The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-05-14


annually.
Though the standard has been raised
and it is difficult to make the Chinese
appreciate such privileges, the school
has become so popular that ninety pu-
pills applied for admittance last year.
1t is around Miss Andrews and her
work that the interest of our branch
chiefly centers, as since ~ she has been
our missionary and in the field, except
during two years, when detained in this
country by the illness of her mother.
Her fine scholarship, both in Chinese
and in the Bible, enables her to fill val
liable positions in the theological SEM
mary and college, while her tender in
terest for all classes of the people draws
her into many different forms of work
for them.
In China, even more than elsewhere,
the medical missionary has opened
many doors otherwise closed to the gos-
pei, and the dispensaries at Foochow
and Tungcho are doing a noble and
useful work.
In '93 Miss Abbie Chaplin, daughter
of the mission, returned to Tungcho,
and share in her support was assum-
ed LOr our Y. NJ. societies.
Her early knowledge of the language
is of great advantage to her, and she
is very happy in being associated with
Miss Andrews, a friend of her child
hood.
In 1868 public places still registered
the Royal Edict, which for 230 years
had warned Christians not to enter
Japan. This was the welcome given
the first missionaries. but a few years
wrought great changes, and in '76 Mr..
and Mrs. DeForest Were cordially well
coined to Osaka.
Mrs. DeForest's first letter as our
missionary said:
1--WE have been assigned to parish
of half a million people and feel like
asking for thousand tongues to teach
the way of life.
1--WE now might say it would take a
thousand. tongues to tell what has been
twelve years they removed to India
where Mrs. DeForest was privileged to
see women, mho had glored in their
wicked lives, sitting at the feet of Jesus
and successful teachers developed from
those who had hated the Jesus way
TN 'S6 we adopted Miss Cornelia Jud-
son, who for several years was the only
American teacher at Niijata, and af-
terward transferred to Matsuyoma
Here in addition to teaching and WIS.,
iting the homes of pupils, she has Sc
cured the erection of an industrial
school for poor children.
THE faithful and successful work OF
the trained nurses during the late war
10 h
Christian religion.
"A remarkable change has been
wrought in public opinion and in the
attitude of the Spanish government
toward the education of woman in the
past twenty-five years.
THE one missionary family laborine
in this field has had a large share ir
promoting this advance.
1.-THE interest of the New Haver
Branch centers in the little schoo
opened by Mrs. E. Gulick, twenty three
years ago, in which since '7S we have
| sustained from one to three scholar
ships at an annual cost of $100 each.
| THE Commonwealth of Massachu-
sets granted a charter in 49, and The
success of the International Institute
for Girls eclipses all the previous his
tory of female education in Spain.
the graduates as teachers and Chris
tan workers in that priest ridden land
With great earnestness Mrs. Gulicl
| pleads for suitable building and en-.
dowment for this growing institution
india, with antiquity, reckoned bacl
of the flood with systems of philoso
ply and religion strangely combined
with heather crueIties seemed, wher
the century opened, hopeless field
is called the worlds mission field, sc
many societies are planted within 1t:
boarders, the statictics of converts
churches and schools, could not b
given in an hour.
"Sir Richard Temple, after twenty.
/ five years of public life there, says
| The statistics of missions in India
read like those of some stupendous
governmental undertaking and give al
array of facts, of which all Christen
dom may be proud
THE first American mission was com
menced in Bombay, in 1918, in the face
of bitter opposition. During the frs
ten years more deaths had occurred II
the mission than converts had beer
added
'FIn twenty-one years only six hat
united with the little church, a hand
full of seed corn, precious in promise O
future harvests.
1.-THE New Haven Branch has counted
four ladies of the Marathi mission il
their Missionary family. The first wa'
Mrs. Abbie Lyon Hume, daughter O
one of the early missionaries adopted
in rs and placed in charge of the Girls
i Boarding school at AhmednaZar. Sht
loved the work and gave herself earn
estly to it as long as health permitted
TN August of 81 her beautiful lif,
on earth was ended and her remains
laid beside her mother, who had passed
on twenty Eight years before.
1.-THE second, Mrs. Charlotte E
Hume, also a missionary daughter, we
adopted in '82 and her support as
sumed by the auxiliary in the Cente
church. of which she is member. On
of the members of that auxiliary say
it is Mrs. Hume's absolute devotion o
self to her work, the zeal with which
she has thrown every energy into he
school that has made it what it is ant
has won 50 many to an interest in i
through love of the worker.
when Mr. and Mrs. Hume were sta
! toned at Bombay in '76 an experiment
was tried and the first co-educationa
i boarding school of Western India wa
started.