The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-05-13

fascinating little heart-shaped jam
sandwiches that were served after.
wards, but this was special occasion
when the cradle rollers We're invited
and there seemed no good reason why II
shouldn't be made as popular as the
closing of the dancing class the week
before had been.
We could multiply indefinitely in
stances of what leadership can accom-
plish not alone with children, but
among young ladies, who can be won
to redeem time enough from lectures,
music studies, exercises, amusement,
clubs, for intelligent participants in the
work for which Christ died.
I once heard lady say after a meet
ing Of the Woman's Board of Missions:
IT feel that every such meeting is a
call to fuller personal conservation" 1t
Is surely of very little value to us to
spend this day away from the house
cleaning, the sewing and the multifari-
Gus activities and enjoyments that fill
our days, unless we each go home with
a deeper sense Of our responsibility.
Are we assuming too much in saying
that 1t seems to us that the deepened
/
to an expansion of the junior depart
ment this coming year? If the king
doms of this world are to become the
Kingdoms of Our Lord and His Christ,
there must be an expansion of the ideal
of Christianity that is being impressed
upon the children. One of our very
newest little circles, the starlight" in
Ridgebury, has taken for itself motto
which I am sure they would like us all
to share, "They that turn many to
righteousness shall shine as the stars
forever and ever
A very interesting address by Mrs.
It. M. Price from Micronesia followed:
She expressed her great pleasure in
standing before such company of
Christian women. She found difficulty
In choosing her theme, many phases of
the work in Micronesia suggesting
themselves Miss Beulah Logan's kin
dergarten commended itself as new
point of interest. She had gathered
forty or fifty children from homes Of
such sin and vileness as persons in
this land cannot conceive Under her
care they are learning lessons Of truth
fulness, and obedience and foundations
are being early laid for pure and up
right life. A more general view of the
work was presented by her contrasted
pictures. Mr.. and Mrs. Price were
first missionaries in China. After five
years they were obliged to leave this
field on account of illness, and spent
four years in Southern California in
the pursuit of health. With health re-
stored they again entered the service of
the American Board, and though long
ing to return to China accepted willing
1y the appointment to Micronesia and
went to Ruk. A call came to them
from a small island five miles away.
Long before some Christian work had
been done there, and in the interview
ing years one man, with children and
children's children. had kept up the
Christian Worship This patriarch,
Noah, besought Mr. Price to come over
and help them. Which he did, preach
ing there every two weeks, and later he
removed his home there, taking down
his house and erecting 1t again upon
this little island. Mrs. Price drew the
picture of the assembly on the second
Sunday, when she was herself present
We saw the little company of Christ
fans who had remained true dressed
and clean, gathered about the feet of
the preacher, and the great crowd OF
heather people close behind them filed
the room to the farthest corner. They
were naked and dirty, their bodies be-
smeared with oil. their hair mounted
high above the head, and decorated in
fashions most grotesque. their faces
having no sign of intelligence, and only
the power of speech Indicating that
they were above the beast that perish /
eth. These We're the people among |
whom she had come to labor, and she
prayed that she might be able to love
them. For weeks this was the burden |
Of her prayer, and the love come. With I
faith in the power of Christ's gospel, |
they had worked on until they had the
of seeing marvellous |
change. The second picture showed the
scene in church. as she looked upon it
on the eve of sailing for America two
years later; the rude building with its
native timbers and the audience filing /
the room to the very doors In front
were the training school people, and be-
hind them the very same individuals as
DSlVit, but iO loilSsl Lie SAME III APP
pearance or in heart. They were
clothed and clean, intelligent and in
to live Christian lives But
1hly a small portion of this territory
1as yet been reached with the gospel.
Island after island has never heard the
name of Jesus. 'If they go without the
gospel, the neglect" said Mrs. Price,
lies at our door" and her closing mes
sage was Send the gospel to the Car
,line islands! Send the gospel to the
ladrone islands,"
Miss Stanwood Of Boston brought the
Message from the Woman's Board
speaking words of encouragement and
and expressing the belief
hat the deficit would not only be wiped
'ut, but would put us on our guard in
he future, so making Of our mistakes
step on which to mount to better
hings
Mrs Miller presented, in a very in
eresting address, the salient points of
he review of the foreign work, which
ollows in full:
'limpses of Work for Women and
Children In Foreign Lands.
The heroes of the late war Were so Of ,
en- represented to us by photographs and |
ketches in the newspapers that we soon