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Vol..  XTI.  SEPTEMBER,  1882  No.  9. 


EX TK ACTS   FBOM  JOSEPH  COOK'S  LECTURE 
IX  JAP  AX. 

Delivered  in  Tokio,  June  5. 

My  theme  is  ''The  Religious  Signs  of  the  Times."  and  Japan 
herself  is  one  of  the  greatest  of  these  signs.  There  has  been  great 
progress  made  in  Japan,  and  the  railroads,  the  telegraphs,  the 
printing-press,  have  come  to  stay,  and  so  has  Christianity  come  to 
stay.  It  is  an  increasing  power  in  the  earth,  and  stands  only  on 
her  rendered  reasons.  The  increase  of  Christianity  is  something 
noteworthy.  In  the  first  thousand  years  of  the  Christian  era,  the 
number  of  its  adherents  was  50.000,000.  In  five  hundred  years 
more,  or -at  the  beginning  of  the  Reformation,  the  number  was 
150,000,000.  In  three  hundred  years  more,  or  at  the  beginning 
of  this  century,  it  was  200,000,000.  And  in  eighty  years  more, 
from  the  beginning  of  this  century  to  the  present  time,  the  increase 
alone  has  been  over  200,000,000  j  making  the  present  number  of 
Christians  in  the  world  410,000,000.  This  marvellous  increase 
makes  it  no  longer  a  question  whether  Japan  can  keep  herself  iso- 
lated from  Christianity.  This  rapid  increase  also  proves  that  Chris- 
tianity is  not  decaying  in  the  West.  Another  line  of  proof  establishes 
the  same  thing.    In  the  year  1800  there  were  but  50  translations 

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of  the  Scriptures  in  existence ;  uow  there  are  308.  There  are 
copies  enough  of  the  Bible  issued  to  allow  one  for  every  ten  per- 
sons on  the  globe.  In  1800,  $250,000  were  given  for  missions; 
now  $8,500,000  are  annually  given  for  the  spread  of  the  gospel  in 
foreign  lands.  An  increase  from  a  quarter  of  a  million  dollars  to 
eight  and  a  half  million  dollars  annually  for  this  purpose  !  And  it 
is  estimated  there  is  wealth  and  power  enough  in  the  Church  to 
give  the  gospel  to  every  person  in  the  world  before  the  close  of  this 
century. 

This  prevalence  and  power  of  Christianity  do  not  necessarily  prove 
its  truth,  but  show  that  it  cannot  be  excluded  from  Japan,  China, 
or  the  heart  of  Africa.  Paganism  can  no  longer  hide  behind  a 
screen.  India  has  50,000  Protestants,  who  have  doubled  in  num- 
ber every  ten  years.  If  the  increase  already  attained  in  Japan 
continues  another  century,  I  see  no  reason  not  to  believe  that  ten 
millions  of  your  people  will  be  Christians^  or  about  one-fourth  of  your 
present  population.  All  this  proves  that  Christianity  must  have  a 
fair  trial  in  Japan ;  you  must  meet  it  and  give  it  a  fair  hearing. 

Christianity  has  founded  schools  and  colleges;  Christianity  pre- 
serves the  Sabbath  day  as  a  day  of  rest  for  the  workingman; 
Christianity  makes  it  possible  for  woman  to  travel  from  one  end  of 
the  land  to  the  other  without  insult;  Christianity  has  done  ten 
times  more  than  any  other  power  to  improve  workingmen's  homes, 
maintain  the  laws  of  marriage,  force  people  to  pay  their  debts,  and 
refunded  to  Japan  the  money  unjustly  wrung  from  her  in  indem- 
nity for  injuries  sustained  at  Shimonoseki. 

Tell  these  students,  therefore,  that  there  is  not  one  infidel  college 
in  America,  not  one  infidel  library,  not  one  respectable  infidel  pro- 
fessorship. Let  it  be  understood.  I  think  America  has  many 
faults ;  but  they  are  not  the  result  of  Christianity,  rather  of  the 
lack  of  it. 

Christianity  is  sure  to  triumph  here  as  elsewhere.  God  is  on 
the  side  of  the  heaviest  guns  in  argument  as  well  as  in  war.  The 
best  commentaries  on  the  Bible  come  to  us  now  from  German  uni- 
versities. There  is  no  form  of  objection  to  Christianity  that  comes 
to  you  that  has  not  been  answered  over  and  over  again  in  Germany, 
England  and  America.  Some  books  which  I  see  read  here  in 
Japan  are  outgrown  in  Germany  and  America. 

I  much  regret  that  the  Japanese  should  gather  up  the  crumbs 
swept  out  of  the  back  doors  of  the  western  universities.  If  any- 
body here  will  read  very  carefully  the  history  of  skepticism,  he  will 
find  that  it  never  regenerates  a  nation.  This  Christianity  does  for 
every  land.  What  Japan  wants  is  a  religion  that  will  regenerate 
and  fill  the  land  with  light,  liberty  and  purity.  I  do  not  wish 
Japan  to  be  laughed  at  for  lack  of  culture  or  practical  sagacity — 


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I'or  taking-  into  jour  veins  what  would  only  ])rovc  injurious,  result- 
ing, for  cxauiple,  in  the  French  revolution.  1  would  not  like  to 
see  theui  dress  in  the  worn-out  i;arnients  of  Europe. 

In  parting,  I  ask  for  the  study  of  Christianity  with  the  heart 
and  not  with  the  head  alone.  Put  it  into  practice.  Two  things 
we  must  get  rid  of  if  we  would  be  in  harmony  with  God  :  the  love 
of  sin  and  the  guilt  of  sin.  And  Christianity  is  the  only  religion 
under  the  whole  heaven  that  teaches  this. 

God  bless  your  great  secular  reform  !  but  you  are  not  safe  without 
Christianity.  Com.  Perry,  in  1854,  laid  a  model  railroad  and 
erected  a  model  telegraph,  on  ground  upon  which  I  have  recently 
stood  at  Yokohama.  That  was  the  commencement  of  the  new 
civilization  of  Japan,  and  now  this  is  what  has  already  come  to 
pass.  Americans  have  profound  synipathy  for  Japan,  but  we  know 
that  representative  institutions  without  Christianity  would  not  be 
safe  in  Japan  any  more  than  in  America. 

De  Tocqueville,  a  great  French  writer,  said,  "  Countries  never 
need  to  be  so  theocratic  as  when  democratic."  The  eyes  of  all  the 
civilized  world  are  fastened  upon  Japan.  Not  on  the  beauties  of 
your  far-famed  inland  sea,  marvellous  though  they  be,  nor  on 
Fujiyama,  though  that  be  peerless  and  sublime,  but  on  you;  young 
students,  young  statesmen,  young  professors,  and  most  of  all  upon 
you,  young  Christians. 

Your  responsibility  is  great.  You  are  the  advance  guard,  polit- 
ically and  morally,  of  Asia.  You  will  help  to  regenerate  Asia  and 
Africa.  All  Asia  is  a  ship,  and  Japan  is  the  rudder.  You  must 
not  let  the  rudder  be  governed  by  the  hand  of  infidelity.  Put  the 
hand  of  Almighty  God,  in  Christ,  upon  the  rudder  of  Japan,  and 
you  will  bring  the  ship  of  Asia  into  a  regenerated  future. 


Truly  Yedo,  the  city  of  the  Shoguns,  is  no  more.  A  city  of 
camps,  'the  necessity  of  feudalism,'  it  perished  with  the  old  regime^ 
to  be  born  again  as  a  city  of  business,  politics,  amusement,  bustle, 
energy  and  progress.  Tokio,  the  city  of  the  future,  is  the  brain 
of  new  Japan,  but  Kioto,  the  historic  capital,  the  home  of  art  and 
poetry,  must  remain  its  heart!' 

k MISSION  ART  LADIES  IN  JAPAN, 
Representing  the  W.  F.  M.  S. 
rs.  J.  C.  Hepburn,  Yokohama.  Mrs.  Maria  T.  True,  Tokio. 

Miss  C.  T.  Alexander,       "  Miss  A.  K.  Davis,  " 

Mrs.  John  C.  Ballagh,  Tokior.  Mrs.  T.  T.  Alexander,  " 

Representing  the  W.  P.  B.  M.  of  the  N.  W. 
Mrs.  Thomas  C.  Winn,  Kanazawa. 


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THE  BAIS  CHO  SCHOOL,  TOKIO. 

Perhaps  you  will  get  a  fair  idea  of  how  we  look  in  the  new 
building  from  the  photograph  which  I  send.  It  was  taken  from 
the  road  just  in  fiont  of  the  house,  and  makes  the  gate  look  almost 
as  large  as  the  house.  At  the  right,  as  you  look  at  the  picture,  on 
the  upper  floor,  is  my  room,  and  below  it  is  the  parlor,  one  window 
of  which  you  can  sec.  Beyond  my  room  is  that  of  Miss  Davis, 
and  the  dining-room  is  below  it.  The  four  rooms  between  our 
part  and  the  school  part  on  the  left  are  now  occupied  by  servants, 
except  one  which  we  dignify  by  calling  it  the  library.  It  is  8 
by  12  feet,  and  serves  the  double  purpose  of  reading  and  spare 
room.  We  also  have  praytr-meetings  in  it.  The  lower  part  of 
the  end  of  the  building  on  the  left  is  the  school-room;  back  of 
it  are  two  recitation  rooms,  then  a  small  hall,  with  stairs  which  lead 
to  the  girls'  rooms.  On  the  other  side  of  the  hall  is  the  dining- 
room  and  the  room  where  the  kindergarten  is  at  present.  Four  of 
the  native  teachers  board  here,  and  their  rooms  are  also  on  the 
second  floor  of  this  part  of  the  building. 

We  have  no  foreign  neighbors.  The  yard  is  small  but  quite 
pretty.  We  wish  very  much  for  more  room  for  the  girls'  play- 
ground, but  neighbors  are  near,  and  it  cannot  be  had,  at  least  for 
the  present.  You  will  see  that  we  are  on  high  ground ;  there  is 
quite  a  steep  grade  from  the  road  in  front  to  our  door,  but  a  Jin- 
riki-slia  can  be  drawn  up  if  need  be. 

The  scMol  is  prospering;  we  have  now,  all  told,  ninety-seven 
pupils,  i'he  day-school  fills  up  faster  than  the  other,  as  the  tuition 
is  much  less.  We  could  have  more  pupils  in  that  and  the  kinder- 
garten if  our  rooms  would  allow,  but  they  are  too  full  now.  If  we 
had  another  lady  with  us  I  could  do  a  good  work  for  the  mothers 
and  nurses  who  come  with  the  children  and  remain  until  they  go 
home.  As  so  much  of  my  time  is  devoted  to  the  school,  T  can  da 
but  little  besides. 

There  is  one  source  of  annoyance  that  is  hardly  taken  into  account 
at  home.  This  language  is  peculiar  in  many  respects,  but  especially 
in  the  ability  it  has  to  conceal  thought.  A  person  will  come  in  and 
talk  on  and  on  for  an  hour,  and  not  until  the  very  last  sentence  is 
reached  is  it  possible  to  tell  what  he  most  wishes  me  to  know. 

Last  evening  w^as  a  good  illustration  of  what  we  often  endure.  I 
was  very  tired,  but  had  it  in  my  mind  to  rest  a  few  minutes  after 
tea,  and  then  write  for  the  mail  which  is  to  leave  in  two  days. 
Before  I  had  taken  one  free  breath,  a  man  with  whom  I  had  a 
slight  acquaintance  in  Kauazawa  came  to  call,  and  for  more  than 
two  hours  he  talked,  and  when  he  left  I  was  so  nearjy  exhausted 
that  I  could  not  think  of  writing.  Only  a  week  ago  an  afternoon 
was  given  to  the  same  man.    He  wanted  to  ask  about  the  truth. 


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and  I  was  glad  to  tell  him  all  I  could,  and  of  course  he  could  not 
know  how  tired  I  was  each  time.  The  many,  many  hours  that  go 
to  such  work  during  a  year  we  do  not  make  allowance  for  when 
we  plan  our  year's  work,  but  it  is  an  important  item  after  one  is 
able  to  speak  the  language.  The  people  who  come  to  ask  about  the 
truth  we  are  glad  to  see ;  but  many  others  come  on  various  errands, 
and  we  wish  to  be  friendly,  but  how  can  we  find  time  for  all? 
That  is  the  continually  recurring  question. 

I  am  more  and  more  convinced  that  this  is  as  good  a  field  for 
work  as  could  be  found  anywhere.  Not  that  the  people  flock  to 
hear  the  truth,  not  by  any  means ;  but  they  are  all  about  us,  and 
many  of  them  will  send  their  children  to  our  school  in  spite  of 
their  fear  or  dislike  of  the  truth,  because  they  believe  it  is  a  good 
school  and  they  wish  to  have  their  children  well  faught.  We  take 
none  without  An  understanding  that  they  will  be  taught  the  truths 
of  the  Bible  daily.  Some  of  the  dear  girls  suffer  a  good  deal  of 
persecution  in  little  ways,  but  they  continue  to  come  to  us.  Our 
Sabbath-school  is  very  interesting.  Of  course  attendance  on  the 
Sabbath  is  voluntary,  but  we  have  from  sixty  to  eighty  every  Sab- 
bath. We  are  not  in  position  to  increase  our  numbers,  having  all 
we  can  manage  with  our  present  force  of  helpers,  and  nearly  all  we 
have  room  for.  Mrs.  True. 


FROM  KANAZAWA. 

Lately  Joseph  Cook  has  been  giving  rare  treats  to  the  people 
in  the  open  ports  of  Japan  by  lecturing  to  them.  His  lectures  at 
tke  time  were  translated  into  Japanese,  and  they  were  of  a  nature 
to  be  very  helpful  to  the  Japanese.  I  think  they  must  do  a  great 
deal  of  good,  especially  among  the  skeptical.  Mrs.  Knox  wrote  to 
uie  that  they  had  entertained  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cook  when  they  were 
in  Tokio.  It  made  me  almost  homesick  for  a  little  while,  for  it 
brought  to  mind  very  forcibly  how  entirely  cut  off  from  all  such 
privileges  we  are.  However,  I  soon  revived,  and  am  surprised  to 
think  how  happy  we  are  out  here  all  alone  in  the  work.  Alone  as 
far  as  human  help  is  concerned,  but  truly  God  has  given  us  many 
proofs  of  His  presence,  and  that  I  think  is  why  we  do  not  feel 
lonely.  Since  I  have  finished  spring  sewing  and  house-cleaning  I 
have  occupied  myself  in  a  work  which  proves  to  be  very  interest- 
ing, as  well  as  a  good  way  to  study  Japanese.  With  the  help  of 
Nagao  San  I  am  trying  to  put  the  principal  ideas  of  the  "  Phil- 
osophy of  the  Plan  of  Salvation,"  by  Walker,  into  Japanese.  Of 
course  I  cannot  attempt  an  accurate  translation,  nor  does  it  seem 
necessary;  but  I  think  many  of  the  ideas  of  the  book  will  be  very 
useful  in  the  work,  and  I  truly  hope  I  can  finish  it  successfully. 


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Will  you  not  pray  for  it?  3Ir.  Wiim  has  translated  literally  tlie 
introduction,  intending  to  publish  it  as  a  tract.  Nagao  San  has 
grown  in  his  Christi m  life  quite  remarkably,  and  he  now  hopes  to 
begin  study  in  the  fnll  with  the  ministry  in  view.  He  is  just  the 
one  to  help  in  uiy  work,  for  he  so  quickly  gets  my  idea  and  puts  it 
into  good  Japanese.  Three  or  four  of  our  promising  young  men 
are  expecting  to  enter  the  ministry.  Our  little  church  is  still 
talking  of  building  a  house  of  worship,  and  will  probably  do  so  this 
summer.  Mrs.  Thomas  C.  Winn. 

