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:*■? *'■ ^ :U''-f^* •IK<*k« w^^ ■*'^^*t" *i^^.^ .t~,* Siu^^::^ '^A-. iUfllfslfU m%^t. xv4\^4i^ ^ __ Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2009 with funding from Boston Library Consortium IVIember Libraries http://www.archive.org/details/lifelightforwoma25woma LIFE AND LIGHT WOMAN PUBLISHED BY THE WONIAN'S BOARDS OK IVLISSIONS. 1S95, Vol. XXV. BOSTON : Frank Wood, Printer. 1895. INDEX TO VOLUN/LK XXV. WOMAN'S BOARD OF MISSIONS. Africa, Contrasts in the Zulu Missions, 353; Home School for Kraal Girls, 115; Inanda Seminary, 357; Medical Work, 221; Medical Work, Ne- cessity and Benefit, 206; Two Bible Women at Esidumbini, 361 ; Zulu Christian, 364. Austria, A Peep at Prague, 166; What our Bible Women are doing, 40S. China, Christian Endeavor Society, 62; Gospel within the Purple Forbidden City, 158; Notable Events in China, 499; Present Medical Work, 213; Providential Opening in China, 209; Revi- val in School at Foochow, 162. Editorial Paragraphs, I, 53, 102, 154,201,254, 301, 349, 39S, 445, 493, 542. Illustkations, Airinsha Kindergarten, Pupils and Teachers, 266; Bible Women in Madura, 10; Bible Women's Training School, 7; Bible Women's Training School, Pupils in, 8; Coverof New Testament, 500; Emperor and Empress of China, 159; Empress of Japan, 112; Graduate of Madura School, 65; Graduates of San Sebastian, 406; Graduating Class, Kindergarten in Japan, 26S; Hawaiian Girl, 257; High caste Hindu School Children, 545; Home School for Kraal Girls, 117; Japanese Kindergarten in June, 267; Kindergar- ten Children, San Sebastian, 402; Li Hung Chang, 155; Marsovan Boarding School, 457; Marsovan School Teachers and Pupils, 453; Marsovan, Teachers and Senior Class, 455 ; Mid- summer, in Africa, 304; in China, 307; in India, 309; in Japan, 314; Mr. and Mrs. Neesima, 1 10; Neesima's Last Resting Place, 109; Neesima's Residence, loS; Protraits : Dr. Julia Bissell, 217; Miss E. Theodora Crosby, 54S; Mrs. Gertrude C. Eaton, 459; Mrs. Mary K. Edwards, 359; Miss H. E. Fraser, 214; Miss Elsie M. Garret- son, 164; Miss Annie A. Gould, 502; Dr. Mary A. Holbrook, 214; Miss Nancy Jones, 352; Dr. Gurubai Karmarkar, 218; Dr. Grace N. Kimball, 220; Miss Mary S. Morrill, 499; Miss EllaJ.Nevir. ton, 162; Miss Fidelia Phelps, 35S; Miss Martha E. Price, 360; Dr. Pauline Root, 217; Miss Stockbridge and Bible Women, i ; Miss E. M. Trowbridge, 220; Mrs. Josiah Tyler, 356; Rev. Josiah Tyler, D.D., 354 ; Mrs. Kate P. Williams, 171; Dr. Kate C. Woodhull, 214; Premises at Amanzimtote, 116; Pupil in Madura School, 66; Rebels who would not pay taxes, 507 ; San Sebas- tian School Building, 404; Victims of Turkish taxation, 507. India, Bible Women'sTraining School, Ahmedna- gar, 6; Bible Women's Work in the Villages, 308; Christian Endeavor Societies, 65; Christ- mas in Madura, 543; Madura Girls' Normal School, 3; Medical Work, 216; Medical Work, Memories of, 12; Some Madura Bible Women, 9; Visits with Bible Women, 55; Work of Mrs. Capron, 19, 29. In Memoriam, Mrs. Kate P. Williams, 170; Mr. Langdon S. AVard, 225. Jai'AN, After Five Years, 106; Christian Endeavor Societies, 63; Letter from Mrs. Joseph Cook, 549; Medical Missions, 205; Nurses' Training School, 216; Red Cross Society, iii; Why should Kin- dert;arten Work be Extended? 16. JuNioK Work, Brave Girl Qiieen, 264; For Chil- dren's Meetings, 19,69, 119, 168,221,209,318,3(7, 415, 464, 512, 556; Christian Endeavor Societies in Mission Lands, 62; Hand-to-hand Struggle, 50S, 552; Home School for Kraal Girls, 115; In- habitants of the Morning Star, 265; Kindergart- ners in Japan, 266; Kindergarten in Turkey, 2C9; Micronesia, The Outgoing Mail, 461; The Incom- ing Mail, 463; Missionary Herald, A, 315; Peep at Prague, 166; Present Medical Work of the W. B. M.,212; Relief Work in Armenia, 506; Trip to the Happy Valley, 411 ; Why should Kinder- garten Work in Japan be Extended? 16; Zulu Christian, 364. Mexico, Christian Endeavor Societies, 68; Trip to the Happy Valley, 411; Triumph of Faith, 459. Micronesia, A Brave Girl Queen, 264; Christmas in Kusaie,547; Hand to-hand Struggle, 508, 552; Incoming Mail, 463; Land ho! Kusaie,58; Native Christian Women in Hawaii, 256; Outward Mail, 461; Visit to Butaritari, 261. Miscellaneous, A Broad Outlook, 496; Some Memories of Missions, 305. Our Work at Home, Annual Meeting, 28, 124, Mit 422. 470, 518, 557; Bring an Offering, 465; Consider the Days of Old, 21 ; From the Sunny Side, 36S; Leaves from our Branches, 173, 226, 320, 370; Letter from Dr. N. G. Clark, 25; Miss Harmony's Cruse, 223 ; Mrs. Kate Pond Williams, 170; Our Book Table, 27,75, '^6, 176, 228, 275, 322, 371, 419, 46S, 516, 562; Receipts, 30, 78, 129, 179, 330, 278, 326, 374, 422, 471, 518, 565; Semiannual Meeting, 230, 319; Side I,ights,469,5i7, 563; Some Links in the Chain, 271; Story of a Story, 416; Sure Word of Prophecy, 120; Topics for Auxi- liaries, 29, 77, 12S, 178, 229, 277, 325, 373, 421, 471, 517, 564; Where are the Nine? 466; Year with some of our Eastern Sisters, 513; Y. P. S. C. E. and Young Ladies' Foreign Missionary Societies, 7"- Poetry, Bring an Offering, 465; Child Jesus, 541 ; Japanese War Song, 101; Laus Deo, 445; Love Counteth