Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-27
MISSIONARY WORK.

The Annual Meeting of the WOmen's For
seign Missionaxy Sooiety-The Work 1t
Has D0ne-RepOrt of the Secretary.
The following is the annual report made by
Mrs. j., A. Sabin, at the meeting of the
Ladies' Foreign Missionary society held in the
jackson street NJ. E. church last Thursday
evening.
i The record of this society for the past year
is in many respects similar to that of the year
preceding. There are nc special landmarks by
which to note our progress, but we can at
least say we have not gone backward.
The aim OF tbs WOmen's Foreign Mission
airy society since its org Anization has been to
spread among the women of our churches
such information in regard to mission fields as
should awaken in them an intelligent interest
in the work our missionaries, are trying to ac-
complish. 1t has neyer expected to fill its
treasures with large donations from the few
who are so fortunate as to be possessed of am
pie means, but had rather desired to gather up
the mites and secure from every woman
a sum which the poorest can afford
without much self-denlsl. two cents a
week and a prayer" was the assessment first
made upon lis members, and the success of
past years has proved the wisdom of the plan.
In the early part of our new year special
meeting Of the society was held in the parlors
Mrs. Van C.eye. 1t was not lecture, but
rather motherly talk from heart oyerAowipg
with faith and zeal, for all goods works, in
which she endeayOred to increase our ardOr
..or missionary work by pointing out how
much need there was for woman's h,lp in
every department. OF Christian labor. She
showed how much woman can accomplish for
the master because Of her tender sympathy and
capacity for loving, and urged upon us such
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the work easy because our hearts were in his.
20 Wedo not feel that her words were in vain
although there have been no volunteers to
come forward and offer themselves for service
in foreign lands, perhaps In some home in our
church missionary may be growing up, who
will by and by respond to the call.
8 A few OF Us have been meeting every month
paying our mites and eating our missionary
suppers. reading aud he aring about the far
oil countries, until we have. grown familiar
with the OutlaDdish names Of their cities, and
can talk quite fuentlyof Polvny and Keota,
TokeO, FoochOw, Mo-ra,a bad and Kukeang.
We have traced the old religious and civiliza-
ton of Japan, and found to our surprise, that
much which We claim as modern art, was
known ia much higher perfection centuries
ago in the empire Of the Mi-ka dos
If we have not greatly added to our
missionary z,al, we have at least increased
cleaning missionary items here aud
there from the papers, for our month
ly budget OF news, we have learned that the
world is aroused to the subject, and that even
secular papers find 1t worth while to notice
what is being done. We have made acquaint-
ance by letter with some of our missionaries,
SO that they seem to us less like strangers.
and some of them indeed have won warm
place in our hearts. Our membership is still
1p1, I'll e. 10
trust that the coming year will see 1t greatly
increased. We have at present twenty eight
members, besides six life members, and have
raised during the past year $7524.
We have under our care the Orphanage in
India, little girl, Mary Russell. We have
received from Mary's teacher most graft
flying report of her Improvement, her
aptness in learning ard her gratitude to us for
our kindly aid IN her behalf. Ia few years
this little glFl will be fitted to 60 out as a
teacher among tue native women, and thus ac-
complish even more good than is possible to
foreign missionaries. 1t would probably sur
prise many of us to know that for the small
sum Of $50 year such child can be educated
aad trained in our school, abroad. Surely, no
better investment can be made than this We
have not, as in years past been called upon to
send relief to the struggling workers on the
frontier in our own state, but we hold our
selves in readiness to respond to any such de-
mand.
In closing, We have to record the death OF a
former officer of our society, though not at
the time OF her death an active member, Mrs.
Magraw. Many of the Oldest members will
remember her active 1abors as secretary and
her interest in every good work.
We hope among the lsdies OF this church
not yet enlisted in this wo X there will be many
to come forward and make her place good.
In our busy lives We all find many things To
occupy our time and dem md our interest, but
if weare really IN earnest, we may find it pos
eible to set aside trifles for that which in the
end will be satisfaction TO look back upon.
ANNIE d. SABIN, Secretary.
March %, 1889.
An article is going lie rounds of the
press entitled, How to tell good po-