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WOMAN'S  Work  for  Woman. 


PUBLISHED  MONTHLY 

BY  THE 

WOMEN'S    FOREIGN    MISSIONARY  SOCIETIES 
OF  THE    PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 


VOLUME   XVI.  — t90t. 


PRESBYTERIAN   BUILDING,    156   FIFTH  AVENUE, 

NEW  YORK. 


INDEX   TO   VOLUME  XVL— t90J. 


Africa— The  Century  in  

Missionaries  in  

Cliurch  of  God  Set  up  in  Bululand  

Membership  of  the    First   Church  in 

Bululand  

Outcome  of  the  Bulu  War  

How  the  Doctor  at  Batanga  Makes  His 

Rounds  

One  Happy  Year  at  Lolodorf,  in  Bulu- 
land   

Folk  Lore  of  West  Equatorial  Africa. . . 
How  Refugee   Missionaries  in  Africa 

Were  Delivered  

Important  from  Elat  

Letters  from  51,  77,  139, 

Auxiliaries  and  Bands,  New  29,  87, 

119,  146,  206,  239,  266,  295, 
Auxiliaries,  Notes  to.  . .  .26,  55,  84,  116, 
144,  175,  203,  237,  264,  293  320, 

Banner  Societies  53, 

Book  Notices  25,  83,  236,  292, 

Books  of  the  Year,  Good  

Brazil — Missionaries  in  

Fourfold  Work  of  Curityba  School, 

Brazil  

Religious  Bacilli  •  • . 

Work  and  Disappointment  in  Aracaju.. 

San  Paulo  School  in  Mourning  

Letters  from  21,  167, 

Brown,  Dr.  Mary,  of  Wei  Hien  

Canadian  Society,  Letter  from  a  

Chili — Missionaries  in  

Letters  from  166,  230, 

China— Martyr  Roll  in,  1900  5, 

Missionaries  5, 

The  Church  in  

Personal  Records  of  Martyrs  in  North 

China  

Shall  We  Give  up  Missions  in  the  Far 

Interior  

Recanting— Frightful  Perils  of  Chris- 
tian Girls — Martyr  Heroism   

Paotingfu  Martyrs  of  the  "South  Sub- 
urb"  15, 

The  Persecuted  Church  in  

Story  of  the  Shansi  Massacres  

The  Century  in  

Brief,  Happy,  Wholesouled  Service  .... 
A  Little  Close  Home  Study  from  Siege 

of  Peking  

Reminiscences  of  the  Siege  of  Peking. . 
Some  Notable  Deliverances  of  Chinese 

Christians  

Better  than  Statistics  


53 
63 
63 

64 
65 

66 

67 
70 

71 
72 
229 

323 

347 
114 
346 
221 
153 

153 
160 
160 
189 
312 
43 
141 
153 
315 
74 
33 
5 


11 

12 

33 
16 
19 
23 
34 

35 
35 

38 
39 


A  Christian  Boxer  and  the  Church  in 

His  House   40 

Remarks  of  Country  People,  Nanking 

Field   41 

Singular  and  Swift  Retribution  at  Pao- 
tingfu  42 

Dr.  Mary  Brown  of  Wei  Hien   43 

Story  of  a  Yeung  Kong  Bible  Woman . .  44 
Escape  of   China   Inland  Missionaries 

from  Shansi   47 

A  Sad  Christmas  Day  in   54 

Last  Letters  of  a  Shansi  Martyr   73 

Flight  of  Three  Women  Missionaries 

from  Honan   74 

Wintering  in  Peking   107 

Just  One  Echo  from  Paotingfu   108 

About  Christians  Who  Recanted   108 

The  Situation  in  Peking   164 

The  English  Cemetery  in  Peking  Again 

Used   165 

Latest  Refugees  from  Shansi  165 

A  Memorial  Service  at  Paotingfu   190 

Account  of  the  Massacre  of  Missionaries 

at  Paotingfu   192 

Further  of  Paotingfu   195 

Last  Letter  from  the  Shansi  Martyrs. . .  196 
Some  Views  of  the  Greatest  Viceroy  of 

China   218 

"  Mother  Goose"  in   220 

In  Peking  One  Year  Ago   222 

Some  Ruined  Buildings  in  Peking   224 

The  Martyrdom  at  T'ai-yuen   225 

Courageous  Chinese  Christians  of  Can- 
ton  227 

Recovery  of  Two  Captive  Peking  Boys.  253 

The  Situation  at  Paotingfu   254 

In  Memoriam  Address  ,  . .  256 

A  Peking  Orphan  Boy   283 

What  Ten  Dollars  Did  for  Peking  Chris- 
tians  284 

Letters  from  22,  50,  80,  231,  286 


Christmas — Poem   335 

Columbia— Letters  from  21,  168,  199 

Missionaries  in   153 

Dozen  Questions  for  Missionary  Meet- 
ing 54,  82,  113,  174,  232,  262,  289,  317 

Editorial  Notes  (in  part) : 

African  Mail  Bag   1 

American  School  at  Teheran   91 

Asiatic  Impostors   270 

Board  of  Foreign  Missions.  ..32,  61,  151,  181 

Boxers   270 

Brown,  Dr.  Arthur  91.  151,  181,  241 

Bulu  Mission  Stations   61 

Chinese  New  Testament  Revision   270 

Christian    Literature    in  Hiroshima, 

Japan   92 

Church  in  China,  The   1 

Deaths  2,  32,  92,  121,  151,  152,  181 


INDEX  TO  VOLUME  XVI. 


iii 


Earthquake  in  Fukui,  Japan   242 

Ecumenical  Conference   212 

Eddy,  Dr.  Mary,  Farewell  to   325 

Evangelical  Union  in  Manila   211 

Famine  3,  182 

First  Church  in  Santa  Catharina,  Brazil  152 

Japanese  Students   242 

Korean  Robbers   32 

Korean  Women   298 

Lahore,  India,  Educational  Work  270 

Laos  Home  Missionary   32 

Laos  Mission,  New  Spelling  of   121 

Marriages  91,  212 

Martyrs  in  China   1 

McKinley,  President   297 

Missionaries  ia  W.  India,  Oppressed....  92 

Missionary  Committees  of  C.  E.  S   62 

Mukti  Church   61 

N.  Y.  Woman's  Board   269 

Paotingfu  31,  151,  181 

Persian  Saint,  A   92 

Presbyterian  Alliance  of  India   121 

Revivals   211 

Stone,  Miss  Ellen   297 

Student  Missionary  Campaign   62 

Syrian  Horse,  The   32 

Twentieth  Century,  The   1 

Victoria,  Queen   122 

Woman's  Annual  Assembly   152 

Woman's  Foreign  Missionary  Boards. . .  121 
Woman's  Interdenominational  Confer 

ence   2 

Year  Book  1.  298 

Educational  Methods.  New   82 

Gates,  Outgoing — Poem   336 

God's  Acre  at  Seir — Verse  

Guatemala — Missionaries  in   153 

Hainan — Missionaries  in   183 

Two  Fragments  of  Humanity  and  the 

Good  They  Do   186 

First  Baptisms  in  Hainanese   187 

Doings  at  Kiungchow   187 

Thieves  and  a  Hailstorm    188 

Spiritual  Despotism   188 

Heart  to  Heart — Verse   20 

"  Home  Sweet  Home  "  in  Japanese    247 

Illustrations  : 
Africa— "Yhe  First  Bulu  Church,  64;  A 
Bark  House,  67;  Bela,  a  Typical  Bulu 
Woman,  68;  The  Start  from  Efulen,  69. 
Brazil — Kissing  the  Emblematic  Dove, 
160;  Beatrix  Trulhos,  189.  China— The 
Wang  and  Chung  Families,  Peking,  7 ; 
The  Teng  Family,  9;  A  Sacred  Corner 
in  British  Legation  Grounds,  Peking, 
11;  Pledge  from  An  Kti,  13;  Rev.  Hor- 
ace Tracy  Pitkin,  14 ;  Miss  Mary  S.  Mor- 
rill, 15;  Aliss  Annie  Allender  Gould,  15; 
Tree  to  which  Sidney  Brooks  was 
Bound,  17;  Dr.  Maud  A.  Mackey,  36; 
Sandbags  made  by  the  Women  in  Pe- 
king Siege,  37;  Rev.  John  Wherry,  D.D., 
Rev.  J.  L.  Whiting.  38;  Mr.  Kao  and 
His  Household,  40;  "The  Jesus  Church," 
41;  Dr.  Mary  Brown,  44;  Mrs.  Elizabeth 
Graham  Atwater,  73;  Chinese  Captain 
with  Body-guard,  75;  Buildings  at  Wei 
Hien,  Set  on  Fire  by  Boxers,  190 ;  British 
Legation  Grounds,  223 ;  First  Presbyte- 


rian Church,  Peking;  Roman  Catholic 
Cathedral,  224;  Mrs.  Killie  "At  Home," 
Peking,  225;  Rev.  Thomas  and  Mrs. 
Jessie  Pigott  and  Son,  226;  All  Ready 
for  Memorial  Service  at  Paotingfu,  Pa- 
vilions Erected  by  Mandarins,  Arch  Be- 
fore Entrance  to  Main  Pavilion,  Deso- 
late Site  of  the  Simcox  House,  225 ;  A 
Peking  Orphan  Boy,  283.  India — Poor 
Women  of  the  Hills,  94;  Famine  Chil- 
dren at  Kolhapur,  98 ;  Morning  in  Alla- 
habad, 103 ;  Sara  Seward  Hospital  Staff, 
104;  Woman's  Hospital  at  Ferozepore, 
105;  Patients  in  the  Waiting-room,  106; 
Irene  Petrie  as  She  Was  Presented  to 
Queen,  215;  Ramabai,  217.  Japan — In 
the  Kindergarten,  248:  At  Kyoto,  249. 
Korea — A  Prosperous  Mother-in- Law, 
304;  How  They  Travel,  305;  A  Mission- 
ary Home,  306;  Korean  Houses  in  the 
South,  307.  Laos — Idol  Worship  in  Laos 
Country,  125;  A  Christian  Musti  Girl, 
130 ;  One  of  the  Young  Wives  of  Chiang 
Rai  Church,  131;  One  of  the  Main 
Streets  of  Chiang  Rai,  132;  Me  P'ya, 
Her  Husband  and  Grandchild,  135. 
Mexico — Display  of  a  Dead  Baby,  155; 
Prince,  a  Mission  Horse,  156;  Map  of 
Southern  and  Central  Mexico,  157; 
Building  First  Occupied  at  Sombrerete, 
159;  Saltillo  Classes  of  1900  and  1901, 
162.  Persia — Nourmahal,  272;  Uramia 
Boys  at  Play,  273 ;  American  Missionary 
Graves  at  Seir,  275;  Repka  and  Her 
Daughter,  279;  Ancient  Nestcrian 
Church,  280.  Philippine  Islands — Typi- 
cal Filipino  Family  of  the  Better  Class, 
183;  Native  Boat,  184;  Outdoor  Service 
in  Hagonoy,  185;  Where  Services  Were 
First  Held  in  Bulacan  Province,  186. 
Siavi — Girls  of  Harriet  House  School, 
Bangkok,  127.  Venezuela — After  Earth- 
quake, 46;  A  Street  in  Caracas  After 
Earthquake,  47.  Syria — Mrs.  H.  and 
Mrs.  W.  Jessup,  327;  Missionary  Start- 
ing on  Journey,  329 ;  Druse  Bride,  331 ; 
Syrian  Porter,  333 ;  Children  at  School,  335 
Importance  of  Sending  Home  Informa- 
tion from  the  Field   233 

Important   Offering  from   Indians  of 

Idaho   235 

India— The  Century  in   81,  113 

Missionaries  in   93 

The  Yoke  Upon  Women  in   93 

The  Spice  of  Life  at  Kodoli,  W.  India. .  95 
A  Forward  Step — Results  of  a  Little 

Firmness   96 

Four  Classes  of  Hearers   96 

Famine  Children   97 

Three  Sides  of  Life  at  Ambala    101 

A  Conference  Worth  Telling  About. . . .  102 

Hindu  Proverbs   102 

Medical  Work,  1899-1900   103 

In  Memoriam — Gwalior — Mrs.  Warren, 

Miss  Torrey   334 

Letters  from. .  .51,  80,  109,  140,  198,  228, 

260,  287,  315 

Japan— The  Century  in  201,  232 

Thirty  Eventful  Years  in   219 

Our  Missionaries  in   243 


iv 


INDEX  TO  VOLUME  XVI. 


The  Great  Revival  in   243 

Japanese  Women  and  Children  in  the 

Revival   245 

A  New  Station,  Church  and  Bell  in 

North  Japan   246 

"Home,  Sweet  Home "  in  Japanese. . .  247 
Three  Hundred  Modern  Japanese  Wo- 
men   247 

Kindergarten  Influence   248 

An  Otaru  Woman   250 

A  New  Station  Heard  From   250 

A  Suggestive  Parenthesis  and  Simple 

Examination   251 

April  and  Christmas   252 

What  Came  of  a  Girl's  Conversion  at 

Osaka   284 

Letters  from   313 

Japanese  Women  and  Children  in  the 

Revival   245 

Japanese  Women,  Three  Hundred  Mod- 
ern  247 

Korea — Our  Missionaries  in   299 

Faithful  Korean  Women   299 

Home  Life  in   301 

A  Grateful  Work   302 

In  the  House   304 

A  Missionary  Journey   304 

A  Korean  Convert   306 

The  Junkin  Memorial  Hospital  at  Fusan  307 
Loving  and  Patient  Students  of  the 

Word   308 

Letters  from..  .52,  79,  112,  139,  199,  228, 

258,  316 

Korean  Christians  in  Church,  With. . .  310 

Korean  Women,  Faithful   299* 

Lessons.  New  . . .  .23,  58,  81,  113,  141,  169, 

201,  232,  261,  289,  317 

Light  on  the  Future  from  the  Past   24 

Martyrs'  Legacy  to  the  Church,  The. .  3 

Martyrs  in  China— Verse. . .   227 

Mexico— Missionaries  in   153 

A  Well  known  Mexican  Custom   154 

Two  Country  Trips  in  Central  Mexico. .  156 

A  Year  at  Sombrerete   158 

Saltillo  Normal  School,  To-day   161 

In  a  Protestant  Mountain  Village   163 

Letters  from  166,  230 

Missionaries  Taken  Home  in  1900   1 


Missionaries,  Upon  the  Year  Book  of 
Prayer   234 

Missionary  Meetings,  How  to  Make  In- 
teresting  317 

Missionary  to  the  Japanese  in  California  213 


Missionary  Life,  Minutiaj  of   330 

Mission  Study   317 

Missions,  United  Study  of,  for  1902   232 

Mrs.  Gibson's  Experiment   114 

Persia — Our  Missionaries  in   271 

A  Medical  Visit   271 

The  Garden  and  a  Visitor  of  Hamadan 

Station   272 

Urumia  Boys  and  Their  Band   273 

Touring  in  East  Persia   275 

Grateful  Memories  of  Gospel  Work  in 
Urumia  and  Kurdestan   277 


A  Nestorian  Trophy   278 

In  the  Kurdish  Country   281 

Plain  Truths  from   221 

Letters  from  200,  257,  285,  312 

Philippine  Islands — Missionaries  in . .  ..  183 

Presbyterian  Mission  in   183 

Two  Chinese  Filipino  Weddings   184 

Letters  from    197 

Protestant  Missions  in  South  America..  219 

PuNDiTA,  The   216 

Railroad  Tickets,  New   202 

Secretaries  of  Literature  at  Work  261 

SiAM  AND  Laos — Missionaries  in  123 

An  American  Hannah   123 

How    Laos    Christians    Give — Givers 

Wanted  to  Make  All  Laos  Christian. .  124 
Siam  Mission  Meeting  and  a  Sunday 

Afternoon  at  Petchaburee   126 

What  Sets  Them  Laughing  and  What 

Kills  Laughter   128 

No  Rose  Color  About  These  Facts  from 

Nan   129 

Re-Stationed  and  Looking  About   130 

The  Laos  Woman's  Ordinary  Life   131 

The  Mountain  of  Difficulty  in  Siam   133 

A  Famous  Festival  in  Bangkok   133 

A  Laos  Mother  in  Israel   134 

More  About  Nan — Nan  River  and  Nan 

Friends   136 

Medical  Work  in  Laos  and  Siam  Mis- 
sions  137 

Letters  from  138,  168,  257,  286 

SiDON  Seminary   332 

Since  Last  Month  26,  55,  84,  116,  144, 

175,  203,  236,  263,  292,  319,  346 
South  America,  Protestant  Missions  in. .  219 

Spoken  for  One,  Suggestive  to  All   318 

Student  Campaign  of  1900   24 

Suggestion  Corner  25,  116,  203,  291 

Syria — Our  Missionaries  in   327 

Beirdt  Seminary,  Fortieth  Commence- 
ment of   333 

Girls'  School  at  Tripoli   337 

The  Sixth  Gospel   337 

Letters  from  78,  339 

Talk  in  Literature  Hour  of  Presbyte- 

rial  Meeting   289 

Thanksgiving — Verse   299 

This  One  Thing  We  Do   290 

Thought,  A   303 

Treasurers'  Reports  29,  58,  87,  119, 

146,  176,  207,  239,  266,  296,  323,  350 
Turkish  Empire,  Work  Among  Moslems.  327 

United  ^tudy  of  Missions  for  1902  

201,  232 

Venezuela — The  Earthquake  in   46 

Missionaries  in    153 

Vision,  The,  and  the  Task   262 

Woman's  Boards  in  Annual  Meeting 

141,  169 

Woman's  Life  for  Kashmir,  A   213 

Year  Book  of    Prayer,  Missionaries 
Upon   334 


WoMAN^s  Work  for  Woman. 


Vol.  XVI.  FEBRUARY,  mu  No.  2. 


The  report  which  we  present  this 
month  of  the  last  tragic  scenes  at  Paot- 
ingfu  must  be  accepted  as  final.  It  will 
be  observed  that  the  account  which  Mr. 
Lowrie  has  written  since  he  went  up 
with  the  military  expedition  differs  in 
important  respects  from  that  which  he 
received  last  August  (see  Woman's 
Work  for  November),  through  citizens 
of  Paotingfu.  Yet  the  two  reports 
reach  the  same  conclusion  and  the 
chief  differences  lie,  not  in  the  statement 
of  facts  but  in  a  confusion  of  person- 
ality between  the  stations  on  the  North 
and  South  sides  of  the  city. 

It  is  evident  that  our  friends  of  the 
Presbyterian  station,  on  the  North  side 
of  Paotingfu,  went  to  God  in  a  chariot 
of  fire  without  touch  upon  them  from 
the  hands  of  cruel  men.  Those  who 
' '  suffered  without  the  gate  "  were  from 
the  South  station — two  American  wo- 
men ;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bagnall  and  child, 
Canadians;  Mr.  Cooper,  English,  the 
last  three  representing  the  China  Inland 
Mission. 

Turn  again  to  that  page  of  Paotingfu 
pictures  which  was  printed  in  our  Oc- 
tober issue.  There  is  the  dispensary 
where  Dr.  Taylor  ministered  to  the 
suffering,  to  the  last  day  of  his  life; 
the  chapel  where  Mr.  Simcox  pointed 
men  to  Christ  the  last  Sunday  of  his 
life.  There,  in  the  row  of  missionary 
homes,  is  the  Simcox  house  where  the 
martyrs  were  wrapped  in  flames  to- 
gether, where  they  saw  another  in  the 
midst,  like  to  the  Son  of  Man. 

Let  us  turn  again  to  that  picture  of 
the  southeast  corner  of  Paotingfu  wall. 
Alien  soldiers  have  now  blown  it  up 
with  dynamite.  Little  did  we  suspect, 
in  selecting  that  one  from  a  number  of 
views — little  did  Dr.  Hodge  imagine 
when  he  took  the  photograph  in  a  rec- 
reation hour,  what  that  picture  would 
sometime  mean  to  the  Christian  Church. 
Just  there  outside  the  wall,  like  Perpet- 


ua  on  the  sands  of  the  arena  in  Carthage, 
Mary  Morrill  and  Annie  Gould  bowed 
their  heads  to  death  for  Jesus'  sake. 

It  is  natural  that  people  in  all  parts 
of  our  country  should  want  a  hand  in 
the  rebuilding  of  Paotingfu  Station,  but 
one  section  and  one  city  has  superior 
claims.  To  Philadelphia  and  vicinity 
peculiarly  belongs  this  privilege. 

Mrs.  Dale  writes  from  Syria:  "  Pa- 
otingfu is  written  on  my  heart  and 
brain  with  fire.  Blessed  of  the  Lord, 
they  entered  into  His  presence."  The 
Presbyterian  Church  will  be  derelict  if 
the  day  ever  comes  that  Paotingfu  is  not 
found  graven  on  her  heart. 

There  are  no  longer  any  waiting 
Micawbers  in  the  Central  China  Mis- 
sion. Rev.  Geo.  Fitch  has  cabled  to 
the  Board,  "Forward,"  which  means, 
according  to  previous  advices,  that  in 
the  opinion  of  the  mission  all  absentee 
members,  and  also  new  recruits,  may 
safely  proceed  to  their  posts.  Letters 
should  be  addressed  accordinglj^  and 
no  longer  to  cities  in  Japan  where  some 
have  been  staying  during  the  past 
troubled  months. 

Mrs.  Gault  was  delayed  over  one 
steamer  by  a  fall  in  New  York  which 
dislocated  her  shoulder,  but  she  counted 
it  all  joy  and  said  that  she  started  back 
to  Africa  richer  in  friends  than  if  she 
had  sailed  on  the  first  date. 

After  an  absence  of  one  year  and 
five  months,  Mrs.  Sarah  J.  Rhea  reached 
New  York  in  December,  bringing  fresh 
greetings  from  Persia. 

Typhoid  fever  having  sent  Mrs. 
Wm.  Wallace  and  her  children  flying 
out  of  Mexico,  last  autumn.  New  Year's 
Eve  saw  them  starting  back  again, 
built  up  on  the  ozone  of  Minnesota  air 
and  the  rich  milk  of  "  the  farm." 

Photographs  of  all  but  three  of  our 
missionaries  who  were  shut  up  in  Pe- 


32 


EDITORIAL  NOTES. 


[Feb., 


king  were  secured  for  the  August 
Woman's  Work;  the  missing  three 
are  therefore  now  presented. 

Snow  at  Chefoo  the  first  week  of 
December,  but  refugee  missionaries, 
three  famihes  and  two  single  women  in 
one  house,  thought  they  were  packed 
closel}^  enough  to  keep  warm.  "  There 
are  many  pleasant  things,"  writes  Dr. 
Fleming,  "  in  being  at  the  coast,  but  I 
shall  be  glad  to  return  to  Ichowfu." 
The  doctor  has  been  making  up  for 
interrupted  studj^  of  Chinese  and  took 
her  two  years'  examination  on  time. 

Last  year  the  Board  of  Foreign  Mis- 
sions published  1,083,000  leaflets,  of 
which  only  a  small  remnant  is  left.  The 
latest  new  leaflet  is  about  a  little  Fang 
boy,  a  pathetic  story  wi-itten  by  Rev. 
R.  H.  Milligan  of  Gaboon. 

No  death  has  taken  hold  on  the  com- 
munity at  Santiago,  on  old  and  young, 
English  and  Chilian,  like  that  of  Rev. 
Edson  Lowe,  last  summer.  He  was  all 
calmness  when  suddenly  summoned  to 
a  grave  surgical  operation,  all  joy  when 
death  was  in  sight.  "  It  seems  selfish 
to  be  so  happ}',"  he  told  his  wife,  "  but 
it  is  glorious  over  there."  One  writes: 
"Mr.  Lowe  h  ad  given  a  great  deal  of  study 
to  methods  of  Spanish  work  and,  at  last, 
had  hit  upon  those  most  effective  and 
satisfying.  Just  as  we  all  were  looking 
for  a  great  blessing,  this  beautiful  ser- 
vant of  God,  needed  apparently  as  no 
other  man  here,  was  called  to  his  re- 
ward." Mrs.  Lowe  is  left  with  three 
children  to  mourn  her  irreparable  loss. 

As  Rev.  R.  H.  Sidebotham  and  Mrs. 
W.  O.  Johnson  with  her  baby  were  re- 
turning to  Taiku,  Korea,  from  Fusan, 
last  October,  they  encountered  a  band 
of  armed  robbers  on  a  romantic,  lonely 
road,  who  relieved  them  of  valuables, 
provisions  and  even  some  wearing  ap- 
parel. They  stole  Mrs.  Johnson's  wed- 
ding ring  and  beat  her  with  swords 
about  the  head,  demanding  money.  It 
was  a  rough  experience,  but  our  friends 
congratulated  themselves  that  the  Ko- 
reans were  not  Chinese  Boxers  and 
cared  for  nothing  more  than  plunder. 

The  figures  given  last  month  regard- 
ing foreign  missionaries  of  ovir  Church, 
of  the  "second  and  third  generations" 


must  be  revised.  Instead  of  fifty  of 
the  second  generation  there  are  forty- 
five.  Five  were  counted  in  that  list 
who  belong  to  the  "third  generation  " 
column,  which  therefore  foots  up  a 
round  dpzen.  These  five,  grandchildren 
of  John  Newton,  are  as  follows*  Rev. 
C.  W.  Forman,  M.D.,  Rev.  Henry 
Forman,  Rev.  John  Forman,  Miss 
Mary  P.  Forman  and  Miss  Emily  N. 
Forman. 

