The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-04

of the extensions and the calls to cover them is the end of the country, as a homeland call; the ends of the earth as final call. A single Sunday spent by g visitor at well equipped center in the midst of large area of spiritual desti- titution, where there is manly man of God in neat and tasty manse kept by womanly woman of God, hard by neat and tasty house of God that rings morning, noon and night of Gods holy day with soul songs of the ages and with the fervid utterances of the gIo- rious gospel of the blessed God,'' sends the visitor on his way to the spiritually destitute region from which he came, thinking. He is likely to set the neigh borhood on fire with the story of that Sunday He and they will begin to ask at once, why cannot we have a spirit ual equipment like that?" The super intendent for that state is going to hear from that region of spiritual desolation. And so surely is the Church Building society going to hear. And it ought to, if there is genuine need There is no such thing as the best, most efficient, most economical missionary service without complete equipment. It is d good deal more than penny wise and pound foolish to send a missionary fam fly to make gospel bricks without straw; to live when there is no place to live; to preach when there is no place in which to preach.
 The relations of the Church Build ing society to our national and local home missionary expansion as much more than cooperative; they are CO., parental, co-essential. And the law of geometrical expansion applies to the one equally with the other.
 Take note of that royal man of God, Rev. Reuben Gaylord, sent by the Home Missionary society in November, 1856, to Omaha, Neb. The one Congre- gational church organized that year by him in that little clump of houses on the bluffs, has become the mother of seven Congregational churches in Oma- ha, with a combined membership of 1,170, and scores of other churches all over Nebraska.
 Go with Rev. Charles Seccombe to St. Anthony Falls, in 1851 The one church organized by him in that year has grown to nineteen in the goodly city of Minneapolis. Their combined mem bership is 4,155 The one church or ganized in St. Paul in 1858 has spread out to eleven, with combined roll of 1897.
 Chicago. the largest city but one in the country had one Congregational church in 1851. Three days ago (we have not heard since then) they had seventy-one Congregational churches, with a combined roll of 13,047.
 Fourteen full years is as long as any living officer of any one of these four societies has held his present position. Take two of them as examples. The average number of missionaries em- ployed by the Home Missionary socie- ty during the first fourteen years of it's work was about 543. The average number during the last fourteen years was about 1,727. The average annual receipts of the Home Missionary socie- ty for the first fourteen years were about S61, ,9S2. 21 The average annual receipts for the last fourteen years have not been far from 574,324O5. The aver age annual receipts for the Church Building society during its first four | teen years were s17, ,503.1S. The average annual rceipts for the last fourteen years have been about sevenfold, S12s,