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Spirit of iWtoions!

Vol. LXXXV

APRIL, 1920

No. 4

CONTENTS

Front ispiet-e : Blessing the Faster Food 201

Editorial: The Progress of the Kingd*.in 20:i

The Sanctuary of Missions 208

Easter in Many Places:

Easter in the Karpathians Eleanor E. Ledbetter 20!>

Easter in Kyoto Reverend Roger A. Walke 217

Easter Among the Shoshones Reverend John Roberts 221

Easter in San Juan Iva M. AVoodrutf 227

Easter at Saint Augustine’s Reverend Edgar H. Goold 231

Easter at Alaska’s Cathedral Church 237

i’he Opium Burning at Shanghai Margaret Handy Porterfield 241

A First Visit to Western Nebraska Reverend James Kirkpatrick 243

Hopeful Happenings in Nanking Reverend J. M. B. Gill 247

A Letter to the Clergy Ei^ihop Gailor 249

Meeting of the Department of Missions 249

News and Notes 251

Work Among Foreign-Born Americans 254

The Nation-Wide Campaign 255

The Educational Department 256

Our Letter Box: Letters from Reverend T. M. Gardiner, Liberia; Archdeacon

G. G. Walker, Texas 257

The AVoman’s Auxiliary:

A Sojourn in the Gate of the Dragon... Sister Edith Constance 261

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BLESSING THE FOOD ON EASTER MORNING (See ** Easter in the Karpathians” page 2og)

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The Presiding Bishop and Council sends Easter Greetings to the readers of The Spirit of Missions and asks their prayers for God’s blessing upon the work.

The organization of the Department of Missions, the Department of Edu- cation and the Department of Finance has been completed, and these depart- ments are working faithfully and efficiently, with regular meetings, well attended.

The Department of Social Service has not yet been fully organized by the election of an executive secretary, because the members of the depart- ment are profoundly conscious of the vast importance of this work at the present time and the necessity of proceeding wisely and carefully in putting the Church in Her proper position, as an inspiring and steadying — and not a revolutionary and disruptive — force in the affairs of the country. There is a splendid opportunity for service; but it must be seized and used for the promotion of justice and peace and good-will to all, without hasty and super- ficial judgment or reckless statement.

The Department of Publicity has at last been organized by the nomina- tion of the Reverend Robert F. Gibson, of Macon, Georgia, as executive secretary, and it is believed that this is a great step forward in practical efficiency. To get the Church into proper relation to the secular press — to have the real work of the Church duly and wisely reported ; to expand The Spirit of Missions and increase its circulation; to devise means whereby every member of the Church may be informed of, and interested in, the movements that affect the life of the Church, will be the important business of this department.

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The members of the Departments of Finance and Publicity have been deeply impressed by the reports of the progress of the Nation-Wide Campaign. Some of the parishes have responded to this movement with an enthusiasm and generosity beyond all praise. One small parish in Virginia has contributed more than $76.00 for each communicant, and one big parish in New York City heads the list for the United States with more than $77.00 for each communi- cant. Many dioceses — especially in the South ‘and West — have “gone over the top” and the whole Church is waking up, with a new zeal and sacrifice for the cause. It is a spiritual movement — a movement of education, conse- cration and acceptance of responsibility for service to mankind. It is creating a sense of brotherhood and solidarity among Church people, a capacity for organized efficiency, which will grow and increase as the years go on, with wonderful results, by God’s help, in the extension of Christ’s Kingdom.

With a responsibility so great and an outlook so inspiring, we feel that a special department must be organized to take care of this movement, to continue it and extend it. We must have an executive secretary who will give his entire time and thought to it, and secretaries in the field who will give information and keep up the interest by personal contact and the spoken word.

Dr. Milton, of Wilmington, North Carolina, has been asked to take this position of executive secretary, and with most unselfish devotion has expressed his willingness to go where the Church calls him, without regard to personal convenience or personal advantage.

We hope to be able to announce in the next Spirit of Missions that the Department on the Nation-Wide Campaign has been organized and that Dr. Milton is its active head, with Dr. Patton as his field secretary.

A great and unprecedented door of opportunity is before us. May God our Father give us vision and courage and power through Jesus Christ our Lord! Thos. F. Gailor.

first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was

I yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre. Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them. They have “He Saw taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not

and where they have laid Him. Peter therefore went forth, and that

Believed” other disciple, and came to the sepulchre. So they ran botfi together : and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre. And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in. Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie, and the napkin, that was about His head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself. Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw and believed.”

AS the sun gradually extends its rays and its influence around the world, opening the opportunity of a new day to men, so, step by step, mo- ment by moment, country by country, the glad cry “He is risen I” envelops the world, and the dawn of Easter means a renewed faith, a renewed He Is strength, a renewed consecration to the cause of the risen Christ.

Risen! If those who had been with Him intimately day by day, had wit-

nessed His power, had experienced His love, were taken by

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■surprise at His resurrection from the dead, we must not wonder that it some- times requires long and faithful effort to overcome local superstitions or to convince the skeptic of the actual performance of the seeming impossible. On the other hand, we find today, once the eyes of His disciples have been opened to the truth, the same loyal and steadfast devotion. Every nation has many a loving Mary who ministers to the sick and needy in the name of her Lord; many an impetuous Peter, convinced in a moment of the reality of it all, completely changed from shifting sand to solid rock, -goes forth to serve Christ with loyalty and devotion. Every nation has produced beloved disciples like Saint John, whose every thought, word and deed expresses devotion to the Master. In the Providence of God, every day is Easter in that there are those who for the first time enter the sepulchre and seeing the place where He lay vacant and the linen clothes lying and “the napkin that was about His head, not lying with the clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself’, believe! Every day there are those who exclaim with fervor: “He is

risen!” Once the sun has started on his journey and a new day has begun, the first glad cry is answered from every quarter of the globe as the day progresses, “The Lord is risen indeed !”

And we who have been used of God to make His Son known to others, while we know every day to belong to God and every Sunday to be a little Easter, approach the Feast itself with special joy and reverence, and when we see that devoted, loyal, loving woman running from the empty tomb, and then see that old man and that young man running toward it, just in the pro- portion in which we have gone with them through the dark valley and shadow of death, with just the clearness with which we have heard the demand “Crucify Him”, shall we enter into the spirit of that glad, happy, triumphant cry “He is risen!”

IT is most fitting that along with accounts of Easter in foreign parts of the world we should have a glimpse of Easter among the foreign-born in our own large cities. In the sense in which it is used it is possible for almost all of us to take a journey to the Karpathians and dwell with -those Our who speak other, tongues long enough to at least show them

Inheritance that we are friends and neighbors. In many places this first advance on our part is all that is needed to begin a mutual under- standing and co-operation which will result in much good. In other places more patient effort is required owing to unfortunate circumstances and mis- understandings. But surely the ideal is that we all may be one, and that as Easter returns and the glad cry “He is risen !” is spread abroad we may each one help the other at least by sympathetic understanding and appreciation as he expresses his joy.

After all, our Lord’s earthly life was not spent in America nor did He come in the twentieth century. We have what we have by inheritance. Had it not been that individual Christians, some of whom belonged to despised nations and all of whom were “foreigners” were willing in the face of mis- understanding, financial loss, persecution and even death to be loyal to and -pass on Christian truth, it never would have reached us. We have what we have by inheritance. Christmas — the Child in the manger, the angels’ carol, the wondering shepherds — first became Christmas in a far-off country and amid a strange people; our Lord went to and fro among and ministered to “foreigners”; Jerusalem, Calvary and the Sepulchre are spot's which few of us shall ever have the privilege of seeing because they are in a far country.

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But we enter into all of this joy, we share all of these facts, we call ourselves by the Name of Christ and are signed with the sign of His Cross because many years ago good friends from the East brought the Message to our fore- fathers.

Today we are “at home” in a Christian land and the children of these friends and benefactors of our ancestors are our neighbors and our guests. As a country we have bid them come ; surely as Christians we must bid them ■K'clcome. If you have never done it, begin this Easter by choosing an indi- vidual, a family or a group with whom to worship at least once in order that our common faith may be emphasized and that the first step may be taken to show that in the sight of God we are neighbors, we are friends, we are brothers.

The old record of the Holy Spirit’s coming into the hearts of men has it that “They were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, ‘Behold, are not all these who speak Galileans ? And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? Parthians, Every Man and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in His Own in Judea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and Tongue Pamphilia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.’ ” Surely when the record of our time telling of the influence of this same Spirit on us is written it will read in part that on the invitation and because of the welcome of Americans, Armenians and Greeks, Japanese and Chinese, Czechs and Slovaks, Jews and Italians, Scandinavians and Poles, Germans and Erench, Russians and Assyrians, dwellers in Europe and Asia, Africa and South America, Australia and the Isles of the Sea, having come to our shores, wor- ship side by side with us and give praise to God for His manifest goodness to men.

In line with the above, and with the express purpose of giving the aver- age Churchman a general view of the whole situation so far as the strangers who have come to our country are concerned, there has just been published by the secretary for foreign-born Americans a summary which is fascinating in its interest. It is a book of eighty pages under the title of Foreign-horn Americans, and it is just ofif the press. With more than one hundred illus- trations and charts, and treating, first of the opportunity as a whole and then of the separate groups in which we Churchmen have been or should become interested, it leaves the reader with the conviction that all men and women — and children — are pretty much alike no matter what their language or nafional classification.

SINCE the resignation of Bishop Brent and his subsequent translation to the diocese of Western New York in 1918, the missionary district of the Philippine Islands has been without a bishop. The General Convention which met in Detroit last year elected the Reverend Gouverneur Erank Bishop Mosher, one of the staff of the China mission, to this vacancy.

Mosher Mr. Mosher accepted the election and was consecrated in Shang-

hai on Eebruary twenty-fifth. No details of this event have as yet been received at the Church Missions House.

The Church in the Philippines is to be congratulated on its new bishop. Mr. Mosher in his twenty-two years of missionary service has proved himself

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to be a man of sterling personal worth, possessed of much administrative ability. He is an alumnus of Berkeley Divinity School and was ordained to the diaconate by Bishop Williams of Connecticut immediately after graduation. He volunteered at once for the China mission and, accompanied by his sister. Deaconess G. B. Mosher, sailed for Shanghai in 1897. In the following year he was advanced to the priesthood by Bishop Graves.

Mr. Mosher was at first connected with the Chinese churches of Our Saviour, Hongkew, and Saint Peter’s, Sinza — both native quarters of the city of Shanghai. In 1901 Bishop Graves asked him to open up work in Wusih, a large and flourishing town on the Grand Canal, west of Shanghai. No other Christian body was at work there except the Roman Catholics, who had made many converts. Accompanied by the Reverend J. W. Nichols, Mr. Mosher went to Wusih and has been at work there ever since. The Church of the Holy Cross, Saint Andrew’s Hospital, a school for catechists and boarding schools for boys and girls are the material evidence of his labors. The universal esteem in which he is held by Chinese and Americans alike has been a no less valuable factor in the growth of the Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui in China.

WE regret very much that the treasurer of the missionary district of North Dakota feels that an injustice has been done in awarding first place in the record of the per capita offerings of the Sunday-schools to Pennsyl- vania instead of to North Dakota, which has headed the list for p , ten years. We need not say that The Spirit of Missions

xp ana i n (desires only to show the strictest impartiality in such a matter, and we feel that an explanation as to the method of computing the per capita standing of the schools is in order.

In inaugurating the practice of recording the standing of the schools in 1910, the then editor of this magazine said: “It is doubtless true that any

basis of comparison will, for various local reasons, be somewhat unequal, but the. fairest method seems to be the computation of each offering per capita. We have therefore taken the total amount received at the Church Missions House from each diocese and district and divided it by the number of scholars in each, as reported in the Living Church Annual.'' This method has been followed ever since. The treasurer of North Dakota expresses surprise at our use of a general almanac rather than the diocesan journal, but when it is known that at this late date (March twenty-third) it has been impossible, even after three requests have been sent out, to secure the journals of all the dioceses and missionary districts, it will be seen that we could only have used the figures in the journals in some cases, which would have been manifestly un- fair. According to the figures sent in by the treasurer of North Dakota after the February issue of The Spirit of Missions had gone out to the Church, North Dakota’s per capita offering for last year was $1.45.

We repeat, what we pointed out in the February issue, that after all the per capita gift is a trivial matter when compared with the real essence of the great Fenten Offering for missions. Certainly, as in a missionary district like North Dakota, which has taken a profound interest in this great offering, so in a diocese like Pennsylvania, and right on down through the dioceses and missionary districts which, according to statistics, appear far down from the head of the list, there have been examples of self-sacrifice and devotion which have found expression in this offering for the advancement of the general missionarv work of the Church.

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1 n e % m 3	THE SANCTUARY OF MISSIONS ^"TAHE day of resurrection! INTERCESSIONS I Earth, tell it out abroad; -w* *vTr -n. The Passover of gladness, \^V# ^ Thee The Passover of God. V ▼ That Thy blessing may From death to life eternal, rest on Bishop Mosher From earth unto the sky, as he enters upon his new work Our Christ hath brought us over in the Philippines. (Page 206.) With hymns of victory. To enlarge our hearts and kindle our zeal toward the better Oi^ hearts be pure from evil, understanding of our brethren of That we may see anght foreign parentage. (Page 209.) Tlje Lord in rays eternal ^0 bless our faithful people in And, listening to His accents, ^ 1 May hear so calm and plain 7° ,^"1 sfengthen those His own “All hail,” and hearing, 'y’’° faster Message to May raise the victor strain. widely scattered districts of Alaska. (Page 237.) Now let the heavens be joyful. To bless the Church in, and Let earth her song begin, the bishop of. Western Nebraska. The round world keep high triumph, (Page 243.) And all that is therein; To open new avenues of op- Let all things seen and unseen portunity in China, and to give Their notes together blend, grace to walk in them. (Page For Christ the Lord is risen, 261.) Our joy that hath no end. ♦♦♦ — Greek Hymn, VIII Century. PRAYERS A LMIGHTY God, who hast THANKSGIVINGS given thine only Son to be p TP ^ sacrifice for VV 'I'hat “ChrFt being ensample of godly ^ ^ raised from the dead ITe; Give us grace that we npy dieth no more: death hath no always ^ most thankfully receive more dominion over Him.” inestimable benefit, and For Easter in Japan and its con- ^^^o daily endeavour ourselves to tribution toward teaching men to follow the blessed steps of His worship God “in the holiness of ?^®st holy life; through the same beautv”. (Page 217.) J^^us Christ our Lord. Amen. the work which the Christian mis- whose most potent grace we s'ionary has been privileged to ac- have become sharers in thy complish. (Page 221.) ^ ^ abundant life; Grant us power so For E^ter at Saint Augustine s fulfil that life in ourselves, and (Page 231 ) manifest it tO' others, that they For the many signs of moral become sharers in Thy perfect progress in China and for the peace and joy; who livest and part we are allowed to play in reignest 'with the Father and the making China one day a Chris- Holy Spirit ever, one God, world tian nation. (Pages 241 and 247.) without end. Amen.	a n € IL m 3 a
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A RUSSIAN VILLAGE AND ITS CHURCH As in the great crises of the fast, so now, the Church will be the salvation of Russia. Deep personal religion is the characteristic of the people. The church is the central

landmark of village or city

EASTER IN THE KARPATHIANS

By Eleanor E. Ledbetter

NO, it is not a matter of pass- ports and a long journey. The requirements are rather a love for the Slav people, an appreciation of sym- bolism, with imagination enough to in- terpret it, deep-seated Christian senti- ment with a sufficient touch of emo- tionalism to enable one to enter into alien forms of religious expression, and then just a spice of love for ad- venture— with these as passports an ordinary trolley car in any one of a dozen American cities will take one to the Heart .of the Karpathians.

