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The first regular meeting of the season was held at the house of the president, Mrs. C. R. Eliot. Thirty-five members were present. The different committees gave reports of work. Mr. Eliot addressed the meeting, his subject being, "The Forward Look." Afterwards, the members enjoyed social half hour and a "cup of tea." There will be two meetings in November. The first study class will be on November 12, when the subject for talk will be: "The Present Order of Society." The next regular meeting will be held on Tuesday, November 25. At this meeting, Miss Suzanne Wunderbaldinger will speak on "Clean Markets and Pure Milk." Our director, Mrs. Myles Standish, will be present. It is hoped there will be a good attendance at both meetings. to be made up for the Fair will given out at both meetings, and as usual, "tea" will be served.

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The opening meeting of the season was held on October 3. Reports of the Vacation House, by Mrs. Gott, Mrs. Logan and Miss Stokes, were received with interest. All agreed that the venture had been a success. Master Ruhman played for us some of the selections grown familiar to us during the summer. The attendance was large, and several names were added to our membership.

On Friday, Oct. 19, seventy-three of the friends visited the Sunshine Biscuit Company. The party was divided into three groups, each in charge of a guide who conducted us through the different departments, explaining the working of the machinery, which handles the material from beginning to end, even to packing and labeling boxes. It certainly was most interesting. This month we are to visit the Art Museum. Those who wish to go will meet just inside the entrance on South Huntington avenue, at 2 o'clock, on Tuesday, November 18. Take any car to Sym

phony Hall, and ask for transfer to South Huntington avenue. These cars pass the door. Please be on hand a little before 2 o'clock, for the guide will start with the party promptly. We hope that a large number will go.

Lend a Hand.

The following lines were written by a member of the Eliot Circle, our largest Lend-a-Hand Club.

Lend a hand to help a brother,
When he staggers 'neath a load:
Lend a hand to help each other
Walk life's rough and changing road.

Lend a hand to him who falleth;
Help him rise upon his feet;
Lend a hand-your Saviour calleth;
Tell his love, so pure and sweet.

Lend a hand, today, tomorrow.
And each day, of every year;
Lend a hand, in pain or sorrow;
Strive each weary soul to cheer.

Lend a hand- oh, let us never
Turn deaf ears to any call;
Take this motto for your watch-word:
"Lend a hand, to each and all."

Vesta Dolloff.

The Mildred Ellis Lend a Hand Club.

On Saturday afternoon. November 1, the members of the club visited the Boston Nursery for Blind Babies, at 147 Huntington avenue, Roxbury. This is a home provided for blind children under five years of age. No other institution in Massachusetts provides for the care and training of blind children of this age. From this nursery, chil

dren are sent to the Perkins Kindergarten for the Blind, where their education is continued. About twenty of their children were playing happily in the big sun parlor. Each member of the club soon found a little friend to talk with, and many questions the little ones asked. We were shown over the beautiful home, in every way adapted to the life and comfort of these children. The children's stairs, the little white beds, and the twenty pairs of small bed slippers, were among the many interesting things we saw.

The opening meetings of our club have been well attended. We hope for a successful year in our Lend-a-Hand work.

We all know the Christmas story, and we can all hear, if we will, the song of the angels in our hearts, as often as Christmas comes. Nay. more and better than that, we can all be part of the angel choir and sing that song ourselves, "Glory to God in the highest. and on earth peace, good will toward men."

It is said that a Madonna by Raphael was recently sold in London for over half a million dollars. Wonderful, is it not, that a painting, centuries old.

should be considered so valuable! Wonderful the genius that could produce a picture that after four hundred years can yet command such a price! Wonderful that it should have been treasured all these years. to Cross the Atlantic to our America.

But do we not think it more wonderful still that we have in our hearts the image of the Mother-love and the Christ-child of nineteen centuries ago? And is it not more wonderful that we may buy the treasure of Faith and

Hope and Love "without money and without price?" And, more wonderful still, is it not, that the Christmas story and the ideals of the religion Jesus taught have found their way, over land and sea, to every part of the world? All that remains is to accept them with all the mind and heart and live them into life indeed.

Christmas Announcements.

