The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1906-09-05
mission
WORKERS
WOmen's Board Listens
to Interesting
Addresses.

nOOI VC0OSs
One of the most interesting meetings
ever held by the Woman's Board of
Missions was that of yesterday after
noon in the Board room of the Cen
trail Union church, at which the at
tendance was particularly large. There
were present, in addition to the mem
bers, a number of visiting mission
aries, including several Of the Man
churia passengers, and short addresses
were given by each of these.
The report of the treasurer, Mrs |
Dillingham;, showing balance of $463
on hand, was read and adopted and
two interesting letters from the Amer
lean mission field were read by Mrs.
Coan.
The members of the Kin Kok Kon
Tan Fui, the young ladies' Chinese
missionary society of the Fort street
church. which has recently been made
an auxiliary of the Board, were present
in body and were welcomed by the
president, Mrs. Scudder. Their pres
ident, in a short talk, thanked the
which the young ladies sang: God
Be With You Till We Meet Again"
Mrs. E. Mackenzie, who has been
here some months in charge of the
night school for Chinese boys in con-
nection with the PaIama Chapel, and
of the Chinese girls school on Liliha
street, made a report on the Chinese
work. Her experience in securing the
attendance Of pupils through visits to
| the shops and homes of the Chinese and
| the success which has attended these
| efforts made an interesting feature of
| the report.
| The regular subject of discussion at
the present series of meetings, that of
! Africa was conducted by Mrs. d. L.
| Wilmington, this being the first study
| of the subject. Mrs. Wilmington re-
| ferred to Africa as 1.-The Dark Conti-
| nent," justifying the term because of
the unknown physical features of the
continent, the dark skins of the inhab-
/ itants and the darkness of the coun-
! try spiritually.
| Under these different headings papers
were read by Mrs. Moore, Miss Patty
and Miss Mary Whine.
| Miss Agnes Mahoney who has spent
| the past five years in Liberia, gave
most interesting address on the spirit
! ual conditions of that part of the West
| Coast. What she particularly pressed
| on the attention of her hearers was
| that the country there was not pagan
/ but Mohammedan, the priests Of that
| faith having beaten the Christians on
| the ground and proselytized the great
majority of the adult population. max
| ing the work of the Christian mission
| ary much harder. The Mohamme-
| dan religion suits the negroes inter
fering in no wise with his ordinary life
| and justifying polygamy and slavery
: Under these conditions the only work
possible is among the children, for the
men say that Allah is good enough for
| them and the women do as the men
ftell them.
| Miss Mahoney told Of one African
Pchief who had twenty-eight wives but
| had disposed of some of them as he
| found his troubles accommodating.
l. The slavery question was a serious
one. Prior to her departure father
! brought his little son and daughter to
her to sell as otherwise they would be
sent into the interior, the girl to be
the wife of a polygamous chief. At
his pleading she purchased the two
children for $50.
Mrs. C. w. Huett and Mrs. T. E. c.
w 1llldnS, TWO Oh their
way to Japan, spoke of their work in
that country and asked for the prayers
of the Board.
Mrs. w. w. Campbell, who has been
resident of the island of Human for
seven years, told of the difficulty ex-
perienced in presenting the bible truths
in such a light that the people could
grasp them.
Mrs Heber Jones, of Korea, told of
the visits she and her husband had
Hawaii and gave evidence Of the good
work being done here.
Mrs. J. S. Stone, who has served in
the mission field in India and who is
now the treasurer of missionary So
ciety in New York in reference to the
Mohammedism in Africa told of an ef-
;, fort being made in Europe and Amer
! lea to raise fund for missions in the
Lake Tchad district, where the Mo-
| hammedans have been defeated by the
/ French, impressing the natives with
/ the idea that the Christian God muss
| be superior to Allah and preparing
them for conversion.
/ A touching address was that made
| by Mrs. Joel Bean. a venerable mis-
| sionary, who had visited these islands
| forty-fve years ago and spent year
| here. She encouraged the many CO.
| laborers present in their work. assur-
| ing them that in it there could be NO
| failure
| At the conclusion of the meeting re-
freshments were served and an oppor-
tunity given for the members to meet
| the many visitors present.
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