The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-13
WOMEN ARE
 NOW ARRIVING. Reception to Methodist
 Delegates Tonight. BOARD OF HOME MISSIONS Business Sessions Will Begin
 Tomorrow Morning. Notable visitors From All Sections of south Coming to Montgomery to Discuss Important Work
 of Church.

Delegates to the Seventh Annual Session of the woman's Board of Home Missions, which begins tonight at the Court Street Methodist Church began to arrive last night and for sev- eral days the incoming trains will be crowded with delegates to this most important meeting for women of the Southern Methodist Church.
 Over 500 delegates are expected to tees from the Montgomery organiza- been busy securing homes and plan- ming arrangements to make the visi- tors remember pleasantly their Mont- gomery meeting. Not only have the women of the Methodist churches talk en an active interest in the meeting but the women of all the denomina- tions of the city have shown a will ingness to aid them in every way possible.
 The delegates come from every sec- ton of the South. The session for- mally opens tonight when the visit ing delegates will be rendered a re- ception at the Court Street Methodist Church, beginning at o'clock.
 Business Begins Thursday.
 1OuOTTOW, lnc DuSlutSS DcIOIG tHc board will be taken up. The first meeting will be opened at 9 o'clock Friday morning with devotional exer- cises led by Miss Belle H. Bennett, of Richmond, Ky, the president of the organization. The board will then be organized for work and the president will lead with her annual address. The minutes of the ad interim sessions of the board will then be read.
 Mr. CharlaH l.. CarmDheI1 of Mont = gomery, will sing a solo and the board will hear the reports of Mrs. W. D. Kirkland of Nashville. Treasurer and Mrs. R. w. Mcdonnell of Nashville, Secretary.
 The committees will be announced the year will be presented.
 At the devotional hour. the board will hear a sermon by pr HI. Styles Bradley of Atlanta on 'The Masters Blessings"
 After the sermon an adjournment will be taken until 2 o'clock, when the afternoon session will be opened L. Gibson of Kansas City. Routine business will be disposed of and the organization of the work will be taken up. The rest of the afternoon will be devoted to committee meetings. Will Welcome Delegates.
 At 8 o'clock, Friday evening, after devotional services. the delegates will be formally welcomed to Montgomery by Dr. J. A. Rice. on behalf of the Court Street Methodist Church. Dr. M. H. Holt on behalf of the Montgom- cry District. Mrs. H. D. Moore. of OpeIika in behalf of the Alabama Con- ference, Miss Lula Pearson in behalf of the City Mission Board, Mrs. c. L.. Strong in behalf of the Court Street fae xyiI hn o~fnnda3 by Mrs. J. H. Lakin in behalf of the Alabama Conference Women's For eign Missionary Society, Mrs. George W. Patterson in behalf of the Pres byterian Churches and Mrs. Charles A. Stakely in behalf of the Baptist Churches of Montgomery.
 Response will be made by Mrs. Frank Siler of Asheville, N. c. Reports of the various departments of the work will be heard at the Saturday morning session and the af- ternoon will be largely devoted to committee meetings
 At the Sunday morning service the annual sermon will be delivered by Bishop Charles B. Galloway of tinguished of the Methodist College of Bishpos and the evening meeting will be addressed by the President, Miss Bennett.
 Many Notable Women. Among the notable and brainy wo- men, who will attend the meetings are Miss Belle H. Bennett, of Richmond, Ky, who has been prominent in the work of the Women's Christian Tenn perance Union and who since 1896 has been president of the Board; Mrs. J. H. Yarbrough. superintendent of the supply department of Nashville, Tenn. Mrs. Frank Siler, recording secretary of Asheville. N. C., and who was for merly the occupant of the chair of history at Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga. Mrs. W. D. Kirkland. of Nash vile, sister of Chancellor Kirkland of Vanderbilt University. treasurer of the organizations; Mrs. l.. P. Smith, of Texas. vice president and an Eng lishwoman by birth; Miss Mary Helm of Kentucky editor of "Our Homes. '' the organ of the Home Mission So- ciety. who Is a sister of the founder of the society and a daughter of ex- Governor Helm of Kentucky; and Mrs