4th of January, 1888, and
now has twenty-three scholars, but only fourteen or fifteen usual
attend. Several of these scholars have improved greatly. I think that
Mr. J. Kavanagh is a very good teacher, and hope God will give him
good health when he goes to Hot Springs. And also, they had very good
and kind Sunday-school teachers, who taught them how to read and
sing. They sing on Wednesday evening, too. You help our Chinese very
much, for which we thank you, and we never will forget you or your
kindness. I think Mr. Cole is a kind and faithful pastor. He called
our Chinese to come to church to hear him pray and preach, and
sometimes he came to the school-room, and talked to them and taught
them the words of the Lord Jesus." The programme for the evening had
no less than twenty-six different exercises, each one, of course,
brief, but there was much prayer, much singing both in English and
Chinese, one or two brief addresses, much reciting of Scripture and
to close with, refreshments abundant and toothsome, provided by the
pupils for their guests. The work will be resumed when the heats of
summer are past, and I believe that the next year's work will be even
more fruitful than this.

3. My items become chapters in spite of me. I must content myself
with one more, a brief extract from a letter from Mrs. Carrington,
our devoted and successful teacher at Sacramento. "I asked you a few
months ago to pray for Fong Bing. Through the blessing of God, he has
come into the light, and is one of the earnest ones. Now I wish you
to especially remember Lee Young, who wishes to be a Christian, but
thinks he must wait till he returns from China. I hope he will not
wait, but will soon be one with us in Christ." Will our readers join
us in this prayer?

WM. C. POND

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BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.

MISS D.E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.

WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS.

CO-OPERATING WITH THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.

ME.--Woman's Aid to A.M.A., Chairman of Committee, Mrs. C.A.
Woodbury, Woodfords, Me.

VT.--Woman's Aid to A.M.A., Chairman of Committee, Mrs. Henry
Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury. Vt.

VT.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. Ellen Osgood,
Montpelier, Vt.

CONN.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, 171
Capitol Ave., Hartford, Conn.

N.Y.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. William Spalding,
Salmon Block, Syracuse, N.Y.

ALA.--Woman's Missionar