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TABLE OF CONTENTS

IN EASTERN LANDS.

Her Best Story. Julia Hand Bronson . 4

Spiritual Blessing. Dr. Grace Spencer . 6

Personals ...... 7

HERE AND THERE.

A Vital Force 8

Prayers for Unity

Rev. Robert P. Mackay, D.D. 8
Intelligent Prayer.

Rev George H. C. MacGregor 9

A Gift That Counts .... 9

FOR MISSION BANDS.

In the Hills. Frances Webb . . .10

A Red Letter Day. Susan Augusta Pratt 1 1

ITEMS OF BUSINESS.

Treasurer’s Statement . . . .12

Endowed Beds in Margaret Williamson

Hospital . . . . .13

Endowed Beds in Mary S. Ackerman-
Hoyt and Maria Ackerman Hoyt
Memorial Hospitals . . -13

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Corresponding Secretary for Japan — Mrs. Calvin PATTERSON
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Boston, Mass.

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New Haven, Conn.

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VOL. XLV.

NOVEMBER, 1914

No. 11

WOMAN'S UNION MISSIONARY SOCIETY
OF AMERICA.

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.

PROFESSOR ROSS, in his book, “The
Changing Chinese,” says : “All the

railroads that may be built, all the mines that
may be opened, all the trade that may be fos-
tered, cannot add half as much to the happi-
ness of the Chinese people as the cultivation
of the greatest of their 'undeveloped resources’
—their womanhood.

“The work of the Woman’s Christian Tem-
perance Union is to bring this happiness of
which Professor Ross speaks, by developing
this greatest of Chinese resources, by helping
Chinese womanhood to become a moral force
in the nation. It seeks to exhibit the love life
realized and practised in the home and nation,
until the laws of the land demand that the
example of every man shall be an example
safe and beneficent for every other man to
follow.”

”T^\URING the last year twenty-four new
I J societies have been formed. For suc-
cessful winning of members, the society at
Tsingchowfu leads all the others. At the last
report there were seventy in the Union, and
two hundred and fifty in the Loyal Temper-
ance Legion, although recently there is call
for fifty more badges, and for one hundred
more pledges.”

ASOCIAL Service League has been
started in Changsha, Hunan, where
are a number of wealthy Chinese ladies who
have no outside interests. The League works
toward the improvement of conditions in the
homes of the poor. A District Nurse has been
secured, who will give hygienic lectures on
tuberculosis, home hygiene, the care of chil-
dren, contagious diseases, and other subjects.”

THESE facts must carry weight : “India
has 147 languages, ten of which are
each spoken by ten million or more of the
population ; 66,500,000 of Mohammedans ;
4,500,000 mendicants, or ‘holy men’ ; 2,378
principal castes, with many other minor caste
divisions. There are 100,000,000 who cannot
be reached by the present missionary force in
this generation. If Christ had begun to visit
villages in India after the resurrection and
had visited one village each day since He
would not yet have completed the task.”

WE have bid farewell to Miss Clara Al-
ward, who returns after furlough to
our Bible School and evangelistic work in
Japan, the center of which is in our Mission
premises at 212 Bluff, Yokohama.

She was accompanied on her voyage, Sep-
tember 26th, by our latest appointment, Miss
Julia M. Tarver, who will take charge of the
music in our Girls’ Boarding and Day School
on the same premises. We bespeak the loving
interest and earnest prayers of our friends
for these members of our missionary family.

IT is with warm sympathy that we commit
Dr. Mina McKenzie to the tender mercies
of the living God in her perilous journey to
India. She is brave enough to attempt the
voyages which may be fraught with hin-
drances, because the claims of our Lily Lytle
Broadzvell Hospital at Fatehpur are pressing.
Bear her in daily remembrances for wisdom
to meet emergencies and faith in the power of
Him she serves.

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GARDEN AT 212 BLUFF

IN EASTERN LANDS.

JAPAN— YOKOHAMA.

HER BEST STORY.

By Julia Hand Bronson.

THERE was once a girl who loved to tell
stories. From her first audience of
small brothers she passed to larger ones
of her brothers’ friends, her Sunday-school
class, and her friends’ children, so that by the
time she was a woman the story habit was
strong upon her. Then she went to Japan
and found more interesting and wonderful
stories — true ones — than she had ever read or
told in all her life.

“Tell me your best story,” said a friend.
“My best story?” answered the missionary
thoughtfully. “Why, I cannot — it is too long
— it would take all day and all to-morrow

and all the days to come And, besides, it

is not finished. I am in the midst of it now.”
“Are you reading it?”

“Yes, I am reading it in a way, but better
than that ; I am in it.

“You see,” she went on, “I did not know
the first chapters ; I had to get all that part

from the older missionaries, and from books,
but now here I am, and there is a new page
every day, and I would not miss it for any-
thing.”

The missionary’s eyes wandered over the
pretty summer garden at 212 Bluff, and a
lively scene presented itself. It was late after-
noon, school duties were over, and the recrea-
tion hour had begun. “There is an interesting
chapter I am reading now,” she said.

The interesting chapter was a studious-
faced girl of seventeen, who answered her
teacher’s greeting as she passed with a shy
smile.

“She looks happy,” observed the friend.

“She is happy — now. But last year! You
see it was this way : Her father, a Buddhist,
sent her to the school as a day-pupil. She
studied the Bible in her class-room daily, the
truth sank into her heart, and she became a
sincere and earnest Christian. Of course she
confessed her faith at home, and asked to be
allowed to receive baptism. Allow baptism?
Never! Her father would not even allow her
to go to church, though she asked and wanted
it. oh, so much !

