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The Child in the Midst A Comparative Study of Child Welfare in Christian and Non-Christian Lands
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THE CHILD IN THE
MIDST
Christian and Non-Christian Lands.
MARY SCHAUFFLER LABAREE
(MRS. BENJAMIN W. LABAREE)
The Central Committee on the United Study of Foreign Missions
West Medford, Massachusetts
CENTRAL COMMITTEE ON THE UNITED
STUDY OF FOREIGN MISSIONS
Boston, Mass.
FOREWORD
The Central Committee on the United Study of Foreign Missions sends out the fourteenth text-book with hearty appreciation of the favor with which the thirteen already issued have been received. The phases of work which have been treated and the manner of their treatment have appealed to a large constituency of various names, resulting in an increase of knowledge and an impulse to pray and work and give.
This is not a book for children, but a book about children the world over, and with its accurate statement of facts solicits attention to the great need of new effort in behalf of children in non-Christian lands. The author, Mary Schauffler Labaree (Mrs. Benjamin W.), a missionary daughter, granddaughter, wife, and mother, was born into an environment of missionary intelligence and activity in which her girlhood was trained. Later years of experience in Persia, and subsequent association with many nationalities in our own land, have given her large opportunity to know whereof she writes with tender, sympathetic touch. If the book may lead others to know and do, its purpose will be fulfilled.
Miss E. Harriet Stanwood.
Mrs. Decatur M. Sawyer.
Mrs. Frank Mason North.
Mrs. James A. Webb, Jr.
Mrs. A. V. Pohlman.
Miss Olivia H. Lawrence.
Miss Grace T. Colburn.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| Page | |
|---|---|
| FOREWORD | v |
| CHAPTER I. | |
| The Child in its Helplessness. “The place where the young Child lay” | 1 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| The Child at Home. “Train up a child in the way he should go” | 45 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| The Child at Play and at Work. “Boys and girls playing in the streets thereof” | 87 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| The Child at School. “Come, ye children—I will teach you the fear of the Lord” | 131 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| The Child at Worship. “Suffer the little children to come unto Me” | 177 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| The Child at Work for Christ. “I must be about my Father’s business” | 221 |
| CHAPTER VII. Appendix | |
| The Mother and the Christ-Child. “Behold the handmaid of the Lord” | 259 |
CHAPTER I.
THE CHILD IN ITS HELPLESSNESS
“The place where the young Child lay.”
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—Infanticide—Bathing and clothing children—Feeding—Hygiene—Starving children—Infant mortality—Health—Diseases and their treatment—What missions are doing for the helpless children.
“What do the children of India most need?”
The question was asked of an earnest young teacher, at home on her first furlough. It was easy to see how quickly her thoughts flew back to that school for little low-caste children which had so recently been started, and with a far-away look in her eyes she answered:—
“What the children of India need is childhood itself. They are little old men and women, and they need to learn what it means to be happy, care-free children, to play, and to have good times.”
“What do the children of Syria most need?”