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What you are speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.-EMERSON.

I do not know of any man who requires more_big_thinking or more statesmanlike action than the missionary.-F. M. RAINS.

Now is the time we firmly believe for you to bestir yourselves and manifest the seriousness of your purpose. You simply must not furl the banner for Christ! Nay, rather, you should lift it up and advance and proclaim the gospel of the Kingdom of God on earth.-S. EBINA, Japan Evangelist, April, 1909, p. 129.

It was the Jew who brought the gospel to Rome, a Roman that took it to France, a Frenchman that took it to Scandinavia, a Scotchman that evangelized Ireland, and an Irishman that, in turn, made the missionary conquest of Scotland. No people have received Christianity except at the hands of an alien.— ALVA W. TAYLOR, The Social Work of Christian Missions,"

p. 41.

Cannot you go to Christ to-day and find the idea of yourself in Him? It is certainly there. In Christ's thought at this moment there is a picture of you which is perfectly distinct and separate and clear. . . . If you give up your life to serving and loving Christ, one of the blessings of your consecration of yourself to Him will be that in Him there will be open to you this pattern of yourself. You will see your possible self as He sees it, and then life will have but one purpose and wish for you, which will be that you may realize that idea of yourself which you have seen in him.-PHILLIPS BROOKS.

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good or talk too wise;

If you can dream and not make dreams your master,

If you can think and not make thought your aim;

If you can meet with triumph and disaster,

And treat those two imposters just the same;

If you can fill each unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run-
Yours is the earth and everything that's in it,
And which is more, you'll be a man, my son.

-RUDYARD KIPLING.

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ISS MARY E. KIDDER, of the Reformed Church, was the first unmarried woman appointed by a mission board for service in Japan. Previous to her coming, in 1869, Miss Caroline Adriance was in Japan for a short time at her own charges. Miss Kidder came with S. R. Brown and wife and proceeded with them at once to Niigata. They were carried in palanquins and were sixteen days making the journey. A guard of nine soldiers accompanied them. Some time after her return to Yokohama, she opened a girls' school at Ise Yama, under the patronage of the governor of the province, who furnished her the house and a covered jinrikisha with two men to pull her. By 1875, the school grew into the well-known Ferris Seminary. In 1873, Miss Kidder was married to Edward R. Miller, who survives her and publishes the periodicals that she edited so creditably for years. Mrs. Miller was a queenly woman, from whose face every grace shone. From years of experience, filled with kindly deeds, she had come to know the truth of the Saviour's words, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."

Years ago, tidings of the lamentable condition of Eurasian girls in Japan reached the ears of the Woman's Union Missionary Society of America. It was not long till this parent organization of Women's Missionary Boards had consecrated Mrs. Mary Pruyn, Mrs. Louise H. Pierson, and Miss I. N. Crosby for their work in Yokohama. A few months after their arrival, in 1871, they opened their school for girls. For a while it was

known as the American Mission Home, but in later years it has been called the "Kyoritsu Jo Gakko." Mrs. Pruyn, after serving as superintendent, returned to the United States. Since her departure, Miss Crosby has served as superintendent. By her orders the buildings were so well constructed that the carpenter said that even if an earthquake or storm should roll them down the hill, they could not break apart. Miss Crosby is a born manager, a successful teacher, full of wit, life, and faith. In her twoscore years of service she has spent but two years in the home land and she has seen more years of actual mission service than any woman living in Japan.

Miss Clara A. Converse came to Japan in 1889, leaving a very important position in Vermont Academy to undertake the building up of the Mary Colby Home, a Baptist school in Yokohama. This school had been but little more than started by her predecessors, and it was her work to organize, develop, and build up the institution. Through her wise leadership, the school has become one of the best girls' schools in Japan. The school buildings and ground secured in the early years of her management were so inadequate for the growth of the school, that recently a large tract of land has been secured in the country near Kanagawa and a splendid plant has been established. The influence of Miss Converse over the girls under her care has been very unusual, and a large number of them have been trained by her to fill very important posts as teachers and in other walks of life. The graduates of the school have been much sought after as teachers in the Government schools.

Miss Bertha Clawsen was born at Strawn, Kansas. When a girl, she lost both her parents and was thrown upon her own resources. After graduation from the Tri-State College at Angola, Indiana, she taught for six years previous to her coming to Japan in 1898. Thus

her experiences have combined to make her an efficient teacher, as well as patient, tactful, and resourceful in character. After serving both in Akita and Osaka, she was called to Tokyo, to the presidency of the Margaret K. Long Girls' School, named in memory of the mother of R. A. Long, a prominent Christian and philanthropist. The school, which began in a rented building in 1905, moved into the new building on its dedication, October 11, 1907. The school has several departments, a Girls' High School, a Training School for Bible Women, a Kindergarten, and a Department of Home Economics.

Miss Ruth Frances Davis, the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union representative in Japan since 1908, is a graduate of Boston University. Her father is a Methodist minister. Her mother, Mrs. Edith Smith Davis, is National and World Superintendent of Scientific Temperance Instruction in the W. C. T. U., who was sent by our government as one of the twelve delegates to the Anti-alcoholic Congress at The Hague. Miss Davis inherits her parents' ability and is highly gifted as a writer and popular speaker. Her enthusiasm and capacity for work are unusual. She has made extensive tours throughout the Empire and has successfully carried out a prize Temperance Essay Contest among students in the Middle Schools of Japan.

Charles E. Garst was born in Bacon, Ohio. It had been his mother's prayer that he might be a minister. He was educated at the State Agricultural College at Ames, Iowa, and at West Point. During his studies at West Point, he came across the editorials of Isaac Errett, the Editor of the Christian Standard, and thus became a Disciple of Christ. In 1883, in company with his wife and Mr. and Mrs. George T. Smith, he reached Yokohama and opened the first work of his mission in Akita. From that time on, he devoted himself to country evangelism. Rain, snow, exposures, and privations never