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WOMAN'S Work for Woman. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY 

BY THE 

WOMEN'S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETIES 
OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 



VOLUME XVI.— 1901. 



PRESBYTERIAN BUILDING, J56 FIFTH AVENUE, 

NEW YORK. 



INDEX TO VOLUME XVL— J90I. 



Africa— The Century in 53 

Missionaries in 63 

Cliurch of God Set up in Bululand 63 

Membership of the First Church in 

Bululand 64 

Outcome of the Bulu War 65 

How the Doctor at Batanga Makes His 

Rounds 66 

One Happy Year at Lolodorf, in Bulu- 
land 67 

Folk Lore of West Equatoi-ial Africa. . . 70 
How Refugee Missionaries in Africa 

Were Delivered 71 

Important from Elat. 72 

Letters from 51, 77, 139, 229 

Auxiliaries and Bands, New 29, 87, 

119, 146, 206, 239, 266, 295, 323 
Auxiliaries, Notes to. . . .26, 55, 84, 116, 

144, 175, 203, 237, 264, 293 320, 347 

Banner Societies 53, 114 

Book Notices 25, 83, 236, 292, 346 

Books of the Year, Good 221 

Brazil — Missionaries in 153 

Fourfold Work of Curityba School, 

Brazil 153 

Religious Bacilli 160 

Work and Disappointment in Aracaju.. 160 

San Paulo School in Mourning 189 

Letters from 21, 167, 312 

Brown, i)R. Mary, of Wei Hien 43 

Canadian Society, Letter from a 141 

Chili — Missionaries in 153 

Letters from 166, 230, 315 

China— Martyr Roll in, 1900 5, 74 

Missionaries 5, 33 

The Church in 5 

Personal Records of Martyrs in North 

China 7 

Shall We Give up Missions in the Far 

Interior 11 

Recanting — Frightful Perils of Chris- 
tian Girls — Martyr Heroism 12 

Paotingfu Martyrs of the "South Sub- 
urb" 15, 33 

The Persecuted Church in 16 

Story of the Shansi Massacres 19 

The Century in 23 

Brief, Happy, Wholesouled Service 34 

A Little Close Home Study from Siege 

of Peking 35 

Reminiscences of the Siege of Peking. . 35 
Some Notable Deliverances of Chinese 

Christians 38 

Better than Statistics 39 



40 



A Christian Boxer and the Church in 

His House 

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 frorn 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 l 

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 

Chine.se New Testament Revision 270 

Christian Literature in Hiroshima, 

Japan 92 

Church in China, The l 

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



INDEX TO VOLUME XVI. 



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Earthquake in Fukui, Japan 242 

Ecumenical Conference 212 

Eddy, Dr. Mary, Farewell to 325 

Evangelical Union in Manila 211 

Famine 2, 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 in 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 123 

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 : 
4/'rica— The 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. C/una— The 
Wang and Chung Families, Peking, 7 ; 
The Teng Family, 9; A Sacred Corner 
in British Legation Grounds, Peking, 
11; Pledge from An Kii, 13; Rev. Hor- 
ace Tracy Pitkin, 14; Miss Mary S. Mor- 
rill, 15; Sliss 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 Musii 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. 
Siam — 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, 815 

Japan— The Century in 201, 232 

Thirty Eventful Years in 219 

Our Missionaries in 243 



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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, 113, 139, 199, 228, 

258, 316 

Korean Christians in Chdrch, With. . . 310 

Korean Women, Faithful 299* 

Lessons, New . . . .23, 53, 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, 'Ro-w to Make In- 
teresting 317 

Missionary to the Japanese in California 213 

Missionary Life, Minutiae 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 Simday 

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 Moslem.s. 327 

United ^tudy of Missions for 1902 

201, 232 

Venezuela — The Earthquake in 46 

Missionaries in 153 

Vision, The, and the Task 263 

Woman's Boards in Annual Meeting 

141, 169 

Woman's Life for Kashmir, A 313 

Year Book of Prayer, Missionaries 
Upon 234 



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WoMAN^s Work for Woman. 

Vol. XVL APRIL, J90J. No. 4. 



God has not set a uniform pace for 
Himself in the work of bringing in the 
kingdom of His Son. He will hasten 
it in His day. The stride of His church 
shall be so quickened that commerce 
will be the laggard. . . The ploughing 
and the sowing must be well done. 
These may be and should be judged — 
that is man's part of the work. But 
the care of well-planted seed is with 
God. — Benjamin Harrison, at the 
Ecumenical Conference, 1900. 

Ten inquirers of former days were 
baptized at Paotingfu by Rev. Walter 
Lowrie, about New Year's. This is the 
beginning. 

We expect, to hear of Dr. and Mrs. 
Arthur Brown at Yokohama, next. 

Rev. Courtenay H. Fenn of Pe- 
king is conducting Secretary Brown's 
correspondence for the present. 

The treasurer of Woman's Work 
FOR Woman reports 453 subscribers in 
advance of last year. The gains were 
in Philadelphia Society 300, Board of 
the Northwest 210, Occidental Board 
53, and Society of Northern New York 
49. Hearty thanks are due to many 
faithful Secretaries of Literature, both 
where lists have gained and where they 
have only held their own. 

Many friends of India, like Job have 
not eaten their morsel alone, but are 
supporting half a dozen, a score, a hun- 
dred, or two hundred famine children. 
What an edge it must give to appetite 
as they sit down to their own loaded 
tables. 

Dr. Avison of Seoul, Korea, having 
been very ill with typhus fever, a letter 
of Feb. 2, saying that his fever broke 
on the seventeenth day, brought glad 
relief to the " Rooms." 

Taiku Station, Korea, was swept 
with grippe this winter. The last to 
come down was Dr. Johnson, a letter 



from whom we publish this month. His 
attack was alarming and Dr. Irwin of 
Fusan was summoned by telegraph. 

Annual meeting of Korea Mission 
removed Miss Nourse from Seoul to 
Taiku, and Mr. and Mrs. Sidebotham 
to Fusan. 

The wedding was at Saharanpur, of 
course — the calendar blundered last 
month — and the bride, though she pre- 
ferred a private ceremony, having al- 
ready given up everything else for In- 
dia, threw in her last reserves and went 
to the church. This gave ardent joy 
to Native friends, as well as an object 
lesson in simplicity. It was the last of 
Miss Dunlap in that church — adorned 
with plants from the Botanical Gardens 
and echoing with the Wedding March 
— but Mrs. Newton of Jullundur will be 
no whit less dear to her friends nor less 
useful to India. 

"What, has our church 138 mission- 
aries in India ? Are we not rather 
crowding over there ? " The danger is 
not imminent, for these 138 are thrust 
into a population of fifteen millions, 
not of all India but in their own fields. 

The Presbytery of San Paulo, Brazil, 
authorized the organization of ten new 
churches, last year. We venture to say 
this takes most of us by surprise ; it is 
truly cause for thanksgiving. 

The American school for boys at Te- 
heran had an attendance of sixty last 
year: Armenians 41, Moslems 22, Jews 
2 and one Parsee. Two of the students 
are second cousins of the Shah, one is a 
mollah, three are seyids. On Com- 
mencement day, each of the two grad- 
uates delivered orations in both Persian 
and English, and the U. S. Minister, 
Hon. H. W. Bowen, presented them 
with valuable books. The school sang 
"Joy to the World" in Persian, the 
Doxology and "America" in English. 



92 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



[April, 



One of Dr. Mary Smith's recent pa- 
tients, in Teheran, was a httle girl of 
eleven years, who had been a wife three 
years. 

Westminster Hospital, Urumia, 
Persia, treated over ten thousand pa- 
tients of six races in 1900. 

Attendance at Whipple Hospital, 
Tabriz, in charge of Dr. Mary Bradford, 
was 5,068, while outside medical visits, 
often tedious affairs, were 672. 

One of the saints in Persia died last 
year, the mother of Kasha Mooshee of 
Kermanshah. Mrs. Robert Speer wrote* 
delightfully of her, after being there in 
'97. She has been a tower of strength 
to Christian work in the city, while her 
"guileless, pure character and fervent 
piety of an attractive type " charmed 
every one. The roomful of people sur- 
rounding her peaceful deathbed ad- 
mitted ' ' This is not the time to weep 
and mourn." 

Eight long mouths Mr. Coan spent 
in the mountain field of W. Persia last 
year, and every village that he visited 
had been "repeatedly plundered." He 
says "these simple, honest followers of 
Christ are suffering constant oppression, 
wrong and outrage, with no redress." 
Of the poor Hassan congregation whose 
flourishing church was broken up, Mr. 
Coan wrote : "I visited them in their 
hiding places in their rags, and in a 
beautiful garden above the smoking 
village they poured their woes into my 
ears. We could only sit with stream- 
ing eyes as we all realized our helpless- 
ness." 

Something new at Hiroshima, Japan, 
The missionary advertised in the daily 
paper, offering to give Christian htera- 
ture to any who would like to investi- 
gate Christianity. That first advertise- 
ment brought fifty -three requests, from 
all parts of the province. Two of the 
inquirers, a well-to-do farmer and a 
telegraph operator, have since asked for 
baptism. Further efforts on the same 
line have resulted in a considerable cor- 
respondence class. 

Unexpectedly, the girls' school at 
Kanazawa, Japan, has become a leader 
of fashion. The introduction of calis- 

* See Woman's Work, August, 1897, p. 209. 



thenics rendered a change in dress neces- 
sary. The tight, binding sash had to be 
dropped and the full skirt adopted, to 
permit freedom of movement. In less 
than a year this style has captured the 
city. Few girls of any school can now 
be seen wearing the old dress. 

A BOY in a mission school in India 
complained to his teacher: " That boy 
called me a liar." "That was very 
wrong," said the teacher; "but it is 
often done in India, why do j'ou com- 
plain of it ? " " Because he called me 
a liar in English, and I won't stand 
it ! " 

A very interesting movement to- 
wards Christianity has taken place 
among the sweepers about Etah, near 
Furrukhabad. At the close of last year 
there were, in Etah and four other 
places in the district, 185 Christians. 
There are now 800 baptized persons, 
hving in forty-two villages. A full ac- 
count of this promising work may be 
found in the current number of the 
Assembly Herald from the pen of Rev. 
Henry Forman. 

Eleven of the older school-girls at 
Kolhapur, W. India, united with the 
church last year. Mrs. Goheen says the 
school has known what it never knew 
before, "the terror by night'' — dread 
cholera. 

Dehra school was closed in Decem- 
ber on account of whooping-cough. 

Seminary girls of Beirut, Syria, de- 
voted their missionary offering of about 
$25 to the India famine fund. 

Lord Curzon says of the famine in 
India that none has been more intense 
and, in British India, in none have the 
deaths been so few." He contrasts this 
famine with one in Bengal in 1770, 
when, within nine months, death carried 
off ten millions of a population of less 
than thirty milhons. "Particularlj'," 
he says, "must I mention the noble ef- 
forts of missionary agencies. If ever 
there was an occasion in which their 
local knowledge and influence were 
likely to be of value and in which it was 
open to them to A^indiCate the highest 
standards of their beneficent calling, 
it was hei-e ; and strenuously and faith- 
fully have they performed the task." 



1901.] 



93 



Ouit Missionaries in India 



Mrs. J. C. R. Ewing, Lahore, Punjab. 

Mrs. J. G. Gilbertson, " " 

Mrs. H. D. Griswold, " " 

Dr. Emily Marston, " " 

Mrs. E. D. Martin, 

Mr.9. John Newton, " " 

Mrs. J. H. Orbison, " " 

Miss Thiede (of Wagah), " " 

Mrs. Henry Velte, " " 

Mrs. C. Forman, Sen., Ferozepore, " 

Mrs. Francis J. Newton, " " 

Dr. Helen R. Newton, " " 

Mrs. Robert Morrison. Qusur, " 

Miss C C. Downs, Jullundur, " 

Miss M. M. Given, " " 

Mrs. C. B. Newton, " " 

Miss Caroline R. Clark, Lodiana, " 

Miss Christina Herron, " " 

Mrs. Frank O. Johnson, " " 
Mrs. V. S. G. Jones, 

Mrs. E. P. Newton (Khanna) " " 
Mrs. E. M. When-y, " 

Dr. Maud Allen, Jagraon, " 

Miss Harriet Savage, " " 

Miss S. M. Wherry, " " 

Mrs. Calderwood, Ambala, " 

Dr. Jessie R. Carleton, " " 
Mrs. Walter J. Clark, 



AND POST OFFICE ADDRESSES. 

Miss Mary Pratt, Ambala, Punjab. 
Mrs. Reese Thackwell, " 
Mrs. Marcus Carleton, Sabathu, 
Miss J. L. Colman, Dehra, N.W.P. 
Miss Elma Donaldson, " 
Mrs. Abbie M. Stebbias, " 
Mrs. H. M. Andrews, Landour, 
Dr. Alice Mitchell, 
Miss Emma Morris, " 
Miss M. E. Rogers, " 
Mrs.Chas.W. Forman, Saharanpur,' 
Miss Alice B. Jones, " 
Mrs. A. P. Kelso, " 
Mrs. Chas. H. Bandy, Fatehgarh, 
Mrs. John Forman, " 
Miss Mary Fullerton, " 
Mrs. Henry Forman, Etah, 
Mrs. J. M. Alexander, Fatehpur, 
Miss Morrow. " 
Mrs. T. W. Mitchell, Mainpnrie, 
Mrs. Thos. Tracy, " 
Miss Christine Belz, Etawah, 
Mrs. Albert G. McGaw, " 
*Mrs. John Woodside, Gwalior, 
Mrs. Jas. P. Holcomb, Jhansi, 
Dr. Bertha Caldwell, Allahabad, 
*Mrs. C. A. R. Janvier, " 
Mrs. J. J. Lucas, " 



In this country: Mrs. E. H. Braddoek, 410 So. Broad St., Phila., Pa.; Mrs. J 
Pa.; Mrs. Arthur Ewing, 1216 Madison Ave., Baltimore, Md.; Miss Emily Formaii, 
Mary Johnson, 1306 So. Broad St., Phila., Pa.; Mrs. Warren, Scheuectady, N. Y. 

* Not in formal connection with the Women's Societies. 



Miss H. McGauhey, Allahabad, N.W.P. 
Dr. Margaret R. Norris, " " 
Mrs. Ray Smith, " " 

Miss Jane W. Tracy, " " 

Miss. A. A. Brown, (Kodoli), 

Kolhapur, S.M.C. 
Mrs. J. M. Goheen, " " 

Miss Patton, " " 

Mrs. Geo. W. Seller, " " 
Dr. Mary J. Stewart, " " 
Mrs.L.B.Tedford,(Kodoli)," 
Miss M. J. Thomson, " " 
Miss Grace E. Wilder, " " 
Mrs. R. G. Wilder, 
Mrs. A. S.Wilson, (Kodoli)," " 
Mrs. Jos. P. Graham, Sangli, " 
Miss Isabella Graham, " " 
Mrs. John Jolly, " " 

Mrs. Edgar M. Wilson, " 
Miss Elizabeth Anna Foster, Miraj, " 
Mrs. W. J. Wanless, 
Mrs. J.M.Irwin.Uatnagiri, Bombay Pres. 
Miss A. M. Jefferson, " " 

Dr.VictoriaMcArthur," " " 
Miss Emily T. Minor, " " " 
Mrs. A. L. Wiley, " " " 
*Miss Alice Giles, Vengurle, " " 
Mrs. W. H. Hannum, " " " 
Miss E. E. Scheurman, " " " 
. B. Ely, Witherspoon Building, Phila., 
Miss Mary Forman, McAfee, Ky. ; Miss 



The Yoke Upon Women of India, 

[The writer has been in India about forty years. — Editor.] 



One Bible woman I placed at work 
among the "young girl wives" who 
have for the first time left the homes of 
their childhood and come to those of 
their husbands. As custom demands, 
these poor young creatures are not al- 
lowed to talk to a mother-in-law before 
other people, nor must they be seen talk- 
ing to their husbands who may be mere 
boys. This unnatural state of affairs 
lasts till the young wife becomes a moth- 
er. In some zenanas where the moth- 
er-in-law is naturally kind-hearted, or 
brave enough to break through this 
wretched habit, she talks with her 
daughter-in-law when the men of the 
family have left for the day. As a rule, 
a female relative of the household con- 
veys the girl's wishes to the mother-in- 
law. While I am in the house the 
young wife will make me her confidant 
or spokeswoman. Various and strange 
are their wishes. Generally, those whom 
we teach are anxious to learn some kind 
of fancy work. One girl wished me to 
ask her mother-in-law to have frills put 
on her jacket, such as I had on mine. 
Some wish for a hymn-book, and sing 
with the Bible woman. Many wish to 
be allowed to go home and see their 



parents ; this is never granted as there 
are set rules as to how long the girl 
is to stay in her husband's home. 

