VOL. 1, NO. 2                             FEBRUARY, 1897.                                   PAGE 16

Home Frontier and Foreign Missionary Society of the United Brethren in Christ.

OFFICERS AND MEMBERS.

Bishop Milton Wright, D. D., President; Bishop H. T. Barnaby, D. D., Halleck Floyd, D. D., William Dillon, D. D., vice-presidents; Rev. H. J. Becker, Corresponding Secretary; M. F. Keiter, D. D., Treasurer; J. K. Alwood, D. D., C. H. Kiracofe, D. D., Rev. I. M. Tharp, Rev. D. B. Sherk, Rev. Wm. Miller, Rev. C. Bender, Robert Montgomery.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

M. Wright, C. H. Kiracofe, H. J. Becker, M. F. Keiter, Wm. Miller.

CHURCH ERECTION.

The Executive Committee of the Parent Board of Missions are the officers of the Church Erection Society. All business connected with the Board of Missions, or the Church Erection should be addressed to the Corresponding secretary at No. 1618 West Second Street, Dayton. Ohio.

TRACTS AND HELPS.

Send us a one-cent stamp and get the tract on "Christian Giving."

Pastors desiring helps to raise money on their fields, can secure them through the publishing agent. For prices, see Conservator, or write the secretary of the Parent Board.

Address us for good books on missions. We are ready to give advice as to the best missionary literature published.

We keep on hand Self-denial and Missionary Envelopes for the regular collections. They are furnished free.

TO PRESIDING ELDERS, PASTORS AND PEOPLE.

Dear Brethren: We do most urgently request you to immediately send us a club of subscribers for The Missionary Monthly. See Rates Below. If you are not taking it, send for a sample copy and make a canvass for us at once, We are not able to offer large inducements to remunerate you, but the good which will come to our cause will amply reward all who love to see the church "prosper in strengthening her missions and in extending their lines into unoccupied territory. Please send early. Those desiring the first and second numbers of the Monthly should so state it with each order.

The Missionary Monthly.

The Missionary Monthly is published by the Home Frontier and Foreign Missionary Society and The Woman's Missionary Association, of the United Brethren in Christ and is devoted to the dissemination of missionary information among the United Brethren in Christ at Home and Abroad. Also to herald the glad tidings of the extension of the kingdom of the Redeemer throughout the world.

Price, single copy, 50 cents. In clubs of ten, one copy free.

Any persons sending us a club of five will be allowed 25 cents on price of magazine.

Address all orders and monies to The Missionary Monthly, No. 1618 West Second St., or No. 119 North Summit St., Dayton, Ohio.

N. B. We will not be responsible for money sent except by express, money order, or draft.

Contributions for the Monthly should be sent to the departments for which they are intended and addressed to the respective editors of these departments.

Our Publications.

The Christian Conservator, a 20 page religious weekly, devoted to the interests of the United Brethren Church and Moral Reform. An excellent home paper always containing reading of the most interesting character. $1.50 a year, in advance.

SUNDAY-SCHOOL LITERATURE.

Precious Gems, a four-page semi-monthly paper, containing the very best of reading for both old and young, 10 or more 22 cents per copy, per year.

Cheerful Hours, semi-monthly, same style and price as Precious Gems. So arranged that you can have a different paper every Sunday.

Our Wee Ones, (weekly) devoted to the little folks, in which the lessons are made exceptionally plain. 5 or more, 20 cents per copy, per year.

Our Lesson Quarterly, 32 pages and so arranged that the lessons are made exceptionally plain. 10 or more copies, 10 cents per copy, per year.

Our Intermediate Quarterly, 32 pages, for scholars from eight to twelve. 5 copies one year, 40 cents.

Our Teacher's Quarterly, 64 pages. is considered the most complete teacher published, Single copy, 40 cents a year.

Our Practical Commentary, having the lessons for the entire year, nicely bound in cloth, 50 cents a year.

M. F. KEITER, Publisher

112 South Broadway, - - - DAYTON, OHIO.

Missionary Helps, Tracts and Leaflets. Mrs. Gray's Opportunities 2 12
Cents
each
Per
doz.
How it Paid 2 12

How shall Branch and Local Missionary organizations be conducted so as to awaken a general interest in missions?..........................................

2 05 The Responsibility of Not Doing 3 20

Heathen Claims and Christian Duty...............

2 15 Alphabetical Roll Call 2 10

Christian Giving or Divine Rule of Beneficence

5 25 Trifling With a Great Trust 1 10

A Glimpse of the Field Open for Missionary Work................................................

1 05 A Mute Appeal in Behalf of Foreign Missions 2 10

Constitution and Helps

Constitutions and helps, blanks for secretaries, and treasurer's reports, free. Mite-boxes and Blessing boxes 2 cents apiece or 10 cents per dozen. Address all orders to

Mrs. A. R. Kiracofe.

119 North Summit Sreet, Dayton, Ohio.

Trustees and Officers of the Woman's Missionary Association.

PresidentMiss M. M. Titus, Charlotte, Mich.

First Vice-PresidentMrs. Belle Mosier, Hartsville, Ind.

Second Vice-PresidentMiss Lizzie Long, German-town, Ohio.

Third Vice-PresidentMrs. H. L. Conner, Germantown, Ohio.

Corresponding Secretary and TreasurerMrs. A. R. Kiracofe, M. A., Dayton, Ohio.

Recording SecretaryMiss Eva. B. Keiter, Dayton,
Ohio. . . .

Trustees OnlyMrs. Agnes Swank, Dayton Ohio; Miss
Sophia Zehring, Germantown, Ohio; Mrs. Lillie Tweedy,
Dublin, Ind.

Blanks for Treasurers and Secretaries

Parliamentary Leaflets

Mite and Blessing Boxes............................

2 10

Our Suffering Sisters..................................

2 10

The Women of Korea...............................

2 10

Chinese Women........................................

2 10

Indian Women, The..................................

2 05

Mother in Mormondom, A........................

2 15

Mountain Whites......................................

2 15

Mountain People of the South..................

3 20

Mrs. Pickett's Missionary Box..................

2 15

Prayer and Missions..................................

2 25

Thanksgiving Ann....................................

2 15

Relation of Home Mission Work to the World's Evangelization.....................

3 20

A Call to Young Women...........................

2 12

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