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WOMAN'S Work for Woman.

Vol. XVm. JULY, 1903. No. 7.

The announcement, last month, of
the chairman's resignation from the
committee in charge of Woman's Work
FOR Woman has been construed by
some of our friends to mean resignation
of the editor. These two offices are dis-
tinct and have always been filled b}' two
persons. The editor is at the old stand.
The cover of this magazine, fourth page,
presents this and kindred information.

Income of the Woman's Boards and
their contribution to the treasury of the
Assembly's Board are not identical. Of
course not. Income includes all con-
tingent funds and meets local expenses ;
contribution is the net remainder. In-
come includes offerings from young
people's societies, while Mr. Hand's
printed reports incorporate these in a
separate column. Therefore the income
of Woman's Boards and receipts from
them to the Foreign Missions Treasury
will never be alike. The figures below^
represent income, severally and united,

for 1902-1903:

Philadelphia $173,185 50

Northwest 76,838 13

New York 75,112 17

Northern New York 7,762 77

Southwest 14,178 02

Occidental 10,209 42

North Paciac 3,523 45

$360,809 46

For the sixth time, our halls at
" 156 " are bright with the young faces
and vocal with the hymns of Annual
Conference with missionaries under ap-
pointment. Of fifty-seven on the list,
fifty are in attendance, besides others
on furlough. The Nestor is Dr. Henry
Jessup, forty-eight years missionary in
Syria, and to his wise and eloquent words
Conference bends attentive ear. Mrs.
Chas. P. Turner, president of the Phila.
Societ}', read a most helpful paper on
mutual relations of missionaries and
Woman's Boards. A seven days' pro-
gramme concludes, June 17, with the
Loi'd's Supper. In addition to graver

duties. Conference has inspected city
missions, been tendered two receptions,
spent an evening in the homes of Sec-
retaries of the Board, dined with the
Presbyterian Social Union, and reveled
in roses and woods, Saturday afternoon,
on Orange Mountain where they were
guests in the beautiful home of Mr. and
Sirs. John Crosby Brown.

Our dear Dr. Ellin wood attains his
seventy -seventh birthday on June 20,
and proud we were to have the Confer-
ence young people hear two papers from
his pen : " Sympathy in Mission Work,"
marked by ripeness and the gospel spirit,
and — a theme he has often handled be-
fore, "The Missionary's Attitude to-
ward Native Religiors."

The death of Mrs. Wm. P, Chalfant
at Pasadena, June 8, ends a long vigil.
She was Lulu Boyd, young and gifted,
when she went to China in 1887. She
was married the next year and bore her
part in the sacrifices incident to the
opening of Ichowfu Station and its de-
velopment until, in 1900, Mr. Chalfant
brought her to California to prolong her
life. Her husband and their interesting
family of sons are known to a wide cir-
cle and are sure of the prayers of the
Church at home and of many Christians
in Shantung.

All friends of the Philippines Mis-
sion will be rejoiced and re-assured to
know that Rev. Stealy B. Rossi ter, for
twenty-five years the successful pastor
of North Church, New York, has been
appointed to the pastorate of the Amer-
ican church in Manila, and expects to
undertake that work in the fall. Mrs.
Rossiter and their two daughters will
be most efficient help in widening the
social and Christian influence of this
important church.

There are ten thousand Americans
in Manila, besides soldiers.

They are grieving at Wei Hien be-
cause Dr. Wm. R. Faries, after thirteen

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EDITORIAL NOTES.

[July,

years' trial of Shantung climate, finds
himself obliged to leave it. The Doctor
has been watching the going up of fine
new dispensary and hospital buildings,
meanwhile carrying on medical work at
an awkward disadvantage in a Chinese
inn. He treated 3,311 new cases last
year, a total of over 5,000 attendances.

When Lahore Presbytery met at Jul-
lundur, last April, a new thing hap-
pened. A woman's meeting was held
which resulted in organizing a presby-
terial society for Christian work. Lady
Harnam Singh presided and gave a Bi-
ble reading. MidS Wherry explained
how women in America do home mis-
sion work and Mrs. U. S. G. Jones told
of an Indian woman's society formed
at Lodiana and of Bible women who
offer to devote their only holiday to vil-
lage preaching. Indian delegates re-
ported from societies in Ferozepore and
Kasur, and finally Mrs. Chatterjee of
Hoshyarpore read a paper in which she
said: "The time has come when wo-
men of the Indian churches must take
up this work. It cannot be done by for-
eigners." She was made president of
the new society, and so another forward
step is recorded.

At the Mukti celebration of the Delhi
Durbar, Ramabai addressed the audi-
ence on Romans xiii : 1-8, contrasting
present governmental conditions in In-
dia with former days, when, "in Poona,
Mahars and Mangs had to wear earthen
vessels tied under their chins so that
anything ejected from their mouths
need not defile the ground upon which
Brahmins walked."

That the Oriental woman, non-Chris-
tian as well as Christian, cannot escape
the movement of the age was lately il-
lustrated at Tokyo. The exclusive Peer-
esses' School announced a tableau en-
tertainment, with admission fee, to be
given on a Saturday and Sun da v. The
young ladies would represent old-time
historical scenes in which Japanese wo-
men played their parts ; proceeds to be
given to Madam Shimoda, leader of the
Imperial Women's Association, which
attempts to further education for Jap-
anese girls.

We continue to hear from Sidon of
the feeling of Syrians for Mrs, Mary P.

Ford. Moslems, Druzes and all the
Christian sects ' off ered expressions of
sympathy when she died, and the funeral
procession was so long that some Mos-
lems were heard to say, " Is this a foun-
tain ? Will the people never cease ? Are
all these Christians?"

Jealous of evangelical prosperity in
a village near Tripoli, Syria, a priest
undertook a highhanded course of op-
pression: charged the people expenses
for funerals of years past, carried a new
coat out of one house, cooking utensils
from* others, and, when a woman tried
to hold on to her one saucepan, this re-
markable priest kicked her ! ' ' You
preach if you are smitten on the one
cheek to turn the other," he said ; ' 'now"
(with a hard blow on one side) "turn
the other." Many families have been
cooking in old kerosene tins since he
raided their kitchens.

A Chinese, who some years ago at-
tempted to kill his son because of his
Christian faith, now permits a Christian
school under the family roof, not far
from Peking. Mr. Cunningham, hav-
ing been invited by the old man to his
home, says : "I found him to be a phy-
sician of high social standing and broad
Chinese learning, who since the Boxer
troubles has had his eyes somewhat
opened. I had a good visit of two hours
and left a copy of Evidences of Chris-
tianity with him. He made me think
of the expression ' Every inch a man.' "

This magazine published, on subject
of the Philippines: Map, July, 1900;
Chronological Record of Mission
Events, July, 1901; Extracts from
Dr. Arthur Brown's Visitation Re-
port, July, 1902.

A BOOK for the benefit of Fanny
Crosby, blind and eighty-three years
old, is about to be published by the
Every Where Company, Brooklyn,
N. Y. It contains the story of her child-
hood and career, incidents connected
with her hymns, etc. One of her best
known lyrics is ' ' Safe in the Arms of
Jesus."

The missionary cottage at Chautau-
qua is free to all Presbyterian mission-
aries in July and August. Reduced rates
for meals can be procured at other cot-
tages. Inquire of Mrs. Julia Berry,
Chautauqua, N, Y.

1903.]

15:]

Missionaries in Hainan and the Philippines*

HAINAN.

Mrs. Wm. M. Campbell, Kiungchow.
Mrs. n. M. McCandlies,
Mrs. A. K. Street,

Miss Henrietta Montgomery, Hoihow.
Mrs. P. \y. McClintock, Nodoa.

In this counfnj : Mrs. D. S. Hibbard,
liockford, 111.

Mrs. I'aul Doltz,
Mrs. J. .\ndrew Hall,
Mrs. \V. H. Langheim,
Mrs. A. A. Pieters,
Mrs. F. J. Pursell,

Iloilo.

AND POST OFFICE ADDRESSES.
Mrs. J. C. Melrose, Nodoa.
Mre J. C. Patterson,
Mrs. C. H. Newton (Kachek),

Kiungchow.
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.
Mrs. J. B. Rodgers, Manila.
Fredonia, Kans.; Miss Kate L. Schaeflfer, Somers, Wis.; Mrs. E. D. Vanderburgh,

Dumaguete.
Cebu.

Around the World Series

VIII. Across Shantung by Mule-Power.

{Continued from March issue, page 58.)

Chinanfu left an indelible impression
of wealth, conservatism and haughty
pride. Nowhere in China was I so struck
with scowling faces and the e^^dence of
a city unsoftened by contact with the
gospel. This may be accounted for from
its being a provincial capital and center
for ambitious literati, and because it is
flooded with retired officials, who it goes
without saying are always rich, and with
disappointed aspirants for office. As we
looked our last towards the wholesome,
helpful mission premises and passed out-
side the solid gray city wall, abloom with
tufts of foxglove, pink and cream color,
brown and orange, one could not re-
strain a deep longing that the few wit-
nesses for Christ there might be sup-
plemented by a strong band ; that many
might join hands in holding up the
glorious gospel in the face of the great,
self-satisfied city.

The cozy blue cart had been ex-
changed for the solitude of the shenza,
a swinging conveyance, without wheels,
whose conductor is always afoot. The
motive power is divided between a mule
behind and another in front, and until
the latter is set free from the shenza
the passenger has no way of getting
out. Another characteristic of the shen-
za is unceasing motion. You cannot
even read. If the mules keep step, you
roll, roll, from side to side as butter is
paddled in a churn. If they are out of
step, as they constantly are from in-
equalities of the road, then you shake
forward and back from head to foot.
If either steed executes a caper, or you
strike a sudden boulder, the motion be-
comes a bounce, as of loose articles up
and down in a bag. My shenza was
one of particular merit. In addition to

the regulation matting roof, extra pro-
tection from rain, sun and wind was
furnished by an old calico quilt stretched
as far as it would go, and pieced out
with oiled canvas. It was surprising
that the travelers we met seemed wholly
indifferent to these superior decorations.
They would create a sensation on the
street of any American town.

With detours, we had covered 1T5
miles in the cart; 105 miles lay ahead
of our shenzas before we could connect
with the German railway which, start-
ing from the coast, is crossing the prov-
ince. Our road lay eastward and the
warm afternoon sun was at our backs.
Life, human life, crowded, in action,
engaged in incessant battle to get and
to keep, this was the supreme feature of
a week's journey on the Shantung Great
Road. A procession of walled cities,
towns and villages lined the highway,
the chief occupation of a place often ad-
vertising itself to the eye. Twenty miles
from Chinan was a linen-making vil-
lage, Wu-li-tang, where small and
slimsy blue-bordered hand-towels, wo-
ven on the family loom, were numer-
ously strung upon lines across the main
street. Another village made beautiful
ink-slates and marbles, about the size
of ping-pong balls. The latter are not
intended for games but for the use of
scholars who roll them in the right hand,
a couple at a time, as they sit reading
their books, in order to keep their ac-
complished fingers supple for writing
(more strictly painting) the Chinese
ijharacter. These slates and balls, in
various colors and sizes, were set out
attractively by the roadside on tempo-
rary tables. The odorous atmosphere
of a large town advertised its fish-glue

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manufacture, long before we reached the
stretches of mat roofs under which
scores of men were at this business.
Other places worked in iron, or splashes
of indigo surrounded their dyeing es-
tablishments. Twenty-two villages and
towns, many of them walled, were
passed through on April 17th.

The second day brought us to Chang
Kiu,* "the cleanest city in China."
Olfal is not allowed on the streets.
Though there is no statute, public sen-
timent is against it. The city is sur-
rounded by a wide, rich valley which
produces heavy wheat crops. They were
planting millet with a drill of experi-
enced centuries. The best fertilizer, but
costly, is the oily bean cake compressed
into cart-wheel shape, tons of which we
saw in transportation on barrows, boats
and carts. The rich farmer uses it in
small chunks which he parsimoniously
strews along his wheat furrow, but, in
a country where the rate of interest is
do\ per cent., the poor cannot afford to
borrow money to invest in bean cake.
Chang Kiu has a wonderful water sup-
ply. Upright stones, scattered at in-
tervals over the fields, point to the sites
of wells, and every here and there a man
was seen turning a windlass to draw on
water. A prominent object as one ap-
proaches the city is a large fruit garden
enclosed by an adobe wall. Suburban
villages are occupied by tenants of city
landholders. The richest man in all
Shantung, one Meng (a descendant of
Mencius), belongs here. The noble wall
around the city is of red volcanic stone
and its parapet, unlike most of those
in the province, has no mediaeval loop-
holes constructed for shooting arrows.
In short, an old rhyme expresses the
opinion which the proud Chang Kiuese
entertains of his city :

Chang Kiu hien Boo kao tien —
Chang Kiu county depends not upon
Heaven, or, as put into modern terms by
my escort, We do the job ourselves."

We lunched at Chang Km, in a house
belonging to the English Baptist Mis-
sion. This is the able and successful
mission, whose members are mostly
Londoners and whose large territory
lies contiguous to the Presbyterian Mis-
sion of East Shantung. I saw many in-
dications that these two missions were

* Fron. Jong Kew,

more than merely harmonious, that they
could without difficulty coalesce. It is
their wish to avoid duplication of ex-
pensive institutions, by each using those
of the other. Mr. Chalfant cannily
planned our journey so as to draw up
as often as possible at one or other of the
English stations. In accomplishment of
that end, he knocked up Yin Dossa and
myself before four o'clock one morning,
and how thankful I was to him for it

by late afternoon when, as I crawled

out of my shenza, the first thing my eyes
lighted on was a fine asparagus bed,
just like those at home.

In the absence of the proprietors at
Chang Kiu, Mr. Chalfant took posses-
sion of servant and house, threw up the
windows and even, to my amused con-
sternation, went to the cupboard and
took down the china with which to fur-
nish our lunch table. He told me glee-
fully that on one occasion he had climbed
in at the window and sent word to his
English friends that next time they were
to leave the key where he could find it !
We were caught in the act, for Rev.
Ernest Burt arrived as we were eating.
He had come on his wheelbarrow from
country work among eighteen villages
which are located in the (at present)
dry bed of the Yellow River. The mis-
sion has 2, 500 church members there.

Twice our whole cavalcade was quar-
tered for the night at English stations.
The American stranger was received
unchallenged as one of the Wei Hien
family and was daintily lodged and
greatly refreshed in the society of kin-
dred minds. There, as in many places
in Asia, I experienced the finest quality
of missionary hospitality. It has all the
freeness, frankness and simplicity of
frontier civilization, enhanced by com-
munity of education, sympathy and
Christian faith. Mrs. Burt was hostess
at Chouping. She had lately returned to
China with her England-born baby, and
the air of England was in her cheeks.
All the station came to call in the even-
ing, in Chinese dress, and next morning
we looked over the ample grounds of the
new hospital which was in course of erec-
tion. At Chingchoufu, the head station,
we were guests of Rev. and Mrs. Percy
Bruce. They are among the mission
seniors and have borne their part in all
its struggles and victories.

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155

Here, for one impressive moment, th(3
years turned backward in their flight
and made me a child again in geogra-
phy class, and our teacher was saying
that " Damascus is the oldest city in fJie
ivorld.''' One of the myths. Ching-
choufu is one of I know not how many
cities in China, which are contempora-
ries of Damascus, or older. It has been
continuously lived in since Abraham's
day, as proved by the unbroken annals
which are stored in the city archives.
This ancient city is in the famous Chow
district. As we approached, a distin-
guished-looking pair of stone gates, once
a part of the city wall on the north side,
loomed up to view. They stand stranded
and alone, the original city having long
since shrunk away from them within nar-
rower limits. One gate is still in good
repair and its wall is 120 feet thick. The
other gate, through which we rode, is
going to pieces, but every crumbling line
wears the dignity of age.

Also outside of Chingchoufu but in
close proximity is the walled Manchu
garrison town of 10,000 inhabitants,
which has been on the spot ever since
the Manchu conquest. Every province
in China contains one of these garrisons ;
Shantung has two. The people all live
on government pensions and are ' ' the
worst hated foreigners in China." The
men, all non-commissioned officers, were
heavily drafted in the war with Japan
and fought well, notwithstanding the
anachronism of their bow and arrow
practice in which they still are drilled
on their big parade ground.

Silk is a product of the Chinese city
and the market still displays the scissors
which have been manufactured here for
ages. They are rude and clumsy, no
improvement on those of a thousand
years ago and impossible to a modern
work basket ; an instance of mental
clockworks long since run down.

The mission station is strongly
manned. We met twelve missionaries,
and others were out among the large
Christian communities in the country.
The residences were very good Chinese-
foreign houses. Separate suites for three
single women were built in one block,
so that kitchen and table arrangements
may be combined at will. Since the
Boxer outbreak, not one girls' school
had been open in interior Shantung, but

the coming week was to witness hero
the return of the schoolgirls. Theii'
Chinese teacher arrived while we were
there, with her baby and its nurse. This
gentle-spoken young woman, tired from
her unwonted journe}^ was trained at
Wei Hien. The school accommodates
50-GO girls. The dormitory is a long,
one-story building of sun-dried gray
brick. A straw mattress on boards sup-
ported by a trestle is the only bed pro-
vision. I coveted their noble playground
for several of our schools, especially for
the cramped Seminary at Canton. Pray-
ers in the High School of 60-70 boys
was very interesting. A senior was
called up to read the Scriptures; the
discipline was first-class.

