The Thirteenth Sabbath 
Offering 
September 28, 1912 
Mission Homes in China 
(This Leaflet should be divided into five minute exer- 
cises and read in every Sabbath-school.) 
Trim squares call for nine homes at a thousand dollars 
apiece. How many squares will we fill with a cottage by 
our Sabbath-school offerings on September 28. After the 
returns are all in. this drawing will reappear in the Sab-
bath School Worker, showing as many homes as can be 
bat with the next Thirteenth Sabbath Offering. 
Dying in China Without God 
O CHURCH of the living God, 
Awake from thy sinful sleep' 
Dost thou net hear yon awful cry 
Still sounding o'er the deep? 
Is it naught that every four 
Of all the human race 
Should in China die, having never heard 
The gospel of God's grace? 
Canst thou shut thine ears to the awful sound. 
The voice of thy brother's blood?— 
A million a month in China 
Are dying without God! 
Four hundred millions! lo! 1 see 
The long procession pass. 
It makes full three and twenty years!-- 
Yet scarce two hours, alas! 
My eye need gaze to count the saints 
Amid that mighty host! 
So few, so very few, the saved, 
So numberless the lost! 
The lost! ah, does no righteous voice 
Accuse "us of their blood?— 
A million a month in China 
Are dying without God! 
O watchman of God, thou seest 
The sword of destruction come; 
Why soundest thou not the warning 
'Mid the hosts of heathendom? 
God says that if thou warnest not 
The wicked, at his command, 
He shall perish, but his blood shall be 
Required at thy hand! 
O cleanse thy hand from murder, 
Front the stain of thy brother's blood. 
A million a month in China 
Are dying without God ! 
—H. Grattan Guinness. 
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Mission Homes in China 
APPALLED by the sacrifice of the lives of 
our missionaries in fields where the workers 
are unable to find proper houses to live in, 
the last General Conference included in its 
financial plans a fund which was known as 
the $300,000 Fund, a portion of which was to 
be used in building homes for our mission-
aries in foreign fields. These "missionary 
homes " were to be held as General Confer-
ence property. In explanation of the needs 
of such homes, especi4ily in China, Elder I. 
H. Evans in one of the General Conference 
meetings said:— 
" I think the reports of our missionaries 
from parts of India, China, Korea. and some 
parts of Africa are an argument in them-
selves to show the need of providing suitable 
homes in which our missionaries can live. 
Every field has its own difficulties. In some 
of the port cities in China, you can find very 
good homes, but the price of rent is so high 
that our missionaries, on the salary that we 
pay, can not afford to rent one of these 
suitable homes. It would take sometimes 
his entire salary to pay the rent by the 
month. Our missionaries have been com-
pelled to seek living quarters in places 
where the rent is cheap. They have thus 
often exposed their lives to the bubonic 
plague, to cholera, and infection. Some 
have lost their lives, and others have broken 
down. 
" It will save the lives of missionaries, it 
will save the waste of the years spent in get- 
ting the language, only to be compelled to 
return to this country because of failing 
health. I believe there is no line of work 
that we can take up that will economize 
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the resources of the denomination to the 
same extent as to see that our missionaries 
in these unhealthful countries are provided 
with suitable living quarters at an early 
date." 
The resolution providing for the $300,000 
Fund was unanimously passed by the Gen- 
eral Conference in 1909. A little more than 
one half of this amount is raised. It has 
now been decided to ask all our people to 
give to missions an average of 15 cents a 
week, and to discontinue the raising of the 
$300,000 Fund for missions, when the pledges 
to it are paid. 
Out of the portion of this fund already 
raised four cottages have been erected in 
China and one in Korea. Two of the homes 
in China are located at Weichow, in the 
province of Quang-tung, and their first 
occupants were the families of Brethren J. 
P. Anderson and S. A. Nagel. Weichow is 
the center of our work for the Hakka people, 
of whom there are more than ten million. 
