The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-05-14
W0MAN'S MISSION BOARD
TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL CONVEN-
TION OF NEW H1VEN BRANCH.


Convention to be Held in Torrington-
Important Resolutions Passed-Annual
Poem by Mrs. w. w. McLane-Notable
Papers by Well Known Mission Workers
-oficers Eleoted-All About the Con-
vention.
The read work of the twenty-fifth an
nual convention of the New Haven
Branch of the Womans Board of For
eign missions was begun yesterday
morning at 10 o'clock. The church was
well filled, nearly all the delegates and
many members being present The ses-
sion began with the reading of the min
utes of the last meeting. The HYMN.
Sing to the Lord Joyful Song was
then sung, after which Miss Daggett,
the president, read Scriptural passages.
Miss Hume offered prayer Next on
the program was the reading of the re-
ports of the recording secretary, Mr. w.
w. McLane, and the treasurer, Miss
Twining.
The report of the recording secretary
is in part as follows:
REPORT OF RECORDING SECRE-
TARY.
The usual number of interesting
meetings have been held in New Ha-
ven and other places. Among the
speakers We're the following: Mrs.
Holbrook from Natal South Africa;
Mrs, Rowland from Ceylon, DIR. Pauline
Root from India, Miss Webb from
Adana, Turkey: Miss Lamson of the
Woman's Board, DR.. Barton, secretary
of the American board, and Mrs. Choate
of Greenwich.
An interesting lecture on Scotland
was given in New Haven in March for
the expenses of the branch by Mrs.
Adam of Canaan.
Thank offering meetings were held
throughout the territory of the branch
last fall
Four new auXiliaries and six new
mission circles have been formed dur
ing the year, and a number of societies
have celebrated their twenty fifth
birthday.
Some changes have occurred in the
executive committee During the tenn
porary absence of the president the
task of leadership was performed by
Mrs. T. D. Woolsey and Mrs. It. H.
Sheldon The report was accepted.
THE TREASURY.
The treasurer, Miss Twining, made
the following statement as to the con-
dition of the society's finances. The re-
port says:
We are glad to report considerable
increase in the contributions of the
mission circle and Y. P. s. c. e. over
those of the previous year.
+o4 l. A1p
900. OF this $1,056.26 is the result of
thank offering meetings and $16,662 SO
from offerings in commemoration of the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the branch
AT the close of Miss Twining's re-
port eight members of the Junior
branch passed the salvers and received
the silver offerings which, with the col
lections that afterwards came in, will
amount to about $4,000 This special
feature of the program was planned by
the executive committee and was spok-
en- of in the report of the secretary.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF HOME
WORK.
The president introduced Miss Prud-
den who gave a resume of the work
done in the field in twenty-five years:
THIRTY YEARS REVIEW OF THE
HOME WORK
"One generation shall praise Thy
works to another and declare Thy
mighty acts"
Twice before this Br N has paused
to turn a backward look over the way
IN which God has worked out His plans
for foreign missions through the in
strumentality of the women of our four
counties We have not time to-day to
follow the detailed method by which
the writer of this paper in her 'Ten
Years Review showed the advance
| ment year by year, nor can we an
, nounce as a grand climax that we have
reached the Golden Mile Stone" that
,, Mrs. Hart put before us in her
Glimpse of the Second Decade''-that
stone that shall be set.
When all the women in our churches
are enlisted and there are not only
auxiliaries but Mission circles in every
church, we can only catch a few
CLEANS of the faith and courage that
1llumined the early chapters and note
our progress toward the goal.
Missionary enthusiasm and mission
airy interest were strong influences in
any woman's board Because this was
true, there were consecrated hearts
ready to take UP the new line of work
when the Woman's board appeared, Of
fering its definite plan for helping the
women and children of other lands by
means of organized effort to enlist the
interest and gifts of women and chill
dren in our churches.
1t needed only the influence of one
like Mrs. Hume, whose life had been
given to foreign missions, to win the
support of those whose names were en-
rolled in 1875 as members of the "Wo-
Mans Missionary Society of New Ha-
ven.' 1t needed but an able, wise and
conservative leader like Mrs. Hubbard
to commend the organization to the
churches by effective and cautious
methods. To enlarge the Missionary
society into the Branch needed those
who knew the churches and could put
their personal touch here and there on
hearts that would respond, and these
ministers wives, Mrs. Prudden, Mrs.
White and Mrs. Murdoch, were ready
for the service with faith pins" per
sistent faith" and that unlimited ca
pacity for taking pains, which is
good definition of genius"
If we might trace the history of each
auxiliary and circle we should but find
a repetition of the same story of Gods
guidance in bringing individual effort