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 A great organization is that, the Congregational women of these 
 1 7 Interior States, banded together in branches, associations, auxiliaries 
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 W B M I ^ great purpose is theirs to send their Master 
 
 ’ ’ ’ * | Jesus Christ — their best friend, their Savior, to hope- 
 
 | less women the whole world around. 
 
 HOW DO THEY DO IT? 
 
 They send their daughters from their homes in this beloved land 
 to live among the ignorant women who are black; the purdah women 
 
 r „ „„ who are brown; the bound women who are yellow; 
 
 | the harem done-to-death women of Turkey. 
 
 j Daughters j What do they do, these daughters? 
 
 They take the dirty, ragged, sick women, girls 
 and children and make them well again. 
 
 They take the women and the children, ignorant beyond our thought 
 and lo! they read and write and think from kindergarten on through 
 High School and then college. 
 
 They take the women and the children and on the Sabbath day — 
 in church — they show them God. 
 
 They take the women and show them how to make a home where 
 love and peace and joy may dwell. 
 
 Hospitals, Schools, Churches, Heme — and countries which were 
 dark begin to see a light that is clear. 
 
 They send their daughters forth to carry out the 
 last command of Christ; they cannot go and so they 
 send. 
 
 It costs $126,000 every year. It cost that 
 amount before the war, but now it is barely half enough. 
 
 WHAT CAN BE DONE? 
 
 ANOTHER FUND -IT IS THE ONLY HOPE 
 
 A RECONSTRUCTION GOAL 
 
 $75,000.00 
 
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 It was June, 1919, the Central Turkey Mission came together for 
 their Annual Meeting, the first one in five long weary persecuting, devas- 
 tating years of war. Churches, schools — what a con- 
 dition they were in — Turkish soldiers had done their 
 worst to ruin the buildings; ministers were killed; 
 people scattered; girls in harems, far worse than death 
 for these lovely girls, enduring in a stolid way what 
 came, ambition gone, filthy, loveless, no hope, one 
 wave of terror followed by a fear far worse. 
 
 Their loved friends and leaders the missionaries, reduced in num- 
 bers, two had died, others gone on compulsory furlough, some too 
 exhausted to make the journey, no new recruits had come. Only Ten 
 missionaries present at that annual meeting June, 1919, when in normal 
 times before the war 40 or 50 would have assembled. 
 
 Only ten people, what could they do? How could they plan — 
 churches must be reorganized; ministers must be found; schools must 
 be opened, two colleges, four boarding schools; finances must be ad- 
 justed — money was only one-fifth its former (before the war) value; 
 adjustments must be made with the relief work; the morale of the people, 
 how could it be once more restored? 
 
 The great industrial work, what plans for that? The Moslem people 
 asking for our Christ. How could He be given to them? 
 
 The training of the Armenians — the forgiving Armenians — for such 
 a work — how could it all be done? 
 
 What could they do, those ten people! 
 
 They asked for $1056 to repair (put in new floors, glass, windows, 
 plaster walls), and equip (dishes, beds, tables, desks, books, every- 
 thing). Six village schools, $176 for each school! $792 to pay the 
 salaries of six Bible Women — $132 a year for each!! $1267.20 salary 
 for each missionary!!! 
 
 What would the full Reconstruction Goal of $75,000 do? 
 
 Turkey’s share for this one need would be 
 not $1056 for the schools, but only $528; 
 not $792 for the Bible Women, but only $396; 
 not $1267.20 for missionary’s salary, but only $847. 
 $75,000.00 and that too small! 
 
 But with this share, these schools, and Bible Women and mission- 
 aries would gather orphan children by the thousands from their most 
 unbelievable surroundings, where they are dazed and sad and hurt in 
 body, mind and spirit, and give them a chance to grow well and strong 
 again where there are flowers and trees, kindergartens, industrial schools 
 and loving hearts which say “This is your home — I’ll be your mother 
 now.’’ 
 
 Missionaries who have lived there forty years say they have never 
 known a year that can equal this past one in misery, resulting from 
 
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 India § resultant high prices which have left the masses with 
 I one meal a day this year, where they had perhaps 
 
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 I Our Answer 
 

 
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 Last year the rate of exchange was three rupees to a dollar; this 
 year a dollar brings but two rupees. 
 
 Our daughters face the necessity of increasing salaries of Christian 
 workers — with no source of revenue for that increase. The people 
 cannot exist on what they did before. They ask, instead of an increase 
 in their own salaries, money to increase the salaries of their workers. 
 Otherwise trained Christian workers must go into government employ 
 where they can get living wages. In order to help, one of our very own 
 daughters has dropped her insurance. 
 