If  anybody  knows  the  antics  of  a 
Sj'rian  horse  it  is  Rev.  Samuel  Jessup, 
and  he  knows  more  than  ever  on  the 
subject  since  one  threw  him  senseless 
to  the  ground,  last  summer.  We  thank- 
fully report  that  the  veteran  missionary 
fully  recovered  from  his  injuries  and, 
also,  that  he  had  a  pleasant  outing  with 
his  daughter  to  the  Paris  Exposition. 
Miss  Jessup  is  teaching  in  Sidon  School 
this  year. 

Last  yeox  a  Moslem  boy  in  Syria 
learned  the  catechism  expressly  to  get 
a  Bible. — The  young  women's  "Help- 
ing Hand  "  of  Beirut  sent  two  pounds 
sterling  to  Canton,  China,  for  an  orphan 
girl. — Eight  students  of  Sidon  Academy 
had  set  themselves  up  in  trades  which 
they  learned  at  school. — A  Moslem  vil- 
lager, with  four  wives  and  thirty  chil- 
dren of  his  own,  begged  the  preacher 
to  give  them  a  school. 

The  Laos  home  missionary  to  the 
Kah  Mooh  ti'ibes.  Rev.  Chai  Ma,  last 
summer  reported  fortj'-one  adults  re- 
ceived to  the  church,  and  four  villages, 
comprising  fifty-two  houses,  where  the 
people  are  all  becoming  learners  and 
expect  baptism.  This  is  that  work  in- 
augurated by  Dr.  McGilvary  east  of 
the  Cambodia,  four  years  ago. 

The  hospital  at  Chieng  Mai  was  over- 
floAving  last  summer,  so  a  carpenter's 
work-bench  was  roofed  over  with  thatch 
where  it  stood,  under  a  tree  in  the  com- 
pound, and  one  more  suffering  heathen 
was  accommodated. 

At  Nakawn-see-tamarat,  Siam,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Eckels  are  so  far  out  on  the 
firing  line  that  the}'  get  a  mail  only 
once  a  month.  The  frame  of  their 
house  Avas  up  four  months  ago,  and 
thatch  for  roofing  Avas  slowly  accumu- 
lating. 


1901.] 


33 


Our  Missionaries  in  China— [Exclusive  of  those  m  Hainan.] 


AND  POST  OFFICE  ADDRESSES. 

Mrs.  J.  M.  W.  p'arnham,  Shanghai. 
Mrs.  Geo.  F.  Fitch, 
Miss  Elfrida  Liiirtholin,  " 
*Mrs.  Gilbert  Mcintosh,  en  route,  " 
Mrs.  Geo.  E.  Partc'h,  " 
Miss  Mary  A.  Posey,  " 
Miss  Emma  Silver,  " 
Mrs.  J.  C.  Garritt  (of  Hangchow), 

kov-hi,  Japan. 
Mrs.  .1.  H.  Judson,  "  Shangliai. 
Mrs.  E.  L.  Mattox,  "  " 
Dr.  Mary  A.  Ayer  (of  Soochow),  " 
Dr.  Frances  F.  Cattell,  "  " 
Miss  Mary  Lattimore,  "  " 
Miss  Nettie  Moomau,  "  " 
Mrs.  J.  ^.  Silsby,  "  " 

*Mrs.  J.  B.  Cochran  (of  Nanking), 

care  of  U.  S.  Consul,  Kobe,  Japan. 
*Mrs.  Samuel  Cochran,         "  " 
Mrs.  W.  J.  Drummond 

(of  Nanking),  Shanghai. 
Mrs.  Chas.  Leaman,      "  " 
*Miss  Kose  Lobenstine,  "  " 
Mrs.  John  E.  Williams,  " 

Kanazawa,' Japan. 
Mrs.  A.  M.  Cunningham,  Peking. 
Mrs.  Chas.  A.  Killie,  " 


Mrs.  Andrew  Beuftie,  Canton. 
Mrs.  J.  J.  Boggs,  M.  D., 
Miss  E.  51.  Butler, 
Dr.  Mary  H.  Fulton,  " 
Mrs.  J.  G.  Kerr,  " 
Miss  Harriet  Lewis,  " 
Dr.  Mary  VV.  Niles,  " 
Miss  Harriet  Noyes,  " 
Mrs.  H.  V.  Noyes,  " 
Mrs.  J.  M.  Swan, 

Dr.Eleanor  Chesnut(of  Lienchow)" 
Mrs.  Rces  Edwards,  "  " 
Mrs.  E.  C.  Machle, 
*Mr8.  W.  H.  Dobson  (YeungKong)" 
Mrs.  G.  W.  Marshall, 
Mrs.  Chas.  E.  Patton,  "  " 
Mrs.  H.W.  Boyd  (Hunan), 

Kanazawa,  Japan. 

Mrs.  J.Doolittle.  " 
Dr.  Leila  Doolittle, "         "  " 
Mrs.  W.  H.  Lingle,"       Nagasaki,  " 
Miss  Edwina  Cunningham,  Ningpo. 
Mrs.  Robt.  F.  Fitch, 
Miss  Annie  R.  Morton  (of  Ningpo), 

Shanghai. 

Mrs.J.E. Shoemaker  (YuYiao),  Ningpo. 
Miss  JIary  E.  Cogdal,  Shanghai. 
*Mrs.  C.  M.  Douglass,  " 

In.  this  country :  Mrs.  R.  E.  Abbey,  Olivet,  Mich.  ;  Mrs.  R.  H.  Bent.  M.D.,  Parksburg,  Pa.;  Mrs.  Wm.  P.  Chalfant, 
418  W.  31st  St.,  Los  Angeles,  Cal.:  Mrs.  Geo.  Cornwell,  150  Chiirmont  Ave.,  Montclair,  N.  J.;  Mrs.  Crozier,  Tallahassee, 
Fla.;  Mrs.  L.  J.  Davies,  Lake  Forest,  III.;  Miss  Dresser,  403  N.  Mich.  Ave,,  Saginaw,  W.  S.,  Mich.;  Mrs.  C.  H.  Fenn, 
Pittston,  Pa.;  Mrs.  J.  A.  Fitch,  Grant  City,  Mo.;  Mrs.  A.  A.  Fulton,  Woostor,  O.;  Miss  Hawes,  618  Aiken  Ave.,  Pittsburg, 
Pa.;  Mrs.  J.  N.  Hayes,  Wooster,  O.;  Mrs.  J.  M.  Inglis,  Osage  City,  Kans.;  Mrs.  J.  P.  Irwin,  Livermore,  Pa.;  Mrs.  C.  F. 
Johnson,  Peotone,  III.;  Miss  Louise  Johnston,  Wooster,  Ohio;  Mrs.  A.  P.  Lowrie,  911  Stockton  St.,  San  PYancisco,  Cal.; 
Mrs.  Lyon,  Wooster,  O.;  Mrs.  Mattox,  Pueblo,  Col.;  Miss  Bessie  McCoy,  Hinsdale,  III.;  Mrs.  J.  A.  Miller,  Elvaston,  111.; 
Miss  Grace  Newton,  So.  Orange,  N.  J.;  Mrs.  Chas.  E.  Reed,  Battle  Creek,  Mich.;  Miss  Rollestone,  11.3G  Sixteenth  Ave., 
Denver,  Col.:  Jlrs.  W.  F.  Seymour,  Reedsburg,  Wis.;  Miss  Snodgrass,  Delaware,  O.;  Mrs.  C.  W.  Swan,  M.D.,  Glendale,  O.; 
Mrs.  John  W^lu'rry,  Claremout,  Cal.;  Mrs.  J.  L.  Whiting,  lOO  W'oodland  Ave.,  Oberlin,  Ohio. 
*  Not  in  formal  connection  with  the  Women's  Societies. 


Dr.  Eliza  E.  Leonard,  Peking. 
Dr.  Maud  A.  Mackey,  " 
Miss  Janet  McKillican,  " 
Mrs.  W.  M.  Hayes  (of  Tungchow)i 

Chefoo. 

Mrs.  Henry  W.  Luce,      "  " 
Mrs.  C.  W.  Mateer,         "  " 
Mrs.  J.  B.  Neal,  " 
♦Mrs.  MasoQ  Wells,         "  " 
Dr.  Etfie  B.  Cooper, 
Mrs.  Hunter  Corbett,  " 
Mrs.  W.  O.  Elterich, 
*Mrs.  Chas.  R.  Mills,  " 
Mrs.  J.  L.  Nevius,  " 
Dr.  Elva  Fleming  (of  Ichowfu),  " 
Dr.  Mary  Burnham  (of  Chinanfu),  " 
Mrs.  Wm.  B.  Hamilton,  " 
Mrs.  John  Murray,  "  " 

Dr.  Edna  Parks,  "  " 

Mrs.  Paul  Bergen,  Tsing-tau. 
Miss  fioughton  (of  Wei  Hien),  " 
Mrs. Frank  Chalfant       "  " 
Mrs.  M.  M.  Crossette,      "  " 
Mrs.  W.  R.  Faries,  "  Shanghai. 

Mrs.  R.  M.  Mateer,  M.D.,  " 

(en  route)..  Chefoo. 
Mrs.  Wallace  S.  Faris  (of  Ichowfu), " 


The  Martyrdom  at  Paotingfu* 

Last  Known. — Written  on  the  spot,  Mr.  Lowrie  having  gone  up  with  the  British  section 

of  tlie  military  expedition. 


Paotingfu,  Oct.  22,  1900. 

We  have  arrived  at  our  destination 
and,  alas,  all  that  we  have  heard  is  true. 
All  are  in  the  heavenly  home. 

Our  North  suburb  dear  ones  gathered 
in  Mr.  Simcox's  house  when  the  attack- 
ing party  came.  They  defended  them- 
selves awhile,  but  the  house  was  fired 
and  they  all  perished  in  the  flames ;  not 
one  left  the  house.  Dr.  Taylor,  Mr. 
Simcox  and  family,  and  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
Hodge.  In  their  death  they  were  not  di- 
\aded.  Ku  Te  hi  and  Ts'ao  Te  Ming,  hos- 
pital clerk  and  cook,  stood  when  others 
ran  and  were  killed  at  the  gate.  Of  the 
women,  old  Mrs.  Chang  was  killed  with 
Ts'ao  and  Ku  Te.  The  young  boarding- 
school  teacher,  Mrs.  Chang,  had  re- 
turned to  her  home  before  the  attack 
and  is  safe,  after  spending  a  large  sum 
of  money.  The  place  is  a  pitiful  ruin, 
the  walls  down  and  the  foundations  dug 
up,  the  wells  filled  and  the  trees  gone^ — 
all  a  waste. 

The  British  camp  is  now  between  the 
ruins  and  the  city  and  I  have  ridden 


through  the  city  several  times.  The 
people  seem  very  hardened  indeed.  No 
evidence  of  penitence  in  their  faces  or 
manner.  Even  reviling  is  heard  now 
and  again. 

The  South  suburb  friends  all  fell. 
Mr.  Pitkin,  as  has  been  described,*  save 
that  his  head  was  borne  into  the  city  as 
a  trophy  to  the  Provincial  Judge,  now 
Provincial  Treasurer,  and  afterwards 
taken  back  to  the  chapel  which  then 
was  burning,  and  thrown  into  the 
flames.  His  body  was  buried  with  all 
the  relatives  of  Meng  Shih,  six  of  whom 
were  killed 'together,  in  a  pit  directly 
under  the  wall  outside  the  compound, 
back  of  his  own  kitchen.  Miss  Morrill 
and  Miss  Gould  received  the  most  brutal 
treatment,  their  clothes  being  stripped 
ofi:"  except  a  single  upper  garment  and 
a  single  lower  garment,  their  feet  bare ; 
they  were  carried  bound  to  a  heavy 
stick,  hands  behind  back,  face  down. 
Into  the  city  they  went,  Miss  Morrill 

*  Shot  while  with  his  revolver  defending  the  ladies  in 
front  of  their  house. — Editor. 


34 


BRIEF,  HAPPY,  WHOLE-SOULED  SERVICE.  [Feb., 


talking  to  the  people,  when  a  ruffian 
hacked  her  face  with  a  sword.  A  few 
dollars  at  her  waist  she  gave  to  a  poor 
wretch  who  followed  her,  her  ruling 
spirit  strong  in  death.  They  were  ex- 
amined* in  the  city  and  taken  to  the 
city  wall,  southeast  corner,  where  they 
were  killedf  and  thrown  into  a  pit,  to- 
gether with  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bagnall,  their 
little  girl  and  Mr.  (Wm.)  Cooper.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Bagnall  with  Mr.  Cooper  and 
tlie  little  girl  had  fled  to  the  camp  east  of 
the  city  and  given  silver  to  the  mandarin, 
who  received  the  silver  but  sent  word 
to  the  city  officials  that  he  had  foreign- 
ers there.  They  were  brought  back  to 
the  city,  the  little  girl  clinging  to  her 
mother's  dress  and  crying.  A  cruel 
soldier  cleft  her  head  from  her  body 
with  a  blow,  and  soon  after  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Bagnall  and  Mr.  Cooper  were 
killed  at  southeast  corner  of  the  wall 
and  there  buried. 

Let  me  here  add  a  little  pitiful  inci- 
dent concerning  our  North  suburb. 
When  the  houses  were  burning,  little 
Paul  and  Francis  ran  out  of  the  house 
nearly  suffocated  with  smoke,  and  were 

*  A  pretended  trial  in  court,   t  Beheaded.  -Editor. 


killed  with  the  sword  and  thrown  into 
the  well.  Taylor,  holding  my  rifle  in 
his  hand,  told  the  people  what  havoc  it 
would  do  among  them  but,  refusing  to 
use  it,  he  threw  it  into  the  flames  and, 
beating  his  breast,  perished. 

May  God  bring  good  out  of  the  terri- 


ble e^^l. 


Walter  Lowrie. 


Writing  Oct.  29,  Mr.  Lowrie  adds 
that  Dr.  Taylor  had  told  his  hospital 
clerk  to  run  away,  and  he  went  on  Fridaj^ 
but  returned  and  suffered  with  the  rest, 
the  next  day.  Several  employees  stayed 
by  faithfully  to  the  end ;  one  ' '  helped 
them  up  to  the  last  day  and  escaped." 
"Our  property  is  said  to  be  scattered 
through  the  villages  about  the  mission 
for  miles  away.  I  have  not  been  able 
to  give  that  attention. 

"  It  seems  that  our  friends  had  made 
up  their  minds  to  flee  and  drawn  all 
their  silver,  also  hired  a  cart  to  flee 
south  by  way  of  Man  Cheng,  but  were 
dissuaded  by  an  official  who  told  them 
that  all  was  safe. 

' '  God  have  mercy  on  His  flock  and  on 
China  and  on  us  all." 

W.  L. 


Brief,  Happy,  Whole-Souled  Service^ 

[Extracts  from  letters  by  Mrs.  C.  V.  R.  Hodge.] 


Paotingfu,*  China,  May,  1899. 

Have  I  told  you  about  our  water  sup- 
ply ?  Each  house  has  a  cistern  in  which 
the  rain  water  is  collected  which  is  used 
for  washing  purposes;  the  rest  of  the 
water  comes  from  a  well  and  has  a  very 
pleasant  taste.  Ice  is  to  be  bought  and 
milk  is  procurable  froin  a  dairy-man 
who  sells  it  by  the  bottle.  We  have 
had  fruit  every  day  since  we  have  been 
in  China ;  native  pears  about  the  same 
color  as  ours,  but  more  speckled  and 
more  the  shape  of  an  apjile ;  there  are 
also  native  oranges  which  are  rather 
bitter,  and  small  bananas  with  a  deli- 
cious flavor.  In  the  mornings  we  often 
have  millet  instead  of  oatmeal ;  it  is  a 
smaller  grain  and  makes  a  lighter  kind 
of  food  and  is  very  good. 

Pei-tai-ho,  July. 

We  took  a  long  walk  to  the  top  of 
one  of  the  Lotus  Hills,  and  had  a  most 
beautiful  view  of  the  sea  and  covmtry 

*  I'ron.,  Pouting  foo. 


and  mountains  about  here.  The  hill- 
side was  literally  yellow  and  blue  with 
the  5'ellow  lilies  and  bluebells.  We 
took  all  sorts  of  short  cuts  to  the  foot- 
hills through  the  cultivated  hiUs  of 
kaoliang  and  millet.  In  all  directions 
you  see  paths  branching  through  fields, 
largely  due  I  think  to  the  heavy  rainy 
season  that  floods  the  regular  roads, 
and  then  people  cut  across  the  country. 
The  kaoliang  is  a  grain  something  like 
corn,  but  a  coarser  and  larger  plant. 
It  grows  very  high  and  makes  a  favorite 
hiding-place  for  robbers 

We  study  Chinese  everj'  morning 
and  have  begun  to  read  Mark,  but  find 
many  characters  we  do  not  recogcize. 

Septemher. — We  have  been  en- 
couraged to  find  out  how  much  more 
we  can  understand  and  say  for  our- 
selves than  we  could  when  we  came 
here.  We  can  really  feel  that  our  sum- 
mer has  not  been  wasted,  and  I  am  glad 
of  that  for  we  have  studied  hard. 


1901.]    A  LITTLE  STORY  FROM  THE  SIEGE  OF  PEKING. 


35 


Paotingfu,  Sept.,  1899. 
The  country  is  parched  and  every- 
where the  people  are  praying  for  rain. 
The  favorite  way  to  inform  the  gods 
that  rain  is  needed  is  to  bring  the  idol 
out  of  its  COS}',  comfortable  place  in  the 
temple,  and  put  it  out  in  the  broiling  sun 
to  feel  how  hot  it  is  and  to  see  how  the 
ground  is  parched.  The  people  have 
quite  forgotten  that  in  the  spring  they 
said  there  were  to  be  floods,  because  the 
dragon  was  so  angry  about  the  railroad 
which  ran  over  its  tail.  Such  a  people 
for  superstition !  They  beheve  anything 
told  them,  especially  if  against  the  for- 
eigners ;  it  is  a  wonder  we  are  left  in 
peace  at  all.  When  Mr.  Whiting  was 
building  the  house  Mrs.  Lowrie  now 
lives  in,  it  was  reported  all  around  that 
a  Chinese  baby  was  buried  under  each 
corner,  but  stUl  the  building  went  on 
undisturbed. 

April  2,  1900. 

I  hear  Mrs.  Lowrie"s  children  recite 
every  Thursda}^,  and  on  Monday  after- 
noons have  a  sewing-class  with  them. 
I  did  not  get  any  writing  done  yester- 
day because,  after  two  Sunday-schools 
and  two  Chinese  services,  I  did  not  have 
wits  enough  left  to  write  anything. 
Yesterday  I  did  not  go  into  the  city  to 
church,  because  most  of  the  girls  in  my 
class  were  out  here  with  their  mothers 
or  grandmothers  in  the  inquirers'  class. 
So  I  met  them  with  Mrs.  Miller's  Sun- 
day-school, at  twelve,  in  the  chapel  here. 
The}'  do  not  learn  very  much  from  me. 
I  have  them  read  what  they  have 
studied  during  the  week,  and  then  show 
them  a  little  picture  and  tell  the  story 
or  teach  the  verse.  .  .  . 

All  this  past  week  Mr.  Lowrie  has 
had  most  earnest  meetings.  They  have 
had  a  stirring  effect,  though  nothing- 
like  the  transformation  that  took  place 
at  Tung-Cho.  Two  or  three  have  been 
deeply  changed.    Nearly  all  have  made 


confession  and  acknowledged  their 
sense  of  weakness.  The  meetings  are 
over  now,  and  we  hope  the  blessing  will 
be  continued. 

Many  of  the  women  in  the  station 
class,  either  by  word  of  mouth  or  by 
standing,  expressed  the  desire  to  serve 
Jesus.  Two  young  women  whose  hus- 
bands are  church  members  stood  last 
night  as  an  expression  of  their  desire 
to  serve  God  in  all  things.  It  is  a  good 
time  to  be  here. 

A  church  member  came  in  the  other 
day  from  one  of  the  out-stations  with 
this  story :  A  relative  of  his,  a  low-down 
man,  came  into  his  home  and,  upon  ask- 
ing him  to  sit  down,  the  relative  rudely 
replied  that  he  would  not  sit  in  the 
house  of  a  follower  of  the  foreign  devils. 
Then  the  "low-down  man"  asked, 
"  Where  is  your  deed  for  that  grave- 
yard ?"  The  church  member  replied : 
"You  know  I  haven't  any.  It  has 
been  in  the  family  for  a  long  time. 
Where  is  j'our  deed  for  your  share  ?" 
Well,  he  hadn't  any  either,  but  he  had 
come  to  get  rid  of  this  blot  upon  the  fam- 
ily. With  that  he  kicked  the  man  and 
pinned  him  to  the  wall.  The  assaulted 
man's  sons  kotowed  and  besovight  him 
not  to  hurt  their  father.  He  kicked 
him  again,  and  finally  went  off  after  the 
neighbors  had  gathered.  The  Christian 
rushed  off  to  Ku  Chang,  where  Mr. 
Miller  has  a  chapel.  On  the  way  he 
stopped  and  prayed  for  protection,  and 
felt  his  prayer  had  been  swiftly  an- 
swered when  he  reached  the  chapel,  for 
Mr.  Miller  had  arrived  and  just  opened 
the  doors.  Mr.  Miller  sent  him  on  to 
Paotingfu  with  a  message  and  also  to 
give  him  the  benefit  of  the  meetings.  I 
am  not  sure  whether  this  was  stirred  up 
by  the  Boxers  or  whether  it  was  mere 
family  animosity.  The  bell  for  noon 
prayer-meeting  has  rung,  so  good-by. 

Elsie  Campbell  Sinclair  Hodge. 


A  Little  Close-Home  Story  from  the  Siege  of  Peking* 


One  evening,  soon  after  the  burial  of 
little  Elizabeth  Inghs,  her  mother's 
heart  was  moved  at  finding  that  fresh 
flowers  had  been  laid  upon  the  grave 
bj'  an  unknown  hand,  as  well  as  a  cross 
of  lifelike  forget-me-nots  made  from 
delicately  tinted  porcelain,  and  a  broad 


white  ribbon,  inscribed  :  "Suffer  httle 
children  to  come  unto  me,  for  of  such  is 
the  kingdom  of  Heaven.  He  shall  gather 
the  lambs  in  his  arms  and  carry  them 
in  his  bosom." 

Upon  inquiry  it  was  learned  that, 
about  daylight,  the  English  Hospital  or- 


36 


EEMINISCEXCES  OF  THE  SIEGE  IN  PEKING.  [Feb., 


derly,  young  Mr.  F  ,  had  been  seen 

arranging  the  wreath.  Asked  if  he 
were  making  it  for  one  of  the  Enghsh 
soldiers,  "No,"  he  rephed,  "I  am  mak- 
ing this  for  Dr.  Inghs'  habj ;  not  only 
because  I  feel  sorry  for  them,  but  be- 
cause my  own  little  baby  was  born  and 
has  died  in  the  eighteen  months  since  I 
was  home  in  England.  It  was  our  first, 
so  I  am  doing  this  for  its  sake." 

The  same  week  Mrs.  Inglis  was  ap- 
proached by  two  British  marines  of 
"the  better  sort."  They  hfted  their 
caps,  and  one  said,  stammering  and 
blushing:  "  Madam,  if  you  will  permit 
us,  we  would  like  very  much  to  keep 
your  baby's  grave  in  order.  We  will 
bi'ick  it  around,  whiten  the  bricks,  and 
keep  the  ground  level.  We  used  to  see 
your  baby  near  the  Bell  To^ver.  He 
were  a  happy  little  chap — weren't  he  ?" 

"  He  called  her  a  boy,  but  a  soldier 
cannot  be  expected  to  know  the  identity 
of  a  baby,"  writes  Mrs.  Inghs.  No 


wonder  that  these  incidents  deeply 
touched  her  heart,  and,  as  she  says, 
she  "  could  hardly  utter  "  her  thanks  to 
the  fresh-faced  English  lad  who  had 
the  father-heart,  though  he  could  never 
see  his  child. 

Of  the  thoughtfulness  of  Lady  Mac- 
Donald  and  her  sister,  Miss  Armstrong, 
Mrs.  Inglis  makes  grateful  acknowl- 
edgment :  ' '  We  never  received  so 
much  kindness  from  any  one.  We 
were  given  cradle,  carriage,  mosquito 
netting,  distilled  and  mineral  water, 
daily,  and  Lady  MacDonald  even  took 
her  own  little  three-year-old  Stella  off 
from  cow's  milk  to  let  our  baby  try  it 
for  a  change.  I  shall  never  forget  the 
morning  that  baby  died,  when  Lady 
MacDonald  came  with  tears  in  her  eyes, 
and  said :  I  know  what  it  means  to  lose 
a  child,  for  I  lost  two  Avithin  four  days. 
How  a  common  grief  opens  our  hearts 
to  that  Christ-like  sympathy  that 
makes  the  whole  world  kin." 


Reminiscences  of  the  Siege  in  Peking, 


A  hospital  was  started  right  away 
under  care  of  the  British  and  German 
Legation  Doctors.    All  other  men  phy- 


DK.  Maud  a.  mackey — one  yeae  in  china. 

sicians  were  responsible  for  the  sanitary 
conditions  of  our  qviarters,  Chinese  and 
foreign.  The  women  physicians  all 
offered  themselves  as  nurses  in  the 
hospital,  and  were  kept  busy  for  eight 


weeks  with  the  sick  and  woimded 
soldiers.  This  soldiers'  hospital  was  a 
new  departure  for  us  all.  We  realized 
the  cruelty  of  war  more  clearly  than  we 
could  had  we  not  worked  there  and  seen 
great,  strong,  perfectly  healthy  men 
dj-ing,  day  after  day.  We  had  soldiers 
of  eight  nations  there. 

