ciety, without which we could not have secured our excellent church property. Our church, with its lot of 100 feet square, is free of all incumbrance except the conditional mortgage to the Society for the $200 gift."

-Two houses of worship in Indian Territory are now nearing completion because of the help given by our Church Edifice Department. The Indians do much of the work themselves, and, with money to purchase lumber and nails, they get up a neat chapel at a small cost. More houses are needed and could be built if the money was in hand to give a little help.

Hall. This building was one of the most important
of all those used for school purposes. The dining-
room, kitchen, store room, carpenter's shop, nurse's
training school, model school room, and one or two
of the teachers' rooms were all in this building. Al-
though an old building, yet it was admirably adapted
The work
for the purposes for which it was used.
of the school will be seriously crippled until this
house can be replaced. The coal for the next winter
was in the cellar, and some of the supplies. The
boarding department is an important part of the work
of this school. When we consider that nearly a bar-
rel of flour is used at one baking, and a bushel of
potatoes at one meal, we get some idea of the size of
the school, and also realize the care and planning that is
necessary to make this department a financial success.

Miss Packard is a skilful manager, and has an able helper in Mrs. Mallory, the efficient housekeeper. In order to bear the expenses of this large family of two

-When you make your contribution for Home Missions do you think especially of our Church Edifice work? Remember that no funds can be used for this purpose except such as are so designated by the donors. If you intend something to help the little churches in the West in securing houses, designate for Church Edifice work, otherwise it goes to the Gen-hundred and fifty boarders, much provision must be eral Fund. Some of our churches do not seem to understand this, and, while giving to the Society, never think to say that a part is for Church Edifice work, and so it all goes to the General Fund, and the Church Edifice Treasury runs low.

-Never, perhaps, has the demand upon our Church Edifice Fund been so heavy as at present. Population is pouring into the Western States and Territories, and towns springing up as if by magic. The new

towns must be helped to chapels where the people can be congregated for worship and the children gathered in Sabbath schools. We could use $100,000 a year very profitably now in this work. Other denominations are helping their people, and too often the Baptists are left to struggle alone, while the

children are lost to us because they are furnished by

others with facilities for Sunday school service.

-Nebraska makes its appeal through Rev. J. W. Osborn, who says:

"Our Church Edifice work presses hard upon us. It is of little use to spend money on a field or church that has no home. We must build this year at least twelve church edifices, or suffer greatly in our work. Small donations of from $200 to $300 would enable us to do it."

WOMAN'S AMERICAN BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY. 14 Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass. President, Mrs. Thomas Nickerson, Newton Centre, Mass.; Vice-Pres., Mrs. Anna Sargent Hunt, Augusta, Me.; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Mary C. Reynolds, Wallingford, Connecticut; Treas. urer, Miss Margaret McWhinnie, 14 Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass.

During the past month Spelman Seminary, Atlanta, Ga., has suffered a great loss in the burning of Union

purchased at wholesale. A quantity had been placed
in the store room of Union Hall for use during the
Miss Pack-
coming year, but it was lost by the fire.
ard and Miss Giles are very weary after the year's
hard work. They need absolute rest. This calamity
recalls them from their Western trip, and much of
the summer must be spent in the hot Southern city.

Our Woman's Society cannot put up school build-
ings. The insurance upon the old building is $3,500.
should take the place of the old wooden one, will
A new brick building, which prudence demands

cost from $12,000 to to $15,000. Are there not some in the denomination who have means, who will at once aid in erecting this new building?

These faithful, successful teachers need to be re

lieved of all anxiety during these summer months.

Surely here is an opportunity to do much good. We must not, however, as a Society, interfere with our distinctive work of supporting teachers.

Miss Caroline Loomis, of Hartshorn Memorial College, Richmond Va., has resigned her position in order to rest. Miss Loomis has taught twenty years, and has earned a right to retire from her labor of love among the colored people. Miss Lillian Van Clef, of Michigan, has been appointed to fill her place.

The plan of the new school house at Salt Lake City has been received by our General Missionary, Rev. Dwight Spencer. It was prepared by Messrs. Jardine, of New York, and the plan donated to our Society by these gentlemen. The specifications have also been completed, and work upon the new building will begin in a short time.

Our schools have now closed, and many of our teachers and home workers are now taking needed rest. The year that is past has brought us many per. plexities. Losses by fire have hindered our work in Kulli Inla, Indian Territory, Salt Lake City, and now at Spelman Seminary. Yet God reigns. The work is His, and out of seeming disaster He brings grand results. May all those who pray for the ex

tension of the Redeemer's kingdom remember the work of our teachers who are leading souls out of darkness into light.

