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Volume CX1V
MAY 1918
Number 5
Turkey’s Menace
in the Transcaucasus
Recent dispatches from Switzer-
land, reporting the latest information
from within Turkey,
indicate that condi-
tions there are not
becoming worse than they have been,
but, on the whole, are rather improv-
ing. The Turkish officials seem to be
increasingly friendly to the mission-
aries, and helpful in the matter of
distributing relief.
There is greater uncertainty with
reference to the situation in the
Transcaucasus. The Bolsheviks, in
their treaty with Germany, gave the
Transcaucasus to Turkey, and not only
the region which was taken from
Turkey in 1878, but beyond, including
Erivan and presumably the railroad
line to the Caspian Sea; and this line
goes directly to Baku, one of the great-
est oil centers in the world. The plan
was undoubtedly Germany’s project to
secure for herself possession of this
rich territory, and incidentally a north-
western route toward India, as the
route originally sought, by way of
Bagdad and the Persian Gulf, has not
opened up successfully.
The United States Government has
received no direct communication from
the American consul at Tiflis since the
latter part of February. Dispatches
were sent from the American Board
missionaries and from the American
consul by courier to Teheran, Persia,
and from there cabled to Washington.
These reported the conditions as ex-
ceedingly threatening, the Turks push-
ing to the north to take possession of
the territory which the provisional
government, with capital at Tiflis, was
planning to defend. The majority of
the provisional government constitute
Armenians and Georgians, who are
making common cause against a com-
mon enemy, the Turks, Tartars, and
Teutons.
The American Committee for Ar-
menian and Syrian Relief has made
an appropriation of $400,000 for relief
purposes, but is unable as yet to trans-
mit the fund. The State Department
inquired of London by cable if they
had any communication with Tiflis,
and the reply came that communication
was cut off, so that just at present it is
impossible to give any definite infor-
mation as to the situation in the Trans-
caucasus.
Our missionaries, seventeen of them,
with children, besides other Americans
who are there for the distribution of
relief, are in difficult circumstances.
For them prayer should be earnestly
offered, and not only for them, but for
the Armenians and Georgians, whose
very existence is threatened. It does
not appear that the Turks or the
Tartars would be inclined to injure
the missionaries themselves, but the
poor people are in a terrible situation.
With eyes intent upon France and
what is happening there, we must not
forget Mexico, so re-
r„eMe^hment centlv a danger spot in
the other direction, and
where the task of reconstruction is
now on. The reestablishment of gov-
ernment and of order, we are assured,
is being accomplished, despite some
outbreaks of banditry, which are likely
to continue for a long time. Dr. How-
land, writing from Mexico City the
middle of March, affirmed that no one
there would have reason to think there
was unrest in any part of the country.
The intrigue between Germany and
Mexico is less to be considered, now
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that it has been revealed and dis-
credited. On the whole, the United
States may regard its neighbor on the
south with a good measure of confi-
dence that she will settle down to a
period of comparative stability and
prosperity.
Missionary work, also, in Mexico is
in process of readjustment. The trans-
fer of fields between the Southern
Methodists and the American Board,
involved in the general realignment of
mission forces in the land, is being
pushed, the Methodist Bishop Denny
seeming to regard the exchange as
practically decided. The Union Semi-
nary at Mexico City, of which Dr.
Howland is the head, has opened its
new year well, with fifteen boarders
in what is really the first class. Most
of these men are said to be well pre-
pared, or at least better prepared than
might be expected under present con-
ditions. Ten special students are very
regular and are doing good work.
The new restrictions put upon for-
eigners in their religious work in
Pushing Mexico, and the new rules
Missionary affecting mission schools
Work and churches, have discour-
aged some of the missions in their
work. Others are undaunted and even
more aggressive. The Methodist Board
(North) is pushing with great success,
and making “drives” of all kinds in all
departments. In their main church at
Mexico City they have a Sunday school
attendance of 500, and aim at 600.
One of their superintendents received
over three hundred into the church in
his district during 1917 ; has held in-
stitutes for the workers and others for
laymen, and is successfully developing
self-support; and this in the “Zapa-
tista” territory.
As one indication of the American
Board’s purpose to push on in Mexico,
we call attention to the recent appoint-
ment of two new missionaries as re-
enforcements, Rev. Leavitt O. Wright
and Rev. Harold H. Barber. Concern-
ing these appointments, it is inter-
esting to note that Mr. Wright is a
son of two of our Mexico missionaries,
Rev. and Mrs. Alfred C. Wright; that
his wife, formerly Miss Marion How-
land, is a missionary daughter; and
that Mr. Barber expects to take with
him, as his bride, Miss Barbara How-
land, the other daughter of Dr. and
Mrs. John Howland. Mexico is evi-
dently in the blood of our missionaries
there.
A group of young Chinese students
from American colleges are about to
sail for France to assist the
Fiander" Young Men’s Christian Asso-
ciation with the thousands of
Chinese coolies at work behind the
French lines on roads and encamp-
ments. The number of these coolies
has been variously stated; 150,000 is
a conservative estimate. Most of them
have been brought across the Pacific
and Canada in units of about three
thousand, under the charge of mission-
aries and others who speak the Chinese
tongue. It will be remembered that
Dr. James F. Cooper, of the American
Board’s Foochow Mission, brought one
such company in 1917. British officers
and some civilians have shared in this
leadership. Eleven British Mission
Boards have united in the plan to send
more of their Chinese-speaking mis-
sionaries with these labor units as
interpreters. This is not only a valu-
able opportunity to educate and influ-
ence these Chinese, whose world travels
and war experiences will make them
radiating centers of information on
their return home, but the friendly
missionary interpreter will also make
their work more efficient and keep up
their spirits to the point of effective-
ness.
One of the men who will join this
service is Shaowu Peter Chuan, grad-
uate of the American
aSSwS? Board’s college in Tung-
«**'■> chow, and about to com-
plete his last year in Hartford Theo-
logical Seminary. Mr. Chuan has been
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heard on many of the most prominent
Forum platforms in the East. During
the last year he has spoken at the
Ford Hall meetings, the Brookline
Forum at Harvard Church, the Mal-
den Forum and the Portland Forum,
under the leadership of G. Waldon
Smith. He speaks in fluent English,
and in his pocket is the gold watch
which he won for the finest oration
in Chinese at the last annual confer-
ence of the Chinese students in Amer-
ica. He is something of an athlete, a
fine baseball player, and holds the
tennis championship for Hartford
Seminary.
Mr. Chuan is the son of a Manchu
family, and his father is numbered as
the first graduate of the American
Board’s college at Tunghsien. The
father has recently retired from the
headship of the North China Language
School in Peking. His eldest brother
is one of the two surgeons-general of
the Chinese army, and is now at the
head of the Chinese Anti-Plague Com-
mission, recently organized, with full
authority. His second brother is a
graduate of Yale, and one of the few
Chinese students who have been elected
to a college fraternity in America.
He is now traveling secretary of the
Chinese Christian Students’ Associa-
tion of America, and will be at the
head of the Bureau in America which
arranges for the Chinese Young Men’s
Christian Association workers to get
to France. The family have many
friends in America, who will follow the
career of the two younger brothers in
France and in this country with great
interest. They are the type of new
leaders that China needs, representing
a deep and unselfish devotion that
would gladly give life itself for the
good of China. In addition to this,
they represent the best results of mis-
sionary work in China, having come
through the missionary colleges, with
additional training in America, and
will return to China to put their lives
into direct Christian work, whole-
heartedly and effectively.
A recent letter from one who is
close to the life of South Africa, both
white and black, ends
ofmteheCWorMHoPe this sentence, “I
wonder if you realize
how universally, out here, America is
counted on to win the war, and is there-
fore regarded as the hope of the
world.” How are we to account for
this dependence on America? Because
of its size ; its wealth ; its intelligence,
courage, resourcefulness? Or is it
simply that, as the latest comer (save
China) among the Allies, it is felt that
the United States will turn the scale,
which was quite evenly balanced be-
fore? Perhaps the last is the truest,
as it certainly is the modest explana-
tion for us to accept.
But one cannot help thinking, as it
is good to hope, that involved in this
judgment is the conviction that Amer-
ica stands so loyally and unyieldingly
for the cause of democracy, that she
is so bound to the principles of free-
dom, justice, and fair play, that she
must pledge heart and soul to maintain
them; that although at the start she
may mishandle her time and strength,
she will at least muddle along till she
finds herself, and that she will fight
unselfishly to the bitter end for the
welfare of the world.
Tremendous floods are not confined
to China. Now it is Africa’s turn.
Word has come that Zulu-
Afuca Also ^an<^ has keen cut off from
Natal by serious floods,
which have washed away bridges and
spread death and destruction over a
great area. The Umvoti River, in
Zululand, without warning of rain-
storm or other sufficient explanation,
but possibly, it is thought, because of
a cloudburst near its source, came
down in a wall of water seventy feet
high, drowning many Europeans,
Indians, and natives. At the same
time occurred a storm at Beira, the
American Board’s station in Mozam-
bique territory, which actually carried
the mission house out to sea. Fortu-
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nately it was not occupied at the time,
Mrs. Maxwell and her boys being tem-
porarily in Natal. Mrs. Maxwell, it
seems, was on her way up to pack her
goods; happily, she found on arrival
that some kind neighbors had removed
them from the house before it put to
sea.
This mission house, like all others
in Beira, was perforce “built upon the
sand.” In addition, it was upon the
street that fronts the sea, and so situ-
ated that the water washing on the
sand was known to be encroaching on
it, in spite of planting of trees and
piles. Attention of the Beira govern-
ment had been called to the fact ; there
had been talk of constructing a dike
or wall along the water front; plans
had been formed for safeguarding this
temporary house till a more substantial
and more safely located building could
be secured. Mr. Maxwell’s sickness
and death had interrupted all plans
for the station; now the unexpected
has happened, and the problem of that
house is removed. We await further
particulars concerning the wreckage
which the “great waters” have wrought.
In 1914 there were recorded in
Japan 241 suicides of those under
sixteen years, 801 between
Suicide stream sixteen and twenty, and
3,086 between twenty
and thirty. A brilliant but dissatis-
fied university graduate, having ex-
amined, as he said, all religions for
their answer to human life, without
avail, in the year 1902 flung himself
into the river above a famous water-
fall, and his battered body was found
a few days later on the rocks, 600 feet
below. Another youth did the same,
and another, and another; until, in
spite of police, barricades, and every
effort to prevent the stream of sui-
cides, in ten years 248 men and women
had ended their lives in that way and
at that spot.
It is in view of such astounding
facts, and their revelation of the mood
of doubt and despair which prevails
among Japan’s student classes, that
the Students’ Christian Literature
Distribution Society finds its field of
utmost need and its special incentive.
There is a growing response to its
work. The monthly paper, which in
1912 was admitted to 172 schools, now
reaches 1,330, with an enrollment of
410,000 students. In each case, the
consent of the principal is secured to
the circulation of this evangelical but
non-sectarian Morning Star. Now it
appears that the teachers in the ele-
mentary schools, 116,000 of them, are
also ready to receive the literature.
The problem is now a financial one:
how to get the $6,000 needed each year
for this most promising work. Dr.
Sidney L. Gulick, who has the enter-
prise on his heart, writes that one
friend has promised him $500 if he
can secure a similar sum from other
sources. He hopes that from friends
in many of the mission boards he may
secure $50 or $25 for this work.
Rev. Henry A. Neipp, of Ochileso,
in the West Central Africa Mission,
whose skill and ingenu-
'v*n7tcd: ity in mechanics have
wrought many benefits
to the work of that station, intimates
that he could make good use there of a
light-weight water turbine, such as he
thinks have been in some cases dis-
carded in this country with the devel-
opment of gasoline motors. He would
be glad also of accompanying shafting
and flywheel. The falls at Ochileso
are famous, and are a valued asset of
the station. They make available 350
cubic feet of water a minute, with a
head of 20 feet. If one of our readers
is able to help in this matter, he will
be rendering a real service to mission
work in Africa.
It shows how the war has been cut-
ting down the supply of missionaries
that, for the first time in
chi‘naf°rcing 1918> this May issue of the
Missionary Herald is able
to announce the sailing of two new
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appointees to our missionary staff,
Rev. and Mrs. Henry Smith Leiper,
who go to the Chihli District of the
North China Mission. Mr. Leiper is
a graduate of Blair Academy, New
Jersey, 1909; Amherst College, 1913;
and Union Theological Seminary, 1917.
He received the m.a. degree from Co-
lumbia University, and has completed
required residence work for the PH.D.
degree. His practical experience has
REV. AND MRS. HENRY SMITH LEIPER
been varied : as Young Men’s Christian
Association officer, Student Volunteer
secretary, and assistant pastor in New
York and Brooklyn churches. During
both college and seminary days, he
served as organist, and has had experi-
ence also in choral music. The son of
a Presbyterian minister, he was or-
dained in that church in 1915. He
became a Student Volunteer in 1910,
was specially interested in China, and
shaped his courses in the Seminary
and in Columbia with missionary work
in China in view.
Mrs. Leiper was educated at Dwight
School, Englewood, N. J., and at Smith
College. After her marriage, in 1915,
she took certain courses at Union Sem-
inary. In college, she was the leader
of the Student Volunteer Band during
senior year. For two years she taught
Italians English and geography in a
night school. On leaving college, she
took up work as traveling secretary
for the Student Volunteer Movement,
both visiting colleges and having office
experience. North China' will know
how to use these specially qualified
workers, and will give them royal
welcome.
An interesting sidelight upon the
story told in the April Missionary
Getting Herald by Mr. Cooper, of the
Beneath conversion of two Brahman
the skm young men of Madura, stu-
dents in the American College, and
his comment that it was sure to raise
opposition and perhaps persecution,
appears in a letter from its Madura
correspondent in the New India of
December 31, 1917. The New India,
as its name indicates, stands for the
national and home rule party in India,
and is the mouthpiece of a good deal
of the unrest and aspiration of the
leaders of Indian “new thought.” It
is understood that Mrs. Besant has
editorial connection with the paper.
The contribution from its Madura
correspondent began as follows, “Great
alarm and consternation prevails in
Hindu circles over an attempt at con-
version of two Brahman young men
into Christianity, under the influence
of certain American missionaries.”
The facts are then given as published
in a local Madura paper : the names of
the young men and their family con-
nection are indicated; the fact that
one of them is possessed of a house
and some landed property, of the value
of 15,000 rupees ($5,000) ; that he has
just attained his majority and is now
the sole responsible member of his
family; that for the past three or four
months he had been seen in the com-
pany of Rev. Mr. Cooper, and had been
moving in the Young Men’s Christian
Association circle ; that the wife of the
secretary of the local Young Men’s
Christian Association had visited his
house, and that the wife of another
Young Men’s Christian Association
worker had been daily going to his
house to give lessons in English to
his wife. The disappearance of the
two young men from Madura is re-
lated, and the fact that they were
found at Palamcotta, where it is said
they had gone at the instance of Mr.
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Cooper, “with a view to get themselves
baptized into Christian religion”; that
the grandfather and mother of the
wife of the more well-to-do young man
had been to Palamcotta, found him
under the protection of a missionary,
and tried to take him over to Madura;
and that he had declined to return,
saying that he had belief in Christian-
ity, and had determined to go into the
Christian fold.
There follows the description of a
public meeting, attended by a large
gathering of Hindus and a few Mo-
hammedans, at which speeches were
made by a number of gentlemen, con-
demning in strong terms the evil in-
fluence of missionaries and Young
Men’s Christian Association workers
in Madura, “whose one object in this
country is proselytism.” Resolutions
were adopted denouncing the conver-
sions, calling upon the missionary
body to explain their action, appoint-
ing a committee to take such effective
steps as may be necessary to prevent
the conversions, and leaving it with
them to call another meeting for tak-
ing further steps, as may be deemed
advisable.
Christianity may gain in Madura as
it is found to be operative even upon
Brahmans, and as opposition takes the
place of passive disregard of it.
A Comparison
of Attitudes
Exception has been taken by one
or two correspondents to a sentence
in an article entitled
“Ten Facts the War Has
Shot Home,” which ap-
peared in the January Missionary
Herald. The sentence reads, “It is as
shameful as it is absurd to contribute
dollars to the destroying of men and
nations and nickels to the redeeming
of mankind.” The protest is against
speaking of “this noble war for the
defense of human liberty” as for the
destruction of men and nations.
Promptly and emphatically let it be
affirmed that the Missionary Herald
did not mean to discredit America’s
part in the war, or even to intimate
that as a nation we were doing too
much therefor. A sentence in the arti-
cle, just before the one quoted, indi-
cates the purpose that was in mind,
“It is time for the church to wake up
to the splendor, size, and significance
of its foreign missionary undertaking
and to get behind it, as we are getting
behind the war." It was recognized
that we were supporting the war loy-
ally and unstintedly; that we were
giving our sons, our money, our time,
our labor, and our sympathy to the
cause which we feel holds the liberties
of the world. The American Board,
its officers, its missionaries, and, we
are persuaded, its constituency, un-
flinchingly back our country in this
war. We believe it must be fought,
and fought to a victory for our side.
At the same time, we recognize that
war is a destroyer; that its particular
work is not constructive. It is neces-
sary sometimes to destroy one building
before another and a better can be
built. The immediate and direct busi-
ness of United States troops, equip-
ment, munitions, and expenditures in
this war is to destroy men and nations,
at least to the point of winning a sur-
render. There can be no doubt about
that. And the foreign missionary
enterprise, whose influence is for the
redeeming of men and nations, is busy
at the task for which in this war we
mean to clear the way. In that sense,
the war and foreign missions are
working to the same end. Is it not,
then, as shameful as it is absurd to
pour forth men and money without
measure for the destructive work of
war, and to offer few heartfelt prayers
or to contribute indifferent nickels
for the implanting of the Christian
principles of freedom, justice, fair
dealing, and good will in the non-
Christian world? That is all the un-
fortunate sentence was meant to say.
