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

and His love. He has come into my
heart, and where it was dark as mid.
night His love makes it bright as noon
day."
| She goes to her home rejoicing, be-
comes a messenger of Gods goodness
and others are brought into the light OF
truth.
JAPAN.
The rising tide is a good illustration OF
missionary work in Japan, each wave
rising and falling, yet steadily moving
on. Oppression to Christianity is surely
lessening and society becoming more
permeated with Christian ideas. We are
represented by our one missionary, Miss
Judson, who returned to Japan a year
ago last January.
| She was at Miyazaki fora few months
but earnest and persistent requests from
Matsuyama led the mission to advise a
return to her former station. Teaching
in the girls school of one hundred pu-
pills and in the night school of eighty oc-
cupies most of her time. 1t Is her
strongest desire to study the language
more and give herself to direct evangel-
istic work. She remembers with great
pleasure the Branch meeting she attend
ed and friendships made among us, and
she asks for special prayer that she may
have more of the Holy Spirits power
and more freedom in the difficult Ian
guage.
MICRONESIA.
Lights and shadows mingle in late
letters from Micronesia.
1,o, rs Doha nf
the little ships Of the Micronesian navy,
is sad news for the Sunday school chill
dren who have read about the little
schooner sailing around the lagoons and
carrying supplies and the missionary to
superintend the work.
On the other hand there is great re-
joicing over the results of the Spanish
war, and over the arrival Of the Misses
Baldwin, who have gone to work in that
lonely, far-away field, at their own ex-
pense How many openings are waiting
for devoted workers like these!
1t is privilege for our Branch
through a recent legacy to provide the
means for building home for these new
missionaries.
AFRICA.
The word Africa suggests darkness,
superstition and degradation, with
which our missionaries there must con-
tend. Notwithstanding the difficulties
and hardships Mrs. Edwards wrote as a
heading to her last letter: praise God
from whom all blessings flow" so great
was her gratitude for the guidance of
the past year. Although seventy years
of age, she is ever active, not only teach
ing at 1nanda, but experimenting eight
out-stations with four hundred pupils
from the heather population, and three
station schools. She also has personal
of the outdoor work, being
DESTROYS that the land shall supply as
much as possible in the way Of food and
fuel. The girls have planted over TWEEN
ty acres Of ground with sweet potatoes, |
which grow easily This work Is done
by the eighty girls in the primary de-
partment, who for time can do little /
else. The school at Inanda opened Feb
ruary 10th with 1874 girls in the house
fourteen more than the maximum limit. |
There are five American teachers and
seven native helpers
The teachers are anxious that we
should know that not many are flocking
to them because of their thirst for
for it's own sake. Many are
ready and eager to learn to read. but
anxious to push on In other branches. !.
This is partly due to the fact that their |
social condition does not furnish any |
great incentive to higher education. |