The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-12-01
THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-TIURsDAY. DECEMBER 1. 1898
INTERESTED In
MISSION WORK

Place, Carbondale: Mrs. f. c. White
lock, Carbondale; Mrs. l. b. Luce,
Wilkes Barre; Mrs. NJ. L. Blair, Scran-
ton; Miss Blair, Scranton; Mrs. George
y. Friant, West Scranton: Mrs. II. NJ.
Worden, Binghamton; Mrs. Pierce But
Ter. Carbondale; Mrs. ]. +. Goewey,
Binghamton N Y; Mrs. w. G. Will
liams, Clarks Summit, Pa; Mrs. II. NJ.
Moser. Simpson church, West Scran-
Mrs. l.. r. Cooke, Simpson church,
West Scranton: Mrs. ]. Paff, Simpson
church, West Scranton; Mrs. n. ID.
Stafford, Kingston; Mrs. $. Elwell,
Scranton: Mrs. J. L. Race, Rendham;
Mrs. A. NJ. Chaffee, Scranton; Mrs.
A. II. Coon, L>lngston. Pa. Mrs. q.
Moser Simpson church, West Scran-
ton; Mrs. S. q. Anderson, Lackawan-
ma; Miss Anna Ward. Lackawanna:
Mrs. Burns, LaCkawanna: Mrs. \. II.
Gregory, Lackawanna Mrs. lG. L. San
tee. Lackawanna; Mrs. George J.
Llewellyn. Central church wilkes
Barre; Mrs. w. H. Hagen, Mrs. G. n,
Carson, Mrs. T. c. Murdoch. Kingston:
Mrs. w. G. Simpson. West Pittston;
Mrs. Justin Griffin, West Pittston:
Mrs. w. H. Pearce, Wilkes Barre.
EVENING SESSION.
The Wednesday evening prayer meet
ing and the convention were merged
into one, Rev. DR.. C. NJ. Gifiin presid-
ing.
Professor Henrietta Bancroft was the
speaker of the evening. This lady be-
longs to a distinguished family, and
ii is an odd coincidence that her father
was one of the early pastors of the old
First Methodist church. on Adams ave-
nue., about forty years ago. Professor
Bancroft was Il student at oxford,
England, and at Strasbourg. Germany,
and occupies the chair of Anglo Saxon
and literature in Albion college. 1t is
from her immediate family that the
Bancroft Home Of Rest for Deaconessos
at Ocean Grove is named.
She gave the most brilliant address
from a literary standpoint that has
been heard in Scranton for many a
day. She looks not unlike DR.. Anna
Shaw. and has charming feminine
way of speaking. She gave q brief re-
view of the influence of literature on
the universal acceptance of the broth
erhood of man, beginning back in the
times when Thompson wrote "Thc Sea
sons" and on to the days of Burns
and his poems Of the poor, of GRAY in
his "Elegy," Victor Hugo's Les Mis-
CRADLES" Whittier's Songs Of Free
DOM" LOwell's "Bigelow Papers" Har-
riet Beecher stowe. ana Mrs. Brown
ing's Cry of the Children"
From this she went on to the history
of the Home Missionary society, Incl
dentally speaking Of the great blot on
America. MOrmOnism, now again
showing its threatening head in Utah.
and which is more Of a menace to
the nation than are the througs Of for
eigners who come to our shores. She
then spoke of the industrial schools
managed by the society. and told many
details of the great results.
The establishment of missions among
the Spaniards in New Mexico and Ari-
Zona was interestingly described: also.
among ten different Indian tribes The
work among the slave girls Of China
town, San Francisco, was mentioned,
| and Miss Bancroft said that the Meth
odiSt and Presbyterian Home Mission
AIRY societies have saved hundreds of
these untoltunates. An important and
delightful feature Of the evening was
Miss Timberman's exquisite rendering
| of "If | Were a Voice"