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Woman’s Union Missionary Society
of America for Heathen Lands

SEPTEMBER, 1907

ADDRESS.— MISSIONARY LINK, ROOM 67, BIBLE HOUSE, NEW YORK

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Table of contents

IN EASTERN LANDS.

Chinese Medical Missionary Association.

Dr. A. Isabel Hamilton ... 4

A Wide Field. Miss S. A. Pratt . . 6

HOME NOTES.

Fresh Responsibility .... 7

Non-Missionary Girls’ Schools . . 7

Self-Centered ..... 8

FOR MISSION BANDS

The Little Wife. Ellen H. Todd . 9

A Station in India. Ellen H. Todd. . 10

ITEMS OF BUSINESS.

Treasurer’s Report . . . . .11

Addresses of Missionaries . . .12

Endowed Beds in Mary S. Ackerman-

Hoyt Memorial Hospital . . .12

Endowed Beds in Margaret Williamson

Hospital . . . . . .12

Important ...... 13

Concerning Mission Boxes ... 13

Life Members ..... 13

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WOMAN’S UNION MISSIONARY SOCIETY

President

MRS. SAMUEL J. BROADWELL

Vice-Presidents

New York

MRS. J. E. JOHNSON
“ V. H. YOUNGMAN
“ Z. S. F.I.V
“ |. WILBUR CHAPMAN

“ H. L. PIERSON
MISS E. S. COLE S
“ L. P. HALSTED
“ M. S. STONE

Brooklyn

MRS. L. R. PACKARD
“ RICHARD C. MORSE
MISS IDA P. WHITCOMB
MRS. E. E. ROBINSON
“ W. W. CLARK

Philadelphia

MRS. ABEL STEVENS
Albany, N. Y.

MISS D. M. DOUW
MRS. FRED. TOWNSEND

Syracuse, N. Y.

MRS. ROBERT TOWNSEND

Plattsburgh, N. Y,

MRS M. K. PLATT
MRS. F. G. BRONSON

New Brunswick, N. J.

MRS. CHARLES DUNHAM

Newark. N. J.

MRS. C. C HINE
“ P. H. BALLANTINE

Morristown, N. J.

MRS. JULIA KEESE COLLES
“ F. G. BURNHAM
“ R. R. PROUDFIT
MISS E. M. GRAVES

Princeton, N. J.

MRS. ARNOLD GUYOT
Boston, Mass.

MRS. H. T. TODD

Haverhill, Mass.

MRS. WM. RANSOM

New Haven, Conn.

MRS. F. B. DEXTER

Rockford, Ml.

MRS. RALPH EMERSON

Johnson City, T enn.

MRS. W. H. HARRIS

St. Louis, Mo.

MRS. S. W. BARBER

Treasurer— John Mason Knox, Esq. Asst. Treasurers — Miss Margaretta W. Holden, Miss Elizabeth B. Stone

Auditor— John M. Nixon, Esq.

General Corresponding Secretary — MissS. D. Doremus
Corresponding Secretary for China — Mrs. S. T. Dauchy
Corresponding Secretary for Japan — Mrs. Calvin Patterson
Secretary for Specific Objects — Mrs. Henry Johnson
Recording Secretary — Miss Helen Louise Kingsbury
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VOL. XXXVIII. SEPTEMBER, 1907.

NO. 9.

WOMAN’S UNION MISSIONARY SOCIETY Of
AMERICA FOR HEATHEN LANDS.

This Society was organized in i860,
and is the pioneer of Woman’s Foreign
Missionary Societies in America.

It is undenominational, and so it pre-
sents a united Christian front to the
heathen world.

It is carried on entirely by women, with
unsalaried officers.

Its aim is the salvation and elevation
of heathen women.

“ Win for Christ,” its motto.

DR. W. S AMENT said at the Cente-
nary Conference that “ the women
of China found that they were lagging in the
race of life, and in Peking and the north they
were organizing themselves into women’s
clubs and were discussing questions of high
import. They were giving indications that
they were not lacking in the qualities of
force and power which were possessed by
the women of the West, but had no interest
in things Christian. These women of high
official rank could not be approached by
direct methods, but missionaries should then
try to meet them by indirect methods. The
system of extension lectures had been a
success, but as these women had no leaders
among them they needed the assistance of
their Western sisters.”

STATISTICS presented at the Confer-
ence showed that whereas in 1877
twenty-seven societies were at work in China,
the number is now eighty-two. Foreign
Missionaries have increased from 473 to
3833. In 1877 the communicants were
1 3,03 5 : in 1900, 37,287 ; while the baptized
Christians are now 178,251.”

MEDICAL work was heartily indorsed.

“ This Conference recognizes Medical
Missions as an integral part of the missionary

work of the Christian Church. The primary
aim of the]work of medical missionaries is to
make known God’s saving grace to man, and
they must necessarily have more influence
on patients than any one else can have ;
therefore we recommend that all evangelistic
work and agents be under their direction,
and they be impressed with the importance
of personally superintending this work and
taking active part in it.”

THE “ dense ignorance of India ” is the
subject of Rev. B. T. Bradley’s plea
for a Christian college. “ In British India
only, is a total population of nearly two hun-
dred and thirty-two million people, of whom
218,416,826 are totally illiterate. The edu-
cational problem of the womanhood of India
confronts us by facts even more startling.
There are in British India fourteen million
girls of school-going age, and out of this
immense number only 405,000 are under any
instruction. Only one girl out of every
thirty-four receiving even a primary educa-
tion ! And the rest? — growing up to moth-
erhood without even a word of learning or
sympathy for anything of the kind.”

FOR “eighteen years Mr. Ishii has con-
ducted a Home for Orphan and Desti-
tute Children at Okayama, Japan, on
account of the famine in the northern part
of the country. Mr. Ishii received destitute
children sent to the Orphanage, and in less
than two months 825 children were added.
Non-Christian Japanese peasants passing by
the children’s cottages throw over the fence
one yen or even five yen bills, calling out to
the house-mothers, ‘ Here’s a trifle to help
you in your good work.’ People crowd the
largest theatres in various cities, when the
Okayama Orphanage Band displays its cine-
matograph views of life at the Home which
cares for 1200 children.”

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NURSES AND ASSISTANTS, MARGARET WILLIAMSON HOSPITAL

IN EASTERN LANDS

CHINA— SHANGHAI.