FRIEND  writes,  "  The  work  continues  to  be  very  encouraging 
in  Kanazawa.  They  have  applications  nearly  every  communion 
season  from  those  who  wish  to  unite  with  the  little  band  of  Chris- 
tians. And  so  far  they  seem  steadfast  in  the  faith — only  one  who 
has  united  with  the  church  seems  to  have  lost  his  interest.  Per- 
haps you  may  have  heard  of  the  severe  illness  (from  brain  fever) 
of  little  Willard,  youngest  child  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Winn.  Mrs.  W. 
writes  that  during  his  tedious  convalescence  she  feared  that  she 
would  have  to  give  up  her  work  among  the  women.  She  found  it 
very  trying  to  instruct  in  the  Japanese  language  and  at  the  same 
time  hold  in  her  lap  and  amuse  a  sick  and  fretful  child.  But  she 
is  thankful  that  she  had  strength  given  her  to  continue  the  work, 
for  the  women  are  becoming  more  and  more  interested.  She  at 
first  secured  their  attendance  by  instructing  in  fancy  work ;  but 
they  do  not  seem  to  need  that  incentive  now,  for  they  have  discon- 
tinued the  fancy  work  and  only  have  meetings  for  religious  in- 
structions during  the  warm  weather.  She  writes  that  one  young 
girl  has  broken  her  marriage  engagement,  for  she  knew  her  in- 
tended husband  would  not  permit  her  to  attend  their  meetings. 
They  are  still  alone  in  their  work  in  that  large  city,  but  are  happy 
and  contented,  though  she  writes  that  sometimes  she  so  longs  to 
have  one  Christian  lady  friend  to  whom  she  could  talk  in  her 
mother  tongue." 


CHRISTIAXITY  IN  JAPAN. 

Doubtless  there  is  an  indirect  influence  against  Christianity, 
but  quiet  toleration  is  the  avowed  maxim  of  the  government,  and 
the  profession  of  Christianity  does  not  involve  the  loss  of  official 
position.  .  .  .  There  cannot,  however,  be  a  greater  mistake  than 
that  Japan  is  "ripe  for  the  reception  of  Christianity."  Though 
the  labors  of  many  men  and  women  in  many  years  have  resulted 
in  making  1617  converts  to  the  Protestant  faith  (a  number  which 
the  ten  months  that  have  elapsed  since  this  letter  was  written  have 
increased  by  1500),  while  the  Romanists  claim  20,000,  the  Greeks 


woman's   work    FOK  woman. 


3000.  and  a  knowledge  of  the  essentials  of  Christianity  is  widely 
diffused  through  many  districts,  the  fact  remains  that  34,000,000 
Japanese  arc  s/icptics  or  materialists,  or  arc  ahsolutcly  sunk  in 
childish  and  degrading  superstitions,  out  of  which  the  religious 
signijicance,  such  as  it  was,  has  heen  lost. 

The  chief  obstacles  in  the  way  of  Christianity  are,  if  I  judge 
correctl}",  the  general  deadness  of  the  religious  instinct  and  of  re- 
ligious cravings,  the  connection  of  the  national  faiths  with  the 
Japanese  reverence  for  ancestors,  a  blank  atheism  among  the  most 
influential  classes,  a  universal  immorality  which  shrinks  from  a 
gospel  of  self-denial,  and  the  spread  of  an  agnostic  philosophy  im- 
ported from  England,  while  the  acts  of  Christian  "  nations  and 
the  lives  of  -  Christian"  men  are  regarded  as  a  more  faithful  commen- 
tary on  the  Law  of  Sinai  and  the  Sermon  on  the  Mount  than  that 
which  is  put  upon  them  by  the  missionaries. 

The  days  when  a  missionary  was  '-dished  up  for  a  dinner"  at 
foreign  tables  are  perhaps  past,  but  the  anti-missionary  spirit  is 
strong,  and  the  missionaries  give  a  great  deal  of  positive  and  nega- 
tive offence,  some  of  which  might,  perhaps,  be  avoided.  They 
would  doubtless  readily  confess  faults,  defects  and  mistakes,  but 
with  all  these,  I  believe  them  to  be  a  thoroughly  sincere,  conscien- 
tious, upright  and  zealous  body  of  men  and  women,  all  working  as 
they  best  know  how  for  the  spread  of  Christianity,  and  far  more 
anxious  to  build  up  a  pure  church  than  to  multiply  nominal  con- 
verts. The  agents  of  the  different  sects  abstain  from  even  the  ap- 
pearance of  rivalry,  and  meet  for  friendly  counsel,  and  instead  of 
perpetuating  such  separating  names  as  Episcopalians,  Baptists, 
Cougregationalists,  etc.,   the  disciples  are  called  Christians  first." 

Without  indulging  in  any  unreasonable  expectations,  it  cannot 
be  doubted  that  the  teaching  of  this  large  body  of  persons,  and  the 
example  of  the  unquestionable  purity  of  their  lives,  is  paving  the 
way  for  the  reception  of  the  Christianity  preached  by  Japanese 
evangelists  with  the  eloquence  of  conviction,  and  that  every  true 
convert  is  not  only  a  convert  but  a  propagandist,  and  a  centre  of 
the  higher  morality  in  which  lies  the  great  hope  for  the  future  of 
Japan.  I  ardently  long  to  see  this  people  Christianized,  not  with 
the  nominal  Christianity  of  Christendom,  but  with  the  pure,  manly, 
self-sacrificing  Christianity  of  Christ  and  His  apostles. — Miss  Bird, 
in  Unheaten  Tracks  in  Japan. 

My  conviction  now,  as  it  was  forty  years  ago,  is  that  missions, 
in  the  large  and  comprehensive  sense  of  the  world's  evangelization, 
are.  by  appointment  and  decree  of  the  glorious  triune  Jehovah,  the 
chief  end  of  the  Christian  Church.'" — R<v.  Alexander  Duff,  D.D. 


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FROM  CHKFOO. 

June  2. 

I  AM  growing  uiorc  in  lovu  with  China  every  day.  It  is  beau- 
tiful now.  Fruits  and  flowers  grow  very  luxuriantly,  but  the 
flowers  have  little  or  no  fragrance  as  compared  with  our  home 
flowers.  It  is  easier  to  be  in  love  with  the  country  than  it  is  witli 
the  people.  The  school  children  are  very  interesting,  but  the 
naked,  clamoring  children  that  we  see  on  the  street  are  not  as  at- 
tractive. As  I  write  I  can  hear  the  ringing  of  bells,  the  beating 
of  drums,  and  the  call  of  the  bugle  (it  is  hideous  music) ;  a  proces- 
sion of  people  are  following  after  a  god  about  a  half  mile  away.  This 
is  about  the  middle  of  the  Chinese  month,  and  they  have  a  number 
of  ceremonies.  There  is  a  temple  a  very  short  distance  from  here, 
and  for  three  or  four  days  and  nights  they  kept  up  the  most 
dismal  din,  worshipping  in  a  too  audible  manner,  with  singing, 
b,ells  and  drums.  They  have  a  musical  instrument  they  use  very 
much,  which  they  beat  with  a  hammer.  It  sounds  like  beating  on 
a  tin  pan.  Could  one  feel  like  sleeping  when  one  could  hear  the 
first  commandment  being  broken?  It  seems  almost  wrong  to  do 
so,  but  how  many  in  Christian  lands  are  sleeping  when  in  distant 
countries  people  are  observing  heathen  rites  in  direct  opposition 
to  God's  commands,  and  "they  'kno^  not  what  they  do."  I  am 
in  such  haste  to  acquire  this  language,  and  it  is  such  slow  work, 
it  seems  almost  wrong  to  spend  this  week  and  the  next  two  in 
idleness  ;  but  I  know  I  can  do  nothing  without  health,  and  this  is 
the  trying  year.  I  am  just  recovermg  from  a  fever,  so  my  physi- 
mn  has  limited  my  study  hours  to  two  per  day.  Next  week  Miss 
Anderson  and  I,  with  a  lady  from  Tungchow,  go  to  some  sulphur 
springs  for  a  stay  of  two  weeks.  The  doctor  thinks  the  baths  will 
be  very  beneficial.  Miss  Anderson  was  absent  when  I  was  taken 
sick,  but  dear  Mrs.  Leyenberger  took  the  place  of  mother,  sister 
and  friend.  Miss  Ida  R.  Tiffany.  t 


Bishop  Thomson  beautifully  notes  that  China  waits  for  one 
foretold  by  one  of  her  most  eminent  sons :  "  In  process  of  time  a 
Holy  One  will  be  born  who  will  redeem  the  world.  The  nations 
will  wait  for  Him  as  fading  flowers  desire  the  summer  rain.  He 
will  be  born  of  a  virgin.  His  name  will  be  Prince  of  Peace.  China 
will  be  visited  by  His  glory."  Let  the  watchword  be 
Christ  for  China 
and 

China  for  Christ! 

—  China,  h//  Rev.  J.  T.  Gracey. 
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OXE  MISSIONARY'S  WORK 

Miss  Hattie  Nayes,  of  Canton,  China,  in  a  letter  not  intended 
for  publication,  gives  us  this  little  glimpse  into  her  work.  She 
will  pardon  us  for  thus  using  it,  although  she  would  not  herself 
put  in.o  print  anything  so  closely  touching  her  own  labors. 

"  In  this  city  alone  there  are  a  million  and  a  half  people,  and 
many  of  our  girls  come  from  the  country.  One  is  from  a  city 
between  two  and  three  hundred  miles  distant.  I  wish  very  much 
that  each  mission  here  had  a  school  as  large'  as  ours,  and  then  it 
would  be  as  a  drop  in  the  bucket.  My  day-schools,  of  which 
I  have  seven  this  year,  are  all  very  full.  I  have  in  all  two  hun- 
dred and  fifty  women  and  girls  under  my  care.  I  could  not  pos- 
sibly take  charge  of  so  many  but  for  the  fact  that  I  have  associated 
with  me  in  this  work  eighteen  earnest,  faithful,  devoted  Chris- 
tians, native  women,  who  have  all  been  trained  in  the  school  and 
who  feel  the  same  interest  in  the  work  that  we  do.  They  all  ap- 
preciate that  I  have  my  hands  full,  and  are  very  considerate  about 
making  any  unnecessary  demands  upon  my  time ;  they  are  *so 
thoughtful  and  helpful  that  I  do  not  feel  that  the  work  is  hard  at 
all." 

Shall  we  not  thank  Grod  for  this  missionary  and  her  faithful, 
loving  band  ? 


HELP  FROM  THE  SANDWICH  ISLANDS, 

Some  weeks  ago  I  received  the  second  payment  of  five  dollars 
from  a  young  ladies'  missionary  society  in  Honolulu.  They  have 
hitherto  worked  for  the  natives  of  the  Micronesian  Islands,  and  the 
Chinese  in  their  own  city.  Their  president,  a  friend  of  mine, 
visited  the  States  and  returned  with  such  stirring  words  that  she 
inspired  her  sisters  with  her  desire  to  send  the  gospel  to  all  the 
world.  Last  year  I  devoted  their  gift  to  the  expense  of  a  trip 
made  by  the  wife  of  one  of  our  elders  to  one  of  our  country  churches. 
This  year  I  intend  to  do  the  same  thing  if  she  is  able  to  go.  Our 
force  is  too  small  for  the  foreign  ladies  to  do  all  the  necessary  itin- 
erating, in  addition  to  the  teaching  and  other  work  at  home,  so  we 
are  glad  to  have  the  help  of  this  Christian  woman  whenever  she 
can  go.  She  is  one  of  the  few  married  women  who  can  read  pretty 
well  in  Mandarin,  and  is  well  taught  in  doctrine.  Her  husband  is 
one  of  our  most  faithful  evangelists,  besides  being  an  elder  in  the 
Tungchow  church.  The  existence  of  this  missionary  society  seems 
wonderful  when  we  think  how  few  years  have  passed  since  the  first 
missionaries  went  to  the  Sandwich  Islands.  Mrs.  Shaw. 

Tungchow. 


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CHINESE  S  UrERS  TIT  J  O  X, 

The  investigation  of  a  recent  robbery  at  the  Winter  I'alace  at 
Peking  disclosed  a  prevalent  belief  in  a  ridiculous  superstition. 
The  North  China  Herald  says,  '"It  appears  now  that  for  years 
past  the  imperial  bastions  have  been  the  lurking-place  of  a  gang  of 
thieves,  who  were  protected  and  assisted  by  the  palace  eunuchs. 
Lights  were  occasionally  observed  to  flash  and  gleam  from  the 
cannon-holes  and  windows  of  these  towers,  an  occurrence  which 
seems  to  have  caused  the  officers  of  the  household  to  suspect  that 
they  must  be  inhabited.  The  eunuchs,  on  being  questioned,  con- 
firmed the  story  of  the  lights,  but  explained  the  mystery  by  saying 
that  the  Hu  fisien,  or  Fox  Fairy,  was  prostrating  himself  there 
with  his  lighted  torch.  It  may  be  thought  incredible  that  the 
officers  should  have  been  sufficiently  imbecile  to  believe  this  fable, 
or  that  the  eunuchs  should  have  dared  to  trade  so  far  upon  the 
superstition  of  their  superiors.  But  fox-myths  are  far  from  being 
extinct  in  China,  or  even  in  Japan.  The  animal  is  credited  with 
many  marvellous  and  supernatural  attributes ;  among  which  is  the 
ability  at  the  age  of  fifty  to  take  the  form  of  a  woman,  and  at  a 
hundred  that  of  a  young  and  beautiful  girl.  He  can  also  become 
a  wizard  if  he  likes,  and  at  the  age  of  a  thousand  years  is  admitted 
into  Paradise,  where  he  becomes  a  celestial  being." — X.  Y.  Tribune. 


FROM  ETAWAH, 

A  LITTLE  MISSIONARY. 

Perhaps  some  of  the  ladies  who  seemed  to  be  very  much  interested 
last  autumn  in  two  little  children  who  were  about  to  start  for  India 
would  like  to  hear  of  some  missionary  work  one  of  them  has  attempt- 
ed to  do.  You  will  understand  that  though  they  both  talked  the 
language  of  the  country  when  they  went  home,  in  a  very  short 
time  they  had  forgotten  it  altogether,  and  when  they  returned  it 
was  like  learning  an  entirely  new  language.  This  morning  Eobert 
(who  is  seven  years  old)  said  he  went  to  sleep  the  night  before 
thinking  out  a  sermon,  something  he  might  say  to  these  heathen 
people  to  show  them  that  their  idols  were  false  ;  now,  he  said,  I  have 
it  all  thought  out,  I  am  sure  I  can  make  them  understand,  and  I 
want  to  try.  So  I  told  him  I  thought  he  would  find  some  one  to 
whom  he  might  talk.  In  a  few  minutes  he  came  in,  his  face  all 
aglow,  and  in  great  ecstasy  exclaimed,     Mamma,  I  did;  I  found  a 


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uiaii  in  the  garden,  and  T  said  to  him  '  My  God  says  your  gods  are 
only  made  of  gold,  and  stone,  and  wood,'  and.  uiamuia,  I  think  he 
understood  me."  A  little  while  after  that  he  suddenly  stopped  his 
play,  saying,  he  must  go  out  and  see  if  that  man  remembered  what 
he  had  said,  but  he  could  not  find  liim.  So  now  we  are  praying 
that  this  little  seed  dropped  by  the  wayside  may  be  blessed  of  God 
to  the  man's  salvation.  Of  course  it  was  a  very  little  thing  to  say, 
but  it  w^as  the  best  my  child  could  do,  and  it  cost  him  as  much 
eifort  as  a  longer  speech  by  any  one  else. 

