a
brief description of the functions of digestion, absorption,
circulation, respiration, excretion, secretion, and enervation.
Jan. 10.--2. Fractures, how to recognize and treat them temporarily;
bleeding, and how to treat it; the use of the triangular bandage.
Jan. 17.--3. Treatment of fainting, choking, burns and scalds, bites
from animals, bruises and tears from machinery, convulsions,
sunstroke, persons found insensible, suspected poisoning and
frostbite; how to lift and carry an injured person.
Jan. 24.--4. Sick-room, its selection, preparation, cleaning, warming,
ventilation, and furnishing, bed and bedding, infection and
disinfection.
Jan. 31.--5. Washing and dressing patients, bed-making, changing
sheets, lifting helpless patients, food administration, medicines
and stimulants, what to observe regarding a sick person.
Feb. 7.--6. Taking temperature, baths, bedsores, nursing sick
children, application of local remedies, poultices, fomentations,
blisters, etc.; management of convalescents.

3. D.--Rev. George Wilson. Four Lectures.
"Difficulties Encountered by District Visitors."

Feb. 14.--1. Difficulties proceeding from indifference.
Feb. 21.--2. Difficulties proceeding from ignorance.
Feb. 28.--3. Difficulties proceeding from adversity.
Mar. 6.--4. Difficulties proceeding from anxiety.
Note.--Questions invited from the ladies.

4. E.--Rev. Dr. Norman Macleod. Four Lectures.
"Some Qualifications of a Church Worker, especially among the Poor."

March 13.--1. Motives and aims.
March 20.--2. Difficulties and hindrances, how to overcome them.
March 27.--3. Conditions of success.
April 3.--4. Helps, agencies, etc.

5. F.--Rev. John McMurtrie. Two Lectures.
"History and Methods of Missions to the Heathen."

April 10.--1. History of missions.
April 17.--2. Methods of missions.

Another wise provision in this Scotch home is the arrangement by which
those who do not wish to become deaconesses, but who want to become
competent Christian workers in their own homes, can come here and spend
some months in receiving training and instruction in various methods of
Christian work. There is no department in life in which many blunders
and much loss of time and usefulness cannot be prevented by making use
of the experience of others who have previously