epared by the Association which was used very largely.

This year Lincoln Memorial Day comes on Sunday, February 16, and we
trust will prove a day of wide observance among the Congregational
churches. It is, as our readers all know, the Jubilee Year of the
American Missionary Association. Special collections are most
appropriate this year and are being pledged by many of the churches in
behalf of the great work of the American Missionary Association among
the neglected millions of our own land and to roll up this Jubilee
offering on the Jubilee Year.

Special envelopes have been printed and will be furnished any of the
pastors who desire to celebrate Lincoln Memorial Day in taking this
special collection for the Association. The Concert Exercise will be
sent to the pastor or superintendent in any Sunday-school who may desire
to add their gift to awaken a wider interest in this work. Abraham
Lincoln was born on the edge of the great region occupied by the
mountaineers of the South, or "American Highlanders" as we like to call
them. Among these people the American Missionary Association has
established its churches, schools and missions, and they have loyally
responded in cooeperation in the spread of an intelligent gospel among
the two and a half million people.

The work among the Negroes must always be associated with the name of
Abraham Lincoln, who lifted them from slavery into freedom and gave his
life a willing sacrifice to the cause of their liberation and the
salvation of our country.

The work of no other society gathers so immediately about the name of
Abraham Lincoln as does that of the American Missionary Association, and
we trust that Lincoln Memorial Day will be celebrated by the churches
throughout the land, and that large special offerings will pour into the
Association's treasury to bring emancipation from debt and furnish the
means for larger labor this glad Jubilee Year.

"PAT'S MISS'N BOX."

BY MRS. E. C. READ.

[Illustration]

In one of our Kansas missionary societies a mulatto woman was employed
as housekeeper. She has a very bright and attractive little girl, not
yet three years old, whose full name is Alice May Lapsly. By the young
lady of the house she has been pet-named "Pat," and so is called "little
Pat" by the ladies of the missionary society. "Little Pat" became
greatly interested in the young lady's mission box, and wanted one for
herself. The young lady procured a little