Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-10-07
Memorial to Mrs. Eaton.

1t is the desire of the many friends
Of Mrs. Catharine Eaton in Wiscon-
sin to erect to her memory an endur-
ing monument which shall be of sery-
ice in carrying forward the work to
which she gave warm heart and a
deep interest.
. When only girl of twenty-three.
she gave up the refnements of COM
Portable home in great eastern city
and came west to share the hardships
OF life of home missionary on the
frontiers of civilization in the territory
of Wisconsin. During these early
years she went often with her hus
hand to far outlying stations, often
through the fierce storms of Wiscon-
sin winters, carrying her baby on her
breast, and while her husband told
the waiting people the story of the
Cross, her God-given voice poured
forth its melody in plcturing the joys
OF Gods service and the rapture of the
redeemed.
She saw the sparsley- populated ter
ritory grow into the great common
wealth of three million people and the
little mission stations become prosper
Gus. self-supporting churches.
She gave time and strength and
generous portion of her always limited
income to carry the gospel to the freed
men OF the south, to the red men of
the west and to the untaught foreign
ers crowding into our great cities.
Nor was her love of humanity limited
by the shores of the great oceans
which border her native land. Her
Christian love and interest we're as
widespread as humanity; in every
human soul she saw a brother and
recognized her duty to bring him into
the family of her Heavenly Father. So
Asia and Africa and the islands of the
sea shared in her daily prayers, in her
money and in her loving interest; to
Mexico she gave more than to any
other, that priceless treasurer of a
mother, her frst-b born.
When the Wisconsin branch of the
Woman's Board of Missions of the In.
terror was organized she was the pre-.
siding officer and for many years was
its president, this service only ceas-
ing when she removed to Roscoe, Ill
She was for twenty years vice-presi
dent of the w. B. M. l., whose head
quarters are in Chicago.
"The blood of the martyrs is the
seed Of the church." This saying has
been verified in China in our own
day. Since 1900, when many we're
slain for the Word of God and for the
testimony which they held" there has
arisen a great desire for the knowl
edge of the Bible and for the redeem
ing love Of Christ. The w. B. M. [ fol-
some time have had mission station
at Ing-hok. Here every day come great
numbers seeking a knowledge of the
"Jesus way as they term it. There is
no building adequate in which to re-
ceive and instruct them. It is pro
posed to erect here at Ing-hok build
ing which shall be known forever as
the "Catharine Eaton school," A
similar building was erected several
years ago in Madura, India, by the
friends of Mrs. L. p. Noble, which is
known everywhere as the "Lucy Perry
Noble Bible school,"
| All who have ever met Mrs. Eaton
can realize how she would appreciate
such a monument to her name, a mon
ument which would assist in carrying
onward to countless generations that
love of God, which was the very breath
of her being.
Will everyone who has ever known
and loved Mrs. Eaton, whether now
residing in Grant county or scattered
abroad to distant homes, please join
in erecting this perpetual memorial tc
| her name.
All contributions for this purpose
may be handed to or mailed to J. T
Bennett, Lancaster. Wis.