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WOMAN^s Work for Woman.

VoL XVn. JUNE, 1902. No. 6.

The statement recently made by one
of the secretaries of our Assembly's
Board was indeed a startling one. It
was that forty young women are de-
sired for foreign missionaries, and but
seven from all of our Women's Boards
have been secured. Among all our
Christian educated Presbyterian young
women, are there but seven to respond
to this call ?

It is true that picked women are
needed, strong in heart, mind and body ;
those who can be both leaders and faith-
ful workers in the several departments
of service, viz., evangelistic, educational
and medical. While true consecration
is an essential, the highest culture will
never be wasted on the mission field,
and all sweet, womanly graces may
bloom to advantage there. We think
the need cannot have been fully known.
Those wishing conference on this sub-
ject should apply to the chairmen of the
Candidate Committees of the various
Women's Boards in their own respect-
ive districts.

New York puts on her brightest
smiles in the pleasant May weather to
greet the General Assembly.

It is pleasant to see and welcome so
many friends in the rooms of the Wo-
man's Board of Foreign Missions. Es-
pecially is joyous greeting given to those
who have come from a distance, bring-
ing with them the enthusiasm and
stability of the remoter members, and
receiving so much that will be inspiring
to their home- staying members when
they return.

With heartfelt rejoicing and devout
thanksgiving and songs of cheer, Pres-
byterians march forward in the great
twentieth century campaign for the
conversion of the world. The reports
of the year just closed s^re most encour-

aging. So many brought into the new
hfe, so deep an impression made on the
hearts at home, so much liberality in
giving, no debt to handicap the future.
The women have their special reasons
for gratitude in that their work is con-
stantly enlarging, and one sees the day
breaking in lands that are dark.

A FRIEXD in the Woman's Board of
the ISTorthwest, writing to one of the
secretaries recentl}", said, alluding to
the coming of some of their delegates to
this Assembly: "I wish you could
know what any and all of these women
mean to our work, with its difficulties,
of which you could never dream unless
you went over the field. Each one is a
heroine in her place. I hope you will
have an opportunity to meet them. I
made a little trip this month, visiting
presby terial societies (three) . I traveled
a distance of 1,200 miles. At our An-
nual Meeting we had a delegate who
came over one thousand miles to attend
the meeting, requiring more time than
is needed to cross the continent. This
is only a hint of the magnificent dis-
tances that we are trying to compass."

The Woman's Occidental Board is
having great success in a very signifi-
cant way. Here again we quote from
a letter : " As a matter of interest to
the Board, but without an additional
outlay of any kind, I have to report a
new work to Central Committee, under
the name of Traveling Library. It is a
new venture, and is meeting a long felt
need in our remote auxiliaiies. The
little chests, or boxes, in which the eight
books do their traveling, have all been
donated, and the books are the hbrary
already gathered for stationary library
at the Mission Home. For a time, at
least, it has been decided to circulate
the books, that all the workers may
have the benefit of them."

15G

EDITORIAL NOTES.

[June,

A FEARFUL earthquake took place at
Quezaltenango, Guatemala, in April.
Imagine a narrow- streeted stone and
adobe city of 23,000 inhabitants vio-
lently shaken by a terrific convulsion
coming after dark. One hundred and
sixty persons were killed, millions of
dollars' worth of property destroyed, and
for awhile the panic and fright were
tragic. That our mission buildings
escaped injury, and that none of our
workers were harmed, makes us thank-
ful to Almighty God, to whose good-
ness the preservation must be attributed.
Praise, laud and bless His name alw^ay !

DuRiXG the summer scattering of
workers, let not the work suffer.

Thixk of it, dear women of the East,
who have many a glimpse of mission-
aries coming and going ! There are in
the West and Southwest auxiliaries
not a few "who seldom see a mis-
sionary and as infrequently come in
touch with any prominent secretaries
or Board officials, yet they go on toil-
ing faithfully, v^ithout your sources of
assistance. All honor to them.

The man outside, as the Rev. G.
Campbell Morgan styles him, is not to be
moved from his position of hostility to
foreign missions by any less potential
agency than the grace of God. Therefore

we waste our time in arguments calcu-
lated to change his attitude from the
inimical to the friendly. Rather let us
fight our own apathy, our indifference,
our neglect of plain duty. A single foe
within the fortress is more dangerous
than a host advancing from without.

Great sympathy as well as much
solicitude has been felt w4th and for
Rev. George Chamberlain, who has
been extremely ill at the Presbyterian
Hospital in IsTew York. Much appre-
hension w^as felt lest the veteran mis-
sionar}' should not survive the perilous
surgical operation which w^as necessary
in his case, but he was brought through
it successfully and is now comfortable,
though very feeble. Prayer w^ill be of-
fered for his recovery, if it be God's
will. His own spirit has been so full
of faith and sweet surrender that it has
helped all who have been in his com-
pany.

There w^as jubilation at the Board
of Foreign Missions one day lately,
when in the course of a rather thor-
ough house- cleaning a long-lost collec-
tion of idols and curios suddenly
turned up. Long ago the boxes con-
taining them had been loaned and re-
turned, but search had been made for
them in vain. They were none the
worse for their sequestration.

Our Missionaries in South America^ Mexico and

Guatemala

AND THEIR POST

CENTRAL BRAZIL MISSION.

Mrs. W. A. Waddell,
Mis6 Clara E. Hough,
Mrs. Pierce A. Chamberlain,
Mrs. G. W. Chamberlain,
Miss M. B. Axtell,
Mrs. Woodward E. Finley,
Miss E. R. Williamson,
Mrs. C. E. Bixler.
Miss Anna B. McPherson,
SOI THERN BRAZIL MISSION.

Bahia.

North Bahia.
Feira de Santa Anna, Bahia.

Aracaju.

Larangeiras.
Bahia.

Miss M. K. Scott,
Miss Ella Kuhl.
Miss Mary P. Daecomb,
Mrs. G. L. Bickerstaph,
Mrs. G. A. Landes,
Mrs. J. M. Kyle.
Mrs. R. F. Lenmgton,
CHILI MISSION.

Mrs. James F. Garvin,
Mrs. W. E. Browning,
Mrs. W. L. Schmalhorst,
Mrs. C. M. Spining,
Mrs. W. B. Bonner,

Sao Paulo.
Curityba.

Castro.
Guarapuava.
Novo Friburgo.
Florianapolis.

Valparaiso.
Santiago.
Copiapo.

Talca.
Chilian.

OFFICE ADDRESSES.

COLOMBIA MISSION.

Mrs. M. W. Graham,
Miss Jessie Scott,
Mrs. J. G. Touzeau,
Miss Celia J. Riley.
Mrs. Walter Scott Lee,
Mrs. £. H. Ladd,
Miss Martha B. Hunter,
Mrs. T. S. Pond,

MEXICO MISSION.

Mrs. Hubert W. Brown,
Mrs. C. C. Millar,
Mrs. T. F. Wallace,
Mrs. Chas. F. Petran,
Mrs. C. D. Campbell,
Mrs. C. S. Williams,
Mrs. William Wallace,
Mrs. Jennie Wheeler,
Mrs. W. H. Semple,

GUATEMALA MISSION.

Mrs. E. M. Haymaker,
Mrs. W. F. Gates,

Bogota.
Medellin.
Barranquilla.

Caracas, Venezuela.

Mexico City.
Zacatecas.

San Luis Potosi.
SaltUlo.

Chilpancingo.

Guatemala City.
Quezaltenango.

In this coy n try :—^ir9. J. B. Kolb. .SO.'i Richardson St.. Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. T. H. Candor, Delta, York Co., Pa.; Mrs.
A. R. Miles. Southport. Ind.; Miss Esther Buxton. Morristown, N. J.; Mrs. Alex. Sharp, Clifton Springs, N. Y., Sani-
tarium; Miss Clara B. Browning, Pittsburg; Miss Edna Johnson; Mrs. George Johnson, Nyack, N. Y.; Mrs. Isaac Boyce.

1902.]

157

A Word from Brazil

At present I am attending the Annual
Meeting of the Central Brazil Mission,
at Aracaju, in the State of Sergipe.
It is on a river, only a little way from
its month. We came from Bahia on
one of the coast steamers. There were

the pioneer workers of Brazil. He has
been here nearly forty years. He is
such an earnest worker and seems to
have lost none of his vigor. Recently
he has made an evangelical trip into
the interior, lasting several weeks, and

HERDSMAN AND COUNTRY GROUP, CHILI.

eight missionaries in the party, besides
the small son of Mr. and Mrs Waddell.
During the trip we had a service and
the passengers and workmen listened
very attentively. The captain was very
courteous and I think he favors the
Protestants. There was a priest on
board, and the captain began an in-
teresting conversation between him and
the gentlemen of the missionary party
by remarking that his church was
nothing more than a place of business.
There were a number of students re-
turning to their homes for the vaca-
tion. They were very much interested in
this conversation and later in the ser-
vice which Mr, Chamberlain conducted,
Mr. and Mrs, Chamberlain are among

during that time rode several hundred
miles on horseback. During this trip
he baptized sixteen people, eight adults
and eight children, in one family. This
is the result of the reading of one
Bible. I think it was Mr. Chamber-
lain who gave the book several years
ago. The man to w^hom it was given
cared nothing for it, and later gave it to
the man who, with his children and
grandchildren, made up the sixteen who
received baptism recently. Miss Ax-
tell, a Kansas girl, has charge of the
school work at San Fehx, where Mr,
and Mrs, Chamberlain, Sr., live.
She is in charge of a normal class of
several girls who are being prepared
to teach in the schools which are under

158

FROM GUATEMALA,

[June,

mission direction. Besides this work
she superintends and teaches in the
day-school. The school at Bahia is to
be preparatory and our more advanced
pupils vdW finish at San Felix. Here
at Aracaju are Mr. and Mrs. Finley,
with two young children, and Miss
Williamson, from Philadelphia, who is
in charge of a boarding and day school.
A few leagues up the same river there is
another station in charge of Mr. and Mrs.
Bixler (with one little daughter). Mr.
and Mrs. Pierre Chamberlain are going
to a station in the interior.

In Mr. Chamberlain's trip he found
a man who had been reading the Bible
for years and was prepai-ed and asked
for baptism. He was baptised in a
public hall, and at that time spoke
most earnestly to the people of the town
who were present and invited them to
attend the ser\4ces, which lie promised
to conduct from week to w«ek. I have
asked you to pray for some whom I
have met, and ask that your prayers be
continued for the same persons. One

was one of the girls in my English
class. She goes to San Felix to enter
the normal class in February and we
feel anxious about her and her influ-
ence over the otner girls. She is bright
and attractive, and it will mean a great
deal if she takes Christ as her Saviour,
not only in her own home but among
her associates. Pray also for a public
school-teacher with whom I am study-
ing Portuguese. We exchange language
lessons. She seems to be a very devout
Romanist. Pray for my regular Portu-
guese teacher. She is a sweet, congenial
girl, but, so far as I know, has no deep in-
terest in any religion. She is the Por-
tuguese teacher in our school, for so
far it has not been possible to find Bra-
zilian teachers who are Christians. Pray
for the one boy in my English class.
He goes to Europe to complete his edu-
cation, and unless Christ comes into
his life all his education cannot prepare
him for the only type of manhood that
can be of true service to Brazil.

Belle McPherson.

From Guatemala*

A number of years ago some Bibles
were left in a village in the west coast
region, and one fell into the hands of
an old man known as Don Juan. After
learning to read, he read the book
eagerly and frequently got others to-
gether and read to them His ideas
evidently were not always orthodox,
according to the Catholic Church's
teachings, and he had many long dis-
cussions with those about him. When
at last I found opportunity to make a
trip down there, the first native I met
on going into the town was old Don
Juan. We talked about the Bible and
the Christian religion for about five
minutes, when he suddenly excused
himself and ran out through the town
very much excited and rounded up the
inhabitants, saying, in Spanish, ' ' Come
here, boys! Come in here I Here's a
Senor who believes exactly the way I
do!" I always have good meetings in
that town.

On the first night of meeting in that
same village, a heavy rain came up
during the meeting and continued the
greater part of the night. When the

meeting was dismissed, most of them
went home as fast as they could go,
but two young men on the way began
to discuss what they had heard with
such interest that they stopped to argue,
and there they stood and discussed for
quite a while, utterly oblivious of the
drenching rain, till some one called out
to them, "You fellows, out there!
Don't you know it's raining ?"

However, the gospel is not always so
readily received. Mrs. Fitch (mother
of Mrs. Gates), who is working with
us here in Guatemala, - stopped to talk
with a girl she had seen before, when
a fanatical member of the family who
knew who Mrs. Fitch was, while yet
half a block away, began to shout, "Go
away ! Go away from that Mason "
(they call all Protestants Masons, be-
cause the Masonic lodge was the first
non-Romanist society established here),
and coming up she caught the girl by
the arm and drew her into the house,
as if Mrs. Fitch were a spiritual upas
tree whose poison might any moment
strike her soul dead.

Their fanaticism is very often quite

IN WAR TIME. 159

i902.]

extreme. On a late trip I was trav-
eling on a tall mule, and with a helmet
hat on my head, when on going through
a village I suddenly heard a terrific
shriek near the road, and looking round
saw a girl about ten years of age eye-
ing me as if I were something super-
natural, or rather sub-natural, and cr}^-
ing and shrieking at the top of her
voice for her mother, who was some
thirty yards ahead. In her fright she
let her water- pot fall and spilled all the
water and left her cotton shawl and
ran like a deer to where her mother
was. When her mother asked her
what was wrong, she pointed to me
and shrieked, "It's the devil!" And
notwithstanding all attempts to reassure
her, she will possibly believe all her life
that she reallv saw his Satanic Majesty.

One thing that beats out the strong-
est of our opponents is the reformed
hfe of our converts. We were thwarted
for a long time in San Augustin by a
woman who had a very "miraculous "
image of the Virgin in her house. She
never lost an opportunity to use her
tongue against us — and that is saying
a great deal, for she had a very lively
tongue One day, when an opponent
asked her how she accounted for the
reformation in the lives of those who
took up with us, she replied, " Oh! yes,
yes! their lives are all right, but their
doctrines are horrible." When asked
how "horrible" doctrines could pro-
duce holy lives, she could only explain
it by supposing the devil did it.

Eev. Edward M. Haymaker.

In War Time*

Lately the mails have been coming
very well, for, so far, we have had very
little fighting in our part of the country.
All the letters we send by the regular
mail have to be taken, before closed, to
some one appointed by the government
and examined by him to see if we are
telling anything about the revolution.
Here they are very kind to Mr. Touzeau
in the office of the government, and
only tell him that he may close the
letters and then they put the govern-
ment stamp on them and that is all
that is asked of us.

It has been a very sad time for us all,
for we have seen so much suffering-
am ong the poor people and so much
sorrow among those who have their
dear ones in the war. We had hoped
that peace would come before the be-
ginning of the new year, but it seems
very far off yet.

We are now almost at the end of our
long summer vacation and have been
for more than a month in a house up
on the side of the mountion in sight of
Medellin. When school closed in No-
vember, I was ill with grippe and I
think we were all very tired and
nervous. So we came up here in the
hope of rest and change from the hot
city to country air. I wish I could tell
you all the trouble we had in trying to
find a house. It is the time when

schools are in vacation and all who can
go to the country. Many families have
their own hemes and can go to them
without any trouble. At last a friend
of Mr. Touzeau's offered him this house
and we were glad and thankful to
find one so close to the city, for Mr. T.
did not want to be too far away
from our work. As it is, he is able to
go down each Sunday and hold the
usual service in the home in Medellin.
This house has some furniture in it, so
that we did not have to bring all that
is needed in a home. I wish you could
have seen us move, for such a sight
would be very strange to you who live
in a country where it is so easy to go
from one place to another. First Mr.
Touzeau tried to find men who would
be willing to carry our beds and other
things up. They asked so much that
he had to find some other way. At last
a man was found who was willing to
help us. He came with an old white
horse and with the help of some others
the moving began. We had to bring a
mattress for each bed, chairs, all the
dishes we needed and a few other
things. Our little cooking stove was
tied on one side of the horse and a large
trunk on the other and the poor old
thing brought them up very nicely.
Journey after journey was made in this
way and at last all was ready and the

160

3I0riNG UNDER DIFFICULTIES.

[June,

family also started. We came up on
horseback. Miss Riley, dressed in a
pretty blue riding dress and mounted
on the same old horse that had done

GIRLS GRTXDTVG C'>RX POTl TAMALES.

such good service all day; Mr. T. and
I on other horses, were the first of
the family to arrive here. Later, Miss
Duncan, one of our teachers, and
Hernando, one of our school-boys, came
up together. We were all tired and
hungry and glad to think that nov/ wo
had finished the moving. Onr dinner
had been prepared on a fire mado witli
wood ami cooked on some stones. Of
course, it tasted of smoke, but wo
were very glad to have ^;oniething to
eat. Later wo had the stove put up
and the cooking was bettor. Our first
days were spent killing fleas and try-
ing to clean the house, which was
very dirty. I think we haA'e never
been in any house that had so many
fleas as this one had when we came
into it. We killed hundreds of them
during the da}^ and kept sweeping
and cleaning until at last we could have
some rest.

Then Miss Duncan was taken very
ill. W^e spent anxious days and nights.
I took entire care of her, doing just
what the doctor told me. At last the
crisis passed and she was out of danger
and we all felt glad and thankful that
she got along so well. Had it not been
for the revolution, she would have gone
home to Barranquilla two years ago.

She is patient, and willing to do any-
thing she can to help She was ill for
a month or more and, of course, we
had very little rest. Mr. Touzeau spent
most of his time going up and
down bringing things from
the drug store and the home
in Medelhn. He and Miss
Riley went down each Sunday
to hold the service in our little
church in the city

We still have a little time
left to spend here and we hope
to have at least no more sick-
ness. The rest of us have been
very well and now we are en-
joying the change We are
in such a pretty part of tlae
country. We can see the
Medellin River, part of the
pretty little city and the
mountains on the other side of
the valley. One never tires
of the beautiful view from this
house. I think for some
things we are a little too near
the city, for there is hardly a day that we
do not have visitors from Medellin.

Our school closed with private ex-
aminations and all were well pleased. I
had charge of the school and Miss
Riley of the outside work during the
year. The school was not as large as
in former years, for there has been so
much poverty that many have found it
impossible to send their children to
school . The preaching service has been
kept up all the year and has been very
Avell attended by our own people. I
think I told you of the death of one of
our boys, a former pupil of the school,
who was shot dead in trj^ing to pass
the guard. He was to have been mar-
ried to one of our girls, and we were
all looking forward to the wedding
Avith so much interest. The poor boy
was shot in the morning, and in the
evening we walked out to our little
cemetery and buried him. His mother
was one of our visitors on Christmas
Day. Our hearts ache for the poor
little woman who was to have been
married so soon. She has been so very
sad ; still she is bearing her great sorrow
much better than we thought she could.
She is in our home quite often.

Mrs. J. G. Touzeau.

1902.]

WORK FOR GIRLS IN MEXICO.

101

Work for Girls in Mexico*'

With the more intimate knowledge
of the character of the Mexican people
comes a feeling of the futility, the in-
adequacy of our work. As I understand
the girls better, I do not care
less for them, but I wish I
might do tenfold what one
woman can do. The few
years we can have them is
little enough in which to teach
them truth in word and ac-
tion, purity of thought and
speech, in opposition to the
inlierent tendency to false-
hood and un cleanness. I try
to throw upon them all the
responsibility I can, because
I believe that to be the best
way to train them in self-
reliance and a vigorous up-
rightness for their own sakes.
Recently the plan of having
overseers among the girls
themselves has been tried,
and successfully, although
the girls in authority are apt
to think their companions
dislike them on account of it.
The same is true when the
practice work has been with
classes of the Intermediate
Department. It would often be much
easier to do things myself than to
train the girls. The same is to a
certain extent true of the native
teachers. I have often wished the
teachers might be all Americans, as
of the many I have had to try, not one
Mexican but has given me as much as or
more trouble than many of the pupils.
And yet they have been and are very
helpful, often appreciating difficulties of
which it is hard for me to know ac-
curately, and helping me with them,
while in many ways the native teachers
are of such importance that without
their hearty co-operation not half the
present progress could be made. The
desire to uplift and help the girls is very
strong in some of them, and I believe
the girls catch the missionary spirit
more quickly from our native teachers
than from foreign. Some girls have
developed especially in coaching their

♦From the Annual Report of the Girls' Normal School in
Mexico City for 1901.

weaker sisters, and some have thus
found that they possess the gift of
teaching. There are cases in which
girls wlio were behind their classes at

A TYPICAL CLASS OF GIRL GRADUATES IN MEXICO.

the beginning of the year, after a few
weeks of private help, led their classes.
We have found it well worth while to
put such work into the hands of the
girls in the higher grades, instead of
giving it to the teachers.

To our trial by sickness I scarcely need
refer. Eighteen pupils and one teacher
took scarlet fever. Two of the older
girls offered to help in nursing, but one
of them soon succumbed to the malady.
The other worked faithfully and pa-
tiently for four weeks, daj' and night.
After the disinfecting and reuniting of
our family we thought we should be
able to follow school routine uninter-
ruptedly, but in two weeks measles
made their appearance. As that disease,
with Mexicans, is more severe than
scarlet fever, we were relieved that only
three took it, and after that nothing
invaded our precincts. Several of our
girls, during those weeks, had a practi-
cal course in nursing, which is r. 't
really included in our curriculnni.

16^

WOBK FOR GIRLS IX MEXICO.

[June,

School opened February 13 and
closed October 'U^. We have had 31)
boarders during the year and 40 day
pupils. Of the boarders 28 are mem-
bers of the church, 5 having made a
confession of their faith during the
year. Their C. E. Society has met each
Sunday afternoon; of it 21 are active
members. Of their sewing money this
year they have given in pennies in
Sunday-school, $8.52 ; to the Home Mis-
sionary Society, 812; to Pastor Mo-
rale's salary, 815, and they have
$33.12 in cash, making receipts for the
year 808. 04. Aside from this, nearly all
have contributed to the support of the
church from their own money in sums
ranging from 3 to 25 cents a month.

We have had three Mexican teachers
employed during the year. The young
lady who teaches music is in charge
of the primary department, in which
much of the work is done by the older
pupils. For tuitions from January to
January w^e have received 8T80.T5,
which is 8200 in excess of the preceding
fiscal year. During the year we have
found monthly examinations to be a
great stimulus to the pupils as well as a
help to the teachers, because they can
by this means ascertain if the pupils
have grasped anything of the subjects
they have studied. We grade on the
examinations, because the best Mexican
teacher will tell you a pupil should be
taken out of her class because she learns
nothing, and will yet mark her 100 per
cent, in everj^ day's recitation. The final
written examinations occurred October
16 to 18 and the public examinations
October 21 to 24 They w^ere fairly
well attended, about seventy pupils
being present. Several of the classes
presented were very good indeed, and I
wish all of the missionaries might have
been present. Mr. and Mrs. Brown
and Mr. Millar were with us. The
class graduated consisted of three young
women, two from the State of Guerrero
and one a day pupil in Mexico City.
The closing exercises were held in the
church of Divino Salvador, and w^ere
very well attended. Rev. Hubert Brown
gave a brief but very interesting address
on the subject, "Vocation and Vision."
One of these graduates is now teaching
for us and another in a day school of
the mission in the city.

During 1901 we received small boys
in the primary department, but in our
limited quarters I think it was very
unwise, and we are not repeating the
experiment this year. It seems to us
now that the time has come to advance
the grade of our school to that of the
Government Normal School located in
the city. W^e were told in the office of
the Secretary of Primary Instruction
that by enrolling our classes in the
Normal School at the opening of the
year they would be permitted to take
the examination at the- close of the year,
and upon graduating from our school
would receive also the diploma of the
Normal School. This question has been
considered for some years, and we feel
tliat action should be delayed no longer.
For this purpose one of our teachers has
made many visits to the office of the
Normal School and spent long hours in
waiting for an audience. At last, when
I went with her we obtained a hearing,
but were only given a paper by him to
introduce us to the Minister of Public
Instruction. We have laid the matter
before him and are now waiting, as
changes are contemplated in the man-
agement of the Normal School. We hope
under the new regime to have a favor-
able reception.

