» Yh ! uy ert Bor Pel. T OF= or= ithe ome sup- and Der- hese iate clec- >un- vell- lers, 10Ng injur- by a sreen- night Two killed No Jey storate Greens as in | years unting- reland as a lippine called 13. D. pointed riminal ury. ber of a well Chagrin e Shore ep. An oth his f which n Viper on coke n in the hospital ings & ch con- red by 0 worth ER oP SL Why Is 1t? Why is it that one woman can hus- tle and support a whole family, while another cannot find time to write a letter to her dearest friend? Anoth- er will make all of her own and her children’s clothing, while her next door neighbor cannot find time to sew a button on a child’s shoe. One may be employed in a business house and yet after working hours find time to regulate a household, while another cannot attend to the most trifling af- fairs without a loss of fuss and feath- ers about it that snaps of lunacy. The woman who accomplishes the most is the one who goes about it in a calm, unruffled way, having all things planned with such system that the work can be expedited.—Globe Demo- crat. Hockey in Women’s Colleges. Dexterity in the use of the sticks adds greatly to the skill of the play- ers, as not only the length of the drive, but its direction, may be deter- mined by the method of handling. As in golf, the players are early taught to keep their eye on the: ball, ready, if it is near the. enemy's goal, to de- fend, while if it is near, their own, to attack. Much also depends upon the teamwork or the skill with which the team works together; playing into each other’s hands, to the confusion of the'enemy:’ - 7: lon For the protection of the. players, a rule forbids raiging the ‘sticks above the shoulders; thus™ preventing = the serious kngeks and bruises which the enthusiastie; players with their heavy sticks might’ otherwise inflict. Even the observance. of this rule, however, does not prevent black and blue shins and. sprained fingers, to say nothing of “that aching feeling” which results from tumbles on a none too soft: hock- ey-field, and the active exercise of every known muscle and & few un- known ones which now clamor for recognition.—Harper’'s Bazar. Three Costumes in One. A voung woman Who has recently acquired a lovely white mull gown, in- sisted on having the skirt made sep- arately from the drop skirt and each set on a band by itself. The dress- maker demurred at this, but the own- er of the gown asserted her right to have it done without giving any rea sons for her determination. After it came home she went to work ‘and made two additional drop skirts and two waists to match, which are near- ly like corset covers, being cut low in ‘the neck and sleeveless. Now the young woman can wear an all white costume. Or she can wear the white over pale blue lining, with ribbons to match. Or, again, she can wear it with a lovely shade of green in 1n- derlining and ribbons. The wisdom of having the two skirts made sepdr- ately is now shown, as there are practically three costumes in one, each as charming as possible. With the all-white costume, is worn wide white girdle or soft silk, while with the others there are fancy ribbon belts and corsage bows or rosettes to match. Care was taken in selecting the linings not to choose anything apt to lose its color, and to have pale and unaggressive shades.—Exchange. “The Perfect Woman.” In a discussion among some friends recently we were in dispute as to the four requisite qualities to be found in the finest type of woman. A thought that these were the necessary charms: 1. A sense of religion; 2, an affectionate disposition; 3, a high rev- erence for maternity; and 4, docility of temperament. On the other hand, B required; 1,- beauty; 2, high spirit; 3, intelligence, and 4, an affectionate disposition. B reminded A that he had not asked for intelligence in his perfect woman, to which A replied that he didn’t require it. B laughed this attitude of mind to scorn, and said that he knew a case at that mo- ment in which such a woman as A de- scribed “was slowly boring ber hus- band to death, and actualy driving him from home by her inanity—the case being all the harder for the hus- band because he realized and appre- ciated the good points of his wife. A retorted by saying that he knew a case in which such an intelligent and high-spirited woman as B described had turned her home topsyturvy by knowing more than her husband did —that the husband had been slowly but surely relegated to the back- ground, and the wife's “affectionate disposition,” instead of being dutifully concentrated upon her husband and family, had gone abroad for its satis- factjon, and expended itself upon man and woman kind generally. The args- ment was of the sort that came to no end, and it was agreed that the ques- +ion would be sent to the editorial tribunal for settlement, in the hope that a formula for ‘the perfect wom- an” might be evolved.