The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-14

Whittlesey Mrs. Henry $. Williams, Mrs. L. c. Dayton, Miss Sarah $. Land fear, Mrs. J. H. Vorce, Mrs. B. A. Dav- is Mrs. George Foster Prentiss and Mrs. M. T, Scudder.
 Nominating Committee for 1899.
 Mrs. Robert E. Carter, Wash ington; Mrs. H. G. Marshall, Cromwell; Mrs. A. H. De Noir, Naug- atuck; Mrs. L. L. Bradley, Fair Ha- ven; Mrs. A. w. Merwin, Wilton.
 Delegates to w. B. M. Annual Meet
 ing, Springfield, Mass. November i,
 and 8, 1S9S
 Mrs. G. Houghton, Stamford; Mrs. A. B. Hill, Norwalk; Miss Susie H. Mead, Greenwich; Mrs. A. B. Lutz, Monroe; Mrs r. M. Hollister, Dan bury; Mrs. George Whiting, West Tor rington; Mrs. Harry Stevens, Norfolk; Mrs. O. D. Beach, Plymouth Mrs. George B. Ackley, New Preston Hill; Miss Harriet F. Rogers, West Corn wall; Mrs. Selden Moves, Higganum; Mrs. William Slade, East Hampton; Miss Bessie l.. Comstock, Ivoryton; Mrs. Howard Futile, Naugatuck; Mrs. George Chamberlain, Derby; Mrs. w. H. Squire, Meriden; Mrs. R. c. New ton, Woodbridge; Mrs. D. H. Cooper, Mt. Carmel; Miss J. G. Beach, Milford; Mrs. N. s. Bronson, New Haven: Mrs. D. Maud Jerome, New Haven; Mrs. B. N. Booth, New Haven.
 ADDRESS OF DIR. GRACE N. KIM
 BALL.
 am sorry that have to come to you as missionary from Armenia and not a missionary to Armenia, but that is one of the leadings of Providence, brought about by the powers and po- tentates of the world And so I must come to you to-day with double out look--the outlook of the missionary and the outlook of the home worker. And in taking up that point of view hope that shall not give you too much of what may be past history, as twice told tales, in regard to our work in Ar menia. Certainly it seemed to me only a day, as I met Mrs. Barnum, now on the platform-since I left her hospita- ble home in Constantinople. The mem ory of those horrors which she and I went through with came upon me with such a wave that I feel I am more a foreign missionary than a home worker.
 But I must speak of the things that have been borne in upon me, the things of which we all are thinking as we view missionary work from the home side. There are all the problems in regard to the workers and the prob- Iems in regard to the funds, and these things both in the view from abroad and ir1v lip heavily upon my heart.
 | I was sent a few weeks ago from Vassar College as one of the college l delegates to the Student Volunteer meeting in Cleveland Doubtless many of you attended that meeting and are familiar with the large gathering and | with the wonderful enthusiasm that | was then shown. I went as one who wished to learn and know what this | student movement really meant in this country, and I came away fully per- 1 suaded that we have movement | which is being carried on with all the | force of strong, powerful, enthusiastic youth, and with it a great deal of the wisdom of maturity. I belive it to be one of the most potent factors in our | church history which refers to foreign l missionary work. I am sure that, as | the outcome of that force and other | forces that are and have been for so many years working towards a foreign missionary supply we have a power I that will furnish us with missionaries. 1 Now, that, to my mind, is a great point | gained. It is wonderful development. I have been home from missionarary work and have tried to find men and women who were ready to go, but have | found them, only after a long and la- l borious search. Here we have in the Student Volunteer to-day a body of people pledged and registered, as are registered the Red Cross nurses, ready to go whenever they are prepared and whenever they are called upon to the front.
 But the great question which forced that assembly, and the great question 1 which is facing us all to-day is not the matter of men and women so much as how to obtain funds to send them and to carry on the work that they are do- l ing and are to do in the foreign field. It certainly has been a great grief to | me as l have had letters from my asso- i ciates saying that their salaries were 1 cut down, supplies were diminished and l that they must cut off work here and there. It certainly goes to m,Hheart like a pang that these things should be, and l since they are, where is the hope for these volunteers, who are needd to go and opn up the avenues to evangelize
 the world-as they say in their motto and as we believe practicable to | evangelize the world in their genera tion. It means a vast amount of work, and it means greatly increased giving. How are we going to do it. What is the
 not simply our American Board, are in debt. I was speaking of this to Mir. Robert Wild a few days ago. He said: Yes, yes, deplorable; but being in debt is healthy state-it makes you try
 harder" So it does. I do not mind practically how much we at home are
 in debt missionary-wis but it does hurt me terribly to think that mission aries who are at the front, who are liv- ing on the very smallest possible sal
 ary, who are giving daily and some of
 them almost hourly to relieve misery
 and suffering and help the work on
 must feel the effects.
 Now, why is this SO? Some of the | reasons which strike me are these. In the first place I think that we as church members are rather in the habit
 of regarding the support and co-opera-