El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-29
Women Need Mission Work
American Mothers Need to Be Taught
Some Things quite as Much as
Do Chinese Women
Ella Wheeler WIlcox.-

by Ella w neG1eE NallcOLs--
UGH home missionary work is
MI done By churches all over our
~ land; yet that much is left IN
done which could be done. and that
time and money spent in a large part
of the foreign mission work could be
better employed at home, is painfully
true.
The world is Gods house. and in
housecleaning good workers know they
must distribute their labors over the
whole mansion and not leave any part
of it untidy.
So in missionary work; it is wise
and well to send toilers ard money TO
teach the people in distant lands a re-
ligion which includes hygiene and
which helps women and children to be
freed from the bondage of unwhOle-
some superstitions and traditions. Only
in this way can the world be swept
and garnished, and the race made safe
from pestilence-
At the same time, vast sums OF money
are used in foreign mission work which
might be put to the most important
ends here at home There is a youth
condemned to life Imprisonment who
was brought up in an American town
bristling with church spires. and who
lived in sound of church bells, yet no
man or woman made the slightest ef-
fort to lead this lad into right ways
No Effort to save the Boy.
His stepfather and mother were
known to be drinking. immoral people,
and when the boy became involved in
a family fight. which ended in his kill
ing his Stepfather, a highly moral jury
quickly condemned him to life i'm
prisonment.
The town where dwelt the jurymen
prlded itself upon sending the largest
fund to the missionaries of any town
in the state
When asked WHY no missionary ef-
fort had been made in behalf Of the
wretched American boy, who lived
within a stones throw Of her church. a
Christian woman replied, why, We
never thought about doing anything for
him or his family"
But she and her fellow church mem
bers had thought about doing a great
deal fol- the HOttentot and the China
man.
Chinese Girls Rescued.
In China II has for centuries been
the habit Of many poor people to de-
SJroy or give away their girl babies
Christian missions have rescued many
thousands of these babies and cared
for and educated them
A large percentage in one Christian
institution in China is composed OF
children either mentally or physically
defective.
The letter which is appended makes
one ponder on the why's and where
1ores of our American methods Of
charity and benevOlence.
The Chinese mother waits until her
unwelcOme child is born before she de-
stroys II; the Christian American moth
er in Christian lands is quite as much
in need of missionary work as the
Chinese woman; and her helpless Off
spring are even more in need CT a cru
SADIE for their salvation
Margaret Murray Dow, who wrote
the following letter. was asked If she
would consent to its qualifications before
1t was presented Therefore, its rather
severe accusations of sins of omission
on the part of American Christian
clergymen and church members must be
regarded as authentic.
Tries to Save Marines.
For "A long years 1 have been VOL
untary missionary 10 the men of the L
s. ". c. IN every way have tried. as
a Christian woman, to guide them
Alright Left alone as they are. ne
elected and without the Influence of
Christian women and men. save for my
gospel meetings and my home it is no
wonder they go away from Mothers
prayers.
The street woman hounds them to
the very gate of the barracks. waits
for them in the back room Of the mis-
cradle saloons on the avenue. Every
temptation that can be presented is be-
fore them
In this service It has been nv aim
to help the lads as a mother would
to warn them against the surroundings
at the garrison, to get them to churches
and to be fried to them
Women Worse Than Men When They
Sin.
Women need not down men for a
dual life. They have only to regard
their attitude to the marriage law in
the light of the Almighty's keen eye to
know they are worse than the men
when they sin against His law.
"A nation is judged by the standard
of its women Let America take care
how she lowers the standard at the
awful pleasure of women
Margaret Murray Dow
Copyright, 1913, by Star Company
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