Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-09-21
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i INTERFERING MEETING OF W0MAN's mis-,
sloNARY SOCIETIES OF GREEN, e
VILE DIST TalcT ,s}.
| ACCOUNT OF THE PROCEEDINGS.
A Representative Gathering and Much Eli.
thuslasn, Kludled 3f..s .si.S 8
The Woman's Foreign Missionary So,
oieties, of the M. g. Church, South, in
tho Greonville District, held their annual
DISTRICT meeting In tho Walhalla Metho-
dist church, September 1917. # .1i.5
Nearly all tho auxiliary societies in
the district were represented. The dele,
gates were met at tho train Friday even
ing by Rev j. J.. Daniel and commit
tee of ladies and gentlemon, who eScort-
ed thom to their homes. Ni,a.E, 4,
Mrs. NJ. H. Goodgion, District Score
tary, was here, and to hoy devotion,
geniality and fine executive ability, the
SUCCESS of the mosting is largely duo.
Mrs. T.. s. Herbert, Vice President of
the S. G. Conference w. +. NJ. s., was an
honored guest of the occasion. She rem
derod much valuable assistance through,
out the sessions. Her presence is al
ways benodiotion wherever she goes.
Friday night all assembled at the
church, whore full house greeted thom.
After devotional exercises; conducted
by Rev. ). l.. Daniel, the mooting was
given into charge of tho ladies.
Mrs. Goodgion presided. Miss The
resa McDavid, of Groonville, was elected
secretary. Sho performed hor duties in
a most pleasing and efficient manner.
Names of delegates were enrolled as
follows: Miss Theresa McDavid, Green
ville; Mrs. B. +. Browne, Anderson; Mrs
II. p. Ransom, Willamston; Mrs. NJ. w.
Coleman, Seneca; Mrs. j. d. Perry, Wal
halla; Miss Mary Pressloy, Pelzor; Miss
Greta Gaines, Central; Miss Hattie Duf-
fie, Rock Springs; Miss Mimic Traylor,
Westminster; Miss Ruth Stevick, juvo-
nile, Anderson; Miss Bertha McKelvey,
Juvenile, Williamston; Miss Soppie Nc
Donald, Juvenile, Rock Springs; Miss
Ludio Jordan, Juvenile, Seneca. Thoro
were also present as visitors Mrs. L. w.
Jordan and Miss Manic Swami, Seneca !;
Mrs. j. u. Shanklin, Mrs. j. p. McDon-
aid, Misses Martha and Sallic Mcdonald
and Mrs. w. G. Foster, Richland.
An address Of Welcome was made by
Mrs. d. A. Smith, of tho Walhalla aux
Hilary. In bohalf of her church and So
ciety, sho extended a most cordial grect-
ing to tho officers, delegates and visitors,
welcoming them to our hearts and homes,
and assuring thom of our doop and abd-
ing interest in the noble work in which
they arc engaged.
The secretary read lotter from tho
Woman's Missionary Society of the Wal
halla Presbyterian church, expressing
tho thanks of its mombors for invitation
to attend tho meetings, and wishing thoir
sisters God-spood in their work.
A response to these words of wolcomo
was made by Nl@s. II. p, Ransom, of vii.
| liamston. She thanked tho ladies of tho
local societies for the hearty welcome
rendered their visitors, and spoke pleas
antly of tho kindly interest awakened by
thus mooting togothor, of the benefits
derived from an interchange of thought,
and tho lasting impressions that will DO
loft on every mind and heart.
Mrs. Herbert then gave ono of her in
teresting little "talks." Sho said she
mover makes lecture or an address, she
only ''talks i'll grand-motherly way"
1t was pleasure to look into hor sanity
face, and listen to hor kind, sweet voico.
She asked: "Docs God answer prayer?"
and proceeded to prove that ho docs.
Mrs. Goodgion gavo an instructive and
interesting account of tho work of tho
! w. +. NJ. S. Sho told Of it's organization,
its rapid growth, and tho magnitude of
tho work il is doing at tho present timo.
Mrs. Goodgion is well informed on all
missionary topics, and is doing good
work for tho Greenvillo District. She
impresses all who meet her with hor gem
tlcness, devotion and solf-forgotfulnoss
On Saturday morning. aftor tho opon-
ing exercises of Scripture reading,
prayer and song, tho timo was devoted
to hearing reports from the delegates
concerning thoir respective auxiliaries.
Most of tho reports wcro worry encourage
ing, showing an increase in membership
and amounts raised. There arc 20 socic-
tics in the Grconvillo District, with 205
members. Tho total amount raised last
fiscal year was $4272. Grconvillo has
the largest and best society, thon Andor-
son, Williamston, etc. Tho Walhalla
auxiliary ranks ninth in tho district. 1t
has II members and contributed $1S last
year. Mrs.lJ. ID. Porry is president of
this society, and is much lovod' by it's
members.
Tho reports finished, Miss Ruth Stev-
ick was appointed agent for tho Little
Worker, the childron's missionary paper,
and secured several now subscribers.
Mrs. Goodgion spoke of the annual
meeting of the Conference Society, to bo
held in Grconvillc ncxt Juno, and urged
q full attendance.
Mrs. Herbert told about tho Scarrtt
Biblc and Training School and tho val
uablo work dono there.
The secretary read lottcr from Miss
Dclla Wright, who has boon attending
the school, preparing for missionary
work, and another from Miss Johnnie
Sanders, our own missionary in Shanghai,
China