for the means to enable us to greatly develop, during the coming year,
this department of the work.


CHURCH WORK AMONG NEW SETTLERS IN THE SOUTH.

Wonderful and more wonderful tales are now reaching the world of the
unlimited resources of the South. They are a new discovery even to the
South itself. These stories of lumber and mineral wealth are turning
the tide thitherward. Towns and cities are beginning to spring up as
they have in the West, and both great need and rich opportunity call
for immediate missionary work. This new population is mostly, as yet,
from the North, though many from Wales, especially miners, and from
other countries of the old world are beginning to come in. In the
new towns they find no churches, in the old towns few whose ideas
and customs can satisfy their minds and hearts. Here is a great
opportunity. We can aid these people to establish churches which will
emphasize that interpretation of the Gospel which we believe to be
Christian.

In Florida, Louisiana, Alabama and Tennessee we have already aided in
establishing such churches which have connected themselves--and gladly
so--with the regular State organizations of Congregational churches.
No direful results have followed. No fanaticism is in it. It is
simply doing the thing that is right and Christian. May such churches
continue to multiply in the "New South" and help to make it _new_
indeed.


STATISTICS OF CHURCH WORK IN THE SOUTH.