L. XLIX
JANUARY, 1919
NO. 1
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Under a New Flag
The Women of the New Czecho-Slovak Republic
JOHN S. PORTER
New Spheres of Usefulness
MRS. SARA B. ROWLAND
The Joy of Returning
ISABELLE PHELPS
At the Doshisha
FRANCES CLAPP
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CONTENTS
Under a New Flag. B^ Rev. John S.
Porter, Prague, Austria 1
Editorials 6
Jubilee Celebration of the W. B. M. I. 9
New Spheres of Usefulness. By Mrs.
Sara B. Howland, Mexico City 12
The Joy of Returning. By Isabelle Phelps IS
Playing Under Difficulties. By Adelaide
B. Fairbank, Ahmednagar 20
Board of the Pacific
Editorial: A Masked Gathering 26
Annual Meeting of Washington Branch
and Woman's Union 28
At the Doshisha. By Frances B. Clapp . . 29
American Mission Hospital, Madura 32
Field Correspondents
Dr. Harriet E. Parker, Madura; Miss
Anna Isabel Fox, Philippines 33
Our Work at Home
Around the Council Table with Our Presi-
dent 39
Our Two-Fold Goal for 1919 39
Junior Department
A Word to Senior Auxiliaries 42
Notes 44
Receipts 4S
603 Congregational House, Boston, Mass.
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President
CHARLES H. DANIELS, Boston
Vice-Presidents
Mrs. N. G. CLARK, Boston Miss SUSAN HAYES WARD, So. Berwick, Me.
Mrs. E. E. STRONG, Aubumdale, Mass. Mrs. A. A. LINCOLN, Wollaston, Mass.
Mrs. JAMES L. BARTON, Newton Centre, Mass. Mrs. EVERETT E. KENT, Newton, Mass.
Mrs. W. L. ADAM, Pittsfield, Mass.
Recording Secretary
Mrs. J. FREDERICK HILL, Cambridge, Mass.
Home Secretary
Miss HELEN B. CALDER, Boston
Secretary of Tonng People's Work
Miss RUTH ISABEL SEABURY, Boston
Treasurer
Mrs. frank GAYLORD COOK, Boston
Auditor
SAMUEL F. WILKINS, Boston
Foreign Secretary
Miss KATE G. LAMSON, Boston
Editorial Secretary
Miss ALICE M. KYLE, Boston
Associate Secretary
Miss ANNE L. BUCKLEY, Boston
Assistant Treasurer
Miss S. EMMA KEITH. Boston
Mrs. Walter Fitch
Mrs. Edward D. Gaylord
Mrs. Francis C. Hall
Mrs. Elbert A. Harvey
Mrs. Hubert C. Herring
Mrs. Albert W. Hitchcock
Mrs. James R. Jewett
Miss Lucy N. Lathrop
Miss Edna H. Mason
Mrs. Emily L. McLaughlin
Miss Elizabeth Merriam
Mrs. Edward C. Moore
Mrs. H. H. Powers
Miss Harriet E. Richards
Mrs. Edward Lincoln Smith
Miss E. Harriet Stanwood
Mrs. Charles F. Weeden
Mrs. Frank H. Wiggin
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Frances V. Emerson
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Vol. XLIX January, 1919 No. 1
Under a New Flag
THE CZECHOSLOVAK WOMEN IN THE NEW REPUBLIC
AND IN AMERICA
By Rev. John S. Porter, Prague, Austria
XN Independence Hall, Philadelphia, October 26, 1918,
Thomas G. Masaryk, the newly elected President of the
Czechoslovak Republic, sat in the historic chair and at
the historic table, and "under the shadow of a great tradition"
signed the Declaration of Independence that brought into ex-
istence the new republic, for which so many have prayed so long ;
and for which so many have laid down their lives on the battle-
fields of Europe. Right loyally have they fought and achieved
the victory. And now the 12,500,000 inhabitants of the republic
are to enjoy the well-earned and costly freedom.
The press of America is singing the praises of our Allies, the
Czechoslovaks. And well it may. "The half has not been told"
of all they have done to help defeat our common foe, the Ger-
mans. This can only be done when the brave men who have
rendered the cause of the Allies such unusual service have re-
turned to Czechoslovakia.
The Declaration of Independence, to which reference has been
made declares : "The church shall be separate from the state.
Our democracy shall rest on universal suffrage : women shall be
placed on an equal footing with men, politically, socially and
culturally."
This is a wonderful and sweeping advance for the women of
the new republic. It surely means not only infinitely greater
freedom for women; but it also breaks down century-old bar-
riers in the way of all religious liberty for men and women alike.
It is well for the constituency of the Woman's Board to know
more about these women that they may the better aid them in
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[January
attaining the true liberty which comes only by union with Jesus
Christ.
And in passing we may well note that it was an English woman,
a princess, who more than five centuries ago brought the writings
of Wiclif to Bohemia and thereby helped to light the torch that
John Huss bore so bravely and triumphantly even to the stake on
the banks of the Rhine, of which we are reading so much in these
days. Luther took up this torch and declared: "We are all
Hussites," and went forth with this very torch to light the fires o£
the Reformation.
The first Czech to leave the Romanist church and join our Mis-
sion was a young woman. She was persecuted and "reasoned
with" but to no avail. She
has remained through all these
years a consistent follower
of Christ, a living witness,
whom the Woman's Board
has helped to minister to her
people by voice and pen.
Bohemia is but one state of
the four in the new republic.
To the east lies Moravia more
under the pall of Romanism
than even Bohemia. Just be-
fore the war one of our girls
from Moravia went to Scot-
land to prepare to more
abundantly serve her Master.
She was already well edu-
cated. She made good in
Scotland, and returned to aid
her father in editing and pub-
lishing our Christian paper,
so much read by the Czecho-
slovak soldiers of all faiths
Tower of the Nobles, Prague ^nd of no faith. But her
activity has not been bounded by the columns of this paper nor
by the church in their house. She has gone into the hospitals
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and ministered to the sick and wounded soldiers. Her father's
home was a Bethel to many soldiers on furlough and in service.
And everywhere this consecrated woman has pointed them all to
"the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world." She
has been pressed even into wider service. Many of our preachers
were at the front. Half of our churches were shepherdless.
This same young woman was welcomed to "give testimony." And
right well has she held forth the Word of life.
Silesia is the smallest state in the new republic. And here we
find a woman "zealous of good works." One of the first lawyers
to join our church settled in Silesia. After his death his widow,
an earnest Christian, continued to live there. She has given of
her time and money and strength to spread the gospel. Although
rarely ever speaking in public she is a witness by life and by
word for Christ. She furnishes gratis a hall for the services ;
she helps to direct and enthuse the young man who takes the
lead of the work in that center. She entertains ministers who
come to help ; and is in every way the backbone of all this
activity.
Slovakia is the only state of the republic not already men-
tioned. Two sisters have probably done more than any one man
to prepare the way of the Lord in Slovakia. Many years ago
they subscribed to our church paper, Betanie. Its perusal awak-
ened them. They came to Bohemia to visit the editor and were
converted. They went back to their homeland to serve their
Savior. And God has crowned their efforts with success. "In
journeyings oft," in an orphanage of their own founding and
directing; in temperance societies which existed largely to give a
place and audience for the proclamation of the gospel they have
labored for Christ. One of them is the gifted author of many
religious books that have been translated into several other
languages. These books you will find also among the Czecho-
slovaks everywhere in America. The other sister is a musician ;
and has composed music, translated hymns and edited a hymn
book that you will find wherever the Czechoslovaks sing the
praises of him who redeemed them.
These workers from each of the four states of the republic are
mentioned as illustrations of how the Lord is using women in the
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heart of Europe. Many others, of course, have "pubHshed the
glad tidings" and thus prepared the way for democracy. Many
brave women have "kept the home fires burning" ; cared for the
dying; ministered to the ever-increasing number of orphans and
refugees. They have stood for hours "at the front," as they
humorously styled the long hours of waiting for their scanty por-
tions of food and fuel. I can see them taking of their best and
often of their last, to send something to their husbands and sons
who were far away in service and hungry. In the church they
were obliged to take the place of the men so sorely missed.
These noble women are your allies in all that is good and true.
They are indeed less favored. Their children — many of them —
are fatherless. Many women have welcomed home a brother,
husband, father, blind or deaf or maimed. They will be given
the right to vote. But they will be compelled to be the bread-
winners for their families and for those incapacitated for labor
by the exigencies of war. While we send our millions to Bel-
gium and Armenia let us reserve the hundreds for our ever-
faithful allies in Czechoslovakia.
And now we turn our eyes to her who is "the first lady" of the
land. She was born in America, a pure American. The United
States have therefore contributed not a little to the new republic.
Mrs. Masaryk has stood ever as the true helpmeet of her husband
as he has ever championed the cause of the oppressed. She has
mastered the difficult language of his, and therefore her people.
And during these years of the war she endured the privations and
bitter hardships incident to the wife of him who was condemned
for high treason. Her elder son died early in the war after her
husband had left the country. Her elder daughter was unjustly
imprisoned as an accomplice of her father's, but was finally freed
owing to the intervention of American women. The younger
daughter has been with her father on all his long journeys in
behalf of his country. And the younger son has served as a
lieutenant in the Austrian army. Mrs. Masaryk, a semi-prisoner
in her own home, in delicate health, was often alone with her
faithful domestic, a member of our church.
And the Czechoslovak women of America! For 2,000,000 of
the Czechoslovaks are scattered from Connecticut to California,
and from Minnesota to Texas.
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When Dr. J. L. Barton was with us in Bohemia he remarked
on the abihty of one of our pastor's wives. Her name is on the
Hst of the Woman's Board. Three sons were officers in the Aus-
trian army, one of whom has fallen. One son is a leader in the
church of which he is a member here in America. Two daughters
from this same family came a long distance to meet me at the
meeting of the National Council in Columbus last year. They
were hungry for tidings from home. One of them I afterward
met at her work as "Travelers' Aid" in a large railway station of
our Northwest. Here in several languages she was helping the
girls and women that must travel alone. Her sister was far
away in community service under the care of the Methodist
church.
T found our girls in the Schauffler School and in the similar
schools supported by the other denominations to furnish workers
among the foreign-speaking peoples of our country. In May
last I sat in Broadway Tabernacle participating in the ordination
services of one of the first boys I had known in Bohemia. Near
me sat his fiancee whom I had met in our work in Bohemia. In
Pittsburgh and Cleveland and all along the line I found workers
whom we had known and trained, in part at least, in our churches
in Czechoslovakia. And it is no secret that some of the leaders
in Christian work here begin again, now that the war is over, to
look for accessions to their forces from our depleted ranks on the
other side of the sea.
The Christian Czechoslovak women are indeed a real asset in
America. And the Woman's Board has had a vital part in fur-
nishing them. We have thought, and with right that it was small
measure that came to us from Boston. But the Lord has given
back to America from Bohemia "good measure, pressed down
and running over."
And doubtless some of the workers in America will return to
us in Bohemia. With fully one-sixth of the Czechoslovaks in
America the inter-relation of the two republics is bound to be
ever closer. Let us all work together, we there and you here,
that the Lord may "see of the travail of his soul and be satisfied."
To him be the glory in America and in Czechoslovakia !
Life and Light [January
Editorials
Much interest centers in the Commission soon to start for
Turkey. It is led by Dr. James L. Barton, while President
Edward C. Moore and Dr. W. W. Peet are other
e ur ey -^ei^.j^nown members. A large party of missionaries
Commission. . , ,. ,
and volunteer workers, includmg teachers and pro-
fessional men, will sail early in 1919, on a Government transport,
with the purpose of rehabilitating the waste places, reinforcing
the Mission stations, and releasing the workers who have stuck
to their posts through all the turmoil of the past years.
A medical unit, containing several physicians of wide reputa-
tion, hopes to reopen the hospitals and give aid to the distressed
peoples, while agriculturists, builders, and sanitary experts, fully
equipped for reconstruction work, have eagerly offered their ser-
vices for this "Crusade of Compassion."
