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WOMEN'S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETIES
OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
VOLUME XX.— i 905
PRESBYTERIAN BUILDING, 156 FIFTH AVENUE
NEW YORK
INDEX TO VOLUME XX.— 1905.
Africa— Women Missionaries
A New Missionary and a Strategic Station
Single Men's Corps
A Day with the Fang
First Impressions of Africa
Reports for 1904
Partition of Africa (Speer)
Industrial Development
Civilized Man Must Hold His Own
School in Bululand
The Fetich— A Worship (Nassau)
Church Organized at Lolodorf
Current Events 58,
West Africa, Dr. Halsey's Book on
Outline Study of Africa 265,
Letters from 16, 71, 190, 241,
Notes on 2, 5, 58, 81, 154, 201, 250,
Books on 153, 201, 267,
Annual Meetings— Woman's Boards 143,
In Connection with General Assembly
Auxiliaries and Bands, New 23, 54, 124, 171,
198, 222,
Bible Readings 18,
Books, New 19, 50, 100, 121, 153, 201, 267,
Book Reviews:
Book for the Pulpit
Book by an Editor
Book by an Army Officer
Book by a Missionary Secretary
Book by a Missionary
Blue Book of Missions
Changes in Missionary Force 19, 51, 74,
100, 121, 149, 167, 194, 219, 244, 267,
China— Women Missionaries
Missions and High Life at Tengchow
Two Paotingfu Hospitals
Reports Canton Mission, 1904
Shantung Events
The Year in Girls' Schools
Tengchow Teacher's Country Week
Gospel Work for Paotingfu Women
Seeking Goodly Pearls, Nanking Field
Temptation of a Hangchow Woman
New Forces in Old China (A. J. Brown)
Women of Hunan Province
Among Women of Ningpo Field
A Taste of Itineration, Anhui
Hollow Exertions of Chinese Educationalists
Medical Chapter
Letter from Dr. Eleanor Chesnut — facing 273.
Letters from 44, 98, 120, 142, 191,
Notes on 25, 26, 57, 81, 106, 154, 226. 250, 273,
China— Hainan— Women Missionaries
Invaluable Out-Station Chapels
A Nodoa Bride
Country Work at New Year Holidays
Incidents from Kiungchow
Hainanese Bondwoman and Free Woman
Letters from
Note on
Chinese in California, Mission for
Christus Liberator 121, 166, 193, 201, 217,
At Chautauqua
Introduction to t
Chapter I
Newspaper Reviews of
Conference of Young People, Silver Bay 73. 166,
Conference of Mission Boards in U. 8. and Canada. .
Doors Open in Japan
Dux Ciiristub 18. 49. 73, 99,
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59
59
60
64
66
66
68
68
70
163
262
267
287
264
273
274
149
166
270
49
181
182
183
187
188
189
289
27
27
29
30
32
36
37
38
39
39
41
41
42
43
216
274
155
155
156
157
161
162
164
226
185
242
226
265
287
288
242
82
13
121
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Editorial Notes (in part):
Allen, H. N 105
Besant, Mrs 82
Bible 25,249, 250
Colleges, Christian 25, 26, 81
Comfort Bags 81
Converts 82, 130, 154, 226
Converse, John H 129
Cruelty in Persia 58
Deaths 25, 57, 153, 177, 201, 225, 226, 273
Earthquakes 129, 201
Financial 153, 178
Governor of Shantung 25
Halsey, Dr. A. W 1, 26, 57, 81, 105, 129, 267
Hepburn's Birthday, Dr 81
Hospitals Dedicated 2, 26
Industrial 81
Japanese, San Francisco 226
Johnston, Sir Harry II 153
Leaflets, etc 26, 194, 201, 249
Martyrs 273
MacLean, Miss Margaret 201, 273
Medical 1, 106, 226
Native Women Advancing 25, 250
Personal 1. 2, 57, 129, 153, 201, 274
Printing 105
Railroads, Korea 26, 130, 250
Reinforcements 249
Schools Full 130,202, 225
Siam, King of 2, 105
Union in India 82, 153, 250
Union in Korea 249
* Wilder, Mrs. R. G 129
Woman's Work Items 1, 82, 130, 178, 202, 226
Wrecked Station, Congo 58
Early Years in Our Women's Societies 47
Events in 1904, Relating to Missions, Outstanding ... 3
Fault in Woman's Meetings, A 73
Guatemala— Women Missionaries 131
Needy Guatemala 135
Letters from 140
Headquarters, Notes from 20, 51, 74, 100, 122,
150, 167, 194, 220, 245, 268, 290
Honor Ron 167, 242
Illustrations:
Africa: Mrs. Lehman at Lolodorf, 8; Forest Path,
61; Carriers, 62; MacLean Memorial Church, 63;
Bulu Women Returning from Work. 67; Mission-
ary Homes, Elat, 69. China: Dinner Guests,
Tengchow, 2H; Taylor Hospital, Paotingfu, 29;
Country Chapel, 31; Cuyler Church, 31; A Dining-
room, Ichowfu, 33; Miss Gowans and Her Class,
Paotingfu, 37; Hunanese Woman at Her Loom, 40;
Pillar of Nodoa Church, 155; Nodoa Bride, 156;
Back Hair, 157: Feast Day, 161 ; Dr. Chesnut, facing
273. India: Phila. Hospital, Ambala, 85; Delhi
Gate Dispensary, Lahore, 86; Sarah Seward Hos-
pital, Allahabad, 8"; Mrs. Slebbins, 88; Feeding
Children, Mira.j,94; Hospital Patient, 185. .Japan:
Church, Kyoto, 6; Soldiers' Bible Class, 207;
Games and Music in Camp, 208; New Building,
Sapporo, 212. Korea: Newly Wedded Pair, 252;
Okandpa Han and Family, 253; Bertha Finley
Hunt, 256; Mrs. Hunt and Whang Hai Women,
257; Village Protector from Demons, 258; Market
in Chong Ju, 260. Mexico: McMurtrie Chapel,
Climbing Out of tho Valley, Temple of God's Love
(2), 133; Itinerating in Hot Country, Don Lopez
and Family, School, Mountain Side, 134. Persia :
Ferry Hospital, Teheran, 11 ; Portraits of Justin
Perkins and Wife, Joseph Cochran and Wife, 227;
John Shedd and Wife, Mrs. Coan, 228; Village
Girls Dancing, 230; School for Boys, Teheran, 237;
A Peculiar Doctor, 239. f'liilippi ncs : Filipino
Widow, 160. Siam. and Look : Princess-Pupils,
Bangkok, 107; Miss Cole and Graduating Class,
1903, 108; School at Rajaburee, 112; Gateway to
Lampang Temple, 113; Boys' School, Lakawn, 114;
Patients, Christian Teacher, 116; Wat at Pitsan-
INDEX TO VOLUME XX.
iii
uloke. 117. South America: Singing ('lass, Val-
paraiso, Chili. 137: Eseuela Popular. Valparaiso,
138. Syria : Sidon Graduates. 18. Old Portraits,
275-278; School. 279: Straw Work. 280, 281. Tin- .
key: Armenian Orphans, Marsovan, 5.
India — Women Missionaries 83
Reminiscences of Christian Women 83
Some of Our Doctors in India 84
Dehra School 88
Industrial Work, Saharanpur 88
Sabathu Leper Asylum, Punjab 90
A Rescue, Spite of Caste 91
Touring Notes in West India 91
First Year Impressions in Lahore 93
Ilindu Sacrifice at Miraj to Dispel Plague 93
Summer School at Morinda, Punjab 184
A Hospital Patient 185
Letters from 17 , 72, 96, 241
Notes on 57, 81, 82, 106, 129, 130, 153, 154. 177.
201. 226, 250
Japan — Women Missionaries 203
Presbyterian Christians in the Japanese Army 6
Open Doors in Japan 13
A Soldier's Funeral 26
Letters from Japanese Soldiers 95
Advance During Threescore Years 203
The Japanese as They Are 205
Work for Japanese Soldiers in Manchuria 207
Gospel Tent Work 209
A Furlough — Before and After Taking 210
Twentieth Anniversary, School, Kanazawa 211
Encouragement to Service 212
Good Signs in Wartime 213
Contrasted Forces at Osaka 214
Letters from 72, 97, 120, 164, 192, 215, 286*
Notes on 26, 58, 81, 106, 177, 201, 202, 273
Japan for Juniors (Text-book) 49, 202
Korea — Women Missionaries 251
New Hospitals Dedicated 2, 26
John D. Wells Training School, Seoul 1(17
A Call from a Korean Princess 251
Building a Hospital at Syen Chun 252
New Property for Korea Mission 254
A,mong Taiku Women 254
A Beginning at Chong Ju, Chung Chong Province. 255
Mrs. Hunt's Last Piece of Service for Korea 256
The Growth of a "Group " or Congregation 257
Buying the Truth in a Korean Market 259
Plenty That is Interesting in Syen Chun Field 260
Notes on Korea Mission 262
Letters from 15, 45, 119, 165, 191, 215, 263, 286
Notes on 2, 26, 105, 106, 130, 153, 178, 249
Library, African Reference 289
Mexico — Women Missionaries 131
Street Scene at Cuernavaca 132
Description of Kodak Views 133
Tourist and Coachman 138
Letters from 140, 215
Notes on 58, 129
Missionary Magazine, The • 18
Mothers, Listen — Versie 99
Persia— Women Missionaries 227
Cholera Relief Work 9
Cure for Plague 186
Some Young Urumia Missionaries 227
Persian Women and the Gospel 229
A Kurdish Roderick Dhu, His Clan, and Fate 231
Another Urumia Veteran Promoted 233
Christian Endeavor Convention 234
Our Educational Work 235
Boys' School, etc., Teheran 236
PAGE
Faith Hubbard School Commencement 237
Teacher's Week Among Country Churches 238
A Surprising Doctor 239
Letters from 15,44, 240
Notes on 1, 26, 58, 153, 225
Philippines — Women Missionaries 155
A Visitor in Cebu 158
Summer Capital 159
Undertakings at Iloilo 160
Letters from 17
Notes on 26, 81, 105, 154, 250
Praise Meeting Anniversaries, Denver 100
Prayer — Verse 50
1'iiAYER Calendar, Missionary 74
Quarterly, All the World 74
Religion in Paganism 288
Siam and Laos — Women Missionaries 107
Incidents from Chieng Mai 12
Boon Itt Memorial 106
Historical Sketch of Harriet House School 107
Trans-Cambodia Tour to the Kamoo People 110
New Hospital at Nakawn Ill
Vacation News from Bangkok 112
Bear-bitten Noi Wong 113
Visitors, High and Low 115
Medical Work in Laos 116
Helping a " Shut-In " 116
Progress in Bangkok 117
Tour of a Novice in Pre Field 179
Letters from 46, 118, 240, 264
Notes on 2, 26, 105, 106, 177, 225, 250
South America — Women Missionaries 131
Women's Meetings' in Barranquilla, Colombia 131
Encouraging Change at Estancia, Brazil 132
Annual Meeting and Backward Brazil 136
Progress at Valparaiso, Chili 137
The Christ of the Andes 139
South Brazil Notes 139
Letters from Brazil, 141, 280; Chili, 141 ; Venezuela, 142
Notes on Chili 130 Brazil 130, 274
Study Classes 153, 177, 202
Suggestions 243
Summer Schools 73, 18f, 166, 193
At Northfield— Report 202, 217
At Winona Lake — Report 218
Syria — Women Missionaries 275
Telling Work in Syrian Schools 12
Old Portraits of Young Faces 275
A Veteran's Activities 277
Influence of Missionary Homes 279
Zahleh Reading- Room 280
Straw Work by Syrian Women 281
Beirut School for Girls 281
Reaping in the Wilderness 282
Cultivation of Zeal 283
Letters from 98, 190, 285
Notes on 130,177, 274
Taken Home in 1904 3
Treasurers' Reports 23, 54, 77, 103. 124, 150,
171, 198, 222, 248, 270, 293
(Totted Study of Missions:
Announcements 166. 193, 217, 242
Japan, Dux Christux 18, 49, 73. 99, 121
Africa, Christus Liberator 265, 287
Welcome, The — Verse 194
Women's Social Union, Springfield, 111 193
Woman's Work, Story by Dr. Halsey 19
Worth a Year's Subscription 219
WOMAN'S WORK
Vol. XX. OCTOBER, 1905. No. 10.
Our friends who are en route to Per-
sia were due to leave London Sept. 11,
but, on account of alarming newspaper
reports of the situation at Baku, the
message was cabled them from the Board
Rooms, " Use discretion as to pro-
ceeding to Caucasus.'''' Mr. Speer re-
marks that ' ' Mr. Wilson is not a man
to exaggerate danger and has a good,
rigid Pennsylvania sense of duty ; at the
same time, I think he will be cautious."
Reliable information regarding Baku
can doubtless be obtained in London,
but we go to press before learning
whether the missionary party proceeds
or waits.
The lamented death of Joseph P.
Cochran, M.D., is announced by cable
from Persia. Though his life has some-
times been in peril from wicked men, he
died in his bed of the fever from which
his skill has raised up many. In a ser-
vice of twenty-seven years, his wide and
notable medical practice has won pres-
tige for the Mission and for himself dis-
tinguished honors from the Shah, not-
withstanding that he often, in Persian
courts, took the risks of fearlessly and
faithfully defending the rights of the
downtrodden Christian villages. Dr.
