The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-13
NEWS I. LEX IN WunLU OF SOCIETY
 .A Work of Southern Women In
 Mission Fields
HEADQUARTERS IN THIS CITY
Central Committee of Birmingham Women Open Quarters in the Watts Building and Will
 Direct Various Work.

The opening on yesterday of head quarters in this city of the central com mittee of the Alabama Baptist Womans s Missionary union will make Birmingham the very center of activity as regards mission work undertaken by the Baptist women in this state. The headquarters of the committee are in the Watts build- ing, in the section occupied by the Young Woman's Christian assoeiatios. The sec retary may be found>at the headquarters every morning.
 The headquarters will be in the nature of bureau of information. All the It, erature of the society will be sent out by the central committee, news of workers in the foreign fields will be sent here, and the general work, embracing many de- partments, will be directed to a large extent by the central committee working entirely in cooperation with the Woman 5 Missionary unions which are auxiliary to the Southern Baptist convention.
 Much of the literature, or what is a better term, the leaflets on mission fields and topics is supplied by the Woman's Missionary union with headquarters in Baltimore. The union publishes a quar- terly containing a course of study. Ar ticles on Africa, Cuba, China, far mis- sion fields, written by mission work CTS and treating exhaustvely of conditions in far away lands where the light of the gospel has begun to dawn the strange customs, the forces that are making for change, every phase of mission life por- trayed by those who are carrying the gospel message into heather lands.
 Numerous leaflets and mission journals setting forth conditions surrounding the mission stations established in China and Japan are published by the foreign board. The home mission board also publishes records of it's work, and in them may be seen how actively at work are Baptist women all over the south.
 The coming year the central commit tee of this state will undertake to raise S25,000 for missions, that is the. various missionary unions in Alabama have been apportioned for the several boards to an amount that will aggregate $25,OOO AL ready a vigorous campaign of enlistment and enlargement has been started which with the introduction of the full graded system of missionary organization Woman's Missionary union, Young wom- ans Auxiliary and Sunbeam bands, will no doubt result in the full amount being raised.
 Ten thousand dollars is asked of the Sunbeam bands alone, the organization of children, and of which Mrs. T. A. Hamilton of Birmingham Is state organ izer, and she expects that the Alabama bands will contribute 5000 or this amount. This special fund from the children will build chapel at Fl Paso, Tex, and will be devoted to compound at Yinktak. China. k
 The system employed by the various missionary unions concentrates the en- ergy of the several societies so success fully as to make their united efforts measure up to the general work of the large church body of which the mis- sionary union is but an auxiliary.
 Besldes its generous gifts to home and foreign missions it's support of mission rS Missionary Training school in Louisville the purpose of which is to train women for efficient service in foreign, home and city missions and as church and Sunday sShool workers. Mrs. Maud 4.eynolds Mcclure is principal of the school and there is sTong faculty. The unions have also materially assisted the moun- tain schools
 Altogether it will be seen that the head quarters in this city of a central commit- tee working in conjunction with the gen. eral organization will be in constant touch with activities of hundreds of women all over thessouth.
 III recent leafet prepared by Mrs Hamilton at the request of the Alabama Missionary union, some of the early rec ords are briefly and Interestingly set forth, both of the early mission move- ment among women, and also the history of the work in Alabama
 The society for the propagation of the gospel in foreign parts was incorporated in 176l. The Wesleyan and Baptist wom- ell of England associated together with n- novation of womans work on foot. The spring soon became Till, the Till a river and now we are flowing on to the ocean. "The Boston Female society,"" composed of Baptist and Congregational women. associated together October 1, 1900, and in the preamble of their constitution we read their purpose We have formed ourselves into a society for the express purpose of aiding missions" Mary Webb, Baptist, was secretary. She was cripple, yet she corresponded with 60 womens societies inapgurating a monthly concert of prayer. After the death of the secretary this society ceased to exist. Tn 1892, Home Mission society was or ganized by Baptist women to evangeize the new settlements in the United States. It is well to note a Baptist Youths so-