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Woman's Work for Woman
AND
Our Mission Field.
A UNION ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE PUBLISHED MONTHLY
BY THE
WOMAN'S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETIES OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
VOLUME II.
No. 23 CENTRE STREET, NEW YORK.
WOMANS' WORK FOR WOMAN
AND
OUR MISSION FIELD.
Vol. II. AUGUi
A LADY has addressed a timely " Word to Intending Travelers," through the pages of The Free Church (of Scotland) Monthly. In the spirit of the Saviour's direction, " And as ye go preach," she urges Christians who are flitting across the channel for the summer to distribute as they journey, por- tions of Scripture and good tracts in the various languages. " No traveler," she says, " who is able to afford a foreign trip could feel it too expensive to take some copies with him. Do not think only of the grand sights you are to see ; bear with you mes- sages of Jesus' love."
Don't overlook the Kangwe letters. Missionary advices from the Gaboon are more encouraging just at this time, while the Protestants of France decline, for the present, to take that Mission from our charge. The French are looking toward the Congo as a mission field. These new- born souls in Kangwe call on us to stand by them.
A MILITARY officer, writing from London to the New York Nation recently, made the very important observation that " mission- ary labor in India is doing more for the consolidation of British rule than is the government itself." He cites the example of the Karens in the late insurrection in British Burmah, who, without solicitation, placed their services at the disposal of the government, took the field under the leader- ship of their tribal chiefs, and fairly sup- pressed the revolt by sheer hard fighting and persistent marching. " And yet," he says, " these Karens have been altogether
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neglected by the English authorities. All places of public trust open to the native population were retained exclusively for Burmese. The Karens were deemed an ignorant race, fit only to be hewers of wood and drawers of water. The fact, however, of a common religion ranged them on the side of the English when the more favored race flung off their allegiance." The writer adds that the same state of things prevails throughout India, and " the only part of the people genuinely loyal to the British Crown are the Christian communities."
Mrs. McDonald, wife of Dr. N. A. McDonald, for more than twenty years the faithful sharer of her husband's missionary labors in Siam, entered her heavenly rest, after a period of much suffering, at Mount Union, Pa., in June last. Mrs. McDonald leaves her husband, a son, and three daughters to mourn her loss.
Among all the jubilees celebrated this season that of the old Mary Lyon school, among the New England hills, June 21-23, was a noble occasion, and brought together about 2,000 women, some
" In whose looks did meet Sweet records,"
In younger ones'
" Promises as sweet."
They came from far and near — from Asia Minor and the Hawaiian Islands, from Canada and the Gulf coast. This Seminary has been a nurse of missions, has sent about 200 of her daughters to the foreign field, and at this time representatives of all our five Boards, as well as other Boards,
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EDITORIAL NOTES.
and of many missionary families were present. But where was the President of the Board of the Northwest ? Where, the Principal of Oxford ?
By exchange of name in the April Woman's Work, Mrs. J. H. Morrison's twenty-two years of missionary experience was laid over on Mrs. Robert Morrison's young shoulders. May they both work scores of years for India !
The NortJiern Christian Advocate men- tions a delightful instance, marking pro- gress in Christian comity. The ladies of the Friends' Missionary Society of Ohio, wishing to send one of their number to China, where they have as yet no mission of their own, applied to the Woman's Society of the Methodist Church to receive her until such time as the Friends establish a centre for themselves. The application, with its condition, was welcomed; and the lady, accordingly, begins work in the fall in the Methodist hospital at Nanking.
Any event in a far country worthy of a cablegram is sure to touch missionaries and their concerns. Our Sidon ladies, for in- stance, in addition to the excitement of teaching school in Arabic, have been revel- ing in the lately-discovered tombs of their vicinity, in Egypto-Phoenician sarcophagi, bilingual inscriptions, gold buttons and bracelets, worn by the living perhaps 2,500 years ago.
Few people have any conception what it is to translate the Scriptures, even with every assistance, and especially to translate them into an uncultivated tongue. The following quotations from a letter written by Mrs. Robertson several years ago indicate both what difficulties she mastered in order to translate the Creek Testament, and one source of inspiration that she had.
" How do you suppose I managed to learn the language ? Did I find a grammar and lexicon and teacher at hand.? True, I was much better off than Rev. J. Fleming, of the American Board, who, before I was ten years old, was working for the Creeks within half a mile of the place where I am now
writing. I doubt if he had a written word to begin with, while I had his ' Muskokee Assistant,' and the beginning of a manu- script lexicon by him. I learned much, also, from the child's catechism translated by Mr. Loughridge and Lewis Ferryman. Mr. Robertson had made a Creek and English book by cutting up two books in each lan- guage and pasting corresponding portions on opposite pages, and this I studied word by word.
" I have spoken of my husband. Let me not omit mentioning the inspiration he con- stantly gave me. How much of my work is the result of his devotion to that of sav- ing this people, cannot be known on earth."
While denominations in America are discussing union. Christians in Japan are effecting union. There is every probability that the United Church of Christ (com- posed of several bodies of Presbyterian Churches and Reformed Churches) and the Congregational Churches in Japan will speedily present an undivided front. Ar- rangements looking to this end were begun in Tokyo in May between committees for both sides, each composed of four Japanese and one missionary. The result of such a union would be much greater efficiency and economy.
The doctrinal basis of the proposed union of Churches in Japan requires, be- sides unqualified assent to the Scriptures, acceptance of the Apostles' creed, the Nicene creed and the Nine Articles of the Evangelical Alliance, and any Churches are welcomed to this union on the same basis. Ministers are required to approve for sub- stance of doctrine the Westminster and Heidelberg Catechisms and the Plymouth Declaration. Each side yields something in polity. The total number of Churches if the union is accomplished immediately will be nearly ninety — an army with ban- ners.
The American Board will bring to this union thirty -five individual churches, which, in respect of self-support, liberality and the scholarship of the pastors are ex-
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celled by none in Japan. It brings along with these churches a thorough and admir- able educational work, including Doshisha College at Kioto, of which Joseph Neesima is President, the foremost man in Christian things in Japan.
There are three mission stations among the 20,000 Bohemians of Cleveland, and three Bohemian young women are there under training as Bible-readers. Mr. Schauffler preaches every Sunday in Bohe- mian, and conducts many week-day ser- vices.
Mr. Adams' whole family share his labors for the 40,000 Bohemians of Chicago. Other centres of similar effort are in North- ern Ohio, in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, and especially the hard field among the Poles of Detroit
THE MISSIONARY HYMN.
RECITATION.
" Now let US sing," the preacher said, " Now let us sing," the city throng
And as the book he hfted, Crowding around the preacher.
Across the patient, care-worn face The tale of heathen weal and woe,
A bright expression drifted. Had heard from earnest teacher.
Stood Hstening the forest trees, The breath of organ, chant of choir,
Around that cabin lowly, In grand reverberation,
Halted the wolf and snuffed the breeze Shook transept, nav«, and vaulted roof,
On which came faintly, slowly, — AVith fervent deprecation,
( Choir sing, ^^Fr07n Greenland's icy," etc.) ( Choir, — "■Shall we whose souls" etc.)
" Now let us sing," and at the word Where'er is heard our English tongue,
From prairie pulpit uttered, From continent to ocean.
Like rustling leaves before a shower The wondrous hymn, those burning lines,
The white-winged pages fluttered. Are sung with deep emotion.
Then burst the hymn ; the long grass waved, From distant isles, from China seas.
The grouse stirred in its cover. Resolve and courage bringing ;
Still stood the deer with head erect, From Saxon, Indian, African,
Up sprang the startled plover. To-day the words are ringing, —
( Choir, — " What tho' the spicy," etc.) ( Choir, — " Waft, waft, ye winds," etc.)
O lyric grand ! thy noble words.
All noble deeds suggesting. Have ever stirred the Christian heart,
To work and toil unresting. ^ And till the Church's fight is fought,
Thine utterances glorious, A battle-cry, a trumpet-call,
Shall lead the host victorious. — Selected.
Note. — Let the choir sing softly, out of sight, if possible.
One way in which the interdependence of Home and Foreign Missions is constantly illustrated is in the training of some of our most indispensable home workers on the foreign field. Thus, Mr. Lenington, for nearly twenty years one of our pioneer missionaries in Brazil, now ministers to two congregations of Portuguese colonists, located in Jacksonville and Springfield, 111.
So, a lady, formerly missionary in Mon- terey, has a Spanish Sunday-school of 32 children in New York City; and thousands of Bohemians, Poles and Hungarian Slavs, an increasing and threatening element in the population of the Northwest, are spirit- ually cared for by Rev. Henry Schauffler and Mr. Adams, experienced missionaries of the American Board in Austria, and by their assistants.
AMERICAN EVANGELICAL SOCIETIES OFERATING IN FABAL EUROPE.
American Bible Society, Foreign S. S. Association,
A. B. C. F. M., Methodist Episcopal Society,
Baptist Missionary Union, Presbyterian Board of For. Miss.
Baptist Southern Miss. Convention, (By grants in aid.)
Disciple Church, Presbyterian Church, South.
.A much larger number of British Societies are engaged in the same field. The most prominent among them are
the Baptists, Wesleyans, Free Church of Scotland, Bible Society, Scotch Presbyterian, Continental Church Society, United
Presbytenan, United Brethren, and Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews.
NOTES ON THE SUBJECT OF THE MONTH.
SwiTZtkLAND — A correspondent in Lau- with fanaticism and even delirium, that to-da)-
sanne writes to Woman's Work : '•''^ \yho\e building and the garden made by him-
T 1 „ 1^ i-juj r.LU s^lf destined for a convent, has entered into
1 have been so tried by desecration of the • ^ r. u ,
■' the possession of a Protestant pastor, who embel-
Sabbath, on the part of government, in Ushes it and uses it for the instruction of his sect ?
appointing fetes and processions on that day, If Philip II. could rise from his tomb and see it,
that knowing the National Church upheld ^ie a thousand times from anger and
.1 ■• X • 11,1, vexation."
these practices, I sometimes doubted whether t^, , ^ ^ j /- • ,
, , 1 , . . , , — The first Protestant graduate of a Spanish
there could be any spiritual hfe among the tt ■ i u i
' ^ ° University took his degree last summer. —
Swiss, but I have found it in the Free Church. Nearly all denominations of Protestants in
These people, though mamly poor, receiving Spain unite under the name of " The Spanish
no help from government, are growing. Some Evangelical Church."
of them shame the English residents in refusing France— The largest missionary dispen-
to have bread or letters delivered on the Sab- saryinthe world under the care of one doctor,
bath. Bread is not made in the family, but is said to be that of Miss DeBroen's medical
brought from the bakery every morning, thus mission, at Belleville, Paris. The total at-
employing several persons a good portion of tendance last year was 29,769 persons for
the day, and the wish is to release them, by many of whom their visits to the dispensary
taking bread for two days, on Saturday. ^ere their only opportunities to hear the
The Free Church of these three Protestant Gospel. " Among the patients " writes one.
Cantons have a missionary society called The Mission Romande which, though feeble, is doing a great work in Spain and South Africa.
" you find every type of character and expe- rience, from the brutal communist to the old Crimean soldier, from the sluggish soul content
Their Spanish headquarters are at Barcelona, with the religion of his fathers, to the atheist and at one of the villages near there the peo- who laughs us to scorn."— The McAll mis- pie have taken down all their pictures of sion opened two dispensaries the last year. Saints in the houses, and bought Scripture _A sort of Y. W. C. A. effort was begun by texts to replace them. This does not mean American ladies four years ago for the shop- that all are converted, but is encouraging. gi^s of Paris. Rooms are provided where
they can spend their evenings, where they have the use of a piano and free classes in English, singing, etc., and a Sunday after- noon service. The outlay for last year was less than $400, nearly 50 usually attending
Spain — Pastor Fliedner, of Madrid, (son of the founder of " Kaiserswerth,") says:
Several old Roman Catholic churches have been converted to Protestant use in Seville. The only place of worship in Madrid which is mission property, occupies the site of a convent ; and a Protestant orphan-home opposite the palace of the Sunday service. Dr. Beard, formerly Pastor Escurial, has actually taken possession of the of the American Chapel in Paris, says: "No ruins of the convent which Philip II. built there, one can tell how much good has been accom- Even Spaniards have been struck by this coinci- pjished by this unobtrusive effort of Christian
dance, and in a guide-book to the Escurial occurs /■ >> u • 1 a r j . ^
, ',, . faith. — Gabriel Monod wTites to the Con- ine following passage : . , . ^
"Who could have told Philip II. the monarch ^empora;y Review, that a special section for
of two worlds, who defended the Catholic religion the religious sciences has been created at the
PROGRESS OF RELIGION ON THE CONTINENT.
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Ecole des Hautes Etudes, in Paris. This includes study of religions of antiquity, of the East, and of Islamism as well as Chris- tianity. The teaching is purely scientific but not irreligious nor hostile to Christian faith.
