The coming of the children of China to our Western coast may be a providential element in this change and the importance of the work of the Association among these peoples on our Pacific Coast, so ready to learn, and many of them so ready to return to their native land as missionaries, may be a very significant factor in the future. * * * * * ALASKA. In 1847, California was almost as little known and valued as Alaska was last year. But the discovery of gold in Sutton's mill-race changed the whole aspect of affairs in California, and it is now a State with a large and thrifty population, and its western shore is connected with the Atlantic seaboard by railroads, towns and cities. The discovery of gold made the change. The recent discoveries on the Yukon River in Alaska are sending hundreds and thousands of people thither, and while Alaska may never become a California in population, yet a wonderful change is taking place, the end of which no one can predict. But the native population of that distant land must not be neglected nor crushed under the pressure of hordes of gold hunters. The work at our mission station at Cape Prince of Wales should be enlarged and made more effective. * * * * * American Missionary Association, CONGREGATIONAL ROOMS, Fourth Avenue and Twenty-second Street, New York. * * * * * THE FIELD. 1897-1898. The following list gives the names of those who are in the work of the Churches, Institutions and Schools of the American Missionary Association. THE SOUTH. REV. GEO. W. MOORE, Field Missionary. MR. O. R. BROWN, Builder. MR. GILBERT WALTON, General Mountain Missionary. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. WASHINGTON. THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT, HOWARD UNIVERSITY. Rev. J. E. Rankin, D.D., LL.D. " John L. Ewell, D.D., " Isaac Clark, D.D., " S. N. Brown, A.M., B.D., " George O. Little, D.D., " George S. Duncan, Ph.D., " W. H. Brooks, D.D., Rev. J. G. Butler, D.D., " T. S. Hamlin, D.D., " S. M. Newman, D.D., Right Rev. H. Y. Satterlee, D.D., Prof. R. B. Warder, A.M., B.S., Prof. William J. Stephens., Rev. Charles H. Butler, A.M., Prof. George J. Cummings, A.M. LINCOLN MEMORIAL CHURCH. _Minister_, Rev. Albert P. Miller, Washington, D. C. PLYMOUTH CHURCH. _Minister_, Rev. A. C. Garner, Washington, D. C. PEOPLE'S CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. _Minister_, Rev. J. H. Dailey, Washington, D. C. TEMPLE PARK CHURCH. _Minister_, Rev. S. N. Brown, Washington, D. C. VIRGINIA. CAPPAHOSIC. GLOUCESTER HIGH AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. _Principal_, Prof. W. B. Weaver, Cappahosic, Va. _Teachers_, Mr. W. G. Price, Priddy's, Va. Mr. D. D. Weaver, Cappahosic, Va. Mrs. E. Sprague Weaver, Cappahosic, Va. Miss Carrie E. Steele, Charleston, S. C. Mr. R. L. White, Cappahosic, Va. Miss Ada Baytop, Ark, Va. KENTUCKY. LEXINGTON.