Evening star., 1901-10-17
WOMEN AND HOME MISSIONS
FEATURES OF THE CONCLUDING
SESSIONS OF ANNUAL MEETING.
District Reports Show Satisfactory
Resolutions to Be Considered.

The opening session of the closing day Of
the annual meeting of the Womans Home
Missionary Society of the Baltimore con-
ference was attended today by large
gathering, which showed that the interest
in the proceedings had in no wise abated.
Two-thirds of the pews in Foundry Church
were occupied and there was noticeable
addition of auditors of the sterner sex. The
session was devoted to various reports. For
the Frederick, Washington and West Bal
timore districts Miss Maggie Addison, Mrs
D. B. Street and Mrs. A. M. Hopkins. their
respective secretaries. reported great ad-
vancement in every direction, and an in
crease of both sentimental and substantial
interest, the latter being shown in i'm
proved finances.
Mrs. Hopkins rendered her resignation as
secretary of West Baltimore district and
Mrs. Ella l.. Stricken, widow of the for
mer pastor of Hamline Church, was elected
as her successor.
Young Peoples Work.
The participation of young people in
church and mission work was then taken
up. Mrs. Minnie Benton Taylor spoke on
Young Peoples Work. Miss Anna M. Fal-
Ion on How to Interest Our Young People
and Misses Gertrude Houston and Matilda
Patton, students at the National Training
School for DeaconesseS, described the work
OF that institution and the good it is ac-
compliShing In the course of her remarks
Miss Patton declared that the trouble with
the church today in every department was
the lack of trained workers, who could act
as leaders of willing followers. and made
strong plea for greater attention to educa-
tion of church workers.
1t was decided to hold the meeting of
the society in 1902 at the Madison Square
Church, Baltimore. Mrs. E. L. Stricken
was made delegate and Mrs. ]. E. Gilbert
board to be held in New York November
to IA next.
The morning session concluded with ser
vices in memory of President Mckinley,
which were ushered in with the singing of
Nearer, My God. to Thee" Several ad-
dresses were made. the principal one being
by Mrs. j. Ellen Foster
The last session convened shortly after
2 o'clock, with a Bible lesson by Mrs T.
Walter Duvall and prayer by Rev. j. e.
Amos. Before adjournment the reports of
committees will be submitted and num-
ber of resolutions considered and delegates
to the National Anti-Saloon convention
will be announced.
Slavery in Chinatown.
Mrs. D. B. Street of the Methodist mis-
sion in San Francisco described the con-
ditions in Chinatown during the session of
the society late yesterday afternoon. Ac-
cording to Mrs. Street women and children
are kept in slavery there and are openly
bought and sold Some of these girls, she
declared, Were thus sold for sums ranging
from $4,000 to $4,000 each, and were of
ten pawned by their parents when the lat
ter were in need of money. Mrs. Street
said the Methodist mission had rescued
twenty girls from slavery, who are now be-
ing cared for by different churches, one
being at the mission The society of Foun-
dry Church volunteered to furnish $50 per
year to support one of~the girls.
An invitation from the Anti-SaIoon
League for the society to cooperate in the
suppression of the saloons was accepted
and it was determined to send delegates
headed by Mrs. Mcdowell, president of the
society, to the national anti-saloon copven-
ton, which opens in this city, December 8
At the evening session Mrs. May, Leonard
Woodruff described the societys work in
Porto Rico, where two missionaries are sta
toned. She made a plea for medical
missionary and the maintenance there of an
orphanage now in existence which has
thirty inmates. In response, the societies
of Hamline and Wesley Memorial Churches
and Washington and Frederick districts
volunteered to support one orphan each.