Telegram-herald., 1889-10-10

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poWers. la0re earnestly urge 0n the
conquest OF t0e BOr.d Tor cars until
tbe .sles " Ene sea and Ihe utleIuost
parts u ths s2rth be gwen 10 HIM Tor
LIS Inheritance"
Following the reading Of the address,
Mrs. Il. M Wilson If Appleton his..
read tie annual report Tor " sconsln.
Mrs l.. A. Las 70n, Qt BaraboO, n -,
read tine report IoE the western por-
ton Of that STATE. she "a that there
Was little 60 be SAID There had oSen,
however. a little seed SOWING. and size
hoped for bette things an0Ineg year.
Ia Ine absence Of Ms. Horace Reed,
Of Bloc IA ugton, Ill.,, the K0ck River
report was FeA4 by Mrs. Lewis MeFed Ga,
OF CnlcaSO. TINS district pays s-r-ct
attent.o to detail, AMI are therefore
particularly successful. Ia some pOf-
lions there lll1 been a little "heart
failure" 0uL 3n tae whole the outlook
wa> encouraging, and several oI Jne
societies were I'D most nOursning COM
diton. She then gave a cOacl>e state
men, or the work done 10y the different
societies. fall details OF winch would
not be Of interest 10 the average reader.
After singing the hymn, "~tand up
N = > y -
ton. Mich, read the report Tor Central
Illinois. Often during the year, size
SAID they bad been d.scOurag 4, fear
ng that the mistakes they nad made
would show very plainly, but they were
glad 10 md a smooth anu pleasing
piece OF work and were led 10 hope tha.
through their efforts many souls nad
been led into the light. There had
I ueen some changes I'D the officers, but
on the whole the work had been most
| encouraging, and she urged a cOntinua-
| ton or 10 during the coming year.
Mrs. Margaratna Dreyer, OF Turner,
Kan, read report or the work IN the
/ German chSrches. She reported that
/ the churches We're not large and the
members not rlch, but nevertheless
/ they mad not been behind some of their
| neighbOrs IN giving and had done very
good work on the whole during the
year She also read the report OF the
| German missionary work being done
IN Switzerland, which had been for
warded her by German ladyin Berne,
and which was very interesting As show
| ING the hold the VI. +. society Is attain
ing ID foreign lands.
| The reading of the reports being
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| PRESBYTERIAN Church, Mrs. Schellhous,
OF the Baptist Women's Missionary
| society, and Mrs. Gilmore, of the Re
| formed Church, We're introduced and
| each made short speeches welcoming
| the delegates 10 the city and extending
fraternal greeting. Mrs. Kate l..
| Haynes, of indianapolis, responded IN
| a ten minutes speech, full OF apprO-
4
Telegraphic greetings from the New
England branches were read by the
| secretary, followed by the appropriate
hymn, 'Blest be the Ties that Bind"
Mrs. Merwin Church read the report
OF the photograph committee, which
| stated that some half dozen new faces
| had been added to the collection Of
missionaries during the year and that
quite little money had been received
from the sale of the pictures, and re-
ported a balance of S23 now IN the
| treasury.
Mrs. Brockway, of Albion, Mich, a
daughter OF Mrs HOag, the deceased
secretary of the branch, spoke for a
few minutes upon subject which her
mother had very much 10 heart. She
| thought that a fund OF 5000 or more
|
Young woman n one OF the colleges,
| for mission work. Mrs BrOckway
was much affected, and at times had
difficulty IN repressing her emotions A
committee was appointed 10 have the
matter IN charge and see what can
| be done. The committee consists OF
Mrs. Taylor. chairman, and Mesdames
i l.. l..fl no
| forth.
IL has been the custom of the Mis-
s.Onarv Society for years TO unite at
noon with the temperance societies in
PRAYER and Mrs /. NJ Boise, OF this
Ulv, had been appointed TO lead IN this
| Hpraver for temperance which she
did I'M an earnest AID impressive man
ner. This concluded the morning
session.
In the afternoon memorial services
were held for Mrs. H0ag, the decea sed
secretary of the branch. Mrs. NJ. :.
Budding read "a paper on Program
making" Mrs. s. z. Fisk spoke upon
..Workers' Meetings and Mrs. VI. d.
Morris upon "Children's Meetings"
Both offered some valuable and timely
suggestions.
Ii attendance Is an evidence of the
success Of q meeting, that OF last even
ng was q very decided one. The
church was hacked with people who
turned out 90 hear Mrs. James T..
Angel, of Ann Arbor, and Ms, Isabella
/ Leonard. OF Evauston, Illinois. The
meeting was opened oy reading Of the
>er ptures and prayer by Rev. J0hn
Z Graham. and the exercises were con-
dueted under direction OF Mrs. DAVID
7 Preston, of Detroit Mrs. Angeli was
Introduced. and gave q brief and very
interesting history OF her personal eX-
pcrcnccs iu China. during ner hus-
tau8 term of office rs United states
. Minister iu that country. She toid of
+ her meetings with Mss Howard, the
+ lady who doing suCA successful mis-
( s0narv work among Chinese women.
and also related some of tne customs
and supersttI0us oi the people, giving
as well a description ot the city OF
PeSin, the capital city OF that cOun-
try.
When Mrs. Angel had finished, MIS-
Isabella Leonard, an independent
evsngel 81 who has travelled throughout
Ind and Australia preaching o. the
people wherever she could gather them
together. and encouraging che MISSION
aries in their arIuous work. was intro
duced she gave au interesting account
of her lahcrs among the hcathcn
women of foreign lands. The cxor-
ciscs were ntcr-persod with singing Ted
bv Nesdame- e. W Merrill, VIII Gay
ard Miss NcIues.
To-Day the services viii be partcu-
iarlv interest commencing az g