The Child in the Midst: A Comparative Study of Child Welfare in Christian and Non-Christian LandsPlatt, Mary Schauffler
Religion
The Child in the Midst: A Comparative Study of Child Welfare in Christian and Non-Christian Lands
Platt, Mary Schauffler
Church work with children; Missions
To guard and protect the innocence of children, and by their example
to win men and women to a worthier life.
To bless family life, and direct parents in their sacred task, that
Thy children may have a fear and love of Thy Holy Name.
To bring to the mothers of the world the knowledge which alone can
sanctify their joy and soothe their sorrow.
(_Spirit of Missions_, February, 1910.)
QUESTIONS
1. What is the saddest part of the life of a girl in India?
2. What do you consider the greatest sorrow of Mohammedan motherhood?
Of heathen motherhood?
3. What methods can you suggest for effecting a beneficial change in
the home life of the Chinese?
4. What feature of home life in Mohammedan lands most needs to be
improved?
5. What effect would it have on your boy to be married at the age of
fourteen?
6. If you could make marriage laws, what would you set as the lowest
marriage age for boys? For girls?
7. Name the missionary wives and mothers of your acquaintance. In what
ways do they serve and help the communities in which they live?
BIBLIOGRAPHY. CHAPTERS I & II.
LEAFLETS
Home Life in China Women’s Foreign Missionary
Home Life in Syria Society of the
Home Life in Siam Presbyterian Church.
Home Life in Persia
Home Life in Hainan
Home Life in Korea
Home Life in Africa
Home Life in India
Home Life in Japan
Child Life among the Lao
Other Children
Being a Boy in Korea Woman’s Board of Foreign
Selma (Beirut) Missions of the
A Faithful Follower Presbyterian Church.
Auntie’s Explanation
Child Life in China Woman’s Presbyterian
Story of Satabia Board of Missions of
the Northwest.
Child Life in Burma Woman’s Foreign Missionary
Foot Binding in China Society of the
Little Daughters of Islam Methodist Episcopal Church.
Motherhood in Heathen Lands
Young Ladies here, Young
Ladies there
Childhood in Heathen Lands
Child Life in Turkey Woman’s Board of Missions
Chih, the little Chinese Girl of the Congregational Church.
Sister May’s Impressions Woman’s Board of Foreign
Village of the Milky River Missions of the Reformed
Church in America.
Sorrows of Heathen Motherhood Woman’s Baptist Foreign
Missionary Society.
CHILDREN’S MISSIONARY MAGAZINES
_World Wide_ American Baptist Publication
Society, Ford Bldg.,
Boston, Mass.
_Over Sea and Land_ Pres. Bd. For. Miss., 156
Fifth Ave., New York City.
_Day Star_ Woman’s Bd. of For. Miss.
Ref. Ch. in Am., 25 E.
22d St., N. Y.
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