READ the following article about heathen women who kill their children from religious or economic principles, after they are duly born, or rather are compelled by public or family sentiments to kill them, the mother's heart protesting against it, and ask wherein they are worse than those so-called "Christian women" of our missionary societies who kill their unborn babes:— "I had traveled four years in Asia before my last journey, but until that time never came to realize what the awful darkness is which rests upon that part of the world. Darkness pervades the whole social life and whole individual life. There is not an idea they have that is free from darkness, a darkness which surrounds them every moment. In China I have heard the wail of the Chinese mother, for sorrow that a woman is born into the world. I was present at a meeting of Bible women in a district in South China, and, to my horror, I heard that there was not one of these women receiving Christian instruction who had not put an end to the life of from one to five girl babies. I think I may appeal to Christian mothers to be more earnest than they have ever been before in sending forth the Gospel of Christ, the light that shineth in darkness.—Isabella Bird Bishop, in a speech in London, May, 1897." These heathen only kill girls, while our American killers slay boys and girls alike; and everything indicates that there are more boys thus done away with than girls. They are killed because of selfishness on the part of the Christian(!) mothers. It is deliberate, cruel murder, because of pleasure or of their own sin. The pain of abortion is often greater than that of birth. It is more disastrous on the health. Birth never hurt the health of any one. Motherhood beautifies. We think the heathen is a better woman than these disgraces on the name of Christendom; for they are compelled to it. Ages of heathen bondage to men and tradition are back of them. Our women are free; they have the Bible, with its glorification of motherhood, in their hands. Many of them are members of the church and hope to go to heaven, where, according to the creed of their church, they believe all children go, and no murderer does.—The Individual.