The wretched life led by some of these 
girls undermines their health and spirits, 
and with others the loneliness is inde- 
scribable. It is therefore not wonderful 
that they like our visits and listen with 
softened hearts to the comforting words 
of the sympathizing Jesus, though I 
often feel incHned to ask myself, Will 
the work among them bear any fruit 
later on, or will thorns choke everything? 

A few days ago I visited a Mohamme- 
dan house in which the young bride 
found herself to be the fourth wife. 
Disputes between the elder wives so 
frightened her that she attempted to run 
away. This of course she would have 
found impossible, but to keep her from 
losing health and spirits entirely, the 
"master" (a more appropriate name 
than husband) put her in a separate 
building. It is not unusual for the older 
wives to poison a new arrival. 

Two Mohammedan women who were 
anxious to join us have been removed 
by their relatives and, being widows, 
made over to a rich man who keeps 
them in addition to numerous wives. 



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THE YOKE UPON WOMEN OF INDIA. 



[April, 



One forenoon while my Bible woman 
and I walked through a narrow lane, 
among high brick houses, dwellings of 
the wealthy, a servant called after us 
that his mistress wanted to see us. We 
followed him into a large building where 
about ten women lived (all near rela- 
tives). As usual, neighboring women 
began to drop in and soon we had a 
large number. Almost all were elderly 
women, mothers of sons and daughters, 
who coiild therefore afford to hold their 




POOR WOMEN Os- THE HILLS. 
See Mies Rogers' letter. 



heads up. They were all Saiyid women, 
the highest that a Mohammedan woman 
cares to boast of. One informed me that 
they consider themselves descendants of 
the Prophet Mohammed. I took the lib- 
erty of correcting this slight mistake 
and told her the relationship began with 
Ali, the prophet's Caliph and successor. 
They thought this a clever remark and 
I therefore told them more than this — 
the whole doctrine of their Koran and 
also that of our Saviour. I allowed 
them to tell me how they can make sure 
of salvation by saying or repeating seven 
prayers daily, by keeping all the months 
of fasting, by helping to build as many 
mejeds as they can afford and by sup- 
porting their moulvies regularly and 
well. The simple claims that our Lord 
makes rather took with them. All sat 
quiet for some time. One said, "I be- 
lieve that Jesus is the Redeemer of us 
all." Some women then got up and went 
home and one other said, " This woman 
need not to have made such a bold re- 



mark." We had been three hours talk- 
ing, and as it was time for their mid- 
day meal, we left. 

Although I felt grateful to our Master 
for the chance He had given to speak 
for Him, my heart ached to think that 
the woman who had made this ' ' bold 
remark " will never be allowed to listen 
to us again. 

These Saiyid women are kept under 
the strictest of the strict purdah system. 
None may ever leave her mohulla. 
Some are not allowed to leave their 
houses. One said to me, " Here to this 
house I came when I was twelve years 
old, married to my husband; here I 
shall die without even seeing a railway 
or telegraph." 

Once an old woman of ninety-five 
years called out from the crowd, " I am 
ready to go to Christ, when will He call 
me ? — take me with you to youT house 
and let me die there." As her six sons, 
their wives and children and again their 
children were among our listeners, we 
could not encourage her to come with 
us, for although we may be convinced 
that such a woman is near the kingdom 
of Heaven we cannot urge her to be bap- 
tized, as her numerous relatives would 
certainly murder her rather than per- 
mit such a step. Only one woman in a 
thousand, on an average in India, hav- 
ing broken through the 1 arriers of error 
and delusion built up by the Brahmins, 
can come out openly to confess Christ 
and be baptized. 

At present six Bible women and my- 
self manage to teach 200 scholars — in- 
mates of about 130 zenanas. 

Dr. Jessie Carleton went to Jeypore to 
gather orphans, both boys and girls, for 
the orphanages at Saharanpur and Ho- 
shyarpur. She found them all perfectly 
naked, their clothing having been sold 
for trifles of food. It is not easy to im- 
agine what these starved children look 
like when they are just rescued. They 
are mere skeletons, with himger, as it 
were, staring out of their eyes, every 
feature distorted by suffering and want. 
When offered food they snatched it as 
wild animals do, and, if great care is not 
taken to give it to them in small quan- 
tities, the first meal may kill them. These 
precautions the poor creatures do not un- 
derstand, and often complain bitterly of 
not being given enough to eat. 



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95 



At Udahpore, Dr. Carleton went to 
the famine camp where the Government 
of India had made arrangements for giv- 
ing one meal daily to the starving vil- 
lagers of all castes. Here she came across 
half -starved orphan children, who seem- 
ed to have been left without any rela- 
tives whatever. She brought away twen- 
ty-five of them. Native Christians from 
Thaneswar brought sixty-eight orphans 
from Udahpore only two weeks ago (Oc- 
tober, 1900). 

The Government of India and the mis- 
sionaries do all they can to help and 
save, especially the women and children. 
Every Mohammedan and Hindu will do 
all he can to prevent girls, particularly 
young women, falling into our hands. 
As an instance : A large number of fam- 
ine-stricken people (old women, young 



girls and boys) were leaving a certain 
station in the N. W. Provinces where 
they were to be received into an orphan- 
age belonging to the Methodist Mission. 
When within a few miles of their desti- 
nation they had to change cars, and there 
all girls above ten years of age were told 
by the native railway policemen that 
missionaries simply wanted them to cut 
up and boil for the purpose of making 
medicine, or some other vile tale. They 
were all lured away, while the old wo- 
men and boys were allowed to proceed. 
Once lost, girls are hard to find again. 

In spite of opposition, thousands of or- 
phans are still falling into the hands of 
missionaries all over India, and in twen- 
ty-five years they will add millions to 
Christ's Church in India. 
{Mrs. Wm.) Ernestine Calderivood. 



The Spice of Life at Kodoli^ W* India* 



So much has come to our little out- 
station in the past j'ear that no one had 
time to write about it, but I am snatch- 
ing an hour this morning, stealing it 
from my school, to tell you why the 
Golden Text for our Sunday-school les- 
son so perfectly fitted Kodoli. The 
text was : ' ' Thou cro wnest the year 
with Thy goodness." 

Plague has gone, the cholera epi- 
demic is a thing of the past, the run of 
small-pox seems almost over and, not 
the least of our blessings, is the return 
of Miss Belle Graham to her own India 
and her own tongue. She is our second 
India-born American missionary to re- 
turn to West India, Miss Wilder be- 
ing the first. 

Our crown of rejoicing is the addition 
of almost five hundred men, women and 
children to the native church in Kodoli. 
The grounding of these in the faith is 
now to be our work. 

My 565 "Indian Brownies" give a 
spice and fascination to life in the 
Twentieth Century that kills the 
"blues," and, though fight reading 
gets mostly laid on the shelf we are 
reading novels in real life every day. 
Tragedies not on the boards are enacted 
before our eyes. A woman, bewitched 
by the gilded promises that lead to de- 
struction was taken off the other day to 
Bombay, leaving three beautiful girls 



of her own to be cared for by strangers. 
A fatherless baby must be dressed for 
burial, the mother comforted by the 
thought that there are no heathen 
babies. A wedding must be planned 
so there shall be no debt, the monthly 
wage of one dollar and a half being 
laid in Missi Saheb's hand against the 
marriage day's expense. A hundred or 
so letters have to be penned to those 
who wish a picture of the famine waif 
sent in its " original state." With 250 
girls to be taught in day-schools, where 
formerly we could barely get 30, life 
gets exciting, not to say thrilhng. 

I could not leave all these Brownies 
and go home this year but next year I 
go, and who is to be purse-holder and 
justice- dispenser to the bairnies then ? 
Who will pat their little heads ? We 
are building a bimgalow, so there 
will be a den for that lover of children 
to locate herself when she comes from 
" somewhere " to Kodofi. 

The Christian Herald has sent us 
funds, which must be used for orphans 
strictly. We have many other waifs, 
deserted and neglected children — father 
in jail or in Bombay or gone no one 
knows where ; mother willing to work, 
but no work to be had and no food. 
Famine funds have come from generous 
givers, and we trust for the future. 

A. Adelaide Brown. 



96 [April, 

A Forward Step — Results of a Little Firmness^ 



The missionary in charge of the zenana 
schools in Furrukhabad city reported to Mis- 
sion Meeting, last November, as follows: 

Before her departure for America, 
Miss Mary Forman gave into my care 
nme schools and about twenty zenanas 
for systematic visitation. Eight of the 
schools were aided by Government, 
taught by Hindu teachers in their own 
homes, and superintended by a Hindu 
pundit. The ninth had a Christian 
teacher, was not receiving Government 
aid, was under no superintendence but 
that of the missionary. With regard 
to the eight schools we felt troubled. 
They had been started in the early 
days, when education of girls was not 
considered desirable, when it was only 
by employing a woman of their own 
religion and caste that they could be 
brought under instruction at all. The 
average number of pupils was about 
125. 

There could be no doubt that the 
schools had done a good work in under- 
mining superstition, in making pupils 
acquainted with Christianity and teach- 
ing them to love and trust the mission- 
aries. Notwithstanding, Miss Forman 
and I felt that the time had come for 
them to be brought into one central 
school, under our personal supervision. 
Accordingly, after Miss Forman left us, 
I continued to visit the schools and give 
religious instruction as she had done, 
and after a month announcement was 
made of the intended change. As was 
expected, great dissatisfaction was ex- 
pressed. " Such a thing had never 
been heard of in the city." "The 
schools had done very well as they 
were." " Parents would never be will- 



ing to let their children go out of the 
mohullas in which they lived." The 
reply was, ' ' We have decided that it 
is best, and when you have tried it, 
you yourselves will like it." A suit- 
able house was chosen, the day appoint- 
ed for the change; but neither teachers 
nor pupils would yield. There was noth- 
ing to be done but close all the schools. 

It was afterwards discovered that 
members of the Arya Somaj had offered 
one of the best teachers almost double 
her salary if she would keep the school 
open for them. Wealthy Hindus had 
promised to support another teacher. 
We cannot yet judge what the result 
will be. 

So far the Report, now for the outcome. 

Jan. 31.^ — The girls' school is to be 
opened next Monda}'. Notices an- 
nounce the fact that Hindi, Urdu, Eng- 
lish and needlework wOl be taught and 
that I shall myself be present through- 
out the sessions. As this movement is 
against all traditions, it is making quite 
a stir. Not one of the eight teachers, 
whom we had employed so many years, 
has had the courage to say she would 
come to the central school. One said ; 
' ' I believe in J esus Christ as my Sa- 
viour and I have pra3'ed onlj' to Him, 
but I am bound with chains. It is im- 
possible to act in opposition to the male 
members of my family." 

Feb. 4. — The school opened to-day 
and, notwithstanding the bad weather, 
we had fourteen pupils. This is a good 
beginning and I feel very thankful for 
it. 

Feb. 5. — Twenty-eight pupils present. 

Mary Fullerton. 



Four Classes of Hearers^ 

The writer has been a missionary twenty seven years. — Editor. 



There are always the four classes to 
whom our message is always delivered. 
First and most numerous are those to 
whom life beyond is for all practical 
purposes non-existent. Their favorite 
motto is, "This world is sweet, the 
world to come who has seen ? " which 
is the Punjabi equivalent of "Let us 
eat and drink, for to-morrow we die." 



Fewer, but still numerous, are those 
who listen with good nature to what 
we have to sa}' , but with no idea that 
it concerns them personally and no in- 
tention of being influenced by it. The 
character of Jesus they laud, his teach- 
ing they are willing to admit is on a 
par with that of their own religious 
guides. They will not deny him a 



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97 



place in their pantheon, but the sugges- 
tion to confess him as the only Saviour 
of men they treat as a pleasant joke. 
These are they who in our Lord's para- 
ble made light of the king's invitation 
and went, one to his farm, another to 
his merchandise. 

A third class, less numerous, com- 
prises those who are actively hostile; 
and the remainder, not so few as we are 
apt to suppose, make up the fourth 



class. These have in a measure grasped 
the situation and realize that Christ 
makes a claim upon them which they 
resist at their peril. They are found 
in all grades of life, but the most of 
them have received education in a mis- 
sion school. The majority of this class 
would doubtless openly profess them- 
selves Christians were it not for over- 
whelming social obstacles which bar 
their way. E. P. Newton. 



Famine Children* 



The outstanding fact of the year in 
India has been famine, and a large 
share of missionary energy has been ex- 
pended in that direction. Rev. A. G. 
McGaw of Etawah says the most im- 
portant work done at their station was 
the rescue of seventy-four famine chil- 
dren. Hoshyarpur orphanage admitted 
forty girls in September. 

In the detailed accounts which follow, 
we are glad to presefil not so much the 
harrowing side of famine as the joyful 
results of rescue. — Editor. 

KOLHAPUR CHAPTER. 

There are now under our care at 
Kolhapur over one hundred famine 
children, having come from many castes 
and in various stages of want or starva- 
tion. I cannot give you the life history 
of each one but they were those, not that 
we sought but that we could not turn 
away, and we are assured that each 
soul is precious in the sight of Him 
" who came to seek and to save that 
which was lost." Most of these were 
hungry and thin and ragged or naked 
when they came, and it is a satisfaction 
to see them have enough to eat and 
wear. 

We have separate buildings for the 
boys and girls, and they are situated 
about a mile apart, though all have 
school together in the girls' building 
which appears in the picture. (Page 98. ) 

Here they have for months been 
taught and are rapidly learning to read 
and write Marathi. So far as known, 
only one child could read out of all who 
have come to us. The older girls are 
learning to sew and all have two hours' 
daily instruction in the Bible, being 
taught by a native Christian. 

I am sure the many who have con- 



tributed to this work will rejoice to 
know that their gifts have accomplished 
much more even than the rescuing of 
these little ones from want and starva- 
tion, for they have come into living 
touch with Christ through the Word, 
and He is held up before them as the 
only Saviour. Many of the larger boj^s 
and girls now know Psalm xxiii and 
other passages they have memorized, 
and they are quite familiar with the hfe 
of Christ and would be able to relate 
many of His miracles. Small children 
as well as large, know the Lord's 
Prayer, and a large number of hymns 
which they enjoy singing. The major- 
ity are not orphans though they were 
truly destitute, and it may be that when 
the famine is over some will return to 
heathen homes. Among the girls in 
the picture, some are deserted wives 
and many are little widows. 

A high caste girl was one of two 
wives and when the famine came her 
husband could not support two and so 
cast her off. She wandered into this 
city and found her way to the orphan- 
age. A few boys and girls have run 
away — doubtless going back to their 
homes — but after a few days' wandering 
they have been glad to return to the 
shelter provided here. The two men 
with white turbans in the photograph 
are the schoolmasters. 

Miss Thomson has general charge and 
management of all — not a light task. 
I have the medical work and super- 
vision which, as the general health has 
been good, has not been heavy though 
furnishing enough material for a daily 
morning dispensary. 

Mary J. Stewart. 

We deeply appreciate the gifts for 



98 



FAMINE CHILDREN. 



[Apbil, 



famine children which have come from 
Montclair, Caldwell, Newark, Albany, 
and societies in New York and Brook- 
lyn, as also repeated gifts from more 
distant places, as Chicago and Balti- 
more. If these friends would visit 



Kolhapur, and did not know how much 
I had grown attached to the dear little 
girls until we parted. Twenty were 
deserted wives, their cruel husbands 
casting them off when famine began to 
be felt. Most of the others had one 




FAMINE CHILDREN AT KOLHAPUR, AFTER BEING 
It is a comfort to see the little thin forms filling out and 



Kolhapur they would find their one 
hundred children tenderly cared for by 
Dr. Stewart and Miss Thomson. The 
girls' home, a rented bungalow, borders 
our mission compound. We greatly 
desire to have a permanent home for 
these girls, and we covet for them all 
the privileges of the boarding-school. 
Mrs. Goheen and Miss Patton will plan 
for this as fast as they are able to build 
a new dormitory. In the photograph 
of the famine children the two ladies in 
the rear are Dr. Stewart at the right, 
and Miss Thomson. 

Eliza J. Wilder. 



I had the pleasure of superintending 
the girls' orphanage for a short time in 



parent living. Parent after parent, 
who had lost life's companion, some- 
times a father, sometimes a mother, 
would bring their children and beg us 
to take them. In some cases the true 
parent love could onlj' part with their 
children one by one. 