Before the Resurrection was the Crucifixion and the three days in the tomb, so we start our Easter observ- ance with Good Friday when the

Lord was crucified, and share in the solemn ceremonies attendant upon the placing of the body in the tomb. This service should properly take place at four in the afternoon, but the needs of a working people >vho yet would share in the service make it most ex- pedient to postpone the time until eve- ning. Therefore, at seven o’clock we hurry to the Russian Orthodox church of ‘Saint Theodosius, and from the gallery look down upon the solemn ceremonies.

In the very center of the church — there are no pews — is arranged the tomb, adorned as for one dearly be- loved, and waiting for the body of the Saviour. Vespers and the litany

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are chanted and we admire the skill which, without the aid of an instru- ment, draws such beautiful music from a choir largely of children..

What impresses us most in the con-* gregation is the personal dignity and the lack of self-consciousness. Each one performs his own devotions as if the rest of the congregation did not exist. A young man at the callow age when an American youth would be all hands and feet and a painful blush, comes in, possesses himself of several candles, and lights and places them one by one before the sacred pictures in the front of the church, before each one kneeling three times so as to touch his forehead to the floor, then rising, reciting a prayer, and making the sign of the cross three times. When he has finished he takes his place with the rest of the con- gregation, standing in perfect quiet and dignity. The women stand on the left side of the church, the men on the right, the little children in rows on the women’s side, and as the tardy ones come in at the rear the whole congregation moves forward.

Now comes the solemn hour when the winding sheet, symbolizing the body of Jesus, is taken from the altar and carried above the head of the priest by four bearers. Each member of the congregation has a taper; the banners are taken from their stands and their bearers take their place at the head of the procession, the cross preceding them. Then come the two little acolytes, each carrying a taper in the left hand; in the right hand one has the censer, the other the Book of the Gospels. The choir follows, singing, and the procession moves out of the church, all the congregation following, with their tapers lighted. Three times around the church rep- resents the journey of the faithful with the beloved Body from Calvary to the sepulchre. Re-entering the church, the winding sheet is placed

upon the tomb, and the priest, stand- ing at the tomb, and thus in the midst of his congregation which ranges around in a semi-circle, tells the story of the Crucifixion in a beautiful voice and with an expression so benignant that the scene appears like that of a father talking to his children on a theme mutually beloved. A guard, representing the soldiers of the Bible, is placed before the tomb, and we leave the church while the congrega- tion are one by one making their three humble reverences before the tomb, which for the time does indeed seem to be that new tomb which Joseph of Arimathea offered for His interment.

A few blocks in reality, many, many miles in nationalistic sentiment, and we are at the Ukrainian Greek Cath- olic Church of Saints Peter and Paul, where the service began later, and we are in time to see the procession. This procession is preceded by discordant noises made by beating wood, sym- bolizing the driving of the nails into the cross. The church banners are preceded by the American flag, beau- tiful silk with gold fringe, held high so that it waves in the breeze and suggests our country as one of the things made possible by the sacrifice of Calvary. The processional cross and the beautiful icon on a standard, which precede all processions in the church, are here. The women’s so- cieties, dressed in black, carry the pic- tures from the side altars. Then comes the choir, singing ; then the bearers of the winding sheet, with uni- formed cadets at each side with their arms at attention ; then the Ukrainian Sokol, in’ the blue and gold uniforms and caps with the falcon feather, carrying another American flag and also the blue and gold of the Ukraine, and acting as guard of honor to the priest in full vestments, carrying a beautiful monstrance and followed by hundreds. When the procession has passed us for the third time, we hasten

A GREAT FEAST DAY AT THE GREEK CHURCH OF SAINTS PETER AND

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into the church and up to the gallery, where we look down upon a perfect crush in the body of the church.

We are converted to the pewless church, since this crowd, hindered by pews and aisles, lacks the noble dig- nity which accompanied the simplicity and freedom of movement at Saint Theodosius. This tomb is more ar- tistic, however. It is set up directly in front of the royal doors of the iconostasis, and represents the front of the tomb and the Body lying in it, while rising above the tomb is a huge crucifix with the figures of the two Marys and the disciple whom Jesus loved standing at its foot. The wind- ing sheet is placed in front of the tomb, the monstrance, cross and pic- tures are returned to their places, and

a brief address concludes the service. We leave while the Sokol members are set for their long vigil and the congregation are making their rever- ences before the tomb ; the priest, in cassock now, gazing benignly upon his people. Some devout souls will re- main all night in worship.

Going to the car, we decide to look in at the Uhro-Rusinian Church of the Holy Ghost. Here the serv- ice is over and the congregation gone, only the uniformed Greek Cath- olic brotherhood and a few others remaining. We say a prayer before the tomb, and the priest, whom we had not seen standing in the shadow of the altar, comes down to us and, with a beautiful grave inclination of the head, says. “Welcome,” and bids us

THE UKRANIAN SOKOLS (MEN AND WOMEN) AND THEIR BAND

to a share in the blessed Easter food at his home on Easter morn.

Saturday I spend in the city’s workaday world, but in the evening the friendly trolley car transports me again to Galicia, where I meet my friend, and soon after eleven o’clock we again join the congregation of Saint Theodosius’s at the tomb of Jesus. The people are entering slowly, each individual making his devotion before the tomb as he comes in. A succession of readers are reading the Acts of the Apostles and continue to do so until the beginning of the mid- night service at eleven-thirty. Just before midnight the priest, who has been clad in the vestments of sorrow, bears the winding sheet from the tomb to the altar, the choir singing, “When thou didst descend into hell, O Life Immortal, then thou didst annihilate hell with the radiance of thy divinity”.

At midnight we all go forth from the church, each member of the con- gregation bearing a lighted taper. The bells ring lustily while we three times make the circuit of the church and come then to the doors as the three Marys came to the sepulchre early in the morn on the first day of the week. The doors are shut, and the priest, now in beautiful white vestments, censes them, as the Marys brought myrrh and spices to the tomb that morning. Then he announces “The Lord is risen”, the doors are opened, and we go in, as did the Marys, to see the place where the Lord lay. Every trace of the tomb is gone and the church is filled with joyous tokens of the Resurrection. Easter matins are now sung; the refrain, Christos voskrese (Christ is risen), occurs con- stantly, the congregation responding with the equivalent of “He is risen indeed”. Throughout the service they hold their lighted candles, and the church is resplendent with light and color. The very atmosphere seems to express joy. The service

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ends with the exchange among the members of the kiss of peace, and with the kissing by the people of the cross and the priest’s hand.

It is now about half-past two, and we go outside to see the blessing of the Easter food. Each family has a market basket or two of food specially prepared for Easter — often a ham, home-made cheese, colored eggs, a special Easter bread. Most of the baskets are fancy baskets ; the plain ones are new for the occasion. All are covered with the choicest towels, often handwoven and embroidered in the old country, and standing in each basket is a lighted candle. The women are all here with their baskets, and so also are the children, who delight in this Easter blessing and take great pride in their mothers’ productions. As the procession approaches, headed by the priest and his servers, the towels are drawn off and the con-

tents of the baskets arranged a bit for display, or perhaps it is so that each article can be touched by the blessing. If the bread was baked in the form of a lamb — they have a mold for that purpose — the lamb is sure to have a place of prominence. They are very realistic ; some are cov- ered with white cocoanut frosting and have a sprig of green in the mouth ; all have ribbons about their little necks, and some have a bell on the ribbon. We feel that no Easter after this will ever be complete for us with- out an Easter lamb.

The priest on his first circuit censes the people and the food ; on the sec- ond he sprinkles them with holy water. The dark night, the plenteously filled baskets, and the crowd of people at an hour wTen we always supposed everyone to be in bed, make a picture never to be forgotten. We linger till the crush at the gate is over, con- gratulate the choir and its director on their part in the service, and note as we leave the big auto trucks filling with people from outlying towns who came in for this service.

Snatching a cup of coffee on the way, we get to the church of Saints Peter and Paul at four o’clock. Here the Sokol members are ‘‘still on guard at the tomb, one at the head, the other at the foot, standing with military pre- cision. At this church, where they like to do everything the old way, this guard has been maintained continu- ously since Friday evening. Many of the congregation, coming in, desire to make a final reverence at the tomb. At first there are four or five, who, kneeling to await their turn, approach on their knees. The number grows ; there are two rows, then three ; they reach clear to the door and down the steps. It looks like Saint Anne de Beaupre. The people are coming in very rapidly now ; the pews are full ; the aisles are crowded. The Sokol officer has great difficulty in getting

his relief guard through the aisle ; the whole edifice is absolutely packed.

The service, which begins at five o’clock, is a repetition of the first part of that at Saint Theodosius’s, and after the removal of the winding sheet, the aisles are cleared sufficiently to permit the formation of the procession. Some of the congregation are very reluctant to leave their places, seeing clearly that they may not be able to get in again. But custom requires that the church be empty, and at last all go out.

Three times around the church again symbolizes the journey to the tomb; at the door a loud knocking is em- blematic of the great earthquake and the rolling away of the stone by the angel and we hear the “Fear not ye. For I know that ye seek Jesus which was crucified. He is not here. He is risen”. The bells peal out joyously, and as we still stand outside we hear the bells of Saint Stanislaus, the Polish church, and of Saints Cyril and Methodius, the Slovak church, and we know that we all are one.

Within the church again; the joyous Easter mass is celebrated. We ^re a little tired and our attention wanders. The poor Sokol members, standing in military position, crowded in the very front, look tired and sleepy too, and we wonder if they have had any rest at all since Friday. But when we see tears rolling down the cheeks of many of the congregation, we understand that the priest is alluding to the fact that it is Easter also in the homeland, and we, too, wonder where the moth- ers, the wives, the daughters, are this Easter, and whether they have any baskets of food to be blessed; or whether in this long, long four years they have died, or if they are hungry, or if perchance they have met any of those dreadful fates that are so in- finitely worse than death ; and won- dering and sympathizing, we too be- come impatient for passports and the opportunity to go and see.

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RUSSIAN CATHEDRAL OF SAINT NICHOLAS, NEW YORK Note the beauty of the iconostasis or screen zvhich bears the sacred pictures. This is the special feature of every Russian church

After the mass another procession announces the Resurrection ; the women who carry the pictures are in white now and the priest, using an aspergilliis, blesses the Easter food. Here the butter is molded in the form of a lamb, and the Easter eggs are decorated with the peculiar local de- signs of the individual villages of the homeland. The priest, as he passes, knows by the designs on the eggs just what town each parishioner came from. We learn that at evensong the Resurrection will be again announced as it was announced to the other dis- ciples by those who came first, and on Monday evening will be announced to all the souls departed. Abroad this procession takes place in the cemetery.

Reaching home I find that it is only a little after ten; so I decide, having returned from Galicia, to attend serv- ice in America. As I enter my own church, the choir is singing.

The three sad days are quickly sped.

He rises glorious from the dead,

and I realize for myself what a pull there is in one’s own language, and how the prayers, the hymns, the tunes to which the hymns are sung, having been associated with the most vital portions of one’s life, become indeed a part of one’s very self. So thinking, I know that this is indeed my road to Heaven, as the Greek Catholic and the Russian Orthodox were theirs.

MARl'YAMA PARK, KYOTO, AND THE LARGEST CHERRY TREE IN JAPAN When in bloom it is lit up zvith electricity and attracts enormous crozvds

EASTER IN KYOTO

By the Reverend Roger A. Walke

Lent and Good Friday are so connected with Easter that in thinking about the latter one’s mind goes back automatically to the former. As is your Good Friday so will be your Easter. Before you can under- stand and adore the risen Christ you must have carried -in your heart some realization of Christ crucified.

Good Friday for the workers at Saint Mary’s Church, Kyoto, is a fairly busy day. There are the serv- ices' in English and in Japanese, and then there is the Three Hour Service. It is very necessary in Japan to inten- sify the feeling that we are not just a lot of congregations but are One Church. Hence the custom has grown up in Kyoto during the last few years of having on All Saints’ Day and on Good Friday services at one of our three churches to which all the people of our churches and preaching places

are urged to come. And they do come and, I am sure, are helped, not only by the service but also by having it brought recurrently to their attention that the Sci Ko Kwai is oyie.

Two years ago the Three Hours were observed in Saint John’s Church — the church so dear to the heart of the late Bishop Williams and of which the present rector is the Reverend Mr. Ikezawa. This particular service was of rather an unusual nature. It seems that one of the communicants, a young lady, had died. She was the much be- loved daughter of a general in the Japanese-army. He came to Mr. Ike- zawa to see about the arrangements for the funeral. His daughter had wanted it to be Christian and from her beloved Saint John’s. The general wanted it at two-thirty on Friday. Mr. Ikezawa explained to him that at that time there would be going on a special serv-

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. ice at which the bishop and a large congregation would be present. The general was delighted — the very thing that would most please his daughter — a great congregation and the highest Church officials present ; also the father would be able to hold up his head be- fore his non-Christian friends who thought it scandalous that he should have any but a tremendous Buddhist funeral for his daughter. A little thing like the addresses being timed did not bother him at all — let each one be cut a few minutes and there would be plenty of time. Mr. Ikezawa de- cided wisely to have it as the father wished and planned his Three-Hour Service accordingly.

