The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-05-14
WOMAN MISSIONARIES
Continued from Tenth Page,)

ctillll lhC we SlNS lAdiinh " N'ON always for you, making mention of you in our prayers; remembering your work of faith. and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ"
 This was followed by the singing of hymn 566, "A Charge to Keep l Have"
 Miss Daggett then introduced to the meeting Mrs. William H. Gulick of San Sebastian, Spain, who made the follow ing address:
 ADDRESS OF MRS. WILLIAM II.
 GULICK OF SAN SEBASTIAN,
 SPAIN.
 Dear friends: I don't know how many of you, or how few of you, rath- er have ever been present when have been at branch meeting before; think this is the third time; and l am reminded of the former meetings be- cause I have had such distinct sensa- tions and such peculiar sensations at every one of these meetings. The first time I wanted a school for the girls in Spain, it didn't exist except in a tenta- tive way; We had two or three or four girls with us at that time, and long ed for something which should mean to the girls in Spain that which good Christian education means to the girls in this country; and I remember the feeling with which I plead for such school and thought that it might be- come possibility In the future. Some who are not here to-day warmly vel comed that idea; I remember their words of encouragement, and I believe that to-day they know as we do what the results have been.
 The second time we talked about what had been done in few days work; how some of these girls had been surely converted to Christ and were earnestly endeavoring to do His will in other parts of Spain.
 To-day I wish I had two hours to tell you of what has been accomplished in these last six years in the way of higher education of girls which we did not dream of at that time, or only re- motely thought possible. But you have read, I presume, In the Life and Light of what has been reported from time to time. and 1t seems to me, that in general way it will be better to-day to speak of results of the past fifteen years of work.
 You know what the idea is of such a school in missionary land; it is not to teach algebra or geography or even philosophy, if 1t comes to that; that is part, perhaps, of the curriculum of a school and the higher branches have come in in many cases to form part of this work; but the underlying idea of educational missionary work is to pre- pare workers, Christian workers, Christ ian mothers, women who shall be in the society of these different countries what Christian women are in our own land. Will you tell me if this meet ing would have been a possibility to- day without Christian education? Would it have been a possibility for such a society to be organized and to carry on it's wonderful work, of which we all know, and only a part of which we have been listening to this morning with such interest? Would all this have been possible without Christian education?
 And our minds could not go back this morning to that little cradle hundred years ago in the hills of Berkshire in which the baby form of Mary Lyon
 
 brought about a great change In the history or our women in this land; and missionary work to-day must look back in a great measure to what she did, not only in the way of education, but in the way of Christian education.
 And so here and there, dotted over the world in what we call heather lands, or nominally Christian lands,y can count one by one these schools or the higher institutions which are the result of the thought of women of this land who perhaps never would have ventured forth into such work had 1t not been for the privileges, the stimu- lating influences of their own Christian education.
 The material which goes to make up these schools varies Tn every land. In such country as Spain we deal with the poor, as a rule, or what would be called the lower classes; In fact there are almost no other classes that we can reach. You know what the history of Spain has been. The terrible influ- ences of the church, the persuasive measures of the state, and the two to- gether bringing the people down, down in the scale of the nations from that wonderful position that they held in former times when Columbus went forth to discover our own fair land, un- til now it is on the verge of bank ruptcy.
 Here we find two distinct classes; the old aristocracy, those we are near the throne, and the people; and we go to the people. We don't find the blood thirsty Spaniard as he is represented in our papers here at home, but we find a people oppressed a people longing for light and liberty or the one hand, and the fanatical remnant of the old church on the other, with which we can have, from the very nature of things, noth- ing to do.
 We go to these villages: we go to these classes in the cities, and we say to them, "We have come with light we have come with something that will do your children good; we have come to tell you what 1t means to have liber- ty, to have knowledge, to have the privilege that we have in our own land here, a land to which the Span iard naturally looks as the emblem of all that is good, or has done so until re- gently" And we take them into our