CONGREGATIONAL HOUSE, BOSTON, MASS. We will send to you, and to those names you furnish, what will interest you. Give us the names of (1) Your Church and Pastor. (2) Your Sunday School Superintendent. (3) The President of your Christian Endeavor Society, its Missionary Committee, and most active workers.

and light and

IN every department of church work there are those who are its salt life. To them, either on account of official position or because of their age, experience, special gifts and aptitudes, the church and congregation look for leadership, and about them they will rally.

Why We Seek
These Names.

These leaders you know, but we do not and can not, but by your favor. Your pastor is quite likely burdened and over-burdened; your missionary committee at its wits' end for something to awaken and help on a living interest. With these names we can help make your work easy and your burden light by sending you information and some story fresh from the missionaries now in the field, or by putting you in touch with our returned and retired missionaries, or by such suggestions as grow out of our experience.

SEND IN THE NAMES, PLEASE, AND LET US SEE WHAT WE CAN DO TOGETHER BY SCATTERING THIS BOOKLET AND MISSIONARY HERALD EXTRA.

Dear Friends:

It is now over fifteen years since the American Board received the great sums left for Foreign Mission Work by the Otis and Swett legacies — sums aggregating, with accruing interest, over two million dollars. These gifts enabled the Board to inaugurate a Forward Movement covering these last eventful years, without being so entirely dependent upon the annual gifts of their growing constituency.

But as these legacies diminished, it was clear that, unless the contributions of our churches increased in a measure corresponding to their increase in membership and means, there would be grave peril to the work thus started. It is the failure to make this natural increase that now threatens our work in its most vital parts; for the churches in 1897 gave $50,000 less than in 1881. You can see at once what causes our cry for help; for these legacies are now exhausted. Nothing but enlarged giving by our people can supply the need, and it would be treason to call for a retreat.

This added giving might come in the way of other legacies. It might come, in part, by the administration upon their own estates of some of our wise-hearted givers. This is being done in other lines, in building hospitals, erecting libraries, endowing schools, colleges, etc.; and we believe will be done for missions should the thought once come to those who can do it of the joy that would be theirs as they should see some Mission Field or Station or School, growing, as did the Cooper Institute, under the eyes of the giver, while the Lord lengthened his days.

The money needed might come in part through those persons who desire to place $5,000, $10,000, $20,000, or smaller sums that they purpose leaving to this great work, in the hands of the Board now, on some agreed terms that provided them with an unfailing but moderate income during life.

But for most of us our part must lie in doing now by small personal contributions. If each of us thus gives, there will be no lack of money for carrying on in a healthful way this great humanitarian, enlightening, and saving work.

But what is done must be done quickly. Our missions cannot wait. They have been cut down for the past two or three years to the lowest possible point, and they must have help soon if they are to live and grow. Who will respond at once?

PUBLIC LIBRARY

PEN SKETCHES OF SOME CHINESE WORKERS.

A Deacon.

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN SUNDATIONS.

CHU KUANG K’UEI lives in Li Hu Chang. He was brought to through a patient in the dispensary fifteen years ago. Mr. Chulis a most steadfast Christian. He was given 450 blows in open court last year by a magistrate who hates Christianity, in connection with a law suit which was no affair of his except that he was a witness. But he stuck to his position, upheld the cause against all critics, and has kept the church together by his own influence ever since. Had he wilted, not a single one would have held out. The functions of our deacons here are totally different from those of deacons at home. Sometimes they assist in the Dispensary daily preaching; sometimes at the markets and fairs, of which there are always some. Often they are sent around to look up cases of trouble, to warn delinquents, and to settle difficulties of every sort.

Twenty-seven dollars supports such a man. of deacons.

Take a collection and add one to your list

LIN YUN LUNG was for many years a Buddhist priest and begged the funds for a large temple in a village near his home. He was led by the dying

A Native Preacher.

words of his father to accept Christianity, and was received into the church twelve years ago. He studied at Tung-cho, but according to his own account never learned anything, yet he took hold of the Christian life from the inside, at any rate, and has been the most useful of all our men in opening new places. He makes friends wherever he goes, and will keep an audience awake better than any other man in the whole station.

Let some church take a man like this for $30, and have an assistant pastor in China.

A Traveling
Evangelist.

