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VOL. 46

THE

SEP 111915

No. 9

Missionary

TABLE OF CONTENTS

IN EASTERN LANDS.

ArMorning’s Walk and Work.

Clara M. Beach 4

School Notes. Emma M. Bertsch . . 5

Festival Days. Susan A. Pratt . . 6

The Women Students of China in Our

Colleges ...... 7

Personals ...... 7

HERE AND THERE.

A Message from the Past ... 8

Reminiscences. II. .... 8

“ Covet Earnestly the Best Gifts” . 9

A Word to Workers — Pray ... 9

FOR MISSION BANDS.

Some Difficulties at Fatehpur

Dr. Grace Spencer 10
The Balances of God . . . .11

ITEMS OF BUSINESS.

Treasurer’s Statement . . . .12

Endowed Beds in Lily Lytle Broadwell

Memorial Hospital . . .12

Endowed Beds in Margaret Williamson

Hospital . . . . .13

Endowed Beds Mary S. Ackerman-Hoyt
and Maria Ackerman-Hoyt Me-
morial Hospitals . . . .13

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Corresponding Secretary for Jhansi — Mrs. Wm. WALTON Clark
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VOL. XLVI.

SEPTEMBER.

1915

No. 9

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.

SIR NARYAN CHANDAVARKAR well
says : A nation is not made in a day, and
nationality is not formed by mere contact be-
tween races, languages, religions or the creeds
of churches and temples. It is not even a
geographical expression. It is a spiritual
cohesion, a force dominated by oneness of
sentiment, tradition and feeling. Unless in-
dividuals are inspired by one idea and have a
common destiny they cannot fulfill a common
mission. Where they have one aim and as-
piration, one life, without division of caste,
creed or color, there also they represent a
moral fact and a spiritual harmony.

THE Indian Witness chronicles another
amalgamation of Christian institutions
in South India. The Madras Religious Tract
and Book Society, after a long, useful and
honorable career, ceases to exist, and be-
comes a Committee of the Christian Literature
Society. This aggressive Society now becomes
the sole literature organization for the whole
of the Tamil, Telugu, Singhalese and Bur-
mese areas, and has ample scope for all its
energies. It ought to be well equipped finan-
cially for its important work.

MAN’S abiding happiness is not in get-
ting anything, but in giving himself up
to ideas larger than his individual self-ideas, [
of his country, humanity and God.”

— Rabindra Nath Tagore. 1

THE Indian Messenger notes the election
of Mrs. Sarojini Naidu as a Fellow of
the Royal Society of Literature, the first In-
dian lady to be so honored, and adds, “There
are only a few British women who are Fel-
lows, and these have been thus honored on
account of special literary work or research.
Mrs. Naidu was received with the old-time
ceremony, and has already been asked to con-
tribute a paper at one of the Society’s meet-
ings. The honor is the greater, as the So-
ciety is both learned and exclusive, and re-
stricts its numbers to about two hundred, with
a few foreign members.”

THE Bishop of Madras writes that mis-
sionary work is progressing in face
of war troubles ; that in the Singareni Mis-
sion, under native superintendence, there are
four hundred under instruction for baptism,
with a like number scattered in thirteen
villages who have asked for instruction in the
Christian faith and are waiting for teachers.

IN the Bombay Guardian, a C. M. S. mis-
sionary in the Punjab writes as follows
of the Narowal district: “One of the most

remarkable features of the Church in this
district is the progress that has been made
towards self-support. The generosity of the
people is wonderful. Most of them earn on
an average eight or nine rupees a month, and
it is no uncommon thing for them to come
forward at the services to offer a rupee each
as their thankoffering to God.

A RETIRED missionary has been con-
ducting in the University of Pennsyl-
vania a Bible class composed of students from
forty-six different countries, including China,
Japan, Korea, India, the Islands of the Seas,
Central, North and South America, Europe
and its colonies, making an unparalleled
opportunity to present Christ as the Saviour
of all men.

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HILL WOMEN OF INDIA

IN EASTERN LANDS.

INDilA— CAWNPORE
a morning’s walk and work
By Clara M. Beach

SOME of you at home have been writing
that you would like to go about with me
in the city, so to-day I am going to con-
duct the party, and see events with your eyes,
which are new to India and its customs.
Plague, cholera and small-pox are all rife these
days, so it is no wonder that before we reach
our first house we see a man standing in front
of a doorway with an unfolded bundle of
thin, white cloth in his hands, indicating as
plainly as crape on the doorknob that the
death angel had been there, for the shroud
is always new and never folded — if for a
man, white; if for a woman, red.

