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Carlyle tells the story of a woman in the North of Scotland in the old days before charity was organized, who wanted help.  She was poor and sick, and they said to her, “You may look out for yourself.”  Finally she was taken sick with typhus fever, and died, and because they didn’t take very good care of her in the place where she was sick, she killed seventeen others with her poison.  Carlyle says:  “You said she was not your sister and she said, ‘I am, and I will prove it;’ and she did, though it cost seventeen good lives to prove it.”  There will be a typhus fever in this land infinitely worse than any pestilence that kills the body unless this deadly germ be killed by putting education where there is ignorance, and putting honor and truth where there is degradation to-day.  “Look out for No. 1?” Aye, it is our business to look out for ourselves.  May God Almighty help us that we fail not to attend to it.  There is just one way to save ourselves.  We learned that long ago at the feet of Him who said:  “He that loseth his life shall save it.”  That is the only way.  It is just as true for a nation as for an individual.—­President George A. Gates.

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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.

VERMONT.

WOMAN’S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.

  President—­Mrs. A.E.  Swift, 167 King St., Burlington. 
  Secretary—­Mrs. E.C.  Osgood, 14 First Ave., Montpelier. 
  Treasurer—­Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury.

MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND.

[1]WOMAN’S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.

  President—­Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer, Cambridge, Mass. 
  Secretary—­Miss Nathalie Lord, 32 Congregational House, Boston. 
  Treasurer—­Miss Ella A. Leland, 32 Congregational House, Boston.

CONNECTICUT.

WOMAN’S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.

  President—­Mrs. Francis B. Cooley, Hartford. 
  Secretary—­Mrs. S.M.  Hotchkiss, 171 Capitol Aye., Hartford. 
  Treasurer—­Mrs. W.W.  Jacobs, 19 Spring St., Hartford.

NEW YORK.

WOMAN’S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.

  President—­Mrs. Wm. Kincaid, 483 Greene Ave., Brooklyn. 
  Secretary—­Mrs. Wm. Spalding, 6 Salmon Block, Syracuse. 
  Treasurer—­Mrs. L.H.  Cobb, 59 Bible House, New York City.

OHIO.

WOMAN’S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.

  President—­Mrs. J.G.W.  Cowles, 417 Sibley St., Cleveland. 
  Secretary—­Mrs. Flora K. Regal, Oberlin. 
  Treasurer—­Mrs. Phebe A. Crafts, 95 Monroe Ave., Columbus.