And now for an extract, briefer than I desired to make, from Mrs. Rice's letter: "Last night we gave a farewell reception to our brother, Yon Mon, who is about to leave for China. The brethren seized this opportunity to present to a lady from Norristown, Pa., who has kindly helped our work, a very nice letter of thanks with their names signed to it. A gentleman who came to the city with her, and who is about to open a fine store here, attended her to the mission house, out of courtesy but very reluctantly, for he was bitterly opposed to Chinese and to any and all efforts made for them. The brethren took him for a friend and when introduced shook hands. He said it 'was as much as his life was worth' to extend his hand in response to theirs. But the same sense of courtesy constrained him to come with his friend a second evening, and at its close he asked if he might be permitted to say a word 'just to the boys.' Whereupon he expressed his pleasure at all he had seen since coming into the school, and advised the boys to keep right on doing right. They would meet bitter enemies among the Americans, but not to mind them but go right forward. Then he announced that if by February 5 we would have thirty regular pupils, he would make the school 'a handsome present.' I wish some of the other opponents of our work could in like manner be _compelled_ to see our schools. Seeing would be believing, would it not?" The latest contribution of our Los Angeles Mission to our general work is Jue See, who has come to take Yip Bow's place (Yip Bow also having come from the same mission) as helper in Oakland and at the West School in this city, while Yip Bow goes to Sacramento. I am greatly pleased with him. He will, when trained for the work (and we train for work mainly _by working_), make one of the best of our Chinese helpers. I add just one word of good news. Our teachers are _all_ paid in full for last year's work. Their faith has not been put to shame. Two of our Chinese helpers still lack something, and two other creditors will probably have to make large donations in order to square their accounts, but I _know_ that _one_ of them will not complain, and the other will be doing only what she promised, and while I fear it may be a hardship, it is no greater hardship than almost every landlord or landlady, in these days of pressure, has been forced to undergo. So I feel like singing the Doxology! * * * * * WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS MAINE. WOMANS'S AID TO A. M. A. State Committee--Mrs. Ida Vose Woodbury, Woodfords; Mrs. A. T. Burbank, Yarmouth; Mrs. Helen Quimby, Bangor. NEW HAMPSHIRE. FEMALE CENT INSTITUTION AND HOME MISS. UNION. President--Mrs. Cyrus Sargeant, Plymouth. Secretary--Mrs. N. W. Nims, 16 Rumford St., Concord. Treasurer--Miss Annie A. McFarland, Concord. VERMONT. WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION