The Washington times., 1894-10-22
WOMAN'S FOREIGN MISSIONS
Executive Committee Of the Society
to Meet Here Next Week.
PROGRAMME OF THE MEETING
How the Association Was Called Into Exist
ence-Necessities Of the Eastern Field
Gave the Impulse-Many Devoted Young
Females Anxious to Do the Work


Females Anxious to Do the Work.
Three women eminent in the work of the
Methodist Church occupied the pulpit at 7:30
o'clock at Foundry Church, Fourteenth and
streets. last night They were Mrs. E. B.
Stevens. of Baltimore; Mrs. NJ. S. Huston, OF
Des Moines, Iowa, and Mrs. C. S. Winchell,
OF Minneapolis The meeting was prelimi-
nary to the session of the general executive
committee Of the Woman's Foreign Mission
airy Society. which begins here Wednesday
morning next and lasts about week.
Mrs. Winchen read the Scripture lesson for
the evening closing with striking passage
from Revelations showing the gathering of
the elect at the last day.
Mrs. Stevens answered the question, Who
constitute the general executive committee
that is coming? The work of the society is
divided among eleven branches. These are
the New England, whose field is the New
England States; the New York, embracing
New York and New Jersey, Philadelphia
Pennsylvania and Delaware; Baltimore, Mary
land, Virginia, and District of Columbia Gin
einnati, Ohio West Virginia, and Tennessee;
Northwestern Indiana, Illinois. Michigan, and
Wisconsin; Des Moines, Iowa and Missouri;
Topeka, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado and
Wyoming; Minneapolis, Minnesota. North,
and South Dakota; Pacific, California,
Nevada, and Arizona; Columbia River, Ore
gon. Washington, Idaho, and Montana. The
corresponding secretaries, one from each of
rbaea W. Halecraraz from a aph the litarntmFp
committee of the city, the agent. and the
editor OF the society paper, and the president
and secretary of this executive committee who
will be elected from outside the existing mem
bership when they meet, constitute the
executive committee Of the Womans Foreign
Missions Society of the Methodist Episcopal
Church North. They do not include IN their
field the Southern States, because it is fully
occupied by the Southern branch of their
church.
PROGRAMME OF THE SESSIONS.
The meetings will be at Foundry Church,
and viii be from 9 a. N. TO 1890, at p. m,
and at 7:3O p. m. The morning meetings for
the early days of the session will be devoted
TO the report Of the al interim committee
composed of several corresponding seereta-
ries. who direct the work between the sessions
Of the whole committee: the report of the
standing literature committee, reports OF sec
retaries OF the branches. reports made up
from the official correspondence of the secre-
taries. At ? o'clock the subcommittee on
finance, on missionary candidates, and on
literature will meet in the lower rooms. while
open meetings addressed by missionaries and
other leading workers, viii be held in the
main audience-room. AT 7:30 p. II. also the
addresses will be open to the general public,
and very interesting
But ] would ike TO correct the impress
sion said Mrs. Stevens. ''that the morning
meetings will not interest the public generally.
The reports then made are Of most important
10 every one who sympathizes with our work
In the least. We want ali who can 10 come
and hear them. Other business of most vital
interest is also then transacted"
The reports of several branch treasurers
she was anxious for all TO hear They would
show, il Is hoped. that all were out OF debt,
but she advised all 10 come and see and also
10 hear what it is expected will be done next
year. They would learn how missionaries in
India are calling for help and, daring not
even hope for new workers for fields that are
white 10 the harvest. do not mention them.
They only call for the supply of the most
urgent demands.
The morning session Wednesday will open
with divine service, followed by greetings
from leaders in the Baltimore branch and
others, including an address by the ReY. A.
BeatOn, of Baltimore.
Mrs. Huston. taking as her text Acts is,
told OF a number OF encouraging incidents in
the work in the Des Moines and adjacent
fields. She said the Women's Foreign Mis-
sion Society existed, for one reason. because
II was found that, owing to the social Gus
toms OF the East. the men could not reach
the Hindoo women. A demand arose for
women without families, whose hands would
be free from household cares te do this i'm
portant work, and the womans society
60. fr7Fn avfc To a
Woman in every land makes home" she
said. land it is of mournful interest 10 note
the reply of an eminent HiHAoa visiting
America when asked what he EJund most
striking here. He did not say our wealth, or
railroads, or great cities, or beautiful capital.
He said: Your homes; we have none in
India
GIRLS ASKING TO BE SENT OUT.
"a remarkable feaIure of our work in the
West is the number of girls who are coming
to us-girls perfect in health. brilliant in
mental endowment, and thoroughly educated.
They are arraying themselves for this duty
and say TO US: Send me- There are nine
now waiting in our district and yet we have
out there 10000 women who give 2 cents a
week and daily prayer for our work.
lone girl who came to US from Germany
had brought her dead mothers baby across
the Atlantic with her father, and had been the
dependence OF the home. She had always
wanted TO so as a missionary, but never
dared hope. When the older children had
grown up and married, her father said to her
one day: You have been a faithful daughter.
and know you have long wanted to go as a
missionary though you have not asked it;
you shall go She was superintendent of the
Sunday-school at home, a class leader, and a
steward in the church; splendid worker.
sound in health, educated in German and
music.
when her father was asked how he could
give her up, he replied: God never put such
honor on me as when he called my daughter
to be a missionary II was found afterward
that he was himself taking care of his two
younger children in single room. One of
his children said: When father first told Belle
she could 20. heard him for weeks walking
the floor at night, and lie said to me one day:
Il keep thinking 1 never could face on tile
other side the women she might have saved if
I should keep her at home"
Another case was that of Miss Myer.
daughter of wealthy German near Kansas
City. She said to her father, My sisters have
married and you have given them their por-
uons. If I stay at home you will spend hun
dreds Of dollars every year for me. Give this
to me and let me go as a missionary and he
said, &c, and God bless your labors; 1 will
pay the whole expense
SUFFOCATED BY COAL GAS,
An old-fashioned Stove Caused the Death
of Merton A. Church.