not the Cost, 397; The Master's Touch, 202; Woman, 153. • Spain, Christian Endeavor Societies, 68; Para- graphs from Spain, 4c i. Topics for Auxiliaries, Apostle of Japan, 129; Contrasts in Africa, 373; Earliest and Latest Workers in China, 178; Important Events of the Year in relation to Mission Work, 517; Latter Day Reformers, 421 ; Medical Work in Mission Lands, 230; Missionary Societies in Mission Lands, 325; Pioneers and Veteran Workers in Micronesia, 278; Proportionate Giving, 564; Thank offering Meetings, 471 ; Thirty Years in India, 29; Y. P. S. C. E. in Mission Fields, 77. Turkey, Among the Armenians, 503; Christian Endeavor Societies, 67; Gifts that Cost, 448; Kindergarten in Cesarea, 269 ; Marsovan Boarding School, 452; Relief Work in Armenia, 506; Woman's Board in Armenia, 311. BOARD OF THE PACIFIC. Africa, Letter from Mr. Dorward, 472. China, Mrs. Lizzie B. Hager, 283; Chinese Lan- guage, 81. In Memoriam, Mrs. Hager, 283. Home Department, Annual Reports of Corres- ponding Secretary, 33; of Foreign Secretary, 133; of Treasurer, 36; Extracts from Twenty- second Annual Report, 569; Farewell Services, 380; Missionary Headquarters, 234, 331 ; Our May Meeting, 377; Sinews of War, 233; That Upper Room, 236; Twenty-second Annual Meet- ing, 521 ; Young Ladies' Branch, 118, 235, 331. Japan, Letter from Miss Alice E. Harwood, 379. Micronesia, Extracts from Miss Wilson's Diary, 474; Letter from Mrs. Price, 425. Miscellaneous, Word from Other Lands, 329. Poetry, Extract from J. G. Holland, 42S; Morn- ing Star, Ahoy, 184. Turkey, Evening in Turkey, 284; Our Brousa Day School, 2S1. BOARD OF THE INTERIOR. Africa, Anianzimtote School, 40; How Young Missionaries Are Kept 81137,342; Letters, from Mr. Bunker, 3S3; from Miss Louise B. Fay, 341, i9^> S3S> S79) from Miss Nancy Jones, 430, 439; "from Rev. C. N. Ransom, 1S3; A Lion Story, 9S. Bulgaria, Extract from Letter by Prtof. Sliopoff, , 192. ■China, Letters, Extracts, 13S; from Miss Mary P. Ament, 356; from Rev. E. R. Atwater, 242; from Miss Ada flaven, 187, 3S6; from Miss Miner, 5S1 ; from Miss Russell, 3SS; from Miss E. Gertrude WyckofF, 334; New Testament for the Empress Dowager, 137; Woman's Work in Kalgan, 537; Woman's Work in Tientsin, 436. Editorial Paragraphs, S3, 135, 2S4, 429, 525. For the Coral Workers, Evening in Turkey, 249; Letter from J. E. M., 296; Seven Pictures, 195; Something to Interest the Boys, 149 For the Young People, Weddings in Turkey, 295- Home Department, Bible Institute and Foreign iVIissionaries, 246; Foreign Secretaries' Experi- ence, 147; Good Friday Meditation, 193; Home [{eport. Paragraphs from, 582; Let Knowledge Increase, 293; Pray for Us, 94; Rally in Dr. Goodwin's Church, 344; Receipts, 49, 100, 151, i99> 250, 297, 346, 394, 442, 499, 538, 585; Studies in Missions, 48, 93, 146, 192, 245, 292, 343 393, 49S, 538, 583; Twenty-seventh Annual Meeting, 574; Unconscious Discourtesy, 194 ; Unreckoned Fac- tor in the World's Evangelization, 149. Illustrations, Girls' High School, Mardin, 90. India, Bible Women's Training Institution, 44; Hiistory Repeats Itself, 3S0; Letter from Miss Moulton, 2gi ; Letter from Miss Eva M. Swift, 432, 489; Missionary Meeting in Madura, 577; Work of a Bible Woman, 191. In Memoriam, Mrs. Mary Day Ely, 584; Miss Harriet A. Lovell, 239; Mrs. F. A. Noble, 346. Japan, Letters, from Miss Annie L. Howe, 37; from Miss H. F. Parmelee, 434; from Miss S. A. Searle, 47; from Miss M. E. Wainwright, 189; Report of Kobe Girls' School, 487. Juvenile Department, Course of Study, 97. Miscellaneous, A Good Suggestion, 39; Great Help to Our Missionary Societies, 494; Our New Missionaries, 23S; Scripture Exercise, 496; Some Reasons for Thanking God, 284; Suspended Prayer, 441; Talk by Rev. A. 11. Smith, 3S9; Work of the Board and Women of Means, 42; Yours? Mine? 333. Poetry, Christmas Symphony, 573; Shut In, 237, Studies in Missions, At Home, and Foreign Review, 583; Bright I?its of History in Turkey, 146; Children's Work, 48; Church of God in Madagascar, 538; Current Events, 393; In the Beginning, 49S; Miss Maria West, 193; Our Op- posite Neighbors, 344; What the Women of Great Britain Are Doing, 292; Work of Our New Missionaries, 245; Work of the Woman's Boards, 93- Turkey, A Bit of Travel in Eastern Turkey, 143; Bulgaria, 192; Extracts from Letters, 86, 289; Khuzmie's Story, 87, 141; Letters, from Miss E. G. Bates, 189;' from Miss Mary Brewer, 389; from Mrs. J. L. Coffing, 431; from Miss F. C. Gage, 341; from Miss E. T. Maltbie, 530; from Miss Ida Mellinger.gi ; from Miss Shattuck, 525; from Miss E. S. Webb, 338; Missionary Home in Mardin, 528; Weddings in Turkey, 295; Wo- man's Work in the Hadjin Field, 531. LADY MISSIONARIES MENTIONED IN VOL. XXV. Abbott, Miss Austice, 292. Abell, Miss A. E., 426, 479. Abr.aham, Mrs., 355. Adams, Miss A. P , 488. Allen, Mrs. C. R., 39S, 447. Ament, Mrs. Mary A., 140. Ashley, Miss, 6. Baldwin, Mrs. M. J., 135,572. Barbour, Miss C. H., 68. Barker, Miss L. G., 33, 35, 134. Bradshaw, Miss Anna H.,55i. Bates, Miss Eula G., 189, 289,432, 531. Bates, Mrs. F. W"., 40, 141. Bissell, Dr. Julia, 212. Blakeley, Miss E. M., 125. Bower, Dr. Rose A., 212. Brewer, Miss Mary E.,3S9. Brown, Miss Clara L., 47. Bro^vne, Mrs. J. K., 