nty of good friends at
the North who will gladly help when they know."

WE HAVE ADDED a special industrial teacher to the force in
Trinity School at Athens, Alabama. Miss Perkins writes: "I am charmed
with the school and the inside of the building. I wish each day that
our Northern friends could look in at Chapel. I think they would feel
repaid in great measure by the goodly sight. I was glad to find a
Christian Endeavor Society in the school, it seemed so like home."

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WOMAN'S WORK IN NORTH CAROLINA.

BY MISS A.E. FARRINGTON.

On Thursday, Oct. 3d, a Woman's Missionary Union was organized for the
Congregational churches of North Carolina. A year ago, at the meeting
of the State Association in Wilmington, the subject was discussed, and
a committee was appointed to confer with the ladies of the churches
in regard to a local organization in each church. The plan met with
favor, and on coming together this year it was found that nearly every
church reported a missionary society in some form. All were therefore
ready for the State Union, when the Association of Congregational
Churches convened in the little country church at Oaks. As there was
no chapel or church parlor to be placed at the disposal of the ladies,
they withdrew to the grove, and there under the tall, symmetrical
oaks by the veranda of the little mission home of Miss Douglass, the
organization was effected with the aid of Miss Emerson, of New York,
who was present.

The following evening a public meeting was held at which reports were
heard from the local societies. The dark countenances were light with
eager interest, as they listened to the account of the work done
by the women. One told of a society, organized in February with two
members who became President and Treasurer. The numbers soon increased
to eight, all of them hard-working women, one of them the mother of
twelve children for whom she found it difficult to provide, yet that
society reported $10.61 as the result of their eight months' work.

Another reported a weekly Bible reading in connection with the Woman's
Society, at which one who could read took the Bible while others
gathered around, and "as they got to understand the Word" they spoke
to one another of the work of the Lord in their own hearts.

Report was made of a contribution to the Indian work at Fort Berthold,
also a quilt made by the little girls for a Christmas present to the
Indian