The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-12
MISSION MATTERS
DISCUSSED BY WOMEN OF
NEWARK PRESBYTERY.
Satisfactory Reports of Work of Last
Six Months-New Plan of Appor-
tioning Moneys.

There was a large gathering of Pres
byterian women from this city and
vicinity at the semi-annual meeting of
the Woman's Home Missionary Society
of the Newark ~Presbytery. held in the
Presbyterian Church of Caldwell yes
terday, when reports of the work of
the last six months were received and
approved, and plans made for the next
half year.
One of the most effective addresses
was made by Mrs. ]. II. Tracy, of the
Home Mission Board, who made a plea
for the people living in the mountains
of Tennessee and Kentucky, telling of
a tour which she had made of the
mountain schools in the summer, ap-
proving what had been done, but say
ing there was still much more to be
accomplished. Speaking of the people,
she said:
You must never call them "mountain
whites for there are no noun
tain blacks. Everything you get out of
that ground down there you've got to dig
for, and the negroes are too lazy to dig.
They are all white, these mountaineers.
and they are of the same race and stock
as you. On your way South you pass
through Washington, and you are apt to
stop and look at the Congressional Library.
just consider that the man who built that
and we who admire 1t came from the same
stock as those ignorant, those frightfully
poor, men and women of the mountains.
You women are building schools for the
children and sending them teachers. You
Presbyterian women are bringing them lit
tie by little out of the darkness and the
misery they have lived in too long. AT the
schools they learn how to keep their homes
clean and neat, how to cook, how to take
care of themselves.
A new system for apportioning the vari-
Gus moneys received for home mission
work was announced by Mrs. Edmund X.
| Hopper, the corresponding secretary. Hith-
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ferent departments to make their own
special appeal for funds, the auxiliaries
responding by giving specified sums to
certain of the special Objects Here
after, Mrs. Hopper announced, there would
be but one appeal sent out. and the money
sent by the auXiliaries would be divided
among the missions at the Office OF the
Home Mission Board. At Logan Academy.
she reported, work on the new building
had progressed, but it had been found
that the funds contributed were not sufti-
cient to finish it, and more money would
be needed this year. Some OIL the rooms
at the academy, which is to be known IS
the New Jersey Academy, at Logan, Utah,
as it was built by New Jersey money, are
to he named after the New Jersey Presby-
teries, one of them to bear the name of
the Newark room. Logan, Mrs. Hopper
reported, should be the first object TO be
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Mrs, William H.. Douglas made a plea
for the freedmen. She spoke particularly
of the plan fer farm houses for negro
families. This is a plan to raise a fund OF
SIC, 600 for the purchase OF property some
place in the South. When obtained this is
to be divided into small farm tracts, and
Presbyterian negro families settled upon
them. The land win be farmed, and what
money is made VIII be used for the pur-
chase Of more land, that more families can
be given homes. Mrs. Douglas said the
need was special at HARRISON College,
where a fire had done considerable damage
since the last meeting of the society. Har-
bison was in much need of household linen
and clothing because of the fire. as well as
Of funds for the rebuilding of the burned
wing.
Miss Margaret Names, secretary of
literature. laid special stress on the annual
THANKSGIVING offerings for missions. She
urged the women TO orange for Thanks
giving mission services, and distributed
leaflets and tracts on various phases OF
mission work. The object for the Thanks
giving offerings this year will be the
Presbyterian Hospital at San Juan, Porto
Rico. Miss Josephine Hedden, secretary
of Young Peoples work, told of what Is
being done by bands and circles.
Just what the Presbyterian women are
doing for the mountaineers of Tennessee
and Kentucky was set forth by Mrs. J.
H. Tracy, of the Home Mission Board. She
made a stirring plea for more help for
these people of the mountains.
Mrs. Robert Scott Inglis, who conducted
the devotional service, spoke at some
length of the angel of the hire Pres
byterian Church. a .rta,n woman of that
congregation, she said, had some years
ago been interested by the late pastor,
DIR. Hollifield, in Jle special case of af-
Fiction. From this, little by little, she
had given up all her time, her money, her
interest, to caring for the poor and the
sick of the Third Church.