Missionaries Soon to Sail for Africa

Rev. Clarence Edward Carlson (second term), and Miss Martha Anna Bard (first term ): missionaries under appointment by the mission boards, expect to said to their field of service the latter part of this month, September.

The Missionary Monthly

Volume 35 SEPTEMBER, 1931 Number 9

WHY I LEFT ISLAM FOR CHRISTBy M. A. QUAY YUM DASKAWIE, Punjah, India

A Teacher in Gordon College, Rawalpindi, Punjah, India My Reward

I was born a Moslem but although I attended both a mission school and a Christian college my interest in Chris­tianity did not begin until after I had decided not to con­tinue my college work. Relieved of all these studies I could devote myself to books on religion. My uncle is well known in North India as the compiler of dictionaries in Hindustani, Arabic and Persian and as the authors of several books deal­ing with religious subjects. I was particularly interested in one book in my uncle’s library, written in Urdu (or Hindu­stani) verse, and called “The Prayer of a True Christian.” Moslems claim to be heirs of all the prophets and the sacred writings that preceded the revelation to the Prophet of Arabia. “The Prayer of a True Christian” was written by a Moslem to controvert Christian teaching and was designed to show how the Islamic religion was “ true Christianity” from which the Christians had gone astray. There were numerous references in it to various passages in the Bible. I read the book and reread it. A thought struck me! Though I could not verify the references to the Old Testament I de­cided to see how this book compared with the New Testa­ment, a copy of which had been presented to my father about the year 1898 by the Punjab Branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society. I had seen the book lie on the shelf as long as I could recollect, but it had never been read.

Beginning to read the Testament I found things in it that I could not understand and other things that I could not half understand. I began with the Gospel of Matthew and when I came to the Sermon on the Mount, I said: “Here is something very different from what I am accustom­ed to hearing. Can these things be so?" There was nothing in the Koran that I could remember which spoke of such at­titudes toward God and man. We went over again some portions of the Koran I was more disconcerted than ever.

When I came to the Gospel of John, I found an atmo­sphere altogether different from any I had ever breathed be­fore. Here was God spoken of as loving sinful men. I had heard of God judging men on the last day but never of God loving them in the present day. In fact, it had never oc­curred to me that God had anything so directly to do with men. It was strange!

On the other hand. There were things in the New Testa­ment that were extremely repugnant to a Moslem. I had, for instance, always imagined that the Christians worshiped three gods. Islam has laid great stress on the unity of God. “There is no god but God” has been the creed of Islam throughout these centuries. It puzzled me that Christians could not see that there (vas only one God. I could not see how such a spiritual religion could go astray on the most fundamental question of all. “If there seems to be any truth in Christianity,” I reasoned, “ it is what is left to it of the original teachings of Jesus. Truly the Injil (Gospel) has been subverted by the Christians.”

There was another difficulty—the problem of the cross. To an orthodox Moslem there is nothing more absurd than to believe that the Son of God was crucified for the sins of men. How can the righteous suffer for the unrighteous? How is it possible for one man to take away the sins of the whole race? To depend on fastings, endless prayers, penance and alms is understandable, but to think that mere faith- is suf­ficient—why it is preposterous!

Even disregarding other objections, a great gulf exists between Christians and Moslems. By common consent Chris­tianity has been regarded among the people of India as the religion of the foreigner and the outcasts. Consider the dis­grace of accepting a religion of the outcasts! The term Christian is to use a synonym for a scavenger and a pariah. High born men could not think much of Christianity!

But I could not overlook the New Testament. I was rent between the two types of teaching. I read other books on the subject but for fear of arousing the suspicion of my par­ents I had to keep everything secret. I studied till late at

night, long after everyone in the house had retired. I also sought out a Christian friend who had taught me in col­lege and had a long talk with him. At the end of the inter­view I was convinced of two things: first, that the Chris­tians did not worship three gods, but only one; secondly, that sin is a far more serious affair than to be removed by fastings and alms. But I was more puzzled than ever.

I tried to reason myself out of the situation and then tried to forget the whole matter. Anything true in Christi­anity I attributed to its primitive form, and its attraction for me I thought to be the suggestion of the devil. But I could not forget what I had discovered. I knew that I was a sin­ner and that I needed a Savior, but I thought that Christ could not have anything to do with this.

Weeks of suspense and agony passed. I was seriously in doubt and decided to read the Gospels again to see what faults I could find in them. But I only discovered that Jesus had a far larger place in them than I was willing to admit. “God,” said I, “if this is correct what shall I do? Can the New Testament be right after all?”

Another thought now deterred me. If I should follow the way of the Gospel I could not stay with my loved ones. I dared not think of all that was involved in my turning away from the faith of my fathers. But I had to make a choice between God and man. Jesus had anticipated this difficulty and said that His followers must be ready to give up every­thing to follow Him and what sacrifices in this world were recompensed by rewards from the Father in heaven.

Finally I decided to give up my home, my family, and my friends and as a result suffered many hard experiences which I cannot recount. On the first of May, 1921, I was baptized and was received into the fellowship of Christ.

Was this giving up of home and kindred and the other things of life worth while? During these ten years that I have tried to follow Christ I have never for a second re­gretted, the step, but have felt that it was the wisest thing I have ever done. My reward in Christ has been far more than I had expected.

In the first place, the mere discipline of having gone through such an experience leads to a better appreciation of life and the things that one has are enjoyed in a new spirit. God gave me a vision and it is a great satisfaction to have followed the call at His bidding. This has made me more reliant on Him and more contented.

Christ has given a unity and a meaning to my life. He is the clue to the tangled skein of my life. In so far as I am able to yield myself to Him I find that He is able to make me conquer self and to be a happier man. In my fight against sin I am now on the winning side. The guilt that wrecked my happiness is removed by the power of God. Though I am so imperfect I find in Him that singleness of heart and purpose which lead to moral and spiritual well­being.

Christ has given me a new outlook on life which I would not exchange for the whole world. The world seems so much larger and there are new and limitless vistas ever opening up. Though it is impossible to explore any one of them fully in this life, we have the assurance that Christ is the pledge of our eternal life. In Him we live and move and have our being and though the earthly house of our life grow old and fall we have an eternal Home with Him.

In Christ I have seen a marvelous vision of the future of mankind. Here is a comprehensive and an all inclusive goal which is worthy of the best effort and highest sacri­fice of every individual. Children of God are welded together in a brotherhood of righteousness in the Kingdom of God. The human race is marching toward that goal of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. I am certain that it is only in approximating to this ideal of the Kingdom of God, which Jesus revealed, that the human race will ever arrive at that era of peace and felicity for which we all hope and pray.

To live in Christ is also to live for Christ; therefore I am urged to be of service to those among whom my lot is cast. There are new reserves which I must develop and use in His service. In the life that I lived apart from Him I squandered

the talents that I but now have the ambition to use what is left for my God and my fellowmen. There was a time when my chief desire was to get a comfortable place for my­self and to live at ease, but now I could never be happy if I were not sure that the work that I am doing is what He would have me do. I am happy because I serve not a dead Master but a living Lord.

But surpassing all this, in Christ I have found God. He is the tangible manifestation of God. In so far as I am able to apprehend Christ I am able to understand what God is like. I believe in God because I believe in Christ. If I did not believe in Christ I could not believe in God. He is worthy and more than worthy, to receive the truest and the utmost devotion of my heart and all my love because He first loved me and redeemed me. Christ has shown me that in and over and behind this confusing universe is a Fatherly Heart of Love. This is a revelation no amount of money can buy and no one but Christ can substantiate. In Him was the Love of God manifested to us and in Him are hid all the treas­ures of wisdom and knowledge. He is the answer to the cry of the human heart through the centuries: “Oh, that Thou wouldst rend the heavens and come down;” that men may see face to face the invisible God whom they worship. To know Christ is to have life. It is now the best that life has to oiler for which to live and to strive. In Him life finds its deepest yearnings satisfied and life gains its highest worth. Apart from Him life is not worth living. Those who have not learned to know Him have not yet discovered the eternal fountain of life from which a man may drink his fill and never drain it. It is this which fills life full of joy and peace.

It is any wonder that I should urge upon all who do not know Jesus Christ to taste and see this way of life? We to­day are living under conditions which no preceding genera­tion had to face but our spiritual, moral and religious prob­lems are essentially the same as men have had to face from the dawn of history. We have not outgrown either the need of God nor the desire to be of service to our fellows. In Christ we find all that we need of certainty and power not only to upbuild our own lives but to fashion anew the whole fabric of society in which we live. The Almighty God has in Christ made the contact with men that the human race has been trying to establish through various religious sys­tems during all these centuries. We cannot have peace with God through our good works or alms or prayers. Something far more vital is needed, even the gift of God Himself that all men might know Him and live.

We in India are confronted with the grave task of erect­ing a new nation and trying to gain greater liberty, but the thing that is most needed, along with this striving for free­dom, is a driving and a regenerating force to undergrid the new system with moral power. Here in Christ is dynamic that, if accepted and used, will lead any country to a new state of righteousness. No man or community who has caught the spirit of Christ can be stolid and lifeless or re­main on the old level of life or thought. Jesus Christ is con­stantly leading men onward to fresh tasks of love and de­votion and moral heroism. Those who have really tried to open the door of life with Christ as key have found the portals swing open to them of their own accord. Even as Jesus said: “ I am the Way, the Truth and the Life: no one cometh unto the Father but by me.”—The Missionary Re­view of the World.

MOTION PICTURES AND FOREIGN MISSIONSA loud call has come from French missionaries in Afri­

ca, pleading that “The Catholic and Protestant churches found a film factory, where moral films, particularly those with religious themes, will be made.” The appeal is made because the movies have gone “where ever civiliza­tion has gone and are portraying in the full glare of the movie footlights, the white man’s crimes and love scenes to the detriment of the morals of the African people.”

The unspeakable “love scenes” which people in America have endured with suppressed nausea, particularly the slob­bering “kissing and huggin’ stuff,” these missionaries say

“make the black crowds, especially the black Mohammed­ans, howl with disgust.” This call from the French mission­aries would be gladly seconded, no doubt, by the Protestant missionaries all over the world, and not only them but by Christian tourists who have been made to blush at the por­trayal of so called American life. One of these world tourists, Mr. Albous Huxley, exclaims, “The world into which the cinema introduces the subject is a world of sil­liness and criminality, where the inhabitants are stealing, murdering, swindling, or attempting to commit suicide." On the other hand, “ to give the devil his dues,” the In­dian Cinematograph Committee “was satisfied that the majority of films certified for exhibition in India in no way tended to demoralize the public.” But we believe that the overture presented to the last General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church is right that, “the portrayal of vul­garity, indecency, and the technique of crime are so prom­inent in the programs of the motion picture theaters as to constitute a menace to national morality.” Exported films are even less clean than the home shown; and the number of them is enormous. Mr. Carl E. Miliken, Secretary of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors, reported two or three years ago that during that year “231,298,018 feet of films had been exported.” These dramas are being shown in Tunis, Madras, Korea, Sumatra, in the Sudan, and the question comes to the Christian, can the Church not do something to offset this flood of immoral and anti-re­ligious conceptions and emotions. Motion picture magnates estimate that 13,000,000,000 people pay to see the movies every year. Shall we continue to pass by, and even scorn the use of one of the most effective methods of presenting constructive ideals which will mould noble Christian char­acters?

Dr. S. Parkes Cadman writes: “If the movies monopol­ize attention, it is because we who are responsible for re­ligion having allowed them to capture multitures who be­long primarily to God.”

Is it still true that “the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light” ? The Department of commerce of the United States reports that American business obtains a return of at least one dollar in trade for every foot of film exhibited in foreign lands. “In fact,” says Mr. Miliken, “the film is equivalent to the work of 100,000 salesmen.” This same helper is available to the church in its supreme work of freely offering salvation to all people. Will some Christian millionaire accept this ex­traordinary opportunity to multiply, perhaps 100,000 fold, the evangelical preaching power of the missionary? The Silent screen speaks a tongue which people of any language and dialect can understand whether in Sumatra or the Cameroon. Wherever civilization: has carried electricity, there the motion picture is possible. Every mission sta­tion in the larger cities of the non-Christian world might present good religious educational motion pictures. Where can such evangelical pictures be obtained? There’s the rub.

Here is a possible solution. A great Radio City or sta­tion is to be established in New York at a cost of $250,- 000,000. Some millionaire or group of Christian philan­thropists might found an academy of Christian art with the sole object of producing religious motion pictures. Here is an open door which invites the Church to a new method and to a new era of power in foreign lands and at home. God has given us a new method of visualizing to all people, at home and abroad, the supreme life, the saving teachings, and the redemptive death of Jesus Christ. A studio al­ready exists in Los Angeles, called The Academy of Sacred Art. A Sacred Motion Picture Foundation is needed which, like Nebuchadnezzar’s dream-tree, will reach to heaven, and the sight thereof to the ends of the earth and which has food for all. What an opportunity! This might be of greater service than a Radio City. It may, if rightly con­ducted, multiply the power of the foreign missionary thousands of times, even, as in the case of the commercial salesman, 100,000 times.—Missionary Review of the World.