Is  it  only  a  mother's  fondness  which  makes  me  clasp  this  dear 
boy  to  my  heart,  feeling  that  in  him  I  have  a  helper  in  the  work  ? 
When  I  was  at  home,  persons  used  often  to  say  they  supposed  I 
could  not  expect  to  do  much  with  children  to  care  for,  but  I  am 
sure  in  many  ways  they  help  me  indirectly.  They  are  both  study- 
ing the  language,  and  Robert  can  write  it  far  better  than  I  can.  I 
am  sure  they  are  both  trying  to  let  their  light  shine  in  this  dark 
heathen  city,  and  I  can't  help  feeling  that  in  training  them  in  a 
Christian  life,  I  am  doing  as  much  as  in  any  other  way. 

Later. — Robert  has  seen  that  man  several  times  since.  He 
often  talks  to  him  and  others.  He  has  great  confidence  that  the 
first  object  of  his  efforts  will  be  a  Christian,  even  though  the  others 
may  not.  He  is  also  teaching  two  little  boys  to  read  in  Hindi,  and 
hopes  soon  to  enlarge  his  class.  Mrs.  Tracy. 


FRO  31  ALLAHABAD. 

We  are  in  our  old  home  here,  and,  surrounded  by  our  former 
people  and  engaged  in  the  same  work  as  before  our  visit  to  Amer- 
ica, we  of  course  feel  at  home.  Yet  I  have  felt  more  lonely  than 
ever  before  in  India.  So  much  was  done  during  our  visit  to  make 
our  brief  sojourn  a  delight,  such  loving  welcomes  from  old  friends 
were  given  us,  such  precious  new  friends  were  raised  up  for  us, 
and  so  dear  to  us  was  the  constant  familiar  intercourse  with  Chris- 
tian hearts,  that  I  feel  the  contrast  keenly  between  life  in  this 
heathen  land  and  life  in  a  land  radiant  with  the  light  of  the  gos- 
pel. But  it  is  because  of  the  darkness  in  which  this  land  is 
shrouded  that  we  are  here,  and  we  certainly  do  esteem  it  a  priv- 
ilege to  do  anything  to  help  to  lift  these  groping  souls  into  the  light. 
Christians  at  home  do  not  know  how  richly  they  are  blessed ;  nor 
do  they  realize  how  much  we,  exiled  from  so  much  that  our  hearts 
hold  dear,  need  their  sympathy  and  their  earnest  prayers. 

I  have  found  some  sad  changes  in  some  of  the  zenanas  which  I 
formerly  visited.  Several  young  wives  have  been  left  widows,  and 
it  is  sorrowful  to  see  creatures  so  young  with  lives  so  blighted.  I 


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hope  through  thoii*  aficetioiis  to  lead  them  away  troin  the  false  liopes 
in  whicli  they  have  liitherto  trusted. 

Tlic  great  imda^  or  religious  festival,  held  each  year  here  at  the 
junction  of  the  Ganges  and  the  Jumna,  closed  for  this  year  about 
a  month  ago.  On  the  day  when  the  mela  reached  its  culminating 
point,  both  as  regards  numbers  and  interest,  my  husband  sent  for 
me  to  come  to  the  grounds.  What  crowds  of  people !  An  ele- 
phant was  kindly  furnished  us,  with  which  to  make  the  tour  of 
the  grounds,  so  that  I  went  even  to  the  water's  edge.  It  is  sup- 
posed that  more  than  a  million  of  people  on  this  occasion  bathed  in 
the  sacred  waters.  Some  faint  idea  of  the  hold  which  the  religions 
of  India  have  on  the  popular  mind  may  be  formed  from  the  sight 
of  such  vast  multitudes  gathered  from  nil  parts  of  this  great  empire 
to  perform  their  idolatrous  rites. 

Mrs.  James  F.  Holcomb. 


Miss  Clark,  of  Tabriz,  writing  from  Oroomiah,  May  25,  tells  briefly  of  the 
beauty  of  that  place  and  of  the  interruption  to  the  school  building  at  her  own 
station  : 

I  CAME  iu  a  tackterawan  (in  appearance  it  is  like  a  large  diy- 
goods  box  carried  by  two  horses).  We  made  short  stages,  and  so 
(although  I  was  very  tired)  I  do  not  think  that  the  journey  did  me 
any  injury.  I  wish  I  could  make  you  understand  how  beautiful 
everything  seems  to  me  here,  with  what  a  keen  appreciation  I 
look  upon  the  fields  of  waving  grain,  the  long,  wide,  shady  avenues 
leading  out  of  the  city,  the  "  willows  by  the  water  courses," 
stretching  for  miles  and  miles,  and  all  the  freshness  and  beauty 
which  spring  brings  to  this  favored  region.  .  I  have  never  seen 
anything  like  it  before  in  Persia.  The  yards  of  the  missionaries 
are  perfect  wonders  to  me,  with  their  carpet  of  thick  green  grass, 
their  large  trees  and  flowers,  both  wild  and  cultivated.  When  we 
have  homes  of  our  own  we  hope  to  have  pretty  yards  about  them  ; 
but  I  don't  suppose  we  can  ever  equal  Oroomiah  in  that  respect, 
for  our  supply  of  water  is  much  more  limited  than  theirs. 

I  suppose  Miss  Jewett  will  soon  write  you  fully  concerning  the 
danger  which  threatened  our  new  houses.  I  will  give  you  a  brief 
outline  of  facts  and  leave  her  to  tell  the  story  fully,  as  1  know  she 
will  do  some  time.  Early  in  the  spring,  a  short  time  after  work 
was  begun,  in  digging  for  the  foundation  a  handful  of  old  silver 
coin  was  found.  The  report  was  circulated,  and  of  course  exagge- 
rated as  it  passed  from  mouth  to  mouth,  and  soon  it  reached  the 
ear  of  the  authorities,  calling  attention  to  us  and  our  work.  We 


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were  at  once  forbidden  to  proceed  with  the  building,  and  only  a 
few  days  ago  did  we  receive  an  order  from  Teheran,  saying,  Per- 
mission is  granted  for  the  dwelling-houses,  but  the  school  is  still 
under  consideration."  We  are  not  in  the  least  dismayed.  We 
hope  to  be  able  to  build  the  school  this  year,  but  if  not  will  put  up 
our  part  of  the  house  and  do  the  best  we  can  in  that  for  a  year  or 
two.  Miss  Mary  Clark. 


Hang. 
fhom  chieng  mai. 

With  all  our  delays  we  made  a  very  rapid  trip  from  Bangkok, 
just  seven  weeks;  the  water  was  excellent  near)y  all  the  way.  Our 
native  friends  knew  that  we  were  coming,  so  a  company  of  twenty 
or  more  came  out  of  the  city  three  or  four  miles  to  meet  us,  and 
to  help  on  the  boats.  Some  of  the  girls  came  in  my  boat,  while  the 
others  kept  pace  with  us  on  the  shore,  exchanging  greetings 
across  the  water.  When  we  had  turned  the  last  bend  in  the 
river  the  bank  by  our  landing  was  white  with  the  clean  white 
jackets  of  our  friends  and  neighbors  waiting  to  receive  us.  It 
was  good  to  meet  all  these  dear  people  once  more  and  to  hear 
their  words  of  welcome.  A  number  of  pleasant  little  surprises 
awaited  me ;  first,  my  beautiful  flower-garden.  Lung  Dang  (Uncle 
Red)  was  very  proud  of  his  handiwork.  He  told  me  how  he  had 
planted  and  watered  and  cared  for  them,  and  just  wouldn't  let  the 
girls  pick  one.  My  garden  is  luxuriant  with  verbena,  heliotrope, 
phlox,  petunias,  geraniums,  etc.,  but  the  grandest  of  all  is  a  cen- 
tury plant,  which  since  I  have  been  away  has  shot  up  a  great 
stem  nearly  twenty  feet  high,  and  the  top  is  now  heavy  with  a 
rich  profusion  of  buds  which  we  hope  will  open  next  month. 
How  I  wish  I  could  bring  to  you  a  bouquet  of  my  flowers  this 
April  morning.  When  I  entered  the  house  it  was  so  nice  to  find 
it  all  clean  and  garnished,  as  well  as  untrained  eyes  and  unculti- 
vated taste  could  make  it.  Pa  Nang  had  opened  and  aired  the 
house,  and  the  men  and  girls  had  scrubbed  and  dusted  it  the  best 
they  knew  how.  The  little  nicknacks  to  make  home  had  all  been 
locked  away,  so  the  bouquets  showed  their  prettiest  in  some  medi- 
cine cups.  I  was  deeply  touched  by  all  their  kindness.  Old  Pa 
Kam  Dang  came  and  took  my  hand,  and  with  tears  said,  "  God 
was  good  to  bring  you  back  to  us.  When  we  heard  you  were 
sick  in  Rahang  we  thought  you  would  never  come  again,  so  we 
prayed  for  you,  and  God  has  brought  you."  And  this  was  the 
welcome  to  us  all,  not  myself  only,  but  just  as  warm  and  loving  to 
each  one  of  us.  Miss  Enda  S.  Cole. 


WUMAiN  fci   NVuUJv    Full  WOMAN. 


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THE  SI  DON  SEMINARY. 

Mrs.  Ilanford,  formerly  one  of  tlic  vifc-iiresitlents  of  the  AVoinan's  Foreign 
Missionary  Society,  is  in  Syria  on  a  visit  to  her  daughter,  Mrs.  Pond,  and 
writes  of  a  trip  to  Sidon,  and  her  iuijiressiens  of  the  school  at  that  place: 

How  I  do  wish  you  could  have  my  visit  here  and  see  everything 
for  yourself.  I  cannot  describe  anything  so  as  to  make  it  real  to 
you.  If  you  could  just  be  here  one  day  it  would  be  worth  more 
than  a  hundred  letters.  This  is  a  beautiful  building,  on  an  admi- 
rable site,  with  a  nice  garden  and  play-ground,  a  delightful  outlook 
upon  the  sea,  and  the  fresh  sea-breeze  making  the  air  fine  and 
healthy  as  it  floats  into  the  open  windows.  The  building,  in  the 
first  place,  was  an  excellent  one,  and  it  seemed  a  special  providence 
that  it  could  be  purchased  at  the  time  it  was  needed.  The  addi- 
tions and  changes  and  various  expenditures  since  have  made  it  so 
nearly  perfect  that  there  seems  little  more  to  be  desired.  All  the 
rooms  are  lofty,  thoroughly  ventilated,  not  a  nook  or  corner  dark, 
damp  or  unwholesome.  Nearly  all  the  floors  are  of  stone  or  marble, 
and  they  are  sweet  and  clean,  plenty  of  light  ^nd  plenty  of  air,  and 
yet  in  cold  and  storms  the  glass  windows  can  be  closed.  It  is  all 
so  beautiful,  so  nice,  neat  and  comfortable,  I  do  wish  you  could  see 
it.  Miss  Eddy  is  a  perfect  and  thorough  housekeeper ;  her  prac- 
tical qualifications  and  efficient  executive  abilities  find  full  scope 
here ;  without  them  this  school  could  not  be  what  it  is.  Every 
part  of  the  home  is  in  perfect  order  all  the  time ;  nothing  has  its 
company  dress;  any  one  can  come  in  at  any  time,  and  all  parts  are 
open  for  inspection  from  garret  to  cellar.  Everything  about  the 
school  and  the  house  moves  like  clock-work  on  oiled  wheels,  going- 
right  along  hour  by  hour  without  friction  or  panic  or  jarring. 
No  one  sees  any  winding  up. 

The  girls  all  look  bright  and  happy,  and  are  much  attached  to 
Miss  E.  The  trainins^  and  teaching;  is  thorouo-h.  I  thrill  at  the 
thought  of  the  widening  circles  of  influence  for  good  that  will  go 
out  from  this  school  as  these  girls  from  the  graduating  classes  scat- 
ter throughout  Syria  to  become  teachers  or  heads  of  Christian 
homes.  Is  not  the  life  of  such  a  missionary  teacher  to  be  envied  ? 
Who  could  speak  of  sacrifice  or  trial  in  connection  with  it  ?  It  is 
a  life  of  highest  privilege. 

The  mission  here  is  quite  complete  now.  Mrs.  Ford  has  the 
language  and  can  do  much  good.  Mr.  Ford  and  3Ir.  Eddy  work 
together  nicely,  each  one  taking  the  branch  of  work  for  which  he 
is  fitted  and  having  the  diversity  of  gifts  needed.  Mr.  E.  is  away 
now,  and  I  have  only  seen  him  once.  Miss  Nelson  will  do  much 
good  when  she  gets  the  language,  in  which  she  is  making  excellent 


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woman's  work  for  woman. 


progress.  I  hope  Miss  Bird  will  be  with  her  during  Miss  Eddy's 
absence.  She  has  been  in  the  school  so  much  and  understands  so 
perfectly  all  Miss  E/s  plans,  and  they  work  together  so  harmoni- 
ously that  it  will  be  just  the  thing.  Miss  B.,  of  course,  has  the 
language  perfectly,  and  can  go  right  on  with  all  Miss  E.'s  plans. 

The  school  makes  no  show  in  the  way  of  teaching  the  accom- 
plishments ;  its  object  primarily  is  to  train  teachers  and  missionary 
workers.  The  girls  are  not  spoiled  or  unfitted  for  the  homes  and 
work  they  return  to  from  school.  They  do  real  work  in  the  way 
of  study.  Their  examinations  show  thoroughness.  In  mathematics 
the  examinations  would  do  credit  to  any  school  of  girls  or  boys,  while  in 
everything  pertaining  to  Bible  study  which  it  is  possible  for  them 
to  take  up  in  the  four-years  course,  they  show  most  careful  teach- 
ing and  close,  earnest  study. 


ilorti)  American  JJntrianjs. 

CREEK    MISSION— FROM.   THE  TULLAUASSEE 
SCHOOL, 

While  Miss  Green  is  with  the  boys  in  their  weekly  prayer- 
meeting,  and  my  thoughts  and  prayers  will  be  much  with  them, 
they  shall  at  the  same  time  be  shared  by  yourself,  while  1  answer 
the  cheering  letter  received  from  you  this  week.  First  I  must  tell 
you  why  my  heart  is,  more  than  usual  even,  in  that  prayer-meeting 
to-night;  that  is,  a  reason  besides  that  furnished  by  its  being  the 
last  Friday  night  meeting  but  one  that  they  will  have  together  this 
year.  It  is  that  on  last  Sabbath  we  had  the  inexpressible  happi- 
ness of  seeing  eight  of  our  boys  stand  up  together,  and  take  upon 
them  the  blessed  vows  of  God's  house ;  so  that  now  there  are  ten 
instead  of  two  only,  in  our  little  school,  who  are  enlisted  soldiers  in 
Jesus'  army,  and  I  want  very  much  that  they  may  begin  rightly,  by 
taking  their  part  in  the  prayer-meeting.  If  you  could  have  looked 
in  upon  us  on  Sabbath,  I  dare  say  you  would  have  thought  some 
of  the  boys  standing  there  rather  small,  but  the  youngest  is,  I 
think,  eleven  years  old,  and  seemed  to  give  as  clear  evidence  as 
any  of  them  that  God's  own  Spirit  had  led  him  to  Jesus.  I  am 
rejoiced  to  learn  from  my  daughter  that  he  dates  the  time  of  his 
giving  his  heart  to  Jesus  more  than  a  year  ago,  when  a  severe 
attack  of  pneumonia  made  us  quite  anxious  lest  we  should  lose  him, 
and  prayer  and  effort  were  made  that  he  might  become  immediately 
a  child  of  God.  He  is  the  only  surviving  son  of  his  father,  who 
clings  to  him  very  strongly.  Besides  the  eight  who  were  received, 
five  more  were  examined  Vjy  the  session. 


woman's  work  kok  woman. 