As we start out at 6:45 a. m. the open,
paved drains are all being cleaned, and what
a glorious time it is for the children, who
not only watch the water, but get unde' the

spouts and have a nice shower bath. This
does not surprise us so much as that at several
drains we find the family washing being done.
Nice clean water brought in pipes to their
lane free of carriage by the municipality —
why not take advantage of it even if the wash-
tub be the drain? As dinginess has char-
acterized most of the houses since we entered
the city, I am sure I hear you exclaim as we
advance to the first house, for several here
are color washed.. One is a bright blue,
another fairly dark red, and others have
colored bands around the top ; it gives the
locality quite an aristocratic air, and this feel-
ing is not lessened as we ascend the stairs
and enter the room where we are to teach our
first pupils. Here we find an English doll
fully two feet high adorning one corner, and
a row of fairly good-sized pictures forming
a border all around the top of the front room.
The people read fairly well in the second
and third Hindu books, which if really well
understood gives them quite a variety of sub-
jects to talk about. They can also give a
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Christ, and one is impressed with their near-
ness to the kingdom. A lesson on prayer
was given, and we were about to teach them
a few sentences when the husband of one of
the pupils came in, and oh, what a change !
No more attention to us, I assure you; no
more sitting down of the women either ;
instead a shrinking back, a deferential bearing
takes the place of the trustful, free way they
have had with us. At first I felt a wee bit
disconcerted that he should appear just at that
moment, and feared we could say no more,
but lifting my heart in prayer for guidance
I turned toward him and outlined the life of
Christ to him. He wanted to evade it, but
he certainly can never say now that he has
not heard the wonderful story, and I felt sure
it was the Holy Spirit’s leading to stay over-
time here. At the next house, just around the
corner, our pupil of eleven or twelve years
lay quite ill. So with a word of comfort and
cheer to the family we passed on to the third
house, and there we found a young woman
waiting for us who was the wife of an old,
old man who had just greeted us on the
street. Here the polite manners of the first
house were conspicuous by their absence.
Much curiosity was shown about our clothes
and the number of articles worn, with great
sympathy given because we had to wear so
much; they, of course, being far more com-
fortable in their dirty rags, which certainly
were not cumbersome. We, however, did not
care to change places. My simple brown
cotton one-piece dress looked like silk to
them, and they actually had to feel of it to
be convinced that it was cotton. There were
four or five here who would have listened for
hours to the message in song and story, but
we knew others were waiting for us. I am
sure the cooking of the sacred Tulsi plants
and the cakes of fuel drying on the walls
of the house (that take one back to the days
of Ezekiel) would have interested you.

At our last house we find before leaving
that one of the two attentive listeners has a
brother who is an Arya Samajist, and she
tried to argue us into saying that because
he no longer worshiped idols, he now believed
as we do. See how this new sect aims to
deceive the people and make them think the
imitation is the real thing. This sect is a
very subtle foe, as hostile as can be, often
openly opposing us in the selling of Gospels
at the fairs which bring together large crowds.

We who have been in India sometime can
find something at every house to encourage

us, and even on the streets, for we see an
advance all along the line and almost no
opposition, which is decidedly different from
the attitude of the people twenty years — yes,
even ten years ago.

ALLAHABAD

SCHOOL NOTES

By Emma M. Bertsch

LAST year we hoped one of our older
girls would be ready to take the govern-
ment “middle exams,” but she married,
and so our hopes for her remained unrealized.
In course of time her baby came and a proud,
happy mother was she. In a Hindu home
the young mother is expected to observe old
customs, one of them being that she must
perform certain rites in the sacred Ganges
River ere she is permitted to visit her friends.
This young lady makes up her mind to visit
her old school first, so announces to her
startled grandmother and mother that her
“teacher comes before such ceremonies,” and
to the school she went.

She recently paid another visit to the school.
The final exams were in progress, so she
busied herself with the papers until the hour
for the Scripture lesson, at which time all
else was laid aside. In the course of the
lesson she relieved her mind by saying: “I

have been here taught that there is a God who
rewards and punishes us according to our
deeds, but my husband says there is no God.”
About twenty of the oldest girls in this
department were listening attentively. The
teacher replied : “Keep on believing what you
are convinced is the truth, never mind what
he says.” After this bit of sound advice she
was asked : “Do you still believe in idol-

worship?” In her simple but decisive way
she confessed that although she has to observe
certain laws dictated by her mother, yet in
her inner heart she knew them to be mean-
ingless.

Some of the girls from staunch Hindu
homes listened to this frank testimony with
mingled feelings. Only a few years ago she
like them received daily instruction concern-
ing the true God, but dared not then utter
her convictions. It is our hope that the
coming years will reveal the fact that our
girls have learned life’s greatest lesson and
will not be ashamed to confess their Lord and
Saviour before their friends.