Jn looking back over the five years
since I entered the work, there are, of
course, some discouraging things to be
seen, but there are many more of an
encouraging character, and a great deal
for which to be thankful. The drain-
age has been thoroughly renovated, a
new bathroom, added, and the sanitary
condition of the house is fine. We have
had no epidemic, but one light case
of typhoid has occurred, no long
tedious illness, and no death. Some
refurnishing has been done, especially
in the dormitories and dining-room, and
when a year of plenty comes the school-
room must receive the benefit of it.

Among the teachers there is the spirit
of harmony now prevailing which is
much needed in work when a spiritual
blessing is desired. Many of the girls
are so in sympathy with the teachers
that we can readily count upon their
assistance, as upon the teachers, in
supporting the moral tone and the
spiritual life of the school.

Clara B. Browning.

190->.] 103

Work Under Difficulties*

Last Monday was our regular day for
beginning the work of another year in
the school-room. But the Saturday
before we were notified through La
Patria^ the government paper here,
that no schools could be opened without
the special permission of the govern-
ment. The children were on hand early
and all seemed anxious to begin the
work. We could do nothing until we
could hear from other schools and see
what it all meant. Mr. Touzeau went
to see a friend of his who has a liberal
•college here, and the gentleman told
him what to do and helped him to get
up the paper that was to be sent to the
Governor asking his permission to be-
gin our work. You know nothing is
ever done in a hurry by ai Colombian,
and we knew that there was no hope of
having an answer very soon. All we
could do was to send the children home
and tell them to come back the be-
ginning of next week. As far as we
€ould find out, permission had been
given to all the schools in Medellin ex-
cept ours, and it was very hard to get
them to give us an answer. Mr. T.
kept on asking, until at last they sent
him a polite note telling him that they
had to send to Bogota to ask if they could
give him the permission he sought.
Another note was then sent to their
office, telhng them that La Pat via
stated that each Governor had been

left free to settle the question for his
state, and that we knew that permis-
sion had been given to the other schools.
To this came another answer, giving a
C()]>y of the telegram which they said
they had sent to Bogota We have
no consul here and all we can do now
is to try to send a letter to our Ameri-
can Minister, Mr. Hart. There is no
mail going or coming from Bogota in
these days of revolution. This is the
second time they have tried to close
our school. The first was by some
women who were working hard to
break it up, but the Governor then
Avas a kind friend of my husband's and
did nothing to stop our work. Now
we do not understand why they have
taken this step. We shall have to wait
until we can hear from Bogota.

All our other work is going on just the
same. We have had preaching service
morning and evening during all these
months of war. There are times when
only the women and children can come
out, for many times they are taking up
the men to send them off to the field of
battle, and all who do not want to go
have to keep in hiding. We feel sure
that the work done in Colombia in
our mission schools is being felt, if
they would not try to close them.

Pray for us in our work for the
Master here. Lillie Touzeau.

Medellin, Feb. 12, 1902.

A Woman^s Picture of Service in South America^

To-daj' I am alone. I believe I wrote
your last letter when Mr. Chamberlain
was away. Our parish is a scattered
one (it is the largest in the mission),
for we try to hold services in nine dif-
ferent places so far apart that it is as
though living in New York we tried
to take charge of work in New Haven,
Springfield, Chicago, Morristown, En-
glewood, Trenton and once a year came
down to Brazil. It would take us no
longer to go from New York to those
places than it does to make our trips
here, though they are a little nearer b}^.
I have only made two trips so far, but
hope to go oftener. My first trip was on
horseback to a place some fifteen miles

away. We visited an old man and wo-
man with their five children and thirty
grandchildren! They ail live close to-
gether and are much interested in the
gospel, though they have not yet pro-
fessed their faith. I enjoyed the trip ever
so much, though I did long to be able to
talk with them, and to get a chance to
wash the children and make them
touchable. As I was the first foreign
lad}' they had ever seen I was a great
curiosity, and I can now sympathize
with the animals we love to watch in
the menageries. They asked me a
number of questions — whether all the
people in our land were Christians,
whether our government sent us out.

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THE WONDER-WORKING VIRGIN.

[June,

and then, one of them,
touching my cheek, want-
ed to know if the sun did
not hurt my skin I Five
of these people walked
o^'er and back to our com-
munion service a week af-
ter w ard . That was a great
day for us, though we
only received one man into
membership. Besides
these five, five others
walked in from little ham-
lets as far away. Just
fancy, three of them, ris-
ing at first cock-crowing,
walked twenty miles or
more to get here ! We had
six with us for dinner and
a dozen for a little lunch
after the service before
their walk home. It was
our first dinner party and
it is impossible for me to
describe it.

The second trip I took
was a longer one, for we
were aw^ay ten days. We went five
hours down the railroad and visited
two little towns, holding services every
night, visiting and receiving visits
through the day.

We took a chafing dish and an
alcohol lamp, a cot, hammock and table,
and rented a house in each place, camp-
ing out in it. We had a most interest-
ing time, particularly in the first place.
There our attendance increased from
eight to fifty and we received an old,
old woman, a great-grandmother. She
was so happy and enthusiastic. Poor
thing, she cannot read, but goes about
among the believers, begging them to
read to her. We called her our assist-
ant evangelist, she was so active, visit-
ing each day and begging us to go
here or there My conscience fairly
cried to me, there were so many
children, and so I invited them to come
and sing hymns with me on Sunday
afternoon. The old woman went about

PRESBYTERIAN MISSION DAY-SCHOOL, MEXICO CITY.
Pastor Morales on the right.

and gathered them together, bringing
them to me so early in the morning
that I was still in the character of cook !
We had a pleasant little service to-
gether, though my tongue is so tied,
and they all came back and surprised
me in the afternoon for more I I am
hoping to be able to do more on our
next trip, and hope to get a blackboard
and organ if possible. You see I am
aspiring. We ought to make frequent
trips, and it is trying to be obliged to
leave it all and go away off for four
months. Fancy it! We could reach
home sooner than we can Santa Maria !
Brazil certainh^ is a large place and this
is only a little corner.
- This is the time of the year I love
most at home, when all the earth seems
waking up. I fancy the bluebirds back
again, and the pussy willows in their fur
coats, and soon the daffodils wiW be out.
Julia Law Chamberlain.

Behia, Brazil, March 11.

The Wonder- Working Virgin of AndacoUo^

Among many of the home churches rope and the Americas, Christian na-
there is an impression that idolatry is tions, at least in name, are not to be
limited to Asia and Africa, while Eu- confounded v^ith the ignorant fetish-

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165

worshiping tribes of Africa nor with
the idolators of Asia.

As a matter of fact, we have in
some of the American repubhcs as
gross idolatry and as degraded ignor-
ance of the gospel as can be found in
either Africa or Asia — idolatry and ig-
norance protected and fostered by so-
called enlightened governments that are
Christian in name.

In a short article there is not space
to prove such a statement in all its
details. Numberless facts and refer-
ences cannot be given to show how
widespread are the idolatrous practices
of the Roman Catholic church that
practically rules this land, and how wo-
fully ignorant are the people that is
ruled There is space to describe but
one case that combines both supersti-
tion and idolcitry to a high degree,
and, as this includes all classes and
conditions of society, from it we may
judge the tendency of the whole system.

A little north of the port of Val-
paraiso and some thirty miles in the
interior from Coquimbo, a smaller port,
there is a small village called Anda-
collo, of some fifteen hundred popula-
tion. This town, as do many others
about it, depends for its existence upon
the rich mines that surround it. Its in-
habitants are a mixture of Spanish and
Indian blood, with a little Chinese in
many cases. Ruled entirely by the
church, all are ignorant and degraded.

In this little village the only build-
ing of importance is the church. With
eapacity for admitting 10,000 persons,
it has cost several hundred thousand
dollars, and, in the words of one of
the famous bishops of Chili, " As to its
beauty and grandeur, it ranks amongst
the most celebrated temples that the
Catholic world has erected and dedi-
cated to the Holy Mother of God and of
men."

A PILGRIMAGE.

Every year at Christmas there is a
pilgrimage to this village, and as many
as 50,000 persons have been known
to crowd into it. From all parts
of Chili, from the Argentine Republic,
from Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru, and
from countries even more distant, dis-
embarking on the coast, crossing the
snow- clothed Andes or the hot sands of
the desert, come the hosts who wish to

honor the wonder-working Virgin of
Andacollo. Frenzied with fanaticism,
excited by opposition, many drunken,
others clothed f^mtastically as for a
masked ball, hungry, thirsty, fainting
by the roadside, some falling from ex-
haustion, all are bound to Andacollo.

In the temple just mentioned, in the
most prominent part and guarded by
day and by night by devoted worship-
ers., is the object of this pilgrimage.
Clothed with the most costly garments
and crowned with gold and precious
stones is an image of the Virgin Mary.
According to the well-fed priest, it is a
true image of the "Mother of God."
As a bishop of the Chilian church has
put it, " It is a piece of heaven come
down to earth."

There are many and conflicting stories
of the finding of this image in Anda-
collo. The one most generally accepted
by the priests and their followers is
that it was given in a miraculous way
to the Spanish conquerors as they set
out for the conquest of America. When
these Spaniards were defeated by the
Incas in Peru, the image disappeared,
because of some slight in her worship,
and was lost for many years. At length
it was found by an Indian deeply im-
bedded in the trunk of a tree which he
was felling for the purpose of building
a fire. Upon being taken from her
resting place she uttered the words:
" Anda, Colla" (Proceed, Collo). The
Indian complied with the command
and carried her to the village near by.
All, believing that a miracle had been
wrought, left the village and moved 1o
the spot where the image had been
discovered, and the temple built to her
honor covers the spot where she was
found. Her words to the Indian, Collo,
gave it a name. The reader will readily
see that a part of this story may be
true. Given the well-known skill of
Indians in carving, there is no reason
to doubt that the image was carved
from the tree which had been cut for
the purpose of cooking food. With a
part of the wood he cooked his food
and with a part he set up a god. As
described by the Archbishop of the
Catholic church in Chili, Monsignor
Casanova, ' ' The image of Our Lady
of Andacollo is of cedar, perfectly
carved and polished, one meter m

166

THE WONDER-WORKING VIRGIN.

[June,

height. Her face is
brownish tint and her
and sweet. A shght

small and of a
glance is tender
rou£>imess on the

left cheek proves the tradition that the
Indian fonnd her imbedded in the tree
and, through carelessness, wounded
her in getting her out."

Just wh}' such a small thing should
prove so much, after so many years, is
not mentioned, but the story is accepted
by the faithful.

The image is clothed with garments
that represent many thousand dollars,
and on December 26, 1001, was crowned
Avith a crown wrought in the finest
shops in Paris and that cost many times
the amount expended by our church
each year in the evangelization of South
America. The privilege of thus crown-
ing the image was granted by the Pope
in a special decree. He sent his
blessing, and has been given a picture
of the image which is to be placed
in the Vatican. The crown is made of
the purest gold and is studded with
precious stones. It represents a group of
the apostles, and high above all and in
the place of honor is an image of the
Virgin Mary, ' ' Our Lady of Anda-
colla."

To understand the fanatical ardor
with which this image is worshiped
one should accompany the pilgrims.
Leaving the coast there are still at least
thirty miles to be gone before reaching
the village. The majority make this
journey on foot across the desert. The
Bishop has announced that ' ' Italy has
her Loreto, Spain her Montserrat,
France her Lourdes, and Mexico her
Guadalupe ; but the most holy Virgin
has revealed herself in AndacoUo as
never before," and special rewards and
indulgences are promised to those who
make the pilgrimage.

The hosts who reach the village are
organized into groups of choruses called
"Dancers." One of the most impor-
tant of these groups is formed of miners
called "Chinese," 102 in number, who
are supposed to be specially honored by
the Virgin. They occupy the place of
honor in all the dances. Other groups
come in order of importance. Each one
in turn dances toward the door of the
shrine with wild, fantastic movements
and unintelligible cries and shrieks. In
the door a stop is made and the leader

smgs a
Vira'in

rude song of adoration to the
gifts are deposited — often the
savings of a whole year — and the group
passes on to be followed by another,
w4iich repeats the performance. As the
leader sings the others join in the
chorus ; all prostrate themselves before
the image and kiss the hem of her
robe. Many are so wrought up by the
scene that they must be removed by
force. There is no thought of what the
image may represent, nothing of Christ
or of God; it is the image itself that
works wonders, and that is to be adored
with all the religious frenzy of which
an excitable people are capable.

After the hundreds of groups have
thus honored the image, dancing be-
fore it and leaving rich gifts, the Bishop
pronounces an eulogy and the religious
part of the programme is closed with
a procession. The image is taken from
her throne by one of the Indian caciques
and is carried about among the people
in order that she may bless them. All
fall prostrate before her, all invoke her
aid, all declare her to be the real
Mother of God and Queen of Heaven.
The religious enthusiasm reaches its
height as the image thus goes about
among them and the dances are re-
doubled. As the Bishop has irreverently
said: "These dances and prostrations
symbolize the love and joy of all hearts,
and all sufferings are forgotten in the
enthusiasm and delirium of those who
engage in them; even as King David
and the Israelites danced before the
Ark of the Old Testament, so do these
dance before this ark of the New Cov-
enant, before the blessed image of their
adored protectress, the Queen of all
hearts and of heaven, the Mother of
God and of men."

The procession over, the image is
returned to its niche in the temple and
the religious ceremonies of the year are
closed. But now that the tension is
past, hunger and thirst assert them-
selves. Many faint from exhaustion.
The majority think only of satisfying
their thirst. Liquor is abundant and
drunkenness soon holds sw^ay. While
the priests retire to count up their
gains — never less than twenty thousand
dollars — the people lay aside all restric-
tions and scenes ensue that would have
done credit to the orgies of Bacchus.

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167

The wildest excesses are entered into,
but "The Virgin forgives all."

Many are the stories told of the
wonders wrought by this image and
idol. Men and women have been
healed of long-standing diseases. But
two will illustrate the cures and mir-
acles, showing the slight basis on which
they rest : In 1877 a large steamer was
wrecked on the neighboring coast. One
of the passengers, a woman, buckled a
lifebelt around her and was carried
ashore, after several hours in the water.
She afterward declared that she had
made a vow to the Virgin to walk to
her shrine on her knees every year if
she would save her. Immediately the
image appeared and guided her through
the water to the shore. Wind, tide,
lifebelt, all were useless. It was the

image. Another lady was in danger of
being wrecked while rounding Cape
Horn, many hundred miles distant
She also claimed (afterward) that she
made a vow to this image and that im-
mediately the wind abated and the
image appeared to guide the ship through
the waves.

It is gratifying to know that the
attendance is now falling away. This
past year of 1901 a special attempt was
made to arouse interest. The most
eminent orators were present and the
Pope's blessing was read with all de-
sired pomp. But as the gospel is
preached to the people and as they are
educated in Christian schools, they
must leave their idolatry and look only
to Christ as the Saviour of the world.
Rev. W, E. Brotvning, Ph.D.

The Burden of the Day*

Just a year has passed since I ar-
rived at Kolhapur and was welcomed
back by my white and brown friends.
The year has been full of cares and
work and sorrow on behalf of others,
but full of blessings, health, strength
and joy — for me. God's care for me
has been wonderful, and oh ! how little
I deserved it. Through the strain and
stress of famine times, and sickness
among the girls, and now, when
there is the "terror by night " and
the "destruction that wasteth at
noonday." In former years these
meant cholera ; now there has come,
another terror and destruction in
the plague that has come into the
school and the Christians' homes,
and has carried off, oh ! so sudden-
ly, some of our children and our
people. There have been no new
cases for three weeks, so we are
hoping and praying there will be
no more. We have been killing
all the rats and mice, as they are
believed to be the carriers of the
plague. Some have died in our
school store-room — a detached
room — but none in the girls' house.
You can imagine what a load has
been on our hearts, Mrs. Goheen,
with over a hundred famine chil-
dren in one house, and I with 110
boarders in another — the girls all

just ready to go into a panic over the
least ache or pain ; so we have to go
about with smiling faces and appear
calm, even if every knock, or call, or
cry makes one feel almost faint. Some
one said to me, "I do not feel like
getting up in the morning to take up
the burden of the day," but I say I
do not care to undress and go to bed

A HAPPY TIME— GIRLS AT A PICNIC (MEXICO).

168

GIRLHOOD IX SYRIA.

[Juke,

even yet. When I think of the girl
I took to the hospital at 7 o'clock in the
morning and found so marred and
swollen and old in the face at 5 :30 in
the afternoon that I did not know her
— she died an hour after — I feel that
there must be no delay. The girls
have all been inoculated and I think
they are settling down to our usual
routine of work in the house and
school. Anandrav, the Christian mas-

Girlhood

Why does work for women in Oriental
lands appeal with special interest to the
Christian world ? Why do missionary
societies and benevolent individuals
usually prefer to support a girl rather
than a boy in mission schools ? Because
the need is paramount and progress
evident. Sympathy for the thousands
of women whose lives have not been
brightened by the gentle ministration
of gospel love and mercy is strength-
ened by satisfaction at the manifest
results achieved in this branch of mis-
sion work. The lights are brighter
because the shadows are deeper.

A Syrian girl has but half a chance.
Before the Mohammedan law she re-
ceives half the inheritance of her
brother. Her inferiority begins at the
cradle, Far from welcome, she is
received with aversion, a sort of mild
calamity of the household. She has
few opportunities of earning money and
must be provided with a dowry at her
marriage. Parents usually enumerate
their family as so many children, and
so many girls.

The Jesuits, in their Arabic transla-
tion of the Bible, cause our Lord's
familiar words to read, " Suffer the
boys to come unto me and forbid them
not, for of such is the Kingdom of
God " When a son is born, sweet-
meats are sent to the neighbors and
friends, and felicitous salutations re-
turned. If he be the first son, his
parents acquire a new name; they are
thereafter known as Father (or Mother)
of Selim, or Faris, or Milhem, as the
case may be.

But a girl brings to her disappointed
parents none of these honors and oppor-
tunities. The event is either ignored,

ter in the boarding-school, whose son
was the first to die of plague,
seems utterly broken in health and
spirits; and the matron, the grand-
mother of the child, too, is very ill,
so that our work does not go on quite
as well as usual .

Feb. 28. — The plague is almost over,
thank God, and I am well, but very
tired.

Esther E. Patton.

in Syria*

or apologetically mentioned. And if
the girls increase, the parents resort to
offering a mild protest to the Creator
by giving such names as "Enough,"
"More than enough," "The fourth,"

The last," " Exact " (^. e., the propor-
tion of girls). And when a girl is
married her husband seldom speaks of
her as his wife, but as the daughter of
her father-in-law.

A striking proof of Syrian prejudice
was given when the first son was born
into the missionary family. By chance
it was reported in the village that the
new missionaries had a girl. Later on
the writer went to communicate the
true facts to a fellow missionary sum-
mering in a neighboring t^vo-story
house. Before his friend appeared on
the balcony of the second story, the
Syrian owner of the house, standing in
the yard below, with long drawn face
condoled mildly with the unfortunate
parent. He asked after his health, the
health of his wife, and the progress of
affairs in general, but never ;i word as
to the new-born girl. Just then the
other missionary hailed his friend and
soon learned the truth. The landlord
knew just enough English to catch the
drift of the remarks. His expression
changed rapidly from cheerless indiffer-
ence to puzzled interrogation and then
to radiant joy. With the cry, " Is it a
boy?" he rushed down the steps and
fervently grasped the hand of the highly
interested parent.

Even Protestant teachers and church
members are not all free from the
unjust discrimination. One of them
recently visited the manse in Zahleh
with something upon his mind, which
embarrassment kept him from express-

im:

GIRLHOOD IN SYRIA,

1(VJ

ing. The closest ques-
tioning was of no avail.
Every possible theme
was touched upon, the
health of each child by
name, the wife, the
school, the pupils, the
Sunday services, the re-
lations in another village.
The gloomy expression
remained. Finally, in
despair, the missionary
made direct appeal,
" Milhem, what is the
matter? What is on
your mind?" Then it
appeared that a girl had
been born, and he felt
obliged to mention the
fact in order to arrange
for her baptism. (Be it
known that upon that
occasion some cogent re-
marks were made regard-
ing the value of girls I )

Absolute infanticide is
uncommon, but too often are attempts
made to dispose of superfluous girls,
keeping meanwhile within the law. In a
neighboring village is a strong and
hearty little maid of seven whose par-
ents died in her earliest infancy. The
care of her devolved upon relatives, who
had no desire to be troubled with her.
She was treated with extreme cruelty,
left naked and hungry and in cold rainy
weather placed under the eaves-trough,
that she might sicken and die Despite
this rough treatment she thrived and is
pointed out as the girl who wouldn't
die. More than once the expression
has been heard upon the death of a
young girl, "Oh, well, it was only a
girl."

In order to ameliorate this state of
affairs and create new sentiment regard-
ing the true and Christian standing of
woman, it has been the duty and
privilege of Protestant missions to use
every available means, by example, by
preaching, by teaching, in the homes
and in the schools, from the- pulpit and
by the wayside Christian education
is a might}^ factor in the emancipation
of girlhood from the bondage of ignor-
ance and custom. Thousands of girls
are gathered annually in mission
schools, American, British and German.

GIRLS OF THE TWO NORMAL SCHOOLS, SALTILLO AND MEXICO CIT"i
Coining from Christian Endeavor Convention.

The good work done in the nine or ten
boarding-schools for girls in Syria bears
fruit in the lessening of prejudice,
awakening of interest, preparation of
teachers and Bible women, and the
physical, mental, moral and social
evolution of all who enter these schools.
Let a girl attend but one year, she has
gained an intangible something which
differentiates her from her fellow-
villagers. Time and again has this
been proved in missionary experience
and observation.

On a tent tour, at a village where no
school or regular work has been con-
ducted, amongst the crowds about the
tent at the Sunday afternoon gospel
service, one face impressed itself upon
the speaker, intent, intelligent, refined.
After the service, inquiry verified the
conjecture that the young woman had
been trained in a boarding-school, and
there she was, a bit of leaven in that
needy town. Pioneer efforts in female
education have largely passed. To-day
the schools are filled, and most of the
girls pay well for their privileges. To
win Syria to Christ no one agency
yields better results than the personal,
continuous effort among the girls in our
schools and seminaries.

Geo. C. DooliWe.

SOUTH AMERICA,

Mrs. Martha Bell Hunter wrote from
Barranquilla. Colombia, S. A., February 25:

It is now six months since I came to Bar-
ranquilla. The experiences have been varied,
and it is not hard to fancy that I have not
been away. The changes on account of fail-
ure in health, for which our station has an
unenviable record, do not diminish. Mis.
Ladd and I are now established in the
girls' school, waiting further developments
in the work. I invariably gravitate back
to this school, and a dear, pleasant home
it has been to me. A large number of our
pupils are scattered, and there are many
new faces in the school. For a few days after
Mrs. Ladd's return she seemed to feel the
house was haunted, and constantly kept call-
ing the names of teachers and pupils now far
away. Living in a seaport like this has its
advantages, but it accustoms one to much
change in the coming and going of friends.
We were exceedingly busy during the vaca-
tion months getting ourselves settled and
making ready for the opening of the year's
work. You can imagine what a blow it was
to us on the eve of our opening to be informed
by a military decree that no schools could be
opened without the sanction of the authorities
in power. The girls' school was delayed two
weeks and the boys' is yet closed. The..e are
troublous times, and we wonder where it all
will end. We were very thankful to open the
school, and now, after two weeks, we have
thirty pupils, with as many more promised
for the beginning of the year. A number
cannot come for financial reasons. Even some
of our own children cannot manage the ex-
pense, though all those who live in the city
can come as day pupils, free of charge. Our
living expenses, however, are heavy in com-
parison with other days, and we have no mar-
gin left for scholarships, as we formerly had.

