Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-22


Mrs. Ellen Hallock Braddock, OF
Steubenville, o., who recently returned
from her missionary work in India.
coming by way Of China during the
Boxer trouble there, gave an address
last evening at the Third Presbyterian
church to a large congregation. Mrs.
Braddock very thoroughly discussed
the work of foreign missions, and her
entertaining and instructive remarks
were highly appreciated.
Mrs. Braddock began by inviting at
tention to the missions that had been
established In India, and assured her
hearers that the natives fully realize
the material aid that is being extended
to them by the Americans.
She then referred to her sojourn in
China at the time of the Boxer trouble
and while she was on her way home to
America. She spoke particularly of the
difficulties in one section of that coun-
try, where hundreds OF American mis-
sionaries had been massacred, and
thought that everybody should be inter-
ested in China at present
However, she wished the congregation
to not forget India, and to retain in
their hearts warm sense of sympathy
for the suffering people of that land.
She had seen the idol of the goddess
Of their imagination, and which they
worship. She was a giantess, and as
black as printers ink could make her.
Around her neck was a string of skulls,
and around her limbs were coiled the
ugliest and vilest of reptiles.
In describing the horrible conse-
quences of the famine throughout the
country, she pointed out the fact that
traffic is everywhere disarranged and
every life is in danger. She was often
asked if the plague there is really as
bad as it is reported, and would have
to answer that man can only die, and
that it was really an utter impossibility
to fully present word picture of the
suffering and distress among these peo-
pie.
India really makes U.S." she contin-
ued, believe and approve Of things that
we have hitherto thought impossible or
detested. Now, | never did believe in
wife-beating until l visited India.
heard one woman complaining to her
husband that she had no bracelets, or
rings, or shining collars or belts to wear
like those possessed by one of the ma
tives wives, and when she was told
by her husband that he could not af-
ford to purchase such jewels for her,
she went into a state of hysteria. The
woman threw herself upon the ground
and, after rolling and rolling around
and pulling her hair, she ran to we'll
and jumped into 1t. She escaped unin-
jured in some manner, but it was indeed
a wonder that she was not killed. Her
husband procured bamboo switch and
had to resort to beating her with it in
order to pacify her. The women are
not allowed to go out in public 1t would
be immodest for Christian in that
country to enjoy the same freedom in
society as we do, and the courtship is,
of course, under difficulty
She explained that the natives en-
gagged themselves to each other by let
ter writing, and that there was, there
fore, very little counting She realized
that those who contribute funds to the
cause of mission work are always very
anxious to know just how the money
is being expended, and how the work is
progressing. The natives are soon
persuaded to wash their faces, wash
their clothing and dress their childrne,
and send them to the mission schools.
Mrs Braddock closed her address by
briefly reviewing the excellent mission
work that had been accomplished in
India, especially during the past few
years, and gave assurance that the
Christian religion is able to reach the
natives of that land.
The talk was preceded by an appro-
pirate song and prayer service. There
was collection. which was literally
responded to, for the support OF mis-
sion work in that country.
Concert and lunch and soup at Nc