RECEIPTS OF THE WOMAN'S BOARD OF MISSIONS OF THE INTERIOR. MRS. J. B. LEAKE, TREASUREK. FROM DECEMBER 18, 1885, TO JANUARY 18, 1886. ILLINOIS. ILLINOIS BRANCH.-Mrs. W. A. Talcott, of Rockford, Treas. Champaign, 10; Chebanse, Miss M. Emma Schrader, to const. self L. M., 25; Chicago, M. E. P., sale of canary bird, 1; First Ch., Mrs. Ruth A. H. Cook, to const. L. M. Miss Maria P. Noyes, 25; Bethany Ch., 3.14; Crete, Mrs. E. M. Porter, 1.34; Downer's Grove, 2.40; Galesburg, First Ch. Galva, of Christ, 37.50; 27; Granville, 13; Geneseo, 51.20; Moline, 14; Oak Park, 52.06; Onarga, Second Ch., 4.20; Rockford, Second Ch., Mrs. A. M. Brown, 100; Second Ch., Aux., 18; Sycamore, 10; Waverly, 14.50; Wilmette, 16.77, JUNIOR.- Chicago, Plymouth Ch., Y. Peo. Soc., 90.58; New Eng. Ch., Y. L. Soc., 42.50; Dover, Y. L. Soc., 25; Granville, Y. Peo. Soc., 19; Payson, Cheerful Workers, 12; Port Byron, Golden Rule Club, 3.90; Rockford, First Ch., Y. L. Soc., 19.75; Stillman Valley, Y. Peo. Soc., $426 11 221 73 Total, 134 85 $782 69 INDIANA. MICHIGAN BRANCH. Mrs. M. Band,2.64; Grand Rapids, $449 14 221 85 22.00 67.77; Owatonna, 6.51; Spring Valley, 3.90; Wabasha, Mrs. Lincoln, thank-offering, 5; Zumbrota, 22.05, JUNIOR.-Eden, Y. L. Mis. Soc., 9: Minneapolis, Plymouth Ch., Y. L. Soc., 18.20; Northfield, Carlton College, Aux., 62.70, JUVENILE.- Benson, S. S., 3.70; Fairmont, S. S., 6; Minneapolis, First Ch., Earnest Workers, 25, S. S., 57.63; Triumph, S. S., 4, $285 90 Total, $472 13 Dallas, 10, $10.00 MISSOURI. Total, $10.00 WISCONSIN. WISCONSIN BRANCH.- Mrs. R. Coburn, of Whitewater, Treas. Arena, 3.50; Boscobel, 3; Beloit, First Ch., 22.12; Second Ch., 17.37; British Hollow, Mrs. E. L. Davies, birthday gift, 5.25; Mary Dunstone's birthday gift, 1; Fond du Lac, 15; Madison, 21.90; New Lisbon, 50; Racine, 19.50; Sparta, 5.50; Waupun, 10; Waukesha, 29.12; Whitewater, 1, JUNIOR.-Arena, Y. L., 1.84; Green Bay, S. S., 35: New Lisbon, Y. L., 4.23; Ripon, College Society, 2, JUVENILE. — $154 76 43 07 British Hollow, S. S. birthday box, 1.55; Golden Text Mission Band, 4.75; Peshtigo, Harbor S. S., 4.54; 10 84 MORNING STAR MISSION. Arena, Willing Workers, 1; British Hollow, 45 cts.; Clin ton, S. S., 5; Green Bay, 14; New Lisbon, 30; Eau Claire, Cheerful Givers, 4.30, 25.05 Receipts for month, Total, since Oct. 29, 1885, $5,093 32 THE very sound of the word "December" still suggests the childhood associations of "Dreary-voiced elements, The shrieking of the mindless wind, The moaning tree-boughs, swaying blind; Of ghostly finger-tips of sleet." Who But the veriest New Englander would look in vain for the traditional December, upon our smiling coast. Last Wednesday, in Oakland, rose brighter, lovelier, and warmer than many an Eastern May-day. Gardens full of flowers beamed upon us-roses, heliotrope-missionaries all. Open doors and windows everywhere, instead of double-windows and weather-strips. would not live in California? We pity all who cannot, but especially those who cannot live in any part of America. Those who cannot are few. Those who do not are many. We heard from some of these, voluntarily exiled for Christ's sake, at our missionary meeting, December 1st, in the First Congregational Church, Oakland; Mrs. W. C. Pond presided. TURKEY. After the opening exercises, we had first a letter from our Mrs. Baldwin of Broussa, Turkey, read by Mrs. Dwinell. She writes delightfully of her vacation experiences, and of her hopes and plans for the next term. She says of the school: "The girls love it, the natives prize it, and our missionary friends have tried in various ways to help us. So, I hope to have only good news for you in the future." MICRONESIA. Our next news from a far country was contained in the journal letters from Mr. and Mrs. Logan, of Micronesia, read by Mrs. Brewer. Few are so completely exiled as they-left by the Jennie Walker, in November, 1884, the only white people upon the island of Ruk, surrounded by a strange, naked, heathen people. Missionary work on another island of the Mortlock group had acquainted Mr. and