The  Sabbatli-sfhool  is  in  two  classes,  my  youngest  daufrliter, 
Grace,  taking  one  class  and  Miss  Green  the  other.  Miss  (Jreen 
has  had  the  happiness  of  drawiiiii-  from  some  of  her  class  little  notes 
expressive  of  their  love  for  Jesus  and  their  desire  to  serve  llim. 
I  have  never,  it  seems  to  me,  found  as  much  tenderness  of  feeling 
in  any  school  as  in  this  one  durinjj;  the  past  few  months.  When  I 
have  had  occasion  to  resort  to  punishment  with  any,  there  has  often 
been  so  good  a  feeling  as  to  change  my  distress  over  their  faults 
into  thanksgivings  over  the  proof  they  gave  that  the  Spirit  was 
teaching  them  true  penitence  for  sin.  Now  they  are  singing  what 
they  have  lately  loved  so  much,  Oh  happy  day  that  fixed  my 
choice."  with  its  chorus  of  "  Happy  day."  I  am  thankful  indeed 
that  God  has  so  blessed  our  weak  efforts  to  train  these  boys  for 
Him.  I  have  been  thankful,  especially  in  behalf  of  my  daugh- 
ter, Mrs.  Craig,  who  has  known  much  of  bereavement  for  one 
so  young,  in  losing  her  beautiful  little  daughter,  her  only  child, 
then  a  half  year  later  her  husband,  and  when  she  threw  her 
heart  more  earnestly  than  ever  into  the  work,  taking  that  in 
place  of  husband  and  child,  to  see  that  all  broken  up  within 
three  months  from  the  beginning  of  the  session.  How  I  pitied 
her  then  !  Next  to  lose  her  dear  old  friend  Miss  Thompson  (who 
always  had  so  tender  a  love  for  her)  in  my  absence,  only  four 
months  later,  and  then  just  eight  weeks  later  to  lose  her  dear 
father,  whose  right  hand  she  had  been  in  the  school-room  for  more 
than  ten  years,  and  to  whom  she  was  becoming  each  year  more 
necessary  in  the  care  of  the  boys,  both  in  school  and  out.  Do  you 
wonder  I  felt  thankful  indeed  for  her  last  Sabbath,  when  these 
boys  on  whom  she  has  bestowed  so  much  care  and  labor,  both  in 
school  and  out,  came  out  on  the  Lord's  side  ?  Her  helping  her 
father  so  long  had  fitted  her  for  taking  his  place,  or  I  do  not  see 
how  we  could  have  gone  on  at  all,  even  with  this  little  school,  for 
as  you  will  believe,  it  is  a  great  care  to  keep  up  the  business  of  a 
large  farm  and  manual-labor  school,  even  with  a  faithful  hired  man 
to  help,  in  addition  to  teaching  all  day,  taking  care  of  the  boys  in 
the  evenings,  attending  to  their  prayers,  and  seeing  that  they  go 
quietly  to  their  bedroom  and  remain  there.  We  never  appreciated 
so  fully  before  what  an  amount  of  labor  and  care  Mr.  Robertson 
accomplished  ;  for  much  of  the  time  during  the  last  years  of  the 
school  he  was  principal  and  superintendent,  physician  and  min- 
ister, attending  to  a  mixed  school  of  eighty  and  upwards,  besides 
much  work  for  the  good  of  the  nation  at  large.  The  wonder  is 
not  that  he  so  soon  finished  his  work,  but  that  he  endured  it  so 
long. 

God  has  been  very  kind  to  us  in  letting  my  youngest  daughter 
have  a  situation  so  near  us.    She  has  spent  two  days  with  us  each 


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week,  bringing  sunshine  for  us  all,  and  relieving  her  sister  from 
her  work  in  the  Sabbath -school.  Indeed  you  would  join  me  in 
thanksgivings  for  God's  mercy  to  us  during  the  school  year  so 
nearly  closed,  if  I  could  tell  you  how  constant  it  has  been,  how 
many  helps  and  how  much  cheer  we  have  had  from  different 
places,  the  assurance  of  special  prayer  for  us  being  among  the 
greatest  comforts.  Mrs.  A.  E.  W.  Robertson. 


FLEEING  FROM  EGYPT. 

The  United  States  consul  general  in  Egypt,  himself  a  Hebrew, 
remarked,  "  There  is  one  factor  in  the  Egyptian  problem  which 
gives  promise  of  future  light.  The  Board  of  Foreign  Missions 
of  the  United  Presbyterian  Church  of  this  country  are  doing  a 
great  and  good  work,  doing  it  quietly,  unostentatiously,  unselfishly, 
and  doing  it  thoroughly  and  well.  They  are  educating  the  Egyp- 
tians in  the  principles  of  honor  and  morality,  and  the  influence  of 
the  principles  they  are  disseminating  is  vast,  beneficial  and  wide- 
spreading."  This  church  has  in  Egypt  13  churches  with  54  out- 
stations  and  1166  communicants.  Their  force  from  this  country 
consists  of  9  ordained  ministers  and  15  female  missionaries. 
The  recent  disturbances  in  Egypt  have  caused  a  suspension  of 
missionary  work  there,  and  this  faithful  band  are  now  scattered. 
May  they  soon  be  permitted  to  resume  their  labors ! 

From  the  Christian  Instructor  we  learn  that  Rev.  Dr.  Watson 
and  Rev.  Mr.  Ewing  "  remain  in  the  harbor  at  Alexandria.  They 
go  ashore  at  pleasure  and  communicate  as  far  as  possible  with  the 
native  Christians."  From  the  same  paper  we  quote  the  words  of 
the  missionaries  themselves. 

LETTER  from  REV.  DR.  WATSON. 

"  June  26,  1882. 

"  Thousands  upon  thousands  were  leaving  the  country,  their 
business,  their  homes,  their  furniture,  their  all,  to  preserve  their 
lives.  I  bade  them  good  by  at  11a.  m.,  looking  back,  as  I  was 
rowed  away  in  a  little  boat,  with  a  sad  heart,  wondering  when,  if 
ever  again,  I  should  meet  with  them — Dr.  and  Mrs.  Lansing,  Rev. 
W.  Harvey  and  family.  Rev.  A.  M'.  Nichol  and  family,  Dr.  Hogg 
and  family.  Miss  Thompson,  Aneesa  Moosa  and  my  own  wife  and 
boys. 

'^The  next  day,  Friday  the  23d,  Brother  Ewing  and  I  went  to 
steamship  Clan  Maclean  with  the  rest  of  the  missionaries.  We 
were  glad  to  find  that  they,  though  uncomfortably  crowded,  were 


woman's  wohk  fok  woman. 


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able  to  get  state-rooms  in  the  cabin.  The  steamer  is  bound  for 
Naples,  Italy;  and  at  about  11.15  V.  M.  started  out,  carrying  llev. 
J.  K.  Giffen  and  wife,  Rev.  J.  Giffen  and  three  children  and 
maid,  Rev.  J.  R.  Alexander,  wife  and  child.  Misses  Strang,  Fre- 
zier,  Newlen,  Conner,  and  Mrs.  Ewing  and  family.  We  returned 
with  sad  hearts  as  we  thought  of  all  these  laborers  for  P]gypt's 
welfare  and  the  salvation  of  her  people  being  compelled  to  leave 
the  work  they  love,  and  we  two  left  to  communicate  with  the  scat- 
tered sheep  and  comfort  them  and  look  after  other  interests  of  the 
mission.  While  standing  aahast  at  these  sad  events  '  we  know 
that  all  things  work  together  for  good  to  them  that  love  God,  to 
them  who  are  the  called  according  to  His  purpose.'  It  is  true  we 
do  not  see  it  yet;  but  we  will  see  hereafter. 

"  Since  our  friends  left  Brother  Ewing  and  myself  have  been 
staying  at  night  on  board  the  American  frigate,  while  during  the 
day  we  come  on  shore  and  receive  the  letters  from  various  points 
and  reply  to  them  in  words  of  encouragement  and  advice,  waiting 
for  the  development  of  the  mixed  problem.  We  cannot  expect, 
however,  any  solution  except  by  means  of  the  sword.  Mighty 
forces  are  collected  in  the  harbor — there  being  no  less  than  thirty 
war  vessels  in  the  harbor  with  their  portentous-looking  guns — 
while  there  are  elements  both  on  land  and  on  sea  that  will  not  be 
calmed  except  by  war  and  bloodshed.  AVhat  a  comfort  that,  as 
Americans,  we  take  neither  side,  but  labor  and  pray  for  an  issue 
that  will  open  the  way  for  the  entrance  of  the  gospel  and  the  prog- 
ress of  the  Redeemer's  kingdom.  Now  is  the  time  for  the  church 
to  pray  that  the  seed  ^own  may  not  be  lost,  but  may  be  fruitful 
even  in  troublous  times,  and  that  the  native  converts  may  be 
clothed  with  power  to  stand  true  to  their  profession. 

"  I  cannot  close  this  letter  without  expressing  the  gratitude 
which  we  feel  for  the  kindness  and  attention  shown  to  the  Amer- 
ican missionaries  by  the  commander,  officers  and  men  of  the  frigate 
Galena  during  the  seven  or  eight  days  they  were  on  board.  It 
required  no  little  wisdom,  patience,  tact  and  kindness  on  their  part 
to  care  for  and  direct  such  a  large  company,  many  of  whom  were 
small  children — especially  as  a  man-of-war  is  not  fitted  up  for  the 
accommodation  of  passengers.  They  have  given  another  proof  of 
the  fact  that  among  the  noblest  of  America's  sons  are  those  who 
are  in  the  navy.    The  Lord  reward  them  for  their  kindness." 

LETTER    FROM    MRS.  LANSING. 

"  Malta,  June  26,  1882. 

"We  have  had  delightful  weather  since  leaving  Alexandria, 
still  our  accommodations  have  been  so  poor  that  we  have  had  a 


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woman's  work  for  woman. 


wearisome  time.  We  sleep  on  the  floor  ou  mats,  and  are  all  in 
the  large  place  midship,  but  we  have  divided  our  little  stalls  off 
with  sheets,  etc.,  so  that  we  are  each  in  family  circles,  and  get  on 
very  well  with  the  sleeping,  comparatively,  as  it  has  not  been 
rough  yet.  When  it  is  we  will  have  to  live  in  the  dark,  I  sup- 
pose, with  confined  air,  as  the  hatchway  must  be  closed  or  we  be 
swamped  with  water. 

But  our  want  of  provisions  has  been  our  greatest  need.  Not 
enough  and  of  such  miserable  quality  that  we  cannot  eat  the  putrid 
meat  and  potatoes  cooked  in  such  old,  filthy  vessels.  The  tea  is 
generally  pretty  good,  and  so  with  the  hard,  dry  biscuits  and  a  bit 
of  mustard  or  onion  or  a  little  salt,  I  get  enough  washed  down  to 
answer  the  demands  of  nature,  in  a  way.  The  gentlemen  are  to  enter 
a  complaint  to-day  to  the  agents  here,  and  will  also  go  ashore  and 
get  some  things  for  us  for  the  long  journey  yet  before  us.  A  lad 
is  our  steward,  and  has  so  much  to  do  that  we  help  all  we  can,  and 
the  older  children  wait  on  the  table  and  make  themselves  useful. 
Yesterday  (Sabbath)  we  had  services  on  deck,  and  Dr.  Hogg 
preached.  We  are  always  able  to  have  morning  and  evening 
prayers,  which  we  all  enjoy  so  much.  Surely  these  are  days  of 
trial  and  darkness,  still  faith  says  all  will  yet  be  well.  We  cannot 
realize  the  fact  that  we  are  all  in  such  a  mysterious  Providence  re- 
moved from  our  field  of  labor,  not  a  missionary  there,  but  the 
good  seed  we  have  sown  has  taken  root  and  borne  fruit,  and  our 
God  still  lives  and  reigns.  He  is  still  the  Head  of  the  Church 
He  has  planted  in  that  poor  distracted  land,  and  He  will  not 
permit  it  to  languish  and  to  die.  We.  knoic  this,  and  it  is 
such  a  comfort  when  our  hearts  are  wellnigh  overwhelmed  with 
anxiety. 

"  We  have  just  been  on  deck  showing  our  faces  to  the  custom  or 
rather  health  officers,  I  guess !  It  is  hot  this  morning  in  the 
harbor,  and  we  long  to  be  on  our  way  to  finish  this  miser- 
able and  wearisome  journey.  I  don't  know  yet,  but  I  presume 
we  will  go  up  to  Scotland  and  get  into  cheap  lodgings  in 
some  country  place,  and  so  get  braced  up  as  well  as  we  can. 
Bread  and  butter,  such  as  they  have  in  Scotland,  will  be  such  a 
luxury !  We  hear  that  the  '  conference  is  only  now  meeting  at 
the  Porte  T  Oh,  the  dallying  !  When  will  it  be  over  ?  May  the 
good  Lord  give  us  patience  and  grace  for  these  times  of  need. 
We  all  keep  pretty  well  on  the  whole.  We  number  twenty  adults 
here  in  the  midship,  and  twenty-four  children,  and  such  a  hubbub 
and  such  a  confusion." 

'i'he  party  of  missionaries  that  sailed  from  Alexandria  to  Eng- 
land by  way  of  Malta  have  arrived  in  Liverpool.    They  had  a 


woman's    \V(»IIK    FOR  WOMAN. 


hard  experience  on  board  t\\v  .steamer  between  Malta  and  their 
destination.  All  were  well,  liowever,  on  their  arrival.  They 
would  probably  remain  a  few  days  in  Liverpool  and  then  proceed 
to  Scotland,  where  most  of  them  have  relatives. 

The  missionaries  who  sailed  from  Al^  xandria  for  Naples  found 
on  their  arrival  at  the  latter  place  that  there  was  such  a  crowd  of 
refugees  that  no  comfortable  quarters  could  be  obtained  at  reason- 
able cost.  They  all,  except  Mrs.  Ewing  and  children,  therefore 
concluded  to  continue  their  passage  by  the  same  steamer  to  Liver- 
ool." 


THE  FLOWER  FESTIVALS  OF  JAPAN, 

OKIO  is  a  stronghold  of  amuse- 
ment and  pleasure,  as  well  as 
of  politics,  education  and  bus- 
iness ;  but  its  theatres,  geishas, 
wrestlers,  jugglers  and  other  ' 
^  diversions  have  been  so  mi- 
^  nutely  described  by  other  writ- 
ers that  I  gladly  let  them  alone 
in  favor  of  the  flower  /esfa 
of  the  different  seasons,  which 
are  among  the  most  attractive 
sights  of  the  capital.  The 
well-tended  gardens  of  the  sub- 
urbs, with  their  stiffly-clipped 
hedges,  the  back  plots  a  few 
feet  square,  with  their  gardens 
in  miniature,  even  in  the  most 
crowded  streets,  or  perhaps  pots 
alone,  with  flowering  plants,  as  regularly  changed  in  their  succes- 
sion as  those  in  the  balconies  of  houses  in  Belgravia,  attest  that 
love  of  the  beauties  of  nature  which  is  one  of  the  most  pleasing 
features  of  the  Japanese  character,  and  which  finds  its  more  sys- 
tematic gratification  in  resorting  to  special  places  where  special 
flowers  are  to  be  seen  in  their  glory. 

In  February,  when  the  Japanese  plum  tree,  with  its  crowded 
blossoms,  chiefly  varying  from  those  of  our  apricot  in  size  and 
variety  of  shape  and  color,  is  in  perfection,  crowds  go  out  to 
Kamedo  and  Omurai  on  the  river,  and  to  Tabata — places  distin- 
guished for  the  number  and  beauty  of  these  trees.    This  is  only  a 


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foretaste  of  the  festival  in  April,  when  Japan  is  at  the  best,  and 
the  winter,  especially  dreaded  by  the  Japanese,  is  forgotten,  and 
the  different  varieties  of  the  cherry,  the  pride  of  the  flowering  trees, 
are  in  their  beauty.  Then  all  Tokio,  in  holiday  costume,  flocks  to 
the  hill  plateau  of  Askayama,  to  Odsi,  and  especially  to  Uyeno, 
which  has  the  aspect  of  a  fair  for  two  or  three  weeks.  Numbers 
of  temporary  tea-houses  are  constructed  of  bamboo,  and  are  dec- 
orated with  flags  and  lanterns,  and  dainties,  toys  and  confectionery 
are  everywhere  sold,  girls  and  children  sing  and  dance ;  but  the 
beauty  of  the  cherry  blossoms  is  the  soul  of  the  festival,  and  all 
day  long  crowds  of  all  ages  throng  the  park,  luxuriating  with  gen- 
uine enjoyment  in  the  delight  of  the  "  cherry  viewing,"  and  sip- 
ping tea  and  cherry-blossom  water. 