Cochran leaves a young wife at Urumia,
his children in this country, and friends
at Buffalo and elsewhere, who all are
deeply bereaved. Urumia can ill afford
to spare him, and it is not too much to
ask of the finest equipped young phjTsi-
cian in this land, one of most versatile
gifts and stable character, to offer him-
self for the vacant post at Westminster
Hospital, Urumia.
From not only Hamadan but all the
Persia stations, letters arrive expressing
the " sore loss of our darling Charlotte
Montgomery," and from Korea they
continue to write : "It will be harder
for us to live as we ought without the
example of dear Mrs. Hunt's life before
us."
Among our ' ' Letters ' ' this month will
be found particulars concerning the un-
expected death of Miss Kate Fleeson,
after eighteen years of missionary ser-
vice in Laos. A later letter from Mrs.
Hansen of Lakawn is full of the warm
appreciation which her associates felt
for Miss Fleeson. She had closed her
spring term of school with a successful
public examination and bazaar of arti-
cles made in sewing class, " but when
books were put away and accounts all
settled, she went to bed too weak for
further effort." She was proud of her
new schoolhouse which had displaced
the old bamboo shed, and next to her
pupils her affection was lavished upon
"the poor, childish-hearted Laos wo-
men. " Miss Fleeson's ability, her bright
repartee and sunny face will be easily
recalled by those who saw her on fur-
lough, eight years ago. Amid trials in
her missionary life, she found great
solace in living beside her "Uncle
Wilson."
The erection of the Labaree Memorial
Church progresses at Urumia, Persia,
and a new dormitory for Fiske Seminary
is to be built, in order to accommodate
a hundred girls as against sixty-three
received last year. The Moslem depart-
ment, in charge of Miss Van Duzee,
moved on unhindered all the year and
the number of pupils rose to above fifty.
The Memorial School at Tabriz was
in charge of Rev. J. N. Wright during
Rev. S. G. Wilson's absence last year.
The majority of boys are Armenians
from non-Protestant families and do not
propose to be seen inside the Mission
church, but they flock to Sunday-school,
held in the same room where they study
on week days, they give the same atten-
tion to the lesson and sing hymns with
vim. With no clocks at home, they
sometimes arrive two hours before the
doors are opened, and their secular
shouting from the playground "sadly
226
EDITORIAL NOTES.
|OCT.,
jars" on the ears of Sabbath-keeping
teachers, who yet do not see how to ad-
just the situation to their satisfaction.
Twelve new members were received
on confession of faith at the July Com-
munion service of the Japanese Mission
Church in San Francisco, eighty com-
municants quite crowding the chapel.
Among those present were twenty-two
Japanese women, the largest number
ever seen at any meeting of the mission.
Mrs. Sturge has organized a band of
King's Daughters which meets in her
parlor.
The Committee on United Study of
Missions was represented at Chautau-
qua, this summer. No fee was charged
and 160 women registered, largely from
the Southern States. Daily lectures on
the new Africa text-book were given for
a week before audiences varying from
23 (in a thunder-shower) to 150. The
subject of United Study was presented
before the Woman's Club and sixty-nine
copies of Christus Liberator were sold
the same week by the bookstores.
As responses continue to come in daily,
Woman's Work still holds open the
offer to subscribers, to forward addresses
of their acquaintances whom they would
like to have introduced to this magazine.
The treasurer will then mail a copy to
each address, stamping the wrapper
"with the compliments of " the sender.
The longest list yet received included
thirty-two. names. Send to Room 822,
156 Fifth Ave., New York.
Rev. W. J. Leverett of Hainan
writes of the extent of plague ravages
last spring. In the course of three
months, ten per cent, of the population
of Nodoa and about twenty per cent,
from Namfong were swept off. Dr.
Bryan was able to save the little son of
a Christian man and some cases in a
near village; he had supervision of mis-
sion premises and employes and posted
suitable precautions in public places ; but
the masses believe in idols and oracles
rather than medicine. A colonel at the
barracks with tears besought his god to
protect them and, when two rats died,
took his shoe and spanked the image,
after which there was no more trouble.
Mrs. McClintock was startled to find
how genuine the faith is in wood and
stone. Two grown men, both gradu-
ates, carried an image the size of an or-
dinary doll, all over the market, the
priest having promised it should render
them immune, and after all they were
seized by plague.
Friends of Mrs. H. P. Hamilton, for-
merly our Miss Snow of the Mexico Mis-
sion, will sympathize with her in the
sudden death of her husband at Mexico
City, August 20. He has been an agent
of the American Bible Society for twen-
ty-six years and superintended the work
of from thirty to fifty colporteurs.
The North India School of Medicine,
at Lodiana, admits only Native Chris-
tian girls and, for the sake of attracting
such girls who otherwise will go to
America or Europe for education, and
also to meet the conditions of a govern-
ment grant, the management is desirous
of raising the standard sufficiently to
allow the school to affiliate with Punjab
University. Dr. Mary Noble of the Pres-
byterian Mission lectured in anatomy
last year, and Dr. Ewing of Lahore is
president of the general committee.
Rev. Franklin B. Dwight of Morris-
town, N. J., will answer any questions
from those interested in the future of
the Medical School.
The first native woman of India to
qualify for the bar, Miss Cornelia Sor-
abji, has been appointed by Government
legal adviser to the Bengal Court of
Wards, so that purdah ladies may now
confer upon legal business face to face
with their counsel, an advantage long
since secured in matters of health
through women physicians.
An English missionary of Lahore is
quoted in the Gleaner for May. He
was out on a preaching tour with stu-
dents of St. John's College and, in the
course of " a long talk with some twenty
men, at last an old man burst out and
would not stop. He was thirsty, and
had been thirsting, for God. ' Have you
seen Him ? Can you show Him to me ? '
The old man almost prostrated himself
at my feet and said he would worship
me if I could make him know God. "
Canton Mission received to the
church 1 ,297 converts on confession last
year; this covers all three stations.
1905.]
227
Mrs. Fred
Mrs. J. P.
Miss Mary
Miss Mary
Dr. Emma
Mrs. Wm.
Miss Mary
Mrs. E. W
Miss Lillie
k G. Coiin.
Cochran.
J. Fleming,
E. Lewis,
T. Miller,
A. Shedd,
Van Duzee,
. McDowell,
Van,
B. Beaber,
Our Missionaries in Persia
AND POST OFFICE ADDRESSES.
Urumia. Miss Lucille Drake,
" Miss (i. Y. Holliday,
*' Miss Mary Jewett,
Mrs. L. C. Van Hook.
" Mrs. Wm. s. Vanneman.
" Mrs. S. G. Wilson, en route,
Mrs. J N. Wright,
Miss Cora Bartlett,
Mrs. Chas. A. Douglas,
Mrs. S. M. Jordan,
Turkey in Asia
Tabriz
Tabriz.
Teheran.
Mrs. J. L. Potter, Teheran.
Miss Rosa Shoenhair, "
Mrs. J. G. Wishard.
Mrs. E. T. Lawrence. M.D., Kazvin.
Mrs. Henry C. Schuler, Resht.
Mrs. Jas. W. Hawkes, Hamadan.
Mrs. J. A. Funk,
Miss Annie Montgomery, 11
Mrs. Blanche Wilion Stead, M.D., "
In this country : Dr. Mary Bradford, Lexington, 111.; Mns. Lewis F. Esselstyn, Lansing, Mich.; Mrs. Benj. W. Lab-
aree, care of Miss J. J. Hamilton. Norfolk, Conn ; Dr. Mary J. Smith, Jamestown, N. Y.
For information concerning other Societies working in this field consult Dr. Dennis' Centennial Survey and Beach's
Atlas of Protestant Missions.
JUSTIN PERKINS, D.D., PERSIA, 1834-1869.
MRS. PERKINS, 1834— An invalid life in U. S. A.
REV. JOSETH G. COCHRAN, PERSIA, 1848-1871.
MRS. (DEBORAH PLUMB) COCHRAN, 1848-1893.
Some Young Urumia Missionaries,
By Their Surviving Associate.
My first acquaintance with the Per-
sia Mission was made in Erzroum, Tur-
key, in 1859. Mr. Breath, the Mission
printer, came that far to escort us over
the Kurdish mountains into Persia. He
was a quiet man but, as he said, he
' ' read the newspapers to find out what
God was doing in the world," and I soon
found that he could talk in a most in-
teresting way. This helped to make the
long horseback ride of some four hun-
dred miles a very pleasant experience.
The day we reached Urumia, Nov. 9,
was the first rainy day of the season,
but in spite of rain a number of Syrians
with Mr. Cochran, Mr. Coan, and two
sweet, fair-faced little Coans in bas-
kets slung over a horse, met us and
escorted us into the dismal-looking city
of narrow streets and blank mud walls.
I can see Mr. Cochran's bright face
now, as he gave us a hearty welcome,
and hear Mr. Coan's kind greeting,
after four weeks among dirty Turks and
Kurds. I remember, too, the strange
Syrian faces, now the faces of dear old
friends.
First we were taken to Mr. Breath's
home, the living rooms of which were
in the second story and reached by a
dark stairway. All the stairways seemed
narrow and dark but the living rooms
were cosy and homelike in those days.
Mrs. Breath was a gentle little lady
whom I loved. The most abiding im-
pression was made by the missionary
children of from six months up to twelve
years in age. Fred Coan (now Dr. Coan
of Urumia) was the youngest and he
was whistling in his nurse's arms. Josy
Cochran (Dr. J. P. Cochran) was four
years old and he, with his brother and
sisters and the three Breath children,
gathered around the new missionary
and gave her their confidence at once.
Johnny Wright, son of Dr. Wright,
read the newspapers and put into action
what he read, even to the hanging of
John Brown. Baby Austin Wright was
left in God's acre on Mt. Seir when the
228
SOME YOUNG URUMIA MISSIONARIES. [Oct.,
family returned to America the follow-
ing spring. His was the first of eleven
deaths which saddened the first eleven
years of our life in Persia.
The Cochrans fill the largest space in
REV. JOHN H. SHEDD, PERSIA, 1859-1895.
MRS. (SARAH J.) SHEDD, " 1839 .
my memory of those days. We lived
beside them on Mt. Seir. Wherever Mrs.
Cochran was, love and gentle courtesy
seemed the atmosphere about her. She
made an ideal home. Missionaries and
Syrians were alike welcomed to her
bountiful table. She ministered tenderly
to the old and feeble. Her graceful
courtesy made it impossible for any one
to be rude to her. Her taste and skill
and gracious personality transformed
those dingj7 rooms in the old mud -built
castle on Mt. Seir into a lovely home.
Their son Theodore soon bore witness to
his Saviour in a death so happy that our
Moslem Mirza said: " I would give all
I possess if I could feel as that child did.
/ am afraid to die. "
Bright, energetic Mrs. Coan was the
finest cook, the most skillful seamstress,
the best nurse, the most helpful, effi-
cient woman in our circle. If we re-
quired needles, thread, scissors, or any
other of the numerous small articles
which, in those days, the Persian market
could not supply, Mrs. Coan's wonder-
ful box was sure to contain it. She
could cut and fit our dresses and even
coats and trousers did not daunt her.
She nursed the sick, she lined and cov-
ered the rough caskets for our dead.
Though many shadows were cast across
those early days, the light of love and
sympathy and hope is over it all and it
is a light not of earth. A Moslem wo-
man once asked me : " Why do you peo-
ple not mourn as we do ? You never
tear your hair or beat your breasts or
wail. Why is it ? " I repeated to her
the first verses of John 14 th, and I never
forgot her sad look as she replied : " Je-
sus has done this for you. Mohammed
has done nothing like that for us."
The Fourth of July and Thanksgiv-
ing Day were our great feasts. Grandpa
Perkins kept a flock of turkeys and often
our Thanksgiving dinner was spread on
his table, for, although Mrs. Perkins
was in America, he kept house. Blessed
MRS. GEO. W. COAN, PERSIA, 1849-1897.
REV. GEO. VV. COAN, " 1849. Date
of death not ascertained.
is the mission circle which has a Grand-
pa Perkins. He was very tall, dignified
and courteous and rather formal in his
manners, but his heart was warm and
fatherly. I can never forget his kind
care when in the absence of my husband
I was taken severely ill. He would carry
off my lively little boy and keep him for
hours. This child once, after a thought-
ful silence, asked solemnly, "Mamma,
is Perty, Dod ? " Later he had learned
the distinction between the infinite Cre-
ator and the good grandpa. One day,
having been sent out with his nurse to
walk, he was told not to pick the flowers
1905.]
PERSIAN WOMEN AND THE GOSPEL.
229
on the terrace in the yard, for they were
Grandpa Perkins' lilies, but that he might
gather the wild flowers on the mountain
side. To this he remarked, " God is will-
ing that we should gather His flowers."
My husband was very youthful in ap-
pearance then — always cheerful, seeing
the good in everybody and the bright
side of life generally. Dr. Perkins used
to say that it cheered him to hear Mr.
Shedd's step on his stairs, when he made
his daily evening call on the lonely old
man. One day a schoolboy asked Mr.
Shedd his age. " How old do you think
I am ? " The polite youth replied,
" About eighty." The Oriental believed
that " Days should speak and multitude
of years teach wisdom," and he would
not be so rude as to suggest that his new
teacher was young.
These missionaries were not a solemn
set and often they were merry. When we
went to tea at each other's houses there
was always a fund of laughable stories.