This was all very well for those on the inside but it came rather as a shock to some of the congregation when the Three Hour Service was suddenly turned into a funeral with a lot of much decorated military people as chief mourners ! However, it was well worth while, as the general was much impressed both by the kindness of all, from the bishop down, and also by the note of triumphant hope at this Christian funeral — something entirely new in his experience. It may mean that the unusual Three Hour Service of 1918 will be the means of bringing to a knowledge of the Cross and the Christ a soldier to whose little daugh- ter Christ and His followers had been kind.

For several years we gave Stainer’s Crucifixion on Good Friday evening in Saint Mary’s Church. It was not any- where nearly so bad as it sounds. We made it a community affair and every one was invited — and came too — and although many of them were not Christian and many did not know English, still they knew very well what it was all about and the music gripped them and they went away nearer the Kingdom than when they came.

So our Good Friday was “good”. We had come into Christ’s presence in

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His own service : we had sat with our eyes fixed on the Cross and listened to the words of the Crucified : we had commended to His care the soul of one of His little ones, and tried to bring to her sorrowing loved ones a knowl- edge of the hope and the peace of God : and lastly to many kinds of peo- ple we had told through song the story of how God’s Son, like others, went forth to war, and triumphed by laying down His life.

And so Easter came.

I am inclined to think that a mis- sionary parson — at least this one — is too breathless on Easter to rise to the spiritual heights which he should at- tain. The first thing is the Celebra- tion ih English, to which even the feeblest Churchman wishes to come on Easter. When Kyoto is full of tour- ists we really have lovely Easter Eu- charists with God’s children from every clime and of every condition kneeling together before the risen

Christ to give to Him glory and to re- ceive from Him life.

Next come the Sunday-school chil- dren for their Easter service and address. Easter has not the same thrill for them as has Christmas. But it is a natural time of festivity in a country of inadequately heated houses. They have laid aside their heavy old winter kimonos and appear in bright new thin ones, the cold weather has abated, and they are very cheerful and with the best lift up their voices in the triumphal shout of ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ree- ee-ru-oo-ya (alleluia).

Then comes the regular Japanese Celebration and sermon. Most of the congregation are students and so when Easter comes during the spring vaca- tion our numbers leave much to be de- sired. But we are not responsible for the date of Easter nor yet for that of the spring vacation.

At four-thirty comes the English Evening Prayer and sermon, and in the evening the regular Japanese serv- ice and sermon.

As a matter of fact there are no more services than on every other Sunday, but one feels that everything should be better done on Easter — services more seemly, and sermon less silly, and that is a strain. Of course, if one is lucky he can get the bishop to preach, or some traveling parson — the bishop of Kyoto always sends you away helped and sometimes the visit- ing parsons do, too. Easter before last my day was easy. Not only was the Reverend Mr. Takamatsu helping with the Japanese services but we had with us Eather Kelly of the Theological School in Tokyo. He invariably preaches about God — rather out of style these days — but he leaves you with a humbler and more contrite heart, and we are told that there are in God’s sight more despicable things than such an heart.

One of the nice things about Easter in Kyoto is that the cherry blossoms

almost always seem to be out then. Easter and the cherry season both vary and fortunately often vary syn- chronously. It is Tokyo and not Ky- oto that has miles and miles of cherry avenues, and overpowering masses of gorgeous blossoms. Kyoto cannot boast these, but tucked away on her hillsides, or behind some ancient tem- ple, or in some garden with a little lake and moss-covered rocks and ever- greens and the rugged bark of bare trees — in some such setting flares forth just the right number of vivid cherry trees perfectly placed. Ah, cherry- time Kyoto has her spots of marvelous beauty — “mystic, wonderful”.

When the day is fine almost all the little congregation at the Easter after- noon service fare forth from Saint Mary’s to some nearby cherry place, and learn through their eyes something of the glory of the Resurrection — God preaching to us through His beautiful world. Maybe Japan’s great gift to the Church will be that she will teach us that to worship God in the beauty of holiness is not all of His religion, but that if we would perform the whole duty of man we must learn also to lift up our hearts unto God in the holiness of beauty.

And so Easter-Day draws to an end and the Christian people go to their rest. They started the day nourished in God’s own prescribed way ; they have thought about the risen and tri- umphant Christ and given Him glory ; they have tried to tell Him that they are not really unappreciative of what He has done for us, and really do want to serve Him, however much their lives seem to belie their hearts’ desire ; and they have stood humbly before the beauty God has given us to look upon and have been grateful in their hearts ; and so as they fall asleep they once more lift up their hearts unto the Lord and murmur “Thanks be to God for His unspeak- able Gift.”

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EASTER AMONG THE SHOSHONES

By the Reverend John Roberts

CCUPYING the Wind River reservation in Wyoming are two tribes of so-called Indians, the Sho- shones and the Arapahoes, though they undoubtedly belong to two differ- ent races. No people could be more unlike each other mentally and physi- cally. The Shoshones, a branch of the Snake nation, claim to be the earliest inhabitants of this continent. The Arapahoes, a branch of the Algonquin people, have a tradition that when they migrated from the old world to this new continent, crossing over on the ice from the northwest, they found the Shoshones here. The Shoshones be- lieve that their original home was in

the land beyond the setting sun whither, according to their belief, they return after ^death, and are reincar- nated— “made over again”. In ap- pearance they resemble East Indians. Their customs and superstitions are identical with those of the Hindus. They call the Creator “our Father”. In Him they ever reveal on approach- ing death a strong, confiding faith, but all through life their minds are bur- dened with many distressing super- stitions. The power of the medicine man was dreaded by them. A Sho- shone woman who lost her only daughter by tuberculosis attributed her death to the spite of a rejected

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suitor, \vlio, having procured a magic powder from a medicine man for the purpose, sprinkled it on the footprints of the young girl after she had passed, thereby causing her death. The poor woman broke down with grief several times in relating the story. Under the tyranny of such ideas they lived a life of fear and distrust.

But the dominant superstition that oppressed them was the constant dread of an invisible malignant demon they called Nin-nim-he who, they believed, was the cause of most of their mis- fortunes and sorrows. This nemesis, after ascertaining the name, age, and other particulars concerning an In- dian, took to following him and shoot- ing at him or some member of his family with invisible flint-pointed arrows which caused no outward wound but were nevertheless terrible in their effect, resulting in sickness and even death. In case of a succession of misfortunes or deaths in his family the ill-fated Indian would some dark night strike camp and escape to the mountains, where he would hide for

weeks, perhaps months, in order that the demon having lost him might take to pursuing someone else. On this account one of the chief characteristics about a Shoshone was his abnormal secretiveness and exclusive nature — quite apparent to all.

The tyranny of this ridiculous super- stition was sometimes very sad in its results. Some years ago the chief of the Indian police had a daughter, a. beautiful little child, unusually bright and precocious. She walked and talked when a mere babe. A medicine man noticing her persuaded the father that this little member of his family was not his daughter at all but the malignant demon Nin-nim-be, who had taken possession of the body of his child and was occupying it for the pur- pose of bringing disaster and death to his home. The father and mother were heartbroken with grief, but in order to save themselves and their other

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A SMALL GATHERING OF INDIANS AT FORT WASHAKIE IN SUMMER

children they determined to act on the advice of the medicine man and take the little child far up into the moun- tains and desert it there in the thick timber, “where it belonged”. They were actually on the way on this cruel errand when a Christian Indian met them and noticing their distress asked them what their trouble was. On learning he told them to hand the child over to him, which they gladly did. Though the father of a large family he adopted it and brought it to the mission for baptism, when he told of the little one’s narrow escape.

While the Shoshones are still sub- ject to superstition, the old tyranny of it has passed away, and their former secretive disposition is gradually giv- ing place to a more straightforward attitude towards Christianity. They value Church membership ; in fact, those of the younger generation have become Shoshone Christians, not Church people, like the Arapahoes and the Sioux and other tribes. They are willing to attend Church services occa- sionally. They appreciate the ministry of the Church, especially in adversity, sickness and death, but they do not

care to conform to the usages of the Church. Christianity has affected them strongly. They have become a good people, honest, industrious, look- ing well to the welfare of their families and in other respects worthy. God is their Father; the Son of their Father loves them. They are firm be- lievers in the efficacy of prayer, but they will not consent to an habitual allegiance to any regular form of wor- ship. They are good natured, friendly, with a natural independence almost sublime. They like a friendly greet- ing, a kind word and a smile, but if a friendly hand is laid on the shoulder of a Shoshone in a familiar, brotherly way, he resents it and moves away.

Like other primitive people they^ hold tenaciously to their old customs, but in this respect they have changed in many ways. Formerly it was their custom to carry their dead to the mountains and lay them to rest in caves and clefts of the rocks. Now they give them Christian burial in the tribal cemetery near the mission. The cemetery, which is a large one, pre- sents quite an unusual appearance. At the head of many of the graves

THE SHOSHONE MISSION HOUSE, WIND RIVER RESERVATION, WYOMING

SHOSHONE CHILDREN AT THE :^IISSION SCHOOL Note the difference in feature to the usual t ^e~ of North American Indian

a rude wooden cross is placed, while others are marked with flags or with some relic connected with the departed, such as a baby’s cradle, a tent-pole, some implement or a warrior’s plume ; a few have a nice headstone. Their funerals are always largely attended. They still retain their ancient, loud, mournful wailing for the dead. Annually on Decoration Day they as- semble in great numbers to decorate the graves with wild flowers and ever- greens. After the decoration of the graves they gather together for an open-air service, at which their faith is directed to the Resurrection of the dead and the Life of the world to come — the waking up of the body, by our Father’s Son, and the endless Life in our Father’s Abode.

The younger members of the tribe have been well instructed in the truths of the Gospel, for both boys and girls from the age of six to eighteen are gathered in by the Indian police to

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In the past o-ur form of civilization was very trying to the health of the pupils, but now the crisis is past they thrive in school and are as healthy as white children generally.

Easter services in the Church of the Redeemer erected for the school chil- dren on the reservation are always fully attended by them. They join heartily in the service and the singing. Those of them who are confirmed make their Easter Communion, but the older Shoshones do not attend Decoration Day takes the place of Easter with them. This may be due in some measure to the fact that the missionaries hitherto have been called away from them on the great Feast- dav of the Resurrection.

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SAINT LUKE'S CHURCH, SAN JUAN

EASTER IN SAN JUAN

By Iva M. JVoodruff

IN Porto Rico there is none of the associations in nature with the great Feasts of the Church such as we have in the States. At Christmas time the frost and snow that symbolize the cold reception given the Infant Jesus in the little town of Bethlehem find no counterpart here. Babies are always welcome and there are so many that the streets and highways and hills are full of them. An official of the Pres- byterian Board of Missions visiting Porto Rico said he had traveled all over the world in the interest of mis- sions but never had he seen so many babies to the square mile as here. So there is no freezing out of the babies. The Infant Jesus is perpetually wor- shiped in the hearts of all classes.

When Easter comes, there is no such symbolism in nature as the long cold winter followed by the

glorious bursting forth after appar- ent death of the leaves and flow- ers, and the breaking through the cold earth of lovely daffodils, cro- cuses and wood flowers, and the downy chicks that dared not ven- ture forth before into the great world. In Porto Rico, these things happen all the year. The trees are always green, flowers are always blossoming, white lilies may be found along the beach every day. It is always Easter. The altars are always adorned with outdoor flowers. At Easter we only have more and we observe the Feast in the Church as we do at home. Con- science may be sleeping in our irregu- lar churchgoers, but at Easter time the church is generally full to the doors.

The most faithful Church-loving people we have are the Negroes from

CHAPEL OF THE AXXLE\XL\TION

This primitive little biiilding^ is quite out of keeping with the attractive cement houses that are springing up all round it in this suburb of San Juan

SPAXTSH SUXDAY-SCHOOL OF SAIXT LUKE’S CHURCH

Saint J^uke’s Church is situated in Puerta di Tierra, a suburb of San Juan

CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST, SAN JUAN

the British West Indies and Virgin Islands. They will make any sacrifice to attend the services. They might have been seen, thirty-five of them, very early in the morning last Easter, before daylight, before cars were run- ning, trudging three or four miles to church — because as cooks or maids they must be on duty the rest of the day. Then, too, might have been seen the Reverend Harvey Walter speeding to Saint Luke’s in a bor- rowed automobile to get there for the five o’clock service — and in time, too. Mr. Walter is never late. At Saint Luke’s, the naturally dingy little church, that still leans over as it was left by a hurricane but is safe, was resplendent with lights, palms and bright flowers for the feast. Many worshipers renewed their allegiance to the risen Lord, and. filled with the Easter spirit, rejoiced that they had such a privilege.

Ofif darts Mr. Walter to the chapel of the Annunciation, where at seven o’clock a goodly congregation awaits him in the pathetic little building that serves for day-school, Sunday-school and services. Pretty cement houses are springing up on all sides of it — as shown in the picture — and there is no excuse for a church which looks so cheap.

Again Mr. Walter goes to Saint Luke’s for a Spanish service. There are many, many Porto Ricans who do not wish to give allegiance to the Pope and do not attend church. Many gladly turn to our worship, and from among them we have some promising young postulants for Orders. Through them there is hope for the future of the Spanish Church, but we must also keep pace with the other missions in providing attractive places of worship, for we have to deal with a proud and color-loving people. They love bright-

SUNDAY-SCHOOL OF THE CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST

ness, and our dingy buildings offei little that appeals to them.

At the church of Saint John the Baptist, the children’s Carol Service preceded the regular service. It has been the custom for years to adorn the Good Friday cross with flowers. Children too little for Sunday-school look forward to this and bring their flowers and mite boxes for the Easter offering. The church was beautifully decorated by an artistic member of Saint John’s and never looked more Churchly. Crowded to the door, the company of faithful, of strangers, of officers from the camp, all felt the spirit of the Feast as in their various home churches in the States. The ex- cuse for irregular and infrequent at- tendance at Saint John’s is that it is far from their homes, as the church is in the city and the residences are five or six miles away. Some day their opportunity is coming to prove their fidelity, for Saint John’s is to have a new center for its activities.