CHINESE MEDICAL MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION

By Dr. A. Isabel Hamilton.

THE Chinese Medical Missionary Asso-
ciation held its triennial session in
Shanghai, immediately preceding
the Centenary Conference. This is the only
national body in the Empire devoted to the
pursuit of science. Though a report of
technical proceedings would not be of gen-
eral interest, much transpired that would be
welcome to those who furnish the sinews of
war for missions in China. This association
differs from American medical bodies, in
being composed wholly of Christians who
are making the art of healing subservient to
the extension of Christ’s kingdom. Services
were opened and closed with prayer.

The recent association may be regarded as
a bridge between past and future medical
practice in China. Hitherto foreign medi-
cal practice, even of the most ordinary qual-
ity, has been so far superior to Chinese
methods, that the aim seemed to be to treat

as many patients as possible, leaving the
physician little time for study or scien-
tific research. Now that China is awake
and many Chinese physicians are being edu-
cated abroad, more than mediocre work on
the part of missionaries is necessary, in order
to maintain for them the respect of the
educated classes of Chinese. This is a fact
which Mission Boards must ever keep in view.

With all the disadvantages of over-work,
of expending time in acquiring a new lan-
guage, of scanty equipment, and of being
at a distance from the centres of medical pro-
gression and from one another, it is remark-
able that the missionary body of China is keep-
ing such good pace with the rest of the world.

Causes of interference with scientific pro-
gress were dealt with. Though often hin-
dered by the lack of suitable buildings, and
the proper outfit, the principal cause was the
undermanning of Hospitals. Where only
two doctors must do all the work of a Hospi-
tal, they are necessarily overworked. More-
over, they were compelled to do their work
superficially, and could not attend to labora-
tory examinations. If there were a number
of physicians there would be an opportunity
to specialize, and each would become an ex-

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pert in a particular branch. Not only have
physicians too much professional work to do,
but the whole business management falls
on their shoulders. No American Hospital
would expect its chief physician to act as
business manager, and yet this is what is
expected in China. The Chinese Medical
Missionary Association and its journal,
form a medium of communication among
the medical fraternity of China, but the
doctors are too busy to report interesting
cases or make out statistics. Hence each
doctor has acquired a fund of information
which is useless to other members of the
profession. Travelling in most parts is yet
so slow, that few doctors can get time to at-
tend, especially when the journey to and fro
requires several months.

Some remedies for this condition were
pointed out. One was union of effort among
members of different missions. There could
be no reasonable ground for maintaining
three Hospitals, under three missions, in one
city, each with one doctor in attendance. A
union Hospital would permit one man to de-
vote himself to surgery, one to medicine, and
one to microscopical and chemical work.
Another remedy is to train Chinese assist-
ants to do as much work as possible. This
plan works well, especially in men’s Hospi-
tals, but to a lesser extent in women’s, where
marriage may deprive the Hospital of a valu-
able assistant. There is also some danger in
trusting too much to those who have not
had the advantages of a thorough medical
training. A third remedy lies in the hands
of Missionary Boards. It is the duty of
missionary societies to supply a sufficient
medical staff for each Hospital. This does
not seem such a difficult matter now, when
statisticsshow that the medical work of China
is approaching the position of self-support.

The Association dwelt much on the evan-
gelistic aspect of medical work. “ Does medi-
cal work pay as an evangelistic agency?"
is often asked. The Association answered
this very emphatically in the affirmative.
In the Dispensaries, while the patients were
waiting, the Gospel was preached daily.
Patients treated in the Hospital Wards were
visited by the evangelists, and frequently, in
consequence, became Christians. The mis-
sion of healing had disarmed prejudices
against the Gospel. Several cases were
cited where the seed was sown by the phy-
sician without any apparent result, but after

the lapse of years the patient was found to
be a Christian, dating his conversion from
the time of his contact with the foreign
doctor. It is often medical work that makes
possible the Church audience for the minis-
ter. It was strongly dwelt upon that the
physician must be an evangelist, and too
much work was detrimental to his spiritual
usefulness. In order for the physician to do
evangelistic work, a good knowledge of the
language is necessary. In the suggestions
made to the Conference it was recommended
that doctors spend two years on the language
before entering on professional duties.

A deep interest was also shown in the
moral welfare of the Chinese Empire. A
resolution was passed endorsing the action
of the Emperor in his dealing with the opium
traffic, copies of which were to be sent to the
Imperial and Provincial governments and to
the local press. A prominent Chinese offi-
cial had previously informed one of the mem-
bers, that a resolution coming from such a
body would be gratifying and would strength-
en the hands of the Chinese Government.
It is stated that the reason of the ten years’
limit was because immediate prohibition had
no hope of meeting with the co-operation of
the British Government. It is sad to think
that a so-called Christian nation, after reaping
the profits of a traffic which is degrading
to another nation, should still wish the time
extended.

The alcohol question was also discussed.
Fears were expressed that alcohol would take
the place of opium. As China has no temper-
ance literature, a committee of three was ap-
pointed for its preparation, also for anti-opium
and anti-foot-binding literature, if necessary.

A committee was appointed to prepare a
treatise on the preservation of the health
of the Missionaries in China, that Mission
Boards may give it to their new Missionaries.

The Association has for some time been en-
gaged in the translation and publication of
medical works in the Chinese language.

There were seventy-five members present
from China, Japan, and Corea, nearly one-
third being women. A lady member after-
wards remarked, that there was a time when
the brethren in the profession looked down
upon women, but Dr. Elizabeth Reifsnyder,
by an operation which was taken note of by
the leading gynaecologists of the world, had
done more for medical women in China than
any one else.

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JAPAN— YOKOHAMA.

A WIDE FIELD.

By Miss S. A. Pratt.

TH E Yokohama Prison and Reformatory
for Women is about an hour’s walk
from our Schools at 212 Bluff
Mr. Aiima, the Governor of the Prison, is
a very devoted Christian. For some years
a Sunday-school, conducted by our Bible-
women, has been held in his house, and dur-
ing the summer months, when they are at
work in the country, Mr. Arima’s sons carry
on the work Every Christmas an elaborate
Sunday-school entertainment is held, and at
this time a great crowd, including all the
prison officials, their wives and children,
gather in Mr. Arima’s home.