There is a hospital, a men's institute
where fifty were studying the Bible to
become lay workers, and ten were in
training to preach. But the uncommon,
elaborate feature, one never to be for-
gotten by a visitor, is the museum.
This is no hodge-podge collection but
an educational force. It is a wonderful
place, not so much in the objects gath-
ered— stuffed animals, products of sea
and land, agricultural and scientific im-
plements, electrical instruments — as in
the purposeful selection and arrange-
ment. It is the aim of the museum to
challenge and overcome superstition
without antagonizing men. Large geo-
logical diagrams and charts painted on
walls, with descriptions, show to the
eye that fossils are not, as according to
Chinese theory, demons in the earth.
Elevated maps, a globe fifteen feet in
circumference, demonstrate that the
earth is not flat, as taught by Chinese
sages. Triennial examinations were on
in the city while we were there, and
scores of students visited the museum,
note-book in hand, and listened to daily
lectures upon " Benefits of Christianity
in this World " or some kindred or sci-
entific subject. I w^as privileged to roam
through the museum in privacy, but the
moment that I went out at one door,
the key was turned in another, admit-
ting about twenty literati who had been
waiting. Though Boxers robbed the
missionary homes, they spared the mu-
seum as if, even in their madness, they
recognized it as a public benefit.

At Chingchoufu, mountain views are
gained, and gardens were bright with

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tulips, mock orange, wild yellow roses
and wistaria, while fine polonia trees of
forest growth lifted their crown of pur-
ple racemes in all directions.

Among sights of this journey were
tumuli of the loess formation, which
our school geologies described as ' ' Rhine
tertiary." Those bookmakers had not
seen North China. Twice we encoun-
tered camps of soldiers whom Yuan Shih
Kai had summoned north to Chihli. As
the rough fellows stared into our shen-
zas, one could easily imagine the differ-
ence if, instead of merely impudent they
were to look malicious, and with what

official inspection. We had just passed
conspicuous examples of this when, lo!
the breath of antiquity! Enter — the
graves of the Chow dynasty . The period
is that between 1 122, (the year that Sam-
uel died,) and 255 B.C. More than
thirty of these sepulchres stood face to
face with the railway of 1902.

Five or six tombs stood out near the
road in a bold line apparently on a com-
mon platform ; iikexed sandstone in color,
in shape suggestive of distant pyramids.
No foreigner has ever seen the interior
of one of the graves and, inquisitive as
the Chinese are, they show a singular

WEI HIEN HIGH SCHOOL.
Mrs. Chu and 17 pupils, all who remain unmarried out of 38 in the school of 1900.
Term closed end of May; 40 girls enrolled for autumn term.

feelings many beloved of the Lord met
such looks only two short years ago.

On Thursday, as we were droning
along to the tune of mule bells, meeting
countless wheelbarrows, some of them
with sails spread — most mediseval-look-
ing affairs — and numberless primitive
carts drawn by three mules abreast, sud-
denly we came up against the modern
world. An office for advance construc-
tion engineers of the German railway
stood before us, and, from this time,
we were on the watch for railroading
signals. Here, materials lay gathered
on a river bank to build the bridge which
was to span it. There, a squad of men
were leveling a roadbed. Yonder, a
white frame house with glass windows
and green painted sash proclaimed Ger-
man headquarters. The hills are full of
materials for ballasting, and the Chinese
had industriously brought them down at
many points and piled gravel and peb-
bles, in long, even masses ready for

absence of curiosity, perhaps restrained
by superstition, about these historic
monuments.

The superintendent of the Shantung
railway is Herr Hildebrand, who made
his reputation on the R. R. station at
Cologne. His salary is said to be $ 1 0, 000.
He has been some years in China and
speaks Chinese well enough for busi-
ness purposes. He makes his own bar-
gains with contractors without a mid-
dleman. Each contract is for only ten
kilometers of road, and is renewed or
not according to quality of work. The
Chinese contractor, true to his traditions,
takes his squeeze out of every man he
employs. There is no lack of common
workmen, but when a man is wanted for
a superior position Herr Hildebrand is
wont to appeal to a mission school. He
is a devout Roman Catholic.

Before daylight on Saturday, we left
our inn behind and by 9 :30 had com-
passed forty // to Ma Chia Chwang

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village, where a young missionary
was holding a women's country class.*
This was off our road and involved a
weary afternoon journey. Six hours
and forty minutes we panted in the
heat of our shenzas, exposed to a
broadside of sun and southwest wind.
It was well worth what it cost, to me, to
see that typical class of women and to
receive their message of ' ' love to the
sisters in America," but I verily
felt guilty in so taxing a mis-
sionary who itinerates the year
long.

Wei Hien station was in the
ruinous plightf in which it was
left by the Boxers. It was ap-
parent that Chaos and Mr. Rus-
sell would have a mighty tussle,
before the destroyed buildings
could be restored. Only two
women of the station were at
home, Mrs. Chalfant and Mrs.
Robert Mateer. The latter was
nursing her sick husband. When
the Boxer storm burst, she was
in America and Mrs. Chalfant
had gone for a short absence to the help
of an invalid missionary in Ichowfu.
Leaving husband and daughter at home
and the house in usual running order,
she returned two years after to a heap
of crumbled brick and mortar, every
keepsake and wedding gift and memor-
andum utterly gone. With a smile in
her eye, she held up to me a bottle of
phosphates, sole trophy which came
sound out of the wreck of her home.

The Sunday congregation appeared to
be made up of Christians, humble peo-
ple. There was nothing attractive to a
rich heathen in that de6r /5-strewn com-
pound. The Chinese pastor's sermon
was on the Prodigal Son. " What has
he brought back with him ? " inquires
the elder brother. ' ' Nothing but two
shoulders and a mouth. "

It was a matter of great interest to see
several of the Chinese who were con-
nected with the memorable escape from
Wei Hien. There was one of the little-
footed women who by enormous exer-
tion were gotten over the wall; there
was the cook who was nearly killed by
the rioters, and there, also, the staunch
muleteer. The last was a long- backed,
lank figure who did not at all look the

*See January issue, p. 6 ; t Fel)niary issue, p. 3H,

hero. When he was risking his life to
get Miss Boughton and Miss Hawes out
to the coast, he asked another Chinese
to help him. The man excused himself
from such dangerous service, whereupon
our muleteer, estimating his own inter-
ests as of equal importance with the
other's, answered: "Well, aren't we
three brothers and four mules, seven
skins of us ? " This man, who is a hea-

then, has since gone in for levies on the
mission purse, in view of the aid which
was originally offered gratuitously and
rewarded fairly. So he is no hero; but,
as I looked at his shrewd face, I thanked
him in my heart for the pluck that aided
our friends in their hour of need.

One of the women, a Christian, de-
scribes how she went over the compound
wall : ' ' And when we got to the top we
couldn't move, we never jumped such a
height in our lives ! What could we do ?

Chalfant, /le " and she finishes the

sentence with an expressive gesture to
show how she was swung off to the
ground. "What Chinese man would
do that for us ? Not one ! Only foreign-
ers will do that. Chalfant wasn't a fraid;
his face was white as if he hadn't any
blood in his body, but " (with great en-
ergy) ' ' he wasn't afraid ! "

The station, at the request of Yuan
Shih Kai, Governor of Shantung at the
time, presented a statement of their
losses and offered to throw off one- third
of their claims. This action took the
Yamen by surprise. The Governor
thanked them for their consideration
and paid the indemnity three months
before the law required.

Another long-suffering Shantungmis

WEI mEN RISING OUT OF HER ASHES.
New schoolroom and four classrooms. The dormitories, kitchen, dining-
room, bath and laundry for 40 girls, are not seen in this view.

158

AROUND THE WORLD SERIES.

[July,

sionaiy, Rev. John A. Fitch, offered to
escort me to the train on Monday, the
day scheduled for niy arrival at the
coast. This necessitated rising at 3 :30
A. M. and starting at dawn on a fifteen
miles' ride — my last shenza stage. My
hostess, as fresh as if it were 9 o'clock
in Pittsburgh, presided at breakfast and
provided me w4th luncheon and a bottle
of coffee for the way. A last hand-
clasp, and I turned away from the com-
pound which has been the center of so
much good history and holds the prom-
ise of yet greater things.

Fifteen miles to take a train — what
a tame American trip ! But the head
mule took care of that. He introduced
a truly eventful incident. We reached
a stream and, instead of crossing the
bridge or contenting himself on the
edge of the water, he walked out to the
middle and drank and then attempted
to mount the impossible bank opposite.
He bumped his head and fell down,
struggling with his feelings and his
clothesline harness. The prospect looked
black for passenger, luggage and the
boxes of books which were bound to
Chefoo. The mule decided for himself
and slipped out of harness, leaving the
shenza tipped at a considerable angle,
while he ran on to give the news to my
escort who was out of sight around a
curve in the road. I had food for re-
flection. The rear mule behaved like a
Christian and chivalrously stood still.
(I do not know whether he could do
otherwise.) The muleteer came running
and yelling and, standing in the water,
held up the shafts. It required neither
Mandarin nor Wenli for me to let that
man know I was going to get out.
Clinging with my right arm to his neck,
I walked out gingerly on the cracked,
round, upper pole which served as a
shaft. Mr. Fitch just then appearing,
with an anxious face, promptly put his
broad shoulder against obstructions and
what might have caused a delay of hours
v\^as quickly smoothed out. This experi-
ence beautifully rounded up my travel
by mule-power, and I was satisfied to
dispense with a drenching in the stream,
which any thoroughgoing Shantung
missionary would consider essential to
completeness of the journey.

Ten miles from Wei Hien we sighted
the railroad in active operation. Trucks

stood on the track, a live engine was
bringing down a construction train and,
the first we knew, our shenzas were
swinging under a modern stone railway
bridge. As Mr. Fitch remarked, the
old passed under the new. Our station
was not here but five miles farther on at
Nanliu, where we met the first token of
German occupation — uniformed Chi-
nese sentries. We passed through the
village street, came to a steep descent
and behold, below us, as if in a boiling
pot, market day was on and trade was
humming. Heavy-faced villagers were
surly and wasted no welcome on for-
eigners. The R. R. station was located
east of the village and protected by
yards and barbed-wire fence. It was
built, as they all are, with brick lining
covered with plaster, and red brick
trimmings. They have a passion for
green paint and a tall flagstaff invari-
ably stands in front of the neat stations.

Nanliu is 200 miles from the coast
and, at that date, was the farthest in-
terior station on the line. Two months
later the road was open to W^ei Hien
and, as it rapidly advances, the visitor
to West Shantung may soon avail of
rail connection with the coast without
unearthly morning starts, or Chinese
inns, shenzas or mules. But oh, how
much they will lose!

Men were numerous about the station
but not one Chinese woman did T see at
that, nor any other, on the trip which
consumed most of the day. * The station
management was entirely Chinese. My
ticket was purchased of a Chinese who
demanded more than two dollars addi-
tional for my trunk, or nearly as much
as I paid for its carriage in over five
thousand miles on India railways. The
" Schantung Eiselbahn Gesellschaft "
cars were run up into place by Chinese
brakemen, a young fellow with a queue
blew the whistle, pufiing out his cheeks
tremendously under sense of the novel
responsibility, and, as I stepped aboard,
Mr. Fitch introduced the Chinese con-
ductor, a Christian from Chingchoufu.

My care-free holidaying by mule-
power across Shantung, a world away
from telephones and automobiles, was
ended. The recollections are a precious
store.

* When I mentioned that to the correspondent of the Lon-
don Times his comment was: " Shows what the Chinese
>vonien think of Gernians,"

1903.]

159

Interesting Events

Yesterday, (Feb. 27,) was the annual
idol procession in the market and many
people coming from a distance stayed
over night, so this morning, before the
theatre began, was their opportunity to
visit the mission compound. At six A.
M. there were crowds of people about
our house and yards. By ten o'clock
the women began to come and I received
group after group until I had sixty- odd
in my study ; when the chairs were all
occupied I invited them to sit on the
matting and when the matting was cov-
ered they sat on the bare floor. They
were all very nice and listened to the
gospel quietly as I talked in either Hak-
ka or Hainanese, though some of them
could understand neither. We found
there were Hakka, Hainanese, Man-
darin, Lim-Ko, Cantonese, Dam-cin and
Loi tongues in the company, but I could
generally find an interpreter for each of
these dialects. The women chatted,
drank tea, listened to the phonograph,
saw the sewing-machine and went away
thanking me for the trouble I had taken
and promising to come to church on
Sunday. When they went downstairs
I took them to the old Bible woman who
talked to them for another hour about
Christianity and then they went away.
Very much of this kind of work comes
into our lives here and it has proved
helpful to the spread of Christianity and
in gaining influence with the people.

Two weeks ago all the Christians were
invited here to a conference preparatory
to election of elders and organization of
our church, as ordered by presbytery
last autumn. Over fifty out of the nine-
ty church members responded, and we
had three days of delightful meetings.
At the close of the third day three eld-
ers and two deacons were elected by
ballot. This is the first church organ-
ized in Hainan and we are happy and

More About the

At the conference which preceded the
church organization here in February,
topics written in Chinese character on
slips of red paper were distributed to
each Christian. The subjects were such
as these: What is the reason for the

at Nodoa^ Hainan*

gratified by the way the Christians and
their newly elected ofiicers are planning
for advance. The church already sup-
ports the preacher who, as soon as he is
prepared, will be called as pastor. He
is a good preacher and clever man, well
beloved by the people.

Our schools opened to-day, so that in
addition to the crowd of visitors to be
entertained, every girl and boy had to be
given a seat in the schoolroom and a bed
in the dormitories, and all necessary ar-
rangements had to be made for their
year's work. Many more have asked for
admission than we are able to take in,
hence our pupils are the best of those
who come. We are very glad to learn
of the prospect of a school building for
the girls. I think that one to accom-
modate twenty-five pupils and a couple
of teachers will meet our present de-
mands. It is a great relief to look for-
ward to having more room, especially
more healthful sleeping quarters for the
girls, for they have suffered from hot,
crowded sleeping rooms ; one of them is
at present in hospital very ill from dis-
ease contracted here. We have. made
little effort to get a school large in num-
bers but rather to educate the girls from
Christian families, though we do have
some heathen da}^ pupils. Nodoa mar-
ket has the strange superstition that if
a girl learns to read her father's family
will soon be brought to ruin, and it is
generally impossible to get the daugh-
ters even as day pupils.

Last week I spent a few days in ISTam-
fong at our chapel and was much pleased
with the interest in the gospel in the
market and with the work of the day-
school there. The lives of the native
preacher and his wife are doing much
for Christ there, for though not brilliant
people they are faithful and are much
liked by the whole market.

Margaret R. Melrose.

Church at Nodoa*

Church ? What is it to be a Christian ?
What has our church to do with law-
suits ? What is the duty of an elder or
deacon ? We tried especially to impress
on all minds the fact that there is no
use in joining the church for any other

IN THE PHILIPPINES IIISSION'.

[July,

reason tluiu that we want to acknowl-
edu:e Christ as our Saviour.

For myself, I was much surprised by
the great interest every one took in
"starting the church." They all seemed
to think that now it is fJieir church and
it is theirs to guard its purity.

Apropos of lawsuits, almost imme-
diately after our church was organized
two men appeared on the scene from
Pak-koi. These men, purporting to rep-
resent the Kiel German Mission, came
to sell church memberships, two dollars
per head for respectable people, higher
price for those in trouble with officials
or thieves. They said that their mis-
sionaries protect church members in
ivrongdoing ; that in any official affair,
Germany would aid them; that they
would build hospitals and schools much
larger than ours, and, last but not least,
give land, money and cows to poor peo-
ple who would join this church now,
by putting down their names and pay-
ing their money. And, would you be-
lieve it? — these clever men, two in num-
ber, carried away some two hundred
dollars from this region. They were
since discovered to be false, but the
rogues. made good their escape to Hong
Kong. This goes to show how quickly
our church would grow in numbers if we
would promise material aid to members.

At our last Communion service, a
number of children were baptized and
an amusing incident occurred. One of
our young Christian fathers had two
little children to be baptized. The
mother is not a church member, so the
father picked up the youngest in his
arms and told the Httle two-year-old
girl to follow. When he reached the
front of the chapel, what was his con-
sternation and ours to find that the
mother was holding back the girl and
saying out loud: " I do not want her
baptized. I wish to engage her to a
heathen, and that won't do if she is bap-
tized." Things were thus in statu quo,
the minister waiting, the father saying
"bring the child" and the mother re-
fusing,— when the old grandfather, an
earnest Christian, came around the
screen into the women's side and said
" Give the child to me." His daughter-
in-law of course had to obey and the
service went on. Evidently she had not
dared to oppose the baptism in private
but thought that in the church she could
gain her point

Our work goes on amid many dis-
heartening circumstances, yet we are
not discouraged but, looking unto the
Lord of the vineyard, are expecting the
certain harvest.

Rebecca Eiving McClintock.

In the Philippines Mission^

This mission is not yet four years old
and already numbers ten churches and
about five hundred members. Besides
the four stations — Manila on Luzon,
Iloilo on Panay, Dumaguete on Negros,
Cebu on Cebu — two others are author-
ized and their location is practically de-
termined.

One of these neiv stations is to be
at Santa Cruz, on the east shore of La-
guna de Bay, a large inland lake of
Luzon, with numerous flourishing towns
of four provinces built along its shores.
There is no general means of transpor-
tation by land between these towns and
missionary visitation is accomplished by
boat. For this reason, a steam launch
is one of the immediate necessities.
Funds have been in part provided, but
a thousand dollars more are required to
put a steam launch to work on Laguna
de Bay. Rev. J. Eugene Snook has

practiced making the circuit of the lake
towns accompanied by a helper. From
a letter by him, dated May 1, we quote:

Calamba is a good point for headquarters
for a large portion of my field. For a month
wehavehad a membership thereof seventy one
members (not yet baptized). Here at Santa
Cruz, some ninety have expressed their desire
to become Protestant Christians. Last week,
at Bagsanhan I called in forty homes of the
high school students and was royally received.
The stereopticon was very effective. Was in-
vited to bring an evangelist and hold service.
Did so and had three hundred and fifty pres-
ent. The outlook there is good for a church.

April 1, with the approval of Mr. Rodgers,
Hillif] and Dr. Langheim, I rented a house in
San*;a Cruz, principally because it has a large
room, 60 x 20 feet, for a chapel. There are
also six rooms in the house suited for living
purposes. It is central and can be used for a
missionary residence and native helpers also.

