82 
195 

58 
219 
137 

27 
259 
110 
215 

95 


159 
256 

334 
334 

82 

22 

176 
183 
130 
61 
221 

117 

353 

314 
250 
220 

104 

27 
152 
330 
240 

332 


171 

217 

9 

139 

335 

4 
187 
147 
170 
314 
294 
182 
87 

64 
289 
183 
211 

325 

79 

19 

8 

42 

29 

184 


6 
258 
144 

151 

6 

258 

255 

57 


traits)   135 

General  Missionary,  The 182 

Geronimo,  (Portrait) 54 

Go  i<  orward,  W.  B.  H 21 

i.OOD  INVESTMENT,  A  (Illustrated), 

C.    H.    Small 213 

Good    Year,    A 70 

Grose,    H.^  B.,    (Selection) 293 

Have  A  Rousing  Home  Mission  Study 

Rally     180 

HAY  STACK  COUNTRY,  A  TRIP 
THROUGH  (Illustrated),  F.  E.  Em- 
rich      42 

Her  Chief  Business,  E.  P.  H 30 

Herrick,   E.   P.,    (Article) 231 

Higher  Patrotism,  The,  H.  H.  Hamil- 
ton        60 

Hill,   E.   M.,    < Address) 117 

Hillis,   Newell    Dwight,    (Article) 274 

Hogberg,    A.    F.,    (Portrait) 130 

Home  Missions  and   the  Daily  Papers  174 
Home     Missions     and     Monthly    Mag- 
azines        173 

HOME     FIELD,     THE     CLAIMS     OF, 

S.    B.    Capen 62 

Home  Mission  Opportunities  in  Great 

Cities     175 

HOME  MISSION  PARABLE  FROM 
NORTH       DAKOTA       (Illustrated), 

G   J.    Powell 167 

Home   Mission    Study    Classes 287 

Home  Mission  Text-Book 146 

Home    Missions,    The    Twentieth   Cen- 
tury Patrotism,  Mrs.  G.  S.  Mills....  222 
HOME      MISSIONARY      CHALLENGE 

(Illustrated),   Henry   C.    King 84 

Home    Missionary    History 9 

Home  Missionary  Hymn 208 

Home   Missionary    Society    Work    and 

Methods    325 

Horton,    Isabelle,     (Selection) 294 

How  It  Struck  the  Missionary 220 

Hvde,   Mary   Kay,    (Article) 284 

Immigrant  Boy  Thinks,  J.  A.  Shedd..  67 
IMMIGRANT,      THE      EVANGELIZA- 
TION      OF        (Illustrated),       Mary 

Wooster    Mills 296 

IMMIGRATION,    THE    BOON    OF    (Il- 
lustrated),   Newell   Dwight   Hillis..  274 
IMMIGRATION,    RECENT    WRITERS 

ON    293 

IMMIGRATION,     WHAT     IT     MEANS 

(Illustrated),  Robert  Watchorn  .  .  .  .  267 
INTELLECTUAL          CULTURE, 

NEGLECT  OF,   C.   II.    Small 361 

Is  It  True?     E.  B.  Allen 150 

ISLAND  OF  DISENCHANTMENT  (Il- 
lustrated),   Marv   Kay    Hyde 284 

Ives,  J.   S.,    (Article) 128 

JEFFERSON  STREET  PLAY- 
GROUNDS   (Illustrated),    Frank    L. 

Johnson     237 

JEWS,       CONSTERNATION      AMONG 

(Illustrated).    Jos.    H.    Adams 195 

Johnson,    Frank   L.,    (Article) 237 

Jones,    Charles    A..    (Article) 180 

Jones,  C.   A.,    (Hymn) 292 

Joy  of  Hardness,  The 184 

Jump,  H.  A.,    (Article) 256 

Junior  Home  Mission  Study 146 

Junior    Text-Book 71 

Kelsey,   Elizabeth  Foster,    (Article)  .  .  6 

Kelsey,   H.   H.,    (Art'cle) 377 

King,  Henry  C,  (Portrait  and  Ad- 
dress)        85 

Kingsbury,   J.   D.,    (Article) 305 

Kingsbury,  J.  D..  (Portrait  and  Ad- 
dress)      99 

Knapp.   Margare't  L.,    (Article) 335 

TCozielek.    Paul.    (Portrait) 132 

Earned,    Sylvester,    (Portrait) 2 

Latest   from   the   Arctic 22 

LAY     CO-OPERATTON,     Problem     of, 

James    G.    Cannon 353 

Led  by  a  Little   Child,   E.  J.   Moody..  255 

Letter,    A   Suggestive 71 

Life    Among   the    Small    Eskimo    Folk 


INDEX 


387 


(Illustrated)      

Liljehgren,    A    (Portrait) 

LOST  SIXTY  PER  CENT,  Grace  C. 
White    

Loud,   Oliver    B.,    (Article) 

Mackenzie,    W.    Douglas       (Article) 

Majestic  Task,  A.  N.  Boynton 

Making    for    Righteousness 

MATERIAL  FOR  PASTORS  AND 
LEADERS      

McDowell,   H.    M.,    (Article) 

MEETING    OF    DIRECTORS 

Merrill,    G.    R.,    (Article) 

Mills.    Charles   S.,    (Portrait 

Mills,    C.    S.,    (Address) 

Mills,    Mrs.    G.    S.,    (Article) 

Mills,   Mary   Wooster,    (Article) 

MILLS,  SAMUEL  J.  (Illustrated) 
Thomas  C.   Richards 

MINISTERIAL  SUPPLY,  PROBLEM 
OF  W.  Douglas     Mackenzie 

Miskovsky,  L.   F.,    (Article) 

Mission  of  A  Christian  Republic, 
Washington    Gladden 

Missionary  Hymns,  Wanted,  J.  H. 
Ross     

Missions  in  the  Sunday  School 

MISSIONARY  MEETINGS  THAT 
THRILL,   J.    F.   Cowan 

Missionary  Processional  Hymn,  C.  A. 
Jones     

Moody,    E.    J.,    (Article) 

Musil,   John,    (Portrait) 

NEBRASKA  EYES  IN  MONTANNA 
(Illustrated),   A.    E.    Ricker 

NEW  WEST,  OUR  OPPORTUNITY 
IN  (Illustrated),  F.  K.  Sanders.  . .  . 

NIGHT  BEFORE  CHRISTMAS  (Il- 
lustrated),   Minnie   J.    Reynolds.... 

NOBLE  GIFT,  SIGNIFICANCE  OF 
(Illustrated),    L.    F.    Miskovsky.... 

North    Dakota    Parable 

Notable     Gathering 

Not   Remembering   the   Sabbath 

Oberlin  Slavic  Department,  (Por- 
traits)       

OKLAHOMA  HOME  MISSIONS,  THE 
ROMANCE  OF  (Illustrated),  Oliver 
B.    Loud 

OKLAHOMA,  THE  NEW  STATE  (Il- 
lustrated), J.  D.  Kingsbury 

Opinion  of  an  Expert 

ORGANIZING  CONGREGATIONAL 
FORCES,  D.  O.  Shelton 

Other     Investments 

OUR  COUNTRY'S  YOUNG  PEOPLE, 
146,  172,  215,  252,  287, 

Parsons,   Levi,    (Portrait) 

PASSOVER  OF  THE  NATIVITY  (Il- 
lustrated),  E.   P.   Herrick 

Pastor,  A  Busy 

Peck,    John    M.,    (Portrait) 

Personal   'Word,   A 

PERSONAL  WORD  TO  CONGREGA 
TIONALISTS,    Josiah   Strong 

Powell,   G.  J.,    (Article) 

PRAYER,  NEGLECT  OF,  Horace 
Sanderson    

PROBLEMS,  ADMINISTRATIVE, 
H.     E.     Thayer 

PROBLEMS  OF  SUPERINTEN- 
DENTS, W.  W.  Scudder 

PROBLEMS  OF  THE  NATIVE 
CHURCH  IN  NEW  ENGLAND, 
Thomas     Calmers 

PROMISELAND  OF  THE  NORTH- 
WEST  (Illustrated),  P.  S.  Knight.. 

