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Mission Monographs. 179church wUl assuredly make a successful mission- mands. Our duty is to discern the grand opary.Let us therefore pledge ourselves to pray portunity of the present, and to plan and labordaily for this new worker, and for all the labor- for the discharge of the responsibility it involves.ers whom the Lord in answer to prayer hath sent Duty neglected now cannot be done then. Shallforth into his harvest. Amid the perils and we not then bind ourselves and the church wetrials of missionary life, few things wUl give him represent to enlarged interest and increased effortand them greater encouragement, than to know in the foreign mission work ?that they are remembered in every closet, at There are two supreme needs of the hour. Oueevery altar, in every sanctuary of the church, is young men fittedfor the ministry who are will-And for you and for the church may I not also ing to go, ready to lay themselves on the altar ofpledge him and the laborers whom he joins a Christ in the foreign field. And the other islarger interest in the work, a larger sympathy money, larger contributions, more Uberal gifts.with the worker ? Are not these impUed in this The door is open aud wide. The call is loudact ? unceasing, creasing,—Macedonian in its earnest-As the field enlarges and new laborers are nggg^ more than Macedonian in the frequency andsent out our interest should grow deeper, our emphasis o f its repetition. " The harvest truly issympathies broader and stronger. I'o this end great, but the laborers are few." Our duty is plain.there ought to be a larger and freer correspon- c Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest thatdence between the church aud her missionaries, he send forth laborers into his harvest." We haveand all avaUable means of information concern- the men, many young men of promise, fitted,or fifingthe progress and needs of the mission ought tjng themselves for the ministry. 0 that the Lordto be used. Every member of the church ought of missions would put it into the hearts of moreto keep himself abreast of this work ; for you of these young men to go ; that the students ofwill find that ordinarily those members who in- our college and seminary were visited by a spiritform themselves of the condition and wants of of consecration, of readiness to labor in the forthemission are tbe ones who are prompt and eign field ; baptised with the Holy Ghost andliberal in its support. with fire until one and another and anotherThis act of the chnrch is also vfrtually a bond would rise up and say, " I wUl go."given the new missionary that she will provide The Lord called Samuel thrice over and hefor his temporal welfare. His freedom from thought it waa only the voice of Eli. At lengthharassing care, his Uberty to serve Master and the aged priest perceived that it was the call ofmission and church with unaivided attention and the Lord, and instructed him what to do ; andtime is essential tohis fulfillment of the trust his answer to the fourth call was, " Speak, Lord ;we now commit to his hands ; and for this lib- for thy servant heareth."erty he is dependent upon us. He will need lib- Young men, you may have thought that theeral pecuniary support, and we now unite in the oft repeated call of the mission and the churchsolemn agreement that this need shall be promptly was not for yon ; or was only the caU of themet. mission and the church. If not for you, forThus onr Lord is by us sending forth another .^^jjom could it be ? And brethren, is it not timelaborer into that far distant field already white ^^^^^t the church should perceive that this reitertothe harvest. Future years wiU bring other ^^^g^ ^^ji is from the Lord, and should instructand larger demands ; and well wUl it be if the her yonng men to say, " Speak Lord, for thychm-ch is then found ready to meet those de- servant heareth."