Evening star., 1898-10-07

and to work more Systematically along
truly churchly lines.
ITO this end many an earnest effort, in
many a different direction, has been tend
ing not the least through the quiet days
and conferences of church women, OF
which successive reports have made fulI
and frequent mention.
Then follows an exhaustive account OF
the London conference and quiet day, fol-
lowed by an appeal to the women or the
church to make the twentieth century as
memorable as the present one.
More Graduates Wanted.
The report concludes as follows
More graduates are wanted from the
deaconess schools, to follow Miss Deaae to
Alaska, Miss Mosher to China and Miss
Babcock to Japan, to join Miss Good and
Miss Radcliffe in Africa. and to work In
our home missionary field everywhere. More
sisters are wanted from the various sister
hoods to take permanent charge of church
institutions, north and south, east and
west, and across the seas. More church
workers are wanted from the strong, we'll
organized parishes, to take to many a new
land and to every part of our own land
the lessons learned and pracuced there,
and to teach them far and wide. More Ia
theirs ans mothers, more friends ana teach
ers and pastors are wanted to speed them
on their way. And II the number is small
of those who seem willing now to go, we
may not lose hope or faith in the great
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later be chosen to publish the good tidnes.
"The work we try to do may not be ours
to finish; perhaps we have no right to call
It ours at all. but what of that? Another
generation stands on the threshold of the
coming century ready, we may we'll be-
lieve, to make 1t, even more than this, a
century of service; and God, whose work
it surely is, will place 1t securely in those
other hands that He Himself. in His own
time and way, is making ready to take 1t
up when He bids US lay it down, and it
shall all be perfectly and completely done
some day.
Address by Madame Watanabe.
! Bishop McKim Of Tokyo, Japan, read
Nine Watanabe's address. The little Jap
anese woman, clad in lilac silk native robe,
her eyes shyly cast down, her hands folded
in front of her, sat like statue during the
reading. and at Its conclusion arose and
smilingly bowed She apparently IS consld-
cred by Japanese as belle of the orient,
her face being more than typically comely.
The address. in part, follows:
1t was about two years ago when L was
dining with our bishop at his home in
Tokyo that he asked me If l would not
| like to go to America in 1898 to attend the
general convention of the Woman's AuX1l-
| tary a representative of the Ladies In
stitute in Tokyo. My answer to him was
| that I could use the money to better advan-
| tage than by representing the cause in
America. The question was not put seri-
| ously, 1t was entlreIy forgotten III time,
| but when I was ordered to undertake this
Journey Mrs Mckim the president of the
| Woman's Auxiliary in Japan, wished me
1 to attend this convention.
| Our visit is owing to the great interest
| that our empress feels in your country. 1t
was at the request of Mrs. Alice Baird, the
| last vice president Of the Woman's Clubs,
| to our minister of education on her visit to
| Japan.
I am quite embarrassed that am favor
| ed with this mission, and regret exceeding
| ly not to be able to convey to you the great
| interest of our empress in your country,
| because it is the first time that Japanese
| women have been sent for such a purpose.
| My dear American sisters, please accept
my hearty thanks, not only for the Ladies'