Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1907-06-26

The nearly 800 students OF .he To
hoku Gakuin are enrolled In prepar.,
tory. collegiate and theological depart.
ments. The stan Of teachers number
%. seven OF whom are Americans.
with DR.. Schneider at their head. I
was particularly struck with the
strength OF Paul l.. Gerhard and viii.
liam G. Seiple. Ph. D., the latter
Johns Hopkins man whose hobby is
archaeology. Likewise, Miss Weidner.
| Miss Powell and Miss Zurfiuk. OF the
| girls school. impressed me as being
teachers and executives who would
not be without honor in their own
| country. All that the government
schools teach. and mora, is given in
the Tohoku Gakuin. the students of
which. like those OF the former, are
exempted from military service. The
vigorous athletics OF the Japanese. as
well as baseball and other American
games, form a part OF the physica,
training. Many OF the students sup
port themselves. working and living in
| the Industrial home which the demon.
nation maintains at Sendai. arising
at two and three o'clock in the morn.
ing to deliver milk and newspapers
There is pronounced religious life
among the students: they have a Y.
NJ Z. A. and hold student prayer
meetings on the roof OF the college
tower; they do evangelistic work in
the country, teach in Sunday schools.
etc. One of them was my interpreter
when l was called upon to make an
/ N hn
and other soldiers in the military hos
pitai, and he certainly was self-pos-
sessed. free and forceful speaker.
Making the Most Of Miss Japan.
Japan's newly awakened interest I'm
the education OF women affords the
missionaries an opportunity for work
that reaches far. There are three
schools for girls in Sendai, maintained
by American churches. AS already
said. that OF the Reformed church.
which has been in existence since
1886 is the largest and best equipped
1t Is run by three American Young
women, with staff OF IA Japanese
teachers, and has 100 students. All
but two OF the graduates OF this
school have been Christians: and the
aggressiveness OF the Christianity of
the undergraduate students is indicat,
ed by the fact that every week 20 diff.
ferent Sunday schools are supplied
with workers by the school.
A similar high religious standard Is
maintained by the Baptist school.
which has so pupils and less preten.
tious buildings. The Methodist girls
school, with about so pupils. of whom
20 live in dormitory. is Industrial i'm
character and does efficient work with
an equipment unequal to that of the
neighboring schools.
The Missionary as Matrimonial Agent.
When calling at the Baptist schoo.
! was at first unable to see Miss Buz.
zelle, the principal, as she was busy
condoling with young man who
wanted 10 marry one of her girls and
was trying TO enlist her help. / later
met the young man, and n fine fellow
ne seemed. He had seen the girl once
and she had seen HIM. She was will
ing, and he was eager-extraordina
lily so, as such matters go in japan.
But his family felt that the girls So
cial position was not equal to his.
though they finally consented TO the
match. Thereupon the girls family.
its pride aroused, refused 20 let her
marry the man; and inasmuch as in
ms country girl really marries a
whole family. and her future hapDi.
ness is determined more by her hus-
bands relatives than by the latter
himself, Miss BuzZelle thought the de.
a. Gi txsige
Tor the ardent sutton. a measure OF
this sort OF responsibility goes with
the principalship Of girls school. al.
ways. of course, with the cooperation
OF the family. The graduates are de-
sired as wives, first of all by the Japa-
nese preachers and Christians An in
creasing number of educated men. not
Christians, are selecting mission
school wives. although the teachers
rather discourage the girls from mar
rying any but Christian men.
Caring for Famine Orphans.
Most appealing to me of all the
sights of Sendai was the orphanage
which is an outgrowth OF the famine.
Here $50 children, some of them lit
tie girls who were kept from being
sold into immoral lives. find home
under the care Of Miss Frances T..
Phelps, a Methodist Episcopal mis-
sionary who nobly represents Ameri-
cas- finest article % export-the cul-
tured. fine-spirited. selfsacrificing
women who have given their lives to
what they consider the worlds high
est welfare. MISS Phelps mothers"
this great company OF children, ran.
ging in age from two or three years
20 thirteen or fourteen, many of them
orphans only because abandoned ty
their parents during the famine.