Among the missionaries who expect to go with the first party
are Miss Edith Cold, Miss Agnes Fenenga, Miss Lucile Fore-
man, Miss Olive Greene, Miss Sophie S. Holt, Miss Stella N.
Loughridge, Mrs. Etta D. Marden, Dr. Ruth Parmelee, Miss
Annie I. Pinneo, Miss Clara C. Richmond, Miss Mary Riggs,
Miss Myrtle O. Shane, Miss Vina M. Sherman, Miss Elizabeth
S. Webb, Miss Mary G. Webb, supported by the Woman's
Boards, also Miss H. Constance Barker, recently appointed.
Mrs. George L. Richards, a member of the Board of Directors
of the Woman's Board of Missions, will accompany her husband.
Dr. Richards, the well-known specialist of Fall River, Mass.
Miss Anna L. Daniels, daughter of Dr. Charles H. Daniels, for-
mer secretary of the American Board, is also one of this company.
Miss Daniels is a trained kindergartner and industrial worker
among backward people, having had several years' experience as
a teacher at Talledega, Ala.
Great hopes and expectations are heading up in this experi-
ment for bringing in the new world order in Turkey and we are
sure the prayers of the Christian church will follow them on
their way. '•
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After various difficulties and changes of plan the missionary
party scheduled to sail October 29, for India, finally embarked
at Vancouver, November 27. The company included
ersona ]\/[iss Frances Woods, our new missionary for Ahmed-
nagar, and her mother, also Rev. and Mrs. Edward
Fairbank, returning to the Marathi Mission. The account of
the farewell meeting arranged by the Woman's Board of the
Pacific, as related by Miss Benton on page 26 will be of interest.
The American Board Meeting postponed from October to De-
cember 10-13 has brought to Boston several missionary friends
whom we have welcomed at the Woman's Board rooms, among
them Dr. and Mrs. J. B. McCord of Durban. Miss M. E. Tebbatt
who has been acting principal of the Umzumbe Girls' School, ar-
rived in this country in November and has been in Berlin, Con-
necticut, with the family of Miss Laura C. Smith, who was for
seven years principal of the Umzumbe School. She will spend
most of her furlough studying at the Kennedy School of Mis-
sions with a view to further service in Africa.
Entered into Life
The American Board has received a cable announcing the
death in Trebizond, Turkey, September 26, of Rev. Lyndon S.
Crawford, following a surgical operation. Mr. Crawford has
been a missionary of the American Board since 1879, and for
more than four years he and Mrs. Crawford have been the only
missionaries in Trebizond, and have repeatedly refused to leave
their suffering people to seek their own safety. Mrs. Crawford
was formerly Miss Olive Twichell, a missionary of the Woman's
Board at Brousa. The deep sympathy of many friends will
seek to express itself in prayer for this lonely and bereaved wife,
so isolated from human help and comfort. Two children are in
this country, Douglas, who is teaching at Phillips Academy,
Andover, Mass., and Mrs. J. G. Hun of Princeton, N. J. A
fuller sketch of Mr. Crawford's useful and devoted life will be
found in the Missionary Herald for January.
Life and Light
[January
Statement.
The Treasury
Our readers will note a change in the form of the Financial
Statement this month. The Treasury Department has felt that
the figures most interesting to the constituency
are those which tell the sum available for regular
work, and how the amount compares with that of
the preceding year. The receipts for buildings and specials may
still be ascertained by turning to the end of the Treasurer's report
of donations in each number of Life and Light.
A special word of explanation should be given regarding the
new method of reporting legacies. We think our friends all
know that the Board has a Reserve Legacy Fund whereby the
use of each legacy received is spread through three years. Thus
at the end of this year, we have available for use, one-third each
of the legacies received during 1917 and 1918. To this has been
added one-third of the legacies received during this month. These
three amounts total the $10,530.20 reported. During the re-
mainder of the year, one-third of the legacies received from
month to month will be added. The full amount of legacies re-
ceived each month will also be found with the Treasurer's report
at the end of the magazine.
Please let no one forget to look at the last column to see how
we are progressing toward the $195,000. That amount was set
by the Branches as the sum which they themselves would strive
to secure, and the advance toward that goal will always be found
in the first column. We are sorry to note a loss in this column,
the first month of the new year; but with the splendid enthu-
siasm shown by everybody at Syracuse, as well as at all the
Branch Conferences, we are confident that hereafter the balance
will be on the right side.
THE FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF THE WOMAN'S BOARD
Receipts Available for Regular Work, October 18 — November 30, 1918.
From
Branches
From
Other Sources
From Legacies
and Reserve
Legacy Fund
Income from
Investments
and Depoits
TOTAL
1917....
1918....
$9,377.89
8,334.81
$1,689.47
287.46
$13,926.52
10,530.20
$401.07
357.50
$25,394.95
19,509.97
Gain
Loss
11,043.08
$1,402.01
$3,396.32
$43.57
$5,884.98
19 19] Jubilee Celebration
The Jubilee Celebration of the W. B. M. I.
DECEMBER 3-6 1918.
ON the morning of December 3rd, the beautiful new church
and parish house, First Congregational, Oak Park,
Illinois, opened wide its many doors and offered its
bewilderment of conveniences for the entertainment of Board
officials, delegates and friends. And they came in remarkable-
numbers considering the vast areas of the interior States and
also the fact that the celebration was postponed from October.
Certain features of the program stand out in relief and are of
vital interest to us who form the Woman's Board, for this is our
next younger sister in the family. All her successes and aims
draw upon our sympathy. Indeed they are so identical with our
own as to prove still once again that human nature is much
the same everywhere. Our Board sent its president to hear
greetings and congratulations. She greatly enjoyed a truly great
meeting and received every courtesy from hostesses well versed
in the nice art of hospitality.
The Jubilee Building Fund.
The aim, pursued for five years, was like our own, $250,000.
There was needed $3452.01 to complete the full sum when the
delegates assembled and there was also a deficit in regular re-
ceipts of $1700. Unlike our own Board but like the American
Board, the W. B. M. I. spends its money the same year in which
it is gathered. These two sums were put together to make one
sum of $5200. and on the last afternoon, through the clever
manipulation of Mrs. Lydia Lord Davis, ably assisted by the pas-
tor of the church, Dr. W. E. Barton, the entire amount was
raised by cash and pledges amid delightful informality and
enthusiasm. It may be said just here that the omnipresence of
both pastor and wife was a valuable feature in all the sessions.
Dr. Barton seemed to know just where to lay his hand and when
to say a word which would "help those women."
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Notable Women. — Notable Facts.
Three out of the four presidents who have served the Board
were present, — Mrs. Moses Smith (1872-1906), and Mrs. Lyman
Baird (1906-1912), bringing some reminiscences of former days.
Mrs. George M. Clark, who has filled the post since 1912, pre-
sided with grace and efficiency. The pioneer president was Mrs.
S. C. Bartlett (1868-1872), chosen when the infant began its
career at the home of Mrs. Humphrey in Chicago. Mrs. Blatch-
ford, the only living charter member, sent greetings by the lips
of a young granddaughter. The pioneer missionary, Miss Mary
Porter, who gave . over forty years to China, is now living in
California and was also obliged to write her message.
Other names honored in the retrospect of the fifty years were
Mrs. Josephine Coffing and Miss Esther Maltbie, early mission-
aries ; Miss Martha Barrows, still active in Japan after forty-two
years; Miss Sarah Pollock and Miss M. D. Wingate former
secretaries, the latter still living although not strong enough to
be present. From six missionaries in 1869, the Board has
grown to support ninety-five in 1918; from seventy auxiliaries
to 2053 ; from fifty-two life members to 8278.
Like ourselves the Board aimed for fifty Jubilee missionaries
and exceeded us in their results, for they secured thirty-seven.
Receipts the first year were $4096.77 and in the Jubilee year
$130,000. for regular work. On all points Ohio was the banner
State.
Social Missionary Affairs.
A reception at the church Tuesday evening was made an
opportunity for sociability, especially with the seventeen mission-
aries present.
Delegates from the Bulgarian Convention then in session in
Chicago spoke and sang, giving us a vision of the real Bulgaria.
A young Armenian woman sang the pathetic and martial songs
of her land ; a choice soprano voice of the church entertained us
in a lighter vein and an organ recital brought the recreation to
a close.
A pageant, "Daybreak," written by Miss Eleanor Perkins,
was given before a large audience in Orchestra Hall, Chicago,
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with beautiful effects of scenery, costumes and lights combined
with good acting. The Pageant represented the breaking of the
light of Christianity upon a heathen world, where gods of Lust,
Cruelty and Fear ruled; the development of the dawn into the
fuller light of the present day in mission fields, effectively por-
trayed in several episodes ; the culmination of work accomplished
as throngs gathered from every land under the cross of Christ.
Advance Plans.
1. A New Financial Aim. — The delegates heartily adopted
;as a new standard the sum of $126,000. for regular work to be
raised in the auxiliaries and an additional $50,000. to be secured
"by the Branches from individual gifts.
2. The Conquest Campaign. — This was the subject of the
message sent by our Board through the lips of the President, and
it was discussed with them at a Branch Officers' Conference,
then presented at a public session.
The emphasis was upon the need of mobilizing the young
women of the churches, the approach to them, and the program
•of work to be offered them.
As a result the delegates adopted the Campaign as their own
policy. Much interest was expressed in the plan as an attractive
■and timely method to win and hold our young women.
— M.S.D.
Mrs. S. B. Capron
As we go to press, word has come of the passing on of Mrs.
S. B. Capron, for so many years identified with the life of the
Board both in Madura and at home. She died December 15 at
the advanced age of ninety at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
J. D. Keith, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. The funeral service was
held in the Old South Church, December 17, Dr. George A.
Gordon, her pastor for many years, in charge, and Secretaries
Barton and Strong taking part in the solemn and beautiful
service.
An Appreciation of this remarkable and honored life will ap-
pear in the February Life and Light.
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New Spheres of Usefulness
By Mrs. Sara B. Howland, Mexico City
^Tj-^E live in a centre of interest, and to keep trp with the^
^ ■ ^ ordinary round makes all the occupation I need to fill
V^^ up the hours. You have perhaps seen a picture of our
building in the C ongregationalist — a fine old three-story man-
sion of former days. It is in a most desirable situation, near
the Y. M. C. A. where our students go for their exercise, the
Post Ofhce, the Union, the Episcopal, the Methodist, Baptist
and Presbyterian churches, — the Alameda or Park, as well as-
the homes of many pleasant neighbors.
Our position, unattached to any denominational church (for
there has never been any Congregational Church in this city),-
makes us able to accept the kind invitations to attend gather-
ings of interest in all these places, and we have a fine oppor-
tunity to see much that is being done. The kind of work that
is done by the missionaries is different from that of the old days,,
as it is no longer possible for them to "preach," but you cam
imagine that the development of the native church will be rapid,,
and that there will be plenty of work for the missionaries in?
training workers as rapidly as possible.
The new Seminary seems to have come into being at the right-
time, and is the thing that is needed most today. When the young:
pastors enter upon their work some years from now, with thor-
ough training and with ideals of co-operation as a basis for
Christian service, we think that things will move.
After training in the same Alma Mater they will find it easy
to go on having Pastoral Unions, Efficiency Committees and
much of the former friction will be avoided, and new and val-
uable methods will be adopted.
You ask what I find for a special line of work in this scheme
of things. Perhaps first would come the general direction of
the home of both students and Faculty. At first we expected
to have a matron, but running expenses were too heavy and
I laave continued to oversee the establishment. We have had
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isixteen students in the boarding department and their dining
room and kitchen are near those of the Faculty, but all is sep-
;arate, with different servants. The planning of the meals is
very difficult on account of the high prices and it is a problem to
get enough of anything that is nourishing, with the small allow-
ance granted for the living expenses of the students. In form-
<er days our boys could always have enough beans and tor-
tillas, whatever else was lacking, but now corn and beans and
rice are very expensive and also bread, and meat and all vege-
tables and fruit. Perhaps it is so everywhere now. Surely the
papers are full of discussions of ways and means, but it is
hopeless for me to try any of the substitutes, because they
always cost twice as much. My mind is distracted in regard to
the table of the professors as well, and I eagerly scan the col-
umns of the attractive magazines. Here is a page of beautiful
puddings "without eggs." It proves to be full of recipes using
"one can cherries" (price two dollars and a half), while eggs
are twelve cents each! To save meat one has "asparagus on
toast," costing here almost four times as much — or cake with-
out sugar, — using a pound of raisins worth their weight in gold.
Cornmeal costs far more than wheat flour and oatmeal and
•cream of wheat are great luxuries, so we cannot "eat cereal to
save bread" as we are told. "Eating" is really the vital problem
with me now. Probably my character was greatly in need of
-discipline as matron and landlady, quite new "speres" for me,
but I certainly do not like it under such a strain to economize.
Then the washing and mending come under my supervision,
and as the students are very limited as to their garments, that
is also a great problem, but it always will be in a mission estab-
lishment. All the schools are suffering for lack of funds, as
the usual appropriations are not sufficient and some are closing
a month earlier than usual in order to make up the balance.
There are many opportunities before me to help in educa-
tional, literary and social lines in the different congregations.
Teaching is done in the line of Conferencias and Mexico is now
awake to new methods and is interested in scholarly interpre-
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tation of the Bible, in social and educational problems and in
the literature produced by Latin- American writers. A glance
at the subjects I have treated, at the request of the societies or
Sunday schools, will show you the advance in thought of our
evangelical circle. It was significant to me — showing the growth
of the people in the last years, that my daughter said, upon seeing:
some of our programs, "Why, mother, I did not know that the
Mexicans were interested in such things." During the first days-
here I was asked to help in the translation of the graded Sun-
day school lessons, using the books prepared by our Congre-
gational Society. These lessons are perfectly adapted to our
work and meet with great acceptation in some of the largest
Sunday schools in the country. I gave analyses of the Epistles^
to the Philippians and to Timothy in the Baptist and Methodist,
North and South Churches, and found the women interested in
word study and "local color" as well as in the practical doctrines-
taught. A story of the "Mother in the Home" was given before
two societies and a study of "Sacred Music" before the Girls'
School in San Angel (Presbyterian). For the missionary week,
of the Methodist Church was prepared a history of the "Mass-
Movement in India" and for the Bible Number of El Faro an
article upon "Woman and Her Bible." For the Students' Lit-
erary Society I have made studies of Mexican poets, Salvador,
Diaz, Miron, Manuel Acunak and for the American Club there-
was an essay upon "'Modern Poetry" and another upon "Recent
War Books."
Both my husband and myself have taken classes in the Union
Sunday school for our regular work, as we believe it to be very-
important. We also have joined the Christian Endeavor of the-
Presbyterian Church, by request of the young people and we help'
them in their special services. Of course, the Red Cross work has-
its place, and as the work room is in- the Union Church near us, I
gave up one day a week while we were sewing for the Belgians.
Just now I am Vice President of the Red Cross Society here, a
wonderful organization, which raises large sums of money all'
the time. The duties of that office are slight, of course, as I
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have only to preside in the absence of Mrs. (Ambassador)
Fletcher who is never away ! She is of pleasing personality
and it is highly desirable that she should direct the Red Cross,
as she can do more than any one else to keep up interest.
We have a delightful Workers' Association among the mis-
sionaries and Y. M. C. A. people and meet every month for
conference and social intercourse. Next month we have an
"Efficiency Conference" in which all our work will be brought
to the front for criticism, hoping to improve it in many ways
by suggestions from the different investigation committees.
The Y. M. C. A. here is very fine and its leaders are in full
sympathy with the missionary work.
The Joy of Returning
By Isabella Phelps
^^f^^,^ HE evening of September 6th found me on a train ap-
■ I proaching Paotingfu after an absence of over a year.
^^^^/ I wish you might have been present to see what a warm
welcome is given to a missionary returning to China. About a
dozen American and Chinese friends were waiting to greet me
and it seemed so good to look into their faces again. We rode
past our "Women and Children's Broaden the Knowledge
Court" on the way from the station, and there was the old care-
taker standing outside the door to catch a glimpse of us. As we
drew near the South Suburb gate of the city we came upon a
large group of women, waiting to pay their respects. Of course
I got down from my jinricksha and chatted with them for a
minute or two, and then, at their request, rode on in order not to
delay the rest of our procession. When we came to the entrance
of the church compound another group was in waiting, and
still a fourth when we reached our own compound gate. The
next two days were occupied to no small extent with receiving
calls from Chinese friends. It is a pleasure to work among
people who are so kindly, and appreciative.
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Since my return I have been fairly "up to my ears" in work
and am not yet fully unpacked. One of my first tasks has
been to have the two largest rooms at the "Broaden the Klnowl-
edge Court" repapered. They looked very shabby but now are
very attractive with many fresh pictures, as well as new paper
for walls, ceilings and windows. Both rooms have a few panes
of glass, but most of the window space is papered with white tis-
sue paper, which lets in much more light than the yellow paper
used by the poorer Chinese for their windows. Our day school
there has opened with twenty-nine pupils, which is five more
than our present desks are supposed to seat; if the attendance
continues as large as this, it will be necessary to have more
desks and seats made.
On Saturday mornings the pupils have singing, drawing and
handwork instead of the regular lessons. When I visited them
last Saturday morning some were crocheting little fancy coin
bags, one girl had begun a very elaborate crocheted cap for the
little brother or sister at home and another child was stitching
away on the cloth soles of a new pair of shoes for herself. The
teacher has on hand patch-work on which some of them will
Women Spinning in Relief Refuge
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learn to sew and I plan to have them learn also to knit for the
soldiers in Siberia as soon as we can get needles.
We have a young country woman of perhaps thirty years of
age studying there, who also lives at the school. Her husband
is learning to be a nurse. Perhaps some day if we get her edu-
cated, she may prove good material for a Bible woman.
A new country school was opened three weeks ago at Chang
Teng. This is a large market town. About two years ago a
young college graduate, Mr. Yang, was located there. A street
chapel was opened and people gradually became interested.
Thanks to friends in America we are now able to have a girls'
school there, with a sweet, earnest Christian teacher, who hopes
to win many women and girls to Christ. We had a very earn-
est little prayer meeting of two people the night before she left
here. A letter has since come, telling us that the school has
twenty-one pupils and could have more, if the room were only
larger.
The work in this whole region seems encouraging. I was
talking with the evangelist Mr. Yang, recently and told him of
a village near Chang Teng where a number of men have become
interested and wish to receive a visit from him. He replied
"Yes, I know the place, but have not been able to go to it yet.
You see all the villages around are in the same condition. They
all want to receive visits from me." An evangelist from an-
other county in our country field came to call on me recently
and showed me several maps of his district. Out of 117 vil-
lages that comprise his parish, seventy-seven villages contain
believers, leaving only forty towns to which, as yet, we have no
access. This is largely the work of only four years.
We have just closed a three and a half weeks' station class
for Bible women. They are giving out so constantly to their
people that they wanted to have an opportunity to take in some
new lessons. They told me the other day some of their inter-
esting experiences during the past months. Mrs. Hsi, for whose
support you will remember special provision was made recently,
had an interesting experience in connection with a young woman,
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whose father was a Christian. Neither this young married
woman nor her mother had been wilHng to accept Christianity.
A few months ago Mrs. Hsi visited that town and learned that
the daughter was very ill, so that all hope of her recovery had
been abandoned. In spite of her previous coldness to Mrs.
Hsi, this fine Christian woman determined to call upon her.
She spent half a day there praying and talking with the patient
and the family. The next day the young woman asked to have
her sent for again saying "I felt so much better while she was
The Kitchen of a Flood Refuge
The women are fed for $2.00 each a month
with me." Mrs. Hsi was glad to go a second and a third time.
Then her work called her to another village. Some weeks later
she met a man from that town and asked him with regard to.
the family. "Oh" was the happy response, "the young woman
is practically well and both she and her mother have accepted
Christianity and smashed their idols."
In another section of our country field, where we have a
branch church, it has been necessary to have two chapels for
the Sunday services. The preacher holds meetings for men in
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the outer chapel and our Bible woman, Mrs. Sun, preaches to
women and girls in the inner one. She says they have no
benches and if they had the benches could not accommodate the
audience. They sit packed in close together on the floor and
she stands in the doorway to hold the service.. On one country
tour she visited the village of Ts'ao Chia Chuang where a
crowd of people came to the evening meeting. She noticed par-
ticularly a man and his wife, who seemed to be listening very
earnestly. After the meeting closed and the rest of the people
had gone these two remained, asking one question after an-
other about the doctrine until two o'clock in the morning, when
they reluctantly departed. They came again in the morning
before she was fully dressed in order to ask further questions.
A few days later they came to Ting Hsien asking that the wife
might remain for twenty days at the Tsing Hsien refuge in
order to receive further instruction from Mrs. Sun.
She would meet all her own expenses, she said; and so per-
mission was gladly given. In order to get to Ting Hsien they
had walked over thirteen miles, in the course of which they had
waded through a river with the water above their knees.
At the time of the wheat harvest it was necessary for Mrs.
Ts'ao to return to her home in the village, but at its close she
came again to Mrs. Sun's home, bringing with her her little
daughter. They remained there for two months during the
summer. The daughter's feet had been very tightly bound,
causing the child to suffer such pain that she did not want to
walk, simply wanted to sit and hold her feet. The mother, in
her heathen ignorance, wished to have her daughter's fejet
small so that she might make a better marriage for her as her
daughter grew older so she used to take a stick and beat the
child in order to force her to walk on her poor little bound feet.
The walking of course, would help to crush the bones of the
feet in the shape desired. When they had been with Mrs. Sun
awhile Mrs. Sun began to talk to the mother about the beauty
and usefulness of well formed feet. After a little discussion
on the subject, she not merely unbound her daughter's feet, but
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her own also and now the Httle girl is studying in our school at
Ting Hsien and has a chance for a healthy and happy develop-
ment, physically and mentally.
In the same village of Ts'ao Chia Chuang Mrs. Sun found
another woman who had a reputation for abusing her child and
her mother-in-law. Her heart was so touched by the gospel
that her whole attitude toward her family has been changed in
consequence. In another place the crowd of women so filled
the yard that Mrs. Sun climbed up a ladder onto the flat roof
and preached from the roof as a platform. Outside the village
her husband was holding a larger open meeting for men at the
same time.
There are many more things that I should like to tell you
about our work, but this letter is getting too long as it is. Please
pray that we may be able to meet the wonderful opportunities
that are given us for spreading the gospel.
Playing Under Difficulties
By Adelaide B. Fairbank, Ahmednagar
Scene I.
"*^^^^,^HE bungalow basks peacefully in the scorching noon
■ ^ J sun. The Baisaheb (missionary lady) has just settled
^^^^^ herself for a precious forty winks in one of the great
cool rooms within when there is a commotion on the vine-cov-
ered veranda. A swish of draperies, the pat pat of bare feet,
the tinkle of innumerable glass bracelets, then a whispered
consultation punctuated by giggles ending in a faint, breathless
rap at the door. The weary Baisaheb, deciding to smile in
amusement instead of sighing in dismay, rolls off the bed and
opens the door.
"At ya, mulino" (Come in, girls), she says sweetly.
"Baisaheb, you were asleep?" They look breathlessly and
accusingly at each other.
"What do you want, ladkyano?" (little favored ones). A
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series of head-hangings, face-coverings, back-turnings, and gig-
glings ensues. Each girl nudges the next one.
"You tell."
"No, you."
