Missionary Visitor, The (1912) . ray that everylife may be painted in the perspective ofMatt. 6: 33, pointing others to the Lightof Life. When we have invested our lives andour means in the salvation of souls, asPaul would, there will be men and wo-men for the many vacant places in thehome field, and many more that can andwill be sent to the needier peoples be-yond the seas. And so we may pleadfor you there, and for these here, andour task is no little one, though we arenot yet permitted to thrust in the sicklein this great harvest field. Ping Ting Chou, Sliansi, China. A NEW ERA FOR THE WOMEN


Missionary Visitor, The (1912) . ray that everylife may be painted in the perspective ofMatt. 6: 33, pointing others to the Lightof Life. When we have invested our lives andour means in the salvation of souls, asPaul would, there will be men and wo-men for the many vacant places in thehome field, and many more that can andwill be sent to the needier peoples be-yond the seas. And so we may pleadfor you there, and for these here, andour task is no little one, though we arenot yet permitted to thrust in the sicklein this great harvest field. Ping Ting Chou, Sliansi, China. A NEW ERA FOR THE WOMEN OF CHINA Minerva Metzger DURING the past year manychanges have taken place in Chinafor the betterment of her last the vision of freedom roused hervouths to action, and now she no longer chafes at restraint. In all this we notethe revolution in the attitude toward theeducation for women, a field for cen-turies neglected. A brighter day dawnsfor her daughters. No more are they to September1912 The Missionary Visitor 283. Mending- Broken Dishes. Art Peculiar to China. grow up to womanhood as did theirgrandmothers, but a power is preparingto lift them out of their stupidity, tobreak the shackles of the bondage ofignorance and to open the door into en-lightened service for their country. Acollege man, when asked the time schoolswould reopen for class work, said: Ina few days, if we want to become agreat and prosperous nation, we musteducate our boys and girls. This iscertainly a true ideal toward permanentreform. How very different the new ideals arefrom the old! Such as still continue atSaratsi in North Shansi. A missionaryfriend from the mission there said: We have more than three hundredgirls in the orphanage. These have beengathered from the fields and roads,where they had been cast out to die, andsome we bought for a few cash to savetheir lives. One mother confessed tohave with her own hands ended thetender lives of eleven baby girls and washappy because she had perf


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