Birmingham age-herald., 1895-05-12
are issued quarterly, providing new one for every month.
 Foreign Work

Foreign Work.
 The society supports 3S missionaries, including 1 medical; 109 teachers and helpers, F boarding schools 40 day schools, l hospital and Il Bible women; 4379 women and children are under in- Struction.
 China-Fifteen representatives of the womans board are now em- ried women have charge of work; 3 boarding schools and 90 day schools are
 in operation. and 1266 women and chil- dren are under instruction.
 MeXico-Fourteen missionaries are distributed in the three confer ences; there are boarding schools, g day schools and 17S9 women and children under instruction.
 Brazil-Eight missionaries are busy in the several centers of work in the Brazil mission conference; boarding schools and l day school are in operation, and 30S pupils and number of women are being taught.
 Indian mission-We do not employ mis- sionarieS, but teachers, in this difficult field. Rev J. J. Methvin has been com missioned by the bishop in charge to manage the school and camp work. He acts as treasurer and employs the teach CTS The industrial school at Anadarko is successfully operated, and Miss Brew ster is admirably adapted for her pecu- liar duties in the camp among the rov- ing bands of women and children. The work of the board in this mission is who'll ly among the wild tribes.
 New Work.
 In Mexico, in the city of Guadalaj jara, another center of the work has been opened the past year. It is located in the Central Mexico mission conference. A successful year has passed, the prospect is bright and when property has been se- cured confidence will be won, and another stronghold for Christ will be built in oun sister republic.
 In Brazil, two hours run from Rio, fine property has been purchased in the city of Metropolis. This city was the former summer home of the late empee. TOT, Dom Pedro. For beauty of loca ton, high up among the mountains. healthful climate and pure water it cannot be sur passed. The place secured has ample grounds. The house is just out of the hands of the builder and will accommo- date 100 pupils, besides the teachers. central college, in Rio closed because yellow fever had become epidemic in that city. has been transferred to Pe- tropolis. and Miss Watts, our pioneer missionary in Brazil. has opened the school with the equipments to be ob- talned on the field until she can be re- enforced the coming summer Miss watts IS well known to the chief execu- tive, President Moraes de Barros whose daughters and nieces she educated in our mission school at Piraricaba We are looking to this work in point of sit uation and evangelical influence to be to BrazlI truly city set upon a hill. whose light cannot be hid.
 The reception at MT. B. F. Ormond's rom 10 D. m. was an enjoyable and long to be remembered event If was a reunion of scattered friends from the south, the east the west, from China, Ja- pan. Brazil and Mexico. They all met in joy, some after months and years of sep aration. The young were there with their enthusiasm, the old with their growing faith and their advice tempered by experience. Many happy acquaint- ances were formed and many a God speed was spoken. A few gentlemen were present, but the majority present were ladies.
 Mesdames Halloman, White and Misses Moore and Ellie Ormond received at the thresholds; the officers of the Cen tral church society and presidents of the other Meridian societies of all denon- nations entertained in the parlors, and the society of the East Mississippi Fe- male college served refreshments.