Another Message to the Coral Workers from Miss Sarah Pollock, .05 .50 Helps for Leaders of Juvenile Mission Bands Tamil Women. Mrs. H. K. Palmer - - : .... " - - - .0: ...) Birthright of the King's Children. Miss H. A. Hillis - .03 .30 Responsibility of Christian Women Respecting Culture. Mrs. Pamphlets of Missionary Maps (Published by A. B. C. F. M.) . .10 RECEIPTS OF THE WOMAN's BoARD OF MISSIONS OF THE INTERIOR. Home secretaries. 1526 Eddy St., San Francisco. Redwood, Cal. Foreign Secretary. Recording Secretary. airs. h. e. Jewett. Mirts. s. s. sailth. Treasurer. Auditor. MRS COLE, 572 Twelfth St., Oakland, Cal. E. P. Flint, Esq. ANNUAL REPORT OF FOREIGN SECRETARY. — VISITS TO EACH OF OUR MISSION STATIONS. CoME with me to Northern Turkey, and to our Broosa school! Reaching Constantinople, we take a Turkish steamer for Mondania, and from there we must go by carriage or on horseback to Broosa. These steamers sail only every other day, and we shall be five hours on board. . . . . Over in the cotton-fields see the men and women picking the feathery tufts' Let us stop here for some of these luscious grapes! Now we are coming to a Turkish village. How many dogs there are coming out to meet us! See the stork's nest on the roof of that house! Look at the men walking the streets, decked in all the colors of the rainbow, while the women go about with veiled faces — sheeted ghosts. We pass the public khans, which at best will afford but a mat and a shelter to any one who wishes to tarry. The wayside fountains are the center of many picturesque scenes, as the women must wait about them for hours for their turn to fill their water-jugs. As they stand and wait, generally with a baby tied on their backs, they fill up the minutes with coarse knitting or hand-spinning of wool or cotton. When their jars are filled, see them walk off with one in each hand, baby still clinging to their shoulders, or held on by being tied firmly with a strong shawl or broad, homespun girdle! There comes a little company of women, carrying clothes, wood, boiler, and all the appliances for their weekly washing, fully half a mile to running water. At night they will return with them, wet but clean, to be hung in their own courts to dry. Here are extensive forests of mulberry-trees. See them gathering the silk cocoon | Now we have a sight of Broosa. Nestling under the verdure-clad and snow-capped Olympus, it presents a picture of perfeet beauty. We might put up at the “Mt. Olympe,” kept by “Loschi,” but we have another haven in view. So we move on, through the narrow but clean streets, past the citadel, rising upon a bold rock in the center of the town, past several fine mosques, till we reach a large building, European in its architecture, surrounded by a lovely garden. It needs no guide to tell us what this building is: photographs and pictures have made us familiar with its exterior. It has no cupola of emerald green, no exquisite carvings, no dome of silver, no minarets, but it is dearer to our California hearts than all the mosques of Turkey. Five thousand dollars was put into our Broosa School. Five thousand dollars and more we have paid toward the support of a missionary there and the education of individual Turkish girls. We have a pride in it—in its location, in its teachers, in its appliances. Let us take one more look before we enter the building. In the background rise majestically the cliffs and snowy summits of Olympus. About us are the domes and minarets of Broosa's two hundred mosques. In front stretches the beautiful plain, covered with trees and verdure; in the far distance, hills and mountains with their ranging lights and shades. Truly, as we have often heard, but never before realized, the location is ideal in its beauty and picturesqueness. Having safely landed this large company, and having secured for them a cordial welcome at the hands of our missionary, Mrs. Baldwin, a few facts concerning the work of the school during the past year may be of interest. I read from the official report of 1883-84:The whole number of scholars for the school-year is 47. Our present number is 38, including 18 day-pupils and 20 boardingscholars. . . . . During the year ten of our scholars have been received into the church, all of them giving evidence of true Christian life. Most of these believed they became Christians during the special religious interest we enjoyed a year ago. . . . . Our work in Africa has been done in Zululand, through the school of which Mr. and Mrs. Goodenough have charge; but reports from there have been very meager, so I pass on to our “Morning Star” work. We have paid $500 this year toward the running expenses of the “Star,” and, of course, have followed her, in thought, with much interest as she has threaded her way in and out of the rocky lagoons of Micronesia, carrying joy and blessing everywhere. Our sorrow at her loss was more than balanced by the thought of the new steamer “Star,” in which so many of our Sunday-schools have been interested, and we thank God once more for the business energy and foresight of our grand American Board. So, friends, we have still a work to do for the “Star” – a ship larger, stronger, fleeter than any of her predecessors! Long may she survive the perils of the sea! We entered upon our new work in Spain “as a Board,” last year. To many of us, as individuals, it was not a new field. We had followed Mr. and Mrs. Gulick in the pages of The Herald and Life and Light ever since they sailed from Boston, in 1876. To have a part in their work was joy indeed! Through letters from Mrs. Gulick, her assistant, Miss Richards, and their friends in the East, we have learned much about our school even in this one year. To know much of missionary work anywhere is to be interested in it. . . . . A letter has just been received from Mrs. Gulick, dated August, 1884, giving mole graphically than could be given by any one else, the results of the past year's work. Accompanying the letter are : the programmes of the closing exercises of the school, and a musical entertainment given by them. On the latter, we notice selections from Herold, Rossini, Mozart, Mendelssohn. On the programme of the closing exercises we notice examinations in sacred history, arithmetic, domestic economy, Spanish grammar, Spanish history, English, political geography, compositions in English and French, and a dialogue in French; also gymnastics and kindergarten exercises. Diplomas were presented to Elisa Ruet and Mercedes Villanueva, both of whom give great promise of future usefulness. I wish I could command the services of a skilled portrait-painter. I would show you two pictures — the one of a fair, young, lovely face, with bands of dark, wavy hair; the other, the same face, with lines of care and sickness, aged by twenty years in the time of eight. The one was our Miss Starkweather, as she stood before us Feb. 29, 1875, in what was then Dr. Stone's church, and told us of her plan for Christian work in Japan. She was full of courage and zeal, and anxious to be “about her Master's business.” In the girls' school at Kioto she found much to do. The difficult language overcome, she entered with all her soul into the work before her. Nor did she forget our Woman's Board. Letters, full and long, came to us every month from her hand. Others associated with her gave up, and came home for needed rest; but she still kept at her post, ever ready with her loving counsels and generous helpfulness. |