Fifty of her descendants and relatives sat down with her at the birthday dinner. This was her centennial message to the company: “I have lived a century. Long have I tested the love of God and the faith in Christ. I want to recommend to you all that loving Saviour who is my closest friend and my precious hope of glory.” She still retains to a remarkable degree health of body and vigor of mind. The editor of THE MISSIONARY “presented the cause” in New Preston, recently; he of course called upon this venerable “Mother in Israel.” To his great regret, she was not at home. She had gone off on a visit to a friend, some miles distant; but he brought away her photograph and a card on which she had, with slightly trembling hand, written her autograph. Says her pastor, Rev. Frank S. Child: “There is a precious and inspiring lesson written upon the pages of such a rare, long life. May we learn the lesson and weave it into character.” And so say we. The American Missionary Association is proud of having had such a constituent since the beginning of its history, and THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY of having such a subscriber and reader. God bless her. Moral: If you want to have a happy old age, serve God; become a life member of the American Missionary Association, and a constant reader of THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. Try it. * * * * * THE SOUTH. NOTES IN THE SADDLE. BY FIELD-SUPERINTENDENT C. J. RYDER. I have no extended missionary trip to report this month, as the schools of the Association are closed, and the church work is somewhat quiet this season of the year. A run into Ohio, to assist in the ordination of Rev. J. F. Cross, who goes as a missionary among the Sioux Indians, may, however, legitimately furnish a basis for “Notes in the Saddle.” A good New England friend recently asked, in all seriousness, if there really were a horse belonging to the A. M. A., or whether I hired one, from time to time, as the occasion demanded? What a wild Tam O’Shanter ride it would be from Washington to Texas in four or five days! But such a ride, taken once or twice a year, would only cover a small portion of the field of the Association. Here on the west is the work among the Indians, stretching from Santa Fé, New Mexico, away up to Dakota. The A. M. A. has schools and churches all along the line. This Council in Ohio gave its commission to a new harvester going out into this field.