The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-12-10
DURHAM is AETER
BAPTIST WOMEN
Ten thousand for State
Missions Next Year.
EARNEST WORK DONE
Today the Live Topic Mill be Whether
the Woman's Missionary Union
Shall Not Hereafter Meet at
Different Place From State
Convention.


having such a great attendance at
the meeting here and the organiza-
ton has grown so greatly that today
there will be a discussion which may
cut it loose from meeting at the same
time and place as the Baptist State
Convention.
There is a strong feeling in the
Union that this should be done, and
in case it is, the probability is that
the meeting next year will be in Dur
ham ats Greensboro is after the Bap-
fist State Convention and the indi-
cations are that it will go to that
place for 1906.
The meeting yesterday was a very
large one, the delegates and visitors
filling up the First Baptist church.
The opening exercises of prayer and
praise were i'm charge of Mrs. Henry
of WadeSboro. the minutes being read
by Mrs. d. Rich, of Winston Salem.
The roll showed that 141 delegates
were present at the morning session,
others coming in later.
The splendid showing of the Sun
beam Bands. this concerning mission
work among the children, was a fea-
submitting her report on the work,
Miss Elizabeth Briggs, of Raleigh the
superintendent Of the Bands, spoke
interestingly and effectively, ask
ing for more workers among the
children. There were reports from
Ia Bands. and the money given
amounts to $1,102.64.
The report of the committee on
Home Missions was presented by Mrs.
3 - of no rtn
which it was recommended that the
contribution to Home Missions be in
creased from $2,3f1.00 to $4,000, this
recommendation being adopted after
talks on the need of the increase.
The first to speak was Miss Marie
Buhlmslier. of Baltimore, who has
dome much special work among the
immigrants in that city. She spoke
earnestly of the needs in Home Mis-
sions work, her ringing words and
eaker arguments impelling to greater
endeavors. In her remarks she told
that of the twenty eight million i'm
migrants only sixty thousand are
Baptists, and that as a, denomination
the Baptists have great opportunities
in having these people brought to
their very doors.
The next to speak was Miss M. F.
Sullinger. of Fruitland Institute, in
Henderson county, whose theme was
the mountain schools of North Caro-
lima, and the need for mission work
among the young people in western
North Carolina She told that the
girls and boys, young men and young
women attending the mountain
schools are accustomed to work and
to keep on working as well as being
earnest in studies, here telling that
the needs of the schools are many.
both for furnishings and for enlarge
ment. In the same tenor spoke Miss
Beaulah Bowden, of Marc Hill Insti-
tute, who told of the work and I'M
complaining self-Sacrifces of the
teachers and students in mountain
schools, in the school at Mars Hill.
six States being represented as there
is a. healthful situation and oppor-
tunities for self-support
An earnest appeal was made by Mr..
A. T.. Brown, one of the vigorous
workers in Home Missions, to the
women to join the Emergency
Fund" He wants ten thousand wo-
men in the South pledge themselves
to give one dollar once a year when
called on in an emergency. This is
to be besides their usual contributions
The matter will be discussed later by
the convention.
Mrs c. M. " Follett, of Durham
the General Organizer for the Wo-
mans Missionary Union in North Car
DINA, talked most charmingly on
missionary Journeys telling of her
travels of 1900 miles in the state
since last April, during which she had
organized 81 missionary societies. She
graphically told of her visits to So
cieties and to the place where she
organized societies, having spent sew
eral months in Eastern North Caro-
lima and the summer in the extreme
western part of the State. The stories
of the earnest workers throughout the
State were of so great interest as to
stimulate and strengthen those who
heard. Mrs. Follett in her tour, or
ganized thirty WomanS Missionary
Societies, fourteen Young Ladies So
cieties. and forty-six Sunbeam Socle-
ties for children.
An interesting feature of the meet
ing was the introduction of twenty
one Association e-PreSidents who
represent the work in dieffrent Asso-
Citations of the State from the noun
tains to the sea. AS each reported.
the district represented was pointed
out on large map hung in the
church.
Today the meeting will be of in
terest, and among other things no visi-
tor should miss seeing the splendid
Missionary Museum in the Sunday
School room in charge of Mrs. M. w.
Croker of Raleigh. who has a splen-
did collection of articles concerning
mission places loaned by friends in
Raleigh, the collection being a re-
markable one. The exhibit can be
seen from II to in the Sunday school
room
The meeting today is expected to
he larger than on previous days. for
there are $50 societies in the State
entitled to delegates The last meeting
will be held this morning, and on
Sunday afternoon at three o'clock in
the First Baptist church there will be
a mass meeting to which all the ladies
are invited.
Program for Saturday
$50 a. IN Devotional exercises in
First Baptist church.
The Margaret Home for Mission
aries Children
Report of Committee on Time and