Once a missionary was preaching flu-
ently (as he supposed) in Syriac, when
an old woman exclaimed, " Behold! he
is speaking in his own language." To
call "needle" donkey, "ox" mountain,
or "pea" cabbage, only requires a slight
change in pronunciation in the Syriac,
but it sounds queer in a sermon and
makes a funny story. English, too, "as
she is spoken " by Persians, is some-
times interesting. "Am I mistooken
in my spoken?" and "A reptile has
descended upon my countenance," for
example.
As soon as we could speak enough
Syriac to be trusted alone, we lived for
some weeks in the villages. One scene
is impressed upon my memory. I sat
with my feet in the tandoor (oven in
the ground) surrounded by those who
were deeply interested in my hat, gloves
and shoes, and who were anxious to try
Persian Women
I have as one of my most precious
possessions a Turkish Testament under-
lined and annotated on every page,
showing what I have found interesting
to Persian women. One realizes as never
before the wonderful truth anduniversal
adaptability of the gospel, when giving
it to those who hear it for the first time,
and
them on themselves. A calf on the other
side of the room stood mildly regarding
us. A man entered and in a loud voice
commanded the chattering women to"
" be silent, the Khanum will preach." I
was so frightened that I forgot all I
knew and the sermon never came off.
One night in a mountain village is not
to be forgotten. The chief man had in-
vited us to his mansion. Its one large
room was lighted and ventilated through
a hole in the roof, which also served as an
outlet for the smoke. His cattle, horses
and buffaloes were in the room, his own
family and his brothers' families, too.
Our bedroom was in the center, and a
chicken coop and some lambs were our
nearest neighbors. Our horses, mules
and servants were there also. So we had
a lesson in " how the other half live."
I like better to recall hours spent on
horseback, climbing up winding paths
over the Kurd ish mountains. Sometimes
the path was so narrow I dared not ride
and, dismounting, I led my horse. Once,
I saw the horse in front of me roll down
the steep precipice into the stream below ;
next, the donkeys carrying the summer
provisions followed; then the box of
clothing went, and we had to stay sev-
eral days in the first hamlet to dry our
belongings. I remember just how the
rice and flour looked and the nicely
ironed clothes, for I knew they would
not be ironed again for several months.
But we had a tent to live in and sleep
in and pure air to breathe ; and I could
laugh at such tribulations and enjoy the
romantic village built on the side of the
deep mountain gorge — the grand scen-
ery, the quaint customs and kindly at-
tentions of the people. To this day I
cannot help feeling a little elated when
I remember that our mountain guide
called me "a brave traveler."
Sarah J. Shedd.
and the GospeL
" It blesseth him that gives and him that
takes."
Though it is the gospel for humanity,
and in Christ there is neither male nor
female, it is interesting to find its special
message to Persian women and how it
appeals to their hearts. That they should
have any message or consideration at
all is news to them. As we pass a mosque
'230
PERSIAN WOMEN AND THE GOSPEL.
[Oct.,
lighted for evening services during the
month of fasting, we see rows of men
inside seated on carpets, sipping tea or
smoking water pipes, while the mollah
preaches from the pulpit. Outside, hud-
dled together and sitting in the dust of
the street, are the women. When two
of us, disguised in the dress of Moslem
women, attended the Passion Play at
the invitation of a lady of rank, we sat
with her on the ground among a crowd
can become as shameless, defiant and
persistent as the woman before the un-
just judge. Several times has a mob of
women led by a woman attacked the
Judge's gate in Tabriz demanding
bread.
Their often miserable and diseased
condition of health makes the women
feel how tender is Christ's compassion
in His miracles of healing. They have
suffered much from quack nostrums
only to grow
worse. In any
crowd of village
PERSIAN VILLAGE GIRLS DANCING ON THEIR WAY TO A WEDDING
of, women, while on chairs and in the
booths above were ' ' the lords of crea-
tion." They wonder where, even in
heaven, there will be room for women.
The Koran promises a house of pearl to
each Mohammedan man, with seventy
celestial maidens to wait upon him. So
used are Persian women to being hus-
tled about that they are surprised at
Christ's "Forbid them not." It is
sometimes amusing to see a pompous
Moslem push his way into Dr. Mary
Bradford's dispensary, and, when he is
made to understand that only women
are treated there, to see him retire crest-
fallen. The doctor says she is glad that
women have the first place there, at
least. They generally expect neither def-
erence nor respect, and are not surprised
at the Syro-Phcenician woman being
called a " dog." They are used to such
epithets and use them themselves. Ono
often hears a woman berating a child as
"You son of a dog." When driven to
desperation by want, the Persian woman
women one
may see an old
hag, bent and
"bowed to-
gether," and
there is no more
pitiful sight
than the old wo-
men of Persia.
One who is a
hundred years
old always ap-
peals to us for
charity by say-
ing she is "an
orphan."
Their life and
occupations are
so identical with
those of Bible times that Persian wo-
men feel familiar at once with the
scenes described in the New Testament.
Every morning a village woman must
mix her leaven in her meal for the
daily baking, must sweep her mud floor,
and often two women sit at the mill
grinding salt or wheat to be cooked as
porridge. Every one of them wears a
necklace of silver coins, if she can, and
counts each one precious. The custom
of covering the face, lest a man " look
on a woman," is so wrought into their
earliest training, that they are able to
draw their veils instantly, whatever
they are doing, if a man approaches.
They marvel as did Christ's disciples,
that He talked with a woman, especially
of a foreign race, and that He asked for
a drink of water, for to-day the Persians
think a cup defiled if a Christian drinks
from it. The accompanying picture
might illustrate the parable of the "ten
virgins," though it is only a wedding
procession in a Persian village, the mu-
1905.]
A KURDISH RODERICK DHU.
231
sicians leading with fife and drum and
" the virgins " following in all the finery
they can muster. At times of mourn-
ing also they act just as the gospels de-
scribe. Friends gather to ' ' weep and
bewail." I have seen a room full of
women swaying and sobbing while a
mother wailed a plaintive refrain, "Alas !
alas!" repeating the beloved name of
the dead, often tearing her hair and
beating her breast. I have often met
blear-eyed women, who said they had
become so by excessive weeping over the
loss of a child. To such comes Jesus'
message, "Weep not! "
Religious observances in Persia are
such as give special significance to the
gospel teaching. I had a visitor whose
lips were continually mumbling as she
fingered her beads. She told me she
was repeating the thousand names of
God, for merit. Often, when in their
homes, our hostess will excuse herself
because it is " the hour of prayer " and,
going to a corner of the same room in
which we are, will go through the forms
and gestures of Mohammedan prayers.
' ' Vain repetitions ' ' they seem, when
we know the words are Arabic, a lan-
guage she does not understand, and as
she calls out directions to her servants
in the midst of her prayers, one can see
there is no devotion in them.
Fasting is a terrible burden, when for
a month, from dawn to dark, not a mor-
sel of food nor a drop of water nor a
whiff of the kalian, (pipe,) can pass
A Kurdish Roderick Dhu
Soon after I came to Tabriz, now
more than twenty years ago, the ladies
of the Mission were invited to make a
call with a young Nestorian doctor at
the house of one of his patients, a Kurd-
ish chief from the district of Salmas, on
the border lying between Persia and
Turkey. He was head of a particularly
wild and lawless tribe, and the govern-
ment having succeeded in getting him
into their hands, kept him a prisoner in
this city till his death. He was allowed
to live in a house of his own and had at
least one of his wives with him. Having
at the time no language of the country,
I was a silent participant in the call but
I remember well the stately, white-
their lips. The people acknowledge that
it is the cause of quarreling and revil-
ing, so irritable do they become under
the strain, and yet they dare not " eat
their fast " for fear of others.
All who can afford it make the long
pilgrimage to Mecca and bear thereafter
the holy name of Hadji, Pilgrim. To
them that is a new thought which Christ
gave to the woman of Sychar, that no
special location is " the place where
men ought to worship." Of all Christ's
words none is received with more ap-
proval by Persian women than those on
marriage and divorce. They know how
polgyamy curses their homes. One Mos-
lem said : "I need not go to the other
world to know what hell is. I have it
in my house." The women often say to
us, " How happy you Christian women
are with no fear of divorce! " A Mos-
lem Bluebeard can dispose of his wives,
in legal form, more readily than that
fierce husband.
Not only Christ's teaching but his
character makes an impression on these
Moslem women and his gentleness and
purity especially attract them. A Mo-
hammedan lady said to me : "I cannot
read, but one woman in our harem can
and she reads the Injil (New Testa-
ment) to us. We can never get enough
of it." Another, making a call of con-
dolence upon me, said : ' ' There is only
one book that can comfort you. You
told me about it, now I tell you."
Annie Rhea Wilson.
His Clan and His Fate.
haired old man who reminded one so
strongly of a caged eagle, and the grace-
ful, independent Kurdish wife, who in-
stead of veiling herself and effacing her
presence as much as possible before one
of the other sex, conversed with the phy-
sician with as little embarrassment as
one of ourselves and was not silenced
by the presence of her husband, as a
Turkish woman would have been. It
was an interesting visit, and when the
captive died here and was escorted by a
retinue of mourning clansmen to his
burial place in Salmas, the story was not
one to be forgotten.
Eight years ago when I began to tour
in Salmas, much was heard of the old
232
A KURDISH RODERICK DHU.
[Oct.,
man's grandson, Giafar Agha, a typical
Kurd. It was said that his tribe were
really Nestorians originally, nominal
Christians who had become Moslem two
or three hundred years ago, and now
ranked among the fiercest and most
dreaded of the Kurds. Once, in travel-
ing to Van, we stopped at his village to
ask guards of him over a dangerous
road, and our request was promptly
granted ; of course, for a consideration.
Giafar Aga was not at home, but a
younger brother rode with us a part of
the way. Too shy to speak to the ladies,
he galloped furiously past, evidently
desiring to attract our attention to his
fine horsemanship. This was our second
glimpse of this family whose name is
written in characters of blood and tears
in the records of Western Azerbijan.
A year later I remained for one night
in his village; not in the chief's home,
though urged to be a guest there, but
in the house of some Armeno-Nestorian
Christians who were subjects of his.
This time the chief was at home and
received me with the greatest cordiality,
giving me the honor of eating with him-
self. He was a much younger man than
I had expected to see, and I then real-
ized that all along I had been confound-
ing him with his father, whom he had
just driven from his home with sword
and gun, so that Salmas was witnessing
the spectacle of father and son in arms,
each laboring to destroy the other. He
was much more ignorant of the world
than I had supposed possible, and I was
reminded of the character of Roderick
Dh* in TJie Lady of the Lake; the same
wild, fearless independence and the same
obedience on the part of his clansmen.
As they stood ranged around, while the
chieftain lounged at the head of the
room pn cushions, I felt that if he gave
the word, none of those fierce warriors
would hesitate for an instant to take our
lives. But he was far from any such
thought and exerted himself to appear
in the best possible light before his vis-
itors, though we had gone there for the
purpose of seeing his Christian subjects.
We were invited to take our dinner in
his harem and to visit his wives, which
we were very willing to do, but when
the Agha left other guests in the men's
apartments in order to devote himself
exclusively to us, it was not so pleasant.
He accepted a Turkish New Testament
and read a few verses in school-boy fash-
ion, saying he had never been allowed
to learn but had picked up reading him-
self. The conversation turned mainly
on religion, and I have never had a
closer view of a depraved human heart
unveiled without shame or remorse. I
trembled as I listened to his words, and
a deep pity took possession of my heart
for this poor man, who was what he was
because the Christian Church has for
centuries so lamentably failed in her
duty to seek after the lost sheep. Leav-
ing the place the next day, I never saw
the chief again; but he remained the
subject of thought and prayer, and I had
the joy of knowing that a messenger of
God had gone to him and faithfully
preached the Gospel of Jesus. He con-
tinued, however, in his wild career of
brigandage and oppression until he
reached a point too bad for even the
Persian government to tolerate his
crimes. Last summer (1904), they sent
troops who drove him from his moun-
tain fastness into Eastern Turkey, where
he sustained himself for some months
with difficulty. Here it seemed he could
be reached only by God Himself. This
spring the strange tale came to us that
a messenger had arrived requesting the
young evangelist who had before vis-
ited him to go again, and relating the
following vision which Giafar Agha
had beheld and by which he was deeply
impressed. I will give it as nearly as
possible in his own words :
' ' It seemed to me that I found myself at the
bottom of a deep valley, surrounded by moun-
tains which reached up to heaven and com-
pletely shut me in. Realizing that if I re-
mained in tbat spot I must inevitably perish, I
attempted to scale the heights, but in vain. I
then tried to tear them down with my hands,
but found the task hopeless and lay down in
despair. Suddenly I became aware of a man
standing by me in shining white garments
who only laid a finger on the mountain wall,
and instantly it sank down and became a level
plain. I was so overcome by this miracle that
I fainted away and remained unconscious, 1
know not how long. On coming to myself, I
asked my deliverer ' Who are you ? ' and he
replied ' I am Jesus, of whom you have heard
from my servants and handmaiden.' Weep-
ing I fell at his feet and besought him to re-
ceive me, for I was sure none but a divine
person could work such a miracle. Now I am
convinced that Jesus is the Light of God, and
henceforth I shall do all in my power to pro-
tect the Christians of Kurdistan."
1905.]
ANOTHER URUMIA VETERAN PROMOTED.
