St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-06-22

hoku Gakuin are enrolled in prepare.
tory, collegiate and theological depart
ments. The staff OF teachers number
20, seven of whom are Americans,
with DR.. SCHNEIDER at their head. l
was particularly struck with the
strength of Paul L. Gerhard and Will
liam G. Seiple, Phi. D., the latter a
Johns Hopkins man whose hobby is |
archaeology. Likewise, Miss Weidner, |
Miss Powell and Miss Zurfuk, 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 more, 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 physical
training. Many of the students sup
port themselves, working an9 living in
the Industrial home which the denom-
ination maintains at Sendsi, arising
at two and three o'clock in the morn
ing to deliver milk and newspapers.
There is a pronounced religious life
among the students; they have Y.
M. c. 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 I was called upon to make an
address to the Manchurian veterans
and other soldiers in the military hos
pital, and he certainly was a self-pos-
sessed, free and forceful speaker.
Making the Most of Miss Japan.
Japans newly awakened interest in
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
Sut 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 80 pupils, Of whom
Is live in dormitory, is industrial in
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 school
[ was at first unable to see Miss Buzz
zelle, the principal, as she was busy
condoling with young man who
wanted to marry one of her girls and
| was trying to enlist her help. / later
met the young man, and fine fellow
he seemed. He had seen the girl once
and she had seen him. She was will
ing, and he was eager-eXtraordinar
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
it's pride aroused, refused to let hel
marry the man; and inasmuch as II
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whole family, and her future happi
ness is determined more by her hus
bands relatives than by the latter
himself, Miss Buzzelle thought the de
cision wise and declined to intervene
for the ardent sutton. A measure o
this sort of responsibility goes will
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, no
| Christians, are selecting mission
school wives, although the teacher
rather discourage the girls from maj
) rying any but Christian men.
Caring for Famine Orphans.
Most appealing to me of all tn
3 sights of Sendai was the orphanag
) which is an outgrowth of the famine
: Here $50 children, some Of them Ii
: tie girls who were kept from bein
d sold into immoral lives, find HON
q under the care of Miss Frances
Y Phelps, a Methodist Episcopal mil
Y sionary who nobly represents Amer
+ cas- finest article of export-the Gu
t tured, fine-spirited, self-sacrffcin
T. women who have given their lives
), what they consider the worlds higl
e est welfare. Miss Phelps mothers
l. this great company of children, raj
e ging in age from two or three yeal
i to thirteen or fourteen, many of thel
orphans only because abandoned b
their parents during the famine.
e They are a healthy, merry lot, a
s though when rescued there were on
s two who were free from the dreadfI
q eye trouble so common among IL
d poor of Japan, and all were covere
/. with rags, filth and vermin The q
II iteration in their appearance with
n these few months is no more marke
j. than their development along 9TH
@ lines They sing the Christian hymn
n in wide variety, more heartily than
It have ever heard them sung by Su
% day school in America. On a slig
a. financial foundation this orphanage
d doing work of vast importanc
n which must commend itself to one