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, 2,750 Second Ave., South, Minneapolis, Minn.

IOWA.—­Woman’s Home Miss.  Union, Secretary, Miss Ella K. Marsh, Grinnell, Iowa.

KANSAS.—­Woman’s Home Miss.  Society, Secretary, Mrs. Addison Blanchard, Topeka, Kan.

SOUTH DAKOTA.—­Woman’s Home Miss.  Union, Secretary, Mrs. W.H.  Thrall, Amour, Dak. {105}

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 THE BLACK WOMAN OF THE SOUTH.

The Rev. Alexander Crummell, D.D., formerly a missionary in Africa and now Rector of St. Luke’s Church in Washington, D.C., is a native of Africa, a graduate of one of the leading Universities of England, who adds to the strength and graces of a sound scholarship, the devotion of a noble Christian character.

From an address made by him upon the “Needs and Neglects of the Black Woman of the South,” we quote his plea for “Woman’s Work for Woman.”  Referring to the Negro woman in slavery days, he says: