The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-10

I I an education is shown by the story of four girls living in a little mountain city in Japan, who took a solemn oath i together that they would either win their parents consent to their becom- ing students in the Christian Girls school, or they would commit suicide. l Two deaths and one driven into insani- ty were the fearful results before the parents of the one remaining girl yield ed to her request, fearing that otherwise they would lose their daughter also, and sent her to the school.
 ! So much does the Japanese girl long I for an education!
 In telling the story of the work for < poor children in Matsuyama. Miss Jud- son soys, Tn Japan, with the excep- ! tion of the very poor, the girls as well i as the boys are sent to the common schools; in such cases children are compelled to work all day, even little ones of five years of age acting as nurses for younger babies tied upon their backs. Under these burdens they cheerfully toddle around and manage to play, hop, skip and jump" as well as others.
 For these children of the poor, who as babies become burden-bearers in the spring of 1891 a night school was or ganized in the downstairs rooms of my Japanese house.
 Twenty-Five children came the first night and the Sunday school speedily became so popular that the rooms were 6IIad ~ CYndou Q ffarrnoy1E
 During the second year of it's exist ence this vigorous infant, the Night school, was housed in rough store house, bought and made over for 2 school room, and when more than three years old the present school-house was built.
 This building contains t'hrea good
 sized school rooms a matted sewing room, a large weaving-room in which stand a number of hand looms and four
 small matted rooms.
 A more important gain for the life of
 the school was the securing of earnest,
 faithful, elf-sacrifcing Christian
 teachers. MT and Mrs. Nishimura
 have given themselves to this work in
 ally self-sacrifice, in an earnest and
 loving effort to light the lives of these s poor boys and girls nearer to Christ. W With these devoted Japanese teachers
 eleven girls find house in the school Ibuilding while about ininety-four attend regularly at night, and some. others at tend the sewing classes in the daytime
 The night course includes primary
 and grammar school instruction with
 Bible teaching and Sunday school at. < tended by all while in the daytime the
 girls are taught to weave, sew and cook
 etiquette so important to the Japa nese girl, is given careful attention
 Instruction in the branches above tn,
 grammar grade is given to the girls c and, best of all, the Bible Is taught af1t : made the rule of life.
 For the little household of clever 2 girls one room serves for sleeping room s at night; in the morning the comforta ,. bles which, spread on the matted floor e make the beds, are quickly folded ava.
 out of sight, in a large closet, and it i a dining-room; little later it is { s school-room.
 n Of the other four matted rooms, MT :. and Mrs. Nishimura, in their glad self 7. sacrifice, content themselves with { room the size of rather large closet ' A family each, redeemed and brough < to Christ in the school, fill two otfe e rooms, and one small room is kept al { parlor and office.
 E Two girls saved in this school hay
 become helpers of missionaries -prepar z ing to become Bible women. Others ar }, pupil-teachers in the school Befint r, them stand many more eager in thei
 turn to be fitted to become helpers ; teachers and helpful, useful Christian ' men and women. @
 With but few teachers and smal {, equipment much has been accom- l. plished- How much more will be ac < complished with the added teacher an
 better accommodations for which W
 have prayed, and for the providing o s which our gratitude is deeper thai ,r words! 7sg l. With four or five years more of sturd
 and Christian training for the larg '. number of girls and boys who have al Y ready received the foundations of a :, education, we hope, following in tn e footsteps of Him who made of tn A humble fishermen His disciples and co T, workers, to make many sweet, earnes < Christian women and strong, helpfu
 Christian men, workers for Christ.
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