idly aside and content ourselves with saying, "Behold, how much those good workers have learned from us!"

There is another truth standing out beyond dispute. It is that the best way whereby you and I can share in the noblest advances of our time is through the establishment of new Unitarian churches. God speed all who find that they can better serve the right in other ways! Enough for us to understand our own powers and possibilities. I do not plead for the sectarian spirit, but simply for energy in unselfish service. Let each workman use his own tools, and put manhood back of the tools. Our best tool for building the kingdom of God is a Unitarian church. A Unitarian church can accomplish more for brotherhood and mercy. than can a free hospital, more for purity of life than can a public park, more for the cultivation of the intellectual life than can a public library; for a church which helps many to know God in the way of love, a church which reveals the life eternal in a spirit of joyous fearlessness, a church which inspires its appreciators to rate the good life as man's supreme possession, is an influence which year after year abides to incite many persons to devote themselves to the creation of hospitals, parks, libraries, and all other practical manifestations of the inner life, which is measurelessly more important than they. Yet the same money which is required to establish one modern library will serve to create twenty churches! A library to bless one town contrasted with twenty churches to bestow a far deeper blessing upon twenty towns!

Brethren, for every five thousand dollars placed in my hands I will undertake to found an enduring Unitarian church. With one hundred thousand dollars I could and would establish twenty such schools of all human nobleness. Would that a few of our millionnaires could see this vision

of high service as I see it! For if they did, I know that they would no longer confine their munificent giving to the secondary beneficences, but would throw themselves at last into the wise enthusiasm of that work through which they can best deal with the deep springs of beneficence, love, and life.

APPENDIX

THE following new societies have been established during the year: Braintree, Mass.; Derby, Conn.; Schenectady, N.Y.; Salem, Ohio; Manhattan, Kan.; Boisé, Ida.; Vallejo, Cal.; Port Angeles, Wash.; Faceville, Ga.; and Shelter Neck, N. C., — the two last by the National Alliance.

The following dormant societies have been revived: Presque Isle, Me.; Montague, Shirley, and Sudbury, Mass.; Mt. Pleasant, Midland, Manistee, and Sherwood, Mich.; Mattoon and Moline, Ill.; Kenosha, Wis.; Perry, Iowa; Salt Lake City, Utah; Salem, Ore.; and Great Falls, Mont.

New movements likely soon to result in churches or preaching stations have been inaugurated at Fort Fairfield, Me.; Englewood, N. J.; Brooklyn, Mich.; Greenwood, Wis.; Merrillan, Wis.; Pipestone, Minn.; Winnetka, Ill.; Fort Worth, Tex.; Morenci, Mich.; Hammond, Ind.; Ottumwa, Iowa; Grand Forks, N. Dak.; and Oklahoma, O.T.

The following fields have been investigated, and reported to be promising: Mt. Vernon, New Rochelle, Bronx, and Bay Ridge, N. Y.; Wilkesbarre, Pa.; Indianapolis and Elkhart, Ind.; Dubuque and Valley Junction, Iowa; and Saginaw and Bay City, Mich.

Churches which have received assistance by vote of the Directors of the Association are distributed as follows: In

Maine, 5 out of 22 have received $1,050; New Hampshire, 7 out of 28, $1,500; Vermont, I out of 9, $200; Massachusetts, 20 out of 193, $5,000; Rhode Island, I out of 7, $500; Connecticut, 5 out of 6, $1,850; New York, 10 out of 25, $5,170; New Jersey, 3 out of 8, $825; Pennsylvania, I out of 8, $600; Canada, 3 out of 6, $2,300; Virginia, 2 societies, $800; Georgia, the only society in the State, $450; Tennessee, the only 2 societies, $800; Texas, for I society out of 3 and special work, $700; Ohio, I out of 5, $350; Michigan, 3 out of 12 and State secretary, $2,800; Wisconsin, 3 out of 10, $1,400; Illinois, 4 out of 21, $1,350; Minnesota, 4 out of 13, $2,150; Scandinavian work, $550; Missouri, 1 out of 5, $500; North Dakota, the only society in the State, $300; Kansas, 3 out of 5, $950; Nebraska, 2 out of 5, $850; Montana, I out of 2, $500; Utah, the only society in the State, $1,000; Colorado, 2 out of 7 and State agent, $1,150; Washington, 2 out of 5, $1,100; Oregon, I out of 2, $400; California, 4 out of 18, $1,500.

NOTE. The figures here given simply indicate the rate at which appropriations have been voted. In most cases the year does not run from May to May; therefore the Treasurer's statements will not exactly correspond with these.

Concerning Iowa, Rev. Mary A. Safford reports as follows:

"The Iowa Unitarian Association has done the following work at an expense of $4,434.35. To this amount the American Unitarian Association has contributed at the rate of $1,500 per year :

"Maintained a State secretary, who has given two-thirds of her time to the work of the Iowa Unitarian Association and the other one-third to the church at Des Moines.

"Conducted a successful though not large summer school at Lake Okoboji.

"Paid $500 on the $2,000 indebtedness for the S. S. Hunting Memorial Church at Iowa City.

"Paid $700 on the salary of Dr. D. J. H. Ward at Iowa City.

"Conducted a series of Forward Movement meetings at Burlington, Iowa.

"Raised an endowment fund of $1,000.

"Raised $286 to establish headquarters in Des Moines. "Continued the revivification of several societies through the visits and preaching of the secretary."

In New England during the summer of 1900 the Association supported wholly or in part services in the following places: Ocean Point, East Lamoine, and Sullivan Harbor, Me.; Sunapee, Groveton, and Hampton Beach, N. H.

Forward Movement meetings have been held at Wellesley, Ayer, Clinton, Worcester, Athol, Natick, and Fall River, Mass., and Milford and Nashua, N. H.

The Publication Committee has authorized the printing of 262,400 old tracts; has accepted, after an examination of many manuscripts, thirty-five new tracts, some of which have already been published; has published the Report of Covenants and the Handbook and several new editions of the books published by this Association.

Rev. Alfred Manchester reports as the work of the Committee on Supply of Pulpits for the year ending March 12, 1901: candidates recorded, 109; settled in New England, 24; elsewhere, 11; 47 churches dealt with; letters received, 550; letters sent, 699; circulars sent, 437; and callers, 911.

Rev. Samuel A. Eliot, D.D., President of the Association, has visited and spoken in 102 of our churches during

days 56 times, in 46 different churches. These churches are scattered from Winter Harbor, Me., to St. Louis, Mo., and from Burlington, Vt., to Atlanta, Ga. He has taken part in 7 installation services and 2 dedication services, addressed 7 conferences, 37 clubs and alliances, and made II other public addresses in or for Unitarian churches. He has also attended or taken part in 54 business meetings of the different denominational boards, such as directors of the Association, the trustees of the Hackley School, the directors of the International Council, the Historical Society, etc.

Rev. Charles E. St. John, Secretary of the Association, assumed active services the first of July, 1900. Since then he has preached 76 times, delivered 74 other addresses, attended 3 installation services, 63 special meetings of boards, committees, etc. In the course of this work he has visited 98 churches, only 25 of which are duplicates of visits made by the President. So that the President and Secretary together have visited 175 churches during the past year. The Secretary's journeys have taken him into the following States: Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa.

Rev. Clay MacCauley has served as a special agent for four months in the Southern field. He has rendered service in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. He has materially assisted in improving the condition of the church in New Orleans by managing the sale of the old church and forming plans for the erection of a new one. He has made it clear that the best opening for our work in the South is in Texas.

A vigorous effort has been made at Richmond, under Rev. M. K. Schermerhorn, to revive our movement there,