Tokyo Union Christian College Girls at Gym Work Four Hundred Million Women in Asia Appealto the Men and Women of America for Relief from Physical Suffering caused by ignorance of physical laws, utter lack of sanitation, impure living, incredibly early marriage and motherhood, cruel superstitions which make child birth a frightful tragedy, lack of knowledge regarding the care of children leading to barbarous treatment and intense and needless suffering and absence of medical aid. THESE WOMEN PLEAD FOR EDUCATION to open the doors of their minds. Only one in one hundred of the women of India can read. Only one in one thousand of China, the great literary nation, know their letters. These women have minds notwithstanding the teaching of their religions which deny to women minds and souls They have proved that they can learn and can teach, and now they plead for the opportunity to prepare themselves to serve their people. WOMEN HAVE A RIGHT to the knowledge of the spiritual truth which has brought to us Christian women development in righteousness, freedom of faith, a personal knowl- edge of God through Jesus Christ, and the blessed hope of immortality. The women of the East are turning away from the teachings which have kept them enslaved. Where shall they go for light and leading? CAN THEY BE RESCUED FROM BONDAGE? Sixty years ago a group of Christian women organized the Woman’s Union Missionary Society, whose objective was to carry a message of eternal hope to the women of Asia. Ten years later in the great denom- inations similar societies were organized. The results of these small begin- nings are almost beyond belief. These societies have grown until they number millions of interested women in this country. They have estab- lished thousands of schools from primary grade up to high school through the missionary teachers whom they have sent. They have given the Bible, the great emancipator, with Christian literature to millions of women and girls who have learned to read. They have established hospitals and trained nurses and built wayside dispensaries. They have secured some reforms and are still working. They have put the leaven of the Gospel into the great inert mass, and the lump is being leavened. NEW LEVELS The work is not yet done. There have been few to go and those few are foreigners — British and American women. They are willing to lay down their lives and are faithful unto death; but are unable to do more than light a blaze here and a marvelous oppor- tal women who have ready today to carry deep darkness where these millions of saying, “Teach us! Thousands of us are take the training; and own people what only gress will be rapid if there. Now we see tunity. These Orien- seen the light are on the torch to the still live and suffer women. They are Fit us to do the work! ready and eager to we will do for our we can do.” The pro- we do this. THE WORLD WAR awakening, but quick- s tilled the desire, two or three small education before 1914, At its close we find Union Christian Col- the great capitals of these are medical Oriental women as broke in on this ened rather than There were only attempts at higher when the war began, ourselves with seven leges for Women in the East. Two of schools for training physicians. THE GREAT AWAKENING In this year of our Lord we shall see as we glance across to the three great countries of Asia, — India, China and Japan — these seven union insti- tutions for women maintained by ten denominational boards in this coun- try; in one case, Madras, affiliated with similar boards in Great Britain The aim of these schools is to prepare the future Christian leaders of the East. They are needed in education, medicine, social reforms, literature, and in church and home life. Shall we fulfill the hope of those pioneers, our mothers and grandmothers, who began the work; or shall it be hindered by our indifference, lack of knowledge, inaction, inefficiency? “THE WORLD WAS MADE FOR WOMEN, TOO” is the motto above the door of the first Woman’s Club in India. Among religious leaders the Founder of Christianity alone recognized woman; but here are we nineteen centuries after His coming, fifty millions of us, in the main safe, comfortable and well cared for, while the great multitude of other women beat with helpless hands against our closed doors and beg that we will free them. Here is our opportunity for Internationalism. SELF-DETERMINATION has come to the women of the East. Will the women of the West stop their work and games and enjoyment for a moment and consider the needs of these women and help them tc come to their own aid? We are interested in Internationalism, in Disarmament, in the great new world movements; but remember, great republics and free nations can not be built on an illiterate, despised, degraded womanhood. 2 WHAT CAN YOU DO? Help these seven colleges to get their first groups of buildings. Here they stand, overcrowded, turning away by hundreds the students who eager- ly seek training. There is no room for those who night save the women of the world. We began last year; but with famine in Europe and China it was hard to make an appeal. It will be necessary to secure three million dollars for the purchase of land and buildings for these seven institutions, two of them medical schools. Of this the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Fund will give one-third on condition that we secure the remain- der, two million dollars, before January, 1923. Through last year’s Inter national Christmas Gift and the help of the boards, we sent five hundrea thousand dollars, and have received the first check for two hundred fifty thousand dollars from the Memorial fund. It is now imperative that we secure in pledges the balance if we are to receive the seven hundred thou- sand dollars which the Fund has promised conditionally. THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE