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THE PRESBYTERIAN W0MAN's BOARD OF
MTSSTONS


During this week there will be notable
gathering of women in the Second Presby
terrain Church of this city. Representative
women from all parts Of the Northwest will
attend the fifteenth annual meeting of the
Woman's Presbyterian Board of Missions OF
the Northwest With such women as Mrs.
Hoge and Mrs Herrick johnson as presidents,
and Mrs. Mccormick, Mrs. Farwel, Mrs
Plankington Mrs. Van Cleve, Mrs. Hutchin-
son and Miss Peabody, and many others
equally well known, as vice-presidents, it can
not fail to be a very important and interesting
meeting. From three to five hundred dele
gates are expected, and already the hospitali-
ties of the ladies of the Presbyterian churches
have been extended, and members of sister
churches have kindly offered their homes.
The meetings will continue from Tuesday
evening through Wednesday and Thursday,
and will be open to everybody interested in
missions.
This society was organized at the request of
the American Board of Missions, for the pur-
pose of engaging the earnest cooperation OF
Christian women throughout the West in
sending out and supporting women as mission
aries and Bible readers among heather women.
The board has had two birthdays, the first one
Oct 81, 1868, when the members of the Con-
gregational and Presbyterian Churches of the
Northwest united and formed the Woman's
Board Of Missions of the Interior. This pleas
ant union continued for two years Upon the
union of the two branches Of the Presbyterian
Church it was thought best to separate and
each denomination to work with it's own
church. The second birthday was Dec Is,
1870, when in the Second Presbyterian Church
of Chicago the sfWoman's Presbyterian Board
Of Missions Of the Northwest was organized,
bringing from the first board twenty-four
auxiliaries and one missionary, Miss Deem, of
Persia. Owing to the great fire, two years
elapsed before the celebration of the first an
adversary, April, 1872. In these two years
the society had grown to seventy auxiliaries
and twelve bands supporting seven mission
aries. In 1873 the board met again in Chi
cago, and the event of this meeting was the
generous gift by Cyrus FL. Mccormick Of
Room 49 McCormicks Block, for the perma-
nent missionary headquarters This has been
the rallying point for missionaries, going
abroad or returning, for clergymen, for new
candidates, and here are the Offices of the
board, and all executive sessions are held.
The annual meetings are held in any city
whose Inequalities are extended for the occa-
sion, meeting in Chicago every fifth year,
which city is the home of the board This
society is auxiliary to the General Board of
Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church
in New York, and works under the care of
the General Assembly.
It is impossible to- oyerestimate the inau-
ence and power of this woman's board and the
immense religious and civilizing influence
that has resulted from its labors. It now
iliaries. supporting missionaries all over the
world, maintaining day schools and boarding
schools for the North American Indians in
Montana Nebraska, Indian Territory, Iowa
and Wisconsin. This society supports ten
women as missionaries in India, boys high
school, girls boarding school, has built a
new church and rebuilt an old church, and
supports large number of native teachers
and missionaries in Persia. There are eleven
women missionaries supported by this society
in Tabriz, Teheran, Oroomiah and Hamadan.
In Persia the work has been hampered greatly
by persecution and famine. The sufferings
of this people were greatly relieved by the
thoughtful care given by missionaries,
and during the late civil war not one of the
mission stations was harmed. In Africa this
society is building a ship to be used in trans
porting the missionaries from one station to
another. In Siam, besides maintaining four
missionaries it has built hospital and inn
ported saw-mill, which caused great excite
ment and so interested the king that he gave
the ground fo its erection near his own
palace. Under its care eleven missionaries
are at work in DAY, boarding and training
schools in China. In Japan the work has
been really miraculous. Details cannot be
given of the work in Mexico South America
and Syria, and the benefits arising from the
labors of the medical missionaries is beyond
words. The board has now fifty-six mission
aries, twenty two Bible women, thirty three
native teachers, five boarding schools, one
hundred and thirty-two day schools, 237
pupils outside of day schools, and publishes