One thing more they desire of the Christian church, if it were only a debt to be paid.  I insist upon it, brethren, that at least Christian England and Christian America ought to pay back to them in missionary moneys at least an amount equal to that of which we have robbed them by the infamous opium traffic, and to-day it is people from Christian lands, more than anything else, who are furnishing the difficulties in the way of the introduction of the gospel abroad.

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ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT ALBERT SALISBURY.

There are values even in this world for which we have no expression, for which we have no definite standard, and of which we have no very clear comprehension.  They are values, none the less.  But there is one standard of value of which I think it may be safely said the American people have come into a very clear comprehension, that is, of the weight of the working power of a dollar.

Most of us know it by pretty thorough experience.  We know what a dollar costs, how hard it is to get, how hard it is to keep, how little we are liable to receive for it when it goes.  And, let me say it, I believe there are no people on this Western Continent who have any more exact, definite, clearly defined comprehension of what a dollar is, what it will do, and what it will not do, than the managers of our missionary enterprises.

Then, it is sometimes thought and sometimes said that these men who conduct church work and missionary work do not know much about dollars; that a dollar, a thousand dollars, or a million dollars, is a very indefinite thing; and that they ask for a million dollars, or half a million dollars, with a great deal of nonchalance, as if it were merely a matter of asking.  It is not so.  When this Finance Committee indorse the recommendation of the National Council that half a million of dollars be raised for the work of this Association during the coming year, they do it from a business point of view, and when the officers and managers of this Association second this demand, they know what it means.  They know better than anybody else in the world knows how hard it is to get half a million of dollars.  For some years I went up and down through the South and West in the service of this Association.  I went in and out of the rooms at No. 56 Reade Street, New York, and I must have been very dull not to know pretty well the inside workings of this Association.  I have been among workers on the field.  I know how closely everything is reckoned, how carefully every penny is spent; and I know how the demands of the work and the needs press upon the workers in the field, so that they look back to those rooms in New York with the feeling that somehow there is not a very great deal of liberality there, that those officers pare very closely.  But these workers in the field have no such experience after all as the officers there at the centre of things.  Those members of the Executive Committee, those Secretaries