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the following months, will not be forgotten
because they were so well remembered in September. One thousand
dollars a day represents our needs for carrying on the work in its
present development.
_Encouraging Responses to our Appeal._
"I would like to send you more, but I send you the last dollar I have
($71.00,) and must trust the Lord for means to support us until my next
month's payment, and for means to go to the meeting of the A.B.C.F.M.,
in case I attend."
"Twenty-five cents of this money was from a woman 82 years old. She
is almost helpless. The family in which she lives is very poor. She has
not a penny that she calls her own. She said to me, 'Here is the widow's
mite. I prayed that the Lord would send me something to give away.
You please take it and send it where it will do the most good.' I send it
to you trusting that with her prayers of faith, it may be useful."

The writer of a letter enclosing a donation of $10 adds in a postscript in
regard to the donor: "Mrs. A---- was born May 5th, 1787, and is an old
contributor."
"I have expended all my appropriation for charitable purposes this
present year, yet I can, perhaps, curtail in some directions and so remit
to you $20 as a small tributary to swell the stream for meeting
indebtedness. I hope your appeal will accomplish the results desired.
"Through abounding grace, my wife and I are once more permitted the
joyful privilege of sending for the general work of the American
Missionary Association, $100 enclosed herewith in draft to your order.
(Their third contribution this year. Ed.) Say to the dear brethren in the
work of the Master: 'Be of good courage, fear not, for I am with you';
His own words enduring forever."
"Enclosed, please find check for $100. I am always glad to be
remembered on special appeals when they are necessary, even if I
cannot help. I do not know that I enjoy anything more than what I am
able to give to the A.M.A. I trust your appeal will find many generous
responses."
"Your kind and thoughtful letter of the 13th, received. It affords me real
pleasure to respond to your call for our Association. The good Lord has
more or less blessed me with opportunity and ability to acquire money,
and may He forbid that I should turn his blessings into curses by
hoarding the gifts of his providence, when the cry of the poor and
down-trodden is heard. I enclose my check for $100 for the cause."
"It is a small contribution, but it comes from a small church. Certainly
it represents a genuine interest in the work of your society and is
accompanied with prayers for its success."
An executor, in remitting a legacy of $500 says: "It is not due
according to the terms of the will till next spring, but you may find it
useful at this time to help out the year."
We have received from Oaks, North Carolina, towards the
extinguishment of our debt, a contribution from forty-nine different
persons, amounting to $5.66. This represents a degree of sacrifice, not
surpassed, perhaps, by any who have contributed. Seventy cents of it
were in cash; sixty-six cents were value in fodder; one dollar and
thirty-four cents in potatoes and corn; one dollar and one cent in work.
The missionary who is ministering to these very poor people says: "If

all who love the A.M.A. would do as well, according to their ability,
your treasury would be filled."

THE MOHONK CONFERENCE.
This Conference is unique in its character, and in the place where it is
held. Lake Mohonk was born in a great earthquake that sunk it in its
solid rocky bed, and piled up around it wonderful ranges of hills and
vast splintered rocks. The splendid summer resort built on the margin
of the Lake is the work of Mr. A.K. Smiley, a man of creative genius,
and of kind manners and a warm heart. The house, or rather the range
of houses, is picturesque, and the walks among the hills and down the
rocky gorges, and the forty miles of excellent roads, give the widest
scope for walking and driving.
The Conference is the invention of Mr. Smiley. To it, he invites
annually a hundred or more guests, giving them the freedom of the
house; and three days are spent in the discussion of Indian affairs,
interspersed with afternoon drives amid the striking scenery. The
invitation is extended to those who are supposed to be intelligently
interested in the Indians; but within that limit there is the freest
range--men and women of all political parties and of all religious
denominations being