It is about two days' ride by steamboat from 
Canton, the nearest place where we have 
other foreign workers stationed. These two 
houses are in a good location, on a side 
hill, where they have excellent drainage. 
One house cost $950, and the other $1,050, 
and the land on which they stand, including 
some improvements, a little over $500. Both 
cottages are built in one compound, that the 
families may be near each other when the 
brethren are absent', as they must often be 
away weeks at a time. 
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At Chang-sha, Hunan; two cottages, or 
bungalows, are completed. These homes 
are pleasantly situated on an island in the 
midst of the river. We have no good pic-
ture of these little homes, but on another 
page is shown the cottage built in Korea. 
Chang-sha will be the center of our work for 
about forty-eight million people. 
Elder Evans writes:— 
" We are indeed grateful that we have 
been able to make a beginning in providing 
homes for our workers in the East. To be 
sure, it is only a beginning, but it gives 
promise of better days for our workers, and 
longer service in the cause of God. The 
price of these homes will soon be more than 
saved in the extra time the laborers can 
remain at their work each year. Other 
homes will be provided as soon as funds are 
available. Our workers are pleased with 
their homes, and are most grateful to our 
brethren and sisters in the home land, who 
by their self-sacrifice have supplied means 
with which to erect the buildings." 
Our Work in China 
IN 1887, Brother A. La Rue went to Hong-
kong, as a self-supporting missionary. 
Some Chinese were deeply interested in the 
truth, and translated several tracts, which 
Brother La Rue printed. His death occurred 
in 1904. 
In 1902 Elder J. N. Anderson and wife and 
Miss Ida Thompson arrived in Hongkong to 
take up work for China. They were fol-
lowed soon after by E. W. Wilbur and wife 
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These workers established a boys' school 
and a girls' school at Canton. Soon after 
Elder E. Pilquist began work in the prov-
ince of Honan, and a little church was 
formed. In response to his call for helpers, 
Mound over the grave of Mrs. Maude Miller, who died 
in China in 1905 
Elder H. W. Miller and wife and Elder A. 
C. Selmon and wife, all four physicians, and 
Misses Erickson and Simpson, nurses, were 
sent out in the autumn of 1903. They located 
in Honan. In March, 1905, came the sad blow 
of Mrs. Miller's death.. She urged the pro-
secution of the work with her last breath, and 
died with words of cheer upon her lips. 
In 1904, Elder Munson, of Sumatra, sent 
his native helper, Timothy, to Amoy, China, 
to perfect his knowledge of the Foo-kien dia-
lect. While there, he taught the truth to a 
leading teacher in a theological school, 
Brother Keh, and soon there was a spread-
ing work in Amoy. Early in 1905 W. C. 
Hankins and wife arrived in that city to lead 
in the work. 
By the close of 1905 a small printing office 
was in opperation at Shang Tsai Hsien, 
Honan, where a monthly paper, called, in 
Chinese, Tuh, In Hsuen Pao (The Gospel 
Herald), was published. The removal of 
the printing office to Sin Yang Cheo was ef- 
fected in March, 1907, and in this year a 
suitable office building was erected. Dr. H. 
W. Miller, F. A. Allum and wife, Orvie Gib-
son, and Esta Miller located there. Elder 
J. J. Westrup came to China in the autumn 
of 1905. 
In September, 1906, P. J. Laird and wife 
(Dr. Emma Perrine Laird) entered the prov-
ince of Hunan, the last province in China 
to be entered by Protestant missionaries. 
The force of workers at Amoy was in-
creased by the arrival of Elder B. L. 
Anderson in the spring of 1906. On a trip 
to Canton in 1907, Brother Keh, of Amoy, 
stopped off a little time at Swatow, where an 
interest developed, and some accepted the 
Sabbath. At Chow Chow Foo, twenty-five 
miles inland from Swatow, our brethren on 
a second visit, found over fifty adults en-
deavoring to keep the Sabbath after the best 
light they had. 
Two new statiqns were opened in the prov-
ince of Quang-Tong (Canton) during 1908. 