THE MISSIONARY MONTHLYOfficial Organ of the Parent Board of Missions and the Woman’s Missionary Association United Brethren in Christ

EDITORS AND BUSINESS MANAGERSRev. J. Howe, Huntington, Indiana. Rev. Effle Hodgeboom, Huntington, Indiana.

To whom all subscriptions, items for publication, or any other matter of business pertaining to the Missionary Monthly should be sent.

Entered at the Post Office at Huntington, Indiana* as second-class matter.

Subscription Price—60 cents for the year, in advance. FREE for ten new renewals and $5.00, to sender or other.

Date of Expiration is printed, and appears each month on yellow label on paper, showing month and year of expiration.

Watch it Closely, and if not advanced within a reasonable time notify managers, giving date and by whom renewed.

Note:—Subscriptions are advanced from date of expiration, as in­dicated by mailing list at office.

Discontinuances—The general wish is observed, and none removed from the list except known to be deceased, or notified by the post­master o f subscriber, or to comply with postal laws.

Subscriber (or agent) be careful to state whether new or renewal, giving name and address as on label, if renewal, thereby saving time, trouble, correspondence, and sometimes annoyance.

Change of Addreses—When desired, give both old and new ad- resses. The change may not be made unless sent in about two weeks

before the next issue—about middle o f the month.

MATTER FOR PUBLICATIONAll manuscript and items for publication should be in the hands of the editors not later than the fifteenth of the month

preceding the issuing of the paper.Sample copies of the Missionary Monthly sent free to agents or solicitors for subscriptions.

EDITORIALThe annual conferences are in session again, and will

continue through September and part of October. They come at an inconvenient time for this secretary to attend few if any, on account of the attention at the office re­quired to the matter of securing transportation for our missionaries soon to start to the African mission field, namely, Rev. C. E. Carlson and Mies Martha Anna Bard. The matter of sailings, rates of passage, connections, pass­ports and permits, require time and care and considerable correspondence, and not least, the matter of comfortable and safe, as well as the most economical transporta­tion possible, for these are days and times when the mission boards cannot afford to squander money in luxurious transportation. We have never expended church missionary contributions in this way, and have greater reasons to be economical in these days of financial depression than at any time in my experience at this desk, so we stay at the office pretty closely watching this end of the line while the pastors and people meet in annual session to report and to discuss matters of unusual concern regarding the needs of every department of the church, in­cluding missions, which we regard as one of its most vital interests; and we ask our brethren to hear us for a few minutes on this subject. We would not criticise or abuse anyone, but state a few facts regarding the work at home and on the foreign field, for the conditions are pressing and urgent and trying.

For the past two or three years there has been a decline in missionary contributions in general; the general financial conditions have not been improving, but declining, and the surplus for emergencies has been reduced to the vanishing point, and we are one among the many mission boards that has keenly realized this fact, and the church work, un­fortunately, is usually the first to suffer. In the face of this decline in funds our expenses have increased because of increasing mission work at home and in the foreign field— the support failing to keep pace with the advance in con­nection with preparatory work for mission service especially the medical. This is a hopeful and cheering feature but, unfortunately, the decline in our income has speedily re­duced our resources.

Last year our income fell $1,000 or more short and this year the reports indicate that the shortage will be still greater, as comparatively few fields have brought their assessments for the work up in full, and unless the coming conference reports are much better than some of those al­ready heard from, the mission board will be unable to meet the appropriations to the mission fields, and it is practically impossible for the board to borrow money from any source, as finances are at present tied up. This would not be

necessary if all, or nearly all of our church people would make a contribution to the work, then the situation would be happily relieved and no one overtaxed.

The first thought, generally, in situations such as we are facing, and on so large a scale Is, “let everyone look out for himself,” and other interests are forgotten; but that thought is not brave, or heroic, or trustful, or hopeful, or helpful to the cause of Christ or humanity. Neither is it the part of wisdom, religiously or otherwise, for if things “go by the board” we lose all, and if they don’t. . . . how much have WE gained? and, what about the cause?

Most of the last quarter’s appropriations on the home fields are not yet paid because of the shortage. To meet this the board is dependent upon receipts to Missions General, and the reports are coming in unusually short. Bequests have been few and small for the past few years. It may be that the financial depression has brought fears to release some means for this, as well as other purposes, besides, it is almost impossible to collect interest on small loans of permanent funds.

"The “Depression” has hit Africa equally hard, and the blow is the more keenly felt by our missionaries because it is in far-away Africa, the land of few facilities, conveni­ences, comforts, resources that are available; bank credit— any kind of credit; and where about three-fourths of the help must come from the homeland, but has come in such a limited amount that our missionaries have suffered per­sonally; their work has been hindered and they have suf­fered both physically and mentally over the trying situation. The board has tried to reach our church people with the message, and has reached many by the personal visits of one of our missionaries—Mr. Carlson—and much has been done to arouse the interest in this cause that is so de­pendent and hard pressed. Many of the young people of the church, both in Sunday schools and Endeavor societies, are pledged, and have begun to render commendable help. They are aiding in the medical education of Mr. Leslie L. Huntley, and have aided Charles A. E. Saufley to take a special course at the Livingstone Medical School, London, and he is back again on the field at work better equipped for the service. This is most commendable and cheering, but far too few are helping. Many schools and societies have not been reached. They are not aware of the needs, and therefore have no incentive to assume a share in the work. We appeal to the pastors, superintendents, and presi­dents of these organizations, to extend a call for volunteers for the service for home work. There is enough young life in the church to make an effective army for this waiting, dependent and needy field. Our people can do better for Africa. It is fatal to any cause to get panicky, and say, “ It can’t be done.” It can by God’s help and the people’s

QUARTERLY REPORTS FROM PRESIDING ELDERS

NORTH MICHIGAN Rev. EL C. Clapp

TO THE MISSION OFFICE:“I am sending my last report for the current year. It

shows a decrease in membership. At Harrison there was an increase of five. I am hoping (Hope is desire with ex­pectancy) that the report at conference will show an in­crease over last year.

Finances are short. Five fields have the presiding elder paid in full. One or two fields may have the pastor’s salary in full.

Some fields have been working the financial plan of the church, and each item has received its portion; but offerings have not been sufficient for the budget.

Devotional services have been good. In four baptismal services I have baptized 56 persons, two by sprinkling and the others by immersion. One pastor had a baptismal service, but I do not know the number baptized.

We are in the third day of our camp meeting. It is starting out well, Brother and Sister King are here. He leads the singing and she helps in special songs.

Once more I would express regret that you can not be in our conference. May the Lord bless you wherever you may be.”

Yours in Him,E. C. Clapp.

ONTARIORev. S. H. Swartz, Presiding Elder

GREETINGS TO THE SECRETARY:Dear Brother:

I am sending you a short synopsis of my first round of quarterlies beginning July 10 and ending August 15.

I began at Silverthom, Toronto, and as a result of the action of the annual conferences we had to have a lot of extra officials appointed, which was done according to dis­cipline; and also at Bloem Avenue mission. We had appli­cations—one each, for quarterly conference preacher, ex- horter, deaconness, singer evangelist, at Silverthorn.

At Bloem Avenue we received four into chudch member­ship, and extended a quarterly conference license for one year.

Next we were at Kitchener, where the newly appointed pastor has just settled down for work. Some unfinished organization work was done, and we expect good results.

Our next appointment was at Port Elgin, where they were awaiting their appointed pastor, and who is now on the field. I trust that the field will begin to grow in numbers and spirituality and hope.

New Dundee was our next appointment. Two of the three classes had their assessments in full for the quarter, and. a good balance on hand.

Garrison Road, on Niagara circuit, was next. The three classes on the circuit had all assessments in full and a balance on hand.

Lastly Centerville showed a balance, with the budget in full up to date.

I preached twelve times on this round, and the fellow­ship and communion services were,feasting times with Him Who loves us.

I think the pastors are all well received, and I look forward to harmonious and successful work in Ontario Conference.”

Yours in Him,S. H. Swartz.

DETROIT MISSION Rev. Lloyd Eby, Superintendent

Superintendent Eby sends a good report for the last quarter, few items of which we give below.

1. The church membership has been increased by eleven during the quarter. It is now 125. Number of con­versions 26.

2. The Sunday school enrollment is 424, with an average attendance of 232.

3. Number of S. S. classes, 23; teachers, 37.4. U. B. C. E. enrollment, 101; average attendance, 63.5. The total finance report was $840.74, including $47.99

selfdenial for African missions, $9.00 S. S. for missions and U. B. C. E. for missions, $5.00.

Many other items are reported and all indicating ac­tivity and progress, though the conditions, financially, are trying, as might be expected in a city with co large a pro­portion of unemployed.

Rev. Eby was reappointed by the mission board, and his work commended.

FROM OUR FAITHFUL HELPERSMrs. Huldah Zimmerman, of Elgin, Ohio, U. B. church,

sends us a check for $6.00 for African missions from her Sunday school class, the “Elgin U. B. S. S. Comrades Class.” A much appreciated help in time of need. This the begin­ning of the annual contributions from this missionary Sun­day school. Our sincere best wishes to teacher and class.

Miss Susie Albert, of Kitchener, Ontario, sends in the following monthly offering for Africa:

Willing Workers Class, of which she is teacher, $3.00. True Blue Class, associates in the work, Mrs. M. D.

Hallman, teacher, 50 cents, total $3.50. A splendid and ap­preciated service for the cause, and pledged monthly.

Miss Albert says the past month being vacation season, it was a little difficult to collect the pledge.

Rev. W. H. Davis, of Mooreland, Indiana, an aged minister and former president of Albion College, Washing­ton, again remembers the mission cause with a check of $2.00. This is a common practice of Brother Davis, and it is always cheering as well as helpful.

FROM CHARLES A. E. SAUFLEYA letter from Brother Saufley dated July 23, reports his

safe arrival back to the mission field from London to Africa, and feeling well and glad to get back after six months fur­lough (hard work) in Livingstone College, London, devoted to medical studies and tropical diseases, which will no doubt make his service more effective in reaching the needy African.

After resting a few days at Bonthe he started up river to Danville (Gbangbaia) to reoccupy the missionary par­sonage, which in his absence had become frescoed with cob­webs, etc. He was hastening to get the house cleaning done in time to entertain the Workers’ Conference, which was to meet there the following week.

It was still vacation time for the schools when he re­turned, and it was rather quiet around his compound, more so that noisy London.

APPRECIATIONThe mission office appreciated receiving the article en­

titled “A Rumour” from the pen of Rev. D. K. Williams, na­tive pastor at Mattru. He is an interesting writer, and rep­resents forcibly and fluently the thinking and activities of his people, politically and otherwise. We are pleased to invite him to write often.

MISSIONARY MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTIONSReceived at This Office from Aug 20. to Sept. 20, 1931

Lelah Fickle $1.00, Hulda Zimmerman $1.00, Mrs. Fred W. Bayler $1.00, Dolla Hathaway $1.00, Mrs. Florence Karr 50c, Mrs. L. D. Varney 25c.

SCRIPTURES HAVE APPEARED IN 919 LANGUAGES

New York, N. Y.: The Bible or some part of it has ap­peared in 919 languages and dialects according to a state­ment issued today by the American Bible Society from its headquarters, Bible House, New York City. This figure, in which no duplication of languages or dialects occurs, repre­sents the publications of the three major Bible Societies functioning throughout the world: the American Bible So­ciety, the British and Foreign Bible Society, the National

Bible Society of Scotland, as well as some missionary organi­zations and others.

The figures are as follows:Complete Bibles—172 languages.New Testaments—179 languages Portions—472 languages (Complete book of the Bible)Selections—96 languages.(Less than one book of the Bible)

The latest book from the press is the Gospel of St. Mark in Atche. a dialect used by one of the tribes on the French Ivory Coast of West Africa. Of the more than 500 languages and dialects spoken in Africa only about 275 have been published, while a large percentage of the remaining have not yet been reduced to writing. India has the Scrip­tures printed in only 111 languages although there are 179 languages and hundreds of dialects spoken in this thickly populated land. That a dearth of Scriptures also obtains in other countries is evidenced by the fact that there are mil­lions of Indians throughout South America who have no Scriptures in their various dialects. The New Testament ap­pears in but three of the many Indian tongues of South America. Of the two New Testaments so far published for the Indians of Central America the latest to appear is a Cakchiquel, issued recently by the American Bible Society for a tribe at Guatemala.

