This cannot be done near the close of the year by dismissing the ministers and shutting up the schools. These self-sacrificing workers are dependent on their salaries, and the teachers, some of whom out of their small pittance are helping to sustain an invalid mother or sister, and in not a few cases are aiding needy students, and should not be deprived of their wages. Repudiation of such debts is not the relief for a missionary society. 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. * * * * * 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: