The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-07-19
Meeting of Womans Missionary Union.

alr. Editor: Wednesday morning,
July IL, gOOdly number of women
met at the First Baptist Church in
thls city to attend the first independent t
meeting OF the WOman's Missionary
mon. The Union has growa 30
larRe that the meetings cannot be sue
GeIsstu.y cIssa held at the same time and
place with tho parent body, and this
ilrst independent meeting was go
very successful that We will never
want to go back to the old Way.
Inc first hour of the meeting we
were pleasantly surprised to have DR..
Len. G. Broughton, of Atlanta, with
US, and he kindly consented to con
auct the opening exercises. He gave
us such a fine talk ON prayeroths
key word of our meetingFaHd gave
touching illustrations OF :he power of
prayer, which, he said, was the great
est thing in the world. May his talk
bear much fruit.
Next Mrs. Rosa Bowen, of Bolton.
read very fine paper on Hannah,
awelling especially on the sacrifice
.hat she made in giving her little
samuel to be trained up in the work Of
inc LORD, and tOuchingly spoke of the
yearly visits to her little son, carving
iiiim d little coat that she had made for
him.
Next Mrs. j. w. Quattlebaum gave q
snort address OF welcome in the ab-
senee OF the appointee. Mrs. Paget.
>, Ihlrty- three Societies. seventeen
Bands and two Sunday School classe 8
were represented.
her report OF her years work, and right
here lot me say if any one doubts the
wisdom of the Association in sustain
ing woman missionary, they should
nave been here to have those doubts
removed.
A collection for Margaret Home, in
Greenvll!e, ). C., home for mission
aries children was taken, and we ad :.
jOurned for dinner. We were invited
into the Sunday School room, whore
long tables had been prepared and a
most sumptuous dinner was served
Two hours we spent in a delightful
social way after which the Lebanon
Willing Workers and Orrvllle Little
Lights gave us beautiful object lessons
OF now the children can be trained to
work for missions.
The tields specially emphasized were
Mexico and the Indians. The Indian
tent and Mexican dress were represen-
ted by the Willing Workers. Then
Miss Mary Taylor gave good talk on
Missions among the Indians of Florida,
where she had lived several years.
THURSDAY morning the Bible Lesson
on D9rcas, was conducted by Mrs.
VIM. Laughlin, who read a very excel
lent paper prepared by Mrs. $. p. Cos
Next Rev. G.. S. Blackburn. who
was prevented from lecturing Wednes-
day night by the rain, gave us good
talk on medical missions in Persia.
which was much enjoyed.
Then very fine talk was made on
Brazil by Mrs. w. E. Entzminger, who
has spent many years there.
Mrs. Entzminger made special re-
quest of this Union She said: "Will
someone give daughter to go back
with me to Brazil to teach in our Mis-
sion Schoolf"
She asked tho women all to unite in
prayer Tor q young woman to teach in
Brazil, and dwelt specially on the need
of education on the mission fields.
A very. very fine paper on "The
Possibilities Of Young Womanhood''
wish all the girls could have heard it..
colIectlon for hospital at Yang
ChoW, China, and equipment of our
MT. Schools was taken.
Dinner wac then served, after wh:c',
the usual reports of committees were
made and resolutions of THANKS to the
women of Anderson for their enter
t"auluOuC were auOpCeQ.
The closing hour was given to Miss
Mary Taylor, who gave us such a
sweet, spiritual talk on Conservation
living for Christ and having more of
Him in US.
The committee on time and place,
reported Bolton First Church and time
"Wednesday and Thursday before the
third Sunday in July, 1906.
Inc officers elected for next year are
as follows: President, Mrs. W. T.
Tate, OF Belton; Secretary. Mrs. L. o.
Robinson, of First Creek; Representa-.
tive of Fret District, Misa Cora Shir-
ley; 2nd District, Mrs. Walter Ander-
SOD; 3rd District, Airs. j. G. Duck
worth. The Superintendent, Miss
Jeffie Edwards, is appointed by the
State Union.
The Union has contributed 81, 81
for all it's work. -:
Mrs. Chapman presided, and was
equal to all emergencies, but refused
to let her name be used in the election
for neXt year, as she is President of
State Union. -
The spirit of the meeting was fine.
We will work harder than ever during
the next year. A. E. e.