Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-20
Women Who Direct Christian Effort
in Heather Lands.
SESSIONS TOBE HELD HERE NEXT WEEK
Executive Committee of Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society.
PROGRAM OF THE MEETINGS

Methodist Episcopal Church will be the
| subject of discussion by a convention of
women of that church, who will assemble in
the Foundry Church in this city next week.
| The annual session of the executive COM
mittee Of the Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society begins on Monday. TO continue until
| the LIST of November. This is the second
| time In the history OF the organization that
the meeting has been held in this city. and
is the twenty-fifth meeting of the commit
tee. In 1876 the committee met here. The
present session is held under the auspices
Of the Baltimore branch of the society,
| which includes Washington. Maryland and
| Virginia, besides a small section of that
| small state. Delaware. Preparations have
been in progress for some time. and the
| chairmen of the various committees of the
local societies have been very busy making
| ready for their guests.
| There are thirty three delegates entitled
| to seats in the committee and a voice in the
management of the affairs of the general
| society. There are eleven branches, each of
| which sends its corresponding secretary and
two delegates specially elected for the ses-
sion. At each session a new president is
elected Usually the president Of the branch
| whose invitation has been accepted. Mrs
| A. II. Eaton of Baltimore, the present head
| of that branch. will therefore doubtless be
| the presiding officer of this meeting. The
ether local delegates are Miss Grace Uhler
and Mrs Job Price. whose husband was
formerly pastor OF Waugh Chapel, on Cap
itol Hill.
Delegates Arriving.
| The delegates are arriving today on every
train, accompanied by friends and members
Of their families, as well as other members
of the society. and about twenty-five of the
| m : aria h.a
leave. They are met at the depots by MEM
bers of the committee on entertainment, of
which Mrs. S. NJ. Hartsock, wife of the
pastor of Ryland Church, is chairman, and
escorted to their temporary homes, which
Rave been carefully assigned to them. They
are being entertained by the members of the
society in this city.
The actual work of the executive commit
tee will be preceded by preliminary meet
ings on Monday and Tueday. when the cor
| responding secretaries of the various
branches, who are permanent members OF
the committee, will discuss the general fea-
| lures of the work before the committee
| The public meetings will begin at O'Clock
| on Wednesday morning, the session being
opened by devotional service, conducted
| by the delegates. AT l2:3O there will be an
| adjournment for lunch, and at = O'Clock the
| committee will meet again, and for two or
| three hours will listen TO reports from the
| workers IN the neld, some OF which may be
| read by the missionaries in person. At 80
| in the evening there will be a third meet
| ing, at which there will be addresses. All
| CT these meetings will be open to the public,
| but the afternoon and evening sessions will
| be the only ones of interest 10 those who
are not delegates. The morning session will
be mainly devoted to the strictly business
| features of the Work.
| This society Is composed wholly Of wo-
men Of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
| and sends cut TO foreign fields only women
missionaries. All of the active workers in
| the field are unmarried. There are fifteen
| divisions, each one being in charge of one
| or more married women. Marriage how
| ever, cuts short the real missionary work
| of the agent of the society, so that there
| is the statement at the close of the sum-
| mary that is printed in the annual volume
| Of the society: Married, &C. This in
| cludes all the women who have taken upon
| them The state of conjugal felicity since
| the organization of the society, TWENTY-FIVE
| years ago. The remainder Of this summary
| is as follows: missionaries, .}5; medical
| 81; deceased, 10; retired. -"
| The subdivisions into which the heather
| world has been divided are as follows
| North India, Northwest India, South In
| iia, Bombay, Bengal ami Burmdh, Malay
| STA, North China, Central China, Foo Chow,
Japan, Mexico, South America, Bulgaria,
| Italy and Corea. The last annual report
| OF the society showed that there were then
employed 10 active missionaries, II medi-
| cal missionaries, and 62i Bible readers and
assistants. 1t was estimated that the to-
! tai number of pupils in all the schools was
| about 1890.
| Statistics of a Years Work.
This organization is wholly self-sustain-
ing, being maintained by the regular con-
tributlons of the women in the Methodist
Church, who pledged themselves TO give
| two cents each week or a dollar each year
for the maintenance of this propaganda.
| The appropriations last year aggregated
| S3126l3. This money was raised among
| the various branches as follows: New Eng
| land, $4,000; New York, $4,000; Philadel-
phia, $4,000; Baltimore. si4.275; Cincinnati.
SAB 252; Northwestern, $1,000; Des Mones,
$3OOoO: Minneapolis, s9,65l; Topeka, $4,000;
Pacific 5000. and Columbia River. s9.335.
| Since the organization of the society, in
March, 1862, the annual receipts have in
| creased from 81, 546 to SIT, 1903. Each branch
| pays for the salaries of certain of the
| missionaries and the maintenance OF spe-
cific schools and scholarships. The share
| OF the Baltimore branch last year in the
work amounted TO sl4.2I5. divided as fell
| lows emong the various sessions Of the
world: India. s4,ss9; China, s4.o46; Japan,
S3,6S2; Corea, sl,27G; Mexico, Sl4o; South
America, $50: Italy, 1872.
| There were last year twenty-five auxil-
| iaries or individual organizations Of this
society in the district which includes
Washington. These had a total member
| ship of 1,335. which was an increase of over
800 since the preceding year. The Wash
| ington district contributed a total during
| the year of s., psi. 50, which is a very favor
able showing in comparison with the other
| districts in the Baltimore branch. There
| are no salaries paid to domestic officers of
| the society or its auxilaries.
In addition to the adult auxiliaries there
are children's organizations, known as
bands" There are five such bands in
| this city. as follows: The 'Save-all Band"
| of Fourth Street, the Faithful Helpers" of
Douglas Memorial, the Cheerful Workers
| of Twelfth Street, the Always Ready" Of
| Ryland, and the BUSY Bees OF Mount
Vernon Place. The committee on program
for this session has set apart Saturday
afternoon for a mass meeting of the chill
dren who are members Of these bands, TO
be held in Foundry Church at o'clock in
the afternoon. There will be appropriate
addresses and attractive musical services.
To Entertain the Delegates.
The delegates and other visitors will be
entertained throughout their stay by ex-
cursions to the various points of interest
There will be a large reception to the dele
gates and missionaries next Wednesday
evening at the Metropolitan NJ. E. Church.
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