Resolutions expressing hearty sympathy with the work of the A. M. A., and urging an organization for home mission work in every church in New England, were adopted at the close of this full and earnest woman’s meeting. * * * * * HEROISM AND STATESMANSHIP. FROM THE ADDRESS OF REV. ALEXANDER HANNAY, D.D., SECRETARY OF THE CONGREGATIONAL UNION OF ENGLAND AND WALES. We sometimes talk—and I think in a very superficial and wild way—about heroic ages of certain nationalities, heroic ages of the church; and there are men who will say it was a heroic age in which foreign missions were projected, whether in England or here; that then the men were of great stature, and that they rose to the opportunities the great living Head of the Church offered them, and went out and did a giant’s work; and they look down on this time, and perhaps complain that it is not a heroic age, and that we cannot have a giant’s test put to us. Now that is all very flimsy and superficial talk in my judgment. There are epochs in the history of nations and of churches when great opportunities occur, the record of which becomes historical, and it seems that the men who take the prominent part then are men of Alpine bulk and grandeur of nature—true heroes; and then there comes a time of equable, dogged, plodding, unhistorical work, and it is said “The age of heroism and the age of heroes has passed away.” Brethren, the work of these quiet and plodding ages cannot be done well, except in the very spirit of the heroic age; and I take it there is a test of individual character, there is a test of strength and firmness in men, a strength of heroism demanded for the quiet, ordinary, fruitful work of times like these, equal, at least, to that which was needed to originate the new epoch. And I congratulate the representatives of the American churches assembled at the meetings of these great societies on the evidence which has appeared to me, (and I would use no words of mere courtesy in this, but a simple and unaffected expression of the feeling which has taken possession of me while I have attended these meetings), that here they are in the very spirit of their fathers, now gone to their rest, who said, “We must redeem the pagan nations and bring them to Christ.” Another thing that has struck me is this: in listening to what we have heard here to-day, I have seemed to find not merely a fulness and vitality of the missionary sentiment, but associated with that, a keen, political outlook, the statesman’s thought about the demand of the hour and the special adaptations that are necessary in service for the carrying out of the great work that these societies have in view. It is especially encouraging in view of this, to which no one can be blind, that God is calling America to a singularly honorable, because singularly difficult, vocation, in dealing with the races with which her life of intelligence and faith is here being brought into contact.