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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 V,

JUL 21 1987 j

MISSION HOUSE, 53 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. : : : : : :

INDEX TO VOLUME V.

1 890.

Africa : Various Missionary Societies The Last Refreshing at Benita .... 9 2, 30, 31, 58, 86, 142. 174, 202, 229, 286, 313

Preaching Tour in an African Forest . .144 Editorial Reports for 1889-1890. . 219 Map of Africa and Key 148 Farewell Instructions to English Woman's Lot in Africa 149 Missionaries 123 Bishop of the Niger 150 God Loveth a Cheerful Giver—Verse, 71 One Sign of the Kingdom 153 Golden Rule, The 161

New Missions in Africa 154 Guatemala : Oil Letters Palm Factory 1 54 from 47 . 72

Letters from 17. 73. 1 57 Notes on 58, no. 253

Notes on . 141, 142, 229, 230, 258, 285, 286 Helps +9

Announcement 131 Illu-STRations :

Annual Meetings— Reports Frontispiece, Christmas Picture ; Africa, 132, 133, 162, 163, 164, 193 Map, 148; Canoe, 151; Skull House at

Assembly, Our, in Saratoga . . .192 Bonny, 152; Benita Church, 153; Palm-

Auxiliary Meeting, The Little . . 77 Oil Factory, 155; African E.xhibition Bands, An Exercise for —Interpreting. 306 London, 204; Chili, Santiago, 291. 292 Boat, Peking, Book Notices: China, 35 ; Temple, 37

24, 50, 78, 107, 134, 166, 196, 225, 281, 308 Three Precious Ones, 41 ; Chinese Build- Boys, A Plea for Our 132 ing in Oregon, 177; Idol in Portland,

Bread Cast upon the Water . . . 303 Oregon, 179; Colombia, Map, 289; In-

China : dians around Bogota, 294; Fiji, Capital Missions between Tungchow and Shang- of, 124; Fijian Types, 126; ludia. Tai-

hai lors, Village Scene, ; School, 32 92 ; 95 Day Gospel in Vacation Ito. Work 33 208; Japan, Map, 234; Count 231 ; At Low Tide 34 Bay, 239; Snow Implements, 242; Kash- Temple of Heaven, Peking 35 niir, Jhelum River, 99; Koreans, Ironing,

Condition of in Shantung 1 1 ; Pounding Rice, 1 2 Laos, Script, Women ... 37 ; 115; A Lady Physician on the Borders of Mon- Chieng Mai Street, 119; Royal Temple, golia 38 120; Melanesia, Map, 185; Scene, 186;

yJ/t'.r/r^^, ; Tien Dong z 40 School, 61 ; Garden, 65 Micro-

The Capital of Manchuria 42 nesia, Map, 6 ; Coral Island, 8 ; Persia,

The Chinaman after he goes back to China, 181 Map of Hamadan, 265 ; Nestorian Girls, A Superior Woman 241 261; Tomb of Esther, 263, 264; Enzeli,

Shanghai Conference, Notes on, 86, 202, 257 269; Bridge, 270; Sa.moans, 213 ; South Letters from Sea Map, 214; Dress, 298; Siamese 19, 44, 102, 189, 216, 247, 276, 303, 330 Utensils, 116, 117, 118; Siou.x Woman,

Chinese in America : 181; Tahifian Implements, 65, 66;

Christianity for the Chinese in our Cities, 176 Syria, School at Suk el Ghurb, 1 5 ; Sec- Letters from California 188 tional Map, 320; Tiberias, 317; Ruin Com.munications from the Boards near Capernaum, 318; School at Ba-

and "to Auxiliaries" . 24, 52, troon, 323 ; Scribe, 324.

79, 107, 134, 166, 195, 226, 252, 281, 309, 335 India : Cry ok the Church Militant, The An Abyssinian Girl 91

—Verse 279 Samples of Itinerating in the Punjab . 92 Current Liierature and Missions: Kolhapur Girls' School 94- 24, 107, 225 The Village Gossips 95

Diary, A Chapter from Mrs. Llew- Report of Allahabad Dispensar}^ . . . 96

en's . • 75 Evangelistic W'ork in South India Villages, 97 Editorial Notes (in part) Jalandhar, in North India 207 Converts and Revivals A Constant Obstacle in India .... 26S I, 29, 57, 85, 114, 141, 142, 173, 201, 258, 286 In the Zenanas of Jhansi 270 Finances 57, 141, 173, 285 Letters from Hospitals 230, 258, 285 17,47, 'oo, 129, 159, 189, 216, 247, 301, Women Physicians .... 30, 57, 85, 86 Indians, North American: Persecutions (India, Laos and Mexico): Missionary Tour of Nez Perce Christians, 43 1 14, 201 A Wedding in Dakota Land 180 Neesima 58, 142 The Story of Metlakahtla 182 Mackay 142 Spring Planting in Idaho 209 Stanley 2, 86 Letters from Dakota and Idaho, 20, 74. 188 1

INDEX TO VOLUME V.— Continued.

In Memoriam — Mrs. Hoge 304 Unsalaried Service 278 In Memoriam — Verse 14 Papal Europe: Island Series: Evangelical Progress in Italy .... 205 The Work of God in Micronesia ... 6 Notes on 202

Tahiti and Pitcairn -67 Persia : The Fiji Islands .124 Telling Reports from 12

Melanesia and Her Martyr . .185 What Twenty-five Dollars Did .... 66 Concerning Samoa 212 Death of Mrs. Wright 211 New Hebrides Mission of the Canadian Nestorian Village Life 260 Presbyterian Church 297 Two Pictures from Tabriz 261 New Hebrides, Letter from the .... 326 Hamadan 263

Islands, Notes on, 2, 30, 57, 86, 174, 230, 314 Efforts for Women in Oroomiah . . 265

Japan : Three Feasts in Teheran 267 A Praying Wife 122 Instance from Koordistan 268

Some of the Leading Men of Japan . .231 Bit of Journey 269

Facts from Missions of the United Church, 233 News of the Hospital at Oroomiah . . . 295

How we Started the First Sunday-school Letters from . . 18, 73, loi, 188, 215, 273 in Sapporo 236 Presbyterial President's Experi- Bird's-Eye View of Hiroshima .... 237 ence, A 305

A Reminiscence (Tomioka) 239 Presbyterial Secretary, The . . . 223

A Sunday-school in West Japan . . . 240 Save — The Study of a Word . . . 248 ' Takata 2, 57, 243 Siam :

Letters from . . . 103, 244, 276, 303, 330 Household Utensils 116

Johnstown Again 21 Woman's Work at Petchaburi . . . .118 Journal, Mrs. Sawyer's 221 Wifehood in Siam 121 Kashmir, A New Grave in .... 98 " Tip," of Petchaburi 122

Korea : Story of a Bedquilt 224 Social Phases in 10 Pa Ang 158, 287

Letters from 1 29, 1 58 Letters from 19, 127, 158, 300 Notes on 225, 258 Silver Bill Affects Foreign Mis-

Laos : sions, Why the 333 A New Language to be Printed . . .115 Since Last Month, 197, 226, 252, 281. 308, 335 In the Thoroughfares of Chieng Mai . .119 ? ? ? ? (Special Objects) .... 334 Boys' School at Chieng Mai 121 South America — Brazil: An Evangelistic Tour in Laos .... 209 First Experiences 70 Industrial School at Lakawn 272 After Long Experience 71

Letters from 19, 46, 128, 301 Behold, They Give ! 287

Master's Presence, The — Verse . . 224 Things in Brazil 288

Master's Well, The— Verse .... 143 The Kindergarten a Part of Missions . 290 Meetings, The November 22 Letters from 20, 130, 160, 303 Meeting, Monthly 21, South America — Chili: 48,75, 104, 131, 161, 192, 248, 278, 304, 333 Santiago 291

Meetings, Praise 50 In Holy-Week Procession, Concepcion . 293

•Mexico: Letters from . . . 20, 160

Our Boarding School in City of Mexico . 61 South America — Colombia: Our Girls' School at Saltillo 62 Indians of 294 Schools of Other Churches 63 Facts of the Year 288 All Saints' Day in Mexico 63 Letters from 191. 33

Serious Strains from A White Umbrella Susannah Stumm on Meetings. . . 104 in Mexico 64 Suggestion Corner:

What Some Mexican Girls Have Done . 1 56 23, 51, 78, 106, 165, 194, 280, 307

From a Director Traveling in Mexico . .271 Syria : Letters from 72, 130, 332 Light on Mount Lebanon 15

Missionaries' Addresses: Christmas Crusade of Prayer, A . . .315 31, 59, 87, lis, 143. 175. 231, 257, 287, 317 Tenting in Galilee 317

Missionary Tens 48, 51, 133 Death of One of the School Children . .319

Missionary Polity : With the Map, in Our Syria Mission . . 320

An Aside with Young Missionaries . . 203 Letters Which Explain Themselves . .321

Common Ground, On 259, 287 Touring in the Maronite District . . . 322 Distinction Made, A 90 The Scribe 323

Is It Asking Too Much? 175 Communion Sunday in a Village . . . 325

Letter Writing on the Field . . . 250-252 Letters from loi, 215, 247, 329

Man, A 5 Treasurers' Reports. . . 27,55,82. Open Letters (On the Manual) .... 59 Ill, 137. 168, 198, 227, 255, 283, 311, 338 Shall Girls Grind Grain in Mission Schools Whittier, Letter from 307 of India? 87 Woman's Societies in the Missions, 327

Treasury and its Friends, The . . . . 31 Woman's Work for Woman .... 249 Thorough Preparation 60 Year, Review of the 3 I WOMAN'S WORK FOR WOMAN AND « OUR MISSION FIELD

Vol. V. FEBRUARY, 1890. No. 2

Good tidings just as we go to press. Faith Hubbard School. The girls were About 1,000 persons are applying for ad- sent to their homes, one having been ill and mission to the Shantung Church. recovered and another, an Armenian girl, having died. She had the day as- Once more we remind our readers that before sured Miss Montgomery that she could all subscriptions and all letters relating to reciting the business management of the magazine trust in Christ and, to her mother should be addressed Woman's Work for the kindness of her teachers and saying, " Woman and checks should be made pay- My sleep has come," she passed away. At the last writing, November the teachers able to the same, and not to the editor. 27, whose lives had been so fully exposed of Treasury have the pleas- Friends the were both well. ure of li.stening this month to one of its The responsibility for breaking up the very particular friends, the Treasurer of Faith Hubbard School, endangering price- the Assembly's Board of Foreign Missions. less lives there, and for one death by chol- Our letter box from China was delight- era, rests with a wine shop in the neigh- fully full this month. We print several borhood. The refuse from the place communications from those who have flowed in a stagnant, poisonous stream rarely or never written before. around the school property, defying all the Our friend Mrs. Atterbury, of New wise care exercised within the building. York City, who follows up missions what- Our missionaries had appealed to the au- ever part of the earth she visits, writes thorities and received promises that the us from Madrid, Spain, where she was ob- highway should be cleaned, but it is char- serving the well-known Pastor Fliedner's acteristic of the liquor traffic, everywhere, work. He has 400 Spanish boys under in- that it forces the innocent to suffer for the struction there, besides a German school. guilty. Old Elder Billy, of Kamiah, said, after Places in our Central China Mission he had attended presbytery once: "I are taking their turn of short crops. Forty noticed this while away— it is only the wild days of constant rain at harvest followed whites who call us Indians ; the gentle by a typhoon in August, have destroyed ones say Nez Perces." Isn't there a hint much property, and Mr. McKee, of in it to carry further? Why should we say Ningpo, who sends this information, says "natives," instead of Chinese or Hindus? that about 200 Christians of our churches Our India party, which sailed from in that presbytery are likely to be in dis- tress this winter unless relieved. New York October 9, reached Bombay just one month later and was pressing on Hundreds of men and women in last without an hour's delay to be in time for year's famine district are wanting to learn the last two days of a mission meeting at the Gospel. A Chinese Christian, who Lodiana. They had a prosperous journey was Mr. Mateer's chief assistant in that and studied Hindustani on the way. relief work, is overtaxed with trying to teach inquirers. suppose," What our dear friends in Hamadan, "You must not writes missionary, Persia, passed through last Thanksgiving a time we can scarcely appreciate. The "that all these are genuine, nor that most have come to learn from proper motives, for they do not know cholera which broke out in the city and even in theory the motives which ought to move one, carried off many victims, notwithstanding but it is glorious news that they are willing to be the thorough precautions taken, crept into taught, and many who seek will find." "

3° EDITORIAL NOTES.

Dr. Marian Sinclair and her assistant and heavy quilts and sometimes a pillow. have begun a woman's prayer-meeting in How glad the old scholars are to get the Douw Pavilion, Peking. back and how the new ones look on in wonder ! One of Dr. Atterbury's medical students was lately married in Christian form in the The Governor of Oroomiah was so hospital chapel at Peking, at an outlay of pleased with the arithmetic classes and ^15, instead of the large expense often in- singing in the Fidelia Fiske Seminary that curred by his countrymen on such occa- he sent about $35 as a gift for their Easter sions. feast last year.

Mrs. Neal is able to say of her school- The attitude of thousands of families

girls in Tungchow ; "All the older pupils in Japan, not to say China and India, is are now members of the church." illustrated by that of one, described by a Japanese pastor. There were seventy-two students in the " My mother, an earnest Buddhist, is boys' school in Canton last year, and some very sorry to have me believing Christ and of the graduates of the Training Schpol says with tears, ' I feel just as I lost one of have gone into distant countries to preach my sons because he is out of my will. I am Christ to their countrymen. One of these praying several gods and goddesses that went to Japan ; two to the Sandwich he will come back and obey me as before. Islands one, of whom good reports are ; Alas, he gives me sorrow in my old dying received, went to New Zealand in the serv- age.' My brother is a reasonable thinker ice of the Scotch Mission, and two are do- but he says, ' I cannot become Christian as ing good work on our Pacific coast. long as my mother lives.' My younger The Wesleyan lady physician in Han- sister only hears my sermon attentively. I kow, elsewhere mentioned in these pages, have hope only on her. Great man and had 13,000 patients in her first two and a old woman are further from the Kingdom half years of missionary service. People of Heaven than a little girl is." came 20, 30, even 200 miles to the hospital. When the Micronesian Mission was When their chapel was opened, one-third about to be opened the pastor of the sec- of the space was allotted to women and ond church in Honolulu having told his it was usually empty, but since the med- people that volunteers were wanted to ac- ical work has developed the women are company the Americans, two of the best crowding men out of their places at chapel Hawaiian teachers and two deacons offered services. themselves. Of those selected, Deacon We have seen the prospectus of a new Kaikaula and his wife Deborah made a encyclopedia of missions, which Funk &: great sacrifice. Besides the danger and Wagnalls, of this city, propose to bring out uncertainty of the enterprise, they were in in the spring. There has been nothing in comfortable worldly circumstances and this line since Newcomb's "Cyclopedia," a were obliged to leave two children behind single volume of less than 800 pages, pub- among their friends. lished by Charles Scribner, in 1854, and An impressive moment was that in the now so out of date as to contain no men- history of foreign missions when commun- tion of Woman's Work for Woman. This ion was celebrated at Honolulu, a thousand department will have generous space ac- Hawaiians present, on the eve of the de- corded in the new encyclopedia, as well as parture of their first brethren to Micron- the history and present progress of all mis- esia. The pastor gave a farewell charge, sionary undertakings of all denominations, the outgoing brethren addressed the Church the statistics, geography, biography and as for the last time, and the request was ethnology of missions, accompanied by made that all present who approved the maps and diagrams. step about to be taken and who resolved A letter from Oroomiah pictures the to follow the missionaries with prayers and girls coming back to school in the fall : contributions until death, should rise. The "We would hear a knock at the gate of whole congregation immediately arose. the schoolyard and, on looking out, would Up to 1887, not less than 75 Hawaiians see a little band of from two to six girls, had gone as foreign missionaries and their each with a bundle of clothes under her churches had contributed for this cause arm and a smile on her face, and, near by, $170,149.44. Truly, a Mission not barren a donkey or horse with their mattresses nor unfruitful. OUR MISSIONARIES IN CHINA AND POST OFFICE ADDRESSES. Letters should be directed American Frcsdyterian Mission (such a city), China.

