Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-10

for this year Of the Scarritt Bible and
Training School were appointed mission
aries under the care of the board and as
signed to duty follows: Miss Park OF
Texas. at Laredo, Mexico; Miss Ida Schaef-
fer of Missouri. in Brazil; Miss J. Sanders
of South Carolina, Miss Ella Leverett OF
Georgia and Miss Lizzie Martin OF North
Carolina, in China. Several others who
are at present students in the school were
given appointments, TO take effect upon
their graduation next year.
There was some delay in opening the
evening meeting on account OF he late ar
rival of Bishop Hurst, chancellor Of the
American University. who was invited to
conduct the devotional services. and 1t was
something after O'Clock before .he bishop
announced the opening hymn. With Mrs
Wightman, the widow of a bishop of the
Nj. +. Church South, as chairman of the
meeting, and Bishop Hurst. one Of the Lead
ers OF the NJ. +. Church, in charge Of the
devotional exercises, the scene was notable
ana probably without a precedent, for It
mas been but a few years since the two
branches of the great Methodist Church in
TINS country were arrayei against each 9TH
er in the most bitter hostility
Bishop Hursts Invocation was peculiarly
appropriate to the occasion, and seemed
10 breathe spirit of belief that The time
Is not very far distant when the tgvo bodies
OF the church will be reunited and both
work together for the advancement OF the
cause in which each is so deeply Interested
Teaching the Bible
The Searritt Bible and Training School at
Kansas City, Mo, was the subject for con-
sideration by the board, and Miss Belle A.
Bennett, the founder Of the school gave
an intensely interesting account of the
manner in which she was led to organize
the enterprise, and which she said was
because there We're so many women and
young girls who wanted to become mis-
sionaries In foreign fields, who really knew
"a 10 IT,
themselves
Miss Bningsley, teacher in the school,
told about the work of Mrs. NJ. ID. Wight
man for the school, and the principal Mrs
NJ. L. Gibson. spoke on The Fulfillment
of Its Mission
bishop Hurst.
Bishop Hurst who was requested 10y Mrs,
Wightman to make some remarks, spoke
very briefly, hut In the course OF his address
warmly congratulated the board on having
such a magnificent institution as the Scar
rift Bible and Training School under it's
care, and there ought he said, 10 he col
lege for Missionaries at the new American
University, to be conducted on the same
lines as those which obtain in the Scarrtt
School, where men can be trained for mis-
sionary work before they go out upon the
field.
THE day is past" said the bishop. when
can send preachers to the foreign neld,
and having them spend two or three years
there IN comparative lllen6SS, while learn
ing the language. In thirty or forty years
from now We viii be sending out a thous-
and missionaries where we now send one
and they must go prepared to begin their
duties as preachers upon their arrival at
the place 10 which they are sent"
Mrs. Wightman said she wanted to be the
first contributor TO the building fund OF the
College for Missionaries, and If this could he
the case she would at once subscribe Sl'1.
Am / the first?" she asked. Bishop
Hurst hesitated before replying, and Mrs
Wfghtman said "Ah! bishop, you are a
good beggar; you don't want to tell ne the
truth The bishop then said that $4,000
have been contributed for the erection of
Asbury Hall, a memorial to john Wcs-
ley, and he thought 1t probable that the
building would he used as a training col
lege for missionaries.
Bishop Hurst explained how he had
started a society, which he hoped to ret
all Methodist women TO Join, whose only
duty would be to pray each day at -
o'clock for the success Of the American
University.
Mrs. Wightman announced that the
members of the Woman's Home ana For
eign Mission Board will, unless something
unforeseen shall occur, make pilgrimage
this afternoon TO the site Of the buildings
OF the American University, ana, kHceliag
on the green sNard, with Bishop Hurst
leading, pray for the prosperity OF the new
institution.