Just now we have a comparatively small

family of girls. We are delighted with our
babies, two little girls of four and seven
years, who are the children of one of Mrs.
Candor's first pupils. The mother died in
August, but she left many orders about the
little girls. They have been with us since
September, and the wee one is especially a
great pet. I feel inclined to keep a " Book of
Bright Sayings" of my little brown baby.
She makes lots of sunshine for us. Another
pleasant thing has been the improvement in
a girl who came to us a few months ago, and
who was so trying that it seemed almost im-
possible to keep her among the other girls.
But there came into her heart a desire to stay
on in the school, and her improvement has
been marked. Her attempts to please and
the transformation in her in different ways
have been a great reward for the slight effort.
I have seldom visited so little, as during these
past months there have been many duties to
keep me at home. I hope you will pray for
rich spiritual blessings upon us.

MEXICO.

Mrs. W. H. Semple wrote from Tguala,.
Guerrero, March 5:

I commenced a letter in December before
leaving for mission meeting, but it was never
finished, so much has happened since I last
wrote you. Last spring we were making
preparations for our first little baby, and in
order that I might have medical attention
and a nurse I decided to go to San Luis Po-
tosi. We thought of Mexico City first, but
feared the altitude, and finally decided on
San Luis. Our baby arrived on June 20, and
on September 20 we left on our homeward
journey, having delayed in order to have the
baby vaccinated. As she was so young, we
determined not to take her up on the horse in
the long ride, and so had her carried in a lit-
tle bed on the back of an Indian, who walked
the whole distance. The only fear I had for
her was in crossing the streams, yet swollen

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171

from the rains, and consequently having a
strong current and containing so much mud
that we could not distinguish holes. But
Challo was very careful and in the most tur-
bulent ones carried a staff, and Mr. Semple or
Mr. Johnson rode quite close to him at such
times, in order to be ready should he slip or
fall. Baby traveled comfortably in her cano-
pied bed and seemed to like the motion of her
noble Aztec steed, for she slept most of the
way. It was during this trip that she had
her first horseback ride, when, to save time,
I took her up on my lap to feed her as we
rode along.

On our return to Chilpancingo in Septem-
ber we moved into our new part of the mis-
sion house, having before occupied a room in
the Johnsons' part. I was very busy, but it
was nice to have our own home and to
bring out the trunks and boxes and the things
which I had brought out from home and
which had been waiting ever since our de-
parture from Zacatecas for an opportunity to
show us how homelike they could make our
place look. Margaret proved such a smiling
young lady that she made friends wherever
she went, people whom I did not know at all
stopping to speak to her and to me when I
had her out in the garden or the park in the
town. A baby opens the way where a grown-
up person might find it hard to enter.

In November we had the rare pleasure of
visitors. Miss Browning and Miss McDermid
of our Normal School came the early part of
the month, and a little later Mr. Johnson and
family. Christmas came and went, and we
made desultory preparations for mission meet
ing, for Mrs. Johnson was sick in bed and
until the very last we were not sure that we
women could go. God surely led us, for Mr.«.
Johnson practically got up out of bed to make
the journey, and it was during our absence at
Jalupa to attend mission meeting that Chil
pancingo was visited by a disastrous earth-
quake. We left Tuesday afternoon, and on
this trip I carried the baby on my lap with a
large pillow doubled over and strapped around
my waist. We were all glad to reach Tguala
Friday morning, Mrs. Johnson especially, for
she had had fever on the road. Mission meet-
ing opened on Wednesday, the 15th, and we
arrived in Jalapa Tuesday night. It was a
well-attended meeting and proved to be an
exciting one also, for on Friday came a tele-
gram notifying us of the awful earthquake
the day before, and on the next Monday, dur-
ing the afternoon session, fire broke out in
Mrs. Boyce's sitting room, and the meeting^

instinctively resolved itself into committee of
the whole to fight the fire, which was soon
under control. In regard to the earthquake,
the first report said that the Johnsons' part of
the house had fallen, and Mr. Johnson and
Mr. Semple thought of leaving at once, but
later reports being more favorable, they de-
cided to wait to the close of the mission meet-
ing, and then to leave the women and children
in Mexico City while they went down to see
just how much damage had been done. The
ladies of the school opened their doors to us,
and we were there until the men returned to
Tguala and telegraphed us to come there,
which we did on February 5. The men had
found Chilpancingo pretty well destroyed;
the palm huts of the poorer classes were
practically uninjured, but the adobe houses
of the well-to-do people suffered more. Cor-
nices were down, roofs destroyed, and al-
though the walls remained standing, they
were so badly cracked as to render the houses
to the number of 614 uninhabitable. Only
seven people were killed outright, but many
were injured. The men found that our houses
were so badly racked as to be unsafe ; pillars
and walls cracked, one wall in the Johnson
part fallen, and the kitchen wall in our new
part being in such a condition that it would
have to be pulled down and rebuilt in order
to be made perfectly" safe. It must have been
dreadful at the time of the earthquake ; peo-
ple rushed out of doors and later went moan-
ing through the streets, seeking for dear ones
among the ruins. Much has been done in the
way of raising money for the sufferers, quite
a little having been given by the believers in
other places. Under the circumstances it was
thou gilt best to have our headquarters in this
place, where we have work, a Sunday-school,
and also a small day-school.

JAPAN.

Miss Ida R. Luther wrote from Kana-
ZAWA, February 4 :

Some of our recent difficulties have sub-
sided. It seemed the local officials thought
they would close our school, but our persist-
ent efforts to keep it open won and they with-
drew their opposition. We lost a number of
pupils during the time, so our attendance is
smaller than last year. We are hoping for a
larger class from April of this year. The
kindergarten is still holding its own. We
have as many children as the room will hold ;
all that can be admitted for the new class
from April have applied. The little tots seem
to love the kindergarten very much, for even
during the very stormy weather they beg to

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LETTEBS.

be brought to school. They also come to play
when tliere happens to be a holiday. The
Christmas festivities passed off nicely. As
usual the children did their part well and
were rewarded by little gifts they received.
They contributed yen 18 for the two little
orphans they help to support. Our Sunday-
school is still carried on with a good attend-
ance. Also the regular children's meetings,
the children themselves always taking an ac-
tive part. One of our older boys has asked
for baptism. We are hoping and looking for-
ward to the time when several more vvill be
old enough to come into the church. God
grant we may lead them aright.

I have had to change the teaching force in
the school proper during the past year, so
have been anxious about the effect, but now
feel our force is strong and hope for more
earnest effort among the children of Kana-
zawa. Two meetings held during January
were of special interest to me. Perhaps you
would like to hear about them. The first was
held in my home and it was for Christian wo-
men.

A special invitation had been given to each
one to come, so we managed to have a large
audience in spite of the bad weather. As it
was a missionary meeting I took the com-
mand of Christ as the theme for the meeting.
Different people were given verses to read,
other remarks were made on the subjects,
others led in prayer, and the missionaries
present sang for them that beautiful conse-
cration hymn, "Take My Life and Let It Be."
Maps of Japan and of the world were hung
around, and a good talk was given by our
Japanese pastor's wife. Afterwards cake
and tea were served and a little time spent so-
cially. It is hard to interest and draw the wo-
men out to meetings, so we felt specially re-
paid for the effort made and the apparent
interest felt. Every little helps to bring the
message nearer home.

The other meeting was one of great interest
to me. The 30th of January was a holiday.
Although the snow was deep yet the sun
shone brightly, and a walk of two miles to
one of the near-by villages was a real treat.
One of our Christians lives in this village, and
he is one of the leading farmers. Several
times since he became a Christian he has been
invited by Buddhists in the village to attend
their meetings. Their argument was this,
"We often go to Christian meetings, so it is
reasonable to ask you to come to some of our
meetings." He agreed to do so, saying he would
invite them to attend a Christian meeting in

return. This he did on the above-mentioned
holiday. About forty of the church people
went out to help him. His house, the largest
in the place, was thrown open, the Japanese
doors taken out and the four rooms were
made into one. We sat in a group on the
floor waiting for the villagers to come. Pres-
ently a gun went off and they began to
come, small boys, then girls with babies on
their backs, fathers, mothers, grandmothers
and grandfathers. Some dressed up, some
with their heads tied with towels, all, how-
ever, prepared to enjoy the Christian meet-
ing. There were at least fifty there, and I
am sure the whole village came there, for
only about ten houses are in the village. The
men sat around the little charcoal stove and
began to smoke. I watched with interest
how they gradually forgot to smoke as the
meeting progressed. There were four ad
dresses, all quite long, yet all remained, and
what was most remarkable, the babies were
quiet and very few went out and in. After the
talks were over most of them remained to
talk about Christianity with the pastor and
the others who spoke. All seemed to hold
that village host in high esteem. I am sure
he will be used of God in leading that village
to accept Christ. The Christians are so happy
over that meeting they want to hold others
in various houses around the city.

God is still sending forth divine power and
saving souls here in Japan. I had the joy of
seeing one of my Bible class students bap-
tized last Sunday. I am praying for others
to take the same step, as I have a class of fif-
teen young men at my home on Sunday even-
ings. Mr. Mott's visit did much good. Mr.
Torrey is now working among young men.
Much is being done for the coming rulers of
powers, the young men of Japan.

You know of course that Miss Porter has
not been able to return to Japan. However,
I am not alone, for Miss Mayo, one of the new
ladies sent out by the Board last fall, is with
me. According to missionary regulations
she is not allowed to work beyond the teach-
ing of two classes. Her time is entirely taken
up with the language study, yet she is a real
comfort and I enjoy having her. After a
while she will be a real help, too. She has
been a kindergarten and primary worker at
home, so is just the one for work among chil-
dren. I do wish Miss Porter could return,
she so longs to be here at v*"ork. I am very
well this year and find lots of opportunities
for work. I wish it were possible to do
more.

tlom DEPARTAVEIST

Home Study of Missions.

LESSON VIII.— II. CHARLEMAGNE TO BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX.— Continued.

These lessons are given in rapid outline. :\Iany societies will do better to take shorter por-
tions, not attempting to cover so much ground as is here indicated in a single month. Via Christi
may be profitably used for the missionary study of a term of years, by women who so elect.

THE JERUSALEM THAT IS ABOVE. Bnt He. whom now we trust in,

„ . ^ . , . Shall there be seen and known;

Brief life is here our portion; ^nd they that know and see Him

Brief sorrow, short-lived care; yt^all have Him for their own.

The life that knows no ending.

The tearless life, is there. The morning shall awaken,

. .. . The shadows flee away,

Oh, happy retribution, ^nd each true-hearted servant

Short toil, eternal rest; ghaii shine as doth the day.

For mortals and for sinners,

A mansion with the blest. There God, our king and patron,

. , ^ ^v- V, 1° fulness of His grace,

And now we fight the battle, Shall we behold forever.

But then shall wear the croAvn ^nd worship face to face.

Of full and everlasting

And passionless renown. —Bernard of Cluny ( tenth century ?).

This dearly loved hymn, familiar to God's people through so many ages, may well intro-
duce the meetings of this month.

When the lamp of Christ's rich and sovereign grace was lighted in Russia, it was as a torch
burning in thick darkness. The "early Slavs, ancestors of the Russians, were reported to be
peaceful in character and hospitable to strangers." They had become fierce and intractable
through constant fights and forays, harassed by Teutons, Turks and Mongols, frotn the North,
South and East, respectively.

Turn to page 102, Via Christi.

From whence were the Slavic regions Christianized ?

What tribe in the seventh century lived on the Volga River?

Whence had they come and by what route ?

How did Thessalonica become a center whence missionaries started ?
Give the names and a brief sketch of two very remarkable brothers.
What was their period ?

Read aloud in the course of your study, either in the meetings or at home, pages 103 and
104 of Via Christi. Reading aloud fixes a beautiful impression, which might be transient if
merely skimmed over.

Tell something of Clement.

THE GOSPEL IN AFRICA.— What of the early progress of Christianity in Africa ?
The School of Alexandria, what of it ?

What false religion lifted a banner of conquest against the truth in Africa ?
IN CHINA. — Epitomize the struggles, reactionary and hostile, against the Gospel of
Christ in China.

IN INDIA. — Tell of the struggle of Mohammedanism to establish itself in India in the
eleventh century.

What greater power shall conquer Islam, and do you see in recent events any signs that
foretell its fall ?

In closing the meeting ask for a group of promises from God's Word, and sing a hymn of
hope and trust, such as :

' ' Some one shall go at the Master's word
Over the seas to the lands afar.
Telling to those who have never heard

What His wonderful mercies are.
Shall it be you ? Shall it be I ?
Who shall haste to tell what we know so well ?
Shall you? Shall I?"

A DOZEN QUESTIONS FO

[Answers may be found

1. Why is it necessary to send missionaries
to Roman Catholic countries ?

2. Are there still those who indulge in
idolatrous worship of the Virgin ?

3. With what does the missionary teacher
of girls in Mexico have to contend ?

4. What great need has our Church to-day?

5. What special causes have we for thank-
fulness ?

6. What peculiar features characterize a
famine school in India ?

R MISSIONARY MEETING,

in the preceding pages. 1

7. What are some of the cares that beset a
missionary who mothers famine orphans ?

8. How may the little ones at home help
this missionary ?

9. How many believers in Syen Chyun ?

10. Suppose you were moving in South
America in war time, what then ?

11. Where has there been a visitation of
earthq uake ?

12. What difficulties are faced by some of
our members away from the great centers ?

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[June,

SINCE LAST MONTH.

Arrivals (April 11 to May 9, 1902:

April 11. — At New York, from Mexico, Rev. and Mrs. George Johnson. Address, care of
Mrs. De Baun, Nyack, N. Y.

From Mexico, ^Nlrs. Clara B. Browning. Address, Pittsburg, Pa.
April 16 — At New York, from Lodiana, India, Rev. and Mrs. W. J. Clark, with three

children, and two children of Rev. A. P. Kelso.
April 20.— At San Francisco, from India, Rev. and Mrs. Henry Forman.
April 22.— From Colombia, South America, Rev. and Mrs. T. H. Candor. Address, Delta,

York County, Pa.

From Barranquilla, South America, Rev. and Mrs, Alex. Sharp. Address, Clifton
Springs. N. Y^.

April 24. — At New York, from South America, Rev. George W. Chamberlain, D.D.
H. M. Lane, M.D.

April 22. — At Victoria, B. C, from Peking, China, Eliza M. Leonard, M.D.

May 1.— At San Francisco, from India, Bertha T. Caldwell, M.D. Address, care of Rev.
Charles Goodman, Auburn, Washington.

May 3. — At New York, from West Africa, Mrs. T. S. Ogden, Address, Cranbury, N. J.

May 5. — At New York, from India, Miss A. A. Brown. Address, 20 Avon Ave., New-
ark, N. J.
Departures :

April 14. — From Vancouver, for Peking, China, Mrs. L. S. Abbey.

April 16. — From New York, Rev. and Mrs. F. W. March, for Syria.

April 23. — From San Francisco, Mrs. A. P. Lowrie, for Peking, China.

May 7. — From Williamsport, Ind., Rev. and Mrs. W. E. Vanderbilt, for Mexico.

REPORT OF ANNUAL ASSEMBLY OF PHILADELPHIA BOARD, tm

The Thirty-second Annual Assembly
of the Woman's Foreign Missionary
Board of Philadelphia, for 1902, met at
Cleveland, Ohio, April 23-24, in the
Second Presbyterian Church, Dr. P. F.
Sutphen, pastor.

TUESDAY EVENING.

A grooving appreciation of the value
of the Tuesday evening gathering, as
a preparatory service, is evident from
the increasing number of delegates who
take time to include this hour for
prayer and praise as an integral part of
the sessions of the Assembly.

" Union in Christ " (John 17 : 21) was
the theme. Miss Evans, Painesville,
Ohio, drew forth from the unsounded
depths of this truth thoughts which
tuned praise and emboldened petition.
Mrs. Hills, Wooster, Ohio, gave a
glimpse into the missionary homes and
their family circles ; Miss Louise John-
ston, China, suggested some of the
necessary characteristics of the mission-
ary candidate.

The social hour which followed gave
opportunity for cordial handgrasp of
friends old and new and an informal
welcome from our Cleveland hostesses.

WEDNESDAY MORNING.

The sessions of the Assembly opened
Wednesday morning, the president,
Mrs. C. P. Turner, presiding. After
the devotional exercises led by Mrs.

Whiting, China, Mrs. Chambers, in the
name of the Cleveland Presbyterian
women, spoke hearty words of greeting.

The report of home secretaries was
read by Mrs. Wm. Walters. As this
reviews the work of six departments,
it is unfair to further condense and we
commend its thoughtful perusal as
printed in the Annual Report. The
announcement of two resignations
caused universal regret, that of Mrs.
Fishburn, whose long and faithful
service as treasurer has so identified her
with this society that it is difficult to
think of any other relation being pos-
sible, and of Mrs. Danielson, who for
seven years has served as foreign sec-
retary. Mrs. Turner added words of
grateful appreciation of these beloved
co-workers, to which all hearts re-
sponded.

The treasurer's report, read by Miss
Margaret Hodge, gave total receipts as
8188,788.00, the largest offering in the
history of this society. This amount
includes a legacy of nearly $30,000, so
the actual advance in offerings only
slightly exceeds that of last year.

The presentation of missionaries in-
cluded ten in actual service and five
ex-missionaries. To the question,
"What is the especial need for more
missionaries in your field ? " Miss Nassau
saw answer in the unlimited oppor-
tunity and present restricted work for

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lack of workers, in the fact that a
corrupt civilization stands ready to seize
the African youth if we fail to give
them a Christianized Africanism; Mrs.
McDowell, Persia, saw it in the un-
precedented opening for work among
the Mohammedans, and the uncertainty
of long continuance of even present
freedom for teaching the gospel; Mrs.
Houston, Brazil, saw it in the fact that
South America is the "neglected con-
tinent."

Mrs. Thorpe gave the "Foreign Re-
ports in Brief," a striking resume of the
work feeing done on the foreign field,
gathering up and classifying the facts
with admirable conciseness and com-
prehensiveness and presenting them in
a form, both as to matter and manner,
calculated to make definite and perma-
nent impression.

After a luncheon served to 600, with
notable promptness and absence of con-
fusion, a conference of literature sec-
retaries was led by Mrs. W. E. Lewis,
Cincinnati, which showed a growing
appreciation on the part of these secre-
taries of the duties and privileges of
their office, and by comparing, sifting,
suggesting methods of work, furnished
practical hints toward better work.

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.

Mrs. Loring- Taylor offered the open-
ing prayer of the afternoon session.
Mrs. J Beatty Howell presided. Roll
call of synodical and presbyterial
societies was made by Miss F. U. Nel-
son, the delegates reading unitedly at
the close a Scripture selection arranged
by Miss Stewart, of Huntingdon Pres-
bytery. The report of Christian En-
deavor missionaries was given by Mrs.
E. Boyd Weitzel, graphic sketches
showing us the missionary at his post
enga,ged in varied lines of service, the
story told with directness and en-
thusiasm.

The illness of Mrs. Gillespie prevented
her giving the promised talk on "Our
Publications and How to Use Them,"
and in its place was a most interesting
message from Shanghai from Miss E. C.
Parsons, read by Mrs. W. E. Lewis.
Much information was crowded into
Miss Noyes' story of the "True Light
Seminary," Canton, and its multiplying
centers of influence through the work
of graduates,

Mrs. Livingstone Taylor, Cleveland,
presente(1 "Foreign Missions from the
Visitor's Point of View;" that of one
who travelled to learn the needs rather
than to see the sights of Oriental lands,
and who studied the work and the
workers as a sympathetic co-laborer.

The earnest words of Miss Charlotte
Hawes were indeed "Good Tidings
from China," giving one instance after
another of unselfish, heroic, useful lives
among the native Christians.

This session was followed by a con-
ference on Young People's Work, in
which Mrs. Weitzel presided over the
prompt, pertinent, practical discussions
concerning twenty classified questions
touching all sides of young people's
work

The popular meeting of Wednesday
evening was attended by a large au-
dience, who listened to the story of the
"Triumph of Medical Evangehstic
Work in Korea," b}^ Dr. C. H. Irvin,
and of ' ' Recent Christ ward Movements
in India," by Rev. C. A. R. Janvier.
An offering of 8-01.74 was made for
evangelical work in Lodiana Mission,
India.

THURSDAY MORNING.

At nine o'clock synodical and pres-
byterial officers met in conference,
Mrs. Walters leading, where problems
new and old were discussed, and helpful
hints given to be worked out into actual
methods in the coming year.

Mrs. C. N. Thorpe presided at the
morning session, which was opened by
a devotional service led by Mrs. J. A.
Bell, Pittsburg. Mrs. Thorpe intro-
duced Miss Nassau as the "President
and faculty of the African Theological
Seminary," and we listened to an ac-
coimt of her "training of certain
native ministers," catching hints the
while of the long, patient toil involved
in such work while we marveled at
the result attained.

" The Ideal and the Real in Work and
Workers" Avas the topic for general
conference, with Mrs. J. F. Houston,
formerly a missionary in Brazil, as
leader. A spirited interchange of ideas
such as can be appropriated for use,
but not reported in a limited space.

THURSDAY AFTERNOON.

Mrs. Turner resumed the chair at the
opening of the afternoon session. Re-

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ports of committees were first in order.
The meeting, wliieh hereafter will be
biennial, will next be held at Newark,
N. J., in r.)lU. The courteous hospi-
tality of church and homes, together
with all the many and complete arrange-
ments on the part of the Cleveland
ladies for the success of the Assembly,
found appreciative mention.

Miss Mary Form an told the old story
of ever new suffering as seen in "Ze-
nana Work in India. "

Miss Annie Dale presented a series of
pictures of the hopeless lives of Persia's
women in giving some "Phases of
Woman's Work in Teheran," and ex-
claimed, "We must love Persia into
the kingdom of God."

In giving ' ' Glimpses of Christian
Lives and Homes in Japan," in which
shone out the wonders of the transform-
ing power of the gospel, Miss Annie
West warned her hearers against the
impression that all lives were such.

noting the cherry blossom season with
its ceremonies as an occasion when
10,0()() daily visited the heathen Temple
of the Goddess of Merc}^ seeking that
soul rest that is found only in Christ.

In a thoughtful address on the theme,
"I Am Debtor," Mrs. Peter Stryker,
Bound Brook, N. J., pressed home the
claim of the Master upon our lives.
This was followed, after the reading of
the minutes, by the Quiet Hour, the
thought of which was "Our willing-
ness— God's power — thy people shall
be willing in the day of thy power."
In quiet waiting before the Lord the
claiming of this promise brought fresh
inspiration to labor on in ' ' the hope of
His appearing."

A new feature of this Assembly was
the Children's Meeting, on Thursday
afternoon, led by Mrs. W. B. Porter,
Cleveland, and addressed by Miss
Hawes, Dr. and Mrs. C. H. Irvin and
Miss Dale. E. D. H.

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE WOMAN'S NORTH PACIFIC
PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF MISSIONS.

The Fourteenth Annual Meeting of
this Board was held in Calvary Pres-
byterian Church, of Portland, on April
16 and 17. A large number of
delegates were present from churches
in Oregon, Idaho, Washington and
Alaska.

We were privileged in having w4th
us the following missionaries: Miss
Ellen Strong of Korea, Dr. Maud
Allen, who went out from Calvary
Church, and who has labored seven
3^ears in India; Mrs. O. F. Wisner of
China, Mrs. Tilly Paul, Alaska; Miss
Helen Clark, Keah Bay, Washington ;
Mrs. W. S. Holt of the Chinese Home,
Portland, and Miss Julia Hatch, of
Siam. Our president, Mrs. Ladd,
had previously sent out invitations to
all delegates from out of town and all
ladies in Portland Presbyterian churches
interested in missions to attend a re-
ception at her beautiful home on Tues-
day, from 3 to 5 She was assisted by
her daughter, Mrs. Helen Ladd Cor-
bett. The afternoon was delightful in
every way. Sunshine and flowers lent
their aid. The spacious rooms, rich
with artistic furnishings, were thronged
with three or four hundred ladies, happy

in the work in which they have a com-
mon interest The chief feature of the
occasion was meeting the returned mis-
sionaries. But it is always a pleasure to
look into the face of our dear, faithful
president, now in her seventy- sixth
year, whose mental and bodily vigor
are still preserved for the w^ork.

