for $7,500 for the year of 1892. This is $500 in advance of last year. We fell behind nearly $2,000 in 1891 among our children, simply because in many of our churches no one could be found to lead the children in the work in which they longed with childlike enthusiasm to have their part. But in spite of this falling off, we venture to ask for an increase of $500 because of the great necessities of the work and the unusual prosperity of the country. We must put many new missionaries in the field this year, and our bands will wish to do their utmost to assist. What can we do? First, we can place the pressing needs of the work before our children with definiteness and enthusiasm. We can increase our own pledges by some additional act of self-sacrifice, thus setting the children an example and enlarging our own heart life. We can try different methods of raising money, studying the peculiar difficulties of our own band, and adopting that which seems most efficient for our work. We can, most of us I am sure can, adopt the "Extra Cent a Day" plan, or, if not, the "Extra Cent a Week" plan. We can add to all this effort, as well as to every individual effort, an earnest prayer for the treasury of the W. B. M. I., and keep alert and active for the treasury of our own band. "These things will we do if God permit." Yours sincerely, MARY D. MILLS, For the Children's Committee. Home Department. STUDIES IN MISSIONS. PLAN OF LESSONS, 1892. February. The Kobe College, Japan. - March.-The Madura Girls' School. April.-The Inanda Seminary; the Umzumbe Home. July.-The Bible in Missions. August.-Prayer in Missions. September.-Thank Offerings. October.-The Bible Reader. November.-The Christian Women of Foreign Lands. December.-Review of the Year. Following the study of "The School as a Missionary Force," in January, we present for four months, as illustrations of this beneficent work, a group of six of the prominent schools sustained by the Woman's Boards located in Japán, India, Africa, and European Turkey. They are schools that have developed through a course of years, and of which the results are increasingly manifest. THE KOBE COLLEGE, JAPAN. Description. If there be not a wall map at hand, a rough sketch of Japan can easily be drawn upon the blackboard beforehand. Let one lady point out Kobe, and give a vivid, brief description of the beautiful situation of the college, overlooking the bay. Preparatory Work. The patient work of overcoming prejudice, and so winning the confidence of the people as to make the school possible, is an interesting chapter in its history, and may be gathered from the early letters of Miss Dudley and Miss Talcott in the Life and Light of 1873 and 1874. Early History.-Read as helps: letters from Miss Dudley and Miss Barrows in the Life and Light, November, 1876, July, 1878, February, 1SS3. "A Word of Cheer from Japan," June, 1883. "The Holy Spirit's Work," September, 1883. "The Great Need," December, 1883. “The Commencement," December, 18S3. Read also in Life and Light, July, 1884, and February, 1886. See also Mission Studies, 1884, June number, February, 1887, May, 1889, "Good News from Japan"; Kobe College, November, 1891. Its Present Condition.-Note: Number of Pupils; Course of Study; Literary Societies and other Literary Work; its Missionary Society. Helps will be found in the Annual Report of the Japan Mission, 1890, and in Mission Studies, November, 1890, and 1891, March, September, October. Its converts. Its graduates. FRUITS. Its outgrowth of schools and Bible work. The Outlook.-What ought it to do for the women of Japan, and through them for the empire? What are its present needs? Helps in preparing all these topics may be found in the February number of Mission Studies, just issued at 59 Dearborn Street, Chicago. Sketches of some of the women supported by the W. B. M. I. who have had a share in moulding this school may be found in Mission Studies: Miss Searle, November, 1886; Miss Barrows, February, 1887; Miss Dudley, March, 1887. THANK OFFERING: Charles City, SPECIAL: Collected by Mrs. E. Ď. Mardin, of Turkey, 17 15 44 00 BRANCH.-Mrs. W. A. Talcott, of Rock- S. SCHOOLS: Griggsville, 12; Rockford, THANK OFFERINGS: Chicago, South Park Y. P. S. C. E.: Chicago, New Eng. Ch., КОВЕ COLLEGE EXTENSION: Chicago, Total, 102 40 69 61 27 00 112 76 27 50 11 00 35 30 FOR MISS LITTLE: Newton Centre, A., 114 45 75 00 BRANCH.-Mrs. C. E. Rew, of Grinnell, Treas. Alden, 1.25; Bear Grove, Friends, 30; Cass, Ch., 10; Charles City, 25; Des Moines, Plymouth Ch., 17.67; Grinnell, 64.85; Jewell, 2.50; Oakland, 2.10; Onawa, 4.05; Osceola, Miss Jennie Baird, 5; Prairie City, Mrs. Lizzie D. Houston, 25, const. self L. M.; Preston, 15; Waucoma, 10, JUNIOR: Durant, 10; Grinnell, Y. L., 13.42; McGregor, C. E., 15, JUVENILE: Alden, Coral Workers,5; Ames, Cheerful Givers, 3.20; Cedar Rapids, Busy Bees, 3.33; Corning, Nickel Planters, 3; Grinnell, Busy Bees, W. Branch, 6.25; Rockford, S. S., 54 cts.; Rockwell, S. S., 2.10, 11.00 11 00 212 42 38 42 23 42 MICHIGAN. BRANCH.-Mrs. Robert Campbell, of Ann CORRECTION: In August LIFE AND LIGHT, 40.10 was credited to the Aux. of First Ch., Minneapolis, which should have been credited to the Y. L. of same Ch. MISSOURI. 140 26 WISCONSIN. BRANCH.-Mrs. R. Coburn, of Whitewater, Treas. Arena, First Ch., 2.90, Third Ch., 9.12; Brodhead, 4; British Hollow, 1, Mrs. E. L. Davis, Birthday Gift, 6; Edgerton, 6.80; Fond du Lac, 15; Fulton, 6.19; Lynxville, 3.57; Milton, 6.49. Mrs. Plumb and Children, 1.05; Oak Creek, 10; Platteville, Birthday Gift of Mrs. Beardsly, 1; Sparta, 7.43; Tomek, 3; Viroqua, 3.64; West Salem, 1.37; Wisconsin, A Student Volunteer, 10, JUNIOR: Kilbourn City,11.90; Lake Geneva, 10; Milwaukee, Hanover St. Ch., 10; Sparta, 6.49, JUVENILE: Evansville, Little Gleaners, 98 56 38 39 3 75 140 70 Rise on the shadowed nations, O Sun of Righteousness! With heavenly revelations The sin-worn peoples bless! Break with Thy radiant splendor, O Glory of our God, With light divine and tender, O Christ, our sky is lighted With beams that fall from thee; Rise thou on souls benighted, Thy light let all men see. Send heralds swift before thee,- Let her, in faith victorious, Come in thy love and might; |