Mrs. Logan with the language, and had provided books in their own tongue, ready for the Ruk natives. They proved to be a kind-hearted, tractable, teachable race. The record of a year's work among them shows that much progress has already been made. Sickness overtook the brave missionary workers; all three of the little group were prostrated at different times. The only foreign callers of the year came on board a trading schooner, which also brought them their yearly mail. JAPAN. We heard from three workers in Japan. Mrs. Pond read a very interesting letter from Miss Gunnison, and Mrs. Savage read extracts from private letters received by Mrs. Jewett, from Miss Daughaday and Miss Hooper. Miss Daughaday of Osaka writes: "How I wish you could see our school! We have now more than eighty scholars. If you could attend our prayer-meetings, you would feel pleased and encouraged to observe the reverence and deep earnestness of their manner. One pupil, an officer's daughter, has very recently become a Christian. I have just returned from a visit to a sacred waterfall, to which I was accompanied by Miss Gunnison, who has been spending a few days with us. Already we love her very much, and thank the Lord for sending her to us." Miss Hooper writes, to our great joy, of the re-opening of the Kioto school. After our ten years of work there, through Miss Starkweather, how could we bear to think of it as closed! Miss Clarkson and Miss Hooper are to have charge of the school; perhaps Miss Gunnison will be there, too. The new term opens with twenty-four boarders and twelve day-scholars. "We were all so glad to welcome Miss Gunnison into the mission work in Japan. She has begun studying and teaching already, and will soon, doubtless, become one of our tried and valued workers. Our work in Kioto this year is an experiment, and we begin it again, hoping for the best. We feel the need of your earnest prayers in its behalf." WELCOME PHOTOGRAPHS. Our collection of missionary pictures is enriched by the arrival of three photographs from Mrs. Gulick of Spain, which were exhibited at our meeting. One, a group of eleven pastors and Christian teachers in Spain: Mrs. Gullick, Senors Tienda, Martinez, Ararijo, Mayorga, Digon, Saeuz, Serrano, Marques, Eximerio, Mate. Another group represents the school-girls, thirty in number, with Mrs. Gulick and Miss Richards in their midst. Such bright, attractive faces form a picture which would be welcome anywhere, but especially to us; for, do they not belong to our girls, and our missionaries? The third group contains but three faces - the graduating class of 1885: Josefa Achaval, born in Mexico, who goes to Madrid to teach; Heriberta Santana de Lara, already teaching in Zaragoza; Delfina Rodriguez, who is soon to be married to an earnest Christian young man. OUR APPROPRIATIONS. The following schedule of work was adopted for the present year: APPROPRIATIONS FOR W. B. M. P., 1885-'86: Zulu Mission-Salary of Mrs. Holbrook Micronesian Mission-Expenses of Morning Star Spain (as last year). Total, STEPHANOS. $450 00 1,183 60 650 00 500 00 500 00 $3,783 60 The friends of Stephanos will be interested in hearing that he has been removed from Northfield, and is now in Brooklyn, Connecticut, in care of Mrs. Virginia Smith, a well-known Christian and Congregationalist. Under such influences we hope Stephanos will develop many latent intellectual and spiritual graces. A HEATHEN WOMAN'S PRAYER. BY MARY SPARKES WHEELER. THE following remarkable prayer is the utterance of a young Hindu pupil in a missionary school. She is naturally very intelligent and refined, and the prayer shows the terrible bondage of heathenism, her soul-longings for deliverance, and her yearning sympathy for her fellow-sufferers. PRAYER. O Lord, hear my prayer! No one has turned an eye on the oppression that we poor women suffer, though with weeping, and crying, and desire we have turned to all sides, hoping that some would save us. No one has lifted up his eyelids to look upon us, or inquire into our case. We have searched above and |