Regarding the boat, we expect to spend a
good deal of time on it and it will be a mighty
help in that region. I have been planning also
for a flat bottom boat, because of shallow
shores and rivers.

im.]

IN THE PHILIPPINES MISSION.

161

llie other new station is required in
ihe southeast portion of Luzon and the
choice lies between Albay, with a pop-
ulation of 148,425, and Sorsogon, 98,050.

Manila City and all the Island of Lu-
zon south of Manila is in the field of the
Presbyterian Mission, the Methodists
occupying north Luzon. Of 237 addi-
tions to the churches in the islands last
year, 175 were in Manila. Here there are
an American church and two
Filipino congregations, known
respectively as the Trozo chapel
and Tondo. The latter church
began holding worship in Rizal
Theatre in January 1901, but
has recentl}' moved into its own
house in the most thickly popu-
lated native quarter. Sunday
congregation averages 400-500.
Besides the three churches, reg-
ular services are held in eleven
places out in the district.

Of a number of prominent
Filipinos who threw a semi-po-
litical halo about the beginnings
of Tondo church, the last Report
says that all "long ago disap-
peared with the exception of the
two leaders, Buencamino and
Pae, who are as faithful as ever. "
Dr. Arthur Brown in his Visitation
Report says of Senor Felipe Buen-
camino : "Governor Taft told me that he
regarded him as one of the very ablest
Filipinos in all the islands. He has noth-
ing to gain in a worldly way from identi-
fication with Protestantism. While he
holds a public office, it is commonly be-
lieved that the Commission would have
appointed him to a much higher post if
he had not been such an active Protes-
tant as to make him unpopular with the
Roman Catholic party. Though not
rich, he offered in my hearing, to give
$1,000 (Mex.) a year, for several years,
toward the church building."

At Iloilo, an English-speaking church
was organized last year. "Everywhere
village people received us gladly."
" Batuan with 500-600 inhabitants is
practically Protestant." Dr. Brown bap-
tized ten adult Chinese here, October
1901. J. Andrew Hall M.D., wrote.
May 4, 1903 : "At our communion ser-
vice on Sunday last, 17 adults were re-
ceived. This makes a total of 212 adults
(and 44 children baptized) here. More

of the town people are coming in, all the
time, and I am glad to say that very
few of our members have fallen away
into known sin."

The hospital here, Dr. Brown styled
" a model for a new institution." The
local community was canvassed for
funds to build it and "the entire sum
subscribed by Chinese, Fihpino, Mes-
tizo, Spaniard, American and English.

CROSSING THE MARAQUINA, MANILA DISTRICT, LUZON.

Going to dedicate tlie chapel, Nov. 1, 1902. at Pasig, town of 10,000,
hidden behind bamboos on bank. Rev. J. E. Snook and Filipinos.

Silliman Institute at Dumaguete
enrolls 114 students ten to twenty-one
years old. College buildings are going
up. "A more open door and cordial
welcome could hardly be wished for."
Dr. Langheim reports 1,635 treatments,
divided between dispensary and house
visits (553) ; surgical cases, 210. Be-
sides himself there are only one army
surgeon and one Filipino doctor to care
for the sick of Oriental Negros, a popu-
lation of 150,000.

At Cebu, Rev. A. A. Pieters wrote
in April:

Work among English-speaking people has
been in my charge since January. My wife
conducted Bible class. Some evenings we had
about twenty soldiers at service.

Work among Filipinos has been more en-
couraging. Mr. and Mrs. Jansen started meet-
ings ; the best evangelist of Manila was sent
down, and later one from Iloilo arrived. These
two worked jointly for about six weeks, with
the result that ten were baptized, and later
five more. From five to six services are con-
ducted every week, two of which are open-air.

Opposition to our work has been as usual.
Priests denounced us from the pulpit, and at
one place, where open-air meetings have been
held in the evening, some stones were thrown.

CHINA, HAINAN,

Dr. Herman Bryan, in charge of the hos-
pital at NoDOA, wrote April 22:

You ask of my impressions. I have been
told that the opinion of a new missionary does
not count for much, so I refrain from explod-
ing any of my theories. I like the work im-
mensely. I would prefer to be a coolie and
wash old leg ulcers daily, in my hospital, than
to be struggling after some worldly fame or
position in the profession at home, for even a
coolie's work here, in the end, will bring more
souls to Christ and help advance God's king-
dom than winning a little fame at home —
which dies with the winner and if won usu-
ally leads him farther from Christ.

The people are intensely interesting, and at
times I may say intensely exasperating, but
Rome wasn't built in a day, and there is a
good time coming. I might say that I have had

MORE PRAYERS ANSWERED IN HAINAN

than out of it. When I landed I thought,
"How can I ever become interested in these
people?" now the question is, "How can I
keep from it ? " Every one on the compound
is the same to me. I find myself working
just as hard over a dirty, ragged Chinese as
over the foreigners — even to the point of worry
sometimes — the worry I want to avoid.

REVIVAL SERVICES.

Chas. F. Johnson, M.D., wrote from Iohow-
FU, Shantung, April 10:

Just after Chinese New Year, Mr. Mateer
of Wei Hien came down bringing with him
Pastor Wang. They began holding meetings
Sunday, Feb. 1, and held four a day for five
days: at about sunrise, ten a. m., three P. M.,
and seven o'clock in the evening. Mr. Faris
had .sent out notices to villages ten and fifteen
miles distant for Christians to come in, who
could conveniently leave their homes, and
thirty or forty re.sponded to the invitation.
These, with the Christians here, brought the

audience up to ninety or a hundred and they
came regularly to each service. There were
also half as many more outsiders. All mani-
fested a deep interest from the very first and
a great deal of good was undoubtedly done.
The church members were all

STIRRED INTO NEW LIFE

which found expression in many ways. About
thirty promised to do everything possible to
bring at least one, each, into the church dur-
ing the coming year. Six were found willing
to spend one afternoon each week preaching
at the City Chapel, just opened. A large num-
ber of young men promised to go out dur-
ing February, which is an idle month with
the Chinese, and preach in the villages about
here. They went out, as they had promised,
by twos and threes, and

CAME BACK ENTHUSIASTIC

over the reception they had at the hands of
the people. Every one received them kindly.
Many invited them in to sit and drink tea
while they talked. With scarcely an excep-
tion, they said, they were listened to with at-
tention and respect. At one place only, a vil-
lage of gamblers, the men said, " It is useless
for you to preach here," and as they turned
away they heard one man say to another,
"Those men must be crazy to preach that kind
of a doctrine in this place." Probably the

MOST GENUINE TESTIMONY

to the good done was a contribution made by
the church members of enough to hire an
evangelist for a year to be this church's home
missionary to villages about Ichowfu. They
subscribed about 130.00 gold for this purpose
and a large sum that is, indeed, for this church.

We have good reason to be thankful to Mr.
Faris for planning and to Mr. Mateer and Mr.
Wang for coming 500 li through storm and
snow to carry through a series of meetings
that has evidently put new life and energy
into the church here. Let us pray that the
effect be lasting.

1903.]

LETTERS.

163

The outlook is good throughout this field,
not as bright as in some places perhaps, cer-
tainly not discouraging. To-day, Easter Sun-
day, six are to join the church, making about
thirty in this field since September last

THE HEAD CARPENTER

is one who joins to day. He has had charge
of all the building done here. He came down
from Wei Hien when we came here, over
twelve years ago. He is a very bright fellow
and I have always regarded him as a straight-
forward, honest kind of a man. For some
years he has wanted to join the church but
his old mother pleaded with him to wait until
after her death so he could give her a proper
(from her standpoint) burial. Now she has
withdrawn her objection. Let us hope she
will follow his example so that when she dies
he can have the privilege of giving her a
proper (from his standpoint) burial.

JAPAN,

Mrs. Harvey Broklw wrote from Hiro-
shima April 30 :

If ever our mission can get enough single
ladies together, so that this station can have
at least one of the two it has been asking for,
what a grand time that will be for this work !
A wife's hands, if she has children, are too
much occupied to work systematically and
regularly, and that is

THE ONLY WAY TO DO THINGS

if you wish for success. This work is most
interesting and inviting to any one who can
come and give herself entirely to it.

The evangelists in each of the five out- sta-
tions are begging for women's meetings. I
want to go regularly to at least two of these
out-stations and hold meetings. I thoroughly
enjoy getting out to these places and into
closer touch with the people. Then the house-
to-house visitation, which I enjoy very much,
has not been done this year. The street Sun-
day-school has been practically stopped. All
this old work we had going so nicely before
Miss Nivling left us to get married, yet, after
all, how little it was compared with what
ought to be donel This city has 120,000 people.

ONE OUT-STATION HAS 80,000

and ours is the only work there. Another out-
station has 35,000. All our work is right along
the railroad and the sea. This province, for
which God holds us and His Church responsi-
ble, has nearly 1,500,000 people, only five of
the forty-six provinces being larger. And there
are only fifteen missionaries in the whole
province. No, it is not so good as that, for our
work extends over one county of another prov-
ince. We have only touched the fringe of the

problem. And yet some people think mission
work in Japan is nearly ended !

There have been a number of baptisms, and
a number, especially some Normal School stu-
dents whom I taught, are really Christians at
heart, but have not the bravery to take their
stand before the world. They say tliey believe,
but must wait to confess their faith. They
are just starting in as teachers of schools.

Seven hundred are studying Christianity
through our Correspondence Evangelism sys-
tem, and there are as many baptisms as a re-
sult of this method as any other.

MOTHER HINDERED BY A SON.

About a month ago, a dear old lady passed
away who was not baptized, but had been
waiting a long time for her son's permission.
This son is a colonel in the army and, although
not bitterly opposed to Christianity, refused
to allow his mother and wife the baptismal rite.
The wife is still waiting. The only one in a
large family who is a baptized Christian is the
oldest daughter. Before this grandmother
died, she and this grandchild had prayers
every evening before going to sleep. She had
faith, as could be seen by a glance at the
sweet, peaceful face. Of course the son did
not permit a Christian funeral so there was a
grand Buddhist service. But this was exter-
nal only. After th6 priests had fixed the body
according to their ritual, the Christian grand-
child laid the priest's things down at the foot
of the coffin, where they could not be seen,
and placed flowers and Christian pictures on
and inside as she thought they ought to be,
and as her grandmother would have desired.
When the priest came to open the coffin dur-
ing the ceremony, he was surprised to see these
decorations but was heard to say, " It is very
beautiful, very beautiful."

KOREA.

Mrs. William N. Blair wrote from Pyeng
Yang, May 5:

About two hundred and eighty women at-
tended the spring class. We had a reception
for them in the academy building their last
day. Mr. Blair gave them a "chalk-talk"
which they enjoyed immensely, we had mu-
sic and Mrs. Wells entertained them with the
gramophone while they were enjoying their
tea and cake. The heathen women think there
are spirits in the gramophone and even the
Christians seem to think it is rather spooky.
The Koreans enjoy these simple receptions
with a delight which the most elaborate func-
tions at home cannot call forth.

Last month I began work which is new to
me and which I am so glad to be able to do —

164

LiJTTERS.

[July,

that is, teaching Sabbath morning in one of
the Bible classes.* I am going to help Mrs.
Baird at Sa Chang Kol. I have a class of fif-
teen young married women about my own
age. They are bright girls, many of them
wives of academy students, and they

KNOW THEIR BIBLES WELL

already. The last two Sabbaths I had a sweet
young woman from the country. Hter hus-
band, a Christian, died recently. Her own
people are heathen and she dare not go to
them for fear they will sell her to an unbe-
liever, so she is staying with one of the Chris-
tian women here until she can obtain some
permanent protection. Another interesting
character was a woman Buddhist priest. She
was bright looking, forty five but seemed
much younger, and the class said she could
read well, which is a rare accomplishment
among heathen women. She wore a peculiar
cone-shaped hat woven from bamboo, and
men's clothing, as all these women of her sort
do. She had come to the city to view the for-
eign homes and also to learn more of the
Jesus doctrine, of which she had heard some-
thing. I hope she may not only hear but be-
lieve. Dr. Moffett

BAPTIZED FIFTY MEN

in the city church last Sabbath. He has been
able to examine only the merest fraction of
the candidates because of his long absence in
Whang Hai Province, for the investigation of
Roman Catholic persecutions. Catechumens
are received almost every Sabbath.
We have instituted

ARBOR DAY AMONG KOREANS.

About the first of April, the academy boys
were given a holiday for the purpose of plant-
ing trees. Each class took its plot of ground
on the campus and proceeded to beautify it
with native trees and shrubs. It was hard
work, for the campus is stony ground, but their
class spirit was roused and they went at it
with a vim, in spite of dirt and their clean
white clothes. In the afternoon they had a
a programme of exercises which all the mis-
sionaries attended. The boys sang and made
speeches and Mr. Lee made an address on the
benefits of tree planting, which was full of
wit and wisdom. This was a new idea to
Koreans and they enjoyed it immensely.

We are having our new home papesred and
the woodwork finished. There are just thir-
teen men at work about the place, to all of
whom I must give orders, since Mr. Blair is
out in his country work. I hope they can

* This is more than a Sunday-school class, it is a morning
service.— Ed.

have finished by the time he returns. Mis-
sionary husbands do not like housecleaning.

INDIA.

Miss Morrow having been transferred with
her orphans to Fatehgarh, wrote from there

March 25:

Before we got things here into full running
order. Miss Johnson came down with typhoid
fever. This is about the twelfth day. We
have a good nurse and the doctor thinks she
is doing well. It has been a sad disappoint-
ment to her ; she was always so strong and so
ready to serve that it is hard for her to need
to be served. We hope that although there
must be some weeks of lying aside, yet in
time we may have her with us again in the
work she loves so dearly.

I brought my family of over sixty here in
January to take charge, with Miss Johnson,
of a still larger family here of over a hundred.
We are much crowded.

Last year was one of my best years : work in
Fatehpur had opened as never before, there
were more opportunities than time permitted
me to improve. In one village on the edge of
the city we had a girls' school of nearly forty
children, and twelve or thirteen homes in
which nearly as many more persons were
taught twice and three times a week: the
school was open every day. This was the
work of

THE BIBLE WOMAN.

She never counts hours for her work, but
puts as much into every day as she can. In
one village four or five miles out, I had a
good Christian family at work ; the husband
opened a boys' school and his wife visited in
houses. They gained the confidence and good
will of the people. I visited there several
times and always had good housefuls of wo-
men to talk to. In the home of the headman
of the village I had on one visit over fifty
women and girls. I would see four or five
homes each time I went. This man and his
wife are still carrying on the work in Kandhi,
but the girls' school had to be closed when I
came away, also my zenanas. Three or four
other villages sent request to me

TO GIVE THEM A TEACHER.

The villagers give the house for the teacher,
also the schoolroom, buy their books and pay
a small monthly tuition which covers general
expenses. In one village they even offered to
do more if I would send a teacher.

Last year three of my girls were married
and are happily settled in their homes and
are trying to let their light shine ; two are in
Cawnpore.

1903. J

LETTERt^.

1G5

SYRIA.

THE CAGE-BARS BROKEN.*

Mrs. Wm. Jessup wrote from Zahleh,
April 25:

The cordon of soldiers which has guarded
Zahleh for over four months against infection
from cholera (which is still in Damascus) was
"rushed " on April 21, by a thousand or more
of the Zahleh people. Tuesday morning the
boys and young men in the market began to
shout that they were going to

BREAK UP THE CORDON.

Instantly they were cheered by the men in
the cafes and shops. Shouts like the cheers at
an intercollegiate ball game rose in streets
which are ordinarily dull, and as they shouted
the young men acted. They entered each
shop, dragged out its reluctant owner, forced
him to lock his doors and join them. The poor
old men were angered at this treatment, but
the young men were in earnest. Groups of
women gathered to watch and were drawn
into the mob. As the numbers increased, ex-
citement spread. In one hour, a mob of a
thousand or more, young and old, were hurry-
ing, actually running, down the road from the
town toward the cordon. They stopped at the
courthouse. The Governor of Zahleh was
absent and the door was three times closed in
the face of the mob. Then they turned and
rushed on, a half-mile "further, to the line of
armed soldiers who guarded the pass on the
west side of the river. There was no reason
why the soldiers should not have stood aside
and let the people pass into the infected dis-
trict. Their duty after that would have been
to prevent a return until they had served in
quarantine. But the soldiers tried to check
the mob and, failing, they fired. Instantly a
man fell wounded — then the mob went mad.
They fell upon the soldiers — women stoned
them, boys beat them, several Turkish flags
were torn to pieces ; then the mob crossed the
bridge and came up the other side of the river.

In front of Muallaka courthouse, the offi-
cials asked by what authority they were so
acting. They answered by shouts of

"VICTORY TO THE SULTAN!"

That is the watchword of loyalty, so they
were allowed to go on. They broke up the
cordon on the east side of the river and re-
turned to Zahleh victorious, with perhaps a
dozen men wounded.

That afternoon the governor returned to
Zahleh. The Moslem Governor of Muallaka
telegraphed directly to the Sultan how the
people had rushed the cordon and torn up the
Turkish flag! The new pasha of Lebanon was

* See May issue, page 112.

FURIOUS AT THE DEkD

of the Zahleh people. He sent his highest mil-
itary official here with soldiers. For three
days they have been arresting young and old,
ri(;h and poor, men and women. The people
are intimidated. Hundreds are in liiding. We
shelter no one and the government trusts us
fully. A few Protestants were in and out
through the day, but we are alone to-night.
We urge the people to make peace with the
government at any cost. Since the massacres
of 1860, when Zahleh people were fought and
ruined by the Druzes, the Lebanon Govern-
ment has protected Zahleh, and the Lebanon
Government is protected by treaty with the
European powers. If Zahleh should be left by
the government in disgrace, the Druzes might
attempt to take vengeance again upon the city.
It is pitiful to know that hundreds of the
people are imprisoned, sleeping without beds
on stone floors, amid dirt and vermin.

