the use of it as long as the work continues in that place,--that
is, if the building lasts so long. We were paying $12.00 per month for
a low, ill-located and ill-built, untidy shanty, yet the best place
that could be had. We now pay $8.00 per month for a neat, commodious
building which furnishes not only an attractive school-room, but
living rooms also, for which our brethren pay a small rent, and thus
make for themselves something very like a Christian home. Four
of these brethren were recently baptised and received to the
Congregational Church.

No mention has yet been made in these columns of the new mission
house in Oakland which we hold by the same tenure as that at
San Buenaventura. It could not be better located, is a very neat
structure, substantial also, and planned expressly for our work. It,
too, is rented to us at cost. A hint of what goes on there, and of
what goes _out_ from there, aside from the labors of the school,
may be found in these few sentences from a letter of Yong Jin: "One
scholar promised to be Christian was two weeks (i.e. two weeks ago),
and he will join our Association to-night. I hope his soul will be
saved. I had preaching on the street last Sunday and before last
Sunday. I shall go next Sunday too. I hope you pray for me and this
school. May [may be] I can conquer the evil and bring more number to
the school and to the Association. I believe God has a great power."

BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.

MISS D.E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.

We are glad to see the State Organizations increasing. Now let every
one become a working Union, bringing funds into the treasury of the
American Missionary Association, toward meeting the imperative needs
of its Woman's Work, and we shall rejoice indeed.

OUR INDUSTRIAL TEACHERS are heavily taxed just now in
providing sewing material for classes. We need basted patchwork, and
basted under garments for the sewing departments throughout the
field, but especially for Anniston and Mobile, Alabama; Memphis and
Jonesboro, Tennessee; Tougaloo, Mississippi; and Austin, Texas. One
missionary writes, "I find my classes very large. In beginning I have
about one hundred girls in sewing, about thirty in Household Economy
and Cooking, and later I shall have a large class in Nursing. This
work added to the care of the Mission Home will, I fear, be more than
I can carry, unless I have help, and I do not see how I can let one
bit of the work stop. I am sure there are ple