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Woman's Work for Woman
A UNION ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE
PUBLISHED MONTHLY
BY THE
WOMAN'S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETIES
OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
VOLUME VI.
MISSION HOUSE. 53 FIFTH AVENUE,
NEW YORK.
INDEX TO VOLUME VI.
1891.
Africa :
The Ogowe Fangfwe and Their Little
Visitors 151
Some Heathen Customs that Influence . 153
What Will the U. S. Senate Do About It ? 1 54
Fresh from Angom, West Africa . . .157
Letters from . . . 18, 164, 223, 251, 306
Notes on . . 62, 89, 150, 233, 234, 290, 317
Alphabetical Roll-Call at Mis-
sionary Meeting, The iii
An Acknowledgment 282
Announcement 138
Annual Meeting Reports, 139-142, 167-171
Another Year 3
Applied Business 226
Are There Dangers? 113
Assembly at Detroit, Our Woman's, 196
Auxiliaries, To the . . .25, 56, 82,
114, 142, 171, 199, 229, 256, 286, 313, 339
Auxiliaries and Bands, New, 29, 59,
86, 117, 144, 172, 201, 231, 259, 288, 315, 342
Book Notices . 26, 56, 82, 113, 229, 312, 339
Calendar, The Missionary .... 310
China :
Medicine, the Handmaid of Missions . . 33
Something About Macao 35
Things in Central China 37
Map, with Facts 39
Sawing in North China 40
Woman's Work in Chihme District . . 40
Bible Women in Canton Mission ... 43
Catering, Music, and Chirography ... 43
In Behalf of Our Chinese Sisters ... 44
People and Events at Ichowfu . . . . 1 59
A Chinese Woman Who Died at Peking, 187
A New Station of the Canton Mission . 207
An Evangelistic Trip to San Ho . . .214
Letters from 18, 48, 77,
108, 137, 166, 194, 220, 251, 277, 307, 334
Chinese in America:
The Gospel Teacher's Attitude Toward, 179
The Chinaman to the Jew 180
A Bit of Cathay Come to New York . .183
Mission Work for Chinese in California . 184
Christmas Gifts 338
Correction, A 171
Correspondents, Important to . . 161
Current Literature and Missions:
25, 256
Ear-rings, Those 23
Editorial Notes (in part) :
Converts and Accessions to the Churches :
I, 32, 90, 119, 149, 177, 233, 234, 289, 317
Deaths 61, 149, 177, 205, 233
Finances 89, 149, 177, 289
Gifts for Missions ... 61, 90, 234, 261
Girls' Schools :
14, 31, 32, 61, 62. 90, 149, 150, 206, 289
Ichowfu 89, 120
Japan, Parliament and Empress, 32, 61, 262
Lepers 119, 120, 150, 290
Missionary Children . 23, 119, 234, 261, 290
Nanking Riot 205
Pacific Islands 2, 32, 61, 120, 262
Persia, Shah of 31
Siam, King of 177
Various Missionary Societies :
62,90, 120, 150, 206, 234, 261, 262, 290, 318
Giving, A Few Words About ... 22
"Greatest Thing in the World,
The" 252
Greenland 131, 162
Guatemala City, Notes on . . . 2, 61
Heroines of Our Time, Two . . . 217
How do you Invite to Meetings.^ . 226
How to be a Missionary and Con-
vert No One 303
Illustrations:
Frontispiece, Madonna of the Desert ; Af-
rica, Map of Gaboon Mission, 152; Un-
lading Liquors, 155; Map, 156; Angom
Chapel, 157; Palaver House, 158; C/tina,
Macao, 35, 36 ; Map, 39 ; Sawing, 40 ; Map
of Shantung, 42; Ichowfu, 160, 161 ; Sam
Kong, 207 ; Lien Chow River, 208 ; Mrs.
Ahok, 218; Chinese in San Francisco,
185; Greenland, Moravian Settlement,
132; India, Lepers at Sabathu, 8;
Mosque in Lahore, 93 ; Miss Sorabji, 96 ;
Map, 98; School-girls at Panhala, 102;
Street in Allahabad, 104; Indians of
Nortli America, Pine Ridge. 181, 182;
Nez Perce W'omen, 190; fapan. Har-
vesting, 241; Stripping Cocoons. 242;
Reeling Silk, 243 ; fai'a, Hot Baths, 73 :
Korea, Mission Premises in Seoul, 1 37 ;
Mexico, Water Carrier, 63 ; Map of
Zacatecas Field, 64; Cart, 68; A'e^x.'
Guinea. Villages, 15, 16; Mrs. Lyth,
218; Persia, Relic at Baku, 5; Nomad
Woman, 6 ; Mural Painting, 7 : Guebre.
7 ; Map, 265 ; Houses in the Caucasus.
267; Rabban Yonan, 271 ; Mullah, 272:
Spinning Wheel, 274; Siani. Diagram of
Bangkok, 122; Palace, 123; On the
River, 124; Map, 127; Children, 130;
South America, Map, 292 ; Map of Ba-
hia, 293; Bahia Street, 294: Kissing an
Image, 299; Round-up, 300; Market,
301 ; Syria, Canoubin, 213 ; Tripoli Gate.
322; Map, 323; Hamath. Waterwheel
and Mahardeh, 324; Interior of House,
327 ; British Syrian School, 330.
India :
Lepers and What is Being Done for Them, 8
Some Illustrious Educational Institutions, 12
INDEX TO VOLUME VI.— Continued.
The Hindu Child Marriage Problem . . 91
Various Mission Agencies at Lahore . . 92
Higher Education amongWomen of India, 93
An Illustration of Divine Leading ... 99
An Undeveloped Auxiliary to Missions . 100
Rukhmabai loi
Sunday-schools to Supplement Govern-
ment Schools 102
Woman's Medical Mission at Allahabad, 103
Where the Time Goes 188
Returning to Surroundings of Childhood, 191
A Veranda Sunday-School 275
Letters from, 52, 75, 106, 194, 224, 248, 279
Notes on, 32, 62, 97, 206, 234, 262, 290, 317
Indians, North American:
At Wounded Knee Since the War . . .180
Another Step Forward among Nez Perce
Women 189
Letters from 21, 78, 192
Notes on, 31, 61, 62, 90, 179, 188, 219, 290, 318
Island Series:
Greenland 131, 162
Malaysia Missions 71
New Guinea 14
Japan :
A Bible Woman 69
Room for the Bible Woman 235
A Chain of Providential Events .... 238
The Industries of Japan 240
A Luxurious Christmas 244
Shikata Ga Nat 245
New Stations in Japan 247
Letters from '9. 5'.
76, 108, 136, 166, 195, 223, 248, 279, 335
Korea :
Some Things that may be seen in Seoul, 236
One Afternoon at Home in Seoul . . . 246
Letters from 51, 277
Laos :
Carrying the Message to Laos Villages . 1 1
A Bright Picture 124
Dedication of the First Church .... 328
Letters from 134, 333
Lady, A — Verse 151
Last Hour, The — Verse 255
Little Sanctuary, A — Verse . . . 285
Love's Gift — Verse 80
Mexico :
In the Zacatecas Mission 63
The Bible Rather than Argument ... 65
A Traveler's Impressions of a Fiesta . . 66
Sancito 68
Letters from 75. 335
Missionary Mothers ...... 74
Missionary Spool Box 54
Mission of Failures 280
Monthly Meeting .... 22, 53, 79,
110, 138, 167, 196, 225, 252, 280, 308, 336
Newspapers Say, What 301
Northfield — afield Day for For-
eign Missions 283
Ointment Poured Forth 79
One Dollar Did, What ; .... 81
One in Christ for a World Out of
Christ 336
Papal Europe — Items 209
Persia :
A Word about the Persians 4
A Lady's Touring 45
Some Incidents at New Year's . . . .189
Sunrise on Elwend 263
Women Doctors in Persia — Prospects . 264
A Trio of Border Incidents 265
In Some of those Beautiful Schools . . 268
The Last of the Nestorian Monks . . . 270
Itinerating Around Lake Oroomiah . . 272
The Home of a Kurdish Beg .... 273
Letters from . . 75, 165, 193, 276, 306, 333
Photographic Apparatus in a Mis-
sionary's Outfit 13
Private Letter, A \'cry 253
Prize, The 74, 113, 256
Questions to Summer Travelers . 225
Request from the Editor, A . . . 254
Service, More than One Form of . 291
Si AM :
The Venice of the East 121
An Evangelistic Tour 128
In and Out of Petchaburee 129
Village Work Around Petchaburcc . .211
Letters from . . . . 21, 51, 77, 134, 222
Notes on . 119, 206, 261, 262, 289, 290, 318
Since La.st Month 26, 56,
82, 113, 142, 171, 199, 229, 256, 285, 339
Social Prayer 311
South America:
In Prison for Preaching the Gospel . . 67
In Bahia 291
Itinerary from New York to Chili . . . 295
A Representative Colombian City . . . 296
yVBrazilianPulpit that never had a Preacher 297
Is there a Free Gospel in Colombia? . . 298
Country Life in Chili 299
Relation of the Protestant College to
Women of Brazil 302
Letters from . . . 134, 135, 192, 276, 305
Notes on 2, 61,
62, 90, 119, 120, 205, 206, 234, 261, 290
Sowing and Reaping 24
Special Objects Again 227
Student Volunteer Convention. . no
Substitution for Service Abroad . 197
Suggestion Corner:
25, 55, 81, 199, 228, 255, 285, 311
Syria :
Some Syrian Callers 70
The Martyr of the Lebanon 212
His Star in the East 319
An Offering to the Lord 319
Cholera Incidents and the Nusaireyeh . 320
In North Syria 322
Development of a Station 325
Beirut, Seen by a Traveler 327
Two Devoted English Ladies .... 329
Letters from . 135, 165, 193, 224, 306, 332
Tens Again 53
Thankful Barrels, Our 80
Treasurers' Reports . . .29, 59, 86,
117, 144, 172, 202, 231, 259, 288, 315, 342
Woman's Missionary Societies in
America before 1861 . . after 232
Woman's Organized Mission Work
in Missionary Lands 16
Woman's Work — Verse 228
Women, The — Verse 112
Yes you do, Lucindy! 308
WOMAN'S WORK FOR WOMAN
Vol. VI. DECEMBER, 1891. No. 12.
Good news from the Ogowe, Africa,
where twenty-two in the different congre-
gations were baptized in the month of
June, and the fourth chapel on the river
was to be dedicated in September, the
people themselves having donated the
material and put up the building without
help from the mission.
The .\frica-bound steamer conveying
our missionaries, Mrs. Marling and Miss
Christensen, sailed from Liverpool, Oc-
tober 14, but met a heavy gale on the
15th, which drove her back. The saloon
was flooded to a depth of two or three
feet, and all the passengers were called
up, half dressed, from their berths to the
captain's room, where they remained till
put ashore at Holyhead, thirty-six hours
later. Miss Christensen re-embarked from
Liverpool on the 28th, but Mrs. Marling
who, it will be remembered, had her little
children with her, was so shaken up that
she would wait until November. At one
time no one on board expected to see land
again, and it is with humble thankfulness
that we record this merciful Providence
that gave back our friends from the jaws
of the waves to, as we trust, long and
consecrated service for Christ, in Africa.
We bespeak the warmest kind of a wel-
come from our societies to the young
man who, without waiting to finish his
theological studies, has come into the
Mission House as Assistant Secretary.
Mr. Robert E. Speer is already known
from his connection with the Student
Volunteer Movement, and we foresee
that the hearts of Presbyterian young
people all over the country are going to
be drawn right after him into missionary
service. We recommend Band leaders,
Volunteers, Christian Endeavor Mission
Committees, and whoever has any im-
portant question to ask Mr. Speer to ask
it quick, as he is not yet quite so busy as
he soon will be.
A VERY good Christmas exercise pre-
pared by Mr. Robert Speer is offered to
Sunday-schools and young people's soci-
eties by the Board of Foreign Missions.
Order from William Dulles, Jr., Treasurer.
Terms, Free. (We presume postage will
not be refused.)
The Missionary Calendar for 1892 has
become rather a new one than a revised
edition of that of 1890 as was at first pro-
posed. Ordered from headquarters of the
Woman's Boards. Price 30 cents ; post-
age 5 cents.
Last letters from Dr. Gillespie were
mailed at Canton : he expected to spend
Thanksgiving Day at Lodiana. With
that generous courtesy characteristic of
the Mission House towards Woman's
Work, the Dr. has — No, the rest is a
secret, till next month.
A CHANCE for new readers again and no
excuse if they are at sea after this, on the
history of Zahleh station.
Bound volumes of Woman's Work for
Woman for 1891 may be had, m the same
good style as formerly, for one dollar. A
few copies of 1890 left, at the same price.
A fresh illustration of the delicacy of
the position held by women doctors in the
missions and the gravity of the trusts
reposed in them comes from Ambala, India.
A chief officer of Government in that
district is Mr. Gladstone, nephew of the
ex-premier, and one of the difficulties of
his office has arisen from certain frauds
practiced by the Sikh nobles. The large
estates of these Sikhs revert to Govern-
ment in case one dies without offspring,
and in order to avoid this result infants
have been bought in some cases and
palmed off as children of the house. Law-
suits arising in such circumstances have
been carried even to the Privy Council of
the House of Lords in England. Mr.
Gladstone, aware that no one is capable
of meeting this emergency except a lady
physician whom he can entirely trust, has
availed himself of Dr. Jessica Carleton's
services in a case lately under suspicion.
3i8
EDITORIAL NOTES.
[December,
She was escorted by native cavalry to
a castle thirty-five miles out from Ambala
and her visit was attended with the hap-
piest results, including the warm gratitude
of the Silchese wife who was thus spared
a cruel injustice.
Dr. Eddy of Beirut wrote, October 14,
that the number of deaths in Damascus,
from cholera, the day before, were ten and
Beirut, as port of Damascus, was in quar-
antine. "Prices of wheat and flour," he
says, "have greatly advanced."
Here and there in Syria a young priest
is quietly reading Moody's or Spurgeon's
sermons.
Dr. Jessup has translated Black Beauty
into Arabic, a wonderfully taking book we
should suppose among a people with old
traditions of "dainty steeds," whose
"Famous fathers dead
Were Arabs all and Arab bred."
One day last spring a missionary party
dropped into the village of Ibl, in the
Sidon field, and, after '^Heban and boiled
meat," they went with the crowd to the
church, which the school-teacher had
"decorated with wild asparagus," and saw
the children "exhibit." The rendering of
J'salm 136 was particularly suggestive.
One little boy recited the first strophe of
each verse, and three still smaller boys
(having reverently taken off their red
fezes) repeated the refrain, " For His
mercy endureth forever," with uplifted
hands and faces.
Our Laos Mission proposes " with the
help of God and His Church to take the
Lapoon Province for Christ," and as the
first direct charge upon it Rev. W. C. Dodd
and his wife were at the time of last let-
ters (September) on the eve of removing
to Lapoon City. There the training school
will go on, as at Chieng Mai before, and
all the instrumentalities of a new station
will be gradually developed. This advance
into the enemy's country constitutes in
itself a new and powerful appeal for the
prayers of the Church.
The physician at Chieng Mai has 300
to 400 patients a month and Dr. McKean
is known as a strong evangelizing mission-
ary as well as physician.
Hearinc; of the church dedication in
('hieng Mai, a former missionary says :
"the old chapel was only a native house,
ill adapted, still I wish I could preach in
it again."
White dresses are in order in Siam
every day this month.
Was there ever such a coincidence (ex-
cept that Thom-sons village in South
China) The new physician sent to
Petchaburee is, you know, Dr. Toy and it
turns out that the name of the Siamese
medical assistant there, spell it as you
will, is pronounced Toy.
For the first time in four years, Miss-
Dickson of Pine Ridge has been to Mis-
sion Meeting. It was held at Greenwood,
Yankton Agency, and great was her de-
light and surprise to note the improve-
ment in the Dakota women assembled
there from all the churches. " They con-
ducted meetings with so much more grace
and intelligence ; they gave their reports
in clear, distinct tones so different from
the mumble of former years." Their mis-
sionary contributions, as usual, are a re-
proach to white women — "over $1,300
last year."
Another visitor to the Yankton meet-
ing, a very observing man from Iowa, re-
marked that habit is stronger with the
Dakota women than with the men. While
the latter, "with scarcely an exception,
were dressed in the garb of civilized life,
perhaps ten women out of five hundred
present at some of the meetings, wore
hats ; the rest, although the thermometer
stood at ninety (in September last), wore
blankets close drawn about head and ears.
]]eside the missionary in a white muslin,
sat the convert in a quadrupled shawl that
migiit have defied a blizzard."
Upon receiving tidings of the death
of Rev. Wellington White and his little
daughter, memorial services were held in
both Canton and Macao, China. In the
latter place, where Mr. AVhite had made
his home, a morning service was in Chin-
ese and the whole foreign community
turned out to an afternoon service in
English at the close of which a company
of Lillian's friends laid their memorial
wreath above the dust of little Agnes
Oilman and the larger wreath was placed
on the grave of the first Canton mission-
ary. Lillian's Chinese nurse was broken
down with grief and the fullest expression
is echoed back to us of the respect and
affection in which Mr. White was held by
both Christians and heathen and the
affliction that his death has been to the
whole mission.
1891.]
OUR MISSIONARIES IN SYRIA,
AND POST OFFICE ADDRESSES.