—Harper’'s Weekly. Points for the Homely Girl. It behooves the homely girl to cul- tivate a disposition which will so ir- radiate her ugliness that it transforms She must pay an attention to de- tails that may not be necessary for the other. Her dress should be mod- est and becoming in fashion and col- or. Her hair must be scrupulously neat and arranged to the best advantage. modulated. unobtrusive. She must be beautiful at heart. be eager to render them. herself in some congenial time. thing—anything. ugliest features interesting. attractive. long run they will pay a hundredfold Passing of Plaited Skirts. it whenever possible. cular in cloth weight. this year. It has a seam down ceute at center of back. This is disastrou delphia Press. Make vour seamstress or tailo she eliminates any chance of thi droop. . or plaited. some braid above the hem. They are very short—but, the er than we ever dreamed ‘the wome of this day would wear. old. To get them short Her carriage must be erect and | sin. But it also holds before: him ‘a graceful. wonderful hope. To-day he is mired in She, more than all others, must Soupiions Tos moreow he may have hate a care to keep her voice well escaped from this and become like seeD God. The whole gospel is found in Her manners must be gentle and She must repress the angry or fret- ful word and discover the delight of bestowing an unexpected endearment. She must not expect attentions, but Above all, she must be interested in something heart and soul, brain and body, as far as possible forgetting employ- ment, whether it be a duty or a pas- There is no beautifier which is equal to a genuine interest in some- It lends the sparkle of eagerness to the most lack-luster eye; it puts vivacity into the most listless expression, and’ makes: the So let the homely girl have her hobby, and if it be a noble or inspir- ing one, it will only make her more Truly the efforts the homely girl must put forth. are many, but in the Women aré getting a little tired of the ubiquitous plaited skirt; and, ‘while it is still fashionable, and made by the greatest dressmakers, -it' is so common that one longs to depart from It is for this reason that the three and five gored patterns are becoming so popular in thin materials and the six-gored circular and two-piece cir- The two-piece circular skirt in cloth bids fair to be the smartest-ene worn of back and front, and the mistake is made when the back seam is so bias that it gives the skirt a point at hem says Anne Rittenhouse in the Phila- work over it without ceasing until The hips fit entirely tight, but all hips must do that this sea- soh, even when the fabric is gathered The skirts have nothing in the way of trimming unless one wishes to run every skirt for outdoor wear is short- The whole shoe and instep is shown. This is not only true with young girls, but with women of 40 and 50 years enough and to THE PULPIT, A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY : © THE REV. A. H C. MORSE: Subject: Powerful Promises. Brooklyn, N., Y.—Sunday morning, in Strong Place Baptist Church, the pas- tor, the Rev. A. H. C. Morse, had as his subject, “Powerful Promises.” The text was from II Peter i:4: “Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises; that by these we might be partakers of the divine na- ture, having escaped the corruption which is in the world through lust.” Mr. Morse said: ; At any rate the Bible is frank. "It says the plainest things about man’s these few words. We have here a statement of the fact of sin and its origin. The fact is ‘‘cor- ruption” and the origin “through lust.” 1 know that there are worldly-wise men who sneer at the third chapter of Genesis. But this I have noticed, that they are uniformly unable to’give us a simpler solution of the mystery of evil. Somewhere and at some time the race must have sinned. The strédm of life has been poisoned, and tlds must have taken place at its. fountain head,.for. we cannot find any divisions which do not haye, the entire characteristics. of the whole, The Bible says the event took placé in the ‘first max’ before single son ‘was-born, and ie Tustéd af- ter something which was forbidden to’ him, and: that ‘bys his.disobedience :he fell from a. primal innocency, and lurched ‘the race, and entailed a condi- tion of corruption. And that we have aggravated this calamity by repeating ‘sin and deepening the ruin. a But 1 am not so much: concerned to- day about the origin of the: condition We can leave that with a single ‘word. But there are certain facts that cannot be. brushed aside. ‘A man may ques- tion the story as it'is written in Serip- - | ture, but he cannot deny it, ifoy it does not come within the fegion of denial. Neither can he ‘deny the story as itis reproduced in life to-day.