Financial
The first six months of our fiscal year have passed. The receipts for this period are from collections $101,509.44; from estates, $101,179.63; from income, $4,262.91; from tuition, $22,729,32; and from the United States Government for Indian Schools, $8,946.07. Total, $238,627.37.
The meaning of these figures is clear. We rejoice in the enlarging beneficence of the living and of the dead, who live unto God. The tremendous pressure of our providential work is nearer to being felt and met by the American people than ever before. What the Association has done hitherto is no measure of what it has constantly been called to do and is now called to do. It can now meet a few more of the immediate demands urged upon it from its vast and necessitous field. As between faith and fear, we do not hesitate to take the way of faith. We thank God and take courage. Hitherto the Lord hath helped us; He will bless us.
To our living friends we must say: Our work, like all living things, either grows or decays. Those who have been called hence, within these [pg 142] six months, have left us, by their legacies, their bidding to go forward with a growing work. Except by your support, this growth will mean swift, subsequent decay. Our largest work is in a field teeming with great dangers and yet with great possibilities of success. The success depends upon prompt, vigorous and permanent increase. It is yours to empower us to meet in some good degree the call of the hour and of God.