A Welcome Home.

White Ribbon, Volume 6, Issue 66, 1 November 1900, Page 5

A Welcome Home.

Miss Clara Parrish (one of our W.C.T.U. “ Round the World ” missionaries), of whose noble work in Japan most of us have read, returned to her home in Paris, Illinois, early in August, after a four years’ absence, and was accorded a royal reception. Thirty thousand people awaited her arrival at the station, and the carriage which was to convey her to her home was beautifully decorated by the W.C.T.U. Several entertainments were afterwards given in honour of her return, and all seemed to vie in making the welcome to her as joyous and brilliant as possible. The Paris Daily Beacon of August 4 says: —“ The welcome accorded Miss Parrish was certainly such as to call in question the infallibility of the scriptural adage that ‘ A Prophet is not without honour save in his own country,’ for it was a spontaneous and sincere expression of p pular regard." White Ribboners the world‘over should rejoice at this expression of public feeling, as it may be taken as showing a respect for and a lively interest, not only in Miss Parrish, but in the work of which she is the honoured representative.