The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
THE MISSIONARY MEETING.
Reports and Discussions of Finance
the order of the Day.

The womans Home and Foreign Mis-
sionary Society of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church of America transacted
the first business of its twelfth biennial
session yesterday morning. The body
convened Wednesday night but there was
merely a reception OF delegates end the
delivering of addresses of welcome.
Yesterday morning the delegates gath
cred in the Luther Place Memorial
Church and presented their credentials.
About 150 representatives, from all parts
of the United States are attending the
meeting. The Corresponding Secretary,
Miss Morris. presented a tabulated report,
showing the increase in membership. and
the general totals in connection with the
work OF the society. AT the beginning Of
this year. according TO her report, the
Womans Home and Foreign Missionary
Society, with its auxiliaries. had a MEM
bership Of about 5000. distributed among
76 societies. The women's societies had
1885 members. the young peoples So
cieties 2Z1S. and the children's societies
1872; for boxes sent to mission churches
she said 1873 had been contributed.
mittee, Mrs. X. y. Shaffer. read a sum-
mary of the work done during the year,
and the condition of the mission schools
in which she urged that more money be
already established, and TO forward the
work.
The treasurer, Mrs. A. v HANNA, re-
ported the total contributions during the
biennial term to have been S55. .322. rep
resenting about twenty-four contributors
and Institutions. ne balance on hand Is
$s,22f.
sketched the work of the society, and it's
members, during the two years. and Miss
S. E. Stover read a paper on our Young
People" which was an appeal TO further
interest the younger members of the
church in the work. A report of the
treasurer of the board Of trustees, similar
to that Of the general treasurer, followed,
and the meeting closed with reports of
standing committees on literature and
The visiting ministers and delegates
were entertained by the younger mem
bers Of the society IN Washington with a
lunch in the chapel, following the meet
ing.
in the evening. after short deyo-
tional service. led by Mrs. J. +. Hartman,
read an address on What event Of the
nineteenth century was the most far
reaching in its power and most important
in its influence for good on the human
race She declared that the greatest
event since the birth of Christ in the first
century had been the entrance of woman
into the field Of religious work
Before you can save the nation" she
said. you must save the family and the
individual. Women have taken hold of
mission work during the last century, and
now in every church In the world there
are women laboring and doing things that
men could never do"
She told of the first woman's mission
work. which began In London in 1884. when
an American missionary persuaded some
English women TO try helping the desti-
tute Indian women. The work in the
United States. she stated did not begin
until 1883. when the Union Woman's Mis-
sionary Society was begun in New York
Committee reports this morning will
take up the most OF this mornings ses-
sion. paper, entitled How are the boxes
sent our missionaries appreciated?" will
be read by Mrs. A. y. Shrades, of Nevada
Iowa. In the afternoon a journey to the
National Lutheran Home for the Aged
at winthrop Heights will be taken.