The first session, Wednesday morn-
ing, was opened by devotions conducted
by Mrs. J. H Barton of Union. A
spirit of prayer prevailed, which con-
tinued throughout the meetings. Miss
Clark of Neah Bay, Mrs. Williams of
Tacoma, and Miss Abby McElroy, sec-
retary of the Y. W. C. A., Portland,
conducted the other devotional periods.
"The Joy of Service," "Self-directed
Service and Christ- directed Service,"
" Advance, " were the themes. Many
prayers were offered for the workers at
home and abroad.

The welcome and response were both
full of practical sentiments.

The reports of our secretaries re-
vealed the earnest work of these con-
secrated, faithful officers, and showed
the advance steps of the year and a
general gain in workers and interest,
and also suggested the mistakes that

1902.] ANNUAL MEETING OF NORTHERN NEW YORK. 177

have been made and the remedies for
them.

The treasurer reported a gain of 4
per cent, for foreign missions.

A presbyterial symposium consisted
of discussions upon the ideal presby-
terial president, secretary, treasurer,
secretary of literature, and the duties of
a nominating committee were discussed
as well. This latter brought out that
wise women fitted to the several offices
should be named, and not urged into
the work "because there won't be
much to do," but rather urged to ac-
cept their responsibilities and do their
utmost to advance this work of the
Master^

We wish we could print a picture in
this report of the children of the Chi-
nese school — gay in their native dress,
clean, bright and sparkhng — as they
stood on the platform and recited texts
and sang gospel hymns, their teacher
a young Chinese woman educated in
our Chinese Home. All a most en-
couraging object lesson to missionary
workers.

Miss Clark of Neah Bay told of her
work among the Indians — the greatest
hindrance to her work being the imper-
fections of white people.

Miss Hatch told of her six years'
work among the Laos people.

We were favored in having with us
Mrs J. W. Brady, wife of Governor
Brady of Alaska, who urged the Board
to take greater interest in the industrial
education of Alaskan Indian women,
predicting great success in that line.

Our first vice-president, Mrs. Lock-
wood, gave an interesting account of

the meeting of the Occidental Board,
which she had just attended.

The Wednesday evening meeting was
inspii-ing. Miss Protzman, the young
people's secretary, gave her report and
address, and read a letter from the
young people's missionary. Dr. Andrews
of India.

Dr. Maud Allen's address was the
event of the evening, and she looked
into the faces of many friends in
the large audience, for she was
speaking in the church from which
she went out to her mission in India.
It would be impossible to do justice
to her beautiful, pathetic and encour-
aging story in such a report as this.
She closed with a few statistics : "Here
we have one ordained minister for
every 800. In heathen lands one for
every 500,000. Here one doctor to
every 500; there one to 3,000,000. Of
every dollar given to missions, 98 cents
remains at home and 2 cents goes
to foreign missions. Yet last year the
increase of the Presbyterian Synod of
India was nine times that of New York."

We wish this were a phonograph, to
let you hear the anthem sung with ex-
cellent impression by Mrs. Holt's Chi-
nese Choir, and also the song in the
Hindu language sung by Dr. Allen,
dressed in the costume of a young Hin-
du girl. I have reached the limit and
cannot tell of the missionary hour, in
which each of the six missionaries pres-
ent in turn spoke a few words.

Many said, ' ' We anticipated much
before we came, but we have realized
more than we anticipated."

M. Louise Bradley,

ANNUAL MEETING OF NORTHERN NEW YORK.

The Society of Northern New York
held its thirtieth Annual Meeting on
April 16 and 17, at Sandy Hill,
where a most cordial welcome was
given and everything done for the com-
fort and convenience of the visiting
members. The programme was an ex-
ceedingly fine one, and the missionary
addresses of especial interest and inspir-
ation. The opening devotional ser-
vice was led by Mrs. Hollister of Troy,
the thought being brought to us from
the new life and beauty of the spring-
time. Joy should be our watchword.

and it can only be found when our
hearts are in communion with the
heart of God. This service was followed
by a conference, in which the condi-
tion of the Contingent Fund, our need
of Woman's Work for Woman,
and other matters were discussed.

The Rev. Mr. Kellogg, pastor of the
church, presided at the evening session .
An especial feature was the presence of
the Glens Falls pastor, with between
fifty and sixty of his church people.
After the opening exercises, the address
was given by the Pev. C. A. P. Janvier,

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WOMAN'S SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON CITY. [June,

of Allaliabad, India. Mr. Janvier's
enthusiasm and intense earnestness
held our attention from start to finish,
as he told of the immense numbers in
India; of their lethargy and indiffer-
ence, caused by their wretched pov-
erty ; their dense ignorance, their shame-
less immorality and their philosophical
systems, which lead to spiritual dead-
ness. Then he told us of the move-
ments which were honeycombing the
old systems : one among the out-castes
— those cast out of caste ; one among
the educated classes, and one the out-
come of the famine relief work. He
told us of the plan for a college in Alla-
habad, and that part of his own and Mr.
Forman's mission in this country was
to raise $65,000 for it.

Miss Darling read the minutes of the
Gloversville meeting and the reports of
the corresponding secretaries followed.
The address of the morning was given
by Miss Grace ISTewton of Peking, China,
who led us in thought through the weeks
of the terrible siege from the time be-
fore the missionaries and Chinese
Christians left the Methodist Mission to
the time when relief came, and showed
us how God was present to deliver in a
wonderful way and kept them in peace
and quietness in spite of the horrors all

about them. The special lesson she
brought us was that the Lord can be
trusted absolutely under all conditions.

In the absence of Mrs. Arnold, the
treasurer's report was read by Mrs.
Hawley. The receipts were several
hundred dollars short.

Mrs. Hollister made a plea for "Over
Sea and Land." Mrs. Curtis read the
report of the nominating committee,
and the election resulted in retaining
the same officers. Mrs. McClure pre-
sented resolutions on the death of Miss
Hulda Christensen and Mrs. Swart,
who were our own missionaries.

Mrs. Yeisley then introduced Dr.
McCandless, of Hainan, who told of
China's need of hj^giene and prevent-
ive measures; of his medical work in
the well-equipped hospital built by the
money of New York State women; of
the spiritual outgrowth of this service,
and touched upon the work done by
others in the Hainan field.

Prayer and benediction by the Pev.
Mr. Kellogg closed the thirtieth annual
meeting. If only every careless, indif-
ferent woman in Northern New York
could have been present, surely another
year we should not have to come with
the story of a financial falling off.

Florence Bennett Johnson.

THE WOMAN'S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF THE
PRESBYTERY OF WASHINGTON CITY.

Washington City Presbyterial Soci-
ety has created a new office — that of
mite or blessing-box secretary, and are
on a still hunt for the man}^ misspent
pennies and nickels with which our
young people are so prodigal during the
summer. Miss Sue Hussey, the new
secretary, is a brainy, enthusiastic, con-
secrated Junior leader, and aims to place
a foreign mission box in the hands of
each young person and child in the
presbytery. The annual or semi-an-
nual opening will be made an interest-
ing feature by the society. Let us not
despise the little rills which should fill
the rivers.

A suggestion brought before the
monthly Presbyterial prayer-meeting
in Washington, D. C, April 30, 1902
— a response to Miss Parson's appeal in
May Woman's Work.

Special prayer was made at this

meeting for the India famine orphans.
"In Kodoli, India," said Miss Parsons
in her letter, " these orphans are quar-
tered upon the Christian families with
many good results,"

Why not, came the call of the Holy
Spirit, ' ' quarter " these helpless suffer-
ing little ones, thus thrown into the lap
of the Christian church, ' ' upon the
Christian families " of America.

What does it mean for us ?

Twenty dollars extra in gifts to pay
for the care and tuition of this child,
taken "in His name;" but oh, it means
much more — enlarged sympathy, more
prayer, a nearness to Him whose Spirit
brings the suggestion. A i^escued soul,
and to the eye of faith a host of trained
Christian workers to support and carry
forward the good work in redeemed
India

Belle Caldwell Culbertson^

1902.]

179

NOTES FROM NEW YORK,

Prayer- meeting at 156 Fifth Ave., cor. 20th St., the firet
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.

We desire to call especial attention to an
editorial note in this number of Woman's
Work in reference to the urgent need at this
time of well qualified women missionaries.
The chairman of the Candidate Committee of
our New York Board is Mrs, William Packer
Prentice, No. 9 West 16th Street, New York
City. Presbyterian young women residing in
New England, New York State and city, or
in Kentucky, should apply to Mrs. Prentice,
who will gladly give all desired information.
Any Presbyterian young women in Canada,
east of Toronto, and including that city, who
desire to go as missionaries under our Assem-
bly's Board may also apply to Mrs. Prentice.

Dr. and Mrs. Guy W. Hamilton have been
transferred to the Persia Mission on account
of the climate of Siam, which has seriously
affected Mrs. Hamilton's health. The Board
has extended their furlough for six months.
Dr. and Mrs. John Inglis, of the Peking Mis-
sion, have had their furlough extended to
July 1, on account of Dr. Inglis's ill health.
Your prayers are asked for the speedy and full
recovery of these valued missionaries.

Syracuse Presbyterial Society celebrated
its Silver Anniversary in March and sent a
goodly offering for missions through the dis-
tribution of tiny blue envelopes with silver

lettering. The sessions lasted all day and
were held in Syracuse in the First Church.
There were 360 delegates present.

The twenty-fifth anniversary of the Pre.sby-
terial Society of Niagara was celebrated early
in April at Medina. An excellent programme,
covering tw^o days, was carried out most suc-
cessfully. The record for the twenty five
years shows that during that time $oO,000 have
been raised for missionary purposes. Dr.
Halsey made a stirring address upon Korea
and the Koreans.

The envelopes are ready for the Summer
Offering, which, as already announced, will be
for medical work on four of the mission fields.
Send for them at once, and at least give each
member of your society an opportunity to give
something to enable the suffering women and
children in those countries to have a little of
the care during illness that surrounds us on
every side. These summer offerings might
be called Thank Offerings for our blessings
when illness overtakes us or those we love.
What such illness means to women in other
lands needs only to be known to insure our
generous aid.

Of interest is the fact that the Women's
Missionary Society of Chieng Mai Church,
Laos, gave nearly five dollars last year for
foreign missions. The money was devoted to
the School for Blind Girls, Canton. The soci-
ety has forty members, with an average
attendance of twenty-seven.

NEW LITERATURE.

We are extremely favored in being able
this year to furnish our societies with new
leaflets on the medical work of our various
mission fields, also the schools of these sev-
eral countries. We now have leaflets for
China, Africa, India and Siam and Laos.
These new leaflets are beautifully illustrated
with pictures of the buildings — schools, hos-
pitals and dispensaries — and any one of them
would furnish data for a splendid missionary
meeting. Price, 3 cts. each, 30 cts. per doz.

Since the "Tragedy of Paotingfu," interest
has centered upon the native Christians of
that locality. Upon request, Mrs. S. P.
Lowrie has selected a few of those Christian
Chinese women of her own personal acquaint-
ance and written up their life stories. These
have been issued by the Occidental Board in
a leaflet entitled, Old Xini, and Other True
Stories of Chinese Christian Women. One
cannot read the story of Old Xini, of the
Blind Girl, of the Sisters Juntz and Aitz,
without gaining new faith in the work for
Christ among this people. Price, 3 cts. each,
25 cts. per doz.

A Life Sketch of Miss Isabella Nassau, one of
the most remarkable women of her day and
time, is furnished us by her lifelong friend,
Mrs. P. D. Browne, former President of this
Board. The story of this, the first ivhite wo-
man to enter that dark continent with the
sweet gospel of light, is indeed thrilling. We
are sending it to those of our presbyterials
that furnish free leaflets to their auxiliaries,
this month. 2 cts. each, 15 cts. per doz.

W]iat Hast Thou 9 that beautiful Thank
Offering stoiy, is still in demand. 2 cts. each,
15 cts. per doz.

During the month of April, that classic on
Oriental religions, Woman Under the Ethnic
Religions, by Mrs. Moses Smith, was in favor.

The Woman's Occidental Board of Foreign
Missions announces these leaflets for June :
South America, Mexico and Guatemala, His-
torical Sketches of Each, 10 cts. ; Questions
and Answers, 5 cts. ; South America, the Neg-
lected Continent, 10 cts. per doz. ; Women of
Mexico, 10 cts. per doz.

The price of Schools and Colleges in Soiitli
America is 5 cts. per copy, 50 cts. per doz.

Receipts of the Woman's Foreign Mrssionary Society of the Presbyterian Church from April I, 1902,

[presbyteries in small capitals. * Thank Offering.]

Athens.— Ameeville, 10, S.C.E., 3: Athens, 31.45, S.C.E .
13.50; Barlow. 12.50, S.C.E., 2, S.C.E. Jr.. .50 cts.; Beech
Grove, S.C.E., 2.13; Berea, 4.32; Beverly, 2.50, S.C.E.. 2.50;
Bristol, 4.25; Carthage, 4; Gallipolis, IT, S.C.E.. 6, S.C.E.
Jr., 3; Logan, 36.50, Bd., 55 cts., S.C.E., 13; McConnelU-
ville, 15, S.C.E., 2, S.C.E. Jr., 50 ctg.; Marietta, .55 51, S.C.
E., 11.50; Middleport, 24.46, S.C.E.Jr., 2.50; Nelsonviile,

10.50; New Matamoras. 11, S.C.E., 1; New Plymouth,
22.90, I- Will-Try Bd., 1.50; Pomeroy, 13-50, S.C.E., 6.50;
Rutland, 3.50; Veto, S.C.E., 50 cts.: Warren, 10, S.C.E., 3,

$364.0r

Baltimore.— Relay, S.C.E., 1.00
Bellefontaine.— Belle Center, 14, S.C.E.Jr.. 2.59: Belle-
fontaine, 61.35, S.C.E., 50; Buck Creek, 17.50; Bucyrus, 11;

180

TREASURERS' REPORTS,

[June,

Crestline, 12.50; De Graff, 11; Forest, 20; Gallon, 20.40, S.
C.E., T; lluntsville, C; Kenton, 59.25, S.C.E., 7.50, Y.L.
Cir., 11.50; Marseilles. 5, S.C.E., 1.60; Kushsvlvania, 11;
Spring Hill, 6; Tiro, 8; Upper Sandusky, S.C.E., 5; Ur-
bana. 36; West Liberty, 8, S.C.E., 7; Zanesfield, 4, 403.19

Blairsvii.i-E.— Parnassus, 25; New Alexandria, S.C.E.,
1, S.C.E. Jr., 20; Ebensburg, S.C.E., 10, 56.00

Butler.— Allegheny, 3, S.C.E., 10; Amity, Y.W. Cir.,
11; Buffalo, 1st, 15.42; Butler, let, 29, Y.W., 61, Our Club,

14, S.C.E., 6.68, S.C.E. Jr., 22.50; 2d, 38.94, Y.W., 10.70;
Centerville, 7.50, McCauley Bd., 2.25, S.C.E., 7; Concord, 8,
S.C.E, 10; Crestview, 3, S.C.E., 3; Evans City, 10.10, S.C.
E., 10; "Fairview, S.C.E., 5; Grove City, 38.20, S.C.E.,
112.50, (iirls' Bd. (Apple Blossoms), 2.72, Boys' Bd., 2.U6;
llarrisvilie, 12; Martinsburg, 15; Mt. Nebo, 7, S.C.E., 6;
Middlesex, 7. Little Girls' Bd., 1; Millbrook, 10; Muddy
Creek, 1.50, S.C.E., 9; North Liberty, 12, S.C.E., 3.07;
North Washington, 20, Bd., 4; Parker City 20, S.C.E., 10;
Petrolia, 6.. 50,^ S.C.E., 5; Plain Grove, S.C.E., 20, Bd., 6;
Pleasant Valley, 12, S.C.E., 8; Portersville. 19.10, S.C.E.,
10; Prospect, 11.76, S.C.E., 7, S.C.E. Jr., 10; Scrubgrass,

15. S.C.E.. 10; Summit, 6.43; Unionville, 8.50; Westm'r, 5;
West Sunbury, S.C.E., 14; Zelienople, 22, S.C.E. Jr., 2.

773 53

Carlisle.— Carlisle, 1st, 75, Golden Chain Bd., 54, S.C.E.,
10; 2d, 40, Y.L.B., 40; Chambersburg, Central, 84.61, Y.L.
B., b6.8C, Sunshine Bd., 30.06; Falling Spring, 425.65, Y.L.
Bd., 194, A Lady in Memory of Her Mother, 50; Wilson
College, S.C.E., 20; Dauphin, 21; Derry, 1; Dickinson, 19,
Busy Workers Bd., 16, Mrs. M. Huston's Birthday Bd., 2.16,
Interest on Legacy, Mrs. E. W. Galbreath, 15; Dillsburg,
20.50, S.C.E., 5, S.C.E. Jr., 3; Duncannon, 58.12, S.C.E.,
6..50; Gettysburg, 49.50, Willing Workers Bd., 5, L.L.B.,
3.50. S.C.E., 7; Greencastle, 51.50, Y.L.B., 7.50, Lilies of
the Valley. 20, S.C.E., 2; Harrisburg, Calvary, 20, S.C.E.,
20, S.C.E. Jr., 7; Covenant, 18; Market Square, 108, John

A. Weir Bd., 49.27, Macedonian Bd., 260.56, Sr. Dept., S.S.,
79.41, Mrs. Miller's CI., Willing Workers, 2.50, Miss
Mowry's CI., 5, Miss Harvey's CI., 2, S.C.E., 55, L.L.B., 11;
Olivet, 10, S.C.E., 5; Pine St., 498.16, Mothers' Meeting,

0. 25, Syrian Helpers, 50, Two Bd., 1.5, Geo. S. Chambers
Bd., 10, Mary Campljell Bd., 15, Mrs. Boyd's CI., 50, Y.L.B.,
43.39, A Member, Y.L.B., 40, Whatsoever Bd., 30, Miss
Scott's CI., 7.20. Miss'jYork's CI., 10, MissR. Pollock's CI.,
10, Mrs. Hamilton's CI., 20, Mrs. Palmer's CI., 5, A Lady,
50, S.C.E., 25, S.C.E. Jr., 10; Westm'r, 55.80, S.C.E., 5;
Lebanon, Christ Ch., 80.03; 4th, 25, S.C.E., 5; Lower Marsh
Creek. 13.35; Lower Path Valley, 30, S.C.E., 10; McCon-
nellsburg. 17.75, S.C.E., 8; Mechanicsburg, 78, Y.L.B.,
13.50, Birthday Bd., 9, S.C.E., 5; Mercersburg, 35.70, Y.L.

B. , ;44.25, Thos. Creigh Bd.. 16.18, L.L.B., 6; Middletown,
15, S.C.E., 5; New Bloomfield, 25.75; Newport, 15.10; New-
ville. Big Spring, 268, Dew Drops, 11, Y.L.B., 73.85, Wide
Awake Boys' Bd., 12.50, S.C.E., 3; Paxton, 56..50, Cheerful
Givers, 35; Shippensburg, 71.41, Y.L.B., 31.55, Hull Bd., 10,
Y.P.S., 15; Steelton, 14.08; St. Thomas, 16.18, Bd.. 5.90;
Waynesboro, 71.50, Children's Bd., 3, S.C.E., 5; Welsh
Run, 10, S.C.E. Jr., 5, 4,168.07

Catawba.— Concord, Laura Sunderland School, 4.47;
Bethpage, 50 cts.; Emanuel, 80 cts.; Gastonia, 2.60; Mc-
Clintock, 25 cts.; Scotia Sem.. 25; Siloam, 20 cts.; Westm'r,

1, 34.82
Chester.— Atgien, 16.50; Avondale, 42.47; Berwyn, 23,

Mustard Seeds, 3.25, S.C.E., 3..50; Brvn Mawr, 50; Chester,
1st, 10; 2d, 16. .50; 3d, 15; Christiana,' 26.25; Coatesville, 67,
S.C.E., 50, S.C.E. Jr., 7..50; Darbyborough, 25. .50, Clover
Leaf Soc, 1.5, Sunbeam Bd., 2; Doe Run, S.C.E., 5; Down-
ingtown, 12.30; Faggs Manor, 17.75; Forks of Brandywine,
38.25, Violet Bd., 2.5, S.C.E., 7; Frazer, 3.25; Great
Valley, 39.20, Little Workers, 7..50; Honey Brook, S.C.E.,
10, S.C.E. Jr., 6, Pansy Bd., 7.50; Kennett Square, 11.60, S.

C. E., 2.25, Jr. Soc, 5; Lansdowne, 70.90, S. E. How-
ard Cir., 7..50, Helpers, 7..50, Y.P.A., 5; Lincoln, Willing
Helpers, 11; Marple, 6.50; Media, 112.04; Middletown, 15.27,
Y.L.B., 10, Girls' Perseverance Bd., 9; New London, 16.15,
S.C.E., 20; Nottingham, 12; Oxford, 169; Phoenixville,
82.54, S.C.E., 16.36, S.C.E. Jf., 1.10; Ridley Park, 42;
Swarthmore, 7.35, S.C.E., 2.50; Toughkenamon, 7.61; Up-
per Octorara, 100, Marshall Bd., 20, Hope and Trust Bd.,
20, Jr. Bd., 3; Wallingford, 21; Wayne, aS, S.C.E., 10,
S.C.E. Jr., 5, Grace Mem'l, 4; West Chester, 1st, 198.92,
S.C.E., 15; Westm'r, 7.68, Leaman Bd., 1..50, Y.L. Cir.,
20, S.C.E., 1.5, S.C.E. Jr., 9.50; Goshenville, S.C.E., 14;
West Grove, 30.13, S.C.E., 5.94, 1,791.06

Chillicothe.— Bainbridge, 5; Bloomingburg, 18, S.C,
E., 2; Bourneville. 18..50, S.C.E., 5.50; Chillicothe, 1st,
119.74. Y.L.B., 5, Infant CI. Bd., 2, S.C.E., 2..50; 3d, 18.30,
Infant CI. Bd., 5.50, S.C.E., 2.50; Concord, 13.91, S.C.E., 6;
Frankford, S.C.E. Jr., 1.50; Greenfield, 24.03, S.C.E., 11;
Hampden, 9, S.C.E., 1; Hillsboro, ,38.50, S.C.E., 10; Syca-
more Valley Aux.,'5.70; McArthur, .5, S.C.E., 4.90, S.C.E.
Jr., 1.10; Marshall, .5.8.5, S.C.E., 1.25; Mem'l, 1; Mona, 17;
Mt. Pleasant (Kingston), 10; New Market, S.C.E., 1.70;
North Fork, .32.71; Pisgah, 18, S.C.E., 3.30; Salem, 21, S.
C.E., 13.51; Union, 2.27; Washington C.H., 17.65, S.C.E.,
5; Waverly, S.C.E., 2; White. Oak, 5; Wilmington, 5, S.

