The published receipts in this MISSIONARY bring us to the end of August. There was a slight gain as compared with last year, but not enough to materially alter the threatening aspects of a heavy debt. With the receipts of September our Treasurer will close his books for the year. As we are obliged to have the matter for our magazine in the hands of the printer before the middle of the month, we are not able at this writing to forecast what the result of the rally to obviate a debt may be. We remain firm in the conviction that our friends have the ability to prevent the debt, and that if they are roused to a sense of the necessity of its prevention, they will do it. We have endeavored to be faithful in keeping them informed of our needs. Many of them have responded with great liberality and some of them at great sacrifice. We thank them with all our heart. We wish we could spare them the pain of reading our continuous appeals, because we know it leads them to ask if they ought not to do more. This they ought not to do, but the fact that there are so many who have done nothing and so many who have done little, who might do more, and that if we are compelled to have a debt, and so to see our work suffer injury, it will be because of failure on the part of those who ought to help us--it is this fact that urges us, with a pressure we cannot resist, to keep on crying out for relief. By the time this number of the MISSIONARY is in the hands of its readers, there will still be left a few days of the month of September. In those few days what is lacking can be supplied. Let next Sunday be a red-letter day in the number of churches that wheel into line, and place themselves upon record as having during the year made a contribution to the American Missionary Association. We also request that church treasurers and executors will promptly forward to our Treasurer, H. W. Hubbard, Esq., such money as they may have on hand, and that individuals who prefer to send their gifts directly to the treasury will remit at their earliest convenience. If all will lend a hand, deliverance will come. God grant that our faith may not be in vain! * * * * *