“Then the blow fell. One day last Spring
she came to tell me that she was to be taken

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out of school and sent away to live in Tokyo
in the family of a strict and narrow Buddhist.

“ ‘Oh,’ she said, 'it is hard to leave my
mother and brothers and sisters, but I would
go willingly, gladly, if only it were a Christian
home.’

“There seemed no way out. Arrangements
had all been completed. Legal adoption papers
would soon be signed. ‘Mitsu,’ I said, ‘you
must never give up your faith.’ ‘I never will,
never-never!’ she cried.

“But my heart was sore troubled at thought
of this poor little lamb going forth into the
midst of wolves who would do all in their
power to hurt and destroy the new life. Very
soon the day came when she was withdrawn.
We sent her forth with many prayers and
with all the encouragement and cheer we could
give. The adoption was postponed, I believe,
clearly in answer to earnest prayer, but she
was sent to Tokyo to the home of non-Christ-
tian relatives, where, though she trimmed her
light and let it shine brightly, she had a very,
very hard time.

“Just at this point, when things seemed
darkest for her, it came to our ears that her
father, whom we had supposed to be a very
prosperous man, had failed in business, lost
everything, and that withdrawing his daugh-
ters from school and parcelling them out
among relatives, was one of the first steps in
necessary retrenchment.

“For us, that cleared the skies a little, for
we immediately sent to the father, telling him
that his daughter’s excellent standing in our
school, and great promise, justified us in offer- 1
ing her a free scholarship in our boarding-
school until such time as he had recovered
himself and could pay again. This communi-
cation brought the man to us, so moved with
grateful emotion that he found it difficult to
speak, for he really loves his children. It also ^
brought a little letter from Mitsu, overflowing
with joy. She summoned the best English at
her command and wrote, ‘It is impossible to
express my rapture.’

“So our little thrust-forth sheep came back
to the beloved fold after half a term’s absence,
and made up her lessons so well, hard lessons
they were too, that she got on the honor roll
and soon stood at the very head of her class.
She goes to church every Sunday, for when
her father came to accept our offer, we said :
‘We shall expect Mitsu to attend church with
the others.’ He looked uncomfortable, swal-
lowed hard, and assented. He could do noth-
ing else, he was so grateful !”

“How about baptism?” asked the friend.

"That,” said the missionary, “will probably
be written in the next chapter. After much
prayer, Mitsu took the matter up again with
her father during the summer holiday, and
found him much softened, and she feels quite
sure he will allow it soon. She belongs to our
Inquirers’ Class.”

"What about Mitsu’s support?” “Oh, that
is arranged,” said the missionary. “I opened
a letter in June, and out fell a friend’s per-
sonal cheque, which will carry her until
Spring, the beginning of her Senior year.”

“Is that a chapter, too?” asked the friend,
indicating a tall, graceful Bible woman just
entering the gate. “Yes, there are two prin-
cipal characters in that chapter, and it is very
pleasant reading, too. Shall I tell you?

“That Bible woman is a graduate of an-
other Mission School, but has come to us for
three years’ training and experience in evan-
gelistic work. She wants it because she is
going to be a pastor’s wife. She has an in-
come of her own, a very, very tiny one — so
small you would need a microscope to see it.
And what do you think she is doing with it?
Saving it against that happy day of which
she dreams when she and her minister-lover
will furnish a new little nest of their own?
Not a bit. She is putting it into permanent
investment, and there is the ‘permanent invest-
ment’ running to meet her now.” The friend
looked and saw a tall little girl, one of the
forty new ones who entered last Spring.

“Yes,” said the missionary, “she is support-
ing that child in school herself. The little girl
is her fiance’s sister, but he is a very
poor minister, and is caring for his own par-
ents, and there is nothing left over for board-
ing-school fees. So this good little Bible
woman stepped in and decided that she would
rather give her future sister-in-law an educa-
tion and Christian training than to have a
bride’s chest.”

“She does not look as if it were a sacrifice.”
“Of course not, for it is not., She never
thinks of it in terms of sacrifice, but only as
a great opportunity and privilege.”

A young Bible woman of diminutive size
hurried by.

“I suppose that is a short chapter?” laughed
the friend.

“Indeed it is a very long chapter, for it
began away back in the early days of our
school here, before that child was born. You
see that young Bible teacher is a ‘find.’

"Did you ever hear about Michael Angelo
and the block of stone by the road side?”

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“Yes,” said the friend, “and how he asked
some one what he saw there, and the friend
said, ‘a stone,’ and Angelo said : ‘I see an
angel’ — yes, I know that old story, but what
has it to do with this little bright-eyed chap-
ter?”

“It was this way,” answered the missionary.
“Long, long ago in those early days of strug-
gle and difficulty here, a girl came to school
and graduated, but first she had the vision.
She married and had a home of her own,
and children, but she was always searching
among* wayside stones for angels. That was
the way she happened to discover a small child
in a heathen home. First she taught her
about Jesus in a little Mission Sunday School.
Later she brought her to our school and
begged a place for her. You see this chapter
depends altogether on what happened in an
earlier one. Very soon the ‘angel’ began to
emerge. The little heathen girl became a
Christian. She graduated and has been an
earnest, faithful Bible woman and teacher ever
since. She has a wonderful influence over a
very wide circle of people. She is absolutely
devoted to her work. This Summer she had
a call from a committee of the most prominent
clergymen and Christian workers in Japan,
to go over to Korea and as far as Manchuria,
on a special mission to the unevangelized Jap-
anese women there. She went cheerfully, lay-
ing her entire summer holiday on the altar
of service. As to the results — they are all in
a chapter she must tell you herself — perhaps
she will some day.”

