Category: History - Modern (1750+)
What do the children need?--“The Age of the Child”--All children to be included--Rights of every child and every mother--Conservation of human resources--Eugenics and heredity--Protection of motherhood--Suffering mothers--Superstitions regarding new-born infants--Twins--Infant...
What do the children need?--“The Age of the Child”--All children to be included--Rights of every child and every mother--Conservation of human resources--Eugenics and heredity--...
9. CHAPTER II.A Mohammedan home in Persia--A heathen home in Africa--A Christian home in Zululand--The home the centre of a nation’s life--Christianity’s gift to non-Christian homes--Greatnes...
10. Scene One: A Mohammedan home in Persia.The women’s apartments opening onto an inner court-yard present an animated scene, for some ladies from another harem have come with children and servants to make a call; _i.e._...
11. Scene Two: A hut in Central Africa.Soon after sunrise a number of women and girls, laden with hoes, baskets, and babies, start out from the grass hut which is home to them, and make their way to the field to work...
12. Scene three: A Christian Home in Zululand.[15“I have already given you a peep at the life in a heathen kraal. Now repair to a Christian home. Here we find everything simpler and more quiet. Here polygamy, with all its atte...
13. CHAPTER III.Questions concerning play and work--Two great movements, Playground movement and Child Labor movement--The importance of play--Children at play in Japan--Games known the world o...
14. CHAPTER IV.The call for schools from Mission Lands--Is missionary educational work still needed in the awakening East?--Divergent views on education--Reasons why missionary education shoul...
15. letter I taught him to read, figure by figure I taught him arithmetic,“These people can be reached by Christianity best in their childhood, before superstitions, belief in the Gregre, or the influence of the life of a Mohammedan has become grafted...
16. CHAPTER V.Children worshiping--The child at worship in Thibet--In India--In Mohammedan Lands--In Africa--Religious needs greater than all others--The place of the child in non-Christian r...
17. Chapter I give some slight idea of the vast multitudes of mourningmothers for whom there is no hope, no knowledge that,--“around the throne of God in heaven, thousands of children stand;” no vision of Him who “shall gather the lambs with His a...
18. CHAPTER VI.Christ needs all the children of the world--Work for the children in awakening lands, Japan, China, India--Work for the children in lands convulsed by war and revolution, Turkey...
19. CHAPTER VII.It is suggested that at some convenient time during the Christmas season a mass meeting be held for the mothers of the community. Special efforts should be made to gather _all_...