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for Woman
;acfe to MUnt toigbom, to tf)e
libing potoer of 5^Sus^ Cf)rist,
back tJjroug^ praper to tfje siource of
all potoer, must be tt)e toatcfjtoorb of
all iWiMonarp Societies;, of all tfje
leabers^ of tlje Cf)urrf), anb ultimately
of tlje eutire membersbiPt if tfje great
commisiSion of our HorD JeSusJ Cbris^t
is; to be carrieb out.
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Entered at the Post Office at Boston, Mass., as Second-class matter.
OOlSTTEl^TS
Bditorial Paragrapbs . . . . . 289
Brief Days in Cliiiia. By Kate G. Lam-
son 297
The Art of ]?eiiig a Missionary, By Ger-
trude Harris 303
Junior VVobk.
A Conference of Young People's Leaders 308
'gamA tit X\kt f anfic.
Editorial Paragraphs 310
James, the Modern Apostle . . . 311
Back in the Noitli Circle .... 312
328
Receipts . .
Our Field Correspondents. Miss Mary
0. Fowle, Sivas; Miss Mary L.
Matthews, Monastir . . . . 3] 4
OUB WOBK AT HOMB.
The Place of Prayer in Missions. By
Frances J. Dyer
The Golden Anniversary Gift
A Unique Missionaiy Ciiih .
Our Hook Table
Sidelights from Periodicals
Receipts
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320
321
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President
Mrs. CHARLES H. DANIELS, Wellesley, Mass.
Vice Presidents
Mrs. K. G. CLARK, Boston Mrs. J. L. BARTON, Newton Centre, Mass.
*Jit«. B.E. STRONG, Auburndale, Mass. Miss SUSAN HAYES WARD, Newark, N. J.
Mrs. a. a. LINCOLN, Wollaston, Mass.
Corresponding Secretaries
Mrs. E.E. STRONG
Recording Secretary
Mhs. J. FREDERICK HILL, Cambridge, Mass.
Foreign Secretary
Miss KATE G. LAMSON, Boston
Associate Secretary
Miss HELEN B. C ALDER, Boston
Treasurer
Mlflg 8AEAH LOUISE DAT, Boston
Home Secretary
Miss E. HARRIET STAN WOOD, Boston
Editorial Secretary
Miss ALICE M. KYLE, Boston
Secretary of Young People's Work
Miss MARY PRESTON, Boston
Assistant Treasurer
Miss S. EMMA KEITH, Boston
Auditor
SAMUEL F. WILKINS, Boston
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President
Mrs. R. B. CHERINGTON, Porterville, Cal.
Home Secretary Foreign Secretary and Editor
MbS. W. J. WILCOX, 527 E. 18th Street, Mrs. E. R. WAGNER, 355 Reed Street, San
Oakland, Cal. Jos6, Cal.
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Vol. XLII.
JULY. 1912
No. 7
The semi-annual meeting of the Woman's Board held at Wellesley,
May 16th, was a very successful gathering, although the pouring rain
The Semi-annual interfered with the comfort of those who came from
Meeting. various points of Eastern Massachusetts to the meet-
ing and doubtless lessened the attendance. The ladies of the Wellesley
church voiced their welcome through Miss Sarah P. Eastman, and gave
abundant evidence of their interest and cordial hospitality by their
thoughtful pi'ovision for the comfort of their guests, while their versatile
pastor, Rev. W. W. Sleeper, gave his services most generously through-
out the day, leading the devotional exercises, presiding at the organ and
in all possible ways helping forward the arrangements for the meeting.
Mrs. Charles H. Daniels, who occupied the somewhat unique position
of both hostess and guest, being herself a member of the Wellesley chvirch,
presided at both sessions and introduced the topic of the day, "Business
Efficiency in the Missionary World," with felicitous little "Forewords"
in two chapters.
The work of the home department and the claims of Life and Light
were presented by Miss Stanwood and Miss Kyle, while Miss Calder and
Miss Preston spoke for the foreign department and the junior work.
Miss Pendleton, president of Wellesley College, led a very helpful service
of devotion at noon.
A striking illustration of the efficiency of woman's work was afforded
by the address of Mrs. Henry W. Peabody on "The Fruits of the Jubilee."
One could but wish that every woman who helped to make the Jubilee
year so marvelous a success could hear this summing up of what united
effort has accomplished in many cities of our land; or, even more to be
desired perhaps, that the hearts of the far greater number of women in
the home churches who have not yet added their efficiency to the solving
of the problems linked up with the foreign missionary work could be
stirred into flame by this same presentation of the results accomplished by
the minority.
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Missionary addresses by Miss Helen A. Meserve, recently returned
from Chihuahua, Mexico, Mrs. Charles M. Warren of Tottori, Japan,
Miss Marion G. MacGown and Miss Delia D. Leavens of the North
China Mission, added greatly to the day's profit.
The closing address was given by Mrs. Chauncey Goodrich of Tung-
chou and Peking and soon to be of Tientsin, China. Those who have
heard Mrs. Goodrich speak can imagine the wealth of information
brought to the audience as she spoke of "Chinese Women in Social
Service." Mrs. Goodrich is president of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union in China and has already accomplished much in the
work of organizing the Christian Chinese women to fight the evils of
opium and cigarette smoking. She has recently spent several weeks in
the East stimulating the interest in several Branches, and is now pre-
paring to sail for China in August, in company with her husband and
their daughter Grace, who has just been graduated from Oberlin.
Many of our Branches hold meetings during May and June and these
have been very generally helpful and satisfactory this spring. The mis-
Other sionaries have given their services as usual with unstinted
Meetings, lavishness and the secretaries have gone hither and yon
endeavoring to bring the great interests of the Woman's Board before
their sympathetic audiences. From the annual meetings of Norfolk and
Pilgrim, New Haven, New York State, Western Maine, Eastern Maine,
Essex North, Hampshire County, Eastern Connecticut and Berkshire
Branches have come encouraging messages. The Hartford, Old Colony,
Andover and Woburn, Worcester County, North Middlesex, Middlesex,
Essex South Branches and the Barnstable Association have also reported
good attendance at their semi-annual meetings. The Woman's Missionary
Union of Pennsylvania which combines both home and foreign missionary
work carried out a very interesting program at the state meeting in May
at Edwardsville, under the direction of its able president, Mrs. John
Thomas of Scranton, Pa., having as speakers Mrs. Ida Vose Woodbury
of the American Missionary Association, and Mrs. Chauncey Goodrich
and Dr. C. H. Patton of the American Board.
Mrs. Goodrich, Mrs. Lawrence Thurston, Miss MacGown, Miss
Leavens, Mrs. Charles E. Ewing, Mi-s. George H. Hubbard, and Mrs.
Gammon of China, Mrs. Ballantine, Mrs. Hannah Hume Lee, Dr. Ruth
P. Hume and Mrs. Herrick of India, Mrs. Knapp, Mrs. Fowle, and Miss
Norton of Turkey, Miss De Forest of Japan, and Mrs. A. C. Wright of
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Mexico are among the missionaries who have stimulated and inspired
these groups of workers.
Dr. Ruth Hume, who is in charge of the Woman's Hospital at Ahmed-
nngar, expects to sail from New York, July 3rd, after a year's furlough.
Missionary during which she has made over fifty addresses, besides doing
Personals, work at clinics in the hospitals of Baltimore. She is rejoic-
ing in having secured a second associate doctor in the person of Dr. Clara
M. Proctor of Oklahoma City who will sail with her. Dr. Proctor's
support is in part assured by extra gifts which make it possible for the
Woman's Board to provide this additional helper for the great medical
work at Ahniednagar. Dr. Eleanor Stephenson who has carried on the
work of the hospital during Dr. Hume's absence, with the assistance of
Miss Elizabeth Johnson, the superintendent of nurses, will take her fur-
lough next year.
A similar need for extra help exists at the Madura Hospital and the
Woman's Board is searching earnestly for a doctor to assist Dr. Parker,
also for the money necessary for outfit and traveling expenses as well as
for support on the field. Dr. Parker is still at the Arequipa Sanatorium,
Fairfax, Cal., and her physicians tell her she must not return to her work
without an associate doctor and a trained nurse to take up the work of
Mile. Cronier. Where are the young medical women who will respond
to this call? Surely all who love the work for India's women will pray
that they may be speedily found and the money furnished to send them to
the field.
Mrs. Theodore S. Lee, Dr. Hume's sister, will also sail with her,
returning with her little children, Grace and Theodore, to continue the
work of her lamented husband in Satara. The church in White Plains,
N. Y., which supported Mr. Lee, will provide for Mrs. Lee and the
children,- — a happy arrangement on both sides. Mrs. Robert A. Hume
is returning with her daughters to join her husband in Ahmednagar,
The earnest prayers of a multitude of friends will follow this little
company as they set sail.
Dr. Woodhull and Miss Hannah Woodhull of Ponasang, Foochow,
after more than a quarter of a century of devoted service in the medical
and evangelistic work of this mission have returned to this country for
needed rest, and will make their home for the present with friends in
Riverhead, L. I.
Miss Edith Gates of the Ahmednagar Girls' School has reached the
United States, coming for her furlough year, and will make her head-
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quarters in Thomaston, Conn, with the family of her cousin, Dr. Robert
Hazen. Miss Gates arrived in time to attend her class reunion at Mount
Holyoke College early in June.
The Springfield Branch welcomed their missionary, Miss Esther B.
Fowler of Sholapur, India, at a reception held in the Memorial Parish
House of the First Church, Springfield, late in May. Miss Fowler is in
this country on special leave and may be addressed for the present in care
of her brother, A. L. Fowler, Haddonfield, N. J.
MRS. THEODORE S. LEE, AND HER CHILDREN, GRACE
AND THEODORE
Miss Mary F. Long left El Paso May 28th and is at her father s summer
home near New Yoi'k. Miss Alice Gleason of Guadalajara, Mexico, is
at the pleasant homestead in Topsfield, Mass., for the summer, and her
brother George, secretary of the Y. M. C. A. at Osaka, Japan, with his~
wife and little daughters, will make the family reunion a complete one in
July.
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Miss Mary F. Denton, principal of the Girls' Department of the
Doshisha, will soon leave Kyoto for a much needed furlough in California.
Miss Osborne who has been at Clifton Springs for several months is
now greatly improved in health, and is looking forward to complete
restoration. Miss Osborne sends the following account of the late meet-
ing of the I. M. U.
" One hundred and thirty missionaries, ranging in years and experience
from the retired veteran to the newly appointed recruit, representing the
International varied work of twenty-seven Boards, enjoyed the gra-
Missionary Union, cious ho.spitality of Clifton Springs Sanitarium from
May 29th to June 4th, in attendance upon the twenty-ninth annual meet-
ing of the International Missionary Union. Among the American Board
missionaries present were Dr. and Mrs. Sprague, Mrs. Goodrich and Mrs.
Alice Williams of China, Rev. C. M. Warren of Japan, Rev. H. C. Hazen
of India, ^and Miss Helen I. Root of Ceylon. China sent the largest del-
egation, with India a close second, and Japan, Africa and South America
added many a well-known name and face. The meeting began with a
iJ^ouching service in memory of Dr. Gracie, and eighteen other members of
the Union who have passed on during the year. Dr. J. Sumner Stone was
elected to the office of President. The central thought of the program
was God's Messengers in Relation to the World's Unrest; separate ses-
sions were given to the consideration of problems and developments in
the work of various fields, and Sunday evening guests and townspeople
crowded the Tabernacle to hear in the ' Challenge of the New National
Life in the East ' the opportunity of the Christian church. Lantern
lectures on the Soudan and North China brought their appeal to the eye,
and helped explain why some men and women present looked upon the
June beauty of Clifton's Park and called it paradise! "
The American Board held its eighth annual conference with newly
appointed and prospective missionaries. May 31st-June 5th. The
Candidates' attendance was smaller than last year as many of the
Conference, appointees had already sailed. In addition to the young
women adopted by the Woman's Board to whom reference has already
been made, — Miss Daisy Brown for Foochow, Miss Minnie K. Hastings
for Ceylon and Dr. Proctor for Ahmednagar, — there were present several
other single women who expect to go as missionaries of the W. B. M. I.
and W. B. M. P. Miss Gladys Stephenson who is now taking training
as a kindergarten teacher at the Los Angeles Normal School hopes to be
sent to Foochow under the Woman's Board of the Pacific, and Miss Edith
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Parsons of Saratoga, Cal., is under appointment for Brousa where she will
assist Miss Jillson, as a missionary of the same Board. The Woman's
Board of the Interior is sending Miss Elaine Strang to Fooehow, Miss
Grace Towner to Adana, Central Turkey, Miss Vina M. Sherman, as yet
undesignated, and Miss Kauffman, who was unable to attend the confer-
ence, to the Shansi Mission. Miss Fanny Sweeny expects to go to North
China in the fall as the wife of Rev. Dean R. Wicks. Miss Bertha D.
Magoon of Indianapolis was present with-a view to possible service in
East Africa, also Miss Lundquist, a trained nurse, who is to go for a term
of service under the American Board to Mt.. Silinda. Others attending
were Prof, and Mrs. Louis B. Fritts, designated to Guadalajara, Mexico,
Rev. and Mrs. S. Ralph Harlow soon to sail for Smyrna, Rev. Charles
Maas, a German-speaking missionary, who expects to go with his wife
to the Marshall Islands, and several young men under appointment fo-r
China, Africa and India. *
As the vacation time comes and the missionary meetings in many
places are discontinued, the article by Miss Frances J. Dyer on page 317
An Uninterrupted is particularly timely. Miss Dyer has succeeded in
Service. making her subject both spiritually profitable and prac-
tically workable, and those who read it will find an added incentive to
" pray without ceasing " during the season when so many forms of church
activity cease. There is special need for concentrated, persistent prayer
just now for new workers for the many vacant posts in our mission schools
and hospitals; definite gifts of money for buildings are being sought by
many in connection with our Golden Anniversai-y Gift, as set forth on
page 320. Let us not forget to pray for money for the new building
site so urgently needed by the Collegiate Institute at Smyrna. A special
leaflet prepared by Rev. Charles K. Tracy of Smyrna, on the work of
this splendid school, may. be had on application. Some beloved mission-
aries are ill, others are in sorrow, many are worn and overtaxed. Be-
cause of these and many other objects, shall we not keep in mind during
the coming months the Place of Prayer in Missions.