While it is estimated that some part of the Scriptures appears on an average every six weeks, the translations al­ready published must, from time to time, also undergo re­vision in order to attain a greater faithfulness to the origi­nal Hebrew and Greek, thereby laying an additional obliga­tion on the Bible Societies.

A RUMOURBy Rev. D. K. Williams, Africa

Last year a group of men traversed the country survey­ing and measuring both land and rivers. This strange event aroused consternation among our illiterate brethren who sought to discover the so-called hidden purpose. As believed, the lettered native, having been initiated into the society of the white man, dare not expose what is yet in reticence.

Some ostentatious leaders who always accept Moham- medanic propaganda, afterwards claimed a knowledge of the secret; and, before long, the country was saturated with the rumour that the Americans have entered into a bargain to buy Sierra Leone from the English government; but the price being too high the Americans demanded an exact measurement that will determine an agreeable price.

Sierra Leone, as believed, has long been planned for by the Americans, whose wealth cannot be over emphasized. The are so rich as to ignore taxation which is so prominent in the English government. Our illiterate chiefs are longing for the time when Sierra Leone will be bought by the Ameri­cans. Fines will then be inflicted without scruple; for the Americans are not mindful of what the native chiefs do in their country. Conversely, those who seem to sense the weight of native rule are anxiously awaiting the time when it will be declared that Sierra Leone is no longer under the British government. Everybody will then be free to work for money, and the power of native chiefs will be so limited as not to inflict fines.

The writer was approached by two head-men who begged him to divulge the whole secret. One of them said, “We know that you who are under American employment will soon be great men; hence we beg you to expose to us how and when this thing will take place. The very thought will make us happy, despite the adverse circumstances with which we are now contending.” When the writer said he knew nothing about that, and he denied the so-called plan, they insisted, and ultimately returned home with the expression—“It is your society, we know.”

The placid policy of American Missions in our country has impressed our people so much as to dream of American government having the same policy. You may wonder why

there are not more converts when our people are so much impressed. The reason is not far. Our people are waiting for great material things, and the time is at hand in their imagination. May this rumour be spiritually realized in the buying of Sierra with the precious blood of Christ.

Mattru, Sierra Leone, July 30, 1931

“DO YOU LOVE YOURSELF?”By WILLIS R. HOTCHKISS, Lumbwa Industrial Mission Missionary at Kericho, Kenya Colony, British East Africa

The other day at the back of our farm an old man ap­proached me and offered his hand with the usual salutation: “Chamege” (Do you love yourself?) It was the native salu­tation meaning “How do you do?” Then he proceeded to spit on our clasced hands more vigorously than even native eti­quette reauired. This was quite proper from an African view­point, though not so nice. All the while he was exclaiming. “My friend! My dear friend! My Father! Mv father!” All was just excess of friendliness. Being a missionary one has to grin and bear it—or at any rate, bear it— at least until we can teach them to adopt a more pleasant method of ex­pressing friendship. The man had come, fatherlike, to plead for his son who had been ordered off the mission land on ac­count of misdemeanors.

The incident recalls the story told of a certain white of­ficial in the early days of the colony. There had been trouble between two neighboring tribes and the white man went out to negotiate peace. The elders of the two parties discussed matters and after coming to an amicable arrangement, they appointed one from each side to acquaitnt the white man with their decision. To his horror and amazement, when they neared him the two began to spit violently at each other, and then both together at him! Not knowing that they v/ere actually sealing their pact of friendship, and sus­pecting treachery, with insult added, he struck them and ordered them under arrest. The warriors, seeing their elders struck, started fighting, and hostilities were began again.

These incidents illustrate a tendency, all too common to this dav. of looking at the native from the European point of view. This colony is now in the throes of a bitter controversy w:th the home government, because some excellent people suppose they are helping the native bv telling him that he is being defrauded of his rights and despoiled of his land at the hands of the settlers. Their remedy for that is to launch the native into politics—a blunder wtvch. when ap­plied to the Negroes in America after the Civil War, cost unmeasured suffering to both races.

The native of Kenya Colony is. at this moment, better off in a material sense than the average white man. Com­pared with what he was thirty years ago—naked in body and in mind; never for a moment safe from his enemies in the flesh, and still less so from those of the spirit; the sport of malignant forces which he was forever propitiating—the African is today far richer in the things that make for material comfort and contentment than is his white neigh­bor.

Take the Lumbwa people for example. When I came to them in 1905 they were the most wretched lot of human be­ings you could imagine—starving in a rich land, and even selling their children for food. But yesterday I attended a sale of the effects of a white neighbor who had succumbed before the prevailing depression. I saw these same Lumbwa natives bidding on even terms with the white people for his effects. Nevertheless I pick up a paper and read a letter from a native who. under the tutelage of false friends, talks grandiloquently of Africa beloning to the African and de­manding this and that as his right. Sooner or later some­thing is bound to happen.

What has all this to do with the missionary as a herald of salvation. The transforming power of the Gospel of Christ race hatred in these susceptible native minds. Doubtless that is the last thing these zealous friends would think of doing; but it is a fact. Moscow is pledged to upset the native races, and an increasing number of communist native even now are

spreading their doctrines in the reserves. The time is short. The propaganda of revolution must be met by a propaganda of salvation. The transforming power of the Gospel of Christ may change the course of history in East Africa, but it must be a real Gospel of the grace of God and not “another gospel.”— Missionary Review.

WHEN WILL PROSPERITY RETURN?A letter sent recently by Roger W. Babson to editors of

religious papers emphasized the interrelation of spiritual and economic conditions and predicted a revival of interest in religion on the ground that people in general are now both physically tired and spiritually discouraged and "have no spiritual wealth on which to draw.” “They lack that faith which is essential to personal or national pro­gress.”

Mr. Babson attributes present conditions to the con­centration of thought upon material success and all sorts of pleasures instead of upon the more serious aspects of life. He reminds us that “a great mass of wage workers, execu­tives, and young business people have never before wit­nessed a severe business depression, “have no faith upon which to fall back.” He points out that this younger genera­tion has been fooling itself and now, discovering how it has been misled, it also discovers that it has nothing in the way of life preservers to cling to in a time of shipwreck. “More religion,” he says, “ rather than more legislation, is the need of the hour. Before prosperity can return there must be a

.renewed interest in the spiritual life by both individuals and nations.”—The Presbyterian Advance.

RURAL CHURCHES ARE WEAK AND LOSING HOLD ON MEMBERS IN SIX VAST

AREAS OF U. S.New York, June—The Institute of Social and Religious

Research has found in a coast to coast study that Protest­ant churches are exceedingly weak and that church memb­ers are relatively few in six widely different kinds of rural territory which together comprises more than a third of the area of the United States and contain three and a half millions of people.

Besides, in these regions, the general tendency of the churches is toward a further loss of their power to attract and hold the people, according to a report of the findings of the study written by Elizabeth R. Hooker and published by the Institute under the title, “Hinterlands of the Church.”

Four of the six areas, the grazing and the dry-farming sections, the high mountain districts of the Far West, and various cut-over lands, are of comparatively recent settle­ment; but the other two include such old hilly areas as those of New England, and county after county in the long set­tled country of the Middle West.

The report states that “the responsibility for affording religious ministry to the people of these vast hinterlands of the Church is largely a Protestant responsibility.”

The ineffectiveness, and the continuing decline, of the Protestant churches in these regions are attributed in part to the policy of using the same sterotyped methods in the rural districts everywhere instead of trying to adapt the methods used to the distinctive needs of each particular kind of territory.

And as bearing on this point, an outstanding feature of the study is its effort to show how certain unalterable fac­tors, such as topography, climate and rainfall, profoundly affect the church situation and create different problems in the different places.

“Considering, on the one hand, the obstacles to church work presented by the areas and studied and, on the other hand, the lack of adaptation to such conditions displayed by organ5 zed Protestant Christianity in the United States” says the report, “it is only to be expected that the churches of these areas should be ineffective.

“Within all the counties surveyed the open-country dis­tricts and the smaller centers have relatively fewer church-

members than have the larger centers.“In the old days of intense denominational activity, it

churches is progressing at an accelerating speed. In Vermont, the proportion of families adhering to churches has de­clined a third in fifty years.

“In th old days of ntense denominational activity, it could be assumed that every district would have a church within reach. But in the new lands, in the absence of com­prehensive interdenominational policies, hundreds of ham­lets and many thousands of square miles of hinterland are without religious services; and in other localities attempts at ministry have soon been abandoned.

"If evenly spaced, the churches of the grazing lands would be eighteen miles apart and those of the mountain sections thirteen; while the distance between neighboring churches in the old hilly areas would be four miles, and in the old level areas three and a half miles.

“In the old level areas the number of constituants of country churches has been diminished by the superior at­tractions of churches in neighboring towns and cities. The same tendency is at work in the old hilly sections in country neighborhoods from which large centers are readily access­ible. Even in the newer regions, many churches in districts connected with large centers by improved roads are feeling the effects of a similar withdrawal of adherents. The tend­ency is particularly marked in the Columbia Basin and near Seattle. Denver and other large cities.

“In the four new areas the average membership of the Protestant churches was only sixty-eight, while that of the Roman Catholic churches was 161, and that of the Mormon churches was 370.

“The average Protestant church membership for the in­dividual areas ranged from seventy-three for the dry-farm­ing regions to only forty-six for the counties surveyed in Vermont.

“The churches of small centers and open-country dis­tricts average much smaller than this, and a large number of them have fewer than twenty-five members apiece. Be­ing small, the Protestant churches cannot afford a modern church building, or much fuel, or light, or music, or any of the many other things utilized in a modern church program.”

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND FOREIGN MISSIONS

By Rev. L. T. Norris, Pomeroy, OhioIn my estimation this is one of the greatest subjects of

the day, and my reason for thinking so is, that it depends upon the sort of education we have or receive that makes or develops men and women that make a mark in the world for themselves and God.

In the first place we believe that invironment influences a life much more than heredity, so that the training that a child gets, whether good or bad, between the ages of one and six years, generally rules its life. It is said that the Catholic says, “Give me your child until it is six years old, then you may have it, and it will continue to be a Catholic. So it is with Protestantism. Let a child grow up in a home where father and mother take God’s name in vain, and how many will fail to follow them?

On the other hand, God says: “Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he shall not depart from it.” It is therefore my belief that “religious education” should start in infancy, that the promise may be realized. The child may wander and disobey, and seem to disregard the training, but there will come a day when memory will recall the teaching of mother and father, and will come back to it.

Sometimes too much stress is placed upon public school education with the idea of qualifying them merely to secure and hold a good job or position of a temporal character. That is fine and necessary as far as it goes, but if the boy is not first educated in spiritual things and principles of right, he will, in most cases, be an educated infidel or crook, or a character of that type.

What is true regarding the proper education of a child to fit him for right living and usefulness, will be seen in the man, his relation to humanity everywhere, in foreign lands as well as at home. The needs of heathen lands will appeal to him. He will have a correct sense of his obligation to them. The words of Jesus: “Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature” will appeal to his best manhood. Not every man is called to go to the dark places of the earth, but every rightly taught and every right- thinking person will have a right sense of his obligation to his fellow-man, and will hear the challenge of the Lord to be a coworker with him in saving his heathen brother; if not in person, he will by his means that God has given him to be a steward over.

I have been honored by my conference the last two years to be a delegate to the annual meeting of this Mission Board, and I thank God for the privilege. I have been blessed a number of times by coming; by hearing the ad­dresses of those who have returned from foreign lands, and of the joy they experienced in carrying God’s word to these foreign people and seeing the results; though there are difficulties and dangers confronting these missionaries; be­sides the lack of funds to sustain them and to carry the gospel farther to others who never heard it. To me this is a very serious matter. Some would excuse themselves by saying “won’t the heathen be saved without the gospel?” That is not the question, but will we be saved if we fail to send it? May we as pastors resolve to raise the money and hold up the hands of the workers, that this year may be the greatest and most prosperous in the foreign field that we have experienced.

(Read at the Annual Meeting of the Board at Van Wert, Ohio, May 16, 1931.)

A GOLD COAST INVESTMENTThe investor was an elevator operator in one of the

towering apartment buildings of the Gold Coast district in Chicago. When leisure permitted he gave attention to the reading of a book which seemed to hold his interest in an unusual way. He was a student of the Moody Bible In­stitute, Chicago. The book was the Bible.

One evening a young man drifted into the corridor, seeming in no hurry to leave after visiting a friend in the building. A cozy corridor is to be preferred to a storm-swept pavement.

A conversation was soon thriving between the young men. However it started, it led soon to the question of the student operator, “Friend, are you a Christian?”