One of our Bible women has recently
started a woman’s meeting, held on Sunday
evenings, which is well attended. Having
received permission to visit the women in
the prison, they avail themselves of this privi-
lege two or three times every week. Two
elderly Bible-women do the work among
the women, while a younger Bible-woman
talks to the girls in the Reformatory Schools
Four prisoners by turn are permitted to stand
in a small shed and listen to the story of J esus.

The Governor told me he had seen a
change for the better since the Bible-women
had been working in the Prison, as the pris-
oners were easier to manage. One young
woman has become a Christian, and after she
left the Prison began to attend church and
has been preparing for baptism. An old
woman has become so changed that her sen-
tence of nine years has been commuted to
five. The younger Bible-women talk to
eighteen girls at a time, some of whom have
been sentenced for arson and thieving.

We were conducted through the heavy
iron gates, across the large courtyard to the
office where, until the Governor appeared,
we were entertained by the interpreter, who
showed us the rules of the Prison. The
Governor personally showed us all over the
Women's Prison, and as he opened the great
gate to their quarters, we saw a woman tak-
ing her daily exercise in the courtyard with
a basket of finely woven straw over her head
to conceal her features. Other women, who
had received their sentence, dressed in the
dull brick-red garments, were working in the
garden.

The cells where the prisoners who had

not yet received sentence were confined,
were light, airy, and very comfortable, each
being provided with a water tap, a small
desk, books, besides bedding. In one cell
I saw some flowers in a bottle.

The regular prisoners were confined in an
old-style Japanese prison. Eight or ten
women are put into a large, square
room with polished floor, and as the
sides are made of great wooden posts there
is good ventilation. In cold weather sliding
paper doors are used as a protection. The
women seemed to thrive living in this way,
and are rarely if ever, sick.

We were then conducted to the work-
rooms, where we saw rows of women sitting
on the floor, making quilts or dresses,
while some were at the looms weaving.
The Governor told me that school is held
every day for two hours, and that some of
these women had learned to read and write
since they entered. He pointed out an old
woman who had learned enough to write a
letter.

Some of the women wore good-conduct
badges, a strip of white cloth sewn on the
sleeve. In the Reformatory we saw about
forty girls sewing and knitting, and a few were
doing the work in the kitchen.

Every day for a number of hours, school is
held, and the rooms were furnished with com-
fortable desks, black-boards, and an organ.

As a rule, the women who leave the Prison
are changed for the better, as Christian influ-
ence is making itself felt slowly but surely.
The Prison chaplain is a Buddhist, but one
of the keepers told me the prisoners said they
never remembered what he had said. Mr.
Arima is trying to raise enough money to build
ahomefordischarged prisoners. Hehastaken
into his own home as maids, two girls who
seemed thoroughly repentant, and is doing
all in his power to help them.

Two of the Bible-women are at present
working in the large railroad station in Tokyo.
During the Exposition many young girls
leave home for Tokyo, not knowing where
to lodge. The Bible-women meet them and
take them to a Christian house, and many
girls have been rescued in this way.

These same Bible-women distribute tracts
among the many who are waiting for trains
and also talk to any who will listen. Much
seed is sown in this way. I would ask all the
friends to pray much for the work of the
Bible-women.

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HOME NOTES.

FRESH RESPONSIBILITIES

NO epitome of Christian giving could
surpass St. Paul’s masterly disquisi-
tion to the Corinthian church (2
Cor. viiiand ix chapters). Well would it be if
the church of to-day would memorize it, and
so put its counsels in practice that “ the for-
wardness of mind” would “abound unto the
riches of liberality.”

But Mark Guy Pearse proclaims a great
truth in the words: “There is an awful law
that runs through all things, which finds its
crudest force in money. The more a man
has, the less he thinks he has.” It also re-
mains true that, whereas many are born gen-
erous, and giving is their highest privilege,
benevolence can be acquired, and does trans-
form and inspire the children of God.

These thoughts come to us in the face of
fresh responsibilities we are assuming in
sending a party of missionaries to India, when
we shall need the help of many of the Lord’s
stewards.

Miss Edith H. May, with restored health,
is returning to her mission work to which
she formerly consecrated her highest powers.
This time she goes to our new station Fateh-
pur, to assist in the “ Rescue work ” which
she inaugurated while in Allahabad. Her
devotion to this form of service began in this
country, and her gifts rendered her pecul-
iarly fitted to carry it to success. Beyond
the salaries of our mission staff, no appropri-
ation was possible from our treasury already
taxed to its utmost, and the work in this
new station has been inaugurated and will
be carried on by faith. Miss May takes with
her as assistant Miss Margaret Jones, who has
been engaged in a similar mission in Boston.
We bespeak for them the sympathy of all
whose hearts were won by Miss May while she
represented us in this country.

A peculiar interest centres about Miss
Adeline W. Owen of Morristown, N. J., who
goes out for the first time to India. Her
grandmother, Mrs. Graves of Brooklyn, was
one of the Charter Members of our Union
Society, and at her death left us our first
legacy. Miss Owen’s mother and aunt hav-
ing been constant and generous donors to our
work, interest in our missions comes to her
almost as an inheritance. More than this,

she brings to us a thorough equipment as a
trained nurse, which has come to be recog-
nized as an imperative adjunct to our medi-
cal work. We look forward not only to her
personal service, but to her training native
girls in the best methods of ministering to
the sick, and are sure that richest benedic-
tions will surround her.

Miss Lillian Norton has been appointed
as teacher to our Mary A. Merriman Orphan-
age in Cawnpore, and her experience in
music as well as in other lines of work fits
her admirably to train the promising girls
who are to recruit our stations in India as
Bible-women, native teachers, or nurses.

So many of our constituency are personally
interested in these orphans, we are sure that
Miss Norton will occupy a place in their
prayers. It is in our power to uphold her
with our keenest sympathy, especially in the
trying time of adjustment to a new life, and
in struggles with the foreign languages so
imperative to her success as a missionary.
[The party sails October 12th and we trust
many of our friends will give them a parting
blessing at the “Farewell Meeting” to be
held October nth at the Bible House.

NON-MISSIONARY GIRLS’ SCHOOLS

A HOPEFUL sign for the women of
China is found in the establishment of
girls’ schools. We commend for pe-
rusal a condensed article in Woman's Work in
the FarEast by Miss Paddock, Sec. Y.W.C.A.,
which gives most valuable information.

