r these conditions, the hopefulness of the past argues
for a more hopeful future of missionary work.

Our mission is to raise up teachers, preachers, interpreters and a
native agency that shall work for the regeneration of their own
people. It is a mission that is hopeful.

It means a good deal to teach those who come to us in moccasins and
blankets, arithmetic, algebra, the elements of geometry, physical
geography, natural philosophy and mental science. It means much to
give them an industrial training that shall show them how to live
rightly, and enable them to do it. But above all, in all and through
all, is the gospel of Christ, which is the power of God to their
salvation. Perhaps no missions to the heathen have been more blessed
than many of these to the wild, painted savages. Thousands who were
barbarian in heart and in deed are now true disciples of Christ.
Where heathenism held its revels, now the church-bell calls the red
man to prayer, and the war-whoop is being exchanged for songs of
Christian praise. Wigwams are being transformed into houses, and
coarse and cruel people are illustrating home piety and virtues. The
prayers of God's people have been well directed, and there is every
reason why they should be increased, the wilderness and the solitary
place being made glad for them. The missionaries among them behold
the time when God will make for them a way, even a highway, that
shall be the way of holiness, in which the redeemed shall walk and
the ransomed of the Lord shall come to Zion with joy and gladness.

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BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.

MISS D.E. EMERSON, SECRETARY

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WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS.

CO-OPERATING WITH THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.

ME.--Woman's Aid to A.M.A., Chairman of Committee,
Mrs. C.A. Woodbury, Woodfords, Me.

VT.--Woman's Aid to A.M.A., Chairman of Committee,
Mrs. Henry Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury, Vt.

VT.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary,
Mrs. Ellen Osgood, Montpelier, Vt.

CONN.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary,
Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, 171 Capitol Ave., Hartford,
Conn.

N.Y.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary,
Mrs. William Spalding, Salmon Block, Syracuse,
N.Y.

ALA.--Woman's Missionary Association, Secretary,
Mrs. G.W. Andrews, Talladega, Ala.

OHIO.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary,
Mrs. Flora K. Regal, Oberlin, Ohio.

IND.--Woman's Home Miss.