“No, I never went in for that business,” was the re­sponse. “Dad says Christians are narrow-minded, and for me to be decent without becoming a fanatic.”

“Don’t your parents ever go to church, or read the Bible?”

“No, dad says all church folks are hypocrites, and that the Bible is mostly fables and legends.”

The student then drew from his pocket a small Testa­ment, and asked the young man to read II Timothy 3:16 (“All scripture is given by inspiration of God”) and I Cor­inthians 2: 14 (“ the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit” ). He became interested and began turning the pages, reading portions here and there.

Happily, when he left a few minutes later, he had ac­cepted the gift of a Testament, and had signed his name to a Pocket Testament League pledge, promising to carry the Testament with him, and to read at least one chapter each day.

Weeks passed; the incident had beeen quite forgotten. One evening, in walked the young man again, smiling and affable. Greetings were exchanged, and the operator, eager to know if the pledge had been regarded, asked,

“Well, have you been reading the Testament?”“Indeed I have, and I have read it through five times!”

was the surprising answer.With a prayer in his heart, the student then advanced

a vital inquiry.“That’s fine! Have you signed you name over there

within the back cover, declaring your acceptance of the Lord Jesus as your personal Savior?”

‘N ot yet, but I am ready to do so, and I came over here tonight so you Could see me do it.”

Not all Gold Coast investments have turned out so well!

“FROM THIS DAY I WILL BLESS YOU”(Haggai 2: 19)

God’s people may delay blessing, and have done so over and over again. They are doing it today.

The Jews delayed blessing in the days of the prophet Haggai. They were “running every man to his own house,” while the house of the Lord was lying waste. God withheld His blessing and called for a drought upon the whole land.

The prophet testified against Israel, showing them that the years of leanness were due to the neglect of God’s house. Their love to Jehovah had waned. They had settled down into selfish ways. Therefore, God restrained His blessing and sent His servant to reprove them. They were called upon to “consider” their ways; to go up to the mountain and bring wood and take pleasure in God’s house, to that God could take pleasure in them, and that GOd might be glorified.

They had looked for much, and little came. The heaven over them was stayed from dew, and the earth from her fruit, because Jehovah’s house was lying waste.

Repentance brought immediate prosperity. The Lord sent His servant to announce to them, “FROM THIS DAY I WILL BLESS YOU.” It is ever thus. God loves to honor the obedience of faith.

The following narratives of blessing experienced by out­standing servants of Christ, following their obedience to God’s Word, beautifully illustrate this promise:

P. P. Bliss, the noted song writer, urged by Mr. Moody to devote his life wholly to evangelistic labor, decided, in co-operation with Major Whittle, to make a test campaign at Waukegan, Illinois. “ If souls are saved,” they said, “we will take it as indication that God has called us into this work.”

The first meeting was not encouraging. But the follow­ing night, although it rained, and a smaller audience was expected, there were twice as many present. The workers felt the responsibility upon them, and the next afternoon spent some hours in prayer. Bliss surrendered everything to the Lord, hit, musical ambitions, his writing of secular music, and in simple childlike faith, placed himself and his talents at the disposal of the Lord in the proclamation of the Gospel. That night they had a wonderful meeting. In God’s gracious response to their faith souls were saved, and a deep spirit of conviction was upon the people. That meeting decided the question of continuing. They went from place to place with evident blessing of God rest­ing upon their labors. The cities visited witnessed scenes of revival blessing. That day of humiliation and prayer was the turning point in their experience. Bliss especially from then on became a veritable fountain of Gospel song. God seemed to say to him, “FROM THIS DAY I WILL BLESS YOU.”

FACTS FOR THE FIRING LINEProhibition has reduced commitments for drunkenness

by 55.3 per cent according to the figures of the U. S. Census Bureau.—Census Colume, “Prisoners, 1923” , Table 12.

“Industrial insurance in the period 1914-1919 (wet) was about $5,250,000,000. From 1920 to 1925 (dry) it increased to almost $12,000,000,000, or an increase of almost 250 per cent.” —“VALUE OF LAW OBSERVANCE”, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., 1950, Page 10.

“The Massachusetts Bureau of Labor Statistics showed in 1905 (wet) that 84 per cent of all criminals under convic­tion in correctional institutions of that state owed the con­ditions which induced the crime to intemperate habits.”— “VALUE OF LAW OBSERVANCE”, Department of Justice, 1930. Page 31.

General Secretary...................... - • Rev. Effie HodgeboomRoom 411, U. B. Building, Huntington, Ind.

General Treasurer - - - - - - - Mrs. F. A.916 Himes St., Huntington, Ind.

Loew

EDITORIAL NOTESThe Chinese demonstration “The Way to Happiness” is

now ready for distribution this will be particularly valu- able as it is descriptive Of the evangelistic work carried on in connection with, and made possible by the school work conducted. The educational work is the point Of contact, and opens the door of the Chinese home td the visiting pastor and Bible woman. Every society will be interested in presenting this program, knowing that it will portray the work of our Chinese mission in a clear and forceful man­ner. Much credit is due to Mr. and Mrs. Y. T. Chiu who sent the material, and to Miss Anna Harwood of Hunting- ton, who is largely responsible for the interesting form in which it has been presented. thank-offering secretaries will do well in giving consideration to this as a part of the annual thankoffering program. The cost price is five cents per copy, and has been kept very low knowing that several copies aid materially in presenting the program. At this low price a number of copies may be ordered at small ex­pense.

Rev, 0. E. Carlson of North Michigan, and Miss Martha Anna Bard Of North Ohio, will sail for the African field in the near future. Miss Bard is a recent graduate of Hunt­ington College and has had experience in teaching. We are indeed grateful for these volunteers who lay aside other interests and give themselves to this great task. Success will crown their efforts, and we request for them and for the work, the daily prayers of their many friends and of all who are interested in the work.

The Iowa Branch Meeting will convene September 29th, at Blue River, Wisconsin, and will be followed by the annual session of the Iowa Conference. A full delegation is expected and a good meeting is anticipated.

The August meeting of the Mount Carroll (Illinois) society was held in the home of Mrs. Carrie Bower, where the supper was served on the lawn and a picnic enjoyed. The day was ideal, and friends to the number of thirty were present to enjoy the occasion. Several were present from the Old Ladies’ Home, and entered heartily into the services. The meetings of this society are interesting, and good work is being accomplished.

Subscriptions to magazines are desired for the African mission field. Why not send your favorite magazine to some worker, remembering to renew for it annually? Please remember that an extra charge is made for postage in sending to foreign countries. Magazines are enjoyed by the workers, and provide one means for keeping in touch with events transpiring in the homeland. There are no daily papers in Sierra Leone.

A recent report from Rev. P. R. Wild, the Presiding Elder of Nebraska Conference, includes some interesting news. Revivals have been held at all appointments, and five members united with the Grace church. Children’s day was observed on each field, we are happy to say. Brother and Sister Brink are hard at work at Milltown, South Dakota, and Brother Peterson has a new preaching appoint­

ment on his charge. Brother and Sister Lamb are in charge at Inavale, where the Sunday School has been reorganized and has an average attendance of thirty. These reports from frontier fields are gladly welcomed, and speak of a growing interest in the work of the church.

As the editor of this department has attended several annual conferences during the month of August, orders for supplier sent to this office have unavoidably been delayed. However these orders were filled immediately upon our re­turn, and we hope that our workers have not been seriously inconvenienced by this delay.

The friends of Wadena and Garden Prairie societies enjoyed a picnic July I5th, at the home of Mrs. W. F. Moore. They entertained the Y. P. M. B. of Wadena, and the Com­munity Club, rendering a splendid program and serving a picnic dinner to more than fifty guests.

Some splendid program material has recently been added to our stock. “Kanjundu, or from Pear of the Enemy,” (25c) is a demonstration descriptive of the power of the witch-doctor over the natives of Africa. The Gospel mes­sage counter-acts this evil influence.

Several missionary songs have been added. “ In the Secret of His Presence” was written by Ellen Lakshmi Goreh, of India, and is a favorite wherever known. The cost price is 3c. “Whatever, Whenever, Wherever” and “Hitherto-Henceforth” at 3c each; also “Heed the Call” at 5c, may be secured from the mission office. For the chil­dren “Heralds of the King,” at 3c, has been secured. The “Missionary Hymnal” published by the Central Committee of the United Study of Foreign Missions, contains 109 pages and may be secured at 18c per copy. Address all orders to Miss E. M. Hodgeboom, 411 U. B. Building, Huntington, Indiana.

The appeal made some time ago for a scholarship for little Festus Benoni, son of Evangelist H. A. Williams, one of our native workers in Africa, has not as yet brought a response. Twenty-five dollars each year for seven years constitutes a scholarship. Added information concerning this scholarship will be gladly given.

Parcels for Africa have been received recently from Knights Landing, California Branch; Manlius, Coleta, and Center Hill, of Rock River; Victory Chapel, Hillsdale, and from a group of friends of North Ohio; Wadena, Iowa; Free­port, Michigan; Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, and from Millersport, Scioto. We wish to thank these contributing friends for the kindly interest shown in providing needed articles for the field, and to suggest that whenever possible a cash offering accompany such parcels to aid in defraying the expenses involved, such as transportation, duty, etc.

When is the time for prayer?In every hour while life is spared to thee,In crowds or solitude, in joy or care,Thy thoughts should heavenward flee.At home, at mom and eve, with loved one there Bend thou the knee in prayer.

—G. Bennett

CHRISTIANITY DESTROYING PREJUDICEBy D. K. Williams

The advent of the white man, though of great advantage to us in the development of our country, has been miscon­strued by our illiterate brethren who easily arrive at con­clusions, which there are no premises to justify. This pos­tulating habit effects the progress of Christianity to some extent.

The white man, regardless of whatever office he fills, is viewed through a pair of colored spectacles, the components of which are politics and commerce. It is a public attempt on the part of a politician or a foreign trader to outwit the av­erage native (unlettered) who is a well known conservative. The bishops, governors, firm-agents, together with their re­spective co-workers, are all regarded as workmen employed to accomplish a common purpose, and that is, to enslave the black man by subtlety. Circumstances insinuating this al­legation are: (1) the reins of government being held by the white man; (2) prices of local produce are determined by him; (3) prices of imported articles are also determined by him; (4) slavery, which was once an avenue to wealth, is abolished.

Education is interpreted to be a good agency; but on the other hand, it is a diplomatic scheme to Europeanize or Americanize the black man, and, consequently, his an­cestral rights are forfeited. The changed black man, who is sure to find an employment in any of the spheres of the white man, sympathizes and co-operates with the white man in accelerating the alleged aim of these foreign diplomats. The 1898 raid was a result of this misinterpretation. Many lettered natives succumbed to a vicarious death. Some readers of this article may think that this erroneous idea is dead; but a close study unravels the fact that the idea is immured but not dead, and it is being transmitted. Neither politics nor commerce could destroy this wrong conception. In fact, these two agencies above named, though appreciable to some extent, are the cause of such misconceptions. Poli- tices and commerce are working upon the superstructure of humanity; but Christianity deals with the foundation. There is yet danger when the superstructural part of anything re­ceives more attention than the foundation. If the powers of the world are endeavoring to achieve that which is most congenial, why not work hand in hand with Christianity!

It is evident that “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” Christianity is the only puisance capable of regener­ating the heart of man. Education is an appreciable avenue when it takes such a bent; it is then qualified by the term, Christian Education. It is essentially necessary and merit- able that civility and rectitude be spontaneous; hence God in the beginning placed our first parents in a state of pro­bation. “The moral life has its springs from within, hence pure character is found where no inner source of reproba­tion exists.” The tendency of the disordered sensorous and moral nature of man is to approximate to the lower animal creation. The precious blood of Christ has made it possible for man to gain salvation. There is, however, a necessity for earthly government, since man is a free moral agent, and many might still cleave to their evil tendencies and thus reduce the race to a lamentable condition.

The earlier Christians thought it wise to blend the church with the state in order to expedite the will of God in accordance with the Lord’s prayer—“Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven.” But in later years a discontinua­tion was deemed necessary. The church was so much in the state and the state so much in the church, that a distinc­tion of one from the other became difficult, when it should not be so. The church with its aim ought to be distinctly known by all. The state having been severed from the church, is seemingly neutral to the nexus which ought to exist be­tween the two.

