FINANCIAL.
This month brings around the close of another fiscal year. Our balances will be struck on the 30th of September, and we are exceedingly anxious that all parties, either churches or individuals, who have intended to contribute to our work during the current year, should do so as early as possible. Our appeal is that you give to this cause liberally as the Lord may have prospered you. Our receipts for the nine months to June 30th were very encouraging, but the receipts for July, the first month of the last quarter, have not been as large as we had reason to hope. The increase over July of last year has been only fourteen per cent, instead of twenty-five per cent., the amount necessary to carry forward the additional work we have undertaken. But we trust that our friends will enable us to meet these appropriations without embarrassing our treasury. Every dollar received during the next thirty days will help us to meet our pressing demands, and possibly save us from closing the year with debt.