OF THE WOMAN'S Presbyterian Board of Missions Will not your Society begin NOW, and increase its monthly Subscriptions. at least 20 per cent over those of last year? Please do not forget the extra dollar, to be sent by each Auxiliary, for publication of the Annual Report, containing the addresses of the ladies. That resolution was passed at the Annual Meeting. Send now. Prospects bright: with earnest work and prayer, suc cess sure. CHICAGO: C. H. BLAKELY & CO., PRINTERS. OF THE WOMAN'S Presbyterian Board of Missions OF THE NORTHWEST. ROOM 48, MCCORMICK BLOCK, CHICAGO, ILLS. CHICAGO: C. H. BLAKELY & CO., PRINTERS. The record of the sixth year of the work of the Missionary Societies of the Northwest, has been published from month to month in our Magazine. There have been some dark spots on the way, but they are as necessary to growth as sunshine. Plans for the coming year press so close upon us, that we can say but little of the past. We have experienced a common sorrow with all Christian workers, in the death of Mrs. Doremus, of New York. She was the originator of Woman's Work for Woman in heathen lands, and led the work until past the allotted three-score-years-and-ten of man's life. Faith was her strong staff, and on her banner was inscribed, "The Lord loveth willing obedience." Well said her pastor, "Her epitaph was written eighteen hundred years ago by Paul, in his description of the holy widow: 'Well reported of for good works: she hath brought up children; she hath lodged strangers; she hath washed the saints' feet; she hath relieved the afflicted; she hath diligently followed every good work.' We have also shared a family sorrow, in the death of Mrs. Kittridge, one of our officers, and a leader of the work in this city. Her hopeful nature aided her in lightening our burdens, and we miss her from our counsels. Let her memory be an inspiration. A number of individual societies have reported deaths of prominent members, and they fear the work may suffer in the church. They forget that this is the Lord's cause and cannot fail for lack of human instrumentality. The concise statement of work accomplished, is, one hundred and fifty-six new auxiliaries formed, making the total now recorded on |