Left Over by Editor

"Left Over."

By Editor

IN almost every printing-house where periodicals are published, galleys will be found headed "Overlay," or "Left Over." It means that there was not room enough in the previous issue, and therefore they are left over until later ones. It does not necessarily mean that they are inferior in any way. Many times they are really superior to those printed. Sometimes they are matter that will keep. Sometimes exigencies in make-up leave them out, so that try as one will, it is impossible to get them in of the length that they are. These are some of the difficulties we have met with our present issue. We did not want to leave over any of the excellent things which had been put in type for this number, but we find ourselves compelled to leave out several excellent appeals from various fields. For instance, from the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, the appeal of H. F. Graf, the conference president, is omitted. Also from Mr. F. W. Spies on the "Outlook in Brazil." Both of these are in a way covered by the comprehensive article by the superintendent of South American work, Mr. F. W. Westphal. Yet the great South American fields deserve more space than we were able to give. Porto Rico and Central America are also left over. The articles on Mexico and other Spanish countries apply well to these, and yet we would have been glad to present before our readers the appeal of Brother H. C. Goodrich of British Honduras, as well also a little note from the superintendent of the Korean work, F. W. Field. All these are equally good with those we have presented, all of them appealing touchingly, earnestly, strongly, to the readers.

Gentlemen's Dormitory, Washington (D. C.) Foreign Mission Seminary. This is but one of several buildings, beautifully situated in the suburbs of our national capital, devoted to the exclusive work of preparing consecrated men and women in the quickest time consistent with what such a preparation ought to be, for the great needy mission fields of the world. It is, we understand, full to overflowing in this its first year. Catalog may be obtained by addressing Prof. H. R. Salisbury, Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C.

We wish it were in our power to condense in this little note the appeals from these devoted missionaries in South America, Central America, Porto Rico, Korea, and other mission fields from which we have not heard in time. We had hoped to have space in this number to supplement by up-to-date notes these excellent reports since the time they were written. Wonderful things have occurred in some of the fields. For instance, news comes that the work is established on a good basis in Sierra Leone; a good strong church has been organized. New mission stations have been opened among the colored people of South Africa by the earnest zeal of Brethren Sturdevant and Anderson. New missionaries have gone to other fields. Work in India and China is rapidly advancing. The Mountain Mission Home in the Himalayas is purchased, paid for, and dedicated; and from all over the great field, east, west, north, and south, come songs of victory, in connection with appeals for more workers.

God's great work is onward, and all the powers of darkness can not check it. While He will not force men to serve Him, He will send forth His message to every nation, tongue, and people, and those who try to hinder it, as in olden days, help to spread it more widely. And so in this number we are only echoing forward in a feeble way the ringing cry which comes to us from all parts of the world, that the great everlasting Good Tidings of God is going forward to the nations, strong and loud as an angel's cry, and souls in darkness are responding to it. Let us be glad and rejoice.