t changes have been wrought. We
point to a scholar and tell her past history, and then thank God that
the seed sown found a lodging place and good soil.

In the cities when the large schools are, and where there are fair
public schools--where there is constant contact with civilized life,
many of the colored people live well. Yet there may be a neat, cosy
home just across the street, and a few doors beyond, a wretched
hovel.

In the country, when the "Teachers' Home" and little school house are
built beside their log cabins, they catch a glimpse of better things
than they have known. The modest house, freshly painted, with the
neat, cosy rooms inside--very simple and plain to us--seems like a
palace to them. They begin to want the same. The children go to
school and come home with wonderful things to tell. Faces and hands
become clean, the woolly heads are more carefully combed, rents are
mended, the girls put on clean collars.

The missionary shows the women how to fashion home-made lounges and
stools, they are covered with some bright calico, the floor is
scrubbed white, and they begin to live. The teacher says that they
must work if they want to have homes, money begins to be saved, and
before you know it little frame houses are going up beside the old
cabin. A good horse or mule, with a bright shiny buggy, takes the
place of the old steer and cart.

Yes, indeed, much has been accomplished. But we had very few workers
in the early days among four million people, although just as many as
could be supported with the means furnished, and to-day, among nearly
seven millions, we have but 336 workers.

Millions sit in darkness right here in our own land. A mighty work is
to be done, and the work in Africa must be done largely by these
people, too.

We need more money; Christian men and women to go forth, and
Christian men and women who are willing to send them. "The harvest
truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. Pray ye therefore the
Lord of the harvest that he will send forth laborers into his
harvest." "He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto
life eternal."

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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY.

The information from the field, to which you have listened, explains
to you the necessity for the organization of a Bureau of Woman's
Work. It was organized in April, 1883, for the purpose, as was then
stated:

1. To give information to the ladies in the chur