At Hammond, La., a new church building has been erected.

At Straight University, a new industrial building has been put up with student labor, and a small greenhouse has been built.  For a long time the need of enlargement there has been felt, and a lot near the present buildings has been bought, on which is to be a school house for the primary and intermediate grades.

At the Fort Berthold Mission, North Dakota, a new church, school and mission home building has been built and named the Moody Station, after the giver of the money which built it; also a small church building at Moody Station No. 2.

At Standing Rock a new school, church and mission building—­called after the donor, the Sankey Station—­has been erected.  At Fort Yates, we report a new church building—­the Darling Memorial.

These are the most important enlargements and improvements.  Of course, there are many other smaller ones throughout our large field.

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WOMAN’S WORK.

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 cannot 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.

FINANCES.

The current receipts have been $376,216.88. 
The expenditures, including the payment of the debt
of last year of $5,641.21, have been $371,745.21.
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Leaving a balance in hand September 30, 1889 $4,471.67.

It is with devout gratitude to God that we present these figures, showing that we have been enabled during the past year to meet all current expenditures, to liquidate the indebtedness of last year and to show a balance of over four thousand dollars now in the treasury.  This result is not only gratifying in respect to the past, but it is hopeful in respect to the future.  We trust the constituents of the Association, who are so deeply interested in the success of the work entrusted to us, will see to it that the coming year shall terminate as favorably as this.

DANIEL HAND FUND.