Bureau of Woman’s Work.

WOMAN’S MISSIONARY UNIONS.

THANK-OFFERING DAY, APRIL 12.

It is heart cheering that the Women’s Unions have planned for thought, prayer and special offerings on Friday, April 12, or Easter Sunday, the 14th, the day which, in the words of the resolution adopted by the State organizations at their annual meeting, “commemorates Christ’s gift of Himself to the world.”

Surely liberal offerings must follow sober thought and earnest prayer for the redemption of those whom God seems to have given into our special charge here in our own country.  Our Lord Himself said, “Ye have done it unto Me.”  What if it does cost self-denial?  Shall we not plan more liberally for Christ than for self?

“How much owest thou my Lord?  That is the question which the giver has to face.  Sometimes in commercial circles a man will assign a debt that is owing to him to someone else out of friendship that he may take it when he has collected and use it for himself.  Much in the same way, I think, the Lord Jesus has assigned a large portion of the debt which we owe to Him to those who are around us, to the unconverted at our doors, to these races among whom we labor.  Let us see in those for whom appeal is made to us through this Association the representatives of Christ.”

    DR. WILLIAM M. TAYLOR.

“When men know the grace of Christ they will never feel that they have given Him enough.  Until they know it they will never give Him anything.  They may contribute to keep up appearances so as to be like other people or to gain a reputation, but they will never give to Him until they know His grace.  Before men give to Christ they must receive from Him, and when they have received Christ Himself into their hearts they will be impelled to give, impelled not compelled; for the delight and the duty will co-exist, or rather the duty will be merged in the delight.”

    DR. WILLIAM M. TAYLOR.

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WANTED, to supply demands for libraries, copies of THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY for January, February, March and April, 1862, January, 1866, January, 1867, and January and August, 1875.  Also, copies of The Annual Report for 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863.

RECEIPTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1895.

THE DANIEL HAND FUND

For the Education of Colored People.

Income for February $4,197.35
Previously acknowledged 18,322.50
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$22,519.85
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CURRENT RECEIPTS.

MAINE, $524,10.