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in the bank, which they desire to use for mission purposes. After hearing of the great need of a Christian teacher in Montana, Miss Norris decided to ask her class to pay part of the salary of the Chinese teacher. So the Chinese of Lowell, Mass., are doing missionary work among their brethren in Montana. Would that money might flow into our Treasury to supply Christian teachers for the thousands of Chinese in the West, who are bowing down to idols.

UTAH.

In Utah our work is progressing slowly but surely. Miss Converse at Provo, has gathered a school of twenty members, and it is constantly increasing. The children are very interesting, but ignorant, having never been in school but a few months of their lives. The parents gladly welcome Miss Converse to their homes. Two-thirds of these children are from Mormon families. The Sunday-school is growing. Fifty pupils have been enrolled. Miss Converse speaks of many strange things she sees every day. One thing she mentioned in a recent letter impressed us sadly. At the close of the Mormon public school this autumn, a dance was advertised. The dance was opened by prayer. Some of the young men became so intoxicated as to require a policeman to keep them quiet. The dance closed with the benediction. Mrs. Coffin, our faithful teacher in Ogden, writes: "Though I know that work with such a misguided people must be slow, I feel that there is very little being done for the cause of Christ in this Territory. Our Ogden Mission-school, the only Baptist school in the Territory last year, and the only, save one in Provo, this year, has certainly had an uplifting influence in this community.

"The children who have attended during its three years' existence, are quite different from others in the neighborhood, and there is a growing inclination on the part of the Ward pupils to attend, even though they be not allowed. This week five have been added from Mormon families and if my room was larger, I could fill it. The willingness of the Mormon children to be taught by a Gentile is a great trial to the Church. These I have won only as a result of getting at the hearts of the mothers, through some kindness which has proved to them that Gentiles are not as extremely wicked as they have been taught. I think more Mormons have been weakened in their faith by kindness than by any other means. clusive spirit of Mormonism has been a means of great strength in the up-building of its system. The Gentiles and their laws being now in the land, there is cause for great anxiety to the heads of the Church. Never before in its history has the Church felt its own insecurity, and realized more its need of strategic effort, than it does to day. The late messages of President Woodruff are but subterfuges to throw our Government off its guard. Those of the Church now in polygamy are as disgusted with his purported revela

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tions as are the very defenders of our nation's laws themselves.

"It is hard for us who live among them, to see why President Woodruff does not know of the plural marriages solemnized from time to time in the temples. There have been three on the street on which I live, this season, and I could count up several in this vicinity, that have taken place in a short time. I was acquainted with several women in Provo during the summer, who have been married as spiritual wives within two years, and nineteen polygamist children were born in one small neighborhood last year.”

These words of Mrs. Coffin, prove the great need establishing Christian schools in every town and of enlarged work in Utah. This can only be done by

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CHANGES.

We record with great sorrow the fact that our efficient and beloved Treasurer, Miss Margaret McWhinnie, has resigned her position. After a long

season of rest, Miss McWhinnie is convinced that she cannot continue her work. With much regret the Board accepted her resignation. Miss McWhinnie will have the prayers and sympathy of many loving friends. Miss Alice E. Stedman, of Cambridge, who has for a number of years taken Miss McWhinnie's place when absent from the office, has been chosen by the Board to fill the vacancy for the remainder of the year.

Mrs. H. G. Safford, of Newton, a member of the Board for a number of years, and the efficient State Vice-President of Massachusetts, resigned her position in December, to accept the place of Foreign Corresponding Secretary, made vacant by the resig. nation of Mrs. O. W. Gates. The action of the Woman's Foreign Mission Society, in calling Mrs. Safford to this position, is another proof of the unity of Home and Foreign Missions.

Not only are pupils taught in our Home Mission schools in demand as teachers on the Foreign field, but officers in our Home Mission Board are needed to fill important places upon the Foreign Board. As we believe most heartily that the work of Home and Foreign Missions is one, we would not seek to retain Mrs. Safford, but wish her success, and bid her Godspeed in the important and responsible work to which she is called.

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President-MRS. J. N. CROUSE, 2231 Prairie Avenue, Chicago, Ill. Corresponding Secretary-Miss M. G. BURDETTE, 2411 Indiana Avenue, Chicago, Ill. Recording Secretary— MRS. H. THANE MILLER, Cincinnati, O. Treasurer-MRS. A. H. BARBER, 2411 Indiana Avenue, Chicago, Ill.

BOARD NOTES.

The month of November has indeed been one of blessing. Training School Day has been growing in favor with the people as a suitable time in which to make offerings for carrying on this important aid to mission work. A larger number of requests for literature concerning the Training School and its work have been called for this year than ever before, and while it is yet too early to give any definite amounts (as many churches do not hold meetings and make contributions until December), we feel confident that this one day in the year set apart as a special donation day will, in the near future, provide all of the expenses for the Training School, and leave the balance of the year in which to make mission work in its fullest sense our first thought.

We make special mention of a crayon portrait of Dr. Henson, the work and offering of Mrs. Huntington, also one of Miss Moore by the same artist, presented by the missionary herself. A large number of ladies from Chicago and suburbs availed themselves of this opportunity to visit the school in its permanent home, and all united in pronouncing this a Thanksgiving long to be remembered. The luncheon provided by the city churches, and presided over by the officers of the Union, gave cheer to the inner man, and the proceeds furnished a substantial solace for future perplexities.

Miss Burdette, after an absence of several weeks, was welcomed home on November 17th. The cordial reception given her at the East and the helpful workers whom she found everywhere ready to aid her give evidence not that they desire to have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge," but rather would say, "We abide in the things we have learned and been assured of, knowing of whom we have learned them."

A letter was read from Miss Kreuse, who, still unable to labor upon her field, wishes to be at work for the Master. She spoke of the great need of missionary information in German, and offered to translate for publication such articles as would be most helpful to her German sisters. Miss Garland was appointed as general missionary to the colored people. The Christian experience of several students was listened to at the close of the Board meeting.

After the usual preliminary exercises on December Ist, it was voted to allow Miss Malmberg to continue her labors in Kansas during the next three months under the direction of Mrs. Everett, Vice-President in Southern Kansas,

The chairman of the organization committee re

ported twenty-two new auxiliaries formed during the past month.

Mrs. August Olsen, formerly Miss Anna Lundberg, was appointed missionary among the Swedish people in San Francisco, and Miss Matthies transferred from San Francisco to Los Angeles, to work among the Germans. Very touching letters were read from Miss Moore, also from Miss Pound and Miss Button, depicting the outrages perpetrated upon the colored people about Baton Rouge by lawless representatives of the "White League."

Miss Moore said her own life was threatened unless she dismissed her school. No such warning was necessary, as the colored women, sadly frightened, fled to their homes as the threats were heard Miss and news of the outrages came to their ears. Moore writes: "I wander about my schoolroom and look at the charts and books, and feel like a mother bereft of her children." But, despite all this, on Thanksgiving Day our missionaries at Baton Rouge raised their hearts in praise to God for His goodness to the children of men and the many blessings He had bestowed upon them.

MRS. C. V. L. PETERS.

FOR JESUS' SAKE.

"I love the work and love the people."

So, in an annual report, wrote one of our missionaries among the colored people. We like the ring of that sentence, and have read it again, and again, and at every reading, we have thought of the 13th chapter of Ist. Cor., which teaches that we may know all mysteries and all knowledge, have faith strong enough to remove mountains, give away all we have, even our bodies to be burned, yet, if love be not the inspiration of it all, the great propelling power behind every motive and every act, we are nothing and our work is vain.

As others have read the sentence we have quoted, no doubt they have been glad that the writer could say it, feeling that a missionary needs a strong love for her work, that she may endure its self-denials and its crosses. Yes, we can all appreciate the necessity of the most Christly love for both the work and the people in the heart of her who goes down into the depths of sin after lost ones, who often has to do with humanity in its most repulsive conditions, while at the same time she is shut away from nearly, if not all of the congenial associations and sweet fellowship of her former home and church life. We realize that nothing but the love of Jesus can sustain one under such circumstances and hold her to her work, and we praise the Lord that there are those who are so filled with His love that they can hold right on their way year after year, no matter how great the self-denial, or how heavy the crosses.

But, is there less need of a deep, Christly love in us who plan and direct the missionaries' work? who must keep alive an interest in it among our churches?

must provide the means for its support? in a word, must do that part of it which belongs to our end of the line?

From our stand-point we seem to see, if possible, a greater need of an abiding, absorbing love in our hearts than in the hearts of our missionaries. In dealing with dollars and cents, which forms so large a part of our work, there is not that warm answering of heart to heart that the missionary knows as she deals with some poor wrecked child, leading her to the Saviour of sinners. There seems to be lacking the joy and blessedness that comes to those who personally win souls to Christ, and yet our efforts must be ceaseless and untiring, year in and year out, month in and month out, or the whole work suffers and is greatly hindered if not paralyzed. So we see that we must have the love that "never faileth."

Or perhaps, many of our sisters have not the sympathy they ought to have with our efforts to sustain a missionary society in the Church to which we belong, and sometimes we are the subjects of very trying criticisms. Then, how we need that love that "suffereth long and is kind.”

Again, a Christly love for the work will so far shut out love of self, that there will not be any strivings after places of honor-chief seats," etc., for Love vaunteth not itself"; neither shall we subject those who are in such places to unkind and unchristian criticisms, for, "Love envieth not."

And so, all along the line, permeating every department of our work, we need all of us to be able to say, as did the dear one who wrote the line we have used as the basis of our thought, "I love the work." Sisters, let us see to it that such is the case-that each one of us can say, "I do this for Jesus' sake." Let our communications one with another, with our Board, and thus on to the missionary on the field, ring with love for our Master and His work. Then shall we ever be a source of strength and inspiration to each other, and a constantly increasing blessing to a lost world. MRS. C. SWIFT.

form, cheap in cost, and intended for extensive circulation. It treats of the church, its officers, ordinances, membership, discipline, its business and the rules that should be observed, Christian doctrine, baptism, the Lord's Supper, infant baptism, church government, Baptist history, etc. Thus it will be seen that it is very comprehensive, and so of much value to the many in our churches who do not want elaborate treatises on these subjects, but the essential facts. Dr. Hiscox thirty years ago prepared and issued "The Baptist Church Directory," and about sixteen years ago "The Star Book on Baptist Church Polity," and about twenty years ago "The Baptist Short Method," all of which have had an extensive sale and have done much in securing uniformity in the views and the practices of Baptist churches in the United States. It is no small honor thus to have wrought for Christ and His church. The present volume contains the essential features of the preceding volumes, though the latter will be wanted by those desiring a fuller treatment of the subjects. We heartily commend it, and hope especially that all pastors of missionary churches will secure a copy, if they have not the other volumes, and that copies may also be in the possession of the principal members, who thus will have at hand the reasons for their faith and practice, while all things relating to church matters will be done "decently and in order."

THE NEGRO BAPTIST PULPIT. A Collection of Sermons and Papers on Baptist Doctrine and Missionary Educational Work. By Colored Baptist Ministers. Edited by E. M. Brawley, D.D. 12m0, 300 pp. Price, $1.25. Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Soc'y.

This volume contains the productions of twentyfour ministers and others prominent among the colored Baptists of the country. Many of the sermons are excellent in analysis, expression and effective treatment. They strikingly illustrate the progress of the colored people in twenty-five years. If the present product is so good, what will be the riper product twenty-five years hence? Mr. Brawley deserves great credit for conceiving the idea of this volume and for his perseverance in carrying it out. Several of the papers, too, were written by him. The volume will doubtless have a large sale and circulation.

COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLES: GALATIANS TO COLOSSIANS.

COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLES: THESSALONIANS TO PHILEMON. The American Baptist l'ublication Society, Philadelphia, Pa. 1890.

These additions to the "American Commentary of the New Testament" are in keeping with the previous volumes of the series, edited by Dr. Alvah Hovey, with whom are associated a number of the best Bib

lical scholars in the denomination. Dr. Iovey comments on Galatians; Dr. J. A. Smith on Ephesians; Dr. J. B. Pidge on Philippians; Dr. E. C. Dargan on Colossians; Dr. W. A. Stevens on Thessalonians; Dr. H. ¡larvey on the pastoral epistles to Timothy, Titus, and to Philemon.

By C. O.

PLAIN THEOLOGY FOR PLAIN PEOPLE.
Boothe, D.D., 12m0, 2c6 pp. Price, $1.00.
Philadelphia American Baptist Publication So-
ciety.

We welcome this work as an attempt to present a thoroughly Scriptural system of theology to the many who become weary or bewildered with the scholastic and elaborated treatises on the subject. The author is a prominent brother among the colored Baptists of Alabama, and the general missionary of the Home Mission Society for that State. This book, to a very large degree, grew out of the author's own experience. Most of the treatises on theology which came to his notice seemed too technical and abstruse. With study, a larger grasp of the tenets which Christians hold came to him, and he longed to help those who were still where he had been. Animated by this desire he went to work, and this book is the result. It is the work of a colored minister for his own people, but others than they will be benefitted by its study. In its publication it has received such care and supervision as insures, so far as these can, correctness and trustworthiness.

THE PUBLIC USES OF THE BIBLE. By Rev. George M. Stone, D.D. Hartford, Conn: The Student Publishing Company. 1890. pp. 189.

This is a fresh treatment of the subject. It proceeds at the outset upon the theory that a lively apprehension of the spiritual thought in any passage of Scripture is essential to correct reading aloud of the same. The chapters on "the statutes of expression" and "the physical factor" deal with management of the voice in a concise, comprehensive and commonsense way, illustrated by the author's own experience in recovery from a vocal breakdown, by unnatural utterance, to thorough soundness, strength and flexibility of utterance. It ought to prove suggestive and helpful to many whose public reading of the Bible is unsatisfactory to themselves and more unsatisfactory to their congregations. There is wondrous power in God's truth rightly read to men. Alas! that it is often read so carelessly and wretchedly. It is the duty of every preacher to perfect himself in reading well.

-Rev. George Dana Boardman, D.D., of Philadelphia, has had a long and honorable pastorate in the city of brotherly love, and has made his influence widely felt far beyond his own parish. The elegant pamphlet containing the address, etc., at the cele. bration of his twenty-fifth anniversary as pastor of

the church shows the high esteem in which he is held by his brethren. The "Titles of a Pastor's Course of Weekly Lectures on the Holy Bible from Genesis to Revelation," from October, 1864, to December, 1890, reveals the systematic and scholarly methods of his ministry. The "Pastor's Report" of church affairs during the year shows the activities of the church in a very interesting manner. Special published addresses, like those on "The Unity of the Church," "The Disarmament of Nations," etc., disclose the breadth of thought and purpose concerning great questions of the day. In many ways his brain and pen have greatly enriched the Christian literature of our time. These things it is a pleasure to say as we glance over these and other evidences of a busy pastoral career.

-The Catalogue of the Pratt Institute for 1890-91, located in Brooklyn, N. Y., is the finest thing of the kind we have ever seen. It contains a full description of the kinds and methods of industrial work done in this great Institution, together with illustrations and diagrams of buildings and other matters of interest. All who in any way whatever are engaged in teaching the industrial branches will be benefited by procuring a copy of this catalogue. Mr. Charles Pratt, of Brooklyn, N. Y., is the founder of this Institution.