Italy — The Pope sent a special Embassy to bear his congratulations to Queen Victoria. It is thought this is designed to open diplo- matic relations between England and the Vati- can.— The golden jubilee of Leo XIII. is to be celebrated in December, and an exposition of the Vatican treasures will occur at that time. — The Waldenses have estabhshed 44 churches south of the Alps. — The Itahan and Scotch Bible Societies and the British and Foreign Bible Society have depots in all the principal cities of Italy. The latter employs 40 colporteurs and sold last year 7,322 com- plete Bibles, besides portions.
Holland — A reformation is going on in the Dutch Church. A congress of 1,200 delegates of the orthodox party met in Am- sterdam in January last, in behalf of an effort to throw off the Synodical Hierarchy forced on them by King William in 1816. Govern- ment supports the church as it is, so that the Reformers give up their livings and move out of churches into halls, and on a smaller scale enact again the scenes in Scotland when the Free Church came out from the Estab- lishment.— The Netherlands S. S. Society twenty years ago had 271 schools ; last year it had 1,450 schools and 150,000 scholars.
Belgium — The fifty years jubilee of the Missionary Church in Belgium was celebrated in July. It exists in a stronghold of the papacy, is in debt and its members are poor, but it is very much alive and has 83 regular preaching places.
Russia — Rev. Gideon Draper, D. D., com- municated the following interesting facts to the Observer.
A company of evangelical Christians in St. Petersburg, whose leader has been exiled, "are hunted like partridges." Last summer
they met for worship in a grove outside the city, but the police broke up their meetings. —In the upper classes it is mostly women that compose the Christian circle, and they are constantly engaged in evangelistic work, privately and quietly. — An accomphshed Christian noble-woman edits and publishes The Rtissiaji Workman, the only religious journal for Russians in St. Petersburg, if not in all the Empire. Her paper is subject to Government censorship, and certain words as ' revival ' and ' regeneration ' are pro- hibited, but she clothes the thought in other language and has a good paper, with a large circulation. — One of the foremost workers in Southern Russia, employed in the translation of the Scriptures for the British and Foreign Bible Society in Armenia and Tartary, has j ust been condemned to four years' confinement. A Baptist minister shares the same fate. — Joseph Rabinowitz, the Jewish reformer of Southern Russia, has been baptized by an American minister at Berlin, not into any sect, but into the Church of Christ, simply. He aims to take an agricultural colony to Palestine, and to establish a school.
The Foreign S. S. Association, (Presi- dent Mr. Albert Woodruff, Brooklyn), is the only society whose specific aim is to found Sunday-schools on the Continent, does not send out American missionaries, but employs suitable persons in their own localities, prints children's papers and supplies other aids such as music, cards and tracts. Its largest ex- penditure last year was about $1000, for a paper at Madrid. — There are about 100 evan- gelical Sunday-schools in Spain, iioo in France, 57 in Belgium, and they are every- where in Germany. About 900 children are in Sunday-schools in Portugal, 9,000 in Rus- sia and 200,000 in Sweden. — A little boy, an attendant at a Protestant Sunday-school for only four months, at Cadiz, Spain, refused the services of a priest on his death-bed, saying, " I love my Father in Heaven, but I hate the gods of wood and wafer."
No Newsboy's Cry is ever heard in that The Free Church of Scotland has part of Naples called the old city. In that a school of 150 girls in Naples, of whom quarter 60 per cent, of the people cannot read. 80 are Roman Catholics.
HOLY WEEK IN SEVILLE.
Last year, on the second of April, as our train slowly moved toward its destination, I sighted some distance yet away the grand
GIRALDA TOWER, SEVILLE.
Giralda Tower, the first friend that bade me a dignified welcome to the City of Seville.
Fortune kindly strewed her flowers in my path, as far as time and weather were con- cerned. Holy Week is the time to visit Seville; the hotels are crowded to overflowing with strangers, and a previous understanding with your landlord is a part of the programme. The religious ceremonies which take place are on
a most elaborate scale ; considered together with the races which come off Saturday, and the opening bull-fight of the season, which is held Easter Sunday afternoon, the city is full of attractions.
A great feature of the religious celebration is the processions, which take place Wednes- day, Thursday and Friday. The principal streets are lined with chairs, and filled with people; the balconies beaming with bright costumes, the windows dotted with shapely heads. We had reserved seats opposite the city hall, where we were vis-a-vis with the nobility and fashion, on the large piazza of that building.
Before the processions begin the people promenade and chat. The dignified Spaniard moves slowly and gracefully along. In all that dense crowd, we saw no sign of disorder, rudeness or drunkenness. The bright sun shone down, and the air was laden with soft southern breezes. Now and then a dark-eyed man with a thick stone jug slung over his shoulder, would call in a shrill voice, '■'■Aqua fria." At last came the procession. It was headed by a company of penitents dressed in white, black and purple gowns, with masks covering the entire face, while on the head were tall, pointed hats, looking to me more like dunce-caps than anything else. The leader held a crucifix, before which every- body rose and reverently bowed; the others carried lighted candles. The penitents were followed by a sort of car borne by men, upon which were images of Christ, and others connected with the crucifixion, surrounded by burning tapers, decorated with gold tinsel, with artificial flowers here and there — a sad lack of taste in a land of flowers. Then came the priests and students ; after them a number of Roman soldiers, who were charmingly pictur- esque, with their helmets gleaming in the sun, their long, waving plumes and bright costumes. As the sound of their regular marching was dying to an echo, the notes of a band filled the air, approached and passed, followed by the city guard of honor.
I'he interest of the people was at its height
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when the cars were in progress ; this was the most revolting sight of all to me. They supported figures of Christ carrying the cross, Christ on the cross, with the holy women, and the descent from the cross ; then came the Mater Dolorosa, dressed in the most gor- geous velvet gown, trimmed with gold and silver, crowned, holding a lace handkerchief. The people were excited to the most profound reverence and religious ecstasy at the sight of this resplendent lady. The cars halt and are lowered in front of the city magistrates, who are seated before the centre of the city hall j they rise and bow, then the car is borne on. The images are of wood, showing Httle art, but seem to have an awe-inspiring effect upon the people. In the slight intermission between the different features of the pageant, conversation goes on, and " All seems merry as a marriage bell."
On Wednesday evening the Miserere was performed in the cathedral, which was dimly lighted with huge candles. It was an impres- sive sight, full of sombre solemnity, with the glorious music swelling and resounding through the arched aisles of the mighty edifice. On Thursday the Archbishop washes the feet of the twelve penitents. On Good Friday a sermon is preached on the death of Christ, during which the women wail and moan.
Easter Sunday after twelve, is devoted to l)reparation for the bull-fight, which lasts two hours. I did not witness the performance myself; we had however, one of the espadas (who kill the bull) at our hotel, with his picadores (who ride the horses and wound the bull), chiilos (who attract the bull from the picadores^ and banderilleros (who enrage the bull with arrows). I saw them depart for their bloody work, magnificent in gay costumes. The espada is a hero in Spain — the people's darling ; even the King is his patron.
Outside the ring is a moderate-sized room called the hospital, in which are two beds, covered with quilts representing scenes of the arena. Between the two beds at the end of the apartment is placed a rude altar. Two other interesting pieces of furniture are a medicine chest and a litter to convey the
wounded combatant. Here he may be shrived of his sins by a waiting priest, and have his soul sent to purgatory, I suppose. What an incongruous combination of barbarity and Christianity !
At six o'clock Easter Sunday afternoon, we took a drive through the Promenade — a good road with pretty trees, with the bright Guadal- quivir on one side, and the gardens of the Duke de Montpensier on the other. At the entrance of the drive is the bull ring. As we drove by, the fight was just over. The ring holds 13,000 and the people fairly surged out, evidently delighted with the bloody spectacle.
The Promenade was filled with carriages zxx^caballeros, idly smoking cigarettes, discuss- ing the merits of the fight with Spanish beauties arrayed in gaily-colored gowns, with their sparkling eyes framed by the graceful mantilla, caught with bright flowers. In the midst of the throng dashed the monarch of the occasion, the favorite espada, driven in a small carriage drawn by six mules, in his gilt- trimmed vest, picturesque hat, and long pigtail streaming down behind. He was saluted, observed and apparently admired by all.
I dare not steal your time to take jou through Seville, to fell you of the master- pieces of Murillo, of the Moorish splendors of the alcazar, or of the grandeza of a mighty cathedral, nor ask you to roam through those narrow streets dotted with Moorish buildings, where behind some grated window a black- eyed beauty with a rose in her hair, seems dreamily gliding through life ; but it was fascinating to have all this, with the perfume of scented flowers mingled with the music of a playing fountain to enchant you ; to wander thus was an epic poem to me.
Alas ! for the beauty and romance. A cloud of superstition, cruelty and ignorance almost veils the coloring of the picture. Until bull- fights are no more and knowledge is alive again, Spain must live on her past glories. Charles I. and Phihp II. crushed her and she still lies dormant. I could not ask the gallant cavalier to drop his sombrero. Never ! But I do say with the poet, " Awake ! ye sons of Spain ! Awake ! Advance ! ''
Mary C. Schaff.
RURAL LIFE IN RUSSIA.
The Nineteevth Century, tor January, contains an interesting article by Lady V'erney, from which we ^ve our readers the following extracts.
The outward aspect of a Russian with the avooI inside are not conducive to clean- village is not attractive, and there liness. Wood, however, is becoming very scarce, is little choice in the surrounding the forests are used up in fuel for railway engines.
for wooden constructions of all kinds, and are set fire to wastefully — in many places the peasants are forced to burn dung, weeds, or anything they can pick up — fifty years, it is said, will exhaust the pres- ent forests, and fresh trees are never planted.
The women are more diligent than the men, and the hardest work is often turned over to them
A VILLAGE IN RUSSIA.
country between a wide grey plain with a distance of scrubby pine forest, or the scrubby pine forest with distant grey plains. The peasants' houses are scattered up and down, without any order or arrangement, and with no roads between, built of trunks of trees, unsquared, and mortised into each other at the corners, the interstices filled with moss and mud, a mode of building warmer than it sounds. In the interior there is always an enormous brick stove, five or six feet high, on which and on the floor the whole family sleep in their rags. The heat and the stench are frightful. No one undresses, washing is unknown, and sheepskin pelisses
as is generally the case in countries where peasant properties prevail. ' They are only the females of the male,' and have few womanly quaUties. They toil at the same tasks in the field as the men, ride astride like them, often without saddles, and the mortality is excessive among the neglected children, who are carried out into the fields, where the babies lie the whole day Avith a bough over them and covered with flies while the poor mother is at work. Eight out of ten children are said to die before ten years old in rural Russia.
In the little church (generally built of wood) there are no seats, the worshipers
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prostrate themselves and knock their heads two or three times on the ground, and must stand or kneel through the whole service. The roof consists of a number of bulbous- shaped cupolas ; four round the central dome, in the form of a cross is the completed ideal, with a separate minaret for the Virgin. These are covered with tiles of the brightest blue, green, and red, and gilt metal. The priest is a picturesque figure, with his long undipped hair, tall felt hat, largest at the top, and a flowing robe. He must be married when appointed to a cure, but is not allowed a second venture if his wife dies. Until lately they formed an hereditary caste, and it was unlawful for the son of a pope to be other than a pope. They are taken from the lowest class, and are generally quite as un- educated, and are looked down upon by their flocks. * * * *
The drunkenness in all classes strikes Rus- sian statesmen with dismay, and the priests,
the popes, are among the worst delinquents. They are fast losing the authority which they once had over the serfs, when they formed part of the great political system of which the Czar was the religious and political head. A Russian official report says that ' the churches are now mostly attended by women and children, while the men are spending their last kopeck, or getting deeper into debt, at the village dram shop.'
Church festivals, marriages, christenings, burials and fairs leave only two hundred days in the year for the Russian laborer. The cHmate is so severe as to prevent out-of-door work for months, and the enforced idleness increases the natural disposition to do nothing.
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The Greek Church is a very dead form of faith, and the worship of saints of every de- gree of power ' amounts to a fetishism almost as bad as any to be found in Africa.'
PERSIAN
It is now some time since our trip to the Lar Valley, when we encamped under the shadow of Demavend and froze our ice-cream in the everlasting snows. Much of this jour- ney has been consigned to oblivion, but there are pictures impressed on my mind, some pleasant, some awful, and one of them sublime. I shall give them to you as pictures ; the connections may not be evident, but it is in this severed manner that they remain in my memory.
The first is a group of ladies with two chil- dren, seated on boxes and carpets, in the gloom of a July night, on a covered porch, waiting for the animals to be loaded. And weary we were, half inclined to back out at the last minute, but concluded we wouldn't, as our lunch was ready, the house torn up and everything packed in readiness to go. Then the weary waiting ! Far-off sounds of the trampling of mules, the cries and curses of the drivers, banging of boxes, voices in anger, pacification, expostulation and occa- sional laughter only tended to make us nervous. At last, at midnight, the moon just peeping over the hills, the call was given to mount.
PICTURES. So our kajevehs were lifted on the mule, we were helped into them, where, after scrambling among the pillows, shawls, milk-bottle and bundles, we settled. I took the little one on my lap and we started. Jog, jog ! see, saw ! bump, swing, and we were at last on our way.