"Girls," the Baisaheb's voice endeavors to be stern, "you
know that isn't the way Baisaheb likes you to behave. Now
Sundra, you tell me."
"Baisaheb," a giggle, then breathlessly as she draws her big
toe with a squeak along a crack between the stones which pave
the floor," we have a vinanti (request) to make."
"So I already surmise."
"We have an amantran (invitation)" — more giggles.
"From whom?" another attempt at sternness on the part of
the Baisaheb.
"From — hehe — , hehe — the — the — the — boys." The Baisa-
heb sighs with relief at having extracted so much real informa-
tion.
"It's to see — "
"Some pictures — "
"Ceemeena, they call them." (meaning cinema, the English
term for "movies.")
"Over in Harris Hall—"
"Tonight—"
"It's for War Relief—"
"And our families left us some coppers only yesterday."
"They were to put in the collection, but we think that it's
better to have them go to the war orphans."
"So please can't we go?" Their tongues were loosed all
right now, and only Baisaheb's long experience enabled her to
follow intelligently the torrent of explanations.
"What time is it to be?" It was harder than ever to be stern
this time.
"Seven o'clock — ^but we'll study our lessons in the afternoon
and have study hour twice as long tomorrow night to make up."
"And what about your grinding and washing and baths this
afternoon?"
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"The other girls will do the grinding and we'll wash and bathe
tomorrow before prayer meeting."
"And what about the other girls?"
"Oh, they haven't any money."
"Well, that means that they will be here in about five min-
utes to beg for work so that they can earn some, doesn't it ?
and I gave Anu my last pair of stockings to darn for Christian
Endeavor contribution this morning, and the yard is in perfect
condition."
"We'll tell them, Baisaheb, that there is no work for them
to do," sweetly.
"Listen, girls. I'm very, very sorry, but I just can't let you
go tonight." (Pouts). "It's very impolite to make such hor-
rid faces while I'm talking to you. I don't like to talk to thun-
derclouds— that's better. Medicine never tastes so bad if you
take it with a smile. You know it would be very late before
you get home from Harris Hall tonight, and I know there
would be some very cross little girls in school tomorrow. You
know you've been just angel good so far this month and you
don't want to spoil your record now all on account of some old
cinema pictures. And then beside think how badly the girls
will feel who can't go, and how badly you would feel to go
without them."
"We feel very badly now, Baisaheb." This statement was
enforced by tragic sniffles and a unanimous disappearance be-
hind veils.
"I'll tell you what I'll do, girls — only I won't tell you until
you drop your veils and face me like ladies. That's better,
I'll write to America today and see if some kind friends over
there won't sent us a y antra (machine) of our own, so that
we can have our pictures right here in our own school hall
and maybe charge the boys admission. How would you like
that?"
"Oh, Baisaheb! Really, do you think anyone would send us
one?"
"Yes, I'm sure someone will." She wished she were as sure
as she sounded. What a dreadful hypocrite she was getting
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23
to be, anyway. Would it always have to be necessary, she won-
dered. Aloud she said:
"I guess it's a reflectoscope that the boys have, isn't it, and
not a regular cinema."
A shrug of the shoulders, and then, "It shows lovely pictures,
colored ones. I think it must be that kind you say. How long
will it take for our y antra to come?"
"Oh, a long time I'm afraid, because of the war, you know.
But we can all be very patient waiting for such a lovely thing,
can't we?" She skilfully bulwarked herself against the fu-
ture.
"Yes, Baisaheb," cheerfully, "and we'll pray for it every day."
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The Baisaheb's Brown Babies and Their Teachers
"That will be fine," said Baisaheb, her eyes filling with tears,
for she knew they would pray with the faith that removes moun-
tains, and she wondered if there was any limitation of distance
in the Biblical promise.
"And, Baisaheb," they went on sweetly, "will you please for-
give us for disturbing your nap ? It was such an important mat-
ter that we didn't even stop to ask Suwartabai (the matron)
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if we might come." Baisaheb smiled faintly. There were al-
ways so many important matters just at one o'clock.
"Yes, ladkyano, but don't forget to ask her next time, will
you?"
"No, Baisaheb, we won't," in chorus. "Goodbye," and they
were off as they had come with a patter, swish, and tinkle.
Baisaheb stood looking wistfully after them and sighed. It
was so hard to be properly stern with them and to refuse them
anything. They had so little pleasure and asked so seldom to
go anywhere. They didn't have enough gaiety to really con-
stitute them children — and she thought of her own keen child-
hood delight in "movies" and then of their utterly pictureless
lives. She went into the house quickly and sat down to her
desk in grim determination, defying a resolve she could even
now hear herself making to a group of her friends just before
she sailed. "No, girls," she had said gaily, "you won't ever
catch me begging. I hate missionaries that beg." But she was
doing it now deliberately — but she would do things even harder
if necessary, she told herself hotly, for the sake of her little
brown babies and their precious childhood. Why should schools
and Y. W. C. A.s and every other kind of institution in America
have reflectoscopes and everything else under the sun that heart
could wish and her babies have nothing? So she gritted her
teeth together and wrote.
Scene II.
Sunday afternoon Baisaheb sat on the rug in the middle of
the floor surrounded by a seething mass of red and white striped
"frocks," bare brown legs and shiny black, oiled pigtails. Twenty
pairs of shiny black eyes trying to fix themselves upon some ob-
ject she held in her hand, and twenty pairs of hands and elbows
were doing their best to get their owners a fraction of an inch
nearer the centre of attraction.
"This," Baisaheb was saying, as she held up the object," is
a picture of a dear little kindergarten I saw in Japan as I came
through there last month on my way — " The sentence ended
19 19] Playing Under Difficulties 25
in pandemonium. Little Malan was somewhere at the bottom
of the seething mass and was protesting vigorously.
"But I can't see—"
"Ouch, you hurt." This from the girl on top of Malan.
"Oh, oh, she punched me, Baisaheb."
"I haven't seen a single picture yet."
"Oh, children, children, what am I going to do with you?"
Baisaheb was ready to weep as usual after a vain attempt to
show the dormitory youngsters pictures in quarters. If she
split them up into eighths it would mean so many more precious
Sunday afternoons and so many less of the home magazines
opened of the large untouched piles on her table.
"Wait," she commanded, just as the mob were about to re-
sort to blows and tears, and she vaulted onto her desk and sat
there.
"I guess you can all see now all right — no, you must all
sit still and just look. I can't let you handle the pictures. But
I'll lean way over so you can all see. Sit down, Shewanti, the
girls back of you can't see. Now."
"It wasn't much of an improvement after all, and she felt
as though the precious afternoon had been wasted as the hot,
cross little girls filed out of the room telling each other in ag-
grieved tones how So-and-so had kept sticking her head in the
way so she couldn't see a thing, not even the picture of the big
boat that had brought the Baisaheb here from America.
"Oh, I wonder if anyone will really send a refiectoscope,"
Baisaheb thought, as she threw herself on the bed and buried
her flushed face in the cool pillow. "I could almost pray for it
like the babies. It would help so much, for they do love pictures
so and they see so few. But I just can't show the pictures that
way once again. It's too much of a struggle for all concerned.
It seems as though if someone only knew they'd send us one."
Board of the Pacific
President, Mrs. E. A. Evans Editor, Mrs. E. R. Wagner
Headquarters, 760 Market Street, San Francisco '
The epidemic of influenza has called a halt on most of the
■outside activities of the American Board and the Woman's
Board, but when nine grown-ups and four little peo-
A Masked • . & i- v
-, , . pie arrived in San Francisco bound for the foreign
field, the occasion of their few days' stay amongst
us demanded a special permit from the Board of Health to hold
a meeting in the auditorium of the Phelan Building where the
Congregational offices are now installed. This was done and
a large group of interested people were assembled (all masked)
on Wednesday morning, to hear Rev. Edward Fairbank tell
of the wondrous receptivity of the people to the Gospel message
in the Marathi Mission where his work is located. Caste dis-
tinctions are fast disappearing. A nation hitherto absorbed in
herself, India is now opening her heart to the other nations of
the world. Two million Indian troops have fought with the
allied nations in the Great War. The appeals for Belgian and
Syrian and Armenian relief have met with generous response,
school children evincing the greatest interest. Wom.en are
emerging from their long imprisonment. Red Cross circles
have been organized and work carried on as vigorously there
as in other countries.
The demand for mission schools and Christian teaching is
everywhere compelling. The head man of a hundred villages
with religious authority over one hundred thousand people be-
sought Mr. Fairbank to instruct his followers as they were
gathered for a seven days' meeting. He said, "We are of all
classes. Brahmins, Mohammedhans and Parsees, but we now
call ourselves Truth Seekers. Come and tell us of your re-
ligion. We hear such wonderful things of those who have em-
traced it and we want to know more of it." One hearing was
not enough, arrangements must be made for more.
With Mr. Fairbank were Mrs. Fairbank, Mrs. R. M. Woods,
sister of Mr. Fairbank, of Hatfield, Mass., where she is Presi-
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dent of the Hampshire Branch of the W. B. M., and Miss
Frances Woods, her daughter, going out for the first time. The
rest of the party for Marathi consisted of new recruits: Rev.
and Mrs. Moulton and Rev. and Mrs. Morrill, with their twin
boys, two years old. Miss Loleta Wood, of the W. B. M. I.
was assigned to Bombay, where Dr. Karmarkar has her work.
Rev. Elmer E. Gait, Mrs. Gait and two children are return-
ing to China after their first furlough. Mr. Gait is stationed
at Paotingfu for general evangelistic work. His resume of
work in China was full of interest showing opportunity on every
hand. Access to the better classes is growing easier through
the students. The necessity of the work for the children was
emphasized as providing the foundation upon which to build
intelligent Christian character.
The missionaries were later the guests of the Board at a
luncheon which seated nearly sixty people. During their en-
forced stay owing to difficulties of transportation, the mission-
aries are sightseeing and speaking in the surrounding neighbor-
hood.
9|C ♦ ♦
Dr. Susan Tallmon-Sargent is doing much speaking as she
travels with her husband, there being unusual opportunity these
days when so many pastors are abroad. She is a constant in-
spiration. So also is Miss Edith Parsons, as she waits for her
opportunity to go back to Turkey. Miss Parsons has just made
a tour of Oregon and Washington. e. s. b.
"Lord, open to us the gate of thy New Year that we may enter
into a large and wealthy place. Give us to see the whole prospect
of a world-wide ministry. Oh, let us not be blind to the sweet-
ness of wayside service.
"Give us wide and roomy hearts, O God. Deliver us from self-
absorption and self-distrust and the cluttering worry of petty
desires and interests. Help us to make room for Christ in all
our plans and all our business."
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Annual Meeting of Washington Branch and
Woman's Union
The Washington Branch and Washington Union held a joint
annual session in First Church, Tacoma, in October. The an-
nual reports were encouraging and the Washington Union felt
particularly happy over the announcement that they had gone
$715.35 over the top in their contribution.
There were many interesting features on the program. Miss
Janetta Knowlton, of Bellevue, told of her work among the
Japanese under the A. M. A.
In the afternoon Miss Edith Parsons, of Brousa, Turkey,
and Mrs. Edward Lincoln Smith, of New York, gave addresses
which touched a high mark of excellence and were deeply ap-
preciated. The program closed with a brief but trenchant ap-
peal from Mrs. C. K. Staude, of Tacoma, for the women who
must today meet the new industrial situation caused by the war.
There were a number of changes in the personnel of the State
Board. Most fortunate is the Washington Branch in its new
president, Mrs. L. O. Baird. Mrs. Baird brings to the office
a wide experience with the Woman's Board of the Interior,
much ability and a beautiful personality. Mrs. Walter Vose
Gulick takes Mrs. Baird's place as secretary of the Young Peo-
ples' Work and we know that the work so well begun by Mrs.
Baird will not suffer because of transference to other hands.
