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Woman's Work
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WOMAN'S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETIES
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VOLUME XXIII.— 1908
PRESBYTERIAN BUILDING, 156 FIFTH AVENUE
NEW YORK
INDEX TO VOLUME XXIII.— 1908.
TACiE
Africa — Women Missionaries 55
Single Men's Corps 55
Lolodorf Station 55
Bulu Home Missionaries 57
An African Boy's Repentance 57
Prospering at Elat 58
Angom— Note 59
Spanisli Approval, Benito 60
Bamun Writing 60
Efulen Church Report 61
Map Facts and Christian Facts 62
Mission Meeting News 63
Missionfest in North Kamerun 63
Some Efulen Folks 64
Industrial Possibilities in Kamerun 64
Efulen School 65
Proofs of Love 65
Forward in Kamerun 175
£lat School girls— Bulu Prayers 184
Letters from 117, 815, 237
Notes on 2, 53, 54, 101, 125, 149, 150, 174, 246, 270
Another and Another 95
Annual Meetings, Woman's Boards 140, 168
Bands, New 220
Bible at Home, The 262
Books, New 47, 187, 263
Book Reviews:
The New Horoscope of Missions 186
Unfinished Task of the Christian Church 186
The Call of Korea 187
The World-Call to Men of To-day 187
Business Office Notices 95, 286
Captive by Oriental Cults, Taken 71
Chairman of Magazine Committee 149
Changes in Missionary Force 20, 48, 71, 97, 120,
145, 169, 194, 817, 241, 263, 287
Change IN United Study Committee 71
China — Women Missionaries 87
Mrs. Amelia P. (Tuttle) Lowrie 4
Reform in China, 1907 27
Girls in Canton College 29
What Mrs. Lowrie Thought 30
Missionary Mothers 30
Pen Portraits from Peking 31
New Year Reception, Ichowfu 32
One of True Light Seminary Staff 31
Wei-hsien Girls' School 35
Yihsien Station in Trouble 36
Needlework Class, Peking 37
Personal Mention 37
Three Out-Stations of Nanking 38
Nanking Girls' School 38
Self-sacrifice at Paotingfu School 39
Apprehended of Christ the Second Time 39
Our Hospitals for Women 39
Rose Hoffman Lobenstine 173, 199, 20O
Public Exercises in Leading Schools 179
Letters from 43, 44, 69, 94, 165, 214, 230, 237, 261
Notes on 1, 25, 26, 54, 78, 102, 150, 171, 172, 245, 269
China— Hainan — Women Missionaries 151
Single Men's Corps 151
Eight Weeks Without Seeing a White Face 151
Mary Henry Hospital 152
A Western Visitor at Nodoa 154
Medical Work 155
Some Hainanese Medical Assistants 156
Nodoa Feels Growing Pains 159
Gathering in Another Dialect 162
About Kachek Station 163
Notes on 54,150, 198
Conferences 126, 140, 166, 217
Convention at Pittsburg 70
Conversation A Means of Interesting Men in Mis-
."loNS 192
Criti(<ue on a Popular Book 15, 54, 90
Editokiai. Notes (in part):
Advance of Women and Girls 26, 77, 102, 174
Action of C. M. S 2
Bingham, Dr. and Mrs. Iliram 240, 270
Buildings, New 54, 77, 102, 1.50
Chairman of Woman's Work Committee 149
PAGE
Church, Added to the, 2, 54, 78, 101, 102, 125, 150, 174, 198
Churches Erected 2, 77, 102, 150, 174, 270
College Students 2, 26, 54, 102, 174
Co-operation 26
Deaths 1, 25, 77, 101. 149, 173, 197, 245
Educational 3, 26, 54, 102, 126, 174, 198, 270
Financial 25, 51, 125, 149, 174, 197
Furlough Limits, Africa 53
Gifts 25,54, 101
Hall, Chas. Cuthbert 198
Hawaiian Jubilee 198
Honors for Missionaries 1
Huguenot College 2
Isolated 197, 269
June Conference 126, 149
Laws, Kamerun, New 54, 125, 150, 270
Leper Asylum, India 77
Medical 2, 101, 102, 150, 270
Men's Convention 53
Mohammedans 53, 77, 7S, 102, 150, 222, 2)5, 269
Personal Mention... .1, 2, 26, 53, 54, 77, 78, 101, 102,
125, 126, 150, 173, 197, 245, 246, 269, 270
Reforms 26, 77
Revival 1,53, 125
Revolution 269
Self-Support 149
Ellinwood, Dr. F. F 53, 215, 271
Giving Our Talents 119
Guatemala— Women Missionaries 127
Need of a Hospital 187
Letter from ■ 138
Headquarters, Notes from 20, 48, 72, 97, 120,
144, 170, 194, 218, 242, 264, 288
Heathen ? Who Are the 212
Holiday Hint, A 288
Horizon Line, 1908, On the 3
Illustrations:
Africa: Two Teachers, p. 55; Residence at New
Lolodorf, p. 55; March to Communion Service, p.
56; School Teachers, p. 56; filat Mother and Child,
p. 59; Bamun Writing, p. 61; Gaboon and Kamerun
Map, p. 62; Ntum \Voman, p. 64; Builiiing a
House in Bululand, p. 65; Carrier in Kamerun, p.
175; Exploration Map, 176. China: Track Team
of Canton College, p. 3; Mrs. Amelia P. Lowrie, p.
5; Church at Paotingfu, p. 6; Empress-Dowager
and Her Ladies, p. 28; Mrs. Wisner and College
Girls, p. 29; Mission Residences, Uwai-yuen, p. 30;
Baby Tower, p. 31; Christian Women of Ichowfu,
p. 33; Graduating Class, Wei-hsien, p. 35: Map of
N.China and Shantung, p. 41 ; Rose Hofl'man, p.
199. Hainan: Second Visitor in Ten Years, p.
155; Dr. McCandliss on a Case, p. 156; Mrs. Mc-
Candliss and Visitors, Hoi How, p. 157; Loi Peep-
ing In, p. 162. Colombia: First Graduating Class,
Bogota, p. 135. India: Woodstock Pupils, p. 11;
Woodstock Dining-room, p. 12; India All Over, p.
80; Some of the Tots, p. 81; Outline Map, p. 84;
Sectional Map, p. 85; Women Carrying Hay, p. 88;
Girl with Jar on Her Head, p. 89; Ralnagiri Party
Tenting, p. 91. Japan : Japanese Women in Cal-
ifornia, p. 183; Tsu Church, p. 201; Stone Lantern,
p. 204: Monument to Russian Dead, p. 206; Me-
morial Day at Port Artliur, p. 207; Wilmina School,
Osaka, p. 210: Duinb-Bells at Joshi Gakuin, p. 211.
Korea: Missionaries to Onelpart, p. 78; Class of
1908, Medical College, p. 248; Severance Hospital,
Seoul, p. 249; School of American Cliildren, p. 253;
See-Saw, p. 254; Girls' t:lass, 1908, Seoul, p. 257.
Mexico: School Halted Below the Hill, p. 129;
Church at Coyoacan, p. 131; Parade, Mexico City,
p. 132; Catching Centavos, p. 133. Perda: Uni-
versal Cradle of Persia, p. 8; Faith Hubbard
School, Christmas, p. 180; Hospital at Teheran (1)
General View, (2) Verandah, p. 234; Gate at Khoi,
p. 231; Dr. Cochran and Kurdish Chief, p. 2:«.
Sia7n anil Laos: Siamese Ladies' Club, p. 104;
Buddhist Festival, p. 106; Missionary's Camp,
Laos, p. 107; The Meo Tribe, p. 108; Memorial Hos-
pital, Nakawn, p. Ill; Map, pp. 112, 113. Nyria :
Camel Procession, p. 273; Lebanon Vineyard, p.
274; Dr. S. Jessup, p. 277; Sidon Seminary (old),
p. 279, (new) p. 278; Marble Fountain, p. 278; Dr.
Ellinwood, 1). 211.
India— Women Missionaries 79
Woodstock at Landour 10
Opportunity in Lahore 79
Rare Occasion and Rare Invitation 80
INDEX TO VOLUME XXttl.
iii
TAGE
Day at Dish School, Allahabad 81
Eakha School-girls, Fatehgarh 82
Medical Items 83
Protected in Plague 84
Dolls Heard From S6, 213
Industrial Department, Ratnagiri 88
rndian Girl Touring 89
Samples from Reports 90
Girls' Public Exercises, Kolhapiir 179
Piirdah Party at Ferozepore 181
Among Out-Castes, Xorth ludia 184
Mrs. Calderwood 200
Letters from 17, 93, 93, 213, 238
Notes on ". . . .2, 77, 78, 102, 198
International Missionary Union 192
Japan — Women Missionaries 201
Mistake in Japanese Education 9
Public Exerci-es in Girls' School 17S, 179
Introducing Japanese to New Testament 201
An Excursion 203
Evangelist Training School at Practice 205
Japan Builds a Monument to Slam Russians 206
Stor? of " Stoessel " 207
Informal Reports of Two Schools 210
Who are the Heathen ? 212
Letters from 67, 161, 237
Notes on 1, 16, 54, 78, 125, 150, 197, 212, 246
Japanese Women in California 183
Korea — Women Missionaries 247
New Campaign 7
What a Traveler Saw at Stations 13
The Sovereign Alchemy 114
Thanksgiving Evening in Chong Jn 136
Church of Korea, Seen by Newcomer 183
Mission Events, 1908 247
Medical Records 248
Severance Hospital Medical College 248
Educational Advance, N. Korea 250
Taiku Christians 251
First Year Ont 252
Jolly School of American Children 253
Progress at Chai Ryong 254
Woman's Work in Churches 255
How They Spend Time in Syen Chun 256
Commencement Month in Seoul 257
How One Mother Decides 258
Pyeng Yang Women Developing 259
Letters from 17, 44, 63, 93, 139, 189, 200, 261
Notes on 26, 54, 7S, 102, 125, 149, 171, 346
Leader Taken From Our Head, The 271
Leaflets on Siam 169
Leaflets for Sunday-Schools 192
Letters, Signlficavt 47
Library, Permanent Missionary 70
LowRiE, Mrs. Amelia P 4
Mexico — Women Missionaries 127
Mission Statistics 128
A Week Among Ranch Congregations 128
Three Schools for Girls 131
An English-speaking Church 133
Letter from 137
Notes on 2,125,126,174, 246
Missionaries Taken Home, 1907 1, 4, 25
Missionaries, Notices to 120, 194
MissiONAEY Mothers 30, 66, 258, 262
Missionary Tablet, A Unique 285
Moslems in Egypt. Preaching to 15
Nearing Home — Verse 4
New Year's Reflection, A 48
New Zealand Magazine, A 286
Paper Covers, In .....96, 169, 192, 197
Parental Consecration 167
Persia— Women Missionaries 223
Work for Women at Teheran 7
Persians in Advance of Their Law 16
Public Exercises in Girls' Schools 181
Latest Word from Persia 221
A Modern Renaissance 222
Glance into East Persia 223
Flags 225
Darkness and Light by the Wayside 226
Adventure with Loors 227
PAGE
Surgical Struggles 229
Girls' School at Tabriz 230
Pj-ogress in Khoi 231
Falling Among Thieves 231
Harvest Prospects 233
Five Loaves Among Five Thousand 234
A Corner in Wheat 234
Letters from 164, 189, 23"), 236, 2813
Notes on 2, 26, 54, 78, 150, 173, 19 J, 245, 269
Personal Benevolbnce, Obligation op 262
Philippine Islands— Women Missionaries 151
Work of the Spirit in Albay 153
Medical Work 155
No Monotony at Cebu 157
Cebu Station Report 15?
A Doctor's First Half- Year 160
Note from Manila 161
A Physician's First Report 163
Letter trom 215
Notes on 150, 198
Post Office Reoitlations, New 20
Prayer— Verse 203
Prayer Hour, Why Not Observe ? 216
Promise Still Unclaimed, A 18
Programmes for Monthly Meeting 70, 95, 118, 166
Replenishing Called For, Some 286
"Rousement" for Secs. of Literature 239
Seed FROM Presbyterial Meeting 71
SiAM and Laos— Women Missionaries 103
American Honor at the Court of Siam 103
Illustrated Page ; the Club 104
Siamese Woman's Club 105
The Laos Woman 105
Trip to Elephant Mountain 107
Social Service 109
Lowest Rung of Educational Ladder 110
Medical, from Malay Peninsula 110
Map of Siam.... 112
Straws 113
The Industrial Side 114
About Keng Tung 114
Christi.an High School, Bangkok 115
Letters from 17, 44, 69, 11 G, 165, lt.0, 214, 237
Notes on 1, 101, 102, 173, 174, 246. 269
Societies and Bands, New 50, 145, i: 0, 220
South America- Women Missionaries 127
The Bible in South Brazil 129
Map of South America 130
Notes from Chile 1.34
Bits from "Continent of Opportunity " 134
Notes on Brazil 1.33, 135
Progress at S. Joao do Paraguassu 1.36
Dona Eliza in the Woods of Brazil 177
Letters from Colombia. . . 45, 68, 1-38. Chile. . . .68, 188
Brazil 165. Venezuela 213
Notes on Venezuela 2,197. Chile 2, 126
Colombia 126. Brazil 126
Stereopticon Lecture ON China 46
Subscriptions 118
Suggesticns 19, 96. 119, 240
Summer Schools 118, 126, 191, 240
Sykia— Women Missionaries 273
Hospital Opportunities in Beirut 14
A New Day, A New Door Index p. iv.
The Miracle of 1908 273
Ordination of a Syrian Pastor 276
A Veteran Mission Scout 276
Good Fortune for Sidon Seminary 278
Missionary Wife and Minister's Wife 280
Locusts to Burn 281
A Tuberculosis Sanitorium 281
Thirty-five Days Against Twenty-five Years 2S2
Letter from 283
Notes on 2, 25, 53, 125, 209, 270
Text-Books, New Series 191
Tourist Converted, Another 263
Treasurers' Reports 24, 50, 75, 100, 123, 145, 172, 196
220,244,267, 291
United Study of Missions 18, 46, 216, 239, 262, 285
What Shall I Answer Jesus ? Verse and Music. . . 193
Woman's Meeting, Colorado Synod 286
Woman's Work for Woman— Verse 169
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WOMAN^S WORK
Vol. XXin. MARCH, J 908. No. 3,
The dear and honored Secretary Em-
eritus, Dr. Ellin wood, has written a vig-
orous letter from North Carolina where
he is spending the winter. From it, we
are allowed to quote this characteristic
passage :
"Mrs. EUinwood and I read every
week or two some book that fills us with
the subject nearest to our hearts. The
last was that grand book of Arthur
Smith's. By the way. Dr. Ludlow did
a good thing in writing Captain of the
Janisaries. It is a good picture of the
zenith of Islam as a European power,
and as the epitome of all villainies. The
divine permission of such a history dis-
turbs one's faith. Au contraire, the
times through which we are passing,
and the rapid succession of events that
are occurring on all the continents, re-
store our confidence in the world order
and the coming of the Redeemer's King-
dom."
Report of the Men's Foreign Mis-
sionary Convention begins to arrive, as
we go to press. Fourteen hundred and
forty-one men east of, and inclusive
of, Ohio, most of them laymen, left busi-
ness behind, traveled to Philadelphia,
paying all their bills and a dollar regis-
tration fee, and devoted their united en-
ergies for two and a half days to foreign
missions of their Church. Their purpose
is expressed by the Convention Com-
mittee: . . . "Moving toward the Six
Million Dollars Standard established "
(at Omaha) . . . "we now set ourselves
definitely to the task of raising at least
Two Million Dollars the coming year."