In the afternoon at two and four o’clock Saint Luke’s was again the

scene of festivities for both Spanish and English schools. During the serv- ice at two o’clock a dance was going on in the narrow passage next to the church. Only the intervention of the police could induce them to wait and the irate landlord threatened trouble because his own plans were upset. A mother hen walked calmly into the room while the mite boxes were being offered, quite at home among the eighty or more children assembled. It is not unusual, for they are every- where ; yes, and there used to be a church-going goose at our mission in Mayaguez.

An evening service at Saint Paul’s, our little chapel in another part of the city, ended this Easter Day. There the service is hearty and earnest. This chapel and that of the Annunciation, pitifully inadequate as to size and ap- pearance, have beautiful native wood altar furnishings — only waiting to be fitly housed. Perhaps before many more Easters our hopes will be real- ized, and a splendid plan of the bish- op’s will be happily carried out.

THE CHAXCEL OF SAINT AUGUSTINE’S ON EASTER-DAY

EASTER AT SAINT AUGUSTINE’S, RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA

By the Reverend Edgar H. Goold

ASTER-DAY at Saint Augus- tine’s is not an isolated event in our school life. We begin to look for- ward to it at Septuagesima. The days of Lent are thought of as the first steps leading up to the Easter portals on the heights. The little sacrifices of Lent are given meaning and incentive by the thought that the money thus saved will help to make a worthy mite- box offering on Easter-Day. On that day the members of the class who have been confirmed in Holy Week make their first Communion. On the night of Good Friday all the communicants meet in the chapel for a short service of preparation for the Easter-Day Communion Service. In these and in other ways we lay stress on the spir-

itual meaning of the day which the Lord hath made, as we prepare to re- joice and be glad in it.

The day before Easter is a busy one for those who gather and arrange the simple yet beautiful chapel decora- tions. The little children of the pri- mary school gather quantities of vio- lets and help to make them into a beautiful cross for the front of the stone pulpit. The older students search the nearby woods for trailing vines and the blossoming dogwood which is so abundant, and in its dainty whiteness so appropriate for Easter-tide. When evening comes, teachers and students unite in trimming the chapel and sanc- tuary, and when they leave the chapel it is duly garbed for Easter.

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THE BA'I TALIOX IN FRONT OF THE GEORGE C. THOMAS MEMORLAL DORMITORY

Early on Easter morning the Eu- charist is celebrated. As the choir enter singing Welcome, happy morn- ing! one feels that the Lord has indeed risen and is indeed with His faithful people once more. About one hun-

dred, including the newly confirmed, usually receive their Communion at this service. It indeed strikes the fit- ting keynote for a spiritual Easter.

Later on in the morning, at eleven o’clock, the entire school assembles for

THE GIRLS MARCHING TO CHURCH ON EASTER MORNING

THE NURSES FROM SATNT AGNES’S HOSPITAL JOIN THE PROCESSION

ON EASTER MORNING

service in the chapel. As the bell be- gins to ring there comes from the Thomas Memorial Dormitory the long line of girls in the school uniform who have claimed their white waists and new straw hats as a part of their ob- servance of the Day. A group of nurses from Saint Agnes’s Hospital — all who can be spared — make their ap- pearance from the direction of the Nurses’ Home. And the boys of the school in their khaki uniforms march briskly across the campus and enter the chapel transept. The coilgrega- tion of students, nurses, teachers and neighborhood people fill the chapel on Easter as on other Sundays. Every- one joins in the service heartily yet reverently. The Easter hymns, the Te Deum, the Jubilate, are sung in splen- did unison. No special Easter music by the choir is needed to make the service attractive and inspiring, for it is a service in which everyone has a part.

The theme of the sermon is the only one appropriate for the day — Life and Immortality through the risen Christ.

The offering is for some larger work of the Church — often for the Ameri- can Church Institute for Negroes. When the strains of the recessional. The strife is o'er, the battle done, die away, the congregation leaves the chapel as it entered it, reverently and in due order.

In the afternoon the two Sunday- schools — student and 'neighborhood — gather in the chapel for a joint service. The little children, as well as the older students, bring with them the mite- boxes in which the missionary gifts have been gathered during Lent. Like Sunday-school children elsewhere they have been getting their pennies and nickels in all sorts of ways, such as “tendin’ the baby”, “helpin’ mother” or “totin’ wood”. After the carols have been sung and the Easter story told, so that the youngest may not miss its meaning, the mite-boxes are gath- ered while all sing 0 Zion haste, thy mission high fulfilling. Then the boxes are brought forward and placed on the altar in the great bags which the young men have used in lieu of alms

THE CHAPEL AT SAINT AUGUSTINE’S

THE SMITH BUILDING. THE STUDENTS GATHER ON THE STEPS TO SING

THE XETGHBORHOOD CHILDREN BRINGING IN THEIR MITE BOXES

basins. It is indeed impressive to see the tangible evidence of the united Easter gift which will help to publish the Glad Tidings throughout the world.

At this same service occur the “Easter Baptisms” of babies and little children from the neighborhood. It is a time when their parents feel espe- cially anxious to have their little ones baptized. Besides this it is a most helpful object lesson to the smaller children of the Sunday-school who are gathered together close to the font. Then are read out the names of the students who have done special Bible reading during Lent and who are to receive the prettily bound copies of the New Testament kindly sent us by the Scripture Gift Association.

After this service comes a time of relaxation and enjoyment and the stu- dents rest or stroll about amid the budding grass and trees of the campus. Supper soon follows. Immediately afterward there is a general gathering on the porch and steps of the old Smith Building, and as the sunset hour approaches all join in singing many of the old Negro melodies, called “Spir-

ituals". No one who has not heard them sung by the colored people them- selves, as they should be sung, and in a reverent atmosphere, can realize their simple and moving beauty and power. We could only wish that all lovers of music that is truly religious could be with us as the great chorus is led in the singing of such melodies as Steal Aivay to Jesus, The Great Camp Meet- in in the Promised Land, Were You There When They Crucified My Lord? Dust, Dust and Ashes Lie Over on My Grave, and finally in that stirring ac- count of the Resurrection with the re- frain :

He rose. He rose.

He rose from the dead;

And the Lord will bear my spirit Home.

Soon the shadows deepen and the darkness of night comes on. At half past eight the bell proclaims the begin- ning of the regular Sunday evening Quiet Hour ; and at a quarter before ten, when the “Lights out” bell has been rung and the strains of “Taps” have died away, Easter-Day at Saint Augustine’s comes to its official close.

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THE CHOIR AT HOLY TRINITY CATHEDRAL, JUNEAU This is the cathedral choir though not the Easter one mentioned in the article

EASTER AT ALASKA’S CATHEDRAL CHURCH

OUR violinist sank three feet into the snow as he struggled into the choir-room, and the winds were icy. But upstairs in the church a different atmosphere awaits us — a gleaming altar, a chancel and choir overflowing and fragrant with Easter lilies and plants, a congregation that fills the 200 seats — as we trudge through the snow, around the church to the front door. The doors are thrown open, the organ gives the open- ing notes, and, headed by our solemn little crucifer and altar-boy, the choir of twelve men and women begin the processional, Welcome, happy morn- ing, age to age shall say, the congre- gation adding their voices. Thus we join with the elsewhere and down the ages.

A stranger from the States might be rather surprised. “Is this Alaska?” Alaska is a big place ; and at Juneau our task is one with the same one in the States — to reach and minister to people very much the same as our Gospel-hardened multitudes in our cities and towns.

The service proceeds : Adlam’s or

Simper’s setting, with Gounod’s Agnus Dei; the old triumphant hymns — The strife is o'er, Christ is risen, He is risen, etc. ; the Easter message is de- livered; the anthem is offered with quite as much heartiness and rever- ence as by many a choir in many large parishes ; the communicants take their places in turn at the new chancel-rail as the Living Christ makes Himself known again in the Breaking of the

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HOLY TRINITY CATHEDRAL. JUNEAU

After the Gloria in Excclsis, solemn prayer is oftered in gratitude that this Easter celebrates a victory for right- eousness and true peace ; thanksgiving for the sacrifices of all those who laid down their lives ; thanksgiving that a number of our men have already been permitted to return safely from serv- ice in army or navy ; special prayers for those still in service; commemora- tion of or intercession for all benefac- tors and friends of the cathedral church, as well as commemoration of all members of the congregation who are keeping this Easter in Paradise.

“The most beautiful service I ever saw,” says a good Alethodist brother and others; “I never saw anything like it in my life,” says a young woman who had never been present before — and soon asks about being baptized. ‘Tf that is Christian worship, then I want to be in it.” Besides, there are many quiet and touching words of ap- preciation as the congregation streams out.

Bread, and they rise and return to their seats again assured of His risen power, as well as of their living union with each other. Then the hymn of thanksgiving — Gloria in Excclsis — the benediction, and the recessional. At the Eanib's high feast zoe sing.

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HOLY TRINITY CATHEDRAL, JUNEAU IVhcn Bishofi Rovjc first z<.'cnt to Alaska he made Sitka his sec city and Saint Peter's Church his cathedral, aftenvard changing to Juneau when the latter became the capital

Then our Sunday-school children take their places, sing their Easter hymns, and, after a short lesson, count the contents of their mite-boxes and receive their Easter remembrance.

Baptisms in the afternoon, and then preparations for the evening service, especially for some from adjoining mining points who cannot get in for the morning service — for the mines and other work never shut down ex- cept at Christmas and on the Fourth of July. This service is conducted by our lay-reader, while our pastor goes down channel to Douglas, to give the folks there a chance to join in the Easter triumph.

Here they, too, have dressed the lit- tle church with evergreens and potted ])lants ; and the old hymns and can-

ticles, lessons and prayers, remind us all that life need not be dark or dreary. (3n the following Sunday, the Easter Communion will be provided here for those communicants who could not get to the cathedral church on Easter Day.

Altogether, with thirty at the early service, about twice as many com- municants at eleven, and the others in the congregations both morning and evening, more than three hundred souls join in our Easter service of vic- tory and worship at the cathedral, and we feel that something has been ac- complished, something done. Then, at the end of the day, we count our Eas- ter offering — $200, perhaps — which will go mostly toward helping to make known the Easter tidings to those who have not yet heard it.

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TWO OF THE KILNS IN WHICH TWENTY-FIVE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS' WORTH OF OPIUM WAS CONSUMED

CASES OF OPIUM BEING LANDED AT POOTUNG UNDER CUSTOMS’ GUARD

THE OPIUM BURNING AT SHANGHAI

By Margaret Handy Porterfield

Across the Whangpoo from Shanghai stand four inconspic- uous brick kilns, from the square chimneys of which for over a week rolled an odd brown smoke — opium smoke. Here, on the foreshore of Pootung, the Chinese government burned hundreds of chests of opium, thereby setting up a mark of ad- vancement in the suppression of opium dealing in China. The govern- ment had taken over millions of dol- lars’ worth of opium from the “Com- bine”, and from various firms. After chemically testing the opium in each chest the whole lot was burned — ball by ball — in the presence of the gov- ernment commissioner and other offi- cials, Chinese and foreign.

Many of us had the good fortune to be on hand for this unique and at the same time significant spectacle. One morning a party of us boarded a launch plying between the Bund and Pootung, and were carried across to the scene of operations. As we landed, the customs’ boat came along-

side the bank loaded with duly signed and ^aled cases of opium in charge of Chinese and foreign customs’ offi- cers. These boxes were carried up the narrow plank walk under escort of Chinese soldiers and so brought to the four interesting kilns. The whole business was like a weird dream — here .were spectators of sundry na- tionalities, officials, Chinese provincial soldiers in khaki uniforms and wild fur caps, coolies, and tea venders, all with attention fixed on the burlap- covered, sealed boxes of opium lying in front of the blazing ovens. After a breathless moment in which the seals were vised, the boxes were torn open, and inside lay about twenty balls of opium — big brown balls al- most as large as cocoanuts. We pressed eagerly into the mob around the furnace door, and, much to our satisfaction, were allowed actually to throw balls of opium through the narrow opening into the flames. Each ball was valued at six hundred to seven hundred dollars Mexican, so

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this sport was nothing if not expen- sive ! As the newspaper said, ‘Tt was a sight to make moan agonizedly in the breezes the spirits of any man- darins of but three or four decades back that chanced to be wandering over the fields of Pootung*’. Now and then coolies with thirty-foot pokers stirred up the blazing mass in the kilns so that splendid orange tongues of flame shot out of the brown smoke, with its insidious smell. As each box was emptied, the very dust inside was swept up and burned. Later, all the ashes were mixed with salt to make them useless, and con- signed to the bottom of the river.

On the first day of the burning, January 17, 1919, a mass meeting was held in Shanghai to inaugurate an In- ternational Anti-Opium Association, the purpose of which should be to further better legislation and co- operation in the restriction of opium, morphine, and their allied poisons to medical use only, and to bring relief to opium victims. A discussion of the price of opium showed that the

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four-pound balls selling for six hun- dred dollars in Shanghai could be had at six dollars a pound in London, proving how expensive is the opium habit in China, and what ruinous prices users of the drug are willing to pay. The result of this meeting was that the Peking government has called for similar meetings in other cities and has recommended that the attitude of Shanghai towards the opium problem be followed. Every such step is an advance against the illegal cultivation of opium in cer- tain provinces, and the enormous amount of smuggling from other countries. If all the villages in China could have heard the stirring speeches in Shanghai, or have seen the im- pressive object lesson on the Pootung shore, whereby the Chinese govern- ment voluntarily destroyed twenty- five millions of dollars’ worth of opium, they would begin to appre- ciate the seriousness of the situation and the fact that some time in the future the days of opium smoking will be past.

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COCHRAN HALL, KEARNEY MILITARY ACADEMY

A FIRST VISIT TO WESTERN NEBRASKA

By flic Reverend James Kirkpatrick

Those who came to the aid of the Kearney Military Academy in response to the S.O.S. call of the Domestic Secretary in the March Spirit of Missions for help in replacing the boiler room and laundry recently burned, will be interested in reading Mr. Kirkpatrick’s estimate of the value and far-reaching influence of this institution.

The missionary district of \\'est- ern Nebraska with its giant bishop, the Right Reverend G. A. Beecher, D.D., held its annual conven- tion at North Platte during the third week in June, 1919. The bishop,* who is an old friend of mine, asked me to be the special preacher and I journeyed all the way from Washington, D. C., to comply with his request.

