three hundred dollars. Mr. Mason said if we keep giving missionary information the children will give their money and then their lives.

Rev. Samuel D. Price, of New Jersey, addressed us on Missionary Expression in Service. He said, if you can't go to the foreign field there are other things you can do. He explained how we might take the colored lesson cards and charts that we were through with and send them to the missionaries. He said that if we would back the chart pictures with shrunken muslin they would last much longer. He also said that the Chinese would not accept any pictures that were torn or soiled or any pictures of people in low-necked dresses. He told us how scrap-books might be made and how old post-cards might be used. Mr. Price said that the missionaries may not have an opportunity to write and thank you, but just keep on sending them. All service asks is opportunity, not recognition.

Mrs. William H. Dietz, of Chicago, told us of an interesting missionary program given by the children of her department in the Sunday-school. They were dressed in the costumes of different countries, each one carrying the flag of the country. They told something of their lives and sang missionary songs.

MISSIONARY EDUCATION IN THE SUNDAY SCHOOL

MR. HARRY WADE HICKS, NEW YORK.

The objectives of missionary education in the Sunday-school are identical with those pertaining to the Church as a whole, because the Church of the future in reference to missionary efficiency is now being forged in the Sunday-school. Since it is the primary and perpetual business of the Church to make Jesus Christ known, obeyed and loved by all people in the earth, it becomes the duty of the Sunday-school to educate the future Church in reference to all those missionary activities involved in the program of the Church.

1. The first objective of missionary education is to make the Church of the future an intelligent Church. Ignorance, prejudice, opposition, indifference, prayerlessness, selfishness, love of ease, and other hindrances are to be removed only by systematic missionary instruction of the young.

2. The second objective is to make a benevolent Church, through the training of the young to wish well of all people. The lessons of Christian missions reveal Christ at work among all sorts and conditions of men, in relations of sympathy and love. The need for missionary education to create the spirit of sympathy and love is revealed by the

deplorable extent and virulence of race and class prejudice and hatred, and the inborn and vulgar assumption of superiority characterizing the average Anglo-Saxon, over Asiatic, African and other peoples, and an accompanying spirit of intolerance and hatred.

3. The third objective is to train the Church in beneficence—well doing. If the young are to think well of all people, they will do so only as long as they do well by them. This involves a vast widening of the service of the Sunday-school. The chasm between knowing and doing must be bridged here. The needy of church, parish, community, nation, and world come within the scope of service of the ideal Christian Church. For this wide service the Sunday-school is the chief training school.

4. The fourth objective is to grow a praying Church on behalf of all peoples and all missions. In no sphere of missionary endeavor more than in this can the Sunday-school mould the efficiency of the future Church, and in none is moulding more needed.

5. To create a peace-loving Church and therefore a peace-loving Nation is within the power of the Sunday-school. Every missionary in the world is or ought to be an envoy of peace. His mission is peaceable. His Lord is the Prince of Peace. His labors bring peace in the hearts of men. Governments depend on him, whether they approve or despise his religion as a system. The fruits of Christianity all nations covet, for they are the peaceable fruits of righteousness, as between individuals, and also nations. Make Christ known to all men and war becomes in the nature of the case unthinkable and in the end impossible. 6. The sixth objective is to make a triumphant Church. The conquests of Christianity are the most convincing evidences of today. To leaven the theoretical religious knowledge of the young while it is being acquired with the missionary achievements of the world is to multiply its attacking power. The proof of the divine and universal mission and power of the Church is found as much in present day conquests as in those of two thousand years ago.

7. A sacrificial Church constitutes the seventh objective of missionary education, sacrifice of ease, pride, wealth, time, children, anything that God requires for world-conquest. The practice of sacrifice must be encouraged in the young, or it will not characterize the adult life.

8. The eighth objective is to make a believing Church. The power of the Gospel to save is not fully comprehended even by the Church itself, much less those outside the Church. Many hold that it is good for North America, Great Britain and Germany, but not for Japan, China and India. Others think it can hold the children of Christians

by environment, but cannot gain and hold the downfallen, the degenerate and pagan people of the world. The proof of the universal message and power of Christ is found better in life than books. Christ is transforming individuals and nations in all lands of the earth. He is the hope of the Nations.

The International Sunday-school Association, because it recognizes these objectives as imposing upon it a deep responsibility, has created a missionary department and elected a missionary superintendent. The support of all Sunday-school officers and teachers is required to realize the objectives.

READ BY MRS. ZILLAH FOSTER STEVENS, SUPT.

Down on his knees, close to the ground, a fruit-grower worked at the trunk of a young apple-tree. His hand guided a wire that probed a tiny tunnel, the track of a worm that was boring its way into the vitals of the tree. Patiently that searching wire followed the course of the worm, till it found him, dragged him forth, and ended his career of destruction. Next a coat of protecting tar covered puncture, crack and crevice.

"That must be miserably hard, unpleasant work," was the comment of the onlooker.

But the fruit-grower smiled as he replied:

"In my mind is a picture of the way this young apple-tree is going to look when it is grown and full of perfect fruit. No work is unpleasant that makes that picture come true. But there is no chance-no chance at all-for this picture to come true, unless exactly this sort of work is done. The worms are after this tree. My wire is needed to get rid of the worms that have bored their way into the trunk. My tar is needed to make exposed places worm-proof. But the picture in my

mind, you know-that picture of the tree perfect and fruitful—makes me glad to do this work. And no work pays better."'

Dear friends, that plain man doing his plain work in his plain way, faithfully images the spirit, the aim, and the methods of the Sunday School at work through its Temperance Department.

Look at a map of North America, our great International Sunday School Garden. See that map brightened with more than 173,000 stars, -the 173,000 Sunday Schools that bless humanity with the blessings Christ brought to the world. Bespatter that map with black blots far outnumbering the bright stars; blot it thick; for these black spots mean the saloons of North America, and their presence on that map means: "No chance, no chance at all" for child-life to fulfill God's plan of fruitfulness until the Sunday School, because of its vision, shall accept this two-fold work:

First, by temperance teaching, make childhood temptation-proof.

Second, get rid of the destroyers. Remove those myriads of black blots from the map of the International garden.

Exactly that sort of work the International Sunday School Association has undertaken through its temperance department. And because the cigaret has proved itself another destroyer ranking close to alcohol in its work of destruction, and because there are still other destroyers which blight and weaken and ruin, the International Sunday School Association has adopted and is seeking to accomplish the following:

Temperance Department Aims.

1. Temperance Education-Educate every Sunday-School member for (a) Total abstinence.

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(b) The destruction of the liquor traffic.

(c) The extinction of the cigarette habit.

(d) The surrender of every self-indulgence which impairs or destroys the power to give service to God or to man. Regular Time for Temperance Teaching.

(a) Observe all appointed quarterly Temperance Sundays.

(b) (Special) Anti-Cigarette Day-Temperance Sunday of the second quarter.

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(Special) World's Temperance Sunday-The fourth Sunday in November, to be emphasized as Christian Citizenship Day. Organization-A Temperance Department in every Sunday-School, conducted by a Temperance Superintendent. 4. Pledge Signing-Enroll every Sunday-School member of proper age as a pledge-signer.

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The International Pledge reads:

"That I may give my best service to God and to my fellowmen, I promise God and pledge myself never to use intoxicating liquors as a drink and to do all I can to end the drink habit and the liquor traffic."

The Anti-Cigarette Pledge reads:

"In the cause of Freedom from Enslaving Habits, for the sake of Strength and Purity of Character, I pledge myself to abstain from the use of Cigarettes and to do all I can to end the Cigarette habit among others."