The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-19
NORTHFIELD SESSION
is CLOSING TONIGHT
One of the Biggest Gatherings Ever
Known of Women for Foreign
Mission Cause.

The fact that over 200 women have
attended, that the speakers have been ex-
ceptionally good and that much new en-
have made the 18th session of the North
field Summer School for Women's For
eign Missionary Societies one of the larg-
est and best ever held. The week-long
series of meetings will close tonight. when
Rev Frank Eckerson of Annoy. China,
will deliver the final address in the Au-
ditOrium.
Yesterday was a day of camp picnics.
concluding with the usual sunset service
on Round Top. There beneath the pines,
on knoll where Mr.. and Mrs. Dwight l..
Moody lie buried, women and girls in
their bright summer dresses gathered and
sitting on the slope of the knoll they
sang a dozen or more gospel hymns with
far more zest and harmony than charac-
teriZes any ordinary prayer meeting
The singing was followed by fervent
Christian address by one of the younger
students. and a prayer. Immediately after
which still bigger crowd gathered at the
Auditorium and listened TO an address
by Mrs. Helen w. Peabody of Boston.
Mrs. Peabody is chairman of a commit
tee which has the task of raising a total
of S3.000.000 for the furtherance of the
work of union Christian colleges for wo-
ditional offer from the trustees of the
Laura Spellman Rockefeller memorial
fund. a million and a half of the big sum
has now been pledged. 1t still leaves an
other million and half which must be
raised before Jan. l. 1923.
How real the need is for help in the
orient was shown, prior to Mrs. Pea
body's address, by pretty Christmas
pageant. in which a dozen young women
took part. The Spirit of Christmas,
after lighting the candles for the Christian
countries. Is soliloquizing as to the van
ity of the Christmas exchange of use
less gifts" when there enter. one by one,
the young women students from the or
iental colleges and plead that their can
dies may be lighted too. The piece is de-
signed for use throughout the country
this winter to help raise funds for the
cause and as enacted last evening it was
an inspiring contribution.
Mrs. Peabody pointed out that the
raising of the fund had been handicapped
largely by the famine condition in Europe
and China. to relieve which so much
money had been worthily given. but this
i'm no wise leSSened the need of the orr
entail women who lack sufficient support
in many instances to keep their Christian
colleges going. There are seven union
Christian colleges for women in the Far
East now. at Toxic. Peking. Nanking
| Lucknow. Madras. Nellore and the North
China Medical college, all of which need
| help.
No one can estimate. she said. what the
! Christian influence of the women of the
orient is to be in days to come. There i
no hope of trained Christian leadership
until we have given these colleges strong
| foundations.
In Japan for instance. to quote the
words of President Pendleton, 1T may
! be that the last hope for Christian de
mOcracy for Japan rests with this Chris.
tian women's college" There they are
1 fighting against the militarism of the
| country.
/ In India and China there was crying
need for medical training. in fact % per
cent of oriental women have never had a
doctor or a nurse.