,
convened in Santa Cruz. They are as follows:

Nineteen schools, as against 15 the last year; total enrollment of
scholars, 2,823, as against 2,567 the former year; 40 teachers, of
whom 14 were Chinese, as against 31 teachers the previous year, of
whom 11 were Chinese; number of those who have professed to cease
from idolatry, 175, as against 156 the year before; number of those
who have given evidence of conversion, 121, as against 106 the former
year, and the whole number of those who have turned to Christ during
the history of the Mission, 400, who are scattered over the United
States and in China. We hear of many of them who are doing good work
for the Master and for the salvation of their countrymen.

Toward the expense of the Mission during the past year the Chinese
themselves have contributed $730.05.

I would like to have you remember the name of our church. It is
"Bethany." Remember us in your prayers, for God has laid a great work
upon us. We started in much weakness, but God has been with us and
blessed us. We have felt His presence in our Bethany as Martha and
Mary of old did in theirs. We have heard the Master's voice saying
unto us frequently, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the
least of these, My brethren, ye have done it unto Me."

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MOUNTAIN WHITE WORK IN KENTUCKY.

BY MRS. A. A. MYERS.

There is an unnoticed class of people dwelling almost in the very
centre of the settled portion of the United States. "Our brother in
black" has been held up to the view of two continents for the last
fifty years. And what is America going to do with him and for him,
has been a question which has interested the whole civilized world.
This same question for a still longer time has been propounded in
regard to the red man of the forest, and in later years concerning
the Chinese. And right nobly has the Christian brotherhood evidenced
its purpose to make men of these degraded classes. But until recently
it has escaped the notice of these Christian workers that we have
another class as needy perhaps as any. No spice of romance is
connected with them. No barbarous tale of cruelty could be told to
awaken sympathy in them. They are simply poor people, who during
slavery were unable to obtain large plantations and so were driven by
the arrogant Bluegrass slaveholder on the one side, and the greedy
cotton-planter on the other, back into the mountains, where they are
s