cutta." It lasted a whole week. We hoped that we should be able to send Miss Margery Melcher, who was then the General Secretary at the University of Chicago, as our student secretary in the Young Women's Christian Association of Calcutta. We raised the money that we aimed to raise $800 during that week.

Every means were used to put the missionary cause before the women of the university: the college paper, attractive posters, and a mass meeting; and we ended the week with a large dinner, called the "Chicago-Calcutta dinner." That was one of the most unusual gatherings I ever have attended-unusual because about twenty women of the university spoke on what that week had meant to them, and many of them were women who had had no idea that they should ever be interested in such a subject as foreign missions.

One of the girls rose and said that she had always connected foreign missionary societies with little old ladies who wore bonnets and went to a meeting and stayed all day, carrying their luncheons in paper boxes; but she added that she was thankful to say that during the week of the campaign she had had her whole mind and heart changed on that subject.

And so I say to-day, for the sake of those who have not made the venture, that it is not an impossible thing to have your own secretary in a foreign field. It is not only not an impossible thing, but you will find that it would be the greatest stimulus in a spiritual way to the life of your Association. It is certainly of immeasurable value to us, and we look forward this year with great joy to the responsibility of raising $900 to support Miss Melcher and the expenses of her position in Calcutta, and we hope that every woman in the university will have a share in it.

Last year we used the method of the calendar instead of the clock. Three dollars a day were necessary to support her in Calcutta. A great many girls took not only one day but the whole week to help in raising the money; other girls took part of one day; and it was most interesting to see the names go down in the little spaces allotted for the days. This year we hope that every one of the twelve hundred women will have some share in supporting Miss Melcher in her noble work in India.

MICHIGAN AND ARABIA

FRANK OLMSTEAD, ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN

FIRST let me give a word of explanation concerning our college mission slogan: "Michigan and Arabia."

We have in Arabia three physicians, two engineers, two literary students, and one graduate nurse. Three are self-supporting, three are supported by the Arabian Mission of New York City, and two

are supported by our Students' Christian Association, comprising the Young Men's and the Young Women's Christian Associations.

This whole project is the result of the Rochester Convention of four years ago; therefore, you will see that these conventions have have raised four thousand dollars, about a thousand dollars of which comes from the student body. The rest has been raised in large measure through the efforts of the students themselves, or the officers of the Young Men's Christian Association.

I have taken from Mr. Mott's report five of the main objects of mission study in our colleges which he outlined. First, the enlisting of new recruits; secondly, the training of missionary candidates; thirdly, the preparation of intelligent leadership for the home base; fourthly, the promotion of missionary giving, and finally, the multiplying of missionary intercessors.

You will see at a glance that our having such a project as this, with eight of our Michigan graduates across the water at the head of the Persian Gulf, means a tremendous amount in relation to every one of these five objectives. If you will connect every one of these points with that project, you cannot help seeing its significance; but I will speak of two points in particular, and try to put especial emphasis on them.

Let us consider first the preparation of intelligent leaders for the home base. We had in our campaign last year three hundred men and women of the university working out on the campus. These people gave their time and their money; and, by the way, one of our best men in the university-who has spoken before audiences of thousands of people, and who won the National Peace Oratorical Contest one year-said that he walked up and down in front of the first house he was to visit for half an hour before he could muster courage enough to go in to see a fellow and ask him for a dollar! After a man gives of himself in that way, he has an interest in the project. I will add that these three hundred people have received training in missionary leadership that will make them go out charged with enthusiasm, and will give them peculiar ability to organize work in their home churches, or wherever they are; it will give them that little knack of initiative which is so essential to

success.

Secondly, I wish to emphasize the importance of the multiplying of missionary intercessors. I do not think we can overestimate the importance of that branch of the work. Perhaps I need not emphasize it, after the talks that we have had in Convention Hall; but it is hard for some of us to grasp it. I want to tell you, however, that at the University of Michigan a good many persons have overcome that peculiar mental difficulty of objective prayer just because of our undertaking in Busrah, Arabia. One fellow said, "I can see how prayer would go up and come right down, but I can't see how it can go up here and come down over there. That is beyond me."

Most of us have that trouble, do we not? But we must believe in prayer; we must have faith that our prayers help Charles Shaw, Philip Haines, Minnie Holzhauser, and Dr. Van Flack and his wife, working over in Arabia. When we know that those friends whom we have known on the campus need our help, and that the only way we can help them during the year is by prayer, we feel an irresistible impulse to pray; and we know that we are enabled to see the results of our prayers.

I should like to mention one more point which compels recognition of the reality in religion by bringing before the student body a consecrated life in all its sublime heroism. I wish you could have stood with me among a body of more than two thousand students in University Hall, and have seen Miss Holzhauser, highly trained in many lines of work, stand up before that gathering and outline how clearly she realized the hardships that she was going to face, yet saying simply and with positive conviction that she would go happily, gladly, willingly, because she knew that she was protected by the loving care of our Heavenly Father. The self-surrender to the cause was perhaps the richest contribution that our enterprise made to student life last year.

FACTORS THAT OVERCOME PROVINCIALISM

The Friendship of Foreign Students

The Influence of Oriental Students in our Colleges

The Influence of Addresses on Missions

The Influence of Addresses by Missionaries, Travelers, and Publicists

Mission-Study as a Factor

Missionary Literature as a Factor

The Usefulness of Missionary Literature

The Promotion of Missionary Intelligence among Students in

Normal Schools

Experiences in the British Movement.