I have adopted a bright little widow, 
whose father in the last daj^s of life 
gave her to a native Christian. The 
story is very pathetic as you hear the 
Christian tell it. The father said that 
bad women were tormenting him for 
his pretty daughter — " I am her father 
and how can I give her to such a 
death ? " She is about ten years of age. 

Here at Vengurle, I expect to help 
Mrs. Hannum with the children. She 



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99 



has a boys' orphanage and the boys are 
doing splendidly. 

E. Emily Scheur man. 

VENGURLE CHAPTER. 

Mrs. Hannum says : One boy died and 
carpenters refused to make the rude box 




CLOTHED AND NOURISHED, 
the careworn look fading." 

for the burial, unless exorbitant wages 
were paid. So Mr. Hannum took pine 
boards and made one, and we covered 
it with white muslin. The boys, with 
the help of a servant, dug the grave 
and carried the little box to the ceme- 
tery. With as tender touch as I have 
ever seen from older and whiter hands, 
they arranged all that pertained to the 
burial. They wept sore over the death 
of little Nagu, though they had never 
known the child before coming here. 

We felt that our duty towards these 
boys was to give them the temporary 
care they needed, the spiritual teaching 
for which they had as yet no hunger, 
and a start towards earning an honest 
living. Six of the more sturdy lads 



have done about three hours of manual 
labor out of school daily. Three have 
learned to sew with our tailor, one has 
made all their new shirts. They do all 
the school mending and I need not add 
that forty -two active boys have ways 
of splitting the backs of their 
shirts which are astounding. Be- 
sides the mending, outside of 
school hours, the boys have done 
all the grinding, water-carrying 
and washing, and we are training 
one to be a barber so that neces- 
sary expense will be cut off. 

Mr. Hannum has the larger 
boys at six o'clock in the morn- 
ing for military drill. This is 
counted a privilege. 



Monday afternoon before 
Christmas was reserved for a 
frolic for the boys in the orphan- 
ago. They do not look like the 
same boys I saw in May and 
June, in Miraj, when we sent 
ihem on fresh from the famine 
district. Mentally and sj^iritu- 
ally, too, they are much changed ; 
they are learning to tell the truth, 
and not to use bad language. 
Some can read a little and, best of 
all, some seem nearly Christians. 

But to come back to Christmas. 
This is the first Christmas for 
all bvit two or three of the boys. 
We wanted them to have a good, 
merry time and yet to avoid, as 
far as possible, their associating 
Christmas only with presents they 
-^vould get ; so it was announced 
that at morning service they would all 
have an opportunity to give for those 
who are still famine sufferers. Mr. and 
Mrs.Hannvim have started the good plan 
of a paper currency money (made on a 
typewriter), to try to teach the boys in- 
dependence, economy and industry. 
They all have some assigned work 
outside of school hours for which 
they are paid, if faithful, one to three 
cents a day. With this they buy their 
caps, books and pencils. Of course, this 
paper money is of no value in the bazaar, 
so the boys cannot spend their money in 
a foolish way ; they can buy only what 
Mrs. Hannum wishes to sell them. For 
the Christmas treat, she suggested the 
following plan which was successfully 



100 



FAMINE CHILDREN. 



[April, 



carried out. Candy was previously or- 
dered to be made freshly in the bazaar, 
and several varieties we put into cornu- 
copias. There were toys, dolls, caps and 
books (sent from England to the Zenana 
Mission ladies). With these articles 
we made a bazaar, and let the boys buy 
what they liked with their paper money. 
It was encouraging that, besides other 
things, five books of Bible stories and 
three little hymn-books were bought at 
their full price. The boys enjoyed the 
bazaar much, and there was no danger of 
their saying, "you gave this one more 
than me." Then Mr. Hannum came 
over and, after telling the boys some- 
thing about dear Miss Wilder, her part 
in starting and carrying on the school 
and her prayers for them, presented 
them with a fine big ball that she had 
sent. You should have seen the mouths 
open and expand as the ball was taken 
out of its box ; then there was a general 
shout and after the ball was by com- 
mon consent intrusted to the biggest of 
them, there was a general rush for 
the door to try it. They have since 
spent many a happy, healthy hour with 
their new plaything. 

Christmas morning we had a service 
in the school-room, the children having 
been previousl)'' drilled in a simple pro- 
gramme, which went off to the enjoy- 
ment of all — we older folks sometimes 
finding it hard to keep sober over the 
hitches. The Christmas songs, how- 
ever, were heartily sung, and the boys 
seemed to enter into the spirit of the 
collection, some giving fifteen and even 
twenty-five of their precious pennies. 

Alice L. Giles. 

RATNAGIRI. 

When we came to India it seemed as 
if it would be a trial to be still and al- 
low others to do all the work. How- 
ever, we were here but a few days be- 
fore this famine gave us opportunities. 
During the rains my husband gave help 
to from 400 to 700 people. Friends at 
home have sent me money with which 
I have been enabled to clothe many 
naked bodies. I had jackets made for 
the women, shirts for the men, and 
clothed over 400 children. When the 
children came, I always gave each one 
a small piece of soap, and to each girl 
a wooden comb, and sent them off for 



a bath. One requirement was that I 
should burn any old rag they had, and 
sometimes I found this difficult for they 
made such an effort to hide them. 

One little girl heard in her village 
that children were receiving food and 
clothing from us and, one day, when 
left by her stepmother to take care of 
a younger child, she locked the child in 
the house and started. She appeared 
at our bungalow, her poor little naked 
bod}^ showing how much she needed 
help. She is still with us, such a bright, 
plump little girl now that sometimes it 
seems it cannot be that she was poor, 
little, filthy Sunnie. 

{Mrs. A. L.) M. M. Wiley. 

PUNJAB CHAPTER. 

Dr. Forman has taken in quite a num- 
ber of famine boys. It so happened that 
he was absent when the last lot came. 
Miss Jones and I had offered to look 
after the boys in his absence. You 
have no idea how awful famine is ! 
It makes no difference how much 
you read about it nor how many pic- 
tures you look at, you will not know 
what it is until you see these poor starved 
creatures. Thej'hardl}' look like boys; 
they seem all head. These new boys 
sit in a circle by themselves and have a 
special diet. When they are not eating 
they lie or sit around in the most lifeless 
fashion. Dr. Forman got some marbles 
for them, thinking that might arouse 
some interest. The orphanage has more 
than trij^led in the last four years. 

Dr. Maud Allen has been taking in 
famine children at Jagraon. One very 
strange fact about them, they cry for 
bread, bread, and it is with difficulty 
they can be induced to drink milk and 
eat the prepared rice Avhich she gives 
them. The bread only increases the 
dj'seutery with which the}" all come and 
hinders their recovery. Yet these same 
children Avill go out and eat mud, pick 
green melons or gourds and seem to 
want everything but what they should 
have. You alwaj'S think of starving 
people as willing to eat anj-thing. They 
seem to have strong preferences. One 
of the boys soon after arriving, ex- 
claimed, " Oh! see the trees, they are 
full of leaves ! In m}' country the leaves 
were all eaten." 

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101 



at them. Each one is a possible soul 
saved from eternal death and a possible 
worker. All that Dr. Allen has were 
Hindus and all seem to have known 
nothing about Christ. Now they are 
beginning to sing his praise and learn 
his words and no doubt will one day 
give him their hearts. 

Harriet A. Savage. 

FATEHGARH. 

Forty or more famine children were 
received into the Rakha orphanage (for 
girls), with their sores and sickness and 
starvation. They, with a few excep- 
tions, were walking skeletons. Those 
"few" were so weak they could not 



walk. Small-pox broke out among 
them, then a scourge of sore eyes which 
left six blind. 

Recently, twenty-four of the older 
girls asked to unite with the church. 
Their devotion has manifested itself in 
one very practical way. The concrete 
floor of the church was badly broken. 
These girls, by sewing and other work, 
bought materials and hired a mason, to 
repair the floor, and, as we are leaving 
Fatehgarh for Annual Meeting, they 
are beating the surface down with their 
own hands, thus saving to the mission 
a good round bill for repairs. There 
are 154 girls in all. 

C. H. Bandy. 



In the India Missions— Churches, 35 ; members, about 3,800; added in 1900, about 800. 



Three Sides of Life at Ambala^ India* 



I. THE YOKE ON THE WOMEN. 

We have the shocking news that the 
wealthy Rajah of Patiala has died in a 
drunken sleep. There is strong suspi- 
cion of poison. He was cremated before 
the English qfficials could make any 
investigation. The heir apparent is a 
bright boy of nine. The Rajah was 
not quite twenty-nine years old. His 
beautiful wives, who always had been 
clad in the most exquisite silks and 
satins and whose pillows are all made 
of the richest brocades, ^re now to be 
imprisoned in a fort guarded by sen- 
tries. When they die they will be car- 
ried out at the back door of the fort and 
cremated. Meanwhile no one but 
menials must have any intercourse with 
them. The youngest wife has not been 
married to him a year. Lord, how 
long are such things to be ! 

II. A TEMPERANCE SOCIETY. 

Mrs. Braddock and Rev. Durga Pur- 
shad organized a native Christian Tem- 
perance Society. The pastor, elders 
and their wives are most faithful in 
drilling the children to speak and read 
temperance pieces and in getting up in- 
teresting meetings. This Society has 
affiliated with one in England which 
has branches all over India and Ceylon. 
We now have Mohammedans and 
Hindus in the Society. They take an 
active part and make eloquent appeals 
for temperance. 



If any one could send me pieces on 
temperance and children's action songs, 
they would be very useful. 

III. THE SOLDIERS. 

The Wesleyan minister's wife looks 
to me for articles for their monthly mis- 
sionary meeting for soldiers. I lay by 
every nice missionary article I can, and 
make a programme for her. When the 
Black Watch was stationed here the 
men said to me : ' 'We have enjoyed these 
missionary meetings more than any 
others in Ambala. We have learned 
to take an interest in the conversion of 
the black people and not think that 
Christ will save only white people. We 
Christian men will labor and pray for 
the conversion of natives of India. " One 
of them gave me Rs. 25 to do good with, 
and I started a school for poor Christian 
children, wandering about the Ambala 
bazars, utterly neglected. 

Two of these Black Watch men laid 
down their lives in South Africa. When 
the Boer bullets stopped the intrepid 
charge they were making, they died 
praising God. 

If any kind Christian friend would 
mail to me nice papers like Forward, 
The Child's Paper, St. Nicholas or 
Youth's Companion, I will distribute 
them to British soldiers in camp, in 
hospital, in barracks, and even in jail. 

{Mrs. Reese) S. M. Thackwell. 



102 



[April, 



A Conference Worth Telling Of* 



We are having a few weeks camping 
in the district before Synod and Annual 
Meeting in Lodiana in December. 
Misses Wherry and Clark are with us, 
and with the band of four or five young 
men we are quite merry. We have 
just been stirred up by another of our 
little conferences which closed this 
morning. They are held in different 
centers, three or four times in a year, 
and attended by workers and Christians, 
as many as can come. This was at- 
tended by about 110. 

Just picture a long, narrow room, 
bare mud-plastered walls, two small 
windows, a small platform at one end 
with a table and a couple of chairs. The 
congregation sit on the floor, men be- 
hind and women in front. I wish I 
could convey some idea of the singing. 
I suppose the music of the darkeys in 
America comes nearest to it. The 
teacher, a blind violin player and com- 
poser of most of the stirring songs, is 
a wonderful man himself. A couple of 



years ago he was a very popular singer 
at all heathen gatherings, feasts and 
weddings, where his obscene songs were 
in demand. Since his conversion he 
has consecrated his talent to the ser- 
vice of the King, thereby losing much 
in worldly means, as he made from 
$3 to $8 at each of these gatherings. 

It is scenes such as these that en- 
courage us. Ten years ago, with the 
exception of two or three, every one of 
these men and women were in heathen 
darkness. Now look at their bright 
faces ! There are many wonderful his- 
tories behind numbers of these people, 
for not a few are brands plucked from 
the burning. The father of the confer- 
ence, an old, white-headed man "vvith 
eagle eyes and hooked nose, was once a 
a highwayman and a murderer — now a 
humble believer. Two of these women 
were Magdalenes, now faithful wives 
and adorning the gospel of God their 
Saviour. 

{Mrs. U. S. a.) Ellen A. Jones. 



Hindu Proverbs* 



A handful out of 3,000 which Dr. Johnson has translated. — Ed. 



The shrewdness of the Hindu comes 
out very clearly in his proverbial phil- 
osophy. Here are a few sayings which 
tell their own story so clearly that they 
need no comment. 

If you get four and spend five, what 
need have jow of a purse ? 

The single fagot will neither blaze, 
nor glow, nor give light. 

Good economy is better than good 
salary. 

• God gave it good ; man spoiled it. 

If you drink too deeply, ambrosia 
becomes poison. 

Every dog is a lion in his own alley. 

As you do, you must chew. 

At home, Mr. Do-less; away from 
home, Mr. Saint. 

The pot boils best on the home stove. 

A stone is crushing my hand : I will 
remove it to-morrow. 

Eighty years old, but named Sonny. 

When his gold was stolen, he sealed 
up the coal-house. 

The fool grows without watering. 

You can get some good out of a cow- 



herd when you can churn butter out 
of sand. 

Eggs and oaths break easilj'^. 

" Blind man, what do you want? " 
"Two eyes." 

There is enmity between fire and 
thatch. 

The house burned down at the be- 
trothal and lightning struck the wed- 
ding. 

Free bird is better than imprisoned 
king. 

There are men and men : one stone is 
a pebble, another a diamond. 

HaK for himself ; half for the rest of 
the family. 

He opens his mouth at sundown, to 
yawn at midnight. 

In half the village it is Easter, in the 
other half Christmas. 

He was drowning himself; he must 
needs drown others. 

If the sky should fall, we will catch 
pigeons. 

There is blue in the sky, though the 
blind man cannot see it. 



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MEDICAL WORK, INDIA, 1899-1900. 



103 



The weavil gets ground with the 
wheat. 

What dries CLuicker than a tear ? 

Honor and profit are not dished out 
together. 

Three things you 
can't conceal : love, 
fire, a cough. 

If you put your 
own head in the 
mortar, why dread 
the pestle ? 

Lending is buy- 
ing a quarrel. 

Lend not : you 
will lose both the 
money and your 
friend. 

People can see his 
fine clothes, but not 
his empty stomach. 

Sugarcane and 
mustard are best 
crushed. 

He digs up the 
foundation to finish 
off the roof. 

Tall house ; slim 
table. 

When the camel 
was trying the ford, 
the ant cried, " I 
have tested it." 

Better to lose the 
wool than the sheep. 

Two swords won't go in one sheath. 

One killing is murder: a thousand 
make a hero. 



You cannot clap hands ^vith one hand. 
In saving a drop he upset the potful. 
One egg — and that addled. 
Immodest for an hour: repentance 
lifelong. 




MORNING IN ALLAHABAD, DR. JOHNSON'S STATION. 
Photographed by Dr. Bertha Caldwell. 



He was a fool to begin with : more- 
over, he was drunk. 

Translated by W. F. Johnson. 



Medical Work, India, 1 899- 1 900. 

In connection with missions of the Presbyterian Cliurch, U. S. A. 



Hospitals are located at Miraj, Ferozepore, 
Jagraon, Ambala, Sabathu, Saharanpur, Alla- 
habad. Four of them are exclusively for 
women. 

Hospitals 7 

Dispensaries 11 

In-patients 1,499 

Outpatients 102,405 

The Sara Seward Hospital, Alla- 
habad — Dr. Bertha Caldwell in charge. 
Dr. Margaret R. Norris arrived last 
fall, and is studying the language. 

The hospital was not closed a day 
all the year, except on Sundays, and 
even then surgical work could not al- 
ways be put off. The second story 



was completed, thus allowing for four 
extra rooms. There is now accommo- 
dation for thirty-five beds. Total num- 
ber of visits to Hospital was 17,140; 
in-patients, 250; major operations, 36; 
minor operations, 319. 

The doctor reports two novelties : a 
training class instituted for nurses, and 
a charge of one pice* each upon the 
hitherto free dispensary tickets. From 
the sale of these, from the small fee re- 
quired of people of the country who are 
able to pay, and the fee, twice as large, 
which is required of Eurasians and Eu- 

* Nearly half a cent.— Editor. 



104 



MEDICAL WORK, INDIA, 1899-1900. 



[April, 



ropeans, the Hospital derived an income 
sufficient to cover the cost of all lini- 
ments, ointments, coal, account books 
and repairs. The largest items to be 
supplied by mission funds are salaries 
of the medical staff and medicines. 