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JAPAN— YOKOHAMA

FESTIVAL DAYS

By Susan A. Pratt

JAPAN is a land of festivals and religious
gatherings where the people as a rule
come early and stay late. We mission-
aries come in for our full share, and I want
to tell you about some recently attended.
One of these was the regular woman’s meet-
ing of the Japanese Union Church. Once a
month we meet in the home of some member,
and this special meeting was held in a charm-
ing house in the midst of a pretty garden.
The room was large, with soft cushions
placed at regular intervals on the mats for
the guests, among whom were several children.

After my talk a dear old blind lady of
eighty-three advised those present to study
and read the Bible constantly. She said she
regretted not having done so more earnestly
before she lost her sight, for then she could
have remembered more of the blessed words.
She concluded by urging all to become Chris-
tians.

Mrs. Kitajima, one of the influential church
workers, spoke of the change that Bible study
makes in the lives of those who place them-
selves under its influence. She told the story
of Madam Hirooka, who was then in Tokyo,
speaking at some of the women’s meetings of
the evangelistic campaign. This lady belongs
to one of the wealthy families of Japan, and
at the age of sixty-one became a Christian
through hearing a powerful sermon, although
she had long known about Christianity. In
five years she knew the Bible better than many
who had made it a life-long study. She is a
power now in the religious world. Mrs.
Kitajima said with tears that she felt sad at
heart as she thought how little she knew of
the Bible, and then urged the ladies to study
it more. There were other short talks and
prayers before we separated.

The other gatherings were in the village
of Kuki, where we have had a preaching place
for many years. The work has been greatly
blest of late, and a band of strong, earnest
Christians is being raised up. On Sunday
morning at the regular church service Mr.
Horibe, a school teacher, presided, giving an
earnest talk, and my heart was encouraged
as I saw the good attention given by those
present. This man has been a Christian less
than a year, but has advanced greatly in the
Christian life. In his school he is a power
for good. His family are Buddhists of the

old school, but gave permission for their son
to receive baptism. One reason for my
coming to Kuki at this time was because he
was to be married the next day to the young
Bible woman who has been working there
for the past four years.

On Saturday afternoon with the older
Bible woman we took a walk of several rniles
to the home of Mr. Ehara for Sunday School
and an adults’ meeting. Christianity has
made a wonderful change in that home. The
father has been brought to Christ as well as
the wife and mother. Three daughters have
been placed in our Girls’ School, and two
have received baptism. He gathers his
servants and farm hands every Sunday for a
service, and gives them the day for rest from
labor. In the preaching place that evening
eleven Christian men and inquirers, besides a
goodly number of women, were present.

The day of the wedding dawned fair, and
all in the preaching place were up early
making preparations. The bride’s belongings
had to be taken to her new home that morn-
ing, so we helped at that, and then the house
was put in order. One of the Christians
brought two hanging scrolls for decoration,
while others lent plants and flowers. The
little rooms looked most attractive. Then
came the dressing of the bride. The red
under dress signified that she was to be bom
into the new family; red being the color for
children. The white dress came next, and
as white is the mourning color, this signified
that she was now dead to her own family.
The black outer dress showed that she was
now to take a place in the world with the
serious minded. The sash, a gift from the
groom, was very beautiful, and the little bride
looked most attractive.

Guests began to arrive and finally the
pastor came from Yokohama to perform the
ceremony. The rooms were soon filled with
the Christians, three Bible women from the
nearby places, a number of school teachers,
not yet Christians, and some of the Sunday
School children. The smaller children
gathered in the garden. After the ceremony
the company was invited to a Japanese hotel
for the wedding feast, where a large room had
been engaged for the purpose. The bride
and groom sat upon large square cushions
placed at the end, while the guests sat in rows
upon either side of the long room. The
speeches were of a deeply religious character,
and the non-Christians present seemed deeply
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usual wedding feast were placed before each
guest, and what was not eaten of the raw
and the cooked fish, slabs of fried eggs, beans
and pickles, was placed in boxes to take away.

Mr. and Mrs. Horibe went that same even-
ing to their home in a large neighboring
village. She is planning to open a Sunday
School there, and hopes to have a Bible class,
besides keeping up some work in the preach-
ing place where she has done faithful work
for so long a time. Another Christian home
in Japan. May its influence for good be felt
by many in that non-Christian village.

THE WOMEN STUDENTS OF CHINA
IN OUR COLLEGES

JUST a year ago, September, 1914, a little
group of ten Chinese women came to the
United States for five years of study,
their expenses being met by the Indemnity
Fund Scholarships.

