WOMAN'S WORK.

Twenty-six Woman's State Organizations now co-operate with us in
our missionary work. Each year shows the increasing importance and
helpfulness of the Woman's Bureau. From it go counsel, help and
inspiration to the lady teachers in the field, and missionary news and
helpful suggestions to the ladies of the State Associations. Through
it pass the sympathy and the help of the earnest workers in the older
churches to the earnest workers in our mission churches and schools.
The people for whom we labor cannot be saved either for this world
or the next, unless the women who make the homes are lifted out of
coarseness and vice, and taught true womanhood and womanly duties
and arts. The Woman's Bureau is a most potent factor in the work of
bringing the Gospel to the rescue of womanhood in our mission fields.


FINANCES.

The current receipts have been $376,216.88.
The expenditures, including the payment of the debt
of last year of $5,641.21, have been $371,745.21.
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Leaving a balance in hand September 30, 1889 $4,471.67.

It is with devout gratitude to God that we present these figures,
showing that we have been enabled during the past year to meet all
current expenditures, to liquidate the indebtedness of last year and
to show a balance of over four thousand dollars now in the treasury.
This result is not only gratifying in respect to the past, but it is
hopeful in respect to the future. We trust the constituents of the