and the Treasurer, sitting there together, and facing the demands of the old work and the new, have rolled upon them every day a sense of the value of money and of the need of economy such as even the workers in the field can not comprehend.  I have been there, I am now outside, and I am free to say whatever I please; and I make bold to say to you here that the work which is alive and growing must have the most money.  Increased demands must cost.  It is a law of nature.  Now, then, when this Finance Committee come forward to indorse this recommendation that $500,000 instead of $375,000 be raised for the coming year, they do not at all reach the measure of the need.

There is only one thing necessary to get this money and more.  It is a pretty comprehensive thing.  If upon the members of our churches in this land as clear a sense of the need of what ought to be done and can be done could be brought as comes to those in contact with the work, the money would be forthcoming.  How to make our people realize the facts in this matter is the problem.  Money will come when our people know how much it is needed, how profitably it is spent, and how grandly it pays dividends.

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ADDRESS OF REV.  WM. M. TAYLOR, D.D.

Last Wednesday evening at the Prayer and Conference Meeting of the Broadway Tabernacle, one of the office-bearers of the church put this question to me:  “Can we hope to be instrumental in the conversion of the Jews, so long as the present prejudice against God’s ancient people exists among us?” And that inquiry, taken in connection with the fact that the Annual Meeting of the American Missionary Association was to be held here this week, led me to examine the Word of God, that I might discover what incidental light is thrown on the subject of pride of race by its histories and other contents, and I mean to-night to put the result of my examination before you.

The first and most striking instance of its manifestation which we come upon in Scripture is the treatment given by the Egyptians to the Israelites.  “Every shepherd was an abomination to the Egyptians,” so they counted themselves superior to the Hebrews, and subjected them to the greatest indignities, grinding them under the harshest oppression, and exacting from them, by the lash of the task-master, the most arduous labor.  But mark how their pride was rebuked and their cruelty punished, under the moral and retributive government of God.  Their land was desolated by a series of plagues culminating in the death of the first-born, and the people whom they had oppressed made their escape from the most powerful empire then existing in the world, without themselves striking a single blow.  The Lord fought for them.  Each of these ten plagues was a Divine protest against that national pride which arrogated to itself the exclusive right to power, privilege, immunity and possession, and which met its merited punishment that day, when “the Lord saved Israel out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore.”