With what cheerfulness will the Wo-
men's Societies retire to back seats and
how thankfully will they sing the Ju-
bilate as they see an army of strong
men coming to the front.
We have joyful tidings of the "great-
est revival ever known " in Syrian Prot-
estant College, Beirut. Ten nights suc-
cessively special services were conducted
by men of the Faculty, the attendance
reaching four hundred. On Jan. 9, one
hundred men arose and declared their
personal faith in Christ. Should it prove
that any of these were Moslem students,
the fact will be still more significant.
In answer to the objections to missions
for Mohammedans, that " The time has
not yet come," " The doors are not yet
open," Dr. Lepsius said to German Chris-
tians: " The time has not yet come be-
cause we have forgotten to wind the
clock; the doors are shut becaucje we
keep the key in our pockets."
The last National Assembly of the
Roman Catholic Church, in Germany,
announced that, for the future, Africa
is to be their sole mission field.
As" long ago as 1844, Leigh ton Wil-
son, the founder of Gaboon Mission,
wrote: "I am of the opinion that you
will be obliged to adopt some rule in re-
lation to Africa missionaries, that they
be allowed to return to the United States
after eighteen months or two years."
Butinthosedaysit was said the churches
would not stand the sight of missionaries
returning so soon, and officers of Mission
Boards were timid ; perhaps it was ex-
pected that lives would be saved by mira-
cle on the West Coast. It has taken sixty
years to accomplish the placing of this
mission on a scientific furlough basis,
and we rejoice in seeing the faces of an
unusual number of our friends from Af-
rica at home, this year. A correspond-
ing dearth on the field, however, sug-
gests that true science would require an
enlarged working force.
If all goes well, this month will see
Miss Mackenzie and the Adams family
returning to Africa. Let their long jour-
ney and the undertakings awaiting their
arrival at Libreville and Batanga be
borne in mind at our March meetings.
Fine, because true, are these words
by President Tucker of Dartmouth Col-
lege: " The idea of the Kingdom of God
on earth without China — as much of it,
at least, as of England or of America —
has become to the more Christian minds
unthinkable."
S4
EDITORIAL NOTES,
[March,
With the assistance of $5,000 from
Mrs. Russell Sage, the mission schools
at Siangtan, Hunan, are provided with
long-needed buildings.
In a recent public meeting, Dr. Mc-
Candliss of Hainan gave a general rea-
son for the fact that valuable mines in
China remain undeveloped. From neg-
lect of hygiene and sanitation, whenever
a crowd of workmen gets together, at a
mine, some disease breaks out, often a
serious epidemic. Then it is understood
on all hands that ' ' the earth-gods have
been disturbed " and are taking revenge
on the miners. Work stops and the mine
is promptly abandoned.
When the Anglo-Chinese School at
Chefoo was founded, it was placed under
the management of the Presbyterian
Mission, while the property remained
under control of eight Chinese patrons
with a contract that, if the school suc-
ceeded for ten years, the property should
revert to the Mission. The ten years are
up, and the Board of Foreign Missions
now becomes possessed of $17,000 (Mex.)
in real estate and school fixtures.
The Chefoo Anglo-Chinese School has
sent out two hundred and thirty-four
students who took rank as teachers, busi-
ness men, officials, etc. Of this number,
one-fifth were pronounced Christians,
and another fifth were believers whose
influence will count for Christ. Last
term, of one hundred and thirty stu-
dents, forty were members of Y. M. C.
A. and five men were baptized in church.
Only one-sixth are from Christian homes,
therefore the school offers wide access
to heathen families in Chefoo, and Mr.
Wm. C. Booth, who is in charge, has
asked for another teacher in order that
he may devote more time to personal
religious efiEort with the young men.
Influenced by the new German
laws, nearly one hundred women in Elat
have been coming to school, half a day.
At least three of them endured beatings
for their aspirations, and one was im-
prisoned. ' ' Some have lived better lives
than before, knowing that was the con-
dition of remaining in school."
Another good deed by the Kamerun
Government is a recent enactment for-
bidding the use of children as carriers.
This has been a great evil in the past ;
hundreds of small children had their feet
ruined by marching with adults and car-
rying heavy loads.
A wholesome lesson has been taught
the Bulu in Ebolewo'o district, where
some of the headmen have been fiogged
for ignoring the new German law against
marriage of little girls.
Constant flux in the working corps
of Batanga Station, in 1907, left no one
member there for the entire year. Of
seven men who came and went. Dr. Lip-
pert stayed eight months, most of the
time carrying alone the educational,
medical and evangelistic departments.
Rev. F. D. P. Hickman stood by seven
months. Only one woman, Mrs. Lip-
pert, was there more than three months.
FROMUrumia, Mrs. Shedd writes that
Persia is in its "usual state of turmoil
and alarm. We may any day find our-
selves under some other flag than that
of the lion and the sun, or under no flag
at all, but we keep calmly about our
business. " No danger to this mission is
apprehended.
A jAPANESEgentlemanoffered to pre-
sent the portrait of some distinguished
man or woman to a primary school in
Hiogo and asked the children to vote for
their choice. The 343 boys and girls cast
their votes for 31 names : at the head of
the list stood that of Washington with
69 votes ; next Lincoln with 53 ; Admiral
Togo had only 28; Florence Nightin-
gale, the only woman favored, won 13.
Dr. W. O. Johnson of Taiku, Korea,
hired a thatched house near a Buddhist
monastery in the mountains, for his fam-
ily outing. From there he wrote :
' ' Our children excite much alarm among the
monks when they behold the three yoimgsters
climbing trees, walking stone walls, wading
streams, bringing home hands and pockets full
of frogs, beetles, grasshoppers, snails and in-
sects, not one of which a monk would touch."
The "Critique on a Popular Book"
printed in onr January issue has called
out somewhat unexpected endorsement.
It has come from California and Con-
necticut ; a subscriber in Sewickley, Pa. ,
ordered two extra copies, saying, "I do
not know when I have enjoyed reading
anything so much" ; a gentleman in New
York wrote, " ' A Critique of a Popular
Book]' voices my sentiments exactly. . . .
I hop« it will open many blind eyes."
1908.]
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Our Missionaries in Africa-
-AND POST OFFICE ADDRESSES.
Mrs. Edward A. Ford,
Mrs. John Wright (Angom),
Mrs. J. S. Cunningham,
Mrs. Oliver H. Pinney,
Mrs. J. £. Blunden,
Mrs. 8. F. Johnson,
Mrs. W. C. Johnston,
Libreville, Congo Fran9ais.
Benito.
Batanga, Kamerun.
Efulen,
Mrs. George Schwab,
Mrs. Frederick H. Hope,
Mrs. R. M. Johnston,
Mrs. Chas. W. McCleary,
Mrs. Frank O. Emerson,
Mrs. Rudolph B. Hummel,
Mrs. H. L. Weber,
Efalen, Eameran.
filat, "
Lolodorf,
In this conntry : Mrs. Albert G. Adams, Westwood, Cincinnati, Ohio; Mrs. Wm. M. Dager, Berea, Ky.; Mrs. Adolph
N. Krug, 71 Francis St., Waltham, Mass.; Mrs. Wilmer S. Lehman, 2439 N. Paulina St., Chicago, 111.; Mrs. A. D. Lippert,
3744 Boudinot Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio; Miss Jean Mackenzie, 256 West 78th St., New York.
For information concerning other Societies working in this field consult Dr. Dennis' Centennial Survey and Beach's
Atlas of Protestant Missio?is.
SINGLE MEN'S CORPS, WEST AFRICA MISSION.
Rev. Melvin Eraser, filat, Kamerun. Rev. L. D. Heminger, on furlough, Sneedville, Tenn.
Mr. Francis B. Guthrie, «n m^<e, Lolodorf, " Rev. P. D. P. Hickman (Angom), Libreville, Congo Fran9als.
Mb. Cornelius H. FtrNK has gone out as German teacher on contract for three years and is located at Batanga.
Lolodorf Station
The pictures are from Dr. Lehman's photographs.
ONE HAD 150
PUPILS.
and the people themselves subscribed
nearly 1,000 marks of its cost. East and
a little north of the church are two school
buildings, the German and the Bulu.
Each is 28 by 64 feet and we have had
375 pupils in them, yet never a complaint
because of poor ventilation, for there are
openings 2^ feet wide, four feet from the
floor, on two sides and two open door-
ways at either end. These three groups
of buildings lie nearly parallel to the
government road, which is about 500
feet from the church.
The remaining buildings all lie east
and back of the church and second
In January of 1905 Dr.
Halsey, while on his visit
to our Mission, was at Lo-
lodorf and looked over our
old site and inspected our
new one, three miles away.
In the fall of the same year
we negotiated for the land
and in May following we
were occupying the first
dwelling house ; from this time, building
operations have gone on as rapidly as
possible.
Our new site contains 250 acres of
good land with three small streams and
several springs. It is cov-
ered with undergrowth
and, in places, with virgin
forest. The land is very
fertile and we shall be able
to raise food enough for
all our helpers and board-
ing scholars. There is an
abundance of good timber
for lumber, so that a class
in carpentry would find
plenty of available ma-
terial.
The main buildings missionary reside.nce at neav lolodorf.
may be grouped mtO Rear view; the separated ell is kitchen; further bunding on our right, dispensary,
dwellings, medical, school The first to occupy this new house were Dr. Lehman's family and Miss Mackenzie.
and church, school-boys' village, and
workhouses.
The dwelling houses stand 500 feet
apart on a ridge which runs northeast
by southwest ; the ground slopes down
to the government road. The hospital
and dispensary are to the west, in close
proximity to the first residence, which is
the doctor's. Directly east of the second
dwelling is the new church, which is 38
by 64 feet; 800 can be crowded into it
dwelling house. The rest house, behind
the church, is for those who come to ser-
vices from a distance. It is in the style
of a palaver house or native hotel, divided
into two rooms, each filled with native
beds. This house is often filled to over-
flowing with guests, especially on Com-
munion Sunday, when people walk over
twenty miles to attend service. The
school-boys' village, northwest of the
church, consists of two parallel rows of
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LOLODORF STATION.
[March,
These luMipli
There ure al
four houses each. Every house is divided
into two or three rooms where 5-15 boys
live. Other principal buildings are : The
store where we keep goods for work-
men and carriers ; a food store and tool-
room, where plantains, rolls of cooked
cassava, corn, - —
peanuts, banan-
as, macabo and
other food is
purchased and
stored ; the
workshop,
where our Afri-
can carpenter
has his bench
and benches for
his class ; and
the school- girls'
house.
Our dwelling
houses are large
androomy, with
mat roof, bark
walls and board
floor, all made
from native ma-
terial except doors and windows. They
have also screen doors and windows to
protect against mosquitoes. Our houses
are on posts 4-8 feet high, and a veran-
dah, on the east, south and west sides,
gives protection from the direct rays of
the sun in the hottest part of the day.
Our station generally presents a scene
of life and animation, the school of
course contributing the most. Boarding
scholars are with us constantly and day
pupils in the forenoon. In the morning,
women with baskets of food on their
backs come to sell their produce; pa-
tients come to the dispensary for treat-
ment ; and carriers come to see "the peo-
ple of God " and their houses. All these
contribute to make quite a continuous
stream of visitors whom it is possible to
help and influence for Christ. Alas ! the
missionary is often so busy that he can-
not take the time with each of these dif-
ferent individuals.
While Lolodorf Station has nearly all
the necessary buildings erected, there is
the greatest need for a permanent, effi-
cient German school. We are the only
Protestant agency for miles around, (Ro-
man Catholics have two village schools
within twelve miles,) to give the young
people an education. The three hundred
and seventy-five boys and young men
in our station school could have been in-
creased by many more if we had a com-
petent, permanent German teacher.
The trading companies are anxious to
take these young men and send them
out to trade, but
their business is
not carried on
according to the
Golden Rule,
and when a
young man goes
into the interior
to trade he very
rapidly deteri-
orates morally
amid the great
temptations. If
we had a Ger-
man teacher, we
could hold many
of these young
• nen. They are
• mxious for an
education. They
can see the ad-
vantages of being able to read and write
their native language, but they desire
a knowledge of German also. If they
could be certain of getting such an edu-
cation at Lolodorf, we would have our
schoolhouses and dormitories .filled to
overflowing.
What is true of Lolodorf is true of the
other four stations in South Kamerun.
have walked twenty-three miles to Communion Service,
out twenty and one-fourth of them are church members.
Five taught German under Mrs. Lehman's direction; one
in blacH had a school of 126.
1908.]
AN AFRICAN BOTS REPENTANCE.
57
At present there are only four German
teachers for the four stations, and this
does not provide for absences nor for
the new station that should be opened.
What could be done if we had a per-
manent German school at Lolodorf ?
In the first place, the station would be
made a great power over the lives of a
large body of young people. If it were
thought wise, we could have five hun-
dred and more in our station school,
either as boarding or day pupils. The
most earnest Christian scholars would be
trained for teachers, evangelists and
other helpers. Teachers for village
schools are urgently needed. The vil-
lage school is a wonderful evangelistic
agency. Put an earnest Christian in
charge of such a school and, besides
teaching, he wiU evangelize the neigh-
borhood. Many have been added to our
catechumen class from our present vil-
lage schools. Before we left Lolodorf last
year eight villages asked for schools.
They themselves would build the school-
house and support the teacher. This was
besides five schools we had already or-
ganized.
Here is an opportunity for an influ-
ential life work for some one who would
like to fill a great want in our part of
Africa. Who will see the need and pro-
vide for such a missionary ? Who will
accept the opportunity of opening the
doors to a Christian education and to
the Light of Life for the growing gen-
eration of young people in Kamerun ?
Lift up your eyes, look on the fields ;
they are white already to harvest.
Wilmer S. Lehman.
A PAIR OF BULU HOME MISSIONARIES
A distinct evangelistic effort was the visit of Ake Zee and his wife Ajap
Evina, about one hundred miles north by east from Elat, where a site for a new
station has been under consideration. These two young people, strong in the
faith and ready for service, spent September and October among the Bene about
Metet and the people on both sides of the Nlong River, where Osom spent a month
in the summer. They returned reporting an open door ; fifty-four meetings had
been held, in which over thirty-two hundred people heard the Word. This manly
Christian boy standing before "big kings," big meetings — one numbering nine
hundred and twenty-three — in the presence of unadulterated heathenism, such as
he himself has emerged from, and this girl with him illustrating clean womanhood
to the women, is a spectacle unto the praise of God's grace.
Melvin Eraser.
An African Boy^s Repentance
Bitum had made such progress in his
studies that he was sent as teacher to
one of the towns. I gave him an um-
brella, a little mirror, some needles and
matches, in fact quite a dowry, when
he left for his school. His first letter
from Ipose (translated) is as follows :
' ' I greet you. I greatly grieve because -we
are parted for a time. But even so, since God
permits me to come here. Another thing I
greatly marvel at this: ^\Ti,en I used to be
coming to Ipose I used to pray that God would
send a man to stay at Ipose. Now I myself
stay there. Therefore I greatly mar^'el be-
cause God heard the prayers I used to pray.
"(Signed) Bitum Xlam."
Later, however, under sudden and
strong temptation, Bitum fell into sin.