The  enemy  would  soak  trees  and 
buildings  with  coal-oil  and  then  set  fu-e 
to  them.  Day  after  day  we  saw  new 
fires  started  in  the  compounds  next  us, 
and  each  seemed  Avorse  than  the  last  as 
we  worked  to  put  them  out.  We  had 
a  coujjle  of  small  fire-engines,  and  then 
two  lines  of  people,  men  in  one  line  and 
women  in  the  other,  would  form  with 
all  kinds  of  utensils  for  carrying  water. 
The  men  would  pass  the  buckets  full  to 
the  fire  from  the  well,  and  the  women 
would  pass  the  empty  ones  back  to  the 
well.  The  next  great  danger  was  the 
shelling.  Several  people  kept  count  of 
the  number  of  shells  thrown  and  there 
Avere  thirty-nine  hundred  during  the 
siege. 

We  had  become  accustomed  to  shells 
and  hot  shrapnel  flying  about,  when 
they  began  to  pepper  our  houses  with 
solid  cannon  balls,  weighing  four  and 


1901.]       REMINISCENCES  OF  THE  SIEGE  IN  PEKING.  37 


SAND  BAGS  MADE  BY  THE  WOMEN  IN  PEKING  SIEGE. 


seven  pounds.  Doctor  Leonard,  two 
others  and  I  lived  in  the  Legation  smok- 
ing-room. Four  cannon  balls  struck  the 
roof  of  that  room  while  we  were  there,but 
the  fifth  came  through  while  we  were 
all  out  to  supper — the  first  time  we  had 
been  out  during  that  day.  When  we 
came  back  there  was  a  big  hole  in  the 
ceiling  and  a  dent  in  the  floor. 

There  was  a  transformation  in  the 
Legation  Chapel  while  we  lived  in  it. 
The  altar  was  turned  into  a  dish-cup- 
board, and  the  vestry  into  a  store  room 
and  pantry.  Misses  Wyckoff,  Oilman 
and  McCoy  managed  the  pantry  and 
planned  the  meals.  We  had  a  few 
servants  and  we  ate  three  times  a  day  in 
two  divisions — the  Congregationahsts 
first  as  there  were  so  many  of  them,  and 


Methodists  and  Presbyterians  and  Mr. 
Reid's  family  ate  second.  We  had  two 
long  tables,  and  all  sang  grace.  It  was 
very  strange  to  live  in  the  same  family, 
as  it  were,  with  so  many  people;  but 
there  were  many  blessings  connected 
with  it.  Morning  prayers  after  break- 
fast were  very  helpful. 

The  Christians  were  brave  and  none 
was  too  proud  to  work  like  a  coolie. 
They  built  barricades  and  dug  trencbes, 
bearing  meekly  any  slight  received. 


38       S03IE  DELIVERANCES  OF  CHINESE  CHRISTIANS.  [Feb., 


Dr.  Wherry  and  I  got  permission  to 
go  up  on  the  wall,  the  day  the  troops 


condition.  Oh,  it  was  glorious  to  see 
them  all  come  in !    We  could  hear  the 


REV.  JOHN  ■WHERRY,  D.D.    WENT  TO  CHINA  1864.  REV.  J.  L.  WHITING.     WENT  TO  CHINA  1869. 


came  in.  We  saw  our  Americans 
marching  up  on  the  southern  city  side. 
They  called  up  to  us  and  gave  us  the 
news  from  Tientsin  and  asked  about  our 


Russian  band  before  we  saw  the  men. 
They  kejit  perfect  time  as  they  sang  with 
thousands  of  voices  their  song  of  victory. 

Maud  Mackey. 


Some  Notable  Deliverances  of  Chinese  Christians^ 


1.  The  bride  of  an  hour,  Wen  Li.* 
Mrs.  Fenn  writes  of  her :  She  was  safe 
at  the  Legation  Avhen  we  left  Peking. 
The  story  she  told  of  her  rescue  was  as 
follows :  The  whole  Ma  family  fled  for 
their  lives,  and  after  awhile  became 
separated.  She  was  with  Chih  Ku 
(the  bridegroom)  and  his  sister.  The 
Boxers  first  took  Chih  Ku  away  and 
killed  him  on  the  city  wall.  Then  they 
cut  off  Miss  Ma's  head  before  Wen  Li's 
eyes.  They  were  going  to  treat  her  in 
the  same  way,  but  one  of  the  Boxers 
recognized  her  as  an  acquaintance  and 
said  to  the  others  that  he  would  look 
after  her.  He  took  her  to  the  home  of 
an  old  couple,  who  kept  her  for  several 
days  and  then  looked  up  her  mother, 
who  is  not  a  Christian. 

2.  Elder  Kwoa,  First  Church,  Pe- 
king. Rev.  Courtenay  H.  Fenn  reports : 

See  Mies  McCoy's  letter,  Woman's  Work,  November, 
1900,  p.  335. 


Mr.  Kwoa  saved  his  family  through  a 
marvelous  experience.  His  daughter 
was  brought  to  us  by  one  of  our  ser- 
vants, after  she  had  spent  some  time,  a 
captive,  in  a  Boxer  camp. 

Mr.  Kwoa,  his  wife  and  young  son 
fled  from  the  city  and  took  refuge  in  an 
inn.  There  a  Boxer  leader  foimd  them, 
declared  them  Christians  and  said  he 
must  kill  them.  First  he  would  go  out 
and  sharpen  his  knife.  While  he  was 
gone  the  family  crouched  on  the  brick 
bed  and  prayed.  The  Boxer  came  in, 
very  angry,  and  said:  "What  do  \om 
mean  hj  spoiling  my  incantations  'i 
Your  prayers  have  made  it  impossible 
to  use  this  knife,  and  I  must  go  over  to 
the  temple  for  mj  big  knife."  While  he 
was  gone,  the  inn-keeper  allowed  our 
friends  to  escape  and  they  finaUy 
reached  us. 

3.  Rev.  Geo.  Cornwell  mentions  three 
cases  in  Chefoo  field.    Mr.  Men  was 


1901.] 


BETTER   THAN  STATISTICS. 


39 


taken  from  his  home  in  the  night  by  a 
band  of  forty  heathen  neighbors,  led  to 
a  near  village,  svispended  by  his  arms 
from  the  branch  of  a  tree,  and  ordered 
to  confess  that  he  had  hired  an  old  wo- 
man to  smear  the  house-doors  with  red 
paste  (supposed  to  insure  death  to  the 
house  occupants).  A  secret  believer 
in  the  crowd,  an  influential  man,  inter- 
ceded for  Mr.  Men  and  gained  the  day. 

4.  Elder  Yvi  of  Chefoo  Church  and 
Teacher  Liu,  both  of  them  professors 
in  Peking  Universitj^,  owe  their  escape 
to  their  diplomas.  These  men  fled  from 
Peking  just  before  the  siege,  and  for 
six  weeks  their  lives  were  in  jeopardy 
every  hour.  One  night,  on  the  way 
down  the  river,  a  boat  with  Boxers 
aboard  tied  up  alongside  their  boat, 
and,  listening  in  great  fear.  Elder  Yii 
heard  one  Boxer  tell  another  that  two 
Christians  were  on  the  next  boat,  and 
"  in  the  morning"  the}"  would  be  made 
way  with.  But  early  "in  the  morn- 
ing "  their  own  boat  swept  wide  away 
from  the  Boxer  boat,  and,  though  pur- 
sued, was  not  overtaken.  When  the 
brethren  reached  Tientsin,  the}*  got  into 
the  Chinese  city  and  were  under  fire  of 
the  allies.  When  the  city  was  taken 
and  the  Chinese  fled,  these  two  men 
took  their  carefully  guarded  diplomas 
and,  marching  up  to  the  British  lines, 
held  them  aloft.  The  English  officer  ac- 
cepted the  diplomas  at  their  face  value, 
and  the  brethren  hastened  to  Chefoo, 
where  they  had  been  given  up  for  dead. 

5.  Rev.  L.  J.  Davies  reports*  an  in- 


*  Taken  from  "  Stirrinj 
Board  of  Publiciitioii. 


Facts,"  issued  by  Presbyterian 


stance  from  Chinanfu:  "Mr.  Chang 
whom  I  baptized  about  two  years  ago, 
one  of  the  most  wealthy  men  in  the 
church,  after  seeing  his  house  looted  and 
his  grain  and  fuel  carried  away,  was 
himself  tied  to  a  tree  and  threatened 
with  instant  death  unless  lie  forsook  the 
Christian  religion.  The  'great  knife'  was 
held  above  his  head,  but  he  answered  his 
tormentors :  '  If  you  kill  nie  I  shall  be- 
lieve in  Jesus,  and  if  you  let' me  go  I 
shall  still  beheve  in  Him.'  I  have  not 
received  details  as  to  how  God  turned 
aside  the  evil  purpose  of  his  enemies, 
but  he  was  saved.  It  was  my  privilege 
to  baptize  that  man  and  to  do  some- 
thing in  instructing  him  in  the  way 
of  Life.  I  pray  that  I  may  be  as 
faithful." 

G.  Dr.  Maud  Mac-key  reports  the  case 
of  Chien  Tai  Fu,  a  lame  young  man, 
who  was  one  of  Dr.  Atterbury's  pupils. 
He  buried  his  medicines  and  some  med- 
ical books.  The  Boxers  burned  his  dis- 
pensary and  Avere  about  to  kill  him, 
when  some  one  whom  he  had  helped 
asked  them  to  spare  his  life,  sa3'ing  "he 
had  done  good  to  people."  At  first  it 
was  insisted  that  he  must  be  killed  be- 
cause he  had  practiced  foreign  medicine, 
but  they  finally  left  some  wounded 
Boxers  in  his  care,  charging  him  that  if 
one  died  he  would  immediately  be  put 
to  death.  He  was  with  those  Boxers 
eleven  days,  and  all  his  patients  lived. 
At  last  the  Boxers  quarreled  among 
themselves  and,  during  the  excitement, 
one  of  them  got  a  cart  in  which  Chien 
escaped.  His  buried  treasures  were  re- 
covered. 


Better  Than  Statistics* 


The  following  incident  was  commu- 
nicated by  Mrs.  Kerr  of  Canton : 

A  woman  patient  came  to  Canton 
Hospital,  several  j-ears  ago,  whose 
grand-daughter  had  come  there  in  1836, 
for  ti-eatment  of  her  eyes.  She  had 
been  cured  and  gone  home,  carrying 
Avith  her  the  knowledge  of  the  li\nng 
God.  From  that  time  until  her  death, 
in  189.5,  she  was  never  known  to  wor- 
ship idols,  but  exhorted  her  relatiA^es 
and  friends  not  to  burn  incense  nor 
trust  in  images  of  wood  and  stone,  but 
to  worship  God.  On  her  death-bed  she 
begged  them  not  to  worship  her,  but  to 


carr\-  her  to  the  cemetery  and  quietly 
bury  her.  This  grandmother  had  im- 
proved the  first  and  the  only  opportu- 
nit}^  she  ever  had  (for  she  never  met  a 
Christian  after  she  left  Canton)  of  know- 
ing about  and  believing  in  the  Saviour, 
and  for  nearly  sixty  j^ears  she  has  been 
trusting  in  Him. 

The  grand-daughter  was  rejoiced 
that  here  she  could  learn  the  way  more 
perfectly — saying  the  God  of  her  grand- 
mother was  her  God. 

This  incident  shoAvs  hoAV  impossible 
it  is  to  gather  the  results  of  hospital 
work  into  statistical  tables. 


40 


[Feb., 


A  Christian  Boxer  and  the  Church  That  Is  in 

His  House* 


A  BOLD  CHRISTIAN  IN  CHEFOO  FIELD.  MR.  KAO,  AND  HIS  HOUSEHOLD. 


In  the  accompanj-ing  picture  of  a 
Chinese  group  are  seen  Mr.  Kao  Shang 
Dsi  and  Mrs.  Kao,  their  two  sons 
and  their  wives,  two  daughters,  and 
the  only  grandchild.  They  are  a 
Christian  family  in  the  village  of  Tang- 
Kia-Pe,  in  connection  with  our  Chefoo 
Station,  and  in  my  country  field.  The 
photograph  was  taken  in  front  of  their 
house-door,  which  is  also  the  church- 
door. 

Mr.  Kao  has  always  been  a  strong, 
bold,  aggressive  character.  Before  he 
heard  the  gospel  he  was  a  brawler  and 
jiugilist  of  no  mean  reputation.  Now 
he  is  the  fearless  champion  of  the  truth 
as  it  is  in  Jesus,  a  terror  to  evil-doers 
and  enemies  of  the  church.  No  man 
dares  say  "  devil's  brood"  in  his  pres- 
ence. So  I  call  him  my  "Christian 
Boxer."    For  some  years  he  was  em- 


ployed as  our  business 


agent 


and 


helper  in  Chefoo ;  but  the  last  few  years 
he  has  spent  at  home,  receiving  noth- 
ing from  the  church,  but  by  diligence 
and  good  management  caring  well  for 
his  famil}*. 

He  has  been  very  active  as  a  station 
leader,  and  it  is  largely  due  to  his  con- 
sistent life  and  aggressive  preaching 
that  there  are  being  added  3- early  to  the 
number  of  the  saved  from  his  own 
town  and  the  villages  around.  Mr. 
Kao  will  brook  no  sham ;  and  on]y 
those  who  are  willing  openly  to  confess 
Christ,  to  forsake  opium,  liquor  and 
gambling,  and  to  keep  the  Sabbath, 
need  come  to  the  church  that  is  in  his 
house. 

About  twenty  Christians  worship  on 
the  Lord's  day  in  his  home,  where  he 
leads  them  in  forceful  exposition  of  the 
Word,  and  in  rather  strident  song. 
The  women  of  the  family  are  quiet  and 


1901.]  REMARKS  OF  COUNTRY  PEOPLE,  NANKING  FIELD.  41 


sincere  followers  of  Jesus.  The  younger 
daughter  has  unbound  her  feet.  The 
younger  son  is  a  bright  young  man,  a 
graduate  of  Tungchow  College,  and  a 
valued  preacher  and  helper. 

Picture  number  two 
shows  the  end-view  of 
Mr.  Kao's  home  and 
church,  with  Mr.  Kao 
standing  in  a  character-  , 
istic  attitude;  at  his  left 
hand  is  seen  another 
"pillar  of  the  church." 
This  stone  monument, 
surmounted  by  a  cross, 
is  the  original,  and  as 
far  as  China  is  con- 
cerned, the  unique  idea 
of  Mr.  Kao  and  one  of 
his  associates,  a  Chris- 
tian stone-mason  who 
has  devoted  his  strength 
and  talents  to  the 
Master's  use.  He  was 
the  artificer  of  the  pillar. 
The  main  stone  is  boldly 
inscribed  in  large  char- 
acters :  "The  Jesus 
Church."  On  the  cross 
is  proclaimed  the  fact  that  Jesus  was 
crucified  that  He  might  save  the 
world.  This  monument  stands  on 
the  village  market  street,  which  is 
thronged  every  five  days  by  trading 
crowds.  On  such  days  Mr.  Kao 
preaches  in  his  chapel  to  all  who  wiU 
come  to  hear,  and  the  other  pillar 
stands  in  the  open  air  to  be  seen  and 
read  of  all  men.    The  little  band  of 


Christians  at  this  place  have  already 
plans  to  build  a  $500  church.  The 
mason  has  drawn  up  the  plan  and 
begun  to  prepare  the  stones,  and  the 
people  are  all  interested  and  prepared 


THE  JESUS  CHURCH. 


BUILT  BY  MR.  KAO. 


to  help.  This  is  one  Shantung  Station 
which  is  prospering  on  the  Nevius  plan 
of  self -development. 

While  persecution  has  threatened 
them,  the  Christians  around  Mr.  Kao 
have  thus  far  been  spared.  One  young 
man,  however,  passing  within  three 
miles  of  their  village  was  seized,  tor- 
tured and  killed  by  the  Boxers. 

Geo.  Cornivell. 


Remarks  of  Country  People,  Nanking  Field, 


At  one  small  hamlet  near  the  road, 
there  seemed  to  be  no  one  in  sight.  We 
walked  around  and  almost  passed  a 
house,  when  a  scholarly  looking  man 
appeared  and  asked  our  business.  When 
I  told  him  he  hesitated,  then  went  into 
the  house  and  told  his  people  to  bring 
out  a  bench  for  us.  Both  he  and  the 
women  listened  well,  and  he  asked  if 
Jesus  were  God  or  man,  and  other  lead- 
ing questions.  About  fifteen  gathered 
before  we  left. 

On  entering  the  principal  village,  we 
had  the  same  difficulty  of  apparently 
empty  houses.  When  the  door  is  closed, 


a  Chinese  house  looks  perfectly  blank, 
there  being  no  windows  except  around 
an  interior  court.  One  woman,  carry- 
ing a  sick  child  ten  years  old  on  her 
back,  said,  despairingly,  "My  child  is 
sick  and  I  have  nothing  to  eat,  what  do 
I  care  about  your  doctrine  ?"  I  tried  to 
show  her  that  it  was  all  the  more  ne- 
cessary that  she  should  hear  about  the 
Heavenly  Father  who  wanted  her  to  re- 
pent and  turn  to  Him,  and  was  ready 
to  give  His  children  all  they  need,  if 
they  would  only  be  truly  filial  to  Him. 
By  this  time  a  large  crowd  had  gathered. 
One  man  said,  "  I  don't  believe  there 


SWIFT  RETRIBUTION  AT  PAOTINGFU. 


[Feb., 


is  any  God.  If  there  were,  those  who 
revile  Heaven  would  be  punished."  I 
said,  "They  will  be  when  the  time  comes, 
and  also  all  those  who  refuse  to  repent 
of  their  sins  and  worship  the  true  God." 
I  have  never  heard  any  one  make  such 
sceptical  remarks  before,  although  we 
know  that  a  large  number  of  the  liter- 
ati are  sceptics.  Generally  they  are  in- 
different to  the  idols  and  are  willing  to 
have  them  criticised,  but  they  defend 
the  worship  of  heaven  and  earth,  which 
they  think  is  the  same  as  our  worship. 

The  people  come  to  us  with  their 
troubles,  thinking  we  will  take  them  on 
and  support  them  the  rest  of  their  lives, 
if  they  only  join  our  church.  One  old 
woman  said :  "I  have  no  son,  or  any 
one  to  care  for  me.  I  have  made  shoe 
soles  for  a  living  until  my  fingers  are 
worn  out,  and  now  I  can  only  make 
straw  rope.  I  work  every  day  till  my 
fingers  are  raw,  but  if  I  stop  one  day 
out  of  ten  I  have  nothing  to  eat." 

Poor  old  woman,  it  was  very  hard  to 
say  that  we  could  not  take  her.  We 
could  only  tell  her  of  the  Heavenly 
Father  whom  she  had  not  worshiped 
all  these  years,  who  longed  to  bless  her 
but  could  not  until  she  repented  of  her 
sins  and  turned  to  Him.  It  was  easy 
to  say  this,  and  I  have  no  doubt  that  if 
the  Holy  Spirit  revealed  to  her  the  mean- 
ing of  it,  she  would  "seek  first  the 
kingdom  of  God,"  and  "all  these 
things  "  would  also  be  given  to  her. 
But,  humanly  speaking,  it  seemed  hope- 
less ;  and  to  talk  of  spiritual  blessings 
when  the  woman  was  in  the  depths  of 
despair  about  earthly  needs,  was  too 
much  like  what  James  says  in  his  epis- 


tle (chap.  2:16),  but  what  else  could 
we  say  ?  It  was  truly  best  for  her,  as 
for  any  one,  to  seek  first  for  forgiveness, 
and  to  look  for  deliverance  and  suste- 
nance from  God  alone. 

If  we  supported  her  as  a  worthy  ob- 
ject of  charity,  it  Avould  confirm  her 
and  all  her  neighbors  in  the  illusion  that 
we  hire  people  to  become  Christians. 

Another  old  woman,  after  listening  I 
thought  intelligently,  asked  with  pa- 
thos, pointing  to  the  ground,  "How 
long  will  it  be  before  I  am  at  rest  in  the 
ground  ?"  She  had  only  taken  in  what 
I  had  said  of  our  sin  and  misery.  The 
word  "sin"  in  Chinese  means  both 
guilt  and  its  punishment,  and  many 
will  assent  to  being  sinful,  when  they 
only  mean  that  their  punishment,  or 
suffering,  is  great ;  and  that  they  must 
have  sinned,  if  not  in  this,  then  in  some 
previous  state  of  existence. 

I  said  to  her,  ' '  My  dear  old  lady,  it 
is  only  your  body  that  will  rest  in  the 
grave.  Your  soul,  you,  will  still  be  alive, 
and  you  must  quickly  prepare  for  the 
future  or  you  may  have  more  misery 
than  yovi  have  now,"  and  I  had  to  go 
over  the  whole  ground  again  and  more 
carefully,  using  no  words  that  she  could 
misunderetand.  These  poor  people  are 
so  near  starvation  mentally,  moralh' 
and  physically,  that  it  is  no  wonder 
their  main  thought  is  of  material  bene- 
fit, or  that  they  should  look  forward  to 
rest  in  the  grave.  Our  only  confidence 
is  that  we  have  the  Word  of  Life  which, 
through  the  Spirit's  power,  shall  quick- 
en these  dry  bones  into  life,  and  this 
miracle  we  have  seen  again  and  again. 

Louise  S.  Abbey. 


Singular  and  Swift  Retribution  at  Paotingfu. 


The  following  account  of  several 
criminals,  arrested  or  worthy  of  arrest, 
for  their  responsibility  in  the  murders 
of  last  summer,  was  written  in  October. 
Before  it  has  reached  us  by  mail,  the 
cable  has  announced  that  every  one  of 
these  men  named  was  convicted  by  the 
military  court  and  made  to  suffer  the 
extreme  penalty. 

Mr.  Lowrie  wrote  :  When  I  asked 
leave  to  remain  in  Paotingf  u  if  General 
Campbell  could  spare  me,  he  permitted 
me  to  do  so,  and  gave  me  two  good  let- 


ters to  the  German  and  French  com- 
manders of  the  city,  which  may  be 
of  use  in  the  coming  months  if  I  re- 
main. I  accompanied  his  force  back 
to  Tientsin  one  day's  journej%  into  the 
very  center  of  a  Boxer  district  where 
the  French  were  burning  two  Boxer 
villages,  and  rode  back  alone  to  Pao- 
tingfu  with  a  young  artist  friend. 

I  visited  the  South  suburb  again  and 
found  our  Man  Cheng  friends  there  to 
a  considerable  number.  The  Italians 
had  raided  a  pawn-shop  and  given  them 


1901.] 


DR.  MARY  BROWN  OF  WEI  UtEN,  CHINA. 


43 


about  a  thousand  pieces  of  clothing, 
some  furs  and  silks  of  great  value. 
They  had  obtained  food  from  a  rich 
neighbor,  who  was  a  Boxer  and  has 
run  away  leaving  not  a  little  furniture 
taken  from  the  mission  within  his 
dwelling. 

The  Provincial  Treasurer  has  been  ar- 
rested and  condemned  to  death,  subject 
to  the  ratification  of  Count  Waldersee. 
Strangest  of  all,  what  is  his  provision  ? 
The  very  room  where  we  held  Sunday 
services,  the  room  which  Taylor  origin- 
ally fitted  up  for  the  women  patients. 
What  an  open  retribution  from  the  very 
hand  of  God !  And  those  soldiers,  who 
chose  the  chapel  as  his  prison,  knew 
nothing  whatever  of  the  use  to  which 
the  room  had  been  put.  Tiiat  of  a  thou- 
sand buildings  which  might  have  been 
chosen  for  the  last  days  of  the  murderer 
of  the  missionaries,  Fing  Yung  the  fan 
tai,  how  startling  that  the  deserted 
workroom  of  those  whose  slaughter  he 


caused  should  be  the  spot !  My  artist 
friend  and  I  looked  through  the  window 
where  so  often  curious  gazers  have 
gaped  on  us  of  a  Sunday  morning  at 
service,  and  heard  his  pitiful  sighs  and 
moans  as  he  lifted  up  this  morsel  of 
food  and  that,  only  to  put  it  down  un- 
tasted.  He  is  a  handsome  man  of 
forty-five. 

In  the  same  Fu,  the  north  room  where 
Mrs.  A.  P.  Lowrie  had  her  women's 
classes-  contains  another  distingviished 
criminal  under  sentence  of  death,  if 
Count  Waldersee  approves,  which  he  is 
almost  certain  to  do.  This  is  a  taotai 
of  Tientsin.  These  men  together  with 
an  old  Manchu  Commandant,  bitterer 
even  than  they,  the  entire  population  of 
the  city  unite  in  judging  worthy  of 
death.  There  is  another,  a  military 
man  in  charge  of  the  camp  east  of  the 
city,  who  stopped  the  Bagnalls  in  their 
flight,  took  their  valuables  and  gave 
them  over  to  the  Boxers. 


Dr»  Mary  Brown  of  Wei  Hien^  China* 

"  Her  works  do  follow  her." 