It was not a slap at the war; only a
comparison of attitudes, wherein a
multitude of Christian people are re-
vealed as undervaluing the construc-
tive service of foreign missions.
IN THE GOVERNOR’S COURTYARD AT TAIYUANFU
It was under the tree in this picture that the missionaries were murdered during the Boxer uprising
FIGHTING PNEUMONIC PLAGUE IN SHANSI
By CHARLES W. YOUNG, m.d.
Dean and Projessor in Union Medical College, Peking
PNEUMONIC plague broke out at
some unknown place at an un-
known date in Mongolia, west
of Northern Shansi. It was probably
late in November, for early in Decem-
ber Mr. Greene (of Peking) had a
telegram, in the routine of his Flood
Relief work, saying that an epidemic
had appeared near Patsebolong, Mon-
golia, and was spreading rapidly.
Within a fortnight it had moved along
the great caravan and trade route into
Shansi, and appeals for help came from
the China Inland and Scandinavian
missionaries in that region. Late in
December, Dr. Lewis, of the Presby-
terian Mission at Paotingfu, together
with Dr. Eckfelt, of the Union Medi-
cal College Hospital, went to investi-
gate, expecting to go at least as far as
Saratsi, in Mongolia. When they got
to Suiyuan, which is the seat of the
Tartar general in control of that terri-
tory, they were obstructed. This man
said there was no plague, and strongly
intimated that these doctors were not
desired there.
They had no choice but to return to
the end of the railway, retracing sev-
eral days’ journey. In the three days
since they had been over the road in
the other direction, the plague had
spread along this trade route and to
the surrounding villages. Meantime
the traffic on that railway had been
stopped, and Dr. Wu Lien-teh, who
was prominent in the suppression of
the Manchurian epidemic, was sent
by the government. He also was un-
able to do anything, on account of
the obstruction of officials and local
inhabitants.
The central government slowly be-
came aroused, and appointed a High
Commissioner on Plague Prevention,
General Chiang Ch’ao-tsung, formerly
head of the gendarmerie in Peking.
In seeking doctors to help, the govern-
ment approached the Union Medical
College, as it had seven years ago, at
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the time of the Manchurian epidemic.
Three doctors offered themselves —
Dr. Smyly, Dr. Chang, and myself. At
that time, General Chiang was going
on an inspection tour to Tatung and
Fengchen, on the Peking-Suiyuan
Railway, of which I have spoken. This
was important, as Peking is only
thirteen hours by rail from the end of
the line, and the terminus, Fengchen,
was already infected. General Chiang
wished the three of us to accompany
him on this tour, together with the
chief sanitary inspector of the South
Manchurian Railway, Dr. Tsurumi,
whom the Japanese Legation had
brought from Dalny, as well as Major
Kosugi, physician of the Japanese
Legation.
I had been invited by the physicians
of the legations in Peking, who had
organized a Legations Health Board,
to act as adviser, as at the present time
there is in Peking no legation physi-
cian who was there seven years ago.
It was evident to the Health Board
that the Chinese government was
concentrating its attention on the
northeast front of the advance of
the disease, and neglecting another
and almost as important one.
There are several large roads lead-
ing from the infected region into the
populous Shansi plain. Near the north-
ern end of this plain is the capital of
Shansi, Taiyuanfu. This city will be
remembered as the scene of many of
the martyrdoms in the Boxer outbreak
in 1900. I remembered it also, as I
was here on Red Cross work, after
the battle of Niangtzukuan, during the
Revolution.
I had been in touch with Dr. Ed-
wards, of the English Baptist Mission
here in Taiyuan, since we had heard
of the outbreak to the north; but we
were able to give him the news, rather
than he us. When the plague spread
south, into the jurisdiction of the
governor of Shansi, he wished to send
Dr. Edwards and other foreign doctors
up north; but it soon became evident
that the disease was sweeping like a
forest fire southward, and that to go
there was to leap into the middle of
the conflagration.
OUTSIDE THE WALLS AT PAOTINGFU
This is the name given a sort of rest house in which the Emperor, or any of his family, was sup-
posed to spend the night when going on a visit to pay respects to departed ancestors at the eastern
imperial tombs
Already the Legation Health Board
had urged the Chinese government to
stop all southward traffic through the
arm of the Great Wall that runs trans-
versely across between the northern
and central thirds of the province.
Neither the central nor the Shansi
provincial authorities were sufficiently
aroused then to take the warning
while it was yet time. Before they
acted, the disease was already “inside
the wall.”
Dr. Edwards and others were able
to persuade Governor Yen, who is an
intelligent and progressive man, to
close these passes, and then the doctors
began to call for reenforcements. They
telegraphed to Peking, where they
evidently think that doctors stand idle
on every street corner. We refused to
go until assured that the passes were
closed, but when we received a tele-
gram that that had been done and that
the governor was willing to do any-
thing asked of him; and also that no
one in the province had had any experi-
ence with plague, and that they wanted
some one to come and help with the
organization of the work, it sounded
like a call to me.
I persuaded General Chiang to re-
lease me from my invitation to go
north with him, in favor of the work
at Taiyuanfu. He was unwilling at
first, but later agreed, and he and the
Minister of the Interior gave me a very
nice letter to the governor of Shansi,
and also telegraphed him of my com-
ing. He was very cordial, and asked
me how long I could stay. I frankly
told him that depended on him. If he
was going into the work wholeheart-
edly, I would stay as long as possible;
but if not, I would go back very soon,
as I had left important work in Peking.
He said he would back us in any
necessary measures, and he has cer-
tainly “played the game.”
A “Shansi Provincial Plague Pre-
vention Bureau” was already organ-
ized. The chief medical officer was
head assistant in the English Baptist
Hospital at the time of my visit during
the Revolution, so I had the advantage
of previous acquaintance. There had
apparently been some jealousy on the
part of this Bureau toward the medical
missionaries. The director is Mr. Nan,
chief of the Provincial Police, a man
familiar with the whole province and
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with his hand on police everywhere.
It was soon made clear to the Bureau
that nobody wanted to diminish their
authority; that we wished to work
through them and with them. They
are now working most harmoniously,
and have even gone to the extent of
dismissing three officials when it
seemed they were not equal to the task
of fighting the plague vigorously.
I arrived on January 20. Already
Dr. Edwards, of the English Baptist
Mission, and Dr. Wampler, of the
Church of the Brethren Mission, were
in the field, together with several of
the ordained missionaries of the first
named mission, in whose field we were
working. I found Dr. Percy T. Wat-
son, of our Fenchow station, here with
his assistant, Dr. Ma, one of my old
pupils. He had also brought two of
his male nurses from Fenchow.
On the train with me were Dr. Bru-
baker, of the Church of the Brethren
Mission, and Dr. Willoughby A. Hem-
ingway, of the American Board’s hos-
pital at Taikuhsien. Within a few
days we were joined by Dr. Dickson
(Presbyterian), of Shuntehfu, Chihli,
and Dr. Francis F. Tucker, of our
Tehchow hospital.
Dr. Mackillop Young (Scotch Pres-
byterian), who had been through the
Manchurian epidemic, wired that he
was ready for service, and came a
thousand miles to help. In addition to
Dr. Chang, who came with me, Dr. An,
one of our internes at Peking, volun-
teered, and was released by the Union
Medical College Hospital. Another of
our graduates, Dr. Sun, was later
added to our personnel. Finally Dr.
Hoyte, of the China Inland Mission
at Ping Yang, went to Fenchow to
watch the road and try to prevent the
entrance of the disease into the Shansi
plain from the west.
Thus every medical missionary is on
plague duty. That means that families
are left behind and stations are with-
out doctors, and that is no small item ;
for aside from the fact that they are
days from a physician, there is the
added anxiety for their dear ones, who
are daily in the presence of death. I
hasten to acknowledge also the serv-
ices of the ordained missionaries who
worked with the doctors — one doctor
and one ordained missionary in each
center.
I have been here now five weeks,
and the result of the work is becom-
THE “FIERY CART” JUST OUTSIDE PEKING
Showing how China utilizes a railroad when she has one
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ing evident. “Inside the wall,” twelve
townships have been infected. In
seven of these we have had workers.
Plague has been stamped out of four
of these and is well under control in
two more. Of the five yet unworked,
the infection is probably light except
in one. We hope to move parties into
these soon.
“Outside the wall,” but still in Gov-
ernor Yen’s jurisdiction, are thirteen
townships, all of them heavily infected.
In only one of these is there any work,
and there the opposition of people and
officials is such that little can be
done. When the area inside the wall
is clear, we are planning to attack the
more difficult problem outside. With
the fine official backing, it should be
possible to do as well as we have done
here. The difficulty is going to be to
hold our present workers, many of
whom feel that they must return
to their regular work. The men at a
greater distance are busy in flood re-
lief and are also seeking for helpers,
so that nearly all the available men
are now at work.
THE SQUARE OUTSIDE THE RAILWAY STATION, BOMBAY
THE SPIRIT OF THE TIMES IN INDIA
By Rev. ROBERT A. HUME, d.d., Ahmednagar
FOR many reasons, educated India
has for some time been deeply
interested in politics. Japan’s
victory over Russia, the Home Rule
controversy in Ireland, the world trend
toward democracy, this present war,
and the part which India has taken
in sending troops and in supplying
money for the war — all these causes
have made many Indians ardently de-
sire and demand a much larger share
in the government of their country.
Internal divisions, due to conflicting
religious and racial considerations,
have clearly shown that in the past
no strong and stable government was
possible except with British control.
Therefore, latterly, those who are am-
bitious for Indian Home Rule have
made strenuous efforts to lead the two
chief elements of the country, viz., the
Hindus and Mohammedans, to unite
on some common basis of political de-
mand. Taking advantage of Britain’s
war entanglement, ambitious Indian
leaders have been widely and sedu-
lously pushing a Home Rule campaign,
which has compelled the Secretary of
State for India in the English cabinet,
Mr. Montagu, to come to India, per-
sonally and carefully to look into the
situation, to hear what all parties have
to say, and to prepare to place some
proposals before Parliament, which is
the source of supreme authority in the
governance of India.
POLITICAL INVESTIGATIONS
Since the viceroy, Lord Chelmsford,
a strong, devout man, is the king-em-
peror’s representative, and therefore
the highest official in the Indian em-
pire, he must appear to all India as
higher than the visiting Secretary of
State; also, though he is a compara-
tively new viceroy, because he must
BOMBAY TOWN HALL
In which all great meetings and government functions are held
know much about the country and
must have great influence in helping
to determine government policy, the
viceroy has gone with the visiting
Secretary of State to the principal
centers of influence.
Unitedly they have received about
one hundred and fifty deputations,
which laid before them proposals for
political changes. In addition, at the
invitation of local governments in dif-
ferent parts of the country, they have
held interviews with some three hun-
dred and thirty representative gentle-
men, who are believed to be informed
and experienced, so that the viceroy
and the Secretary of State may have
the opinions of men of all standpoints.
As missionaries are, in the main,
aloof from political matters, quite
rightly not many have been invited to
these interviews. At the request of the
government of the Bombay Province,
however, I was one of the three hun-
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dred and thirty gentlemen who were
asked to meet the officials — the only
American missionary included, I be-
lieve.
After some months, proposals for a
measure of Home Rule will be placed
before Parliament. Were it not for
acute Indian demands, this thorny
question would not have been consid-
ered while the war demands concen-
tration on its vigorous prosecution.
CHURCH UNION
Christians of many denominations
seem to be drawing together in an
effort at church union. Last December,
I was sent as a delegate of the Marathi
Mission to the Presbyterian General
Assembly, to ask that body to give its
benediction to proposals for the possi-
ble formation of a “Western India
United Church,” much on the basis of
the South India United Church. But
the assembly went farther, and unani-
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mously resolved to direct its Commit-
tee on Church Union to approach many
churches with a view to considering
the formation of a United Church for
all India, the basis and organization
of union to be considered by all.
PRAYING TOGETHER
In connection with the call for prayer
for unity, issued by the American
Episcopal Commission on Faith and
Order, many churches in India ob-
served the week of January 18 to 25
for earnest prayer and for meetings
held together. In the Anglican Cathe-
dral, in Bombay, a union service has
been held, in which the bishop led in
the English part, Rev. J. Malelu, pas-
tor of our church in Bombay, led in
the Marathi part, and a Presbyterian
Indian minister led in the Gujarathi
part of the service.
In Ahmednagar, the Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel missionary
invited our mission to join in a union
service in their house of worship. In
this service, the pastor of our First
Church, Rev. Henry Fairbank, and I
were among the speakers. We then
invited the Society for the Propaga-
tion of the Gospel missionaries and
congregation to join in a similar union
service in our church. They accepted
our hospitality, and the Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel missionary
and Indian minister came and took
part in the service.
This was the very first time when
such union services were held by these
two missions in India.
LINES FROM MISSIONARIES’ LETTERS
Red Cross Palestine Unit ( Before sailing )
“My little boy said, the evening before he was taken sick (unto death),
‘Father, we’re soldiers, aren’t we?’ I have my uniform on tonight for the first
time. In a sense, we are marching together in spirit as never before.” — Jesse K.
Harden, M.D., of Marsovan, Western Turkey Mission.
Jaluit, Marshall Islands, December 15, 1917
“The natives . . . are not worrying much about the war in Europe; . . . their
attitude is not to be wondered at, for naturally they can have no conception of
the horrors of a civilized war, or of the intense cold and suffering of a European
winter in the open, living, as they are, in a land of perpetual summer and where
war was banished a generation ago, shortly after the introduction of the gospel.”
— Rev. Carl Heine.
Sholapur, India
“We were very thankful when the news came that the Board had closed its
hard year without a deficit. We feel something as a soldier must sometimes feel,
at the front, when the enemy approaches and he suddenly wonders whether he
has ammunition enough to last through the engagement. When we hear that
the fiscal year closed with the balance on the right side, . . . then we reprimand
ourselves as being of little faith.” — Katherine V. Gates (Mrs. L. H.).
Hongkong, March 11,1918
“Our time in those missions (Ceylon and Madura) was not lacking in
strenuousness nor in interest. Everywhere we saw noble past achievements and
challenging opportunity, which seemed to stand right out and shout at us.
Nowhere did we see greater or more pressing need than in our own mission
(Marathi).” — Rev. Alden H. Clark, returning to United States on furlough.
FLOOD DAMAGE AT TIENTSIN AND TEHCHOW
$8,367.00
A Statement and an Appeal
OUR readers know about the terrific floods that last year submerged
15,000 square miles of territory in North China. The Missionary
Herald has by pictures and text portrayed, from time to time, the
extent and character of this disaster, that desolated hundreds of towns
and villages, made between one and two million people homeless, laid
waste farming country over wide areas, drowned out portions of the
country field of all our North China Mission stations, and, in particular,
wrought its havoc in the two station compounds at
Tientsin and Tehchow.
After the rush of salvage and relief work was over, the mission
undertook careful examination of the extent of the damage, and the
nature and cost of needed repairs. At length, full and detailed report
has been rendered, covering the items of requirement at both the sta-
tions of Tientsin and Tehchow. Not counting sums needed for repairs
of property maintained by the Woman’s Board and the Woman’s Board
of the Interior, nor the item of a compound wall at Tientsin, which for
the present is held in abeyance, the amount required for restoring these
two stations is $10,458 (Mexican), which at the estimated rate of ex-
change of $1.25 gives
$8,367, American Currency.
It is hoped that help in raising this sum may be furnished by the
China Medical Board and theGrinnell-in-China Movement, both of which
organizations have property interests in these stations; but first and
finally the mission looks to the American Board for the provision of this
sum of $8,367, urgently needed for repairs on mission residences, school
buildings, hospitals, and compound walls.
Here is an uncalculated, unexpected, extra need, which through no
fault of mission management or lack of foresight suddenly confronts
the Board’s treasury, and at a time when it is already heavily drawn
upon by the exigencies of the war.
There is no escape from the obligation to make these repairs, and
they cannot be indefinitely postponed. They must be met at once, to
preserve the property that is left and to maintain the work.
The Prudential Committee felt there was no other way but to
authorize the making of these repairs, and to appeal to its constituency
for special gifts to meet the emergency. It voted that such an appeal
should be made through the Missionary Herald, which presents it in
this form.
Will readers of the Missionary Herald send their gifts, designated
for this special purpose, to Frank H. Wiggin, Treasurer, 14 Beacon
Street, Boston?
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THEY ARE WORTH EVANGELIZING
West Central Africa boys who have been drawn to school at Bailundo. Thousands more wait
for the Good News to be proclaimed to them
EVANGELIZING IN AFRICA
By Rev. HENRY S. HOLLENBECK, m.d., of Angola, W.C. A.
Evangelistic work in Africa,
or in this western part of it, at
least, is quite a different matter
from that carried on at home. “De-
cision meetings” out here have not
been found effective; and evangelistic
work is characterized by the total ab-
sence of “trail hitters.” This is no
reflection on evangelism or evangelists,
but merely a comment on native char-
acteristics. Sudden decision is the rare
exception.
Lying to the south of the Congo is
a vast region which now presents an
open door for evangelism in nearly
every part, as some sections have done
for years. Yet in spite of good work
done by widely scattered missions,
immense areas occupied by multitudes
of people still remain practically un-
touched. In the Portuguese colony of
Angola alone, there is an estimated
population of from six to seven million
natives. Among these, a few thousand
have been evangelized, and perhaps
four or five thousand of them have
become Christians. Probably less than
five per cent of them have been reached,
even to the extent of hearing the
gospel message. Tribes consisting of
hundreds of thousands of people are
still untouched, though all are open to
the gospel, and in such places as have
been visited the evangelist finds hear-
ers more than willing to listen.
Where a little knowledge of the gos-
pel has been spread abroad, there is
often a keen desire for more. The
missions meet more appeals than they
can possibly answer in near-by regions,
and are in no position to consider work
in the regions beyond.
Before passing judgment on the
limitation of the areas evangelized
and the seeming tardiness of results,
it is essential to take into considera-
tion something of the history of the
people, together with their disposition
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and distribution. The population is
broken up into numerous tribes, each
having its distinct language and cus-
THE RAW MATERIAL
toms. In times past, they were inces-
santly at war among themselves,
plundering and being plundered, and
there still remain intertribal feuds
and an abiding mutual distrust.
In times past, an individual could
hope to maintain himself only as a
member of some community; and the
community required strict observance
of all its peculiar and particular laws
and customs. Those in authority in
the community were vested with the
power of life and death ; or worse still,
of selling into slavery. Repeated of-
fenders were usually disposed of,
sooner or later, in one of these ways.
The belief in witchcraft is no doubt
grounded in part on the secret use of
poisons to dispose of undesirable citi-
zens, or of those who disregarded the
authority of those higher up.
To sum up, the difficulties which
confront plans for widespread evangel-
ism are: the frequent change in lan-
guage from district to district; the
mutual suspicion and intertribal con-
tempt, which renders it difficult for a
member of one tribe to carry on effec-
tive evangelistic work in another
tribe; conservatism and the restrain-
ing power of the old customs and be-
liefs, which require years for their
breaking down; the opposition of the
representatives of old cults.
To prove the effect of these influ-
ences, it is only necessary to consider
the work of successful missions which
in a period of twenty-five to thirty-five
years have not succeeded in passing
the boundary lines of neighboring
tribes, even where the border line was
less than twenty miles distant. The
ordinary individual from another tribe
would not dare, even were he so in-
clined, to face the risk of considering
the gospel message. Suppose that one
did understand the message, which is
a long step for some of them, and de-
sired to accept it; he would have to
face the combined opposition of those
in authority, and any action he might
take would be treated as insubordina-
tion, which is high treason, for which
he must be duly punished. He might
be put into the hands of the medicine
man, who would first threaten him,
and if he persisted, might go to the
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extent of secretly administering a fatal
dose of poison, as an example to others.
As an alternative in former times, he
might have been sold into slavery.
If there were several of one mind,
and they persisted in the face of oppo-
sition, they were always confronted
with a knotty problem in case of sick-
ness, which is so common that it would
not be long in appearing. Knowing
but little of the cause of disease, aside
from witchcraft and poison; having
no medicine and no doctor to consult,
to whom could they turn ? The natural
helper would be the old medicine man,
who would wish them no good and
whose rites and practices are inti-
mately linked with those things from
which they want to break away. This
always proves a severe test, and has
been the means of many a downfall
and backsliding, and occasionally even
the breaking up of a promising work.
To one familiar with the conditions,
it is not a matter of surprise that it
is so difficult for these people to stand
for Christ and his teachings without
some substantial helper right at hand.
It seems certain that for effective
evangelism, under present conditions,
a permanent work is required; and
for genuine conversions, the presence
of a teacher or preacher is an essential.
For fully developed fruit, the school
is an indispensable factor, and the
preacher must of necessity be a
teacher. The ultimate success of the
work must depend upon the number of
effective permanent preachers who can
be put into the field, and one of the most
important phases of the work now is
the development of just such preachers.
SOME MISSIONARY GRANDCHILDREN
By Rev. GEORGE T. WASHBURN, d.d., of Meriden, Conn.
For forty years (1860-1900) Dr. Washburn was a mis-
sionary of the American Board in South India. He
was the founder and first principal of what was then
Pasumalai College and is now the American College,
Madura, of which Rev. William M. Zumbro is the
present head. A letter from Dr. Washburn, just re-
ceived, indicates his desire to aid for a term of five
years, from a personal fund he had put into the care
of the Board, certain students in the college in whose
career he takes a special and deep interest. His ex-
planation of who these young men are, how he comes
to be so peculiarly concerned about them, and what
their history shows as to missionary method and
achievement is so telling and delightful that we ven-
ture to give it this unintended publicity. — The
Editor.
THERE are three young men in
Madura, two the sons of pastors,
one the son of a teacher and cate-
chist, either in or ready for college,
whom I would like to help to the ex-
tent of one hundred dollars a year for
the next five years. It is not because
they are good boys and bright boys, as
they are — one at the top of his class
and the other two in the upper half —
but it is because they are the second
generation of our Pasumalai Famine
Orphanage, “our grandchildren,” as
they call themselves.
It was in the autumn of 1877 that
their fathers and mothers, then little
children, drifted in upon us, wanderers
from nowhere, homeless, parentless,
some of them in the extremes of rags
and emaciation— mere bags of bones,
their bodies covered with a fine, fuzzy,
yellow fur, sure token of long-con-
tinued and remorseless starvation.
Being human beings ourselves, we
could not but take them in, and feed
and shelter them. Having recently
left our own children in America to be
cared for by others, we were only too
glad to spend on these little ones some
of the care and attention we would
have lavished on our own children.
They came to us raw heathen — at
least, their parents were. They fell
naturally into their new environment,
and for thirteen years and more grew
up around us, knowing us as their
parents, and being educated and
trained under our eye. They had the
best the mission schools could give
them, and when prepared, some ten or
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a dozen entered the service of the
mission to become pastors, preachers,
and teachers, while others became
doctors, printers, and farmers. One
of them has been for twenty years the
beloved pastor of one of the largest
and most benevolent churches of our
mission. Another, for many years a
pastor in our mission, has later pre-
sided over a church of the Danish
Mission in Madras. A third has lately
been transferred from the pastorate
of the Church of Scotland’s Mission
congregation, in Madras, to the charge
of a mission district left vacant by the
missionary’s accepting a chaplaincy
in the army.
And now it is the children of these
— our children, in a sense — that are
interesting me, and would be interest-
ing Mrs. Washburn, were she here to
share in the present situation. Four
of this second generation are already
in college or have graduated, one hav-
ing gained his m.a. degree from the
Madras University and now in mission
service. I have good hope that eight
or ten of the children of these orphan
waifs of the famine, forty years ago,
will gain their university degrees and
enter on some Christian work for their
own people.
The above outcome from that little
group of heathen children of forty
years ago is, I think, somewhat re-
markable. It has been a source of
deep gratitude to us, who almost by
chance took up the work of minister-
ing to that bundle of human suffering
dropped at our door, nowise suspect-
ing its outcome. I am quite aware that
it is not exceptional. Such cases must
have repeated themselves among the
massacred Armenians again and again.
Still, such cases are unusual, at least
in India.
And, if I am not mistaken, it has
its missionary lesson. These children
were brought, by the nature of the
situation, into much closer personal
contact daily with the missionaries
than even our boarding school pupils,
and so they caught the spirit that
animated the bungalow work and
workers, as children catch the spirit
and ways of the family. I was about
to illustrate this by two or three ex-
amples from the orphanage in later
service, but I see my letter is growing
too long. It is, after all, the personal
influence of the missionary and the
convert that does the work.
And so the Master appears to have
thought. When he wished to perpet-
uate and extend his influence after he
left the world, he did not organize a
theological seminary. Not at all. He
selected twelve plain, sympathetic men
— as Mark says — “to be with him”;
as a matter of fact, to form one family
in which he was the center: to live
their domestic and public life with
him, to observe the spirit and temper
with which he dealt with himself and
other people in every situation, how
he took the wear and tear of daily life,
to listen to his talk with others and
to converse with him in private, so
that at length they knew him, entered
into his plans, absorbed his spirit.
He kept them with him till the last
supper was over, till Gethsemane and
the arrest were past. Thus he arranged
that his life before them should create
a new life in them.
The modern missionary in pagan
lands is situated much as Christ was
among the Jews. Both are introduc-
ing and advertising a new conception
of religion, and the best advertise-
ment of it and example of it is the
missionary himself.
THE MARRIAGE OF THE DATU’S DAUGHTER
By Secretary ENOCH FRYE BELL
HERE we have the much photo-
graphed Datu Tongkaling, with
his new son-in-law, Jose, a Silli-
man graduate and a Visayan. Such an
intermarriage is not common, and from
one point of view, at least, it has some
interesting possibilities. Jose, the edu-
cated Christian, identifies himself with
the virile though “pagan” Bagobo.
He has already made a beginning
toward the education and religious
uplift of his adopted people.
From the Bagobo point of view, he
was married to the Datu’s Daughter —
thereby receiving his “d.d.”( !) — some
months ago. Yet there must be the
legal marriage — something that would
satisfy government and also the old
gentleman himself, who is nothing if
not shrewd and sagacious. Jose natu-
rally wanted a Christian wedding right
at the start. Consequently, after an
exasperating delay for him, a real
wedding scene oc-
curred on the eve-
ning of Monday,
the 7th of January,
1918, at the resi-
dence of His Excel-
lency the Datu, at
half after nine
o’clock. Invitations
had not been issued
before that very
evening, as the
coming of the padre
himself had not
been certain ; but
when the date was
determined upon,
then the gongs
made up in noise
what they may have lacked in gentility
and propriety. The stalwart sons of
the chief did the beating, and really
it was one of the most rhythmic per-
formances I’ve ever heard. The gloom
of the room but enhanced the effect.
Now I cannot say that the tribe all
flocked to the wedding. I don’t even
know how many were there outside of
the family. I do know that many were
kept away from fear that the doctor
had come to
vaccinate the
crowd, as
smallpox was
prevalent in
that district
at the time.
The family
was there, any-
how— that is,
one or two
wives of the
Datu and some
of their chil-
dren. Every-
b o d y was
dressed in his
best beads and
bolo.
Of course, I
can’t describe
the hall where
the affair took
place. Tongka-
ling’s house is the biggest hut on stilts
I was ever in. It consists of one fifty-
foot room, with a small sleeping com-
partment up under the roof. The walls
are dark and crude, but the variegated
China plates with which the top beams
are adorned, bespeaking comparative
wealth, add a certain luster as well as
interest to the rude simplicity of the
building. Right in the center of the
room hang the Chinese gongs of bronze
— another sign of wealth — while hang-
ing over the beams, in the distance,
can be seen the white hemp, stripped
for the loom on the left, upon which
the women do such fine weaving in
colors. At the end farthest from the
open fire is a platform, where the boys
have usually slept, but now given over
to the use of the two American guests.
Here we are supposed to dress and un-
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JOSE
UNDER TONGKALING’S BIG HOUSE
The fish was caught from the mission launch in the Davao Gulf. The boy holding the fish is a
murderer, but having committed the crime under trying circumstances, he was pardoned by the Court
of First Instance. The lads to the left are all Bagobos
dress, bathe, and sleep, no one ever so
much as imagining a screen necessary ;
though Mr. Augur, for “dignity’s sake”
— he can be great on dignity when the
occasion seems to demand it — has in-
sisted upon putting a chair or two in
front of his bathing basin, his feet,
at least, securing some privacy.
As for the wedding itself, Augur
was master of ceremonies, director of
the dance, and officiating clergyman —
all three. It was he who suggested to
Jose that the wedding take place that
evening or, at the latest, next morn-
ing ; it was he who improvised a suit-
able method of procedure, even to a
processional by the secretario (mean-
ing myself) on the mouth organ; and
it was he who practiced the principals
in their parts and finally pronounced
them married. If any man could inject
life into the affair, Augur was that
man ; the gloom was dispelled where
he shone — particularly when the sister
of the bride was induced to overcome
her superstition and serve as brides-
maid, and the bride herself braced up
and came to time.
At length, out of the darkness, came
the wedding procession, into the candle-
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light of civilization, to the mouth-organ
strains of “Lohengrin.” Tongkaling
outbrided the bride as the center of at-
traction. He cared little for the claims
of music. He had a step all his own;
but he made up in dignity what he
lacked in wedding rhythm.
The procession stopping before
Augur, and the music closing with a
grand and glorious flourish, Augur,
by the light of a candle (held on either
side of him by a boy), read the service
Congregational in the good old English
language. He said nothing, however,
about a ring, nor did I hear him warn
man against putting asunder what God
had joined; but he uttered with fitting
dignity the “by the authority” busi-
ness, proclaimed the pair “man and
wife” at least once, and pronounced
the benediction. Then, as an inspired
after thought, he took the old chief’s
hand, placed it on the hand of his
daughter, and had the chief put the
daughter’s hand into the hand of
the groom. A prayer and another bene-
diction, a few strains from Mendels-
sohn— “just to brighten things up,”
said Augur — and the formalities were
over.
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For some time after the ceremony,
the bride clung to the groom — seem-
ingly in fear some dreadful thing
would yet happen to exorcise them all.
Like every bride-to-be, she had wept
copiously and nervously before the
ceremony; but, just like a woman, she
had held her head high and said her
say in true womanly fashion. Next
morning we tried to get her to pose
for a picture, but she would not.
After the wedding ceremony, the
Datu made a speech on the subject,
“The Diversity of Wedding Customs,”
or words to that effect. On the whole,
I judged he favored the Bagobo kind —
which somewhat resembles that of
Salt Lake City. Then came a short talk
to the groom, most of which I failed to
grasp; but I know that it conveyed
the hint that now the boy would act
like a true man if he built a cage for
himself and put his little bird there
for safe keeping. It was high time that
he did his own supporting. As this
was probably just what the bride
wanted, I expect to hear soon that they
are snugly housed in a part of the new
schoolhouse.
Then, about 11p.m., we ducked under
our nets into our cots ; the others
sought their mats; and while the
shadows played with one another in
the light of the fire, we all fell asleep
in the midst of the romance and the
unreality of Bagobo land.
DATU GANSA, CHIEF OF THE MANDAYAS
Although we have heard less of Datu Gansa than of Datu Tongkaling. he is well known to the
missionaries, and an intelligent leader of his tribe
EXPERIENCING RELIGION
Harry Lauder, Scotch comedian, for
years devoting himself to money get-
ting, regardless of calls for liberality,
lost his only son over there in France.
An old friend said to him, “Harry,
we are all proud of the wonderful way
you have borne this heavy blow.” His
answer was: “When a man has been
hit as I have been, there are only three
ways open to him — drink, despair, or
God; and I am looking to God for the
consolation and courage I now need.”
Here, then, is the source of the
power that must be depended upon to
do the work needed. It is the experi-
ence of religion.
From ‘ ‘ Grace Church Greetings ’ ’ for
January, Cleveland, O.
HOME DEPARTMENT
THE FINANCIAL STATEMENT FOR MARCH
Receipts Available for Regular Appropriations
From
Churches
From
Individuals
From
S. S. and
Y. P. S.
C. E.
From
Twentieth
Century Fund
and Legacies
From
Matured
Conditional
Gifts
Income
from General
Permanent
Fund
Totals
1917
$11,773.86
$6,829.99
$505.03
$2,343.38
$16,675.00
$1,458.50
$39,585.76
1918
10.824.29
6,774.68
618.83
4.996.49
10,000.00
1,656.00
34.870.29
Gain
Loss
$949.57
$55.31
$113.80
$2,653.11
$6,675.00
$197.50
$4,715.47
For Seven Months to March 31
1917
$188,041.02
$25,736.34
$9,709.50
$157,199.06
$26,075.00
$14,127.10
$420,888.02
1918
187,471.79
25,846.75
10,052.81
145.294.15
25.053.36
14,620.92
408.339.78
Gain
$110.41
$343.31
$493.82
Loss
$669.23
$11,904.91
$1,021.64
$12,548.24
CAN WE BREAK THROUGH?
A study of the receipts for March
reveals a further loss from the churches
and a large loss from Conditional Gifts.
The former is the joint responsibility
of all pastors and of all friends of the
Board ; the latter is beyond our control.
Putting together the loss in church
gifts for February and March, we have
the disturbing result of a total decrease
of $2,066.06.
The serious fact before us is that
most of the churches are now raising
their offerings through the pledge sys-
tem, and even if we faced a serious
deficit or some new and wonderful
opportunity for advance, yet it is most
difficult to secure an increase in church
gifts. Looked at from this point of
view, the Apportionment is not a stab-
ilizer, but an impediment. Must it
be so? If the fact above was widely
known throughout the churches, and
if pastors shared the responsibility,
letting their congregations know how
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much it meant to the pastor that the
church gifts to the Board were falling
this spring, would not many individ-
uals see to it that the gifts of the
churches broke through the Appor-
tionment into new ground? The Ap-
portionment is the minimum.
To meet the situation, some way
must be found to increase the gifts
from the churches in the next few
months. The devotion is in the hearts
of our people. Most of our congrega-
tions are ready to be asked to meet the
special war needs of the American
Board. They are expecting it. It is
now known that the increased war
expenditures have passed beyond
$80,000, and that in the face of the
increased need there is a decreased
response. The multiplicity of appeals
is well known, but it is more than met
by the new spirit of willingness in the
hearts of God’s people. Other mission
boards have found their friends ready
to do more than ever to prove their
conviction that the missionary enter-
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prise is building the spirit of democ-
racy into the nations that need it most,
that it is advancing God’s righteous-
ness in a day when that righteousness
is at stake in the world. Our own
churches have taken the lead in many
communities in generous giving, and
they only await the knowledge of the
facts and the definite extra appeal to
more than meet the needs of your
missionaries overseas.
THE INSTITUTE PLAN STILL
EFFECTIVE
Already in these columns we have
reported the success of the series of
Institutes which has been a part of the
Board’s mid-winter field work. Bellows
Falls, Vt., Northampton and Fitch-
burg, Mass., and Manchester, N. H.,
have been the centers reached thus far.
In all four places a gratifying attend-
ance has marked not only the special
conference hours with pastors and
other local church workers, but also
the popular evening meetings. Out-
lying towns were reached by the team
workers through speaking appoint-
ments for services, so that all together
a fairly wide area was included in each
Institute.
One pastor near Manchester, N. H.,
writes: “I was too late to secure a
speaker from the team for my church,
but fifteen of us had the great pleasure
and inspiration derived from the Mon-
day sessions of that splendid Institute.
