y Association ever
held.

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WORDS FROM OUR ANNUAL MEETING,

OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO WOMEN.

Twenty-six Woman's State Organizations now co-operate with us in our
missionary work. Each year shows the increasing importance and
helpfulness of the Woman's Bureau. From it go counsel, help and
inspiration to the lady teachers in the field, and missionary news and
helpful suggestions to the ladies of the State Associations. Through it
pass the sympathy and the help of the earnest workers in the older
churches to the earnest workers in our mission churches and schools. The
people for whom we labor can not be saved either for this world or the
next unless the women who make the homes are lifted out of coarseness
and vice, and taught true womanhood and womanly duties and arts. The
Woman's Bureau is a most potent factor in the work of bringing the
gospel to the rescue of womanhood in our mission fields.--_Annual Report
of Executive Committee._

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Our laborers are faced by all the serious problems of the foreign
land--problems unrelieved by a single romantic charm. When we send our
missionaries to Africa they go to labor among the Africans; and when we
send them down South they go to teach "niggers." I believe that the
American Missionary Association, in its calm and unimpassioned history,
is one grand and splendid eulogy of woman. Our sisters went South while
the sky was yet heavy with the clouds of war; they went to the rude
dwellings where those people sat in stupor and in darkness after the
first thrill of the new found liberty; they went from homes of
refinement and culture and wealth and religion; they bore to this
darkness light, to this dullness life; they carried down there in their
white hands the great tree of Calvary, the cross of Christ, and planted
it in the land of the magnolia and the palm. I say that the history of
this Association is a grand and glowing eulogy of woman because these
were willing to be called "teachers of niggers" for their love of
humanity.--_Rev. C.W. Hiatt._

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It is one of the most astonishing signs of the times that really into
the feeble hand of womanhood is given the key of the situation. They
respect these educated girls, they reverence them and give them a place
of dignity in their hearts. That makes it possible for these women to do
a large and splendid work i