The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-22
Dean Kaye Delivers Interesting
Address at Rally.
SITUATION IN INDIA
Mrs. Buck Tells Of Conditions as
She Found Them.
Interesting Mass Meeting at the
Auditorium.

side Of Jesus Christ" declared Dean
James p. De B. Kaye in speaking at
the morning session of the union mis-
sionary jubilee rally which was at
tended by several hundred members
OF the fair sex"
Il can't help being deeply Impress
ed by the wonderful work Of women
at home and in the foreign fields. All
the great missionary societies have
been bolstered up and inspired by the
Womens organization. Christianity
has taken woman out OF the depths
and placed her on the pinnacle she
now enjoys.
Christianity means missions, and
nothing else It doesn't mean sitting
down to contemplation and enjoyment
OF our honest means sacrifice. II
do not believe in missions l am not
q Christian at all.
THE men get up a great deal Of
enthusiasm for little while and then
il dies down, but If the women were
to forget that they are the real power
then Christianity would go down"
The Condition in India.
Mrs. NJ. P. Buck, who has been a
missionary in India for many years,
spoke in an interesting manner IN re-
gard to the ignorance and supersti-
tons whic hexist in that country and
the success to which missionaries nave
attained in their work.
s'There are 3OO,OO0.OO0 brothers and
sisters in India worshiping 330,OOO,OOO
different gods" said she. "These peo-
ME believe in the TRANSPORTATION of
souls They think that soul must
be reborn 100000 times There is
no comfort for the mother who loses
her child. for she believes that the
soul of the child may enter the BODY
of a lizard or some still lower form OF
life in its round.
"There are 100000 child widows
in India under II years Ok age 1 at
tended a marriage where little bride
three years old was carried by an
uncle. If a husband should die when
the wife is but a child she can never
marry again and is condemned to per-
petual servitude.
'sThe ordinary home is just hut of
mud with no windows, ana these Eltle
girl wives are taken to live with their
mothers-in-law or someone VINO IS
The speaker went on to tell of the
rand suread of Christianity and
called attention to the need OF more
workers in the field
Origin of the Jubilee.
Miss Viola Troutman spoke of the
origin Of the jubilee movement, which
is in celebration of the hftleth annl-
versary of time when the organized
work of American women for foreign
missions was begun. Mrs. j. p. NC
Daniel presided over the meeting,
after a devotional hour had been held
conducted by Mrs. S. L. Wilson.
This room at the lunch hour the fol-
lowing responses to toasts were made:
'eWhy We Enthuse Owe Foreign
Missions" Mrs. w. c. Payne OF Law
renee; "The Call to Service" MISS
Mary Sweet; "Our Missionary Moth
ers," Mrs. W. A. Sloo; .rhe Y W. q.
A in Mission Lands" Daisy June
Trout; After the Jubilee-What?"
Mrs. S. I. Lindsey.
Addresses given this afternoon were:
New Women of the Orient; ny HIs rs
J. P. White, Egypt, and The call OF
the Jubilee Year." by Mrs, w. 3. Lind
The program this evening will be
given at the Auditorium. The Rev. H.
P Silver, one of the Laymen's Mis-
sionary movement speakers, Will take
the place of Rt Rev. Sidney Partridge,
late bishop of Kyoto, Japan. other
addresses will be given by Miss Frances
B. Patterson of China and Mrs j. f.
Mcdaniel of Topeka.
Last Nights Meeting.
The program of music and tableaux
eliminating with a pageant of missions
In connection with which 800 persons
participated, given at the Auditorium
Wednesday night as the first feature
of the union missionary jubilee rally at
tracted an audience of $500 persons,
mostly women. 1t was adjudged sue
cess.
The tableaux, which were arranged
by Albert T. Reid and were under the
son, were characteristic of the religious
customs in different heather" lands.
The first of the series was taken from
the book, Day Break In Korea" writ
ten by Mrs. William NJ. Baird, sister
Of the late Mrs. w. w. Mills and who
was formerly Miss Adams of Topeka.
The characters depicted in the tableaux
were bedecked in characteristic garb.
The second tableau represented a
Burmese maid of the higher class car
ing for children Of a missionary. The
next in order was entitled, india, Har
Religion and Its Fruitage." 1T has
been claimed" said Mrs. J. P. White
of Egypt who explained the tableaux,
that there is much beauty IN the re-
ligion of the Indians, but If you would
go to India you would see that this is
not the case.
1.-THE Hindo religion degrades women.
The little girls are given in marriage
at the age of 6, 8, or 10 years. Widows
are outcasts.'' The scene depicted was
that of a fakir. sitting on spikes seek
ing peace which was not his, a child
widow, her little son and her mother
in-law. The last tableau was entitled
"A Message of Peace
The pageant of light and darkness
which was the final feature of the pro-
gram represented the women of the
Christian nations carrying the story e.f
the cross to sisters who sit in heather
darkness. A long file of girls dressed
in white and bearing crosses crossed
the big hall from the rear and left
hand side of the building and another
stream Of girls gowned in black march,
ed slowly down -he aisle on the right
side Of, the Auditorium. The double
columns met on the platform and the
girls in white presented the girls rep
resentina the women Of heather coun-
tries with the white crosses which they
were carrying.
Mrs. j. r. White explained IL the
audience were to sit day and night in
the Auditorium 1t would take 16 years
for ali the heather women of the world
to PASS before the people present
H7ha excaIIauG musical program car