THE REASONS GIVEN

for breaking up the cordon are : that the poorer
people were starving, having nothing to eat
but plain bread ; the shopkeepers were with-
out purchasers, and the whole town of 15,000
to 20,000 was distressed with fear for the com-
ing months lest they should lose their crop of
mulberry leaves and therefore their silkworm
business— lest their unploughed vineyards
should not yield and there be no harvest in
their fields.

MEXICO.

Mrs. Hubert Brown wrote from Mexico
City, May 14:

The beautiful memorial chapel given to our
college, by Miss Clara McMurtrie of Hunting-
don, Pa., is progressing well and, unless strikes
in the U. S. prevent our getting the wood for
interior finishing, we hope to dedicate it in
July. We are unitedly praying for suitable
classrooms and more dormitories. We can-
not receive more students as we have no places
for them. Each year sees an increase in tui-
tion paid by students' families.

We have seven young men in the senior
(theological) class, all of whom are this year
doing full work in the field. Next year they
come back, finish their course and graduate.
During vacation nearly all the students take up
field work as supply pastors, Bible agents, etc.

Efforts towards self-support this year, and
contributions to the Mexican Home Mission
Board, by the congregations, show an advance
of $2,451 over any previous year. Money is
not everything, but when people give to evan-
gelical work, so large an amount, it shows
that the right spirit is moving among them.

nom DEPARmENT

United Study of Missions*

LUX CHRISTI

Forces of Darkness and Forces of Light.

1. Scripture Lesson. Isaiah xxxv.

2. Current Missionary Events.

3. Outside Inducements to tlie Heathen to

Become Christians.

4. Outside Hindrances to the Heathen Pro-

fessing Christ.

5. Influence of English Officials and Policy

on Missions in India.
(). Caste as Related to Christianity.
7. Necessitv of Secular Schools in Mission

Work.*^

Chapter VI.

Growth and Influence of the Opium Traffic.

Compaie what has been Actually Accom-
plished for India, as a Whole, by Mis-
sionaries and by Native Reformers.
Discussion by five or six women on the
Responsibility of the Christian Church
to the Heathen World, and Best Meth-
ods of Arousing the Church.
Prayer that the people for whom Christ
died may not perish through the indif-
ference of His professed followers.

Use of the set of pictures illustrating Lux Christi will
greatly increase the interest.

9.

10.

11

United Study Series*-voLUME THiRa

The committee in charge announces the prospective text-book for 1904, Rex
Chrishis, An OutHne Study of China, by Dr. Arthur H. Smith. This book will
probably be ready in September, somewhat earlier than at first appeared possi-
ble. Like the volumes which have preceded, it is arranged in six chapters, capa-
ble of use in as many lessons or of expansion to twice the number. The uniform
price is 30 cents in paper covers, 50 cents in cloth. Orders should be sent not to
members of the committee but to headquarters of either of the Woman^s
Boards.

Dr. Smith has forwarded the outline of Bex Christus, (subject to changes
by himself, ) as follows :

GENERAL PLAN OF OUTLINE STUDY OF CHINA.

Preface which explains that this is not intended as more than a sketch of main features, the

history, geography, literature, etc., to he filled np in the main from other sources.
Chapter 1 . A Self-Centered Empire, hammedanlsm. Extinction of the Jewish

An outline sketch of the Chinese Empire. Colonies.

Its situation relatively to the rest of the Chapter 4. Earlier Christian Missions.

world, in the "belt of power." Its ex- Nestorians, their history and monument,

tent, population, physical features in gen-
eral, rivers, canals, etc. Cultivation of the
soil. Trade. The language in general ; dis-
tribution of dialects.

Chapter 2. An Isolated Nation.

An outline sketch of the Chinese people.
General course of their history. Succes-
sion of dynasties, etc. Their ideas and
ideals. Varying elements composing the
population. Variety in unity, unity in
variety. Reason for the perpetuation of
the Chinese Empire. The puzzle of Chi-
nese duration without progress. Synopsis
of race traits. Poverty of China. Out-
look on the rest of tlie world.

Chapter 3. The Religions of China.

An untechnical summary of the different
systems, — Confucianism, Taoism, Bud-
dhism. Their excellencies, their defects,
and inability to supply the spiritual needs
of the Chinese. Inertness of Chinese Mo-

Negative results. Mediaeval Roman Cath-
olic Missions. Roman Catholic Missions
in the sixteenth and seventeenth centu-
ries.

Chapter 5. Modern Christian Missions.

Protestant and Roman Catholic. First
period from 1807 to the first war with
Great Britain ; second period from the
above to the second war with Great Brit-
ain (and France) ; third period to the war
with Japan ; fourth period to the Boxer
uprising ; from that date to the present.

Chapter 6. The Open Door of Opportunity.

Different forms of work: Evangelistic,
educational, medical, literary. Relation
of the work of women for women to all
these. Immense expansion of opportunity
within recent years. Impossibility of fore-
casting the opportunities of the future.
Claims on Christian women. Concluding
observations.

MEETING IN CONNECTION WITH THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

Like a beautiful picture set in a frame held by the women at Los Angeles, ever
of spreading palms and fragrant flowers, remain in the memories of those who
so will the Foreign Missions Meeting, were fortunate enough to attend it.

1903.J

MEETING AT LOS ANGELES.

167

The First Church was filled at an early
hour. Mrs. Minor, the presbyterial presi-
dent, led the devotional exercises, call-
ing on Mrs. Chapin, for twenty years a
missionary in China, to lead in prayer —
and that prayer seemed to bring us into
the immediate presence of God and as-
sure us of His blessing.

Mrs. C. S. Wright, president of the
Occidental Board, gave the address of
welcome to California. She said the
State had been for centuries preparing
for this meeting. Space forbids oar giv-
ing the address in full and extracts
would not do it justice.

The assembly of missionaries sum-
moned by Mrs. P. D. Browne, brought
fourteen women to the platform, some
in the springtime of life, home for a first
vacation ; others, with tokens of having
borne the burden and heat of the day,
but all with buoyant spirits, enthusiastic
in the work to which they are called.
Mrs. John Newton, for forty-two
years a missionary in India, spoke feel-
ingly of the condition of women there
and the difficulty of leading them to open
their hearts to better things. Mrs.
Thomas Tracy, another veteran from
the same country, spoke of success that
could not always be reckoned from ap-
parent results, but the seed cannot be
lost for it is God's word and that never
fails. Mrs. Tracy paid a beautiful trib-
ute to the lamented Miss Beltz, who
gave herself and her all, unreservedly,
that souls might be won for Christ. She
did not see to any great extent the fruit
of her labors, but "she knows it now."

Mrs. J essup of Syria brought greet-
ings from three boarding-schools and
told of the growth of C. E. Societies.
From Africa, China, Laos and Persia
came words of cheer. There were great
needs but the power of God could sup-
ply them all.

In all, seven representatives stood for
India, but none was more impressive
than Miss Adelaide Brown who pleaded
that our young women might ' ' burn
out their lives for Christ " rather than
for social, or even for artistic and liter-
ary pleasures. A strong desire was ex-
pressed that some young woman in the
audience would consecrate herself to
missionary work, as Miss Strong had
done during the Assembly at Portland,
eleven years ago.

A pleasant feature was the introduc-
tion of a class of Chinese children from
the mission at San Francisco, in care of
Miss Cameron. By the kindness of rail-
road officials they had come free of ex-
pense, and were entertained by friends.
Very quaint they appeared in their na-
tive attire, with curious headdress and
funny little shoes. Most of them had
attractive faces, only so solemn that one
wondered if they ever smile. Very
promptly they answered Bible ques-
tions, recited psalms and sang hymns.

The afternoon session was opened by
a Praise Service, followed by greetings
from representatives of different Boards.
Mrs. Alford of Philadelphia spoke for
Ove?' Sea and Land, recommending the
little magazine as a "bargain," worth
far more than its cost, if only for its
suggestions for missionary meetings.
Mrs. Pinney followed, using the same
arguments for Woman's Work for
Woman and assuring the audience that
no one could afford to leave the church
without subscribing for it. Mrs. Kelley
read the report of Central Committee,
showing the increase in contributions
for the year, and referred to the Fear
Book of Prayer which is winning so
much favor. Mrs. Pringle of Edinburgh,
brought greetings from her society, on
the banks of the Tweed, the first society
to send Avomen missionaries to India.

Miss Margaret Hodge, Philadelphia,
spoke on Young People's ^v^ork and ex-
plained plans for study classes.

Dr. A.W, Halsey emphasized the fact
that Home Missions and Foreign Mis-
sions are one and the same in means and
end — the end, to win souls to Christ;
the means, the gospel sent to every
creature. Both Dr. Halsey and Mr.
Hand spoke with appreciation of the
women's share in the work of missions.

Three Chinese tots appeared with
some interesting exercises, and an older
girl sang, "I shall know Him by the
prints of the nails." We had thought
the Chinese could not sing, but we know
better now, for a purer, sweeter voice,
than that of Suey Leen we have seldom
heard.

The women of Los Angeles have
cause for congratulation on this delight-
ful meeting, and the many visitors from
the East are grateful for the privilege of
attending it. Julia A. Bogardus,

[July,

SINCE LAST MONTH.

Arrivals :

April 7.— At San Francisco, Cal., Miss Hester McGaughey, from Allahabad, India. Ad-
dress, Lewiston, 111.

April 22. — At San Francisco, Mrs. J. G. Kerr, from Canton, China. Address, Seville, Ohio.
April — . — At San Francisco, Rev. and Mrs. Thos. Tracy, from Fatehpur, India. Address,

IGOl Centre Ave., Pittsburg, Pa.
May 1.— At San Francisco, Rev. W. J. P. Morrison and son, from Dehra, India. Mrs.

John Newton, from Lahore, India. Addresses not known.

Rev. A. G. McGaw and family, from Etah, India. Address, Hersman, 111.

Dr. Mary H, Fulton, from Canton. Address, Oakland, Cal.
May 19. — At Boston, Mrs. J. J. Lucas and daughter, from Allahabad, India.
May 20. — At New York, Rev. A. R. Miles, from Bogota, Colombia, who rejoins his wife

at Indianapolis, Ind.

May 28. — At New York, W. S. Lehman, M.D., Mrs. Lehman and child, from Lolodorf ,
Africa. Address, 2421 N. Paulina St., Ravenswood, Chicago, 111.

June 1. — At New York, Rev. and Mrs. Henry C. Velte and two children, from Lahore,
India. Address, Hebron, Nebraska.

June 2. — At Vancouver, Rev. F. P. Oilman, from Hainan. Address, Sonyea, N. Y.
Departures :

May 16. — From New York, Rev. Wm. K. Eddy and family, returning to Sidon, Syria.

Rev. Geo. C. Doolittle and family, returning to Zahleh, Syria.
May 25. — From Galveston, Texas, Miss McDermid, returning to Mexico.

TO THE AUXILIARIES.

[FOR ADDRESS OF EACH HEADQUARTERS AND LIST OF OFFICERS SEE THIRD PAGE OF COVER.]

From Philadelphia,

Send all letters to 501 Witherspoon Building. Direc-
tors' meeting omitted July, August, September; also the
monthly prayer-meeting July and August.

July. " Prayer Union. — Our Mission Schools.

The Thirty-second Annual Report of the So-
ciety will have been issued by the time this
magazine is received. Read it critically, and
if there are mistakes concerning the work of
your station, or the receipts of your society
or band, let us know them at once, not wait-
ing until the close of the year to have them
rectified.

It is a happy thought that no change of
officers was necessary for the coming year,
and with pleasure we announce an addition
to our corps. Miss S. M. Brown having been
appointed Assistant Special Object Secretary.

Mrs. T. Spencer Ogden, Africa, has com-
pleted a two weeks' tour through the Presby-
terial Society of Parkersburg, W. Va., thus
bringing the members into personal touch
with their own missionary. The Annual
Meeting was held at Mannington ; fifty dele-
gates were entertained.

The month of May brought Rev. and Mrs.
G. C. Doolittle, Syria, to pay us a parting call;
a visit from Miss Gardner, Tokyo, who gave
us a graphic history of the consecutive daily
Bible study in our favorite Joshi Gakuin, and
Miss Case also brought greetings from Japan.

Brief messages were brought us by Dr.
Margaret H. Bynan and Miss Anna W. Jones,
who are about to sail for their new fields of
labor. Miss Mary Lewis and Miss Elda Pat-
terson have been graduated from the Train-
ing-school for Christian Workers, New York.
These all are commended to your interest and
prayers as they enter upon missionary life.

Historical Sketch of our Missions in India,
by Rev. C. A. R. Janvier; price 10 cts.

This new number in our series is not a revis-

ion or a compilation but an original mono-
graph written expressly for the purpose by
one whose name is a guarantee for its fresh
interest and permanent value. Mr. Janvier is
a missionary and the son of a missionary and
speaks from his own experience of the history
and promise of Christ's cause in India.

For July: Schools and Colleges in Philip-
pines, 3 cts. ; Question Book, 2 cts. ; How the
Philippine Islands are Becoming Christ's, 1
ct. ; The Island World. Information on Hai-
nan is contained in our helps for China.

From Chicago.

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

We wish our friends from other places would
make it a point, if possible, when passing
through Chicago to call at our mission rooms.
They will find a welcome, any day in the
week. Attend our Friday meetings; it takes
only an hour, from ten to eleven; you will
find it exceedingly enjoyable. All know where
Marshall Field's store is, and we are in the
building next east, on Randolph Street. At
some of our recent meetings we have had the
pleasure of listening to most encouraging
words from Commander Wadhams of the U.
S. Navy. When at various ports he always
looked up the missionaries and found them
well described as people of three "G's" —
Grace, Grit and Gumption. He was sure the
twelve young men and women appointed to
foreign service, whom he met here, were of
that sort. The missionary letters too are well
worth hearing. Come then and join us, at
least once. You will not regret it.

The Annual Report will have been sent to
the secretaries when this reaches you. Make
use of it. See what our own missionaries are
doing. You will find much help can be gleaned
from its pages.

Commanded to "rejoice with those who do

1903.] TO THE A UXILIARIES. 100

rejoice," we gladly obey by congratulating
our Michigan societies on the correction of
the error made in reporting the number of
copies of Woman's Work taken within their
bounds. Somehow the list was counted in two
sections at tlie New York headquarters, and
one section slipped out of sight with that
"innate perversity of inanimate matter"
which we frequently experience. Michigan
should be credited with 774 copies instead of
256. We make the amende honorable and re-
joice in their gains. The editor of Woman's
Work writes:

"The Secretaries of Literature in Michigan
have year after year sent in their subscription
returns with an evenness and promptness not
surpassed by any State in the Union. In dull
years they made a small, steady increase, and
when the lists began to jump in 1900, Michi-
gan advanced proportionately. In fact, Mich-
igan leads the Northwest States in respect of
gains made during the last five years. Iowa,
which plays a good second, gained 294 sub-
scribers. Illinois gained 283, but Michigan has
gained 309 since 1897."

Lansing Presbyterial Society mourns the
loss of two efficient officers, lately called into
the heavenly kingdom, the president, Mrs.
Harriet R. Cook, and Mrs. H. C. Haskell,
^'hose talents have been multiplied during
many years of Bible teaching. "Their works
do follow them."

For this month's study we have Dr. Hal
sey's The Island World, Presbyterian Church
in the Philippines, free; How the Philippine
Islands are Becoming Christ's, 1 ct. ; Question
Book, Hainan and the Philippines, The Phil-
ippines, and Home Life in Hainan, each 2
cts. (not 2 cts. for the three) ; Schools and Col-
leges in Hainan and the Philippines, 3 cts.

Fror/i New York,

The Wednesday meetings will be omitted during July,
August and September. The rooms will be open all
summer, except on Saturday afternoons. Send letters
to Room 818. 156 Fifth Ave.

Owing to incomplete returns on the blanks
we are without the names and addresses of
officers of many of the young people's and
children's societies and therefore cannot send
them the Annual Report. Any society that
has not received one will be supplied on appli-
cation to Room 818, 156 Fifth Avenue.

Eighteenth Annual Report of the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbytery
of New York may also be had at Room 818.

Watkins, N. Y., has a Via Christi class.
Its order for books, coming as it does in June,
is pleasantly suggestive of summer study and
piazza meetings — a delightful variety of the
genus missionary. It is pleasant to find new-
ly formed classes still beginning with Via
Christi, thus forming a firm foundation for
the enjoyment of the succeeding volumes of
the United Study course.

From Northern New York.

Nearly three months have elapsed since
Annual Meeting, and what have we accom-
plished ? Some of us pledged, at that time,
that we would use every effort, this year, to
secure a greater interest in our individual

societies as regards more prayer, larger gifts,
and increased attendance at the monthly
meetings. Nine months remain before we
nuist give an account of our stewardship. The
Lord is blessing the work of our representa-
tives at the front, and He will bless us in our
work on the home side, if only we will prove
Him, and bring all the tithes into the store-
house.

Too late, to acknowledge in May, came one
of Mr. Rodgers' interesting letters to the C. E.
Societies that he represents. We trust that
our young people appreciate the faithfulness
of their missionary, in keeping them posted
as to the progress of the Lord's work in the
Philippines, and realize that this should stim-
ulate a like faithfulness, on their part, in re-
membering him, and his work, before the
throne of grace.

For the past year and a half, hardly a month
has passed that we have not had to chronicle
the death of some one of our workers, at home
or abroad. There was grief in many a home
in Northern New York when the word came
that our dear friend. Rev. Boon Boon Itt, had
been called to his "exceeding great reward."
Many of our older workers recall his coming,
a boy of ten, with Mrs. House, and the inter-
est with which they watched the child de-
velop into the strong man, consecrating his
talents to the Lord's service and giving him-
self to the uplifting of his own people. While
not supported by our society, though recently
becoming the missionary pastor of Waterford
Church, \ve claimed Mr. Boon Itt as our
own, for he grew up amongst us and was a
member of our Band in Waterford, and all
these years we have watched with rejoicing
the way the Lord has led and used him. While
we cannot understand the mystery of this
providence, we know that our Father doeth
all things well. Surely, the Master, as He
calls one and another of our faithful workers
home, is calling us to renew our efforts to
hasten the day when the whole world shall
have heard the story of redemption, and is
also reminding us that the time is short, " for
the night cometh, when no man can work."