Lolodorf, Nov. 10, 1906.— Bitum of
course is removed from the school and
from the church. The day he confessed
he sat, toward evening, in my room
wiping his eyes on bis crumpled felt
hat. He had nothing to say — at least
he could not say it. But two days later
he talked quite freely, wiping his eyes
at intervals with his boy knuckles. This
is the kind of thing he said :
" It was such a nice school. No one
could see it but must have thought it
was a nice school. I used to worry about
it sometimes ; some little thing would
go wrong and I would lie awake at
night and think that the school was go-
ing to be ruined. But really it was a nice
school — sometimes. At noon my head
would ache ; a person would think the
whole school was in my head. When I
came away to-day not a child, not an
old woman, but shed tears — they all
shed tears. "
(An interval, during which Bitum fol-
lows the popular example.)
"When we are children we like to
think of what we shall do when we grow
58
PEOSPERING AT t^LAT STATION.
[March,
to be men, and I always chose to teach
people and help them. In the afternoon
when Ngem and I used to sit together
and talk thus, did I ever choose any-
thing else ? Do you believe they will
ever let me teach school again ? "
So, on and on — about his dreams and
his performance and his poor young dis-
appointment. Not very much about his
repentance, but enough.
(Five days later). Bitum has just left
after two hours of such pathetic out-
pouring as would hurt jou. At first he
said he had five words to open for me,
and he went at them in a sufficiently
systematic fashion. But presently he
was saying : " My heart is just dried up
within me and my body is weak. If I
sat with another man and there was
food between us he might have it all,
and if I broke a kank and gave him
half ,m3' portion would fall to the ground
before I would think to eat it. Every
way I look, I find no peace. The worst
is I cannot give up teaching school and
that i/ow won't take me back " (for I think
it is best for him to go to his own town
until next term). " I cannot run from
these thoughts; they are with me all the
time. I am surprised. I am like an ani-
mal who went away on a visit and there
was one who dug a pit for him, and the
animal returning fell into the pit. He
did not know of the pit; he fell in. I
cannot see people as I used, something
is wrong with my eyes. Now I walk as
slowly as the chameleon and so I will
walk, because of the evil which I was
so quick to do. The path ahead is plain
enough, but I am like a man who was
walking and something strikes him on
the head from behind ; he cannot forget
that blow, he wonders about it and who
did it, and will it happen again. Though
the path is plain before him, his thoughts
are all behind him."
Prospering at
A glad welcome awaited my return to
Africa and I am enjoying my work more
than ever. Since my arrival, five adults
and four children of Elat Station have
turned their faces towards America (for
furlough), so four of us are attempting
to cover the work of nine. To begin with
the ordinary assignments :
I h ave char ge of the house in which I have
always lived and I enjoy housekeeping.
I cannot tell you all he said. Some-
times he covered his eyes with his hand
to shut out his young miseries or threw
away his burdens with a gesture, only
to acknowledge them again. I thought
I had heard something similar before,
so I began to read out of the Psalms,
translating as I went along. There was
the whole matter and the ancient an-
guish— David's tears gathered up in
God's bottle so long ago — and Bitum
said: "I would say you were reading
from the heart of a man ! "
(Later) — Bitum writes from the peace
of his forest town, " The Lord Himself
has lighted my lamp again ; I see the
path.""^
Since the time of his discipline, Bitum
has been doing manual and other labor
about the station. His last letter, re-
ceived a few months ago, is dated from
Muku, a neighborhood to which the
people of Ipose have moved. The trans-
lation is as follows:
"Miss J. K. Mackenzie.
"MyMother:! marvel at the Ipose affair. I
tell you this news tliat when you left me I
was always praying God about tlie people of
Ipose that He would send them a man who
would be able to help them. I never prayed
that I might go again and stay tliere. Wlien
many days had passed, on a certain day Rev.
F. O. Emerson said to me, ' Go to Muku and
make a school there,' and I went. Now I again
help the people who used to live in Ipose.
Therefore I tell you this news that the Lord
has again showed me the work that I should
do for Him. While I was waiting I prayed to
Him for many days that He would give me
work, and He heard.
"Therefore I tell you this : Your child again
sees work that he is able to do. Only this — I
want you to pray the Lord thus : Tliat I may
be able to do this work well because in the
time past I spoiled my work. I do not forget
you. I greatly desire to see your face in these
days, because I do not see another whom I
know so well. Your child, Bitum."
Jean Kenyan Mackenzie.
Elat Station
Mr. Eraser takes his meals at my table;
otherwise I am alone with the dog, the
cat and the houseboys. It is very quiet,
but I keep busy and try not to think I
am alone. Dr. Johnston's family live
in another cottage only a few steps away
and they are most kind ; we work together
and enjoy each other. In the morning, I
have the Bulu school of over two hun-
dred sturdy boys ; two afternoons I visit
1908.]
PEOSPERING AT EL AT STATION.
59
towns, two afternoons I take the girls'
sewing class, and have a teachers' class
in the evening. Mrs. Johnston has charge
of the girls' school and dormitory and
assists me in the Bulu chart classes, be-
sides her housework and four babies.
She and I are making gardens for exer-
cise. We have efficient and faithful help.
Dr. Johnston has charge of the Indus-
trial Department besides his medical
duties. Mr. Fraser has the church work,
oversight of the eight town schools, car-
avan and translation.
The beginning of school afforded its
customary amusements. When the tui-
tion was paid in trade goods it proved
quite a promiscuous heap. One boy sac-
rificed his pantaloons, three boys their
shirts, a great many their cloths, while
cutlasses, live fowl, etc., swelled the list.
When one new boy gave his name —
"The Door of the Ocean" — I almost
smiled aloud. Mr. Krug's absence pre-
vents the session in German.
The church now has over one hundred
members, with four African elders, as
many ushers, a choir of young men, a
dozen Sunday-school classes taught by
Bulu boys, a 3'oung men's meeting on
Sunday P. M. and one for women at the
same time, each led by members. The
collection taken monthly has sometimes
amounted to $30, and seldom is below
$20. We have our greatest crowds on
that day. On Communion Sabbath it is
good to see the "emblems" passed by
the elders and partaken of by the mem-
bers. I have seen eight hundred reassem-
bling after Sunday-school and McCleary
Chapel packed with brown bodies, while
many stood without. Last Sunday
thirty-six came to confess Christ, and
there were more than twenty on each of
the three past consecutive Sundays.
This is indeed a transition time for the
average Bulu woman, and we have more
than seventy women and girls in our
school. As though in answer to our pray-
ers, the German Government has insti-
tuted some new laws relating to women,
which are causing quite a change in their
lives. One of these prohibits girl-wives
being bought or sold, or given as a pawn.
Older women are getting more liberties,
so they are coming to us almost daily.
We hear of a law prohibiting the impor-
tation of intoxicating liquors into this
colony after Jan. 1, 1908. Men are sur-
veying for a railroad and telephone to
be completed within three years. Ger-
man money is being circulated, and a
demand is created for competent native
help. Our boys are therefore anxious for
proficiency in the German language,
and are being called off faster than we
can prepare them.
While these larger movements are in
progress, and the women are getting a
WIFE AND CHILD OP ELDER IN £lAT CHURCH.
Photographed by Miss Mackenzie.
better chance, the men are increasingly
coming to inquire " the way." As I was
going to one of the towns recently, I met
a crowd of heathen men who literally
obstructed the path, begging me to stop
and tell them "God's Word." When,after
thirty minutes' talk I started on, they
begged for more. An old headman in a
town asked me to teach him to read. So
you see Africa is awakening more than
ever before. We have our clouds, but
they shift and we can see the light.
Again I say, I am glad to have a part
in the work of her redemption.
Myrtle E. McCleary.
{Mrs. Chas. W.)
A NOTABLE piece of work, 1907, was "reclaiming the once beautiful station of Angom
from dense forest tangle," repairing its decaying buildings, calling its neglected people once
more to the house of prayer, where for sixteen -years the voice of Rev. Arthur Marling was
heard in true and winning accents. Dr. S. F. Johnson was preacher and builder and, with the
Dorothy, searched out the lost sheep. With the launch also. Rev. J. N. Wright made the
rounds for communion services over a stretch of sixty-five miles, at the same time learning
to do general station work in the Fang tongue.
60
[March,
Approval from Spanish Government at Benito
Oliver H. Piuney, M.D., lias been
stationed at Benito, where he devoted
his mornings to the Boys' School and
held clinics in the afternoon. Having
been there fourteen months, he wrote,
Nov. 21st, 1907:
"This month, the Governor immedi-
ately over us came here and spent above
a week at the mission and looked into
the school and our methods. When he
returned to Bata, he wrote the following
letter which I translate :
In the recent visit of inspection made at Rio
Benito, as Sub-Gorernor of New Bata, I take
great pleasure in showing to you that I hold a
very good impression of the training that I
saw among the native boys and girls, that they
are being well educated in the mission and
very worthily conduct themselves. They are
also being taught to venerate Spain and its
laws. At the same time that I shall give this
same account to His Excellency the Governor-
General of the brilliant instruction which the
native children receive, I am obliged to recom-
mend the vigilance and effort of the Professor,
whom I compliment in the name of the nation
of which I am a representative on this conti-
nent. May God grant you many years
[Signed] Oines Oarcia de Paredes y Castro,
Sub-Governor of New Bata.
Thus, after distracting difficulties at
Benito in recent years, through obstruc-
tion by Spanish officials, we see blue sky
once more.
The Bamun Writing
The Bamun people are a race in North-
em Kamerun in the grassland, not far
from the Bali among whom the Basel
Society maintains a mission. Only re-
cently they have extended their work to
the Bamun tribe and, thus far, only
Missionary Gohring has learned the lan-
guage. It is a wonderful fact that
Njoj'a, the King of the Bamun, with
the help of his soldiers, has reduced
their speech to a written sign language.
An article by Missionary Gohring in
the Evangelische Heidenbote tells the
main facts about this language, and
from it the following abbreviated ac-
count is taken :
This sign language is composed of
about three hundred and fifty different
signs, all of which represent monosyl-
labic words. By combination of signs
any desired number of words of many
syllables can be formed, and thus the
wealth of the Bamun tongue be repre-
sented in writing. Many of these signs
are pictures of the objects for whose
name they stand, as : Grave, plate, kola
nut, snake, ear, moon. With others it
is almost impossible to find a connection
between the sign and the conception
which it is to represent. A deep research
into this language would yield valuable
information on the methods of thought
of the Bamun people.
The table compiled for the Heidenbote
contains all the signs which have been
invented but by no means all the Bamun
words. As a language reflects always
the sentiment and thinking of a people,
even a limited number of words throw
sidelights upon the tribal life and ten-
dency. Thus, in this table, we notice the
scarcity of words for religious concep-
tions compared with those standing for
concrete objects. There is only one word
for God and one for oath, and the oath,
as in Bulu, has reference not to deity
but to a deceased father. The sign for
"amulet" reveals thefaithof the Bamun
in these objects, sold for good prices and
in great numbers by Hausa traders who
have come into this territory. Words
are numerous for concrete objects, such
as house. To build a house means sim-
ply to "tie " — an expressive term in a
thatch country.
The stage of culture in the grassland
is indicated by the use of ' ' glass pearl "
as synonymous with ' 'adornment. " Their
implements of agriculture do not demand
a wealth of expressions ; the same word
serves for " hoe " and "shovel." The
word "pencil" shows European influ-
ence, but ' ' razor " is of old African
stock ; and of undoubted African origin
also, is the expression "horse-girl"
(equivalent to hostler. — Ed.). The game
of dice must be a favorite, for it is called
" the game." Color distinctions are not
clear; one term serves for red, brown
and yellow. The same word used for
"cancer" and "sickness" points to a
frequent occurrence of that dread dis-
ease, while a variety of names for ulcers
shows how common they are. To "cry "
is equivalent to "howl," while at the
same time it serves for the outward ex-
pression of grief. The Bamun word for
" talk " has the same meaning as " bab-
1908.]
EFULEN CHURCH.
61
ble," but a distinct expression is used
for "talking" in the presence of the
headman : what one says to him must
be considered; simply babbling might
result in decapitation. That King Njoya
is in the habit of giving energetic orders
we may infer from the three simple, rap-
SAMPLE OF BAMtlN WRITING.
Counterparts are indicated by +.
idly written signs: "Go away," "call
him," "kill him." It is to be hoped that
the last of these brief commands will
become less frequent, now that a mission
is planted here.
That a Negro headman, or the father
of a famUy, or any Bamun who has
commands to give, uses clear and pre-
cise instructions can be seen in the word
" kan," which means both " command "
and "forbid." Expressions for "chief
headman " and " secondary headman,"
for tax, embassy and day of homage,
reveal the existence of a form of govern-
ment. Political shrewdness made
Njoya a friend of the Germans.
The above facts from the Hei-
denbote are of sufficient interest
in themselves to attract general
attention, but to us, engaged in
missionary work in Southern
Kamerun, they are of special im-
portance. Taking the given list
of Bamun signs, over thirty of
them are practically identical
with Bulu words. For example:
Bamun. Bulu.
Child mon mon
Children . . . pon
I me
Die bwu
Basket nkue
Divide yap
Hoiise udab
The Bamun people, living in the
northern part of Kamerun, stand
as the boundary line between
heathenism on the south and
Islam on the north. More and
more Islam is encroaching upon heathen
Africa and spreading its teaching. Shall
we not sustain our brethren of the Basel
Missionary Society, in earnest prayer
that God may enable them to check the
advance of Islam toward South Kam-
erun ? . Adolph N. Krug.
bon
me
wu
nkoe
kap
uda (p)
Efulen Church — From Report^ 1907
Membership is ninety-eight ; twenty-
two were added on confession of faith.
The first death occurred since organiza-
tion in 1900.
Evangelizing. In the first half year
Christians were sent out by twos to preach
in the villages, the church paying each
fifty cents a week. Twelve times, a pair
went out on trips of two weeks, and about
13,000 people heard their message.
Sunday - school superintendent and
some of the teachers are Bulu ; average
attendance is 470.
Inquiry class enrolls in two divisions
(advanced): 63, of whom 40 are "in
good standing;" (other) 309, of whom
187 "in good standing." All who are
regarded by their own village people as
insincere are marked " doubtful."
Offering taken (once) for China Fam-
ine Relief amounted to $18.00. Total
contributions, $239.21.
Women's Meetings. One was held
for Bulu women in the villages steadily
all the year and others occasionally. One
was conducted at Efulen, Sunday after-
noons, for women from a distance and,
simultaneously, there was another meet-
ing for girls.
Sunshine Band composed of five
Efulen women, visited the sick and
coaxed people out to services.
Twelfth year of Elat Station, church membership is 68, of whom 22 were added last year.
Sunrise Station " Prayers " is a regular institution. Sunday school attendance, about 600.
62
[March,
MAP FACTS AND CHRISTIAN FACTS.
Kamerun Protectorate is the correct term. Victoria and Kribi are important trading posts.
About 800 whites in all Kamerun, seven eighths of them Germans; the military proportion is
120 Germans to
1,100 natives.
Rio Muni is the
Spanish term for
Benito region. The
cost to Spain of
running its several
African colonies
annually exceeds
the revenues de-
rived, by 2,000,000
pesetas, or about
$300,000.
Gabun (old Ga-
boon) is the north-
ern of three French
colonies; Libre-
ville was founded
1849 ; "BarakaJ' is
merely the mission
station name.
There are 1,000
Protestant Chris-
tians and 5,000 Ro-
man Catholics in
French Congo —
and six millions of
heathen.
Bantu peoples
dwell near this
German - Spanish -
French coast,
while inlandtribes
are usually classi-
fied as Sudan Ne-
groes. They are su-
perior to N. Amer-
ican Indians in
technic capacity.
