Morning journal and courier., 1888-02-16
MISSIONS IN FRAnoK.
Annual Meeting ef the New Hay,
 Auxiliary of the MICAH Mission.

Anntaai Meeting of the New Haven 1
 Auxiliary of the HcA1l Mission.
 The annual meeting of the New Haven auxiliary of the McAn mission in France was held at the Center church chapel yesterday Afternoon About thirty ladies were present. Rev. Dr. Twitchell presided. Mrs. s. L. Cady of this city, who recently returned from
 France, told of her experiences while there.
 She said the McAll mission was growing and
 Mr. and Mrs. McAn are doing grand work.
 Mrs. Bracq of Philadelphia addressed the
 ladies. Her husband was recently here and
 plead for more funds for that mission. They
 have been in France for some length of time
 and visited many of the missions there. Mrs.
 Bracq said that during the past year fourteen
 new mission stations have been opened, and
 the total number now in France is one hun
 dred and fourteen. Last year one million
 people attended these missions. She thought
 the crisis of missions was now here. There
 never were more opportunities to do work in
 this line. In France is grand field and in
 but very few places Protestant missions could
 the McAll mission was opened the Catholics
 raised no objection only that the Protestants
 would say nothing against their saint.
 Many people in France are ignorant
 of the Protestant religion, and are
 just beginning to find out what it is.
 The opportunity now arises to make France
 Christian nation. If that chance is lost it
 will have a depressing effect on the work
 over here. France is not foreign mission
 ary field, it is a home mission. If she
 should be made 8 Christian nation she
 would go hand in hand with us in trying to
 Christianize the rest of the world. No where is there such field for converting .or1o fo tho Christian faith in France and with the least expenditures of money and la~ bor. 1 believe that there are none better fitted for missionaries than the French. The French Protestants want help, however. Many say why can't they do their own work in Francea Suppose you take 8 city twice the size of Boston and the people in it are very poor, would you think it consistent to think that they could Christianize this country without they had financial helpa That is just the case in France. The French Protestants are doing a good work in 8 country where Catholicism aid and encourage them. They must have funds, and that is what I am here to plead l for Last October my husband sent letters to some of the Protestant ministers in re- mote places in France, asking about their ! work. The answers have just arrived, and ! they are full of good news. The work is l progressing almost beyond expectations. SSSe~ | to Paris have been unable to find anyone who knew anything about the McAll mission, or ever even heard of it. The reason is prob | ably, that they asked for the McAll mission, l and it is not called by that anywhere but in America. It is called there the peoples mission. One of the principal talks | in Paris is about these missions. MT. and | Mrs. McAll have had charge of the McAll | mission for seventeen years. He is now sixty-seven years old. He and his wife are ! yeritable saints. I cannot say enough in praise for their devotion to their work. MT. McA1l is unwell, but think his life will be spared for him to see the harvest reaped, al though he is only sowing the seed.
 Mrs. Bracq spoke for about three-quarters | of an hour in a most interesting manner.
 The secretary's report told of the good work being done by the mission and of the
 zeal which was continually being put forth to make it do more good.
 | Miss May H. Hadley presented the treas urer's report as follows: