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THE CHILD IN THE
MIDST
_A Comparative Study of Child Welfare in
Christian and Non-Christian Lands._
BY
MARY SCHAUFFLER LABAREE
(MRS. BENJAMIN W. LABAREE)
“_And He took a little child and set him in the midst of them._”
PUBLISHED BY
The Central Committee on the United Study of Foreign Missions
West Medford, Massachusetts
COPYRIGHT, JANUARY, 1914
CENTRAL COMMITTEE ON THE UNITED
STUDY OF FOREIGN MISSIONS
FRANK WOOD, PRINTER
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.
CENTRAL COMMITTEE ON THE UNITED STUDY
OF FOREIGN MISSIONS.
MRS. HENRY W. PEABODY.
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