New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-27
METHODIST CONVENTION.
[ Bazaar, Missionaries and Good
| .Speeches Are Features.

V-All hail. beloved! Keep on working years
ara years. till Gods kingdom comes
These words. among the last uttered by the
late Mrs. Mary Clarke Mind, ana recalieu ny
one of her associates at her memorial service
Yesterday. might well serve as the keynote of
the great seven-day missionary meeting Which
the Methodist Episcopal women of the country
opened in ST. Paurs Methodist Episcopal Church
Yesterday They opened it in a glow Of enthu-
xias,n. devotion and joy, which bids fair to
increase as the days go ~ and the NUMBERS
are augmented
I'VE aren't all here by any means yet" as one
sister put it, only about three hundred of US
Two facts made the women feel very happy.
The past year has seen a great opening up Oh
new territory: it has brought nearly sooo'oo
into the organizations. coners-nearly sl4ooo
more than was contributed last year
Everything presages a great work for the
Methodist missionaries and their supporters.
Through the exertions OF the hospitality commit
tee of which Mrs Robert Bagnell is chairman,
every arm Of the service and every need OF the
visiting women has received recognition. A pri-
vate meeting room for each committee; q rest
room where tea is served afternoons; writing
rooms. colored maid, a telephone. express and
telegraph office. a miniature postoffice and a
dining room where meals are served twice day
are at the disposal of the delegates.
the missionaries and trophies of a vanquished
heathendom lent by the Methodist Book Con-
Germ, a bazaar has been arranged in one of the
upper classrooms that is one Of the sights Of
the convention.
Yesterdays morning session was occupied with
reports of the work done during the year in the
home branches. In the afternoon a sweet service
was held Ii memory Of Mrs. Nind-"the little
bishop" as she was called-after which Miss
Louise Manning Hodgkins addressed the aud
fence on 1.-THE Crusade for the Cross The
feature OF the evening meeting was the presence
fmany OF them being in foreign Dress Of the
ffey or more missionaries who are supported
In foreign fields by the society. Mrs. John Legg,
/ Of Worcester. Mass, president OF the New-Eng-
land branch, introduced each in turn and there
we're addresses by Mrs. S. L. Baldwin and Mrs
"A H Eaton presidents of the New-York and
Baltimore branches respectively.
MISSIONARY IN TIBET
Among the foreign missionaries at the con-
.vsntion none are more popular than DR.. Martha
a. Sheldon. the medical missionary from Blot,
away UP on the Indian frontier OF Tibet.
Talk about Colonel Younghusband and the
British penetrating to Lhasa!" exclaimed one
proud delegate. ''Why. our DR.. Sheldon has
Ib>en running to and fro between India and
Tibet for years pastl"
II.
thinning to turn gray and an inveterate dislike OF
talking about herself. Next to the fact that she
- probably the first English speaking woman to
enter Tibet the most interesting thing about
her IL that she supports herself in Blot by her
profession and by the products OF her farm.
"Ive been 70 Tibet four times she told q
Tribune reporter 1.-THE first three times we
went simply physicians. pitching tent
here and there and distributing drugs and
Bibles. But each time turned back by
servants Of the government who set guards
about US Once We had thirty men around oul
tent We have made it q rule never TO resist
but 70 go back IS slowly possible and this
was what we Gid now
Tho fourth tine went dressed as Bhotiye
women, and this time Were able TO get fan
rs Takalokote. the capital of that part Of Tibet
without detection Then we sent word 10 ths
ra1ah asking for the privilege OF remaining
week This was denied and we were told VIZ
must leave at once
.arf,is year things are better added the In
trepid doctor lowing TO Colonel Younghusband'