was closed with an address by Mr. John W. Wood on "What Others are Doing for Missions." A reception to the delegates and friends, tendered by the Church people of Grand Rapids, was followed by a banquet, at which the council members were the guests of the Churchmen of the city.

The banquet, with its nearly 250 in attendance, was the climax of the council in the interest and inspiration attained. Bishop McCormick proved a most efficient toastmaster, interspersing amusing incidents in his remarks of introduction of the various speakers and yet keeping all at a high level of spiritual earnestness. Dr. Hopkins, Department Secretary, ably presented reasons for the creation of the council, showing the opportunity before the Church to-day at home and abroad, and the necessity of the co-operation of the laymen in the great work to be done. Mr. E. P. Bailey, of Grace Church, Chicago, with the topic, "What Laymen Can Do for the Church," graphically portrayed the development of an idle, worldly Churchman into a devoted, liberal and praying Christian, when such an one gives himself time to think about and learn of the Church's missionary work. He believed the apathy of laymen was due in part to the hard struggle most men in the Middle West had had to make to secure a measure of comfort and independence financially. He felt the time was now at hand when we could do much more in every way for the Church. Mr. John W. Wood spoke on "Missions the Measure of Christian Vitality," and the Rev. Dr. Faber, of St. John's, Detroit, powerfully presented the thought that Christianity alone has given us the highest ideals for all mankind, and it alone has had the power to enable men to attain those ideals.

Very practical papers on "Mission Study Classes" and "How to Reach our People with Missionary Information" were presented Wednesday morning by the Rev. George P. Torrence, of Marion, Ind., and the Rev. Dr. Wilkinson, of

Ionia, Mich. The plan of reading the bulletins from the Missions House to our morning congregations was specially commended.

The last conference session of the council, Wednesday afternoon, was devoted to the topics "The Sunday-school and Missions," treated in a paper by Mr. J. A. Galleher, of Marietta, O., and "Church Schools and Hospitals as Missionary Forces," by Canon Rogers, warden of Grafton Hall, Fond du Lac. The latter's paper provoked considerable discussion and led to the appointment of a committee to consider how the various educational institutions of the Department can be the better correlated, and what can be done to reach the student bodies in the educational centres of the Department. Mr. F. C. Morehouse presented a thoughtful paper on "The Church and the Family."

St. Mark's pro-cathedral was well filled for the closing meeting in the evening, though inclement weather, for the first time during the council, no doubt deterred the attendance of many. After evening prayer there were three stirring addresses. Bishop Webb told of "The Spiritual Resources in Missionary Work," dealing with the Trinity, the Church and her faith and sacraments. Bishop Williams, of Michigan, spoke forcefully of "The Church's Mission to Society.” He thought the Church was largely out of touch with society because she had failed in the past to apply the teachings of Christ to modern conditions, both social and economic. Bishop Anderson closed the addresses with an eloquent presentation of the great "Influence of the Church for Good in the World."

Every diocese was well represented by both clerical and lay delegates, and nine of the thirteen bishops of the Department were present. It was felt that a great uplift had been given to all who came, and that much good would result to the Fifth Department in consequence. The Council will meet in Milwaukee in 1911.

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ROM time to time, as our misary band abroad is recruited by new blood from the home land, THE SPIRIT OF MISSIONS presents to its readers some account of those who are going to the front, and, when possible, pictures of the volunteers. In this issue we introduce to the readers of the magazine a number of new friends, bespeaking for them the sympathetic interest and the sustaining prayers of those at home who, though they may not themselves offer for the mission field, may in many ways render efficient aid to those who go.

To the Alaskan Field

Two volunteers have gone forward to assist our hard-pressed bishop in Alaska. The Rev. Guy D. Christian has undertaken the important work in Nome, a field which has for some time lain fallow for lack of a missionary, and where the lack of aggressive work has proved a great weakness to our campaign in Alaska. Mr. Christian is a southerner by birth. He first offered himself as a lay-worker to Bishop Rowe, who strongly advised him to remain and finish his course at the General Theological Seminary. This he did, adding to it practical parish work under Dr. Huntington in New York, and a year's work among the mountaineers of the Blue Ridge. All this was done with a view to preparing himself particularly for the demands of the Alaskan field. Mr. and Mrs. Christian have now begun effective work in the land where from the first he hoped to serve.

Rev. G. D. Christian

Bishop Rowe has said that the best women in the world are his helpers in Alaska, and the Church surely has

Miss M. C. Graves

is a graduate nurse, who has served in the best hospitals of the East and has had several years' experience in private nursing. All this has contributed to give her an unusually complete training and develop that resourcefulness which is so necessary in a distant and isolated field. It is interesting to note that the Alumnæ Association of the seminary where Miss Graves was educated are making her their missionary. They have not only paid her salary in the field for the first year, but have also raised money enough to send her to her post in Alaska at their own expense.

Recruits for Cuba

No phase of the work in Cuba is more attractive than that carried on in the schools, where the fascinating native children are gathered and taught under the influence of the Church, yet there is crying need for helpers. Two volunteers have recently gone to take

up this work-Miss Miss I. C. Wallace Idress C. Wallace

and Miss Gertrude M. Jones. Miss Wallace is a native of Missouri and re

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Mexico is particularly to be gratulated in that the Rev. A. H. Mellen has chosen it as his future field of service. He is pre-eminently a manly, aggressive and capable missionary, and should do most effective work anywhere, but particularly in a field for which he has been some time preparing. A residence in Cuba of considerable length had given him an excellent working knowledge of Spanish, which will supplement his education received at Hobart College and the General Theological Seminary. He has also had experience both in a country parish and in the work of a great city. He is opening up a work which has long been waiting

Rev. A. H. Mellen

for someone that on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. A brief sketch from his pen appears in the present issue.

