WOMAN’S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.
Room 20, Congregational House, Beacon St., Boston.
Miss Nathalie Lord, Secretary.
Miss Abby W. Pearson, Treasurer.
The Executive Committee of the W. H. M. A. are happy to announce that with this number of the American Missionary and of the Home Missionary, they begin a series of monthly reports of their work, which they know will be welcomed by many. The American Missionary Association and the American Home Missionary Society have each generously given us the opportunity of reporting in its monthly publication the work undertaken by us in its field. Our friends will therefore find in the American Missionary, accounts from our missionaries among the negroes; and in the Home Missionary, reports from the West. For the courtesy which has given as this opportunity we desire to express, thus publicly, our thanks.
Recent statements show that the present condition of our work is not known. Five ladies are now at work in the South and West, and two more teachers will soon go to Utah. Those already in the field are: Miss Mary Snyder, Assistant Principal of the Academy at Albuquerque, New Mexico; Miss Julia A. Wilson, who is working among the colored refugees in Kansas; Miss Alice E. Carter, acting as city missionary in Nashville, Tenn.; Mrs. Clara B. Babcock, who is doing missionary work in connection with the colored church recently formed in Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Almira S. Steele, who teaches a day and Sunday-school at Almeda, S. C. Detailed accounts of the work of each of these will be given from time to time. But, that more work may be undertaken, we ask for larger contributions and a wider support, for annual subscriptions and donations as well as for auxiliary societies.
Some suggestions as to organization and management of auxiliaries are here made in the hope that they may be helpful. In many places the sewing society, devoted to parish work, may take in addition the Home Mission work, if it is as agreeable to the members as it has been found to be in many cases already. At each meeting, some one previously appointed may communicate intelligence of Home Mission work, while others sew.
In other places the old cent society to which our grandmothers belonged is available as the channel for contributions.