The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-04-07
WOMAN'S GOSPEL WORK.
Home and Foreign Mission
airy Societies Meet In
Hedding Church.
MISS BAKERS STIRRING WORDS.
Interesting Statistics from China,
India and Japan-Mrs. Mary
Leonard Wells Address.

The anniversary of the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society was held at
Hedding NJ. E. Church, Montgomery
street, beginning at two Z. NJ. yesterday.
The reports presented were not statistical
in character, and the more interesting
for this reason. The meeting was opened
by devotional exercises. aud the singing
of 81 Need Thee Every Hour" led by a
number of ladies, without organ accom-
paniment. The Rev. Mr.. Knowles an
nounced that owing to the Illness of the
secretary, he had consented to present
her report to the assembly, which he
would d. verbally. Thu number of So
cieties had not materially increased; the
interest manifested was much
greater. II was not yet possible to give
The amounts raised by The
societies, but a statement would be pre-
marks on CHRISTIAN Courage" he intro
duced the principal speaker, Miss Franc
Baker of Michigan, who talked without
notes for nearly an hour, holding the
unwearied atten lion of all by ner stories
of life in the mission field. Said Miss
B~aker:-"The time has long gone by to
pray tor open doors; we must pray now
AL OpNh C1 a. - ~ "a 49, SA-
and seltishly say that We v a monop-
oily on the Bible, l think that we had bet
ter pray to close up some OF those open
doors in China and India" Miss Baker
quoted as signs of the times the visible
unrest among Asiatic religions, the sue
cess of Pentecost, Muller and the w. G.
Il. u. along lines until recently unheard
of. and the spread of the English lam
guage. She told how the Woman's Mis-
sionary Society began with an or
phanHge on the site of the
murder Of Maria, the first woman
convert in India, continued with .'pice
schools" which the children were paid to
attend, established boarding schools for
Christian girls in 1869, opening one on
April II. 1870, with six girls, having now
Two hundred schools, with six thousand
girls, in the North Indian Conference
alone, where about twenty Thousand
women have received Instruction. In 1867
they sent their first woman to take up the
aIl-lmportaDL medical work for her own
sex. ana when DR.. Clara Swain reached
India, she found a class ready trained in
English waiting for her,. The govern
ment and the people welcomed the
women physicians as the most needed
workers, even municipal governments
making appropriations for scholarships
quite unlike the way women began to
study medicine here. Then came the
Dufferin movement, which, though NOM
inaily secular, owes its existence and
maintenance to Christian women. It has
IL, COO. 0O0 rupees invested in buildings
and /, COZ. QG0 in an endowment fund.
The Woman's Missionary Society was
Instrumental in raising the manageable
age of girls in India to twelve years, and
doing away with some of the untold
misery of chiId-marriages, although 50,-
900 Indian men did make formal protest
against the change. 1t has amelioraGed
the condition of Hindu WIDOWS and
loosed the bound feet. of many Chinese
women. but best of all, has done much to
put down the great aud legalized sin OF
Cnina-lnfanticide. Miss Baker told of
a Chinese mother. who described to a
missionary how her husband had drown
ed three baby daughters before
her eyes, holding the little
head in a tub of water by her
bedside, while she covered her head with
the bedclothes so as not to see her baby
choking. She briefly sketched the WORK
in Corea, where women have moi even a
name to themselves, beinEknown as ''of
the house Of se-and-so; in, Japan,
China, and Bulgaria. 1nTokio. she said,
there We're go Christian churches.
At the conclusion of the interesting adj
dress, the hymu "Thy saints in all tins
glorious war;" was sung, and a collection