“ Before the year 1901 the only girls’
schools in Shanghai, and in fact in any part
of China, were opened and supported by
foreign missions and conducted by mission-
aries, and these institutions were rarely pat-
ronized by the wealthy classes of Chinese.
The year 1901 marks the beginning of a new
order of things, and attention has been turned
to the higher education of China’s daughters
as well as of her sons. Shanghai alone can
boast of twelve schools, up-to-date and in fine
working order.

“ The oldest of these is Wupen (literal
meaning — strive for duty), not far from
Bridgman Home, and since its opening in the
spring of 1901 it has had a distinguished
success. Mr. Wu, the director, is a returned
student from Japan, is progressive and well
equipped for the position. There are on the

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staff of teachers eighteen men and six women,
two of the latter being Christians. The
institution has had twelve graduates, some of
whom are acting as teachers in their native
towns and a few are pursuing their studies in
Japan. The school is self-supporting. I-kvvo
(Patriotic School), as its name signifies, aims
to cultivate patriotism and to advance woman
physically, morally, mentally. The principal is
Mrs. Wu, whose husband acts as head master.

“ Chung Mang (Worship the Noble) is near
the South Gate and is supported by Mrs.
Chen, a wealthy widow.

“Mr. and Mrs. Yang have made a fine suc-
cess of Ch’eng Tung (East of the City).
Mr. Yang received his training in Japan and
is the head master, assisted by three of his
friends, who devote their time gratuitously.
The girls are members of two separate
societies — the Debating Society and the
Elocution Society and hold joint debates at
certain intervals. Their discussions are based
on current events. The natural foot rule is
also enforced here.

“ The Anglo-Chinese Girls’ School is on
Park Road, with Mr. Li as patron and super-
intendent. Here also the girls are requested
to unbind their feet within the first term.
There is in existence one society known as the
Society for the Encouragement of Education.

“ Tien Tsu Huei Girls’ School is under the
Managing Committee of the Anti-foot-bind-
ing Society, and the funds are subscribed
by members of the same. It is the aim of
the school to impart useful knowledge, pro-
tect women’s rights, cultivate self-reliance,
develop their physical, mental, and moral
capacity. The girls are to unbind their feet
on admittance. There are ten women teach-
ers, three of whom are Christians.

Chi Sin is generously supported by Miss
Chu, the daughter of a wealthy Cantonese
merchant. Her object is to give the pupils
a practical education on modern lines and to
prepare them for schools in the Cantonese
community in Shanghai. With the excep-
tion of the instructor in Chinese, there are
six women who give the necessary knowledge
to eighty-five girls; twenty-five of the latter
board in the school. The girls are all under
twenty years of age and are mostly from
refined Cantonese homes. The two courses
are known as the preparatory and industrial,
covering one and a half years, and the higher
or academic which takes five years.

Pei Hao is a day-school inside the East
Gate and is kept by Mr. Sung in his own
home. His idea is the diffusion of higher
education to equip the girls to be better help-
meets and wiser mothers. The age limit is
fifteen. Besides Mr. Sung another gentleman,
and a lady who teaches needlework, assist.
There are ten young girls from the neighbor-
hood ; the tuition is $7.00 for five months.

“Fu Chiang (Help to Attain Strength).
Ching Wha (Struggle for Reform). Tsai Nyi
(Silk-worm Industry). ‘Anglo-Chinese High
Class Ladies’ School.’

“The Fu Chiang is supported by Messrs.
Ling and Ting, both well-to-do gentlemen,
and the school occupies a part of Mr. Ling’s
residence inside the South Gate. It is the
hope of the promoters to give the girls such
education ‘as shall enable them to be up-
right, independent women.’ Girls under six-
teen and with unbound feet are admitted.

“ Ching Wha is a teachers’ training school
for girls from twenty to thirty-five years of
age. Mr. Yin is the principal, and is
materially assisted by a Board of Directors.
It is the aim of the organizers to give the
students a training course before they launch
out as teachers and principals, thereby rais-
ing their standard and increasing their influ-
ence in primary schools. The course takes
three terms, and special attention is directed
to the elementary sciences, calisthenics, prin-
ciples of house-keeping, psychology of young
minds, and the system of directing a school.

“ The ‘ Anglo-Chinese High Class Ladies’
School’ was opened in the fall with Mr. and
Mrs. Kai and another assistant teacher. It
is not yet in working order, and only a few
girls have begun their studies, although over
twenty have enrolled, and Mrs. Kai seems
quite confident of success and self-support.

SELF-CENTRED.

OUR lives are still in some measure self-
centred. Self-energy or self-compla-
cency in service ; self-pity when we are
suffering ; self-seeking in desiring the praise
of men ; self-introspection and self-judgment
in hours of trial ; self-sensitiveness in contact
with others , self-defence when we are injured;
and sometimes above all, a self-consciousness
that makes life almost a burden, are some of
the indications of the self-centre within.

Mrs. Penn-Lewis.

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IN A ZENANA

FOR MISSION BANDS.

THE LITTLE WIFE.

By Ellen H. Todd.

ONLY the outlines of a picture can be
given, but it portrays many a little
girl’s life in India.

A child lying on the ground near the gate
of our small Compound was clutching a piece
of bread in her hand but seemed too exhaus-
ted to eat it. On inquiry I learned that she
was first found by the well in a Mission Com-
pound, having wandered in from the road.
When asked from whence she came, and
about her parents, the only information
gained was that the child had walked a long
distance, did not know the name of her vil-
lage, that her parents were dead, and she was
tired and hungry.

She replied to the question “ Will you stay
here with us?” — “Yes, if you will give me
something to eat.” She was so little as we
lifted her up, it seemed as if she were about
seven years of age. A dirty cloth was wound
about her waist and head, and heavy anklets
and one very cheap bracelet on each wrist
completed her costume. The child’s head
was shaved in quick time, then followed a suc-

cession of baths, and little Lachinmi stood
the ordeal wonderfully well, though she
shivered and shook even though the water
and air were both warm. When a new dress
was slipped over her head, and she stood be-
fore us changed outwardly, one would hardly
have recognized her. How we thanked our
Heavenly Father for guiding this little one
to our very gates !

