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Show 1916 Editorial Notes these can be translated into the vernacular and will add greatly to our service. I am sure that some churches and Sunday schools will have such services, especially Christmas services, which they would be willing to donate to the Ahmednagar church and which they would like to think of as being sung out in India. "I want to put in a plea also for the used Victor and Columbia records for use in our schools. The musical ear of the Hindu is not as sensitive as ours, and records that could not be used here in America will be greatly appreciated by the boys and girls of India. "Sunday schools in America do not realize the evangelizing power of the small picture cards in our work on the mission field. One of the Christian Endeavor Societies of our school holds a Sunday school in the school every Sunday afternoon as a part of their responsibility for the work of Jesus Christ. This Sunday school is for non-Christian Hindu children. When possible these cards are given out at this time, and they increase materially the attendance; incidentally, if the cards have a few words from the Bible on them, these words find their way into non-Christian homes; and the seed thus sown has often resulted in the winning of a soul for Christ. "Good, wholesome story books are in great demand in all of our English-speaking schools. The boys and girls read with great enjoyment and profit the simple English story books. "Those contributing music, records, picture cards, and books will be doing real missionary work." REV. JAMES D. TAYLOR, whose interesting article on "Holiday Work in Africa" was published in And for ja s t October's Missionary Afnca also JJ^^ f o l l o w g i t b y this letter from Impolweni, whose request we are glad to pass on to our readers:- "I believe a great field of usefulness is opening up for magic lantern work during the college vacations, combined with evangelistic work by groups of students. I am very anxious to obtain slides suitable for this work and also money to make possible the employment of students during vacation. Slides on Bible subjects, both Old and New Testament, and on Pilgrim's Progress are what I want for illustrated sermons. And for class work in the college I want, besides those, slides illustrative of church history and slides of general geographical or historical interest. I shall be glad to pay transportation charges on really good slides, and I think I can get the government to admit them free of duty. I have no use for poor quality, rubbishy slides, but good slides on any subject would be valuable in the education of these people. The interest shown and the conversions resulting during my recent trip, and the fact that invitations to visit other stations have begun to reach me, convince me that there is a rich field for that work." OUR fellow-Christians, the Northern Baptists, are a courageous, not to say Five Years a da r m S people. They are and six by no means anchored to Figures a caut i 0us past, but plan large things and attempt them. Their latest adventure, on which they are now well started, is the Five Year Program. It was launched at the convention in Los Angeles last May. The objective is a five-pointed goal, each point of which, with one exception, presents six figures: (1) 1,000,- 000 additions to the churches by baptism; (2) 5,000 new missionaries, home and foreign; (3) $2,000,000 for relief of aged or incapacitated ministers and missionaries; (4) $6,000,000 for educational equipment and endowment at home and abroad; (5) $6,000,- 000 annual income for missions and benevolence. To conservative Congregationalists all this reads like a fairy tale. It is so stupendous a proposal as fairly to take away the breath. But it is being |