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SPEAKERS

OR the convenience of those arranging missionary meetings, the following list of clergy and other missionary workers available as speakers is published:

When no address is given, requests for the services of these speakers should be addressed to the Corresponding Secretary, 281 Fourth Avenue, New York.

Department Secretaries

Department 1. Vacant.
Department 2. Vacant.

Department 3. The Rev. Thomas J. Garland, Secretary-elect, Church House, Philadelphia.

Departments 4 and 7. The Rev. R. W. Patton, care of the Rev. C. B. Wilmer, D.D., 412 Courtland Street, Atlanta, Ga.

Department 5. The Rev. John Henry Hopkins, D.D., 348 Ashland Boulevard, Chicago. Dr. Hopkins begins his work. February 1st, 1909.

Department 6. The Rev. C. C. Rollitt, D.D., Secretary-elect, Red Wing, Minn. Department 8. The Rev. L. C. Sanford, 1215 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, Cal.

Alaska

The Rev. J. W. Chapman, of Anvik. Deaconess Sabine, of Anvik.

The Rev. C. E. Rice, of Circle City. Available for appointments in Departments 5 and 6.

China

Work Among the Southern Mountaineers

The Rev. W. S. Claiborne, of Sewanee, Tenn. During January and February. Address, Sewanee, Tenn.

Work Among Negroes in the South

The Rev. S. H. Bishop, Secretary of the American Church Institute for Negroes: 500 West 122d Street, New York.

Archdeacon Russell, of St. Paul's, Lawrenceville, Va., and the Rev. A. B. Hunter, of St. Augustine's, Raleigh, N. C., are always ready to take appointments, especially when a number of engagements in the same neighborhood can be grouped.

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CHINESE

R. YUNG WING, the first Chinese student to be educated in America, formerly Imperial Chinese Commissioner of Education, and the man who worked out the first plan for educating young Chinamen in this country, said recently in an interview at Hartford, Conn.: "No one familiar with the work the American missionaries have done in China will do other than praise it. They have done more to educate and uplift the people than any other class. In all my travels in China, along the coast and inland, I have never failed to see improvement and higher standards where the American missionary has been at work."

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The Rev. Edmund J. Lee, of Anking. Mr. M. P. Walker, of St. John's University, Shanghai.

Japan

The Rev. I. H. Correll, D.D., of Osaka. Miss C. G. Heywood, of Kawagoe. Miss Bessie Mead, of Akita.

Spokane

Bishop Wells, in January and February. Address, Spokane, Wash.

ture at Columbia University, on "The Evolution of the Indian Mind to the Present Day," said: "The missionaries have done more than the entire British Government to educate India. The English Government spends scarcely 2 per cent. annually on Indian education. The younger generation in consequence are seeking the universities of Europe and Russia and going back to India impregnated with the spirit of revolt and Nihilistic doctrines."

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LWAYS looked forward to with pleasant anticipations, the Annual Meeting of the Shanghai Branch of the Woman's Auxiliary never fails to prove itself a redletter day to all who have the privilege. of attending it. To many a poor Chinese woman it is the great event of the year, partly because it is an outing spent in the beautiful compound of St. John's, and still more because of the inspiration such a gathering imparts, making the scattered members realize their oneness with others in the Church of Christ.

There is always a little anxiety about the weather beforehand, but fears vanished this year when the twenty-first of May dawned bright and clear. Some of the women from distant stations had come in the night before, and a good deal of planning had been necessary to

house them all. Quite early others began to make their appearance, and by nine o'clock a goodly number was assembled in St. John's Pro-Cathedral for the celebration of the Holy Communion. The large number of communicants at this service brought a thrill of joy to the hearts of the missionaries.

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After this service, the lawn in front of the church and the avenue leading down to the Girls' School presented an animated scene. Greetings were changed on all sides, and the pleasure of meeting many old friends was evident. It is not an easy matter to get the members together for the business meeting, for, like most women, the Chinese women delight to chat with one another. At last, however, the Twing Memorial Hall was filled to overflowing, every available seat was brought in and every inch of space occupied.

Our president, Mrs. Graves, was in the chair, and after the opening hymn and prayers, she gave the members a hearty welcome, and said a few words of exhortation and encouragement. The calling of the roll is always an interesting part of the proceedings, and as the name of each branch is called, the members rise and are counted. There were some from each branch this year, all answering with evident pride. All sorts and conditions of women and girls were there, representing the fourteen branches, from the school-girls who have their auxiliaries in St. Mary's to the weather-beaten old country women who seem so glad to be present, and to take their share in the work of the Church.

In the reports which were called for next, some of us who can go back to the meetings of ten or twelve years ago were much struck by the great change that has taken place. In the old days it was difficult to get a woman on her feet at all, and if she was persuaded to rise, the report was crude and given in such a low, timid voice that few could hear it. Now, those who have charge of these reports come up to the platform, face the audience, and read from neatly-prepared papers. Most of the reports this year spoke of progress and the hope of great things in the future.

Next came the discussion on what should be done with the offering, and it was finally decided that half should go as usual to America for the United Offering, and the rest was divided between various objects at home. Among the announcements made to the meeting was the one referring to the expected visit of Miss Emery in the autumn, and this was received with evident pleasure. Business over, the meeting closed, the invitation to lunch was given, and soon the dining and reception-rooms of St. Mary's Hall were filled with an animated hungry throng, quite ready to enjoy the hospitality of the foreign ladies of the mission.

At two-thirty the church bell again summoned us to the Pro-Cathedral, and this time the congregation filled the en

tire building. The hearty service, with addresses by the Revs. Dr. Pott, C. F. MacRae, and Y. Y. Tsu, was a fitting close to another memorable gathering. The offering made at this service amounted to $211, the largest ever given in connection with the Auxiliary.

