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LIFE
AND
LIGHtI^^y
25
WOMAN.
PUBLISHED BY THE
WOMAN'S BOARD OK
1905,
Vol.
XXXV.
BOSTON
Frank Wood, Printeh
1905-
MISSIONS.
1955
Vol.
XXXV
JANUARY,
1905
,0.
We
New
call attention to another of our boarding school ieafMiss E. M. GarrctsoH has furnished us an interestinghistory of the " Girls' School in Foochow," which is now developed into the
Foochow Girls' College and Preparatory School. Send for a copy, and for
other leaflets about our girls' boarding schools that you may not have seen.
LiTKRATURE.
lets.
Miss Caroline E. Bush has furnished us a charming description of" OutTurkey." One is newly impressed with tlie imperative
need of sustaining these little feeders of our material for furnishing educated
men and women who shall give themselves to service for their own people.
Retrenchment is most apt to fall on these little village schools, which is a
serious hindrance to the best development of our work.
Price five cents.
At the solicitation of those who listened to the address of Mrs. Emily L.
McLaughlin at the annual meeting of the Woman's Board in Providence,
R. I., we have it now in print. It is entitled,
The Power of the Word.'*
It is not a record of what the Bible has done, but a most earnest plea for the
loving, prayerful reading of the Blessed Book, which always giveth light.
Send for it to give away. Free.
station Schools in
Our Prayer
Calendar.
If
we
surrounded by the
friends and the
blessings of a Christian land, when she. knows that for this one day we are
praying for her, by her own name, for her own special need of strength and
wisdom and cheer, not the busiest of us could refuse to give her this help.
Even St. Paul, strong with all the force of his mighty intellect and aglow
with zeal for tlie Master whom he saw on the Damascus road, begs his
converts to pray for him.
Surely our missionaries, some of them veterans,
worn by years of arduous toil, some young and unused to the burden, need
The Calendar of Daily Prayer will bring to you the name
to be prayed for.
sights
for
home and
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and Light
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and location of every one of theni, and tlie accompanying article in current
numbers of Life and Light will give the latest news of them in their work.
You will find the Calendars at our Rooms, price twenty-five cents, or JNIiss
Hartshorn vdll send them for thirty cents, five to pay postage.
We
Prayer
Sheets,
Much
It is
their
has been said on the hesitancy to ofter prayer of those who attend.
hoped that in using these prayers many may be led to add petitions of
own. They have been arranged on sheets so that the leader of the
meetinoj
may
One
prayers.
prayer which
may be
given her.
enlist
Now
that the cool weather is bringing the summer wanhome, the faithful women who love to meet for
From forty to sixty gather in
prayer have resumed the weekly assembling.
Friday Morning
Prayer Meeting,
Pilgrim Hall
derers
at eleven o'clock
all
all
those
in
among
missionaries and
is always helpful,
those
and man\' times a rare privilege. We are often blessed by the presence of
missionaries, and the secretaries give us the freshest news from the field.
At a recent meeting Dr. C. R. Hager told in a most interesting way of
the South China Mission, where he has thirty-three Chinese helpers.
Twenty-five hundred names are on the church rolls, and more than a
thousand were baptized last year. Many women in Boston and the suburbs
plan to gain this quiet hour by turning a little aside from the stress of a
day's shopping, and a warm welcome always meets those who come in
from more distant places. Come whenever you can make it possible do
not wait to " find it convenient." You will do good and will get good.
;
Missionary
Personal.
Word
has just
F. Winter, our
this
new co-worker.
Editorial
Between October
Contributions for
THE Month.
iirer
18
month
will
tell
to
respond
to the
A New Trained
Di'.
Caroline
homc made
Aintab Hospital
to relieve her
in
Next
a better story.
visit
at
Through
who
is
now on
Miss
company with Mrs. M. Papazian, who returns to her home in that city.
Miss Grant has had several years' experience and has spent two years as temporary supply in Marsovan Hospital wlien she went to Turkey to visit her
A warm welcome awaits her from the
friend Miss Kinney at Adabazar.
Aintab circle.
in
A Word of
Warning.
We
hear often of
new
societies
formed
-we rejoice, provided that the study of strange lands witli their history
customs
vital
and
To
and
work our
divert in
any
in the first
After the news items and missionary letters have been given, and
the prayers whicli these will call out have been offered, then
we
can well
Industrial Progress
IN Japan.
One
illuminating editorial,
some
interesting facts
showing
the marvelous advance the Island Empire has made in the last ten years.
The value of the exported copper, silk in various forms, cotton, coal, and
many other articles, has been multiplied from four to eight times. Imports
have increased incredibly, chiefly in the line of articles necessary for manufacturing.
Nearly four hundred thousand men, women and children are
employed
in factories in
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have been established where dyeing, weaving, pottery, metal and woodwork
At no time for the last twenty years have the expenses of the
government fallen siiort of its income, save when it borrowed money to meet
are taught.
so strong as these.'*
Mrs. S. C. Bartlett writes in a personal letter: "I domost earnestly hope that the mission schools can be kept
up and made more effective. I do not feel that Japanese girls, even front
Christian homes, can grow as they should in the atmosphere of mere religIf plants are strong enough to live outious liberty in government schools.
Help for
Japanese Girls,
doors they are usually more vigorous than hot-house plants, but in a cold
climate
it is
good plan
to
"
What
if
accommodations are
to
young
Outdoors they
girls.
In a conservatory,
if
watering
is
where the
forgotten too
"
Now,
fail
can't
this is
waste of
life
lieve that
it
must
fall
to
The Japanese
for
it
We
be-
believe
our cause
'
ment
for
an aggressive advance
what
Is
it
is
to hinder
field to
we
make
have
an effective campaign.'*
selfishness or indifference.^
little
companies willing
to
throw
it
-^90s2
The
Place and
Power
as
"The sword
Shown
BY DR.
J.
in
Japan
D. DAVIS,
of the Spirit
...
is
KYOTO
the
Word
of God."
(See Frontispiece)
IT
made
it
that the
been the great sword of the Spirit all through the Christian centuhas furnished the dynamic power used by the Holy Spirit in all
successful and lasting movements within the Church and in all successful
eftbrts put forth by the Church:
The finding of the Bible by Luther gave us the Reformation. The translation of the Scriptures into the languages of England and Central Europe,
and the discovery of the art of printing, made the success of the Reformation
During the centuries since the Reformation missionary effort,
possible.
which has been founded upon the Bible, and which has given the Bible to
the masses, is the only missionary effort which has been crowned with last-
<jrod has
ries.
