Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-09

drift into indifference or Journalism or waiting. Especially for the women here are the bitter fruits of Confusian ism, infanticide, foot binding, early marriages, concubinage, sale of wives and daughters, prevalence of suicide, deplorable lack. of education. Why ed- ucate2 It is like wedding the field for the other man! In the interior there IS no family meal, and 8 man would De ashamed to be seen talking to his wife. Here, too, as in India. how re- sponsive they are when the opportunt- ty comes, the eager women, middle aged and elderly, sitting about the ta- ble in the hall of enlightenment, study ing feverishly, is one pleasant picture in my mind. Another is the gradua- tion of two women doctors from the Union Medical college in Picking as thoroughly equipped for their work as any young doctors in America, so the head physician assured us. These two digniffed women in their caps and gowns had stirred all Picking for they were the first graduates in all north China It was a great occasion. The American minister gave the address, the elite of the city were in the audi ence, their curious Manchu hats bob ping, their gay clothes making it a came from a small out-station in our own mission. She had found her chance.
 korea's Native Christians.
 In China, too, there are large self supporting churches, noble body of men and women-mostly men, and in Japan we all know the high standing and self reliance of our Kunuai church. es. But perhaps it is in Korea that the native church shines most glorfously.
 We went to the Sunday school of resident church one beautiful Sunday morning. The mems Bible class was just coming out of church-only 800 of an his arm, and the women's class of 500 then took possession. We visited the younger departments and estimated that there were at least 2,200 in that
 school that day. And there are Il Christian churches in Pyeng Yangi Isn't this a magnificent Christian body? The sacrifices of these native con- vertS shame us in our comfortable world. The Indian who had only one meal a day for a week that he might | save something for the extension fund of the cemetery, the Korean who sold his one COW that he might help put a roof on his church, the children of poor Chinese village where the teacher | gets only $3 month, who were saving their pennies for the golden anniver- sary gift (and the Jar was a heavy | one). If we had more of their spirit there would be no lack either of gifts
 or of workers.
 In all this great body of body it is
 
 wrote these changes, a never ending miracle They have seen the heavenly vision and have been obedient unto it. And how eager they often are to tell others of the vision! One of the se- crets, 1t seems to me, of the over whelming success of the great mass | movement in northrn India is that ev- cry one who hears the gospel story is required to tell it to bring at least one other under Christian influence. An appealing incident connected with the centenary in Bombay was the plea of
 an old man who had come from Salim- pore, 500 to the north, to beg the American Board deputation to send a l Christian teacher to his own town. He
 was S3 years old, he was poor and he was blind, but he wanted that teacher | with an intensity that few of us feel in connection with out spiritual life He | said: Like Simon of old, I shall not | die until my blind eyes have seen the coming of the Lord in Salimpore." He gave us these strings of old Indian l coins ttat we might not forget him and his need. After the great sorrow | in Shanghai when Mrs. Capen and 1 Miss Capen brave1y decided to go on l with the. journey, it was touching to | see the profound impression their cOur-
 age made on the women of China and
 Japan. Again and again they spoke | of it, that they could go on without l faltering, even with cheerfulness. showed so wonderfully the power Of
 the Christian faith. It was a tremen-
 dous lesson to some of those in the
 morning of religion.
 Dependence Upon Prayer.
 Another deep impression as we jour neyed from one missionary home to another was the dependence upon prayer. At many of the mission sta | tions the daily prayer meeting was held at noon, where one was carried straight to heaven by the earnestness and power of the petitions. Prayer at noontide enriching the earth. And i the meetings of the native Christians. | How those eastern women pray, for us
 as well as for those nearer. They are | often intellectual, sweet mothers in | Israel, but showing a simple childlike 1 faith, and an ease in talking to God | that shames some of us who stumble
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