Morning journal and courier., 1883-05-09
The Mission Fields.

Greetings - Address Dy Nfss JOs0ph
 Cook ofBOsten and Mrs s.Gulick of Spain.
 The twelfth annual meeting of the New Haven branch of the Woman's Board of Missions was held in the College street church
 yesterday. Flowers in rich profusion taste-
 fully arranged by the young ladies of the
 church gave sweet greeting, and through
 out the entire services of the day there was |
 that binding of fresh young life with the |
 wisdom of mature years, that harmony of
 action in the reports of auxiliaries and mis- |
 sion circles which must develop the graces of
 Christian character.
 The morning session commenced at 10 o'clock The minutes of the last annual meeting were read and short address of welcome by the president followed by the opening devotional exercises.
 The annual report gave glimpse of the | work of the one hundred and eighty-seven organizations, comprising auxiliaries and mission circles. One new auxiliary, at | Brookfield Center, has been added during the year and five enthusiastic mission circles Meetings are held by the auxiiaries either monthly quarterly. The meetings l of the branch are held the sec- ond Tuesday of each month The mission circle work has been greatly ! SySG6maGlZ6Q ana there IS mucu tAde 4S eA- | couraging in this department. Some circles | are only prevented from meeting every week | by the discretion of the leader. One circle | of boys were so interested that "they are | sure that the meeting of an hour could not 1 have been over twenty minutes.
 The 'bureau of intelligence has become 1 a helpful agent and hundreds of letters and l missionary papers have been sent to the aux l diaries. The four annual county meetings 1 were inspiring. As one said 'sOur county ! meeting was the best I ever attended; 1t | awakened me to 8 sense of my responsibility as Christian woman"
 The foreign corresponding secretary re. ported ''7 missionaries, 15 Bible women, 5 \ teachers, S4 pupils, 7 schools wholly and partly supported with our funds, in thirty different stations"
 l The contributions Of the New Haven branch have been distributed in Africa, China, India, Ceylon, Japan, Turkey, Bull l garia, Austria and to the Aborigines of our l own country and mo percentage has been l deducted for administering these funds. !" 'ln Il nominal Christian countries we have one I scholarship in the Mt Holyoke of Spain, at ! San Sebastian under Mrs. Wm. Gulick, and l another in Pastor Schubert's interesting | school, the Mt. Holyoke of Bohemia at Kraabschitz in Austria. The Hon. B. F. Moves, late United States Minister to France, I who spent years in Turkey, said in report l to our government, The salutary influence of American missionaries and teachers in the Turkish Empire cannot possibly be over rated by actual observation. l know that 1 wherever conspicuously intelligent and en-
 terprising native young man or woman IS l found in the East it is found that he or l she was educated at an American l school or college. Mrs. Williams, of the Constantinople Home, writes Our school | is just delightful. We and all of our friends
 said of the last examinations; they were
 better than any that had gone before. Five scKio- rIa ix7ad aiTOln md
 tained themselves well in their examinations. l I would be willing to put them beside any
 five girls graduated from Mount Holyoke seminary Such words make us rejoice in
 the privilege of supporting three pupils in this school"
 The report of the treasurer gave nearly $1O,OO as the amount of contributions for
 the year from auxiiaries and mission circles. There have been no legacies to increase the i amount. @
 ! Greetings from other boards followed; Mrs. Hubbard from the Presbyterian board
 of New York, Mrs Whiting of the Baptist
 Missionary association, and Miss Halsey of the Philadelphia branch. Miss Child from
 the Women's board of Boston, brought warm greetings, and with them most encouraging
 reports from the mission fields with regard to
 the outpourfng of the spirit upon the schools
 in most remarkable manner. She also
 spoke of the responsibility which rests upon l us as Christians How shall we meet this
 responsibility More means will be needed to carry on the work or retrenchment will be ! necessary.
 A remedy was suggested by the president, : viz, giving of one tenth of all the money
 which we call ours.
 The reports from Middlesex and New Ha- , ven counties were encouraging. Such sen ] ! tsnces as these were common, 'tAn increase of the treasury, better interest manifested ! and also better preparation for the meet ings' And one such sentence as the follow ing:
 '1TheImembers of the Young Ladies Mission ] circle are all greatly interested in the work, the more so from the fact that during the
 past year every one has given her heart to the Saviour "These show what this work does
 for the workers themselves. After singing a
 ] hymn Mrs. De Forest, from Osaka, Japans gave an account of the work there in the schools and among the women. A promise } and praise service closed the morning ses- ) sion. An ample collation. was served in the 2 lecture room of the church during the inter mission. At two o'clock the report of the ! nominating committee and the election of the
 l officers for the year followed by an earnest prayer by Miss Halsey. Greetings from the } Hartford branch by Miss Curtis and from the Eastern Connecticut branch by Miss Gilman. } Reports from Litchfield and Fairfield coun- ties were like those of the other two coun- ties, encouraging.
 One large auxiliary held it's tenth anniver | ceipts as $5, 1928. One vice president says:
 'FWe bring our sheeves to-day with humility. Bound among them are regrets and disap- pointments, but there is also thankfulness for not one society has been lost and renew
 l ed interest is felt all along the line" The secretary of mission circles presented an ad- mirable paper showing why secretaries were needed in this department and how the in terest of children may be awakened and train ed to efficient service.
 Mrs. Joseph Cook, from Boston, com menced her address by saying: Every one has doubtless felt the force of this little word ought, ''-and told how forcibly it came to her when far away she felt that she ought to
 share with the ladies at home what she had
 1 learned by her visits to the missionaries in- her recent tour around the world with her husband. First met our own mission
 aries at Bombay, spoke of Mrs. Hume and her school of nearly one hundred pupils, heard them sing in six languages under Mrs. Hume's skillfui training, of Mrs. Capron and } her Bible women who often reach 1900 } women in one month, of the renana work ) and the need of medical missionaries; said } the missionaries were the only people she envied; spoke of their happiness; seem to have given up everything for the work. } Mrs. Alice W. Gulick, from Zaragosa,
 Spain, city of 96, GOO inhabitants, gave us sketch of what is being done there. Spoke of the ignorance and superstition of the peo-
 pie, but the gospel is making it's way and : there are some trophies of grace. l Asked prayers for the sick poor in their churches and for Spain. 3 One verse of hymn was sung and Mrs. 3 Hume, our own ''returned missionary" spoke 3 first of giving how much and in what way, 3 gave an incident of the outpouring of the spirit in northwestern India A people who 3 had never seen missionary, but who sent
 the Macedonian cry" to the missionaries at 2 Bombay and the result was that after few , 1 days 17 converts were baptized. The grand : est work of modern time is this 'swoman's s work for women" The ''stone is rolled g away and those poor suffering women who
 have so long been shut away from light and ; l life may now be reached Scores of female { ! medical missionaries are needed. The meet ing was so full of interest that it is quite impossible to present even a bird's-eye view. The solo in the 1 morning by Miss Riley was much enjoyed, 3 and "One Sweetly Solemn Thought" as rem dered by Mrs. Thompson in the afternoon 2 touched many hearts Resolutions of thanks 7 s'to the College street church for the use of 0 -I-- IL