The Hospital has received seventy- 
eight famine patients, whose sufferings 
touched to pity even their poor fellow- 
patients. Seven girls from Rakha or- 
phanage, who were under treatment for 
their eyes, when they saw the famine 




SARA SKWART) HOSPITAL STAFF, ALLAHABAD. 
At the right center. Dr. Caldwell; beside her, Dr. Norris Extreme left. Miss Skilling, assistant; extreme right, with 
apron. Miss Smith, matron. Back row. middle, Christina, Bible woman; on either side, nurses Champa and Lydia. In 
front of Dr. Caldwell, nurse Saru; beside her, Ruth the sweeper. 



One of the class for nurses, a Brah- 
min girl of twenty, is thus described : 
' ' She had been turned out of her home 
by her husband and told to make a liv- 
ing as best she could. I received her 
dubiously, thinking her Brahminical 
instincts would keep her from doing 
many kinds of necessary work. From 
the first I started her making ointments 
out of beef and pig fat and, though it 
nearly nauseated her, she stuck to it. 
Next day she had still more objection- 
able work, but she did it bravely and, 
when asked if she objected, she rephed, 
' The Dr. Miss Sahib puts her hands to 
even worse work, so why should I 
worry about my black hands ? ' Her 
work and conduct have been all I could 
desire." 



children, contributed the pice which had 
been given them for sweets, and old 
Saru, by walking the long distance to 
church, gave the price of an ekka ride. 

The following passages are taken 
from the physician's report : 

"One case was a school -girl who 
because she was not allowed to go 
home at a certain time worked herself 
into such a passion that she burst a 
cerebral vessel and died. A similar 
case was a j'oung woman from the 
Converts' Home, who beat her head 
with the dull end of a hatchet in a 
frenzy of anger, and was brought to 
the Hospital in a stupor. She recov- 
ered. I regard these two cases as de- 
moniacal possession. 

"I have made a pleasant acquaint- 



1901.] 



MEDICAL WORK, INDIA, 1899-1900. 



105 



ance in a Vaid (Indian doctor), who 
has a dispensary and treats women. 
When in doubt as . to a diagnosis he 
sends for me, and has gained entrance 
for me into many rich homes. He is a 
big-hearted gentleman, though he pre- 
fers giving his own concoctions — oil of 
scorpions and' jjowder of butterflies' 
wings. I have been asked in consulta- 
tion with the Civil Surgeon, Vaids, 
Hakims, licensed midwives, even com- 
mon dais, and have al- 
ways met with the ut- 
most consideration and 
respect. I have walked 
and driven through 
nearly every street and 
gully in Allahabad, on 
even the filthiest mela 
days, and never heard 
an insulting word." 

Delhi Gate Dispen- 
sary, Lahore — Dr. ^^H^ | 
Emily Marston in ^^Ki I 
charge. Three Chris- 
tian women assistants. 

Mrs. John Newton, 
who keeps house with 
Dr. Marston in the city, 
regularly instructs pa- woman's hospit 
tients in the Scriptures xn. 
at the waiting-room. 

Dr. Marston reports that her outside 
work is chiefly among Hindus of the 
Babu class, the men of whom have 
often been educated in mission schools 
and have confidence in missionaries. 
These people are also more willing to 
pay fees than richer people are. The 
dispensary attendance is Mohammedan. 

From the Report : "In one Hindu 
house I realized that all the ladies were 
opposed to my coming. The men had 
called me; they had to submit. One 
old lady sat in a corner grumbling 
away in an undertone. She grumbled 
still more when I ordered a mustard 
plaster. The plaster was made, but it 
took one man and three women to ap- 
ply it, one person at each corner." 

Philadelphia Hospital and Dis- 
pensary, Ambala — Dr. Jessie R. Carle- 
ton in charge. 

Beds 30 

In-patients 210 

Out-patients 7,597 

Total visits 17,872 

Hospital at Jagraon, near Lodiana 



— Dr. Maud Allen in charge. Seven 
thousand were treated last year; 32 
famine children were in-patients. The 
Hospital having been closed for over a 
year and a half, the Doctor says : " I had 
visions of beginning at the bottom 
again, but was happily surprised by a 
larger number of patients than ever 
before. A Mohammedan girl of twelve, 
who had been married and treated so 
cruelly by her mother-in-law that she 




AL AT FICKdZEPuRE, Dr. Helen R. Nbwton in charge, 
patients last year, 184 ; Out-patients, 7,476. 

was crippled for life, was taken by the 
loving Master soon after she had con- 
fessed him in baptism." 

Presbyterian Hospital and Dispen- 
sary, Miraj — Dr. Wm. J. Wanless in 
charge. Miss Foster in care of nursing 
department. 

Beds 50 

In-patients 706 

New patients 7,043 

Total attendances 18,603 

Surgical operations (all kinds) 989 
Villages represented 500 . 

The physician reports: "There is 
scarcely a class or caste in West India 
not represented among the patients. 
An increasingly large number of Indian 
Christians from Bombay, Poona, Ah- 
mednagar and other places have come 
to the Hospital and the leaven of their 
presence has always been for good 
among the heathen and Mohammedan 
patients. The Hospital continues a 
growing leveler of caste. 

One of the greatest pleasures our 
surgical work has given has been to see 
so many people, who have come blind 



lOG 



MEDICAL WORK, INDIA, 1899-1900. 



[April, 



to the dispensary, return to their homes 
with their own unaided vision. There 
were 216 operations for cataract, 41 of 
them done in a single month." 

The first class of four medical assist- 
ants was graduated under the instruc- 
tion of Dr. Wanless and Dr. A. S. Wil- 



weeks after baptism. The whole family 
came together. Dr. Wanless says that 
Mr. Govandi appeared one Sunday and 
with joy and determination in his face 
said, "I want to be baptized." Dr. 
Wanless proposed to arrange for the 
rite on the next Sunday, but the man 




PATIENTS IN THE WAITING-ROOM AT MIRAJ. 



son. Another class was lately begun, 
composed of ten Christian students who 
were selected from twice as many ap- 
plicants. Six of them are self-support- 
ing or have a scholarship provided by 
their own mission. Two of the stu- 
dents are from our Mission, seven from 
the Maratha Mission of the "American 
Board," one from the S. P. G. A large 
amount of hospital work is done by the 
medical class. 

A valuable accession to the Christian 
community at Miraj is an intelligent, 
active family, a Brahmin gentleman, 
his wife, his sister and three children. 
Mr. Govandi came to the decision to 
be sometime baptized after the recov- 
ery of his eldest son from pneumonia at 
Mahableshwar, where Miraj missiona- 
ries attended him. The family removed 
to Miraj for the sake of putting the sis- 
ter into Hospital. She, feeling that re- 
covery was impossible, desired to con- 
fess Christ whom she had learned to 
trust, and, though friends tried to dis- 
suade her, she persisted in her deter- 
mination. Her death occurred a few 



answered : " I do not want Monday to 
find my family and myself members of 
a heathen community. We are ready. 
We want to be baptized to-day." Need- 
less to say, a messenger was dispatched 
to bring Rev. E. M. Wilson from 
Sangli, and he examined and baptized 
the family that same evening. This 
man had been greatly influenced in his 
Christian experience by a Brahmin con- 
vert of the Mahratha Mission. 

Miss Foster does nursing and trains 
Indian nurses. She has general care 
of the wards, beds and diet of patients. 
She pi'epares for, and assists in, opera- 
tions and dresses wounds for the wo- 
men. She taught a class in bandaging, 
and trained boys to care for the wards 
and operating-room and to wash operat- 
ing linen, in all of which she found 
them amenable. 

Mrs. Wanless had 36 destitute chil- 
dren on her hands. While the Village 
Settlement women stayed in Miraj, one 
taught the medical class in ehemistry, 
another in the Bible; one distributed 
grain, another milk for little children. 



CHINA SUPPLEMENT 



Wintering in Peking* 



Peking, Jan. 9, 1901. 

... It was a long time before any 
books could be had. Of course, to be 
found with a Bible meant death, in the 
summer, and very few Bibles were saved 
in the Legation; now we have books 
from Shanghai. Work has been very 
trying to the spiritual advisers of Chi- 
nese Christians. It has been more the 
work of a lawyer, managing affairs, 
advising the people and helping them 
to resist the fearful temptations thrown 
in their way at this time. There has 
probably never been a time when there 
was such a chance for gain after abso- 
lute poverty, such a chance for dishon- 
esty, such temptation to impose on hea- 
then and foreigners. Some people have 
been great disappointments, but some 
have shone out during the fiery trial 
brighter and truer than any one had 
hoped. There is now a large flock of 
Peking Christians, all self-supporting. 

The school teacher. Wen Cheng, was 
at her home in the country during the 
trouble. A relative of her father was 
one of the head Boxers and tried his 
best to get the family to recant. They 
were put under such tremendous press- 
ure that the brother, the printer in the 
S. P. G. Mission, could not stand up 
under it. He said he knew he should 
kow-tow if he stayed, so he fled to 
Tientsin. But Wen Cheng and her 
father were staunch and firm through 
all. The Boxer relative was degraded 
for being lenient with them. It is now 
very unsafe for Christians in the coun- 
try and we have sent for Wen Cheng. 
Her father and brother went for her, 
taking with them a very nice letter from 
Mr. Conger and one from the British 
Legation, stamped with the seals of the 
Legations for their protection. 

We were glad to see the Cunning- 
hams, you may be sure. Mr. and Mrs. 
KiUie were detained at Shanghai and 
reached us a week before Christmas. 
The Cunninghams arrived a couple of 
days later, and by Christmas we were 
settled and had a joyful reunion. We 
sat down fourteen at the table to a 
delicious Christmas dinner. There were 
the eight missionaries on our compound, 
the ofl&cer's wife who boards with us, 



her husband and two other officers, Dr. 
Lewis of Chinanfu, now acting as sur- 
geon in the army, and Dr. Gattrel, inter- 
preter in the British Army. In the 
evening we accepted an invitation to a 
Christmas entertainment at camp, which 
we appreciated very much, as it was 
the first courtesy which the army had 
shown to the missionaries. All Amer- 
icans were invited. The band gave us 
a musical treat, and Chinese jugglers, 
acrobats and wrestlers furnished the 
rest of the entertainment. We were 
given an opportunity of meeting the 
soldiers and non-commissioned officers, 
for which we were very glad as it gave 
us a chance to show our sympathy, and 
appreciation of what they have done 
for us. Services are held for them in 
the different camps on Sunday. A cof- 
fee and lunch house run by missionaries 
is to be opened for them ; we hope it 
may be a substitute for saloons. 

Yesterday was my birthday, and I 
was very much siirprised to receive a 
note from missionaries at the American 
Board compound, enclosing a dollar for 
each one of my years, as a token of ap- 
preciation for medical services. I could 
not imagine how they knew the day 
and age, but people have a way of 
knowing things in China. Well, it was 
very nice of them, and I asked Dr. 
Wherry to put the money down on his 
books, for the beginning of a fund for 
the woman's medical work at Paot- 
ingfu. I have had some interesting 
work over at their compound for the 
school-girls. I am much interested in 
one bright, plucky little fellow about 
eleven years old. He was out alone in 
the summer, and the Boxers got hold 
of him, abused him and threw him into 
a pit where there was a heap of dead 
bodies, thinking him dead. He revived 
and crawled out. His leg was wounded, 
and he had blood poisoning, but strange 
to say recovered, except for a painful 
sore on his leg. Dr. Leonard and I 
operated for this, and he is better and 
always grateful. 

The British sent an expedition into 
the country to clear out a nest of Box- 
ers. The commanding officer climbed 
over a wall and found himself in a court 



108 



AN ECHO— CHRISTIANS WHO RECANTED. 



[April, 



surrounded by Boxers. He was at their 
mercy, but they were so confused by 
his sudden appearance, that they made 
no attempt to do anything till they could 
appeal to their god for direction. The 
officer thought his end had come, but 
just as the Boxers had decided his fate, 
the company of Sepoys came over the 
wall. They killed every Boxer in the 
fort, 35 I think. (This was in late No- 
vember, not far" from Peking.) The 
women of the village were very much 
frightened and fled, leaving some of 
their children behind. Fifteen boys 
from six to fourteen years old had been 
gathered together to practice the Boxer 
art. The British took the youngsters 
and cared for them, bringing them to 

Just One Echo 

Wide circulation has been given to 
the remarkable experiences of Mr. and 
Mrs. Green and Miss Gregg, who were 
rescued from the Boxers by the military 
expedition to Paotingfu. They were 
of the China Inland Mission, and their 
station was 120 miles from Paotingfu. 

The following letter from Miss Gregg 
to a missionary of the American Board 
in North China, appeared in Life and 
Light for February : 

' ' I thought perhaps you would like to hear 
from some one who has been to Paotingfu 
since the massacre of the missionaries. I ar- 
rived there just six weeks after the death of 
your dear friends, where I remained between 
five and six weeks. I had two long talks with 
Mrs. Ma, who was school-teacher or Bible wo- 
man of the school under care of the Misses 
Morrill and Gould. The last day of June she 
and your two friends met together for prayer 
in the evening, encouraging one another in 

About Christians 

Shantung missionaries addressed a 
letter to Governor Yuen Shih Kai, 
concerning the unfortunate position of 
Christians who were terrorized into re- 
canting. Of the governor's reply. Rev. 
H. W. Luce says, "He has done all 
that we could ask." 

Governor Yuen first throws the re- 
sponsibility for requiring recantation 
upon the local officials. He says: 
"Their action was not on my instruc- 
tion." He then authorizes the annul- 
ling of results, as follows : 

All pledges of Christians to recant, whether 



Peking. They were put into the school 
of the American Board, and housed 
and fed in a Boxer temple near by. 
These tiny Boxers were as attractive, 
children as you can find. Some of 
their little faces were as sweet as any 
child's. Two had been wounded by the 
spears of Bengal Lancers, so I was 
called in to care for them. 

Dr. Taylor at Paotingfu was order- 
ing the drugs that have just come, for 
the comfort, health and life of the Chi- 
nese, at the very time they were plan- 
ning to kill him. It is hard to under- 
stand such a thing in human beings. 
Still, great things may be expected at 
Paotingfu. 

Maud Mackey. 

from Paotingfu^ 

the Lord, they feeling sure their days were 
numbered on earth. On Sunday morning, 
about seven o'clock, they met again for 
prayer. ... A band of Boxers came and 
took them prisoners. When Miss Gould was 
carried out she was stiff in death [having a 
weakness of the heart. — Ed.] . . . As dear 
Miss Morrill was brought out to be executed, 
all those standing around said, She is a good 
woman. As I passed through (the city), 
without exception, in mentioning the death 
of the foreigners, her name was specially men- 
tioned as one that ought not to have died. 
Women wept as they told me she was dead, 
and from the Mandarin down to the poorest 
all spoke so highly of her. 

"While we were there the gentry of the 
city were talking of erecting a monument over 
her grave, as they had done for General Gor- 
don at Tientsin. As I heard all this, and I 
had been saved, I cried to the Lord that He 
would baptize me for the dead, and that some 
of her lovely spirit might rest on me. Yours 
in His mighty love, 

"Jessie G. Gregg." 

Who Recanted* 

given to officials or to persons acting as se- 
curity therefor, all voluntary pledges of what- 
ever kind to the same effect are mdl and void, 
and no further account is to be taken of them. 
I have, moreover, instructed mj' subordinates 
to put out proclamations for public infor- 
mation, lest Christians be subjected to hind- 
rance or annoyance in the matter. 

The governor next commends the 
course of missionaries in his province, 
and concludes by assuring them that 
all is now quiet, and he invites them to 
return to the interior ' ' to preach as 
formerly." Our brethren expect to do 
this, as rapidly as circumstances permit. 





NORTH INDIA. 

ONE AMONG 80,000. " 

Mes. Bandy wrote from Fatehgarh, the 
last week of 1900 : 

In Eta wall and Etah disti'icts are large num- 
bers of new converts. It is impossible for 
men to reach these women, and just as im- 
possible for native women to reach them un- 
less the work is planned and closely watched 
by some missionary who gives to it her time 
and strength. The great city of Furrukhabad 
here is open for teaching and evangelistic 
work. Miss Fullerton alone is working. She 
has calls every day to visit in Hindu and 
Mohammedan homes, to teach women to 
read. Everywhere they are friendly and 
houses open. But what can one woman do 
towards teaching the women and children of 
a city of 80,000 inhabitants ? 

And the villages all around would welcome 
us. The call for laborers, reapers, is as loud 
as ever. Who will come ? Who will send ? 
We are obliged to put our women out into 
villages to be 

LITTLE FLICKERING LIGHTS 

before they know much. Three who were in 
my school a year, can read through the first 
book and a little in the second, have learned 
a bit of the old, old story and chv<rch decorum, 
these are put into a village to shine — to 
teach the first book and the few songs they 
know. They are only a year or two out of 
heathenism, and we are obliged to put them 
right back into the dark places to help en- 
lighten and lift the others. We would tliat 
they might have at least three years in school 
and in a Christian community, before we 
make teachers of them. 

