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Woman's Work
SUGGESTIONS.
By Miss Carrie Lee Campbell.
"Some things God cannot give un
til the spirit is prepared and proved
by persistent prayer." ? Jeremy Tay
lor.
Teaching Missions Through Dolls.
"We say a great deal nowadays
about toys that have some educa
tional value as opposed to those that
merely amuse," said the Youth's Com
panion recently, "but it has remained
for an ingenious woman to use dolls
as a means of teaching history.
"She began by dressing for her own
little daughter a 'Priscilla,' about
which she wove stories of the early
settlement of the country. The ap
peal to the interest and imagination
of the child was remarkable. 'Poca
hontas* furnished an occasion for va
rious stories of the relations between
the white men and the Indians and
'George and Martha Washington'
gave an excuse for colonial and Rev
olutionary tales.
"The mothers of some of the little
girl's playmates became interested
and adopted the plan for their own
little daughters; and since they all
played with their dolls together all
of them got the benefit of what each
had learned. . . . The success of f.he
plan depends largely upon the selec
tion of characters that are interest
ing and attractive to children and
upon a reasonable fidelity to the dress
of the country and period. There
should be a carefully worked out
chronological scheme and good story
telling."
This plan is quite as good for teach
ing missions as for teaching history- -
perhaps even better. Dressing dolls
in the costume of the period to rep
resent great missionaries and in na
tive costume to represent famous na
tive Christians would not be a very
difficult matter and would arouse
great interest.
What wonderful stories could be
woven around dolls representing Ann
Judson, Fidelia Fiske, Mary Moffat,
Eliza Agnew, Pundita Ramabai and
Doctor Mary Stone. And what fasci
nating dialogues could be arranged be
tween Fidelia Fiske and Eliza Agnew,
Dr. Li Bi Cu and Isabella Thoburn!
It seems there are infinite possibili
ties in the plan. And how the girls
in their teens would love to help with
this for the younger ones.
Tissue papers have been successful
ly used for costumes. ? Adapted from
Missionary Review.
A Japanese Idea of Heaven.
The empire of Japan is now a very
near neighbor to us, and travelers
from our country, and from all lands,
are constantly going there to see for
themselves these interesting people
and their beautiful country. Chris
tian people are doing much to give
the gospel to the Japanese, and
churches and Sabbath schools are
springing up all over the country.
The children in America are Inter
ested in learning all about Japanese
children, and here is a story that all
will understand.
No country in the world does more
to entertain its children than Japan,
says Miss White, a missionary lady
who has spent some time in that coun
try. Even on the street corners men
stand whose sole business it Is to
tell stories to the boys and girls.
One day she joined a group of lit
tie folks who were eagerly listening,
and this is what she heard:
"Once on a time a peasant went to
heaven, and the first thing he saw
was a long shelf with something very
strange-looking upon it.
" 'What is that?' he asked; 'is that
something to make soup of?'
"The Japanese are very fond of
soup.
" 'No,' was the reply; 'those are
ears. They belonged to persons who,
when they lived on earth, heard what
they ought to do in order to be good,
but tliey didn't pay any attention to
it, so when they died their ears came
to heaven, but their bodies could not.*
"After awhile the peasant saw an
other shelf with very queer tilings
on it.
" 'What is that?' he asked again;
'is that something to make soup of?'
" 'No,' he was told; 'those are
tongues. They once belonged to men
in the world who told people how to
live and how to do good, but they
themselves never did as they told
others to do; so, when they died, their
tongues came to heaven, but the rest
of their bodies could not.' "
This is only a heathen idea of the
beautiful land on high, but God says
in His word some things which are
very much like the morals of this
Japanese story. The difference be
tween hearing the Word of God and
doing it is told us in the words of
our Lord Jesus Christ in the story of
the man who built his house on the
sand, and the other who built his
upon a rock. Read it for yourselves
in the seventh chapter of Matthew.
(To be used for your September
Japan meeting.)
Put Your Church On tho Honor Hull.
Yes, you can do it; because it has
been done in other cases.
The First church, Richmond, Va.,
was put on Jack's Honor Roll, on first
page of the Survey, by an earnest
voman, who is too shy to want hGr
name given, who had not a great
deal of health, but she had the head,
and the heart, and the will, together
with time and a telephone.
Perseverance she had plus, and
using all these things together, she
reported each month more and more
subscribers, until for every five mem
bers in the church there was one
Survey taken.
, You can do it. Try it.
Keeping Men and Making Men.
"If you could live in a cantonment
even for a few days you'd feel a thou
sand times repaid for the splendid
work you put in the last Y. M. job.
I never realized till now what a mis
sion the Y. M. is fulfilling. Instead
of merely keeping men from falling,
I believe it is actually making men."
Little Homes in the Mountains.
Little homes in the mountains,
Little homes in the hills,
Up where the snow-born fountains
Melt in a score of rills;
Reared where the day uncloses.
Up where the day is born,
Bach with its garth of roses.
Each with its patch of corn.
Shack of the logger's rearing,
Hut in the craggy glen,
Cot in the sun-washed clearing.
Homes of the mountain men!
Men of the larger pattern,
Men of the cleaner lives,
Fathers of clear-eyed children,
Husbands of plain-clad wives.
Strong with the day for labor.
Calm when the evening conies,
Wise in the simpler wisdom
Blest in their little homes.
Up where the days are tranquil,
Up where the nights are cool ? .
Little homes in the mountains,
Clustered about a school!
