The service is almost over. The bread and wine have been passed. To each waiting heart down through its darkness to its weakness has come the touch of the Divine Soul which is light and power. Once more the sweet strong chorus rises, “Jesus, Lover of my Soul.” We go out into the twilight. The young crescent and the star of love hang in the Western sky whose glowing sunset lights are reflected in the lovely waters, and through the heavens falls a voice with the old word, at once reproof and inspiration, “Say not ye, There are yet four months and then cometh the harvest. Behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest, and he that reapeth receiveth wages and gathereth fruit unto life eternal.” * * * * * WOMAN’S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. Room 20, Congregational House, Beacon St., Boston. MISS NATHALIE LORD, _Secretary_. MISS ABBY W. PEARSON, _Treasurer_. * * * * * The Executive Committee of the W. H. M. A. are happy to announce that with this number of the AMERICAN MISSIONARY and of the _Home Missionary_, they begin a series of monthly reports of their work, which they know will be welcomed by many. The American Missionary Association and the American Home Missionary Society have each generously given us the opportunity of reporting in its monthly publication the work undertaken by us in its field. Our friends will therefore find in the AMERICAN MISSIONARY, accounts from our missionaries among the negroes; and in the _Home Missionary_, reports from the West. For the courtesy which has given as this opportunity we desire to express, thus publicly, our thanks. Recent statements show that the present condition of our work is not known. Five ladies are now at work in the South and West, and two more teachers will soon go to Utah. Those already in the field are: Miss Mary Snyder, Assistant Principal of the Academy at Albuquerque, New Mexico; Miss Julia A. Wilson, who is working among the colored refugees in Kansas; Miss Alice E. Carter, acting as city missionary in Nashville, Tenn.; Mrs. Clara B. Babcock, who is doing missionary work in connection with the colored church recently formed in Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Almira S. Steele, who teaches a day and Sunday-school at Almeda, S. C. Detailed accounts of the work of each of these will be given from time to time. But, that more work may be undertaken, we ask for larger contributions and a wider support, for annual subscriptions and donations as well as for auxiliary societies.