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220 Our Views of Mission Work.to train a man to take up and carry on thiswork. Shall thia state of things be pt-rmittedto continue ?2. Female miaaionarlea ahould be added tothe force. Tbe opportunities for work inII. Our second crucial question inquiresinto tbe management of the property and financesin the mission field. This question isas difficult as it is practical. Misaion workinvolvea large financial intereata. Suitablehomes are rapidly multiplying. Few sermons buildings must be erected, and this means theare ao effective aa the face to face and heart to purchase of land and material and the employmentof labor. heart appeal of an earneat Christian woman*The operation of tbe evangel-pleading with her aiater in the calm atmoa iatic work is itself also a matter of businesa.phere of the houaehold. In thia department of After everything possible has been done byevangelistic effort, native married women the business management at home, there remainscan render excellent aervice. a heavy burden of finanoialreaponaibil-One of the beatkinds of mission work is to train native women ity and labor for tbe miasionaries themselves.for suoh service.3. Teachers and scholars in day schoolsTh's whole matter of the management of financesand property in the field needs to b^and Sabbath schools should be engaged in most thoroughly systematized in order that thedirect evangelistic work. Disadvantageous missionaries may be relieved as far aa practicalas tbe circumstances often are in eastern from the mere aervice of tablea and give themselveatowns and villages, there is always opportunityto the miniatry of tbe word. It ia notfor mia&ion-viaiting athouaea of frienda and meet tbat thoae who are aent out to preach theneighbors, and even for good work in the gospel should become mere men of buaineaa, orstreets. All who share in gospel blessings, even largely auch. There are emergenciea, iteven to the little boya and giria wbo are gatheredinto a day scbool, sbould strive to make the labors of the mechanic. And it is well foria true, wh