One was in charge of Dr. Law Keem and 
wife; the other station with E. H. Wilbur 
and wife in charge. J. P. Anderson joined 
the Canton workers in 1906. 
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In December, 1907, the believers from Bro-
ther Westrup's station met with those of Dr. 
Selmon's station in general meeting. Fifty 
Chinese Sabbath-keepers gathered, many 
from places forty or fifty miles distant. 
Seven were baptized, and a church of eleven 
members was organized. Men destroyed 
pipes, and women unbound their feet. 
Early in 1908, a general meeting in Shang-
hai decided to sell the printing office in 
Ronan, and to establish the publishing work 
in Shanghai, Dr. H. W. Miller settling 
there on his return from furlough. H. H. 
Winslow was located in Shanghai, also, as 
secretary and treasurer of the China mission. 
Elder R. F. Cottrell and wife, and Miss 
Pauline Schilberg (the first student ap-
pointed from the Foreign Mission Seminary) 
joined the Chang-sha station, while B. N. 
Roberts and wife, and Mrs. Bothilde Miller 
joined the Shanghai mission. �
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The second biennial council of our work-
ers in China was held at Shanghai, in Janu-
ary, 1909, at the close of the visit of Elder 
I. H. Evans to the far East. For effective 
supervision, the council divided China into 
ten great mission fields, and issued a call 
for twenty families to come to China in the 
next two years. Nine families sailed in re-
sponse during 1909, including Elder W. A. 
Westworth, appointed superintendent. 
During the recent revolutionary troubles 
in China, our missionaries were forced to 
seek refuge at Shanghai. This gave oppor-
tunity for a general meeting. 
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Do Our Missionaries Need Better 
Homes ? 
W. 1V. PRESCOTT 
IN order to give a clear understanding of 
the conditions under which our missionaries 
have lived in China, and of the need of pro-
viding suitable homes for them, I will give 
a description of some of my own experiences 
in meeting our workers at their stations. - 
Coming down from Pekin, we left the train 
at Si Ping one Wednesday afternoon, about 
half past four, and rode in a donkey cart 
eighteen miles to Sheng Tsai, where Brother 
and Sister J. J. Westrup were located. It 
was about ten o'clock in the evening when 
we rode up to the door of the station, with 
the wheels of the cart nearly half way to the 
hubs in the mud. It was with some difficulty 
that we alighted from the cart without sink-
ing into the mud, as there was no sidewalk. 
Going through the outer door, we came into 
a large open room which might be used as a 
chapel. Passing on through this we entered 
the inner court, about twelve feet wide, and 
extending the length of the compound. On 
either side of this court, were rooms occu-
pied by the missionaries for a chapel, for a 
dispensary, -and for living purposes. There 
was no other opening than the court already 
mentioned, and there was, therefore, little 
or no opportunity for any circulation of 
air. When the sun beat down into this court 
during the .summar months, the heat became 
almost unbearable. The rooms surrounding 
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the court were constructed after the usual 
native style of building, with some addi-
tional windows put in by the missionaries. 
In the winter the rooms are cold, and as 
fuel is very expensive, the question of heat-
ing them is a serious one. It was impossible 
to leave the station without passing through 
the central part of the town, and there being 
no sidewalks, it was difficult to get about, , 
as the streets in the rainy season were filled 
with water and mire. The Chinese are curi-
ous about the doings of their neighbors, and 
it was impossible for anyone to arrive at, or 
leave the station, or even for the mission 
family to do anything out of the ordinary, 
without causing a gaping crowd to collect, 
sometimes almost filling the street. 
It is difficult to explain in words the differ-
ence between a home built by the Chinese, 
and one built according to American stand-
ards. In the one case, you have poorly 
constructed houses, walls usually made of 
sun-dried brick, the floors often laid directly 
on the ground, with few windows of .small 
size, with an entire lack of all those little 
conveniences to which we are accustomed; 
in the other case, you have a neatly built 
house, adapted to all kinds of weather, well 
lighted, commonly heated either by furnace, 
steam, or hot water, a bath room, clothes 
closets, etc. While it may not be expected 
that all the conveniences of a city home 
should be supplied in interior China, yet it 
is very desirable that our workers should be 
provided with such places in which to live 
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that they shall be able to conserve their 
health, and carry forward their work to the 
best possible advantage. 