- Havé you never plucked forbidden fruit? Have you never lusted for pleasure which has been distinctly forbidden? And as a consequence of transgreSsion, Have you never experienced a repulsive sick- ness and an ‘intolerable loathing, so that you have known what is the meaning of this phrase, ‘the corrup- tion which is in the world through lust?’ Do .you not know anything at all of the lashings of. remorse? Let me ask you another question. How does it happen that the heart is go constantly “running down?’ Why r must it be repeatedly wound up and fastened with ratchets? Why do we have to make and renew resolves, and lash the will to the ‘sticking place?’ Why is-it that a man never backslides s | into holiness? Why cannot we take off the brakes and find ourselves gliding into the highest moral living? Every- r thing, we are told, tends to move in the line of least resistance. Do we find that we are drifting toward char- ity and holiness and benevolence and virtue? Nay, but to all of us these graces are the fruit of serious toil They are magnificent possessions, more precious than gold and sparkling gems, but they are gotten only by struggle and privation and self-denial. And that word ‘‘self-denial”’ contains a fos- sil history of primal sin. . It tells us of n | an evil self that must be constantlysde- nied, because its desires are wrong. n | But whence this evil self, and whence these wrong desires? But let us come a little closer to this subject. I.et me hint at the things that we cannot spread before the public, our secret thoughts and faults which are hidden. The thoughts that creep S eive them a perfect hang the careful women now have their skirts fitted without shoes; that is, they stand in their stocking feet flat on the floor, while the skirt is evenly hung. When you get into your high-heeled shoes the skirt swings into piace at exactly the right line, and there is no chance of an unevenness because they were fitted on a level.—Manchester (N. H.) Union. Fashion Notes. You must be wide at the shoulders. Suspenders and girdles usually match the skirts, but are quite smart when made of black silk or velvet. All kinds of hat modelsare presented and worn, but it is not possible to show any one as generally approved. Short silk petticoats to be worn under pedestrian skirts come in every color and are’ “done” in eyelet em- broidery. : Girdles and belts without suspend- ers give a better effect if they match the waist in color, adding length to the waist. . The series of little square bows that adorned the front of yokes, bodices and even skirts last season are again in high favor. The plain seven-gored skirt flares remarkably below the hips and fits closely at the top, an inverted box plait removing the hack fulness. The daintiest of lingerie shirt waists are made of silk, Persian lawn, linen, net and all-over lace. There is no limit to the possibilities of elabora- tion. A good idea is the adoption of a set of five hatpins, making together a dainty and artistic design instead of a medley of miscellaneous pins that too often mars the harmony of an otherwise perfect creation. Small shapes with low, round crowns, crinkled broad brims, encir- cling veritable flower pots, poke bon nets with francifully undulating brims forming a graceful background to 3 voung face with bunches of curled blonde hair above the ears, are all seen. her into seeming beauty. She must possess lovely traits of character to compete with her beau- tiful sister. The oldest architectural ruins in the world are believed to be the rock- cut temples at Ipsambool, on the left bank of the Nile in Nubia. into the heart and nestle there. Can you tell me whence they come? Tell me, for instance, whence cgme the envy and jealousy and malice and evil de- sire, and the lust for gold that makes the thief, and the thirst for blood} which crimsons the hand of murder? Do you not think these things arise in human life as malaria and pestilence from a death-dealing bog? - Do they not bespeak what this Scripture ealls a “corruption which is in the world through lust?’ I suppose that the an- gels before the throne of God would shirk from having their thoughts pro- claimed with the trumpet of Gabriel. I know that Jesus has torn open His heart and flung out a challengé which no man can accept. “Which of you convinceth Me of sin?” said He. But we cannot do that. MWe hide: our thoughts and cover our faults with a crimson blush, and walk among our nearest friends with a coward’s step. But what has befallen man? If God made him innocent—and nobody -ques- tions this—something . must. have hap- pened to _ corrupt his thoughts and make them so black that he stands in dread of the day for which all other days were made, when this hidden his- tory shall be revealed. " or There is something pathetic in man’s attempts to assert