From St. Louis.

Meetings the first and third Tuesdays of each month
at Room 21, 1516 Locust St., St. Louis, Mo. Mission-
ary literature for sale at the above number. Visitors
always cordially welcome.

It is with great encouragement that we be-
gin our work in the new year upon which we
are entering. Increase of interest, increase
of gifts, greater sales of literature than ever
before, one new missionary. Miss Gibbon, and
one new candidate. Miss Schoenhair, all these
contribute to our joy and thanksgiving. There-
fore we are planning even greater things for
the ensuing year.

The Silver Anniversary fund, amounting to
$615.00, was applied, as will be remembered,
to the hospital work of Dr. Elva Fleming of
Ichowfu, China. An urgent appeal comes
from Secretary Dr. Arthur Brown for an en-
tire hospital there, as there is no woman phy-
sician, save Dr. Fleming, in all that district
in which live more than a million women.
The ground, with a suitable fence, costs about

170

XEW AUXILIARIES— TREASUEEBS' REPORTS. [June,

§1,700, — this the Board has determined to pur-
chase, thus securing a most desirable site. We
hope to be able to build the hospital, which,
with the necessary home for Dr. Fleming and
her assistants, will cost in the neighborhood
of ?4,000. We should very much like to say
that we will furnish that money in addition
to our pledged work, this year, but we should
need active co-operation from every society in
our territory to that end. We believe there is
no limit to God's power and that He will help
us if we undertake even the greatest things
in His name and for the sake of His work.
We are looking for further guidance before
making a definite decision in the matter.

The Annual Report will be in the hands of
every auxiliary by the time this reaches our
readers. We hope that good use will be made
of it, and that every presbyterial secretary
will note the names of non -contributing soci-
eties and ascertain the reasons for their fall-
ing off. Often a word of sympathy and en-
couragement will revive drooping interest and
stimulate flagging zeal to renewed effort. Sec-
retaries, magnify your office !

The Secretary for Special Objects makes
her annual appeal to all societies having spe-
cial objects to notify her whether they wish to
take a new object or keep one already selected.
Much confusion in making appropriations may
be avoided by promptly writing to Mrs. John
A. Allen, 3727 Westminster Place, St. Louis.

Remember that our aim is an increase of 50
per cent, in subscriptions to Woman's Work
this year. This would mean a total of about
1,500 copies. Secretaries of literature, here is
the mark, — make your bravest efforts to come
up to it.

The Literature Department has closed a
very busy year, sales of literature being larger
than any year since the organization of the
Board. We have a few Year Books for 1903
on hand ; price, 10 cts.

The Word of God in Psalm One Hundred and

Nineteen, price 20 cts. per dozen, 2 cts. each,
is an excellent leaflet for leaders of devotional
hour. For this and leaflets on July topics
address St. Louis, 1516 Locust St.

From Portland, Oregon.

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

Before this you have received the Annual
Report. Do not lay it aside as a book of ref-
erence only, for it will bear careful study.
Make much of it. In its pages you will find
the whole plan and policy of our Board set
forth ; every leader in missionary work should
be familiar with the constitution. We sug-
gest that the Report be made the topic of one
monthly meeting.

Because of our rapidly growing work, it
has become necessary to have two associate
corresponding secretaries, one for each Synod.
Oregon societies, therefore, will be under the
direct supervision of Mrs. E. P. Geary, 739
Irving St., Portland; Washington societies,
under that of Mrs. E. E. Keyes, 1700 Summit
Ave., Seattle. With this added strength, and
diligent work on the part of our auxiliaries,
we confidently expect rapid progress. Com-
pared with stronger organizations, we may
appear to be only "inching along," but every
step in advance is a step higher up. We ad-
vanced last year, ice can do it again.

It may seem a little early in the year to be-
gin to talk about money and prompt pay-
ments, but it is amazing to learn what a large
proportion of the gifts come in during the last
quarter of the year — much of it even during
the last week. Isn't it just as easy to give it
in the third quarter as in the fourth ? This
matter should be kept before the societies and
the regular, equal quarterly payments insisted
upon. This happy-go-lucky method of " never
doing to-day what can be put off until to-
morrow " is not to be commended in mission-
ary work. Aim at perfection in methods and
be satisfied with nothing less.

NEW AUXILIARIES AND BANDS.

COLORADO.

Holyoke: La Yeta.
ILLINOIS.

Chicago: Lakeview Ch., Y. L. Bd.,
Girls' Band; Ravenswood.

Henry; Jacksonville, State St., Little
Lights : Oneida, King's Messengers;
Paris, Y. L. S.; Shelbyville, Margaret
Simcox Bd.
INDIANA.

Boswell; Center Grove; Dayton, Bd.;
Fort Wayne, Bethany, Y. L. S.

Indianapolis: Grace Ch. ; MemU Ch.,
Junior Partners, King's Daughters; 2d

Ch., Lucy Mayo Bd., Jo Gakko Bd.;
12th Ch.

Montpelier; Richmond, Bd.; Royal
Oak; Spencer, Bd.; South Bend, Trinity;
Winamac.
IOWA.

Hamburg; Jacksonville; Mediapolis,
Bd.; Ottumwa, East End Ch.

Sioux City: 1st Ch., Y.L. Nodoa Bd.;
2d Ch.. Jr. Bd.

Winthrop, Unity Ch.
MICHIGAN.

Deckers villa (re-organized); Luding-
ton, Children's Bd.: Monroe, Golden

Links; Port Huron, Westm'r; South
Lyon, Y.L.8. ; Tecumseh, Light Bearers.

MINNESOTA.

Pipestone, Girls' Bd.
NEBRASKA.

Blue Springs (re-org.); Firth.

NORTH DAKOTA.

Cavalier (re-org.) ; Larimorc ; Park
River, Rushford Ch.

WISCONSIN.

Brodhead (re-org.); Portage, Y. L. Bd

Receipts of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church from April I, J 903.

[presbyteries in small capitals.] * Thank Offering.

Philadelphia.— Ist, 129 5.5, Albert Barnes Mem'l., 58 67,
Geo. D. Baker Bd., 72.60: 2d, 192.32, Beadle Bd.. 100:
Star of the East, 50, Early Blossoms, 15, Beth Eden Union,
5; 4th, 36, S.C.E., 20; 10th. S.C.E., 25, S.C.E. Jr.,
15.08; x\rch St., Y.P. Ass'n, 93.87, Carrier Doves, 8, S.C.E.,
22.29, Chapel, Jov Bells, 28; Atonement, Myrtle Bd., 21,
S.C.E., 25, S.C.E. Jr., 15; Bciicon, 40, Livingstone Bd., 10.60,
S.C.E., 8.50, S.C.E. Jr., 3; Berean, M. L. Hogg Aux., 1;
Bethany, 100, Y.L.S., .50; Bethel, 12.75. Miss'y Circle, 3,
Bethel Bd., 2, S.C.E., 25; Bethesda, 77.30, Anna M. Eva
Soc, .5.5, S.C.E., 5; Bethlehem, 200, Y.P. Ass'n, a3.84, Class
No. 66, 17, S.C.E. Jr., 8; Calvary, 1.080. Day Dawn Bd., 25;
Chambers- Wylie, 93; Cohocksink, .31.50; Covenant. S.C.E.,
5; Emmanuel, Blossom Bd., 2.5, S.C.E. Jr., 25; Evangel,

S.C.E. Jr., 5; Gaston, 14.63, S.C.E., 41.50; Harper Mem'l,
72, Girl's Soc, 15, Y.L.B., 35, S.C.E., 15; Hebron, 2; Hol-
lond Mem"l, 75, Y.L.Soc, 34, S.C.E., 16; Kensington, Ist,
54, S.C.E., 106: McDowell Mem'l. 39.57; Mizpah, 5, S.C.E.,
3: Mutchmore Mem'l, 74. S. A. Mutchmore Bd., 35, S.C.E.,
10; North, S.C.E. Jr., 3; North Broad St., 1; Northern
Liberties, 1st, St. Paul Aux.. 35, A Lady. 5; Northminster,
200, Y.W.Soc, 200: Olivet, 50, Jesus' Little Lambs, 20, True
Lights, 6; Oxford, 169, F. L. Robbins Bd., 60, Guthrie Bd.,
50, Etta Case Soc, 100. S.C.E., 450: Patterson, Mem'l, 5;
Princeton, 310, Mary Henry Bd., 50, Princeton Bd., 10,
Helping Hands, 2, Lookout, 11.58, Fullerton Bd., 30, S.C.E.,
Int., 2.50, S.C.E. Jr., 5; St. Paul's, 15; Scots, 17.77, S.C.E.,
5, S.C.E. Jr., 5; South, Y.P. Soc, 15; Southwestern, 25,

1903.]

TREASURhRS' REPORTS.

171

S.C.E. , 7.50; Tabenuicle, 59.51, Y.L. Soc, 50: Tabor, Mes-
sengers of Light, 80, Little Helpers, 31, L.L.Ii., 5(»cts.; Tem-
ple, 50, Temple Workers, 24, (irace Bd., 15; Teiiiient, 10,
S.C.E. Jr., 4; Tioga, 50, Workers for Jesus, 5, Little Givers,
19 50; Trinity, 10, Sunbeam Bd., 12; Union, ]«, Early
Gleaners, 6, S.C.E., 12; Union Tabernacl(^ S.C.E., 37; Wal-
nut St., 655, Wnatsoever Bd., 20, Y.L.S., 10, (Jirls' Bd.,3 25,
King's Messengers, 3.25, S.C.E., 63.25; West Green St.,
105.50, Bethany Bd., 50, S.C.E. ,50; West Hope. 71.50, Little
Stjirs, 2, Bereah Bd., 1, Witnesses, 30, S.C.E., H 50, S.C.E. Jr.,
5; Westminster, 60, S.C.E., 8, S.C.E. Jr., 7: West J>ark,
21.50; Woodland, 78.43, Fullerton Soc., 65.66, Woodland
Bd., 21.75, Nelson Bd., 10, Young Men's Soc., 20, Dickson
Bd., 17.65; A Lady, 55.78; Int. on deposits, 11.05; A Ladv,
765, 8.055.50

Philadelphia North. — Abington, 53.20; Ambler, 8,
S.C.E., 3, S.C.E. Jr., 1.08; Bridesburg, 5, S.C.E., 2; Bridge-
port, S.C.E., 5; Bristol, Basti Bd., 33.62; Carmel, 3.55, S.C.E.,
4.50; Chestnut Hill, 1st, 46, S.C.E., 10; Trinity, 82.50; Con-
shohocken, 8, S.C.E., 2; Cvnwyd, Covenant, 7.50; Disston
Mem'l, 17. <5; Doylestown, 37.50, S.C.E., 22.50, S.C.E. Jr., 6;
Mechanicsville, Bd., 3.46: Falls of Schuylkill, Y.L.S., 35;
Forestville, 4, S.C.E., 2.50: Fox Chase Mem., S.C.E.. 12..50;
Frankford, 133. Y.L.S., 45, Y.P. Union (S.C.E.), 18: (ier-
mantown, 1st, 271.41, Miriam Bd., 20, J. G. Paton Club, 20,
Eliot Bd., 11.93, S.C.E., 54.74, S.C.E. Int., 20, S.C.E. Jr.,
3.4i, Summerville, S.C.E. Jr., 2.50; 2d, 125, Tulpehocken
Aux., l3. King's Daughters. 10, S.C.E., 31.10: Market Square,
37.61, S.C.E., 60.50: Redeemer, 25.25, Primary Bd., 5; Sum-
mit, 30.75, Band, 33.02, S.C.E., 79.64, Frances Palmer Bd.,
20.64; Wakefield, 54, S.C.E., 20, S.C.E. Jr., 10; West Side,
26 96, S.C.E., 21.15: Hermon, 8 10, M. & D., 15, Y.L. Bd.,
6.25, Busy Bees, 3.50, S.C.E., 11, S.C.E. Jr., 1.25; Holmes-
burg, 1st, 9.68 (="7.35); Jenkintown, Grace, 18, S.C.E., 5,
S.C.E. Jr., 13; Langhorne, S.C.E., 10; Lawndale, 4; Lever-
ington, 20, S.C.E., 25, S.C.E. Jr., 5; Lower Providence, 3,
S.C.E., 1.60; MacAUisterMem-l, 18.40, Y.P. Bd., 2.25; Mana-
yunk, Ist, 20, S.C.E., 5: Morrisville, 30, S.C.E., 2.50; Mt.
Airy, 127, S.C.E., 5, S.C.E. Jr., 15, A Lady, 200, A Lady, 200;
Narberth, 13: Neshaminy of Warmiuster, 15.62; Ivyland,
S.C.E., 2, Eliz. M. Philips S.C.E. Jr., 2; New Hope, 1.75,
S.C.E., 6; Newtown, 89.85, L.L.B., 3.40, S.C.E., 10, S.C.E.
Jr., 2; Norristown, 1st, 61.40, S.C.E.. 7.50, S.C.E. Jr., 5;
Central, 10.25, S.C.E., 6; Olney, 4; Overbrook, 50. Y.L.B.,
40; Pottstown, 1, Hill School Band, 40. S.C.E. Jr., 5: Read-
ing, Ist, 4.5, S.C.E., 25, S.C.E. Jr., 5; Olivet, Aftermath Soc,
12, S.C.E., 7; Roxborough, S.C.E., 10; Springfield, S.C.E.,
7.80; Thompson Mem'l, 30, S.C.E., 5: Wissahickon, 7.50,
Band, 2.50; Wissinoming. S.C.E. Jr., 5; Wyncote, Calvary,
S.C.E., 21; Friendship Circle (Bristol), 25; Offerings from
Shanghai, 18.21; Interest, 6; Medical Missions, 7.84; Add l
Silver Offering, 1, 3.057.93

Pittsburg & Alleg. Com.— Allegheny, 1st. :327.44 (*74 57),
Earnest Workers, 50; Ist, German, 15, Good Will Workers,
5.30, Friendship Bd., 10 ; Brighton Road, 17.95 (*13 25),
Alert Bd., 5; Central, 27.70, Band of Six, 30, Macedonian
Bd., 2; McCUire Avenue, 68.35, Primary Class, 30; Man-
chester, 56 (*37), S.C.E., 8; North, 541.65 (*75), Hodge Bd.,
124.90, S.C.E., 40: Watson Mem'l, 12.03; Westminster, 15.08,
S.C.E., 18; Allison Park, S.C.E., 2: Aspinwall, 4, S.C.E.,
15; Avalon, 50 (*30). S.C.E., 17; Bakerstown, 48.75, Band,
8.37; Beaver, 104 (*86); Bellevue, 81.34 (+23.04), S.C.E., 10,
S.C.E. Jr., 4; Bethany, 56; Bethel, 98; Bridgewater, 37;
Canonsburg, 1st, 22.15, S.C.E., 8.80: Central, 48.20; Castle
Shannon, 16.50; Centre, 50, S.C.E., 25; Charleroi, 12; Char-
tiers, 15; Cheswick, 10, S.C.E., 6; Clifton. 6, S.C.E. Jr., 3;
Concord (Alleg.), 3; Concord (Pittsburg), 25. Willing Work-
ers, 1, Y.L.S., 7; Coraopolis, *141.80, Girls' Bd., 11.05, Boys'
Bd., 5.45, S.C.E., 15; Crafton, 67.70 (*50), Willing Workers,
40, C. Hawes Bd., 4, Mary J. Miller Bd., 14.41: Cross Roads,
11.50; Edgewood, 244.40 (*90), Dickinson Bd., 12.50: Kellogg
Bd., 13.10, S.C.E., .30: Emsworth, ;37.70(*20), Little Branches,
11; Fairmount,3; Finleyville, S.C.E., .3.25; Forest Grove, 7;
Freedom, S.C.E., 7.59; Glasgow, S.C.E.. 2; Gleufield 5.30
(*3.30), Y.P. Bd.,2.50; Glenshaw, 54.50 (*46), Sunshine Bd.,
19 09, Hannah Shaw Bd., 10.50, S.C.E., 3 .50; Haysville, 9.66
(*4.66) ; Hiland (Alleg)., 75, S.C.E., 12.50 ; Hoboken, 14,
Willing Workers, 5: Homestead, .35 (*1), S.C.E., 14, S.C.E.
Jr., 5; Idlewood, 14.80 (*10). Bartz Bd., 6; Industry, 8.95;
Ingram, *:i8.65, L.L.B., 5.:32: Lebanon, Y.P.. 31: Leetsdale,
95.88 (*57); Long Island, 7; McDonald, 12: Mansfield, 191.09
(*8.59), Y.L.S., 2.5, Duff Bd., 11.41 (*1.41), S.C.E., ;3.50: Mars,
6; Millvale, 15; Monaco, 13.50; Monongahela, 93 39 (*14.25),
L.L.B., 2; Mt. Olivet, 9; Mt. Pisgah, 34; Natrona, 17.50,
S.C.E., 7; New Salem, 12; Oakdale, 70.65 (*37.70). McJun-
kin Bd., 6, S.C.E., 25; Oakmont, 43.25 (*19.50), S.C.E., 25;
Pittsburg, 1st, 443.47: 2d, A. Howard Soc, 154, Jr. Bd., 10;
3d, 150; 4th, 91.56 (*15.98), S.C.E. Jr., 1; 6th, 66 (*16), Mc-
Candless Bd., 51; Billefield, 431.71 (*86), King's Daughters,
50, Busy Bees, 5, Y.L.S., 66.2:3, S.C.E., 55, S C.E. Jr., 4;
Central Chapel, 19.50; East End, 17.72 (*8.82); East Liberty,
601.03 (*241), Henry Bd., 21, Y.W. Soc, 30, Signet Circle,
26, Fidel is, 58, King's Messengers, 25, Y.P. Ass'n, 100, Jr.
Signet Circle, 7, L.L.B.,7; 43d St., 43.05 (*28.30); Hazlewood,
.59.50 (*9..50); Herron Ave., *15.50, Y.L.S., 6.50, Rays of Sun-
shine, 8; Highland, 161.60 (*141.60j; Homewood Ave, 25,

Jewels Bd., 26, S.C.E., 16; Knoxville, 26(*1), Buds of Prom-
ise, 23.50, S.C.E. Int., 5..5", i.awrenceville, 1 16 (*41), S.C.E.,
II, S.C.E. Int., 5; McConi..ll Bd., 31; Mt. WashingUm, 58;
Oakland, 15.44, S.C.E., 11; J'ark Ave, 152.80 (*106), Simcox
lid., 11.91, (Jleaners. 63.56, L.' .B., 1; Point Breeze, 390
( + 155.75), Y.P.S., 3, Y.L.S., .5.5, Willing Workers, 10; Shady
Side, 450 (*175»; South Side, 50 (*10); Tabernacle, 62.05
(*44.30), Buds of Promise, 1; Raccoon, 129.6(J, S.C.E., 10;
Kiverdale, S.C.E., 6.05); Rochester, 31; Sewickley, 23i.lO
(*76 30), Busy Bees, 8; Sharon, 8, S.C.E.. 10: Sharpsburg,
91 (*32.25), Boys' & Girls' Bd., 6.75, Y.L.S.. 20, S.C.E., 5(J;
Sheridanville, 55 (*20); Shippingport, 3: Swissvale, 100,
Y.L.S., 40; Tarentum, 87 (*15), Fleeson & Walker Bd., 10,
S.C.E., 16; Valley, 32.50, S.C.K., 10: Wilkinsburg, i:3H..32,
Reed Bd., 60, Earnest Workers, .3.5, Little Helpers, 2, S.C.E.,
50, S.C.E. Int., 25; Proceeds of K.R. tickets to Cleveland
1.70, 9,649.44

Portsmouth.— Eckmansville, 15; Georgetown, 1; Iron-
ton, 14.75, S.C.E. Jr., 9; Jackson, 17, S.C.E., 16.71; Man-
chester, ;35.55; Mt. Leigh, 1; Portsmouth, 1st, 24.85, Y.L.8.,
16.39, S.C.E., 26, S.C.E. Jr., 4.50; 2d, 51.08, King's Daugh-
ters, 6, S.C.E., 5; Red Oak, 1; Ripley, 10, S.C.E., 13, S.C.E.
Jr., 2; Wellston, S.C.E., 6; West Union, 2.50, S.C.E., 6,
S.C.E. Jr., 3; Winchester, 9, S.C.E., 4, 300.3:3

Redstone.— Belle Vernon, 22.10; Brownsville, 42.85, S.
C.E., 5; Connellsville, 19.60, Johnstone (Mrls' and Boys' Bds,
25; Dawson, S.C.E., 5; Dunbar, :34.25, Loring Bd., 20.51,
S.C.E., 45; Dunlap's Creek, 21.65; Fairchance, 25; Franklin,
4.25; Laurel Hill, 19.20; Little Redstone, 5.65, Circle, 5, S.C.
E., 25; Long Run, 17.2.5, S.C.E., 10, S.C.E. Jr., 2; McKees-
port, 1st, 1:37, Y.L. Bd., b7, S.C.E. Jr., 3; Central, .55.4:3,
S.C.E., 25. S.C.E. Jr., 20; Mt. Pleasant, 72.12, S.C.E., 8.50:
Reunion, 97, Busy Bees, 12, S.C.E., 15; New Geneva, 10;
New Providence, 11 50, S.C.E., 10; Pleasant Unity, 19, Trust-
ing Bd., 2; Port Vue, S C.E., 2; Rehoboth, 18 94, Willing
Workers, 5; Round Hill, S.C.E., 14; Scottdale, 31.09, S.C.E.,
25, S.C.E. Jr., 25; Sewickley, S.C.E., 10; Spring Hill Fur-
nace, S.C.E., 2.80; Tent, 8; Uniontown, 1st, Bd., 21.50; Cen-
tral, 15 54, S.C.E., 5.88; West Newton, 87.76, M. Robinson
Bd., 16, S.C.E., 25, 1,202.37

St. Clairsville.— Beallsville, 6; Cadiz, 8, Earnest Work-
ers, 1; Coal Brook, S.C.E., 3; Concord, S.C.E., 10; Kirk-
wood, 3; Martin's Ferry, 8; Mt. Pleasant, 3; Athens, 6.10;
Nottingham, S.C.E., 4.50; Rock Hill, S.C.E., 5.77: West

Brooklyn. 5, S.C.E., 2, 65.37
SHENANGo. -BeaverFalls, Y.L. S., 5; Volant, S.C.E., 1, 6.03
South Florida.— Kissimmee, 6.50
Southern Virginia.— Mt. Hermon, C. M. B., 1.00

Steubenville.— Beech Springs, 6.53 ; Bethel, 43.75 ;
Bethesda, 15; Bloomfield, 6; Brilliant, 25.:30; Buchanan,
29 .50, Corbett Bd., 5.10; CarroUton, :37: Corinth, 25; Cross
Creek, 24; Dennison, 68, S.C.E. Jr.. 5.50; East Liverpool,
Ist, 255, Y.L. Aux., 25; 2d, 30; Feed Spring, 16; Harlem, 28;
Hopedale, 50; Island Creek, 4.5.50: Kilgore, 11; Long's Run,
28; Monroeville, 20, Brigade, 5; Nebo. 12.23; New Cumber-
land, 1; New Philadelphia, 15.62; Oak Ridge, 9, Y.L.S.,
6.55; Potter Chapel, 25, A Lady, 3; Richmond, 5.99; Ridge,
26, Oasis Bd., 5; Salineville, 15.80; Scio. 21.75; Smithfield,
6; Steubenville, 1st, 42.50, Y.L.S. (Stewart Circle), 102; 2d,
88.90, Y.L.S. , 43.60, S.C.E., 25; 3d; :39, Y.L.S., 1.5, Whatso-
ever Bd.. 12, S.C.E., 10; Toronto, 27..50: Two Ridges, 14.50;
Uhrichsville, 57, Heart and Hands Bd., 20, Westminster Cir-
cle, 10: Waynesburg, 8; Wellsville. 1st, 1:34; 2d, 21; Yellow
Creek, 53.50, Wayside Gleaners, 10.50; Miscellaneous, 8.88,

1,700.00

Union.— Forest Hill, S.C.E., 1.25
Washington. -Allen Grove, 6. .50, S.C.E., 6; Bnrgetts-
town, Ist, 29.:38, S.C.E., 10; Wi stiinnsr. i , 22, S.C.E., 5;
Cameron, .35 (*6); Claysville, 104 i 1.-)), s.c.K., 5.6.5, Legacy,
50; Cove, W. Va., 20, Girls' Circle, 13.42: Cross Creek, .35.50,
Y.L.B., :30, S.C.E., 5; Cross Roads, 25; East Buffalo, :39.80
(*20.25), Band, 3.75; Fairview, 4.2.5, .^.C.E., 5; Forks of
Wheeling, 55, Boys' Excelsior Bd., 20, Bessie Shaw Bd.. 29,
S.C.E., 16.92; Frankfort, 10, S.C.E.. 5: llookstown. 22.87;
Limestone, S.C.E., 3; Lower Buffalo. 43: Lower Ten Mile,
8; Mill Creek, 44, Sunbeam Circle, 7, S.C.E., 25; Mounds-
ville,.20; m. Pleasant, 18; Mt. Prospect. ;35, S.C.E., 25;
New Cumberland, 79.15, Girls' Club, 26.87; Pigeon Creek,
2.), S.C.E., 3; Upper Buffalo, 20, Mary Shaw Bd., 15, China
Bd., 15; Upper Ten Mile, ;30: Washiusrton, 1st, 85 (*10),
Sewing Soc, 10, Comes Bd.. 2'). Boys" Club, 11, S.C.E.,
80 63. S.C.E. Jr., 4; 2d, :33, Y.W. IM.. 2i.:3.5, Girls' Gleaners,
2.50, Boys' Gleaners. 4.2). NOu Nobis Bd.. 56.87 (*22.75),
S.C.E., 15; 3d, 61.11 (*l5.;.-ji, Y.l>. Bd.. 80 (+30), S.C.E.,
17..55; Waynesburir. .52, S.C.E., 10; Well.- burg, W. Va., 64,
Glad Tidings Bd., *27.54, S.C.K,. 15: West Alexander, *40,
Hold the Fort, 15, Loring Bd., 51 (*11), Westminster League,
15, Legacy, 50: West Liberty. :30.25, Cunningham Bd., 2, S.
C.E., 1.25; West Union. 7.8!); Wheeling. 1st, 4:34.60 (*246),
Memorial Fund, 111.20. Cr.idle Roll, 163.15, Bessie Vance
Mem'l, 50, Paxton Mem., 50, Cherith Bd., 62, Syrian and
Sunshine, 60, Boys' Club, 31; 2d. 60, Carleton Circle, 50; 3d,
59.60, Primary CI., 7.25, S.C.E., 10; Vance Mem'l, 96 (*21);
A Friend, 3; A Lady, 30; A Lady, 4, 3,228.96
Washington City.— Washington, Eastern, S.C.E. Int.,

10.00

TREASURERS' REPORTS.

[July,

M'ellsboro.— Arnot, S.C.E., 1; Beecher's Is. (Nelson), (i;
Couaei-sport. 10.50, S.C.K., 2.50; J:iklan(l, 3.30; Kane, 7.50,
S C.E. Jr., 5: Mansfield. 1.70; Osceola, 8, S.C.E., 2.50; Ti-
oga, 1.83; Wellsboro, 22, 71.m

West Jersey.— Atlantic City, Westminster, 3; Black-
wood, 66, S.C.E., 25, S.C.E. Jr., 6; Brainerd (Elwood), S.

C. E., 7.75; Bridgeton, Ist, 76.14, Primrose Club, 88; 2d, 100,
S.C.E., 83.74, S.C.E. Jr., 1; 4th, S.C.E. Jr., 2; West, 48.85,
S.C.E., 15: Camden, 1st, 12.15; Calvary, 16; Cape May, 21,
S C E , 20.50, S.C.E. Jr., 5; Cedarsville, Two Churches, 12,
S.C.E.. 8: Clayton, 61, S.C.E., 7.45; Cold Spring, 15, S.C.E.,
5; Peertield, 50, S.C.E., 4; Elmer, 10; Glassboro, 14.25;
Gloucester, 20, S.C.E., 5, S.C.E. Jr., 5; CJreenwlch, 47, Will-
ing Workers, 5.50, S.C.E., 10; Haddonfield, 60; May's Land-
ing, 5.50; Merchantville, 8.15, S.C.E., 5; Millville, 20, S.C.E.,
5; Pitt5;grove, 20, Y.L. Bd., 34, Golden Links, 22, Earnest
Workers, H.SW; Salem, 57.32, Young Gleaners, 25, S.C.E.,
9.05, S.C.E. Jr., 50 cts.; Yineland, 8.50; Wenonah, 25, For-
get-Me-Not Bd., 25, S.C.E., 10; Woodstown, S.C.E., 10,

1,181.25

Westminster.— Bellevue, S.C.E., 5, S.C.E. Jr., 1; Cedar
Grove, 4.75; Centre, 66, S.C.E., 5.21; Chanceford, 22; Chest-
nut Level, 15M, Primary CI., 8, S.C.E., 37.18; Columbia,
137.50; Hopewell, 20; Lancaster, 1st, 27, S.C.E., 25, S.C.E.
Jr., 25; Memorial, 2.29, S.C.E., 4, S.C.E. Int., 2, S.C.E. Jr.,
2.50; Leacock, 9.40, S.C.E., 8; Little Britain, 12.50; Mari-
etta. m.U: New Harmony, 12, S.C.E., 10; Pequa, S.C.E. Jr.,
2; Piue Grove, 35; Slate Kidge, 16, S.C.E., 3; Slateville,
30.50, Infant CI., 4.34, S.C.E., 5; Strasburg, 10; Union (Cole-
rain), 33, S.C.E., 30; York, Ist, 221, S.C.E., 52, S'.C.E. Jr.,
17.50; Calvary, 5.50, L.L.B., 1; Westminster, 20, S.C.E., 9,

989.71

WoosTER.— Apple Creek, 9.50, S.C.E., 2.50; Ashland,
33.34, Jr. Band, 4; Bellville, 4; Congress, 20; Creston, 13.33;
Dalton, 4.50; Doylestown, 9.39; Fredericksburg, 26.03, Y.L.
S., 7; Hayesville, 11.35; Hopewell, 9, Holcomb Bd., 6; Jack-
son, 10; Lexington, 7, S.C.E., 6; Loudonville, 34 50; Mans-
field, 53.46, Y.L.S., 15, S.C.E., 7.50; Millersburg, 18.10; Mt.
Eaton, 1; Nashville, 12.28; Ontario, 6.25; Orange, King's
Daughters, 26, Busy Bees, 6, Y.L.S., 7; Orrville, 26.62, Anna

D. Shield's Bd., 1.04; Perrysville, 7; Plymouth, 5 55; Sa-
vannah, 9, Lenington Bd., 15, Pearl Seekers, 15, S.C.E., 5;
Shelbj,20; Shreve, 21.12; Wayne, 24.98; West Salem, 1, S.
C.E.. 4; Wooster, 1st, 58.25, Y.L.S., 66.15, S.C.E. 17;
Westm'r, 187.95, Y.L.S., 13.17, Banyan Seeds, 10, Coan Bd.,
8.50, Acorn Bd., 10, Myers Mem. Bd., 30, S.C.E., 16, 942.36

Yadkin.— Aberdeen, Faith, 1; Allen's Temple, Bd., 1;
Mebane, 1st, 1, 3.00

Zanestille.— Brownsville, S.C.E., 6.50 ; Clarks, 15;
Coshocton, 25.6.3, Cary Bd., 30, Little Workers, 1; Duncan's
Falls, 4.58; Falrmount, 9, Band, 4; Frazeysburg, 11.75, S.
C.E., 3; Frederickstown, S.C.E., 5; Granville, 11; Hanover,
1, Willing Workers, 1, S.C.E., 1; High Hill, 14; Jersey, 7.21,

S.C.E., 5; Johnstown, 5; Kecne, 12, S.C.E., 4.50: Madison,
21, S.C.E., 2.50; Mt. Vernon, 55.37, S.C.E., 9.37, Busy Bees,
9.50; Mt. Zion, 19, Calvin Bd., 25, S.C.E., 5; Newark, Ist,
59.56, S.C.E., 6; 2d, 37.59, Mission Circle, 10.58, Children's
Bd., 8.95; New Concord, 27.05, S.C.E., 5, S.C.E. Jr., 6;
Norwich, 10.45; Pataskala, 20.75, S.C.E., 6; Roseville, 12;
Unity, 6; Utica, 16.60, S.C.E., 2.30, Non Nobis, 2.25; Zanes-
villc, 1st, 11, Kellogg, 11.80, Azalea Bd., 15.20, Y.P. 4.80;
2d, 31; Brighton, 11.16; Putnam, 14, S.C.E., 4, 663.95
Miscellaneous.— A Friend, Cleveland, O., 50; "G.,"
Phila., 15; Estate Isabella Brown, 2,000: A Lady, E. Down-
ingtown, Pa., 20; Ohio Syn. Soc, 66; A Lady, Philadelphia,
5,000; Interest, 415.31, 7,566.31

Total for April, 1903,
Total for year.

$80,246.70
177,078.05

Receipts from Mat 1, 1903.

Carlisle.— Upper Path Valley, S.C.E.,
Catawba.— Shiloh, S.C.E.,

$3.50
1.50

Clarion.— Richardsville, S.C.E., lo!oO
Cleveland.— Cleveland, Bolton Ave., S.C.E., 10; North,
S.C.E. Jr., 1.50, 11.50
French Broad.— Reems Creek, 1.09
Huron.— Olena, S.C.E., .90
Kittanning.— Harmony, 14.00
Lackawanna.— Little Meadows, S.C.E., 3; Scranton,
Petersburg, German, S.C.E., 7, 10.00
Lehigh.— White Haven, S.C.E., 9.00
Monmouth.— Atlantic Highlands, L.A.S., 2.00
Morris and Orange.— Madison, 1st, S.C.E., 50; New
Providence, S.C.E., 7; So. Orange, Ist, S.C.E., 50, 107.00
New Brunswick.— Ewing, S.C.E., 3; Trenton, 2d, S.C.E.
Jr., 5; 4th, 4, 12.00
New Castle.— Red Clay Creek, S.C.E., 5 00

Parkersburg.— French Creek, S.C.E., 3.00
Philadelphia. — A Lady, 540; South, S.C.E., 3; John
Chambers Mem'l Chapel, Thompson Aux., 5, 548.00
Pittsburg and Alleg. Com.— Canonsburg, Central, S.
C.E., 12.20
Portsmouth.— Oakland, S.C.E., 1.00
Shbnango.— Neshannock, S.C.E., 2.00
South Florida.— Crystal River, 6.25; Eustis, S.C.E., 10,

16.25

Wellsboro.— Mansfield, S.C.E^,
Miscellaneous. -
N. J., 10; A Lady, i

3.00

-A Lady and Gentleman, Basking Ridge,
13.00

Total for May, 1903, $785.94
Elizabeth H. Eldridge, Treas.,
501 Witherspoon Building, Philadelphia.

June 1, 1903.

Receipts of the Woman's Presbyterian Board of Missions of the Northwest.