A small territory
in Somaliland,
which is solidly
Mohammedan, i s
the only British
possession in Af-
rica which con-
tainsno Protestant
Christians; from
1,000 Protestants
in Zanzibar and
7,000 in Nigeria,
the figures rise to
48,000 in Sierra
Leone, 72,000 in
Natal, 260,000 in
Uganda, 1,118,000
in Cape Colony.
New in Gabun:
secular schools
with white teach-
ers, established by
the French; their
c o m m i ssioner
commended the
mi meographed
lessons used in mis-
sion school, where
35 girls live in a,
crowded way.
1908.]
63
Mission Meeting News
We are just back from Annual Meet-
ing (in December. — Ed.) at Batanga.
It was on the whole a good and pleasant
meeting. In arranging for the coming
year, however, we had the usual diffi-
culty in distributing our forces, there
being, as always, more places than peo-
ple to fill them. We are never able to
carry on all departments of our work at
all the stations, as they should be, for
lack of missionaries. The section most
poorly provided for is the French col-
ony. We are sadly in need of more
French-speaking missionaries. We have
now only Mr. and Mrs. Ford, whose fur-
loughs are due, and Miss Mackenzie,
who is to be transferred from the in-
terior to Baraka.
In other respects our mission is in a
prosperous condition. I copy a part of
the Report of the Committee on Self-
support, to show you how schools and
churches have both awakened.
"Self-support has advanced and taken on
dimensions such as were scarcely thought pos-
sible five years ago. When we adopted the
plan of turning over to the churches annually
ten per cent, more of the cost of their support,
we thought we were preparing the way for
self-supporting churches in ten years. But
three years have passed, yet we find more than
two-thirds of our churches are self-supporting.
"Our fifteen churches in Corisco Presbytery
have contributed this year $1,499.14, a net gain
of §409.62. Eleven of these churches will sup-
port their own preaching during the coming
year, and eight churches will also care for the
evangelistic work within their bounds. . . .
Needy fields are appealing to the churches for
evangelists, instead of coming to the mission,
as formerly, and asking for Bible readers.
"The schools have also advanced. Three
years ago we had only seven village schools in
Kamerun; now we have twenty- eight and
they are supporting themselves."
You see the people are taking hold of
church and school work in such a way
as to prove their earnestness. More and
more firmly have the missionaries be-
come impressed with the idea that it is
our chief work to train up a native
agency who must win their own people
to Christ. Hence our great* satisfaction
in seeing them respond to our aims and
plans. Seventeen applicants to study
for the ministry, most of them Bulu,
came before Presbytery. Nineteen were
already in course of training. We can-
not count on this whole number, but we
are encouraged. Happily, most of the
applicants were young.
Theological students are in two sta-
tions. Bulu candidates go to Flat, and
coast candidates come to Benito to be
taught by Mr. Cunningham. This will
give us another department at our sta-
tion. You at home will rejoice with us,
I am sure, over the manifestations of
God's blessing upon our mission, and
will unite with us in prayer for a great
outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon our
field, and also in our petition that God
will raise up more workers who will
come out from the homeland.
Minnie Murray Cunningham.
A Missionsfest in North Kamerun
Report by a native
It having been decided that the time
was ripe for a grand rally of all the
Christians in Kamerun district, the mis-
sionaries, native teachers and Christians
at Bonaku volunteered to entertain and
provide food for those who should gather
from a distance. The guests were as-
sembled from the towns of Bonaduma,
Bonebela (and six others named), from
all the Baaa towns which lie behind
Duala, also from Yapoma and Yansoki.
There were about two thousand people
present, mostly Christians. Trulj' it was
an inspiring sight. As they came from
their towns by canoe and on foot, their
way was cheered by the singing of
gospel hymns.
teacher, Yakob Modi.
Four missionaries, six African teachers
and one Elder addressed the meeting.
The whole service was one of praise to
God for what had been accomplished
and earnest prayer for the continuance
of His blessing. Four choirs gladdened
the hearts of the people by their sing-
ing.
All present were well dressed and
honored the occasion by most dignified
behavior. If such a festival makes so
strong an impression on participants and
beholders, how will it be on that Great
Day when we shall gather in the presence
of the Lord— Rev. 7:1, 5-11— Trans-
lated by Mrs. M. Louise Reutlinger, from a
publication of the Basel Mission.
64
[March,
Some Efulen Folks
You would be entertained if you could
see the people I am just now seeing.
There is one of the headmen of the dis-
trict, come up to see Mr. Johnston and
to find out whether our industrial class
has made anything that he wants. I
think it will be a chair or a bed. He is
dressed in a high silk hat, a coat worn
over an undershirt and a big cloth fall-
ing from the waist to his feet. Another
AN NTUil WoilAN.
Pron. Un-toom. Photographed by Miss Mackenzie.
man of equal power with himself comes
in sight. They are quite jealous of each
other and are having a wordy spat under
an orange tree. Number Two has a
long German pipe in his mouth, wears a
big soft hat, a jacket without a shirt,
and a blanket around the waist. Mr.
Johnston is in his room trying to write
to Dr. Arthur J. Brown, and he has
been called from his letter four times,
having to listen to people from five to
thirty minutes.
We had a wedding this week, between .
Nti, a Christian teacher, and Bela, a
school-girl. Bela was given to us sev-
eral years ago, when the man who had
her for a child- wife became a Christian
and put away three women. She is now
about sixteen. She made her own dress,
a pink and white flannelette trimmed
with black and white braid, and cut
Mother Hubbard fashion. It would look
odd at home, but here it looked nice.
We had orange blossoms in her hair, a
string of black beads around her neck,
and her feet were bare. The bridegroom
wore a white suit, black leather shoes,
and blue and white sateen tie. She is
the first girl around here to have lived
fully protected from a little child up to
her marriage.
{Mrs.W.C.) Emily T. Johnston.
Industrial Possibilities in Kamerun^ Africa
Rapid as is the development in our
homeland it can hardly equal thatin parts
of the dark continent, as her people begin
to find themselves and come to recognize
their relative position in the world.
Africa is probably moving faster to-day
than any other continent.* Itisa laud rich
in miueral wealth ; containing rubber
and ivory which have been for decades or
centuries in preparation for the use of
man ; with a climate so varied as to be
capable of producing nearly every agri-
cultural product ; with a soil equal to any
demand. And Africa is awakening.
Kamerun is a German province of
about 200,000 square miles (equal in area
to Maine, California and Connecticut),
lying on the West Coast just north of
the equator. Her people have existed
for countless generations in much the
*Mr. Gathrie intends to epeak for only the section of the
continent named in his title.— Editor.
same manner, doubtless, as they were
when first seenby ourmissionaries fifteen
or twenty years ago. Theirs has been
the simple life indeed. But there was
rubber in her forests and the tusks of
elephants long dead were stored in chief-
tains' huts or cached in forest fastnesses.
Therefore the agents of trade came and,
with beads and fancy colored cloth, per-
suaded the indolent native to gather a
Uttle rubber from the vine, or with gun-
powder, guns and rum secured his ivory
tusks. With the advent of trade came
also organized government and, soon,
the native was protected against the un-
fair trader as well as against himself.
And what have we now, a little more
than half a score of years since the white
man really entered this land ? The rubber
vines and trees are no longer found near
the coast but the white trader must go in-
terior 200 miles, 250 miles or even further
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PROOFS OF LOVE.
65
in order to secure this still valuable article
of trade; tusks of bygone generations
of elephants are largely sold out from
the region accessible to the white man.
With these changes has come also a
change in the black man. He is no
longer content to live with a piece of
pounded bark for covering, two stones
for his grinding mill and a clay pot and
wooden bowl for kitchen utensils. He
sees the clothes and tools of the foreigner
and desires them. He cannot buy these
new necessities without money and, to
get money, he must work. What shall
he do?
The industrial missionary is teaching
the African that from the garden or farm
can come something more than food
sufficient to feed his family, and that
work on the land is not a menial task
meant for women only. In the vicinity
of Elat and Ef ulen the Bulu are already
beginning to make plantings of rubber
trees according to the advice and example
of the missionary. At several of our
stations, classesin carpentry and tailoring
have been formed and the boys are
learning to become skilled workmen.
Besides the crops and other native re-
sources, including rubber, sugar cane
and ebony, the soil and climate are fitted
to produce cotton, cocoa, coffee, vanilla,
and other products of economic value.
To date, all produce is carried on men's
backs, but government roads are being
BUILDING A NATIVE HOUSE IN BULULAND.
Photographed by Miss Mackenzie.
rapidly improved and freight will doubt-
less soon be moved on donkeys or on
wheels. We even have rumors of a
railroad, which we hope may soon prove
well founded. The country is opening
up, and it is the duty of the Church of
God to see that she awakens to the right
kind of civilization.
Will you go or send?
Francis B. Guthrie.
No more tramping about the country to find school-boys for Efulen ; they
come by hundreds. Mr. Schwab is in charge of both German and vernacular
departments and Mrs. Schwab teaches singing and advanced German classes.
Benches and desks have banished the sprawling on the floor of former days. Mrs.
W. C. Johnston gave practical lectures in hygiene. Result: for the first time,
many peppers were left hanging on the bushes at the end of term, and health of
boarding pupils rose to 100 and 150 per cent, above that of day scholars.
Proofs of Love
" Do Africans understand love ?" We
sometimes question it, observing their
home life. We watch the young mother
caring for her growing child, or her sick
child, and we can scarcely say whether
the true mother love beats in her heart,
for her joy and aff ectionareso restrained.
It is not betrayed in admiring glances
and loving caresses. We watch her as
she screams and tears herself in frantic
grief when the life has gone from her
child's body, and her grief is so wild that
perhaps we do not recognize it as a gen-
uine feeling of love and loneliness. We
cannot judge.
The man who has more than one wife
cannot, we say, understand love. Can
he love each one of four, six, ten, up to
even fifty or a hundred wives ? He has
his favorite and he has the one he hates.
He has one who always serves him as
he likes, cooks his food to his taste and
gives him pleasure ; but does he know
what love means ? She who has been
sold like one of a herd of cattle to the
highest bidder, — does she know what it
is to love ? One out of many to serve
the same lord and master, — does she feel
herself loved ? We cannot tell.
But sometimes we know that we meet
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MISSIONARY MOTHERS AGAIN.
[March,
love in Africans. It is a reflection of
the love from above, though it may be
faint and is not seen until the influence
of divine love is felt. When we heard
from one 5'oung woman that she loved
one man but never hoped to " get him,"
we believed there was love, and when
the happy marriage day came and she
appeared, not in what we call bridal cos-
tume but in the best cloth she had, her
hair neatly done up, her face all joy and
pleasure, we said, " She loves." When
we saw a husband content to count but
one wife among his possessions, watch-
ing by her side with true anxiety through
serious illness; sad and quiet as long as
she was ill, rejoicing when she recov-
ered ; in every way treating her as he
would himself ; doing many of her heav-
ier duties, though they are beneath a
man's position, we said, " He loves his
wife."
We talk to an African mother and she
makes us realize how she wants to do
her part to keep her child in the right
path, but knows her weakness and pleads
for our help. We see her planning to
give her child the best there is for her to
give. Her heart yearns after the stray-
ing child ; she is ashamed of the evil he
does. Then we stand by and know there
is mother love in Africa. We witness
a wedding which is not a bad imitation
of such an event at home. We have
watched the bride as she made her prep-
arations ; we have helped her and it may
be even teased her a little. From her
smile, the look in her eyes, we are made
to believe she is very much like her white
sister. And the bridegroom with proud
bearingand joy in hisf ace, as he leads her
to the marriage altar, is plainly a happy
lover. Wehavereadlovebetweenaswell
as in his words, " I saw light," when he
would have us know that the wished-for
bride was willing. The young man to
whom we have just imparted our grief
at thelfnowledge that he has been drink-
ing with one having that habit, returns
and begs us not to tell his mother, for
she would grieve. We say, "This is
filial love." Are we not right ?
{Mrs. E,A.)
Leonie S. Ford.
Missionary Mothers Again
What Mrs. Cochran so justly said last month of their sphere in China is applicable in its
spirit to the lives of missionary mothers and wives on all the field of missions. Two illustrations
are at hand from countries far apart. They are taken from letters which are not new and were
not wTitten for print. — Editor.
From Brazil, 3Irs. C. E. Bixler wrote :
I am often heavy-hearted because of
the little real missionary work that I do
but, try as hard as I may, I cannot often
get out among the women as I should
like. Our oldest child is but five, the
next nearly three, and baby seventeen
months. Brazilian servants are not what
we find in America do Norte, and al-
though I have one of the good ones I
cannot often trust her with all the little
ones, and be away long at a time. We
dare not let them have Brazilian play-
mates, so I often must be mother, nurse,
playmate and all. Please do not think I
am complaining. I do not mean to make
it sound so, but only to explain why I
am tied at home. A great many who
are interested in the gospel from interior
towns where Mr. Bixler visits, when they
come to Estancia, stop over night, or for
a meal, with us. They often bring
another with them, so that we have lu-
cre ased opportunities for influence
through our guests.
From Syria, Mrs. Win. K. Eddy
wrote before her husband's death :
According to your request I have
written a report which I enclose. I am
a mother and a housekeeper, and have
to teach my children entirely myself,
besides being to a great extent their
companion, amusing them on week days
and on SaJ)bath giving nearly the whole
day to them, as there are no English
services in Sidon. We have only a tiny
yard ; our house opens into the Seminary
at one end, and Mr. Eddy has people
and business in his study from morning
to night at the other end, so the house
has to be kept in some degree quiet near-
ly all the time. Two restless boys, who
cannot go out of the city without some
responsible protector, need more com-
panionship from their parents than boys
in America, and the little boy only five
j^ears old is still quite dependent upon
his parents for all his ideas and occupa-
tions.
LETTERS fR0AVyni55I0NARIES
JAPAN.
Miss Elizabeth P. Milliken wrote from
Tokyo to Philadelphia Society :
Such a pleasure as Mrs. Thorpe's visit was,
and the good it brought us I It was both a dis-
appointment and a mortification to me not to
meet her and Miss London in Yokohama. Miss
West and I had been counting upon it all sum-
mer. You know how, when the boat came in.
Miss West was laid upon a long chair iinable
to walk and the greatest flood of forty years
cut communication between Tokyo and Yoko-
hama. Mrs. Thorpe made light of these things
and came up by the fii-st train, bringing her
daughter and Miss London
A>"D XO END OF GOOD CHEER WITH HER.
To have her tell of you all, in her vivid way,
made Philadelphia seem strangely near, and
her keen interest in everything here made us
realize how truly the school belongs to you
and you belong to \is. It was almost too much
of a disappointment to find that plans of travel
would carry her away before school opened,
before any kind of missionary work really be-
gan. And it was not to be, for, putting away
sight-seeing, this dear president turned back
in her journey, returned to Tokyo and did see
our Japanese friends — pastors and their wives,
old graduates of the school and their husbands —
did see many things with her own clear-sight-
ed, laughing, kindly eyes that for years she
had heard of, worked for, prayed for from be-
yond the seas. That day was a high day for
xis. The address she gave the girls (upon five
minutes' notice) was superb.
Accept our thanks for sending Miss London.
Her arrival seemed tobe just what we all needed
to set us up for the new term. She is so much
at home that we feel as though she had been
with us for years instead of weeks.
The Graham dormitories are not yet com-
pleted, so that many boarding pupils cannot
yet return, but we hope to have all in order
by the New Year. You can imagine what a
relief it vdll be to have the carpenters go,
after more than
A YEAR OP POCXDIXG AXD HAMMERING.