I cannot remember attending any
meetings that were more helpful and
illuminating and inspiring than these
meetings. I’ll make no exception of
the meetings of the National and In-
ternational Councils which I have
enjoyed. Had I known of the meetings
earlier, I could have secured a larger
attendance. I have come back from
the Institute determined to win some
of my young people for definite Chris-
tian work as life’s vocation. I am de-
termined to do all in my power to raise
the standard of giving in my church.
I am urging and praying from the
pulpit that our world-wide vision may
be clear, our sense of the world need
so deep and impelling, and our reli-
gious life so spiritual and intense, that
we shall be led to give generously both
money and our sons and daughters
for the work of the Kingdom.”
Two more of these Institutes are to
be held before the series is completed.
One will be at Brockton, Mass., April 30
— “Kingdom Come Rally” — with spe-
cial emphasis placed upon reaching an
influential group of business men.
Another will be held at Bristol, Conn.,
May 18-20.
The success of the entire series will
doubtless commend the plan to pastors
in other centers, who may care to
consider similar Institutes for their
churches during another winter.
MISSIONARY EDUCATION
CONFERENCES
It is not too soon to think about
these strong summer schools for the
training of leaders for missionary
education. Despite war conditions, the
Missionary Education Movement plans
to set up the usual number of con-
ferences.
Blue Ridge, N. C. June 25 — July 4
Silver Bay, N. Y. July 5 — July 14
Ocean Park, Me. July 19 — July 28
Geneva, Wis. July 26 — August 4
Estes Park, Col. July 12 — July 21
Asilomar, Cal. July 16 — July 25
Seabeck, Wash. July 30 — August 8
The call of our young men into mili-
tary service, and of our young women
and older people into various forms of
war activities, will make the securing
of strong delegations to these confer-
ences unusually difficult. Only as we
keep our vision clear shall we be able
to realize that these summer gather-
ings are essential to the on-going of
our church life. Let us not forget that
the great aim of the present world
struggle is righteous internationalism
and world brotherhood, the very things
for which Christian missons have al-
ways stood. Our missionaries are the
most fair-minded observers of inter-
national conditions. Our missionary
work is absolutely vital and funda-
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mental, if the present war is not to be
fought in vain. Every gathering which
helps us to keep our vision clear and
our purpose strong is to be commended.
For that reason let us Congregational-
ists have the largest and strongest
delegations possible at these mission-
ary summer schools.
Circulars announcing the plans for
the conferences in detail will soon
be available. Apply to Rev. Miles B.
Fisher, d.d., 14 Beacon Street, Boston.
“THE CHURCH, THE WAR, AND
THE DAYS AHEAD”
A team of three speakers has been
made up for a tour of the Pacific Coast
in the interests of the Tercentenary
plans of the denomination. These are
Secretary Patton, representing the
American Board; Dr. W. W. Scudder,
representing the National Council;
and Miss Miriam Woodberry, repre-
senting the Home Missionary inter-
ests. Beginning with Easter Monday,
the Congregational Associations of the
Coast have arranged their meetings
on a schedule to admit of the attend-
ance of these speakers. There will be
six Association meetings in Washing-
ton, three in Oregon, and nine in Cali-
fornia. The general subject for the
meetings will be “The Church, the
War, and the Days Ahead.” Special
attention will be paid to the part which
the Congregationalists of America
should play in the reconstruction of
church and social life, and the bring-
ing in of world democracy. Dr. Patton
is expected to present at each confer-
ence a world outlook in the matter of
the extension of the Christian religion.
He will also speak in behalf of the
Pilgrim Memorial Fund for ministers,
of whose executive committee he is a
member. The other special theme as-
signed to him is “Evangelism at Home
and Abroad.” The church leaders on
the Coast have taken great interest in
arranging these meetings.
The arrangements in each state are
under the charge of the following per-
sons: Rev. Lucius 0. Baird, Seattle,
Wash.; Rev. Arthur J. Sullens, Port-
land, Ore. ; Rev. L. D. Rathbone, San
Francisco, Cal., representing Northern
California; Rev. George F. Kenngott,
Los Angeles, Cal., representing South-
ern California. Dr. H. H. Kelsey will
accompany the tour during part of the
trip. It is planned to have Secretary
Patton speak at the following colleges :
Pullman, Whitman, Reed, Pacific Grove,
Berkeley Theological Seminary, Leland
Stanford University, and Pomona. On
Sundays he will occupy pulpits in be-
half of the American Board.
The trip will occupy the time up to
the middle of May. On the return trip,
Secretary Patton will stop off at Den-
ver, and will speak at the Iowa State
Conference at Ames. On the way out,
he will address meetings at Toronto,
Can., Chicago, and Minneapolis.
HOME DEPARTMENT NOTES
The Rogers Park Church, Chicago,
Dr. John R. Nichols, pastor, is happy
over the adoption of Rev. Charles L.
Storrs, of Shaowu, China. It is the
first time the church has entered into
this relation. The church, as a whole,
raises $450, while a generous layman,
himself a member, agrees to add $650,
a total of $1,100 ; but the church wisely
proposes gradually to assume a larger
proportion of this amount.
Recently the West End Avenue
Dutch Reformed Church in New York
celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary
of the pastorate of Rev. Henry E.
Cobb, D.D. The church desired to com-
memorate this anniversary by raising
a sum of money to present to Dr. Cobb.
They decided to consult Dr. Cobb in
advance regarding the form of the
investment. Their action was based
upon his reply. They presented him,
at the anniversary, with an envelope
containing four thousand dollars, with
which to construct a memorial building
in their South China Mission, in honor
of Dr. Fagg, the predecessor of Dr.
Cobb as president of their Board.
FOREIGN DEPARTMENT
AFRICA
A Kamundongo Conference
An article in the earlier pages of
this number gives a clear setting forth
of Dr. H. S. Hollenbeck’s vision of the
West Central Africa Mission’s duty
and opportunity in regard to the un-
evangelized tribes around Angola. A
letter recently received alludes again
to this belief, and goes on to tell also
of efforts to encourage independence
and a missionary spirit on the part of
the native church, “for without it I see
no prospect of an indigenous church.”
As an effort toward self-reliance,
the native Christians last autumn held
a conference on church and spiritual
matters, which was helpful and hope-
ful. It was decided to hold another
similar conference during the week of
prayer, delegates coming from all the
outstations. Dr. Hollenbeck says: —
“It was a representative body that
gathered, and a full program was
arranged. Bible study, followed by a
conference with the missionaries, in
the forenoon ; a sermon, followed by a
conference for the delegates them-
selves, in the afternoon; and in the
evening a sermon by a native preacher.
We made it clear that if anything was
left unsettled, the responsibility was
with the delegates, and asked for full
and free discussion. The first session
was given over to considering hin-
drances to the progress of the church
and its work. Special stress was put
upon hypocrisy, and one of the watch-
words of the conference was, ‘Beware
of hypocrisy.’ That is a timely mes-
sage for the church here.
First Steps in Self-Government
“The consensus of opinion was
summed up each day by the native
secretary, and presented in the form
of resolutions to be adopted. The
tendency was to take a distinctly higher
stand on some things than has been
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taken previously. The question of dis-
cipline was brought up, and I will
quote from the resolution that the
natives brought in, as it throws light
on a real difficulty, at the same time
helping to alleviate it. It runs about
as follows: ‘Partiality of the Mission-
aries. In case any one commits an
offense, and the elders think that he
HEATHEN VILLAGE NEAR CHIYAKA
of the West Central Africa Mission
should be asked to leave the community,
the missionaries should not interfere,
even if he happens to be one of their
valued servants.’ Since the conference,
several here on the place have been
asked to leave. The cause was an out-
break of beer drinking at Christmas,
which is a recurrent trouble,, and it
seemed time that something radical
be done. We hope that it will mark the
beginning of a new era, and prepare
the way for taking fuller advantage
of our opportunities.
“One of our great handicaps is the
lack of trained workers who can meet
the present situation, and there must
be some trained up for the old places,
at a time when we cannot train them
fast enough for the new openings. The
results of the training-school work are
highly satisfactory. The spirit of those
who have been through the school here
is markedly different from that of
their predecessors. All graduates from
Dondi who went there from here seem
prepared to make Christian work their
business, and are ready to undertake
whatever they are asked, and even to
volunteer for hard jobs. It appears
that the Institute is going to do just
what was expected of it by many.”
*
The Transvaal — City and Country
Rev. Frederick B. Bridgman, d.d.,
who has returned to Natal after his
furlough in America, found many
changes, many problems, and much
progress in South Africa. We have
heard all too little from him, but print
the following paragraphs from his
latest letter : —
A Mining Company’s Appreciation
“Within the past few months, we
have opened three new chapels. Each
deserves a paragraph, but I will speak
of only one. Our strongest center on
the mines has been handicapped by
lack of a building, the work being
conducted in the crowded, noisy dor-
mitory rooms.
“For years, we have besought the
management at least to grant the use
of a bit of ground where we might
build. Polite refusal was the invari-
able reply. But as they had enjoyed
a long respite during my furlough, I
immediately went after them again.
“Fortunately, we had the support
of the compound manager, who con-
trols the 14,000 natives employed by
this mining group. He told the man-
agement that our work was a good
proposition for the company. These
‘mission boys’ behaved themselves,
kept away from drink and gambling,
were quiet and industrious; he could
call on them any time for any kind of
work. He urged the management to
help us.
“ To cut a long story short, weeks of
‘watchful waiting,’ combined with
gentle prodding, resulted wondrously.
We were given entire possession of a
brick building, wood floors, steel ceil-
ing, electric light with free current,
and the location is convenient. The
building is easily worth $2,500.
“At the dedication, the place was
crowded to overflowing, the door and
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windows being filled with peering
faces. The singing from the throng
of male throats was tremendous. The
contributions came to eighty dollars,
going to the salary of the preacher
whom these people support. Our
friend, the compound manager, came
to the service, and the church’s spokes-
man voiced appreciation of his help-
fulness in the inimitable manner of the
African. The fact that their ‘boss’ not
only attended, but remained right
through the more than two hours,
made a deep impression on the people.
Glory in a Hut
“Some of you friends at home re-
member Bushbuck Ridge and the
remarkable work developed by two
converts when they returned from
Johannesburg to the wilds. I had a
great time recently, when making them
a ten days’ visit. Fezi has completed
his three years in the Bible school, and
it was solid comfort to find him back
there doing earnest work. Many of
Fezi’s people are working in a village,
one of civilization’s outposts, about
thirty-five miles from Bushbuck Ridge.
Nothing would do but I must visit this
group of our membership. So a meet-
ing was appointed in the evening, when
the boys would be back from work.
“It was a relief to get away from
the miserable hotel, its atmosphere
heavy with tobacco and whisky. I had
walked only half the three miles when
a fierce thunder storm burst upon us.
Finding shelter in a shanty, the next
hour passed watching the terrific light-
ning. Wading through mud and water,
it was pitch dark on reaching the ap-
pointed place, one of the crude shelters
where the men are housed.
“It was almost as black inside as
out. Gradually, by the flicker of just
one tallow dip, I made out that the hut
was about fifteen feet in diameter;
the low walls of rough stone supported
a grass roof the shape of a Japanese
parasol. Every inch of the earth floor
was packed with the silent, expectant
congregation, numbering about sixty,
all young men, excepting several girls
from a near-by kraal. The only furni-
ture was my table, a soap box on stilts.
The storm came back, and proceeding
with the service, I stood in a mud
puddle, while from above the drops
came so fast that I was reminded of
a shower bath.
“I have conducted communion under
varied conditions, but never in circum-
stances quite like these. A dinner pail
served as baptismal font; for thebread,
we used an enamel wash basin. There
was no way but to make preparations
right before the audience, and they
were intensely interested, I assure you.
Not a move in cutting the bread, which
I remember was very fresh, or in un-
corking the grape juice, escaped those
keen eyes. Six young men were bap-
tized. But while the thunder crashed
without, within this hut there was a
sense of the presence of Him who
breathed peace upon the disciples.
How rough and weird were the sur-
roundings, how crude the appoint-
ments ; what a contrast to the harmony
of architecture and worship in your
cathedral churches. Yet we could say,
‘God is in this place . . . this is the
gate of heaven ! ’ ”
*
INDIA
Barsi Reports a Brahman Inquirer
We gave last month the story of the
baptism of two Brahman converts in
Madura — the first event of that kind
in Madura history. A letter from Rev.
and Mrs. Richard S. Rose, of Barsi,
in the Marathi Mission, tells of a
Brahman student there. The letter
runs : —
“Our interest and our prayers are
at present especially concentrated on
an inquirer called Krishnaji, and we
want you to join us earnestly in this
matter. Krishnaji is a fine young
Brahman, who asked for temporary
work in our school while he was study-
ing for an examination. We liked him
at sight — his frank expression, his
IN A VADALA VILLAGE
loud, hearty voice, his sense of humor.
He has been with us less than four
months, but Tulsiraniji, our Christian
teacher, has been quietly influencing
him, and he has been drinking in in-
formation at many of our services.
We began to have a faint glimmer of
hope; and on the very day we were
leaving for mission meeting at Ahmed-
nagar, he walked on to the veranda and
said, quite simply, ‘I am going to be-
come a Christian.’
“Such a thrill as we felt would com-
pensate for months of disappointment.
He seems perfectly earnest and stead-
fast, although he realizes what his
baptism will involve. He has been
coming in the evening for Bible study,
along with Bapurao, a young Wani
(merchant class) inquirer.
“We wish you could see the little
gathering. Imagine a corner of the
garden under the cork trees, various
flowers and trees scenting the air, the
evening stars just coming out; a little
table, with a lamp, a Bible, a notebook,
and a book of Hole’s pictures of the
life of Christ; and the little group
of people — Krishnaji, wide-awake and
eager to hear, his great, dark eyes
and white teeth flashing as he asks an
occasional question; Bapurao, slower
and quieter, but dead in earnest; two
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mission workers and ourselves. We
have felt God very near in these little
meetings, and we think of Jesus in his
dealings with Nicodemus — just such
an inquirer by night as these men.
Will not you, on the other side of the
world, help us to pray these inquirers
into the Kingdom?”
*
Ingatherings Near Vadala
Writing from Vadala, Rev. Edward
W. Felt speaks hopefully of the results
of the work of the evangelists in the
villages, known to us as the “Fifty-
fifty” campaign, i. e., one evangelist
in each of fifty centers. At the time
of Mr. Felt’s writing, some months ago,
two hundred were ready for baptism
in these villages ; some of the criminal
tribes which had settled about Vadala
were ready for baptism, and others
were receiving instruction. A confer-
ence of the natural leaders of the dis-
trict about Vadala was being planned.
“These men — two or three from each
community — would not be mission
workers, but the natural leaders, men
whose influence sways the community
for good or ill. At this meeting, we
would try both to enthuse and inspire
the men, and also to instruct them in
ways of service, especially in the tell-
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ing of the gospel story by song and
word. We feel that if we can win their
whole-souled cooperation, the church
will move forward.
“Then, after this meeting, we would
plan for Bible study groups in each
community, under the leadership of
some mission worker, with the aid
of these natural leaders. These groups
would study the simplest possible
lesson plan; then we would hope and
pray that all these efforts would head
up in a week of evangelism about
the week before Easter, in which the
groups would go out to near-by villages
to tell the story of Christ, and that
individuals would work for other indi-
viduals. Then would come the annual
convention of the churches of the dis-
trict, which would be a meeting of
prayer and praise.”
+
Progress at Sholapur
In a letter written from Sholapur
to friends at home, by Mrs. L. H.
Gates, the station secretary, occur
the following pictures of progress at
Sholapur: —
The Kindergarten’s Dinner
“Among our Christians, there are
degrees of poverty — poor, poorer,
poorest. The children of them all are
gathered into the kindergarten and
other schools. During the year they
have been bringing their tiny, tiny
offerings — it takes forty-four of them
to equal one of your pennies. At the
suggestion of the kindergarten staff,
this money was used to give a dinner
to the children of the poorest people.
All the children gathered, and those
who did not qualify as the poorest
helped to serve the dinner to those who
did. And it would have been difficult
for you to tell which enjoyed it the
most. There were about one hundred
little children, including those who
were giving and those who were re-
ceiving. The guests were entertained
by the hosts and hostesses, who were
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all children under eight years, prob-
ably. It was a really beautiful Christ-
mas for them all.
The Young Men
“We are very much encouraged over
the work among the young men who
have left our school and are working
in the mills. They were enthusiastic
over a ‘Daniel’s Band’ which they
formed a few months ago. Very soon
some of their number went to France,
in the labor corps, and others dropped
out, so that it looked as though their
days were numbered as an active band.
However, some young men from Ah-
mednagar, who used to be members
of Mr. Deming’s Social Service Club,
have recently come here for employ-
ment in the Criminal Tribes Settle-
ment. They are taking hold of the
Daniel’s Band and putting new life
into it. Pray with us that it may be
a source of great help to these young
boys, who are surrounded by such
terrific temptations.
“These boys are a great problem to
us. They finish our school when they
are about fifteen years old. Many of
them have no homes, and no friends
who can help them to continue their
education. Consequently they secure
work in the mills, where they are sur-
rounded by Hindu employees and have
to curry favor with Hindu employers.
They need all the help that we can give
them to keep them clean and decent,
and outward as well as inward Chris-
tians. It is one of our dreams that
some day we can have a boarding home
for such boys, where they will still be
under Christian influence after work
hours, and where their evenings can
be profitably directed. There are so
many influences pulling them down,
and they are so young to stand alone !
We have land for such a building and
we have boys to live in such a building.
Now may some friend be found who
will want to provide such a building,
that it may save the souls of our boys !
“A source of great encouragement
to us is a class of Hindu and Moham-
medan boys from the municipal high
school here, who have asked Mr. Gates
to teach them Bible. We understand,
of course, that their chief reason for
the desire is to have practice in the use
of English, but it is our prayer that
the truth may come home to them and
they may come to love the Saviour.
