The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-13
IT, .-t WOMAN'S MISSION BOARD
ANNUAL SESSION OF NEW HAVEN
 BRANCH IN WATERBURY.
Large Gains in nContributions aud Many Legacies During Yenr-Tributs 10 Late Miss Humc-Interosttng Papers Read-- Officers Elected.

The First church in Waterbury was we'll filled at the annual session of the New Haven branch of the Womans S Board of Missions, which opened at 9:15 yesterday morning with a prayer meeting in the conference room. The morning session proper opened in the audience room of the church at 10 o'clock.
 The home secretary, Mrs T. H. Shell don, of New Haven, reported that the past year has been one of more than usual interest among the auxiliaries. The desire to rise to present day needs has been strongly marked and a spirit of persistent endeavor apparent. The most important movement of the year has been the effort to secure a perma- nent advance in contributions at home to meet the growth of the work abroad, The executive committee of the Wom- | ans Board assigns to the New Haven branch $16,0O0 as it's proportion of the amount needed annually to support the work of the board. This $16,000 is for | the pledged work, exclusive of the mon- ] ey needed for branch expenses Some societies have already raised the amount asked from them, and others have pledged it for next year. The fin- portance of making this advance per- manent was urged.
 Mrs. Sheldon reported the resignation of Mrs. Washington Choate as one of the vice-presidents of Fairfield county, fot, h branch in the death of Miss Abbie B, Child, home secretary of the Woman $ Board, and of Mrs. H. D. Hume, the | last of the charter members of the 1 branch and it's corresponding secretary since it's formation. Appropriate reso- lutions on the death of Mrs. Hume, which had been prepared by the execu- tive committee, were presented.
 The lesson of personal responsibility y was the one to be drawn from the ex- periences of the year.
 | The report of Miss Lillian E. Prud- den, of New Haven, of the junior de- partment, dealt with the educational value of such work as the Woman S Board fosters among children and young people. While religious educa- tion by no means keeps pace with sec ular education, she instanced the work of many volunteer educators in her de- pertinent as fully equal to that ot trained teachers and in accordance with the truest principles of modern pedagogy. She thought a multiplied. 1 tion of such agencies a better form o1 advance than any other that could be undertaken and the method most likely to secure the money advance so mucl | needed.
 The report of the treasurer showed | large gains in contributions to suppor the branch work. One gift of $1,000 hat been received from friend in Nev Haven for the general work, also twt gifts amounting to $500 had been made which, with great pleasure to tn
 branch, were appropriated for tn
 building at Ahmednagar in memory o the late Miss Abbie B. Child.
 There were two legacies, one iron
 Mrs. Flora A. Edwards, of Kent, am
 one from Mrs. Julia A. B. Hemingway
 of the Pilgrim church, New Haven.
 The foreign secretarys report wa
 prepared by Mrs. w. B. Danfortn, c
 New Haven, in which she first paid tn
 following tribute to Mrs. Hume:
 ''The compiler of the foreign secre
 tary's report for the New Haven branc { in 1902 felt that she was but serving a
 substitute for the senior secretary
 Mrs. H. D. Hume.. In 1903, again a