The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-15
MISSION WOMEN Met
SEVEN CONFERENCES TO BE REP
RESENTED AT THE CENTRAL
PARK CHURCH
METHODIST WOMEN PLANNING

Preliminary Session to the sixteenth
Annual Conference of the Foreign
missionary Society Held Yester-
day-Mnin Sessions VIII BE Held
Tomorrow and Tuesday-Mrs. +.
w. Joyce Is the President.
The sixteenth annual meeting of the
Woman 5 Foreign Missionary Society Of
the Methodist Episcopal Church will be
held tomorrow and Tuesday at the Cen
trail Park M. e. church. The society
embraces the following conferences:
| North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota,
North Minnesota, North German, North
west German and Black Hills. Mrs. I. w.
Joyce. wife of Bishop Joyce, is president.
About 100 delegates are expected to be
! present, including many missionary
workers in foreign fields.
AS preliminary TO the regular con-
ference what is known as the fourth
! quarterly meeting of the society was held
| yesterday afternoon in the parlors of the
I Central Park M. E. church. Mrs Joyce
! presided The following committees were
elected; Enrolment, Mrs. Purple, of Min
! neapolis: Mrs. lie Tourneau, Duluth;
resolutions, Mrs. George Taylor, of Min
! neapolis; Mrs. Flint of Hamline, and
! Mrs Roberts, of Princeton; press, Mrs.
! Gregg, of Lynd; Mrs. Hickman. of Min
neapolis; publications, Mrs. Cox and Mrs.
Hunt of Mankato; Mrs. Zimmerman, OF
Minneapolis, and Mrs. Hauser of Aber-
deem; nominations, Mrs. Roberts, of
| Princeton; Mrs. Noble, Of Sioux Falls;
| Mrs Lila Bridge, of Minneapolis; Mrs.
! Funk, of Hamline, and Mrs. Zimmerman,
of Minneapolis; reading circle, Mrs. II.
| G. Darrow, Mrs. B. F. Nelson, Mrs. w.
P. Chase, of Minneapolis, and Mrs. Dor
| an of Rochester. The committee on ap-
| portionment will be made up of the cor
responding secretary and the secretaries
/ for the conference and district. Mrs. G.
| W. Hall, of Minneapolis, the treasurer,
who will read her report at the confer
| ence tomorrow, announced as a pleasing
| bit of news that she had $3,62S in the
| treasury.
| A resolution of thanks was passed to
| Mrs D. S. B. Johnston and Mrs. B. S.
| Cowen, both Of st. Paul, for their eff
| cient labor during the past year in con-
! Quoting a department representative OF
the conference in the "woman's mission
| airy field" Thanks were also voted Rev.
John Swenson, pastor of the Swedish NJ.
! E. church at Red Wing, for his hearty
| cooperation in organizing with Mrs
| Winchel1, at Red Wing, the only Swed-
! ish branch in the United States of the
| Methodist Episcopal Woman's Foreign
| Missionary society.
| Mrs. Woodward reported very sue
| cessful meeting of the Woman's Foreign
| Missionary society held at Washington,
| D. c.
Misc Wilma Rouse of IakefieId Mimi
! but for five years a missionary at ku
! Cheng, China, addressed a few words OF
! greeting to the delegates.
| Miss Nicolaisen, who has done mission
| ary work in Cincinnati and New Orleans
and Schleswig-Holstein, and who leaves
shortly for Singiu, China, as deaconess
missionary, also spoke.
Rev. F. NJ Rule, presiding elder of this
| district, welcomed the delegates Miss
| SOPHIE Backmore, a missionary in Singa-
| pore, was to have been present, but was
unavoidab bly, detained in Montana she
! will arrive this week.
Mrs Fisher, of Portland Or mem
Der of the Columbia River branch of the
| society spoke briefly on the coming work
| of the convention
In the evening a reception was rendered
the delegates in the church parlors.
The guests were received by Mrs. Ben
/ iamin Longley, Mrs. F. NJ. Kule, Mrs. H.
J. Thorn and Mrs. Anna d. Sab1n. Mrs
L. n. Lucas and Miss Emily Holmquist
presided over the tea table.
Mrs Benjamin Longley welcomed the
delegates on behalf Of the local society
! She said that America ought to be the
missionary's country, for the man who
| discovered this country was missionary
The zeal that inspired Columbus to carry
! faith and hope to the natives was the
same zeal that inspired the missionary
of today to leave home and parents to &c
to some unknown land. Mrs. Longley
| congra tulated the society on the size OF
| the delegation and said there could be
| no better illustration of the interest IN
and growth of the work than the presence
! of such q large number of enthusiastic
| women.
Mrs Louise Richardson, of Mortified
spoke on behalf of the delegates, thank
! ing the st. Paul members for their cordial
! welcome and expressing the wish that
the presence of the visitors would reflect
j in some manner the good they already
had gained and would gain at the com
| ing conference.
PRAYER was offered by Rev. Benjamin
Longley, pastor of the Central Park M
e. church. and instrumental and voca
| solos were given by Mrs. Zoe BroWnel
and Miss Elizabeth Wood, respectively.
Today is anniversary Sunday. There vii
be a love feast at $50 a. m, led by Mrs
Frank Doran. Miss Wilma Rouse, OF
China, will deliver an address At $3.50 p
m. there will be a meeting of the junior
Leaguers, conducted by MISS wilma
| Rouse
The conference opens tomorrow at y
m. Mrs l. W. Joyce, the president, VII
deliver her annual address, which vii
be followed by the reports of standing
committees and conference reports. Thf
| afternoon session will be devoted to the
reading of papers, greetings from sister
| churches and miscellaneous business
Bishop Henry Goldman Peter, d. D;
of New York city, will preach today il
Bishop Potter will preach. at II,
morning at IL o'clock and will addres:
a platform meeting at the Peoples
church in the afternooa at O'clock .
Rev. Dr.. Rainsford will preach a q
O'Clock and at the Church of St. Johr
the Evangelist in the evening at 7:S
o'clock. DR.. Rainsford is the RECTOR o.
st. Georges church New York city. ant
is known as a clergyman who Is abso
lutely fearless in his utterances. Per
sonaily, he is strongly magnetic, snt
shows the figure of an athlete.
Of the Order of the Holy Cross, West
minister, Md, will preach this morning n
st. PauTs church, Ninth and Olive
Streets. In the afternoon at $3.50 he viii
address the Sunday school rally at the
same church. and in the evening. he will
preach at st. Philips mission, SIS Rice
Throughout the country today will be
observed by the Episcopal churches as
a special day for Sunday schools, an6
locally union services will be held at ST
johns and st. Pauls churches at
o clock At St. Johns church the Sun
day school of st. Clements will mee
with that of st. Johns. AT st. Pauls
church the following schools will attend