All who have access to a comfortable, well-arranged library will
appreciate the inconvenience suffered by the students at our school in
An Unhoused Barcelona where over a thousand volumes lie piled on the
Library. floors for lack of suitable shelves on which to arrange
them. Miss Webb writes that about $200 is very much needed to
provide these shelves and that no funds are available from the regular
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income of the school. Perhaps some friends of this beautiful work for
Spanish girls will be glad to send a part or the whole of this sum to our
assistant treasurer, Miss S. Emma Keith, and thus add to the efficiency
and comfort of the teachers and students in their new quarters at Barcelona.
The Zulu Mission has just lost an efficient and faithful worker, Martha
H. Pixley, who died at Banning, Cal., June 1st. She was born in Natal
Martha H. i^i 1863, the daughter of Rev. S. C. Pixley, missionary of
Pixley. the American Board since 1855. At the age of fourteen she
came to this country, and in 1886 graduated from Mount Holyoke Semi-
nary. She was there characterized as "bright, keen and thorough, able
to give to others what she knows," also as having "good judgment,
excellent common sense, ability to adapt herself to persons and places,
and untiring energy and perseverance," qualities which have been beau-
tifully exemplified in her missionary work. She went first to the school
for boys at Amanzimtote, and in 1891 for health reasons was transferred
to Esidumbini, where she aided new missionaries in the study of the
language, and entered into the labors of Miss Hance who had been so
successfully identified with work in that station. Since 1906 she has been
at Inanda doing all that uncertain health and waning strength would
allow. Returning last year for furlough, she has sought here and there
relief which failed to be found. For years she has fought tuberculosis.
Some months ago, with complication of other diseases, she went to Ban-
ning Hospital, under the care of Dr. J. C. King, where she has been
blessed with the skilful care of doctors and nurses. The end came
suddenly on the morning of the twenty-third anniversary of her sailing
from New York to join the Zulu Mission, and we feel like congratulating
her upon the welcome which must have awaited her from her own beloved
ones, from missionary associates who had gone before and Zulus whom
she had helped heavenward. e. h. s.
The news of the death of Mrs. W. L. Curtis of Niigata, Japan,
after an operation performed at Tokyo, April 26th, was received just too
Mrs, Gertrude late for publication last month, Mrs. Curtis went with
Benedict Curtis, her husband to Sendai in 1890, but after a few months
they were transferred to Niigata where for twenty-two years Mrs. Curtis
has been a benediction to all who came within the range of her influence.
Although her early years of service were years of much physical suffering
her brave spirit never faltered and when after a furlough in America
health was granted to her, all her strength was used in the manifold
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activities possible to the wife of a missionary in Japan. The loss to the
home and to the mission of this bright, unselfish spirit will call forth
much sympathy for the Husband and two children who survive her.
Rev. Samuel W. Howland, D.D., born of missionary parents in Ceylon
in 1848, gave his young manhood to the land of his nativity. A fine
Two Tamil scholar, translator and commentator, with an earnest
Veterans. Christian spirit, he was especially successful as president of
Jaffna College vmtil his wife's failing health necessitated a return to this
country. In missionary work here at home, in New York, Talladega and
Atlanta, he was equally successful. He died at Atlanta April 6th.
As we go to press the announcement comes of the death of Rev. W. A.
Farnsworth, D.D., for forty years a missionary of the American Board in
Turkey. To many the very rnention of Cesarea and Talas recalls his
name, and since the return of Dr. and Mrs. Farnsworth to spend their
last days with the children who are here, they have stood together upon
the platform at American Board meetings, an example of what such a
vinited husband and wife, father and mother, preacher, teacher and home
maker, maybe and do with the family especially committed to their keep-
ing and with others who have been born into less favorable conditions.
The summons came June 4th in the home of a daughter, Mrs. Edward
Gulick, at Hanover, N. H.
Mrs. J. O. Means, widow of Dr. John O. Means, formerly secretary of
the American Board, and herself for many years one of the corresponding
secretaries of the Woman's Board of Missions, entered
Mrs. J. O. Means. ^^^^^ ^^^ heavenly life, June 12th, after a very brief
illness, at the home of her brother, Dr. E. E. Strong, at Auburndale.
This announcement will carry sorrow to many who have been blessed by
the prayers and quiet ministries of this devoted servant of God. A further
sketch of Mrs. Means' life will appear in the August Life and Light.
THE Financial statement of the woman'5 board
Receipts from April 18 to May 18, 1912
For
Regular Work.
For
Buildings. "
For
Work of 1912.
For
Special Objects.
From
Legacies.
Total.
1911
1912
$15,320.69
22,256.-55
$2,942.75
2,200.00
$30.00
$227.00
503.63
$812.50
3,000.00
$19,302.94
27,990.18
Gain
Loss
6,935.86
742.75
30.00
276.63
2,187.50
8,687.24
For Seven Months to May 18, 1912
1911
1912
58,424.24
67,768.65
25,519.40
6,821.34
4,786.55
1,161.98
1,500.35
14,300.13
9,603.69
99,405.75
90,480.58
Gain
Loss
9,344,41
18,698.06
4,786.55
338.37
4,696.44
8,925.17
/p/^] Brief Days in China 297
BRIEF DAYS IN CHINA
BY KATE G. LAMSON
STREET SCENES IN FOOCHOW
ISN'T it laughable that you want to see such things?" So said the
coolies who were waiting with sedan chairs to take us and our mis-
sionary escort through the crowded streets of Foochow. VVe wished to
visit the churches of our order, the various places of meeting for day and
Sunday schools, to call on Pastor Ding and his family, to see the time-
honored Chinese examination halls and some temples. The joke was so
real to the coolies that it put them in a good humor for the entire expedi-
tion, a feat in itself quite worthy of accomplishment at the outset of such
a day as lay before us. To speak of crowded streets gives small idea of
the difficulties of transit through a Chinese city. Imagine yourself in the
narrow alleys with which our American cities abound, line both sides
with open stalls where all manner of goods are exposed for sale on stands
often projecting considerably into the street, fill the small space between
the opposite walls with a dense, constantly moving throng of passers-by
and from poles on the shoulders of those passers hang every conceivable
kind of burden from water buckets to sedan chairs and coffins, and you
will have an approximate conception of the chief thoroughfares in the
cities of old China. Novel sights and sounds are on every side. The
scene shifts perpetually but the interest never flags. Our bearers have
difficulty in steering our chairs with their long poles around the sharp
corners. We wonder how the heads of pedestrians escape blows. Food
is being cooked on coals by the wayside. Some of it looks very appe-
tizing, and cakes frying in hot fat are taking on a rich brown. Other
viands are enigmatical. We turn away with the question of their identity
unanswered and with no desire to investigate. Here are baskets of flowers
to make one breathe deep with delight and to tempt the Chinese equiva-
lent of pennies from our pockets. Such a very little money will buy a
bunch of fresia large enough to fill both hands, or sprays of early fruit
blossoms or Chinese lilies. A man comes quickly toward us holding a
great bunch of something mysterious in his hand. As he passes we dis-
cover that he has half a dozen live hens with feet tied tightly together
and heads hanging helplessly down. We pass under the shadow of the
White Pagoda, by its attendant temple, and up onto the hill behind the
mission compound. From there a fine view of the city may be had, and
we look right down upon the desolated Manchu quarter, stormed from
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this height and burned by the revolutionists in the short, sharp battle of
last November. It was an anxious night for those in the American Board
compound which lay almost in line of the bombardment, and traces of
the work of shot and shell v\^ere pointed out to us. At the time of our
visit the flag of the new Republic was floating over all as though no other
AMERICAN BOARD COMPOUND, FOOCHOW CITY
had ever been there, yet those of most experience and wisdom were saying
with serious faces that the end is not yet and no one can tell when or
what it will be.
A CHRISTIAN CHINESE HOME
Down the hill on the other side we found the home of Pastor Ding, for
many years the faithful servant of the God of righteousness and peace.
In the sunset of their lives he and his wife still bless the community with
their work and influence. We wondered whether we were in China or
America as the dear old lady told of her work in the missionary society,
and for how long a period of years it had fallen to her to collect the
money. "I can't get anybody else to do that," she said, "when it is
time for the money to be gathered in I have to go and do it myself."
vShe sent her greetings and her gratitude to the women of America who
for so long have had compassion for Christ's sake upon the women of
China and begged (hem to be not weary in well-doing.
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MISSION CHAPELS AND SCHOOLS
From one preaching place to another we went, just to see where our
congregations meet, where the Sunday schools gather and where the day
schools are held. It made one's heart swell to think at how many points
the world's Redeemer is being made known, through how many channels
GIRLS DAY SCHOOL, CONNECTED WITH DAVIS MEMORIAL KINDERGARTEN,
FOOCHOW CITY
the influence of his saving grace flows out to meet the vast needs of these
from the land of Sinim. The private home of a Mandarin lady was
shown us, which is opened every Sunday for Christian worship and
crowded with an eager, attentive audience.
FOOCHOW'S TEMPLES
From such scenes we went to one of Foochow's greatest temples erected
and maintained in honor of the governing deity of the city. Grotesque
figures were painted on gates and walks, hideous images adorned the
interior The hall where the god is supposed to dwell looks out upon a
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theatre where plays are acted from time to time to divert and amuse the
deity. Some worshipers were bringing offerings of food and some were
tossing the sticks which as they fall bring favorable answers or the
reverse to the petition of the suppliant. Later we passed a Taoist
temple. It was open and servicfe was being held for one who had recently
died. For seven times every seventh day the service must be conducted,
and until this is completed burial cannot take place. A bell was being
rung to call the attention of the gods, paper chests containing paper
clothing, food and money were there ready to be burned for the use of
the deceased. The priests were engaged in mummeries which were not
interrupted by their evident amusement over the strangers who had
stepped in to look on for a few moments. Sick at heart we turned away
and went on a few rods further to a Confucian temple. Simple, grand
and solitary it stands, with nothing revolting to meet the eye, but much
that is uplifting in architecture and decoration. Worship is only con-
ducted here once or twice a year, and grass was growing rank between
the paving stones of the court. Our guide told us they did not know
whether the new government would keep up this form of worship or not,
the question had yet to come up before the Parliament.
THE PLAGUE OF LEPROSY
A young lad with keys to open the building followed us about. A flush
on his forehead and cheek attracted the keen eye of our missionary phy-
sician who accompanied us, and drawing the boy into the light he
stooped, to look closely. There was a moment or two of careful examina-
tion in silence and then turning to us he gave his verdict, brief and com-
prehensive,— "red leprosy." Alas for suffering humanity in the Orient!
How well we can realize now the scene when the sick with divers
diseases crowded around the Great Physician.
The examination halls, type of the old China that falls in a night to
give place to the new, we found full of interest in their decay. Large
numbers of these rows of tiny cells remain, a refuge for rats and bats
instead of for the ambitious students who used to occupy them at stated
seasons in the year, but still more of them have fallen, the bricks of which
they were built being used for the new Parliament building which is
nearing completion close by. Shall new lives grow out of the dead
systems now being done away with.? Shall those lives be moulded for
Christian service, for heroic devotion to duty, for the highest principle,
or shall they be shaped for the worship of the gods of this world, ambition,
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wealth, indulgence, greed? The answer lies with the Christian world to
a great extent.
THE NEED OF THE HOUR
The revolution had played havoc temporarily with our girls' boarding
schools. The Foochow Girls' College at Ponasang had been closed since
November. For a time United States marines were set to guard the
premises. At the time of our visit it was hoped that within two weeks
OPERATING PAVILION, DR. KINNEAR's HOSPITAL, FOOCHOW CITY
conditions would be sufficiently undisturbed to permit reopening. It was
a satisfaction to examine the buildings where everything is ready for a
large work if only a sufficient staff of missionary ladies can be supplied.
Teachers who fill positions in the United States, coveted by many
aspirants, can hardly realize what it would be to labor in a field where
each one must count for a dozen at least, and where the work is to help
in shaping the womanhood of a desperately struggling and surely rising
nation. A site awaits the new Woman's Hospital and money is in hand
for the building, but nothing can be done until the physician who is to
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take on Dr. Woodhull's arduous labors is found and at hand to direct the
work of construction. The doctors at home who struggle to build up a
practice can have little conception of what it would be to have suffering
womanhood in its direst need crowding around them clamoring for the
help their own people know not how to give. If the teachers knew and
if the doctors knew they would turn toward China with a longing to be
there. But let no one think any other motive than the constraining love
of the Christ whose life was poured out for others will enable her to meet
the rigorous demands of such a career. Fearless, consecrated Christianity
is the great need of China to-day, and she is looking for it first of all in
the Christian missionary to whom she turns continually for guidance,
advice, help, sympathy.
THE CALL FROM DIONG-LOH
It was our privilege to spend two days in the southern part of our
Foochow Mission at Diong-loh, where is located Abbie B. Child Memo-
rial School. That station is beautiful for situation. The hills compass
it about and the River Min unites with the incoming waters of the China-
Sea to make a broad basin at Pagoda Anchorage, five miles away. The
Itills were aglow with wild lilac when we visited Diong-loh. It seemed
like the fair flower of Christian girlhood that we are causing to grow and
blossom in that soil so exclusively ours to cultivate. A fine site has been
secured in the city, large enough to accommodate all our missionary work,
and to this the school is now to be removed. This school like that at
Fonasang is temporarily disbanded on account of the condition of the
country, so the time is favorable for the change to be made. A great
dav lies just before this institution, it is so needed in this lower Min region,
and its opportunities are so boundless. One brave woman. Miss Eliza-
beth Perkins, has been standing at this post for several years during which
other workers have come and gone. The call for recruits rings loud and
clear from Diong-loh. Evangelistic, educational, medical work, all is
waiting to be done, and done by us for, by mutual agreement, other
agencies are leaving that field to us.