While we are quietly riding, I will tell you what kajevehs are. They are never used singly, for one is swung on each side of a mule to keep the balance. Imagine a box with sloping sides, about two feet by three in the bottom, and flaring, perhaps, six inches ; in front, the depth a foot, but on the other sides two feet or more. Now make a covered wagon of it and you have the kajnieh. We put in mattresses, and with a strong mule, I can recommend it as not so ver)' uncomfort- able.
As I am a good sleeper, my next vivid remembrance is that we lost our road on the mountains and came to a deep ravine, and I heard the command to "sit." I did not un- derstand whether forward or back, so I held myself in readiness, and when the mule started down an incline of about eighty degrees, I promptly sat back. We wandered among the
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boulders till some one was found who showed us the road.
Then we saw the sun rise. Around us and above us the mountains rose, billow upon billow, and clinging to it we wound around and in and out on a foot-path, which to our eyes seemed dangerous for a goat. F.very little while the mule driver would come and lift us several feet into the air, and then suddenly drop us, only to straighten the load.
Next, we were required to step out, as the hill was steep. I am convinced of the poverty of our language when I think of that place. We four ladies started down. We slid, we edged sideways, we sat down, we ran, we saved ourselves by hair-breadth escapes, but always down, down. A pleasure excursion surely. It makes me chill to remember how nearly we ran otf at one point. After winding through the valley we cross- ed a picturesque old bridge and came to our resting place, a plot of grass under a ma- jestic old tree, at whose feet opened an underground stream of water. Well I remember how we set our bowls of milk and butter there to cool ; the primitive kitchen whose fuel was charcoal and whose range was two large stones for holding vessels over the coals ; the tents ; the horses tied at a distance ; step- ping over the tent ropes ; all these, and many more details, are in my picture of Oel- andevek.
Next are the views in the Aftcha Valley. We were up on the side of the mountain : below and in front of us wound the valley. I see, now, the uprising mountain on the other side, the bit of wall with green grass below and trees and vines above. I see the waterfall which fell over a perpendicular wall of rock a hundred feet in height. I see the
wonderful road which it required real faith to believe was not on the crest of an embank- ment made expressly for the purpose of as- cending the mountain. Back and forth it winds, appearing from a distance to be laid out in even lengths, and at the same angles, up, up, miles and miles up, into cloudland.
My next memory is the terror of hanging over bottomless abysses, filled with the blaclc- ness of darkness. You wonder why the mule didn't walk nearer the mountain. There was no room. He must walk on the edge or risk hitting the other kajeveh on the jutting rocks and iTurling us down the valley. Such was my terror, that, stopping once and getting
off, I sat on the ground, with baby on my knee, not three feet from the hind feet of a mule and not so far from the edge of a prec- ipice, with horses in front and be- hind, kicking and starting every mo- ment ; nor did I recognize the dan- ger imtil some one made me get up. But, oh ' the terror that took all my will and all my faith to stand, when the takh- travan just in front, coming to a sharp angle in the narrow road, grazed and ground, the men screaming, the poor mules edging along. I would wish to forget it, only it serves as a warning to keep me from going on such a journey, in such a way, again. There was sheer precipice before. If the front mule had made a misstep, all must have gone over, or if the back mule had gone down he would have pulled all over after him. I could only set iny teeth and pray. Surely an angel was set as our guard, or we could never have com- pleted that journey.
I love to think of the two weeks we spent at the Forty Springs. On either side j)recip- itous walls rising some three thousand feet
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shut in the valley, through which the Lar River, filled with speckled trout, coming from the western mountains, runs toward the foot of Demavend, which stands, monarch of all, its crown ever white with centuries of snow. This valley is evidently volcanic in origin, as is evidenced by the bubbling springs, and the scoria which is plentiful in places. Nine thousand feet above the level of the sea, it is covered with good pasturage but produces not a single tree. There, for the first time in several years, I saw dew. A half- hour's walk brought us to snow, surrounded by flowers, some resembling immortelles, others the Swiss edelweiss. Forgetmenots, primroses and other deHcate flowers abounded, with hollyhock and many whose names I did not know. The asafoetida plant grows thickly there, and, strange enough, the people prepare from its green stalk a very palatable pickle. The climate is remarkable. At noon the thinnest summer clothing is too much ; at night the heaviest winter clothes are too little.
Notwithstanding this great difference in tem- perature, we seemed as free from colds as when in Teheran.
Coming back was just an unraveling of the thread, but there are three scenes which belong to this part of the journey. One was sunrise from the top of Aftcha Pass. We stood over eleven thousand feet above sea level and turned to gaze at Demavend. Thousands of feet below us lay the valley with moun- tain tops rising out of it — great mountains, now in shadow, now standing out boldly, now dim in morning mists, grand and silent. Towering far above them, among, but not of them, stood lofty Demavend like a senti- nel of the ages ; like Father Time with the snows on his forehead. Not to be forgotten, given away nor purchased, is this treasure, the gem in my collection, nor if I should travel the world over do I believe anything could rival this scene, nor draw my love from this mountain.
Mrs. IF. IF. Tor re f ice.
Hidden away among hundred millions of Buddhists, Taoists and Confucianists of China, are (it is not generally known) several millions of Mohammedans. Just how many millions no religious census has ever shown, and their wide and unequal difi'usion makes conjecture of little value. There have been enough, at all events, in our times, to make at the Western corners of tlie Empire, North and South, and independently of each other, two formidable and nearly successful rebellions.
Whence Did They Come?
If we can beUeve the Si Lai Tsurig F11, a rather mythical book which traces the origin of the faith to its home in Arabia, the first believers came into China in the lifetime of the prophet himself Most Mohammedans, however, fi.\ indefinitely, the ensuing Tang Dynasty, A. D. 618-913, as the date. But it was not through missionaries, or by the sword, but by the immigration of large numbers of men already Moslem, merchants and others from Turkestan or Tartary, that Islamism became securely established in the Middle
MOHAMMEDANS IN CHINA, the two or three Kingdom. This immigration is assigned to the Sung Dynasty, which began A. D. 960. We need not marvel that these roving adven- turers, once beholding the fertile plains of China, should lose all desire to return to their own arid and sterile steppes.
As They Appear Now.
These immigrants were originally closely allied to the Chinese in race. They adopted their dress, their language and their mode of life. Hence, though not largely intermarrying, their descendants have become undistinguish- able in appearance from those around them. Yet now and then a critical observer may detect among the thousands that come under his gaze in the streets of Peking, one of a ruddier and fresher hue, of a straighter and lighter-colored eye, of softer and sunnier hair, that more than hint of Western origin.
Their Pursuits. Mohammedans are everywhere known as Hui hiii. They are to the Chinese as the Jews are to us, though few except themselves can tell much of their history or their creed.
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They are found in every avocation from that of the stately official or scholar, down through farmer, merchant and mechanic, to that of the rough but sturdy donkey-driver, who will furnish the traveler a steed all equipped, and himself trot behind it thirty miles a day, and all for thirty cents. About twenty years ago a Mohammedan named Ma, reached the high dignity of the viceroyalty, at Nanking. But like the Jews, they have their favorite pursuits. In their travels they must protect themselves from the defilement of pork, the national dish of China. Hence, they have come to keep many of the inns on the chief highways. Buddhists, holding to the metempsychosis, have scruples about slaying cattle for food, and even object to the use of the animal product milk. Hence, Mohammedans have in Peking almost a monopoly of the beef and mutton markets, and a strong hold on that of milk. Missionaries, therefore, who are glad to purchase these staples of diet, and some- times need donkeys for their tours, come often in contact with Mohammedans.
Their Reputation.
From race or from diet, they possess a per- ceptible degree more of energy than ordinary Chinese ; an energy that too often displays itself in a greed for gain that reaches actual rapacity. This, with their detestable trade in flesh, and a propensity to quarrel, gives them as a class an unenviable reputation. I often wonder that this reputation is not further darkened by their disposition when massed together in numbers, to insubordination. Besides the great rebellions alluded to, which lasted many years and cost the Chinese Government thousands of lives and millions of money to subdue, there are on the Western borders, almost yearly, local outbreaks which these restless people either originate or abet. Yet in Chihli. Shantung, Shansi, and else- where, where they are numerous and yet too few to give sentiment to the masses, they seem absolutely free from the suspicion of disloyalty by government or people, and remain wholly unmolested. The sadly differ- ent lot of the really loyal Christians in China, can only be explained as the necessary
contradiction prophesied by our Lord. Let us hope that a growing intelligence will soon accord to Christianity at least as much confi- dence as to Islamism.
Their Religious Life.
The Mohammedans in China maintain the rites received from the West, but they keep them from public view as much as practi- cable. Their New Year's festivities neces- sarily attract attention by their peculiar date and character, but even these are pitched on a lower key than the hilarious rejoicings of the orthodox Chinamen. They are never seen worshipping in public, as in Turkey. No one would ever think of putting into their mouths the pious ejaculations attributed to the Syrians. The morning, noon and evening call for prayer is never heard on the streets as in Arabia. They have not forgotten that they have a day for worship, but it is not a Sabbath, or different from other days to the ordinary believer. Opposed to image worship as a cardinal tenet, their only protest to its practice is silence. Nothing is done to prose- lyte their neighbors, yet effort is made to keep faith alive among their own people. Even the humblest are taught through easy metrical primers, the fundamental doctrines of their creed. All know of the unity, omnip- otence and omniscience of God. The Imam, or leader in the mosque, can read the Koran in Arabic ; he can tell of Adam and Abraham, of Moses and the prophets ; he has heard of the Law and of the Gospel ; he recognizes Issa (as he calls Jesus), as a great prophet ; he will receive most reverently the copy of the New Testament in Arabic, which the Bible Society, combining with our press at Beirflt, enables the missionary to put in his hands, but the reader must not suppose that he is near the Kingdom of Heaven. In his case, only the great grace of God can make of the hearer, a doer of the Word.
Their Principal Mosque in Peking,
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a conspicuous and attractive edifice in the days of its prosperity. Ordinary mosques, of which there are many in Peking and neigh- borhood, are so closely conformed to the prevailing style of architecture, as to need the three words, Li Pai Ssu" (monastery for worship), over the main entrance, to distin- guish them from common dwellings ; but this one is unique in conception and execution, and even in its ruins retains much picturesque beauty. Though not wholly abandoned, it is not as it once was a place of prayer for thousands. The cry, "There is one God, and Mohammed is His prophet," is never heard from its broken minaret.
Can They Be Reached by the Gospel?
The Chinese Mohammedan is a frequent visitor at the Christian chapel ; he does not soon weary of hearing ; he courts a personal acquaintance with the preacher ; he assents to and rejoices in many of his doctrines. The inexperienced missionary has high hopes of his acceptance of Christ ; the older one
knows that to him, as to the Jew, Christ, the Son of God and only Saviour of men, will prove a stumbling-block. Many of them in Peking and elsewhere have become familiar with our religion, a few only have finally- embraced it ; yet isolated from the fanaticism of his Western co-religionists, and breathing" the air of toleration around him, the condition of the Chinese Mohammedan is compara- tively hopeful. Even now, the difference in their faith seems greater to the missionary than to him, and the Mohammedan is disposed to make of the Christian a warm, personal friend. As superior in religious knowledge to the idolaters around him, he of course encases himself in spiritual pride. His clannishness — fruit of ahen origin — makes individual breaking with the old faith more difficult than with other Chinese. These are the hind- rances in the way of his accepting the Gospel. But while he remains accessible and even friendly, let us not despair of him. The old mosque may yet become a Christian church. Jin'. John Wherry.
SIAM.
A Trumpet Call.
Miss Cort, wrote April 25th, from Petchaburi, whence we had such great news two months ago ;
I am stretching out my hand to beckon some of the earnest young Christians of America over the mountains and over the sea. Miss Olmstead is at home, and Miss Neilson is to be married in a few months. We need two single ladies here besides Miss Small and me ; they want one more for Bangkolj, and two for the new station we hope to open in Ratburee as soon as the men and women are sent out to take possession in Christ's name.
Miss Small and I have just returned from an eight days' visit there, and I am delighted with the place. The people were pleased at the idea of our settling among them.
An Untouched Kingdom.
There are a great many Cambodian captives and their descendants in that province, and they are nearly all accessible through the Siamese language, which they speak and read. Thus we would be able to begin a work for the Kingdom of Cambodia, which has never yet been touched by Protestant missionaries. I found the little school that our Bible-reader has opened near Ratburee, doing nicely. I visited with her many homes and read the Word to the people. I met an old nobleman from Kamburee, a four days' journe)' by boat up the river, who begged us to visit his town, for he said he had never heard any one talk before of a living God, and of forgiveness of sin. He has met a few French Catholics, but does not like them. The whole kingdom is open, and we are invited to many new places. They desire schools everywhere !
