The arrangement for co-operation between the A. M. A. and the W. H. M. A. has ceased. A few words of explanation are proper. From an early period of our work among the Freedmen, we have employed lady missionaries, and found them exceedingly useful. When the W. H. M. A. was formed, we entered into co-operation with it in the hope that a larger number of such missionaries might be sent into the field. It was found, however, that with the office of one society in New York and the other in Boston, it was impossible to have such constant consultations as to appointments, places and work as would avoid all misunderstandings and complications. We have, therefore, felt it our duty, though with reluctance and with all respect for the zeal and earnest Christian purposes of the W. H. M. A., to sever our connection with it. As we now return to our old plan of selecting the lady missionaries, and of supporting them from our treasury, we most earnestly solicit the aid of the noble women of our constituency who sympathize with our endeavor to lift up the lowly of their sex, and to bring into their homes the refining and elevating influences of the Gospel. Whether this aid shall be rendered by individual gifts or by united efforts on the part of ladies of given churches or localities, we most cheerfully leave to their good judgment to decide. The work we know is promising, the opportunities are abundant, and the blessings two-fold to those who give. * * * * * LADY MISSIONARIES As we intend to increase the number of our lady missionaries in the South, it is fitting that we explain our aim in sending them and the methods of their work. Their services are mainly in the home with the mothers and the children. We regard the home, the school and the church as the pivots of the Christian life, each most effective when working with the others. A home that is not neat, attractive and pure, cripples the efforts of the school and the church. If a child spends six hours in a school and eighteen hours in a disorderly and immoral home, or if a man attends service in a church on Sunday and spends all the rest of the week in that same home, the progress of both boy and man in the Christian life will be slow indeed. We aim to build up _character_, and if the school, the church and the home, co-operate in harmony “according to the effectual working in the measure of every part,” the product will, under God, be men and women of intelligent minds and pure hearts, happy themselves, useful to their race and the nation, and ornaments to the church of Christ. * * * * * LADY MISSIONARY IN NEW ORLEANS.