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


 that has not felt either the direct or reflex influence of the lines of effort here united. Representing and combining these movements, the Congregational Education society, having added vastly to the strength of the Congregational pulpit expanded and extended widely the power of Christian education, and eXerted a direct and powerful influence in the abatement and overthrow of sub tie forms of superstition, has a right to ask from the churches it has served so long and we'll their hearty confidence and their increased benefactions.
 The appropriations for the next year will soon be completed, and curtail- ment will be forced upon the society, as the months pass through the summer and autumn, if it be not borne upon the hearts of its friends and made the re- cipient of large and steady gifts. The work which Eliphalet Pearson and his associates, and that which Edward Beecher and his associates, and that which Charles C.. Hammond and his associates planned, are nowhere com- plete, More sacrifice and more toll are requisite If their faith and their effort
 
 come into their labors, the present friends of their work should not fall to sustain, enlarge and finish it.
 When a society has reached it's eight ieth birthday, with an honorable record, in the full vigor of successful work, and amid needs as great as have ever eX- isted In it's history, it will doubtless be conceded that it has, by virtue of it's services and opportunities. the right to ask birthday gift from each of it's nu- merous friends.
 Our appeal is to many brethren who worthily fill Congregational pulpits, to many individuals who are quick to re- spond to pressing demands for the means to carry on the great cause ot Christian education, and to many churches, societies and Sunday schools, whose spirit is that of the New Eng land fathers; and we ask whether they will not gladly aid in signalizing the eightieth year of the life of the society by gift of fifty dollars each. A debt, large for the society, has &C., cumulated in the late trying years. Ap- propriations have also been reduced, and some important schools have been closed. w. do not believe that the friends of the society will allow it to be permanently crippled, and therefore present for signature the following form of gift, to which we solicit many sub scriptions:
 The undersigned will pay the treas ury of the Congregational Education society, in convenient installments, the sum of fifty dollars in recognition of it's eighty years of Christian service. ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO. Concerning Arizona and New Mexico Rev. E. H. Ashmun, Albuquerque, su- perintendent, said:
 The contributions from this mission ary district have been $355.70. Eleven missionaries have been employed dur ing the whole or part of the year in connection with fourteen churches and stations Ten Sunday schools report a membership of 672.
 Superintendent Ashmun says: The years work has been characterized more especially by plans and efforts to get the churches in shape for more eff fective work than anything else, per haps, though taken as whole, satisfac- tory results have been secured.
 The Mexican work has been enlarged somewhat by the opening of a new school at San Mateo. This is entirely under the management of the educa- tional society. but I look after it's in terests as well as may be. The need of increase in this work is very pressing We are losing every day that the work is compelled to go on without an in crease in the working force. It is inn perative. We need two more men for the places alread entered, to say noth- ing of the open doors which we might enter at once if we had the money. What are American Christians think ing of that they allow these thousands of American citizens whose votes are as potent as those of their American neighbors, to go on without Christian izing or educating. For without Pro- testant schools and missions the most of them are without adequate educa- tional opportunities and virtually with out any religious instruction. l should mention in this connection the fact that Mexican work has been opened in Tempe by Rev. Stephen Ed wards, who has other means of gaining a livelihood, and so is putting in what time he can spare in this work without remuneration, the Y. P. s. C. E. of Tempe furnishing the necessary sup plies. The beginning has just been made.
 During the year covered by this re- port the churches of this field, which were formerly united in one association have separated themselves into two bodies, the Arizona Congregational as sociation, and the New Mexica Congre- gational association. This is greatly to the advantage of the churches, as owing to the great distances they were prac- tically barred from getting together in ! one body.
 THE CONGREGATIONALISTS"
 PILGRIMS"
 The Columbia, of the Hamburg American line, takes out this week on Thursday, June 4, half hundred pas ed under the auspices of the Boston Congregationalist to travel through England and Holland for six weeks of the present summer There are many points of interest in both of those coun- | tries associated with the rise and growth of the Congregational denomi- nation; among them are Plymouth, OK ford, Scrooby, Norwich, London and Leyden. The National Council of Con- gregational Churches has heartily in- dorsed this project and appointed at its meeting in Syracuse last autumn a committee of prominent men to repre-