$20,572 17 6,319 96

$26,922 13

We invite special attention to the reprint (pp. 83-86) of the appeal of our Executive Committee for funds to make up the deficit by our declining to receive further aid from the Government in the support of our Indian schools. The facts are very fully and effectively set forth in this document. It will repay very careful perusal, and the appeal deserves a generous response.

Copies have been sent somewhat widely to pastors of churches, but we wish members of the church, and benevolent and patriotic citizens to see and consider the facts set forth, and as it falls under the eye of a pastor who has received it in another form, we wish it to be considered as a reminder.

The various Protestant denominations which have united in surrendering this Government aid will doubtless appeal to their constituents to meet the emergency, and we confidently believe that the Congregationalists of this country will not be behind others in their generous response.

A MINISTER AND HIS WIFE FOR ALASKA.

Last summer, before the ice entirely shut in our friends at Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, we had communications from Mr. Lopp, indicating that he was ready to comply with the request of Dr. Sheldon Jackson, to take charge of a Government reindeer station, about forty miles from Cape Prince of Wales. Here he could render efficient assistance in this important movement on the part of the Government, and might, at the same time, do good work as a missionary among the natives.

We yield our assent to this proposal, and, in accordance with the wise suggestion of Dr. Jackson, we desire to send next spring a minister and his wife to Cape Prince of Wales. The work, we believe, has reached that point where the services of a minister are needed. We, therefore, solicit applications for this position. Of course none but hardy, consecrated and devoted men can meet the case. The field, however, is an exceedingly interesting one.

CHINESE EXCLUSION.

America's open door to people of all nations has become the passage-way for many undesirable additions to our population. Undoubtedly some restrictions must be placed on this influx. But it should be on the score of character and fitness, rather than of race; and especially it should not be made in violation of justice, humanity and the sanctity of treaty obligations. The Chinese Exclusion Bill has all these obnoxious features. Our readers will find on other pages of the magazine a very full and interesting sketch of the odious features of this legislation.

NORTHERN COLD AND SOUTHERN SKIES.

At the North we are accustomed to cold weather in the winter, and are somewhat prepared to meet it. But in the South where it rarely comes, it brings suffering and disaster, especially among the poor blacks and whites whose open cabins, thin clothing and meager purses yield them no defence. In another part of this magazine will be found some very interesting sketches of this unexpected winter, with the sacrifices of the people to meet the emergency, together with the prompt and efficient help of our Christian workers.

HELPS FOR MISSIONARY MEETINGS.

We are happy to announce another missionary study this time on work among the Indians. It is in ten topics, so arranged that ten can take part in the meeting, reporting respectively on: Early Indian Missions, Varied Conditions, Central Schools, Out-Stations, Fallacies Concerning the Indian, Conflicting Views, Readiness for the Light, Earnestness of Purpose, Woman's Work, Our Work and Obligations.

This study, as well as that upon the work among the Negroes, will be furnished free to those who request it.

A COLORED MAN WINS THE HONOR.

It is an interesting and significant circumstance that the highest honor at Boston University this year has been awarded to a colored man, Thomas Nelson Baker, who was born a slave in Virginia in 1860. He has paid his own college expenses by teaching, and the disadvantages under which he has labored account for the fact that his age is considerably greater than that of the average college graduate. He was fond of books from his boyhood, and was bound to get an education. What he has accomplished should be an inspiration to others of negro blood.-The Tribune.

THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION'S APPEAL TO THE CHURCHES. Dear Brethren of the Ministry and of the Churches :

The Executive Committee of the American Missionary Association, whose field of benevolent operation is among the colored freedmen of the South, the Indians of the West and the Chinese on the Pacific Coast, finds itself suddenly confronted by a very grave exigency in connection especially with the Indian work of the Association for the coming year of 1893. This emergency arises by reason of the action of the Association at its recent annual meeting held in Hartford last October, where it was resolved to surrender the Government grant, amounting last year to twenty-two thousand dollars ($22,000), which heretofore has been received by us annually from the United States Government, in aid of our schools among the Indians. The object of the present letter is to appeal to the churches to make up this serious deficiency, by a proportionate increase in their annual collection for the American Missionary Association.

In order to give our statement its proper weight it is necessary to explain briefly the steps which have brought us to the present crisis.

SPECIAL

First. A year ago, a Special Committee, consisting of Hon. Joshua W. Davis, of Boston, Miss Anna L. Dawes, COMMITTEE. daughter of Senator Henry L. Dawes, Miss Emily S. Cook, Merrill E. Gates, LL. D., President of Amherst College, and Hon. Austin Abbott, of New York, was appointed to "co-operate and advise with the Association" in raising funds for the important Indian work, "in view of the probable withdrawal in the near future of the Government appropriations to the schools maintained by religious societies among the Indians." At the Annual Meeting in Hartford, October 26th REPORT OF SPECIAL last, this Special Committee reported, urging increased attention to the Indian work and closing its report with the following words:

COMMITTEE.

Your Committee express the hope that during the coming year, by methods which may commend themselves to the Executive Committee, the needs and claims of the work among the Indians may be more definitely and forcibly presented to a far larger number of our churches in all parts of our land.

Second. Upon the reading and acceptance of this report, the following resolution, presented by Rev. A. E. Dunning, D.D., was unanimously adopted.

RESOLUTION.

Resolved, That it is the sense of this meeting that the work of the DR. DUNNING'S Association among the Indians is now in a condition of special and pressing exigency. We urge upon the Executive Committee the necessity of taking measures to make special appeals to the churches and individuals for the enlargement of this work and to plan for that end in expecta