Just then the supper bell rang and ever so
many chapters hurried by all together on the
way to the dining-room. The missionary who
loved to tell stories looked with very tender
eyes at these hurrying human documents, and
wished she had time to tell more.

Said her friend as she rose : “Do you ever
peep ahead in your book to see how the story
is going to turn out?”

“I do not have to,” answered the missionary
triumphantly, “for I know.

“Of course I do not know all the details, and
it is better anyway to have them unfold day
by day, but I am quite sure it is one of those
satisfactory stories where everyone is ‘happy
ever after.’ You see, I am in the story myself,
in a small way, so I am sure of a share of the
happiness — and then, as to the rest ”

“Yes, as to the rest?”

“Well, I know the Author of the whole
story, the ‘Author and Finisher’ we call Him,
and He, Himself, has promised us the happy
ending.”

INDIA— FATEH PUR

SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS

By Dr. Grace Spencer

YOU will be glad to hear our good news,
showing the Master’s definite hand.
It is a wonderful story. It includes
Batassia Surti’s family, Baldeo, his mother,
and big brother, our little syce and his wife,
and our loyal watchman, Gyadean. We have
all had our lessons, and I think made prog-
ress upward.

First our little friend, Muni, professing her
faith and love in Jesus, was baptized with her
two boys, one fourteen, the other four. Baldeo
answered so clearly every time we ask him
about it : “What happened to you ?” “I was
made a disciple of Jesus Christ.” I suggested,
“You were made a child of Jesus Christ,”
but he came out clearly with his own thought,
“a disciple.” He often comes to me to learn
the hymns about Jesus.

The baptismal service set the servants think-
ing, and we were quietly trying to bring the
teaching home to them. One night our faith-
ful night watchman, who has been with us
over three years, was bitten by a crite when
he was on duty looking after us all. He had
been a great comfort ever since Dr. McKenzie
went home on furlough. Often when the
night nurses would get startled or frightened
they would hear his clear, confident, “Do not
be afraid; I am near.” I could not appeal
to him in any way better than to say, “The
nurses are comforted when they know you
are awake and within call.” Realizing the
big fellow’s loyalty to me and our work, I
had real rest at nights.

The nurses told me immediately of this seri-
ous bite, and we began to try and save him.
He never murmured, but bowed in tense feel-
ing at my feet. Before drowsiness crept over
him, he turned to the Heavenly Father and
Jesus Christ: “I will believe,” he said, and
I knew he meant that his scruples were being
swept away.

Then he said to me: “Oh, Miss Sahib, I
have been praying night and morning every
day.” This gave me joy in spite of the acute
anxiety and strain I was under, for I had
known the big fellow had been trying to live
clean and true, and be faithful to his Maker.

He had been a great man in his caste, al-
though so humble with me, and I knew the
breaking of these relations had seemed to
him a very hard thing, as many were depend-
ent on him, and he had tried to think it was
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God and live free from sin. A real strength
and strong hope came over me as I said to
him, “You are trusting Jesus Christ?” He
bowed his head in assent, and before all the
crowd I gave him our glad comfort. “Then
He will not leave thee, you have no fear?”
And he again bowed and assented.

I feel God met him for he turned to Him
alone. You understand what that means to a
village Hindu. It means faith. He lived nine
and half hours and was fully conscious six
of them.

One of the hard things about it was this : A
man who had been brought to justice for sin
by our watchman had vowed to have the evil
spirits kill him in six months. Unfortunately
our watchman did die within the six months,
so there was a great talk over it all. I had
to bring out my vefsion of the matter after
prayer, which was that God met him at a
crisis to save him. I feel that our watchman
had answered negatively the appeal of con-
science, because of special teaching and Muni’s
baptism. His especial hindrance for becom-
ing a Christian was a plan for marriage with
a Hindu wife. He might have drifted away,
but God met him by this sudden facing eter-
nity to save him forever, for, as Miss Dur-
rant says, “It was wonderful ; he showed such
submission to the Heavenly Father’s will.”

It was wonderful how the servants respond-
ed to my message of hope and trust in God — -
Christ’s words to Philip I left with them :
“Have I been so long time with you and yet
hast thou not known Me?” For years they
had been hearing of Him, and would they
doubt Him in times of sorrow?

As the heathen relatives carried the body
off to the Ganges I turned to our little syce,
and said : “They will probably call on Devis
and devatas, but you know we trust Jesus
Christ for his soul. Only call on Him.” The
young fellow turned to me suddenly, almost
reproachfully, “Miss Sahib, I only trust Jesus
Christ, and Him alone.” Then in the Dis-
pensary and Sunday-school we have awakened
to the fact that his wife answers gladly when
every one else is silent : “Jesus Christ saves

our souls.”

Batassia went with me to the mourners and
I did not doubt the love and hope that shone
in her face as she said to the sorrowing wife
and family : “Listen, she will give you the
comfort of Jesus Christ.” This is the Batas-
sia of whom we have been praying for three
years. At her first visit to our Lily Lytle
Broadwell Hospital, although we supposed her
to be dying, her brother stood over her and

threatened her if she dared listen; to our teach-
ing of Christ. During that stay in the Hospital
she showed absolute terror and refused to take
medicine for fear we would spoil her cure by
a last dose of poison ! This is her third term
in the Hospital. She wants to be a Christian
now — a follower of our Master.

