The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-03-21
FOUR OF $1,000 EACH.
SUBSCRIPTIONS THIS WEEK FOE
THE CITY MISSIONS.

Erection ofIts New BuiIdimg-Annual
supper ofthe Mothers Mission Yester-
day,
The annual supper for the members
Of the mothers meeting connected with
the City Missionary association was
given yesterday afternoon at the City
Mission hall The arrangements were
under direction Of the committee in
charge Of the weekly mothers meeting,
Mrs. II. B. Sturgess, chairman assisted
by members Of the executive commit
tee of the woman's department.
The members of the mothers meet
ing are also constituted as one of the
auxliaries of the Woman's Board of
Foreign Missions and by their annual
offerings support a Bible woman in the
hospital work at Ahmednagar, India.
Before the supper yesterday meeting
of this auxiliary was held with about
$50 members present Mrs. Katherine
Miller presided and after the singing
of the mothers hymn" and repeating
together the Lords Prayer, the annual
Offering was received, following which
was the conservation prayer by Mrs.
Hannah D. Hume, long connected with
the foreign mission work in India, and
whose daughter, Miss Sarah j. Hume,
is the lady missionary at the mission
hall. Mrs. Theodore Fl. Sheldon, of the
Center church, then read the Scriptures
and made a short address, followed by
the report of the work of the Bible wo-
man supported by the mothers meet
ing, read by Mrs. Miller. The closing
prayer was offered by Mrs. William
Shepard the oldest member of the
womans executive committee, whose
eighty sixth birthday was also being
commemorated by the supper which fol-
lowed
The wet weather had prevented some
from coming, but nearly two hundred
were seated about the tables and
served to an abundance of the good
things prepared for them. Miss Hume,
the lady missionary, looked carefully,
as usual, to the wants of the many
mothers and their little ones whom she
not only meets at the mission hall from
week to week, but who are also visited
in their homes by her or by her faith
full assistant Miss Sagendorf
Others assisting at the supper or in
preparation for it, We're Mrs. II. G.
Newton, Mrs. O. A. Dorman, Mrs. L.
c. Dayton, Mrs. j. M. Peck, Mrs. J. e. |
Goodwin, Mrs. A. b Miller, Mrs George |
f. Leopold, Mrs. f. f. Hartshorn, Mrs, |
"A. B. Bean, Mrs. r. 3. Wilson, Mrs. |
John Reimann, Miss Dayton and Miss /.
Grace Mossman.
ri "a cl1T
religious service several solos were very
acceptably sung by Mrs. Ewald and
Mrs. Corners, members of the mothers
meeting, with piano accompaniment by
Miss Sagendorf.
At the close Of the supper Rev. Mr..
Mossman, the missionary pastor, COM
mended all present for the work they
were trying to do in both the home and
the foreign work, and also stated that
the subscriptions to the building fund
already received and others to be ex-
pected; made it quite probable that
the next annual supper to the mothers
would be given in the new
mission house, soon to be erected on
Orange street, about midway between
Court and Elm streets. Rev Mr., Will
son, the financial secretary of the City
Missionary association, followed with a
description of the new building, and
greatly encouraged all present with his
confident hope for an enlarged work
for the association in the years just be-
fore it and for many years to come. ! ,
Each day Of the present week a sub =,
scription of one thousand dollars has
been added to the funds already in hand
for the erection Of the new building.