vidence. While preparing for her life work,
Miss Beyer had done considerable missionary labor, and a bright
prospect was before her--shall I not rather say _is_ before her."

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Bureau of Woman's Work.

MISS D. E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.

ANNUAL MEETING.

One of the interesting sessions of the American Missionary Association
at Detroit was the Woman's Meeting, which was held from two to four
o'clock on Thursday afternoon before the same large audience that had
already listened for two days to the varied accounts of work on the
mission field.

The devotional exercises were led by Miss Mallory, a deaconess of the
First Church. Six of the Women's State Organizations were reported,
viz. Maine, by Mrs. Woodbury, president; Massachusetts and Rhode
Island, by Miss Bridgman, treasurer; Ohio, by Mrs. Brown, treasurer;
Illinois, by Mrs. Claflin, president; Minnesota, by Miss Brickett,
delegate; Michigan, by Mrs. Davis, delegate. We were privileged in
having with us other officers of some of these Unions, Michigan
especially being represented by president, secretary and treasurer.
All brought words of hope, and some of the crisp sentences from the
lips of these devoted home workers for missions will not soon be
forgotten by those who heard them.

Following the reports from State Unions, Mrs. Sydney Strong, of
Cincinnati, president of the Ohio Union, gave a very interesting and
helpful address on woman's work throughout the country. Then came the
annual report of the Bureau of Women's Work, and missionary addresses
from the field. The sweet Jubilee singing by the young women from
Nashville, Tenn., added to the enjoyment of the occasion.

We regret that the limit of the magazine pages will not allow the
addresses in full, but we hope to furnish some of them in pamphlet
form. The paper by Miss Mitchell, of Blowing Rock, N. C., will be
printed thus.

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Following the woman's meeting, a children's meeting was conducted,
which held the close attention of the little ones for an hour with
vivid descriptions of the children of Alaska and China, the Indian
boys and girls, and of the mountain and negro children of the South.

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REPORT OF SECRETARY.

We come to this Annual Meeting with hearts full of gratitude to the
many friends who have stood by this work in its emergency, and with
praise to Him who daily bea