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GARLAND, Church House, 13th and Wa nut Sts. Pl. aile plia Do You Ever Use Picture Postals ? A set of twelve, containing the pictures of the following bishops, has just been issued: BISHOP KNIGHT BISHOP ROWE 28c. a Set. Sets cannot be broken Remittance should accompany all orders Order from the PUBLICATION DEPARTMENT 281 Fourth Avenue, New York City MAKING A LANDING IN THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS The cool line of the clounda 1 !- the most part povedy and pronipitous, A few hours I WIN U. The atamor negiratu sume dostanete the ce and sende in a mell Dart to land te puss** 2013 lug derud da in the catre AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY REVIEW OF CHRISTIAN MISSIONS Vol. LXXIV. July, 1909 1 No. 7 THE PROGRESS OF THE KINGDOM W come. ern are con ITH the consecration in May of where the bishops are asking for more Bishop Thomas for Wyoming and clergy. Experience seems to indicate the consecration last month of Bishop that, given the men, the money will Brewster for West Here, then, is a challenge to the Our Completed Colorado all young men who are about entering upon Roll of Mis- the home missionary their work as ordained leaders of the sionary Bishops episcopates ha ve Christian forces. Here are opportuni been filled. Hap- ties of great usefulness for those who, pily, too, every state and territory, ex- having had two or three years' expericept New Mexico and Arizona, now has ence in Eastern dioceses, are willing to at least one bishop of its own. There give a few years to the West. is no overlapping of state by diocesan lines save in the case of New Mexico, Those who are alwhich includes the southwestern corner The Home ready doing this of the state of Texas. It is unques- Missionary a Real pioneer work tionably a great gain have the people Patriot making a of each state and territory feel that they tribution to the life can develop a diocesan organization of the Nation. Their service may often within their own borders. We are con- be rendered in comparatively small fident that this identification of ecclesias- communities, yet it is real and valuable. tical and civil boundaries will not make They are toning up the life of mining for a narrowing diocesanism, but will (amps and making it somewhat easier rather stimulate the people of each dis- for thousands of young engineers, gradutrict to greater efforts for Church ex- ates of colleges and technical schools, to tension and self -support. So far as withstand the temptations of frontier organization is concerned, the Church in life. If the moral tone of the present the more distinctively missionary de- generation of mining camps is vastly partments—No. VI., from the Mississippi higher than that of the camps of thirty River to the Rocky Mountains; No. or forty years ago, it is largely because VII., in the Southwest, and No. VIII., of the work done in the earlier days by on the Pacific Slope-is equipped as the Christian ministers. They cheernever before for aggressive work. Its fully endured the discomforts of pioneer greatest need now is for men. Every- conditions, with no expectation of sud |