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

to blame? Those women have never heard of this before. Somebody it to blame if they don't hear now.
 And then l would like to give you a few messages from our native Chris tians. wish I could show you the first messages that came to me in In dia, in Bombay, and especially one in Ahmednagar; one of the Bible women came, oh, such beautiful woman, Tall; Oh, the loveliest soft black eyes and the dark rich skin! So graceful and dignified as she stood up in the crowded church and welcomed me as the representative of the Christian wo- men in America in behalf of the Christian women of Ahmednagar. And it was good to hear her go on and say: We want to thank the women of America for sending us the priceless blessing of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ" And then it was good to hear her go on and tell about her mothers experience. Her mother was almost one of the very first converts in An Imednagar, and she had had a very hard and terrible life of persecution. She had fled from one place to another and had finally gone to the missionary bungalow. Four hundred people had followed her there to take her back to heathenism. So she went on and told 1t, but she says, I've don't know any thing about this; we women now have passed this stage" Wasn't 1t good to hear her say, This can never happen now; we are past that stage" And she looks back upon it as thing that never can happen again. And then she went on; at the close she said, "We offer our Heavenly Father and through you to the Christian women in Ameri- can our grateful thanks. When you re- turn will you carry to our mothers and sisters across the sea some heartfelt gratitude for what they have been do- ing for their Indian sisters"
 And now one more message, and then l want to say just a word to the young ladies here. And that is from young Bible woman in Madura, a beautiful woman; tall and willowy, and oh, SC earnest, so wide awake in her work and she was particularly attractive to me, suppose, because she could speak a little English. and 1 could understand a little of what she said, and she could understand what I said And l almost never saw her but she would say, "Oh Miss, we. want more ladies; we want more ladies; We want more Bible wo- men" l remember one night she said
 The other night after Mrs. Sibley haG been praying for me I didn't sleep al night, for I thought of that village where l could go, and another village over there, and that village; my eyes were going, going all the time, and ] couldn't sleep, for thinking about al those villages And so she kept say. ing, "Oh, send us more ladies; send us more ladies. And finally one night she was particularly earnest, and Mise Root said, Don't trouble Miss Child
 she will get somebody as soon as sht can; don't trouble her any more; sht will find somebody if she can" Ant then there came out so earnestly, "Oh Miss, don't say, When she can w want It now; not when she can'' SC may l just pass that along. We wan, your help, not when it is convenient not when 1t is perfectly easy, not wher 1t is a. beautiful day and you can go tt the missionary meeting without tn, slightest trouble, but we want thing. whether you can or not; we want yo, to be willing; we want everybody here so far as we can, to feel that now thi
 work must be done; not by and by; no
 when you can, but now
 And now for our young ladi.s.
 wish I might say just a few word
 about some of the herones that I say While 1 was gone. We all know tha our missionaries are heroines; we hay, all admired them so this past year
 those women in Turkey who have gon
 straight on with their work. going ou into the villages, standing by their girl
 in the midst of massacre fire and pil
 lage. We have admired our missiona
 ries in Bombay, who did not even seen
 to think they could go away. It neve
 occurred to them that they must rul away because the plague was there un til their premises were invaded by tn
 plague and they were ordered out b,
 the physicians. And then to think o
 Mrs Hume gathering up a school o
 seventy people and going off to anoth
 CT village! How in the world she did i
 am sure l cannot conceive. But
 think these are extraordinary times
 And l think the real heroines are thos
 who go on patiently and earnestly da
 by day, week by week, month by mont
 and year by year, working in seaso
 and out of season, throwing themselve
 oh, the way the missionaries throy
 themselves into the people who ar about them to try and get hold of thei
 inmost souls, day by day, watchin over them caring for them in body
 mind and soul. l think those are hero
 ines. Perhaps l may speak more pal
 ticularly of the heroines among the ma
 tive workers, because those we cannC
 see. You, I am sorry to say; l al glad l have seen them. I wish ever !, one of you could see them as I sa'
 them; and just here may say that it
 an easy thing to go to those countrie! ' and if there are any ladies here wh expect during the next two or thre years to go to Europe, take my advice turn right around and go to Japan 1T ; stead, and if you can, go all the wa | around. It is an education; it has a , interest that I think no European tri
 can give. l was very much impresse with these native workers to see Wha advantage they have in knowing tn l people; to see the quick turns the would make. I remember one tim, just after meeting in Madura, a mas