73. How many of these were started by the American Home Missionary Society? A. 3,500, or three fourths of the whole. 74. How much money did the churches give this Society last year? A. A little over $500,000. 75. How much does the Society want this year? A. $650,000.. CRUMBS. J. H. H., of Iroquois, Dakota, writes that their I. H. M. Band is composed of members between the ages of ten and twenty. It has been recently organized by Mrs. Drake. He hopes they will do as well as the "King's Daughters," of Amherst, Mass. We have very pleasant letters from a boy in Worcester, Mass., whose initials are "A. A. B." We always answer his letters, but as he never mentions his street and number, our letters return after awhile from the dead-letter office. Will "A. A. B." please give as his full address? One reason why we want to know more about this Massachusetts boy is because he writes that he likes to read The Home Missionary, and get out the answers to the questions. A boy in Sharon, Mass., thinks "we ought to be thankful a tenth." If every Christian man and woman, boy and girl, thought this, and lived up to it, the word "debt" would never appear again in this magazine. The Michigan children are studying about their own State. They have a "North Star Mission Circle," which is raising money for work in the Upper Peninsula, a map of which you will find in this magazine. Read Superintendent Warren's story of Michigan on page 408, and you will understand what they are trying to do. Wouldn't it be a good plan for boys and girls of other States to find out all they can about their own part of the country? Try it. Your friend, Rev. Mr. Schauffler, watches your Bohemian Fund very closely. The money which you have sent has all been spent for his work; and last month you only put in one dollar. You started to raise $5,000, for training missionaries to teach these Bohemians. You have raised more than half of it, and the $2,650 has been doing a blessed work. "Be not weary in well doing," dear children. WHAT ARE THE YOUNG PEOPLE DOING?—I. "OUR 'Helping Hand Children' number fifty. They wear as a badge a red, white, and blue rosette-the national colors of the National Society! We have no cumbersome organization. Each child is asked to make some article of use or beauty for the Master's cause. For such as cannot furnish the article one is provided, and their work is an offering. We try to find something for even the smallest to do, to secure their interest. After an hour of work, singing is introduced. We sing such things as children like. We try throughout the session to keep up a lively interest in the cause for which they are working. Do tell us of something that boys can do for the cause." SOME children in Minneapolis have been holding a missionary reception. One of them says: "We had studied for two years, and we thought we would like to have our fathers and mothers, and uncles and aunts know something about what we had been doing, and how much they all missed if they did not have missionary meetings." One of the mothers opened her house for the reception, on condition that the children do everything themselves. So they went to work in good earnest. They decided to dress in costume and represent different nationalities. Each one was to study up the nationality represented, and be ready to answer any questions that might be asked at the reception. Each child was allowed to invite five persons. As the circle numbered twelve that made sixty guests. The invitation read like this: "Miss M. and the little Raindrops will receive their friends Friday evening, from 7 to 9 o'clock, at the residence of Mrs. Street." "We only invited grown people," says the small narrator, "because if we invited children, we were afraid we would get to playing. The grown folks were just splendid, and sent some of the dearest regrets and acceptances. We had great fun dressing, but at last all was ready, and we went down stairs. We were so afraid the people would ask us questions we couldn't answer. We had a mite box on the table. Miss M. said we mustn't ask anybody to put money in, but we couldn't help just giving little hints that the box was there. We had $9.50 in our mite box, and we have asked Jesus to use every penny of it; so we know it will do lots of good."