The Child in the Midst / A Comparative Study of Child Welfare in Christian and Non-Christian Lands

by Mary Schauffler Platt

INDEX

• Addams, Miss Jane, p. [92].
• “Age of the Child,” p. [4].
• American children at work, pp. [248], [251], [252].
• Anti-foot-binding movement, p. [33].
• Applied Christianity, p. [17].

• Bathing, pp. [22], [23].
• Bible, place of the child in, p. [197];
  • the power of, pp. [207], [208].
• Bible reading, pp. [41], [82], [128], [172], [216], [256], [261].
• Bibliography, pp. [42], [84], [128], [173], [218], [257].
• Blind children, pp. [118], [120].
• Bunker, Alonzo, p. [6].
• Burma, a home in, p. [55].
• Burma, Christian children in, p. [242].
• Burnett, Mrs. Frances Hodgson, p. [9].

• Caste, India, p. [213].
• Childbirth, China, p. [39];
  • suffering during, pp. [13], [14].
• Child labor, among Bedouins, p. [104];
  • in Africa, p. [104];
  • in Persia, pp. [105], [106];
  • in many lands, p. [105];
  • need of public sentiment concerning, p. [103].
• Child marriage, India, pp. [68]–[72], [79].
• Child slavery, pp. [107]–[110].
• Child training, Persia, pp. [58], [59].
• Child wives, Persia, p. [81];
  • India, p. [10].
• Child welfare agencies, p. [5].
• Child at worship, Thibet, p. [180];
  • India, pp. [180], [181];
  • Moslem lands, pp. [181], [182];
  • Africa, pp. [183], [184].
• Children, of India, needs of, p. [3];
  • of Persia, p. [4];
  • of Syria, p. [3];
  • importance of, p. [8].
• Children’s pavilion, Beirut, p. [38].
• China’s awakening, p. [227].
• Chinese, mother ideal, p. [57];
  • mothers, p. [10];
  • mothers in council, p. [231].
• Christ needs the children, p. [223].
• Christianity, in the home, p. [78];
  • place of child in, p. [263].
• Christmas, in India, p. [264];
  • in Japan, p. [265].
• Clothing, p. [23]–[24].
• Cochran, Mrs. James, p. [21].
• Confucianism, attitude towards girls, p. [21];
  • and Christianity, pp. [187], [188].
• Conservation of human resources, p. [8].
• Contagious diseases, pp. [34]–[37].
• Curtis, Wm. E., p. [235].
• Crowther, Bishop Samuel A., pp. [237]–[239].

• Dale, Mrs. G. F., p. [38].
• Deaf and Dumb children, pp. [118], [119].
• Defective and dependent children, pp. [110]–[124].
• Death of children, pp. [196], [197].
• Discipline, lack of, p. [58].
• Devine, Dr. E. T., pp. [6], [31], [52].
• Dolls, in Central Africa, p. [126].
• Dying child’s doll, pp. [101]–[103].

• Education, Africa, pp. [170], [171];
  • divergent views on, pp. [136]–[138];
  • Japan, pp. [139], [140];
  • China, p. [141];
  • India, pp. [141], [142];
  • Persia, pp. [142]–[144], [154], [234];
  • Turkey, pp. [142]–[144];
  • Siam, pp. [168], [169];
  • extent of American Missionary, pp. [163], [164];
  • among backward nations, pp. [151]–[153];
  • of future mothers, p. [156].
• Egypt, Lord Cromer on, p. [155].
• Eugenics, pp. [9]–[11].
• Evil Eye, pp. [15]–[16].
• Evil spirits, p. [17].
• Exner, Dr., p. [28].

• Family life, foundations of, p. [65].
• Famine waifs, pp. [116], [117].
• Fathers, position of, pp. [61]–[64];
  • Egyptian, p. [62];
  • African, p. [62];
  • transformed by Christianity, p. [63].
• Feast day, Arabia, p. [124].
• Feast of dolls, Japan, p. [93].
• Feast of flags, p. [94].
• Feeding, pp. [26]–[28].
• Foerster, Dr. F. W. on education and Christianity, pp. [144], [145].
• Foot-binding, pp. [32], [33].

• Games, pp. [95]–[99].
• Girls, mothers of, pp. [64], [65].
• Giving to missions, pp. [243], [244], [251];
  • systematic, p. [250].

• Harrison, Elizabeth, p. [148].
• Health, pp. [31]–[32].
• Heathen baby, A, p. [213].
• Heredity, pp. [9], [10].
• Hindu Vedas, p. [186].
• Holy Child, The, pp. [252], [253].
• “Holy Night,” p. [263].
• Home, the center of a nation’s life, pp. [52]–[54];
  • a transformed, p. [79];
  • a Mohammedan in Persia, p. [47];
  • a heathen in Africa, p. [49];
  • a Christian in Zululand, p. [51].
• Homes, disorderly, p. [54];
  • how to bring Christ to, pp. [72], [73].
• Hygiene, pp. [28]–[29].
• Hymns, p. [208].

