New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-10-20
WOMEN MISSIONARIES.
THEIR WORK AND IT'S NEEDS TOLD AT
THE BINGHAMTON MEETING
THE PEOPLE oF THE BLACK BELT SHOW AN
FAGERNEss FOR EDUCATION THE
GOOD THAT rs DONE

GOOD THAT Is DONE
The third and laet session Of tho American Ms
Honary Association. being held az Bmghamton
y Y, began AZ $50 o'clock yesterday morning In
the First Congregational Church The afternoon
was devoted 10 a woman's meeting beginning with
report on womans work 10y Miss y. f. Emerson
secretary n the woman's department Miss Fmor-
son said among other things
T. pays to save one girl hoy good citizen
SHIP IN our beloved Republic Note the testimony
he wife o. minister ~ re 1;6s fg-r 3
TO the missionary who was her preceptress size
woman can mover thank her ,novgb for VIM
she ala for mo Aside from nv literary training
! learned 10 keep house can mend and darn and
new l know how 10 cook and DO some uphoister%
work such as making lounges and other things
You must multiply this case" said Miss Elmer
son. many hundredfoh TO get the result OF even
one years work. Oh how 10 pays. What an
incentive 20 keep with it,
Mrs. II. NJ Dwight. Of Pasadena CAL delivered
A lecture Chinese Missions" and Miss Collins
gave short address Negro Mssions' was the
subject of Miss G.. Knowltons lecture. and she
said In part
Can you imagine tho walls Of MS church made
narrow. painted in pretty shades ~ brown and blue
and long line II young pcop''-faces back and
Liberty county. I'm the rice swamps OF Southern
Georgia. The young people are our students COM
Ing from their sonooT0ons 10 tally prayers az
5l' cilult' a. 'l' l'i' "' iis ''n' n ll' lP MAJ
ei.3i ~, ''- ii.,u olu o'''l 'i
10 lI'',ly rl."ne 'P tle 9.al7 I'D " AT" ll' ,l'r
h'i'e SOM ~ re cir,ui'h nave ,,hals 'le up ~
r~l naIukeI'n'el 49, ' ~, are ",.' WIN rec Snl
sweet potatoes one hl'e hoy ha- I'VE chrken
under his arm. another some tai stalks OF sugar
cane The SUGAR cane is luncheon. inc oiner oun-
dies are luton. i"I i'e ana S"''' p9.t,,"s are
tribufon box ON sunday is no occasion for smiling
Af'er pray,'s you viii soc long me- OF ta'~e
Dhitdi'l, -'iNE 10 ID. t.S H. H. i, '''''"
Who arc these young peopleo Wh,r. did they
come from stretching miles aoou' t4" school ls
country no, T '"" ,"'5 i ,',i. ,t.fr hr,-b,
roee, lea vs. ha,r.ns with l0ns gray mos s arse
part of this forest swamp and covered with deep
water and nIed "'ii n iaIsirh M r '.r'T III.
a"ie an tn.se -vyanlre ISLANDS where the fugitive
slaves used % hide Here and there are the patches
Of ccatri ana @nfit ,' '"-,, Raw r' t,n, .'
The country are fRc inc cabins n is from these
cabin homes that the greater number OF our 'Hl-
"Ie' 'o".'. ., ., ,,. .-,,. ,, ,,,t, cold .gr,o.
notatoc. before The family even awoke and have
come eight miles through the woods tbs morn
ins NuinheIN N.N ..".. I'VE ,'' ,t. ~, 7.
n e. ~ sumner morning thev hav, had 10 work in
tho field before coming hav" known of gir
pQnE nhE l"o hpp 90 ana , INCH ~ ,i, ' .r
!, u.s. usuailt pretty r,el f,l,d Do You tlano nom
very nucno
But all OF these young people DO NOT como from
the cabins about our school Sfrs'' hing mics ana
~ With The same i.ft- cabins and young people
,tifh the same Iouglre FOR an education. So from
different counties ~ Georgia. and even from South
carolina and from F'orid4 they have come 90 live
,- th iittie al hire about our rhooi some Of flom
save STAYED Years without seeing their own homes
or people To numbers OF youug people n our