In  June  the  wistaria  festival  is  held,  and  thousands  of  people  visit 
Kamedo,  where  bowers  of  this  trailer,  with  pendant  clusters  of  blos- 
soms, surround  a  piece  of  water,  and  amidst  feasting,  singing  and 
music,  verses  in  praise  of  its  beauty  are  written  on  slips  of  paper  and 
are  hung  upon  the  boughs.  The  "  iris  viewing  "  shortly  follows,  when 
the  ponds  and  flower-beds  of  Hari  Kari  are  glorious  with  irises  of 
the  loveliest  colors,  and  again  pleasure-loving  Tokio  creates  a  vast 
picnic,  and  crowds  the  garden  suburb  of  Mukojima  by  the  river ; 
and  boats,  gay  with  flags  in  the  daytime  and  with  lanterns  at 
night,  throng  the  broad  stream,  and  the  riverside  roads  are 
cheery  with  groups  bound  to  the  bowers  and  tea-houses  of  the  iris 
gardens. 

The  "  Festival  of  the  Chrysanthemums,"  in  October,  one  of  the 
five  great  national  festivals  of  Japan,  has  several  centres,  and  the 
imperial  flower  is  nowhere  seen  in  greater  perfection  than  in  Tokio. 
— Miss  Bircl^  in  Unbeaten  Tracks  in  Japan. 


Brazil  is  one  of  the  largest  empires  in  the  world.  Numerous 
rivers,  well-drained  plains,  lofty  mountains  and  valuable  mines  of 
gold  and  silver  combine  to  render  the  natural  features  of  the 
country  very  attractive.  But  the  customs  and  manners  of  the 
people,  their  superstitions,  morals,  and,  above  all,  the  Roman  Cath- 
olic religion,  make  this  beautiful  land  anything  but  a  safe  and 
restful  habitation  for  missionaries.  The  inhabitants  are  divided 
into  three  races — the  whites,  who  live  mostly  on  the  coast,  the 
blacks,  and  the  Indians,  who  occupy  the  interior.  The  greater 
part  of  the  country  is  very  fertile ;  coff"ee,  sugar-cane,  rice  and 
fruits  arc  the  principal  products.    The  care  of  these  plantations 


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devolves  solely  on  the  slaves.  The  people  are  hospitable,  kind  and 
pleasant,  but  generally  very  ignorant. 

Some  of  their  custoujs  are  very  peculiar.  Toadies  never  appear 
outside  their  houses  without  a  male  escort  or  slave;  and  it  is  not 
thought  the  proper  thing  at  all  for  the  women  to  eat  with  the  men. 
The  parents  arrange  the  marriages  of  their  children.  The  girls  are 
usually  only  eleven  or  twelve  years  old  when  married.  A  girl 
who  has  reached  the  advanced  age  of  seventeen  without  being 
married  is  considered  quite  an  old  maid.  Of  course  this  gives 
them  very  little  opportunity  or  time  for  school,  and  they  grow  up 
to  be  ignorant,  superstitious  women.  The  children  are  always 
escorted  to  school  by  slaves,  who  carry  their  books,  and  leave 
them  when  they  reach  the  school-room,  coming  back  for  them  at 
the  close  of  school.  Whenever  a  child  is  christened  seven  Marys 
must  be  present,  else  an  evil  spirit  will  trouble  it  and  it  will  never 
succeed  in  lite.  Consequently  almost  every  boy  and  girl  has  Mary 
for  one  name  (they  usually  have  twelve  or  fourteen).  It  is  the 
custom  also  for  the  domestic  animals  to  have  perfect  freedom  of  the 
house;  and  it  is  a  very  common  sight  on  entering  a  house  to  see 
dogs,  pigs,  and  even  cows,  serenely  sharing  the  family  room. 

The  first  missionaries  were  sent  to  Brazil  in  18G3.  They  were 
stationed  at  Rio  de  Janeiro.  As  others  came  they  were  sent  to 
neighboring  cities  to  bear  the  joyful  tidings  of  salvation.  At  first 
there  was  much  opposition  from  the  Roman  Catholics;  and  even 
yet  they  sometimes  do  a  great  deal  of  harm  to  the  cause  of  Christ. 
The  missionaries  are  sent  out  by  three  boards  :  the  Presbyterian 
Board  of  Foreign  Missions,  Southern  Presbyterian  and  Methodist. 
These  have  stations  in  almost  all  the  principal  cities — Rio  de  Ja- 
neiro, Bahia,  Pernambuco  and  many  other  places. 

My  father  went  to  Brazil  in  1867,  and  as  he  knew  the  language  he 
was  sent  to  Brotas,  a  very  central  place  in  the  interior,  three  hun- 
dred miles  from  Rio  de  Janeiro  and  fifty  miles  from  where  we  now 
live.  Here  he  Remained  for  nearly  five  years,  making  preaching 
tours  farther  into  the  interior,  and  being  away  sometimes  two 
months.  On  one  of  these  journeys  he  met  an  old  man  who  was 
the  terror  of  his  neighborhood,  and  no  one  but  his  sons  dared 
come  near  him.  One  night  when  it  was  raining  very  hard  two 
missionaries  stopped  at  his  house  to  spend  the  night.  He  treated 
them  kindly  and  took  a  great  interest  in  the  Bible.  Afterwards 
he  sent  one  of  his  grandchildren  to  school  to  learn  to  read,  because 
he  said  he  wanted  to  hear  more  from  the  Bible,  and  no  .one  there 
could  read.  When  the  child  went  home  he  taught  his  grandfather 
(who  was  over  seventy  years  old)  to  read.  And  now  they  have  a 
neat  little  church  built  by  themselves  with  nearly  eighty  members, 
all  children  and  grandchildren  of  this  old  man. 


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^VOMA^''^^  AVORK   FOR  WOMAN. 


My  home  is  in  Rio  Claio.  about  two  huiitlrcd  aud  fifty  miles 
from  the  coast.  It  is  a  very  pretty  city,  surrounded  by  hills,  which 
are  covered  by  coffee  plantations.  The  climate  is  pleasant.  We 
are  about  five  hundred  feet  above  the  sea  level,  so  that  it  is  cool ; 
and  we  orenerally  have  a  little  frost  every  four  or  five  vears.  The 
cit}'  is  wider  awake  than  many  others,  partly  owing  to  a  colony  of 
Germans,  who  give  to  it  an  air  of  activity  and  thrift,  and  also  on 
account  of  its  being  the  terminus  of  the  one  railroad  which  extends 
into  the  interior. 

In  the  same  j-ard  with  our  house  are  the  buildings  of  the 
charity  school.  There  are  now  forty  boys  and  girls  (the  highest 
number  they  can  accommodate  at  one  time).  One  building  is  for 
the  boys  and  the  other  contains  the  dining-room  and  the  rooms 
for  the  girls.  The  greater  number  of  the  children  come  from 
Roman  Catholic  families.  Their  parents  allow  them  to  come  not- 
withstanding the  opposition  of  the  priests,  who  are  losing  to  a 
great  extent  their  power  and  influence  because  -of  their  infamous 
characters.  These  children  come  for  three  years,  then  friends 
come  to  see  them;  but  they  cannot  go  home,  nor  can  their  parents 
have  any  control  over  them,  during  that  time.  They  all  learn  to 
read  and  write.  The  girls  learn  to  put  their  rooms  in  order,  cook^ 
sew,  set  the  table  and  many  other  things  of  which  they  knew 
nothing  before  they  came. 

The  homes  of  these  pupils  are  veiy  different  from  anything  here 
hich  bears  that  name.  There  is  no  such  word  as  "home"  in 
the  language,  and  of  course  they  know  nothing  about  one.  Ex- 
cepting in  the  large  cities  the  houses  are  built  of  a  bamboo  frame- 
work and  plastered  with  mud.  They  are  thatched  with  a  coarse 
kind  of  grass  which  grows  very  high.  The  floor  is  simply  the 
ground  beaten  hard.  They  have  very  little  furniture.  The  beds 
are  either  mats  of  braided  straw  or  hammocks.  The  chairs, 
if  they  have  any,  are  little  wooden  benches  about  a  foot  high. 
Tables  are  rarely  seen ;  and  the  few  they  have  ^re  so  extremely 
high  that  it  is  necessary  for  not  only  the  children,  but  all,  to  stand 
during  meal  time,  in  Sao  Paulo,  the  residence  of  two  of  the 
missionaries,  there  is  a  mixed  boarding-school.  The  young  men  are 
studying  for  the  ministr\',  aud  the  highest  ambition  of  the  girls  is 
to  become  their  wives.  There  is  also  a  day-school.  The  kindergarten 
is  closed  at  present,  as  Miss  Thomas,  the  principal,  is  in  the 
United  States  on  account  of  her  health.*  The  ladies  of  the  church 
here  have  a  sewing  society  which  meets  every  Friday.  Their 
object  is  to  raise  money  to  build  a  church.  In  such  a  brief  sketch 
but  a  glimpse  of  Brazil  can  be  given.  The  work  truly  is  great, 
but  the  laborers  are  few.  E.  L. 

*  Migi-  Thciija!"  ha.s  iiuw  n-tunietl  f'>  L<-r  work  at  Rio  Claro.— Ed.  Waman's  TV<rrk. 


woman's  work  for  woman. 


If  JI  AT  SHALL   VE  GIVE? 

This  question  is  one  of  practical  interest,  both  to  those  who 
contribute  and  those  who  receive  contributions  for  the  cause  of 
foreign  missions.  jMoney  is  absolutely  necessary  in  order  to  the 
advancement  of  the  kingdom  of  Christ,  notwithstanding  the  fact 
that  that  kingdom  is  altogether  a  spiritual  one.  Without  money 
we  cannot  take  the  first  step  towards  teaching  all  nations,  any  more 
than  the  priests  of  old  could  maintain  the  temple  ritual  without 
the  tithes  of  the  hosts  of  Israel.  The  women  in  those  days  were 
encouraged  to  give  their  ornaments  of  gold  and  of  silver  when  a 
special  need  arose  ^  and  these  ornaments  being  of  pure  metal  could 
readily  be  converted  into  money.  At  the  present  day  the  gold 
worn  contains  a  proportion  df  alloy,  so  that  the  amount  paid  for 
jewelry  is  largely  for  the  workmanship  on  the  surface,  and  in  sell- 
ing it  the  value  of  the  pure  gold  only  is  obtained.  Now  suppose 
that  a  Christian  woman  of  small  means  is  earnestly  asking  herself 
the  question,  "  What  can  I  give  to  the  cause  of  missions?"  Her 
money  is  necessary  for  her  daily  support.  And  as  her  mind  takes 
an  inventory  of  her  possessions  she  thinks  of  but  one  article  which 
can  be  spared.  This  is  perhaps  an  old  worn  chain,  whose  links 
are  every  one  of  them  dear  to  her  from  their  connection  with  a 
brighter  past.  She  would  not  part  with  it  for  any  ordinary  pur- 
pose; but  her  Master  shall  have  what  she  values  most  highly,  and 
so  she  sends  it  to  the  foreign  mission  treasury.  The  treasurer 
seeks  to  dispose  of  it,  as  it  is  only  available  in  the  form  of  money, 
but  no  one  will  give  for  it  more  than  its  intrinsic,  commercial  value, 
which  is  a  mere  trifle.  Last  year  a  silver  watch  was  given  to  this 
cause.  It  had  been  a  good  time-keeper  for  years  and  was  of  real 
value  to  its  owner.  The  treasurer  made  many  eflforts  to  dispose 
of  it,  but  could  get  only  one  dollar  for  it ! 

The  spirit  of  these  offerings  is  doubtless  acceptable  to  the  Lord, 
but  the  gifts  themselves  are  not  what  the  givers  supposed  they 
would  be,  nor  is  this  the  wisest  form  in  which  to  make  them.  A 
small  sum  of  money  saved  or  earned  by  some  extra,  special  effort, 
and  given  in  the  same  spirit,  would  be  a  more  satisfactory  and 
profitable  contribution  to  the  treasury.  He  who  "sits  over  against 
the  treasury"  alone  knows  the  thank-offerings,  the  in  memorlams, 
the  hard-earned,  prayer-encircled  gifts,  which  appear  in  our  receipts 
merely  as  so  many  dollars  and  cents.  But  they  are  all  remembered 
by  Him,  nor  will  a  blessing  fail  to  come  upon  the  giver  and  the 
gift. 

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woman's  work  for  woman. 


A  PLEA  FOR  THE  CHILDREN.^ 

A  NEWSPAPER  says,  "A  clergyman,  on  his  way  to  a  missionary 
meeting,  overtook  a  boy  and  asked  him  about  the  road  and  vrhere 
he  "was  going. 

'  Oh  !'  he  said,  '  I'm  going  to  the  meeting  to  hear  about  the 
missionaries.' 

'  Missionaries  !'  said  the  minister.  '  What  do  you  know  about 
the  missionaries  ?' 

"  '  Why,'  said  the  boy,  '  I'm  part  of  the  concern.  I've  got  a 
missionary-box,  and  I  always  go  to  the  missionary  meetings;  I 
belong.'  " 

Each  baptized  child  of  the 'covenant  ought  to  feel  that  it  "be- 
longs." 

As  Christian  parents  we  enter  into  a  compact  at  baptism 
which  involves  the  training  of  our  children  in  all  the  ways  of 
G-od.  We  ought  to  realize,  then,  that  we  are  leaving  out  a  great 
deal  when  we  do  not  teach  in  detail  the  meaning  of  the  phrase  in 
the  daily  prayer,  '•  Thy  kingdom  come." 

It  is  a  "  liberal  education  "  to  know  what  that  kingdom  is,  and 
in  what  lands  it  is  to  come;  what  sort  of  people  live  in  thrse  lands, 
leading  what  lives,  thinking  what  thoughts ;  what  climates,  jour- 
neys, fashions,  architecture,  literature,  schools,  governments,  our 
representatives  encounter.  Is  not  here  -a  field  of  information 
which  might  well  attract  the  most  ambitious  of  mothers? 

•'  Well,  but,'^  one  says,  "  I  don't  know  much  of  anything  about 
all  this  myself,  and  I  don't  know  where  to  go  to  find  the  information 
without  a  good  deal  of  extra  trouble,  and  I  haven't  much  time 
now.  The  spring  sewing  is  coming  on,  and  the  children  are  all 
out  of  clothes."  At  what  expense  of  time,  trouble  and  money  we 
take  care  to  find  out  what  the  spring  and  summer  fashions  for 
their  clothes  are  to  be;  and  shall  we  grudge  a  little  trouble  for  the 
furnishing  of  their  minds  and  souls  ? 

The  tired-out  mother  who  was  getting  a  room  ready  for  a  three- 
days  visit  from  a  returned  missionary  last  year  was  asked  why  she 
strained  her  hospitality  when  there  were  many  in  the  church  who 
were  abundantly  able  and  at  leisure  to  do  that  sort  of  thing.  She 
replied  quickly,  "  Why,  I  cannot  afford  to  have  my  children  miss 
such  chances  for  improvement." 

We  all  know  how  amazingly  any  subject  opens  and  the  books 
relating  to  it  multiply  when  we  begin  to  '•  read  it  up."  Even  the 
one  game  of  chess,  1  understand,  has  a  literature  of  fifteen  hun- 
dred volumes.  Any  one  who  has  not  given  special  time  and 
thought  to  the  study  of  the  heathen  lands,  of  the  history,  physical 
geography,  religions,  superstitions,  customs,  biographies  of  mis- 
sionaries and  present  state  of  work  there,  can  scarcely  give  her 


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imagination  too  loose  a  rein  ns  to  the  extent  and  most  interesting 
variety  of  the  books  to  be  had  easily. 

