The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-09
WOMEN'S MISSIONS
Convention of the Board of
the Congregational
Church. :
WORK IN FOREIGN LANDS
Good Showing of the Girls Schools
In Asia and Africa-India
Helps New York.
WORK IN FOREIGN LANDS

gregational Church of America was held
in the Congregational Church of Mont
clair Wednesday and Thursday, Novem-
Der 4 and s. Tuesday a session was
held for delegates only. in which many
questions of interest to the board were
discussed.
1t s.15 on Wednesday morning a de-
votional meeting was conducted by Miss
E. S. Gilman.
The first regular session was opened
at 10 o'clock. Addresses of welcome TO
the board were made by Miss Susan
Hayes Ward and Mrs. A. H. Bradford.
A statement of the work of the Home
Department was made by Miss Apple
B.. Child. There are now % branches
and 1.12S senior auxiliaries. with an esti-
mated membership of 10000, perhaps e,OVo
of whom are workers in the cause. Inc
remaining 5000 are contributors,
There never was a time when there
was so much prayer in and for the
board as now. During the year z'loV
PRAYER calendars were sold, not quite SO
MANY as in 1898, but indications are that
the sales in 1895 will be larger than in
any former year.
TREASURER'S REPORT.
The Treasurer's report, submitted by
Miss Ellen Carruth, showed contriou-
tions in 1898 to have been STAT, ana
in 1894. s72, coils a decrease of so,l7e-40'
Legacies received in 1894 amounted to
s22 q5e. -. and in 1898 to SIS, 954.2S, being
a gain of 81, 1872. %.
saTs to raise $3.50 OK over ana apove IN
regular receipts for the coming year.
S. Miss e. Harriet on TIC
..Foreign Fields" was one of the NEST
increasing papers of the day; Ihe
American College for girls began tWenty-
three wears ago as the mi
Home has been chartered g. a eonesss
four wears. This year II has enfellea
I73 e~tudents-26 more than IN any pre-
vious year-of s na~tionalSies 4 - "
the Home School have this year recelV-
ca the degree Of Bachelor OF arts. mo
IN tie smyrna school here are a ~
stsaents, including 20 bearders n az
di9on TO the Ribie lessons IN creek,
Armenian and English, anu their olneI
s.sG;es, the girls have gone our WIN
hurE.y ard sympathy and comfort 10
FoREIGN SCHOOL STATISTICS:
Tc the school IN Tolas q thu1 stoIs
has been ADDED. supplying q ne" dcrMa-
t5Tv. ana. other enlargement mas pesh
made. Ten girls we're u aere
s.. Ja,y. six Arlaep!ans and loar gFeshs,
1t is hut ten years since the nrst class
vas graduated, and the whole NUMBER
OF diplomas issued is Oh
A new schoo build.ng has been erect
admission TO the graduating exercises
In June last. The number OIL pupiis
dpring the year has been s.
The school in sives has had aspeelai
religious awakening. and the Gcod re-
sails are testified to by the teachers
and by the friends OF the girls IN theif
homes. o. nir,s in
c,if5T1g s boarders, s of whom are churcn
Tsrn9hers. One of the teachers i'll this
sahocl is a mitssionary's daughter. gr@nls
ateG from the C~onstantlnople Sehoot, ~ha
T9.-rs ars "a pupils in the Aintas
S.h.sssi. 5 Of whom have united with tie
e@Iisi-cs- Miss Price, who Is n ena ggadT ul
ate ana aIl their dresses to 1T myselI-
GG0D WORK AMONG WOMEN.
kcpe Ledge, Il mountain ncampmenI
IS the summer nome of the Bitlls MI
Holyohe School. There are q girls here
less than in some years because Oh Inc
ineraasei cost of provisions. 0oo
E~aphrates College, in Herpoot, mas ~
girls IS in the college proper. and the
rest in preparatory department.
The Mardin School Is oyer-crowded.
Thece are q hoarders and 8 DAY pupils.
ESSAYS at different times during the ,ex-
animation, Instead of on the last day,
wl!ch seemed to them less conspicuous
s.Orlental modesty, no doubt. is carried
20 excess, but we can nc more afford TO
RIB ); of than We can to take the blush
from the just ripe plcms and peaches,
la Van there are Us pupils. The last
week of the year was devoted to oral ex-
ordinations. Between 800 and 100, in
ei,{;iing several officials who were hlgnly
cslightca. attended on Friday.
The Ahmednazar Girls School has 115
boarders anu several day pupils, the
larger number of whom are Christians
THE INDIAN FIELD.
In the Rorokce Hall, in Bombay, there
have been in all 80 girls during the year.
70 details Of the Wal School are given
tf-e sifis and for Improvement in homes
visi+cd by the teachers. The girls in the
Sirer School are Africans. who. when
tsey entered, had no other idea than
that they were to be fattened and sold.
Nor. some Of them are ready to. take
up Christian work wherever their lot
NAV be cast.
The Naupilty School. on the Island of
Jaffna, has 40 girls, the largest number
ever on its roll. OF these. IA are COM
municants and 10 children of Christian
endan at the o%odooville School is
larger than ever before. Parents are
cutie willing to haye their d~aughters
taught Christianity II, with II, they may
learn English and music.
Mrs. Edwards. the first missionary Of
the Wonan's Board. has Isl Zulu girls
at the Ouanda Seminary. THE teachers
saw that it is easier for these girls to
pray and talk than it is to live pure and
bright lives, yet they believe that many
of their prayers come from the heart"
Uuzuulbi overf1owss with girls who find
it a beautiful refuge from their kraal
lives. -,
The k-indergartens, the 'Bible women
md hospital work of the board is de-
scribed in interesting detail and every
report speaks in terms of praise OF the
teachers assisting in the several schools.
WONDERS OF THE CENTURY.
Mrs. C. II. Daniels said:-"At the OPEN
ing of the nineteenth century the Church
of Christ was asleep to the unevan-
gelized world. China's 386 millions were
shut up within walls to the u~ncounted
superstitions of the false religions. ia
pan ports were sealed to all the world and
She, under a fair polite exterior, decaying
from the practices of sin India, though
controlled by English power. was hostile
to missions; the islands of the sea were
full of fierce cannibals; Africa was I'M
Venerable. even to the explorer; Moslem
countries t~yrannized over the minds and
oonsciences of men. and in Papal lands
the priests held the Bible from their peo-
pIe and left them in ignorance.
ssToday we lift up our eyes round
about and see Japan revolutionized into
a modern nation and alert Tor the pest IN
government, leaves science and educa-
ZION omen to gospel influence, giving the
Hover of her youth to Christ. India,
shaking off her old faiths and whole vii
lagos turning toward Christianity. In
MosIem lands the tyrant still holds
sway. the pure leaven works, n in
Papal countries the Bible Is read and
does It's own work with the heart: At
RIGA lies open to the world, and in hoary
China, after long. hard fightings there
are 100 missionary societies.. $4,000 conn