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JUBILEE IN INDIA.
MRS BUTLER TELLS OF COMING
METHODIST CELEBRATION.

METHODIST CELEBRATION.
Large Attendance at Women's Foreign
Missionary Society ConventiOn--Mrs
Butler, Widow of First Methodist
Missionary to India, Tells Of Progress
There-AIrs. Meek on the New Field
of Malaysia--Other Features of the
| Sessions
About 200 delegates were present at
the First M. e. church yesterday morn
ing. when the semi-annual meeting of
the Western Connecticut association
of the Women's Foreign Missionary So
ciety of the Methodist Episcopal church
was opened by Mrs. Francis T. Brown
with devotional service. There was an
especially pleasing attendance of rep
resentatives from other denominations
Miss Daggett, president of the Women's
Congregational board, was introduced
and extended a hearty greeting to the
association. Six missionaries were al
so present and were introduced to, the
delegates. They represent India, Ma
laysia, China and Africa.
AT the afternoon session Mrs. Mary G.
Meek gave an interesting account of
the work of the Methodist chrch in
new field, Malaysia. She told of the
very cosmopolitan nature of the work
in this filed, where the work has been
in progress but few years, and Of
the hardships and difficulties labored
under.
She told that there are no medical fa-
cilities there, and it is necessary when
there is sickness to take the patients
on a weeks trip across the ocean to
India for treatment.
Mrs. Meek made an appeal for hun
dred women workers for her new field,
saying that all could be Immediately
utilized. She also desires to see the in
stallation of medical service there.
She told especially of the wonderful
results that have been accomplished in
Malaysia in the few years of the work
there.
The leading address of the day was
that given by Mrs. William Butler of
Newton, who spoke on the coming jul
bilee in India Mrs. Butler, although
far advanced in years, being eighty
five years of age, is healthy and WELL
and her voice was quite strong,
The jubilee which is to be celebrated
in India on December 20 next, will COM
memorate the f1ftieth anniversary of
the arrival of DR.. and Mrs. Butler in
India. They We're the first missionaries
of the Methodist church to that coun-
try, and the chrch is now to celebrate
the event The pricipal center of the
jubilee will be the town of Bareilly Mrs.
Butler and her daughter plan to go to
India in the fall to attend the jubilee.
Mrs. Butler told Of the conditions
which she and her husband met on
their arrival in India in 1856, the hum
BILE beginnings in the work and the
wonderful development of the past tif-
ty years The Methodist chruch, she
stated, has now $4,000 Sunday school
children in India alone.
The Duets of Miss Storm and Miss
Richards were very delightful and
worthy of special mention,
The days programme was:
Morning Session at 10 O'Clock.
10;O0-Devotional Service; Mrs. Francis
7. Brown, New Haven.
10:10-Business Reading of Minutes,
Reports, Appointments of Commit
tees.
1O:4O-Methodist Missions in Madeira,
Mrs. H. B. Allen, Meriden.
Singing Hymn $50.
11:OO-The Huguenot College, South At
RIGA, Miss A. P. Ferguson, Wellington,
Cape Colony.
11:90-Our Home Work, Miss Clemen-
tina Butler, home secretary New
England branch
Offering.
Noontide Prayer-Mrs. William Butler.
A Word With the Auxiliaries-Mr w.
N. Rice, Middeltown.
Luncheon served in the lecture room.
Afternoon Session at 2 O'Clock.
2:00-Devotional Service; Mrs. Henry
Wade Rogers, New t1dNen.
2:15--Kuala Lumpur School, Mrs. Mary
c. Meek, Malaysia.
Offering.
Duet-Misses Storm and Richards.
295-India's Jubilee, Mrs William But
Ter.
Duet, Misses Storm and Richards.
33O-Reports of Committees.
Benediction. IN