THE WORK FOR CHILDREN IN CHINA.
A LADY missionary in China, whose special work is among the children, writes: "There is no work that will yield such large and lasting results as the one among little children, and none that will have so far-reaching an effect upon the future of China. We who are on the field realize this as we see how reluctantly the men and women relinquish the old customs and beliefs. One of the native teachers in the boys' college, who has been an earnest Christian for years, says that at times he still has desperate struggles against the superstition of his early training, and that in spite of himself the old impressions and fears rise up and haunt him. A few days ago a baby girl was born in the Pierce Street Hospital, in Foochow. The mother, like many another mother in China, had no love in her heart for her child because it was a girl, and before the little thing was a day old sold her for ten cents. My kindergarten in Foochow has an enrolment of forty-five boys and girls from two to seven years of age. They are merry little folks, and are fond of singing the songs I have translated for them, and their voices are sweet. Our work for them and among them is wielding a powerful influence for good."—Christian Work.