WIS.—­Woman’s Home Miss.  Union,
  Secretary, Mrs. C. Matter, Brodhead, Wis.

NEB.—­Woman’s Home Miss.  Union,
  Secretary, Mrs. L.F.  Berry, 724 N Broad St., Fremont, Neb.

COLORADO.—­Woman’s Home Miss.  Union,
  Secretary, Mrs. S.M.  Packard, Pueblo, Colo.

DAKOTA.—­Woman’s Home Miss.  Union,
  President, Mrs. T.M.  Hills, Sioux Falls;
  Secretary, Mrs. W.B.  Dawes, Redfield;
  Treasurer, Mrs. S.E.  Fifield, Lake Preston.

     [Footnote 2:  For the purpose of exact information, we note that
     while the W.H.M.A. appears in this list as a State body for Mass.
     and R.I., it has certain auxiliaries elsewhere.]

We would suggest to all ladies connected with the auxiliaries of State Missionary Unions, that funds for the American Missionary Association be sent to us through the treasurers of the Union.  Care, however, should be taken to designate the money as for the American Missionary Association, since undesignated funds will not reach us.

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Ladies upon whom the duty devolves to plan and lead missionary meetings, will welcome the suggestions in the following paper by Mrs. Regal, Secretary of the Woman’s Home Missionary Union of Ohio, which paper was read at the recent Annual Meeting of the Officers of Woman’s State Organizations.

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THE LOCAL SOCIETY—­ITS MEMBERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT.

BY MRS. FLORA K. REGAL, OBERLIN, OHIO.

The local society will always have its active and its passive membership.  How to increase the latter from without, and how to transfer recruits from the passive to the active list, are problems that have taxed the ingenuity of not a few and have not infrequently been abandoned as insoluble.  It has so long been said, “This missionary work always has to be carried on by a few,” that the expression has come to have something of the force of axiomatic truth which, of course, no one dares assail.  And so the missionary society lives on, decade after decade, with less than a quarter of the women of the church on its list, and of that quarter not more than one-fourth active members.  How to change these conditions, is the problem which confronts us.

I.—­It has not always been clear who should be included in the membership, but with the broad scope given to our Home Missionary Unions, its auxiliaries should include: 

First.—­Every woman who thinks that if she were living on some lonely frontier and had for years heard no sermon, no public prayer, no songs of praise, had no communion service, no Christian fellowship, she would welcome the home missionary and all the sweet influences of the Gospel.

Second.—­Every woman who thinks we owe it to the Freedwoman to put into her life and home something of the sweetness and purity of our own; to the Indian woman a sympathetic effort for her uplifting, in atonement for a “Century of Dishonor.”