The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-29
WOMAN'S WORK In CHURCH
Annual Meeting of the Missionary So.
ciety of the indianapolis PresbytarY.
Address By the Foreign Synodical President.
Mrs. Wells, of Fort Wayne-FInancial
Reports-0ther Business.

The annual meeting of tho Woman's
Missionary Society OF the Presbytery of
Indianapolis began its session yesterday
afternoon. In the Tabernacle Presby terrain
Church. aud there were several hundred
women In attendance. Mrs L. q. Day,
president, presided and Mrs. John Clark.
of Franklin. tho secretary, occupied q seat
on the platform. Vases of roses and
hyacinths adorned the pulpit, and on one
side an Interrogation mark in white flowers
and green denoted the location OF the
question box, one of the interesting
features of the meetings.
After the devotional exercise The minutes
of the last meeting were read, and then
came the reports of the presby terial Of
ficers. These reports showed an advance In
the home and foreign departments OF the
missionary field. Mrs. John NJ. Spann. for
eign treasurer. reported S46702l given for
that branch. and Mrs. +. +. McCrea. homo
secretary, reported s1.419.42 for that part
These amounts were given by this presby-
terry.
The address of the afternoon was made
Mrs. ID. b. Wells, of Fort Wayne, the for
eign synodical president. Mrs. Wells
is forcible and interesting
speaker. and presents many OF
Mrs. Wells took for her text: Little foxes
spoil the vines" Some of these little foxes
were lack of loyalty to organization. Some
persons think the sy nodical work KIND of
fifth wheel Fifth wheels are sometimes
used. The synod occupied the position be,
tween the great society and the several
church or individual societies. This was
illustrated by the old-time quilting bee.
where many would meet and accomplish IN
a single afternoon what one person would
be weeks in doing. A special work could
not be given to Q presby terial or local
society. The synod apportions the
work for each. During the year $1,000
would be given TO schools for col0red boys,
81, 900 to the Home Mission building fund
and $1,000 toward erecting theological
seminary at Conception. Chill, where there
are 400 students The second little fox is
the trash basket. Too much of the mis-
basket. 1t should be read and passed to
others. The third little fox was called
10Y sters and linen" and the point was that
too much time WAS spent In fancy cooking
and embroideries and too little time was
gwen to the work of the Master. The next
was lightning calculations. If every wom-
an and child In the United States would
save cents week for missionary pur-
poses there would be SIG. 600 600 year. This
class of people jump to the result without
thinking of the eff" In conclusion the
spe aker discoursed on individual re-
sponsibility-ss the mass is made up of
units so must there be individual work
done by every one.
Miss JOSIE Bremermann sanga solo and
then the several committees were ap-
pointed. The reports of auxiliariss
Columbus, Bloomington. Greenwood.
Franklin. Greencastle HopewelI: South
port. the First. Second, Tabernacle.
Fourth and Seventh Presby terrain Churches
of this city. In the Young Peoples Society
of the latter church the report was al nm
usual one. One of it's members. Mrs. John
G.. Wishard, wonld sail the 10Th to-day
for missionary work in Persia; another
member. Miss Elizabeth Wishard. would
soon 20 to New York to work on the home
| mission hoard. and two have died-the
only society to send missionaries to the
foreign and home fields All the auxilIaries
had reports of progress. and all were
tion the meeting closed. In the evening
| the meeting was In charge of Rev. j. A.
Rondthaler. who spoke briefly of the work
of the women's missionary societies and
of Mrs. Q. A. Miller. of New York, the latter
being detained by illness. Mrs. Wells made
| another excellent address. on "SiRDs of
| Progress" The reports of mission work do
not aiways give the f.a signs Of ,o progress
side. and of the wonderful work
| which has been accomplished in In
| dIa, China. Japan and other countries,
again awakening an enthusiasm among her
| hearers as she has power to do. To-day's
programme Is: Devotional exercises, to
| 9:15. Mrs. A. N. Thompson; mission effort
as related to the Y. z. s. c. E." Miss Wish
ard; "A map exercise upon home mis-
| sions" Mrs. J. J. Higgins; Messages from
| abroad" Mrs. }. +. Cleland. The devo-
| tiohal exercises. 2 to 2:15. Mrs. ID. B. Wells;
reports OF committees and elections; ques-
tiCn. box exercise, conducted by Mrs. j. NJ.
| Coulter. foreign synodical secretary; clos.
| ing words. Luncheon will be served at
| the church to-day.