It
ing success.
During the
last fifty
years the Bible has been the sword of the Spirit, and
it
New
Life
and
S^January
Ligl^t
was death
to receive
church in Saga.
Yeinosuke Ichikawa, the
tion of the
first
7905]
The
members of
Many
thousands
tlie
Christians are
it,
where there is no church organization. The Bible is, of course, the textbook in all the Sabbath schools, into which are gathered many of the adult
Christians.
the
in all tlie
of
Christian schools
in
wh ch
denominations are
Union, in
all
As-
united, comprises
the
Christian
but
in
the
University,
ernment
in
schools
Imperial
gov-
the
colleges,
manv
and
of the middle
Bible classes
schools.
vv
all
these
schools, text-books
helps for
Bible
and
study
among
and they all have Bible classes made up of young men in those schools.
Three years ago, in the great government normal school in Kyoto, there
were over fiftv students who had tlie New Testament secretlv in their rooms
and tliev were reading it, and many of them came to our homes to study it.
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This feeling of opposition has largely passed away now and the work goes
on.
Several of these students have become Christians and some of them,
after graduation, are working in Sabbath schools in places where they are
employed as teachers in government schools. The Buddhists have put the
New Testament into several of their schools, where young men are being
trained for the priesthood, and it is not unusual now to hear Christ's teachings put forth as Buddhist doctrine in the sermons of Buddhist preachers.
jSUss Maclean, an English lady who spent several years in Japan, has
been in London for a decade or more, and has there opened her home to
Japanese naval officers and soldiers and she has given to many of them a
copy of the New Testament or a Bible. In several instances the book has
been the means of tlie conversion of the recipient. During the ChinoJapanese war ten years ago many thousand portions of the Scriptures were
given to the soldiers, and during the present war cheap editions of the Gospels have been prepared by the Bible societies, and I suppose several liundred thousand copies of them have been distributed, so that many, perhaps a
majority, of
Word
brave
tlie
with tliem.
In
went on the Sabbath to the barracks where the soldiers were drawn up in a
hollow square, and at the conclusion of a Christian talk. Gospels were given
to them.
In the hospitals, also, Gospels and tracts are distributed.
In Okayama during the last two years a " Bible evangelistic company "
" One Gospel, one Bible reader and one inquirer," has
been the motto. "One hundred and forty different persons have been continuously under instruction in that city during the last twelve months."
These
Bible readers have gone, one by one, to the homes of the people and read
thus one Gospel until it is finished.
Many have in this way found light and
has been
life in
The
ties
the
at
work.
Word.
Bible
is
the sine
qua non of
all
missionary
who
number
The
effort.
missionary organizations.
all
and hear,
will,
believe
it,
and by
by bringing Christ
Bible socie-
The
Bible
a sufficient
to the
world,
pagan
belt lying
the
is
new
Mohammedan and
in Africa.
The
first
band
**
of
"
BY MISS ILSE
C.
POHL
THE
though she knew all about the Saviour she did not reach the personal
knowledge of him. It saddened us all to see her go into the world without
few weeks before the closing we had a serious talk
this best knowledge.
and it ended in her fully accepting Christ. From that moment she was a
changed girl. Her testimony is clear and honest and she goes from strength
Family circumto strength, boldly confessing at home her change of heart.
stances make it necessary for them to leave this country and so she will go
with her people to New York.
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Next her
her
home
slie
lias
school, for
the preciousness of
sweet
girl,
improved
I
tlie
^January
Ligl^t
She
is
and
We
lias
Gregorian school.
The
other two girls are both daughters of pastors, one of Smyrna, the
other of Afion
for
One,
our school.
Armenian preparatory
department, the other of the Armenian primary. As you look at them pray
that these young lives mav fulfill the bright hopes we have for them in fruit
full
for the
Master a hundred
What
fold.
New
AM
such a novice
a loss to
know
just
at
what
is
am somewhat
at
this
the
I find
Armenian
girls
they
bring an earnestness and determination into their school work which certainly
is
very encouraging.
When
am
Armenian woman
advance which has been made.
ago
it
was-
those of our
reasoning
American
girls.
In
all
Armenian
to
where close
required, the
girls as a rule
What a New
igos^
One
me
forcibly
when
little
I first
11
ings.
all
it
is
sad to find
With
little
it.
thing
therefore
tliink.
am
not a
Nearly every
Moslem,
girl
who comes
to us
it
takes an
Christian
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The
13th of February
was
and Light
[January
for us, for
it
brought
The welcome given him by the boys and girls was very touching. They
were so happy to see him back again he certainly has the confidence and
At the first chapel exercise after his return he
love of these boys and girls.
said, " All that I am I owe to Euphrates College, and 1 now dedicate my
;
entire
has
life
left
to
its
service."
no bitterness
in his
injustice,
but
it
mind.
work
in that
am
school
is
my
department.
especial charge.
The
interested.
sure you
much
Sight for
still
Dim
all
Eyes
'95
and
It
is
all
are
Harpoot was
'96.
The people
about us here.
massacres of
tlie
13
they possessed
them
to recover, if
It
makes
we
many families have been cold and hungry this winter. The people say, *' If we could only get work."
That is the trouble they can't find
employment. Mrs. Carey is doing a splendid work among the women.
She has secured a teacher who has taught sixty or more to make lace, which
Mrs. Carey is sending to America to be sold. The lace is very beautiful
one's heart ache to be in the midst of such suffering.
In spite of
all
could do
Some
sale.
Mulberry
here.
trees
grow
employment
Orient that
we
fear
to
it
We
many.
may be some
so slowly here
Harpoot itself is beautiful. Situated on a mountain commanding a wonview of the Taurus Mountains on the south, and the loftier antiTaurus on the north, the scenery is wild and beautiful. The climate is very
fine
perfect, it seems to me, coming from the damp, changeable climate of
New York and Boston. I enjoy living 4,500 feet above the sea, and seeing
the clouds float over the plain below us.
Truly I feel that God has sent me
derful
to a
that
very pleasant
home among
When
country.
it is
dear friends.
a Christian land
Sight for
BY MRS.
(Apropos of the
SHOULD
Armenia is
happy country.
arrival of a
H.
it
will be a
a beautiful
Dim Eyes
S.
CHANDLER
in
America.)
this,
but waited in order to report what became of them at the same time.
What
a splendid lot
kind friends
number
who
it
sent
was, to be sure
them
We
certainly
a debt of gratitude.