We are thankful for our new missionaries, 
Mr. and Mrs. Smith who are stationed in Alla- 
habad and Mr. Gillam who is with us. We 
feel refreshed by their fresh, Western enthu- 
siasm and breeze. We are apt to stagnate in 
this hot, slow, lazy land and should much 



sooner than we do, but for our recruits and 
sometimes a trip home. The Christians here 
have been much 

INTERESTED IN THE CHINESE CHRISTIANS 

and have often prayed for them. Our pastor. 
Rev. Kidhar Nath, reads a great deal, and he 
has shown much interest and sympathy for 
the people of China. They speak of anything 
and everything in their preaching. We are 
sometimes shocked, but the congregation 
never seems to be. In praying for the sick 
one day, he aroused the risibles in us by say- 
ing: "O Lord, remember the sick; some have 
colds, some have fever and some have the 
itch." 

Well, I wish you could visit us and see and 
hear, and laugh and be shocked, and grieved 
and elated, by turns, as we are. There is 
something very fascinating about missionary 
work, and in spite of the heat we are con- 
tented and happy most of the time. 



Miss M. E. R©gers, who has done her first 
work in India on the teaching staff of Wood- 
stock School, wrote to Woman's Work from 
Landour : 

We "Indians" eagerly watched for your 
report of the situation in China. Newspaper 
reports are meagre and unsatisfactory, often 
unreliable, but when the missionaries them- 
selves are able to communicate with the 
church, we have trustworthy accounts of the 
terrible uprising. . . . 

nature's PICTURE GALLERY. 

I wish you could see Landour as it appears 
now (in autumn) clothed in its best, with 
abundant verdure everywhere ; hillsides dotted 
with dahlias of every variety, purple asters, 
wild hyacinths, and a dainty white blossom 
resembling the buckwheat flower, but much 
larger. Below the rocky shelf on which 
Woodstock is securely perched, stretches the 
beautiful Dehra Dun (valley), and above and 
beyond stand guard the perpetual snows, 



110 



LETTERS. 



[April, 



looking for all the world in the light of the 
setting sun like great heaps of gold flung up 
by giant hands. Living here in Nature's pic- 
ture-gallery I can appreciate Heber's words as 
never before: "Every prospect pleases and 
only man is vile." 

DISENCHANTMENT. 

While the hill people at a distance add to the 
pictvu-esqueness of the landscape, on nearer 
approach they are often most repulsive, not 
only because of their unkempt locks and scant, 
dirty clothing, but because of the cruel, hard- 
ened expression of face which .speaks louder 
than words of the awful soul-darkness with- 
in. The new missionai-y, ignorant of the na- 
tive language, is burdened beyond measure 
in the pi'esence of a people who know not 
that "God so loved the world." One longs 
for the time when her lips may be unsealed 
and the gospel story poured forth. 

OUR ANNUAL CONVENTION 

for Bible study has just closed. Tlie attend- 
ance was good and included missionaries of 
all denominations. One feels in the presence 
of such a body, representing the various 
branches of the church, that a long step has 
been taken toward church unity. Good speak- 
ers have addressed our school each night, and 
many of the girls have been greatly helped. 
Those who wei'e led to decide for Christ at 
last year's convention have stood loyally for 
Him ever since. After being with them seven 
months, I can see a decided change for the 
better, due in large measure to the wholesome 
Chi-istian atmosphere of the school. 

Our C. E. Society is supporting, entirely by 
their own effort, a day school for native chil- 
dren of the neighborhood, having a superior 
Christian woman in charge. They contribute 
to the support of a little orphan in a charitable 
institution, besides having sent Rs. 115 to the 
famine-stricken. 



Dr. Alice Mitchell wrote also from Wood- 
stock about the school of last year : 

We had about 75 pupils, ranging in age 
from 5 to 22 years and in classes from kinder- 
garten to the first arts (corresponding to 
sophomore class at home). We teach three 
languages: Latin, French and Urdu. The 
year was very pleasant and satisfactory. 
The only untoward thing that I recall was 
the epidemic of measles. We had to clear 
out a part of the house and turn it into a 
regular hospital. Then Miss Sircar and I 
dropped our classes and went regularly on 
nursing duty. 

Miss Sircar is our Urdu teacher, a Bengali 



who was educated at an English school in 
Lahore and is as indefatigable and resource- 
ful as any Yankee. She is always to the fore 
when there is sickness and, being the soul of 
jollity and good spirits, her measles ward was 
not a doleful place in the least. We had 25 
cases, not more than 17 at one time. 

I consider our Landour climate exception- 
ally fine for any part of the world. The ele- 
vation is about 7,000 ft. Except during the 
rains, I tliink we might safely challenge the 
world in the matter of climate. If you could 
drop in upon us to-day with its clear, crisp, 
autumn cold, its brilliant .sunshine and deep 
blue sky — a real Oriental blue — you would 
agree with me. 

As to our address, "Landour, N. W. P. In- 
dia," ought to be sufficient, but it is a good 
plan to put " Mus.soorie " also on our letters. 



Miss Tracy wi-ote from Allahabad about 
the school in which she is a teacher : 

We are crowded for room on all sides. If 
the Board sends us our new young woman 
next year, I do not know where we shall put 
her. Every time we go out of the house we 
wonder where an added bedroom would least 
disfigure our patched up old building. 

I took a holiday to attend Annual Meeting 
at Mainpurie. I could hardly believe my ears 
when I heard tlie vote to ask for six new sin- 
gle ladies. Please try to let us have all; we 
can use them well. 

The only real Hindustani work that I have 
is on Sunday, and some of that I am think- 
ing of exchanging for English. I am sorrj\ I 
shall hate to give up my class of old blind 
women, but I am hoping that some one else 
will have the time to visit them in their 
homes, as I have not. Their talk is some- 
thing to understand. The Urdu or Hindi 
one learns is grammatical, but the vocabu- 
lary of the women is terrible. One old body 
I never pretend to understand. We com- 
mence the lesson by exclianging greetings. 
Then I tell all the latest news about Miss 
Morrow, who used to be here and whom they 
love very much. Then I say, "Shall I tell 
you about the lesson?" They say, "Tell," 
and I proceed. Likely as not, one will inter- 
rupt in the most impressive part with "Are 
the school-girls well?" or "When did you 
hear from Miss Johnson ? " When I have 
said all my say I turn to the most ignorant 
and ask, "What have you learned? Bolo 
(speak)." The others poke her up and she 
commences. Some of the blind people have 
succeeded, with infinite patience, in teaching 



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LETTERS. 



Ill 



her the Creed, the Lord's Prayer and a part 
of the second Commandment. I am sui-e I 
do not know how they did it. 

Our old friend, the Jumna, has changed its 
course this year and is flowing on our side of 
the bank, about an eiglith of a mile nearer us 
than usual. Last summer it flooded directly 
up to our house. One could almost have 
jumped into the water. Almost the only 
outing our girls get is to go up or down 
stream boating, once in a while. So the river 
proves a great comfort. 

WEST INDIA. 

Mrs. Tedford wrote from Kodoli, January 
17, 1901 : 

If you should call to see us where should I 
take you — into our little bedroom ? Do not 
be shocked, it is here we receive Miss Brown 
and the Wilsons when they come over from 
the bungalow a few steps away. Miss Brown 
takes her meals with us in our small dining- 
room,* which is a verandah shut in with bam- 
boo matting. Perhaps you would prefer to 
stop on the verandah in front of these two 
rooms. You could move around now without 
stepping on the babies, if you would be a lit- 
tle careful. A few months ago when the 
famine was so sore in the land it would have 
been more difficult. It is here that my wo- 
men's classes meet and I want to tell you 
about them. 

By the way, Mr. Tedford is building a beau- 
tiful new bungalow in which we shall simply 
luxuriate when it is finished, some six months 
hence. 

But to my women. I have two classes — 
fifty in all — whom I am trying with all my 
powers to teach during this lull in famine 
work. A few women can read a little, but 
most are new converts or the destitute whom 
I have taken under my care. I had the great 
joy a few Sabbaths ago of seeing three wo- 
men confess their faith in Christ. Two were 
high caste, and between them stood the third, 
a young Mang widow, one of the very lowest 
in the social scale. We stand amazed when 
we stop to think of the wonderful things the 
Lord is doing in our midst these days. 

"THE LORD HATH DONE GREAT THINGS 

for us whereof we are glad." Would that we 
might multiply ourselves many fold to reach 
all the people who are accessible these days, 
and would that we might have many more 
native teachers to send out into the villages. 

Our church was organized at Ayatavadi 
some fifteen years ago, but for some years has 
been w orshiping in Kodoli. where the work 

* These two are the only rooms they have — Ebitor. 



has wonderfully developed. Now, there are 
enough Christians for two or three organiza- 
tions. No building that we possess is large 
enough to seat all the members of our one 
church, so it was decided to celebrate the 
January communion season in both Ayata- 
vadi and Kodoli. Our good old pastor, a man 
of GSd, was present on both occasions, and 
baptized converts in both places. 

PERSONAL CONTACT WITH A VENGEANCE. 

Dr. Alexander S. Wilson of Kodoli has 
been one of the hard-pressed physicians. In 
addition to extraordinary medical labors, 
with epidemic small-pox in the town, he built 
a small hospital last year. He writes : 

Another case of small-pox among some 250 
famine people living a short distance from 
our bungalow. This morning I was called to 
see a case of cholera there. This famine has 
thrown us into personal contact with the peo- 
ple as never before, and we have tried to 
make the most of our opportunities and are 
hoping for great results. 

There is a side to this personal contact 
which I have not seen emphasized anywhere, 
but which is very real to us. Old missiona- 
ries .say thej^ never had to fight vermin as in 
this famine. When you come in from a dis- 
tribution of clothing or grain, tired in body 
and spirit but inclined to feel good at the 
thought of the suffering j^ou have relieved, 
it is a little disquieting to find that your 
clothing is full of fieas and bed-bugs. But 
this is our daily experience, varied by occa- 
sionally finding what Bill Nye called " rest- 
le.ss little stowaways " in our hair. We have 
learned to control the first feeling of utter 
loathing which used to seize us on making 
these discoveries and we try to be philosophi- 
cal, but it is pretty tough on the children,' 
who sometimes manage to get their share of 
the "white man's burden." 

Mrs. Wilson also writes : We boil and filter 
all the water and boil all the milk, including 
that from which the butter is made. You 
know we "stir" up or churn the butter every 
day, just the day's supply, in a bowl. If we 
could tru.st the woman who brings it to come 
here and water the milk from our filter, it 
wouldn't be necessary to boil it. 

We have had good rains this week, for five 
or six days only seeing the sun for an occa- 
sional minute. Panhala is veiled in clouds, 
and we have the pot of charcoal in the house 
to dry things ; but I have vowed that I will 
not complain even if I get mouldy myself, for 
the rains mean everything. 



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[April, 



We have men busy making garments. The 
coarse cloth which we use for men's shirts we 
buy from the Irish Presbyterian Mission in 
Guzerat, so that it is relief work to buy it. 

Rev. a. L. Wiley of Ratnagiri: 
We gave assistance to about 1,500 people. 
We carried on some relief work on th^com- 
pound, taking out stone and grading. We 
planted several trees and quarried more than 
4,000 stone for a fence, and the fence is be- 
gun. Outside the compound we repaired 
nearly three miles of road. The people whom 
we assisted represented 103 villages, extend- 
ing north and south a distance of 150 miles, 
and back from the coast 40 miles, to Amba. 

KOREA. 

W. O. Johnson, M.D., wrote from Taiku, 
Nov. 18, 1900: 

Did you know of our proposed change of 
residence ? Not into our new home, for that 
is not yet completed, but into the guest-room, 
carpenter shop, wood-house, and other out- 
buildings connected with it. They are not 
large nor elegant, but a delightful change 
from our house inside the city wall. Imagine 
moving from lower New York to the Cats- 
kills! We are on a hill overlooking the city, 
surrounded by fields, then rolling hills and 
mountains in the distance. Fresh air, sun- 
light, and something to see besides mud 
walls. We are enjoying it immensely. 

The Chinese masons from Seoul are carry- 
ing our brick walls up rapidly, and if only I 
had enough tile to roof the house, we should 
move in this winter; we shall have to wait 
patiently till spring. The Christians pray 
regularly for the success of our building 
operations, and are of great aid in every way. 

MECHANICS APPLIED TO SURGERY. 

I have had to drop some medical work, but 
manage to keep a good many cases. One of 
them lately exercised my newly acquired 
skill as carpenter. He was a poor workman 
who, having drank too much wine, attempted 
to carry a stone of 200 pounds up a steep hill. 
He fell and the big stone on him, giving him 
a badly fractured thigh. He was taken to 
his home and laid in a room 6 ft. x 5 and about 
6 ft. high. I set the leg, but how to keep it 
so and get anything like a weight extension 
apparatus in position was a question. He lay 
upon a mat on the mud floor with only a few 
inches clear space at head and feet. Finally 
the thought came, why not punch a hole 
through the mud wall, run my cord out over 
a pulley and attach the weight outside ? I 
suggested this to my assistant, but he said, 



"You have forgotten the small boys of the 
neighborhood ; they will play tug-of-war with 
any cord you put out thei'e." "How about 
the other wall?" I asked. "There is the 
fireplace and the big iron pot where they 
cook the family rice." "Have they another 
fireplace?" "Yes, they have." So we pro- 
ceeded to remove the rice pot, made our hole, 
drew the cord through and, attaching a couple 
of big stones, swung them into the empty 
fireplace. It worked like a chai-m. The only 
drawback, as I found out afterwards, was 
that when the family needed the fireplace 
they relieved my weights from duty for a 
while. Of course the man took off his splints 
several times when uncomfortable, as a Kore- 
an always will if he has a chance, but not- 
withstanding these little incidents he made 
a good recovery, and this morning his son, 
who is a soldier, came to church and thanked 
me publicly for his father's recovery. 



SUNDAY AT PYENG YANG. 

Dr.. Alice Fish Moffett says : 

The community here is so "largely Christian 
that we are given a decided Sabbath atmos- 
phere, and it is such a joy to see and know 
that the quiet, peace, rest and gladness of the 
Lord's Day have crept into the lives of the 
people. I thought of it anew this morning as 
I sat here during Bible study hour. 

The whole neighborhood was as quiet as 
could be, except when the sound of a hj mn 
came from one of the sarangs where I knew 
nearly all the people must be gathered. Pres- 
ently they came pouring out — men, women, 
boys and girls ; how it does delight our hearts 
to see them ! 

A HOME missionary. 

One of our men went from this church to 
Taiku to help Dr. Johnson in his medical- 
evangelistic work. They have very few 
Christians down there. I suppose it meant 
fully as much to that man to start on such a 
mission to the southern part of Korea as it 
did to us to come across the sea, except that 
the people are of his own tongue. 

A musician's choice. 

Very often as I go with you in thought to 
the San Rafael church, I am hungry to hear 
the congregation sing. And yet these Korean 
songs that are floating around us almost any 
time of day are so full of soul music that, 
when a clioice has to be made between the 
two, it takes only a minute to decide that I 
would rather be here, though listening to an 
incorrect Korean hymn. Like the Chinese, 
Koreans naturally tend toward the minor key. 



HOM£ DEPARTMENT 

Christian Missions in the Nineteenth Century* 



LESSON IV. 



-THE CENTURY IN INDIA. 



Part II.* 

IV. Missionary methods generally used in India, with five-minute talks on : 

(a) Educational methods as introduced by Duff, Anderson, Wilson, and as conducted 
at present. Reference No. 1, vol. ii, chaps, xxviii, xxis, xxx; No. 11. 

(b) Medical missions. Reference Nos, 1, vol. ii, chap, xxxi; 3, vol. ii, pp. 412-42.5; 12, chaps, iv, vii. 

(c) The development of Christian literature. Reference No. l, vol. ii, chaps, xxv, xxvi; 3, vol. li, 

pp. 35-39. 

(d) Evangelistic methods. Reference No. 1, vol. ii, chap, xxvii. 

(e) Beginning of woman's work in India. Reference No. l, vol. i, p. 506; No. 3, vol. ii, pp. 1S0-189; 10. 

V. Summary of the results of the century of missionary effort. This may be given on 
a chart or blackboard in the form of a comparison, 1800 — 1900. Reference No, 1, 
Statistical Tables, 

BOOKS OF REFERENCE, 

7. Butler's "Land of the Vcdas," (Eaton & Mains,) 

8. "The Wrongs of Indian Womanhood," by Mrs. Marcus 
Fuller. (Revell.) 