Purldefoot,    W.    G.,    (Portrait) 

Question  of  the  Hour 

QUESTION  TO  BE  ANSWERED  BY 
ACTION,    A    (An    Appeal    to    Young 

People),  Charles  A.  Jones 

Real  Live  Missionary,  Grace  C.  White 

Redeeming  the  Waste,  N.  M.  Waters. 

Report,  A,  H.   P.  De  Forest '. 

Resignation  of  Secretary  Shelton.... 
Return  of  Francis  E.    Clark,   The.... 

Revival    Record 

Reynolds,  Minnie  J.,   (Article) 

Reynolds,  M.  J.,   (Article) 


254 
130 

17 

48 

349 

212 

6S 

224 
201 

90 
364 

79 
346 
222 
296 


349 
132 

210 

141 
328 

147 

292 
255 
132 

246' 

92 

241 

132 

207 
283 
220 

133 

48 

305 

72 

101 
214 

327 

42 

231 

220 

5 

327 

185 
167 

361 
371 
366 


250 

123 
116 

282 


180 

337 

59 

87 

325 

174 

69 

159 

241 


Rice,    Austin,    (Article) 

Richards,    Thomas   C,    (Article) 

Kicker,    A.    E.,    (Article) 

Russian    Welter 

Russian    Horror,    The 

Sabbath  Day,  Victory  for 

Sanders,  F.  K.,   (Portrait  and  Article) 

Sanderson,    Horace,    (Article) 

THE     SCRIPTURES,     NEGLECT     OF, 
G.   R    Merrill 

Scudder,   W.   W.,  Jr.,    (Article 

Scudder,  W.  W.,  Jr.,    (Article) 

Sectarianism,    Plague    of 

Shall  We  Respond? 

Shedd,  J.   A.,    (Article) 

Shelton,   Don  O,  Action   of  Executive 
Committee  on  Resignation 

Shelton,  Don  O.,  Resignation 

Shelton,    Don    O.,    Editorial    Comment 
on    Resignation 

Shelton,  D.  O.,  (Portrait  and  Address) 

Significant    Revival 

Sinnett,    C.   N.,    (Article) 

Slovaks   and    Christmas 

Small,   C.  H,    (Article) 

oOuTH  DAKOTA,  A  NEW  MOVE- 
MENT   (Illustrated),  W.   H.   Thrall. 

Sprightly    Young    People's    Literature 

Stability  Amidst  Change,  J.  M.  Whi- 
ton 

Steiner,  E.  A.,   (Portrait  and  Address) 

Steiner,    E.    A.,    (Selection) 

Stelzle,    Charles,    (Address) 

Strong,    Josiah,    (Article) 

SWEDISH  CONNECTICUT  (Illus- 
trated), J.    S.    Ives 

Temperance    Incident 

Thayer,   H.    E.,    (Article) 

This   is   Business 

Thoughtful  Subscriber,   A 

Thrall,    W.   H.,    (Article)  . 

Three  New  Pamphlets 

TIMELY  TRUTHS  TERSELY  TOLD 
59,   139, 

To  Congregational   Young  People.... 

To  Serve  is  to  Rule,  N.  McGee  "Waters 

Touch    of    Nature 

TREASURES  OF  THE  EAST,  S.  H. 
Woodrow     

Tribute   to   Christianity,   Mr.    Bryan.. 

UNDEVELOPED  RESOURCES  (Il- 
lustrated),   E.    B.    Allen 

Unequalled  Text-Book  for  Mission 
Study     

Unity   in   Diversity,   R.   R.   Meredith.. 

Up-to-Date    

Utah,    First   Impressions   of 

Uttermost  Part,   The,   Grace  C.  White 

VANTAGE  POINT,  OUR,  H.  H.  Kelsey 

Village  Home  Missionary  Church,  S. 
Deakin    

Watchorn,   Robert,    (Article) 

Waste  in  a  Great  State 

West,   Mrs.   A.   G.,    (Address) 

WESTERN  NEED  AND  BENEV- 
OLENCE,  Austin   Rice 

What   it  Means 

What  Shall  be  America's  Future 

What  the  Missionary   Sees 

Widening    Opportunities 

Winter   Visitor,    The 

White,  Grace  C,   (Article)  ....      17,  186 

Whiting    Lyman,    (Portrait) 

without   Haste,   Without   Rest 

Woman    Missionarv    in    Wvoming.  .  .  . 

