The church-Home Missions--from the beginning has been the largest factor in the spread of schools and colleges--the greatest single educative force of this country. The record of the Home Mission activities of the various denominations tells the story of the founding of academies and colleges, throughout the length and breadth of the land. In Kansas the State Normal School, State Agricultural College and the State University were founded by Home Missionaries. Of the great Eastern universities and colleges it will be recalled that many were established by the Christian church. Among these are Harvard, Williams, Columbia, Princeton, Rutgers, Vassar and many others. Home Missions is still an active and deeply needed educative force. It brings the most powerful influence to the great groups of the neglected in our land, giving them visions of bettered physical conditions, yearnings after higher spiritual purposes, and determinations for a fuller realization of life in all its meaning, with the power of attaining these ideals. IV A HEALING FORCE "During the spring months an epidemic of diphtheria and other infectious diseases visited a district of nine or ten villages in New Mexico. Many children succumbed to these diseases, the number of those who died being about one-tenth of the entire population of the district. "No people in the world are kinder-hearted than the Mexican people. Everybody, even the children, visits the sick, and attends the _velorios_ (wakes) and funeral rites of the dead, without regard to the contagious character of the disease. "This fatal custom is re-enforced by a fatalistic philosophy. Whatever befalls one, he receives it with an '_Asi me toco_' (It was my fate). Whatever comes, he says: "'_Es par Dios_' (It is of God). Each man has his appointed time to die. Until that time he is safe, and when that time comes nothing can save him. There is no such thing as contagion; disease strikes when and where God will. Medicine will cure, if it is the will of God. What the medicine may be is of little importance; a glass of water will cure as well as anything else, is a frequent saying, if it is the will of God. "She, the missionary nurse, thereupon took up her station in the sick room, kept out the numerous callers, administered antitoxin, and nursed the child back to life. She had saved the child. She gave the antitoxin treatment in other cases where the parents were willing. She thus treated fifteen cases, losing only one." * * * * * "The healing of the seamless dress, Is by our beds of pain. We touch Him in life's throng and press, And we are whole again." * * * * * Of all the compelling qualities that drew humanity irresistibly to Him, the compassion of the Christ was the most winning. This constraining love was the very heart of His Gospel.