The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-16
TO HELP THE INDIANS
Convention of the Women's
Missionary Society Dis
cuss Fields of Labor.
REPORTS OF VARIOUS COMMITTEES
Interesting Account of the Church's
Efforts in India and other
Foreign Lands.

tha summit Avenue Church yesterday
afternoon. Miss N. w. Love of New
Athens. o., led the devotional exercises.
Mrs. N. w. Stevenson. Secretary OF
Junior Work, reported 1888 Junior So
| c~ieties. with AGA members, 229 honorary
members and 1856 called Little Light
Bearers" Allegheny has the largest in
crease in membership, 2S9, and Omaha
second, with 11S. The Juniors nave
| given during the year $3,S0S.6l. an average
of ever 77s cents from each member
| They have also given 81 boxes and pack
| ages, valued at $296.45.
The Juniors are now raising $l,2S6 for
a school building at Prairie Bluff, Ala.
The building will be called the Jennie
| Hastings-Gillespie Memorial Building
in memory of the first Junior secretary,
| Mrs. Gillespie, who died last January.
| Mrs. Stevenson recommended that the
| Literature Committee be instructed 10
| publish in leaflet form some OF the les
| sons On the mission work OF the TINTED
Presbyterian Church that have appeared
| from time to time in the magazines,
| the selection to- be left to the judgment
| of the committee, and that where Fres-
byterial Junior Societies are at all capa-
BILE they be retained in office for more
than one year, as it involves less WORK.
The discussion that followed this re-
| port was spirited. The question was
| mooted. when there are a Junior Chris
tan Endeavor Society and a Junior
| Missionary Society in one church. could
not they be consolidated" Some were
| in favor of consolidation and some OPP
| posed, but it was finally decided that
t would be wise to a different lead
49, ar1 nrno re-
the meetings.
Several delegates hen paid tributes to
the memory of Mrs. Gillespie, and spoke
of her faithful work.
THE WORK AMONG INDIANS.
Mrs. H. C. Campbell, the Secretary of
| Home Missions, gave her report. She
said there are now eleven home mis-
| s~ionaries of the W. C. M. Society. There
| are four in Oregon, two in Washington.
| one each in Kansas. California. Illinois,
Pennsylvania and Missouri. The work
| is principally among the Indians. Mrs.
Campbell told some of the hardships of
home missionaries. She said often the
greatest hindrance to successful work
IS the Indian agent, the Car of the
| Reservation. They are seldom Chris
t;ans. and often make it very uncom-
l TOrtaDle LOT LIE ullSSlOhdi iOS. II Mis-
| sionaries have established a saw-mill at
5imnasho, Ore. because the Indians said
they couldn't be Christians like white
| men until they had white mems houses.
md the missionaries realized the truth
of the statement. Mrs. Campbell salG:
Everyone will not make a good home
missionary. To be one you must be
| quite unfashionably strong and rugged.
You must have a strong voice, Wnich
will be heard all .over the room, for II
the people at the rear don't hear you
they will soon make a noise which they
will be able to- hear. And above all,
| you must be able to lead the singing,
and the praying, and even the preaching;
/ think If l now asked everyone to stand
who thought she would make a good
home missionary, you wouldn't all stand.
We have eighteen people now on the
Mrs. Campbell said, when sending sup
| plies, the Home Missionary Committee
does not send cid clothes, they send the
newest, best and most fashionable. She
told of one minister who had been
preaching thirty years, ana since ms
ordination had not had q new black suit suit
year have been: So, 646.S0 for Indian work,
| s3,324.o5 for salaries and travelling eX-
oenses of missionaries,. $1,000 for a church
| ministerial relief.
Miss Mabin read the report of Mrs.
HedEs s sRe s said IN wG 3ns orph aas9' h6@e
91 children have been cared for. There
are now ffty-one inmates. They try
e s3rl pro s : t geod bo nonn age fi Kent the ti noy fwe ave
years old. the girls till of age. Babies
are not taken till two years Of g
have bee been m cared for. no TRere IS s" now ps0p ne
convalescent ward, but they hope soon
HOME FOR THE AGED.
There are now eighteen old ladies in
the Home for the Aged The home is
| for old men, but the home is now too
small to accommodate them
Mrs. A. M. Campbell read a paper,
written by Mrs. Samuel Wilson Of
a + ahe, Name 4,, en c inf nrlgin sa ana said Mea ahaas
were several theories as to it's origin,
some thinking it was applied in scorn
salem, and some thinking it was a direct
| revelation from God that Christ's fol-
lowers should be called by His name.
unless openly and sincerely a follower
Mrs. Sands presided at the Question
Mrs. Stevenson presided at the Junior
Rally. which opened the services last
Mrs. A. NJ. Campbell of Princeton open
ed tine Thanksgiving Offering Service.
hnsae ts weT Y,b 7 2 sunss. a Of hymns Mpal ca snng
bell read responsively, with the audience
5 sslec # asss on the :arp;,s IS. s Gonss;r :,
Offerings dangers in Withholding
Offerings" "Offerings of Thankfulness,6
nCaIl ito Give Thanks" Resolve to
Give Thanks" and Pledges to Giv
reading, hymns were sung applicable to
the responses.
The Juniors gave the THANK Offering
Catechism-" in which they told the
meaning Of a thank offering and how
it should be given. The convention sang
Il. clogig. the Dc0ology, "Hallelujah
Praise Jehovah" from the Bible Songs.
THIS MORNINGS PROCEEDINGS.
This mornings session was opened with
tho usual devotional exercises led by
Miss Katie Corbitt. An interesting paper
written by DIR. Sophia Il. johnson. Of In
dia. was read by Mrs, i. d. Mellon, of
Allegheny. She said8"One OF the oldest
| Woman's MISSIONARY Securities ir India Is
the Zenana Bible ard Medical Mission
arys Society, founded IN LONDON in 1859.
1t is non 80 .s;trian nnd lsasstvnrkcls,s Cor
twenty-five years with missionary soeie-
ties all o. er India. THE york mas most
le educational with tiibie readings in
Zenansas until 1874. when medical work
was undertaken. Dispfnsaries and hos
T pitfalls have been started in all the prin-
Sipal cities Of India, and q fund started
for. the medical ~education Of. women and
I for the support OF dispensaries nj hos
tpftals by Lady Dufferin.
9HThe medical missionaries began BY
going from house to shouae IN the city
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