Lachinmi seemed very content until sud-
denly the next day she rushed to our Matron
and said, with her face and tone full of fear
and dread, “ I have seen my mother-in-law at
the gate.” For a day or two she would not
leave the back of the house even when others
said they would care for her. She cried
much, and we could only glean from her few
words that her mother-in-law beat her, and
was very cruel to her. We saw on the
child’s side marks of where she had been
burned sometime ago. Was it possible that
she was living with her mother-in-law when
she was so young? Alas, the only reply was
“ Yes.” That night a man came to claim the
child as his wife. He was a tall, strong man,
with a heavy face, and utterly ignorant, and
the pathetic little figure of Lachinmi was a

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great contrast. The man admitted that his
mother ill-treated the child, but he had paid
twenty rupees for her and he must have her.
It was a case we could refer to the Collector.
As there had been a marriage after the pay-
ment of the money the Collector could not
free the little girl, but he told the man that
she must be left with us for a few days for
she seemed really ill. VVe have prayed and
we are praying that little Lachinmi may be
saved for Jesus Christ.

Now two months have passed and no
one has come for the child, and we are
hoping that she will never again be claimed
by any heathen people. Do you not
hope so too? It is pathetic to see her
in her favorite position on the ground, bent
over like an old woman. We go for a
walk, and soon we miss Lachinmi and looking
back there she is under a tree sitting, really
having no strength to walk, and rarely do we
see her running and playing like other chil-
dren. Seldom do we see her even smile.

It was interesting to watch her face when
she first saw a doll — she made a salaam to it
as if it were alive. Her work before coming
to us had been cutting grass all day long,
and she was made to do this work with one
meal a day. She is now in such a condition
that the doctor says she must have as much
nourishing food as we can give her, with a
tonic for toning her up also. This is a pic-
ture with a continued story attached to it,
and we will have more to tell you. There is
much to read between the lines of what has
already been told you of fettered childhood
in India.

AT A STATION IN INDIA.

By Ellen H. Todd.

AS you look upon the groups sitting on
the platform of our Fatehpur R. R.
station it is an Oriental picture. On
the side of the track for the up-country trains
there is a beautiful background of trees with
the western golden sky beyond. The
costumes remind one of a bed of portulaca
flowers. There are women crouched near
the fence, trying to make themselves as small
as possible so that no one will see them, and
now and then an inquisitive woman glances
furtively here and there from under her
covering.

Bright pink, yellow, and green 'papers

may be seen in the hands of the majority of
the people, for it has been a good opportu-
nity for missionaries to distribute tracts. It
is intensely interesting to watch the effect of
the reading upon different people, for as a
rule they begin at once to find out what is
printed on the bright-colored paper. Look
at the old man with the spotless white Indian
costume and the beautiful blue shawl thrown
carelessly about him, and see how eagerly he
listens as a man reads aloud to him, and then
watch how the group increases until the
men are leaning over the shoulders of one an-
other, and this interest lasts, until there is the
sound of the in-coming trains. We have not
had time to watch the Mohammedans as they
too have been reading their Urdu tracts, nor
the younger men who have been so keen to
receive a paper in English, and are proudly
walking up and down intent on finding out
the meaning of that language not altogether
familiar to them. Now the train has arrived,
and many hands are outstretched at the last
moment for a printed message, as the train
moves away. Whether they receive or reject
this message depends much upon your pray-
ers and mine.

While I am writing, I am told that boys
have come for papers, and find seven
bright young men. One steps forward
and says in English : “ Please, Madam, you
gave a little book to a boy at the Station
and we wish one like it.” They had walked
two miles to receive a one-cent pamphlet
about David the giant-killer. It was a great
pleasure, through kindness of friends in
America, to give the boys what they' desired.
I asked them if they would read an English
marked Testament, and as they seemed ready
to accept them we had a little talk together.

A few days later, the same boys, with
several new lads who wanted books, brought
their New Testaments for me to write their
names in. I loaned them two-cent pamph-
lets of Life of Stanley, of Livingstone, and
others, and several have already returned
them. One earnest-faced boy came for a
New Testament, and I wish you could have
seen his expression as he read Wherewithal
shall a young man cleanse his way ? By tak-
ing heed thereto according to Thy Word.”

One of the lads sends word to me that his
mother would like to have the Miss Sahiba
visit her. These women and girls are
touched by any ministry which we render
to their fathers, husbands, and brothers.

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Receipts of the Womans Union Missionary Society of America for Heathen
Lands from July i to July ji , 7907.

ALLAHABAD, INDIA.

Pa.— Johnstown, Dr. B. T. Caldwell, for Chameli,
Mich. — Detroit, Miss M. Gutekunst, 20.00; Miss F.
Bristol, 20.00 ; St. Paul’s Miss. Coin., per Miss
H. Wunderlich, 12.50 — all toward salary Miss
Bertsch,

Total,

CALCUTTA.

R.

Total,

FATEH PUR.

$5 00

52 5o

$57 50

Mass. — Northampton, Mrs. L. C. Seelye, for or-
phanage,

1 — Providence Aux., Mrs. J. C. Stockbridge,
Pres., Mrs. A. T. Pierce, 1.00; Mrs. W. T.
Barton ,1.00; Mrs. Lucius Lyon, 10.00; Mrs.
S. Smith, 1.00; Miss Durfee, 2.00; Grace Ch.
S. S., 10.00; Mrs. J. L. Lincoln, 200; Miss
Farmer, 1.00 ; Miss Peckham, 1.00 ; Mrs. H. G.
Russell, 10.00; Mrs. F. S. Richmond, 5.00;
Mrs. J. C. Stockbridge, 1.00. Total,

N. Y. — Hastings, Orphan Asylum, Mr. R. R.
Reeder, Supt., for orphan, 25.00. N. Y. City,
Y. W. C. League, Mrs. C. de P. Field, salary
of Miss Mudge, 150.00. Total,

N. J.— Hamburg, First Pres. S. S., per Miss J. V.

Linn, for orphan, 25.00. Montclair, Mrs. Wm.
Vernon, for Suaha Biswas, 10.00. Total,

Pa.— Phila., Mrs. Marston, for Elizabeth Marston,
orphan,

O. — Cincinnati Br., Mrs. M. M. White, Treas.,

Miss Phebe Baker, for orphan,

111. — Chicago Br., Mrs. J. R. Leonard, orphan,

Total,

CAWNPORE.

Mary Avery Merriman School.

