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December i, 1909. TH1 ful manifestation of what united effort can accomplish. Last year the magnificent sum of $23,000 was given by our dear women toward the debt resting upon the Executive Committee of Foreign Missions. The gifts were in small sums, the average being one dollar. This did not in any way, as far as we can ascertain, interfere with their regular gifts to Foreign Missions. The kingdom of Christ was thus advanced, the hearts of our missionaries cheered, and a great burden lifted from the Executive Committee, and the women who had a share in the great work made to rejoice?all because of a very small effort on the part of the many. Now, dear friends and co-laborers in the Master's service, I come before you with another appeal, knowing as I do the noble consecrated womanhood that composes the Southern Presbyterian Church, confident that we can and will carry this plan through to a magnificent completion, as we did the former. The time has come, when we women oVi/Mil v? n ? ?? ?? ? ? * * * duuuiu nave it larger snare in me great Home Mission work of our land. A mighty reaction is taking place in the minds of those who are most interested in Foreign Missions, not that we would have any one lessen his or her efforts or diminish his or her gifts to Foreign Missions, for "this ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone"?but we have Foreign Missions at our own door. If we have the true missionary spirit and are sincerely working for the salvation of souls, we can not longer turn a deaf ear to the cry to "come over and help us" that comes from ou^ own land. On September 25, 1909, Dr: S. L. Morris, secretary of the Assembly's Home Missions, sent out a circular letter to the Women's Missionary Societies, asking their cooperation and help in building the Presbyterian College of Oklahoma, known as Durant College. I quote from an article, written by t)r. Morris. for the Home Mission Herald. "This institution was founded several years ago, for the higher education of the Indians and others who should take advantage of it. While it has had remarkable success, the attendance reaching three hundred, about one-half being Indians, yet it has been fearfully handicapped all these years by the wretched accommodations. The college building proved to be entirely too small. With only a dilapidated, wooden dormitory, we could not accommodate the students who proposed to enter; and possessing only the cheapest furniture or such second hand articles as could be spared from the homes of its friends, the inferior accommodations and inconveniences prevented our securing the better class of students. "Acting upon the advice of the Assembly the Secretary has sold the old building for 120,000. Interested friends have bought thirty acres of fine, suburban property, at Durant, for which they paid $27,000 in cash, and have deeded this property to our Church, provided we begin by the close of this year the ** E PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SOU erection of a suitable building.. Has the Church ever had such an opportunity? Is there any place where money can be invested to better advantage in the interest of Christian education and church expansion?" At the annual meeting of the Woman's Missionary Union of the Synod of Virginia, meeting in Staunton, November 2-4, 1909, Dr. Morris' appeal was read, and it was moved and unanimously carried that this body representing the twelve Presbyterial Unions of Virginia, neartny" endorse the letter from our secretary, and that an appeal be written to the women throughout the South asking their cooperation in this movement to raise $25,000 for the building of the college at Durant, to be known as the Presbyterian College of Oklahoma. By the advice of Dr. Morris, this movemen will be conducted just as it was in the interest of the debt fund, acknowledgments being made through the papers and the Home Mission Herald. Dear women, let us do this work lovingly and quickly. The need is great and the time short. The King's business re nuirem nasie, ana wnat we expect to do for Him, we must do quickly. This is a magnificent opportunity for us, for as these young women are educated and equipped for life's work, as leaders and teachers and Christian mothers, who can estimate the influence of their lives? There are over 50,000 Christian women engaged in active mission work in the Southern Presbyterian Church. Let us. by special self-denial lay aside one dollar each for this cause, and let us make special effort to interest others, whom God has blessed with wealth, that they may have a share in this work. What an inspiration if some one would start the fund with a contribution of $5,000. It is Dr. Morris' wish that all contributions be forwarded to the treasurer of the Synodical Union of Virginia, who will send the acknowledgment to the papers and the Home Mission Herald. Please, therefore, send all contributions to Mrs. A. M. Howison, Staunton, Va. We beg your earnest prayers for the speedy accomplishment of this work for the extension of the Master's kingdom. Yours in His service, Mrs. J. Calvin Stewart. President Women's Missionary Union of the Synod of Virginia. 1031 West Grace street, Richmond, Va. "A MILLION SOULS FOR CHRIST IN KOREA IN 1910." This is the watchword adopted October 9, 1909, by the General Council of Protestant Missionaries in Korea at the Annum meeting in seoui. mis 18 one soul a month for Christ for each of the eighty thousand (80,000) Christians in Korea. Unite in daily prayer to God that it be accomplished. "Again I say unto you, that if any twp of you shall agree upon earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for TH. 15 them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." Matt. 18:19, 20. Much prayer was offered to God by some of the Christians before this was adopted. Plans are being made for a wide circulation of the Word of God. Pray that this may be done, that a copy of the Scriptures may reach every home in Korea, be read and studied and lived and published abroad; that the Holy Spirit may be poured out upon every missionary, Christian worker and nat1v#? Christian. "Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of Hosts." Zech. 4:6. And upon the unconverted, convicting them of sin and and righteousness and judgment, that there may be a fleeing from the wrath to come of this great multitude, dead in trespasses and sin. Pray for the gift of intercession upon every Christian praying daily for the lost and speaking to some one every day to lead that soul to Christ. Korea for Christ wholly and speedily, not forgetting the thousands of Japanese and Chinese in the land oioo. ur. wnapman and party left Seoul today. Their visit brought a great blessing. "I would rather be a missionary In Korea today, if God had called me to that work, than be a king upon his throne." Dr. Chapman told how, when he was a pastor of a large and wealthy Church, Mr. Moody came one day and heard him preach. He told Dr. Chapman his sermon did not have the right ring, the evangelistic passion for souls, and then how he had, in October 16, 1892, surrendered, after he had read, in the New York Tribune, Mr. F. B. Meyer's words, "If you are not willing to do what God wants you to do, are you willing to be made willing?" Then power had come into his life. "Give all to God?" he said. Since he had surrendered to God he had heard the cry of the souls out of Christ, "Lost! lost! lost!" and had sought to bring them to Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the lost. The burden of his message was, "Surrender to God." Come and help win the million souls for Christ. "Here am I; send 111(3. Already plans are being made for, first, united prayer by missionaries and Christians for the outpouring on all Christians and upon the unconverted, convincing of sin, of righteousness, of Judgment. Second, a house-to-house visitation, with a personal invitation to accept Christ as a personal Saviour from sin; daily personal work by each Christian in Knren Third, a wide circulation of the Word of God. Pray that a copy of the Word be carried to every home and reach every person In Korea with Its Influence. Fourth, pray dally. Korea for Christ! "Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of Hosts." Why not a similar campaign In America? W. H. Forsythe, M.D. Mokpo, Korea, October 15, 1909.