Deeply regretting the resignation of Mrs. J. H. Matthews
as Treasurer of the Union, we have Miss Estelle Roberts as joint
Treasurer of Branch and Union, a plan which we hope will
work out successfully. With this exception the officers of the
Union remain the same.
Facing the unusual, as does every organization, and every
individual just now, the Washington women face the new
year undismayed and determined that there shall be no back-
ward step taken, rather that our next annual meeting shall see
real advance in all departments.
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At the Doshisha
By Frances B. Clapp
OUR letter was greatly appreciated, especially your
reference to your own first trip to China. First im-
pressions are unforgettable, especially of these Ori-
ental lands, and mine will always be a vivid memory. An Eng-
lishman who has lived many years here in the East said,
"So you are going for three years? Well, you'll stay then, no
one can live that long in the Orient without remaining. And
Kyoto is the most beautiful place in all Japan in which to live !"
This came as a very pleasant offset to the Englishman who
stood at my side, as we entered port and said in a melancholy
way, "I like your enthusiasm, Miss Clapp, but I'm afraid you'll
get over it ; I used to be that way myself, but if you live long in
the Orient, you can't enjoy things so much!"
But you will want to know something about the music, I am
sure, and it is all so interesting that I could write a great many
pages — much more than you would care to read. In the first
place, in many ways it was a happy surprise; that is, more had
Tjeen done than I had been led to believe. We have three Japa-
nese teachers of music. Of the nineteen singing classes, I hear
eight, that is, I hear one hour a week of eight separate classes,
the Japanese teachers hearing the other hour with each class,
and also several classes that I can not hear. There are about
thirty-eight organ pupils, and forty-five piano pupils. Of the
latter, I hear twenty-three, including the teachers. Then I have
a class in theory for the teachers. I was particularly surprised
in the singing, as the students have been most excellently taught
by the Japanese, to read music. As a rule, they learn to read
easily and with fair accuracy. Singularly the tendency is to
sharp, rather than to flat as we do in America.
Then there is the Miriam Choir which I drill two or three
times a week, one of the pleasantest duties I have; they have
sung much together and have enough English to grasp quickly
what I am trying to do. They sing unaccompanied always, tak-
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[January
ing the pitch from the fork. The etiquette of the place forbids
a mixed choir; and so the girls sing one Sunday, and the men
the next. I always attend the Japanese service and sit with the
girls in the gallery in the back of the building which is given to
the choir. On the Sundays that they do not sing at the Doshisha
chapel, they are free to accept invitations as a choir, to sing in
other churches in the city, and of course I will go with them.
In many ways the piano work is very unsatisfactory. With
four pianos, we are trying to instruct forty-five girls. The situ-
ation is impossible. They get only about thirty minutes a day
for practice. I have already seen by their work that they can
do really good work if they only have the practice time, and
to my mind it would be much better to even cut the number of
piano pupils and let them have the two hours of daily practice
that is essential even in America if a pupil would accomplish
anything. The few pianos we have are poor, and we need four
more so very badly. A studio too is a great need. We are
planning a sort of normal course in music here to be tentatively
started next year, working it out a year at a time.
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At the Doshisha
31
We are all very busy naturally; I was not supposed to have
time for language study, but some smattering of Japanese is
so very necessary for even a three-year stay, that I am crowd-
ing in four lessons a week, besides full teaching hours and the
extras with choir, entertainments, and the like.
We have guests of all nationalities. It is very interesting in-
deed, and for one who enjoys people as much as I do, makes
one of the pleasantest features of my life, but it is very occu-
pying. We are always at home Wednesdays ; from fourteen
to twenty-five callers are here during the afternoon. One of
those who came last week is going to the United States with
her husband this winter, where he, who is a professor in the
Imperial University, will study, and she will go to some good
violin teacher. She comes every Wednesday as a rule for
coaching in violin and piano ensemble. We are doing several
Beethoven and Shubert sonatas. While we were playing, a
young prince called. Then came a Bible woman, three theologi-
cal students and some Sunday school boys. Meanwhile there
arrived the wife of an American engineer, a government school
teacher (American), three English ladies and the mother and
sister of the American Consul at Kobe. Each day brings its
unexpected guests.
A Prayer
glad one, thou dear "O tender Christ, bless thou this
'Make it a
Lord,
To whom the years belong;
Make it a happy year, all crowned
With love and praise and song.
Fill it, yea, let it overflow
With loving gifts from thee;
And best of all, dear patient Lord,
A grateful heart would be.
year!
Bless thou its dawn, and bless
Its noontide and its evening, Lord,
And let each heart confess
As days and months and years go
by
To help the year grow old,
That of thy glory, King of kings,.
The half not yet is told."
32 Life and Light [January
American Mission Hospital, Madura
"^^ — H — ^N October, 1916, just twenty-three months ago was laid
I the foundation stone of the new hospital building for
^ m .^ women and children maintained by the American Ma-
dura Mission. Within this short period, the construction work of
the large hospital and its annexures has so far proceeded that
the Medical Block has been wholly completed and at the rate
of progress of work now maintained, it is hoped that the sur-
•gical and maternity blocks also which have risen up to the ceil-
ing, will be completed in six months so that the new hospital
will be ready for occupation by the commencement of the next
■official year. A few months' delay necessarily occurred on ac-
cotmt of war conditions, chiefly want of supply wagons for
bringing in materials, and the Director of Civil Supplies who
was approached rendered the requisite assistance.
An idea of the enormous size of the new hospital may be
gleaned from the fact of the finished medical block alone. The
ground and the first floor is at present accommodating a total
of fifty in-patients in addition to providing room for lodging
the large out-patients' department. When finished it provides
to be the finest hospital building in Madura.
Separate accommodation for paying patients and a number
•of kitchens for the different classes of self-dieting patients have
also been constructed in the premises. It has also been arranged
to provide for the accommodation of separate communities ac-
cording to the system said to be in vogue in the Victoria Caste
and Gosha Hospital, Madras, if these communities collectively
•or individually come forward to maintain beds in their names.
The present accommodation is for ninety beds, thirty medical,
thirty surgical and thirty maternity, and as years pass, and the
accommodation becomes insufficient, it is proposed to construct
a second story so as to double the number of beds. The premises
■contains very ample residential quarters for two doctors, two
European nurses, two assistants and about two dozen nurses
and compounders and menials, lastly a Chattram to accommo-
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date male relatives and attendants of patients is going to be
begun across the other side of the surgical block. The public
are cordially invited to visit and have a glimpse of the new
building. I must not omit to mention that the design, strength
and rapid progress in work are due to the genius, tact and energy
of Mr. J. H. Lawson.
From the South Indian Mail, a Madura newspaper.
Field Correspondents
Dr. Harriet E. Parker, of Madura, in a letter received Oct. 30, writes:
Tomorrow will certainly be an eventful and very busy day
for us. The dispensary will move into the four private rooms
and one large ward of the lower floor of the Medical Block.
Mr. Lawson wants the Annex building vacated, so the operat-
ing saman must dispose of itself somehow and the upstair pa-
tients (fortunately few at the moment) be accommodated down-
stairs. Things are not in readiness yet for moving patients
over and without nurses on duty I hardly dare move the sur-
gical things to their destined place, the upper European bath-
room, for no doors are on except in the ward which will be
used as a drug room.
It has been a question whether the health of the employees
would be equal to moving. Last Friday afternoon all the com-
pounders, seven nurses, the matron, the door woman, and
the sewing girl were down with influenza, "Bombay fever."
They filled three rooms of the hospital and over Sunday as a
few cases developed the consulting room in the dispensary
was utilized. Most of them are on duty again and others will
be fit tomorrow.
In the last ten days I have been through alternations of hope,
despair, and resignation with regard to hospital furniture. For
a long time Mr. Lawson said we could make nothing in iron.
Then he said the materials were available; what did I want?
34 Life and Light [January
I made out a fine list ; bedside tables, stools, screens, wall-rack,
baby beds, etc., lengths, breadths, thicknesses, etc., indicated;
a chef d'oeuvre (for me) ! He went to get an estimate of cost
of materials and returned remarking that he was going to tell
me something that would break my heart. Iron was six times
its normal price and really too dear. He said there was a good
deal of wood from the old building and that he could make
furniture of it to use till the end of the war, when we could
probably sell it for as much as it cost. I was very sniffy at first,
but consented to consider the proposition and he is having a
sample screen and a bedside table made, tight joints, enameled.
Probably I shall be glad to get them. We would like to put
screens between the beds, quite plain ones, five feet high and
seven long, with -wrashable white cover. The patients would be
very pleased to have the privacy.
There were 107 leper patients in Dayapuram — many less than
last year, but the caretaker attributes that to the scarcity of
water. Our originally fine well dried up so that it contains
only enough for cooking; bath water is drawn in casks on bul-
lock carts. A second well is nearly down to sufficient depth.
In the absence of an assistant there I did all the treatments,
enjoyed it much and was too tired after it. If only we had
quiet transportation that would enable one to make two visits
or rather two trips from the Vaughans' bungalow to the Leper
Home with rest and refreshment between, I could accomplish
much more than in a straight stretch.
As to moving, two coolies came this forenoon and with the
servants, carried over the heavy almirahs and their furniture
to the medical block. At noon, after food, the compounders,
nurses, writer, and I carried over the medicines. A consider-
able degree of order was quickly secured and a few patients
were seen and an ear sewed up this afternoon in the new quar-
ters. The lower floor of the Annex is cleared except for the
books in the consulting room, which need not be moved unless
we wish. It was our intention to clear the upper floor, too,
but a call to Viruthapati (I write in the shuttle train which left
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Madura at 5.30 p. m.) caused us to put the rest off until to-
morrow. We cannot get back before midnight, which is not
pure joy, because I got back from Mana about 1 p. m., found
two maternity cases in, one requiring instruments and one rather
special — a Brahmin who had come a hundred miles from Rames-
waram to be attended here; so I went to bed after 3 a. m., and
was called promptly in the morning.
There has been apprehension that the Director of Civil Sup-
plies might not feel it possible to allow railroad transportation
of our hollow tiles for roofing, but word came this morning that
he sanctions four trucks a month. That will enable the work
to go right on to a finish. We are all delighted. The walls of
the morgue and of the isolation ward are well up.
Miss Anna Isabel Fox, our new missionary to the Philippines,
writes from Cagayan: —
At last from my new home I greet you. The long journey is
over and I am glad to be in a place that I can call home, and
whose people are my people now and for many years to come.
The journey across the Pacific was a beautiful vacation with the
stops at Honolulu, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagasaki. We did
several interesting things at each port, but I gained inspiration
and courage from my visits to various Bible schools. At Yoko-
hama Miss Pratt of the Union Bible School told me of the
founding and growth of her school. At Kobe, Miss Barrows, and
Miss Cozad took me into their home and from them I learned the
story of our own Evangelistic School there. So I came on hap-
pily to Manila where I was welcomed so kindly by the Presby-
terian missionaries, and I found friends in the ladies of the
Ellinwood School and of the Harris Memorial Deaconess Train-
ing School.
I was in Manila two weeks and then word came from my own
station, that for the sake of knowing the missionaries and more
about the work of the Islands, I should go with the Presbyterian
group to mission meeting at Dumaguete. It was a seasick journey
down through the islands, but meeting so many missionaries was
an inspiration even though they were not my own group. I long
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Life and Light
[January
for the time when we too may have a large mission group here in
Mindana where workers are so badly needed.
I do not care to repeat the trip from Cebu to Cagayan soon.
The little steamer Misamis is a nice boat, but the wind and the
waves are not always nice and little in proportion. Just before
the storm, we had taken on a hundred or more laborers. There
was not room for them in their part of the ship and they crowded
all over the upper part of the boat where they sat on the floor in
the ungainly Filipino fashion. Our inter-island boats have cabins
but they are very tiny and hot and so the passengers sleep on the
deck. Just at dark the storm broke and the water washed across
the deck and the poor people crowded all over us. I was the only
American on the boat. Once I hfted my head and found three
women were helping to occupy my cot, and they were all as sick
as I was !