The Sholapur Criminal Tribes
“The Settlement work goes on very
well. On January 1, Government
turned over to the mission responsi-
bility for the second Settlement, which
is now under construction. The num-
bers of the people will not be largely
increased until the wire fencing about
the new land is in place. In December,
before we had charge of it, some fifty
people absconded from the new Settle-
ment. They have all been brought
back and punishment assigned, but we
are glad that it was at that time still
in Government’s control. Government
has sanctioned an increase in the
grant for the coming year, to cover
the increased expense of the new
Settlement. There is no question but
that we have undertaken a huge task,
but we have many things to encourage
us, and we have faith to believe that
the Spirit of God is going to work
mightily among those people.”
*
Studying Tamil
“First impressions” of a country
are not confined to its climate, its food,
or even its people. Its mode of speech
makes one of the deepest impressions
of all, especially when the new arrival
must learn to speak said language.
Rev. and Mrs. Emmons E. White, two
recent additions to the Madura Mis-
sion, have been applying themselves
to the study of Tamil. Mr. White
writes : —
“The language is really rather
tough, since there are so many sounds
in it which we do not have to make in
English. For instance, there are three
T’s’: the first is dental, like ours; the
second is pronounced by touching the
ON DUTY IN DAVAO HOSPITAL
The wards are made as airy as possible in their tropical location
top of the tongue to the back of the roof
of the mouth; and the third is at-
tempted by nearly swallowing your
tongue while making a sound which
is suspiciously like ‘ rl ’ ! If you don’t
believe that this is hard, you just ought
to have a chance to try it.”
*
THE PHILIPPINES
The Hospital’s Record
Davao Mission Hospital treated
8,259 patients in the year ending De-
cember 31, 1917, according to the
concise report just received from Dr.
Lucius W. Case, physician in charge.
In addition to the hospital cases, 6,644
persons received help at the dispen-
THE HOSPITAL LAUNCH
sary; these, with the number seen on
outside calls and in visits by nurses,
bring the cases treated up to 15,368
in number.
There were 121 more in-patients
admitted in the year reported than in
1916. Many applications for admis-
sion were refused because of the lack
of accommodations. Only the most
serious cases were accepted, which
accounts for a relatively high percent-
age of deaths. Many patients, brought
long distances on cots or by launch,
were practically moribund when they
arrived. Because of thegreateramount
of the work in the hospital, only a few
outside calls, as compared with former
years, could be made.
The nationality or tribe of the in-
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patients is a suggestive list: Japanese,
350; Visayans, 232; Tagalogs, 24;
Ilocanos, 11; Bagobos, 4; Calagans, 4;
other wild tribes, 21; Chinese, 10;
Mestizos, 10 ; Americans, 4 ; Spaniards,
3. The list of diseases treated includes
a variety of lung troubles, malaria in
all forms, beri-beri, hookworm disease,
fevers, dysentery, etc., while 26 major
and 148 minor surgical operations
helped keep Dr. Case busy.
TURKEY AND ROUNDABOUT
College News from Smyrna
We are permitted to quote the fol-
lowing from a letter received by a
missionary detained in America, from
a former student at the International
College in Smyrna. The writer is a
European who at one time lived in
Smyrna: —
“The college boarding department
has been discontinued, as food has
become so dear that it was impossible
to procure it. . . . There are now about
one hundred day students, many of
whom are old boys. The preparatory
classes have been done away with also,
as teachers failed. Mr. Reed is nomi-
nal director, and has proved a genius.
Nearly single-handed, he had to fight
huge odds, but he did it.
“The ‘belligerent’ teachers, who
were formerly not allowed to go on
teaching, have now, through the be-
nevolence of the Vali, received author-
ization to remain as teachers. It was
he also who, when the college had to
be closed by the Turkish government,
was able to give an extra license so
that on September 23 the school could
again be opened. Lessons began Octo-
ber 1, 1917.
“The girls’ school has also continued
its course, but, as students are few,
only one building was used. There is
no boarding department, except for
teacher and homeless girls. Miss Mc-
Callum is not teaching, but is doing
matron work; Miss Pohl has been ap-
pointed acting, director.
“The outstation work had to be dis-
continued; the pastors in Magnesia
and Bourdour are well, but their
schools are stopped. The pastor of
Afion Karahissar has been exiled, but
luckily his family could be brought to
Smyrna.”
+
^Conditions in Palestine
“Great Britain has freed Palestine.
Will America assist in industrial re-
construction?” So asks Mr. Stephen
Trowbridge, who had come back to
Cairo, early in March, to hasten the
sending of supplies for the relief work
in Jerusalem and the region about the
Jordan. Motor trucks loaned by the
Standard Oil Co., and Ford machines
bought in Cairo, are being used to
carry supplies up from Egypt. Three
orphanages in Jerusalem shelter 500
children. The relief committee’s clinics
are crowded; six soup kitchens tem-
porarily feed 8,000 destitute, as the
Turks had stripped the city of all food.
Six hundred Armenians exiled from
Adana were reported in Jerusalem,
while many others are east of the
Dead Sea and in the Hauran — toward
Busrah.
The refugees who have been lace
making are now hampered by lack of
thread, 800 women being turned away
in February. The committees are ar-
ranging to develop boys in carpenter-
ing, mechanics, shoemaking, tailoring,
and agriculture, along the same lines
as the work begun in Erivan and
Alexandropol by Dr. Raynolds, Mr.
Yarrow, and the others of our Board
workers in the Caucasus.
The Palestine workers report that
the people have been treated well by
the British troops, and that cries of
welcome are heard as the battalions
march by.
*
Governor of Bethlehem on Christmas Day
In the January number of this jour-
nal, we spoke of the fact that Mr.
Isaac N. Camp, detained in Egypt on
the way to his designated field of Sivas,
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Western Turkey, had become attached
to the General Staff Intelligence,
XX Corps Headquarters, Egyptian
Expeditionary Force. Later, intima-
tion came to us of his being on duty
“in the city of Christ’s birth at Christ-
mas time,” but no details reached us
till about Easter, when a letter was
received from him directly. Under
date of January 24, in Cairo, he
writes : —
“I have forgotten whether I wrote
to you from Bethlehem at Christmas
time or not. Suffice it to say that I
was then acting Governor of Bethle-
hem and an acting lieutenant colonel.
For twenty-two days in December I
‘carried on’ in that capacity, until the
permanent governor came along. Then
I was put back to my old work; and,
having had rather a strenuous time of
it, was granted a leave of ten days.
“It was a great privilege to be gov-
ernor of Bethlehem on Christmas Day
and to attend midnight high mass in
the Church of the Nativity. What I
have seen of the remarkable devotion
and self-sacrifice of priests and nuns
in the Holy Land has caused me to
look upon Catholics with a great deal
more catholicity of judgment than a
few years ago. Many of them have
stood by their guns as nobly as our
own people have in Asia Minor; and
they have been persecuted by the Turk
and their work and buildings despoiled
in an almost unbelievable fashion.”
*
JAPAN
Kumi-ai Churches to Support a Station
A letter from Rev. George M. Row-
land, d.d., of Sapporo, brings news of
the decision of the Hokkaido Bukwai
( Local Conference) of Kumi-ai churches
to undertake the support of one evan-
gelistic station, with its own budget.
Dr. Rowland says: —
“The decision was made in June,
1917. At that time we made some
prominent laymen trustees, with their
ministerial brethren of the Bukwai ;
and that is what makes the thing go.
The place, Muroran, has been selected,
and a man is pretty well settled upon.
Now Muroran becomes a municipality.
I doubt if any other conference in
Japan has taken up and shouldered a
new evangelistic station like this. Our
Hokkaido churches are something to
be grateful for, even in comparison
with the other Kumi-ai churches. I’m
proud to have been associated with
them these twenty odd years.”
*
MEXICO
In Chihuahua
Rev. Alfred C. Wright, of the Mex-
ico Mission, writes from Chihuahua,
saying : —
“I have returned recently from a
trip of ten days to the mountain region
west of here with the pastor of the
church at this place. We held services
in Cusihuiriachic, C. Guerrero, and
San Isidro, with very good results as
to attendance and attention.
“I took part in each place, though
in Guerrero, where we have a chapel,
I did not go into the pulpit. The others,
being in private houses, do not come
under the head of public services.
“Really there is no danger of any
trouble in such places, as very few,
indeed, of the congregation know that
they are living under a new constitu-
tion, nor do those who do know it have
any knowledge of its specifications.
We spent four nights on the floor of
the common day car, second class
(there is no first class now), and one
night in a freight car, to which we
had to transfer round the wreck of
an engine which had fallen through
a bridge ahead of us, and where we
waited twenty-four hours for another
engine to take us in.
“While conditions at present are not
disturbed, the tales of suffering to
which we listen in nearly every family
visited are horrible. No one has any
hope of speedy and permanent settle-
ment of things here.”
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CHINA
A Chinese Annual Meeting
As friends of the China missions
well understand, more responsibility
each year is devolved upon the Chinese
Church. A recent letter from Rev.
Edwin D. Kellogg gives an idea of the
aptness and businesslike methods of
the Chinese in assuming these new
cares. The difficulties in financial situ-
ation, owing to the lowering of rates
of exchange, was presented to the Chi-
nese annual meeting last fall. The
complications seemed to demand that
they raise some $700 more next year
than they had found in the year just
closing. The missionaries made some
suggestions as to the ways and means
of finding the additional amount, but
it was a thoroughly Chinese plan
which was finally adopted. Mr. Kellogg
writes : —
“The Chinese have not been satisfied
with their Home Missionary Society
and its results for some years, and so
they took this society as the means
of finding additional money. The
means adopted were practically an
assessment of the entire Chinese and
missionary community. It ran some-
thing like this : $5 from each mission-
ary and teacher of English ; $2.50 from
each preacher; $2 from each evangel-
ist; $1 from each teacher; 50 cents
from training class men and hospital
assistants; two dimes from each bap-
tized Christian; one dime from each
learner, and one-half dime from each
student in lower primary schools. This
plan, if carried out, promises to net
some $500 more than last year, and
they seem confident that the plan will
work. The Chinese are accustomed to
taxes for theaters, and very likely this
plan will be effective.
The Mission Meeting
“Our annual meeting this year has
been most gratifying in many partic-
ulars. For one thing, never before
have the Chinese themselves been so
completely in the saddle as at this
meeting, and, generally speaking, with
excellent results. The election of the
Executive Committee for next year
was, I think, a thoroughgoing pattern
after political methods at home. The
slate was all made up beforehand, and
thereby was elected with a rousing
majority on the first ballot. The
choices for the committee were almost
without exception excellent. The com-
mittee is composed of younger men
than formerly, two of them being our
recently graduated Nanking theolog-
ical students.
The Agricultural Department’s Plans
“The annual meeting was also made
an opportunity for launching the new
agricultural scheme. This seems to
have the very cordial backing of the
Chinese. During the meetings, some
$3,000 from Shaowu itself was sub-
scribed, and it seems likely that $5,000
will be reached for the whole field.
This money is to be equally divided
between the experiment station, which
is jointly under the direction of the
mission, and the Chinese committee.
The other half of the fund goes into
a company which hopes to realize good
returns from work which they may
undertake on the basis of what they
may learn from the experiment station.
“A large tract of land, about a mile
and a half from the East Gate com-
pound, is in the process of acquisition,
and there all kinds of agricultural
experimentation may be carried on,
as the tract of land contains earth of
varying qualities, as well as being
partly hillside and partly lowland. The
main stress at first will be laid on
supplying milk for foreign and Chinese
use, reducing the price of the same,
and providing other forms of nourish-
ing food at cheaper prices.”
*
Helping the Distressed at Paotingfu
The missionaries in North China
have been “moving up” like the fire
engines at a four-alarm fire in a big
city. As the doctors have been called
A COUNTRY FAIR CROWD IN THE INNER COURT OF THE BOARD’S CHAPEL
AT YEN CHIAO, CHIHLI
Mrs. Arthur H. Smith, of Peking, is giving a talk to a group of country women
into Shansi to fight the pneumonic
plague, the college professors, evan-
gelists, and ordained men have moved
on to responsibilities in managing
flood relief work, and the schools and
general work have proceeded with less
detailed supervision than usual, though
they are doing fine work none the less.
Rev. Emery W. Ellis, of Lintsingchow,
in Shantung, who is in charge of the
general evangelistic and station work
there, writes of going to Paotingfu,
in Chihli, to help for a month, since
the flood brings special and severe
problems there. He says: —
“The military governor of this
province has given $1,000 for mate-
rials for roadmaking, and the project
promises to enlist local help to a certain
extent. The disbursement of the relief
funds means a large amount of work.
There has been the enlistment of 440
men for the Tunghsien road, and now,
for local roadmaking near Paotingfu,
about four hundred men will be en-
listed. To house these men, to provide
for their food, to secure faithful work
— all this means much close oversight.
“At the outstations, food is being
given for the flood sufferers; about
seven thousand are being aided. The
distribution of clothing has been
another form of work that has taken
time and thought. Women refugees,
to the number of 100, are cared for by
Miss Abbie Chapin, of Paotingfu, in a
temple near at hand. Relief work is
also being carried on from about ten
of the Paotingfu outstations.”
*
A Welcome to the “Late” Speaker
We quote the following from a
further account by Rev. Obed S. John-
son, of Canton, of the assembly held
in the Hongkong Congregational
church, a description of some parts of
which, as given by Rev. Charles A.
Nelson, we printed last month: —
“Prominent speakers from Hong-
kong and Canton addressed the assem-
bly on widely varying but pertinent
topics. The subtle Chinese sense of
humor was frequently in evidence.
One evening a prominent Chinese doc-
tor of Hongkong was to address the
meeting on ‘Hygiene.’ The time for
speaking arrived, but not the speaker.
The chairman of the evening, who
happened to be the pastor of our Can-
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ton church, acceptably entertained the
audience until the speaker arrived, ten
minutes late.
“The chairman immediately con-
cluded his remarks, and before intro-
ducing the speaker announced, ‘Let us
now all join heartily in singing hymn
No. 15;’ and we all did sing, with
unique appreciation, ‘The great physi-
cian now is here.’ ”
*
A Paotingfu Survey
It is very rewarding occasionally to
look over a station’s work as a whole,
not simply touching the high lights,
as our correspondents, who are both
busy and modest, are apt to do. These
“Station Letters,” as we call them,
keep us in touch with native workers
and with the numerous responsibilities
of the missionaries. One has just come
from Paotingfu, written by Mrs. Harold
W. Robinson, who joined the station in
1916. We quote a few paragraphs: —
“So far [to late December, 1917],
the preaching at regular church serv-
ices this fall has been by teachers from
the boys’ school, by various helpers and
evangelists, and by outsiders. This
has given variety, but the church needs
a regular pastor, and recently a great
step in advance has been made by call-
ing Chang Heng Ch’iu, who is now
helping Mr. Price [Rev. F. M. Price,
of the East Street Mission in Pao-
tingfu ; see Missionary Herald, Septem-
ber, 1917], for this work. Street chapel
services are held daily in the centrally
located street chapel, in charge of Mr.
Pei. He reports an average attendance
of forty at these services, and that
about twenty are in a class studying
to come into the church. Every after-
noon he collects a crowd of little boys,
who come in to sing.
Flood Relief in the Country Fields
“There are nine country evangelists,
who this fall, of necessity, have com-
bined flood relief with the regular
work. Plans have been made to use
the country chapels as flood relief sta-
tions, and this will probably be done
as soon as arrangements can be made
with the proper officials. The country
field about Paotingfu is so large that
it cannot be properly worked with the
funds and helpers available. At the
village of Li Hsien, people are desiring
to join the church in such numbers
that the church officers will take their
names only if a guarantor is found for
them. These inquirers come largely
from the higher classes.
“This year, because of the floods, it
was considered at first unwise to hold
the annual church meeting for workers
from the country; but later it was
decided to continue the custom, even
though the attendance might be small.
It was held November 23-26, and the
attendance was 156, as against ninety
last year. After the general meeting
was over, station classes were held for
both men and women — thirty men
pupils and twenty country women.
Mr. Price was in charge of the men,
and has graduated six who have com-
pleted a course.
“Miss Abbie G. Chapin’s work seems
so large and so varied that it is diffi-
cult to find a beginning, and I am sure
there is no end ! If we had good roads,
I should be tempted to suggest roller
skates for Miss Chapin, to save time
from walking!”
Mrs. Robinson does not attempt to
give detailed stories of Miss Chapin’s
work, though she mentions a few —
like women’s classes, evangelistic tours,
supervision of Bible-women in city and
country, industrial and relief work,
etc.
East Street Work
“The Bible classes for military stu-
dents, and the lectures at the East
Street Chapel under Mr. Price’s super-
vision, have been largely attended.
This year a new feature has been in-
troduced, to hold a Bible class for
business men on every alternate eve-
ning. The attendance, while not as
large as we hoped for, has yet made
it possible to get in closer touch with
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the men, who have been very respon-
sive. A reading room is kept open all
the time, in which some one is gener-
ally found reading. Recently a teacher
has been engaged to be there on certain
evenings to teach the boys singing,
which they enjoy so much that they
come to sing on evenings when there
is no teacher.
Union Christmas Services
“We have just closed a series of
interesting Christian entertainments.
The first one was of special importance,
as it was a union service of the Young
Men’s Christian Association, the Pres-
byterians, and the American Board
missions, and was held in the largest
hall in the city. Admission was by
ticket, and the hall was full of people
who were really interested, both church
people and non-Christians. Among
other features was a union chorus of
Chinese and foreigners from these
missions.”
Shaowu Dramatics
Mrs. Edwin D. Kellogg sent to
friends in this country a circular letter
giving the story of last Christmas in
Shaowu. There was a genuine home
celebration on the part of the mission-
aries, and Sunday schQol affairs as
well; and then Mrs. Kellogg says: —
“It is the custom in the school for
the boys to give a play every Christ-
mas night, and this year they put on
Pilgrim’s Progress. The Chinese act
easily, but our boys are loath to spend
time in rehearsing. We did, however,
succeed in persuading them to have
four rehearsals of this play, which we
helped them dramatize and put on in
ten acts.