A journey of forty miles from Sheng Tsai 
brought us to Sieng Cheng, where we found 
the Doctors Selmon occupying a compound 
just outside the walls of the city. While the 
surroundings were more favorable than at 
Brother/Westrup's station, and the workers 
could get out into the open without passing 
through miry and crowded streets, yet the 
buildings were erected by the Chinese ac-
cording to Chinese ideas of architecture, and 
there was the same lack of anything like 
modern conveniences. In order to keep 
comfortable during the cold winter, we found 
the missionaries wearing two or more thick-
nesses of garments made from sheep skin, with 
the wool left on, as fuel was very expensive, 
and it was almost out of the question to 
heat the rooms so as to be comfortable with 
an ordinary amount of clothing on. 
At Canton, we found Brother and Sister 
Anderson somewhat more comfortably situ-
ated, as they were occupying a house for-
merly used by the Baptists as a mission home, 
but even this would be considered far from 
desirable by those accustomed to the ordi-
nary American home. The first floor of the 
main building was occupied as a chapel, 
while the kitchen and store rooms were 
across a narrow street and reached from the 
living rooms by a covered passage way over-
head. To get from the dining room to the 
kitchen, it is necessary to go through this 
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;Mission Home in Korea. Built with money from $300,000 Fund. Cost, $715. 
" It is cheaper to build a cot-, 
tage on the hillside than to 
dig a grave in the valley." 
Graves of Mrs. 
W. H. Ander-
son and J. H. 
Watson in Af-
rica. 
passage way and then down stairs. A fish 
market next door to the chapel, open seven 
days in the week from very early in the morn-
ing until toward noon, attracted a large 
crowd of retailers, whose tubs and baskets 
ornamented the ground. The constant wa sh-
ing of fish and emptying of the water upon 
the ground, kept the whole surroundings so 
damp that the ground would often be sticky, 
and inside the chapel a musical instrument 
would soon be so swollen as to be out of 
order. 
In the same city, Brother and Sister Wil-
bur were living in the upper part of anative 
house, using a common entrance with a 
Chinese family below. The only condition 
upon which they could secure these rooms 
was that on certain occasions the owner 
would have the privilege of using one of the 
rooms in order to worship the pictures of 
his ancestors on the walls. 
There is no attempt at exaggeration in 
this description and no undue emphasis upon 
unfavorable conditions. In fact, it is diffi-
cult to convey an adequate idea of the true 
situation which I found, and yet I heard no 
word of complaint on the part of a single 
worker: but on leaving China, I felt that the 
one thing which I was under obligation to 
present to the Mission Board on my return 
to America, was the absolute need of pro-
viding suitable homes for our missionaries 
in order that their lives might not be unnec-
essarily sacrificed. 
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The Need of Homes for Our 
Missionaries 
MRS. J. N. ANDERSON* 
THE present hour is the very latest to 
which we as a people should postpone defi-
nite attention to this important detail of our 
missionary undertaking,—the proper housing 
of missionaries. Already there has been 
some waste in China in nervous strain, pre-
ventable sickness, lessened efficiency in the 
field, protracted furloughs at home; and in 
a few instances doubtless the permanent 
abandonment of the missionary career. 
The first Chinese missionary home I visited 
was established in a cluster of small houses 
constituting a native family dwelling. The 
houses consisted each of four walls of sun-
dried brick sheltered by thatched straw roof, 
lighted and ventilated through a single 
opening where swung a rude plank door on 
creaking, wooden hinges. Where there was 
pretense of floor it consisted of ashes brick 
laid immediately on the earth. Snow cov-
ered the ground when I was there but the 
houses were built with no provision for heat-
ing except by means of open charcoal fires 
placed about in iron pans. These fires soon 
consumed the oxygen and charged the air 
with poisoning gas. By written agreement 
* Brother and Sister J. N. Anderson were our pioneer 
missionaries to China, remaining there until Sister Ander-
son's.broken health compelled their return to this country. 