CHOU KUANG PI, formerly the keeper of a gambling den, was converted in manhood, then studied three years at Tungcho. He is an enthusiastic preacher, who wins the attention and good feeling of heathen natives in a remarkable way, and a growing man. Who will help evangelize China by taking such a man for a year at a cost of $40? CHON KUNG is a rough farmer, but is distinguished by the fact that at the age of fifty-eight he began to learn to read, and has mastered more Christian books than many who have been several years at

A Colporter.

school a feat which no one can understand without some acquaintance with the obstacles to be overcome. He has committed to memory long passages from many of the books. He is incessantly talking, whether men will hear or forbear; is not sensitive, but is determined that all shall know what a treasure he has found. He cannot be laughed down, talked down, or otherwise extinguished. He is furnished with the modest sum of $13 a year for expenses, and has in reality no pay.

Are there not many among us who wish they could talk, but lack special gift in that direction, who would like to place in the hands of the American Board the funds to keep such

men at it

AMERICAN BOARD.

THE mode of work of the American Board may be summarized as follows: Three Secretaries divide its duties of correspondence, two having the immediate charge and supervision of the twenty Missions of the Board, and one, the special duty of securing both the missionaries and the funds required for their support.

These funds are cared for by Mr. Frank H. Wiggin, the Treasurer. An Editorial Secretary prepares and edits the various publications. These five constitute a sort of cabinet, being in frequent consultation in regard to all matters pertaining to their mutual work. The publishing and purchasing agent is Mr. Charles E. Swett. There are two District Offices, one in New York, the other in Chicago.

Twelve gentlemen, six clergymen and six laymen, together with the President and Vice-President ex officio, constitute the Prudential Committee. This body of men give their time, divide themselves into sub-committees, and do a work whose breadth and variety can hardly be appreciated, supervising all the work.

Each of the Missions is an organized body and is required to hold meetings once a year. Their general organization, with Treasurers, Secretaries, reports, estimates for the action of the Prudential Committee, etc., need not be outlined here.

The Missions are charged not to over-run the appropriations finally made to them under any circumstances, great emergencies excepted, and then only by vote of the whole Mission. All other interests are equally safeguarded and the remarkable results of this working plan show how efficient have been the workers at home and abroad who administer this great trust for the Master and his people.

THE EXPENSES OF THE AMERICAN BOARD.

Every one likes to know when giving money how much goes directly to the object and how much it costs to get it there. So prudent and economical is the administration of this great trust that of every ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS given the

Amount used directly for the Missions is

$92.46

For agencies in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, with expenses of
missionaries and others in visiting churches, associations, etc.
For publications of all kinds, periodicals, reports, sketches, maps,
tracts, etc.

$2.23

1.44

For salaries of officers and clerks in the Secretarial and Treasury departments, postage, rent, and all other items coming under expenses of administration

Total amount used for Home Expenditures

3.87

7-54

$100.00

The expense would be but a trifle more if the amount to be administered were doubled, and ninety-five cents of every dollar given might go straight to the work. So send, if it be but a dollar, to F. H. Wiggin, Congregational House, Boston, and know now that ninety-two cents will go straight to the field.

WOULD that you could see the people among whom we live; become familiar with their superstitions, their gods, their temples reeking with filth; see their holy men, the dirtier the holier, cursing the poor starving people who do not give to their laziness; with the hope set before them of at last being born a cow, if they faithfully give to and serve the Brahmans. Last year our mission received from the Board $40,000. There are 23 native pastors, supported without any charge to this appropriation. There are 123 catechists, wholly or almost wholly supported from these funds. Then we have 16 evangelists, part of them supported by money raised here; 65 Bible women, paid wholly from the missionary appropriation; over 300 school teachers, whose support has to come largely from mission funds.

There are 443 villages in which there are Christians, and for some time the building of churches and schoolhouses in these villages must be a charge to us. All the buildings where our workers are trained and our schoolhouses and the houses of the missionaries are kept in repair from our $40,000.

Besides these there are three large hospitals with many thousands of patients every year, with their staffs of workers and incidental expenses. The government gives a small sum for medicine.

And now add to this the salaries of TEN missionaries and their families, besides those of six single young men and women, and you see, in general terms, what this $40,000 is doing.

Friends, let us rally to the support of work such as this.