The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-02-14
NEW DAY
IN CHINA
Women's Mission Of the
Central Union Hears
Interesting Talk.

A particularly interesting meeting of
| the Women's Board of Missions OF
| Central Union church, was held in the
| board room yesterday afternoon, at
| which addresses We're delivered by re-
cent arrivals from the Orient on the
| work being accomplished in Japan ana
| China for civilization and Christianity.
The meeting was presided over by
opening remarks thanked the various
| Tice-presidents who had taken charge
of the meetings during her absence
and carried it on So effectively.
The regular monthly reports of the
| secretary, the assistant secretary and
| the treasurer were presented, after
which Mrs. Martin sang, 20 For the
| Wings of a Dove"
| The report of the Hawaiian Mission
was read by Miss Green. The success
attending the Christmas exercises and
| tree at Kawaiahao was mentioned. The
success attending the sewing classes at
of congratulation. The girls We're do
ing some excellent work and there was
also a marked improvement in their
manner. A great deal of sickness was
found among the Hawaiians, fever be-
irg prevalent. The members of the
mission also found much misery re-
sulting from intemperance, some Of
the EIole readers being subjected to
insolence from intoxicated men.
Women, too, were found among the
victims of drink. Children reared in
some of these homes were exposed to
many temptations. The adjustment
of the truant officers was regretted, as
the parents in many instances are
careless and bad habits are being form
ed among the children. The lack Of
factories or other places where chill
dren could be employed after leay-
ing the schools was felt.
Mrs. Suehiro, wife of the new secre-
tary of the Japanese Y. NJ. G. A, was
introduced by Mrs Gulick and gave a
short address on the work Of the Japa-
nese women during the recent war.
Mrs. Suehiro has only just arrived
from Nagasaki, where she was edu-
Gated in one of the Christian mission
schools. She told of the formation of
an auxiliary corps to the Red Cross
composed of aristocratic women of Ja-
pan, who visited the soldiers in the
hospitals, the attentions Of this class OF
women being appreciated by the rough
soldiery. Another society made Com
fort Bags which were filled with ar
ticles and forwarded to the men at the
front. Among the things put in in
many instances were Bible extracts,
which reached many who had not
heard the Christian doctrine and help
ed in awakening their interest. Bands
of girls from the missions met every
train as it passed and sang encourag-
ing songs, wishing the men Ban Zai.
which means more than "Hurrah, the
literal meaning being "a million
years"
Miss Blunt, the acting general secre-
tary of the Y. w. c. A, called atten-
ton to the cheap lunches being served
to members and thought it would be
helping many working girls if those
who could afford it would give them
an opportunity of securing the benefits
of the lunch-rOom by paying their 81
annual membership fee for them.
read: THE Individualistic versus the
Communal Life of Japan by Mrs.
Clarke Perry Influence on the Chris
ton Progress of Japan" by Mrs. w.
r. Castle: Man Proposes but God
Disposes,'' by Mrs. Hall.
Miss Mary H. Porter, who is stop |
ping over here on her way back to |
China from the mainland, was intro |
duced by the president. She has been |
la boring in the Chinese mission field |
for the past SO years and her short adj |
dress on the awakening OF that coun- |
try was most interesting. Miss Porter |
prefaced her remarks by saying that !
she only realized during the past few |
months how very little she had learned ,
OF her adopted country. There was |
now d new China. The country was
at a perilous parting of the ways. The |
country was being stirred up and the ,
hands of the leaders were being forced
more rapidly towards progression than
they wished by the younger element. !
The people desired to emulate Japan
without knowing exactly what they |
had in view. They wished TO accom-
plish in five years what it had taken !,
Japan thirty-five years to bring about
and the way they may move may not
be wisely but move they Will. The
United States is now reaping the re-
suits of their exclusion laws and their
hostile and humiliating policy towards
China. In the opinion of the speaker
there was reason for Americans 10 feel
ashamed Of their treatment of the chi
nese.
A great change had come in China
during the past IS years. When she
had first reached Picking there was nov
hot /
.ity. while now ever widening circles
IF the influential women of that cap
tai were spreading the gospel. There {
vas now a great demand for education
among the Picking women and in that |
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