The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-10
Mrs. Robert A. Hume in her address presented many pleasing contrasts. She

Mrs. Robert A. Hume in her address presented many pleasing contrasts. She
 said:
 ''In 1882 there were no single ladies in the Christian work of the Marathi mission, now there are fifteen ladies en- gagged in that work. There was no
 girls school with Anglo-vernacular
 standards in the mission, though lit-
 tie English was taught at Ahmednagar.
 Now the girls school at Ahmednagar
 has an Anglo-vernacular department of
 135 pupils, teaching five Anglo-vernacu-
 lar standards, and likely before long to prepare candidates fully for colleges, and, as in the girls schools in all large stations English is taught. I In 1888 there was one lone cast community 1 in Ahmednagar no school for girls and no desire for one. Now there is a large
 and fourishing school of nearly 100 girls, and practically every girl of
 school-going age in that community at Itends that school. When that school was started it was said that the com munity resisted Christianity for fifty years, and it was doubtful if a girls school would succeed there as an edu- cational or Christian institution Now | the next church to be organized in An mednagar will be in that community. | This school will have been a large fac | tor in bringing about that result. Twen- l ty years ago comparatively few: Hindu girls were found in the scores of vil- | lage schools throughout the Ahmedna- | 1s fx. iS,f Village schools nearly one-half, and in some schools more than one-half the pupils are girls. When Miss Farrar in the thirties first preached the idea of opening schools for girls in Ahmednagar some Brahmans, scofingly, said: First try to teach the donkeys and then the girls. < There are to-day in that city l of 35,000 inhabitants over 800 Christian
 girls and over 800 Hindu girls at school,
 besides hundreds of others who have been through the schools. . 1 When pr. John Henry Barrows visit led Ahmednagar the Christians of that city selected as their representative to
 give the address of welcome to the president of the parliament of religions
 Miss Malanbai Kukde, a aagraduate of our
 Bombay school. Twenty years, ago there was no medical work forwomen by women. Dr. Julia BisselI began and carried on a medical work, the extent and value of which it is difficult to es- l timate or express, though laboring un- der very great difficulties. We now l5have in Ahmednagar, through this Woman's board a splendid new hospi- l tai in western India, which can accom-
 modate 100 patients. X In Ahmednagar we now have "a Bible
 Women's Training school, which was long needed. There is alsosa large com
 pany of Bible women, who receive in
 struction and supervision from the sen
 for missionary, Mrs. M. B. Bissell, now I in her fifty-fourth year of actual ser vice. Twenty years ago there was not a dream of plans for industrial work
 for women. Recently rug weaving has
 been systematically taught to girls, and l over 100 are nearly or wholly earn I ling their support by rug weaving.
 A lace making department of the I Christian Girls school has eighty-two members. In connection with the Bonn
 bay High school very beautiful gold and l silver embroidery is taught. A most I gratifying result of all these many ad-
 vances of work for women in the Mar
 athi mission is that they do not end
 simply in each or all of these lines o1
 effort. The result is seen in the mark. ed increase of influence of Christian
 women. The government and munich
 qualities employ a good many Christian ] women as teachers of schools for dligIl
 caste girls. The most gratifying of all I results is the increase of a missionary
 spirit among the Christian women \ More and more they are coming to re. alize as Christian women in America sl realize, that they are saved to serve. \ The morning session closed with a de. 5 votional service led by Miss Alice E' .I Bird. x | At noon luncheon was served in tht
 chapel, at which 375 persons were serv. :, cd bountifully.
 \ The afternoon exercises opened after H the devotional exercises with a fine ad.
 dress by Miss Cornelia Judson.
 .E ADDRESS BY MISS HUDSON OF 3i E 5JAlPAN.az E
 Miss Cornelia Judson of Japan deliv. J eredan address on How the Kingdom j Is Coming to; the Poor, and the Pool ], to the Kingdom in Matsuyama.''
 .l Before speaking about the specia work for the poor in Matsuyama, Miss i Judson spoke a few words about wha Il to know Christ, or not to know Christ means to the women of Japan-tellins