The San Francisco call., 1896-04-03
The Occidental Board Reviews
the Work of the Pre-
ceding Year.
BRIGHT SPEECHES AND ESSAYS.
Miss Cuibertson Declares Rescue
Work Is Retarded by Eolted
Doors.

The twenty-third annual meeting OF the
Occidental Board OF Foreign Missions met
at 900 Sacramento street yesterday morn
ing and afternoon. The meetings were
conducted in a most enthusiastic manner
from the fall of the hatchet to the closing
prayer Fall of the hatchet" may sound
peculiar, but it is literally exact. AS the
president, Mrs. P. d. Browne, put it, "We
have substituted something emblematic of
George Washington for the more prosaic
gavel.'
The programme for the morning and
afternoon is given herewith, as we'll as the
popular meeting" of the evening:
THURSDAY, APRIL 2, MORNING.
9-Prayer hour. Mrs T.. r. Stevens
s:SO-Meeting called to order by the president,
Ring out.the Old. Ring in the New. '"He
e:4o-Appontment of committees.
.....Mrs a. B. Pinney, Recording Secretary
i0:ioGreetinss Mrs Robert Mackenzie
Reports: Officers Occidental Board.
State Presbyterial Society Mrs. !. NJ. Condit
special Object Secretary Mrs j. Cummings smith
Treasurer -. .........M Mrs. E. G. Denniston
In Memoriam. Miss Haght
DH... ...... Miss l. Moon
1I:l5-Educational dit, Mrs f. V Garrette
Evangelistc,3 and Ms. l.. a. Sturge
Medical Object lessons. Chinese
women and children.
l2:15-Exercises by Home School, senior and
Luncheon
THURSDAY, APRIL 2, AFTERNOON.
Scripture ectaon and M
iss Jessie Carruthers
Map talk 'lndia' ':: Mrs; rs: s: S; Palmer
Singing. Chinese Girls
Gatherings" ....-.... Mrs l. A: Kelley
Presidents address.
Chinese exercises
Records of the Past ...... Mrs. II. B. Pinney
a Sketch From History .... Mrs o. n Ramsey
Singing by Chinese.
THURSDAY EVENING
7:45-Popuar meeting.
Short addresses by the various clergymen and
Miss VAN bold, outgoing missionary.
Reception.
The morning as we'll as the afternoon
meeting was crowded, mostly with
ladies, and the programme was we'll rem
dered. The afternoon meeting, however,
was the feature OF the day.
The parts of the programme received
with the best evidences of appreciation
were the reports by Miss Culbertson and
Miss Cameron and Mrs. o. n. Ramsey's
ga Sketch From History"
In comparing the past year with those
preceding, Miss Culbertson said that not
SO much actual rescuing of Chinese women
and girls had been done as formerly, for
the reason that they had been kept behind
heavily barred doors such as would require
the force of an ancient Jewish bate ring
ram TO demolish.
Miss Cameron introduced her essay by
saying, cit has been said that no city in
the world so much resembles the Jerusalem
of long ago as the San Francisco of to- day.
Certainly. no one who spends day in our
Mission Home can doubt the truth of this
statement" Then followed an account of
the weddings that had taken place at the
home during the year previous, and a
description OF how many OF the women
had come back 10 spend a night or two
and leave small sums of money for carry
ing on the work.
Mrs. Ramsey spoke extemporaneously,
explaining and illustrating a part of her
statements by an ingenious com bination
of gilded sticks and colored ribbons. The
ribbons represented respectively the mem
bers of the jewish the Greek Catholic, the
Protestant, the Moslem and the Roman
Catholic churches, representing 435 000, 900
persons in the world. At the last was long
black ribbon which represented those out
side the fold of the Good Shepherd. T cir
number was estimated at ,055,000, 600.
Pinned to this ribbon was tiny blue rip-
bon, two-tifths OF an inch in length. Said
the lady: This represents the 1000, 600
converted souls. Behold the work yet
to do!''
Tie general superintendence of affairs
was under the management of Mrs. +. R.
Farrand, wife of the pastor of the How
ard-street Presby terian Church.
The president, Mrs. Browne, called upon
Mrs. Cohn of Los Gatos for the closing
prayer, after which the meeting adjourned
until to-day.