233
More than a month ago, we were sur-
prised to hear that Giafar Agha with a
large retinue had come here, putting
himself at the disposal of the govern-
ment, and now all the border was to be
pacified. Two or three weeks ago there
were fears of race riots in Tabriz, such
as have been lately occurring in South-
ern Russia between Mussulmans and
Armenians. The governor put all his
strength to the task of maintaining
order, and was successful. We heard
that Giafar Agha and his Kurds were
the main instruments in protecting the
city from an outbreak of fanatical race
hatred, which might have wrought
great disaster to the Christian popula-
tion.
Last Wednesday, the day following
the Fourth of July, we heard brisk fir-
ing at dusk in the north part of the city
where the principal men connected with
the government reside, but not much
was thought of it till word came that
the government was shooting the Kurds.
That evening the chief had been called
to the governor's house to receive in-
vestiture as an officer of the Shah.
Standing in the courtyard surrounded
by seven of his armed men, he professed
himself at the disposal of the king and
was told to follow an officer to a room
where he should receive the firman nec-
essary to make him an official of the
Shah. Turning to go, his eye caught
sight of two men posted at a certain
point, armed with guns. Knowing well
what it meant, he threw his arms around
his conductor and called to his own men
to fire. The conflict was short ; he and
two others were almost instantly killed
and the remaining five Kurds fled, firing
in the streets at every one they met. It
is said they killed over twenty people,
most of them innocent passers-by. The
bodies of the three dead Kurds were
fixed to a wall, exposed to the gaze of
crowds for a couple of days, then taken
down and presumably buried.
The end is not yet, for we have still
to hear from Salinas. Will the chief's
people be crushed by this blow or will
they seek revenge ? Another question
remains unanswered : Will this man and
many others like him have anything to
say to the Church of Christ in the great
day when accounts are made up ?
Qrettie Y. Holliday.
Another Urumia Veteran Promoted: Mary Susan Rice,
Associate and successor of Fidelia Fiske in the Girls' School, 1847-1869.
Horace Bushnell says every man's
life is a plan of God. Hers was. He
was eighty-four years finishing his per-
fect work. He chose wonderful tools or
influences for this work. One influence
was New England with all that means.
Another was Mary Lyon with all that
means. Another was Fidelia Fiske with
all that means. Miss Rice worshiped
Miss Fiske so to speak, though I never
could see why Miss Fiske should not
equally worship Miss Rice.
Peculiar traits of character fitted Miss
Rice to be a teacher. These traits were
the Beatitudes of God, the Fruits of the
Spirit, and I Cor., chapter 13. She never
could be an hour with a Nestorian girl
(or a missionary child) without impart-
ing some spiritual gift or a stitch or a
verse or a lesson. It was a way she had.
For example, before Rahanee from the
mountains had been with us an hour,
Miss Rice taught her to wash a door.
Wash a door ! Imagine Rahanee's as-
tonishment at the change from black to
white around the handle and where the
key fits in. Imagine the change in her
character and habits when she went
back, door-washing, to her dreadful
home. Before she left us for that home,
her heart had been washed, too, from
crimson to snow. A miracle of grace,
but a common one. Many Rahanees
went out from us washed. It was sweet
to watch the gradual changes in them :
Bible teaching, prayer learning, Christ
seeking. All things new.
When I returned after thirty years to
visit the school and the daughters of our
love, now mothers and grandmothers, I
found them still stepping heavenward,
following on to know the Lord. It was
beautiful ! And when I came back and
told Miss Rice of our children walking
in the truth and leading others, Loises
and Eunices teaching their Timothys,
we rejoiced exceedingly over our part
that had paid so well.
I can never forget some of our visits
together in American homes of wealth
234
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR CONVENTION.
[Oct.,
and refinement, and how Miss Rice
attracted the young. I can see her now,
sitting among a bevy of butterfly girls,
listening for their lives to missionary
stories, and their faces saying like some
of old, "We, too, would see Jesus."
She had a fascinating quaintness that
strangers would understand in a mo-
ment. One day at a great missionary
meeting, very tired, she left the church,
crossed the street and rang the first
door-bell, asking the waiting Rhoda if
there was a quiet room where a mis-
sionary could lie down to rest. There
was. After a nap, she courteously made
acquaintance with the family, winning
them to Foreign Missions, of which they
had known little and cared less, got a
subscription to the magazine, wrote
dates and names for birthday book with
promises of prayerful remembrance.
And such promises were faithfully kept,
often resulting in annual letters and
lifelong friendships. She had that way.
Her hosts always knew they had enter-
tained an angel unawares. Through the
many years of our correspondence, she
never wrote, though often only a postal
card and by an amanuensis, without
giving me a Bible verse. Always after
that, the text was illuminated and be-
came my own in a peculiar sense, en-
riching my very soul. What a beauti-
ful way to scatter gems from the Treas-
ury of our Father, the King! I love to
think of her in Heaven. The picture is
vivid and alluring.
Englewood, N. J. Sarah J. Rhea.
Christian Endeavor Convention in Urumia Field*
Though still in its infancy among us,
Christian Endeavor is making rapid
strides. On May 4, 5 the societies of
Northwest Persia held their annual con-
vention in the village of Geogtapa. The
two previous conventions were held at
Fiske Seminary, Urumia City, and it
was a decided advance for a village to
be willing to undertake the task of en-
tertaining the convention.
The convention opened with a song
service and the pastor, with true Ori-
ental hospitality, presented the villages
to the delegates and poured their peace
upon us. The only drawback seemed to
be that the seventy delegates could not
fill all the places offered for their enter-
tainment, and many hostesses were dis-
appointed in the number of their guests.
Of fifty-seven societies representing
thirty-six villages, only thirty-nine sent
delegates, owing to the long distances
and difficulties of travel, which must be
done on foot, by donkey or horseback.
Girls cannot travel without a protector,
yet there were many more girls than
young men in attendance, and a very
interesting discussion arose as to the
reason. On the last afternoon four hun-
dred or more were present, and at the
close of the session the delegates were
invited to the schoolrooms to drink tea,
which was served in tiny glasses two or
three inches high, while we sat on the
floor and chatted. The roll call and con-
secration service in the evening was a
season of heart-searching and inspira-
tion.
Two of us were royally entertained
in the home of the Lutheran pastor.
Supper was served in Persian style. A
cloth was spread on the floor, around
which we sat on cushions. After sup-
per, mattresses which had been rolled
up in bundles against the wall during
the day were spread on the floor for us,
and we were soon lost in luxurious slum-
ber, to be aroused in a few short mo-
ments (as it seemed) by the call of the
church bells to sunrise prayer-meeting.
It is the custom in this village for the
people to meet with the pastor in the
church to chant a psalm and offer pray-
ers before breakfast. I admired their
devotion as I hurried through the rain
to the service.
The Urumia C. E. Union was formed
with Mr. Mooshie, our Syrian superin-
tendent of village schools, as president.
Including eight or ten societies in the
mountains of Kurdistan, which have
been carried on by graduates of Fiske
Seminary, we have over 2,000 Endeav-
orers, all Syrians. An increase of sev-
eral hundred in membership was re-
ported and a sum about equal to fifty
dollars for the year's contributions. One
society reported having organized others
in both the Russian and the Roman
Catholic churches of their village. One
of the white-headed preachers rose in
the convention and exclaimed in amaze-
1905.] OUR EDUCATIONAL WORK IN PERSIA.
235
ment at the marvellous changes that
have been wrought since his youth.
Then, no woman would have thought
of participating in a public meeting and
young men were silent unless called upon
by their elders; but now, " Both young
men and maidens, old men and chil-
dren praise the name of Jehovah " and
do active and efficient service in the
S. C. E.
The village of Geogtapa is built upon
an ash-hill of the ancient Fire Wor-
shipers and many relics of their pottery,
coins, etc., have been found here. The
crown of the hill, which is several feet
above the streets, is occupied by the
Syrian cemetery, many hundreds of
years old. On one side, the earth has
been washed or dug away, showing the
narrow, stone-lined graves, one above
the other, many of them containing
Our Educational
Take a view of it in its wider relations.
What we in Persia do for Armenians
is but a part of a grand work which is
being done for that race over a stretch of
territory 1,500 miles in length. The
American Board Mission throughout
Turkey has largely to do with the Ar-
menians, and God has led them to em-
phasize education as a chief means of
enlightening and reforming the Gre-
gorian Church. Robert, Aintab, Mar-
sovan, and Euphrates Colleges, with
corresponding institutions for girls and
many common and high schools con-
nected with them, are spread out over
the empire of the Sultan even up to the
border of Persia. The education of Ar-
menians is an important part of our
Persia Missions enterprise in Tabriz,
Teheran and Hamadan, while the
Church of England Mission (C. M. S.)
at Ispahan emphasizes the same work.
Who can estimate the influence on the
Armenians and their future religious
history of this widely diffused and con-
stant effort ? What may we not expect
from the uplifting and reforming power
of such a body of cultured, enlightened,
gospel-instructed boys and girls, men
and women? Such an opportunity to
instill truth into the hearts of a people
should be highly prized and gratefully
utilized. It is God's way of sowing the
seed of a blessed reformation in a for-
skeletons which are exposed to view, —
a gruesome sight! As I looked upon
this host of intelligent, enthusiastic
young people gathered on this hill, the
accumulation of centuries of the ever-
burning fires of ancient inhabitants of
the land, it seemed to me that in Chris-
tian Endeavor a truly heaven-kindled
flame is burning, before whose purify-
ing and energizing influence the dead
Christianity and false religions of this
land must yield.
The convention closed with an earnest
sermon by Kasha Isaac Yonan, and the
delegates returned to their villages over
roads flooded by the heavy rains, in
some places wading through or riding
over on a man's back. But all returned
filled with new inspiration, new ideas,
and an earnest desire to go forward.
Mary E. Lewis.
Work in Persia.
mal and lifeless Church. He gives us
the privilege of stemming the tide of
infidelity and rationalism, and binding
that race to faith and Christian morality.
A million Armenians are clustered
around Mount Ararat and scattered in
Transcaucasia. The Memorial School
in Tabriz is but eighty miles from the
Russian border. Applicationscome from
parents residing there for us to accept
their children as pupils. The same is
true of mission schools in Turkey. But
passport regulations, the laws of army
conscription and other causes have pre-
vented this to any large extent. Let us
hope that a new era is about to be ush-
ered in for Russia and that the evan-
gelical influence of the mission schools
may tell upon that great empire.
In the same way our work among the
Nestorians in Urumia, with its college
and Fiske Seminary and its village
schools, may be viewed in its wider re-
lation to the Syrian race, which with its
inexplicable mixture of tribes and vari-
ous names is of Semitic stock and speaks
Semitic languages, the Arabic and Syr-
iac. The Greek Orthodox and Catho-
lics in Syria, the Maronites, Jacobites,
Chaldeans and Nestorians, are all being
molded and influenced by gospel truth
in our American schools over a territory
which begins at Beirut and Sidon and,
extending through Damascus, Aleppo
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THE BOYS' SCHOOL AT TEHERAN.
[Oct.,
and Mardin (Turkey), ends in our Per-
sia field. With the finishing of the
Euphrates Valley Railway, and the
junction with it of the Transcaucasian-
Persia Railway, a feeling of oneness in
the Syrian race will develop, and the
separate evangelical units will find
strength in more intimate fellowship.
The opportunity for educating Mos-
lem youths should be viewed as a whole,
as an enlarged work to which our mis-
sion is called. Without any formal rev-
ocation of the decree prohibiting Moslem
pupils from attending mission schools,
the law has been relaxed. Liberty seems
to have been tacitly granted. Princes,
and the children of officials, of mer-
chants, and even of Mollahs and Sayids,
are enrolled. Their attendance with
Armenians, and even Jews, shows a
decrease in religious and race prejudice.
The schools in Teheran, under the eyes of
the Shah, were the first to enjoy this liber-
ty. Hamadan, Tabriz, Resht and Kazvin
followed, on trial of opening their doors
to Moslem pupils. During the past year
Urumia, also, has been able to establish
a school for Moslem boys. Mrs. Laba-
ree, with a Christlike spirit which would
bless those who injured her, has donated,
in order to equip this school, a tithe,
namely, $3,000, out of the indemnity
received from the Persian Government.
At almost every point, too, Moslem girls
have broken through the seclusion of the
harems and come to receive instruction
from our missionary ladies.
This growing liberty and enlarging
opportunity spurs the missionaries to
increased devotion and lays greater re-
sponsibility on the Church at home.
Samuel G. Wilson.
The Boys' School and Other Interests at Teheran.
We are under greatly different cir-
cumstances from last year at this time,
the unusually cold winter having puri-
fied Teheran so that but few scattered
cases of cholera are reported. Several
weeks ago we came up to our mountain
home, Jaafarabad, and are having a
true rest this summer, though we are
as usual giving a part of our time to the
people about us and have opened regu-
lar meetings. A number of our school-
boys have summer homes near, which
gives us fine opportunities to become
acquainted with their families.
Our time through the year is chiefly
taken up with over two hundred boys,
half of them Moslems, in our school in
the city. The other missionary ladies
and myself can have a very long calling
list with their mothers. We have made
a good start on the School Library and
intend with the help of the Alumni to
open a Reading-room.
A number of our finest young men
have rejoiced our hearts this year by
becoming earnest Christians. Ten Mos-
lems of the school have professed Chris-
tianity, of whom four have been bap-
tized. One needs no other proof of the
power of the gospel than the changes
seen in their faces. One young man I
hesitated to receive in my classes two
years ago, because of his unclean heart
so evident in his face. Now it is utterly
and wonderfully changed. He is think-
ing on higher things. His heart has been
purified by the blood of Christ. On the
other side we had the discouraging ex-
perience of one young man, who could
not pass his examinations for gradua-
tion, offering to become a Christian if
we would give him a diploma. He had
no idea of a heart religion but was simply
offering to change forms.