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to preserve, and in the end replace, every 
brick taken out, the missionary had secured 
permission to cut window holes and had put 
a few glass windows into his own living 
quarters. The interiors had been white-
washed and temporary partitions introduced 
where really necessary. 
Are you surprised to hear that this mis-
sionary became crippled with rheumatism, 
and that his wife contracted a suspicious 
cough, grew thin and pale and suffered from 
pain in the chest, till a change to the home-
land became imperative? 
There is in my mind a very vivid picture 
of a single woman's quarters, installed in a 
part of the second floor of a girl's school. 
[The room of Miss Ida Thompson.] I still 
seem to feel the knots as I grasp the slippery 
pole which supplies the place of staircase, 
and to hear again the creaking of those tot-
tery stairs as I begin to ascend. How close 
and stiffling the air is! These thin brick 
walls unbroken by verandas, and this tile 
roof on rude rafters with no lower ceiling 
is scant protection in the latitude of the 
Torrid Zone where the sun stands vertically 
over head one-half the year and never gets 
far away. 
I recall how a young man leased a native 
house in Canton. The place had been empty 
a long time because for some reason it had 
gained a reputation for "spooks." It is 
frequently that only such houses are avail-
able for missionary purposes. 
The missionary hired coolies, rallied the 
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boys of his school, and set to work with a 
contagious enthusiasm. The spacious house 
with its beautifully carved arches and par-
titions ladeh with dust and draped with 
cobwebs was swept and washed and painted 
and whitewashed almost out of recognition. 
"Everything is ready for the opening of 
the boys' school, I believe," the young man 
said as he stretched back rather wearily in 
the rattan chair. 
"You are not well?" I inquired as for the 
first time I noticed the heavy, glassy look 
in his eyes and the flushed face. 
" My bones ache," he admitted, "but I 
will get a hot bath and go to bed early. 
I'll be all right in the morning." 
Next day I called at the bachelor quarters 
to find him very feverish and his mind 
wandering. I could not leave my family, so 
I called a chair and coolies and took him 
home with me. All night the fever raged. 
Next morning a doctor was called. The big 
house was indeed haunted and our mission-
ary had become the victim of its spooks. 
He was down with smallpox of a violent 
type. A vigorous constitution under God's 
blessing saved him to the work. 
another section of China a missionary 
family were quartered in a portion of the 
house rented for chapel. It seemed neces-
sary to preserve the larger rooms, which 
were also the best lighted and ventilated, for 
meeting purposes. The missionary's apart-
ment was sheltered by the thick branches of 
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great banyan trees which so fully excluded 
the sun that the tile roof was never thor-
oughly dried and a growth of mold frescoed 
the ceiling in bed room and living room. 
Before the door was a deep, black pool, the 
favorite resort of a herd of water-buffalo 
belonging to the adjoining dairy. All day 
the water lay there still and stagnant. This 
combination of the pool and the dark roost 
in the spacious branches of the banyan 
trees made the place especially attractive to 
the malaria mosquito. 
These are not overdrawn pictures or ex-
treme cases but rather typical of the living 
conditions of our Chinese missionaries 
where mission houses have not been sup-
plied. In most cases the worst may not be 
properly spoken of openly. Are you satisfied 
with the work your missionary representa-
tives can do under the circumstances? Is 
the home church prepared to meet the logical 
outcome in financial waste, in loss of health 
and life, and the premature dissolution of 
family ties? The question whether the situa-
tion as it is meets your approval or not 
will in some measure be answered by the 
response by the Sabbath-schools. The call 
comes to you to-day for means with which 
to build missionary homes in China. • 
TEN years ago we had but one Sabbath-
keeper in China, Brother A. La Rue. 