This is the sixth mission tour I have made in the present dry season, and I came back this time more eager to go again than ever before. Last month I spent four days down the gulf coast, among the fisher folk, and when I came home they gave me six of their girls, from thirteen to seventeen years of age, for our boarding-school. Help us pray thai they may all learn to love Christ, which is better than anything else we can teach them.
Do you know any young ladies, strong and brave and willing to come and work for Christ among the real heathen of Siam ? If you do, please place this call before them. I want you to sound it out in all directions, that it may reach ttie ear and heart of those whom God is making ready for His service. We are praying for them and also for their parents, that they may have grace to accept the honor God may put upon them, in choosing their child for this foreign work. We are asking that the parents, if not wholly willing, may not oppose, for this is God's work, and God's children must do it. May He enable every one to decide this call in the light of eternity. Time is hastening, our lives will soon be over, and I sometimes fear we shall be sorry even in Heaven, because we did not do more on earth to bring His wandering children home.
Dr. Sarah Seward, of Allah.abad, who had not seen the hills for three years before, wrote from Naini Tal, May 14, 1887. She was visiting English friends, Mr. and Mrs. Knox. Of the former, she says :
He is a member of the Lieut. Governor's Council, for N. W. P. and Oudh, the hardest -worked official in all these parts, and yet he makes time to attend to the Bible Society work, of which he is secretary, and to do a vast amount of Christian and philanthropic work. I often wish when I hear his prayers for missionaries at famil)' worship, that more of them knew how earnestly he prays for them. Mrs. Knox is just as earnest and untiring. It was she who helped Miss Wilson to start mission work in the zenanas of Allahabad, a work that after Miss Wilson's death, was left to die out.
* * * To me, the weak points in the Dufferin work are, that it is godless work, caring only for the bodies of these poor women, whose mental and moral condition is far worse than the physical, and to do them any real good they need help of all kinds. You may dose and drug them ad infinitum, but until you can lift them out of the depths of ignorance and superstition, you do them but little real good. I think a great deal
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that is written about their recognizing and admit- ting their needs in spiritual things, is pure humbug. The saddest part is that \\\Qy do not realize their needs, and the hardest part is to rouse them from their ignorance and apathy. * * * * Dr. Seward adds at the close of her letter, " I need a medical helper, one to learn the language and the work, then to take my place, and let me go home for a rest."
SYMIA.
The following interesting letter from Miss Emilia Thompson, who has been for eleven years connected with the Beirut Seminary, was received three months ago, but unavoidably postponed until now :
As for my "individual work," I do not quite understand just what to report, and am afraid of a Scylla of dry facts on one hand, and a Charybdis of details on the other. I had four interesting classes last year ; the graduates in history (The Nineteen Centuries of the Christian Era), the second class in the Life of St. Paul — both these studies in Arabic. One was a regular Bible study, and the other was made to be equally spiritual by its illustration of the steady growth and development of Christ's Kingdom. Lately we have heard a great deal about " too much educational work, and too little that is strictly evangelistic." It seems to me, here, the terms are synonymous. Evangelistic means to convert to a belief in the Gospel — to instruct in the Gospel, and that is what we are doing hour after hour. With every furrow of thought, we sow the seed in these young minds, trusting that by God's grace it will root itself into their being, permeate their life.
To return to m)' classes, the remaining two were English and French. In the afternoon I alternated with Miss Everett in taking charge of the school, and on Wednesdays in teaching the women's class in the suburbs, about a mile and a half from here. We became greatly interested there. We have now double the number we begun with, and can see a marked improvement in behavior. They are so ignorant, that their own book language, even the simplest, is like a foreign tongue, as I once found in teaching an old woman the verse "Jesus saith unto her, I am the resurrection," etc. After repeating it slowly, word for word, seven or eight times, and finding her as vacant and bewildered- looking as at first, I unconsciously dropped into the colloquial jargon. Her f.ice lighted up instantly. "Speak Arabic ; now I understand what you are saying."
At my last meeting there were ten women ready to repeat the five review verses, among them one who has hitherto found it impossible, and who invariably ends by becoming quite cross and even abusive. I ventured to ask her if she thought
she could try again without letting Satan get the better of her. " Well," she said, " I feel pretty sure I know them this time." There was perfect silence as she repeated verse after verse, and when she finished, there was such a joyous exclamation from all the rest, that a young relative of hers, who had been teaching her all the morning, quite took offence and said : " One would think she was an idiot by the fuss you make." The old woman was, however, very proud of her achievement and said when I congratulated her: "Believe me, I even dreamt of them; they haunted me." Many of the women ask us to give them the text on a slip of paper, so that husband or son or daughter or grand-child may teach them at home.
TEUSTA.
A Blessed Awakening on Oroomiah Plain.
Mrs. Shedd wrote this Spring :
The extreme cold weather and my own feeble health, made me a keeper-at-home last winter, so that I cannot report from personal observation.
In Goolpashan there has been a very interestinj, work of grace. My husband spent a Sabbath there in February, and found the church crowded and many going away because there was no room. The inquiry meeting was very full and solemn, the interest among the women was deeper than last year. Perhaps here the promise in Mai. iii : lo, on bringing in the tithes, is being fulfilled. Last year, eighty women in this church contributed to the Mite Society, and this winter the collection is larger than ever before. The pastor (like " Aunty Parsons "), with one of his elders went to every house, read the Scriptures, talked and prayed with the inmates and then took their subscription to the church work. The result surprised and delighted all.
The two evangelists who labored with so much success last winter, have again been crowned with blessings wherever they preached. If you look at the map of Oroomiah Plain, you will see the Christian villages are widely scattered. Last winter their labors were mostly on the Barandooz Plain, the southern part of Oroomiah. This winter they have labored in the villages on the northern end of the Plain, on the Nazloo River.
In Ada, their congregations were so large that, although the fifty school children were excluded from the service and sent to another room where a special meeting was held for children, still many went away because there was no room. This has aroused the people to collect f jnds for build- ing a church. They have ready what they are able to give, and we hope our Board in America will help them put up a good building ; and not only in this village is a church needed, but in several other places.
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In Sherabad the whole village collected in the church to listen to the preacher, so that a wedding was left with but four guests to dance to the sound of the fife and drum, an almost irresistible tempta- tion to the people here. The pastor in the village says he cannot thank the Lord enough that he has been spared to see this awakening.
Women in Earnest.
In Karajaloo, where the helper's wife, an excel- lent woman and a pupil of Miss Fisk's, is an invalid unable tj walk about, the women came to her in companies, or alone, to inquire the way of salvation. She sa)'S : "Now, I am ready to depart, for my e)'es have seen the salvation of the Lord." Her husband called to tell me of his wife's joy. He said that now he was gladly welcomed to houses where before he was not allowed to enter. In Abajaloo there was deep interest in the large congregation. One poor woman, in this place, whose husband has gone to Russia, leaving her to take care of the family alone, was so interested that she attended the meetings in Karajaloo, and Ada also, going on foot through the snow. Here they have raised one-third enough money to build a church, one man giving $25.00. The women have kept up a weekly prayer-meeting all winter.
In Superghan the congregations numbered four hundred, and neariy all were women and young people. Many men are away in Russia, begging, and wasting what they gather in riotous living. When invited to remain to inquiry meeting, after the sermon, only one woman went out. They were so anxious to hear, that they wanted to sit there all night, and onl}- the weariness of the preachers brought the meeting to a close.
In Abdoolah Kandi the women baked bread a week in advance, to be ready to attend all the meetings when the evangelists should come there. In several of the villages in the Barandooz section of the Plain, there is unusual interest. The man Reshid, of Zewic, who was so remarkably awak- ened, and of whom I wrote, still holds on. He seems hungry for the word of God, and is learning to read himself, from his wife. Several others in that village have been hopefully converted. The work in this village is really the fruit of the labors and faithfulness of two women, graduates of ihe girls' school. Rachel, our Bible-woman, was called to Tabriz to assist Mrs. Van Hook, this winter. In her place we have employed Laya, one of Miss Fisk's girls. She is a widow, whose children are all within the fold of the Good Shepherd, and who for many years has been an active Christian worker in the GeogTapa Church. She has been laboring most of the winter in the smaller villages where there are no helpers, but has also visited five larger places, where there are schools and churches. She meets with a warm welcome, the women often
following her from house to house. In some places she has found earnest inquirers.
The missionary meetings held monthly in the college, are being repeated in the villages. I have assisted in preparation for twelve such meetings held in the different villages.
The Struggle for Bread. One great hindrance to the Gospel work in Persia, is the difficulty of earning an honest living. There are many women willing to work, but there is nothing for them to do all the long winter. The cotton fields are so heavily taxed, and the crops so often fail, while the tax is taken all the same, that little is now raised and this cuts off the winter employment of the women. Some are raising silk worms, but they do not very well understand how to make it profitable.
AFRICA.
A Six Month's Revival.
Miss Harding wrote again from Kangwe Station, on the Ogove, April 16, 1887 :
The revival is still at its height. In .March, ninety-three were added to the probation class, and six were baptized. Those who joined the class were Galwas, Akeles, and one Fan. We were fearing a little while back that the Akeles were becoming an extinct tribe, on account of their addiction to drunkenness ; may we hope better things of them in the future. Our work has been principally of late years among the Galwa tribe. The Fafiwe is a verj' large tribe that will demand a good deal of our attention in the near future ; they are but just emerging from the interior of the continent.
The Galwas have a word for God, the Creator, but they do not worship Him. Their condition is well described in the first chapter of the Epistle of Paul to the Romans. They change "the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible " things. They worship and revere only evil spirits and the spirits of their departed ancestors, and charms and fetiches. The latter may be anything from their hair or toe-nails to the bark of a tree, that is consecrated and set apart by the heathen doctors as a charm against evil spirits.
The Fans have adopted the Galwa word for God, changing it a little. " Nzami ye Mebuga '• is the name of their dual God. '' Ye," means and. "Nzami," is "the son of Mebuga," but is also God, and together they have created all things. But the Fans, like the Galwas, worship idols and fetiches. * * * # »
Speaking of a book she had been reading, which portravs life in India, Miss Harding says :
It reminded me of things in Africa, especially- the description of the Indian servant. The African, like him, can remember a great number of com-
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mands, and will do them all properly in good time and at the right place, but some of their customs are annoying. If I have a boy in my employ who is getting better wages than an older brother or SDme older relative is getting elsewhere, the elder will try to get into my employ. If I prefer the younger, the elder will contrive to get him away from me ; for it is not meet in this patriarchal country for the younger members of the commu- nity to surpass their elders in anything. If I employ both the elder and younger, the elder will compel the other to do all his drudgery, so that the younger often gets sick before I know what has been going on, therefore I try to get boys as nearly as possible of the same age, who will take turns in doing their cooking and other work.
Fuller particulars of the good news from Kangwe, are given by Miss Nassau, in the follow- ing letter :
If you could transport yourself froin some prairie hamlet where for weeks and months you have Sabbath after Sabbath looked on the same faces in a little circle of worshipers, to some town where the Holy Spirit was pouring out His soul- reviving influences, and eager crowds were thronging the house of God. in storm as well as on sunshiny days, you would be able to appreciate the scenes which I shall attempt in this letter to describe.
The photographs you have seen of Talaguga, have no doubt given you the idea of its lonely isolation. There, from week to week we see only the faces of a little circle of people, who are in the employ of Dr. Nassau. The Fangwe around us seldom come to religious services ; we go to them. There is of course no church organization at Talaguga, and we came seventy miles by boat to Kangwe, which is the Galwa-speaking part of the Ogove.
During the past year there has been a wonderful awakening on this part of the river. At every communion large accessions are made to the class ot inquirers. At this lime ninety-three have been added. The people came from their distant towns im the lakes and small rivers, and for miles and miles down the Ogove. They travel in their canoes, and usually bring with them their own food, bedding and cooking utensils, and seem so glad to be here, to hear the preaching and praying, and join in the delightful singing. The canoes begin to come on Wednesday before the high day of the feast — the Sabbath. It seemed to me like a home- coining, on the Thursday when I arrived. Men, women and children whom I had been accustomed to see while I lived at Kangwe, and had the work of traveling from town to town, came to meet and give me a pleasant welcome. Mr. Good held religious services on Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day, and the church was crowded to its utmost capacity. It will seat 250 people, but nearly 300 were crowded into it. Although so crowded, there was perfect order, and fixed attention to the missionary's earnest words. All our hymns are in the Mpongwe, and when one would be announced, there was a wonderful burst of melody, for the people have good voices, luve singing, and in Mr. Good thej' have an excellent leader.
Mr. Good has organized what may be called a "mite-society,' individuals giving their names and pledging for 10, 20 or 40 cents a month ; there is also the usual monthly concert collection. These people are advancing rapidly in the idea of Itelphig. This happy state of things has been long in coming, but now the people are roused, and from the little bo)' and girl to the aged woman, they put down their names and " give to the Lord." Mr. Good explains that their money sup- ports their own Bible-readers, and soon they will have to contribute »o build chapels in other parts of this large parish, because this little white church at Kangwe will not long be able to accom- modate all the people who will more and more be gathering to these communion feasts.