I have kept up the woman's class for
inquirers with attendance from two to
ten. Two have been baptized and two
others would be accepted but they are
still under the authority of their father
a Sayid, who, however, allows them to
be secret Christians. A woman and a
young girl walked a distance of four
miles across the city to the meetings,
unless I gave them tramway fare.
We still have charge of the Armenian
Church in the Kazvin Quarter, where,
at Easter, eight new members were re-
ceived— four young men, children of the
Church, one Moslem- Armenian and his
sister, pupils in our schools, and two
married women from the Old Armenian
Church who were formerly in the Girls'
School. Sunday afternoon a song ser-
vice was held on our side of the city. A
teacher in the Boys' School, to whom I
have given music lessons for several
winters, has made enough progress to
become a satisfactory organist for these
1905.] FAITH HUBBARD SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT.
237
meetings. The great dream of their our physician were disregarded. Day
family is to own an organ, and they after day the sick room was filled with
were planning toward this end, but an relatives and friends, often weeping and
□
AMERICAN SCHOOL FOB BOYS, TEHEBAN, PEBSIA.
old debt of their father's to the amount
of forty dollars has come to light and
they are obliged to devote all their little
savings to paying this. They have ac-
cepted the obligation without a murmur
but their disappointment is keen.
We had a great loss in the death of
the principal of the Persian Primary
Department in school, a Christian Jew.
When it was found that he had typhoid
fever he begged to be taken to our Hos-
pital, but his mother and older brother
would not allow it. The directions of
groaning. Ten Persian doctors were
called in and administered remedies,
often several at one time. He died, and
our hearts still ache for one who might
be serving God in the flesh had he re-
ceived enlightened care. He was one
of our best teachers, quiet and good,
successful with the little folks, very
faithful in teaching them the Bible.
The hope for Persia is in the en-
lightened Christian education of her
children.
(Mrs. S. 31.) Mary P. Jordan.
Faith Hubbard School Commencement, Hamadan.
In previous years, Miss Charlotte
Montgomery has been accompanist for
the singing and, in other ways, largely
contributed to the character of all pub-
lic exercises at the School, so that her
absence was perhaps as much felt as the
presence of any one who attended the
Sixth Commencement, held last June.
In fact, the sight of Miss Annie Mont-
gomery conducting alone, (for Miss Lein-
bach had married two months before,)
was enough to touch the heartstrings.
The usual excellent programme of
recitations, hymns and essays, in Ar-
menian, Persian and English, was car-
ried out and through the singing there
ran a gentle refrain of remembrance, as
in the Armenian hymn, My help Com-
eth from the Lord and 77; e Saviour
has risen and man cannot die, and the
English anthem, The Holy City, ren-
dered by the whole school. There were
three graduates this year. Miss Mont-
gomery did not trust herself to give her
238
A TEACHER AMONG COUNTRY CHURCHES. [Oct.,
address, but Mr. Hawkes translated it
for her as follows :
Dear Girls: The time has come when it is
our duty to recognize the work you have done
in the School during the years past — to show
to those that love you and to others that you
have completed the course of study and to say
that you have been diligent nearly always in
your work. We have looked forward to this
as a very glad day in your life and ours, but
our Heavenly Father in His infinite wisdom
has taken from us the Teacher you loved best
and the one who was capable of doing the
most to fit you for this day, and we are sorely
bereaved.
You are ready, as far as your School could
prepare you, to take your places in the world.
May we beg you not to take up the burden of
its work till you have laid the burden of your
own lives at the feet of the Lord Jesus — the
great Burden Bearer. "Commit yourselves
unto Him in well-doing as unto a faithful Cre-
ator." Do not forget the lessons you must
have learned from the precious life that has
just closed— lessons of perfect devotion to
Christ; of the perfect self-control necessary
to make a true woman's character complete ;
lessons of calm trust, of abiding peace, of un-
selfishness, of patient perseverance in the
work God gave her to do, and especially of the
self denying love which enabled her to offer
herself daily, for nearly twenty years, a living
sacrifice on behalf of the women of Hamadan
and the pupils she loved so well. Should they
and you give her and us the joy of meeting
you all in the Father's many mansioned
home, to which she has gone, then Heaven
will be two Heavens for her and for us. If
this is to be so, you must follow her as she
followed Christ. We give you your diplomas
in her name and ours, and put these copies of
God's Word into your hands, to help you to
be as she was, "faithful unto death," and
may her Master and yours afterward give you
a crown of life.
A Teacher's Week Among the Women of Country
Churches*
On June 23, 1 left Urumia for Arvda,
the large village of two hundred and
fifty houses where the Woman's Con-
vention was to be held. I went to the
pastor's house in the same yard with the
church, and spent the time getting ac-
quainted with him and his family until
the women began to gather, when I
went to the church and shook hands
with each as she arrived. The subjects
of two papers presented in the meeting
by a Fiske Seminary graduate of last
year and by a young woman in the sec-
ond class, were : The Promises of God
and How Can We Make Good Use of
Our Sundays this Slimmer f I took
dinner at the home of a last year's grad-
uate who was our teacher in Arvda this
winter, and spent the night at the pas-
tor's, having my first experience of sleep-
ing on the roof in a village. Every one
sleeps on the roof, the whole family to-
gether, and the roofs are so near to one
another that it is like having a common
bedroom for the village at large. Get-
ting to bed by starlight only was not an
uncomfortable proceeding, but getting
up in the face of day and of the villagers
was a bit embarrassing!
We rode on to Abazaloo and went
straight to the house of Sonna, accord-
ing to schedule. After the convention
I had called up women from each vil-
lage and made out my visiting pro-
gramme for each day, so that every vil-
lage would know when to expect me
and at whose house. Sonna is as good
as gold, and the mainstay of our people
in that place. Six women came to see
me there, and as they were the cream
of the Church I thought I would give
them a talk on prayer and the gift of
the Holy Spirit, entrusting the message
to them for the rest. This talk I gave
in one form or another at each village,
as I had determined that in every place
I would leave a band of women praying
for this much-needed Gift of gifts. In
the evening we sat on the roof, women
and children gathered from neighboring
housetops, and we talked until I could
keep my eyes open no longer.
June 26, we rode to Supurgan, where
we have no pastor. Supurgan is near
the shore of Lake Urumia, so after din-
ner we rode down there. What a
sapphire was the great sheet of rolling
water, and what hard, sandy stretches
of shore there were to gallop over ! Best
of all was a plunge in the salt spring at
the foot of the mountain, clear, cool,
sparkling. The next morning twenty
women gathered in the church and we
had a service. Then I took a good drink
of spring water — my first drink of water
since I left the city, for I am afraid of
the dirty streams of the villages, — and
mounted and rode to Karajaloo to Kasha
1905.]
A SURPRISING DOCTOR.
239
David's house, looking forward with
pleasure to seeing his step-daughter
Sophie, who had been in the Seminary,
but left in the winter on account of ill-
ness. To my surprise, just as I reached
the gate, Sophie's mother, Hanna, and
a band of mourning women were com-
ing out on their way to the church to
weep over the girl who had just died
and been carried there for the night, as
necessaries for the funeral could not be
made ready before dark. I joined the
mourners, leading the procession Avith
the mother, and after they had wept
and wailed at the church for a time, I
induced Hanna to come back to the
house where I stayed. The next morn-
ing at 10 o'clock, the bell tolled for the
funeral and half the village made its
way to the church. The women wailed
and sang the praises of Sophie. One
would chant something like this : " How
pretty she was, and we shall see her no
more ! " and their voices would be lifted
up in another wail; or, "How young
she was and she is gone !" — again a wail.
Once inside the church a simple ser-
vice was conducted : Scripture reading,
an address and prayer, and at the end
the step-father spoke very sweetly of
Sophie and repeated her last words of
faith and joy as she neared heaven. On
the edge of the village the same service
was repeated, and afterward the men
went on down the poplar-shaded road
to the forlorn cemetery while, according
to the usual custom, the women turned
back to the house.
One of the real satisfactions of this
week on the Nazloo River was to see the
value and position in the community of
the Seminary graduates. They were the
leaders every time — the capable women
to whom the other women look up and
from whom they receive spiritual help.
In a village which is without a regular
pastor, they do the work of a pastor,
keep the meetings going and hold the
people together. As a woman would
come down the road I could tell by her
general appearance and carriage whether
she were a Seminary girl, and as she
drew nearer every one would note the
difference of expression. If she had
never been in our school her eyes told
me that the divine spark within her lay
unkindled, while from out the face of
the Seminary girl shone the light of a
living mind and spirit, — sometimes shin-
ing with rare radiance, sometimes with
but a feeble flame, but always light was
there. Mary Fleming.
A Surprising Doctor*
A fortnight ago on dispensary day, as
I was examining patients, a woman
standing by the table cocked her head
on one side and said, "If you ask, I am
also a doctor." She was evidently such
a character, that I persuaded her to
come up to the roof and stand in front
of my camera. She went on telling of
what she could do. " Now there was
Sergis, who huit his leg so badly that
all the doctors in the country gave him
up, and I went to work and cured him
j ust as easily as could be ! I cure sore
eyes, wounds on the arms or legs, tu-
mors, etc.," and she was enumerating
on her fingers the different diseases that
she could cure when the shutter snapped.
After we went down-stairs I asked if
she requires her patients to pay for their
treatment. " Indeed I do," she replied
with emphasis. Thinking you would
like to see this member of the medical
profession, I enclose her picture.
Emma T. Miller.
" SHE WAS ENUMERATING ON HER FINGERS."
LETTERS fROM MISSIONARIES
PERSIA.
Mrs. Schuler of Resht wrote from Kil
ishtar, August 1 :
This village of Kilishtar numbers two hun-
dred mud houses, built against the steep side
of a mountain, about fifty miles from Resht.
This is our first holiday in nearly three years
and we are enjoying it. The contrast between
the moist heat of Resht and these wind swept
heights is considerable. The villagers have
been very hospitable. By the great kindness
of the governor of this district, we are occu-
pying his summer residence. We have seen a
good many sick people and had a great many
callers. We were invited to spend a day with
one of the rich men of the village. Our hostess
and her sister-in-law came shrouded in their
chuddars to the door, and led me with all
honor to the guest room. Soon after, we were
ushered into an upper room and a great din-
ner tray was placed before us on the floor.
Everything was delicious, from the thin sheets
of bread, watermelon and plums to pilav,
sherbet and vegetables. Neither host or host-
ess was present. The host was in the ante-
chamber serving tea and sending it and other
dishes into the guest room, and the hostess of
course could not come from the women's apart-
ments because Mr. Schuler was present.
God is giving me opportunities among the
women. We are sure that the prayers of those
who love us and love His work are being heard,
for there are signs of blessing in Resht.
SIAM.
Mrs. J. B. Dunlap writes from Bangkok,
July 6:
To-day a mail goes making good connection
in Singapore and I am sending off the bi-
monthlies, the printing of which was discon-
tinued during our furlough. Though it takes
considerable time to get these off, it is always
a pleasure as I go through the list to recall
many friends to mind.
You know that our Ambassador, Mr. Ham
iltoo King, is now in America with his family.
THE FOURTH WAS LIKE A SUNDAY
to us here. Our acting representative at the
U. S. Legation had announced the usual re-
ception some days in advance, and on the 3d
the Snyder children had secured an unusual
allowance of Chinese firecrackers. But the
next day there was not a sound of a cracker.
The news of Secretary Hay's death having
been received, the flag was at half-mast
and our Consul, Mr. Schuyler, did not receive.
In a more personal way we have been called
to mourn at this time. Miss Fleeson died in
Petchaburee July 3 and, at 5 p. m. on the 4th,
her body was laid to rest in the little ceme-
tery there. It must be about a month since
she came from Lakawn to take the steamer
home for her furlough. Three weeks ago yes-
terday she met with us in this room, in the
weekly prayer service. Soon after, she and
Mrs. Hays went for a little visit by rail. As
Mrs. Hays said, they started out very much
like two school-girls going on a picnic and en-
joyed every bit of the way, including a visit
in Ratburi, but, soon after they reached Petch-
aburee, Miss Fleeson took ill with dysentery.
When told of the doctor's fears that she
could not recover, especially as there were
complications, Miss Fleeson, saying, "It is
all right, all right," very calmly gave direc-
tions in case of her death. Later, when hope
was expressed that she might recover, she
answered, "No, let me die; I have suffered so
much that I do not want to get well." This
was the first time she had spoken of her suf-
ferings, her one anxiety having been lest her
friends should wear themselves out in caring
for her. Besides Dr. McDaniels, Dr. and Mrs.
Wachter were there and an English nurse.
Dr. Hays, too, went over. Toward the last
Miss Fleeson was delirious and then her mind
was on her school in Lakawn. When asked
if she would like some one to sing, she replied,
"Oh, yes; sing my favorite hymn,
' FOREVER WITH THE LORD,'"
and Mr. McClure sang it for her. She lies near
Miss Small and Dr. Thompson.
LAOS.
Rev. Jonathan Wilson of Lakawn writes,
July 17, of the death of his niece:
. . . I have sent Dr. Brown the points of
her missionary life, but the filling up of the
yearly, monthly, daily life of our bright faced,
cheery -hearted, unselfish Miss Fleeson — the
whole life which she lived, subject to sudden
attacks of bodily pain, who can put all that
into one sketch ? Or those sad weeks of the
famine, years ago, how old men and women
and little starved children came kneeling be-
fore her and brought their dozens of poor
people ?
