The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-26
UTAH MISSION WORK
Tenth Annual Meeting of Congre-
gatiOnal Association.
FIRST DAYS SESSION
WOMEN'S MISSIONARY UNION
OCCUPIED THE TIME.
Good Reports On Mission Work
Among the Chinese of This City
Paper On the Six Societies-Work
of the Sunday School and Pub
fishing Society.

The tenth annual meeting of the Con-
gregational association Of Utah was
begun yesterday afternoon at the Phil
lips Congregational church. None of
the outside delegations had arrived,
and on that account the organization
of the association. which, according to
the programme, would be the first step
of the meeting, was postponed until
this morning, and the afternoon was
very profitably spent in reviewing the
work of the Womans Missionary union
of the church.
Mrs. d. E. Hemphill, the president Of
the union, presided over the meeting.
The reports of the secretary and treas
urer were first read. The treasurer
pended during the year in the various
departments of missionary work, the
amount having been raised from col
lections taken in the meeting of the
union. Devotional service was then
conducted by Mrs. Clarence t. Brown,
the value of a study of Christs life
being emphasized.
The election of officers of the union
to serve during the ensuing year was
held and those who have conducted
the affairs of the association for the
past year were reelected unanimously.
They are as follows: Mrs. D. e. Hemp
hill. president; Mrs. c. t. Brown, vice
president; Mrs. i. &. Hall, SECRETARY;
Miss Anna Baker, treasurer.
The reports of the various auXiliaries
of the union showed a commendable
progress since the meeting of last year
Mrs. NJ Z. Jones, who has charge of
the work being done among the Chi
nese of this city, made the report for
that there is being conducted ia her
department a night school, Wednesday
prayer meetings, Sunday school and a
Christian EndeaVor society. Good work
has been done in all of these, but the
Endeavor society has been productive
of the best results. The Chinese who
are working in that department dis
play a willingness to learn and a con-
scientious, painstaking care that, Mrs.
Jones said, might well be initiated by
their Occidental brethren. One of
them, Kim Fong. attended the Salt
Lake college last year and took first
prize in scholarship. The reports of
the auxiliaries of Park City branch
and of all the local churches were read,
and Miss Emily Jessup sang beautiful
ly the solo Come Unto Me-
Church Societies.
our Six Societies. was the title of
a very interesting paper read by Mrs
J. Newton Brown. She deplored the
fact that the United States spends 200
times as much yearly on liquor and to-
bacco as it does on missions, and spoke
earnestly for a change from this order
of things. The Sunday school and
publishing society is perhaps the most
fruitful of the church societies. Through
its efforts 4S2 new schools have been
established during the past year, and
.209 schools have received aid from the
society in the line of church literature
The educational society has also done
good work during the year, having es-
tablished six new colleges and eight
new academies.
Mrs. F. w. Hayt of Park City read a
paper on "A Missionary to Deaf Chill
dren in China in which she spoke of
the work of Mrs. Charles Mills, who
has labored there for the past eleven
years. The paper was a very good one
and was listened to with close atten-
ton The Presidents Hour followed,
and Mrs. Hemphill spoke Of the mis-