There is one young man in this Ogove Church, who is looking to the ministry ; there are, I think, six in the Benita field, and two in the Gaboon, so that, discouraging as are many things in our circumstances, we rejoice over the Lord's way in bringing out and blessing the labors of our assis- tants. The thing most eagerly sought for by the crowd who have gathered here and are to-day departing, was a "primer" in the Mpongwe language. We had only six left, and it was pitiful to hear the women say : "Ah! I have been entered into the book of the class, and yet I must go back to town without a book. How shall I knowledge ? ''
I think Mr. Good will send to America and hav. a large edition printed, for the little hand-press at Talaguga, does not meet the demand. The young man who for two years assisted in the pleasant but tedious work of '■ striking off" the pages, has gom to his distant home, and another must be taught.
I am thankful that I always have some one to teach, though not permitted to have a school. Just now I have a Benga boy from a distant tribe, and three little fellows from the Galwa tribe of this river, and any young men who live with m)- brother, have the privilege of coming in the even- ing to recite to me. Thus, my days are full of little duties for little people, and Jesus knows it all.
One of the peculiarities of these children, as re- marked by visitors is : " They all look so happy, yet are so obedient and studious."— Z4';'/r;-/>ow Ho nil' III San Francisco.
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MEXICO.
Mr. Haymaker, writing May 23, '87, of the new teacher of the Zacatecas School, Miss Maria Richards, says :
" She has completed the course in our Normal School in Mexico City." After speaking very highly of her scholarship and examination papers, he continues: "Anj'one who enters her school- room in Zacatecas, can testifj' that Miss Snow's care and instruction has not been in vain. Maria has demonstrated herself a most thorough and excellent teacher.
" Miss Virginia Herrera, a member of our church (her father is our deacon), received her degree from the State Normal School of Zacatecas, about two months ago, and has been employed to assist Maria. She offered to assist without receiving pay, as she expects soon to receive a good posi- tion from the government, and in the meantime the practice in teaching she would get, she preferred to consider rather a benefit to herself and a work of gratitude, than something to be paid for. Both these young ladies manifest a liking for their work. The}' are always on their feet, and inspire interest in their pupils, of whom there are sixty-two in the school. Twenty-eight of them arc boys under eiglit years of age, who come with their sisters. The remainder are girls, varying in age from five to fifteen years."
IDAHO TERRITORY.
Miss S. L. McBeth wrote from Mr. Idaho, June 13th, 1887, correcting some erroneous im- pressions in the East, regarding the age of her pupils :
" The design of the school at Mt. Idaho, is to try (with God's help and blessing) to raise up Indian ministers and trained elders (as at Kamiah), who will be leaders in Christian civilization too. None are received or continued in the school who do not promise usefulness in church work. God has given the school success among the Nez Perce. To His name be the praise. The hope is to extend it to reach other tribes. Two Spokans have been promised entrance into the school next fall, if God spares them and us, and prospers us. If God opens the way, we hope to see other Indian men from less favored tribes, sitting among our Nez Perce boys in the school room. " Our boj s " are all married men. The work with their wives (to try to fit them to be help-meets and not drawbacks to their husbands) is entirely distinct and separate from that with the men, and outside of the school hours of the latter. The government boarding school (at Lapwai) receives the children over seven years of age. Save one boy of ten years, still with his parents, the children with the pupils in Mt. Idaho are all under five years of age. This is the 3d class of 'our Nez Perce boys.' Two of
the pupils of the present class, Robert Parsons and Moses Monteith, were licensed to preach the Gospel by the Presbytery of Idaho, which met in Union, Oregon, the 21st of April last. Next week (D. V.) a pupil of the ist class, the Rev. Robert Williams, is to be installed pastor of the Kamiah church of which he has been the stated supply for more than six years. The week following, the Rev. William Wheeler, a pupil of the 2d class, is to be installed pastor of the church at North Fork, God willing. Another, the Rev. James Hayes, started last week with wife and little ones, on his way to the Umatilla Reservation in Oregon ; the church among the Umatilla Indians having called him to be their pastor. He will (D. V.) be installed at Umatilla shortl)-. Two others. Rev. Enoch Pond and James Hines, go shortly to take charge for two years, of the Spokan churches at Deep Creek and Wellpinit, among the Spokan Indians in Washington Territory.
CHINA.
Gleanings from Letters.
Mrs. Thomson' wrote from Macao, in April, of Lien Chow, China, in charge of Mr. Henry :
" It is now reaping time there, and in the near towns and villages. Yeung Kong is under Dr. Thomson's care. Some there are interested and considerable friendliness exists, although post- ers were put upon the streets asking the death of the 'foreign devil,' and evil reports were circu- lated by Chinese doctors who were jealous of Dr. Thomson's professional success. He and his assistants were stoned in the streets. But these things must be expected from the rough people in a new station in China. I am earnestly and praj'erfully desiring to j:)in him in Yeung Kong."
Mrs. Kelso wrote from Saharanpi'r, India, of the boys in the orphanage :
"There is always such difficult)' in getting the heathen to teach Christians any trade. My hus- band has found this difficulty and so, I believe has Mr. McComb, at Lodiana. It will be many long years before our poor Christians can compete with the heathen as servants or in trades. Four of the boys during the last year united with the church and are satisfactory. Two of our old boys, one who is acting head master of the orphanage school and the other is in the Gov't Botanical Gardens as a writer, have married two sister edu- cated in the Methodist school at Lucknow, and have such tidy, nice houses.
" We have met with great enmity from the Mo- hammedans to our work among women and girls in the city. A ver)' promising school started last year, was closed by a Moulvie.
" The Bible-women report more than fifty women learning to read in the zenanas"
J^om^ Department.
THE MONTHLY 3IEETIKG — August.
Scripture Text, Hebrews x., lo. — We have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. (Revision Reading.)
Scripture Reading, Hebrews x., 11-24.
General Topic. — EVANGELISTIC Work in Papal Europe.
Define clearly what this work is, and what agencies are employed. What are the Reformed Churches of Papal Europe? Reasons for and against working through agencies established by these churches.
(Refer to " The Reformed Churches in Papal Europe," F. M., Aug., '86 ; also to 49th Annual Report ot .\ssembly's Board).
Other Evangelistic Agencies in Papal Lands. The most effective of these agencies. Specimens of priestly instruction in Italy. {K M., Aug., '80).
An Italian's plea for Christian unity. {F. M., Aug., '86.) Progress towards Christian union in Italy. {F. M., Oct., '86). Find out all you can about Gavazzi.
The Livingstone of the AVaklensian Valleys. (F. M., Aug., '86, p. 111). The Vaudois Church. (Woman's Work, Aug., '86.)
The story of the Bohemian Church is well told
in a tract this title, published by the Presb. Board of Publication (Be sure to send for it, price 10 cents).
^^a<a? in Wom-An's Work, Aug., '86, "Saints In Bohemia, .\ncient and Modern."
The Mt. Holyoke of Bohemia.
Need of larger contributions to enable the Assembly's Board to give more efficient help to these martyr churches. May our interest in them be deepened, and our prayers abound.
Read chapter on Papal Lands in " The Crisis of Missions ;" also, " Life of Clara Gray .SchaufHer," one of a series of short sketches of "L'ves of American Heroes on Mission Fields," published by American Tract Society.
How many Bohemians and Hungarians in this country? Can you tell of any effort to evangelize them ? M. R.
Perhaps there are few thoughtful workers who do not sometimes go " a day's journey into the wilderness," and sit down " under a juniper tree," alone. The approach of sum- mer heat, and the fainting of the flesh, is apt to drive one to this shade.
The workers are scattering. How few they are, at most. Why should I care so much more than others ? The universal clamor for "something new" to feed enthuiasm is heard in the missionary society. How are fresh methods to be contrived year after year? How are the faithful few to bear the burden *? So questions the tired worker under the jun- iper tree. She is a society president perhaps, and is to stay at home all summer. " I might as well give it up," she falters. But she knows in her secret heart that she will do no such thing.
Who was ever known to deliberately re- nounce this sweet, unselfish interest after it had grown into heart and conscience, and become rooted deep, through many cares and toils? A little meditation under a juni-
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per tree need not be fatal to hope and courage. Tliere may be such withdrawal followed by a sleep, an angel-touch, a heaven-sent supply, a further journey to the " Mount of God," and the question " What doest thou here ? " Then there is sure to be a revelation of en- couragement, and a new errand given, if we listen to the "still small voice."
In a des]:)onding moment let us broaden the outlook, and see what a constituency there really is. " In the multitude of people is the King's honor." In our own circle there may be some that just now may be ready for the " crystallizing touch " that shall fix their gath- ering interest. In winning the reluctant and tardy comers into the work, we need the "perseverance of the saints," the "patience of hope," the "expectancy of faith," combined with a fine tact in management, that we may beguile them into their places.
At all events, let us not miss the opportu- nities of the sultry season, nor spend the time under a juniper tree, but faithfully gather "a basket of summer fruits." — Julia H. Johnston.
MOVING THE FENCE FURTHER OUT.
"Well,ri] just tell you all about it," said Mrs. Brookes. " You see we'd been poking along in the same way for a good many years. When we started our Foreign Missionary Society, we agreed to give fifty dollars a year, and for eleven years we gave that right straight along. We took great credit to ourselves that we never fell below the mark. In fact, every annual meeting some of us were sure to remark how faithful we'd been in holding meetings and always raising the fifty dollars, and it never occurred to any of us we might move forward a step or two. Our meetings were very small, generally seven or eight present, and we thought twelve a large attend- ance. Like other societies, we had a good many contributing members who never came near the meetings. We'd sit there and say they ought to come, but didn't do any- thing to bring them. They'd give their money wilhngly enough when we went for it, but I declare, there were some who, in all those years, never seemed to get it through their heads what the society was or what the dollar was for. They'd say: 'Foreign Missionary Society? I-et me see — there are so many societies in the church. Is that the one Mrs. Benton is president oft Oh, yes, to be sure. Well, how much do I give f' and that's just all they knew or cared about it. 'Bands?' No, we didn't do much in that way. We had a sort of a Band ; one not very much alive, asnd not dead enough to bury — that kind you know ; it needed looking after. That's the way we dawdled along.
" Well, after awhile, Miss Winsted — you know who she is, a real down-right smart woman — she began to get restless, and tried to stir us up. She'd keep telling us we might do so and so, but you know how hard it is to get people out of ruts, when they once get in.
" One winter she went on East to visit her father's folks in New York and Philadelphia. While she was there she went to some big missionary meetings and talked with the ladies who engineered them, and met some missionaries right straight from the 'front' (as it is called), and saw the places where the
missionary magazines are made. The upshot of it was she got wonderfully stirred up, and when she came home just talked right and left.
" Pretty soon it came time for our annual meeting, and when the treasurer's report was. read, there were some of the usual remarks, about how well we'd done, and so on, and Mrs. Corey, the treasurer, says she : ' Yes, for eleven years we've never failed to come up to our pledge.' Then it just seemed as if Miss Win- sted couldn't keep in any longer. Says she —
" ' That's all very well, but don't you think, friends, that eleven years is long enough to be faithful over such a very few things ? We've cultivated our httle plot of ground persever- ingly, but now isn't it time to move the fence further out?'
" We were all taken aback by that speech, and sat staring without saying a word, 'till Mrs. Corey managed to gasp out, ' I don't know what you mean.' ' I mean,' says Miss Winsted, ' we ought to do more in this work.' ' What more is there to do ?' says Mrs. Corey.
" ' Why,' says Miss Winsted, and her dark eyes just flashed. ' What's a woman's society for. if not to stir up the whole congregation on the subject of missions ? We are losing splendid chances. Why, / think a society that's con- tented merely to give some money annually, and hold meetings once a month in the corner of the lecture-room, doesn't live up to it's privileges.'
"'Privileges? ' says Mrs. Corey. ' Yes,' says. Miss Winsted, ■ It's our privilege to do every- thing in our power to interest all the women of the church, and the children, too. Who's- going to look after them, if we don't? Instead of that poor little dead-and-alive Band, we ought lo have all the children and young people enlisted; we ought to be working mis- sionary literature in among the congregation ; we ought to encourage our pastor to get up popular meetiugs, and here we sit not doing^ much of anything ; we don't even help along at monthly concert.'
" ' How are we going to help that way ? ' Miss Aldrich asked. ' Women are not allowed to speak in meeting in our church.'
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" ' Nobody wants you to speak,' says Miss "Winsted. ' There are other ways of helping. Just you go regularly, and sit up in front, and look awfully interested, and sing out loud, and see if that don't help.'
" Miss Aldrich, she's a great laugher, and that appeared to tickle her, so she burst out laughing and the rest of us joined in. That put us all into better humor, for some were beginning to be real vexed with Miss Winsted for taking the wind out of our sails at such a rate. Then, before anyone could say any- thing more, Mrs. Benton says, ' Miss Winsted, you're right, we needed just that said to us — ■we've not been doing our duty.' ' Dear friends,' says she. ' let us kneel down and pray over it.'
" Such a heart-searching prayer / never heard in all my life. After it, we were ready to take hold and do any amount of work.