227, 311, 319, 543. Bunker, Mrs. I. H., 351 , 384, 430. Burnell, Mrs. A. H., 33. Bush, Miss C. E., 456. Capron, Mrs. S. B., 1,6, 12, 19, 29, 126, 247, 320, 560. Channon, Mrs. Mary L., 60, 425, 549. Chapin, Miss Abbie G., 140. Chapin, Miss J. E., 287, 3S8. Cheney, Miss Nellie M., 155. Chittenden, Miss C. E., 292. Christie, Mrs. C. B., 147. CofSng, Mrs. J. L., 190, 2S9, 431, 532, 583. -Crosby, Miss E. Theodora, 58, 254, 261, 264, 461, 547- Cull, Miss Phoebe L., 135. Daughaday, Miss A., 103. Davis, Mrs. J. D., 521. De Forest, Mrs. J. H., 126, 320. Denton, Miss M F 35, 107, 134, 329,350, 572. Dodd, Miss Isabel F., 171. Dorward, Mrs. Florence A., 3?, 11 c. lu. K'iz. Dudley, Miss Julia E., 436. Eaton, Mrs. Gertrude C, 459, 571. Edwards, Mrs. Mary K., 41, 312, 359. Evans, Miss Jane G., 140. Ewing, Mrs. Geo. H., 156. Ewing, Mrs. Charles, 3SS. Fay, Miss Louise, B., 238, 241, 392, 535, 579. Foss, Miss Ida C, 253, 549. Fowle, Mrs. Carrie F., 269. Eraser, Miss Helen E., 212. Fritcher, Miss Eliza, 458. Gage, Miss F. C, 341, 456. Garland, Mrs. Sarah S., 253, 508, 552. Garretson, Miss Elsie M., 63, 164. Gates, Mrs. Mary E., 194. Goodrich, Mrs. Chauncey, 499, 575, Gould, Miss A. A., 502. Graf, Miss Johanna L., 238, 246. Griswold, Miss Fannie E., 103, 379. Griswold, Miss Florence E., 135. Gulick, Mrs. Alice Gordon, 68, 321, 401, 572. Gulick, Miss Julia A. E., 103. Gunnison, Miss E. B., 35, 133, 181, 379, 571, 572. Hager, Mrs. Lizzie B., 2S3. Hance, Miss Gertrude R., 361. Harwood, Miss Alice E., 35, 133, 379, 572. INDEX. LADY MISSIONARIES (Continued). Haskell, Mrs. Margaret B., 531. Haskell, Miss Mary M., 531. Haven, Miss Ada, 140, 2S6, 3S6, 4S7. Hazen, Mrs. H. C, 55, 543. Hill, Mrs. Arthur T., 47. Hinman, Miss Susan ¥., 23S, 245, 3S8. Holbrook, Mrs. C. W., 206, 543, 559. Holbrook, Dr. Mary A., 47, 212. Iloppin, Miss Jessie R , 59, 481, 509, 554. Howe, Miss Annie L., 37, 4SS. Howland, Mrs. John, 41 1. HowhuKl, Mrs. M. E. K., 543, 561. Howland, Miss Susan 11 , 55S. Hume, .VI r s Charlotte E., 219. Huntintiton, Miss E. B., 320. Hyde, Miss Susan C, 320. James, .Mrs. Florence White, 543, 560. Jones, Miss Nancy, 340, 342, 352, 430, 439. Karmarkar, Dr. Gurubai, 212. Kent, Miss Abby W., 47, 4S8. Kimball, Dr. Grace N., 212, 559. Kinney, Miss Rose M., 479. Lee, Mrs. Clara Hamlin, 171. Loijan, Mrs. Mary E., 33, 126, 479, 543. Lovell, Miss Harriet A , 190, 239, 58a. Maltbie, Miss E. 'P., 792, 530,582. Marden, Mrs. E. D., 582. Marsh, Mrs. Ursula, 192. Mellinger, Miss Ida, 91, 526. Merritt, Mrs. C. P. W., 543. Miner, Miss Luella, 213, 287, 581. Montg^omery, Mrs. E. R., 147, 339, 44S. Morrill, Miss Mary S., 156, 499. Moulton, Miss Mary E., 238, 246, 291. Murdock, Dr., 388, 537. Nason, Miss Cora A., 238, 246. Nelson, Mrs. Jennie M., 155. Newell, Mrs. Fannie M., 203. Newton, Miss Ella J., 162. Nieberij, Dr. Frances E., 215. Noble, Mrs. W. J., 156. Noyes, Miss Bessie B., 3, 125, 543. Pajj'e, Miss Mary L., 407. Palmer, Miss Annette A., 60, 254, 4S1, 549. Parker, Dr. Harriet E., 212, 559. Parmelee, Miss Frances, 350, 434, 551. Patrick, Miss M. M., 171 Perkins, Mrs C. ]., 134. Phelps, Miss Fidelia, 41, 357. Porter, Miss Mary H., 139, 238, 245, 338. Porter, Miss Lizzie C, 408. Price, Miss Martha E., 360, 363. Price, Mrs. Sarah J., 33, 261, 424, 479. Ransom, Mrs. S. H. C, 115. Kendall, Mrs., 6. Rite, Mr9. C. F.,6o, 4S1. Root, Miss Mary M., 227. , Root, Dr. Pauline, 12, 212, 559. Russell, Miss Nellie N., 141, 388. Sanders, Mrs. Sarah B., 536. Searle, Miss Susan A., 47. Seelye, Mrs. Laura T., 238, 246. Seymour, Miss Harriet, 319. Shattuck, Miss Corinna, 525. Shed, Miss Mary H., 16, 434. Sheffield, Mrs. D. Z., 140, 213, 487. Smith, .Mrs. Arthur H.,33,3S, I39.-234. S^'iS^P. 572- Smith, Mrs. James, 6 Snelling, Mrs. E. M., 425. Stanley, Miss Gertrude W., 437, 482. Stanley, Miss Mary E., 437, 483. Stanley, Mrs. Ursula, 437, 483. Starkweather, Miss, 106. Stillson, Miss Alice F., 54, 351. Stone, Miss Ellen M., 192. Swenson, Miss As'nes E., 150, 190, 246, 289, 532. Swift, Miss Eva M., 9, 44, 308, 432, 577. Tewksbury, Mrs. Grace H., 140. Thom, Mrs. Helen D , 146,235, 2S4, 528, S7I. Torrey, Miss Elizabeth, 47, 48S. Trowbridge, Miss E. M., 212. Tyler, Mrs. [osiah, 356. Van Millingen, Mrs. Cora T., 171. Vaughn, Mrs. M. Ella, 578. Wainwright, Miss M. E., 107, 189, 4S8. Waples, Mrs. Cora R., 338. Webb, Miss Anna F., 405. Webb, Miss E. S., 147, 33S, 543, 575. Webb, Miss Mary G., 147. West, Miss Maria A., 2, 193. Wheeler, Mrs. Susan A., 311. Wilder, Mrs. Abby T., 355. Wilder, Mrs. G. D.,4S5. Williams, Miss Etta, 503, 537. Williams, Mrs. Kate P., 170. Wilson, Miss Louise E., 35, 59, 133, 253, 474, 480, 509. 