Her soul was in the work, and the school
has had her faithful, untiring services. Her
plans for it were stepping stones to further
advance of the school. And so it shall be built
up by other workers. The number of Laos
1905.]
LETTERS.
241
girls with happy eyes, their hands in training
and bodies neatly clothed, shall multiply as
years go on. But a lonely sorrow has come
to us, because the hands of this busy worker
are folded, her lips silent, her grave far off
from those for whom she labored.
Memory recalls the salutations exchanged
when the people visited her. If they could
now stand beside her grave, their lonely mis-
ery might suggest a whispered, «h^"» ("Are
you well?") and Miss Fleeson's answer would
come quickly, *^3J?*& ("I am well and
happy.") So peace to the quiet grave, from
" Uncle Wilson."
KAMERUN, AFRICA.
Mrs. Chas. W. McCleary wrote from Elat :
. . . I have been very well here and
equally busy, trying to do my best. At pres-
ent our school is in session and I have charge
of the Bulu department. There are about three
hundred to be taught. We have limited
them, otherwise we would have no way of
handling the masses, judging from the num-
ber we are compelled to turn away. For
sanitary reasons we cannot crowd too many
into our dormitories, nor allow them to expose
themselves by sleeping out of doors (which
they are willing to do). Six boys assist me
and do well. I teach reading, writing, arith-
metic and music, with as much more as I can
fit in. In the afternoons I visit towns to hold
women's meetings. The walks and the pleas-
ure of telling the gospel story are very re-
freshing and I
ALWAYS COME HOME REJOICING.
There are four children here and I am
"auntie " to all. We had a helpful visit from
Dr. and Mrs. Halsey, and our annual meeting
at the beach was most interesting because of
their presence.
Our mission has instituted a school in Bible
training here at Elat. Six young men are
studying and more are coming. The outcome
will be that African teachers and preachers
will after awhile be doing our work here,
while we push on to new stations in the in-
terior. We also expect to have local primary
schools with a high school here. Our people
are going to build a church and they are
bringing their mites. The
WOMEN ARE THE REAL GIVERS
and they wTork very hard for their money.
One old widow asked me if she might send
her offering, her feet were sore and she could
not walk so far; and she did it, too. You
would be amused at sight of our collection. It
is mostly food and averages about ten dollars'
worth. Live chickens lend their voices to the
occasion and salt fish an exceptional odor, but
"all goes" in Africa.
INDIA.
Mrs. Lillian E. Havens wrote from Kas-
egavu in Satara District, Bombay Presidency,
July 25:
I am only a one-year-old on the mission
field and not yet deep in the work, but I want
to tell you how much I
ENJOY MISSIONARY LIFE.
I belong to the " Village Settlement " with
Miss Grace Wilder, her mother and Miss Alice
L. Giles. This place is thirty miles by road
from Sangli and two miles farther from Kol-
hapur, our nearest mission stations. It is fif-
teen miles from the nearest railroad, an ideal
place for missionary work. We are surrounded
by numerous towns and villages, the nearest
having a population of 5,500, and not a single
Christian in any one of them, and this is only
ONE WEE SPOT OF INDIA.
Men, women and children singly, and in
groups large and small, come flocking to the
bungalow every day to talk and to hear our
message. Several years ago Miss Wilder toured
in this vicinity, so the people know what our
mission is and it is encouraging that they
want to hear. I take my baby organ out on
the verandah to play and sing for them, and
Miss Wilder or Miss Giles comes to talk. Our
Christian cook, the Bible women and my lan-
guage teacher are sometimes pressed into ser-
vice, too, when those of different castes do
not care to get very close to each other. The
organ is a curiosity, and if I do not at once
appear on the scene, the baja and the new
miibi sahib are usually called for.
Sabbath afternoons we have a special ser-
vice and usually a good audience. We are
encouraged to hear of some who have
GIVEN UP IDOL WORSHIP.
One instance is of a woman who, after hear-
ing the message for several days, went home
and threw every idol out of the house. A girl
from a distant village asked to be taught to
pray. She said her parents had given up idols
a year ago, on hearing the truth from a Chris-
tian schoolmaster. The girl's mind and heart
are open and eager for the sweet gospel stories,
and we pray that very soon this seeking lamb
may know her loving Shepherd. Oh, the priv-
ilege of telling these people the sweet story of
Jesus and His saving love! Oh, the oppor-
tunities, more than our small force has time
or strength for! I am impressed more and
more with the great need of the
NEGLECTED VILLAGES OF INDIA.
HOME, DEPARTMENT
UNITED STUDY OF MISSIONS,
New Volume for 1 905- i 906,
CHRISTUS LIBERATOR : An Outline Study of Africa.
This, like all preceding volumes of the series, is mailed from headquarters of our Women's
Boards at the uniform price, 50 cts. cloth, 30 cts. paper, pontage prepaid. We repeat what was
said last month that, although Christus Liberator can be had of the publisher and of book-
sellers, only the Women' s Boards mail it without extra charge for postage. Some of the Boards
are able to offer a slight reduction on orders of ten copies.
Honor Roll, 1905.
BARKE CENTER CHURCH, ... Niagara Presbytery.
[Upon receiving a full and authorized notice that 75 per cent, of women members in any-
church are subscribers to Woman's Work, the name will be added to the Roll. Where is
candidate Number Two ?]
CONFERENCE OF YOUNG PEOPLE'S MISSIONARY MOVEMENT,
Silver Bay, Lake George, July 21=31.
This fourth annual conference far ex-
ceeded in numbers any previous one, the
003 delegates taxing to the limit the ac-
commodations of the Silver Bay hotel
with its cottages and annexes. Twenty-
four States, Canada, the Philippine Isl-
ands, Japan, China, India and Africa
were represented. Of sixteen denomi-
nations, the Methodists led with 151
delegates, Congregationalists second
with 144, and Presbyterians third with
118.
After early morning Bible classes and
prayers, the morning sessions were di-
vided into three periods. The first period
was devoted to an institute of methods
to discuss such subjects as : The Student
Volunteer Movement, Mission Study
Classes, Missionary Meetings, Libraries
and Literature, the Sunday-school and
Missions, Junior Workers, and the or-
ganization of Mission Study campaigns
and the conduct of Missionary Institutes
in various centers, in order to reach a
large number of local workers who are
unable to attend the summer conference.
The second period was taken up with
Study Classes, under different leaders,
with the object not only of familiarizing
members with the text-book for the com-
ing year, Daybreak in the Dark Con-
tinent, but of illustrating methods of
conducting such classes in Young Peo-
ple's societies. The third period of the
morning, and the vesper service, were de-
voted to platform addresses by members
of Mission Boards, returned mission-
aries, Student Volunteers and others.
Some of the subjects of these addresses
will give an idea of the scope of the con-
ference: Young People and Missions,
Prayer, Bible Study, the Bible and Mis-
sions, Christian Stewardship, City Mis-
sions, Home Missions, and the needs in
various Foreign Missions.
A helpful educational feature of the
conference was the exhibition of litera-
ture of various Boards and Societies.
Around the four walls of the auditorium,
mounted upon gray cardboard supported
by slender black frames, were arranged
samples of literature pertaining to every
possible missionary subject, and it was
a pleasure to see the delegates with note-
book and pencil making memoranda of
what they needed, not only from their
own Boards but gleaning what was best
from other denominations as well. There
was also a fine exhibit, borrowed from
the Methodist Missionary Society, of
maps, charts, scrolls, curios, photo-
graphs, etc., and an experienced worker
acted as guide and director of the ex-
hibit.
While the spirit of interdenomina-
tional fellowship and co-operation was
felt throughout the conference, denom-
inationalism was also emphasized and
after regular evening services group
meetings were held. Of these groups*
1905.]
SUGGESTIONS.
243
not the least enthusiastic was the Pres-
byterian, and the presence of such rep-
resentative leaders as Dr. Thompson and
Miss Petrie of the Home Board, and
Mr. Speer, Mr. McConaughy and Dr.
Sailer of the Foreign Board, Mrs. Ches-
ter and Miss Storm, C. E. Secretaries of
the Philadelphia and New York Wo-
man's Boards, besides a number of Pres-
byterial C. E. officers, prominent min-
isters and local workers, added inspira-
tion and helpfulness to the Presbyterian
rallies. This group held a lawn party,
after which no introductions were nec-
essary.
Over and above all discussions was
the devotional spirit of the conference.
The keynote of ' ' Prayer " was struck
by Mr. C. V. Vickrey, Secretary of tbe
Movement, at the very first session and
was followed up by Mr. Speer the next
evening when he said: "Our ideals and
purposes may be all right, but what we
need is strength to carry out our reso-
lutions. Prayer is a more real and liv-
ing force than the public speech of man."
Little prayer groups of personal friends
or table companions were formed and
could be seen at any time, gathered in
quiet corners of verandahs, under the
trees, or by the lakeside, praying for
God's blessing upon the conference and
upon their own work. The last two
days of the conference, all-day prayer
meetings were held, the first on the hill-
top and the second, because of rain, in
a room set aside for the purpose. Dif-
ferent leaders were in charge all day
and one could drop in for a few min-
utes or an hour, as he chose. The effect
of these meetings was visible in those
who attended them and upon our clos-
ing sessions.
It is not the purpose of this article to
dwell upon the recreation side of the
conference, for which every afternoon
was reserved. Excursions by water,
tramps, baseball, tennis, boating and
bathing furnished the needed exercise
and reaction, and the pure delight of
simply looking at the beautiful blue
waters of the lake, the trees, the moun-
tains and the ever-changing sky would
satisfy the most particular, not to men-
tion social intercourse and the rest which
comes from change of scene and occu-
pation rather than from inaction. Pres-
byterian young people, will you not plan
now to be there next year ?
Jane R. Morrow.
Will the lady who wished to open a correspondence between one of her Sunday school
scholars and a pupil in Miss Morton's school, Ningpo, China, kindly send her full address to
Miss A. R. Morton, Englishtown, N. J., and the desired letter will be forwarded.
SUGGESTIONS.
Somebody says :
' ' Our Study Class has become so in-
terested in Japan that we want to stay
right there another year. We do not
like to turn to another country."
This remark is very encouraging. In
the first place, it shows a capacity for
thoroughness, which is sometimes the
weakest point in the study of missions
in our societies. In the second place, the
attitude of mind indicated shows that
one of the principal aims of the United
Study text-books has been achieved in
this class, at least, viz. : to arouse a
serious, gripping interest in missionary
countries and their peoples.
An Auxiliary officer writes to the
New York Board that their society is
" behindhand." They have never be-
gun the United Study books, but now,
realizing the value of them, they pro-
pose to "catch up." They intend to
crowd the study of Vols. I, II, III, IV,
into six months, and take Vol. V the
following six months " so as to be even
by the end of 1906."
This cannot be done. It would be as
impossible to mental digestion as eating
the dinners of a year in three months
would exceed the capacity of our phys-
ical organs.
No ; we recommend to both societies
referred to above, to the thorough one
and the belated one, to follow Dr.
Sailer's advice in their method of study.
He counsels classes to fall into line and
keep in line, by taking up each year the
current Study. One reason he gives is
that many helps are at hand for the reg-
ular subject but not for others. Consult
T. H. P. Sailer, Ph.D., Honorary Ed-
ucational Secretary of the Board of
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CHANGES IN THE MISSIONARY FORCE. [Oct.,
Foreign Missions, 156 Fifth Ave., New
York.
A Request — " Please send material
for me to write a Paper upon ' Life of
the Factory Girls in Japan,' and
oblige, " etc.
Reply, which might have been sent
but was not — Why don't you write
papers about something on which you
possess information already, or can
acquire it from your library ? Why
choose a topic that is so remote from
missions ?
CHANGES IN THE MISSIONARY FORCE.
Arrivals:
August — . — At , Rev. and Mrs. Robert Irwin, from Laos. Address, 903 Minnesota
Ave., Portland, Oregon.
August 6.— At San Francisco, Rev. and Mrs. Wra. M. Campbell and two children, from
Hainan. Address, R. F. D., No. 49, W. Sunbury, Pa.
August 12. — At New York, Miss Elizabeth A. Foster, from Miraj, W. India. Address,
608 East 7th St., Wilmington, Delaware.
August 15 — At San Francisco, Rev. Cyril Ross of Korea. Address, Parkville, Mo
August 20. — At New York, Mrs. G. L. Bickerstaph of Brazil. Address, care Chas. W.
Hand, 156 Fifth Ave., N. Y.
At Philadelphia, Rev. L. F. Esselstyn of Persia. Address, Lansing, Mich.
August 27. — At Philadelphia, Rev. and Mrs. Hunter Corbett and three children, from
Chefoo, China. Address, Wooster, Ohio.
Departures:
August 8. — From Vancouver, B. O, Rev. and Mrs. J. E. Snook, returning to the Philip-
pine Islands.
August 16. — From San Francisco, Mrs. Wm. B. Hamilton, returning to Chinanfu, China.
Miss Louise M. Chase, returning to Korea.
Rev. and Mrs. E. E. McFarland, to join the Korea Mission.
Miss Christine H. Cameron, " " "
Miss Lucy Floy Donaldson, " " "
Rev. and Mrs. John R. Peale, to join the Canton Mission.
Dr. Isabella Mack,
Miss Margaret Strathie, " "
Miss Clyde Bartholomew, via Japan, where she will spend several months among
the schools, to join the Philippine Mission.