She went off to our watchman's village,
which was her own village, and spent one day
with his wife to tell her how he had learned
about Jesus and trusted Him to the end. This
was a little missionary work of her own ac-
cord. Dear Batassia, such a long, hard strug-
gle she has had toward the light.

I believe it is in God’s plan, too, to bring
to Himself Surti’s son and prejudiced son-in-
law, and that He has been working for us all
through these times of lesson learning. Pray
for them. The son is interested keenly, and
remembers his mother’s faith with reverence.
A few months ago Dr. McKenzie wrote : “We
are praying for one hundred souls in Fatehpur
this year.” We are looking for the answer.
I was talking with a Mohfagin woman, who
said : “My heart is drawn,” and I smiled as I
answered, “Why not, when things are really
true?”

PERSONALS

Japan, Yokohama, — Miss Pratt writes:
Good news comes from a country station,
where a baptismal service is being held of a
prominent man. Fie was serving in the army
and a sudden accident deprived him of the
use of his lower limbs. He is doing much
literary work at present, and means to use all
his talents for God. As he is the leading
man in his village, this will mean much for
the Christian work there.

Graduates from our Bible-School are doing
good work. In Kuki seven are to be baptised.
I received two letters recently. Dr.
Christopher Moss, of the German Reformed
Mission in Korea, after writing of two
of the Bible-School graduates under his
care, says of one: “Nakagawa Chijouo is

now in Wakamatsu. She is very bright and
is rapidly becoming a stronger worker than
most of the men I know in our field. You
are really to be congratulated on the results
of your training, as I have had opportunity
to observe.” Mr. Curtis, of the Presbyterian
Mission in Korea, who has three of the gradu-
ates of our Bible-School working under his
supervision, writes : “You know I am a loyal
friend, and your Bible-Training-School has a
fine reputation.”

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HERE AND THERE

A VITAL FORCE.

THE complete interdependence of the
world was never more fully manifest-
ed than in the crisis which has fol-
lowed in the wake of the present stupendous
European war. Not only are indispensable
industries arrested, and advancement in world
projects at a standstill, but saddest of all is
the handicaps placed on Christian missions.

In common with all Mission Boards, we find
ourselves confronted with grave problems fol-
lowing in the wake of stringent financial con-
ditions. New appointments, when possible,
have been cancelled, and economies have been
suggested in every line of work. Yet we must
face the fact that many imperative needs must
be met unless we are to close our successful
missions, on which the Lord has set His seal.

We must all acknowledge in the words of
another, these truths :

“The world stands at the crossroads of his-
tory. A few brief years will fix the course of
centuries.

“Great crises will come again, but they will
spring from the crisis of our day. New in-
stitutions, new nations, will be developed, but
we shall determine whether they shall be Chris-
tian.

“Never again can the vast social movements
which are remaking our homes, our industry,
our very ideals, be so easily Christianized.

“Never again can we be in a position to fix
the future of those who are to come after us.

“Christianity must dominate the new forces,
the new conditions, the new nations, the new
institutions, the new ideals now or lose the
greatest opportunity the Church has ever
faced.

“We blame the Church of the past — of
Judea, of the Roman Empire, of the Crusades,
of the Reformation, of the American Colonies
— because it did not know the day of its visita-
tion and let so many opportunities slip from i
its grasp.

“Will the future say the same of us?

“No generation ever faced such possibilities
of future weal or woe as does ours as it sees
nations being reborn, civilization looking to
the Church for guidance, and yet sees the
forces of evil, of Paganism, of Mohammedan-
ism growing more aggressive.

“The Church of Jesus Christ must grow
militant or it will grow feeble.

“Christians must sacrifice for their Master
or see their Master put to an open shame.

“The opportunity is marvelous and appall-
ing-

“It is God’s challenge to His Church.”

We come then to our constituency, asking
them to remember what a vital force money
is in missions, and to urge loyal support in
this extremity. Our work belongs to you, as
you have aided in developing it, your gifts
have made expansion possible, and your pray-
ers have brought its rich spiritual fruits. Our
orphans have no where to turn save to you,
for the succor which took them from lives, of
misery into the fold of the Great Shepherd,
who carries “the lambs in His bosom.” Our
Hospitals need your continued care of the
women and children suffering not only from
disease, but withering under the baneful influ-
ence of sin. Every department of our mani-
fold work looks to you for the word which
will encourage or dishearten our missionaries
to whom it is committed.

Financial pressure is great on individuals
as well as organizations, but do not economize
first on the Lord’s treasury. Help us in tiding
over this serious crisis by your consecrated
gifts, and above all prevailing prayer for wis-
dom to meet this unexpected emergency.

It has been said : “Mr. Moody had no

difficulty in getting money in large sums. He
did not spend many minutes talking about
money. He spent many days talking about
the living Christ and giving opportunity for
Christ to do His wonderful works, until he
had no difficulty in getting the money from
rich and poor. Hudson Taylor never made one
appeal for money, either publicly or privately.
He talked about the living Christ ; and one
was conscious that Christ was in him, and
there came this contagious touch, and the
money was offered.”

PRAYERS FOR UNITY.

By Rev. Robert P. Mackay, D.D.

