2d. Hong Kong is a great highway to all foreign ports, especially San Francisco. Through Hong Kong nearly all the Chinese in the United States have come and will return. If a General Mission could be established at this port much co-operating work could be accomplished between our mission here and that at Hong Kong. Christian Chinese, returning home, would receive letters of introduction to the superintendent of the Hong Kong mission. This superintendent would have pastoral care over them, and be a very great help in time of persecution. Converts would be made firmer in faith, and more earnest in leading others to Christ. If this mission prosper, as we have not the least doubt it would, these converts could have preaching stations in these districts, and from these stations reach every village; but the work would be carried to a much wider extent by the aid of lady missionaries, who alone could reach the women. Many of our number will go back there to study; for if they return they must be well versed in the Chinese Bible and in the classics of Confucius. They will meet much opposition from educated men. These will come and discuss with our brethren, and they should be able to give a reason for the hope that is in them. In regard to the cost of this mission, what we propose would not be very expensive. There should be one missionary, a wise and earnest Christian, with good business capacity, and one _well-educated_ Chinese helper; and as the school grew and scholars were prepared to preach, the range of studies and the number of teachers could be increased. All our Chinese Christian brethren expect to do all they can towards the establishment of such a mission, but we must have help from our American friends, especially the friends of the American Missionary Association. * * * * * WOMAN’S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. Room 20, Congregational House, Beacon St., Boston. MISS NATHALIE LORD, _Secretary_. MISS ABBY W. PEARSON, _Treasurer_. One of the difficulties the W. H. M. A. meets with is to find definite work for its auxiliaries. Although in general they have fields of labor chosen by themselves, it often happens that they look to the parent society to furnish them; and indeed one of the chief offices of the Association is to bring together the need and the supply, those who want help and those who have the heart and the hands ready to help. So we are fortunate this month in having something to offer to the party requiring work, and first we present a call which may well enlist sympathy and effort. Miss Carter, writing from Nashville, Tenn., asks in behalf of the President of Fisk University, whether our Association, in any of its auxiliaries, would be willing to assume the education of a pupil there. She says: