New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-12
MISSION WORK IN INDIA.
TELLING NoRTHFIELD AUDIENCES WHAT
IT Il.
WOMEN MISSIONARIES APPEAL FOR AID IN "hS'
CrSG YOUNG INDIAN G:RL.-saCRIFIcES
is THE NAME OF RELIGION.
fBY rELEonAPn TO THE ThiBUHEI

iN THE NAME OF RELIGION
fBr rELEaaAPn TO THE TAiBuHEl
Northfeld Mass. Aug 11.-Even without Mr. Mova'
a Northfeld audience overnows with seneros''. w
ward those needing religious minstianoh' ai'u ~.
purse-strngs are easily loosed. The supscHp~' ~
the Laos famine sufferers In Upper siam "aS .,
at this mornings meeting TO Sl,0oo. ''iss
Richardson received several hundred dollars ror re0O0
work in Western india and during the spcah"s a"
unknown lady took from her hair handsome go"
brooch set with five large diamonds. and passed u
secretly to the platform to be applied TO the iamne
fund.
Today's missionary meetings were again opcheo os
DR.. Arthur l. Pierson, Editor OF 1.-The MISSIONARY NC
ciew,' and addresses were delivered by Miss Kicharu
son, DR.. James f. Grncey, president OF the ih'cr
national Missionary Union, and Others This aiter-
noon Miss Emma Cummings, n medical missionary "
India told OF the horrors endured by women In Inoia
for want Of proper medical attendance MISS h'ehar
son and Miss Cummings between them have carried OH
the honors Of the mission meeting. Miss Mcharusoh
Is the daughter Of English clergyman, and began
her philsnthropic hospital nurse among
the poor In the worst parts Of London. Her present.
GRAND In this country aid In her rescue
work in Western India and the establishment OF an
Industrial home and refuge for women az Poona ana
Bombay For long time the surrender OF young
Hindoo girls to lives Of SIN In the name OF religion as
temple women and Nautch girls has been depared
by the ordinary Englsn niSsloihiies, ""0So a"'oi
ference would involve the restriction OF their present
privileges Foreign European women, mostly Austrian
Jewesscs as we'll as Americans and japanese, arc also
nveleied into the country in large numbers under
false pretenoes 10 espouse horrible servitude.
In 1856 and again In 1865 English women at
tempted TO open a refuge. In 1877 Mrs. RMtt, an
orbcer's widow, established the Home Of Hope, which
was carried on for several years. In 1885 her sister,
Mrs Gladwin, took charge or the institution IL was
IN response to an appeal Mrs. GIadwin that Miss
Richardson In the year went out to India to 90
vote her private fortune TO the establishment OF
separate reformatory hospital since Mrs. Gladwln's
death and tho closing Of the Home OF Hope, MISS
Richardson's industrial homo has been the only one
Of the kind in Western or Southern India. She main
tains two for natives, the other Tor Eu
ropeans ana people Of mixed blood who speak English
dress and live in European style and profess Chris
tiany. Feeling the need OF moro retired situation
for the home she has bought six acres Of land out
side or Poona about 1900 feet above the sea and Is
anxious TO build rooms for the inmates. with creche
and n hospital and workers bungalow, at cost OF
10000. she desires also 10 malntnin small re-
cclvng house at bombay. The Trust Association OF
the Church Missionary Society has accepted the
trsteeshp Of the Poona property, and an independent
and undenomInatlonal governing body. OF which Sir
c. T.. Bernard formerly Governor Of Burmah is
treasurer will DO responsible for funds About 5000
has already been collected. Other members OF the
governing body are the Rev. r. b. Meyer anu S'r
Robert Phayre. Miss Richardson's services are
grat,hous. Her efforts have been strongly lndorsed
by church people Of all denominations in India. and
she comes TO America with letters from Lord Redy,
the former Governor Of Bombay; Bishop j. NJ
Thoburn, r. A. SQuircs, secretary OF the Church
Missionary Society; DR.. ID. Mcclellan, senior mis-
sionary OF the Free Church Of Scotland; Judge H.
Birdwood Colonel F. W. Major, A. Crowly Boevey.
formerly Chief Presidential Magistrate In Bombay;
.k~ ntehn nf
Agra alone 10000 Nautch girls sad'to be sacri-
feed to the temples and literally millions Of young
girls welded TO life OF vics under the ceremony
Of marriage 10 q sword, the ostensible emblem OF
single life. Miss Richardson's address is No. $50
West Forty -fourth-st., New-York.
Miss Cummings works In connection With the
Medical Missionary society," whose headquarters are IN
New. York with auxiIaries In four other American
cities or services largely directed to the relief
of tortured Indian mothers, whose death during
maternity II IS believed In some parts OF India destroys
their chance oftransmisrauon Into the body OF man,
afcr passing through the bodies OF millions Of animals
Miss Richardson In her address said: ,.e
went out to India in the autumn OF 1855 ana Al
the beginning Of lsa7 started little home slns ns,
handed sS%SS being e. q. se at s Hl WS sy
The conversion Ut the frst woman who came TO H.
NATIVE and ana Inc home s' IS Intended for ne
European girls who are decoyed 20 Dom5sy py more
than sixty who live upon nO.n Ups e esns om ono
Europe decoyed from their homes With tho promise
situations some o. them sRsas insr ar. brdSSh
10 a destruction that Is worse than death we are
trying help ns g end to sSs them N. Ern wiy rs
also, who are a mixture OF two races me European
and the As' Tsfy s sS .en c u so@
distances ours being the only place In western or
d In % %ad All they Of
Home is open also TO the native Christians There
m mia ulAccd In "A din"ult posi-
lion. They send the girls straight to us; We are
10 saving knowledge OF the Lord Jesus and then,
when we believe they can be trusted, We restore
them to the missions, which may lind All opening
God has blessed IN that work. and many Of them
wn9 sa1 eTs s. ~ ives '' sp Is aso for The
non Christians. There arc all the temple girls. who
the Of s d ere q a%s y dS
the temple service to be made means OF revenue
kept Tho SPOT ess sd having . no e aSor
sspc from such nic The INST year in home
G SaD %s 6s% the We
twelve, and the third year eighteen, the largest
h ssd had d. at aS one %' G
must have suitable buildings for the work ana |
sss.: ne and hon" Came l" charge 'ss
here. We need four separate homes for
Won s4 Sa, b nS & ; sg u
s ssS. 600. We have already about 5000. and
yS Sa future M too The work is on settled evan
eelicai basis The question mar arise, DO the heather
nnstiycs want such help This brought very
forc,bly 10 my mind by an anccdote. one day
native Christian went to the bazaar TO do her shopping
and inst as she was getting out of the car heather
srl rushed up 20 her and said IL hear that there
Is soms place where poor girl can so n she want.
to prt AWAY nom bad man. want 10 20 there"
Now this was a heather girl. This Christian woman
said a. will take you there at once" And she
,vas inst stepping Into another to bring the gir
In ne when three great. rough men came up 10 her
and she was overpowered. They took her away and
we never heard Of her again.
al. f,N..r.
Missionary Union spoke about the missionary duty
OF Christians. lie said
think We are living IN very marvellous times.
very much doubt II you could pick out period OF
is},ry when Il would be desirable to live than Il Is
now Gur geographical extension for the last thirty years
has been Immense. There Is not spot the globe
tod ftpm wherp 1 SIN nd aS