When
it
the
saw the
take some
I first
will
First, I gave
around Madura, carefully reserving one large box of seventy-five
the use of those in the out-stations who were to come in to the Sep-
time to dispose of
to people
for
May we
all
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Ever\' day
tember meeting. There was a tremendous demand for them
during the September meeting I fixed 12.30 for the spectacle hour, and our
I tried to be very
veranda and drawing room were busy places then.
careful about their being fitted properly, and some came several times to
exchange what they had taken on trial, and secure a better fit. Often I had
I hope and think that the majority
the glasses out again at 5.30 p. m.
I fear, however, that some
really were fitted, and will be greatly helped.
few will find that, in their haste to get a pair anyhow, they were not propAll were very grateful and thanked me exceedingly, and many
erly fitted.
!
asked
you
my
child's eyes.'
Now,
that
is
what
who were
The double
fortunate
Missionary Letters
jgoj']
illustration in a
sermon
at the
15
The
September meeting.
was
illustration
to
the effect that just as Mrs. Chandler helped physical sight by freely giving
glasses to those who ask, so going to church and to the Bible helped our
spiritual vision.
sight,
us, only to a
this tropic
it
does
in
Missionary
Letters
CHINA
From Kate
1904
C. Woodhull, M.D.,
Woman's
Hospital,
4,
Your
letter
much.
It
the
way
the
work
is
done
at
summer I am
go down from
home, with
we
if
we
most
essential things.
look at
This
when
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and
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Ligl^t
One
mission.
is all
we
are
all
much
working
for the
Cupid
way
to
And now
will
if
we
work we have
In our medical
make no
.f*
return, that
verv poor
those
who can
whose
hearts
MEXICO
Miss Long, who has charge of the Colegio Chihuahuense during the absence of
Miss Hammond, writes on November 4th from Parral, whither she was called for a
brief stay
we have few
among
am sure that God has
placed me here.
We are very grateful to the Woman's Board for their
help in giving us the other part of the mission property. We now have a
large primary room.
The children still sit upon boxes, etc., but we are
expecting to be provided with necessar}- desks in some way before long.
One thing at a time comes to us and we have reason to expect that every
need will be met. ...
Her children are
I am greatly interested in Miss Prescott's work here.
They are greatly
enthusiastic and many come from unevangelized homes.
I feel
burdened
But
I resort to
zealous Christians
prayer and
larger accommodations.
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Missionary Letters
one
who shows
here
is
I have
In Chihuahua also the church is progressing in native hands.
missed Dr. and Mrs. Eaton exceedingly, but I love these people now so well
life.
that I feel at
In C. E.
work
I really find
Lord.
TURKEY
Miss Claribel Piatt, who has been transferred from Smyrna to MarsoVan,
antly of her arrival there.
She had spent her vacation in Europe and says
We
had a pleasant
trip to
last
tells pleajs:
so
it
which
constitutes
its
its
own
its
owner
A procession
peculiar squeak,
;
a cart without a
my
now
well acquainted
A letter
that
is
written fcom Marsovan in early July gives us an idea of the kind of strain
frequently laid upon our missionaries, who care for their people as parents
The
homes belonged
to
Gregorian Armenians,
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and many were among the richest and best in the city, though some were
Mr. Getchell and the ladies went to the most central spot they
could reach near to the fire, and there they made and served tea to the men
who were fighting the conflagration. ... It was certainly most helpful and
Three of the girls, who were
refreshing to the toilers among the flames.
graduated from our school on Monday, lost their homes on the following Saturday, either by burning or by being torn down to stop the further spreading
The questions of shelter and of employment come immediof the flames.
What can we do to help the poor? that is the quesately to the front.
very poor.
Especially
tion.
how
in four
little
We
They
There
us.
is
The annual report of last year's Avork in Euphrates College in Harpoot, Eastern
Turkey, after giving interesting facts and some statistics, closes with these words
:
have already indirectly suggested several subjects of prayer for those who
its welfare, but may I offer one more
that the girls may understand better that Christ requires a changed life.
I
They
are so easily satisfied with mere reading of the Bible and prayer.
me close this letter with a few words of some Turkish officials which
were reported to us. These men were present at our graduating exercises,
and later, in speaking of the audience of women, said " What a remarkable
gathering that was
Think of those women sitting in such an orderly way!
Our women don't care for anything but low talk and dirt. Those women
seemed modest, even if their faces were uncovered. They are receiving an
education, and rising up to a level with the men.
We Turks are nowhere.
We have no scliools for our girls, and the education which our boys receive
does not amount to much."
MICRONESIA
Let
In a letter from Miss Elizabeth Baldwin, written at Ruk, August 2d, she speaks of
their eagerly looking for the new Morning Star, but as the vessel was at Singapore,
October 5th, they must have had to wait many days before her arrival gladdened their
hearts.
One of her passengers was Miss Gliewe, the fiancee of Rev. E. A. Jagnow,
who was already at work in the islands. Miss Baldwin says
:
We
new
vessel
may prove
Board and give us more frequent communication with them. We rejoice with Mr. Jagnow in his hope of soon
having a home of his own, and we trust there may be no serious delay in
and restore
his marriage.
flag,
and the
You
civil
remember
that
first.
doubtless
month
we
live
If the
new
vessel
little
arrives
delay as the
Missionary Letters
governor expects
to return
on
this vessel to
at once.
If
it
liis
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post at Ponape, and could
till
afterward
we do
not
know what
he will do, possibly secure a permit from the governor for Mr.
Stimson
marry them.
Our
to
breadfruit
girls
put
fruit to feed
members
It is just
trees
we
up
are buying
up of the fmit
We
that accomplished
for
it.
it is
Even our
sufficient
little girls
a great deal of
is
come
to
our notice.
work
and
assist in
to
handle
required except
has just
breadfruit
both schools during harvest season, but not for the months
intervening, so
the
The
At
bay from
us,
still
found here,
was
who
Recently she had not been well and the people about said
that she
had an
evil spirit.
she
was
morning and she asked him if he did not love her, but he only hastened on
to do the deadly deed, although they say that he cried.
Miss Foss, writing from Oua, on Ponape, August 28th, gives similar pictures of
busy days and of dark superstition
:
Our two weeks' vacation has come to an end, and we begin the new term
The girls have found w'ork enough to keep them busy.
House cleaning comes in vacation time, and they have cleared out some land
of school to-morrow.
and have planted bananas and pineapples, besides doing extra sewing. Some
of the girls were anxious to finish their quilts, and the sewing hours were
prolonged.