As this was my first trip to the Mid- dle West, it is hardly necessary to say that it was a surprise in many ways ; it holds for the Churchman a meaning which is. intensely interesting and tre- mendously important.

Western Nebraska is a farming country and must be considered in every way as such. The land in the

eastern part is a vast fertile plain. In the western part it is known as the sand hills, but even the sand hills will average in value wdth our eastern farms. The great crops and fine cattle at present prices have made this coun- try so rich that their bank deposits in- creased tenfold in recent years; as this new wealth is going to continue, a new era for the farmer of the Middle West has arrived and we must reckon with him as the future rich man of the country.

The automobile and the telephone have been large factors along with in- creasing prosperity in revolutionizing this whole territory, and the coming generation is fast changing the social and religious conditions of the people.

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BISHOP BEECHER

1 he farmers who made the struggle during the lean periods of the past, with the many disadvantages and lim- itations of that time, are giving way to young men and women, not to be distinguished in any way from the young people of the towns.

The larger towns are passing be- yond town conditions and taking on the ways of the small city, and many villages are reaching the status of the town. Hastings, with a population of fourteen thousand, has “arrived”, and the other large towns are close up with her. This is the n:ost beautiful town of the size I have ever seen; the streets are wide, paved with concrete, and the houses in spacious lots sit well back from the curb ; the lawns in front of the houses in the best streets have a depth of thirty or forty feet with double rows of trees on either side ; the business section is 'composed of fine brick buildings which display with- out and within evei*y sign of prosper- ity ; the larger churches are imposing structures and have a commanding po- sition on their streets ; the public buildings, such as the hotel, the hospi- tal and the schools, are equal to those of the average city ; there is a fine golf course and country club and the peo- ple are fast taking to the ways of the large cities ; with the wealth to provide every opportunity for their children, it is easy to see the old West is pass- ing and the new West is at hand.

These young people have superior education and wider experience than their parents ; they have the means and conditions to live a larger life and they will demand of their Churches that their ways be in keeping with this new situation. The Episcopal Church ought to play an important part in this new day. Numerical increase is certain and will be in proportion to the way we do our work, but what we can and must do is to give religious tone and stability to the whole community or its future will not fulfill its promise. At present there is a tendency in some of the. communions to lower their standards of worship and cater to a passing whim. This will not hold these people very long, and will unfit them for real, orderly and dignified wor- ship; the opportunity is now.

At Hastings a new cathedral will be built at once and it will be a standard for the town and the whole diocese; it will not be as large as some of the other churches, but its Churchly style and ways, together with the influence of the congregation already out of all proportion to its numbers, will give it a place in the town second to none ; it will be the leaven that is needed.

With the closer relations socially between the farmers and the town peo- ple, through modern conveniences and advantages, the farm homes will be- come dififerent in a short time. At present the farm looks like a factory for grinding out wealth, rather than a home. These large, prosperous and beautiful towns will radiate their re- finement and broaden life to every farm within reach. Our Church has what this new condition needs and we must spare no efiforts to make the largest impress possible before it is too late; if we fail now the very best of these people will revolt from inade- quate religious ways and drift toward a life that is purely secular.

The most important institution in the diocese and for some distance be- yond its bounds is the Kearney Mili-

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tary Academy ; there is no limit to the size and tar-reachmg inhuence of this school if It IS provided with the neces- sary equipment to do its work. It reaches into the surrounding states and several adjoining bishops have made it their official scnool. It is giving to the boys educational advantages which their locality does not afford and a vision of life that has been beyond their reach ; the wholesome and posi- tive religious atmosphere of the school is making an impression on their lives, which will make them outstanding men wherever they go. It is just pos- sible that with the future development of this country the present opportunity may pass, but we must not let it go by without leaving our imprint on the leading men of Western Nebraska and the adjoining dioceses.

These people are dominated by local pride and independence. This attitude manifested itself at the convocation in the expression of an intense desire to become an independent diocese; and the only fear is that they may try it before they are ready financially.

I have never seen a better spirit manifested at a diocesan convention than I saw in the relation between the bishop and clergy; they are working harmoniously, enthusiastically and en- ergetically like a well-trained team. They are the same kind of men we meet in every diocese, but their work would put most of us to shame. Dean Wells has a parish with fifteen sta- tions, in each of which he holds serv- ice once a month at least. He has done this work for seventeen years, hardly ever failing to meet his ap- pointments. During this time the num- ber confirmed has averaged over twenty a year ; he has kept on at his work faithfully and steadily in spite of the shifting condition of the people, with a buoyant hopefulness that never failed ; to hear him say he is an opti- mist is a sermon that touches the very depths of one’s manhood and inspires with new courage and zeal. Because

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of the after-effects of an attack of influenza and increasing years the dean is compelled to retire from the active ministry and carries with him the af- fection and esteem of the diocese.

The Reverend John Bates has been in Western Nebraska thirty-three years, and was for twelve years in the same parish where Dean Wells has completed his ministry. Air. Bates has done a work for this diocese that no man could estimate ; he brought with him long ago all that was best in the old state and diocese of Connecticut, and to-day we might say in the words of a younger clergyman at the convo- cation, “He is a veritable prince amongst us”. To meet these two saintly and devoted missionaries was worth going more than half way across the continent, and to stand beside them in church was an honor which I greatly value.

The strength and stability of the Middle West, if rightly guided during the rising generation, will make our country powerful against her foes within and without ; this solid mass of prosperous farmers will stand like a Gibraltar for all that is best in Church ,and State, if the Church is equal to Her present opportunity.

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TIII{ NKW COMPOUND AT NANKlNCi

HOPEFUL HAPPENINGS IN NANKING

By the Reverend J. M. B. Gill

POLITICALLY and economically China is in a most serious condi- tion of weakness, so weak that one looks most keenly for any hopeful indications in other phases of her national life. Such expectation meets with a most gratifying response. Amid all the discouraging conditions — and it would be hard to exaggerate them — there appears an unmistakable move- ment in favor of real moral progress and reform. To an interested observer this appears as yet to be in the in- definite stage, a groping in the dark — just that stage in which it can be most easily influenced and is readiest to re- spond to sympathetic help and guid- ance. These conditions oft'er a wonderfully easy opportunity to the Christian Church to secure a new hold upon a class of men that has long re- sisted all Her approaches, because this movement tow'ard better things comes from the younger business men and the more or less educated middle class.

China’s defeat at the Peace Con- ference and the apparent imminent danger of foreign aggression, unfor- tuuately fostered by her own corrupt militaristic politicians, produced a most remarkable wave of patriotism throughout the country. It originated with the student class and quickly gained general support among all classes, business men giving it un- usually enthusiastic backing. This movement has not been limited in its effect to strictly national questions, but seems to have produced a general awakening to the need of reestimating life values. Herein lies the Church’s present opportunity. I will speak now only of Nanking and more especially of that section of the city in which our own Church’s work lies.

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At the beginning of the students’ patriotic movement we started in our church a Sheng Kiing Hiii Patriotic Society incorporating in its aims not only the strictly temporary objects of the student movement, but also per- manent objects such as personal and social reform, etc. \\T hoped at least to take advantage of the interest aroused by the students' movement to bring the men of the Church into closer relation to each other and to interest them in some forms of pa- triotic and social service. In a few weeks the society numbered nearly six hundred members, including the majority of the business men of this section of the city, shop-keepers, clerks, police officials and many of the scholar class. A series of four-days’ meetings were planned and prominent speakers invited to present patriotic, ethical, economical and religious sub- jects. The United States consul was one of the speakers. Our mission buildings were too small, so we bor- rowed the Y. M. C. A. auditorium, and in spite of rain and very hot weather the hall, with a seating capa- city of six hundred, was filled every day. When the initial excitement of the student movement and the Japanese boycott passed we feared that the society would dwindle, but the sustained interest of the men has both surprised and encouraged us all very much.

Shortly after this we were ap- proached by some young men of the business class, who had themselves started a society for the promotion of personal virtue, with the request that we help them in its establishment. The first meeting was held on a Sunday afternoon in our boys’ school building.

Mopeful Happenings in Nanking

There were sixty men present, all of a very good class, well dressed, well educated and sincerely interested. There are only three conditions of membership: No “sowing of wild

oats” (a euphemism), no gambling and no drinking. These three pro- hibitions, especially the first and sec- ond, strike at the root cause of all China’s weakness, and these men seemed to be fully awake to the fact that before they could really help their country or society they had to clean up their personal lives.

In the instance of the patriotic society there was a ready response to an invitation to service. In the second case there is evidence of a real desire for moral betterment. Again, in talk- ing with men of all classes one finds an unusual and refreshing readiness to discuss seriously moral and spiritual questions.

These two societies have now merged and placed themselves fully under the guidance and control of the Church. This is the opening for which we have long worked and prayed. It has the added encouragement of being a voluntary turning to the Church in- stead of what is so frequently the case, a half-hearted acceptance of the Church’s oft-extended invitation.

To make the- most of this unprec- edented opportunity to get a real hold upon the men of this section of the city by entering into close and friendly relations with them is now claiming our best thought and planning. We are fitting up a rather unadaptable rented building as temporary head- quarters for these merged organi- zations, trying to provide a social room, reading room, game room, office and a little quiet corner for personal interviews and prayers. The men are planning for a small monthly paper to help keep all of the members in touch with what is going on and being planned and to sustain their interest. They are also considering the possi- bility of a local campaign for funds to

help provide suitable permanent quar- ters. We are planning to turn over to them the conduct of our night school for poor working men and boys, and to enlist them in other possible forms of social service.

The most encouraging aspect of all is that the whole thing is in the hands of the Church. If we can make it a permanent and successful thing it will mean great things for the Church and for the upbuilding of Christian man- hood in this city.

The greatest source of danger and the most deep-rooted cause of weak- ness in Chinese life today is the abso- lute lack of any opportunity for clean and wholesome recreation and re- laxation. One reason for the wide- spread habit of gambling — every class indulges in it, from children and coolies up to the highest officials — is that they have no other means of amusement. We now have the men where they are ready and willing to give us a chance to show them what the religion of Christ can do for a man’s whole life. We have always claimed that this was all the Church needed in order to make good with men. That this opportunity proceeds from an awakened sense of need in the Chinese men for a better, cleaner type of manhood is a hopeful indication of the dawning of a new and brighter day for China.

This awakening is more widespread than can be indicated in this article ; one hears of similar evidences in other places. We may at a later date, if our present plans bring permanent results, feel justified in asking the Church in America to extend Her help to these new friends of Hers in China in their efifort to secure a suitable home for their “Church' Society for the Pro- motion of Personal Virtue”. It will be an opportunity for the Church to render constructive help to a worthy cause. You will not be appealed to unless we are in a position to say that you are being asked to help those who are really trying to help themselves.

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A LETTER TO THE CLERGY

To the Clergy of the Church:

Brethren: At the request of the members of the Department of Missions and Church Extension, I beg to explain our hope and desire as to the disposition of the Sunday School Lenten Offering.

The Sunday School Lenten Offering has a distinct educational value in training the children to an intelligent recognition of their obligation to understand and set forward the general missionary work of the Church, and it is important that no confusion should exist in their minds as to the purpose of the offering. While, therefore, the Sunday School or Church School Lenten offerings will be credited upon the Nation- Wide Campaign quota of the parish and of the diocese, we beg that the offering will be made for the general missionary work of the Church.

In view of the desirability of keeping an exact record in each diocese as to the offerings from every parish, you should remit the amount of this offering to the treasurer of the Nation-Wide Campaign in your diocese. In view of the necessity of having a complete record in this office, we would ask that you report to us the amount of the offering so sent, and I am Faithfully yours,

THOS. F. GAILOR, President of the Council.

MEETING OE THE DEPARTMENT OF MISSIONS

The regular meeting of the De- partment of Missions was held in the Church Missions House, New York, on March sixteenth. Eleven members were present. The first busi- ness before the department was the resignation of the domestic secretary, the Reverend Francis S. White, who had accepted an election as dean of Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland. In ac- cepting this resignation, the following minute was placed on record :

In accepting the resignation of the Reverend Francis S. White as. domestic secretary of the Department of Mis- sions and Church Extension, the de- partment hereby records its deep regret in losing the services of the Reverend Mr. White, which have been marked by deep devotion and high efficiency. During the year and a ha f of his con- nection with the Board of Missions and the Department of Missions and Church Extension Mr. White has en- deared himself to all with whom he has been associated, and his work has commended itself not only to his asso- ^-jciates but to the Church at large.

'Since the reorganization of the busi- ness of the Church there have been

many inquiries concerning the Lenten Offering of the Sunday-schools, both as to whether such an offering would be expected as heretofore and whether it would count upon the quota of the various dioceses and districts. In or- der to clear away any doubt on this matter the following resolution was adopted :

RESOLVED : That the Presiding Bishop and Council fully expects the offering of the Sunday-school children through the mite boxes as heretofore for the general missionary work of the Church. The amount so received w! 1 apply on the quota of the diocese to- ward the Nation-Wide Campaign.

The Woman’s Auxiliary at its triennial meeting in Detroit last Octo- ber fixed a standard salary for women workers receiving their stipends from the United Thank Offering. This in- volved a readjustment of present sal- aries in some fifty cases.

The secretary for Latin America re- ported that Saint Andrew’s School for Boys at Guadalajara, Mexico, had been reopened and was carrying on

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its work, but that it needed additional - funds. The school has suffered greatly during the unsettled conditions in that country, having been raided several times and practically cleared of all its movable property.

The educational secretary, Dr. Wil- liam C. Sturgis, was granted leave of absence for a year. Dr. Sturgis ex- j>ects to attend the Lambeth Confer- ence and the World Conference on Faith and Order, after which he will visit the Anglican missions in India and those of our own Church in China, Japan and the Philippines.