WORLD What can we do here in the sunshine for those over there in deepest shadow? On an old sun dial under the window is the legend, “I count the bright hours only.” Will you translate some of your bright hours, some of the blessings of wealth, health, education, joys of travel, books, home, friends, into the lives of these women? The pledge and nrayer will tell you how. If you can help, even if you have helped before, will you sign the promise of service at the close of this leaflet, and send to the office in Boston? There will be an effort throughout the country to secure gifts from men and women interested in education, medical care, social reform, internationalism and Christian service. We cannot afford an expensive organization, and must depend upon voluntary service which interested women will render. Information and supplies of literature will be furnished to all who ask. Many states and cities are being organized and definite information will be given to those who wish to ally themselves with their own state organizations and plans. The special effort will be made this fall and winter, and further details will be given on request. We beg that you will pray for this movement, and for those who have waited so long for our aid; but remember, prayer without effort is ineffec- tual. Do not ask God to do the thing He asks you to do, and has enabled you to do. Ask Him, rather, to give you a heart of love with strength and courage to do what you can. It may be easy for you to give a certain amount or you may give a very little with great sacrifice. Multiply your gift, large or small by securing pledges from friends and acquaintances. It is not an easy time tc give or get money, but it is true, “He that observeth the winds shall not sow, and ho that regardeth the clouds shall not reap,” and with the knowledge that there arc those who have thrown in their lives and are waiting and watching for your reply, sign this promise of service. We have had many dark hours 3 WOMAN’S CHRISTIAN COLLEGE AT TOKYO, JAPAN In the Woman’s Christian College in Tokyo, is an opportunity we cannot afford to over- look. There is no more important field for such work. We are looking constantly for leaders in our Missionary work; we need women who can assume responsibility, as principals in our girls’ schools, teachers on the faculties of our high schools, super- intendents of our Bible Training Schools and women who can qualify as doctors. We can never evangelize the East with a body of American women. Only as we educate thoroughly the girls of these countries and place upon them the evangelization of their own nation can we hope for the leadership which will insure success. We have been laying foundations for nearly fifty years; NOW if we fail to take the further step in the higher education of our women we shall lose that great opportunity before us, of giving woman her place of power and influence in the Kingdom of God. In April, 1918, this college was opened with an enrollment of eighty-four from seventeen mission and many government schools. The President, Dr. Nitobe, and the dean, Miss Yasui, are Japanese. Four four-year courses — Liberal Arts, Japanese Language and Litera- ture — English Language and Literature,— and Business — are offered. It is supported by five co-operating Boards. Breakfast of millet porridge at the Yenching Famine Refuge at Wang Tu, this being the first known instance of such practical social service managed and supported wholly by Chinese women YENCHING COLLEGE, PEKING, CHINA This Union College was founded in Peking in 1905 and is supported by four Women’s Boards. The number of students in 1920 was 120. The number ot students for 1919 was sixty-one. Miss Luella Miner is the president. The medium of instruction for most of the courses is in Northern Mandarin, fitting all but a few to take directly to their home communities the fruits of their study without transmission into anotn.r tongue. The influence of the student body is warmly Christian. Students are expected to attend daily chapel prayers and regular Sunday morning service at their own denominational chutch or at the nearby Congregational Church. Special and weekly class prayer meetings are held. Of those who have been graduated one is a leading angelist, two are studying in America, two are leading Y. W. C. A. secretaries, others are teaching in various Mission schools, and a number are wives ot educated men. Thus an ever increasing body of alumnae is fulfilling the aim of the college to produce educated Christian leaders for China’s, womanhood. 4 GINLING COLLEGE, NANKING, CHINA Ginling College Is located In the old city Nanking, the former seat of Chinese learning. There Chinese girls may study in their own language and are not removed from the simple life and the relations with their own people. They do not have to meet the temptations to which an Oriental girl is subjected in the unusual free- dom of American Colleges. As sep- arate Boards we could not possibly maintain a college for our own girls since we could not provide the stu- dent body, the faculty or the funds. We are indeed grateful that the spirit of Christian unity prevails to such an extent on the Mission Fields abroad that it is possible for many Boards to unite with one great aim in the higher Christian education for women. IF we lead these girls into the broader freedom through Chris- tianity we MUST give them shelter- ing care and the strong helps of Christian training and example, that in the days to come they may form the foundation of the new Christian education of the Orient. This College was founded in 1915. Its fourth year opened with an en- rollment of fifty-three students, rep- resenting nine provinces, twenty- eight cities and eleven denomina- tions. The curriculum, while provid- ing thorough scholastic training, aims first of all to