572- Woodhull, Dr. Kate C, 212. Wright, Miss Mary P., 238. WyckolT, Miss E. Gertrude, 139, 334. is 2^ /H^issionat^ (Circulating %ibrar^* WOMAN'S BOARD OF MISSIONS, 1 Congregational House, Boston, Mass. A missionary circulating library has been started in the rooms of the Woman's Board of Missions. It will contain new and interesting works on missions and mission lands. The following are ready for circulation : — An American Missionary in Japan. By Rev. M. L. Gordon, D.D. Among the Turks. By Rev. Cyrus Ham- lin, D.D. American Heroes on Mission Fields. By Rev. H. C. Hayden. Including sketches of Rev. John Elliot. Rev. David Zeisberger. Thomas Smith Williamson, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Spaulding. Rev. Titus Coan. Mrs. Clarissa Chapman Armstrong. Rev. Robert W Logan. Rev. Adoniram Judson. George Dana Boardman. Amid Greenland Snows. By Jesse Page. Among the Tibetans. Mrs. Isabella Bird Bishop. Among the Maoris; or, Daybreak in New Zealand. Jesse Page. Bishop's Conversion, The. E. B. Maxwell. Cross and the Dragon, The; or, Light in the Broad East. Rev. B. C. Henry. Conversion of India, The. George Smith. Crisis of Missions, Th^. Rev. A. T. Pier- son, D.D. Chinese Slave Girl, The. Rev. J. A. Davis. China and the Chinese. Rev. John L. Nevius, D.D. Chinese Characteristics. Rev. Arthur H. Smith. Demon Possessions and Allied Themes. An Inductive Study of Phenomena of Our Own Times. By Rev. John L. Nevius, D.D. Every-Day Life in India. Rev. A. D. Rowe. ESCHol. Rev. S. J. Humphrey. Foreign Missions after a Century. Rev. James S. Dennis, D.D. Foreign Missions: Their Place in the Pas- torate, IN Prayer, in Conferences. Ten Lectures, by Rev. A. C. Thompson, D.D. Forty Years in the Turkish Empire. Rev. E. D. G. Prime, D.D. Forty Years Among the Zulus. Rev. J. Tyler. From Hong Kong to the Himalayas. E. Warren Clark. Glances at China. Rev. Gilbert Reid. Grandmother's Letters from Japan. Mrs. Mary Pruyn. Greek Islands and Turkey after the War. Rev. Henry M. Field, D.D. GlST: A handbook of missionary informa- tion. Lilly Ryder Gracey. Glimpses at Maori Land. Annie R. Butler. Historical Sketches of Women's Mission- ary Societies of America and England. Home Life in China. Mrs. M. I. Bryson. Heavenly Pearls : A record of experiences in America, India and Australia. Lucy D. Osborn. In the Far East. Miss Guinness. Indika, the Country and People of India and Ceylon. John F. Hurst. In Southern India. Mrs. Murray Mitchell. James Hannington, the First Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa. E. C Daw- son. Japanese Interior, A. Alice M. Bacon. Japanese Women and Girls. Alice M. Bacon. James Gilmour and His Boys. Richard Lovett. Joseph Hardy Neesima. Rev. J. T. Davis. Korea from its Capital. Rev. G. W. Gil- more. Lives of Robert and Mary Moffat. J. S. Moffat. Life of A. M. Mackay, of Uganda. By his Sister. Life in India. Caleb Wright. Luther H. Gulick, Missionary to Hawaii, China, and Japan. By Frances Gulick Jewett. Land of the Veda, The. Rev. William But- ler, D.D, Life and Letters of Joseph Hardy Nee- SIMA. A. S. Hardy. Letters to Dorothy. Edith E. Metcalf. Modern Paul in Japan, A. Jinzo Naruse. Missions and Science (the Ely volume). Rev. Thomas Laurie, D.D. Medical Work of The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society (Methodist). Rev. J. T. Gracey. Miracles of Missions, The. Rev. A. T. Pierson, D.D. Missions of the American Board. Rev. Rufus Anderson, D.D. My Life and Times. Rev. Cyrus Hamlin, D.D. Mission Stories of Many Lands. Mikado's Empire, The. Rev. Wm. Elliot Griffis, D.D. Moravian Missions. Rev. A. C. Thomp- son, D.D. Morning Light in Many Lands. Rev. Daniel March, D.D. Modern Missions: Their Trials and Tri- umphs. Robert Young. Memoirs of James H. and Edward Schneider. More Stories from Mother's Notebook. Modern Missions in the East: Their Meth- ods, Successes, and Limitations. Rev. Edward A. Lawrence, D.D. Our Journey Around the World. Rev. F. E. Clark, D.D. Pagoda Shadows. Adele M. Fielde. Prince Siddatha. Rev. J. L. Atkinson. Protestant Missions : Their Rise and Early Progress. Rev. A. C. Thompson, D.D. Protestant Foreign Missions. Rev. Theo- dore Christlieb, D.D. Reality versus Romance. James Johnston, D.D. Report of the Missionary Conference, London, 1888. ROMANCE OF Missions. Miss Maria A. West. Robert Morrison, the Pioneer of Chinese Missions. Wm. John Townsend. Story of John G Paton. Rev. James Pat on. Stories about Japan. Annie R. Butler. SUWARTA AND OTHER SKETCHES OF INDIAN Life. Annie H. Small. Seven Years of Ceylon. Mary and Marga- ret Leitch. Short History of Christian Missions. George Smith. Samuel C. Armstrong. Robert C Ogden. Stories from Mother's Notebook. South America, the Neglected Continent. Lucy E. Guinness. Student Missionary Enterprise. Addresses and Discussions of the Second Interna- tional Convention of the Student Volun- teer Movement. Talks on the Veranda. Rev. C. C Tracy. Work for the Blind in China. C F. Gor- don Gumming. Wide World and Our Work in It. Mrs. H. Grattan Guinness. Women of the Orient. Rev. R. C. Houghton. Woman in Missions. Papers and Addresses at the Woman's Conference of Missions. Terms : Two cents a day and return postage. The circulation will natu- rally be limited to the territory of the Woman's Board of Missions. Miss Ada R. Hartshorn, Librarian. MISS ANNIE STOCKBRrDGE, HER BlBLi: WOMEN, AND A CLASS OF ZENANA PUPiLS. Vol. XXV. JANUARY, 1895. No. T. :iEjpect ©reat G^bings from (3o<5. Bttempt (Breat tTbings for (^oi),. We wish all our readers a Happy New Year! Happy in home life, in -church life, and especially in a life of service for our Lord Jesus Christ. For our auxiliaries, senior and junior, and our mission circles, we wish a year of definite progress in numbers, in intelligence, in gifts ; for each leader and member, the wisdom, zeal, and consecration needed to bring each society to its highest efficiency. For the Christian women who have no part in tliis particular work for their Lord, we wish the untold blessing that has come to so many from their connection with it. For one and all we wish that new, •deep consecration that brings its own unspeakable reward. "Another year is dawning! Dear Master, let it be In working and in waiting Another year with tliee. " Another year of service, Of witness for Thy love; A?nother year of training For holier work above. "Another year of progress, Another year of praise ; Another year of proving Thy presence all the days. The topic for auxiliary meetings in February is " Thirty Years in India ; -the Work of Mrs. S. B. Capron." Mrs. Capron laid broad foundations in three departments of work in the Madura Mission,— Educational, Evan- gelistic, and Medical. For that reason we give our space largel}' to these I LIFE AND LIGHT. three kinds of work in that mission. A recent development in Bible women's work in India, has been the establishment of training schools for these women in buildings erected especially for the purpose. We give the plans and pur- poses of the one in Ahmednagar, which is under the care of our Board. There is a similar one already started in Madura, which is supported by the Board of the Interior. Many of the friends of Miss Maria A. West, so long a missionary in Turkey, who have mourned her death, which occurred some months ago, will be glad to know of her last days. The following particulars have been recently received : — Miss West left her home at Winter Park, Fla., more than a year and a half ago, and went to England. She spent the winter at Cannes, in the south of France. Last February she was obliged to submit to an operation for the removal of a tumor from her mouth ; this to save her life. The operation involved the cutting oft' of the entire right upper jaw, and was very success- fully performed under direction of Dr. McDougall and several assistants. For a time she seemed to be doing well, and sailed from Marseilles for London, where she expected to have a plate inserted to take the place of the part removed, and so be able to use her voice again in private and public address. The sea voyage, and the colder, damper air of London, acted unfavorably upon her, and she began to decline. She never fairly recovered from the operation, and probably her whole system was aftected by the state of her blood before it was performed. Miss West died in the Deaconess' Home, in Mildmay, London. The superintendent writes of her : "I felt it to be a great privilege to minister to her ; and I had the great happiness of knowing that she was quite happy and contented with us. She had two muses and a most kind and attentive doctor, to whom she was much attached. . . . To show her love she would stroke my cheeks, and as I bent over her, I said, ' Do you know me, dear.?* She tried to raise her feeble hands to give me the old caress. I then said : 'And do you not long to see the dear Lord Jesus.? You are almost at the golden gates; do you not iong for his welcome?' Her emphatic 'I do,' were her last words. Her sufferings were very great, and when the last breath had been drawn I only felt the greatest thankfulness to know that she was at rest. She lies in Aubery Park Cemetery, close to a dear old Mildmay deaconess recently called home." While it seems sad that she should die so far away from home, and among people comparatively strangers, it is comforting to know that every care and atteptioiji that Christian kindness could furnish was bestowed upon her. Sh6 had' been longing for rest, and has gone to enjoy it. "She hath done what she could." THE MADURA GIRLS NORMAL SCHOOL. 3 Now we open our Calendar for 1895 with much anticipation and pleasure. Those who have not already purchased one will wish to do so at once. Many testimonies show that they have been a blessing in many homes the last few years. The friends to whom we have given them will greatly miss them if they are not continued. There are others to whom they would prove a delightful New Year's remembrance. Let the orders come in promptly. It is with great gratitude that we report an increase of $3,015.45 in con- tributions for the month ending November iS, over the corresponding month for 1893. There was a falling oft^ of $1,850 in legacies for the same time,, which makes the total figures from January i to Nov. 18, $724.58 less than last year. In the time between November 18 and Dec. 31, last year, the total receipts were $23,751.03. Contributions will be gratefully received even to the eleventh hour of the twelfth month. This magazine will reach our readers very near the beautiful Christmas time. In our many remem- brances of those we love, let us not forget those whom our Lord loves over the seas. We believe that the " inasmuch " is never applied with stronger,, sweeter meaning than to those whose deepest woes and dreadful degradation come from an ignorance that can be removed by women in Christian lands alone. We bespeak the earnest prayers of God's people for those living in the region of the Armenian massacre. It