The Christmas service will be held on Sunday, Dec. 21. The Sunday school will meet at 2.30 P. M. for a short session and then unite with the congregation for the Christmas service at 3.15 P. M. It is hoped that the Sunday-school room will be ready for use on that Sunday. All members of the school are urged to be present.

The "Christmas Tree" will be on Wednesday, Dec. 31, at 7 P. M. Full notice in regard to parents' tickets and other matters will be given on the Sunday preceding. Each Sunday-school class has the privilege of inviting one guest, as last year, and we hope that all will do so. The Eliot Circle Party will be held on Friday afternoon, Jan. 2, at 2.30 o'clock.

The Winkley Guild.

A good meeting of the Guild was that in November addressed by Rev. Joseph P. MacCarthy of Waltham. He illus trated the lesson of "Making the best of Opportunities" by many striking examples of men and women who, though under great difficulties and handicaps, had by patient and presevering effort risen to great usefulness and power.

On Dec. 7 the speaker will be Rev. Palfrey Perkins of Brighton, and on Dec. 21 Miss Jones will speak upon "Child Labor."

On the evening of Dec. 12 the Guild will be entertained by the Lend a Hand Club of the Church of the Disciples. This invitation came soon after the "fire" and brought with it a cordial expression of sympathy and goodwill, and the hope was expressed that the meeting planned "would promote acquaintance and good fellowship between the two societies." That this end may be accomplished, besides the good time we are sure to enjoy, all the members of the Guild are urged to keep the date in mind and plan to go-Friday evening, Dec. 12. the Church of the Disciples. corner of Jersey and Peterborough streets. Take Chestnut Hill ear from Park street.

Other Plans.

The gymnasium classes opened on Tuesday, Dec. 9, with a thoroughly renovated plant. The Swedish Club will meet on Tuesday and Friday evenings; the West End House Clubs on Mondays and Thursdays, afternoon and evening. Mr. Ellicott will organize his boys' class as soon as possible.

The New Year Reception will be a "house-warming" to celebrate the reopening of our church building and alt departments of our work. All the rooms will be open for inspection. Special invitations will be issued.

The "Pleasant Sunday Evenings" will be resumed on Jan. 11. These were so successful last year that we anticipate even greater success this season. Cards will be ready by Jan. 4, and the hearty, enthusiastic support and Cooperation of all our friends, in or out of the church, is earnestly desired.

The Sphinx Club classes in music. sewing, etc., will reopen soon after Jan. 1.

The "Saturday Evenings" for boys will begin on Jan. 10, at 7 o'clock, conducted by the Red, White, and Blue Club Sr.

The annual meeting of the teachers of the Howard Sunday School will be held on Friday, Jan. 16, when reports of committees will be presented and the officers elected for the ensuing year.

Women's Alliance.

The subject of the last Study Class meeting was "Is the World Growing Better?" and it was discussed with vigor. The verdict was "Better, but with lots of room for improvement." The regular meeting was given to "Clean Markets and Pure Milk." Miss Wunderbaldinger, inspector for the Women's Municipal League, told about her work in a bright, interesting way, and said that she usually found the dealers ready to cooperate. She pointed out several ways in which customers themselves may help to keep the shops up to standard, by friendly suggestion, by refusing to deal with unclean shops, or by reporting such to the League, 6 Marlborough street, Boston.

The meetings of the Alliance for December will be held on the 10th and 17th. The Study Class on the 10th will discuss "Peace and The Hague Conventions." The meeting on Dec. 17 will be held in the evening, at 7.45. Miss Jane R. McGrady will speak on "City Amuse

ments."

Phillips Brooks.

Eliot Circle.

The Christmas meeting will be postponed until December 12. On that day we hope to return to our own rooms, which will be a delight! Rev. Harold G. Arnold will speak to us and we know his message will be a helpful one. There will be music also, and we shall make plans for our Christmas work. On Tuesday, Dec. 16, we are to visit the Youth's Companion building to see how the little paper, which finds a welcome in our homes, is put together. Friends who wish to go will please meet just inside the main entrance on Columbus avenue, near Berkeley street, at a quarter before 2. Those who went with us to the Art Museum on Nov. 18 know how interesting these trips are. We hope for a large delegation.

The Temperance Union.

