The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-14


 Even the hymns the children sing, have been taught by Miss Barnum in her singing classes; and her prayers are the golden cord between the hearts of the children and their God. Bible classes follow, for which preparation must be made in the early morning hours. Then to the Kindergarten, in which she takes special delight; new teachers are employed here, who need her help and training. How the little ones love her and how their eyes glis- ten as she brings forth things new and old from the supplies sent by the New Haven Branch. Later in the day she teaches other classes and helps and en- courages the Armenian teachers
 Do we not need to ask the Lord to strengthen this young missionary and make clear her vision of the Savior, that she may reveal Him to hungry souls about her?
 Miss Fenshams usual letter for our anniversary has failed to arrive in time for the meeting.
 In Miss Patricks absence, Miss Fen- sham has been acting president of the Girls College at Constantinople; at no time in it's history, has the institution had before it a career of greater useful ness.
 The missionaries in Adana, feel that the work among the women, has been left them as a sacred trust from Mrs. Montgomery, and that she cannot lose her interest in it, even amid the joys of heaven.
 Miss Webb writes that the women open their hearts to her as never before. Five girls are to be graduated from the Creek and nine from the Armenian de- partment of the school.
 The teacher appointed in Miss Mary Montgomery's place, is very satisfac- tory.
 The last message (of which I know) that came from Mrs. Montgomery were these words written in her own trem- bling hand, From henceforth expect ing, till His enemies be made the foot stool of His feet. What is He expect ing from you and me? Let us try to find out the coming year" BIBLE WOMEN. The accounts of our Bible women in the different missions would fill book With rich experiences; in 1t we should find Miss Swift's beautiful story of many heather women studying the Bi- ble. Among the 50 Bible women of Madura, are the seven whom we de- light to call ours.
 1t seemed one glad result of their la bors, when 100 Mohammedan women l were interested to attend the exercises at the opening of a new building in the Training school.
 | It has ben year of fruitful labors | for the 66 Bible women of the Marathi | mission, one-third of whom we are | privileged to support. and we should | rejoice to hear some of their experi ences.
 | On account of wide spread distress and suffering, those women have had unequalled opportunity for their work and the people have opened their hearts to them as never before. One l of them says, "rrhe women are very | willing to listen, I have always had to | find hearers, now many women come to me to hear the truth" Approximate | figures in the mission report state that | 100000 people were reached in over 12,- | 900 visits and that fully one-fourth of l the listeners were men,
 l They have not all followed the usual | routine In some villages the whole | population went upon the government relief works, and then the Bible women would follow and visit the relief camps. | I would like to have you glance at a l picture of one of these relief camps, where 1000 men, women and children | are battling against starvation; over head the burning sun in a sky that has | been cloudIess for six months; under l foot, the baked earth and hot stones. l Ali work with small hammers, break l ing up stones, and they do with diff1- culty, what in usual strength, they could handle easily. They are not | driven to the labor by taskmasters but are anxious to do it and receive in re- | turn the merest means of subsistence. | In one village where Kasubai, our old est Bible woman, has visited for many years; 43 persons were received to the church at one communion, large pro- portion women. This church has for several years received more women than men into membership, an ac- knowledged result of her labors. In repeated instances, women were soften ed and listened to the truth, who had l always sent her away from their homes.
 A few years ago, two of our women were sent from Ahmednagar as native | missionaries to new district.
 Mrs. Gates writes that as she visited with them from house to house, so many greeted them, that she asked if they knew every woman, and they said
 "Oh, yes! We know every one in the | village, men and women. We ourselves
 are weak, but in the strength of God
 we are living here and doing His | work
 Our two workers in the Roha district have been very faithful and have spok-
 en to audiences numbering in the az
 gregate over 5000. They report that
 some hear with one ear and let the
 words pass from the other ear, others
 believe the truth, but cannot yet make
 up their minds to forsake all fo1
 Christ's sake.
 One of the Bible women who left
 Bombay on account of the plague, con-
 tinued her work in the villages. Her
 visits were among fisherwomen, and
 other low caste people. Many of these
 had heard the name of Jesus, only as
 the God of the defiled foreigners, and
 when told of His character and mission
 of love, listened with eagerness, and of
 ten said, Bai, our hearts are com
 forted by these words, but what car
 we do? How can we forsake the cus-
 toms of our people? It requires mucf