• Idol worship, pp. [190], [191].
• India, infanticide in, pp. [19]–[21];
  • work for children of, pp. [232], [233].
• Industrial training, p. [163].
• Infant mortality, pp. [24], [25].
• Infanticide, pp. [18]–[21].
• Influence of a picture card, p. [255].
• Influences, moral and immoral, pp. [56]–[58].
• Illiteracy, statistics, pp. [138], [139];
  • Sir J. O. Rees on, p. [139].
• Innocence, absence of, p. [55].

• Japan, changes in, pp. [224]–[227].
• Japan, Imperial University, p. [225].
• Junior Endeavor, pp. [205]–[206].

• Kashmir, the athletic method in, pp. [159], [160].
• Kindergarten children grown up, p. [226].
• Kindergartens, need of Christian, pp. [147]–[149].
• Kindergartners, qualifications of, p. [150];
  • a West African, pp. [150], [151];
  • Union, Japan, pp. [145]–[147];
  • China, p. [147].
• Koran, p. [185].
• Korea, praying children in, pp. [253], [254];
  • Christian children in, p. [242].

• Languages used in Presbyterian schools, p. [164].
• Li Bi Cu, Dr., pp. [229]–[231].
• Literature, need for good, pp. [161]–[163].
• Lepers, pp. [120]–[124].
• “London Bridge” in Africa, pp. [96]–[97].

• Mary, the slave child, pp. [109], [110].
• Marriage, early, a barrier to education, pp. [154], [155].
• Medical practice in non-Christian lands, pp. [34]–[36], [39].
• Milligan, Robt. H., p. [11].
• Missionary children, p. [77];
  • at work, pp. [246]–[248].
• Missionary’s dream, A, p. [212].
• Missionary education, reasons for continuing, p. [138];
  • is it needed, pp. [135]–[136].
• Missionary homes, pp. [74]–[77];
  • wives, pp. [73], [74];
  • mothers, pp. [29], [30].
• Mothers, ignorant, pp. [26], [36].
• Mothers’ meetings, p. [78].
• Motherhood, protection of, p. [11];
  • suffering of, p. [13];
  • the burden of, pp. [64], [70], [71].
• “Motherhood” (poem), p. [266].
• Mpongwe, a dying tribe, pp. [12], [13].
• Mohammedan girls, pp. [66], [67].
• Mohammedan month of mourning, p. [190].
• Montessori, Dr., p. [153].
• Moslem lands, need of women doctors, p. [14].

• Needs of childhood, pp. [3], [4].
• Need of the world, the one great, p. [249].
• Non-Christian religions, place of child in, pp. [185]–[188].

• Obstacles, pp. [209], [210].
• “Organized motherhood for the world,” pp. [5], [54].
• Orphans, [Armenian massacre], pp. [111]–[113];
  • Mohammedan, p. [113].
• Orphanages, India, pp. [114], [115].

• Pacific Islands, pp. [240], [241];
  • training children of, p. [255].
• Persian girls, education of, p. [154].
• Persian “Helen Keller,” pp. [117], [118].
• Persian schoolboys, p. [234].
• Physical training, pp. [157]–[160].
• Play, teaching children to, p. [157];
  • among the Lao, p. [125];
  • importance of, pp. [90]–[93];
  • stops early in non-Christian lands, pp. [99], [100].
• Playground Movement, p. [90];
  • America leading in, p. [95];
  • in Japan, p. [94].
• Prayer, pp. [41], [83], [128], [172], [216], [256], [262].
• “Polishing Jade Establishment,” p. [114].

• Questions, pp. [41], [83], [89], [172], [217], [257].

• Rights of every child, p. [7];
  • of every mother, p. [7].
• Rite of the broken pot, p. [15].
• Religious acts, results of, pp. [189]–[193].
• Religious needs of children, p. [184].
• Rescue homes, for slave children, pp. [108], [109].
• Rescuing the servant of the gods, pp. [194], [195].

• Saving a boy, China, p. [127].
• Schools, the call for, pp. [133]–[135];
  • missionary, pp. [165]–[168];
  • Persia, pp. [169], [170];
  • Kurdish Mountains, pp. [171], [172].
• Sunday schools, statistics, p. [199];
  • Japan, pp. [199]–[202];
  • China, pp. [202], [215];
  • India, pp. [202], [203];
  • Africa, pp. [203]–[205].
• Schoff, Mrs. Frederick, p. [8].
• Selden, Dr. Chas. C., p. [10].
• Sex instruction, pp. [60], [61].
• Soldiers and babies, p. [40].
• “Spirit of Play,” need of, pp. [100], [101].
• Spirit worship, p. [214].
• Starvation diet, pp. [30], [31].
• St. John, Prof. E. P., pp. [59]–[60], [92].
• Stuart, Dr. E. M., p. [14].
• Superstitions regarding infants, pp. [15]–[18].
• Sun Yat Sen, pp. [228], [229].
• Syrian girls at work, p. [236].

• Teachers, where to be trained, pp. [141], [143].
• Teething, p. [16].
• Temple girls, pp. [192], [193];
  • legislation concerning, pp. [193], [194].
• Training children for service, pp. [240], [241];
  • Christian wives and mothers, pp. [66]–[68].
• Twins, superstitions regarding, p. [18].

• Underwood, Mrs. H. G., p. [27].

• West Africa, boys of, pp. [166], [167].
• “World’s Tragedies, The,” p. [237].

• Yeung, Mrs., of China, pp. [245], [246].