I  saw  Dr.  Brown  for  the  first  time  on 
the  train  on  my  way  to  San  Francisco 
when  I  was  about  to  sail  for  China. 
She  was  a  tall  girl,  dressed  in  gray,  with 
a  strong,  earnest  face  and  beautiful  eyes. 
She  was  attractive,  warm-hearted  and 
generous,  and  made  many  friends 
among  our  fellow  passengers. 

Crowds  of  women  came  to  our  Wei 
Hien  compound,  while  we  still  could 
talk  very  little  Chinese,  but  she  would 
invite  them  in,  entertain  them  for  hours 
and,  when  there  were  not  enough  chairs, 
I  have  often  seen  her  sitting  on  the 
floor  surrounded  with  women.  I  well 
remember  her  first  operation  for  cata- 
ract. Our  household  were  all  praying 
for  it.  It  was  perfectly  successful,  and 
how  happy  the  patient*  was !  Giving 
sight  to  the  blind  seems  really  a  miracle 
to  the  Chinese.  One  old  woman  in 
Bible  class,  after  a  lesson  on  miracles  of 
healmg,  was  asked  v/hy  they  were  com- 
mon in  the  time  of  Christ  and  the  apos- 
tles but  not  so  now.  She  replied,"  The 
people  of  that  time  did  not  have  Dr. 
Brown." 

*The  editor  thinks  this  was  the  woman  who  pulled  Dr. 
Brown  down  and  kissed  her  the  moment  that  sight  was 
restored. 


The  doctor  was  greatly  loved  by  the 
Chinese.  Many  times  during  my  coun- 
try trips,  the  women  told  me  of  her 
kindness  and  what  she  had  taught  them. 
She  literally  gave  her  life  for  China. 
Before  she  left  for  America,  I  have  seen 
her  rise  from  her  bed,  so  weak  that  it 
was  an  effort  to  stand,  and  go  out  to 
the  hospital.  She  would  come  in  dizzy 
and  faint,  only  to  get  up  again  at  the 
next  call.  She  was  an  ardent  believer 
in  self-support.  Of  the  class  of  four 
Chinese  girls  whom  she  carefully 
trained  in  medicine,  two  were  entirely 
self -supporting.  The  doctor  was  most 
anxious  that  her  helpers  should  be  not 
only  skillful  physicians  but  earnest 
Christians,  who  would  help  their  pa- 
tients spiritually.  She  tried  to  impress 
them  with  her  own  high  ideals  of  the 
sacredness  of  their  profession,  urging 
them  to  be  worthy  of  it  and  to  help  to 
raise  their  country-women. 

One  of  these  girls  died.  The  other 
three  have  done  good  work :  one,  at 
Wei  Hein;  another,  practicing  at  her 
home  in  the  country,  a  blessing  to  the 
people  and  a  great  help  to  her  father, 
the  pastor.    The  fourth  pupil  has  been 


44 


STORY  OF  A  YEUNG  KONG  BIBLE  WOMAN.  [Feb., 


with  missionaries  in  Shansi,  and  we 
greatly  fear  has  lost  her  life  there. 

When  we  first  went  to  Wei  Hien  the 
city  people  were  strongly  opposed  to 
foreigners,  but  afterward,  principally 
through  the  ivork  of  the  physicians. 


DR.  MARY  BROWN — TEN  YEARS  IN  CHINA. 

we  were  very  well  treated.  Dr.  Brown 
made  many  friends.  Patients  came  from 
far  and  near.  One,  a  wealthy  lady 
living  not  far  from  Tsing  Tau,  has, 
even  in  these  sad  times,  proved  a  true 
friend  to  foreigners. 

If  medical  treatment  is  unsuccessful. 


trouble  may  be  brought  upon  the  whole 
mission.  The  doctor  was  wise  as  well 
as  skillful.  In  all  surgical  cases  she 
was  very  careful  that  friends  of  the 
patient  should  fully  realize  the  danger, 
and  decide  themselves  whether  to  take 
the  risk  involved.  Operations  were 
made  the  subject  of  earnest  prayer, 
and  she  often  spoke  to  me  of  God's 
presence,  and  told  how  He  helped 
her. 

Either  morning  or  evening,  this  busy 
worker  had  jjraj-ers  with  the  patients. 
Many  a  woman  has  learned  from  her  to 
love  Jesus  and  witness  for  Him.  One, 
a  heathen,  came  to  the  hospital.  After 
she  went  home,  she  returned  one  daj". 
With  tears  running  down  her  face,  she 
said:  "When  I  tell  my  friends  of 
Christ  they  ridicule  me.  There  are  so 
many  people  in  our  house  that  I  never 
get  any  quiet  time  there,  but  at  night, 
when  they  are  asleep,  I  go  out  into  the 
yard  and  pray." 

Dr.  Brown  honored  her  profession. 
She  believed  there  was  no  service 
higher  than  to  carry  healing  for  body 
and  soul  to  the  women  of  China.  She 
delighted  in  Ian  MacLaren's  "Doctor 
of  the  Old  School"  and,  in  untiring 
zeal  and  unselfish  love  for  her  patients, 
she  walked  in  his  footsteps;  but  she 
followed  a  greater  example  than  Dr. 
MacClure,  for  she  learned  of  the  Mas- 
ter Physician,  who  said  :  "  Greater  love 
hath  no  man  than  this,  that  a  man  lay 
down  his  life  for  his  friends." 

Emma  F.  Boughton. 


Story  of  a  Yeung  Kong  Bible  Woman* 


"  Fourth  Sister,"  our  beloved  helper 
in  Yeung  Kong,  though  only  twenty- 
nine  3- ears  old,  has  had  a  varied  and 
tragic  history.  The  good  hand  of  our 
God  is  so  manifest  in  it,  that  I  am  sure 
it  will  be  a  help  to  friends  at  home  to 
know  how  this  Chinese  woman  has  been 
led  into  the  service  here  in  Yeimg  Kong. 
Shall  I  let  her  tell  her  own  story  ? 

"I  was  not  born  in  China,  but  in 
Anam,  where  my  family  for  several 
generations  had  been  Catholics.  When 
I  was  about  twelve  years  old,  a  persecu- 
tion arose  against  the  Catholics  and  my 
father,  rather  than  deny  his  Lord  and 
trample  upon  the  cross,  laid  down  his 


life.  My  stepmother  and  I  fled  for  our 
lives,  wandering  seventeen  days  among 
the  hills  in  constant  peril  of  wild  beasts. 
Later  I  was  adopted  by  a  relative  in 
another  province,  the  wife  of  a  French 
official. 

"At  the  end  of  three  years,  I  was 
started  homeward  in  charge  of  a  woman 
who  proved  to  be  false  and  wicked.  In- 
stead of  taking  me  back  to  my  own 
village,  she  led  me  to  one  of  the  seaports 
where  she  sold  me  to  professional  kid- 
nappers. I  had  no  idea  what  she  had 
done,  for  she  merely  told  me  to  wait  at 
this  house  while  she  went  out  on  an 
errand,  but  I  never  saw  her  face  again. 


1901.]        STORY  OF  A  YE  UNO  KONG  BIBLE  WO  31  AN. 


45 


I  wept  and  begged  to  be  taken  home 
and  was  assured  that  I  should  go  by  the 
first  steamer. 

"  On  a  dark,  stormy  night,  I  was 
taken  out  on  a  Httle  boat  to  a  ship,  to 
go  home,  they  told  me.  I  was  drawn 
up  by  a  rope  and  concealed  in  the  hold 
where  coal  is  kept,  a  dark,  stifling  place. 
Another  girl  was  with  me  and  we  were 
told  that  if  we  made  any  noise  the  for- 
eigners would  throw  us  overboard.  As 
it  is  against  the  law  to  kidnap  girls,  our 
guardian  had  to  preserve  great  secrecy, 
and  it  was  only  after  the  ship  was  well 
ovxt  at  sea  that  we  were  allowed  to  ven- 
ture out  of  our  place  of  hiding.  Even 
then  we  were  kept  out  of  sight  behind 
the  bales  and  boxes.  I  was  very  sea- 
sick and  unhappy  but  hoped  I  was  going 
home,  and  it  was  only  when  I  looked 
out  upon  the  strange  sights  of  Hong 
Kong  that  I  knew  myself  deceived. 
They  still  promised  to  take  me  back,  but 
I  had  now  little  hope.  I  was  dressed  in 
Chinese  costume  and  taken  with  much 
secrecy  to  Canton,  where  I  was  sold 
again.  When  I  was  introduced  to  my 
new  abode,  the  painted  faces  and  bediz- 
ened forms  of  women  there  told  too 
plainly  the  character  of  the  place  and 
the  life  I  was  to  lead.  I  was  over- 
whelmed with  grief  and  shame.  The 
other  women  assured  me  there  was  no 
possible  escape.  However,  I  had  not 
forgotten  all  this  time  to  pray,  and  I 
never  lost  hope  that  Clod  would  deliver 
me.  I  knew  little  of  the  truth,  and 
thought  that  I  must  ask  Mary  to  inter- 
cede for  me. 

"  I  was  not  the  only  woman  who  was 
in  that  house  against  her  will.  I  re- 
member well  two  beautiful  girls  from 
another  province.  They  succeeded  at 
last  in  getting  enough  opium  to  poison 
themselves  and  were  found  one  morning, 
ari-ayed  in  their  finest  clothes,  stiff  and 
cold.  The  only  thing  that  kept  me  from 
following  their  example  was  fear  of  the 
future  life,  which  I  knew  to  be  a  reality. 
I  was  very  harshly  treated  and  never 
allowed  to  leave  the  house.  One  day  I 
got  out  on  the  roof,  whence  I  saw  the 
cross  on  a  Catholic  church,  and  this  gave 
me  a  gleam  of  hope  that  I  might  be 
rescued. 

' '  After  several  years  of  this  wretched 
life,  my  attention  was  arrested  one  night 
by  the  conversation  of  some  merclmnts, 


one  of  whom  spoke  of  his  business  in 
Anam.  As  soon  as  I  had  opportunity 
to  speak  with  him,  I  told  him  that  I  was 
Anamese,  whereupon  he  questioned  me 
as  to  my  history  and  promised  to  try 
to  help  me.  He  did  not  have  the  money 
to  redeem  me  himself  so  he  carried  the 
matter  to  the  French  Consul,  who  de- 
manded my  release,  from  the  Viceroy, 
and  I  was  sent  back  to  my  family  in 
Anam. 

' '  I  had  promised  to  marry  the  mer- 
chant who  was  instrumental  in  my  re- 
lease, and  he  brought  me  back  to  Canton 
where  I  lived  with  him  until  his  death, 
several  years  later.  He  was  kind  but 
his  heathen  relatives  ill-treated  me. 

' '  About  two  years  ago,  I  went  with 
a  neighbor  to  take  a  sick  child  to  a  dis- 
pensary. Here  I  heard  the  Gospel  more 
fully.  I  went  again  and  again  to  hear, 
and  soon  became  a  member  of  the  United 
Brethren  Church.  Then  I  entered  the 
boarding-school,  where  I  learned  to  read 
my  Bible  and  received  much  instruction 
in  Christian  truth.  I  tried  to  witness 
for  the  Lord  as  I  had  opportunity,  but 
when  the  call  came  to  go  to  Yeung  Kong 
I  was  at  first  very  unwilling  to  leave  my 
only  friends  and  go  among  strangers. 
However,  I  prayed  about  it  and  con- 
sented, though  with  a  sad  heart.  For 
a  time  I  could  not  make  the  women  here 
understand  my  talk,  but  the  Lord  has 
helped  me  and  is  now  giving  me  many 
open  doors.  He  has  wonderfully  mani- 
fested His  power  in  giving  me  strength 
and  courage  and  has  filled  my  heart 
with  joy  in  His  service.  All  my  sorrows 
have  passed  away;  peace  and  joy  fill 
my  heart.  I  want  to  work  faithfully, 
for  we  know  not  how  soon  our  Lord 
may  come  back,  and  many  women  have 
not  yet  heai'd  of  His  salvation.  I  hope 
that  all  my  sisters  in  Christ  will  pray 
for  me  and  for  the  women  among  whom 
I  labor." 

I  may  add  that  "  Fourth  Sister  " 
passes  for  a  Chinese  woman  as  she  uses 
thelanguage perfectly.  Shenever speaks 
of  her  past.  She  is  daily  growing  in 
Christian  gi-ace  and  knowledge,  while 
her  zeal  and  faithfulness  are  a  continual 
joy  to  us.  She  is  God's  gift  to  us  and 
to  the  Yeung  Kong  women.  Ma}'  she 
be  used  to  win  many  souls  for  her 
Master,  who  has  led  her  by  such  devious 
paths!  Geo.  S.  Marshall. 


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Incense- 

At  Dragon's  Beard  Falls,  where  we 
leave  the  boat  that  has  brought  us  down 
the  river  from  Lienchow,  the  ground 
rises  immediately  from  the  water  and 
we  begin  our  climb  to  Kang  Tau  Peng, 
or  Mt.  Plateau  Village,  where  there  are 
about  seventeen  Christians  and  a  school 
of  twelve  boys. 

Along  the  base  of  the  movmtain  are 
a  number  of  small  houses  conveniently 
situated  in  the  course  of  the  movmtain 
torrent,  which  is  utilized  to  drive  great 
wheels  that  supply  the  power  to  make 
idol  flour,  or  incense.  The  fragrant 
wood  is  cut  into  small  bits  and  thrown 
into  these  houses  under  rows  of  wooden 
hammers  tipped  with  iron,  or  made  with 
heads  of  stone.  These  hammers  pound 
the  wood  into  powder.  It  is  prepared 
for  use  by  mixing  it  with  some  sticky 
substance  to  make  it  adhere  to  small 
bamboo  sticks,  the  ends  of  which  are  not 


[Feb., 

making* 

covered  and  are  dyed  red.  This  incense 
is  offered  night  and  morning  in  the 
large  temple  near  by,  and  in  every 
household,  rich  or  poor  all  over  the 
land,  excepting  in  the  homes  of  Chris- 
tians. 

O  list  to  the  sound  of  the  ponderous  wheels 

That  are  grinding  the  idol  flour, 
Crushing  more  than  the  incense  wood 

As  they  turn  with  mighty  power; 
The  lives  of  the  people  are  under  the  drop 

While  the  flour  for  the  gods  is  ground. 
Crushing  out  God-given  hope  and  love 

While  the  wheels  are  turning  round. 

By  day  and  by  night  they  unceasingly  turn, 

Ever  making  the  idol  flour; 
They  will  not  stop  though  our  children  starve, 

For  we  fear  the  idols'  power. 
The  children  are  bartered  for  so  much  a  pound, 

Or  to  lives  of  shame  are  given. 
But  still  the  idol  flour  must  be  ground. 

And  incense  offered  to  Heaven. 

Ella  W.  Machle. 


The  Earthqual 

You  have  heard  of  the  terrible  earth- 
quake that  visited  Caracas  October  29th, 
and  may  be  interested  to  see  some  pho- 
tographs showing  the  ruins  and  tempo- 
rary homes  of  the  people.  All  the 
plazas  in  the  city  are  filled  with  beds, 
tents,  and  Uttle  houses  made  simply  of 


AFTER  EARTHQUAKE. 


z  in  Venezuela* 

frames  of  wootl,  with  sacking  tacked 
over  them  and  zinc  or  tin  roofs.  Many 
poor  people  have  now  no  other  homes, 
and  many  are  still  afraid  to  sleep  under 
tile  roofs.  The  shocks  have  not  yet 
wholly  ceased,  but  are  very  slight.  It 
is  an  ever  increasing  wonder  to  us  that 
so  much  property  should  have  been  de- 
stroyed and  yet  so  few  lives  lost.  The 
city  presents  a  desolate  appearance, 
with  heaps  of  ruins  everywhere.  The 
work  of  demolishing,  building  and  re- 
pairing is  going  on  as  rapidly  as  possible. 

We  are  sheltered  with  friends  while 
our  house,  which  was  much  injured,'  is 
being  repaired.  The  roof  and  front  wall 
of  the  hall  where  Ave  held  our  ser^nces 
have  both  come  down.  Fortunately  our 
school  building  stood  firm  and  we  are 
holding  our  meetings  there  regularly. 
The  week  before  the  earth(iuake  Ave  had 
forty-two  pupils ;  noAV  Ave  haA- e  sixteen. 
Everyone  is  moAing  and  it  is  difficult 
to  get  track  of  our  scattered  flock. 

There  is  much  sickness,  caused  by 
exposure  and  fright.  Colds,  coughs, 
feA-er  and  nerA^ous  break-doAvn  are  com- 
mon. A  number  haA'e  become  insane; 
several  committed  suicide. 

We  cannot  be  grateful  enough  to  our 


1901.] 


ESCAPE  OF  CHINA  INLAND  MISSIONAHIES. 


Heavenly  Father  for  His  care  over  us 
when  in  great  danger.    Not  only  were 


sciences  had  not  been  at  rest.  The  fee 
for  civil  marriage,  which  is  the  only  legal 


A   STREET    IN    CARACAS    AFTER  EARTHQUAKE. 


our  lives  spared,  but  we  have  been  ena- 
bled to  remove  all  our  possessions  to  a 
place  of  safety  and  to  go  steadily  on 
with  our  work. 

It  seems  as  if  this  people  must  heed 
the  warning  they  have  received ;  as  if 
no  one  could  ever  be  quite  the  same 
after  passing  through  such  an  experi- 
ence. Last  Monday  evening,  after  our 
Christian  Endeavor  meeting,  we  had  a 
wedding — an  elderly  couple  who  had 
long  been  living  together — one  good  re- 
suk  of  the  earthquake.  Immediately 
after  the  first  great  shock  many  sought 
marriage,  which  shows  that  their  con- 


ceremony  here,  was  put  very  low,  and 
the  priests  have  been  marrying  and  bap- 
tizing free  of  charge,  quite  contrary  to 
their  usual  custom. 

We  have  no  thought  of  running  away 
from  this  "earthquake  land,"  as  some 
home  friends  suggest,  but  are  thankful 
to  be  here  just  now,  to  aid  the  poor,  sick 
and  suffering,  and  to  point  this  people  to 
Him  who  alone  can  take  away  their  sins 
and  prepare  them  for  death,  whether  it 
come  suddenly  by  earthquake  or  in  any 
other  way.  We  have  proved  in  our  own 
exj^erience  that  our  God  is  able  to  keep 
us  as  in  the  "  hollow  of  His  hand." 

{3Irs.  T.  S.)  J.  M.  Pond. 


Escape  of  China  Inland  Missionaries  from  Shansi* 

Extracts  from  a  letter  to  the  London  Times,  by  Rev.  A.  R.  Saunders.* 

[From  among  many  reports  of  remarkable  escapes,  the  following  has  been  selected  be- 
cause there  were  two  American  women  in  the  party — Miss  Rice  of  Haydenville,  Mass., 


and  Miss  Huston  of  Alabama. — Editor.] 

The  station  where  we  have  carried  on 
missionary  work,  without  any  manifes- 

*  Mr.  Saunders  is  a  member  of  the  North  Congregational 
Church,  Toronto,  Can.,  and  went  to  China  in  1887. 


tation  of  unfriendliness  on  the  part  of 
the  people  for  the  past  thirteen  years,  is 
P'ing-yao — a  city  in  Shansi  about  sixty 
miles  south  from  the  capital,  Tai-yuen-f u. 


48  ESCAPE  OF  CHINA  INLAND  MISSIONARIES.  [Feb., 


All  went  well  with  us  till  Tuesday,  June 
26,  when  our  place  was  attacked  and 
looted.  We  took  oui*  four  children  from 
their  comfortable  beds,  and  without 
even  dressing  them,  we  carried  them  to 
the  yamen.  There  we  Avere  told  that 
the  official  could  give  us  no  protection. 
It  was  thought  best  that  we  should  go 
under  escort  to  Tai-yuen-fu,  and  a  start 
was  made  at  daylight.  Thursday  after- 
noon we  got  vsathin  seven  miles  of  Tai- 
jT^ien,  when  we  met  a  convert  who  told 
us  that  we  had  better  not  go  there  as 
a  large  mission  compound  had  been 
burned  the  night  before,  and  all  the  for- 
eigners, over  thirty,  had  taken  refuge  in 
one  of  the  houses  of  the  English  Baptist 
Mission,  which  at  that  time  was  sur- 
rounded by  several  thousands  of  people. 
It  would  have  been  madness  for  us  to  go 
on  to  Tai-yuen-fu,  so  we  turned  south- 
ward towards  Lu-ch'eng  Hsien,  where 
there  is  a  station  of  the  China  Inland 
Mission,  occupied  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  J. 
Cooper  and  the  Misses  Huston  and  Rice. 
We  arrived  at  that  city  on  Thursday, 
July  5,  and  stayed  until  Saturday,  when 
this  station  also  was  rioted.  We  asked 
the  magistrate  to  give  us  an  official 
document  entitling  vis  to  an  escort  from 
city  to  city  through  to  Hankow,  but  the 
same  reply  was  given  us  as  at  P'ing-yao, 
(that  he  had  received  orders  to  withdraw 
all  protection  from  foreigners),  and  we 
had  to  start  on  our  journey  of  nearly 
700  miles,  through  what  in  the  past  few 
weeks  had  become  an  enemy's  country, 
without  any  escort  whatever. 

Our  party  from  Lu-ch'eng  Hsien  was 
composed  of  14  persons,  including  six 
children.  The  youngest  of  the  children 
was  18  months  and  the  eldest  years. 
We  had  to  leave  secretly  at  midieight, 
and  we  walked  all  night  carrying  on  our 
backs  the  younger  of  the  children.  Our 
baggage  was  on  two  donkeys,  one  of 
which  we  never  saw  again  after  leaving. 

Sunday  morning  we  reached  a  vil- 
lage where  we  hired  donkej^s,  on  which 
the  ladies  and  children  were  to  ride  four 
miles,  but  Avhen  we  had  gone  about  half 
that  distance  we  were  met  by  a  band  of 
nearly  200  men  who  robbed  us  of  all  we 
had,  donkeys,  silver  and  goods.  Most 
of  us  were  left  with  only  a  pair  of  Chi- 
nese trousers  on,  the  upper  half  of  our 
bodies  and  our  heads  being  entirely  un- 
protected from  the  awful  burning  of  a 


July  sun.  We  trudged  on  as  best  we 
could  that  and  the  two  following  days, 
through  village  after  village,  where  we 
were  subjected  to  the  crudest  treatment, 
till  we  reached  Chang-tsi  Hsien,  40 
miles  from  Lu-ch'eng  Hsien,  where  we 
hoped  to  get  official  protection.  Al- 
though we  were  now  almost  naked, 
without  either  shoes  or  stockings  even, 
the  people  wotdd  not  believe  that  we 
had  no  silver,  and  we  were  beaten  most 
unmercifully  in  the  hope  that  such  treat- 
ment would  bring  some  confession  as  to 
where  the  silver  was  secreted.  People 
of  one  village  would  follow  us  to  the 
boundary  of  the  next,  stoning  us  and 
throwing  hard  lumps  of  clay.  At  one 
place  Mr.  E.  J.  Cooper  was  dragged  to 
the  outside  of  the  village  by  a  rope,  and 
left  by  the  roadside  as  dead.  If  we  sat 
down  anywhere  to  rest  a  little  while  we 
were  stoned  and  beaten  all  the  more, 
and  the  only  rest  we  got  was  under 
cover  of  darkness.  The  first  two  days 
we  had  nothing  to  eat,  and  no  one  would 
even  give  us  water,  so  we  were  com- 
pelled to  drink  of  any  water  we  came 
to,  and  sometimes  it  was  only  a  stag- 
nant pool.  Towards  evening  of  the 
second  day  we  were  stoned  into  a  large 
market  town,  and,  sitting  down  by  the 
side  of  the  main  street,  we  told  the  peo- 
ple that  we  could  not  go  further  til'  we 
had  something  to  eat.  At  last  they 
gave  us  some  bread  and  water,  and  es- 
corted us  safely  out  of  the  town.  When 
we  had  gone  about  two  miles,  a  man, 
altogether  unknown  to  us,  came  up  with 
us,  and  took  about  three  dozen  hard- 
boiled  eggs  out  of  a  bag  he  carried  and 
gave  them  to  us,  so,  even  at  this  un- 
friendl}'  time  in  China,  God  raised  up 
friends  to  succor  us. 

[July  13,  in  Kaoping  district,  Sbansi,  Messrs. 
Saunders  and  Cooper  went  forward  to  liire  a 
cart  for  the  children  and  for  Miss  Rice,  who 
could  walk  no  further.  The  money  which 
they  would  pay  for  the  cart  was  snatched 
from  them,  they  were  beaten  with  sticks  and, 
temporarily,  became  separated  from  their 
party.  The  rest  of  the  company  was  also  di- 
vided, Miss  Huston  staj^ing  behind  with  her 
exhausted  associate. — Editor  ] 

Misses  Huston  and  Rice  were  now 
left  behind,  and,  it  being  impossible  for 
us  to  go  back  to  their  help,  we  deemed 
it  best  to  push  on  to  the  nearest  citj",  20 
miles  off,  and  ask  the  official  there  to 
send  a  cart  back  for  them.    We  learned 


1901.]  ESCAPE  FROM  SHAXSI  TO  HANKOW.  49 


afterwards,  when  Miss  Huston  rejoiced 
our  party  in  Honan,  that  Miss  Rice 
was  beaten  to  death  by  the  roadside 
that  day.  Miss  Huston  also  received 
very  serious  injuries,  which  resulted  in 
her  death  nearly  a  month  later.  They 
even  ran  a  horse  and  heart  over  er  to 
break  her  spine.  .  .  . 