seems that last summer some Arme- nians who had been robbed of their flocks, made an attempt to recover their property, and in the struggle some Koords, enrolled as Turkish soldiers, were killed. In the reports given this was magnified into an insurrection ;. troops wei-e sent to restore order, and an indiscriminate slaughter of men,, women, and children followed. Our missionaries, while loyal to the gov- ernment under which they work, will be taxed to the utmost to relieve sufiering, and their work will suffer. Surely they and our native friends, in distress need our prayers. INDIA. THE MADURA GIRLS' NORMAL SCHOOL. BY BESSIE B. NOYES. At the eastern end of the Madura Mission Compound, beyond the dispen- sary and the missionaries' houses, and as far as possible from the street, stands Otis Hall, the main building of the Girls' Normal School. It is a long, one-storied structure, with a fine veranda shaded by luxuriant flowering creepers, whose white and crimson blossoms, as well as the hanging acid 4 LIFE AND LIGHT. fruit of the graceful tamarind tree in front, are a co.^stant temptation to the gayly clad, brown-skinned little children who come here daily to school. They do not enter Otis Hall, which is reserved for the higher classes, but go through a door in the high wall beyond into the pleasant schoolyard, beautified by great shade trees and towering cocoanut palms, but rendered imhealthful by a sluggish, noisome stream on its outer boundary, which serves as a channel to carry water from the Vaiga River to the rice fields near by. As this is a training school for teachers, we must also have a practicing school, in which the normal students may teach, so that here are all classes, from the Tamil kindergarten to the English High School. Nearly all the little children in the primary department are day scholars, who are gathered in from the streets around us by a woman sent out for the purpose. Some of them are like little Arabs when the}^ first come, with their unkempt hair, and more jewels than clothing. They soon learn to love their young teachers ; and it is delightful to see them grow gentler in manners and neater in dress from day to day. These lower classes are held in the dormitory and on the verandas, and even under the old tulip trees close by. After morning prayers the first hour is given to the Bible lessons. The little ones repeat the catechism and whole chapters of verses, and enjoy telling the Bible stories they are taught, enlivening them with much local coloring, and many appropriate oriental gestures. The education of girls in English is coming to be more and more demanded, both by the girls themselves and their parents. To meet this demand, and the need for women teachers, whose knowledge of English will enable them to read good books, and thus widen their range of vision in all subjects, as well as to teach English themselves, English is taught in all the classes, and we have started an English High School for girls. This ihas recently been recognized by Government as one from which girls will be admitted to the matriculation examination of the Madras University. There are now nearly two hundred pupils on the rolls, one hundred and twenty-five of whom are boarders. The girls in the boarding department come from the surrounding villages, and from our outstation boarding schools. After they pass the fourth or fifth grade they are sent to us to con- tinue their studies, and afterwards, perhaps, to be trained as teachers. The school is primarily one for daughters of Christian parents, since we want all such to be refined, earnest Christian women, who can carry light and knowl- edge to their sisters who " sit in darkness." Yet occasionally we receive heathen girls, some of whose relatives have become Christians, or who are the affianced brides of educated vounsf men who have been converted to THE MADURA GIRLS NORMAL SCHOOL. O Christianity, and wish their wives to be educated as Christian women. It is very touching to watch these large girls sit humbly on the floor with the little children, trying to learn to sew, and read, and cipher, and to see how eager they are to improve in their dress and manners. True, they are gen- erally dull, and do not take naturally to book-leai'ning ; but they soon learn of Jesus, and if they are better wives and mothers for the few months spent with us, we cannot think the effort in vain. They especially enjoy learning to sing our Christian hymns, for the Tamil people are very fond of music,, though their voices are often harsh. The religious atmosphere of the school is very marked. Several of the girls have united with the church this year, six of them at the last commun- ion service. I have never known a graduate who was not a Christian. The girls hold so many meetings among themselves that we have felt it necessary to make a quiet effort to lessen the number. We want them to do everything for Jesus, and to serve him by faithfulness in dail)' duties as well as in religious services. When girls do wrong, the surest way to convince them of their error is to show them how they have grieved the Lord Jesus. I shall never forget how one girl taught me never to be dis- couraged in prayer. She was very hot tempered, and in a quarrel with a fellow-pupil had used vile language. This was the third or fourth offense, and she seemed so hardened and indifferent to all I could say, that after telling her that a repetition of this fault would necessitate her leaving school, I dismissed her without the usual word of prayer. She burst into tears, saving, "Oh! why don't you pray with me.