Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-19
City Churches Hear Visiting Clergy
Fifth Union Service in Broadway Church Addressed by Rev. Edwin w. Bishop of Grand Rapids, Mch., formerly of Norwch,-Rev. Sumner R. Vinton of India at Central Baptist Church.

was filled with love and compassion fer these when he saidl Suffer little children to come unto me-
 The Three 0bedIenees.
 Like their eramped and distorted feet, the women of China are distert- ed socially, morally, mentally and re- llgiously. The Chinese woman Is bound by the three obedienees." She must obey her father; when she marrieS she must obey her husband; If she has senfi him she must also obey. Under these conditions daughters and sisters are often sold for the benefit of the men of the family In China the child Is not regarded as necessarily a hu- man being. If the child is sick or weakly this is considered evidence that it is not mortal but an evil spirit in the guise of a human being and the child is thrown out from the house to die. In Pekin, in the gray of the early morning. a cart goes about the streets picking up the dead chil- dren lying on the sidewalks, and the little bodies are thrown into a trench on the outskirts of the city. Woman is regarded as but an added expense and thus the girl babies are in many instances thrown into the child towers to die.
 Africa has vast population and in it's great area are tribes of very l different people, and yet one ward which applies to all Africa gives a | glimpse of the life of woman here polygamy. It is land of no home | life.
 Must Be Reborn a Man. My own land, Burmah, said the speaker, is Buddhist There it is | taught that womans only hope for salvation is by her adhering so close | ly to her religion that she may be re- | born as a man. This hope is admit tedly a very slim one and yet the women all strive to attain the neces- sary degree of goodness.
 Twenty Million Widows.
 Perhaps the darkest picture of all is that of woman's condition in India, | where there are 26 million widows. There it is believed that a man is doomed if he does not marry off his daughters before they reach the agE of six years. Thus babies of one, two, three. four and five years become wives. The English law has inter fered and says that woman must be 12 years old before marriage. but the natives have little difficulty in evad- ing the law. The husbands are usual l ly mature men, and thus, owing to the great disparity of ages, the men nat urally die before their wives, which accounts for the great number oi widows in the country If a widow has borne no children she is consid- cred responsible for her husbands death and becomes a slave in her dead husbands home, India is a land ot great famines. and yet greater than their need for food Is their need of the word of God. Some claim that civil- izaton and education are all that the heather require. but they are not sui ficient Civilization without Christian fty is of no avail.
 Kndergsrtens and Boarding Schools
 In order to start the children ol these heathen homes on the road tt Christianity as young as possible, kin dergartens are formed There ar, boarding schools and high schools fol the older ones. The missionaries hay, headquarters at these schools and ar' assisted by native workers who are great aid in carrying on the fight. Tn, boarding schools prove of great valu, In teaching the girls by example tha which they fail utterly to grasp b! precept. Physical drill and instruction in physiology and hygiene are a par Of the routine of the schools. Stud, of the Bible Is emphasized.
 The Medical Opportunities,
 A work which has opened the WAY t, the hearts of the natives where other wise there would be ne opening Is tn medical work The work of merpy an, love of the hospitals cannot be over estimated. The women who carry. oI Gods work among the heather experi { enee trials and dangers and yet fl spite of this the experience of seein the Christian character develop in tn ] heather makes 1t worth while. Tn speaker closed his address with plea to come to the support of thos who are giving their lives up to thi great work.