Missionaries are looked upon by the generality of intel- ligensias as workmen who have very little to do; but a clear and unprejudicial insight into the nature of their work un­ravels the gigantic and Important task they are endeavoring

to accomplish for the uplift of the race. Where government fails to impart the idea of brotherhood between the white and black man, Christianity is slowly but successfully vindi­cating and strengthening the only efficient tie that binds the hearts of men together, by means of preaching and personal interview with these of our illiterate brethren, who are still cherishing the spirit of hostitlity against the white man. A native brother lately confessed that there was nothing in the world so painful to him as the advent of the white man; but now, as he declared, he is convinced that the white man comes to make things better. His conviction was not occa­sioned by politics or commerce, but by the efforts of Chris­tianity under the auspices of missionaries. To him, the white man is no longer an impostor or a diplomat, but a friend. The sincerity of his confession has been proven: one of his sons is now in our school. This citation is just one of the many instances proving and exalting the work of mission­aries in this part of our country.

The exigency of political force is candidly appreciated and supported by the moral consciousness of man: savagery and barbarism having been subdued to a considerable ex­tent and man is realizing the freedom he has in a moral sense. But government is still anxious that a friendly spirit exist. Missionaries are already in the field for that purpose, spiritually contending with those ill-issues of undeveloped minds and unregenerated hearts. The output of slavish fear and the reviving of the spirit of love which ought to exist among nations, are evidenced by the qualitative and persist­ent efforts of missionaries.

Since slavery under a moral test is proved to be inhu­man, it is essentially necessary that those destructive ideas cherished by slaves be destroyed. The possibility of this lies in the bosom of Christianity which is being squeezed up so tight as to be suffocated by the craven concerns of politics and commerce. Yet Christianity with its immortal essence, is gradually destroying prejudice and laying the foundation upon which politics and commerce may safely play their necessary but transcient parts.

Mattru, Sierra Leone,West Africa

MISSIONARY MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTIONS RE­CEIVED AT THE W. M. A. OFFICE

June 20 to July 20, 1931Mrs. Mike Beck, Mrs. C. C. Climenhage, Mrs. Thomas

Carver, Mrs. Catherine Dean, Mrs. Wm. Grant, Mrs. Reuben Noyes, Mrs. Russel Noyes, Mrs. Clifford Spear, Mrs. Henry Anderson, Mrs. John Gustafson, Mrs. A. P. Mullins, Mrs. Et­ta Crawford, Mrs. Lillian Thompson. Mrs. Nellie Johnson, Mrs. Noah Spangler, Mrs. Katie Verdier, Mrs. John Welker, Mrs. lone Barry, Mrs. Ida Hitt, Mrs. Mary Shaw, Mrs. John Steler, Mrs. Lena Marshall, Mrs. C. E. Stratton, Mrs. Cecile Black. Mrs. Mary Holmes, Mrs. Russel Polk, Mrs. Earl Cate, Mrs. Fred Pontius, Mrs. C. P. Hersey, Mrs. Gladys Calvert, Mrs. W. P. Graham, Rev. Ruth Leland, Mrs. Pearl Fix, Mrs. Cleo Moon, Miss Katie Hammer, Mrs. B. W. Presnell, Mrs. P. L. Hoskins, Rev. L. B. Baldwin, Mrs. R. G Brady, Mrs. Orpha Clark, Mrs. Alice Henderson, Mrs. Susie Miller, Mrs. Victor Hammond, Mrs. Stanley Birdsall, Mrs. Maren Cave, Mrs. Rena Clevidence, Mrs. Lulu Coblentz and Mrs. Addie Harrison, each fifty cents.

Mrs. Elmetta Thornburg, Mrs. Estie Westfall. Mrs. Anna Kiefer, Mrs. Irene Bennett. Miss Dessie Martin, Mrs. Jennie Haight and Mrs. Marie Davis, each $1.00.

Mrs. Ira Luce, O. N. Bowman and Mrs. A. N. Savage, each $1.50.

June 20 to July 20, 1931Miss Lulu Kelley, Mrs. Ida Wineland, Mrs. O. S.

Cheney, Mrs. Anna Moore, Mrs. D. C. Weidman, Mr. Lewis Wolfe, A. P. Forman, Mrs. Elwood Rinehart, Mrs. Inez Gar­rison, Mrs. Clara Smith, Miss Clara Johnson, Mrs. Wm. E.

Wise, Mrs. Frank Esterline, Rev. R. W. Rash, Mrs. Eliza­beth Eubank, Mrs. Lorene Wogomam, Mrs. G. W. Benjamin, Misc Isabel Binford, Mrs. Lillie Johnson, Rev. J. A. Kenoyer, Jr., Mrs. Ida Mathes, Mrs. Lillian Pershall, Mrs. Mollie Short, Mrs. Jane Dickerson, Mrs. Blance Downey, Mrs. Winona Paxton, Mrs. Lorna Fish, Mrs. Cora Walton, Mrs. A. E. Stucker, Mrs. E. C. Mason, Mrs. ESie Towne, Mrs. John Mc­Combs, Mrs. Nora Rhodes, Mrs. Bertha Morse, Mrs. H. C. Haltner, Mrs. Melvin Wright, Mrs. Geneva Heck, Mrs. Jesse Nofzinger, Mrs. Etta Wertenbarger, Mrs. James Wertenbarg- er, Mrs. Lena Beam, Mrs. Jennie Bentz, Mrs. Ida Henry, Mrs. Maude Kaiser, Mrs. M. C. Miller, Mrs. Clara. Traill, Mrs. Etta Hibbard. Mrs. Ray Hibbard, Mrs. Crandall Lester Mrs. Jennie McMillin, Mrs. Mary Schlegel, Mrs. W. Throop, Mrs. ClintonAnderson, Mrs. Maggie Alleman, Mrs. Emma Geiser, Mrs. Ruth Lister. Mrs. Maud Snyder, Rev. N. J. Clay, Mrs. Olda Kuhn, Mrs. H. J. Annette, Mrs. G. A. Ward, Mrs. Bert King, Mrs. Lillie Keller, Mrs. Cleva Rinehold, Mrs. Archie McDonald, Mrs. Catherine Smith. Mrs. Alice DeGroff, Mrs. Dessie Mansberger, Mr. Duane Pettit, Minnie Lech- leidner, and Rev. James Shaw, each 50 cents.

Miss Emma VanMarter, Mrs. Sarah Doudt, Mrs. Sadie Holmes, Miss Lorene Overholtz, Mrs. Ruby Marlatt, Mrs. Maggie Knapp, Mrs. H. C. Mason, Mrs. Leo Reynolds, Miss Nina Lown, Mrs. Abbie Hettinger, Mrs. Helen Keefer, and Mrs. Grace Suter, each $1.00.

Mrs. Myrtle Hanna, $1.50.Mr. R. B. Fisher and Mrs. Sherman Deaton, each $2.00.Mr. B. F. Siler, $5.00.

REMINISCENCE OF FORTY YEARS(Continued from the July-August number)

For the first time, Rev. Moy Ling, who founded the Chi­nese Mission in Portland, Oregon, favored the Board with his presence at Elkhart, Indiana, May, 1920. His address gave us a clear word picture of our mission and its hopes and difficulties. During this year the Board of Trustees pur­chased the Hope Cottage Rescue Mission at Lansing, Kan­sas. We were informed that in the year 1921 Rev. Fleming had been able to purchase two lots adjoining our Bonthe property in Africa. Also in this year a permanent scholar­ship of $5,000 was planned, the interest only to be used in helping young men and women prepare for missionary work, and be known as the M. M. Titus Scholarship; $1,000 was to be paid each year until the sum was completed. This plan was adopted by the Board of Managers. The constrcution of the new Girls’ Home in Bonthe was begun by Rev. J. B. Woodard in 1922. The corner stone was laid in April 1922 and the building was formally opened to the public by his Excellency, the Governor, on February 28, 1923. It was dedicated on August 6th, and named the Minnie Mull Me­morial Home. Rev. Frank Powell, after a six month’s course at Livingstone Medical College went to Africa and began medical work at Danville.

Our new mission in China was established in a rented building on the Island of Honam opposite Canton, with Rev. Y. T. Chiu as Superintendent. It opend July 1st, 1924. with 35 pupils, which soon increased to 60. In the year 1924 Mrs. A. R. Kiracofe, former General Secretary of the Wom­an’s Missionary Association, passed away at the home of her son, C. Horace Kiracofe, in Huntington, Indiana. The members of the Executive Committees of the Parent Board and Woman’s Missionary Association, then in session, at­tended the funeral in a body.

During the year 1925 Young People’s Mission Bands were organized with Rev. M. Jordan as General Organizer. This year marked the passing of our Rev. Moy Ling, founder and superintendent of the Chinese mission in Portland, Oregon. Rev. Y. T. Chiu of Canton, China, who was at that time a student in Cornell University at Ithaca, N. Y., was present at the Board meeting of 1926 at Adeline, Illinois, and gave an address on Chinese customs and habits. At this time the Moy Ling Memorial Fund was started—it to be used as a building fund for our mission in China. Those paying $10.00

to this fund to be granted a life membership certificate with a special Moy Ling seal. Returned missionaries present at the Board meetings in Charlotte, Michigan, in 1927, were Rev. and Mrs. Lloyd Eby, the Misses Swales and Birdsall and Rev. Frank Powell.

The death of Mrs. Malhala Hadley Bridgeman of Day- ton, Washington, occurred March 19, 1929, she being over 90 years of age. Mrs. Bridgeman, formerly Mrs. Oliver Had­ley, was the second woman to be sent as a missionary to Africa by this church, and went in company with her hus­band, Rev. O. Hadley.

Rev. and Mrs. Fleming arrived in Africa, April 17, 1929. to begin their fifth term on the African field. At the meet­ing of the Board of Managers at Shippensburg, Pa., May 1929, they decided by vote to discontinue the work of Hope Cottage Mission.

Worthy of note at the Board meeting of 1930 at Grand Rapids. Michigan, was the presence of Rev. G. Max Gorvie, a native son of Africa, now attending Indiana Central Col­lege. who gave a very fine address. A surprise was planned for our retiring General Secretary, Mrs. F. A. Loew, who having served for nearly twenty-four years found it neces­sary to resign the office. Messages of love and good will, a basket of flowers ,and a love offering completed the sur­prise.

During these forty years the Woman’s Missionary Asso­ciation has aided the following frontier fields as necessity demands. Nebraska, Oklahoma. Salem. Portland and Ore­gon City. Oregon; Utah. Virginia. Leavenworth and Le- compton, Kansas; So. Dakota, Neosho, Walla Walla, Clarks- ton and Sifton. Washington; Twin Falls, Idaho, and Glen­dale. Calif.

The following missionaries have served on the African field. Rev. D. F. Wilberforce. 1892; Rev. D. K. Flickinger, 1892; Rev. Miss Mary B. Mullen, 1897; Rev. Rufus A. Morri­son. 1899; Rev. and Mrs. B. O. Hazzard. 1900; Miss Lena Winkel. 1901: Rev. and Mrs. A. F. Stoltz. 1903; Miss Min­nie Mull. 1904; Mr. C. W. Linker 1905, Mr. Linker and Miss Mull married. 1906; Mrs. Minnie Mull Linker died, 1906; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wilberforce, 1906; Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Wilberforce, 1906: Rev. J. B. Woodard. 1908; Mrs. J. B. Woodard. 1910; M:ss Jennie Martin, 1912; Rev. L. F. Clark. 1912; Rev. and Mrs. George Fleming, 1913: Rev. and Mrs. Vernon Kopp. 1914: Miss Bernice Snell, 1915; Miss Abbie Swales. 1916; Miss Nettie Birdsall, 1921; Rev. and Mrs. Lloyd Eby. 1923; Miss Ellen Rush, 1923; Miss Mabel Shultz. 1923. Rev. Frank Powell, 1924; Rev. C. E. Carlson. 1925; Miss Effie M. Hodgeboom. 1925; Miss Mabel Snyder. 1926; Mr. and Mrs. Millin Stevens, 1927; Mr. Charles Saufley, 1928; Miss Ruth Bidwell, 1930.

THE MISSIONARY MONTHLY QUESTIONNAIREBy Miss M. M. Titus

(Answers to these questions may be found in the July- August Missionary Monthly.)

1. What is new about Missionary Monthly subscriptions.2. Give recommendation No. 3 adopted by Parent Board.3. Name the man taking medical studies at Omaha, Ne­

braska.4. Has the financial depression effected our mission work

in Africa?5. There is one thing that man has not yet done. Name

it.6. What was said by Paternus, sitting in the garden with

his little son?7. Name some vital factors for service in the missionary

cause.8. Describe the Prayer Circle card.9. C he plan for the reading of good missionary books.10. Give some news items from our African mission.11. Total of scriptures issued in 1930 is what?12. Some more about the excitement in Bonthe. Tell

about it.

