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woman agency to reach tlie women dis- 

 tinctively. And then came another one of 

 those providences that so mark this Mis- 

 sion, 



On a visit to India to the seat of the 

 Conference to which he then belonged, Mr. 

 Oldham met Miss Isabella Leonard, an 

 evangclist from America. With her was 

 Soplna niackmore, a young lady from Aus- 

 tralia, who had been greatly quickened in 

 hcr religious lifc under Miss Leonard's 

 ministry in Australia. She desired to be 

 a missionary to the Chinese, but the Aus- 

 tralian Church had no such tnissions. Miss 

 Leonard suggested that she accompany her 

 to India, and that God would somehow 

 opcn the way for a missionary career. 

 Meanwhile Missionary Oldham had writ- 

 ten to thc ladies in America most earnestly 

 askmg for help at Singapore. It happenetl 

 that Dr, W, A. Spcncer and Dr. M. M. 

 Parkhurst, of Chicago, were present at the 

 meeting and earnestly seconded this re- 

 qucst, because of their personal knowledge 

 of Singaporc gained during a recent visit. 

 The ladies heard the pleas and were much 

 moved by them,, but the familiar situation 



