The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-04-18
HOME MISSIONS.
Three Days Session of National Board to be Held in Hartford, General How

Three Days Session of National Board to be Held in Hartford, General How ard Presiding.
 The seventy-third annual meeting of the Congregational Home Missionary society will be held at the Center church in Hartford this year, the ses- sion lasting three days-May 23, A and 24 The annual sermon will be deliver ed Tuesday evening, May 23, by the Rev. Dr. John Henry Barrows, the new president of Oberlin college, General O. o. Howard, the president of the society. will make his address Wednesday morning He will be followed by a pa- per by the secretary, the Rev Dr. Joseph B. Clark. During the same fore noon the seventeenth annual meeting of the woman's department will be held. Mrs. H. S. Caswell, the secretary, will preside. There will be addresses by Mrs. L. S. Childs of Oklahoma and Su- perintendent A. K. Wray of Missouri.
 "The Church and the Home will be the subject of discussion Wednesday af- ternoon. There will be addresses by the secretary of the Congregational Church Building society, l.. H. Cobb, the Rev. pr. Charles H. Richards of Philadel- phia, and the Rev. pr. Russell T. Hall of New Britain. Massachusetts and One Hundred Years of Home Missions, ' will also be discussed by Joshua Colt, the Rev. Dr. F. B. Webb and the Rev Dr. Wolcott Call1ins, who was an asso- ciate pastor of the Center church back in the war period. "The Scandinavian Department" will be discussed by S. ". R. Fisher of Minnesota.
 Wednesday evening "The Story of Cripple Creek will be told by the Rev. George w. Ray of Colorado and the continuing need of the west will be the subject of discussion by the Rev. DTS. Walter M. Barrows, w. H. G. Temple of Washington and w. c. Puddefoot, the Eastern field secretary.
 The election of officers and the an- nual business meeting of the society will take place Thursday morning. May 25 The topics for Thursday after noon will be: "The Sunday School Pio- neer," by the Rev. Dr. George M. Boyn- ton: "The Vermont Auxiliary" by C. H. Merrill of California and J. K. Har- rison; "The Church and Education" by c. o. Day, secretary of the Congre- gational Education society. The Rev. Dr. Wray will present the needs of Mis- sour.
 The last session, Thursday evening, will be characterized by addresses from General Joseph R. Hawley, the Rev. pr. J. D. Kingsbury and the Rev. pr. Lyman Abbott. The subject will be Home Missions and the Nations Larg est Responsibilities"
 The Hartford committee of arrange ments consists of the Rev. Dr. c. M. Lamson, the Rev. H. H. Kelsey, Pro- lessor A. T. Perry, the Rev. T. M. Hodgdon of West Hartford, H. R. Ho- vey George F. Hills, J. Coolidge Hills, David Calhoun and H. D. Olmstead of East Hartford.
 The Rev. MT. Kelsey of the Fourth church, H. R. Hovey of the Park church and Professor Perry of the Hartford Theological seminary will act as the reception committee. The Rev. H. R. Miles of the Windsor ave- nue Congregational church is the sec retary of the general committee. The headquarters of the society will be at the United States hotel during the ses- sion. The larger meetings will be held in the Center church and the Pearl street church will be reserved for the auxiliary meetings.