I THINK we are all agreed that we are
reaching the very central thought of the
day and of all the days.

We hear more about prayer recently than
we ever heard before, just as we hear more
about union, and that is one of the encourag-
ing indications of the times.

Prayer looks Godward and is constitutional.
Man is made in the image of God. Man is de-
pendent upon God, and prayer is the language
of dependence; we all recognize that. All our
faculties are a reflection of God’s character,
of God’s nature. Our intellect is a reflection
of God’s wisdom. Our consciences are a re-

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flection of God’s integrity and justice and holi-
ness. Our affections are reflections of God’s
love. Our will is a reflection of God’s power.
So we are made in the image of God.

Prayer not only looks Godward, but man-
ward. Prayer has projectile force. Prayer
was intended to influence other men. When
Jesus Christ taught us to say, “Our Father
which art in heaven, thy will be done,” He
taught us this, that our prayers are to have
a transforming influence on others, and with
no limitation of time or space. It is a striking
thing when you think of it, that God has
blessed us with a power that can reach out
and touch the world.

There is no spiritual phenomenon that is
more thoroughly established than the influence
of prayer in the world. No body questions it. j
It is scientifically true to the very widest in-
duction of facts, that prayer is dynamic. It
is one of the greatest forces, it is the greatest
force that is shaping the destinies of man.

If we could see the cross currents that are
operating in this world, we would recognize
that after all the great dominating influence
in this world to-day is the influence of Christ.
We would also find this to be true, the might-
iest influences are often the unseen and the
unknown, the first shall be last and the last
first. There is our position related to God and
related to the world, and having this wonder-
ful unknown, unmeasured influence upon each
other.

I would like to emphasize that prayer force
is increased by co-operation. Co-operation is
one of nature’s laws. We find it in everything.
It is not too much to say civilization and ad-
vancement are due to co-operation.

When Jesus Christ said, “Where two or
three are gathered there am I,” He did not
mean that it was only four; He meant that you
would develop a spirital emphasis that would
compel Him to come.

It does one more thing. It lifts us all to-
gether up to a better understanding and fel-
lowship with God’s influence and plans. You
cannot begin to pray without thinking ; as soon
as you begin to think, you think of what God’s
plans are. You begin to have it as a habit,
and have a clearer vision of what God’s plans
may be. As soon as we begin to do that, we
begin to feel the responsibility of action. When
a man begins to pray it fastens upon his con-
science the responsibility of effort and he tries
to carry out the things for which he prays, so
you may see what a world it would be if we
only here could make this continent and the
world feel what the world needs. — Condensed.

INTELLIGENT PRAYER.

By Rev. George H. C. MacGregor.

IT is knowledge of the facts of missions, is
to be obtained only by painstaking study
of missionary literature, and diligent
attendance at missionary meetings. He who
has not sufficient interest in this work to
desire to hear what has been done, will
certainly not have sufficient interest to lead
him to pray for the doing of it.

2. Prayer for missions must be definite.
What is true of study in general is true of
missionary study. We should endeavor to
know something about every mission and
everything about some missions. While we
endeavor to keep ourselves informed as to
the course of the movement over the whole
field, we should have a special interest in
some particular corner of the field. The
missionaries working there should be known
to us by name. We should make them our
personal friends. Every scrap of information
about them should be welcome. The
geography, the history, the ethnology of
their fields should be studied. Then they will
have a special place in our prayers. Our
prayers will be definite and, grozving in
definiteness, zvill grozv in power.

3. Prayer for missions must be intense.
We must learn in this matter to labor in
prayer. But what is implied in this laboring
in prayer? It implies our getting into

sympathy with the mind of Christ. It implies
that we look on the perishing multitudes with
the eye of Christ until His passion fills our
hearts, and the burden of their souls becomes
a burden we can hardly bear. It means too,
that by the Holy Ghost there is poured
through our hearts such a tide of the love of
Christ that we yearn for those lost souls, as
He yearned for the lost world. And then we
kneel to pray, to labor, to wrestle, to agonize
in prayer, that laborers may be sent forth,
full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, to gather
in these multitudes to the fold of Christ.

A GIFT THAT COUNTS
The charities of the country owe as much
to the many lesser gifts of the comparatively
poor as to the larger donations of the more
privileged few. A servant girl recently
found a printed “appeal” in her master’s
waste basket, and responded to it herself by
sending thirty-six cents out of her slender
earnings. The gift that involves a sacrifice
is the one most acceptable to God. — The
C h ristian .

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MARY AVERY MERRIMAN ORPHANAGE

FOR MISSION BANDS.

IN THE HILLS.

By Frances Webb.

LAST Summer, with some of the teachers
and nurses of our Mary A. Merriman
Orphanage at Cawnpore, we passed a
month at the hills. There were ten of our
girls, and we had a four-roomed cottage, nine
of us sleeping on the veranda, and the girls
did the cooking and washing. At first the
people here thought I would have no rest, but
I told them I had not brought ten irresponsible
girls with me, but those capable of looking
after themselves. I wish you could have seen
how their backs straightened and the firm
womanly look that came in their faces as I
said this.

They at once appointed one girl to set the
table and keep things generally tidy, and the
other nine divided into sets of three to attend
to the cooking, as we live on Indian food.
Certainly their dishes are delicious, and I en-
joy their food far more than English cooking.
Betty keeps the accounts, and learned to buy
wisely, and she said to the family that they
could have fruit for breakfast, as they had
saved on the wood bill by picking up twigs to
burn. One day she came to me and said she

now knew why I wanted to be quiet when I
was busy with school accounts.

