This Monthly is furnished at sixty cents a year, postage paid. The subscription price could not well be less. Its whole present issue should go to actual subscribers. But unless they prefer to pay, it will be sent without further charge, as heretofore, to Life Directors and Life Members; Missionaries of the Society and its Auxiliaries; Ministers securing a yearly collection for it in their Congregations; also, to every individual, Association, or Congregation, one copy for every ten dollars collected and paid over to the Society or an Auxiliary. Suitable names should accompany the payment. Pastors are earnestly requested to serve Home Missions by promoting the use of this Journal at the Monthly Concert and among their people.

Immediate notice of the discontinuance or change of post-office address should be given.

APPLICATIONS FOR AID.

Congregations desiring aid should apply at once after finding a minister. They should make a full statement of the facts in their condition and prospects which justify an application. They should also give these particulars, viz.:

Population of the place.

Names of the church or churches, and preaching stations.

Number of church-members.

Average of congregation.

Denomination and size of contiguous congregations.

Names and distances of the nearest Congregational churches.

Minister's full name and post-office address: Town, County, State,

Does he reside on his field of labor? Is he installed pastor?

Has he any other calling than that of the ministry?

Of what local church is he a member?

Of what Ministerial Association?

The number of persons composing his family.

Total amount of salary proposed.

Amount pledged by the people and how secured.

Has he, also, the use of a parsonage?

Is aid expected from any other source?

The least amount that will suffice from the A. H. M. S.

The amount received from this Society last year.

Will less probably be needed next year?

Amount contributed to the Society last year. How raised.

Amount contributed to other benevolent societies.

Additional statements concerning the conditions, prospects, and wants of the field.
Date of the desired commission.

The application must be signed by the officers of the church, where there is one, and by the trustees or a committee of the congregation.

If the ecclesiastical body, within whose limits the congregation is found. has a "Committee of Missions," the members of that Committee should certify these statements, the standing of the minister, his prospects of usefulness there, and indorse the application. If no such "Committee of Missions" exists, the application should be indorsed by two or more neighboring clergymen acquainted with the facts. If no church or congregation is yet gathered, applicants will follow the same course as far as practicable.

Applications, after being so indorsed, should be sent to the Superintendent (or Secretary of the Auxiliary) for the region where the applicants reside.

Appropriations, as a rule, bear the date of a punctual application; and they never cover more than one year. If further aid be needed, a new application is required, containing all the particulars named above, and indorsed as before. To this the certificate of the missionary that the congregation has fulfilled its previous pledges for his support, must be ad led.

For the address of Superintendents and Secretaries of Auxiliaries see p. 4 of cover.

FORM OF A BEQUEST.

in

I bequeath to my executors the sum of dollars, in trust, to pay over the same months after my decease; to the person who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the American Home Missionary Society, formed in the City of New York, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-six, to be applied to the charitable use and purposes of said Society, and under its direction.

AMERICAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY,

Bible House, Astor Place, New York.

REV. DAVID B. COE, D.D., Honorary Secretary.

REV. JOSEPH B. CLARK, D.D.,
REV. WILLIAM KINCAID, D.D.,

Secretaries for Correspondence.

REV. ALEXANDER H. CLAPP, D.D., Treasurer. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:-WM. IVES WASHBURN, Esq., Chairman; MR. WM. HENRY SMITH; MR. JOHN WILEY; REV. WM. M. TAYLOR, D.D.; MR. CHARLES II. PARSONS; MR. ALBERT WOODRUFF; REV. JAMES G. ROBERTS, D.D.; REV. SAMUEL H. VIRGIN, D.D.; MR. JOSEPH WM. RICE; MR. HERBERT M. DIXON; REV. ROBERT R. MEREDITH, D.D.; MR. G. HENRY WHITCOMB; REV. CHAS. H. RICHARDS, D.D.; REV. WASHINGTON CHOATE; ASA A. SPEAR, Esq., Recording Serretary.

COMMUNICATIONS

Relating to the general business of the Society may be addressed to either of the Secretaries for Correspondence.

Communications relating to the Editorial Department of THE HOME MISSIONARY, and to the WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT, may be addressed to MRS. H. S. CASWELL, Bible House, N. Y.

DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS

In Drafts, Checks, Registered Letters, or Post-Office Orders; also Communications relating to the business matters of THE HOME MISSIONARY and other Publications of the Society, may be addressed to ALEX'E H. CLAPP, Treasurer, Bible House, Astor Place, New York.

Post-Office Orders should be drawn on STATION D, New York City.

A Payment of $50 Constitutes a Life Member.

SUPERINTENDENTS.

REV. HENRY A. SCHAUFFLER, D.D., Slavic Department, Cleveland, O.

REV. MORITZ E. EVERSZ, German Department, 151 Washington St., Chicago, Ill.

REV. M. W. MONTGOMERY, Scandinavian Department, 45 Warren Avenue, Chicago, Ill.

SIXTY CENTS A YEAR, IN ADVANCE, POSTAGE PAID.

ENTERED AT THE POST OFFICE AT NEW YORK, N. Y., AS SECOND CLASS [MAIL] MATTER.

THE

HOME MISSIONARY.

GO.......... PREACH the GOSPEL....

..... Mark xvi. 15.

How shall they preach except they be SENT?........ Rom. x. 15.

VOL. LXIII.

MARCH, 1891.

No. 11.

SOME REASONS FOR OUR SLAVIC WORK.
BY REV. SIMEON GILBERT, D.D.

1. BECAUSE it is in the line of Home Missionary work.

2. Because it is straight in line with all our Foreign Missionary work. 3. Because they need the gospel of the grace of God exactly the same as we do, and it brings forth fruit among them of precisely the same sort -all the blessed fruits of the Spirit.

4. Because, if we do not send the Gospel in its purity to them, they are not likely ever to get it.

5. Because these our fellow-citizens of the Slavic races are so unlike us in respect of language, and many social and domestic usages, and so are under peculiar disadvantages in coming to a right knowledge of the Gospel, unless we first of all go to them speaking to them in their own tongue.

6. Because they are almost wholly new-comers and strangers among us, and we are under every Christian motive to extend them the utmost hospitality.

7. Because, as it is a gracious and glorious heritage of Christian institutions, laws, and homes, into which we were born, we ought to hasten to help them to a right understanding of what has been most vital, and is still best, in that into which they also have now come.

8. Because the myriad grog-shops, and low-down politicians should not be left to monopolize the open doors of welcome that await them.

9. Because the Christian world of to-day owes a debt of honor and of gratefulness to that great-hearted martyr to the Gospel of Christ, the Bohemian, John Huss.

10. Because, should we neglect this distinctively home-foreign mis