All letters should be addressed " American Mission."
Miss Alice Barber, Heirfu.
Mrs. Gerald F. Dale,
Mrs, W. W. Eddy,
Miss Eliza D. Everett, "
Mrs. H, H, Jessup, "
Mrs. William Bird, Abeih via Beirut.
Miss Emily G. Bird, Abeih r'/Vi Beirut.
Miss Charlotte H, Brown. Sidon.
Miss Rebecca M. Brown,
Mrs. W. S. Watson,
Miss MaryT. Maxwell Ford, Tripoli.
Mrs. Ira Harris,
Miss M. C. Holmes, Tripoli.
Miss Harriet N. LaGrange,
Mrs. F. W. March,
Mrs. W. S. Nelson,
Mrs. F. E. Hoskins, Zahleh.
Mrs. William Jessup, "
In this Country: Mrs. James S. Dennis, 102 E. jolh St., New York ; Mrs. Wm. K. Eddy,
Thomson, 1355 Inslee St., Denver, Colo.
!04 S. 41st St., Phila.; Miss Emilia
"HIS STAR IN THE EAST."
It was seen by the wise men. It kindled
their faith and hope. They arose and fol-
lowed it. It led them to Bethlehem. How
little the world knew of the existence and
how little it appreciated the significance of
that marvelous star — His Star. Herod
fought against that star in its course ; the
Church was too busy with her lifeless
routine and her pompous ecclesiasticisin
to take notice of it ; the world was too
absorbed with ambition and too entranced
with guilty pleasure to pay any attention
to it ; infidelity scoffed at it ; philosophy
sneered at it ; learned Greece, the home
of literature and art, was too cultured to
be attracted by such a commonplace inci-
dent ; warlike Rome, the seat of political
power and the nursery of selfish greed,
would not condescend to give the matter
the slightest attention. That bright and
winsome star glittered and blazed in the
sky and those humble wise men after their
weary march over the desert came to Je-
rusalem to tell the world of its existence.
There is little evidence that the world gave
any heed to the wonderful tale. Some
faithful hearts were ready to welcome the
tidings. A loyal few were waiting for the
redemption of Israel. Yet that star was
the focus of prophecy ; it was a gleam
from beyond the skies; it was a gem from
Heaven's treasures ; it was the herald of a
new day ; it led the footsteps of men to
where the hope of the world was cradled.
Let us hark amidst the turmoil and
noise and rush of this busy century. What
strange tidings of a new Star in the East
come to us from over the seas. Is it His
Star? We hear of the Bible translated
into foreign languages, the Gospel preached
in strange tongues, the rapid progress of
Christian education, the growth of a relig-
ious literature opening up fountains of
truth and grace hitherto unknown, the
gathering of churches of spiritual believ-
ers around an open Bible, the reverent
kneeling of multitudes to offer prayer in
the name of Christ, the sweet songs of
trusting hearts in humble adoration of
Jesus, the tender scenes around commun-
ion tables, where lowly and penitent hearts
take solemn vows of loyalty to the dear
Redeemer, the noble endurance of perse-
cution for Christ's sake, the touch of the
healing art with words of loving sympathy
and counsel in the name of the great
Physician. Is not this His Star that we
see again in the East ?
Yes, dear friends of Christ, whose
thoughts turn to Syria as this month of
December comes round. It is His Star
once more in the East, and it leads your
hearts to where the young child lies amidst
the rude, wild scenes of the Eastern world.
Follow it with your prayers and hopes,
your frankincense and myrrh. Bring your
gifts and pledge your loyal allegiance to
this new child of the skies. Shrink not at
what may seem to you a dreary desert of
toil and waiting. This bright star of
missions will lead you to another Bethle-
hem. It will bring you in the shadows of
a night yet dark before the dawn, to where
the hope of the long neglected Eastern
world lies cradled. Be not faithless, but
believing. What a wealth of power and
what marvels of achievement were wrapped
up in that infant of days in Bethlehem.
It is His own gospel ; it is His own love
and power and blessed promise which we
preach and teach. If Christ is Christ,
then missions in the name of Christ and in
the power of Christ are the hope of the
world. James S. Dennis.
AN OFFERING TO THE LORD.
Zeph. 3:10.
Her name is Flower. She remembers her life in that vaguely-defined region,
very little of her childhood days. She "the land shadowing with wings which is
was born and spent some twelve years of beyond the rivers of Ethiopia." It lives
320
SOME CHOLERA INCIDENTS.
[December,
ill her memory as a land of streams, of
green fields, of dense forests — beautiful.
She remembers her mother. She remem-
bers the occurrence of a terrible quarrel
between a friend of theirs — a woman — and
her mother. She remembers there was
a reconciliation. She remembers this
friend coming one day and obtaining per-
mission for her, Flower, to go and spend
the night with her own little daughter.
She remembers tripping joyously along by
the woman's side to her hut. She remem-
bers being roused from sleep by rude,
rough men, seeing hideous forms and
faces, realizing, child as she was, that she
was the victim of a diabolic scheme of
revenge. She remembers being gagged
and dragged off into blackness of dark-
ness, for of the years that intervened she
has repeatedly said she remembers noth-
ing.
When her " understanding returned unto
her" she found herself, a girl of fifteen or
sixteen, in what was, she afterward learned,
a Turkish officer's family in a large
city on the shore of the Mediterranean.
Here her life was so intolerable that she
was often tempted to end it by throwing
herself from the roof. She finally deter-
mined to escape. One day, in the fast of
Ramadan, when all were asleep after the
night's feasting, muffling herself in the
large sheet-like wrap worn on the street
by Eastern women, she fled, she knew not
where nor whitherward, till her strength
began to fail. Rushing up a narrow alley
she brought up against an impassable
cactus hedge. Her heart sank, but she
saw a small break in the hedge and a
ladder leading down into the back yard of
a house. In a moment she was at the
foot and, removing the ladder, flew across
the yard, entered an open door and threw
herself at the feet of a woman, embracing
her knees in an agony of supplication.
The slave was free! That "open door"
led into the house of a Missionary of the
Presbyterian Board. What a transition !
From an abode of cruelty, from a state of
despair, into "an abode of love and tender-
ness, a school of holy training and a place
of heavenly light." In this atmosphere her
dormant soul, warmed by the rays of the
Sun of Righteousness, woke to life and
energy and she grew in grace and in the
knowledge of her Lord and Saviour.
One Sabbath, at a precious communion
service, in the temple of the Lord and in
the presence of His people, this "daughter
of His dispersed, from beyond the rivers
of Ethiopia," brought Him His offering —
her ransomed soul. Emilia TJiomson.
SOME CHOLERA INCIDENTS NOT BEFORE TOLD, AND PROMISING
THINGS AMONG THE NUSAIREYEH.
The first case of cholera in Tripoli City,
last year, appeared December 5, and
quarantine was not raised until February
14, 1891. It was an anxious, solemn
time. A mid-day service was held each
day in the church and well attended.
God preserved each missionary household
from danger and not a Protestant was ill
of the disease. There were probably five
hundred deaths in our city — the exact
number could not be known — some said
two thousand. They were mostly among
the Moslems who are fatalists and use no
precaution and take no medicine, there-
fore the disease spread and lingered. In
some instances whole families died, or
perhaps one would be left alone. One
day the police broke into two houses
where no stir had been observed and
found in one a family of seven lying dead
and six in the other — a terrible sight.
The bodies were buried and the houses
burned.
There were cases of cruel desertion of
the sick and infirm, showing to what extent
personal fear will overcome natural affec-
tion and duty. In bright contrast were
instances also of what noble self-sacrifice
some souls are capable. One dear old
lady who, with a daughter, had lingered
late at their mountain home, upon receiv-
a letter from children in the city urging her
not to return, but to be content to pass the
winter in the mountains, said: "What,
shall I remain here in safety and my chil-
dren in danger? No, I go to them! If
they are ill I will care for them." It is
not surprising that the son of such a
mother should furnish one of the in-
stances of true nobility. He is a drug-
gist and, while even doctors fled, re-
mained faithfully at his post, dealing out
the best remedies for the disease, teaching
the use of disinfectants, visiting the poor
and sick, nursing and, in fact, acting the
part of a faithful physician, encouraged
by his dear mother who looked after his
welfare at home. Two little nieces were
very ill with cholera but recovered.
Ouarantine coming as it did at the
SOME CHOLERA INCWENTS.
321
busiest season, the middle of October,
when the store-houses were filled with
grain, the immense orange and lemon
crop nearly ready for shipment, put all at
a standstill. In this harbor are two hun-
dred men depending for a livelihood upon
porterage, boat fees, loading and unload-
ing steamers. These were thrown out of
employment and, while the price of their
provisions increased, their income ceased
and great suffering resulted. Living from
hand to mouth, as so many of these poor
creatures do, they were soon reduced to
starvation or beggary. Funds were
raised, flour purchased, almoners selected,
the destitute searched out and relieved.
Sad cases came to light. One woman in
a poor room containing only a piece of a
reed mat and a box, had not tasted food
in twenty-four hours. In one room, ten
feet square, were eleven people, all
hungry ; they could get no work and had
no money to buy food. In others, were an
old woman, ill, her paralytic daughter and
a relative, hungry; a sick man, his wife
and five children, all suffering for food.
These are only a few of many sad cases
which Dr. Harris alone searched out.
Every morning several bushels of flour
were given out from the mission dis-
pensary and each church and mosque
also gave out food, and the people were
more like ravenous wolves than human
beings. How we did wish we could ap-
peal to a sympathetic American audience
for money to help these sufferers. Con-
siderable was sent from Beirut.
Several cases of suicide resulted. One
young man was brought to the dispensary
in a critical condition, but God spared his
life and he spent some time there and be-
came very thankful that he had been
given time to prepare for death. He car-
ried away with him a Bible, which he had
learned to love, and we trust he may be
saved by its teachings. These sad times
are now long past, but we can never for-
get them.
All the spring the dispensary has been
well filled with patients, many of them very
interesting cases. A Nusaireyeh [noo-si-
ree-yeh) woman (a sect who believe that
only men have souls) spent most of the
winter here and was daily taught in the
blessed religion of Jesus. She was much
interested and loved to listen to God's
word. It seemed to her a strange doc-
trine that there can be a heaven for wo-
men. When she went away I asked if she
now believed she had a soul. "Yes."
"And now you know of Jesus the Sav-
iour?" "Yes, yes." "Are you carrying
him to your home in your heart ? " " Yes."
We trust she did. We gave her a Bible
and she showed it to the sheikh of her
village, who read it and called it good,
the "best book he ever saw," and when
a muleteer next came to Tripoli from
that far-away mountain village, the sheikh
entrusted him with money to buy paper,
pens and two kinds of ink that he might
copy the wonderful Book for himself.
We thought to send him a Bible, but they
said no, he wished to copy it, so we
thought it might be better ; he would
prize it more and perhaps get more of its
truths in his mind by copying. We shall
send him a complete Bible later, however.
We are very much interested in the
Nusaireyeh people ; they are very ig-
norant ; their religion is secret. An
eavesdropper would be immediately killed
if discovered near their meeting. Only
one chapter of their religious book is a
woman permitted to read, and that treats
of obedience to husbands. Dr. Harris
has traveled among them and had a num-
ber of patients from their country and has
found them very willing to accept relig-
ious tracts and has sold many copies of
the Gospels and the Bible among them.
If evangelized they might become a grand
people. We long for the time to come
when laborers may be stationed in this
harvest field, for it is whitening, ready for
the sickle. We often wish we might fol-
low the truth in the minds of patients
who go from the dispensary to so many
villages on plain and mountain side, giv-
ing to others the Word they have re-
ceived, thus, like a pebble thrown in a
stream, creating widening circles until
many far remote feel the influence of
teachings here. We wish we were able to
follow it, but what matters it? God
knows. He can see to the last tiny ripple
and His promise is sure that His word
shall not return unto Him void. As the
prayers and encouragement given by
faithful Christians and missionary so-
cieties in the home lands nerve the arms to
cast the pebbles, the work is largely theirs ;
they must see to it that the arms grow not
slack. May the Holy Spirit dwell in both
richly, that all may so pray and so cast that
the watching Master may say to both :
" Well done, good and faithful servant ! "
Alice L. E. Harris.
Duma, Mt. Lebanon, August 31, 1891.
[[December,
IN OUR NORTH SYRIA MISSION.
The stations of the Tripoli field reach
from Ghurzfiz on the south to Mahardeh
on the north, one hundred miles. Hums,
Hamath and Mahardeh are naturally
grouped together, as they usually are
embraced in the same missionary tour
and, until recently, constituted one church.
A carriage road runs from Tripoli to
Hums and Hamath and a diligence makes
the journey, going one day and returning
the next. We start, after the Arabic way
of counting time, ten hours after sunset
which, in the winter, would be about
three in the morning and in the sum-
mer, about five. We are drawn by
five horses and mules, changed five
times during the day's ride of sixty
miles, and reach Hums in about
eleven hours.
As may be seen from the map, the
road at first keeps near the sea, the
Lebanon range on our right. We
pass in sight of Minyara, our newest
and one of our most promising out-
stations. Tell 'Abbas is just beyond.
Beino is back among the mountains and
cannot be seen from the road which
soon turns more to the east and
find that the lofty Lebanon range h
comes to an end. Our road winds abo
among the hills and gradually rises to a
height of about 1,500 feet above the sea.
To the south is Lebanon ; to the north
begins a new range, the Nusairiyeh Mount-
ains and before us opens a vast plain ex-
tending away to the east five hundred
miles. We are at "the entering in of
Hamath." This plain has no trees except
tho.se along the rivers and the orchards of
fruit trees which surround the cities. It
is cultivated in the Oriental fashion, yet
it produces wheat and barley far beyond
the needs of its inhabitants. We pass,
should we take the trouble to count,
as many as 2,000 camels carrying grain
to Tripoli to be shipped to England and
Mediterranean ports.
The ancient name of Hums was Emesa.
It was here that the Roman Emperor,
Aurelian, defeated Zenobia, Queen of Pal-
myra, 272 A. D. Its present population
is about 35,000, mostly Mohammedans.
The minarets of the mosques are a striking
feature of the city. The building stone is
chiefly black basalt and the streets are
])aved with the same. The buildings are
crowded together, no space being left for
l)arks or gardens or scarcely so much as
a tree within the city. Most of the people
are weavers, their looms of the simplest
construction and all worked by hand and
foot, every man working in his own house.
They have not yet learned what their
river might do, or at least have not the
capital and enterprise necessary to the
erection of mills. These weavers are very
poor. The whole family work at the
TRIPOLI GATE.
looms, father, mother and children. The
parents earn from twelve to twenty cents
a day each, and the children, some of
them, can earn no more than five cents
a week. Yet this small sum is so import-
ant to them that parents often say they
cannot let the children go to school.
Our Board owns at Hums a group of
buildings in the shape of a quadrangle,
the church occupying one side, the school
the opposite side, and rooms for the use
of the pastor, teachers and missionaries
two sides. The church seats about 150. A
red curtain separates the men and women.
The church organization dates back
twenty-six years. There are about eighty
members and a good congregation. The
Hums people love their church. To the
poor it is the only bright place in their
otherwise barren and wretched lives. Sun-
day is a full day. A preaching service
is followed by Sabbath-school, young-
people's meeting, women's meeting, preach-
ing again and evening meeting. We have
at Hums a girls' school in the room oppo-
site the church, a bovs' school in a hired
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room near by and a mixed school in another quarter of the town. These schools are
not so large as they once were for the reason that other sects have emulated our ex-
ample and opened good schools of their own. The girls' school of the Greek church
has about 200 pupils with four teachers, the principal teacher being a member of the
Protestant church and trained in our schools. There are peculiar difficulties in work
for women in Hums. The city is so largely Mohammedan that Christians conform
in part to Mohammedan customs, their women being veiled and secluded, to some
degree, from general society. They are married at an early age and according to
the parents' will and, accordingly, they often leave school before much has been done
to form mind and character. Boys make better progress and one of the most hopeful
things about the Hums church is the large number of promising young men in it.
From Hums to Hamath is a ride of five hours over the plain by diligence. Ha-
math lies in the valley, upon both sides of the ancient Orontes River (El-Asy). It
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[December,
has a population of 45,000, like Hums
mostly Mohammedans. A feature of Ha-
drinking water, washes the clothes and
the people, waters the cattle, and re-
ceives the drainage of the whole
city. Should we visit Hamath
in the spring when the fruit
trees are in blossom and full of
singing birds, the plains green
and sprinkled with flowers, we
should call it a delightful place ;
but the needs of our work call
us there also in winter time
with its rain and mud and im-
passable streets and in mid-
summer with its dust and sick-
ening odors and burning heat.
Our Foreign Missions Board
has no property at Hamath.
math is its immense water wheels
turned by the current of the river
and, by means of buckets which are
in the rims of the wheels, lifting the
THE PREACHER S HOUSE AT MAHARDEH.
The door opens into the room where service is held ; the only window
is on the left of it ; the fiat roof is sitting room on summer evenings and
bed-room at night.
water of the river to the aqueducts which
irrigate the extensive gardens and or-
chards of the city. The.se immense wooden
wheels, slowly revolving and dripping
with water, give out a strange kind of
music, now several high notes, now sud
THE HAMATH WATER WHEEL.
Our preacher lives in a hired
house and preaches in his own
parlor to a company of about
forty persons. His good wife, a
graduate of the Beirtit Seminary,
wins the hearts of the women
and holds a special meeting for
them during the week. There
is a more determined opposition
to our school work in Hamath
than in any other place. A
school of a hundred scholars
has been thrice closed by gov-
ernment. The largest city in
our mission next to Beirflt, a
faithful and able preacher and
ittle company of believers, many
these are the features at Ha-
wife, a
opposers
math.
As we go to Mahardeh we bid farewell
to both road and diligence and make our
wav on horseback for four hours over the
denly dropping to deep bass. Besides plain, following a trail. Mahardeh lies on
its service to the fields, the river supplies the open plain a mile from the river. It
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MISSION STATION.
has a population of about 3,000. Its
houses are flat-roofed, crowded together
and built of sun-dried brick the color of
the soil. A little below the surface of the
ground is a stratum of solid rock and in
this the people have hewn out spacious
chambers where they store their grain and
provender and keep their cattle. The people
were all originally of the Greek Church.
They are remarkably manly and independ-
ent and have a military bearing from the
fact that they live on the borders of the
Nusairiyeh country and are accustomed to
defend themselves, often by force of arms,
against the depredations of their lawless
neighbors. The women carry water from
the river in large, heavy copper vessels
upon their heads and this, no doubt, is a
reason for their erect and graceful carriage.
The Board owns here a small building
consisting of but a single room about
twelve by twenty feet. The church num-
bers about forty members and the usual
congregation on Sunday is twice that
number. Services are held in the house
of the preacher, that being a little larger,
but far from large enough. The congre-
gation sit upon the floor so close together
that it is completely covered and many
are kept out, especially women and chil-
dren.
The Mahardeh church is remarkable for
its self-development. The leaven was in-
troduced by a colporteur during a short
visit made years ago. It has been working
since that time with comparatively little
help from outside. The only school they
ever had lasted less than a year when it
was closed by government. Being so far
away they have had fewer visits from mis-
sionaries than other stations and almost
all their preaching up to the present time
has been by one of their own number.
This preacher entered into the kingdom
of God through many tribulations ; his
wife left him, he was threatened with loss
of all his property and his father and
brothers tried to kill him. He has been
trained in no school, but is an able and
godly man, respected by all and especially
loved and honored by his own little flock,
among whom are his wife and brothers
and others who once persecuted him. Two
Mahardeh girls have been educated at Trip-
oli ; one of them is now a teacher in Hums
and the other is at home doing a good
work for the women at her own charges.
West and south-west of Mahardeh lie
the Nusairiyeh Mountains, a country to
which our physician, more than any one
else, holds the key, and from which good
news will be heard. But let it not be
supposed that the places mentioned or
those found on the map are the only
important towns. They are scarcely one
in twenty of the villages of the Tripoli
field. Remaining places are visited oc-
casionally by colporteurs and others and
feel in some degree the influence of evan-
gelical efforts in other places, but regular
and permanent work among them is wait-
ing for the men to send, the means with
which to send them and, more than all,
for God's Spirit to incline their hearts to
receive the Word and break down the
barriers of false religion and superstition
by which they are surrounded. It is for
us to seize the opportunities already given
and pray for the opening of every door.
F. W. March.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MISSION STATION.
[traced by extracts from MRS. SOPHIE LORING TAVLOR's DIARY AND LETTERS.]
Beirut Seminary, Syria, April — , 1872.
— A telegram summoned Dr. Jessup last
night, at twelve o'clock, to hasten to
Zahleh to assist in quelling a riot. Miss
Wilson, an English teacher, the only for-
eigner there, begs his presence. Dr. Jes-
sup left at 3.30 A.M. by the diligence in a
fearful sirocco.
Wednesday. — Dr. J. returned. The
trouble in Zahleh arose out of opposition
to the anticipated burial of Moussa Ata,
the first Protestant to die there. Intense
excitement prevailed. The house-tops
were covered with men, women and chil-
dren, shouting: "We'll see how these
heretic Protestants cut up and bury their
dead ! " Priests tried to force Moussa to
recant. Miss Wilson sent the chief of
police with teacher Giurgius to the dying
man. Moussa said to him: "I am a
Protestant and I die a Protestant." Hun-
dreds surged against the house, threaten-
ing to break down the door and bring out
the " dog Giurgius " and kill him. Giurgius
said : "I will die, if 1 die, at my brother's
feet." Dr. Jessup arrived shortly after the
old man ceased to breathe ; his presence
somewhat abated the excitement and he
conducted a short service at the door.
The family refused to enshroud the body.
Wrapped in a white cloth, it was borne by
a few Protestants to a school-house, as
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there was no church, the young men sing-
ing on the way, " Aly faith looks up to
Thee." The policeman commanded si-
lence and Dr. Jessup preached a funeral
sermon to many who had never before
heard the pure Gospel. On Tuesday the
Governor sent an order by telegraph to
select a suitable spot fjr a Protestant
cemetery.
Thursday. — At mission j^rayer-meeting
this afternoon Dr. Jessup warmly. advo-
cated the immediate manning of Zahleh
by American missionaries.
September, 1872. — Messrs. A\ood and
Hardin arrived to take charge of Zahleh.
September 12, 1S72. — Mr. Wood tells of
the congregation at Zahleh la.st Sabbath :
An old man who came in bent under the
weight of years and whose son had often
beaten him for forsaking the Greek re-
ligion ; Abdullah, son of Moussa Ata, the
only one who would stay by his father in
his dying hour ; another young boy who
had received the seeds of truth in Beirut
Hospital and who came in spite of the
cursing of his family. Another had re-
cently lost his brother and the priests
charged him a large amount to rescue the
soul from purgatory. "What if the
priests have not that power, where is my
poor brother ? " The thought haunted
him till he procured a Bible ; now he is
reading the Word to men who come to
his mill. As Mr. Bird was about to begin
the service, he was called out by the cries
of another young man, whose angry
mother had pursued him and who had fol-
lowed Mr. Bird into the church, shaking
her fists in his face. Of three women in
the congregation, one had married a
Roman Catholic and came in spite of her
husband ; another had brought her hus-
band, notwithstanding his opposition ; the
third induced her husband and mother-in-
law to come. These were eight out of
the sixty-eight ! Probably many more
had made their way to service under sim-
ilar circumstances. Mr. Bird, with brim-
ming eyes and full heart, tried to tell
them what that means: My yoke is easy
and My burden is light."
Later, 1872. — (ierald F. Dale, from
Philadelphia, called this afternoon to bid
us good-by, as he leaves for Zahleh. The
American Church has given, in him, one of
her choicest. Zahleh is the very hot-bed
of bigotry, but he seems to be all on fire
with zeal and longing for his untried
work. He will proclaim the Gospel tid-
ings with no uncertain sound.
Zahleh, May 3, 1879.
Mv Dear Miss L.: We left Beirut by
carriage the morning after our marriage.
When we reached Shtoreh (on the Damas-
cus road), where we took saddle horses,
several horsemen rushed to meet us firing
pistols. As we turned our faces toward
Zahleh, companies of men, women and
children came out to welcome us and as
we entered the city the number was about
six hundred. And the missionaries only
a few years go were stoned out of the
place ! A large number of the richest
Papists and Greeks had walked a long
distance out to meet us. It was wonder-
ful and most gratifying, a decided proof
of their affection and esteem for Mr.
Dale. All the way from Shtoreh the
young men made a vieidan, racing over
fields on their fine horses, throwing lances
and firing pistols. Now and then a wo-
man came out and burned incense under
my horse's nose and a man rushed out of
a house and poured coffee over my horse's
feet. AH the roofs along the way through
the city to our home were thronged with
well-wishers and we passed through many a
shower of orange water. Since our arrival
we have been thronged with visitors, twenty
women at a time in the room. I am sur-
prised at the church attendance. This is
a grand field for work. Not an action,
scarcely, but tells in some way on some-
body. Yours, etc., Mary B. Dale.
Zahleh, , 1879.
Our Protestant Church membership is
now 102. (Seven years only since
Moussa Ata's death !) Twenty-three
united during the year. One, the hus-
band of a converted Jesuit nun ; one a
Lebanon soldier in uniform ; two over sixty
years of age ; 180 in Sabbath-school here,
and twelve Sabbath-schools in the field.
j\Ir. Dale goes on Sabbath to conduct ser-
vices at out-stations ; he has had some
knotty cases with corrupt government
officials, but, being in the right, he con-
quers. Yours, Mary B. Dale.
Beirut Seminary, October 10, 1886.
We sit to-day in the shadow of a great
sorrow. Gerald Dale has left our little
circle to join the redeemed around the
Throne. Our grand missionary, our
brother beloved wears to-day the crown
of righteousness laid up for them who
have fought the good fight. How glori-
ous to fall in the midst of his work ! Who
better prepared for the transition ?
E. D. Everett.
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The year of Mr. Dale's death the church
membership in Zahleh district was 204.
In 1887 the station was left without a
resident missionary.
1888, Rev. George Ford temporarily
cared for this field. Government was ac-
tive in closing schools. Five added to the
Church. In October, Rev. F. E. Hoskins
and wife assumed charge of the station.
1889, Rev. W. S. Watson and wife
joined the station. "Zealous bishops lose
no opportunity to obstruct Gospel work."
"Hostility of Government." Five added
to the Church.
1890, Mr. Watson transferred to Sidon
and Rev. Wm. Jessup and wife sent to
Zahleh. A fever of emigration prevailed.
For months this . poor district averaged
daily receipts of $400 to $500 from ab-
sentees in America.
1891. "The Jesuits are always with us
and always against us." Schools increase
in size, spite of everything, and include 100
Moslem children. — From Statio7i Reports.
COURT OF AN OLD-FASHIONED SYRIAN HOISE.
BEIRUT CITY. AS A TRAVELER SAW IT.
Any one who has obtained her sole
impression of Beirut from a picture pub-
lished a few years since in one of our
magazines, representing it as a few mud
huts on a hill side, has no idea of the city.
Let the reader imagine herself on one of
the fine Mediterranean steamers anchored
in Beirut harbor. The city, with a popu-
lation of nearly 120,000, rises in irregular
terraces like an amphitheatre before you,
with the grand old Lebanon Mountains
for a background. If it be the sunset
hour, every peak and crag and minaret is
lighted with the rosy hue, or, at eve-
ning, the gaslights glitter among its walls
and shrubbery. It is a view which rivals
that famous one from the Bay of Naples.
We will take one of these little boats
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DEDICATION OF THE FIRST CHURCH IN LAOS. [December,
and go ashore, rowed by strong native
boatmen. On reaching land we step into
a victoria and are driven through the
narrow streets. Many of them are mac-
adamized and, having no sidewalks, serve
alike for carriage, rider or pedestrian.
We will leave for some excursion on foot
the fascinating ancient city, with streets
like tunnels under houses, with shops on
either side where the merchant, sitting
within reach of all his goods, entices you
to stop and purchase. This oldest part
of the city was once walled, but the wall
has been so built into and upon that only
in places is it visible. Some of the old
iron gates can be seen standing open, too
rusty to swing on their hinges.
We drive past the public square with its
plants and shrubs always in bloom, and
admire the fine government building that
stands on one side. We pass the pretty
Gothic church with its tower and clock,
the Dale Memorial, the Press, and the
sacred enclosure where lie the mortal re-
mains of our missionary dead ; all the
property of our American Mission.
The streets are shut in with cactus
hedges or walls of solid masonry high
enough to conceal all but the highest
roofs and still, smiling down from the
top, are roses, lantanas, and other of our
garden plants, which here grow to trees.
To see a representative house we will
stop at one of these doors in the wall.
After ringing a bell we are admitted to an
open area paved with small round or oval
stones, black ones forming a pattern on
a white ground. In front of the en-
trance is a receiving reservoir for the
Dog River water, with which the city is
supplied. We enter the house through the
lewan, a receding porch, to the court which
is the marked feature of Eastern houses.
The courts in Beirfit are covered, while in
Damascus and some other cities of Syria
they are open to the sky. It is a room
perhaps sixty feet long and twenty-five
broad. Its size and its marble floor give
an air of elegance to the simplest house.
In one of the finer houses, owned and
occupied by a wealthy Syrian, the writer
saw a court so large that a ball-room
was taken out of the middle, enclosed
with marble columns and glass, still leav-
ing enough of the court for a wide cor-
ridor around it. All the rooms of the
house open from this court ; they, too, are
large, and the ceilings are so high that
two rows of windows are used — small
round windows above long large ones ;
floors are either marble, stone or cement,
generally covered with coarse matting.
The houses are built of a native stone —
handsome, but so porous that it readily
absorbs moisture and, consequently, inte-
rior walls are often damp during the
rainy season. Painting the exterior pro-
tects it, or, if left to itself, after a few
years it becomes waterproof.
We will not leave the city without a
visit to the flat roof. From the front area
we ascend by a flight of from forty to
sixty stone steps. We shall need um-
brellas, for the sun is always hot. What
a view ! The beautiful blue sea, smooth
as glass, steamers coming and going, white
sails scattered here and there,
" A.S idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean."
The grand, rugged, rocky chain of the
Lebanon for some distance rising directly
from the sea, then drawing back to make
room for Beirut plain and the dark
pines, stretching its snow-capped peaks
eight thousand feet heavenward, its sides
dotted with villages — all unite to make a
picture which must be seen to be appre-
ciated.
With one last lingering look we come
down from the house-top, where we may
not have gone to pray, but where we have
lifted our hearts in thanksgiving to the
good Father who has made this world so
beautiful. M. H. B.
DEDICATION OF THE FIRST CHURCH IN LAOS.
Sabbath morning, August 9, was the
date of this long looked-for and long-to-
be-remembered event. For two days it
had rained steadily, and when the veritable
morning came and with it a gloomy
drizzle, we began to fear for the size of our
audience. But, in spite of rain and mud,
the people streamed in from every quarter,
some from villages nine to twelve miles
distant, those farther away having arrived
on Saturday. To a few it was their first
visit to the city of Chieng Mai.
At 9 A.M. between three and four hun-
dred gathered for Sabbath-school in the
girls' school building, where for four years
our church services have been held. At
the close we started in a body for the new
church, a few rods south.
Ascending the steps to the vestibule
beneath the tower, we passed through
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double doors into the audience room, 'i he
missionaries took their seats on the right
and left of the platform. The people
sat on the floor, Laos style, the women on
one side, the men on the other. There
were about five hundred — a number
which comfortably filled the house. Dr.
McGilvary preached the sermon from Ezek.
Ixvii. 1-5 ; Mr. Dodd offered the dedicat-
ory prayer ; Mr. Collins baptized the new
members, and Rev. Nan Tah adminis-
tered the Communion. Nine adults were
received and also Ethel McKean and
four children were baptized. Three were
excommunicated and three suspended.
Two hundred and eighty communed.
The church edifice is built of teak with
tile roof and stands on brick posts three
feet from the ground. It is on the left
bank of the Maa Ping and faces the river.
The front is ornamented by a tower 63
feet high from the ground — just 100
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steps. The vestibule is 15x18 feet. The
audience room, 40x66 feet, is very neat,
has an arched ceiling, glass windows with
lower sashes movable and outside shut-
ters. The platform is about fourteen
inches high. On this stand a pretty wal-
nut desk and chair, upholstered in red
plush — a memorial gift from Dr. Cary.
IJelow and to the left of the minister, in a
handsome rosewood case, stands a ver}'
sweet, rich-toned harmonium, the gift of
Dr. McCiilvary's family. On the right is
the communion table. In the rear of the
auditorium and separated from it by mov-
able glass partitions, are two rooms for
use of the infant class and session. We
expect to have seats placed in the church.
The bell and lamps have not yet come.
The total cost of the building, minus
furnishings, was nearly $7,000. Of this a
little less than $800 was raised on the field.
Eliza L. Westervelt.
TWO DEVOTED ENOLISH EADIES
I.
The recent death of Mrs. Augusta
Mentor Mott while at her summer resi-
dence on Mt. Lebanon, has made a pro-
found impression in both the Syrian and
foreign communities, where she was so
well known and for many years had held
so important a place as Honorary Direc-
tress of the British Syrian Schools and
Bible mission.
She passed on to her rest and reward
after an illness of about three weeks. She
was blessed with a perfectly clear mind to
the last and a peace that was described as
" wonderful " by one who saw her repeat-
edly during this season of much suffering.
Her vigorous intellect, strongly marked
personality, and hearty devotion to the
cause of Christ in Syria made her position
and influence unique. Endowed with
wealth, she gave liberally of her means to
the mission cause she so warmly espoused
and bestowed also herself, her time and
unstinted labor as a free offering of love
to the work begun many years since by
her sister, Mrs. Bowen Thom])son. Her
spacious and beautiful home in Beirljt was
ever open for gatherings conducive to the
good or happiness of the community.
Many high in position in the Christian
Church, as well as less conspicuous labor-
ers for Christ, were her guests. Bishop
Hannington rested there before going on
his last journey to Africa, and his stirring
words are well remembered by many who
AND THEIR SERVICES TO SYRIA.
heard them in that home, as well as in the
Beirut church where his theme was " Jesus
only." Bishop French, for so many years
a laborer in various mission fields, and
who has recently fallen in the midst of his
evangelistic work in Arabia, received hos-
pitable welcome from her and now they
perchance have given her a greeting in the
home above where so many from all lands
are gathering fast.
