A Student’s Fund of $3,000 is to be raised in $50 shares, upon which we will draw to bring the young people of the mountains into these schools, and to help them over hard places according to their need.  Pupils will be encouraged to help themselves all they can, and no pledges will be made to any until they have reached the limit of their own resources, and no specified amount will be assigned to any one pupil.  Each will be helped according to his condition.  A boy may be able to reach the school and work part of his board and need only a small sum to cover the expense of the full year.  A girl may need to have her traveling expenses paid and only this; another, giving promise of usefulness, may have her full way paid during the year.  Some will be kept through the entire school year, who otherwise could study but a few months.

The training the young people receive in these schools brings a sure reward.  We quote from a letter just received from one of our missionaries: 

“I am very hopeful for the Christian work among the students this year.  The Christian Endeavor Society is in much better condition than last year.  The members understand better the meaning of ‘Christian Endeavor,’ and that being a Christian means a daily application of Christian principles to every day life.”

Now why cannot our Christian Endeavor and Young People’s Societies take this work to their hearts, and thus be the means of preparing others for Christian work?  Why not do for these poor, but bright and interesting American boys and girls there, what will bring more of them into the fraternity of Christian Endeavor?

We will send at once to any who desire it, full information of our mountain work, and all who contribute to this fund may have their offering assigned to aid pupils in one of our schools, from which letters will be written by a missionary during the year, giving information directly from the field.

Here is an urgent need outside our usual lines of expense, for which we seek new and additional help—­not the diversion of regular annual contributions.  We break the fund into shares of $50 that many may have part in it.  Early response either in cash, or pledges to be cashed by July, 1891, will result in giving many of these young people the advantages of Christian education during the present school year.

Woman’s Work In North Carolina
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We have a Woman’s Missionary Meeting once a month; it began last November, with six members; there are now eleven.  We have, too, a Mission Band, which many of the older scholars have joined as associate members.  It is held fortnightly, after the Sunday school, and generally the whole congregation stay to hear what is going on.