One of the teachers plays the organ for the
Hindustani church service here, and twice she
did the same for the English church. She
played hymns which she had never seen nor
heard, as if they were old friends.

When we first went to the hills, in walking
around a lake, we visited a tiny village of very
simple mountain people, who had never heard
about Christ.

Two of our native teachers, who. had had
missionary training, at once made use of
what they had learned, and every day
three or four went to the village to teach the
good news. Alas ! we were only here for a
month, but some friends who will be here next
Summer will continue the work we have be-
gun. When we first visited this village two
families asked the girls what country they
came from. When they said: “Why, we are
Indians, just as you are,” the people said:
“You do not dress like us and you can all
read and sing songs we have never heard,
and your religion is not like ours.” These
people had probably never been farther from
home than Bhirn Tal, three miles distant.

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Then they asked: “What can we give you
to pay for your singing and telling stories?”
They could hardly believe that we did it for
love' One day, as we were going away, one
said : “You will come again, for it seems as
though the sun had come out after many days
of rain.”

None of the women can sew, and were
much astonished that our teachers made all
their own clothing. How we did want to
stay long enough to teach them sewing.

The children and one or two women learned
a few Bible verses and we all felt sure that
one woman believed, and we are hoping we
have made a beginning for next Summer’s
teaching.

The party has been very busy exploring
and one afternoon slipped away a wee bit
mysterious, not saying a word of their plans.
When they returned Esther called out, “Oh !
Miss Sahibje, look! look!” and in one hand
she held five small fish and in the other a
bunch of beautiful white orchids. The others
held graceful sprays of love mauve orchids,
forget-me-nots and ferns. All had sparkling
eyes and all wanted to tell what they had
been doing, and the flowers they had gathered
to decorate our table for some guests.

On the way, they saw the fish in the lake,
so Esther took off her chaddar (shawl) and
they used it as a fish net. Later they say they
will take a basin and chaddar and we will
have a feast of fish.

All the books we possess are full of pressed
flowers and ferns, for the wild flowers were
new to most of them. It has been most in-
teresting to watch the girls discover things.
When we came, there were wild yellow and
black raspberries, so they often go berrying.
Then at other times they hunt twigs and small
branches for firewood. The very first task
was to gather pine needles to make mattresses
of, and as we were surrounded by pine trees
this was an easy task.

Our holiday month has flown on wings for
all of us. When we came to bid farewell to
the village people they said : “Surely you will
come and tell us more next Summer.” We
had to tell them that we did not expect to be
able to go there again.

The last day one of the boys came and
said: “We didn’t come to beg, Miss Sahibji,
but we never have any soap, and I thought
maybe you would have a bit left. I would so
like a little piece.”

Last of all came the cleanest boy and he
said: “Not next Summer you will come, but
some Summer.” “No,” we said, “this is our

last,” and then we had a very serious talk
about what kind of a man he was to become,
and he repeated his Bible verses and prom-
ised not to forget them. With real grief
written on his face and with real grief in our
hearts, we parted with a bby who had a great
longing to be different and had no one in
his village to help him.

A RED LETTER DAY
By Susan Augusta Pratt

IF you had been at 212 Bluff, Yokohama,
one morning you would have seen seventy
or more children coming through the gate
and walking toward our Bible School.

These children, looking older than they
really are, are employed in the hemp-braid
factory in Yokohama, and are all members
of the Sunday-school carried on in the fac-
tory each Sunday evening t>y the students of
our Bible-Training-School.

For the past year there has been much suf-
fering in the northern part of Japan, because
of the famine. M'any parents, not having
been able to support their families, have bound
out their little girls to Mr. Yameda, a kind
Christian man with three small girls of his
own, who has charge of the work in the
factory.

He is anxious to have the children learn
about Christ while they are with him, and has
a large school room in the factory grounds
where the children have lessons each evening.
They are kindly treated and well looked after.
The first and fifteenth of each month are holi-
days, and we have meetings in the factory
those days also.

At first we all met in Pierson Chapel, where
the children listened to very interesting talks
by Mrs. Bronson and by a Japanese teacher.
Some of our students sang and played organ
solos. The children too, recited some Scrip-
ture verses and sang two hymns.

Then we went upstairs for lunch, so that
the children could sit on the matted floor and
be more comfortable. Shall I tell you what
they had for lunch ? Balls of soft boiled rice
mixed with beans and they seemed to think
it quite a feast. We gave them all the
Japanese tea and cold water they wanted to
drink.

After a little rest we played with them, but
they work so hard all the time they seem to
have forgotten how to really play, though they
enjoy being blind-folded and then trying to
pick up small paper bags of peanuts which
we had scattered over the floor.

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THE MISSIONARY LINK,

RECEIPTS of the Womans Union Missionary Society of America , from

October i to October 31, 1914.

ALLAHABAD, INDIA

N. Y. — Brooklyn, Life Line Mission, Mrs.
M. J. Donnelly for Bible Woman’s
support,

N. J. — Newark Br., Mrs. R. H. Allen for
Day School, 50.00; Miss Roderick’s
Club, 50.00,

Va.— Alexandria, Mrs. Anson Dodge for
Miss Wishart’s work,

$30 00

100 00
60 00

GENERAL FUND

N.