Miss E. M. Butler, Canton. Mrs. V. L. Partch, Ningpo. Mrs. Chas. R. Mills, Tungchow. Mary H. Fulton, Mrs. T. M. W. Farnham, Shanghai. Mrs. B. Neal, Dr. " J. Mrs. Frank P. Oilman (of Hainan)," Mrs. Geo. F. Fitch, Miss Emma Anderson, Wei Hien. " " Mrs. A. P. Happer, " Miss Mary A. Posey, Miss Emma F. Boughton, " Mrs. B. C. Henry, " Mrs. J. N. B. Smith, Dr. Mary Brown, Miss Louise Johnston, " Mrs. N. Hayes, Suchow. Mrs. F. H. Chalfant, J. " Mrs. John G. Kerr, " Mrs. R. E. Abbey, Nanking. Dr. Madge Dickson, " Miss Harriet Lewis, " Miss Emma F. Lan Mrs. H. Laughlin, " J. Mrs. C. Machle, " Miss Mary Lattimove, Mrs. W, O. Elterich, Of the Shan- J. " ) " Charles Mrs. C. F. Mission, Dr. Mary West Niles, Mrs. Leaman, Johnson, (_ tung Miss Harriet Noyes, " Mrs. J. H. Judson, Hangchow. Mrs. C. A. Killie, 1 Station not yet Mrs. Henry V. Noyes, " Mrs. John L. Nevius, Chefoo. Mrs. E. G. Ritchie, ) decided. Mrs. M. Swan, " Miss Fanny E. Wight, Miss Mary A. Lowrie, Peking. J. " Mrs. C. Thomson (of Yeung Kong), Mrs. Paul b. Bergen, Che-nan-foo. Miss Jennie McKillican, J. " Canton. Mrs. W. P. Chalfant, Miss Grace E. Newton, " " Mrs. Wellington White (of Macao)," Mrs. John Murray, Dr. Marian E. Sinclair, " Mrs. Sophie Preston Wisner, " Mrs. Fanny Corbett Hays,Tungchow. Mrs. J. L. Whiting, Mrs. W. J. McKee, Ningpo. Mrs. C. W. Mateer,

/« t/iis Country : Mrs. John Butler, Milroy, Pa.; Mrs. A. A. Fulton (expected), Des Moines, Iowa; Mrs. W. M. Hayes, Worth P. C, Pa.; Mrs. S. A. Hunter, 53 Filth Avenue, New York; Mrs. J. A. Leyenberger, Wooster, C; Mrs. Frank V. Mills, Windsor, Conn.; Miss Sara A. Warner, Buffalo, N. Y.

THE TREASURY AND ITS FRIENDS.

The Ganges, with its swift current, by earnest women has done more than bears down from the hills and plains of any other one thing to increase the re- India enough silt each year to build sixty sources of the Board. He would be a great pyramids. It would be easy to daring man who would venture to suggest imagine that the small fragment of rock, anything new in this line of effort. "Pa- broken by the snow and frost of the Hima- tient continuance in well doing" is the layas from its parent cliff, might feel lost only possible motto. and lonely as the sweeping tide bears it Continuous Movement. —Neither river nor onward to be jostled by the increasing floating particles may tarry when bound mass of drift. on their long journey. At every little So, too, the tide of Christian benevo- nook where the water eddies behind some lence carries to heathen lands gifts which projecting point of land or jutting rock, are ample to build many Christian homes some of the grains of sand linger and and develop Christian characters. Per- never renew their journey. Better have haps the small gifts which, through Bands staid on the far-away mountain side, for and Circles, are cast into the stream may here they will but bar the way and tempt feel that they are lost or unimportant in others. the large amount which issues from the Equally important is it that the money treasury of the Board at New York. May once given and started on its seemingly not the Ganges, itself the object of ador- indefinite journey to some heathen land ing veneration from millions, illustrate the should not linger on the way. Yet at treasury work of foreign missions? At times the collections from the Woman's least, the grand result of many small gifts Boards and societies do seem to loiter. is well symbolized by this river. The end of the month will come and the Poiver of Accumulaiion. —This is nat- Treasurer at New York, with ceaseless de- ure's fundamental law of growth for in- mands for expenses which must go on organic matter—accretion, atom and mole- regularly, will find his bank account cule—until the mountain rises. Water empty, when funds are resting quietly all drops can each hold but one small particle, along the well-arranged treasury system of but joining into a swift current, each the woman's societies. Thus, at the date

grasping firmly its fragment, the deposit when this is written (January 3, 1890) the at the river's mouth tells the tale of faith- Treasurer at New York has been obliged fulness. to borrow $110,000 to meet regular pay- No form of giving has grown with the ments and must pay interest on this large speed of that through the woman's soci- amount. This money will doubtless all be eties, and the reason is chiefly found in received, but meantime it is a distinct ex- organized and widespread gleanings of pense which might be materially dimin- small amounts of money. The ingenuity ished. Interest received by various treas- and success of hundreds of plans devised urers for deposits can never be as great as MISSIONS BETWEEN TUNGCHOW AND SHANGHAI.

the interest the Board must pay for money sionary gifts ? Those who know the wotk it borrows. The many treasurers all over best will answer, for they know how read- the land giving time and effort to the col- ily the interest of certain generous people lection of money must be guarded from is roused by the moving appeals which needless work, but let them urge on the they hear. It is well it is so ; but again money with all reasonable speed, remem- we say—"keep in the channel." bering that " the errand of the King brooks The plea which seems imperative and no tarrying." unparalleled has its echo from many a dis- Keep in the Channel. —The channel may tant spot where some quiet faithful one is be deep or shallow, straight or crooked, working all unknown and unheard. They but the tide will seek it. God sends his depend upon the vast organized system showers from heaven to water the hidden under which they have been sent out,

places of the earth ; but when once the and their silence should be their strongest raindrops reach the ground they hasten to plea. The influence of the words we hear seek one another, and only when they are should rouse us not merely to deepest in- gathered in gleaming* brooks do they be- terest in the one who speaks and his work, gin to sing, and not until they meet in but also to ask how vast the need must be the broad river do they show their full the wide world round if the story of one power, or bear to the sea their full tribute. little spot can so stir us ; and what must be Even so in Christian work God shows the claim of Christ upon us to give to His his gracious power in many strange and cause everywhere. What must be the unforeseen ways, but it has ever been that thought of the all-knowing Master, and on the studious systematic work of the what would He say in our hearts, when Church his choicest blessing has fallen. In the voice of one man or woman with lim-

Christian giving this seems a fact too little ited human knowledge can so arouse us ! understood. Let us be thankful that the two loaves I well remember a friend traveling in and a few small fishes which we bring in Europe, whose zeal at each new resting our basket are brought first to Him before place knew no bounds. At Dijon, he found they are given to the multitude. Christ " the loveliest town in France"; there he honors our gifts and dignifies our small must some day return to live. But Aix les charity. We need no apologies ; the altar Bains was soon reached and its grand hills sanctifieth the gift. Above all, let no gift and beautiful views entirely eclipsed the reach the Lord's treasury without the in- fading charms of Dijon. And so, through cense of prayer ; the swinging censer must months, the superlative degree was the ever breathe out its sweet perfume, while only one available. with reverent hand we lay our gift upon Has this any parallel in Foreign Mis- the altar. William Dulles, Jr.

. AMONG SEVERAL MISSIONS BETWEEN TUNGCHOW AND SHANGHAI.

As the following account was not written for strangers, but gathered from private letters, it will be neces- sary to explain that the studying which our travelers pursued at different stations was all for the sake of a book which Mr. Mateer has been preparing for use in the Tungchow College, as he has prepared various text-books before. It is called A Course of Mandarin Lessons and was carried through the mission press at Shanghai last fall, as well as an Algebra and a Chinese music book, the last revised by Mrs. Mateer. These missionaries have been in China twenty-five years —Editor.

Comparing idioms and sounds in the dren and two hired men. All were well- different mandarin dialects has been a behaved and obliging, from the captain more tedious process than we anticipated. down to the jolly baby rejoicing in his first We went to Che-nan-foo, where Mr. Mateer four teeth. We made the journey of 550 worked two months with Peking and Chi- miles comfortably in two weeks, including

nan teachers ; then, he by cart and I by a day spent with some Southern Presby- litter, we went down four days' journey to terian friends just opening a new mission Tsi Ning Choo, where we hope to open a at Ching Kiang Poo, nearly midway, along new station by and by ; and from there the canal. You see, we Presbyterians here down the Grand Canal to Nanking. As it in China fully count on soon being in one was midsummer we took pains to get a Church and are laying out our new sta- good-sized and well-arranged boat. Our tions with that in view. crew consisted of an old man, his wife, two We were pleasantly lodged in Nanking sons, a daughter-in-law, two grand-chil- in the house built for the lady teachers and GOSPEL WORK IN VACATION. 33 spent five busy vveeks there with two teach- everything foreign is not quite so strong ers. Our Woman's Board has a model nor the people quite so poor as in Shan- missionary there in Mrs. . Her house tung, nor are they so simple-minded and is well ordered, her children well taught resolute as in Shantung, so they have not and trained, her home cheerful and happy all the advantages nor have we. and her many guests are welcomed with The English Wesleyans have stations generous hospitality ; and yet she carries occupied by foreigners up and down the on her girls' school admirably and has a rivers and up country, besides a number of class of women learning to read, besides out-stations and a great many Christians. receiving many visits from her Chinese Their medical lady, Dr. Sugden, is doing neighbors. She has proved that China- a grand work among the women and chil- men can be taught to coOk well with only dren, all the more grand that she keeps judicious oversight, for her table never the spiritual part most prominent in her has anything on it that is not real good. plans because it is most prominent in her We went from Nanking the third week heart. The married ladies in Hankow are in September to Kiu Kiang, where we active missionary workers. stayed with Mr. and Mrs. Hykes of the We were much interested in the train- American M. E. Mission, North. Mr. H. ing schools of the China Inland mission, gave his whole time to helping with a table one for young men at Ganking and one of sounds and a syllabary, and we were for young women at Yangchow, not for most hospitably entertained. Mr. and Mrs. the Chinese, but for new missionaries. I Hykes are from Shippensburg, Pa. They think married couples all go to Ganking are pleasant people and level-headed mis- and study with the young men. At present sionaries of many years' experience and he young people are encouraged to come out is up to the standard of Methodist min- unmarried, leaving that whole question to isters in jollity as well as in zeal and dili- be settled after they get to work. In the gence. The girls' school there, under the itinerant method which they have hitherto care of Miss Howe and Miss Wheeler, has employed this plan does very well. Now quite a reputation. that they are trying to settle their mission- On September 25, we left our kind aries for definite work in designated fields friends at Kiu Kiang for a short visit in I do not know whether it will succeed so Hankow, where the London Mission, the well. There were fifteen girls at Yang- English Wesleyan and the American Epis- chow. They stay from six months to a copal societies are at work and have many year. The ends to be accomplished are converts. Hankow is the grandest mis- not only study of the language, but also to sionary center in China. Rev. Grififith John, sift out those who " never would have come of the London Mission, which has done a if they had known what they were coming great evangelistic work about there, is to," and those who depend on anything here. Immense regions are easily access- except their work and the love of Christ ible by water along the Yang-tse-kiang for happiness, and those who have not the and Han Rivers and the shores of the health or other qualifications to fit them Doong Ting Lake. The prejudice against for the missionary life. Julia B. Mateer. GOSPEL WORK IN VACATION.

I LEFT Peking most unwillingly in the we could gather an audience by simply summer, feeling sorry to turn my back on making ourselves visible. Almost daily I the women, who gathered at our Sunday talked and sold Christian books to any services. We went to an old temple who wanted. A spirit of inquiry was man- among the hills for two months. ifest. One and another began to request The day after arriving I took my Chi- medicines. I gave out of the stock that I nese book and sat under the trees outsi-de carried for our own use in case of need. the great gate of the temple people gath- One day toward evening a lady was in- ; ered immediately ; an audience of more troduced who begged me to see her only than twenty men, women and children son. Chinese physicians had given up the seated themselves on the grass about me case. I tried to decline, assuring her I and listened, until a sense of exhaustion was not a physician, but she plead so pa- warned me to rest. thetically that I furnished her with chloro- This was only the beginning of good dyne and promised if she sent for me to things every day, at any hour in the day. go to her house next day. I was not strong ; 34 AT LOW TIDE. enough to walk and a rainstorm was tions. I think some did believe and ac- rapidly coming on. I did not really sup- cept the fact that this Christianity is a pose she would send a second time, but living thing and not a dead thing like Bud- while we were at breakfast next morning dhism. the servants came running in to say The lady whose son was healed has " the sick man is here with his father and visited me in the city ; her history is in- mother." teresting. She is the daughter of a salt I immediately gave medicines and regu- mandarin who lived near the headquarters lated his diet and wrote to Dr. Taylor for of T'ai P'ing Wang, the rebel chief, thirty advice. He rallied, and then had a serious years ago. She was in danger of losing relapse, when Dr. Taylor generously left her head, being a Manchu, but was told his ninety and nine patients in the city and her safety lay in learning a Christian hymn took a four hours' horseback ride through which she did. This hymn she repeated the broiling sun of one of the hottest days to me correctly after the lapse of thirty this summer to see this only son, who got years. She had retained it in her memory well. as a charm. She reads very well and The fame of this cure spread like fire seemed to enjoy my house, constantly say- and the sick from all quarters flocked to ing, "my eyes are being opened." Truly get medicine. Some were brought in bas- do I trust they are. She does not fully kets carried by two men, some in chairs understand that all that is lovely in a home carried by four men. One man was borne is the outcome of Christianity. I hope on his son's back. It gave me a delight- she will learn this delightful lesson and lay ful opportunity to tell them of our Great claim to that home which Jesus has gone Physician who was more to be trusted than to prepare for all who love Him. I hope it I could be. They 'took my medicine and may be my privilege to spend another two were benefited. Why not listen to His months at the old temple and follow up the truth ? Most of the women never had work begun there, perhaps be permitted to heard of many listened attentively, gather for Jesus some good fruit into His Jesus ; many assented. Not one ever treated me garner. rudely. Many wanted to pay me worship. We had regular Christian services the Men as well as women would bow down four last Sundays of our stay at the hills. and knock the head on the ground as they The congregation increased every Sunday. do before the idol. We seated them on the grass on mats, up- I was obliged to add largely to my stock wards of 200 people, and a more attentive of medicines and every day sent cases that group of listeners is rarely found. Many I did not understand, with a letter, to Dr. remained after the services to talk —the Taylor who remained in the city. men with Mr. Langdon and my son, and You will naturally wonder if any ac- the women with my daughter and myself. cepted the truth and believed in the living It was perhaps casting bread upon the

God. It is just here that work in China is waters ; if so we will hail with gladness the patience-trying and trying to faith. Every- refreshing, when after many days we shall thing moves slowly, even men's convic- certainly find it. Mrs. Reuben Lowrie.

AT LOW TIDE.

