or a hospital. Let us remember that the Boards can be strong and
effective for the kingdom only as the societies and churches
through their vitalizing prayers and their strengthening gifts
make it possible.

The most important and basic place in all this organization
structure must be assigned to the women's, young women's and
children's missionary society, auxiliary, or mission band, in
the local church. Here in the local society each one finds her
particular place and work. Here loyalty for the denomination of
our choice finds scope and nourishment. Here through prayers,
letters, leaflets, the presence of missionary speakers, we come
into close fellowship with those consecrated ones of our own
household of faith who stand in the lonely, difficult places as
our representatives, ministering of the things of Christ to those
in need. Here our responsibility for maintaining the special work
committed to our society is found.

To obtain a renewal of purpose, a vitalizing vision either of a
personality or an enterprise, to create a fresh enthusiasm, we must
turn from the familiar aspects of the subject to a first-hand thought,
or view. We need to be freshly introduced, as it were. For this purpose
let us renew our thought of the essential task of Home Missions. It is
to Christianize our home land-Christianize, shorn of the formal services
and forms of activity with which we associate the word means simply to
reproduce in our own lives and strive to bring to others as accurately
as possible the spirit and method of the life of Jesus, the Christ.

The source of power which will make possible the Christ-life in
us, and the dynamic for all missionary service and power will be