(Continued from last month.) * Indicates gifts for objects outside of Appropriations.

lowA City.— Marengo, 14.29, C.E., 5; Montezuma, 20.50;
Muscatine, 40, C.E., 11.50; Princeton, C.E., 2; Tipton, 6.45;
Red Oak Grove, 2.50; Washington, 60, C.E., 10, Jr. C.E.,
10; W. Branch, 14.25; West Liberty, 7.82, C.E., 10; What
Cheer, 1.75; Williamsburg, 6, C.E., 5; Wilton, 20, C.E., 10,
Jr. C.E., 5, $420.40

Kalamazoo.— Allegan, 2.37; Benton Harbor, 5.05; Bu-
chanan, 1.25; Burr Oak, 2; Caseopolis, 3.82; Decatur, 4, C.E.,
3.50; Edwardsburg, 2.94, C.E., 1; Kalamazoo, 1st, 36.45, C.
E., 6.13; Martin, 2.25; Niles, 15.12; Paw Paw, 5.56; Plain-
well, 7.50, C.E., 5; Richland, 10.28, C.E., 1.99; Schoolcraft,
2.65; Sturgis, 1.50, C.E. ,3.50, Jr. C.E., 50 cts.; Three Rivers,
9.20, C.E., 10, 143.56

Kearney.— Ashton, C.E., 5; Broken Bow, 10, C.E., 2.50,
Jr. C.E., 8; Central City, 49.10, C.E., 15.50, Gleaners, 2.50,
Heralds of the Cross, 4; Cozad, 4, C.E., 3; Dublin, C.E.,
17.50: FuUerton, 11, C.E., 13.46, Jr. C.E., 3; Grand Island,
6, C.E., 15; Gibbon, 3, C.E., 3; Kearney, 5, C.E., 4; Lexing-
ton, 11.50, C.E., 10, Jr. C.E., 10; Litchfield, 2; Mira Creek,
Wilson Mem'l Ch., 2.75, C.E., 2.10; North Loup, 2, C.E.,
4.50; North Platte, 14, C.E., 5; Ord, 10.50, C.E. , 5.50; St.
Edwards, 4.65; St. Paul, 5; Shelton, 4, C.E., 5; Sumner, C.
E., 4. .50; Wood River, 8, 295.56

Kendall.— Idaho Falls, 1.33; Montpelier, 8; Rigby, 2.18,

11.51

La Crosse.— Galesville, 6, C.E., 6.80; La Crosse, 7.63, C.
E., 20; New Amsterdam, 3.50; West Salem, 20, 63.93

Lake Superior.— Calumet, 10; Ford River, 4.95; Glad-
stone, 5; Iron Mt., 20; Ishpeming, 12.87, C.E., 7; Manis-
liqne, 45.50; .Marquette. 18.25; Lake Superior, Bd., 37, Jr.
C.E., 3.75; Sault Ste. Marie, C.E., 5, 169.32

Lansing.— Albion, 2S..54, C.E., 7.60; Battle Creek, 32.50;
Brooklyn, 22. :i5; Concord, 17.64; Dellwood, 2.05; Hastings,
9; Homer, 20; Jackson, 29, C.E., 10, S.S. Bd., 14.55; Lan-
sing, Ist, .50, C.E., 13.60; Franklin St. Ch., 9, C.E., 2.5, S.S.
Bd., 8.18; Marshall, 41.60, C.E., 10, Mrs. Haskell's Bible CI.,
15; Mason, 26, C.E., 10; Parma, 6, 407.61

LoGANSPORT.— Bethlehem, 2.50; Brookston, 2; Buffalo, 75
cts.; Concord, 1.50; Crown Point, 25.55; Goodland, 4.24;

Hammond, 4; Kentland, Jr. C.E., 3; La Porte, 5; Lowell,
Lake Prairie Ch., 12.30; Logansport, 1st, 51.42; Broadway
Ch., 13.32, Mrs. Isaac N. Crawford, 8.75, C.E., 11.43; Union
Ch., 36.41; Lake Cicott, Pisgah Ch., 9.60; Michigan City,
9.95; Mishawaka, 9, C.E., 10; Monon,3, C.E., 50 cts.; Monti-
cello, 20.22; Odessa, Meadow Lake Ch., 3; Plymouth, 1.56;
Rensselaer, 2.50; Remington, 3.89, C.E., 7.50; Rochester, 8,
Y.P.S., 2; South Bend, 21.50, C.E., 63, Jr. C.E., 17, Westm'r
Bd., 1, C.E., 4; Union Mills, Bethel Ch., 9.54; Valparaiso,
7.42; Interest, 1.02, 397.37

Madison.— Cambria, 4; Madison, 21.30, 25.30

Mankato.— Alpha, 5; Amboy, C.E., 3; Balaton, 2.76;
Blue Earth City, 35.15, C.E., 8.50; Butterfield, 1; Delhi, 6.50,
C.E., 87 cts. ; Jackson, 8.85; Jasper, 1; Hardwick, 5; Ka-
sota, 5.50, C.E., 5; Lake Crystal, 3, C.E., 5; Lakefield, 4.70;
Le Sueur, 14.73, C.E., 10.40; Luverne, 11.34; Mankato, 69.69,
C.E., 12.50; Marshall, 24.90, C.E., 6.68: Pilot Grove. 9.30;
Pipestone, 20, C.E., 5; Redwood Falls, 25; Round Lake,
9.32; Rushmore, 12.40; Slayton, 9.70, C.E., 9, Jr. C.E., 6;
St. James, 12.80, Little Light Bearers, 5, C.E., 10; St. Peter,
23, C.E., 3.75; Tracy, 15: Wells, C.E., 5; Windom, 4.50, C.
E., 6; Winnebas;o City, 24.30; Worthington, 65.41, C.E.,
21.07; Woodstock, 2.60, 555.22

Mattoon.— Areola, 29.30; Bethel Ch., 13; Ashmore, 10.30;
Assumption, 3.55, C.E., 2.50; Charlestown, 58.11; Effing-
ham, 8.50, C.E., 3; Kansas, 27.40, C.E., 6.30, Jr. C.E., 7;
Mattoon, 33; Morrisonville, 7.75, C.E., 5; Moweaqua, 5.25;
Neoga, 19, Jr. C.E., 1.15; Oakland, C.E., 6, Jr. C.E., 2; Pal-
estine, 4.40; Pana, 11, C.E., 5.05; Paris, 23.25, Jr. C.E., 10;
Robinson, 2.25, C.E., 4; Sheibyville, 58, C.E., 17.28; Taylor-
viile, 14.80; Tower Hill, 3.90; Toledo, 4, C.E., 3, Jr. C.E., 1;
Tuscola, 39.75; Vandalia, 11.50; Prairie Home Ch., C.E., 5;
A Friend, 50, 516.39

Milwaukee.— Milwaukee, Bethany Ch., C.E., 5; Grace
Ch., 3.34; Ottawa, 2.55, 10.89

Minneapolis.— Eden Prairie, Individual Givers, 3; How-
ard Lake, 5, Bd., 3.50, C.E., 2.80; Maple Plain, 3.75, C.E., 4;
Minneapolis, Andrew Ch., 85.90, Y.W.S., 8.75, Soldiers of

TREASURERS' REPORTS.

173

tho ('roes, 2, C.K., 25; Bethany Ch., 7.05; Bethlehem Ch.,
72.66, C.E., 5, Jr. C.K., 2.50; let, 75.37, C.E., 10, Y.W.S., 5,
Inter. C.E., 1.50. Merry Gleaners, 37, Jr. C.E., 2.11 ; 5th, 17.30.
Wide Awake Bd., 2.38, C.E., 3.50, Primary Ba.,50cts.;
Franklin Ave. Ch., 3.38; Grace Ch., 4.70, C.E., 7 :>(); High-
land Pk. Ch., 24.19, Sunshine Bd , 3.50, C.E., 10, King's
Messengers, 8; Oliver Ch., 4. Inter. C.E., 3; Shiloh Ch., 12,
C.E., 3, Inter. C.E., 2, Jr. C.E., 1; Stewart Mem'l Ch., 30.75,
Mary Bradford Soc, a5, Mifeionary Twig, 7.50, C.E., 8;
Westm'r Ch., 745.80, King's Daughters, 15, C.E., 100, Inter.
C.E., 6; Riverside Chapel, Y.WiS., 20.50; Waverley, 4.25.
C.E., 5, 1,458.64

M1NNEWA.UKON.— Devil's Lake, 3; Minnewaukon, Y.L.S.,
6, 9.00

Monroe.— Adrian, 75, C.E., 26.34; Blissfield, C.E., 5; Cali-
fornia, 4; Coldwater, 23.72, Harrington Soc., 24; Deerfield,
5, C.E., 50 cts.; Dover, 1.04; Erie, 7; Hillsdale, C.E., 5;
Holloway, Raisin Ch., 1.65; Ida, C.E., 1.16; Jonesville, 10;
Monroe, 15, Personal, 3. C.E., 7; Palmyra, 8, Y.L., 20. C.E.,
15; Petersburg, C.E., 2.50; Quincv, 20; Reading, 4.21; Te-
cumseh, 31, Personal, 1, C.E., 6.40, 322.52

MuNCiE. — Alexandria, 12; Anderson, 85.54, Willing Work-
ers, 5, C.E., 7; Cicero. 7; Elwood, 2, C.E., 2, King's Daugh-
ters, 10; Hartford City, 21.90; Jonesboro and Gas City, 5;
LaGro, C.E., 1; Marion, 17.50. Jr. C.E., 5: Comstock, Bd.,
5; Montpelier, 3; Noblesviiie, 6.50; Peru, 65.37; Portland,
2; Tipton, 3.50; Union, 13; Wabash, 77, C.E., 7.50; Win-
chester, 10.76, 374.57

Nebraska City.— Adams, 19.50, C.E., 8.46; Alexandria,
11.01: Auburn, 13.42; Beatrice, 27.60, C.E., 7; 2d, 4; Blue
Springs, 3.24, C.E., 1.50; Diller, 80 cts.; Fairbury, 9.20;
Fairmont, 1.88; Falls City, 1.50; Gresham, 1.05; Hebron,
25.53; Humboldt, 21.20; Liberty, 3; Lincoln, 67.30, C.E.,
12.64; 2d, 32.08, C.E., 10; 3d. 8.17; Lincoln, 3'1, 3.32; Ne-
braska City, 5 80; Palmyra, 12.40; Pawnee, 34.80; Piatts-
mouth, 9.60; Sewaid, 8.34; Staplehurst, 3.88; Table Rock, 6;
Tamora, 1.29; Tecumseh, 36, C.E., 15; Utica, C.E., 7.50;
York, 26, C.E., 4, ' 463.92

New Albany.— Bedford, 15, Sunshine Bd., 5; Charles-
town, 7.50, C.E., 4; Corydon, 15.25; Hanover, 4S.40. Light
Bearers, 8; Jcffersonville, 27.06. Jr. C.E., 2; Madison, Ist,
20, Y.L.B., 23, C.E., 2.50: 2d, 10; Mitchell, 24 20. Jr. C.E.,
1.50; New Albany, 1st. 20.64; 2d, }"6.50, C.E.. 4.2 j; 3d, 25.92,
C.E., 3.75; North Vernon, 7.80: Orleans, 5; Paoli, C.E.,
2.50; Salem, 7.50: Pleasant, 5, Jr. C.E., 75 cts.; Seymour,
Evangel Bd., 25. Light Bearers, 2.50, C.E., 5; Scipio, 11.50,
C.E., 1; Valley City, 4; Vernon, 3 40, Annie Fink Bd., 7.56;
Vesta, Owen Creek Ch., 4.50; Vevay, 4.75. 452.23

Niobrara.— Coleridge, 10; Emerson, 1.50; Hartington, 5,
C.E., 1.70; Laurel, 4.08: Madison, 8 58; Millerboro, 2; Nor-
folk, 3.26; Pender, 3.20, C.E., 4.50; Ponca, 6.60; Randolph,
13; Stuart, 3.54; Wakefield, 9, Jr. C.E., 1; Wayne, 13.50, C.
E., 10; Winnebago, 8.80, C.E., 6, 114.26

Omaha.— Fremont, 2.35, C.E., 3.75; Omaha, Ist German,
6.04; Knox Ch., C.E., 3.80, Royal Blues, 10; Westm'r Ch.,
48.60, Jr. C.E., 5; Schuyler, C.E., 24; S. Omaha, 2; Valby.
2.40; Waterloo, 1.48; Pbyl. Soc, 10, 119.42

Ottawa.— Aurora, 5, C.E., 17.80; Brookfield, 100: Elgin,
12.50, C.E., 5; Florid, C.E., 5, Jr. C.E., 1; Grand Ridge, 5,
C.E., 1.62; Kendall, Aux Sable Grove Ch., 5; Mendota, 31.66,
C.E., 15, Primary C.E., 5; Morris, 10, C.E., 12; Oswego, 12,
C.E., 5; Ottawa, 13, C.E., 6, Jr. C.E., 1.25; Paw Paw, 15.20,
C.E., 3, Jr. C.E., 4; Sandwich, 60.10, C.E., 10; Streator, 10;
Troy Grove, 2.27; Waltham, 7.50, 380.90

Pembina.— Cavalier, 2, C.E., 15; Crystal, C.E., 15; Em-
erado, 14; Gilbv, C.E., 15; Glaeston, C.E., 5; Grand Forks,
C.E., 40; Hamilton, C.E., 15; Minto, C.E., 19; Osnabrook,
C.E., 12; St. Thomas, C.E., 15, 167.00

Peoria.— Canton, 3; Delavan, 4; Prospect Ch., 3; Eureka,
3; Ipava, 4; Knoxville, 4; Lewistown, 5; Oneida, 3; Peoria,
let, 9; Washington, 3; Pbyl. Oflf., 11; A Fritnd, 1.25, 53.25

Petoskey.— Boyne City, 1; Boyne Falls, C.E., 3.50; Cadil-
ac, 7.33, C.E., 10; East Jordan, 6 67; Harbor Springs, 5 25,
C.E., 5; Lake City, 3, C.E., 1.25; Mackinaw City, 3; Petos-
key, 30.75, Th. Off., 18; Traverse City, 25, 119 75

Pueblo.— Alamosa, 10, C.E., 9, Jr. C.E., 5; Canon City,
24.25, C.E., 10, Jr. C.E., 5; Florence, 9.24; Goldfield, Jr.
C.E.,2; Holly, C.E., 1.95; Hooper, 2.50; La Joro, C.E., 10;
Pueblo, Mesa Ch., 5, Workers, 4.50; Rocky Ford, 15; San
Rafael, 2; Victor, 2.20, C.E., 10; Walsenburg, 1.25, 128.89

Red River.— Angus, 10.60 ; Crookston, 1«.83 ; Euclid,
50 cts.; Fergus Falls, 14.25; Bethel, 5.75; Hallock, 18.80;
Maine, 7.86, C.E., 10: Moorhead, M.A.H., 3; Warren, 8.20;
WQgtern, 1.70. 99.49

Rock River.— Albany, 3.25, C.E., 3.21; Aledo, 42.29; Ar-
lington, 4.60; Alexis, 14.15; Norwood Ch., 5.62; Ash ton, 9;
Dixon, 14..50, C.E., 5, Candle Lighters' League, 30: Edging-
ton, 5.75, C.E., 20; Newton Ch., 15, Earnest Workers, 27.69;
Fulton, 12; Garden Plain, 9.52, C.E., 12.50; (ieneseo, 9.19,
C.E., 6; Keithsburg, 6.75; Peniel Ch., 11; Milan, 12.50;
Millersburg, 3, C.E., 20; Morrison, 51.50, Jr. C.E., 18.10,
King's Birdies, 12.41; Princeton, 15.20; Rock Island, Cen-
tral Ch., 5; Broadway Ch., 70.62, Ruth's Bd.. 20; Centre Ch.,
5.50; Sterling, 75; Viola, 1.95; Woodhull, 28.46; Spring
Valley, 8.76, 615.02

HA(iiNAW — Alraa, 50; College, Wm. Winton. Jr.. 10; Bay

City, Ist, 21.H5; Mem'l Ch.,2..50, C.E., 1.94; Imaca, 16, C.E.,
10: Midland, 13.39, C.E., 4.22; Saginaw, Warren Ave. Ch.,
18.22, Mrs. M. W. Tanner's CI., *3; Washington Ave. Ch.,
2.91; Ist, Mrs. V,. II. (ireen's CI., 5, Golden Rule Bd., 60,
C.E., 50, S.S., 85, Bible CI., .5, Inter. Dept., 1.5. King's Mes-
sengers, 10, Jr. C.E., 10; (irace Ch., 97 etc.; St. Louis, 6;
Westm'r Ch., a5, S.S., 25, Sunbeam Circle, 3.60; I'by'l Off.,
37.&3, 502 13

St. Cloud.— Greenleaf, 2.50; Harrison, C.E., 5; Randall,
1.86, 9.86

St. Paul.— Red Wing, Jr. C.E., 10; Rush City, 75 cts.;
St. Croix Falls, 16.85, C.E., 10; St. Paul, Arlington Hills, 3;
Bethlehem Ch., 7.50; Central Ch., Y.W.B., 32.70, Miss Kops'
CI., *5- Dagion Ave. Ch., 91, Jr. C.E.. 5; East Ch., 11.25;
House of Hope Ch., 94.71; Knox Ch., 8.%, Jr. C.E., 10.40;
Macalester, 20 58; Merriam Park, Wayside Gleaners, 6.67;
Westm'r Ch., 19.05; St. Paul Pk., 9.55; Stillwater. AUbright
Band, 6.25; White Bear, 9.16, C.E., 3.13; Children of Pby.,
21.75, 403.26

Schuyler.— Augusta, 25; Burton, C.E., 2; Brooklyn, 4;
Bushnell, 34.01, C.E., 12; Carthage, 29 17; Chili, 1.50, C.E.,
5; Clayton, 5; Elvaston, 25.05, C.E., 18; Fargo, C.E., 15;
Fountain Green, 9, C.E.. 2.60: Bethel Ch., 6 50; Hersman,
20.53, C.E., 32; Kirkland, 68.55, C.E., 25; Macomb. 29.75,
C.E., 50, Miss Parks and Mr. Taylor, 40; Camp Creek Ch., 8,
C.E., 29; Monmouth, 98.47, C.E., 30; Mt. Sterling, 47.59,
Earnest Workers, 4; Niota, Appanoose Ch.. 10: Oquawka,
12 90, C.E., 10; Perrv, 15.70, C.E., 5; Prairie City, 31.57,
C.E., 16.31; Quincy, 15.89, Cornelia A. Collins. Bequest,
500, C.E., 12.50; Rushville, 26.50, C.E., 26.10; Sciota, Good
Hope Ch., 3.50; Warsaw, 13; Wythe Ch., 39. C.E., 30. 1.445.60