The department had the pleasure of hearing addresses from three of our foreign missionaries, the Reverend I. H. Correll, D.D., of Kyoto, Japan; the Reverend B. L. Ancell, D.D., of Yangchow, China, and the Reverend Edmund J. Lee, of Anking, China. Dr. Correll represents the Church Publication Society of Japan, and he gave a most interesting account of the translation and publication that has been done. Dr. Ancell is the head of the Mahan School at Yangchow which has been very much em- barrassed by the lack of enough American teachers. In the last num- ber of The Spirit of Missions Dr. Ancell gave an account of his diffi- culty in providing sufficient room for his ever-increasing Chinese congrega- tion. Mr. Lee told of the establish- ment'of the school at Kuling for the children of foreign parents. This school has done away with the need for the breaking up of families in order that the children might be sent to this country for education, which has been one of the most distressing phases of missionary life. At the close of his address the following resolution was adopted :

RESOLVED: That the Department

of Missions and Church Extension heartily commends to the consideration of Church people the school for the children of American missionaries at Kuling, and also asks them to make such gifts as may be possible to enable

the school to continue its invaluable

work for the missionary body of the

Church.

Appointments were made as fol- lows : In the Latin American field

Mr. Glen B. Walter, son of our mis- sionary in Ponce, Porto Rico, who is about to be ordained to the diaconate, was appointed to Porto Rico ; the Reverend W'aldemar I. H. Rutan was appointed to serve as curate in Saint PauEs Church, Fredericksted, in the Virgin Islands ; Miss Irene M. Moore was appointed a missionary teacher in the Dominican Republic. In the foreign field Miss Alice Jeffer was appointed missionary nurse in Saint James’s Hospital, Anking; Miss Dor- othy Langman was appointed a woman worker in the district of Hankow. Miss Fannie E. Cleaver was appoint- ed missionary nurse in Saint Stephen’s Hospital, Fort' Yukon, and Miss Fern Rose was employed at Saint Mark’s School, Nenana, Alaska. Three new workers were appointed under the United Thank Offering : Mrs. M.

Helferty in North Dakota, Miss M. N. Strayer in Southwestern Virginia, and Miss M. E. Daughtry in Wyo- ming.

The department adjourned to meet on Tuesday, April thirteenth. The regular meetings of the department are scheduled for the second Tuesday of every month, except when there is a meeting of the Presiding Bishop and Council' when the department will meet on the Tuesday immediately before. There will be no meetings in August or September.

. NOTES ON THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS

The Presiding Bishop and Coun- cil at its last meeting gave au- thority to the president to appoint an executive secretary of the Depart- ment of Publicity upon the nomina- tion of the department. This depart- ment unanimously nominated for that

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office the Reverend R. F. Gibson, rec- tor of Christ Church, Macon, Georgia. Mr. Gibson has had a long and varied experience, not only in the ministry, but in business and professional life. Me has had experience as a school teacher, was connected with the Nezv York World for four years, when connected with the diocese of Harris- burg edited the diocesan paper, was elected mayor of York, Pennsylvania, on the Independent ticket, and in ad- dition practiced law. During the Na- tion-Wide Campaign Mr. Gibson re- ceived leave of absence from his par- ish and devoted his entire time to the ]:)ublication department. If Mr. Gib- son accepts his election it will mean that the Publicity Department will be in good shape for constructive work.

So many requests have been re- ceived from the various dioceses and agencies of the Church, asking for an assignment of funds from the Nation- Wide Campaign, that the Presiding Bishop and Council appointed a com- mittee to take this whole matter un-

der consideration. The committee held a meeting on March seventeenth and went carefully over the matter. It felt that it could not deal with details at this time, but only establish cer- tain principles along which to work. A meeting will be held just prior to the meeting of the Presiding Bishop and Council in May, and it is hoped they will have sufficient data before them to deal with the question fully.

The Department of Finance, which met on March sixteenth, decided that it was absolutely essential for the con- tinuance of the Nation-Wide Cam- paign to create a separate department for this work. They decided to ask the Reverend William H. Milton, D.D., rector of Saint James’s Church, Wilmington, North Carolina, to ac- cept the office of executive secretary of this department. Dr. Milton also gave his entire time during the Na- tion-Wide Campaign to this work, and is fully qualified to organize the department for the continuance of the campaign.

NEWS AND NOTES

Through the kindness of four of our subscribers. Deaconess James of Batesville, Adrginia, has been gladdened by the receipt of a new Corona typewriter, for which ap- peal was made in the February Spirit OF Missions. \\T hope soon to have the pleasure of presenting our read- ers with the first fruits of this ma- chine.

The Rev. Henry S. Jeffreys, who had been ill in Saint Luke’s Hos- pital, Tokyo, since the 15th of May, 1919, was taken to his rest in the early morning of Thursday, January 15th. Mr. Jeffreys went to Japan in ■1889 and for several years was a teacher in Japanese government schools, doing missionary work as op- portunity offered. He joined the Ja- pan mission in 1894 and was stationed

as pioneer priest at Sendai, which is now the parish of second importance in the district of Tokyo. He was re- tired from the service of the Board of Missions in 1903. The Church of St. Matthias, at Maebashi, is due, un- der God, to his efforts.

Dr. Chapman of Anvik, Alaska, reports good progress on his much-needed new house. Owing to the mild weather of the past winter it is more nearly completed than he anticipated. It is enclosed, windows and doors are all in, the floors have been laid, the stairs are in and par- titions going up. He says, “The base- ment of that house is a joy. It will contain the postoffice and a large waiting room, as well as furnishing ample storage room for our vege- tables and other perishables.”

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Archdeacon Neve of Vir- ginia is about to publish a little book entitled No Church of the Living Waters, embodying some of the most striking incidents of his quarter of a century among the mountain people of his state. It will be published by the Gorham Press of Boston and the price will be $1.25.

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ECENTLY a check for $41.20 for Domestic Missions was re- ceived at the Church Missions House from Saint Paul’s parish, Buffalo, N. Y., representing the contents of two mite boxes which were sent out to the present holders by Dr. Twing. As Dr. Twing died in 1882 these two boxes have been continuously at work for nearly forty years. They deserve honorable mention in the records of The Domestic and Foreign Mission- ary Society.

ON February 28th word was re- ceived at the Church Missions House that Mr. Theodore Hobbie, who joined the China mission in 1916 as a teacher in Boone University, had met with an accident on the road to Ruling during a storm. The cable further stated that he was progressing favorably. A second message dated March 10th said that he was very much better and improving rapidly. No particulars have been received by mail as yet.

The Reverend A. R. Llwyd, our missionary in Haiti, reports most attentive and reverent congrega- tions on Christmas Eve and the eve of the New Year. On both occasions the church simply over- flowed with people, many having to remain outside during the entire service. He thinks that if we could within the next five years build a church and school in each of the large towns, there would be little fear for the future of the Haitians. Mean- while he is in great need of one or

more organs. He has thirty dollars toward the purchase of one and asks if there is any possibility of getting second-hand organs cheap.

SAINT Luke’s parish, Kearney, Nebraska, thought it “was doing all it could” before it became inter- ested in the Nation-Wide Campaign. The canvass which completed the par- ish drive provided an average of $9,- 000 a year for three years, which will liquidate all outstanding debts, pro- vide operating expenses, pay the par- ish quota in the nation-wide fund and leave a small working balance to cover extraordinary expenses. The spirit of the campaign was excellent. A serv- ice card was circulated by the rector, the Reverend George C. Ware, pledging the signer to some per- sonal service. Three-fourths of the congregation have enrolled with others to be heard from.

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F*0R some time the need of a sec- ond summer school for the differ- ent activities of Church work in the Province of New York and New Jer- sey, has been apparent. The available buildings at Geneva were last year crowded to overflowing, and the rail- road fare from the southern part of the province has been a deterrent to some who would have liked to attend. At a recent meeting the board of gov- ernors of the summer schools of the provinces determined to hold two ses- sions of the summer school of the sec- ond province, one as heretofore, at Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y., and the other at Princeton University in New Jersey. The Princeton session will be held June 21 to July 1, and the Geneva session from July 5 to 16. The programme has not been announced as yet, but so far as possible the two sessions will have the same courses of study, given by the same faculty. The '^ecretarv, Mrs. G. H. Lewis, New Paltz, N. Y., will be glad to correspond with those desiring information.

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News and Notes

TRINITY CATHEDRAL, CLEVELAND, OHIO

ON the morning of March four- teenth the Reverend Francis S. W'hite, who recently resigned his po- sition as domestic secretary of the de- partment of missions, was installed as dean of Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland, Ohio, by Bishop Leonard, assisted by Archdeacon Asa A. Abbott, the Rev- erend John E. Carhartt and the Rev- erend John F. Keene. In his initial sermon Dean White took as his text, “So then, brethren, we are not chil- dren of the bondwoman but of the free.”

The Very Reverend Artley B.

Parson has resigned from the Philippine mission to return to this country. Dean Parson has been in charge of the cathedral of Saint Mary and Saint John, Manila, since 1917, and he will be greatly missed by his many friends in that city.

The Foreign Service Department of Union Theological Seminary has established three missionary fel- lowships, yielding $750^annually, open to foreign missionaries or to natives

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of mission lands who have completed a theological as well as a collegiate course. One of these fellowships has been awarded to Mr. Yu Yue Tsu, since 1912 professor of Sociology and Comparative Religion in Saint John’s University, Shanghai.

SUNDAY-SCHOOL in New York wants to dispose of a li- brary of 500 good books and an ex- cellent oil-burning stereopticon, to in- crease their Lenten Offering. They will sell the books at $5 a hundred, or $20 for the entire library, with card catalogue. The price of the stereopti- con is $5. The above prices are f.o.b., New York City.

Here is an excellent opportunity for someone to increase the Lenten Offer- ing of Saint Matthew’s school and at the same time help to equip some struggling mission in the less populous parts of our country. Will anyone who is interested address the Rev- erend John L. Peckham, superintend- ent Saint Matthew’s Church School, 32 West Eighty-fourth Street, New York, N. Y. ?

OUR WORK AMONG FOREIGN-BORN AMERICANS

THE REVEREND THOMAS BURGESS, SECRETARY

I AM just returned from a two weeks’ trip to great polyglot cities and the anthracite and steel regions — Chi- cago, Cleveland, Southern Ohio, Erie, Bethlehem, etc. I have conferred with bishops and leading clergy, and have addressed services, meetings of men, and the leaders of the Women’s Aux- iliary, seeing much at first hand of the need and the opportunity. I found there — just as Dr. Emhardt and I have found everywhere we go — intense in- terest and desire for guidance, but the task is so overwhelming we are lit- erally swamped.

Here are snap-shots along the road : Chicago: A city of many races.

Here I lunched with the suffragan bishop and the ranking member of the diocesan Department of Missions, and a plan was formulated, to be presented to the bishop, for putting an expert in the field. There is another special opportunity which can be met just as soon as we find the right man ; it is an almost unused church in the heart of a section where there are 120,000 Czechs who need us. I also saw the Swedish and Italian priests of Chicago.

Cincinnati : By Bishop Reese’s di-

rection, I visited for a day and a night one of our clergy who has been back and forth in the steerage of immi- grant ships. He has known and loved our neighbors of foreign birth thor- oughly for years. He is one of the “finds”, heretofore unknown to the Church at large, that we are contin- ually making.

Cleveland: A city where eighty

percent of the population are of for- eign race, and where the civic authori- ties are doing their duty wisely and well. This is what happened in an

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evening and morning there : At the Broadway Public Library, where the writer of the article, “Easter in the Karpathians”, in this number, is the librarian, I heard an address on the Russian revolution by a Russian, and music by one of the Russian choirs, before a most interesting polyglot audience. I listened to an address by the same Mrs. Ledbetter, before the Associated Charities ; visited head- quarters of the efficient Cleveland Americanization Committee in the City Hall ; met by chance the Bishop Suf- fragan, and, at his request, nominated an Italian priest for new work he is opening; lunched with the Inter-racial Association, composed of leaders of racial groups and leading “Ameri- cans’’ ; called on the bishop and heard from him, what I had already talked over with the dean of Bexley Hall, about the six Serbian theological stu- dents now on their way from Serbia to enter that seminary.

The Land of Anthracite: I trav-

eled and spoke in two cities in this re- markable region where the rivers run black, the trees are gone, and little meets the eye but dreary stretches of mountains of coal waste, collieries and shaft heads, the “patches” of ram- shackle houses, and the towns where you see spires surmounted by the Rus- sian or the Latin cross. Here amidst hardship, danger of death and stunt- ing child labor, the Church must do Her duty for God and our Country.

The Steel Regions: At Sharon,

north of Pittsburgh, they have asked for $22,000 from the Nation-Wide Campaign to develop the work, press- ing in its need, among many races, in nearby Farrell of steel-strike fame.

THE NATION-WIDE CAMPAIGN

BY THE REVEREND R. BLAND MITCHELL

WITH the Easter Season comes the hnal close of the first or “intensive” phase of the Campaign, 'i hose dioceses concluding their can- vasses since March first are,- chron- ologically, Nebraska, IMichigan, Al- bany, W estern New York and Massa- chusetts.

Scattering parishes over the land may yet have to complete this phase of the work. But, generally speaking, by Easter the call of “Mobilization Day” will have come to all. American Churchmen have been summoned to “stand up and be counted”. We un- derstand better what the Easter Ales- sage means now.

Last month there were reported on this page some illuminating figures on per capita giving by dioceses. This can now be supplemented by some re- ports on parishes. As we go to press, Saint James’s Church, New York City, a parish of 763 communicants, has pledged $77.13 per capita annually to the Campaign. Saint Stephen’s, Rich- mond, Va. — a suburban parish of 100 communicants — has pledged $76.23 p^r capita; Grace and Saint Peter’s, Baltimore, Md., (460 communicants) $45.21 per capita ; Old Saint Michael’s, Charleston, S. C. (406 communi- cants) $42.16 per capita; Saint Stephen the Martyr, Portland, Ore- gon, (250 communicants) $36.80 per capita ; Saint James’s, Wilmington, N. C., (633 communicants) $25.40 per capita.

Of particular interest is the record of Saint Paul’s, Richmond, Va., where the communicant membership is 730. Over one- hundred of the subscriptions ranged from 2c. to 2_5c. per week. Only one was as high as $25 a week and only sixteen were $10 a week or

over. Yet the parish averaged $46.54 per communicant per year ! It proves all over again the claims of the Cam- paign— that the systematic offerings of the many outweigh the large “benefac- tions” of the few. It doesn’t take money to make the Campaign a finan- cial success. The spirit of devotion — the will to serve — is the well-spring of accomplishment.

