The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-29
WOMEN IN HEATHEN LANDS
MISSIONARY SERMON BY REV. SELAH BROWN EAST NIGHT.

The Life of Women in India, China and
 Egypt Described-Christiani the
 Only Religion That Does Justice to
 Woman-Aid Must Come From Chris
 tian Women--state of Missionary
 Work Is Encouraging.
 At the First Methodist Episcopal church last night Rev. Selah w. Brown preached a strong sermon in behalf of foreign missionary work on the basis of the position of women in heathen and Mohammedan lands. From an in- innate first hand knowledge of eondi- tions in India, China and Egypt, Rev. Brown pointed out in detail the phases in Womans life The unhappy posi- tion of women in these countries is a result of religious teaching of Bud- dhtsm Confucianism and Mohammedan- ism. If this state is to be bettered, Christian workers and especially Chris tian women must effect it.
 The speaker first quoted an Ameri- can woman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who once declared that Christianity had done nothing for women. On the other hand, declared Rev Brown, Christianity is the only religion which has done anything for women. It has been Christianity which has exalted women, which has lifted the veil from the face of the Mohammedan woman and given a little of the joy of life to the woman of India and China. Bud- dhism and Confucianism demand that woman shall be a subject from the mo- ment of her birth, that she shall not be educated nor considered at all in the affairs of men.
 As for education, in some districts of Iadia 1t would be hard to find one Wo- man out of five hundred who can read and write. Even among the better class of Hindoos the idea of educating the girls of the family is never serious ly thought of Ignorance among hea- then women is almost universal and is in q large measure responsible for their base position. Instruction must be the HESL step III TdlSl0g lIeLll.
 In some Asiatic countries the woman is considered a kind of slave. The hard work of farming is for her, no less than for the OK and the ass. In India it is no uncommon sight to see a Hin .,doo riding in comfort and his wife trail- A,ng along beside him with heavy bur hens. Tn China @ woman is sometimes Jr,o, ,J to 1t,avT D1C Tg ' building and other kinds of what is with us the heaviest of work it is the woman who does the work and that fol a mere pittance.
 Or again the woman is considered as a prisoner. She leads a life completely cut off from the world Sometimes women in India are carried out in huge bags so that they cannot be seen ol see anything of the life of the world
 In times of sickness the woman o India can hope for little aid, A male physician may not see her and the fe male physician exists only for tht western world. In case of contagious diseases the woman must leave tht house of her husband and usually die! miserable in an outhouse or a stable.
 The woman of Un-Christian landi knows nothing of marriage as a nobl, institution She is pledged in marriag, as a child and is only transferred iron the rule of q father to the rule of { husband. In case she becomes a wid ow she is persecuted and cast out Fo it is held that it is for the sins of tn wife that death has claimed the hus band From childhood, through wife hood, motherhood and widowhood tn, place of woman knows no enlightmen and no gladness.
 Whatever is to be done for womel of heaten lands must be done thrOugI missionary work of civilized c0untrie and especially through the women O these countries. At no time said Rev Brown, were prospects brighter for tn work now being carried on. He close with an appeal for the support of tn church in the cause.