creasing demands upon their strength, forgetful of self, in their
intense desire for the good of their pupils, that, intelligent,
industrious, virtuous, all may go out to their life-work, whatever and
wherever it may be, in the name of the Master.

But what of those who are not gathered into these Christian schools?
Longing, praying and pleading to enter, what if the doors are closed
against them because they have no money, no influence, and in their
time of need, no friends? Our hearts ache that such should have been
the bitter experience of any the past year. But it is too true. With
no means of their own and no friend to aid them, hundreds have been
turned back to darkness when they wanted light; turned back because
there was none to help.

The opportunities of the year just closed we may not reclaim, but we
are beginning a new year with its new opportunities. The colored
people, eager for improvement, struggling with poverty, appeal for
schools and churches, but it costs $400 for each teacher or minister.
The Indians want their children to come into the mission schools where
they may learn "the Jesus way," but it costs $150 for each pupil. The
mountain people of the South, unlettered, simple-hearted, credulous,
are the prey of Mormon missionaries, who are working zealously for
converts, and, as one reports, with "good success." The antidote is
Christian teachers and preachers, but here again is an average cost of
$400. The Chinese field, besides the work for men in mission schools,
presents an opportunity for women's work among twenty-five hundred
Chinese women in San Francisco, who are accessible in their homes, and
who respond gratefully to Christian sympathy and instruction. Was
there ever such gracious opportunity to the Christian church to gather
into the fold the "other sheep" of the Great Shepherd? He has said,
"them also I must bring." Would He bring them in through us? Let us
arouse ourselves that we may not so lose these opportunities God has
given to win this land for Christ. We have done something, but it is
so far short of the need. Our offerings--have they been so much a part
of ourselves, have they cost us so much that they have been _worthy_
tokens of love to our Lord?

The American Missionary Association has come to its fiftieth year of
work and appeal for these to whom the gospel is to be preached,
through church planting and Christian schools. It comes burdened with
obligations for the work alr