k two miles to sell five cents' worth for the benefit of the
Union. Amount raised during the year, $63.11.

Nashville, Howard Church.--Our women are united in all lines of church,
mission and industrial work. We are gradually growing in membership and
enthusiasm. Our small contributions are no indication of the interest and
labor shown. Amount raised for the year, $37.10.

Nashville, Jackson Street Church.--Our Union numbers about twenty members.
We have been blessed during the hard times in our effort to do church and
mission work. Receipts for the year, $50.10.

Louisville, Ky.--The outlook is bright for a steady progress in the
uplifting of humanity. Amount raised for the year, $21.

Little Rock, Ark.--Our Society has been acting in the double capacity of
church aid and missionary society. We have recently organized a Church Aid
Society in order that we may give the attention of our Union to mission
work proper at home and abroad.

North Carolina.--The President reports a most cheering advance in interest
and contributions, $223 having been raised by the women of the Union
during the year. This was done by very poor and hard working women. While
most of the money was spent for aid in their churches and to the sick and
needy about them, some of it was sent to the treasury of the Missionary
Board.

A few words from Mrs. Ella Sheppard Moore, president of the Tennessee
Association, tell the whole story. These once unhappy and largely idle
women in practical Christian effort are now employed in Christ's name,
intelligently, radiant in the joy of His salvation.

WORK AT McLEANSVILLE, N. C.

MRS. S. S. SEVIER.

McLeansville is not a great city like New York or Chicago, where
everything seems to be in a rush, and everybody is wrapt up in business;
neither is it a great railroad center; but merely a "little flag-station."
The majority of the people here, both white and colored, earn their living
chiefly by farming.

Even though McLeansville is a humble little place, we have a very pleasant
work here, sustained mainly by the American Missionary Association. At the
close of the year 1894 our church building was very small, indeed; could
not hold more than sixty or seventy persons. A "Woman's Missionary Union"
was organized last August. The first work this Union wished to do was to
take steps toward enlarging our church. We accordingly planned to hold a
fair to raise money for this purpose. The fair consisted