BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK,

MISS D. E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.

MARYS AND MARTHAS.

"Where are the ninety-four out of every one hundred female church members, the ninety-four who do not attend the Woman's Missionary Society of their respective churches?"

In a leaflet entitled "Marys and Marthas, or Where are the Ninety-four?" Mrs. Colton, of Patchogue, N. Y., describes the workings of a missionary society and the methods used to win the ninety-four. Evidently both the Marys and the Marthas are necessary to success.

Sometimes we think the work is hard and slow, but if this is the case, even with all the intelligence and Christian training of women in our home churches, what about our State Unions in the South developed by a little handful of missionaries among a people sadly ignorant and untrained. The story of their trials and discouragements can never be written, but we record some encouraging results. The unions of Alabama and North Carolina lead in this work. An interesting account of the Alabama Union can be found in the pamphlet of Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Missionary Association in the admirable paper by Mrs. Chase, secretary of that Union.

The North Carolina Union reports twelve women's societies and two children's societies in their seventeen churches, and the secretary adds, "We still hope to reach our standard, a Woman's Missionary Society in every church. It is cheering to know that our contributions the past year are larger than ever, both for home expenses and missionary work. Nearly sixty dollars has been raised by the various societies to aid in the work at home, while $36.92 has been given for various branches of purely missionary work." These sums may seem very small compared with the work of Northern Unions, but they represent great self-denial and devotion on the part of those poor Negro women.

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WHAT ONE AUXILIARY IS DOING.

A lady writes of the workings of her Ladies' Missionary Society as follows: "Our Woman's Missionary Society has been interested in the A. M. A. work, as we have been studying it at five monthly meetings, taking up (1) History of the A. M. A.,' (2) Education for the Negro,' (3) 'Who are the Mountain Whites?' (4) 'History of the Indians,' and their treatment by the whites from 1620 to 1859, missions of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and A. M. A. among them, government relations, etc., (5) Our Missions in China.'"

This lady advocates the buying of missionary books by two, three or four in a church of those who are interested in missions, and lending them to those who are not. The result of this plan in her own society she gives as follows: "We began with 'John G. Paton,' followed by Mary and I,' 'Canoe and Dog Training' (by Edgerton R. Young), 'Service in the King's Guards,' 'The Life of Mackay,'' Alaska,' 'Work among the Iroquois.' This church will average $3 a member this year against $2 last year, and I think the increase is largely due to the reading of these books and the study of missions."

ARE WE TRAINING MISSIONARIES?

The following extract from a letter written by a colored woman educated in the schools at Tougaloo, Miss., and Talladega, Ala., then married to a Talladega theological student, now in the service of the A. M. A., may speak for itself:

"We reached our new home four weeks ago after a long, long, wearisome ride, seven hundred and fifty miles from our last stop in Mississippi. We were all well tired out, but found everything at the parsonage inviting, everything nicely prepared by the sisters, and ready for our coming. It took us some days to rest; meanwhile our meals were prepared, and our house kept in order by one friend and another; in short we met a cordial welcome. Mr. S is doing nicely in his church work. He has Sunday-school and preaching every Sabbath morning, a young people's meeting in the evening, and then preaching again in the evening. So you see we have no idle time Sundays. There are a great many children here who are under school age (eight years), and cannot go to public school. I have recently opened a private school in our church for the benefit of such, and have a good school, and feel that in this way I may be able to do some good. There are a great many unconverted young people here, and we are devising every possible way to reach them. Nearly two-thirds of the population (about seven thousand) are Mexicans. Sometimes I look at them and think of Dr. Andrews and the Arabs in Palestine. They are all sorts, sizes and colors. We are all learning to speak their language, as we have to deal with them every day.

"I stopped with Mr. and Mrs. J on my way here, and encouraged them all I could. I hope they are doing well. I got a young man at Aberdeen, Miss., to go to Talladega. I hope he is doing well. Remember us in prayer. How is the Woman's Home Missionary Union getting on? Have you any new members? I hope to do something in that line soon. There is so much to be done, and but few to do it."

It is such influences that the A. M. A. is setting at work through this training of colored girls.

Treasurer-Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks, St. Johns- Secretary-Mrs. L. F. Berry, Ottumwa. bury.

MASS. AND R. I.

WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.
President-Mrs. C. L. Goodell, Boston Highlands,
Mass.

Secretary-Miss Nathalie Lord, 32 Congregational
House, Boston.

Treasurer-Mrs. M. J. Nicholson, 1513 Main St.,
Dubuque.

MICHIGAN.

WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.

President-Mrs. George M. Lane, 179 West Alexandrine Ave., Detroit.

Secretary-Mrs. J. H. Hatfield, Three Oaks. Treasurer-Miss Sarah K. Burgess, 32 Congrega- Treasurer-Mrs. E. F. Grabill, Greenville. tional House, Boston.

CONNECTICUT.

WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
President-Mrs. Jacob A. Biddle, 149 High Street,
Hartford.

Secretary-Miss Ellen R. Camp, New Britain.
Treasurer-Mrs. W. W. Jacobs, 19 Spring St.,
Hartford.

NEW YORK.

WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
President-Mrs. Wm. Kincaid, 483 Greene Ave.,
Brooklyn.

Secretary-Mrs. Wm. Spalding, 511 Orange St.,
Syracuse.

Treasurer-Mrs. J. J. Pearsall, 230 Macon Street,
Brooklyn.

NEW JERSEY.

ASSOCIATION.

WISCONSIN.

WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
President-Mrs. H. A. Miner, 540 State Street,
Madison.

Secretary-Mrs. A. A. Jackson, Janesville.
Treasurer-Mrs. C. M. Blackman, Whitewater.

MINNESOTA.

WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
President-Miss Katherine W. Nichols, 230 East
Ninth Street, St. Paul.

Secretary-Mrs. Archibald Hadden, 3108 Lyndale
Avenue S, Minneapolis.

Treasurer-Mrs. M. W. Skinner, Northfield.

NORTH DAKOTA.

WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.

WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONABY UNION OF THE N. J. President-Mrs. W. P. Cleveland, Caledonia. Secretary-Mrs. Silas Daggett, Harwood. President Mrs. J. R. D. Noyes, 163 Union Street, Treasurer-Mrs. J. M. Fisher, Fargo.

Montclair.

SOUTH DAKOTA.

WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
President-Mrs. A. H Robbins, Bowdle.
Secretary-Mrs. W. H. Thrall, Redfield.
Treasurer-Mrs. F. H. Wilcox, Huron.

NEBRASKA.

WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. President-Mrs. Whitfield Sanford, York. Secretary-Mrs. E. S. Smith, Beatrice. Treasurer-Mrs. H. N. Wannamaker, Lincoin.

ΜΟΝΤΑΝΑ.

WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
President-Mrs. F. D. Kelsey, Helena.
Secretary-Mrs. W. S. Bell, Helena.
Treasurer-Mrs. S. A. Wallace, Billings.

Treasurer-Mrs. J. M. Havens, 1329 Harrison St., President-Mrs. H. W. Andrews, Talladega.

For the purpose of exact information, we note that while the W. H. M. A. appears in this list as & State body for Mass. and R. I., it has certain auxiliaries elsewhere.