The meeting of the officers of the Home Missionary Unions of the
Congregational Churches held at Saratoga, June 4th, was well attended.
Twelve States were there represented, and the occasion was one of great
interest and of encouragement to the cause of missions. The suggestive
and forceful papers presented, indicate that our ladies are in earnest
for the evangelization of our country, and that they will give their
best effort toward extending the influence of our National Societies by
the financial help which they will endeavor to render.

The next meeting of these State organizations will be held in Chicago,
Ill., at the time of the annual meeting of the American Missionary
Association the latter part of next October.

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MERIDIAN, MISS.

A little of our industrial work of this first year I would like to
present to you. Our girls, on the closing day, exhibited fourteen pieced
quilts all completed, and twenty were well along toward completion.
Twenty garments have been finished and disposed of. All of the material
has been sent from Northern friends and homes, and some of the girls
have learned the first things of needlework, having learned to use
needle, thread and thimble. One little girl when first given a needle
said, "O see! there is a hole in one end of it." One old lady learned to
knit.

We feel happy in the thought of the spiritual growth in our school.