Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-01
The Light of ASIA The mother-in4
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The Light of ASIA The mother-in4
law refused to allow one of the ladV
missionaries to visit her. !
':In another quarter of China we came
at nightfall upon a small residence.1
The husband and wife sat in the doord
way singing a hymn. Their child, its
An algebra and an album lay on the
comfortable, the former being used by,
the wife, as she wished to keep pace
her husband. This was the result Of
woman's work" I
Mrs. Bainbridge then described a.
on hen ,a prsyss' meeting Gs;aa's that as Is held ED
women was permanently afflicted with
daughters, and they had been cruelty
killed by drowning. Her eyes were
ruined by weeping. I noticed a little
dried-up woman, whose face looked as
though she had gone through all kinds
OF grief. Her tongue was split in twain.
This was done while she was the leader
of q fanatical religious sect. T
We took the steamer from China, by
boat from the land. While we were att
dinner IN the cabin, one man asked
who were those people that just came
on board?" "Only Missionaries
came the answer in contemptuous tones.
What are they doing here?" .'Oh,t
he's drawing a big salary and deceiving
the American people, and she's out.
here looking for u husband. Neither
they nor any one else can convert =
Chinaman."
In Siam I saw o we'll twenty-five feet
deep and six feet across, dug BY
woman with her fingers. She did this
to store up merits, so that when she
died and was transmigrated to earth
she could become q man. She was
reached by a woman and converted.
1t is beginning to be understood that
the education of the women has become
the great necessity in Hindostan. Go
into the houses and you will find in the
center, excluded almost from light and
air, the zenanas where they live. The
walls and floor are bare, and the plain
est and scantiest of furniture have to
suffice them. I have seen the child
widows, little girls nine and ten yearz
old, with unbound hair and clad in
coarse garments. They must always
live so, ever though they never saw
their boy-husbands. They are careful
not to let even their shadow fall ON
food, for it would thereby become con-
taminated. Their lives are spent in
misery and degradation. There arc
25, 200 of these child-widows in India
Here is the grandest possible work for
| women. The Indian are open
to women but Eot to men. American
| girls are wanted for the work. , The
climate is good, and the salaries remun-
e%rative. Four such young women are
wanted now for four zenana where the
little Indian women are actually beg
! ging to be taught. In Syria we found
whole families sleeping in one ROOM, in
the utmost degradation. Boys were
dressed as girls and called by girls
names because they had come under the
! influence of the evil eye" Mrs.
cambridge followed with the descrip-
ton of a Christian home in Syria, and
after dwelling on the effects of the work
done by the women missionaries, she,
closed by saying; "On the Brooklyn
side Of the great bridge at New York
over the East River, are u number, of
little dynamos, gathering in energy and
sending it quietly along the proper
avenues to burst forth into light. Thus
with the women's work. 1t may be OBJ
scure, but its results are sure and bril-.
liant. "-C2evelamd Leader.