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work of the Society she represented, the speaker referred to the multitudes of people in our land whose women were utterly ignorant of the duties and responsibilities of motherhood, and showed how the Society aimed to send among these people intelligent Christian women to do the training for which the mothers were disqualified, and in this connection referred to the department of kindergarten instruction which had during the past year been added to the training school curriculum. The speaker closed by Total... $850 68 saying: "God hasten the day when each home in our land shall become a building stone, and our nation rise a vast cathedral filled with the praise and worship of God."

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SOCIETY.

2338 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Ill.

GENERAL OFFICERS.

President-MRS. J. N. CROUSE, 2231 Prairie Ave., Chicago,
Ill.

Corresponding Secretary-MISS M. G. BURDETTE, 2338 Mich-
igan Ave., Chicago, Ill.

Recording Secretary -MRS. H. THANE MILLER, Cincinnati,
Ohio.

Treasurer-MRS. R. R. DONNELLEY, 2338 Michigan Ave.,
Chicago, Ill.

Reunion.

Mrs. A. S. Hunt, Vice-President of the New England Society, presented a paper in which, after pleasant greetings and allusion to the true unity of the work of the two societies, she proceeded to present "Our Country" in its aspect as a mission field, and urged the duty of Christian preocupancy in the opening States and Territories of the vast new West. She referred to the incoming thousands from Europe, to Mormonism with its centralized power, to the Southland with its 7,000,000 dark-skinned sons and daughters of Ethiopia, to thousands of untutored red men in wigwam villages in the Indian Territory or scattered over Western plains, to 10,000,000 Mexicans ground down under the heel of priestly despot

We supplement a brief report of the Tenth Annualism, to the gleaming pagodas of the heathen Chinese Meeting of the Women's Baptist Home Mission Society which will be found in July Tidings, by a short account of the joint meeting of the Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society and the Women's Baptist Home Mission Society, with headquarters at Boston and Chicago respectively, held between 8 and 10 o'clock Monday morning, May 30, at the Hennepin Avenue M. E. Church, Minneapolis, Mrs. Thomas Nickerson, President of the first-named Society, presiding.

After a devotional service and a short address by Mrs. Nickerson, Mrs. J. N. Crouse, President of the Women's Baptist Home Mission Society (Chicago), was introduced and spoke especially on the responsibility of Christian women.

She mentioned as the four great factors in the world's civilization, the State, the church, the school, and the family, and tracing all influences to their fountain head found it in the home. The thought that the destinies of nations are in the hands of mothers, rolls an awful responsibility on Christian women, and the question, "What are we doing to meet it?" is one of great portent. Does the progress of mothers in a knowledge of child nature and the best methods of training it aright keep pace with the world's progress in all directions? is a question which must receive a negative answer. No special provision is made in our school curriculum to fit our sons and daughters for the responsibilities of paternity. The world's need to day is mothers and teachers who understand how to develop the spiritual nature of the

child.

The speaker cited several incidents showing that among the mothers of our land there was great room for improvement, and then called attention to the dif ficulty of securing Sunday school teachers who un derstood child nature and were skilled in methods of developing it.

In applying the principle under discussion to the

on the Pacific Coast, and to the peoples of Alaska, who sit in darkness. The speaker, having sketched the field, impressed the fact that in it is a distinct and definite work for the Christian women of the country. She called attention to the multitudes of women who have no knowledge of Christ, and yet whose influence, in its way, is as potent as ours. She spoke of the value of Christian schools, and of the importance of direct personal work in the homes of the people. We quote the closing paragraph of Mrs. Hunt's paper.

"The directions of an Athenian general to his soldiers going forth to battle seem to come to us with force. He ordered them in time of danger to put one knee on the ground, and firmly rest their spear on the other, and covering themselves with their shields be able to resist the enemy. Are we individually on one knee in prayer to our Heavenly Father, the unseen captain of our host, and does the shield of our faith in Him cover us so securely that we shall be able to resist any power that would hinder us in the great work whereunto we are called?

Happy shall we be if we have even the least part in bringing in the day when it shall be said "The people which sat in darkness saw a great light, and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.'