For recreation they were allowed to go on the reef when the
tide was out, and spend an hour or more liunting a special kind of fish of
which they are fond. This is a favorite pastime, and we aim to let them
have as much of it as- is good for them.
Awhile ago one of our girls was stung by a stingaree that was hidden in
a hole.
The pain in her ankle was so intense that she had to be carried
home. All night she suffered agony, and for two or three weeks the suffer-
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Missionary
Here
On
a hint for
is
our desk
second view
it
some of us
lies a
pretty
at
home and
Postals
for other missionaries
good
sight
Choctaw
like
on
or Chaldee than
dali jste
consult together.
The
our
sisters in other
up
To
the
vision,
woman
and
mud
Now
How
places?
can
it is
of experience
is
woman was
Miss Jehlicka.
sweet souls
and
villages outside
came
talk,*
but
when from
cities
Japanese
Woman's
by a multiplying machine.
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Patriotic Lecture
laborious task, specially for one busy with the care of a stationer's shop.
Added requests came every month, till printing became a necessity. But
where was the mone.y to come from.? At least ten crowns, two dollars,
would be needed every month, and to get this seemed impossible, for many
of these clasped hands held very little money, and by the women's own desire
the work was kept as quiet as possible, the meetings not being announced
After thought and prayer Miss Jehlicka hit upon a plan. She
publicly.
quantity
of pretty, illustrated postal cards, and on each she wrote
bought a
an appropriate passage of Scripture. Came a gift of money for the work.?
Immediately she sent hearty tlianks on one- of these cards. Came a special
Every communirequest for prayer or advice? The answer was prompt.
cation receives the earliest possible attention, with the astonishing result that
money enough for printing the leaflets always comes.
women
Reformed, even
America."
Japanese
Woman's
BY
THE
of our
monthly,
among
Patriotic
far as
Moravia and
Lecture
BRYAN
A. V.
organization, called
"Women's 'Love
vividly to
Red Cross
of Country
'
Society."
This
new
is
not
who
die in battle.
oflEicers
There were
of the garrison
from the higher school, other women, and quite a large number
lecture was given under the patronage of the governor, who
was present the head of the garrison was presented by his aide, and other
prominent men were there.
She looked in the direction of
Just as this lecturer began a baby cried.
the sound and said, rather gruffly, "Where is that baby's nurse.?"
The
child was seen disappearing quickly from the room.
In a few minutes
another child let loose and the speaker stopped short and called out,
** Tamura, what are you doing?
Why don't you see that that child has a
From that time on there was absolute quiet, and she talked for
nwrse.?"
here, girls
of men.
The
;
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two hours.
and
presided over by a
man who
could
[^January
Ligtit
in
command
Woman,
Fields
One
might almost say that these people have no religion. They believe
They
in a Great Spirit, but they never worship him or pray to him as God.
practice no kind of rites or ceremonies with any reference to this unseen
being.
But they turn frequently to conjurers and medicine men, who by
various kinds of witchcraft and other wicked practices try to drive away the
^vil spirit that is troubling their sick,
The Church Missionary Society ha
among
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Fields
River, and there in the long darkness, the cold, the isolation, most heroic
missionaries are spending their lives, enduring
all
at
seventy degrees
IN
The number
steadily increasing.
The
By
its
size
was
largest church
till
now
it
seats six
and architecture
Many
New
it
built in
hundred,
is
name
The
Hebrides.
and money
their islands,
about
five
FRENCH PROTESTANTS
When
IN
MADAGASCAR
the French took possession of this island in 1896 the English mis-
their charge.
its
and beneficent.
Six American and British missionaries and six Japanese Christian minaccompany the Japanese army in Mancburia in the capacity of spiritual,
isters
JUNIOR WORK
Zo
EDUCATIONAL
MEDICAL
EVANGELISTIC
give Ugbt to
tbem tbat
Helps
for
eit in
darkness Luke
i.
79
Leaders
never
make
it
too laborious.
Ask some
of the girls
who
the piano to practice, and be ready to play one song each to help the singing.
anyone plays the violin or other instrument have him bring it by all
Ask, in turii, some of the boys to help you arrange the room. Get
some mischievous older boy to be responsible for the behavior of some
mischievous younger boy. Have someone prepared to write upon the blackboard. Give those who are able some interesting thing to look up. Occasionally, if possible, make or hire costumes and borrow curios.
The younger ones can genIt is always profitable to use object lessons.
erally assist in this.
If a small girl or boy has the responsibility of exhibiting
a chart it will serve to interest him in the entire meeting. If you want to
show where the massacres occur in Armenia have someone pin a piece of
black cambric on the map. For a meeting on Zulu missions have the children make a kraal. Invert a bushel basket in the center of the room, then
invert some round half bushel baskets in a circle around that, and on the
outside arrange a barricade of chairs.
With your company seated around
this illustration you can effectively bring out the kraal and the habits and
If
means.
needs of
One
its
leader
occupants.
was
upon a large
The boys who got the hay told the other boys,
and everybody was eager to come and see how hay could be uspd
of course,
at a
missionary meeting.
When
25
which can be used in connection with any JapanSimple graphic representations always help. We have to guard
against illustrations which are elaborate and far-fetched or the point is lost.
Occasionally use a simple souvenir, to be taken home after being used in
The Chinese " cash" may be obtained very cheaply. David
the meeting.
C. Cook, Elgin, 111., sells one hundred cowry shells postpaid for fifty cents,
which make very interesting souvenirs for a meeting on India. At the
Japanese stores tiny umbrellas, fans or lanterns can be obtained for a cent
Fasten some interesting item to each and distribute them.
apiece.
The Japanese flag may be used in a similar way. Cut the flag about
three by five inches from white crepe paper with the crinkles running verFor the red disk use gummed seals, and for the stick No. 5 reed
tically.
making
a Japanese house,
ese topic.
is
good.
flag sticks
C.
H. DANIELS,
God
It
is
The
servant
whom we may
perhaps
call
Eleazer, a trusty
Yet he
is
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Commissioned by
THE Master.
This
is
and Light
a commissioned
[^January
servant.
grave responsi-
rests
wayside well.
sure to find, as well as to the family, were carefully selected and speedily
packed.
In two lines the historian has condensed the account of this journey, " He
arose and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor."
It is from what follows that we catch the inspiration of an abiding trust
A Large v^hich kept Eleazer company through every league of his jourTrust.
