St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-27

Iotal Tor last year. go, 342 Is
increase NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. ST, 947 81
An increase of over S11 ZOO is very
good showing in year when times are
so hard, and the ladies were very much
pleased.
Miss Pauline j. Walden, of Boston,
gave report of the missionary papers
published by the society, the Heather
Woman's Friend, the Heather Child's
Friend and the German organ, the
Heiden-Fraen-Freuud. The report
showed assets S9.621.26. and a circula-
ton of the combined publications of
over $1,000.
Mrs. Mary c. Mind now took an OBJ
portunity to indulge in few introduce
lions, and in her pleasant way intro
duced first the ministers who were
present. among them DR.. Heath, who
In very impressive little speech went
over few of his early experiences in
the Methodist church. Mrs. Mind then
called for the wives of bishops who
might be present, and responding to
the invitation were: Mesdames New
man. of Omaha: Foss, of Philadelphia,
and Fowler, Minneapolis. They were
ushered to the platform and enthusi-
asticaily received by the convention.
A CALL FOR MISSIONARIES
being made brought forward Rev. Br.
Argentine Republic, and Rev. C. P.
Hard, of Mar Singhpur. India, his sta
ton being 526 miles northeast of Bonn
bay. Mrs. Mind now invited the lady
missionaries present to the platform,
and the following responded: DR. Mary
Christensen, Miss Mary Hendrick, Cal
cutta, India; Miss Mary Danford and
Mrs. Carrie Van Petten, Yokohama,
Japan; Miss Finchen, Bulgaria; Miss
Vickery, Rome, Italy; Misses Lawson
and Abrahams. Bombay. India; Miss
Llndberger, City of Mexico; Miss Hyde,
of South America. and Miss Rouse,
candidate for the mission field, merely
awaiting All appointment. These women
were accorded an enthusiastic reception
as they were introduced.
After an enthusiastic and interesting
talk by Rev. DR.. Thompson, of South
America, the convention adjourned for
lunch.
The afternoon session was opened
with singing and PRAYER. followed by
talk by Mrs. II. j. Wilson, of Budaon,
India, on the work of the
MEDICAL MISSIONARIES.
She said that when Mr.. Wilson went
to Budaon, thirty-one years ago, there
were only about five or six Christians
there, and now there are 5000 or more,
many of whom are women and children.
Very few OF these people can read, and
they work in the villages with but very
poor results. The children are placed
in boarding schools Just as soon as pos
slble, and while five years ago there
were few children who could read, now
there are over one hundred little girls
of about ten years of age who can write
essays and conduct Junior meetings.
DR.. Mary ChriStiancy, of Barielly, In
dia, who has been for seven years doing
the work of medical missionary. re-
ported that in the majority of cases she
had opportunity to minister to the souls
of her patients as well as to treat their
bodies. She spoke of the difference be-
tween hospital life there and in our
country. The India hospital is sur
rounded by high wall, and in the
center of the enclosure is we'll, where
the people can draw water. There is
a long line Of rooms, opening out on to
verandahS; the floors are made OF birch,
lltllC UCQ-COlo arc QOtu DdIlGuIS.
AS each person awaits her turn to see
the doctor Christian woman is in
waiting to converse with her of the
Great Physician.
OF THE BANANA WORK.
Miss A. c. Lawson followed with a
talk on the banana work in North In
dia. She is treasurer of the North India
conference, the oldest. or mother con-
ference, in this country. She explained
what the BANANA work was, and how
these good women, who went out as
missionaries, went by twos each day and
visited the native women, giving them
help and showing them how to improve
the condition of their homes. Mrs.
Lawson created quite little breeze
among her orthodox and conservative
listeners when, in relating few facts
in regard to the number of unbaptiZed
people there were who had been con-
verified, she expressed it as her opinion
that they were just as likely to be saved
without being baptized, and that
this was not one of the things
absolutely necessary to salvation.
The matter Is being agitated of
giving the banana workers the power
to baptiZe when cases are presented.
In the evening Mrs. Van Petten, of
Yokohama, and Miss Dafuth, of Wa
gaya. Japan. gave a very interesting
talk on the work done by missionaries
in Japan.
ToDAY's PROGRAMME
is as follows: 9 a. M. devotional, Mrs.
W. b. Skidmore; $50 a. M, report of
official correspondence - India-RohfI-
cund district, Mrs. E. L. Cowen: report
of official spondence-India-K
maon district, Mrs. T. p. Grandson:
India-Northwest district, Miss NJ. Wat
son; 2:3O p. H., South India, Miss NJ.
T. Abrams; p. m, devotional, Mrs. w.
B. Skidmore; evening. public service,
Rev. C. P. Hard.