The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-15

girl can graduate unless she can make her graduating dress, and it must also vice after leaving the school.
 The Ann Browder Cunningham Mis- sion and Home at Dallas, Tex, lag giv- en refuge for III girls during the year. individuals have arranged for the board and expenses of the number over forty. Since last May twenty-eight ba- bies were ne D6sn Ssnn Tn m the Home % -four four been in the millinery department, and the other industrial departments have been regularly attended to by all the inmates of the Home.
 A strenuous effort Is being made to develop these girls into rounded char acters, in order that they may go out into life prepared to meet the prob lems which are bound to confront them.
 The department of sociology located at the Scarr.it Bible and Training school. continues to be 2 most i'm lowing statistics give interesting ln- formations: Home Mission Juniors In school. IS; Home Mission Seniors .n school. 4; Home Mission special in school, |: total numbers of members in Home Mission Volunteer Band. B. total number of deaconess applicants (pa- pers placed before the Board before students whose aim it is to do dea- coness work, 12: students supported by Home Mission scholarships, il; Home Mission student paying own expenses working their way through school by service, g.; Home Mission students ready for assignment to work under
 Four courses in sociology have been offered during the year, the subject of courses beings CD Problems of Amer ican Society; t2) Poverty and Chari- sfs cSSrc Srms ams social d s ssrvics s9 labus of each course will be printed during the summer.
 Resume of Work.
 The vital influence of the city mis- sion work upon the social conditions of the South has become more and more apparent to the church. Only pauc- ity of trained workers interferes with great growth in this department. As 1t Is, during the year seven new Boards were organized. making twenty-four City Mission Boards affiliated with our work. Some have not been content to wait for trained workers. but have en- terprised the work through commit- tees. The appended table reveals the character of work. and proportion in which it is carried on:
 Two d4aconess homes. & settlement homes. industrial home for girls over 12 years of age, 26 trained workers. 40 salaried workers. 210 volunteer work Der of children in day nurseries, ! kin dergartens, 299 children In kindergar- ten, 20 industrial schools. LOSS chil- dren enrolled in industrial schools night schools, 1s0 students in night schools, 13 boys clubs, 300 boys in clubs. 5 free reading rooms. 4,ss3 per sons attending free reading rooms. pensaries, gsus 0iIpss i.i5s patients @ % Sreatsd. young woman's clubs. S6 members Of young woman,s I clubs: ,.is 10 Sabba.h .a children in Sabbath schools, 1 door of hope. 134 conversions, 14,065 visits made by workers, and 15,S22 visits made to deaconess and settlement homes.
 ing recognized factor in the church. Nine deaconesses. who have already been consecrated, have given satisfac- aomger afpg ananH Homs hs st yea Los An Maria Elliott. and so effective has her work proved that they are earnestly Elizabeth Taylor has had charge of the Rebecca Sparks Deaconess Home. at Waco,
 During the year two deaconesses from the Methodist Episcopal Church have been employed by City Mission Boards. One of these having trans ferred permanently. will receive eer- after render service among the people with whom she has cast her lot.
 Press and Printed Matter.
 Those who have followed the edito- rials and articles of Our Homes the past year have had a fair training in Bible study and sociology. This year the paper gave $1.000 toward the build ing of the new dormitory at London, The Bulletin, which is now two years old. under the wise administration of Mrs. Edward F. Cook. has given out as the church and secular press. A large number of packages of print ed matter have been distributed d. Tecitly from the SIcs S of the e seeretaIy matter is indicative of intelligent growth.
 The co-operative work of the Home League has called for an increased printing of leaflets. To meet this de- mand, special issues of booklets and lsanets, The Dsacones.s,;" .s,;, The chil- Hospital" have been printed
 The declining health of Mrs. w. c. Ratclifre necessitated her resignation dent for the tithing department. Miss Emma Tuc1zer was elected to the post thus made vacant, and has entered up- on the work with faith and zeal.
 This year has been marked by indi- vidual gifts, which must go on record as demonstrating the interest felt in this particular phase of Church work.
 By the provision of Mrs; Gathsflne
 
 ety was 10 have receved $5,000 for the parsonage loan fund and $2,000 for the Sue Bennett memorial school. This will was contested. and as a result ou- ring this past year s2,4O6.5O for the loan fund and $962.60 for the Sue Ben- nett memorial school were received.
 In the fall Mrs. M. E. Aycock gave S1, 900 to the work, $500 of thIs to be devoted to the current expenses of the Society, and the remaining $500 to be invested in the education and city mis- sion endowment funds. on the annuity plan.
 The John Bennett loan fund of $500, given by Miss Belle H. Bennett in memory of her brother, will ever be of service to the mountain youth of Wcs- tern North Carolina, since that dona- ton is to be used for the benef1t of students at the Brevard Industrial School.
 In memory of an uncle. who was a missionary In Africa in the long ago, Mrs. L. r. Smith has donated s100 to the library at Paine Annex, this H. brary to be known as the John Wesley Morgan Library.
 Miss Mary Bruce gave $50 as d speclal donation to the Italian work at Tampa, and loving hearts at London, Ky. made a like generous donation to the West
 The reading of this encouraging re- port by Mrs. Mcdonnell was closely followed by the women delegates.
 Miss May Robinson sang in melodl- ous soprano, Hear Ye Israel" Miss Robinson, a young woman, sang in par ticularly strong voice, her high notes being especially effective.
 Devotional Services.
 Dr. H. Styles Bradley then conducted singing of a hymn, he led in prayer, and then addressed the delegates on The Masters Blesseds. ;"
 Dr. Bradley took as his text the