The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-06


Lord. teach in the Sunday schools ana
run missionary societies? Men nave
mighty big notions-th1nk they are
the lords of creation and that creation
couldn't run a day unless they were
about and in some way assisting the
machinery. Adam had the world all
to himself awhile. nobody TO Dotner
him-but the Lord saw he was ueau
failure without some sort OF restrain
ing, refining influence. 50 he gave MIN
a woman to be with him-to make
him wasln his face and keep his hair
combed and his nails trimmed, ana
otherwise labor to make himself pre-
sentable. From what we have seen
i'm old bachelors dens, we can form
some idea of how matters were IN
Adams den, when Eve walked in. and
hogan to put things to rights. | don't
sunnose he had made UP his bed of
leaves since the first night he wallowed
ON il. hadn't even thought of such d
thing. He loafed around all day. us.
like fellows do nowadays. and craWled
i'm at night, just as loafers do now.
No. man couldn't run this world
without woman; and. it has peen
found after two Thousand years Of
experience. that man cannot cohaueI
this earth for Christ without the ala
of woman Notwithstanding ola joe
come to pass in the last days (that Is
the 'days of Christ in which : are nv
ine) that your sons and your dauSh-
ters shall proDhesy, the men
nave kept the women IN the pdch-
ground and made themkeep silence III
churches while they IN thelr loruIy
STYLE. have been arrogating TO tneih-
selves the sole right OF DONG an ne
hesying-carrying or sendlng the
eosnel to all the nations OF the
earth. Laterly there has come q
change. Women could not be mace
to keep silence in the churches any
longer. They grew weary and SICK
at heart of the bungling, haif-heafled
way the men were carrying OUT ne
Masters command-"go We mo on
the world and preach the gospel TO
every creature" for they could put
see that it would take an eternity
to give the gospel to every creature IL
the men HAD to have the entire con-
troll Of the work. SO, q few years ago
y few women, filled with the Holy
Ghost, asked permission OF the men
to organize themselves mo a ln %, .'.-
ary society 1t being granted the|
went to work and the results nave
been astonishing.
Speaking only for the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South. the Wo-
mans forelgn Missionary Society
was organized in 1873, when without
experience as fnanciers, and with
very little sympathy from the offl-
Gals of the church, the women be-
gan the work of aiding in the extern
sion of the Redeemers Kingdom.
Since their feeble beginning twenty-siA
wears ago. the Methodist women
of the south have raised one mllllon
seven hundred and forty-four thous-
and, eight hundred and eight doi-
lars and eighty-nine cents. (Sl'f44,-
SOS.S9.) That's big pile OF money.
And with it big things have been
accomplished. The women have with
this money sent about 40 mission
aries to six different countries, to-Wlt:
China, Corea, Japan, Mexico, South
America and Cuba. At this time they
have SIS women in the various heldS
as missionaries, 133 assistants, 70
boarding schools, 90 day schools,
about 5000 women and children I'M
der instruction; kindergartens
hospitals 3 bible schools, llS DlDie
women (whose business it is TO carry
the bible around and read 1t to the
peopIe) 2S3 scholarships, and PROF,
erty, including the Scarritt Training
School, amounting to SllO,ooO.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society has "a Conference Societies
one of which is in the bounds OIL the
raised last year five thousand eight
hundred and seven dollars. Inese
Conference Societies are divided INTO
district societies comprising the terri
tory of the Presiding Elders dls-
trict. In the North Carolina Confer
ence there are nine districts, eacn
managed by a secretary.
The Raleigh district, or Whlch MIS- WI,
r. III. Whitaker is the secretary, held
:. yoaatiOor in I.OlIlSDuTG ldSE
week. commencing the 18th DAY.
Being the lawful husband OF Mrs
Whitaker, and very fond of her COM
pany. and having nothing else TO 40
| asked permission to attend her 10
Louisburg to see the many lflell'9
/ have down there and at the same
time give my presence and approDd-
ton to the occasion.
must turn aside here for mo-
mont tn saw that | was greatly NOR
tified-I may say shamed-When. on
arriving at Louisburg. l beheld the
TERRIBLE disappointment on the llaces
of those good women, half dozen
az more. who came to the depot 10
meet delegates they had been eA-
pecting 1 told some or the sisters
who were Grieving over the fnatte;'
that it was not because the dpSS. .,, -
loved tnem or the cause less, Dut II
might be because big fish cam affcat
i'm shallow water, like little district
meeting; and they ought not 10 ne
blamed for staying out OF the pool'
when they were expecting deeper
pond in which to swim, when the
annual meeting comes on there next
spring. But some of the SISTERS
seemed to think that big fish ought -
take their chances with the slnali
ones; and SO. I'm afraid. dear ap-
sentees you'll not be as welcome
next spring at the big swimming, as
you would have been. if you had al
tended the district meeting ana
shown by your presence that you 90
not despise the day of small THINGS.
The district meeting a failure !.
10, indeed. it was a grand success.
1t could not have been otherwise
than success i'm Louisburg. for the
ladies there know how to make things
succeed.
On Friday evening a reception
which was largely attended was given
ct the Methodist parsonage by the
T.ouisburg Auxiliary. 1t lasted from
eight to eleven O'Clock, and was en-
loved from beginning ito close. and
las the talk of the town next day
because of the pleasure 1T afforded.
saturday morning at 10 o'clock
no District Meeting was opened in