cause in various stages of
development. It is not strange that in some places the ladies did not
even so much as know that there was a Woman's Bureau. The Bureau is
in its infancy, and the fact of its existence has not yet taken hold
of us all in any practical way. In many churches--not by any means
always the larger ones--I found an intelligent appreciation of the
needs and claims of the South.

We have had many workers from these States of the West, or rather of
the Interior, and when I had the pleasure of going into a community
that had sent out one or more to the work in some part of our field,
I found always an enthusiastic interest and a warm response to my
appeals.

My introduction to the warm-hearted Christian people of Wisconsin was
at the State Association, met at Racine Sept. 24. Finding on my
arrival a large representation of ladies gathered to celebrate the
anniversary of their Foreign Missionary Society, I felt sure that
there must be also an active sympathy for the work in our own land,
and I was not disappointed. On the following day, at a special
gathering of the ladies, a State society was organized, whose range
of objects should include all the benevolent societies of our
denomination, working in this country, leaving conferences and local
organizations at liberty to contribute through one treasurer or
several treasurers, to any of these societies.

After attending this "gathering of the tribes" it was my privilege to
go by invitation to a few of the towns in southern Wisconsin. Of
course the State organization has not yet stretched out its arms over
the State in the formation of local societies. I can but think that
Beloit, Whitewater, Geneva and Kenosha will be among the first to
take definite steps in this direction. Wisconsin has by special
contributions from her ladies supported a missionary in the South for
several years and is still doing so. When through regular channels of
organization they shall make this a part of their regular yearly
charity, the arrangement can be more permanently relied upon by the
Woman's Bureau. Many, I think, will endorse the sentiment of a
prominent lady in Michigan who said to me: "I think the ladies of
each one of these Western States ought to support one or more
teacher-missionaries under the Association."

On the 9th of October, at Grand Rapids, I joined the representative
of the Woman's Department of the American Home Missionary Society,
with whom the long