The Portland daily press., 1899-05-17
Rev. DR.. Lindsay Speaks
on Foreign Missions.
Annual Service of Board of Mis-
sions i'm Evening.

evening trains yesterday arrived large
number of delegates from the various
parishes in the diocese and many were
will reach Portland today.
The reports which have been circulated
regarding Bishop Nealeys being con-
fined to his home by serious illness
occasioned much uneasiness and those
who attended the convention of the Wo-
mans Auxiliary yesterday were much
relieved when they found that the Bish.
op was not only able to be out of doors
but assumed his customary place in the
meeting and served as It's presiding Off.
Ger. The Bishop is not in good health
but he Is not as seriously i'll as the news
paper stories would lead one to believe.
Yesterday was the 2lst anniversary of
the woman's Auxiliary and the meeting
was largely attended and very interest
ing. Holy communion was administered
at $50 O'Clock and this was followed by
business meeting of the auxiliary in
the Parish house.
The president Of the Woman's Auxil-
larry is Mrs. II. A. Nicely, and the CORES
ponding secretary, Miss Harriet S. Nc
Cobb. The treasurer Is Miss Elizabeth
II. Smith.
The first part of the session was take
up by reports of the officers of the State
Auxiliary and addresses by the presidents
of the various parish branches.
Several years ago the vice president,
Mrs. Ogden of Woodfords, spoke of the
possibility, and, as it seemed to her, the
desirahility, of having the auxiliary
work in two centers, -one at Bangor and
the other at Portland This idea has
never been acted upon because there was
no especial need of such a division. Up
TO last year the Lenten work has all been
sent to Portland, to be rep acked and sent
| to Is destination because the boxes and
| bundles were not of sufficient sizs to
| MAKE 1t desirable to send them from each
parish, or mission, direct. But last year
Bangor and Augusta both shipped addi-
| Il onal barrels.
| The different branches of the junior
| auxiliary have each their own method of
work. A plan successfully adopted by
one of the branches was to give to each
one of the younger children five cents to
invest in material to be made into arti-
Giles and sold by them. One little girl.
| with her five cent capital, bought tenth
of u yard of flannel, and out of it made
three very neat little tomato lincushions,
which were well worth the fifteen cents
apiece she received for them.
| The Jennie Hodgkin fund has met with
prompt attention this year, ana the treas
urer is happy to report few dollars sur
plus.
The senior auxiliary reports box reports
at $7S7. ID, and the cash raised sine last
May 1882.
Ihe address of Miss Jarvis of Connec-
ticuu was ON EMISSIONS and the Study of
Mission Literature" Miss Jarvis advo-
Gated the study Of mission literature in
classes, like the classes in general litera-
ture She spoke of the great interest that
| has been manifested in this study in New
| York the past winter.
Letters were read from the missions in
China and other parts of the world, and
considerable interest was manifested in
| this intelligence OF the spread of the Cos.
pei in heather lands.
The auxiliary votedito appropriate SO
| for the wo ans hospital which is main
tanned in connection with the mission in
Shanghai, China.
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year:
| President-Mrs. Fl. A. Nicely, Portland.
Vice President--Mrs. p. NJ. Blake,
Bangor.
Secretary-Miss Harriet 5. McCobb,
Portland.
Ireasurer-Miss Elizabeth II. Smith,
| Portland.
Advisory Committee-Mrs. John NJ
Glidden, Newcastle Mrs. George IL.
Dejan, Augusta; Miss Eleanor Stevens,
| Randolph.
The officers OF the junior branch and
other departments were reelected.
A resolution of thanks was presented
to the president, Mrs. II. A. Nicely who
has so efficiently served for the II years
the auxiliary has been in existence
The auxiliary took a recess at one
O'Clock to partake of Is lunch served in
the dining room in the parish house.
| In tine afternoon the auxiliary was ad :
dressed by Rev. DIR. Lindsay of Boston
on the mission Work of the Church. :"
| lie advocated the idea of par lor meetings
| for the discussion of the mission work
and spoke of the success which had fol-
lowed this method of interesting people in
the missions. lie gave general idea of
| what work is now being done in the
mission field by the church.
Miss Paddock of Boston, president of
| the Girls Friendly society, delivered a
most interesting address. She said that
the Girls Friendly society is now estab-
| lished in IS dioceses, in 80 parishes and
| has in the United States %, 600 members.
The society is constantly growing in
membership and in usefulness. Its OBJ
ject is to help the poor girls who have no
chucrh associations and give them some
sort of social life and bring them into
this church. She told of the great good
which this society has done In the United
States and of the assistance IL has given
the mission work. 1t is sort Of IL training
school for the church and co-operates
with the Woman's Aus Hilary in tine work
After the adjournment of the messing,
the assemblage WAS once more calFu 70
order and Mrs. Green of Saco introduced
She said that two Mormon missionaries
had been at work in western Maine anu
had already exerted some influence
among some women in Saco. She told oi
the manner in which the Mormons con-
Quoted their work and said that their
tracts were being generally distributed.