Mrs. M. A. Ehlers, of the Women's Baptist Home Mission Society (Chicago), spoke from the standpoint of a missionary. She referred to the fact that many of our women were too busy to find time for reading, that the Bible was almost untouched, and the Helping Hand, Tidings, and similar publications not always taken promptly from the wrappers; but that those who did occasionally read the newspapers, had doubtless had their attention attracted by the frequent heading, "Home Rule," or "Home Rule in Ireland." In the speaker's mind our country's great need might be expressed in the words, "Home Rule

in America." God's way of saving any country is to begin with the children in the home. What we want is not a blue-coated, brass-buttoned policeman on the outside, but a policeman on the inside, that the ruling motive should be, not "you must," but "I ought.' The manner in which this education was to be conducted is taught in the Word (Deut. 6: 6, 7). The speaker illustrated her thought by relating an incident showing how a wise Christian mother had by dilligent teaching of the Word of God led her son to give his heart to the Savior at four years of age, and, training him up in the way he should go, he was today a strong, useful Christian man.

But there are many children in our lands who have no true home. To these the Women's Baptist Home Mission Society is sending help. Seventy missionaries represented the Society on its various fields during the past year. Mrs. Ehlers cited her experience in Memphis to prove the need and value of the work done by these missionaries, who not only gather and train the children, but teach the mothers. Many of the latter with tearful eyes express gratitude for the help, saying: "We do want to know how to make our homes better and to train our children."

The speaker alluded to the fact that the children of to-day will in a few years be men and women, and that these boys will soon be the voters, each one helping to wield the destiny of the republic.

Touching the Indian problem, she said Indians can be taught to appreciate a Christian home, and recited beautifully the familiar lines of Longfellow, describing the homesick lodging of Minnehaha. Not Congress, but Christian women, must develop this instinct.

Mrs. Ehlers closed her address by an appeal to any one who might feel called upon to give herself to missionary work. She said she knew what it was to bid good-bye to parents, and Sunday school classes, and church and social privileges, but she knew also the joy in service, and at the close of each day, with her co-laborers, sang "One more day's work for Jesus, how sweet the work has been." My sister,

"Hear the voice of Jesus calling

'Who will go and work for Me?'"

Martin S. Howes,
W. H. Walker, Jr.,
Willard Packard,
R. Henry Ferguson,
George H. Jackson,
Thomas C. Crocker,

ORDINATIONS.

PLACE.

George E. Stevens,
Samuel McBride, D. D.,
Milton G. Evans,
Frank Churchill Woods,
Sutton Drake,

Mrs. Mary C. Reynolds, Corresponding Secretary of the New England Society, spoke next of the work Joshua Brockett, of that Society among the various classes of people in our land, and illustrated the true spirit of mission work by a graphic description of the scene when Miss Ophelia brought "Topsy" back to St. Claire, saying, "I do not know what to do with her," and Éva's sweetly laying her hand upon her and saying "I love you," a touch and assurance which caused Topsy's tears to flow, and gained for Eva her passionate promise to try to be good. So we must go to these people as Christ did. We must touch them. Reynolds spoke of the importance of bringing the children to missionary meetings, and illustrated her thought by convincing incidents. She said that when she saw her own little daughter go down into the baptismal waters, she knew that missionary meetings had much to do with it. The speaker emphasized the place of prayer in our work, and closed her address by a beautiful application of the legend of St. Christopher.

Mrs.

Miss S. B. Packard, principal of Spelman Seminary, Atlanta, was introduced. Owing to the lateness

of the hour Miss Packard had but a few minutes to speak, but did not fail to interest those who heard. She rehearsed briefly the history of the school from the day, six years ago, when she and her associate, Miss Giles, began the enterprise with eleven girls and women, until the present time when the enrollment reaches about 600. She said that aside from the literary and industrial teaching, Christ was the Alpha and Omega of the school and that seventy of

S. E. Smith,
T. J. DeWitt,
J. W. Powell,
Robert G. Patrick,
Peter H. Goldsmith,
Hartwell R. Mosely,
J. H. Foster, Jr.,

George Hamman,
William F. Trammel,
A. F. Beddo,
George W. Hicks,
W. B. Hartzog,
A. J. Witty,
W. L. Cavin,

James F. Claypool,
J. J. Crosby,
L. D. Carpenter,
Theodore B. Caldwell,

John S. Festersun,
Thomas S. Young,

T. N. Hazen,
John Odom,

S. J. Odom,
Thomas Hendrick,

Brooklyn, N. Y.,
Factoryville, Pa.,
Baltimore, Md.,
Hollywood, W. Va.,
Louisville, Ky.,
Clover Creek, Ky.,
Simpson Co., N. C.,
Greenville, S. C.,
Greenville, S. C.,

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Henry Scott, Joseph Sharp, S. C. Boston,

Henry G. Reed,

C. C Brown, D.D.,

Thornton Burk,

Benjamin Blitch,

R. W. Billups,