g in the turpentine) comes out and takes
our horse.

The school is just over, and we hear there is to be preaching at 11; it is
now 10:15, so we ask the pupils to stay. We sing and then Miss Bechan
explains about foreign missions and mission bands. They give in their
names and appoint officers, agreeing to meet twice a month. They have also
a Woman's Missionary Auxiliary, which has been meeting once a month since
last December.

There is a recess of ten minutes, then the preaching begins. The preacher
is a young man, who would gain much (as would his hearers) by attending
school a few years. This is one of the heart-sores in the work here--the
great ignorance of many of the preachers. Some of them will tell you, they
have had "no education," and, indeed, it is all too plain, from their
curious expressions and mis-applied long words; but worst of all is their
ignorance of the Bible. But how can they do better till they have been
taught? There is a crying need of educated pastors in these country
places. The young men tell us, they "do not find religion interesting;"
one said, that, after "having tried it two or three times." It is hardly to
be wondered at, that they are not interested, when the thunder is all that
is shown them. They are told they ought "to quake and tremble," and if
they do not, they "show by their actions that they mean to go to hell."




Woman's State Organizations.
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Co-operating With The American Missionary Association.


MAINE.

WOMAN'S AID TO A.M.A.

Chairman of Committee--Mrs. C.A. Woodbury, Woodfords, Me.

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

FEMALE CENT INSTITUTION AND HOME MISSIONARY UNION.

President--Mrs. Joseph B. Walker, Concord. Secretary--Mrs. John T. Perry,
Exeter. Treasurer--Mlas Annie A. McFarland, Concord.

VERMONT.

WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.

President--Mrs. A. B. Swift, 167 King St., Burlington. Secretary--Mrs. M.
K. Paine, Windsor. Treasurer--Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury.

MASS. AND R.I.