^" From that time she was a changed girl, and is now one of the most earnest Christians in the school. The graduates of the school are scattered far and wide. There are now many schools for girls throughout our district, -r- boarding schools, Hindu girls' schools in the city and large towns, and little day schools in the villages, — to which our girls are sent as teachers. Even in the Govern- ment schools, and in the non-Christian schools established by native princes, their services are eagerly sought, and applications for teachers have come from almost every part of the Madras Presidency. As we go to our various Mission stations, we find Madura girls everywhere. Some are teachers, some are Bible women, some are the wives of the pastors of our churches, or of the teachers and catechists, who are working in lonely villages. Often they are the only educated women in the place, and help their husbands in the little school, or go from house to house telling the women of Jesus, and showing them how to keep themselves neat and take care of their houses and their families. Whenever our graduates come to Madura they visit us, and tell us their memories of the past : of the time b LIFE AND LIGHT. when dear Mrs. Rendall used to bring her baby and talk to them as they sat on the ground about her, and ate their dinner of rice and curry ; of the precious words Mrs. Capi'on used to speak to them during the time she had charge of the school ; of the growth of the school from the time of Miss Ashley and her successors to the present. These women are the precious fruits which testify to the value of the work our school is doing for the Madura girls ; and who can measure the results of the life of each in her own sphere, and of the influence which an earnest, educated, refined Chris- tian woman must have upon the darkened, hopeless lives of the poor, degraded heathen women about her? THE BIBLE WOMAN'S TRAINING SCHOOL IN AHMEDNAGAR. BY MRS. JAMES SMITH. In May, 1892, at the suggestion of Dr. Clark, the mission decided to establish a training school for Bible women, for more advanced study of the Bible, the evidences of Christianity, and kindred subjects. A committee was also appointed to select a suitable site, prepare plans for a new building, and draw up a course of study for the first class. In October following, the com- mittee presented their plan of the building, as shown in the accompanying cut, and reported that a convenient and suitable site had been oftered by the cantonment committee at a nominal price, — Rs. 500. A course of study was suggested, viz. : (i) Bible study, beginning with Luke's Gospel, followed by the Acts ; a selected portion from the Old Testanient, to be prepared each term in addition to the New Testament work. (3) Murray Mitchell's Evi- dences of Christianity (for those who understand English). (3) Manual of Hinduism, Part II. (4) Theory and Practice of Teaching. The first class was formed on the ist of November, 1892. There were nine women in all, of whom two understood English. Two more women joined the class later in the year. As soon as our plans and estimates were approved, the work of putting up the new building was proceeded with and was completed, and the building opened in July, 1893. In the second year, which we are now completing, sixteen women entered the class, all but one of whom appear in the accompanying photograph. Of these, four take the course in Scripture and theory and practice of teaching only. The rest take the full course. Besides their daily instruction in the training school, all visit at least two heathen homes daily in the city. The homes visited are those of all classes, from the lowest to the highest. As far as possible those taught are grouped, THE BIBLE WOMAN S TRAINING SCHOOL IX AHMEDNAGAR. • fc?! » LIFE AND LIGHT. SOME MADURA BIBLE WOMEN. 9' SO that a visit to one house in many cases sei'ves for the instruction of several neighboring famihes. Some of the women have such centers, which they visit daily for months together ; other such centers are visited once or twice a week. Tlie family group shown with Miss Stockbridge,* for example, is taught in the house of the city magistrate, the highest native official in the city, twice a week. The women are doing good work in the training class and in the homes. We find that they are more regular and systematic than at first. This is owing in some measure to the improved facilities for the supervision of their work. Oral and written examinations are held monthly in all the subjects. When the school was opened we were promised a lady from home specially fitted for this work. It is a work demanding the undivided attention of one capable worker. We knew, of course, that such a worker from home could not take charge of the school without a knowledge