Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-05
Lffernao,a Session.

L
noua ced for the anniversary meeting of
the Woman's Foreign Missionary the audi
| forum of the Jackson street church was
comfortably filled, mostly with ladies. At
sharp the meeting was opened by Mrs.
Prof. Winchell the secretary of the So
ciety for Minnesota, announcing the hymn
GAIL Hail the Power of jesus Name"
Prayer followed, and then Mrs. Bailey, a
recently returned missionary from India
sang hymn in Hindoostan, which was
sung very sweetlyin the liquid language of
the swarthy Hindoo. The fret verso of
| the hymn was as follows.
| Jai, Jai Shwara, Jai Prothu Lishu,
| Jai Saba Vidha Sukhadai.
Tran aled:
Victory, victory to God,
| Victory to the Lord Jesus Christ!
ANNUAL REPORT.
| Mrs. Professor Winchell, secretary Of
the society for Minnesota, read the annual
report as followe: Il sssssss3ass
Auxiljaries, so; increase OF organiza-
tions, 7; members, 1924; increase, 234;
life members, 128; increase, 10; honorary
managers, Is; increase 2; young ladies'
society, G; organized this year, 2; sub
scribers to II. W. F., 346. Again the
work of our beloved society hos fallen
| into new and untried hands. Again our
auxiiiaires have been called TO the unwel-
come task of becoming acquainted as best
they could through medium of pen and
ink and paper with before unheard of
| secretary. Absence from the state and
| illness prevented the new secretary from
entering upon her duties until after one
third of the year had passed. Then other
| difficulties presented themselves. The
winter was one of unusual length
and severity, even for Minnesota. During
many weeks roads were blockaded with
snow and travel suspended. Communice
| ton between different members of the
same auxiliary even was exceedingly diff
cult, if not altogether impossible. Later
in the year cyclones and frost visited the
state, and left ruin and desolation in their
path. It is not surprising that in the
midst of ali these, obstacles we are not able
to report IS many auxiliaries as we had
last year. And, Notwithstanding all this,
the Lord has been with Us, good meetings
have been held, more money has been
, placed N the treasury than vas asked
of us, al good work has been done, bring
inp. as work for the master always does,
it's own reward. The young ladies' societies
have shown commenAeble zeal and car
nestness in their work curing the year, and
been greatly blessed. Two 8nxliaries
have been organized among them,
enc OF which already numbers
| ninety members. Soon after receiving the
books from the former secretary, some
| thought was given to the work. It seemed
t3sirable to organize each district with
proper officers, whose duty it should be to
hold district conventions and give more
constant care and watchfulness to each ex-
istirg auxiliary and to extend these to
churches wherein they do not already ex-
1t. After a considerable correspondence
n out the matter it was decided not to at
IS upt this work at present but to embrace
81 @"at opportunity for so dong. Many
# onr ladies' b., 'ieved that district organ
cations would add greatly to the interest
and efficiency of our work. Among the
new features introduced into the work OF
the society the most prominent has been
the flag festival, the happy though. of
Mr.. Geo. 3. Mind, son of our president
and missionary to South America. These
have teen hald in many places and have
always been attended with the best results.
Durlr & the second week of the state camp
me citing a most excellent meeting was
, neld in the interest of the Women's For
eign Mission society. A large audience
assembled under the lofty trees. Bishop
Foss addressed the meeting, and his words
we're full of encouragement and inspira-
ton. He said he had carefully watched
the society from the beginning, and was
proud of its record, and he regarded the
Hcathen WontGn's Friend the best mission
arg paper in the world.
The question, what shall we do to in
terest the children was beautifully dis
cGursed by Emily Huntington Miller.
Glow can we maintain auxilaries on orr
county charges" was well answered by
Mrs. Vos Fossem. Mrs. McClary spoke
OF the subject of making the monthly
meetings success. Mrs. Dr.. Van Anda
spike of tea meetings, cuttings and flag
fes ivals.
| The spirit which aDimates these dear
women at home who have learned the
blessedness of working in this field, is
evidenced by the letters we receive. A
dear sister worker, acting as secretary of
an aux iary in one of our smaller church
es, sayr ''This society is very quiet and
stead. ,oing, not at all to be moved out
Of It's lack" Another pastors wife, who
reports an auxiliary in new town, writes:
when my husband entered the ministry
1 resolved to organize Woman's Foreign
Missionary society in every circuit
under his charge where there was not one
existing already. So far I have done SO.
1 am deeply interested in the cause, and
will gladly do anything I can to forward
it."
As We close up the work of the year we
feel to say : "Thus far the Lord has helped
u.s." and trusting in Him whose we are,
and whose work we are doing, we go for
ward rejoicing that He has opened the
way to this inviting field and bids US enter
and occnpy it.
MRS. PROF. WINoHELu.
The secretary then introduced Mrs. B.
H. Bailey, returned missionary from
Lucknow, India, who spoke for over an
hour to very attentive audience concern
ing the work, difficulties and pleasures of
missionary work in India. She did not
claim to be missionary of the foreign
society, the parent organization, but was
directly interested in the Women's Foreign
society, whose work, lay exclusively among
| the women in India. The Hindoos were
not the savage and uncivilized beings that
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