WOMAN'S BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY
OF MICHIGAN.

President-MRS. L. B. AUSTIN, 96 Fremont Street, Detroit. Corresponding Secretary-MRS. G. P. WARREN, 274 Fort Street, West Detroit. Treasurer-MRS. WM. A. MOORE, 1015 Woodward Avenue, Detroit. Superintendent of Young People's Work- MRS. A. B. STEVENS, Ann Arbor. Виreau of Information-MRS. S. A. GIBSON, 401 Lovell Street, Kalamazoo.

The Fifteenth Annual Meeting of our Society was at Ann Arbor, October 16 and 17, and now, at the beginning of another year of work, as its responsi

Herald Mission Column, and more than two thousand pages of leaflets and missionary literature, distributed during the past year, have been very helpful.

Rev. J. B. Lambley was present at our meeting, and gave an excellent address on "The Upper Peninsula," and, together with a paper on that field by Mrs. G. P. Warren, had the effect of arousing our interest still more for that section of our State, and added to our determination to spread the Gospel there. Mrs. J. Wendell gave an instructive paper on "Alaska," and many interesting articles were displayed which she had collected while on her visit

to that country.

full of good news and cheer to all those interested in Miss Dyer sent us a letter from Hartshorn College,

the education of the colored women of the South. Rev. L. Djupstrom sent a good report of his labors among the Swedes at Menominee. Rev. G. W. Huntley told us in his report of the great need of

bilities are pressing upon us, as we see grand opportunities opening before us, and realize somewhat the magnitude of the interests involved; when we know that our country is in peril and in need of the very gifts with which we have been blessed; when we feel that only Christian light and love can dispel the evils that threaten the very life of our nation, that the hope not only of America but of the world is alone in the Gospel of Christ, with one accord we say, "We must enlarge our work. We must do more in the future heart-sickness among the Mormons, and makes us than in the past." long to introduce something better into their saddened lives.

We were cheered as we came together at our "feast of ingathering" and our hearts gladdened as we listened to the reports of our officers, and learned of the willing offerings that had come to our treasury,

of the hearty sympathy and co-operation, of the gifts more precious than silver or gold that had been laid at the Master's feet. Encouraging words came from those who could not be present with us, adding from their own experiences new testimony to the rich spiritual blessings that come from united Christian effort.

One of our Associational Secretaries who has

served with great success since the organization of our Society in 1873, but who has not been able to meet with us at our annual gatherings, writes of the comfort she finds in doing work for Christ in connection with others, and referring to being deprived of the privilege of meeting with us, says, "The Lord bids me wait, and His ways are best." Another Secretary who has been laid aside during the year with severe illness, on the first return of consciousness called for a generous sum of money. Upon its being brought to her she divided it, asking to have it sent to our Home and Foreign Mission Societies. Would that we had thousands of such women among the Baptists of Michigan. We thank God that we have so many that over our State we find such women as Paul mentions among "his fellow-helpers in the Gospel," those who know the true joy of sacrifice for the Master's sake, and who rejoice in being sharers with Christ and His people in the work of Missions. And continued patient and persevering labor with the uninterested, aids in the grace of forbearance such as Christ exercises toward us.

The HOME MISSION MONTHLY, the Christian

more missionaries in Northern Dakota, and feels that we cannot afford to miss the opportunities open to us there. Rev. F. Barnett tells us of sadness and

The Chinese on the Pacific Coast, in appreciation of what has been done for them by some of our young ladies, sent through their teacher, Mrs. Bradway, at

Oakland, Cal., a collection of their gods, books, ornaments, etc., in return.

We still aid in the work begun last year among the Poles. It is of great importance whether these peo. ple shall be led by the friendly hand of Christian love and sympathy to lean on Jesus and become His servants, or whether leaders of dynamite policy shall initiate their long-irritated spirits into conspiracies of evil. We are glad to still aid in the work in Mexico and the Indian Territory. Our motto for the year was given us "Be strong and of good courage," for "The battle is not ours, but the Lord's."