Miss D.E.  Emerson, Secretary.

All ladies interested in missions are earnestly invited to be present at the gathering of Women’s Home Missionary Organizations to be held in Northampton, Mass., Tuesday, Oct 21st.  This meeting will be in the First Church.  Interesting speakers have been secured to represent the work of our six National Societies.  The day promises to be one full of interest, and we hope there will be a large delegation of ladies present from all over our land, and that they will pray earnestly for the spirit of the Master to be present in this gathering.

NATHALIE LORD, COMMITTEE.

The Woman’s Meeting of the American Missionary Association will be held on Thursday afternoon, October 23d, in the Edwards Church at Northampton, Mass.  All are cordially invited to attend.

We call especial attention of ladies to the Woman’s Meetings at Northampton, Mass., Oct. 21st and 23d.  The first, on Tuesday, of which notice is given above, is the meeting of the Women’s Organizations of the several States as represented on page 321.  They extend from Maine to California, and we would that there might be present delegates from every State.

The second meeting, on Thursday afternoon, October 23d, is the Annual Meeting of the Bureau of Woman’s Work of the American Missionary Association, at which missionaries from different departments of our work will come face to face with the friends who have cheered and supported them, and will tell somewhat of the every day life on the field.  An unusually interesting programme is promised.

We take this opportunity and method of thanking those officers of the State Organizations who have been recently sent us a revised list of their auxiliaries to date, that the missionary letters from the field may be mailed directly to each church society thus represented.  Every state that has pledged itself to aid the work of the American Missionary Association is entitled to these field reports, which are sent out from the New York office through the Bureau of Woman’s Work, and we shall be glad to receive the correct address for each auxiliary society.

Christian Endeavor For The Boys And Girls Of The Southern Mountains
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A New Need.

A large number of the mountain people are so poor that they cannot pay even the bare cost of living for their girls and boys in order that they may have the privilege of attending school.  Rarely can a family send more than one child to school, and in every case where one can go a boy is selected.  The brothers must wait until perhaps too late, and the sisters must remain at home in ignorance.  Thus it is found that the advantages of Christian schools, brought so near to the mountain boys and girls by the American Missionary Association, are not yet sufficiently within their reach, and this gives rise to a new need in connection with our work in the South.  It is a need of young people and we turn to young people to meet it, believing that our Christian Endeavor Societies and other Young People’s Societies will not lose this special opportunity for missionary work.