WOMEN    OF    THE    CHURCHES,    Mrs. 

A.   G.  West 

Women,  What  More  Can  Thev  Do? 
Mrs.    Washington    Choate....' 

WOMEN'S    WORK    AND    METHODS, 

27,   152,   186,   222/260.   296 

WONDERLAND  OF  THE  NORTH- 
WEST (Illustrated),  W.  W.  Scud- 
der,   Jr 

Woodrow,    S.   H.,    (Article) '. 

"Working  People.  Social  Needs  of  (Ad- 
dress),   Charles    Stelzle 

Wright,    R.    B.,     (Article) 

Yukl,    Adolph,    (Portrait) 

ZINC  FIELD  AND  ITS  NEEDS  (Il- 
lustrated),  H.  M.  McDowell 


10 
1 
246 
200 
207 
258 

92 
361 

364 

366 
37 
23 

138 
67 

324 
327 

325 
101 
184 
334 
23 
213 

319 
179 

140 
96 

295 
86 

185 

128 
69 

371 
70 
58 

319 

178 

210 

177 

211 

69 

374 
172 

109 

176 
210 
300 
219 
186 
377 

143 
267 
173 
114 

10 
80 

172 
259 
218 

68 
337 

47 
183 

68 

114 
152 
335 


37 
374 

86 
255 
132 

201 


Congregational   Home  Missionary   Society 

FOURTH  AVENUE  AND  TWENTY-SECOND  STREET,  NEW  YORK,  N.  Y. 

CHARLES  S.   MILLS,  D.D.,   President 

H.    CLARK    FORD,    Vice-President 
HUBERT   C.   HERRING,   D.D.,  WASHINGTON    CHOATE,    D.D., 

General  Secretary  Associate  Secretary 

-JOSEPH   B.    CLARE,    D.D.,    Editorial    Secretary 
WILLIAM    B.    HOWLAND,    Treasurer 

DIRECTORS 

CHARLES  S.   MILLS,  D.D.,  Chairman Missouri         GEORGE    R.   LEAVITT,    D.D Wisconsin 

REV.    RAYMOND    CALKINS Maine        MR.  "F.   E.   BOGART .  ...Mlehigaa 

GEORGE  E.   HALL,   D.D .New  Hampshire         MR.  EDWARD  TUCKER ...Kansas 

HENRY  FAIRBANKS,   Ph.D.. Vermont         JOHN   E.    TUTTLE,   D.D Nebraska 

S.   H.  WOODROW,   D.D...... ...Massachusetts         FRANK  T.  BAYLEY,  D.D. Colorado 

MR.  JOHN  F.  HUNTSMAN. Rhode  Island        MR.  JAMES  G.  CANNON New    York 

REV.   H.  H.   KELSEY Connecticut         L.   H.   HALLOCK.   D.D ..Minnesota 

S.  PARKES  CADMAN,  D.D New  York        MR.  A.   F.  WHITIN Massachusetts 

MR.    W.    W.    MILLS Ohio         E.   L.   SMITH,  D.D Washington 

W.  E.  BARTON,  D.D Illinois         REV.    LTVTNGSTON   L.   TAYLOR New   York 

E.  M.  VITTUM,  D.D Iowa        W.  H.  DAY,  D.D So.  California 

EXECUTIVE    COMMITTEE 
HUBERT  C.   HERRING,   D.D.,   Chairman 
One  Year  Two  Years 

HARRY  P.  DEWEY,   D.D.  MR.  JAMES  G.   CANNON 

MR.  JOHN  F.  HUNTSMAN  MR.   W.    WINANS    FREEMAN 

MR.  CHARLES  C.  WEST  REV.  HENRY   H.    KELSEY 

REV.  LIVINGSTON  L.  TAYLOR 


Field  Secretary,   REV.   W.  G.   PUDDEFOOT,   South  Framingbam,   Mass. 