9. "The Cross in the Land of the Trident," by Beach. 

10. " Within the Purdah." S. Armstrong-Hopkins, M.D. 

11. Life of Duff. 

12. "Medical Missions," by John Lowe. 

13. " A Lady of England." 



1. Report of the Ecumenical Conference. 

2. " The Conversion of India," by George Smith. (Revell.) 

3. "Christian Missions and Social Progress," by Dennis. 

(Revell.) 

4. The Lives of Carey, Marshman and Ward. 

5. The Life of Judson. (Baptist .Society Publication.) 

6. "Modern Missions in the East," by E. A. Lawrence. 

(Harper's.) 



* Part I was presented last month. 

Additional 

IV. (a) Life of Duff, in Annals series, or- 
dered from Women's Boards (paper, 18 cts.). 

Two Pupils of Dr. Duff. — See Woman's 
Work, Sept., '97, p. 245. 

Life of John Wilson of Bombay, by Geo. 
Smith — sketch in Encyclopedia of Missions. 

"My darling wife has six female schools.'' 
— Letter from Wilson, Bombay, 1830. 

In 1840, only 500 girls under instruction in 
all Bengal. 

Facts about schools. — See Woman's Work, 
April, 1900, pp. 94, 95, 98. Why have schools 
for children? — See pastor's answer, ditto, 
Sept., '97, p. 243. 

Indian Student Movements. — See Strategic 
Points in the Woi'ld's Conquest, by John Mott, 
chaps. 8, 9. 

(6) See Woman's Work, Oct., '97, Oct., '98, 
April, '99, July, '99. 

(d) City evangelization. — Woman's Work, 
March, '98, p. 65, August, '98, p. 211. Country 
'work, ditto, April,. 1900, p. 96, ditto, Feb., '97. 



Suggestions. 

"Who rules India? Not Lord Lytton in the 
Cabinet, not politics, nor diplomacy, nor the 
bayonet — Christ rules British India." — Keshub 
Chunder Sen. 

" Cast your eyes around What has made 
England great ? Christianity. Who began 
female education in Bombay ? The good old 
Dr. and Mrs. Wilson — Christians again 1" — 
Speech of educated Hindu. 

(e) Early efforts to benefit women in India. 
—See, Onr Sisters in India, by Storrow (Revell 
pub.), chap. 13, schools, pp. 189-206; in ze- 
nanas, pp. 207-215. 

Eminent Missionary Women, by Mrs. Gracey, 
contains sketches of Hannah Marshman, first 
missionary woman to India, Mrs. Mullens, 
and Dr. Fanny Butler of Kashmir, first English 
woman physician to India. 

Books named can be loaned from " For° 
eign Missions Library," 156 Fifth Avenue, 
New York. 



A DOZEN QUESTIONS FOR MISSIONARY MEETING. 

[Answers may be found in the preceding pages.] 



1. Where is the Banner Society of subscrib- 
ers to Woman's Work ? Page 114. 

2. Mention seven ways in which the Indian 
woman's life is a bondage. Pages 93-95, 101. 

8. What does a veteran missionary consider 
the proportion of zenana women who can be 
openly baptized 1 Page 94. 

4. What kills the blues at Kodoli ? What 
is the crown of rejoicing ? Page 95. 

5. What does a veteran missionary think 
would result, if "social obstacles" could be 
removed from Christian confession ? Page 97. 

6. What interests you in the last medical 
reports from India ? Pages 103-106. 



7. What was the outstanding fact in India 
last year ? How was the claim met in our 
missions? Pages 97-101. 

8. Quote some Hindu proverb — pages 102, 
103 — and give its equivalent among our Eng- 
lish proverbs. 

9. Tell of a Chinese girl who would not re- 
cant. Page 107. 

10. How did the new year open at Paoting- 
fu ? Page 108. 

11. What does Mrs. Bandy say about "little 
flickering lights" ? Page 109. 

12. Where is a church not big enough to 
seat all its members ? Page 111. 



Question waiting for answer — What society will take the 
Church, New York ? 



■ Banner " from the Brick 



114 



[April, 



BANNER SOCIETIES. 



The publication two months ago of 
the number of subscribers to Woman's 
Work, in a few of our foremost socie- 
ties, has drawn out gratifying an- 
nouncements regarding some other 
cases. We wish many more had been 
reported. 

Washington, Pa., Miss Jennie W. 
Baird, Secretary of Literature, 30 sub- 
scribers. 

Flemington, N. J., Miss Randall, 
31 subscribers. 

W. Phila., Pa., Princeton Church, 
Miss Emma L. Burnett, Secretary of 
Literature, 51 subscribers. Doubled 
its former list in 1899. 

New York City, Madison Square 
Church, Miss Pratt collector, 52 sub- 
scribers. 

Buffalo, N. Y., Lafayette Ave. 



Church, 56 subscribers. A former Sec- 
retarj', Mrs. Smith, by unremitting 
effort brought the list from a very small 
number to its present size. Name of 
present Secretary not known. 

Orange, N. J., First Church, Miss 
Katharine Storrs, Secretary of Litera- 
ture, 63 subscribers. 

Orange, N. J., Central Church, Miss 
Tooker, Secretary (gain of seven since 
Feb. announcement), 69 subscribers. 

New York City, Brick Church, 110 
subscribers. This list was built up to 
above 100 and maintained for many 
years by the gentle, tactful labor of 
Mrs. Shedd. It is well sustained by 
her successor. Miss Prentiss. 

The last is, so far as known to the 
editor's office, the Banner List of the 
whole Church. 



MRS. GIBSON'S EXPERIMENT. 



' ' No, I didn't say anything to Reuben 
about it beforehand, for fear he might 
be moved to ridicule the whole thing 
or else out and out forbid it ; and as I 
had signed a contract of obedience 
nearly twenty-five j'ears ago in the old 
church, which is not outlawed yet, it is 
about as binding in one case as in 
another, I suppose. 

' ' However, I've never had any scru- 
ples against walking around it, when 
prudence seemed the better part of 
valor, and so, as I said before, I never 
mentioned my plan but fixed upon a 
time for carrying it out, when Reuben 
had gone off for a few days to look after 
some stock. 

"You see, I had been chairman of 
the programme committee of our mis- 
sionary meeting for the last year, and 
was almost tired to death as well as out 
of patience. We had worked very hard, 
the committee I mean, at getting up 
something each time which would in- 
terest the people and not be the least 
bit rutty and, if I do say it myself, with 
the exception of once or twice, we 
spread quite a tempting menu before 
them. 

" We had heard a convincing paper 
read one day, about not always having 
the same things to eat for breakfast, 
dinner and tea, which the writer beauti- 



fully applied to programmes, and we, 
as a committee, profited by the hint. 

' ' I haven't time now to tell you one- 
half of what we had in all these months ; 
it would really take less time, I sup- 
pose, just to mention what we have not 
had. I judge this by the way those 
head women talked out at the big mis- 
sionary meeting in the city. They 
brought along a lot of plans all marked 
out with a cross, like Marion Harland's 
Cook Book recipes, which meant that 
they had been tried and proved satisfy- 
ing. How those delegates took notes 
on them. All but me ! I just sat and 
never touched a pencil to them, be- 
cause we had had every one of them 
long ago. 

" Well, after p.ll of our efforts, there 
has not been a quorum (excepting when 
we had the free lunch) at any of our 
meetings. I asked Martha Bainbridge 
one daj' on the street why she didn't 
come, and she tossed her head and said, 
'there were reasons.' And then it 
struck me for the first time, that as 
the others were to all appearance, in the 
long run, as reasonable creatures as 
Martha, they might have reasons too. 
So I made up my mind to ask them to 
give their reasons, and if they were not 
too might}" to handle, I would pass them 
over to the parson, and ma3-be he might 



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3IRS. GIBSON'S EXPERIMENT. 



115 



get a bundle of edifjnng sermons out 
of them. 

" I started early in the afternoon, as 
there were a number of places to call 
at, and it wasn't long before I was sit- 
ting, as cosy as could be, in Lucretia 
Sloane's sunshiny kitchen, and she 
doing up the family mending. 

" ' Why don't I come to the mission- 
ary meeting ? ' laughed Lucretia, ' that 
is easily answered. It is because you 
persist in holding it on a Saturday. I 
have,' she continued solemnly, ' to leave 
something undone if I go out on Sat- 
urdays ! ' Here I saw her look compla- 
cently at her bright stove and illumin- 
ated tea-kettle. ' Hold it of an even- 
ing, or almost any other day in the 
week, and I would make an effort to be 
there.' 

"'Pretty solid reason,' says I to 
myself, as I jot down in my note-book 
' Wrong day,' before knocking on Polly 
Jones' door. 

" 'To tell the truth. Sister Gibson,' 
says Polly, ' I always forget about the 
missionary meeting until the bell rings, 
and then it is too late to get ready. And 
sometimes I can't place the bell. ' What 
is going on at our church,' I say to 
mj'self , 'that they are ringing the bell ?' 
Then all at once I remember the an- 
nouncement of the Sunday before.' 

"The entry I make this time is: 
' Indifference,^ with a large capital. 

" At the next place Mrs. Van Cam- 
pus said : ' My dear Mrs. Gibson, yon 
make your programmes too long. 
Really, I felt as exhausted the last time 
I was there as though I had personally 
walked those weary miles, and endured 
the dreadful things which those good 
creatures you tell of profess to ha\ang 
experienced. The whole thing was 
enervating in the extreme to a person 
with my nervous temperament, and — ' 

" I don't know how long she might 
have continued, but as I had no spare 
time I left her talking, while I went 
down the street studying to myself 
what to write about her case. I made 
it ' Selfishness,'' for I believe that 
quality keeps more peojile out of enjoy- 
ment, and plunges more of them into 
nervous prostration than any other 
word of its size in the whole dictionary. 

"Mrs. Lamb, being quite outspoken, 
said she stayed away because she 



couldn't afford to go. ' I pay my yearly 
dues,' said she, ' and I disapprove of the 
collection-box being passed around. A 
niite-box at the door, for left-handed 
offerings, is more Scriptural as well as 
more drawing,' said she. 

' ' And now I and my note-book were 
in a quandary until I concluded to place 
the word ^justice' in front of Sister 
Lamb's name. 

"Miss May LilHau Blake had had 
her feelings hurt ; somehodij had lacer- 
ated them. I told her it was better in 
all such cases to remember, firstly, the 
source, and secondly, the bigness of 
the cause; and after studying for a 
time on the secondly, the firstly would 
settle itself naturally. ' It speaks well 
for any circle of women,' I added, 'to 
be able to run a society as long as this 
has been going, with no more serious 
conflict and jealousy than we have had.' 
I have half a notion that May LilUan 
will come back, and I wrote '^Hyper- 
sensitive ' before her name. 

" There were a good many who were 
afraid to come for fear the leader might 
ask the^n to do something, and they 
' trembled so ' at the sound of their own 
voices in such places. Moreover they 
were fearful lest they might call some 
of those foreign words the wrong wa}'. 

" ' You poor dears,' said I, ' -vwould it 
be a crime if you did ? If you can keep 
up with all of those names, and they 
are changing right along, I reckon you 
will be the first one. Of course if you 
fefl a weakness about the English 
words, Webster's Dictionary is a pow- 
erful tonic' My note-book agreed with 
me on ' Timidity ' this time, although 
I did feel like singing along with John 
Bunyau : 
" ' Who would valorous be, 

Let him come hither ; 

Let him quite constant be 

Come wind or weather; 

Then fancies'll fly away. 

He'll not fear what men say ' — 
and so on ; but not having much voice 
for singing, I refrained. Before I had 
been all around, as a matter of course 
I found a great many people who ' did 
not believe in missions,' and others who 
were skeptical about the money ever 
reaching its destination. 

' ' That evemng, though tired, I took 
time by the forelock and sorted out the 



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CALENDAU—TO THE AUXILIARIES. 



[April, 



reasons I had collected, fastening a fit- 
ting text of Scripture to each, for it did 
not seem quite just to give the parson so 
much sudden material without accom- 
panying it with a little lift. 

" In front of ' Wrong day ' I wrote 
' Careful and troubled about many 
things. ' Beside * Indifference ' I put 
' Because thou art neither cold nor hot, 
I will spew thee out of my mouth.' 
' Selfishness ' fitted many texts but I 
thought ' Let him deny himself ' was 
the best. When it came to finding a 
text for ' Justice ' it was harder, but 
Isaiah helped me out : ' My people doth 
not consider,' that was it. ' Hyper- 
sensitive's ' text was ' Be not overcome 
with evil.' * Timidity's ' was good, too, 



* According to the proportion of faith.' 
There is so much back of these words. 
You can find them in the twelfth of 
Romans. 

"As for the unbelieving ones, I had 
no time to waste with them, knowing 
if the}^ would onl}- read their Bibles a 
little oftener, a regular good conscien- 
tious read, they would di'op such ideas. 

"I had not more than gotten my 
texts arranged before I heard Reuben's 
step on the walk, getting home sooner 
than he had expected ; so I told him the 
whole transaction after all. 

"Somehow or other I never could 
keep anything back from that man." 

{Mrs. P.) Gulick. 

Clinton, New Jer»ey. 



SUGGESTION CORNER. 



From Tennessee: 

My thanks to you for Woman's 
Work for Woman and Over Sea and 
Land. They come promptly every 
month. I never received them until 
you sent me the gift of them. After 
reading myself and using in our 
monthly meeting, I send them on to a 
mountain woman who has a band of 
country women. She says she could 
not conduct her meetings without them. 



the accounts which you gave us. Wives 
of two naval ofl&cers are members of 
our society. The widow of Admiral 
Philip has lately become a member. 



From Annapohs, Md. : 

We, individually and as a society, 
thank Woman's Work for your extras 
on the China troubles, which interested 
all, though we were heart-stricken over 



From Michigan : 

Our society is giving a supper to- 
night to send money to star\nng people 
in India. It is good, but I wish it were 
not necessary to give suppers to raise 
money. 

[It does seem rather in-apropos to eat 
in order to feed the starving. — Ed.] 



From Kentucky: 

We have as contributing members 
almost every woman on our church roll. 



SINCE LAST MONTH. 

AbrivaL: 

March 10 — At New York, Guy Hamilton, M.D., and wife, from Slam. Address, 624 
Second St., Madison, Ind. 
Departures : 

February 23. — From New York, Rev. Arthur Ewing, returning to Lodiana, India, leaving 

Mrs. Ewing in Baltimore. 
March 5. — From Pittsburg, Pa., Mrs. C. C. Millar to rejoin her husband in Mexico. 
March 7. — From San Francisco, Mrs. C. F. Johnson and three children, to rejoin her 

husband, of Ichowfu, Shantung. 

Marriage: 

March 1. — At Shanghai, China, Dr. Mary A. Ayer of Soochow to Capt. Alexander 
MacKinnon. 

TO THE AUXILIARIES. 



[FOR ADDRESS OF EACH HEADQUARTERS AND 

From Thiladelphia. 

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

April. Prayer Union. — Our Annual Assem- 
bly. 

The Thirty-first Annual Assembly of the 



LIST OF OFFICERS SEE THIRD PAGE OF COVER.] 

Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the 
Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia) will be 
held in Calvary Church, Philadelphia, Rev. J. 
Sparhawk Jones, D.D., Pastor, April 24 and 
25, preceded by a prayer-meeting on Tuesday 
evening, 23d. According to the By-Laws: 
"One delegate maybe sent from each Pres- 
byterial Society, each Auxiliary Society, each 



1901.] 



TO THE AUXILIARIES. 



117 



Young People's Band. Y. P. S. C. E. woAing 
with us are also entitled to the same repre- 
sentation. 

Cordial hosjiitality is extended by the ladies 
of the Presbyteries of Philadelphia and Phila- 
delphia North, to all delegates and mission- 
aries who may attend the meeting. Board 
will be secured for others desiring it, at hotels 
and boarding-houses conveniently located. 

The names of delegates and all applica- 
tions for board or entertainment must be sent 
not later than April 8, to Mrs. D. Linn Coyle, 
3745 Locust St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

The usual reduction in railroad fare, good 
from April 19 to 29, has been secured. All 
persons on pui-chasing tickets must ask for a 
certificate which must be signed at the meet- 
ing, and will entitle bearer to the two thirds 
reduction on return ticket. At the smaller 
stations notice should be given to the agent 
in advance that the certificates will be asked 
for. The reduction is available for every one 
attending the meeting, whether delegates or 
not. 

