The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-19
MRS. SEXTON MAKES
 ELOQUENT APPEAL
MEETINGS OF WoMAN's BOARD OF HOME MISSIONS IN MONT GoMERY HAVE BEEN FULL OF INTEREST.

Montgomery, April 1S.-(speciaL)-rh
 mornings session of the seventh annual
 meeting of the Womans Board of Home
 Missions In the Methodist church, south,
 was called 10 order at o'clock by the
 president.
 After the usual devotional service and
 opening exc. eises the board proceeded to
 the work of unfinishd business. taking up
 the hearing of reports that for lack of tin was carried over from yesterdays
 session.
 Miss Bennett, president of the board
 and superintendent of the mountain work
 in Kentucky. made an interesting repo-s
 of the worK
 | Rev. NJ. Sexon, pastor of the Central
 Methodist church of Galveston, Tex, | travelled more than one thousand miles | to meet with the Mission Board and lay before them the needs of the field in
 which ho lsbors, for the services of a | 1t aconess.
 MT. Sext n spoke eloquently and at l length upon Galveston as a field that | rad naeda crying need-for the work | Of missionaries He drew vivid and re- a'istic picture of the needs of that sec- | ton of the country In this plea for a
 
 affixed that for the services of the ten or tweiav ordained women there were
 more than One hundreds calls, yet, in his knowledge Of the whole southern church | he knew of DO section that needed more l the services of one of Il fese conseeratd women ths1 did G lvcston and that sec | tion of the country.
 As the wnrk of today was 10 be along the lines of reports on ctiy mission work, | the local obard invited Miss Mckinney. | superintendent of the Neighborhood | House. the Episcopal mission work at ! West End, to cnme before the board and | report the work that the Episcopal peo- pie of thls city are accomplishing along | this lins
 | The Episcopal people of this city have | builded-and builded we'll Their plant at West End Is in fourishing condition and the wort. that is being done there
 day by day will live long after the work
 CTS have passed to their eternal reward | Miss Mckinney made a fine report of
 the work, which was enthusiastically re-
 ccived, on the basis that what is being
 accomplished by one denomination can | be, under like circumstances. and with | equal force and energy expended accom- | plisned by other denominations. What
 the god peorle of tho Episcopal church | have accomplished at West End can be done equally as well by the Methodist penpie Ill dEother qua) ter or the c1ty. | Miss Mabel Howell professor of sociol- | ogy in the Scarritt Bible and Training | school at tansas City reported on the | city mission work of the Methodist | church, South, taking as her subject | Suggestions for City Mission Boards" an1 gave much valuable information, to- ecther with nnny helpful suggestions to | t'losa who desire CT contemplate making | city missions tieif life work. Mrs Charles Campbell sang, as a solo, the beautiful song I'm a Pilgrim, I'm a | Stranger.
 Tie closing 6e> otional hour was con oucted by nr. fl s Bradley, after which | the board ahJ, tuned for luEch. The afternoon scssion was called to or l der at o'clock with the usual devotional l service, after which the work carried | over from the morning was tagen up and completed. "School of Methods, Prayer Life" was the afternoon topic, and that, together with committee meetings, fn- ished up the days work. D. m.-Devotional service. Address "Evangelization," Dr. H. s. Bradley