feel his personal responsibility and should respond by a great increase
of his contributions for this purpose. It is not too much to say that
the religious influences sent from the North in school, in industrial
training, in the preparation of Christian ministers and teachers, and in
the planting of Christian churches, will well-nigh constitute the
pivotal point of the whole movement. A loss now can never be regained,
but the achievements of the present should be a stimulus for the future.
The North withheld neither treasure nor blood to save the Union and to
free the slave. Treasure and toil will now save the South and the
Nation.

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SOME CURIOUS AND SUGGESTIVE FACTS.

What proportion of the funds contributed by living donors to missionary
societies comes directly from church collections? We presume the answer
from a large majority of the contributors would be, three-fourths or
four-fifths. But the curious fact is, that, for the three years, 1886,
1887 and 1888, the average contributions to the American Missionary
Association from church collections are forty-seven per cent., from
Sunday-schools seven per cent., from Woman's Missionary Societies five
per cent., from individual donors forty-one per cent. It thus appears
that less than one-half the total sum comes from collections in the
churches. Another curious fact is, that these receipts directly from the
churches are uniform, not differing to the extent of three per cent. in
the past three years. So that, with all the importunity and pressure,
the plate collections in the churches have not increased.