his worth. We speak, for instance, of the “Majesty of conscience” and the “Dignity of hu- man nature,” and.of the. “Fatherhood of God,” and the “Brotherhood of man” as if these terms were true and meaningful. Take the first of these and see what comfort there is in it. “The majesty of conscience!” But do you not know that conscience almost always speaks. in judgment? It seems to have lost its authority to command if it ever possessed that authority. It cannot insist upon obedience, but can only raise its voice in remonstrance. It can be easily overruled, and voted down, and then it can only record a minority vote, and lapse into silence. But there is more in this scripture than a statement of the fact of sin. Here are also “these great and pre- cious promises whereby we may be- come partakers of the divine mature.” That is, men may become as God. And the warrant for this promise is found in the fact of correspondence between the divine and the human. The nat- ural man cannot discern spiritual things, and it is no use to talk to him ence, no basis of affinity, no ground of fellowship. image of God, and i was possible for ture; and about them, for there is no correspond- But man was made in the God to take upon Himself man’s na- it is within the power of every man, by the grace of God, to take on also the divine nature, to be fore ug, . And this is done by a.single act. - Man fel, we are told, by reach- ing’ after the divine attributes. “Ye shall be as God” was the lying promise of the tempter, and by listening to that we were cast to the level of beasts. But now God returns’ to us with the promise that after all we shall be as Himself, sharers in His nature and conformed to His image. It seems strange to you that for a single sin so serious consequences should be en- tailed. L'his could only be because the stream was poisoned at its source, and the race sinned in its first man. But here is. something which is quite as great. The Lord God is making to Himself -a new creation. He has be- gun it in one new Man, who kept His life without spot or blemish. And in His life and federal headship we share by azsingle act of faith. - The conse- quences of faith are quite as great as the corsequences of disobedience. “He that believeth on Him hath everlasting life.” ‘And that does not mean that his life “is prolonged in endless time, but that it is endowed with an immor- tal nature. It is received the instant he believes, as by a new birth, and has passed from death unto life. He hath been already delivered from the ‘bond- age and corruption of the kingdom of darkness and has been colonized in the kingdom of His Son. He'is born of! God, a son of the Most High, a citizen of heaven. A single sin has stained the race. We laid hold on death and spite of tears.and cries and struggle, we have not been able to loose. the hand. One single act of faith takes hold on eternal life, and in spite of sins ‘and falls and failure that prize cian heyer Be wrested from our grasp. Ant thigeis all by faith. - | ia - Men;base said to me that the scheme of salvation is. arbitrary. It is vain, they, say, to shut the world up to, faith., But, my friend, do you not know that this entire universe isarbitrary? There is'nothing more arbitrary than the laws’ of mathematics, or- of health or “of gravitation. It is not strange “that every son of Adam is shut up to the multiplication table? Is it not strange that if a man wants to compute num-, bers in China he must use the identical system that we use? That three and two make five there as they do here? No;rthere‘is ;but one law: for light ror heat or electricity or numbers, or grav itation in all the earth. , And there. is but one. way of salvation for all the earth, Here it is said “through thege DE AT ein : 2 SN promises,’ which only means that a man sfelieves ‘in Christ.” A promise is nothing” exicept for the ‘valué of the person who makes it. Some men may make their promises, and no man gives them heed. But if one promises whose character you know, then you count on | them as you count upon the shining of | the sun. p > We liear a good deal in these days about education into the ‘kingdom -of God; about the natural development of righteousness. But development is only: unfolding, and that the race has been: doing in all the centuries, and each Age surpasses the last in the enormity of sin. ILlducation is drawilig out, buthow can you draw holiness from a heart that is “deceitful above all things and desperately wicked?’ Education can iever do the work. It is like putting a new handle on the pump and leaving the dog in the well. You may wonder at the faney of bringing in a new and supernatural life by belief in precious promises. But all questions are answered by the experiences of history. Great men have been regenerated by single words of Scripture. This was true of Augustine and Luther and Spurgeon and scores of others whom time fails me to men- tion. They were not only new men, but mighty sons of God. Wonderful was this? As great as the wonder of all forms of life. Look into the acorn and tear its halves apart, and tell me if you can see therein the stalwart oak. Analyze the seed of wheat and tell me if you can see therein the waving fields of grain. “Well,” said Jesus, ‘the words which I speak unto you hey are spirit and they are life.” You cannot see thayspirit, you cannot see the life, but can you say they are not there? 1 hold up to you these great and precious promises, and there are saints and mis- charities. and mighty revolutions there, There are heaven and an weight of glory wrapped up in that. And our growth in grace and the like: ness of God is not a process: of mend: ‘ing and improvement. But it is a-new creation by which we.become like. God. And now I have finished. 1 know, have borne down hard on sin. I wish 1 did not have to do so. TI wish with you that the word were not in the language because it was ‘not in the heart. If one of those phantom friends of the astronomers should come to this earth and say to me “I understand this is a beautiful.place, but for one thing. I.understand it is filled with sin and rebellion against the rule of “God.” 1 wish I’ could say to him, “My friend, you have ‘heen misinformed. There is no sin.”**But I tell you frankly. I could not.say*hat to him. I would have to say to him: ‘Alas’ ‘tis true, ‘tis pity. and. pity. ’tis, tis true.” But. I could also say to him that sin cannot hold us in its cruel grasp. I ‘would point him vonder, and say, “Do’'you see that gol- den” splendor? That is’ the gospel of Jesus. It is filled with sweetness; and by that we are restored and have be- come partakers of the divine nature.” And isn’t that more than the fact of sin? : : God’s Way. x God’s promises are ever on the as cending scale.- One leads up to anoth- er fuller and more blessed than itself, In Mesopotamia God said: “I will show thee the land.” In Canaan: give thee all the land, and children in- numerable as the grains of sand.” till wa'have dared to act, that He may test us. that He may overwhelm us. and al serve of blessing. Oh, the unexpl remainders of God! Who ever His last star?—Rev. F. B. Meyer. what Christianity Is. founded by Jesus demption mediated by Him, in whiel throughout all the changes of intellect to maintain itself as the religion bes made like God. That is what is said in the word be- | and worthy men.—Schleiermacher, | sionaries and. noble lives and ‘giant: eternal “1 wil) It ig ®Hus that’ God altures us fc saintlin ‘Not giving us anything Not giving everything at first; ways keeping in hand an infinite re- ored Christianity is that historic religion of Nazareth, and having its bond of union in the re- {he true relation between God and man has for the first time found complete} and adequate expression, and which ual and social environment which the centuries have brought, still continues worthy of the allegiance of thoughtfu) SIBHTH SCHOOL LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR AUGUST 27. 2 Subject: Jeremiah in the Dungeon, Jer. xxxviii., 1-13=Golden Text, Matt, v., 10—~Memory Verses, 8-10—Commen- tary on the Day’s Lesson. I. Jeremiah’s enemies (vs. 1-4). 1. “Then.” After the events referred to in chapter 37, where Jeremiah was de- livered from the dungeon. “Shepha- tiah,” etc. Some of Jeremiah’s enemies who “were seeking his life. “All the people.” They had free access to him in the court of the prison. 2. “Life for a prey.” A proverbial expression. To make one’s escape with fife like a valu- able spoil or prey that one carries off; the narrowness of the escape, and the joy felt at it are included in the idea. He shall carry off his life as his gain, saved by his going over to the Chal- deans. Had Jeremiah not had a divine commission he might justly have been accused of treason, but having one which made the result of the siege cer- tain he acted humanely as interpreter of God’s will under the theocracy in advising surrender. 3. “Surely be given.” .This was a testimony that he constantly bore; he had the authority of God for it. He knew it was, true and he never ‘wavered or equivocated. 4. “The princes said.” Their reasons were plain enough, but the proof was wanting. . “Seeketh . . . the hurt.” An" unjust insinuation, for no man had done more for this peoplé than had Jeremiah:: His. preaching was calen- lated to arouse them to, a sense of their sins and cause them®to tirn to God. One of the commonest ways of injuring others is to misunderstand and misin- terpret. their motives, as Jeremiah’s motives were maligned because it was possible for him to have done what he did with bad motives. When there are two possible motives for the conduct of ‘another; it is not only a more char- itable, but probably a more truthful judgment to impute the better motives. “Judge not that ye be not judged,” should be written in capital letters, yea, in flaming letters, before us all. II. . Jeremiah in the dungeon (vs. 5, 8). 