Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-10-29
WOMEN AND MISSIONS.
The Convention Which is to Meet 1t Foun.
dry Church Tomorrow.

The Convention Which is to Meet 1t Foun-
dry Church Tomorrow.
There will convene in Washington tomorrow
distinguished body of ladies. Delegates from
seventy conference societies, to the number of
15o, with many visitors, will be present These
will represent conferences from Maine to Cali
fornia and the far south.
The occasion is the tenth annual meeting of
the general board of managers of the Method
list Woman's Home Missionary Society. under
whose auspices the Lucy Webb Hayes Deaconess
Home and Bible College for Home and Foreign
Missionaries has just beer innugurated. This
institution in Washington and the Deaconess
Home in Baltimore will be intimately asso-
ciated, and are under the supervision Of the
Baltimore conference board for deaconesses.
The services, commencing at $50 a. m and
Pm, will all be held in Foundry Church except a
childrens meeting in the Metropolitan Sunday
afternoon. The prayer service at the opening
tomorrow morning will be led by the president,
Mrs. John Davis of Cincinnati. The delegates
will be welcomed and the body organized for
business by the appointment of the various
committees Lunch will be served in the
church, and at p. m. the general officers will
present papers which will give a comprehen-
sive view OF the fields and work of the society
and the claims Of home mission fields, to be
by several clergymen of the city.
Friday evening will be given TO the formal
opening of the Deaconess Home and Bible Col
lege recently dedicated. Short addresses will be
given by prominent clergymen of this city and
Baltimore and members of the faculty and byMr.
Bancroft Robinson, who has just returned from
tour of inspection of similar institutions in
the old world.
The anniversary meeting of the society Sum-
day evening, Mr.. Bishop. simpson presiding.
will be addressed by Henry Wade Rogers,
LID, president of the Northwestern Uni
versity. Evanston, ILL.,
Monday, November 2, will be Deaconess day.
In the morning the report of this
bureau and for city work will be
presented and the homes in seven of
our principal cities will be represented by dea-
conesses. In the afternoon the general subject
In its relation to home missions will be dis
cussed. Mrs. John A. Logan will be present
and will preside at the mass meeting in the
evening, which will be addressed by Rev. DIR.
Wheeler Of Philadelphia and Mr.. Bancroft
Robinson.
The reports of the secretaries of the general
bureau of conference secretaries, one or more
at each session, with discussion, will furnish
interesting details of the work of the society in
all its fields of operation. There are seventy-fve
conference organization, and over 1000 au Kill
arie swith 81. 900 members. The receipts last
year were $4,000. gain Of 900 over the
preceding year
In ten years these ladies' have gathered and
disbursed total of $4,000. Washington is
to be congratulated on the location here of the
memorial institution, which it is expected will
make it and Baltimore centers of missionary in
fuence for the whole country the enterprise
being under the fostering care of the national
organization.