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Interesting Things About China 
The Country and People 
CHINA occupies one-third of Asia. The 
population is generally estimated at four 
hundred million, — easily one-fourth the 
population of the earth. The Chinese have 
yellow skin, black hair and oblique eyes. 
Their principle article of food is rice. 
Their Religion 
The Chinese worship idols. Confucian-
ism, Buddhism and Taoism are the three 
leading religions. Confucianism is based 
on morality, and is man-worship; Buddhism 
on idolatry, and is image-worship; Taoism 
on superstition, and is spirit-worship. That 
which has the strongest hold on the hearts 
of the people is the worship of ancestors and 
of the spirits of earth. air, and water. 
Children Taught to Worship Idols 
The children of China are early taught to 
worship idols. They are taken to the great, 
gloomy temples, where is placed the shrine 
of the great idol in whose honor the temple 
is built. " The mothers bring their little 
children forward and teach them to clasp 
their hands and bow down knocking their 
heads on the ground as they worship the hid-
eous, senseless idol. If it is the first time, 
the children are afraid, and sometimes say, 
I can't do it, I never shall do it.' Then 
they watch closely while their mothers once 
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wore show them how it is done. Afterwards 
they are sometimes rewarded with little pres-
ents, which they are told have been given 
them by the idol. But if they are terrified 
and afraid to worship, they are told stories 
of the terrible things that happen to people 
who do not ask the protection of the ugly 
idol." 
Christian Work in China 
Robert Morrison, of Scotland, was sent 
to China by the London Missionary Society 
in 1807. He translated the Bible into the 
Chinese language, and baptized his first con-
vert in 1814. There are now in China about 
three thousand Christian missionaries of 
different denominations. The professed con-
verts number more than one hundred thous-
and. 
A Thrilling Word Picture 
" BUT on Sinim's shores one hears more 
than the cry of mere numbers; they are mul-
titudes who are suPring and dying. More 
millions go to bed hungry each night in 
China than in any other land; more bodies 
endure torture under the hands of Chinese 
quacks than under the tender mercies of 
practitioners of any other race; more women 
suffer from the limitations of their sex in 
China than in any other heathen nation; 
more men pay the penalty of their vices 
there than anywhere else; more brides commit 
suicide, and more young men sell themselves 
to be put to death in China than can be 
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found in any other clime, simply because 
the sweetness of life is gall, and existence is 
misery. 
"This summons is one of pressing emer-
gency. The Chinese character for world and 
for generation is made up of three tens. 
While we of the West speak of a generation 
as thirty-three years in duration, this lin-
guistic fossil of past millenniums asserts 
that in three brief decades the Chinese world 
comes to birth, lives its cheerless life, and 
crumbles into dust. Students meet for an 
hour to study the needs of China; when this 
hour is over, 1,409 Chinese have ceased to 
breathe. Missionary receipts are so insuffi-
cient that a Board postpones entering China 
until another year; that twelve months' de-
lay has removed from the possibility of 
ministration 12,342,840 who sorely needed 
help. The church of God may sleep on for 
thirty years more, but when it awakes, 
China's four hundred millions have passed 
beyond her power to save them. If China 
is not evangelized in our generation, then 
the church can never perform her duty to 
one-fourth of the human race, unto which she 
has been commanded to minister."— "nhwn 
on the Hills of Tom 1." by Harlan P. Beach. 
Two Incidents 
A LADY missionary sent to China by the 
Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary 
Society relates the following incident: — 
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" Some months ago, in walking near a 
neighboring village, I met a man carrying 
two large covered baskets on the ends of a 
pole over his shoulder. Cries were issuing 
from the baskets and I made him stop and let 
me see what was in them. There were three 
babies, one in one basket and two in the 
other, all lying on their backs, blue with 
cold, and hungry and crying with all their 
small might. The man was a baby mer-
chant, and had taken out six in the morning 
to sell, and, having disposed of half his 
stock, was returning home at nightfall with 
the remainder. He said, if I would take 
them all, he would sell me the lot very cheap. 