As a missionary party were once return- China. They are about 30 feet long, carry ing to Canton from a country tour they merchandise, and are occupied by families, were caught at low tide in the San Ui who spend their lives on board. They are Canal, a little below the city of the same propelled by rowing with a big oar from name, and while they waited three hours the stern or by poling, or by men walking for the return tide one of the company a tow path and pulling with a rope. At our took out his camera and photographed a right, on the forward boat, is a 'pile of

Chinese boat ; so here we have it, little straw rain coats which the boatmen wear girl and all. " She was holding the rud- in wet weather. The missionary part}' are der handle and eating sugarcane," says in the rear boat. They had spent Sunday the photographer, " but stopped as I took in San Ui, a walled town, sevent3^-five miles the picture and watched me with wonder- southwest of Canton, where Mr. White has ing eyes." a chapel and had administered commun- These are common boats seen on the ion to fifteen persons. There are now Pearl or Canton River and others in South twenty-seven church members in the place. THE TEiMFLE OF HEAVEN, PEKING. 35

OUR artist's success.

It is a picturesque country around San here and there and sometimes becomes so Ui. The shores along the canals are pret- absorbed in it as to barely catch his boat tily lined with bamboos, and back from the again. shore are groves of orange trees and fan On this particular trip a lady was car- palms. Fan making is one of the chief in- ried ten miles in a sedan chair to a coun- dustries of the city. try village where she looked up some of On this and similar tours the mission- her former Sunday-school pupils in Amer- ary will read and study on the boat and ica and spent the night in their little house, have, at least, evening prayers with the where dogs, pigs and chickens shared ac- boatmen. He will go ashore to sell Bibles commodations with the family.

THE TEMPLE OF HEAVEN, PEKING.

This unique and magnificent tower, the which is the ominous thing to them ; a three-storied, blue-tiled temple, was burned serpent concealed within was being pur- on the 1 8th of September. During the sued by a dragon, hence the fire. The act afternoon, in a hail and rain storm, it was of an incendiary were more bearable than struck by lightning and made' a fire of to be destroyed by a bolt from heaven great brightness, illuminating the whole itself, foreboding dire evil to emperor and sky around, but by early morning there dynasty, as heaven must be angry with its were left only the smoldering ruins. The representative on earth ; it was the fault rain had no extinguishing effect, as the of the young empress, because she " is all roof had not yet given way and the fire fire " and there has been nothing but brigade came, but too late. trouble since the marriage. The event was the great topic of con- Whether it will be taken as an augury versation at Peking for the time being and against foreign innovations, railways* in feelings of regret were manifested at the particular, remains to be seen. The fact great loss. Native papers estimate that it of the blame of the burning of the famous will take three million taels (^4,200,000) to Tai Ho Gateway being put against the rebuild the temple. Tientsin-Tungchow railway may suggest The causes assigned by the Chinese the projected railway from Peking toHan- were various : It was struck by thunder. * This has proved to be the case. 36 THE TEMPLE OF HEAVEN, PEKING.

kow as the cause here. Not only has the peror makes prostrations before the tab- emperor taken it as an admonition from lets, presents the viands and lights the Heaven, but the temple attendants are to incense when the songs of "harmonious be rigorously examined to see if there have peace " and "excellent peace " are sung by been any improper practices, and other the choir. A prayer to " Imperial Heaven, officers in charge are degraded and fined. Supreme Ruler," is then read. A voice The Temple of Heaven, or " Hall for cries, " Give the cup of blessing and the Praying for a Propitious Year," is in a meat of happiness." The emperor tastes park a mile square in the southern part of the thereof and bows upon the altar before Chinese city, where is also the " Altar of Heaven in token of his thankful reception, Heaven," and is surrounded by a "sacred and then listens to the song of "glorious grove so extensive that the silence of its peace." A shrill voice is heard, " Look at deep shades is never broken by the noises the burning," when the bullock, entire and of the busy world." without blemish, " no garlands having been This three-terraced, circular temple, the put on the victim when its life was taken loftiest building in Peking (the surmount- and no blood sprinkled," is placed in the ing gilded ball resting loo feet above the furnace, and the smoke ascends. Ecce

marble platform), with resplendent azure Homo ! the only man of the 400,000,000 tiling representative in form and color of who can perform this rite of the established the aerial vault (though the roof was origi- religion. The Pontifex Maximus of this

nally of blue, yellow and green tiles ; but mighty empire, in behalf of his people by the emperor Kien-lung these colors offers sacrifice—the patriarch of the na- were changed to blue); with the richly- tion, at once their chief magistrate and carved and painted eaves and round win- high priest. The scene is one of imposing dows shaded by blue glass rods strung to- grandeur. The high priest stands in gether, casting ethereal, blue shadows; with solemn majesty while the legion of states- the rare symmetry of its proportions men, nobles and mandarins are prostrate ; formed the most remarkable and imposing on the second and third terraces in pro- structure in the capital or in the empire. found reverence and admiration. The Within the circular interior was the tab- worship is at midnight, and as the pale let to Heaven on the north, and on each light is shed abroad upon this princely as- side four shrines in which are tablets of semblage, so richly dressed, from the high

the imperial ancestors according to their suspended lanterns ; and the lurid flame rank. The Dragon Throne was placed in from the sacrificial furnace ascends and its this building. casts glare over the marble terraces ; At the winter solstice, the great day and the fragrance of incense and the peals having arrived, the emperor in the evening of music fill the air under the open vault

leaving his palace, goes part of the way in of heaven ; the scene presents all the ele- his chariot drawn by an elephant taken ments of imposing solemnity " and is a from the imperial stables, and part of the splendid and wonderful pageant."* way in his sedan borne on the shoulders There are Three Religions, so called, in of 32 coolies. Preceding him are the China—Confucianism, Taouism and Bud- National Guard of bannermen and a com- dhism, but this worship at the Temple of pany of 234 musicians, and on horseback Heaven is the only real religion, though the royal princes, the nobles, mandarins the Son of Heaven is the only one who

and high officials to the number- of 2,000. practices it. Passing along the silent street with shops In his capacity of Vicegerent, High all closed, the emperor repairs to the Palace Priest and Mediator between his subjects of Fasting for quiet thought and lonely and the higher Powers there are many meditation for his high service. Sum- points of similarity between the assump- moned, he dons his sacerdotal dress, which tions of the emperor and of the Pope of no priestly vestments that Aaron ever wore Rome. Heavy chastisement awaits an}' of exceeded in richness of gold and beauty of the common people or the unauthorized design, and ascends the altar, while the who should presume to state their wants to royal choir, with voice and stringed instru- high Heaven or worship these objects of ment and soft-sounding cymbal, make the imperial adoration. They may worship stillness of the nigiit air resound with tiie stocks and stones in almost any form they song of "universal peace," while on the please, but death awaits them if they at- other side an equal number of posture- tempt to join the Vicegerent of Heaven makers join in the ceremonies. The em- * Du Bose, " Dragon, Image and Demon." ;

THE CONDITION OF WOMEN IN SHANTUNG. 37

THE TEMPLE OK HEAVEN, PEKING. and Earth in his adorations to the sup- gar idolatry, no image, has entered that posed sources of his power. temple. This mountain top still stands The high priests of China love power above the waves of corruption, and on this and adulation too much to share this wor- solitary altar there still rests a faint ray of ship with their subjects, so the State has the primeval faith. As we contemplate the appropriated this service. When taxed Majesty of the Empire prostrate before the with ingratitude in neglecting to honor tablet which represents the invisible Deity, that King on whom they depend for exis- while the smoke ascends from his burning tence, the Chinese uniformly reply, " It is sacrifice, our thoughts are irresistibly car- not ingratitude but reverence that pre- ried back to the King of Salem officiating vents our worship. He is too great for as "Priest of the Most High God." .This us to worship. None but the emperor is is the high-place of Chinese devotion, and worthy to lay an offering on the altar of the thoughtful visitor feels that he ought Heaven." to tread its courts with unsandaled feet. From remote antiquity this knowledge A distinguished missionary actually " put and worship of God came down through his shoes from off his feet " before ascend- patriarchal tradition, and prior to the rise ing the steps of the great altar. of the Three Religions. Even now no vul- A Resident in China.

THE CONDITION OF WOMAN IN SHANTUNG.

Confucianism enjoins the same con- opinion throws little restraint around the sideration and reverence for both man .and treatment of girls. woman among elders and ancestors. This Woman of the West, suppose you had renders the lot of older women more tol- opened your eyes first in a Chinese home, erable in China than in other heathen what would you have seen? A dark room countries. But the code does not include with mother earth for flooring ; for win- duties of older to younger, so public dow, a hole pasted over with thin paper — —

38 A LADY PHYSICIAN ON THE BORDERS OF MONGOLIA.

a table, a bench, a few cooking utensils You will always be in mortal terror of and a brick bed, with a range for cooking ghosts. If your son dies you will blame in one corner, all draped with soot and yourself and will plead with his spirit not cobwebs. White is funereal, so a cleaning to avenge upon you his early death. With would bring calamity. You would look your child you will spend hours wailing at into the faces of parents sorry to see you. the cold grave of some lost one. Xo ray Your father might drown you, or you of hope breaks through the gloom. You might be neglected, with but scanty food will pray to be born a man into the ne.xt and clothing, till an early death should world, or, if you chance to know a Western overtake you and your poor body be woman, you will plead to be born like her hastily carried outside the wall and thrown in a Western home, which surpasses your to the dogs. brightest dreams of heaven. Should you survive, your parents will When you die you are supposed to go never mention you among their children, first into the custody of the spiritual village " nor give you any name except that." constable ; so your children rush to the You never go to school. At seven your little temple and offer a present for your feet are bound tightly with cotton bands release. They then feel round the dark and never allowed to grow any more. room, calling "mother, mother," till, find- They keep you in fearful pain day and ing the cold corpse, they carry it home, night for two years, Or till circulation in place it in a cart of cornstalks, artistically them ceases. Like a person walking on covered with tissue paper, set it on fire, and her heels, you limp your way through a when it is burned your family cry, " Go, life of toil. Daily you carry your little mother, along the highway to the far-off brother strapped on your back. You go southwest." What you are there to meet to the fields and dig grass roots for food. no one knows. You are early betrothed by your parents These women in China out of the depths to a—mother-in-law. Of course, there is are crying for help. Feeling their way in a boy somewhere in the bargain, but most the darkness, they do many things to seek

important is the mother-in-law. She may peace. They, too, are asking ; abuse you with impunity and make your " Is there no happy spot life such a burden that you hang yourself Where mortals may be blest, or take opium. Your husband, when Where grief may find a balm, " And weariness a rest ? grown, may be kind ; he may beat you and sell you for opium or for some evil But no purpose. Whoever he be, you must not " Faith, Hope, and Love, best boons to mortals g;iven, appear when any one comes to see him ; Wave their bright wings and whisper : you eat after him and never go out in " Yes, in heaven ! his company. R. M. Mateer.

A LADY PHYSICIAN ON THE BORDERS OF MONGOLIA.

Our Peking missionaries enjoyed a visit from Dr. Virginia Murdock, of Kalgan, a station of the American Board, just under the great wall, on the borders of Mongolia, and one of them has kindly sent home the following graphic report. Editor.

Dr, Murdock is exceedingly bright and tal enlarged. She gave me a description interesting. She has worked herself nearly of her average day. to death the past seven years and finally She and Miss Diament keep house to- was so run down that the Mission sent her gether, 15 or 20 minutes' walk from the to Japan for three months. She has had hospital. They have breakfast a little before a beautiful time and come back a new seven, then Chinese prayers with the serv- creature. She says her work is almost en- ants, and she starts at once for the hospi- tirely among men and she thinks the tal. If there are no very sick patients that Woman's Board would hardly think best she must see immediately, she has morning to support it on that account, so she prayers first, insisting that every individual strongly advises the General ]5oard to send connected with the establishment, who is ' a man physician there and let her go some- not too ill, shall be on hand. She some- where else to work among the women. times has a congregation of 30, sometimes She has built up all the medical depart- not nearly so many. She arranges a course ment herself and work has grown so that of Bible study on the life and work of more land must be bought and the hospi- Christ, which she drills into them, some- A LADY PHYSICIAN ON THE BORDERS OF MONGOLIA. times herself explaining and praying with believe in useless extravagance in the mat- the men, sometimes the Chinese helpers. ter of "babies' funerals." After this she has the men recite their I have never seen such things here. Bible lessons. It seems to be no hardship, The Chinese Times said the other day that as they take considerable pride in it. When some charitable organization or individual the patients go away she makes them a pays for a cart to go about every day col- present of the books they have studied, lecting deceased infants, and when this is which pleases them very much. She says filled they take it outside the walls and she does not know how much good the bury the little things in a common grave. teaching does, but she is determined that One of our Peking helpers lost a child a every patient shall get a clear idea of the little while ago, and of course had a prop- truth. She is bound they shall hear at all er funeral. Mr. Whiting, Mr. Lowrie and events. The prayers and teaching often others attended the service, and the neigh- take two hours or more and afterward she bors could scarcely believe their eyes that attends to the various patients, getting Christians should make so much fuss over a everything into running order for the day, child. The Kalgan people fold their babies then teaches some women to read and em- up in a mat and lay them in the street. broider, and goes home about ii or ii 130. Dr. Murdock goes off into the country After dinner these women come and she on tours, staying sometimes 20 days. She teaches them for an hour, then goes to her takes a servant or Chinese helper with her, clinic, which takes most of the afternoon. medicines, books, bedding, cooking uten- Miss Diament and the Chinese helper sils and foreign food, and puts in three meanwhile talking to people in the waiting- weeks of as hard work and as much dis- room. After clinic she has the in-patients, comfort as can be imagined. Shelter is the hospital cleaning to look after, and all about all one gets from a Chinese inn. Dr. sorts of things to do and does not get home Murdock spends the nights in these inns until seven or eight o'clock. She is tre- and then starts off early in the morning mendously thorough and does not like to for some friendly person's house in whose leave very much to the Chinese assistants. court-yard she dispenses medicines and I said, " I hope you have your evenings talks the whole day. Usually she has no to yourself." She laughed and said, "Well, time to stop for lunch, but keeps right on in the evening I usually have my suicides." until late in the afternoon. Crowds come " Suicides ! What in the world do you and generally treat her with perfect respect. mean?" She replied, perfectly serenely, A great deal of good seems to result from " Why, the Chinese are always committing these tours, but think of a woman off in suicide for or other they that way for three weeks, without a single something ; seem to select the evening for it, and feel called foreigner to speak to and surrounded with upon to send for me." She said she would Chinese from morning to night ! I don't often get a little run down and nervous know of any more unselfish life. and couldn't sleep, but would wake up in Opium patients are pleasing individuals the night worrying about her patients, to care for. When they come to the hos- thinking perhaps they were taking cold, or pital and ask her to take them in she has the Chinese nurse hadn't given the medi- a very plain talk with them, explains the cine properly, and would feel as if she treatment and how much they will suffer must get right up and go to the hospital for three days, and asks if they are willing ; but if she did she would need to have a to undergo it. If they are not frightened man go with her, and it was such a dark, away she makes them deposit quite a sum horrid walk, stumbling over dead babies, of money, which she keeps if they run etc., that it didn't really pay. "Dead away before the treatment is over, but if " " babies ! I said. Did you ever really see they have the pluck to stick it out she gives a dead baby in the street?" "I've seen it back when they go home. As they gen- scores of them." I gasped out, " I don't erally have to borrow the motiey, they are wonder you draw the line at dead babies." more likely to stay through the required She calmly replied, " Oh, I don't mind the time. She takes, every particle of opium perfectly to away and has all sorts of bathing and rub- babies in the least ; I'm used them, but I do mind the wolves that are bing done for them, but for three days, eating them up." I asked her if the people sometimes four, they are in fearful misery killed these babies. "No, infanticide was and keep up a series of howls and groans died a and calls for their Sometimes not very common ; these infants mothers. natural death, but people in China don't she had to go over there in the evening, 4° TIEN-DONG z. and as she opened the gate and went into draw back or give out during the process. the court it was Hke stepping into Pande- Kalgan is a very hard field and dread- monium itself, such a chorus of wails as fully isolated. It is about 140 miles north- rent the air. She says as soon as a China- west from Peking, a journey of five days man is sick he begins to call for his in a mule litter, consequently people don't mother. After the first three or four run up there "just to spend Sunday," for days the patient is free from pain, but very instance. The American Board has the weak. However, he picks up quickly and only mission there and the only other at the end of eight days is well enough to foreigners are five Russian families, mer- leave. She insists on their having nour- chants. They are very friendly but live ishing food, and for the last few days quite a distance away. As the Russians they are usually as happy as at first they do not speak English and Dr. Murdock were miserable. On the whole they dis- speaks very little Russian, when she goes play a good deal of courage and seldom there to dinner they talk Chinese. Grace E. Newton.

