New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-16
YOUNG WOMEN NEEDED.
Their Place in Home, Church and Nation
Haphazard Giving.

Most women know little about missions as
they do about politics" said Mrs. Margaret E.
Sangster yesterday afternoon in her address on
What Young Women Are Worth to Missions"
at the convention Of the Christian Endeavor Mis-
sicnary League in the Marble Collegiate Church.
Fifth-ave. and Twenty-ninth-st- II must plead
guilty myself the subject Of politics." she con-
tfnued for 1 didn't know even who was Governor
Of State live in Until yesterday. You see, We
given so much of my time to missions.
ITO the nation, the church. the home, there Is
nothing more precious than the young womanhood
of the day. influence so far reaching no infiu-
ence needed by the cause Of missions to-day. we
can't all go out personally into the waiting mission
field but we can all have substitutes there. And
substitute really means so small sef-saerlnce Ior
each one of US. the salaries we pay our Foreign
workers SO measre at best! DIG you ever near
of a missionary getting rich in the work? AND we
shouldut leave this matter Of giving for hap
hazard occasions when We are stirred up by some
eloquent appeal You remember the story OF Or.
Lyman Eeecher? On his way to a missionary con-
yention his wife gave him the money for a new
Garnet money she had been saving dime by dime
by small economies for years. When he returned
from the town in which the convention was held'
OF course Mrs. Beeoher wanted to know about the
carpet. To his dismay and hers. 1t goes without
saying the doctor found that in his enthusiasm ne
had emptied his pockets. carpet money and ALL
into the convention offering for missions
But for US it would be a bad thing to wait
for such periodical inspiration, not because we
we might never get TO the point of giving at all
We provide for our regular meals, why not
for those on the frontier Of Christs kingdom, who
hear the burden and heat of the day? If we here
at home can do nothing else, we can attend meet
inss In the cause of missions, we can show our
interest by our presence and to any speaker, any
worker that means much encouragement"
Mrs Sangster gave instances Of the daily prac-
t,cal labor Of the workers in the various fields.
notably an instance of the Chinese massacre, where
missionary who realized that in all human prop
ability he would he alive another day IN.
trusted letter to his wife at home, TO the care or
na tive Christian When weeks afterWard TINS
keenine reached its destination, the small porton
of II still leCtble found to contain the request
that the writer's little son, then scarcely more
than baby be dedicated to the Work In winch ms
father had lost his life. 1900 -, 49,.
Miss Helen G. Voorhees, spoke in behalf OF the
Indian Orphanage at Fort Sill Oklahoma tacn
IF the funior branches that felt able to raise 80
onu1Iel1y the amount necessary for the care OF a
ciiid one wear was allowed adopt orphan
a banner Yesterday awarded the Junior pTShsl
Contributing the largest annual suoscripuoh-S1'
from the thirteen members o,, IT'LL,
Mrs 4 r Page gave short talk on 'Old Trails
~ NaH Poads' Contrasting the work of West
ern missionary to-day with that or pioneer WORK
az in the field. Remember she said that oa1
fre1ances travel fast and all the tendencies to eV
tbaf y0u have here in the East are with u.s. TOO IA
the West, and We nave dl7o 'e o -
The exercises which closed this the final session OF
che convention were a picturesque march ana zap.
1asr saThe Grouping of the NauonS. lMe.Ee
Ieau christian Fndeavorers costuned in the native
SgoTh Of the countries-Chin2 Turkey, India etci-
in which the league supports missions carrieo tt,e
Gieerent national flags and marched through inc
aisles of the church