sustaining the missions upon the localities in which they are situated.
And in many cases this responsibility has been assumed with a
cheerfulness and a generosity, considering the times, which has been
greatly encouraging to me. And I cannot but hope that herein will be
found one of the compensations for our anxiety and pain--a deeper and
more general interest on the part of Christian people in this branch of
the service of their Lord. One of the teachers, giving an account of a
meeting which she held in the interest of her mission, anticipates such
a result and says: "I feel sure that my hard, lonesome times are over,
and that after this I shall have more help and sympathy. Isn't it
wonderful how doing a hard duty will sometimes straighten out so many
tangles?"

I venture to close this little sketch of hard heartwork with another
quotation from this same teacher: "I sympathize with you in not being
able to pay us teachers as you would like to do when you know how we
work. But don't worry any more over me, for I shall manage splendidly
(as I always do?). I guess you feel a good deal worse over it than we
teachers do. Sacrifice is in order for missionaries and preachers, but
we get pay that the world knows not of--rewards as much above money as
heaven is above earth."

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BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.

MISS D.E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.

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