QUARTERLY REPORT OF THE GENERAL TREASURER, WOMAN’S MISSIONARY

ASSOCIATION, UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH

April 15,1931 to August 10,1931RECEIPTS

— Auglaize—Treasurer—Mrs. E. W. Sellers, Wapakoneta, Ohio.Dues: Elgin $8.25 ; Ft. Wayne $3.75 ; McGill $2.00 ; Monticello $7.50;

Mt. Union $1.50; Olivet $2.25; Old Town $2.77 ; Pleasant Grove $3.25 : Wren $2.75; Otterbein $5.50; Vicory $4.75.

Harvesters: Pelasant Grove 50c; Victory 30c.Y. P. M. B .: Monticello $1.95; Pleasant Grove 10c; Victory $1.30. Life Membership: Ethel Shaw $2.00.Mite Boxes: Wren $2.53.Birthday Offerings: Olivet $4.21; Pleasant Grove $2.82; Spring

Valley $11.64 ; Victory Chapel $1.24 ; Zanesville $6.36; Wren 85c.Children’s Day: Collet $4.15 ; Monticello $10.34 ; Willshire $7.26 ;

Mt. Union $2.43; Wren $7.19; Green Briar $6.03; Fairview $4.85; Zion $7.20; Ft. Wayne $7.05.

Africa: Mrs. Jennie Hagerman $30.00; Maude Becker $10.00; Jen­nie Sherer $5.00.

Africa: (Support of Medical Missionary) Mrs. Jennie Hagerman $5.00.

A frica: (Florence Bryan Scholarship) Mrs. Jennie Byer $25.00. Africa: (Special) Rev. W. C. Davis $5.00; Mrs. Jennie Core $1.00;

Otterbein 50c.Thank Offering: Wren $3.91.General Fund: Monticello $10.00; Old Town $2.00; Pleasant Grove

$5.00; Wren $2.50; Otterbein $4.03; Van Wert $10.00; Ethel Shaw $15.00; Rev. T. Weyer $1.00; Mrs. T. Weyer $2.00; Rev. J. M. Sherer $1.00; Mrs. Virda Shindollar $1.00; Ida Rhoades $1.00; Eva Bowen $1.00; Florence Alspaugh $1.00; Nellie Middaugh $1.00; Flossie Fast $2.00; Ocie Fast $3.00; Lucretia Fast $1.00; Warren Hardin $1.00; Mrs. Mabel Bowen $1.00.

Total, $287.51—California—

Treasurer—Mrs. L. M. Rinehart, Oakdale, California.Dues: Knights Landing $5.25; Modesto 75c; Pixley $2.00; Oakdale

$7.25.Birthday Offerings: Glendale $1.53; Manton $2.75; Modesto $3.73;

Pixley $4.01 ; Woodland $2.79.Chinese Mission: (Portland) Modesto $2.00; Oakdale $2.00.Africa: Yolo (1929-1930 Per E. K.) $3.00; Knights Landing $5.00;

Oakdale $5.00; Pixley $5.00.China: Pixley $3.08.

Total, $55.14—Detroit—

Treasurer—Mrs. Ed Wilson, 6881 Minnock Ave., Detroit, Michi­gan.

Dues: $15.00.Children’s Day: $15.33. Samaritan Fund: 15c.

Total, $30.48—-East Illinois—

Treasurer—Mrs. Amanda McCray, R. R. 1, Cissna Park, Illinois. Dues: Davis $3.00; New Goshen $3.25 ; Claytonville $9.00. Harvesters: Davis $1.12 ; New Goshen 66c.Birthday Offerings: Davis $2.92.Children’s Day: Claytonville $9.22.A frica: (General Fund) Branch Offering—New Goshen $16.30;

Claytonville $19.80.China: Davis (Branch Offering) $22.29; Claytonville $3.50. Missionary Monthly Charity Fund: Claytonville 35c.General Fund: East Illinois Branch Meeting Offering $10.00; New

Goshen $5.00.Samaritan Fund: Claytonville 45c.

—Idaho—Treasurer—Mrs. M. M. Jay, Kamiah, Idaho. Dues: Twin Falls $5.50; Lenore $6.75. Children’s Day: Lenore $1.55.

Total, $106.86

Total, $13.80—Iowa—

Treasurer—Mrs. S. A. Birdsall, 1701 Kilborn Ave., Rockford, Illinois.

Harvesters: Wadena (1928-1929 per E. K.) $2.54.Memorial R oll: Iowa Branch for Mrs. Della Shields $5.00.

Total, $7.54—Kansas—

Treasurer—Mrs. Ruth Lucas, Box 35, Robinson, Kansas.Dues: Ash Creek $1.75; Corvallis $5.00; Fruit Hill $2.50; Hayes

$7.25; Rusco $2.00; Sabetha $6.00; Sulphur Springs $3.25; Robinson ,

$7.50.Y. P. M. B .: Ash Creek $1.20.Life Membership: Ash Creek 50c.Children’s Day: Ash Creek $4.50; Corvallis $1.26; Tabor $6.94;

Robinson $4.00.Africa: (General Expenses) Sulphur Springs (Quarterly Pledge)

$5.00.Africa (Lincoln Pennies) Sulphur Springs $4.75.Thank Offering: Sulphur Springs 85c.General Fund: Kansas Branch Pledge $50.00.

Total, $114.25—Michigan—

Treasurer—Mrs. Amy Hoffman, Lake Odessa, Michigan.Dues: Caledonia $3.00; Charlotte $5.50; Conway $3.50; Freeport

$1.50; Gaines $3.00; Grand Rapids $6.50; Hastings $2.50 ; Lake Odessa $3.75; Sunfield $1.00; Star $1.25; Tamarac $2.00; Woodland $5.00; East Woodland $5.00; Woodbury $3.50.

Harvesters: Woodland 41c.Mite Boxes: Sunfield $6.64.Birthday (Mother’s Day Offering) Sunfield $4.04; Woodland $4.49. Birthday: Yankee Springs 52c; Charlotte $5.82; Freeport $4.43;

Lansing $1.64 ; Hastings $1.42; Sunfield $1.41; Kilpatrick $2.75.Children’s Day: Yankee Springs $1.20; Hastings $4.89; Charlotte

$5.18; Pleasant Valley $6.38; Freeport $3.67 ; Woodbury $28.12 ; Tam­arac $3.91; Caledonia $9.63 ; Kilpatrick $31.76 ; Woodland $4.00.

Chinese Mission: (General Expenses) Caledonia $4.60; Conway$2.09 ; Freeport $2.54 ; Gaines $3.52 ; Hastings $3.54 ; Lake Odessa $4.76 ; Tamarac $1.21“ Woodland $3.17 : Woodbury $3.42.

A frica : (General Expenses) Caledonia $6.67 ; Charlotte $6.00 ; Con­way $3.02; Freeport $3.67; Gaines $4.60; Grand Rapids $6.00; Halli- day $9.50; Hastings $3.68; Lake Odessa $6.89; Star $3.24; Tamarac $1.73 ; Woodland $4.10; East Woodland $8.00; Woodbury $4.96.

Africa: (Suport of Medical Missionary) Conway $6.99.Africa: (Emergency Fund) Rev. N. L. Bond $2.50.Africa (Expense o f package) East Woodland Harvesters $1.00. General Fund: Freeport (Pledge) $1.00; Sunfield $5.00; Y. P. M.

B. $3.50.Moy Ling Memorial; Tamarac $5.00.

China: (Support of Bible Woman) Conference Y. P. M. B. $110.00; Freeport $10.00.

Total, $425.21— Missouri—

Treasurer—Mrs. Mary E. Norman, Grant City, Missouri.Dues: Pleasant View $1.50.General Fund: Grant City (Easter Offering) $10.39.

Total, $11.89—Nebraska—

Treasurer—Miss Mabel Shultz, Box 22, Sutton, Nebraska.Birthday Offerings: Milltown $6.91 ; Geneva Mission $1.78 ; Willow

Grove $5.19.Children’s Day: Mt. Pleasant $3.45; Grace $10.12; Willow Grove

$3.72.

—Neosho—Treasurer—Mrs. H. E. Smith, Haven, Kansas. Dues: Otterbein $11.00.General Fund: Mrs. B. F. Platt $1.00.

Total, $31.17

Total, $12.00—North Michigan

Treasurer—Mrs. Edith L. Kinney, Pompeii, Michigan.Dues: Alma $2.25 ; Bates $3.50; Carson City $5.00 ; East Washing­

ton $2.00; Mt. Hope $2.25; North Shade $2.50; North Star $3.50; Pleasant Grove $2.00 ; Pleasant View $1.50.

Mite Boxes: Alma 57c; Mt. Hope $4.30 ; Pleasant View $6.31. Birthday Offering: Alma $1.13; Bates 83; Carson City $1.43; East

Washington $2.74; North Star 86; Pleasant View $3.81.Children’s Day: Pleasant Grove $2.39 ; Jackson Street $4.19. Africa: General Expenses) North Star $5.00.Africa (North Michigan Ministerial Memorial Scholarship) North

Shade $1.00; North Star $1.60; Branch Offering $10.22.A frica: (Lincoln Pennies) Alma 24c; Carson City $1.08; Noi^h

Star $1.08.A frica : (Support of Joseph Lamina) Conference Y. P. M. B.

$75.00.Africa: (Wilma Charles Scholarship— First Payment) Mrs. Charles

Ott $25.00.Thank Offering: Mrs. Nora Martin (1927-1928 Per E. K.) $1.00. Board Minutes: North Star 20c.General Fund: Alma $6.00; Carson City $7.20; Mt. Hope $1.50;

North Shade $2.00; North Star $8.00; Pleasant Grove $2.00; Offering at Branch Meeting $4.77.

Total, $205.95—North Ohio—

Treasurer—Rev. Luella Gilbert, Delta, Ohio.

Dues: Algansee $11.33; Alvordton $1.20; Blissfield $7.00; Delta $2.00; E. B. W. $4.50; Fayette $1.00; Fountain $4.50; Hebron $3.50; Helmer $3.75; Hillsdale $15.75; Hudson $2.00; Maple Grove $3.75; Montgomery $5.50; Munson $11.25; Otterbein $7.00; Otter Creek $2.00; Pioneer $2.75; South Scipio $6.25; Strasburg $6.00; Stryker $5.00; Victory $3.50; West Union $3.75; Zion $5.00; Zion Chapel $7.50.

Harvesters: Fayette $1.03.Y. P. M. B .: Conference Y- P. M. B. $3.60.Mite Boxes: Hillsdale $7.53; Hudson $10.47.Children’s Day: Alvordton $11.19 ; Blissfield $20.22; Adrian $5.80;

Hopewell $17.55 ; West Union $7.15 ; Indian Village Cir. $7.78; Amboy $3.73 ; Bethany $13.59; Mt. Pleasant $6.06; Victory Chapel $5.74.

Africa: (General Expense) Blissfield $40.00; Hillsdale $15.00;Hudson $5.00; Montgomery $10.00; Munson $5.00; Ransom $5.00; Wal- bridge $5.00; A Friend $5.00.

A frica: (Support of Medical Missionary) West Union (1929-1930 per E. K.) $1.00.

A frica: (J. H. Townsend Scholarship) Alvordton $50.00.(Phoebe Battershell Scholarship) Hudson $9.01.(Luella Gilbert Scholarship) Stryker $1.00.

A frica: (Organ Fund) Bethany $1.00; Inlet $1.00; Montgomery $1.00; Victory $1.00.

Africa (For School Supplies) Fayette $1.00; Fountaain $1.00; In­let 25c; Montgomery 15c; Victory 50c.

Africa: (Rev. H. A. Williams Fund) North Ohio Y. P. M. B. $11.00. China: Blissfield $15.00; Fayette $10.00; Hillsdale $10.00; Hudson

$5.00 ; Montgomery; $10.00; Munson $5.00 ; Ransom $5.00 ; Walbridge $5.00; West Union $5.00.

Thank Offering: Indian Village (1929-1930 Per. E. K.) $2.75. Memorial R oll: North Ohio Branch (for Mary M. Metzler) $5.00. Missionary Monthly Charity Fund: Hebron 5c.General Fund: Blissfield $10.00; Fountain $10.00; Hillsdale $25.00;

Montgomery $10.00; Munson $5.00; Pioneer $5.00; Walbridge $5.00; Conference Y. P. M. B. $3.00.

Total, $566.93—Ontario—

Treasurer —Mrs. Hedley Benner, R. R. 1 ; Fort Erie, Ontario, Can. Dues: New Dundee $7.50; Stevensville $14.00; Kitchener $5.00;

Port Elgin $3.00 ; Bloem Ave. Toronto, $5.00 ; Sherkston $11.25; Silver- thorne, Toronto, $2.90; Shiloh $2.75 ; Roseville $3.25 ; Manheim $4.00.

Harvesters: Silverthorne 68c.Life Membership: Bloem Ave. Junior C. E. $10.00; New Dundee

$10.00; Stevensville $10.00; Kitchener $25.00; Roseville $8.00.Mite Boxes: Stevensville $1.50; Kitchener $17.11.Birthday Offerings: Stevensville $8.84 ; Garrison Road $5.02 ; New

Dundee $2.39; New Dundee (W. M. A.) $1.47; Kitchener $1.87; Tor­onto $18.76 ; Bloem Ave. 75c.

Africa (General Expenses) Miss Grace Mitchener $1.50.Africa (Support of Medical Missionary) $1.06.A frica: (E. Pitman Academy Scholarship) Stevensville $12.50;

Sherkston $12.50.A firca: (Ontario Ministerial Memorial Scholarship) Sherkston

$2.50.Africa: (Victoria Cents) Port Elgin 75c.

Total, $210.85— Oregon—

Treasurer—Mrs. Bertha Reynolds, Philomath, Oregon.Life Membership—For Mrs. Lydia Diekman ‘Billings $10.00.A frica: (General Fund) Oregon Branch $10.00.Thank Offeirng: Miss Frances Lew (1928-1929 Per E. K.) $1.00. Board Minutes: Philomath 25c.

Total, $21.25— Pennsylvania

Treasurer—Mrs. Sue B. K. Ely, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.Dues: Mt. Pleasant $8.25 ; Franklintown $7.00 ; Middleburg $9.25;

Chambersburg $13.25 ; Strinestown $9.25 ; Shippensburg $7.75 ; Waynes­boro $8.00; Greencastle $5.00 ; Oak Grove $3.00; Mt. Washington $9.55 ; Blue Rock $2.00; Criders $6.00; Hagerstown $3.75.

Harvesters: Mt. Pleasant 97c; Chambersburg $2.10.Y. P. M. B.: Mt. Pleasant $2.85; Chambersburg $9.30; Waynes­

boro $2.25.Life Patronship: Chambersburg $5.00.Mite Boxes: Mt. Pleasant $1.00.Birthday: Waynesboro (W. M. A.) $2.80; Mt. Washington (W. M.

A.) $2.05; Per O. A. Kerns (place not specified) $3.13; Per O. A. Kerns (1927-1928 Per. E. K.) $4.54.

Children's Day: Per. O .A. Kerns (place not speceified) $4.04; Criders $7.83; Middleburg $13.18; Salem $13.23; Waynesboro $6.00; Per O. A. Kerns (places not specified) (1927-1928 Per. E. K.) $76.29.

A frica: (Expense of sending parcel) Daisy Varner $1.00.Africa: Mt Washington (1927-1928 Per E. K.) $10.00; Blue Rock

$2.00.Africa: (Support of Native Worker) From a friend $72.00.

A frica: (For Medical Department) From a friend $60.00.Africa: (--------------------------------Scholarship) Mt. Pleasant $25.00.China: Blue Rock $2.00; From sale of goods per Mrs. Daniel Powell

(1927-1928 Per. E. K.) $10.30.Chinese Mission (Portland, Oregon) Blue Rock $1.00.Frontier Fields: Mt. Pleasant $1.25; Chambersburg 25c; Ship­

pensburg 80c; Waynesboro 91c; Mt. Washington 19c; Criders 55c; Hagerstown $1.78; Pennsylvania Branch $1.37.

General Fund: Rev. Charles McCurdy $5.00.Foreign Fields: Mt. Pleasant $6.25; Chambersburg $1.25; Ship­

pensburg $4.00 ; Waynesboro $4.57; Mt. Washington 91c; Criders $2.78; Hagerstown $8.86; Pennsylvania Branch 89c.

Total, $473.52— Rock River—

Treasurer—Mrs. Floyd Tillman, R. R. 2, Sterling, Illinois.Dues: Appleton $3.50; Center Hill $7.00; Egan $1.50; Manlius

$6.00; Van Orin $10.00; Woodland $6.00.Y. P. M. B .: Appleton $1.30.Birthday Offering: Center Hill $1.66; Egan $2.25 ; Van Orin $4.75 ;

Coleta $1.98; Leaf River 81c; Penrose $2.49; Woodland $1.26; Rock­ford $3.87.

Children's Day: Adeline $6.64; Van Orin $4.11; Center Hill $4.89; Egan $6.60; Fowler $3.19; Manlius $7.00; Rockford $2.80; Woodland $8.50.

Africa: (General Expenses) Mrs. Rachel and Dessie M. Hanna $20.00; Manlius $10.00.

Africa: (Higher Education of African Boy) Appleton $6.50; Van Orin $15.00; Woodland $15.00.

A frica : (Lincoln Pennies) Woodland 12c.From Sale of Board Minutes: Center Hill 10c; Woodland 50c. General Fund: Appleton $10.00; Center Hill $15.00; Manlius $5.00;

Van Orin $10.00; Collection at Branch Meeting $16.25; Collection at Camp Meeting $15.00.

Total, $236.57—Sandusky—

Treasurer—Mrs, Rosa Aurand, Wayne, Ohio.Dues: Findlay $1.15; Bowling Green $4.00; Mt. Zion $5.50. Africa: (General Fund) Bowling Green $7.55.Africa: (Building Fund) Mrs. Olive Cramer $1.00.Africa: (Support of Medical Missionary) Mrs. Euphia Zeigler

$5.00.Africa: (Lincoln Pennies) Bowling Green 98c.Missionary Monthly Charity Fund: Mt. Zion 25c.General Fund: Effie M. Hodgeboom $5.00; a friend $10.00.

Total, $40.43— Scioto—

Treasurer—Mrs. O. A. Morehead, Baltimore, Ohio. A frica : Mt. Herman S. S. $3.38

Total, $3.38—Virginia—

Treasurer—Miss Eula Rawley, R. R. 3, Mt. Solon, Virginia.Dues: Spring Hill $13.00 ; Olivet $5.50. *Harvesters: Olivet $1.70.General Fund: Spring Hill Class $4.00; Young People’s Class $2.55;

T. J. Saufley on 1931 Board Pledge $25.00.From Sale of Board Minutes: Mrs. Ida Rawley 10c.

Total, $51.85— Walla W a lla -

Treasurer Mrs. Stella Davidson, 818-4th. St., Dayton, Washing­ton.

Birthday Offerings: Albion 97; Dayton $2.39.Total, $3.36

—White River—Treasurer- — Mrs. Anna Wagoner, R. R. 4, New Castle, Indiana. Dues: Hartsville-Rugby $2.25; Van Buren $6.15; College Park

$2.00 ; Dublin $2.25 ; Pleasant Hill $4.25 ; Fairview $6.25 ; Messick $1.25 ; Mt. Zion (Rush Co)—Mrs. Jesse Lefforge $7.00.

Harvesters: Messick 50c.Birthday Offerings : College Park $7.92 ; Fairview 50c.Children’s Day: Fairview $9.78.Chinese Mission: (General Expense) College Park $6.33.Africa: (General Expenses) Rugby $1.92 ; Etna Avenue $6.00 ; Harts­

ville-Rugby $2.00; College Park $6.33.Africa: (Scholarships for Mission Chlidren) Van Buren $50.00. Missionary Monthly Charity Fund: Etna Ave. 60c; College Park

25c.General Fund: Van Buren $10.00; College Parrk $6.34;— ------------—

$24.71; Helen Houser $5.00.Samaritan Fund: College Park 25c; Fairview 10c; Messick 30c. Hope Cottage: Pleasant Hill $1.00.

Total, $171.23—Wisconsin—

Treasurer—Mrs. Freda Zajicek, Barnum, Wisconsin.

Dues: Cedar Point $1.75 ; Mill Creek $2.50.Africa: (General Expenses) Cedar Point $3.00; Mill Creek 50c; Col­

lection at Branch Meting $5.72.China: Cellar Point $1.50; Mill Creek 50c.General Fund: Collection at Branch Metting $3.35.

Total, $18.82—Miscellaneous—

A frica : From U. B. C. E. for Charles A. E. Saufley’s Medical Training, $187.50 ; from U. B. C. E. for Charles A. E. Saufley’s Medical Equipment, $150.00; from Caroline Gunn Estate, $120.34.

China: From Caroline Gunn Estate, $120.34.General Fund: Board Meeting Offerings $46.50; Interest on Per­

manent Funds $35.00 ; Rent from Hope Cottage (April, May, June and July 1931) $80.00; Rent from Chinese Mission Building (Dec. 1930 and Jan. 1931) $350.00.

Total, $1089.68GrandTotal Receipts, $4189.67

Signed—Mrs. F. A. Loew, Gen. Treas.

Woman’s Missionary Association.916 Himes St., Huntington, Indiana

“Of the more than 20,000,000 of Protestant Church mem­bers in North America, less than one-half are doing any­thing or giving anything to bring the world to Christ and the gospel of Christ to the world.”—Ex.

“The seed is the word of God.” Luke 8: 11.

NORTH MICHIGAN Y. P. M. B. ASSEMBLYThe fifth annual Assembly met at the Camp Ground

near Carson City on June 28th, 1931. Rev. C. E. Carlton met with us and gave an excellent address in which he re­ported favorably the work of Joseph Lamina, our native worker in Africa.

In the afternoon a short program was rendered, and officers elected for the following year. Miss Helen Hull will serve as secretary and Mrs. Marjory Drummond as treas­urer. One hundred dollars was contributed in pledges, and a cash offering of eight dollars and fifty cents was given.

Rev. Carlson also addressed the congregation in the evening service. All were inspired to attempt greater things in missionary work.

Helen Hull, Secretary.

PENNSYLVANIA Y. P. M. B. ASSEMBLYThe fifth annual Assembly was held at the Rhodes

Grove Camp Grounds on August 8. We are grateful to the Camp Board for giving this day to the young people. By having the Assembly at this time, we know that more of our young people were privileged to attend, and we feel that this was the best meeting we have ever had. We were pleased to have with us Rev. C. E. Carlson, our returned missionary from Africa, who spoke morning and afternoon. After listening to his description of the work that is still to ■be done, we went away with a greater missionary spirit and a desire to do more for our Master in the missionary work.

We have decided to support a native worker in Africa and have selected Philip Dole, who resides at Luawa Sta­tion, and has charge of the school and also has Sunday and midweek duties, serving at pastor of two small towns. He is a quiet, faithful worker and commands the respect of his people. So, young people, let us do our best to support him. If we cannot go, we can send of our means; we can pray, and thus carry on the work. If any of our young people, or others, were not privileged to attend the Assembly and want to make a pledge toward supporting this native worker, let us hear from you.

All of our organized societies were represented and con­tributed to the program in this meeting. In the evening we had a very enjoyable “hill top” service. The fellowship supper and social hour were conducted by Rev. C. W. Meadows of Chambersburg. We feel we had a wonderful day together, and the Lord was with us. Let us all be of one heart and one mind, working together for the advancement of God’s Kingdom.

RUth Stine, Secretary.

IN MEMORIAMWe, the members of the Lake Odessa Missionary Soci­

ety of Michigan Branch, have sustained a great loss in the death of our dear sister, Mrs. Rebecca Walker, who passed away June 23, 1931.

Her place among us is vacant. We shall miss her smile and her cheerful spirit. She will be greatly missed in the church, prayer services, and missionary society of which she was a life member, for she was always present, as long as health permitted.

The influence of her faithful Christian life will remain with us.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED:That we extend our sympathy to the family and that a

copy of these resolutions be sent to The Missionary Month­ly, and also be recorded in the minutes of the society.

Helen L. Goodsell Amy Hoffman

We, the members of the Portland Local of the Oregon Branch, regret the passing away of our Sister, Miss Beatrice May Clark, but bow in submission to the will of our Heav­enly Father who knoweth best. Beatrice was a Christian of sterling character and while young in years, poor health had kept her from active service the last few years of her life, but she kept the faith and ran with patience the race set before her, looking unto Jesus the Author and the Fin­isher of our Faith.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED;That we extend our sympathy to the bereaved ones. Also

that a copy of these resolutions be sent to them, and a copy be spread on the Minutes and one be sent to The Missionary Monthly for publication.

Rev. Bertha B. Glover,Mrs. Cecil Smith,Mrs. Lillian B. McFadden.

We, the members of the Victory Local, North Ohio. Branch, deeply feel the loss of our Sister Emma Kline, whom our Heavenly Father has called from labor to her reward. We miss her counsel and hospitality.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED:That we extend our sympathy to the family. Also that

resolutions be sent to The Missionary Monthly for publica­tion and that they be recorded on the Minutes of the society.

Mrs. Cora Cora Bare,Mrs. Gertie Carpenter,Mrs. Minnie Clifton.