Morning came at last, with a blue sky and bright sun and never
did land look so desirable as the palmy coast of Mindanao. Mrs.
Woodward and her children met me, and all four of Dr.
Laubach's students and his secretary, Miss Chacon, so it was in-
deed a royal welcome. Home with the Woodwards is very nice,
Preparing for a Christian Endeavor Social at Cagayan
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37
and I know I shall be happy. I have been given a reception and
have met many of the people from Cagayan. They are so cordial
that it is a joy to meet them. Almost all of the young people
speak English and many of the older ones use the Spanish so I
have had little trouble talking so far. My lessons in Visayan have
begun. It is interesting, but queer and complicated as yet.
I have come in a time of need. The illness of little Charles
Laubach has left him with his left side paralyzed, and Dr.
and Mrs. Laubach have taken him to Manila for treatment. So
Dr. Laubach's budding seminary has been given temporarily to
Mr. Woodward, and I shall have some classes too. Also I have
fallen heir to Mrs. Laubach's Sunday school class of young
ladies. They are an attractive group.
Last Sunday evening one of our student evangelists had a Har-
vest Festival in his Sunday school in the little village of Bara,
three miles from Cagayan. He invited the Christian Endeavor
Society of the Cagayan Church to attend. We went in tartanil-
las (two-wheeled carriages), for two miles and we had to walk
the rest of the way. We picked our way over a low, wet, wooded
spot, and crossed a rude bridge of bamboo — just three poles laid
One of the Fifteen Sunday Schools in Cagayan
38 ^ Life and Light [January
lengthwise over the stream, with a slender rail on one side to give
a bit of confidence to the one crossing. Then our path led through
a cocoanut grove and two picturesque villages with the little bam-
boo and thatch houses that stand on stilts. The chapel in Bara
overlooks the sea. It is built on the simplest lines and of the
commonest material, nipa thatch. Inside it was decorated with
palm branches, and the fruits of the cocoanut, pandannis, and
nipa palm, and the edge of the platform was heaped with these
fruits. The program of singing and recitations would have done
credit to any Sunday school. I couldn't understand the words
but the spirit of it was apparent to anyone. We enjoyed it all
even though our backs ached with the long sitting on the back-
less benches of bamboo poles. Surely it was a credit to the
young man who had planned it and trained the children and
young people so well.
We came home in the tropical moonlight. The tide had risen
and we could not cross the queer bridges, as the approach to it
was submerged and so we were taken across in outrigger canoes.
It was great fun, but hard on white dresses.
I am so glad I am here. It is such a beautiful place and the
people are so charming and give such great promise. I am think-
ing of my co-worker to be and how she too will enjoy it all. I
hope she may be found quickly for we do need her so. I am
longing to go out and visit in some of these quaint little houses.
I have been in some of the more pretentious homes, but I do
want to go out among the humble people who need us most.
We have had many visitors since my arrival. Among them is
an old English major, who was in the force sent to rescue Gordon,
and who was in the Boxer Rebellion and has had many wonder-
ful adventures. He now has four sons and three daughters in
the war in France. We feel honored to have him at our table.
Resolved — in the year 1919 :
"To Watch — Selfward, in order to know, and help, myself.
To Work — Manward, in order to know and help my fellows.
To Pray — Godward, in order to know, and help, my Lord."
Prayer
at Noontide
Encircling
the Earth
AROUND THE COUNCIL TABLE WITH OUR PRESIDENT
Our Two-Fold Goal for 1919
The New Year salutes the Woman's Board smilingly, encour-
agingly, holding out as a gift, a brand new goal, fashioned in-
deed out of familiar elements, but greater and more challeng-
ing than any goal ever before offered to its members. The Board
is honored to receive such a gift. It is stimulating to her noblest
purposes. It gives her a more adequate share in the new era
of world reconstruction.
The goal for 1919 appears upon examination to be composed
of two halves, quite distinct, yet necessarily and influentially re-
lated, the one to the other. One half may be called:
The New Financial Aim, $195,000
This sum stands for the aim of the Branches by means of
gifts from organizations, senior and junior, and from personal
donors. Other money to accrue to the Board during the year
from legacies and interest will be needed, in addition to the
quota assumed by the Branches.
This sum, however, $195,000, very acutely concerns us all and
may well stimulate serious and prompt plans in order that the
total amount be realized through the united efforts of the twenty-
five Branches. The story of the evolution of this new finan-
cial aim is worthy of the careful attention of all.
Actual wartime necessity started the process; local Branch
conferences were so many steps which led delegates at Syracuse
to join in an action which proved a worthy climax.
Note the words in the committee's third recommendation,
"each (Branch) with joy and courage joyfully to assume its
share in the adventure."
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40 Life and Light [January
The committee was too jubilant to observe its own redund-
ancy and we are glad it was. "The joy of the Lord is your
strength."
"Then will Joy come and sing to you
When you are working in the furrows."
The Conquest Campaign
This, the other half of our rounded goal for 1919 may be
briefly summed up as follows : It is a campaign for new life
and higher standards.
(a) Young women first. The emphasis is right here. To
gather a group of them, to approach them through reconstruc-
tion interests, to hold, to influence them, this is our great and
timely task during the present year.
(&) Auxiliaries second. Let us not undervalue the Cam-
paign's objective for these, our established societies.
It is to give them a higher standard — the same which we
ofifer to the young women who listen to our appeal.
This standard is worked out in the Conquest Campaign. It
has four articles. Will you not now, as we start afresh, read
them once more and consider the simplicity of each article and
yet its fitness to secure the desired end.
Here then is the goal and we accept it gratefully from a wise,
kind hand. We often picture Father Time as standing on the
threshold of a new year. His face wears a certain benignancy
but his hour glass makes us over-anxious about the flying min-
utes. Another Father, the real All-Father, is concerned in these
hopes and plans of the Woman's Board for 1919. His presence
makes for poise and calmness. Because of Him we shall "make
the adventure with courage and joy." — m. l. d.
FOUR CARDINAL POINTS OF THE CONQUEST CAMPAIGN
Conquest by Intelligence —
1. We will read individually or by groups and have pre-
sented at some of our meetings during the next year these three
books which deal with Christian statesmanship and strategy :
"The Challenge of the Present Crisis," Fosdick; "The Churches
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•of Christ in Time of War," edited by Charles S. MacFarland;
"The Call of the World," Doughty.
2. We will familiarize ourselves with some one field of our
Congregational women's work in other lands — its people, life,
missionaries, institutions, problems, needs, etc. ; and similarly
with one field of home mission work.
3. We will familiarize ourselves with the home strategy of
our Board and Federation as represented in our Branch and
Union.
Conquest by Influence —
1. Each member of our group will aim to secure at least one
new "companion in conquest."
2. We will present at least one program a year to our church
at large upon this subject of world conquest by love.
Conquest by Money —
1. The members of this group recognize as imperative for
all those enlisted in the conquest of the world for Christ the
principle of stewardship in the use of personal resources.
2. This group will determine upon a definite goal for its
money gift in behalf of "World Conquest by Love," which shall
be an adequate measure of its belief in such conquest, and will
seek to reach this goal.
3. We will seek to enroll "gift stewards" who will give per-
•sonally, apart from their pledges through the society, any sum
from $10 to $10,000 a year for specific pieces of work.
Conquest by Prayer —
1. This group will adopt yearly special subjects for prayer,
related to the conquest of the world for Christ, and will have
prayer for these in each meeting.
2. We will familiarize ourselves with these subjects (through
-a committee) so that our prayer will be intelligent.
3. We will seek to enroll "prayer stewards" who will agree
to read Fosdick's "The Meaning of Prayer," or some similar
"book, and individually make definite intercession for the Chris-
tian conquest of the world.
Junior Department
A WORD TO SENIOR AUXILIARIES.
From a Junior Secretary.
In the last number of Life and Light in this department ap-
peared an article called "Non-conducting Auxiliaries." It con-
tained an appeal from "an outsider" to the women of our societies
to translate their own missionary enthusiasm, or part of it, into
some real effort to provide for the missionary education of our
young people and children. In it was this telling sentence : "1
should think it ought to be auxiliary members who * * *
enlist every man, woman and child in the cause in some vital
^^y * >(: * j^^^ ^Yie. auxiliary members ought to be those
ivomen of the church to whom the propagating of its faith stands
out as the chief function of the church and who are working to
help each man, woman and child in the local church to do his
bit."
Many auxiliary members and leaders undoubtedly were able to
"pat themselves on the back" as they read that and say, "Thank
goodness, my auxiliary isn't deficient in that line." Yet perhaps
there were many more who have said, "I know that is true of
my society and something ought to be done about it. But what
and how, when we are all so busy ; and who could really see our
needs definitely and plan to help efficiently." It is to such who
face the problem squarely and intelligently that we would say:
"Get for yourselves some person or persons who shall, either as
a committee or as an individual, view with a strategist's eye the
situation in your church and plan for filling the gaps in your
"second line of defense."
In many societies such a person has been in office under the
title of Junior Lookout. If for any reason this title has been
an unfortunate one in your case, then call the new officer by some
other title — Secretary of Missionary Education, Superintendent,
Chairman or any other similarly expressive name. And here are
just a few suggestions for helping her to make her office a truly
big, vital and telling thing in the life of your church.
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1. Get the importance of the office recognized by pastor and
Sunday School Superintendent, securing full co-operation
between them and your new officer and a helpful exchange of
ideas and plans if possible.
2. Arrange, if you can, to have your "strategist" appointed to
the missionary committee of the Sunday school and of the
church, if such a committee exists. In many cases "Junior
Lookouts" have helped materially in making the missionary
giving of the church intelligent and the missionary education
efficient.
3. Do not make the mistake of thinking that your responsibility
ceases with her appointment. Make her feel that the auxiliary
is behind her "to the limit" and also that she is directly re-
sponsible to that auxiliary.
4. Remember that as the person upon whom rests the respon-
sibility for the missionary education of the church your new
officer must have at heart the interests of the young people
and aim for their broadest development rather than solely
for the interests of any one missionary organization.
5. Put your "Junior Lookout" in touch with the Young People's
Secretary of your Branch and urge her to bring her problems
to that secretary or to the Young People's Secretary of the
Board to whom they are always of keen interest.
One word of suggestion before the Lookout is chosen. Try to
get for this very important work a young woman to whom the
education of our boys and girls is a vital matter and who will
have regard for the best educational methods. Often a school
teacher who could not find time to teach a Sunday school class
week after week would see in this a great opportunity for real
service and for putting into the great cause of Christ's World
Kingdom the experience and training which have become a part
of her daily life.
Christian Endeavor Helps.
Suggestions for planning programs for the missionary meetings
of our young people's societies will be found each month in the
C ongregationalist or the Wellspring. For the foreign topics, they
will be found also in the Missionary Herald and Life and Light ;
for the home missionary topics, in the American Missionary.
44 Life and Light [January
JUNIOR DEPARTMENT NOTES.
The Work of Our Hands and Hearts.
Juniors, O. J. S. girls, young women, Red Cross workers —
attention ! We have three appeals from the field for "things,"
not the money to buy them. First of all, in a letter to the boys
and girls, Miss Carolyn Sewall of China — the Children's Mis-
sionary— asks them to save up for her seeds of all kinds, vege-
table and flower seeds. The Chinese love to grow things, just
as boys and girls here do, and a packet of seeds makes a most
wonderful present. Each envelope should have, not a label, but
a picture of the product to be grown from the seeds, since, of
course, the English word for it would mean nothing. Send the
seeds next summer, or now if you have them, to Miss Sewall at
Hsiku, Tientsin, China.
Then, in the Missionary Herald for December is a request from
Adelaide Fairbank, soon to return to Ahmednager, India. She
says, "Is there not some one who has some toys to spare for little,
brown babies in India, as well as for little, white ones in France ?