Twenty  long  miles  on  foot  in  a  pour- 
ing rain  was  no  easy  day's  work  for  the 
ladies  and  children,  but  we  pushed  on 
and  reached  Tseh-chow  Fu,  the  border 
city  of  Shansi.  This  is  one  of  the-  dis- 
tricts where  the  Peking  Syndicate  have 
been  planning  to  open  mines  and  rail- 
roads, and  the  people  seemed  infuriated 
at  the  action  of  one  of  the  Syndicate's 
agents,  who  had  spent  some  time  there 
last  year.  Unfortunately,  they  thought 
I  was  this  person,  and  my  life  would 
certainly  have  been  taken  that  day  had 
I  not  been  able  to  prove  in  each  village 
we  passed  through  that  I  was  not  the 
pei'son  they  took  me  to  be.  As  we 
went  along  the  roads,  crowds  would  fol- 
low us,  and  several  times  most  of  us 
were  IjHing  on  the  ground  with  men 
pounding  iis  unmercifully  with  sticks 
and  even  bricks.  In  villages  the  howl- 
ing mobs  would  shout,  "Yes,  that  is 
he.  Kill  him.  Beat  the  foreign  devil 
to  death,"  etc.  In  every  village  I  had 
to  single  out  a  few  grey -haired  men 
and  address  them  as  follows: — These 
men  think  that  I  am  a  man  who  was 
here  last  year  on  mining  business,  but 
I  can  prove  that  I  am  not.  1.  He  could 
not  speak  Chinese  and  I  can,  and  you 
understand  me.  2.  His  hair  was  cut 
short  and  I  have  a  queue,  and  a  queue 
the  length  of  mine,  as  you  all  Imow, 
could  not  grow  in  a  year.  The  people 
were  convinced,  and  a  queue  saved  my 
life.  At  Tseh-chow  Fu  we  were  told 
that  the  Roman  Catholic  cathedral 
there  had  been  destroj^ed  two  days  be- 
fore. The  enmity  of  officials  and  people 
alike  seemed  to  be  chiefly  directed 
against  the  two  classes — Roman  Catho- 
lics and  mining  and  railroad  engineers — 
and  we  had  all  along  the  road  to  prove 
that  we  were  neither  one  nor  the  other, 
but  being  Protestant  missionaries  we 
were  allowed  to  escape  with  our  lives 
and  advised  to  make  all  haste  to  Han- 
kow. Having  our  children  with  us 
was  usuall}-  enough  to  prove  that  we 
were  not  Roman  Catholic  priests. 


At  Tseh-chow  Fu  we  got  a  road-pass 
and,  as  we  supposed,  an  official  docu- 
ment entitling  us  to  an  escort  from  city 
to  city  right  through  to  Hankow,  but 
we  afterwards  learned  that  it  was  a  pa- 
per stating  that  we  were  to  be  con- 
ducted as  common  criminals. 

We  had  now  suffered  eight  days' 
cruel  treatment  at  the  hands  of  the 
Chinese  in  Shansi  only,  and  the  sole 
cause  was  a  vicious  governor  setting 
the  hands  of  the  rabble  loose  on  de- 
fenceless men  and  women  who  are 
foreigners.  We  had  traveled  140  miles, 
mostly  on  foot,  with  little  food  and  no 
proper  rest  and  our  bodies  exposed  to 
the  full  power  of  the  sun.  .  .  . 

We  walked  thirteen  miles  to  Chen- 
chow  and  from  there  were  sent  on  by 
cart,  but  as  common  criminals,  lodged 
every  night — men,  women  and  chil- 
dren all  together — in  the  common  gaols 
with  only  a  division  of  wooden  bars  be- 
tween us  and  the  chained  criminals  of 
China.  This  treatment  continued  for  six 
days,  till  Ave  reached  Ch'ioh-shan  Hsien, 
where  we  wej'e  taken  to  a  temple  and 
the  Mandarin's  wife  sent  around  sweet- 
meats for  the  children.  At  Sin-yang 
Chow,  the  border  city  of  Honan,  which 
we  reached  July  30,  we  were  treated 
well  and  clothes  were  given  us. 

■We  found  in  passing  through  Honan 
that  it  was  our  greatest  protection  from 
the  wrath  of  the  people  to  let  them 
know  that  we  were  Protestants. 

Now  we  had  come  to  the  Hupeh 
province,  ruled  over  by  Chang-chih 
Tung,  and  Ave  AA^ere  treated  Avell  hy  all 
the  officials,  and  instead  of  traA'eling 
as  before,  in  carts,  we  had  sedan  chairs 
provided  for  us.  We  found,  too,  that 
the  natiA^e  Christians  AA'ere  in  favor  Avith 
the  officials,  and  the  rest  of  our  journey 
to  HankoAv  was  accomplished  in  com- 
paratiA'e  comfort.  We  arriAed  at  our 
mission  house  on  Tuesday  morning, 
August  11,  in  all  49  days  since  we  left 
Ping-j-ao. 

In  addition  to  Miss  Rice,  whose  death 
I  haA^e  already  mentioned,  four  others 
of  our  party  died  on  the  way.  .  .  .  On 
arriA'al  in  Hankow,  the  surA'iving  mem- 
bers of  the  party  Avere  nearly  all  suffer- 
ing from  a  seA^ere  attack  of  d3'sentery, 
and  Avere  at  once  put  under  medical 
treatment. 


CHINA. 

Dr.  Eleanor  Chesnut  wrote  from  Macao, 
Nov.  2,  1900; 

None  of  us  have  felt  of  late  like  writing;  as 
there  seems  to  be  no  prospect  of  an  immedi- 
ate termination  of  this  time  of  waiting  and 
indecision,  I  will  not  delay  further,  but  write 
under  the  nebulous  cloud.  The  Machles  and 
I  left  Lienchovv  the  last  week  in  August.  We 
did  have  great  difficulty  in  deciding  upon  tlie 
right  course.  Even  now  our  hearts  are  di- 
vided. It  seemed  so  cruel  to  leave  the  poor 
Christians  in  their  time  of  extremity.  We 
felt,  however,  that  in  case  of  an  uprising  of 
the  Triad  Society  in  Hunan  (the  misfortvuie 
most  feared)  we  would  be  as  straws  against 
the  wind,  and  would  only  increase  the  peril 
of  the  native  Christians,  since  they  would  cer- 
tainly risk  their  lives  to  save  ours.  Then  too, 
if  we  tried  to  procure  a  boat  in  time  of  disturb- 
ance, we  might  be  obliged  to  pay  a  fabulous 
price.  The  anxiety  of  our  friends  at  the  coast 
was  gi'eat,  and  their  frequent  letters  of  warn- 
ing kept  us  awake  to  our  danger.  After  nearly 
two  months  of  resistance  we  left.  I  have 
been  in  Macao  most  of  the  time  since.  Dr. 
Niles  has  her  blind  school  here,  and  she  was 
kind  enough  to  reserve  a  room  in  her  house 
for  me.  It  is  a  great  pleasure  to  live  with 
her.    She  is  so  .  .  . 

There  is  quite  a  company  of  missionaries 
here,  both  of  our  own  and  other  missions.  A 
small  army  of  Mica w hers.  The  last  letter 
from  Lienchow  pronounced  the  mission  build- 
ings intact,  though  Boxer  placards  wei'e  being 
hawked  through  the  markets  by  men  beating 
gongs  to  attract  attention.  While  we  have 
hopes  that  nothing  serious  will  occur,  nothing 
would  surprise  us  in  this  time  of  lawlessness, 
when  men's  passions  seem  to  have  engulfed 
all  their  better  judgment.  You  can  imagine 
what  a  volume  of  sympathy  has  gone  out 
from  the  south  for  suffering  missionaries  in 
the  north  and  Chinese  converts. 


Last  Sunday  an  explosion  occurred  near  the 
Viceroy's  yamen.  One  of  the  Christians  has 
been  arrested  on  suspicion,  and  a  former  pupil 
of  Dr.  Wisner's  in  the  Christian  College  has 
confessed  that  he  fired  the  tunnel.  Dr.  Wis 
uer  has  gone  to  Canton  to  see  the  unfortunate 
young  man.  He  is  really  but  a  boy  and  un- 
doubtedly a  tool  of  Sun,  the  leader  of  the  Re- 
form party. 


Miss  McKillican  wrote  from  Peking,  Oct. 
23: 

We  found  it  kind  of  queer  to  be  on  rations. 
Each  woman  was  supposed  to  have  two  ounces 
(I  think  it  was)  of  horse,  or  mule,  flesh  a  day 
and  all  the  rice  she  wanted,  but  the  women 
shared  their  meat  with  the  men.  The  flies  were 
about  the  worst  feature  of  the  siege.  I  never 
in  my  life  saw  anything  like  the  swarms  that 
were  everywhere.  We  could  scai-cely  get  a 
bite  safely  into  our  mouths  at  the  table,  the 
flies  were  so  bold  and  ravenous — regular  Boxer 
flies  they  must  have  been.  Dr.  Mackey  and 

I  WANT  TO  GO  TO  PAOTINGFU. 

Nearly  all  my  San  Ho  friends  are  dead,  and  I 
don't  want  to  be  stationed  there.  It  would  be 
so  hard  not  to  hate  all  those  villagers  who 
lielped  to  kill  them. 

LIES  THAT  HURT. 

You  are  probablj'  hearing  that  missionaries 
in  Peking  are  looting  and  doing  all  kinds  of 
wicked  things,  but  don't  j'ou  believe  it  !  We 
hear  of  missionaries  ' '  going  to  Japan  with 
forty  boxes  of  silk,  furs,  etc.,  having  thrown 
away  their  wearing  apparel  in  order  to  make 
room  for  loot."  That  is  simply  lies.  Some  of 
the  ladies  visiting  at  the  Legations  had  any 
amoimt  of  baggage.  They  lost  nothing  and, 
in  many  cases,  they  have  been  taken  for  mis- 
sionaries. Their  pretty  clothes  and  stacks  of 
trunks  have  given  all  missionaries  in  North 
China  an  unenviable  reputation. 

I  am  thankful  I  haven't  to  face  the  music 
at  home  just  now.    It  seems  to  me  it  would 


1901.] 


LETTERS. 


51 


require  more  courage  than  I  possess  to  con- 
fess that  I  came  from  Peking.  .  .  . 

These  people  seem  to  misconstrue  every- 
thing we  do,  but  I  must  not  revile  them  any 
more.  No  doubt  some  would  not  approve  of 
all  that  has  been  done  in  the  way  of  occupy- 
ing Boxer  houses  and  using  their  things.  It 
was  hard  to  know  what  ivas  right  in  the  con- 
fusion and  strangeness  of  the  new  situation, 
with  so  many  destitute  Chinese  to  be  provided 
for.  Our  people  are  getting  along  i^retty 
well  in  the  way  of  finding  work.  The  Board 
has  telegraphed  us  to  use  $1,000  for  them. 
The  Chinese  of  San  Francisco  have  sent  us 
100  Mexican  dollars  for  Chinese  here.  There 
are  a  number,  here  and  there,  in  hiding  and 
•'a  need  of  foad  and  clotlies. 

THE    TENG  FAMILY, 

with  Mrs.  Teng's  sister  and  her  family,  mak- 
ing seventeen  in  all,  were  killed  in  a  temple 
quite  near  us.  We  pass  it  every  time  we  go 
to  the  American  Board  Mission.  Human  hair, 
braids  mostly,  and  bits  of  clothing  are  lying 
about.  Dr.  Wherry  saw  it.  I  have  not  been 
inside  the  temple  court.  The  whole  family 
were  led  out  together  to  this  place.  How  ter- 
rible it  all  is  ! 

INDIA. 

Mrs.  Warren  came  home  a  year  ago.  We 
do  not  often  see  a  letter  from  her  when  she  is 
in  Gwalior  and  are  the  moi-e  glad  of  this  one, 
written  from  102  S.  Ferry  St ,  Schenectady, 
N.  Y. : 

lam  here  in  the  United  States;  but  I  am 
with  the  Hindustani  people  in  India,  almost 
all  the  time.  In  spirit  I  am  acclimated  to 
India.  If  the  Hindustani  people  could  have, 
and  were  able  to  read,  the  daily  papers  of  this 
country  and  of  other  Christian  countries,  I 
am  sure  they  would  say:  "You  desire  us  to 
be  Christians,  and  yet  such  dreadful  wicked- 
nesses are  committed  in  your  country,  so 
blessed  with  the  knowledge  of  the  Saviour 
Jesus!"  I  am  glad  they  cannot  have  the 
daily  papers  that  I  see. 

There  are  seven  or  eight  thousand  men  and 
women  in  the  electric  works  here.  They  are 
like  an  army  going  to  and  from  the  works 
every  day. 

A  gentleman  came  to  see  me  one  day  to  in- 
quire all  about  India,  for  he  has  been  appointed 
to  start  some  large  electric  work  in  Southern 
India.  He  says  the  contract  is  for  one  mil- 
lion dollars.  It  is  the  application  of  electricity 
produced  by  water-power  for  some  mining 
district  in  a  Native  State.  I  was  so  glad  that  I 
could  tell  him  .something  of  the  ways  in  a 
Native  State.    And  I  "  watch  out  "  to  see  if  I 


can  get  a  glimpse  of  God's  arranging  all  these 
things  for  individuals  and  nations.  I  could 
tell  the  electrical  engineer  that  the  political 
resident  of  Mysore — where  he  is  going  to  set 
up  the  electric  plant — had  been  the  political 
resident  of  the  court  of  Gwalior  just  before 
going  to  Mysore.  This  resident  is  a  most 
valued  officer  of  her  Majesty's  military  and 
civil  services.  Besides  this,  every  one  in 
Gwalior  loved  him  and  his  wife.  They  were 
such  fine-textured  people.  This  engineer  and 
his  interesting  wife  hope  to  start  for  India 
this  coming  cold  season.  I  think  God  will 
bless  electricity  to  India's  good ;  for  it  is  His 
very  own  electricity,  and  this  first  big  appli- 
cation has  to  do  with  water.  And  thirsty 
India  suffers  and  dies  for  want  of  water.  In- 
dia has  died  many  times  for  want  of  water. 
Had  I  known  that  famine  was  about  to  prowl 
so  soon  again  throughout  India,  I  would  have 
waited  another  year  before  coming  home  for 
a  little  change.  It  has  been  no  rest,  for  I  can- 
not rest  in  mind  when  I  know  of  such  fearful 
suffering.    I  was  in  two  famines. 

I  saw  Mrs.  Fry  in  New  York.  It  was  the 
first  time  I  had  seen  her.  I  was  glad  to 
have  seen  her  just  before  she  was  translated. 
I  think  God  permits  such  gentle  ones  as  she 
to  be  "  reporters  "  to  the  loved  ones  there, 
about  their  loved  one's  liere. 

AFRICA. 
Miss  Christensen  refused  to  go  to  her  be- 
reaved home  as  was  expected  of  her,  and  holds 
on  at  Benito,  though  alone.    She  wrote  to 
her  associates  who  are  on  furlough : 

The  little  box  you  sent  me  from  England  has 
just  arrived.  I  tried  to  keep  cool  until  the 
strap  was  untied,  and  I  could  dive  in.  I  soon 
got  beyond  tlie  parcels  to  your  letters.  How 
I  read  and  read,  and  at  last  when  I  had  fin- 
ished all,  I  looked  around  the  table,  and  in  a 
very  disappointed  tone  said,  Is  that  all  ?  "  Un- 
grateful ci'eature,"  I  can  almost  hearj'ou  say. 
I  have  read  your  letters  once  more  since  then, 
and  perhaps  will  take  it  up  again  before  night. 
How  can  I  express  all  I  feel  about  letters  and 
contents  of  box  ?  Can  only  rock  my  arms 
and  say,  "  How  sweet,"  as  Grizel  did.  I  wish 
j'ou  could  have  looked  ut  those  things  with 
me,  and  smelled  them.  Why  I  felt  like  bot- 
tling some  of  the  sweet  perfume  the  new 
shoes  sent  forth.  Tried  them  on  at  once,  and 
they  are  fine,  so  much  better  tit  than  we  often 
get  when  foot  and  shoemaker  are  thousands 
of  miles  apart. 

You  will  be  glad  to  know  that  I  am  given 
strength  for  each  day's  duty.  Sometimes  it 
seems  as  if  I  must  drop  all,  but  then  a  knock 


52 


LETTERS. 


[Feb., 


is  heard  from  some  part  of  the  house  and  I 
have  to  forget  my  grief  for  the  time.  Our 
dear  Father  knew  why  He  gave  me  all  this 
work  to  do. 

No  one  within  my  reach  knew  of  my  birth- 
day this  year,  but  I  am  sure  many  in  other 
lauds  remembered  me  before  our  Father's 
throne,  and  it  was  such  a  comfort. 

KOREA. 

FIRST  IMPRESSIONS  OF  A  NEW  ARRIVAL. 

Miss  Eliza  Howell  wrote  from  Pyeno 
Yang,  Nov.  3: 

When  the  Korea  party,  which  sailed  from 
San  Francisco  Sept.  15,  reached  Kobe,  Oct  3, 
we  were  met  by  Mr.  Adams,  from  Taiku,  who 
had  come  on  to  meet  his  wife  and  three  dear 
little  children  after  their  long  separation.  Mr. 
Adams  had  just  come  from  the  Annual  Meet- 
ing and  had  all  the  news,  including  the 
knowledge  of  our  several  destinations,  that 
we  were  all  so  eager  to  hear.  Miss  Snook, 
Mr.  Sharp  and  Mr.  Welbon  were  to  stop  in 
Seoul,  while  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Leek,  Mr.  Bern- 
heisel  and  I  were  to  come  on  to  Pyeng  Yang. 
Expectations  were  quite  turned  about  with 
the  most  of  us,  and  in  my  own  case  it  was 
just  one  more  expression  of  God's  will.  It 
was  almost  too  much  for  me  to  believe  at  first, 
that  I  was  to  be  in  just  the  spot,  of  all  this 
great  world,  where  I  wanted  to  be,  and  I  had 
never  expressed  my  wishes  to  any  person  who 
had  the  power  to  send  me  here. 

The  exceedingly  warm  welcome  we  have 
received  from  all  the  missionaries  along  the 
way,  from  Fusan  up,  has  filled  my  heart  with 
joy  and  thanksgiving. 

It  took  us  from  Friday  to  Monday  night  to 
make  the  short  trip  from  Chemulpo  to  Pyeng 
Yang.  Mr.  Lee,  Dr.  Wells  and  Mr.  Bruen 
came  out  in  sampans  to  meet  us  and  escorted 
us  to  shore,  where  we  ladies  were  treated  to 
our  first  chair  ride,  while  the  gentlemen  acted 
as  body  guard  as  we  wended  our  way  through 
the  wet,  narrow,  rocky  footpaths. 

At  last  we  were  set  down  at  Mr.  Moffett's 
door,  and  in  spite  of  the  fact  that  mid- 
night was  fast  approaching,  a  number  were 
gathered  there  to  welcome  us,  and  a  nice 
supper  awaited  us.  Miss  Best  brought  me  to 
our  own  little  home,  that  had  been  waiting  so 
long  for  its  two  occupants.  It  was  "Home" 
to  me  at  once.  We  newcomers  made  a  begin- 
ning at  the  language  the  first  morning.  Tues- 
day night  the  missionaries  gave  us  a  reception 
at  Dr.  Wells'  house,  and  a  balloon  was  sent  up 
in  honor  of  the  occasion.  Fireworks  were  set 
off,  and  we  spent  the  evening  happily  together. 

Wednesday  afternoon  Mrs.  Moffett  arranged 


for  the  Korean  women,  from  both  city  and 
country,  to  meet  Mrs.  Leek  and  myself  in  her 
home,  rather  than  to  have  them  running  in, 
one  or  two  at  a  time,  and  interrupting  us  at 
our  duties.  Mrs.  Moffett  gave  Mrs.  Leok 
and  me  small  illuminated  texts,  which  we 
gave  out  to  the  women  and  girls,  and  they  in 
turn  were  to  take  them  as  a  message  from  us 
to  some  one  who  was  not  a  believer. 

Sunday  morning  I  went  to  the  Sunday-school, 
of  which  Mrs.  Baird  is  the  superintendent, 
and  it  was  a  joy  to  look  over 

THAT  ROOM  FULL  OF  CHRISTIAN  WOMEN 

and  girls  sitting  close  together  on  the  floor. 
There  were  at  least  130,  and  evidently  pre- 
pared with  their  lessons.  I  wish  people  at 
home  could  see  them  and  receive  such  a  wel- 
come as  we  had.  It  comes  directly  from  the 
heart  in  a  language  understood  the  world 
over  without  the  aid  of  speech,  and  when 
what  they  say  is  interpreted,  how  long  they 
have  been  praying  and  looking  for  our  coming, 
and  their  appreciation  of  our  coming  from  so 
very  far  away,  hard  would  be  the  heart  that 
did  not  go  out  to  them  in  love. 

An  interesting  incident  occurred  at  the 
girls'  school  of  which  Miss  Best  has  charge. 
Schools  for  girls  are  such  an  entirely  new 
thing  that  their  par-ents  have  not  learned  all 
their  responsibilities,  and  it  was  thought  best 
to  appoint  a  committee  from  the  church  to 
look  after  its  interests.  The  committee  vis- 
ited the  school  in  a  body  and  talked  with  the 
children,  and  then  called  a  meeting  of  their 
mothers.  Elder  Kim  told  them  that  when  they 
had  sent  their  children  to  school  they  must 
not  think  of  them  as  theirs  during  school 
hours,  but  as  belonging  to  their  teacher, 
and  if  they  expected  them  to  learn,  they 
must  send  them  every  daj'.  He  said  the 
teacher  knew  the  truth,  and  taught  the 
children  what  was  right,  but  what  good  would 
it  do  if,  when  they  went  home,  parents  allowed 
them  to  fight  and  tell  falsehoods.  No,  they 
must  work  together  with  the  teacher.  He 
told  them  the  money  to  support  the  school 
had  been  given  by  godly  men  and  women 
many  thousands  of  li  away,  in  America,  and 
then,  pointing  to  the  children  in  front  of  him 
he  said,  "  And  now  are  these  children  so  much 
dearer  to  them  than  they  are  to  you  ?  " 

This  same  man  has  built  a  neat  new  house, 
and  in  his  front  yard  has  chrj\santhemums 
growing  of  which  he  is  justly  pi'oud.  His 
wife  and  children  are  light-hearted  and  happy. 
Such  instances  as  these  put  new  life  into  the 
missionaries  who  have  passed  through  the 
first  long,  hard  years  of  work  here. 


HOME.  DEPARTMENT 

Christian  Missions  in  the  Nineteenth  Century* 

LESSON  V  THE  CENTURY  IN  AFRICA. 

I.   Hap  Exercise  for  Location  of  all  Missions. 
IL    Africa  a  Hundred  Years  Ago. 
ilL   Stories  of  Some  of  the  Principal  Missions. 

(a)  Uganda.    Church  Missionary  Society. 

(b)  Livingstonia  Mission    Character  Sketch— A  Hero  of  Ngoni  Land, 

(c)  Zulu  Mission  of  the  American  Board. 

(d)  Some  West  Africa  Missions. 

1.  Gaboon  Mission  of  the  American  Presbyterians. 

2.  Congo  Mission  of  the  American  Baptists. 

3.  Congo-Balolo  Mission  (English). 

4.  The  Life  and  Work  of  Bishop  Crowther. 

REFERENCES. 

1.  Life  and  Lioht  for  Women  for  September,  1900.   T04  Congregational  House,  Boston. 

2.  "  Christian  Missions  and  Social  Progress,"  by  Rev.  James  S.  Dennis.    Published  by  F.  H.  Revell  &  Co. 

3.  (a)  Biography  of  Alexander  Mackay."  Published  by  A.  C.  Armstrong  &  Co.,  New  York  City.  (6)  "  Tropical 
Africa,"  by  Mr,  Henry  Drummond,  pp.  40-48;  also  "Missionary  Herald"  for  January,  1898,  p.  27,  and  September,  1898,  pp. 
362,36.3.  Biography,  Dr.  William  Atlleck  Scott.  Published  by  Revell  &  Co.  Hero  of  Ngoni  Land,  (c)  '-Historical 
Sketch;  "  "  Forty  Years  Among  the  Zulus."  bv  Rev.  Josiah  Tyler,  14  Beacon  Street.  Boston,  (rf)  1,  "A  Life  for  Africa," 
(Rev.  A.  C.  Good),  by  Miss  Ellen  C.  Parsons,  "obtained,  1.56  Fifth  Avenue.  New  York  City.  2,  "  Pioneering  on  the  Congo," 
by  Bentley  Religious  Tract  Society,  London;  also  Pamphlets  of  American  Baptist  Missionary  Union,  Tremont  Temple, 
Boston.  3,  Files  of  magazine  "  Regions  Beyond."  Obtained  of  Fleming  H.  Revell  &  Co.,  New  York,  or  of  Harley 
House.   Bow,  E.,  London.   4,  "  Biography  of  Samuel  Crowther,"  F.  H.  Revell  &  Co. 

BANNER  SOCIETIES. 

IN     RESPECT     TO     NUMBER     OP  SUBSCRIBERS. 