Mrs. Mott was no ordinary woman. She
impressed all with her dignity, capacity,
catholicity and kindness. A member of
the Church of England, she loved all good
people and worked in perfect harmony
with our mission. She possessed much
wisdom and tact and much was required
in the responsible position she held. She
had a natural shrewdness, too, and her
strongly marked personal characteristics
were, as the years passed, clothed with in-
creasing graciousness. It was interesting
to observe her keen relish for pure evan-
gelical truth. \Mien some gospel doctrine
had been preached with especial clearness
and power, the warm clasp of her hand
and bright look in her eye was sure to
greet those of whose sympathy she was
confident, as she passed from her seat in
the church, while she would whisper " How
precious, how precious ! "
She was loyal and true in her rela-
tions to our Presbyterian Mission in Syria,
faithfully seeking to carry out arrange-
ments which had been agreed upon, and
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this in the face of strong efforts on the
part of some in high ecclesiastical seats to
induce her to take a more sectarian posi-
tion in the interest of High Church ex-
clusiveness. She earnestly sought the
spiritual good of the large number of
pupils connected with the many schools
under her supervision.
It is hard to realize that Mrs. Mott has
gone and that we shall no more receive
her greeting. A day or two before we
left Beirflt last Spring, notwith.standing her
more than four-score years, she climbed
our long staircase of sixty steps to bid us
an affectionate good-by. Her personal
relations with our American circle were
most kindly. No one could be ill or in
trouble without feeling her Christian sym-
pathy. This was the more impressive as
coming from one of unusual natural dignity
and reserve. Although of a different
nationality, of a different branch of the
Christian Church and of different views,
perchance, from many of the Christian
workers with whom she was more or less
associated, Mrs. Mott's influence was ever
in the interest of fellowship and union. It
is difificult to imagine the work she had in
charge going on without her, but it is
God's work and He will care for it.
The beautiful home in which she lived,
when no longer needed by surviving rela-
tives, will be set apart, with an endowment
suf?icient to care for it, as her bequest to
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the British Syrian schools, to be used as
the residence of future directresses.
To the bereaved husband and sister, who
in feebleness and declining years survive
her, and to the large circle of devoted
workers connected with the British Syrian
schools, many, I am sure, both in America
and in Syria, would tender their sincere
sympathy. Mary Pinneo Dennis.
II.
1 HAVE just returned from attending
the funeral of a Christian worker of Mt.
Lebanon, whose life has been so full of
activity in the Master's cause and her spirit
so consecrated that I cannot help feeling
it might be a stimulus to others to know
of her. She had nearly reached the age
of ninety, and has been waiting many
months for the summons Home, saying to
a friend, not long ago, that it seemed " as
though the Lord had forgotten her." And
yet even to the last,, she showed the old
energy in not being willing to keep her
bed, and in attempting to wait upon her-
self, though loving hands were ready to
minister to her.
To those who have been in any way
connected with Protestant Missions in
Syria for the last thirty-five years, the
name of Elizabeth H. Watson will not be
unfamiliar. Born to a position of comfort
if not of affluence, in London, she went, at
the age of twenty-five, to Londonderry,
Ireland, and established a boarding school
for girls. She afterwards went to Scot-
land, Canada, the United States ; to Paris
to perfect herself in French ; returned to
New York, was sent by a missionary soci-
ety of the Episcopal Church to teach on
the Island of Crete, but on account of po-
litical disturbances removed to Athens ;
a revolution breaking out in Athens and
the Bible being forbidden in the schools,
she left and went to Valparaiso, Chili,
where she taught boys and girls. From
there she sailed for Smyrna where she
taught five years, and in 1856 came to
Beirflt and opened a school for English
and American children. But she yearned
to be doing more direct missionary work
and, in 1857, established a school for girls,
which, in 1861, she removed to Shemlan.
In this school, built up and mainly sup-
ported by her own private funds, she, with
Miss Hicks, and such Native teachers as
she herself trained, labored for many years,
giving to a large number of girls from the
mountains a good, substantial, Christian
education. She made the Scriptures her
chief text-book and inspired her pupils
with her own spirit of consecration to the
Master. This school is still flourishing
under the care of the London "Society
for the Promotion of Female Education
in the East," to which society Miss Wat-
son eventually gave it.
Miss Watson, or, Mrs. Watson, as she is
generally called, also opened a school for
Druze girls. About 1863 she erected a
building in Deir Mimas and afterwards
a stone church in Shemlan, both of which
she presented to the American Mission.
As the infirmities of age crept upon her,
she gradually withdrew from active work
and found a home in the school which she
had established in Shemlan, where she re-
ceived the love and respect she so richly
deserved. As her sight failed her, she
loved to dwell more and more upon Scrip-
ture passages and hymns she had com-
mitted to memory in younger days. She
never lost her interest in the news of the
day, and was especially eager to hear of
progress in Christ's kingdom.
In person Miss Watson was very small
and to see her one would never imagine
the earnest, active spirit that dwelt within
or the force of character that controlled
her. Of indomitable will and indefatig-
able perseverance, she made her way alone
from place to place, carrying out her plans
for usefulness with untiring energy and
rare executive ability. She had natural
gifts for singing and her walls were decor-
ated with water-color and pencil sketches
by her own hand. All these gifts she laid
unreservedly on the altar of her Lord.
She often felt in these last weary years of
waiting that her usefulness was past, but to
the last her life was an object lesson. Her
cheerfulness, her patience, her gentle sub-
mission to the will of her Heavenly Father
spoke more plainly to those girls who saw
her daily than many lessons in the class-
room. To witness the beautiful and tender
care she received, was also a lesson to those
who often see the aged neglected or abused.
" Blessed are the dead that die in the
Lord — They do rest from their labors and
their works do follow them."
Theodosia D. Jessup.
Mt. Lekaxon, July 29, 1891.
PRONUNCIATION OF SYRIAN NAMES.
Beirut, Bay-root; Zahleh, Zfl/i-Ziy (h aspirated)/ Hamath, Ham-ath ; Hums, //«w/jv Mahardeh, Ma-har-
day; Minyara, Min-yar-ah ; Beino, Bay-no; Abeih, Ah-bay; Aleih, Ah-ldy; Suk-e!-Gliurb, Sook-el-Ghiirrtib.
[December,
SYRIA.
TEACHERS ON VACATION.
Miss Charlotte Brown wrote from the summer
retreat at Jedeideh in September :
Each summer stands out distinct from those pre-
ceding it and this one is no exception to the rule.
In the first place, we did not come direct here but
went first to Jerusalem after school closed, going
from Beirut to Jaffa by sea. In the latter place we
saw the new railroad, not yet completed, and actually
heard one of the three locomotives, Jaffa, Ramleh
and Jerusalem (from Philadelphia, by the way), give
a delightfully American screech.
During our stay of a week we did a good deal of
sight-seeing in Jerusalem itself and went to the
Mount of Olives twice on donkeys, visited Lazarus'
reputed house at Bethany and his tomb near by, rode
to Bethlehem one afternoon and spent a whole day
in a trip to Hebron where, like many other travel-
ers, we saw the otttsidc of the famous mosque.
From the new Russian tower on the Mount of
Olives we had a magnificent view of the Dead Sea
and Valley of the Jordan, with the mountains
beyond. We went to the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre, Wailing Place of the Jews, Mosque of
Omar and other places usually visited. I always
think of Hezekiah's Pool in connection with a poor
wounded dove that was fluttering in the water and
which somebody was trying to rescue with a pail
lowered from an overhanging window.
Dr. Merrill, the American consul, was very kind
to us, getting up the party for the mosque and
going with us himself, also taking us up into David's
Tower and out to the place that modern scholars, he
among the number, think is the true Calvary and
showing us pieces of the old wall to confirm his
theory. Altogether we had a delightful time and
some day I want to go again !
We took a round-about way to reach Jedeideh by
going to Dr. Jessup's in Aleih near Suk el Cihurb,
where annual meeting was held. We finally reached
here and were welcomed by Mrs. Eddy, but now we
are alone after a pleasant month together, for they
are on the sea homeward bound.
We find this upper floor of the Jedeideh house
ver)' pleasant and, as usual, the ])lace agrees with
us and we are both in good health. Indeed, I have
not seen my sister looking so well for a long time.
We keep very busy and wish the days were longer.
We try to study every day ; we receive and pay calls,
read, write, sew and have visited, one or both of us,
nine villages.
sore eyes and women's cares.
The people here, as elsewhere in the East, are
much afflicted with sore eyes, especially in the time
of figs. I have no idea how many children have
been brought to us to be doctored. Rebecca either
gives them a powder to make eye-water with, or we
shake a tiny quantity of boracic acid into the eye
and it usually works wonders. Some of them cry
and scream and others are as brave as can be.
Even though the treatment is painless almost, it
requires some nerve to open the eye to have anything
dropped into it. I have particularly admired a little
girl who has been here several times alone and
a Bedawy woman, a slight pretty creature with much
tattooed face.
While Mrs. Eddy was here she had the Thursday
afternoon meeting for women and, since she left, my
sister and I have been keeping it up. We some-
times have a fair attendance, but not always, for the
women are very busy these days, some washing
wheat, others boiling it for drying and crushing,
others drying figs or making dibs (native molasses
made from grapes), or looking after the crop of corn.
If there is nothing else, there is the housework and
their sewing. They remind one of Martha, cum-
bered as they are with many cares. Poor women,
some of them are very ignorant and need all we can
do for them. Would that we might be able to do
more. They are very kind and hospitable toward
us, always ready to receive us into their houses.
Miss Barber, of Beirut Seminary, wrote from
SuK EI, (iHURB, August 5. 1891 :
Miss Everett and I are in "Beit Loring," our
charming summer home, and Miss Thomson is in
England, homeward bound. Syria without Miss
Thomson is a new e.xperience to me ; I feel quite
lost in the midst of familiar scenes.
Among causes for great thankfulness last year we
count the fact that our school was not broken up by
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cholera as we had feared it might be. In anticipa-
tion of its coming, the minds of many were directed
to serious consideration whether they were prepared
to meet sickness, death and the hereafter. Some at
that time gave themselves to the Lord, while others
expressed the desire to be Christians. At the
end of the school year thirteen of our dear pupils
were with us on the Lord's side and six others
wished to " serve the King." Pray for them that they
may indeed be led into whole-hearted service. . . .
Contrary to our usual practice, we took the entire
school to that service (referring to the July Com-
munion when eleven were added to the Church in
Ueirut), wishing to deepen the impressions many
had already received. Our hopes were not in
vain, for that same evening two girls came and
said : ' ' We wished that we were where those other
girls were to-day. Yes, and next year we will be
in their places."
PERSIA.
Mrs. Potter wrote from a village near Teheran,
July 28 :
I have never had so happy and busy a year. We
are still in this mountain village rusticating. We
have with us only the very necessary things for our
comfort and are living quietly and restfully ; I hope
storing up strength for the winter. Our children
have had so much fever since our return to Persia
that I was almost desperate ; if this thorough change
does not break it up I shall be quite so. Though
only about twenty miles from the city we are 2,000
feet higher than Teheran and have consequently
a good deal of hill to travel up and down in going
or coming. It will be hard for you to realize that
twenty miles is far from anywhere, but with no
means of transportation except horses and donkeys,
we feel that it is a very long distance, particularly
on mail days.
MOHAMMEDAN DARKNESS.
We are not idle and did not come with only the
idea of our own pleasure. One of the chief reasons
was to reach this and perhaps other villages with the
Gospel message, and in getting hold of the women
I have succeeded quite as well as I had hoped.
Each day they gather about me, either here or out
under the trees, and listen to my " Book." I think
in this way and in my walks I must have given the
good news of salvation to nearly all the women of
this village. They listen and rarely disapprove of
what I say but, when most convinced that I am
speaking the truth, they seem to pity me and pray
that I may soon dream of seeing their Prophet and
so become a true believer in Islam ! To tell them
of a higher spiritual life seems to me almost like
telling an animal of human life and intelligence.
I feel more and more that these Mohammedans must
be raised above that life which they now have and
which is mere existence, before they can even under-
stand salvation. One feels in saying the most
simple things about faith and the works of the
Spirit, that she is talking far above their thoughts
and comprehension. It seems to me that is exactly
what Christ meant by the "new birth" in his talk
with Nicodemus.
We need to keep close to Christ and walk slowly.
To denounce or even to speak derogatively of Mo-
hammed would make enemies of these women at
once, though they show such friendliness now.
Vet how discouraging it is to tell them as earnestly
as you can of their great need, God's love and their
redemption by Christ and then to see by their faces,
their words, perhaps their sneer, that not one thought
of this has reached their mind — no one can under-
stand who has not honestly tried.
THE shah's TRAIN.
We are indebted to a rich Persian official in Tehe-
ran for the use of his palace during our stay here in
Afcha and are permitted to stay as long as we
choose, except that it was stipulated we should give
up the place to the shah's use whenever he passed
through here as he was expected to do. This gave
us considerable excitement and trouble, for the
owner sent masons to fix up in preparation, which
obliged us to move from one room to another repeat-
edly. After all. His Majesty did not come this way.
His harem, however, moved down through the pass
and valley and we saw the whole train. It was
a sight to be remembered as it gave us a clear idea
of the immense crowd of followers the shah has with
him on these journeys. No wonder the villagers
dread his coming. Some of the farmers here cut
their grain before it was ripe for fear of losing their
whole crop. The train of laden animals, horsemen
and mounted women was long enough to keep a
continual passing from about 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
LAOS.
ALL ALIVE AT THE TRAINING SCHOOL.
Mrs. Dodd wrote from Chieng Mai, July 2,
1891 :
The Training School was dismissed after a three
months' term for the regular rice planting vacation.
We had often prayed that the people might be
wakened to a sense of need of Biblical instruction,
and yet we were surprised as the time for rice plant-
ing came around and some of the students were
asking to go home, to find that twelve out of the
eighteen then in school were anxious to study right
on, through planting and harvesting. With one ex-
ception they were all heads of families and some of
them are obliged to hire men to do their work at
home.
Mr. Dodd had expected a long vacation for
touring and translating, but this was plainly the
work for the coming weeks. He dismissed school
for a rest of three weeks and opened again last week.
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[December,
Two new students came in and the Bible woman at
the hospital, making fifteen in daily attendance.
Some of them are elders and deacons from the
churches. Every day float out to me from the
school-room fragments of interested discussions in
theology or church government or, passing by the
open door, I see them absorbed in a small wall map
of the world or deliberating over a sum in addition
worked out on a slate hung up on the wall, one of
several answering, for the present, the purpose of
a blackboard. There are so many things these men
want to know that half an hour has been devoted
daily, to arithmetic and geography, alternately.
They are interested in anything belonging to natural
history and pick up many things in the course of a
term that do not strictly belong to study of the
Bible. Mr. Dodd often comes out of the school-
room looking for something which may help some
simple experiment or illustrate some point.
A PRIZE.
He has made a translation of Robinson's " Har-
mony of the Gospels " into Laos, and also a map of
Palestine, an enlarged copy of that in our Teachers'
Bible. A student one day expressing a wish for a
map, Mr. Dodd said he would give one to all who
could recite through, without mistake, the headings
in the "Harmony" of the different incidents as
far as they had gone, which was, I think, well into
the third year of Christ's ministry. They went to
work to earn their maps and we to make them. ^Ye
bought white glazed muslin and ran over the bound-
aries and main features of the original with the tracing
wheel. The coloring was done with crayon pencils
and the names written in Laos. Four maps were
earned and received on examination day with appar-
ent delight. Miss Griffin brought over one of her
classes in New Testament history, to hear the exam-
inations. Some of the girls were daughters and
nieces of the men who were examined.
Mrs. Taylor wrote from Lakawn, July 28 :
During the last month we have had to keep ourselves
in quarantine on account of small-pox. It has been
throughout the city and its ravages have left mourn-
ing in many a household. Most of the deaths were
of children. The disease has been here so often
that almost everybody e-xcept children born since its
last appearance have had it. \Ve have been espe-
cially careful on baby's account, the doctor having
been unable to get good virus for vaccination.
To-morrow we expect to complete preparations for
a tour of villages to the north of us. The river has
risen in the past two days and is in good condition
for boat travel. This rainy season is not pleasant
for touring, as far as personal comfort is concerned ;
but it is Mr. Taylor's vacation time, the only time,
too, that we can go by boat, and many villages
are more easily reached that way. ^Ve carry our
hotel with us. I hope soon to be able to write you
of many accepting the Gospel. Mrs. Peoples has
an interesting kindergarten class of boys.
CHINA.
GLAD RETURN.
Mrs. a. a. Fulton wrote from Canton, Sep-
tember 14 :
After a pleasant voyage of thirty days, we find
ourselves again in our beloved China. It" is with
joy that we return to our work and the warm wel-
come we have received from both Chinese and
missionaries assure us that they are glad to see us
as we are to see them. \Ve all feel well and ready
for work.
EXILES of the central MISSION.
Mrs. Le.'^man, who, with the other foreign ladies,
fled from the mob in Nanking, last May, wrote
from Arima, Japan, September I, 1891 :
It is just eighi years ago to-day since I landed in
China the second time. Then my heart was full of
plans for the new school we were going to open in
Nanking and to-day I can only recount God's bless-
ings, how He smiled on our every effort and estab-
lished the work of our hands ; even now, although
our work seems scattered to the four winds, yet His
eye is upon it all, each little lamb is carried in
the Good Shepherd's arms and neither Satan nor a
heathen world can wrest them from Him. And so,
knowing that He rules, we quietly wait and see
what He would have us do. Thus, for almost four
months, we have waited knowing all the time that
the Master was at the helm.
