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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.