The  following  subscription  lists  are 
among  those  which  have  been  falling, 
like  a  shower  of  snowflakes,  through 
December,  upon  the  Treasurer  of  Wo- 
man's Work  for  Woman.  They  may 
be  taken  as  types  of  our  more  wide- 
awake societies.  They  are  composed 
chiefly  of  renewals — most  of  these  lists 
having  been  for  many  years  steadily 
held  to  the  mark  by  some  faithful  work- 
er, who  has  gladly  served  without  wish 
for  recompense  or  reward.  These  are 
among  the  long  lists,  but  it  is  to  be 
borne  in  mind  that  many  short  lists, 
like  one  of  six  new  names  lately  re- 
ceived from  Salt  Lake  City,  are  equally 
creditable  and  representative  of  the 
churches  from  which  they  are  sent. 

However,  there  are  many  short  lists 
which  ought  to  be  long  ones.  As  our 
eyes  glance  over  the  names  of  these 
churches,  some  thoughtful  workers  are 


sure  to  say  with  surprise,  "  Does  that 
church — just  the  size  of  ours — have  so 
many  copies  ?  We  are  quite  as  able.  1 
will  try  to  improve  our  record." 

BiNGHAMTON,  N.  Y.,  Miss  Susie  L.  Spencer, 
Seci-etary  of  Literature,  30  sub.scribers. 

Harrisburg,  Pa.,  Market  Square  Church, 
30  subscribers. 

Lake  Forest,  III.  ,  31  subscribers. 

MoNTCLAiR,  N.  J.,  Mrs.  L.  J.  Hutchinson, 
Secretary,  33. 

East  Liverpool,  Ohio,  Mrs.  R.  B.  Watson, 
Secretary,  34. 

Colorado  Springs,  Col.,  Miss  Elizabeth 
Mace,  Secretary,  45. 

Plainfield,  N.  J.,  Mrs.  I.  N.  Field,  Secre- 
tary, 46. 

Pittsburg,  Pa.,  East  Liberty  Church,  Mrs. 
V.  C.  Johnston,  Secretary,  52. 

Ann  Arbor,  Mich.,  Mrs.  D.  T.  McNeil,  Sec- 
retary, 54. 

Schenectady,  N.  Y.  ,  Mrs.  W.  H.  Peckham, 
Secretary,  56. 

Orange,  N.  J  .  Central  Church,  Miss  Mary 
R.  Tooker,  Secretary,  62. 


"  Among  contributors  to  the  India  Famine  Fund  was  a  lady  of  Baltimore, 
who,  through  the  Board,  sent  to  India  nearly  sixteen  hundred  dollars  to  rescue 
and  support  famine  orphans,  this  amount  being  given  for  and  in  the  name  of  a 
beloved  son,  William  Cross  Moore,  who  died  in  Perth  Amboy,  N.  J.,  January  26, 
1900,  at  the  early  age  of  twenty-seven  years.  He  was  a  generous  giver,  and  it 
is  the  wish  of  his  bereaved  mother  to  devote  that  part  of  her  estate  which  he 
would  have  inherited  to  Home  and  Foreign  Missions  work.  He  had  gone  to 
Perth  Amboy  to  attend  Sabbath  services  which  he  thought  more  helpful  than 


54 


DOZEN  QUESTIONS— A  SAD  CHRISTMAS  DAY.  [Feb., 


those  he  had  previously  attended.  It  was  at  this  meeting  that  he  gave  his  last 
testimony  and  acceptance  of  the  faith,  the  Saturday  prior  to  his  death.  He  de- 
scended from  a  long  line  of  Presbyterian  ministers  and  was  a  child  of  many 
prayers." 

A  DOZEN  QUESTIONS  FOR  MISSIONARY  MEETING. 

[Answers  may  be  found  in  the  preceding  pages.] 


1.  Mention  six  societies  which  subscribe  for 
above  30  copies  of  Woman's  Work     Page  53. 

2.  Why  did  Lienchow  missionaries  leave, 
at  last  ?   Page  50. 

3.  Mention  a  disagreeable  featui'e  of  Peking 
siege.  Who  are  wishing  to  be  appointed  to 
Paotingf  u  ?    Page  50. 

4.  What  was  the  fate  of  the  T'eng  family  of 
Peking  ?    Page  51. 

5.  What  does  Mrs.  WaiTen  think  of  elec- 
tricity for  India  ?   Page  51. 

6.  How  did  Korean  women  receive  new 
missionaries  ?   Page  52. 

7.  What  remarkable  retribution  was  visited 


on  distinguished  criminals  at  Paotingfu? 
Pages  42,  43. 

8.  Give  instances  of  sympathy  "that  makes 
the  whole  world  kin."    Pages  35,  36. 

9.  How  wei'e  certain  Chinese  Christians 
delivered  from  the  Boxers '?    Pages  38,  39. 

10.  Who  is  Mr.  Kao,  the  pillar,  and  what  is 
the  pillar  that  he  built  ?    Pages  40,  41. 

11.  Name  missionaries  who  had  remarkable 
deliverance  from  death.    Pages  37,  47, 

12.  How  did  Dr.  Mary  Brown  give  her  life 
for  China,  and  how  is  her  work  perpetuated  ? 
Pages  43,  44. 


A  Sad  Christmas  Day  in  China* 


A  leaflet  bearing  this  title  was  sent 
out  among  the  Sunday-schools  before 
Christmas,  and  some  significant  re- 
sponses have  been  coming  in. 

A  superintendent  in  Salinas,  Cal., 
writes :  "In  reference  to  the  leaflet 
sent  to  me,  I  read  it  before  the  school, 
and  the  children  decided  to  send  what 
money  we  would  have  spent  for  candy 
and  nuts,  for  the  school,  to  the  Board  of 
Foreign  Missions  to  go  to  China,  thus 
denying  themselves  a  little  of  the  lux- 
uries, at  this  time,  in  honor  of  Him 
who  gave  up  all  that  we  might  have 
Life.  Ours  is  a  mission  Sabbath-school. 
Enclosed  herein  find  P.  O.  money  order 
for  $8.50." 

Another  writes  from  Windham,  N. 
Y. :  "I  take  great  pleasure  in  sending 
to  you  $10  as  the  offering  to  the  Chi- 
nese mission  work,  from  our  little  school, 
as  a  Christmas  and  New  Year's  offer- 
ing. This  no  doubt  takes  many  pennies 
saved  up  to  spend  during  the  glad  days 
for  candies,  etc.  I  not  only  read  them 
the  leaflet,  '  A  Sad  Christmas  Day  in 
China,'  but  told  them  with  all  the  ear- 
nestness I  possess  to  give  not  only  as  they 
are  being  Ijlessed,  but  as  they  hope  to  be 
blessed,  and  gave  them  Bible  proof  that 
in  giving  we  may  expect  a  blessing  tem- 
poral as  well  as  spiritual." 

The  pastor  of  a  church  in  Northern 
New  York:  "  The  enclosed  35  cents  in 
stamps  is  additional  to  the  contribution 


sent  by  Mr.  .  We  are  a  poor  peo- 
ple— the  slum  of  the  city.  Ten  cents  of 
the  enclosed  is  from  a  woman  who  gets 
two  dollars  a  week  from  the  city,  and 
one  dollar  from  the  church  ;  on  this 
she  and  her  two  children  live.  The 
collection  was  given  without  urging — 
a  willing  offering.  We  are  always  glad 
to  do  our  little  in  these  works." 

The  superintendeBt  in  the  First 
Church  at  Ventura,  Cal.,  also  writes: 
' '  It  affords  me  great  pleasure  to  send 
you  $14.50  as  a  Christmas  offering  from 
our  Sabbath-school  for  specific  work  in 
China.  This  gift  means  the  giving  vp 
by  the  children  of  the  presents  usually 
given  them  on  Christmas  by  the  school, 
and  of  the  candy  and  nuts  usually  given 
to  officers  and  teachers  and  adult  Bible 
class. 

"  On  receipt  of  3'our  letter  I  presented 
the  matter  to  the  officers  and  teachers, 
the  teachers  to  their  classes,  and  each 
Sabbath  for  a  month  or  more  called 
their  attention  to  the  present  condition 
and  needs  in  China ;  and  whon  I  called 
upon  the  entire  school  for  an  expression, 
they  voted  unanimously  and  heartily  to 
make  the  offering  in  the  way  above 
stated,  and  at  our  usual  Christmas  en- 
tertainment no  part  of  our  programme 
was  so  thoroughly  enjoyed  or  so  loudlj^ 
applauded  as  the  Christmas  offering 
for  China." 


1901.]  55 

SINCE  LAST  MONTH. 

Arrivals:  ^.         ^,  .        .  , , 

November  27,  1900.— At  San  Francisco,  Miss  RoUestone,  from  Nmgpo,  China.  Address, 

1136  16th  Ave.,  Denver,  Col. 
December  14.— At  San  Francisco,  Miss  Grace  Newton,  from  Pekmg,  Chma.  Address, 

South  Orange,  N.  J. 

December  19.— At  New  York,  Miss  Mary  Hamilton,  from  W.  India.    Address,  Demmg, 
N.  Mexico. 

December  30.— At  New  York,  Rev.  D.  N.  Lyon,  from  Soochow,  Cliina.  Address, 
Wooster,  Oliio. 
Departures  ' 

January  5,  1901.— From  New  York,  Mrs.  W.  C.  Gault,  returning  to  the  Africa  Mission. 
Miss  Emma  Morris,  returning  to  India. 


TO  THE  A 

[FOR  AtDRESS  OF  EACH  HEADQUARTERS  AND 

From  Thiladelphia . 

Send  letters  to  501  Witherspoon  Building.  Direc- 
tors' meeting  first  Tuesday  of  the  month,  prayer- 
meeting  thirtl  Tuesday,  each  commencing  at  eleven 
o'clock.   Visitors  welcome. 

February.    Prayer  Union — Our  Treasunj. 

The  Thirty-first  Annual  Assembly  of  the 
Woman's  Foreign  Missionary  Society  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  (Philadelphia)  will  be 
held  in  the  Calvary  Church,  Philadelphia. 
Rev.  J.  Sparhawk  Jones,  D.D.,  pastor,  April 
24  and  2.'5.  All  correspondence  in  regard  to 
delegates,  entertainment,  railroads,  etc.,  may 
be  addressed  to  501  Witherspoon  Building, 
Philadelphia,  Pa,  Fvirtlier  information  will 
be  given  in  March  magazine. 

THE  TWENTIETH  CENTURY  FUND. 

Wliat  It  Means  to  the  Woman's  Foreign 
Missionary  Society. 

As  one  of  the  main  objects  of  this  great 
Fund,  called  for  by  the  General  Assembly,  is 
"the  enlargement  of  our  Foreign  Missionary 
Work,"  and  as  the  demand  for  the  enlarge- 
ment and  re-establishment  of  the  work  of  this 
Society  is  great,  and  as  we  have  already  ap- 
pealed for  a  permanent  advance  beyond  the 
receipts  of  last  year,  the  Society  now  resolves, 
"That  the  increase  of  two  per  cent,  or  more 
already  asked  for  be  considered  our  Twentieth 
Century  Fund,  and,  in  so  far  as  it  exceeds  our 
last  year's  gifts  (§157,000),  be  devoted  to  the 
re  establishment  of  work  in  China." 

To  Presbj^terial  and  Auxiliary  Societies,  in- 
cluding our  responsive  young  people,  this 
means  that,  after  they  have  met  pledges  and 
reached  last  year's  receipts,  the  overplus, 
whether  much  or  little,  will  go  to  swell  this 
Fund. 

To  individuals  who,  having  made  their  regu- 
lar gifts,  find  it  in  their  hearts  and  in  their 
power  to  give  a  special  offering  for  foreign 
missions,  it  means  that  such  offering  will  be 
gladly  received  and  included  in  the  "Twentieth 
Century  Fund. 

With  the  thought  of  the  significance  of  such 
an  offering,  and  the  need  of  large  sums  to  re- 
pair the  wastes  and  re  inforce  the  China  Mis- 
sions, do  you  ask,  "  Why  call  for  so  small  an 
advance  ?  Why  not  ask  for  ten  per  cent,  in- 
stead of  two  ?  "  Because  we  believe  that  ercry 
one  can  share  in  the  privilege  of  giving  two 
cents  on  the  dollar  more  than  she  gave  before, 
and  many  can  and  will  reach  and  exceed  the 


LIST  OF  OFFICERS  SEE  THIRD  PAGE  OF  COVER.] 

ten  per  cent. ;  the  two  per  cent,  should  be  our 
very  least. 

Do  you  say,  ' '  But  what  of  indemnity  from 
the  Chinese  government  ?  "  Tliat,  if  ever  re- 
ceived in  full,  or  in  part,  must  necessarily  be 
long  delayed,  and  wlien  received,  will  all  be 
needed  for  advance  work  in  that  great  em- 
pire. 

The  exact  disposition  of  our  money  will  be 
decided  later,  when  re-occupation  shall  be  safe 
and  plans  perfected,  but  our  missionaries 
must  be  housed,  cared  for  and  re  inforced  at 
the  earliest  possible  moment,  and  this  Society 
proposes,  with  its  Fund,  to  do  some  definite 
thing  toward  such  re-establishment. 

We  are  looking  forward  to  the  coming  of 
the  Annual  Assembly  with  enthusiasm,  and 
not  the  least  anticipation  is  that  of  the  an- 
nouncement, on  the  first  morning,  of  this 
Twentieth  Century  Fund,  given  out  of  grati- 
tude to  God  for  His  great  gift,  and  out  of  pity, 
forgiveness  and  love  for  China  in  her  great 
need,  with  an  overmastering  belief  in  the  tri- 
umph of  Christ  as  the  Redeemer  of  the  world. 

Julia  M.  Turner, 

President. 

PniLADELPniA,  Jan.  1,  IGOl. 

Blanks  for  Annual  Statistical  Reports  have 
been  issued.  Accuracy  in  filling  them  and 
promptitude  in  returning  will  greatly  lessen 
the  labor  at  headquarters  and  assist  in  making 
the  annual  report  of  the  Parent  Society  satis- 
factory and  helpful  to  all. 

It  is  expected  that  the  new  Historical  Sketch 
on  China  will  be  ready  by  February  1.  Price 
probably  5  cts.  For  those  who  are  novices  in 
preparing  for  Praise  Meeting,  a  folder  giving 
valuable  suggestions  is  now  ready,  free,  ex- 
cept for  1  cent  postage. 

The  Children  of  the  Day  (3  cts.,  15  cts.  per 
doz. ),  an  opening  devotional  service,  impres- 
sive and  full  of  suggestions  for  a  leader.  Two 
or  three  copies  will  be  sufficient  for  one  meet- 
ing, as  tlie  different  portions  are  to  be  copied. 

Tico  Object  Lessons  in  Chinese  and  Laos 
Christianity  (jyvice  2  cts.)  will  have  new  in 
terest  after  reading  of  the  Wang  family  in 
Jan.  Woman's  Work. 

From  Chicago. 

Meetings  at  Room  48,  Le  Moyne  Block,  40  E.  Ran- 
dolph Street,  every  Friday  at  10  a.m.   Visitors  welcome. 

Thirtieth  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Woman's 
Presbyterian  Board  of  Missions  of  the  North- 
west, will  be  held  April  24,  25,  in  the  First 


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TO  THE  AUXILIARIES. 


[Feb., 


Church,  Davenport,  Iowa,  where  we  met  in 
1887 — thougli  not  in  the  same  building,  for  the 
congregation  lias  recently  finished  a  fine  new 
edifice.  Fuller  notice  with  particulars  will  be 
in  the  March  magazine. 

Report  blanks,  with  printed  invitations  for 
the  societies  and  officers,  will  be  in  the  hands 
of  Presbyterial  Secretaries  before  this  i.s  read. 
Please  follow  directions  sent,  and  return 
promptly. 

In  using  the  "Six  Lessons"  four  of  our 
"Annals  "will  be  found  exceedingly  helpful 
— Carey,  Martyn,  Judson  and  Duff— price  each, 
18  cts.  paper,  30  cts.  cloth,  includes  postage. 

In  these  early  months  of  the  new  century 
are  we  shaping  our  work,  or  rather  seeking 
the  Father's  help  in  a  higher  aim  for  our  mis- 
sion work  ?  We,  who  have  had  such  wonder- 
ful blessings,  are  we  giving  out  to  those  who 
have  them  not  as  we  might  endeavoring, 
too,  to  impart  some  of  our  knowledge  of  what 
is  being  accomplished  ? 

In  the  Record  of  Christian  Work,  in  a  quota- 
tion from  Hugh  Stowell,  he  mentioned  visit- 
ing a  ruined  tower  on  the  Isle  of  Man,  where 
one  of  its  best  governors  had  been  hanged;  he 
had  been  wrongly  accused  of  treachery.  A 
pardon  was  sent  but  fell  into  the  hands  of  an 
enemy,  who  kept  it  and  allowed  the  innocent 
man  to  be  hanged.  Mr.  Stowell  says,  "  Let  us 
restrain  our  indignation  till  we  ask  ourselves 
whether  God  might  not  point  His  finger  at 
most  of  us  and  say,  '  Thou  art  the  man  1  Thou 
hast  a  pardon  in  thy  hands  to  save  thy  fellow 
creatures — not  from  temporal  but  eternal 
death — suited  to  all,  sent  to  all,  designed  for 
all.  Thou  hast  enjoyed  it  thyself,  but  hast  thou 
not  kept  it  back  from  thy  brothers  instead  of 
sending  it  to  the  ends  of  the  earth  ? '  " 

"  Forty-eight's"  Bulletin  has  gone  to  our 
societies  quite  generally.  It  is  in  such  form 
that  the  various  paragraphs  can  be  given  out 
to  as  many  different  members  to  read.  After- 
wards, the  secretary  can  gather  all  into  an 
envelope  and  keep  for  other  use.  The  pastor 
may  find  some  facts  for  his  missionary  talks. 

We  have  just  out  a  reprint  of  Dr.  McPher- 
son's  WJiy  our  Young  People  Should  be  Inter- 
ested in  Foreign  Missions,  1  ct.  each,  10  cts. 
per  doz.  Have  also,  Tivo  Object  Lessons  in 
Chinese  and  Laos  Christianity,  2  cts.  each,  15 
cts.  per  doz. ;  The  Daughters  of  Iran,  2  cts. 
each,  15  cts.  per  doz. ;  Missionary  Ships,  3 
cts.  each,  30  cts.  per  doz. ;  Key  for  same,  3 
cts.  each. 

Address  W.  P.  B.  M.,  Room  48,  Le  Moyne 
Block,  Chicago,  111. 

Will  not  those  who  send  for  one  copy  of  a 
one-cent  leaflet  please  consider  that  this  price 
cannot  "include  jiostage." 

From  New  York. 

Prayer-meeting  at  1,56  Fifth  Ave.,  cor.  SOth  St.,  the  first 
Wednesday  of  each  month,  at  10.30  a.m.  Each  other 
Wednesday  there  is  a  half-hour  meeting  for  prayer  and 
reading  of  missionary  letters,  commencing  at  game  hour. 

The  Thirty- first  Annual  Meeting  of  the 
Women's  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  will  be  held  in  Boston, 
on  Wednesday  and  Thursday.  April  10,  11. 
Delegates  will  please  send  their  names  to 


Miss  M.  G.  Janeway,  Chairman  of  the  Creden- 
tial Committee,  1G6  W.  55th  Street,  New 
York,  before  April  1. 

The  Y.  p.  S.  C.  E.  of  Geneva,  Genesee  and 
Chemung  Presbyteries  will  unite  with  Syra- 
cuse in  the  maintenance  of  Rev.  Chas.  F. 
Petran  of  Mexico.  An  interesting  letter,  to- 
gether with  sketches  of  his  first  impressions 
of  Mexico,  has  been  received  and  issued  to  the 
C.  E.  Societies. 

Miss  Grace  Newton  has  reached  her  home 
in  South  Orange  and  is  as  well  as  could  be  ex- 
pected after  all  her  trying  experiences  in  Pe- 
king and  her  illness  in  Shanghai. 

We  have  allowed  acknowledgment  of  the 
Slimmer  Offering  to  extend  through  De- 
cember, but  anything  which  may  come  here- 
after will  not  be  so  designated  in  reports. 

Nassau  Presbytery  held  an  interesting 
praise  meeting  at  Jamaica  in  December.  Miss 
Emma  Morris  of  Woodstock,  India,  was  the 
principal  speaker,  and  was  listened  to  with 
great  pleasure.  She  impressed  her  hearers 
with  her  earnestness,  interest  in  and  knowl- 
edge of  her  work. 

The  thanksgiving  meeting  at  Batavia,  N. 
Y.,  was  full  of  praise,  prayer  and  helpfulness 
for  all  those  fortunate  enough  to  be  present. 
The  programme  of  missionary  letters,  prayer, 
singing  and  "Causes  for  Thanksgiving"  was 
very  interesting. 

We  would  call  attention  to  the  leaflets 
which  have  been  sent  to  our  Presbj'terial  Sec- 
retaries of  Literature  in  the  interests  of  the 
China  Re-establishment  Fund.  Those  of  Dr. 
Brown  and  Dr.  Babcock  explain  the  present 
situation  in  China  and  the  necessit}^  for  this 
appeal.  The  message  which  accompanies 
them  fiom  our  Special  Object  Secretary  tells 
of  our  own  opportunity  for  rebuilding  the 
Girls'  School  in  Peking  and  gives  the  amount 
needed  for  the  purpose.  If  any  society  has 
not  received  these  leaflets,  let  them  send  at 
once  for  copies  to  their  Presbyterial  Secretary 
of  Literature. 

The  first  Society  to  respond  to  our  appeal 
for  the  China  Re  establishment  Fund  was  the 
Evening  Branch  of  the  University  Place 
Church,  New  York,  a  society  of  working  girls. 
The  object  \vas  presented  to  them  at  their 
January  meeting  and  was  received  with  great 
enthusiasm.  They  at  first  voted  to  take  §10 
from  their  treasury  for  the  Fund,  but  this  vote 
was  changed  and  it  was  decided  to  give  the 
offering  of  the  evening.  It  usually  amounts 
to  §5  or  §6,  and  the  idea  was  that  if  it  fell 
below  $10  the  balance  would  be  made  up  from 
the  treasury.  The  offering  that  night  amounted 
to  819.03,  afterwards  made  up  to  §20.  This, 
of  course,  without  any  knowledge  beforehand 
that  the  appeal  was  to  be  made. 

From  Northern  New  York. 

Too  late  for  announcement  in  the  last  issue, 
the  Committee  of  Arrangements  received  and 
accepted  a  cordial  invitation  from  the  ladies 
of  the  First  Church,  Gloversville,  N.  Y.,  the 
Rev.  Harvey  Clements,  pastor,  to  hold  the 
Twenty -ninth  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Society 
with  tiiem,  April  17,  18.  It  is  not  too  early  for 


1901.] 


TO  THE  AUXILIARIES. 


57 


Auxiliaries  to  be  thinking  and  planning  for 
the  first  meeting  of  the  Society  in  the  new- 
century.  Above  all,  much  earnest  prayer  is 
needed,  that  our  coming  together  may  be  in 
the  Spirit  and  with  power. 

Next  month  the  blanks  will  be  sent  out  to 
all  the  Societies,  to  be  filled  and  promptly  re- 
turned. Are  the  treasurers  ready  for  their 
column  ?  Now,  not  the  end  of  March,  is  the 
time  to  see  that  all  pledges  are  met.  Each 
Auxiliary  and  Young  People's  Society  should 
seek  to  begin  the  new  century  with  increased 
gifts,  not  a  deficiency. 

The  Assembly's  Board  has  granted  Mr.  Lin- 
gle  his  furlough  now.  "We  are  hoping  he  can 
be  with  us  at  Gloversville,  and  trust  there 
will  be  many  of  the  Endeavorers  from  Cham- 
plain  and  Troj'  Presbyteries  to  welcome  liim. 

We  ])ave  the  pleasure  of  welcoming  into 
our  ranks  a  new  Auxiliary  from  the  Union 
Church  of  Schenectady,  N.  Y. ,  just  recently 
organized.  The  church  is  to  be  congratulated 
on  beginning  its  work  with  a  missionary  so- 
ciety. The  pastor.  Rev.  Joseph  H.  Miller,  met 
with  and  aided  the  ladies  in  organizing  the 
society. 

We  again  urge  that  orders  for  the  Year 
Book  of  Praj'er  be  sent  to  Miss  C.  A.  Bush,  29 
Second  St.,  Troy,  N.  Y.  Price,  ten  cents.  A 
copy  should  be  in  every  home. 

From  St.  Louis. 

Meetings  at  1,516  Locust  St.,  Room  21,  the  first  and 
third  Tuesdays  of  each  month.  Leaflets  and  missionary 
literature  obtained  by  sending  to  the  above  number. 
Visitors  and  friends  cordially  welcomed. 

By  the  time  this  reaches  you  the  Board  of 
the  Southwest  Quarterly  will  be  in  your 
hands.  This  is  a  new  venture,  and  it  depends 
as  much  upon  you  as  it  does  upon  the  mana- 
gers to  make  it  a  success.  We  shall  endeavor 
to  send  out  all  missionary  letters  received  at 
the  Board  Rooms  in  this  way.  The  price  is  so 
small  that  it  is  within  reach  of  every  one — only 
ten  cents  a  year — and  we  shall  try  to  make  it 
a  channel  of  communication  between  the 
Board  and  the  local  societies.  Will  you  do 
your  part  toward  making  it  a  success  ? 

A  MOST  delightful  letter  comes  from  Mrs. 
Dager,  at  Elat — we  have  printed  it  at  full 
length  in  the  Quarterly,  also,  a  report  of  the 
Teheran  School.  This  latter  will  be  espe- 
cially welcome,  as  there  have  been  many  re- 
quests for  information  concerning  this  school. 
The  report  is  such  an  encouraging  one  that  it 
is  a  pleasure  to  forward  it. 