In three weeks spent in China we had glimpses of Hongkong, Canton,
vSwatow, Amoy, Foochow and Shanghai. At some of these places the
work visited was that of other Boards. One impression was made upon
us at every point, that of the importance of the present moment for China.
Let us study to know the will of God for us in connection with the regen-
eration of this great country, so powerful in its possibilities for both good
and evil, and may it become indeed Immanuel's land.
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THE ART OF BEING A MI55IONARY
BY GERTRUDJE HARRIS
Miss Harris sailed for Ahmednagar in 1910, and though not written for pub-
lication this story of her first months in India is of deep interest.
In the days of newspapers, books, and the "universal failing of
travel," what is there about any country that is not known seven times
over? India is now included in the principal highways ot travel, and it
would be difficult to imagine a more wonderful narrative than is the
average "first impressions" of the Jasmine Isle. An excellent way to
test these first impressions is to remain in India until one can compare
them with facts, then the thing that impresses him most is that he knows
nothing about India.
Those who have allowed their attention to be drawn from the scenes of
wars and the rumors of wars have read of the victories of peace that
India is winning. They know that her King Emperor on some occasions
rode unaccompanied through the streets, and that when thronged at rail-
way stations, he ordered his guards to allow the eager crowds to come
near and see him. It is difficult to realize what it has meant to the
masses of India to see their King Emperor face to face,, and to feel that
he is a real and not an imaginary being in the dim distance, who has no
special interest beyond that of the title of Emperor. It has cost some-
thing in a monetary way to be sure but it is worth much in the days of
revolution and unrest to feel that king and people as nearly as possible
are one, — a condition of prime importance for a country that is not yet pre-
pared to govern itself. One of India's own statesmen in an address at the
National Congress on this subject said, "Consider where we stand in the
scale of civilization, when we have only four women and eighteen men
per thousand who are literate; when there are millions of our countrymen
whom we look upon as 'untouchables' ; when we have about a hundred
thousand widows of less than five years, and caste rules still forbid sea
voyage, and Mr. Basu's Special Marriage Bill is condemned as a dan-
gerous innovation; when many Hindus do not sufficiently realize the fact
that there are sixty-five million Mohammedans whose interest and feelings
have to be cared for, and the Mohammedans are equally oblivious of the
interests and feelings of two hundred and forty million Hindus; when this
is the condition to which we have been brought by centuries of decay and
degradation, to talk of a national government for India to-day is to make
ourselves the laughing stock of the civilized world. Agitate for political
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rights by all means, but do not forget that the true salvation of India lies
in the amelioration of its social and moral conditions!"
Four literate women in a thousand! One impression that does not
fade in the light of facts is woman's condition in India. The status of
women has for thousands of years been the tide gauge of civilization,
says J. E. Gibbard. Women are India's burden bearers. Wherever any
building or public work of any character is being done, women carry the
stone and dirt in vessels upon their heads. Women with bundles of grass
or wood more than half their own height on their heads and a baby
strapped to the back are a most common everyday sight. Yet this is not
her great misfortune. That is her position in the home. Everyone has
read that the wife and daughters do not eat with the husband and sons,
but serve them and eat afterwards; that a girl is not welcomed at birth
and is taught from her childhood to serve her brothers; but seeing these
things makes a different impression upon one. This is a land where
women enjoy the right of franchise! Woman has a sphere in life com-
pared with which the right of franchise is but a shadow, and the posses-
sion of which franchise will never give her nor aid her in keeping.
Hindu laws relating to marriage, like the laws of the Medes and Persians,
are not changed and are beyond women's control.
It is not easy for those across the seas to realize the meaning of "there
are millions of our countrymen whom we look upon as untouchables." I
was talking to a Brahman (the highest caste) upon the subject of caste.
He is quite advanced in his ideas compared with many Brahmans of his
city. He said, "according to my religion I could not teach school for I
must there touch children of lower caste and that means defilement. I
also could not take food and water from any except a Brahman, nor eat
with Europeans nor take European food. I know that there is no moral
or spiritual value in idol worship and in observing the endless ceremonies
incumbent upon a true Brahman. However, those of my own household
adhere strictly to such things, and if I did not do, for custom's sake, many
things that mean nothing to me at all, my family would be degraded in
the eyes of society and my daughter could not marry, — a thing we look
upon as a disgrace. However, when Europeans call upon them they greet
them and shake hands with them, but bathe and change their clothing
after the guests are gone." Perhaps to those afar his arguments do not
have much weight, but I have been here long enough to understand his
position. If he were to become a Christian out and out he would be
forced to leave his friends and his wife would leave him, — a situation not
easily understood by us.
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As tangled a web as is that of the caste system of India is its pantheon
of three hundred and, thirty-three millions of gods. I cannot repress an
inward feeling of disgust as well as pity when I see educated and unedu-
cated, Brahman and sweeper, bowing to a hideous idol. Long before
day I hear the Mohammedan saying his prayer at the mosque, which
sounds more like a cry of despair than it does like a prayer. From my
window I can see four Hindu temples, and about daybreak the worshipers
begin one after another to clasp their hands and shout at the idol to wake
him up and get his attention. Nor does one become accustomed to this
form of worship when he knows what is connected with it. What effect
does education have upon this worship? — for education is as powerful a
factor in India as commercialism is in the United States. I know of a
temple where there are priests who are graduates of a Bombay college.
Education is the password in India and yet India through its wisdom does
not know God. Education alone is powerless before a custom that is the
warp and woof of a people. However, day is breaking in India, one of
the surest signs of which is the provision made for education of Indian
women.
I wish I could take you with me into the homes of this city, not for
curiosity's sake, but that you might come into contact with the people at
the citadel. Dismiss from your minds all ideas of a modern city with
paved streets, sidewalks, and that American novelty, skyscrapers. The
first thing you notice as you approach the city is the high wall. We
enter it through a gate and notice that the streets or lanes, as they are
called, have no particular direction. The houses for the most part are
made of mud and are of one story, except an occasional one of some pre-
tense of two stories. In many streets there is not room enough for two
tongas to pass. As we drive through the \)2^7.2^2iX we see the shopkeepers
leisurely sitting on the floor as are the shimpies (tailors) also. It is five
o'clock in the afternoon and as we pass the schoolhouse the children have
just been dismissed for the day. We are surrounded by dozens of children
whose brown faces are turned toward us and we look down into a sea of
brown eyes. We pass the potter at his wheel and see a picture of Jere-
miah's object lesson. A little distance ahead we notice a woman stand-
ing at the door smiling. The Bible women have called upon her before
and she asks us to come in now. We enter a court about sixteen by
twenty feet. On the left of the door is the horse in its stall munching
sugar-cane stalks; in another corner in a kennel is a not over friendly
dog. At the end of this court is the house proper — one room where the
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family eat and sleep. A plain piece of carpet is spread upon the ground
and the guests asked to sit upon it, while the family and friends sit on the
ground. To a group of anywhere from twenty to thirty people,-— women,
children, and men — who are just outside of the main group, — we sing
Marathi hymns, then the Bible woman tells a story. From time to time
others join the audience, — women with vessels of water which they take
from the head and rest while listening. This is the way the seed is sown.
In another house a woman is spinning the silk or weaving cloth. We
also see a woman making bricks, four hundred an hour. , In a rich
weaver's home the guests are given chairs to sit upon, but the family sit
on the floor. In many homes a room is reserved for the god — a stone
bull, elephant, or a crude and repulsive figure of a man. On our way
out of the city, — the missionaries' bungalows are outside the city, — we
meet the gavali or milkman with his cattle, for it is evening. We do
not think of a singing milkmaid when we look at that homely beast — the
buffalo — with its agate eyes and long horns. The dogs one sees are
hungry, maltreated homely beasts. We also see many little donkeys with
bundles of wood on their backs.
It is impossible to tell of everything of interest. Even the everyday
things of household life would be interesting. It may be imagined that
it is almost like being in fairy land to live where all the housework is
done by servants. After a year's experience I say unto you "nay." You
would think it was a most earthly real world if you had to tell a servant
how to do a thing a hundred times, and then find it done the opposite
way. I have imagined that I possessed a rather fair amount of patience
but on trying occasions have found myself holding the reins with the grip
of a Roman charioteer. Many times I have been eager to do the work
myself, but that is not possible here in India even if we had the time.
There are many things also to which we must become, shall I say,
^'immune".'' Before coming to India we may know ever so much about
some of the sights we are to see, yet one is shocked many a time at what
the native person does from habit without a qualm, — another result of
idolatry. But there are many, many things to admire ih this people.
Just now I am teaching the graduating class in the Anglo-Vernacular
Girls' School the Book of Acts, and what a delight it is! I challenge
you to come here and live among this people and not love them. These
are Christian girls of course and they have two or three generations of
Christian inheritance. One of the most interesting things you can
imagine is to note the difference between Christians and non-Christians.
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They have a higher idea of life and a truer knowledge of sin. I can
betier understand now why the prophets of Israel hated idolatry with all
their being. It is a fine theory to say that people by worshiping nature
come to know nature's God. Ask intelligent Christians what idea they
had of God while they were idolators. and they will tell you they had no
idea whatever of a spiritual God and that when God was mentioned the
picture of the idol always came into the mind. India has not reached
God that way, although for centuries she has been in some respects sin-
cerely worshiping.
Can you imagine a Hindu attending a Christian entertainment? Can
you imagine that those who live where snow never falls, in this section
it does not, and where there is not a suggestion of Christmas, except what
they make for themselves, having a real Christmas? It is really possible.
Miss Moran from Nellore spent ten days with me in Ahmednagar.
Christmas morning before daybreak some high school boys came to our
bungalow and sang carols. While it was yet dark the nurses from the
hospital also sang carols for us. Miss Moran and I trimmed the tree and
put the sweets in bags. That afternoon more than two hundred people,
former patients and friends, came. They listened to that sweet Old Story
and the explanation of it by the Bible women. Dr. Stephenson and Miss
Johnson saw some of the fruits of their labors and surely had reason to
rejoice. The happiest part of the day for us was not when we found our
stockings filled in the morning, but when we gave the sweets to the
women and children, and each child a picture book.
Besides a new missionary's regular, everyday unending work, there is
that bete noire known in common parlance as the study of the language.
I have charge of the vernacular school for girls in which there are eight
Indian teachers, five women and three men. This position was given
me because of a vacancy caused by a furlough, and I shall probably keep
it a year or a little more. It is an excellent way to become initiated into
Indian life, a knowledge that will be a most valuable asset in my Bible
school. If anyone imagines that getting into an Oriental's mind and
seeing from his standpoint is a small undertaking, let him disabuse him-
self of that fallacy. Oh, if I could just get into that brown skin for a
day at least and see from his standpoint! Often when I am teaching I
wonder who has the most to learn, the pupil who comes to be taught or
the one who desires to learn how to teach him. In other words, instead
of trying to cut the Oriental mind to fit Occidental pattern, I am trying to
learn to adjust Occidental methods to Eastern minds. Otherwise there
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will be some ludicrous misfits. Some one asked me in America whether
I intended to adopt the dress of Indian women! That would not be as
ridiculous as trying to make this people see from our viewpoint. How-
ever, the Indian women may almost be envied in the matter of dress. To
those of us who have no precious hoiirs to spend planning our wardrobe,
the simple dress of Indian women is an object of envy. I never saw
more graceful women than are some of the Parsi women. Of course, I
do not for a ininute want to exchange my own for their style and would be
very sorry to have them change theirs for mine.
If you would like the experience of being made over again, a mission-
ary's life would suit you; never mind about the process, the sawing,
hammering, and planing that is involved, but see that you smile as long
as the sunshines! Then you might forget all about the experiences of the
day while attuning your ear to the Oriental music whose charms soothe
the breasts of some people until the wee morning hours.
The Monk of San Marco at Florence, Fra Angelico, lived only to paint
riis religion. "He would not consider any subject but a sacred one, and
having selected his subject he knelt in prayer that the God who gave his
spirit of old to Bezaleel, the son of Uri, that he might have wisdom in
all manner of cunning workmanship in gold and silver, might graciously
give that same spirit unto him that he might paint to the glory of God.
Working in that spirit he achieved that which still speaks to men."
Working in that spirit may one of humbler attainments paint the picture
of the Man of Galilee on the hearts of men and women!
auntooL^oA
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A CONFLRLNCL OF YOUNG PLOPLL'5 LLADLR5
On May 28th and 29th there met in Boston the first conference of
Branch Junior Secretaries ever held independently of the annual meeting.
Its three sessions were marked by an almost complete representation of
the Board's twenty-three Branches, and by a spirit of earnest seeking after
wise plans and thorough preparation for an advance movement in our
work among young people next winter. Although all its discussions
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would be rich in suggestion to the local leader, attention must here be
directed to the more important of its ambitions and plans.
This coming year the work of the Junior Department will be char-
acterized by that co-operation between secretaries and that definiteness of
aim which are essential to any progressive and efficient organization. If
helpful suggestions are to pass from ope leader to another, and from one
Branch to another, if the spirit of loyalty to the Woman's Board is to be
strengthened among the members of our societies, if the department is to
develop along those lines and in those localities where it is weak, if it is
wisely to prepare reinedies for existing diseases, and to advance boldly
with the far-seeing, constructive measures year by year, a greater sense
of unity in work and of interdependence must be cultivated. This must be
brought about both between the Board Secretary and the Branch Secretaries,
and between each Branch Secretary and her local leaders. There is great
inspiration and great strength to be secured in "working together,"
.Surely God desires that our work be marked by that greater power. Do
you know the others who are doing your kind of work in your Branch ?
