The first meeting of the Woman’s Home Missionary Unions in connection with the American Missionary Association was a genuine success.  The programme was put in the hands of Mrs. E.S.  Williams of Minnesota by vote of the ladies at Saratoga in June last, and the interested group who filled the large and pleasant Sunday-school rooms of the New England Church in Chicago, October 29th, rejoiced in their new and forward movement for home and native land.  Mrs. Lane of Michigan gave Mrs. Williams genial help in presiding.  Mrs. Palmer of Massachusetts led in prayer.  Mrs. Burke Leavitt, President of the Illinois Union, gave to the ladies a felicitous welcome to the city and to the sympathy of the workers of the great state of Illinois.  Mrs. E.W.  Blatchford greeted the women in behalf of the New England Church and of their co-workers in the W.B.M.I.  If only all good women saw and felt, as this wise sister did, that all Christ’s work is one, and that all work for him outside of our own home and church is mission service, their appeals to their sisters would have more irresistible force, and the Saviour’s prayer be nearer answered, “That they all may be one.”  Miss Emerson, of the American Missionary Association, spoke with her usual straightforward effectiveness of the joy of the Association in their share of the work of the Unions.

These greetings were followed by the roll-call of State Unions, with brief responses.  Mrs. Williams represented Minnesota; Mrs. Palmer, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.  She also read a letter from Miss Nathalie Lord of Boston.  Mrs. Grabill responded for Michigan, Mrs. Cowles for Ohio, Mrs. Morgan for New York, Mrs. Miner for Wisconsin, Mrs. Bronson for Missouri, Mrs. Taintor for Illinois, Mrs. Douglass for Iowa, Mrs. Leavitt for Nebraska, and Miss Emerson for Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas and North Carolina.  A telegram was received from Mrs. Gale of the Florida Union, letters from Mrs. Swift of Vermont and Mrs. Andrews of Alabama, and a warm message from Louisiana came just too late for public hearing.  Greetings also came from Northern and Southern California, Oregon and Colorado.

After prayer by Mrs. Douglass, of Iowa, Miss Hand gave a brief, but very effective address on “What the New West needs from our Women—­prayer, consecrated effort, contributions.”

In the afternoon, Mrs. Lane gave a complete summary of “Foreign Missions at Home.  What have we done?  What have we left undone?  What ought we to do now?” No brief mention can give any adequate idea of the amount of information which was crowded into this address, or the earnestness of its presentation.

Mrs. Regal, of Oberlin, presented the report of the Bohemian Bible Readers’ Home, in Cleveland.

Mrs. E.M.  Williams answered effectively the question, “How can we induce women of wealth to give to Home Missions?” She thought lack of information was the cause of most of the indifference from which the work suffers, and recommended individual effort as likeliest to be successful.