Church at Home and Abroad, The (July - Dec1898) . our people andtheir spiritual life aswell. We are satis-fied that one reasonwhy greater liberalityis not manifested onthe part of our peopletoward foreign mis-sions is because oftheir imperfect knowl -edge of what theChurch is doing. Sucha course we believewould also be very in-structive to our youngpeople. The exhaustedtreasury of the Boardmust be replenished,its contracted workenlarged, the old mis-sionaries who havelong labored alone inmany of the fields,must be men and womenare ready to go if theChurch will sendthem, and God
Church at Home and Abroad, The (July - Dec1898) . our people andtheir spiritual life aswell. We are satis-fied that one reasonwhy greater liberalityis not manifested onthe part of our peopletoward foreign mis-sions is because oftheir imperfect knowl -edge of what theChurch is doing. Sucha course we believewould also be very in-structive to our youngpeople. The exhaustedtreasury of the Boardmust be replenished,its contracted workenlarged, the old mis-sionaries who havelong labored alone inmany of the fields,must be men and womenare ready to go if theChurch will sendthem, and God hasgiven the Churchabundant means tosustain all who are willing to go. The report closes with the following recom-mendations : Resolved, 1. That we reiterate therecommendations of several Assemblies,asking our people to make two offer-ings for the work of this Board during theyear. 2. That in our Sabbath-schools we willseek to develop a greater interest in foreignmissions, and as a means special instructionbe given from time to time of what our. Persian Dervish. Church is~doing in foreign lands, and theresponsibility of the children to aid in thiswork, especially one Sabbath at Christ-mas time be observed as a missionary Sab-bath with appropriate exercises and giftsfor the Lords work in foreign lands. 3. That all our pastors and churches,however small, be urged and entreated as aduty they owe to this cause and a privilegeas well, to increase their contributions by atleast twenty per cent, over last yearsgifts. Dr. W. A. P. Martin. The publishedstatement that a uni-versity had been or-dered in Peking asone of the measuresof progress and re-form, with Dr. W. Martin as joint andcoordinate presidentwith a Chinese gen-tleman, is is some dangerthat the scheme mayfail through the op-position made by con-servatives to all thechanges proposed bythe emperor, thoughthere is some guaran-tee in the fact that LiHung Chang repre-sents a compromiseposition between thespi
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