5. “King is not he.” Zedekiah was a weak king. He had a conviction that Jeremiah was a phophet of the Lord, and yet he dared not oppose his states- men, but yielded to their will without a question. An innocent man was thus sacrificed to their malice. These princes were wroth with Jeremiah (chapter 37: 15); ‘“‘he had compared them to rotten figs” (chapter 24). But for him they would have had affairs all their own way, they were anxious to be rid of him. 6. “Then took they Jeremiah.” Jere- miah was the butt of : ridicule and scorn. He was put in the stocks, was publicly . whipped, was misrepresented as an enemy, was imprisoned several times, but he kept right on. “The dun- geon.” Literally “the cistern.” It was not a subterranean prison as that in Jonathan’s house (chapter 37: 15), but a pit or cistern, which had been full of water, but was emptied of it during the siege so that only mire remained. Such empty cisters were often used as prisons (Zach. 9: 11); the depth forbade hope of escape. ‘Sunk in the mire.” They evidently expected that he would die in that place. “IIL © Jeremiah’'s friend (vs. 7-9). 7. “@Whedmelech.” The servant of the king. He probably was keeper of the royal harem, and so had private ac- cess to the king. Already even at this early time, God wished to show what good reason there was for calling the Gentiles to salvation. An Ethiopian stranger saves the prophet whom his own countrymen, the Jews, tried to destroy. So the Gentiles believed in Christ whom the Jews crucified, and Ethiopians were among the earliest converts (Acts 2: 10; 8: 27-39). “Sitting in the gate.” The gates of cities were the places where justice was admin- istered. 8 “Went forth.” The servant went immediately to the king. There was no time to lose, for if he delayed the prophet might perish. What a sold, courageous act this was. It ought to put many of us to shame. 9. “These men,” etc. He must have been in the king's confidence or he would hot have dared raise his voice azainst the action of the princes. The Lord can raise up friends for His peo- ple where they are least expected. “No more bread.” That is, no more bread left of the public store in the city (chapter 37: 21); or, all but no bread left anywhere. This shows to what straits the city was reduced. 1V. Jeremiah rescued (vs. 10-13). 10. “King commanded.” Zedekiah's better nature was stirred. “Thirty men.” Not merely to draw up Jeremiah, but to guard Ebed-melech if the princes should oppose him. ‘The king was de- termined that he should be rescued by force if necessary. KEbed-melech was rewarded for his, faith, love and cour- age, exhibited at a time when he might well fear the wrath of the princes. 11-13. Ebed-melech took the men as the king had commanded and rescued Jeremiah. He let down into the pit some torn clothes and. worn out gar- ments and instructed Jeremiah to roll them around the ropes and place them under his armpits; so as not to suffer injury drawn up. Although Jeremiah was thus rescued from a terrible death, he was not set at liberty, but remained in the court of the:prison. He was still in prison when the armies of Babylon: took Jerusalem. He was found in chains and carried with other captives on the way to Babylon, but was re- leased at Ramah; six miles from Jeru- salem. Thus ended the prison life of the prophet. How long he was in prison it is difficult to determine, prob- ably for years. The Lamentations which he wrote after the destruction of Jerusalem must have been his frequent meditation while in confinement. —_— from the ropes when he was | EPNORTH LEAGLE LESSONS AUGUST TWENTY-SEVENTH. Womens Work for Missions.—Mark 14. 3-9; Acts 9. 36; Rom. 16. 1, 2. The woman who anointed - Jesus; the patron saint of all Ladies’ Aid Societies, Dorcas; and Phebe, the “succorer of many,” furnish us our lesson basis. These all were noble women who poured forth their love to Christ in help to others. They are worthy types of those noble bands of Christian women who in our day have banded themselves together to carry the gospel to the neglected and se- cluded women of heathen lands. It has crystallized itself into the Wo- man’s Foreign - and the Woman's Home Missionary Societies. Ninety days after the organization of our Parent Missionary Sociéty in 1819 a “Woman’s‘ Auxiliary” was or- ganized in New York by: Dr. Nathan Bangs and others. An address was issued to the “Female Members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.” But in time the society became dlmost inac- tive and crowded out by the organi- zation of other