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sary to the maintenance and growth of
our Church. Mission Sabbath school*,
can be established and maintained in localities
where the time has not yet come
to organize a home mission church. The
result of such work is that the helped,
in their turn, become helpers. The impulse
to help is never spent, but widens
with each new exercise of this heavenborn
energy.
THE PRESENT NEED.
The Assembly asks the Church to pur
into the hands of the Publication Committee
the meagre sum of $25,000 to prosecute
this all-important work. Inadequate
as is the amount, the standard ha
Fruits
A COUNTRY MISSION HELPED-t
Our Sabbath school near Crockett. Va.f
was enrolled as a Mission school in April,
1904, and literature supplied by the Com
^ Before the sum- I
A HOME IN
mer was over our numbers had increased
from twelve to twenty-five. The
school has been steadily growing ever
since, and its influence widening. In the
community where literature of every
kind Is scarce, these Sabbath school supplies
are eagerly received and used, and
already the most encouraging results are
being manifested. The good seed is being
sown, and, with the Lord's blessing,
the harvest must be great. The committee's
good Sabbath Schorl Extension
Work Is doing a great service for the
Church in the destitute places throughout
the South, and deserves a generous
support. BELLE FONTAINE.
Crockett, Va.
FROM THE HEART OF THE FORMER
FEUD DI8TRICT OF KENTUCKY.
I have been engaged in the Sunday
school work at this place (or some time.
y
CSBYTERIAN OF THE SOUTH.
never been reached, and year by year
we have oeen forced to answer the most
pathetic appeals for help with the humiliating
statement, "We cannot help
you. because of the failure of the Church
to furnish the money." Last year 1875
churches and 1.431 Sabbath schools made
no offering for this cause.
Our present force of field workers Is
totally inadequate, and there is need for
a trained worker in every Synod. In
many sections a Sunday school missionary
could be profitably employed within
a Presbytery. On every hand there is
need for aid to establish and sustain
mission schools and increase the circulation
in printed form of religious truth.
Last year we published over one hunWHAT
WILL YOU DO ABOUT IT?
of Sabbath School M
Being unable to furnish the little ones,
as well as older ones, with the proper
literature for this work, 1 wish to thank
the Presbyterian Committee of Publication
for their kind donations which has
-made our Sunday school a great suc
THE JOZARKS.
cess; leading and training the minds and
hearts of the little ones to realize the
better paths of righteousness.
LIZZIE HOLCOMB.
Whitesburg, Ky.
A MESSAGE FROM THE OZARKS.
I have had so much help from you in
Ihis great work. I will be glad to send
In a partial report of what help the donations
of Literature has been In my
work, which could not have been carried
on without the free gift.
I commenced In the missionary work
In the Ozarks of Missouri, in the year
1901, and have organized eight different
schools, some of them thirty-five miles
from Richland, and one about eighty miles
from here down In Tany county, and in
all these schools except two there had
never been a Sunday school In tho district
before. In that time I expect I <
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dred million pages of printed matter, and
the power of the printed page for righteousness
is untold It carries the me?sage
where the living voice is not heard,
and appeals to heart and mind in the
quiet hour, when the reader has time
to think of the great questions of Linn?
and eternity.
The responsibility for the maintenance
and extension of this work is upon the
whole Church and cannot be escaped.
We have made our statement and appeal,
and your answer is to be given in your
offering in March for SABBATH
SCHOOL EXTENSION AND PUBLICATION.
Send offerings to
R. E. MAGILL, Treas.,
Box 883, Richmond, Va.
issions
have had sent to me over 1,000 Quarterlies,
besides the papers and Bible Picture
Rolls and Bible Pictorial Lesson cards
for the little ones. These schools have
all closed for the winter season each year
except two. and I have reorganized them
in the spring until the last, year, and always
receive the literature free of charge
each time, and what collections I could
get I forwarded to you, which has been
very small indeed. Besides I have called
on you from time to time to send a
Bible, or sometimes three and four nt
different times to donate to some poor
unfortunate person that had no Bible.
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nuiv.it j?iu nave inways very promptly,
responded to. Now I will speak of our
Sunday school at Richland which has
been now two years since 1 first helped
to organize, and it has been kept evergreen
all the while until it has grown
into a church, and by the help of the
Home Mission work we have bought the
church building, and now have a minister.
MRS E. L?. RINEHART.
Richland, Mo.
HELP FOR COLORED CHILDREN.
Our Bchool is getting along; very well.
It has an average attendance of fortylive
now, against fourteen October, 1906,
when you began to donate the literature
?"Pearls for the Little Ones," Lesson
Leaves, etc. Five pupils of the school
were added to the church recently on
confession.
We feel much indebted to you and to
the Committee. I assure you that your,
favor is much appreciated. I hope that
our school will soon be able to support
itself. ROBT. D. ROULHAC.
Selma, Ala.
A SABBATH SCHOOL MADE POSSIBLE
IN MISSISSIPPI.
The Sunday school supplies furnished
hy your Committee to a newly organized
Sunday school (by request from me, free)
was the onl/ means by which said Sum
day school was maintained and kept
alive until it was able to subscribe and
pay for its own literature.
S. S. JOHNSON.
College Hill, Miss.