The Queen of England is moving to establish dispensaries and training-schools for nurses throughout that land. Physicians from America, too, are called for; a career of great influence and usefulness awaits every able, thoroughly trained physician who goes out to these foreign fields. She becomes a powerful instrument in the uplifting of a people; for the debasement of heathen mothers constantly enfeebles the race.

It is a well-known fact that "irreversible physical as well as moral laws secure the degradation of races who deny to women their rightful position. Woman alone, in many instances, can carry the message of salvation to heathen women. They whose lips have been touched by a living coal from the altar of God, must open them to persuade these heathen sisters to receive the Lord Jesus Christ. And does not the Master as signally bless the preaching, if we call it so, of Mrs. Schneider, Mrs. Capron, Mary Porter, Margaret and Mary Leitch, and others whose names are too numerous to mention, as he does that of their brethren in the same field?

And in the history of the past, what encouragement for her labors! In Europe every country, almost without exception, received Christianity through the influence, direct or indirect, of some woman. And who knows but that in the years to come, in Congo, or China, or in the Isles of the Sea, some native Helena, or Bertha, or Clotilde may rise to win the land to Christ.

The truth of God that falls from the missionary's lips may be the leaven that the woman took and hid in a measure of meal, that leavened the whole mass. And she works not alone. If the gospel she carries is true, it is as much the proper, native food of human souls wherever found, as the air we breathe is proper and native to the lungs that recieve it. She is not responsible for results, but her trust is in the living Christ from whom she received her commission, and who is still saying, "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world."

TEMPERANCE WORK,

It is well known to many of our readers that the Woman's Christian Temperance Union is making an effort to extend to all civilized countries a knowledge of the Gospel Temperance Reform. They aim to introduce their methods of work,-principally the noontide hour of prayer and the Thursday afternoon prayermeeting for the cause, the white-ribbon badge, and to secure signatures to petitions to all civilized governments in favor of prohibitory legislation. The Union proposes to send accredited women around the world to promote these objects, and wherever practicable to organize a temperance work. The first of these delegates, Mrs. Mary Clement Leavitt, has already been absent two years on this mission, having started organizations in the Sandwich Islands, New Zealand, and a large part of Australia, and is to spend several years more in visiting India, China, and

Japan. Mrs. Leavitt is an earnest Christian woman of our own order, and she will be sure to have the co-operation of our missionaries, who will doubtless avail themselves of her assistance in the temperance work already existing in many of our fields, and to start new organizations where it is practicable.

APRIL MEETING.

THE Quarterly Meeting of the Woman's Board of Missions was held in the chapel of Park Street Church, Boston, on Tuesday, April 6th, at 3 P. M. Owing to a severe storm of wind and rain the audience was small; but the few who braved the elements were well repaid by an excellent address from Rev. J. K. Brown. of Harpoot, Turkey. The subject of the address was the touringwork done by Misses Seymour and Bush among the towns and villages in the Harpoot field. Interesting descriptions and incidents were given showing how these tours are often one series of revival-meetings, where the presence of the Holy Spirit is remarkably manifest, and where the interest and devotion of the small Christian communities are delightful to witness.

The usual report of the Home Secretary and foreign correspondence made up the additional programme of the meeting.

CHILDREN'S MEETING.

A VERY successful children's missionary meeting was held in Berkeley Street Church, Boston, on the afternoon of May 1st. Dr. Alden, of the A. B. C. F. M., presided, and the programme consisted of a greeting from different nations, "The Report of the Little Ones," by seven quite small children, a dialogue, "The Little Light-Bearers," addresses by Rev. J. E. Chandler, of the Madura Mission, Dr. E. M. Pease, of the Micronesian Mission, and Dr. Judson Smith, Secretary of the American Board. Over a thousand children were present from mission circles and Sunday-schools in and around Boston. Banners and flowers added brightness to the scene, and enthusiasm was hearty and abundant, especially over the building in Micronesia to be erected by the children. We regret that want of space prevents a more extended account of the meeting.