Total,

190 00

CALCUTTA

N. J. — Newark Br., Mrs. R. H. Allen
for orphan, 25.00; Oak Ridge Band
for Rachel, B. W., 40.00; Ridge-
wood, Mrs. F. H. White, Helen
Eliza White Scholarship, 5.00;
Scotch Plains, ‘tUend A Hand
Society,” Miss Esther Meyer,
secretary for Christamonia, 12.50,
R. I. — Newport, Rev. R. G. Greene for
girl in Gardner School,

82 50
5 00

Y. — Brooklyn, Miss A. K. Peters,
refund of money for outfit, 100.00;
Miss Lillian Anderson for freight
on box to Calcutta, 4.00; Mrs. R.
L. Cutter — “For the Present
Emergency,” 100.00; New York
City, Miss M. Marshall for freight,
5.00; Miss M. E. Nixon, 5.00; Mrs.
D. I. Reynolds for printing, 2.00;
Mrs. S. J. Broadwell, 10.00;
extra traveling expenses for Dr.
MacKenzie, 140.00,

N. J. — Newark Aux., collection at annual
meeting, 16.00; Oak Ridge Band,
100.00; Ridgewood, Mr. F. H.
White, freight fund, 15.00; Sfimmit,
Mrs. J. M. Broadnax, 5.00,

Total,

366 00

136 00

502 00

Total,

CAWNPORE

Mary Avery Merriman School.

N. Y.— Albany, Mrs. L. M. Vrooman for
Charity John, 3.75; Schenectady,

Miss G. V. N. Lyle for Kahira,

4.00; Yonkers, Mr. L. W. Ketchum
for two girls, 50.00, 57 75

N. J. — Passaic, Mrs. C. H. Demarest for

Amandi, 7 50

Minn.— St. Paul, Miss E. Nimz and Miss

Vira Partridge for orphan, 17 00

87 50

SUBSCRIPTIONS TO MISSIONARY LINK

Miss A. C. Maitling, 1.00; Mr. L.

W. Ketchum, .50; Miss J. B.

Smith, .50, 2 00

N.

Total,

FATEHPUR

Lily Lytle Broadwell Hospital.

Y. — New York City, Mrs. J. A.
Scrymser for “The Inasmuch Bed,”
Rescue Home.

Brooklyn, Miss C. Chapman, The
Northfield Children’s Choir for
little Polly,

82 25

10 00

10 00

Total, 20 00

JHANSI

Mary S. and Maria Ackerman Hoyt Hospitals.

N. Y. — Clifton Springs, A Friend toward

support of bed, 2 50

N. J.— Plainfield, Mrs. M. J. Hamlin for

support of nurse, 60 00

Pa. — Shippensburg, Normal S. S., Miss A.

V. Horton, Treas., 5 27

Total, 67 77

SHANGHAI, CHINA

N. Y. — Ossining, Miss E. B. Stone for
furnishing Edwin Stone Hall,

Md. — Baltimore Br., Miss E. M. Bond,

Treasurer, Mrs. Henry Onderdook,

15.00; Mrs. Cornelius Weston, 5.00
— for scholarship, Bridgman Home,

195 00

20 00

Total,

YOKOHAMA, JAPAN

N. Y.— Brooklyn, Miss E. J. Ogg, scholar-
ship, 25.00; Mrs. Peter McCartee
for country station, 15.00; Corona
Leverich Mem’l Band, Mrs. M.
Le Fort, Treas., for Bible woman,
15.00; New York City, Miss Julia
Van Vorst, Miss Loomis salary,
400.00

Bible School Park, P. B. Training
School, Mr. B. E. Rauch,
Treasurer, for Miss Kiku Totoki,
Md.— Baltimore, Mrs. T. P. Langdon, for
tuition of Hisa Harada,

Total,

215 00

455 00

30 00
50 00

535 00

Total, 2 00

WILLING AND OBEDIENT BAND
Rev. D. M. Stearns, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.

Calcutta. — Mrs. L. A. Ross for Bible

woman, 5 00

Jhansi. — Miss Mina Starr, Mrs. Bayley
for boy, 2.00; Dr. and Mrs. J. H.

Ramsburgh for Bible woman, 10.00, 12 00

China.— Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Montgomery

for Mrs. Sung, 30 00

Japan.— Mrs. J. W. Howe — Isuru Iijima,

5.00; Miss E. G. Fradley — Kishi
Ono, 10.00; Mr. and Mrs. W. H.

Frederick — Suga Mori, 5.00; T.

Edward Ross— Sada Enomoto, 60.00;

Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Rams-
burgh— Koyukuye Station, 10.00;

Mrs. C. B. Penrose — Harada Shobi,

10.00; Miss A. V. Peebels —

Yamamoto Take, 15.00; Miss H. D.

Boone — Kiku Yamane, 5.00; Miss
E. M. Weeks — Luma Muru Kami,

15.00; Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Bisel
— Chika Matsuoka, 5.00, 140 00

Total,

Allahabad,

Calcutta,

Cawnpore,

Fatehpur,

Jhansi,

China,

Japan,

General Fund,

Link Subscriptions,

187 00

SUMMARY

190 00
92 50
82 25
20 00
79 77
245 00
675 00
502 00
2 00

Total, $1,888 52

CLARA E. MASTERS, Ass’t Treas.

Interest and Dividends, July $1,248 81

“ “ “ August 90 50

“ “ “ September 1,036 44

— $2,375 75

Donations for current expenses 1,000 00

$3,375 75

JOHN MASON KNOX, Treas.