Before the members separated, tea was served on the lawn in front of the Training-school. The large tea-pot used on such occasions would be an object of curiosity to dwellers in western lands. Early that morning we had seen it brought into the compound, dangling at the end of a bamboo pole, carried over a man's shoulder. At last "good-byes" were said, and carriages, 'rickshaws and wheelbarrows passed in a long stream out of the compound gates. And as they went, we felt it had been good to meet, good to gather in company in the Heavenly Father's House and, in the strength and inspiration thus gained, to enter on another year of work.

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O sail from Naples on August 14 and to reach Shanghai September 13 means a month

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of water travel, but travel so full of intense variety as to be most remote from weariness and monotony. It would be ungrateful to the friends who made such a journey possible, not to say how wonderful were the sights along the way, and what rich memories they will furnish; but this Secretary will not venture to compete with the travellers who have described these scenes in language which presents them vividly to the mind, and which can be found in books in all our libraries. She must keep herself to the noting of such things as appeal peculiarly to a Travelling Secretary, with the reminder only of a setting of broad waters-blue, white, purple and emerald green; of marvellous skies, piled with clouds of all fantastic shapes; of brilliant rainbows and gorgeous sunsets; of stately nights; of lonely islands, and mainlands marked by jagged lines against the sky, or stretching in sandy plains, or rising in wooded slopes; of native huts and villages; of foreign settlements; of strange peoples; of varied dress and customs; of a whole world which tells that one is passing through the tropics and is on the verge of the equator.

All this would be enough to fill one's brain and mind and tempt to the spending of long hours standing at the deck's side, feasting on the marvels of God's creation, and studying what man-His handiwork also-is doing in those distant places with that portion of earth and sea which is his inheritance; and then memory and association come in to play their part. It is hard to believe that one is passing between the veritable Scylla and Charybdis; that the boat is sailing those waters which St. Paul once sailed, and by the very Crete where

Euroclydon caught his ship. No tempestuous wind caught us there, but w went our quiet way along the shores which awakened thoughts of ages far beyond St. Paul. That water road cut through the Isthmus of Suez reminds that just beyond it, in the early ages of man's history, God Himself made a road through the waters to let His chosen people pass through; and as one steps on shore at Port Said, the thought goes back, blotting the view before one's eyes from sight, to the far-off day when out of the Land of Egypt was brought the Holy Child who came to fulfil the Law, given on the mountain in Arabia whose summit on some unclouded day, they tell us, may be seen from the vessels passing by.

We watch those great stretches of gray sands, and the shrouded figures on the banks, and the camels kneeling to be laden and rising to be driven by little children to their task, and picture the hosts of Israel living, dying, wandering for forty years in that great wilderness. And then we look to see in every port we touch the men of this present time who, realizing what those wanderings typify, and how great a price the wanderings of the human race in the wilderness of sin demands, have set the seal of that understanding evidently upon these shores. It made one almost envious, almost jealous for the honor of our own dear Church, that from Rome to Shanghai she had no messenger in the ranks of those who are bringing glad tidings of good. But it was a constant pleasure to find, as we stopped at different ports, that work is being done, work of the twofold nature so needed in places such as these, for the preserving of the spiritual life of people come to live in them from Christian lands, and for the presenting before the natives of those countries the truths of God and of His Church, the

planting in them and upbuilding in them. the Christian life.

A few hours on land in a city where all is new give very little time for seeing such work, and August is not the month for seeing it at its best, but the Roman church at Port Said stood open, the priest was just about to begin the service, and a Sister was leading up the aisle her troop of orphan children from the orphanage across the way. The English church was closed to us, but its appearance and the material strewing the grounds showed that it had lately been rebuilt, and that the work upon it was not yet finished. A white board gave the address of the rector who has been there ever since there was a Port Said, and told the hours of service there and at the British Government Hospital, where we also went. We found a building put up largely through the influence of an Englishwoman of rank, who was coming out to its opening, but sickening on the way, died and was buried at Naples. In it was an Irish nurse who after four or five years still prefers Port Said to Great Britain, and who, through winter cold which she says is bitter, and summer heat which must be intense and prolonged, ministers to the sailors and others who are brought to her care. She has four nurses associated with her, and when one sees such service rendered, one longs for the day when many members of the Guild of St. Barnabas will ask where are the hard places, and the lonely, and the evil, where they may serve. Truly it is in dark places that a little candle gives a great light.

Passing out of the Isthmus at Suez, where we did not land, we saw on the water front, at the Port, a cross-crowned church with cloisters, giving the newcomer a ready welcome; and coming down the Red Sea we passed the island group named for the Twelve Apostles, the loneliest of signal stations, the dreary shores of Aden in the caves upon whose hillsides live the brown-skinned, red-haired people who come to the boatside with their wares.

Colombo was the next stopping-place where we went on shore, and there we were able to visit workers of the English Church. The month before we had passed a day with the Sisters of St. Margaret in the home where Dr. John Mason Neale established them in East Grinsted, and they had told us of their schools at Colombo, which now it was a pleasure to have the opportunity to visit. We passed the church ministered in by a missionary of the S. P. G., and the drying-ground where a great display of little garments heralded the approach to a children's home; and then passed through the gates up the driveway to the bungalow-like house where two of the Sisters gave us a cordial greeting and showed us about the place. It was holiday time, but there were a good many children on the grounds, and the boy of the home was especially presented, the adopted child of wealthy Singhalese who have no children of their own, and to whom he is very precious; so they have placed him. in safe keeping with the Sisters, till he shall be old enough to go to a boys' boarding-school. At Penang, as drove about, there were fleeting glimpses of the Roman Catholic church and cemetery, the Presbyterian and the English churches, and a small room bearing the notice that it was a mission-room of the S. P. G.

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