n fact, that the privileges we do not enjoy seemed
to sink into insignificance.

Do you think you would be thankful if you had to share a home no larger
than a small bedroom with eleven or twelve brothers and sisters? Could you
give thanks if you had only one suit of clothes and that very ragged; or
if you had to walk four or five miles to school and carry your pockets
full of sweet potatoes to roast in the ashes for your dinner?

Yet we can thank God for health and sunshine and flowers and school and
Junior Endeavor meetings. Indeed, I cannot remember all the things we did
thank Him for this morning. One thing I do remember; we thanked Him for
our voices and the many beautiful hymns we have learned to sing. Oh, how
we do sing! It seems as if we should almost raise the roof sometimes with
our old favorites, "He Arose" and "The Old Ship of Zion."

We have had some very cold mornings. One day Sandy said, "Please, ma'am,
do they send shoes? 'cause I has far to come. I needs ebery ting, but I
wants dem shoes." Poor little boy, he does indeed need "ebery ting." And
there are many others that would fare very badly were it not for the
barrels. There are more than four hundred boys and girls in this school. I
think the heartfelt thanks of these people will call down showers of
blessings on the friends that have provided this school and have been so
prompt in supplying our needs.

WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS.

MAINE.
WOMAN'S AID TO A. M. A.
_State Committee_--Mrs. Ida Vose
Woodbury, Woodfords; Mrs. A. T.
Burbank, Yarmouth; Mrs. Helen Quimby,
Bangor.

NEW HAMPSHIRE.
FEMALE CENT INSTITUTION AND HOME
MISS. UNION.
President--Mrs. Cyrus Sargeant,
Plymouth.
Secretary--Mrs. John T. Perry,
Exeter.
Treasurer--Miss Annie A. McFarland,
Concord.

VERMONT.
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
President--Mrs. J. H. Babbitt, W.
Brattleboro.
Secretary--Mrs. M. K. Paine, Windsor.
Treasurer--Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks, St.
Johnsbury.

MASS AND R. I.
(1)WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY
ASSOCIATION.
President--Mrs. C. L. Goodell, Boston
Highlands, Mass.
Secretary--Mrs. Louise A. Kellogg, 32
Congregational House, Boston.
Treasurer--Miss Annie C. Bridgman, 32
Congregational House, Boston.

CONNECTICUT.
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
President--Miss Ellen R. Camp, 9 Camp
St., New Britain.
Secretary--Mrs. C. T. Millard, 36
Lewis St., Hartford.
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