The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1903-10-17
going, MS it correctly states the pasition
Of Mr.. Humphreys.
Womsn's Home Mission Society.
SCOPE or THE WORK.

| SCOPE or THE WORK.
A few years ago the work OF this
Society was confined to building parson-
ages in those sections too poor TO pro-
vide uncomfortable home for a minister
of the Gospel and in frontier missions.
In answer TO growing demand for
more effective, proRrcssive work-ii our
country is to be brought under the puri-
flying influences ofChristianity and saved
from the debasing effects of vice-thc
scope Of this work has broadened until
it is bounded on the west by the shores
of the Pacific Ocean, on the cast by the
Atlantic, on the south by tie Gulf of
Mexico, and on the north by the Mason
and Dixon line, beyond which the work
is taken up by our sisters Of the North
and Canada. 1t covers 80 States and
Territories, and i'll the past year has
handled funds amounting to nearly
$102,0OO.OO, with membership Of
31,414.
WHAT DOES THE H. N. S. STAND FOR?
In one brief sentence, "Rescue and-de-
vclopmcnt'-tes sum of Christian work
great evil which. perhaps, imperls
our country more than any other one
thing, is the tide Of immigration, much
Oft wholly evil. Statistics tell us 900,-
900 were landed OH our shores last year.
They mist either imbibe onr civilization
and religion or spread their own super
stitiom and degradation. The W. II. NJ.
S. has active, progressive, successful work
organized i'll the two stragetic points i'll
our Southern Statcs-tle Pacific and the
Florida coasts. They are endeavoring
to purify the stream as it flows into our
Christian country. and the tcnets Of
Christianity alone, implanted in these
human souls, can do this Helps wanted
i'll this work, and our Christian women
are asked to lend a helping hand.
EDUCATIONAL WORK.
Miss Mary Bruce of Yboe CITY, Fla, is
superintendent Of the Cuban schools, OF
which there are three, one at Yboe City,,
one at W. Tampa, and one at Key West.
The Pacific Coast. work is. under the
superintendency OF Mrs. e. Price Brown
There arc five of these schools, some. if
not all of them having both a day and
night school, besides cooperating with
churches and doing city missionary
work.
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pathetic to read to the experiences and
struggles ofthe workers in these schools.
They surely need tile help of our women
of the home churches. Every new mem-
success OF this work.
| THE MOUNTAIN WORK.
| This stauls for the rescue and develop
[mcnt of "rhc Forgotten Man." the
mountaineer. In the outward march of
civilization he and his cabin home have
been left behind. Rough and rugged, but
free from the effeminacy which. alas,
sometimes ACCOMPANIES our city train
ing, he is yet waiting to be discovered to
himself and to the world. The II. M. S.
preceded the Salvation Army in this
work, and have a wcll-organizcd, we'll
equipped school at Loudoni KY, which
had a patronage of 800, and, to the re-
proacll of our thouehtless ones, many
applicants were turned away from want
Of room. The mountaineerisa as isolated,
and rude and undcveloped as the price
less mines over which he walks, but he
is as rich il, promise, and will yield rich
est return for all Clristian-truly Chris
| tian work done in his behalf.
| GTNNISON AUXILIARY.