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Our Views qf Misaion Wor'h. 108meeting held oy the girls their accents are full of at theu* birth, and then remember how Chrispersuasion, because it has cost them something to love has already wrought some change, broughtserve the Lord.better conditions in even the most degraded places,When in the early Autumn Mr. and Mrs. our hearts are full. But there is very much stillBooth returned to their school after the long ab- to be done. There are yet mothers in China whosence at home, there was a pretty sight for any throw away the sickly girl babe, whom it wiUinterested observer. Dra-vn up in two long lines cost too much to rear. There is yet a publicto receive them were the Japanese pupils, crying opinion which justifies this course as -tnse econintheir ft'esh young voices, "Welcome! Wei- omy.come ! Welcome home !" Garlands of flowers Still, we hope and pray and labor and give.were everywhere with " Greeting ' and " Wei- God's blessing will rest ou the liberal hand, ascome" repeated in leaves and buds ; and Mrs, on the devout heart. For ere long we expect toBooth, writing to a friend here and describing it cry : " Mine eyes have seen the glory of theall, said touchingly : " Nothing in the home land coming Lord 1''except my mother's welcome went to my heart as Education without Christianity would be nodid the reception of these girls., I can scarcely boon to the heathen woman. It would placewrite to you about it for the tears !"her only where the dancing girls of India haveRemembering the faith, the courage, the per- always been, the ministers of depravity and handsistencyof Mr. Booth in raising money for the maids of vice. Education without Christianityenlargement of Ferris Seminary, do you not feel would take from the heathen woman the childishlike raising a Te Deum Laudamas that his work panoply of ignorance in which she drifts throughwas crowned with success ?dreamy and idle days, a child to the end, evenBight hundred miles away, across Japan, in the when her premature age drives childish charmbeautiful harbor town of Nagasaki, we have at away.lastthe Jonathan Stuiges Seminary in actual op- Education and Christianity, in combmation,eration with two teachers and giris crowding in the one the complement of the other, wiU loosento be taught AU honor to our brave little lady, her fetters, bless her home, and enable her toMary E. Brokan, who held the fort so long alone, bear her sons and daughters iu equal joy andNo difficulty, she writes, exists in findingpupils, pride of maternity. It is this which our Women'snow that we have a building in which to accom- Board is trying to do.modate them. That the Lord's Work is to be carried on inDo we not behold in anticipation the home the future with no drawbacks or hindrances welights twinkling across the sea ? Betier homes cannot suppose. Only two years ago in thefor China, for India, for Japan! Homes in bright month of October, in Central Africa, Jameswhich woman emancipated from serfdom shaU sit Huntington, that splendid Englishman, whoseby her husband his equal, companion and friend ? life we have lately read, faced the levelled gunsWives who shall not be only the play things of of the savages who had led him out to die. twopassion, not even only the mothers of their years ago ! We shall never be sure that thesons. Brightening on to the perfect day, this glo- martyr's crown, in some sudden outbreak of hearious workof woman for woman is only in its dawn, then fury, may not be bound upon the brows ofOh ! When we think of the long wail of down- some dear missionary pf our own. Christ's wittroddenwomanhood, of the unwelcome giri child- nesses whether in Ufe or in death, the noblem, 4espl5|e4 fpoijj %ir praties, if pot ptr»n|Ie4 firmj' 9f fft%Bip|iaries, men ^pd wom,en, ar? ^eep-