I can not but feel, beloved brethren, that in these meetings which to-night come to a close, something has been done to help forward that result which under the guidance of the Scriptures we all believe to be the right one.  We have had a series of most delightful conferences.  Now let us go back to our homes determined to take the seminal truths which have been presented to us here, and scatter them wherever we are called to labor.  The seed may seem to be but a handful, and the soil may seem unpromising as the rocky mountain tops—­but be sure the result will be a harvest that will shake like the cedars of Lebanon.  And though it may seem a little incongruous to quote from the Scottish poet—­would that everything he wrote were of as pure and lofty an inspiration—­I will venture to conclude with his well-known lines: 

     “Then let us pray that come it may,
       As come it will for a’ that,
     That man to man the world over
       Shall brithers be for a’ that.”

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BUREAU OF WOMAN’S WORK

MISS D.E.  EMERSON, SECRETARY.

The Annual Meeting of the Bureau of Woman’s Work of the American Missionary Association, held on Thursday afternoon in the church during the session of the business meeting in the chapel, was one of unusual interest.  Following the Report of the Secretary, there were interesting addresses by missionaries, and a very effective address by Mrs. Geo. M. Lane, of Detroit, Michigan, who presided.

The Report and some of the addresses will be published in separate leaflets, and may be had by application to Miss Emerson at 56 Reade St.

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REPORT OF SECRETARY.

A look backward over the twelve months since our last annual gathering reveals much of interest and encouragement, that should fill our hearts with gratitude that our woman’s work has had such an influence in bringing light and gladness to thousands of women and children, whose lives have been cast in the dark portions of our Christian land.  So large an element of Woman’s Work enters into the plan upon which the field of the American Missionary Association is operated, and it is so interwoven with the entire structure of its missions, that any report of it as separate and distinct can be only partial.  And yet with the more systematic organization of woman’s work in the raising of funds, we have been able to assign special woman’s work on mission ground, with most satisfactory results, for to have a particular school or missionary has stimulated the givers, and has brought courage and comfort to the missionaries who have been thus sustained.

Our Woman’s Work.  What is it?  Whom is it for?  Who should do it?