Iron County register., 1888-04-19
NUMBER Al
st. Louis Correspondence

Ed. Register-The Missouri Branch
of the Womans Board of Missions me-
last week in this city. This Board
meets annually for the transaction o
business: hearing reports from the var.
ious parts of the State, and for the en-
couragement of each other in the work.
The meeting began at 20 A. NJ. and
| had a continued session all day. The
ladi S of Pilgrim Church. where the
meeting was held, spread an ample
lurch for all attending. Representa-
tive ladies were present from Spring.
field, Kansas City, ST. Joseph, Hanni-
bal and other places. The meetikg g
| was one of the most profitable they
| have held. Mrs. Caprom, of Madura,
India, was present all day. This lady
| went out some thirty years ago as a
| missionary, and has spent most of those
years in the active missionary work.
She is home now and is in active CO.
operation with the Board in all that
pertains to its usefulness. She is a
lady of fine personal appearance, ready
address, fine scholarship in English, as
| we'll as learned in the Language spoken
by those among whom she has been
living. She is very enthusiastic in
| the work and only her age prevents
her from continuance of the loved
| work. But while she may not gD
| abroad, she does do what she can for
home among her sisters in the church,
both east and west. Her words of
| council ere full of inspiration and in-
formation, and went far to bring about
the good results of the convention.
She, like all other returned laborers,
gives the greatest encouragement for a
continued advancement of the work in
the foreign field. Only the week before
returned missionary from China, was
among our churches for several days.
She was the most enthusiastic in her
work and that being done by the w.
comes Mrs. Capron of the American
Board of the Congregationalist, from
India, and speaks in the same train of
encouragement. They not only give
theory, but facts, stubborn facts, to
verify their statements. Their own
love for the work is one of the strong.
est evidences Of an honest conviction OF
the great propriety of pushing the
work. The women spent the entire
day in counsel and report receiving,
mingled with devotional exercises in
which many took part.
At night II public meeting was held
in the audience room of the church.
which was well-filled with an audience
gathered from the church public.
Quite a large number of the city
clergy were present. The opening ex-
ercises were conducted by the clergy,
by one of whom Mrs. Capron was in
troduced from the pulpit. She then in
a very chaste and dignified manner
proceeded to deliver an earnest address,
which she called the "Mosaics of Mis-
sionary Work." combining the work
Ol hotiFCSy hCattiOi1 OIiI>
GERS, super-added with the blessings of
God. Thus by examples of success
from her own work and that of her
sisters. she brought conviction to the
hearts Of her hearers that the work
was of God and not of men or by men.
She held thus the strict attention of
that mixed audience for nearly an
hour, and still they would have gladly
have heard her longer. She proved
most conclusively that India was NOV
ing Godward, AMI that the day was
approaching when the temples of that
old idolatrous land will be given up to
the worship OF the true God and of His
Son Jesus Christ, the Saviour of all
nations and men. Again another
thought came to the mind of your cor
respondent, and that was, the day had
come when women, as well as men,
were ack nowledged as Gods agents in
the spread of the gospel of Ch.ist.
Probably dozen or more ordained
ministers sat there that hour and
listened to woman speak the words
of gospel truth aud methods. Such
scene would not have been tolerated
25 years ago, especially by the Amer
lean Board. Methodist ministers
might have done it, but not those of
the Congregationalist or Presbyterian
Boards. The religious world is coming
to the point in which they can say,
"Send by whom thou wilt, but send
salvation to the world;' and let all the
people say, Amen!
priI 10 1883