We, the members of the West Union Local of North Ohio Branch, have been sadly bereaved by the death of our highly esteemed fellow worker, Mrs. Roberta Beerbower. For many years Mrs. Beerbower has been very active in the work of our society, giving freely cf her counsel, time and financial aid. Her home-going has cast a shadow that will long be felt and leaves a vacancy that will be difficult to supply, and her absence will be keenly felt by all.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED:First: That we remember with gratitude her faithful

and efficient service so freely rendered in the missionary cause.

Second: That we sympathize with the relatives and friends and earnestly pray that even so great a bereave­ment may be overruled for their highest good.

Third: That a copy of these resolutions be recorded in our Minutes and be published in The Missionary Monthly, and that a copy be sent to the bereaved family.

Stella Vesper,• Bessie Green,

Nona B. Pearson

“My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.—I John 3: 18.

OUR BOYS AND GIRLSPROGRAM FOR HARVESTERS

October—Mite Box OpeningSubject: Great Blessings upon Our Gifts.Devotion and Program: Song, “Open My Eyes.” Scrip­

ture lesson, John 6: 1-14 read responsively. Prayer. Song, “The Mite Box Song.” “Barbies’ Blessing Box” told as a story. Music. A demonstration, presenting either “A Mite Box Convention” or “A Tale of Three Boxes” may be given.

Business Session: Roll Call, reading of the minutes, pay­ment of dues, etc.

Mission Story: “An Arab Chief,” from “The Treasure Hunt,” Chapter 6, Pages 111-120.

Opening of Mite Boxes: Prayer and counting of the money.

Song and closing prayer.Note. “The Mite Box Song,” at 3 cents per copy!

“Barbie’s Blessing Box,” at 3 cents; “A Mite Box Conven­tion,” at 4 cents; “A Tale of Three Boxes,” at 5 cents, ritey be secured from Effie M. Hodgeboom, 411 U. B. Building, Huntington, Indiana.

A LETTER FROM CHINACanton, China

Dear little American friend:I presume that the conditions in your country are far

better than those in my country.I am now studying in the fourth grade of the U. B. Mis­

sion School. My schoolmates have learned to love one an­other. In my class there are fourteen students while in the first three grades there are about one hundred thirty stu­dents. We have more than eighty children in our kindergar­ten making a total of two hundred fifteen students. We are so happy to have so many schoolmates. You must have many more students in your school.

Our school is one of the best primary schools in China, and is making great progress. At present there are only four grades, but next fall there will be a fifth grade added. So I shall have the privilege of studying in the fifth grade next September.

I like to correspond with children of foreign countries. I must learn to love not onlv my own schoolmates, but also learn to love the children of other nations as well. I have been asked by our Superintendent to write you a letter, my dear American friend. As I am only in the fourth grade, I cannot write you a very good letter. I hope that you will write to me.

China has been having a great many changes within the last decade. Recently many schools and factories have been established. So my country is gradually becoming prosper­ous. The city of Canton is quite a modern city now. The only sad thing is that China has been suffering from civil war during the last twenty years. The struggle between the North and South has not yet terminated so that China is not enjoying peace. So the political situation in my countrry cannot be compared with that of your country. I hope that war in China may soon come to an end. We also hope that not only the Chinese may work for peace, but that you and the people of the other nations may learn to love one an­other so that there may be permanent peace in the whole world.

I come from a very poor home. My father died many years ago. I have two sisters. My elder sister is being trained as a nurse in a certain hospital in Hongkong, while my younger sister is studying in a country school. I did not have the opportunity to come to this school until last summer and hope that my mother may support me in school for a few years longer, so that I will not have to depend on others and can also help society.

Dear little friend, you know that we have the same God, who is almighty. We ought to trust in Him. I sincerely hope that you will pray for me and for China. How about the liv­ing conditions and customs in your country? I shall be glad to hear from you.

Hoping that this will find you in good health.Your Chinese sister,

King Chun ChueTranslated by Y. T. Chiu, Supt.

HOW CHINESE CHILDREN LEARN TO WORSHIP IDOLS

How do Chinese children learn to worship idols? This is a question I presume children frequently ask their par­ents or teachers. A missionary in China writes:

“Come and I will take you to one of their great gloomy temples, not on Sunday, for there is no Sunday or day of rest in China, but on the first or the fifteenth of the month, for these are the dates upon which people usually visit the temples.

“We must go up a flight of wide stone steps at the entrance, and as we enter we shall see two tall images with very ugly faces and brilliantly painted coats, which are called ‘Guardians of the gate.’

“Walking on into the temple, which looks dull and shadowy in the dim light, we shall come to the shrine of the great idol, in whose honor the temple was built. A number of other images are ranged around it; they are the servants of the god, and large rings of incense are burning before it. In some temples Buddhist priests sit in rows re­peating in a sort of chant words of prayer which they do not understand at all.

“The mothers bring their little children forward and teach them to clasp their hands and bow down knocking their heads to the ground as they worship the senseless idol! If it is the first time, the children are afraid, and sometimes say, ‘I can’t do it, I never shall do it.’ Then they watch more closely while their mothers once more show them how it is done. Afterwards they are sometimes re­warded with little presents, which they are told have been given them by the idol. But if they are terrified and afraid to worship, they are told stories of the terrible things that happen to people who do not ask the protection of the ugly idols.

“Nearly all gods in whose honor Chinese temples are erected are the images of people who lived hundreds or thousands of years ago, and have since been deified and worshipped.

“Sometimes, soon after children have been worshipping at the temple, they will fall ill, or some accident will happen to them. Then the parents immediately fancy the child has offended the god, and do all they can to make it forget its anger.

“One night when we were coming home from a week- night service, we passed a temple brightly lighted up. It is unusual to see people worshipping at a temple late in the evening, and we tinned aside to look at the people bending there.

“Two men were devoutly burning incense and paper money, and their faces were very sad.

“When they had finished, we asked why they had come to the temple at so late an hour. The elder of the two men said, with a very anxious face, ‘It is just three days now since I with my only son came here to worship. On the way home my little boy had a serious fall, which has injured him severely. He is now very ill, and I fear may not recover. I am sure he has offended the god, and so I have brought large quantities of paper money and am sacrificing at this shrine, hoping his anger may be turned away, and my child will recover.’ ”

What a blessed work it is to tell these poor deluded people that there is a Father in heaven who loves all His children, and thus turn their minds from idol worship to the worship of the only true god—From “Chinese Homes.”

SUGGESTED PROGRAM FOR LOCAL AND Y. P. M. B.

October, Second Quarterly MeetingTheme: Giving My Best to Christ—in Extending His

Kingdom on Earth.Devotion: Song, “Take My Life and Let It Be;” Scrip­

ture, Isaiah 60: 1-13; Prayer.Business Session: Roll call, to which members respond

by quoting a scripture verse containing a missionary mes­sage. Reading of minutes; reports, etc. Payment of dues and pledges. Plan the work for the quarter, placing em­phasis upon the Thank Offering, which should be stressed in every society. The Mite Boxes may be opened in this service.

Program: Reading, “The Mission of Mollie Mite Box” on “The Misspelled Word.” The short demonstration, “Shaken” may be presented. Five minutes discussions as tB our responsibility concerning each line of work: Frontier Missions; China; Africa; or a paper on each subject may be prepared and presented.

Note. The Mission of Mollie Mite Box (5c) and The Misspelled Word (3c) may be secured at the Mission Office, 411 U. B. Building, Huntington, Indiana. The mite box demonstration “Shaken” is very telling and requires but 10 minutes to present, and costs 2 cents per copy.

MITE BOXESWe have in stock the following mite boxes which we will

send postpaid to any address:MINIATURE RADIO BOXES of pink celluloid, so con­

structed that the contents are visible. Price, $1.25 per dozen.WOODEN BARREL and WOODEN BEEHIVE COL­

LECTORS. Price, 50c per dozen.IDEAL BANKS of heavy pasteboard covered with blue

paper and reenforced with tin top and bottom. Price, 50c per dozen.

SAFETY COIN BOXES made of substantial pasteboard in red and white, 25c per dozen.

MITE BOXES, BIRTHDAY OFFERING and THANK- OFFERING BOXES of pasteboard which are easily folded. Price, 10c per dozen.

Address all orders to Rev. Effie M. Hodgeboom, 411 U. B. Building, Huntington, Indiana.

MITE BOX FUNDFrom April 1, to August 31, 1931

Auglaize: Junior Hanshew, $1.00.California: M. Alice Durham, $1.05; Mrs. Ira Wilson.

$1.06; Wayne Want, Jr., $1.09; Frances Williams, $1.10; Dorothy Owen, $1.11; May PhUbrick, $1.35. TOTAL $6.76.

East Illinois: Imogene Stedham, 30c; Maxine Hamerick, 44c; Robert McCray, 50c; Luella Clifton. 54c; Aldine Ziegen- horn. $1.00; Wendell McCray, $1.00; Wilbur McCray, $1.00; Avis McCray, $1.01; Wardena Behrens, $1.03; Imogene Hick­man, $1.06: Phyllis Alexander, $2.02; Carlyle Alexander, $2.03. TOTAL, $11.93.

Nebraska: Elvina Johnson, 50c; Harvey Bandner, Wayne Erickson, Marie Glanz, Laverna Huntley, Dorothy Johnson, Geraldine Johnson, LaVay Levander, and Gerald Glanz, each, $1.00; Anita Wild, $1.07; Rita Wild, $1.12; Donald Shultz, $1.31; Sheldon Johnson, Velma Johnson, each $2.00. TOTAL $16.00.

North Michigan: Maxine Piper, 21c; Merlin and Wilma Wilson, 60c; Onalee VanBrocklin, 66c; Bernadine Houghton, 84c; Martin and Thola Straley, Seymore and Phyllis Rey­nolds, Opal, Ralph and Arlo Walkington, and Homer Wilk- enson, each $1.00. TOTAL, $6.31.

Ontario: Audrey Dedels, $1.00; Lonora Thoman, $1.02; Harold Main, and Norma Woolner, each $1.10; Lavern As- mussen, $1.25; Helen Asmussen, $1.60; Clara Thaler, $2.09; True Blue Class, $3.00; Kenneth Hare, $3.13; other gifts, $1.71. TOTAL, $17.00.

Pennsylvania: Evelyn Myers, 41c; Winona Baker, Gar­net Cook, Melvin Baker, and Elizabeth Frey, each 50c; Ruth

Frey, and June Kuhn; each 55c; Walter Burkholder, Paul Cook, Rosalie Forney, Helen Mixell, Dorothy Mooney, Gladys Baker, Vera Hoover, and Mary Ankerbrand, each $1.00; Mar­lin Pisel, $1.01; Donald Rife, Edna Rife, Garnet Rife, Abram Dice, Ralph Dice, and Doris Kerns, each $1.05; Jean Ham- bright, $1.06; Flo Perry, $1.10; Clara Kerns, $2.18. TOTAL, $23.16. GRAND TOTAL, $62.05.

MITE BOX MOMENTOSWe have the following mementos to offer to children who

gather funds in mite boxes for the Woman’s Missionary Association. These mementos are offered to children who contribute $1.00 and up and whose names and the amount are reported to Rev. Effie M. Hodgeboom, 411 U. B. Building, Huntington, Indiana. The money should be sent through your W. M. A. Local and Branch treasurers to our General Treasurer, Mrs. F. A. Loew, 916 Himes St., Huntington, Ind.

For the amounts stated the following mementos- are offered:$1.00 to $2.00.

'Among the Hills with Ellie,A Noble Army,Everyland Children,Gift Booklets,

‘ Going to Jerusalem,Grandmother’s Lily,Harry, the Newsboy,How John Became a Man,Light of the Child’s Path,Mission Worker’s Pin,New Testament (small),Quotations from Great Authors,Our Darling’s A. B. C. Book,

•Stories from the New Testament for the Little Child (For children under nine years of age)

•Stories from the Old Testament for the Little Child, (For children under nine years of age)

•The House that Jacksons Built.$2.00 to $3.00:

•African Jungle,Bible Picture A. B. C. Book,Bible Stories and Studies,

•Chats with Uncle Jack About Nature,Countries and Customs,

•Forgotten Children,•Ideals for Earnest Youth, Missionary Gems,New Testament (Illuminated),The Pilot’s Voice,Tiny Text Book,Trips and Adventures,Uganda’s White Man of Work.

$3.00 to $4.00:Christian Worker’s Testament,Life Stories of Religious Leaders, Selected Books,Trees, Earth and Sky,

$4.00 to $5.00:Christian Worker’s Testament (Indexted),Dramatized Missionary Stories,Selected Missionary Books.

$5.00 to $10.00:Beautiful Stories From the Good Old Book,Bible Story Book (with illustrations),Red Letter Testament,Bible,Selected Missionary Books,Selected Books.

$10.00 to $20.00:Bible.(•Books recently added to the list.)

“Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”