Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-17
THE NKeALL MISSION.

The Annual Meeting Held Yesterday
 At Center Church Chapel-Election
 of Omeers-Interesting Addresses By
 Rev. Dr. Baird and Mrs. Newell.
 The annual meeting of the New Haven auxiliary of the McAn mission in Paris, France, was held at Center church chapel yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock, and the very large attendance, the chapel being filled to overfowing, spoke we'll for the interest in New Haven in the work which MT. MoAll, Scotch minister, founded eight or ten years ago in the gay French capital, and which has become 8 power for Professionalism in France. The meeting was opened with prayer by Rev. Dr. Smyth, after which the officers of the past year were elected to serve for the ensuing year, viz:
 President-Miss Elizabeth Bradley
 Secresary-Miss Annie A. McAlister.
 Treasurer-Miss Mary Hsdley.
 VICE PRESIDENTS.
 College chapel-Mrs Robert Brown
 Center church-Mrs. Newman Smyth.
 United church-Mrs. Frank Benedict
 College street church-Mrs Luman Cowles
 Church of the RedeemerEMrs T Wm Beckley.
 Davenport church-Mrs. M; w. Burwell-
 Baptist church-Mrs. General Smith.
 A little printed sheet distributed at the meeting epitomized the history of the mis- sion Mir McAlI and his wife visited Paris for short rest during the summer of 1871, when Paris was desolate, the Franco-Prus- sian war having just closed. English wis itors were graciously received, the French feeling unusually friendly to Englishmen at this period Here, desirous of being helpful, Mr. and Mrs. McAIl distributed tracts and Mir. McAll then became strongly impressed with the field for religious work which lay before him. The thought was doubly i'm said earnestly: "If anyone will come among us teaching a religion, not of hierarchy and superstition, but of reality and earnestness and liberty, very many of us are ready to listen" Mr McA1l needed the Macedonian call and, though then fifty years of age, left home and kindred with his wife, and then began their Paris work which has been so fruitful in results. From small begin nings the work was increased until as it of 6eially stated:
 Year after year new halls were opened, fresh sympathes awakened. and reliable sources of in. steadily from England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, the United States Canada: Australia, Switzerland, sion in 1881 were S69, 905. And it now holds 34 stations in Paris, 56 elsewhere, total of 90, and constantly increasing. These placed in Versailles, Cannes Nice, Lyons Corsica Bordeaux, Arcachon, Boulogne-sur Mer; La Rochelle Roche
 
 Saintes, CogDac, Montauban. Toulouse, Clermont- Ferrand, Au1erre, Alencon. Lorient, Brest, Clame- cy, Dion, Tue, Nantes Algiers and other places. At the meeting in this city yesterday after noon two admirable addresses were made by Rev. Dr. Baird, of New York, and Mrs. Newell Dr. Baird was formerly pastor of the American chapel in Paris, and is now one of the secretaries of the Ameri- can Missionary association. He was also formerly pastor of 8 church in Syracuse, NY. He feelingly reviewed features of the work of the McAll mission. Mrs Newell is wife of the American missionary in the Me All mission work She enlisted the closest attention of the audience. Her manner, en- gazing and unpretentious and thoroughly feminine, and her earnest, transparent devo- tion to thes work, were supplemented by re- marks which disclosed the inner social life of the mission workers and some of the meth ods employed in the work. The audience seemed to catch the spirit of the speaker and enlist anew their. sympathies with the work. She related several incl dents One was regarding the conversion of young man of wealth and high social position, owner of a chateau and a wide domain attached to it, who hnd be- come devoted disciple of Christ. Another was regarding lady of one of the leading ex- elusive Paris society circles, who was equally devoted to the work and employed part of her time in teaching shop girls the Bible, in order to be of use in the McAll work. The son of this lady is one of the leaders of the most gay and fashionable society of Paris, whose blooded horses have won the great French races. The narration of both these cases was attended by many incidents per taining thereto which gave pleasing glimpses of French life and added much to the int crest of the address. The exercises of the meeting were closed by singing the Doxology, after which many of the ladies pressed forward and greeted Mrs. Newell and Dr. Baird