August 26. — From San Francisco, Rev. and Mrs. David Thompson, returning to Japan.
Rev. and Mrs. Harvey Brokaw, returning to Japan.
Rev. J. Walter Lowrie, returning to Paotingfu, China.
Mrs. Amelia P. Lowrie, returning to Paotingfu, China.
Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Judson and two children, returning to Hangchow, China.
Miss Mary Posey, returning to Shanghai, China.
W. J. Swart, M.D., returning to Siam, with Mrs. Swart going out for the first time.
Rev. and Mrs. Geo. W. Marshall, returning to Canton Mission
Rev. and Mrs. Paul Patton Faris, to join the West Shantung Mission, China.
Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Fouts, to join the West Shantung Mission, China.
Dr. Caroline S. Merwin, to join the West Shantung Mission.
Rev and Mrs. John R. Jones, to join the Central China Mission.
Miss Jane A. Hyde, to join the Central China Mission.
Rev. and Mrs. David Crabb, to join the Hunan Mission, China.
Miss Mary G. Venable, to join the Hunan Mission, China.
Miss Margaret C. McCord, to join the Siam Mission.
August 26. — From Philadelphia, Rev. and Mrs. S. G. Wilson and four children, return
ing to Persia.
Dr. Clara H. Field, to join the Persia Mission.
Miss Ada C. Holmes, to join the Persia Mission.
Miss Myrtle B. Campbell, to join the Persia Mission.
Miss Edna S. Cole, returning to Siam, via Scotland.
September 2.— From New York, Rev. Ray H. Carter, to join the Punjab Mission, India.
September 6. — From San Francisco, Rev. and Mrs. Hugh Taylor and two children, re
turning to Laos.
Miss Elizabeth R. Campbell, to join the Japan Mission.
Miss Janet M. Johnstone, to join the Japan Mission.
Dr. and Mrs. Jas. A. Graham, to join the Philippines MissioD.
Rev. and Mrs. Chas. N. Magill, to join the Philippines Mission.
September 9.— From Philadelphia, Miss Carrie G. Orr, to join the W. India Mission.
Miss Amanda M. Kerr, to join the Punjab Mission, India.
Deaths:
July 3. — At Petchaburee, Siam, Miss Kate N. Fleeson of Lakawn, Laos.
August 18. — At Urumia, Persia, Joseph P. Cochran, M. D., of typhoid fever.
1905.]
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NOTES FROM HEADQUARTERS.
The following helps are permanent and may
be obtained from all Women's Boards :
On Persia: —
Historical Sketch 10 cts.
Question Book 5 cts.
Schools and Colleges 4 cts.
Hospital Work 3 cts.
Home Life 2 cts.
Illustrated Programmes per doz. 5 cts.
Hero Series 2 cts.
The Year Book of Prayer, 1906 10 cts.
For Mission Study Classes : —
Via Christi, Introduction to Missions,
Lux Christi, India,
Rex Christus, China,
Dux Christus, Japan,
Christus Liberator, Africa,
Each, cloth, 50 cts ; paper, 30 cts.
China for Juniors 10 cts.
Japan for Juniors 20 cts.
Africa for Jiniiors. Cloth. 35 cts. ; paper,
23 cts. ; postage extra.
From Philadelphia.
Send all letters to 501 Witherspoon Building. Direc-
tors' meeting first Tuesday of month at 10.30 o'clock.
Prayer-meeting the third Tuesday at 11 o'clock. Vis-
itors welcome at both meetings.
October. Topics for Prayer: Our Publica-
tions. Persia.
The first Directors' Meetino of the season,
October 3, will be an occasion of glad reunion
and glad resumption of work in all depart
ments after the refreshment of the summer
vacation. It is hoped that our full Board of
Directors may be present and start the season
in touch with the far-reaching interests of
our large Society.
Prayer-meeting, October 17, will be led by
Mrs. J. H. Lee and Mrs. Robert Hunter.
The Annual Fall Letter to the presbyterial
presidents is written by our president, Mrs.
Thorpe. This letter should receive careful
consideration in all our presbyterial societies,
and the various topics considered in some way
be communicated as stimulus and suggestion
to our many auxiliaries.
For the Young Women we are issuing a
free leaflet with information about their own
missionary, Miss Moore of Wei Hien, China.
Those interested, and especially those not in-
terested, should send for a copy.
Our Treasury.— July and August have
been sadly depressing to our treasury. As the
mercury and humidity rose to great heights
our store of silver and gold has fallen very
low, far behind the standard set in the corre-
sponding months of 1904. In July the loss was
$1,750, in August $931.71, a total loss of $2,682.
as compared with July and August, 1904.
This cannot mean loss of love, loss of interest,
loss of means among our women. But it does
show something. Will each presbyterial soci-
ety weigh its own gifts and, whatever the
cause of this shrinkage, make every effort be-
fore November 1 to surpass last year's total ?
Our president says, "We would remind the
faithful that we adopted twenty-six new mis-
sionaries last year, and many more are apply-
ing. It is not time to cry ' enough ' just yet.
Let every one be prompt in paying and faith-
ful in praying."
We feel cheered by a gain of 2,400 sub-
scribers to Over Sea and Land and are hoping
that the desired total of 18,000 may be reached
in time to enable us to enlarge with the Jan-
uary number. The fall circulars are most at-
tractive and tell how young and old can help
increase the circulation. Will not you get one
and carry out in your own church the inter-
esting programme, prepared entirely from
Over Sea and Land, which is on the circular?
Full directions accompany it and it will
surely entertain and instruct the children.
Annual foreign missionary meeting of N.
J. Synodical Society will be held Oct. 12, in
First Church, Jersey City, 1.45 p. M. It is
hoped that all officers of auxiliaries will try
to be present.— L. K. Owens, Rec. Secretary.
Ready — Christus Liberator, by Miss Ellen
C. Parsons ; Af rica for Juniors, by Miss Kath-
arine R. Crowell. See prices above.
OnPersia: Flash Lights, Persia (adialogue).
Daughters of Iran, each 2 cts. ; Selby of Mar-
beeshoo, 1 ct.
From Chicago.
Meetings at Room 48, Le Moyne Block, 40 E. Ran-
dolph Street, every Friday at 10 a.m. Visitors welcome.
Mrs. S. D. Ward, whose deatl' occurred in
New York, July 28, was appoin1^ id a manager
on our Board of the Northwef r. in 1875 and
was a regular attendant, a wise and ready
counselor and faithful worker, doing what-
ever she was asked to do. In 1886, she was
chosen president of Chicago Presbyterial So-
ciety, which office she held until 1894, The
following year she was made a vice-president
of the Board, holding the office until removal
to New York necessitated resignation in 1901.
Although the removal had taken her from our
midst, she was held as "one of us." Early in
the " 80's" her eldest daughter went to Peking,
China, as wife of the Rev. Harlan P. Beach, a
missionary of the American Board; in 1885. a
second daughter, Miss Ellen, went out under
our Board, but her health failed and she re-
turned in 1888. Mr. Ward, who preceded his
wife to the other shore by only a few months,
was as thoroughly interested in Foreign Mis
sions as were his wife and daughters, He
asked for the "48 page" of The Interior, to
be read to him as soon as the copy reached
their home during those last days.
During July we sent to each Presbyterial
Secretary of Literature extracts from the an
nual editorial reports of both Woman's Work
and Over Sea and Land, with subscription
246
NOTES FROM HEADQUARTERS.
[Oct.,
blanks, etc. We selected most interesting
items, with suggestions given by editors, and
are hoping for a large increase in subscription
lists for both magazines. We hope the secre-
taries have taken up the work of pushing these
helpful magazines at the fall meetings, Pres-
byterial and Synodical, as well as through
local secretaries.
Helps on Persia: The Bride's Outfit, Story
of Mahmud. Selby of Marbeeshoo, each 1 ct. ;
Daughters of Iran, 2 cts. ; Twenty-five Yean
in Persia (Miss Jewett), 15 cts.
Daybreak in the Dark Continent (Y. P.
Movement), -cloth, 50 cts.; paper, 35 cts.,
postage 7 cts.
Annals: Woman and the Gospel in Persia,
Rev. Justin Perkins, D.D., Henry Martyn,
each, paper, 18 cts. ; cloth, 30 cts. Address
Miss S. B. Stebbins, Room 48, 40 East Ran-
dolph St., Chicago, 111.
From New York.
Prayer-meeting sit 156 Fifth Ave., cor. 2(lth St., the first
Wednesday of each month, at 10.30 A. M. Each other
Wednesday there is a half-hour meeting for prayer and
rending of missionary letters, commencing at same hour.
October marks the return of forces to the
Mission Rooms. May no time be lost at the
outset. The season of active work in town
grows shorter with each succeeding year. To
guard against there being any shrinkage in
the missionary effort, every one must take
into account this reduction of opportunity for
conference and concerted action and strive
from the very opening of the season to make
each meeting accomplish the greatest possible
good.
Magazine publishers estimate that they
lose every year about one-fifth of their annual
subscribers. Our secretaries of literature
should remember this in their plans to keep
up their lists of subscribersto Woman's Work.
A steady annual gain of twenty per cent, is
necessary just to keep the list up without
making any advance. In New York, last year,
instead of advance there was decided diminu-
tion in subscriptions. This waste, too, is to
be repaired, so we hope our secretaries will
promptly begin their work with the fresh
vigor of the autumn days.
Christ hs Liberator is now in the hands of
the public. It represents the faithful, consci-
entious and consecrated work of Miss Ellen O.
Parsons, who, while never nagging in her zeal
for Woman's Work, was able to make this
valuable contribution to missionary literature.
She was prepared to treat the difficult subject
by her studies at the time of writing the bi-
ography of A. C. Good, A Life for Af rica, and
by the close application of years to the mis-
sionary problems presented on that field. Her
position is broad and sympathetic and the
text book could be used by all Mission Boards
working in Africa as well as by our own Pres-
byterian Board.
Miss Parsons' historical analysis of the open-
ing up of North Africa, the Nile country, West
Africa, East Africa, Congo State, Central Af-
rica and South Africa, taken in connection
with the introductory scientific chapter by Sir
Harry H. Johnston, forms a contribution also
to general literature, and should be welcomed
by those who feel an interest in the great life
study and development of the " Dark Conti-
nent." J. S. H.
It is hardly necessary to remind our socie-
ties that this is the month to forward the
summer offering. Let it be sent promptly to
presbyterial treasurers, so that all may reach
New York before November 1.
Leaflets for Persia meetings: Selby of Mar-
beeshoo, Daugteers of Iran, Persia (a dia
logue), each 2 cts.
New leaflets: A Visit to the West Africa
Mission, by Dr. A. W. Halsey, 10 cts. , How
to Interest Children in Missions, 3 cts.
From Northern New York.
The semi-annual meeting of the society
will be held in Hoosick Falls, N. Y., October
11, opening with a devotional service at 9.20
a. m. It is expected that the Rev. James B.
Rodgers, D.D , of Manila, will address the
meeting at 11.15. At the afternoon session,
the missionary address will be given, it is
hoped, by Rev. A. W. Halsey, D.D.
Lunch will be served by the ladies of the
church. Delegates unable to make their train
connections, who desire entertainment over
night, will please send their names and ad-
dresses in full to Mrs. J. H. McEachron, 20
Second Street, Hoosick Falls, not later than
October G.
Trains leave Troy at 7.45 and 10.00 a. m.
and 12.30 p. M. ; leave Hoosick Falls at 5.37 p.
m , arriving at Troy at 6.55. The above sub-
ject to change. Round-trip tickets, §1.33.
This fall gathering promises to be one of
much interest, and it is hoped that there will
be a large attendance and that the meeting
will have a special place in our prayers, that
we may come together to hear what the Lord
our God will say unto us, and with hearts
prepared by the Holy Spirit for obedience to
His message.
At this writing it is expected that in Octo
ber the C. E. Societies of Albany and Colum-
bia Presbyteries will have the pleasure of a
visit from their missionary, Dr. Rodgers. The
societies have been looking forward witli
pleasurable anticipation to his home-coming,
and are prepared to give him a warm wel-
come.
Orders can now be sent for the new vol-
ume, United Study of Missions, Christus Lib
erator, an Outline Study of Africa. This vol
ume has been prepared by Miss Ellen C. Par
sons, editor of Woman's Work. We trust
there will be a mission study class in every
church within our bounds. Send orders to
Miss M. H. Thwight, 17 Second Avenue, Upper
Troy. See price list at head of " Notes." A
w all map and a set of pictures can also be had.
Christus Liberator and the Year Book of
Prayer, 1906, will be on sale at the meeting in
I [oosick Falls.
1905.]
NOTES FROM HEADQUARTERS.
247
From St. Louis.
Meetings the first and third Tuesdays of each month,
10 a.m., at Koom 21, 1510 Locust St., St. Louis, Mo.
Missionary literature for sale at the above number.
Visitors always cordially welcome.
The Synodical meeting of Kansas will be
held at Hiawatha, Oct. 24, 25. While names
of all the speakers cannot be announced, Mrs.
Harry Williams, our new Field Secretary, is
expected to be present. If every one goes to
Synodical meeting expecting a blessing, the
blessing is sure to be there.
Synodical meeting of Indian Territory and
Oklahoma will be held at Muskogee, Oct. 5, 6.
Owing to the fact that Mrs. Rule, the acting
president, was compelled to resign on account
of ill health, Mrs. Moore of Sequoyah will act
as president pro tern. We who so lately tasted
of Muskogee's bountiful kindliness predict con
fidently a happy, profitable meeting.
