y engage in a special effort to lift the burden of our debt and
restore prosperity to this work, which the churches and our individual
givers have been, and are, doing through this Association?

In view of these facts, we most earnestly urge as the call of this Jubilee
Year:

First. That measures be taken in each church to make full and regular
contributions to sustain our _current_ work. It has been sadly reduced.
During the last three years the receipts of the Association have been less
than in the previous three years by about $93,000 a year, and but for our
retrenchments this would have made a debt three times as great as it is
now. If this reduction of receipts is to continue it will mean a ruinous
increase of debt or an equally ruinous retrenchment of the work.

Second. So great is our sense of the need of sustaining our present work
that if regular contributions are not adequate we urgently appeal that the
effort be made to secure it by largely increased contributions or by a
special collection.

Third. That our friends and all interested in this work now so imperiled
_will take shares in the Jubilee Fund of $100,000_. _This fund is divided
into 2,000 shares of $50._ We would have each of these fifty years in the
Association's history stand for a special contribution of a dollar, the
whole fifty years being signalized by a Jubilee subscription of $50 and
the semi-centennial made memorial by raising the money for the Jubilee
Fund.

Only six months are left of the present fiscal year. We come to all who
believe in our work to help the Association and to help it now, so that we
may at the great convocation at the Jubilee convention in Boston next
October celebrate not only the heroic faith of the fathers, but the
steadfast zeal and purpose of their children.

THE SOUTH.

Notes by the Way.

Secretary A.F. Beard.

In making my rounds among the schools of the Association and of the
churches I find new experiences in old paths and new incidents by the way.
Within the limitations of "an article" I cannot recall them, but I invite
my readers to visit with me some of the places _en route_.

[[Illustration: FARM BUILDINGS, ENFIELD, N. C.]]

FARM BUILDINGS, ENFIELD, N. C.

It is not a long journey from New York to Enfield, N. C. We will not find
a New England village there when we leave the Weldon and Wilmington
Railway. It is quite another part of the world.