To understand what this title means, one
must recall the Boxer uprising in 1900, an
attempt to drive out of China all foreigners
and to destroy their properties ; it failed, and
indemnities were demanded by nations who
had suffered loss. Our own government, con-
sidering the amount assigned us unreasonably
large, remitted the indemnity, and suggested
that the interest on this sum be used to send
Chinese students to this country for higher
education, and accordingly fifty men were
sent to our colleges for five years of continu-
ous study.

In 1914 the Chinese government decided
to grant ten of these scholarships to women
students, and requested the Y. W. C. A. of
China to conduct the competitive examina-
tions. The questions were carefully chosen by
college women and the wives of men in high
positions; perhaps few of them could have
passed the test. All of the ten girls chosen
proved to have studied in Mission Schools
and all of them were Christians.

When the little company reached New
York, they were entertained at the National
Board Training School, and the Oriental Sec-
retary guided and cared for them in many
ways.

It was the desire of the Government that
the young women should spend a year in a
preparatory school before going to college, in
order that the adjustment to the strange new
customs and life of a foreign country might
be made more easily, and the plan was carried
out. This fall they will be ready to enter
Wellesley, Mt. Holyoke, Smith and Vassar

Colleges. Miss Burton writes: “It is impos-
sible to estimate the influence these girls will
exert when they go back home. They will be
among foremost leaders of the women of their
nation, at a time when the right kind of lead-
ers are supremely needed.

God grant that America may give of its
very best, and only its best, to those who have
come to us to prepare for leadership among
their own people.” — Condensed.

PERSONALS

India, Fatehpur. Dr. Mina MacKenzie
writes : “We have had a very busy and

happy winter, both in our hospital and dis-
pensary work here and in the district. We
opened seven wayside dispensaries in towns
twenty, thirty, and forty miles from here, and
that, with our regular work, kept us pretty
busy. Then in February I began to build
the addition to the Nurses’ Home. So every
minute of time I could spare from medical
work had to be spent there and nearly all my
out practice was done after the workmen left
at 6 or 6 : 30 p. m. You would smile to see me
to-day sitting in the midst of mud and water
on a little bridge made of bamboo, watching
the workmen plaster.

Our temperature ranges these days between
103° and 114° in the shade, according as the
sun is shining or covered with clouds, of which
we have fortunately a few around at times.

Cawnpore. — Miss Beach writes: Things are
quiet here in India as a whole, I mean as a
country. I saw by the paper that Viceroy
Hardinge was to have his term of office ex-
tended six months, because of the stress Eng-
land is under these days. He has seen more
trouble, political and personal, than almost
any Viceroy we have had. The papers report
that arrangements have been made for the
annual treat for children in hospitals in India
on the Viceroy’s birthday. It will be remem-
bered that Lord Hardinge placed a large sum
from the public thanksgiving, in trust to ensure
this children’s treat being given each year.
In 1914 about twenty-seven hundred children
had a share in it, and this year five thousand
rupees out of the accrued interest will be avail-
able for this children’s treat.

Jhansi. — Dr. Ernst writes : The work has

been growing steadily all this year. I have
seen the daily averages at the hospitals in-
crease since my return, and I can state posi-
tively that there have been more serious opera-
tions, more confinement cases, than during the
same period in any of my past years here.

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HERE AND THERE

A MESSAGE FROM THE PAST

(These telling and inspiring words were written
by our beloved secretary, Miss Doremus, in 1867,
and were copied for this number of The Missionary
Link by one of the charter members of the society,
who adds “the message of those early days comes
to us with the same force and beauty as when it
fell from her gifted pen.”)

FAR over the waters from the sunny lands
of the East, voices come to us, begging
for a portion of the blessings Christian-
ity has so lavished on us. Self-consecrated
women are not wanting, who eagerly desire to
spend their lives in telling these too long
neglected souls of the “Truth that shall make
them free.” But they need loving hearts
among us, to sustain them in this life work.
For them privation and conflict; for us re-
sponsibility and care.

For Christians, the one great aim in this
life is that God’s will be done, and His king-
dom spread ; for each one of us, the “thing
needful” is to fill our own part in that king-
dom as faithfully as we can. With sadness
do we acknowledge that many — alas ! for
hearts basking in the sunlight of the Redeem-
er’s love — too many meet us with the plea that
“much must be done at home.” True, many
are the duties to be discharged at home, but
this and the foreign work must go hand in
hand. If, remembering the Master’s words,
“The poor ye always have with you” we wait
until home regeneration is accomplished, when
shall we begin our labor in the uttermost parts
of the earth? And when we stand around the
Great White Throne with the redeemed of all
nations shall we not sadly look in vain for
those, to whom we might have offered but
one draught of the vCater of Life? No, it is
not enough for us to sit at ease in the homes
made beautiful and blessed through Christian
mercy, and only give a pitying thought to far-
off heathen women. We must ask our con-
sciences what part of our “Father’s business”
is our work, and what share are we taking
in the coming of His kingdom. The answer
must come in a new spirit, not in grudging
the overflowing of our cup, but in the gifts
of personal sacrifice. “Christian life is action;
not -speculating, not debating, but doing.
Feelings pass, resolves change, but what is
done for Christ, that, and that only, lasts
through eternity. Women of wealth, women
of talent, women of leisure, what are you
doing in God’s world, for God?”