sccieties. - It has been estimated, however, that they: con- tributed at least $20,000 to the Parent Society. Waen the China Mission. was planted in 1847, a-society of women in Baltimore was organized as, the “La- dies’ China Mizsionary Society.” For some twenty years this did a noble work. It gronted $5,000 for a “Female Academy” in Foochow; and gave for ten years $300 per year-to the Parent Society. -The Urion Weoman’s -Mis- sionary Society was organized in’ New: York in 1860, and many of-our church women were active in it until the or- ganization of our own Woman's Fo- reign Missionary Society. . The organization of this society was effected in Boston in 1869 by a few elect ladies, some of- whom are still. living. They rapidly grew in numbers and in favor with the church. The present work of the society is import- ant and growing rapidly. Their in- come, is about $500,000 a year. They support missionaries in all our foreign fields. About 250 are now at work’ under their "direction. Some 6,000" auxiliaries at home with nearly 150,- 000 members insure a still larger ad- vance in the future. Twenty-five thousand copies of the Woman’s Mis- sionary Friend go into the homes of our people. In common with other church boards of -Woman’s Societies- they are taking a systematic study of missions from text-books prepared for the purpose. This society is only one of many other church societies of women who are sending the gospel to the heathen women who are inac- CHRISTIAN ENDEAVDS NOTES AUGUST TWENTY-SEVENTH. Mission Work Among Women.—Acts 16: 13-18; Tit. 2: 3-5. (Home and Foreign Fields.) Some Bible Hints. The chief difficulty of missionaries in the Orient is to reach the women, secluded as they are-in harems; and this seclusion dwarfs their minds as much as it confines their bodies. The winning of the women means the winning of the children, the ser- vants, and often of the men, so that work for women is especially import- ant. In pagan superstition the women are the soul of conservatism, and often bitterly oppose any change on the part of the men. They must be won first. Women have shone everywhere on the mission fields, and especially in the schools, where they have been in- deed “teachers of good things.” « ¥ Mission Notes Concerning Women. A Christian woman went .to workin’ a negro seftlement. in the Indian Ter- ritory appropriately named Sodom, so vile was it. In less than-a year the men had built a school house and church, and now the place is called appropriately, “Pleasant Grove.” In heathen lands the. - suffering cansed women by the ignorance, and superstition of the native doctors is unequalled améng the world’s tor- tures, and the woman medical mis- gionary winds the endless gratitude .of the women whom she frees from these agonies. man medical missionary. She went to North India in January, 1870. .. When the medical missionary - ats tended in her severe illness the: ‘wife of the Chins prime. minister, Li Hung Chang, the great man’s influence was won for missions. A mission school-teacher in a.-Mor- mon village was tormented by: a raba ble of boys, who stoned the: schools house and tried to drive her. out of town; but one day she called in the leader and got him to help her to put up a fallen stove pipe, so winning him that he became one of the most suc- cessful pastors in Utah. A mission teacher in New Mexico’ was thwarted.at every turn by a Ca- tholic priest, but she ministered to the sick during a terrible scourge of diphtheria and smallpox, and after=- wards all doors were open to her. It was a lucky day for Canada when, mainly through the efforts of the late William McDougall, the vast area of territory belonging to the There are two cinnamon harvests annal- lv in Ceylon. ————————— Make Your Own Monument, Live for something. Do good. and leave behind you a monument of vir tne that the storm of time can nevel destroy. Write your name by kind ness. love and merey on the hearts o! the thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never bt forgotten. No, your name, your deeds 11 “1 will be as legible on the hearts of thost t vou leave behind as the stars on thi brow of evening. Good deeds wil bright on the earth as thy Heaven.—Thomas Chalmers. Hudson Bay Company was added to the Dominion at an expense of only $1,500,000. Today that territory has ‘a population of 800,000. Its agricultural and other products this year are offi- cially valued at more than $100,000,- 000, or over sixty-five times its i- cost. The Dominion Govern- ment is now urged to grant a pension to Mr. McDougall’s family. ginal A man who is in good condition in proof by But many a man who thinks in good condition is far from cesible save through Christian women. Dr. Clara Swain was the first wo~ : A ———— an An gop are wee a
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