have been the enthusiastic recruiting sergeants,
and still there is demand for more recruits. Who will enlist next?

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In the last "Notes from New England," we recorded the gift of an aged
friend. Now comes this touching letter:

"Dear Sir:--Please find enclosed $5.00 for the A.M. Association, the
Christmas present of a son to a father. The father is eighty-one years
old to-day. He has been with the A.M.A. from its organization, and
wishes its continued prosperity until its great work is accomplished.

Yours truly,

AN OLD-TIME FRIEND."

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Is there any work, North or South, at home or abroad, that requires more
versatile gifts or breadth of training than the work of this
Association? Here are a few lines from the letter of a missionary in
Alabama, which illustrate the many-sidedness of this work:

"I have organized a Woman's Missionary Society. I have an industrial
class for girls, and give them instruction in sewing, in housework on
the principle of the kitchen-garden system, without the practice, as I
have not the articles to use for that purpose. Then a lesson from the
Bible, also, comes in, and some amusement in the way of puzzles. The
girls are pleased to belong to a society of King's Daughters. I have a
class for instructing the women in darning, patching, button-hole making
and so on. We have a Society of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union
in which I have the Department of Social Purity.

"You will be able to believe that my time is pretty fully occupied. I
rejoice that I am able to be here, for I am never so happy as when I am
engaged in this beloved work."

Is not here a splendid field for missionary work for the King's
Daughters throughout the land? Why cannot the loyal daughters of the
King, at the North, support such missionaries as this in their
self-sacrificing work for the down-trodden daughters of this same Divine
King in the South?

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PROTESTANT AND PAPIST: AN OBJECT-LESSON.

In the communication below, an esteemed friend finds in our
Annual Meeting at Providence an object-lesson in the Christian
recognition of the colored man, which he very properly sets over
against a like example in the convention of colored Roman
Catholics recently held in Washington, D.C. Our friend is right.
The American Missionary Association stands square on