N. H.— Concord, Mrs. H. K. Morrison, for sup-
port of child.

Mass.— Lowell, Y. W. C. Ass’n, Miss M. N. Wig-
gin, Treas., for Kaku,

Pa. — West Chester, birthday offering for Delari,

$25 00

175 00

35 00

12 00

30 00
20 00

$342 00

10 00
5 00

$35 00

Me. — Bar Harbor, Miss C. French, per Miss May,
100.00. Calais, C. E. Soc., First Cong. Ch.,
Mr. C. G. McCull^, Treas., 20.10. Total,

Mass. — Boston Br., Miss C. Tuxbury, Treas., Mr.
C. Le Boutellier,

Conn. — Stratford, Bethany Mission per Mrs. H. T.
Todd,

Total,

JHANSI.*-

Mary S. Ackerman Hoyt Hospital.

Md. — Baltimore Br., Mrs. A. N. Bastable, Sec’y,
Nurses’ Circle, per Miss Cook, for support of
nurse,

SHANGHAI, CHINA.

Pa.— Robesonia, C. E. Society, per Mrs. S. E.

Keiser, for pupil in Bridgman Home,

O.— Cincinnati Br., for support of Pharmacist in
M. W. Hospital,

$120 10
100 00

$232 10

$50 00

5 co
35 00

Total,

YOKOHAMA, JAPAN.

N.

Conn. — Guilford, Lily Miss. Band, Mrs. H. D.
Cone, for Ester Hayashi,

Y. — Brooklyn, Mrs. Peter McCartee, for Miss
lnoye, 15.00. Corona, Leverich Mem’l Band,
Mrs. M. Le Fort, Treas., for B. R., 15.00,
N. Y. City, Miss S. B. Hills, “ In Memoriam ”
of Mrs. Sarah W. Hills, for B. Reader, 60.00.
Ossining, Crotonville S. S., per Miss Van Win-
kle, for S. S., 5.00. Total,

Pa. — Pittsburg, Miss M. S. Smith, for Miss Strain’s

work, $10 00

Mo. — St. Louis, Mr. C. W. Nau, for B. Reader, 60 00

Total,

$175 00

GENERAL FUND.

N. H. — Concord, Mrs. H. K. Morrison,

Mass. — Boston Br., Miss H. Dudley,

Conn. — Southport, a friend,

N. J. —Morristown, U. S. Co., refunded,

Pa. — Johnstown, Dr. B. T. Caldwell, freight,

Total,

500 00
75
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SUBSCRIPTIONS TO MISSIONARY LINK.

Miss L. Jones, .50 ; Miss Hope Jack, .50 ; Miss
Cooper, .50 ; Mrs. Thos. Morrison, .50 ; Provi-
dence Aux., 1.50. Total,

WILLING AND OBEDIENT BAND.

(Rev. D. M. Stearns, Germantown, Phila., Pa.)
For Allahabad :

Washington, D. C., — Prayer Circle, for Daisy, $15 00
For Cawnpore :

Miss A. H. Vreeland, for girl, 50 00

For Jhansi :

Mrs. G. A. Brewster, two B. Women, 10 00 ;

Miss L. E. Allen, for B. Women, 10.00. Total, 20 00

Total,

For China :

Mr. M. D. Lathrope, for Mrs. Tsaung,

For Japan :

Mr. F. E. Nettleton, for Iijima Sueno,

Unto Him, for Harada Shobi,

Frank Nichter, for Ito Kotogi,

Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Frederick, for B. Woman,
Mr. and Mrs. Benj. Daniels, for Yae Hirota,
Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Weigle, for Rai Sugai,
Chas. L. Hutching, for Yoshida Kono,

Miss A. R. Harper, for Iguchi Tadayo,

Mrs. G. A. Brewster, for Saki Suzuki,
McMurray & Bisel, tor Yachiyo Maru,

Mrs. S. Dickson, for Inone Makiyo,

Miss B. F. Clark, for Yamamoto Some,

Jt»oo 00
10 00
5 00
5 oj
30 00
30 00
5 co
10 00
5 00
5 00
30 00

30 00 225 00

Total,

$320 00

SUMMARY.

Allahabad,

Calcutta,

Cawnpore,

Fatehpur,

Jhansi,

China,

Japan,

General Fund,

Link Subscriptions,

Second payment of legacy from Edwin Stone,
Total,

$72 50

342 OO
85 OO
232 IO
70 OO

50 OO
400 OO
512 44
3 50

1,000 OO

$2,767 54

Margaretta Webb Holden, Asst. Treas.

PHILADELPHIA BRANCH RECEIPTS.

(Mrs. Wm. Waterall, Treas.)

Quarterly interest on Miss Elizabeth Schaffer

Fund, $54 00

Interest on deposits : 13 72

Semi-an. int. on Miss Rachel Wetherill Fund, 25 00

“ “ “ “ Mary A. Boardman Fund, 25 00

44 “ 44 1,4 Mrs. Agnes W. Leavitt

Fund, 15 00

Total, $132 72

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MISSIONS OF WOMAN’S UNION
MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

India: Calcutta: Gardner Memorial

Orphanage, Zenana Work, Day Schools5
Village Schools.

Address: Doremus House, 140 Dhar-

amtala Street, and Orphanage, 54 Elliott
Road.

Allahabad: Converts’ Home, Zenana Work,
Day Schools.

Address: Allahabad: Woman’s Union

Mission, 6 South Road.

CaWNPORE : Mary A. Merriman School^

Zenana Work, Day Schools, Evangelistic
Work.

ENDOWED BEDS IN MARY S. ACKER-
MAN-HOYT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL,
JHANSI, INDIA.
ENDOWMENT, $600.

Mary S. Ackerman Hoyt — Her sister, Mrs. Maria A.
Hoyt.

Mary S. Ackerman Hoyt — Her sister, Mrs. Jennie C. A.
Bucknell.

Mary S. Ackerman Hoyt — Her niece, Miss Emilie S.
Coles.

Maiia Ackerman Hoyt — Her niece, Miss Emilie S. Coles.
Mrs. Lavinia Agnes Dey, ) . ., ^

Mrs. Mar)’ B. Humphreys Dey, \ n on^ e^‘

“ In Memoriam ” — A Sister.

Eleanor S. Howard-Smith Memorial — Friends.

Charles M. Taintor Memorial — A Friend.

