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Show The Missionary Herald January On the Honor List soberly and earnestly undertaken. Dean Shailer Mathews is chairman of the committee in charge and Dr. J. M. Moore is secretary. For the next five years, till May, 1921, the united energy of denominational leaders and agencies will be bent on making this campaign a success. Missions reports that enthusiasm is already rising in the Baptist churches and that the very vast-ness of the goal attracts. We wish our neighbors full success in their undertaking. May faith, courage, and devotion prove sufficient to break down all walls of opposition! May the program be matched by the performance! BY oversight the announcement in the November Herald of the Honor List for 1915-thechurches having Missionary Herald clubs of twenty or more members-omitted two names that should have been included: Pomona, Cal., with a club of twenty-four members ; and Holyoke, Mass., Second, with one of twenty members. We should be glad if there were two to be added to this list each month; gladder yet if there were more than two. There ought to be several hundred such clubs. Has your church one ? WHAT do you think of the article in the Home Department of this number entitled, "Missions and Business"? Good, isn't it? Wouldn't it be a helpful statement to scatter widely among our constituency? That is what we think, and we are having the editorial reprinted in leaflet form for wide distribution through the mail or in churches. Send for what you can use. Then there is the leaflet, just out, containing the four addresses made at the New Haven meeting, which appeared in the December Herald under the title, "The Men from the Field." They are very informing and effective sketches, and are also available for general circulation. The men of our churches ought to read and reflect upon what they show. "Four Challenging Facts" is the title of a Some New- Leaflets little card that puts the case in a nutshell; it is designed to be scattered in the pews. President Moore's timely and thoughtful address on the subject of "Missions and War" makes its own appeal to those who feel the pressure of these unsettling times and who are eager to see what remains assured and commanding. The Almanac and the Prayer Calendar are familiar annuals, though better than ever, we think, this year. ALMOST every letter from India now speaks of signs that Christianity is Bigger winning its way to the Things in hearts of the more favored India an(j m o r e influential people. This in spite of the reactionary influences that are also at work in the land, trying to bolster up Hinduism and to hold fast its followers. Quickened evangelistic efforts on the part of the native churches and the missions are calling fresh attention to the gospel and stimulating both the Christian appeal and the response. One who is in the midst of these activities writes as follows: - "We are praying for bigger things for India, and we expect to get them- even beyond our expectations. There are many Brahmans for whom we are praying very definitely. A Mohammedan of intelligence and unusual qualities of leadership has long been convinced that Christianity is the true religion, but when he counts the cost he cannot openly confess himself a Christian. It would mean a brokenhearted mother, an estranged family, the disinheritance of his one son. He is more and more unhappy, however, and has recently gone to talk to one who was himself a Mohammedan and who knows the cost of becoming a Christian where persecution is sure to follow. I believe, we all believe, he will come-and soon. He is the kind of man that can give a reason for the faith that is in him, and his influence would be great. If only those who secretly believe would openly confess, it would mean a great day for India." |