Miss  Palmer  of  Yamaguchi  was  in  the  city 
lately,  and  of  course  came  to  Room  21.  We 
were  delighted  to  see  her  looking  so  well,  her 
health  almost  completel3'  restored  and  the 
trouble  in  her  hand  much  improved.  One  re- 
mark she  made  was  very  significant:  "The 
moment  I  was  assured  that  I  would  not  have 
to  make  public  addresses  I  began  to  im- 
prove.' Our  missionaries  come  to  the  home- 
land on  furlough  for  rest  and  recuperation — 
tliey  are  often  kept  on  such  a  constant  strain  by 
being  compelled  to  speak  in  public,  that  they 
go  back  in  worse  condition  than  tliey  came. 
It  is  not  given  to  every  one  to  speak  fluently 
before  audiences, — some  have  this  gift  pre- 


eminently, like  our  dear  Miss  Melton,  and  we 
;>re  glad  to  use  it,  but  why  impose  this  burden 
upon  those  who  feel  unfitted  for  it  ?  We  are 
all  glad  to  see  and  hear  our  dear  returned 
missionaries,  but  we  must  also  bear  in  mind 
that  it  is  often  as  much  their  duty  to  rest,  and 
so  secure  reserve  power,  as  it  is  to  work.  Miss 
Palmer  returns  to  Japan  in  Januarj\  God's 
blessing  attend  her  wlierever  she  goes ! 

Letters  from  Dr.  Fleming  and  Mrs.  Jennie 
Sherman  Grierson,  both  still  in  China,  appear 
in  the  Quarterly.  Dr.  Milligan's  letter  from 
Africa  may  be  secured  in  the  form  of  a  leaflet 
in  time  for  March  meetings  in  the  Auxiliaries. 

Do  not  neglect  to  renew  subscriptions  to 
your  missionary  magazines,  and  a  word  here 
for  the  children's  paper.  Over  Sea  and  Land. 
The  foundations  for  almost  all  interests  are 
laid  in  childhood,  and  religious  interests  most 
of  all.  Seed  planted  late  is  apt  to  be  choked 
by  weeds,  while  the  fruits  of  early  planting 
get  a  start  before  weeds  appear — any  farmer 
will  assure  you  of  this.  So  with  the  Master's 
good  seed — get  it  in  early.  An  interest  in 
missions  instilled  into  childish  minds  will 
abide  through  life. 

From  San  Francisco. 

Public  meeting  at  920  Sacramento  Sti'eet  the  first  Mon- 
day in  each  month  atl0..30A.si.  and  1.15  p.m.  All  are 
invited.   Executive  Committee,  third  Monday. 

A  HAPPY  Christmas  was  enjoyed  by  the 
Chinese  and  their  American  friends.  It  is  al- 
ways a  time  for  a  general  gathering  in  the 
Chinese  Church.  Chinese  lanterns  and  scar- 
let silk  embroideries  were  hung  in  conspicu- 
ous places;  the  costumes  of  the  children 
added  to  the  brightness.  They  gave  recita- 
tions and  songs  in  great  variety,  which  sliowed 
the  careful  training  received  in  our  schools. 
Two  of  our  Occidental  Board  grandchildren 
have  graduated  from  the  Occidental  school  to 
the  fifth  grade  in  a  public  grammar  school. 
The  gifts  and  candy  bags  were  greatly  en- 
joyed. Parents  and  children  and  young  men 
and  women  all  seemed  to  feel  at  home  in  the 
church  under  the  fatherly  direction  of  Dr. 
Condit,  with  the  help  of  Mrs.  Condit. 

The  Occidental  Board  will  observe  one  day 
during  the  week  of  prayer  for  a  special  ser- 
vice. 

Gifts  of  turkeys  and  boxes  of  fruit  are  al- 
ways sent  to  the  Mission  Home  during  the  holi- 
days by  families  made  up  from  the  Home,  who 
live  in  the  country.  The  missionaries  and  the 
girls  thus  enjoy  their  Thanksgiving  and 
Cliristmas  dinners,  well  pleased  to  be  so 
remembered. 

The  Union  Street  Church  West  Oakland 
Society  has  pledged  for  the  support  of  two 
foreign  missionaries  the  coming  year  the 
sum  of  §1,000.  The  support  of  one  is  the  gift 
of  a  friend  of  tliis  church,  and  the  other  by 
the  church  itself.  This  is  a  comparatively 
small  church  made  up  largely  of  people  in 
moderate  circumstances.  Their  society  has 
for  some  time  been  the  banner  society  of  this 
Presbytery,  having  a  membership  of  140,  with 
an  attendance  by  aJmost  that  number.  The 
earnest,  consecrated  spirit  of  the  pastor  is 
shared  by  the  membership. 


58        NEW  S.  C.  E.  SOCIETIES—TREASURERS'  REPORTS.  [Feb., 


Our  Secretary  of  Literature,  Mrs.  H.  Pin- 
ney,  1,407  Castro  Street,  Oakland,  has  ordered 
B  new  supply  of  Historical  Sketches  in  paper 
cover,  ten  cents  each.  Each  country  where 
we  have  missionaries  is  among  the  subjects 
of  the.se  sketches ;  the  early  and  later  history 
of  each,  with  record  of  every  missionaiy  sent 
out  from  the  beginning  of  service,  deaths,  etc. 
This  little  book  is  valuable  for  reference  for 
future  years  as  it  has  been  in  the  past. 

From  Portland,  Oregon. 

Meetings  on  the  first  and  third  Tuesdays  of  each 
month  at  the  First  Presbyterian  Church.  Visitors  wel- 
come. 

At  the  December  meeting  of  our  Executive 
Committee,  attention  was  called  to  the  fact 
that  the  regular  time  for  the  next  meeting 
would  be  New  Year's  morning,  and  the  ques- 
tion whether  the  meeting  should  be  held  was 
unanimously  decided  in  the  afifirmative. 
There  seemed  to  be  no  more  desirable  way  of 
commencing  the  New  Year  and  the  New  Cen- 
tury than  by  attending  to  the  work  at  hand 
in  connection  with  our  branch  of  the  Lord's 
work.  It  was  also  decided  that  much  time 
should  be  spent  in  prayer  at  the  January 
meetings. 

We  are  glad  to  welcome  a  new  Auxiliary  at 
La  Grand,  Oregon. 

The  society  at  Walla  Walla  is  the  first  to 
report  having  made  its  ten  j)er  cent,  advance 
for  the  fiscal  year. 

The  Christian  Endeavorers  at  Ashland  have 
reported  a  large  advance  on  last  year's  gifts. 

Christian  Endeavorers  in  the  First  Church 
at  Spokane  find  great  pleasure  in  learning  how 
fast  dollars  and  cents  count  up  when  the 
members  of  a  society  become  systematic  giv- 
ers, and  each  gives  a  certain  small  amount 


monthly.  They  expect  to  have  three  hun- 
dred dollars  in  their  treasury  before  the  close 
of  the  year. 

Miss  Protzman  has  recently  accepted  invi- 
tations to  address  the  Christian  Endeavor  So- 
cieties in  the  First  and  Forbes  Churches, 
Portland.  She  presented  in  a  clear  and  com- 
prehensive manner  the  work  assigned  to  our 
Endeavorers,  and  found  the  societies  deeply 
interested. 

Mrs.  Allen  accepted  an  invitation  from 
the  Endeavorers  at  Camas,  to  give  a  Sabbath 
evening  address  on  India  and  our  work  and 
workers  there.  This  is  the  banner  society  in 
Olympia  Presbyterj'.  and  has  recently  ordered 
the  Student  Volunteer  missionary  library. 

"A  Chat  About  Missionary  Books  "  is  a  lit- 
tle leaflet  by  Dr.  Halsey,  Home  Secretarj'  of 
the  Assembly's  Board.  It  mentions  forty  or 
fifty  of  the  especially  desirable  missionary 
books  with  a  few  words  of  comment  upon 
each.  It  is  exceedingly  helpful  to  those  who 
desire  to  make  selections  for  a  library. 

New  leaflets  of  special  interest  to  Secretaries 
of  Literature  are  in  our  depository ;  also  up-to- 
date  leaflets  on  China  and  the  Year  Book  for 
1901.  For  all  literature  send  to  Mrs.  E.  C. 
Protzman,  No.  15  North  Park  St.,  Portland. 
Oregon.  Mrs.  Protzman  reports  a  number  of 
pleasant  calls  from  Secretaries  of  Literature 
who  have  been  in  the  city. 

Flourishing  Junior  Endeavor  Societies 
have  been  heard  from  at  Grant's  Pass  and  in 
St.  John's  Chtirch,  Portland. 

SoiiE  of  the  oflScers  of  the  Board  wish  that 
they  might  bear  more  frequently  from  Pres- 
byterial  Secretaries.  It  is  not  enough  for 
them  to  pass  along  the  information  which  is 
sent  to  them.  Officers  of  the  Board  need  to 
know  that  this  is  done. 


DISTRICT     OF  COI^UMBIA  

Washington,  Metropolitan  (Inf) 
DELAWARE.  —  Wilmington,  Cen- 
tral. 

FLORIDA.— Auburndale  ;  Crescent 
City  (Jr.) 

NEAV   JERSEY.— Bloomfield  (Jr.'*; 
IIacken8ack(Jr.);  Newark,  S.  Park. 


NEW  S.  C.  E.  SOCIETIES. 

NORTH  CAROLINA  Shiloh. 

OHIO.— Cleveland,  Willson  Ave.; 
Greencastle;  Kalida;  Lima.  Market 
St.;  Lima,  New  Shark;  Milford; 
Norwood,  Orrville;  Rush  Creek; 
Shadyside. 

PENNSYLV ANI A.— Beulah ;  Camp- 
town;  Canton  (Jr.);  Dauphin;  Dick- 
inson; Galetou;  Gettysburg;  Har- 


risbnrg.  Calvary;  Harrisbnrg,  Covc- 
nantC.E.  and  (Jr.'i;  Harrisburg.P)ne 
St.;  Manor;  Oakmont  (Jr.);  Pine 
Creek,  1st:  Pittsburg,  6th  (Jr.); 
Mt.  Washington  (Jr.);  Pine  Grove; 
Ridley  Park  (Jr.);  Tylcrsburg; 
Ulster;  Upper  BuflEalo;  W.  Middle- 
sex. 

WEST  VIRGINIA  Fairmont. 


Receipts  of  the  'Woman's  Foreign  Missionary  Society  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  from  Dec.  I,  1900. 

PRESBYTERIES  IN  SMALL  CAPITALS.  *  Indicates  Thank  Offering. 


Baltimore.- Baltimore,  1st,  159.01;  Brown  Mem'l,  S.C. 
E.,  ia..50;  Central,  .50,  Y.L.S.,  10;  Covenant,  S.C.E.,  10; 
Park,  28.35;  Deer  (Jreek  Harmony,  15.2fi;  Hagerstown,  Vi\ 
Havre-de-Grace,  S.C.E.,  C;  Taneytown,  S.C.E.,8,  S3I2.ia 

Blaiusville.— Beulah  (silver  off.,  5.C,5),  1.3. G5,  S.C.E.,  20; 
Blairsville,  11.44,  L.L.  Bearers,  50  cts.;  Braddock,  1st  (silver 
off,  80  cts.),  5;  Cresson,  10;  Derry,  1(;.40;  Greensburg,  1st, 
W.M.8.,  25;  Westm'r,  10;  Irwin.  4.0.5,  S.C.E.,  20;  Johns- 
town, 1st,  silver  off.,  10.15,  I-Will-Try  Bd.,  7.31;  Laurel 
Ave.,  (*10..tO),  17.55;  Murrysville,  Boys'  and  Girls'  Bd., 
18.50;  New  Alexandria,  10;  Pine  Run,  12.10;  Plum  Creek, 

8,  S.C.E.,  20;  Poke  Run,  12.11,  Silver  Links,  1.81,  25:3..57 
Carlisle.— Dauphin,  S.C.E.,  1.60 
Catawba.— Concord,  Laura    Sunderland    Sch.,  1.3.17; 

Shiloh,  S.C.E.,  1..50,  14.07 
Chester.- Atglen,  Y.L.B.,  5;  Avondale,  9.50;  Bcrwyn, 

9,  Mustard  Seeds,  2. .50;  Chester,  1st,  5;  .3d,  17;  Coatsville, 
5;  Darby  Borough,  10;  Downingtown,  5  19;  Fagg's  Manor, 
20;  East  Whiteland,  15;  Great  Valley,  31.00;  Laiisdowne, 
B5.10,  Y.L.S.,  2.50,  Y.P.Ass'n,  5;  Media  (*19.25),  .53.85;  New 
London,  11.05;  Oxford,  110;  Ridley  Park,  I)ewdro))s,  0.30, 
S  C  E  Jr.,  5;  Wayne,  Helen  Newton  Circle,  5;  West  Chester, 
Westm'r,  11.70,  S.C.E.,  3.03,  (423.38,  less  0.10  paid  pre- 
viously), 417.28 


Columbus —Green  Castle,  S.C.E..  9.05 
French  Broad.— Ashcvillc,  Home   Industrial  Sch..  3; 
College  Hill,  1.50;  Hot  Springs,  3;  Oakland  Heights.  2..50; 
Miss  Mary  Johns,  3,  13.00 
Huntinodon.— Beulah,  S.C.E.,  .5.00 
Jersey  City.— GJarlield,  !),  S.C.E.,  2;  Hackensack,  S.C. 
E.,  10;  Hoboken,  1st.  .32,  Wood  Violets,  40;  Jersey  City,  1st, 
19.90;  2d,  S.C.E.,  10;  Leonia,  5.70;  Newfoundland,  9;  Pas- 
saic, 1st,  70.37;   Paterson,  1st,  30;  2d.  40;  East  Side,  10; 
Redeemer,  ,56.30,  Y.L.S.,  7.50;    Rutherford,  83.15,  S.C.E., 
14.58;  Tenafly,  29.30,  S.C.E.,  .5,  4K3.76 
Lackawanna.— Canton.  1st.  S.C.E.  Jr.,  11.00 
Lehigh.- Allentown,  63..50;  Bangor,  9.90;  Bethlehem,  1st, 
10;  Catasauqua,  1st,  19;  Bridge  St.  Bd.,  13;  Easton,  Ist,  35. 
Y.L.C.,  15;  Braincrd  Tnion.  47;  College  Hill,  10;  South 
Side,  S.C.E.,  10;  Hazlcton,  90.9.3,  S.C.E..  6;  Mahanoy  Citv. 
7.75;  Mauch  Chunk,  38;  Middle  Smithfield,  a  lady,  15;  Port 
Carbon,  7;  Pottsville,  1st,  34;  Shawnee,  30;  Stroiidsburg, 
28.85,  Little  Reapers,  2,  491.93 
Morris  and  Orange.- Chatham,  50;    Dover,  20;  E. 
Orange,  1st,  100,  Willing  Workers,  50;  Arlington  Ave.,  45; 
Bethel,  S.C.E.,  15;  Brick,  100;  Flanders,  5;  Uasover,  75; 
Madison,  23;  ftforristown,  Ist,  Mrs.  J.  B.  Beaumont,  5;  Mt. 
Olive,  Olive  Branches,  5;  New  Providence,  10;  Orange,  1st, 


1901.] 


TREASURERS'  REPORTS. 


59 


Y.L.S.,  65,  S.C.E.,  20;  Central,  428.25,  a  gentleman,  1,000, 
Y.P.S.,  25;  St.  Cloud,  Mite  Boxes.  13.22;  Schooley's  Monii- 
tain,  17.50,  S.C.E.,  10,  S.C.E.  Jr.,  2.50;  South  Orange.  1st. 
15.  2,132.47 

Northumberland.— Berivick,  3.80;  Bloomshurgr,  34; 
Buffalo  Cross  Roads,  S.C.E.,  8:  Danville  Grove.  14  :30;  Ma- 
honing. 19.43;  Lewisburg,  T.W.S.,  5;  Lock  Haven,  51.40, 
Y.L.B.,  G.SB;  MifRinbure,  Rcardon  Bd.,  3;  Milton.  .30; 
Montgomery,  S.C.E.,  63  cts.:  Munev,  5.64;  New  Berlin,  Mite 
Soc,  3,  Mrs.  J.  B.  Packer.  5;  Renovo,  Y.W.S.,  3;  Warrior 
Run,  13;  Washington,  27;  Watsontown,  11;  Williamsport, 
Ist.  20.50  ;  3d,  28.01;  Bethany,  4.46;  Covenant,  106.25,  Y.L. 
S.,  44.87,  448.21 

Parkersburg.— Buckhannon,  6.92,  S.C.E.,  9;  Fairmont, 
3,  McFarland  Bd.,  2.65.  S.C.E.,  3.60;  French  Creek.  2,75: 
Grafton,  10;  Hughes'  River,  6;  Parkersburg,  11:  Ravens- 
wood,  6.74;  SistersvUle,  41.25;  Spencer,  .3,  105.91 


Philadelphia.— Tt-bemacle,  Mrs.  E.  L.  Linnard,  50.00 
PiTTSBrRG  AND  Alleg.  Com. — Allegheny,  North,  18.00 
Shenango.— Mrs.  Taylor's  Remembrance  Fund,  85;  Har- 
lansburg,  10,  S.C.E.,  5;  Leesburg.  15;  Mt.  Pleasant,  40; 
New  Brighton  (*.34),  75;  New  Castle.  1st,  10;  Central,  7; 
Rifh  Hiir,  22.50:,  Sharon,  20;  Slippery  Rock,  6;  Westfield, 
77.6.5,  S.C.E..  .50,  42.3.15 
Legacy.— Miss  AnnaM.  Dale,  dec'd.  Lancaster,  Pa.,  31.30 
Miscellaneous.— Swarthmore,  Pa.,  Phyllis  K.  Lean,  en- 
tertainment, 3;  Interest  on  Investments,  421.95;  Interest  on 
deposits,  80.40,  •  505.35 


Total  for  December,  1900,  $5,742.97 
Total  since  May  1,  1900.  88,412.76 
Mrs.  Julia  M.  Fishburn,  Treas.. 
Jan.  1,  1901.  501  Witherspoon  BIdg.,  Philadelphia. 


Receipb  of  the  Woman's  Presbyterian  Board  of  Missions  of  the  Nortfiwest  to  December  20,  1900. 


Aberdeen.— Aberdeen.  12.6.3.  C.E.,  15;  Britton.  5.  C.E., 
5:  Groton,  C.E.,5;  Pierpont,  3;  Langford,  C.E.,  2  37;  Eu- 
rekii,  C.E.,  4..50,  So2.50 

Bloomington.— Champaign,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Chas.  A.  Gunn, 

12.50 

Central  Dakota.— Artesian,  8;  Brookings,  17.16; 
Huron,  38.30,  C.E.,  5.  Jr.  C.E..  8;  Madison.  7.90,  C.E.,  5; 
Miller,  3;  Ouida.  3.25;  Rose  Hill,  2.11;  Woonsocket,  5, 

102.72 

Chippewa.— Baldwin,  5;  Chippewa  Falls,  2.50;  W.  Snpe- 
lior,  4.50,  12  00 

Chicago.— Cabery,  C.E.,  10;  Chicago,  1st,  1.32.55,  C.E., 
10;  3d,  100,  Jr.  C.E..  .30;  4th,  108;  6th,  25;  7th,  C.E.,  6;  9th, 
4,  C  E.,  5;  Avondale,  1;  Brookline  Pk.,  2.50;  Chicago 
Heights,  1;  Campbell  Pk..  25;  Eviinston,  Ist,  Chapel.  5;  En- 
glewood.  1st.  10,  C.E..  12.50:  Foster  Mission,  C.E.,  10;  Hyde 
Park,  42..50,  C.E.,  15;  Hinsdale,  12.20;  Highland  Pk.,  Shin- 
in"  Lights.  16.50;  Lakeview,  14.58;  Ridgway  Ave.,  1.58; 
52d  Ave.,  C.E.,  10:  Imroanuel  Ch..  Mrs.  A.  S.  C.  Clarke,  25; 
Anon..  9.25;  "  A  thank  offering  for  the  Christ  who  died  for 
me."  2-  Joliet,  1st,  30;  Manteno,  9.40;  Peotone,  14;  St. 
Anne,  C.E.,  3,  T02..5G 

Council  Blctfs.— Atlantic,  5.41;  Casey,  1;  Council 
Bluffs,  1st,  30;  Griswold.  Bethel  Chapel,  4.24;  Menlo,  12.64; 
Missouri  Valley,  15.50;  Hardin  Tp.,  1.50;  Shelby,  2;  Wood- 
tine,  7.07,  T9.36 

DcLUTH.— Duluth,  1st.  50.80;  Glen  Avon,  22.29;  Westm'r 
Ch.,  6.:32;  Lakeview,  Irwin  Soc,  29.44,  C.E.,  2.45;  Two  Har- 
bors, 2.40,  113.70 

Freeport.— Argyle,  99.94;  Dakota,  5;  Freeport.  1st.  20; 
Galena,  1st,  C.E.,  5;  Hanover,  C.E.,  10;  Linn  and  Hebron, 
10;  Marengo.  C.E..  100;  Oregon.  9.78;  Ridgefield,  C.E.,  1.81; 
Rockford,  1st.  4:164;  Westm'r  Ch.,  20;  Winnebago,  13; 
AVoodstock.  10,  :il8.17 

Grand  Rapids.— Evart,  6;  Grand  Rapids,  1st,  10; 
Westm'r  Ch.,  15.  C.E.,  8.75,  Y.W.S.,  2.50;  Immanuel  Ch., 

I.  50;  Hesperia,  1.25;  Ionia,  0.40.  Jr.  C.E.,  50  cts.;  Luding- 
ton,  2.70;  Montague,  C.E.,  1;  Spring  Lake,  1.2,5,  56.85 

Helena.— Bozeman,  14,  Jr.  C.E.,  10;  Helena,  2.50;  Miles 
City,  2,  28.50 

Indianapolis.— Indianapolis,  Miss  H.  A.  Mayo.  9.00 

Kalamazoo.— Benton  Harbor,  3  50;  Buchanan,  2.60;  Bun- 
Oak,  1;  Decatur.  75  cts. ;  Edwardsburg,  4.  C.E.,  1..36;  Kala- 
mazoo. Ist,  .31.80,  C.E.,  6.50;  Niles,  17,  C.E.,  9;  Paw  Paw, 
1;  Plainwell,  5;  Richland,  17.64,  C.E.,  2.29;  Sturgis,  .3,  C. 
E.,  5;  Schoolcraft,  1;  Three  Rivers,  2.74,  115.18 

La  Crosse.— Decora  Prairie,  C.E.,  2.54;  La  Crosse,  2; 
New  Amsterdam,  2.12,  6.66 

Lake  Superior.— Escanaba.  4,  C.E.,  5;  Iron  Mountain, 
8;  Ishpeming.  6;  Manistique.  25;  Marquette,  25,  C.E.,  20, 
Lake  Superior  Bd..  15;  Menominee,  45,  153.00 

Madison.— Baraboo,  9;  Beloit,  C.E..  5.150;  Janesville,  18; 
Kilbourn,  C.E.,  15;  Richland  Center.  50  cts..  4S.0O 

Mankato.— Blue  Earth,  27.01;  Pilot  Grove,  12;  Jackson, 
8;  Le  Sueur.  Cheadle  Mem'l,  5;  Luverne,  :i.50;  Morgan,  C. 
E.,  2;  Redwood  Falls,  8;  Rushmore,  2.:35;  St.  Pettr.  3.20; 
Slavton,  24.00;  Windom,  1.75;  Winnebago  City,  1;  Worth- 
ington.  18.4:3,  116.84 

Mattoon. — .\8hmore,  5.75,  C.E.,  3.25;  Assumption.  45; 
Charlestown,  9.77;  Kansas,  18.50;  Neoga,  10,  C.E..  1.20; 
Paris.  81;  Tavlorville,  C.E.,  2.75:  TowerHill,  4.50;  Tuscola, 

II,  C.E..  20.  jr.C.E.,  2;  Vandalia,  6.25;  W.  Okaw,  Prairie 
Home  Ch . ,  75  cts. ,  221 .72 

Milwaukee. — Beaver  Dam,  1st,  C.E.,  10;  Ottawa,  2; 
Manitowoc,  11.15;  Milwaukee,  Bethany  Ch.,  C.E.,  6.09;  Cal- 
vary Ch.,  33;  Immanuel  Ch.,  100,  C.E.,  5;  Perseverance  Ch., 
5.4:3.  C.E..  8.22;  Westm'r  Ch.,  4.20,  C.E.,  9;  Somers,  5,  C.E., 
16.22;  Waukesha,  14.50,  229.81 

Minneapolis.— Buffalo,  7.50:  Minneapolis,  Andrew  Ch., 
Y.W.S.,  10;  Bethany  Ch.,  2.60;  Ist,  31.20;  Highland  Pk. 
Ch.,  17.30;  House  of  Faith  Ch.,  5;  Oliver  Ch.,  9.21;  Westm'r 
Ch.,  108.6:3,  Y.W.S.,  9,  200..34 

Monroe.— Blissfield,  C.E.,  2.00 

Omaha.— Bancroft,  1.25;  Belle\Tie,  3.60,  C.E..  0;  Craig, 
4.56;  Fremont.  8.94;  Omaha.  Castellar  St.  Ch.,  5..39,  Jr.  C. 
E.,  1,  Inter.  C.E.,  2.15;  Clifton  Hill  Ch.,  C.E.,  2  .50.  Jr.  C.E., 
3;  1st,  36.16,  C.E.,  39;  2d,  13.04,  C.E.,  2;  Knox  Ch.,  7.12,  C. 


