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HOME MISSIONARIES.
Woman's Society in Session
in the Young Peoples
Temple, Ocean Grove.
D~EAoONEssEs CONVENE
Proceedings Of the First Day.
Sketch Of Bancroft Rest
Among the Churches.
D~EACONESSES CONVENE
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OCEAN GROVE, July 9, 1S9S.-The
Woman's Home Missionary and Deaeon-
esses' Convention began at the Grove
yesterday, to last until Monday, July Il,
when the conservation services will take
place. Mrs. Clinton 3. Fisk. national
president Of the Woman's Home Mission
airy Society. presides over the meetings,
which were held in the Young Peoples
Temple.
Conservation services, led by Mrs. John
| Seeor, president of the New York East
| Conference Woman's Home Missionary
| Society. opened the session. Mrs. Secor
said that sconsecration'' meant to the
-deaconesses complete submission to sac
rifce-to say, in truth, Take me, take
me. break me- Bishop James N. Fitz-
gerald welcomed the members of the cons
~vention, and his address was responded
to by Mrs. w. G. Boswell, president OF the
Philadelphia Conference.
Addresses were made by missionaries
| and -deaconesses from different posts.
Miss Nellie Snider. of the mission at Las
Vegas, New Mexico, spoke on Mexican
Indians She said, in part:-rThev are
half Spanish, half Indian, in appearance,
complexion, morals, manners and Ian
| guage. Their religion is Roman Catho-
lie. and they are very superstitious, plac-
ing u%nbounded faith in a tiny amulet Of
brass, which bears on its face the picture
of the head of the Jesuit order.
I'VE have a church, a school n a
| Sunday school. and we are giving their
children industrial training and trying
to give them moral training"
Miss Flora Mitchell, of Atlanta, Ga, told
of work in the South. at the Thayer Home
for Colored Girls. The chief point in Miss
Mitchell's address was that twenty of the
graduates of the school had married min
listers, which statement Of the efficacy of
the work ELECTED ~unbounded applause
from tho audience.
Ar appeal for support for the work was
made By Miss Martha Van Marter, of
New York. who spoke on Sources of In
felligenee in Our Work" Miss Anna
Mosher and Mrs. r.. G. Morgan, Of the
Watts de Peyster Home. in New York;
Mrs. Y. Il. Chapman. Of the Ritter Home,
Athens, Tenn; Miss Caddie J. Dodge, Of
| Cohoes, N. ", who spoke on the Chinese
in America and workers in the Foreign
Missionary Society, tho Women's Chris
tian Temperance Union and the Women's
Encouragement Society spoke at the af-
ternoon meeting.
IA Recent Trip to Alaska" by Mrs.
S. L. Beiler, of New York, was the prin-
eipal address on the evening programme.
The meeting began with a praise service
and a description of Bancroft Rest Home
| and the Deaconess Rest Home, of Ocean
| Grove, by Mrs. Anna Kent, its President.
The first Deaconegses' Home ar Ocean
| Grove was opened last year, in a rented
| house, at New York and Clarke venue
1t was successful. During the winter the
new hons was built. 1t is called Bancroft
Rest House, because it Is built on the old
| Bancroft estate, which belonged to that
Bancroft known as the ''sailor preacher"
His daughter, Mrs. Bancroft Robinson,
and Professor Robinson. of Albion Col
lege, Mich, gave all the furniture in the
old house, and $1,000 for the erection of
the home. Mrs. Robinson is the field Sec
rotary of the deaconesses' bureau of the
! Women's Home Missionary Society,
which owns the home.
Tired Christian workers, missionaries,
! ~eyangelists and -deaeonesses will find rest
and peace during the summer at the home
and those who have no homes of their
own, will live there permanently, after
they wear out in the service. The house
is a wide, cheerful place, finished in Cali
fornia pine, with low, broad windows
looking out on the sea and the pines,
having restful touches and rocking
chairs scattered through the halls and
| eosey rooms. There are thirty-six rooms,
twenty-seven of which are bedrooms,
neatly furnished with white enamel
chamber sets and dressing stands.
One daisy room called the chamber of
Peace" belongs to Miss Martha Van Mar
ter, editor of the Children's Home Mis-
| sions. Any Christian worker may name
a room for 800, and furnish it for $50. It
| then belongs to her for life. Whenever
| she may be boarding at the home she is
| entitled TO occupy that room, and if in
her old age she wishes TO live at the home
the room will be hers.
The bed in the "Chalnber of Peace was
given by Miss Mary Trip. a Methodist
deaconess among the Navajo Indians, who
rested 81 the home last year for a few
days, the fist vacation She had had for
three years. II don't know that ] will
ever get another vacation" wrote Miss
Trip TO The Inatron when the home was
being built, sbut SIS has come to me and I
send ii to you for a bed for that home.'
Many OIL the DeuTOOIuS are taken py Tue
different conferences, and when the dea-
conesses from those conferences come to
the home, they are put in their W con-
ference rooms. The Woraen's Home Mis-
sfenary Auxiliaries of Morristown, Asbury
| Park and Ocean Grove have also furnish
| ed rooms. Miss Anna Mosher. who has
charge of the New Jersey Industrial
Home for Girls. has a room In the house,
| which she calls the Haven of Rest"
ON the first floor are the parlors. dining
room and Office. the latter called the
Mothers Jewels room. as its wall are to
be hung with photographs of babies. many
of them from the Mothers Jewels homes
of the Missionary Association. which are
known to less tender-hearted societies as
| orphan asylnms. Next to the Office comes
the reception hall. known as Palmer Hail,
for whose furnishing $500 was left by
| Phoebe and Sarah Tankford Palmer, two
sisters. who for over twenty years led
the holiness meetings at Ocean Grove
seventy mornings every season. A tablet
to their memory hangs In the hall.
AMONG THE CHURCHES.