TIEN-DONG z.

The ancient and_ famous Buddhist tem- or fame. I am told the head priest is ple, Tien-Dong Ong Fah Yiin z, is chosen by the emperor from the fraternity nestled among the hills in a charmingly- at some famous Buddhist resort ; and he picturesque spot about twenty miles east not only has control of this large monas- of the city of Ningpo in the province of tery, but many .smaller ones in the neigh- Chi-kiang, China. borhood are under the jurisdiction of Tien- About A. D. 300, six years before Con- dong z. stantine the Great was chosen emperor, a One of the noted features of this place Buddhist monk in his wanderings came is "The Hall of Judgment." It is pecul- like upon this beautiful and fairy-like spot and iarl}' striking for its emptiness the of . built for himself a reed hut. In one of the which I have not noticed in other Bud- two rooms of his very small hut he erected dhist monasteries. It is a large, square a shrine for Buddha, and while he assid- room entirely empty, with the exception of uously applied himself to the reception of a chair and table which stand upon a plat- doctrine, the cultivation of moral habits form of some height inclosed with a rail- and religious meditations (legend says) ing. On making inquiry I found this to there appeared a youth who ministered to be the court-room, where the head priest his daily wants as did the ravens to Elijah. tries any of the brotherhood who are ac- When the monk made inquiry of the youth cused of crime, and if fouad guilty he has as to who he was and whence he came he official authority to pass sentence on the replied, " Ngd z Td bah doiig ts " (I am the victim and see that the penalty is carried pure youth). The monk spread the story out. Severe punishments are inflicted for that the Ta-bah-sing had come to dwell in breaking any of the "ten prohibitions." the straw hut and announced himself priest. The priest found guilty of adultery is He erected a small temple on the spot, burned to death and a thief or covetous which grew famous and was enriched by person is beaten with bamboos. the offerings of devotees. On entering the temple proper, or Hall At different periods emperors beautified of the Three Buddhas, about which all the the temple, presented tablets for its walls chapels, halls, pavilions and other monas- and added pavilions, but soon after an tic buildings cluster, you are met by the

emperor had built a chapel for it, in imposing images of Buddha past, Buddha A. D. 1 130, it was burned to the ground. .present, and Buddha future. They are Nearly two centuries after, A. D. 1316, the three colossal gilded statues, whose calm, emperor Dzing-tsong commanded it to be contemptuous countenances are meant to rebuilt. Again, imperial acts brought the express the eternal rest of Nirvana—"the temple into high favor and to the pres- emptiness which every intellectual object * ent day the sacred place numbers its devo- will include in itself when liberated. * *

tees by tens of thousands. There are because nothing can come from it, and i!; generally about 400 or 500 priests and is incapable of having in it any individ- monks to be seen about this monastery, uality, mental or material." * of which 100 only are said to be resident Behind these three enormous Buddhas there. The others are attracted by the is an image of Kwan-yin sitting on a lotus

fame of the temple and visit it for merit * Sec Schott, in Edkins on " Chinese Buddhism." TIEN-DONG z. 41

THE THREE t'NEClOUS ONES. leaf, beneath a canopy of carved wood and left ; or it may be Mi-lae-veh (the lacquered in gold, blue and green, made to Buddha to come) who takes the principal imitate cloud, rock and ocean scenery. place in the Hall of the Buddhas, while in This arrangement of images in Tien- others the prominent place is allotted to dong z is only one of many as seen in dif- Kwan-shi-yin. ferent it is Buddhist temples ; sometimes Going on through the great temple and Buddha in the midst of his six devas or list- passing out into an inner court and up a eners, or again Buddha is represented by flight of steps we enter another hall, large Ju-lae as the central figure, while Veng-Ju and imposing, which is dedicated to the and Pu-yin take the places at his right worship of the —

42 TIEN-DONG z.

three PRECIOUS ONES). large a place in saving SAN PAO (the mankind ; she comes into the world in a lower position A good picture of this "Buddhist than Buddha in order to more effectually Trinity" is given in the cut before you. instruct and save the ignorant, and is The San Pao are found in every Bud- known by such names as " Ta-tsi " (great dhist temple they represent Veh (Buddha) ; " mercy), "Ta-pei " (great pity), " Kuie-ku The Personal Teacher ; Fah (Dharma) (salvation from misery), " Kuie-nan " (sal- The Law or body of doctrine ; and O-zong

vation from woe) ; hence the English (Sangha) the Priesthood ; and are held in name " Goddess of Mercy." She is also great reverence by all devout Buddhists. " represented as the "Giver of Sons," "The One of " The Ten Prohibitions is " re- Eight-faced Kwan-yin," " The Thousand- viling the Three Precious Ones." A devo- handed Kwan-yin," and is the favorite tee of Buddha is assured of an entrance deity with sailors. The Thousand-handed into the " Paradise of the Devas " as a re- stretches out a saving hand to every suf- ward for reverencing the Three Precious fering being. Ones, together with keeping the other It is impossible to visit one of these nine ' prohibitions." The punishment for centers of Buddhism without feeling in- slandering the San Pao will last for ten tensely the contrast between the religion millions of millions of kalpas. [A kalpa and worship of Jehovah and that of Buddha is a period of time varying from a few with his manifold emanations between hundreds to many thousands of years. — one Lord and Saviour, Christ, See Edkins on "Chinese Buddhism."] Jesus and " Kwan-yin the Thousand-handed." For The cut not only represents the San more than 1,500 years many thousands of Pao, but it also gives you a good view of weary and footsore men and women have the priests at worship and their surround- annually ascended to this sacred shrine. ings. The little mats you see scattered Not alone from the cares and trials of this upon the floor are those upon which the life they seek rest they are heavily laden devotees kneel before the idols. At the — with the burden of the ceaseless metemp- left of the table at which the priests sit at sychoses which they so much dread. They their service is the temple drum with a long to attain the rest of Nirvana — that priest represented in the act of drumming. annihilation and extinction of self which On the small, low table, at a little distance will save them from being re-born into a from the San Pao, is the wooden Fish lower sphere in this world, or deliver them head, an instrument in universal use in from the torments of one of the Buddhist the temple service. A dull, hollow sound hells. To their cry of " What shall I do is made by pounding upon it with a ham- " to inherit eternal extinction of life ? mer of like material. Directly before Buddha answers, " Take nothing from me The Three Precious Ones is an incense ; trust to no one but yourself get rid of the stand, and on either side a candle vase ; demerit of evil actions and accumulate with lighted candles and a flower vase con- merit by good actions." taining artificial flowers (no others are Thanks be to God, China's millions are used). To the right of the San Pao we have not left to grope in the black darkness of " KWAN-SHI-VIN, The Light of Asia." The Light of the World is held up to them by the Church commonly spoken of in English as " The of Christ from all parts of the world, and (ioddess of Mercy." Kwan-yin is to me the many, having already seen the glory of most interesting emanation of Buddha. A Christ's brightness, have cried, " What peculiarity about this deity is that for more shall I do to inherit eternal life?" and than six hundred years Kwan-shi-yin was the answer of love, " Come unto me all worshiped as a male, but since the twelfth ye that labor and are heavy laden and / century the popular representation is of a will give you rest," has lifted the burden female. Kwan-shi-yin has thirty-two meta- from many sin-laden hearts and they have morphoses and appears in as many differ- found rest. ent forms to suffering humanity. There is " The Light of the World is Jesus." no emanation of Buddha which holds so Frances M. Butler.

AT THE CAPITAL OF MANCHURIA.

MouKDEN (as our Irish lady was about her off inexorably) has two walls. The to tell us when the bottom of page ^17 cut inner, surrounding the city, is ver\- high MISSIONARY TOUR OF THE NEZ PERCE CHRISTIANS. 43 and enormously thick, its slope and size are admitted to this meeting, but further suggesting some huge Egyptian building. sederunts are closed to the "inferior sex." The outer wall, an earthen rampart, in- Some of the missionaries think this should closes the suburbs. not be so and ladies should be present at Of course we attracted great attention all the meetings. I agree with them.* on our way through the city. A lot of On Sunday morning the opening sermon loafers around a shop would rush on ahead is to be followed by a baptismal service, and burst into a roar of derisive laughter when some eight or ten men are to receive as we passed. One exquisite, with a gor- baptism. At 12 will be communion serv- geous crimson jacket over his long gray ice, in the afternoon English service, and robe, actually forgot his dignity so much in the evening a sort of prayer-meeting. as to run two or three times, in order to On Monday there is to be a soiree in the get a better view of us. Women were new church. After a liberal supply of conspicuous by their absence; only now and native cakes and tea there are to be ad- then could we see the flowered head-dress dresses by the missionaries, the Chinese of one peeping out of a cart as she drove elders and some of the leading members. past. The Chinese love speeches. The Conference is to be opened on For the rest of the week the mission-

Saturday evening, when the retiring Mod- aries'will be busy with various questions : erator is to give his address, the new Mod- the ordination of medical missionaries, erator to be elected, and reports of the examination of evangelists, and so on. various missionaries to be read. ladies * The Here the Editor paused to utter an emphatic Amen !

ANOTHER MISSIONARY TOUR OF THE NEZ PERCE CHRISTIANS.!

Ten men, besides Pastor Williams, started to day. Pray that God may cause it to on their promised missionary visit to the bring forth a plenteous harvest to the Shoshones on July 29. They spent more glory of His Name. If only every heathen than two weeks at Lemhi among this peo- wild tribe around us had two such pre- ple. Pastor Williams preached to crowded cious weeks every summer, perhaps I could in the schoolroom on Sabbaths die houses ; content. he and my pupils preached in Tit-ke- Our missionaries wished to visit the lasin's (the chief's) large room on week Fort Hall Reserve and preach to those days — the other helpers assisting with Shoshones who twelve years ago sent a " " singing and talks (by hands, i. e., signs, or runner to thq Nez Perces, asking them voice, or both together). All the eleven to send a teacher with " the Book " to worked man to man among the people, in- but they found that it would re- them ; structing them in the way of life through quire eleven days' journey over mountain- that wonderful Indian sign language, by ous roads beyond Lehmi and they had which they can preach on sight, some of not funds to take them there—had barely them (as Moses Monteith) to any tribe enough for the road home. of the West teaching others who under- The road to Lemhi was through heat ; stand the Crow language and the English and dust and smoke of burning forests through these tongues; and others through and over difficult mountain passes, and Wilson's (a native Shoshone brought up yet every one of our men came back with among the Nez Percys) Shoshone tongue. a stronger missionary spirit than ever and As soon as the sun was up you could see a looking out to the regions beyond Lemhi them coming to our tent from this side for next summer, if God please. and from that side and they would be with We have proved now that the mission- us until dark. Said Kul-Kul-tamin : "Our ary work of our Nez Perces is practicable tent was never empty of them. And they and a success, by God's blessing. It is no would sit and listen while we talked to longer a doubtful experiment on which them about God and what the Bible said we might hesitate to ask the Board to and about the new way, until my arms spend the money of the Church. It is would ache" (talking himself or interpret- getting too heavy for a few to carry— the ing in the sign language). great Presbyterian Church simply looking Many absent at the council last year were on. We must send in an estimate next at home this summer and heard the Gos- spring of expense of Nez Perce mission- pel. Their darkness was dense. So the ary tours to the heathen wild tribes. precious seed-sowing went on from day S. L. McBeth.

t See W. It'. W. January, i88q, also map in July, i88q. CCOTRS mm tm fkmv.

CHINA. study at home. I felt perfectly well and was enthu- siastic about the work and brimful of plans when all THE CIRCLE AT WEI HIEN. at once I was on my back and typhoid fever set in. Miss Emma Anderson wrote from Wei Hien, It was ten weeks before I could walk at all, and then " October 25, i88g, and though she modestly says I only a few steps. It was a dreary summer to us. I don't write the kind of letters that can be published," do not like to think of it. we are sure our readers will agree that she has told just what we want to know, and all will rejoice that INCIDENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES.

' she has recovered from her illness. ' One day this week the Chinese went to the graves " It will be two years the loth of December since I to worship and wail and a number of women came came. Our mission grounds are a mile and a half in to visit. One day last week the women went to from Wei Hien City. We have wails around our the temples to worship and we had crowds from grounds, but not so high as the city walls. I live morning till night. Some of them are very interest- with my sister, Mrs. Laughlin. Then the Chalfants, ing and seem to take in something of the doctrine, who came when I did, have built a house and will be while others are only interested in how we live and in in it soon. Another has been built for single ladies. examining our dress. I want to go next week to a

We have a school of forty boys here and a very nice station about 1 5 miles from here and stay a few days. new dispensary and large chapel. Dr. Hunter There are some very nice Christian women there and boards with the Chalfants, but he leaves us this au- a number of inquirers. A girls' school has also been tumn and we are to have a new doctor, also a new started which I am to look after. It is taught by lady doctor and another single lady and, I believe, a the wife of one of our Chinese ministers who was new clergyman and his wife. We are all excitement educated in one of our mission schools.

now about the new people. My sister, Mrs. Chal- " You asked if I could use picture cards. I could, fant and myself have been the only women here for and would like very much to have some. We never

so long we cannot think how it will seem to have like to give the people pictures of women in low-

more. . necked dresses, as they would think them very immod- FOR NO FIRE A WEEK. est, but advertising cards they are wild to get."

