I T is hoped that INDIA'S WOMEN will follow many of our subscribers to holiday resorts. Even a magazine is all the better for travelling to new places. We do not want to pursue tired workers, just when they long to rest, with the "sound of martial music" which speaks of "life's endless toil and endeavour." Most of our letters from the forefront of the battle tell of holidays. INDIA'S WOMEN will take a holiday this month from accounts of Home Work, which will be deferred till October. ** We ask very earnestly that our Valedictory Meeting may be kept in mind and made known. It will be held in Queen's Hall, Langham Place, Regent Street, on Wednesday, October 10th, at 2.30 p.m. The Rev. Preb. H. W. Webb-Peploe, M.A., will give the Valedictory Address. By the kind permission of the Vicar, the Rev. Canon Acheson, the outgoing missionaries and all friends of the Society are invited to partake of the Holy Communion at 11.30 the same morning, in All Souls' Church, Langham Place. Arrangements have been made for tea to be provided for all friends of the C.E.Z.M.S. at 6d. per head, in Morley Hall, Regent Street, immediately after the Meeting. We trust our missionaries and their friends will find the convenience of the two halls and the church being close together and easy of access. The nearest District Railway station is Portland Road. ** The sailing and departure of missionaries must of necessity still be subject to revision; but as we go to press, the arrangements are as follows. An asterisk marks the names of those who are returning to their stations after furlough or sick-leave: For the Punjab and Sindh Mission. *Miss BARTLETT, St. Catherine's Hospital, Miss RICHARDSON, Jandiala. *Miss CATCHPOOL, Narowal. Miss BARTHORPE, Khutrian. *Miss HOBBS, Jandiala. For South India. *Miss S. L. OXLEY, Madras. *Miss EWART, Bangalore. For China. Miss WEDDERSPOON, Foochow. *Miss HESSIE NEWCOMBE, Ku-cheng. To our great regret the departure of Miss Riley must be postponed, by the advice of the Medical Referee. Miss Barthorpe has been chosen by members of the Keswick Convention, who also undertake her support. ** We understand that the preparation of a Biography of A.L.O.E. (Miss C. M. Tucker), the well-known authoress and missionary, has been entrusted to Miss Agnes Giberne, and the family invite assistance from any who knew her and can contribute reminiscences, especially of her earlier life, or can tell of influence exerted by her writings. The greatest care will be taken of all letters, &c., which should be sent to the Rev. W. F. Tucker Hamilton, Vicar of Christ Church, Woking. ** As a memorial to the late Miss C. M. Tucker, the Christian Literature Society for India has determined to raise a special fund of 500l. to republish her eighty-seven works for Indian readers, and to translate them into a much larger number of languages of India, with illustrations. wish this project every success. * * COMMITTEE NOTES. We The General Committee met on Monday, July 30th, instead of on the first Wednesday in August. The Notes are given somewhat informally this month. The death of the Rev. Canon Hoare, member of the Council of Reference of the C.E.Z.M.S. since its first constitution as a Society, was reported. Needless to say, the regret at our own loss, and sympathy with the members of Canon Hoare's family, were heartfelt and sincere. General sympathy was also expressed with Mrs. Henry Wright, one of our Vice-Presidents, on the death of her son, missionary of the C.M.S. at Amritsar. The loss affects not only the C.M.S. but the Church at large. The first announcement from foreign letters was a legacy of Rs. 1000, received for the C.E.Z.M.S. through the Bishop of Calcutta, for medical work in Bengal. The proposal to bring Miss Gord on, one of the valuable missionaries of the Australian Auxilary, on the rolls of the Society, was agreed to. Miss Gordon has charge of the Ping-Nang District, in the Fuh-Kien Province, China. A letter was read from Miss Blandford. By the end of next April, when we trust to welcome her to England on furlough, Miss Blandford will have completed thirty-three years and seven months of missionary service, and has worked at Trevandrum for ten years and four months since her last taking leave of absence. It is her intention to spend three months in the Bombay Presidency where Marathi is spoken, with a view to passing an examination in that language. In Memoriam. REV. CANON HOARE, One of the Council of Reference, C.E.Z.M.S. N July 7th there passed away, at the age of eighty-two, one who for more than half a century had been a prominent figure among the leaders of the great missionary movement of our day. It was the boast of Canon Hoare that he had belonged ever since the year 1820 to the Church Missionary Society, in which great institutionto use his own words-his whole life had been wrapped up, and to which, in |