would bring in larger direct returns than the expenditure of only a small sum, say $25 or $50 to begin with, in the purchase of a carefully selected missionary library for the use of the pastor and congregation. Each year some new books could be added, at very little expense. It would require, in many cases, only a suggestion to induce a women's society, or a young people's society, or the Sunday-school, to furnish the required sum. In selecting the list of books given in the appendix, our endeavor was to furnish some suggestion in this direction. g. Prayer for missions. This is mentioned last, not as though it were the least important and essential of the forces that are to be applied for the fostering of missionary life, but because it is regarded as the cap-stone of the whole structure, the crowning force and vitalizing fervor of all effort in this direction. Omission of believing prayer and coldness in prayer must needs entail failure at every point. When the spirit of prayer departs, there follows of necessity spiritual decline and decay. Pastors who are so often. called upon to pray in an official and professional capacity may nevertheless need to remember and heed the advice of one who said, "Often pray for the gift of prayer.” “One topic of supplication," writes Dr. A. C. Thompson, "should be an enlargement of desire, hope and faith commensurate with the scope of Scriptural promises." Surely we cannot too earnestly or too often ponder, repeat, imbibe and pray over the direction which our Lord gave to the disciples: "Wait for the promise of the Father;" "Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high." 1 Mason, Student and Pastor. Foreign Missions, p. 137. It is with deliberate intent and in view of their preeminent importance and indispensableness for the fostering of missionary life that, in the presentation of ways and means to this end, the divine Word is made to begin and prayer to end the list. All our work, all our fitness, all our force, hinges upon this. sanctified by the Word of God and prayer. Let all other methods and devices, all human plans and arrangements, be brought into subordination to the power of God and the wisdom of God and be permeated with the spirit of absolute surrender to God and of unquestioning reliance upon His might. May He continue to enrich us in all things and bestow upon us every needful gift and grace, that we may "be filled with all the fulness of God." OUTLINES OF COURSES SUGGESTED FOR MISSION STUDY CLASSES AND READING These are planned on the basis of the present MISSION STUDIES. Some of them, rounded out according to topics, will prove too long for ordinary purposes. These may easily be broken up into smaller sections of manageable length, or selections may be made, according to circumstances. GENERAL HISTORICAL COURSE. Mission Studies, First Part. Auxiliary books suggested: Smith, Short History of Christian Missions; Bliss, The Missionary Enterprise; Gareis, Geschichte der evang. Heidenmission; Dennis, Foreign Missions After a Century; Thompson, Protestant Missions; Strümpfel, Was jedermann heute von der Mission wissen muss; Warneck, History of Protestant Missions, and his Mission in der Schule; Plitt, Geschichte der Ev. Lutherischen Mission; Laury, History of Lutheran Missions. This course may be divided into sections, somewhat as follows: SHORTER HISTORICAL COURSES. 1. Apostolic and Post-apostolic Missions. Mission Studies, chapter II; Martin, Apostolic and Modern Missions; Ramsay, St. Paul The Traveler. 2. The Reformation and Missions. Mission Studies, chapter IV; Plitt, Lutherische Mission; Warneck, History of Protestant Missions. 3. Early Protestant Missions. Mission Studies, chapter V; Plitt, Gesch. der Luth. Mission; Laury, Lutheran Missions; Thompson, Moravian Missions; Grössel, Justinianus von Weltz; Price, Chr. Fred. Schwartz. STUDIES OF MODERN MISSION FIELDS. 1. The Americas. Mission Studies, chapter VII, section 2. North America. Arctander, The Apostle of Alaska; Baierlein, Im Urwalde; Römer, Die Indianer und ihr Freund David Zeisberger; Lives of Brainerd and Eliot. South America. Beach, Protestant Missions in South America; Speer, South American Problems; Guinness, Peru. 2. Africa. Mission Studies, chapter VII, sec. 3; Naylor, Daybreak in the Dark Continent; Blaikie, Life of Livingstone; Richter, Uganda (German); Mackay of Uganda; Gundert, Vier Jahre in Asante; Pierson, Seven Years in Sierra Leone; Merensky, Erinnerungen aus dem Missionsleben in Südost-Afrika; Wells, Stewart of Loveland. 3. Turkey, Syria, and Palestine. Mission Studies, chapter VII, sec. 4; Barton, Daybreak in Turkey; Jessup, Fifty-three Years in Syria; Washburn, Fifty years in Constantinople; Zwemer, Islam, a Challenge to Faith; Wherry, Islam and Christianity-the Irrepressible Conflict. 4. India and the Dutch East Indies. Mission Studies, chapter VII, sec. 4; Richter, Indische Missionsgeschichte; Thoburn, The Christian Conquest of India; Chamberlain, The Kingdom in India; Mitchell, The Great Religions of India; Wörrlein, Geschichte der Hermannsburger Mission in Indien; Baierlein, Unter den Palmen ; Pandita Ramabai; Lives of Schwartz, Carey, and Duff; Wolf, Missionary Heroes of the Lutheran Church; Warneck, Fünfzig Jahre Batakmission in Sumatra, and the same author's luminous work (translated from the German), The Living Christ and Dying Heathenism. 5. China and Korea. Mission Studies, chapter VII, sec. 4; Legge, The Religions of China; A. H. Smith, The Uplift of China, and, Chinese Characteristics; Lives of Morrison, Nevius, Gilmour, and Griffith John; Gale, Korea in Transition. 6. Japan. Mission Studies, chapter VII, sec. 4; Scherer, Japan To-day, and, Young Japan; Clement, Christianity in Modern Japan. 7. The Islands of the South Seas. Mission Studies, chapter VII, sec. 5; Belle Brain, The Transformation of Hawaii; Flierl, Dreiszig Jahre in Wüsten und Wildnissen, and, his Ge denkblatt (Rhenish missions in New Guinea and Australia); Matthews, Thirty Years in Madagascar; Roberston, The Martyr Isle of Erromanga; Autobiography of James Chalmers; Lives of John Williams, Bishop Patteson, and John G. Paton; Paton's Lomai of Lenakel. HOME AND INNER MISSIONS. General. 1. Home missions. Mission Studies, chapters XX and XXI; Morris, At Our Own Door; Clark, Leavening the Nation; Stewart, Sheldon Jackson; Norlie, United (Norwegian Lutheran) Church Home Missions. These have particular reference to the home mission work of their own church bodies, but they also throw light on the home mission problems in general. 2. Inner missions. Mission Studies, chapters XXII and XXIII; Ohl, The Inner Mission; Gerberding, Life and Letters of Dr. W. A. Passavant; Wurster and Hennig, Was jedermann heute von der Inneren Mission wissen muss. Special. 1. City missions. Stelzle, Christianity's Storm Center; Strong, The Challenge of the City; Riis, The Children of the Poor: Battling with the Slums; Warner, American Charities. 2. The Immigration Problem. Steiner, The Immigrant Tide- -a most instructive and fascinating presentation of the subject; Grose, The Incoming Millions, and, Aliens or Americans? 3. Orphanages and other institutions of mercy. George Müller's Autobiography; Hertzberg, August Hermann Francke; Julie Sutter, A Colony of Mercy. 4. Deaconess work. Sister Julie Mergner, The Deaconess and Her Work (translated from the German); Hanna Rhiem, Hinter den Mauern der Senana. BIBLICAL STUDIES. 1. Missionary thoughts in the Gospels. Mission Studies, chapter XII. Studied in sections, parts being assigned to dif |