in the crowded life of the city. At the old home and church they knew everybody, and they were held to the congregation by traditional connection, by family ties and social bonds, but in the city, where all is strange, they may lapse altogether unless they are strongly attached to the Church as an institution or are discovered and welcomed by some who are interested. The same is true as to people moving out to frontier communities, for unless they come into touch with the Church soon after their arrival there is great danger of their dropping out altogether, as every one who has worked on the frontier knows. The trunks of such immigrants have been called "dead letter offices," on account of the fact that somewhere in the bottoms of those necessary accompaniments of travel the church letter lies forgotten amid the stress of new interests. The Stranger Secretary may save the Church from enormous loss, and in doing so will be performing an exceedingly important task. May she have great success.

The Loggers' Mission in British Columbia, where there is a coast line of 7,000 miles and thousands of men in the lumber camps, has been mentioned in the general chapter on that Province, but some detail may be given here. It was begun, as stated, by the Mount Pleasant Presbyterian Church, Vancouver, but growing

to an enterprise too large to be financed by a single congregation, the Woman's Home Missionary Society has taken it over. It was a considerable undertaking, but this year the Society is contributing $5,000 to this worthy object. Half of this will go to provide a boat, which is intended to be a floating church and hospital combined. The plan is to have a missionary teacher and a physician on this boat, a fine combination, and one that will find welcome from the camps on the coast, for their mission will be to heal and help and not to exploit. We may confidently expect large results from this highly significant and important enterprise. The men of the logging camps as I knew them on that coast are of a manly, rugged, straightforward type. They deserve and will appreciate this special recognition of their value on the part of the Church.

In this brief review we must not overlook the Childerhose Fund, founded by the W.H.M.S. in memory of the devoted and beloved Superintendent of Missions in Northern Ontario. From this fund, which ought to be augmented, loans are made to help provide a church, a tent lot, or a manse wherever such are needed. Anyone who knows what immense service has been done in the West by the Church and Manse Building Fund in giving visibility

to the cause of religion in every community, will hope that the Childerhose Fund may become large enough to do a similar work in the great New North.

It remains only to mention in this chapter on women's work the Home in Toronto for the training of women who desire to give themselves to the service of Christ in the Church, either on the home field or abroad. This work was begun by the W.F.M.S. as the Ewart Missionary Training Home, being named after Mrs. Ewart, for many years the able and devoted leader of the Society. In recent years the scope of the Home has been widened to include the training of Home Mission workers and deaconesses; and as the name was not distinctive enough to those who did not know Mrs. Ewart's work, a change was made and it is now called the Presbyterian Missionary and Deaconess Training Home. It is now owned by the Church at large. The course is two years in duration and consists of Bible training, doctrinal teaching, some medical instruction, and practical work in the city. The institution affords opportunity to girls and women who feel themselves called to a work of this description to receive training, and there can be no doubt as to the great need for such workers, both at home and abroad. On the whole, the page of our Church's life on which

the history of the Women's Societies is written is one of the brightest in the record. As the work of the two Societies is much interwoven, and as in the interests of the home and the congregation all unnecessary duplication of organizations ought to be avoided, the amalgamation of these two splendid Societies into one has been seriously considered. With them would also be united the Woman's Missionary Society of Montreal, which, in Home and Foreign Missions and French Evangelization, has done highly successful and widely influential work. In fact, the existence and success of the Montreal Society, with its wide programme, had much to do with bringing the amalgamation question to the front. If it is accomplished, the concentrated efforts of the women of our Church throughout Canada, through the new organization, will, without doubt, usher in a period of immense progress in the undertakings of Jesus Christ.

CHAPTER X.

PROBLEMS FROM SEA TO SEA.

To those of us who were born in the great prairie region, and who remember the simple life of the pioneer settlements, the swiftness with which social problems have rushed on this country is rather disturbing. But the problems are here and they will grow into ever larger dimensions in proportion to our neglect of their presence. Some people would prefer leaving problems alone because problems necessitate thought and work, and some people do not like these. But the more we let problems alone the more they decline to let us alone, and even in self-defence we have to deal with them. But that should not be our main motive for action. We are the Lord's servants engaged in carrying out the Lord's commission, and our business under Him is to make a better world. To make a better world we must make better men and women, and to make better men and women we must reach their hearts with the Gospel, and give them an environment which will not choke the seed sown and render it unfruitful. All our social problems are, at the centre, moral