The Portland daily press., 1899-09-07

President Purdy.
by DIR. II. NJ. Hickerson. There wer 9
over one hundred In this chorus and the
singing was on par with, IL not better
than, that Of the older chorus which has
proved so enjoyable to those who have at
tended this convention. After a praise
service by the children and q prayer, Mis-
Marietta Parshley of Gardiner, the junior
superintendent, gave her report for the
year
When Miss Parshlsy assumed charge Of
tina junior department. there were SO socis-
ties In the stats. Today there are record
ed lib. Out OF this number only So have
sent In their annual reports to the SUPER
intendent, and the figures given by Miss
Parshley are based upon this number.
Tha total membership nf the 50 societies
is 1864. OF this number 100 are church
members. The two largest societies ara
the CONGREGATIONAL churches at Bingham
with 90 members and the church at Stock.
holm with % members. Miss Parsbiey
said that recently she had been infoi med
that junior society had been started at
Peaks island with 1ssmembers and this
little band Of workers Is doing excellent
work. These t2 societies on which the
report is based have given to both home
and foreign missions 1854. but not all
Of the funds of the juniors are devoted
to mission work, as s229.Io mas been spent
for other things.
Miss Parshley gave as an example OF
the work done by one society the 70 llow-
ing: puff made and sent to Good VIII
Farm, a barrel of cereals fsent to the SOL
diers, clothing for the girls home, flowers
for the church decoration, food for the
poor on Christmas, supporting little
child in India.
Some Of the societies In the state had
been reported as having disbanded. This
is not because the children have lost an
interest in the work but because the older
people could not be induced to carry the
work on. Miss Parshlsy made an earnest
appeal for the Endeayurers to take this
junior work into their hearts and see that
the junior societies have a place In the
church.
| Following the report of Miss Parshley
MiHs Margaret Koch of Waterville gave an
address to the juniors. 1t was devoted
entirely to the children, but did not fail
to be Of great interest to the older people
AS we'll She managed to keep the closest
attention of her hearers from beginning
to the erd of her interesting lesson.
The Rev. Mr.. Lamb Of Salem then gave
one OF his delightful solos, after which
Mrs. Il. e. Clark spoke upon the work.
ing Of the junior societies as she had seen
Ihsm in various parts of the world. She
illustrated the different methods Of carry
ing on the work in the various COUNTRIES
she has visited. In the course of her ad-
dress she gave several pictures of the
Junior work as she has witnessed it. She
told about one society In Gelong, Victor
la, Australia. This society is called the
Giant Junior souiety and has some 500
meml ers. Its members are doing active
missionary work and sunshine work
among the aged and invalid and among
the poor. They are also doing some
temperance work. She said that the chill
dren of Australia were like the children
here only they speak with broader ao-
cent.
Mrs. Clark then gave another picture
of the work las carried on in a city In
this country where an effort was made to
interest the children in the missionary
work. The superintendent learned that
tine missionary board would like some as
sistance for the missionaries In the city OF
Foo Chow In China. The superintendent
then obtained all the information she
could about Foo Chow and pictured it all
out to the Juniors. Then one group of
girls were banded together and repre-
eented the girls school In Foo Chow while
one OF them imper sonated the missionary
who was teaching them. In this way 1t
was illustrated how all the little Chinese
girls who came to the school with their.
feet bound must have them unbound be-
fore they could be admitted to the school
and the children were taught Just what
the missionary wanted the most to carry
on her work.
i Then another group OF children repre-
sented the Chinese children in the hospi-
tai while little boy related to them trua
lstofies of the medical missionaries of
Oh ina. Then q group OF boys illustrated
the work in the boys school in Foo Chow
and In this manner the society Mrs Clark
WAS talking about became very much in :
terested In the. missionary work and AZ
seemed more real to them than IL would
have been had not this method been our
sued.
Mrs. Clark went on In a NEST entertaiu-
ing way to tell Of one junior society in
India and told atout quiet hour In one
of the IN IS % ,hoo,s there.