The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-03-15

Mrs. Price Addresses the Women's For eign Mission Board-Has Been Work- ing ln the Caroline Islands Since 1894 Her Address Warmly Received. The New Haven branch of the Wo- mans Board of Foreign Missions held it's regular monthly meeting in the par | ish house of Center church yesterday afternoon. A large number of members attended and listened with rapt atten- tion to a description of the work being l accomplished in Micronesia" by Mrs. Price, who together with her husband, has been accomplishing some wonder ful results among the degraded savages of these islands.
 The meeting opened with the usual devotional exercises, after which re- ports were read from the boards mis- sionaries in Japan and Spain. A mes sage from Mrs. Gulich, the missionary at the latter place, states that she has succeeded at last in starting school in Madrid, and that she Is now pre- pared to push the work as far as it lays In her power From Japan came the report of Mrs. Judson stating that she was achieving unlocked for success. She has just returned to the country after an absence of three years, during which time she has been studying in the United States, and now, being en- abled to preach much more learnediy and effectively upon Christianity as she wishes to introduce it into the coun- try; she is meeting with great encour- agement her addresses as she states in her letters, being attended by the intelligent and cultivated people, num- being among them the lawyers, mer- chants and magistrates of the country. These reports evoked many evidences of satisfaction from the ladies present, and when Mrs. Price was introduced she was enthusiastically received. In appearance she is pleasant but mod est appearing little lady, not at all in accord with the great work she has &C., complished She undertook the work in the islands, which are a part of the Caroline group in 1894, up to that time having worked in China. From that time up to the present her task has been a difficult one, but as she stated yester- day afternoon, with tears in her eyes, the hardest part of all was the parting with the natives, when she left the place some time since to return to this coun- try. They hung around my neck" she said, many of them moaning piteous- ly, and crying oh! what shall we do; what shall we do with out mother! " Continuing her address, Mrs. Price said that the natives are probably as de- graded as any others in the world. 'They have absolutely no sense of pu- rity or morality, and the struggles of those who attach themselves to our teachings, to lead better, purer lives are pitiful. From the time they are born they are bred in this way and to un- dertake to teach them better is indeed a hard task Many a time have I all but lost patience with some of them, and thought that I would never suc- ceed, but the only thing to do was to give them another trial"
 The speaker then referred to the fear under which all the missionaries out there are working that their efforts will in the end come to naught The | islands are all under Spanish rule, and as Mrs Price put it, Their rule Is most galling away out there" In 1890 they drove the missionaries from the island of Ponapie, and made it their strong hold, and now that the other islands are becoming settled there Is every | danger that they will do the same thing again. "They are afraid" said | the speaker, "to civilize themselves, and | IS long as they are In a state of bar barism they remain away; but as soon | as they begin to get in any way civil | ized, they seem to remember their | ownership. We were overjoyed to hear | of their loss of the Philippines"
 Mrs. Prices address was warmly ap- | 1lauded and after the meeting she held | luite a reception for while. Her | husband will return to this country | soon and they will both regain their health before returning.
 
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