The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1897-03-26

that OF losing her life, having been threat
ened time and again. having seen massacre
and tortures. When she first went to Chin
the idea of missionaries was that they woul,
eat the children of the natives after fatten
ing them In their cellars. The natives be
come most earnest Christians, suffering ev
eryihing but refusing to deny the Lord
spirit kept growing.
| Wednesday mornings session opened with
prayer and song service and the reading Of
the minutes of Tuesdays sessions. For tive
hours the reports of association presidents oil
the reading of reports sent by them inter.
ested the delegates, but very few OwOssO
people being pre- ent. Reports were receiy-
ed from large number of associations and
while some were unusually encouraging,
others reported that the prevailing talk of
hard times had caused falling off in
amounts contributed to foreign work by the
using of large sums at home. The Genesee
association was celebrating its twentieth
anniversary, having been organized In Owos-
10 20 years ago. Mrs. Morris, of Red jack
ct, for the Calumet association, said that
their home missionary work was almost for
eign work for they had 32 nationalities rep
resented In the city, most of them with lit
tie knowledge of tho Bible or of the way to
live, yet they had large church and Sun
day school. Grand Rapids, jackson, east
ern Michigan, Olivet, Cadillac, MuskegoD,
Saginaw, southern Michigan, Detroit, Ann
Arbor associations were reported from The
associations and presidents are:
Cheboygan-Miss Emma l.. Frost, Cheboygan
Detroit-Mrs. j. M Donaldson, Detroit.
Eastern-Mrs. Russell Shattuck, Memphis.
Genesee-Mrs. II. Il. Lowell, Flint.
Grand River-Mrs. c. A. Pollard GRID Rapids
Grand Traverse-Mrs. Geo. II. Lathrop, TRAY
erse City.
Jackson-Mrs. l.. Kassick. Jackson.
Kalamazoo-Mrs. c. Dew. Brewer South Ha-
ven
Lake Superlor-Mrs. S. Il. Morris, Red Jacket
Lansing-Mrs. Charles T. Wickes, Stanton.
Muskegon-Mrs. Archibald Hadden, MusKe-
gon
North Central-Mrs ]. S. Woodruff, Luding-
ton.
Olvet-Mrs. j. Estabrook Olivet.
Saginaw-Mrs M. NJ. Andrews, Bay City.
Sault Ste Marie-Mrs. NJ. G. Morgan, Saule
st. Marie.
=outhern-Mrs, Wm It, Gibbs Litchfeld.
All but two of these ladies were present
Mrs. q. Swift, of Lansing, read paper on
1.-The Pars oness on Missions" The paper
was full of facts such as are seldom brought
out and might we'll be considered by church
people everywhere. The parsons wife was
supposed to be useful to the parson in set
ting an example for other women in the
community; an encyclopedia Of hints on So
cials, entertainments, etc; compendium
OF knowledge on MISSIONS; has no control
over her own time; must be ready to receive
or make calls at any and all times; she be-
longs to the community and must sandwich
her household duties in between all calls
made upon her; her larder must be well fill
ed, her children faultless and her husband
we'll cared tor; she must revere all people,
without regard to age, sort or condition.;
head church committees, call on all stran-
gers, see all the sick and start all subscrip-
ton papers, draw up resolutions, in short,
be twenty women in one, yet have but two
arms, two eyes, one head and only ordinary
physical strength. Mrs. Swift spent day
with the parsoness to learn about missions
and between such calls as ''where Is the
janitor of the church," and ''who is the
reigning sovereign of Portugal?" found out
that the parsoness had an ideal in mind for
mission societies-that 1t be conducted as
the wOmen's clubs are: Every woman who
was to take part was prepared and on hand;
the meeting conducted with dispatch, no
gloom pervading the room, no long and tire
some papers, but short, spicy talks, good
singing-eyerything in a business way. She
told of the meetings which were filed with
solemnity and such ideas as the terrible or
deals the missionaries had to go through,
aud also the meeting where cheer prevailed,
boxes were filled, and good was done on all
hands.
Miss Nancy Jones, of Turkey, told of her
live, where three tongues are spoken and
where death and destruction, massacre and
plague at times reign supreme. The work
was evangelical and educational The edu-
cational coming first. being of course neces-
sary to the evangelical in its best phase. In
the day school where she taught about 800
were present, and in the Sunday school,
from 200 to 400 The Bible was printed in
five different languages, three Turkish,
Armenian aud Greek. The children learned
the Bible, learned the hymns. She had
been in the country seven years, making
Constantlnople her headquarters. Their
work has many different departments, IT
being necessary to give great deal of time
to callers, to relief work, etc. Three times
had the mob assembled to burn down their
houses and cut them to pieces. but God had
prevented. Many think the missionaries
are protected, but they are far from Il, and
the government gives no assistance what