The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-27
BOARD OF MISSIONS.
AnnualMeeting of the
Worcester County
Branch.
ENCOURAGING REPORTS MADE.
Address by Rev. G. A.
Radcliffe and Miss
Anna f. Webb.
ENCOURAGING REPORTS MADE.

There was very large attendance
at the annual meeting of the Worcester
county branch of the Woman's board
of missions, which was held in Ply
mouth church yesterday. Not only We're
delegates from nearly all the churches
in the county belonging to the board
present, but there was also present a
large number of visitors from Worces-
ter, attracted by the opportunity to
hear the fine addresses.
Mrs. Orlando Mason of Winchester,
the president, called the meeting to or
der at 10 o'clock, after which the min
utes of the last meeting held in Phil
lipston, were read and approved, and
the report of the treasurer Mrs. Eph-
rain Tucker, Jr., was adopted. The
receipts for the year ending Oct. 10
amounted to $622231, of which the Wo-
mans board of missions has received
$56S3. The contingent fund showed
receipts of $112.29, expenditures 5000,
and a balance of S31.34
Mrs. Isabel N. Chapman, on behalf
of the nominating committee, present.
ed the following report: President, Mrs.
Orlando Mason of Winchendon; vice
presidents, Mrs. S. C. Dyer of Spen-
GER. Mrs. Harding Woods Of Barre and
Mrs. Annie L. Within of Whitinsville;
foreign secretary, Mrs. E. w. Clark of
Westboro recording secretary, Mrs.
Simeon Newton of Worcester: home
secretary, Miss Harriette w. futile of
Worcester; secretary of Junior work,
Miss Carolyn G. Waters of MillbuIy;
treasurer, Mrs. E. Tucker, Jr., of Wor-
cester; auditor, William Woodward Of
Worcester; district secretaries, %
Mrs. Wendell P. Clark of Winchendon;
(2), Mrs. George B. Cutler of Ware;
(3), Mrs C. e. Bigelow OF Leominster;
a., Mrs. c. E. Hutchinson of sutton;
(5). Mrs. Everett Flagg Of Worcester;
(6), Mrs. G. P. Fowler of Northbridge.
The report was accepted and the conn
plete roster Of officers elected, the Sec
rotary being instructed to cast a yea
ballot.
Mrs. Wendell Clark of Winchendon
opened the exercises in missionary cat
echism, after which Mrs. D. c. Reid
of Leicester gave talk on what the
women of Leicester are doing in the
interests of foreign missions. She said
that the Leicester Ladies' auxiliary had
just concluded very successful year,
and outlined the system employed at
the meetings.
A hymn was. sung, then Rev. Charles
A. Radcliffe, superintendent Of the
missionary department Of the Massa-
chusetts G. q. union, delivered an i'm
missions" Mr.. Radcliffe said in part:
Are we putting into our mission work
all the life, energy and earnestness
that it deserves? 1t is not enough that
we help some people; our ministra-
tons must go out to all people. There
is not the slightest danger of our for
getting our own souls. Life is the first
essential in this work. If Christians
and Christian churches are to do their
work, they must have life.
When We applied to the state for
charter, people objected that there was
not enough religion in this country to
export, but religion is commodity of
which the more you export, the more
you have
And beside life we need knowledge
knowledge of the demands and facts of
the work.
In the third place we need philan-
thropy in the old sense of a divine love
for man. We are too provincial, too
we'll satisfied with our own race, but if
we had a genuine love for man, we
should not permit so many of them to
die in darkness. And lastly, we need
conservation. We should be willing to
skimp ourselves that the missionary
work may not starve for lack of money.
The next speaker was Miss Anna F.
Webb, who for eight years has been at
San Sebastian, Spain, Her address
was full of interesting, sometimes pa
thetic incidents, and held the close at
tention of her hearers.
Many people she began, fancy
that we reach only the girls, but, on
the contrary, we reach young men and
all young people through Sunday
schools and Christian Endeavor So
cieties. My stay in Spain has shown
me that Spaniards are not the brutal,
cruel, and altogether wicked people
they are believed to be- The govern
ment may be all that, but there are just
as dear boys and girls in Spain as in
this country. OF course they are ig-
norant, and will remain so as long as
they are kept down by the priests
They are also superstitious. Some
years ago Mrs. Alice Gordon Gulick
founded girls school in Spain, and it
has grown steadily and has been most
successful. 1t forms sort Of national
headquarters for our work. throughout
the kingdom. The war pun us back a
little, but, even so there was a bigger
proportionate gain in the number Of
junior Christian Endeavors than any
where else in the world Nearly all the
men in Spain are atheists, and we have