That spirit cannot be tabulated, but the finger on the pulse of the Church Militant reveals its strength. “A mod- ern miracle has been wrought in this parish” ; “our diocese has been trans- formed by this awakening”; such are the messages which come from bishops other clergy and laity — in- creased Church attendance, new con- secration on the part of thousands who have offered for part-time service in the parishes ; hundreds are prayer- fully considering volunteering for life service when the time comes, and other hundreds have already offered. One mid-West diocese has secured twenty- nine men from its state educational in- stitutions— seven of them for the min- istry. A new thing for a diocese hav- ing forty-nine clergy.

Months ago Dr. Patton sounded this high keynote: The end of the Can-

vass is the beginning of the Campaign. We have only started. The Church is on a budget and programme basis at last. In the coming weeks and months of the next three years we must bring to fruition our professions of “Mobilization Day”. Untiring work, blessed work for the Master with its consequent strength and bless- ing upon the life of each parish. The present “first-fruits” are but a slight foretaste of the glorious harvest which will be gathered.

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THE EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT

W. C. STURGIS, PH.D., SECRETARY

NO one can possibly regret more than I do the necessity of in- creasing the price of study material, but at the same time I have no right to ])ublish such material at a loss. Last month I expressed the hope that the Survey and the leader’s Manual might be sold together for $1.25, but as work on the Manual advanced it became evi- dent that very much more material would have to be included than was at first contemplated. The cost of printing, too, seems to have no limits.

As a matter of fact the Manual is cost- ing at least 76c per copy to produce, possibly more ; it can not be sold and distributed for less than 90c, without danger of loss. The price of the Manual, therefore, has been fixed at 90c when purchased separately. The Survey costs $1.00 per copy when pur- chased separately, but we can arrange to sell the two together for $1.75. In considering this comparatively high price, please bear in mind two miti- gating facts : first, that a studv class needs only one Manual; second, that inasmuch as the study of the Survey extends over a three-year oeriod, the cost of the books is distributed over that period, and is not, as heretofore, chargeable against the expense of a single season of study.

My occupation this month seems to be that of eating my own words. Having now corrected a pre- vious statement regarding the Survey,

I must proceed to do the same re- garding Neighbors. Since the study i of a certain portion of the Survey re- quires the use of this book, I am is- suing a small revised edition, so that there will be no risk, after creating a fresh demand, of finding myself un-

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able to supply it. The new edition is not a mere reprint, but is a revision, corrected in several important details. Five hundred copies will be issued ; they should be ready by the time these words are read.

VERY few of the Summer Con- ference secretaries have, as yet, notified my office regarding the con- ference dates. Thus far, the follow- ing seem to be settled :

Wellesley, Mass. — June 21-Tu1y 1. *

Princeton, N. J. — June 21-July 1. Montrose, Pa. — June 21-26 Wawasee, Tnd. — June 21-26.

Conneaut, Ohio — June 28-July 2. Geneva, N. Y.— July 5-15.

Racine, Wis. — July 6-16.

The Interchurch World Movement Conferences (formerly the Missionary Education Movement) are as follows : Winter Park. Fla. — June 3-10.

Blue Ridge, N. C. — Tune 25-July 5. Fstes Park, Colo. — Tuiy 9-19.

Silver Bay, N. Y.— Julv 9-19.

Asilomar, Cal. — July 13-23.

Ocean Park, Me. — July 20-30.

Lake Geneva, Wis. — Julv 23-August 2 Seabeck, Wash. — July 28- August 7.

The manuscript of a new play by Mrs. Ely of Richmond has just been sent in for publication by this Department. It is called The Quest of the King, and portrays in allegori- cal fashion the present needs of the world as they appeal to the average man and woman and as met by the Church. It is admirably adapted for use in connection with the ^Survey. Eor its presentation the play requires about twentv characters, and provides opportunity for really good acting. The scenery, costumes and properties are all simnle and easilv provided. The play will be ready for distribution be- for the autumn. The price will be announced later.

OUR LETTER BOX

Intimate and Informal Messages from the Field

EPIPHANY HALL, CUTTINGTON, LIBERIA The station at Cuttington was founded by the late R. Fulton Cutting , of Nezv York, one- time treasurer of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society. Through his gifts one hundred acres of land were bought and a diocesan training school established. Most of the Liberian clergy are graduates of this school

Today the ‘ attention of many of our Church folk is attracted to the work in Liberia, which is entering on a new era of expansion under Bishop Overs. The following letter from the Reverend Theodore Momolu Gardiner, one of the native clergy of that mission, is therefore timely and in- teresting:

IN 1878 Saint John’s Mission, Cape Mount, was founded by Bishop Penick. The influence of this mis- sion has been wonderful, not only among the V ey people but also among the adjacent tribes, far and near. In 1877 there were not five men in the Vey territory who spoke correct Eng- lish. Today hundreds of my people express themselves well in that lan-

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guage. In that year there was not a single man, if I am not mistaken, who could read the Roman characters. Today nearly all business letters, peti- tions and other diplomatic documents from Vey kings and merchants are written by Vey boys and girls in civil- ized language. In 1877 there was not a single Christian among us ; today there are hundreds.

I believe it was in the year 1880 that I was taken out of heathenism. My father died when I was about eight years of age. About four years later I was put in the mission school at

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Cape Mount under the hrst white mis- sionaries at that station, Bishop Pen- ick, the Reverend John McNabb, the Reverend Curtis Grubb and Messrs. Schmidt and Parker. On my way to Cape Blount from my heathen home I was in danger of being taken prisoner by a powerful tribe who had made war on the towns near Cape Mount, but by God’s favor these enemies were driven back.

The object of my people in sending me to the mission school was simj^ly to give me a short English education, to enable me to carry on a large busi- ness among them. Nearly all of the \’ey take much delight in mercantile pursuits, and they thought that in this way I would be of great use to them. Not knowing the true God, they had no higher aim for me than this. In the latter part of 1883 I was baptized by the Rev. Henry IMeek, a zealous and consecrated servant of God whose body lies in the mission - graveyard at Cape Mount.

In the year 1885 I was confirmed by Bishop Ferguson. Mrs. Brierley was my godmother. She took no little pains in training me in the way I should go. She was filled with the spirit of God and indeed lived a life of self-sacrifice, counting not her life dear unto herself. Her body also rests in the mission graveyard.

At this time I had well advanced in my studies and had begun to ap- preciate my Christian training. Just then pledges were made by a number of the mission boys, in the presence of Bishop Ferguson and Dr. G. W. Gib- son, who was then superintendent of the mission, to do certain work for the good of the mission. Some were to be ministers, catechists and teach- ers ; others to be carpenters, shoe- makers. etc. I was one of those who pledged to try to be a minister. It was then after being made a full mem- ber of the Church that my people, not knowing the vows and promises made in baptism and confirmation. l)egan to

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torment me to leave school, as they thought I had learned sufficient to go out into the world and make money for them. ]\Iy mother and aunt, whose husband was dead, were both in pos- session of a good number of slaves. My aunt having no children, accord- ing to the custom of the country, I was to have all that belonged to her after her death, and even while she was living to have some right over her things. She tried to prevail upon me to leave school to come home and take charge of things for her and my mother, as I was the only boy child in the family ; but all these things I counted but loss that I might win Christ.

In the year 1890 the late Reverend O. E. H. Shannon, then superintend- ent of the mission, noticed that some- thing seemed to be troubling me. I told him everything — how my mother and aunt were desirous of taking me out of school for worldly gain. He told me that there was a good school nearing completion at Cape Palmas and advised me to write to the bishop for a transfer. The bishop gave his consent and I gladly packed every- thing to leave for Cape Palmas. On the fifteenth of September, 1890, I left Cape IMount and arrived at Cape Palmas three days later. I was a per- fect stranger and found things in a very unfinished condition, which made it somewhat Giard for me, but I made up my mind to stay.

In 1892 I became a candidate for Holy Orders; in 1896 I was ordained to the diaconate and in 1906 was ad- vanced to the priesthood. In 1906, at the special request of the members, the bishop appointed me pastor of Mount \Hughan chapel, under the Reverend G. \\\ Gibson, rector of Saint Mark’s parish. Nothing could please me more than to be an associate pastor on this historical spot of our mission, at the same time continuing my work as teacher in the school at Cuttington.

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In the little graveyard near the Chapel at Mount A'aughan lie the ashes of many pioneer missionaries. The Church in Liberia owes much to them. How they left kindred and comfort- able homes, in order to help in redeem- ing Africa, is too wonderful to think of. Though they are dead and buried, yet they speak. Through their ear- nest zeal and eft'ort in the past, a good result is shown in the number of na- tive clergymen trained under Bishop Ferguson, who was himself directly under their influence. Being the first amongst my people, the \ ey., to enter the ministry in our Church, and to labor for thirteen and a half years on the historical spot of our work at Mount \"aughan, and now at Hofifman Station, is indeed cheering to me.

• I ask your earnest prayers that God may fit and prepare me more and more for this great work.

The Venerable George Gilbert Walker, Arch- deacon of Colored Work in the diocese of Texas, writes in a most hoi>eful spirit about the prospects of his work:

An EM' era is dawning for the col- ored work in the diocese of Texas. Concerning this work Bish- op Quin has caught a splendid vision and has passed it on to his clergy and people. The bishop’s vision is that of the Church minfstering vigorously, aggressively, practically, and progres- sively to the colored people within the diocese, to the end that they be brought into closer contact with the ideas and life of the Church. This means pio- neer work, and that of a most difficult kind. The bishop has appointed an archdeacon of colored work, and it is the intention to establish missions in those places wherein there appears any opportunity for practical work. The several clergy are enthusiastic and are anxious to lend their co-operation and support.

One encouraging feature is that a sufficient number of colored folk are eager , for the ministration of the

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Church. And they are willing to go to sacrifices to demonstrate their ap- preciation of the Church’s Mission. For example: Saint Augustine’s at

Galveston numbers about fifty-six communicants, of whom some are minors, a few are old persons, and the majority are of not more than mod- erate means. Yet in one year, ending June thirtieth, during which time the present incumbent has been vicar, they raised for all purposes the sum of seven hundred and ten dollars and thirty-five cents — an excellent showing for a congregation of its size and per- sonnel.

I'he vicar of Saint Augustine’s is endeavoring to procure a mission house and school. It is believed such will be of great value in deepening and broadening the colored work at Galveston. It is the purpose to use the mission house as a sort of social centre for the entire community, in which will be held socials and enter- tainments, in addition to the giving of lectures and the conducting of classes in sewing, cooking, typewriting, and the like. In connection with their work a school will be maintained, of a pri- mary and elementary type.

The forward policy of the colored work will, of course, take time. We are not anxious for, but rather dis- courage, mushroom growth. What we do desire and what we are beginning to work for are a steady and definite increase in the number of missions, and a definite and steady growth with- in each one. Our working ideal is a chapel and a mission house and school at each mission point. These will not come all at once ; but they constitute the goal toward which all our work will be shaped.

We predict that within a few years Bishop Quin’s vision and faith will have been justified, and that the col- ored missions in Texas will rank among those which have been made worth-while through sacrifice, cour- age, and hard work.

A LIST OF LEAFLETS

Leaflets are free unless price is noted. Address Literature Office, Church Missions House, 281 Fourth Avenue, New York, stating quantity wanted.

Alaska

SOO The Borderland of the Pole.

Brazil

525 Under the Southern Cross.

Devotional

50 Prayers for Missions.

51 A Litany for Missions.

52 Mid-Day Intercession for Missions. 54 Mid-Day Prayer Card.

China

200 The Chung Hua Sheng Kuiig Hui.

(Holy Catholic. Church in China.)

203 Church Day Schools in China.

247 Practical Ideals in Medicai Missions. 5c. 251 For the Women of Ichang.

2G0 Parish of Ten Million l’eoi)le, Changsha. 273 Saint Faith’s School, Yangchow.

275 Saint Mary’s Hall, Shanghai.

2(6 Saint John’s University, Shanghai.

Cuba, Porto Rico and Haiti 500 In the Greater Antilles.

510 Foundations.

3Iiscellaneous

901 A Soldier’s Vision of Missions.

915 Appropriations Made for Year 1919.

916 Designated and Special Gifts. .

944 Women in the Mission Field.

946 How to Volunteer.

948 The New World and the New Need. 969 The Church and the World.

978 At Home.

979 Abroad.

12.52 50,000 Miles in Fifty Minutes. 5c.

Honolulu

1000 The Cross Hoads of the Pacific.

Japan

300 The Nippon Sei Ko Kwai (Holy Catho- lic Church in Japan).

303 Saint Agnes’s, Kyoto.

Latin America

555 One and Twenty Republics.

Liberia

100 Our Foothold in Africa.

Mexico

550 The Land, the People and the Church.

Panama Canal Zone 575 The Canal Zone.

Philippine Islands

400 The Cross, the Flag and the Church.

United States Indians

600 The First Americans.

607 Bishop Hare’s Schools.

Negroes

700 The Church and the Negro.

3097 The Church and the Negro. 10c.

Foreign-born Peoples in U. S.

1501 The Eastern Orthodox Church. 10c.

1504 E Pluribus Unum: The Christian Amer-

icanization of Aliens.

1505 What to Do for Christian ' American-

ization.

1506 Foreign-born Americans. (Ulus.) 35c.

1507 Immigrant Chart. 5c.

1510 The Czecho-Slovaks. 10c.

1515 Americans All. (Poems.) 5c.

Southern Mountaineers 1550 Appalachia.

Educational Department

Church Dictionary. 25c.

Observation Trips. 25c.

3000 A Service for Missionary Day.

3053 Mission Study Class: What Is If?

3054 Mission Study Meetings.

3060 Mission Study Class: Place and Value. 3091 Catalogue of Educational Material.

3094 Teu Missionary Stories. 10c.

W.A. 12 W.A. 15 W.A. 16 W.A. 17

W.A. 20 W.A. 25 W.A. 26 W.A. 30-

W.A. 100 W.A. 102 W.A. 103 W.A. 106 W.A. 113 W.A. 116 W.A. 117 W.A. 121 W.A. 501

The Woman’s Auxiliary

Re-organization of the Box Work. New Plans.

A Bit of History. 5c.

What the Auxiliary Can Do for Religious Education.

Hand Book. 10c.

To the Auxiliary (5 leaflets).

A Devotional Exercise.

31-32 Suggestions for Presidents, Secretaries, Treasurers. 5c a set.

U. T. O. Resolution and Prayer Card. How Are We Giving To Our U.T.O.? The Little Blue Box.

Prom Small Beginnings.