REMINISCENCES. II.

THE FIRST DISPENSARY

IT was deemed best by members of the
mission that a dispensary be opened at
an early date, so March was decided
upon. A Chinese house in the native city,
about a quarter of a mile from the West
Gate, was offered us, through the kindness
of Mrs. J. W. Lambuth, one of Shanghai’s
oldest missionaries, and this kind offer was
accepted — a Chinese house, one-storied, with
mud floors, two rooms, two doors on the south
side and two windows on the north side.
These rooms were fairly good sized, and a
door could be opened between them. Then
one could be used for the waiting room ; the
other could be divided into consulting room
and drug room, with a lobby beyond, where
patients could get prescriptions filled, and then
pass out. A carpenter was called, and, with
book in hand, which had in it a page given
up to “carpenter talk,” the needed changes
were made and floors were put in the con-
sulting and drug rooms. Everything was very
primitive and plain. Of course, the wait-
ing room was to be also the place where Mrs.
Day would preach the Gospel, and, as she
could speak a little English, she would have
to interpret at times also. Her first and fore-
most duty and pleasure was to tell the story of
the “Great Physician” and of his love for all
men, women and children. Mrs. Day was of
that willing kind that fitted in anywhere, and
she loved to help with the distribution of the
medicines, and nothing was ever too much
trouble for her to do.

So many things happened in March of 1884
that it might be well to enumerate. One
morning at two o’clock I was called to go
seventeen miles in a Sedan chair to see a
sick missionary in consultation with another
physician who awaited me there. It was
night, strange chair bearers, a long lonely
road, and almost no language ; yet I knew
that the lady who sent for me would provide
men whom she could trust, so with the feeling
that all would be well I started, arriving at
the home by six a. m.

Again, I made a trip on a wheelbarrow to
see into the world an only daughter, which
daughter has since had two sons born in our
hospital. It was while returning from this
thirty-four-mile wheelbarrow trip that I was
told of the sudden illness of Mrs. Pruyn while
she was conducting a Bible Class. A cerebral
hemorrhage, which providentially did not
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the nature of Mrs. Pruyn’s illness, but has-
tened on, being not very far from Shanghai.
I had two wheelbarrow coolies, one to push
and one with a long rope who did the pulling.
We made some four or five miles an hour; the
country roads were paths and one did not
mind them, but through the towns, which were
paved with cobble stones, I usually walked, as
wheelbarrows have no springs. However,
youth and health soon recover from rides
though rough, and that night I remained with
Mrs. Pruyn, and the next day welcomed Miss
McKechnie, our trained nurse, whom I had
known in America while taking her training.
We were in, the same hospital. How much
she was needed at the very time she came!
And what good service she rendered, not only
during Mrs. Pruyn’s illness and until Mrs.
Pruyn left for America in May, but during
those pioneer days and all down through the
twelve years she was with us.

The dispensary was opened in March, and
as I look back over the years I see Mrs. Day,
Miss McKechnie and myself trudging back
and forth, (as only Sedan chairs were allowed
in the city) between the Bridgman Home to
the west gate, and from the west gate to
the Dispensary ; we had over a half mile.
We never went or came with empty hands,
hearts and hands were full. It was really
and truly our whole hearts, our whole minds,
and our whole strength, given up in this ser-
vice for the Master. Those were happy days !

Elizabeth Reifsnyder, M.D.

“COVET EARNESTLY THE BEST
GIFTS”

SOMETIMES I wonder if young people
realize how many of life’s choices are
unconsciously made. We see lives which
were full of promise and aspiration in their
glad beginnings, falling away as the years go
by, not by choosing to have it so, but simply
by failing to grasp the opportunities as they
came for unselfish endeavor, by not coveting
earnestly the best gifts.

It has been said : “the good is often the
enemy of the best.” To do a thing well is a
misfortune if it leads to satisfaction with any-
thing less than striving for perfection. The
best things are not the easiest; the habit of
unselfishness and watchful kindness is formed
at the cost of ease and the self-centered life.
Yet in these days, God has need of our best,
He has high service for those who will pay

the cost. Life is full, but of what will depend
on what we covet earnestly ; the things that
“perish with the using,” crowd around us on
every side, the “things that are worth while”
beckon us to the life of service and reward.

