new church had. There were no interior finishings. They would come later. Simple words in that service were winged with power, and there was joy in the presence of God. My little hostess clasped my hands and with tears in her eyes she exclaimed, "It hardly seems possible that I should glow so over such a tiny church, when my home church was a magnificent cathedral, and I often failed to go. I was living on the religion of father and mother. Out here we need Our Father's House, and together go from strength to strength in our moral and religious life." They are fine Pilgrims, and our Pilgrim church suits their fine democratic, liberty-loving, adventursome spirits. Not that they like our Pilgrim name. The little fellow voiced the reason when handed a leaflet from the Pilgrim Press, "I am no tenderfoot and Pilgrim. I have been here fourteen months." The other community, that was instructed by a young woman from one of our Congregational colleges, was urged to organize a Congregational church as the only community church. When you do not have enough Presbyterians or Baptists, Episcopalians, or Methodists to make individual churches, you bunch them all together and make a Congregational Church. The little town at the end of the onetime "Jaw Bone Road" was enterprising enough to match commercial enthusiasm with a splendid institutional church. It meant sacrifice. Three families brought the mortgages their newly proved up claims. What splendid faith! There, in one build on ing were the two institutions of our Pilgrim faith, the school and the church, representing the cross and the flag. The theatricals put on one night were participated in by representatives of twelve states and nine denominations, all in the Church of Democracy, the mother of them all. Then the wonder of a great irrigaproductive. It baffles a mere woman's tion project; 33,000 acres to be made But here are also men and women mind to comprehend so big a project. with love of the tender things of life. Every penny of the settlers' money goes into water rights, and it means building, which our Society helped to some stinting to put up even a modest make possible by paying last bills. The great apple orchards were a source of interest. Thousands of people investing their all in a ten-acre ductive apple-tree. I wished that I plot, hoping to love into life the pro had been one of the investors on the day when I witnessed the sale of an orchard at $1,000 an acre. Well, populated communities need church homes, and if we can give them a lift while they are still still tenderly nursing the young trees into hopeful trees, our returns in social uplift and financial support will be most satisfying. ing. The great liberty-loving West reeds the great ideals of the Pilgrim faith. We shall fail in our great Americanization task unless we adequately support the building of church homes wherever the pioneers are developing the material resources of our Great West. It is a joy to share in this service. O NLY twenty-two of the sixty-four Congregational churches in Missouri have parsonages. Superintendent Atwood says other fields are feeling the need of this community center. Nine of the ministers moved from one to five times each the past year. If they start a Parsonage Campaign in that state to equip the forty-two churches which have no homes for their ministers, with comfortable manses, we should certainly have our hands full if called on to help them. THE CONGREGATIONAL EDUCATION SOCIETY The teacher who makes his class a vital center for spreading the great Biblical messages of democracy and brotherhood is standing at a strategic point in our national life. Such a teacher has one of the best opportunities to be a patriot of any person in the land. Missionaries in Arabia, India and Africa, three others in preparation, six ministers in our own land, Christian teachers in college and university, six physicians, six trained nurses, attorneys, bankers, journalists and eugineers, suggest a few of the field of service of gradutes of Franklin Academy. Many churches have to their credit neither a minister nor a missionary nor a worker in any of the great religious social agencies, nor even a layman who has taken a man's share in the work of the Kingdom of God. The churches crying out for leaders must search their own lives and ask themselves why they produce no leaders. President Brownell of Northland College sets forth as a definition and an ideal as follows: Christian education is the combined training and influence that unfolds all the powers of the student, intellectual and spiritual, and so motivates his life as to give it an active Christian impulse, predominated by the idea of service. At the Annual Banquet of the Schauffler School, in response to the toast "What Americanization Ought To Be" Rev. K. R. Kedzie said: "Americanization is more than teaching a foreigner to talk the English language and more than encouraging him to adopt American customs, important as this is. It is a matter of "being born again," of becoming a "new creature," falling in love with new ideals of social and political life. He may live and talk like his American neighbors, but he is not Americanized until he has adopted as his own this great adventure of the fathers in applying the Christian principles of fraternity and equality, and values this more than he does his life. These ideals of universal education, religious freedom and toleration and the equality of all men must become his passion. Miss Persida Mladenowitch has been sent by the International Serbian Educational Committee to receive a four years' course of instruction at Rollins College. She is one of twenty-three Serbians who on September 9 left Belgrade en route to New York. From there they were sent to the many different colleges and universities all over the United States. Miss Mladenowitch, together with her parents and brothers and sisters, fled from her native town, Tkoplje, and remained three years in exile. Upon their return home they found the whole city in ruins; nothing was left of their homes except the ruined foundation. All their possessions of twenty years' accumulation were swept away and the family suffered untold privation. Miss Mladenowitch is an unusually talented young woman and is very eager to learn English and to begin her courses in Rollins. T EIGHT PILGRIM DAUGHTERS HE War has opened our eyes to see crystallized in clear new light that the walls of the Eternal Kingdom are being built of the tears and blood of the "saints." This is what John saw in his vision of the Holy City, and called them "all manner of precious stones." The opal, the ruby, the diamond, the pearl were all there. The work must be advancing very rapidly-hence so much building material has been needed. The war has also brought to our remembrance the fact that our hoped yet-to-be ideal government of earth is being built of the blood and tears of the "saints" as a glance over our history will testify. Every step we have ever taken in advance has been paid for at its full price in blood and tears. If this be true it would seem that the ideal American is he who con and will furnish his share of building material though he may come from the heart of Turkey, Mexico, Russia or Germany, as he often does. With this definition of an American let us look at the 1919 graduating Class of Schauffler Missionary Training School. Eight young women of eight nationalities and five denominations with their diversity of tongues and talents, all in active service, yet each along her own line,. for the coming Kingdom. They are all Americans of the