China: Rev.
WILLARD SCOTT, D.D.
Plea for Hope and Courage: Rev. W. E. C. WRIGHT, D.D.
Educational Work in the South: President W. G. BALLANTINE.
Mountain School Work: Prof. C. M. STEVENS.
After Twenty-five years in Negro Education: Prof. A. K. SPENCE.
The Financial Problem: Rev. J. M. STURTEVANT, D.D.
Indian Work: Rev. G. W. REED.
Story of a Young Indian: JONAS SPOTTED-BEAR.
Reciprocal Interests and Responsibilities of the Indian and White
Man: Rev. NEHEMIAH BOYNTON, D.D.
Southern Church Missions: Rev. H. M. LADD, D.D.
Progress and Needs of the Negro Race: Rev. GEORGE W. MOORE.
New Mission Churches: Rev. GEORGE H. HAINES.
Brothers and a Story: Rev. JOSIAH STRONG, D.D.
A Plea for the Chinese Work of the A. M. A.: Rev. J. K. MCLEAN, D.D.

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JUBILEE BELL BANK.

The American Missionary Association has prepared a Bell Bank for the
use of Sunday-schools, Christian Endeavor Societies, etc., which it is
ready to distribute freely on application.

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MEETING OF THE WOMAN'S BUREAU.

As usual, the January number of the MISSIONARY is devoted to the
addresses and papers delivered at the meeting of the Bureau of Woman's
Work, at Detroit, Mich. We are sure our readers will be gratified with
the reports which we give of these very telling papers and speeches.
They set forth distinctly the work of this Bureau and the needs and
prospects of the various peoples to whom its labors are devoted. The
Bureau is commending itself more and more as a valuable assistant in
reaching the hearts and moving the sympathies of the Christian women
of our churches, thus securing enlarged contributions.

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CLIPPINGS FROM FIELD CORRESPONDENCE.

THE SOUTH.

From Allen Normal School, Thomasville, Ga.:

Every year of experience in the work strengthens my conviction of the
uncounted value of the work done in the American Missionary
Association schools in just the matter of fitting young men and women
to go to these country places, to carry to the multitudes of their own
race, whose lives are miserably darkened by ignorance and
superstition, the light which they have received.

From Lincoln School, Meridian, Miss.:

God is giving us great encouragement. No year has yet brought us as
great pleasure as this in seeing the fruits of our work. Eight of our
last year's graduates entered Tougalo