Does the road lead up hill all the way? Yes,
to the very end. Yet the air is purer and
clearer as we ascend, the vision of the goal
grows more and more enticing, the reward
more and more sweet, until we come to dwell
where the best gifts are stored up for those
who covet them earnestly.

L. L. Y.

A WORD TO WORKERS— PRAY

DO you, who are at the home base, realize
how much can be made possible for
your missionaries, teachers, and con-
verts in their daily life and accomplishment
by your prayers? I doubt, indeed, whether
you do, or can, realize it because you so sel-
dom hear about the answers to these prayers
for those in lands beyond the seas. What a
stimulus to faith it would be if you could
know — what an encouragement to ask for
even larger things.

Many times when problems too difficult
for a tired head to face come pressing in-
sistently upon one, when body, mind and spirit
are too weary to resist discouragement, and
there seems no strength left to pray for help,
when the powers of darkness press close as the
night about one — then at that hour of trial
a calm and strength lays hold upon the entire
being and there is light and power to be and
to do. Why? Some one is praying on the
other side of the wtorld and this is the
answer.

Oh, for an army of men and women in
Christian lands, in America, who know how
to intercede for those at the front, to hold
up the weary hands until the battle is won.
Surely “more things are wrought by prayer
than this world dreams of.”

“Prayer is the mightiest force that men
can wield ;

A power to which Omnipotence doth
yield-” A. E. W.

“There are four safe ways the Lord guides
us — first, by His Word ; second, by His Spirit;
third, by His Providence ; and fourth, by our
own yielded and consecrated judgment. Where
these four ways agree, we may rest content
in having the will of God.”

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SOME OF THE FATEHPUR FAMILY

FOR MISSION BANDS.

SOME DIFFICULTIES AT FATEHPUR

A PARROT, A SARUS, A TURTLE, AND A BABY

By Dr. Grace Spencer

DID you know we had started village
dispensary work this year? Yes, we
have, and are trying to teach the people
in seven large towns outside of Fatehpur to
know and love our Master. Well, in one
village forty miles away, to which we must
travel by train and by ekka — the ekka by the
way is a two-wheeled, springless, seatless
carriage in which we must sit with our feet
hanging over the wheels — we were given a
'baby parrot. It was so tiny it had no
feathers, just a big red beak, and it was
— oh, so thin and weak. That was our first
difficulty — to keep it alive as we went on our
long ekka drive toward home. How the
nurses laughed when they saw the wee thing.
But it was so helpless that we tried hard to
look after it. Feeding him was the great
problem. We had to open his beak and push
the food way down out of sight, and then the
little chap gulped and opened his eyes to

thank us. One night we fed him with a fine
grain, such as we give the chickens. His
little crop was quite full and we left him,
thinking he would be so happy all night, but
in the morning his eyes would not open and
no grateful craning of his neck or opened
beak called us to give him water. He was
sick — so sick he didn’t want to speak. Doctors
live here, you know, so they spoke up and
said, “Give him castor oil,” and in a little
while open came his eyes and he stretched his
eager, tiny neck for more. But a cat was
watching — she pounced. That is a difficulty
or sorrow just like you have at home, isn’t it?

Then let me tell you about our Sarus. That
is a bird we have in India — tall like an ostrich.
Ours was just a baby, tall, with a round body
like a ball of fluff, and such funny, long
“daddy-long-legs” feet; not a bit afraid either.

One day I met him in the field and tried
to shoo him, as the Mother Goose would
with her apron, but he just stood there and
opened and shut his long beak like a clapper.
Little Mahabin ran up. He pulled a cloth
into a string and held it in baby Ciris’ face.

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Baby snapped at it — oh, so angrily. And
what did the little Indian boy do but wrap the
cloth quickly back into the open mouth and
around the poor bird’s head till he was quite
helpless. But we loved him for all that, and
gave our watchman strict instructions to care
for him well during our visit to Calcutta ;
but he died.

The poor old watchman had his difficulty
then; he felt so sad. He picked the bird up
in his arms and carried it up to the mission-
ary padre to ask if he could not bring it back
to life. Then the burial. The sweeper woman
and little Mahabin dug its grave and they
carried the poor, cold, fluffy thing there. It
was a Christian birdie, Mahabin thought, so
it must have a Christian burial. Birdie Ciris
was left in his quiet abiding place with a
Christian hymn and the only prayer our little
Hindu friend knew — “Our Father.”

