THE LITTLE Box.-Upon the editorial desk is a small, white box. Open it, and you will see a layer of rose-tinted cotton. Lift this, and you disclose ten bright nickels. Lift the next layer, and your eye rests upon twenty shining dimes fresh from the mint. The third layer covers a bright silver dollar. This dainty offering was placed in the hand of the editor after a missionary talk to the children in Missouri, by a dark-eyed maiden, who said, "We children all have your home missionary mite-boxes. Well, my baby brother had one, and we liked to hold his little fat hand over the box so he could drop in the penny with the rest of us. Last year baby died, but we couldn't seem to put away his little mite-box, so I said we would let it stay with the rest and I would put into it all the shining pieces of money that came to me. Oh, my! how they did come! Perhaps it seemed so because I was watching for them. Perhaps Jesus let them Here they are in the little box-thirty-one pieces to help pay one of the Home Missionaries." come. A sacred offering, indeed! Will it not receive a special blessing in the work? We cannot put this little offering into the treasury without an effort to increase its cash value. And so we are ready to SELL these shining pieces. For $10 we will send you a nickel; for $20 you shall have a dime, and for $100 you may have the silver dollar. Thus shall the heart's desire of this young disciple "come to pass," and the mitebox of the baby brother in Heaven yield a missionary salary. THE PACIFIC COAST ALIVE-We learn through Rev. E. S. Williams that the Pacific Coast is alive, as never before, for a missionary campaign. The President of the Woman's Union in Oregon, Mrs. Sommerville, and of the Woman's Union of California, Mrs. Merritt, are full of zeal and hope. This campaign is being carried on by pastors, Superintendents of Missions, and officers of the Woman's Union, at different points along the coast. "We do not want," says Mr. Williams, "to spend next May debt-raising. We do want a rain of blessing. Oh, if a fire might be kindled here to sweep our dear land. How many questions it would settle!" AN EXERCISE FOR HOME MISSIONARY SUNDAY.-This exercise, in which pastor, fathers, mothers, and children-twenty-four in all-took part in one hour, was given at a small village in the Vermont Mountains. The church has a membership of eighty-six, representing forty families. The mite-box opening, at this time, yielded $78 for Home Missions. This money was raised by the "Homeland Circle" plan-a mite-box in the home, into which is placed one penny, or more, every Sunday morn ing. For copies of this home missionary exercise apply to the American Home Missionary Society, Bible House, New York City. We Rev. W. D. Trover, Oklahoma City, says: "Our church is to be dedicated November 9. Wish our Eastern friends could be with us. have no bell yet, but in response to the kind word in our behalf in the October Home Missionary, I have received the following letter from Massachusetts, which encourages me to feel that it will soon come: "In reading my Home Missionary I noticed your need of a bell. I am an old woman, and have not a great deal of money, but this has set me to thinking that if I had any to spare I would better send a part of it to you, so I inclose ten dollars, with the prayer that you may soon have the needed sum, and that, in imagination, I may hear the bell calling the people to the true worship of God in far, distant Oklahoma.'” SUPERINTENDENT SIMMONS of Fargo, No. Dak., asks for seventy-five or one hundred copies of Gospel Hymus, No. 5, for revival work. Rev. C. H. HUESTIS, of Wilcox, Neb., asks if any church can supply fifty or seventy-five copies of Dr. Robinson's "Spiritual Songs," at secondhand. Appointments in December, 1890. Not in commission last year. Cross, Rowland S., Fairmont, Minn. Dada, William B., Watervliet and Coloma, Mich. Arrington, Archie E., Iowa, and Smith's School- Davies, John F., Lima. O. house, La. Bickford, E. H., Compton, Cal. Brooks, Willard H., Kinderhook, Mich. Flook, Jacob, Indianola, Neb. Goodell, Isaac, San Diego, Cal. Griffin, Perley M., Parsons, Kan. Hanford, Samuel I., Long Pine, Neb. Hartley, Myron T., Amboy, Ind. Houston, Robert, Briley and Vienna, Mich. Joyce, C. C., Williams Chapel, La. Love, A. L., St. Louis, Mo., General Missionary. So. Dak. Shear, Charles B., Kendall, Mich. Southworth, Edward, White Water, Kannan Stallings, J. J., General Missionary in Alabama. Weaver, Charles A., Pico Heights, Cal. Davis, Albert A., Fosston, Minn. Drew, J. B. General Missionary in St. Paul, Dyas, Joseph P,, Garretson, So. Dak. Foster, Festus, Mt. Hope