Three for Japan

Miss Emma Clara Klemm, from the parish of All Saints, Pasadena, Cal., has gone to the District of Tokyo. She is graduate of St. Faith's Deaconess School, New York, and was set apart as a deaconess in Pasadena before sailing for Japan. She is a trained teacher, having had a university course and experience as a tutor. Deaconess Klemm

will work at Ka- Deaconess Klemm wagoe.

Miss V. Dorothea Carlsen, a native of Massachusetts, is also a graduate of St. Faith's and a deaconess. She has had most valuable practical training in business lines and should prove an efficient missionary. Her work will probably be at Akita in the District of Tokyo.

Miss Alice M. Fyock

The third recruit for Japan goes to Tokyo and will be associated with the work at Sendai. Miss Alice M. Fyock is a graduate of Wellesley and a trained kindergartner, having been kindergarten at the Elm Street Settlement, Chicago, and of a kindergarten training-school. In addition to this she has taken the course of the Philadelphia Deaconess School and goes to the work in Japan with unusual qualifications for that field.

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The Chinese Contingent

China receives by far the greatest number of helpers, this being in part due to the special needs of St. John's University, Shanghai. Mr. Henry James Post, of Williams College, and Mr. Rollin H. Sawyer, an alumnus of Lafayette, go to reinforce the regular

staff of St. John's. Mr. Post began life as a Methodist, but, like many another, came to love the Church through singing as a choirboy. That he practically worked his entire way through school and college speaks well for his pluck and perseverance. His rector says concerning him, "Get all the Harry Posts you can!"

Mr.

H. J. Post

Mr. Sawyer is the son of the Rev. Rollin H. Sawyer, of St. Stephen's, Harrisburg, Pa. He has long intended to make teaching his profession and has decided that his life will count for more if he does his teaching in the mission field and under the auspices of the Church. His bishop says of him that he is a born teacher, of good mind and excellent scholarship.

Two other young men have gone temporarily to St. John's University. They are not under appointment of the Board, but have offered their services to fill vacancies in view of urgent present need. One is Mr. James Thayer Addison, son of the Rev. Charles M. Addison, rector of St. John's, Stamford, Conn.; the other is Mr. Horace Gray, son of Judge Gray, of Boston. Both are members of the class of 1909, Harvard, and are pledged to give a year's service to St. John's. Whether they remain thereafter in the field is a matter for later decision.

There is no work in our mission field more urgent and more effective than that

which is being done in our educational institutions. It should appeal particularly to students who are graduating from colleges in the home land and thus are in a position to realize the value and privilege which is offered by education in a Christian college. The Church appeals to students here for work in behalf of fellow-students abroad.

The Rev. Joseph L. Meade, 2d, from the Diocese of Alabama, has offered himself for the evangelistic work in China. He is a graduate of the University of the South and says that his first adequate conception of foreign missions was received from some Student Volunteer men who came to Sewanee. Previously he had thought that work in foreign lands was largely a waste of time, but with this better understanding of the case he longed to go to China and take his part where the work was hardest and the need greatest. His friends prophesy for him unusual success among young men.

Rev. J. L. Meade

The Rev. Robert A. Griesser, a graduate of Syracuse, and the Virginia Theological Seminary, goes to increase the clerical force of the district of Shanghai. He is of German parentage and was baptized in the Lutheran Church. He has had an excellent musical education and done active work in connection with the Y. M. C. A. and mission study classes. He has also assisted in an important parish and spent a summer in mountain work in Virginia. In 1901 he signed the Student Volunteer pledge and since then has been looking forward to and preparing for missionary service. To his other qualifications he has added a year's work under a physician, which, while it will in no sense qualify him to practise medicine, will assist him very much in helping in emergency cases.

parish and in connection with her technical training elsewhere. Her friends and teachers believe that she has excellent qualifications for foreign work.

The second volunteer for the district of Shanghai is Miss Annie W. Cheshire, the younger daughter of the Bishop of North Carolina. She also has completed a course in the Philadelphia Deaconess School. It is a noble offering which Bishop Cheshire makes to the work of the Church's Mission in giving two daughters to the work in China. Miss Cheshire is greatly beloved by her friends, who unanimously testify to her sweet nature and lovable qualities. She will go to Wusih.

Two young women also go to the work in the District of Hankow. The first, Miss Elizabeth T. Cheshire, the elder daugh

cruit for Hankow is Miss Alice F. Gates, who was born in Massachusetts and reared a Congregationalist. She came into the Church from conviction, and the course which has at last led her to enter the foreign mission field has been marked throughout by sincerity, earnestness, and a conscientious desire to render effective service. Miss Gates is a graduate of the Philadelphia Deaconess School and has been set apart as a deaconess. She will take up evangelistic work in Wuchang.

Miss A. F. Gates

For Work in Honolulu

The important work among the Chinese women at St. Elizabeth's House. Honolulu, which Deaconess Sands was obliged to relinquish, has been taken up by Mrs. E. C. Perry, who was appointed at the September meeting of the Board. Mrs. Perry is a widow and has resided for most of her life in Massachusetts. She has had a large practical experience in many ways and done much in the direction of social service. After the Chelsea fire she was employed by the Associated Charities to take charge of those who moved to Charleston and provide for their relief. of many works in achieved an enviable success. Mrs. Perry, on account of the urgent need at St. Elizabeth's, sailed for her field in advance of her formal appointment by the Board, so sure were the officers that she was thoroughly qualified for the work she has undertaken.

This is only one which she has

Mrs. E. C. Perry