And this statue of Liberty is a gift to a people from another people who do not love or value liberty for the Chinese. Are not the Annamese and Tonquinese Chinese, to whom liberty is as dear as to the French? What right have the French to deprive them of their liberty? Whether this statute against the Chinese or the statue to Liberty will be the more lasting monument to tell future ages of the liberty and greatness of this country, will be known only to future generations. Liberty, we Chinese do love and adore thee; but let not those who deny thee to us, make of thee a graven image and invite us to bow down to it. NEW YORK SUN. SAUM SONG BO. * * * * * BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK. * * * * * MISS D. E. EMERSON, SECRETARY. * * * * * ILLINOIS WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. This society, organized at the last meeting of the General Association at Rockford, is getting under way. Its President is Mrs. A. E. Arnold, of Stillman Valley; its Secretary, Mrs. J. H. Dixon, of Chebanse; its Treasurer, Mrs. E. F. Williams, 4,018 Drexel Boul., Chicago. Its Executive Committee consists of one lady in each of the dozen district associations. That committee has had a business meeting in Chicago. It is providing for the organization of the ladies in all of the associations of the State. Forty of these unions have been organized in as many local churches. The object of the State Union is to aid the A. H. M. S., the A. M. A. and N. W. E. C., A. C. U. and S. S. P. S. Such unions as desire may also embrace the work of foreign missions. As the State body absorbs the work of the former A. M. A. committee, it has also assumed the support of the same special missionaries under the American Missionary Association. The President and the Secretary have just issued a small folio giving the officers of the Union, the constitution of the State body, and a proposed constitution of an auxiliary. The folio, besides a fresh letter representing each of three of the home mission societies, presents a stirring appeal to the more than 15,000 women in the Congregational churches of Illinois. We quote that part which refers to our work, giving our new associate a hearty welcome and a Godspeed in the blessed work it has undertaken: The Woman's Home Missionary Union includes not only home missions as represented by the American Home Missionary Society and its Auxiliaries, but all the other great societies which act as the almoners of the gifts from our churches for missionary work in this country. It is eminently appropriate that the work of the new society should include that of the American Missionary Association.