Mrs. R. R. Graves — Her daughter, Mrs. F. W. Owen.
Associate Congregational Church, Baltimore.

Mrs. A. L. Lowery.

Peace — Mr. S. T. Dauchy.

Annette R. Lapsley Memorial — Miss A. S. Lapsley.

Address: Woman’s Union Mission.

JHANSI: Mary S. Ackerman-Hoyt Hospi-
tal and Dispensary, Nurses’ Class, Zen-
ana Work, Day and Sabbath Schools.

Address: Mary S. Ackerman-Hoyt Hospital.

Fatehpur : Address: Miss E. H. Todd.

China: Shanghai: Margaret Williamson
Hospital and Dispensary, Bridgman Me-
morial Boarding School, Day Schools,
Evangelistic Work ;

Address: Medical Missionaries, Margaret
Williamson Hospital, West Gate ; Other
missionaries, Bridgman Memorial School,
West Gate.

Japan: Yokohama: Boarding School, Bible
School, Evangelistic Work, Day and
Sabbath Schools.

Address: Woman’s Union Mission, 212

Bluff, Yokohama, Japan.

Missionaries in India:

Calcutta: Doremus Zenana Home, 144
Dharamtala Street, and Orphanage, 54
Elliott Road.

Allahabad : 6 South Road.

CaWNPORE: Woman’s Union Mission.

JHANSI: Mary S. Ackerman-Hoyt Hos-
pital.

SHANGHAI, CHINA.
ENDOWED BEDS IN
MARGARET WILLIAMSON HOSPITAL.

lEMfir I e- j— •

Robert and William Van Arsdale — Memorial by their
sister, Julia C. Van Arsdale Jones.

New Jersey — Miss Stevens.

Henry Ward Beecher — ) '
Ruthy B. Hutchinson — [

Plymouth Foreign Missionary
Society.

Mary Pruyn Memorial — Ladies in Albany.

Samuel Oakley Vander Poel — Mrs. S. Oakley VanderPoel.
Charlotte Otis Le Roy — Friends.

Emma W. Appleton — Mrs. William Appleton.

Mrs. Bela Mitchell — Mrs. Bela Mitchell.

The American — A Friend.

The White Memorial — Medical Mission Band, Baltimore.
E. Cornelia Shaw Memorial — Mrs. Elbridge Torrey.
Drusilla Dorcas Memorial — A Friend in Boston.

Mrs. John D. Richardson Memorial — Legacy.

S. E. and H. P. Warner Memorial.

Frances C. I. Greenough — Mrs. Abel Stevens.

Emeline C. Buck — Mrs. Buck.

Elizabeth W. Wyckoff — | M p., ,

Elizabeth W. Clark— | Mr‘ Rlchard L- Wyckoff.
Jane Alexander Milligan — Mrs. John Story Gulick.

‘ Martha Memorial ” — A Friend.

Mills Seminary — “Tolman Band,” California.

Maria N. Johnson — A Friend.

In Memoriam” — A Sister.

Miss Norris.

Mr. Wm. M. Norris.

Spotswood Memorial — By her

Maria S. Norris-

H

Mrs. Sarah Willing
Daughter.

John B. Spotswood — Miss Anne R. Spotswood.

A. B.C. Beds — By Friends.

Sarah A. Wakeman Memorial — A Friend.

In Memoriam — A Friend.

Ellen Logan Smith — By her Mother.

Helen E. Brown — Shut-in Society.

Mr. George G. Yeomans.

Anna Corilla Yeomans

-I

Mrs. Anna Yeomans Harris.
Miss Elizabeth L. Yeomans.

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J3

j Mrs- Mary B- Humphreys Dey— ) Anthonv Dev.

( Mrs. Sarah Scott Humphreys — ) Y Y

Olive L. Standish — Mrs. Olive L. Standish.

Eliza C. Temple — Mrs. Eliza C. Temple.

Mrs. Rebecca T. Shaw Memorial — Mrs. Elbridge
Torrey.

Perlie Raymond — Mrs. Mary E. Raymond.

Mrs. Mary Elliot Young — Poughkeepsie Branch.
Camilla Clarke — Mrs. Byron W. Clarke.

Sarah White Memorial — Miss Mary F. Wakeman.

\ ”an,nah Edwards Forbes- ) Miss H E Forbes.

( Adeline Louisa horbes — )

Agnes Givan Crosby Allen — A Friend.

Sarah Ann Brown — / T .

i . 'em u r Ellen L. A. Brown.

Caroline Elmer Brown — )

Maria Robert — Miss L. P. Halsted.

Zalmon B. Wakeman Memorial — Mary F. Wakeman.
Bethune-McCartee Memorial — Mrs. Peter McCartee.
Mary Finney — Mrs. J. M. T. Finney.

Concord (N. H.) Branch.

IMPORTANT.

We would ask our friends to send checks
payable to the “ Woman’s Union Missionary
Society,” as so many mistakes are made in
transcribing the names of our treasurers. If
possible, kindly avoid sending post-office
orders, which are difficult to collect.

CONCERNING MISSION BOXES.

FRIENDS who intend sending Christmas
Boxes to our stations will kindly bear
in mind that it facilitates our work at
the Mission Room, 67 Bible House, if such
boxes can be delivered early ; if possible,
during June and July.

We give a list of suitable articles for the
boxes prepared through directions of our
Missionaries :

For India — General Direction.

Dolls — black-haired, with china heads, hands, and feet,
sizes varying from 6 to 12 and 14 inches long. Wax,
composition, jointed, or kid-covered dolls are not desired.

Cawnpore. — Few dolls are used. Two or three large ones
with hair desired, for prizes.

For prizes — Boxes of note-paper, desks filled, work-bags
or boxes filled, boxes of lead pencils with rubbers, small
looking-glasses, metal tea sets for dolls or sets of draw-
ing-room furniture. Twelve prizes are needed in the
Orphanage. Cheap soaps, cotton towels, cotton hand-
kerchiefs by the hundreds, night-gowns, very stout un-
bleached muslin by the piece for underclothes, outing
flannel by the piece, spool thread (Nos. 30 and 50),
coarse, strong combs, warm jackets for winter and mate-
rial for them. Five or six yards of stout gingham is a
good present for native teachers, and two and one half
yards of unbleached cloth for chuddahs for all the mis-
sion. Quinine in powder is most useful.

Calcutta. — Besides 1000 dolls and prizes similar to those
needed in Cawnpore, 1000 cotton handkerchiefs, 200
cotton towels, and 200 night-gowns.

Allahabad. — Unbleached muslin is better than sending
made kurtas , as work is furnished thus for Christian en-
quirers living on the Compound. Calico or gingham,
seven yards, for native teachers’ dresses, bright-bordered
cotton handkerchiefs, coarse combs, kindergarten maps
or materials.

Jhansi. — For Hospital. — Cloth for bandages, unbleached
cotton in any quantity, flannel, heavy white flannelette
for skirts, sheets and pillow-cases, blankets, thin white
counterpanes for single beds, pins — safety and straight,
needles, thread — black and white, coarse and fine, notes
books, note-paper, tape of varied widths, scissors, old
linen, white rubber-sheeting, white vaseline, soap — cas-
tile, ivory, etc., sapolio, scrubbing brushes.

For Schools and Zenana Work and Nurses. — Dolls with
black china heads, dressed, cards of all kinds, picture
rolls, black board sheeting — crayon, pencils — lead and
slate, pens, note-books, blocks of paper, bags for
school books, work bags filled, prizes, cloth in 6 to
7-yard pieces suitable for Xmas gifts for Bible women
and nurses, remnants of bright colored cloth for kurtas.

General use —

Kurtas — For Hindus, made of good, stout cotton cloth,
bleached or unbleached, or of fast-colored prints. White
ones can be finished with red borders.

Jarmas — A jacket with sleeves, worn by Bengalis, is
simply hemmed, without bindings or trimmings, as only
Ayahs (nurses) wear bindings, and not the better classes.
Plain skirts are useful, cut straight, hemmed, and
gathered into a band.

Patchwork — Basted, is needed to teach sewing to the
younger scholars.

Aprons — Long sleeved, of calico or gingham.

Dresses — Simple pattern, no ruffles or trimming ; long in
the skirt, that they may suit children of rapid growth.

China. — No wristlets needed for some years, as the supply
is over-stocked. Remnants for garments, cheap cotton
bath towels and soap are used for Christmas gifts. Un-
bleached cotton for sheets and pillow-cases. No chalk
for the Bridgman School.

For Hospital. — Boxes of safety and assorted pins, bone
buttons by the gross, tape of varied width and “baby
bobbin,” scented soap for Christmas gifts, mosquito
netting of finest mesh, unbleached sheets 7^ feet long by
5 feet wide, pillow-cases 2\ feet long by feet wide,
cotton blankets in gay colors ( never white), thin rubber
cloth or rubber sheets, small kerosene stoves with one or
two burners and bundles of wicks. Old linen much
needed. No spreads, tray cloths, or napkins. Sliced
animals, dissected maps, and scrap-books for sick
children,

Japan. — Cotton table-cloths, towels, and handkerchiefs,
pads, paper, pencils, soap in cakes. No scrap-books.

General Direction. — Scrap-books must be carefully pre-
pared and no questionable pictures inserted. Pictures
of children, scenery, and animals desired. Great care
must be used in selecting Scripture pictures, either for
the walls or in cards. Many sent cannot be used.

If gifts are sent to missionaries, fine damask towels,
table-cloths and napkins, or hemstitched handkerchiefs
with very narrow borders, are acceptable.

LIFE MEMBERS.

The payment of $50.00 will make the
donor or any person named a Life Member
of this Society ; $25.00 a child a Life
Member.

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Special attention is given to the planning, the printing,
and the binding of

pXcmoviitX Volumes Reports Society transactions

ptonoyvaphs Illustrated (Catalogues (genealogies ,

Scientific pluses dub goohs

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and to every department of book and pamphlet manufacturing requiring
care, judgment, and good workmanship.

Correspondence Invited Estimates Furnished

New York Office: 27 & 29 West Twenty=third Street

Works: New Rochelle, N. Y.

NATIONAL. UNDENOMINATIONAL

THE AMERICAN SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION.

MORRIS K. JESUP. Esq.. President. E. P. BANCROFT, Financial Secretary

WITH A REPRESENTATIVE BOARD OF MANAGERS.

THE SOCIETY WHICH CARES FOR THE NEGLECTED FRONTIER CHILDREN.

A PATRIOTIC WORK!

TESTIMONIALS.

“ I am well satisfied, after many years of observation, that The American Sunday
School Union is doing a work of the first importance in evangelizing the country settle-
ments, and that it is doing it more efficiently and economically than any other agency.
1 verily believe that there is now a larger demand for its labors than there has ever
been before, and that it is doing better service now than it ever did.” — D. L. Moody.

“ The American Sunday School Union goes to distant regions ; it marches in the
front, gathering in the poor and outcast, and reaches to points OTHERWISE IN-
ACCESSIBLE.”—Phillips Brooks.

THIS undenominational agency for the neglected frontier children of our country
appeals to every Christian patriot or philanthropist for generous support. These-
destitute children will, many of them, be among th z future voters , perhaps rulers
of the land. Shall they vote and rule wisely ? The Union Bible School has an
elevating influence in morals and politics, while its chief aim is always spiritual. You
can receive letters direct from the missionary you help sustain. We have over one
hundred in the field, chiefly in the great Northwest, the Rockies, in the Southwest,
and in the South, laboring in neglected places. They carry the Gospel to the Miner,
the Lumberman, the Indian, and the Negro, as well as to the Frontier Farmer. Every
missionary of The American Sunday School Union is well supplied with Bibles, Testa-
ments, Library Books, Sunday School Picture Papers, and Christian Literature.

* 1.00 brings a child into Sunday School. $5.00 puts a Library of 30 good
books into a needy school. $ 10.00 a Library of 60 books. $25.00 starts a
new school. Nearly 2000 schools established in the past twelve months.'
UNION SCHOOLS LEAD TO CHURCH PLANTING. $700 to $800
supports a Sunday School missionary one year.

Send contributions to E. P. BANCROFT, Financial Secretary,
156 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

The legal form of bequest is, “ I give and bequeath to The American Sunday*
School Union, established in the city of Philadelphia, Pa ..dollars.”

One of our Missionaries writes;

“My heart was moved, while I was delivering my
address, to see the bright eyes of the little boys and
girls looking up into mine. They seemed to be so
glad 1 was about to organize a Sunday School for
them.”

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