The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-05-14

| MrS. karmarkar Is Kept very busy | with her hospital duties, where she | feels that she is obtaining valuable ex- perience. | The change of climate has proved very beneficial and they have con- venlent and comfortable home where Hindus as we'll as European officials call. The heart-rending reports from the famine districts awakened their sympa- thies and MT. Karmarkar visited them and returned with twelve orphans They were the most wretched human beings ever seen. Among them was a Brahmin widow with two little chill dren. Mrs. Karmarkar has been anxious to teach the women the evil of opium Tor the babies, and In one case took the lit tie sufferer to her home. The mother was only fifteen and widow. On ex- animation she found the daily amount of opium used was five grains, which had been given for eight months. Two months treatment was necessary, put the child is now we'll and the mother delighted.
 MADURA.
 In the Madura mission we support seven Bible women, twenty-two pupils in the Girls boarding school, and one day school for Mohammedan girls, be- sides day school for heather children in Palani
 The Otis Hall school Is the oldest and largest for girls in the mission with one hundred and twenty-five boarders. The accommodations are so sadly limi- ted that several classes are held In shed or crowded into the dormitories. But land has been secured for com modious building, soon to be ready for use, which will be a great boon to this promising school.
 The c. F. society conducts Sunday school in the city where the girls gath CT from fifty to seventy-fve little heathen children. and these Endeavor- CTS alone make the school so attractive that the children come with delight.
 Miss Swift has thirty-fve Bible wo men under her care, twenty of whom are in the Bible Institute. These wo- men have two thousand six hundred and eighty-tive women, to whom they carry the gospel, teaching many of them to read, and giving them Bibles, which some of them are learning to love.
 The Bible women also visit and give the gospel message In one hundred and fifty eight villages. These women re- ceive about thirty dollars a year for their support, but with the joy of the Lord in their hearts, they lie down in their novels at night with only a mat under them, thanking God for their many mercles," and the proud women in the zenanas might covet the content and joy of these faithful laborers. Thirty years ago when missionary was invited to teach the women in one Hindu home in Madura 1t was counted a great opportunity. Now the demand for teachers Is greater than the mission can supply, and the Bible women are pressed to undertake more than they have physical strength to meet
 One has large class of lame and blind beggars on Sunday and is rejoic- ing over the results of her labors.
 Miss Swift writes: "As I visit with our Bible women In Hindu homes and become familiar with the daily life, I realize what terrible obstacles He before the women and when one tells us that she never goes to the temple, or wor- ships an idol, but puts her whole trust in the one Saviour Jesus and finds comfort In reading the Bible, 1 truly re- joice in her, as one alive from the dead. Such cases are not infrequent. "A young widow came to Miss Swift one evening; when asked how she was able to get away from home she answered It has been long since I had prayer In my house, and I was so hungry to hear something about the Lord, I thought must come to you; so I told the people in the house I was going to visit God, and they thought l was going to Meen- achi's temple and let me go. We took our Bibles and spent an hour together, which was truly like visit with God in the fellowship of Christi"
 When we hear of the worship of idols do we realize what that implies? It Is simply an offering to the idol, pros- tration before the idol and senseless repetition of the name of the idol with fear and not love as the motive. There Is no social worship In heather lands; it Is an individual ceremony; no gath ering of families or companies of people for praise and prayer"
 CEYLON.
 There has been great rejoicing among the women in Jaffna over the comple- tlon of the hospital and dispensary provided through the efforts of the Misses Leitch.
 The four Bible women we support in Ceylon, like those in other missions of India, are our messengers to the women to teach them of the Father who has prepared a happy home for them, and of the Saviour who has prepared the pathway to that home. In Ceylon an ordinary day laborer receives a sum equal to eight cents, and on this he must support his family. From such poverty 1t is rule among the Chris tians to give one-tenth to the the Lord. Those who receive money give one- tenth of that; those who have fruit trees give the fruit of every tenth tree. In Christian family, when the rice is measured out, handful for each mem- Der. every tenth handful goes into the Lords Box" and we hear that these Ceylon Christians find that tenth goes as far as the whole once did.
 CHINA.
 In China, where one-fifth of the worlds population is found, mission work has waited long for the harvest. In Foochow three faithful laborers of twenty-four, thirty-six and forty-eight