Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-10-12
WOman,s Missionary Meeting.

The woman's missionary meeting was
held at 2.30 Tuesday afternoon, Mrs. j.
B. Stafford, state vice president of the
Woman's Home Missionary society, pre-
siding. At first great disappointment was
felt that neither Mrs. Gordon nor Mrs.
Reynolds, who were to give the principal
addresses, were able to be present. A very
interesting session was held, however.
After singing and reading of the 103d
Psalm by Mrs. Stafford, prayer was offered
by Mrs. Collins, and very cordial welcome
was given by Mrs. Jennie Smith. She
said: 1--WE give you a most cordial and
hearty welcome. We are glad to greet the
sisters OF other fields that interest in our
missionary work may receive new impetus.
If in secular pursuits it is necessary to
meet and discuss new methods of work, it
is surely necessary for the children of light
to do this that they may do better service
for the Master"
Mrs. Townshend of Brandon responded
in very pleasant manner. She said she
remembered so well the beginning of the
woman's work in Vermont, and how won
derfully God has blessed that work. She
remembered so well the first missionary
meeting she ever led. 1t was at Ludlow
and was done with much fear and tremb-
things if Jesus helps. She spoke of the
unity of the work, that the home and for
eign work are one and the same, and gave
some interesting instances of what can be
accomplished if the seed is carefully sown.
Miss Mary Brown of Ludlow, junior
state secretary, prefaced her report by say
ing: "Once q year, as surely as mud in
April or mosquitoes in July, comes our an
nual report" She wondered if we fully
realized that in our boys and girls we have
our future secretaries, directors and Off
GERS of our society, and we think of them
as only restless children, that comparative
ly few churches observe the missionary
concert even quarterly, and urged that
more attention be given the home for mis-
sionary children at Newton.
Mrs. Owen, the state officer of the Won
ans Foreign Missionary society, was una
BILE to be present and her report was read
by Miss Brown. She said there had been
small financial gain and larger gain in
missionary interest. She urged making
our offerings for the work and sending 10
the secretary as soon as possible, and also
urged an increase in the subscription of
the excellent little paper, 1.-The Helping
Hand"
Mrs. Parks, former medical missionary
in India, was then introduced and said
Pm sorry for you, ladies. When your
mouth is all made up for turkey, hamburg
steak is very poor substitute, but ham
burg steak has its place." and those pres
ent found it a very excellent substitute.
She took for her thought, "Thy Kingdom
Come" She said when first converted
that she thought the kingdom was just
her little heart, then it was the home, then
the little village, and she had found it was
the whole world. She remembered so dis
tinctly during the war how the daily pa
pers were so eagerly watched for and how
we could not wait to see what was going
on at the front. How the names Of our
generals, Grant, Sherman and Sheridan,
were household words, and then asked this
searching question, Do you snatch the
Helping Hand so eagerly to see where the
war is the hottestP Our missionaries are
the generals. Are their names household
words? Do you see any missionary infor-
nation in the daily papers? for there is a
great deal of it there. One of the first du-
ties is to know about the work. Another
thing necessary, to give for the work, give
as during the war, right royalty with full
heart. $50 and God be with" Give
time. A club woman holds her meeting
two and one-half hours and cannot do JUS
tice to it in less. A missionary meeting
must not be held five minutes over the
hour or they are so long they cannot be
attended, and in closing she urged a per-
sonal loyalty to personal Saviour.
Mrs. ToWnshend spoke for a few mo.
ments of the great need of work and
workers in the great West, that the fields
were never so white or the need of work
ers so great. Mrs Stafford, in giving her
report for home missionary work in Yer
most, spoke of the encouragement in the
work and strongly urged more work among
the French Catholics as we'll as our large
foreign population. That our young men
and young women so soon leave the lit
tie homes and villages and go to the larger
cities, and their places are so quickly filed
by this foreign element who so sadly need
our care Ii we would save our cnnntrY