The only way, therefore, that we can see is, to throw ourselves upon the benevolence of the churches, whose agents we are in doing their work, and ask them to come to the rescue by increased donations.  A little from each will make it easy for all.

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VOICES FROM THE FIELD.

We wish our friends to see as we see and hear as we hear from the field, as to the need of enlargement and the difficulty of closing schools prematurely, and hence we present some condensed facts as specimens.

McINTOSH, GA.—­One hundred and nineteen in a single room and with only
  one teacher.  No boarding department and scores must be turned away.

FLORENCE, ALA.—­In a rapidly growing city, school held in our church
  building.  Large numbers turned away for lack of room.

JONESBORO, TENN.—­No boarding place for either boys or girls.  Boys live
  in rough rooms in a barn, six in a small room.  No more can possibly be
  accommodated.

GRAND VIEW, TENN.—­Buildings crowded full; no place for any more, yet
  pupils are trying to crowd in.

PINE MOUNTAIN, TENN.—­Situated in a region nearly a hundred miles long,
  without a single school except the almost worthless district schools
  for two or three months.

WILLIAMSBURG, KY.—­Crowded full of students; more than sixty in one room
  large enough for only thirty.

JELLICO, TENN.—­Our church and school building will not hold either our
  Sunday-school or those who attend the preaching services.  Must be
  enlarged or no growth can follow.

ATHENS, TENN.—­Growing town; nearly a thousand Northern people with no
  church suited to their needs.  Some Congregationalists need aid in
  starting a church.

FORT BERTHOLD, DAKOTA.—­Rev. C.L.  Hall writes:  “We have not at Fort
  Berthold the necessary buildings for our work.  Our girls are in an old
  Government building out of repair, and a little cottage 16x22, and our
  boys and industrial teacher are crowded into the missionary’s house,
  and a little one-story annex 14x22.  There is no room for a guest to
  stay over night.”

CHINESE IN CALIFORNIA.—­Dr. Pond, the Superintendent of our Chinese
  Missions, makes a dollar go as far as any man in our service.  He is
  one of the most careful men in making ends meet.  But he has been
  caught in the cyclone and writes thus about the premature closing of
  the schools: 

“Nothing seemed left for me to do but to notify the teachers that I could pay all bills for May, but could promise nothing more.  When I had resolved to do this, the workers passed before me, one by one:  most of our teachers are dependent on this slender stipend for their daily bread—­teachers that had been in our service for many years, never measuring their service by their pay, but working in