The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-14
NEW HAVEN BRANCH,
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ana many plACeS are NlSlleu where HO Christians live-a day or two, perhaps only an hour, for the Gospel message, then weeks and months before the voice of a missionary Is heard again; but let q village school be started with a Christian teacher, and the Gospel leav- en is set to work.
 There are a number of such schools that we help support, in the Farmer dis trict of western India.
 When the mission agent went to one of these villages, about five years ago, the people shut him out of their hearts and homes with prejudice like solid wall and his family could find no place to shelter their heads. Now in that vil- lage there is a church of fifty-four members and promising school of thirty children. This has come not through worldly wisdom or human skill but through the influence of Cos pei light shed through humble Chris tian lives, even as the grass grows un- der the suns rays. As a direct result of one school, a church was organized last December. Thirty-five children in one village walk to another village to attend school. When a refusal was given to the request for a school of their own, they replied, Why not? "Your love for us has become thin.' Somebody's love has become thin when the request of village for single school must be denied.
 Notwithstanding many hindrances, the schools for non-C Christian children in Bombay were never so full and nev- CT more interested One hundred chil- dren have attended at Parell which is a large number of little girls to gather from heather homes into Christian school
 This and the Middlesex school have opened many doors into homes that could not otherwise have been reached
 The Middlesex school was visited by Mrs. Winsor and she writes: Tt is the very best school for Hindu girls have ever seen; such beautiful singing; such delightful reciting of Scripture and such evident interest in all the exercis- es''
 One of our most interesting day schools, and one quite unique in mis- sion work in India, is the school for Mohammedan girls in Madura.
 It has grown so that new grades are necessary and new teacher is needed but it is difficult to find one, for the Tamil teachers do not understand Hin dustan, the language spoken by Mo- hammedans in India. Miss Barker finds the children very interesting.
 Both children and parents are afraid of Christian teaching, but she pays no attention to such objections, and the Bible lessons go on and the Christian hymns are sung.
 In the Pagoda Anchorage school at Foochow most of the children come from heather homes. These children become little evangelists to the family, and in some cases there has come the wonderful change which Gospel truth brings into Christless home or ham, let One of the requirements in this school is to commit to memory a small book in which the leading Christian truths are given in rhyme. Memory training is much valued among the Chinese, and parents of the pupils be- come interested in the success of their children.
 The Woman's school in Foochow has twenty-four pupils; fourteen are there for the first time this year. Of those who entered the school with bound feet, not one has left without having her feet unbound.
 The station classes for women, of which Miss Andrews has often written and Miss Morrill, has told us, continue a promising line of effort. Five classes have been held the past year. in which fifty three members have been enrolled. These women came from sixteen will lages, a number of them for the first time. Similar classes are now conduct .+o Ty, nf twenty women were instructed who could not have visited Paotingfu for that purpose.
 The Ireland Home in the Zulu mis- sion may be counted here. It is on different basis from other schools; 1t came into existence as a refuge for girls who wished to escape from the cruelty of heather homes and relatives. The girls come to learn how to live new life and turn from old evil ways. Sixty-five different girls have been in the home this year, not counting those who remained less than a month.
 It is located on the river named "Sweet Water" and Mrs. Ireland says 1t has been a place of sweet waters of comfort to the poor persecuted girls who have gained it's shelter.
 klNDEiR0IAhIENS D AND Oft1 HAMA
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 There is strange eastern legend that Satan in order to destroy the flowers in the beautiful garden of a queen, gathered all the seeds and bur jed them under ground, expecting that the sun and rain would complete their destruction; with the result that more plants grew and blossomed than ever before.
 In like manner the prosecutions and massacres in Turkey have failed to ar- rest the Christian progress which the Adversary intended to destroy. The storm swept by and we find changed spirit and new outlook in the land.
 To-day the gospel may be preached to the whole Armenian race and receive an eager welcome. Prayer rooms and school rooms are full everywhere.
 The two most encouraging features are the kindergartens and orphanages. Every year we receive new testimony to the value of the kindergarten in mis- sion work. Of our Kindergarten in Smyrna, we receive most fascinating accounts. Miss Bartlett feels that it has had special blessing and guidance in the beautiful home which the Lord gave through the New Haven Branch, and in the skillful, devoted labors of