C.E., 2, 510.42
Cincinnati.— Bond Hill, 39; Cincinnati, Ist, 14.20, Golden
Circle, 9.90, King's Messengers, 16.60, Light for Darkness,
37, S.C.E., 3.20; 2d, 196.50, Y.L. Soc, 10.53, S.C.E., 25.54,
Wide Awake Bd., 6.20: 3d, 37.2.5, S.C.E., 1; 4lh, Y.L. Soc,
2; 5th, 6.10; 6th, Kate Attig Mem'l Bd., 28, Pearl Gatherers,
16; 7th, 19.,50, S.C E., 1; Avondale, 33.56; Central, 23 80, S.
C.E., 8; Clifton, 41.90; Knox, 4.75; Mohawk, 40.41, Buds of
Promise, 2.79, King's Messengers, 1.20; Mt. Auburn, 112.43,
S.C.E.. 17.84, Jr. Bd., 3, Clifford Mission, 8; North, 34.50,
Thomson Mem'l Bd., 20, Willing Workers, 14.50; Poplar
St.. Earnest Workers, 16. Shining Lights, 7, S.C.E., 20,
S.C.E. Jr., 2; Sabbath Day, 62.75; Walnut Hills, 81.74,
Acorn Bd., 25.21, Army of Peace, 3..50, Fullerton Bd., 50,
Humphrey Bd., 17, L.L.B., 4.41; Westm'r, 70.82, S.C.E.,
20; Westwood, 35; Cleves and Berea, 4.30; College Hill,
106.0.5, Boys' Clover Leaf Club, 2, Girls' Soc, 3, S.C.E.,
8.S0; Delhi, .31.32, S.C.E., 12..50; Glendale, 25.87, S.C.E.,
12. .50: Ilanij^on, 8.75; Hartwell, 10, S.C.E., 9; Lebanon,
65. -J."). S.C.E.. 20; Linwood, 19, Calvary Workers, 4, Girls'
Bd., 5 .50; Loveland, 15.10, S.C.E., 5; Madisonville, 12.50,
Y.L. Soc, 5, S.C.E., 1; Montgomery, 5.85, S.C.E.. 3; Mor-
row, 24.05; Murdoch (Bethel Ch.), 18.33, Willing Workers,
87; New Richmond, 10.40; Norwood, 18.25, Y.P. Soc, 2;
Pleasant Ridge 14.88, S.C.E., 6; Pleasant Run, 4: Reading
and Lockland, 4.80, S.C.E., 5: Silverton, S.C.E., 3; Spring-
dale, 16.50, S.C.E., 5; Venice, 13; Wyoming, 52.75, Y.L.
Soc, 13..50, S.C.E., 10; A Friend, 50; A Lady, 4, 1,924.25
Clarion.— Brockwayville, S.C.E., 18.64; Edenburg, 15.50,
Y.L.B., 1.95, S.C.E., 15.40: Oil City, 2d, 114, Good Will Bd.,
25. Westm'r Bd., 15, S.C.E., 18.40; Punxsutawney, 6.20;
Sligo, 5; Tionesta, 60, S.C.E., 21.62, S.C.E. Jr., 5; Wilco.T,
5.47, Band, 4.32, S.C.E., 12, 3 13.50

Cleveland. — Akron, 1st, 18.10; Central, 1 50; AshtabulM,
1st, 44.38, S.C.E., 25; Cleveland, 1st, 107..50, Haydn Reading
Circle, 50, S.C.E., 10; 2d, 294.90, James Eells Soc, 81,
Handy Bd., 25; Beckwith Mem'l, 86.20, S.C.E., 23; Betii-
any, 6, S.C.E., 2; Bolton Ave., 63, S.C.E., IG; Boulevarde,
7, S.C.E., 5; Calvary, 141.10, S.C.E., 36; Case Ave., 29.10,
S.C.E., 10.10; Euclid Ave., 128 70, S.C.E., 26; E.Madison
Ave., S.C.E., 10.19; Miles Park, 16.50, S.C.E., 20; Ncrih,
33.9.5, S.C.E., 5, S.C.E. Jr., 10; South, 8, S.C.E., 5; Willson
Ave., 31, S.C.E., 11; Woodland Ave, 138.49, King's Sons
and Daughters, 24; E. Cleveland. 1st, 77, S.C.E. , 10; Win-
dermere, 32, S.C.E., 11; Glenville, 14.25, S.C.E., 10; Noith-
field, 11, S.C.E., 3; Orwell, 1, S.C.E., 13.64; North S|)ring-
field, .5, S.C.E., 10; Rome, 14.50, S.C.E., 5; Seville, 16. S.
C.E. Jr., 1.75; Solon, S.C.E., 11; South New Lynne, 3.80;
Streelsboro, 5, S.C.E., 5; Wickliffe, 5; Willoughby, 4; A
Lady, 25, 1,843 65

Columbus.— Bremen, 5; Central College, 19; Cij-cleville,
27.4.3, S.U.E., 9.50: Columbus, 1st, -31. S.C.E., 5; Broad St.,
130.65, Suturia Guild, .50; Central, 229.40, Y.L. Circle, 6, Y.
L. Soc, 41, Primary CI., 18.89; 5th Ave., 22.22, S.C.E., 3;
Olivet, 15.41; St. Clair, 11; West Broad St., 2.50, S.C.E.,
5.40: Lancaster, 50.70. S.C.E., 10; London, 7.25; Plain City,
22. S.C.E., 5.50, S.C.E. Jr., 5.25; Rush Creek, 14; Wester-
ville, 20, S.C.E., 6, Henry Bushnell Bd., 5.40; Worthington,
10, S.C.E., 4, 792.50
CoRisco.— Gaboon Aux., 21.23
Datton.— Bath, 1.75; Blue Ball, 13.43; Camden, 7.50;
Clifton, 6, Y.L. Soc, 15.80; Collinsville, 9.50; Davton, 1st,
;39, Y.L. Soc, 25; 3d St., 220.95, Y.L. Soc, a3..50'; 4ih, 41;
Mem'l, 14.06 Boys' League, 13, Golden Rule Bd., 10, Y.P.
Soc, 30; Park, 25.75; Riverdale. 5; Fletcher, 5; Franklin,
10; Gettysburg, 6; Greenville, 29..50; Hamilton, 1st, 24.50;
Westm'r, 40.28; Middle town, 15.25; Oakland, 2.50; New
Carlisle, 18; New Jersey, 7.77; Oxford, 40; Piqua, 132;
Seven Mile, 6.80; Somerville, 5.63; South Charleston, 13;
Springfield, 1st, 93, Alex. Proudfit, 10, Y.W. Soc, 5; 2d,
104..35, Ellen Bushnell Bd., 10, Y.L.S., 97. S.C.E. Jr., 5; 3d,
6.95; Troy, 1st, 26, 2d, Aux., 1; Washington, 8; Xenia,
31.95, Conversazione, 13.60, King's Daughters, 2, S.S., 63.84;
Yellow Springs, 10.92, 1,356.08
East Florida.— Glenwood, S.C.E., 2.00
Elizabeth.— Basking Ridge, 49.25; Carteret, 2, S.C.E., 5;
Clarksville, Glen Garden, S.C.E., 2.50; Clinton, 54, Sewing
Soc. 17, Boys' Bd., 17, Star Circle, 10, S.C.E., 5;
Conn. Farms, 32.7.5, S.C.E., 6.25; Cranford, 11 87; Dunel-
len, 3. S.C.E., 1.05; Elizabeth Ass'n, 102.58; Ist, 73.70, Mary
Morrison Bd., 63.44, King's Children, 30; 2d, 234.63,
Band, 142, S.C.E., 50; 3d, 90, Y.L. Circle, 50, S.C.E., 25;
Greystone, Cheerful Givers, 90, Y.P. Soc, 40; Madison
Ave., 12.25; Westm'r, 86 2.5, Band, 465; Hope Chapel, 14, S.
C.E., 5, S.C.E. Jr., 4; Liberty Corners, 3. .50, S.C.E., 5; Me-
tuchen, 34, Gleaners, 7..50, S.C.E., 15; Perth Amboy, 90, S.
C.E., 10, S.C.E. Jr., 2; Plainfield, 1st, 59.81, King's Messen-
gers, 7.35; Crescent Ave., 5.70, Earnest Workers, 30, Sun-
shine Bd., 45, S.C.E., 25; Warren Chapel, 12, S.C.E., 33.48,
S.C.E. Jr., 1; Pluckamin, 54, Crescent Bd., 29.02, S.C.E.,
3.60; Rahway, Ist, 50, Locust Grove, S.C.E., 1; 2d, 48..50,
Harvest Bd., .57..50, S.C.E., 15, S.C.E. Jr., 6.90; Roselle,
49.40, S.C.R , 22, S.C.E. Jr., 6, L.L.B., 9.50; Springfield, 30;
WestfielH, 10, Pearl Seelcers, 1.51; Woodbridge, 62.91,

3,202.00

Enir.- Belle Valley, 8.73; Bradford, S.C.E., 25; Conneaut

1902.]

TREASURERS' REPORTS,

181

Lake, lG.r8; Coolspring, S.C.E., 10; Edinboro, 14.a5; Eric
Central, Y.W.S., 83.27; Park, 113.00, A Lady, 100, H.C.E.,
16.25; Franklin, 303.39, Little Gleaners (Kocky Grove), 10,
Jewvls, Ki.O-i, S.('.E.,20; Meadville, 1st, S.C.E., 2.50; Mer-
cer, Ist, 11.25, V.L. Bd., 5; 2d, 10, Y.P.S., 37, L.L.P., 5.75;
North East, ■;8.48, Y.P.S., 49.09, Do What Yon Cm Bd.,
25. lO, L.L.B., 1, 8.C.E., 25; Oil City, 1st, Y.L.B.. 50; Pleas-
antville, S. C.E.J"., 3; Springfield, S.C.E., 5; Sioneboro, S.C.
E., 1; Titusville, 630.50; Utica, 4.85; Waterford, 8.C.E., 6;
Wattsburg, 4.85, S.C.E., 8; WestmT, S.C.E., 7; Erie Pby.,
2.79 1,717.62

Fairfield.— Bethlehem, 1st, 50 cts.; 2d, 85 cts.; Camden,
2d, 1; Congruity, 50 cts.; Ebenczer, 50 cts.; Good Will, 4,
Y'.P.S., 2; Hermon, 75 cts.; Ladson, 1.25, Mission Bd., 50
cts.; Melina, 1; Sumter, 2d, .50 cts.; Trinity, 1, 14.35

French Broad.— Allanstand, 35.60, Y.i'.S., 2.50, Help-
ing Hand Bd., 1.25. Cheerful Workers, 2.25; Asheville
Fancy Work CI., H. 1. S., 3, ]\Iiss. Soc, Sr., 4.50, Miss. Soc,
Jr., 2.50; Woman's Soc, Farm School, 11.83, S.C.E., 7, S.C.
E. Jr., 5; Big Laurel, 3.30; Brittain's Cove, 3.50, Happy
Hearts, 2, Willing Workers, 3.25; Burnsville, 75 cts.;
Calvary. 2; Hot Springs, 10; Marshall, 11.50, Bd.. 3. Willing
Workers (Walnut Spring), 2; Oakland Heights, 20.02; Y.
W.C.A., 4.25; Paint Kock, Willing Workers, 1; College
Hill, 4, 145.96

Huntingdon.— Alexandria, S.C.E., 5, Y.L. Bd., 1, Y',L.
Bd.Jr., 5; Birmingham, Mt. Sem. Bd., 100; Curwensville,
Y'.W.S., 5; Fruit Hill, 5, S.C.E., 5; Lower Spruce Creek, 5;
Mt. Union, 1.50; Osceola, L.L.B., 1; Pine Grove, Bethel
Aux., 1; Shellsburg, S.C. E. Jr., 1.30; Spring Creek, S.C.E.,
3.47; Tyrone, 2.45, Chapel Volunteers (Boys), 4; Annual
Col. Pres. Meeting, 54.44, 202.16

Huron.— Bloomville, 17.10, S.C.E., 3; Chicago, 6: Clvde,
5.88; Fostoria, 26, S.C.E., 2110, S.C.E.Jr., 5; Fremont,
64.05, S.C.E.. 1. S.C.E.Jr., 7; Huron, 15.56, S.C.E., 4.66, S.
C.E.Jr., 1.50; Melrose, 7.75; Norwalk, a5, S.C.E., 12;
Olena, 14; Republic, 4; Sandusky, 8.64, S.C.E., 3; Tiffin,
13.75, 275.99

Jersey City.— Englewood, 1st, Y'.P.S., 10; Hoboken, S.
C.E., 4.50; Jersey City, Claremont, 2.87, 17.37

Kingston.— Chattanooga, 2d, 1.50, Y.L.S., 3.31; Park PI.,
5.50; Sherman Heishts, 1, 11.31

KiTTANNiNG. -Apollo, 28.74, Faithful Workers. 1.99;
Hopeful Bd., 1.77, Virginia Jack Mem'l, 5; Curries Run. 6.50,
S.C.E., 14.50; Elder's Ridge, S.C.E., 10, Donaldson Bd.,
19.49; Elderton, 15.35; Freeport, S.C.E., 20, Bd., 7.75, L.L.
B., 2.50; Gilgai, 7; Indiana, S.C.E., 23.03, L.L.B., 3.50;
Jacksonville, 23; Marion 6.10 ; Saltsburg, 50; Union, 5;
Washington, 5.05; West Glade Run, 25; West Lebanon,
22.71; Worthington, 68.50, S.C.E.. 1, 373.48

Lackawanna.— Ashley. 40, S.C.E.Jr., 15; Athens, 16.50;
Camptown, S.C.E., 10; Canton, 13; Carbondale, 1st, 143,
Y.L.B., 7.07; Dunmore, 40, S.C.E.. 25; Great Bend, 18.20;
Harmony. 6.25; Hawley, 12, S.C.E., 2.60; Kingston, 50.50,
PaulBd., 6,Torch Bearers 10; Langcliff, 37.50; Little Meadow,
8; Luzerne, .5, S.C.E., 10; Stella, 7; Mehoopany, 5; Meshop-
pen, 10; Moaroeton, 6; Montrose, 114.15, Y'.L.B.. 5; Moosic,
68.50, S.C.E., 10. S.C.E.Jr., 14, Y.L. Cir., 6.50; Greenwood,

I. 33, S.C.E. Jr., 1; Manticoke, 12, Joy to All Bd., 12 ; New
Milford, 5.50; Olyphant, 15, S.C.E.Jr., 7.05; Orwell, 7;
Pittston, 1st, .35.55, S.C.E. , 7; Plymouth, 10.15; Rome, S.C.
E., 5.48; Scranton, 1st, 250; 2d, 275, A Lady, 500; Boys' Bd.,
50; Green Ridge, .50; Providence, 56.08; Washburn St.,
l'J.85, Bertha La Monte Bd., (35, S.C.E., 30, S.C.E. Jr., 1.50;
Shickshinny, 11. Annie Morton Bd., 25, S.C.E., 3; Stevens-
ville, 13, S.C.E., 8; Susquehanna, 25; Towanda. 100, Over-
ton Bd., 35; Troy, 20, Birthday Bd., 6.25; Tunkhannock,
37.40, S.C.E.. 16.81; Ulster, 6.25; West Pittston, 72.80, Y.P.
Bd., 30.50, Willing Workers, 15.ri0, D. Livingstone Bd., 25,
World Wide Bd., 20; Wilkes-B u re. 1st. 107, Y.W. Bd., 120,
S.C.E., ;32. .Mrs. Loop's Bd., 7.66; Mem'l, 60. Whosoever
Will Bd., 39, Mem'l Cir., 14, M. L. and F. Mem'l Bd., 7.75,
S.C.E.Jr., 10; Wyalusing. 1st, 27, Nassau Bd., 26.26; 2d,
25: Wyoming, 11.65; Wysox, 5, 3,098.09

Lehigh.— Allpntown, 25.4.5, Loring Cir., 7.20, Band of
Helpers, 10; Allen Township, 10; Audenreid, 13; Bangor,
12..50; Bethlehem, 10, L.L.B., 6; (.'atasauqua, 1st, .5.3, Y.L.
Cir. and Bu->y Bees, .5, S.C.E., 7.50; Bridge St., Bd., 25;
Del uvare Water Gap, 65 ; Easton, 1st. 60, Y.L.C., 15 ;
Br.iiniTd Union, 174.15, Helen Knox Bd., 50, S.C.E., 10 ;
IsalK;lli Xissau Bi., 65; College Hill. 1.5. Y.L Cir., 10;
Olivet, 10, Mclntire Cir.. 10; E. Stroudsburg. 11.91. S.C.E.
Jr., 2; Fn-eland, S.C.E., 10; Hazleton, 173.27, Wild Daisy
B.i., 9.60, S.C.E., 7, S.C.E. Inter., .5, S.C.E., Jr., 3; Lock
l^idge, 5; Mahonoy Citv. 20, S.C.E., 7: Mauch Chunk,
in. 30, Little Workers for Jesus, 41.97, L.L.B., 5. S.C.E.,
20; Middle Smithfield. 11, S.C.E., 3.58; Port Carbon, 1st,

II. 25; Potusvillc, Isr, 55. S.C.E., 6, S.C.E.Jr., 5; Shawnee,
5.30, Sunrise Bd., 2 65; Slatinsrton, 6; S. Bethlehem, 15. Jr.
Bd., 5; S. Easton. 1G. S.C.E. Jr., 3.11; Stroudsburg, 21.20,
Guild, 25; White Haven, 20, 1.376.63

Lima.— Ada, 21.36; Blanchard, 11; Columbus Grove, 14;
Delphos, 24.62; Enon Vnllov, 8.18; Findhiy. Ist, 89; 2d,
16.50; Leipsic, 3: Lima, Market St., 75.31: McComb. 16.30;
New Stark, 7.90; Ottawa, 15 .50; Rockford, 1. .20; Rockport,
5; St. Mary's, 28.03; Sidney, 8, Y.P.S., 1.55; Van Buren,

1; Van Wert. 43.80; Venedocia, 11.50; Wapakonetft, 12,
(ioiden Link Bd., 50 cts., 431.25
Mahoning.— Alliance, 41, S.C.E,, 16; Canfield, 8; Can-
ton, iHt, 25.30, S.C.E., 18; Calvary, 31.39; Champion, 4, 8.
C.E., 5; Clarkson, 20.25; Coitsville, 6; Columbiana, 3.20,
S.(;.E., 10; E. Palestine, 15, S.C.E., 12, Bd., 12: Ells-
worth, 14, S.C.E., 6; Hubbard, 10 ; Kinsman, 22, Y.L.B.,
20, S.C.E., 4; Letonia, 10, S.C.E., 12; Lisbon, 75; Lowell-
ville, 7, S.C.E., 6; Massillon, 37, King's Daughters, 5, S.C.
E., 5; Middle Sandy, 18; Mineral Ridge, 7.50; Niles, 31, S.
C.E., 5; North Benton, 32; North Jackson, 2.24; Peters-
burg, 14, S.C.E., 5; Poland, 14, Y.L.B., 14, S.C.E., 3; Rog-
crs. 6.60; Salem, 77, S.C.E., 25; Warren, 25, S.C.E., 35,
S.C.E. Inter., 4, S.C.E.Jr., 2.50; Youngstown, 1st, 63.13, Y.
L.B., 44, Mary Edwards Bd., 15, S.C.E., 25; Youngstown,
Westminster, 33.20, S.C.E., 50, S.C.E. Jr., 1.25, Pres. Soc, 22,

1,034.56

Marion.— Ashley, 6; Berlin, 13; Cardington, 6; Chester-
ville, 13, Little Gleaners, 4, Y.L.B., 5, S.C.E., 1; Delaware,
46.55, Y^P. Bd., 50; Delhi, A Lady, 5; Iberia, 13, S.C.E. Jr.,
1; Liberty, 31; Marion, 118, S.C.E., 25, S.C.E.Jr., 15;
Marysville, 63.64, S.C.E., 8; Milford Centre, 14; Mt. Gilead,
24.25, Calvin Club, 11.50, S.C.E., 2; Pisgah (Prospect), 6;
Richwood, 13.77; Trenton, 38.87; West Berlin, 25; York, 5,

564.58

Maumee.— Antwerp, 7.28; Bowling Green, 45.18, S.C.E.,
29.10; Bryan, 25.25, S.C.E., 15.99; Defiance, 27.16; Delta,
5.82; Eagle Creek, 10; Edgerton, 2.44; Grand Rapids, 7.35,
S.C.E., 24.25; Haskins, S.C.E., 1.45; Hicksville, 3.70, S.
C.E., 2.91; Holgate, S.C.E., 9.70; Lost Creek, S.C.E., 6.30;
Maumee, 2; Montpelier, 11, S.C.E., 9.70; Napoleon, 6.30,
S.C.E., 2.43; North Baltimore, 22.30, S.C.E., 10; Paulding,
14.55, S.C.E., 15.52; Pemberville, 3.88, S.C.E., 10; Perrys-
burg, 11.16, S.C.E., 9.70; Pleasant Ridge, 9.40; Rudolph, S.
C.E., 1.45; Toledo, 1st, 21, S.C.E., 48.50 ; 3d, 10, S.C.E.,
9.70; 5th, 21, S.C.E., 24.25; Collingwood Ave., 90.30, Pri-
mary Bd., 50; East Side, S.C.E., 4.85, S.C.E. Jr., 2.91;
Westm'r,' 69.90, S.C.E., 24.25; Totogany, 13.05, S.C.E., 9.70;
West Bethesda, 3.88; Weston, 20, S.C.E., 20; West Unity,
8, S.C.E., 26.19, 840.75

MoNiiouTH.— Allentown, 90, Y'.L.B., 9.26, S.C.E., 7.07,
S.C.E.Jr., 5; Asbury Park, Westm'r, A Lady, 25; Atlantic
Highlands, S.C.E.. 4.82; Bamegat, 22, S.C.E., 3; Belmar,
S.C.E., 20; Beverly, 62, S.C.E., 17.27; Burlington, 111.50;
Columbus, 7.26, S.C.E., 5; Cranbury, 1st, 119, Willing
Workers' Bd., 32; 2d, 98.59, Bright Jewels' Bd., 6.50. Fruit
Gleaners' Bd., 80.10; Cream Ridge, 6; Eatontown, Bd.,
24.59, S.C.E., 20; Englishtown, S.C.E., 19: Forked River,
S.C.E., 1; Post Hancock, S.C.E., 10; Freehold, 127.88, S.
C.E., 25; Hightstown, 30, Amaranth Bd.. 40, Amaranth Jr.
Bd., 3.50, Reapers' Bd., 11; Jamesburg, 32.95, S.C.E., 19.96,
S.C.E. Jr., 5; Lakewood, 8^3.16, S.C.E., 25, S.C.E. Jr.. 7;
Long Branch, 85; Manalapan, 22.14; Manasquan, 22. King's
Daughters, 5.89, S.C.E., 12.50; Matawan, 68.25, Glenwood
Soc, 70, S.C.E., 20; Moorestown, a5; Mt. Holly, 50, S.C.E.,
42; New Egypt, 15; New Gretna, S.C.E., 5; Oceanic, 43;
Point Pleasant, S.C.E., 5, Prayer-meeting, 7.71; Providence,
S.C.E., 5; Red Bank, 32.39, S.C.E., 25; Riverton, Earnest
Workers, 18.50, W. Palmyra, 5; Sayerville, S.C.E., 2;
Shrewsbury, 60; Tennent, 49, Anna Morton Bd., 8, Tennent
Bd.. 2, 1.931.79

Morris and Orange.— Boonton, 54.57, S.C.E., 13, S.C.E.
Jr., 4; Chatham, 78, S.C.E., 2.50, S.C.E. Jr., 6; Dover, 25,
S.C.E., 25; East Orange, 1st, 174.97, Willing Workers' Bd.,
50; Arlington Ave., 35; Bethel, 39.22; Brick, 285.85, Y.P.
Union, S.C.E., 15, Heart and Hand Bd., 20; Elmwood,
Bd., 20, S.C.E., 5: Flanders, 5, Girls' Bd., 3, S.C.E., 2;
German Valley, S.C.E., 4; Hanover, 89.10, Y^L. Soc, 6,
S.C.E., 6.50 ; Afton, S.C.E., 3.50; Madison, 77, Y.L.S.,
75.52, Bd., 20 ; Mine Hill, 5 ; New Providence, 24.40,
Holcomb Bd., 13, S.C.E., 15.73 ; New Vernon, Y'.L.B.,
85; Orange, Ist, 375, S.C.E., 20; Ist German, S.C E., 5;
Central, 354.92, Y'.P. Soc. 225, Woman's Bible CI., 23.50;
Hillside, 159.75, Y''oung Missionaries, 34; Parsippany, 40;
Rockaway, 44.75, S.C.E., 15.67; Schooley's Mt., 21, S.C.E.,
12.75; South Orange, 1st, 50, S.C.E. Jr., 15; Trinity, 50, Bd.,
5; Succasunna, 16; Summit, 78.24, S.C.E., 20; Wyoming,
16, S.C.E., 5; A Friend, 40, 2,914.44

Newark.— Arlington. 1st, 15, S.C.E., 25; Bloomfield, 1st.,
S.C.E., 20; Westm'r, 139.25, Band, 55. Jr. Band, 6.44; Ger-
man Ch., S.C.E., 10; Caldwell, 1st, 63.12; Kearney. Knox,
S.C.E., 80, S.C.E. Jr., 12; Lyons Farms, 1st, 25. S.C.E.. 25;
Montclair. 1st, Y.W. Soc, 4.50; Grace, 22; Trinity, 50, S.
C.E., 30; Newark, 2d. 400, S.C.E., 25; 3d, 250; 6th. 6, S.C.
E., 5; Bethany, S.C.E., 9.07; Central, 7, S.C.E., 10. S.C.E.
Jr., 25; Fewsmith Mem'l, 10. S.C.E. Jr., 36: 5th Ave.. .^.0,
Starlight Bd., 8.17; Forest Hill, S.C.E., 2; High St.. 123.91,
Fannie Meeker Bd., 15; Mem'l, S.C.E. Jr., 39.59; Park 150,
S.C.E.. 15: Roseville Ave., 115, S.C.E., 25; Wickliffe. 36;
Roseland, Ist, Two Ladies, 30, 1,975 05

New Brunswick.— Alexandria. 1st, Little York Aux.. 8;
Mt. Pleasant, S.C.E., 5; Little Y'ork, S.C.E., 6; Amwell, 1st,
35, S.C.E., 10; United, 1st, 19; 2d, 12, S.C.E., 5; Bound
Brook. 11, S.C.E., 10, S.C.E. Jr., 4.91; Copper Hill, S.C.E.,
1; Dayton, 18.33, Y'.P., 22; Dutch Neck, S.C.E., 5; Ewing,
82, Band, 30, S.C.E., 5; Flemington, 53.09, Gleaners 60, Hill

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TREASURERS' REPORTS.

