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Identifier: spiritofmissions80epis (find matches)
Title: The Spirit of missions
Year: 1915 (1910s)
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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h, though not of my denomina-tion, to give the American flag a newmeaning in France. Next year, or the next year, whenyou make your tour of France, andyou reach Paris, I am sure you willhear of Dr. Watson and the Americanchurch as one of the combinationsmade illustrious in the memory of theFrench people through its mercifulministering to the least of these;and the beautiful church at 23 Avenuec!e lAlma will have a new interest forevery American. ON May 9th, at the HahnemannHospital, San Francisco, oc-curred the death of Miss Lizzie R.Foster, who thirty-eight years ago en-tered the service of the Board of Mis-sions as proof-reader upon this peri-odical. About a year later Miss Fosterwas employed to assist Mr. Kimber inthe work of the Foreign Committee.She continued in the service of theBoard in one capacity or another untilher retirement from active serviceabout four years ago. Thus anotherfaithful servant and earnest helper ofthe missionary enterprise passes toher rest and reward. 429
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430 LIVES THAT HAVE HELPED IX. A MOTHER OF SLAVE GIRLSBy Margaret Hart Bailey I. The Work and the Woman SLAVERY is so common in Chinathat it is almost impossible topersuade even the thinking Chris-tian Chinese that it is an evil. Nearlyevery well-to-do family—Christianfamilies unfortunately included—haveone or more little slave girls, and ifthey are well cared for no one thinksanything of it. Since the Mid i e Ages it has beenrare to find a nati m that makes slavesof its own people, as the Chinese.do—an indication of the statement we sooften hear that medieval conditionsstill prevail in China. Another peculiarfeature of the slavery in China is thefact that it is generally only the girlswho are made slaves. They arebought for a song in the famine re-gions by dealers who bring them to thecities and openly carry on their horri-ble trade. Often they are sold to aneighboring family for debt, or it maybe that parents have more girls thanthey want and can be easily persuadedto part wit

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