The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-03-30

materials tone down the Oriental colors and
market the finished products in all parts of the
world.
The school is self-supporting with the exception
of the salaries of the missionaries. The payroll
often goes beyond $500 in gold per month and
is always met by the sales. The workers are paid
about 10 cents day; and some less,
according to skill and this in China is living
wage.
Opening prayer service is held every morning
for all, and each is given a half-hour daily
in Bible study, small classes being taught by
capable teachers. More than half the
touched by this school have been for Christ,
and many devote their free afternoon in the
week to visiting among their heather neighbors.
The patient toiler who sets out only to win her
daily bred, has also the bread of life.
The value of this Mission to China and to the
city of Soochow can hardly be estimated. About
one hundred women are always on the payroll,
and during the revolution, those in charge faced
the emergency and, to help the vast numbers of
unemployed, they received another hundred with
in their doors. outlook, a new interest,
warm handclasp, sympathetic friend, and life
is changed, and changed lives mean changed
homes, changed communities and eventually
changed nation.
Such is the substance of a statement to
about Embroidery Mission, in which Miss
Emma Lester works, by one of returned mis-
sionaries. This missionary first honor
graduate Of Wesleyan College and there are no
more efficient workers or faithful Christians. Of
the achievements Of this mission, every Southern
Methodist should be proud.
JOHN H. JENKINS
I give the letter, IN full, without emitting
a single word.
Digest those facts!
The Chinese women already knew how to
do the exquisite embroidery, but they needed
well-lighted, we'll ventilated rooms, in an at
mosphere of geniality and mutual helpful
ness;" therefore, the Methodist Board took
mission contributions, built the altruistic
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for the product Of those Chinese experts at
needle-work.
Good God Right there under Bishop
Gamblers nose, in Atlanta, are the tenements
and work-rooms of the Fulton Bag & Cotton
Mills, tenements reeking with unhealthful-
ness, and work-rooms that mean premature
decay and death.
Atlanta, Nashville, Richmond ST. Louis
and every other city is disgraced by just such
conditions as prevail at the Fulton Bag &
Cotton Mills; and yet our churches send
money to Soochow, China, to build well
lighted and well-ventilated rooms" In which
the Chinese experts can en- Joy the benefit of
IAN atmosphere of geniality and mutual help
fulness"
To hold on to these ideal rooms, the mis-
sionary wages and the regular market, ''more
than half" Of these genially atmosphered
Chinkesses "have been won to Christ"
Under the similar treatment, it is alto
gether possible that ''more than half'' of the
women and girls who toll and suffer at the
Fulton Bag & Cotton Mills could also be
"won for Christ"
In the Judgment Of Jehovah the Atlanta
women may weigh as much as those Soechow
Chinkesses.
Missionary Jenkins proceeds to say:
''The workers are paid 10 cents day, some
more and some less and this in China
Is a living arage."
Miss Emma Lester said that the wage was
91 x month hut urox 1zcn't ca1ziI hn1t tho