thus related to the fulfillment of our Lord's great command? To what extent do the ministers pray for the young men as thus related? There may exist herein a more wide-spread and fatal neglect than either churches. or ministers think. But true prayer in this direction, as in all others, implies the spirit of works as well as faith. While the young men need earnest remembrance in the supplications of God's people, they also need pecuniary help. More than two thirds of those studying for the ministry in our various institutions are without money. The minimum expense of a seven-years course in our colleges and seminaries is $2,800. How will the young man, starting virtually without a dollar at his command, furnish himself with this large yet indispensable sum? Let the Christian business man, who believes neither in the student running in debt, nor in his interrupted and therefore unsuccessful pursuit of study, answer. Let the churches answer who believe in the fiftieth year as the minister's dead line, and yet who see how often poverty in the student compels the suspension of study for work, and thereby prolongs the ordinary seven years of preparation to a period of ten or twelve years. This Society aims to prevent in the student such an extension of hist preparatory course, by helping him to bear the necessary expenses of his education. Its ordinary grants have been $75 per year. This is not, indeed, a luxurious sum, yet thousands have found in it a timely relief from an otherwise unsupportable strain. A large proportion of our ministers in the last sixty years have had personal experience of this relief. Without it many of them could not have found the necessary means to pursue a course of ministerial study, and therefore would not. have been numbered in the list of the ministerial servants of the Church. Without this aid there might have been lost to the ranks of the ministry, an Anderson and Bacon and Badger and Bliss and Burton, a Goodell and Greene, Hatfield and Hitchcock, a Leavitt and Manning and Perkins and Pike and Powell, a Schneider and Shepard and Smith and Sturtevant and Todd; and others with them-a great multitude who now rest from their labors, and their works do follow them. Nay, without this aid there might have been wanting in our list the names of a large proportion of our most efficient and distinguished living ministers, whether in this land or foreign lands. The demands for such men are greatly multiplying, and these demands must be met, else the harvest, which is plentiful almost beyond a parallel, will remain ungathered because the laborers are few. Let pastors and churches earnestly pray for the young men, that they may open their eyes to the grandeur, as well as solemnity, of the present opportunity; and so far as they are in need of pecuniary assistance, let. the hands of the Lord's people be prompt and liberal to supply the lack. Appointments in December, 1888. Not in commission last year. Adams, Frank H., Susanville and Merrillville, Cal. Baxter. Thomas G., Kalkaska and Excelsior, Mich. Brintnall, Loren W., Steilacoom and Lakeview, Wash. Ter. Burrows, Edwin B., Missionary work in Mo. Elliott, William A., Coral and Sand Lake, Mich. Huestis, Charles H., West Point, Neb. Kilburne, William, Chase, Mich. Millar, Henry G., Argentine, Kan. Rood, John S., Gaylord, Mich. Swim, John Q., Carthage and Esmond, So. Dak. Turner, Benjamin R., Gritzland, Rotate and Vrooman, Harry C., Sycamore, Kan. Avery, Holly H., St. Francis. Kan. Billings, Charles S., Evangelist in Neb. Foster, Richard B., Cheney, Jewett, and Rago, Fowler, Olin L., Christopher, Wash. Ter. Harrison, Hiram B., Cannon City, Minn. Lyman, Albert T., Alexandria and Burton, So. Milligan, John A., Omaha, Neb. Packard, Milan, Sinclairville, N. Y. Pipes, Abner M., Deming, New Mex. Power, John G., Springview and Enterprise, Rouse, Fredk. T., West Superior, Wis. Sanders. Franklin P., New London, Rochester, and