some little children were going from house to house raffling saints' pictures.

The Church of the Saviour Sundayschool is the largest of the three in Rio Grande. Unfortunately, not more than one-half of the pupils appear in the picture. Most of the teachers may be seen in the right-hand arch of the tower. Nearly all of these children are working for the Master. Each Sunday they bring an offering for which they have worked, and present it to Him for His work in Japan.

Just before Christmas they sent to Mr. George C. Thomas, the treasurer, at the Church Missions House in New York, $51.37 for the Church in Japan. All of it was the result of work done by the children for this special object. They were told not to contribute any amount except what had been faithfully

A BRAZILIAN GIRL DRESSED UP TO
REPRESENT OUR LADY OF THE
CONCEPTION. SHE IS NOW
THE WIFE OF ONE OF THE
BRAZILIAN CLERGY

one of the prominent figures at the banquet, for it was all in celebration of her wedding to the Rev. Mr. Krischke. Her name is Dona Maria José Machado Krischke. Her intimate friends call her Zézé.

Brazilian children are much interested in getting money for the Church. Here are two characteristic ways: Today's paper has a long announcement of a children's play to be given in one of the theatres Sunday night for the benefit of a Roman church to be built only a square from our own Church of the Saviour in Rio Grande do Sul. When I was once in São José do Norte, a small village across the river from here, and one of my parishes, our Church people were all discussing the padre's methods of raising money for the Roman church. It was Sunday, and

A BRAZILIAN GIRL DRESSED UP TO
REPRESENT ST. MICHAEL. SHE IS
NOW THE WIFE OF ONE OF
THE BRAZILIAN CLERGY

won by some kind of work done for the Master. To be sure that all were working for what they were bringing I took the trouble to ask frequently what it was that was being done, and almost invariably found that the work was being most faithfully and lovingly done.

I wish I could give a complete list of the many things they do, for which they receive small amounts for their weekly offerings. They go to market, to the stores, cut and split wood, blacken shoes, clean walks, windows and floors, tend the babies at home, make and sell doces (sweet-meats), and a host of other things too numerous to tell.

How I should like to say something about each one of the faces I know so well. Let me choose out just a few. Look at that darkest face of all, to the

left of the centre column. She had an egg once that she thought of selling for her Sunday offering; but she asked her mistress to give her a little sugar, so that she could make some doces to sell. She made the doces, sold them, and brought the result to the Masterjust three times as much as if she sold only the egg. The boys, with wide collars, sitting on the ground, are the sons of one of the members of the Council of Advice,

That little fellow at the extreme right is just as polite as a boy can be. Whenever he meets me in the street, he greets me with a series of sentences like these: "How goes the gentleman? How goes Dona Sarita? How goes George Calvert? How goes the baby? Remember me to your wife. Until we meet again."

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OU have seen a Yule log, but never heard of a log pulpit. One burns to ashes in the fireplace; the other preaches the burning words of Christ's love.

One winter's day in 1905, a giant chestnut log passed my door on its way to the sawmill. Its sound timber, deepgrooved bark and great diameter excited admiration. It looked worthy to become a pillar in the temple of God, as it had been, for more than a hundred years in the cathedral of the woods. A section of the log, five feet in length, was soon landed in St. Andrew's Church yard, and a few days labor of man and boy transformed it into a pulpit. It measured three and a half feet in diameter, and its 105 rings marked its birth in the year 1800, on the Shaker's Farm in Harvard, Mass. Easter, 1905, saw it set up in St. Andrew's Mission Chapel, Forge Village, six miles from Ayer, Mass., and from it ever since has been preached the Gospel of the Holy Child. The old tree's venerable age and durable usefulness mark to the children of the Sunday-school how they may grow up from pliant childhood into the firm faith and Christ-like service of fullgrown manhood and womanhood.

Beside the pulpit, stands another smaller log from an elm tree, which became a font, where many of the children have been baptized into the Christ life and enlisted in our Lord's service to humanity.

So the children see there are other uses of trees in the Church beside the gift-laden Christmas tree, and that it is more permanently blessed to give than to receive, like the old chestnut tree pulpit, and the elm tree font.

Another means of learning usefulness is the Sunday-school garden behind the mission house. Here sixteen boys and girls cultivate flowers and vegetables all summer long, and carry home many

fine basketsful for the dinner tables. The scarcity of garden tools teaches them to be generous and loan what another lacks, and I tell them they are working on the missionary principle. For if we give of our resources to spiritually needy China and Japan, and there grows up there a national Church of Christ, burying the divisions of the Church in America, then what a mighty influence they will contribute to our efforts for Christian unity!

One of our youthful wise men, of four years, who has a younger brother, and older brother and sister, remarked to his mother: "Isn't it harder for 'Four's and Three's' to do what their mother says than for 'Eight's and Ten's'?" On this principle, I thought to myself, If the younger children are doing what their Mother Church says, to the extent of $137,000 in six weeks, for our Lord's work in the world, then how much easier it must be for us "Eighteen's" and "Twenties" and "Forties" and "Fifties" to give what the mother Church asks.

TWO BOOKS FOR YOUNG

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PEOPLE

ARENTS, Sunday-school teachers and other leaders who want to give further and definite instruction about the Church's Mission to their children should equip themselves with two recently published books. Miss Sturgis's The Overcoming of the Dragon (50 cents), is a stirring account of the Christian army in China. Miss Payson's Why Children Here Help Children Far Away. and How They Do It (15 cents) based on the Why and How of Foreign Missions, is written for children under twelve. Both may be ordered from the Educational Department, 281 Fourth avenue, New York. Remittance should accompany order.