“The church was crowded. More
than five hundred had gathered, and
all who could get standing room were
there. Pilgrim’s Progress gripped that
crowd in a way that greatly surprised
me. The Cross scene — -a hard one for
the boys to do well— went off effec-
THE STARS IN THE DRAMA ON FAIR DAY AT YEN CHIAO VILLAGE, CHIHLI
.. T^.e Chinese are very fond of the theater. At a fair admission is free, the expense being met by a
municipal appropriation.” Many actors are young boys, like two at the right in this picture The
beard, headdress, and posture of the actor at the right are those universally indicating ruler or
prince. The figures in the background are stage attendants
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tively, and the singing of ‘At the cross,
at the cross,’ behind the scenes was
very helpful. In the scene Vanity Fair,
the boys were in their element, and we
were shown a lively Chinese Fair,
where the people quickly changed from
a gay, rollicking crowd to a fierce mob,
ready to kill Christian and Faithful.
The fight between Apollyon and Chris-
tian was also put on with much vim,
and ‘took’ with the audience. The
play closed with the scene Beulah
Land, and with the singing of ‘Jeru-
salem the golden.’ I was surprised to
find how indigenous to China Pilgrim’s
Progress seemed when thus presented.”
BOARDING THE FERRYBOAT OUTSIDE TUNGHSIEN
THE PORTFOLIO
Help from America
See that monkey-faced babe. When
little children are starving, their skin
grows taut and their eyes pop out until
they look like wee apes. This particu-
lar child is trying to draw food from
empty breasts that hang limp against
the bony body of a woman who looks
to be seventy years old. By all reason
and expectation, the miserable morsel
of humanity should have perished
within a month of birth, for the mother
has scarcely clothes or food for herself,
or yet nourishment for her child.
A great and beautiful and heart-
breaking hope sustains her, and myr-
iads of others — that the Americans
will come with relief. “They little
know of America, who only America
know.” In the far, waste places of
earth, where famine stalks, the name
that is synonymous with rescue and
life is America. There are no peoples
so remote or benighted that they have
not heard of America, the almoner
nation. I have had personal experi-
ence of this attitude in the famine-
smitten fields of North Japan, of mid-
China, of Persia, of Kurdistan, of
Russia, of Roumania, and of Armenia.
All the ingenuity and effort of Ger-
many could not possibly build up such
a reputation as has made America’s
name unique among the oldest nations
of the earth.
Is it any wonder, therefore, that
thereupon I put my foot through the
regulations of the local American
Committee for Armenian Relief, and
assured that starving mother and babe
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a place on the relief lists ? Necessarily
the committee has to be systematic
and rigid, giving out of its scanty store
only to certain most desperate classes.
It is conducting its work on a basis
that would win encomiums from the
Associated Charities of the world.
Every penny contributed gets to the
field — a New York business man pays
all the administrative expenses of the
American Committee for Armenian
and Syrian Relief — and is disbursed
by Americans or by American-trained
natives under American direction. It
is but common justice to say that if it
had not been for the presence of Amer-
ican missionaries on this field, skilled
in the language, accustomed to local
conditions, and able to command the
assistance of a great corps of trained
native workers, the vast humanitarian
service which America has done for
the Armenians and the Syrians would
have been impossible.
With Yankee ingenuity, the relief
workers have established extensive
industrial enterprises in the Caucasus,
so that no actual relief is given di-
rectly, except to orphans. Women are
paid for carding and spinning wool
at home. Refugee men weave this on
looms made by the refugees into cloth
that is made up by refugees into
clothes for other refugees — ten thou-
sand orphans will be clothed from these
looms in Erivan alone. Cooperating
with the London Lord Mayor’s com-
mittee, the American relief workers
are, so far as possible, reaching the
entire quarter of a million refugees
in the Caucasus, their efforts being
especially desperate this winter, be-
cause of the famine conditions.
All plans look to the rehabilitation
of the refugees in their former homes,
after we have finally put the firm of
William, Mohammed & Co. out of busi-
ness. When one considers the com-
plete devastation of hundreds of entire
towns and villages, the destruction of
flocks, herds, and other live stock, as
well as of crops, and the entire loss
of household effects and of material
with which to resume business, it will
be seen that the task to which America
has laid her hand is no small one. . . .
It is estimated that something like
a million Armenians still remain alive
in Turkey. These survivors have grad-
ually made their way toward the
centers where American consuls and
missionaries are distributing relief.
Yes, despite all, the Americans have
remained by the task, regardless of
peril to themselves. They are the
envoys extraordinary and ministers
plenipotentiary of the generous, sym-
pathetic heart of their country. Some
day they will be publicly recognized
and honored. Meantime they are pay-
ing a price for the privilege of repre-
senting America. Only those who have
had to listen to the cry of the starving
for food when there is no food, to the
frantic pleas of mothers that their
little children be accepted as a gift,
and to the despair of men who are
helpless to care for their families, can
know what a toll is extracted from the
spirit.
William T. Ellis, in ‘ ‘ The Saturday
Evening Post," March 30, 1918.
Jesus’ Decision in the Wilderness
To the suggestion that he should ap-
pease the desires of his man-nature by
causing stones to be made bread, Jesus
had answered that man does not live by
bread alone, but by every word which
proceedeth out of the mouth of God. It
is impossible to think of this as pre-
senting itself to the Man from Naza-
reth as a personal problem only — the
problem of youth, with its hungry
desires for food, a mate, houses, trap-
ings. But whether settled for himself
or humanity, the question was never
reopened. This is no story of a plain
man finding himself, but of a soul un-
selfed from the beginning, apprised of
his power, sure of his high calling,
seeking behind the material lack the
essential disharmony which his mes-
sage was to heal.
Socially minded as he showed him-
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self to be, he must have faced here and
struck out of his own course the futil-
ity of attempting to achieve the King-
dom by the relief of immediate social
discomfort. Hungry as his time was,
sore with poverty and injustice and
oppression, when he went back to it, it
was not with any palliative, but with
the keen sword of the Spirit. The
misery of his world rose up against
him, assailed him through his great
gift of compassion, threatened to en-
gulf him ; but always we see him strik-
ing clear of it, committing himself to
the Word with such confidence as a
bird commits itself to the air or a great
fish to the deep.
But if Jesus rejected the principle
of direct relief as a means of bringing
the Kingdom to pass, he was even more
explicit in his condemnation of direct
political action as establishing it. For
the devil in Jesus’ time was no mere
hoof-and-tail bogy, but that Lucifer
whose seat was once in heaven. And
what else can the worship of him mean
in connection with the kingdom of this
world and the power and glory of them
than the use of satanic means, political
intrigue, jealousy, faction, conspiracy,
by means of which the rebellious
angels fell? We shall come closer than
this to the mind of Jesus touching the
social organization, but we shall get
nothing more decisive than his “Get
thee behind me ! ”
From “The Man Jesus,” by Mary
Austin.
THE BOOKSHELF
Three Books on Buddhism
The Story of Buddhism. By K. J. Saunders. New
York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 159. Price,
$1.15.
The Heart of Buddhism. By K. J. Saunders. New
York : Milford. Pp. 96. Price, 60 cents.
Nichiren, the Buddhist Prophet. By Masaharu Ane-
saki. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Pp.
156. Price, $1.25.
Fifty years ago Buddhism was
practically unknown in the Western
world as a subject of serious study.
Today, in a well-stocked library, scores
of books on this religion may be found
upon the shelves. That these three
books should come under review at the
same time is significant of the new
interest. The subject is so remote,
not to say abstract, with reference to
present-day facts and concerns, that
this can be explained only on the
ground of an increasing interest in
everything which affects the lives of
our fellowmen. It is a human as well
as a scientific zeal which lies back of
this literary study and output.
Mr. Saunders, who is the literary
secretary of the Young Men’s Chris-
tian Association movement for Burma,
India, and Ceylon, in his “Story of
Buddhism,” writes frankly from the
Christian point of view. While sym-
pathetic and fak in its approach to
Buddhist thought and life, his book
is almost as much an apologetic for
Christianity as a description of Bud-
dhism. Not only at the end, but all
the way through, the author argues
for Christianity as the only possible
fulfillment of Gautama’s longing, the
only solvent of the woes which afflict
the lands where this faith prevails
today. This is said by no means as
detracting from the value of the book,
but only as indicating its point of
view. It is a mission study book rather
than a scientific treatise. As such it
will be found both interesting and
informing, a thoroughly readable little
volume. We recommend it heartily to
Student Volunteers, newly appointed
missionaries, and all who desire a
good introduction to this fascinating
subject.
“The Heart of Buddhism,” by the
same author, is a brief anthology of
Buddhist hymns and teaching stories.
The translations are original and are
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done with fine literary skill, certainly
so far as the English is concerned.
The repose, the music, the perfume,
the pessimism of the East haunt many
of these stanzas. A good example is
this, which is called “The Four
Riddles”: —
“ What bringeth human life to earth?
What still disdaineth to be bound ?
Who pass in woe from birth to birth ?
From what can no release be found ?
“ ’Tis passion bringeth man to earth ;
His mind disdaineth to be bound.
All sentient beings know rebirth ;
From misery no escape is found ! ”
In reading these translations, one
realizes the charm of the early Bud-
dhist literature of India, but also the
intellectual and spiritual stagnation
to which it led. The value of the book
is enhanced by copious notes.
Professor Anesaki, of the Imperial
University of Tokyo, won many friends
and admirers in America when filling,
for three years, the chair of Japanese
Literatureand Life at Harvard Univer-
sity. One fruitage of the visit to our
shores is this story of Nichiren, whom
he calls “The Buddhist Prophet,” who
lived in the thirteenth century. This
little biography opens up what will be
to most people a new and interesting
chapter in Japanese history. Presi-
dent Harada, of the Doshisha, well
known to our readers, has spoken of
Nichiren as “the most interesting
figure in the whole history of Bud-
dhism in Japan.” After reading Pro-
fessor Anesaki’s book, one feels that
an interesting parallel might be drawn
between Nichiren and some of the
Hebrew prophets. We find deep re-
ligious passion, the ardent spirit of
the social reformer and student of
public affairs, the reversion to ancient
simplicities, the gathering of disciples,
and the suffering of bitter persecution.
Nichiren’s attitude toward the Mongol
invasion bears strong resemblance to
that of Isaiah and Jeremiah toward
the political foes of their time. The
parallelism, however, fails at the chief
point. Nichiren was not without the
forward look. He had his vision of a
reconstructed world, a Nirvana on
earth, but its motive and dynamic lay
in a soulless and godless system' of a
remote past. “Back to the Buddha of
India” was his cry. He even depre-
cated Japan’s substitution of the
Amida Buddha, or the Universal Spirit
of Enlightenment, for the historic
Sakya Muni of the faith.
Nichiren’s end was characteristic.
True to the genius of his Master, he
withdrew from the world, and among
mountain snows acquired “true Bud-
dhahood.” He seems to have been a
prophet not only without honor, but
without effect, since Japan continued
on her mystic and superstitious way
without restraint. Yet the story is
worth telling. Aside from its histor-
ical interest, and this must be very
great to many Japanese, it reveals to
the world a teacher of great ability,
of high character, a man of real power,
of sincerity and righteousness, who,
according to his light, in an exceed-
ingly dark age sought the truth for
the good of his fellowmen.
C. H. P.
Faith, War, and Policy. By Gilbert Murray. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Co. Pp. 255. Price, $1.25 net.
A collection of addresses and essays
on the European War, whose value in
this book form will be, as the writer
declares, largely historical. The papers
included cover issues through March,
1917.
Heroes of the Campus. By Joseph W. Cochran. Phila-
delphia : The Westminster Press. Pp. 168. Price,
60 cents net.
Brief sketches of notable missionary
heroes whose records began in their
college days: of Pitkin, of Yale and
China; of Mills, of Williams, founder
of the American Board of Commission-
ers for Foreign Missions ; and of many
others whose fight of faith began while
they were still undergraduates.
The Mexican Problem. By Clarence W. Barron, with
introduction by Talcott Williams, LL.n„ of Colum-
bia University. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co.
Pp. 137. Price, $1.00 net.
A commercial and economic study of
Mexican affairs.
WORLD BRIEFS
The Sultan has granted a site of eight
acres for an Anglican cathedral in Cairo.
Christian graduates of the Imperial Uni-
versity of Japan have founded a magazine,
to be called The University Review. It will
discuss social and political matters from a
Christian standpoint.
The son of Prof. Graham Taylor, of
Chicago University, acting as assistant to
the United States consul at Petrograd, is
believed to be safe in Russia, though no
direct message from him has been received
since early in January.
More money is declared to be given for
their Buddhist and Taoist religions by the
Chinese of the province of which Canton
is capital than is given by all the Protes-
tant Christians of all America for all the
mission work of the non-Christian world.
Twenty young men of the American
Marathi Mission Church in Bombay have
enlisted for war service. Some went to
Mesopotamia, others to East Africa, and a
few enlisted in the University Corps of
the Indian Defence Force. One recent
convert laid down his life in Mesopotamia
in the interests of the Empire.
At a late meeting of the Medical Mission-
ary Association at Kodaikanal, India, a
resolution was passed in favor of a thor-
oughly equipped institution for the training
of Christian physical directors for work in
Indian schools. The Indian government is
understood to be interested in the plan.
It also favors the introduction of the Boy
Scout movement into India.
England has decided upon the form of
memorial to be given to the next-of-kin
of every member of His Majesty’s forces
who has fallen in the war. It is to be a
bronze wall plaque, five inches in diameter,
bearing an emblematic design, and will be
accompanied by a scroll suitably inscribed.
More than 800 designs were submitted, and
a prize was awarded the successful com-
petitor.
The Christian community in China, in-
cluding enrolled inquirers, numbers over
500,000. There are 618 centers with resi-
dent missionaries, and Christian worship is
carried on in 7,078 places ; 5,517 foreign
missionaries (309 of them Congregational-
ists) are in China, and 20,460 Chinese Chris-
tian workers are in the employ of missions
and churches. One out of every fourteen
Christians is in mission or church employ.
There are 151,490 pupils in mission schools,
242
and 330 mission hospitals, served by 383
missionary and 118 Chinese physicians, 106
of whom are women.
During the evangelistic campaign of
1917 in Madura City, India, song sermons,
given by Rev. H. A. Popley, of Erode, were
very successful. It had been believed that
Hindus would not attend a Christian church,
but hundreds of Hindus came to hear Mr.
Popley at these meetings. Organizations
of musicians and singers from various
churches, called the Bajanai, were of great
assistance in the services.
A copy of The Natal Advertiser has just
reached our office, in which appears a re-
port in full of a paper on “The Native
Medical Man,” read by Dr. James B. Mc-
Cord, of the Board’s staff in Durban, South
Africa, at the annual meeting of the Natal
Native Affairs Reform Association. It was
a most illuminating document, full of humor,
but stating plainly the dangers from the
native practitioner and closing with a sug-
gestion for a solution of the difficulty,
which brought hearty applause from his
listeners.
In place of the long, unsatisfactory emi-
gration laws in India, a new plan has been
worked out for Indians going to British
Guiana, Trinidad, and Fiji which is called
“assisted colonization.” Under this new
plan the relation between employers and
laborers is made more normal ; grants of
land are to be available for laborers who
desire it after they have worked for three
years ; protectors of immigrants are to be
appointed in India and in each colony ;
provisions are made for housing, wages,
medical treatment, and education, and for
repatriation for those who desire it. The
emigration of entire families is to be en-
couraged, and women unaccompanied by
their families are not to be accepted as
immigrants.
One of the most interesting articles in a
recent number of Asia, the journal of the
American Asiatic Association, is by Tyler
Dennett, of the Methodist Centenary Com-
mission, and is called “The Missionary
Schoolmaster, Who Began with Outcastes,
Now Teaches the Rajah’s Sons. ” “ School-
master ” in this case is a generic term, but
Mr. Dennett makes most significant gen-
eralizations. “The great defect,” he says,
“of the average mission and government
school in China and India has been that it
does not yet think in terms of citizenship.
The mission school is designed, primarily,
to prepare for intelligent church member-
ship ; the government school tends chiefly
to prepare clerks for government offices,
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especially in India. Because of the tre-
mendous impetus given throughout the
Orient to the desire for self-government
by the American policy in the Philippines,
accelerated as it has been by the present
war, any school which expects to win or
keep the confidence of the people will have
to consider this new aspect of ideas.” He
praises the union movement among mis-
sions along educational lines and calls at-
tention to the fact that missionary school-
masters now ‘ ‘ must be prepared to conduct
schools better than the returned student
who has finished his course in pedagogy at
Harvard, Yale, Oxford, or Cambridge, and
to offer the broadest kind of training for
citizenship in the new governments which
are or which are to be. ”
THE CHRONICLE
Births
January 30. In Pasumalai, Madura,
India, to Mr. and Mrs. James H. Lawson,
a daughter, Carolyn.
February 13. In Erivan, Russia, to Rev.
and Mrs. Ernest A. Yarrow, a daughter,
Jean Florence.
Sailed for the Field
March 27. From San Francisco, Miss
Annie L. Howe, returning to Kobe, Japan.
Arrivals on the Field
February 10. In Durban, South Africa,
Rev. and Mrs. Charles N. Ransom, return-
ingto Natal ; Mr. and Mrs. Ray E. Phillips,
joining the staff at Johannesburg, in the
Transvaal ; Mr. and Mrs. Wesley C. Atkins,
joining the station at Durban ; Miss Caro-
line E. Frost, returning, after furlough, to
Adams ; and Miss Fidelia Phelps, rejoin-
ing Inanda Seminary after furlough in
America.
Arrivals in this Country
March 21. In New York, Rev. and
Mrs. Edward B. Haskell, d.d., of Philip-
popolis ; and Miss Mary M. Haskell, of
Samokov, Bulgaria.
