humiliating in the highest degree that her Foreign Missions can
only be maintained by ceaseless appeals, by resorting to every
device which ingenuity can suggest for collecting the necessary
funds.
The women of England must feel at such a time a very
peculiar obligation to the women of India, many of them the
widows of men who have shed their blood for England. Will
the parents who have so readily given their sons to the service of
the country show the same readiness to give their daughters to
the service of the Church? Will they not only encourage them
to offer themselves, but provide them with the means for
training, which they would provide as a matter of course to
educate their sons for a secular profession ?
If the younger women are worthily to discharge the tasks
which await them it is of the first importance that opportunities
should be afforded them of obtaining the very best training which
it is possible to provide.
Is it too much to hope that we may some day have a central
college for the special training of Church workers? Such a
college should be on as broad a basis as the Church itself,
embracing considerable variety ‘of thought, and providing considerable
 varieties of training, suited to-the special work for
which the student is preparing. It should by preference be
situated in London, on account of the opportunities which can be
more easily obtained there for education in special subjects, and
experience of widely different types of life and thought. It
should be conducted by a staff of highly qualified teachers of
wide outlook, who would make it their aim to maintain a full and
vigorous Church life among the students, and at the same time
to give them scope for the free development of their powers and
their personality. Every effort should be directed towards
aelping them to train themselves by prayer and study, by the
full exercise of their mental powers, by strenuous application to
their work, to become fit to take positions of responsibility,
Might not the existence of such a college bring home the dignity
of Church work to some of the best women who now turn to
other work because they think that the Church has no use for
what they have to offer ? Many women are now learning for
the first time the reality of living, the joy of effort and selfsacrifice,
 the satisfaction of work well done. When the war is
over much of the work in which they are now engaged will
cease. It is our part to convince them that the Church needs
them as urgently as the country needs them to-day, and that it is
worth while to offer to her service all their quickened powers, all
their enthusiasm, and all their devotion.