They need not be absolutely new, if only they are clean and whole
and usable. But toys ; something that will make real babies and
children out of the little old men and women who come to my
kindergarten in Ahmednagar." Miss Fairbank will probably ar-
range to take any offerings of toys back with her, thus saving
the cost of freight. If you would like to help supply her need,
write to the Junior Department, Woman's Board of Missions, or
to the Missionary Herald, and your letter will at once be for-
warded to Miss Fairbank.
Also, believing that many groups of young women who have
l)een busy with Red Cross work during the war would be glad to
know of present great needs in other lands now that Red Cross
work is a little diminished, the Woman's Board is making a spe-
cial effort to provide detailed information, lists, patterns and speci-
fications for things to be made for hospitals and schools in China,
Africa, India, Japan, Turkey and the Philippines, where the need
is particularly great. Write for such information, and work to
minister to the sufferings of these countries as you have to those
of France and Belgium.
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Receipts
45
Woman's Board of Missions
Receipts, October 18 — November 30, 1918
Mrs. Frank Gaylord Cook, Treasurer
Friend, 1000; Friend, 60; Friend,
5; Friend, 3; Friend, 70 cts., 1,068 70
MAINE
Eastern Maine Branch. — Mrs. J.
Gertrude Denio, Treas., 347
Hammond St., Bangor. Bangor,
Hammond St. Ch., Women, 1;
Calais, Cov. Dau., 12; Eastport,
Center Cli., S. S., 4.59; Hamp-
den, Ch., 6.78; Waldoboro, Aux.,
10, 34 37
Western Maine Branch. — Miss An-
nie F. Bailey, Treas., 132 Chad-
wick St., Portland. Augusta,
Aux., 8; Biddeford, Aux., 7.50;
Cumberland No. Assoc. Meet.,
Off., 4.50; Fryeburg, Aux., 5;
Gorham, Aux., 38; Hallowell,
Aux., 6; Kennebec, Assoc.
Meet., Off., 3.02; Lewiston, Pine
St. Ch., Mrs. Morrill, 5; Look-
out M.B., 1; Portland, Annie A.
Gould Tent, Dau. of Vet.,
33.50; St. Lawrence Ch., Aux.,
28; South Bridgton, Aux., 5;
South Portland, North Ch.,
Aux., 15; Spurwink, So. Ch.,
Aux., 1.75; Westbrook, Aux.,
10; Warren Ch., Aux., 10, 181 27
Total, 215 64
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Ne%v Hampshire Branch. — - Mrs.
Jennie Stevens Locke, Treas.,
21 South Spring St., Concord.
Amherst, Aux., 1 ; Claremont,
Ch., 7.2a; Hopkinton, Ch., 22;
New Ipswich, Ch., 3, 33 20
VERMONT
Vermont Branch. — Miss May E.
Manley, Treas., Lock Box 13,
Pittsford. Bakersfield, S. S.
Class Fidel., 5; Bellows Falls,
Aux., 13.83; Brattleboro, Aux.,
Th. Off., 64.85; Castleton, Aux.,
33; Corinth, East, Aux., Th.
Off., 12.25; Norwich, Aux., Th.
Off., 20; Pittsford, S. S., 4.45;
Post Mills, Aux., 6.75; Ran-
dolph Center, C. E. Soc, 3;
Richmond, Aux., 16; Rutland,
West, S. S., 4.05; Sudbury,
Aux., 16; Townshend, West,
Aux., 5.50; Wells River, C. E.
Soc, 20; Williamstown, Aux.,
15.85; Woodstock, S.S., 14.40, 254 9i
MASSACHUSETTS
Friend, 500 00
Andover and Woburn Branch. —
Miss Minnie C. Messenger,
Treas., 24 Ashland St., Melrose
Highlands. Branch Gift, 100;
Andover, South Ch., 128.75;
Dracut, 24; Lowell, Highland
Ch., IS, Lawrence St. Ch., 75,
Pawtucket Ch., 35; Melrose,
First Ch., Jr. C. E. Soc, S;
Methuen, 5; Reading, S. S.,
29.26; Wilmington, Ch. (S. S.,
5), 22.50; Winchester, Aux., 30;
Woburn, Aux., 40, 509 51
Barnstable Association. — Mrs. F.
H. Baker, Treas., Falmouth.
Dennis, Union Ch., 5; Hyannis,
Miss Edith S. Baker, 25, 30 OO
Berkshire Branch. — Miss Mabel A.
Rice, Treas., 118 Bradford St.,
Pittsfield. Int. Maria P. Hul-
bert Fund, 25; Friend, SO; Dal-
ton. Friend, 300, Aux., 210.02;
Hinsdale, Aux., 31.81; Housa-
tonic, Aux., 18.84. Less ex-
penses, 17.57, 618 10-
Essex North Branch. — Mrs. Leo-
nard H. Noyes, Treas., 15
Columbus Ave., Haverhill. Hav-
erhill, Bradford Ch., 45; Line-
brook, Ch., S; Merrimac, First
Ch., 9.86; Newbury, First Ch.,
S. S. 5 64 86
Essex South Branch. — Mrs. Flor-
ence B. Perkins, Treas., 27 Chase
St., Danvers. Beverly, Second
Ch., Aux., 35, Washington St.
Ch., Aux., 40; Boxford, First
Ch., S. S., 6; Cliftondale, Aux.,
16.50, C. R., S, Mission Study
CI., 9; Gloucester, Trinity Ch.,
Aux., 40; Lakeman Scholarship
Fund, 25; Lynn, Miss Alice
Jenkins, 2, Central Ch., Aux.,
12, Pro Christo Soc, 10; Man-
chester, Aux., 40; Salem, South
Ch., Benev. and Miss. Soc,
. 10; Saugus, First Ch., 14.70;
Swampscott, Aux., 5, _ 270 20
Franklin County Branch. — Miss J.
Kate Oakman, Treas., 473 Main
St., Greenfield. Leverett. S.S., 4 00
Hampshire County Branch. — Miss
Harriet J. Kneeland, Treas., 8
Paradise Road, Northampton.
■Amherst, South, O. J. S., 7;
Easthampton, Mrs. Clara M.
Parsons, 1, Dau. of Cov., 7.50;
Enfield, Aux., 90; North Had-
ley, Aux., 21; Northampton,
Edwards Ch., Aux., 85.08;
Smith College S. C. A. C. W.,
45; Westhampton, Aux., 10, 266 SS
Middlesex Branch. — Mrs. Walter
S. Fitch, Treas., 13 Dennison
Ave., Framingham. Framing-
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ham, Grace Ch., Aux. (Th. Off.,
50.70), 131.32, C. R., 4.30; Pro
Christo Guild, 14.47, Plymouth
Ch., Plymouth Guild, 10; Hop-
kinton, Aux., 26; Lincoln, M.
C, 12; Marlboro, Aux., 70;
Saxonville, Edwards Ch., Wo-
men, 15; South Natick, John
Eliot Ch., 5.85, , 288 94
Norfolk and Pilgrim Branch. —
Miss Sarah B. Tirrell, Acting
Treas., South Weymouth. Ab-
ington. First Ch., Jr. C.E. Soc,
1, S. S., 2.91; Abington, North,
Aux., 10.50; Braintree, First
Ch., Aux., 8; Bridgewater, East,
Union Ch., S.S., 4.50; Brockton
Porter Ch., 25, Aux., 10; Cam-
pello, Aux., 60.80; Cohasset,
Aux., 3.90; Hingham, Aux. (Th.
Off., 28), 35.50; Holbrook, Aux.,
5; Plympton, Aux., 5.50, S. S.,
1 ; Stoughton, Inter. Sr. Dept.
S. S., 10; Weymouth and Brain-
tree, Union Ch., Aux., 12;
Whitman, First Ch., 17.24,
Aux., 10, 222 85
North Middlesex Branch. — Miss
Julia S. Conant, Treas., Little-
ton Common. Off. at Annual
Meeting, 15.16; South Ashburn-
ham, People's Ch., 7, 22 16
Old Colony Branch. — Mrs. How-
ard Lothrop, Treas., 3320 No.
Main St., Fall River. Attle-
boro, Aux., 25; Taunton, Trini-
tarian Ch., 48.75, 73 75
Springfield Branch. — Mrs. Mary
H. Mitchell, Treas., 1078 Worth-
ington St., Springfield. Long-
meadow, C. R., 18 cts., Ludlow
Center, Aux., 12.70; Monson,
Dorcas Soc, 1 ; North Wilbra-
ham, Grace Union Ch., Aux.,
21, S. S., 1.63; Springfield, Park
Ch., 13, Aux., 52, 101 51
Suffolk Branch. — Miss Margaret D.
Adams, Treas., 1908 Beacon St.,
Coolidge Corner Branch, Bos-
ton. Tithe, 100; Auburndale,
Mrs. Joseph Cook, 10, Ch.,
199.73; Boston, Mrs. R. H.
Stearns, Sr., 100, Mt. Vernon
Ch., Jr. Miss. Soc, 1.50, Old
South Ch., Aux., 3, Shawmut
Ch., Ensign W. H. Callis, 5.
Union Ch., Aux., 35; Boston,
South, Phillips Ch., 25, C. E.
Soc, 25; Brookline, Harvard
Ch., Miss Phoebe P. Edwards,
50, Leyden Ch., Beacon Lights,
2; Cambridge, James W. Eadie,
3rd, 4; Pilgrim Ch., W. M. S.,
39; Dedham, Aux., 5; Dorches-
ter, Romsey Ch., Aux., 7, Sec-
ond Ch., Aux., 52.83; Hyde
Park, Y. L. Aux., 49; Jamaica
Plain, Boylston Ch., 3.14; Ne-
ponset. Stone Aux., Th. Off.,
15; Newton, Mrs. I. Newton
Peirce, 10, Eliot Ch., Woman's
Assoc, For. Miss. Dept., 170,
Miss Delia E. Stubbs, 1; New-
ton Centre, First Ch. in New-
ton, Woman's Benev. and Ch.
Aid Soc, 170; Newton High-
lands, Aux., 30; Newton, West,
Second Ch., Woman's Guild,
121.44; Newtonville, Central
Ch., Woman's Assoc, For.
Dept., 150; Norwood, First Ch.,
60; Roxbury, Eliot Ch., Aux.,
IS, Imm.-Walnut Ave. Ch., For.
Dept. (Th. Off., 138.60), 220.28;
Roxbury, West, Woman's Union,
16.58; Somerville, Broadway
Ch., Aux., 58, Highland Ch.,
Women Workers, 10, Winter
Hill Ch., Woman's Union, Miss.
Dept., 75; Waban, Union Ch.,
Ladies' Cir., 20; Wrentham,
Miss. Soc, 36, 1,894 50
Worcester County Branch. — Miss
Sara T- Southwick, Treas., 144
Pleasant St., Worcester. Friends,
2; Clinton, Aux., 94.55, Prim.
Dept. S. S., 4, Pro Christo Soc,
21.45; East Douglas, Aux.,
102.62; Gardner, Aux., 75;
Leominster, Aux., 75; Millbury,
First Ch., Miss. Study CI., 26;
Northbridge, Rockdale Ch., C.E.
Soc, 5 ; Petersham, Ladies'
Union, 42; Princeton, Aux., 40;
Shrewsbury, Friend, 15; Web-
ster, Prim. Dept. S. S., 4;
Westboro, Aux., 10.17; Win-
chendon. Scatter Sunshine Cir.,
5; Worcester, Old South Ch.,
Little Light Bearers, 9, Park
Ch., Aux., 10.70; Union Ch.,
23.79, 565 28
Total, 5,432 24
LEGACY
Watertown. — Jennette T. Kimball,
by Frank H. Wiggin, Treas.,
add'l. 237 57
RHODE ISLAND
Rhode Island Branch. — Miss Grace
P. Chapin, Treas., 150 Meeting
St., Providence. Branch Gifts,
100; Barrington, Bayside Glean-
ers, 70; Pawtucket, Park Place
Ch., Qui Vive CI., 3, O. J. S.,
S; Peace Dale, Miss. Soc, SO;
Providence, Beneficent Ch., Mrs.