SUPERINTENDENTS 
Moritz   E.   Eversz,    D.D.,    German   Department,   153   La   Salle    St.,    Chicago,    111. 
Rev.  S.  V.  S.  Fisher,  Scandinavian  Department,   Minneapolis,   Minn. 
Rev.    Chas.    H.    Small,    Slavic   Department,    Cleveland,    Ohio. 

Indianapolis,     Ind.         Rev.  H.  Sanderson Denver,  Colo. 

Geo.   R.    Merrill,   D.D Minneapolis,   Minn.         J.    D.   Kingsbury,   D.D (New   Mexico,    Arizona, 

Alfred   K.    Wray,    D.D Carthage,    Mo.  Utah  and  Idaho),   Salt  Lake  City. 

Rev.  W.  W.   Scudder,  Jr. West  Seattle,   Wash.         Rev.  C.  F.  Clapp.. ..Forest  Grove,  Ore. 

Rev.  W.  B.  D.   Gray Cheyenne,  Wyo.         Rev.  Chas.  A.  Jones,  75  Essex  St.,   Hackensack,   N.J. 

Frank  E.  Jenkins,   D.D.,  The  South Atlanta,  Ga.         Rev.  W.   S.   Bell Helena,   Mont. 

W.   H.  Thrall,  D.D Huron,   S.   Dak.         J.  D.  Kingsbury,  D.D.. Oklahoma  City,  Okla. 

Rev.  G.  J.  Powell... Fargo,   N.  Dak.         Geo.  L.  Todd,  D.D Havana,  Cuba. 

SECRETARIES  AND  TREASURERS  OF  CONSTITUENT  STATES 

Rev.  Charles  Harbutt,  Secretary. Maine  Missionary  Society 34  Dow  St.,  Portland,  Me. 

W.    P.    Hubbard,   Treasurer "  "  "      :...Box   1052,    Bangor,    Ms. 

Rev.  A.  T.  Hillman,  Secretary. ..  New  Hampshire  Home  Missionary  Society Concord,    N.    H. 

Alvin  B.  Cross,  Treasurer. "  "  "  "       Concord,    N.    H. 

Chas.  H.  Merrill,  D.D.,  Secretary.  Vermont  Domestic  "  ".     ..St.   Johnsbury,   Vt. 

J.  T.  Richie,  Treasurer "  "        "  "       ..St.   Johnsbury,   Vt. 

F.   E.   Emrich,    D.D.,   Secretary. .  Massachusetts  Home  " 609  Cong'l  House, 

Rev.  Joshua  Colt,  Treasurer "  "  "  " Boston,  Mass. 

Rev.  J.   H.   Lyon,  Secretary Rhode  Island        "  "       Central  Falls,  R.  I. 

Jos.   Wm.   Rice,   Treasurer.......       "  "  "  "       Providence,    R.    I. 

Rev.  Joel  S.  Ives,  Secretary. ....  Missionary  Society  of  Connecticut Hartford,   Conn. 

Ward  W.  Jacobs,  Treasurer......  "  " Hartford,   Conn. 

Rev.  C.  W.  Shelton,  Secretary...  New  York    Home   Missionary   Society,    Fourth    Ave.  and  22d  St.,  New  York 
Clayton  S.  Fitch,  Treasurer......      "       "  "        Fourth    Ave.  and  22d  St.,  New  York 

Cleveland,    Ohio 


Cleveland,    Ohio 

153  La   Salle  St., 

153   La  Salle  St.,    Chicago 

Beloit,  Wis. 

Whitewater,   Wis. 

Grinnell,    Iowa 

Des   Moines,   Iowa 

.Lansing,    Mich. 

.Lansing,    Mich. 


