thinks
that if that is all God gives it must be all he needs. Nevertheless our
helpers, especially in the beginnings of service, must work the brain
hard, and ought to have brain nutriment. And unless I can send something
to him now, even his rice will fail.

What is thus expressed by some in words has been expressed in acts by
all. It is a great relief to know that the work is going on, and at some
points better than ever at this season of the year. It is a relief to
know that there are no broken promises, and no accumulation of debt,
involved in my failure to remit. But for this, the distress would be
intolerable; the trial greater than I could possibly bear. But when I
bring up the case of some of our most faithful and successful workers,
and realize the fact, which I know to be a fact, that they are dependent
on the little salaries they are wont to receive from me for very
subsistence, my forewarning passes out of remembrance, and the whole
burden rolls down upon my heart. God knows what he is doing, and I cast
my care upon him and rest. But it seems to me that from somewhere the
few hundreds of dollars--not more than $500 needed in addition to what I
have reason already to hope for--_must come_.

Whenever it has been possible I have thrown the responsibility of
sustaining the missions upon the localities in which they are situated.
And in many cases this responsibility has been assumed with a
cheerfulness and a generosity, considering the times, which has been
greatly encouraging to me. And I cannot but hope that herein will be
found one of the compensations for our anxiety and pain--a deeper and
more general interest on the part of Christian people in this branch of
the service of their Lord. One of the teachers, giving an account of a
meeting which she held in the interest of her mission, anticipates such
a result and says: "I feel sure that my hard, lonesome times are over,
and that after this I shall have more help and sympathy. Isn't it
wonderful how doing a hard duty will sometimes straighten out so many
tangles?"

I venture to close this little sketch of hard heartwork with another
quotation from this same teacher: "I sympathize with you in not being
able to pay us teachers as you would like to do when you know how we
work. But don't worry any more over me, for I shall manage splendidly
(as I always do?). I guess you feel a good deal worse over it than we
teachers do. Sacrifice is in order for missionari