Middletown transcript., 1880-03-06
For the Middletown Transcript.

The second meeting Of the Presbyterial So
ciety was held at Eikton, Feb. 18th. The
morning meeting opened at half past teG and
was devoted to reports from the auxliaries
represented. There were only delegates from
four. TIE rest OF the time was taken up by
the reading of several leaflets on Missionary
work. Adjourned until half past two in the
afternoon.
Mrs Mateer, Missionary from China, opened
the meeting with prayer Then Mrs Schenck
of Phila. took the chair and there was short
business meeting for the election of officers.
The President, elected at former meeting,
declined acting on account of i'll health 1t
was necessary to fill her place, which was done
bv making Mrs S. G. Boardman, the Secre-
tary, President, and Mrs. S B CIearer, Sec
retary in her place Our President then took
charge of the meeting and Mrs. Schenck gave
a very interesting address on the benefits Of
Presbyteridl societies and missionary work in
general She showed how much assistance
they were to tie parent society, that instead
Of hayiag 10 communicate with over one
thousand auxiliaries, they had, BY forming
Presbyterial Societies, only forty-fve Some
of the auxiliaries object to joiaing the Presby-
terial Society, thinking tine interest in them
by the parent society would be weakened :;
relationship 10 that Of family, where the
children grow up and go out into the world
to make homes for themselves. The parents
have the same love for, and interest in them
that they had before. She urged all to great
er consecration and self-denial in the future.
"The fields are white to the harvest and the
laborers few" Mrs. Mtteer spoke next on
her work in China The missionaries find il
very difficult sometimes, to approach the peo-
Die on account Of their superstition. Perhaps
there would be days when they could get no
one 10 listen, fearing some evil would befall
them if they did. She in company with an
other person one day visited a place where
| thay had often been invited and there was no
| oHe 10 receive them; some report had reached
| the place, which heightened them all away.
| They at last succeeded in gaining their atten-
| ton and some women joined them. They al
| ways have TO answer many questions about
| the style of their dress and manner ofHearing
the hair and talk some time on Indifferent
| subjects before they can broach the all i'm
| portant one Just as they were commencing.
! some men passed by, and whether they only
! looked at them or spoke TO them they conld
4 not tell, but instantly they all left. Then an
/ other time she went TO house in neighbour
/ ing village where she had been urged to come
/ and found that she was not at all welcome
/ A woman living near heard she was there
and came in 10 see her; sde was a large
| handsome woman or would have been had
/ she been clean. She was so much interested
/ in what she told her that she was twice SEMI
| for to come home and cook the dinner. bnt
still she fingered finally she concluded TO
20, and wash the sweet potatoes and put them
in the pot, and they could make the FIRE under
them themselves, if Mrs. NJ, would promise
TO stay till she come back. She was moi
hungry, she could not eat as long as She
could hear anything so good as she was tell
ing her. All do not comprehend as readily
as she did what they are told, she was un-
usually bright and intelligent and her mind
seemed to be especially prepared for the mes
sage.