" Chefoo, as you know, is on the coast, two hundred

miles from here. Our mission meeting is there the Mrs. Murray, of Che-nan-foo, writing from Wei

last of November, and all the new missionaries and Hien in the summer, where they had gone for Mr. Dr. and Mrs. Mitchell, of New York, are expected, so Murray's recovery from famine fever and Willie Mur- " ray's diphtheria, said : The pure country air has we are wanting to go ; but if we start from here Monday morning we won't get there until Satufday done wonders for us and we are in excellent health."

night and won't see fire from the time we leave until Referring to their furlough in America last year she

we get there, so you may know what the weather will says : accomplished be like, as the climate is much the same here as at The year has gone and much not I thought certainly I should in Amer- home. We carry an alcohol lamp or a little charcoal that do when stove to cook on. We travel in carts, shenzas, wheel- ica. And what deep waters we had to pass through

as farewell loved ones ! barrows, or, we might ride donkeys if we were strong as soon we bade to home and our dear little gath- enough, and if we were wealthy we might go in Measles on the way, and Maud chairs, but we find that too expensive for any but ered into the tender Shepherd's fold, her resting- short journeys. place in the deep blue waters of the Atlantic. The trial was great, but supported by His grace which ILLNESS AND A DULL SUMMER. is sufficient for all things, we were enabled to say, " I had spent a month in the famine region with my " Thy will be done." sister and Mrs. Mateer and another month of solid My record of real missionary work is brief, for LETTERS. 45

eight months' sickness of various kinds has entered She had been for six years in'this school, taught bya our home and caused much anxiety. former pupil in the boarding-school. She was about Soon after leaving Che-nan-foo we heard of the death sixteen years old when she died, a few weeks ago, of one of our schoolboys, a promising, lovable boy of from scarlet fever. She had for some years lived a

sixteen. Died of typhus fever. He was a Christian, consistent life, doing good work in school while and so are his parents. We spent three days at his helping a widowed mother in all her household duties. home in April and found much to cheer our hearts in When she came to die she had no fear for herself as

that one family ; mother and daughter-in-law (wife of her trust was in Jesus. The burden of her prayers this boy) learning the hymns together and both was that her mother and brother might become Chris- anxious to study. When the father came and found tians. the son had been dead some hours, he was nearly We are very sure that children taught in these overcome with grief, but he said, the " Heavenly schools cannot grow up to be out-and-out heathen Father's Will, we cannot say a word." and we hope many of them will become decided In the spring we were in the country for twenty Christians. days. Dr. Coltman spent five days with us and TEMPLES ABOUT PEKING. treated over five hundred patients. Our rooms were full all day and we had fine opportunities of Miss Mary I. Lovvrie, of Peking, from among telling the people of the great Physician of souls. the hills, August 16, 1889 :

Some of the women came from a distance to the 1 wonder if you have seen pictures of the temples services. here ? Those the missionaries use have stone floors,

"I WILL HAVE TO SPIN ALL NIGHT." paper windows, and for the most part very low ceil- ings, but they are in the country among the hills and I spent most of the time in one village where we that is what we crave. The pure air and perfect have quite a center of work, several Christians and a rest are tonics to tired nerves. number of inquirers. The women made progress We are living in an old temple founded 800 years during my stay with them they gave up their time ; ago. Here lies the famous idol, the Sleeping Buddha, to study. One poor old woman said, " I will have one of the most popular images about here. There to spin all night to make up this time." is a curious custom of sending shoes and stockings I trust nothing will prevent our itinerating this au- to him as a thank-offering, so that even the wife of tumn, for that part of the work is most promising, the emperor has sent a pair. We hear the priests and if health is given me I hope to enter into it chanting every day and feel that we are in the very largely, trusting for God's blessing to accompany our midst of heathen darkness. They beat the drum, efforts. ring a bell, knock on a wooden' ball and bow their A BUNCH OF FACTS ABOUT SCHOOLS. heads to the ground in the most striking manner. My mother has taken much interest in dispensing wrote from the hills, near Pe- Mrs. Wherry medicine out here and she has had as many as king, : July 31, 1889 twenty cases in one day. We have five boys' day schools in Peking, all but THE UNKNOWN LIFE liEVOND. one under care of Mr. Lowrie, who also has charge of the Boys' Boarding School. Mrs. Whiting over- There is a very interesting woman in this neigh- sees two girls' day schools, and Miss Newton has borhood, wife of the head of the encampment of sol- charge of the Girls' Boarding School. The avei-nge diers. She can read and takes great interest in

number of pupils in them is fifteen ; the ages range everything new. She has been a frequent visitor and from eight to sixteen. A few of them are from has formed quite a friendship for us. She rather Christian families, but most 0/ them from respectable shocked me in her last call by saying after an earnest heathen families who desire their children to learn to talk, " When your soul meets mine in the other world read, but have not enough money to pay for having we won't forget each other." They have such very them taught in Chinese schools. hazy theories about the future. So many women have The pupils are required to study Christian books said, " No one has come back from the spirit world, " and are examined in them at stated times, generally how can we know surely about it ? They have a once a week. The hope is that their faith in idols tradition, which they firmly believe, that ever)' human will be shaken and the entrance of God's Word will being has three souls and after death one remains in give light and life. For this we ask the prayers of the grave, one wanders in space, and the third re- all our home friends. turns to its former home and fireside. A woman who lost her daughter, fourteen years of one INSTANCE. age, said, " Of course she will be anxious to see her We had an encouraging instance of the good work mother again and so her spirit will come back to her done in one of the girls' schools in the dying testi- old home." There was something very pathetic in mony of the oldest and most influential pupil of it. the mother's clinging to the belief. 46 LETTERS.

THE COUNTRY PEOPLE. member of the mission thought we should take our

rest first, before The people in the country are much franker and going to our new work in Kwong more approachable than in the city. We have been Sai, and of course we acquiesced and are so happy treated very kindly in this settlement. I was quite that we can scarcely wait. nervous about coming here, because I heard there Yesterday Mr. Fulton went out to his station, ten were soldiers on every side and they have not a good miles from here. Work there is very hopeful and there are several name for politeness. But whether mother's medi- new inquirers. He goes half the cines or the fact of our living in one of the Buddhist way in a boat and half in a jinrikisha. Even when in he is busy every temples protects us from rudeness, certain it is that Canton moment, for besides they have been uniformly kind. One poor woman going to Sha Ho, the station mentioned above, ever)' whose eyes have failed said to mother, " You must Sunday, he preaches daily in the chapel here. This is called street preaching. front not be too anxious about me for it will be as the The doors are thrown open and the crowd comes in from the street. God of Heaven decrees. If I get well it is His A foreign preacher attracts a much greater number will, or if my eyes do not recover still it is in His than a Chinese. hands." Her lips trembled when she said it, show-

ing what a tremendous misfortune it was to her to LAOS. become blind. UPRISING OF THE PEOPLE. I hope the needs of China will be dear to the Mrs. Collins wrote from Chieng Mai, Septem- hearts of alh The longer I live here the more sym- ber 25, i88g : pathy I feel for the utter ignorance and helplessness We were in the midst of excitement all last week. of this people. They have absolutely no future to Several thousand of the Laos * rebelled against the look forward to and little to make the present en- Siamese and Chinese on account of their taxes. We durable. heard that the tax-gatherer would take nothing but money or the person himself. They took four in Mrs. J. M. W. Farnham wrote from Shanghai, this way and refused to release them. About 5,000 October 3, 1889 : persons (reported to be joined together and Dr. Farnham's principal work is editing two maga- 30,000) took oath at the temple not to leave a Siamese or zines in Chinese and Tract Society works. We have Chinese, and only one Laos prince, alive. These also commenced three day schools in the neighborhood. are the reports. Chinamen started down the river On Sunday they all meet along with the others for by the boat-load others, as well as Siamese women a service conducted by a Chinese assistant, formerly ; and children, came to the missionaries for protection. a pupil in the boarding-school at the South Gate. took no men in. Laos people were as badly His wife, also a pupil, teaches one of the schools. We frightened as others. One day things looked serious We hope it may result in a large Church, though it and Mr. Archer (English consul) offered us ladies is yet the day of small things. It is a great joy to see protection at his all our weapons the pupils of the schools turning out well and becom- home. We had loaded, fearing a mob which might not know what ing useful. Most of them have been supported by Finally, the king having promised societies at home and many prayers have been offered they were doing. to protect a if he would come in to him, the for them and no doubt it is in answer to those man where they had buried prayers that we see such results. These two young man went and showed him dynamite and the Sadette's two gatling guns and people I know you will be interested in and I hope they calling and La- will pray earnestly for them, also for the other teach- how were men from Lakawn poon provinces to their assistance. Three days were ers, one of whom is a very nice woman from our given in which to persuade the leader to disband boarding-school in Ningpo, the other, from the and this seemed to have the desired effect. It is all American Episcopal school ; she has fifteen scholars, quiet now, except that they are hunting the leaders. mostly girls. The other schools have over twenty This spoiled the celebration of the King of Bang- pupils. A Bible woman and I go around among the kok's birthday. all accepted the Sadette's in- mothers as we have opportunity and, as a rule, we We f were treated as are kindly received, but as yet we have not seen any vitation to dinner September 21, and .as could be. decided interest in the Gospel on the part of any. nicely

One of the patients at the Lakawn Dispensary, Mrs. a. a. Fulton, who has not seen her home whose eyes are being treated, wants to learn the and native land for seven years, wrote from Ca.n'ton, Lord's Prayer, so he has a Buddhist priest come in November 4, 1889 :

once a day and read it to him ; as the priest reads it. Hurrah for America ! Look out for the steamer he prays it. " Thus are Buddha's followers pressed Rio Janeiro, which leaves Hong Kong January 9 into Christ's service," remarks a missionar)- there. and is due in San Francisco about February 2. Al- most too good to be true. * The province of Chieng Mai is tributary to Siam and the king is suzerain of the king at Bangkok, After sending my last letter we found that every t Brother of king at Bangkok. : : a

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INDIA. would come back to us any day. We had forty girls during the year and closed with twenty-three. Si.x Mrs. Calderwood wrote from Landour, Octo- went to Europe and three to the United States. ber II, 1889, some particulars of her husband's " Our Guatemala representative with the Spanish- "calm and beautiful death " and of her own illness American commissioners, Senor Cruz, is a very able since : man. It is said he has the finest private library in Only now I begin to feel myself again and I long Guatemala. He is a most devout Roman Catholic, to return to work. There are branches of it for very few men in Guatemala as much so. many hearts and hands and I shall fit in somewhere. " I wonder if Mr. Haymaker has written of our first It is 29 years since I reached Lodiana. These wedding in the chapel. One of our former pupils, years have wrought great and wonderful changes, the daughter of an American physician, was married and all for India's daughters' good. As it has been to our dentist. Dr. Chambers. M iss Stimers and I my privilege to watch it in zenanas and girls' schools are planning to close our home for two weeks and go from its very infancy, you may understand that into the country, she to Antigua and I to Quezatten- mission work in its various branches has great at- ango. I shall be the first of our circle who has ever tractions for me my bereavement will not separate ; visited that city. It is the home of President Barril- me from it. The brethren of the mission have unan- las and wife and the second city in the republic in imously agreed that I should take up work among size." them, but where is not yet decided. You may also easily understand that one who has spent 29 years IRISH PRESBYTERIAN MISSION among missionaries and cast her lot among them of IN MANCHURIA. her own free will feels more at home among them We are favored with extracts from the sprightly than with relatives in Germany, and as I entered pen of Mrs. Shaw, of this mission, who wrote Oc- mission work when only eighteen years old, if it is tober, 1889, of her journey from the coast to Mouk- I God's will may yet spend many years in India. DEN, where she had gone with her husband and little

boy to attend presbytery. It will be remembered that Mrs. Alexander writes from Allahabad, De- Manchuria is the peninsula to the northeast of Peking. cember 3, 1889 Of the accommodations on their junk, she says With increased desire zenana to among women Breakfast summoned us. Wilfie was greatly per- read, a number of new houses are being opened. turbed at our breakfasting in the bedroom. "Why The number of .zenana pupils actually reading is 86. " don't we go into the dining-room ? We were very This does not cover the many, who while they are cozy. I think there was just room to swing a cat. too old to read, or too indisposed to take the trouble The floor was first covered with bundles of millet to learn, are still eager to listen to the old, old story, stalks, then matting, and finally felt. Wadded cur- be it sung or read. tains were hung round and kept draughts out very One woman is paying three rupees a month that she effectually. We hung several pockets round and have e.xtra this I may time given her and have arrang- pinned hats and other things overhead. The three ed for her appointing by one of my Bible women to mattresses were spread on the floor at night and give the evening hours twice a week in addition to piled up at one side at daytime, with all the pillows, the five hours of teaching she in the early part of has rugs and quilts on top. The boxes served as tables, and the day. boarding-school The under Mrs. Newton's we reclined gracefully around them like ancient Greeks. superintendence is doing a good work for India in The scenery grew prettier as we got training our Native Christian girls for present and further north, though the country was always very future usefulness. Cannot you good people at 53 flat ; but there were more trees—elms and great Fifth .\venue come to our rescue in the of way banks of willows—by the river banks, beautiful in teachers —sending /jw, thoroughly good, well quali- their autumn tints. fied ladies ? . The last day of our voyage was not so peaceable, as the river was so shallow that we were GUATEMALA CITY. constantly running aground, sometimes gently—

Miss Hammond wrote November 26, 1889, of grating, grinding sound ; there we were immovable. closing school for vacation, which in accordance with Sometimes we went bump, crash against a bank, giv- the customs of the country must come off at this time ing us all a good shake, on one occasion spilling all of the year. This is the " season" in Central Amer- the pudding and •n another upsetting my traveling ica for going into the country, as midsummer is the teapot and breaking it. It took us four hours to do season with us. the last three or fpur miles and the men were more

" It seems as if we must have a boys' school here. often in the water, pushing the boat along, than out

Notwithstanding it is pretty well understood that of it. we do not take boys any more, we have had twelve or [For what Mrs. Shaw said of Moukden and the fifteen applications this year and all our old boys presbytery, look on another page.] -JHOME DEPARJMENTf-

MONTHLY MRRTrnG.— February.

Scripture Text, 2 Peter i, 2—Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus, our Lord. Scripture Reading, Psalm xcvii. General Topic. —OUR MISSIONS IN China.

Name the four Missions. Tell of Woman's Work at Ningpo. Letters

Churches and Chapels in and near Canton ; the three from Yeung Kong and Hainan. {IV. IV., March.) Schools, the the Orphan- Treaty Port for Kwong-Sai Orphanage at Canton Boarding Day Schools and ; age. A glance at the Hospital and Dispensary (Letters, May). Further about Famine Relief (Let- work. The new Station, Lien-Chow point it out ter, July). Fruits of Hospital .School at Canton, and ; on the map give a few details of the work there. Letters (August). Letter from Shanghai (.Sept.) ; ; Good tidings from Kwong-Sai. Difficulties arising from Kwong-sai (Oct.). Behind the Scenes in Chi- from the Chinese Exclusion Bill. The work at nese College Life, and letter from Peking (Nov.). Macao and on the Island of Hainan. A glance at the Literary work. Gifts of Chinese Christians. Convention of Native Evangelists (p. Statistics. 422). Letter (p. 488, The Church, May, '89). The Chinese Empress (p. 487). Letters (p. 578, The Peking Mission. Distribution of June). Lights and .Shadows of Missionary Life work among the Missionaries. Arrivals during the (July). Letters (p. 71). Sabbath in Canton Hos- Statistics. year. Account of Second Presb. Church. pital (p. 153). More about Macao (p. 181), and Letters August). Shantung Mission. Interesting testi- ( mony from converts at Chefoo. Licensure of seven Strategic Importance of Lien-Chow and graduates of Tung-chow College. Opposition from Letters (Sept.). Notes from Central China, and the higher classes at Che-nan-foo. Report from other Letters (Oct.). Progress in China (p. 418,

extended Village ; Wei-Hien ; work Mr. and Mrs. Nov.). Fears of Retaliation on the part of China (p. Laughlin in the famine district. Statistics. 482). Letter (p. 523, Dec). All in The Church. Central Mission. Steps toward unify- Summary of work of A. B. C. F. M. in Educational work. Chapels ing the Churches and in China (p. 445, Miss. Herald, Nov., '89). China, her and near Ningpo, etc., etc. Work at Shanghai, new Railway and her Great Men (Miss. Herald, Hangchow, Soochow and Nanking. Statistics. Bee, '89). Changes in China affecting its Progress (For all the above refer to Ann. Report of B. F. M. (Miss. Review, Dec, '89.) and of the various Woman's Boards.) We hope that the Missionarj' Calendar of Prayer

Blind Girls in Canton ; need of an asy- will make the names of Missionaries and their Sta- lum for them. {W . IV., Feb., '89.) Mission to the tions familiar and bring down showers of blessing in Blind in China. (Miss. Review, Feb., '89, p. 106.) answer to earnest, united and specific prayer. E. M. R. MISSIONARY TENS.

