[Sidenote: Two Friends.] Among the most popular missionary societies in Denmark and Norway is the _Home Mission to the Santals_, established in 1867 by a Dane, Hans Peter Börresen and a Norwegian Lars Olsen Skrefsrud. Lars Skrefsrud was the son of pious Christian parents, but led a life of such waywardness that he was finally confined in prison. During his term of two years he was thoroughly converted and determined to devote his life when he should be free to mission work. As soon as he was released he offered himself to the Norwegian mission in Africa, but the committee concluded that a man just out of prison was not a safe agent. He then applied to Father Gossner, who accepted him for work in India. In the training school he became acquainted with Börresen, and so close was their friendship that when they were placed in different stations they separated from the Gossner mission to found the _Home Mission to the Santals_, which is supported by Danish and Norwegian Lutherans in all parts of the world. FINNISH, POLISH, AND OTHER SOCIETIES. Not the least valuable of Lutheran missionary enterprises is that of little Finland, which after contributing to the missionary work of other nations, established in 1859 on the occasion of the seven hundredth anniversary of the conversion of Finland to Christianity the _Finnish Lutheran Missionary Society_ with headquarters at Helsingfors. In 1867 the society began its own mission in South Africa, and later in Japan. Its income was in 1913 $72,000. The _Finnish Lutheran Gospel Society_ works in China. The Lutherans of Poland divide their contributions among various German Lutheran societies, among them the Leipsic and Gossner societies. The Lutherans of Friesland, a province of Holland, contribute to the work of the Bremen or North German Society. In the Netherlands there are small Lutheran organizations which aid in the work of the German missionaries in the Dutch East Indies. AMERICAN SOCIETIES.