Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-08
GOING TO THE FRONT.
Woman's Board of Missions Sending Out 21 Young Women to Train Ris ing Generation.

With the Great War, like the fla bled Minotaur exacting from Europe and America the sacrifice of their very best in flesh and blood, skilled hand and educe ted brain, our biggest jCb is the trairing of our own boys and girls and the boys and girls of the backward or the half-civilized races of Asia and Africa for the task that will certainly be theirs-the re- making of this world after the war.
 The Woman's Board of Missions is doing it's bit in sending out to India, China, Japan, Africa and Turkey. twenty one ycung women who will O. the rising generation. The po- s,tions they are to fill are positions O. such importance and unique oppor- tUnity as to demand first-class pre- t!.ese who are to fill them are "ac ccrding to specifications
 Of the sixteen who will teach, if- teen are graduates of the leading women's colleges and co-educational universities three have M. A. degrees, eight have done post graduate work at Columbia, the University of Chi cfsso, the University of California, Mt. Holyoke, Teachers College, and Sim mons: others lave taken courses in sions and Dr. Whites Training School for Bible Workers in New York. Twelve have been already tested by some years of teaching in this coun- Miss Edith M. Coon, was a member Of the faculty cf Mt, Holyoke and has been chosen as vice-principal of the Union Woman's College. Madras, In- pr. Cornelius Patton. Home Secretary Of the American Board. having spec ialized in kindergarten training. in tends to begin at the very foundations 8 of character building in the little folk of kindergarten age at Slfoiapur. In- dia. The Misses Elizabeth Read, Martha Van Allen, Adelaide Fairbanl1. Alice Cary. Barbara Rowland: and sionaries, going back to the countries where their childhood was spent. so they possess an invaluable asset in their knowledge of the language and the customs of the people. Miss Al mira Holmes is already getting into touch with the race for which she is to work in Africa as she has been te aching in Hampton Institute since 1912. Two of these teachers are Canadians. Miss Margaret Smith of of Montreal.
 | One is a German Mrs. Lawrence Powers, who was Miss Johanna Metz ger, a graduate of St. Trinity College, teacher under the German Basel Mis- sion in India. Her husband, an American Board missionary, died of cholera twenty-thr days after their marriage, and Mrs. Powers is now teaching in Capron Hall School Ma Grra, India.
 Miss Alice Cary and Miss Bertha Smith. graduates of Wellesley and ot Bethlehem Morayia College, respec- lively, are to be evangelistic workers also Miss Grace Breck for seven years CT the staff of the Sunday School Times.
 Two of the twenty-one are trained nurses: Miss Mary Rogers who will Ec superintendent of nurses at Dr. Harriet Parker's Hospital for women i1 Madura. India, and Mrs. Lillian Cole Sewny, who was engaged 1n medical work iR Turkey before her marriage. Her husband was drafted into the Turkish army as a physician at the beginning of the war and died Of typhus in 1915. Mrs. .Sewny is at present. engaged in relief work for Syrian refugees at Port Said. Egypt.
 Several of tEese brave soldiers are already at the front and others are preparing to gr. At the Jubilee Meet Ing of the Worlan's Board in Boston November 12-16, a group of them r.nI receive their commissions as officers in this army Of invasion that, instea q of destroying life and overturning civilizations. fglts death and c-ra tes . new civilization founded on Ch~.st's ideals of brotherhood.