meet the needs of new China. There is self-government and the students have, on their own initiative, opened a school for poor children which they themselves fi- nance and administer. The college is supported by five Woman’s Boards. The President is Mrs. Lawrence Thurston. ‘He has no hands but our hands To do His work today.” I will endeavor to secure gifts and pledges for Union Colleges and Medical Schools for the Women of the Orient in my own church and community, and will seek to interest others to do the same. Name Address Local Church Denomination On receipt of this signed request, we will send you copies of the necessary literature and pledges, and will direct you to your state leaders. Address, Mrs. Henry W. Peabody, 300 Ford Building, Boston, 9, Mass. Send pledges of money or checks to Miss Hilda Olson, Assistant Treas- urer, 300 Ford Building, Boston, Mass., or to your Woman’s Board oi Missions. Looking Through One of the Many Moon Gates at Ginling 5 WOMAN’S CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, MADRAS, INDIA It is due to the persistent devoted efforts of British and American women that even one per cent of India’s 170,000,000 women can read. We readily understand therefore the need of competent women as teachers to lift the girls of the coming generation out of illiteracy and ignorance and superstition. The most progressive movement for the wom- en of South India is the Woman’s Christian College in Madras. This College is another of the strong bonds of internation alism. Twelve Boards are co- operating, six in Great Britain, five in the United States and one in Canada. The college opened in July, 1915, with 40 stu- dents but the number has increased to 120. At the head of this College we have Miss Eleanor McDougall, a former member of the faculty of the Univers- ity of London. She has in recognition of her unusual ability and her commanding posi- tion, been appointed to a position on the Sen- ate of Madras Univers- ity which, in recogni- tion of the high-grade work of this College, confers degrees on its graduates. Dormitory at Madras To Which Groups of Collegiate Alumnae in America Gave Generously WOMAN’S UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE, PEKING, CHINA In China there is an average of one Doctor to every 400,000 people. The average in Ameri- ca is one to every 712. It is safe to say that 99 per cent, of all the people who become ill in China are entirely without competent medical a 1 1 e n ti on. China probably affords an exhibition of the greatest physical need the world has ever known. The perma- nent solution of this is ONLY to be found in the building up of a well trained medical profession among the Chinese themselves. Three Foreign Mission Boards foresaw this and united in the or- ganization of this school in 1907 to help in meeting this most urgent medical need. This College is lo- Freshman Class in Histology at No. China Medical College cated in Peking, the capital. The women who have been graduated from the College are answering in a splendid way the varied de- mands upon their trained service. In 1919 there were 55 students coming from provinces of China, Manchuria and Korea. Two years of college work are required for entrance and a year of intenship in a recognized hospital is needed before a diploma is issued. In June, 1918, seventeen were graduated representing eight provinces. All were earnest Christians. 6 UNION MISSIONARY MEDICAL SCHOOL FOR WOMEN, VELLORE Here in India, millions on millions of women, hardly more than children (more than all the people in the United States), never saw a doctor or a nurse. Now that the war has flashed and dinned into our imagination the awfulness of human suffering and has made us think and see and feel, possibly we shall realize what is happening in these trenches on the battlefield of motherhood throughout India. We have seen the Red Cross summon millions of hands to help, secure millions of dollars and thousands of trained men and women with all the most modern appliances, anesthetics and miraculous surgery for our wounded and dying men. All this was not too much in the name of humanity and duty. All this and more 13 NOT TOO MUCH in the name of the Great Physician who today must walk the plains ef India in the person of his friends. The course in this college includes anatomy, physiology, chemistry, histology, materia medica, medicine, surgery, pathology, hygiene, medical jurisprudence, midwifry, lunacy and opthalmology. Lilavati Singh, Former Acting President Dr. Ida S. Scudder, Vellore, India, Presi- of Isabella Thoburn College dent of the Union Medical School ISABELLA THOBURN COLLEGE, LUCKNOW, INDIA Isabella Thoburn College, the first Christian College for women in India, started as a one- roomed school in 1870 and celebrated its Jubilee Anniversary, April 20, 1920. It was ad- vanced to High School grade in 1882, and admitted to College standing in 1886. By the co-operation of two Boards, it was made a Union College in 1919 and is affiliated with the Allahabad University which sets the examinations and confers degrees in First Arts, First Science, and Bachelor of Arts. The principal is Miss Florence Nichols and the faculty consists of American Missionaries with pandits and munshis for Oriental classics. In July, 1919, the enrollment was, Normal 23, High School 200, College 30. In academic standing the college ranks with the best in India. JOINT COMMITTEE: Rev. Frank Mason North, D. D., Mrs. W. F. McDowell, Miss Elizabeth R. Bender, Robert E. Speer, Miss Margaret E. Hodge, Mrs. Charles K. Roys, Mrs. Henry W. Peabody, Mrs. W. A. Montgomery, Rev. James L. Barton, D. D., Miss Kate Lamson, Rev. W. I. Chamberlain, Ph. D., Mrs. DeWitt Knox, Mrs. Anna R. Atwater, Miss Mabel K. Howell, Mrs. P. M. Rossman, Miss Rose Beatty, B. A. Advisory Members. 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