The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-08

fAStAuc VI Guc Nulu6SS H1OD. IL runs LuuS
I'm Ku Cheng, Miss Nisbet isin charge
of the Founding Institution for poor
little baby girls, cast off by their parents.
The numbers have increased until we had
to give notice that no more could be
taken in. Most of Miss Nisbet's time is
given to mothering these little things.
There are in all about thirty, some OF
them boarding out. Miss Nisbet has also
large district allotted to her, covering
some two square miles, dotted here and
there with a few little bands of Chris
tians. The women sOrely need care and
teaching, but they can get very little.
Another institution here is the Girls
Boarding School, in charge of Miss Wei
Ter. This, too, has so increased that,
though the school was enlarged consid-
erab4y last year, and in spite of a new
rule that each must pay a fixed portion
Of the expenses, and must also Hnbind
her feet, every bed is full. There are
nov nearly sixty girls, and if they full
ELL the hopes Of their teachers they will
do much toward eleyating and Christian
iaing the country.
"The Founding Institution was built
at the expense of one Irish clergyman,
and is being supported entirely by indi.
YidRal friends, and the girls school was
erected and is supported in a similar
manner, chiefly through the exertions of
Miss Bessie Newcombe, whose return we
are jOyfully expecting. Thus neither in
stitution draws anything from the So
ciety's funds.
"The three other ladies who regard
Ku-Chepg as their headquarters are Miss
Gordon, Miss Marshall and Miss Stew
art. Miss Stewart is still working for
her examinations; when she has got
through them her sphere of labor will be
in the country, in the western section of
the district Miss GordoE's station,
where she spends the greater part of the
year, is Dong Clio, the chief centre of
the Ping Nang district. This great
district, or, as we should say in
England, county, has no other lady
worker, and / need not say that, how
ever hard she may try, she can do lit
tie more than touch what is waiting to
be done. AT that one station of Dong
Clio eighty or ninety women usually at
tend the Sunday service. We have to
thank the Rev. H. B. Mccarthy, of
Melbourne, for this valuable missionary.
Miss Elsie Marshal's work is also in the
country; she only returns now and then
to Ku- Cheng as headquarters Her sec
ton lies north of Ku-Oheng, and covers
more than three hundred square miles.
She has several centres in this region,
where she stops for few weeks or two
months at time, collecting the women
together and visiting from house to
house. Our plan is for your missiona-
ries to travel IN pairs, accompanied by a
Bible woman and Christian servant, and
to put up at chapels where a married
catechist is stationed. Just now Miss
Marshall is at place called Sek-ci-D1,
with Miss Saunders, of the Australian
Association, who is stationed in Ku Oheng
while learning the language.
GA letter has come to day from Miss
Marshall, telling of the great encourage
ment they find in Sek-ci-Du. This is re-
markable because, although we have
been for years endeavoring tC rouse an
interest there, hitherto we have entirely
failed, and purposed retiring from the
station altogether. Thank God for the
ladies whom you send us; wherever they
go God gives his blessing, and the secret
lies in the quiet, unwavoring trust in
living Saviour by their side; such trust
He does not disappoint.
"The other fixed station in Ku- -Cheng
district is S4-Yong, where Miss Oodring
ton and Miss Tolley are located, the lat
ter still learning the language, while at
tbo sayoo tiroa 6Oipo Doopu 1i+fIa bitc nf
useful work. ! took the Bishop here in
his recent confirmation tour, and he
seemed specially impressed by the good
work he saw. The chief feature in Miss
Codrington's work is her station class.
This is a new departure in our mission,
and she is the first to try it, The idea
is to gather class of women from the
neighboring villages and keep them for
three months at time in her house, and,
assisted by a well-instructed Bible
woman, to teach them, day by day, the
fundamental truths of Christianity and
the chief incidents of the Bible, and
then send them back to their homes to
be voluntary workers among their peo-
pie. 1t was thought by many that three
months teaching would be of little use,
but experience has shown just the re-
verse. l examined her class. The
answers were utterly different from those
of the ordinary untaught woman. They
had learned not only number of facts,
but also to think, aud it was delightful
surprise to find how thoroughly they un-
derstood the Truth, and how intelli
gently they were able to answer. Be
sides this station class, Miss OodringtOn
visits regularly the surrounding vii
lagos, within a radius of six or eight
miles, sometimes travelling even further
and holding small classes in these places;
thus Sa Yong, from being so hopeless
station that we had actually withdrawn
our catechist, has now congregation Of
from fifty to one hundred, and the IN
terest is steadily increasing. There is
also little girls school taught daily by
Miss Tolley, and the children answered
me we'll at their examinations.
''Ten miles still further east, across
the mountains, lies the large town of
Sang Yong, and here Miss Maude New
combe and Miss Burroughs have been
working for year. Station classes have
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