ay from home. He is exposed to all the temptations of
a stranger in a strange land, removed from the restraining influences
of a community where one is known. Subject an equal number of men of
any other nation to this severe test, and I doubt much if they would
bear it as well. The mission school serves the purpose of a strong
social support. So far as possible it takes the place of a home. It
practically separates its attendants into a community by itself. It
does much to keep them from contact with their vicious countrymen in
Chinatown. It does much to bring them into contact with those whose
influence upon them will be good. It does much to furnish a healthy
social atmosphere in which to pass the hours of the afternoon and
evening, which every Chinese servant is at liberty to spend as he
will.

Intellectually the work in the Chinese missions is already far beyond
the elementary stage, and is growing more virile every year.

But everything is made but the means to the spiritual end. Not for an
hour is this lost sight of. The whole drift of the teaching, the
songs, the pictures, the Scripture text, is to make known Christ.
Every evening's lesson ends with worship. For a month or more the
Chinese preacher to whom I have referred, has held evangelistic
services in the Santa Barbara mission. To-day he leaves for points
farther south to do the same work elsewhere.

In no year, may I add, have there been so many conversions among the
Chinese on this coast as in the one just past.

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BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.

MISS D.E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.

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.

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. C.C. Creegan,
Syracuse, N.Y.

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

ILL.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. C.H. Taintor, 151
Washington St., Chicago, Ill.

MICH.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. Mary B. Warren,
Lansing, Mich.

WIS.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. C. Matter, Brodlhead,
Wis.

MINN.--Woman's Home Miss. Society, Secretary, Mrs. H.L. Chase, 2,