The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-10-15
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LAST SESSION,
The night session attracted a large
audience. After the organ voluntary
a short devotional esrvice was conduct
ed in charge of the East Ohio confer
ence. Miss zou Hastings and Fred B.
Frazier, OF the choir, SANG a very pleas
Ing selection, Emmanuel" after which
the principal address OF the evening
was made bY Mrs, Mary B. Bailey, Of
Lucknow, India,
Mrs. Bailey is well calculated to
speak upon foreign missions. She has
had extensive experience, having been
interested In the work In India for
years, added to which she is a fluent
speaker, earnest, eloquent and descrip-
tive. Her Introductory remarks dwelt
upon the doubt existing in the minds
OF some people 0s to the needs OF mis-
sion work among the heathens. These
people doubling Thomases) refused to
believe the tales of missionaries, say
Ing that the missionaries exaggerated
the state of affairs In benighted coun-
tries.
These people who doubt, said Mrs.
Radley, need to go and see for them
selves, for seeing Is believing. There
Is no exaggeration In the tales Of mis-
sIonaries; their tales are based upon
what they have seen and felt, In IL
lustration OF what might be termed ex-
aggeration the speaker graphically de-
plcted a scene In the blue waters of
an italian bay at sunset. Had she not
witnessed the beautiful spectacle or had
seen 1t on the canvas she would have
refused to believe that hills could be
so green, such soft blue skies or thatthe
waters played In prismatic colors
against the white beach.
Then, drifting to the mission fields,
the speaker spoke OF the degradation OF
women In the oriental countries, and Of
the abuses Mohammedism and Budd-
hlsm have indicted on the women She
interestingly referred to the bangles,
nose rings, the small shoes. etc, worn
BY the women, while their husbands
Travelled about like lords, In China
there are at present 10000. 900 women
with their feet tortured so hat they
may wear small shoes. In other parts
Of Asia there are thousands of young
girls behind walls, behind bars, in deg
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suffering. They are locked up In ha-
rems, made legal brides while children,
degraded, Inundated and kept down
so that a ranks as an animal
without liberty and worse than a
slave.
That these conditions prevail are the
work of Mohammedism. Buddhism, Con-
fuclanism, etc, To remove these condi-
tions the light OF God must prevail. This
can be done and is being done in "a
grand way by the women missionaries,
"oh.' said Mrs. Bailey. at III becomes
an American woman to say that our
titles are exaggerated. 1t Ill becomes
them to stand idle while there Is a
chance to upllft womanhood from the
depth 1t has fallen.
There Is a work to do-Chirst's work.
From over the seas come the cries of
our sisters from harems and prisons.
and shame on those who care not to
investigate, yet doubt that these things
are So"
LIGHT OF ASIA"
Continuing, she scored Sir Edwin Ar
nold's Light OF ASIA" in that part of
the poem which pictures India as a
paradise for women. 1t may have been
"a paradise for women thousands OF
years ago., she said, but It was the re-
verse to-day. and II is the ONE
kdf to-day that need their burdens light
INened, but they will never be lightened
until Christianity supplants heathenlsm
and idolatry. There Is no religion ex-
| cept that of Jesus Chrlst's, which does
not degrade women's condition. Bars
and letters are used to keep women
In seclusion In the eastern countries
because the men fear that she will not
retain her virtue. But Christian teach
lngs are all that Is necessary In Chris
tian countries. No better illustration of
the superiority OF the Christian religion
can be given than that afforded by the
contrast OF the conditions OF woman In
Christian and pagan countries. Speak
ing Of the progress of the work In In
dia 1t was well exempliled in the state
fldtn that there is now n college in
| Lucknow, India, from which q woman
can be graduated with the degree OF
Bachelor of Arts.
Mrs. Bailey, In drawing 10 q close,
grew eloquent, She recounted many
personal experiences with Hindoo
women to show thelr need Of aid. She
has spent twenty years In India and
she considered these the best years of
her life, and would not have exchanged
them for the same period Of time In the
highest position, social or otherwise, In
this country. She paid a high tribute to
real workers-people who do things,
workers for good in all that the term
ENTHUSIASTICALLY referring to her
visit to Westminster Abbey upon her
return from India. Upon her visit she
noticed that Longfellow's bust was tho
only bust %garlanded with lowers-trib-
utes of enthusiastic Americans. She
had a few flowers In her hand and while
she considered Longfellow a great pet
and was proud OF him as an American,
she placed her flowers upon the slab
which bore the name OF n man who was
a Jealous worker-Davld Livingstone.
Throughout her remarks Mrs, Bailey
was given close attention and her ad-
dress was indeed n treat.
Mr.. VIII Il. Day then sang In his
faultless a sweet solo entitled,
"ThrouGh Clouds to Sunshine"
Rev. DR.. Sooy, pastor of the Fourth
Street NJ. u. church, then made a neat
and appropriate farewell address, which
was In strict keeping with It's title on
the programme, God Speed You" He
complimentcd the society on the man
nor In which It's two-days' deliberations
had been conducted. Other bodies could
well initiate It's methods OF getting down
10 business from the start. No time
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