" Then we had a great discussion about what to do and how to do it. Suggestions were as thick as blackberries ; it made one wonder where they'd been hiding all this time. One wanted to begin at the Band ; another wanted to have the congregation canvassed ; another thought a ' boom ' in the way of a big meeting ■would be a good send-off. Miss Winsted thought where we ought to begin was right in our own Society.'
" ' Let's aim to get our contributing members all interested,' says she. ' Let's get them all together, just once, to see each other, and realize they belong to the Society.'
•' ' How are you going to do it ? ' asks Mrs. Corey. ' They won't come together. We've in-vited them many a time to the meetings.' " Let us try it socially,' says Miss Winsted. '■ How would it do to have a missionary tea- party — just the twenty-eight women who ■contribute this fifty dollars ? '
"That idea took, and there was such a buzz about whether we ten who were present should club together and give the party to the rest, or whether we'd go around and talk them all into having a kind of pic-nic. While the rest of us M^ere talking as fast as our tongues could rattle, I saw Mrs. Hirst getting red in the face, and fidgeting in her chair as if she wanted to say something. She's a first-
rate woman, but not as bright as some, and no talker at all. She never opens her mouth in the meetings, but as she is always there and the only one who gives as high as ten dollars, we elected her vice-president, as then she'd have nothing to do. We were surprised to hear her speak up and say she would like to give that tea-party herself
"'Oh, Mrs. Hirst,' says Mrs. Benton, 'it wouldn't be fair to let you have the whole burden of it.' ' Oh, yes it would,' says she, ' I can't talk and pray like the rest of you, but if a tea-party is going to help mission work, I'll take that for my share. If the good Lord didn't give me smartness, and did give me property, I think He means me to serve Him with prop- erty instead of brains.'
"Now wasn't it humble -minded in her to talk that way, and wasn't it good of her to offer to have the tea-party?
"Well, the long and short of it is, in two weeks from that time we went to her house to tea, and she and Mrs. Benton had managed so well that all the members of the Soci- ety, old and young, rich and poor, were there.
" Mrs. Hirst had just the nicest kind of a tea, but it beat me to know how they were going to make a missionary tea of it ; but half a dozen of the leading spirits were all primed, and before the tea-cups had got half-way round, they began talking about how pleasant it was to see all the members together for once, and Mrs. Benton got Miss Winsted to tell about meeting in New York one of the teachers from the school in India where our money had been going so long. This interested them all mightily, and some asked questions, and Miss Winsted, she just started in and talked and Mrs. Benton and two or three others backed her up, so, among them, the supper was missionary all the way through, from the fried oysters and cold turkey to the preserves.
" In the parlor we found the tables covered with Oriental views and curiosities that some of the ladies had contrived to collect, and the whole evening, except when we were singing some missionary hymns, was spent in looking at them, and as they led on, talking
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A LAWN PARTY.
about Missions. On one table were a lot of missionary magazines and leaflets, and Mrs. Benton told the folks to help themselves, so everybody took something home to read.
They were all just as pleased as they could be with the party, and when we were upstairs getting on our things, I heard Milly Harmon say, 'Just to think how much I've missed all these years. Here you've been learning and feeling and doing so much, and I might have
had a share in it all if I'd only reahzed that I belonged ! I feel like a long lost sister.'
" You can't imagine what a start that social meeting gave us. We set right to work after it, and now as far as the missionary spirit is concerned, you wouldn't know our church to be the same place it was three years ago. We're only sorry we didn't think of moving the fence out sooner."
Philadelphia. Emma L. Burnett.
A LAWN
There is something fascinating in the very name, and few are inclined to refuse to attend a lawn party. It is about five years since I was invited to one, though the words of invitation were simply, " Will you go to our missionary meeting this afternoon % "
I had been for some weeks at Clifton Springs Sanitarium. I was not strong, the day was very hot, and for a moment I hesi- tated. " You can go in the omnibus, and I think you will enjoy it." This removed the only ground of hesitation. After a short ride we were ushered into the cool, shaded parlors of Rev. Dr. Hibbard of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They were already nearly filled with ladies belonging to the Society. Here the ordinary business was transacted, and an original poem read by a lady, once missionary in Turkey. Then we adjourned to the lawn, shut in from the village street by a thick evergreen hedge, and shaded by over- hanging trees. There had been a plentiful supply of seats provided, and little tables were scattered in shady places. Our numbers were reinforced by the arrival of the Chaplain and physicians of the Sanitarium, Dr. Peck from Brooklyn, and Mr. Dunlap of our Mission in Siam.
And now the young maidens of the Society came from the house bringing baskets laden with plates, cups and spoons, followed by others with sandwiches, and pitchers of frag- rant tea and coffee. When these had been passed and repassed, dainty cakes were brought. Never was food more thoroughly
PARTY.
enjoyed, but the after repast was richer. The President gave reports of their year's work, and was followed by short, often spicy addresses from each of the gentlemen present. We were loath to break up the lawn party, but threatening rain and the arrival of the omnibus made it needful.
This always has seemed to me a model missionary meeting, and I write of it as suggestive to some of our societies located in the country. " It is so hard to keep up the interest of our meetings," we often hear com- plained ; or, '• In the cities you have so many advantages."
Here, dear sisters, you may have an advan- tage over the cities. In what city could we have a missionary lawn party ? Can you not, for your next meeting, select some house where there is a shaded lawn, and hold there the grand meeting of the year ? Let each lady who is the head of a family agree to bring or send refreshments, and bring all the members of her family with her ; and if any neighbor has no interest in Foreign Missions, ask her to go with you to the lawn party. Then have your reports ready, and some interesting essays or missionary letters; invite your pastor and elders to be present, and after tea under the trees, have some informal talk about the Missions to which your money goes, or the work at large. Let prayer and singing accompany the talking, and see if you do not give a new impulse to your Society, for the year to come.
Woman's For. Miss. Society of the Presbyterian Church.
1334 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
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CoRRFSPONDENCE with Missionaries, Mrs. C. N. Thorpe, Mrs. S. Kneass, and Mrs. C. E. Morris.
Candidates will address Mrs. C. E. Morris.
Correspondence concerning special objects, Miss M. D. Purves, and Mrs. J. De F. Junkin.
Correspondence with Presbyterial Societies, Mrs. D. R. Posey ; with Auxiliary Societies, Miss S. VV. Du Bois ; with Young People's and Children's Bands, Mrs. J. R. Miller.
Treasurer, Mrs. Julia M. Fishburn.
Send all letters to 1334 Chestnut St. Phila.
Monthly meeting first Tuesday of the month, and prayer-meeting third Tuesday, at 13 m., in the Assembly Room.
The Treasurer urges again the often repeated request that auxiharies and bands w'lW ahuavs mention their special object when they send money. It is impossible for her to remember every one, or to know whether silence as to the object; indicates a desire to relinquish it. A little care on the part of local treasuries will enable us to avoid much confusion in our lists.
Receipts are not always interesting reading, but turn to those of our society for June, and under the Corisco Presbytery notice the con- tribution of $25 from the W. F. M. S. of the Baraka church. How many of our auxiliaries at home will this year give in proportion to these poor native African women '? And why should they not ?
The Library of our school at Woodstock, India, will shortly receive a valuable addition, mainly of works of reference and standard books. This was secured through the efforts of Miss Fullerton and Miss Scott, now in this country. About one hundred dollars were contributed; fifty dollars by the pupils of Metzgar Institution, Carlisle, Pa. and thirty by the young ladies of Ogontz near, Philadel- phia. The remainder was the gift of personal friends. In addition to this it gives us pleasure to acknowledge a donation of books to the value of twenty dollars, each from our Board of Publication and Sunday-School Union, and a fine contribution to the same amount from Robt. Carter, N Y. To all these were added a considerable number of books from individuals.
Miss M. B. Franks after a brave struggle to remain at her post in Bogota, has been obliged to leave her chosen field and return home on account of ill-health.
Rev. G. A. Seeley with his wife and sister are returning from Futtehgurh, India, for a rest. Their homecoming is saddened by the death of an infant son just as they were preparing to leave India.
Miss Sophie Preston of Waitsburg, Washington Ter., daughter of the late Rev. C. F. Preston of China, has received her appointnicnt as a missionary to Canton, the
home of her childhood. The difficult language is already hers, and an unusual field of use- fulness is open before her.
Miss Anna A. Seward of Tallmadge, Ohio, has also been accepted by the Board and will probably be sent to the Shantung Mission, China, where her cousin Mrs. Shaw has labored so faithfully.
Miss Phcebe Thomas returns to Brazil to resume her beloved kindergarten work at Sao Paulo, taking with her Miss Mary Lenington as her young assistant. Miss Effie Lenington, an older sister, accompanies them to work independently in the mission for a time- Again we note that the children of mission- aries choose " the paths their fathers trod," These all are ones to love and care for.
How small the world grows in ihese missionary days. At our prayer meeting late in March, Miss Case was present and took part; May 12 she was a busy mis.sionary in Japan, or rather "she began to study the Monday after her arrival." Miss Alexander adds : " I shall go home without anxiety on Miss West's account, knowing she will have a warm-hearted friend and helper in Miss Case."
Miss Lydia Jones left Baraka, Africa, April 25, and after a journey of 7100 miles, reported at 23 Centre St. on June 10, it being the shortest journey from that station on record. She comes home for rest and to await the changes that must take place in the Africa Mission. At our closing prayer meeting for the summer in the Assembly Room, Miss Jones, Mrs. Ogden and Miss Lenington were present.
"Helping Together With Prayer "is the title of the new leaflet which is now ready for sale at onece)it per copy or ten cents per dozen. It will be particularly helpful, to those who meet from month to month to pray for the advance- ment of Christ's kingdom. To the many who feel that they cannot lead in prayer, this messenger will come with practical suggestions and iielpful thoughts.
A Depository for our leaflets and other publications has been established in Portland, Oregon, similar to that in San Francisco. In this connection it may not be amiss to remind our co-workers to fill a corner of their trunks with these same leaflets for distribution where- ever they may go during the summer. Much good seed has been sown in this way and unex- pectd harvests reaped. Never fail to speak a good word for our magazines also when opportunity off"ers.
New Bands
New Jersey, Elizabeth, Third Church, Boys'.
Ohio, Urichsville, Early Workers.
Penna., Newberrj', Adeline Henry.
Tenn., Adairs' Creek, Childrens'
Woman's Presbyterian Board of Missions of the Northwest.
Room 48, McCormick Block, S. E. Cor. Randolph and Dearborn Sts., Chicago, III.
Correspondence with missionaries in Africa and Syria, Mrs S. H. Perry. China and Japan, Mrs. H. F. Waite. Persia, Mrs. N. B. Judd.
Mexico, S.America and Siam, Mrs. A. D.Wheeler.
India, and among the North American Indians, Miss M. P. Halsey.
Correspondence concerning special objects, Mrs. N. W. Campbell.
Correspondence with Auxiliaries, and concern- in;,' organization, Mrs. Geo. H. Laflin and Mrs. N. D. Pratt.
Correspondence concerning candidates, Mrs. U. T. Helm.
Remittances of money to Mrs. C. B. F,\rwell, Treasurer.
Meetings every Friday at lo a. m. All persons interested in mission work are cordially invited.
The Board of the Northwest will contribute $3,500 towards the " Mateer Memorial Hos- pital," at Wei Hien, China.
Miss Emma Anderson is under appoint- ment for Wei Hien, China, and will probably go out in September.
Afterthoughts concerning our Annual Meeting:
A LADY who was very active in the late Annual Meeting at Davenport, Iowa, writes three weeks later from that city: "Yes, I am quite rested. Weariness of the flesh could not long remain with such a rich feast to live over. Not one session that was not a treat — not a prosy or uninteresting speaker. The mission- aries were specially interesting. I am glad to know them and to have our people know them. It would have interested you, could you have listened to remarks made at the prayer-meeting of the Thursday evening fol- lowing, showing how the Lord had sent the varied messages to just the hands that needed them. May the fruit appear and long remain. The meeting was a blessing to us from first to last."
Another correspondent from Minneapolis writes : " What a glorious meeting we had at Davenport. Its blessed influence is still with us. Mrs. Leyenberger and Mrs. Van Cleve and others stopped in Waterloo, Iowa, where was held an enthusiastic little meeting. I expect that we shall hear of good results from that seed sowing. Reports of the meeting have been given by Mrs. Van Cleve and others in some of the St. Paul and Minneap- olis churches. So the good work goes on. May we ever be under the inspiration of the Spirit!"
From Cedar Rapids, Iowa, one adds, in closing a letter : "How thankful we all should
be for the good meeting at Davenport. Surely the Lord heard our prayer, and answered it with His constant presence."
