Uiinoas  cannot  be  maintained  without  funds,  and  our  Churches
voaJd  need  to  be  much  more  alive  to  their  privilege  and  responsi-  ^**f^'"  ^^^
bility  in  the  matter  of  giving,  if  ever  we  are  to  dispense  with  ..^^^
eoUectoT&  How  thankful  we  might  be,  were  we  even  at  the  point
that  collecting  and  contributing  becomes  a  means  of  grace  to  both  partiee  t
Let  VM  aim  at  this.  And  meanwhile  let  us  prize  the  sorvicos  of  that  great  com-
pay  who  have  toiled  as  collectors  for  years  together,  and  have  borne  and  had
pttience,  and  for  Christ's  sake  have  laboured  without  fainting.  Of  these,  the
namenae  majority  are  women  ;  whether  the  work  for  which  they  collect  be  for
their  own  sex  or  not.  May  I  not  also  say  that  some  of  the  most  liberal  oontri-
JHitors,  according  to  their  means,  are  women — especially  poor  women  ;  though
in'tfiia  we  have  all  doubtless  much  to  learn.  If  w«  cannot  dispense  with  funds,
utUwr  can  w«  do  vrithout  that  living  peraonal  sympathy  which  is  more  generally
daracteristic  of  women  than  of  men,  partly  because  the  former  have  more
leirar«  and  more  interest  in  details.  Least  of  all  can  prayer  be  dispensed  with.
Who  can  tell  bow  much  of  the  success  or  failure  of  Missions  depends  on  the  rising
or  filing  at  home  of  that  spiritual  barometer  of  which  prayer  is  the  exponent?

Let  na  be  thankful  that  ways  are  open  by  which  every  member  of  the  Church,
jwmg  or  old.  rich  or  poor,  male  oir  female,  she  who  tarries  at  home,  aa  well  as
^that  publish  the  Gospel  abroad,  may  be  a  fellow* worker  with  the  Lord  Jesus
Chriat  in  saving  a  lost  world.
