The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-06
I MISSIONARY HOUR
Workers From Rome to Japan Tell
of Conditions in Their
..- Various Fields.
Interesting Meeting of the W. F. M.
S. General Executive at Wesley
Church Yesterday.

The program Of yesterday afternoons
meeting of the general executive of the
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society was
a missionary hour. Mrs. G. S. Winchell
of the Minneapolis branch presided, Miss
Ida Bovine Of Rome was the first speaker.
She went out from Folts institute in 1893
and is teacher in girls boarding school
having fifty-two pupils ranging In age
from to % years of age. The school Is
now raising $500 to convert an old grist
mill into a hall for public service.
Miss Anna Bing, whose station is Sap
pora, the capital Of the northern island
Of Jaran, told Of life and the progress
Of missions in that enterprising and prog
ressive territory. The missionaries of that
station live in native houses which are
almost wholly without windows and 1t
costs considerable to make them inhabit-
able for Europeans, and they are poor
places at best. With her Bible women
Mis-; Bing has travelled into the interior
in all kinds of conveyances and on foot.
The work is very encouraging, the church
in Sappora and in it's neighbor1ng seaport
having become self-supporting in spite OF
bnginess depression. Mothers walk five
miles over bad roads with their children
to attend mothers meetings. T.,
Hiss Elizabeth ,Hoge told Of her, ex-
perieTce IN travelling through India by
OK cart. She related incidents to show the
eagsrness with which the natives receive
Christianity and recited their prayer ask.
Ing that the gospel be sent faster.
Miss Helen Ingram, the deaconess OF
Lucknow. made her farewell appearance
She left LAST night for England, and will
return to India in time for the durbar al
Delhi This she will attend with her fam
lily which Is a wealthy and influential one
Miss Marion Newton of Lucknow accom-
panied her on her eastern journey. Several
musical numbers were given during the
afternoon by Miss Ames, by a quartet OF
visiting missionaries and by two Of the
dea conesses.
r, IAN Evening In China" )
1.-THE Evening in China was conducted
by Miss Clara E. Merrill and was largely
| attended. Miss Lydia Trimble gave ar
interesting and instructive address and
Miss Lebcus Of the German branch told Of
| her work in China. Miss Longstreet ap.
peared i'll native costume and played or
| Ch'aese musical instruments. Miss Der
tina Beard OF the Des Motnes branch tolt
o: her call TO the work.. !,
One Of the most interesting fields o.
missionary work sustained by the w. F
NJ. S. is Pithoragarth, India, In the sha
dow Of the Himalayas. Miss Anna Bud
| den Of that station Is one Of the oldes
missionaries In the service of the society
She has been in attendance at the genera
executive and her TALL erect figure il
deaconess' costume has been very notice
able. Miss Budden was born in the dis
trict in which she works, her father hay
ing been an English missionary. She hal
been doing missionary work In this fielt
for thirty-seveh years, although onl!
| twenty two years under the w. F. M. S
Her field is five days journey from the
nearest city The work which she con
ducts is refuge for homeless children AM
women, the latter being the deserted wive
and widows, and a boarding school. II
order to make the burden Of support o
these women as light as possible the mis-
sion owns farm Of $50 acres which Mis-
Budden manages. The women beneficiarie
do all the manual labor on the farm ex
cept blowing. All of the grains are raiset
in sufficient quantities to supply the need
of the community and each woman ha
her own vegetable patch. The women lfv
in barracks, two in a room and do thet
own cooking. The boarding school house
from eighty to one hundred girls, who ar
converts, The teaching Is Anglo-verna
cular. There is also a hospital, with I
native woman doctor educated at Agra
Twenty Bible women work from this base
some OF them residing in out stations.