Although this August number of the magazine may find some from the auxiliary societies, with loosened harness, resting from the varied toil of the year ; still we trust that everywhere the "King's daughters" are plan- ning larger things for the coming year. The Annual Report will long ere this have reached all societies. With intense interest will be read the stimulating words and figures of Mrs. Farwell's report. That such a result has been reached, has been because of "the steady flow of small streams." Not many large gifts have as yet been "cast into the treasury" by the wealthy women of our Presbyterian Church. "The signs of the times" are of new and better things in this respect. During the next half decade those "servants" who have already seen "the httle cloud out of the sea," are surely expecting "the great rain," which shall pour into the treasury the royal gifts, worthy of "the King of Glory," from the hands of women whom the Master has made his stew- ards of wealth.
Rev. Marcus Rainsford, of London, says : " Have you ever heard this computation made? You may say you don't believe it, but if you take a pencil and a piece of j^aper and work it out, you will find it is true. Suppose there were only twelve Christian men in the world like the twelve apostles of old. Now, suppose each one of the twelve take the means of teaching one only within a twelvemonth in the knowledge of God, and these again in the same way, each instructing one within each year and so on. At even this low scale of labor the whole population of the earth would be reached and taught the truths of the Gospel in just f/iirf)> years! For more than eighteen centuries the Lord has gone up to heaven and is preparing a place for each of His blood-bought people in the many man- sions of His Father's house ; and I think of His people down here below, His witnesses on earth ; its light and its salt ; and so little has been done or is doing ! " — Selected
New Auxiliaries.
Milford, Mich., The Whipple Band. Otis, Col.,
Union, HI., W. M. S. and Band.
Sumner, 111., W. M. S and Boys' Band.
Bridgeport, 111., Young Ladies' Society.
Chicago, 111., Belden Av. Industrial Sch., Bd.
Hamlet, 111., Electric Lights.
Mt. Pleasani, la., Young People's Band.
York, Neb., Band.
Cambridge, Wis., Young Ladies' Society.
Women's Board of For. Miss, of the Presbyterian Church,
No. 20 North Washington Square, New York City.
A half-hour meeting for prayer and the reading of missionary letters is held at tlie rooms every Monday, commencing at two o'clock. All inter- ested are invited to be present. These meetings are not held during the months of July and August.
Miss Grace Newton has received her appointment from the Board and goes out, if all is well, in September to our school in Peking.
Do NOT forget we are adding constantly to our list of publications. Five Cents in a Tea- Cup is one of our newest leaflets, and an ex- tremely pretty story by Miss Guernsey showing forcibly the value of small gifts.
Mrs. Reutlinger sends a most interest- ing letter from Benita, Africa, dated March 26th. She has been twenty years at that mission, but home twice during that time.
Miss Annie Montgomery, writing from Hamadan, April 29th, speaks most earn- estly of her own deep sense of bereavement in the death of Mrs. Hubbard.
The McCauleys reached home the last of May, but sad news awaited them as Mr. Mc, Cauley's mother lay at the point of death.
Such a nice programme for the Commence- ment exercises at Graham Seminary, Tokyo, June 6th. Miss Rose writes. May 13th, that they count 120 pupils.
Miss Ball, Versailles. June 15th. is much touched by the generosity of the people of Buffalo and Rochester, for the nice fitting- out they have given her — yet hers is a hard field. May her strength be ever renewed.
New Auxiliaries.
Binghamton Presb.^ Marathon, Union Young Women's See.
Boston Fresbytery^ Litchfield, N. H.
Genesee Presbytery, Stone Church, May Blossom Band.
Hudson Presbytery, White Lake.
Rochester Presbytetv,
Piltsford, N. v.. First Th Pittslord Mission Band.
Rochester, N. Y., Third Ch., Young Ladies' Society. '■ " Link Boys' Band.
" " Sowers of the Seed.
Webster, N. Earnest W'orkers. Westchester Presbytery, Katonah.
Woman's Presbyterian For. Miss. Society of Northern N. Y.
10 WashincxTOn Place. Troy, N. Y.
Correspondence with Missionaries in Persia, Syria, India, Japan and Africa, Mrs. F. C. Clrtis, 136 Hudson Avenue, Albany.
Correspondence with Missionaries in China, Guatemala and Siam, Miss M. C. Eddy, Glen- wood, Troy.
Correspondence with Societies and Bands in Aloany and Columbia Presbyteries, Mrs. A. McClure, 232 State Street, Albany.
Correspondence with Societies and Bands in Troy and Champlain Presbyteries, Mrs. G. H. Page, P. O. Drawer, 1657 Cohoes, N. Y.
In compliance with the wishes of the Foreign Board, the last General Assembly transferred the work for the Seminole Indians in Indian Territory to the care of the Home Board. Several of our societies and bands which have hitherto contributed to Mrs. Ramsay's salary and for numerous Christmas boxes for her school, are thus left without an object. To such we offer work among the Nez Perce Indians, a share in the school work at Hainan, several scholarships in day- schools in Shanghai, and work for boys' schools in Macao. Let us not relax our efforts for want of an object, for there is plenty of work to do, and need of all the money we can raise. Let us help to swell the amount this year to such figures as will make the way plain to send out the fifteen hundred or two thousand volunteers who have heard the Master's earnest appeal: "The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few; pray ye therefore the Lord of the
harvest that he would send forth laborers into His harvest."
The report of Children's IVork for Chil- dren for last year gives the total number of subscriptions for that magazine from Northern New York as only 949. Our Annual Report gives the number of bands as 113, and allow- ing one-fourth of these to be young people's bands, old enough to prefer Woman's Work., there still remain at least ninety- five bands, with an average membership of twenty, or a total membership of nearly two thousand, or twice as many members as there are copies of this most interesting little peri- odical taken. If these were evenly divided among the different bands, it would not be so bad, but while in some every member is a subscriber, in others there are none. And the corresponding secretaries can testify that where this little magazine is largely taken, the band is never behindhand in membership, contributions or interest, and the band leader is not continually writing for "something to interest the children." As a help in interesting and instrncting our little ones it has no rival, and we urge every band leader under whose eye this paragraph falls, to first read attentivel)' each number, and then see that members of her band read or hear it.
In Dr Ellinwood's address before the General Assembly he strongly emphasizes the thought that this work among the mothers in the homes and with the children for the last twenty years, is beginning to bear its
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legitimate fruit in the wonderful way in which our educated young men and women are vol- unteering for Foreign Missions. It is equally encouraging to beheve that the coming busi- ness men and women will be subjects of the same influence, and the products of their industry will be as freely devoted to the same grand work.
Mrs. Lavvah Barakat has just finished a month's engagement among the societies in our northern hmits. She has spoken for the cause of foreign missions simply, with unsel- fishness, earnestness and success. In corres- ponding with her, it is not necessary to ad- dress her letters to the care of any one. Her P. O. address is now Waterford, Sar. Co. N. Y.
Woman's Presbyterian Board of Missions of tlie Southwest.
No. 1 107 Olive Street, St. Louis, Missouri.
Meetings are held at the Presbyterian Rooms, 1107 Olive Street, second floor, on the first and third Tuesdays of each month, at two P. M. All interested in Missions are invited to be present.
Home Corresponding Secretaries: Mrs. S. W. Barber, 3033 Olive St. ; Miss Agnes H. Fenbv, 3116 Lucas Ave.
Foreign Corresponding Secretary : Miss S. E. Marks, 1107 Olive St.
Treasurer: Mrs. Daniel Kuhn.
Missionary Literature can be obtained at the " Rooms," between the hours of 10 a. m. and 4 p. M. Mail orders should be addressed to " Woman's Presbyterian Board of Missions of the Southwest, n 07 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo."
Mrs. J. H. Brookes and Mrs. J. A. Allen have been reappointed members of the Central Committee.
Mrs. L. a. Davis, of Kansas, has been appointed to visit societies and churches in Kansas, that new interest may be created and new societies acquired. She is an earnest woman and will do good 'vork.
Rev. K. C. Chatterjee and wife, of India, addressed the women of our city, Thursday afternoon, June i6th, in Dr. Brookes' Church. While the attendance was not large, all who heard them were deeply interested. We regret that many more could not have heard them.
Miss Edna Cole, of Siam, desires to receive fancy articles and materials, and instructions for various kinds of fancy work for her school of thirty-one girls. They can readily sell articles of the kind in Bangkok, and last year at a Xmas sale, about $80 was realized. She also desires pictures for the school-room walls, of a kind which would " help some little eyes to look upward, and some Httle hearts to reaHze the beauty of the Master," as no Siamese words have power to do.
Invited Out. Twice since the heated term began, the Southwest Board has gone visiting. Its regular May meeting was held at Kirkwood, Mo., about fourteen miles from the city. The invitation was extended in very flattering terms, expressing a conviction that great
benefit would accrue to the Kirkwood L. M. S. The time proved exceedingly opportune, as the "Rooms" at 1107 Olive St.. were in the "confusion worse confounded," which seems a necessary adjunct to spring house-cleaning.
A party of about twenty-five ladies, left Union Depot at 9.52 a. m., Tuesday, May 3d. Upon leaving the train, carriages were found in waiting, which conveyed them to an elegant home where, after enjoying social conversation for a couple of hours, an elabo- rate lunch was served, at the conclusion of which each one present received a copy of the last leaflet placed on our list, " U?iemployed Talent." A large edition had been printed by Mrs. Mermod, and at the conclusion of the meeting was placed by her at the disposal of our Committee on Literature, free of all expense. Such gifts are needed by our Board, and this one is warmly appreciated.
Soon after lunch, the Board convened. Vice-Pres. Mrs. Webster presided over a very precious devotional half hour. Vice-President Mrs. Mclntyre presided over the business meeting. The closing hymn was sung in time for the town folk to reach their homes about five o'clock.
Encouraged by the reception of the invita- tion from Kirkwood, a lady of Rock Hill,, twelve miles from the city, extended the hospitalities of her home — the very embodi- ment of rural comfort — to the members of the Board. Thursday, June 2d, was the day. After a delightful sociable an elegant lunch was served. In the afternoon a pleasant and profitable meeting was held at the little " Rock Church " across the way. In the absence of the President, Vice-President Mrs. Mclntyre presided. No formal programme had been arranged, but the devotional hour was precious, and afterwards remarks and read- ings followed in a spirited manner, which made the time seem all too short.
New Auxiliaries.
St. Louis Presbytery^ Poplar Bluff. Mo. Ozark Presbytcrv, Loikwood, Mo. Palmyra Presbytery.
Youns People's Society, Brook£eld, Mo.
Children's Hand, " "
Edna Coie Mission Band, Kirksvillc.
TREASURERS' REPORTS.
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SUGGESTIOX CORNER.
A GOOD way they have in Indianapolis, of making out and printing a programme of all the meetings to be held in the year, with the place and date of each. This need not pre- vent elasticity of arrangements, if, for instance, an unexpected missionary speaker turns up.
A CORRESPONDENT in Metuchen, N. ]., wishes we could put missionary literature into as cheap covers as she finds the standard works of fiction.
A CORRESPONDENT from Minonk, III, says of her Woman's Work : " In it I always find
straw enough for two monthly meetings, viz.' the ladies' meeting and the monthly concert. One must save the back numbers. I have mine, except one number lost in lending. Before each monthly meeting, I get out my pile of magazines, look them over and lay by themselves those having articles upon the topic of the month. These I afterward examine and decide what shall be used and in what form, whether entire or in part, or as foundation of a written paper by some member of our society."
Receipts of the Womati's Foreign Missionarii Society of the Presbyterian Church, from June 1, 1887.
[presbyteries in small capitals.]
Baltimore. — Baltimore, 1st, Mothers' Meeting, 1.20 Blairsville.— Blairsville, 42..54 ; Derry, 27.9", Bessie Mil- liken Bd., 7.44 ; Ebensburg, 25 ; New Alexandria, 14 ; Pine Run, 18.52 ; Plum Creek, 14.25, "149.72 Cincinnati. — Cincinnati, .5th, Mrs. R. Brown, .50.00 Clarion.— Calemsburg, (5; Clarion, Y. L. B., 40; East Brady, Beacon Lights, .50 ; Leatherwood, 8.20 ; I'ancoast, 8 ; West MUIville, 13.04, 125.24 CoRisco. — Baraka, Woman's K. M. Soc, 25.00 Dayton.— Dayton, 1st, S. S., o.OO Lehigh.— .Vllentown, 13.25, Boys' Bd., 11.88; Easton, 1st, 85; Easton, Brainerd, 30 ; East Stroudsburg, 4.50, Mountain Rill Bd., 6 : Hazleton, 23.15, S. S., 41.56, WUd Daisy Bd., 2 ; .Mahanoy City, 11.35 ; Mauch Chunk, 50, S. S , :20 ; Pottsville, 2d, 10; Reading, 1st, 18.()5 ; Reading, Washington St., (i.l5,
:J42.49
Marion. — Delaware, Y. P. Soc, 75.00 Monmouth. — Jamesburg, Rhode Hall Bd., 30.00 .Morris and Orange. — Orange, 2d, 100.00 Philadelphia. — Clinton St., Immanuel, 48.25 ; 9th, Y. P
B.,25, 73.25 Philadelphia, North. — Germantown, 2d, S. S., 60.00 Shenango.— Beaver Falls, V. L. S., 40; Clarksyille, 27.25
Neshannock, 28; New Brighton, Mrs. M. E. Palmer, 35;
North Sewickley, 5 ; W'estfiekl, 46.54, 181.79 Washington Citv. — Hyattsville, Bd., 17; Washington,
6th, 5 ; Covenant, 38 ; Eastern, S ; Metropolitan, 58.48, Mateer
Bd., 10 ; New York Ave., C. B. Walker's CI., 28.26 ; Nonli,
15 ; Western, 25 ; West St., 15 ; Westminster, 16.25, 235.99' West Jersey.- Bridgeton, 1st, S. S., .32 ; Camden, 1st, 27 ; Camden, Do-vvhat-we-can Bd.,.30; Merchantville, 16.15,
105.15
Zanesville. — Granville, 35.00 Miscellaneous. — Belleville, <) , anonymous, 0 ; Portland^ Ore., Miss Ellen Strong, 1 ; Interest on Deposits, 122.49,
129.47
Total for June, 1887, $1,724.32 Total since May 1, 1887, $3,236.46 In the June Woman's Work the following items were
omitted by mistake: West Chester, Pa., 87.77, Y. P. B., .52,
Band, 26.