March 23. In New York, Rev. and
Mrs. Reuben H. Markham, of Samokov,
Bulgaria.
March 31. In San Francisco, Miss Jane
T. Taylor, of Davao, Mindanao, P. I.
Dr. Ruth A. Parmelee, of Harpoot, has
been speaking in various places in the
Northwest, though nominally resting with
her sister in Butte, Mont. We under-
stand that after making forty addresses
in that region she visited friends in Oregon,
and had begun to be in much demand near
Portland, Forest Grove, etc., in that state.
DONATIONS RECEIVED IN MARCH
NEW ENGLAND DISTRICT
Maine
Bangor, All Souls C'ong. ch., 150,
llammond-st. Cong, ch., 75, both
toward support of missionary,
225 ; Forest-av. C'ong. eh., 10,
Brewer, 1st C'ong ch.
Brownville, Cong. ch.
Castine, Cong. ch.
Dexter, Cong. ch.
Garland, Federate ch. (Cong.)
Lewiston, Pine-st. Cong. ch.
Limerick, Rev. and Mrs. George A.
Mills,
Machias, Cong. ch.
Norway, 1st Cong. ch.
Portland, Woodfords Cong. ch.
Waterville, Cong. ch.
West Paris, Finnish Cong. ch.
235 00
18 96
1 10
14 00
18 00
3 50
56 00
5 00
25 95
4 00
56 83
90 38
1 00 529 72
New Hampshire
Bath, Cong. ch. 10 60
Chester, Cong. ch. 25 00
Exeter, Phillips Cong. ch. 50 25
Hancock, Cong. ch. 8 00
Hanover, In memory of Mrs. C. O.
Blaisdell, 10 00
ltindge, 1st Cong. ch. 37 50
Washington, Cong. ch. 3 00 144 35
Legacies. — Nashua, Mrs. Mary A. B.
Moore, add’l, 18 00
Bindge, James Bragg, by Henry
W. Hayward, Ex’r, ' 3,324 03—3,342 03
Vermont
3,486 38
Brattleboro, Swed. Cong. ch. 3 00
Cambridgeport, Cong. ch. 84
Jericho, 1st Cong, ch., toward sup-
port Rev. William Hazen, 35 00
Morrisville, 1st Cong. ch. 11 09
Orwell, Cong, ch., 49.65; Friend,
200, 249 65
Springfield, Mrs. S. H. Gilfillan and
Mrs. A. W. Flanders, for Africa, 10 00
Waitsfield, Cong. ch. 22 50
West Fairlee, Cong. ch. 6 60
West Rutland, Cong. ch. 30 35 369 03
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May
Massachusetts
Amherst, South Cong1, ch. n 50
Ayer, 1st Cong. ch. 20 00
Becket, North Cong. ch. 7 35
Beechwood, Cong. ch. 6 00
Boston, Mt. Vernon Cong, ch., to-
ward support Rev. H. A. Neipp,
93 ; Park-st. Cong, ch., Florence
St. J. Baldwin, 50; Shawmut
Cong, ch., 24.23; Armenian Cong,
ch., 10 ; Baker Cong. ch. (East
Boston), 6.60; Old South Cong,
ch., 5; Cong. ch. (Allston), for
Turkey, 5 ; Benjamin Durham, 7 ;
Florence A. Whitney, 5; M. B.,
25, ' 230 83
Brookline, Leyden Cong, ch., Rev.
Frederick H. Means, 15 00
Cambridge, Pilgrim Cong. ch. 61 53
Concord, Trinitarian Cong. ch. 42 75
Dedham, 1st Cong, ch., toward sup-
port Rev. C. A. Clark, 70 00
Deerfield, Orthodox Cong, ch., Mrs.
Marion Stebbins, 5 00
Fitchburg, Rollstone Cong. ch. 105 18
Greenfield, 2d Cong, ch., toward
support Rev. A. F. Christofersen, 125 00
Groton, Cong. ch. 5 90
Hadley, 1st Cong. ch. 16 75
Hardwick, Calvinistic Cong. ch. 12 00
Harvard, Cong. ch. 10 00
Haverhill, Center Cong, ch., 56.76 ;
1st ch. of Christ (Bradford),
49.50, 106 26
Hingham, J. Wilmon Brewer, for
Battalagundu, 4 00
Lakeville, Friend, 50 00
Lakeville and Taunton Precinct,
Cong. ch. 50 00
Lowell, Eliot Cong, ch., of which
5 from Mrs. Fannie A. Barney,
36.67; A. D. Carter, 150, 186 67
Lunenburg, Cong. ch. 10 00
Methuen, Mrs. J. T. Mercer, 5 00
Millers Falls, Cong. ch. 11 00
Monson, Cong, ch., toward support
Rev. H. J. Bennett, 16 50
New Bedford, North Cong. ch. 115 35
New Salem, Cong, ch., 16.50 ; North
Cong, ch., 2.50, 19 00
Newton, Eliot Cong. ch. 210 00
Newton Highlands, Cong. ch. 265 50
Northboro, Esther E. Allen, for
work in India, 1 00
Pigeon Cove, Swed. Cong. ch. 2 75
Randolph, 1st Cong. ch. 22 47
Richmond, Rev. William M. Crane,
toward support Rev. E. L.
Nolting, 83 33
Sandisfield, 1st Cong, ch., Mary S.
Hawley, 25 00
Sheffield, Cong. ch. 18 55
Somerville, Highland Cong, ch.,
52 ; J. E. S., 10, 62 00
South Hadley Falls, G. 100 00
Springfield, South Cong. ch.,
Friend, for Sholapur, 30 ; Olivet
Cong, ch., 27.83, 57 83
Sunderland, 1st Cong. ch. 33 00
Townsend, Cong. ch. 7 42
Upton, 1st Cong. ch. 12 59
Vineyard Haven, Madison Edwards, 5 25
Warren, Cong. ch. 18 88
Webster, 1st Cong. ch. 55 50
Westfield, 2d Cong. ch. 15 50
Westhampton, Cong. ch. 50 00
Winchester, 1st Cong. ch. 338 25
Worcester, Friends, 50 00
, E. 100 00
, Matured Cond’l Gifts, 10,000 OO- 12,853 39
Legacies. — Boston, Betsey R. Lang,
by Frank H. Wiggin, Trustee,
add’l, 9 28
Newton, Hannah A. Jackson, by
William F. Bacon, Ex’r, 760 ;
Annie M. Robertson, by H.
Beecher Robertson and Murray
W. Robertson, Ex’rs, 1,815.07, 2,565 07
North Brookfield, Mrs. Josephine
C. Whiting, by L. Emerson
Barnes, adm’r, add’l, 354 06
Springfield, Emily Piper, by James
G. Dunning, Ex’r, 1,401 ; Levi
Graves, by D. W. Wells, Trus-
tee, add’l, 100, 1,501 00 — 4,429 41
17,282 80
Rhode Island
Barrington, Cong. ch.
East Providence, Riverside Cong,
ch.
Providence, Free Evan. Cong. ch.
Wood River Junction, Cong, ch.,
Friend, for Turkey,
60 10
7 06
20 60
5 00 92 76
Young People’s Societies
New Hampshire. — Wolfeboro, Y. P. S.
C. E. 15 00
Massachusetts. — Chelsea, Central Y. P. S.
C. E., Junior Dept., for Africa, 2;
Lowell, Eliot Y. P. S. C. E., for
Shaowu, 10 ; North Weymouth, Pilgrim
Y. P. S. C. E., Senior Dept., 2.50;
Sheffield, Y. P. S. C. E., 3; Winchen-
don, North Y. P. S. C. E., for Mt.
Silinda, 6, 22 50
37 50
Sunday Schools
Maine. — Portland, Woodfords C. S. S. 4 77
New Hampshire.— -Concord, West C. S. S.,
for Tehchow, 5 00
Vermont. — Sharon, C. S. S. 5 00
Massachusetts. — Beechwood, C. S. S., 6 ;
Boston, Highland C. S. S. (Roxbury), for
work in Africa, 38.15 ; East Weymouth,
C. S. S., 6.17 ; Lee, C. S. S., of which
50 for native preacher in India and 20
for student in Japan, 70 ; Quincy,
Bethany C. S. S., 12.03 ; Revere, Trinity
C. S. S. class (Beachmont), for work
among Armenians, 1 ; Somerville, West
C. S. S„ 5.42; Topsfield, C. S. S., 2.50;
Woburn, 1st C. S. S., 21.78; Worcester,
Plymouth C. S. S., for Inghok, 8.60, 171 55
Rhode Island. — East Providence, Newman
C. S. S. 4 11
190 43
MIDDLE DISTRICT
Connecticut
Ashford, Cong. ch.
3 15
Berlin, 2d Cong. ch.
54 70
Bridgeport, King’s Highway Chapel,
17 92
Bridgewater, Friends,
90 00
Greenwich, 2d Cong. ch.
19 75
Hartford, 1st ch. of Christ,
518 00
Madison, 1st Cong. ch.
40 00
Meriden, 1st Cong, ch., toward sup-
port Rev. J. S. Augur,
25 00
Middletown, 1st Cong. ch.
19 07
New Haven, United Cong, ch., for
work of Rev. R. A. Hume, 800 ;
Congregational Club, 22.23,
822 23
North Haven, Cong. ch.
90 40
Plantsville, Cong. ch.
42 58
Plymouth, Cong. ch.
16 96
Pomfret Center, One who cares,
50 00
South Glastonbury, Cong, ch., Mr.
and Mrs. E. T. Thompson,
6 00
Suffield, 1st Cong. ch.
70 00
Wallingford, 1st Cong. ch.
180 00
Washington Depot, Swed. Cong. ch.
3 00
Weston, Norfield Cong. ch.
10 50 — 2,079 26
1918
Donations
245
Legacies. — Berlin, Julia Hovey, by
Nathaniel D. Miller, Ex’r,
add’], 208 34
New London, Martha S. Harris,
by William H. Rowe, Alfred
Coit, and Walter C. Noyes,
Ex’rs and Trustees, 5,153 30
New Milford, Emily Roberts, by
New Milford Security Co.,
adm’r, 100 00— 5,461 64
New York
Bedford Hills, E. R. Minns, 30 00
Brooklyn, Lewis-av. Cong, ch.,
87.50; Parkville Cong, ch., 25.01;
Mapleton Park Cong, ch., for
Ceylon, 25 ; Elizabeth S. Day, for
work in Turkey, 2, 139 51
Buffalo, 1st Cong, ch., of which 50
from Woman’s Guild and 2,000
from William H. Crosby, all to-
ward support Rev. C. M. Warren, 2,050 00
Churchville, Union Cong. ch. 24 38
Flushing, Broadway Cong, chi,
Annie Ross, 5 00
Forest Hills, ch. in the Gardens, 40 10
Ithaca, 1st Cong. ch. 29 36
New York, Manhattan Cong, ch.,
Women’s Guild, toward support
Rev. and Mrs. F. B. Bridgman,
85; Forest-av. Cong, ch., 10;
B. S., 100,
Ontario, Immanuel Cong, ch., to-
ward support Rev. G. G. Brown,
Port Leyden, Cong. ch.
Poughkeepsie, James D. Keith,
Pulaski, Cong. ch.
Smithtown Branch, Florence N.
Tyler,
Westmoreland, 1st Cong. ch.
Woodville, Cong. ch.
Legacies. — Brooklyn, Charles A.
Hull, add’l,
7,540 90
195 00
13 00
7 16
100 00
2 00
1 25
38 00
9 00— 2,683 76
47 50
New Jersey
2,731 26
Glen Ridge, Cong, ch., toward sup-
port Dr. F. Van Allen, 275 00
Jersey City, Mrs. Widlake, for
work among Armenians, 10 00
Montclair, 1st Cong, ch., Friend, 15 00
Passaic, Cong, ch., William L.
Lyall, for work among Armenians, 50 00
Westfield, ch. of Christ, of which
10 from Rev. S. L. Loomis, 110 00 460 00
Pennsylvania
Toledo, 1st Cong, ch., toward sup-
port Mrs. M. M. Webster, 122.50 ;
Washington-st. Cong, ch., 40.67, 163 17— 620 02
Legacies.— Elyria, Mrs. Mary J.
Levagood, by Cong. Conference of
Ohio, 13 75
633 77
District of Columbia
Washington, 1st Cong, ch., toward
support Rev. L. S. Gates, 294 ;
S. W. Mudd, for deputation ex-
penses of Dr. J. A. Blaisdell, 50, 344 00
West Virginia
Ceredo, Cong. ch. 6 55
Georgia
Atlanta, Central Cong. ch. 10 87
Florida
St. Petersburg, Cong. eh. 20 00
Young People’s Societies
Connecticut. — Farmington, Y. P. S. C. E.,
10; Milford, Plymouth Y. P. S. C. E.,
10, 20 00
Pennsylvania. — - Fountain Springs, Junior
Y. P. S. C. E. of Christ Cong. ch. 1 50
21 50
64 36
7 00
28 61
6 00
105 97
INTERIOR DISTRICT
Tennessee
Memphis, 1st Cong. ch. 8 86
Alabama
Birmingham, Independent P r e s b .
ch., Woman’s Soc. 13 00
-, Woman’s Home Miss. Union, 4 00 17 00
Sunday Schools
Connecticut. — Greenwich, 2d C. S. S., to-
ward support Rev. Lewis Hodous, 13.62 ;
Norwalk, 1st C. S. S., Pathmakers’
Class, for Sholapur, 2.50 ; Putnam, 2d
C. S. S., toward support Dr. H. N.
Kinnear, 48.24,
New York. — Canaan, C. S. S., 3 ; West-
moreland, 1st C. S. S., 4,
New Jersey. — Newark, 1st C. S. S., of
which 25 for Africa,
Pennsylvania. — Minersville, C. S. S.
Ernest, Union ch.
Minersville, Cong. ch.
Philadelphia, Park Cong. ch.
Legacies. — Philadelphia, Caroline E.
Furber, add’l, less expenses,
15 00
28 00
25 00 68 00
541 27
Ohio
609 27
Texas
Austin, Ira H. Evans,
Indiana
Fort Wayne, J. S. House,
Fremont, Cong. ch.
Michigan City, A. H. Miller,
50 00
25 00
4 37
5 00 34 37
Cleveland, 1st Cong, ch., 38; Grace
Cong, ch., 6.15, 44 15
Columbus, 1st Cong, ch., toward
support Rev. M. S. Frame, 225 ;
Plymouth Cong, ch., toward sup-
port Charles H. Riggs, 125, 350 00
Lexington, Cong. ch. 5 00
Newark, Plymouth Cong. ch. 3 95
Newton Falls, Cong. ch. 2 25
Petersburg, Rachel Davies, 5 00
Shaker Heights, Plymouth Cong.
ch. 29 00
Springfield, Lagonda-av. Cong, ch.,
10; 1st Cong, ch., Mr. and Sirs. J.
Frank Petticrew, for Pang-
chwang, 7.50, 17 50
Illinois
Aurora, 1st Cong. ch. 15 00
Canton, 1st Cong, ch., toward sup-
port Rev. E. W. Felt, 14 40
Chicago, Rogers Park Cong, ch.,
of which 500 from F. H. Tuthill,
all toward support Rev. C. L.
Storrs, 600 ; University Cong, ch.,
60; Austin Cong, ch., 14.18; Fir-
man Cong, ch., 10; F. H. Tuthill,
toward cost of exchange in China,
962.50; Friend, 22.85, 1,669 53
Earlville, Cong. ch. 5 00
La Moille, Cong. ch. 14 50
Loda, Cong. ch. 35 40
Mayfield, Cong. ch. 13 50
246
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May
Morrison, Robert Wallace,
Oak Park, 1st Cong, ch., Clarence S.
Pellet,
Paxton, Cong. ch.
Peoria, 1st Cong, ch., toward sup-
port Rev. M. S. Frame, 150 ;
Union Cong, ch., 7,
Plymouth, Cong. ch.
Polo, Independent Presb. ch.
Woodbum, Cong. ch.
30 00
100 00
18 00
157 00
3 40
30 00
10 00— 2,115 73
Legacies. — Princeton, Lydia A.
Anthony,
100 00
Michigan
2,215 73
Detroit, 1st Cong, ch., toward sup-
port Rev. J. H. Dickson, 250 ;
Mt. Hope Cong, ch., for Africa,
14,
East Lansing, Cong. ch.
Pine Grove, 1st Cong. ch.
Royal Oak, Cong. ch.
St. Clair, 1st Cong. ch.
264 00
3 45
7 50
60
40 00 315 55
Wi sconxin
Eau Claire, 1st Cong. ch.
Emerald Grove, Cong. ch.
Genesee, Cong. ch.
La Crosse, 1st Cong. ch.
Madison, Plymouth Cong. ch.
Menomonie, Cong. ch.
Milwaukee, Plymouth Cong, ch., to-
ward support Dr. A. R. Hoover,
Oconomowoc, Cong. ch.
Platteville, Cong. ch.
Union Grove, Cong. ch.
Whitewater, Cong. ch.
Williams Bay, 1st Cong. ch.
200 00
9 00
5 75
75 00
17 00
50 00
250 00
11 00
10 00
25 00
33 75
15 00 701 50
Legacies. — Elkhorn, Eva H. Wales,
by Winifred Bird Hand, Ex’x,
953 88
Elbowoods, Mrs. Susan W. Hall,
for Tehchow,
25 00
Harvey, 1st Cong. ch.
17 00
Stady, Cong. ch.
5 00 —
— 54 00
South Dakota
Aberdeen, Cong. ch.
4 49
Belle Fourche, Cong. ch.
12 80
Dupree, Cong. ch.
5 60
Estelline, Cong. ch.
16 00
Faulkton, Cong. ch.
72
Gothland, Cong. ch.
3 20
Houghton, Cong. ch.
3 20
Lebanon, Cong. ch.
2 56
McLaughlin, Cong. ch.
3 36
Myron, Cong. ch.
5 00
Scenic, Cong. ch.
