New-York tribune., 1900-04-25
WOMAN'.S, WORK DISCUSSED.
MANY FEMALE ORATORS SPEAK-MEN
DISCUSS MARRIAGE

three of these were devoted TO woman's work Her
medical work discussed at the Madison Ave
Reformed Church. work for young women and
children at the Calvary Baptist Church and liter
ature for women at the Central Presbyterian
Church. In the remaining three afternoon meet
ipgs the subjects were: In the Fifth Avenue Pres
byterian Church. Native Agency in Evangelistic
Work.; in Carnegie Music Hall. THE Mission, Its
Administrative Problems and at the Church of
the Strangers The Missionary Staff"
At Calvary Baptist Church the first speaker was
Mrs w. F. Norvell who spoke upon the education
al advantages to children in the study of foreign
missions. In the first place such study. Mrs
Norvell pointed out tended to impress upon the
youthful the responsibility which every one had FOR
the spreading of the Gospel II was study, more
over which widened the horizon of the young, and
which helped them to realize that all people were
made of one blood and that all had the same in
herent right to know God revealed through
Jesus Christ.
Mrs A. J. Wheeler. of the Woman's Missionary
Union. Southern Baptist Convention. spoke OF
many instances of notable deeds being accom-
plished by young missionaries
Mrs John NJ Gaut of Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, spoke upon the theme of the MOST Ell
fective Methods Of Training Young Children.
Among the remaining speakers were Mrs. j. W.
Childress of the Southern Baptist Union. and Mrs
T s. Hargrove. of Kansas City.
l. WOMEN MEDICAL MISSIONARIES
At the Madison Avenue Reformed Church the
speakers wexe DR. Mary Bryan, medical mis-
sionarv from India: DR.. Grace NJ. kimbah, lor-
merly of Van Turkey: Mrs. Harriet Newell Jones,
Philadelphia; Mrs. George +. Shoemaker, Philade-
phia: Mrs Charles n. Thorpe Philadelphia, and
Miss Annie Butler, India The attendance, Wh1ch
filed the church. was almost entirely maze up oi
women.
Mrs Jones speaking upon the facts and figures
of medical missions. said that mere figures We're
futile TO convey any adequate conception of the
splendid results achieved by the women medical
missionaries. Those figures. however showed that
, there were eignty-eight medical missions in oper-
ation hfty-sx hospitals and seventy-two dlspeh-
saries The value of the buildings which had been
erected by the missions $4,000 while the num-
ber of patients who had been treated amounted to
total of 623
A paper which had been written and forwarded
IN the Conference by medical missionary in China
was read to the meeting. The paper dWelt upon
the advantages which female missionaries under
standing medicine possessed in being able to pene
trate to homes and places which otherwise would
have been inaccessible them. These missionaries
the paper declared the door openers to the
Chinese. and them due the breaking down
Of much of the prejudice which previously was ex
hibed toward foreigners. II was now an fnvarahle
occurrence the paper stated. when native woman
seized with Illness which incantatons and
burning of red paper failed to TO send for the
medical missionary. The missionary was thus able
10 obtain admission to that stronghold OF heathen-
ISM the home. and by this means carried the Gospel
thousands of Chinese women who otherwise
could never have been reached. Infanticde the
tyranny of the mother-in-aw. slavary and degrada-
ton women. feet binding and other iniquities
practised in China, the paper added were now
being slowly driven out of the country, and large
share of the credit for the changes which
being brought about due to the devotion and
earnest work of the women medical missionaries.
Mrs. George E. Shoemaker. speaking upon the
subject of the power of medical missions
spiritual agency said that the thoughts of person
in time of sickness underwent radical change and
that their minds were turned to the soul rather
than TO the body. There gratitude also for
those who attending them in their period of
suffering Sick persons, therefore. ready
perhaps than at other times listen the teach
ings OF Christ. and from this fact Mrs Shoemaker
drew the logical conclusion that medical missions
were potential aid in the effort uplift the
heather spiritually.
THE NATIVE WORKER
At the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church the
Rev, II. VI. ". Hackett of the Diocesan Theoogi-
cal College Of Montreal said:
AS country differs from another so does the
native worker vary in his capacity for work. The
airy. however. runs to two extremes In one case
spises his ignorance. depreciates his and
Certainly: it is desired by all churches that the
native ministry be enlarged as fast as possible and
at the same time made dependent upon native
many reasons He knows the temper and nature of
Cheap and s anS ohes S hmln r6f cheapv He is
Missionaries should constantly bear in mind the
slow let him have credit for it. It is at 'i times e
humiliating as well as painful to hear a mission
airy describe his work, his successes. his bap-
tsms his converts and his this and his that with
out thinking IT necessary make even the most
distant alusion to his native helpers.
The Rev DR. S H Chester of Nashville Tenn
secretary Of the Executive Committee for Foreign
Missions Of the Presbyterian Church in the United
States IN speaking of the native agency in evan
gelistic work. with special reference 10 the de-
velopment of native leaders said that native
teachers from the masses and not the educated
classes were the most efficient. The Rev DR. F.
| w. Parker of India, spoke of the training of the
native preacher for evangelstic work The Rev
| Thomas Barclay. Of Scotland. who has abored
among the people of Formosa. said that the chief
work for the foreign missionary to-day was to edu-
| cate native preachers. 1t the latter he said
who could best carry the Gospel to their brethren
| The majority Of the three hundred conversions
made during the last year under his own eyes he
said, had resulted from native teachers. Other
| speakers were the Rev. Charles A Saunders and
| the Rev. Edward B. Haskell, of Turkey: Mrs
Howard Taylor. of the China Inland Mission and
| the Rev. c. Aski native missionary Of Toxic
! Japan The last speaker said that many of those
/ who had been trained for the ministry in the mis-
sion school In Toxic went into other pursuits be
| cause OF the fmpoverishng wages they received
A native missionary. he said. expected to live
| on Sc a month AS consequence only four out of
| his class of two hundred became missionaries
ADMINISTRATION OF MISSIONS
The problems attending the administration of mis-
sfons were considered yesterday afternoon at Cham
Der Music Hall. Carnegie Hall Special attention
given 10 the organization, government conferences
location and strength Of the missionary stations
! The Rev. T 5. Barbour. of Boston secretary Of
! the American Baptist Missionary Union presided
The Rev, ". H Fnlay. of London of the Wes
leyan Missionary Society of Great Britain who has
spent seventeen years of labor among the Hindoos
or india. explained the system missionary work