Constantinople, The Center of Turkish Power....... Evangelistic and Educational Agencies in India. Hindu Temple Dr. and Mrs. Chatterjee and Girl's Orphanage...... 26 28 32 Pictures of Educational Mission Work in Syria........ 42 58 INDIA Taj Mahal Benares Work Among the Outcastes.. Dr. Arthur H. Ewing and Mrs. Ewing... 88 92 Methods and Means of Itinerating in China........................................................ ..276 Commencement, Hackett Medical College... Medical Work in Hainan.. .304 ............ .306 ...308 ..310 Women's Bible Study and Training Class, at Syen Chyun......346 Dr. Ibuka, President of Meiji Gakuin, Tokio..... .406 Mrs. Yajima, President of Joshi Gakuin, Tokio.. ..406 Members and Officers of The Board of Foreign Missions.... .480 INTRODUCTION B SOME PRECONCEPTIONS. EFORE we left America for a twelve months' course of mission study with the missionaries around the world, there were those who sought to dissuade us from the undertaking. They said to us: "You can learn no more from the missionaries on the foreign field than they can teach you at home; you can tell the church at home no more when you return than the missionaries can tell the church when they return; your testimony will not have as much weight with the church as the testimony of the missionaries, for the time of your study abroad will be too short to make your conclusions of very much value. The danger is, too, that after you have returned you will have less inspiration and zeal for foreign missions than you had before going out to see the work. Therefore, use the money it will cost to take this expensive course of mission study and support with it a missionary on the foreign field while you keep on with your work here at home stimulating the churches to do their best for Foreign Missions. Don't go!" We had heard that kind of advice for a number of years and had followed it, too, with real satisfaction. But this |