A WORK FOR THE CHILDREN.

THE Executive Committee of the W. B. M. wish to propose a special work for the children. It is the erection of a building for a boarding-school for girls on Kusaie, one of the Caroline Islands in Micronesia. There has been a felt necessity for the establishment of such a school, where promising girls from the different islands can be brought together under the same roof with Christian teachers, and, with favorable surroundings, be trained for Christian work among their countrywomen. A young lady, Miss Sarah Smith, has already been secured to commence the school, and expects to leave for Kusaie some time in June with Dr. and Mrs. Pease. It only remains to provide for the building to complete the arrangements.

The entire cost of the building is estimated at $2,000, and we wish that every mission circle connected with our Board might

It is proposed also to form a band of "Coral Builders," to which any circle or individual contributing as much as five dollars may belong, the names of all such donors to be sent to Kusaie and placed in the new building.

It is very desirable that this money shall be raised or pledged immediately, during the next two months if possible, as the necessary materials must be taken from Honolulu in the next trip of the Morning Star. We ask the co-operation of all leaders of mission circles and branch officers in this undertaking, and we feel great confidence that we shall have it.

WOMAN'S BOARD OF MISSIONS.
Receipts from March 18 to April 17, 1886.
MISS EMMA CARRUTH, TREASURER.

MAINE.

Maine Branch. Mrs. W. S.
Dana, Treas. Monson, Sun-
shine Band, $15; Skowhegan,
Ladies' Miss'y Soc'y, $8.75;
Lewiston, Aux., $36; Belfast,
Aux., $5; Scarboro, Young
Ladies' Aux., $13; Bangor,
Aux., $14.50; Auburn, Y. L.
M. B., const. L. M's Miss
Sarah E. Ingersoll, Miss
Lizzie D. Harlow, $50; Port-
land, Aux., of wh. $25 from
Social Circle, State St. Ch.,
const. L. M. Mrs. Frank T.
Bethel
Bayley, $30,
Ch.,
Beacon Lights, of wh. $25
const. L. M. Miss Annie I.
Hardy, $27.81; Calais, Aux.,
$12.21; Machias, Cheerful
Workers, $50; Blanchard,
Rays of Light, $3.41; Madison,
Aux., 5: Rockland, Aux.,$50, $320 68
Kittery Point.- Mrs. Jane S.
Brown,

North Berwick. - Mrs. S. S.
Drake,

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

New Hampshire Branch.
Miss A. E. McIntire, Treas.
Brookline, Aux., $16; Con-
cord, Aux., $35; Francestown,

2.00

6.00 $328 68

Aux., $33; Hampton, Mizpah
Circle, $25; Keene, First and
Second Ch's, special, $11,
Second Ch., Aux., of wh. $50
const. L. M's Mrs. G. W. Mc-
Duffee, Mrs. G. E. Whitney,
$54, Thank-offering, $26.14;
Lempster, Two ladies, $5;
Newport, Workers $80; North
Groton, Mrs. Anna M. Tenney,
$5, North Hampton, M. C.$12;
Portsmouth, Rogers Circle,
$40, Mizpah Circle, $5; Sea-
brook and Hampton Falls,
Aux., $8; Wolfboro, Newell
Circle, $75, Thank-off., A
Friend, $10. Ex., $58,

Total,

VERMONT.

$382 14

$382 14

Vermont Branch.- Mrs. T. M.
Howard, Treas. Alburgh,
Aux., $6; Bakersfield, Chil-
dren's Soc'y, $1; Fairlee,
Aux.. $17.90; Lyndon, Buds
of Promise, $5; Rutland,
Aux.,$17.98,S.S. $57.83, Spring-
field, $14.29; St. Johnsbury,
South Ch., Little Helpers, $15,
North Ch., Aux., $32.70;
Townshend, Aux., E. M. Bur-
nap, $1; West Westminister,
Aux., $22; Woodstock, Aux.,
of wh. $25 const. L. M. Mrs.
Laura C. Miller, $30,
$220 70