[June,

Bd., 30, S.C.E., 30; Frenchtown, 52, S.C.E., 5; Hamilton
Square, 8.15, Youue; Girls' Bd., 2.50, S.C.E., 23; Holland,
12.30, S.C.E., 5; Uopewoll. 10, S.C.E., 8; Kingston, 14, 8.C.
E., 5; Kingwood. 2; Kirkpatrick Mem'l, S.C.E., 6; Lam-
bertville, 150, Oirilvie Bd., 40; Lawrenceville. 120, Gosman
Bd., 20, S.C.E., 5; Milford. 30, S.C.E., 15; New Brunswick,
l8t, 25, S.C.E., 2o, S.C.E. Jr., 7; 2d, S.C.E., 15; Pennington,
28.35, Anna Foster Bd., 20. S.C.E., 10, S.C.E,, Jr., 10;
Princeton, 1st, 17(5.69, Y.W. Soc, 22.76, S.C.E., 15; 2d, 22,
S.C.E., 35; Stockton, 13.37, S.C.E., 4; Stony Brook, S.C.E.,
'lO; Titusville, 13, S.C.E., 5; Trenton, 1st, 125, Golden Hour
Circle, a5, S.C.E., 25; 2d, 18.25, S.C.E., 30: 3d, 175, Mission
Bd., 40, S.C.E., 37.50 ; 4th, 130, Young Ladies, 15, Emily
Bd., 10. S.C.E., 25; 5th, 20, S.C.E., 15; Bethany, 28, S.C.E.,
10; Prospect, 148.40, S.C.E., 15; East, 20.25, S.C.E., 25, S.
C.E., Jr., 5; Walnut Ave., 6.25, S.C.E. Jr., 5; Special Con-
tribution, 13, 2,419.10

New Castle.— Berlin, 5.82; Bridgeville, S.C.E , 2.50;
(^lesapcake City, 20, Boys' Ever-Ready Bd., 4, Girls' What-
We-Can Bd.. lO", S.C.E., 12; Dover, 11.84, S.C.E., 5; Elkton,
101, Band, 10; Farmington, S.C.E., 2; Harrington, S.C.E.,
2; Glassrow (Pencoder Ch.X 5, S.C.E., 8.65; Green Hill,
Earnest Workers, 3.75, Busy Bees', 5.25; Head of Chris-
tiana, 11.50; Lewes, 53, S.C.E., 20; Lower Brandywine
3.85, Y.L.B., 10; Manokin, 14, S.C.E., 2.13; Middletown,
(Forest), 9, S.C.E., 24, S.C.E. Jr., 1.50; Miltord, 9; Newark,
10, S.C.E., 4.50; Perryville, 5; Pitts Creek, 5: Pocomoke
City, 27.25; Port Deposit, 14; Port Penn. 3, Willing Work-
ers, 2. .50, S.C.E., 2; Rehobeth, Md., 5.30; Rehobeth, Del.,
9.20; Rock, 4.50; St. George's, 8, S.C.E., 1, Children's Bd.,
2.50; Smyrna, 18; West Nottingham. 11.75, S.C.E., 15, Snow-
Drop Bd., 3.75; White Clay Creek, 7.50, S.C.E., 12.50;
Wicomico, 6, S.C.E., 5; Wilmington, 1st, 22, Y.P. Bd.,
10, Willing Workers, 1, S.C.E., 10; Central, 45, S.C,E.,
21; East Lake, 5.30; Hanover, 83, S.C.E., 15; Olivet, 5, Mil-
ligan Bd., 1.25. S.C.E., 1; Rodney St., 8.08, A Lady, 25, C.
Wales Bd., 10, Nixon Bd., 30, S.C.E., 5; West, 14.71, Happy
Workers, 88.72, S.C.E., 16.75, S.C.E. Jr., 10.50; Zion, 7.29,
Baby Ethel Bd., 2, S.C.E., 5, 980.16

New Jersey S"rNOD, 50.00

Newton.— Andover, 3.80; Asbury, 3.34; Beattytown, S.
C.E., 2.86; Belvidere, 1st, 40.25, A Lady, 20, Willing
Workers, 33.53, Gleaners, 8, McAlister Bd., 11, A Lady, 100,
A Lady in Mem. S. T. P., 10; 2d, 45, Paul Bd., 8.80;
Blairstown, 119.50, Kuhl, Bd., 25, Boys' Brigade, 20,
S.C.E., 5; Bloomsburg, 20; Branchville, S.C.E., 12.50; Dan-
ville. 9.05; Deckertown, 20.35, S.C.E., 10; Greenwich, 40;
Hackettstown, 38.75; Harmony, 20.50; Knowlton, 6.50;
Marksboro, 18; Newton, 111, S.C.E., 26.37; Oxford, 2d,
5.40; Phillipsburg, 60; Westm'r, 19.25, S.C.E., 5..50; Sparta,
4.02. S.C.E., 6.65: Stanhope, 31..50; Stewartsville, 12.88;
Stillwater, 6.15; Washington, 30, S.C.E., 10, 909.78

Parkersburg.— Buckhannon, 24.62, S.C.E., 19; Charles-

ton, Kanawha, 25, S.C.E., 2.63; Clarksburg, Katherine
Doan Club, 10; Fairmont, 21, McFarlane Ciiv. 5.50, S.C.E.,
8, S.C.E. Jr., 50cts.; Grafton, 12, Primary CI., 10; Hughes
River, 10, S.C.E., 75 cts.; Mannington, 5; Morgantown,
3.50, Anna Hunter Bd., 3.28, Louise Lowrie Soc, 27.65, S.C.
E., 19; Parkersburg, 16, Buds of Promise, 23, S.C.E., 5;
Ravenswood, 4; Spencer, 2.50, Juveniles, 1.50; Sistersville,
6.80, Miss'y Club., 12.50, S.C.E. Inter., 4.75; Sugar Grove, 5,

288.48

Philadelphia.— Philadelphia, 1st, 54.25, Albert Barnes
Bd., 100, Baker Bd., 44, New Century Bd., 25 ; 2d,
160.82, Star of the East, 50, Early Blossoms, 15; 3d, May
Blossoms and Buds of Promise, 5; 4th, 62.50, S.C.E.,
15; 10th, S.C.E. Jr., 15; Arch St., 300, Cariier Doves, 10,
Daughters of the King, 15, Y.P.A., 94.80, S.C.E., 30.71,
S.C.E. Jr., 3; Arch St. Chapel, Joy Bells Bd., 27, S.C.E.,
23; Atonement Myrtle Bd., 17.2.5, S.C.E., 16.25, S.C.E. Jr.,
13; Beacon, 18.15, Livingstone Bd., 13, S.C.E. Jr., 3; Be-
rean, M. L. Hogg Soc, 1; Bethanv, 5.50; Bethany Chapel,
5; Bethel, S.C.E. Jr., 3.02; Bethesda, A. M. Eva Bd., 55, S.
C.E., 2; Bethlehem, 190.29, Spring Violets, 15, Y.P. A.,
46.3.5. S.C.E. Jr., 23.58; Calvary, 2; Cbambers Wylie Mem'l,
.55; Cohocksiuk, 18.11, S.C.E., 20; Emmanuel Blossom Bd.,
2,5, S.C.E. Jr., 25; Evangel, 6, S.C.E., 30, S.C.E. Jr., 5: Gas-
ton, S.C.E., 19.50; Greenway, S.C.E., 10, S.C.E. Jr., 3;
Harper Mem'l, 50, Y.L.B., 33. Girls' Bd., 6, S.C.E., 8; Heb-
ron, 10; Hollond Mem'l, 7.5, Y.L.B., 20, S.C.E., 30; Kensing-
ton, Ist, 55, S.C.E., 65; McDowell Mem'l, 61.76; Mizpah,
S.C.E., 4, L.A.S., 4; Mutchmore Mem'l, 70, S. A. Mutch-
more Bd., 35. Y.L. Cir., 13. J5; N. Broad St., 3; Northmin-
ster, S.C.E.-, 200, S.C.E. Inter., 50; Oxford, 20, Guthrie Bd.,
.50, S.C.E., 415, F. L. Robbins Bd., 60; Princeton. Fullerton
Bd., 30, Mary Henrv Bd., 50, S.C.E., 2.50, S.C.E. Jr., 5;
Scots, S.C.E., 5; South, Y.P.8., 26.90; St. Paul, 25; Taber-
nacle, 65.69, Y.L.B., 50; Tabor, 134, L.L.B., 1.50, Little
Helpers. 25; Tioga, 50, Little Givers. 15, Workers for Jesus,
7; Trinity, 68, McCuicheon Bd., 25; Union, 18, Early
Gleaners, 6; Walnut St., 446. Whatsoever Bd., 15, Y.L.S., 6,
S C.E., 90: West Green St., 162, S.C.E., 25; West Hope,
71.50. Band of Witnesses, 30, Berean Bd., 4.83, Little Stars,
1. S.C.E., 5; Westm'r, S.C.E., 11, S.C.E. Jr., 5; West Park,
7.15: Woodland, 160.63, A Lady, 50, Fullerton Bd., 67.73,
Dickson Bd., 19..50, Nelson Bd., 15, Young Men's Bd.,
22.25, Woodland Bd., 18.82, S.C.E., 15; Interest on Deposits,
13, 4,904.99
[The remainder of April receipts will be published in
July Woman's Work.]

Total for April, 1902, $72,627.71
Total since May 1, 1901, 187,816.06
Julia M. Fishburn, Treas.,

501 Witherepoon Building.

May 1, 1902.

Receipts of the Woman's Presbyterian Board of

* Indicates gifts for objects
Aberdeen.— Aberdeen, 50, Baby Bd., 2.75, C.E., 8, Jr. C.
E., 10; Andover, 1; Britton, 36.28, C.E., 10, Jr. C.E., 5.18;
Castlewood, 5; Groton, 10; Langford, 3, C.E., 2; Pierpont,
3.50, C.E., 3, S149.71
Alton.— Alton, 37.53, C.E., 20; Belleville, Y.L.S., 4;
Brighton, 4; Carlinville, 19.95, C.E., 2.50; Carrollton, 36.65,
C.E., 10; E. St. Louis, 26; Ebenezer Ch., 5; Greenfield, 5;
Greenville, 28.55, C.E., 12; Hardin, 4; Hillsboro, 20; Jersey-
ville, 32.13; Litchfield, 8.37: Reno, Bethel Ch., 6.40; Rock-
bridge, Walnut Grove Ch.. 15: Sparta, 33.24; Trenton, 5,
C.E., 10; Yirden, 8.60, C.E., 20; White Hall, 8.75, C.E.,
3.25. 385.92
Bismarck.— Edgelev, Dorcas Aid Soc, 7.50
Bloomington.— Bement, 86.36, C.E., 80, Jr. C.E., 2.50;
Bloomington, 1st, 91.20, C.E.. 10; 2d, 224..30, Y.P. Union,
30: Champaign, 15.79, Avery Bd.. 23.80, C.E., 37.50, Jr. C.E.,
5; Chenoa, 19.42, C.E., 8.20; Clarence, 7; Clinton, 179.36,
C.E., 225; Colfax, 13.:38; Cooksville, 18; Danville, 1st, 61.86,
C.E., 15, Jr. C.E., 3; El Paso, 12.40; Fairbury, 38.23; Gib-
son, 62.69; Gilman, C.E., 15: Heyworth, 17; Homer, 5;
Hoopeston, 19.50; Lexington, 37, C.E., 6.75, Jr. C.E., 5,
Baby Bd., 1.25; Mansfield, 30: Minonk, 47.27, C.E., 35;
Monticello, 19.78, C.E., 4.13; Normal, 20, C.E., 10: Onarga,
90, C.E., 21. .50; Paxton, 16..58; Piper City. 158.56. Neely Bd.,
67.50, Jr. C.E., 10.40; Philo, 9.75, Jr. C.E., 1; Pontiac, 30,
C.E., 60; Rankin, 9.02, C.E., 2, Jr. C.E., 1; Rossville, 5;
Savoy, Prairie View Ch., 6.75; Tolono, 13.31, C.H, 2..50;
Towanda, 21; Urbana, 4..55, C.E., 10; Watseka, 6.80, C.E.,
10; Waynesville, 5; Wellington, 2.50; Wenona, 13.40,

2,120.79

Black Hills.— Hot Springs, 2.50; Rapid City, 5, C.E.,
5..50, 13.00

Boise.— Boise, 1st, 16, C.E., 9; Caldwell, 3.10; New Plym-
outh, 50 cts.; Nampa, 2, 30.60

Boulder.— Berthoud, 30, C.E., 5; Boulder, 52.60, C.E.,
20, Jr. C.E., 10; Brush. 1.75, C.E., 5; Cheyenne, 44.15;
Evans, Greeley Ch., 20, C.E., 10; Ft. Collins, 10, C.E.. 24;
Ft. Morgan, 24.98, C.E., 9, Jr. C.E., 4; Fossil Creek, 6, C.E.,
2.50; Laramie, 6.40; La Salle, 7; Longmont, 25, C.E., 10.80;

Missions of the Northwest to April 20, 1902.

outside of appropriations.

Timnath, 3.75. C.E., 5; Valmont, 3.84, ,340.77

Box Butte.— Adelia, Union Star Ch., 2; Alliance, 1.60,
Diligence Bd., 1.20, Little Givers, 30 cts.; Bridgeport, 1.16;
Gordon, 1.84, C.E., 1.92; Bodarc, 3.80; Willow Creek, 1;
Marsland, King's Daughters, 5.50; Rushville, 2.40; Unity,
60 cts.; Minatare, 2.60; Indiv. Givers, 2.76; Valentine, C.E.,
2..50, 31.18

Butte.— Anaconda, 10.50; Butte, 12, C.E., 10; Deer
Lodge, 1.80; Missoula, 9, C.E., 5; Phillipsburg, 4, 52.30

Cairo.— Anna, 20, C.E., 20, Jr. C.E., 10: Cairo, 18.08, C.
E., 20, Jr. C.E., 5; Carbondale, 31.35, C.E., 5; Carmi, 36.62;
Centralia, 17.50, Y.L.S., 8.71; Cobden, 3.83; Du Quoin, Jr.
C.E., 15; Fairfield, 10.66, C.E., 1.85: Flora, 10; Harrisburg,
8.03, C.E., 2; Linn, Wabash Ch., 8.03; Metropolis, 4.08, C.
E., 5, Jr. C.E., 1.14; Mt. Carmel, 10; Mt. Vernon, 3.19, C.
E., 2; Murphysboro, 15.45; Odin, 13.57, C.E., 1; Pinckney-
ville, C.E., 2; Olney, 8; Shawneetown, 11.75; Sumner, 2.85,
Y.P.S., 5; Tamaroa, 15, 352.69

Cedar Rapids.— Anamosa, 4.50, *1; Atkins, 10; Belle-
vue, C.E., 8, Girls"s Bd., 5; Blairstown, 16, *1.45; Castle
Grove, 10..50; Cedar Rapids, 1st, 182, *.5, C.E., 25; 2d, 15, *1,
King's Daughters, 7.75; 3d, 5, *1, C.E., 2.25, Jr. C.E., 3.74;
Central Pk. Ch., 29.66, *1, C.E., 2.75; Center Junction, 4.75,
*1; Clarence, 30, *1, C.E., 5; Clinton, 127.80, *1, C.E., 13.90,
Jr. C.E., 1.10; Garrison, *1.80; Lyons, 3, *1; Marion, 64.30,
*1, C.E., 5.75; Mechanicsville, 3.50, *1: Monticello, 37.20,
*1; Mt. Vernon, 50, *1.25; Onslow, C.E., 2.50; Paralta, 2.50;
Scotch Grove, 10, *1, Sunbeam Bd.. 8; Shellsbnrg, C.E., 3;
Springville, 10, *1.50, C.E., 2, Jr. C.E., 1; Vinton, 90.89, *2,
C.E., 5; Wyoming, 10.30, 843.64

Central Dakota.— Artesian, 3; Brookings, 2.35, Bd., 5;
Flandreau, 15; Hitchcock, 7.50; Huron, 58.14; Rose Hill
Ch., 4.13; Madison. 31.87, C.E., 4, Baby Bd., 73 cts.; Miller,
3.50; White, 3; Wolsey, 11; Volga, 3.88, 153.10

Chippewa.— Ashland, 14.26, C.E., 10; Baldwin, 5; Bay-
field, 50 cts.; Chippewa Falls, 5; Eau Claire, 7.86; Hudson,
37.80; Hurley, C.E., 1.45; Ironwood, 2.25; Phillips. 5.58:
Rice Lake, 5.30; Superior, 10, C.E., 1; W. Superior, 14.75,
C.E., 5.75; Stanley, 3.75, 130.25

1902.]

"^TREASURERS' REPORTS:

183

Chic ago.— Arlington Heights, C.E., 35; Avondalc, Annio
Montgomery Sec, 2.23; Berwyn, C.K., G; (Joal City, l.HO;
Cliicago, Belden Ave. Ch., 6.46, C.E., ir).22; Galilee Mission,
4.25; Ch. of the Covenant, 51; Bethlehem Chapel, Jr. C.E.,
2.50; Campbell Pk. Ch., 15; Fullerton Ave. Ch., 57.50, C.E.,
1.65; let, 25.25; 2d, C.E., 12.50; 4th, 140.10, Pr. Oflf., 225.54,
C.E., 25, Mothers' Mite Soc, 5.50; E. S., for Deficit, .50;
Christ Ch., Sewing School, 29.26, C.E., 17; bth, 101.34, C.E.,
72; 4l8t St. Ch., 12.50; 52d Ave. Ch., 20, C.E., 5; Italian
Mission, C.E., 2; Emerald Ave. Ch., 25; Englewood, 1st,
25; Hyde Pk., 182.05, Pr. Off., 51.82, Busy Bees, 31.25, Y.P.
S., 65.85; Jefferson Pk. Ch., 55, C.E., 20; Lake View Ch.,
80, Jr. C.E., 3.75; Millard Ave. Ch., 1.50; Kidgeway Ave.
Ch., Jr. C.E., 75 cts.; South Pk. Ch., Jr. C.E., 2; Scotch
Westm'r Ch., C.E., 5; Evanston, 1st, 182, Willing Workers,
30, Noyes Cir., 31.25, C.E., 31.25; Harvey, 6.95; Highland
Pk., 71.35, C.E. ,7.71; Joliet, Central Ch., 08; Kankakee,
22.45, C.E., 78; Lake Forest, 100.50, Ferry Hall Soc, 35.15,
Y.P.S., 136.12; Maywood, 8.50; Morgan Pk., 3.35; River
Forest, 10, Pr. Off., 5.80; Riverside, 27.30; Homewood Ch.,
4; Wankegan, C.E., 10; Anon., 11; Income from Real Es-
tate, 160.66, 2,695.56

Corning.— Afton, 12, *1.50; Bedford, 33.60: Clarinda,
88 50; Corning, 12, *5, C.E., 2.75, Jr. C.E.,7.50, *3; Creston,
23, *2; Diagonal, 5; Emerson, 27.60; Essex, 10.37, C.E., 2,
Jr. C.E. , 3; Lenox, 7.75, *1; Malvern, 5.50, *2.25, C.E., 10;
Mt. Ayr, 3; Red Oak, 50, C.E., *5; Shenandoah, ;30.75; Sid-
ney, 19.06; Villisca, 10, C.E., 25; Yorktown, 5, Pbyl. Off.,
10, 423.13

Council Bluffs.— Atlantic, 10.00

Craavpordsville.— Attica, 27.05, C.E., 6; Beulah, 18.90;
Clinton, 10; Crawfordsville, 1st, 52, C.E., 15, Y.L.S., 7;
Center Ch., 83, Y.L.S., 17; Lexington, North, 5, C.E., 9.80;
Dana, 10, Sunshine Bd., 2.40; Darlington, 2.75: Dayton, 25,
Mrs. Peters, 20, Mrs. Crouse, 20; Delphi, 52.50, C.E., 6.82;
Frankfort, 50.25, C.E., 2.81: Judson, 4.50; Ladoga, 2.40, C.
E., 2; Lafayette, Ist, 27, C.E., 15; 2d, 30.49, C.E., a5: Leb-
anon, 10, C.E. ,5; Union Ch., Dice Family, 5; Montezuma,
4.60; Newtown, 10, Buds of Promise, 10, C.E., 2.50; Rock-
field, 6; Rockville, 40.45, C.E., 5; Romney, 15.50; Rossville,
4.75; Shannondale, Bethel Ch., 6, C.E., 2; S. Lexington,
3.50; Sugar Creek, 8.25; Thorntown, 10.02; Waveland, 9.50,
C.E., 6, Mrs. Milligan, 10; Spring Grove Ch„ 8.20; Wil-
liamsport, 25.75, 767.69

Denver.— Brighton, 6.25; Denver, Central Ch., 2, C.E.,
10, Jr. C.E. , 15, Judson Soc, 23.15; 2d, C.E., 50; Golden
Ave. Mission, C.E., 15; Ist Ave. Ch., 67.85, Mrs. Robt. Col-
lier, 25; Highland Pk. Ch., 11.71, C.E., 7.50; Hyde Pk. Ch.,
14.15, C.E., 5; North Ch., 10.35; S. Broadway Ch., 23: 23d
Ave. Ch., 65, C.E., .5, Jr. C.E., 15; Westm'r Ch., 7.50, C.E.,
3; York St. Ch., 6.50, C.E. , 2.50; Ft. Logan, Littleton Ch.,
4; Golden, 3.63; Idaho Springs, 17, C.E., 5; Otis, 6.25;
Wray, 5; , 224, 655.34