Of all the adaptations which have been ciety meeting in the lecture room of the made of the beautiful plan of " King's church and, of course, they make that Daughters" nothing better has reached us meeting lively. While they specially re- than the " Missionary Tens " of Hornells- port their own countries, their circular ex- ville, N. Y. For a whole year their plan plains that "every Ten should feel bound has been in operation, so that it is now a to promote the interest of every other Ten. matter of experience. To illustrate : Should the Persian Ten in The object of the Tens is systematic their study find something of interest to study of home and foreign mission fields the Japanese Ten, let them write a letter and systematic giving for them. Two for their next meeting to the Japanese ladies choose their foreign country and in- Ten, giving the information, with their vite eight others to join them and they de- best wishes." vote an entire year to that (»ountry with, at The following circles have been formed, the same time, some division of the home most of which correspond with two ladies, work. one abroad and one on home mission

There is elasticity in their action, but ground : The Syrian Ten, composed of generally, the Tens meet for. one hour, schoolgirls about sixteen years old. The strictly, three times a month at homes of April Ten, who have been studying the the members, and the fourth week all the cities of India all the year. They voted a appear in the Ladies' Missionary for each Tens So- tax of two cents absence. , The HELPS. 49

Persian Ten, who have read Ezra, Nehe- to ten only, but exhibit the spirit of the miah and Esther at their meetings. The closing paragraph of their circular : Mexican Ten, whose correspondents are in " The circles of Tens are not limited by Mexico City and New Mexico. The Siam- any ' us four and no more,' but may their ese Ten, the August Ten, the African and number increase until the outermost circle " Freedmen Ten, the Japanese Ten, the shall reach the ends of the earth.

Mary Niles Ten ; the latter comprising Explanation of one feature of these Tens some of the oldest members of the church will be found on another page, and no and some too infirm to attend the meet- doubt the lady sending it would willingly ings. They count 15 members, and sev- forward their circulars to any interested eral other circles do not limit themselves inquirers.

HELPS.

Ellen's window, the small gable win- in any sense that self-denying work that dow of a little cottage at the end of a long Christ calls for." village street, was her favorite resort in She dwelt upon these thoughts very " moments of leisure. I say " moments often until the day came when she was to advisedly, for her life was a busy one. call at the parsonage to return the mission- Besides the time spent in school she was ary magazine which had been the means her mother's cheerful assistant in house- of arousing these reflections. hold duties. Then her young brother Mrs. Bliss welcomed Ellen warmly and Jack counted upon her help in all trouble- seated her near herself in the cozy corner some lessons, so there was no time for of the porch. idle reveries in that little home. But work- "Mrs. Bliss," said Ellen, "your book ing and thinking could be combined with has opened my eyes to a duty which I can- an occasional peep out of this window at not perform. I am thankful to hear of the broad view over fields to the distant some women who are obeying Christ's hills, behind which the sun set : and I command to carry the Gospel to every think both went on the better for this re- creature. But it grieves me to realize that minder of a world wider than the cottage this is out of my power. I have not tal- or the schoolroom. ents nor money to devote to this. I have This was especially the case after Ellen thought it all over and there is no way in had borne public witness to her faith in which I can obey the last words of my the Saviour. "Thy kingdom come " then Saviour." rose oftener to her lips as she thought of " Do you think, Ellen, that our Lord the distant countries over which the sun, would impose upon you the burden of a " going down from her view, was rising to command that you could not fulfill ? set in motion the activities of another " But how is it, then, that I feel those day. words are His message to me ? I never One evening she closed the pamphlet could be a missionary, for, leaving out of she had been reading, and unconsciously the question the impossibility of leaving asked aloud the questions that had been my dear, suffering mother, I have a hesi- burning within her. tating tongue that bars me from free " How shall the kingdom come ? What speech even with familiar friends. You is my share in its coming ? Why should I are very patient, dear Mrs. Bliss, and I feel this strong desire to advance Christ's can talk with somewhat more ease to you. cause when my mouth is stopped and my But I could never teach. Indeed, the hands are tied ? I cannot join these noble door is shut before my face, just when I women that I have been reading of in most desire to enter in." " India, China, Africa ! It would be glori- My child, God never shuts out any ous to devote one's life to fulfilling Christ's earnest worker. He may so order it that last command. Why cannot I ? Why must the work is not what the worker desires or I stay in this little village where there are feels fitted for, but be assured, some work none ignorant of the word of life ? Why is waiting for every child of God. Have must my time be spent in humdrum cook- you looked in your Bible for instruction?" ing, sweeping, sewing ? It is true that I " It seems that I have only found in my cannot leave mother to struggle with ill Bible what I cannot do." health and poverty. Dear mother ! stay- Mrs. Bliss's Bible was never out of reach ing with you I love so tenderly cannot be of her hand, and she took it up now, as ' "

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Ellen felt, with a loving reverence in her some task that she understands far better touch. Familiar as the book was to her, than I. She accepts my willingness and the thought always associated with it was, overlooks my lack of skill. Do you think ' My Father's message." it is presumptuous to say that the Lord " Ellen, I turn to the twelfth chapter of would be like my mother in judging my First Corinthians. That treats of work, work ? " and says there are diversities of working. No, not presumptuous ! How often He It is clearly stated that the varieties of has compared His love to that of parents work are owing to the differences in the in order that through our earthly relation- gifts that are bestowed by the Spirit on the ships we should understand the spiritual workers. And, just by the way, let me union that He has designed. I think from call your attention to the fact that when this day you will have new views of your one complains that he has not certain connection with the onward movement of talents he is judging the Holy Spirit who His kingdom upon earth. You will real- ' divides to every one severally even as He ize hereafter your dependence upon the will.'" Holy Spirit for gifts that will enable you " That reproof comes home to me, Mrs. to help His cause. You will no longer sigh Bliss," said Ellen. for great openings to do marked good, but " Well, the work of the Spirit is to re- will watch for every opportunity to help. prove, we know. But as to His gifts You will not confine your helpfulness to

the twenty-ninth verse says, ' Are all apos- the mother who so lovingly accepts it, but ? tles ? are all prophets ? are all teachers you will carry it to those who may neither and so on, reminding us of the lines of recognize it nor give a grateful look in re- Christian work, which do not conflict, but turn. And, what is more, though I seem to have each their aim and object. Now, if speak of helps as if they were trifling serv- you and I have not gifts that enable us to ices, remember that our measure is not follow any of these lines we may be sure God's measure. The order of 'helps' is that other directions lie open to us. In- named among the classes of great and use- deed, in the enumeration of workers in the ful workers. Now, Ellen, I have preached " Church which we find in the twenty-eighth you quite a sermon ! verse there is a modest department, as we " Dear Mrs. Bliss, I came here feeling

might call it, in which all of us could be like the men in the parable who were engaged." standing idle in the market place. But "You must mean helps, Mrs. Bliss," now I am assured that I am in the vine- " Ellen quickly interrupted. . How de- yard. I am thankful for this little word lightful to find such a plain, homely phrase ' help.' It has opened to me a prospect of among the grand names of apostles, proph- real service."

ets, miracles and governments ! That Ellen quietly took leave of Mrs. Bliss, whole chapter always seemed so far above and, in the absorption of a new thought, the attainment of ordinary Christians that walked home with looks bent toward her I never dreamed of looking there for any path. Not until she reached her room and gift for me." window did she lift her eyes to the setting "How wonderful is the condescension sun and from her lips came the words, " I of the Master, who accepts the service of will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from " his weakest servant and calls it a help ! whence cometh my help. My help cometh said the Christian of longest experience. from the Lord which made heaven and " Dear Mrs. Bliss, I often feel a thrill of earth." happiness when I help my mother with Philadelphia.

BOOK NOTICE. PRAISE MEETINGS.

The Indian Female Evangelist, i88q. 2 Adelphi Some reports of these meetings came in Terrace, London. Cloth, half a crown. too late for our January magazine. The The Honorable Secretary of the I. F. N. S. has Third Church, Rochester, N. Y., had a kindly sent us the bound volume of the Evangelist, one of the most vigorous magazines which comes to "delightful meeting attended by Bands of us from the Womm's Societies across the water. It boys and girls, and Young Ladies' Society, is a quarterly, confined to the subject of India. A besides our own W. M. S." marked impro%eme:it this year over previous volumes At Newton, Iowa, the societies of the is the addition of a few good illustrations. The different only things which we could suggest to improve the churches united in a praise meet- present tasteful volume are a title page and index. ing which had been preceded by two CORRESPONDENCE OF MISSIONARY TENS.—SUGGESTIONS. 51 prayer-meetings. " Although it was a cold a woman's meeting at which thirty-one stormy night, we had a full house and, I were present, thirteen of them for the first trust, a profitable meeting." The en-Cel- time. The collection of $34.66 has since opes for free-will offerings received a gen- been swelled to over $40.00, which is erous response. equally divided between Home and For- At Kearney, Nebraska, they held simply eign Missions. THE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE FEATURE OF OUR MISSIONARY TENS.

Our Ladies' Missionary Society is di- her school in Tripoli. And why shouldn't vided into circles of Tens. Each Ten girls at school in beautiful America be chooses a country for study for a year, also interested in girls at school in the beauti- makes choice of some lady missionary in ful land of Syria ? that country as foreign correspondent, and The ladies who chose Siam took up the writes a letter telling her that she is their study of the country with a feeling some chosen, and how, and why. way that it was a part of God's earth that Our Persian Ten have chosen Miss hung over somewhere, they didn't know Annie Montgomery. At the October meet- where. After six months' study they lost " ing "The Bride's Outfit was read, fol- that feeling entirely, recognizing it as a lowed by a letter, which was kindly loaned part of the known world. Doubtless a to us, from Miss Montgomery to Mrs. Her- real letter from Miss Cort in reply to one rick Johnson, telling her what good the from the Siamese Ten helped to dispel the poem had done for her in suggesting how mists that hung over the land. to teach the lesson of giving to the women We neither ask nor expect, beyond a around her and how they did give their brief recognition if our letters are accept- ornaments. able, that these dear missionary teachers The African Ten have chosen Miss spend their precious leisure, if they ever Nassau and read with delight whatever she have any, in answering letters. We write writes about her printing press, her boat, to give them pleasure, hoping the hand- her excursions, and herself. This choice shake across the seas may be so hearty and of one gives an additional interest to the loving that they can feel the heart-beat in letters and reports past, present and to the hand. It is written of Our Blessed come, in our missionary magazines. The Lord, that, " being wearied with his jour- choices of life make life's differences. ney," he "sat thus on the well." They These things have been in the books for a that follow in his footsteps, both abroad long time, but the names of these workers and at home, are sometimes weary. We seem to us now to stand out, printed in hope our letters may be a soft padding in small capitals. some weary hour. We have not taken up Dr. Mary West Niles, of Canton, China, letter-writing from an awful sense of duty, is the beloved of all the Tens. She went but just out of love, and we send in our from our church and is the daughter of letters a bit of blue ribbon, a leaf, or a Dr. W. A. Niles, our pastor for many poem that has pleased us, or a bit of a new blessed years. Her life is too busy, like gown—that very old-fashioned way of the others, with profitable occupation to showing womanly affection—anything that spend much time in " talkee, talkee " just gives a sense of homeness to our writing. for " talkee " sake. We are all glad when Letters are little things, but they are pleas- we hear from her. ant little things. Our Girls, a Ten of the Ladies' Society, Mrs. R. M. Tuttle. are interested in Miss Carrie Holmes and Box 214, HORNELLSVILLE, N. Y. SUGGESTION CORNER.

" Missionaries ! What are missionaries ? viz., the occasion for this remarkable state- I have heard of dwarfs, but I never heard ment. of missionaries." A gentle lady was buying dolls to send These were the ingenuous words of a to the zenanas of India and while waiting bright-faced shopgirl on Broadway, a few for her package occupied the girl behind days ago. The reader may find several the counter with her object. How many suggestions in them ; we point out one. of us who talk missions enthusiastically "

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among our interested friends, drop our gave a beautiful recitation, taken, in part, seed-thoughts by such a wayside ? from the programme in the December number of C. IV. C, and the jugs put $8.00

From Montclair, N. J., comes the pleas- into the treasury, which, by vote of the so- " ant message ; We are so thankful that ciety, is sent for Miss Cort's work in Siam. we have been able to increase our number of subscribers nearly one-half, the result of Societies wishing to get costumes for the blue page in October number." an entertainment may like to know that there are such to be loaned from (address) A MISSIONARY mother on the field ex- The Costume Bureau, Napierville, 111. presses herself upon the detention of a young couple who wished to go as mis- " sionaries to India : I am surprised that From Vineland, N. J., comes mention of the trouble is with the young lady's mother, a Missionary Tea to which each brought for I should be so happy to see all my dear her supper and a friend or two. There children missionaries." was a bright and varied missionary pro- gramme, a seasoning of sociability, and a

A Home Mission teacher at Nephi, Utah, collection of $1 2. Our correspondent says : writes that an auxiliary was formed there " We are as a society few and feeble and six months ago, composed of young girls only three years old. Is there a possible from the day and Sunday schools. They hint in this attempt of ours for some other ? had a jug opening December 7, when they feeble society

Women's Board of For. Miss, of the Presbyterian Church.

No. 53 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

President, Mrs. Henry N. Beers. Address all letters to 53 Fifth Avenue, N.Y. City. The regular prayer-meeting is held the first Wednesday of every month at 10.30 A. M., lasting The Annual Meeting of the Women's Board one hour. Visitors cordially welcomed. of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church Each other Wednesday there is a half-hour meet- in First Presbjterian ing for prayer and the reading of missionary letters, will be held the Church, commencing at the same hour. Elmira, N. Y., on Wednesday and Thursday. For special department of each Secretary see April 9 and 10. Full particulars will be given third page of cover. in the next number of this magazine.

Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church. 1334 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

President, Mrs. Wm. E. Schenck. Covenant (Rev. Dr. Hamlin, Pastor), on Wednes- Correspondence with Missionaries, Mrs. C. N. day, April 30, and Thursday, May i. Thorpe, Mrs. C. E. Morris, Miss L. Flanigen. Miss Lane has safely reached her destina- Concerning Special Objects, Miss M. D. Purves ; tion, Nanking, not stopping by the way to with Presbyterial Societies, Mrs. D. R. Posey ; attend the Annual Meeting, but hastening on to with Auxiliary Societies, Miss L. W. Jordan ; with Young Peoples' and Children's Bands, Miss F. U. join Mrs. Leaman and to begin work. for Nelson ; copied letters. Miss A. Bodine. Mrs. Geo. H. Ferris, of Panhala, India, is Candidates will address Mrs. S. C. Perkins. in this country for rest, but is willing to address Treasurer, Mrs. Julia M. Fishburn. societies in the vicinity of her home, No. 3 Court Send all letters to Chestnut Street, Phila. 1334 Street, Auburn, N. Y. Directors' Meeting first Tuesday of the month, and prayer-meeting third Tuesday, at 12 m., in the A NEW Scripture Reading, arranged for the Assembly Room. Visitors welcome. use of leaders of Auxiliar)' and Presbyterial meetings, with proof texts to be given by one and audience, The Treasurer's books close April 20. Not another in the has been prepared by Ledyard, too soon to emphasize this fact to all business- Mrs. E. D. of Steubenville, and pub- like sub-treasurers and delinquent subscribing lished by this Society. It is so exactly adapted members. to its purpose and so interesting that it is sure to be popular. It is just in time, too, for the Presbyterial, Auxiliary and Band blanks spring meetings. Price, 2 cents. will be sent to Presbyterial secretaries this In sending orders for collection envelopes and month. Return them to headquarters promptly mite boxes do not overlook the little pink churches upon the date mentioned. which are the latest form of mite box and are

The Annual Assembly will be held this much liked. Price, 5 cents, or 50 cents per year in Washington, D. C, in the Church of the dozen. ;

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As we close this page preparations for the busy traffic where Christian women may meet Week of Prayer in the dear old Assembly Room their Lord and proclaim His love. are being completed. Subjects for prayer multi- Another encouraging sign is the unwonted letters ply as the years roll on, and containing life and spirit reported in some of our Presby- special pleas are sent from nearly every mission terial Societies. Lehigh is aglow with mission- station, making us to realize more perfectly the ary fervor. The district conference meetings nearness and kinship of each. This year for the are great gatherings to which people flock from first time we are asked to join the World's Com- neighboring towns. At Stroudsburg " two young mittee of Christian Women in a special season men walked five miles in such mud " to attend, of prayer, on Friday, January lo. which we and we are told that one seldom hears more gladly do, bidding our sisters of other denomi- earnest, spiritual prayers nor more inspiring nations to the feast. This same committee has singing than were heard at that meeting. adopted our Sabbath hour of prayer, from " five to six," and we may feel that the whole world New Bands. is now on the same day of the week compassed by the prayers of believing women for the bless- Penna., Berwyn, Mustard Seeds. " " Willing Workers. ing of God on every effort to bring that world Pittsburgh, 6th Ch., J. F. Patterson. to Him. One of our special causes for thanks- " Poke Run, Young Ladies'. " Scranton, Washburn Street Ch., Boys'. the past has been the steady giving during year " Stroudsburg, Lambs of the Fold. increase in attendance at the regular " third Tues- " " Ministering Children. " " day " noon prayer-meeting a time of unfailing Young Peoples' Foreign Miss. Guild. — " Union City, King's Servants. blessing, a place within the sound of the world's " " " Truthful Workers.