best type being ready and willing to furnish their share of building material. They come from varied ancestryMexican, Finn, Negro, German, Irish, Bohemian, Pole, Slovak. One cannot know these young women, and others like them and believe that the spirit of the Pilgrims is dying out. The first one-a Mexican, Miss Ysabel Garcia Gibson-Miss Olive Gibson adopted at the age of four. She graduated from the Rio Grande Industrial School when fifteen years old, taught one year in the primary department of the Mission School at San Mateo, New Mexico, and gradu ated The second girl is another American in good and regular standing" though a Finn by birth. She comes from South Dakota, Miss Alma Hill. Oh, that every doubting Thomas might have seen this young woman on two crutches standing at the sink, meal after meal, washing dishes to get an education that she may be a blessing to our country and the world. By the end of the first year she had become so proficient in her stenography that it was not necessary to wash dishes any longer but was given work in the office. By the time she graduated she had become so indispensable to the institution that she was made a member of the faculty with the distinct understanding that she is to be released at the end of the year, for she wants to work her way through college. Her aim is to be a missionary, but she wants all the equipment possible. The Pilgrim spirit dying out? Not while such blood is flowing in. Number three is Miss Muriel Proctor, the daughter of Rev. H. H. Proctor of Atlanta, Georgia, a very choice spirit, a beautiful young woman at work with her father in his church in Atlanta for the whole Negro race. Surely no further introduction is necessary. Every intelligent Congregationalist must know the Proctor family. It was "whispered'' from the rostrum at the National Council in Grand Rapids that Dr. Proctor was the most popular chaplain in France. Number Four is an American of German descent, Miss Margaret Fundom, who is doing an interdenominational, Christian Americanization work among the foreign population at Mansfield, Ohio. Number Five, Miss Blanche Riley, an American of Irish descent who is doing interesting work in southern Ohio among the Italians. If Miss Fundom and Miss Riley should do nothing but just live in the localities where they have been placed their sterling qualities and their beautiful spirits would "carry on" a great Americanization work. Number six is Miss Rose Rouball, American, of Bohemian ancestry. She is working for the Y. W. C. A. in Cleveland, Ohio. Because of her "gift of tongues," she speaks several, her work is organizing branch Y. W. C. A. 's among the immigrant population. Number seven is Miss Carolina Nausner, a Pole, a veritable tower of strength. One might think her the "Tower of Babel," before the confusion, for she speaks ten languages. She is soon going back to Poland to do reconstruction work. A few days before she graduated, Schauffler received a request for her from the North American Civic League of Bos ton to take up work immediately among the Poles and Russians in Boston. Miss Nausner accepted the position for the summer. She had been in Boston less than a month when her official superior wrote back to the school that she was "a perfect joy, that she had made a "very difficult work look comparatively easy." She was interpreting for the League and could be depended upon to be absolutely loyal to our Government. The last girl is Miss Cebula, a Slovak from West Virginia. She is at work in her own church. Someone says "Why are they not at work for Congregational Boards!" Most of them are either in Congregational work, or in inter-denominational work-which always contains Congregationalism. "Having gifts according to to the grace given unto them" they have gone forth to contribute their share of building material. Τ POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, BILLINGS, MONTANA HE eleventh year of the Institute opened September 23, with the fullest attendance ever witnessed on the first day. By the end of the second week every dormitory had been occupied, and the faculty forced to move from Kimball Hall into improvised quarters in the new Conservatory of Music. Plans are being made to add additional rooming quarters before the winter term begins. Meanwhile the usual method of crowding three into a room is being resorted to, and some of the boys are planning to live in tents. In every way the year opens up encouragingly. The students show a wonderful interest in their studies and are as earnest and eager a body of young people as ever were brought together. The great problem which has disturbed the management during the beginning of the new year has been the many calls for assistance from the drought stricken families of Montana. Thousands of the farmers of the great agricultural section of the state have had a complete crop failure for the past three years. The children from these families must have. aid if they are to be in school this year and the self-help department has been flooded with applications as neyer before. Special stress will be laid during the year upon the need of helping students by means of a Student Loan Fund. Rev. Hugh McCarroll, B. S., Lenox College, Iowa, graduate of the The ological Seminary of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has charge of the religious training of students at the Polytechnic and conducts classes in political science. A number of friends have written that the great rich state of Montana should care for her own school. A friend wrote us the other day that there was no reason why the great West with its immense wealth and $2.26 wheat should call upon the East for help. We know it is hard for many of our friends to understand the condition faced in Montana. In fact it is impossible to get at the real circumstances unless one visits the region. Many in the East who have never studied the map of their country or traveled extensively throughout the West do not realize that Montana and Wyoming are far removed from the central West. A boy or girl in central Montana must travel a thousand miles to get to one of the excellent colleges of the Middle West. Where would New England's educational leadership be if her young people had been compelled to go to Indiana or Virginia for their training? It will be of interest to many to know that during the time that we have had the war prices for wheat, vast sections of Montana have had complete crop failures. Sections of the state as large as Vermont or Massachusetts have not had a crop for four years. Some observations in regard to the region may help our readers to understand why we are compelled to make such a desperate fight to build up a Christian institution of learning. In the first place, this school is at the heart of the nation's great home mission field. Practically all the churches of all denominations are dependent upon missionary aid. They cannot support their own church work to say nothing about building schools and colleges. One entire county in Montana has no church building within its confines. The Congregational churches of Montana for the last quarter reported gave a total of $36.00 to the Education Society. This is an indication of the manner in which this region can care for the Christian education of its boys and girls. The history of every frontier section is the history of dependence upon the older settled regions for the upbuilding of their Christian institutions. Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota all had to depend upon outside states for the planting of their Chris |