Identifier: spiritofmissions74epis (find matches)
Title: The Spirit of missions
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Episcopal Church. Board of Missions Episcopal Church. Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society
Subjects: Episcopal Church Episcopal Church Missions
Publisher: Burlington, N.J. : J. L. Powell
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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attended by nearly 900 people.The Rev. Samuel H. Bishop told IIowthe Church is Giving Religious Train-ing to the Negroes of the South, andthe Rev. Dr. Pott spoke of The Growthof the Church in the Chinese Empire. After a few words from the Bishop ofCentral New York, expressing appre-ciation of the good results accomplished,the meeting closed with the benediction,given by the Bishop of New Jersey. n Dr. Henry W. Boone, whose long years of resi-dence in China enable him to speak withauthority, says : ONE of the great needs of China to-day is for good Christian teachersby the thousands for her schools. She isnot yet ripe for the grand universityschemes that are in tlie air. She needsfirst-class normal schools to turn outwell-trained -Christian teachers. Alsomedical schools and schools for trainingnurses. We have twelve students forour new medical class and may get more.Our new hospital building is beingroofed in. and I trust we sliall soon getsome money from home to equip andfurnish it. I
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CONFIDENCES OVER THE HIBACHr No. II By Gertrude Heywood cc I \ ADAIMA,2 said a wearyI voice just outside ray room.I 0 haeri nasai,^ I answeredas the shoji^ was pushedback and 0 Toku San, closing it behindher, came in and sat down on the op-posite side of the hihachi. She hadbeen to the funeral of one of thestudents of the school who had gradu-ated the year before, a girl who, in herfive years at the school, had endearedherself to everyone. O Toku Sans faceand manner showed signs of the strainthat she had been through, and respect-ing her silence I poured her out a freshcup of tea. She drank it slowly (andin silence) and at last, with a longsigh, set the cup in its little metalsaucer on the floor, rested her arms onthe edge of the hihachi and staredthoughtfully at the red coals. Was the funeral Buddhist orShinto? I ventured to ask after a fewmoments. It was Buddhist, she answeredslowly; but do you know, she addedmore decisively, I am positive that ifever there was a Christian, O MatsuS

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