80
Spearfish, Cong. ch.
6 56
Wheaton, Cong. ch.
6 40
— 70 69
Nebraska
Exeter, 1st Cong. ch.
41 50
Franklin, Cong, ch., Friend,
10 00
Linwood, Cong. ch.
14 50
Omaha, Plymouth Cong. ch.
25 00
Scottsbluff, David Martin,
50 00 141 00
Kansas
Gaylord, 1st Cong. ch.
10 00
Kansas City, 1st Cong. ch.
10 70
Newton, 1st Cong. ch.
9 00
Sedgwick, Cong, ch., Woman’s Miss.
Soc.
4 00
Topeka, Central Cong. ch.
51 48
— 85 IS
Colorado
Highland Lake, Cong. ch.
7 50
Rocky Ford, Mrs. Demus,
1 00—
— 8 50
Minnesota
1,655 38
Argyle, Cong. ch.
Big Lake, Cong. ch.
Dexter, Cong. ch.
Fairmont, Cong. ch.
Glyndon, Cong. ch.
Lake City, 1st Cong. ch.
Little Falls, 1st Cong. ch.
Mankato, 1st Cong. ch.
Minneapolis, Plymouth Cong, ch.,
165.92 ; 5th-av. Cong, ch., 24;
Linden Hills Cong, ch., 20.19;
Park-av. Cong, ch., 18; Pilgrim
Cong, ch., 10.72 ; Lynnhurst Cong,
ch., 4.80,
Monticello, Cong. ch.
Moorhead, Cong. ch.
New Ulm, Cong. ch.
Wadena, Cong, ch., Miss. Soc.
1 22
6 00
1 00
18 28
2 34
8 90
15 00
2 13
243 63
4 05
1 04
10 00
3 45 317 04
Iowa
Atlantic, Cong. ch.
Danville, Belle H. Mix and brothers
and sisters, in memory of George
H. and Mrs. Sabeth H. Mix,
Eldora, C. M. Duren,
Grinnell, Cong. ch.
Montour, Cong, ch., 51.65 ; Mrs
M. Tenny, 300,
Peterson, Cong. ch.
Sheldahl, William Herbert,
14 00
1,000 00
25 00
28 00
R.
351 65
5 00
25 00— 1,448 65
Missouri
Neosho, 1st Cong. ch. 32 00
St. Louis, Compton Hill Cong, ch.,
for Sirur, 50 00 82 00
North Dakota
Cando, 1st Cong, ch., for work
among Armenians, 6 00
Dodge, Pilgrim Ger. Cong, ch.,
Mrs. H. Grossmann, 1 00
Young People’s Societies
Illinois. — Beardstown, Y. P. S. C. E., for
Mt. Silinda, 6 ; Chicago, Miss. Study
and Prayer Union of Moody Bible In-
stitute, for Harpoot, 12.50,
Michigan. — Grand Rapids, 2d Y. P. S.
C. E.
Wisconsin,.- — Madison, Plymouth Y. P. S.
C. E., 5 ; Springvale, Y. P. S. C. E.,
9.25,
Sunday Schools
Louisiana. — Abbeville, St. Mary’s C. S. S.
Illinois. — Chicago, Millard-av. C. S. S., 8 ;
do., Leavitt-st. C. S. S., 3.83; do., Uni-
versity C. S. S., 3.06; Dwight, C. S. S.,
Kingsley and Boys’ Class, for Sholapur,
10: Oak Park, Harvard C. S. S., 6.70;
Wilmette, C. S. S., of which 10 from
Prim. Dept., 20 from Junior Dept., and
15 from Intermediate Dept., 45,
Wisconsin. — Platteville, C. S. S., 6.40;
Two Rivers, C. S. S., 16,
Iowa. — Dunlap, C. S. S., 3 ; Olds, C. S. S.,
for Aruppukottai, 30,
North Dakota. — Dawson, C. S. S., 1.60;
Gardner, C. S. S., 3.10; Harvey, 1st
C S. S. 6
South Dakota. — Watertown, C. S. S.
Kansas. — Kansas City, 1st C. S. S., for
Turkey,
Colorado. — Gordon Valley, C. S. S., 1.16 ;
La Junta, Ger. C. S. S., 3.80,
PACIFIC DISTRICT
Arizona
Prescott, Cong. ch.
17 50
5 00
14 25
36 75
1 00
76 59
22 40
33 00
10 70
4 18
14 30
4 96
167 13
25 00
1918
Donations
247
Idaho
Boise, Mrs. E. J. Borjeson,
Challis, Cong. ch.
Pocatello, Cong. ch.
Weiser, Cong. ch.
5
5
is
10
00
00
00
•38 00
Washington
Anacortes, Cong. ch.
Everett, Cong. ch.
Monroe, Cong. ch.
Pullman, Cong. ch.
Seattle, Plymouth Cong, ch., 350;
Fairmount Cong. ch., 12.40 ;
Columbia Cong, ch., J. L. Clag-
horn, 5, 367 40 386 89
4 00
8 00
99
6 50
Oregon
Baker, Ira L. Hoffman,
Beaverton, Abram Reichen,
Condon, Cong. ch.
Corvallis, 1st Cong. ch.
Ingle Chapel, Cong. ch.
Jennings Lodge, Cong. ch.
Portland, Highland Cong, ch., 8.60 ;
Free Evan. Brotherhood ch., 5 ;
Joshua Harris Abbott, to const.
himself, II. M., 100,
20 00
10 00
14 50
10 00
5 00
1 90
113 60 175 00
California
Avalon, Cong. ch.
Corona, Cong. ch.
Grass Valley, Cong. ch.
Long Beach, Cong. ch.
Los Angeles, 1st Cong, ch., 102.35 ;
Pilgrim Cong, ch., 10 ; Hollywood
Cong. ch. and S. S., 6.26,
Ontario, Cong. ch.
Paradise, Cong. ch.
Pasadena, West Side Cong, ch., 50 ;
1st Cong, ch., 41.85; Pilgrim
Cong, ch., 14.50,
Petaluma, Cong. ch.
Pittsburg, Cong. ch.
Pomona, Cong. ch.
Rio Vista, Cong. ch.
Riverside, Cong. ch.
Rosedale, Cong. ch.
San Bernardino, 1st Cong. ch.
San Francisco, Bethlehem Cong. ch.
San Jacinto, Cong. ch.
Santa Rosa, Cong, ch., Grace El-
more, for Africa,
Sherman, Cong. ch.
Whittier, Cong, ch., toward support
Rev. Cass A. Reed,
Woodside, Cong. ch.
5 64
27 24
8 05
40 30
118 61
62 00
1 44
106 35
19 58
2 07
33 62
1 88
15 00
3 10
4 45
3 35
2 12
5 00
10 00
100 00
9 20 579 00
Hawaii
Honolulu, Central Union ch. 535 00
, chs., through Hawaiian
Board, 117 30 652 30
Young People’s Societies
Washington.- — Olympia, Y. P. S. C. E.
California. — Escondido, Y. P. S. C.. E.
Hawaii. , Y. P. S. C. E., through
Hawaiian Board,
Sunday Schools
Utah. — Vernal, Kingsbury C. S. S.
California. — Bakersfield, 1st C. S. S., for
Mt. Silinda, 30; Paso Robles, C. S. S.,
13; San Diego, 1st C. S. S., 5.85,
MISCELLANEOUS
Canada
Hilda, Ger. Cong. Parish, toward
support Rev. C. H. Maas, 11 00
2 50
3 10
2 70
8 30
2 40
48 85
51 25
Legacies. — Cobourg, Rev. Riehard
Owen, by John T. Field and
James T. Daley, Ex’rs, 100 00 111 00
From the Canada Congregational Foreign Missionary
Society
H. W. Barker, Toronto, Ontario,
Treasurer, 65 40
From the American Missionary Association
Irving C. Gaylord, New York City,
Treasurer
Income on Avery Fund, for mission-
ary work in Africa, 2,426 80
FROM WOMAN’S BOARDS
From Woman’s Board of Missions
Mrs. Frank G. Cook, Boston,
Treasurer
For sundry missions in part, 9,626 32
For housekeeping grant for mission-
ary, Marathi, 75 00 — 9,701 32
From Woman’s Board of Missions of the Interior
Mrs. S. E. Hurlbjt, Chicago, Illinois,
Treasurer, 2,300 00
For Lucy Perry Noble Bible School,
Madura, 850 00
For Shaowu Hospital, care Dr. L. P.
Bement, 1,500 00
For deficit on Tehchow Ladies’
House, 50 00
For dormitory for Grace Wyckoff
Memorial School, Tehchow, 2,500 00
For Plant, South Suburb, Teh-
chow, 2,000 00
For completion of Ladies’ House,
Tehchow, 30 00— 9,230 00
From Woman’s Board of Missions for the Pacific
Mrs. W. W. Ferrier, Berkeley, California,
Treasurer, 1,300 00
For salary of missionary, Japan, 650 00 — 1,950 00
20.881 3?
Additional Donations for Special Objects
New Hampshire. — Littleton, C. S. S., Mrs.
W. A. Bacon’s Class, for pupil, care
Miss Katie Wilcox, 7 00
Vermont.— Westminster West, C. S. S., for
pupil, care Rev. William E. Hitchcock, 12 00
Massachusetts. — Boston, Mt. Vernon Chi-
nese S. S., for work, care Rev. O. S.
Johnson, 32.45 ; do., Old South C. S. S.,
Capron Bible Class, for school, care
Miss A. L. Millard, 30; do., Mrs. H. B.
Howard, for pupil, care Rev. E. W. Felt,
10 ; Cambridge, 1st Evan, ch., Janet &
Edith Clark, of which 5 for children’s
work, care Rev. E. H. Smith, and 5 for
playground, care Rev. R. E. Chandler,
10; do., do., Hubert L. Clark, for
work, care Rev. E. H. Smith, 1 ; Glouces-
ter, Miss C. A. Lathrop, for work, care
Dr. H. N. Itinnear, 3 ; Haverhill, Harriet
F. Welch, for use of Rev. L. S. Craw-
ford, 1 ; Lexington, Emma O. Nichols,
for work, care Rev. J. J. Banninga, 5 ;
Lincoln, Phillips Bradley, for school,
care Rev. Edward Fairbank, 15 ; Long-
meadow, Mrs. T. W. Leete, for work,
care Rev. W. R. Leete, 25 ; Middleboro,
A. G. Newkirk, for pupils, care Rev.
E. H. Smith, 25 ; Northampton, Ed-
wards C. S. S., for work, care Dr. F. F.
Tucker, 26.97 ; Norwood, H. P. Ken-
dall, for use of Rev. H. A. Neipp, 150 ;
Pittsfield, 1st C. S. S., for schol-
arship, care Rev. J. X. Miller, 52.89 ;
Reading, Mrs. Sarah D. Riggs, for King
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May, 1918
School for the Deaf, care Miss C. R.
Willard, 6; Southampton, H. B. Lyman,
for hospital work, care Dr. H. N. Kin-
near, 15 ; Springfield, Mr. and Mrs.
R. A. Clark, for bed in hospital, care
Dr. and Mrs. F. F. Tucker, 10 ; Three
Rivers, Osmond J. Billings, for work,
care Rev. E. H. Smith, 10 ; Worcester,
Henry Lovell, for hospital, care Dr.
H. N. ICinnear, 20; , E., of which
100 for use of Rev. H. A. Neipp, 100
for Battalagundu, care Rev. B. V.
Mathews, and 50 for evangelistic work,
care Rev. G. G. Brown, 250,
Connecticut. — Saybrook, Agnes A. Acton,
for work, care Rev. H. A. Neipp, 25 ;
Willimantic, H. C. Lathrop, for Chris-
tian Student Aid, care Rev. W. M.
Zumbro, 10 ; , Mrs. S., of which
500 for athletic goods and outfit for
boys’ school, care Rev. H. S. Martin,
and 50 for Battalagundu, care Rev. B. V.
Mathews, 550,
New York. — Angola, Miss A. H. Ames, for
use of Dr. H. N. Kinnear, 1 ; Brooklyn,
Willoughby C. S. S. of Clinton-av.
Cong, ch., for work, care William S.
Picken, 4.12 ; Larchmont, Mary E.
Woodin, for hospital work, care Dr. and
Mrs. H. N. Kinnear, 10 ; New York, P.
H. Harwood, for outstation work, care
Rev. W. O. Pye, 125 ; do., George
Rouelle, for work, care Rev. H. A.
Neipp, 25 ; do., Friend, through Rev.
R. E. Hume, for theological seminary,
care Rev. R. A. Hume, 100 ; Perry
Center, Berean Class, for student, care
Rev. E. H. Smith, 20,
New Jersey. — - East Orange, Theodore H.
Smith, for school buildings, care Rev.
G. G. Brown, 200; do., H. A. Watt, for
use of Mrs. T. D. Christie, 1 ; Ventnor,
S. S., of which 3 in memory of Eric
Neal, all for bed in hospital, care Dr.
I. H. Curr, 28,
Pennsylvania. — Ardmore, Mrs. Charles H.
Ludington, for two scholarships and
other work, care Mrs. T. D. Christie,
125; Erie, T. M. T. M. Club of Y. W.
C. A., for pupil, care Miss Grace Funk,
10,
Ohio. — Cleveland, Mrs. James F. Jackson,
for school, care Miss C. R. Willard,
12 ; Geneva, Rev. Bertha J. Harris, for
work, care Dr. H. S. Hollenbeck, 10 ;
Oberlin, Oberlin- Shansi Memorial Assn.,
for schools in Shansi, of which 3 from
J. B. Davison, 503 ; Rootstown, Cong,
ch., C. S. Seymour, for pupil, care Rev.
W. L. Beard, 15,
Illinois. — Chicago, Warren-av. Cong, ch.,
Mrs. Frank E. Page and friends, for
Frank E. Page Memorial Room in Wil-
liams Hospital, care Dr. F. F. Tucker,
50; do., F. H. Tuthill, for work among
Bheels, care Rev. W. O. Ballantine, 150 ;
do., Mrs. C. H. Long, through Inez L.
Abbott, for pupil in girls’ boarding
school, care Miss E. L. Douglass, 25 ;
Des Plaines, Cong, ch., for work, care
Rev. J. X. Miller, 25 ; Edwardsville,
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Duckies, for use of
Rev. and Mrs. P. L. Corbin, 25 ; Galva,
Five friends, for pupils, care Rev. E. W.
Felt, 140,
Wisconsin. — Florence, Harald Rasmussen,
for hospital, care Dr. and Mrs. H. N.
Kinnear,
Minnesota.— Minneapolis, M. Frances Cross,
for pupil, care Rev. J. X. Miller,
Missouri. — Lexington, A. J. Nolting, for
work, care Rev. E. L. Nolting, 25 ; St.
Charles, Rose M. Sweeney, for King
School, care Miss C. R. Willard, 3 ;
St. Louis, Henry Hunter, for native
helper, care Rev. A. A. McBride, 100,
698 31
585 00
285 12
229 00
135 00
540 00
415 00
1 00
25 00
128 00
Nebraska. — - Franklin, A. A. Galt, for
evangelistic work, formerly care Rev.
H. S. Galt, 50 00
Kansas. — Wichita, Fairmount College, to-
ward support Rev. W. N. James, Ana-
tolia College, 700 00
California. — Beverly Hills, Nellie Brugge-
meyer, for Bible-woman, care Mrs. M.
S. Frame, 25 ; Long Beach, Jane Robert-
son, for hospital, care Dr. H. N. Kin-
near, 1 ; Los Angeles, Alice S. Barber,
for do., care do., 2 ; Ontario, Mrs. E. W.
Thayer, for repairs on dormitories, care
Mrs. W. P. Elwood, 100 ; Sacramento,
Mrs. Caroline Stephenson, for work, care
Rev. Charles L. Storrs, 25, 153 00
Hawaii. — Honolulu, Central Union C. S.
S., for work, care Mrs. Fanny P. Shepard, 75 00
From the Canada Congregational Foreign Missionary
Society
H. W. Barker, Toronto, Ontario,
Treasurer
For native teacher, care Rev. C. A. Nelson,
Egypt. — Ramleh, Alice B. Caldwell, for
work, care Miss C. R. Willard,
FROM WOMAN’S BOARDS
From Woman’s Board of Missions
Mrs. Frank G. Cook, Boston,
Treasurer
For work, care Miss C. R. Willard, 50 00
For pupil, care Mrs. H. A. Maynard, 5 00
For school, care Rev. E. Fairbank, 25 00
For pupil, care Mrs. H. H. Lee, 25 00
For work, care Dr. H. E. Parker, 3 00
For day school, care Miss Isabelle
Phelps, 200 00 308 00
From Woman’s Board of Missions of the Interior
Mrs. S. E. Hurlbut, Chicago, Illinois,
Treasurer
For helper, care Miss A. L. Tenney, 45 00
For pupil, care Miss M. J. Barrows, 1 00 46 00
13 00
22 00
From Canada Congregational Woman’s Board of
Missions
Miss Emily W. Thompson, Toronto, Ontario,
Treasurer
For Bible work in schools, care A. A.
Ward, 100 00
For native teacher, care Rev. C.
A. Nelson, 35 00 135 00
4,562 43
Donations received in March, 56,153 75
Legacies received in March, 14,989 48
71,143 23
Total from September 1, 1917, to March 31,
1918. Donations, $ 561 ,601. 49; Legacies,
$57,653.75 = $619,255.24.
Amanzimtoti Theological Training School
Fund
Massachusetts. — Newburyport, Friends,
through George H. Bliss, 117 00
Arthur Stanwood Jordan Memorial Fund
Massachusetts. — Clinton, Rev. William W.
Jordan, 20 00
Angola Fund
Alabama. — Marion, 1st Cong, ch., 4;
Selma, 1st Cong, ch., 4 ; Talladega,
Talladega College, 60.76, 68 75
Mississippi. — Jackson, 1st Cong. ch. 3 00
71 75
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