 Vast areas are left to the supervision of two women. Villages are 
 asking for schools. Thousands are asking for baptism — but there are 
 not preachers or teachers to give them. Boarding schools are crowded 
 beyond twice their capacity. Weary doctors await relief before they 
 can take their furlough, long overdue. Schools that have long since 
 ceased to be adequate demand expansion. A few dollars a month 
 would keep a Bible woman for missionaries who cannot multiply them- 
 selves so they can touch the “reaching hands.’’ 
 
 $75,000.00 the full Reconstruction Goal! 
 
 That India may have her part. 
 
 The eyes of all the world today are fixed on that Island Empire 
 which by leaps and bounds has forged ahead in the last sixty years, 
 
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 Her educational training is of the very best, her 
 military power great, her ships in all waters, her ambi- 
 tions unlimited. 
 
 “But her atrocities in Korea, her grabbing of Shantung,” have been 
 the disappointment of her friends. Her testing time has come. It looks 
 as if she had failed in that which was highest and best. 
 
 We who have sent our daughters there look in our own hearts and 
 ask the question — 
 
 Do we really care? Have we in years past bent every energy in 
 our power to make Japan a Christian nation? Have we desired above 
 all else to give her a better life? 
 
 Will we pay the price for schools and pastors — teachers and 
 churches? 
 
 The salaries of the missionaries are the same as twenty years ago, 
 although the price of living is four times as great as in normal times. 
 
 Some fear they must resign because they cannot live on what 
 they have. 
 
 One Christian Japanese teacher wrote: “We are barely living — in 
 
 an uncomfortable house, simple, coarse food, old clothes — but we are 
 thankful for these. We have had to take one of our children out of 
 the kindergarten, as we cannot afford to keep her there; we do not know 
 how we can educate our children.” 
 
 College, that great Christian educational center wielding a 
 influence on the womanhood of the nation, honored by the 
 could because of lack of room receive only 70 girls from 
 aj^^^rof 240 who successfully passed the entrance examinations. 
 
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 to live among those students, to give to them the high ideals and the 
 training which will send them out to work with pastors and with young 
 people. 
 
 Not since 1916 has the money been anywhere near adequate to the 
 demand and various things have been dropped to make ends meet if 
 possible. 
 
 Service is three times what it was two years ago — board almost 
 doubled. 
 
 Taxes increased 60 per cent. 
 
 The graduate conference can be held only once in five years 
 where it should be once in two years. 
 
 The Christians of Japan, (our daughters, and the Japanese) are on 
 their knees today, this very hour, praying Almighty God to stir our 
 hearts and send aid now. 
 
 If all the Reconstruction Goal of $75,000 is reached in full — a part 
 
 will reach Japan. She waits for us. 
 
 That great nation of the East of whom Napoleon said, “When 
 China wakes she will move the world,” is waking now. 
 
 She threw off her curse of opium, is unbinding the 
 
 | feet of her women, struggles to educate her vast popu- 
 
 China 1 lation, sends her most promising students abroad, 
 | | changes her form of government, boycotts the in- 
 
 miiiiraraimiiHiniiuuniiHniiiuumniKiiHiaiinmiiHuiim va ders, and rouses her young to patriotism. 
 
 And still many a one today declares her only hope is to live out 
 the Golden Rule of Christ. 
 
 Today the Union College for Women in Peking lacks only one 
 thing — buildings and equipment to accommodate many times the num- 
 ber of girls they now have, girls who would go to far Yun-Nan to carry 
 education, ideals of home, no end of good, if only money could be 
 found to help. 
 
 In Shaowu one of the teachers in the Girls’ School, she who never 
 spared herself, who was worth four missionaries, died from overwork 
 because no one i3 trained to help. 
 
 Eighty per cent of the children die in infancy for lack of doctors 
 and nurses. 
 
 And every dollar gold we send only buys now but 75 cents silver. 
 
 And China looks to us today — her friend — for help. 
 
 THE WORLD LOOKS DARK— BUT COURAGE ALL. 
 
 |"'"" n — | The Lord does reign. We look from east to west 
 
 and see its need — the black, and yellow, brown and 
 white, all children of the ONE who gave His life for 
 
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 Our daughters will work hard and we will give 
 
 $126,000 $75,000 
 
 AND MAY ITS BLESSING REACH TO ALL WHO 
 THE WORLD AROUND. 
 
 January, 1920. 
 
 WOMAN’S BOARD OP MISSIONS OP THE INTERIOR 
 (Congregational) 
 
 19 South La Salle Street. Room 131$ 
 
 Chicago 
 
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