Measuring Mission Costs Against Worldly Spending
FROM San Francisco we hear of the expenditure of $56,000 in welcoming home one regiment of Californians, and the cost of the triumphal arch alone, built in New York for the Dewey parade, is $30,000. Last year the work of the whole West India Mission was carried on for just about what that arch cost, while that of the Peking Mission, or of six other missions that might be named, was conducted on a sum considerably less. Of all her twenty-seven missions, only two receive an annual outlay from the Presbyterian Church beyond what was lavished on that single regiment. When the church is estimating the price of sending the Gospel to a lost world, she must hold up her measuring line against such facts as these. —Woman's Work for Woman.