We felt that we must get away out of the dreadful
excitement if we were going to be of any real use in
the autumn, so, with the doctor's advice, we packed
up and came to this beautiful mountain retreat and
it has done us great good. Mr. Leaman, with the
children and myself, will return to Shanghai in two
weeks and go on to Nanking if possible. Miss
Lane and Miss Lattimore will remain here at least
one month longer. We are very anxious to get
back to our people and the children of our schools.
If the way is clear, I shall at once open the school.
When we left, everything about work seemed
prosperous. We had gathered a little church of
some forty members ; a few of these were by letter.
.\t our last Communion we had taken in three
women from my class and two girls from the school.
Then all the girls over twelve years of age 7vere pro-
fessing Christians or 7vere in the inquiry class. It
seemed very hard to leave all, but we felt so confident
that the hand of God was in it that we did not
question but went away to let the Lord work with-
out our feeble aid.
The last we heard from Nanking, our homes, dear
little church and school building had not been mo-
lested. Native Christians were not injured in any
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way. And now while it seems with us a day of dark-
ness and we know not what an hour may bring forth,
will you not plead with the dear Lord to remember
our Zion that it languish not and that His servants
may come forth brighter and stronger to do His
whole will ?
Mrs. Mary Lane wrote from Wei Hien, in
Shantung, September 6 :
Dr. Mary Brown and Dr. Madge Dickson Mateer
take alternate weeks at the medical work, var>-ing
the exercise by studying Quan IVha. They have
worked very hard and accomplished wonders in
removing prejudice and conciliating the Chinese.
They have many calls to the city among wealthy
families. As a consequence the people of Wei
Hien are much less hostile than formerly. Recently
some of us were passing through the city. Mrs.
Fitch and I were in an open barrow. We got
separated from the rest of the company and were
alone in the midst of that great heathen city of
150,000 people. The streets were fearful; just
sewers of filth. The barrow men floundered out of
one mud hole into another. Several times we were
near upsetting and would have been plunged head-
long only for the helping hand of some outsiders
coming to the scene. Crowds of naked boys and
half-naked men filled the street wherever we stopped
to gaze upon the foreign women. At last we were
forced to get out. The men stuck in a mud hole
and could get no further. We drifted along with
the crowd until we came up w-ith the other barrow,
in which were Mr. Fitch and Mrs. Mateer. Yet no
unkindness or insult were offered us. A few years
ago Mrs. Hunter, while going through this same
city in a close chair, was stopped by the mob and
only that her husband was present and with revolver in
hand dispersed them, would she have escaped as well
as she did The lady doctors are sadly in need of rest.
We were much concerned about the outcome of
the riots in the South, but felt that we could trust
all things to Him in whose hands are the hearts of
the children of men ; who can make even the wrath
of man to praise Him. Our missionaries in Chinanfu
seem to be living over dynamite ; only, in China,
dynamite, like everything else, is a little slow.
During the recent sickness of the Governor of this
province in that city Dr. Neal was called in. After-
ward the viceroy at Peking sent his own private
physician, who is also a foreigner, to attend the
Governor, but he got there too late to relieve him ; he
was beyond the reach of medicine. So the doctor did
not give him any medicine but returned immediately
to Peking. The Governor died that night. Next
morning posters were all over the city; "Kill the
foreign doctors ; kill all the foreign devils." The
report had been circulated that the doctors had
poisoned the Governor. This is usually the case
when one dies. Our doctors are verv careful not to
take hopeless cases. The danger is all the more
imminent because thousands of the literary class are
attending examinations there at this time. They, :is
a class, are violently opposed to the missionaries
and delight to incite a mob.
JAPAN.
Miss Loveland wrote from Kobe, July 21, 1891 :
Kobe is the place ; the house is Japanese, large
and airy; the day is rainy, and L on the narrow,
upper veranda that commands a good view of the
ocean, quite in the mood for writing. The young
ladies of the Itchi Jo Gakko, of Osaka, and L are
spending this time of the Kobe summer Bible school
at Mrs. Haworth's, where we have been having, a
delightful time. There is always a good breeze
from the sea, however warm it may be, and it is
especially coo! up here on the bluff.
While you will see from the report that we have
felt hindered in the school work during this year by
illness of teachers, it is very encouraging that,
counting loss of pupils by removal of families to
other cities and by promotion to other schools, we
have now as many pupils as last fall.
It seems to me a very happy thing that Miss
Bigelow was able to go out to Kanazawa last year
as Miss Porter's substitute and is also willing to fill
up niches, which she does most gracefully and
"with the cheerful heart" so pleasing to the Lord.
She will spend part of the time next year in the chil-
dren's school and part at the Jo Gakko during Miss
Hesser's furlough in America. During the coming
winter I shall take a change, coming to a milder
climate, and shall choose Osaka merely because of
the children's work carried on there, where I may
do all that I have strength for, hoping to go on from
strength to strength.
MEXICO;
Miss Bartlett, of Mexico City, says, Sept. 17 :
Our school is prosperous and we are almost free
from anxiety. Care, a weight of responsibility,
constant watchfulness ; all that is inseparable from
our work : but our girls are so good, the teachers so
satisfactory and school altogether so delightful that
hard work is only a pleasure. Then Miss DeBaun
and I are in such perfect health that we have
abundant cause for gratitude to the Father.
The Independence Day of Mexico was celebrated
yesterday, in which our school had a small part.
Twelve of the g^rls sang in parts a choral from
Mendelssohn's "St. Paul" without an accompani-
ment. I have rarely heard girls anywhere sing so
well. The "Personification of Liberty and her
Daughters " was a dialogue written by the young
ladies who rendered it. Do these details tire you?
Everything these children do is so interesting to me
that I imagine, perhaps unwisely, everyone else will
be entertained in the same wav.
[December,
MONTHLY MEETING.
Scripture Text, Prov. xxv., sj. — As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
Scripture Readi/tg, Isaiah xl., i-is.
Cetural Topic. — Our Missions in Syria.
A Summary of what the Syria Mission
is trying to do. Two causes for thanksgiving. The
occupation of Aleppo urged by our Missionaries.
The needs of the Mission, as presented by them.
Prayer that these desires may be fulfilled.
Name the five centres of work, and the
Missionaries at each. A Syrian pastor installed at
Beirut. A memorial tablet placed. Report of Liter-
ary work. A consignment of Arabic books and
tracts sent to Chicago ; for what purpose ? Report
of the I'rinting Press for 1890. The Theological
Class. The Syrian Protestant College. The Sum-
mer Home on Mount Lebanon.
Report from the three Boarding Schools
for Girls. Where are they ? name the ladies in
charge. The Boys' Boarding Schools ; where are
they? under whose charge? Number of High
Schools and Common Schools ; pupils in them.
Special prayer for all these schools, their teachers
and pupils, and the graduates, those in their homes,
and those engaged in teaching.
Work for Women at the various Sta-
tions.
Medical work at Tripoli ; need of a
lady physician and a Dispensary Building. The
emigration fever, and its consequences. Touring
in the Maronite district. Communion Sunday in a
Syrian Village (Ann. Rept's and W. IF. Dec, i8go.)
Progress of the Gospel in Turkey shown
by opposition ; revival of Mohammedanism in the
19th century ; the approaching conflict (TAc Church.
Dec, '90). Description of Minyareh, an out-station
from Tripoli (ditto), Arabic Literature enriched by
American Missionaries (ditto). A climb up Mount
Hermon (ditto, pp. 563, 564).
A Mother's Meeting at Tripoli ( W. W.,
Letter, May, '91). A visit to Alma, our most south-
ern out-station (letter, July). The Martyr of Leb-
anon, a story of sixty years ago (August). Work at
Schweifat, an out-station from Abeih (letter, August).
Medical Missionary Touring, showing
the value of medical work as a means of reaching
the people {The Church, Jan., '91, p. 18). Liberty
of the Press in Turkey, its limitations (ditto, p. 43).
Hardships of Syrian Christians (Letter, p. 69, ditto).
A Syrian Presbytery ; be sure to give a
summary of this article { The Church, Feb., '91, p.
123).
The Cholera in Syria, a letter from one
of the Syrian preachers, showing the strength of
Christian faith and fortitude and victory over death
on the part of Syrian Christians ( The Church, March,
pp. 267, 268). A Moslem Sheikh seeking the
truth {The Church, Aug., p. 176).
Note the subjects for prayer suggested
by the Missionaries themselves in these articles and
letters, and let us have another " Christmas Crusade
of Prayer for Syria"
E. M. R.
ONE IN CHRIST FOR A WORLD OUT OF CHRIST.
It happened this way: Mrs. Clarence
Reeves and her two particular friends, the
Misses Bascombe, commonly called "the
Bascombe girls," all residents of the
pretty little town of Wensleyville and
active members of the Presbyterian church
there, took a deep interest in mission
work. They ardently desired to see it
pushed on more rapidly and, for that
reason, hailed with delight the formation
of Woman's Foreign Missionary Societies
and were all on fire to have an auxiliary
in the Wensleyville church, but until the
magazine came out they could not suc-
ceed in talking tlieir sister members into
it. With the exception of Mrs. Black
who was a good deal of a shut-in, and old
Aunty Holland, one of the lowly of the
earth, all were either depressingly luke-
warm or crushingly antagonistic.
Mrs. Reeves rejoiced in the possession
of a Philadelphia cousin who was among
the workers at headquarters there and by
whom she was kept posted as to progress.
When the magazine came out the obliging
cousin sent Mrs. Reeves a copy, and she
immediately ran over with it to "the
girls " who, by the way, were several
years older than herself, and together
they read — no, devoured — its contents,
praising it unboundedly. There never
was such a magazine !
" How interesting ! " Mrs. Reeves ejacu-
lated time and again.
"So admirably gotten up ! " commended
Miss Eliza Bascombe.
"So suggestive ! Tells you just how to
start an auxiliary," said her practical sister.
After they had thoroughly warmed
themselves up afresh over the little peri-
i8gi.j ONE IN CHRIST FOR A
WORLD OUT OF CHRIST.
odical, they went out and started the so-
ciety. Sending for several copies of that
precious first number, they armed them-
selves with these and systematically can-
vassed the congregation. Where they
thought the magazine would be read they
left it, as a loan, for leisurely perusal ;
where they thought it wouldn't be read
they mercilessly forced it. The result of
these extreme measures was that, one
lovely day in early summer when the
whole village was redolent of roses and
syringa, about a dozen women met in the
little church and the much-talked-of so-
ciety was organized.
We are not going to write its history.
We shall say nothing of its ups and downs ;
of the times when there were hardly
chairs enough for all attending the meet-
ings and the times when nobody put in
an appearance but the three originators
and Aunty Holland ; of the years of en-
thusiastic giving and the years when the
money was so hard to come by. Es-
pecially let us avoid those harrowing peri-
ods when the church building was being
repaired and so many folks seemed to think
that mission work ought to take a vacation
until the important feat of frescoing and
carpeting Wensleyville church was ac-
complished.
Nor will we pause to relate how the
society grew in knowledge of this old
world and its needs. The members
availed themselves of all aids to this
knowledge, not only keeping along with
missionary literature as it expanded but
diligently tracing the connection between
current events and the evangelization of
the world. There were — are, we should
say — some thorough readers in the little
circle. Howells's description of lady
readers in small towns — "devouring
books and reading close to the bone" —
might be applied to Miss Eliza Bascombe
and a few others in Wensleyville. Not
much escaped them, and the missionary
society benefited by their studies.
What we wish to touch upon particu-
larly is a certain phase of this mission
work that some of the Wensleyville
women often spoke of among themselves.
That is, what a tendency it has to draw
the workers close together in Christian
sympathy. This, of course, is the natural
outcome of laboring and praying together
for souls. Not only within their own
bounds was this sweet, peculiar feeling
observable, but also when they were
brought into contact with others engaged
iu the same cause. Delegates to Presby-
terial and Annual Meetings, or those
voluntarily attending meetings of other
denominations, always came home with
some incident illustrating this Christian
love and sympathy.
A good deal was said on this subject
the day the society held a special meet-
ing at Mrs. Reeves's to arrange for the
celebration of their twentieth anniversary.
They were gomg to have a praise-meet-
ing and thank-offerings and all sorts of
things.
Twenty years, of course, had made
many changes in the personnel of the so-
ciety. Some of Ihc early members,
among whom were Mrs. Black and Aunty
Holland, had long since been gathered
home and the passing years had left their
mark on all the workers. The "Bas-
combe girls" had become quite gray and,
in common with many others, obliged to
mount glasses and get very near the
light when reading their papers and items
at meetings. Mrs. Reeves, who was so
youthful looking and light of foot the
day she "ran over" with the first maga-
zine, taking her four-year-old daughter
along, could not yet be called an old
woman ; still, the fact that she was
obliged to miss the last February meeting
because her little grandson was ailing,
showed she was getting on in life.
But, along with lines drawn by time
and care on these faces, there were
earnest, tender, soulful expressions that
perhaps would not have been there had
not these women been engaged so many
years in trying to uplift humanity and
advance Christ's kingdom.
While waiting for the ladies to gather
on the afternoon aforesaid, there was
much pleasant talk, some of it, naturally,
reminiscent, in Mrs. Reeves's sunshiny,
lilac-scented parlor. A slight lull in the
buzz of voices enables us to hear Mrs.
Thomas Wensley's distinct tones. She
has just returned from a stay at Clifton
Springs and, at the moment we take her
up, is concluding an account of certain
missionaries she met at that recuperating
resort with these words :
" It was so delightful to talk with them,
and though they have been doing the
heavy part of mission work, still I felt
that I was 'in it' a little and could feel
that I was one with them."
" Isn't that feeling of oneness with the
workers at home and abroad the most
delicious sensation ! " exclaimed Mrs.
338
CHRISTMAS GIFTS.
[December,
Mackellar. " When we were in Chicago,
last fall, where I didn't know a soul, there
was one place where I felt perfectly at
home. That was Room 48, McCormick
Block. I attended the Friday meeting
and when some of the good folks found
I was a humble 'missionary woman' from
the eastern edge they took me right in
among them."
"'Twould have been all the same had
you been from the western edge," said
Clara Bascombe. "But I wonder if they
verified your statement by finding your
secretaryship's name in the Philadelphia
Annual Report as I once hunted down a
chance acquaintance."
"How was that?" asked one.
"The foreign missionary evening of the
Centennial General Assembly," replied
Miss Clara, " I happened to locate in the
Academy of Music beside a pleasant-
faced lady who was an utter stranger,
but it didn't take us five minutes to dis-
cover that we were both deeply interested
in mission work. To be sure, we couldn't
talk much there, but we enjoyed the ex-
ercises all the more for sitting side by
side. We exchanged cards and when I
got home I turned to the last annual re-
port, knowing by her town and state what
presbytery she was in, to see if she was
secretary of anything, and there, sure
enough, I found her name ! I felt as
though she were a relative of mine. I
took that presbytery into my ring straight-
way."
"Into your ring?" repeated some one,
inquiringly.
"Yes. I take special interest in the
presbyteries where I know some one, al-
ways read anything I see in the papers
about them and pray for them."
" I always take special interest in so-
cieties and bands whose work touches our
own," said Miss Hall. "You remember
that was the way I became acquainted
with my dear friend in Trenton, N. J.
Her Band and mine were contributing to
the same object and we found each other
that way."
"Yes; and you remember what pleas-
ant correspondence we had with that
Ohio Auxiliary the years we were united
with it in paying Miss 's salary in
China," said Mrs. Mackellar.
"You don't know how I rejoice in all
that brings mission workers closer to-
gether ! " exclaimed Clara Bascombe.
"This little magazine," waving Woman's
Work for Woman above her head, "that
is drawing all our Presbyterian Woman's
Boards nearer to each other, is the joy
of my heart, and I can't hear too much
about central Boards, international, inter-
seminary and all other ' inter '-missionary
affairs. It all means a stronger force
working to gain the world for Christ."
Mrs. Reeves, who had been listening to
everything in enthusiastic silence, now
broke in with :
" Dear friends, your talk brings to my
mind this vivid sentence of Dr. Theodore
Cuyler's — 'One in Christ for a world out
of Christ ! ' Doesn't that describe the
great, all-denominations missionary so-
ciety that is working for the conversion of
brothers and sisters of all colors in all
climes?" Then, after a moment's pause,
"We want a golden-lettered motto for our
anniversary celebration — won't that sen-
tence do ? "
All over the room was a murmur of in-
tense approval and moistened eyes looked
into each other in mute sympathy, but no
word was spoken until Miss Eliza Bas-
combe softly quoted : " Ye are one in
Christ."
"And," added Mrs. Reeves, "permitted
to be 'workers together with Him.'"
Emma L. Burnett.
CHRISTMAS GIFTS.
Are we not spending too much money
on Christmas gifts? I do not mean for
loving presents to our children and child-
ren of the poor in remembrance of the
Christ child, nor do I mean to the poor
" whom we have always with us," the gifts
of food, clothing and fuel which we know
are sorely needed in December weather ;
but I will illustrate.
Some years ago it was said in my hear-
ing to the mother of a large family, "You
are not so intimate, I notice, as you
formerly were with the family of Mrs. C."