Are you "alive" to the Branch Secretary? She does not wish your
reports alone, she desires to know you and your society. Unless you are
responsive her work is crippled by ignorance of conditions and your own
is made more difficult and less resourceful. Your secretary will try again
this year to know you. Will you try to know her.?
The conference sought carefully to define the task with which its secre-
taries are intrusted and the ideal which should be ever before them. It
also mapped out definite work to be accomplished during the next year.
Why should we enter the Sunday-school field? how much and what have
we done in that field hitherto? have our work and methods proved
effective? how can we increase the one and better the other? These are
the kind of questions the delegates asked themselves. They indicate the
scrutiny directed upon each line of Junior activity. Would your local
work be enlivened and reinforced by such an examination? would your
accomplishment be greater if in its light you set a new goal and sought
fresh strength for reaching it?
A^ a result of this method in the conference, secretaries will for a year
concentrate their energies in the Sunday school upon urging our Primary
and Junior Superintendents to put missionary education into their pro-
grams and supplying them with material to this end; in our Mission Band
and Junior Endeavor work upon devising and furthering new means of
"backing up" local leaders, such as visiting, conference, rallies, bureaus
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of exchange, etc. ; in our Christian Endeavor field upon presenting a
more varied appeal sent from the Branch instead of from the Board, and
in the fall of the year; in our Junior Auxiliaries upon stimulating more
serious and systematic programs; and in our Cradle Roll on bringing
about co-operation v^ith existing Sunday-school Cradle Rolls. As a help
in these efforts, emphasis is laid upon the desirability of having every
Woman's Auxiliary appoint a Junior Committee to server as a link
between the Junior Secretary and each local church.
Does our task, even when thus restricted, seem overwhelming? Never-
theless we, and you, approach it commissioned — "As the Father hath
sent me, even so send I you, " — and w^ith the assurance of sufficient power,
for "They that wait upon the Lord shall renev^ their strength . . . they
shall walk and not be weary."
The treasurer of the W. B. M. P., Miss Henrietta F. Brewer, of Oakland, Cal., has
embarked upon a prolonged tour of the Orient, involving an absence from home of
two years.
Miss Brewer writes May 8th en i-oute to Japan: "We are promised lunch
in Yokohama Friday, and shall be more than delighted to end our journey
Miss Brewer's by sea for the present, even though we have lost one day
Tour. out here in the Pacific and are beating our sailing time by
another. The way has seemed long and we have not been as comfortable
as we sometimes are on shipboard. It is cold and foggy, and we are glad
there are no icebergs on our route.
"I had a card at Honolulu from Miss Hill saying, 'Banzai! To think
you are really coming! Miss Denton and I can hardly wait.' And all
the Japanese on board say, 'You know Miss Denton.'' Then you will
have a very nice time.'
'"I shall be in time for the missionary meeting at Arima the last of
May, and we shall put in the time between our landing and that date, in
Tokyo and Nikko, going to Kyoto for a longer stay after that."
During the treasurer's absence, her work will be carried on by her
able assistant, Mrs. W. W. Ferrier, 2716 Hillegas Street, Berkeley, Cal.
/p/-?] James, the Modern Apostle 311
California has its Northfield, up among- the great redwoods, seven
miles from Santa Cruz. There the Federate School of Missions, repre-
Summer School at senting seven denominations, will hold its summer
Mount Hermon. school, from July 19th to 29th. Mrs. D. M. Wells and
Mrs. Alice Coleman will conduct the study classes in the new text-books.
JAML5. THL MODLRN AP05TLL
Far out on the battle line, on the great trunk road that connects
Hankow, the center of the revolution in China, with Peking the capital,
lies Paoting-fu, a large and important city, coming into great prominence
as a center of the railroad, which is already projecting these bands of steel
into Shansi and far into the interior. To us it is a hallowed place, where
we linger over the twenty-six graves of our martyrs who gave their lives
in the Boxer outbreak. Pao-ting-fu, — to protect, to nourish, as a mother
cares for her own ; keep the name in mind as you study the history of
this new chapter in the Acts of the Apostles. It is here that we find
to-day one whom we shall call James the modern apostle. From his
first epistle we cull the following, December 2, 1911.
"With Manchuria independent — but allowing ten thousand troops to be
transported to the seat of war; Shantung a republic one day — coming
back to the maternal government the next; Shansi revolutionary in spots;
Shensi and Szechuan probably in a state of anarchy; the southern
provinces all independent; and poor old Hupei trying to stand for the
Imperial government of China; Wu Ting Fang trying to keep up his old
tricks in Shanghai, trying to pull the wool over everybody's eyes (at the
same time keeping himself in a safe place 'with a British flag in his
pocket') ; the credit of the government wrecked ; no money in the treasury ;
how long will the army remain loyal under such conditions?
"Tremendous strides have been made — greater advances have been made.
We can only hope and pray that wisdom and grace may be given, so
that the transformation can come with the miniinum amount of bloodshed
and suffering. It is the same old battle that was fought in England in
1200 — the same battle that was fought in New England in 1776 — a less
advanced stage of the same battle that is being fought in England and
America to-day.
"Light — Liberty and Truth — these will ultimately prevail."
Naturally, Paoting-fu early became a relief center. Back came long
trains with their precious freight of wounded soldiers, and our chapel
became the headquarters of the Red Cross work, while out in the country
gaunt famine stalked. All business was at a standstill. The people were
unable to sell their products; numerous villages were flooded. Mission-
aries and Chinese congregations gathered a fund of $1,200 and placed it
in the hands of James for Famine Relief. It is a story that might well
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take its place in the annals of the first century. Twelve men, working
in companies from a common center, go out to forty villages, reaching
10,719 stricken people. It is a work fraught with much risk for they
are accused of recruiting for the revolutionists. The destitution is terrible,
so that there is a traffic in women and children. In one place four chil-
dren are sold, the parents separated, and the grandmother returned to her
maternal home. The funds in hand for this relief allowed about one
hundred and twenty actual pieces for each person, about five and one-half
cents gold. The closing passage of the Second Epistle of James reads: —
" We will gladly act as stewards in distribzitiiig any funds that co7ne
to hand^ trying to do it in the wisest way,"
Next we see our apostle on a great platform at the Confucian Temple,
taking part in a remarkable mass meeting celebrating the establishment of
the Republic. It is a splendid program thoroughly representative, the
five-color flag is flying everywhere; tremendous crowds at every turn,
most good natured, as far as one could see.
But the city was full of discontented, unpaid soldiers. In addition
to the ranks already massed there, the First Army Corps had been returned
from Hankow. The very next day a slight disturbance on the street led
to a fatal shot that was like putting a match to a powder magazine.
During the next two days, the city was practically destroyed — burned and
plundered. The contrast to 1900 was very marked. This time the Chris-
tians were the ones protected and saved.
"Some two hundred and fifty were sheltered in the compound of the
American Board, besides the Red Cross Society of seventy, and no extra
supply of food. ... It seems a cruel fate that after waiting all these
months we should be caught as we have been," reads the Third Epistle.
A boat pushes through from Tientsin unmolested, and rice is also
sent from the government officials. Sunday, March 10th, is ushered in
in quiet peace, and our apostle breaks the Bread of Life to hundreds, in
the open air, for no building is large enough to hold them, and the chapel
is devoted to Red Cross work. Systematic feeding for body and soul calls
for and taxes the resources of no unusual general. No wonder the last
inessage is —
"Thus the great problems remain unsolved, and we know not what. a
day will bring forth."
Had this apostle lived in the first century, he would have been upheld
by a great wave of prayer, the constant prayers of the "twelve tribes
scattered abroad"; he lives in the wonderful twentieth century, and we
scarcely know the name of the hero who does o2ir work, out on the danger
line, — James H. McCann of Paoting-fu.
BACK IN THE NORTH CIRCLE
It is a pleasure to be able to share a letter from Rev. J. C. Perkins,
who returned to India, early this year. On account of the health of his
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son his home will"be in the hills, and his new station is that ot the North
Circle of the Madura Mission.
"Dindigul and Palani stations are now called the North Circle of the
Madura Mission. It is a most promising field, but as my predecessors
have during the last few years
had so little outside of the in-
adequate appropriations from the
Board, the Circle is in a most
deplorable state. Instead of hav-
ing a boarding school like the
one at Aruppukottai of one
hundred and fifty young people
we have only forty-five children
in our boarding school at Din-
digul and no boarding school at
all at Palani. Only twenty-five
girls out of a heathen population
of 550,000, and a Christian popu-
lation of 3,425, are studying or
can study on the present appro-
priations, and the work in other
departments is similarly held
down to the lowest notch. The
helpers, that is the preachers
and teachers, seem discouraged
and their frame of mind is typified
in the expression of one who in
giving his report at my first meet-
ing with the agents, said among
other things, 'In the foothills is a
village where a number are very
near Christianity and I thought of calling the missionary and the pastor to
come and draw them in, but I thought what is the use, there is no money
to put a teacher or a preacher there or to build even a mud hut, or to
provide any one to encourage them in any way when persecution comes,
so I did nothing,' or to use the idiom of the language, 'I came without
speaking.' I never have found myself in quite such a depressing atmos-
phere before in all my long missionary career. . . . The opportunities are
great, but iny hands seem tied — I can do nothing.
"Here we have an unusual opportunity with a number of high-caste
families who have become Christians and yet_have no means of educating
their children. If they are not educated, that means a poor lot of Chris-
tians and a dearth of helpers twenty years from now.
"I hope the Pacific Board will see its way clear to send $500 yearly,
it will open up and develop the finest of opportunities in the North
Circle."
REV. J. C. PERKINS
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OUR FIELD CORRESPONDENTS
Miss Mary C. Fowie writes from Sivas, Turkey: —
In Constantinople, I suppose there is great excitement and fear per-
haps, due to the war, but here we feel none of it. I am surprised there
should be so little interest as there seems to be. Of course the Turks are
interested I suppose but we have little to do with them and there is no
general excitement. Our mails are very slow and irregular, I suppose
because of interference with the Black Sea boats, but otherwise there is
no unusual excitement, or change in our daily lives.
We have a very full school this year, in all departments. Sivas has the
name of being unusually "a lover of education" as they say here. An
unusually large per cent of the boys and girls of all races and classes are in
school, and since for a couple of years times have not been quite so hard,
those who had to leave to earn their daily bread are coming back from
shop and factory to school again. Several girls who would have fallen
from their classes have had to be kept along, because, as Miss Graffam
put it, they had "no place to fall to." Had the weather been as last
year, I fear in these overcrowded rooms typhus might have developed,
but it has been quite warm, and mild, so we could leave windows open.
We have some eleven hundred children right in this city in our schools.
Miss Rice and I are very happy together and are doing better work than
either could alone, I am sure. Of course in school work you cannot see
results immediately or report any great things. We have the two lowest
classes in English, over sixty girls between twelve and fifteen and enjoy
them greatly.
In a personal letter Miss Fowle writes of the death of one of their
pupils, who had also taken a nurse's training at Talas: —
We had lost one whole day out of our examinations because of Khasig's
death of typhus fever. She had seemed so much better that really we
uninitiated thought she was out of danger. The fever had left; she was
sleeping at last — for days she could not — and taking nourishment. But
after her hard fight she did not have the recuperative power, and passed
away Thursday morning, the seventeenth day of her illness, just as
Evylina did, from the same disease, but little over two years before.
Some of you may not know that Khasig was a girl from our Swiss
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orphanage here who went to Talas for a nurse's training at the hospital,
and was there three years, I think. Though never brilliant and with
rather weak eyes, she pegged away and last April received her diploma
from the hospital. Then the doctors invited her to go with them to
Konia, but she chose to accept, at least for a year, the invitation from the
Armenian hospital to come here in charge of their institution. When I
returned from Talas she came with me, and in September formally took
charge. It was no easy task but she surprised her most optimistic friends
in the efficiency of her vvork and the amount accomplished. She made
the best of what she had to do with ; so well and so completely won the
confidence of the trustees, that they granted her almost anything she asked
for in the way of equipment. Miss Cole and the Swiss ladies often visited
and advised her, and they all, especially Miss Cole, were most enthu-
siastic in their praise of the change effected in cleanliness and good
order. The institution was a different place. It is very liberally sup-
ported by the people, the poorest villages even sending in contributions
of wheat. They have very many charity cases. At first she requested
she might have only the women's department, which was in a separate
wing; but she proved so efficient that early in the winter she was put in
charge of the whole institution. The tact with which she met those can-
tankerous trustees and won them over to giving her what she needed, has
astonished the whole community. Many earnest inquiries were made
during her illness, and every possible means used. Miss Cole sent her
most experienced nurse, Haiganoosh, to take charge during the day, and
Miss Stucky took care of her at night.
Although Khasig was not a graduate, she had been in our school.
Because of her eyes and the difficulty she found in learning English she
had not finished. We felt it was good to do her honor by omitting the
school session the day of her funeral in order to show the girls that high
marks in school were not essential to a successful life, and also to dis-
sipate the idea among many uneducated that being a nurse was not a very
noble occupation. For Khasig's own sake we were glad to do her honor,
but these other considerations also entered in. After a few appreciative
remarks, Miss Graffam dismissed the whole school.
The funeral was to be from the orphanage at eleven, but it was two
hours late. They had a large choir of boys from the Armenian orphanage
in surplices with wreaths and candles. Three priests besides Mr.
Partridge took part and there was also an oration. Most of the impor-
tant men of the community had closed their shops and were there. Our
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orphanage girls sang several times. A long line followed to the ceme-
tery. She had joined our church just before her illness, — in fact she
felt too wretched to come out that day except that she was to be received.