? Selected.
(To be used at your next Home
Mission meeting. ? Ed.)
THE Y. W. C. A. IN FRANCE.
War relief work carried on by the
Young Women's Christian Association
in France was undertaken at the ur
gent request of the French women
themselves. It has developed along
two lines.
The work for American women war
workers includes recreation centers at
each of the base hospitals where
American nurses are stationed, and
also Hostess Houses which are both
living quarters and social centers for
all American womon now engaged in
war work.
The enterprises for the benefit of
the French women munition workers
are carried on in close co-operation
with the French women themselves.
When French women feel able to con
duct them independently the Ameri
can women will withdraw.
Three Hostess Houses are now in
operation. In Paris, Hotel Petrograd,
33 rue Cauinartain, is filled with
women wearing all the different cos
tumes of the various relief societies.
It offers at a moderate rate the ne
cessities and some comforts of life to
those engaged in heavy and monoto
nous war toil. At Tours and Chau
mont, the Hostess Houses are espe
cially for the benefit of women serv
ing with the American Army. Signal
Service women telephonists and tele
graphers, as well as clerical assistants,
may turn to this spot for any assist
ance which they need.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
CONQUERING EVIL.
Sept. 8, 1918. 1 Kings 21:1-29;
Eph. 5:6-21.
Golden Text. ? Have no fellowship
with the unfruitful works of dark
ness, but rather reprove them. ? Eph.
5:11.
Devotional Rending: Horn. 12:21
13:10. ?
Additional Material for Teachers :
Deut. 9:18; Ps. 94:16; Prov. 17:10;
25:12; Luke 4:1-13; 19:41-48; Rom.
7:14-8:14; 2 Tim. 4:2.
Primary and Junior Topic: Choos
ing the Right.
Primary Memory Verse: Depart
from evil, and do good. ? Ps. 34:14.
Junior Memory Verse: Dan. 1:8.
Story Material: Dan. 1:8-20.
Intermediate, Senior and Adult
Topic: Temptations Resisted and Evil
Overthrown in Christ's Strength.
Additional Material: Lev. 19:17;
Ps. 139:19-24; Prov. 9:8; 15:5, 31,
32; 27:5, 6; Matt. 6:13; Luke 22:
31, 32; John 17:15; Rom. 14:21; 1
Cor. 9:24-27; Heb. 12:1-4.
In this first passage we have an
illustration of how evil will sometimes
overcome a man. Aliab the king al
lowed this to happen to him. He
had a summer palace in Jesreel. Just
next to the palace grounds lived Na
both. The king ought to have been
very thankful that he had such a
true and noble man for a neighbor.
Naboth had a vineyard that joined
the king's grounds. The king thought
it would make a fine vegetable gar
den, so he offered to trade Naboth
another vineyard for it, or to buy it
of him for money. But Naboth did
not want to sell or exchange the land
he had inherited from his father. And
if he and Ahab belonged to different
tribes, as they probably did, he would
not have a right to let the king have
his land. (See Lev. 25:23.)
Ahab had no regard for the wishes
of others or for the law. When he
found he could not get what he want
ed he sulked like a spoiled child. Hi*
wife Jezebel made fun of him, be
cause he sulked instead of taking tho
land, which as an unscrupulous king
he had the power to do.
She told . him that she would get
it for him. She devised a scheme
that was as low and mean as could
be conceived, and yet the transaction
had the semblance of law.
She wrote to the rulers of the city
who seemed only too willing to carry
out the wishes of the queen, and tohf
them to hold a fast, which was a re
ligious service. In connection with it
there was to be some kind of public
meeting. Naboth was to be honored
by making him tho presiding officer
or the assembly. Then two suborned
men were to object to his holding
this office because they said they had
heard him curse God and the king.
When such a charge was made he
had to be brought to trial. On the
testimony of these two false witnesses
he was condemned.
According to the law a man who
blasphemed against God was to be
put to death, and so they stoned him.
The man who spoke evil of the king
forfeited his property to the king. It
was entirely natural under the cir
cumstances for the king to take pos
session of the land.
The way in which he secured R
did not trouble him until Elijah came
to him in the vineyard and denounced
him as a murderer and prophesied
the fate which would befall him. He
was a murderer because he allowed
Jezebel to arrange to secure the land
for him, when he knew she could not
do it honestly, even if he did not
know how she would do it. And then
he willing accepted the gain which
came from her crime, showing that
he approved her course.
A few years later Elijah's prophecy
was literally fulfilled. "Be sure your
sins will find you out." "Be not over
come of evil, but overcome evil with
good."
In the second passage of our les
son the Apostle Paul shows us how
we are to resist evil and fight against
it, and aays that Christ will give us the
needed light. We need light to see
the evil and we need light to see
how to overcome the evil. We can
see these things only as we look to
Christ and try to follow him in his
fight against sin.
If you young people ever learn to
play golf you will have to play against
a person you never saw. His name is
Colonel Bogey. No one ever saw him,
and no one knows what he looks like.
But he plays against every golf player
in every game.
Who do you suppose Colonel Bogey
is? I will tell you. He is a person
who Is supposed to play the game
without making any mistakes, and at
the end of the game the Colonel is
matched up against you, and asks
how many mistakes you have made.
He does not ask whether you beat
your partner, for your partner may
be a poor player. He asks how per
fect a game you have played. And
when people think about Colonel
Bogey they feel qu|te ashamed ?|f
their poor playing, although they may
have been better players than their
opponents.
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