DONATIONS FOR MISSION STATIONS

Jhansi. — Baltimore Br., box, value $50.00;
two boxes, stoves and ovens, value
12.50; Mrs. P. B. Millikin and
Mrs. W. H. Appold — In memory of
their mother; Mrs. Alex. M.

Carter, couch, value unknown.

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Shipments this year to India,

China and Japan, consisted of 84
cases; medical supplies, value,

$1,023.38; dolls, 1200; material for
dresses, 1049 yards; towels, 188;
hankerchiefs, 192. Total valuation
of $3,250.00.

OCTOBER RECEIPTS OF THE PHILADELPHIA
BRANCH

(Mrs. Wm. Waterall, Treas.)

lilt, on Mrs. Earley Fund $27 50

“ “ Mrs. Carroll Fund 11 00

“ “ Miss Pechin Fund 5 50

“ “ Miss Davidson Fund 100 00

“ “ Miss Schaffer Fund 54 00

“ “ Mr. Haddock Fund 125 00

“ “ Harriet Holland Fund 175 00

$498 00

SHANGHAI, CHINA.
ENDOWED BEDS IN
MARGARET WILLIAMSON HOSPITAL

ENDOWMENT, $600.

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Julia Cumming Jones — Mrs. E. Stainslaus Jones.
Mary Ogden Darrah — Mrs. E. Stainslaus Jones.
Robert and William Van Arsdale — Memorial by
their sister, Julia C. Van Arsdale Jones.

New Jersey — Miss Stevens.

Henry Ward Beecher — Plymouth Foreign Mis. Soc.
Ruthy B. Hutchinson — Plymouth Foreign Mis. Soc.
Mary Pruyn Memorial — Ladies in Albany.

Samuel Oaklev Vander Poel — Mrs. S. Oakley Van-
der Poel.

Charlotte Otis Le Roy — Friends.

Emily W. Appleton — Mrs. William Appleton.

Mrs. Bela Mitchell — Mrs. Bela Mitchell.

The American — A Friend.

The White Memorial — Medical Mission Band, Balti-
more.

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 — Mr. Richard L. Wyckoff.
Elizabeth W. Clark — Mr. Richard L. WyckofT.

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.

Mane S. Norris— j m^W^M. Norris.

Mrs. Sarah Willing Spotswood Memorial — By her
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 — < Mrs. Anna Yeomans Harris
( Miss Elizabeth L. Yeomans.
Mrs. Mary B. Humphreys Dey — ) A *.1. t-,

Mrs. Sarah Scott Humphreys — i n ony ey'
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
Hannah Edwards Forbes — f tt ^ t- . „
Adeline Louisa Forbes- \Mlss H' E Forbes'
Agnes Givan Crosby Allen — A Friend.

Sarah Ann Brown — Ellen L. A. Brown.

Caroline Elmer Brown — Ellen L. A. 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.

Sara A. Palmer — Charles L. Palmer.

Henrietta B. Haines Memorial { Lau^EHofculter
Mrs. Thomas C. Doremus — by her Daughter,

Mary Haines, Doremus
Mrs. Rufus R. Graves Memorial.

Mrs. Geraldine S. Bastable Memorial —

By her husband, Alvin N. Bastable
Alexander McLeod Memorial — by Mrs. S. M. McLeod.
Mrs. Susan Margaret McLeod
Elbridge Torrey Memorial — Mrs. Elbridge Torrey
Mrs. Elbridge Torrey.

JHANSI, INDIA.

ENDOWED BEDS

MARY S. ACKERMAN-HOYT AND
MARIA ACKERMAN-HOYT
MEMORIAL HOSPITALS

ENDOWMENT, $600.

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

Mary S. Ackermann Hoyt — Her sister, Mrs. Jeanie
C. A. Bucknell.

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

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

Mrs. Jeanie C. Ackerman Bucknell — Her niece,
Miss Emilie S. Coles.

Mrs. Caroline E. Ackerman Coles — Her daughter,
Miss Emilie S. Coles.

Mrs. Lavinia Agnes Dey, 1 A ., t-,

Mrs. Mary B. Humphreys Dey, ) Anthony Dey
“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. Lowry.

Peace — Mr. S. T. Dauchy.

Annette R. Lapsley Memorial — Miss A. S. Lapsley.
William H. Harris 1 t-. • r-u-u
Mary A. Harris f Their Chlldren'

Mrs. Henry Johnson — Friends.

Lavinia M. Brown — Mrs. Joseph E. Brown.
Canadian — Canadian Friends.

Jhansi — Friends in India.

Ida Hamlin Webster Memorial — By her mother, Mrs
M. Jennette Hamlin.

Dr. R. M. Wyckoff — Elizabeth Wyckoff Clark.

Mrs. Geraldine S. Bastable Memorial —

By her husband, Alvin N. Bastable.
Fannie B. Robbins — By her sister, Mary R. Hoffman.
William Harvey — By his sister, Mrs. George Trull.

THE MISSIONARY LINK.

The New York Bible Society

NEEDS YOUR HELP

HOW YOU CAN HELP:

By a donation for the work of this year.

By a bequest in your will.

FORM OF BEQUEST

I give and bequeath to the NEW YORK BIBLE SOCIETY,
incorporated in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six, the
sum of dollars.

NEW YORK BIBLE SOCIETY

66 BIBLE HOUSE NEW YORK CITY

John C. West, President James H. Schmelzel, Treasurer

Rev. George William Carter, Ph.D., General Secretary