From the early evening scene at the well we gather, too,
ney.
the man
the -material for painting into the caravan picture another feature,
He may have
of mighty trust in God is also the man of fertile expedients.
revolved one plan after another as he rode he may have looked for light
from without we may fancy that he did not come to a clear decision as to
the best step to take until the River Euphrates had been crossed, and the
camels were making their last " hours" across the fields of Mesopotamia,
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A Method
women
bows
master."
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We
We
We
Our
We
can
name
we
How
iQos']
in
January
^9
Mrs.
field, is still learning the Tamil language and the needs of the people.
Jones, from whose hand comes the annual report of the mission, a work
a thousand ways,"
with many figures and costing much labor, works in
one very important way being as teacher in the theological school. Many
of the students bring their wives and Mrs. Jones helps to train these women
Mrs. Wallace, rich in the possession of twin
also to be Christian workers.
babies and two other children, cannot give much time to direct missionary
work, but such wives and mothers are a great help to all the women near
enough to see their lives. Mrs. Banninga, still a young worker, has been
transferred to Melur, where she has charge of the work among women.
Miss Perkins is detained in America by the failing health of her aged father.
Mrs. Perkins, still learning the language, has care of the Bible work and
oversight of the boarding school.
find reported 88 Bible women, 139 women and 205 men as teachers,
and nearly 6000 native Christians in the Madura field.
Mrs. Hazen, with her husband, is now at home on furlough and Mrs.
Jeffery has been transferred to Dindigul, where she has charge of the boarding school.
Those who know the needs of Mexico will not wait to be told to pray for
To the cares
that people, so winning, sq capable, yet so held in darkness.
of a home-maker and a pastor's wife^as we know them here Mrs. Rowland
adds constant work among the needy, the sick, the strangers, the boys in the
Colegio Internationale and warm interest and sympathy with the girls in
Corona Institute. Mrs. Wright is her coworker in all these ways and alternately they direct the music in the little church where services are held in
both English and Spanish. Were all Christian women ab^e to do as much
for the coming of the Kingdom as these two it would not be lO'ng delayed.
Miss Gleason is at the head of Corona Institute, ably seconded by Miss
Matthews, where they are helping nearly a hundred girls to educated Christian womanhood.
Miss Dunning, whose chief work has been the kindergarten in Parral, is now in the States on furlough and Miss Prescott goes on
with the school with native helpers. Mrs. Olds is now in California with
her invalid husband. Mrs. Wagner makes the Spanish speaking Mexicans feel the warmth of a sister's love and teaches English in the school.
Mrs. Eaton, who came north in May, is detained here by delicate health.
Mrs. Jamison finds the work at Parral full of need and of promise.
Miss Long, whose article on the Colegio Chihuahuense in our November
number told much of her work, has the care of the school now that Miss
Hammond is in the North. For several years the heavy care, combined
with the effect of the altitude of Chihuahua, has been very wearing to Miss
Hammond and now she must have a long rest.
Miss Howland is now at home for her needed furlough and Miss Root has
charge of all departments in the school. Mrs. Hastings, with her husband,
is now in this country and Mrs. Brown takes care of the work for women.
Mrs. Scott, now at home, expects to return to Ceylon in the spring, and
Mrs. Dickson is full of work for women and girls. Dr. Curr has charge of
two great hospitals, indeed, of all our missionary medical work in Ceylon.
Dr. Young has just arrived in this country for her furlough.
We
so
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Ligt^i
Our Branches
Andover and Woburn reports that nearly half of their auxiliaries have
studied Rex Christus^ all but one of them telling of great profit and a growing interest as the result of this united study: ''One auxiliary has made a
new venture for the express purpose of arousing a wider interest in missions.
The ten meetings were divided, six for the women, four for the young
letter was sent to every woman in the
people, boys as well as girls.
congregation asking her to belong to one of the ten committees. The question of money was made secondary for the time, with the result that tlie
gift from that auxiliary is more than double that of last year."
Barnstable tells of a gain in membership in some auxiliaries, and of
Those who stand at the head of the work
greater interest in the meetings.
are trying faithfully to enlarge its scope, and such efforts will surelv bear
fruit.
Berkshire Branch, one of the first to organize and carry on study classes,
They mourn a great loss in the
has sustained eleven of these the past year.
death of Mrs. J. B. Crane, of Dalton', one of their earliest and most steadfast friends and one of their most generous givers.
In answer to the appeal made at the meeting in Washington, two of their
women are sending a nev/ missionary, Miss Alice Underwood Hall, to
China. Miss Hall is already on the Pacific en rotite to Ponasang, and we
may expect that their interest in this new worker will quicken and inspire
the whole Brancli to more prayer and to larger gifts.
Eastern Connecticut reports among other items
a never-failing source of
Over one hundred copies are sent out six
interest in the Branch Bulletin.
times a year, carrying news from our missionaries and suggestions regarding
also send each month to every auxiliary a mimeothe work at home.
graph copy of a letter from one of our missionaries or a report of some of
our other pledged work. Through the Bulletin the Executive Committee
keep in touch with the auxiliaries, and through the letters the auxiliaries
keep in touch with the work which they support." Perhaps it is because
of this faithful work of the Branch officers that the Secretary can add
" Last year our gifts were larger by %^oo than ever before this year we
have exceeded the receipts of a year ago by $575? so that in these two years
our gifts have increased over $i,ooo. However, some of this increase is
due to special gifts, and about such gifts there is always much uncertainty."
Many will sympathize with the Secretary of the Eastern Maine Branch,
who says: "It is a great problem how to maintain any living interest in
foreign missions when we are so far from the centers of work, and it is so
seldom that a live missionary can visit our smaller churches and bring them
Many of the churches are partly supported by the
in touch with the work.
Maine Missionary Society, and we have that work always with us; but the
foreign work is to many vague and remote, so that our work goes slowly,
and at times the interest seems to wane." Yet these little, remote, weak
We
Facts
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How
practical results.
tells
in the care
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March was much to kindle gratitude for the past and glad resolve for the
The Branch has gained in the past year one new auxiliary, four
future.
young ladies' societies and several cradle rolls.
Vermont finds much cause for cheer, and rejoices in some zealous study
of missions, good for the young people, and very good for the young pastors,
who are in some cases successful and enthusiastic leaders. She sends also
a twofold note of warning, 2est in the new and excellent plan of each church
supporting its own missionary, interest and funds properly due to the work
of the Woman's Board be diverted, and lest we grow unduly discouraged.
