Omaha daily bee., 1888-04-19
woMAN,s FOREIGN MISSION.
. Two Days Session at h First
Baptist Church.

The seventeenth anniversary of the Wo-
mans Baptist Foreign Missionary society
of the west is in session at the First Baptist
church, Fifteenth and Davenport streets,
and wiI.continue through TO-DAY. The pro-
grammeVesterday morning consisted OF an adj
dress of welcome delivered by Mrs. f.. w.
Foster, the hearing OF reports, music and the
reading of a paper, Unused Gifts" by Aunt
Lizzie Aiken, of Chicago. In the afternoon,
after the opening exercises, Mrs. Galusha
Anderson read an interesting and instructive
paper on willing and Giviug.m The devo-
tiOnal hour was led by Mrs. II. l.. G. Vaughn.
In the evening the house was crowded to
its utmost capacity, and a number of chairs
were brought in to furnish accommodation
for the auditors. Young ladies acted as ush-
ers. The pulpit was lastly decorated with
flowers, while suspended from the choristers'
gallery above IL was the beautiful silk ban
ner presented by young ladies of Aurora,
Neb., who are interested in the mission. To
the right and left Of this there were. respec-
lively a cross and anchor constructed of flow
ers. After the invocation and other opening
exercises, the Rev. A. w. Lamar delivered
the words of welcome. He spoke at some
length of the good accomplished by the So
ciety, and gave to the noble lady workers the
loftiest of tributes. The address of the even
ing was given by Rev. c. C.. Lorimer, ID. D., OF
Chicago, on the subject "Winged Women, or
the Paramount Force in the Worlds Evan
gelism.n He took for his text Zachariah $50:
"Then lifted | up mine eyes and looked, and
behold there came out two women, and the
wind was in their wings, for they had wings
like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up
the ephah between the earth and heaven
The reverend gentlemen first spoke of the
two antithetic females spoken of in the apoc-
alypse. The first, the representative of pur-
ity, clad in white, her face like the sun, the
moon beneath her feet and twelve stars upon
her brow. The other, the harlot, was at
tired in scarlet, was adorned with metricious
and cheap ornaments, and though she grew
into the great city of Babylon, her career
was brief. Thus, ever in life, virture is its
own browning glory, while the glitter of law
less abides but for the moment. Wings
signify something aspiring. Men are more
ambitious than women. Though woman
possesses many fine attributes she lacks aspi-
ration, and as n consequence she never has
achieved what man has. No woman ever
vet has had the breadth of poetic magma
ton of Shakespeare. or Milton. But
woman's sphere has ever been that of
guardian of the morals and religion of the
family, and her mission is thus the nobler.
The stork, the h~arbinger of good fortune, is
q migratory bird, and no matter how fierce
the blast he has to oppose, he struggles on
ward. So any great enterprise In which the
champions are bearers of good
tidings there must first be struggles,
self sacrifice and perseverance,. In
their christian work the good women are apt
to overlook the numerous shop girls and
other young women who are needing but a
kind word to keep them from destruction.
They wait until the girls are ruined and then
attempt to erect reformatories to bring them
back from the gates of hell. Most men in
vest their wives with an ideality that makes
them seem better than obey really are. This
is a grand thing, for as long as a man thus
regards his wife, she holds over him q great
power for good.
The meetings continue again to-day, there
being a morning, afternoon and evening ses-
sion, the last named terminating the ami
versary.