The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-20
WOMANS METHODIST BOARD
 COMPLETE ANNUAL MEETING


| lent library had been installed. Tn Florida Conference donated $400 annn | ally for a pastor or superintendent o
 the city mission work. The superin
 tendent of the city mission work hat | experience in city mission work 1T
 London. The building has schoo
 room. a chapel and extra rooms fo
 boys club, sewing circle, etc. Th' members of the city band are doint valuable rescue work and visits to th'
 sick are regularly made.
 The Committee on Deaconess Worl
 reported that pamphlets have been is
 sued for circulation in Epworti
 Leagues to clearly fix in the minds O the young people of the church wha
 a deaconess Is and how valuable is hel work.
 During the year Miss Estelle Haskir
 and Miss Elizabeth Davis visited col leges in Missouri and North Carolina in the interest of the deaconess work Pledge cards have been distributed
 to reveal to young people the power of surrender of life and the purpose
 of God for the individual.
 Ten young women have been IT | training in the Scarritt Bible and Train ing School of Kansas City. Three ap' plicants who had submitted papers tt | the committee and had been recon. mended for training, voluntarily re- turned before entering the school. Two who had entered were recommended | for another branch of work. Four ap- plications are now before the commit | tee, two have been recommended foI | a course in the training school and the
 other two have been referred to the
 general secretary for further consid- | eration.
 | The nine deaconesses were all given renewal of their certificates, with the
 exception of Miss Amy Rice. who vol
 untarily retired on account of sickness
 Certificates were granted to Miss Mat
 tie Wright, Miss Elizabeth Davis, Miss Annie Heath. Miss Elizabeth Taylor,
 Miss Mary Lockard. Mrs. E. l.. Sorely, Miss Mary Olsen and Miss Maria Elliott The committee also recommended that | a certificate be granted to Miss May
 Wilson of Houston, Texas. who comes from the M. F. Church. duly accred- | tied by her Conference Board of Dea- conesses, and with her certificate of graduation from the Chicago Training School, and of her consecration as a deaconess.
 Calls for deaconesses are largely in excess of the supply. Requests have
 been received from the following: City Mission Board of Albany, Ga; Okla homa City, Ok; Shreveport, La.; Tam pa. Fla, Pensacola, Fla, and Tyler, Texas, also from Rev. c. M. Gibson, Fl Paso, Texas; Rev. J. W. Perry, Knox viIie, Tenn: Rev. W. A. Morgan. Ma con, Ga; Rev. P. L. Cobb, Mexico City. Montgomery City Mission. Mrs. W. H. Thomas reported that the work In the Montgomery city mission was in a formative state. A day nurs- cry has been established. and a school Is in operation in North Montgomery. The city mission board Is also conduct ing a series of readings for boys, who cannot be made to go to school.
 Dr. J. A. Rice also spoke of the work in Montgomery. He said that Mrs. Thomas had been too modest in her report The Board had accomplished much but had met many obstacles. He said that when he first came to Mont gomery and 1t was suggested that the Mission Board take up the work among the people of North Montgomery. many of the members replied that their husbands and fathers would not allow them to go out to that factory suburb. Then start in by converting your husbands and fathers," pr. Rice said he advised. The work in North Mont gomery now is progressing finely and the volunteer workers are working with the spirit system of regulars. The speaker deplored the conditions in Montgomery that the pastors were unable to reach the fast infiowing pop ulation. The people from the sur rounding country and other States are pouring into Montgomery. he said. and the pastors have no means of pushing the work of bringing them into the churches. Over 500 girls employed in the stores and factories of Montgom- cry are without religious connection and a trained woman worker Is need ed to direct the work of bringing these people into the church.
 Dr. Rice said that plans had just been submitted to him for the improve ments on the Court Street Church The conditions in Montgomery right now are not ripe for an institutional church but so confident is Dr. Rice that Mont gomery will soon be a great city that
 the improvements will be so construct
 ed that an institutional church may be l installed at any time.
 He made an eloquent plea for a city
 missionary. At the close of his re-
 marks several of the members of the
 board made suggestions as to methods
 of reaching the incoming population. The Committee on Memorials, | through its chairman, Mrs. l.. P. Smith,
 reported unfavorably on the memorial of the Texas Conference for a change
 in the time for electing the members
 of the City Mission Board. The report was concurfed In.
 In response to a memorial from the | Northwest Texas Conference, the Ma
 morial Committee rendered an opinion that 1t was the work of auxiliaries to care for the graves of preachers and their families.
 l The memorial of the North Georgia | Conference Society, asking that the | McEachern Memorial Hospital be To- cated in Atlanta. was answered by the | statement that all the funds for this
 hospital have not been collected md
 tion of the hospital will not be fixed. Miss Belle Bennett, the President, stated that she had just received a message from the Florida Conference Society, promising a beautiful site on the Gulf Coast If the hospital would
 be located in that State.
 The Committee reported that the memorial of the Wesley Memorial Hos- pital for the location of a Deaconess and Nurses Training School there
 would be borne in mind.
 Debate on all these memorials was
 indulged in but in every instance the judgment of the committee was con- cured in.
 Next Place of Meeting. Nominations for the next place of
 meeting were called for
 Mrs Murrell said that St. Louis need
 ed the body to give encouragement to
 the workers in that great city and guaranteed a hearty welcome.
 Mrs. Siler urged the claims of Ashe-