Helps for U. T. O. Treasurers. Spiritual Value of the U. T. O. United Thank Offering Catechism. Prayer for the Woman’s Auxiliary. Triennial Resolutions. 10c.

The Junior Auxiliary

W.A. 200 The Junior Collect, x W.A. 206 The Junior Book. 10c.

W.A. 212 The New Junior Plan.

W.A. 215 Evolution not Revolution.

W.A. 302 Little Helpers’ Prayers.

W.A. 308 The First Step.

W.A. 309 A Message to Mothers.

3085 The Church School Service League.

The following are thejnost recent leaflets: Nos. 1252, 1504, 1505, 1506, 1507, 1510, 1515, 1550, 3085, W.A. 12, W.A. 15, W.A. 17.

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The WOMAN’S Auxiliary

TO THE PRESIDING BISHOP AND COUNCIL

A SOJOURN IN THE GATE OF THE DRAGON

By Sister Edith Constance

Our missionaries in the three China districts have been wont to go for recu- peration in summer to Killing in the mountainous part of the district of Anking. The Sisters from the Community of the Transfiguration, who are in charge of Saint Lioba’s School at Wuhu, decided last summer to go to Lungmen, or “The Dragon’s Gate”, instead, with happy results.

The sun was just setting behind most beautiful mountains when we approached the entrance to Lung- men, or “The Dragon’s Gate”. It took some time to put our party across the clear rapid mountain stream ; there was but one boat and it had taken thirty-three carriers to move us and our belongings, though we had re- duced to campers’ outfits. Feelings were divided between pleasure at the beauty, almost amounting to grandeur, of the country, and qualms that we might indeed be walking into the dragon’s mouth, instead of the gate. Four long days’ journey overland from the nearest doctor, no other white people for a radius of many miles, the Lungmen people total strangers to us, and, as we knew, most of them had never in their lives seen a “foreign” woman!

We were to live in the Cheo family ancestral hall, inhabited by the shades of tens of thousands of their ances- tors, and furnished with their ances- tral tablets. But some members of the Cheo clan had positive convictions that if the American sisters should hang up a cross in that hall the an- cestral spirits would be disturbed and depart to wander about haunting the

living. Consequently the beautiful bungalow of a rich tea merchant had been prepared for us instead. It was built on the side of the mountain overlooking the river. In the rear, but really on the street side, was the enor- mous tea-drying room which after- wards proved a fine gathering place for our meetings, and for holding a clinic.

One has to experience Chinese courtesy to understand how perfect it is. Everything had been prepared for us that we could possibly want and through our entire stay some one was always on hand to get us any- thing we needed. For some time we had felt that the only way we could get a start in this district was to go and live among the people for a while, not exactly as missionaries, but as visitors. They certainly responded to all our hopes for friendliness, and when we left we felt we had many very dear friends in the little village.

We gave talks on foot-binding, what causes sickness, the uselessness of burning incense to idols, and child betrothals. Every evening the big fry- ing room was crowded at evensong.

Every morning we had classes for the women and out of the faithful

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TFIE DRAGON GAT1{, I.UNGMIGN. CHINA.

THE TEA MERCHAX'r’S 110HSI<: WE OCCUPIED

ones two were able to complete the preparation for becoming catechu- mens ; that is the nearest approach to a Christian woman that Lungmen can boast, except of course the wife of Catechist \\ an. Every morning Sis- ter Constance held clinic, treating in all several hundred people. Patients were brought in from a radius of over thirty miles. One child with a mastoid abscess which had deprived her of sight and hearing was carried thirty- three miles on her father’s back and the poor father had to be told the case was hopeless. How we longed to bap- tize the little dying girl, but the father did not know even the meaning of the word. “How shall they know without a teacher?”

One night about midnight we were routed out by loud pounding at our door and a large number of men were there, begging the sisters to come to a house where a young man had taken a dose of opium to kill himself. He

had quarreled with his brother and this was his revenge. The young fel- low was nearly dead, as he had taken the opium in the afternoon. There was no pulse, his body was cold, and his throat so contracted he could not swallow. The coffin was ready and the coolies already in the yard squab- bling over the job of carrying it to the hillside. The n^other had set up the dismal death wail. Sister told the family that if he died they must not hlame us, but she would try to do what she could. They replied that he was a dead man already and to do what- ever she liked. A powerful heart stimulant given by hypodermic and other strenuous treatment produced a pulse in a couple of hours. week of constant nursing restored the young man to his normal condition. The family, all idol worshippers, refrained from all heathen practices on one of the big festivals, and instead brought the young man to our Church serv-

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ice where he offered towards a new school for the mission the money he had wanted to give the sisters for his cure. The amusing part is that he is now counted as sister’s son, and every Chinese New Year he will be expected to come to Saint Lioba’s to give her his filial greetings. If you save a person’s life in China you are forever after responsible for that per- son ! Sister Constance’s reputation and the cure of the “needle” spread, and whatever disease a person had he wanted her to give him “the needle” cure. The children called her “for- eign idol” on the streets and we be- gan to fear we might repeat something of Saint Paul’s experience at Lystra.

We learned something about Chi- nese medicine. Very old ink, thirty years old, is supposed to be a good cure for boils! We found twelve holes all full of pus in a woman’s back ; excellent cure for typhoid I The holes were made with hot needles. Cow dung was used on one child for face and head eczema. A flannel pro- tector on which are embroidered a cen-

tipede, a lizard, and a frog cures stom- ach trouble. One old lady was sure Sister Constance’s watch reflected the insides of the patient, as she saw her hold it in her hand for counting the pulse; and the typhoid patient will al- ways believe the clinical thermometer told sister that she had been up gam- bling the night before, though the in- formation really came through a neighbor.

On our festival day — the Transfig- uration— Mr. Hsiang came over from Moulin to give us Holy Communion. All of the confirmed men from Shui- tung walked the long hot ten miles over the mountain to be present, and the confirmed men of Lungmen were there of course. In the afternoon we gave a big tea party for all of the Christians and their families.

We left in the moonlight at three one morning. Our dear friends were up to- give us a farewell and to wish us a “peaceful journey”. We would not take hundreds of dollars for our experiences, and I fear we are spoiled for summers in Ruling.

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The Woman’s Auxiliary

THE FEBRUARY OFFICERS’ CONFERENCE

The Officers’ Conference was held on February nineteenth at ten-thirty in the Board Room of The Church Missions House. As is the custom it was preceded by a celebra- tion of the Holy Communion in the chapel. Representatives from the fol- lowing dioceses were present: Long

Island, Michigan, North Carolina, New York and Pennsylvania.

Miss Lindley announced that the presiding bishop and Council had passed at their February meeting a resolution recognizing the Woman’s Auxiliary. A copy of this resolution appears in the March number of The Spirit of Missions, page 176.

Dr. William E. Gardner, executive secretary of the Department of Re- ligious Education, was the speaker, his subject being What the Auxiliary Can Do for Religious Education.

Dr. Gardner read a very interest- ing paper on this most important sub- ject, which has become of especial con- cern to all Auxiliary members, as Re- ligious Education is now numbered among their activities. At the conclu- sion of the paper it was discussed, and at Dr. Gardner’s request sugges- tions were made as to additions or amplifications which might increase the value of the paper to the Auxiliary branches. We are glad to be able to announce that this paper will soon be published in the form of a leaflet and will then be at the disposal of the many Auxiliary branches which are anxious to be guided as to how they can best help this great branch of the Church’s work.

Among the points brought out by Dr. Gardner were the following:

The decline of religious observance in the home. This is one of the grav- est developments of our modern life. The religious emphasis in the home must be restored if the future of our nation is to be made safe. Twelve

million children in the United States have no religious instruction. The home is the logical place where it should be received. Does not this con- dition present an opportunity for the Auxiliary? Could not this subject be discussed at their meetings and some conclusion reached as to how in their own homes religious observ- ances may be revived or strengthened ? Such an action on the part of the Auxiliary members would go a long way towards reviving a neglected phase of our Christian life.

The subject of the teaching of re- ligion in the public schools is a burn- ing one. Fifty per cent, of the boys and girls in each community have no religious instruction whatever. There is very little chance of their getting it at home and at present they receive none in school.

In spite of the difficulties which our “unhappy divisions” have created, the public schools would undoubtedly re- spond to public sentiment should it be sufficiently strong. Here again is an opportunity for the Auxiliary to con- sider this deplorable condition and by their efforts to help in moulding the public opinion which will in time right this wrong.

The building up of the Church school, too, should be the concern of the Auxiliary, also an interest in the development of the summer confer- ence, while the recruiting of our young men and women for ministry in the mission field at home and abroad should enlist their intelligent interest and co-operation. The spiritual care of the Church boys and girls in the colleges of this country is another vital matter which might well claim the in- terest and assistance of the Auxiliary members.

All those who listened to Dr. Gard- ner’s outlining of the tasks ahead of us in the field of Religious Education

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could not but realize how opportuni- ties for ever-widening influence and service are coming to us through this channel, and to recognize how that activity which will always be first in our hearts — our work for the Church’s ^fission — will be strength- ened by means of this new endeavor to which we are pledged.

At the close of Dr. Gardner’s paper, Miss Lindley spoke of the death of Mrs. Neilson, of the diocese of Penn- sylvania, and of Mrs. Greeley, of the diocese of Chicago, both valued and much beloved officers of the Auxiliary. The officers present voted that an ex- pression of sympathy be sent to the two diocesan branches.

AN AUXILIARY MEMORIAL

IT is seldom that the Auxiliary as a whole undertakes a memorial. Only the example of a remarkable leader can move the whole bjody to do so — nor are we surprised at this when we realize the size and numbers of the Auxiliary and the few oppor- tunities any but general officers have of coming in contact with members from all branches of the Auxiliary. Up till the Triennial in Detroit but two members had been so remem- bered— Mrs. Twing, the first secre- tary of the Auxiliary, and Miss Sallie Stewart, for many years president of the Virginia branch. To these me- morials another is to be added by the vote of the delegates in Detroit. !Miss Mary E. Hart is known to us all as the founder of the Little Helpers. She was for many years the Junior leader in Western New York and one of the founders of the Junior Aux- iliary of the Church and always a leader in the children’s work for the Church. Hers is one of those beau- tiful examples of the results of a dedi- cated life — her influence through the children on the life of the Church and on the Church’s Mission is in-

calculable. No wonder then that those who had worked with her — and they are many, for Miss Hart seemingly had friends in every part of the Church — voted to erect a memorial to her in the mission field; or it might be more truthful to say “another” memorial, for the kindergarten at Odate, Japan, has been called the Mary E. Hart kindergarten, and until illness forced her resignation Miss Hart her- self acted as chairman of the commit- tee which established it.

Mrs. Nicholas, the President of the Western New York branch of the Woman’s Auxiliary, read a very lovely and sympathetic minute on the life of Miss Hart at the Triennial and the delegates resolved :

That we heartily approve and adopt as our own the words of ap- preciation and affection in the minute on Miss Mary E. Hart’s life and work, and that the Mary E. Hart Memorial be made in the form of a gift of $5,000 for the school for Navajo Indians at Farmington, New Mexico.

THE APRIL CONFERENCE

The April Conference will be held in the Board Room of the Church Missions House on Thursday, April fifteenth, on the subject What the Auxiliary Can Do for Social Service. Celebration of the Holy Communion at 10 o’clock and the Con- ference at 10:30.

MISS LINDLEY would call special attention to the fact that new lit- erature is ready. New leaflets W. A. 12, W. A. 15 and general leaflet 916 are particularly suggested for the Auxiliary.

Former W. A. leaflets which have been revised and brought up to date are W. A. ^100, W. A. 102, W. A. 106, W. A. 113, W. A. 116 and W. A. 121.

A list of all leaflets with titles will be found on page 260 of this (April) issue of The Spirit of Missions.

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MISSIONARY DISTRICTS AND THEIR BISHOPS

I. AT HOME

ALASKA: Peter T. Rowe, D.D.

ARIZONA: JuHus W. Atwood, D.D.

ASHEVILLE: Junius M. Homer, D.D.

EASTERN OREGON: Robert L. Paddock, D.D.

HONOLULU: Henry B. Restarick, D.D.

IDAHO: Frank H. Touret.

NEVADA: George C. Hunting, D.D.

NEW MEXICO: Frederick B. Howden, D.D.

NORTH DAKOTA: J. Poyntz Tyler, D.D.

NORTH TEXAS: Edward A. Temple, D.D.

OKLAHOMA: Theodore P. Thurston, D. D.

PANAMA: J. Craik Morris, D.D.

PORTO RICO: Charles B. Colmore, D.D.

PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: Gouveneur F. Mosher.

SALINA: George A. Beecher, D.D. (Bishop in charge).

SAN JOAQUIN: Louis C. Sanford, D.D.

SOUTH DAKOTA: Hugh L. Burleson, D.D., Wm. P. Remington, Suf- fragan.

SOUTHERN FLORIDA: Cameron Mann, D.D.

SPOKANE: Herman Page, D.D.

UTAH: (Presiding Bishop in charge.)

WESTERN NEBRASKA: George A. Beecher, D.D.

WYOMING: Nathaniel S. Thomas, D.D.

II. ABROAD

ANKING: D. Trumbull Huntington, D.D.

BRAZIL: Lucien L. Kinsolving, D.D.

CUBA: Hiram R. Hulse, D.D.

HANKOW: Logan H.^ Roots, D.D.

HAITI: (Presiding Bishop in charge.)

KYOTO: H. St. George Tucker, D.D.

LIBERIA: Walter H. Overs, Ph.D.

MEXICO: Henry D. Aves, D.D.

SHANGHAI: Frederick R. Graves, D.D.

TOKYO: John McKim, D.D.

CONCERNING WILLS

IT Is earnestly requested that Inquiries be made concerning Wills admitted to probate, whether they contain bequests to this Society, and that information of all such be- quests be communicated to the Treasurer without delay. In making bequests for missions it is most important to give the exact title of the Society, thus: I give, devise, and bequeath to The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Fplscopal

Church in the United States of America, for the use of the Society

If It Is desired that the bequest should be applied to some particular department of the work, there should be substituted for the words, “For the Use of the Society,” the words “For Domestic Missions,” or “For Foreign Missions,” or “For Work among the Indians,” or “For Work Among Colored People,” or “For Work in Africa,” or “For Work In China,” etc.

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