OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

White Ribbon, Volume 1, Issue 12, 1 June 1896, Page 9

OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Paris, Illinois, U.S.A. April 3, 1896. My dear Mrs Schnackcnberg,— Before this reaches you you will have learned from the Union Signal that I am to go this summer for work in Japan I write to express a hope that I may come to you, not as a missionary, but as a lecturer, when my work in Japan is done. We need you to come to us rather than that we should go to you, for I believe that any country may be measured by the degree of its appreciation of womanhood, and New Zealand has been one of the very first to give its women the substantial recognition that we desire. Our workers who have been injapan tell me there is no finan cial support given, so I shall have to depend upon the better organised countries to help me make expenses. May I not, for the work’s sake, hear from you at your convenience ; and will you be so kind as to send me a copy of your last minutes, with cost of same ? Yours in the bond that makes the whole world akin, (Miss) Clara Parrish.

We do not know what the decision of the Executive may be, but it seems to us that, with the return of the Rev. L. M. Isitt, and the expected visit of Mrs Hoffman in August, it would be difficult to make room for an additional worker.— Ed. White Riubon.]