The record-union., 1898-04-01
SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING.
LADIES' PRESBYTERIAN MIS-
SToNARY SOCIETY.
Its Opening Session at Westm1n-
Eter Church Yesterday-SeVerai
Addresses Made.


The seventh annual meeting OF the
Women's Presbyterian Missionary so
cietv of this city was opened IN the
Westminster Presbyterian Church yes
terday, and drew out quite mum
Der of ladies interested both In homf
and foreign missions.
The day was devoted almost excih-
sively TO home mission work, the
morning session being opened by de-
votionaI exercises, led by Mrs. Ander-
son Of lone.
Mrs. c. C. Bush Of Redding, Presby-
terial President for Home Work, was
in the chair and after the conclusion
of the opening exercise the delegates
were welcomed by Mrs. NJ. NJ. Hardins
on behalf of the Westminster Church
and Mrs. J. L. Kidd of Vacaville re-
sponded.
Mrs. C. c. Bush, the President, de-
rvered her annual address, which was
brief thoughtful review Of the Ia
bors Of the society for the past year
The address showed the society to bf
in a healthy condition, and that good
work was being done at all points.
ciety were next made, and all were OF
an encouraging nature. They showed
q noticeable increase Of work and gittS
all along the line.
Committees on Resolutions and or
Nominations were appointed, with IN
structions to report at the afternoon
session.
Rev. Mr.. Sherman of the Fourteenth
n
and instructive Bible reading, and the
delegates adjourned to the church par
lors, where a bounteous lunch was
served by the ladies of the church.
At 1:45 .. m devotional exercises
were led by Mrs. L. NJ. Tuttle, after
which the proposition of having sep
arate constitutions for home and for
eign missions was discussed at some
length 1t was finally decided that the
matter should be voted on at the next
annual meeting.
The Nominating Committee, appoint
ed at the morning session, reported
the names of the following persons fol
officers for the ensuing year, and they
were unanimously elected:
President, Mrs. z. E. Garfield Of
Chico; Vice President, Mrs. c. A. OIL.
yer of Chico; Recording Secretary, Mrs
D. N. Haskell of Redding; Correspond
ing Secretary, Mrs. D. w. Gedney OF
Red Bluff; Secretary of Literature
Miss Clara Algee of Vacaville; Secre-
tary of Freedmen, Mrs. H. w. Carr OF
Redding; Box Secretary, Mrs. j. E
Peterson of Red Bluff; Secretary OF
Young Peoples Work, Miss Jennie B
Miller of Sacramento.
MRS. KIDD'S ADDRESS.
Mrs. J. L. Kidd of Vacaville was next
introduced, and read an interesting pa
per, entitled The Importance of Home
Mission Work in Our Land, and its
Relation to the Evangelization of the
World Mrs. Kidd's paper, in full
was as follows:
The starting point in all true Christian
service at home or abroad is the clear
recognition and the unqualified accept
arce Of the lordship of Jesus Christ
We are ready for service neither at hons
nor abroad unless we have been taught
by the Holy Ghost that Jesus Christ is
Lord. Now when we as a church or as
individuals have been taught by the
Holy Ghost that Jesus Christ is Lord
what attitude shall we take in regard &c
service?
We break out at once as Paul did when
the revelation was made to him on the
road to Damascus, that the Jesus whom
he had been prosecuting was Lord; we
break out with him and say, Lord
what wilt thou have me to
do?" If Christ is Lord, we
are to serve Him, and we are to learn
how we are serve Him from Him
What wilt thou have me to do?" If we
come to Christ with any reservation as
to the place we are willing to serve
Him, or the condition under which we
are to serve Him, we have not vel
learned the lesson Of full surrender anG
conservation to Him, and thus it is that
we reach out hands to the homeland
first, and through it influencing anC
evangelizing all nations.
No one can fully describe the import
ance of home work. Here is our bass
of supplies. If we neglect our own coun
try there will soon be no one to send
How shall they hear without a preach
er and how shall they preach excep'
they be sent?" We must first evangeliz,
our own nation, that it may rise anC
shine, and we must exemplify the gospe
in our own lives if we expect to raist
up consecrated Christian men and wo
men to carry the gospel to other lands
and we must, under God, bring the
church more fully under the influence o
the truth. and to a realizing sense o
personal obligation and into affectionat'
solicitude in behalf of the un-eyangel
lied nations, if we would fill the treasur!
of our Lord with our tithes and offer
ings, and send laborers unto the harves
fields Of the world. It is easier to Chris
tianize a people through workers Of thei
own race, all foreign mission work gail
much more RAPIDLY after a few nativ'
helpers have been secured. Robert Nor
rison labored in China seven years be
fore he baptized a single convert! But il
the last twenty years there has been
gain of over $4,000 communicates, mul
tiplying four hundred fold in twenty
years. This rapid growth is caused
largely by the help of native Christians
80 that by Christianizing the heather a
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