The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-14
MAIL SOCIETY MEETS. BOSTON REPORT READ Religious Reformation is Looked Forward To in
 France.

A very pleasant meeting of the New Haven branch of the International Me All association was held in the United church chapel yesterday afternoon, The entertainment part of the meeting consisted of two finely rendered vocal solos by Miss Marjorie Kilbourn, My Faith Looks Up to Thee" for which the music was written by George Chadwick Stock of this city, and "Oh Happy Day" Following the meeting tea was served.
 Mrs. William Kelsey, who with Mrs. George s. Harmont attended the 24th annual meeting of the International Mccall association, held in Boston May and g, read a report of the meeting there from which the following is an excerpt:
 The meeting was called to order by the president of the association, Mrs. Parkhurst, and after the usual opening devotional exercises, addresses of well come and response, the roll-call of delegates showed seventy ladies pres ent.
 Miss Harvey, the general secretary, in her report, sounded a note which was taken up by every speaker, in urging the value of educating the gen. eral public, not to say the churches, on the real purposes and results of the McAll mission, and suggested the ne- cessity of the greater distribution of literature.
 Mrs. Wayland, the corresponding sec retary, then followed with a most in- teresting report. She touched upon the religious situation in France and the struggle between church and state, and urged that there had never been field more ready for the harvest than was France at this present. She predicted religious reformation for France which should place her among the fore most of Christian nations, as she now stood foremost in art and culture, and said France will be free only when she gives herself to Him who frees, and this is neither Rousseau, Voltaire, nor the Pope, but Jesus Christ" Mrs. Wayland spoke at length upon the different methods employed In differ ent sections of France for bringing the people into the mission; in some places the children are given little gardens in which they may work, an occupa- tion always so pleasing to child, and in this way they are brought within the reach of religious teacning She spoke too of the great amount of work done by the missionaries, and cited the case of one who conducts six. services, on Sunday and five during the week, in six different places.
 She, as well as all who spoke from personal knowledge, gave strong testi- mony for the missionary boats, and said that the influence for good of these boats, making their way as they do through the canals and small streams of France, was incaleulable. In many cases it has seemed to be the only way of reaching the rural popu- lation, who, perhaps drawn by the nov city, always flock to them as they are moored along the banks The work of the boats is supplemented by per- sonal work, and the distribution of tracts. Mrs, Wayland stated that so far Corsica had seemed almost hope less, but that With courage and work and prayer, it was believed that even Corsica would be brought out from the almost atheism into which it, with the greater part of France has sunken.
 Mrs. Perkins, the treasurer, then read her long and carefully prepared report, which was submitted. She re- ported that the association sent $735 less to Paris than was sent the year previous, and that thirty auxiliaries had given less than the year before. Mention was made of the contributions of Miss Helen Gould, amounting to $9600, and her promises for the future. Mrs. Perkins report was received with great deal of applause, and rising vote of thanks was rendered her for the evident care with which she had compiled it.
 MT. Berry, the representative secre- tary, then gave an account of his visit to France last year. He said that the organization of the mission is admir- able, and that we may hope for con- stantly increasing good results from the labors of our missionaries in the field. He too spoke in words of glow ing praise of the work accomplished by the mission boats, and of the untir- Ing efforts of the laborers in the rural districts of France, as well as in the city of Paris, and elsewhere, 10 fight the absinthe curse, which, he said, Is the great drink problem in France,
 He said that for the most part the auxiliaries have shown growing inter- est and enthusiasm, and he recom- mended more freedom of intercourse between the various auxiliaries. Sug- gested an exchange of programmes. Mir. Berry also suggested that each auxiliary prepare a resume of the work for the past twenty-five years, to be read at the next annual meeting (which by the way was asked for by the Philadelphia auxiliary) Another sug- gestion was that lists be prepared of all the available persons in each com munity who might reasonably be look ed to for interest and support, and then such persons be approached. He said that if but one in one hundred of the persons approached should respond. the membership of the association would have doubled during the coming year. He also begged the auxiliaries to make a more free use of the literature and to get the McAll mission more intel ligently before the public.