The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-24
MEETING OF woNEN's FOREIGN MISSIONARY
 UNION OF EAST ALA
 RAMA PRESBYTERY.
Second Day's Sessions.

Second Days Sessions.
 The morning session of the second day. s work of the seventh annual meeting of the Woman's Foreign Mission Union of the East Alabama Presbytery was opened yesterday morning at 10 o'clock with a song. Jesus Shall Reign" followed by reading of a Psalm and prayer by the President, Mrs. Dowdell of Opeliika.
 The minutes of the previous days ses- sions were read and approved.
 The reports of delegates was next or the program and proved an interesting feature of the session, showing as did each a steady growth in membership and general interest in the foreign mission work. -
 As a whole these reports were very en. couraging The report of the delegate from the First Presbyterian Church Montgomery. was the best submitted as this society has the largest membership the greatest increase in membership over last years report, and have raised and expended in the foreign missionary cause the largest amount of money of any so. ciety in the presbytery. having given te this cause this past year more than twict as much as has ever been given by any one society since the organization of the Union.
 Mrs. Cornelia Graham is the Presiden, of the First ---urch Society and Mrs. J o. Cowan is the Secretary and Treas. urer.
 Rev. Mir. Anderson then spoke briefly and interestingly of the work of the mis- sionary societies. and gave some statis' tics concerning the presbyteries of Ala bama and especially interesting concern in the churches of the East Alabama c6xvko <3x,a orfa 9r the State of Alabama. The East Ala bama Presbytery was organized in 1898 ir the First Presbyterian Church, Mont gomery. This presbytery contains nine teen counties with fifty Presbyterian churches and sixteen ministers, only four teen of whom are active in the field.
 Last year the East Alabama Presby' tery expended on Foreign Mission worh s1 ,o67 and for congregational work. $n .SSs He also gave some interesting facts con corning the approxvmate amounts giver for the cause of foreign missions by tht different presbyteries of the State Ons specially strong point brought out by MT Anderson in this connection was thai the church or individual who did the best work for the cause of foreign missions always did the best work in the home mission cause. Mfr. Anderson strongly advocated that the Union take steps to arrange for a systematic campaign among the churches of this presbytery in an ef- fort to organize new mission societies.
 The report of the Treasurer, Mrs. J. L' Dean of Opelika, was read and accepted
 The report of the Executive Commit tee, which Is composed of Mrs. W. o. Fowler. Mrs. E. P. Davis, Mrs. H. Booth. Mrs. Rushton and Mrs. W. M. Stakeiey. was read and showed that much active work has been done by this committee in the past year in organizing new societies and in the raising and disbursement Of funds.
 Under the head of Miscellaneous Busi- ness' a general discussion ensued, re- eardins putting into the field a lady to travel and organize societies and to visit and encourage the weaker societies.
 After a thorough discussion of the sub" feet 1t was given into the hands or the Executive Committee with power to act In the matter of finding a suitable woman for this work.
 The week preceding the annual meeting of the Missionary Union will be set aside as A week of prayer by the missionary societies in the East Alabama Prespy tery. This was the. suggestion or me President, which was adopted by, tne Union. .,
 After A song. Onward Christian Sol. dier," an interesting paper, the suDJect ol which was How can we increase interest in missions" was read by Mrs J. W DIrr. IT,, in which she advocates an in- crease of prayer and spiritual interest. She made a strong plea for the renewal of the "old fashioned sentiment"-spirit- uality. She spoke touchingly or the pathetic and beautiful lives of some or the church's missionaries and ended with an exhortation to women to reach out across the seas to help to bring ngnt and hope and peace into the lives or Jour sisters" in heather lands.
 A paper Progress of Missions in Century" read by Mrs. Halls of Auburn was especially instructive as 1t gave ln- teresting statistics of the work or mis- sion for the foreign fields since the year of 1900, when there were only seven foreign missionary societies, while in 1900 there were 6s7. In 1900 there were in the foreign mission fields, 107 missionaries; nav there are 15,46O. with T,SSS native workers. She gave statistics showing the increase of Bible translations into foreign languages thereby proving theBible to be the most read book in the world. She gave a short history of the first missionary society in the world-founded In England by few Baptist ministers. Mrs. Hailss paper was in every sense of the word a "Foreign Mission one, as 1t gave &C., counts of the work done by the different missions in all the mission fields among the heather nations of the world. also some interesting facts concerning the lives and the work of some of the most prominent missionaries in their especial fields of work.
 Mrs. Allread of Troy read an interest ing paper. the subject of which was Importance of Missionary Societies" She gave some interesting facts concern ing the women of the heather lands. She told of the obstacle in reaching the wo- men of those lands and how those obstacles were removed and of the very great difference in the lives of those wo- men of today and of few years past She spoke of this age as being a "mis- sionary age" and of Gods approved of the work done by women in this cause.
 "Women's Work in Foreign Lands"was the subject of a '1eaflet'' read by Mrs. J. G. Cowan in which the mission problem" was thoroughly discussed. showing the growth of "womans work for women in heather lands. Among many interesting things she read was that the first woman's mission secretary in this country was organized in Boston, Mass to render aid to the Indians and from that small beginning has sprung the many thousand of "Women's Missionary Societies in the world. Special empha- sis was laid on the fact that one of the best effects of the work of women for women' in foreign land is the good ef- feet such work has on the women at home"
 After prayer by the returned missionary. Miss Lizzie wimbish, the meeting ad-