A teachers' monthly is a thing we need very much. Children's papers are published in German, Lettish and Esthonian languages.

Now, I shall speak of the work among the Russians proper. As is well known, this can only be spoken of since the manifesto of October 17-30, 1905. The editor of their paper, The Christian, wrote me from Petersburg that they had had no time to collect statistical figures as the work is taking up all of their time and is growing rapidly. With the consent of Mr. Waters, the father of the International Bible Reading Association, the International reading lessons have been translated into the Russian language by Mr. Prochonow who issued them in the form of a calendar. So much is certain, the work among the Russians including the Sunday-school work-has developed in an unexpected and unprecedented way and is most hopeful, provided that the laborers are forthcoming who are needed. The Russian people long for the Gospel, as the following example will show. At Odessa two halls have been rented having room for thirteen to fifteen hundred people and already a third preaching hall is needed to receive the crowds that come. The two Sunday-schools which were started a year ago have over three hundred children. The conditions at Kiev, Moscow and Petersburg are similar. ́ A Sunday-school missionary could do a good work now among the Russians, if we had the man and the means to support him.

The sum total in Russia is about one thousand Sundayschools; twenty-five hundred teachers; twenty-five thousand scholars speaking the German, Polish, Czech, Lettish, Esthonian and Russian languages. Among all these there is one-only one, Sunday-school missionary. May the time soon come when at least half a dozen are employed. The one appointed by the Mennonite Brethren cannot be counted, as he travels about only at intervals, and is really not a missionary, but a supervisor of their own Sunday

school work. You will easily see what that means, when you think of the immense territory, the incomplete railroad system and the dreary, pathless regions of our land. In the South and in Volhynia circuit secretaries have been appointed to visit the schools occasionally and encourage them in their work. For the Sunday-school missionary, a journey of four thousand kilometers, of these one hundred to one hundred and fifty in one day by wagon or sleigh, wrapped in double furs and caps, is nothing unusual. Often the way is lost, or the horses fall into steep ditches. He has to pass the night in the open steppe in the winter's cold or in a miserable hut, bare of every necessity, where a wooden form is the only thing he can have to rest on. It is no wonder, then, that under such circumstances the missionary returns from a tour of several months exhausted and often quite ill, cheered on to further work only by the success which has attended his labors. Nor is it surprising that it is so difficult to find the right kind of men; for, aside from other things, they need to know at least the German and Russian languages and if possible, Lettish and Esthonian; and above all things else to have a sound and healthy constitution.

Still, the encouragements are not wanting. The children. are most eager to come; if they are snowed in and see no other way of getting out of the house they crawl up through the chimney to attend the Sunday-school. The adults are willing to leave the plough to take up the Sunday-school work. Even the want of suitable clothing does not keep the children at home; if a boy has no suitable coat of his own he puts on his father's, or he borrows his sister's dress, so it happens that often boys and girls cannot be distinguished. The want of schools, and hence the lack of education, even among the Christians, makes it very difficult to obtain the necessary teaching force for the Sunday-schools.

Dear Christian friends, here is a people calling for workers as no other. Our people do all they can to send

more workers into the harvest. Teacher's Institutes are arranged, summer schools are held at much sacrifice. Russia's cry for helpers should reach the heart of this Convention. I can assure you, dear fellow-workers, Russia needs and deserves your consideration and your help. We ought to have at least one more Sunday-school missionary, so that we could divide the land into two sections, an eastern and a western. Such a division would make the journeys shorter and cheaper, the seasons of rest could be shorter and much more work would be accomplished. Two workers would cost much less than twice the amount for one, but they would accomplish far more than twice the work that one can do, and we could more easily find the men. We now expend from four to five hundred rubles traveling expenses annually for one man and that is more than half the salary for one man. May the Lord show you, dear brethren, what may be your duty towards Russia in this most important crisis.

Spain

BY PASTOR FRANCISCO ALBRICIAS

The enemies of the gospel say that Spain will never become evangelical, and unfortunately, the success of the gospel cause in Spain up to the present has not been very great. For this reason we need to work fervently among the young. There are at present about one hundred Sundayschools in Spain, with about sixty-five hundred scholars.

I wish to say a few words particularly about our own work at Alicante, which is about half way down the east coast between Barcelona and Gibraltar. This work began about ten years ago. It is not under the auspices of any society. At the present time there are in our day-school about three hundred and fifty pupils. These pupils pay their school fees, and thus produce about half the income needed to keep up the whole mission. But the most suc