THE FIELD.

We wish our friends to see as we see and hear as we hear from the field,
as to the need of enlargement and the difficulty of closing schools
prematurely, and hence we present some condensed facts as specimens.

McINTOSH, GA.--One hundred and nineteen in a single room and with only
one teacher. No boarding department and scores must be turned away.

FLORENCE, ALA.--In a rapidly growing city, school held in our church
building. Large numbers turned away for lack of room.

JONESBORO, TENN.--No boarding place for either boys or girls. Boys live
in rough rooms in a barn, six in a small room. No more can possibly be
accommodated.

GRAND VIEW, TENN.--Buildings crowded full; no place for any more, yet
pupils are trying to crowd in.

PINE MOUNTAIN, TENN.--Situated in a region nearly a hundred miles long,
without a single school except the almost worthless district schools
for two or three months.

WILLIAMSBURG, KY.--Crowded full of students; more than sixty in one room
large enough for only thirty.

JELLICO, TENN.--Our church and school building will not hold either our
Sunday-school or those who attend the preaching services. Must be
enlarged or no growth can follow.

ATHENS, TENN.--Growing town; nearly a thousand Northern people with no
church suited to their needs. Some Congregationalists need aid in
starting a church.

FORT BERTHOLD, DAKOTA.--Rev. C.L. Hall writes: "We have not at Fort
Berthold the necessary buildings for our work. Our girls are in an old
Government building out of repair, and a little cottage 16x22, and our
boys and industrial teacher are crowded into the missionary's house,
and a little one-story annex 14x22. There is no room for a guest to
stay over night."

CHINESE IN CALIFORNIA.--Dr. Pond, the Superintendent of our Chinese
Missions, makes a dollar go as far as any man in our service. He is
one of the most careful men in making ends meet. But he has been
caught in the cyclone and writes thus about the premature closing of
the schools:

"Nothing seemed left for me to do but to notify the teachers that I
could pay all bills for May, but could promise nothing more. When I had
resolved to do this, the workers passed before me, one by one: most of
our teachers are dependent on this slender stipend for their daily
bread--teachers that had been in our service for many years, never
measuring their service by their pay, but working in season an