One  says,  "  This  woman's  missionary  work  is  an  inspiration  to 
my  life.  From  month  to  month,  when  I  send  my  little  to  the 
treasury,  I  feel  that  with  niy  own  hand  I  am  helping  to  unlock 
forces  which  will  speedily  bring  the  kingdoms  of  this  world  to  our 
Lord  and  His  Christ." 

Another  said,  in  bringing  her  gift,  "I  am  no  longer  simply  a 
part  of  this  village;  but  by  this  act  I  am  made  conscious  of  my 
relations  to  the  whole  world  " 

Do  we  find  our  children  so  devoid  of  noble  impulses,  so  unsus- 
ceptible to  the  elevating  influence  of  benevolent  thoughts  and 
good  deeds,  that  we  may  carelessly  deny  them  an  intelligent  share 
in  the  most  ennobling  work  that  the  sun  looks  down  on  ? 

Margaret  Gunn. 


EXTRACTS  FROM  LETTERS, 

'•I  AM  delighted  to  hear  that  your  missionary  association  is 
proving  so  active.  Thank  God  for  it.  Don't  merely  commit  the 
society  as  a  ichole  to  the  Lord  and  ask  His  blessing  on  it,  but 
look  to  Him,  consult  Hiui  about  eueri/  Jetail.  We  need  to  be  so 
careful  to  put  Him  first  always.  Seek  to  please  Him  in  every- 
thing, and  rest  secure." 

One  part  of  your  letter  especially  interests  me.  You  sigh  that 
not  one  young  man  or  woman  of  you  all  has  given  him  or  herself  to 
the  Lord  for  His  work.  Has  the  Lord  Jesus  been  laying  this 
burden  on  your  hearts?  May  He  give  you  grace  to  be  true  and 
faithful,  really  to  consecrate  yourselves  to  Him  !  There  is  a  tre- 
mendous need  of  workers  who  will  just  live  for  the  salvation  of 
souls^  ready  to  sacrifice  everything  that  Jesus  may  be  glorified." 


That  Egyptian  imbroglio  touches  a  great  many  interests.  Miss 
Whately  writes  from  Alexandria,  May  26,  It  may  be  (though 
Gcd  grant  it  may  not)  that  my  beautiful  school-house  and  home, 
on  which  I  spent  from  my  own  means  over  £4000,  may  be  burnt 
down,  and  my  lovely  garden,  where  a  fortnight  ago  I  sat  under  the 
willow  tree,  surrounded  by  roses,  may  be  trampled  and  destroyed, 
my  little  flock  frightened  from  their  school,  and  my  poor  servants 
fled.  But  even  if  so  T  will  never  regret  the  cost  if  one  soul  has 
found  Jesus  in  that  dear  school.  I  hope  more  than  one  have  in- 
deed. If  it  is  God's  will,  the  danger  may  yet  be  averted."' — North- 
ern Christian  Advocate. 

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WOMAN  S  WORK  FOR  WOMAN. 


AN  INDIAN  MISSIONABY  SOCIETY. 

Address  of  Mrs.  Brayear  at  W.  P.  B.  F.  M.  in  Minneapolis,  April  20,  1882. 

When  j\Hss  Nancy  Williamson  was  teacher  at  Yankton  agency 
she  had  a  prayer-meeting  every  week  with  the  Dakota  women.  In 
1877  the  wife  of  one  of  our  elders  attended  the  mission  meeting 
at  Sisseton  agency,  and  there  she  learned  of  the  society  in  charge 
of  Mrs.  J.  B.  Renville,  and  saw  the  work  made  and  sold  by  them. 
She  came  home  and  told  what  she  had  heard  and  seen.  This 
stirred  us  up,  and  we  thought  if  all  were  willing  we  could  have  a 
society  and  help  send  teachers  to  those  who  had  never  heard  of 
Jesus.  I  told  the  women  that  if  no  one  had  told  us  of  Jesus  we 
would  have  all  been  in  darkness,  and  now  that  we  know  Him  we 
should  show  our  love  to  Him  by  sending  the  good  news  to  those 
who  have  never  heard  of  our  dear  Jesus.  All  the  women  took  an 
interest  in  it.  Some  brought  moccasins,  and  they  sold  for  a  good 
price.  Others  brought  a  few  cents,  and  some  brought  pieces  of 
calico  and  other  little  things  with  which  we  could  work.  The  first 
quilt  we  gave  to  our  native  pastor,  who  was  then  just  beginning  to 
preach  to  us.  He  has  preached  to  us  ever  since,  and'we  all  love 
him  very  much. 

At  the  time  our  society  began  many  of  the  Indians  were  begin- 
ning to  wear  citizens'  clothes,  and  we  made  and  sold  over  thirty 
shirts.  We  also  gave  each  of  our  four  elders  a  shirt.  The  first 
year  we  raised  fifty-three  dollars  in  our  society.  Twenty  dollars 
we  gave  to  the  native  missionary  society,  which  sends  native 
teachers  to  the  Indian  tribes  that  have  never  heard  of  Jesus. 
Twenty  dollars  we  gave  to  help  build  a  church  on  the  Yankton 
reservation  about  ten  miles  from  the  agency.  Thirteen  dollars  we 
used  in  repairing  oar  own  church.  Since  then  we  have  not  always 
been  as  successful  in  raising  money,  but  every  year  we  have  an 
offering  for  the  native  missionary  society,  and  every  week  we  re- 
ceive strength  from  our  weekly  prayer-meetings,  and  we  pray  that 
God  may  bless  the  little  that  we  do. 


An  admirable  chart  to  be  used  in  arranging  programme  and 
appointments  for  monthly  concerts  and  other  missionary  meetirfgs 
has  been  prepared  by  Kev.  James  S.  Root,  Adams,  N.  Y.  By 
following  this  plan  the  whole  of  our  church  work  in  both  foreign 
and  home  fields  will  be  brought  before  the  people  and  considered 
in  the  course  of  one  year.  It  is  carefully  arranged  and  must 
prove  helpful,  not  only  to  pastors,  but  to  the  leaders  of  women's 
missionary  meetings,  to  whom  we  cordially  recommend  it.  Ad- 
dress as  above.    Price,  15  cents. 


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WHAT  IS  IN  THINE  HAND? 

What  is  that  in  thine  hnnd,  Shamcar  ?  An  ox-goad,  ^  ith  which 
i.  urac  my  hizy  beasts.  Use  it  fur  God  ;  and  Shamgar's  ox-goad 
defeats  the  Philistines.  What  is  in  thine  hand,  David  ?  My  sHng, 
with  which  I  keep  the  wolves  from  the  sheep.  Yet  with  that  sling 
he  slew  Goliath,  whom  an  army  dared  not  meet.  What  is  in  thine 
hand,  disciple  ?  Nothing  but  five  barley  ioaves  and  two  small 
fishes.  Bring  them  to  me — give  them  to  God;  and  that  multitude 
is  fed.  What  is  in  thine  hand,  poor  widow?  Only  two  mites. 
Give  them  to  God ;  and  behold  !  the  fame  of  your  riches  fills  the 
world.  What  hast  thou,  weeping  woman?  An  alabaster  box  of 
ointment.  Give  it  to  God  ;  break  it,  and  pour  it  upon  the  Saviour's 
head,  and  its  sweet  perfume  is  a  fragrance  in  the  church  till 
now.  What  hast  thou,  Dorcas?  My  needle.  Use  it  for  God; 
and  those  coats  and  garments  keep  multiplying,  and  are  clothing  the 
naked  still.  You  are  a  manufacturer,  or  a  merchant,  or  a  mechanic, 
or  a  man  of  leisure,  a  lady  of  fortune,  or  a  student,  or  a  sewing 
woman.  God  wants  each  of  you  to  serve  Him  where  you  are. 
You  have  your  business;  use  it  for  God.  Order  it  in  a  godly 
manner.  Do  not  allow  any  wickedness  in  it.  Give  godly  wages; 
preach  Jesus  to  your  clerks,  not  by  a  long  ffice,  but  by  being  like 
Him — doing  good.  Use  your  profits  for  God — feeding  the  hungry, 
clothing  the  naked,  visiting  the  sick,  comforting  the  wretched, 
spreading  the  gospel  far  and  wide.  Use  your  wealth,  which  is  in 
your  hand  as  easily  moved  as  the  pen  which  gives  your  signature, 
to  keep  that  family  in  their  home,  and  not  to  eject  them.  What  a 
field  you  have  to  glorify  God  in,  just  where  you  are  !  If  you  have 
nothing,  use  your  tools  for  Him ;  He  can  glorify  Himself  with 
them  as  easily  as  He  could  with  a  shepherd's  stick,  an  ox  goad, 
a  sling,  or  two  mites.  A  poor  girl  who  had  nothing  but  a  sewing 
machine  used  it  to  aid  a  feeble  church.  All  her  earnings  above 
her  needs  were  given  towards  building  a  house  of  worship,  and  in  a 
year  she  paid  more  than  others  a  hundred  times  richer  than  she. 
So  you  can  do  if  you  will.  Think  of  the  widow  with  her  two 
mites,  the  woman  with  the  alabaster  box,  and  Dorcas  and  her  gar- 
ments. You  can  do  as  much,  and  have  as  great  a  reward. — Free 
Church  Record. 


The  ladies  of  the  Presbytery  of  West  Virginia  have  organized 
a  Presbyterial  society,  and  have  begun  work  systematically.  The 
secretary  writes,  "  On  account  of  the  wide  extent  of  territory  in- 
cluded in  the  bounds  of  the  Presbytery,  it  was  thought  best  to 
group  the  churches,  appointing  for  each  group  a  vice-president  who 
should  have  power  to  organize  societies  in  her  division." 


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How  can  we  clarify  our  own  piety  and  reinvigorate  right  here 
at  home  our  own  orthodoxy  of  to-day  better  than  by  taking  a  new 
departuie  along  the  whole  line  of  missionary  activity  ?  We  arc 
told  that  we  must  save  America  for  the  world.  I  tell  you  we  must 
save  the  world  for  America  I — Rev.  George  H  Gould,  D.D. 

CUMBENT  LITERATURE  AND  MISSIONS, 

Knoxcledge  is  of  two  kinds.     We  Jcnow  a  subject  ourselves,  or  we  know  where  we 
can  find  information  ujjon  it. — Dn.  Samuel  Johnson. 

Mongolian  Immigration,  by  George  F.  Seward.  NortJi 
American  Review,  June,  1882, 

The  Birth  op  Death.  "  Translation  of  a  passage  from  the 
seventh  book  of  the  Utahabharata,  by  Edwin  Arnold.  The  Inde- 
pende)it,  June  29,  1882.  See  also  the  editorial  note  on  page  17 
of  the  same  paper. 

Independent  Foreign  Missions.  The  Missionar}/  Review. 
July,  1882. 

The  Young  Men  of  Japan,  by  Mrs.  Helen  H.  S.  Thompson. 
The  Sundaij- School  Times,  July  8,  1882. 

Books  of  Comparative  Eeligion.  Review  of  The  Faiths 
of  the  World"  and  other  books.  The  Sunday- School  Times, 
July  8,  1882. 

A  Curious  Burmese  Tribe,  by  Lieut.  G.  Kreitler.  Popidar 
Scwnce  Monthli/,  July,  1882. 

A  Buddhist  Temple  in  Ruins.  Illustrated  Christian 
WeeTdy,  July  6,  1882. 

Continental  Missionary  Societies.  Gospel  in  all  Lands^ 
July  6,  1882. 

Parsee  ^Merchants  of  Bombay,  by  Thomas  W.  Knox. 
Harpers'  Young  People,  July  11,  1882. 

The  Father  op  31odern  Missions.  Review  of  Culross'  Life 
of  William  Carey.    Illustrated  Christian  Weekly,  July  22,  1882. 

The  Koran.  Review  of  Wherry's  "  Comprehensive  Commen- 
tary on  the  Quran."    The  Literary  World,  July  15,  1882. 

What  the  Anglo-Saxon  Race  Owes  to  Missionary 
Women.     The  Foreign  Missionary^  J^b'j  1882. 

Lesson  on  the  Sandwich  Islands,  by  Mrs.  S.  H.  Clark. 
Study  of  Mis.sion  Fields  in  Life  and  Light,  July,  1882. 

The  First  Americans.  An  account  of  the  aboriginal  in- 
habitants of  North  America.  Thomas  Wentworth  Higginson. 
Harpers'  Monthly  Magazine^  August,  1882. 

Missionary  Exploration  in  Shanse,  Xorth  China.  The 
Missionary  Herald,  August,  1882. 

An  Aboriginal  Pilgrimage.  The  story  of  the  Zuni  In- 
dians.    Sylvester  Baxter.     The  Century  Magazine,  August,  1882 


woman's  work  for  woman. 


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PRONUNCIATION  OF  FOREIGN  WORDS. 

AFRICA. 

Three  rules  for  the  pronunciation  of  words  in  the  various  dia- 
lects of  the  Banta  family  of  lan<iuages,  extending  from  six  degrees 
north  to  south  of  the  equator,  and  from  the  Indian  ocean  to  the 
Atlantic. 

1st  Rule.    Yowel  sounds. 

a  as  in  awe.  u  the  nasal  sound, 

a  as  in  far.  0  as  in  odd. 

e  as  in  may.  u  as  in  sue. 

e  as  in  met.  o  as  in  only, 

i  as  in  see. 
2d  Ivule.  Accent  on  the  penult. 

3d  Rule.  Divide  the  word  into  syllables,  so  as  to  close  every 
syllable  with  a  vowel ;  this  must  be  done  even  if  three  consonants 
are  to  be  pronounced  together  before  the  vowel.  Examples — 
A-da-nla-li-»/a-nga,  Ba-?z(i-ka.  Ba-ra-ka,  Ba-fa-nga,  Be-la-?«5/-la, 
-Se-nga,  Be-»<-ta,  i?z-he,  Bo-/o-ndo,  Co-n'-sco,  E-wi6o-ma,  E-f?<-ne, 
i^o-ngwe,  6^a-boon,  ^a-ngwe,  ^o-ngo  (or  (7o-ngo),  J76a-ngwe, 
J/po-ngv.e,  Ne-ngi-;i'e-nge,  A'A-d-mi,  O-'/o-ve,  O-^a-nda,  0-?i'-ngo. 
/Se-nje,  Ya-nga-??//e-ka. 


OT.      itt.  ^.  erf  tljf  ^,3rf  sbBtedan  ©Ijurri). 

The  Foreign  Missionary  Catechtsm,  announced  in  the 
July  Woman  s  Mor/r,  has  been  issued.    Price  three  cents  per  copy. 


Selected  leaflets  published  by  our  society  have  been  put  up  in 
ten  and  twenty-five  cent  packages.  Address  Woman's  Foreign 
Missionary  Society.  1334  Chestnut  Street,  Philadelphia. 


NEW  AUXILIARIES. 

ArXILIARIES. 

West  Virginia  Pres.  Soc.  San  Francisco  Pres.,  San  Francisco, 

Benicia  Pres.,    Dixon,  Tomale;^   ami       Cal.,  Larkin  St.  Ch. 

Two  Rocks,  and  Vacaville.  Cal.  San  Jose  Pres.,  San  Luis  Obispo  ainl 

Los  Angeleg  Pres.,  Anabeiiu  and  Ar-       Watsonville,  Cal. 

lington,  Cal. 


Bellaire,  0.,  2d  Ch.,  Loring  Bd. 

Burgettstown,  Pa. 

Carlisle  Station,  0.,  Bright  Lishts. 

Chartiers,  Pa.,  Y.  P.  B. 

Cross  Creek,  Pa.,  Loring  Bd. 

