The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-10-31

| young man whose birthplace was loil.
| mania. but who was at the College OF
New York. after being graduated from
a college In bohemia. lie has lived in
American thirteen years. having come
To Pittsbtrg one year ago from Me-
braska lie said that within 81 radius
of twenty-five miles. which includes
| pittsburg, 20 per cent. Of the foreign-
| speaking people are pro,estants. His
method Is to have u church which he
calls by no dcnomlnational name, but
which takes In all sccts.
MRS. PERSONS ADDRESS.
| Mrs. pierson, of the Home Board Of
| Missions, New York made u brilliant
| addrcss. in which the main thought
| was regarding the new work to he
| taken up among the foreign speaking
people
Mrs. Davis, of Philadelphia. gave q
| report of the delegate TO the general
assembly She spoke OF the statement
| that many of the teachers sent out to
| the public schools in cuba and Porto
| Rico had gone for picnic instead OF
| practical work. Mrs. Diefeliderfer
| followed with IL continuation of the re-
| port. 1t contained many interesting
| historical details relating to Philadel
| phia. Every one of the courts OF the
| church We're organized in Philadelphia.
| the prcsbytery in 1906. synod in lTl,,
| general assembly in 1885, most of the
| boards of the church were organized
| i'll that city, the committee on missions
| in 1902. raised to a board in 1916. board
| of education in 1919, foreign missions
| in 1897, publication in 1898. Rev. Mr..
| Lake pronounced the benedictou and
| the session adjourned.
! Last evenings session was conducted
| by Rev. Dr. James Mcleod. pastor OF
| the First Presbyterian church. Tho
| rhoir sang the opening anthem. Dr.
Mcleod made a graceful speech, intro
| ducing Mrs. Pierson. Of New York. he
| secretary of the Board of Missions.
Mrs. Pierson is Il lad, of exception
| ally. attractive poronality and is an cx-
| cellent speaker. She said in part:
''Our work has been cut out for us
| by the general assembly. There is no
| voluntary work about tlmt: but we
have loyalty followed out the plans
| made for us. We are facing tremen-
| dous problems. The hcathenism of the
| North American Indians. the Turko-
| American Mormonism and now perhaps
| anarchsm are among these problems,
| together with the anucmonism OF the
southern mountaincer who lives back in
the fourteenth century"
THE FREEDMEN $ SOCIETY.
Mrs. T.. ID. Palmer of Pittsburg, the
| attractive and brilliant genera! secre-
| tary of the F'rcelmcn'S society Of the
| Home Mission Board. followed with a
| fine address. Mrs. Palmer is in close
| touch with all mission organizations of
! the churches. She visits the schools
and churches throughout the entire
South. and has just returned from
| synodical meetings in Ohio. Illinois,
| Missouri and Nebraska She is Il fro
| quent visitor at Tllsliesce ard declares
! that the work of the Presbyterian
Board does not suffer in comparison
with the work of that great man,
Hooker r. Washington.
| Mrs. Palmer spoke of Eidulc univer-
sity, Scotia lneleside Brainerd insti-
| tue and The noble work they arc doing
| There are nine million of colored people
| Not half Of this population is under
| til" cnnohling and uplifting influence
| Of church and school. AS a nation we
are facing many important problems
| but not one that is of greater import =
ance than the so-callcd negro. 1t is
| declared that oUe-t third of these people
| have made phenomenal progress since
| the emancipation. under the influences
of church and school, but about one
third ar" where emancipation found
| Them and the others have steadily de-
| Perforated.
LUNCHEON SERVED.
A beautiful! luncheon was served by
the First church ladies to delegates and
| their friends. 1t was exceedingly elab-
crate and was much appreciated Those
| in charge We're: Mrs. III. v. Logan
Mrs. II. \. Knapp. Mrs. J. W. Fowler
Mrs. G. :. Weston. Mrs. y. a. Hubert
Mrs. Dewitt, Mrs. H. NJ. Hannah, Mrs
II. Il. Ware. Mrs. l.. j. Williams, Mrs
T.. Il. Jernyn, Mrs. g. L.. Frey, Mrs
| W. q. Fulton, Mrs. Harry Mckenzie
Mrs. II. j. Benneil. Mrs. Is. T.. Wat son,
Mrs. +. NJ. Spencer. Mrs. j.. S. Godfrey
Mrs. Reed Burns. Mrs. K. j. Matthews
;. Mrs. Arthur Hitchcock, Airs. s. Foote
Mrs. McMurtrie Misses Archibald, Dca-
con. Matthews, Doersan. Hand. Ben
nell, Mcleod, Hunt, Dale, Hannah,
| Burns, Nickery.
The following additional delegates
registered yesterday:
| Mrs. j. II. M,KrIvcy. rilt>bms
| Mis- Lydia X, Mulioc, rlttsbtrs.
| Mrs. Charles Mcintyre, Easton
| Miss tlris,I McCool, Po,tsvlc
Mrs. Robert y. Wilson, Philadelphia.
! Mrs. Charles lee. tulhouda!c.
| Mrs. b. +. Hammond, oyr.mit.
Ms :. g. Pitcher. Littc Meadows.
| Ms. \, l. lilbbS, Wcst pit Lstuu