Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-10
W0MAN1ST MISSIONS
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
SOCIETY IN SESSION TODAY.
Needs Of Workers In India Detailed by
Bishop Warne-Reports Of
iiofhcers.

Two business sessions Of the annual meet
Ing OF the Woman's Foreign Missionary So
ciety of the M. e. Church, Washington Dis
trict Association, were held in the Metro
politan M. E. Church today. Mrs. M. 8.
Huston. vice president at large, presided at
both.
At the morning session the devotional ex-
ercises were conducted by Mrs. E. D. Hunt
ley. Mrs. s. NJ. Hartsock read the Bible
lesson. The remainder of the program in
cluded greetings by the pastor OF the
church. Rev. Frank NJ Bristol; greetings
sent by the President, read by Mrs. }.
Ellen Foster; solo. Mrs. WEIGH; report OF
corresponding secretary. Mrs. r. NJ Moore;
report of treasurer, Mrs. F. w. Rodrlck; re-
port of assistant treasurer, Miss Ada "A.
Fowler: reports from the following super
intendents of special works. Mrs. H. A.
Hall, Mrs. ]. F. Engle Mrs. j. B. Middleton,
Mrs j. NJ Holmes, Mrs. E. D. Huntley.
Miss Louise DuvalI, Mrs Warne. wife OF
Bishop Frank w Warne of India, al
dressed the meeting.
The report of the treasurer, already men
toned, gave the receipts Of the local or
ganization for the past year as $4,2l9.oz.
A short prayer service was held at hoon
1t was followed by a sociak hour ana
luncheon served in the church lecture room
At the afternoon session Bishop Warne
addressed the ladies on the needs of the
mission field of India, saying, among otne1
things, that a stenographer and typewriter
was needed there to aid generally IN tne
work of the missionaries More reports
and the election of officers will constitute
the business of the late afternoon
Address Yesterday.
Bishop Warne addressed the members or
the society yesterday afternoon on his mis-
sion work in India. Bishop Warne Is sta
toned at Lucknow India and spoke enter
tainingly of his efforts to Christianize the
natives of that country. The meeting was
called at 3 o'clock, with Mrs. Huston pre-
siding, in the place Of Mrs. j. Ellen roster,
who Is absent from the city. Presidlng
Elder Henry Nailor and Rev. Robert Moore
of the Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church
assisted in the services.
Bishop Warne told the congregation that
every fifth child born in the world looks up
into the face of an Indian mother, mother
of the same race to which the prevailing
race on this continent belongs.
1.-The difference between them and our
selves" said the speaker, sis mostly a mat
ter of religion. Our fathers left the inland
plains and went to the west and there came
under the enlghtening influence of Jesus
Christ; their fathers left the plains and
went to the south and east to embrace false
philosophers and idola try"
These people, so closely akin, he described
as living by a far different standard Elk
cepting the British officials, who were the
best friends the missionaries have in India.
and the owners of the land, the people of
India are poor. huddled together in villages,
and living in huts, with few of the things
which Americans consider the necessities of
living.
The great difference in the religions, he
went on to explain. is idolatry. He de-
scribed some of the horrible scenes he had
encountered in the worship of the millions
of idols and the degrading influences at
tached thereto. Bishop Warne told the So
ciety that nothing is more appropriate than
for the woman in Christian lands to send
the Bible and the light to her sister in the
heather land.