The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-25


the Baptist National Society an
y niversary week is being celebrated
west of the Rockies. Distance has
proved no obstacle to the Jealous
Baptist, and the convention now in
session here has brought together many
ardent workers from all parts of the
United States.
The organizations represented are the
American Baptist Education Society. the
American Baptist Publication Society, the
American Baptist Missionary Union and
the American Baptist Home Mission So
ciety.
The First Baptist Church. where the
convention is being held, is bright with
fragrant blossoms. Lilies and roses vie
with one another TO make the altar beau
tiful and cordons Of cool green ferns lend
a finishing touch to the artistic ensem-
BILE
To the Women's Baptist Home Mission
Society was accorded the honor of first
place on the weeks programme and the
mission meeting occupied all the yes
terday morning and afternoon session.
The ladies' interested in the boundless
henevolence of the mission work have not
allowed the spiritual to completely over
shadow the material The officers on the
platform. the Speakers and the large and
Interested audience present made Strlk-
ing picture in their modish gowns and
swell honnets Many. according to East
ern custom, changed at noon the sub
dued morning gown for the more eiab-
crate dress fashion sanctions for the
At a m. the days work began with
q praise and prayer service led by Mrs.
r Z. Manning of Illinois. The address
OF welcome was made by Mrs J. Sunder-
land. president of the Womens Baptist
Home Mission Society of California. In
the name Of the California society and
the great Baptist sisterhood of the coast
She babe the officers and representatives
At the conclusion of her address Mrs
Sunderland presented each of the officers
with beautiful bouquet of orchids and
ferns. The fragrance and beauty oil
these. SAID she. rs emblematical Of the
fragrance and beauty of your work But
the flowers Will fade. while your work is
Mrs. j. y. Grouse of Chicago. president
of the association. then responded on be-
der!and's welcome and read an interest
ing paper on The Needs of the Society.
Among other things Mrs. Grouse said:
We need one and all a keener apprecis-
earnest and thinking minds feel and know
that The whole Anglo-Saxon race has
higher meaning Of life. All consecrated
Christian workers recognize the hand OF
God moving Enthusiastically in the events Of
time
We as a nation are being tested in the
fiery furnace OF successful enterprise.
Us hile on a visit TO Berlin. few years
ago. d friend and l asked by one of
Gernany's most influential women if
would allow her TO give a reception. 4
want the women of Germany to see what
kind OF women America sends forth Your
women are the hope of the race said she.
The elevation OF the nation must come
through homes The homes are the founda-
ton stones OF all civilization In so far as
the homes Of a people true and pure and
right in the eyes Of God does that nation
prosper and rise in dignity and worth.
Churches and schools and other organized
institutions are Indispensable to a nation
prosperity,
lied for the purpose of elevating and
Outstanding the homes of Gods neg
lected ones and for twenty-five years we
have held steadfastly to our purpose, slow
ly but steadily gaining ground and almost
as slowly and just as steadily improving
Instead Of a handful Of honie-making
missionaries, scattered here and there on
our almost chuTfhless plains and d- Plateaus
the tired. overworked woman on the Ne
braska and Dakota farms the Montana and
Colorado ranches, the New Mexico and Ari-
iona plains need most?
They need to learn that they, with the
help Of God can transform the rude wooden
hut or low adobe house into a paradise of
love and sympathy More than that they
can become the cholce gaIden spots Where
souls are nurtured for Christ and this
cause
West need to remember that their husbands
and children must not have only outer
shine. but inner sunshine. If this spiritual
side of home life can be emphasized and
made a real part of these womens lives
sad faces and tired eyes will vanish and
the much lamented drudgery win become
great. glorious work for God and human
itg.
The swinging open of the door of the
twentieth century swings open another
door-Cuba and Porto Rico ours now
ours TO succor. to help and to upbuld
score or more of trained. intelligent, conse
Grated. home making missionaries ought TO
be sent 10 these beautiful lands with the
coming year-our gladness offering 10 the
great new century. Cubans OF all classes
understand that we have come to Cuba to
help them and they welcome us And yet
we must not turn our backs upon poor.
benighted priest-ridden Mexico. She is
holding out her hands peadingly to us
Time forbids that ! should stop to dwell
upon the hope and announcement and en-
liRhtenment which will come 10 this sorey
oppressed country when Mexican women
awake 10 the glad tidings that they are the
handmaldens Of the Lord.
In conclusion. Mrs. Grouse said:
Let not the picture / have drawn of
the pressing need Of charging our work
dlsmay or dishearten you. All things are
possible 10 him who believes and works.
Let us consider 1t rather great new
opportunity for US TO show ourselves to
be in very truth the Daughters of the
King. Let US press forward unfiinchingly,
unfaltering, knowing the great irresisti-
bic power Of God himself is with us"
Miss Mary 6. Burdette. corresponding
secretary Of the society followed with a
paper on the spread Of the Gospel and the
promotion or missionary work. She read
the following extracts from the annual
report:
The total cash receipts for the wear were
$50 $50 s5; this. with s43ss A cash in the
treasury at the beginning Of the year and
$1,000 since borrowed. makes a total of ssS
639 80 which has passed through the treas
urer's hands. The Disbursements uere
sec. 465 So and the books closed with s1T9 70
cash hand.
or s43ss a in the treasury at the be-
ginning Of the year, the s37o0 rnentioned
in the treasurer's report last wear ae iis
biIities. borrowed money which GU
ing to continued stringency. your hoard
was compelled to carry into the vear
This with the $1,000 subsequently borroyed
and an unpaid bill of s1s72 IS for printf1e'
makes a total of s7372 s.. Deducting the
sl73 70 cash on hand. leaves an apparent
deficit OF S7l55 SIS. But S25O0 Of the
amount reported borrowed money has
been given 10 the society to be used AZ
discretion il can be applied on the deicit
thus reducing it to s4165 49,
This deficit while it is to be regretted
will be the more cheerfuly raised when
It is seen to have been incurred in an
enlargement Of the work which your board
believed to be the voice of God. and the
voice OF the society expressed through
its representatives at the annual meeting
held in Rochester in May, 1898. in the
adoption Of the recommendation Of the com
mttee on finance that mot less than
$40 900 be raised for the work OF the year.
II will be that the expenditures have
heen less than this amount 1854 81. Had