We have had some changes. We were sorry
to lose iliss Kushibe, who had been here seven
years as a teacher and in the school as a pupil
since she was a little child. The possibility of
finding Christian teachers to fill a vacancy is
one mark of progress. The five organs sent
by kind Mr. Severance have come ; they are
fine instruments.
YOUXG MEX STUDYING THE BIBLE.
Miss Anx E. Garvix wrote from Osaka :
Many are wanting to study the Bible these
days — just the state of things that we expected
to follow the war, when so much Cliristian lit-
erature was distributed to the soldiers. Now
these soldiers, converted again into business
men, are seeking the truth. Some get intro-
ductions to pastors or missionaries, others
COME STRAIGHT TO THE DOOR
and state their errand. Some have Testa-
ments, some have never seen the book. Some
are students, but most of them are busy men
of responsibility ; a number that come to me
are bank men. Mr. Y has been here
thi-ee times this week. He desired to become
a Christian and, knowing almost nothing of
the Bible, wanted to be taught. He was sent
to me by the Y. M. C. A. secretary because he
lives near om- South Church. I find his mind
wonderfully open to the triith. Speaking about
the miracles of Jesus, I remarked that there
could be no difficulty about believing them if
we believe God at all and that Jesus was God.
"Why, no," he replied; "of com-se God has
His own plans, and His own work, and He
would do it in His o^vn way." The only time
this man can come is at our dinner hour. He
continues the study eagerly for two hours,
and knows not how time is going. He had
NEVER BEEN INSIDE A CHURCH TILL
last Sunday. Another young man was intro-
duced to me as one who wanted to be taught
about God. He is from the Custom House and
never knows ahead just when he will be free,
but if he gets out by four or five o'clock, he
stops for a Bible lesson. He had never seen a
Testament before, nor heard a Christian ser-
mon. A Mr. Provence, his teacher of English
in another part of the country, had advised
him to learn about Cliristianity, so upon com-
ing to Osaka he hunted up a church and ex-
pressed his desire. Just a word of personal in-
terest and advice, — and see what it has accom-
plished, and will yet accomplish ! I have told
only of the two latest inquirers. There are
many lik? them.
FRIDAY EVENING IS NIGHT SCHOOL.
We teach English and Bible. The young men
are from banks and business ofiices, and from
the merchant class. There are small schools
like this all over town carried on by Japanese
Christians with help from missionaries. They
have been the means of bringing not a few
into the church. We catch tljem with Eng-
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LETTERS.
[March,
lish, but they are kept by God's Word. I had
A SOCIAL EVENING FOR ANOTHER SET OF
young men. We had simple games and re-
freshments, and Dr. Dunlap's gramophone, —
the same he used in Manchuria. With these
men I keep in toucli through my Sunday Bible
class at North Church. Just now they are
coming for singing, the object being a song
for Christmas exercises at the chirrch. There
are about twenty in all, and
ONLY THREE ARE CHRISTIANS.
You can appreciate how intensely I long that
every one of them may come to a saving knowl-
edge of Him whom they now but dimly see.
Can you unite with me in praying for them ?
Of com'se my principal work is for the women.
CHILE, S. A.
Mrs. Jas. F. Garvin wrote from Copiapo,
Nov. 13, 1907:
Last May I was asked as a favor to take the
English classes (eight hom-s a week) in a Chil-
ian girls' school here that our little girls at-
tend. As no teacher has yet been foimd, I
expect to keep on until the end of the j^ear.
The school closes for
SUMMER holidays ABOUT CHRISTMAS
time. There are two hundred and fifty girls
in the school, and although a government
school, no priests or nuns teach in it. With
mj- earnings I hope to help the colporteur and
Bible work which Mr. Garvin has undertaken
here in the north, and in which he had hoped
to be allowed to remain. He is interested
especially in the miners and men employed in
saltpetre works about Taltal and in this val-
ley, but the summons came decisively to San-
tiago, in October. His first work there was to
build a church without MONEY
or materials. The temporary structture, he
^vrites me, is to be ready for occupancy Dec. 1.
The Smiths of Talca are to come here. I shall
be very glad to meet them. We are rather
shut away from the rest of the world in this
Atacama desert. Darwin described the Copi-
apo Valley as " a green thread in the desert, "
but as the river is tiny when there is not a
freshet and there has been almost no rain for
two years, the thread is not very green at
present. This is a beautiful climate ; even in
summer, nights are almost always cool but
dust and fleas are pretty bad.
The Chilian helper and I are trying our best
to hold the fort imtil Mr. Smith arrives. He
goes off on short trips with Bibles and books,
so, when he is away, I take Wednesday night
service. I have an interesting class of young
women and big girls in S. S. , and C. E. S. is
under my wing. There are very few men in
this church, for they work away among the
hills in copper mines. With the recent fall in
the price of copper many small mines had to
close down and some of the larger ones. On
that accoimt a nvunber of our families have
had to move away to find work, but we hear
of them here and there in isolated places doing
what they can for the Master. In this valley
are five little Sunday-schools and Bible classes
carried ON IN different MINES
by families that have gone out during the year
from this chm'ch.
COLOMBIA. SO. AMERICA.
Mrs. Walter S. Lee wrote after her retiirn
to Barranquilla in the sirmmer :
We found a royal welcome awaiting us. It
did our hearts good to see our friends again
and be greeted with the Colombian hug. We
did little the first week besides receive visitors,
morning, afternoon and evening. You would
have thought we had been gone seven j- ears
instead of seven months ! We decided to have
ALL OUR SCHOOLROOMS IN THE NEW
building and to have our living room and two
sleeping rooms in the old thatched-roof build-
ing with mud walls where we had been con-
ducting the school. Dining-rooms, boj's' dor-
mitory, pantry, kitchen and offices are in the
new building. We found that parents resented
very much our putting their children in the
little old building for the whole day, while
we lived in the well-lighted, well -ventilated
rooms of the new one, and we could hardly
blame them. We do not mind the rooms be-
ing dark; when we need extra light, for sew-
ing or mending, we go outside and sit on the
little verandah. Then, too, we did worry
about having so many people in the old build-
ing, for it may fall down during any hard
windstorm, as old houses do here. I wish you
might have a peep into
OUR LITTLE THATCH-ROOFED PARLOR.
It is cosy and, we think, quite artistic ! Col-
ombians never cease to wonder that with so
unpromising an exterior, one can secure home-
like results inside. I think perhaps they love
us more for being ^villing to live under the
humblest roof their country provides. We
found om- school much run down ; but thirty
boys on the roll.
KOREA.
Mrs. Wm. N. Blair wrote from Pyeno Yang :
The Koreans have taken up the idea of
CELEBRATING THANKSGIVING DAY
and there were fine programmes in all the
churches. In ours they had Father Time re-
ceiving his children, the seasons, and his grand-
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LETTERS.
69
children, the months, who each in turn gave
their reasons for gratitude to God. Koreans
enjoy such programmes and act them weU.
There have been uprisings in various parts
by a society which calls itself the "Righteous
Army " and is opposed to Japanese occupation.
Some incidents have been rather amusing,
though the hopeless rebellion is in the main
pathetic. It happens that the Japanese party
all cut their hair and most of the Christians
do the same, so whenever a suspect was seized
by the Righteous Army he immediately in-
sisted that he was a Christian, not a Japanese
party man. ' ' In that case, ' said his captors,
"you have a Bible and hymn-book; produce
them." If he had "mislaid" them or "left
them at home," he was given one other chance.
" EF YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN PROVE IT BY
singing the doxology, saying the Lord's Prayer
and repeating the Ten Commandments." If
the victim could meet this test he was let off.
October and November are the best itinerat-
ing months and all the men with country cir-
cuits have been out most of the time, while
the ladies were out holding coxmtry classes.
EVEN I TOOK ADVANTAGE OF
a week when Iklr. Blair was obliged to be in
the city and, leaving our two little girls with
him, I went out and held a class for women of
a large church twenty miles north. The schools
are crowded. If Korea is awake to anything it is
THE NEED OF EDUCATION FOR
her young men and women. The grave ques-
tion is : are we to hold them for a Christian ed-
ucation when the Japanese are establishing
non-Christian schools everywhere ? The girls'
school especially is in need of a new bvulding.
LAOS.
Mrs. H. C. Campbell wTote from Chieng
Mai:
You may think I have passed out of exist-
ence. Well, I am still here. My
husband was away five months
and dirring that time ovir son, Howard Jr. , and
I "held down the claim"! It was not as
though we had been alone in an out-station,
for friends here were ever ready to cheer and
give help. We tried to keep up church, school
and every other line of work. Besides teach-
ing Howard, I had charge of Phraner Memo-
rial Primary School seven months, spending
about two and a half hours in actual teaching
each day. The new building is in process of
erection, so we held o\xr sessions in two smaU,
crowded rooms. We have forty-nine pupils
this session. I have a Simday-school class num-
bering thirty or mora young ladies, which I en'
joy very much.
Kroo Pook, one of our ministers, accompa-
nied us in toming. One pleasant feature was
A double wedding in a chapel
which we decorated beautifully. Both the
brides are Christians and former school-girls.
A short time before the wedding hour, the
young men called on me to be instructed as
to their duties. I told them we wanted this
to be an example of a Christian wedding, as
there were to be a large number of spectators
present who had never seen one. One of these
young men has been recently baptized, the
other is under instruction. On this tour we
elected two elders who have proved efficient
workers, and we visited twenty-six homes,
holding a sei-vice in each. A few days ago
we had
A delightful communion service
here in Chieng Mai ; forty-eight persons united
with the church and four suspended members
were restored. It is hard to write about my
o^vn work and what I am doing, but you have
asked for it.
CHINA.
Mrs. R. M. Mateer wrote from Weihsien
at the end of 1907:
I am devoting my time to thirteen coimtry
boarding schools for girls, trying to prepare
the teachers by giving them pedagogic lec-
tures. Not a little strength, time, patience
and Christianity are laid on the altar of self-
support in these schools. For want of funds
they were closed a fourth of the time, for we
are trying to squeeze a dry sponge dryer. We
have come up on tuition each year, until now
many girls have had to drop out of the race
for an education. . . . Mr. Mateer has
been out for several weeks with a band of ten
helpers preaching in the streets of heathen
villages. Christians swelled the number of
workers to twenty. He has never met with
such intelligent interest. Many new inquirers
have been added.
From Miss Churchill's Report, Canton:
My seven day schools had 194 pupils en-
rolled. The popular teacher of the Manchu
school left to be married and, the new teacher
not coming up to their ideas, the school re-
belled and refused to attend. In nothing are
the paradoxes in Chinese character more ap-
parent than their treatment of teachers.
When an old teacher leaves, the whole school
will also leave, carrying their desks with them.
On arrival of a new teacher, pupils come to
look at her and, if she does not suit, will not
come back. I have moved our Manchu school
to another street. It has been the means of
interesting many in the gospel; one convert
this year is a bright young Manchu woman.
HOML DEPARTMENT
PROGRAMME FOR MARCH MEETING-AFRICA
S!ng Livingstone's favoi-ite hymn, "O God of Bethel, by whose hand."
Read from Acts viii : 26, through Philip's interview with the Ethiopian.
Choose two notable sayings from mission-
aries to Africa, letter them plainly on a black-
board placed where it will be visible through
the meeting.
Have a large map of Africa ; if necessary,
an outline map will do. Let one person point
out the stations of the Presbyterian Church.
As each station is indicated, another person
may tell, not read, the names of those man-
ning each post and the character of each one's
work. (Seep. 55 of this magazine. )
Sketch briefly: (a) The character of the
country and its waters, sea, river and lake.
(b) Characteristics of the different tribes
among which our :uissionaries work. (See
Historical Sketch of 3Jissions in Africa. )
Summarize the religions of Africa. (See
ChristuH Liberator, p. 57, etc.)
Ten<minute talk on Current Mission Events
in Africa. (See Report of the Assembly's
Board, various numbers of Woman's Work.)
Five-minute talk from Secretary of Litera-
ture, telling what one should read about Af-
rica. Some suggestions of books are: Dawn
in the Dark Continent, by James Stewart;
Fetishism in West Africa, by Dr. Nassau; A
Life for Africa, by Ellen C. Parsons; Travels
in West Africa, by Mary H. Kingsley ; Life of
David Livingstone, by D. W. Blaikie. Give,
in closing, hints of contents of March Wo-
man's Work.
"Systematic Giving in Africa," two-min-
ute talk founded on leaflet. Three Significaht
Events of the Year, and on Dr. Halsey's Visit
to West Africa Mission.
Roll-call of notable mission workers who
have gone home from Africa: Livingstone,
Mackay, Good, Hannington, Isabella Nas-
sau, etc.
Sing, "For all Thy saints."
The scheme of "Topics for the Year" has been arranged with suggestions for the use of
missionary meetings, in a neat four-page folder, and*s sent out free of charge from the busi-
ness ofiice of Woman's Work. Apply to your own headquarters for this schedule.
SUGGESTIONS FOR APRIL PROGRAMME— INDIA
Give five minutes each to talks on: (1) The
Caste system in India, its characteristics and
effects.
(2) Account of the life of a Hindu woman.
{'^) A carefully prepared sketch of the life
led by a child-widow, put in the first per.son
and spoken by a girl ten or twelve years
old. (For tliese consult Lux Christi.)
Ten-minute address on Modern Hinduism,
does it meet the needs of India? (See leaflet
published by the American Board on this sub-
ject.)
Five-minute talk on Buddhism preached in
our own laud. An interesting reading might
be arranged, cho.sen from Mrs. Mason's Little
Oreen God.
Solo, " In the secret of His presence," wTit-
ten by Ellen Lakshmi Goreh, a converted
Hindu.
Brief account of famine of 1907, expiating
tlie causes of frequent famines.
Show on map, centers of Presbyterian hos-
pital and educational work.
Give summary of, witli extracts from leaflet
by Dr. J. J. Lucas, Ood is With Us in India.
Sing, "Jesus, and shall it ever be,
A mortal man ashamed of Thee ? "
written by Krishna Pal (Serampore), the first
Hindu convert, and sung at his baptism.
Literature referred to may be obtained at
headquarters of all our Boards. E. E.
A PERMANENT MISSIONARY LIBRARY
Going, going! — Before they are quite gone,— do all our societies realize this opportunity
open to them, but fast slipping away? Tliree splendid volumes, about 2.000 pages— C/i?'ts<z"an
Missions and Social Progress, by Rev. James S. Dennis, D.D.— are offered now for five dollars.
Tliey will not be sold at this price later, and the offer is only to Women's Missionary Societies
and Studv Classes.
Tlie books are richly illustrated and represent the finest scholarship and deepest research.
They are invaluable for reference, not only this year but every year. Though late, you are not
yet too late to order from your Board.
Pictures convince where words fail. The set of twenty-four pictures illustrating Gloria
Christi (twenty-five cents) will illuminate yo\u- missionary programmes. Hoiv to Use Gloria
Christi will answer your questions. (Price ten cents.) In Circles of Light, the Junior book,
offers twelve charming missionary lessons all worked out. (Twenty cents.) No other material
needed. AH ordered from your Board.
MISSIONARY CONVENTION AT PITTSBURG
A great interdenominational missionary con- the base of supplies for Home and Foreign
vention will l)e held at Pittsburg, March 10-12, Missions, especially by metliods of education ;
under auspices of the Young People's Mission- it will therefore be of the greatest interest and
ary Movement. Tlie purpose of this gathering importance to all who have special responsi-
is to plan for more thorough organization of bility for promotion of the missionary cause.
1908.]
TAKEN CAPTIVE BY ORIENTAL CULTS.