of Marathi, to acquire which would require some time ; and on this account, at the request of tlie mission, I consented to begin the work and carry it on till such time as the lady appointed was ready to take it up. Two years have gone by, and no one has been appointed. I have done the best I could with the help of Christian teachers, but my home cares and my children demand part of my time ; and I have in addition my work in the heathen homes, which I began befoi'e the training school was organized, and which I do not wish to abandon. I feel very strongly that there should be some one at the head of this school who has no other care or work. The instruction of the class and the supervision of the work of the Bible women is quite enough for one person to look after, and if the work does not receive this undivided attention it must suffer in consequence. SOME MADURA BIBLE WOMEN. Miss Swift, of Madura, sends items with reference to individual Bible women under her care, of which we give specimens : — Among the patient toilers here is Antoniammal. Both Antoniammal and her mother, Paripuranam, are working in the same cause. Antoniammal's house is on the opposite side of the city, in the West Gate. She daily walks the mile and a half to the East Gate to attend our first Bible lesson in the Bible Woman's Training Institute, and after that she walks out of the city four miles to the villages where she has her pupils. It is wonderful to see that these village women, who are almost all laboring, working from morn- ing till night, can be induced to learn to read. How few women in America would take a book and study it over the wash-tub, or kitchen stove, or in the * See Frontispiece. 10 LIFE AND LIGHT. SOME MADURA BIBLE WOMEN. 11 fields reaping grain. Antoniammal has about thirty such pupils, whom she has persuaded to read, and in order to teach them she must follow them up about their work. She has to work hard and walk far. All the woi'k of i-eading is preparatory to reading the Bible, and during the time these women are learning to read, the Bible women have opportunities to speak to them of Christ, and so we find this method of holding the women an excellent one. Teaching them of Christ while they learn to read his Word, and then putting the Word into their hands, so that they can learn for themselves — such is the simple work Antoniammal has to do. But while doing it she is called upon to combat prejudice and ignorance, and she sees the people about her ridiculing the women wlio are willing to try to learn, so it requires great faith and patient endurance to work on daj^ after day. Surely we know that His word will not return unto him void, however it may appear to us, so we can well afford to wait the revelation of his will and time as we work together with him. When Martha was in a state of depression that might have blighted her life, she was helped out of herself by being sent out to help others. . . . She was in a weaver's house one day, where the people received her somewhat brusquely, and did not make her feel at home. She remained talking to them, and after a while she noticed that a wall near which the men were weaving appeared to be almost ready to fall. She begged them to take their work away, but they only laughed, and refused to heed her. "What does a Bible woman know about walls.'' " The next day she returned, and besought them not to work next the wall. She was so kind and so insistent that they finally removed their work to please her. They had hardly done so when the wall fell. The whole household was thoroughly startled, and began to say that Martha must be a prophetess, and now she meets with a kind re- ception all along that street. So the Lord opens hearts and houses by his providences, and the workers go on in the assurance that the Word sown will, after a time, be reaped in the rich harvest time. Harriet is a woman past middle life, who has been engaged for many years in the work in Madura. She had a sad history. Her husband was not an unkind man, but when Harriet's child died and no other child came to take its place, her sister-in-law so worked upon the husband's mind as to bring about a separation. . . . We have lost many of our pupils from cholera the past year. Two of Harriet's pupils died very suddenly, but before they died they gave beautiful testimony to their faith in Christ. Harriet's anxiety for "her dear souls," as she calls them, is beautiful, and I have known her to go out to her work when she was not well enough to do so. I told her the other day that it was really necessary for even God's children to live upon 12 LIFE AND LIGHT. something besides meditation and prayer. Harriet says, and I believe sin- cerely, " All I want of this world is enough rice to keep me alive and a good burial when I must ^o, but my work is my real life." Annal lives in a tiny mud house in my own yard, and goes out every morning on a tiny, springless bullock cart to her villages along the Melur Road — famous for its highway robbers — to a distance of eight miles. I could- not send her to such a distance alone, so I provide a companion for her — Mariammal. Their little cart looks like a shaker bonnet on two wheels. 