tters will be
written by a missionary during the year, giving information directly from
the field.

Here is an urgent need outside our usual lines of expense, for which we
seek new and additional help--not the diversion of regular annual
contributions. We break the fund into shares of $50 that many may have
part in it. Early response either in cash, or pledges to be cashed by
July, 1891, will result in giving many of these young people the
advantages of Christian education during the present school year.

Woman's Work In North Carolina
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We have a Woman's Missionary Meeting once a month; it began last November,
with six members; there are now eleven. We have, too, a Mission Band,
which many of the older scholars have joined as associate members. It is
held fortnightly, after the Sunday school, and generally the whole
congregation stay to hear what is going on.

Last Sunday morning we went to Pekin, starting at 8 A.M. It is a drive of
fifteen miles through turpentine forests, and the roads are very rough; we
go up hill and down all the way, three creeks to cross and one river.
Across this there is a bridge, rather originally constructed. We go down a
steep and sharp curve, on the edge of high banks, and then through a
covered bridge across the rushing stream, which is seen between the foot
planks, and we are thankful to get across without any backing on our
horse's part. The woods are very lovely just now, very few wild flowers,
but such a variety of foliage, and we notice a beautiful flowering shrub,
called "ivory "; it is a mass of delicate pink or white blossoms. These
turpentine forests are by no means all pines, there are many varieties of
oak.

The Sunday-school at Greenlake church, Pekin, is held at 9 A. M. Our
object this morning is to meet the children and teachers, before they
disperse, and organize a Mission Band. The little church, or rather
schoolhouse, is situated on a hill, and there is a fine view of the
rolling country; only this morning one longs for a little shade. One of
our former scholars (now working in the turpentine) comes out and takes
our horse.

The school is just over, and we hear there is to be preaching at 11; it is
now 10:15, so we ask the pupils to stay. We sing and then Miss Bechan
explains about foreign missions and mission bands. They give in their
names and appoint officers, agreeing to meet twice a month. They have also
a Woman's Missiona