Woman's Presbyterian Board of Missions of the Northwest. Room 48, McCormick Block, S. E. Corner Randolph and Dearborn Streets, Chicago, III'. President, Mrs. Benj. Douglass. Mrs. Oliver, President of the South Dakota Correspondence with Missionaries in India and Synodical Society, interested us all in a report of among the North American Indians, Miss Mattie their meeting at Sisseton Agency, where most

P. Halsey Japan, Mrs. L. V. Angle ; S. America, ; of the delegates were Christian Indians. As she

Africa, Syria and Korea, Miss H. Giles ; Per- Anne so vividly described their appearance and man- sia, Miss Sophea Rhea Mexico, Siam and Laos, ; ner we could almost see them before us. These Mrs.W. G. Craig; China, Mrs. L. K. Stevens. women took part in both address and prayer. Correspondence with Auxiliaries and concerning Mrs. Oliver also attended some of the meet- Organization, Mrs. Geo. H. Laflin, Mrs. N. D. ings of Concerning Special Objects, Mrs. N. W. Synod. The sermon was preached by Pratt ; a full-blooded Indian in his native language Campbell ; With Young Peoples' Societies, Mrs. Forsyth Concerning Candidates, Mrs. the elements at the Lord's Supper were distrib- Henry H. ; H. T. Helm Concerning Visitors for Societies, uted by the Indians, and she said although she ; Mrs. Geo. Bancroft. could not understand the language she had Treasurer, Mrs. C. B. Farwell. never attended a service at which there was Meetings every Friday at 10 A. M. Visitors wel- more solemnity nor where she could more come. heartily join with the people.

We have observed with pleasure that a num- October i8, a little daughter was wel- ber of Christian Endeavor Societies in the North- comed in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Laughlin west have come to the front with contributions (Jennie Anderson), at Wei Hein, China. A to Foreign Missions, by assuming the support of source of joy and comfort, so contrary to that scholarships. What more laudable work can in the native homes when a daughter comes, our young friends undertake than that of edu- this will be an object lesson to those people cating native boys and girls who will soon be- which they cannot forget. come teachers or establish Christian homes ? B^;fore this magazine reaches its readers we We shall hail the day when every one of these shall have welcomed home for a rest Rev. and Societies is furnishing the means for obtaining Mrs. A. A. Fulton (Florence Wishard), with knowledge to one or more young men or women their three children. in China, Korea, Siam, and all of the countries Rev. Mr. Leipu and wife, of the Indian we call foreign and heathen. Territory, were with us one Friday and told us Our Friday meetings continue to be a meet- of their work among the Cherokees. ing place for our friends from all over the coun- Mrs. W. E. Knox has been visiting among try. Many make it a point, if expecting to pass the Societies in Southern Illinois and, from the through the city, to get here for ten o'clock if reports, we are sure of increased activity and in- possible. Among these the past month was terest. Mrs. Irwin, President of the Board of the South- west, who, however, did not make herself known, The President of Alton Presbyterial Society, so that we could look into her face and hear her Mrs. C. H. Taylor, of Alton, was called Home voice. very suddenly about Thanksgiving time. She From Cleveland and Chillicothe, Ohio, we had had most efficiently planned Mrs. Knox's tour greetings from members of these respective so- through her Presbytery, and wrote us of her cieties. hope for a blessing from the visits, but within a 54 COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE BOARDS. week she left all at the Father's call. Others New Auxiliaries. will, we hope, follow up her good works. We Bloomington Presbytery, Rahkin. Des Moines Presbytery, Des Moines of Mrs. Central Ch., Society of are also hearing of growth as the result Charity Tens. Knox's visits in Wisconsin during October. Des Moines Presbytery, Indianola, Pansy Bd., reorganized. Utah Presbytery, Societies are sending for mite boxes and leaflets Salt Lake City, 2d Ch. yince-ytnes Presbytery, Oakland City, Busy Bees. to distribute with them. Kalamazoo Presbytery, Niles, Pearl Seekers.

Woman's Presbyterian For. Miss. Society of Northern N. Y. 10 Washington Place, Troy, N. Y. " President, Mrs. H. B. Nason. may thus prepare for a feast of " Thanksgiving Correspondence with Missionaries in Persia, in April. Syria, India, Japan and Africa, Miss Eleanor Me- We have had the pleasure of receiving a letter NEELY, 30 Elk Street, Albany. from our newly-adopted missionary, Mrs. Velte, Correspondence with Missionaries in China, of Lahore, India. As all our Societies and Bands Guatemala, Siam and Idaho, Miss Angie C. Wing, will be glad to be introduced to Mrs. Velte, Glens Fails, N. Y. we Correspondence with Societies and Bands in Al- make the following extracts : " bany and Columbia Presbyteries, Mrs. F. C. Curtis, I was very glad to hear from a sister in dis- 136 Hudson Avenue, Albany. tant America, a land with which as yet I am Correspondence with Societies and Bands in Troy wholly unacquainted. and Champlain Presbyteries, Miss M. C. Eddy, " We were married in Dharmsala, from the Glenwood, Troy, N. Y. house of our beloved friend, Dr. Newton, of La- Special Object Secretary, Mrs. John H. Dennis, hore, on October 2, and returned to our work W.-iterford, N. Y. here on the 1 5th. Before I was married I was a Missionary of the Indian Female Normal Only two months remain before the books of School and Instruction Society, and was engaged our Treasurer will be closed for the year, con- in work in the Native Christian Girls' School in sequently every Society and Band should feel Lahore. I worked there for nearly two years. a personal responsibility in seeing that before The work was at times very trying both to April I, their pledges are redeemed. While the strength and temper, specially to one who had Treasurer reports that the receipts so far are come straight from home. I have experienced slightly in advance of those received up to De- ' that promise Lo, I am with you always ' more cember of last year yet there remains much to be than ever since I came to India two years ago, done if we are to do our part in making good at the age of twenty-three. My husband's work the million asked for by the Board of Foreign is in the College for Christian and heathen stu- Missions for this year and redeeming our defi- dents, and what an important branch of mission- ciency of lasPyear. It will be remembered that ary labor this embraces. the keynote of our Annual Meeting in Albany " " I thank you sincerely, too, for wishing to was, Advance all along the line." Now it re- adopt me as 'your missionary,' and have equal mains for us to show by our Treasurer's report pleasure in becoming 'yours.' Pray for me and at the April meeting in Troy whether this was I will pray for you, that where God has placed mere sentiment born of the enthusiasm of the us there we may serve Him truly, "faithfully, hour, or whether we were really in earnest in earnestly. The time is short ; oh ! how in India our resolve that this year our Society and our we realize that." Band should be more zealous than ever before in working for the coming of the Master's King- Next month the notices for the Annual Meet- dom. Let us therefore in the short time re- ing will be given. We bespeak for them a care- maining bring our " willing offerings," that we ful reading.

Woman's Presbyterian Board of Missions of the Southwest.

No. 1 107 Olive Street, St. Louis, Missouri.

President, Mrs. Kate M. Irwin, St. Charles, Mo. Missionary literature can be obtained at the " Home Corresponding Secretary : Miss Agnes H. Rooms," between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Fenby, 31 16 Lucas Avenue, for auxiliary and mis- Mail orders should be addressed to " Woman's cellaneous correspondence. Presbyterian Board of Missions of the Southwest, Foreign Corresponding Secretary, Miss Blanche 1 107 Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo." Burnett, 3937 Bell Avenue. The annual meeting of the Board will be held Special Object Secretary, Mrs. J. A. Allen, 1107 Olive Street. in Topeka, Kansas, March 25 and 26. The ladies of Topeka are making ample prep- Treasurer, Mrs. J. M. Miller, 1760 Missouri Avenue. arations and there is every reason to believe Meetings of the Board are held at the Presby- there will be a large and enthusiastic meeting. terian Rooms, 1107 Olive Street, second floor, St. It is to be hoped there will be delegates from Louis, on the first and third Tuesdays of each every State and Presbytery^ if not from every month, at 2 P. M. All interested in missions are local society within our bounds. These meet- invited to be present. ings fall like a benediction upon the whole work ;

TREASURERS' REPORTS. 55 of the year, and prayerful, earnest workers to lack them ? " What so fitting as that our offer- feel the whole inspiration must be there. ings should be expended for those who know not that there is a Father to be thankful to, a Mrs. S. W. Barber, Home Corresponding Son to be thankful for, a Holy Spirit to comfort, Secretary, has resigned her position on account " guide and lead them ? of ill health. The Board will feel her loss deeply. lady. Miss will, Miss Jenny McGintie has been appointed to fill Another young Reems, un- her place. der the care of the Board, enter the Nurses' Training School preparatory to a medical course It may be that some few do not know that and will eventually go to the foreign field. the Missionary Calendar of Prayer can be ob- Still we have not raised all the fund for our tained of this Board. Every Auxiliary Society medical scholarship. We lack two or three should have a Calendar. Price, 40 cents. Ad- hundred dollars. Shall we gather at our annual dress, 1 107 Olive Street, St. Louis. meeting with this pledge unredeemed .'' A little This is the month for the Praise Meetings. more from each one would easily raise the Dear Auxiliaries—dear leaders, make them all amount. you would wish to have them, you will be doubly blest as you prepare for the meetings. New Societies. On our knees with the searching Word open Kansas, Phillipsburgh, W. M. S. " Topeka, Westminster Ch., W. M. S. before us let us plan faithfully for these meetings. Osborne, W. M. S. And the thank-offerings ! Think you we shall " WaKeeny, Band.

Receipts of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church, from December i, 1889. [PRESBVTERIES IN SMALL CAPITALS.]

Athens.—Athens, Penny a Week Bd., 15; Gallipolis, 25, Pittsburg and Alleg. Com.—Allegheny, ist, 168.87 ; Al- Willing Workers, 10, 50.00 legheny, McClure Ave., 49.07; Alleg. North, 95; Alleg., — Baltimore, Aisquith St., ist Providence, S. S. Bds., Alleg., School St., Baltimore. 25.50; Ch., 25, 45-39 ; 7, Bd., Bellevue, Girls' Aux., 35 ; 2d Ch., Willing Hearts, 29, Earnest Work- 30; 25; Bethel, S.S., 46.30; Cannonsburg, 1st, Bethel, Bristor, L. Soc, 8 Cannonsburg, Central, Chartiers, ers, 8 ; 58 ; Baltimore, Mrs. J. B. Moore 30, Y. ; 20 ; 44

Williamsport, Miss N. Findley, Emsworth, ; Evans City, 12 Freedom, 433 ; J. 10, 598.50 37.50 ; 3 ; Glenshaw, Blairsville, Derry, Bessie Mil- 12, Hannah Shaw Bd., Hazlewood, Blairsville.— 18.84; 38.20, 3.75 ; 25 ; Hebron, 6.50 liken Bd., ; Fairfield Hoboken, Latrobe Bd., per Nassau 5.52 (Union) Gleaners, 27 ; Greensburg, 6; Female Col., 30;

100; Murrysviile, Boys and Girls' Bd., 16.50; New Alexan- Leetsdale, 39-50; McDonald, 33.52 ; Monongahela City, 50; dria, 13 ; Poke Run, 6.50, 225.56 Pittsburg, 4th, 27.85, S. S., 20.38; 6th Ch., 38.65 ; Bellefield, Cleveland.—Cleveland, 2d, 160.00 30; East Liberty, 152.50, Y. L. B., 15-30; 43d St., 29; Law-

Kingston. Bethel, 10 Chattanooga, Y. B., renceville, ; Park Ave., 10.30, Gleaners, Raccoon, — ; 52, L. 30, 35 7 ; 37 ; Grandview, 6 Huntsville, 108.00 Rochester, Sewickley,' Springdale, Wilkinsburg, Children's Bd., 5 ; ; 5, 10; 33 ; 5 ;

KiTTANNiNG.—Apollo, 63.83, Hopeful Bd., 7.29, Faithful 23, Earnest Workers, 27, Moore Bd., 75 ; Cash, 3.05, Workers, 3.88; Elderton, 9.75; Freeport, 50; Gilgal, 7; 1,431.41

Indiana, 100; Kittanning, 1st, 200; Marion, 17. 11 ; IVIechan- Portsmouth. — Ironton, 20; Portsmouth, ist, 17.75, ». L.

11 ; B., Ripley, icsburg, 13 ; Mt. Pleasant. ; Saltsburg, 30 Slate Lick, 17 ; 25, Little Bankers, 5 ; 6.12, 73-87

Tunnelton, 8.14 ; West Glade Run, 25 ; West Lebanon, 7.65, Shenango.—Clarksville, 20; Leesburg,. 19, Y. L. C, 15;

Mt. Pleasant, Neshannock, 28.31 ; Brighton, ; New 66 570-65 30 ;

Lehigh. AUentown, Audenreid, Bethlehem, A. New Castle, ist Credo, Workers, ; Rich Hill, Y. P. — 23, 5.33 ; 30 17, C, D. Moore Bd., 10, Musgrave Bd., 15; Catasauqua, Bridge 40; Westfield, 10.90; West Middlesex, 23.13, 299.34 St. Bd., 17.20; Easton, ist, 35; Easton, Brainerd, 26.85; Syracuse. — Park Ch., 150.00 EastOB, Mansfield. His Sake Bd., 2d, 40.64 ; East Stroudsburg, 7 ; Hazleton, 46.92, Wellsboro'-— For 3.00 Wild Daisy Bd., 5, S.S.,50; Hokendauqua, 8.50; Mauch Miscellaneous. — Cumberland, Md., Mrs. A. F. Raffens- perger, P. Chunk, 20; Port Carbon, 10 ; Pottsvitle, 2d, 19.10; Reading, 5 ; Downingtown. Pa., Mrs. A. Tutton, 25 1st, 30.15; South Easton, 2.50; S mmit Hill, 15, Rev. J. Freehold, N. J., Gwenllian, Andrew and George Hepburn i White Bd., 10, Y. P. B.,2.50, 399.69 and Elizabeth Green, ; Livingston Manor, N.Y., Wilfre ofl., I 140'; Phila., Monmouth.—Beverly, Lilies of the Field, Christmas Fry, ; Manchester, Vt., Mrs- A. C- Reed, " 33.00 Mrs. George Peirce, 2 ; E. M. S., 2 ; Christmas," 5 ; Sum- Morris and Orange.—Orange, 1st, 125.00 mit, N. J., Harry Saigeant, 25 cts., Mrs. C. H. Grant, 10; Northumberland. Shore, Wooster, O.. a friend, Interest on — Bloomsburg, 102.55 ; Jersey 20; investments, 254,18; 40; Milton, Y. L. B., 10; New Berlin, 5; Warrior Run and Interest on deposits, 126,12, 591-55 ist, Watsontown, 33 ; Williamsport, (158.65 ; Williamsport, 2d, for 18 Th. Off., 75 ; Williamsport, 3d, 32.34, 45'-54 Total December, $5,726.76 Philadelphia. Atonement, Little Helpers, ist Ch., — 5; Total since May i, 1889 $32,931.40

Y. P. Ass'n, 7 ; Southwestern, I. P. McCurdy Bd., 19 ; West Spruce St., 410.65 379.65, Mrs. Juli.\ M. Fishuur.n, Treas.^ Philadelphia Central.—Northminster, Armor [Bearers, 40.00 Jan. 1, 1890. 1334 Chestnut St., Philadelphia

Receipts of the Woman's Presbyterian Board of Missions of the Northwest, to Dec. 20, 1889.

