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It would be an accommodation to us if our subscribers would promptly renew their subscriptions, without waiting to receive a personal notice. We devote much attention to the MONTHLY, hoping to make it both interesting and profitable to all who read it. It is designed solely as a medium of communication between the Home Mission Society and its friends, and not at all as a means of making money; indeed, the MONTHLY is published at a loss, the subscriptions received falling far below the actual cost of production. Will our readers kindly bear this in mind? We have received many pleasant expressions of appreciation of the MONTHLY, for which we are very grateful. Occasionally we receive a word of criticism, and for this also we are grateful, as intelligent criticism, kindly offered, is quite as valuable as praise. Once in a long while somebody takes of fense at something said, or left unsaid, and orders us to discontinue the magazinewhich we always do with reluctance, because, usually, those who send such peremptory orders are those who would be most profited by continuing to read the MONTHLY. No. 11 history, and the natural impulse of gratitude ought to suggest to them to assist others as they themselves have been assisted. Mission churches should be preeminently missionary churches. Six months of the current fiscal year have passed by, and the contributions from churches and individuals, made to Our treasury, fall considerably below the amount received during the same period of last year. By reason of the Sampson legacy of $100,000, and the Stearns legacy of $30,000, received in the early part of the year, the Society was able to practically wipe out the debt incurred last year, and to enter upon the work of the present year full of hope and courage. After mature deliberation it was thought best, in view of its urgency, not to materially curtail the work in hand. The scale of expenditure, however, now in operation is largely in excess of the current receipts of last year, so that unless there shall be a very considerable increase of contributions this year, as compared with last, we shall close our work with a very ugly debt. There are just two ways to prevent the debt: one is to reduce our expenditures to correspond with the current receipts, which would be discourag ing and disastrous. Of course, if the Society is driven to this alternative it will be obliged to apply the knife and cut off some of its most important and most promising missions. This the Board is very reluctant "Freely ye have received, freely give," has as deep significance when applied to churches as when applied to individuals. Thousands of Baptist churches owe their existence, as well as their prosperity, to the kindly help extended to them in their early to do. The only alternative is to appeal to the churches to increase their contributions, and this it most earnestly does. The work of the Society in the West, in the South among the foreign populations of the East, and in Mexico, never was more vigorous, more hopeful, or more urgent than it is today, and we are very slow to believe that the Baptists of this country are ready to slacken their efforts, in any direction, in the prosecution of Home Missions. urge upon every friend of America and every lover of the truth, as we hold it, to aid us during the next six months, so that we may be able to carry our work successfully to the end of the year without a debt. We It is always gratifying to hear that a church which has been fostered by the Home Mission Society has reached a point of self-support. The theory upon which the Society proceeds is, that the local church should be an independent organization, meeting its own expenses, and whenever a new mission is established it is with the hope and expectation that at a very early day it can stand alone, without the help of the parent Society. The Society purposely limits the aid given to the local church to the smallest amount that will enable it to carry on its work, endeavoring thus to stimulate self-reliance, self-sacrifice and generosity. Overhelping is quite as injurious to churches as to individuals. Under ordinary circumstances it is expected that the amount of aid rendered to the local church in the support of its pastor, by the Home Mission Society, will decrease, year by year, until entirely discontinued. Where there is no growth, no prospect of self-support, the Society feels at liberty to withdraw its aid, leaving the church to perish even, because the money it has to bestow will accomplish more when given to churches with life and progress. We publish in another column Brother Buddington's courteous criticism of an item which appeared in the September MONTHLY, We are in full sympathy with on page 323. his thought that the societies of the B. Y. P. Ú. A. should be trained to make their contributions for missionary and benevolent purposes through their own church, rather than directly for special objects selected by themselves; but we do not see that there can be any serious objection to having the amount of money contributed through the church credited to the society of the Young People who contributed it. A very large proportion of the money accredited to the societies, both of the Y. P. S. C. E., and the B. Y. P. U. A., in the table under review, came to our treasury through the churches with which the societies are connected. Our purpose in printing the table was simply to recognize the encouraging fact that the Young People of our churches are taking a lively interest in the great matter of Home Missions, and it was not designed to institute any unfavorable comparison. It has already been stated in the MONTHLY that Rev. Dr. Haigh, of Chicago, Superintendent of Missions for the Western Division, was suffering from severe nervous prostration. We are glad to announce that he is apparently on the road to recovery, though progress is somewhat slow. He hopes to devote some attention to the duties of his office in November, but his physicians enjoin him from undertaking the full service he has so successfully rendered the Society hitherto. In addition to his work as Superintendent of Missions, he has been District Secretary for Northern Illinois and. Wisconsin. The value of his knowledge and long experience as Superintendent of Missions is too great to be dispensed with at this time. It has been decided, therefore. that he shall continue in this capacity, and that he shall be relieved of the work pertaining to the district secretaryship, except in an advisory and incidental manner. Accordingly, after much consideration, the Board, at its September meeting, appointed Rev. J. B. Thomas, of Topeka, Kansas, District Secretary for Northern Illinois and Wisconsin. He has accepted, about and will begin work November Brother Thomas, who is a native of Ist. |