The Portland daily press., 1899-06-23
THE KINGS DAUGHTERS.
Continuation Of State Conven-
tion In This City.
Letters From Mrs. Botsome and Address
by Mrs. Alice Davis.

Muou kAUefest was manlte6teN yo1tnf-
day in the sessions Of the Maine branch
OF the international Order Of the King's
Daughters and Sons and the First Free
Baptist church contained large audi.
ence. The exercises opened at ten O'Clock
with the reading of the Scriptures and
prayer by Mrs /. @. Davis.
A business session followed at which
the report Of the committee on credentials
WAS read and showed AZ visiting and
30 Portland delegates,s a total Of IL present.
1t was then voted % make Mrs. Isa bella
Charlie Davis. the general secretary Of
the order, New YORK, voting delegate
In the convention.
The roll call Of circles was then read
and delegates responded with two minute
reports. showing good.progress and great
interest. ls
The afternoon meeting opened with
praise service and devotional exercises
which were conducted by Rsv Leroy s.
Bean, after which, the greetings from
fraternal delegates were listsned to.
The Y. NJ. Q. A. was reprsseptedaby Rev.
Mr.. Purdy, the X. W. O. A. by Miss
Thompson, general secretary, the w. @.
i. U. By Mrs. Cole. the floating society
Q. e. by MIR. Mosely, and the Daughters
Of the Covenant by Mrs. John II.
Thompson. All expressed words of the
warmest welcome and told Of the work Of
the several organizations to which they
belonged In the various fields allotted to
them. Greetings were also. sent in letters
from the Young Peoples Methodist
Union and from Mr.. Garland, secretary
OF tn, Y. NJ G. A. It had been am
nounced that greetings would be voiced
by Mira Emily g. Chacs, state secretary,
Rhode Island, but a.telseram was read
from her in which she deeply regretted
her inability 10 be present.
A very interesting feature of the after.
noon's session was the reading OF letter
from Mrs. Margaret Bottome, president
Of the International order. Her letter in
part was:
Dear Daughters and Sons. II had ex-
pected to look into your faces at this con-
vsntion and take you by the hand, and
had much ! wanted to say to you. How
ever, instead of seeing you am to cross
the sea to other lands. but whether on
this or the other side of the Atlantic, /
shall be in the service OF ths King, and /
want 20 draw your attention to one way
of service that I..think attention needs to
be drawn to.
You must regard the wearing of our
cross as part of your service to the
King. 1t is largely. II not wholly, for the
sake OF Others that you wear, or should
wear the cross. A friend of mine who
cv.A .rS - -
recently, that she could trace all the use
fnlness of the winter In the service OF the
Master. to the wearing OF her cross. In
the first plane 1t Is confession (or oug ht
to be) of our faith.
81 could use an hour in telling you Of
incidents In my own experience, OF what
seeing the little cross worn on the breast
has been to me and other5. / am feeling
concern in regard to our order at this
time; there is not the aggresiveness there
ought to be, and that Athere was in the
early days of the order.sss
We had only one motive--The love of
Christ; the helping of souls, the service
of the King, and when we lose this. the
glory will have departed; we then have
tion on our hands. We must have one
idea, and that 10 winning other souls to
the service of Christ and use the badge
for this purpose. Keep Christ prominent
mot the order, that will take care of it
self. There is deep meaning in the
words the letter killeth, the spirit givsth
iife;' let there hs the wearing Of the
cross, the spirit of service. ~
How little we know of our uncon-
scions influence. The unconscious infiu-
ence of simply being. Now Daughters,
take the word of exhortation from me
In the loving spirit In which give it.
Wear your crossl
!. BY rising vote which was unanimou
the general secretary was instructed to
convey by letter the regret and disap.
Of the delegates at the absence
of Mrs. Bottoms.
Mrs. Byron Stevens. state secretary,
then read her annual report in which she
stated that three years ago when she en-.
tered upon her duties she found no state
books, noIrecordsI and no money, bat she
started In with confidence and felt graft.
fication at the work accomplished. There
are now in the state l03 circles with 1855
members. Only rs are registered and
made returns SO that these figures do not
give an accurate statement of members
for 2s which are not registered have made
no report. There are IL members, IL sis
ters and brother who do not belong to
any circle. Eleven new circles have been
formed during the past year.
She referred to the lack of county or
ganization and the need of women ever
ready to forward the interests of the
order and dwell upon the necessity Of
having the order represented at the Mas
saehusetts and Rhode Island conventions.
The report Of the COMMITTEES on nomi.
nations was then road and accepted and
the following officers were elected for the
next year: State secretary and treasurer,
Mrs. Byron Stevens of Brunswick;
recording secretary. Mrs. j. U. Will;
committee, Miss Hattie STAN
wood, MRS. E. s. Bodwell. Mrs. G. W.
Campbell, Mrs. Mercy Curtis, Mrs. Colin
Jordan, Miss Kate Radferd; auditing
Mrs. ). W. Morris, Mrs. e.
B. Delano.
The next business In order was the con-
of constitution and one was
adopted modelled after those of the differ