Harrisburg,  Pa.,  Mrs.  Robinson's  B.  CI. 

Holiday's  Cove,  W.  Ya. 


Hookstown,  Pa.,  Mill  Creek  Bd. 

Scottdale,  Pa.,  S.  S.  Bd. 

Service,  Pa.,  Mt.  Olivet  Bd. 

rroT,  Pa.,  Birthday  Bd. 

West  Liberty,  Y' .  Ya.,  Cunningham  Bd. 

Wilkesbarre,  Pa.,  1st  Ch.,  Y.  L.  B. 

York,  Pa.,  Always  Ready  Bd. 


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NEW  LIFE  MEMBERS, 

Johnson,  Mrs.  Mary  Rankin  I  Sampson,  Mrs. 

Park,  Mrs.  Thomas  |  Wood,  Mrs.  Frank 


Receipts  of  the  Woman's  Foreign  3Iissionary  Society 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  from  Jtily  1,  1882. 

[PRESBVTKRIES  IN  SMALL  CAPITALS.] 


Athens.— Bristol  Aux.,  20  00 

Baltimore.  —  Ilagerstown  Aux., 
Miss'y  Xcz  Perces,  25  00 

BlairsVille.  —  Beulah  Aux.,  Kol- 
apoor,  50  00 

Carlisle.  —  Chambersburg,  Falling 
Spring  Aux.,  Mexico,  2  50  ;  (Jettys- 
burg.  Miss  S.  M.  McPherson,  Miss'y 
Woodstock,  50,  Miss  Annie  Miller, 
same,  5  (55);  Harrisburg,  Market  Sq. 
Aux,  Miss'v  Africa,  40  75,  Medical 
Fund,  10  65"  (51  40).  108  9) 

Cincinxati.  —  Avondale  Aux.,  10; 
Bethel,  25 ;  Cincinnati,  Mt.  Auburn 
Aux.  (25  from  Mrs.  J.  B.  Stewart), 
Medical  Fund,  75  10,  Y.  L.  B.,  Missy 
Wewoka,  75,  sch'p  Benita,  20  (170  10) ; 
College  Hill,  Boys'  Band,  5  53 ;  a 
friend  from  Lawrence,  Kans.,  25.  235  63 

Columbus.  —  Central  College  Aux., 
11 ;  Circleville,  1st  Aux.,  10  65 ;  Co- 
lumbus, 1st  Aux.,  Miss'y  Syria,  100; 
2d  Aux.,  same,  17  10;  Westminster 
Aux.,  same,  8  90 ;  Dublin  Aux.,  6 : 
Lancaster  Aux.,  Panalla,  6 ;  London 
Aux.,  zenana  visitor,  12  50,  Finley  Bd., 
sch.  Futtehgurh,  12  50  (25);  Lower 
Liberty  Aux.,  zenana  visitor,  12  36; 
Mifflin  Aux.,  22  60;  Reynoldsburg, 
4;  Scioto,  5.  227  61 

Daytox.  —  Bath  Aux.,  6;  Dayton, 
Park  Ch.,  1  50;  Springfield,  2d  Aux., 
schools  Saharanpur,  25 ;  Troy  Aux., 
sch.  Mexico,  45,  Y.  P.  Soc,  sch.  Can- 
ton, 18  75  (63  75).  96  25 

Elizabeth. — T*lainfield  Aux.,  Miss'y 
Sao  Paulo,  103  48,  Bd.,  sch'p  Sao 
Paulo,  50,  153  48 

Huntingdon.  • —  Altoona,  1st  Aux. 
(20  for  Medical  Fund),  43 ;  Bellefonte, 
Bd.,  11  20;  Hollidaysburg,  Bd.  of 
Hope,  17;  Huntingdon  Aux.,  50;  Pine 
Grove  Aux.  (2  Medical  Fund),  22  50  ; 
Spruce  Creek  Aux.,  243  29.      386  99 

Kittanning.  —  Leechburg  Aux., 
Miss'y  Siam,  25 ;  Rural  Valley  Aux.. 
Miss'y  Lodiana,  15  ;  W.  Lebanon  Aux. 
(30  Miss'y  Lodiana),  37.  77  00 

Lackawanna. — Athens  Aux.,  sch'p 


Sidon,  12  50;  Barclay  Aux.,  Miss'y 
Benita,  19;  Carbondale  Aux.,  Miss'y 
Tungchow,  8  75  ;  Harmony,  same,  24; 
Honesdale  Aux.,  39  75,  Hopeful 
Workers,  sch'p  Benita,  5,  Mission 
Helpers,  sch.  jNIexico,  14  32  (59  07); 
Langcliffe  Aux.,  11  30,  Moosic  S.  S., 
31  65  (42  95),  sch.  Syria;  Plymouth 
Aux.,  sch.  Syria,  29  75;  Scranton, 
1st  Aux.,  75,  Dickson  S.  S.,  Oroomiah 
Hosp.,  15,  Juvenile  Miss'y  Soc,  Miss'y 
Beirut,  125  (215) ;  Scranton,  2d,  Miss'y 
Tungchow,  17  25 ;  Scranton,  District, 
same,  12;  Towanda  Aux.,  Miss'y 
Benita,  50;  Troy  Aux.,.  same,  20, 
Birth  Day  Bd.,  Mis.s'y  Ti.ngchow, 
2  65,  Willing  Helpers,  sch'p  Tripoli, 
12  50  (35  15):  West  Pittston  Aux.,  21, 
Children's  Ed.,  4  (25);  Wilkesbarre, 
1st  Aux.,  Kolapoor,  100.  650  42 

Mahoning. — Jsew  Lisbon  Aux.  (sch. 
Saharanpur,  60),  100 ;  AVarren  Aux., 
sch.  Mexico,  20.  126  00 

Morris  and  Orange.  —  Boonton, 
Busy  Bees,  sch'p  Benita,  27;  Orange, 
2d,  inf.  CI.,  sch'p  Tungchow,  20.  47  00 

Newark.  —  Bloomfield,  1st  Aux., 
Miss'y  Canton,  75,  sch'p  Canton,  3  75 
(78  75);  Caldwell,  B.  R.  Canton,  40; 
Montclair,  Miss'y  Kolapoor,  100  ;  New- 
ark, 1st  Aux.,  schools  Syria,  100  50, 
Stearns  Mem.  Bd.,  2  seh'ps  Sidon, 
100  (200  50):  3d  Ch.  Aux.,  Miss'y 
Canton,  78  54,  Cheerful  Workers,  2 
schools- Canton,  140,  Mrs.  E.  M.  Doug- 
lass, sch'p  training  sch.  Canton,  15 
(233  54) ;  Bethany  Ch.,  two  little  girls, 
sch'p  Canton,  15 ;  Central  Ch.  Aux., 
schools  Canton,  50;  High  St.  Aux. 
(25  from  Mrs.  Wm.  Rankin  for  L.  M.), 
Miss'y  Canton,  82  10  ;  Park  Ch.  Aux^, 
Miss'y  Canton,  10  25;  Roseville  Ch., 
Hattie  Eddy  Bd.,  sch'p  Dehra,  40: 
South  Park  Aux.,  Miss'y  Canton, 
47  25,  Col.  at  An.  Meeting,  12  (909  39, 
less  expenses).  856  89 

Xew  Brunsavick.  —  Trenton,  1st, 
Aux.,  Miss'y  Japan,  225  :  Prospect  St. 
Aux.,  sch.  Sao  Paulo,  30'.         255  00 


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Newcastle. — Forest  Aux.,  28  79; 
RehobothCh.,  PocomokeBd.,4.  27  79 

Newtox. — Asbury  Aux.,  .«ch.  Sao 
Paulo,  10  8  j  ;  lielvidere,  1st  Aux.,  zc- 
niina  visitor,  Lahore,  40  ;  Blairstown 
Aux.,  tea.  Canton,  1.") ;  Greenwich  Aux., 
89  50;  Hackcttstown,  Gleaners,  seh"p 
Saharanjjur,  20 ;  Stewartsville  Aux., 
sch.  Saharanpur,  12  50.  137  85 

Otsego. — Cherry  Valley,  12;  Coop- 
erstown,  25  :  Delhi,  1st,  27  ;  New  Ber- 
lin, 12  75;  Oneonta,  8  75,  Miss'y  Che- 
nanfou.  85  50 

Philadet-phia  Central. — Cohock- 
'Siink  Ch.,  a  member,  Lodiana  bld'g,  2, 
N.  A.  Indians,  2,  Italy,  1,  France,  1  ( (i) ; 
North  Ch.,  Light  Bearers,  Lodiana 
bld'g,  10.  16  00 

Redstoxe. — ^Dunbar  Aux.,  for  send- 
ing new  missionaries,  5 ;  Long  Run 
Aux.,  L.  M.,  25;  New  Salem,  Band, 

2  87.  32  87 
Shexango. — Clarksville  Aux.,  sch. 

Lahore,  45  00 

Syracfse. — Oswego,Grace  Ch.  Aux., 
sch'p  Sidon,  25  00 

Washixgtox.  —  Cross  Creek  Aux., 
Miss'y  Allahabad,  60  ;  Hookstown 
Aux.,  23  ;  Lower  Ten  Mile,  B.  R.  Can- 
ton, 25;  Washington,  1st  Aux.,  Miss'y 
Allahabad,  75,  Harvest  Bd.,  3  sch'ps 
Mynpurie,  25,  3  classes  in  S.  S.,  work 
Ratnagiri,  35  44,  3  classes  and  one  in 
Sem.,  B.  R.  Allahabad,  50,  June  Rose 
Buds, 2  sch'ps  Shanghai,  28  14(213  58); 
Washington,  2d  Aux.,  Miss'y  Syria,  25, 
Y.  L.  B.,  work  Futtehgurh,  60  (85); 
West  L'nion  Aux.,  Miss'y  Syria,  20; 
Wheelins,  1st  Aux.,  Miss'y  India, 
40  81.  457  39 

Washington  City. — Falls  Ch.  Aux., 
5;  Hyattsville  Aux.,  11  87;  Washing- 
ton, 1st  Aux.,  8  25  ;  Metropolitan  Aux., 
12  51;  North  Cb.,  6  25  ;  West  St.  Ch., 
15;  Western,  28,  col.  at  meeting,  2  57 
(89  45),  Miss'y  Futtehgurh;  Met.  Ch., 
Matcer  Bd.,  boy  Tungchow,  10,  sch. 
Mexico,  20  (30).'  119  45 

West  Jersey. — Cape  Island  Au.x., 
20  ;  Daretown,  Y.  L.  Soc,  15  57.  35  57 

Westminster. — Dillsburg,  4  :  Slate- 
ville,  sch.  Mvnpurie,  40,  INIiss'y  Nez 
Perces,  20,  Gen.  fund,  6  (66);' York, 
Niles  Bd.,  sch'p  Teheran,  60.    130  00 

Wooster. — Canal  Fulton  Aux.,  sch. 
Saharanpur,  II  05,  Willing  Workers, 

3  (14  05)  ;  Chester  Aux.,  11  80  ;  Woos- 
ter, Westminster  Ch.,  Y.  L.  B.,  12  35 

38  50 


Zanesville. — Granville  Fern.  Col- 
lege, sch'p  Kolapoor,  30  00 

Miscellaneous. — Far  xon/itnj  out 
veio  MiHHionaries  —  Allegheny,  Pa., 
Mrs.  E.  C.  Robinson,  2,  Allentown,  Pa., 
A  Sister  in  Christ,  2,  Ashland,  N.  Y., 
Rev.  T.  W.  and  son,  4,  Babylon,  N.  Y., 
Anon.,  2,  Brookfield,  Mo.,  Mrs.  M.  A. 
Finley,  5,  Chillicothe,  0.,  Harriet  M. 
Lile,  5,  Dayton,  Pa.,  Anon.,  5,  Easton, 
Pa.,  A  Presbyterian,  100,  Gettysburg, 
Miss  Annie  Miller,  5,  Miss  S.  Mc- 
Pherson,  5,  Ilartleton,  Pa.,  A  reader 
of  the  J^resbi/terlan,  2,  Hills,  0.,  Anon., 
J,  Honeybrook,  Pa.,  Miss  M.  A.  Buch- 
anan, 50,  Le  Claire,  Iowa,  Miss  Agnes 
Yolger,  10,  Litchfield,  111.,  Miss  Amelia 
Stahl,  1,  Lower  Newport,  0.,  Mrs.  A.  A. 
Moore,  1,  Nanticoke,  Pa.,  F.  C.  Har- 
sen,  thank-off.,  3,  New  York,  N.  Y., 
Dan  Talmadge's  Sons,  100,  ^Nlrs.  AV.  E. 
Bunker,  25,  Newark,  N.  J.,  Miss  M.  L. 
Granniss,  1 0  50,  Oswego,  N.  Y.,  A 
reader  of  the  EvancjcHut,  ],  Phelps,  N. 
Y.,  E.  lAL,  3,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  S.  F.,  1, 
Mrs.  John  Teaze,  10,  Anon.,  20,  Pitts- 
burgh, Pa.,  M.  C.  B.,  10,  Pluckamin, 
N.  J.,  A  Friend  of  Missions,  1,  Salem, 
N.  J.,  Mrs.  J.  M.,  5,  M.  R.  2,  Salix, 
Iowa,  Miss  Maggie  Nairn,  10,  Ssran- 
ton.  Pa.,  Mrs.  C^.  L.  S.  Dickson,  2,  Sag 
Harbor,  N.  Y.,  R.,  2,  Shecomeko,  N..Y., 
H.  B.  C,  2  50,  Springfield,  lil.,  Mrs. 
T.  S.  Herring,  6,  Staunton,  Ya.,  A 
reader  of  the  Presbyterian,  1,  Swiss- 
vale,  Pa.,  Mrs.  J.  J.  Campbell,  1, 
Tunkhannock,  Pa.,  Miss  Helen  D. 
Miles,  25,  Vineland,  N.  J.,  A.  S.  Reed, 
50  cts.,  Waverly,  Md.,  Miss  M.  M. 
Douglas,  5,  Williamsburg,  Ya.,  Mrs. 
Isaac  Smith,  5,  Wrightsville,  Pa., 
Anon.,  2  (452  50);  Asheville,  N.  C, 
C.  B.,  50;  Bellaire,  0.,  Mrs.  W.  A. 
Anderson,  6 ;  Bunker  Hill,  Iowa,  A 
mother  and  child,  5 ;  Downingtown, 
Pa.,  Mrs.  E.  J.  Tutton,  30  ;  Philadel- 
phia, Mrs.  S.  Hood,  10;  Mrs.  H.  S. 
Dickson,  Med.  fund,  10;  Anon.,  2; 
T.,  10;  A  friend,  specud,  12  50;  San 
Antonio,  Texas,  J.  B.  Irvine,  40  cts.; 
M.  D.,  75 ;  Collected  by  Miss  Loring, 
316  65;  Interest  on  Lapsley  Legacy, 
50;  Sale  of  Historical  Sketches,  15  50; 
Leaflets,  5  82.  1051  37 

Total  for  July,  1882,  5548  31 

Previously  acknowledged,       4699  28 

Total  from  May,  1882,         $10,247  59 


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The  follo\ving  receipts  from  Zaxes- 
A'lLLE  Pres.  were  omitted  by  mistake 
from  the  June  Woman's  Wot^k: 

Clark  Aux.,  16  1)0;  Concord  Aux., 
26  45,  Y.  L.  B.,  10  (36  45) ;  Coshocton 
Aux.,  43  65,  Nassau  Bd.,  3  3  95  (57  60) ; 
Dresden  Aux.,  33,  Mere}'  Drops,  sch'p 
Beirut,  60  (93) ;  Duncan's  Falls  Aux., 
20  35;  High  Hill,  30;  Jersey,  32  60; 
Linton,  16;  Madison,  20;  Martins- 
burg  Aux.,  18,  Y.  L.  B.,  9  09,  Tnng- 
chow,  5,  L.  M.,  25  (57  09) ;  Mt.  Zion 
Aux.,  12,  We  Will  Bd.,  2  (14);  Mus- 

Mrs.  Julia 

August  1,  1882. 


kingum,  5;  Xewark  Aux.,  2  sch'ps 
Sidon,  90,  G.  F.  and  2  L.  M.'s,  62  03 
<152  03);  Pataskala  Aux.,  25,  Home 
Circle,  3  (28);  Roseville,  5;  Union- 
town,  7  50  ;  Utiea  Aux.,  sch'p  Ningpo, 
20,  Med.  fund,  3,  Y.  L.  B.,  sch'p 
J^ingpo,  20,  Med.  fund,  3  75,  Helping 
Hands,  5  50,  Cheerful  Givers,  4  (56  25) ; 
Zanesville,  1st  Aux.,  8  60:  Putnam 
Aux.,  20  40,  Mrs.  Potwin,  Oroomiah 
Hospital,  25,  Y.  L.  B.,  5  70  (51  10); 
Zanesville,  2d  Aux.,  67,  Y.  L.  B.,  25 
(92).  825  62 

M.  FiSHBURN,  Treasurer, 

1334  Chestnut  St.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 


PASSAGES  OF  SCRIPTURE 

TO  I5E   READ  AT  THE  MONTHLY  MEETINGS  IN  SEPTEMBER. 