-Children's Work for Children. Although this reception was gotten up by a foreign mission circle, it might be used in the home interest. The different States might be represented in costume, also the Indian, Chinese, African, Swede, Bohemian, German, etc. SOME of the Vermont Sunday-schools are forming themselves into “Homeland Circles." Every member of the Sunday-school, including "adults" and "infants" takes a home missionary mite box. These are furnished by the American Home Missionary Society, if the pennies are given to that Society. These mite boxes are taken home, and on every Sunday morning the penny or nickel is dropped in as a part of the Sabbath worship. At the close of the year the boxes are brought in, and everybody is surprised at the amount of money collected. Appointments in November, 1888. Not in commission last year. Bates, Henry, Eagle Harbor, Wash. Ter. Evatt, Robert B., Hankinson, No. Dak. Hughes, James B., Solsberry, Ind. Keene, Lyman S., Kalamo and Carmel, Mich. Martin, Edwin, Crested Butte, Colo. Moore, Frank W., Crow Lake and Beulah, So. Mulholland, John, Forman and Holland, No. Dak. Packard, Milan, Evangelist, N. Y. Thomas, Ivor, Wilkesbarre, Penn. Recommissioned. Andrus, J. Cowles, Syracuse, N. Y. Banister, Charles D., Northport, Omena, and Bigelow, Albert, North Evans, N. Y. Bochek, Miss Fanny, St. Paul and Minneapolis, Brainerd, Edward R., Los Angeles, Cal. Campbell, James, Fall City, Burney, Cayton, and Cassel City. No. Cal. Cheadle, Stephen H., Tacoma, Wash. Ter. Courter, J. E., Spring Hill, Kan. Daniels, Henry M., Oceanside and Carlsbad, Cal. Davies, Thomas V., Altoona and Village Creek, Dawson, William E., Seattle, Wash. Ter. Drew, James B., St. Paul, Minn. Egerton, Thomas R., Jamestown and East Henry, Alexander J., Brooklyn, N. Y. Holden, Charles W., Hillsview, Eureka, and Hollister, Frederic M., New Richland and Janesville, Minn. Hullinger, Frank W., Windsor, Mo. Hunt, Ward I., Columbus, Mich. Hurd, Fayette, Nashville, Mich. Hurlbut. John E., Salt Lake City, Utah. James, Horace P., Cooperstown, No. Dak. Jones, George J., Findlay, Ohio. Jones, Lemuel, Evangelist, N. Y. Kaufman, William H., Coalville, Utah. Kelsey, Francis D., Helena, Mon. King, Walter D., Essexville, Mich. Loomis, Eli R., Walla Walla, Wash. Ter. McKee, James H., Olean, N. Y. Macy, Herbert, Merriam Park, Minn. Morse, William B., Wenas and Natchez, Wash. Pascoe, William H., Rio Del and Scotia, Cal. Pearson, Samuel, Dodge and Howells, Neb. Prucha, John, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Silver Richards, Emanuel, Buffalo Park and Collyer, Rose, William F., Port Gamble, Wash. Ter. Seaver, Charles H., Junction City, Kan. Van Wagner, James M., Green Ridge, Mo. RHODE ISLAND-$1,016.00. Providence, Beneficent Ch., by W. Woman's Home Miss. Assoc., Mrs. Sarah K. Burgess, Treas., for Salary Fund.. 100 00 C. A. Hopkins, to const. himself a L M.. 500 00 Mary R. Bishop, for Debt. 21.00 P. Goodwin Union Cong. Ch., by C. H. Leonard CONNECTICUT $2,319.31. Miss. Soc. Conn., W. W. Jacobs, Received, by Mrs. S. M. Hotchkiss, for S. Fund by Miss K. M. Brown, Bethlehem, A Friend Bridgeport, S. S. of Park Street Ch., by F. W. Boland.... 16 00 1,000 00 93 30 50 00 30 00 5 00 8 00 1 00 Chester, by Rev. A. Hall and Rev. Framingham, A Friend 25 00 Globe Village, E. F. Ch., by A. L. Hyde, in full, to const. R. T. Litch Gloucester, N. E. Brooks.. J. Knight. 50 00 East Hampton, Philo Bevin 25 00 Granby, F. Taylor, $15; F. E. Tay East Woodstock, by J. M. Paine, in lor, $15... 30 00 full, to const. Dea. G. T. Bixby a Granville, J, H. Seymour, for Debt.. 10.00 Haverhill, Charles Coffin $3.00 46.00 Mooers, Miss M. E. Churchill, special Charles J. Starr, $200; S. T. Gor Remsen, Ladies' H. M. Soc. of Peniel Ch., by Rev. J. F. Humphrey.. Rochester, Cong. S. S., by F. G. Burch Mrs. L. M. Beebe 250 00 392 00 5. 00 10.00 12.50 25.00 8.00 6 30 460 Rodman, by J. S. Sill. 26.00 Rutland, First Cong. S. S., by F. Underwood. 14.00 Salamanca, by Rev. H. A. Ottman.. 25.18 Smyrna, Ch. and S. S. Miss. Soc., by C. H. Hunt. 150 00 5 25 Spencerport, by Rev. C. N. Fitch Wellsville, by Mrs. Louisa A. Brown, to const. Herbert Butler Hoyt a L. M West Bloomfield, by M. J. Peck. Woodhaven, by Rev. W. James. Yonkers, First Presb. Ch., by Rev. Dr. W. W. Rand.. Bloomfield, M. E. C.... Camden, Rev. A. H. Brown Closter, Cong. S. S., by Rev. G. W. East Orange. Mrs. C. D. Dill. Upper Montclair, by C. W. Anderson PENNSYLVANIA-$182.17. Allegheny, First, by Rev. A. M. Hills Carbondale, by Rev. D. L. Davis... Guys Mills, addl., by Rev. H. S. Thompson Lansford. First Welsh Ch., by Rev. J. Edwards. Philadelphia, C. Burnham. Ridgway, Ladies' Miss. Soc. by Mrs. 15 16 12 01 20.00 10 00 100 00 5.00 20.00 22.00 50 00 38.00 15.00 25 00 5 00 1 00 15.08 10.00 5.00 10.00 259 05 |