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.

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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.

Committee and the names of persons specially interested in God's work

A MISSIONARY committee chosen by the church is an admirable channel for doing all that can be done in any congregation for our Foreign Work.

A Missionary
Committee.

This committee moves with the pastor, has the right of way, and is responsible to those who elect them. They can plan for speakers, furnish you with fresh information, arrange with the pastor for all collections, with the Sunday school for their share in the work, with the Young People's Societies for their coöperation, with the men, who at present are like sheep without a shepherd, for help which they will gladly give, etc., etc.

INDEED, THEY CAN UNIFY ALL THE WORK IN A CHURCH ON MISSIONS and make what is now, perhaps, in some sense a burden, a delight, and what is today a comparative failure, a glorious success.

IF you desire one hundred or more copies of any particular page An Offer. of this Extra for use in taking a collection, write to Charles E. Swett, Congregational House, Boston, Mass., and he will mail you that special page.

TWO NATIVE EVANGELISTS IN AFRICA - TOM

AND UMJADU.

TOM was born a heathen, and was a young man before he heard the Good News. While a heathen he worked five years for white men, having

Tom.

charge of a country store near a kraal, his last employer declaring him the most trustworthy native he had ever met. He has now a wife and four children, but in order to carry on a work eighteen miles from the station he cheerfully consented to go alone to this heathen outpost, and has shown great faithfulness, wisdom, and tact in carrying on the work.

He has daily morning prayers with all the people who will come together; a class on Monday, one member of which has found the Saviour. He holds weekly prayer meetings at the kraals, a Thursday afternoon meeting at the station, and on Sunday an early morning meeting with a preaching service later. In the afternoon he visits one of the six kraals, and closes the day with a meeting for prayer at the station.

He makes his own garden, looking after the fruit trees and shrubs already planted. Just now he is having brick made for the school building and a house for himself, and is seeing that the grass is cut for thatching a house nearly completed for the missionary. He feels he can do his best work for the Lord as he comes in close contact with men when they are working together. His wife is possessed of a lovely Christian character and missionary spirit. She has very interesting meetings with the women each week.

Umjadu was also born a heathen and not converted until a young man. As a boy he attended school at a mission station, and when quite young was put in charge of a store owned by a very irreligious white man. He was led by a native preacher to see his need of Christ, and so to find him.

Umjadu.

One proof he gave that the change wrought was by the Holy Spirit was the giving up of all intoxicating drinks and refusing the "tips" which his white employer often gave him. One Sunday this man and a friend were in the store, and as a way of passing an idle hour attempted "to make the nigger" drink, even using threats. But neither persuasions, ridicule, nor threats availed, and by God's grace Umjadu stood firm.

He gave up his business as a plasterer to accept a salary of little more than half what he was earning. He has been of great assistance to the missionaries in laying bricks, building chimneys, and plastering walls, and is a most genial man and an excellent preacher.

When the work was first started he was holding services on one of the near-by farms. The man threatened to horsewhip him; he would not have a "nigger wearing a watch chain coming around his place and preaching to his boys." But now this man has asked the missionaries to allow Umjadu to reside on one of his farms, with free permission to teach and preach as much as he wishes.

These men receive $180 a year for their services. What church or individual will take such a worker?

REV. DR. WASHBURN, of the Pasumalai Institute, on returning to Madura wrote as follows: :

In coming back I am impressed with the amount of valuable service the school and college are rendering. On landing in Madras we were met by old students, and all along the 350 miles of country, teeming with population, between Madras and Madura, there is not a mission which has not in its service men educated by us.

Beside the Hindus educated in our institution, not far from one hundred Christian men of some college grade have gone out since 1881, and it is a most interesting fact that nearly every one of them has gone, not into gov ernment or secular work, but into mission work.

As a school and college we are certainly making our mark far and wide on the evangelization of the country. We have pre-empted a large sphere of influence of a valuable kind, and there is no reason why we should not continue to be more and more useful, except the question of means to carry on our work.

Let me show you what our danger has been and is. Our schools, primary, grammar, normal and high, are links in a chain, with the college crowning all. To disband one is to break a link which makes the rest useless The Danger. for the financial purpose which is in my mind, viz., the yearly grants of the government. Our danger is the loss of these

grants and all that is therein implied.

The Board furnishes us for all these five schools, primary, grammar, high, normal and college, about $1,600 a year, or considerably less than onethird of the total expenditure.

The annual government grant, now ours in answer to continued efforts for a series of years, is 4,500 rupees, or nearly the amount the Board appropriates. These grants are made on many conditions, rigidly enforced by a thorough annual inspection following regular quarterly reports.

We have been in such straits that it has seemed as if we must give up some department, but we cannot give up a school; and so closely have wel cut down that we cannot give up even a class or teacher without forfeiting our grant to that chain of schools. So serious is the situation and so unwilling are we to lose this valuable government aid, that one of us for the year past has given up a third of the salary due, and so the school has been kept up to the regulations and the grant saved. It is doubtful if we can keep the gov ernment help in this way year after year, but, unless we do, the income from our pupils, now 4,000 rupees, will fall off, as the students will seek a school where a fixed number of teachers and classes makes the grade such as the government will support.

We have had, in various ways besides, to raise 2,500 to 3,000 rupees outside of these sources. What can we do if by a cut on your $1,600 we lose the government grant and a part of our pupils?

Is there no man or group of men, no church or group of churches, who will save this work? What an opportunity!

DEAR DR. BARTON:

A LETTER JUST RECEIVED.

A few days ago I ascertained from the March balance sheet that for the three months of this year I have spent directly on the work in hand 230 more rupees ($73) than I have received from all sources. This means that I will have to reduce the work as it now stands by about seventy rupees per month, a sum about equal to the salary of seven men.

Can this be effected without great loss to the work? Impossible! I have two large schools of Hindu boys, the net cost of which is about thirty-five rupees per month. As I consider these the least valuable work in the station,

I can say to them, "You may have the use of the buildings if we can teach the Bible daily to you," and then call upon the catechists to teach the lesson and so save the seventy rupees. But I fully realize that it will be at the risk of destroying the schools.

Next we turn to the boarding school. This work, while more expensive, is counted most important, and no missionary gives up his boarding school work except as a last resort. We can, after continuing it for the number of months prescribed by Government as the minimum for which grants will be given, close them and send the children home, and so, possibly, save fifty rupees, or about $16.

The only place left for reduction now is the work of the catechists. Already every man, with two exceptions, has from three to five congregations to look after, at distances varying from two to twelve miles from each other.

In our itineracy the latter part of March, from one village the members of six families gave us their names and joined our congregations as adherents; in another two families did the same; in a third, one family, and in a fourth village six other families expressed their willingness to join us, but wanted a few days in which to consult with their relatives in another village, who were already Christians.

Thus four new villages were opened, but instead of being able to send a single man for the whole lot, I must add them to the already overcrowded lists of the present force, and not only this, but the present force must be at least reduced by two men. It does not require even a slight knowledge of missions to understand what the reductions here outlined mean to the work.

These reductions are not merely possibilities—a thing that may come. They must and will come just as soon as I can carry them out. With three years, one after another, like the last three, every possible source of income has been drained, every possible shift made, and there is nothing left but to bring the work down to the limits of the funds received.

this?

Brethren of the Congregational churches! shall we not help such work as

Shall these noble workers see their schools crippled or the Government grant withdrawn for the lack of a few dollars?