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Indispensable to everybody desiring a proper knowledge of our Home Mission Work. Send for our Home Mission Map, 7 x 11 feet; cloth; price, $3.00, postage paid. Pennsylvania Railroad System THE STANDARD RAILROAD OF AMERICA. Fastest and most direct route to CHICAGO, ST. LOUIS, CINCINNATI and the WEST. The only four-track line leading out of New York City. PERFECT TRAIN SERVICE. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Single Copies, 50 Cents per Year. Clubs of Ten, 45 Cents per Copy. Clubs of Twenty, 40 Cents per Copy. Clubs of Forty and over, 1832. The American Baptist Home Mission Socięty. 1896. The General Missionary Organization of American Baptists for the Evangelization 1. MISSIONARY. -) $600,000 needed Annually. (—————— 2. EDUCATIONAL. OFFICERS: PRESIDENT.-H. K. PORTER, Esq., Penn. VICE-PRESIDENTS. 3. CHURCH EDIFICE. SE. M. VAN DUZEE, Esq., Minn. TREAS.-J. GREENWOOD SNELLING, Esq., N. Y. JOSEPH BROKAW, Esq., N. Y. AUDITORS.- EDGAR L. MARSTON, Esq., N. Y. COR. SECRETARY.-REV. THOMAS J. MORGAN, LL.D., N. Y. E. T. HISCOX, D.D. In charge of Church Edifice Work, GENERAL SUPERINTENDENTS OF MISSIONS. The French in N. E.-Rev. J. N. Williams, 22 Arch St., The Germans.-Rev. G. A. Schulte, 3201⁄2 Webster St., The Indians.-Indian and Oklahoma Territories.-Rev. J. GENERAL MISSIONARIES. W. Virginia. Wisconsin.-Rev. D. W. Hulburt, Wauwatosa. North Dakota.-Rev. W. L. Van Horn, Fargo. South Dakota.-Rev. T. M. Shanafelt, D.D., Huron. Kansas. Rev. E. B. Meredith, Topeka. Ind. and Ok. Territories.-Rev. L. J. Dyke, Lawrence, Ks. E. Washington and N. Idaho.-Rev. A. M. Allvn, Oregon.-Rev. Gilman Parker, 162 Second St., Portland. SECRETARY OF BOARD. Philadelphia District.-Southern N. J., Pa., Del. and D. C.-E. B. Palmer, D.D., Harrison Bldg., cor. 15th and Market Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. Rev. E. H. E. 4. Lake District.-Mich. and Ohio. 6. Chicago District.-N. Ill. and Wis.-Rev. J. B. 8. Missouri River District.-Iowa, Nebr. and Ks. GENERAL MISSIONARIES (Colored). Alabama.-Rev. R. T. Pollard, Selma. Kentucky.-Rev. P. H. Kennedy, Henderson. North Carolina.-Rev. C. S. Brown, Winton. Virginia.-Rev. J. Madison Young, Richmond. LEGACIES. Form or Bequest to the Society."I give and bequeath to the American Baptist Home Mission Society, formed in New .......for the general purposes of said Society." York in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-two, the sum of............ Be very careful to comply with the requirements of the law in making your will. A BETTER WAY, The Society will receive your money,now, giving a bond for the payment to you of an annuity during life, if you so desire it. Communications relating to the work and general affairs or the Society, should be addressed to Rev. T. J. Morgan, Corresponding Secretary. In the transmission of funds, all Checks, Drafts and Post Office Orders should be made payable to the order of the "American Baptist Home Mission Society," and addressed to J. G. Snelling, Treasurer. Contributions may also be sent to the several District Secretaries. Headquarters of the Society: CONSTABLE B'LD'S, 111 Fifth Ave., New York City. DH THE BAPTIST ** БOME * MISSION & MONTHLY. VOL. XVIII. OCTOBER, 1896. EDITORIAL. No. 10. cult to borrow money with which to meet maturing obligations. In many instances banks are refusing to loan money to anybody, on any kind of security. The Society, in company with all borrowers, is embarrassed and distressed by this condition of things-a condition for which it is in no proper sense responsible. THE HOME MISSION MONTHLY is not in any sense a political organ, and there has been scrupulously excluded from its pages everything which it was thought might offend even the weakest of its readers. We are sorry to say that one copy of the September number has been returned to the office, with an order for discontinuance written with a pencil on the margin of page 297. We are sorry that anybody who | to the Society; either to greatly reduce its has ever been a reader of the MONTHLY can be so easily alienated, and deprive himself of the advantage that comes from the monthly visits of such a magazine. We are glad to say that this instance stands solitary and alone. A REAL CRISIS. The American Baptist Home Mission Society is confronted with a most serious and critical condition of affairs. The panic of 1893 struck the Society a very severe blow, leaving it with a debt, and greatly crippling it in its work. For three years it has struggled heroically, has plead, and hoped, and waited for responses from the churches to enable it to pay its great debt and to carry on its important and complicated work without serious impairment. But the times have continued to be exceptionally hard, the receipts from the churches are not sufficient to meet the current obligations of the Society; the debt, $100,000 at the close of the fiscal year, last April, now exceeds $130,000, and is steadily increasing; and, owing to the peculiar financial conditions obtaining in the country, it is becoming more and more diffi There seem to be only two courses open expenses by radical retrenchment in its work, or by a speedy and large increase in its receipts. Retrenchment means retreat, and, in many cases, irretrievable disaster. To falter now is to fail in gathering the fruits, of a harvest ripening for the sickle. The Society is loath to inaugurate such a retrenchment as will bring discouragement to mission churches, distress to missionary pastors, and serious interruption to a work so important, so urgent, so hopeful and so suc-. cessful as that which, under the Providence of God, it has been permitted hitherto to carry on. At the meeting of the Board of Managers, held Monday, September 14, the following preamble and vote were unanimously adopted: WHEREAS, The American Baptist Home Mission Society, at its Anniversary in May, 1896, adopted a recommendation made by the Committee on Finance, for a reduction of appropriations at the end of the year 1896 to the measure of its income; therefore, it is Voted, That no appropriations for missionaries' salaries be made for the present for a period extending beyond December 31, |