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92 INTER-SEMIN.\RY MISSIONARY ALLIANCE.this Alliance composed of one member from each of the seminarieswhere a missionary is supported either in whole or in part, this committeeto be increased by a. representative from the seminaries whichshall take up Ihe work In the future. Such a committee can be immediatelyformed. Including Princeton, Alexandria, Allegheny U. P.,Union Semiuary of Virginia, Xenia, Reformed Seminary at Lancaster,Pa., Rutgers, Oberlin, and Union,of New York. Thatothers will undoubtedlybe added next year, and that such a work can be successfulto 8. very large extent can be readily seen from the following bird'eeye view of the seminaries not yet mentioned from whom word wasreceived.Auburn (Presbyterian), with fifty·three students and six volunteer.thinks that all the students will give to such &n enterprise, and h o pe ~to ~ucceed.. It raised $71 f~r missions last year. Chicago (CongregatIOnal)With 100 students, Will also co-operate. )Iissionary collec.tlOns, 1150. (Crozer Baptist), with fifty students and two volunteersthinks that all wO~ld help, and so it may be classed among the hope:ful nnes. CollectIOns $100. Drew (Methodist), with 100 . tudents andteo volunteers, thinks all will give, and hopes to support a misSionary.Hartford (Congregational), with thirty-five students and ten volunteersth.iDk~ all wil~ be interested, and it will co-operate. Missionary con~t"butlons, $~36. Gettysburg (Lutheran), with forty-six students,thlDks that III co.nnection with the college at least $500 can be raised.Bos~on (Methodist) ~xpressed its strong hope that it might be able tobegIn thiS work, while Western (Presbyterian) of All hth t 't.s S' I ' eg eny, reports, a I enlor c ass has subscribed $200 and they will push the matter.): ale, w,ith 116 students, opposes the idea, because the majority oftheolo~lCal student~ are poor, and as many are receiving help fromeducatIOnal boards, It would almost seem like ' , .funds. There is no time in the narrow limits a OmflStah~proPflatflOn h Ofld ' " . IS paper or t econs eratlOn of obJectIOns 10 detail but it may b 'd . 1hI 1 1 e sal 10 rep y to thisreasona e p ea that students should treat this matter as part of theirnecessary expen~es, Stude~ts nearly always manage to have mODeleft for sight-seeing and soclsl demands, why should not at least o n~or two per cent. of the total Sum of their neceSS8r .to the Lord's work'il Aft 11' r y expenses be gIvenreceive is borrowed mone~~ i: i~ ~h:i~eO!:I~n~a:h:en etlCi8ry st~d e nt !iuse a small proportion of it in this \Va . ' ' .y have full nght tofrom the Board, they cannot but feel t~~tl[t It IS an tnconditioned giftmeet that a tithe of It be brought into Ills" ctomehs rom the Lord andTb ' Sore ouse"e finanCial side of the missionsr. 'lelU'lllng la not the only one. Greater thun ;h~~e:~~~ .I~ Our sc~oOls ofwith it. must go the work of enlistin an ' . . Jolnmg hand In handAathe cap8heaftothe remarkable WO~k o~ ~?anlZl;g volunteer bands.a year 01' two ago, there met tn an inf lessrs. orman aud ' Vilder,arm a way this Summer at Mr.•SE},UNAUY ANJ) COLLEOE SUPPORT OF MIBSIONAR[ES. 931I100dy's school at Northfield, a sort of Advisory Board composed ofsuch men as lIIr. Me Williams of Brooklyu, Mr. Elbert B. Monroe ofNew York ADd others, to use means of conserving, increll8ing andperpetuating this voluDteer movement. They have already engagedMr. Wilder to make the tour of coUeges during this year to organizethe volunteers into baDds for mutual hel pfulness and growth, and expectto employ an executive secretary to attend to the correspoodf'oceand office details. Whether the expenses of this board, amounting to perhaps$4,000 annuaUy, should be supplied by friends of the cause, orwhether the money contributed by undenominational schools to missionsshould be applied in this way, is an open question. Against thelatter alternative is the fact that such funds could be devoted to theChina Inland :Mission which is undenominational, or in paying theexpenses of Christian teacher8 to Japan. Be that dE>cided as it may, aconsultation with Messrs. Ober and :Matt, the International Collegesecretaries, left no question in the mind of the writer that the onlyW tly to hope for permanent and wide-spread financial results is to developand foster the volunteer interest. Thus the whole scheme willbe complete. A Central Advisory Board of representative men of differentdenominations for general supervision, giving thought to financial88 well as vol unteer interests, a state committee to further the interestsin each state, as well as a local committee in each college-thiswill mak e a complete organization, which, under God, will accomplisha great work.It is a reason fo r great congratulation that with the exception ofthe American Board, which takes issue on the ground of the povertvof students and a seeming misconception that the colleges are to workapart frOID the boards, all the boards heard from express themselves ashf'artily favoring and anxious to further the scheme. The Rev. Dr .. J.O. Peek, representing his board, writes : II In behalf of the MethodistEpiscopal Church we wi. h you God-speed. We have 125 young menanrl WOIDeD already applying to us ~or work in the foreign field." Saysthe Rev. Dr. George Scholl of the Evangelical Lutheran Board," There are fe w even among beneficiaries who could not spare one centa day for this Christly work of Evangelizing the world." The Rev.Dr. J . B. Dales of the United Presbyterian Board -writes: liThe movementis truly a noble one. Only let it be fully brought before the studentsof our colleges and seminaries, and I am c .... nfident it will beheartily responded to." Letters of unqualified endorsement were alsoreceived from the Rev. Dr. H. M. Houston of the Presbyterian Board(South), the Rev. A. R. Bartholomew of the Reformed Board, the Rev.Will iam blcKee of the United Brethren Board, and the Rev. Dr. H.N. Cobb of the Dutch Reformed Board. In the Rev. Dr. lIIurdock'.absence, the recording secretary of the Baptist )Iissionary Unionseeds a friendly though non-committal reply. The Presbyterian Board