missionary organizations, such as the Federal Council of the Churches
of Christ in America, The Home Missions Council, The Council of Women
for Home Missions, The Federation of Foreign Missions Boards, and a
number of others which exist for the purpose of obtaining the fullest
information on all aspects of their particular fields of activity and
to secure the execution of important lines of endeavor which can not
rightly be undertaken by one Board.

"The Council of Women for Home Missions, formed in November, 1908,
was organized that there might be a medium through which National
Woman's Home Mission Boards and Societies might consult as to wider
plans, and, co-operatively, do more efficient work for the Homeland."
[Footnote: Annual Report, Council of Women for Home Missions.] Seven
standing Committees are the direct agencies through which most of the
work of the Council is done. These committees are Home Mission Study
Courses and Literature, Home Mission Summer Schools, Home Mission
Interests in Schools, Colleges, and Young People's Conferences, Home
Mission Interests among Children, Home Mission Comity and Co-operation,
Home Mission Interests among Immigrants, Home Mission Day of Prayer. The
Council is a greatly needed clearing-house for the multitude of matters
of first importance to efficiency of service and to all Home Mission
Boards, which are not the particular responsibility of any.

Another important source of Home Mission inspiration and
information are the interdenominational study classes which have
been formed "to bring the local Women's Home Missionary Societies
into united service for Christ and our country; to encourage
devotional fellowship and mutual counsel concerning the spiritual
life and Home Missionary activities among women's Home Missionary
organizations in local communities."