New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-21
ITS FORTY-THIRD ANNIVERSARY.
Woman's Union Missionary Society Needs
Funds.

In the trustees room at the Bible House they
hung up the imperial flag OF China-yellow satin
triangular. bordered with scarlet and gold and
embroidered. by mission girls in Shanghai with the
sacred dragon-and before II missionary after mis-
sonary arose yesterday and told how the Gospel OF
Jesus Christ was being carried through hospital.
through school and orphanage. to the people OF
China and India
II the forty-third anniversary OF the Wom-
ans Union Missionary Society. Some financial
anxiety made itself felt during the meeting, after
the treasurers announcement that the society had
beer obliged TO draw its endowment fund. Tho
OF $50 3a 70 has been spent during the last
year by the society its work. Although num-
Der OF large gifts have been received. they have
been tied up in such way not to be available
for general uses. and the society has been obliged
to draw about $4,000 from It's endowment fund.
While this does not constitute deficit. il has the
immediate effect Of diminishing the resources OF the
society. and urgent plea made for funds TO
enable the society to put back what II has been
borrowing from itself.
Miss Mary J. Ervine, twelve years in Shanghai
said the Chinese were pre-eminently a religious
people. 81 often asked. Are the Chinese
brought r-ily out Of heathendom into Chrstianltyr
] reply that never believed in missions TO tho
Chinese more heartily than I do now. I believe
Mrs Henry Jackson, who stationed at Gavin
life at Indian mission stations. The woman mis-
sionary. she said has 10 be needewoman a
There is nothing she does not need TO know. and
especially enc cannot dispense with knOWl-
edge Of medicine. The first time distributed medi-
cines In India, drove up the bazaar the cross
roads. where, under big banyan tree the men
used 10 gather evenings. With me was a man
carving the precious box Of medicines After he
had hltched the buggy 10 a tree, he announced
that We had medicine TO give away, and presently
a few women OF the poorest class came up and then
a man asked me II would go to his house, as
there was some one sick there. Later, when tho
work was known. women would come from eighty
and ninety miles distance to be treated There
were hospitals nearer them but they felt they
would be insulted II they treated by men
physicians. Soon had over hundred women
and children In the dispensary During the famine
We were able to reach many who had been inacces-
sible before, many seven hundred women and
children coming every other day to receive two
days rations." "
This is time of CRISIS IN India" said Miss Edith
IL. May, q missionary from Allahabad. so many
young men who have been educated in the govern
Tnent schools feel the want OF social reform hut
their religious and family ties are too strong FOR
them So II comes about that they lead a double
life. Their wives and mothers hold them to the old
order. II work In the zenanas formerly neces-
hary Is even more important now, for India will
never rise above the condition OF its women"
In the forenoon prayer meeting was held under
the leadership Of Mrs. V. H Youngman followed
by luncheon, which was served by the society In
its rooms in the Bible House.