Girls' Alton. — Carlinville, 10; Jerseyville, 20.60; Bethel Ch., Riverside, Guild, 11.25 ; South Chicago, Coral Work-

ers, 15 ; South Evanston, 12.50 ; Sparta, 21.25 ; Virden, 10 (less Presb. ex. 2.20), 72.15 15, '•373-79 Crawfordsville.— Attica, Bethany Ch., Craw- Bellefontaine. —Kenton, 2.89, Happy Helpers, 5 ; Upper 15; 45; fordsville. Centre Ch,, S, S,, Delphi, Eliza- Sandusky, 16.54 ; Urbana, 60 ; West Liberty, 10, 94-43 34,50, 30 ; 53,96 ; Bloomington. — Champaign, 64.80,; Clinton, 25; Cooks- ville, 4; Hopewell Ch,, 9,31; Lafayette, 1st, 30; Ladoga, ville, 10 8 Philo, Lexington. South, Rockcreek, 10 Tliorntown, 9-33 ; Gilman, ; Lexington, 5.35 ; Normal, ; 2,30 ; 3 ; ;

206,01 ; Toronto Ch,, 269,02* 30 ; Pontiac. 30 ; Tolono, 16.53 ^ Towanda, 7, 21.95 10, C.-\iKO. Detroit, Arbor, Detroit, Ch, —Anna, 10-50; Bridgeport, 5; Cairo, 11.50; Car- —Ann 33 ; Calvary Foreign bondale, Information Guild, ist, Church of the Covenant, 25 ; Cobden, 5 ; Grand Tower, 5.45 ; Tamaroa, 5, 58,82 ; 75 ; Milford, Rose Leaves, 10, 77-45 Hastings, M. S., 5 ; Westminster Ch., 60 ; Y. L. S.,

Cedar Rapids.—Anamosa, 5.30 ; Cedar Rapids, ist, 150; 32, 263.82 Marion, 15, S. S., 1.60; Linn Grove, Aurora Borealis Bd., DuLUTH.—West Duluth, 5,95 10; Scotch Grove, 5, S. S., 3; Vinton, 10, 199.90 Fargo,—Tower City, 5,00

Chippewa.— 5.00 Fort Dodge,—Cherokee, Jefferson, ; Sioux City, West Superior, Mrs, W. F. Harper, 12.50 ; 5 Chicago-— Mose- 1st, Vail, Chicago, ist, 292 ; 2d, 201,25, S-' 4' ^ 5 ; 5, Busy Bees, 5, 32.5° ley Chapel S. S,, 3d, 160,98, L, S,, 4th, 221,80, Y. Fort Wayne Elkhart, S. S., ; Ft. Wayne, ist, 17.40 ; 30; Y, 5 ; — 30

L. S., ; Christ Chapel S. S., 5th, 6th, Y, L. S,, 2d, 16 ; Goshen. •'7-56 96 25,03 ; 13 ; 54,16, M, S. S., 100; 8th, 21.60; Church of the Covenant, 15,89; Freeport. —Argyle, Willow Creek Ch., 100; Belvidere, Off., 18 Jefferson Park Church, 15 ; Lake Fo-^est, 35, Steady Streams, 1.35, Pr. ; Harvard, 4.33, Bd., 3.67; Oregon, 14; ist, 21.81, from mite boxes, 15.95 ; Oak Park, Seed Sowers, 4.23 ; Rockford, 50 ; Winnebago, 25, 216.35 ;

56 TREASURERS' REPORTS.

Grand Rapids.— Grand Rapids, Westminster Ch., 20; Band, 5.82 ; Rock Island, Broadway Ch. S. S., 13.67 ; Ster- 'St, 10, Girls' Band, 8.33; Ionia, 4.25, 42-58 ling, ist Rock River Vol. Boys' Bd., 17.20; Viola, 4, Bd., Hastings.— Bloomington, M. J. H. Society, 10, Hold- 1. 10; Presbyterial Off., 8.26, 111. 4C redge, 3.35, 13.35 Saginaw.—Bay City, 11.70, Mrs. J. W. Bradley's S. S.

Iowa. Burlington, ; Mt. Pleasant, : Mediapolis, CI., Marlette, Morrice, St. — 13.65 25 14 ; 4 ; 8 ; Louis, 10, 47 70 Y. L. Reading Club, 4 ; Middletown, 11, S. S. B., 2.90, 56.55 St. Paul.— Minneapolis, Westminster Ch., Daughters of

Kearney.— Kearney, Pr. Off., 21.26; Minden, 25, St. the King, 12.50, Boys' Brigade, 25 ; East Minneapolis, 12; Wing, Edwards, 2.50, 48.76 Red 18.50 ; St. Paul, Central Ch., Little Flock, 6.55 ; 1st, Lansing. —Albion, 15; Jackson, 6.20; Lansing, 30.14; Dayton Ave. Ch., 58 ; House of Hope Ch., 165, Boys' Band, North Lansing, 10, _ 61.34 5.55, Y. L. S., 60; Goodrich Ave., Boys' Band, 15, 378.10

Lj^.MA. —Lima, 25,|King's.Daughters, 12.46; Macomb, Mrs. Schuyler.— Carthage, 5 : Hersman, 17.18; Mt. Sterling.

L. Dilworth, S. S., Cheerful Givers, ; 9, 29, 75-4.6 25 Prairie City, 13.20 ; Quincy, 38.50, Jan

Maumee. Bowling Gree , Willing Workers, 9.85 ; Defi- ; Richmond, Rushville, — 7 77.81 ; 25.80, 201.06 Hicksville, 6.61, Bd., 2 Kunkle, go. ance, Y. P. S. C. E., 14.77 ; ; Winnebago. —Neenah, Coral Workers, 29.32, 119 32 8.50; Perrysburg, ist.. Gleaners' Bd., 12.89; Toledo, ist, Miscellaneous. —Denison, Tex., Mrs. John Cameron, to ;

24.24 ; Westminster Ch., 8.20, Y. L. S., 14 ; West Unity, 20 La Grange, Tex., A friend, 10 ; Pine Bluff, Ark., Miss Caro L. 162.20 West Bethesda Ch., 31.52 ; Maumee, Y. S., 9.62, Owens, 10; Fonda, la., Mrs. R. E. Flickinger, 10, 40 00 Mil- Milwaukee.—Cambridge, 10, S. S. 2 ; Juneau, 14; waukee, Calvary Ch.,55; Immanuel Ch., 37.50; Ottawa, Total for month. $4,808.44 Previously acknowledged. 21,086.97 1.88 ; Stone Bank, 11 ; Waukesha, 6.25, 137-63 Omaha.— Blair, Pr. Off., Fremont, Reapers, 12.50, 5; Total from April 17.50 20, $25,895.41 Red River. Crookston, Fergus Falls, 51-52 Mrs. C. B. Farwell, Treas., — 7 ; 44^2, 10 Rock River.—Hamlet, 5 ; Edgington, 25 ; Geneseo, ; Room 48, McCormick Block. Morrison, 2.25; Newton Ch., 9.1S, Earnest Workers, 10, Chicago, Dec. 20, i88g.

Receipts of the Women's Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church for December, 1889. 8 BiNGHAMTON.—Cortland, 20 ; Coventry, 18 ; Marathon, ; 291.85, King's Daughters, 8; a friend, 200, 1,607.40 21.06 109.06 Ni.'vgara. Masonville, 7 ; Waverly, ; Windsor, 35, —Carlton, 2, P. Off., 3 ; HoUey, 9.63 ; Lewiston,

Boston, M.\ss. —South Boston, Miss L. S. Monroe, 10 ; 83 cts., P. Off., add'l, 17 cts.; Medina, P. Off., 8, Golden 20.00 South Framingham, Miss L. S. Monroe, 10, Chain Bd., 5 ; Niagara Falls, 9.38, P. Off., 6.78, 44.79 S. S., P. River. Brooklyn. — Classon Ave., 64.17 ; Duryea, 2^. 36, North —Amenia, 3 ; Cornwall-on-Hudson, P. Off.,

Off., 6; Franklin Ave., 7.48, P. Off., 1.94; Greene Ave., 12; Matteawan, 21, King's Builder's, 12 ; Newburgh, 1st, 2.QI S. Little Givers, 2d, 1.07, Union and Off., ; Prospect Heights, S ,38, 14; Calvary, P. 10.31; Poughkeepsie, 124.50; P. Off., 2.27, Y. L. S., P. Off., 1.64; South 3d St., P. Off^., Rondout, 5, 187.81

; Trinity, P. Off., 25 ; Westminster, 9.10 Stapleton, S. I., Otsego. — Delhi, ist, 8.63 ; Middlefield Centre, 1.25, 9.88 38 ; rst, 29.16; Pres'l Soc, P. Off., 11.77, 275.87 Rochester. —-Avon, Central, Diligence Bd., 20; Grove- Buffalo. Buffalo, Calvary, Lafayette St., P. Off., land, Willing Workers, Mendon, — 16.70 ; 37.50; 3.40; Rochester,

North, iog.48 Dunkirk, ist, Y. P. S. E., ; Go- Brick, Central, St. Peter's. Y. S., 18.39 ; ; C. 25 40; 50; L. 10; 3d, P. Off., wanda, Mrs. E. H. Plumb, 5 ; Jamestown, 7 ; Sherman, 45.75, Link Boys' Bd., 15, Sowers of the Seed, 2 ; Scotts- ville. ist, 23^4; Westfield, 40; Pres'l Soc, 28.45, 273.56 Miss. Bd., 17.85 ; Sparta, 35, 276.50 ist, Cayuga. —Auburn, Christ's Miss. Bd., 15 ; Westmin- Syracuse.—Canastota, 13.50 ; Liverpool, 10; Marcellus. ster, P. Off., 5.70; Aurora, Wells Coll. Miss. Soc, 50; Five 14; Syracuse, Memorial, 40, 77. 50 King's Miss. Ithaca, Corners, P. Off., 6.05 ; Ferry, Bd., 5 ; Utica.— Kirkland, g; Oneida, P. Off., 26; Oriskany, P.

P. Off., 108. King's Messengers, P. Off., 12.60, Do Off., Sauquoit, P. Off., ; South Trenton, P. Off., 43.75, g7. 5 ; 7.25 4.50 ;

What We Can Bd., P. Off., 3.go, 250.97 Utica, Bethany, P. Off., 9.29, Westminster, P. Oft., 17.56 ; Che.mung.—Elmira, 1st, 5.15; Lake St., P. Off., 22.75; Vernon, P. Off., 6.40; W'aterville, 60, P. Off., 40.20, S. S.. Horseheads, 15, Mrs. C. C. Carr, 25, Mrs. W. A. Shoemaker, P. Off., 2.55, 187.75 I Watkins, P. Off., 20, 88 go Westchester.— New Haven, Conn., P. Off., New ; 3.65;

Geneva.— Clifton Springs, a friend, ; Seneca Falls, Rochelle, 10, Waller Bd., Peekskill, ist, Off., 5 19 ; 85 ; 125, P. 86, Waterloo, Warner Soc, 20, 44.00 Helping Hand, 3; Rye, 15, P. Off., 102.50; Sing Sing, P. ^ Hudson. —Goshen, Y. L. S., 57.10; Monticello, 4.50; Port Off., 113; Yonkers, ist, 75; Westminster, 25, 643.15 Jervis, 25, P. Off., 15.61, 102.21 Miscellaneous. — East Bloomfield, L. F. M. S., 34;

Long Island.—Amagansett, 7.29; Bridgehampton, 15.30, Friends, 21 ; Leaflets, 87.21 ; Mite boxes, 30 cts., 142.51 P. Off., 18; Cutchogue, S. S., 10; Manorville, 2.50; Middle Island, 32.60; Setauket, 17 02; Shelter Island, Three Miss. Total, $4,853.84 receipts April Bds., 12.75; Southold, 7; Westhampton, 5.80, 128.26 Total from 1, $22,725.86

Lyons. —Clyde, P. Off., 12 ; East Palmyra, 25.75 ; Newark, Mrs. C. p. Hartt, Treas., Girls' Guild, 51 33 ; Palmyra, 18.50, 107.58 53 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City. Morris and Orange.—Morristown, ist, 125.00 Mrs. J. A. Welch, Asst. Treas., Nassau.—Glen Cove, 12; Huntington, 1st, P. Off., 16.75, 38 West 34th St., N. Y. City. Willing Workers, 2d, P. Off., P- On.,^6\ 12; 16.75; ^^''P' BOX LIST. Jamaica, P. Off., Newtown, 10, Miss. Bd , lo Oyster 13 ; ; sent Girls' School, Bay, 5 ; Roslyn, 4.68, Miss. Bd., 4.96, 15114 Packages have been to the Peking

New York.—Calvary, Pastor's Aid Soc, P. Off., 20; China, from the Mendina Auxiliary ; to Miss Bigelow, To-

Church of the Puritans, C. C. C, w ; Fifth Ave., 600 ; Four- kyo, Japan, from the Batavia Auxiliary ; to the Hoshyarpore

; India, Little teenth St., 27 Fourth Ave., P. Off., 13.05 ; Harlem, P. Off., Orphanage, from Helpers, East Moriches,

92. 3g, Gillett Soc, 100; Madison Ave., 121. 11 ; Mt. Washing- L. I.; to Miss Montgomery, Hamadan, Persia, from the ton Valley, Southampton Auxiliary. 50, P. Off, 25, Mite Boxes, 9 ; University Place,

Receipts of Foreign Fund of the Woman's Presbyterian Board of Missions of the Southwest, to December 30, 1889.

Empokia.—Benton, 1.80; Brainard, Helping Hands, 3; St. Louis.—Carondelet, 3.15, Willing Workers, 10; Kirk- Burlington, 1; Burlingame, 4.50; Caldwell, 5.35, Earnest wood, 3.25; St. Louis, North Ch., 10; 2d Ch., S. S., 200,

Workers, Derby, Eldorado, 8.68, Y. L. M. S., Wall Builders, ; Union, Thank Off., 10.50; West Ch.. 1.45 ; 1.95 ; 14 ; 9.25 Peabody, Waverley, ist, Ch. Wichita, W. S., 25, 271.15 18; Bd., 6.93 ; West M. Auburn, Kas., Lawrence, Side Ch., 5.50, W. M. S., 15 ; Winfield, ist Ch., Acorns, 25, Topeka.— 5; Kansas City, 10; 112.16 75, 90 00 Highland. —Nortonville, 8 00 for Kansas City. — Creighton, Willing Workers, 2.50 : Kansas Total receipts Foreign Fund during month. $587.63

City, 5th Ch , 5.77; Raymond, q.45, Y. P. Circle, 9.80; Ro- Previously acknowledged. 2.«54.75 zier Sharon Ch., Helping Hands, 6.50, 34-02 Total receipts for Foreign Fund since April i, Neosho.— Neodesha, Mission Stars, 6.45 1889, $2,742.38 Platte.— Chillicothe, 5, 5.00 Mrs. J. M. Miller, Treas., Solomon. —Abilene, 6.12; Belleville, 7, S. S. M S., 5; Beloit, 20; Salina, 10.93; Wilson, 11.80, 60.85 1760 Missouri Ave., St. Louis, Mo.