She was buried almost next to Evylina. It was a remarkable sight to see
Gregorian priest and American missionary taking part in the same
service. There was not a thing that was in any way offensive to anyone,
and all was most impressive. No Christian woman was ever buried with
more honor or more sincere and public sorrow, than this unknown orphan
girl with no influential friends or relatives, who in five months had by
her own steadfast and persevering patience, won a place in the community.
Miss Mary L. Matthews writes from Monastir, European Turkey: —
Miss Davis is worth waiting three years for, and is just the one for the
school, as well as a very delightful companion. She is hard at work on
the language, and has one school exercise every day, either physical cul-
ture, drawing or vocal music. She enjoys this and it is a great help, as
the school is larger than ever before, and we have one less assistant than
last year. We expected that after the cholera epidemic the school would
be smaller than usual. The cholera epidemic lasted from the middle of
August to the middle of October, and delayed the opening of all schools.
My friends are asking about my furlough, but it is not to be thought of
this year. In the summer of 1913 I may be able to get away if my place
can be provided for.
Last Sunday two of our girls were received into the church. One is a
boarder and the other a day pupil. There were to have been four, but
one former pupil has been advised to wait awhile for personal reasons,
and the fourth was detained from church by the death of a sister who was
buried Sunday afternoon. The spirit of our girls has been better this
year than last, and the discipline of the school is easy. We have no
class to graduate in June, but next year's class probably will consist of
seven or eight girls. Our course now consists of five years above the
preparatory grades, instead of four, and we have a teacher of organ music
which the girls have been anxious to study. There are cabinet organs in
several of their homes and churches now. I am thankful Miss Davis has
taken the vocal music, for I only taught it because there was no one else
who could.
The city is quiet and we hear very little about the war. Of course
conditions are very far from satisfactory, but we go on with our work with
no thought of danger. There has been trouble of a serious nature at
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817
Radovish, but there is good order here. Since the bombs were thrown at
.the Salonica Bank, on the other side of this city, nothing of the kind has
occurred. There is always more or less moving of troops for this is a
military center. Recently we heard that there were two fatal cases of
cholera among the soldiers who came from Albania a few weeks ago, and
that that part of the army had been sent away. I do not know where, but
by train I think. We do not know of any more cholera at present.
There was none through the winter. We cannot hope that the city will
-escape that disease entirely this summer, but the doctors will know better
what to do after last year's experience. We have had no serious earth-
quakes this year, only slight ones. Do not forget to pray for a special
blessing upon our school and church and city.
iI)orft
THL PLACL OF PRAYER IN MISSIONS
BY FRANCES J. DYER
Theoretically we all admit that both in our individual and in our
corporate Christian life prayer holds, or should hold, the supreme place.
But does practice square with belief in this matter? Take the average
missionary meeting of women, not the big conventions where trained
leaders conduct the devotional exercises, but the little local auxiliary. In
a multitude of cases the Lord's Prayer said in unison is the only approach
"unto the throne of the heavenly grace." We Congregationalists are not
sinners above others in this custom for the same is true in other denomi-
nations. Yet the constituency of such societies is made up of good
women who would be shocked if told that they considered prayer unim-
portant, of really less consequence than the study or the social hour after
the meeting. Have we thoughtlessly formed a habit of placing the
emphasis on other parts of the program, or in our inmost souls do we
regard the devotional services as only a decorous form that it would be
improper or in poor taste to omit?
The lack of vitality in many a religious gathering lies in just this
failure to seek first the pi-esence and power of the Holy Spirit. When-
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ever this is primary wonderful results are sure to follow. This was
strikingly illustrated in last year's Jubilee which was begun, continued
and ended in the effectual, fervent prayer that avails much. The leaders
believed and acted upon the belief that "apart from Me ye can do noth-
ing." Invocations for the divine presence and blessing held a foremost
place in the public assemblies, and in accordance with the working of
spiritual laws all other things were added — numbers, enthusiasm, money,
influence. Sometimes one feels that the chief mission of that remarkable
movement was to awaken in American women a fresh realization that
"more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of."
Passing from the public to the personal side of the subject there are
evidences of a like formalism and neglect. Unconsciously perhaps we
have contracted the habit of vague and general petitions without any
strong desire that what we ask for will be granted. An honest examina-
tion of our prayer life will reveal many defects. These cannot be
removed except by sincere and persistent effort. Without being morbidly
introspective it is well to keep a strict watch, say for a day or a month at
a time, of the requests which we bring daily to the Lord. In this way we
may become conscious of the vagueness and essential selfishness of much of
our praying. We find that we ask Him continually to give us health and
success, to bless our family and home and friends, with scarcely a thought
for the rest of the world.
This fault may be corrected by keeping a prayer list, and here we may
well take lessons of the native Christians in other lands. Mr. J. Camp-
bell White tells of a remarkable Chinese pastor who has over twelve
hundred names on such a list. When Mr. White asked that his own
• might be added the man replied, "You do not need to make that request
of me. I have had your name on my list for a long time." Then he
opened a little book and pointed to a number in the five hundreds to
which Mr. White's name was attached. This man has literally gone into
the business of prayer, and has become a mighty power among his people
and in all the Christian work of China. Commenting on this incident a
friend remarked, "That's all very well in a land of leisure like China,
but in the hurly-burly and bustle of our American life it would be wholly
impossible to remember over a thousand persons in that way." But how
many of us intercede regularly for even ten, outside of our own immediate
circle? The habit of keeping such a list grows by exercise and is a real
tonic to one's spiritual life.
Not long ago some one wrote me saying, "I've put you on my Thurs-
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day list. " When asked for an explanation the writer said that she had
adopted the plan of dividing her friends into seven groups, and praying
for each group on a given day in the week. Another person of whom I
know sets apart a half hour on Sunday for special prayer in behalf of a
large number of charitable organizations in which she is interested and to
which she contributes liberally. If we are accustomed to classify and
systematize our household and social duties why should we not give equal
thought to the higher work of intercession?
Here let me enter a plea for a fuller use of the Prayer Calendar of our
Woman's Boards, — one of the best devices for teaching us how to be
definite in our requests, and for broadening the horizon of our interests.
It is an excellent plan for two or more friends to enter into covenant to
pray at the same hour for the person or subject mentioned, remembering
the promise that "if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything
that they shall ask it shall be done for them." We are not heard for
our much speaking, and as Mrs. Browning says, "Every wish is like a
prayer with God." So wherever we are, or however busy, we can keep
our tryst and thus bring a rich blessing to some faithful representative of
ours thousands of miles away. The history of missions is full of experi-
ences to show that a danger has been suddenly averted, a burden lifted, a
difficulty removed, or a strange sense of power granted at a critical
moment, apparently without cause. Subsequently it has been found that
some one on the other side of the globe was interceding at that very hour
in behalf of the one to whom instantaneous relief came. "Why, there-
fore, should we do ourselves this wrong, or others," (hat we do not
oftener make use of those great spiritual forces which transcend human
power?
Let me also suggest that in reading Life and Light more- heed be
given to the specific requests for prayer. Write them down, for in these
days of many engagements we do not trust our m.emories even for shop-
ping, or when we wish to take books from the public library. Looking
at random through two copies of the magazine lying on my desk I find
the following half dozen appeals. From Japan: Do pray for me every
day that I may bring these Japanese girls to a knowledge of our Lord.
From China: Pray for those who have suffered more than we from deeds
of violence. From Turkey: Pray that the work and workers may be blest
and that we may be kept quiet and calm. Again, that the hope of many
turning to God in these dark places may soon be realized. From leaders
at home: In all your plans let there be much earnest prayer, alone and
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with your co-workers. Again, your earnest prayer was asked during the
coming weeks of preparation for the secretarial conference of the young
people's department held in May. Out of thousands of readers how
many, do you suppose, pay the least attention to such appeals? But
suppose one, five, or ten thousand women from this time onward should
conscientiously make a note, month by month, of these requests and
urgently plead to have them granted. Dare we estimate what results
might follow?
In the deepening of our personal religious life lies the secret of a
deeper interest in missions. The woman who talks with God every day
about individuals whose name she has put in "a book of remembrance"
will never be indifferent to the place where they live or the work in
which they are engaged. When prayer holds the supreme place in
practice, as well as in theory, we shall realize the force of Gen. S. C.
Armstrong's words, who said: ^'My own prayer has been most weak,
wavering, inconstant, yet it has beeruthe best thing I've ever done."
THE GOLDLN ANNIVERSARY GIFT
Aim for Five Years— $250,000
Those who have read the story of the luncheon party in the last issue of
Life and Light will want to know the progress of the plan, how much
money is coming and w^hat buildings benefit by it. We count to the credit
of the Golden Anniversary Gift all money received for buildings since the
idea was born February 12, 1912. We report a total of $5, .374. 06 to June
5, 1912, which is divided among various objects as follows : —
Ghihauhau, Mexico $1,010.41
Matsuyama, Japan 233.23
Smyrna, Turkey 40.00
Mardin, " 576.42
Van, " new building 689.00
Hartfoi-d Branch has pledged $2,311
Van, Turkey, remodeling 1,000.00
Undesignated 1,825.00
$5,374.06
Bear in mind that the hour is critical for the splendid girls' school at
Smyrna. Shall it go from strength to strength, or must every impulse of
life and development be curbed by the limitations of its present location ?
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Eighty-five hundred dollars is needed by July 12th to purchase a lot of iand
which must be bought then if the school is to prosper. Never again will
a like opportunity occur. If any friend can send a check for one hundred
dollars, let it come quickly ; a gift of one thousand dollars would be most
gratefully welcomed.
A UNIQUL MI55IONARY CLUB
The Medical Women's Association for aiding women in medical work in
foreign countries held its first annual meeting April 25, 1912, in the parlors
of the Old South Church.
This Association was formed by fifteen women physicians of Boston and
vicinity. The membership is now one hundred and twenty although only
about one third of the members are physicians.
Six meetings have been held during the year with an average attendance
of forty-three. The Association has sent out two thousand leaflets telling
of the purpose of the organization. They have contributed toward the
support of one trained nurse. Miss Myra L. Sawyer, who is assisting Dr.
F. F. Tucker, in Pang-Chuang, China. They have been instrumental in
sending two women physicians to India and have helped build bungalows
for hospital doctors. They have raised money for scholarships in the
Woman's Medical School, LtDdiana, India, and in Canton, China, for educat-
ing native women in medicine. The Hackett Medical School, Canton,
China, opened in 1901, admits women students. The North China Union
Medical College, opened in 1908, also admi'-s women students. Dr. Morris,
the president of this Association, asserts that a properly qualified and trained
native woman physician can accomplish more than our American or Euro-
pean women physicians working in the field.
Dr. Morris made a strong plea that those present at the first annual
meeting of the Association should form themselves into a committee to
solicit interest and membership among women physicians. While the
annual fee is only $1, yet $1 will treat seventy patients in China. Dr.
Mulliner, the treasurer, i-eported that after deducting all expenses for 'the
year's work there was a balance in the general treasury of $41.56.
This unique undenominational work, the direct result of the Jubilee
meetings held in Boston in March, 1911, should command the interest and
support of all women who want to alleviate the physical as well as spiritual
woes of other women the wide world over. G. H. c.
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OUR BOOK TABLE
CJiina i7z Revolution. By Arthur Judson Brown. Published by the
Student Volunteer Movement. Pp. 217.
The author of this latest phase of China's astonishing history is Foreign
Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. His previous
book on China was published by the Revell Company under the title,
New J-^orces in Old China., and in this book he has drawn from that
larger work, readjusting the material and bringing facts down to date.
Through his connection with a large Mission Board and personal visits to
China Dr. Brown is well fitted to discuss the causes of the revolution. He
describes the changes wrought by steam and commerce; the quickening
effects of educational and missionary efforts ; the growth of political unrest
and the gradual development of the constitutional movement.
Great influences these have been no doubt, but a still deeper, more strate-
gic note is struck when Dr. Brown affirms, " The great ideas of brother-
hood, of justice, of liberty and of righteousness which Christianity inculcates
have begun to manifest their inevitable transforming and uplifting power."
The book is illustrated, and the three most interesting pictures are por-
traits of the two prominent leaders, Yuan Shi Kai, Dr. Sun Yat Sen, and
a most attractive looking Chinese woman whose English name is Dr. Mary
Stone, but her Chinese name is Shi Ma- Li. Born of Christian parents she
received a medical education in the United States and was graduated from
the University of Michigan in 1896. In 1910 she treated more than fifteen
thousand patients, and she also directs a large training school for women.
She is another example of the intellectual and administrative ability of the
educated Chinese woman.
Hudson Taylor ., In Early Years., The Growth of a Soul. By Dr.
and Mrs. Howard Taylor. Published by George H. Doran Company.
Pp. 511. Price, $2.25 net.
As one opens this stately volume attention is first drawn to the pure, soul-
ful face at twenty years of age of the founder of the China Inland Mission.
The picture is taken from a portrait by his aunt just before young Taylor
left Hull for London to prepare for China where he went two years later.
The motto used as a dedication is most felicitous: "To show forth thy
lo^ving kindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night."
The book opens with a most dramatic account of the conversion of
Hudson Taylor's great-grandfather on his wedding day. Those of us who,
years ago, became acquainted with Mrs. Howard Taylor's picturesque
style both in tongue and pen when, as Geraldine Guinness, she captured her
audiences and readers, recognized her vivid touch in the recital of this
remarkable event.
Hudson Taylor was born into a religious atmosphere. Before he ap-
peared in the world he was consecrated by his parents to God's, service.
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They felt it their duty to interpret literally the dommand : " Sanctify unto
me all the first born. xA.ll the first born are mine. Mine shall they be,
set apart unto the Lord." When the boy so " set apart." was seventeen
years old there came a night when on his knees he sought to know God's
will as to his work in the world. Before the struggle was over he heard
distinctly, as if a voice had spoken it, " Go for me to China."