Des Moines.— Adel, 13; Albia, 10, C.E., 2.50; Allerton,
3.88; Centerville, 7.06; Chariton, 12.50; Dallas Center, 15.15,
C.E., 4.85, Jr. C.E. , 3; Derby, 2.25; Des Moines, Central
Ch., 97, C.E., Section A, 31, Section B, 6; Kast Ch., 12.50,
C.E., 5; 6th, 13, C.E., 15: Westm'r Ch., 13.96, C.E., 12.26;
Highland Park Ch., 6; Dexter, 11.25; Garden Grove, 2.41,
C.E., 1.15; Indianola, 17.25, C.E., 5, Jr. C.E. , 2.50; Jay, 10;
Knoxville, 13.62, C.E., 2.09, Jr.C.E., 10; Plymouth, 6;
Leon, 5.77; Milo, 10; Newton, 5.82; New Sharon, 2.50; Os-
ceola, 4.85; Oskaloosa, 21.05; Panora, 17; Perry, 12.65;
Russell, 13, C.E., 8.50, Jr. C.E., 2; Winterset, 18.13; Silver
Off., 25.15, *28; Mem'l, 5; Pbyl. Off., 10, 556.60

Detroit.— Ann Arbor, 141.23, C.E., 14.55, Jr. C.E., 4.85;
Detroit, Forest Ave. Ch., 72.02, Westm'r League, 32.26; 1st,
219.73, C.E., 25.77, Richardson Soc, 187; Central Ch., 20;
Ch. of the Covenant, 15, C.E., 12; Fort St. Ch., 56.25, Rhea
Bd., 30, C.E., 29.10; Detroit, Immanuel Ch., 30.13, C.E., 10,
Galley Brown Bd., 13.40, Sunshine Bd., 6.50; Jefferson Ave.
Ch., 200, C.E.. 21; Mem'l Ch., 29.12, Y.L.S., 9.10, C.E., 15-
Scovel Mem'l Ch., 16, C.E., 15.80, Jr.C.E., 3; St. Andrew's
Ch., 22.32, Trumbull Ave. Ch., 23; Westm'r Ch., 210 09, C.
E., 25; Holly, 11.77; Howell, 36; Milford, 91.11, C.E., 45,
Jr. C.E., 10; Pontiac, 14, S.D. Circle, 14.30, Y.W.S., 55.43,
C.E., 6.21: Saline, C.E., 2; Sand Hill, 3.53; White Lake,
10, C.E., 4.85, Jr. C.E., 1; Ypsilanti, 80, Y.P.U., 100, Miss
C. S. W., Mem'l, 5, 1,999.42

Dubuque.— Coggon, 5, C.E., 6.31; Dubuque, Ist, 2.51;
2d, 40.25, C.E., 8.01; Mt. Hope Ch., 2..50; Hazleton, 3.03, C.
E., 1.94; Hopkinton, 39.43; Independence, 35, C.E., 26.17;
German Ch., 4.85; Jesup, 2.43; Lansing, 9.70; Manchester,
2.09, C.E., 2.76; Oelwein, 2.91, C.E., 4.85; Sumner, Wilson's
Grove Ch., 2.60; Pine Creek Ch., 4.41, C.E., 5.82 (less 44
cts. Contingent Fund returned), 212 13

DULUTH.— Duluth, 1st, 66; 2d, C.E., 10; Glen Avon, 82.:31;
Lakeview, 6.96, C.E., 1.95; Sandstone, 5; Two Harbors,
3.69, 175.91

Fargo.— Chaffee, 3.65; Casselton, 3.40; Fargo, 32.80, C.
E., 16.50, Jr. C.E., 4.30; Hillsboro, 7; Harlem, C.E., 75 cts.;
La Moure, 5.50; Galesburg, C.E., 1.50, 75.40

Flint.— Argentine Bd., 5.82; Akron, 2.50, C.E., 6.12, jr.
C.E., 2.50; Badaxe, 9; Caro, 40, C.E., 44.55, Baby Bd., 8;
Cass City, 15; Penton, 9, C.E., 1.25; Flint, 51.13, C.E., 4.50;
Flushing, 3.71, C.E., 1.35; Harbor Beach, 1.94, C.E., 4.37;

Lapeer, 50.26, C.E.,3; Marlettc, 5, C.E., 3; 2d, 9.15; Mor-
rice, 5; Port Huron, 5; Vassar, 8.63, 21)8.78

FoRT DouGK.— Aigona, *5; Armstrong, 4; Boone, 38.12,
C.E., 10.60; Carroll, .5, *5; Churdan, 2.13; Estherville, 8, *1,
C.E., 7; Fonda, 5; Fort Dodge, 145.50, *8.40, C.E., 24.75;
(;ermania, 5; Glidden, 5, *1.50, (.'.E., 5; Jefferson, 29, *2, C.
E., .5, Jr. C.E., 3; Lake City, 9, *1, C.E., 3..50; Livermore,5;
Lohrvillc 5; Park, C.E., 4; Pomeroy, 3, *1; Rolfe, .5, C.E.,
12.50; Rockwell City, 5.50, *3, 382.50

Fort Wayne. -Albion, 3.50; Bluffton, 39, C.E., 1.30,
Whatsoever Bd., 2..50; Columbia City, 6.50; Decatur. 13.25;
Elhanan, 14.05; Elkhart, 25.9.5, C.E., 5; Fort Wayne Itt,
179.51, C.E., 25; Westm'r Ch., 23.0.5, C.E., 5.25, (iirls' Bd.,
5; 3d, 9, C.E., 10.64; Bethany Ch., 12.25, Girls' Bd., 3.50;
Goshen, 42.08, Y.L.C., 100, C.E., 7; Huntington, 26.50; Ken-
dallville, 3.35, C.E., 8; La Grange, 39.64; Ligonier, 4.25;
Lima, 3.2.5, C.E., 10; Ossian, 11.55; Pierceton, 7, C.E., 2,
Jr. C.E., 50 cts.; Warsaw, 9.55; Waterloo, 4, 662.92

Freeport.— Belvidere, 4.25; Dakota, Rock Run Ch., 4;
Elizabeth, 5: Freeport, 1st, Pr. Off., 102; 2d, 16.86; Galena,
1st, C.E., 19..50; South Ch., Y.L.S., 12; Hanover, 32, C.E.,
10, Jr.C.E., 2; Linn and Hebron, C.E. ,8.50; Marengo, 32.96,
C.E., 100; Oregon, 3.50, C.E., 5.50; Polo, 8.60: Rockford,
1st, C.E., 15.50: Westm'r Ch., 47.30'. Winnebago, C.E., 9.92,

439.39

Grand Rapids.— Big Rapids, 6.25, C.E., 3.25; Evart, 2.2.5,
C.E., 10; Grand Haven, 30, C.E., 2: Grand Rapids, Itt,
54.25, L.K., 15, C.E., 5; Immanuel Ch., 1.75, Jr.C.E., 1.50;
3d, 77 cts.; Westm'r Ch., 44.01, C.E., 10.19; Hesperia, 3.45;
Ionia, 16.34, C.E., 4.50, Jr.C.E., 2; Ludington, 6.69, C.E., 5,
Michigan Endeavorer, 10; Montague, 2.84, C.E., 1.05; Spring
Lake, 2.50, 240.59

Great Falls.— Great Falls, 13.92, C.E., 11.72; Havre, C.
E., 3; Kalispell, 12.30, 40.94

Gunnison.— Gunnison, 5; Grand Junction, 3.50; Lead-
ville, 8.75, C.E., 4.10, Jr. C.E., 1.50; Ouray, 7.50; Salida, 2,

32.35

Hastings.— Aurora, 3; Edgar, 2.95; Kenesaw, 5, 10.95

Helena.— Bozeman, 28, C.E., 7.40, Jr.C.E., 6; Helena,
15.25; Miles City, 10, 66.65

Indianapolis.— Bloomington, 8.73; Brazil, 16, C.E., 5;
Columbus, 16.47, C.E., 8.25; Franklin, C.E., 20, Jr. C.E., 10;
Greenwood, 15.30; Greenfield, 11, C.E., 5; Hopewell Ch.,
25.15, C.E.. 10, Jr. C.E., 6.60; Greencastle, 7: Indianapolis,
1st, 18:3.47, C.E., 49.98; 2d, 125, Y.W.S., 30, King's Daugh-
ters, 28.05; 4th, 36.98; 6th, 33.50; 7th, 41, C.E., 83, Annabette
Wishard Soc, 11; E. Washington St. Ch., 9.52, C.E., 7; W.
Washington St. Ch., C.E., 5; Tabernacle Ch., 202.32. Mary
Fulton Soc, 10; Mem'l Ch., 24.57, C.E., 16.23: Olive St. Ch.,
5.25; N. Indianapolis, Home Ch., 5, C.E., 2.50; Spencer, 6,
C.E., 2.50: Southport, 17.50; Whitehead 6; (less Cont. Fund
returned, 4..50), l,f 99.37

Iowa.— Birmingham, 10.70; Bloomfield, 14.13: Burling-
ton, 1st, 74.52, cr.E., 10, King's Children, 13.2^; Fairfield,
131.05, *3, C.E., 30, Gleaners, 3; Ft. Madison, 68; Keokuk,
Westm'r Ch., 84, C.E., 10; 2d, 7.50, *1: Price's Creek, C.E.,
8()Cts. ; Kossuth, 15; Lebanon, 4, *1; Libertyville, 15; Mar-
tiusburg, 3; ISlediapolis, 5, *1.50; Middleton. 3; Morning
Sun, 10, C.E., 6; Mt. Pleasant, 22.55, C.E., 5; New London,
3: Ottumwa, 5.;50; Troy, 1.40; Wapello, 15; Winfield, 7, C.
E., 11; Pbyl. Off., 10, 604.73

Iowa City.— Ataiissa, C.E., 3; Brooklyn, 4; Columbus
Junction, 16; Crawfordsville, 2.50, C.E., 2; Davenport, 1st,
21, C.E., 3, Y.P.S., 10, Jr. C. E., 1.50; 2d, Y.L.S., 10; Deep
River, 3, C.E., 1: Iowa City, 31.75, C.E., 10; Scott Ch., 3.50;
Keota, 4, C.E., 6; Malcom, 7.50, C.E., 2; Marengo, 11.50, C.
E., 2.50; Montezuma, 16..50, *15; Muscatine, 70, *2.50, C.E.,
5; Princeton, C.E., 3; Summit, C.E., 10; Tipton, Ist, 6.50,
C.E. ,10; Red Oak Grove, 2.50; Washington, 48, *5, C.E.,
10, Jr. C.E., 5; W. Branch, 13.25, C.E., 5; W. Liberty, 3.97,
*3.97, C.E., 10; What Cheer, 3.50, C.E., 1; Williamsburg,
7.75, C.E., 10, Jr. C.E., 2.50; Wiiton, 12, C.E., 5, 442.69

Kalamazoo.— Benton Harbor, 5.25; Buchanan, 1.25; De-
catur, 2, C.E., 1.75; Edwardsburg, 3.98, C.E., 1.50; Kala-
mazoo, 1st, 48.05, C.E., 70 cts.; North Ch., 4; Martin, 1.75;
Niles, 34.2:3, C.E., 10; Paw Paw, 5, C.E., 2.19, Jr. C.E., 14
cts.; Plainwell, C.E., 5; Richland, 12.22, C.E., 62 cts.;
Schoolcraft, 7, C.E., 2; Sturgis, 1.17, C.E., 1.82; Three
Rivers, 19.56, 171.18

Kearnet.— Central City, 7, C.E., 6.25, Jr. C.E., 10.50;
Fullerton, C.E., 5; Grand Island, C.E., 3.50; Kearney, 1.25,
C.E., 3; Lexington, C.E., 2.50; Ord, 4, C.E., 2; St. Paul, C.
E., 2; Shelton, C.E., 10, 57.00

Kendall.— Montpelier, 8.00

La Crosse.— Galesville, 7.85, C.E., 5.85; La Crosse, 11.70,
C.E., 7.21; New Amsterdam, 2; W. Salem, 16.67. 51.28

Lake Superior.— Iron Mountain, 18: Ishpeming, 5.40;
Manistique, C.E., 17: Marquette, 1, Jr. C.E., 3, 44.40

Lansing.— Albion, .3y.:34, C.E., 20; Battle Creek, :i7.50;
Brooklyn, 18; Concord, 25, C.E., 2: Hastings, 7.50: Homer,
22.67; Jackson, 1:3, C.E., 10.70; Lansing, Ist, 23: Franklin
St. Ch.. 10, C.E.. 11, Bd., 6.04; Marshall, :33.66, Mrs. Has-
kell's CI., 23; Mason, 33, C.E., 5; Oneida, 2.50; Parma, 4;
Tekonsha, 2, 348.91

LoGANSPORT.— Bethlehem Ch., 2.50; Bourbon, 2.50;
Brookston, 75 cts.; Buffalo, 2.30; Concord, 2.20 Crown;

184

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[June,

Point, 31.15; Goodland, 3.34; Hebron, 3.50; Hammond, 5;
Kentland, C.E., 3; La Porte, 13.30; Lowell, Lake Prairie
Ch., 7.20, C.E., 6; Logansport, let. 45.50, C.E., 4.60, Y.L.C.,
10.35; Broadway Cb., 20.11), Mrs. Isaac N. Crawford, 8.75,
C.E., 7.84; Lake Cicott, Pisgah Ch., 7.63; Mishawaka, 14;
Monon, 2.25: Monticello. (5; Odessa, Meadow Lake Ch.,
2.50; Plymouth, 5.13, C.E.. 66 cts.: Rensselaer, 7.50, C.E., 1;
Remington, 4. S3, C.E., 6.25: Rochester, 3, C.E., 2; South
Bend, 20, C.E., (W, Jr. C.E., 8, Westm'r Bd., 1; Union Mills,
Bethel Ch., 33.6it: Valparaiso, 7.40, C.E., 3, 375.81

Mauison.— Baraboo, 10; Beloit, 20.37; Cambria, C.E., 4;
Jauesville, 39, C.E.,S: Kilbourn, 3.25, C.E., 5; Lodi, 20.25;
Lima Center, 0.35; Madison, 100.50, C.E., 10; Portage, 5;
Povnette, 13: Prairie du Sac, 8; Richland Center, 5.50;
Reedsburg. 32.03, 290.25

Mankato.— Amiret, 9; Beaver Creek, 10; Delhi, 5; Jack-
son, 7, C.E., 9.34: Jasper, 7: Hardwick, 12; Kasota, 10;
Lake Crvstjil, 3; Lakefield, 4.50; Le Sueur, 11.17; Luverne,
13, C.E.," 10: Mankato, 9.25, C.E., 12.50: Marshall, 30; Pilot
Grove, 11; Pipestone, 14; Redwood Falls, 23; Rushmore,
3.40, Light Bearers, 4, C.E., 5.05; Slayton, 31, C.E., 10, Jr.
C.E., 6; St. James, 8.48, C.E., 10, Little Light Bearers. 1.75.
Bd., 1.86: St. Peter, 4.50, C.E., 3; Tracy, 19; Wells, 7; Win-
dom, 2.5t»: Winnebago City, 21.47, C.E.,5.23; Worthington,
43.56, C.E., 3.16: Gift, 50, 451.82

Mattoon.— Assumption, C.E., 2.50; Chrisman, C.E., 5;
Oakland. C.E., 6; Pana, Rainbow Bd., 5; Paris, C.E., 6.05;
Pbyl. Off., 42.66, 67.21

MiLWAUKEK.— Milwaukee, Grace Ch., 4.85; Immanuel
Ch., 10: Perseverance Ch,, C.E., 7.75, 22.60

Minneapolis.— Buffalo, 29.50; Howard Lake, 6, C.E., 4;
Maple Plain, 3.80; Minneapolis, Andrew Ch., 75.28, Sol-
diers of the Cross, 8; Bethany Ch., 2.50, Jr. C.E., 1; Beth-
lehem Ch., 38; 1st, 75.49, Y.W.S., 27.13, C.E., 15, Merry
Gleaners, 32.93, Inter. C.E., 1.53, Jr. C.E., 1.33; 5th, 3.04, C.
E., 3; Franklm Ave. Ch., 3.24; Grace Ch., 4.90, C.E., 1.41;
Highland Pk. Ch., 50.50. Sunshine Bd., 2.85, King's Messen-
gers, 22; House of Faith Ch., 7, Jr. C.E., 2; Shiloh Ch., 17,
C.E., 5: Stewart Mem'l Ch., 38.93, C.E., 8.27, Missionary
Twig, 8.55, Gleaners, 2.35; Westm'r Ch., 549.04, C.E., 37..50,
Y.W.S., 97, Gleaners, 27 50, Chinese CI., 41.60, Daughters of
the King, 11.56, Pearl Gatherers, 5.10, Inter. C.E., 5; River-
side, Y.W.S., 54; Waverley, 85 cts., 1,330.68

Minnewaukon.— Minnewaukon, Y.L.S., 5; Rolla, 5,

10.00

Monroe.— Adrian, 75, C.E., 35, Jr. C.E., 2.50; Blissfield,
10, C.E., 1; California, 3; Coldwater, 22.92, C.E., 2, Har-
rington Soc, 18; Erie, 5, C.E., 3; Hillsdale, 17; Holloway,
Raisin Ch., 2, C.E., 1.50: Jonesville, 12.20; Monroe, 18.50,
C.E., 5.54; Palmyra, 5.70, Y.L.S., 10, C.E., 16.50; Peters-
burg, C.E., 1; Quincy, 10; Reading, 5, C.E., 1.68; Tecum-
seh, 63.13, C.E., 1.15, 348.32

MuNciE.— Alexandria, 12.38: Anderson, 110, C.E., 3, Jr.
C.E., 2, Willing Workers, 11.50; Cicero, 1; Elwood, 13.49,
Jr. C.E., 3; King's Daughters, *15; Hartford City, 25.10;
Jonesboro and Gas City, 10, C.E., 2, Mrs. W. D. Vater, 15;
Kokomo, 10.14, C.E., 2. Jr. C.E , 2; Marion, 26.85, Jr. C.E.,
5, Girls' Bd., 5; Montpelier, C.E.. 2.06; Muncie, 110.69,
C.E. ,5.43; Noblesville. 8.40; Peru, 80; Portland, 8; Tipton,
25: Wabash, 88.65, C.E., 10; Winchester, 5.74; Pbyl. Off.,
4..55, 622.98

Nebraska Citt.— Adams, 13.60, C.E., 14; Alexandria,
9.45: Auburn, 9.94, C.E., 6; Beatrice, 1st, 26.76, C.E., 3.25;
2d. 5.10: Chester, Stoddard Ch., 2.40; Diller, 1.50; Fairbury,
25.90, C.E., 5: Fairmont, 1.04; Falls City, 1.60; Firth, C.E.,
2; Gresham, 2.20, C.E., 7..35; Hebron, 42.10; Humboldt,
10.90: Liberty, 2.51; Lincoln, 1st, 57.9.5, C.E., 11.58; 2d,
16.46, C.E.. 5: 3d, 5.60: Nebraska City, 9; Palmyra, 12.77;
Pawnee, 24.88, C.E.. 39.53, Jr. C.E., 3.50; Plattsmouth, 5.90;
Seward, 6.16: Staplehurst, 3.44: Table Rock, 4; Tamora,
2.61; Tecumseh, 44.10, C.E., 6.50; York, C.E., 10, 461.57

New Albany.— Bedford, 25; Borden, C.E.,1; Browns-
town, 1; Charlestown, 4; Corydon, 11.74: Hanover, 57.85,
Light Bearers, 3; Jay, Pleasant Ch., 5; Jeffersonville, 16.81;
Madison, 25, Y.L. Bd., 24.95; 2d, C.E., 3..54: Mitchell, 14.85;
New Albany, let, 14.24; 2d, 25; 3d, 29.85, C.E., 4.75; N.
Vernon, 9; Orleans, 4.70; Paoli, C.E., 3.20; Salem, 6.90;
Sevmour, Evangel Bd., 20, C.E., 5, Light Bearers, 2.50;
Scipio, 12, C.E., 1: Valley City, 3: Vernon, 5.80, Annie
Fink Bd., 5.49; Vesta, Owen Cr. Ch., 3.50; Vevay, 5.50,

355 17

Niobrara.— Atkinson, 66 cts.; Coleridge, 8.50, C.E., 14,
Jr. C.E. , 2; Emerson, 2; Hartington, 10.80: Laurel, 6.80;
Madison. 9.96: Millerboro, 1.60; Niobrara. Jr. C.E. , 5.-33;
Norfolk, 1.50; Osmond. 1.80: Pender, 2.50, C.E., 10: Ponca,
3.54, C.E., 6, Jr. C.E., 2: Randolph, 5; Wakefield, 10;
Wayne, 5, C.E., 5; Winnebago, 2. C.E., 8. 123.99

Omaha.— Bancroft, 1: Bellevne. 1.40. C.E., 10, Jr. C.E., 4;
Fremont, 3.75; Lyons, Jr. C.E., 4: Omaha, Castellar St. Ch.,
C.E., 5; Lowe Ave. Ch., C.E , 3.70: Westm'r Ch., 47, C.E.,
11.98; Schuyler, C.E., 27: Waterloo, 8 26. 127.09

Ottawa.— Elgin. House of Hope Ch., 7.75: Florid. C.E.,
2.80; Grand Ridge, 2..50. C.E., 1.75; Morris, 20; Oswego, 5,
C.E., 7; Ottawa, 16. C.E., 9. Primary C.E.. 1: Sandwich,
C.E., 10; Troy Grove, 3.75; Waltham, 7.50, C.E., 3.25,

Pembina.— Bathgate, 5, Bd., 1; Bay Center, 10; Crystal,
C.E., 16; Drayton, C.E., 5; Emerado, 16.60, C.E., 7; Forest
River, 25.90; Glasston, C.E., 15; Grand Forks, 40, C.E.,
62.50; Grafton, C.E., 5; Langdon, C.E., 6; Minto, C.E., 23:
Neche, C.E., 12.50; Park River, 11.94, C.E., 7.50; Pembina,
8.20, C.E., 15; St. Thomas, C.E., 7; Tyner, C.E., 32.50,

331.64

Peoria.— Canton, 90, Little Owls, 47; Delavan, 31; Dun-
lap, Prospect Ch., 23, C.E., 2, Jr. C.E., 2, Y.L.S., 16; Elm-
wood, 33: Eureka, 19; Farmington, 11; Galesburg, 40, C.E ,
25; Green Valley, 15; Hanna City, 1, C.E., 10; Ipava, 43, C.
E., 10; Knoxville, 57, Whatsoever Bd., 25, C.E., 12.95;
Lewistown, 30; Oneida, 11; Peoria, 1st, 147, Bequest of
Miss Janette McKinney, 10, C.E., 21, E. R. Edwards Bd.,
14, Little Lights, 10; Arcadia Ave. Ch., 12.50, C.E., 7.50;
Westm'r Ch., 4, C.E., 25; 2d, 87, Bequest of Mrs. Elizabeth
Grier Hibben, 100; Grace Ch., 80, C.E., 5; Princeville, 4,
C.E., 25; Toulon, Elmira Ch., 280, C.E., 16.25; Vermont,
1.50: Washington, 25; Yates City, 49.75, C.E., 8.66; Per
Rev. J. H. Freeman, 3..50, 1,490.61

Petoskey.— Boyne City, C.E., 1.25; Cadillac, 51.35; E.
Jordan, 26; Harbor Springs, 12.75; Mackinaw City, 3.46;
Petoskey, 21.32; Traverse City, 10, 126.13

Pueblo.— Colorado Springs, 1st, 148.15, C.E., 17.23;
Florence, C.E., 5; La Veta, C.E., 1.50; Pueblo, 1st, 5.50,
C.E., 11.25, Helpers, 6.25; Mesa Ch., Pbyl. Off., 21.46, C.E.,
12; Rocky Ford, C.E., 10; San Rafael, 2; Victor, 3.25,