Fitchville, Ohio. Schaerer, John, Crete, Neb. Schenerle, Gottlieb, Parkston, Zion, Friedensfeld, Hoffnungsburg and Legenthal, So. Dak. Smith, John H. B., Enterprise and Detroit, Mich. Swab, Elias F., St. Louis, Mo. Taylor, Horace J., Anacortes, Wash. Ter. Waldo, Levi F., Hersey, Mich. Wallace, Stryker A., Billings, Mon. Watson, William H., Valley Springs, So. Dak. Debt, by R. S. Chase Haydenville, by C. D. Waite.. Holden, by W. H. Flagg. Lancaster, L. A. C.... Greenfield, S. O. Lamb, a Christmas gift A. G. L., $10; Mrs. A. G. L., $5.. Greenwich, H. M. Woods, by C. F. Woods Groton, Mrs. Mary M. S. Spaulding, Hadley, Russell Ch., M. C... Hatfield, S. S., $27; Mrs. E. A. Hub bard, $5, by E. A. Hubbard.. Haverhill, Mrs. Samuel Chase, for Lanesville, W. L. Saunders.. 1.00 Longmeadow, A Friend... 5 00 Lowell, F. S. Hart.. Pawtucket, R. A. Gage, $50; Mrs. R. B. Gage, $10.. 60 00 5 00 Received by F. T. Jarman; 80 00 E. F. Morris. 150 00 Mrs. C. W. Holmes, Jr., special.. Mt. Hermon, Prof. H. E. Sawyer. Newburyport, Miss Anna P. Bassett. Mrs. E. D. Tappan Newtonville, Mrs. H. M. Ware. North Adams, Mother and Daughter Northampton. Two Friends. 20 00 25.00 9 38 2.00 2.00 75.00 5 00 Northboro, add'l, by C. A. Lawrence Oxford, First Ch., by W. E, Pease.. Peabody, Mrs. L. W. Thatcher, for Debt 5.00 50 00 10 00 Petersham, Miss S. Goddard. 40 Pittsfield, Mrs. Harriet A. Campbell, $50; Miss E. Campbell, $25; Miss G. Campbell. $25. 100 00 Mrs. H. M. Hurd 10 00 Providence, Beneficent Ch., by E. CONNECTICUT-88,184.61; of which Legacies, $1,040.00. Miss. Soc. Conn., W. W. Jacobs, Tr., by Rev. W. H. Moore, Sec New Haven, Dr. S. H, B Received by Mrs. S. M. Hotchkiss, Fairfield, Ladies of Cong. Hartford, Miss C.A. Jewell, Huntington, Ladies' H. M. 75.00 11.00 4.40 411 98 $5.00 10.00 15 00 $100 00 18 28 100 00 710 65 00 by Mrs. E. T. Darling.... 88 00 290 38 South Easton, James Rankin. South Hadley, Mount Holyoke Sem. Teachers and Pupils, by Sarah H. Melvin.... South Royalston, Second Ch., by A. Blanchard. 9.00 Bethlehem, by W. R. Harrison.. Birmingham, J. Ewen.. Bridgeport, Second Cong. S. S,, by E. W. Marsh ....... Boys' Mission Circle of South Cong. Ch.. for Mo. Pelt Fund, by C. W. B. Everett. Mrs. Abby J. Baldwin, to const. Mrs. G. M. Jewett a L. M Broad Brook, Cong. S. S., by W. H. Thompson Collinsville, by J. S. Hath Cong. S. S., by C. S. Jenkins. Connecticut, A Friend. M. E. F. Coventry, Mrs. B. T. Preston.. Danbury, Benev. Fund, First Ch., by H. Williams 22.00 42.00 50 00 3.00 50 00 272 84 20 00 Canton Center, W. G. Hallock, special 10.00 31.25 10.00 40 100 00 10.00 239 98 Second Ch., by L. P. Treadwell.. Deep River, by L. Kellogg .. 11 25 30 70 quet, for Debt. 1.40 East Haddam. Ch 100 00 Wenham, Ch., by Rev. S. Sheldon.. West Boylston, C. T. White... A. S. Kellogg 1.00 10 00 Mrs. H. A. Perkins. 1,000 00 Salisbury, by Rev. J. C. Goddard.. Saybrook, Two Sisters. Seymour, Catechumen Circle, by Rev. T. E. Davies. Shelton, J. Tomlinson, for Debt. Stratford, Mrs. C. S. Booth, special. Suffield, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Phelps, $10; Mr. and Mrs. N. Price, $5; Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Price, $10; James, Willis, Charles, Lillian, 25c. each, $1.... Terryville, by Rev. W. F. Arms. Thompson, by Rev. W. G. Puddefoot Torringford, A. E. B., for Debt, for Mo. Pelt Fund. Miss J. E. Wheeler, by Rev. L. Perrin, D. D 25 00 5 00 25.00 75.00 2.00 7:00 12 00 10 00 85 00 78.00 26 00 10.00 18.67 1 00 4.00 Miss M. A. Hall 550 Milford, E. B. Platt 5.00 Unionville, A Friend 5.00 Millington, Ch., A Friend, $5; others, 60c., by Rev. G. L. Edwards.. Monroe by Rev. J. W. Hartshorn.. Nepaug, Mrs. R. M. Butler. Vernon, by E. C. Chapman. 15.00 New Britain, special coll., by W. H. Hart, to const. T. W. Wilbor and F. N. Stanley L. Ms. West Haven, Ch., special coll., for Debt, by W. H. Tallmadge. 60 00 Mrs. E. C. Kimball 5.00 104 39 New Haven, First, add'l., by F. S. Bradley.... Center Ch., Mrs. E. R. Marvin.. 10.00 5.00 Wethersfield, R. S. Griswold, $25; Mrs. T. Griswold, $5.. 30 00 |