The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-01

.srnon o. the natives. II not to Christianity, at
.eas % religion more rational and practical
tnan the brahaminical faitn.r The RESTORATION
2! women TO proper position u essential to
clvilixation itself. :
I u utterly impossible says the eighth an
nuAi report Of the Woman's Union Missionary
sacietys OF New York, ..for . male preacher to
make any attempt for the culture Of women"
announcer writer detailing missionary experience
says. In China we must have natlye female
agency. Missionaries might labor for thirty
ysaH IN place and the women never hear of
!ekuk Until comparatively recent date, that
", since the beginning of q struggle between the
pid ana the new which has seemed to be going
on among the old peoples and usages of the
Eastern world, three-fourths OF the women were
thoroughly sealed against any influence from
without their own houses. Hence bat for infau-
ences set to work within q few years past chiefly
% christian women, the condition of women
would have remained as hopeless and cherries
= night that knows no ssars and seemingly
no ending
Fourth-The barriers have Of late years been
giving way for women to work for women in
heather lands. and God has most wonderfully
blessed the efforts they have already made II
seems d if q new gospel had broken forth with
new light upon our dark world. Under the
tito OF sWhat Pair of Slippers Did for India"
MISS Britain wrote tract, IN which she tells of
missionary's wife who finished pair of slip
pers for her husband. The slippers are seen.
picked up admired by . native BaDu. or gentle
man-they form the means of entry to the
zenana that his wife may be taught to make
them-this is noised abroad; q movement be-
gins" and, says the authoress - pair of slip
pers has become the instrument of letliag in
ray OF light upon thousands of women who for
ages. had been sitting In tue darkness of the
shadow OF death" The possibility won snly
Improvement is carried to them by q pair OF
clippers It is now about twenfy-nine or
thirty years since the organization, SO
far Is / can learn, of the first OF
what are now the numerous s'Women's
missionary societies of our country. These So
ciefies have been, by their successful achieve
ments in great variety of dirs ctions, making
history for themselves so fast that no one can
keep pace and write it up in full anless the
whole of ones brain and attention is given to
their records
90 steadily gathered strength or drawn to its
aid in the same space of time such wide and
general cooperation among its legitimate sup
portea. The business-iike tact, skill, energy
economy and enthusiasm of these societies of
women. talking. praying. giving regularly, and
then sending out and supporting teachers for
their unfortunate sisters in far-off lands, are
illustrated by the reports made at their annual
conventions and to the general assembly.
Now notice that these societies create and
foster = missionary spirit. They bring many
into active missionary service. They send out
and support unmarried missionary ladies' They
are systematic and effective agencies for the
dissemination OF missionary information. They
add immensely TO the income of the Board of
Missions
Let me give you glimpse Of what the wo-
men reported at the general assembly. 1889, for
home missions:
ceipts of the year..-.......-....... $4,000 66
Value OF boxes seat to schools and
nome MISSIONARIES. .....--...-.-.. 60.S22 %
Total for home missions .. 1881, 462 Oh
Their work has been among Mexicans, In
dians, Mormons. Alaskans and the Freedmen of
the South. They reported:
Synodical societies Observation-Disclosures. &c
Presbyterial !" ...................I 76
Local societies ana bands $50
:. - = : 9. =. w
Number OF teachers supported 31s
$. pupils enrolled. .............67 S5
FOREIGN MISSIONS
From womsn'e boards, cash ....... $27S,g04 IL
Add the above OF home missions,
cesn. -.......--........s..-.. $50 64D IS
$500. 544 So
ADD boxes. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 60,S22 Is