A very large meeting of the Temperance Union was held on Sunday afternoon, Nov. 30, at 4.15 o'clock.. Many of those present made a special effort, knowing that this would be the last meeting at which, the President. Dr. Mary F. Hobart, could preside before

sailing for Europe. Though little was said openly, there was a deep feeling in every heart both of appreciation of Dr. Hobart's fidelity and enthusiasm as the Union's President and of gratitude for services of friendship and professional skill which she has rendered so generously for so many years and to so many people. We often express the spirit of our Christianity by the words good will and good cheer, and surely our President exemplifies these qualities in abundant and overflowing measure. At the end of the meeting a vote of gratitude and good wishes was passed and a vase of roses presented.

The address of the afternoon was given by Mrs. Elizabeth Tilton upon "The Temperance Poster Campaign," of which she is the executive head, and the Union voted to co-operate in the work by displaying the posters upon a bulletin board on the church.

In opening the meeting Dr. Hobart spoke of the purposes of the Union, Temperance. Good Citizenship and Neighborhood Improvement, and urged more of the church members to join. She spoke encouragingly of the work and thanked the members for their support, expressing her regret that she would not be able to take an active

part in the work on account of her change of residence. Mr. McMurdie spoke earnestly of the movement being started in the West for a constitutional amendment forbidding the manufacture and sale of intoxicants, and it was voted to refer this question to the central committee of the Unitarian Temperance Society for its careful consideration.

Our Work: An Appeal.

Our little paper is now in its tenth year and has become as much a part of the church and its work as anything under its roof. It carries its report of the church, Sunday-school and church affairs from the hills of Vermont to the Pacific Coast, taking its message of cheer and work done to many past and present members of the church. It is a cog in the wheel of our activities that would be much missed if its publication were discontinued. But to carry it on means that we must raise $100 a year. Will those who have not renewed their subscriptions for the ensuing year please do so by sending 50 cents or more to Mr. 0. Arthur McMurdie, 110 Fuller street, Dorchester? Do any of our friends know of past or present members of our church, not now subscribers, who would be glad to be such? If so please send their names and addresses to Mr. McMurdie.

Items of Interest.

The Christmas meeting of the Sunday School Teachers' Union, which for two years has been held at Bulunch Place aurch, will be held this year at All Souls' Church, Roxbury.

The days before Thanksgiving were busy ones for Miss Stokes and her helpers. Ninety-one baskets of various sizes were sent out.

The Autumn course of stereopticon lectures was necessarily omitted but the course for the Winter and early Spring will be arranged as usual, to begin on Feb. 19.

Biennial Bazaar.

Friends and members of the Winkley Guild will be interested to know that the returns of the preserve and pickle table at which the Guild assisted were $50.75 and that the total receipts of the The Bazaar were a little over $1600. chairman for our Guild wishes to thank all those who helped either by their attendance at the fair or by contributions of articles or money.

Another month has passed since the fire and great progress has been made in setting things to rights. The basement floor and ceiling have been cemented, closets and coal bins rebuilt, furnaces repaired, plumbing and electric lighting thoroughly overhauled and much improved. The Sunday-school and parlor floors have been laid, all damage to walls and woodwork repaired, ceilings and walls retinted, with new Tungsten lights and shades. The organ has been thoroughly cleaned and put in perfect order. The new shades are in place, as also the new electric lights on the balcony. The gymnasium have been changed lights to single Tungstens. the bath rooms asphalted and painted, a great improvement. The new windows for the lower story are expected soon and when in place the furniture can be brought back and the final touches given. It has been a long process, but the end is in sight, and when reached will be a good one.

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A very delightful surprise came Mr. and Mrs. Eliot in the shape of a gift of over $1000 from about fifty outside friends, to be used for the present needs of the church. The letter which accompanied the cheque was heartwarming. The gift, it said, is "a token of our warm affection and our appreciation of all that you have done and are doing. We hope that you will use the money for the present needs at Bulfinch Place Church in any way that you think best."

Speaking the Truth in Love.

Oh, the sweetness of sweet words! Oh, the beauty of truth spoken in love! Happy the family where rising irritation is calmed by the soft tender voice which comes like balm into the wounded spirit! Happy the church where the minister is not so much a son of thunder as a son of consolation, whose words attract souls, win hearts to God, and who does not drive, but draw men through the magneties of his own convictions, conduct, and life! James Freeman Clarke.