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

by Mary Schauffler Platt

• 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].