It is pathetic to read of the economy he was forced to practice both in
London, during the preparatory days, and in China where the support he
received from the Society that sent him out was most inadequate.
After Hudson Taylor had been in China about a year he adopted the
Chinese dress, believing that in this way he could come nearer the people
whose salvation he longed for. He not only had his fair huir shaved leaving
only enough to grow into the queue of the Chinaman, but he dyed his hair
to match the long black braid that must do duty for his own.
The letters Hudson Taylor wrote to his mother and sister and home
friends reveal his deep spiritual experiences and the development of his
work among the Chinese. In another volUTne we are promised a continu-
ation of this unique story, and the book is to be entitled, Hudson Taylor
and the China Inla^id Mission^ The Growth of a Work oj God.
Other Sheep. By Harold Begbie, Published by George H. Doran
Company. Pp. 355.
The sub-title of this book is, "A Missionary Companion to 'Twice-
Born Men,'"
Those who have become acquainted with Harold Begbie through his
first printed output know that he is a strong partisan of the work and
methods of the Salvation Army, and it is their work in India that is
described in this volume.
The opening chapter on "Fakir Singh" tells the remarkable story of
a Mr. Tucker who, until middle life, was of the Indian Civil Service.
Becoming captivated with General Booth's eloquence and unique person-
ality he decided to become a Salvationist, assume the native dres?, and
devote his life to winning souls to Christ. Eventually he married a
daughter of General Booth, he assumed the name of Booth-Tucker, and is
practically at the head of the Salvation Army in India. Mr. Begbie says
of him that he "abandoned the common ways of life, and became as
romantic a knight-errant of Christianity as ever begged his bread ajid
slept under the stars."
The twenty chapters are dramatic and soul-harrowing stories of Hindu
life in heathenism and the transformation which Christianity makes
possible. G. H. c.
With the June number of Rveryland the charming little magazine
nears the close of its third year. The boys and girls have welcomed it as
«F f 4" eagerly as ever. If you doubt the statement, try the effect
* of reading aloud to your restless young folks some rainy
Sunday afternoon the story of "Sacajawea" or "In the Palace of the
Rajah." And piease do not forget that you may have Life and Light
and Everyland for one dollar for one year!
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Life and Light
IMy
5IDLLIGHT5 FROM PERIODICALS
China. — "New China and the Regrouping of the Powers," Contemfo-
I'ary Review^ May. " Republican Institutions in China," Popular Sci-
ence ]\Io7zthlyi June.
Africa. — " The Zulus : Heathen and Christian," " Politics and Missions
in North Africa," " Among the Gold Diggers of South Africa," "• Present
Conditions in the Kongo," Missionary Review^ June. " A Land of
Giants and Pygmies," National Geographical jSIagazine^ April.
K. V. E.
WOMAN'5 BOARD OF MI55ION5
Receipts from April 18 to May 18, 1 912
Miss Sarah Louise Day, Treasurer.
Eastern Maine Branch.— 'Sirs. J. Gertrude
Deuio, Treas., 347 Hamiiioiid St., I5aii-
gor. Auiherst and Auiora, CIi , 3; .Ash-
land, Aux., 5; Bangor, from the bequest
of Rev. Dr. « W. Field to Aliss 1.. E.
.lohn.son and Dr. Grace U. Kimball,
1,000, All Souls Ch., Au.x., 125, Ham-
mond St. Ch., 77.30; Bangor, East,
Ladies of Oh., 2; Belfast, North, Ch.,
1; Booth bay Harl)or, Aux., 36.15;
Brewer, Ladies' Aid Soa., 19; Calais,
Aux.,21,Cov. Dau.,25; Camden, Ladies
of Ch., 21; Ellsworth, Miss. Soc , 25;
Garland, Ladies of Ch., 3; Holden,
Miss. Study 01., 6.38; Houlton, Miss.
Union, 13; Island Falls, Ladies of Ch.,
5; Lincoln, Jr. C. E. Soc, 50 cts. ; Madi-
son, Woman's Assoc, 20 34; Orono,
Ladies' Aid, 10; Presque Isle, Cong'l
Soc, 10; Princeion, Oh., 8; Kockland,
Aux., 30; Aliss SpofEord's Ann. Bequest,
25, Pagoda Anchorage, 25; Sandy Point,
Aux., 5; Searsport, First Ch., 8; Second
Ch., 3; Skowhegan, Island Ave., 01).,
Ladies, 16.75; Thomaston, Aux., 4;
WIscasset, Airs. J. ^\. Knight, 2, 1,555 i?.
Western Maine Branch —Miss Annie F.
Bailey, I'reas., 52 Chadwick St., Port-
land. Alfred, Ladies' Union, 10, Miss
Snow, Easter - Off. in mem. of her
mother, 5, S. S., 10, S. S , Prim. Dept ,
2, O. E. Soc, 3; Auburn, Aux., 12.15,
Golden Rule M. B., 3; Augusta, Aux.,
20; Bath, Central Oh. and Union S. S.,
30; Berwick, South, Aux., 51; Bethel,
Aux, 6.50; Biddeford, Aux., 25; Bridg-
ton. North, Aux., 12; Brunswick, Aux.,
52; Cornish, Aux., 5; Cumberland
Center, Aux., 15; Falmouth, West,
Aux., 5; Freeport, South, Aux., 6;
Fryeburg, Aux., 3.80; Gardiner, Aux.,
10; Hallowell, Aux., 10; Harpswell
Center, Ladies' Union, 10; Harpswell,
North, 0. E. Soc, 2, Jr. C. E Soc, 1,
C. R.,1; Lewiston, Aux., 50; Ijitchfield
Corners, Aux., 10; Paris, South, Jr. 0.
E. Soc , 1; Portland, Bethel Oh., Aux.,
80. High St. Oh., 54.67, Second Parish
Oh., Aux., 3.16, V. E. Soc, 5, Jr. C. E.
Soc, 2 50, S. S.. 25, State St Oh., Aux. ,
(Easter OfE., 52), 330, Prim. S. S., 15,
St. r>-\wrence Ch., Aux., 35, Prim. S. S.,
32, West Oil., Aux., 7, Williston Oh.,
Aux., 12, Cov. Dau., 100, Bible School,
10; Waterford, Friend, 1, C. R., 3 50;
Waterford, Nortli, Aux., 3; Waterville,
Aux., 35; Woodfords, Aux., 18.,30, Y. W.
Annex, 5, 1,148 58
Total,
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
2,704 00
New Hampshire Branch. — MissElizabeth
A. Hrickett, Treas., 69 North Spring St.,
Concord. Friend, 32; Bennington,
Aux., 12; Brookline, Aux., 10; Durham,
Aux., 26.06; Littleton, Aux., 10; Man-
chester, First Ch., Aux., 80; Sanborn-
ton, Aux. (to const. L M. Miss (Carrie
P. Taylor), 25: Wolteboro, Aux., 25.
Less expenses, 13.85, 206 21
VERMONT.
Vermont Branch. — Aliss May E. Manley,
Treas., Box 13, Pittsford. Bennington,
Second Oh., Aux., 25; Burlington, Col-
lege St. Oh., Aux., 20. First Ch., Aux.,
18, Miss. Study CI., 22; Oastleton, C. E.
Soc, 3.75; Coventry, Aux., 7; Fair-
field, Aux., 4.25; Franklin (Th. Off,
10.85), 13.25; Hartford, West, Aux., S;
Huntington ('enter, Friend, 2; Jericho
Corners, Aux , 5; Lyndon, Aux., 16.85;
Middlebury, Aux., 32; Orleans, C. E.
Soc, 5.50; Post Mills, Aux., 5; Ran-
dolph Center, Aux., Th. Off., 4.50; Rich-
mond, Light Bearers, 1; St. Johnsbury,
>fortb Oh., Aux., 29.04, South Oh.,
King's Jewels, 10; Sudbury, Aux., Th.
Off. 5.35; Waitifleld, Aux., 5: West-
more, Oh., 4; Woodstock, S. S., 10.88.
Less expenses, 65.34, 187 03
M A SSA CH US ICTTS.
Friend, 100 00
Andoverand Woburn Branch.— T^Xy?,. E. S.
Gould, Treas., 58 Thorndike St., Law-
rence Offc at Semi-ann. iMeet., 27.01;
Billerica, 5; Lowell, Highland Ch.,
Aux., 10, Pawtucket Ch., Anx. (to const.
L. M. Mrs. Julia F. Richardson), 25;
Maiden, Tirst Oh., Prim. Dept., 13;
North Chelmsford, Aux., 16.50; Read-
ing, (;h., 29.88; Woburn, Aux., 50, 176 39
Barnstable Association. — Miss Carrie E.
Mitchell, Treas., South Dennis. Fal-
mouth, North, Aux., Len. Off., 1.50;
Sandwich, Aux., 20.70, 22 20
igi2'\
Receipts
325
Berkshire Branch. — Miss Mabel A. Rice,
Tieas., 118 iiiadfoid St., Pfttstield.
Friend, 1,000 00
Essex North Branch.— 'Sirs. Wallace L.
Kimball, Treas., 16 Saleiri St., 15iadford.
Amesbuiy, Alain St. Cli., Aiix., 40, C, R ,
10, Riverside Aux., 20; Hiadford, Aiix.,
45.50, JMiss Workers, 5; (Jeorgetown,
Aux., C7; Groveland, Aux.. 34, Girls'
Travel Club, 6; Haverhill, Centre Cli.,
S. S., 21 70, North Cli., Aux (25 of wh.
to const. L. i\l. Mrs. Helen A. Hans-
coin), 56, Riverside Memorial Ch.,
Guild, 20, Friin. Dept S. S., 5, Waul
Hill Ch,, Elizabeth Clark M. C, 5;
Haverhill, West, Aux., 17; Newbury-
port, Central Ch., .Aliss. Study CI., 20;
Rowley, Aux., 12.35; South Byfleld.
Aux., 8.75; West Boxford, Aux., 41.09,
S. S. CI., 69cts , 435 08
Essex South /iranch.— Miss Daisy Ray-
mond, Treas., 120 Halch St., lieverly
I'.everlv, Dane St. Ch., Aux. (Leii. Off.,
35.60),47.10, Second Ch.,\\ Oman's Union,
Leii. Off., 12.55; Danvers, S. S. D., 5,
First Ch., Ladies' Benev. Soc, Len.
Off., 14.85; Gloucester, Trinity Ch.,
Aux., 15.50; Lynn, Central Ch., Aux.,
19, North Ch.,i\liss Soc. (to const. L. M.
INlrs. Addison Brickett), 25; Marble-
head, Aux., Len. Off , 15.02; ftliddleton,
Aux., 6; Salem, Miss Susan E. Choate,
10, Crombie St. Ch., Aux., Len Off., 20;
Swampscott, First Ch., S. S., Frim.
Dept , 9.49, 199 51
Franklin County Branch. — Miss J. Kate
Oaliinaii, I'reas., 473 Main St., Green-
field. Ashfieid, Aux., 2.50; Bernard-
stoii, Leu. Off, 9.50; Huckland, Aux.,
21.75; Colerain, Len. Off., 10; Conway,
Aux., 26.45; Deertield, Aux., 25; Deer-
field, SoutD, Aux., 30.95, Prim. S. S.,
2.22; Greenfield, First Ch., Prim. S. S.,
5; Montague, Aux., 11.61; Northfleld,
Aux., 25; Orange, Aux., 30.83, Light
Bearers, 4.17; Shelburne, Aux., 50 06;
Shelburne Falls. Aux., 79.57; Sunder-
land, Aux., 19; Turners Falls, Ch., 10;
W'hately, Aux., 19, 382 61
Hampshire Co. 7iranc/i.— IMiss Harriet
J. Kueeland, Treas., 8 Paradise Road,
Northampton. Amherst, Aux. (with
prev. contri. to const. L. M's Miss L.
Ada Baker, Miss Catharine P. King-
man), 48, Twentieth Century Club, 60,
Second Ch., Aux., 20; Amherst, North,
Aux., 19; E as th aiu p to n, Aux., 49,
Emily Miss. Cir., 14; Florence, Aux.,
50; Granby, Aux., 35, Dau. of Gov.,
3.75; Hadley, Aux. (75 of wh. to const.
L. M's Mrs. William P. Bartley, jMis.
Austin Cook, Mrs. K. Lyman Cook), 85;
Hadley, South, Aux., 106 73; Hatfield,
Aux., 30.52, Wide Awakes, 5; Hayden-
vllle, Aux., 25; Northampton, Edwards
Ch., Aux., 43.15, Aloha Guild, .50, First
Ch., 270; Southampton, Anx. (to const.
L. M's Mrs. E. R. Loomis, Sirs. W. 8.
Lyman, Mrs. H. Rood), 75; Williams-
burg, Aux., 26.54, 1,015 69
Middlesex firotich.— Mrs. Frederick L.
Clatliii, Treiis., 15 Park St., lAlarlboro.
Framiiigham, Anx., 227; South Fram-
ingham, Aux., 38; Welleslev, Friend, 15,
Aux., 104.15, Wellesley College, Y. W.
C. A., 415, 799 15
Norjolk and Pilgrim JBra7tch.— Al rs.AIark
AlcCully, Treas., 95 iMaple St., Milton.
Hraintree, Aux., 1; Braintiee, South,
\\ Oman's Guild, 7.50, Dau. of Cov., 1 ;
Stoughton, Aux., Len. Off., 8; Wey-
mouth, North, S. S., 1 ; Weymouth,
South, Old South Ch., Jr. C. E. Soc,
4 50; Wollaston, Little Lights M. B., 10,
Sunbeam Club, 5, 38 00
North Middlesex Branch.— Miss Julia S.
(Jonant, Treas., Littleton Common,
lioxborough, Aux., 13; Fitchbuig, C. C.
