Morning journal and courier., 1888-05-09
rHE1R sEvENrEENTH ANNuAL,

Meeting Of the New Haven Branch of the Woman's Board of Miss1Ons-An EnGh usIastic Gathering Reports Made and Omcers EIected-The Next Meeting to be Held In Waterbury. Ladies from all parts of the State who are interested in mission work f1ocked into Gen.
 ter church in this city yesterday morning ! and filled the seats. It was not delegated
 meeting, but anyone not member of the
 association was confronted with big signs on the doors of the church "Closed."
 It was the seventeenth annual meeting of the New Haven branch of the Woman's
 Board of Missions, and about five hundred l were present. The meeting was opened at 9:15 am. with devotional exercises. The report of Mrs. Hume, the correspond ing secretary, was very encouraging. She said:
 "The New Haven branch has not quite reached its majority, but to-day we ac- knowledge with grateful hearts the privilege ! of having added seventeen years of service \ and $157 ,127.S .S4 to the grand twenty years' I record of the Woman's Board of Missions. | On the list of the last years work and work CTS are nine missionaries: Mrs. Edwards in South Africa, Mrs. Bond in Bulgaria, Miss Andrews in China, Mrs. Hume in Bombay, India, Mrs. DeForest in Japan, Miss Fens. ham in Constantinople, Turkey, Miss Judson ! in Northern Japan, Miss Root in Madura, h. | dia, Mrs. Eaton in Northern Mexico and Miss Ferris in Mexico part of the year. In ad- dition, we have had four assistant mission
 aries and teachers, eighty scholarships in twelve different seminaries or girls boarding schools; in Constantinople, Marsovern, Har- poot, Broosa and Talas, Turkey; in San Se-
 bastian, Spain; Udupitty, Ceylon; Madura and Ahmednagar, India; Foochow, China; Natal Colony, South Africa, Kraabschitz, Austria"
 Miss Daggett, the recording secretary, also ' made report
 The treasurer's report read by Miss Twin ing of this city showed that the years re- ceipts of the New Haven branch have been from the older societies S7,360; mission circles, 5000; Sunday schools, $207, and other sources sufficient to make total of $11, 200.
 Miss Pruddens question box was interest ing.
 Miss Sarah J. Haines' missionary address was listened to with great attention, as she went 10 India three years ago as a mission- ary and returned last fall on account of her health. Her description of the work there was greatly enjoyed.
 Mrs. Cady told of the progressive work done in New Haven county. In the afternoon MissSterling, of Stratford, oPOAO OA bAo WOEk Oc11lB OOH0 III E AlrQ6lQ county. During the year, she said, the hands had increased by one society She referred to Miss Ferris, who went to Mexico but who had returned. Miss Judson has just gone to Japan. It was one thing to talk of strangers going into the missionary field but another
 thing for those to go from our midst. She closed her report by saying: "The work press es more heavily upon us all, as we have lost one glorious worker from our number. Mrs. Palmer's dying words, 50 much to be done,' echo in our ears. They seem to re- proach us fer the past. Let us take them into our hearts and make them the motto and inspiration of our future" The event of the afternoon was the mis- sionary address by Miss West, who has been
 working in Turkey. She was not sorry to be in New Haven, but would rather be
 working in Turkey where there is so much
 more need of her. She read Mother Schauf-
 ler's letter with it's greeting to New Haven,
 whose ladies established the first school in
 Turkey hfty-eight years ago. Until then Fur
 kish women were never taught to read. All
 the nominally Christian races were crushed under the iron heel of the Turks, and low and ignorant were the men. In deeper degrada- tion still were the women. Even after years of instru etion this feeling is still strong, and so prevalent that it creeps even into the mis- sionary schools and families. The Bible, in Armenian and Greek churches, is in dead language, mapped in silk and velvet, and is shown for worship with no more life than mummy. No hope came from it to the peo- pie.
 Miss West went first to Marsoysn. Turkey. under MT. and Mrs. Leonard. To the school there she sent her pupil, Anna Felician. Miss West spoke of the coffee rooms in Smyrna, which are opened by the missionaries so as to get the Turks to go there and be taught The same class of rooms are now being opened in Constantinople. The women are now taught to read almost as much as the men. She said that the whole drift through that country was the doing away of Moslem- ism and the introduction of infdelity. The demand for bibles of late, however, has in- creased.
 Miss Hinsdale gave a report of the work of the branch in Middlesex county, as Mrs. Me Gale was not present. Mrs. McLaughlin's report from Litchfeld county was read in the morning.
 Mrs. Taylor spoke of the Woman's Board of Mission. She urged the necessity of doing more and said that the amount given for missionaryaRork was only $1 for 1,60O people, which was very small proportion. on the work in Spain and Austria
 It was decided to hold their next annual meeting at the Second church in Waterbur.
 Before the meeting was adjourned the fol- lowing officers were elected:
 President, Mrs. Burdett Hart
 Vica prce rss,R1sS Ra1s,aenr M MISS suSan & E: Prudden. Mrs W. H, Smith of New Britain, Mrs. N. F. Gleason of Darien, Miss Cordelia Sterling of Stratf0rd. Mrs. D. D. T. Mclaughlin of Litch6eld, Miss M. P. Hinsdale of West Winsred, Mrs. s. Nc Call of East Haddam, Mrs. s. l.. Cady of New Haven, Mrs. F. E. Hinman of Meffden, Mrs Lewis E. Perkins of Waterbury,
 Corresponding secretary Mrs. H. D. Hume.
 Home secrstafy, Mrs. VII. Fairchiid.
 Secretary of the bureau of information, Miss FL len II. Prftchard
 Recording secretary, Miss Susan E. Daggett
 Treasurer, Miss Julia Twining
 MisaM art lima Darrow, Miss Leila W. Putnam.
 MISSION CIRCLE DEPARTMENT.
 Secretary Miss Lillian E. Prudden.
 Assistant secretaries, Miss Dora c. May of Higga- mum, Miss Mary A. Hopson of Kent, Mrs William B. Coggswen of stratford, Mrs. T. L. Day of New Haven.
 Cooperative committee Mrs William R. Tyler, Mrs Edward M. Root, Mrs. l.. c. Dayton, Mrs Wil. liam F. Squire, Miss Mary E. Ivee Mrs, c. c. Foote.
 Auditor, Roger S. White, Esq.
 A CARELESS HACK DRIVER.