Mohonk was shown at its best by
three days of bright and bracing weather. The welcome of Mr. and Mrs.
Smiley to their increased number of guests, who taxed to the utmost
limits the accommodations of the large establishment, was as cordial
and genial as ever. The hearty and enthusiastic vote of thanks,
the only compensation permitted, was a far less reward than the
gratification of their own benevolent feelings in doing good; and that
gratification is probably to be enhanced by the calling together of
another Conference in the early summer in behalf of a still larger
class of our needy fellow-citizens than the Indians.

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NOTES FROM NEW ENGLAND.

A good friend of the American Missionary Association in a New England
village recently greatly stirred up the interest of the people in
behalf of our work, through a missionary society which she organized
among the children. They had meetings for sewing, preparing articles
for a box, and then a fair, in which they sold other articles that
they had made, out of which they gathered a considerable sum of money.
The interest went far beyond the children. A gentleman, not a member
of the church, who had never been interested in missionary work, was
stirred up by the solicitation of the children, and gave both time
and money to their effort. He afterwards said to a good lady who
inaugurated the movement, "I am glad I have given to this cause; it
makes me feel good, and I want to keep right on giving." That is the
way it affects every one when the heart and pocket-book are open to
these missionary objects. It makes them feel good, and stirs up a
desire to continue the process.

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The Christian Endeavor Societies of New England are assisting nobly in
the work of the American Missionary Association. One society pledges
itself to support a missionary in our field for a year. Another makes
one of its number a Life Member of our Association, contributing
thirty dollars. Still another brings in a handsome collection recently
taken, and still another devotes the prayer meeting evening to
thorough study upon the work that is being done through the A.M.A.,
in the needy and destitute portions of our country. One young man who
spoke at the last meeting spent a portion of his vacation in studying
up the work among the Highlanders of the South, and gave the results
of his study at their meeting. And why should not