The times., 1897-04-22
Second Session of the Foreign
Mission Society Conference.
ADDRESSES AND REPORTS
welcome Extended by Rev. Samuel
Greene. CaIvary's Pastor-The Sc
ciety In Flourishing Condiiioh
Except as To Finances-New Publ
cations for the Year Announced.

the Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary
Society reconvened at Calvary Baptist
Church at 8: SO O'Clock yesterday morning.
Miss Sarah c Dmfee, president, was in the
chair.
A devotional service, lasting for an hour,
was led by Mrs Archibald Wheaton, of
Connecticut
The address of welcome was made by Rev.
Samuel II Greene, pastor of the church.
the president of the society responding.
In her response Miss Durfee said that Ste
had looked up the history of missionary
work, and had found that the Calvary
Church Missionary Society was one of the
Oldest and most effective in the District.
There was cause for gratitude, she said,
for the completion of the hospital at Nellore,
India; for the fact that none of the officers
Of the society had died during the year
and that eight young ladies Were ready
to go out as missionaries.
There was one matter, however, that W as
cause lOI TtSIeIs VIZ, a utiIeto III thS
finances OF the society of $4,000.
OF this amount 81 900 had been guar
auteed at yesterdays session, and the
whole amount would probably be sub
scribed for before the adjournment of the
conference.
The report of Mrs N NJ Waterbury,
home secretary, sets forth that the mis-
sionaries who have sailed were Miss
Ella Chapman and Miss Julia g. Crafts
for Keunudine School, R-ngoon; Miss Eta
EdgerIin, TO assist Or. Breed at Nalgonda,
India, and Miss Elizabeth Hughes, for
Mailmaun. Burma n.
The Hasseltine House, at Newton Center,
Mass shelters fourteen girls. Two girls
have sailed for missionary fields, and eight
are under appointment
The girls in the field support one student
at the HasSetine Home. The publications
for the year are seven new leaflets and
forty nine reprints These leaflets are
"Our Beautiful Story Tellers, Wasted
Lives" LAO yaga Women" The To-
madus of India. THE Pimer of Viorsim,' -
"A Poem, Il Wonder What Would Do"
and The Hospital at Nellore.''
The subscription list for Helping Hand
has fallen off somewhat, instead OF there
being 2I ,30S. as at the last report, there
are but q ,1S4 for the periodical at pres
ent For the Kings Messenger" there
Is a loss in subscriptions Of 2,T67, drop
from z, ,494 to 9,727.
Miss Alice stedman, treasurer, reported
penditures for the foreign department at
Ss3. .679.39: home expenses, Sl2, 2,772. 33;
total expenditures, 500, ,i51.72; receipts,
$50. .43s. / 6. deficit, March 81, 1897, S14,-
1876: contingent fund, $4,000; net
deficit SO. .695 le. The society has raised
during the last year SS3. $50, smaller
amount than at any other time since $50.
Mrs H G. Stafford, foreign secretary,
reported renewed activity in missionary
work in India, Burmah, China, Japan and
Africa.
An enthusiastic interest was created by
Mrs Harris, vice president Of the society,
who quietly arose and presented $500 TO
the president with the statement that she
thought il good time and place to give.
Singing and prayer were the opening
features of The afternoon session, which was
followed 10y an attractive address by Mrs
n b. Kirkpatrick, of Thibaw, concerning
1.-THE Romance of Mission Life and an
sther by Miss orissa Gould, N. D.. of India.
entitled "A Musical Missionary" in which
she depicted the trials and compen sations
of the worker in foreign fields.
Mrs w. A Montgomery, Of Rochester,
gave an irapromptu talk about mission work
In general, and as applied to women, in
particular, and Mrs. Caroline AtwateT
Mason, of Connecticut, read a forceful
paper on Applied Energy" which proved
int tf.,sr s-af1TS ,af ll
day.
An element OF comedy wasintroducedinto
the earnest character of the proceedings
by the appearance on the stage OF two
children dressed in Chinese garb, of such
gorgeous colorS that they looked like Easter
eggs. Sitting with open books at small
table they studied aloud, and then recited
their lessons with their backs to the teacher
"a youth in blue satin, pigtail and spectacles)
to demonstrate the fact that in Chinese
schools the children are made TO study
aloud, so that their teachers can know
what they are doing, and that TO avoid
the tempta tion of looking on the teacher S
book they are made to turn away. This
scene was varied by call on a missionary
by a Chinese lady and her little daughter
The dialogue was made laughable by the
oriental mother, who made a pretty picture
In a native dress OF scarlet and blue satin
with a yoke OF marine blue silk, flow wered
with bullion. The program was interspersed
with songs by Miss Wingate, and closed by
reading a paper, "one of Our Burrnan
Schools, by Mrs NJ A Tribolet, of Burma.
The evening session convened at 7:30
at Calvary Church with Mrs. H NJ.
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of the Pennsylvania society, presiding
The meeting was opened with the read
ing of the Scripture by Miss Colburn, Of
Mass achusetts.
PRAYER was offered by Miss Holly, Of
New Hampshire, after which an address
of some length was made by Mrs. w. a
Montgomery, of Rochester, n Y, presi-
dent of the New York Federation of
women's Clubs, and junior State secre-
tary of the missionary society.
Mrs. Montgomery spoke Of the bene-
fits of an expanded life both as regards
secular and spiritual experience.
She characterized foreign mission airy
work as being the broadest and best eX-
preston of the brotherhood of man.
At the conclusion OF her address three
young ladies who are under appointment
TO go to foreign mission fields spoke on
the privileges and duties involved in their
proposed undertaking.
These young ladies Were Misses Newell,
Of Rhode Island: Bustard. of England, and
Sutherland, of New York.
The chair then created some amusement
by announcing that inasnuch as it seemed
unfair for the extreme from of the house 10
do all the work of the evening, an oppor-
tunity would be accorded the delegates to
take part in the proceedings by the volun-
teprinr of q collection