I suppose he would have considered a dol-
lar apiece a sufficient compensation." 
Referring to the dreadful effects of the 
Chinese religious customs, this lady says:— 
"A couple had been married many years, 
arid had no children. The wife made many 
prayers and offerings in a neighboring tem-
ple and promised the idol a splendid feast 
if she should have a son. At last her desire 
was fulfilled: and the delighted couple wished 
to pay their vow to the idol. But they were 
very poor, having only a small piece of land 
on which they lived, and from which they 
got their whole support. They considered 
much what they should do. They had no 
ricle,friends from whom to borrow, no hand-
soW clothes that they could pawn, and no 
way of earning more than their daily bread; 
yet the idol must be satisfied, or it might do 
them and the child great harm. There was 
only the land on which was their whole de-
pendence. After much distressed debate, in 
which fear of the idol prevailed, they sold 
the land for thirty dollars, and spread a 
thanksgiving feast before the god. Then 
they struggled on, not hopelessly, because 
they had a son, and need not go hungry nor 
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naked in their old age in this world, nor in 
the world of spirits. By working at odd 
jobs here and there, they managed to keep 
themselves alive, and feed the child. When 
the boy was eight years old, another son was 
born to them. Again, the idol must have a 
thank-offering; but this time they had no land 
to sell, and were in the last stages of pov-
erty. Their only valuable possession was 
their eight-year-old boy. He was bright and 
handsome, and a rich, childless man wanted 
him for his own. After much discussion, agi-
tated by the fear of the idol, and desire for 
its beneficial influence on the babe, and all 
other means of getting money failing, they 
sold the boy for fifteen dollars, and again 
made a feast before the god. The eldest 
boy gone, and the feast over, the baby took 
small-pox and died. The raving, despair-
ing mother carried the corpse and bound it 
on the breast of the idol, saying: `You have 
eaten our land; you have eaten our house; 
you have eaten our pots and pans; you have 
eaten our eight-year-old boy: all we ever 
had has gone into your maw. 
Now eat 
this !' " 
What Will Our Sabbath-schools Do? 
AN opportunity is now given to every 
Sabbath-school to help build homes for our 
missionaries in China. 
Remember the date—the thirteenth Sab-
bath in the present quarter, Sept. 28, 1912. 
Remember to add this gift to the total 
Sabbath-school contributions to missions 
for the quarter, and also to state the amount 
given on the thirteenth Sabbath, that it may 
be set apart for this special purpose. 
Remember to pray for China as you give 
to China. 
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Missionaries Now in China Who Have 
Gone From This Country 
I. H. EVANS and wife; Dr. A. C. Selmon 
and wife; C. P. Lillie and wife; W. E. Gillis 
and wife; B. A. Roberts and wife; C. N. 
Woodward and wife; Miss Eunice LeMaster; 
W. F. Hills and wife; J. J. Westrup and 
wife; Frederick Lee and wife; Mrs. Bothilde 
Miller; Dr. M. M. Kay and wife; E. E. Staf-
ford and wife; F. A. Allum and wife; 0. A. 
Hall and wife; Miss Pauline Schilberg; Miss 
Olive Osborne; Dr. A. G. Larson and wife; 
Mrs. E. L. Miller. George Harlow and wife; 
E. H. Wilbur and wife; J. P. Anderson and 
wife; Miss Ida E. Thompson; Miss Gertrude 
Thompson; R. F. Cottrell and wife; 0. J. 
Gibson and wife; S. C. Harris and wife; B. 
L. Anderson and wife. 
Home on Furlough 
J. N. Anderson and wife; W. C. Hankins 
and wife; H. W. Miller and wife; Law Keem 
and wife. 
ISSUED BY THE 
SABBATH-SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 
General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists 
TA/COMA PARK STATION, �
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WASHINGTON, D. C.