Rev.  Charles  H.  Small,  Secretary.  Ohio 
Rev.  Charles  H.  Small,  Treasurer.  " 
Rev.  Roy  B.  Guild,  Secretary. ...  Illinois 

John   W.    Iliff,   Treasurer " 

Homer  W.  Carter,  D.D.,  Secretary  Wisconsin 

C.   M.   Blackman,   Treasurer " 

T.    O.   Douglass,   D.D.,    Secretary.  Iowa 
Miss  A.    D.    Merrill,   Treasurer...      " 
Rev.  J.  W.  Sutherland,  Secretary.  Michigan 
Rev.  John  P.  Sanderson,  Treasurer         " 

Rev.  Henry  E.  Thayer,  Secretary.  Kansas  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society Topeka,    Kan. 

H.   C.    Bowman,   Treasurer "  "  "  "  "       Topeka,    Kan. 

Rev.  S.   I.   Hanford.   Secretary. .  .Nebraska   Home   Missionary  Society ..Lincoln,   Neb. 

Rev.  Lewis  Gregory,  Treasurer. Lincoln,  Neb. 

Rev.  John  L.  Maile,  Secretary.  ..South  "  "  "  "       Los  Angeles,   Oal. 

OTHER  STATE  HOME  MISSIONARY  SOCIETIES 

Rev.  J.  K.  Harrison,  Secretary. .  North   California  Home  Missionary  Society San   Francisco,   Oal. 

CITY    MISSION   AUXILIARIES 

Rev.   Philip  W.    Yarrow Congregational  City  Missionary  Society ....St.   Louis,    Mo. 

Lewis  E.   Snow,   Superintendent..  "  "  "      St.   Louis,  Mo. 


LEGACIES — The  following  form  may  be  used  In  making  legacies: 

I  bequeath  to  my  executors  the  sum  of  dollars,  in  trust,  to  pay  over  the  same  in 

months  after  my  decease,  to  any  person  who,  when  the  same  is  payable,  shall  act  as 

Treasurer  of  the  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society,  formed  In  the  City  of  New  York,  In  tha 

year  eighteen  hundred   and   twenty-six,    to   be   applied  to  the  charitable   use   and   purposes  of   said 

Society. aad  under  its  direction. 

HONORARY  LIFE  MEMBERS — The  payment  of  Fifty  Dollars  at  one  time  constitutes  an 
Honorary  Life  Member. 


THE  OLD  RELIABLE 


\ 


*AKlM 


Absolutely  Pure 

HAS  NO  SUBSTITUTE 


MENNEN5 

ttTOILET  POWDER 

MARCH     WINDS 
are  powerless  to  harm   tln>  skin  and  complexions  of 
those   who  acquire   the    good    habit  of  daily   using 
Menne.n'8  Borated  Talcum  Powder,  the  purest  ana 
safest  of  soothing  and   healing  toilet  powders. 
Mennen's  is   a    satisfying    finish   of   a    delightful 

shave,  the s(  essentia  1  item  ona  lady's  toilet  table, 

and  in  the  nursery  indispensable. 

Put  up  in  rion-reflllahle  boxes,  lor  your  protection.  I£ 
Mermen's  face  is  on  the  cover,  it's  genuine  and  a  guaran- 
tee of  purity.  Delightful  after  shaving.  Sold  every- 
where, or  by  mail  25  cents.     Sample  free. 

GERHARD  MENNEN  CO.,  Newark.N.  J. 

Try  Mennen's  Violet  (Unrated;  Talcum  Powder. 
It  has  the  scent  of  Iresh  cut  Parma  Violets. 
■Guaranteed  under  the  Food  and  Drugs 
Act,  June  30,  1906.  Series  No.  1^42 


1 


C?     * 


V 


put  it  easy? 

to  make  house-cIeami\§ 
half  play  when  all  the 
hard  dirty  work,  front 
sink  cleaning  to  brass 
polishing  is  done  with 
a  bowl  of  water,  a  sort 
cloth.andacakeof 

SAPOLIO 

I  CLEANS- SCOURS -POLISHES"! 


m 


mBsSm 


wihSflStt 


SMM 


Wst^mmm^, 


mSSSSmm 


WMmm 

8il£&ffi» 


SSSSLr 


SOT 


Jflri 


9t 


s« 


s 


Hflfln 


Hfffll