WESTERN WOMEN IN EASTERN LANDS AN OUTLINE STUDY OP FIFTY YEARS OF WOMANS WORK IK FOREIGN MISSIONS BT HELEN BARRETT MONTGOMERY The women that publish the tidings are a great host THE MAOMILLAN COMPANY 1910 4. X rifitt ruewd CONTENTS 7AAV FOREWORD xi CIIAPTBB I. WHAT OUR MOTHERS HAVE TOLD Us . . 1 H, LADIES LAST 43 in. MISSIONARIES AT WORK .... 83 IV. THE WOMEN BEHIND THE WORK . . 155 V. THE NEW WOMAN OF THE ORUENT . . 203 VI. PROBLEMS AND POLICIES . . . .241 INDEX .,283 STATISTICAL TABLES - . . . folder at the end ACKNOWLEDGMENTS THE author wishes to acknowledge the kind ness of the Womens Boards of Missions and of the friends who have lent books and pamphlets also the cooperation and counsel of the Central Committee in the preparation of the book. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Mrs. Doremus ...... frontispiece FAOIN-Q PACE A. Moslem Madonna . . . . . .18 A Bible Woman at Work in Ceylon ... 21 Woman s Work for Children ..... 36 Mrs. William JButler ...... 52 Unbinding a Chinese Womans Feet 61 A Hindu Widow 68 A Kings Daughters Society in Japan ... 76 Girls School at Hyderabad, India . . . .85 Calisthenics Class in Marathi School, India . .116 Girls School at IToochow, China, going to Church . 125 Oispensary at Bareilly, India . 140 Bible Woman in India, with Those she has led to Christ 149 Dr. Kleanor Chesnut . . . . . .180 I ilavati Singh, Acting President of I ucknow Col lege 187 Glory Kindergarten, Kobe, Japan .... 206 School for the Blind in Bombay .... 213 A Mothers Club in Japan ..... 221 x LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGX Pundita Ramabai and Her Daughter . . . 236 Mrs. Satthiaiiadhan, Editor and Author . . . 244 The 3STew Women of China 251 New Fashions for the Congo ..... 26O The LadiesAid Society of Erromcaiga ., . 27O A Womans Missionary Society in China ., 277 FOREWORD publication of this, the tenth, volume in the series issued by the Central Committee on the United Study of Missions, leads us to review briefly this first decade of systematic, united study by the women of our Foreign Missionary Societies. We trace it back to its beginning in the heart of Miss A. B. Child, Secretary of the Womens Board of Missions, who, as Chairman of the Worlds Committee, arranged for the presentation of this topic at one of the sectional meetings for women held in connection with the Ecumenical Conference in New York, May, 1900. The plan met with, warm approval, and a committee consisting of five members was ap pointed, each of the following Boards choosing one Baptist, Congregational, Metnodist, Pres byterian, and Protestant Episcopal. Later the Dutch Reformed and Lutheran Boards each furnished a member. To meet the immediate demand, a leaflet study was issued in the fall of 190O, and steps were taken to secure an author and a publisher for the first text-book, which aimed to present an Outline Study of Missions from the time xi xii FOREWORD of the Apostles down to the Nineteenth Cen tury. Miss Louise Manning Hodgkins con sented to write the book, giving it the Latin title Via Christi, and the Macmillan Com pany was chosen as publisher. The demand was far greater than the Committee or publisher had hoped. The sales of this book alone have amounted to more than 50,000 copies. Others followed, one for each year, the authors adopting Latin titles in conformity with the first volume Lux Christi An Outline Study of India by Caroline At water Mason Rex Christus An Outline Study ofChina by Rev. Arthur H. Smith, D. D. Dux Christus An Outline Study of Japan by William Elliott Griffis, D. D. Christus Liberator An Outline Study of Africa by Ellen C. Parsons Christus Re demptor An Outline Study of the Islands of the Pacific by Helen Barrett Montgomery Gloria Christi An Outline Study of Missions and Social Progress by Anna R. B. Liadsiy This completed the cycle of seven originally planned by the Committee, but the great de mand for the Studies led to the publication of three more volumes, modeled after these but with English titles...