The Tuesday evening devotional meeting 
has become a precious feature of our assem- 
blies and as far as possible it is urged upon 
all delegates to be present. 

Among the missionary speakers who are 
expected ai'e Mrs. De Heer and Mrs. Reut- 
linger, Africa. Miss Hawes, China, Miss Milli- 
ken, Japan, Miss Johnson, India, and a score 
of others who will in some way have a share 
in the programme. 'A popular meeting will 
be held in the Academy of Music on Thursday 
evening, to be conducted by Mr. Robt. E. 
Speer, Secretary of Board of Foreign Missions. 
Rev. Eugene Dunlap, Siam, and others will 
address the meeting. 

An exhibit of curios will be one of the in- 
teresting features during the sessions of the 
assembly and special preparations are being 
made that the conferences may be as helpful 
as possible. 

May prayer, earnest and united, abound 
throughout all our territory during the coming 
week for the pre.sence of the Holy Spirit upon 
all our deliberations. 

Treasurer's books close April 20. 

Thus far, receipts give no indication of the 
"at least two per cent, increase in regular 
contributions" and no foreshadowing of a 
goodly balance toward the Twentieth Century 
Re-establishment Fund for China. Approval 
of the plan has, however, been freely expressed, 
and as the report from each Presbyterial 
Society comes in, we look confidently for the 
glad fulfillment of our high aim. 

From Chicago. 

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

The Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the Wo- 
man's Presbyterian Board of Missions of the 
Northwest will open with a devotional meet- 
ing Tuesday evening, April 23. Let all who 
possibly can, get there in time for it. We all 
need the preparation which that will give. 

Have you appointed your delegates and sent 
names to Miss Josephine Cable, 1219 Brady 
St., Davenport, Iowa? If not, do not delay 
another day. It is not just to the committee. 



Last year in these notes we asked for prayer 
that a less number of churches might be found 
on the rolls which gave nothing to Foreign 
Missions. Did we pray without faith and 
works ? Instead of a smaller number, there 
are over two thousand churches which gave 
not one cent. Is it your fault, is it mine ? 

Can it be that the Presbyterial officers to 
whom the Forty-Eight's Bidletin is sent for 
distribution are not sending them out to the 
societies ? We are getting letters asking, 
" What is the Forty-Eight's Bulletin and how 
can we get it ? " from societies in Presbyteries 
where we know the Secretary gets a package 
each month. Every society should receive a 
copy before the first day of the month. The 
packages are sent from here not later than 
the 24th of the previous month, giving ample 
time for distribution. 

The Field Secretary reports attendance 
upon nineteen Praise Meetings in February, 
twelve hundred miles of travel with excellent 
financial results. At one meeting two little 
maids whose birthday it was, and who were 
born twelve years before on a Praise Service 
day, collected the offerings. To another, a 
sleigh load of ladies accompanied her on a 
twelve-mile ride. 

The devotional exercise The Children of the 
Day, 2 cts. each, is intended for an opening 
exercise. Two or three copies are necessary, 
the leader to have one and the others to be 
cut and distributed to those who take part. 

Add Or,e and Bless Three, 1 ct. each, 6 cts. 
per doz. ; The Wail of the Women, 1 ct. each, 
6 cts. per doz. 

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

From New York. 

Prayer-meeting at 156 Fiftli Ave., cor. 20th St., the first 
Wednesday of each month, at 10.30 a.m. Each other 
Wednesday there is a half-hour meeting for prayer and 
reading of missionary letters, commencing at same hour. 

The Thirty-first Annual Meeting of the 
Women's Board of Foreign Missions of the 
Presbyterian Church will be held in the 
church at the corner of Warren and Wood- 
bine streets, Roxbury, Mass., April 10 and 11. 
All desiring entertainment or information 
about hotels and boarding-houses are request- 
ed to apply to Mrs. James J. Dunlop, 43 Geor- 
gia St., Roxbury, Mass., Chairman of the 
Hospitality Committee. 

The usual reduction of fares by the certifi- 
cate plan has been secured and is available for 
all .attending the meeting, whether delegates 
or not. Delegates living in small places 
should apply for their tickets and certificates 
several days in advance of the time of starting. 

The programme will be an excellent one, 
including some talks by missionaries whom 
all want to hear. Miss Newton and Miss 
Hawes being among them. The conference 
will present some helpful topics for discus- 
sion, and at the evening meeting Dr. Dunlap 
will give his illustrated talk on Siam. Dr. 
HaLsey of the Board will also address the 
meeting. Do not fail to accept Boston's hos- 
pitality if possible. The societies that fall 
behind in gifts and interest are not those that 
send full delegations to the Annual Meetings. 



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TO THE AUXILIARIES. 



[April, 



Presbyterial Treasurers are reminded that 
April 1, the day on which our books close, 
comes this year on Monday, and they are re- 
quested to mail their last remittances not 
later than Saturday, March 31. 

We hope to present a designated object for 
the Summer Offering for Medical Missions 
this year. The envelopes will be ready for 
distribution in April and should be returned 
on or before Sept. 1. The Summer Offering 
for the year just closing was §3,056.64. 

We have to record with regret the death of 
Mrs. F. Blume, one of the oldest managers of 
our Board in length of service. She has la- 
bored with us almost from its beginning. Gen- 
tle and retiring, of excellent judgment, she 
was a useful member until failing strength 
prevented her attendance upon Board meet- 
ings. The friend of the missionaries, her lov- 
ing, prayerful devotion to the cause dear to 
her Lord never failed. 

Many will be pained to hear of the death of 
Mrs. Chas. P. Hartt, which occurred recently 
in New York. Mrs. Hartt was for long years 
intimately identified with the Women's 
Board of Foreign Missions. The records of 
her work would be a history of the early years 
of the Society, when woman's organized work 
for women was on trial. The few brave wo- 
men who felt called of God to work together 
intelligently and systematically in order to 
send the glorious gospel to distant lands, met 
with scant sympathy. Of this small number, 
Mi's. Hartt was one. At the birth of the So 
ciety she took her place as treasurer by the 
side of her friend, Mrs. James Lorimer 
Graham, its first president. Clear, exact, 
painstaking, conscientious in every detail, she 
lived to see all prejudice against the organ- 
ized work of women overcome and an honor- 
able place accorded it. In 1896 she asked to 
be relieved of her duties, having served for 
twenty five years. Since then, because of 
failing health, she has lived in great retire- 
ment, always maintaining, however, a warm 
interest in the work to which she had given so 
many years of loving labor. 

News has come of the great loss to the ■ 
Transylvania presbyterial society of Ken- 
tucky in the death of Mrs. N. K. Tunis, Sec- 
retary of Literature and of Y. P. Societies. 
Her loyalty and enthusiasm for service made 
her a most efficient and faithful worker. For 
the present. Miss Emma Cowan is taking her 
place. 

From Northern New York. 

The Twenty-ninth Annual Meeting of the 
Woman's Presbyterian Foreign Missionary 
Society of Northern New York will be held in 
the First Church, Gloversville, N. Y., April 
17 and 18. A devotional service will be held 
at 4.00 P.M., on Wednesday, the 17th, followed 
by a missionary address. Train connections 
are made at Fonda via the N. Y. C. R R.. with 
the F., J. & G. R. R., as well as the electric 
road. Delegates can leave Albany at 1.15 p. 
M. ; Schenectady, 1.53 P.M., and connect 
with the electric cars in Fonda at 3.10 P.M., 
arriving in Gloversville at 3.56 p.m. Dele- 
gates desiring entertainment are requested to 



send their names in full to Mrs. J. P. Heacock, 
31 Prospect St. , Gloversville, N. Y. , not later 
than April 8. Information in regard to hotels 
and boarding-houses can also be obtained of 
Mrs. Heacock. 

Notices of the meeting, giving hours for 
the sessions, with names of the speakers, etc. , 
will be sent to the Secretary of each Auxiliary 
and C. E. Society. Any failing to receive a 
notice by March 30 are requested to notify 
Miss E. A. Darling, Auburn, N. Y. 

Again we call attention of the Treasurers 
to the need of forwarding all monies by April 
1. Societies are requested to see that their 
pledges are fulfilled, and to loyally support 
the object which was assigned to them at the 
beginning of the year, and not to divert funds 
upon which the general Society is depending, 
to other purposes, however worthy. 

From St. Louis. 

Meetings at 1.516 Locust St., Room 21, the first and 
third Tuesdays of each month, at 10 a.m. Leaflets and 
missionary literature obtained by sending to the above 
number. Visitors and friends cordially welcome. 

The Twenty-fourth Annual Meeting of the 
Woman's Presbyterian Board of Foreign Mis- 
sions of the Southwest will be held in the 
First Church, Rev. H. O. Scott, D.D., pastor, 
Cai'thage, Mo., Thursday and Friday, April 
25 and 26. Delegates should send their names 
early in April to Chairman of Entertainment 
Committee, Mrs. J. A. Mitchell, South Main 
Street, Carthage, Mo. One hundred delegates 
assures us reduced rates. 

While it is impossible to announce just 
what missionaries will be with us at the An- 
nual Meeting and which of the Secretaries of 
the Assembly's Board will address us, we are 
justified in promising an interesting pro- 
gramme. Will not all the auxiliaries en- 
deavor to send delegates to this meeting ? 
We know many of you by name at Room 21, 
we read your letters, we are cheered by your 
successes and sympathize in your discourage- 
ments, and we should so like to see you face 
to face. Won't j'ou try to come ? 

In the next issue of the Quarterly, which 
will be in your hands by April 1, you will find 
a list of dates and places of assembling for 
the Presbyterial Society meetings. Please 
note them and endeavor to attend your own 
Presbyterial meeting if possible. 

We received a pleasant, chatty letter from 
Miss Margaret B. Axtell, now at San Felix, 
Bahia. in Brazil. She tells of her difficulties 
with the Portuguese language and of the ex- 
ceeding kindness of the Brazilian family with 
which she is domiciled. Her testimony to the 
efficiency of Dr. Chamberlain's family is in- 
spiring, and we hope to hear such "good 
words" often. 

Societies contributing to the salary of Mrs. 
Miles of Colombia will be glad to hear that we 
have a letter from her ready for publication. 
She speaks of the difficulty of sending mail 
from Bogota and so accounts for her long 
silence. 

Word comes that our missionaries in China 
are getting back to their stations. V<e can- 
not realize how heart-breaking it is for them 



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NEW BANDS— TREASURERS' REPORTS. 



119 



to return to ruined churches, scattered con- 
gregations, dismantled schools and hospitals, 
and the averted faces of former friends. Let 
us pray for them tliat their courage may be 
strengthened and their faith increased. Let 
us hold up the hands of our substitutes in the 
battle of the Lord, that the hosts of Amalek 
may not prevail against the chosen of God. 
We must do this by prayer, by letters of en- 
couragement, and by large increase in our 
gifts for work in the disturbed districts. Our 
martyr dead, botli native and foreign, have 
left us a rich legacy of faith, love and devo- 
tion to their Master, and to those whom He 
called "brethren." Shall we let their blood 
be spilled in vain ? 

Leaflets for study of April topic: Histori 
cal Sketch, 10 cts. ; Questions and Answers, 5 
cts. ; Home Life, 2 cts. ; Flash Lights, 3 cts. ; 
Bartholomew Ziegenbalg (a hero), 2 cts. ; Mis- 
sionaries in India, 2 cts. ; Fruits of Christian 
Science and Theosophy, 2 cts. ; Foreign Mission 
Fields, 1 ct. 

New Leaflets: Self -Denial, 10 cts. per 
doz. ; Poem, Not I, but Christ, 5 cts per doz. ; 
How She Did It, 8 cts. per doz. , by Mrs. Meade 
C. Williams, is a reprint. These have been 
used Self-Denial Week. 

Address orders to Woman's Board of the 
Southwest, 1516 Locust Street, St. Louis, Mo. 

From San Francisco. 

Public meeting at 920 Sacramento Street the first Mon- 
day in each month at 10.30 A.M. and 1.15 p.m. All are 
Invited. Executive Committee, third Monday. 



The Annual Meeting of the Occidental 
Board will be held April 3, 4, 5, at 920 Sacra 
mento St., San Francisco On April 8, a re- 
ception to delegates will be given from 3 to 
5 o'clock. We hope that fifty women and 
young people will come, to avail themselves 
of reduced fares at one and one third rates 
on the Southern Pacific K K. . or on the Cali- 
fornia and Northwestern R. R. Free enter 
tainment will be provided during the ses 
sitm. Foreign missionaries from the field will 
be present, and a Young People s Hour will 
form a part of the attractive programme. 

Leaflets: Historical Sketch of India, 10 
cts. ; Questions and Answers, 5 cts. ; A Bit of 
Zenana Work. 1 ct. ; Medical Mission Work, 
10 cts. ; What is a Zenana ? 1 ct. , Premadini 
(a true story). 2 cts., 15 cts. per doz. ; Sooboo- 
nagam Animal (true story), 2 cts. ; Bartholo- 
mew Ziegenbalg (Hero Series), 2 cts.; Home 
Life in India, 2 cts. ; Adoniram Judson, Wil- 
liam Carey, Alexander Duff, 18 cts. each, 
paper cover, cloth, 30 cts. ; Woman's Rights 
in India, 1 ct. ; How Hindu Christians Give, 
2 cts. We furnish the whole list of Mission- 
ary Annals, viz. . Duff, Carey, Judson, Mills, 
Martyn, Woman in Persia, Perkins, Moffat, 
Livingstone, etc., paper cover, 18 cts., cloth, 
30 cts. 

The Annals will be invaluable to clubs, 
missionary meetings or in home study for all 
who join in the study of "Christian Missions 
in the Nineteenth Century. " Send to Mrs H. 
B. Pinney, Berkeley, Cal., for the Six Lessons. 



NEW BANDS. 

NEW JERSEY. OHIO. PENNSYLVANIA. 

Englewood, West Side Ch., Mt. Gilead, Calvin Mlss'y Society. Huntingdon, Earnest Workers. 

Junior Guild. E. Palestine, Little Light Bearers. 



Receipts of the W^oman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church from Feb. J, I90J. 



PRB8BTTBR1E8 IN SMAXL CAPITA1,S. 

Baltimore.—" From the mother of Wm. Cross Moore, 
Bait., for and in his name," $151.00 
Blairsville.— Fairfield, S.C.E,, 6.50 
Cincinnati.— Bethel (*8.36), ai.02; Bond Hill, *10; Cin- 
cinnati, let (*12), 18, Golden Circle (*2.15), 8 15, 'King's 
Messengers (*7.65), 21.25, Lights for Darkness, *3,'S C.E. 
(*65ct8.), 7.65; 3d Ch. (*64.29), 110, S.C.E. , 14, Y.L.S., 25; 
3d (*12.65), 31.70; 4th (*1.65), 6:65, Y.L.B., 1.25; 5th (*5), 9; 
6th, 11: 7th (*74), 94.75; Avondale (*53.51), 83.51, Central, 
*5; Clifton, *8.45; Knox (*5.29), 13 68; Mohawk (*5), 26.40, 
Hope, 1.37, Buds of Promise, 1.84; Mt. Auburn (♦40), 100.67. 
Cliftord Chapel, 4; North, (*14), 20.40, Thomson Bd., *2; 
Walnut Hills (*64.10), 98.10, Humphrey Bd., 12.50, Cleves 
and Berea, 5; Glendale (*12), 36.96; Harrison, *S.3Q, Hart- 
well (*5.32), 8.72; Lebanon, 5.50; Linwood (*4.75), 14.75, 
Calvary Workers, i.50; Loveland, 6, S.C.E., 2.50; Madison- 
vil!e(*3. 55), 5.55, S.C.E., 2.07; Montgomery, *7; Morrow 
(*4.10), 25: Pleasant Ridge (*16.86), 21.49; Reading and 
Lockland, 3.50; Wyoming (*23.25), 62.15; Y.L.S., *6, 8.C E , 
10; Plate Coll., *39.59, 1,043.00 
Clarion.— Beechwood, S.C.E., 40.51 
CoRisco.— Baraka, 20.00 
Huntingdon.— Philipsburg, S.C.E., 2 37 

KiTTANNiNQ.— Apollo, 3.3.06, Hopeful Bd., 3.25, Faithful 
Workers, 1.19; Elders Ridge, 10.50; Glade Run, 15; Indi- 
ana, 135: Leechburg, 60; Marion Center. 17.76; Rock 
Bridge, 4.75; Washington, S.C.E., 4; Whitesburg, 10, 295 51 
Lackawanna.— Nicholson, S.C.E., 7 00 

Lehioh.— Shawnee, S.C.E., 4 70 

Mahonino.— Poland, S.C.E., s'gs 
Morris and Grange.— Schooleys Mt., 1 00 

Newark.— Arlington, S.C.E., 20; Bloomfleld, let 212 
Ballentine Bd., 15, New Century, 11, Willing Workers 7' 
White Guards, 5; Caldwell, 13.50, S.C.E., 25- Lyons 
Farms, S.C.E., 10; Montclair, 1st, 100, S.C.E., 13- Grace 
20; Trinity, 30, S.C.E. Jr., 30; Newark, Fewsmith, lo! 
S.C.E. Jr., .36: Forest Hill, 15; High St., 52.93; Roseville 
23, Mission Jrs., 60; South Park, 133.63, 830 06 



* Indicates Thanlc Offering. 