('h.. Band of Future Workers, 15, Ger-
man Ch., Ladies' Soc, 5; Shirley, Help-
ing Hand Soc , 6.74, 29 74
Old Colony Branch.— Miss Frances J.
Runnels, Treas., 106 Highland Ave., Fall
River. Attleboio, Aux. (prev. contri.
const. L. Al's Aliss Elsie Bunn, iAIrs.
Myia Cobb, Mrs. Annie Gilmore, Airs.
Mdgar A. Remington); Attleboro, South,
Friend, 5; Berkley, C. E. Soc.,2; Dighton,
C. E. Soc, 1; Edgartown, Aux., 2 35;
Fall River, W. F. M. S., 110; New Bed-
ford, Trinitarian Ch., jAliss. Guild, 10;
Somerset, Aux., 12, 142 35
Springfield Branch.— Mrs. Mary H.AIitch-
cll, Treas., 1078 Worthington St., Spring-
field. Turkey, Van, jAliss Grisell M.
AIcLaren, 20; /tolyoke, First Ch., Aux.,
27.80; Ludlow Center, Aux., 12; Spring-
field, Emmanuel Ch.. Aux. (^to const. L.
Al. Mrs. Henry A. Colvin), 25, Park Ch.,
Aux. (50 of wh. to const. L. jAI's iAlrs.
James H Barton, Airs. W. W. Gowdy),
.'^15, Jr. C. E. Soc, 5, South th., Aux.,
48.75; Wilbraham, Aux., 8 50; Wilbra-
ham, North, Aux. (25 of wh. to const.
L. Al. jAlrs. David Griswold), 35, 237 05
Suffolk Branch. — Airs. Frank G. (^look,
Treas., 44 Garden St., Cambridge.
AUstoii, Woman's Assoc , 49.64, Dau. of
Cov., 10, S. S., Kinder. Dept., 17, Jr. C.
E. Soc , 2.75; Arlington, Bradshaw Miss.
Soc, 75; Auburndale, Aux., 20; Boston,
Mrs. Emma B. Moore, 100, Mt. Vernon
(;h., Aux., 6.35, Jr Al. B., 15, Old South
("h., Aux., Miss A. H Chaniberlin, lOd,
Union Ch., Friend, 50, Monday Eve.
Aliss. Club, 25, Jr. Dept. S. S.,2; Boston,
South, Phillips Ch., Aux., 50, Jr. C. E.
Soc, 10, Phillips Chapel, Jr. C. E. Soc ,
5; Biighton, C. E. Soc, 10; Brookline,
Harvard Ch., Aux., 100, Leyden Cb., Pro
Christo Club, 10; Cambridge, First Ch.,
Aux., 13, Margaret Shepard Soc, 10,
Pilgrim Ch., Little Pilgrim M. C, 10;
Dedham, Aux., 41 53; Dorchester, Cen- .
tral Ch., Aux., 26.75, S. S. and Jr. C. E.
Soc, 10, Harvard Ch., Ladies' Benev.
Soc, 15, S. S., 5, Pilgrim Ch., Aux. (Len.
Off , 36.76), 53.76, Y. L. Soc. (Len. Off.,
27.25), 37.25, Second Ch., Y. L. F. .M.S.,
25, Village Ch., S. S., 5; Everett, Court-
land St. Ch., Jr. C. E. Soc, 1; Faneuil
(prev. contri. const. L. M. Mrs. Nellie
H. Russell); Hyde Park, Ch., 37.07, Aux.,
90, S. S., 22.28; Jamaica Plain, Boylston
Ch., Aux., Len. Off., 10.50, S. S., Kinder.
Dept., 5, Prim. Dept., n, Central Ch.,
Prim. Dept S. S., 5; Needham, Girls'
Aliss. Soc, 2; Neponset, Trinity Ch..
S. S., 5, Prim Dept., 5; Newton, Eliot
Ch., Woman's Assoc, 250, Eliot Guild,
65; Newton Centre, First Ch,, Maria
B. Furber Soc, 35, Sunshine Soc,
70; Newton Highlands, Aux, 35;
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Xewtoiiville, Central Ch., Queens of
Avilion, 'Ih; Newton, West, Reil Jiaiik
Soc, 50; Norwood, Little Women, 10,
rt. S , Frim. and Jr. Depts., 6; Rosliu-
diile. Woman's Union, L,en. Off. (25 of
wh. to const. L. M. Mrs. Caroline L
Newcomb), 37.62, Mary and iMartha
Guild, 15; Roxbury, Kliot Cli., Aux.
(Len. Off., 8.50) (add'l '111. Off., 4), 15.50,
Highland Cli., S. S , 10, Jr. O. E. Soc ,
10, Imm.-Walnut Ave. Ch., For. JJept.
Len. Off., 53; Somerville, i\lrs. H. H.
Leavitt, 25, Broadway Ch., Aux., 22 14,
Highland Ch., Women Workers, 20,
First Ch., Jr. C. E. Soc, 5.83; Walpole,
Jr. C. IC. Soc, 3.50; WaltUam, King's
iMessengers, 20; Wateitown, Friend, 12,
Aliss J\l. D. Spaulding;, 1; Wellesley
Hills. Aux., add'l Leu. Off., 26 50, 1,920 97
IVeUesley.—OS at Senii-ann. Meet., 66 47
iVorcester Co. Rrane/i.— Mrs. Thomas E.
liabb, Ji-., Trea^i., 12 Clearview Ave.,
Worcester. Hoylston, Ladies' Benev.
Soc, 10; ("linton. Pro Christo liible
CI., 11.50; North Urookfield, Woman's
Union, 12; Warren, Aux., 30; West-
boro, Aux., 16.70; Webster, Aux., Len.
Off., 30; Whitinsville, Aux., Len. Off ,
24, E-C-A-D Band, 13.36; Worcester,
Central Ch., Girls' Travel Club, 15.80,
Plymouth Ch.,C. R.,9, Woman's Assoc,
71.50, 243 86
Total,
6,819 07
LEGACY.
Lowell. — Lucy 1\L Fay, by Arthur C.
Spalding, Extr., 2,000 00
RHODE ISLAND.
Rhode Island Branch.— W\ss, Grace P.
Chapin, Treas., 150 Afeeting St., Provi-
dence. Int. on Bank Bal., 1.33; Barring-
ton, liay'side Gleaners, 60; Bristol, Aux.
(25 of wh. in mem. of IVlrs. Sarali
Church Skinner) (75 of wh. to const \j.
M's^Miss Harriet B.Luther, .Mrs. William
H. "Spooner, jAIrs. John G. Watson in
recognition of their twenty-five years'
devotion to the interests of Bristol
Aux.), 100; Central Falls, Women's
Social Club, 75, Sr. M. C, 100, Prim.
Dept. S. S., 5; Kingston, Aux., 16 50;
Providence, Academy Ave. Ch., Miss.
Club, 10, Beneficent Ch., Prim. Dept.
S. S., 11, Central Ch., Aux., 250, Ply-
mouth Ch., Whittelsey Mem. Cir., 50;
Saylesville, S. S., 15; Seekonk and Ea.st
Providence, Aux., 15 50; Westerly, Ser-
vice Seekers, 20, 729 33
CONNECTICUT.
Eastern Connecticut Branch. — Miss Anna
C. Learned, Treas?., 255 Hempstead St.,
New London. Asliford, Aux., 15; Can-
terbury, C. E. Soc, 3; Chaplin, Aux.
(to const. L. M. J\lrs. William jM. Smith),
25; Colchester, Aux. (Easter Off., 9) (25
of wh. to const L. ftl. Mrs. William P.
Palmer), 39; Exeter and Liberty Hill,
Chs., 5; (iroton, Aux., 55 10; Hampton,
Aux., 18; Hanover, Aux., 35.66; Leba-
non, Aux. (Easter Off., 8 65), 11.65;
(ioshen, Aux. (ICaster Off., 38.90) (25 of
wh. by .Mrs. Martha A. Geer to const,
herself L. M.), 42,21; Ledyard, Aux.
(Easter Off., 4) (25 of wh. to const. L. M.
;\Iis. C. Virginia Chapman), 29; Mohe-
gan, Ch., 1.25; iMystic, Aux. ('25 of wh.
to const. L M.Mrs.R J Giddings), 44 ;
New London, First and Second Clis.,
Dau. of Cov., 20, Second Ch., Aux.,
617.76, S. S., Prim. Dept., Easter Off'.,
2 60; North Stoning ton, Woman's
Union, 13; Norwicli, liroadway Ch.,
Aux., 1,330, First Ch., A\ix., 1.27, C. E.
Soc, 3, Jr. C. B. Soc, 2, Park Ch., Aux.,
, 207.48; Scotland, Aux., 30; South Wind-
ham, C. E. Soc , 10; Stonington, Fiist
Ch., Aux., 6, Secoiid Ch., Aux., 10.40;
Voluntown and Sterling, Aux., 5;
Wauregan, Aux., 35; Willimantic, Aux.,
22.40; Windham, Aux., Easter Off., 8.70;
Woodstock, Aux., E ister Off., 19, 2,667 48
Hartford JSfanch.— Mrs. Sidney W. Clark,
Treas., 40 Willard St., Hartford. Int.
on Clara E. Ilillyer Fund, 112 50; Int.
on Julia W. Jewell Fund, 40; Fiiends,
3; Collinsville, Aux., 33 50; Hartford,
Farmington Ave. Ch., Aux., 2, Park Ch.,
Aux., 21.75; Hockanum, Ladies' Aid
Soc. 4.50, 217 25
N'ew Haven Branch.— Miss Edith Wool-
sey, Treas., 250 Churcb St., New
Haven. Ansonia, Aux., >-3; Barkham-
sted, Aux., 16.61; Bethany, Aux., 10;
Bethlehem, Aux., 10; Bridgeport,
Park St. Ch., Endeavor Cir., 10; Brook-
fleld Center, Aux., 16.40, Dau. of Gov.,
.5, S. S., 3, C.B.Soc, 2; Chester, Aux.,
100; Clinton, Aux. (25 of "wh. to const.
L. M. Misjj Josephine Nettle£on),
35.05; Cornwall, First ub., Aux., 41;
Deep River, Aux. (to const. L. M. Mrs.
Sarah Wooster), 25; Derby, First Cb.,
Aux., 49.35, Second Cb., Aux., 30; Dur-
liam, Little Light Bearers, 2; East
Canaan, C. E. Soc, 5; East Haddam,
Aux., 19.95, C. E. Soc, 12; East Hamp-
ton, Aux., 43.25; East Haven, Aux.
(100 of wh. to const. L. M's Mrs. M. K.
Beardsley, Mrs. H. B. Page, Mrs.
Harry Slade, Mrs. S. A. Taylor), 110,
C. R., 15 ; Easton, Aux., 1.10 ; Ellsworth ,
Aux., 12.75; Fairfield, Aux., 60, Y. L.
M. C, 12 ; Greenwich, Any.., 20, Bearers,
of Light, 25; Guilford, Third Ch., Aux.,
25; Ivory ton, Aux. (with prev.contri.
to const. L. M's Miss Annie Carlsson,
Mis.s Marion Carlsson, Miss Beatrice
Dickinson, Miss Vera Kelsey, Miss
Zylpha Wilcox), 106.50, Miss. Helpers,
10, S. S., 15, C. R., 5.57; Killingwortb,
Aux., 3.50; Meriden, Center Ch., Aux.
(50 of wh. to const. L. M's Miss Pris-
cilla S. Powell, Mrs. Thomas B.
Powell) (25. of wh. by Mrs. F. P. Gris-
wold to const. L.M. Miss Janet Hull
MePherson), 145, Liberty Club (to
const. L. M. Miss Dorthella M. Gib-
son), 2,5, C. R., 16, First Ch., C. R., 25;
Middlebury, Aux. (25 of wh. to const.
L. M. Mrs. Arthur E. Westenberg),
31.85, Mizpah Cir., 20, Willing Minds,
5; Middlefleld, Friends, 8, C. E. Soc,
8.29; Middle HaddaTn, Aux., 10, C. E.
Soc, 5; Middletown, Fir.st Ch., Aux.,
93.60, C. E. Soc, 25, South Ch., Aux., 25;
Milford, First Ch., Aux. (25 of wh. to
const. L. M. Mrs. F. A. Sumner), 26,
Inter. C. B. Soc, 2, Jr. C. E. Soc, 3;
Mount Carmel, Aux. (50 of wh. to
const. ]j. M's Miss Martha A. Galpin,
Mrs. Frederick T. Persons), 50.30;
igi2\
Receipts
327
Naugiituck, Alice Stillson Cir., 3.75,
Haystack Baud, 3.75, Miss. Study CI.,
6.70; New Canaan, Aux., 3^:t<', C. E. Soc,
30; New Haven, Center Cli., C. E. Soc.
5, Cli. of Redeemer, V. E. M. C, b'5,
S. S., 16.51, Prim. S. S., 15, Uwiglit
Place Cli., r. W. Guild, 2.i, Grand Ave.
Ch., Y. E. M. C, 72, Helpers, iy.25,
Humphrey St. Cli., Aux., H8.10, C. R.,
8.64, Pilgrim Cli., Aux., 6-.>.93, Plymouth
Ch., Aux., 165.15, Eight Kearers, 30,
C. R., 10, Prim. S. S., 5, United Ch.,
Eaoni Cir., 35, C E. Soc, 50, Welcome
Hall, Eend-A-IIand Soc, 10, Eight
Bearers, 10, Girls' League, 5; New-
town, Aux., 36; Norfolk, C.E. Soc, 2;
North Hranford (to const. E. M. Mrs.
Jane Holebird), 25; North < reenwich,
Aux., 26.03; North Madison, Aux.,
8.40; North Stamford. Aux., 9; Orange,
50; Portland, Aux., 40, Builders, 22.60,
C. R., 10.50; Prospect, Aux., 12 50;
Redding, Aux. (25 of \vh. to const.