The turtle story is short. The life of man
is three-score years and ten, but the Lily
Lyle Broadwell Hospital is to live on and on.
When Pat arrived — our turtle — we thought
he would live on and on, too. And it would
be so interesting to have a watchman — one
for a hundred years, at least. So Pat was
put in our big garden tank with especial care.
I had heard that Hindoos didn’t eat meat,
but the last we heard of Pat — a Hindu named
“Beloved” had some turtle soup. That was
not a difficulty — oh, no. It was just difficult
to find Pat.

Finally, P. Stearns, otherwise Sam, you
will wonder who that is. Well, it’s a baby.
He is not a difficulty at all — just his name
was difficult. Some day we hope to tell you
more of this little one, whose mother died,
leaving this little seed of life to our tending.
Do we love him? Just ask any of our Indian
children and they will tell you what a nice
white cot he has, and pretty blue blankets
with little bears all over it, and how he stays
in our nurse Missahib’s room most of the
time. We all love him.

And now about his name, P. Stearns. It
was this way: Some one said we would

call him Paul, and another said no, Philip,
and the third one she said no, Peter, till we
didn’t know which it should be — Peter, Paul
or Philip. A treaty must be made, and as
all had the initial P, P. Stearns became his
,name. The time for baptism drew near.
You see we couldn’t very well wait to find
out if our little three and a half pounds was
going to be an evangelist — worthy to be called
Paul, or beautiful to be called Philip, or yet a

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rock in Christ’s church to be called Peter,
so we said it must be Andrew, and Andrew
it was. Then because we loved him, we hoped
he was beautiful, and so he was christened
Andrew Philip.

The naughty spirit of strife dies hard, or
else the hope of future days lives strong.
We waived them all for simple Sam — waived
them for the years to prove if P stands for
Paul or for Peter, or if it is the appellation
of the messenger to the Ethiopian. But pray,
little friends, that our mission baby may
indeed be a child of God — consecrated from
his birth, as was Samuel.

THE BALANCES OF GOD

WE are apt to measure things by their
size and not by their weight. Our
admiration is usually determined by
scale rather than by weight. But our God
weighs things. He weighs our offerings, and
He weighs them in His own spiritual scales,
to see what spiritual significance there is in
them. He weighs our money-gifts to ascer-
tain their weight of sacrifice. And SO' it comes
to pass that the widow’s mite wins His praise
rather than the rich man’s abundance.

He weighs our prayers to see what weight
of holy desire there is in them. Prayers may be
very long and very empty, and in the scales of
God they are as light as the lightest chaff. In
our prayers it is desire that weighs heavily, and
penitence, and humility, and serious purpose of
amendment. In our intercessions it is our
self-forgetfulness that wins the favor of the
Lord — our sympathy, the burden of our
brother’s need. God weighs our joys, and it
is our thankfulness which reveals its mighty
presence in the scale. In the estimation of the
Lord many things are very weighty which
have no regard in the esteem of the world,
“for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by
Him actions are weighed.”

— Dr. Jowett.

BUDDHIST Ceylon is adopting two im-
portant Christian agencies in the recent
revival of that ancient faith. One is the
Young Men’s Buddhist Association, the other
is the Sunday School for teaching Buddhism,
in which Christian hymns are sung after sub-
stituting Buddha and dharma for Jesus and
the Gospel.

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THE MISSIONARY LINK.

RECEIPTS of the Womans Union Missionary Society of America , from

August i to August ji, 1915.

CALCUTTA, INDIA
Sarah F. Gardner Memorial School

N. Y. — Hastings, Orphan Asylum, Mr.

R. R. Reeder, Treas., for Shushila,

25.00; New York City, Mrs. Fred-
erick Billings, for orphanage, 25.00, $50 00

N. J. — Millstone Auxiliary, Mrs. P.

Nevins, Treas., for native teacher,

Indumukhi, 16 00

Total, $66 00

CAWNPORE

Mary Avery Merriman School

N. Y. — Cold Spring, Hillside Band, Miss
A. P. Wilson, Treas., Christmas
gift for Ada, 10 00

Total, 10 00

FATEHPUR

Lily Lytle Broadwell Memorial Hospital

Nova Scotia. — Canso, Simpson S. S. Class,

Mrs. E. C. Whitman, for child’s

cot, 5 00

Rescue Work

N. Y. — Brooklyn, Mrs. Peter McCartee
quarterly, for Miss Durrant’s
salary, 25 00

Total,

30 00

JHANSI

Mary S. and Maria Ackerman Hoyt Hospitals

Mass. — East Northfield, Mrs. M. J. Ham-
lin, for support of nurse,

Md. — Baltimore Br., Miss E. M. Bond,
Treas., Mrs. Howard Munnikhuy-
sen, for Dr. Ernst’s use at
Christmas,

