If the ladies of Michigan will look at the Athens, Ala., Trinity School in our list, they will see their own State represented there, an incentive, we trust, to special effort toward the sum recommended by the officers of their Union.

The ladies of Minnesota have the opportunity to aid the school at Jonesboro, Tennessee, and if they carry out the recommendation of their Minnesota Missionary Society, they will this year sustain in full the two lady teachers.

The other Missionary Unions represented in our list have shown especial interest, and nearly all have made such pledge of help as will soon secure them a special representative in the field.

A Children’s Missionary is sustained by ladies and children, and special work is also assigned to Christian Endeavor Societies.

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Thus it will be seen that the long list of Ladies’ Societies shown each month as co-operating with us, is not merely in name.  We really have their help, and a careful reading of our list of missionaries will make clear that we not only need their help, but can give them much more to do.

A lady recently brought to us five hundred dollars as the result of her personal effort, and when we expressed to her our thanks she exclaimed, “Don’t say a word; it is my work as well as yours.”  Let us be workers together.

In sending your money to your State officers, do not fail to designate it as for the American Missionary Association.

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The Way One Mission Band in Iowa raised its money—­“Our society was organized in 1888, and the first year we sent twenty dollars for Beach Institute.  We have about twenty members, from five to thirteen years of age.  We meet once a month through the summer, but close for the winter.  Last summer I gave to all over ten years of age a nickel, and those under ten a penny to see how much they could gain.  These are a few of the reports.  One little boy with his nickel bought a sitting of eggs from which he raised eleven chickens, which he sold for two dollars and twenty cents.  Another raised nine chickens which he sold for two dollars.  Another bought a little turkey, which he sold at Thanksgiving for a dollar and ten cents.  Another with a penny bought a squash vine, from which he sold five large squashes for fifty-five cents.  Another bought a row of potatoes for which he received fifty cents, and so the pennies multiplied.  I gave mite-boxes to all in the spring, and so at the end of the year we are able again to send you the neat little sum of twenty-five dollars.”

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WOMAN’S STATE ORGANIZATIONS.

CO-OPERATING WITH THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.

MAINE.

WOMAN’S AID TO A.M.A. 
Chairman of Committee—­Mrs. C.A.  Woodbury, Woodfords, Me.