amounts to 7s. 7d. per quarter or 30s. 4d. per annum, and represents one share in the Circle. For instance, for the support of each of the lady missionaries there is a circle of sixty shares, which represents £90 and as the amount required is £80, allows for the expense of working the circle and possible failures in keeping up shares. The shares are promised by individuals or classes, who are then enrolled and form the circle. Collecting cards are next issued which have to be returned with the cash quarterly. The fresh card is sent out before the quarter ends, and so serves as a reminder that the share installment is due. There are three Circles at work in the school, two for foreign missions, and one for a home missionary effort.

So far I have dealt with material contributions. They are not all, nor the most important that is given, however. The training of the young in missionary interest and enthusiasm; the passing on to the Church a generation realizing their responsibilities to the heathen, and eager to meet them; the prayers of teachers and scholars banded together in daily intercession; the throbbing heart of sympathy with the workers in the field, these are contributions far-reaching and valuable beyond any cash estimate.

There is a missionary atmosphere in the school.

The gong that calls the school to order and attention is a constant reminder of the mission field—it is the gift of our church missionary on the Congo, and is hung from two teeth of a hippopotamus that very nearly ended that missionary's career.

Enlarged framed photos of the school missionaries are hung in prominent places. Large charts are also on the walls showing at a glance the financial position of each circle.

In a prominent position there is a missionary thermometer nine feet high which records and shows the rise and fall of the weekly contributions. The thermometer has done excellent service and has helped the King's Bags much.

It has been copied in neighboring schools too, and been equally effective in increasing interest and collections there.

There is an Honor Board, on which are inscribed the names of old scholars or church members who have been, or are now, in the foreign field.

The amount collected in each class is read from the desk quarterly.

Letters are read regularly from our own missionaries during afternoon school.

There are Missionary Scrap Boards in School and Class rooms. These are boards covered with green baize, on which are pinned cuttings from illustrated and other magazines, or indeed anything that bears on the missionary question.

There are Missionary Study Classes. This is a new and specially informing method of increasing interest and has "caught on." There are already four classes meeting weekly, with a certainty of more to follow. The classes meet in the house of some friend, and the number attending is limited to twelve.

In connection with the sending out of boxes for Christmas gifts, we have competitions for the best-dressed dolls, the best painted texts in Chinese or other languages, and the best made toy, etc., and then there is an exhibition of the beautiful things sent in.

There are "Correspondence Circles," each member of which undertakes to write to a missionary once a month.

There is a "One by One" League whose members take a personal interest in, and pray daily for, a native child in India or China. The name of the child allotted is sent by a school missionary.

Arrangements are made to give missionary lessons to classes whose teachers desire it. This is found to be more effective than frequent addresses from the platform.

From the desk the missionaries are prayed for every

Sunday, on nearly every occasion their names being mentioned.

A special Young People's missionary prayer-meeting is held on the fourth Sunday evening of each month.

In the selection of hymns for the school anniversary services one or two missionary hymns are chosen, and, indeed, on every occasion in connection with the life of the school its missionary work has always a front place.

Missionary literature is regularly distributed, and there is a real, live, up-to-date missionary library with books that are read.

As to management and control, this is in the hands of a committee formed of teachers and senior scholars, which is appointed annually. All the missionary work is under its care. It reports monthly to the teachers'-meetings, and its decisions (unless when power is given to act) have all to be formally approved by the teachers. The superintendent is ex-officio chairman, and the chief secretary is the missionary secretary of the school. It is only right to say that the present holder of that office is the personality of the organization. Under God, the work accomplished is largely due to his talent, devotion and zeal.

From the Young Christians' Missionary Union the school has received invaluable counsel, help and inspiration. I would recommend any school desiring to go forward on missionary lines to get in touch with this excellent society

at once.

The development of foreign missionary effort has meant great increase in missionary and philanthropic work at home as well. Specially would I ask those with a fear in their heart that working for the heathen abroad might impoverish and stultify home effort, to note this, the school is raising at the present time eight to ten times more for home work than when it started on its foreign missionary enterprise.

And this is not all, for efforts that cannot be measured

in cash are constantly being made by individuals, classes, societies, and the whole school, to help and bless the sick, the sinful, and the poor of the neighborhood.

Its intense interest in missionary work has not made the school lopsided either. This is proved by the fact that at the present moment it holds the Challenge Shield for the best Senior Sunday-school choir in the local Sunday-school Union with which it is affiliated. Also the Challenge Shield for the largest entries and best results in the local Sunday-school Union scholars Scripture examination.

To the church it has meant gain to have passed into its membership young people taught in the principles of systematic Christian giving, and trained in the practise of them.

And best of all, in the spiritual work of the school the blessing has been very marked. Last year forty-five of the scholars were baptized and joined the church, and the spirit of prayer and earnest Christian enterprise among the young people stirs and cheers the heart.

In Rye Lane, at any rate, experience has shown that the best way to quicken life and service in the Sunday-school is to develop interest in, and effort on behalf of, foreign missions.

The Oneness of Believers

BY THE REV. F. B. MEYER, B. A.

It is quite clear that from the first Jesus Christ anticipated that his people should be one. And during his human life he uses three distinct analogies. He said that his church was to resemble the home, in which there are brothers and sisters, and the play of many dispositions. He said that he would build his church not on Petros, the apostle, but petra, the testimony that the apostle gave to his Deity, the one church against which the gates of hell should not prevail. And third, he left the upper chamber on the eve of his death and saw the vine twining itself around the