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i* THE PRE 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 < February 17, igog. 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. ...hUk 1 -l 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.