Alexander McLellan, 1, Central
Ch., Miss Ruth A. Haskell, 1,
Plymouth Ch., Aux., 10, 240 00
CONNECTICUT
Eastern Connecticut Branch. — Miss
Anna C. Learned, Treas., 255
Hempstead St., New London.
Abington, S. S., 5.81; Daniel-
snn, Aux., 21.31; Groton, Aux.
(Th. Off., 49.50), 57.10; Killing-
19 19]
Receipts
47
ly, Aux., 14; New London,
First Ch., Aiix. (Th. Off., 37),
42; Norwich, First Ch., Lath-
rop Mem. Aux., Th. Off., 20.50,
Park Ch., Aux., Th. Off. (Mrs.
Osgood, 25), 54; Preston City,
Aux. (Prev. contri. const. L.M.
Mrs. Thomas H. Lewis) ; Ston-
ington. Second Ch., Aux., Th.
Off., 14; Windham, First Ch.,
50, , 278 72
.Hartford Branch. — Mrs. Sidney
W. Clark, Treas., 40 Willard
St., Hartford. Int. Clara E.
Hillyer Fund, 247.50; Int. Julia
W. Jewell Fund, 40; Friend, 5 ;
Andover, Ladies' Benev. Soc,
5; Avon, Ch., 5; Bristol, S. S.,
6.90; Farmington, O. J. S., 5;
Hartford, Center Ch., S. S.,
36.50, Warburton Chapel, 15.58,
Talcott St. Ch., 2; Manchester,
Second Ch., 195.65; South
Windsor, First Ch., Aux., 20;
Unionville, S. S., 4.18;_ _ 588 31
New Haven Branch. — Miss Edith
Woolsey, Treas., 250 Church
St., New Haven. Two friends,
20; Friend, 15; Bridgeport,
United Ch., S.S., 7.50; Cheshire,
Aux., 15.75; Colebrook, Aux.,
66.25, C. R., 2.50; Darien, Ch.,
7.50; East Canaan, Aux., 30;
East Haddam, Aux., 44.20;
Harwinton, Aux., Mrs. Eva M.
Catlin, 5; Ivoryton, Aux., 5;
Kent, S. S., 5; Meriden, First
Ch., Honor Roll, 10; Middle-
field, C. E. Soc, 2.45; Middle-
town, Third Ch., C. E. Soc,
10; Milford, Plymouth Ch.,
Aux., 20; Morris, Aux., 20;
New Haven, Miss Mabel H.
Whittlesey, 10. Center Ch.,
Aux., 150, S. S., 23; North
Haven, ' Aux., 50; Ridgefield,
Aux., 3.80; Saybrook, Aux., 25;
Stamford, Aux., 25; Stratford,
Aux., 30; Winsted, First Ch.,
Aux., 9.25, Second Ch., Aux.,
35.50, 647 70
Total, 1,514 73
NEW YORK
New York State Branch. — Mrs.
Charles E. Graff, Treas., 46
South Oxford St., Brooklyn.
Antwerp, Jr. C. E. Soc, 5;
Blooming Grove, W. F. M. S.,
30; Brooklyn, Lewis Ave. Ch.,
Esther M. C, 10, Nazarene Ch.,
W. M. S., 12, Park Slope Ch.,
C. R., 8.25, M. S., 15.41, Park-
ville Ch., S. S., 15, South Ch.,
Mrs. Euphemia J. Warner, 45,
S. S., 25; Buffalo, First Ch.,
Mary J. Logan Cir., 5, Woman's
Guild, 40, Fitch Memorial Ch.,
Aux., S; Canandaigua, First
Ch., Aux., 120; East Bloomfield,
Wide Awake M. B., 5; Elmira,
Park Ch., M. S., 40; Fairport,
Aux., 37.75; Fulton, S. S., 5;
Gloversville, First Ch., S. S.,
5.30; Hall, Union Ch., S. S.,
5; Jamestown Danish Ch., C. R.,
2; Ogdensburg, M. S., 25; Ori-
ent, W. H. aAd F. M. S., 30;
Pulaski, W. M. S., 28.50; Red-
ding, Conn., Forward, 140; Ro-
chester, South Ch., Ma Dwe
Cir., 10, S. S., 10, Class 38, 10;
Rockaway Beach, First Ch., 5;
Sherburne, S. S., 5; Sherrill, 31,
S. S., 8.17; Shortsville, Mrs. W.
B. Sprague, 12.50; Syracuse,
Plymouth Ch., 20; Upper Mont-
clair, N. J., Mrs. Walter Mc-
Dougall, 100; Warsaw, Woman's
Union, 108; White Plains, Wo-
man's Soc, 75, 1,053 88
Syracuse. — Off. at Ann. Meet.,
205.76, 109.38, 315 14
Total, 1,369 02
NEW JERSEY
New Jersey Branch. — Miss Martha
N. Hooper, Treas., 1475 Colum-
bia Road, Washington, D. C.
D. C, Washington, Mrs. Sarah
L. Woodin, 70 cts., Lincoln
Temple, Aux., 25; N. J-., East
Orange, First Ch., Aux., SO,
Jersey City, First Ch., Jr. M.S.
10; Maple Shade, Aux., 3.83;
Upper Montclair, Aux., 200;
Westfield, S. S., 10; Va... Van-
derwerken, Woman's Miss. Soc,
7, 306 53
PENNSYLVANIA
Pennsylvania Branch. — Mrs. David
Howells, Treas., Kane. Mos-
cow, Spring Brook Ch., Aux., 5 00
SOUTHEAST BRANCH
Southeast Branch. — Mrs. C. E!
Enlow, Treas., Winter Park,
Florida. Fla., Cocoanut Grove,
Aux., 10; Crystal Springs, Mrs.
G. M. Laybourn, 35, S. S., 35
cts.; Daytona, S. S., 11.46; New
Smyrna, Aux., 4.55; West Palm
Beach, Aux., 18780; Ga., Atlan-
ta, Union Tabernacle, Ladies'
Aid Soc, 10; N. C, Southern
Pines, Ladies' Aid, 35, 125 16
KANSAS
Lawrence. — Christian Ch., Aux., 5 00
CHINA
Tunghsien. — Christian Women, 18 00
Donations, 8,622 27
Buildings, 1,180 50
Extra Gifts for 1919, 659 38
Specials, 126 00
Legacies, 237 57
Total, 10,825 72
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Woman's Board of Missions for the Pacific
Mrs. W. W. Ferrier, Treasurer. 2716 Hillegass Ave., Berkeley, Cal.
Receipts for July, 1918
Northern California Branch.- — Mrs.
A. W. Moore, Treas., 415 Pa-
cific Ave., Oakland, Cal. Bowles,
1.25; Cloverdale, 4; Fresno,
First, 11.25; Grass Valley, 1.75;
Lockeford, 8.50; Niles, 3.75;
Oakland, Pilgrim, C. R., 1.87;
Paradise, 63 cts. ; Petaluma,
12.50; Pittsburg, 61 cts.; San
Francisco, First, C. R., 1.50;
Mission, 6; Italian and Spanish,
1; San Juan, 40 cts.; Sunny-
vale, 4.75; Tipton, 1.13; San
Rafael, S. S., 79 cts.; W. B.
M. P. baby, 50 cts..
Southern California Branch. — Miss
Emily M. Barrett, Treas., 178
Center St., Pasadena. Brea
Woman's Guild, 3, S. S., 5
Eagle Rock, 6; La Jolla, 7.50.
Long Beach, Mrs. Frary's CI.,
15; Los Angeles, Bethany Me-
morial, 5, Colegrove, Primary
S. S., 4.06, East, 5, Mayflower,
3.30, Mt. Hollywood, 16.14, Pico
Heights, 5.00, Vernon, 20; On-
tario, 23; Pasadena, First,
Bible School, 278; West Side,
38; Pomona, 52; San Ber-
nardino, 10.25; San Diego, First,
30; Whittier, 25, Plymouth Cir.,
5,
OREGON
Oregon. — Mrs. W. H. Phillips,
Treas., 434 E. 48th St., Port-
65 52
281 03
land. Beaverton, 6.50; Hills-
boro, 6.83; Portland, First, S.S.,
10.50, Mrs. Farquar, 10, Laurel-
wood, 1.25, Sunnyside, S. S.,
45, Int. C. E., 2.50, University
Park, C. R., 15 cts.; Collection
at Rally, 1.63,
WASHINGTON
Washington Branch. — Miss Estelle
Roberts, Treas., 1121 22nd Ave.,
Seattle. Bellingham, 2.05; Col-
ville, 20 cts.; Dayton, 25; Seat-
tle, Green Lake, 5, Pilgrim, 120,
Scholarship, 15, Plymouth, for
Mrs. F. E. JefFery, 35; Prospect,
S.S. Scholarship, 3.85; Spokane,
Pilgrim, Scholarship, 15; West-
minster, 2; Tacoma, First, 60;
Mullan, Idaho, 3.50; Cradle Roll
box, 2.04; Refund from Mrs.
Kennedy, 6; Our Work, 2,
IDAHO
Idaho Branch. — Mrs. C. E. Mason,
Treas., Mountain Home. Poca-
tello, S; Rockland, 1; Ontario,
Oregon, 2; Yale, German, 3;
Mountain Home, 10,
UTAH
Utah Branch. — Sandy, 1 ; Salt
Lake City, First, 48,
ARIZONA
Arizona Branch. — Nogales, Trin-
ity,
84 46.
296 64^
21 00
49 00'
Receipts for August, 1918
CALIFORNIA
Northern California Branch. — Mrs.
Arthur Moore, Treasurer, 415
Pacific Ave., Oakland, Cal.
Adin, 2.17; Alturas, S. S., 1;
Bay Point, 2.54; Berkeley, First,
95, C. R., 2.55; North, 18.36;
Park, 5; Campbell, 15; Ceres,
First, 4.50, S. S., 3.62; Eureka,
9.45; Grass Valley, 1; Lodi,
First, 17.10. S. S., 1.60; Marti-
nez, 3.44; Oakland, First, 274,
Life members, 207.50, Mrs.
Brewer, 100, Miss Brewer, 200,
Mrs. S. T. Fisher estate, 500;
Plymouth, 18, Olivet, 93 cts..
Pilgrim, 20. C. R., 3; Pacific
Grove, 13.75; Palo Alto, 15,
Mrs. R. C. Kirkwood, 514; Par-
adise, 1.25; Petaluma, 1.50;
Pittsburg, .88 cts.; Porterville,
10; Redwood, 12.50; Sacramen-
to, 2.22; San Francisco, First,
100, Iflrs. E. A. Evans, 100;
Bethany, 14.50, Italian, 50 cts.,
Spanish, 36 cts.; San Mateo,
10; San Jose, 125; Santa Rosa,
First, 4.15; San Rafael, S. S.,
36 cts.; Saratoga, 18, C. R.,
2.40, Junior C. E., 1.75, Mr. C.
D. Blaney, 75; Sonoma, 6.25;
Stockton, 25, Girls' Society, 15;
Tipton, S. S., 46 cts.; Miss Net-
tie Goodell, 6.25, Mrs. Harriet
Taylor, 75 cts., 2,582 76
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Turkey and its Peoples, Pears
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Daylight in the Harem, Sommer and Zwemer
Overtaking the Centuries, Paddock
Files of Life and Light and Missionary Herald
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Western Women in Eastern Lands, Montgomery
Files of Life and Light, World Outlook, and
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The Chinese Revolution, Brown
Sun Yat Sen and the Awakening of China, Cantlie and Jones
Files of Mission Studies, International Review of
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Christian Movement in the Japanese Empire, 1915, 1916, 1917
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