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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 vet conm
to organize a hone 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 exorcise of this heavenborn
energy.
THE PRESENT NEED
The Assembly asks the Church to put
mil) me nanus <?i i m- i-ui>noai 1011 v 0111
miltoo the meagre sum of $2-"?.000 to prosecute
this all-important work. Inadequate
as is the amount, the standard ha
l1 r ii its
A COUNTRY MISSION HELPED."
Our Sahhath school near Crockett. \"a.,
was enrolled as a Mission school in April.
1004. and literature supplied by the Committee
of Publication, lleforo t.he sum
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
hind 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
Bond fintihntli 1
Work is doing a great service for the
Church in the destitute places throughout
the South, and deserves a generous
support. BEI.LE FONTAINE.
Crockett. Va.
FROM THE HEART OF THE FORMER
FEUD DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY.
I have been engaged in the Sunday
school work at this place for some time.
;SBYTEKIAN OF THE SOUTH.
uover boon reached, and year by voir
we liavo oeen fc?r?'Od lo answer tho most
pathetic appeals lor help with the humiliating
statement, "We cannot help
yon. because of the failure of the Church
to furnish the money." Last year 1ST."
churches and 1.431 Sabbath schools tnado
no offering for this cause.
uur 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 he 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
Reins unable to furnish the little ones,
as well as older ones, with the proper
literature for this work, I wish to thank
the Presbyterian Committee of Pnhlien.
lion for their hind donations which has
made our Sunday school a ureal sue
PHE OZARKS.
cess; loading and training the minds and
hearts of the little ones to realize the
better paths of righteousness.
LIZZIE IIOL.COMB.
W'l. Unci...on- I-'..
A MESSAGE FROM THE OZARKS.
1 have had so much help from you in
i his great work, i will be glad to send
in ,1 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 worlt
in the Ozarks of Missouri, in the year
1001, 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 the 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 message
where the living voice is not heard,
and appeals to heart and mind in th
quiet hour, when the reader has time
to think of the great questions of time
and eternity.
The responsibility for the maintenance
and extension of (his 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 SARBATH
SCHOOL EXTENSION AND PllBLICA
TION. Send offerings to
R. E. MAGILE. Treas..
Box 883. Richmond. Va.
issions
have had sent to me over 1,000 Quarterlies.
besides the nnners and Bible Piemre
Rolls and Bible Pictorial Lesson cards
for the little ones. These schools have
all dosed for the winter season each yea?*
except two. and I have reorganized them
in the spring until the last year, and always
teeeivo the literature free of charge
each lime, and what collections I could
gel I forwarded to you. which has been
very small indeed. Besides I have called
on yon from time to time to send a
Bible, or sometimes three and four
different times to donate to some poor
enfi ruinate person that bad no llilil \
which yon have til ways very promptly
responded to. Now I will speak of our
Sunday school at Richland which has
nx-ii nun i wo years SlilCC I lil'St He 1 pod
to organize, and it litis been kepi everRiven
till 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.
>1 ItS E. L. RINEIIART.
Richland, Mo.
HELP FOR COLORED CHILDREN.
Our school is getting along very well.
It lias an average attendance of fortylive
now, against fourteen October. 100t>,
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. 1 assure you that your
favor is much appreciated. I hope that
our school will soon be able to support
itself. RORT. D. ROULIIAC.
Selnia. Ala.
A SABBATH SCHOOL MADE POSSI
BLE IN MISSISSIPPI.
Tho Sunday school supplies furnished
by your Committee to a newly organized
Sunday school (by request from me, free)
was the only means by which said Sunday
school was maintained and kept
alive tintil it was able to subscribe and
pay for its own literature.
S. S. JOHNSON,
College Hill, Miss.