The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-24
METHODIST E. CHURCH, SOUTH.

Prior to 1873 there was no legally
authorized organizations for Woman's
work in the NJ. E. Church, South
Almost every church had its local
aid society to assist in building and
furnishing churches and parsonages.
In the Sunday schools. in the sick
room. administering to the wants of
those in distress. our women were
abundant in labors, but the ''fulness
of time" had come when God opened
their eyes to see that He had need
of their services in the regions be-
yond fields were white unto
the harvest the barriers were re-
moved in the opening of ports to for
eigners-the Macedonian cry was
heard from India and China, Come
over and help us
To this call was added that of the
missionary telling of the imperative
need of women whose hearts were
aflame with love to God and with zeal
for saving souls. There were hun
dreds of women shut up in Zenanas
and harems where man was not al
lowed to enter but where Christian
women could easily gain admission,
and soon the way would open to tell
the old. old story of Jesus and His
love- and thus bring light and JOY
into those hitherto joyless hearts and
benighted homes.
In May 1878. elect women of the
M. T.. Church, South, from different
sections of our Southland went before
the General Conference, then in ses-
sion in Atlanta with the request that
a Woman's Foreign Missionary So
ciety should be organized. and the
good women of our church be granted
the privilege of Joining in the glorious
work for Him who had made their
lives to differ so from their heather
sisters. 1t was accomplished and with
glad hearts the women returned to
their homes to perfect plans to or
ganiZe societies and send out mission
aries to carry the glad tidings of sal
walton to the women and children in
heather lands. And now after twenty
six years of organized effort the Wo-
mans Foreign Missionary Society, o.
the NJ E. Church, South, has repre-
sentatives in China, Korea, Brazil,
Mexico, Cuba, and Indian Territory,
with their Bible schools, day schools,
boarding schools, kindergartens and
hospitals. Since the organization this
society has raised to carry on this
noble work $1,744, S0S.S9. Property
owned by our Woman's Board, $415,-
600. This includes the Scarritt Bible
and Training School in Kansas City
Mo, in which a grand work is being
done in training young women not
eign fields, but for deaconess work
in the homeland-for Sunday school
work and for trained nurses of the
sick. OF this institution and of its
gifted and consecrated principal-Miss
Maria L. Gibson--Who has ever since
it's erection guided it's management sc
wisely and we'll we are justly proud
Its graduates and representatives are
now in our several mission fields and
the demand for SIlcb trained work
is constantly increasing.
In 1887 the Woman's Home Mission
Society was organized for the purpose
"of securing homes for itinerant
preachers, in providing religious in
struction for the neglected, and desti-
tute. and in otherwise aiding the cause
of Christ"
From the Aast report of the treas
urer we see the society gave to par
sonages last year $13,122.96. Sent $50
boxes of supplies to destitute places
valued at $19,939.1S.
support schools in London Ky.
Breyard n. c., Cuban Schools, Chi
nese and Japanese schools in Caifor-
| MIA. A mission home i'm Dallas, Tex.
and Paine Annex, Augusta, Ga. City
mission work carried on in seventeen
cities. TWenty-nine missionaries be
| ing employed. Total receipts since
organization. $1,011,749.35.
| will close this imperfect sketch
of woman's work in the M. il. Church
South, by quoting from an address OF
one Of our Bishops, 1T would be un.
| just to our church not to mention
| the admirable service our godly wo.
| men are rendering. They are MOI
men. and do not seek to be, but are
what God intended them: helpmeets
| for men-just as meet in the church
as in the family and inst as va Ina hle
not to say Indispensable
MRS. LUCY CUNINGGIM.
Greensboro, n. c., Nov. %.
SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH.