Life and light for woman . e may welcomehome those that return exhausted and beart weary with their contact withthe woes of heathendom. It is well for us as missionary women to realize that we have distinguishingprivileges as workers for foreign missions. Let us not fail in our high trust!Let us continue this work that has, during twentv-five years, prospered andextended so grandly, and leave it as a precious legacy to others to continuewhen our efforts shall have ended. Let us thank God lieartily for whathas been wrought in this quarter-century. Let us look with courage andjoy to the grand wo
Life and light for woman . e may welcomehome those that return exhausted and beart weary with their contact withthe woes of heathendom. It is well for us as missionary women to realize that we have distinguishingprivileges as workers for foreign missions. Let us not fail in our high trust!Let us continue this work that has, during twentv-five years, prospered andextended so grandly, and leave it as a precious legacy to others to continuewhen our efforts shall have ended. Let us thank God lieartily for whathas been wrought in this quarter-century. Let us look with courage andjoy to the grand work yet to be done in California, and in the world, by theWomans Board of Missions of the Pacific. Mrs. C. B. Bradley. NEW YEAR THOUGHTS. Let us walk softly, friend;For strange paths lie before us, all untrod;The New Year, spotless from the hand of God, Is thine and mine, O friend. Let us walk kindly, friend;We cannot tell how long this life shall last,How soon these precious days be overpast; Let love walk with us, A NEW YEARS GREETING. [We commend to every womans missionary society this letter to a Chicagoauxiliary from its president.—Ed.] To the Ladies of the Aitxiliary Society in , Gieetings and best wishes: I WISH I could be with yoti to-day to consider with you the growing suc-cess of the missionary work and the responsibilities which rest upon thehomeland for the continuance of this work. Our money and our prayersought not only to sustain but also to advance the missionary operations. Let us think for a moment of Clirists answer to the messengers Johnsent to ask, Art tliou he that should come, or look we for another? Hesaid, • Go your way, tell John wliat things ye have seen and heard; howthat the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, thedead are raised, to the poor the gospel is jDreached. The climax of all the wonderful works of our Lord seems to be thepreaching of the gospel to the poor. Now, how abundantly and everincreasingly
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