and Haven, Kan. Foster, R. B., Stillwater and Payne Center, Okla. Granger, John L., Lake Preston, So. Dak. Houston, Warren H., Campbell and Bladen, Neb. Hyslop, James, Potterville and Millett, Mich. Jewell, J. Spencer, South Riverside, Cal. Jones, Richard M., Beaver Cr. and Oswego, Or. Williams, John O., Coushatta Academy and Kidder, Aberoni, Bloomer, Wis. Brown, Daniel M., West Indianapolis, Ind. Perine, Bryngelson, August, Wood Lake and Grantsburg, Wis. Candee, George, Toledo, O. Carlisle, Charles B., Escondido, Cal. Chevis, Ernest C., Prentice, Bruce, Amacoy, Childs, William, Rosedale and Hay Lake, Mich. Conner, James R., Coolville and Ireland, O. Counseller, E. Melville, Hartford, and Lawrence, Cross, Roselle T., Minneapolis, Minn. Lewis, John, Detroit, Mich, Evangelist among Liston, Robert T., Nogales, Ariz. Parker, J. H., General Missionary in Okla. Peters, William J., Salt Lake City, Utah. Qualfe, Robert, Cleveland, O. Richards, Howard A. N., Ashtabula, O. Shaw, Edwin S., Benzonia, Homestead, and Gil- Sherrill, Alvan F. Atlanta, Ga. Spanswick, Thomas W., Oceanside and Carlsbad, Cal. Tibbits, Jackson, Birnamwood, Wis. Warren, Willis A., Belgrade, Minn. Williams, John C., Greenport, N. Y. East ton... Kennebunkport, by Rev. C. H. Pope... Norway, Second, by Rev. B. S. Rideout "Zenas R. Farrington collector", C. C. Chapman... Mrs. L. T. Kendall. C. A. Brown, in part, to const. himself a L. M Martha J. Ross, for Western Missions Saco, First Parish Ch., A New Year's gift, by J. W. Littlefield.. South Freeport, special, by Rev. A. Smith... 14.00 Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. W. P. Fairbanks, Treas.: 10.00 For the Washington Band: 5.00 St. Johnsbury, South Ch.. 20.00 5.00 9.73 82 77 11 00 A Friend.. 5 00 40 50 10.00 25 00 25.00 Rutland, Miss S. E. Aiken, by Mrs. A. 100 00 19 48 Vermont, B., One who cares". 10.00 Newburyport, Mrs. S. Goodwin.. North Adams, P. P. M.. 5.00 10 00 Northampton, First, by J. H. Searle.... North Brookfield. First, $247.67, of which 410 43 300 00 E. Sessions, for Salary Fund.. 22 42 Enfield, Ladies' Benev. Soc., by Fairfield, A Friend, a Christmas Gift.. 25.00 Hartford, Mrs. F. B. Cooley, of First Ch., for Salary Fund.... 10 00 Pomfret, Aux. Ladies' Miteboxes, by Miss M. E. Denison, for Salary Fund South Norwalk, Aux., by Miss G. H. Benedict, of which $50, to const. Mrs. W. H. Gilbert a L. M., for Salary Fund........ 94 00 10 00 10.00 5 00 5.00 W. Northrop.. 10 00 43 74 Bristol, by J. E. Beckwith. 151 41 Chester, by Rev. A. Hall.. 22 15 37 38 Colchester, Society of Christian Soldiers, by Clark Otís.. 2.00 2.00 Connecticut, A Friend.. 100 00 East Hampton, Philo Bevin.. 25.00 11 25 East Hartford, First, by E. A. Williams 77.00 Southampton, Cheerful Givers Miss. Band, by H. B. Norton... South Attleboro, Dea. W. Mathias. South Deerfield, H. E. Tilton.. 10 00 South Framingham, Rev. W. G. Puddefoot.. Farmington, First, by F. C. Jones.. 20 00 A Friend... 5 00 21 05 "H. M.". 1,000 00 Stockbridge, A Lady Friend... 500 Swampscott, by Rev. G. A. Jack son, with previous don., to const. George E. Gilbert a L. M.. 10 00 Marlborough, Charles Carter 7 87 Meriden, First, special, by W. H. Catlin..... 12.00 Brooklyn, South Cong. Ch., by E. D. Park Ch., by H. P. Smith. New England Cong. Ch., by C. H. Clinton Avenue Cong.Ch., by A. Robb Miss Eldridge's S. S. class, Puritan Ch., special.. H. S. C., for Salary Fund, $25; D. B. Hixon, $25; B. L. Benedict, $48.60.. Buffalo, First, by R. K. Strickland.. Y. P. S. C. É. of the Niagara Square People's Ch., $5; A Friend, $1, by A. M. Wilson. 173-30 22 42 500 33 41 716 05 8.00 98 60 150 00 6.00 New London, First Ch. of Christ," Y S. R.".. 50 00 New Preston, Village Ch., by Mrs. S. N. Taylor... Member, $20, by Rev. A. W. Reming 30.00 Norfolk, by J. N. Cowles 315 00 Canandaigua, First, by Dr. C. T. A Friend... 9 40 Mitchel... 30.57 Oxford, Rev. H. M. Hazeltine, add'l.... Plainville, Mrs. G. D. Mastin, A Christmas-offering.. 40 1.00 Honeoye, by Rev. S. M. Day. Hoosick Falls, Mrs. M. B. McClure. Broadway Tabernacle Ch., A Friend, by I. R. Fisher. Mr. Jamieson's class, Pilgrim Ch., by Rev. S. H. Virgin.. A Friend, $5; S. T. Gordon, $50; M. E. B., $5; W. M. Taylor, special, for Norway Training School, $5; T. F. Howard, $10. Newark Valley, by Mrs. H. Winship.... Perry Center, by F. J. Cadwell........ Rensselaer Falls, by J. J. Doty, of which $5, in part to const. Albert M. Doty a L. M.. Sanborn, Miss A. Peck.............................. Sherburne, On account of Legacy of A. Silver Creek, W. Chapin.. West Bloomfield, by M. J. Peck.. 340 00 18 25 4.50 100 00 5.00 52 13 5 00 47 00 2.50 |