The Republican journal., 1909-11-11
The Mission Mail Bag.
A BRIGHT SPOT IN SPAIN.

Over against the shadow cast by Fer
rer's execution, with the political and
religious unrest which it represents,
shines the steady light of an American
institution that has brought only blessing
to the Spanish people. AS far back as
1871 Alice Gordon Gulick, then scarcely
more than girl, went with her husband
as missionary to Northern Spain, under
the auspices of the American Board. She
had no further idea than to aid him in
his pioneer work, but was soon led to
open small boarding School for girls.
A graduate of Mt. Holyoke College Mrs.
Gulick kept pace with the movement for
higher education of women in our own
land, and was inspired with an ambition
to fit her Spanish girls for examinations
in the Government Institute and also for
Madrid University. 1t was great test
of the intellectual caliber of Spanish
girls. but several took their degrees with
distinction. The Imperial University then
inquired why is not this school better
known" To make it better known it
was removed to Madrid in 1901 and holds
a charter from the State of Massachu-
sets under the name OF the International
Institute for Girls 1t is now an indie
pendent, wholly unsectarian college, the
only one in the nation for the higher edu-
cation of women. A member of the first
graduating class in Madrid has charge of
the Spanish department in Wellesley Col
iege. Mrs. Gulcl1 died just as the re-
moval was made to new quarters, but her
work goes on and finely illustrates how
the American Board through the inf1u
ence of Christian education, is affecting
society in other lands.
A TURKISH PATRICK HENRY.
The ring of the patriots of the Ameri-
can Revolution is in these words spoken
by young Turkish governor, under
forty years of age, in a recent address to
crowd in front of the Government
House in Adana. He said, in part:
"Fellow citizens, you are living in one of
the most fertile districts of this empire.
The past thirty years Of oppression were
not able to dry up these fine rivers or
wither this beautiful greenness around
YOU. Yet in the change from autocracy
moment the atmosphere was poisoned
and people We're stirred up to this horrid
slaughter. Accused the moment when
thousands of Ottoman citizens manifest
thousand curses on this black page in
fair Ottoman history. As | passed
through the ruins of this fair city salt
tears flowed from my eyes. l bowed be-
fore God for strength that l might be
able to perform my duty in binding up
the wounds, comforting the hearts and
assisting the needy of my fellow country
men. My first exhortation to you is,
forget the past; look to the future.
hope you will heed this injunction, for it
comes from heart that loves his fellow
subjects and fatherland above every
thing. In the second place, unite. AL
ways work for union, for in union is
strength; disunion is weakness and ruin
Our first effort must be the feeding
and re-housing of the thousands in direct
need and desolation, and the reconstruc-
ton of destroyed places Of worship and
schools. The construction of irrigation
works, the draining of thousands of acres
of swamp land, the building of the Bagdad
railway and electric plants, and the con-
struction of harbor in Mersine are I'M
dertakings which will improve the coun-
try and afford work to many. The carry
ing forward of these enterprises and the
organization of an educational system
will. ! hope make your province an envi-
able one. | eXkort you to be faithful to
the government, to be active in your
trious in your own work. Do not forget
that God loves the industrious. | warn
the idle losting in coffee shops and street
corners that no mercy will be shown
them. If anyone discovers lack of JUS
fice. or wrong doing On the part of any
one government official or private citi-
zen, let appeal be made to me at once.
The door of the government is open at all
hours to the people, rich and poor, small
and great alike. All transgressions of
law and order that come to it's knowledge
will be treated with severest justice"
Rev. W. N. Chambers, an American
Board missionary who heard this speech,
says: Il am persuaded that the governor
was perfectly honest in all this and the
effect was excellent on the people, Mos
lem and Christian alike. 1t has helped
the well-nigh hopeless Christians to turn
to the future with a rising hope"