Isa.  xlii.  1-12.     Golden  Text  for  the  Month — Isa.  li.  5. 


LEAFLETS  OF  W.  P.  B,  M.  OF  THE  JV.  W, 

The  following  pamphlets  and  leaflets,  helpful  in  the  work,  may 
be'  obtained  by  applying  to  Miss  S.  B.  Stebbins,  48  McCormick 
Block,  Chicago,  111.:— 

"  Decennial  Beport,"  a  history  of  the  first  ten  years  of  the  society, 
by  Mrs.  Laflin, -price,  5  cts.  Mary  Margaretta  Campbell,  A  Brief 
Becord  of  a  Youthful  Life,"  pamphlet,  27  cts. ;  bound  copies,  con- 
taining photographs  of  Misses  Campbell  and  Cole,  64  cts.  "  The 
Mother  at  Home,"  by  "  Pansy,"  2  for  5  cts.  "  Memorial  Hymn," 
in  memory  of  Dr.  Coan,  by  Bev.  S.  E.  Wishard,  words  and  music, 
5  cts.  ''Go  Tell,"  5  cts.  a  doz.  "The  Master  is  Come;" 
"Asleep;"  "Our  Hour  of  Prayer;"  "Women  Commissioned;" 
"Training  of  Children  and  Youth  in  Missionary  Work;"  How 
Much  do  I  Owe?"  "  Besponsibilities  of  Protestant  Women,  in 
view  of  what  is  done  by  the  Sisters  of  Charity,"  by  Bev.  W.  W. 
Eddy  ;  "  How  to  Kill  a  Missionary  Meeting,"  by  Mrs.  S.  J.  Bhea ; 
"How  shall  we  interest  the  Children?"  "Where  have  ye  laid 
Him?"  "How  to  Manage  a  Missionary  Society;"  "Origin  of 
Women's  Foreign  Missionary  Societies ;"  "  Eleven  Good  Beasons 
for  not  Going  to  Missionary  Meeting;"  "As  I  have  Loved  You," 
by  INIiss  Holliday;  each  of  the  above,  1  ct.  a  copy  or  10  cts.  a  doz. 
"  Our  Mite  Society,"  by  Mrs.  E.  S.  Williams;  "  Exercises  for  S.  S. 
F.  M.  Societies,"  by  Mrs.  W.  H.  Bockwood :  "The  Fire,"  U 


woman's  work  for  woman. 


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Mrs.  S.  J.  Rhea ;  "  Consecration  and  Culture,"  by  Mrs.  Ilerrick 
Johnson;  "Forward,"  by  ^Irs.  B.  D.)Uglass;  "Extracts  from 
Journal  of  Mrs.  Jones,"  by  INIrs.  H.  M.  Humphrey;  each  of  the 
above,  2  cts.  a  copy.  Large  and  small  packages  of  leaflets  culled 
from  various  sources,  25  and  10  cts.  per  package.  For  distribu- 
tion, "  Plan  for  Organizing  Sunday-schools  into  Foreign  ^Missionary 
Societies;"  "Constitution  and  Hints  for  Organization;"  "Con- 
stitution for  Mission  Bands." 


yjETV  A  UXILIARIES. 

Utica,  111.,  Waltham  Church.  |  Worthington,  Minn. 


NEW  LIFE  MEMBERS. 


Mrs.  H.  K.  Bushnell,  Beaver  City,  Xeb. 
Mrs.  J.  H.  Gordon,  Galesburg,  111. 
George  C.  Halsey,  Galesburg.  111. 
Harlan  Kingsbury,  Peoria,  111. 
Mrs.  J.  H.  Losey,  Galesburg,  111. 


Mrs.  Mary  A.  Robinson,  Granville,  0. 

Mrs.  Alice  D.  Van  Cleve,  East  Minne- 
apolis, Minn. 

Mrs.  Loretta  C.  Van  Hook,  Tabriz, 
Persia. 


HOXOHABY  MEMBER. 

Mrs.  George  De  la  Vergne,  Colorado  Springs,  Colo. 


Receipts  of  the  Woman's  Presbyterian  Board  of  Mis. 
sions  for  the  Northivest,  to  July  20,  1882, 


[PRESBTTEKIES  IN 

Altox. — Alton.  13  :  S.  S.,  Laos  bovs' 
sch.,  4  37:  Bethel  Ch.,  Laos  sch'p,  6  25 : 
Koekwood,  Persian  sch.,  20.       43  62 

Bloomington. — Clinton,  20  ;  Gibson 
City,  8  51;  Gilman,  10;  Lexington,  8; 
Mackinaw  Ch.,  12  ;  Towanda,  8.  66  61 

Cairo. — Carmi,  Band,  E.  Warren, 
extra,  30  ;  Walnut  Hill  Ch.,  Kangwe 
sch'ps,  14,  less  Pres.  ex.,  25  cts.  43  75 

Cedar  Rapids. — Cedar  Rapids  2d 
Ch.,  Persian  gate-keeper,  9;  Clinton, 
from  Japanese  tea-part}-,  30.       39  00 

Chicago. — Arlington  Heights,  5  25; 
Chicago  1st,  Beirut  sch.,  5;  S.  S.,  for 
Svria  and  China,  100;  2d,  Tabriz 
bid'g,  53;  H.  M.,  1;  3d,  saL  Miss 
Olmstead,  100 ;  work  among  Xesto- 
rians,  10;  4th,  sal.  Miss  Anderson, 
18  60;  Pioneers,  Laos  sch.,  28  83; 
Evanston,  86;  S.  S.,  Syrian  sch.,  45; 
Joliet  Central  Ch.,  19  12;  S.  S.,  6^ 
Lake  Forest,  139  ;  Oroomiah  Sem.,  5  ; 
2  beds  in  Oroomiah  Hos.,  50  ;  Miss  L. 


SMALL  CAPITALS.] 

Ferry,  one  ditto,  25 ;  Mr.  S.  B.  Chase, 
''Thompson  Bed,"  ditto,  25;  Ferrv 
Hall  M.  S.,  Shanghai  sch'p,  50;  Y.  P. 
S.,  Brazil  sch'p,  3;  Steady  Streams, 
49  26  ;  Riverside,  32  30.  855  26 

Council  Bli  ffs. — Council  Bluffs,  2; 
Emerson,  6 ;  Kodawav,  1  50  ;  Villisca, 
2  50.;  Red  Oak,  3;  all  sal.  Mrs.  Nich- 
olson; for  Kingpo  sch'p,  6  25;  Sidnev, 
10.  31  25 

Denver.— Fort  Collins,  15  00 

Dubuque. — Independence,  sal.  Miss 
Pratt,  14  50;  Pine  Creek  Ch.,  13.  27  50 

Fort  Dodge. — Cherokee,  Miss  L.  R. 
Pingrey,  3  14 

Fort  AVayne. — Fort  Wayne  1st,  sal. 
Mrs.  Farnham,  100;  3d,  "same,  100; 
Lilies  of  the  Valley,  Laos  sch'p,  25: 
2d  Ch.,  Pearl  Gatherers,  Laos  sch., 
12  50;  Goshen,  same,  12;  Shanghai 
sch'p,  10;  Persia,  3.  262  50 

Freeport. — Galena,  South  Ch., 

21  00 


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woman's  work  for  woman. 


Hastings. — Beaver  City,  Bushncll 
Band,  'SO;  Edgar,  4  05  ;  Hansen,  1  23  ; 
Hastings,  5  ;  Cheerful  Workers,  13  60  ; 
Nelson,  5  40  5  Ked  C'oud,  2  60.    61  80 

HuuoN.  —  Fo-storia,  16;  Fremont, 
21  20  ;  I^orwalk,  10  ;  Sandusky,  10  71, 
all  sal.  Mrs.  Robertson;  S.  S.,  Africa, 

4  45.  62  36 
IxDiANAPOT.is.  —  "H.,"  for  medical 

missions,  25  ;  Hopewell,  35  86,  Little 
Band  of  Workers,  2  70  (38  66,),  sal. 
Mrs.  Bergen ;  Indianapolis  1st,  sal. 
Mrs.  Tan  Hook,  100;  G.  F.,  6;  S.  S., 
Benita  sch'p,  14  70;  2d,  sal.  Miss 
Clark,  100;  outfit,  25.  308  26 

loAVA. — Keokuk,  Willing  Workers, 

5  60 ;  Kossuth,  sal.  Mrs.  Nicholson, 
25;  Mediapolis,  Futtehgurh  sch'p,  10; 
Band,  Scotia  Sem.,  15 ;  Middletown, 
11.  66  60 

Kalamazoo. — Allegan,  5 ;  Burr  Oak, 
3  67 ;  Constantine,  12  50  ;  Kalamazoo, 
60;  Mich.  F.  Sem.  Willing  Workers, 
Syrian  sch.,  62 ;  Bichland,  6  47 ;  Stur- 
gis,  7  43  ;  Three  Rivers,  13  30.  160  37 
Lansixg. — Brooklyn,  10  00 

LoGAXSi'ORT.  —  Logansport,  Broad- 
way Ch.,  Canton  sch'p,  12  74;  Meadow 
Lake,  7  80 ;  ^  alparaiso.  Willing  Work- 
ers, Rio  Claro  schp,  15 ;  Walton,  10  60. 

46  OL 

Maumee. — Eagle  Creek,  6  00 

New  Albany. — Bedford,  sal.  Miss 
Warner,  7  35;  Laos  bld'g,  2  60; 
Charleston,  1  50;  Hanover,  3  75;  Jef- 
fersonville.  Band,  5 ;  1st  Ch.,  8  ;  Lex- 
ington, Band,  3  55  ;  Madison,  Ist,  10  ; 
2d,  3  60  :  S.  S.,  1  60  ;  New  Washington, 
1;  Sej-mour,  3  75  (44  15),  for  Laos 
bld'g;  sal.  Miss  Warner,  2;  S.  S., 
same,  3  66;  Hanover,  Ningpo  sch'p, 
13;  New  Albany,  sal.  Mrs.  Morrison, 
SO  36.  150  42 

O^rAHA. — Saint  Helena,  Mrs.  S.  E. 
Martyn,  a  thank-off".,  5  00 

Peoria.  —  Dunlap,  18;  sal.  Mrs. 
Winn,  25;  Galesburg,  18;  Pearl  Seek- 
ers, Laos  bld'g,  7  ;  G.cl'u  Valley,  Laos 
sch'p,  6  25;  Rural  Gleaners,  same,  3 ; 
Lewistown,  Ainbala,  16;  Peoria,  1st, 
18  33  ;  E.  R.  Edwards  Band,  for  Can- 
ton, 14  50;  Little  Lights,  same,  3  25; 
2d,  14  60;  Grace,  ID;  Calvary,  6  25; 
Yates  City,  sal.  Mrs.  Winn,  14.  174  08 

Pueblo.  —  Colorado  Springs,  100; 
S.  S.,  Col.  sch.,  Siam,  30.  130  00 

Saginaw.  —  Flint,  2  Syrian  schs.. 


35;  Y.  L.  S.,  Dehra  sch'p,  15;  Bay 
City,  Oroomiah  Sem.,  20;  Morrice,  5; 
Saginaw,  40;  Yassar,  10.  125  00 

St.  Paul. — Minneapolis,  Mrs.  Alice 
D.  Yan  Cleve,  25  00 

Schuyler.  —  Fountain  Green,  16; 
Hamilton,  "  Sallie  Ringland  Fund," 
1000  ;  bequest  of  Mrs.  Dr.  E.  B.  Ring- 
land,  sup.  sch.,  Ain  Bal,  Syria,  100. 

1116  00 

YiNCENNES. — Evansville,  Walnut  St. 
Ch.  Band,  Oroomiah  sch'p,  30  ;  Prince- 
ton, 7 ;  Little  Gleaners,  2  01  ;  Yin- 
cennes,  9.  48  61 

Winnebago. — Neenah,  Ningpo  sch'p, 
45  00 

Wisconsin  FtivER. — Madison,  15  00 
Zanesville. — Gran'.ille,  25  00 
Memorial  Fund. — By  sale  of  "A 
Brief  Record"  —  Bloomington  Pre.;., 
Anon.,  5  ;  Miscellaneous,  including  all 
sums  less  than  five  dollars,  31 ;  Laos, 
36.  72  00 

Miscellaneous.  —  Societies  —  Den- 
ver, Col.,  Central  Ch.;  Bethel  Ch.  of 
Cottonwood  Grove,  111.;  Belvidere,  III.; 
Carrollton,  111.;  Chicago,  i:i.,  1st,  Y. 
L. ;  Dunlap, 111.;  Galesburg,  lil. ;  Green- 
field, 111.;  Jersevville,  1:1.;  Pcotone, 
HI.;  Neoga,  HI.;' Peoria,  111.,  1st,  2d, 
Grace  Ch.,  Calvary  Ch. ;  Piper  City, 
111.;  Sharon  C!i.,  111.;  Sterling,  111.; 
Sparta,  111.;  Winnebago,  111.;  Attica, 
Ind. ;  Charlestown,  Ind. ;  Ft-  AYayne, 
Ind.;  Hebron,  Ind.;  Indianapolis, 
Ind.,  3d;  Rushville,  Ind.;  Seymour, 
Ind.;  Des  Moines,  Iowa;  Dubuque, 
Iowa,  Armor  Bearers ;  Ft.  Madison, 
Iowa;  Morning  Sun,  Iowa;  Monte- 
zuma, Iowa;  Nevada,  Iowa;  New  Lon- 
don, Iowa;  Red  Oak,  Iowa;  Cassopolis, 
Mich. ;  Detroit,  Mich.,  Richardson  Bd.; 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich. ;  Homer,  Mich. ; 
Kalamazoo,  Mich.;  Sturgis,  Mich.; 
Yassar,  Mich.;  Wimina,  Minn.;  Te- 
cumseh,  Neb.;  Ada.,  0.;  Spring  Lake, 
0.,  Eagle  Creek  Ch.;  Lima,  0.;  Apple- 
ton,  Wis.;  Neenah,  AVis. — one  dollar 
each;  Miscellaneous,  1  60;  for  pub. 
Annual  Report,  50  60  ;  by  sale  of  pho- 
tographs, 24  42  (of  which  12  67  is  for 
Tabriz  bld'g).  74  G2 

Total  for  month,  4099  89 

Previously  acknowledged,       2782  68 

From  April  20  to  July  20,     $6882  67 


Chicago,  III.,  Juli/  20,  1882. 


Mrs.  Jesse  AYhiteheab,  Trednvrer, 
Room  48.  McCormick  Block. 


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