The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-04

girls are training for their future work
 in real life.
 "The Home Missionary Sons and
 Daughters are interested in the Italian
 colony. We have 100000 Italians there
 The home missionary is a converted
 Catholic, as is his deaf and blind wife.
 It Is hard work, however, because the
 Italians are closely under the control
 of their priests.
 "We are striving, too, to get in touch
 with the Christian Endeavor society.
 It is grand work, this with children
 Another work we are doing is the
 training of four young women for mis-
 sionary work
 "California needs all the missionary
 work and missioners that can be spared
 to her, It is a great, rich state, but
 all are not rich and all are not culti- vated
 T am proud of the work that Califor-
 nia is doing"
 The large congregation, arising, sang
 verse of My Country 'Tis of Thee" and then Mrs. Moore, a middle-aged
 colored woman, president of the Ten
 nessee union, one of the original Jubilee
 Singers, going to the pulpit platform,
 sang in a clear, sweet voice, with pe-
 culiar information, Swing Low, Chari- ot." She was warmly applauded.
 Mrs. Margaret F. Sangster of New York, an editor of Harpers Bazar, counselled the members not to let the work drift, but to take an active, zeal ous interest in the work, Her address | was full of vital, valuable suggestions. An enthusiastic responsive service
 was led by Mrs. Powell, president of the Michigan Women's union, and took up the time until Mrs Dora Read Bar Der, general missionary of Oregon, who was sick in bed Tuesday night and yes- terday morning, came in and was in troduced with warm words of praise by Mrs. Caswell. She gave a most inter- esting account of the work in Oregon, its difficulties and drawbacks, and the success achieved
 The collection taken was this year devoted to the work in Oregon
 THE AFTERNOON SESSION. Center church was completely filled l yesterday afternoon when at 2:30 the afternoon session of the seventieth con yention of the Congregational Home | Missionary society convened. The ses- | sion opened with singing and prayer | by Rev. H. A. Stimson of New York. | The roll was then partly reported and | approved, and the assistant recording secretaries were authorized to complete l it.
 Rev. pr. W. w. McLane of this city, | on the part of the committee on the re- port of the executive committee, pre- ta1 ha of ha oynpl1tiya | mittee, which was accepted. The thanks of the society was then voted to Rev Dr. Merrman of Boston
 for his sermon Monday, and copy of
 the sermon was requested for publica- | ton.
 | It was voted that the next meeting of the society be held in Michigan, the | time and place of meeting to be fixed
 upon by the executive committee. I It was also voted that the executive
 committee be instructed to present at the next annual meeting an amendment | to article , of the constitution, which will render members of the executive committee ineligible for reelection un- til one year after the time of the close of their service, the amendment to take | effect at the time it is adopted. l The committee on nominations, con- | sisting of Rev. Joshua Colt of Massa- chusetts, Tev. w. l.. Phillips of Con- necticut, Rev. Edward l.. Smith of | Washington, c. w. Osgood of Vermont, and J. w. Davidson of Rhode Island.
 presented it's report, which placed in
 nomination the following officers for the
 ensuing year: President, Major Gener- o,.J nFU r. xr;oo | dents Joseph R. Hawley of Connecti-
 cut, Rev. J. K. Mclean of Colorado. l J. H. Merrill of Iowa, Rev. Edward B. | Webb of Massachusetts William H.
 Alexander of Nebraska, Nelson Ding | ley, jr., of Maine, Rev. Edward P. Good | win of Illionis, Cornelius D. Wood of | New York Rev E. D. Eaton of Wiscon- | sin, H. Clark Ford of Ohio; recording
 secretary, Rev w. H. Holman of Con- necticut; auditor Caleb B. Knevals; executive committee Rev. Dr. J. H. Vir- gin of New York, J. w. Rice of Rhode Island, Rev. Thomas P. Mcleod, D. D.,
 of New York Rev. H. A. Stimson, D. 1 D., of New York.
 | At the close of the report Dr. Stim- | son, who has been a member of the executive committee for many years, arose and offered his resignation, posi- | lively declining a reelection. He stat | ed as a reason for his action that he | was too busy to attend to the duties,
 and said that it was time to get young CT men into the work. The nominating | committee then placed in nomination for a member of the executive com
 mittee in place of Dr. Stimson, Rev. pr. Meredith of Brooklyn, N. Y. Ballots
 were distributed, and while the tellers
 were taking them up the time was giv- en over to addresses by the members and officers oft he various cooperative societies. The balloting resulted in the election of those nominated by the com- mittee.
 The first address to be given was that | by Rev. l.. H. Cobb, D. D., secretary of the Congregational Building society.
 MT Cobb's paper was an interesting one and will be found in full in another column.
 At the close of Dr. Cobb's paper Rev. Wallace Nutting, D. D., of Rhode Island spoke on the work and object of the society. He said that no rich church should rest inactive while poor church. l es somewhere are improperly housed. | The time to give is during the hard
 times, as then the gifts are most need ed by the society," MT. Nutting said:
 Some O. the rich members of the so- ciety have been having such large in-