" No, we are not," was the reply, " and I
will tell you the reason. We were in the
habit of exchanging handsome Christmas
gifts and, last winter, a large clothes-basket-
ful went over from our house with costly
remembrances to every member of their
family. Some hours after there came a note
of thanks and the information that Mrs. C.
had decided to give no Christmas gifts in
future." The lady added, " I only say that
I think notice should have been given
SINCE LAST MONTH.— TO THE AUXILIARIES.
before, instead of after, Christmas. There
has been a coolness between us ever since."
Now, when gifts are so palpably a matter
of bargain and sale it is quite a piece of
fraudulent dealing to take them without
the quid pro quo. And is there not a good
deal of bargaining in this affair? Already
ladies are crowding the fancy stores, and
when no other adjective will answer, we
hear them say, " Oh, how new ! " and many
are anxiously wondering what to buy.
339
Dear friends, dare I suggest that, instead
of lavish purchases of useless beauty, you
restrict the number and cost of your gifts
and make an offering to the Missionary
Boards of your surplus funds ? Thus will
your Christmas money be indeed a gift
and remembrance of Him who was at this
time born of a pure Virgin and gave us by
His birth and death our hopes of Heaven.
Mrs. A. M. F.
Washington, D. C.
MISSIONARY SOCIETY HELPS IN PAPER COVERS.
Bible Light on Mission Paths. ( Presbyterian
Board of Publication, 1334 Chestnut St., Philadel-
phia.) 190 pages. Price 30 cts., postpaid.
A well-chosen series of topical Bible readings and
concert exercises for use in missionary meetings of
Auxiliary Societies and Bands or at the monthly
concert, prepared by Miss Hannah More Johnson.
This is a help which leaders of meetings will
thoroughly appreciate — something adapted to young
and old, for occasions ordinary and extraordinary,
brief, cheap, covering a great variety of subjects.
Part 1st consists of Bible selections with brief
comments on such themes as " God's rule for Chris-
tian giving," " Speak my word faithfully," " The
Foreign Missionary principle," etc.
Part 2d is designed for from two to twenty voices
and contains, besides question and answer, precept
and promise, colloquy and motto, an occasional
hymn and prayer. Scripture texts given in full and
no exercise would occupy more than five minutes.
We heartily commend this handy little volume, but
in order to the proper rendering of the responsive ex-
ercises not one but a dozen copies should be ordered.
/. M. T.
A P0WIVOU1 or Talk on A'orth American Indians,
an exercise for young people's societies, by Mrs.
Sophie Loring Taylor, Mt. Jackson, Lawrence Co.,
Pa. Price, a nickel (not stamps) and a penny stamp.
Will both entertain and instruct. No copying neces-
sary.
Monthly Missionary Teas, 1891-92. Covihined
Missionary Teas (for both home and foreign mission
meetings). Children's Exercises No. 2, Edited by
Mrs. A. B. Huston and Mrs. Howard Eckert,
Avondale, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Report of the Convetition of the Student Volunteer
Movement February and March, 1891. Press of T.
O. Metcalf & Co., Boston, Mass.
SINCE LAST MONTH.
Arrivals.
October 25 — At New York, Rev. Wm. K. Eddy and wife and three (beautiful) children. Address,
care Rev. H. A. Nelson, D.D., 204 S. 41st St., Philadelphia, Pa.
October 27. — At Newark, N. J., Miss E. M. Butler, from Canton. Address, 269 Walnut St., Newark.
Miss Noyes, who crossed with Miss Butler last June, is addressed at Seville, Ohio.
Departures.
October 21.— P'rom San Francisco, Dr. Hugh Brown and wife (Dr. Fanny Hurd), for Korea.
November 3. — From San Francisco, Dr. Walter B. Toy and wife, for Petchaburee, Siam.
Miss Elsie Bates also for Siam.
November 5. — From New York, Dr. H. M. Lane, accompanied by his daughter, for San Paulo,
Brazil. Miss Frances Doggett, also for San Paulo.
November 12. — From Liverpool, England, Mrs. Mcintosh, to join her husband in Shanghai.
Deaths.
August 2g. — In the travelers* bungalow, at Miraj (near Sangli), S. India, Mary, daughter of Dr.
and Mrs. Wanless, aged one year and a few days. They had gone to Miraj for her sake.
October 15. — At Beirut, Syria, Geraldine, youngest daughter of the late Rev. Gerald F. Dale, in her
sixth year.
To the Auxiliaries.
[For address of each headquarters and lists of officers see third page of cover.]
From Philadelphia.
Send all letters to 1334 Chestnut Street.
Directors' Meeting first Tuesday of the month,
at 11.30 a.m., and prayer-meeting third
Tuesday, at 12 M., in the Assembly Room.
Visitors welcome.
Four new leaflets are now ready : Hadn't it
Better be in Circulation ? has a message for all
who are tempted to postpone their offerings for
the Lord's work, and for societies that like to
keep a balance in their treasury to begin the
new year. Price, i cent; 10 cents per dozen.
Mrs. Agnew Canvassing for Alissionary Mag-
azines tells the story of the earnest and success-
ful work of one woman who put her heart into
the effort to introduce missionary literature into
the homes within her reach. Be sure that your
magazine agent has a copy at once. Our Work
Abroad was read at the Woman's Meeting at
Detroit during the General Assembly. Its
review of the work done during the past year in
the foreign field by all the Woman's Societies
and Boards will be just the thing for our January
Auxiliary meetings, when we like to take a quick
trip to all the mis.<;ion fields. The Social Ele-
ment in Mission Work, by Miss Belle Brain, of
Springfield, O., was prepared for our Annual
Assembly at Dayton and is full of helpful hints.
34°
TO THE AUXILIARIES.
[December,
suggested by an unusually successful experience.
Each of these three leaflets 2 cents ; 1 5 cents per
dozen. New editions of Systematic Gtvi/ig, i
cent ; 10 cents per dozen and of Bib/f Responses
to Missionary Qitestions, 50 cents per 100, have
also been printed.
One Tuesday morning brought a call from
Mrs. Mary Happer Damon, with her two child-
ren. She and her husband have found their
work for several years among the Chinese in the
Sandwich Islands and are now having a vacation
in this country. Miss Mary E. Johnson has
also looked in upon us and given some of the
Philadelphia friends an opportunity to become
acquainted with her before she should start for
India with her father.
Mrs. S. B. Groves, who sailed from San
Francisco in August, in Dr. Gillespie's party, is
to be one of our missionaries. She is the
daughter of Rev. \V. W. Anderson, of London-
ville, O., and has had experience as a teacher
that will be a good preparation for the work
that she is looking forward to in Tungchow,
China.
From Chicago.
Meetings at Room 48 McCormick Block
every Friday at 10 a.m. Visitors welcome.
Reports from various synodical and pres-
byterial meetings point to increased activity;
plans being made in numbers of them toward
rousing the sleeping ones, nourishing and quick-
ening the zeal of the weak, as well as attempt-
ing to interest the uninterested. We are, there-
fore, hoping that at next year's meetings there
may be reported a great increase in knowledge
as well as gifts.
We have had, during the past month, the
pleasure of another visit from Mr. Laughlin, of
China, who told of the opening of the station at
Wei Hien, and contrasted that with its present
condition.
Mr. Underwood again laid the needs of
Korea upon our hearts. One of the Lord's
stewards has given the funds necessary to send
a missionary to Miss Doty's assistance in Seoul.
Mr. and Mrs. Porter of Japan, with little
Graham, are often with us as they are spending
the winter in Chicago, and frequently give us
items of interest.
We have had pleasant mid-week calls from
both Dr. EUinwood and Dr. Mitchell and the
missionaries from Chili, Mr. Allis and Mr.
Dodge, who have been attending conventions
and meetings of Synods. Dr. Lane of Brazil
and his daughter were also here. He told us of
many churches in the interior becoming self-
supporting.
We had, on one Friday, the pleasure of lis-
tening to a most delightful address by Rev.
Egerton R. Young, who has been a missionary
of the Canadian Methodists among the Cree
and Salteaux Indians in the North-west Hudson
Bay Territory. He said his station was the
nearest to the North Pole of any. We could all
have listened to him much longer had we had
more time.
Rev. Samuel Jessup of Beirut spoke with
burning earnestness of the need of caring for
the souls of Syrians who have come to our
countiy to live. While he did not, on the
whole, approve of their coming, still they are
here and we should not neglect them.
Miss Cole of Siam described the girls'
school at Bangkok and told of the interest
shown in it by Siamese generally. She gave in-
stances of good results from the teaching ; the
scholars' prayerful desire to do right and the
public sentiment awakened in favor of the edu-
cation of girls.
All who attended the meeting in Detroit
last May will be glad to learn that the
excellent summary of work done abroad by our
Woman's Boards has been issued in leaflet
form, entitled " Oicr Work Abroad." Price 2
cents. As one who heard it says: "If the en-
tire time of a single meeting of each auxiliary
could be given to the consideration of that
paper nothing could be better."
We have, also, "Bright Spots in a Dark
Subject." Price 2 cents; 15 cents per dozen;
"Mrs. Agnew Canvassing for Missionary
Magazifics!' 2 cents; 15 cents per dozen;
and " 77/1? Social Element in Missionary
Work" and " Systematic Giving" each i cent;
10 cents per dozen.
The two volumes of "Christinas Am:als"
%i each, spoken of last month, we hope will be
extensively called for.
Address the W. P. B. M. of the Northwest,
Room 48 McCormick Block, Chicago, 111.
From New York.
Prayer-meeting at 53 Fifth Ave. the first
Wednesday of each month at 10.30 A.M.
Each other Wednesday there is a half-hour
meeting for prayer and the reading of mis-
sionary letters, commencing at the same
hour.
The Semi-Annual Meeting of the North
River Presbyterial Society, held at Freedom
Plains, October 27, was of peculiar interest
for several reasons. The old church in which
the sessions were held stands in the centre of a
purely agricultural district in Dutchess County,
the present building dating back to 1828. It is
under the charge of the Rev. Mr. Nelson, a
graduate of Union Seminary, young, earnest
and warmly interested in missions.
In the absence of the President, Mrs. Hector
Craig, Miss A. S^ Ludlam presided. Reports
were read and two new officers elected. Mrs.
Morgan Carpenter of Shekomiko as Secretary
for Missionary Literature, in place of Miss
Beattie, who had resigned because of her mar-
riage. Mrs. William Brinkerhoff of Van Wag-
ners was elected Recording Secretary in place
of Miss Howell of Rondout, who had also re-
signed. The time after the necessary business
iSgi.]
TO THE AUXILIARIES.
341
was transacted was, by arrangement of the
Executive Committee, given largely to Home
Mission interests, but Mrs. McCuUough of India
made a brief address at the close of the after-
noon session. A delicious luncheon was served
by the ladies of the church, whose pleasant hos-
pitality there and in their homes, as well, was
thoroughly appreciated by the delegates present.
An energetic lady in one of our Auxiliaries
recently started out to canvass her congregation
for subscribers to Woman's Work. It resulted
in raising the list from fifteen to seventy-five.
We begin to feel our increase of four thousand
subscribers an accomplished fact.
The monthly prayer-meeting in Lenox Hall
I at the Mission House], November 4, was very
largely attended. Miss Doggett was there al-
most on her way to the steamer for Brazil, and
Mrs. Pond who hopes soon to leave for South
America. Besides these outgoing missionaries,
Mrs. Allis of Chili, Mrs. True of Japan, Miss
Butler and Mrs. Laughlin of China all gave a
greeting. Mrs. Rhea of Chicago appealed
earnestly to all to remember especially in
prayer, those who had to do with the material
and secular side of missionary work — the secre-
taries and officers of the B(jard who have the
administration of its business affairs — that wis-
dom from above might be given them and their
spiritual life be glowing and intense.
Besides those mentioned, there were ladies
present at the November meeting at " 53 " from
Louisville, Ky., Rochester, N. Y., Newark, Ja-
maica and Morrisania. Friends of missions
from a distance are cordially invited to these
meetings and requested to make themselves
known.
A STEADY rain all day, a cosy chapel at Glen
Cove, L. I., friendly hospitality, an able hand on
the helm of the presbyterial meeting, everybody
loyal and everybody loving, some of the breth-
ren lending their interest all day, good
reports, handsome lunch, helpful young ladies,
and over eighty delegates present, some of
whom rode seven miles, others nine, and four-
teen of them eighteen miles through the storm
— that's Nassau !
Supporters of the Underwood Orphanage,
Seoul, Korea, will please notice that it has been
changed to a Boys' School. The shares are the
same — $25 — and the need of a liberal and a
prayerful support just as great as under the
former plan.
"Sending- Forth," "Mrs. Agneiu Canvass-
ing for Missionary Magazines," " Bright Spots
in Dark Places" (relating to mission work in
Africa), and "In Everything Give Thanks" (a
new leaflet for praise meetings) are recent pub-
lications of our Board.
From Northern New York.
Those in attendance at the meeting held in
Schenectady know that Miss Charlotte Miller has
not gone to Japan but has remained in this
country. We have adopted in her place Mrs.
John A. Silsby, Shanghai, China. Mrs. Silsby
has already done good work in Shanghai as
Miss Moore, under the auspices of the Christian
Alliance, and is now co-operating with her hus-
band in furthering the work of our Board. The
Societies which had expected to support Miss
Miller can, by correspondence with the Secre-
taries, Mrs. Curtis and Miss Eddy, ascertain
whether they should transfer their interest to
this new missionary, or, whether some portion
of the new work is to fall to their share.
We have also been asked to contribute for
land for the Institiito Internacional in Santiago,
Chili ; for the Press in Bangkok, Siam, and day
schools at Lahore, India. Miss Christensen's
outfit and salary are provided for by one of the
ladies of the Troy Presbytery. In addition to
the above, the children of our Bands and Sun-
day-schools are asked to give %zoo for buildings
at Yamaguchi, Japan. This is to be contributed
through Children's Work for Children, through
which magazine information in regard to the
buildings can be obtained.
A LETTER has been received from Miss
Christensen dated Liverpool, October 13. By
advice of the Board, she delayed her departure
three weeks in order to join Mrs. Marling and
go out with her to Gaboon. They were to sail
the next day.
We have also received a letter from Mr.
Jeremiassen, written from Copenhagen, regret-
ting he could not be with us at our meeting in
Schenectady, having had a great desire to meet
those who, from the beginning, have been inter-
ested in work on Hainan, China.
The Y. p. S. C. E. of one church in Glens
Falls has secured an interesting letter from Rev.
William Jessup, of Zahleh, Syria, in whose work
this Society has a practical interest. We hope
that many of the Y. P. S. C. E. connected with
our churches will organize foreign missionary com-
mittees and speedily follow in the footsteps of the
Glens Falls and Hudson societies, the only two
which have reported to us.
We desire to call the attention of the auxil-
iaries and sister societies to the change in our
printing committee. Mrs. Archibald McClure
is obliged to resign as chairman and Mrs. Nason
has taken her place. All communications in
regard to leaflets, etc., as well as applications
for mite boxes are to be addressed to Mrs. H.
B. Nason, 10 Washington Place, Troy, N. Y.
From St. Louis.
Meetings at 1107 Olive Street, first and third
Tuesdays of every month. Visitors are wel-
come. Leaflets and missionary literature
obtained by sending to 1 107 Olive Street.
The Synodical Meeting of Kansas, which was
held in Kansas City, Kansas, was a most profit-
able and delightful occasion. It is rarely one is
privileged to meet so many earnest, able, conse-
crated women who had opinions on subjects
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[December,
needing practical discussion, who could bring
light on dark problems, whose presbyterial
reports were models, whose devotional meetings
were truly uplifting. Next year the Synod of
Kansas and the Woman's Synodical Society
propose holding a Camp Meeting Assembly,
which seems to be an ideal plan. Miss Elsie
Bates, our most recent recruit for foreign mis-
sions (see Departures), was at the meeting for
greeting and farewell.
Onf: of the precious features of the Missouri
Synodical Meeting at St. Joseph was the fare-
well to Miss Geisinger, who will be shortly
returning to India. "We promise to think of
you, to love you, to pray for you," were the
President's closing words of farewell.
We urge the attention of auxiliary officers to
the subject of Praise Meetings and ThankofTer-
ing Services. There is one Sunday-school in
Missouri which has a missionary meeting once
every month. Let us hear if others have tried
this plan.
From San Francisco.
Board Meeting, first Monday of each month,
at 933 Sacramento Street; business meet-
ing at 10.30 A.M.; afternoon meeting and
exercises by Chinese girls in the Home at
2 P.M. Visitors welcome.
Many presbyteries, over and above their
regular gifts, are trying to raise $1,000, each,
towards the new headquarters in San Francisco.
Thus our work goes on. God is smiling upon
it and success will surely crown our efforts.
NEW AUXILIARIES AND BANDS.
IOWA.
.\llerton.
KANSAS.
Princeton.
Cheerful Workers.
MARYLAND.
Bethel, Evening Star.
MISSOURI.
Breckenridge.
Butler, The Gleaners.
NEW JERSEY.
Alexandria, Y. P. S. C. E.
Fleraington, Y. P. S. C. E.
lersey City, Claremont Ch,, Y. P.
S. C. E.
Merchantville. Y. P. S. C. E.
Union, Y. P. S. C. E.
OHIO.
Beverly, Y. P. S. C. E.
Cleveland, Y. P. S. C. E., Jr.