71
Thirty-five hundred delegates are expected to
be present, and the most able missionary speak-
ers on the continent have been secui'ed to de-
liver addi-esses.
Pi'esbyterians wishing to attend this con-
vention can obtain further information on the
subject from eitlier Von Ogden Vogt or T. H.
P. Sailer, 156 Fifth Ave., New York.
TAKEN CAPTIVE BY ORIENTAL CULTS
Of all the cunningly devised fables
which the world of our day is madly fol-
lowing, that which brings the hottest
blush to the cheek of an intelligent Chris-
tian woman is the net of Orientalism,
with its haul of silly women. That the
greatest debtors to the Lord Jesus should
ever turn away from Him — from His
message of life, from His sweet service —
is always tragedy, but it becomes a poor
humiliation when they turn from our
mighty Saviour and stoop to decrepit,
worn-out faiths which, in their Oriental
birthplace, are crumbling to dust. Are
any of these captives in the circle of our
acquaintance ? There is one cure-all for
them. Warm Christian enthusiasm must
be applied to their Yedantic dreams.
Then will they shrivel like paper on coals
of fire. One of the pillars of missionary
work on the Pacific coast writes :
" There are societies of women in
Berkeley and San Francisco who are
believers in Babism, and they meet to
studj^this cult about the Behais of Persia.
"A young lady gave me a pile of type written
pages, and asked if I had heard of 'the new
religion, that Christ has already come.' No,
I had not heard. As she asked my opinion of
her manuscript, I read it all and replied in
seven pages, telling her many things about the
Mohammedans and of Henry Martyn, who
went to Shiraz, the very city where the Behais
are strongest, and taught the MoUahs vehe-
mently : There is one God, and Jesus Christ is
the Son of God. I showed that these teach-
ings were in Persia before 1813, while the
Babists claim to have arisen about 1848, and
that I believe the new sect has arisen through
reading the New Testament as well as the Old.
I called them Reformed Mohammedans with
some new truths. I told her that Christ had
done great things for us, and would yet be
manifested in a manner tmmistakable to the
whole world. Two days after, I met this
young lady on her way to read my paper to
some of the Behai women. Another young lady
inquired if I had read anew book about Behai
Effendi which she was reading in French."
CHANGE IN THE COMMITTEE FOR UNITED STUDY OF MISSIONS
After seven years of service Miss Ellen C. Parsons has resigned from this
Committee, and Sirs. Chas. N. Thorpe, notwithstanding her multifarious duties as
president of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, has consented to take the
position. She represents all the Presbyterian women on this interdenominational
Committee and to her, inquiries relating to the subject of United Study may
henceforth be addressed, at 501 Witherspoon Building, Phila., Pa.
ONE SEED FROM A PRESBYTERIAL MEETING
The following letter was written from a town in Wisconsin, Jan. 20, 1908. — Editor.
Can you recall the time when we met
in White Plains, N, Y. ? Our dear sis-
ter Miss Charlotte* Montgomery (who
has gone to her well earned reward) was
there, being home on furlough from Per-
sia. I think it was in 1 895. I was one
of the delegates from our church. If
you remember, I told how opposed I had
always been to foreign missions but, lis-
* A friend is happily at hand, who was also at the White
Plains meeting, and she reminds us that, instead of " Miss
Charlotte," it was Miss Annie Montgomery who was at
home in 1895 and is still in the harvest field, looking for-
ward to the " reward " in due time.
teningto her simple story , shecompletely
won my heart. I promised I would from
that time, as long as God spared me,
help as far as lay in my power to make
reparation for my past neglect. . . .
We organized a missionary society in
this church, with twenty-three members,
a little over a year ago, and we studied
Christus Liberator. The pastor's wife
is president and the women are beginning
to become interested in missionary study.
A. J. H.
CHANGES IN THE MISSIONARY FORCE
Dec. 7, 1907. — At San Francisco, Miss Mary B. Barrett from Seoul, Korea. Address,
Millville, Florida.
Departure :
January 25. — From New York, Miss Alice Mitchell, returning to North India via France.
Resignation :
Miss Lucy E. Mayo, West Japan Mission. Appointed 1901.
72
[March,
NOTES FROM HEADQUARTERS
The following helps are permanent and may
be obtained from all Women's Boards —
On all the missions : —
Historical Sketch 10 cts.
Question Book 5 cts.
Schools mid Colleges. e&ch, 2 cts. ; set, 15 cts.
Medical Series each, 3 cts. ; set, 15 cts.
Home Life 2 cts.
Illustrated Programmes per doz. 5 cts.
Hero Series 2 cts.
Tlie Year Book of Prayer, 1908 10 cts.
A Visit to the West Africa Mission 10 cts.
Mission Study Series: —
Via Christi, Introduction to Missions,
Ltix Christi, India,
Rex Christus, China,
Dux Christus, Japan,
Christus Liberator, Africa,
Christus Redemptor, Island World,
Gloria Christi, Social Progress,
Each, postpaid, cloth, 50 cts. ; paper, 30 cts.
For Children : —
A Cruise in the Island World 20 cts.
In Circles of Light 20 cts.
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.
Prayer-meeting, March 19. Topics: Our
Presbyterial Societies and Africa.
Treasurer's books at headquarters close
April 1st.
The Thirty-seventh Annual Meeting (Third
Biennial) of the Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society of the Presbyterian Church will be
held in the Cham hers- Wy lie Church, Phila.,
April 28 to 30. The opening session will be
Tue^ay afternoon instead of Wednesday
morning, to give time for the Children's Meet-
ing as well as for a new Conference (on
finance) , and yet enable us to close on Thurs-
day afternoon.
" One delegate may be sent from each Pres-
byterial Society, Auxiliary or Young People's
organization contributing through the Wo-
man's Foreign Missionary Society." (See By-
laws. ) The Presbyterial Societies of Philadel-
phia and Philadelphia North extend cordial
hospitality to all missionaries and delegates
who may attend the meeting. Board will be
secured for others at boarding-houses or hotels.
Names of delegates desiring entertainment
and all applications for boarding places must
be sent, not later than April 15th, to Miss Ella
Burgin, 2037 Arch St. In applying please state
official connection with your society. No re-
duced railroad rates.
Committees are doing all they can to make
this year's Assembly the best, and we ask our
constituency to pray that the Holy Spirit may
inspire all plans so that a great blessing on
missionaries and home workers may be the
result. An exhibit is planned, illustrating cus-
toms and religions, and a " suggestion corner "
for samples of programmes, invitations, meth-
ods of work, etc. Such successful devices are
desired. Address Chairman Biennial Assem-
bly Committee, 501 Witherspoon Building.
There were with us during the Week of
Prayer our president, Mrs. C. N. Thorpe, just
home from her tour round the world, who told
of "Missionary Children I Have Seen ; " Mrs.
J. P. Cochran, formerly of Urumia; Mrs. E. F.
Hall, lately returned from Korea ; Miss Latti-
more of China, Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Orbison,
and Dr. Alice Mitchell of India. The latter
has her mother's and sister's company to Mar-
seilles as she starts off again for India on Jan.
25th.
In thanking all who contributed to the Sidon
House, we are glad to state that enough for the
purchase was given, and thus another prayer
has been granted.
Mrs. C. T. Chester, Secretary for C. E. So-
cieties at headquarters, has kindly consented
to act as Field Secretary dviring the spring.
Mrs. Gillespie's friends, especially those
within call of Pittsburg, will be glad to know
that she lives now at 528 Washington Ave.,
Carnegie, Pa.
Leaflets on Giving: Selfishness and Lib-
erality ; Whose Is It — Mine or God's ? The Giv-
ing Alphabet ; 1 ct. each, 10 cts. per dozen.
New Bible Reading, The Name Above Every
Name, 50 cts. per 100.
For children, on Africa : A Brave Hunch-
back, Out of the Darkness, each 2 cts. ; Schools
and Colleges in India (new). Hospitals in In-
dia (new), 3 cts. each, 30 cts. per dozen; Pedro
Recto, a Filipino, Hero Series (new), 2 cts.;
Africa for Juniors, 10 cts.
From Chicago.
Meetings at Room 48, Le Moyne Block, 40 E. Ran-
dolph Street, every Friday at 10 a. m. Visitors welcome.
The Thirty-seventh Annual Meeting of the
Woman's Presbyterian Board of Missions of the
Northwest will be held in First Presbyterian
Church (Rev. Thomas D. Logan, D.D., pastor),
Springfield, 111., Wednesday and Thursday,
April 22, 23. The opening meeting will be held
Tuesday evening. Appoint your delegates and
watch for notices in The Interior and next
number of Woman's Work.
Please send names of delegates to Aimual
Meeting to Mrs. C. C. Brown, 833 South 4th
St., Springfield, 111.
Presbyterial treasurers are reminded that
our fiscal year clo.ses April 1. They should for-
ward by March 25 all they liave then received,
sending any sums coming after that day in
time to reach Room 48 by April 1.
How could one more fitly celebrate the Day
of Resurrection than by a hundred-dollar offer-
ing to the Korea Fund, thus conferring hon-
orary membership of the Board of the North-
west on a friend beloved? Some may not
know what a beautiful steel-engraved certifi-
cate of membership in the Assembly's Board
is ready for any one with whose name a thirty-
dollar gift is remitted to Mrs. Bradley by a
presbyterial treasurer. See also page 239 of
our Annual Report, concerning life members.
There can be no doubt that such an Easter
token would gratify any friend of missions,
old or young.
1908.]
NOTES FROM HEADQUARTERS.
73
Send one cent postage for our new cata-
logue, and thereby learn not only about latest
publications, but see what books you may like
to draw from our free circulating library.
It was a rare privilege to have with us Mrs.
Pinnej', president of the Occidental Board,
one Friday morning. She brought good news,
andliaving "looked unto Him" was "radiant. "
The missionaries from Korea, as they said
themselves, "fired their first gun" in Chicago
in their campaign for a Christianized Korea.
They made over sixty addresses during a ten
days' stay here. There were some large con-
tributions, but the totals are not yet known.
The Praise Meeting Prograinme, Fruit Bear-
ing, is reduced to twenty-five cents per hun-
dred, and we urge all societies to order them
for their Praise Meetings.
From New York,
Prayer-meeting at 156 Fifth Ave., cor. 20th St., the first
Wednesday of each month, at 10.30 a. m. Each other
Wednesday there is a half-hour meeting for prayer and
readinjr of missionary letters, commencing at same hour.
Visitors cordially welcome.
The Thirty-eighth Annual Meeting of the
Women's Board of Foreign Missions will be
held on Wednesday, April 22, at 156 Fifth Ave-
nue, and will be confined to a morning session.
Delegates will be warmly welcomed at head-
quarters, and a good representation is earnest-
ly looked for from those societies near enough
to New York to make it possible to attend a
short meeting. Those at a distance planning
to be in New York this spring may be able to
arrange their visit to correspond with tliis
date. Further details will be given next month.
^ The Board feels itself fortimate in having
been able to secure for a period of six months
the time and services of Miss M. E. Rogers,
formerly a missionary in Fatehgarh, India,
who will act as Field Secretary, giving her
entire time to traveling among the societies of
our territory and speaking for missions wher-
ever she is needed. From March 19, through
April, Miss Rogers will be among the Kentucky
societies, but before and after those dates she
will be open to engagements elsewhere. En-
gagements with Miss Rogers may be made by
applying to Miss M. G. Janeway, Sec. for Mis-
sionary Speakers, 156 Fifth Ave., N. Y.
The Presbyterial Society of New York de-
serves hearty congratulations in having se-
cured for its president Mrs. George Knox, who
has herself been a missionary in Japan, and
who will therefore be an inspiring and efficient
leader in the work at home.
A LARGE work has been carried on at Osaka,
Japan, by the Cumberland Presbyterian Board.
In order that the Cumberland societies now
associated with our Board may continue to
give to this object, in which they have so long
been interested, we have assumed shares in
Osaka work.
The thermometer almost at zero, on the first
Wednesday in February, did not deter people
from coming to monthly meeting of the Board.
The room was crowded, and each address was
more interesting than the last. Mrs. Samuel
Cochran of Hwai-yuentoldof perplexities that
missionary mothers have there and showed in a
very practical way the necessity of some things
that are criticised at home; a tennis court,
for instance, is a great help in keeping a normal
condition of health, mentally and spiritually.
Rev. James Cochran told of wonderful results
after six years' work at Hwai-yuen and of the
opportimities for expansion, but no funds with
which to take advantage of them. Dr. Mc-
Candliss of Hainan spoke for medical missions
and said that eighty per cent, of the misery
of China comes from superstition. Rev. John
E. Williams of Nanking spoke of the influx of
Chinese students to Tokyo and the work done
among them by the Y. M. C. A. , with results
that make one realize how God's blessing goes
with all work done in His name.
From Northern New York.
This is the month when blanks are sent out
to all the societies. It is very necessary, in
order that the Report may be completed in
time, that all the columns be accurately filled
out and the blanks returned promptly.
The books of the Treasurer will close March
31. All moneys must be in her hands by that
date, in order to be included in the Report.
Local treasurers are requested to state clearly
the object for which the sums forwarded are
appropriated, and not take it for granted that
the General Treasurer will know.
Be sure that all pledges are met. As will
be seen from February Woman's Work, there
is an urgent call from all fields for money.
This is cause for gratitude, because it means
progress. This is a time when the "little " as
well as the larger gifts are needed, and our
gifts should be increased, not lessened.
Annual Meeting will be held April 15 and
16. All are asked to bear this in mind and to
remember it in prayer, that it may be a time
of profit as well as inspiration.
From St. Louis.
Meetings the first and third Tuesdays of each month
at 10 a. m., at Room 601, Equitable Bldg., St. Louis, Mo.
Missionary literature for sale at the above number.
Visitors always cordially welcome.
A meeting of representatives from the Pres-
byteries has been called in St. Louis for Wednes
day and Thursday, March 11, 12, to hold a con-
ference on ways of working. This meeting is
especially designed to reach our new Presby-
teries in Texas and Arkansas, and was set thus
early in order to send thoroughly instructed
delegates to the annual presbyterial meetings.
In order that this conference may be a suc-
cess, it is very important that a representative
come from every Pre.sbytery, especially from
the two Synods named above. All delegates
intending to be present at this meeting will
please send name and address to Miss Mary
W. Keith, 601 Equitable Building, St. Louis.
We hope for a full representation.
Letters were received this month from Mrs.
Garvin of Copiapo, Chile, and Mrs. Wm. Blair
of Pyeng Yang, Korea. The latter will be
found in this magazine.
The Secretary for Missionary Candidates
reports that never, since she has held the posi-
tion, has there been such a large number of
young women making application for work
in the foreign field. At present the creden-
74
NOTES FROM HEADQUARTERS.
[March,
tials of five candidates are in New York await-
ing action by General Assembly's Board, and
during the past week three more liave sent for
application blanks. The tive candidates men-
tioned are without exception remarkablj'
bright, earnest, intelligent }"Oung women, and
since God has moved them to sacrifice home,
family and friends so unreservedly for His
sake and give their lives to Kiswork, we hope
and pray unceasingly that the means for send-
ing them out and supporting them may not
be lacking. Tlie Board is most anxious to send
out twent}' missionaries to Korea alone. We
know how difficult it is this year to raise fimds
for any sort of work, but we also know that
the wealth of the world is the Lord's. May
He move the hearts of His people to return to
Him that which is His own!
From San Francisco.
Headquarters, 920 Sacramento St., San Francisco.
