New-York tribune., 1902-05-17
HOME MISSION MEETING.
WOMEN TELL OF THEIR WORK IN vARI-
Gus FIELDS. AND CALL FOR ON
SET AGAINST MORMONISM.


Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian
Church was held yesterday in the Central Church,
No. 22O West Fifty -5eventh-st The meeting was
preceded by a devotional service. conducted by
Mrs Yeisley of Hudson N Y. At 10 O'Clock Mrs.
Darwin r. James took the chair and formally
opened the meeting. The church crowded
with enthusiastic congregation Of delegates.
who came from all parts of the United States, rep
resenting the synods and presbyteries of the de-
nomination
DR.. George F. McAfee. superintendent of schools,
delivered his report and congratulated the women
on the completion OF another year OF successful
work he stated that the board supported 145
schools in twenty-three States and Territories. in
Guiding Porto Rico and Cuba with ass missionaries
and teachers. He spoke of the need of this mis-
sion work. and described Mormonism a
the body polite of small proportions which
had for its object the destruction of evangelistc
religious and civil liberties. The evangelical school
work of the Woman's Board, he said. was the
surgeon that would and the
cerous grOwths of superstition.
The financial report given by the treasurer.
Miss S. F. Lincoln. The total amount received
during the year sf6OSl. OF this. $500
for evangelizaton. S05 .5SS for teachers salaries
and maintenance OF schools, and s65 S5 for freed
mems work. The board has school buildings and
property valued at $4,000. The reports of Mrs J.
F. Pingry. acting secretary OF the board. and Miss
NJ J. Petrie, secretary of young peoples work,
most encouraging
In her annual address the president reviewed the
work OF the board since the last annual meeting
held here eighteen years ago.
"Our work Is among the exceptional populations,
and truly say that the sun never sets on
our home mission stations for they reach from
Porto Rico to Alaska she said. She gave the
thought for the year, This thing I do:
press forward in the wOrk-our land for Christ
Mrs Finks the Editor Of The Home Mission
Monthly" said that the magazine had gained one
thousand subscribers during the year and its
financial condition warranted the turning of SOJo
into the treasury of the Woman's Board. She
urged that the women or the church should remain
loyal in their support of the official organ of the
There were many missionaries from the field who
spoke earnestly on behalf OF their work Mrs.
OF her life. Once a heather girl, brought up in
rites OF her people, she was finally sent to mis-
sion school, and was converted while under Mrs.
young, and. with her husband. entered the service
who carries the needs of her people very close to
her heart She pleaded most earnestly for Kills
moo. village eighty miles from Sitka, where there
Or. Grace Williams Atkins represented the work
done in San Juan. Porto Rico. She is the only
woman woman physician pTaGtising in the island. and has
sixteen months she has been there. She earnestly
very sick and the very poor, as it was impossible
10 get proper care for her patients in the miserable
Mrs. Herndon " told Of he work at Tucson Ariz
where $50 Pima and Papago boys and girls being
educated The first graduating class finish their
work this year and is composed of four Pima boys.
Bannocs and shoshones told the story of the or
ganlZation OF the native church numbering
seventy-One members The interest OF the audience
was aroused when they learned of the need of
well OF pure water on the mission grounds Under
the leadership of Mrs. Hamlin. of Washington, the
money necessary for this purpose was raised at
Miss Fish told of the work done among the noun
taineers. and Miss Prudence Clark of that among
the MeXicans of New-MeXico and Arizona
Miss Serena Wilson said that Mormonism was
spreading in all the States. and that there vas a
crisis pending in Utah. Ii was mistake to think
that MOrmonism dying out, for the Church was
sending out two thousand missionaries and was
opposing Christian schools and Christian influence
everywhere. She said that the battle-ground OF
home mission was to be in Utah Herself a con
vert from a Mormon family, she urged that Chris
tan women should send more workers into Mormon
strongholds and remember that the system was
corrupt though the people were much purer than
their system.
The treedmenS department represented by
the secretary, Mrs. Palmer. and Mrs. MARQUIS of
chester. ;. c. Mrs. Palmer reported 2669 contrib
uting societies. and said that the amount sub
scribed for the department ss6S12 came from freed
themselves
The meeting closed at 4SO D. M so that the
delegates could attend the reception in the Pres
byterian Building given by the Board of Home
Missions.