HON. C. W. KINGSLEY, MASS., EX-PRESIDENT.

HON. E. NELSON BLAKE, MASS., EX-PRESIDENT.

voluntary contributions of its constituents, who are so widely scattered, cannot succeed without organization. The Society has a Board of Managers, carefully selected from representative business men, clergymen, and laymen; a Corresponding Secretary as its Chief Executive officer, with a trained and able assistant; a Field Secretary, sweeping the whole horizon of its work and giving special attention to weighty and vital questions of policy and methods of work; a Superintendent of Education, concentrating his whole time and energy on the faithful supervision of the vast educational work; an expert legal as

sistant in charge of legacies and church edifice papers; a competent, trusted Treasurer; a bookkeeper, stenographers, and clerks; District Secretaries charged with the special duty of presenting its operations to the churches and of collecting money; Superintendents of Missions counseling, directing, and controlling the appointments of missionaries and the distribution of funds; General Missionaries traversing the several States, inspiring and helping local workers and promoting unity and enthusiasm in their fields; Local Missionaries planting new churches, organizing new Sunday-schools, building meeting-houses and preaching the Gospel wherever opportunity offers; Presidents of colored schools, responsible for their administration, and associate teachers of all grades. It has a working force of more than a thousand men and women, giving their undivided time and energy to the Society. It is aided in its management by efficient co-operating State Mission Boards, and has the enthusiastic help of the Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society. The wisest men of the denomination give it their invaluable counsel.

We are glad to report decided progress in the matter of co-operation with Southern Baptists in work for the colored people. The plan approved by the Home Mission Society and the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention has been submitted to the white Baptist Conventions of Alabama, South Carolina, and North Carolina, all of which, with hearty unanimity, voted to enter into co-operation with us and with the colored Baptist Conventions of these States, each of the four co-operating bodies bearing its share of the expense. Our colored brethren in these States also enter most heartily and hopefully into this new arrangement. In other States there is a strong desire for co-operation as soon as practicable. We have entered upon a new era in our work for the colored people of the South. The Society believes it is now following the eadings of Providence as truly as it did

when the work was first undertaken, and that now, as then, the means for this advance will in some way be provided. Are there not those who will make a thank-offering to be used by the Society in the extension of this plan of co-operation throughout the entire South? For this, as well as for other purposes, the Society is sorely in need of funds.

ONE THOUSAND NEW NAMES.

We wish to add during the year 1896 not less than one thousand new names to our list of paying subscribers. We can very easily do this if each one of our present subscribers will lend his copy of the MONTHLY to a neighbor, speak a kind word for it, and solicit a subscription. If each missionary in the employ of the Society will actively canvass his church for subscriptions, we confidently believe several thousand names can be added. Dear Brother, will you do this? Will you do it at once? Will you do it earnestly?

The present cost cost of producing the MONTHLY is considerably more than receipts from subscriptions, whereas it ought to be self-sustaining, and can easily be made so by the help of our missionaries. The subscription price is so small as to bring it within the reach of multitudes who do not take it. The present number is worth a year's subscription. Brethren, Sisters, send us at once the names of a thousand new subscribers.

On Sunday, October 20th, during the session of the Missouri Colored Baptist Convention, in St. Louis, the pulpits of all the leading white Baptist churches in the city were occupied by colored preachers, and the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, of Monday, October 21st, devoted more than two columns to reports of the sermons delivered upon this occasion by such representative Negro preachers as Rev. E. M. Cohran, J. T. Caston, E. L. Scruggs, Samuel W. Bacote, Mark Thompson, and H. N. Bouey. The occasion was very memorable, and will go far towards confirming and extending the very pleasant relations already existing between the white and colored Baptists of Missouri.