Western Maine expresses an experience almost universal in saying that
the auxiliary reports tell of a tendency to lose sight of the foreign field on
account of increasing demands for local and home work, and of a lack of
The Secretary
trained leaders to take the place of those who have died.
must seek to do
adds, what is true in every Branch, in every church,
more training of the young, and we must seek for an awakening and a deeper
sense of personal responsibility, lest we fail in fulfilling what is supremely
worth the having, the opportunity to do worthily a great work, the doing
of which is of vital consequence to the uplifting and salvation of mankind."
In the report of Worcester Branch we find the word of two most useful
Branch meetings other than the annual, " held in small churches where
discussion can be profitably carried on and illustrations seen." The Secretary lays much stress on the need of the occasional presence of a live missionary not only for the sake of the auxiliary, but to maintain a vital interest
in the church.
all
We
This
will
five cents,
or
fifty
cents a dozen.
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Book Notices
Among the Burmans. By H. P. Cochrane. Published by Fleming H.
Revell Company. Pp. 281. Price, $1.25.
The Land of Judson," and as the special field of
think of Burma as
Baptist Missions.
The publishers say that this is the only book covering all
Burma, and it is the record of fifteen years of work and its fruitage written
in a vivid and charming style.
The writer has a sense of humor which takes
him over many trying experiences.
Speaking of the Madrassi cooks who profess Christianity to secure a place
in a missionary family he says, " Whether a heathen cook sneaks off with
a stuffed turban, or a professed Christian appropriates our food, quietly
humming, ' I love to steal
the resulting loss to commissariat and
spirituality is the same."
In closing his record of fifteen years of service Mr.
Cochrane testifies that, " In spite of separations, privations, distractions,
effects of climate, missionarv life has its compensations.
Chief among them
is the satisfaction of seeing the image of God reappearing in human faces,
hearts and lives, and the privilege of helping to win a nation to Christ."
We
G. H. C.
from Periodicals
Sidelights
Japan. The
Review of Reviews
for
"Japan
count
or Russia:
Which
is
of Japanese Character"
the Civilized
is
Power?"
An
interesting ac-
at
Home."
An
article in The Independent for November 24th, with unique illustrafrom Japanese prints, describes " The Nippon Soldier in the Making."
China. ''Woman in Chinese Literature" in The Nineteenth Century iox
November is most interesting as showing the ideal of womanhood in China.
Korea. George Kennan, in The Outlook for October 22d, describes
*' The Capital of Korea," and Dr. F. E. Clark, in
The Independent for
Buddhist ParaNovember 3d, gives an interesting account of a visit to "
dise in Korea," well illustrated by snapshots.
Turkey. " The Armenian Rising" is the title of an article in The Out'
look for October 8th.
tions
S5
Receipts
Town
facts
from
on
by an observer.
WOman
Board
of Missions
Miss
wright, Treas.
rose Highlands,
Total,
38 10
84 19
122 29
4 10
Orasmere.^liss Sarah Flanders,
tfew Hampshire Branch. 'Miss Elizabeth
A. Brickett, Treas.
Centre Harbor,
Aux., 8; Chester, C. E. Soc, 10; Franklin, Aux., 15; Gilmanton Center, Ladies'
Cir., 5, Aux., 1.75; Hampstead, Aux., 13;
Hampton, Aux., 20; Kingston, Aux., 6;
Portsmouth, Aux., Th. Off., 23.80, Mrs.
E. P. Kimball, 25,
127 55
131 65
VERMONT.
Vermont Branch. Mrs. T. M. Howard,
Bellows Falls, Mt. Kilburne
Bennington Centre, First
Ch., Burden Bearers, 10 North Benning-
Treas,
Cir., 1
Primary Class, S. S., 1.50; Brattleboro, West, 11.58; Brookfield, First Ch.,
A Friend 10; Colchester, Cr?dle Roll,
ton,
4.95;
Rutland, Th.
Off., 28.25;
rit.
Johns-
Less expenses,
270 67
9,
Total,
MASSACHUSETTS.
Andover and Wobum Branch. Mrs. G.
W. Dinsmore, Treas. Collection at Annual Meeting in Andover, 24.22; Andover, South Ch., 82.50; Bedford, United
Workers (to const. L. M's Miss Lucy P.
Butler, Miss Eleanor M. Butler), 50;
Main), 100,
326 72
Berkshire Branch. Mrs. Charles E. West,
Treas. Adams, Aux., 23.66; Hinsdale,
Aux. (Th. Off., 11.63), 27.95; Housatonic,
Aux., 9.25; Pittsfield, South Ch., Aux.,
50.02. A Friend, 250,
360 88
Cambridge. Two Friends of Mrs. E. C.
10 00
INIoore,
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Total,
Aux., 10;
Off.,
9.89;
Miss'n
18, 1904.
MAINE.
November
270 67
Hampshire
69 21
10 00
Harriet
ley,
Weymouth
Soc,
1,50;
Hollis, C. E.
Soc,
3;
73 30
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Soc, 25,
Rockland. Vx'xm. Dept.
Day
Nye, Treas. Gardner, Aux., 2.75; Hubbardston, Aux., 23; Lancaster, Aux.,
8.25; Milbury, First Ch., Aux., 3.50;
North Brookfield, Aux., 33.66; Spencer,
Young Women's Mission Club, 11,57;
Warren, Aux., 34.85; Webster, Aux.,
5.25; Westboro, Aux. (Th. Off., 14.53),
65.48; Whitinsville, Aux., 25; Worcester, Lakeview Ch., Ladies' Mite Boxes,
243
1, Piedmont Ch., Cradle Roll, 29,
Total,
Fund,
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Treas.
hem,
26 00
105 30
GEORGIA.
Atlayita. At] <i\\t2i
University
Christ, 20, C. E. Soc, 10,
Ch.
of
30 00
261 93
Total,
30 00
NEBRASKA.
Lincoln. Miss Mary Nicholson,
98
10 00
Total,
Stockton.
derson,
10 00
CALIFORNIA.
George H. and Eliot H. San20
Total,
TURKEY,
J/arsomn. Gleaners and Jr,
26 00
vell,
4 31
1,381 76
NEW YORK.
Neiv York State Branch. Mrs. F. M,
CONNECTICUT.
sion Circle.
22 50
Total,
PHILADELPHIA BRANCH,
Philadelphia Branch. Miss Emma Fla-
RHODE ISLAND.
Providence. OSering at Annual Meeting, 257 62
Total,
G. Fay,
Total,
2,464 97
Clara J.
