APPEAL IN BEHALF OF THE WORK IN LONDON.
NOTWITHSTANDING we have recently submitted to you a carefully-studied, itemized statement showing the amount of publications required for the next twelve months and the necessary means to produce them, we thought it fitting to write you more fully relative to this important matter. Your Advisory Committee have very carefully and prayerfully considered this whole question, and we may say that after a reconsideration of the figures submitted to you, we are satisfied that if we have erred in the matter it has been in not making them as large as the case will warrant. The figures are based upon:— 1. The present number of canvassers, making no allowance for any increase of our working force in these fields; and, 2. Upon the present efficiency of the workers, quite a per cent. of whom are beginners at the work, and who, we trust, will become more successful as they get an experience. The force in Australia is steadily increasing, and the same is true of Africa; and we shall be disappointed if in the next six months it is not materially increased here also. We have every reason to believe that it will be.