Play, teaching children to, p. 157; among the Lao, p. 125; importance of, pp. 90-93; stops early in non-Christian lands, pp. 99, 100. Playground Movement, p. 90; America leading in, p. 95; in Japan, p. 94. Prayer, pp. 41, 83, 128, 172, 216, 256, 262. “Polishing Jade Establishment,” p. 114. Questions, pp. 41, 83, 89, 172, 217, 257. Rights of every child, p. 7; of every mother, p. 7. Rite of the broken pot, p. 15. Religious acts, results of, pp. 189-193. Religious needs of children, p. 184. Rescue homes, for slave children, pp. 108, 109. Rescuing the servant of the gods, pp. 194, 195. Saving a boy, China, p. 127. Schools, the call for, pp. 133-135; missionary, pp. 165-168; Persia, pp. 169, 170; Kurdish Mountains, pp. 171, 172. Sunday schools, statistics, p. 199; Japan, pp. 199-202; China, pp. 202, 215; India, pp. 202, 203; Africa, pp. 203-205. Schoff, Mrs. Frederick, p. 8. Selden, Dr. Chas. C., p. 10. Sex instruction, pp. 60, 61. Soldiers and babies, p. 40. “Spirit of Play,” need of, pp. 100, 101. Spirit worship, p. 214. Starvation diet, pp. 30, 31. St. John, Prof. E. P., pp. 59-60, 92. Stuart, Dr. E. M., p. 14. Superstitions regarding infants, pp. 15-18. Sun Yat Sen, pp. 228, 229. Syrian girls at work, p. 236. Teachers, where to be trained, pp. 141, 143. Teething, p. 16. Temple girls, pp. 192, 193; legislation concerning, pp. 193, 194. Training children for service, pp. 240, 241; Christian wives and mothers, pp. 66-68. Twins, superstitions regarding, p. 18. Underwood, Mrs. H. G., p. 27. West Africa, boys of, pp. 166, 167. “World’s Tragedies, The,” p. 237. Yeung, Mrs., of China, pp. 245, 246. * * * * * TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE Obvious typographical errors repaired. Punctuation, spelling, hyphenation and stylistic presentation standardized when a predominant preference was found in this book. Otherwise left as printed. Italicized text is denoted by _underscores_. Where possible, illustrations have been moved next to the corresponding text, otherwise placed at section breaks. In the original book, outlines of each chapter were printed on separate pages, preceded by chapter headings. These chapter headings were then repeated before the chapter text proper. In this electronic book the repeated chapter headings are not preserved. Page 80, ‘Tyer’ changed to ‘Iyer’ (Mr. Justice Moothoswami Iyer). Footnote 34, ‘Caffin’ changed to ‘Coffin’ (“On the Education of Backward Races,” E. W. Coffin). Page 134, ‘plead’ changed to ‘pleaded’ (Earnestly he pleaded with the missionaries). Page 147 (sidenote), ‘year’ changed to ‘years’ (Dr. Balliet on the early years of childhood). Page 189 (sidenote), ‘religous’ changed to ‘religious’ (Result to the child of religious acts). Page 192, ‘then’ changed to ‘than’ (Worse than all the results).