E..  12;  Lowe  Ave.  Ch.,  12.  C.E.,  8.7.5,  Inter.  C.E.,  3; 
Westm'r  Ch..  7.42;  Schuyler,  5.05,  C.E.,  5;  S.  Omaha,  6.84; 
Tekamah,  C.E.,  5,  Jr.  C.E.,  3.75;  Colon,  Marietta  Ch.,  2.54; 
Waterloo,  1.60,  C.E.,  2,  209.66 

Pueblo.— Bowen,  1;  Canon  Cilv,  5,  C.E.,  7;  Colorado 
Springs,  1st,  .31.2.5,  C.E.,  20;  2d,  4.50;  Florence.  S.6I;  Hill- 
top, 6;  Hooper,  4;  La  Junta,  2.50;  Monte  Vista.  10;  Pueblo, 
1st,  17.50,  Loani  Bd..  7;  Mesa  Ch.,  C.E.,  10,  Workers,  5; 
Westm'r  Ch.,  3.75,  C.E.,  4.25;  Trinidad,  11;  Walsenburg, 
1.25,  159.61 

Rock  River.— Aledo,  13.60;  Alexis,  2.38;  Dixon,  8.75; 
Edgington,  5,  C.E.,  7..50;  Newton  Ch.,  11.73,  Earnest  Work- 
ers, 40.60;  Fulton,  8.75;  Garden  Plain,  3.15;  Geneseo,  3.59; 
Hamlet  and  Perry  ton.  ;35.80;  Joy,  Peniel  Ch.,  8.25;  Milan, 
12.60;  Morrison,  5,  Jr.  C.E.,  7:  Norwood.  11.75;  Pleasant 
Ridge.  4.50;  Princeton.  41.05;  Rock  Island,  Central  Ch., 
1.30;  Broadway  Ch  ,  14.2.5,  Jr.  C.E..  6.  Ruth's  Bd.,  18;  Sea- 
ton,  Center  Ch.,  9;  Sterling,  37.50;  Viola,  80  cts. ;  Wood- 
hull,  7.82,  :i25.67 

St.  Paul.— Hastings.  10.  Busv  Bees.  7.80;  Red  Wing, 
19.50;  Dayton  Ave.  Ch.,  9.40:  House  of  Hope  Ch.,  45;  Mac- 
alester.  Golden  Rule  Bd.,  20..50;  Jleiriam  Pk.,  Van  Cleve 
Ave.,  15.62,  127.82 

Schuyler.- Benton,  C.E.,  1:  Bethel  Ch.,  C.E..  7:  Hers- 
man,  C.E..  13;  Macomb.  1.20;  Ebenezer  Ch..  5;  Monmouth, 
8;  Mt.  Sterlmg.  C.E.,  27.43;  Earnest  Workers,  10;  Niota, 
Appanoose  Ch..  C.E..  5;  Oquawka,  C.E.,  5;  Rushville,  8.50, 
C.E.,  14;  Warsaw,  1.25,  10B..38 

SpRrNGPiELD.— Mason  City,  3.00 

Sioux  City.— Ashton,  German  Ch.,  C.E.,  2:  Ida  Grove, 
Jr.  C.E.,  1.50,  3.50 

Waterloo.— Ackley.  9,  C.E.,  5;  Aplington,  2.40;  Clarks- 
ville,  C.E.,  2;  Greene.  C.E.,  2.50;  Grundy  Center,  3;  State 
Center,  4.50;  Toledo,  C.E.,  5.  3:3.40 

Whitewater.— Bright,  10,  C.E..  1:  Clarksburg,  3.10; 
College  Corner.  .5,  Jr.  C.E.,  5;  Connersville,  16.54; 
Greensburs,  50.  C.E.,  4.04;  Knightstown,  4;  Lawrenceburg, 
2.82,  Jr.C.E.,  1;  Liberty,  8.74;  Harmony  Ch.,5;  Richmond, 
70,  C.E.,  10;  Rising  Sun,  18;  Rus.hville,  10;  Shelbyville, 
12  .50.  C.E.,  10,  E.  Xan  Pelt  Soc,  2.50,  249.24 

MisoLLANEOus.— Chicago  Pbv. — Ch.  of  the  Covenant, 
49.65;  Central  Pk.  Ch.,  5.07;  A.  K.  I.,  11  cts.;  .3d,  13.21 ;  4th, 
50.;35;  41st  St.  Ch.,  12.84;  6th,  40  Cts.;  Lakeview,  1.5.75;  Ar- 
lington Heights,  15.60;  Lake  Forest.  Ferrv  Hall,  4;  Joliet, 
Central  Ch..  3.50;  Evanston.  South  Ch.,  6.52;  OakI'k.,Mr8. 
Edwin  Middleton,  1;  Harvey,  Mrs.  Jos.  Flint  and  Mrs. 
Field,  2:  Peotone.  12;  Riverside,  2.50;  Wilmington,  Mrs.  A. 
J.  White,  5.  Council  Bluffs  Pby.— Woodbine,  1.25;  Mrs. 
Frances  E.  Willett,  9.  Dubuque  Pbv  — Coggon,  2.  Duluth 
Pby.— Duluth,  1st.  29.40:  Glen  Avon,  21. ISf  Two  Harbors, 
4.30.    Freeport  Pbv.— Freeport,  1st,  22.50:  Rockford,  1st, 

I.  50;  Westm'r  Ch!,  10.84;  Winnebago,  8:3  cts.  Hastings 
Pby. — Aurora.  7.13.  Kalamazoo  Pbv. — Decatur,  5;  Kala- 
mazoo, 1st,  10.84;  North  Ch.,  3.58;  Plainwell,  3;  Richland, 
50  cts.;  Three  Rivers,  2.75.  Lake  Superior  Pby —Iron  Mt., 
9;  Marquette,  13.10.  Lansing  Pby.— Marshall.  7  :30.  Madi- 
son Pby.— Richland  Center,  4.25.  Mankato  Pby.— Jackson, 
5:  Le  Sueur,  5..50;  Luverne.  5.60;  Mankato,  6.45;  Pilot 
Grove.  :3.75:  St.  James,  16;  Worthington,  27.26,  S.S.,  6.76; 
Reading,  1.57.  Omaha  Pby. — Bancroft,  2.  New  Albany, 
Pby.— New  Albany,  2d,  12.35.  Nebraska  City  Pby.— 
Adams,  5.75;  Hebron,  6.89;  Lincoln.  1st,  20.85.  Ottawa 
Pby.— Aux.  Sable  Grove,  15;  Aurora,  3;  Mendota,  14; 
Streator,  2.25.  Peoria  Pby.— Dunlap,  6;  Farmington,  9..50; 
Knoxville,  6..50;  Peoria,  1st.  24;  Arcadia  Ave.  Ch.~  3;  Prince- 
ville,  7;  Yates  City,  13.55.  Pueblo  Pby.— Canon  City,  75 
cts.;  Colorado  Springs.  1st,  7;  Goldfield,  6;  La  J»nta,"4.40; 
Pueblo,  Fountain  Ch",  65  cts.;  Trinidad.  5.  Rock  River  Pby. 
— Aledo.  10;  Di.xon.  2..50;  Albany,  6:  Geneseo,  7.20;  Prince- 
ton. 17.60;  Rock  Island,  Broadwav  Ch.,  11,  Ruth's  Bd., 

II.  50.  St.  Paul  Pby.— St.  Paul.  Bethlehem  Ch.,  2;  Merriam 
Pk.,  Wayside  Gleaners,  1.29;  Van  Cleve  Soc,  4;  House  of 
Hope  Ch..  Adult  Bible  CI.,  7.75;  Dayton  Ave.  Ch.,  7.96; 
Hastings,  fi;  Stillwater,  Allbright  Bd.,  2.86.  Springfield 
Pby.— Maroa,  .3.25.  Waterloo  Pby.— Albion,  1:  San  Fran- 
cisco, Mrs.  A.  R.  Vrooman,  Interior  sub.  rebate,  1;  Milling- 
ton,  Tenn.,  Mrs.  H.  T.  Helm,  "From  Mothers'  Missionary 


60 


TREASURERS'  REPORTS. 


[Feb., 


Tree,"  M:  Ottumwa,  la., 
members,  3, 


Ist,  5;  Rochester,  Minn.,  four      .     Total  receipts  since  April  20,  32,13S.19 
■i^S.OS  Mrs.  C.  B.  Fauwell,  Treai.. 

  Room  48,  LeMoyne  Block,  40  Randolph  St. 

Chicago,  Dec.  20,  1900. 


Total  for  month,  §4,574.74 

Receipts  of  the  Women's  Board  of   Foreign  Missions  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  for  Dec.,  1900. 

*  Indicates  summer  offering  for  Medical  Missions. 


BiNGHAMTON.— Binghamton,  Ist,  87.50,  *1;  North,  C.E., 
10,  S98.50 

Boston,  Mass. -Boston,  Ist,  44,  *18.75,  Pr.  Off.,  28.75, 
Y.L.S.,  10,  Pr.  Off.,  29;  East  Boston  Ch.,  10,  Y.L.S.,  5,  C. 
E.,  6.25,  Jr.  C.E.,  3.7'5:  Roxbury  Ch.,  11.  *8  50,  C.E.,  25; 
Scotch,  6;  Haverhill,  5;  Lowell,  30;  Londonderry,  N.  II., 
7.50;  Lonsdale,  R.  I.,  1.25;  Newport,  R.  I.,  3.;35:  "I'ortland, 
Me.,  5;  Providence,  R.  I.,  29.50;  Quincy,  16;  Woonsocket, 
R.  I.,  7.20,  Bd.,  1.50,  312.30 

Brooklyn.— Brooklyn,  Classon  Ave.,  36.89:  Duryea,  *1, 
Th.  Off.,  20,  C.E.,  7.40;  Ist,  20.86;  City  Pk.  Branch,  3.50, 
*1.71,  special,  5,  C.E.,  6.82;  Franklin  Ave..  6.04,  *4;  Grace, 
Y.P.S.,  25;  Mem'l,  28..52,  *9..50;  Prospect  Ueights,  C.E., 
2.07;  Ross  St.,  12.8:3;  2d,  5,  *4.75,  Y.L.S.,  *1.25;  South  3d 
St.,  Pr.  Off.,  31.50;  Throop  Ave.,  25;  Weslm'r,  9.2G,  C.E.,  4; 
Stapleton,  S.  I.,  1st.  17.50;  West  New  Brighton,  S.  I.,  Cal- 
vary, 10.10;  Pres'l  Soc,  1.61,  301.11 

Cayuga.— Auburn,  Calvary,  3;  Central,  55;  Dryden,  5; 
Port  Byron,  10,  73.00 

Genesee.— Attica,  13.82;  Batavia  Bd.,  16;  East  Pem- 
broke, 2..50,  Y.P.S.,  7;  Le  Rov,  25,  *15;  Warsaw,  Pr.  Off., 
42,  Pr.  Off.  of  two  ladies,  25,     '  146.32 

Geneva.— Bellona,  Pr.  Off.,  4.50;  Canandaigna,  12.46,  Jr. 
C.E.,  2.50;  Dresden,  3.05;  Geneva,  Ist  and  North,  10,  Pr. 
Off.,  40.75;  North,  Y.L.S..  .50,  Pr.  Off.,  8.50;  Naples,  12..50; 
Oaks  Corners,  5.24,  Happy  Helpers,  3;  Penn  Yan,  Y.L.S.,  18, 
C.E.,  10;  Phelps,  8,  Jr.  C.E.,  2;  Seneca,  30;  Seneca  Castle, 
32.31;  Seneca  Falls,  C.E..  10;  Shortsville,  10;  Trumansburg, 
Pr.  Off.,  19,  Y.L.S.,  30,  Jr.  C.E.,  1.49,  Cash,  3,  306.30 

Hudson.— Chester,  7.95,  Jr.  C.E.,  5;  Hamptonbnrgh,  C. 
E.,  8;  Haverstraw,  12.50;  Middletown,  1st,  C.E.,  18.15;  2d, 
18;  Milford,  Pa.,  3.60;  Nyack,  O.E.,  5;  Otisville,  5;  Port 
Jervis,  23.88;  Ramapo,  47.15;  Unionville,  10,  164.23 

Louisville,  Ky.— Louisville,  4th  Ave.  Bd.,  25;  Warren 
Mem'l,  100,  *1,  Y'.L.  Guild,  Mrs.  Culbertson,  100;  Owens- 
boro,  14,  240.00 

Lyons. — Huron,  10;  Junius,  5;  Marion,  C.E.,5;  Newark, 
19.73,  C.E.,  10;  Wolcott,  13.66,  63.39 

Morris  and  Orange,  N.  J.— Monistown,  1st,  Y.L.S., 


*1..30;  South  St.,  156.25,  157..55 

New  York.— New  York,  Brick,  675;  Central,  137.80.  Y. 
W.S.,  120,  C.E.,  212..50,  Inter.  C.E.,  25.  Mizpah  Chapel, 
13.50;  5th  Ave.,  1,025:  1st,  Union,  C.E  ,  6;  14th  St.,  C.E., 
1.57;  4th  Ave.,  Y.L.  Bd  ,  40;  (iood  Shepherd.  C.E.,  6.50; 
Harlem.  16.75:  Madison  Ave.,  61;  New  York,  Y.P.S.,  15; 
North,  C.E.,  5:  13th  St.,  C.E.,  3:3;  University  Place.  Even- 
ing Branch,  50;  Washington  Heights,  15,  *20,  C.E.,  25- 
Westm'r,  Jr.  C.E.,  2:  Olivet,  35,  2,.540.b2 

Rochester.— Fowlerville,  Willing  Workers,  5;  Gates, 
Cheerful  Workers,  4;  Groveland.  13.18,  *'\  Y.L.S.,  5: 
Rochester,  Brick,  Y.L.S.,  .50;  Mem'l,  King's  Messengers, 
20;  North,  C.E.,  5;  .3d,  22;  Scottsville.  *5,  134  18 

Steuben.— Addison,  12:  Andover,  8.11;  Arkport,  .5,  Jr. 
C.E.,  3;  Atlanta,  .5,  Jr.  C.E. ,  70  cts.;  Avoca,  1..50.  C.E..  5; 
Bath,  12,  C.E.,  15;  Belmont,  5;  Canaseraga,  C.E.,  3;  Co- 
hocton,  5;  Corning,  22,  Y.L.S.,  10;  Hammondsport,  10; 
Hornellsville,  Jr.  C.E. ,  10;  Howard,  8;  Prattsburg.  *1.75; 
Pulteney,  C.E.,  5,  146.06 

Syracuse.- Baldwinsville,  13.10;  Canastota.  68.18;  East 
Syracuse,  3..50;  Marcellus,  15:  Mexico,  22.85;  Pompey,  C. 
E.,  5;  Syracuse,  East  Genesee  Ch.,  9;  Ist,  5,  C.E.,  50.70;  let 
Ward,  C.E..  5;  4th,  42,  2:39.133 

Westchester.— Bridgeport,  Ct..  Bd..  10:  Harrison.  C.E., 
5;  Mt.  Vernon,  69.07;  New  Bochelle,  1st,  15;  2d.  31.25:  Peeks- 
kill,  1st,  100;  1st  and  2ci,  9;  Pound  Ridge,  2;  Rye,  89.97; 
Springfield,  Mass.,  20;  Thompsouville,  Ct.,  C.E.,  1.56,  Jr.  C. 
E.,  47.53;  White  Plains,  C.E.,  10;  Yonkers,  Davspring,  10; 
Immanuel,  5,  "  425.38 

Miscellaneous.— A  Friend,  1;  Cash,  48  cts.;  Coll.  at 
Prayer-meeting,  23.82:  Geneseo,  15;  Interest  on  Wheeler 
Fund,  100;  Mrs.  Sewell,  extra  penny  a  dav,  3.65;  Miss  C.  O. 
Van  Duzee.  1,  '  144.95 

Legacy.— Estate  of  Mrs.  M.  B.  A.  King,  600.00 


Total  for  month,  $6,093.22 
Total  since  April  1,  32,240.24 
Miss  Henrietta  W.  Hubbard,  Treas., 

1.56  Fifth  Avenue.  New  York  City. 


Receipts  of  the  Woman's  Presbyterian  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  of  the  Southwest  for  the  month 

ending  December  24,  J 900. 


Austin.— El  Paso,  2.50;  Houston,  Westm'r,  C.E.,  5. SO; 
Pearsall,  2.50;  SanAntonio,  Mad.  Sq.,  7,  C.E..  20,  S;37.80 

Emporia.- Emporia,  1st,  C.E.,  30;  Caldwell,  3.85; 
Wichita,  1st,  14.88,  Mrs.  B.  E.  Rowlee,  13.32,  Y.  P.  M.  L., 
125;  Peabody,  10,  197.05 

Larned.— Dodge  City,  2,  Jr.  C.E.,  10;  Garden  City,  7; 
Hutchinson,  10.60,  C.E.,  55:  Lyons,  5;  McPhcr.son,  3.13; 
Pratt,  C.E.,  1;  Spearville,  2.90;  Syracuse,  Mrs.  Bicknell,  1, 

97.63 

Neosho.- Chanute,  2  29;  Chctopa,  11.50;  Ft.  Scott,  3.50; 
Girard,  C.E.,5;  Humboldt,  6.90;  Independence,  13.(55,  C.E., 
9;  Moran  Bd.,  1.15;  Osawatomie,  10;  Oswego,  5,  Jr.  C.E. , 
3.25;  Ottawa,  5,  C.E.,  4.50;  Paola,  20,  C.E.,  25;  Parsons, 
6.75,  C.E.,  10;  Richmond,  1.95;  Yates  Center,  7;  Waverlv, 
6,  157.44 

North  Texas.— Denison,  lst,'C.E.,  5.00 

Receipts  of  the  Woman's  Occidental  Board 

Benioia.— Corclo,  1;  Fort  Bragg,  C.E.,  2;  Fulton,  C  E.,  5; 
Healdsburg.  9;  Kelseyville,  C.E.,  2.25;  Lakeport,  Miss'y 
Bd.,  1.45;  Mendocino,  20;  Napa,  22..50,  C.E.,  12.50;  San  An- 
selmo,  6.50,  C.E.,  5;  San  Rafael,  48.25,  C.E.,  5,  Willing 
Helpers,  1;  Santa  Rosa,  21;  St.  Helena,  C.E.,  1,  Jr.  C.E.,  .50 
cts.;  Two  Rock,  C.E.,  5;  Vallejo,  8,  Jr.  C.E.,  1;  Miscella- 
neous, Pres.  Collection,  2.25,  180.20 

Los  Angeles. — Alhambra,  10;  Azusa,  C.E. ,7.50;  Beau- 
mont, 4,  C.E. ,  3;  Coronado,  5;  El  Cajon,  C.E.,  40  cts.;  El 
Monte,  2.50,  Mission  Bd.,  1 ;  Glendale,  6.65;  Inglewood,  C. 
E.,  4.63;  Long  Beach,  Y.L.S.,  2.50;  Los  Angeles,  Ist,  C.E., 
1.75;  2d,  25;  3d,  20,  C.E.,  10;  Bethany,  2,  C.E..  5,  Inter.  C. 
E.,  1,  Jr.  C.E.,  75  cts.;  Boyle  Heights,  10,  C.E..  4..50;  Cen- 
tral, .5,  C.E.,  7.50;  Stewart  Mem'l  Soc,  7.82;  Grandview, 
9  .36;  Highland  Park,  10,  C.E. ,  5;  Immanuel.  120,  C.E..  10, 
Jr.  C.E. ,  0.25:  Ch.  of  the  Redeemer,  10;  Chinese  Morrison 
Bd.,  .5,  Spanish,  2..50,  Spanish  Sch.  Mission  Bd.,  5;  Monrovia, 
7.10;  Pacific  Beach,  2.05;  Palms,  10;  Pasadena,  1st,  C.E., 
30:  Pomona,  15,  C.E.,  3;  Redlands,  54.73,  per  Mrs.  Part- 
ridge, 300;  Rivera,  Mrs.  Maxon's  Children,  5;  Rivers.dc.  Ar- 
lington C.E.,  6..50;  Calvary,  17.50;  San  I5ernardino,  17.35, 
C.E.,  25:  San  Diego,  20;  Santa  Ana,  20,  Jr.  C.E  ,  1..50;  Santa 
Monica,  1.25,  C.E.,  1.25;  Tnstin,  4..50,  872..34 

Oakland.  -Alameda.  12. .50,  Baby  Bd.,  2;  Aldon,  8.70,  C. 
E.,  3.15;  Berkeley,  1st,  2.3,  BahyBd.,  ];  Concord,  C.E.,  5; 
Danville,  2.50:  Haywards,  5..i5;  Mills  College.  Tolman  Bd., 
35;  Newark,  C.E.,  6;  Oakland,  1st.,  91;  Cov.,  C.E.,  1.5,  Jr.  C. 
E.,  2.50;  K.  D.,  7..50;  Brooklyn,  125.0.5,  Baby  Bd.,  50  cts., 
C.E.,  3.75;  Centennial,  3.65,  Baby  Bd.,  1;  Union  St.,  15,  C. 
E,,  4;  San  Leandro,  1.50,  C.E.,  8.50;  South  Berkeley,  8.05; 


Santa  Fe.— East  Las  Vegas,  10;  Taos,  a  friend,  20  cts. ; 
Santa  Fe,  ;3,  13.20 

St.  Louis.— Ironton,  4;  Kirkwood,  8.20.  Golden  Links,  2; 
Sulphur  Springs,  4;  Webster  Groves,  16..50,  C.E.,  10,  Jr.  C. 
E.,  2.25;  St.  Louis,  Carondelet,  4.60.  Y.W.M.C.,  5,  C.E., 
4,  Jr.  C.E.,  2..50;  Covenant,  C.E.,  10;  First  Ch.,  100;  Forest 
P.  Univ.,  16.53:  Laf.  Park.  25..56;  Oak  Hill  Bd..  1..50;  2d 
Ch.,  113.75,  Wall  Builders,  12.34;  Tyler  PI.,  23;  Wash, 
and  Comp.,  2.79,  Y.L.S.,  20,  664.73 

Sequoyah.— Muskogee,  1.75,  Sunshine  Circle,  80  cts.; 
Tahlequah,  10;  Tutea,  3.75;  Wewoka,  3.75,  19.05 


Total  for  month. 
Total  to  date, 

Dec.  24, 1900. 


$1,191.90 
4,495.95 
Mrs.  Wm.  Buro,  Treas.. 
1756  Missouri  Ave.,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

of  Foreign  Missions  to  December  25,  J900. 

Valona.  fi:  West  Berkeley.  3.  C.E..  l.:3.5.  390.15 

Sacramento.— Carson.  Nev..  C.E..  5:  Chico,  6.25,  C.E.,  5; 
Colusa,  S.50,  C.E.,  1.25;  Elk  Grove,  2.50:  Marvsville,  95ct8.; 
Placerville,  C.E.,  2,  Inter.  C.E.,  50  cts.,  Jr.  C.E.,  1;  Red 
Bluff,  5.  Inter.  Jr.C.E.,  2.50:  Sacramento,  14th  St.,  4.50,  C. 
E.,  11;  Westra'r,  2,  C.E.,  3;  A'acaville,  4.50,  65.45 

San  Francisco.— San  Francisco,  1st,  110.25,  I.H.N.  Soc, 
32.65;  Calvary,  52,  C.E.,  37,  Inter.  C.E.,  1.50,  Jr.  C.E.,  3.75; 
Franklin,  5.50,  C.E.,  5;  Howard,  11.40:  Lebanon.  4.50; 
Mem'l,  3;  Mizpah,  .3,  C.E.,  2  .50,  Inter.  C.E.,  1 ;  St.  John, 
8.85;  Trinity,  40,  C.E.,  7.40:  Westm'r,  14.65,  .333.95 

San  Jose. — Los  Gatos.  10;  Monterev.  5;  Palo  Alto.  C. 
E.,  10;  San  Jose,  1st,  65.60,  Baby  Bd.,  4;  2d,  13.10:  Siin  Luis 
Obispo,  10;  Santa  Clara,  23.75;  Templcton,  2;  Walsonville, 
5,  148.45 

Santa  Barbara.— Carpinteria,  7..50.  Willing  Workers, 
4.,50;  Huenema,  5;  Los  Olivos  Ballard,  l.;30;  Montecito, 
7.25:  Nordhoff,  4;  Santa  Barbara,  18.85,  C.E.,  5;  Santa 
Maria,  C.E.,  5;  Santa  Paula.  C.E.,  15;  Ventnra,  2.50.  75.90 

Stockton.— Fowler.  14;  Culbertson.  M.  Soc,  50:  Fresno., 
2.3.33;  Modesto,  2.20,  Jr.  C.E.,  50  cts.;  Stockton,  30,  C.E.,  5; 
Tracy,  Jr.  C.E.,  1,  1'26.02 

Miscellaneous.— Eric,  Pa.,  Chestnut  St.,  Y'.L.M.  Soc, 
10;  Miss  S.  Elsie  Tyler,  Athens,  Ga.,  6,  16.00 

Total  for  month,  $2,208.46 
Total  since  March  25,  1900,  5,109.58 
Mrs.  E.  G.  Denniston,  Treas., 
Dec  25, 1900,     920  Sacramento  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


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