eady done, and for that of the year just
begun. Can we not, each one of us, _double our gifts_ to this work in
this A. M. A. Jubilee year? This, with one true self-denial offering
from every woman in the Congregational church, and friend of the work,
and not only shall the Association come next year to its fiftieth
anniversary with rejoicing, but hundreds of _new voices_ from the
millions of people to whom we are sent, will join also in the song of
Jubilee.

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ADDRESS OF MRS. SYDNEY STRONG.

A speaker at our Toledo meeting two years ago, when she had told of
her life work in China, closed her remarks by saying: "American
sisters, the women of China look to you for their examples of
Christian womanhood. Do not disappoint them: for if you do, it will be
the greatest blow foreign missions can have." During the past year, in
our work in Ohio, when I have known so much of the needs over this
broad land of ours, I have wondered continually what some of the
Christian converts of China would think could they visit our shores
and go into the mountains in our Southern land and see the women
there, how perfectly ignorant they are, some of them not even knowing
their alphabet, and, what is sadder still, not even knowing that they
are hundreds of years behind the women living but a few miles from
their mountain home. If these Chinese converts could go down from the
mountains into the plains and see our negro sister there in her cabin
home, and realize how she is oppressed and how so few there care for
her soul; if they could go into the West and visit the Indians, and
realize how America has treated the Indian, how she has given him land
until she wanted it herself and then has taken it, and pushed him
farther West until now she has him in a place where the land is so
poor it is not likely she will ever want it; if they could go and see
their Chinese sisters--their own flesh and blood--and realize that
America had the opportunity right at her own door of teaching and
raising up Christian Chinese women to go back and teach their own
kindred the "old, old story," what do you suppose they would think of
Christian America? My sisters, what do you think of it? Are these
conditions due to lack of money? We can all give when we are
interested. Poverty is a thing of comparison. We are all poor compared
with our neighbor on the avenue, and we are all rich compared with our
neighbor who lived on cru