The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-05-14
WOMAN MISSIONARIES
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the effect Of the work of the people, this advance of three thousand five hum dred dollars, (Applause). So l want to ask you to rejoice with us over that money received.
 I think another thing that has af- fected me since I have been gone was thefeeling that the executive committee In Boston is a very small part or the Woman's Board, and whenever l want to represent the Woman's Board to you after this I want to warn you that you may always expect that 1t is the foreign field that shall be stronger, much more permanent than ever it has been before l always felt that the eX- ecutive committee was a small part or this country compared with these branches, these noble workers In our auxiliaries. I have been this winter more to auxiliaries than ever l have been before, and l want to say that get so much courage when l see these Christian workers in these auXtliaries, the one, two, three or four women who are determined that the work shall not fail.
 Not a great while ago I was at meeting and the treasurer first stated about the contributions, that they must come up; and I am always sure that when a New England woman says .'must'' that it is almost sure to be done. And so I want say that it does give us great courage to feel that this work is going on as it is in our auxiliaries.
 And now may bring you just few messages from the foreign field? l know our missionaries would ask you first for prayer, for the Holy Spirit. You have no idea how dependent they feel for your prayers and upon the power of the Holy Spirit to give them the zeal, the courage, the faith, the pa tience, the perseverance that they need. And first I want to ask you to pray for the Holy Spirit to rest upon all our missionaries.
 I think the next thing they would ask you would be to save our work. In so many places they feel as If their work were in danger; not only from unto- ward surroundings, not only from the opposition, that they find there but from the indifference of so many of the women in our churches at home l know very well there are no indifferent women here to-day, but I am afraid there are indifferent women in your churches, and it is those that we want to get hold of; it Is those that we want to ask to help save the work of our missionaries.
 But 1t is so hard to have worked year after year trying to get into the homes of the people, trying to win their hearts, trying to make them willing to receive the gospel and then when they are willing, to neglect them because there are not workers enough, because there are not funds enough to gather in the sheaves. Everywhere I went I had the impression of the harvest, and saw missionaries struggling under the burden of the wonderful harvest, the wonderful success that has come in an- swer to your prayers and to theirs
 And then I pass along one or two messages from the heather women, the women among whom they work. And I wish you could stand with me in that little room. after very delightful meeting when the native pastor and the native women gave us their cordial welcome, and see very tall man come down the aisle, a gaunt Hindoo with an enormous turban on his head, lit- tie cloth around his shoulders and around his waist, and guiltless of dress of any kind besides, and to see how he came up to me and talked in that language How I did wish I could un- derstand it. Then to be told, "He has been waiting here for you five days. He came to ask you to send a preacher i1>I to will Ia nt a Christian man, remember heather man. His son and his daughter had recently become Christians; he had seen the effect; he said: "I believe that is good; we want more of this in our village" And he heard there was Ia secretary, a lady from America, whc had just come, and so he walked from ten to twenty miles to ask that would send preacher and a Bible woman to the village. What could say, friends? The last meeting that we had before I went away on Fri day morning, meeting in Boston, asked the ladies to pray that I might not make too many promises. l knew how hard it would be to refuse, to turr a deaf ear to all the pleasure tha would come to me. And friends, did not dare to make definite promise except in this one instance. "Yes," said, 'I can get that Bible woman. will I will get the money for her And was told of a woman that would go. I said '"That money shall come whatever happens" And so that wa: the one definite promise that I was able to make all of the time I was gone The rest of the time l could only say "I win try I will tell them. l will try and do my very best to get what yol need and what you want" So 1 wan you all to ask the dear Lord that h. will help me as I try, and pass along these messages from these people tha come all swarming around us whereve i've went through all these countries.
 I remember once going to a little vii lage just outside of Madura with thei Bible woman to spend an afternoon among the houses, and I remembe seeing one woman that looked so sat and so unhappy, and she said, "Why you Bible women and you ladies com to this village now; once there was Bibei woman in our village and she dit ,oo+ oaroe fn caa mo I wanted tO S4A