The age-herald., 1900-06-17
Missionary Movement
 Amona American Women

The missionary movement among Ahferi- can women has received an impetus since the meeting of the Ecumencal Conference recently held in New York. A day was es- pecially set apart when womans work in missions was discussed. Carnegie Hall and the churches were the scenes of the great est enthusiasm, great throngs being ad- dressed by noted promoters in mission work, as well as the men and women who had returned for brief visits to their native land after years of work at foreign mls- sions. On one occasion during the Ecu menical Conference mass meeting Of Wo- men workers was held and in the vast as eembly were hundreds of women Who are engaged throughout the world In spread ing the Gospel. They were representatives from forty-one American, British and con tinental societies, and a stirring scene was enacted when these women, by request came forward and were presented to that vast concourse, who arose en masse, the fiuttering of handkerchies, the enthusiasm that burst all bounds being described as not unlike the demonstrations of the South over a procession of Confederate Veterans flor were not these noble women veterans in mission fields.
 The wor kof converting heathern women has long been recognized as woman mis- sion to woman. since in heathern lands the enthrallment of woman debars her from hearing the Christian religion from the lips of men missionaries, while mis- sion established by woman at once reaches the native woman and when the latter becomes interested in mission out post she is of the greatest assistance In bringing others to hear Gods word from the lips of those women who are bringing it's message.
 To women in Christian lands the en- thrallment of women in China and the Orient can not be more forcibly presented than by the woman who entered the mis- sion field in early life and who is able by her personal "reminiscences to speak of the needs of mission work and its results in lifting native women from the conditions of slavery, ignorance and degradation. With Christian women realizing the value of womens societies among evangeliZing forces, 1t is possible to realize the impetus to mission work that was felt when one of the speakers at the Ecumenical Conference in her remarks touching upon the life of the women in the far East living under the Oriental system" declared that those women Tive their lives and go the way l of all the earth, leaving to their sons and daughters the heritage of degradation. The great problem of today is to reach the great central power of society, the mothers in the homes, with the power of Christ Jesus. In the Orient only woman can break the bread of life to women. Logically it follows that the agency through which this can be done is the most far reaching and certain force the church has for the redemption of the race. Thus is demonstrated the value of Women's Boards of Missions among redemption forces. Is this work then to be given secondary place in the plans of Christi church? Is it not a work very dear to the heart of Christ? And one that every faithful pastor should cherish? When the mothers and the homes of the Orient and all heatherndom are reached with the Cos pei will nation be gained in a day."