atriotism of to-day is the removal of this dark cloud of
illiteracy in our own Southern states and the bringing in of the light
of an intelligent Christianity.

FIELD WORKERS.

We publish in this number of the MISSIONARY the annual list of
our Field Workers. We wish our readers to follow them to their appointed
locations, where they are now busied in the peculiar toils and anxieties
incident to all who are engaged in their special callings. We say these
are peculiar, for we believe that the faithful preacher and teacher
carry special burdens of care and anxiety that tax not only the body and
mind, but weigh most heavily on the heart. When Paul enumerates the
great burdens which rest upon him, he names as last and greater than all
outer "that which presseth upon me daily anxiety for all the churches."

But beyond all this, the toilers in the South, laboring as they do among
the poorest and most ignorant in the land, have added trials in meagre
salaries and limited means for enlargement, and especially in an
environment if not hostile yet unsympathetic. The people for whom they
labor are held down under a severe race prejudice, and their preachers
and teachers must share the odium with them. We gladly admit that the
prejudice in the South against our workers is in many places moderating,
yet it remains as a trial and a hindrance felt in no other part of our
land. These discouraging features occur to some extent in all parts of
our field--among the mountaineers, the Indians, and the Chinese on the
Pacific Coast. Poverty and ignorance are common to all, and the race
prejudice that confronts the Indian and the Chinese is scarcely less
than that which rests upon the Negro in the South. But these burdens
our workers are willing to bear as followers of Him who spent His life
among the lowly and gave as the greatest proof of His divine mission
that the gospel was preached unto the poor.

But the hearts of these self-sacrificing toilers may be cheered by the
sympathy and prayers of God's people and by such liberal gifts as will
take away the continual fear of any further crippling of the work. We
ask that in the supplications in the pulpit, at the family altar and in
the closet, these consecrated men and women come in for a share in the
petitions, and we ask also that in this, our Jubilee year, our treasury
be remembered with so much liberality that it may be indeed for this
great work a year of release.

THE A