Sales Agents Wanted! Men and Women make $50 to $200 every month selling our YOU (man or woman) can make $5.00 every day taking orders for these garments. order from you, for no one can meet your prices. We are the LARGEST DEALERS in America in Men's and Women's Waterproof Mackintoshes and we sell them at the lowest prices ever known, and exclusively through regularly appointed men and women agents, who make $50.00 to $200.00 every month at the work. OUR LIBERAL OFFER. wish to work in. Say in your letter you will give this work mediately SEND YOU FREE OUR SALESMAN'S COMPLETE OUTFIT on the following easy conditions. Each outfit costs an immediate trial of at least 10 DAYS, and we will imus nearly $2.00, for it is made very complete to insure immediate success for the agent. The outfit consists of one handsome heavy cloth bound book, 10x7x2 inches, containing a complete assortment of large samples of our entire line of men's and women's mackintoshes, also handsome large fashion figures, etc., one confidential price and instruction book, one tape measure, one rubber stamp with your name and pad, business cards, order blanks, stationery, etc. WE MAKE NO CHARGE FOR THIS OUTFIT, but as a guarantee of good faith on your part and to protect us against those who would order outfits (which cost us nearly $2.00) out of curiosity or just to get the cloth samples, we require everyone, after receiving the outfit at the express office, to pay as a temporary deposit 50 cents and express charges, and we will return the 50 cents with your first order. Understand we will send you the complete outfit by express C. O. D., subject to examination, you to examine the outfit at your express office and if found perfectly satisfactory and you are convinced you can make money taking orders, pay the express agent 50c and express charges, we to return your 50e with your first order. START TO WORK AT ONCE. You need no money; show the samples, take the orders at your own price, adding a good profit for yourself; we will fill your orders daily, send the mackintoshes to your customers C. O. D., subject to examination, collect your full selling price and weekly send you in cash your full profit. No other work is so simple. Money can't be made easier. Any man or woman any where can make 85.00 every day. Our book of instructions makes everything so plain that anyone can do the work at once and be sure of big wages from the start. Cut this notice out and send to us today saying you will give it 10 days' trial. YOU WILL NEVER REGRET IT. Nearly everyone sends the 50 cents with their application. We refer to Metropolitan National Bank or any Express Co. in Chicago. Address, DUNDEE RUBBER CORPORATION, 184 Fulton St., Chicago. i TAKE PARTICULAR NOTICE Changes in the prices of the 'ALL ABOUT BAPTISTS ABROAD" After January 1, 1900, the terms of the BAPTIST MISSIONARY MAGAZINE will be as follows: FREE to pastors of churches which contribute to the American Baptist Missionary Union. Pastors of such churches are invited to send their addresses, in order that their names may be put upon the list for a free copy. THIRTY-FIVE CENTS in clubs of thirty or more in one church. THIRTY-FIVE CENTS in clubs equal to ten per cent of the members in churches having less than 300 members. FIFTY CENTS in clubs of ten in one church. FIFTY CENTS in clubs equal to five per cent of the members in churches having less than 200 members. $1.00 to single subscribers. Subscriptions at club rates payable strictly in advance. The Baptist Missionary Magazine covers all Baptist work outside of North America. Sample Copies sent free on application FROM No. 2 A MESSAGE The Home Secretary N the "Mid-year Letter," which is printed elsewhere, the secretaries have set forth our actual situation, which every friend of the Missionary Union will desire to know. We have also indicated the principles of what is deemed a sound policy for the improvement of that situation. They need not be restated here, but we trust every line of the letter will be thoughtfully read and pondered. What is primarily required is a fixed and regular devotion to this form of our Lord's work, which will put new heart into our missionaries on the field and into those commissioned to administer this sacred trust at home. In so far as well-chosen plans of giving in any church or association are prevailing, we trust such plans will be persevered in and corrected wherein they are deficient. We fear it will be found in some cases that new methods adopted have unintentionally wrought to diminish rather than increase the funds for foreign missions For a long period past the bulk of the donations for this cause have been wont to come in during February and March, the last two months of the fiscal year. For reasons this probably will still be the case. But, alas! our figures for two years past show that the gross amounts received even in February and March have fallen off rather than increased, with little corresponding gain during the earlier months of the year. We are confident this is due to an unpremeditated but unfortunate working of new plans which call for reconsideration or for supplemental effort. In concentrating attention upon system there is at first danger that the motive for giving shall be weakened, and that thus the amount of money secured may be lessened. Such a result may be also partly due to the fact that many people with uncertain incomes are reluctant to commit themselves by pledge to a plan running through a year. Probably not over thirty-three per cent of an average church membership can usually be got thus to enroll themselves. In cases where such a condition exists, and where the offerings for foreign missions are thus far too small, will it not be possible-nay, is it not the duty of the church-to afford special opportunity to those who contribute little or nothing to this cause on any regular plan, to do so by a supplementary plan? If training in methodical giving is fundamentally important in the life of a church, may it not be as true that for a considerable period in the life of a large portion of our membership provision needs to be made also for those who if they give at all must do so in some other way? The best plan provides for both the methodical and the occasional giving. Then between now and March 31, whenever consistent,* let pastors preach a broad and informing discourse on the world-interests of the Kingdom, closing with a statement of the fruits, promise and needs of the work of the Missionary Union, and give opportunity for a supplementary offering; and we cannot doubt that large financial gains will be made. And they are greatly needed. The practical problem of this year is to maintain the current work of the year without a deficit, and also to pay the debt of $54,000 of last year. *These suggestions are not designed to interfere with the wheel plan where that prevails. Heury C. Mabie Home Secretary. .. A MID-YEAR LETTER .. TO OUR PASTORS AND CHURCHES, GREETING: The divine Word invites whosoever hath an ear to hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. The message given by the Spirit in recent reports from the great harvest field will hardly need an interpreter. We congratulate you that statistics showing so gratifying advancement can truthfully be printed, and that revelations of so self-denying Christian character, cheerful, hopeful, persistent in the face of whatever discouragements and difficulties, have been made. God has done great things for us whereof we are glad. He has given us a great inheritance from the heathen world. He has set open wide doorways of opportunity. He has given us workers whose spirit as a polished mirror reflects the very beauty and glory of our Lord. And we are glad to express our conviction that He is moving His people to an increase of offerings for the support of His work for the nations. The first half of our financial year has shown an advance of about $22,000 as compared with the same months of the preceding year. And what of the months remaining? It is of this we would write you, confident of your interest and of your desire that the facts as we know them shall be put clearly before you. The last year closed with an indebtedness of upwards of $54,000. The present year, ending with the thirty-first day of March next, must bring an increase of twice that amount, or of $108,000, if the expenditure of the year is to be met and the indebtedness removed. We know that you will feel that it would be a sad misfortune to increase or to continue indebtedness when in every land to which God's providence has led us white harvest fields are waiting, and laborers are few and worn with toil. But our purpose in writing you in this mid-year season is particularly to call your attention to the deeper character of the question confronting the work of the Union, as it is more and more plainly revealing itself to those most familiar with the work. This question is not one relating merely to financial results. |