Do not grow slack and let it run down; if you do, we fear your religion will run down with it. It is the hope of the church to sustain the cause. Should not all our churches and brethren commence anew with the new year? Settle up the present year promptly. If you can not get the money, put your note into the treasury, payable to it, and redeem it with the cash as soon as possible. Start out with the new year as God hath prospered you. Has your property fallen? change your figures. Has your health failed? let your personal be less. Have you prospered, and increased your property? Have you a better chance to raise means? Have you got your heart and hand open a little wider? Then come up on your figures. But don't pledge unless you mean to pay; and what you do pledge, don't get slack and fail to pay. Put your figures just as you should, and then feel that sacred honor is pledged, and have sufficient self-respect to promptly meet your pledges. You that are coming out minus this year should not be discouraged and do nothing. Do something. Put your figures where you can meet them without fail. "Upon the first day of the week," says Paul, "let every one of you lay by him in store as God hath prospered him." Amen.