ANNOUNCEMENT The AMERICAN CHURCH MONTHLY is now nearing the completion of its first year of publication. It has been a period of experiment and experience. The war has brought with it practical difficulties. But a certain degree of success has been attained and we look back with some justifiable pride on the list of articles and contributors during the past ten months. The Editorial Council has hitherto been responsible for the character of the magazine, but beginning with the March issue, the REV. SELDEN P. DELANY, D.D., will be the editor. The Council will continue its interest and aid. The office in future will be at II West 45th Street, Edwin S. Gorham as Business Manager, where mail in future should be addressed. Please renew subscriptions at once. If you are not a subscriber, will you not help support this valuable publication by at once sending in your subscription? If you are a subscriber, will you not try to interest your friends? 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