The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-11
THE NEW HAVEN BRANCH.
Ccontinued from Seventh Page.)

bury; Mrs H. E. Small, Goshen.
 Prayer meeting followed the transac- tion of business. An address was made by Rev. E. s. Hume, Bombay, India.
 MT. Hume spoke of his mothers work in India, in training leaders of the Christian community. This same kind of work has been done in the present Bombay school. MT. Hume characterize ed this as multiplication, while much work is addition. He gave little Idea of the extent of the work beyond what the American board supports by their appropriations. Larger sums than these are granted by the government in year ly aid to education, both industrial and intellectual, also for land and buildings for such purposes, and for the hospital lately built in Ahmednagar.
 Much has been given outside of the regular mission channels for the sup port of the orphans. the care of whom forms a part of the missionaries bur- dens.
 As for the results much growth has been witnessed since 1875. A small church of 200 members has grown to a membershop of 1,2O0 and six branch churches, all self-supporting
 MT. Hume spoke of the growth of the native church as the permanent basis for the future. He told of the won derful work of Mrs. Karmarkar and her skill in surgery, lending her aid to the unfortunate wherever she meets them
 The morning session closed with de- votional service conducted by Mrs. w. H. Phipps of Prospect, her theme be- ling Not Forgetting"
 Luncheon was served to all guests at one o'clock, which was the social hour, and gave opportunity to renew ac- lquaintances and Christian friendships. The afternoon session opened at two o'clock with singing the hymn Watch man, Tell Us of the Night" Miss Alice Brown, secretary for junior work, brought the message of the Woman S board. Miss Brown is the daughter of Rev. John K. Brown of Harpoot, Tur- key and gave a practical talk in a very interesting manner. She was fol- lowed by Mrs. Edward $. Hume of Bombay, India.
 | builllS luc dlISIAOOiia ScSolOu Hume made a short report of the Mid dlesex school in Bombay. This day school for Hindu girls has been sup ported by the ladies of Middlesex county and for several years it was one of the most f1ourishing of such schools. Plague made serious inroads into it's members Within the past decade, how ever, over 400 children have had more or less instruction there. Mrs. Hume $ address in the afternoon was, by re- quest, concerning her own work. This she defined to be "the training of the young people who came within her in- fiuence, with reference to richer, fuller service as individual Christians. First, l in their own homes or surroundings; second, in the church and it's varied work; third, In the community about them, with the idea that true success i Is to labor" She instanced the multi- piled results of the work in the large Christian boarding school under their charge. The two first girl graduates are now superintendents of girls schools l in the cities of Ahmednagar and Bonn bay. Four of the young men are set tiled pastors of churches. Two are in one of the leading banks of Bombay, three are clerks in the government state department, another is in the treasury department. One is an architect, who lsuperintended the building of the Ham, rah Hume Memorial hall, which was built by the ladies of the New Haven branch, he also has recently built the new womens hospital in Ahmednagar, land Is now incharge of the building of the large new church in Ahmednagar.
 One is the secretary of one of the mo- blemen of the native state of Hyder- labad; another woman, is the legal adviser of the widow of another noble-
 man in the same native state, on sal ary of $500 year, besides being fur nished a house, and other perquisites being granted her.
 Mrs. Hume gave an illustration of the far-reaching influence of Mother | ame in the family of her first we'll trained Indian school girl, Martha Bai Bhor. one of whose sons is an engineer on the great water scheme for southern India, the Cauvery water works. He draws a salary of $S,5oO year. Two other sons, as we'll are graduates of Oxford, and now are practicing law in India. A fourth and two daughters are much es- lteemed as teachers in the city of Bonn bay. The success of their industrial classes also was instanced. Mrs. Hume lclosed with the quotation from Mark ham:
 Each true deed is worship;
 It is prayer, and carries it's own answer l unaware.
 1.-The souls that live and labor
 Lay the deep foundation, stone by stone,
 And build into eternity Gods throne.' 1 Mrs. w. w. MacLane read an origin al poem on "The Higher Call to the
 Work that Abides,'' which will appear lin to-morrow's Courier.
 Mrs. Wm. B. Cogswell of Stratford
 gave an address bringing to the ac- tquaintance of all the missionaries whc had lately entered upon their work.
 Mrs. Cogswell spoke of Our Young
 Missionaries by Birth or Adoption" of
 Miss Wilson of Harpoot, who is enjoy ling the stimulating air 4,000 feet above the sea, and thinking she had delight full field for work; Miss Norton of Salis- bury, who is already teaching games land songs in the Kindergarten, while learning the language of Mrs. Elizabeth Hume; Hiewshyer, who with her hus- band is taking up the responsibility ot 1.-the school in her parents absence; o1 Mrs TIapnrah H11ynn I ,na 'St1Idviner fhe