Within the year just closed, Sept. 30, the Association has had special aid from ladies North in the support of seven missionaries, as follows: Ladies of Maine, support of Miss Lunt at Selma, Ala., and Miss Farrington at Wilmington, N. C. $675.00 Ladies of First and Second Cong. Churches, Oberlin, O., support of Miss Stevenson at Atlanta, Ga. 387.00 Ladies of Illinois, support of Miss Clark at Mobile, Ala. 214.46 Ladies of Wisconsin, support of Miss Jillson at Montgomery, Ala. 254.33 Ladies of Congregational Churches, Chelsea, Mass., support of Mrs. Steele at Chattanooga, Tenn. 488.81 Ladies of Iowa, support of Miss Gerrish at New Orleans, La. 406.45 --------- Total $2,426.05 In this connection we would mention also that a lady missionary, Miss Clary, at Beaufort, S. C., was sustained to the amount of $300 by the Sunday-school of the Central Congregational Church, Brooklyn. Supplies in the furnishing of Mission Homes and dormitories have been recently furnished, and there is very marked increase of aid in the furnishing of clothing, both new and second-hand, for the benefit of students who are struggling in the greatest poverty to obtain an education. While, therefore, but a few months have elapsed since the organization of the Bureau of Woman's Work, its advantage is already manifest. Since the field of missionary operations in our own country is large and diversified, and three leading societies exist, each having its distinct and important work,--viz.: The New West Education Commission, the American Home Missionary Society, and the American Missionary Association--no effort has been made by the American Missionary Association to organize local societies auxiliary to itself; but that a society should exist in every church, able to co-operate directly with this Association in its great work for the Chinese, the Indians, the negroes and the needy whites of the South, seems apparent.