At our August meeting the presence of
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Jones was highly appre-
ciated. Their support has been assumed by
the West Church of St. Louis, and they sail
in a few weeks for China, their new field.
Rev. and Mrs. Wallace Faris of Ichowfu,
China, are visiting Mrs. Babcock, the mother
of Mrs. Faris.
It is pleasant to remember that we have the
prospect of soon seeing and hearing Dr. Flem-
ing, whose work at Ichowfu Hospital has been
of such surpassing interest to us. Dr. Flem-
ing is expected in this country this fall.
Miss Orr, who has been assigned to India,
sails the middle of September, and will be
married to Mr. Simpson, who has been five or
six years in India, soon after her arrival on the
foreign field. We wish her all joy and pros-
perity in her new life.
Miss Ednah Cole's many friends will re-
joice to know that she is entirely recovered
from her late illness, and is spending the last
month of her furlough in Scotland visiting
friends, before she sails from that country for
Siam.
The principal feature of the August meet-
ing was the good book reviews, which were
both interesting and instructive. We believe
that an occasional book review would be a very
welcome addition to the programme of any
missionary society.
Please send your notification to our Special
Object Secretary, Mrs. Geo. W. Weyer, as to
the object your society has selected for sup
port, as soon as possible.
From San Francisco.
Public meeting first Monday of each month at 10.30
a.m. and 1.15p.m. at 920 Sacramento St. All are in-
vited. Executive Committee, third Monday.
After nearly ten years of strenuous work
as missionary for the Occidental Board, Miss
Donaldino Cameron was sent away on fur-
lough. Her wish was to visit her family at
Inverness, Scotland, but she first made a tour
through our country to visit the Christian
homes of Chinese girls who had been trained
in our mission— Minneapolis, Santa Barbara,
Philadelphia, etc. She was proud of them, of
their good housekeeping and noble lives.
Friends everywhere were ready to speed
Miss Cameron on her journey, making it pos-
sible for her to take such a trip. Relatives in
Scotland who have business interests in India
were at hand to prolong the journey toward
the Orient. On her return a reception was
tendered her at 920 Sacramento St. She gave
a most interesting account of her travels to
an audience that filled the rooms and the
vestibule.
Miss Cameron spent a few days in Hong
Kong visiting schools there, and made a longer
stay in Canton. There she saw Miss Durham
and Miss Burlingame and the good work they
are doing. Their work in San Francisco gave
them a desire to do work in China, where they
went independently of any Board.
Miss Churchill is a missionary of the Occi-
dental Board in Canton, and her Bible reader
is one of Miss Culbertson's girls, who came to
the Home under promise of marriage and
after a year married the man and returned to
China, a professing Christian. Miss Cameron
went 300 miles up the Canton River to visit
another girl who lived with her mother-in-
law, and had made a convert of her to Chris-
tianity.
Woon Ho, who was taken from a gambling
resort, remained with us eight months, and
Miss Cameron found her at seventeen the wife
of Poie Lum. She says you should have seen
the state in which Woon Ho and Poie Lum
called on me, in chairs carried by coolies, she
having flowers braided in her hair. She
brought a blue scroll to Miss Cameron, remem-
bering that her room was done in blue. Poie
Lum's father is one of the most spiritual men
in Canton, as native preacher, and works
mostly among the lepers.
As their ship neared Fort Point, San Fran-
cisco, a government tug came alongside and
Miss Cameron recognized the familiar faces of
customs and Chinese Bureau officials, all of
whom are links in her Chinese work. One of
them brought beautiful flowers, a welcome
home from "my dear Chinese girls." Miss
Cameron found on her return that the calls
for her best energies had not lessened, but in-
creased. Two or three important cases on
hand at one time has been her daily experi-
ence. All rejoice that she has had several
months of rest and change of scene.
The Occidental Board had the pleasure of
seeing twelve missionaries entertained in
Trinity Church, August 15. A luncheon and
happy social hour were enjoyed before the
afternoon session. Mrs. Denniston led the de-
votional hour. Dr. Gilchrist, Messrs. Laugh-
lin and Strong took part and Mrs. C. S.
Wright, president of the Occidental Board,
gave the greetings in words of tender sympa-
thy, adding the Lord's promise, "Lo, I am
with you alway even to the end of the world "
Never was there more unanimity of feeling
than existed between speakers and hearers at
this meeting, so that the missionaries were
encouraged to mention intimate personal ex-
periences. Many eyes were wet with tears as
their hearts were laid bare.
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TREASURERS' REPORTS.
[Oct.,
Mr. McCune, en route to Korea, spoke of the
unexpected strength of mothers when called
upon to give up their loved ones. Mrs. Mc-
Cune said we must think of the happy things
in the missionary's life. Mrs. McFarland, nee
Stewart, our own California girl from Los An-
geles, spoke of her happiness in going as a
missionary, "My meat is to do the will of
Him that sent me." Mr. Peale, en route to
Canton, spoke of famous men who have been
sent out from Princeton and of the grave there
of a student volunteer who died before the
time for his going out, his last words being,
" Go to the heathen; they cannot die as I die."
Miss Donaldson, bound to Korea, spoke of the
officers of the N. Y. Board. Miss Cameron,
also for Korea, decided to go as a missionary
when in the infant class, through her teacher,
who went to India. Mrs. Hamilton, returning
to Shantung, spoke of the power of prayer.
Miss Posey had a profound impression of God's
call, and that the inspiration received from
friends in the homeland means a wall of prayer
behind them. Mr. McAfee of Arizona, who
who had come to see his sister off, made a
happy speech on the hopeful side, closing with
a little poem, "Near to the Heart of God."
Dr. Gilchrist bade the missionaries God speed,
saying we must lean hard on Him. Mr. Strong
spoke of God's help in all times of perplexity.
Mr. McElhinney closed with prayer. J. P.
Another band of missionaries were enter-
tained at the First Church, August 25, among
them a number of those returning after fur-
lough.
Our treasury is §500 ahead of this time last
year.
Receipts of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church from Aug. \, 1905.
Cincinnati.— Venice, C.E., $13.71
Cleveland. — Calvary, 100.00
Newark.— Arlington, C.E., 3; Bloomfield, 1st, 125; Cald-
well, 1st, 35.71; Montclair, 1st, 325; Newark, 1st, 138; 3d,
100, C.E., 20; Calvarv, 20; High St., 33.54; Mem'l, 15;
Koseville Ave., 90; South Park, 167.66; Verona, 1st, C.E.,
2.40, 1,075.31
Newton. — Belvidere, 1st, 26; Blairstown, 34; Hacketts-
town, 14; Stewartsville, 31.25; Stillwater, 5; Wantage, 1st,
C.B., 2, 112.25
Miscellaneous. — A Lady. Lowellville, O., 11; A Lady,
E. Downington, Pa., 20; A Friend, Frankford, Pa., 59, 90.00
Total for August, 1905, $1,391.27
Total since May 1, 1905, 19,034.07
(Miss) Sarah W. Cattell, Treat.,
501 Witherspoon Building, Philadelphia.
August 31, 1905.
Miss Peebles, Portsmouth, O., sent $100 to Dr. Mary P.
Eddy, Syria; New Providence, N J., C.E., sent $6.54 to Dr.
J. Hunter Wells, Koiea; Warren, Pa., 2d, sent $15, and the
Titusville, Pa., Boys' Bd., stmt $7, to Miss M. E. Rogers,
India.
Receipts of the Women's Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church for August, 1905.
* Indicates Thank Ottering.
Buffalo. — Portville, 50; A Friend, 135, $185.00
Chemung.— Breesport, 3.15; Burdett, 15; Dundee, 12.50;
Elmira, Franklin St., 5; Lake St., 20; North, 5.55, "Trees
of Promise " Bd., 1.43; Horseheads, 13; Monterey, 10;
Watkins, 20, 105.63
Genesee.— Attica, 6.30; Batavia, 50, Inter. C.E., 15, Jr. C.
E., 6.50; Castile, 7.99; Bergen, 12.64, Jr. C.E., 8; Bethany, 4;
Perry, 18, C.E., 10; Warsaw, 5. Y.W.S., 7, 150.43
Hudson.— Circleville. 7.50; Florida, C.E., 5, Jr. C.E.,
7.68; Goshen, 50; Middletown, 1st, 46; 2d, 18; Monroe,
12.25; Otisville, 4; Port Jervis, 16; Raraapo, 10.20; West-
town, *38.90, 215.53
Long Island.— Bridgehampton, 13.05; Middle Island,
C.E., 2.50, 15.55
Louisville, Ky.— Louisville, Alliance, C.E., 5.00
Ltons.— Fairville, C.E., 3; Newark, 29.25; Red Creek,
5.28, 37.53
New York.— New York, 1st, C.E., 12.50; New York, C.
E., 15.01; North, C.E., 38.75; Miss Grace L. Morrison, 50;
West New Brighton, S. I., Calvary, 21.18, 137.44
Syracuse. — Baldwinsville, 15; Onondaga Valley, C.E., 5;
Pompey, 3.50; Syracuse, 4th, C.E., 4.92; South, 12.50, 40.92
Utica. — Boonville, 25; Clinton, 35, One Member, 25;
Holland Patent, 10; Little Falls, 25; Lowville, 20; New
Hartford, 10; Utica, Bethany, 124, Jr. Soc. of S.S., 10; 1st,
125, Mrs. Goldthwaite, 25; Mem'l, 20, Do Good Bd., 5,
Mem'l Bd., 5; Olivet, 5; Waterville, 35; West Camden, C.
E„ 5, S.S., 7; Utica Branch, 25, 541.00
Miscellaneous. — Montour Falls, Mrs. Frances Mulford,
500; Waddington, N. Y., A Helper, 20, 520.00
$1,954.03
19,886.80
Total,
Total since April 1st,
Henrietta W. Hubbard, Treat.,
156 Fifth Ave., New York City.
Receipts of the Woman's Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions of the Southwest for the Month
Ending August 24, 1905.
Miscellaneous. — Interest, .69
Cimarron.— Enid, 10; Pond Creek, 6.90, $16.90
Emporia.— Council Grove, 5.05; De Graff, 3; Derby, 5;
El Dorado, 15.93; Emporia, 4.50; Peabody, 10; Quenemo,
i E 3: Wellington, 9; Wichita, 1st, Y. P.M. L., 250; West
Side. 12.50, C.E., No. 1, 5, No. 2, 3.75; Winfield, C.E., 44.50,
971 '»
Iiio Grande.- -Doming,
Total for month,
Total to date,
Aug. 24, 1905.
$396.32
2,741.33
Mrs. Wm. Burg, Treat.,
1756 Missouri Ave., St. Louis, Mo.
Receipts of the Woman's Occidental Board of Foreign Missions to Au;ust 25, 1905.
Los Anoei.es.— Alhambra, 6; Azusa, 10, C.E.. 3; Coro-
nado, 6.05; El Cajon, C.E.. 3.70; Glendale, 5; Hollywood,
8.60; Inglewood, C.E., 3.25; Long Beach, 25, Bd., 8; Los
Angeles, 1st, 52, C.E., 10; 2d, 3, C.E., 15; 3d, C.E., 10;
Bethany, 5, C.E., 3; Bethesda, 10; Boyle Heights, 25.05, C.
E 25, Bd., 1; Central, 24; Grandview, 30, C.E., 4.25; High-
land Park, 150, C.E., 7.50; Immanuel, 171.25, C.E., 112.50,
Jr. C.E., 4.50, Young Ladies' Soc, 25; Knox, 5, C.E.,2;
Chinese, Morrison Bd., 7.07; Monrovia, 15, C.E., 8; Na-
tional Citv, 6.50; Orange, C.K., 9; Pasadena, 1st, 500, C.E.,
15; So. Pasadena, Calvary, 2; San Diego, 10; Santa Ana.
18.15; Santa Monica, 2.50, C.E., 2.50; Tropica, 5; Tustin, 5;
Miscellaneous, Friends, 5.50, $1,379.; 7
Oakland.— Berkeley, 1st, 34; Danville, 2.50; Oakland,
I'.rooklyn, Miss. Soc, 12120, C.B., 6, K.D., 5.80; Golden
Gate, C.E., 1.90: Union St., 25, Baby Bd., 1; West Berke-
ley, 2.50, C.E., 1.25, 203.15
San Francisco.- First, 50; Forward, C.E., 4.50, 54. 50
San Jose.— Boulder Creek, C.E., 1.80; Lakeside, C.E.,
7.50; Loa Gatos, 13; Milpitas, C.E., 3; Monterey, 5; Palo
Alto, 3.75, C.E., 4.68: San Jose, 1st, 27.35 ; 2d, 13.14, C.E.,
25, Int. C.E., 5; San Martin, 2.25; San Luis Obispo, 7; Santa
Clara, 13.50, Bd., 1; Skyland, 2.50; Watsonville, 10.85, C.E.,
6, 152.32
Stockton.— Fresno, 30.68, Bd., 8.55; Madera, 5.75; Mer-
ced, 5; Modesto, 7.88, Jr. C.E., 2.54, Bd., 3.80; Sanger, 90
its.; Stockton, Int. C.E., 20 cts., Bd., 1; Woodbridge, 1,
67.30
Miscellaneous.— Miss A. J. Matskin, 2.00
Total for month, $1,859.04
Total since March 25, 1905, 3,196.49
Mrs. E. G. Denniston, Treat.,
920 Sacramento St., San Francisco, Cal.
Aug. 26, 1905.
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