Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-04-11
MISSIONARY union.
Great Gathering Of Cody
Women in GOIdSbOFO.
An Auxiliary of the Baptist State
Convention Will be in Session
Here for Three
Days.

State Convention convened in this city
Tuesday afternoon, in the First baptls1
church, for a three days session, with
Miss Fannie E. S. Heck, of Raleigh,
president of the Union, presiding, and
the meeting is one of great interest
throughout the State, being largely at
tended by representative women from
all sections of North Carolina, and the
ARGUS takes this occasion to assure
them Of a cordial welcome to the Best
Town in the State.
There will be morning, afternoon
and evening sessions. Women only
will be admitted to the day sessions,
Int the evening sessions will be open
to the general public, who are cordially
invited to attend same.
The opening session this afternoon
was taken up with the fine address OF
welcome by Mrs. w. f. Fry and the
Mapping out OF routine work for he
term. Mrs. Fry spoke as follows:
s'In the service thai has been assigned
me for this hour [ am finding 1t dill
cult to determine which is the greater,
the burden of the thing or the prIvll-
eye Of performing such a duty. IL IS
needless for me to say that | shrank
from the task. [ began to make ex-
cuses. In fact, started to Joppa, but
like the poor fellow connected with
that incident the lot found me at last.
And now, in behalf Of the
Missionary Society, and in behalf OF
the Young Girls Band, and in behalf
of the Sunbeams, and in behalf of our
whole church and city, who are to be
your hosts for the next half OF a week,
I extend to you a most hearty welcome
and Christian salutation.
Some Of you have come from be-
yond the blue peaks of the States
great natural division, some from the
hills and valleys Of the Piedmont, while
Others have come from the fertile
slopes of the East, all Of you 1nd1vl-
.duaTly and all of you collectively are
thrice welcome to our city, and to our
homes. In fact, all that we have is
yours so long as your stay shall be
among us.
It is needless for me to speak of the
hospitality of the Goldsboro people,
for they are noted for that quality far
and wide already. You will be ready
to agree with me in this statement, L
am sure, by the time that this meeting
closes and the time comes for you to
leave these good homes. I can speak
for each hostess that hers will be a
sincere welcome into her home to each
delegate that she may entertain.
Their is an advantage about enter
tanning wome that there is not about
entertaining men. For instance, if some
morning, like the Irishman's pig, the
cook should "come up missing"-and
which is by no means an unheard Of
thing in these regions round about, we
might make home folks of you and
could put you to rolling out dough in
the kitchen.
The task of finding homes for all of
you upon so exceedingly short a notice,
did appear somewhat Herculean at first,
but we simply made up our minds that
if we couldn't do anything else with
you, that we would do with you what
the old negro farmer said that he was
going to do with his tomatoes. Some
one passed by his home one day and
seeing the enormous amount Of toma-
toes that he had planted, said to him,
AUncle, what in the world do you ex-
poet to do with so many tomatoes. You
certainly will never be able to use
them all?' ''That's easy said the old
tomato raiser, "we'l eat all that we
can and what we can't eat, We'll cam"
uneasiness that you are not going to be
disposed of in some way, for we are
going to take care of all of you that we
can and what we can't Jake care of,
we'll can.
Again let us say that we rejoice at
the thought of your presence mong
us and that to you is extended the
hospitality of our homes and the de-
yotion of our hearts.
For these twenty years or more, you
have proven your faithfulness and de-
votion in the great movement to give
the Gospel to every community of men
on the face Of the earth. Yours is the
work of the supremest altruism. 1t has
the least of selishness. You are en-
gagged in the greatest work that God
has permitted his people to do and our
earnest hope is that from this session
of this Union shall emanate an infu-
ence tina shall rivet itself upon every
Baptist and every Christian in the
State, producing a new conviction that
it is the highest honor, the most ex-
allied duty, and the most blessed of