Harrison, Y. P. S. C. E.
Linwood, Y. P. S. C. E.
Madisonville, Y. P. S. C. E.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Chestnut Hill, Trinity Ch., King's
Sons and Daughters.
Erie, Park Ch., Y. P. S. C. E.
Germantown, Ch. of Redeemer.
Whatsoever Bd.
Greensburg, Y. P. S. C. E.
Philadelphia, Atonement Ch., Y.
P. S. C. E.
Philadelphia, Bethesda Ch., Y' P.
S. C. E.
Philadelphia, Central Ch., Y. P. S.
C. E.
Philadelphia, West Spruce St. Ch.,
Y. P. S. C. E.
Vv'est Newton, Martha L. Robinson
Bd.
WISCONSIN.
Ashland.
Receipts of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church from
October i, 1891.
[presbyteries in small capitals.]
Blaiksville. — Greensburg, Y. P. S. C. E., 25.00
Butler.— Butler, Y.P.S.C.E., 5 ; Centre, 5; Centreville,
20.80; Martinsburg, 10 ; Mt. Nebo, 11; North Liberty, g;
Plain Grove, 14.50; Zelienople, 44.20, S. S., 21.35, 140.85
Carlisle. — Carlisle, ist, 25 ; Carlisle, 2d, 20 ; Chambers-
burg, Falling Spring, 18.15; Dillsburg, 10; Greencastle,
^52; Harrisburg, Marlcet Sq., 158, S. S., Sen. Dept., 38.69;
Mechanicsburg, 40, Birthday Bd., 16, Boys' Brigade, 10;
Mercersburg, 8.50, Y. L. B., 10; Newville, Hopeful Work-
ers, 60; Shippensburg, 61.75; Steelton, 1.45; Upper Path
Valley, 10, 5i9-54
Chillicothe. — Barnesville, 2.50; Chillicothe, ist, 18;
ChiUicothe, 3d. 4.40; Concord, 7.75; Greenfield, 32.74;
Hillsboro, 25; Sycamore Val. Br., 3 75: Mt. Pleasant, 5;
Marshall, 2; North Fork, 5, Cheerful Givers, 1.62; Pis-
gah, 7.50: Union, 1.25; Washington C. H.,2.75; Wilkes-
ville, 5: Wilmington, 3, 127.26
Cincinnati. —Madisonville, Y. P. S. C. E., 4.50
Clarion. — Emlenton, 4.13 ; Leatherwood, 11 ; New Beth-
lehem, Y. L. B., 12. 30; Oil City, 2d, 30.24 ; Punxutawney,
5.50; Richland, 10; Sligo, 25, q8.26
Cleveland.— Cleveland, ist, 110.35, Calvary, S. S., prim-
ary cl.. 10.71; Cleveland, 2d, 40.65; Case Ave., Golden
Rule Bd., 10; North, 14, Forget-me-not Hd., 20, Youthful
Helpers, 10: Willson Ave., 38.34; Painesville, Lake Erie
Sem.,25; cash, 5, 293.05
Dayton. — Belle Brook. 4: Clifton, 10; Dayton, 1st, Y.
L. B.. 83; Davtnn. Park, Y. P. S., 18; Dayton, 4th, 30;
Granville, 22 ; Middletown, 10 ; New Jersey, 18. 10 ; Picjua,
i3, S. S., 40; Reiley, 5: Springfield, 1st, 38.46; Spring-
field, 2d, 2Q ; Trov, 25 ; Xenia, 22, 377.56
Ei.I/'aukth. — Clinton, ii.qq; Cranford, 28; Dunellen,
2=;; Fli/abeth, Ass'n. 125; ist Ch., M. Morrison Bd., 30;
Marshall St., Cheerful Givers, 65, Y. P. S., 15 ; Lamington,
Blauvelt Bd., 20 ; Lower Valley, Little Reapers, 5 ; Plain-
field, Ass'n, 82.4^ ; Roselle (th. off., 6.qi), 24 20. 4,11. 71
Morris and Okange.— Dover, 33.6=:, Fast Orange, ist,
135, F-lmwood Chapel, 30 ; German Vallev, 50 ; Hanover,
75: Madison, 21; New Providence, 10: Orange, ist. 17=;;
Orange, 2d, 100, S. S., 30; Orange. Central, 100; South
Orange, ist, 87 ; Vailsburg, S. S., Boys' Bd., 2.10 ; Summit,
62, Y. L. B., n. 873.75
Newark. — Montclair, Trinity, 100. oo
New Brunswick. — Amwell, ist, 1950; Amvvcll, 2d, 15;
112 ;
, S. S.
■4.
Milford, 30; New
, 40 ; Trenton, 4th,
351-50
Flemington, 60; Lambertville,
Brunswick, 1st, 25; Pennington
Mrs James Moses, 36, Emily Bd.
Newton. — Belvidere, ist, 40, Sowers of Seed, 25.01 ; Bel
videre, 2d, 17.45 ; Blairstown, 15 ; Newton, 51.60 ; Oxford,
ist, Y. P. S. C. E., 2.25 ; Oxford, 2d, 23.21 ; Stewartsville,
12.50; Wautage, ist. 5.13, 193.05
Philadelphia.— Atonement, Y. P. S. C. E.. 11 , Holland,
25 ; South, Y. P. S , 8.05 ; Tabernacle, Little Maids, 10 ;
loth, Y. P. S. C. E., 25 ; Walnut St., 4 ; Woodlands, a lady,
100, 183.05
Philadelphia, Centr.al. — Arch St., 225; Kensington,
1st, 130; Memorial, 20, Y. P. B., 40; North, S. S. No. 2,
30; Olivet, primary cl., 20, 465.00
Philadelphia, North. — Ashbourne, 11.50; Chestnut
Hill, 110, Young Men's Soc, 5 ; Fox Chase, 22.39 : Her-
mon, 25; Germantown, ist, 105, Miriam Bd., 2, Junior
Eliot Bd., 4.84, African Ten, 18.62, flower sale by Bds., 6 ;
Manayunk, 50, Children of the King, 12 ; Neshaminy of
Warminster, 27.50, 399.85
Ports.mouth. — Ironton, 26.50, Olive Branches, 10.42 ;
Jackson, 5 ; Mt. Leigh, 7 ; Manchester, 5 ; Portsmouth,
1st, 17.05 ; Portsmouth, 2d, 31.20 ; Ripley, 5, 107.17
Redstone.— Belle Vernon, 30; Connellsvillc, 1. 66, John-
ston Bd., 28.10; Fairchance, Y. P. S., 20; Long Run,
42.50; Little Redstone. 10, Bd., 10; McKeesport, 50 ; Mt.
Vernon, 8 ; New Providence, i? ; New Salem, 6.50 ; Pleas-
ant Unity, 3.48 ; Rehoboth, Bailie Cir., 5 ; Round Hill, 15 ;
Scottdale, 6 ; West Newton, 2.50, 253.74
Syracuse.— Syracuse, 4th, 125.00
Washington. — Burgettstown, 27.75. Mrs. Patterson, 5.55 ;
Claysville, 50, Aftermath Bd., 25; Cove, 10, Graham Bd.,
18; Cross Creek, 50, Loring Bd., 18; Forks of Wheeling,
37 ; Moundsville, 0 ; New Cumberland, 23.85 ; Upper Buf-
falo, McMillan Bd., 30; Washington, ist, 90. Cornes Bd.,
25, Brownson Y. P. S. C. E., lo.oi; : Washington, Y. L.
Sem., Miss Thompson's cl., 30; W'ellsburg, 27. Eo; West
Liberty. 21.45 ; Wheeling, 1st, 87.50, S. S., 10, Cherith Bd.,
31 75, Sydney Ott Bd., 15.40, 640.70
Washington City. — Falls Ch., 20; Hyattsrille, 5, Mcll-
vaine Bd., 10, Y. P. S. C. E., 10; Washington, 1st, 27.50;
4th Ch., 9.26; 6th, 40; Fifteenth f t , 10; Assembly, 10;
Fastern, 4; Gurley Memorial, 20; Metropolitan, 25, Ma-
teer I3d., 10; New York Ave., 5^.50, S. S., 100, Bethany
TREASURERS' REPORTS.
343
Bd., 25, Bd., Faith Chapel, 15; North Ch., 7.50; Unity,
10, Bd., 5 ; Western, 18.75 ; West St., 18 ; Westminster,
12.50, 466.51
Wellsboro". — Coudersport, 5 ; Mansfield, 6.45 ; Osceola,
5; Tioga, 4.80 ; Wellsboro', 10, 3i 25
West Jkksey. — Cedarville, 2 churches, 10; May's Land-
ing, O. P. J. Bd., 15.61 ; Merchanisville, Y. P. S. C. E., 5,
30.61
Westminster. — Bellevue Bd., 25 ; Chanceford, 72 ; Chest-
nut Level, 28.61; Columbia, 55; Little Britain, 40; Mari-
etta, 30 ; Middle Octorara, 25 ; Slateville, 20 ; Union, 33 ;
York, Westminster, 20 ; Pres. Soc, th. off. , 250.50, 599-11
WoosTER. — Apple Creek, Y. L. B., 10; Ashland, 30;
Canal Fulton, 10 ; Chester, 4 ; Creston, 4.10 ; Doylestown,
4.70; F"redericksburg, Harvest off., 33.50; Hopewell, 10,
Holcomb Bd., 30, Children of the King, 10; Jackson, 2.65 ;
Mansfield, 10; Savannah, 11, Y. L. B., 10, Pearl Seekers,
15 ; Wayne, 3.87 ; West Salem, 13 ; Wooster, ist, 11, Y. L.
B., 15 ; Wooster, Westminster, Coan Ed., 30, 267.82
Zanesville. — Drownsvillc, 5.70; Coshocton, 10; Dres-
den, 11.25; Fredcricktown, Y. P. Aid, 25; Granville, 35 ;
Homer, 10 ; Mt. Pleasant, 4.75 ; Mt. Vernon, 25 ; Newark,
1st, 17; Newark, 2d, 90; Pataskala, 11.50; Utica, 8.75;
Zanesville, 1st, 10, 262.95
Legacy. — Rachel B. Mylcrain, dec'd. Highland, N. Y.,
300,00
Miscellaneous. — Conshohocken, Pa., Mrs. J. G. Symmes,
1.50; (^onnellsville. Pa., a friend, th. off., 50; 0.\lord, N.
J., Lilies of the Field, 2 ; Philadelphia, E. M. S., 2 ; inter-
est on investments, 162.84, 218.34
Total for October, i8gi, $7,897.13
Total since May i, 1891, 23,747.76
Mrs. Julia M. Fishburn, Trias. ^
Nov. 2, 1891. 1334 Chestnut St., Philadelphia.
Receipts of the Woman's Presbyterian Board of Missions of the Northwest to
October 20, 1891.
Bellefontaine. — Rushsylvania, 4; Spring Hills, 10;
Upper Sandusky, 9, 23.00
Bloomington. — Bement, 7.41 ; Bloomington, 2d, 106.48;
Chenoa, 15; Onarga, 30; Urbana, 6; Paxton, 8.48, Bd.,
4.63, 178.00
Cedar Rapids.— Blairstown, 10, Y.P.S.C.E., 3.48, Y.L.B.,
2.05; Cedar Rapids, ist, 100; 2d, 30, King's Children, 10;
Coe College, Christian Assoc., 36.80 ; Center Junction, 6.50 ;
Clarence, 9.50; t linton S. S., 104.25; Linn Grove, 25;
Marion, 15 ; Mechanicsville, 25 ; Mt. Vernon, 25 ; Onslow,
2 ; Scotch Grove, 6; Springville, 1.50 ; Vinton, 98.48, S. S.,
28.64 ; Wyoming, 4.77, S. S., 6.08, 550.05
Chicago. — Chicago, ist, 60 ; 2d, 184.50, Bequest of Mrs.
J. N. Hooker, 500, Y. L. S., 6, Y. P. S. C. E., 8.20; 3d, 160,
Erie St. Chapel, Y. P. S. C. E., 12.50 ; 4th, 94.11, Mrs. Gur-
don Hubbard, 500, Y. W. S., 27.75 ; Emerald Av., Y. P. S.
C. E., 2 ; 6lh Ch., 30.85 ; Campbell Park Ch., 3.15 ; Ch. of
the Covenant, 28.05 ; Re-union Ch., 15.55, Bethany Bd., 5,
Y. P. S. C. E., 10; Evanston, 52; Bequest of Mrs. Anna M.
Gibbs, 200 ; Joliet, 1st, 30 ; Central Ch., 103.76, Dean Y.P.S.,
4.41, S. S., 15.61 ; Lake Forest, 12.32, Y. P. S., 30.41, Univer-
sity Soc, 22, Steady Streams, 98.77; Manteno, 21.30; Nor-
mal Park, 10; Oak Park, 25, Y. P. S. C. E., 7.10; Peotone,
20.50, S. S., 11.20; River Forest, 34.45; Waukegan, 38.48;
Off. at Presb. Meeting, 49.31 (less Pbyl. & Syn. ex., 10),
2,424.28
Chippewa. — Ashland, 30; Chippewa Falls, 13.55, 43-55
Council Bluffs. — Bedford, 7.20 ; Clarinda, 6 ; Corning,
22.40; Greenfield, 18.75; Lenox, 1.05; Malvern, 12.50;
Essex, 4.25 ; Emerson, 3 ; Red Oak, 4.85 ; Shenandoah,
5->5. 85.15
Denver.— Denver, 23d Ave. Ch., 6.85, Helping Hands,
10; Central Ch., 31.24; Westminster Ch., 12.59, 60.68
Des Moines.— Adel, 10; Albia, 5 ; Chariton, 8.75 ; Des
Moines, Central Ch., 37.50; Westminster Ch., 25; 6th, 9 ;
Indianola, 6.25 ; Leighton, 5.50; New Sharon, 5; Osceola,
4 ; Russell, 7.50 ; Winterset, 7.8 i, 131-33
Detroit. — Ann Arbor, 63, Helpers' Bd., 5 ; Detroit, 1st,
100, Richardson Bd., 25; 2d Ave. Ch., 38.25; Baker St.
Ch.,20; Hamtramck Ch., 8 ; Memorial Ch., 18.53; Trum-
bull Ave. Ch., 44; Westminster Ch., 85; Milford, Will
Whipple Bd.. 12.50 ; Mt. Clemens, Bd., 3.42 ; Pontiac,
49.33 ; Ypsilanti, 79, 551.03
Dubuque. — Independence, ist, 15.42 ; Pine Creek, 25,
40-42
DuLUTH. — Duluth, ist, 51.56; Branch S. S., 25, 76-56
Fargo. — Lisbon, 12.20
Fort IJodge.— Bancroft, 2.42 ; Boone. 14 85 ; Cherokee,
20, Bd., 15 ; Dana, 13 ; Ida Grove, 21 ; Jefferson, 9.50 ; Lake
City, 17 ; Le Mars, 18 ; Larrabee, 6.88 ; Livermore, 4, Boys'
Bd., 2.50, Daughters of the King, 2 ; Lohrville, 6 : Paullina,
10.70 ; Sanborn, 2.42 ; Sioux City, 1st, 25 ; 2d, 17.27, 207.54
Fort Wayne.— Warsaw, 11, Girls' Bd., 7, 18.00
Freepor r. — Freeport , 1st. 85, Legacy of Mrs. Laura A.
Malburn, tjoo ; Galena, South Ch. Y. L. S., 45 ; Middlecreek
Ch.. 178 ; Rockford, ist, 60 ; Willow Creek Ch., 100 ; Winne-
bago. 25, 793-00
Indianapolis — Columbus, 28.38. S. S., 1.81; Franklin,
37.50; Hopewell, 16.65: Indianapolis, 2d, Mr. Wm. S.Hub-
bard, 50 ; Tabernacle Ch., 43, Coral Builders, 9.75 ; South-
port, 5, 192.09
Madison.— Cambria, 10; Lima, Boardman Bd., 31.78;
Madison, 37, Mary Campbell Bd-, 12. co- Children's Bd-,
6.56 ; Mineral Point, 3 ; Portage, Y.P.S.C.E., 5.25, 106,09
Mattoon, — Ashmore, 16.30 ; Assumption, 1,75; Charles-
ton, 5 ; Morrisonville, 10.40: Neoga, 11.50, Bright Jewels,
5 ; Pana. 11.70; Paris, 13.45 ; Taylorville 23.46 : "Tower Hill,
5.75 ; Tuscola, 10.60 ; Vandalia, 17.50 ; West Okaw Ch., 5,
137-41
Maumee. — Bryan. 13.49 ; Defiance, 29.93; Pauldins, ■1.7c ;
Toledo, ist, 31.55 : Westminster Ch., 14.78 ; Weston, Will-
ing Givers, 6.90 ; West Unity, 10, 100.00
Montana. — Bozeman, S. S., 31.25 ; Deer Lodge, 5, Y.L.U.,
6.50; Helena, 8.85, 51.60
Monkoe.— Coldwater, 25; Erie, Pansy Bd., 7; Monroe,
19; Palmyra, Y.L.S.,6.60; Tecumseli, 25, 8-'. 60
Muncie.— Hopewell Ch., 3 ; Marion, 15, Girls' Ed., 7.C7 ;
Muncie, 9.88 ; New Hope Ch.,8; Noblcsville, 3.20; Peru,
48.05, Y.P.S.C.E., 1.44 ; Wabash, 40, Cheerful Givers, 1.16,
'37-4°
Niobrara. — Atkinson, 7.78 ; Hartington, 5 ; Madison,
Mis. M. E. Wood, th. off., 5 ; Ponca, 7.50, 25.28
Omaha. — Bellevue, 2.75 ; Craig, 1.C5 ; Fremont, Reapers,
12.50: Lyons, 2; Omaha, 1st, 20.15; 2d, 11.45, Ling's
Daughters, 20, Boys' Bd., 3 ; 2d, Gleaners, 5.90 ; Schuyler,
I. 35 : Waterloo, 6.25, 87.00
New Albany.— Bedford, 4.50; Charleston, 12 ; Hanover,
9.46, Light Bearers, 1.70; Jeffersonville, 10 ; Madison, ist,
20, Y.L.B., 25; 2d. 15; New Albany, 30.95; 2d, 27.45, Mrs.
