The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-03-02

Birthday-O;her News ofInterest.
 The twenty-seventh annual meeting
 of the Woman's Baptist Foreign Mis-
 sionary Conference of Southwestern
 Connecticut was held in the Grand ave-
 nue Baptist church yesterday with ses-
 sions at 10 a. m. and 1:30 D. m. Owing
 to the storm the attendance was not as
 large as usual but eighty three were
 enrolled.
 The first vice president, Mrs. Susan B.
 Stowe, presided and Miss Fannie l..
 TWiss of Meriden was secretary. The
 convention was opened with devotion
 al meeting led by Mrs. c. Curtiss of this
 city. Seated upon the platform were
 Mrs. Stowe, Miss Twiss, Mrs. F. R.
 Bliss, second vice president and Mrs
 Archibald Wheaton, state secretary of
 Mystic.
 The minutes of the last meeting were
 read by the recording secretary, Miss
 Frances B. Atwater of this city. Re
 ports were heard from the various cir
 cles, of which there are about fifty. The
 president called upon Mrs. Wheaton to
 pray for more enthusiasm and more
 consecration in the missionary cause.
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 secretary, Miss Atwater was then read and also the report from the correspond ing secretary, Miss Twiss Mrs. A. B.
 Miller gave the greetings of the New Haven Congregational board in place of Miss Daggett who is i'll. Mrs Miller came with words of encouragement which were much appreciated. She said that one of the things the board was to 6A r, ,ir to fpr that the Christian women might have more self-denying liberality, and that those blessed with much of this worlds wealth might be ready to give.
 Mrs. Archibald Wheaton gave an ad- dress, introduced by little talk on pri- mary and junior work. She said that she would term her address "A Study in Mathematics" remarking that not everything in mathematics is found be- tween covers of arithmetic, algebra or geometry She said she would have a missionary library in the Sunday school to add to our knowledge. Subtract time and money and add to the Lords work. Multiply our forces; there are so many ready to divide and do little. Let us all multiply our own forces. Did the Lord make you on purpose and are you liv HIS up lO Iilcl puI pOoC | ht Wol1lail who does not believe in missions reduces Christ's work to the lowest terms. Interest in others accumulates and the interest in the Lord Jesus Christ is the best. Speaking of profit and loss, she asked, Does it pay to gain the whole world and lose the soul?" In concluding she said: Add to ignorance knowledge, | prayer, effort personal work, and thus | iY,+a icS Iyay r nt ha Tn 1nyuYo quantities, but put forth efforts.' It | was an excellent address and was lis tened to with much interest.
 Committees were then appointed ss follows:
 Nominating committee-Mrs F. J. Walker, Mrs c. Curtiss, Mrs. H, Taylor Mrs. E. Howell and Mrs. E. B. Dur- ham.
 Enrolment committee-Mrs. s. J. Fox and Miss Chapman.
 Resolutions committee-Mrs. William D. Mckinney, Mrs. George H. Ferris and Mrs. Thomas filling.
 At noon a basket lunch was served, and tea and coffee were furnished by the ladies of the church. The afternoon session was opened by thank offering service led by Mrs. George B. Cutten. There was a missionary roll call led by Mrs. E. J. Walker, all present respond ing, giving an appropriate selection, fol- lowed by poem read by Miss Mary Walker.
 The treasurer, Mrs A. T. Ward of this city, in her report stated that the tetal collections were s1,144.97, of which $500 goes to the support of Miss Church, a missionary in Japan. The thank offer ing was over SIS.
 Miss Edith Augur of Fair Haven sang the solo Just As Am,'' by Danks, in very acceptable manner and was much appreciated. Mrs. J. F.. Dearing of Yokohama, Ja- pan, gave an interesting address on mission work in that country. She told the story of young Jap to whom she / taught English, son of Shinto priest. After becoming a Christian he was cast ,, off by his family and in three years was recalled home only to be made prie- oner, which he is still and cannot break away because it will make his father lose his power and position. The great hold on the people is made through the work among the children in the Sunday ! school, and although among the poorer class and in the poorer quarter it is very interesting The Japs have not much idea of time and the girl helpers go out and gather in the children. On the backs of some of the children as young as four years a small baby is strapped securely to be tended, and II much of the cause of blindness is the Il exposure of the babies, eyes to the sun. T T She described the Mary L. Colby home, 1T 1T l girls school at Yokohama, of which Miss Converse is the head. Any one lot having blaick hair, regardless of the color, is called a red head in Japan work among the men, said Mrs. Dear ng, is most interesting, as they are thinking people. MT. Dearing and her. self tried to break down barriers be- H ween foreigners and Japanese, and the b ,nlv way to reach them is to come in el ouch with them. n The following officers were elected for II he year. b Honorary president-Mrs. s. D. u Phelps, la President-Mrs George H. Ferris la Vice presidents-Mrs. Susan B. Stowe, dt drs. F. R. Bliss, Mrs. E, L. Armstrong, m drs. George B. Cutten and Mrs. Nichol Il, on of Bridgeport.