243.59

Red River.— Angus, 12; Crookston. 34.66; Fisher, Bethel
Ch., 7.25; Hallock, 7.95, M. N. H., 4; Maine, 5.75; Warren,
3.50, 75.11
Rock River.— Albany, 1; Aledo, 30.86; Arlington, 5;
Alexis, 21.05; Ashton, 8; Dixon, 8.67, Candle Lighters,
28.50; Edgington, 14.65, C.E. 12.50; Erie, Newton Ch.,
82.85; Franklin Grove Ch., 5; Fulton, 14; Garden Plain,
3.40, Jr. C.E., 2: Geneseo, 4.98; Hamlet and Perrjton,
22.95: Joy, Peniel Ch., 6.70; Keithsburg, 2.95; Millersburg,
5.06: Morrison, 50, King's Birdies, 21.15; Pleasant Ridge,
2.75; Princeton, 14.60; Rock Island, Central Ch., 13.25;
Broadway Ch., 87.84, Ruth's Bd., 43.50, Busy Bees, 3.50,
South Pk. Mission, 10; Seaton, Center Ch., 5.50; Sterling,
65, Jr. C.E., 15; Viola, 1.95; Woodhull, 19.50; Spring Val-
ley, 9.27, 592.93
SAGiNAAv.-Bay City, Mem'l Ch., 2.91; Ithaca, 20, C.E.,
10; Midland, 14.70, C.E., 8.14; Saginaw, Ist, 5; W. Bay
City, Westm'r Ch., Buds of Promise, 5; St. Louis, 4 85;
Pbyl. Off., 11.63, 82.23
St. Cloud.— Atwater, 1; Brown's Valley, 1; Greenleaf,
80 cts.: Harrison, 2.65; Litchfield, 25; Royalton, 1; St.
Cloud, 23.20: Spicer, 7.50; Watkins, 65 cts.; Willmar, 4.43,
C.E., 1.57: Wheaton, 1; Pbyl. Off., 10, 79.60
St. Paul.— Hastings, 12.72, C.E., 3: Red Wing, 1, C.E.,
15; St. Paul, Bethlehem Ch., 7.50, C.E., 2: Central Ch., 6,
C.E., 35, Jr. C.E., 3; Dayton Ave. Ch., 119.93, Busy Bees,
40; East Ch., 10; 1st, 5; Goodrich Ave. Ch., 21.45, C.E., 6;
House of Hope Ch., 1. Adult Bible CI., 33.60; North Ch.,
C.E., 5; Knox Ch., 9.58, C.E., 3.58, Jr. C.E., 2; Macalester
12.30, Golden Rule Bd., 7, C.E., 10; Merriam Pk., Wayside
Gleaners, 7.15; 9th, C.E., 25; Westm'r Ch., 11.12; St. Paul
Pk., 3.75; White Bear Lake, 9.66, C.E., 3.04; Children of
the Presbytery, Raymond Staples Mem'l, 21.30, 452,68
Schuyler.— Augusta, 25.14, C.E., 25: Burton, Mem'l Ch.,
C.E., 1: Bushnell, 6..50, Pbyl. Off., 27.75; Carthage, 20.75,
C.E., 20.01; Clayton, 7; Elderville, Wythe Ch., 23.15, C.E.,
25; Elvaston, 18.82, C.E., 12.50; Fargo, 2.40; Fountain
Green, 14.50, C.E., 5; Hamilton, Bethel Ch., 5, C.E., 5;
Hersman, 42.73, C.E., 17: Kirkwood, 58.25, C.E., 25; Ma-
comb, 29.42, C.E.. 50; Ebenezer Ch., 7; Camp Creek Ch., 18,
C.E. , 30.52; Monmouth, 120.22; Mt. Sterling, 41.50, Earnest
Workers, 10; Niota, Appanoose Ch., 10, C.E. ,6.50; Oquawka,
8.65; Perry, 20.20, C.E., 5; Prairie City, 24.89; Quincy, 15,
C.E., 12 50; Rushville, 10.55, C.E., 6; New Salem, C.E., 1;
Good Hope, 46.50; Warsaw, 13, 873.95
Springfield.— Athens, N. Sangamon Ch., 70.15, Little
Light Bearers, 1.75; Bates, 42.71; Buffalo Hart, 5 90, Busy
Bee Bd., 6 95; Chatham, 2.25; Decatur, 132.24, Golden Rule
Bd., 1, C.E., 15, Jr. C.E., 10, Brier Soc, 10, Inter. C.E., 1.25;
Westm'r Soc, 5: Divemon, 6.40, C.E., 3; Farmingdale, 12;
Greenview, 5.45; Jacksonville, State St. Ch., 125.40, Willing
Workers, 22, Y.L.S., 40, C.E., 24.20; Westm'r Ch., 88.6.5,
Willing Workers, 1, C.E., 7.15; United Portuguese Soc, 9.
Y.L.S., 61, Jr. C.E., 5; Lincoln, 85.50, C.E., 2, Jr. C.E.,
2.50: Macon, 15.-33; Manchester, 1.25; Maroa, 3-3, C.E.. 5;
Mason City, 15: Orleans, Pisgah Ch., 4.80; Petersburg, 26.59,
C.E., 19.05; Pleasant Plains, 14.70; Springfield, 1st, 1,30,
Busy Bees, 40, E. J. Brown Soc, 102.50 ; 2d, 115. Rays of
Light. 60. C.E.. 37.50; 3d, 8, C.E., 2; Portuguese Ch., 32;
Sweetwater, 4.68, C.E., 2, Bd., 2.55; Virginia, Mary Strain
Soc, 21; Woodson, 8; Pbyl. Off., 19.10, 1,523.50
Sioux City.— Alta, 17.75, C.E., 2.75; Battle Creek, C.E.,
35; Cherokee, 45, C.E., 7.45; Cleghorn, 7, *5, C.E., 7; Deni-
son, 2; Fielding, Mt. Pleasant Ch., 2.50, *1.10, C.E., 2; Ha-
warden, 6; Inwood, 4, Jr. C.E., 3; Ida Grove, 16, C.E., 7.21;
Ireton, 12; Le Mars, 12.50, C.E., 5; Meriden, C.E., 7 50;
O'Leary, Union Tp. Ch., 6, C.E., 4.50; Odebolt, 4.10; Paul-
lina, 4; Sioux City, 49.65, Jr. C.E., 5; 2d, 12, C.E., 9; 3d, 4,

1902.1

TREASURERS' REPORTS.

185

C.E., 5, Jr.C.E., 5; 5th (Morningside), 1.10; Sac City, 10,
*2; Schaller, 5, *1.V5, Sunbeam Bd., 2.50, C.E., 2.85; San-
born, 5; Storm Lake. 16, C.E., 22.50; Vail, 2, *1; Jack-
eon Tp. Ch., 3.15, *50 cte.; Wall Lake, 8, *40 els.; Pbyl. Off.,
10, 412.7G

Southern Dakota.— Lennox, 1st Bohemian, C.E., 2;
Scotland, C.E., 7.50, 9.50

Utah.— Brigham City, 2; Ephriam, 27ct8.; Evanston,
C.55; Ilyinm, Garlield McmM Cli., 3; KayBviile, Haines
Mem'l Ch., 1.15, C.E., 1.50: Logan, Brick Ch., 10.18; Manti,
3.50; Mt. Pleasant, 4.31; Neplii, Mynders Soc, 7.50; Ogden.
22.25; Payson, 1.60; Kiclifield. 10.27; Salina, 1.50; SaltLalie
Cily, Ibt, 32.40; 3d, C.E., 5.50; Suiithlield, 3.30; Spanish
Fork, 75 cts.; Springville, 6.68; Individual Giver, 20.15,

144.36

yiNCENNES. -Evansville, 1st Ave. Ch., 3.85, Jr. C.E.,2.50;
Grace Ch., 23.71. C.E., 8, Jr. C.E., 1.50; Springdaie, C.E.,
1, Jr. C.E., 25 cts.; Walnut St. Ch., 7; Farmersburg, 4.10;
Mt. Vernon, Jr. C.E., 1.25; Oakland City, 5.80. C.E , 1, Jr.
C.E., 1; Petersburg, 9, Little Light Bearers, 1.67; Princeton,
a3.70, C.E., 5; Kockport, 7.24, C.E.. 3, Bd., 2.50: Royal Oak,
J. 33; Sullivan, 16, C.E. , 3; Terre Haute, Central Ch., 82.25;
.Washington Ave. Ch., 16.30, Jr. C.E., 3; Vincennes, 57.88,
Willing Workers, l.bO, C.E., 3.30; Indiana Ch., 4.15. Eleart
and Hand Soc, 3.10; Upper Indiana Ch., 6.2G; Wash-
ington, 47.62, C.E., 5; Worthington, C.E., 2.50; Individual
Gift, 10, 386.56

Waterloo.— Ackley, 11, *1, Jr. C.E., 3; Aplington, C.E.,
1.90; Cedar Falls, 8.85, *1.75; Clarksville. 2.50, C.E., 4.45;
Conrad, 2.15: Salem Ch., 26.50; Greene. 3.50. C.E., 1.50;
Grundy Center, 4.30. Bd., 1.30. C.E., 8; Janesville, 4; La
Porte City, 19; Marshalltown, 18; Morrison, 2.62; State Cen-

ter, 4, C.E., 7.50; Traer, Tranquillity Ch., 22; Toledo, C.E.,
2.41, Jr. C.E. , 2.45; Unity Ch., 1.50; Waterloo, *50, C.E.,
12 50; Williams, 3.50, 2^31.18

Wiiitewatku. Aurora, 8, Jr. C.E., 1; Clarksburg, 6;
College Corner, 10.80, C.E. , 13.68, Jr. C.E. , 4,20: Conners-
vilie, 12 30, Jr. C.E., 3, (ierman C.E., 5; Forest Hill, Union
ch., Jr. C.E., 1; Grecnsburg, 146.74, C.E., 3; Kingston, 24,
C.E., 13.70; Knighlstown, 14.43; Lawrenceburg, 9; Liberty,
13.75; Mt. Carmil, C.E.. 1.50; Harmony Cli., 6.15; New-
castU', 2.50, C.E., 10; Richmond, 68.51; Rushville, 12.22;
Shelbyville, 51.56, C.E., 10, Jr. C.E., 5, E. Van Pelt Soc,
12.75, 469.79

Winnebago.— Appleton, 16, Y.L.S., 15; De Pere, 2; Green
Bay, C.E., 8.69, Jr. C.E., 1; Marinette, 19, Y.L.S., 13,75;
Merrill, 5: Oconto, C.E. , 32.50; Omro, 4.40, C.E., ].;38; Sha-
wano. 3: Stevens Point, 1.50; Westfield, 2.96, 126.18

WixoNA. -Albert Lea, 7.50, C.E., 25; Blooming Prairie,
5; Chatfield,3; Claremont, 13. C.E., 15; Fremont, 6; Kasson,
3.60; La Crescent, 3.50, Lanesboro, C.E., 5; LeRoy, 10;
Owatonna, 6, C.E., 10, Jr. C.E., 1.50; Rochester, 18, C.E.,
2.5: Rushford, 14.50; Washington, 7.35; Winona, 17, 195.95

Miscellaneous.- Catonsville, Md., Mrs. Alice M. Kerr,
25: Oxford, O., The Western College, Union Soc, 100; Chi-
cago, Share of Offering at Union Prayer Meeting, 3.09;
Anon, 38 cts. ; Publication Acct. balance, 194.24, 322.71

Total for month, §30.046.21
Total receipts since April 20, 1901, 78,596.26
Mrs. C. B. Farwell, Treas.^
Room 48, Le Moyne Block, 40 Randolph Street.
Chicago, April 20, 1902.

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

ending April 24, J 902.

Arizona.— Peoria, $3.58
Austin.— El Paso, 2.50; Galveston, 4th, 1, C.E., 1.65;
Houston, 6.16, C.E., 7.20; Pearsall, 4.25; San Antonio,
28.55: Taylor, 7.50, 58.81
Choctaw.- Atoka, 1st, 2; Krebs, 1st, 9; S. McAlester, 10,

21.00

Cimarron.— Ardmore, 4.25; Chickasha, 7.50; Pond Creek,
5; Purcell, 6.85, Jr. C.E., 1.80, 25.40

Emporia.— Conway Springs, 6.40; Cottonwood Falls,
10.20; Emporia, C.E., 25: Florence, 8; Indianola. 3.31;
Mulvane, C.E., 1.65; Newton, 29. C.E., 21, Jr. C.E., 10;
Wichita, 1st, 140.66, Y.P.M.L., 125; West Side, C.E., 10;
Pres. Offering for S. A. Fund, 13.54, 403.76

Highland.— Baileyville, 5; Bern, 1.25; Blue Rapids, 7.23;
Effingham, 7.50; Frankfort, 3.73; Hiawatha, 35,89; High-
land, 30.40, C.E., 10, Jr. C.E., 5.50: Holton, 37; Horton,
29.2', C.E., 15; Irving, 1; Parallel, 5.98, C.E., 2.23; Troy, 2;
Vermillion, 2.50; Washington, 2.45, 205.91

Kansas City.— Appleton City, 8.88, Band, 10: Browning-
ton, 4; Butler. 19.70, C.E., 15, Jr. C.E., 1.75; Clinton, 13.50;
Creighton, 2.80; Deepwater, 2; Holden, 9.55, C.E., 5.02; In-
dependence, 43.58, C.E., 5. Sunshine Bd., 35; Jefferson City,
6.42, C.E., 1.58; Kansas City, 1st, 102.50, C.E., 15; 2d, 184.40;
3d, 28.60, Y.L.S. , 6, Jr. C.E., 4.17; 4th, 3, Band, 8; 5th, 9.81,
Y.L.S. ,2.50; Linwood, 15.49, C.E., 2.80; Lowry City, 93 cts.,
C.E.,1, Jr. C.E., 1; Nevada, C.E., 5, Osceola, 5.18; Ravmore,
15.12, C.E., 4.61, Jr. C.E., 2.67: Rich Hill, 10, C.E., 10; S'edalia,
Br'dw'y, 11.25, Central, 18.55, Y.L.S., 150, C.E., 10, Jr.
C.E., 1.25; Sharon, 3, C.E., 2.50; Tipton, 4.80; Vista, 1; War-
rensburg, 20, C.E., 13.45; Mrs. L.'s S. A. Box, 1; Miscel-
laneous, 5, 714.96

Larned.— Ashland, C.E., 5.50; Arlington, 3; Burrton. 2;
Coldwater, C.E., 6.50; Dodge City, 6.90, C.E., 4; Garden
City, 18.50, C.E., 13.89; Halstead, 7.80, C.E., 2.50; Hutchin-
son, 2.S.55, C.E. , 30, Girls' Bd., 2.60: Kingman, 1.75, C.E. ,
3; Lakin, 1; Larned, 5, Band, 8; Lyons, 12; McPherson,
18.59; Ness City, 3; Pratt, 1, C.E., 1.50: Roxbury, 2.30: Ster-
ling, 9.30, C.E., 4: Spearville, 2.20, C.E., 8.95; Syracuse, Mrs.
Bicknell, 2, 215.33

Neosho.— Bartlett, 9, Bd., 2; Carlyle, 5.43; Chanute, 5.15;
Central City, 50 cts.; Cherryvale, 15.43. C.E., 2.06; Chetopa,
C.E., 1.63, Bd., 2.75; Colouv, 4; Columbus, 6.30; Fort Scott,
12; Garnett, 5; Girard, 14.55, Y.L.S.. 1.90; Humboldt, 19.91;
Independence, 82.90, C.E., 12.85; lola, 67.65, C.E., 12; Lone
Elm. 3.20. C.E. , 50 cts.; Moran, 1.50, C.E. , 1. Bd., 50 cts. ;
Ne -sho Falls, C.E., 2.50; Osawatomie, 19; Oswego, 34.30;
Ottawa. 30, C.E.,25: Paola. 35, C.E.,25; Parsons, 23.50. C.
E., 3; Pleasonton, 1.60; Pittsburg, 18; Richmond, C.E.,
21.56; Scammon, C.E., 3; Toronto, C.E., 1.50; Waverly,
10.16; Yates Centre. 3, 248.83

Oklahoma.— Blackwell, 16.97, Jr. C.E., 8.30; Guthrie,
23.1.5, C.E., 9, Young Men's Class, 30: Newkirk. 21.75; Nor-
man. 2.50, C.E.. 4.65: Okla. City, 34.51; Perry, 16; Shawnee,
5; Stillwater, 15 32, C.E., 2. Bd., 3, 192.22

Osborne.— Calvert, Mrs. Bieber, 75 cts.; Colby, 5; Fair-
port, C.E. , 3; Hayes, 3: Natoma, 1; Norton, 1.50, C.E., 50
cts.; Osborne, C.E., 15; Phillipsburg. 2.65; Russell, 6 74-
Smith Centra 3, Bd., 2.90; Tully, 2; WaKeeney, 9 37,

56.41

Ozark,— Boljvar, 2, C.E,, 3.50; Carthage, 1st, 44.75, Y.L

S., 12..50. Bd.. 18.23; Westminster, 31.35; Greenfield, 7.65;
Joplin, 15.06, I'll Try Bd , 8.75, King's Mess., 5: Monett. 20;
Mt. Vernon, 8.66. C.E., 2; Neosho, 10, C.E., 3.75, Bd., 1.50;
Ozark Prairie. 7.10. Bd., 2.50; Springfield, Calvary, 67, Y.L.
S., 36.75: 2d. 11.85, C.E., 3, 348.91
Palmyra. -Brookfield, 9.92; Clarence, 1.88; Edina, 9:
Center Ch.. 3,50; Hannibal. a5.40. Jr. C.E., 1; Kirksville, 5,
C.E., 12.35, Jr. C.E.. 2.75: Louisiana, 1.50; Marceline, 2,22:
Macon, 3.35. C.E.. 5: Moberlv. 5.72, C.E., 2.35; Milan, 7.85;
New Cambria, 2.80; New Providence, 2 50, 114.0L>
Platte.— Avalon. 5: Breckinridge, 5.50; Cameron, 13 25;
Carrolton, 5; Chillicothe. 7; Craig, 13 40; Fairfax, 2.30;
Grant City, C. E., 3: Hamilton, 22.37, C.E., 11.08; King City,
8.35; Lathrop, 10.17; Maitland, 12; Maryville, 31.50, C.E.,
100; Martinsville, 10: Mound City. 6.40; Oregon, 5. Bd., 1 .50;
Parkvillc 62.62, Y.L.S., 10, C.E., 6, Busy Bee Bd., 3.46,
King's Mess., 4.88; Savannah, 10, St. Joseph. Hope, 5, Jr.
C.E.. 3: Westminster, 15.35, C.E., 23: 3d, Jr. C.E. , 2.25;
Stanberry. 1.86; Tarkio, 31.28, C.E., 5,Bd., 5.35; Tina, 5.98;
Trenton, 12.50; Weston. 7.25, 4>^8.19
Rio Grande.- Albuquerque, 30.85; Deming, 11.85, 42.70
St. Louis.— Bethel. 15: Ferguson. 4: Kirkwood, 41.91. Y.
L.S., 24.42, C.E., 11.40. Bd., 1.59: Lindenwood, Y.L.S., 2.65;
Ironton, 4.25; Rock Hill, 25.64; Sulphur Springs, 5.50;
Webster Groves, 73.90, Jr C.E.. 10; Washington, Jr. C.E.,
3; Whitewater, 2; St. Louis. Carondelet, 5,25, Y.P.M.B.,
11.14, C.E., 1.90; Clifton H'ghts, 1.93; Cote Brilliante, 5, C,
E., 10.18, Jr. C.E., 4: Covenant. 10 50. C.E., 10; Curby
Mem., 7.42, C.E.. 15, Jr. C.E., 1: 1st Ch., 275, Y.L.S., 25. Bd.
and Jr. C.E., 15: Forest P. Univ., Y.L.S., 36.31; Laf. Park,
69 67, Y.L.S., 25, C.E., 5, Jr. C.E., 7; Lee Ave., C.E., 188:
Markham Mem., Miss. Bd., 28, Carol Club. 11. H.I.S., 6:
Mem. Tabernacle, 1.50: North Ch., 9; Oak Hill. 2.50, Bd , 3;
2dCh., 370.55, C.E., 18, Bd., 47.75: Tyler PI., 36; Wash, and
Comp., 5.30; West Ch., 218, Y.L.S., 34, C.E., 4.50. 2.088.24
Solomon.— Abilene 16. Bd., 1; Beningtou, 3.67, C.E., 1.29,
Jr. C.E., 63 cts.: Beloit. 22.25: Belleville, 11: Caledonia, 1.55;
Cawker City. 5.80: Clyde. 2.50: Culver, 1.20; Delphos. 8.95,
C.E., 5; Ellsworth, 1.90: Henington. 4; Miltonvale, 50 cts.;
Minneapolis, 10, C.E.. 13.50: Lincoln, 6.50, C.E.. 6.46: Po-
heta, 8.97; Salina. 20, Band, 5; Solomon, 6, C.E., 4.04; Scan-
dia, C.E., 60; Wilson, 10.32, 238.03
Topeka.— Argentine, 1.13, Mrs. Backus. 1; Auburn, 4.50;
Baldwin, 3 34; Clay Center, 52, C.E., 15, Jr. C.E., 5; Edger-
ton, 2.75; Gardner, 2.90, C.E., 2; Junction C, 24.50; Kansas
C, 1st, 11. C.E. ,31.40; Central, 12..50. Jr. C.E., 2; Grandview.
6.05: Lawrence, 21.78; Leavenworth. 20.59. C.E., 10; Olatbe,
3 50: Oskaloosa, 5.45; Riley, 7.50; Rossville, 4; Sedalia. 5;
Seymour, 2; Spring Hill, 4.59; Stanley, 1.45; Topeka, 1st,
199.75, C.E., 39.83, Jr. C.E.. 6: 2d, 11; 3d, 2.50, C.E., 10;
Westminster, 8.23, Bd., 4.01; Vinland, 2.91; Wamego, 1.60,

548.76

Trinity.— Albany, Matt. Mem., 14.80
Miscellaneous, 3.02

Total for month.
Total for year.

I 6,122.62
12,586.89

April 24, 1902.

Mrs. William Burg, Treis.,

1756 Missouri Ave., St. Louis, Mo.

A D VER TISEMENTS.

DELIVERED

Send No Money

To introduce SILK-E underskirts, which have all the appearance of
silk skirts, but which last twice as long and cost about one-third as much,
and cannot be distinsruished from real silk except by the closest scrutiny,
we are going to offer a limited number of our regular $5.00 SILK=E
underskirts at the specially low price of $2.50 delivered. This skirt
is made with three rows of full ruffles and one row of fancy cord on each
ruffle; pointed and gathered niching running from top ruffles to the
heading of same, and cut with a very wide flare, making a most satisfac-
tory skirt in every particular and fillihg a long felt want. SILK-E under*
skirts rustle like silk skirts, and fit particularly well over the hips.
Colors: Black, Heliotrope, Old Rose, Blue and Green.
Lengths: 38, 39, 40. 41, 42, 43 inches.

You practically receive a silk underskirt when you order a SILK=E.
The effect that a S1LK=E skirt creates under a summer skirt is most
pleasing and lends a handsome finish to both light and dark colored
garments. Order at once.
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Originators and Sole Distributors of SILK.E Skirts
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THE

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A College and
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An able faculty of women are
keeping The "Western abreast of
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THE

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Registered
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White Wash
Waists

These waists are made from materials of
our own importation, in the newest models,
and the workmanship throughout is of the
highest character. AH sizes from 33 to 42
inches in

Madras, $3.00, $3.50, $4'00'

Cheviot, $3.50, Pique, $3.75'

Irish Dimity, $3.50f $4-00, $4-50.

Butcher's Linen, $4.00. Dotted Swiss, $4.50.

Tucked Linen Lawn, $4 50. Wash Silk, $5.00.

Damasse Muslins, $5.00, and

Saxony Flannels in Fancy Weaves, $6.00.

Also a large assortment of colored wash waists.

Any of the fabrics from which these waists are
made may be purchased by the yard and made to order,
if desired, in our Custom Waist Department.

JIail orders have our careful attention.

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14 West Twenty-third St., New York.

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