The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-07
WOMANSxBOARD HOLD
REGULAR MONTHLY SESSION

In France in 1885 there were ten
Protestant churches, now these are one
hundred and five. Though the Protest
ants of France now number but two per
cent of the population, yet these are
prominent in official life. One-eighth of
the Chamber of Deputies are Protest
ants, two-thirds of the banks are said
to be under Protestant interest, many
magnates and officials, especially in the
departments of education, are Protest
ants.
In the last few years one thousand
priests have left the Church of Rome
and it is said only the prospect of
imminent starvation deters as many
more. A Fraternal Order has been
started in Paris with a view of obtain
ing work for these priests, movement
which is one of the deepest in Church
history. Many of these priests are
studying in theological seminaries with
a view to become Protestant preachers.
What" concluded the speaker,
would not be the possibilities of
France with the powers of her mer-
curial, talented people allied to God.
The winged words of Mirabeau are still
applicable God is as necessary as Lib
erty to France"
THE FURTHER PROCEEDINGS
The annual collection for the sArme-
MAN mission was then taken I'D. Mrs.
Whitney announced the annual meeting
of the w. c. T. U. as scheduled for
next Tuesday week, October 20, at her
residence and invited all present to
come. The meeting was to be an open
one and would be addressed by Mrs.
Waterhouse. who would tell of her ex-
periences at the worlds meeting Of the
Union in Switzerland.
Miss Myers, but two months arrived
from eighteen months of medical work
in China, was invited to address the
gathering and gave experiences of her
work in the Canton Hospital. This in
stitution, the only hospital in Canton
and Southern China, was founded in
1887 for the Chinese by Chinese. When
Miss Myers left there were three hun
dred patients in the hospital and she
quoted as an example of the magnitude
of the work the number of 200 patients
for one year, 100 of whom lived in the
hospital. Operations to a great number
/ had been conducted by the present doc
tor in charge, who, to Miss Myers S
knowledge, has never, for fifteen years,
averaged more than five hours sleep in
the twenty-four. Three hundred catar-
act cases were treated last year with
no failures and out of the large number
of patients only sixty-one died. In
stances of Chinese observation-disclosures
was shown when the hospital commit
tee. composed mainly of Chinese, voted
against precedent to receive cases of
infectious disease from the q. S. gun
boat Monterey two years ago.
Miss Myers was appointed physician
to the late Chinese Consul for Hawaii
who personally gave $1,000 towards the
establishment of a new hospital which
is now approaching completion. In con-
clusion Miss Myers summed up the Chi
nese, here and in the Orient, as ready
and willing to learn and aid, and well
worth working for. There is at pres
ent, says Miss Myers, no hospital for
foreigners in Canton and only one bed
at their disposal in the present Chinese
hospital
Mrs. L. Severance of Hilo gave a few
brief notes of the good work being con-
Quoted in her district and Mrs. Collins
OF Minnesota spoke of work in that
state.
Mrs Andrews, in closing the meeting.
spoke OF the desire to have teachers at
tend these meetings even IL late in
coming. She also emphasized the work
of the Research Club and asked for the
general help of the members of the
young men composing it, particularly
the strangers towards whom all the
mothers of the church should feel a
close interest. The Armenian collection
and the regular collection both netted
some forty dollars. A hymn closed the
meeting. Several photographs of the
exterior and interior of the old Fort
street church were laid on the pres
ident's table for free distribution by
Mrs T. H. Hebron.