50 00
10 00

Total,

60 00

YOKOHAMA, JAPAN

N. Y.— Alfred, Mrs. W. C. Burdich for
Prescott Scholarship,

Ky. — Owingsville, Miss Laura R. Walton,
for Elizabeth Barnes Walton Mem.
Scholarship,

50 00
50 00

Total,

100 00

Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Fredericks
— Suga Mori, 5 00

Miss H. Debora Boone — Kiku
Yamane, 5 00

T. Edward Ross — Sada Enomoto, 60 00

Miss Jennie Riegel — Kin Wa-
tanabe, 15 00

300 00

Total, 375 00

SUMMARY

Calcutta, $66 00

Cawnpore, 70 00

Fatehpur, 30 00

Jhansi, 75 00

Japan, 400 00

General Fund, 20 00

Link Subscriptions, 1 00

Total,

$662 00

CLARA E. MASTERS, Assistant

Treasurer.

AUGUST

RECEIPTS OF PHILADELPHIA

BRANCH

Mrs. Wm. Waterall, Treas.

Interest on

Harriet S. Benson Fund,

$250 00

“ “

Elizabeth Peters Fund,

45 00

U it

Harriet Holland Fund,

67 50

From Miss

E. Howard-Smith,

5 00

Interest on

Mrs. E. H. Williams Fund,

10 50

a a

Miss Clara A. Lindsay Fund,

5 62

“ “

Chas. G. Sower Fund,

7 88

“ “

Harriet Holland Fund,

3 75

Total,

$395 25

FATEHPUR, INDIA.

ENDOWED BEDS

LILY LYTLE BROADWELL MEMO-
RIAL HOSPITAL.

ENDOWMENT, $600.

S. D. D. — Mrs. Samuel J. Broadwell.

Sarah Wallace Memorial — Mrs. Richard H. Allen.

GENERAL FUND

N. Y.— New York City, Mrs. W. E. Trues-

dell, 20 00

Total, 20 00

SUBSCRIPTION TO MISSIONARY LINK

Miss Evelyn Dix, .50; Mrs. W.

W. Clark, .50, 1 00

Total, 1 00

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

Cawnpore.— Mrs. J. E. L. Davis, for
worker with Miss Beach,
Jhansi.— Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Ramsburgh,
Miss Mina D. Starr, for boy,

Japan. — Miss Anna R. Harper — Tei Muira,
Mr. Charles L. Huston — Koto Kata-
oka,

Mr. W. G. Parke — Kiyo Tado,

Mrs. Joseph Howe — Isuru Iijina,
Mrs. J. E. L. Davis, in mem. Mrs.

A. C. A,— Shige Matsuoka,

Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Ramsburgh —
Kozukuye Sta.,

Mrs. C. B. Penrose — Harada Shobi,

60 00

5 00
10 00

15 00

15 00

75 00
75 00
5 00

30 00

5 00
10 00

Hannah Amelia White — Mrs. M. Morris White.
Jubilee Thank Offering — For S. D. D.

Elizabeth Davis Espy — Mrs. W. W. Seely.

Marie Haines Broadwell — Mrs. Charles Parsons.
Juliet G. Church.

Laura P. Halsted.

Samuel J. Broadwell— Mrs. Samuel J. Broadwell.
Josephine Lytle Foster — Mrs. Charles J. Livingood.
Bertha Costello Gillespie — Mrs. Anna Costello Ropes.
Susan Morris White — Mrs. Clarence Price.

Sarah Doremus Hamilton — Mrs. Samuel J. Broadwell.
Comfort —

Isabella L. Ballantine.

Elizabeth Ogden Nixon — Mrs. Samuel J. Broadwell.
Mrs. Geraldine S. Bastable Memorial —

By her husband, Alvin N. Bastable.
M. Morris White, “In Memoriam’’ — Mrs. M. M. White.
“Inasmuch ’’ —

Sarah DuBois Doremus — In loving memory.

Margaret D. Joline — Catharine D. Joline.

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SHANGHAI, CHINA.
ENDOWED BEDS IN
MARGARET WILLIAMSON HOSPITAL

ENDOWMENT, $600.

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 Oakley 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

Marie S. Norris —

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. 1. Greenough — Mrs. Abel Stevens.
Emeline C. Buck — Mrs. Buck.

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

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- ) Anth Dey.
Mrs. Sarah Scott Humphreys — ) 3 3

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 —

Adeline Louisa 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.

A grateful pupil

| Miss H. E. Forbes.

Henrietta B. Haines Memorial

Laura Eliot Cutter

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.

Theron V. Shaw Memorial — Mrs. Elbridge Torrey.
Mary Joline Beggs — Catharine D. Joline.

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, I . t-,

Mrs. Mary B. Humphreys Dey, J 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< • •, ,

Mary A. Harris \ Their Children.

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.

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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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