Springfield.— Athens, N. Sangamon Ch., 104.50, Little
Light Bearers, 2; Bates, 5; Buffalo Hart, 13.4.5, C.E., 5, Will-
ing Workers, 4; Chatham, 3.70, Little Light Bearers, 75 cts.;
Decatur, 130.75, C.E., 25, Brier Soc, 20; Westm'r Chapel,
2.50; Divernon, 4.50; Farmingdale. 49; Jacksonville, State
St. Ch., 81.98, C.E., 26, Y.L.S., 59, Little Lights, 12; Westm'r
Ch., 141.15; Portuguese Ch.. 23, Y.L.S., 13, Jr. C.E., 5;
Lincoln, 70.75, Jr. C.E., 2.50; Macon, 4.90; Maroa, 12 40,
C.E., 4.50; Mason City, 14; Orleans. Pisgah Ch., 11 40;
Petersburg. 32.73, Bequest of :Miss Eliza Frackelton. 350,
C.E., 15; Pleasant Plains, 8: Springfield, 1st, 81; E. J. Brown
Soc. 117; 2d, 115, C.E., 40, Rays of Light, 40: 3J, 6; Portu-
guese Ch., 15; Sweetwater and Irish Grove, 5.73. C.E., 2.50,
Birthday Bd., 3.25; Virginia, Mary Strain Soc, 43, C.E., 14;
Woodson, Unity Ch., 3, 1,742 84

Sioux City.— Alta, 16.36, C.E., 4; Cherokee. 30. Jr. C.E»,
5; Cleghorn, 5, C.E., 2.50; Denison, 5.50; Mt. Pleasant Ch.,
6; Ida Grove, 12.50; Inwood, 3, C.E., 5; Ireton. 19, C.E.,
2.98; Le Mars, 3.05, C.E., 3; Marcus, C.E.. 5.50: Meriden,
C.E., 7.50; O'Leary, Union Tp. Ch., 4, C.E., 4.50; Odebolt, 2;
Paulina, 6; Sioux City, 1st, 56.98, C.E., 5, Tr. C.E., 5. Nodoa
Bd„ 25.94 ; 2d. 16.72, C.E., 8, Jr. C.E., 15; d, 6.45. C.E., 2.50;
4th, 1.25; 5th (Morningside), 10.25; Sac City, 28.22; Schaller,
2.75; Sanborn, 2 75; Storm Lake, 76, Inter. C.E., 10; Pilgrim
Ch., 7; Vail, 1.75; Wall Lake, 3.97, C.E., 1.25, 439.17

Southern Dakota.— Salem, 1.00

Utah,— Benjamin, 2.50; Brigham City, 2.75; Ephraim, 1;
Evanston, 8; Hyrum, 1.50; Kaysville, C.E., 1.50; Logan, 8;
Manti. 1.10; Mt. Pleasant, 8 80. C.E., 1.25; Ogden, 1st, 59.85;
Richfield, 6.10; Salina, 2. .35; Salt Lake City, 1st, 60.44 ; 3d, 20,
C.E., 2 50; Westm'r Ch., 13.50; Smithfield, 1.15; Springville,
2.50, Indiv. Giver, 1, 205.79

Vincennes.— Evansville, 1st Ave. Ch., 2.45, C.E.. 9, Jr.
C.E., 1; Grace Ch.. 18.73, C.E., 7.50. Jr. C.E.. 3; Parke
Mem'l Ch., 3.50. C.E., 6; Walnut St. Ch., 26.50; Farmers-
burg, 2.10; Mt. Vernon. 2 50. Jr. C.E., 1; Oakland City, 9.70,
C.E., 2.50; Petersburg. 12.76, Little Light Bearers, 95 cts.;
Princeton, 31.90: Rockport, 1.25; Royal Oak. 2; Sullivan,
10.75, C.E., 8; Terre Haute, Central Ch., 63 75, C.E., 5;
Washington Ave., 21.25, C.E., 3, Jr. C.E., 6; Vincennes,
60.55, C.E., 2.18; Indiana Ch.. Solid Workers. 6.30, Heart
and Hand Soc, 2.20; Upper Indiana Ch,, 14,30; Washington,
5.30, C.E., 5; Worthington, 6.50. 364 42

Waterloo.— Ackley, Jr. C.E., 1; Aplington, C.E., 2;
Cedar Falls, 17.17, *3. C.E., 13.68: Clarksville, 5, C E., 4.10;
Conrad, 2.50; Grundy Center, C.E., 10; La Porte City. 26,
C.E.. 10; Marshalltown, 21; Nevada, C.E., 10 50; Salem Ch.,
44 65; State Center, 28.85, C.E., 10; Traer, Tranquillity Ch.,
22.30, Lower Lights, 1, C.E., 4; Toledo, C.E., 5; Unity Ch.,
C.E., 1.50; Waterloo, C.E., 25, 268.25

Winnebago.— Appleton, Y.L.S., 15; De Pere, 2; Fond du
Lac, 8.55, C.E., 5; Green Bav, C.E., 6; Marinette, 19.50,
Y.L.S., 11.89 ; Marshfield, 7.50 ; Nasonville, Aid Soc, 2;
Oconto, C.E., 31; Stevens Pt., 13.40; Wausau, 25, Jr. C.E. ,5;
Wausaukee, C.E., 1.28: West Merrill, 3, 156.12

Winona.— Albert Lee, 27, C.E., 25; Austin, Central Ch.,
10; Blooming Prairie, L. Aid, 5: Canton, C.E., 5; Chatfield,
18.45; Claremont, 9, C.E., 13; Fremont, 3.50; Kassou. 1.50;
LeRoy, 3.78; Owatonna, 27; Rochester, 40; Ruehford, 5.50;
Washington, 10.75; Winona, 8, 212.48

Miscellaneous.— Anon., 87 cts.; Publication Acct. bal-
ance, 484.53, 485.40

Total for month,

Total receipts since April 30. 1902.

$33,593..50
84.291. r)3

174

TEEASUBEES' EEPOETS.

[July,

TvECKiPTS TO May 20, 1903.

Alton.— Belleville, C.E., S5.00
Bloominoton.— Jersey, C.E., 1.20; Wenona, C.E , 15.

16.20

Box Butte.— Alliance, C.E., 1; Bridgeport, C.E., 50 cts.;
Minatare, 2; Rushville, L.A.S., 1; Valentine, C.E., 2.80,

7.80

Bi TTE.— Hamilton, C.E.. 2.50
C'kh.^k K.\rii>s.— t'edar Kapids, Sinclair Mcni l C'h., 4;
(iarrison. C.E., 2. 6 00

CuipPEWA.— West Snperior, Hammond Ave., C.E.. 2 50
CiHCAiiO.— Pret^byterial Society, 250; Arlington llei2:lits,
Bd., 10.75: Chicago, 2d, 34.50, HiO: 3d, 200; 4h, 115, *220;
6th, 24; 41st St. Ch., *15; P^uUerton Ave. Ch.T*2, C.E., 10;
Englevvood, 1st, 11; Lake View, 215; Christ Ch., Sewing
School, 10 25; Kankakee, C.E., 75; Morsan Pk., S.S. Bd..
15; Oak Park, 2.50; River Forest, 12; Anon., 8.50, 1,290.50
Corning.— Shenandoah. C.E., 25 00

CorNciL Bluffs.— Andubon, Jr. C.E. , 3.77; Atlantic, C.
E.. 7, 10.77
Detroit.— Xorthville, C.E., 1.10
Dubuque.— Bethlehem, C.E., 1.00
Flint.— Croswell, 1st, C.E., 5.00
Ft. Dodge.— Pocahontas, C.E., 1.00
Ft. Wayne.— Goshen, Y.AV.S., 110; Warsaw, Mrs. Dr.
Webber, *1, 111.00
Freeport.— Galena, 1st, C.E., b, Wiu»i«bago, C.E., 5.11,

10.11
2.00
4.00
2.00

Great Falls.— Havre, C.E.,
Hastings.— Minden, C.E.,
Helena.— Ponv, C.E.,

Indianapolis.— Elizabeth, 2.57; Franklin, Jr. Bd., 15, 17.57
Iowa City.— Shimer, C.E., 1; Tipton, C.E., 5, Jr. C.E., 5;
Williamsburg, C.E., 2, 13.00
Kendall.— liigby, 1; Salmon City, 2.25, 3.25
Mankato.— Fukia, C.E., 3; Redwood Falls, C.E., 3.25,

6.25

Mattoon.— Grandview, O.E., 2.00
Minneapolis.— Oak Grove, C.E., 4.00
MiNNEWAUKON.— Devil's Lake, C.E., 1.35
Muncie.— Gas City, 5.00
Nebraska City.— Prcsbyterial Society, 6.91; Firth, 7;

Hebron, C.E., 20; Staplehnrst, C.E., 5, 38.91
Ottawa.— Aux Sable Grove, C.E., 14.00
Pueblo. — La Veta, C.E., 50 cts.; Walsenburg, C.E., 50

cts., 1.00
Red River.— Moorhead, C.E. , 1.47
Rock River. — Franklin Grove, C.E., 5.00
St. Cloud.— Atwater, Jr. C.E., 6 00

Schuyler.— Quincy, Bequest of Miss Cornelia A. Collins,

500 00

Springfield.— Macon, C.E., 3.00
Waterloo.— Presbyterial C.E. Offering, 23.00
Whitewater.— Liberty, C.E., 7.80
Winona.— Preston, 8.50; Rochester, C.E., 25; Winona, 3,

36.50

Miscellaneous. — Annual Meeting Offering, 98.55, *107;
Oxford, O., Union Society, Western College, 100, 305.55

Total receipts during month ending May 20, §2,497.63
Mrs. C. B. Farwkll, Treas.,
Room 48, Le Moyne Block, 40 East Randolph St.
Chicago, May 20, 1903.

Receipts of the Women^s Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church for April, J 903.

Binghamtox.— Gulf Summit, C.E., $2.00
Brooklyn.— Brooklyn, 1st, 254.97; 1st German, C.E., 10;
Hopkins St., 5.83; Irving Square, 4.08; Lafayette Ave.,
46.89; Mem'l, 21; Prospect Heiohts, 3.22, Jr. C.E., 1.50;
Ross St., C.E., 50; Siloam, 1.50; Westm r, 7.75; Stapleton,
S. L, 1st, C.E., 6.20, 412.94
Buffalo.— Alden, C.E., 2; Buffalo, Calvary, C E., 10;
West Ave., C.E., 10; Fredonia, C.E., 2; Orchard Park, C.E.,
8, Jr. C.E., 7, ■ 39.C0
Ebenezer. Ky.— Pikeville, Jr. League, 4.00
Hudson.— Haverstraw, West, C.E. , 1; Liberty, C.E. , 20;
, Raraapo, 10.80, 31.80
Long Island.— Shelter Island, C.E.. 2.27, Dorcas Soc,
1.50, 3.77
Nassau.— Elmhurst 20; Hempstead, C.E., 4.15; Jamaica,
50, 74.15
New York.— New York, Central, Mizpah Chapel, C.E. ,
7.09, Jr. C.E., 5; Morrisania, C.E., 1; 5th Ave., Y.W.S., 145;
1st Union, C.E., 5; Throgg's Neck, C.E., 3.26; University
Place, 325; Washington Heights, C.E., 5; Olivet, 40, 536.85
Niagara.— Locbport, C.E., 1.71
North River.— Little Britain, C.E., 3; Salisburv Mills,
Bethlehem Ch., C.E.. 4.45, ' 7.45

Otsego.— Delhi, 2d, C.E., 21, Jr. C.E., 10, 31.00
St. Lawrence.— Gouverueur, C.E., 7.11
Syracuse.— Baldwiusville, C.E.. 20, Jr. C.E., 5; Canas-
tota, 12.50; La Favette, C.E.. 10; Mexico, C.E., 3.75; Pom-
pey, C.E., 5; Syracuse, E;ist (Jenesee, C.E., 15, 71 25

Transylvania, Ky.— Lebanon, 15.00
Utica.— Ilion, C.E., 72 91

Westchester.— Bedford, C.E., 5; Mahopac Falls, Jr.
Miss. Soc, 30; Scarborough, Shepard IVIenVl, C.E., 25, 60.00
Miscellaneous.— A Friend, 4(10; Clifton Springs, ;Mrs.
James, 5; Coll. at Annual Meeliui:. '.28'1. 03: Coll. at Prayer-
meeting. 25.70; Ithaca, Friends, 25; ■.M.,"" 3; Mrs. McEwen,
2. .50; New York, Friends, 7.87; Soldiers' Home, Va., Mrs.
M. D. Bradley, 25; South Orange. N. J., Ist, C.E., 25, 808.70
Legacy.— Estate of Miss Jane Howard, 475.00

Total for April, $3,654.14
May, 1903.

Brooklyn.— Brooklyn, Ainslie St., Jr. C.E., 15; Central,

25; Ist, 5.30, City Park Branch, 2.99, C.E., 6.71; Mem'l,
38.50; Olivet, C.E., 10; Ross St., 9..33; Throop Ave., 29.43,
C.E., 100; Stapleton, S. I., Ist, 17.50, 259.76

Buffalo.— Buffalo, Calvary, Little Light Bearers, 6.10;
1st, Y.W. League, 75; North, 37.91; Clarence, 5; Dunkirk,
C.E., 15; Jamestown, C.E., 12, 151.01

Cayuga.— Auburn, 1st, 500.00

Ebenezer, Ky. — McFarland Mem'l, Westm'r League, Y.
L.S., " 10.00

Hudson.— Bethel Ch., 8; Blauvelt, C.E., 5; Chester, 6.35;
Otisville, 2, 21.35

Lyons.— Lyons, C.E., 15; Marion, Mrs. Seelev, 50, C.E.,
10; Walworth, Mrs. Yeomans, 2.50; Wolcott, C.E., 10, 87.50

Morris and Orange, N. J.— Morristown, 1st, 30.00

New York.- New York, Brick, 25, Y.W.S., 235; Central,
525, Inter. C.E., 9.64, Jr. C.E., 20; 5th Ave., 125, Jr. Miss.
Soc 80; 1st, C.E., 25; Ist Union, C.E., 5; 4lh, 100; Har-
lem, Helping Hands, 10; Madison Square, 1,190; Mt. Wash-
ington, 75; Rutgers, 5; West. 200; West End, 100, C.E.,
100; Westminster, 10; Olivet, 16; Mrs. Wm. Mortimer. 60,

2,915.64

North Laos.— Chieng Mai, 8.25

Rochester. — Avon, jEast, C.E., 5; Fowlerville, C.E., 4;
Geneseo, 25; Livonia, C.E., 10; Pittsford, 25; Rochester, 3d,
C.E., 26.45, 95.45

Syracuse. —Amboy, 4; Baldwinsville, 15; Syracuse, 1st
Ward, 25, 44.00

Utica.— Boonville, 25; Holland Patent, 12, One Member,
1.5, Jr. C.E., 5; Kirkland, 6 50; Little Falls, Sunshine Bd.,
10; Oneida, 25; Rome, Mrs. Ethridge, 25; Utica, Bethany,
C.E., 10; 1st, :\Irs. Goldthwaite, 25, C.E., 20, S.S., 7.41;
Mem'l, Mrs. Curran, 25; Waterville, 75, Do Good Bd., 5;
Utica Branch, 2.5, 315.91

Westchester.— Katonah, 5; Yonkers, 1st, Y'.W.S., 10,

15.00

Miscellaneous.— A Friend, 10; Cambridge, Miss Louisa
S. Munroe, 25; Coll. at Prayer-meeting, 21.33, 56.33

Total for May, $4,510.20
Total since April 1, 7,164.34

Henrietta W. Hubbard, Treas.,
156 Fifth Ave., New York City.

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

ending May 24, J 903.

Arizona.— Peoria, S2.60
Cimarron.— Chickasha, 5; Enid, C.E., 6, 11.00
Emporia.— Winfield, C.E. , 44.5f); Pres. Society, 5, 49.50
Highland.— Axtell, 8; Bern, C.F... 1.75: Blue Rapids. C.
E., 2; Frankfort, 30, Jr. C.E. ,5; Hiawatha. .50; Horton. 5.88.
Jr. C.E. , 2.50; Nortonville. 1; Parallel, ( '.K., 3.13; Pres. So
ciety, 8; Troy, 3.3.5, 12U 61

Kansas City.— Centerview, 10, C.E., 3, 13 00

Earned.— Lyons, Jr. C.E., 1; Pres. Society, 5, 6.00
North Texas.— Jacksboro, 2.20; Leonard, 3..50. 5.70
Oklahoma.— Blackwell, C.E., 4..50; Guthrie, C.E., 10,

14..50

Osborne.— Pres. Societv, 2.00
O/ark.— Pres. Society, ' 3.00

Platte.— Stanberry, C.E., 6.48
Santa Fe.— Santa Fe, C.E., 1.70; Sch., Jr. C.E., 3, 4.70
Solomon.— Herrington, 5, C.E., 15; Pres. Society, 5, 25.00
Topeka.— Manhattan, C.E. , 2.00
Trinity.— Mary Allen Sem., C.E., 31.49; Albany, Mat-
thew Mem'l, 25, 56.49
Miscellaneot's.— Interest on Deposits, 15.25; Collection
at Annual Meeling. 12.27; Refunded, 2; Advertisements in
Quarterly, 33, 62.52

Total for month,

1385.10

May 24, 1903.

Mrs. William Burg, Treas.,

1756 Missouri Ave., St. Louis, Mo.

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