Thikty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Wo-
man's Occidental Board of Foreign Missions
will convene on April 15 at 920 Sacramento
St., San Francisco. Wednesday, reception to
delegates at 2.30 p. M. ; Thursday and Friday,
all-day meetings. Delegates are invited from
Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California, for
whom entertainment will be provided.
The Treasurer's books will close March 20.
Money sent in later must go over to the next
fiscal year. Address Mrs. E. G. Denniston,
3454 Twenty-first St., San Francisco.
Some heroic reports will be presented from
the presbyteries. The work of Foreign Mis-
sions is reaching high tide. Better things than
ever are in store.
The labors of Eev. D. E. Potter are bearing
fruit a Imndredfold, we liope. Mrs. Potter, our
efficient Field Secretary, works with her hus-
band in the "Institutes ' held in our cities
and towns. After a general talk upon the
subjects, each department retires to another
room. While Mrs. Potter teaches a ' ' Lesson
Study " Mr. Potter holds an audience on For-
eign Missions, and Rev. W. S. Holt another
audience on Home Missions. Each works at
high pressure. Mr. Potter pleads with the
churclies to not neglect the boys and girls of
ten and over, thereby to .save a loss of interest
through a whole generation.
Books recommended for juveniles and young
people may be ordered through the Woman's
Board or from Fowler Brothers in Los An-
geles, or the New Book Store, San Francisco.
Libraries in .stock maj' be fomid at the West-
ern office of the Presbyterian Foreign Board,
Albanj' Block, Oakland, Cal. Tlie Occidental
Board has a circulating library, in care of
Miss Page, 2747 Derby St., Berkeley.
TiTLE-S of books on Rev. D\\-ight E. Potter's
list, for children and young people, are:
Romance of Mis'iionary Heroifm, 81-50.
Komance of Missionary Enterprise. $1.50.
Ufianda's White -Man of Work, 50 cts.
Child Life in Mission Lands, 50 cts.
The Juvenile Missionary l-ibrary. $5.00.
Children in Blue and What They Do. 5T!4 cts.
Katharine K. Crowell's books for "Juniors," 12 cts. to
25 cts each.
Missions in Sunday-school (for workers), 50 cts.
Year Book of Prayer for both Home and Foreign Mis-
eions, 10 cts. each in pairs.
' ' Mission Study " Series always has new books.
Besides these, there are books that we cannot
deny ourselves the reading. Dr. Arthur J.
Brown s The Foreign Mis>iionary should go
into oirr church libraries.
East Oakland Church, Rev. J. K. Sanborn,
pastor, furnished the Christmas tree and gifts
for the girls in the temporary Mission Home,
which is located in the vicinity of that church.
The Sabbath-school, with its fine teachers, has
been most kind and helpful during the year.
The Occidental Board presents most cordial
thanks for the loving attention bestowed upon
Miss Cameron and her large famih'.
From Portland, Oregon.
Meetings on first and third Tuesdays each month
at the First Presbyterian Church. Visitors welcome.
The twentieth anniversary of our Board's
organization will be held in Portland, April 15
and 16. The meeting promises to be one of
rejoicing, the hopes and prayers and toils of
the years triumphing over all anxieties and
doubts. Every year has been one of steady
advancement. The twentieth year .stands out
from all the rest in one important feature:
the offering from societies is to be voluntary.
No stated advance has been asked. The offer-
ings will be divided in the following ratio:
Foreign Mis.sions, two- fifths; Home Missions,
two-fifths; Freedmen. one fifth. This mle was
suggested by our treasurers at last Annual
Meeting and unanimoush* adopted. What
shall be the result of this decision upon oiu:
annual offering 't Tlie treasurers are not alone
in their prayerful, hopeful awaiting the an-
swer. It is for every member and society to
test the twice blest free-will offering.
The presbyterial treasurers' books close the
20th of March; those of Mrs. Goss, Treasurer
of the Board, close March 25. Reports of local
.secretaries .nu.st soon l)e in the hands of the
presbyterial secretary, or else be omitted from
the printed report.
Every presbj-terial society is expected to
send a delegate to the Annual Meeting: every
societ}', if possible, should be represented. C.
E. Societies and Bands are also invited to send
delegates. Please send names of delegates to
Chairman of Hospitalitv Committee, Mrs. G.
B. Cellars, 324 E. Eleventh St., N., Portland.
Careful plans are being laid for entertainment
of guests.
We are awaiting with deep interest the re-
sult of the conference of delegates of the Wo-
man's Board of Home Missions and the Wo-
man's Foreign Boards, held in Cliicago, con-
cerning tlie further development of Westmin-
ster Guild, an organization launched by the
Board of the Northwest a j-ear ago. Its aim
is: (1) "To develop a symmetrical woman-
hood; (2) To bind together for world-wide
service for Christ and the Church the young
women of our denomination." The Gxiild pre-
sents a jearly course in Bible study and study
of missions. Such an organizaticm is of vital
interest to every earnest worker. The North
Pacific Board was fortunate in securing Mrs.
Hill, wife of Dr. E. P. Hill, now of Chicago,
but for many years pastor of First Church,
Portland, as our delegate to the convention.
1908.]
TREASURERS' REPORTS.
75
o'clock. Visitors in Portland are not only most
welcome, but their presence is an encourage-
ment to officers and especially to the presi-
dent, who has carried the chief care and re-
sponsibility of the Board throughout the years
of its existence. These meetings are always
helpful and interesting.
Mrs. Hill was closely associated with the work
of our Board.
We note with satisfaction the increased at-
tendance at our popular Board meetings.
These are held in the First Church parlors tlie
third Tuesdaj^ of each month, at half -past two
Receipts of The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church for January, 1908
By total? from Presbyterial Societies.
New Casti.e, S5.00
Newton, 265.76
Obion-Mbmphis, 25.85
O.XFORD, 25.03
Philadelphia, 3,865.40
Phlladelphia North, 71.00
Portsmouth, 15.00
St. Clairsvillb, 338.78
Union. 184.40
Total for January, 1908,
Total since April 1, 1907,
Athens,
$105.06
7.00
Holston,
$23.65
Bell,
Hopewell-Madison,
7.70
Bellefontaine,
200.43
Huntingdon,
16.00
Birmingham,
73.84
Huron,
27.88
Butler,
670.72
Jersey City,
572.50
Carli.sle,
1.143.73
Lackawanna,
1,497.15
Chattanoooa,
56.40
Lehigh,
295.68
Chester,
11.00
Lima.
70.50
Cincinnati,
1,177.73
McMlNNVILLB,
22.60
Clarion,
236.64
Mahoning,
285.50
Cleveland,
896.88
Marion,
1.37.53
Columbus,
225.19
Maujiee,
25.00
COOKBVILLB,
9.65
Monmouth,
399.57
Datton,
470.05
Morris and Oranqe,1 ,480.25
Elizabeth,
1,568.74
Nashville,
130.31
Florida,
4.40
New Brunswick,
814.43
Washington,
Washington City,
West Jersey,
Westminster,
Wheeling,
WOOSTBR,
Zanesvillb,
Miscellaneous,
$911.17
977.58
161.86
144.15
2.00
335.99
297.45
1,899.98
$31,890.09
79,852.43
(Miss) Sarah W. Cattell, 7'reas.,
501 Witherspoon Building, Philadelphia.
Special Gifts to Missionaries, $50.00
India Famine Fund, 104.00
Report of the Women's Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church for January, 1908.
* Indicates Praise Offering.
BiNGHAMTON. — Bainbridsje, 8; Binghamton, 1st, King's
Paushters, 10: Conklin, C.'E., 5; Deposit, C.E., 5; Nichols,
2.25; Waverly, 20, Jr. Miss. Soc, 9; Windsor. 4,90, S64.15
Brooklyn.— Brooklyn, Bay Kidge, 15; Bethany, 14.58;
Bushwick Ave., German, C.E., 10; Classon Ave., M.H.
Guild. 25; Duryea. 2.31. *-23.17, C.E.. 3.41; 1st, 100, City
Park Branch, 9,95, Cheerful Givers, 7; Flatbush, 10; Grace,
20; Greene Ave.. 14.75; Lafayette Ave., 99.04; Mein'l, 50
cts.; Prospect Heights, 2.05; Ross St., 12.2;j, C.E.. 100; 2d,
14..32; Throop Ave , 6, Girls' Bd., 20; Westra'r, 5.27; W yckotl'
Heights, C.E.,2..50. 517.08
Buffalo.— Bull'alo, Bethany. 25; North. 22.50; Clarence,
C.E., 11.75; Orchard Park, 10; Portville, 118, C.E., 32,
219.25
Cayuga,— Auburn, Central, 25; Cato, 6; Ithaca, C.E.,
15.25; Ludlowville, C.E., 5; Weedsport, 19; A Friend, .300,
370.25
Chemung.— Breesport, 2.75; Elmira, 1st, 35.25; Lake,
31.10; Watkins, 10, 79.10
Ebenezer, Ky.— Ashland. 1st, Y.L.S,, 25.03, C.E., 12.50;
Covington, 25, King's Stars, 15; Dayton, 1st, 10; Lexington,
2d, *11.65, Y.W.S., 4.67; Ludlow, 1st, 5, C.E., 2.50; Mays-
ville, 7.50, C.E., 5; Pikeville, McFarland Mem'l, 10, Jr. C,
E., 3. 136,fc5
Hudson.— Circleville, 3; Cochecton, 1.50; Florida, C.E.,
11.36; Monticello, Jr. C.E.,1; Otisville, 4.50; Ramapo, Hill-
burn, 10.20; Stony Point, 10; VVashingtonville, 25; West-
town, 21, 87.56
Logan, Ky.— Auburn, 27.50; Bowling Green, 16.50;
Franklin, 8; Pleasant Mill, Rockfield, 2; Kussellville, 5.85;
Smith's Grove, 15.17; Woodburn, 4.35, 79.37
Long Island. — Bridgehamptou, 3.45; Cutchogue. 6.50;
Franklinville, C.E., 5; Middletown, Ch., 29.34: Shelter
Island, Dorcas Soc, 10; Southampton, C.E., 8.08; West-
hampton, 17.50, 79.77
Louisville, Ky.— Louisville, Covenant, 11.40; 4th, 7.50;
4th Ave., 18.03, *15.41; Inimanuel, 2; Union, 29.48; Warren
Mem'l, 100, Y.L. Guild, Mrs. Culbertson, 466; Owensboro,
1st, 46.04; Cumberland. 8, 703.86
Lyons.— Junius, C.E., 3.00
Nassau. — Glen Cove, 15; Jamaica, 30; Northport, 4.25;
Smithtown Branch, 5.50, *9.50, 64.25
New York. — New York, A Friend, 200; Brick, 475; Cen-
tral, C.E., 79 22; Mizpah Chapel, C.E., 3.80; Ch. of the
Good Shepherd, 10; 5th Ave.. 604.96, Y.W.S., 135; 1st, 100;
4th, C.E., 250; Madison Ave., 100; Madison Sq., 360,
Church House. C.E,. '25; North, C.E., 11.3.34; Park. 67.50,
Y.W.S., 67.50; Riverdale. Girls' Bd., 50; Rutgers. 2()0; Uni-
versity PI., 500, Evening Branch, 160; West End, 57.03;
Receipts of the Woman's Presbyterian Board of
Aberdeen.— Britton, 24, C.E., 10; Castlewood, 6, C.E„
5; Eureka, C.E., 8; Groton, 45; Langford, C.E. ,2; Pier-
pont, 8; Sisseton, C.E., 5, $113 00
Adams.— Angus, 5: Bemidji, 6.50; Bethel, 20.50; Crooks-
ton, 16.75; Hallock. 8.77; Warren, 7, 64.53
Bi.ooMlNGTON.— AUerton, 48 cts.: Bement, 111; Bloom-
ington, 1st, 20. C,E„ 6,25; 2d, 95, C.E., 25; Champaign, .50,
C.E., 30; Clinton, 119.11; Danville, Bethany, 4; El Paso, 15;
Gibson City, 31; Heyworth, 6.25; Hoopeston, 6.35; Homer,
12.50: Lexington, 17; Mahomet, 3; Mansfield, C.E., 5; Nor-
mal, 10, C.E., 6; Onarga, 47; Philo, 14; Stanford, 18.20; To-
lono, 23; Towanda, 14; Urbana, 5; Waynesville, 5, 699.04
Woodstock, 39, C.E., 88; Stapleton, S. I., 1st, I, D, H. Soc,
15; West New Brighton, S. I., Calvary, 20; Friends, 200,
3,920.35
Niagara. — Albion, 24; Barre Centre, 4, *4..32; Holly, 7;
Knowlesville, 15; Lewiston, 2, *6: Lockport, 1st, 10, Grace
Norton Circle, 3.35; 2d, 4, *3; Mapleton, 4.50, C.E., 11.85;
Medina, 20; Middleport, Jr. C.E. , 50 cts.; Niagara Falls,
1st, 37, C.E., 50; .Pierce Ave., 6.50, C.E., 20; North Tona-
wanda, 18; Somerset, 10; Yonngstown, C.E., 5, 263.92
North River,— Amenia, 17; Cornwall-on-Hudson, 6;
Highland Falls, 7; Marlboro, C.E., 5; Milton, 7.35; New-
burg, Union, 46; Pine Plains, 4.65; Pleasant Plains, 10.20-
Pleasant Valley. C.E,, 4; Poughkeepsie, 64, C.E., 15; Salis-
bury Mills, Bethlehem, 13; Wappinger's Falls, C.E., 2;
Wassaic, C.E., 2.50, 303.70
Otsego.— Cherry Valley, 10; Cooperstown, 21; Delhi,
1st, 60; 3d, 9; Gilbertsville, 21; Guilford Centre, C.E,, 5;
Oneonta, 9; Stamford, 15; Unadilla, 3; Worcester, 3, C,E.,
10. 166.00
Princeton, Ky,— Henderson, Centre St., 2.20, Willing
Workers, 1.20; Hibbardsville, 7; Hopkinsville. 1st. 11..55,
(;.E., 10; Lisman, Shilol., 80 cts.; Madisonville, 3.50; Ma-
rion, 1.75; Princeton, 3; Sturgis, 2.10, 43.10
Rochester.— Avon, East, 10; Caledonia, Jr. C.E., 6.67;
Dansville, 55; Honeoye Falls, 15: Mt. Morris, 37; Roches-
ter, Brick, 308.75; Brighton, Gould Bd., 40; Calvary, 10;
Central, 35, China Circle, 50, Y.W.S., China Circle, 25, Jr.
C.E., 5: Mem'l. King's Messengers, 10; North, 102; .3d, 36.47,
Y.W.S,, 3.68; Trinity, Bd., 1; Sparta, 1st, 16; Webster, 5,
671.57
St. Lawrence.— Louisville, C.E., 4.00
Syracuse.- BaUhvinsville, C.E., 3.75; Fulton, 47.59;
Marcellus, 15, Thorburn circle, 9.28: Syracuse, 1st, 45; 4th]
40: Park, Whatsoever Bd., 8, 168.62
Transylvania, Ky.— Danville, 2d, 43.25
Westchester.— Brewster, 5: Bridgeport, Ct., 11; Car-
mel, Y.P.S., 10, Bd., 3; Irvinglon, 5; Mt. Vernon, 15.84;
New Rochelle, 10.50; Ossining, '25; Rye, 4.80; South Salem,
2, C.E., 5; Stamford, Ct., 50; White Plains, 7; Yonkers, Im-
nianuel, 2, 156.14
Miscellaneous.— A Friend, 400; A Friend in Utica Pres.,
3; Collection at Prayer-meeting, 40; Friends, 35; Interest
on Dodge Fund, lOO; -Maywood, Union Chapel, C.E., 3.53;
Miss Rogers' Meetings, 31, 602.53
Total, $8,647.67
Total since April 1, 1907, 46,921.41
Henrietta W. Hubbard, Treas.,
156 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City.
