H. M. Ladd, D.D.
Progress and Needs of the Negro Race: Rev. George W. Moore.
New Mission Churches: Rev. George H. Haines.
Brothers and a Story: Rev. Josiah Strong, D.D.
A Plea for the Chinese Work of the A. M. A.: Rev. J. K. McLean, D.D.

JUBILEE BELL BANK.

The American Missionary Association has prepared a Bell Bank for the use of Sunday-schools, Christian Endeavor Societies, etc., which it is ready to distribute freely on application.

MEETING OF THE WOMAN'S BUREAU.

As usual, the January number of the Missionary is devoted to the addresses and papers delivered at the meeting of the Bureau of Woman's Work, at Detroit, Mich. We are sure our readers will be gratified with the reports which we give of these very telling papers and speeches. They set forth distinctly the work of this Bureau and the needs and prospects of the various peoples to whom its labors are devoted. The Bureau is commending itself more and more as a valuable assistant in reaching the hearts and moving the sympathies of the Christian women of our churches, thus securing enlarged contributions.

CLIPPINGS FROM FIELD CORRESPONDENCE.

From Allen Normal School, Thomasville, Ga.:

Every year of experience in the work strengthens my conviction of the uncounted value of the work done in the American Missionary Association schools in just the matter of fitting young men and women to go to these country places, to carry to the multitudes of their own race, whose lives are miserably darkened by ignorance and superstition, the light which they have received.

From Lincoln School, Meridian, Miss.:

God is giving us great encouragement. No year has yet brought us as great pleasure as this in seeing the fruits of our work. Eight of our last year's graduates entered Tougaloo and Fisk. Better than this—for we do not expect the greater part of our pupils will enter higher institutions—more than forty of our students are now teaching. Nearly every school in Kemper County is supplied with teachers from our school. Several of our young men are seriously considering the going as mission teachers into the darkest part of the great Black Belt.

From one of our mountain academies comes the following good message that will interest all the loyal Endeavorers throughout the land:

"Last Sunday at our Young People's meeting a vigorous beginning was made to the organization of a Christian Endeavor Society. Young men active in religious meetings made the move and organized."

The following lines are used in one of the Sunday-schools in Connecticut, which has recently given its birthday pennies to work among the mountain children in the South. Their contribution goes to help provide a building for the Christian instruction of a large number of Highland lads and lassies in Tennessee. We thoroughly appreciate gifts that come with the evident spirit of consecration that accompanies these birthday pennies:

The Chinese.

ENDEAVOR TESTIMONIES.

It seems to me that nothing else should so much interest the friends of our Chinese Mission, as to get glimpses of the inner life, the Christian purposes, the ways of thinking which characterize those whom we report as giving evidence of conversion, and, perhaps, not otherwise can such glimpses be given than by jotting down some of the testimonies borne by them in their Y. P. S. C. E. meetings.

I myself have heard very many such which I have wished I could reproduce in the hearing of those whose gifts sustain our work, but that I may not seem to have gleaned the remarkable ones from the whole field, I will take only those recently reported to me from our Los Angeles Mission by its faithful and efficient teacher, Mrs. Rice. It must be noted that these were all made under the embarrassments attendant upon speaking in English, to them a strange and but half-learned tongue.

1. "I enjoy C. E. very much. When you in trouble, your friend let you have money; when you get money you pay him back. So friends and teachers help us. Now they want us to give few words. They like to know how much I know Christ. Another thing: China never show us the way to Heaven. This country help us. God gave his only Son. We ought to thank Him and give him our words."

2. "If you in strange place and look for hotel, may-be get in bad one; some friend show you good one, be very thankful. Christ show way to Heaven. We be very thankful."

3. "Ten days ago I read in paper—C. E. Society started in China. I felt very glad. When I visited China few years ago, did not know about it. I tell few friends words about great Creator of world. He made everything. He made good and evil. Some people ask me why God make evil. I tell him so people choose. I used to choose evil things, worship idols, and such things. Then I come Mission school, learn to sing; best of all, read Bible, and I read Jesus is the way, the truth and the life, and I choose good. I am glad I know Jesus is the way."

4. An Exposition, Matt. 16:19. "I will give thee the keys," etc. "Don't lose your key. If you lose your key you can't get home. Not take care [i. e. carelessly] I lost my key for P. O. box. Had to ask for another. Have great trouble for lose your key, but if you do, ask your Father in heaven. He give you another."

5. "I will explain how to go to heaven. Remember how I found the way to cook. First I make some cake. I not know how much eggs and how much sugar. Sometimes good and sometimes bad. After while I ask friend all about make cake. He good cook. He tell me how much eggs, how much flour, and how long bake. Then I have no trouble. So ask Jesus how to go to heaven. He tell me and I have no trouble."

6. "We, brethren, go out all day, working hard. When it come night, we all come here to our home [i. e. the Mission House]. It like fader and moder to us."

7. One of our brethren was greatly moved one night over a letter just received from his father acknowledging the receipt of $20, which he had sent in accordance with his custom of remitting regularly toward the support of his parents. His father asked him to send more in order that he might "buy him a new son who would worship ancestors." He said: "I am his only child. My father rather I smoke opium, gamble and drink, only so I give up Jesus and serve ancestors. I am not that way. I never give up my religion so long as I live. I did explain to them to be a Christian very much, but they not want to change. I wish I never got that letter. I do pray much for them. I pray for them every night."

Teachers in any of our missions who succeed in persuading their pupils to speak at the Endeavor meetings in English will all recognize in the above testimonies counterparts of such as they have often heard. I am not surprised to have one of them, who has recently