The Laughlin Bd., Central Ch., Phila., has sent articles to Poplar Creek, valued at $15.
Rehoboth Aux., Pa., has sent a barrel of clothing to. Wewoka school.
The following Bands have contributed articles and boxes sent to India : Mizpah Bd., Arch St. Ch., Young Ladies, West Arch St. ; Little Helpers, Tabor Ch., Phila. ; Forget- me-nots, Wenonah, N. J. ; Cheerful AVorkers, Wyoming, O. ; Willing Helpers, Lincoln, Pa.; WillingWorkers, lstCh.,Nor- ristown, Pa. ; Morning Star Bd., Delaware City, Del.; Willing Helpers, 1st Ch., Cedarville, N. J. ; Anna K. Warfield Bd., North Ch., Alleg., Pa. ; Band, Scotch Ch., Jersey City, N. J.
Mrs. Julia M. Fishburn, Treas.,
1334 Chestnut St., Phila.
July 1, 1887
Receipts of the Woman's Presbyterian Board of Missions of the Northwest, to
June '40th, 1887.
Bellefontaine — Kenton, 19; Urbana, Sunday School, 20,
39.00
Bloomington. — Presbyterial offering, 25 ; Bloomington, lst,31.59; Clinton, 80, Gilman, 10 ; Heyworth,15; Hopeston. 2 S. S. classes, 3.84 ; Towanda, 7 ; Waynesville, Mr. and Miss Davenport, 17, 129.43
Cedar Rapids. — Cedar Rai)ids, 1st, 50, Girls' Band, 30 ; Clinton, 40, 120.00
Chicago.— Chicago, 1st, 55; 2nd, 39; 4th, 26; Y. L. S., 16.55, Lower Lights, 14 50; Howe St. Mission CI., 15; 8th, Edith Fulton Soc, 3.03 ; Belden Av. Industrial School Band, 10 ; Jefferson Park, Busy Workers, 7 ; Lake Forest, Y. P. S., 14.25; Hinsdale, Mrs. D. K. Pearsons, 500 ; Less Pres. Ex., 11.50, 688.8:3
Crawfordsville. — Bethany, IS ; Delphi, 18.;5, S. S.,5.82;
Lafayette, 1st, 30 ; Lexington, N. Branch, 3..50 ; Newtown, 12 ; Thorntown, 25, 113.07 Dayton.— Western Female Sem,, Oxford, U. M. S., 321.80 Ft. Dodge.— Sanborn, S. S., 4.47 Ft. Wayne.— Elkhart. 17, Ft. Wayne, 1st, .36.62, 53.62 Freeport.— Freeport, 1st, 25 ; Willow Creek, Ch., Argyle, 57.34, 82.:34 Hastings. — Ayr, Mrs. M. M. Rogers, 3.00 Huron. — Clyde, 5 ; Milan, 2 ; Norwalk, 23.71 ; Sandusky, 1.75 ; Tiffin, LitUe Gleaners, 15,.32, 47.78 Indianapolis. — Presbyterial offering, 15.70 ; Danville, 12.50; Franklin, S. S., 17, 45.20 Kalamazoo. — Allegan, 10; Kalamazoo, 1st, .33.50; Plain- well, 5 ; Richland, 5.72 ; Schoolcraft, 3 ; Three Rivers, 6.30, 63 .r
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TREASURERS' REPORTS.
Lake Superior. — Presbyterlal offering, 33.00 I.OGANSPORT.— Concord. TO cts.; Crown Point, 2.50; Lake Prairie, 2.30; La Porte, 18.13, Circle, 4.80; Logansport, 1st, 16, Gleaners, 10; Broadway Ch., S. S., 8.59, Mrs. L N. Crawford, 10 ; Mishavvaka, 7.61 ; Monticello, W. M. S. & Y. P. S., 10.50; Plymouth. S. S., 11.88; Rochester, 13.84; Remington, 8.15 ; South Bend, 1st, 24 ; West Union, 3, 152.00 Mattoon.— Pana, 25 ; Taylorville, 13. T5, 38.75 Milwaukee.— Cambridge and Oakland Ch., Y. L. S., 9.00 Omaha. — Craig, 3.50 ; Omaha, 2nd, 9.85, Missionary Helpers, 33.36, 46.71 Ottawa.— Streator, 25, H. M.,25, 50,00 Pueblo.— Colorado Springs, 225. Y. L. S., 7.85,. 232.85 Red River. — Crookston, 7.01 Saginaw.— Bay City, 20; Caro, Se\den Band, 13, .3:3.00 St. Paul. — Hastings S. S., 1.28 , Minneapolis, Andrew Ch., 12; 5th, 3.50; Westminster Ch., .50; St. Cloud, 9; St. Croix Falls, 4.67, 83.45
ViNCENNEs.— Evansville, Grace Church, tl.77 Whitewater.— College Corner, 5; Connersville, 9..55; Brookville, 20 ; Greensburg, 75, Kingston, 23.70 ; Knights- town, 5; Richmond, 25; Rushville, 9.11 ; Shelby ville, 18.50, S- S., 10, 194.86 Miscellaneous.— Sioux City, la., W. \. Hepburn, 2.50; Avoca, la., Ada W. Fitch, memorial in the name of Eddie Chambers, 12 ; From Advertisements, 501 ; For Pub. of Ann. Report, Milwaukee, Mrs. John Plankinton, 20 ; Soci- eties—Freeport, 111., 1st, 1 ; Onarga, 1 ; Bay City, Mich., 1 ; Lake Prairie, Ind., 1.10; South Bend. Ind. 'i; Misc., 5..S4; By sale of Leaflets, &c., 98.84 . 645.98
Total for month. Previously Acknowledged, From .'V.pr. 30 to June 20,
$3,253.04 2,.301.49 $5,554.53
Chicago, June 20, 1887.
Mrs. C. B. Farwkll, Treas., Room 48, McConnick Block-
JReceipts of the Women's Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church,
for June, 1887.
Brooklyn. — Brooklyn, 1st, 9.66 ; Franklin Ave., 8.78 ; Greene Ave.. 8.75; Lafayette Ave., 108.55, Cuyler Bd. , 25 ; Memorial, 43.75 ; Mt. Olivet, 4.76 ; 2d, Y. L. Bd., 8.75 ; 7th Ave. Chapel, S. S., Children's Day Off., 10; South 3d St., 89.74 : Throop Ave., 44.65 ; Westminster, 13.01 ; Stapleton, S. L, 1st, 35, 411.00
Cayuga.— Ithaca, A Debtor, 125.00
Utica.— Boonville, 25 ; Clinton, 26, Houghton Sem., Y. L. S., 25 ; Holland Patent, 10 ; Rome, 60 ; Utica, Westmmster, 50, Brown Bd., 20, Ready Helpers, 55; Verona, S. S. Soc, 35, 305.00
Miscellaneous —Leaflets, 32.85; Mite Boxes. 1.32. 34.17
Chemung. — Watkins, Y. P. Soc. Christian Endeavor, 25, Y. L. S., 20, 45 00
Geneva. — Canandaigua, 10 ; Geneva, 1st and North, 50; Gorham, 10; Phelps, Everett Bd.. 15; Seneca, Cheerful Workers, 8, 93.00 Hudson. — Port Jervis, Rays of Light, 5.00 Louisville, Ky. — Louisville, Central, 15 ; Warren Memo- rial, 160 ; Princeton, 11.40, 186.40 Lyons. — Lyons, 8 ; Palmyra, 14.50, 22.50 Morris AND Orange, N. J. — Morristown, 1st, Stevenson Bd., 9.51, Children's Soc, 50 ; South Orange, 1st, S. S., 50,
109.51
Nassau. — Freejiort, 15.59; Jamaica, 100, 115.59
New York. — Brick, Junior For. Miss. Soc, 79, Chapel, Buds of Promise, 10 ; Fifth Ave., 30, King's Children, 25; First Union, 44.25 ; Hariera, 100; Madison Ave., 9.25 ; Madi- son Square, Ministering Children, 25 ; University Place, Light Bearers, 15.44 ; Washington Heights, 60 ; AVest, Chil- dren's Soc, 100, 4;iT 94
North River. — Cornwall, 30.90 ; Comwall-on-Hudson, «.60, Y. P. S., 5 ; Rondout, .32.97, 77.47
Rochester. — Dansville, .50; Geneseo, 10; Rochester, Brick, Emma Cochran Bd., 24; in memory of Georgie Cleveland, from her parents, 25 ; 1st, 50 ; 3d, 25, 184.00
Total,
Total receipts from April 1st, 1887,
$2,211.58 $5,:i48.79
Note. — In Annual Report, Cayuga Pres., Aurora Soc. for Christian Work, $37, should read, $62 ; Owasco, .\ux., $25. should read, $45.
Genesee Pres., North Bergen, .\ux.. 42.21, should read, 47.81,
Mrs. C. P. Hartt, Treas., 20 North Washington Square, N. Y. City. Mrs. J. A. Welch, Trem..
34 West 17th St., N. Y. City.
BOXES.
To Westminster Hospital. Persia, from Boys' Mission Bd.. University PI. Ch., N. Y., $40.
To Westminster Hospital, Persia, from Phillip's Ch., N. Y.. medical instruments, $100.
To Mrs. Reutlinger, Benita, .Africa, from the Cazeno\Ta Soc, $11.
To Mrs. Reutlinger, Benita, .\frica, from the 14th St. Ch., N. Y., $9.
To Pekin Hospital, from the Phillip's Ch., N. Y., $55. To Miss Ball, Cattaraugus Reservation, from Rochester, 1st Ch., Soc, $50.
Receipts of the Woman's Fresbyterian Board of Missions of the Southwest, from April 1st, to June 1st, 1887.
Austin. — Austin, 1st, L. Aid Soc, 5.50 ; San Antonio, 65,
70..50
Emporia.— Eldorado, 6.75; Indianola, 14.40 ; Marion, 37.28; Melvern, 10; Peabody, 20, Y, L. S., 9.30 ; Waverly, 22.41, Y. P. S., 1.35; Wellington, 25, 146.49
NEOSHO.—Chanute, 21.75 ; Cherryvale, 8.60; Elk City, 6; Independence, Mrs. W. E. Clark, 5; Moran. 8..50 ; Neosho Falls, 2..50, 52.35
Osage.— Osceola, S. S., 6.25; Oswego, Thompson Soc, 10, Mrs. John Elliott, 10, 26.25
Ozark.— Ash Grove, 5 ; Greenfield, S. S., 2. .55 ; Ozark Prairie, 8.40, Mary M. Lindsay, 3 ; Pleasant Hill Soc, con- nected with So. Pres. Ch., 10, 28.95
Platte.— Avalon, 14 ; Hamilton, 22, 36.00
Solomon.— Bell ville, 18; Clyde, 8 ; Ellsworth, 25 ; Glasco, 4.50 ; Mankato, 9 ; Minneapolis, 17.80 ; Salina, 41.27, 12:3.57
ToPEKA.— Lawrence, 105; Topeka, 1st, 42.72, Birthday gift of an aged lady, 79 cts. ; Vinland, 8, 156..51
St. Louis.— Benton, Mrs. S. A. Miller, 10 ; Kirkwood, 5.50 ; St. Louis, 1st, 112.50; 2d, S. S. and Wall-builders, 104.10; Bethel, 10 ; Riddle Market, S. S., Mrs. Roth's class, 6 ; La- fayette Park, 55 60 ; Compton and Wash. Ave. L. Aid Soc, 125, L. Working Soc, 125, Mrs. W., 10, A friend, 5, Coll. at Ann. Meeting, 120.71, Mrs. C. T. Charless, 5, 794.4)
Miscellaneous.— Fees, 12 ; Life Mem. fee, 25 ; Mrs. Allen, Ex-Treasurer of the Board, 824.11, 861.11
Total for April and May,
$2,301.14
St. Louis, June 1, 1887.
Mrs. Daniel Kuhn, Treas u rrt ,
1608 Chouteau Ave.
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