Missions of the Northwest for January, 1908.
Boise.— Boise, 1st, 25..30, C.E., 5, Bd., 1.20; Caldwell, 8 50-
Franklin, C.E., 4; Nampa, 3; Parma, 6, C.E., 4, 57 00
Box Butte.— Alliance, 14.80: Bodarc, 1; Gordon, C.E., 2;
Minatare, 60 cts.; Rushville, 1.75, C.E., 2; Scott's Blufl's, C.
E.. 4; Viilentine, 1, 27 15
Butte.— Butte, 13.25; Dillon, 1.80, 14;45
Chicago.— Anon., 2,50C; Arlington Heights, .3.40- Chi-
cago, Austin, 1st, 19; Bethany, 5.83, C.E., 4.85; Buena Me-
morial. 31.54; Calvary, 4.37; Covenant, C.E., 4.85, Bd , 3 91-
Central Pk., 60; Christ Ch,, C.E., 10; Crerar Chapel 14cts •
Ist, 13; 2d, 166.36, Mrs. Frances E. Curtiss, 100; 3d, 58 ao'
4th, 221.36 ; 6th, 12.61; 7th, 3; Edgewatei-, 8.73; 53d Ave , 3-
76
TREASURERS' REPORTS.
[March,
41st St., C.E.,53.35, Interm. O.E., 14.55; Garfield Blvd.,14.55;
Hyde Pk., 65; Immanuel, C.E., 4.85; Lake View, 29.52;
Normal Pk., 4 25; Olivet Mem'l, 5, Interm. C.E., 2.43; Ka-
venswood, 1T.46; South Park, 8; Ch. of Providence, C.E.,
6.79; Coal City, 40.75; Deerfield, 3: £n£;lewood, 1st, C.E.,
12.13; Evanston, 2d, 17; Lake Forest, 111, Steady Streams,
7.69: Nortli Chicago, 2; River Forest, 21.34; Waukegan,
27.16, C.E., 1.50; \\^lminKton, C.E., Miss Mcintosh, 19.40,
3,711.86
CniPPEWA.— Ashland, 1st, C.E., 11.25; Bethel, C.E., 3;
Chippewa Falls, 2.50; Eau Claire, 20; Hudson, 5.31; Irou-
wood, 5.87; Stanley, 4.10; Superior, Hammond Ave., 30,
82.C3
Council Butffs.— Macedonia, 3.30
Des Moines.— Albia, 30 90; Colfax, C.E., 1; Dallas Cen-
ter, 9; Des Moines, Central, 25; 1st, 6.25; 6th, 17.25; West-
minster, 6; Grimes, 19, C.E., 7; Hidgedale, 12; Indianola,
6.25; Knoxville, 12.50, C.E., 4; Le Roy, C.E., 4.15; Milo, C.
E., 4; Newton, 5, C.E., 8; New Sharon, 5; Oskaloosa, 6.60;
Panora, 9; Perry, 6.80; Russell, C.E., 2.50; Seymour, 4, C.
E., 1; Winterset, 15.65, C.E., 7.50, 235.35
Detroit. — Detroit, 1st, Richardson Soc, 110; Forest
Ave., Westm'r L., 13.10; Fort St., Jr. C.E., 15; St. Andrews,
10; Scovel Mem'l, C.E., 12.50; 2d Ave., Y.P.U., 8, 168.60
DuBuijuB. — Cascade, 1.35; Coggon, 2.56; Dubuque, 3d,
2.50; Westm'r, 75; Farley, 1.45; liopkinton, 6.89; Independ-
ence, 11.02; Jesup, 3.32; Lansing, 3.80; Manchester, 3.80;
Oelwein, 7; Sumner, Wilson Grove, 1.94; Volga, 3.32; Win-
throp. Pine Creek, 12.49; Unity, 3, 139.44
EwiNO.— Albion, 17.80, C.E., 12.50; Bridgeport, 29; Cen-
tralia, 8; Du Quoin, 8, " In Mem. T. E. Spilman," 10; Fair-
field, 12; Mt. Carmel, 26; St. Francisville, 5, 128.30
Ft. Dodge.— Algona, 5; Boone, 18; Fonda, 6.10; Ft.
Dodge, Westm'r Guild, 25; Glidden, 10, C.E., 6; Jefferson,
6; Livermore, 5; Lohrville,5, C.E., 9.80; Rockwell City, 10;
West Bend, 10, 115.90
FREEPORT.-Argyle, C.E., 12.48; Belvidere, Th. Off.,
34.20; Byron, Middle Creek, 5.33, C.E., 9.50; Freeport, 1st,
30; 2d, 17; Galena, Interm. C.E., 1, Jr. C.E., 2.50; South,
4.98; Linn and Hebron, 23; Marengo, 15; Oregon, 9.50;
Polo, 13.51; Rockford, 1st, 75, C.E., 20; Westm'r, 17.50, C.
E., 4.16; Winnebago, 16; Woodstock, 18.75, C.E., 50, 379.41
Grand Rapids. — Grand Rapids. 1st, 5.75; Immanuel,
1.70; Westm'r, 14.25; Ludington, Miss Anderson, 1.25, C.
E., 2.50, Bd., 5, 3'J.45
Gunnison.— Aspen, 5; Delta, 4; Grand Junction, 33; Gun-
nison, 2; Leadville, 7; Salida, 3..50, 54.50
Hastings.— Beaver City, 30.50, C.E., 2; Holdredge, 1.60;
Minden, 2.60; Superior, C.E., 2, 38.70
Helena.— Bozeman, 12.10; Helena, 2.10; Manhattan, C.
E., 5, 19.20
Indianapolis. — Bloomington, 8 45, Bd., 1 34; Brazil, 15;
Columbus, 2; Danville, 10.75; Winchester, 5.60; Franklin,
75, C.E., 5; Greenwood, 8.70; Hopewell, Jr. C.E., 10; In-
dianapolis, 1st, 227.36, Grettie Y. Holliday Bd., 12.50, Y.W.
S., 52 50; 2d, 50, Nippon Bd., 25, King's Daughters, 30; 4th,
13; 6tli, 4, Jr. C.E., 10, Bd., 2: 7th, C.E., 30: Grace, 7;
Mem'l, 40; Tabernacle, 92.79; E. Washington St., 11, C.E.,
6.50; \V. Washington St., 2.40; Roachdale, C.E., 2.80; Spen-
cer, 7.60; Whiteland, 9.20, 777.49
Iowa.— Burlington, 43.38; Fairfield, 60; Ft. Madison, 8,
C.E., 10; Keokuk, Westm'r, 50, Golden Rule, 1.70; Kos-
suth, C.E., 5; Martinsburg, 5.35; Middletown, 2; Milton'
3.65; Morning Sun, 12, C.E., 4.38; Mt. Pleasant. 30.05, C.E.,
5; New London, 10; Ottumwa, 1st, 15; East End, 7, C.E.,
2.76, 275.27
Iowa City.— Brooklyn, 4.50; Crawfordsville, 6; ftiven-
port, 1st, 25; 2d, 3.75; Iowa City, 21.50; Keota, 7,50; Ma-
rengo, 16.25; Montezuma, 15.50; Muscatine, 16.25; Oxford,
C.ET, 5; Sigourney, 3; Tipton, 4.50; Unity, 5; Washington,
10, C.E., 3.50; Bethel, 8; West Liberty, 31, C.E., 5, (iirls'
Guild, 1.60; Wilton, 25, 217.85
KBNDALL.—Idaho Falls, 11; Montpelier, 8, 19.00
La Crosse.— La Crosse, 5; West Salem, 15, 20.00
Lake Superior.- Iron Mountain, 10; Marquette, 31;
Menominee, 21, 62.00
LooANspoRT.— Bethel, 5; Bethlehem, 11.90; Bourbon, 90
cts.; Brookston, 5; Chalmers, 6.50, C.E., 2.50; Concord, 2;
Crown Point, 8, C.E., 3; Goodland, 3; Hammond, 10.20; La
Porte, 30; 1st, 25; Meadow Lake, 3; Michigan City, 13.90, C.
E., 5; Mishawaka, 5, C.E., 5; Monticello, 5, C.E.. 5; Pisgah,
4.65; Plymouth, 1.15; Remington, 3.70, C.E., 3.75; Roches-
ter, 2.75, C.E., 1: South Bend, 1st, 5; Trinity, 3.75; West-
minster, 10, C.E., 3; Union, 8.60; Valparaiso, 11.96, 214.21
Madison.— Baraboo, 3; Janesville, 20: Kilbourn. 3, C.E.,
15, Mrs. G. W. Jenkins, 28; Madison, 22; Platteville, 7.50;
Portage, 4; Poynette, 5; Richland Center, 3, 110.50
Mankato,— Alp ,a, 2.50, Girls' Club, 6.15; Balaton, 7, C.
E. Jr., 2; Blue Earth, 19.50: Delhi, 24; Kasota, 6; Luverne,
5.33; Morgan, 6.25; Marshall, 21.87; Mankato, 25; Pipestone,
27.80, C.E., 5; Redwood Palls, 34; Rushmore, 5.25; Clayton,
2.25; Winnebago, 5.50; Worthington, 9.87. 215.27
Mattoon.— Ashmore, 5.60; Kansas, C.E., 16.55; Charles-
ton, 11; Neogii, 10; Paris, Th. Ofl., 90; Pana, 16 05; Toledo,
C.E., 1.50, Jr. C.E., 2; Tower Hill, 5, 157.70
Minneapolis.— Minneapolis, Andrew, 20.02, Y'.W.S., 5,
Soldiers of the Cross, 2.05; Bethany, 17.50; Bethlehem, 83,
C.E., 25; Elim, C.E., 2.50; 5th, 4 36; 1st, 5, C.E., 12.50,
Westm'r Guild, 21, Merry Gleaners, 10; Grace, 7.50; High-
land Pk., n.SA. C.E., 2.50, Sunshine Bd., 2; House of Faith,
3.38; Oliver, 17.24, C.E., 2.50; Shiloh, 3; Stewart Mem'l,
21.35; Vanderburg Mem'l, 3; Westm'r, 202.85, C.E., 100,
Gleaners, 6.25, Westm'r Guild, 150; Hope Chapel, 20; Wa-
verly, 1.50, 762.83
Minnbwaukon.— Bisbee, 10.00
Monroe.— Adrian, 45, C.E., 6; Blissfield, 10; Cadmus,
1.25; Erie, C.E., 5: Coldwater, 12.51; UoUoway, Girls' Bd.,
3; Hillsdale, 24; Jonesville, 10; Monroe, 15; Tecumseh, 5,
C.E., 2.95. 1:39.71
Mouse River.— Bathgate, Stony Point, 5; Spring Brook.
2, 7.00
MUNcrE. — Converse, Miss Julia R. Kelsey, 10.00
New Albany.— Bedford, 6; Charleston, C E., 2.50; Cory-
don, 5; Hanover, 5.60; Jeflersonville', 40; Madison, 1st, 7;
2d, 1; New Albany, 2d, 15; 3d, 7.54; Salem, 4.45; Seymour,
10; Vernon, 2.31; Vevay, 1, 107.40
Niobrara.— Emerson, 7.50; Laurel, 5.60; O'Neill, 2.72;
Stuart, 9.36; Wakefield, 5; Winnebago, 15, 45.18
Oakes.— Edgeley, 5; Pleasant Valley, 1, 6.00
Ottawa.— Aurora, C.E., 10; Aux Sable Grove, 5; Brook-
field, 7; Elgin, 12; Kings, 8; Ottawa, 16; Sandwich, 2;
Streator, 30; Troy Grove, 3; Waltham, 5; Earlville, 15;
Morris, 4.50; Mendota, 10.50, 128.00
Petoskey. —Harbor Springs, 16, C.E., 5; Petoskey, 3.50,
24.50
Rock River.— Albany, 2; Ashton, 3; Dixon, 12.25; Edg-
ington, 5; Garden Plain, 7.50; Hamlet and Perryton, 21.75;
Kewanee, 18, Jr. C.E., 5; Norwood, 5; Rock Island, Broad-
way, 58.50; Central, 4; Peniel, 12.50; Woodhull, C.E., 33,
187.50
Saginaw.— Bay City, Westm'r, 25; 1st, 33.25; Immanuel,
1; Grace, 4.85; E. Washington Ave , 62 cts., 64.72
St. Cloud.— Brown Valley, Interm. C.E., 2.50; St. Cloud,
8.50, Busy Bees, 16.50; WiUmar, 20.80, Busy Bees, 1.17, 49.47
St. Paul.— St. Paul, Bethlehem, Busy Bees, 1; Central,
30; Dayton Ave., 60.16, C.E., 3; 1st, 15, C.E., 20; Goodrich
Ave., Bd., 4.06; House of Hope, 49.33; Merriam Pk., 21.37;
St. Croix Falls, C.E., 25; White Bear, C.E., 5, 233.92
Utah.— Ephraim, 1.55; Green River, 2; Logan, 2; Manti,
1; Payson, 5; Salt Lake City, 1st, 132, Jr. C.E., 2; 3d, 9;
Westm'r, 7; Salina, 2; Springville, 3; Presbyterial Off., 4,
170 55
Waterloo.— Ackley, C.E., 5; Clarksville, 2, C.E., 4.20;
Grundy Center, C.E., 16; Marshalltown, 12.25; Shell Rock,
Unity, 7.73; Toledo, C.E., 8, Jr. C.E., 1; Salem, 32.20;
Traer, Tranquility, Lower Lights, 3.77; Waterloo, 1st, 50;
Westm'r, C.E., 9; Williams, 11.65, 162.80
Winnebago. — Weyauwega, C.E., 3.00
Winona.— Albert Lea, 40; Alden, 8; Chatfield, 18.75; Oak-
land, 5: Rochester, 10; Winona, 5, 86.75
$10,.350.82
50,623.24
Total receipts for month.
Total receipts since April 20, 1907,
Mrs. Thos. E. D. Bradley, Treas.,
Room 48, 40 E. Randolph St., Chicago
Receipts of the Woman's Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions of ttie Souttiwest for January, 1908.
Ardmore,
Choctaw,
Cimarron,
Emporia,
Ft. Smith,
Highland,
Jefferson,
$22.20
.50
25.00
3.73
8.00
60.65
IS. IS
Kansas City,
Little Rock,
McGee,
Mound Prairie,
Osborne,
Rio Grande,
Salt River,
$144.64
2.00
215.54
10.00
23.75
30.00
178.78
St. Louis,
TOPEKA,
Total for month,
Total to date,
$100.00
330.51
Waco,
Miscellaneous,
$78.51
6.78
$1,247.52
12,148.75
Mrs. Wm. Buro, Treae.,
1756 Missouri Ave., St. Louis, Mo.
Receipts of Woman's North Pacific Board of Missions for Quarter Ending December 25, 1907,
$293.60
317.14
17.40
89.10
45.10
148.34
Alaska,
Bellinoham,
Cent. Washington,
Grande RonDe,
Olympia,
Pendleton,
$5.00
19.00
47.80
89.04
m.86
2.60
Portland,
Puget Sound,
Southern Oregon,
Spokane,
Walla Walla,
Willamette,
Previously reported,
Total,
$1,128.88
2,016.10
$3,144.98
Mrs. John W. Goss, Trtas.^
324 East 2l8t St., N., Portland, Oregon.
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