Riverside, Cong.Ch.,
1,217 42
250,
Putnam. Mrs. H,
January
20;
80 00
1 55
S. S.,
\_
82 86
6.50, Jr. C. E.
Soc,
C. E.
20
Soc,
9 81
3.31,
Total,
Donations,
9 81
4,414 08
400 50
Specials,
Total,
4,814 68
BOARD OF THE
PACIFIC
3Forrtgn S'errrtary
Mrs. a. p. PECK,
Mrs. C.
Mrs.
1275 Sixth
W. FARNAM,
Fruitvale, Cal.
S.
M. DODGE,
J.
C. Perkins
South
Mr. Perkins sometimes takes me with him on his tours through ArupMany of the people have never seen
ukottai Station, and that I do enjoy.
The women ask
a white woman before, and they are so curious about me.
me where my jewels are. I tell them it is not our custom to wear jewels,
and I show them my plain gold wedding ring, which corresponds to their
thali^ or marriage necklace, but they think my lack of earrings and nose
rings especially strange.
Perkins took
The ceremony
is
me
much
to a village to the
wedding of one
Tamil
the bridegroom fastens a necklace around the bride's neck instead of using
the ring.
bride and
when
the
After the marriage the people came up with wreaths for the
groom and for us also. I had just seven wreaths around my neck
drum began, and we joined in the wedding procession. First
came the tom-toms and drums, then the high car, as gay as circus chariot,
on which were the bride and groom. He climbed up into it first the little
bride scrambled up the ladder after him as best she could, without his offer;
to
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and Light
means she
is
in
\_January
widow.
has been so eager to learn that she has studied until late at night, after
pounding rice for her living all day. Now she is able to read and repeat
much of our blessed Bible, and she is an earnest Christian. Her people
began to persecute her in many ways, even taking away her only child for a
time and hiding him, so that she thought him dead but still she kept firmly
to her purpose.
If possible, we hope to send this woman to be trained for
a Bible woman, as she is already helping and teaching others as much as
;
she can.
I am
woman
much
also so
in fact her
as a praise offering."
The
first
member
active
is
At
classes,
third
a testimony
tell
she
is
in
She
most of them.
wanted
to join, but
we
think
is
own
words.
hope you will write us often. Letters are such a comfort and a pleasure.
be very glad to answer any questions about N. Ponnammal or about
Mr. Perkins is in Madura attending a missionary comthe work here.
would join me in sending love to you if he were here.
He
mittee meeting.
I
I shall
Letter
39
my
Soon
after
last letter
meeting.
We
returned just a
who
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Life
We
among
are
us
January
it is
man
\_
It is
not like
A number of
camp
We
all
the morning, and in the afternoons can bathe, rest and read.
Some
of us have to go to
town
being made
here than in
America.
am
glad to
tell
granted us the money to buy the house Adjoining our high school building.
It will be some months before we can conclude the bargain, but meantime
we have rented the house. Now we can have in one place a complete school
from the kindergarten up, with good recitation rooms and better accommoWe are going to enlarge the high
dations for the boarding department.
school room, improve the sanitary arrangements, M^hitevv^ash the rooms,
put in some blackboards and repair the most shaky windows. I shall room
I expect to enjoy it, find plenty to do, and learn
at the school next year
Armenian more rapidly through living with the girls. I shall do more
teaching, but keep on with my regular Armenian lessons.
Some of us went to Tocat to attend the wedding of one of our teachers
She has been with us three years and has grown in usefulness
last week.
and into our affections. We follow her with great interest as she enters her
new home with a good Protestant husband but ignorant Gregorian parentsin-law.
An educated woman has many problems in Turkey, and marriage
;
is
We
You
route to Marash.
Sivas
visit
how good
is
Perhaps I wrote you that we had invited Miss Foote, who has been working in Gedik Pasha, Constantinople, to come to us to do evangelistic work.
But she has received an even more urgent call from Erzroom, and has decided to go there.
The government
So we
shall
need
to
the force
we
have.
a scholarly mandarin,
who
Christianity, explaining
is
what
and what
it is
good
for.
MOSES SMITH,
Mrs.
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III.
Mrs. S. E. HURLBUT,
Asbury Avenue, Evanston,
Miss M. D.
Room 523,
Miss
WINGATE,
FLORA STARR.
111.
Ciiltor of
Miss
savage,
Mrs. G.
Bible
111.
Aaaiatant tSteBannv.
fifror&ittg ^ecrtturg.
Women
in
111.
III.
Arupukottai
BY MRS. HAZEN
I
is
quite impossible to
spoken personally, the noble work our Bible women are doing in Southern
In the first place they are not found ready made.
One of the joys
India.
week by week as
knowledge, trust,
faith,
the qualities that they need to carry on this difficult
work. It is also difficult for you to realize the amount of work they must
do among the Hindu people. First, they must create a vocabulary. Their
minds are undisciplined. Their husbands ask why we try to teach them,
for say they,
Their minds are like donkeys. It is useless to try to teach
them anything." Sometimes it is indeed very hard work.
I received a letter recently from a woman who had asked Mrs. Hazen to
tell the Christian women that she must be forced into the kingdom of heaven.
Mrs. Hazen stated that a number of years ago this same woman attempted
to learn to read but her sight failed her.
One day, however, she picked up
a book and discovered that the letters were more clear.
She exclaimed that
God had given her her second sight that she might learn to read the Bible.
After that she spent all the time she could get from her work learning to
read it, her one ambition being to learn to read the New Testament, so she
of the
we
work
is
training Bible
them we
courage, and all
instruct
could read
that
it
down
interest
see
to others.
women.
these
She
is
day, and
in grace,
and acts
all
parts
her most.
her cheeks.
Day by
women grow
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true
me
then give
I also
Shanar
shelter?
When
caste.
homes open
to
women themselves would stand in their respecdoorways with arms akimbo, which meant you cannot come in. But
the Bible women would go on with their reading or singing, or little sermons. Suddenly through two or three very little things over two hundred
homes were open to them.
The Bible women go on Sunday afternoons to preach in the streets. They
had preached in many parts of the town, but always refrained from one particular part where the STianar caste resided, knowing they would not be
front of the houses, while the
tive
welcome
them
for
there.
One
of the Bible
women
it
was
right
to
go
One Sunday
there.
One
of the Bible
"
If
women
We
said
"
It is
your head
You
The
next morning
man was
dead.