E. M. Miss Miriam M. Smith), 37, Dau.
of Cov., 10, C. R., 4; Roxbury, Aux.,
16.44; Saybrook, Aux., 39.18; Seymour,
Aux., 10, C. E. Soc, 8; Sharon, Aux.,
50; blielton, Aux., 75; South Britain,
Aux. ,35; Stamford, Aux., 38.85; Stony
Creek, Aux. (25 of wli. to const. L. M.
Mrs. Arnold Shackleton), 35; Strat-
ford, Aux., 7. .50; Thomastou, Aux., 38,
C. E. Soc, 10; Torringford, Aux., S. J.
Mills Soc, 15, Highland Workers, 10;
Torrington, Center Ch.,C. E. Soc, 15;
Trumbull, Aux. (to const. E. M's Mrs.
Emil T. Berger, Mrs. Albert E. Ein-
ley), 50, Y. E. M. C, 8.50, C. R., 1..50;
Warren, C. E. Soc, 1S.45; Washington,
Aux., 62.70; Waterbury, Second Ch.,
Aux., 146.75, Dau. of Cov., 55; Water-
town, Aux. (to const. E. M's Mrs.
William T. Holmes, Mrs. Henry
Roeske), 50, Dau. of Cov., 10; West-
chester, Aux., 4.20; West Haven, Aux.
(to const. E. M's Mrs. Frank T. Bridge-
water, Mrs. Clarence B. Davis, Mrs.
Henry Eeland, Mrs. Frank Thomas),
100; Westport, Aux., 16.50; Westville,
Aux. (50 of \vh. to const. E. M's Mrs.
A. H. Hayes, Mrs. Myron Russell),
68.32; Whitneyville, Aux., 2, Speeda-
way Cir.,5; Wilton, Aux., 58; Winsted,
First Ch , Aux., 18, Silliinau Club, 10,
Second Ch., Aux., 50; Woodbridge,
Aux., 48, Golden Rule Band, 10, C.R.,
4, Delta Alpha S, S. CI., 3; Woodbury
Y. E. M. C.,20. JwWte, Friend, 25,
4,156 7-
Total,
Norioicli — Mary E. Huntington in mem.
of her mother, Mrs. Sarah A. Hunt-
ington, by Francis J. Leavens, Extr., l.OOO 00
NEW YORK.
New York State Branch. — Mrs. F. M.
Turner, Treas., 646 St. Mark's Ave.,
Brooklyn. Wood Mem. Fund, 50;
Antwerp, Aux., 27; Aquebogue, Aux.,
56 50; Arcade, Aux., 5; Baiting Hollow,
Aux., 25, C. E. Soc, 3.83, Jr. C. E. Soc.
5; Berkshire, Aux., 10.25; Bingham-
ton. First Ch., Aux., 61, Plymouth Ch.,
Aux., 5; Blooming Grove, Kvle Miss.
Soc, 45, Dau. of Gov., 25; Briarcliff
Manor, Aux., 45; Bridgewater, Aux.,
15; Brooklyn, Atlantic Ave. Chapel,
Friends, 15, Bay Shore C. E. Soc, 3,
Brooklyn Hills Ch., Aux., 21.60, Bush-
wick Ave. Ch., Aux., 25, Central Ch.,
Aux., 517.66, Ladies' Aid Soc, 50, Jr.
Aux,, 10, A. C. Clark, 3, St Paul's
Chapel, Aux., 30 50, Clinton Ave. Ch.,
Aux., 176.53, Evangel Ch., Aux., 105,
Earnest Workers' Band, 10, Flatbush
Ch., Aux., 49.30, Lewis Ave. Ch., Aux.,
.55, Earnest Workers' Band, ,5,5, Alpha
Kappa Cir., 4. Ocean Ave. Ch., Aux.,
5, M. B., 4.60, Park Ch., Aux., 20, Park-
ville Ch., Aux., 23.23, Plymouth Ch.,
Aux., IbO, H. W. Beecher M. C, 50,
Roxana Beecher M. C, 20, Light
Bearers, 3.5, Mayflower Jr. C. E. Soc,
5, Y. W. Guild, 15, Puritan Ch., Aux.,
3.5, S. S., 12, South Ch., M. C, 50, Benev.
Soc, 25, S. S., 25, Girls M. C, S, Jr. M.
C, 15, M. B., 5, Tompkins Ave. Ch.,
Mrs. T. R. D.,2.50, Aux., 250, Stephenson
Cir., 7.22, Philathea CI., 5, Prim.
Dept. S. S.,5, Park Ave. Branch, Aux.,
30, S. S., 20, Dau. of Cov., 10, Semper
Fidelis Cir., 2, Forget-me-not Band, 2,
Jr. C. E. Soc, 5, Jr. S. &., L50, United
Ch., Aux., 13, Willoughby Ave. Ch.,
Home Dept. S. S , 8.99, Woodhaven
Ch., Aux., 10; Buffalo, First Ch., Aux.,
.50, S. S., 15, Fitch Memorial Ch.,
Ladies' Aid Soc, 5, C. E. Soc, 15, Pil-
grim Ch., Girls' M. C, 15; Burrs Mills,
Aux., 5; Camden, Aux., 20.10, Jr. C. E.
Soc, 6; Canandaigua, Aux., 120; Can-
dor, Aux., 53.,50; Carthage, Aux., 7;
Chenango Forks, Aux., 3..50; Church-
ville, Aux., 10; Cincinatus, Ch., 10.80;
Corning, Aux., 15; Cortland. First Ch.,
Aux., 103 05; Crown Point, Aux., 39.29;
Deansboro, Aux., 17; De Ruyter, Aux.,
5; EastBloomfleld, Aux.,30; Elbridge,
Aux., 20; Eldred, Aux., 15; Ellington,
Aux., 12.75; Fairport, Aux., 13.50;
Flushing, Aux., 79.73, Prim. Dept.S.S.,
2. Acorn Band, 2, C. R., 3.50; Franklin,
Aux., 50; Friendship, Aux., 10; Fulton,
Prim. Dept. S. S., 5, C. R., 8; Gasport,
Aux., 10; Gloversville, Aux., 110;
Groton City, Aux., 9; Hamilton, Aux.,
26; Homer, Aux., 206, Dau. of Cov., 10;
Honeoye, Aux., 17, Burns CI., 10;
Howells, Aux., 10; Ithaca, Aux., 43;
Jamesport, Aux., 11.25; Jamestown,
First Ch., Aux., 72.30, Java, Aux., 10;
Kinatone, Aux., 6; Lockport, First
Ch., Aux., 70; Lysander, Aux., 6.25;
Madison, Miss J. M. Rice, 12; Madrid,
Aux., 20; Mannsville. Aux., 6; Mas-
sena, Aux., 6.25; Mid'dletown, North
Ch., Aux., 5, C. E. Soc, 10; Millville,
Aux., 5; Moravia, Aux., 15, Y. L., 16;
Morristown, Aux., 20; Morr i svil le,
Aux., 20; C. E. Soc, 5; Munnsville,
S. S., 3; Neath, Pa., Aux., 10; NeLson,
Aux., 10; Newark Valley, Aux., 25,
C. E. Soc, 5; Newburgh, Aux., 30, C.
E. Soc, 10, Jr. Aux., 15; New Haven,
Aux., 5; New York, Bedford Park Ch.,
Aux., 7.55, C. R., 12.50, Broadway
Tabernacle, Aux. (100 of wh. to const.
L. M's Miss Helen Van Alstyne, Miss
Margaret Herrlich Coney, Miss Anna
C. Mellick, Mrs. Frederick W.
Stevens), 680.50, Y. W. Club, .50, S. S.,
12.5. C.R,, 20, M. B., 7.33, Bethany S. S.,
10.95, Christ Ch., Aux., 25, Forest Ave.
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Ch., Aux., 5, Mt. Vernon Heights Ch.,
Aux., 5, North New York Ch., Aux., 10,
C R., 1-2 ; North Pelham, Aux., o;
Trinity Ch., Aux., 15; Niagara Falls,
Aux., 18; Northfleld, Aux., -21; Norl
wich, Aux., 44.28, Loyal Workers'
Band, 10; Norwood, Aux., 16; Ogdens
burg, Aux., 45; Orient, Aux., 30; Oris-
kany Falls, Aux., 5; Oswego, C. E.
Soc, 3.50, Jr. C. E. Soc, 11; Owego,
Aux., 25; Patchogue, Aux., 52, S. S.,
10, C. R., o; Perry Center, Aux., 40;
Philadelphia, Aux., 23; Phoinix, Aux.,
47, C. E. Soc, 20, Jr. C. E. Soc., 5, Prim.
Dept. S. S., 3..52; Port Leyden,. Aux.,
5; Poughkeepsie, Aux. (25 of wh. to
const. L. M. Mrs. Anna E. Chester),
100; Pulaski, Aux., 17.19; Randolph,
Aux., 13.40; R en s se lear, Aux., 13;
Rochester, Soutli Ch., Aux., 45, King's
Dau.,5; Rockdale, Robert Looniis, 1;
Rutland, First Ch., Aux: 11.70; Sala-
manca, Aux., 5; Sandy Creek, Aux.,
15; Saugerties, Aux., 8; Schenectady,
Pilgrim Study Club, 20; Seneca Falls,
Aux., 10; Sidney, D.iu. of Cov., 20, C.
R., 5; Summer Hill, Aux., 25, C. R.,
2.."j0; Syracuse, Rally, 37.93, Danforth
Ch., Aux., 58.90, Y. L., 20, Prim. Dept.
5. S., 5, Geddes Ch., Aux., 3, King's
Dau., 4.40, C. R., 3, Juniors, 5, Good
Will Ch., Aux., 7.5, Pilgrim Ch., Aux.,
6, C. R., 2.50, Plymouth Ch., Aux.,
138.80 ; Tallman, Aux., 5; Ticonderoga,
Aux., 26 50; Troy, Aux., 5; Uiicn, Ply-
mouth Ch., Aux.,' 20. Dunham Cir., 5,
Sunshine Cir., 5.70; Watertown, Aux.,
31.,50, Jr. C. B. Soc, 3.65; Wellsville,
Aux., 56.46; West Bloomfleld, C. E.
Soc, 5; West Groton, Aux., 20, C. E.
Soc, 2..50; Westmoreland, Aux., 30;
West Winfleld, Aux., 56.40, C. E. Soc,
15, Jr. C. E. Soc, 5, C. R., 1.50; Wliite
Plains, Aux., 5(), M. B., 20, 6,779 14
PHILADELPHIA BRANCH.
Philadelphia Branch.— Miss Emma Fla-
vell, Treas., 312 Van Houten St., Pater-
son, N. J. A". ./., Cedar Grove, Jr. C.
E. Soc, 3; Chatham, Stanley Ch., Aux.,
Easter Off., 12.50; East Orange, First
Ch., Aux., 100; Montclair, First Ch ,
Monday Miss. Soc, 277.72; Newark,
First Ch., Aux., 20; Orange Valle\-,
Y. W. M.S., 25; Plainfleld, Aux., Leii.
Off., 49.20; Westtield, Aux., 50; Pa.,
Glenoldin, Girls' Guild, 1; Philadel-
phia, Central Ch , Aux., .50; Scran ton,
Plymouth Ch., Aux., 35. Dau. of Cov.,
I'l; Sniithfield. East, W. M. S., 1..50;
Taylor, C. E. S., 1; ,S'. C, Charleston,
Aux., 7.50. Less expenses, 155, 48fc 42
FLORIDA.
St. Petersburff. — Ladies' Soc,
IOWA.
Strawberry Poiiil. — Helen T. Buckley,
SilCHIGAN.
Olivet.— yUss Emily May Ely,
5 00
Donations,
Huildings,
Work of 1912,
Specials,
Legacies,
Total,
Total from Oct. 18, 1911 to May 18, 191
Donaticnis,
Huildings,
Work of 1912
Specials,
Legacies,
Total, $90,480 58
GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY GIFT,
Pievionsly acknowledged, 2,149 06
Receipts of the month 2,225 Ou
Total,
,14,374 06
WOMAN'S BOARD OF THE PACIFIC
Receipts for April, 1912.
Miss Henrietta F. Brewee, Treasurer, 770 Kingston Ave., Oakland, Cal.
CALIFORNIA.
Northern Cali/ornia Branch. — Mrs. E. V.
Krick, Treas., 1433 Clay St., San Fran-
cisco. Berkelev, First, l(i8.55. North,
26.80; Eureka, I'O; Friends, 14.50; Oak-
land, First, 100, Plymouth, 1.5, Pilgrim,
:^0.38; Saratoga, 14; San Francisco,
Fir.st, 45, Cradle Roll, 1.21; Sunnyvale,
7.50, ' 372 94
Idaho Branch.— Mrs. W. L. Phelps, 111 W.
Jefferson St., Boise. Boise, C. E. Soc,
10; Chains, Aux., 1,
Nevada Branch,
OREGON.
Oregon Branch. — Mrs. A. L. Cake, Treas.,
421 W. Park, Portland. Portland,
First, Aux., 65.85, Thank Offering,
108.63; Laurel wood, 7, 181 48
UTAH.
Utah Branch-— Mrs. G. Brown, Treas.,
250 S. Eighth East, Salt Lake. Salt
Lake, Provo, 11 00
W^ASHINGTON.
Washington Branch. — M rs. Everett
Smith, Treas., 1533 18th Ave., Seattle,
Anacortes, 5.60; Eiverett, 6.75; North
Yakima, 10; Seattle, Pilgrim, S. S.,
Mrs. E. L. Smith's CI., 35, Plymouth,
80, Prospect, S. S., 15, University, 30, 182 35
ROSA B. FERRIER, Asst. Treas.
5otm of ^tc\MCst
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