New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-16
FAREWELL TO MISSIONARIES.
Some Interesting Work Women Do in the
Far East.

Whoever doubts that there still heather IN
the world and that they bad things TO have
sbout-until converted into Christians that is
had only TO attend the farewell meeting which the
Woman's Union Missionary Society held yesterday
afternoon in the Bible House for its four depart
ing missionaries. Miss Susan c. Easton, Dr. Jemma
Mackenzie. DR.. Blanche NJ. Monro and Miss Emma
NJ. Bertsch, to see the error of his ways.
WHY do the heather rage and the people
imagine a vain thing" read DR.. Wilson Phraner,
but it rather pitiful heather. a suffering
and needy heathen than a raging heather about
whom the meeting concerned itself
Of the three young women who will sail to-day
by the White Star liner Oceanic for Liverpool to
spend the next seven years in India. Dr. Mackenzie
will do medical work in connection with the or
phanage at Cawnpore; DR. Monro will practise as
q physician among the native women in and about
Jhansi, and Miss Bertsch will take up zenana work
in Calcutta Miss Easton. who makes the fourth
where she formerly labored as a zenana worker
The missionaries expect TO reach Calcutta about
Christmas.
DR.. Alice Ernst who Will return in another year
her work in Jhansi. told how she went out to
take medical charge OF orphanage and con-
uected dispeusary. But l found l could not care
for the women at all without a hospital she said
There is not a hospital which native woman
can enter within radius of one hundred and fifty
miles Of Jhansi in any direction although Jhansi
women VIII accept European medical treatment
many are still too prejudiced have any but
native doctors at whose hands they suffer tortures
The missionaries received by bequest the money
for hospital, but even then they were not satjs-
fed.
We were so cramped for room that the nurses
had to sleep in the surgical ROOM moving out their
oeds on u The veranda when there was TO be an
operation ana afterward moving them back" said
DT. Ernst When the Lieutenant Governor visited
JhAnsl we had an audience with him and asked
u ne could not help US to get a new nurses home
lie replied that it very good of the Americans
- uo 50 much for 1ndia-he had been 10 visit the
aoSpltaiS-and he would see what he could do
tAIee months later We received a telegram saving
mar We had received grant of 5000 But even
IlItIe uial the nurses nome we needed new,
+,yIe NheTe our missionaries could be made com
-1 n[TbI ms we now have also
MISS tastcn said that never since the dsve Of tho
-lts Cn"Ich mad Gods blessing so Significantly
-esteu on any union work the work In cal
~ 1I-sslonaIles now conceded that to neglect
- -.lsleE eGlcauGn OF the native Christian girls
We 70 commit q grave mistake. 1t is hoped IN
mage the school Of this kind now in Calcutta the
gall girls e' iOi OH Ben
,- III M4ctenZie. DR., Monro Miss Bertscb and Mrs
EI9uuht' OF Morristown. y. j. spoke briefly and
Ut Fnraner commended the work Of An1erican mis-
etDAaEles IN the East, after which the messing dis
user INTO reception 70 the departing ones
a oelesaton from the Womans Union NissionarI,
society VIII see the missionaries Off