The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1904-05-25
BY NANCY c. MORROW.
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many beautiful portraits to hang on
memory's wall, that vie with the artists
brush. The faces of these devoted chris
tian women who have consecrated time,
strength, wealth and culture to the Lords
work, glow, like the missionaries, with
divine love-
We would like 10 introduce you 10 all
but that is an impossibility. But there
are some whom you must meet. Here is
Miss Lucille Flanigen, editor of Over Sea
and Land, with her pleasant Scotch and
Irish face and crown of silvery white
and there is Miss Ellen c. Parsons, editor
of Woman's Work tor Woman, whose
dark brown eyes lake in everything
around her, as her splendid articles on
What They are Doing in Asia, have shown
to the readers OF that excellent magazine.
Her kind heart and tender sympathy for
the distressed were revealed in her ad-
dress, "Women Whom Met in Asia" in
which she made an appeal for the idle
worshipers in all parts and asked special
prayers for the distressed women of Chi
ma whose suffering is made the more..in-
tense, on account of the present war.
Miss Parsons is opposite to Miss Flani-
gan in stature, as in LOOKS, and might be
easily lest in crowd, but her heart and
brain are large enough to encompass the
world and to tell to the one half how the
other half lives. Some of the worlds
richest treasures are done up in little
packages, and we are all the more con.
vinced of this when we meet one of the
home corresponding secretaries, Mrs.
VIM. Waters, of Philadelphia. The
b'aming countenanco of tLis little wo-
man and her gracious bearing help us to
forget the surprise that the spirit and en-
ergy of one who so well fulfills the onor-
GUS duties of her office, should he encased
in so small a body. And here is Miss
Rachel Lowrie, a young woman of great
executive ability, whose special work is
to send copies of letters from our mis-
sionaires to the secretaries of Presbyter-
ial societies, but whose help in various
departments is of untold value to the
Woman's Board. All Christian Endeay-
orers will be interested to meet their sec
retary, Mrs. f. Boyd Weitzel, whom we
wish everybody could know personally,
as well as Miss Margaret Il. Hodge, Sec.
retary for Bands. We were initiated into
the work of the Board with the Presby-
teria society through these faithful Sec
retarles, whose remarkable patience suf-
tered long while we learned to solve the
intricate problems that confronted the
new Presbyterial secretary. And the de-
ightiul manner in which they conducted
The round table, or conference on Young
peoples work which they had endeay-
bred to have us understand through cor
was an education in itself.
Miss Hodge is sister of Courtlaud Van
Rensselaer, Hodge, M. D., who, with his
wife, Mrs. Elsie Sinclair Hodge
vas martyred at Paotingfu, China, June
10Th, 1900, and she bears strong resemb-
'NANS w iNA hOhbA Nh biOlutIs
But what is a missionary convention
without missionaries For, as DR.. Ly-
nan Beecher once said, "A rosebud of
experience is worth a whole armiul of
lowers from anybody else's garden, "and |
lere are many whom we recognize from
heir orange ribbons, as those who have
)orne the heat and burden of the day, 1t
S hard to associate names and faces from
he short introduction on the platform.
Iut we cannot forget their earnest plead |
ngs for prayer and recruits in their min |
ate speeches. There are some though,
whom we cannot forget, and some who |
lad the privilege of speaking twice |
whom we have associated with their
work. One of special interest to all was
Mrs. j. G. Hepburn who, with her hus-
Jand, was among the first missionaries
o go to Japan from the Presbyterian
'hurch. Mrs. Hepburn and her venera.
ole husband are in their nineties, and
when this sainted mother in. Israel WAS
introduced Sue was greeted with tho
salute, and while she spoke
Ihe audience was brea thless and eager to
catch every word She has still quite a
clear, pleasant voice and told of her early
work III Japan which is now bearing rich
more than a hundred fold
Some of her early pupils are diplomats
at various courts, one of whom is now at
the Court Of ST. James. Mrs. Hepburn is
much interested in the present war be-
tween Japan and Russia and stated that
some of the japanese officers who have
been killed were once her pupils and ell
uers IN the Presbyterian church. DR..
Mary Fulton, of China, was, without
doubt, the most charming speaker at the
convention. This, perhaps, and the ex-
celItht work she has done, las endeared