The Republican journal., 1910-04-07
The Troy c. E. Society.
They Receive an Interesting Letter From
the Mission Field.

the Mission Field.
AS the members of the Troy Christian
Endeavor Society are widely scattered
they hold their meetings by a circle let
ter. Some are teaching in Massachu-
sets; two are in Bates College; some at
the Maine Central Institute, Pittsfeld,
Me-; one, Bates graduate, is in theo-
logical school at Hartford, Conn; and
one, Miss Sadie Gowen, is missionary in
India. The package which recently came
to the Troy members contained a long and
very interesting letter from Miss Gowen,
extracts from which are given below.
She is very happy in her chosen work.
She enclosed several pictures of scenes
IN India and is to send one of the little
Troy" who is her especial charge. She
writes "she is bright, interesting child
of years, calls Miss Gowen 'nua mama, ;
meaning new mamma" AS Troy is to
support and educate her by paying $25 a
year, she selected the child and named
her Troy.
Extracts from letter to Troy C. E..
Society by the missionary, Miss Sadie B.
Gowen, Sinclair Orphanage, Balasore,
India.
Letters are so good, and they
come only once week from the home
land, but counting each of yours l had
thirty-tive yesterday. Wasn't that a
feast of good things?
When the letters arrived Miss Coe and
| were seated, one on either side of a
pundit (teacher) who does not know any
English, but is teaching us Oriya. Our
method of study is not according to any
of the laws of psychology or pedagogy
that have ever heard of; but then moth
ing in India is like anything ever saw
before. Our pundit is teacher having
So primary boys in his school. He speaks
perfect Oriya, we are told, and is the
only one in Balasore who could teach us,
who does not know some English. We
then use active words to express differ
ent acts, etc. You good people studying
Hebrew roots in Hartford, there are
some Sanscrit roots and branches here
to be learned, and to be used just as fast
as learned, too. Come on and try it,
There is so much to say that l don t
know what to say first, or where to be-
gin. | enjoyed in fancy the trips around
Boston and other New England cities de-
scribed in your letters, and wish there
were time and space to take you all with
me through the changing scenes between
Maine and Vancouver. There were
several days wait in Vancouver; then
little more than three weeks on the Pa
cific before we saw land. You will be-
lieve me that it really looked good when
we saw it. Yokohama, where we first
landed, was full of interest and beauty,
and l had the privilege of visiting one Of
Folt's classmates of last June, who is
teaching the Bible there in M. E.
school, Kobe, full of beauty, we saw for
several hours, and had an evening in
Nagaski. The queer sights and the
sound of the wooden shoes Gathering
along the brick streets, the sweet odors
of Japan, which no other country pos
sesses, the beautiful shops and the beau
tiful scenes, will last in memory long
time. I'll tell you about them when l
see you.
We had but little time in Hong Kong,
China, which is not typical Chinese
city, being largely English and very
UGdOLllul. we dIlCIlOIeu OutSlu0 I1OIlE,,
Kong harbor one night waiting for a
typhoon to pass, but we got bit of it,
enough to give us dreadful shaking up
and to make most of us lean over the
rail and look rather white and flimsy.
Then came Singapore and Penang in
the straits. Another handful of the
earth's surface that England has reveled
over and taken in hand, doubtless for
the good of all concerned.
In Penang we visited a very large
Buddhist temple, saw the people at wor-
ship and paying large sums of money for
prayers written on paper which a priest
was burning. We also saw an Anglo
Chinese school under the M. E. mission,
in which 1000 boys of many nations are
studying, from kindergarten to college
preparatory. am sending some of the
snapshots we have taken. Miss Coe and
l are both amateurs yet.
1t was just eight weeks from the time
| left my home in Troy until reached
Balasore We could have come much
quicker, but one seldom has opportunity
to call on the nations of the earth, SO we
took little time for sightseeing. Miss
Coe and l had for fellow travellers DR..
and Mrs. KEENAN,, who had been in India
before and knew their way. Then from
Calcutta came ride in the India cars,
about one-quarter the size Of ours at
home. There is first, second, intermedi-
ate, and third class passage. We had