Show Missionary Work That Is Left Undone The American Mother Needs It as Much as the Chinese Mother Who Gives Away Her Girl Babies Babies A A Reproach to the Churches J j J By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Copyright ht 1913 b by Star Company Compau T 7 UCH home missionary work ork is MUCH done by churches nil aft over or our IVI land yet that much is is left undone undone un un- done ono which could bo be done lono and andt t that hat at time onto and moue money spent in a t largo large part art lart of tho f foreign rei mission work worl could hc 0 o better employed at home bonne is is pain pain- full true Tho rno world is Go Gods God's s 's house and In housecleaning good workers know the they must distribute their labors laboTs over the tho whole mansion and not leave leavo any part of it untidy Only Thus Thus' Can the Race Be Freed From Pes Pes- So in mis missionary ionar work it is wi wise wite e an aDl l lwell well to send toilers and mid money to teach t he the e people in distant lauds n a religion which includes hy hygiene and which helps help women and children to be bo freed from the he bondage e of unwholesome superstitions ions and traditions Only in this thin WilY way can the world be swept and garnished and the race nice ma wade made o safe safo from front peti Jen lence e. e At the tho saute same time vast sums sumac of or money arc are used in jn foreign mission work which might bo be put to th the most mm- mm en ends s here at home bome hero Thero is a youth condemned to life lito imprisonment who ho was brought up in an IlD American town bristling with church spires and who lived in in sound so of church bells yet et no man or woman made mado tho the lt Ife-lt eit effort to lead d this lad into ri right ht ways no one exerted any influence to Dotter bettor lice his wretched home conditions no one gave ave Mm him a ap a. thought save savo vo to speak of him rim as an ignorant and wayward and wild youth Ri His stepfather and mother were known to bo ho o drinkin drinking immoral people and when whoa the tho boy became involved ina ina in ina a family fight which ended in his hiR kill in ing his stepfather a highly moral jury quickly condemned l him to life At tho the same time members of or l' l churches and in good standing they had helped pay pap the expenses of oC foreign I missionaries who wore were trying to bring light aud and knowledge into heathen lands and minds r The town where dwelt awaIt th the jur jurymen prided itself upon sending tho lar largest cst fund to the thc missionaries of oC all any town in iu the state When asked why wb no missionary iuna ef ee effort fort had been becu made mado in behalf oi ol of tho the wretched American Jo boy who lived within a II tones stones throw of her church a Christian woman replied Wh Why wo we never nO thought thou about doing anything for him or his hin family But sh she an and aud her lier fellow church whew mom hers bers had d thought about doi doing a u great deal for the tho I and the C inn inn- JU man n In China it has hus for centuries been heen the habit oC of poor 1001 people to destroy destroy de Ilc stroy stroy- or give away awn their girl babies Christian mis missions iong have reel rescued many thousands of these tho e babies abil anti and cured cared forand for forand and educated them I I A 4 large A percentage nta e in iii one Christian institution in China hinn i in is can composed of children cither either mentally or OP 1 physically iii defective vc The letter Jotter which is appended makes one ono ponder on ou the wh whys ant ami wherefores where fores of our Am American rican methods of charity anti ami benevolence en The letter en came mo ns IS a response c to an nut article in th this l column which spoke of 01 the rampant rm pant sin everywhere prevalent in civilized lands lands or of wilful race suicide in tho the destruction of unborn children Tho rho Chinese mother waits until her hel unwelcome child is iF is horn born before she sho destroys de do it the HIe Christian ChriE America cnn mother moth er in Christian lands is quite as ns much in need of ot missionary work orl as th the tho Chinese woman and her lier helpless offspring off orr spring J rin are even more in in need of nce need of a cru ern crusade sale sade for their salvation Margaret arct Murray Dow pow who wrote the following letter Jetter was asked if sho would consent to its publication before beron it was herein presented Therefore Its rather severe accusations o of sins of omission on the tho part of or American Christian clergymen nn and church members mem mem- bers must bo ho regarded reg ns nl authentic For fourteen Jon long rS cars I have been voluntary missionary to o the men of the U. U S. S M M. M C C. In every cry way Wn r T have hwo tried as a Christian woman to guide tl them em aright Left alone a as they are nog- nog mill and without tho the i influence f of 01 women nud and men save c s for tor my mr gospel meetings and anti my Illy homo home it is iR is no wonder tho they go a away from mothers prayers The rime rhe at street root woman om hounds them to u tho the very gate gale ato of or the barracks waits for them iu in the tho back room of the miserable saloons on the avenue n Hushing Flushing and Sands Bands street t very er temptation that can be presented is be lc- before fore foro them Nut Not a church goes Ol'S out Cut of its way to Lave avo them Nut Not a n minister but hut the tho Rev nc T. T U. U 11 Griswold over ever comes to help the meetings About tweety twenty live iv c ministers o of this great rat city have havo been beell written of tho work with the one i response espouse The rho fhe bi big salaried ministers have bae no time ime for such 8 small Jf 1 unknown work H In it In this sel selle le it has haR been becu my aim to lieu help tho the lads lUlls as aM a n mother would would would- to in warn them against tho surroundings s at It the garrison to get them then to churches and f to be ue a friend to them Women Ave Arts Worse Than Men When They Sin Against Gods God's Law Women nce need not lIot down own men for fOI a dual life They have only to regard l their attitude to the marria marriage e la law v in inthe inthe the tho J light of time the t Al keen eye oyo oyoto to know thov they are arc worse than thun tho the men when they ther Bin BUI against his lawA law A A nation i ia iii judged h by b tho the standard of its women Lot Let America take care how she sho hc lowers the standard at nt the j awful pleasure of or women MARGARET MAGARET MAnO An ET MURRAY MURR al' al Y DOW 2 3 Putnam Av Ave Brooklyn X N Y 1 |