Of
own
The people themselves, however, saw the point, and said it was
because the young man had offended God." They said, " We must make
peace with these people," and straightway invited the Bible women to come
made
their
people.
-rpof]
the next
Sunday
Summer
Missionary's
43
Experiences
them
to
From
interested, thinking
it
Christians.
Summer
Missionary's
Experiences
News:
WROTE you my last letter just as the soldiers had come into and about
my house now I write as they have gone away. They went on the
of August, having come June 12th.
I am surprised to find myself with
filled
4th
what
had expected.
away out
sail
flags
into
death,
then
me
me
for
came back
to
my
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min-
my
large
utes
and
in
about as
many more
to adapt
parlor for use as quarters for officers, leaving a niche for the bed brought
from the guest room, upon which I thought the officers might sleep, and
which I found afterwards they considered a great luxury, though it is only
a poor rattan and unpainted wood affair, while the foreign pillows were the
object of much praise between two officers, overheard by one of my maids
The guest room, which was presupposed
at the harbor the day they sailed.
to be suitable for one, or possibly two occupants, was to be made to serve as
At the front gate appeared long draperies
sleeping room for ten or twelve.
and flags, while I added a Japanese and a United States flag in the hall.
Two of the soldiers were from homes very near my own, one on the same
One was a tailor, and my machine did not a
street orly a few doors away.
I became used to seeing soldiers going to the
little sewing for many men.
drawers of
my
was wanted
my
my
to
show them
remark
to
of friends or priests.
Christian
Endeavor Meeting
in
Bombay
45
Japan and China War. Some of them said among themselves, " Those
young fellows over at the front don't know how to fight wait until we get
And they will give a good account of themselves, every
at Port Arthur "
I am glad and thankful that my
one, and help make strokes that will tell.
life has been lived these fifty-three days side by side with theirs.
The last day or two before they left I asked permission to give them all a
Japanese dinner, which the chief officer at first was disinclined to grant,
saying I had done enough but I urged it, saying I would like to talk a
about twenty-five of them, who had
little to them in farewell all together
house.
my
He consented, and the men
lodged and had been much in
Some of them suggested, not in my
apparently appreciated the dinner.
hearing, that with such a feast they would like some sake; but the officer
No, we know Parmelee Sen's heart about sake^ and we will not hurt
said,
her feelings by drinking with the feast she has given " though all the while
a great cask of sake stood inside the front gate, presented by the city.
One of them,
I had some sober talks with them, when it came naturally.
who soon after they arrived, while under the influence of liquor, came nearest of anyone to a breach of propriety, but for which he was greatly ashamed,
after making me a little present,
said to
as a peace offering, I suppose,
one of my maids, " If I live to come back I shall be a believer."
The last morning I was downstairs at three o'clock, as the soldiers were
eating their hurried breakfast of rice and wheat, standing up in my kitchen
and soon we were saying earnest good-byes, though I was to see them later
in the crowd at the harbor.
When at the harbor I was 'ntroduced to the
major and brigadier generals, and was thanked and offered a glass of beer.
I stayed there waving farewells until human forms could no more be distinguished as the vessel sailed away, and I prayed God to protect
my
soldiers," that they might come back to serve their country yet, under the
;
lives.
Bombay
A large
as the
Rev. H. G.
Bissell,
B.A.,
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Life
and
[^January
Ligtit
owing
the singing of a
hymn, followed by
the read-
ing of a passage from the Scriptures by the president, and a short prayer by
E. Abbott. Then the Secretary, Mr. P. T. Nathoji, read a brief
Dr.
J.
ninety
members on
the
list at
The
report
department of the Society was carried on with the usual vigor throughout
The preaching band fairly maintained its work by proclaiming
Fourteen schools
Christ in the streets and at fairs to about 9,750 persons.
regularly conducted by 40 teachers imparted Christian knowledge to 1,246
Religious tracts in different languages distributed throughout the
children.
the year.
filled
with the
that
God
Abraham.
will provide
He
spirit of
with hope
them with
remarked
all
when
humility
when
it
that,
well, realizing
Marash
igos']
College
Marash College
Work
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Work
The graduates this year were eight in number four trom Aintab, three
from the Hadjin School and one from Marash. All but one had taught,
and they were an especially developed and interesting class perhaps because
so many of them had had the experience which comes from teaching.
The students this year have had some unusual advantages. They had the
opportunity of listening to a course of Friday afternoon lectures on the early
The interest in these
history of Marash, given by Rev. C. S. Sanders.
lectures is shown by the fact that several of the girls have contributed to a
collection of ancient Marash coins which was begun by the lecturer, presenting the college with a goodly number from his own collection.
This interest
is further seen in the name of the college paper, edited by the senior class
this year.
They called the paper Merghezi^ an ancient name of Marash.
There were also two musical evenings which the house girls enJo3^ed.
Mr. Favre, of Geneva, who is a fine amateur pianist, supplied the music for
one evening, and Mr. Eckert, of Oorfa, who was an organist in Germany,
Fortunately, for the existence of this circle, a gift of twenty-five dollars for
the alumnae library has been reported by Miss Blakely from Mrs. Lovell,
so
we
shall
The
have material
foreign
missionary
home
society
continued to
last
year
and has grown in numbers, held its regular meetings also. Both of these
societies were characterized by the same spirit of earnestness seen in them
last year.
The
also the
by themselves.
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and Light
Life
\^
students,
and a desire
to live
more nearly
January
as they pray.
We have been much helped by the different friends who have spoken at
morning prayers this year. During the year we have listened to Mr. Macallum, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Favre of Geneva, and others.
We wish to put on record our appreciation of the work done by Mr.
Sanders in overseeing the erection of our new building.
Miss Welpton reports the gift of two new organs one a six octave chapel
organ, and the other a small folding one.
On the afternoon of Sunday, June 12th, Pastor Stephan Tomassyan, of
His
text
it
God.
Commencement
one's
own
life
Woman's Board
Mrs.
S. E.
HURLBUT, Treasurer
Colorado
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
North Dakota
Ohio
South Dakota
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Arizona
Gkorgia
of the Interior
484 19
5,913 79
311 70
160 95
296
899
533
794
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254
131
1,025
8
26
58
80
84
72
50
05
62
02
06
75
50
70
10
to Oct.
22, 1904
Louisiana
25
6
25
2
Pennsylvania
Mississippi
Micronesia
Receipts for the month
Previously acknowledged
Total since October, 1903
$10,975 00
67,931 70
$78,906 70
00
63
00
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