St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-10-17
FRIENDS OF MISSIONS.
Closing Session of the WOman's Foreign
Missionary Society.

Continuing the report of the pro-
ceedings of the Goth annual meeting
of the Methodist Woman's foreign
missionary society from last week S
paper, the corresponding secretary's S
report on Wednesday may be briefly
summarized. She reported on the
work in India, China. Japan, Corea,
Bulgaria, Mexico and the South
American states The New England
branch supports Is missionaries, 3
medical missionaries, % assistants,
1O3 Bible women and teachers and
4 matrons. 1t partly supports two
training schools, 8 boarding houses
and orphanages. There are JAG
scholars in the boarding schools, AZ
in the orphanages and 9OOin the day
schools Twelve hundred women
have been-visited in 1000 zenanas.
In the annual reports of the con-
ference and district secretaries, Mrs
Judkins reported for the New Hamp-
shire conference; Mrs. Jewell of Ar
rington, Me, for the East Maine con-
ference; Mrs. III. M. Humphrey of
Portland for the other Maine confer
ence; Mrs. Green of Boston for the
New England conference; Mrs. James
of Plymouth for the New England
South conference; Mrs. Thompson of
New Haven for the New Haven con-
ference; Mrs. A. L. Bailey of st.
Johnsbury for the Vermont confer
ence, and a report was also given
from the Eastern New York confer
ence
At this point Mrs. Judkins of Man
chester, N. H., invited the branch to
meet at Manchester next year, and
the invita- ton was accepted.
The exercises of the afternoon clos
ed with an address from the newly
elected president, Mrs. Charles Park
hurst of Somerville, Mass, wife of
the editor of lions Herald.
Wednesday night Mrs. Rev. o. w.
Scott of Rockville, Conn, read pa
per entitled, Broken alabaster box
es." This was one of the choicest
papers of the entire session. 1t was
an earnest and touching appeal to
the rich ladies of the land for some Of
their wealth, asking them to follow
Mary's example and break their ala
baster boxes to further the interest
of missions. Rev. Dwight Williams
of Cazenovia, n. Y, sent a poem en-
titled "Morning Bells" which was
read by one of the ladies. Mrs. {. M.
Stone of st. JOhnsbury greeted the
branch in behalf of the Vermont
Woman's board of missions, the or
ganization of the Congregationalists.
The meeting closed with a practical
paper on inconsistencies in mission
airy work by Mrs. n. II. Knox of
Manchester, N. H.
Thursday morning Mrs. l. n Bull
lens of Springfield, Mass, conducted
a.workers' meeting, at which many
practical suggestions were given.
In the afternoon Miss c. A. Rich
ardson of Maiden and Miss Butler of
Boston conducted a young ladies'
meeting Miss Butler followed with
an address upon her missionary life
in the city of Mexico, and Mrs. n. P.
Odell of Maiden gave a map exercise
in which she pointed out the location
of the various missionary stations.
Miss Eugenia Gibson, late of the
North India mission, related some
interesting facts about her work in
the Indian field. Five minute papers
followed upon the work OF the young
people from different portions of the
Branch. These were given by Miss
Packard of Boston; Miss Carrie w.
Robinson of West Berkshire; Miss
Fosdick of Connecticut and Miss
Willard of New Hampshire. Mrs. w.
H. Thurber of Providence, a daugh-
ter of DIR. and Mrs. William Butler
of Boston, gave an exceedingly inter
esting address upon the life and la
bors of the missionary in Mexico.
The meeting closed with very pret-
ty exercise by the st. Johnsbury Chill
dren's Band, consisting of singing
and recitations.
The evening session was largely
attended and opened with duet by
Mr.. Owen and Mrs. Harry Blodgett
of the Methodist choir, which had
furnished most acceptable music at
every evening service.
Mrs. D. Steele of Milton, Mass,
sent up paper on the pastors rela-
tiOns to this society's work. In this
paper she said this was a legitimate
branch of Christian work, and should
be recognized as such by every pas
tor. On the other hand the ladies
were under obligations to most of
the pastors for the interest they were
taking in the work. Mrs. c. E.
Thompson of New Haven contribut-
ed a poem entitled 1.-The Life Boat"
The poem represented Christ as the
life boat that was the Saver of all
who sought Him. The address of the
evening was given by Rev. M. " b.
Knox of Manchester, n. H. Some of
his thoughts are here given:
Gladstone said he had lived to see
four things: The emancipation of
slaves; the emancipation of restric-
tions against the Roman Catholic
church; the removal of restrictions
upon the corn laws; the removal of
the restriction of franchise in Eng
land. We can climb still higher, and
rejoice that we live in an epoch when
Christian Civilizations spreading all
over the world. There are three cor
relative things that interest us
Methodism, because that has given
to the world the spirit of evangelical
ton; woman's work in the churches !;