Newton.— Belvldere, Ist, Primary Bd.. 1.35; Stillwater, 
8.50, 3.85 

Philadelphia.— Tabernacle, Mrs. E. L. Linnard, 50, 
Walnut St., Mrs. Josephine Sailer, 30, 80.00 

Philadelphia, North. — Conshohocken, 4.50, S.C.E., 
4.50, 9.00 

Pittsburg and Allegheny, Com.— Allegheny, Isl, 250; 
2d Ch (*36). 36, S.C.E., 10; Brighton Road (*35.28), 29.68; 
Central, Macedonian Bd.. 48.35; McClure Ave. (*24.60), 56.81: 
North, (*47. 35), 401.50: Avalon, *40; Beaver, *60, Sunbeams, 
25; Bellevue, ^8, Bethel, *16.10: Canonsburg, 8.C.E., 5; 
Charlerol, S.C.E., 15; Chartiers, 16; Cratton (*38), 42, 
fidgewood (*40), 70; Emsworth ('li^.SO), 20.50; Forest 
Grove, 8; Glenfield (*10), 14.65; Glenshaw (*30), 55; Hays- 
ville, •3.50; Ingram, »6.80; Leetsdale, *30.50, McDonald, 
87.40, Mansfield, 12.50; Monongahela, *]3.05; Mt. Pisgah, 
11; NewSalem, S.C.E.. 23; Oakdale, *40; Oakmont, «10.50; 
Pittsburg, Ist, 400; 2d, 34.19, Adelaide Howard Bd., 75, 
4th, 35; 6th, 60; Bellefield (*65), 83.05, 8.C.E., 7.09, East 
Liberty (*373.82), 568.02, King's Daughters, 10, Signet Circle, 
25, Y.W.S.. 50; Highland {*57.25), 68,60; Homewood Ave. 
(♦60). 66: Lawrenceville ('*52), 84: Mt. Washington (*5), 
25: Oakland, S.C.E.. 5: Park Ave. (*180.35), 194.50; 
Point Breeze ( +57.75), 107.75; Shadvside, 'ISS; Tabernacle 
(*60), 73.50; Sewickley, 25; Sharpsburg, 28.30; Tarcntum 
(*12.15), 47.45; Wilkinsburg, 2.5, S.C.E., 100, 3,781.29 

West Jersey.— Ellwood, S.C.E., 2.63 

Washington.— Mt. Prospect Ch., 13.00 

Miscellaneous.— Bal. Legacy Miss H. A. Dlllaye, 198.89, 
Dlllaye Est., bal. for L. M., 1.66; Phila., "G," 40, East 
Downingtown, Mrs. A. P. Tutton, 20; Tolono, III., Mr and 
Mrs. T. M. Salisbury, 270 530.55 



Total for February, 1901, 
Total since May, 1900, 



$6,827,85 
61,544.79 



March 1, 1901. 



Mrs. Julia M. Pishburn, Treas., 
501 Witherspoon Bldg., Philadelphia, 



130 



TREASURERS' REPORTS. 



[April, 



Receipts of the Woman's Presbyterian Board of Missions of tlie Northwest to February 20, J90I. 



Aberdeen.— Aberdeen, * 
Bloojiington.— Champaign, C.E., 

Boise.— Caldwell, C.E., 10.00 
Central Dakota.— Huron, *5.50, L.H.M.S., *6.01; Wol- 
sey, *8.50, 20.01 
Chippewa.— Bayfield, 5.00 
Chicago.— Austin, 12; Berwyn, 10; Buckingham, 2.27, 
*4.75; Cabery, 15; Coal City, 21.53; Chicago, Calvary Ch., 
C.E., 10; Campbell Pk. Ch., 9.09; Ch. of the Covenant, C. 
E., 10; Ist, 210.70; 2d, 844.20; :3d, 155; 4th, .301; 6th, GO; 8th, 
C.E., 10; 4l8t St. Ch., 12; Englewood, 1st, 8, C.E., 12.50; 
Hyde Pk., 42, Mrs. J. C. Parsons, 25; Ridgeuay Ave. Ch., 
C.E., 1.70; Woodlawn Pk., C.E., 40; Evanston, Ist, 155, 
Chapel, C.E., 5; Hinsdale, C.E., 2.77; Kankakee, 38.65; 
Lake Forest, 157, Steady Streams, 39.10; River Forest, 15; 
Waukegan, 2; Anon., 8, 2,2.39.26 
Fort Wayne.— Elkhart, 30 cts.; Kendallville, 3.65; Os- 
sian, 2.55; Warsaw, 10, 16.50 
Frbeport.— Byron, Middle Creek Ch., 11.67; Freeport, 
1st, 25, C.E., 9.50; Guilford, Gleaners, .30.21 ; Harvard, 2; 
Rockford, Westm'r Ch., 19; Woodstock, C.E., 25, 122..38 
Indianapolis.— Indianapolis, Ist, 32.73; 2d, Mr. Wm, S. 
Hubbard, 475, 507.73 
Lansing.— Battle Creek, C.B., 64.80 
Madison.— Baraboo, C.E., 2.00 
Milwaukee. — Milwaukee, Calvary Ch., Bequest of Mrs. 
Annie B. Plankinton, 500.00 
Minneapolis.— Eden Prairie, Individual Givers, ;3.B5; 
Minneapolis, Andrew Ch., 30.35, Y.W.S., 7, Soldiers of the 
(;ro68, 2; Bethlehem Ch., 18.60; 1st, Y.W.S., 40; 5th, 5.20, 
*1.25; Highland Pk. Ch., King's Messengers, 4; Oliver Ch., 
4.73: Shiloh Ch., C.E., 2; Stewart Mem'l Ch., 2.3.15, Glean- 
ers, 5.50; Westm'r Ch., C.E., .37.50, Y.W.S., *13; Oak Grove, 
*1, 198.93 
MuNciE.— Elwood, King's Daughters, 15.00 
Nebraska City. — Adams, C.E., 10; Beatrice, 1st, C.E., 
5.85; Humboldt, C.E., 6.80; Lincoln, 1st, C.E., 6.10; 2d, C. 



* Indicates ofEering for China Relief Fund 
S12.00 
10.00 



E., 12.50; Staplehurst, C.E., 5; Table Rock, *7.70, 54.05 
Niobrara.— Hartington, 6; Laurel, 6..50; Madison, 25; 
Pender, 2.50; Ponca, 2.50; Wakefield, 5; Wayne, 20; Win- 
nebago, 8, . 75.50 
Ottawa.— Brookfield, 190: Grand Ridge, 5; Mendota, 8; 
Morris, 18.25; Ottawa, 10, Christmas, Birthday off., 100, C. 
E., 10; Rochelle, C.E., 1; Streator, 10; Troy Grove, 2.95, 
*4.30, Jr. C.E., *1; Waltham, 7, 367.50 
Saint Cloud.— Kingston, 2; Litchfield, 10; St. Cloud, 5; 
Spicer, Mrs. Rlllah Parsons, *2, 19.00 
Saint Paul.— St. Paul, Central Ch., 28.50; Dayton Ave. 
Ch., Inter. C.E., 5; House of Hope Ch., 136.30; Macalester, 
5, 174.80 
Schuyler.— Bushnell, 2.20; Camp Point, C.E., 4; Hamil- 
ton, Bethel Ch., 2.65; Kirkwood, 3.25; Macomb, C.E., 50; 
Monmouth, 11; Perry, 1.50; Prairie City, 1.75; Quincy, 1.50; 
Wythe Ch., C.E., 25, 102.85 
Southern Dakota. — Kimball, *6.42; Lake Andes, *4.;35; 
Lenox, Ebenezer, German Ch., 10; White Lake, *6, 26.77 
Waterloo.— Greene, 2..50; Marshalltown, 7, 9.50 
Winnebago. — Appleton, :30, *5; Crandon, Bd., *1; Fond 
du Lac, C.E., 5; Green Bay, 3.50; Marinette, 1.3.75, *75 cts.; 
Menill, Neenah, 75, *5; Oconto, *4, C.E., 15; Omro, 
C.E., 1.50; Oshkosh, 10; Shawano, 5; Shawnee, Jr. C.E., 3; 
Stevens Point. 5, 185.00 
Winona.— Albert Lea, 50.32, College Circle, 6; Chatfield, 
43.20; Clareinont, 2.70, C.E., 15; Kasson. 1.43, Jr. C.E., 10; 
La Crescent, C.E. , 5; Le Rov, 4.50, C.E., 1.03; Owatonna, 
30.50, *7; Rochester, 10.85; Rushford, 9, 196.5:3 
Miscellaneous.— By sale of A Brief Record 1.20 



Total for month, $4,936.31 
Total receipts since April 20, 1900, 46..359.69 
Mrs. C. B. Farwell, Treas., 
Room 48, LeMoyne Block, 40 Randolph St. 
Chicago, Feb. 20, 1901. 



Receipts of the Women's Board of Foreign Missions. of the Presbyterian Church for Feb., J90J. 



Binghamton.— Binghamton, Broad Ave., C.E., 5; 1st, C. 
E., 12.25; Cortland, 44; Coventry, C.E., 2; Deposit, C.E., 8; 
Owego, 20; Smithville Flats, C.E., 1.66; Windsor, C.E., 22, 
Jr. C.E., 15, . §129.91 

Brooklyn. — Brooklyn, Ainslie St., 14.58; Arlington Ave., 
C.E., 10; Bethany, 10; Classon Ave., Th. off., 03.78, C.E., 
15; Cumberland St., Jr. C.E. , 1; Duryea, C.E., 9.12; 1st, 
170.69, Y.L.S., 62.02, City Park Branch, 3.20, Cheerful 
Givers, 10; Franklin Ave., 10; Grace, 5.75, Y.L.S., 5; Gieene 
Ave., 12.66, Y.L.S., 17.:30, C.E., 13.56; Lafayette Ave., 450; 
Mem'l, 23.49; Prospect Heights, 24.62, Jr. C.E. , 88 cts.; 
Ross St., 15; 2d, 41.91; South 3d St., 55.02, Y.L.S., 26.84, 
Pr. off., .38 Cts.; Throop Ave., Girls' Bd., 3.1:3, C.E. ,25, Mis- 
sion, C.E., 12; Westm'r, 29.78; Stapleton, S. I., 1st, 4:3, 

1,214.71 

BurFALO.— Allegany, C.E., 5; Buffalo, Central, 45.86; 
East, C.E., 25; Lafayette Ave., 49.77; North, 18.50; James- 
town, 50; Sherman, 21; Springville, Willing Workers, 17.60, 

2:32.73 

Cayuga. — Auburn, Calvarv, 6.50, Y.L.S., 7.50; Central, 
116, King's Daughters, 30; Westm'r, 11, C.E., 2; Aurora, 
25; Drydeu, 8; Five Corners, 4.04; Scipioville, 4.70; Union 
Springs, 15, 229.74 

Chemung.— Watkins, C.E., 10.00 

HUD.SON.— Chester, Jr. C.E., 5; Florida, Jr. C.E., 4; Lib- 
erty, C.E., 20; Middletown, 1st, 10, C.E., 10; Monroe, 6; 
Port Jervis, 8, 63.00 

Lyons.— Clyde, Ist, 30; Palmyra, C.E., 5; Red Creek, 
0.44; Rose, 5; Williamson, C.E., 10; Wolcott, 9, 65.44 

Morris and Orange, N. J.— Morristown, South St., 

208.,';0 

Nassau.— Smithtown, Branch, 31.00 
New York.— New York, Brick, 400; Central, 88.20, Inter. 
C.E., 10, Mizpah Chapel, C.E., 10; Ch. of the Puritans, 25, 
Y.P.S., 160; Ist, 35; 1st Union, C.E., 2.50; 14th St., C.E., 
4.51; 4th, 100; French Evangelical, C.E., 5; Lenox, 25; Madi- 



son Sq., 1,.525; North. C.E.. 15; Riveidale Ch., Girls' Soc, 
50; Scotch, C.E., 10; University Place, 625; M'est, Y.W.S., 
50; West End, .55, Nimble Fingers. 10, C.E., 7; West Farms 
Ch., 10; Woodstock, 5; Broome St. Tabernacle, 10, Truth 
Seekers, 13, 3,240.31 
Niagara —Albion, 20; Barre Centre, 2.58, Bd., 2; Holly, 
12; Lewistown, 6; Lockport, 1st, 26.50, Pr. off., 4; Maple- 
ton, 2; Medina, 27.50; Niagara Falls, 1st, 12.50, Pr. off., 7; 
Pierce Ave., 4; North Tonawanda, .39..32, Jr. C.E., 3; 
Wright's Corners, 8; Youngstown, C.E. ,4, Jr. C.E. , 1.70, 

182.10 

North River.— Hughsonville, C.E., 1, Jr. C.E., 1, 2.00 
Otsego.— East Guilford, C.E., 5.00 
Sy-racuse.— Baldwinsville, 34; Canastota, 50, C.E.. 20.14; 
Chittenango, King's Children. 10; Fayetteville, 7.50; Ful- 
ton, 42; Marcellus, C.E., 11.50; Syracuse, 1st. 89.50, Fobes 
Bd., 34, Hudson Bd., 27, C.E., 304.30; 4th, Standard Bear- 
ers, 11.91, " Happy Thoughts," 9.05, C.E., 45.74; Mem'l, C. 
E., 1.71; Park, Y'.L.S., 15; Whitelaw. 5, 718.35 
Utica.— Ilion, 2.50, Bd., 3.50; Little Falls, 100; Utica, 
Bethany, 135; 1st, Bachman Bd., 5, Bible CI., 8.86; Olivet, 
S.S.. 5.02; Westm'r, 110, • 359.88 
Westchester.— Brewster, South East Centre Ch., 6; 
Bridgeport, Ct., 10.08; Katonah, 10; Mt. Kisco, 13; New 
Haven, Ct., 6; New Rochelle, 1st. 15; Peekskill, 1st, Jr. C. 
E., 2; 1st and 2d, 4.85; Plcasantville, C.E., 5; South Salem, 
C.E , 10; Springfield, Mass., C.E. , 2; Stamford, Ct.. 100; 
Yonkers, 1st, 35; Yorktown, 25, 343.93 
Miscellaneous.— Cash, 2; Coll. at Prayer-meeting, 18.06; 
Millerton, N. Y., A Friend, 3; Miss Emma Roberts. 5; Mrs. 
C. E. Skinner, 5; Valdese, N. C, 4.16, 36.23 



Total for month, $6,972.72 
Total since April 1, 1900, 46,053.64 
Miss Henrietta W. Hubbard, Treas., 

156 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 



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

ending February 24, J90I 



Arizona.— Phcenix, C. E., SIO.OO 
Cimarron.— Chickasha, 5; Enid, 3; Purcell, 5.25, Jr. 

C. E., 1, 14.25 
Emporia.- Mulrane, 3..30; Newton, 11.70, C.E., 7..50; 

Wichita, 1st, Y.P.M.L., 125; West Side, 11.25, C.E., 10, 

Jr. C.E., .3.75; Winfield, 1st, C.E., 184..50 
Kans. City.— Sedalia, Central, C.E., 6.70 
Laknei).— Spearville, C.E., 12.00 
Osborne.— Atwood, Mrs. J. Welsh, 1.50; Calvert, Mrs. 

Bieber, 75 cts.; Colby, 8; Phillipsburg, 3: Wakeeney, 2, 

14.35 

Platte.- Hopkins, C.E., 1.00 



Santa Fe.— East Las Vegas, 10.00 
St. Louis. — Emmanuel 7.50; Zoar, 8; St. Louie, 1st 

German, Y.L.S . 2.5.. 40.50 
Miscellaneous. — Kans.. Osborne, C.E., India Famine 

Relief, 10; St. Louis, Advertising, 5.50; In Memoriam, 50, 

65.50 



Total for month, 
Total to date, 



Feb. 34, 1901. 



$3.58.70 
6,180.08 



Mrs. Wm. Burg, Treas., 
1756 Missouri Ave., St. Louis, Mo. 



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