SOME OTHER TOKENS OF GOOD.—­Our helper, Loo Quong, writes as follows from Los Angeles under date of Sept. 20th:  “Now I have some good news to tell you this time.  The first one is this, that five of our brethren will receive their baptism on Sunday in the First Congregational Church.  I brought them all down to the church to be proved by the pastor and the deacons, and they all gave their good testimonies to the satisfaction of all.  Dr. Hutchins [Rev. R.G.  Hutchins, D.D., pastor] was so glad on hearing this good news again.  There will now be eleven Chinese members among his white flock.  He spoke very kind towards the Chinese and our school in their prayer-meeting, as he always did so in his preaching.”  Another item of good news is, that by an arrangement among the ladies of this church, a reduction in the teaching force which I have been compelled to make is to be made good by volunteer service, each lady giving one evening in each week.  I earnestly hope that this good example may be followed in others of our churches.

At San Buenaventura the new mission house, finished several months ago, gives great satisfaction.  It is not the property of the Mission, but has been built for it and is rented to us at cost.  We can rely upon the use of it as long as the work continues in that place,—­that is, if the building lasts so long.  We were paying $12.00 per month for a low, ill-located and ill-built, untidy shanty, yet the best place that could be had.  We now pay $8.00 per month for a neat, commodious building which furnishes not only an attractive school-room, but living rooms also, for which our brethren pay a small rent, and thus make for themselves something very like a Christian home.  Four of these brethren were recently baptised and received to the Congregational Church.

No mention has yet been made in these columns of the new mission house in Oakland which we hold by the same tenure as that at San Buenaventura.  It could not be better located, is a very neat structure, substantial also, and planned expressly for our work.  It, too, is rented to us at cost.  A hint of what goes on there, and of what goes out from there, aside from the labors of the school, may be found in these few sentences from a letter of Yong Jin:  “One scholar promised to be Christian was two weeks (i.e. two weeks ago), and he will join our Association to-night.  I hope his soul will be saved.  I had preaching on the street last Sunday and before last Sunday.  I shall go next Sunday too.  I hope you pray for me and this school.  May [may be] I can conquer the evil and bring more number to the school and to the Association.  I believe God has a great power.”

BUREAU OF WOMAN’S WORK.

MISS D.E.  EMERSON, SECRETARY.

We are glad to see the State Organizations increasing.  Now let every one become a working Union, bringing funds into the treasury of the American Missionary Association, toward meeting the imperative needs of its Woman’s Work, and we shall rejoice indeed.