Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-05
WoMEN,s MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
Interesting Address by Mrs. Van Cleve, OF


| Interesting Address by Mrs. Van Cleve. of
Minneapolis.
The lecture room of the Central Presbyterian
church was completely filled with ladies yester-
day afternoon, the occasion being q union meet
| ing of the Women's Missionary society. The
principal speaker was Mrs. Van Cieve, who read
most interesting paper upon the Importance
of missions to the heather. She said she was
pleased to meet so many ladies there from SO
many different churches. She was the more
pleated because it gave her last opportunity
TO address them upon a subject she loved SO
well. Her health compelled her to take leave
OF the State and go far South, and she did
not think it would ever again be her
privilege to speak to her sisters in
her own land. There were before her ladies
from various churches, bnt she believed with
Prof. Ray mond that the different names which
separate US in the world are not SO old as that
name which unites US. She said to Catholic
sister the other day-one with whom she had
worked in that noble cause, retaining fallen
women Sister, we shall meet again in another
world and her reply was, eyes, I think we
SHALL for we both love the same SAVIOR We
are all one in Christ, especially in this holy
WORK OF laborlng for our sisters in foreign
lands 1t is work she contended which man
cannot clio, but it is work which must be done
before the millennium can come.
Alter reading an extract from address
delivered before the Northwestern Missionary
society she spoke for some little time upon
woman's suffrage. We are going to have it, she
said, in Gods good time, but not yet. There
are too many voters now who are not fit to
VOTE She knew the time would come when
man m ust have woman's help; when the coun-
try would need it, and women should tit them
selves for the responsible duty which will be
asked of them. And the best education
was practical one Of doing their
duty faithfully and well in all
things, and this woman's mission work was
one thing by which they all could prepare
themselves.
She urged upon her hearers The necessity of
faith in all their work-except yc become as
little children we shall not enter the kindom of
heaven. There was wide difference between
a trembling, doubling hope and a strong, full
expectation.
The speaker then dwelt upon "our duty
go and teach all nations, we are my witnesses;
and for encouragement she said was the prom
ise HE will give to his the heather for
an inheritance" In speaking of the self de-
mails necessary, she stated that they were not
sacrifices, but good and wise Investments,
which yielded hundred fold. She made this
point very vivid by a touching anecdote of
dying girl. So intense was the intere, excited,
that even the lady who had brought her knit
ting along, stopped her deft fingers and listen
ed with bated breath.
The dying girl who had given all to her Sa-
vior, wished to do something more. She had
womans crown of glory, a magnificent head
of hair, that had often awakened admiration
and envy. and she begged her mother to cut it
off to sell for Christ's Kingdoms sake. She
had bathed her Savior's feet with her tears, she
said, and now she would wipe them with her
hair.
Mrs Van Cleve's address wasFdelivered with
great earpestness, and in melodeous, plaintive
voice, wondrously persuasive and engaging
and it seemed to hold her large audience spell
bound for the hour and half she was speak
ing. Bible lesson, prayer, singing and short
addresses filled up what was very successful
and interesting meeting.