er tour of six weeks was to be made in Michigan. We
were then on our way to the Grand River Conference at Allendale,
where we found a hearty welcome. In this Conference there is a branch
of the State Woman's Home Missionary Society, a society already more
than a year old and organized on the same broad platform as that
adopted in Wisconsin.

Before the meeting of the Southern Michigan Conference we were able
to visit, in rapid succession, the churches at Middleville,
Vermontville, and Olivet, in all of which an evident sympathy in the
various forms of our work led me to hope that increased effort might
result from this new presentation of our needs.

In the Southern Conference we found also a branch organization, union
in its character, and so efficiently officered that all is likely to
be done that can be accomplished through it. Nowhere did I find
stancher friends for our Christian educational work in the South than
in this conference.

At this point a short break occurred in our Michigan tour. A rapid
journey brought us to Lake City in time to spend one day at the
Minnesota State Association--just to grasp the hands of our Minnesota
friends and be assured of their continued helpfulness. The Woman's
Home Missionary Society voted that at the next annual meeting the
constitution should be reconsidered, with a view to enlarging its
borders and including all the benevolent societies of our home work.
The giving of a year's notice before any change can be made is
required by the constitution itself.

We took up the work in Michigan again at St. Joseph, and from there
went to the Kalamazoo Association. We found here, as elsewhere, that
these autumn conferences are generally held with the smaller and less
accessible churches, where the attendance of ladies is necessarily
limited, and we must, therefore, give our message to the pastors,
charging them with the responsibility of carrying it to the ladies of
their churches.

Before the next conference we were able to take in our plan the
central points, Jackson, Ann Arbor, Flint and Lansing, and when we
went up from there to Nashville to the Marshall Conference we felt
that we were meeting old friends in the pastors and people, at whose
homes we had already been.

Another tour through Kalamazoo, Allegan, Owosso, Port Huron, St.
Clair, Detroit, Union City and Chelsea brought us much the same
experiences as before.

We came finally to the large Eastern Conference, which