Walter Nunemacher, 10, Y.P.S.C.E.. 30 ; 3d, 15.45, S.D.L.,
II. 30; Pleasant, 5; New Market Ch., 2; Vernon, Annie
Fink Bd., 5.10 ; Vevay, 1.13, a friend, i, th. off., i, 238.04
Ottawa.— Mendota, 9.89; Oswego, 5.13, Y.P. S. C. E.,
1.87 ; Ottawa, 4.10 ; Paw Paw, 4.25, 25.24
Peoria.— Astoria, 7 ; Canton, 35.65, Little Owls, 77.54;
Deer Creek, 16.40; Elmira, 7.10, Temple Builders, 7.05 ;
Elmwood, 9.95 ; Eureka, 20 ; Galesburg, 9.87, \'.P.S,C.ii.,
12.50; Green Valley, 6.25; Ipava, 12.50; Knoxville, 25,
Whatsoever Bd., 20; Lewistown, 18.50; Peoria, ist, 21.25,
E. R. Edwards Bd.. 8, Little Lights, 3.50, Y.P.S.C.E.,
6.38, Y.L.M.S., 2, Westminster Mission, 2.24; 2d, 9.70,
Light Bearers, 4.50; Calvary Ch., 6; Grace Ch., 17.45;
Princeville, 8.55 ; Dunlap, Prospect Ch., 5.85 ; Vermont, 3 ;
Vates City, 4.55 ; De Long S.S., 4.13, 393-31
Petoskey.— Cadillac, 10; Harbor Springs, 2.85; Mack-
inaw City, 3.31 ; Petoskey, 10, 26.16
Pueblo. — Canon City, 12.87; Colorado Springs, 42.68,
Y.L.S., 11.37, Mary Rice Circle. 81 cts. ; La Veta, 12.25;
Pueblo, 1st, 25 ; Trinidad, 4-50; Walsenburgh, 4.37, 113.85
Rock River.— Albany, 2.75 ; Alcdo, 25 ; Centre Ch, 10;
Dixon, 4.50; Edging-ton, 25; Fulton, 350; Garden Plain,
3.69; Geneseo, 6 ; Kewanee, 4, Milan, 8.60; Morrison, 13,
'S'.L.S., 12.50, King's Builders, 2.07, Willing Workers, 5;
Munson, 6.80; Nevv'.on, Bd., 5.35, E. W. Bd., 33.50; Nor-
wood, 10, Willing Workers, 3.30, Y.P S.C.E., 2 50, Silver
Stars, 80 cts. ; Princeton, 20.80 ; Rock Island, Central Ch.,
23, Broadway Ch., 14.12, Ruth's Bd., 6.87, W. W. Bd„ 15 ;
Sterling, 12, Little Gleaners, 2.25 ; Ashton, 5, 286.90
St. Pai l. — Buffalo, 7.85 ; Hastings, 3.75 ; Minneapolis,
1st, 18.35 ; 5th, 5.11 ; Bethlehem, 20.20; Shilrh Ch,, 9.85 ;
Stewart Mem. Ch., 7 ; House of Faith, 3; North St. Paul,
4.25; Rush City. 10: St. Paul, Bethlehem Ch., 37.50 ; Day-
ton Ave. Ch., 60 ; Warrendale Ch., 3.45, 100.31
Schuyler. — Augusta, 10; Carthage, 5; Mt. Sterling,
Cheerful Givers, 25 ; Wythe Ch., 10, Y.P.S.C.E., 9.40,
59-40
Springfield. — Springfield, ist, 52500
Utah. — Springville, King's Sons and Daughters, 7.10
Vincennes.— Claiborne, 9.50; Oakland Cfity, 2; Terre
Haute, Central Ch.,25: tapper Indiana, 8.20 ; Vincennes,
18.10: Washington, 15, Willing Workers, 11.50, 89.30
Waterloo. — Ackley, 34, King's Sons, 5 ; Albion, 8 ;
Cedar Falls, 25.04, Y.P.S.C.E., 5, King's Gleaners, 1.50;
Conrad, 7.35 ; Dysart, Mrs. L. O. Fossen, 5.82, 5,5,1^,1?,,
8,93 : Grundy Center, 48, King's Daughters, 10, Y.P.S.CE,,
1.40, Snowdrops, 1.30; Janesville, 5; LaPorte, 16; Mar-
shalltown, 30. Y. P. S. C. E., 7.78 ; Morrison, 12.50 ; Salem,
20.80, Little Lights, 3.85 ; Tranquility, 11.74 ; Washburn, 5 ;
Waterloo, 12.14. 286.15
Whitewater. — College Corner, 4; Greensburg, 75;
Harmony, 5 ; Knightstown, 5 : Lawrenceburg. 27 ; Liberty,
4.40: Richmond, 25.03, Y.P.S.CE., 12.28; Rising Sun, 6;
Rushville, 27, Jr. Y P.S.C.E., 2,50, 193-21
Winn baco. — Auburndale, 3.50; Marshfield, Steady
Streams, 3.68; Neenah, 90; Omro, 5.80; Stevens Point,
13.83, ii6.8i
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TREASURERS' REPORTS.
[December.
MiscKLi.ANEOus. — A fiicnd, per Moody Training School,
■i\ Lake Forest, 130, S.S., 25 ; Chicago, Cth, 30, S.S., 25;
Cherokee, la., 25, 237.00
Total for month, $8,950.19
Previously acknowledged, 12,558.73
Total from April 20, $21,508.92
Of the amount credited to Brookville among June re-
ceipts, $16.25 was from the Richmond, Ind., au.xiiiary.
The $20 credited to Grand Haven in November W. W.
was from the W.M.S. of ist Ch., Grand Rapids.
Mrs. C. B. Farwell, Treas.,
Chicago, Oct. 20, 1891. Room 48 McCormick Block.
Receipts of the Women's Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church
for October, 1891.
BiNGHAMToN. — Binghamton, North, 25 ; West, 25 ; Wa-
verly, ist, 30.07, 81^.07 •
Brooklyn. — Ainslie St., 2.92; Duryea, 8.75; ist. 15.40,
Mr. A. W. Parker, 550; Franklin Ave., 2.33; Greene
Ave., 9.33; Lafayette .-^ve. , 72.47 ; Memorial, 29.17 ; Pros-
pect Heights, 9.62; 2d, b.67 ; Throop Ave., 73.56, Girls'
Bd., 68 cts.. Boys' Bd. No. 2, 2.59; Westminster, 21.15;
Stapleton, S. L, ist, 23.33, 829.97
BuFKALO. — Bulfak), Bethany, 18.89; Calvary, 70.41 ; La-
fayette St., 7, Heacock Bd., 20 ; North, 28.25 ; Wells St., V.
P. S. C. E., 13; Dunkirk, for debt, 15; Olean, collection,
10.53; Westfield, 20; coll. at Pres. Soc. Meeting, 10.03,
213.11
Cayuga. — Auburn, Calvary, Y. L. S., 2.79; 1st, 50;
Westminster, 3.40; Aurora, 25; Dryden, 14; Ovvasco,
16.40, coll. by .Mrs. Condict, 3.75; Sennett, 5.50; Weeds-
port, 15.65, Christ's Jewels, 10, 146.49
Genesee. — Attica, 30.55, Mrs. J. H. Loomis, 25, S. S.
Miss. Soc, 15.18 ; Batavia, 100, S. S. Miss. Bd., 28.82 ; Cas-
tile, 9, 208.55
Geneva. — Clifton Springs, Rev. E. P. Dunlap, 3 ; Gen-
eva, ist, one lady, 5. another lady, 37 ; Gorham, Miss. Bd.,
1.25; Ovid, 16; Penn Van, 13; Shortsville, 7, Mrs. Petit,
Hudson. — Goshen, 50, Y. L. S., 18 ; Ridgebury, 15
83. w>
Long Island. — Coll. at Ann. Meet, for two years, 17.07
Lyons. —Junius, 6.50; Ontario, 4 ; Palmyra, 16.50; Wil-
liamson, 10, 37-o'J
Morris and Orange, N. J. — Morristown, South St., 150.00
Nassau. — Astoria, 5.61; Freeport, 26.50; Hempstead,
Miss. Bd., 10; Huntington, ist, 25.27; Smithtown, Miss,
Bd.,35; Springfield, 17, 119-38
New York. — Central, 50; Madison ^*Vve., Y. L. S., 5;
Park, 51.58, Seekers for Pearls, 51.58, Light Bearers, 3.50 ;
Phillips, 34; Washington Heights, 11; West End, \ . L.
S., 21, 227.60
Niagara. — Lockport, 1st, 50.00
NoKTH RivEK.— Amenia, South, 12; Cornwall, Canter-
bury, 25 : Pine Plains, Y. W. Miss. Soc, 10, Y. P. S. C. E.,
iS ; Rondout, Hearts and Hands for Jesus, 5. 70.00
Otsego.— Cherry Valley, 12.50: Cooperstown, 25 ; Delhi,
2d, 10.80; Middlerield Centre, 4.25; New Berlin, 4 ; One-
onta, 8.75; Springfield, 3. 16 ; Worcester, 16.50, 84.90
SiEUBEN. — Addison, Faithful Workers, 6; Angelica,
7.28 ; Arkport, Silver Link, 5.03 ; Campbell, 9.72, Willing
Workers, 9 ; Canisteo, 26 ; Corning, 50, Y. L. S., 25 ; Cuba,
1.97; Hammondsport, King's Daughters, 5, 145.00
Syracuse.- Baldwinsville, V. L. Cir., 5; Canastota, Y.
P. Cir., 12; Cazenovia, Ladies' Christian Ass'n, 50 ; Fay-
etteville, 29.15; Fulton, 25, Mrs. Gere, i; Manlius, 5;
Mexico, 41.19; Oswego, Grace, 32; Syracuse, 1st Ward,
10.60; Whitelaw, 1, zii.t)^
Utica. — Boonville, 25 ; Clinton, 50, Mrs. Chester, 50,
Miss. Bd..5; Holland Patent, Boys' Brigade, 4.34 ; Ilion,
15, Willing Workers, 6; Kirkland, 7; Kno.xboro, 21.61,
Hallie Bd., 9; Little Falls, loo, Y. L. Cir., 60; Lowville,
V, P. S., 55 ; Lyons Falls, 16.60 ; New Hartford, 15 ; New
York Mills, 45, Faithful Workers, 80; North Gage, 10;
Oneida, 45, S. S., 50, primary dept., 10; Oneida Castle,
75.50, Busy Bees, 25; Oriskany, 7, Y. L. S., 4.80; Rome,
60, S. S. Miss. Soc, 50 ; Sauquoit, 6, Willing Workers, 15 ;
Ulica, Bethany, 46.50, Miss Gilbert, 100; 1st, 159, 1 mem-
ber, 25, Y. L. S., 50, Bachman Bd., 25; Memorial, 40;
Olivet, 17.50; Westminster, 50, Brown Bd., 20, S. S., 25;
Vernon Centre, 16 ; Verona, 20.50: Waterville, 25, Willing
Workers, 25 ; West Camden, 9 ; Westernville, 25, 1,541.35
Wesichestek.— .Mahopac Falls, 26; Peekskill, ist, 125;
ist and 2d, Clinton Bd., 25; Rye, 9.25; 'V'onkers, West-
minster, Constant Workers, 40, 225.25
Miscellaneous.— Greenport, Mrs. Mary J. Worth, 4.50 ;
St. John, N. B., Mrs. Gilchrist, 2 ; through Mrs. Condict,
ji-79. 38.47
Legacy. — Westernville, N. Y., Miss Belinda White, loo.&o
Total, $4,664.12
Total receipts since April 1, 1891, 16,191.47
Mrs. C. P. Hartt, Treas.,
53 Fifth Ave., New York City.
Mrs. J. A. Welch, .-!.«/. Treas.,
39 West Seventeenth St., New York City.
Woman's Presbyterian Foreign Missionary Society of Northern New York. Receipts
from April 16 to October 17, 1891.
Albany. — Galway, two friends, 50; Schenectady, ist,
7C>-7iy 126.73
Columbia.— Centreville, 5 ; Durham, ist, Mrs. R. Pratt,
II ; Greenville, i ; Hillsdale, 6, 23.00
Champlain. — Black Brook, 1; Fort Edward, 22.50;
Glens Falls, Miss .'Vngie Wing, 200 ; Glens Falls, Ch., 42.76 ;
Plattsburgh, 60: Sandy Hill, 26, Loring Bd., 18, 370.26
Troy. — Cohoes, 15; Lansingburgh, Olivet Ch., 11.75,
Little Gleaners, 5.25 : Lansingburgh, ist Ch., 50.45; Troy.
1st Ch., S. S., 80; Troy, 2d Ch.,~2.59; Troy, Second St.
Ch,, 161.50; Troy, Westminster, 19.02 ; Waterford, 49.69,
Total receipts since April 16, $915.24
Mrs. Ch.^rle.s N.vsh, .-Iss/. Tri-as.,
110 Second Street, Troy, N. Y.
Receipts of Woman's Occidental Board of Foreign Missions from August 22 to
October 22, 1891.
Benicia. — Healdsburg, 6: Mendocino, u; San Rafael,
27.75; St. Helena, Crown \Vinners, 2.25, 45 00
Los ANGELEt.— Alhambra. 2.60; Anaheim, 4, Amy Sax-
ton Bd., 1; Azusa, 4.50, Children's Bd., 10; Colton, S. S.
Bd., 1. 81 ; Carpenteria, 2 ; Coronado, 17,75 ; Elsinor, 7.50,
Do-what-you-can Bd., so cts.; Glendale, 2 ; Los Angeles,
ist Ch,, 39.25, Round Table of the King, 2.15 ; 2d, 25 ; 3d,
5; Bethany, 55 cts., Y. P. S. C. E., i.^8; Boyle Heights,
6; Chinese Ch.. Morrison Bd., 12.45; Grandview. 7,05,
Kate Di nmick Bd., 5.50, Gulick Bd,, 6,50: Immanuel Ch,,
Mary T, Minor Bd., 4,96; Occidental i^^ollege, Bd., i.gi ;
Spinish School, Estrella de la Mafiana Bd., 3.75; Mon-
rovia, Ch., 4.45 ; National City, Ch., 6 ; Orange, 12, Golden
Links, 2,81: Palms, Ch., 2,50; Pasadena, ist, 10, Little
Drops of Water Bd,, 1,50; Pomona, 2,42; Riverside, Cal-
vary Ch., 5 ; Santa Barbara, 27.95, P. S. C. E., 15 ; San
Buenventura, 2,93 ; San Diego, 24, 201.47
Sacramento. — Colusa, Ch., 5 ; Sacramento, Westminster
Ch,, 6.75, Y. P. S. C. E., 6.75, 18.50
San Francisco, — Alameda. Ch,, 25, Y. P. S. C. E., 25;
Berkeley, Ch,, 47.55; San Francisco, Calvary Ch,, 48.25,
Y. P. S. C. E., 5,70; Howard Ch., 150; Howard St, Ch.,
9.55, 4th Co. Boys Brigade, 50, Fidelia Soc, 8.05, Lend ;i
Hand, 2,90, Our Little Corner, o, S. S. Bd,, 25: West-
minster Ch., 12.30, ist Co. Boys' Brigade, 10, Bd, of Faith-
ful Workers, 2.1s. inf. cl., 5.82, Mattie Nash Soc, 6.25,
Light-House Bd. (Chinese girls), 20.05 : Oakland. Brooklyn
Ch., 41.15, Sailor Bd. No. 2, Q.40; ist Ch., 75.30, S. S., iq.
Sublette "Bd., 25, Y. P. S. C. E., 25, 2d Oakland Co. Boys'
Brigade, 10,85 : 2d Ch , 10, f-^T-n
San Josft.— Santa Clara, Ch., 15 ; San Jos^, Ch., 45 ; Wat-
sonville, Ch., 10, 70,00
Stockton,— Fowler, 3.30; Fresno, 5.55; Stockton, ist,
32,77, 41,62
Miscellaneous. — Advertising in Ann. Rep., s ; board
rec'd at the " Home," 305 : Milton, Pa., through Miss
Cable, 15: contributions, Mrs. Johnston, 10; Mrs. Wistar
Morris, Overbrook, Pa., 25 ; contribution bo.x at the
" Home," 24.80, 384.80
Total for two months.
Previously acknowledged.
$1,379.16
I ,389.62
$2,768.78
Total,
Mrs. L. a. Kellev, Treas..
Oct, 22, iScji. 033 Sacramento St., San Francisco, Cal.
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