Mrs. Bailey, of Ogden, Utah, gave a stirring address on the “Need of Pure Homes and True Churches in the West.”

Elizabeth Winyan, a Christian Indian woman of the Dakotas, next addressed the meeting in her native language, Rev. Mr. Riggs acting as her interpreter.  Elizabeth’s manner is very calm and dignified, and her gestures are graceful and forcible.  Her language is eloquent even though trammeled by the necessity of having an interpreter.  When she “shakes hands with us in her heart,” we know she means it, and when she has “said enough,” we know she is done.

A Free Parliament for the discussion of practical questions was conducted by Mrs. Regal, of Ohio.  The subjects of Missionary Literature, Life-Membership, Dangers threatening the Unions, Holding meetings in connection with or separate from local and State Conferences, and National Organization, were discussed, a large number of ladies participating freely.

Mrs. Goodell, of St. Louis, conducted a “Sweet Hour of Prayer,” which closed the day’s sessions, and the earnest group dissolved only to swell the throngs at the best meeting the American Missionary Association ever held.

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WORDS FROM OUR ANNUAL MEETING,

OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO WOMEN.

Twenty-six Woman’s State Organizations now co-operate with us in our missionary work.  Each year shows the increasing importance and helpfulness of the Woman’s Bureau.  From it go counsel, help and inspiration to the lady teachers in the field, and missionary news and helpful suggestions to the ladies of the State Associations.  Through it pass the sympathy and the help of the earnest workers in the older churches to the earnest workers in our mission churches and schools.  The people for whom we labor can not be saved either for this world or the next unless the women who make the homes are lifted out of coarseness and vice, and taught true womanhood and womanly duties and arts.  The Woman’s Bureau is a most potent factor in the work of bringing the gospel to the rescue of womanhood in our mission fields.—­Annual Report of Executive Committee.

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Our laborers are faced by all the serious problems of the foreign land—­problems unrelieved by a single romantic charm.  When we send our missionaries to Africa they go to labor among the Africans; and when we send them down South they go to teach “niggers.”  I believe that the American Missionary Association, in its calm and unimpassioned history, is one grand and splendid eulogy of woman.  Our sisters went South while the sky was yet heavy with the clouds of war; they went to the rude dwellings where those people sat in stupor and in darkness after the first thrill of the new found liberty; they went from homes of refinement and culture and wealth and religion; they bore to this darkness light, to this dullness life; they carried down there in their white hands the great tree of Calvary, the cross of Christ, and planted it in the land of the magnolia and the palm.  I say that the history of this Association is a grand and glowing eulogy of woman because these were willing to be called “teachers of niggers” for their love of humanity.—­Rev. C.W.  Hiatt.