Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-27
PROGRAM FOR TOMORROW
Plans for Sessions in the Mount
Pleasant Church.
RECEPTION THIS EvENIN
Names of Officers of Society Who
Will Serve as Hosts-0ther
Features.

The Philadelphia branch of the woman's
| board of missions of the congregational
| Church will hold it's annual session in
Mount Pleasant Congregational Churcn
| tomorrow. Three sessions will be held.
The first at 10 o'clock In the morning, the
second at O'Clock in the afternoon and
the third in the evening. Rev. M. ROSS
Fishburn pastor of Mount Pleasant
Church. will deliver an address on The
Triumph of the Cross in Mission Fields
at the evening session
The seventeenth annual meeting of the
Woman's Home Missionary Union of the
New Jersey Association of Congregational
Church will be held Thursday. TWO ses-
sons are scheduled, one at $50 o'clock
in the morning and the other at O'Clock
in the afternoon. The meetings OF the
two organizations will bring together
about seventy delegates from a number
of the eastern states.
Reception This Evening.
The delegates to both meetings will be
guests this evening at an informal re-
ception to be held in the church parlors,
with the officers Of the missionary society
of Mount Pleasant Church as hostesses.
The list includes: Mrs. E. NJ. Bliss. pres
ident: Mrs C. r. Truesdell. first vice
president: Mrs. NJ. Ross F'iShburn, second
vice president: Mrs. A. l.. Sturtevant. sec
rotary; Mrs A. NJ. harrington. treasurer.
and Mrs. ]. H. Fishback, assistant treas
urer
Miss Emma L. Bridges of Westfield, n.
j., president of the Philadelphia branch
of the woman's board of missions. will
preside at the meeting of that organiza-
ton tomorrow.
Address Of Welcome.
The address of welcome will be deliv-
cred by Mrs. c. r. Truestell. Miss Bridges
responding A devotional service will be
conducted by Mrs c. L. Goodrich OF
Plainfield. N. j.; Miss ]. v. Fielding of
Passaic, N. j., secretary of the executive
committee of the chapter, will give re-
port for her committee. Miss Emma Fla
veil of Paterson. N. j.. treasurer and
foreign secretary, will also submit their
annual reports.
The vital Spirit in Missions will be
the subject of an address by Miss Helen
B. Calder, secretary of the board Miss
Elizabeth McManigal of New York will
speak on "Our Literature" At the close
of her address luncheon will be served
in the gymnasium of the church.
At the afternoon session the home secre-
taries. Mrs. G. J.Cummings of WASHINGTON
..
N j.. and the junior secretaries. Miss
Eta NJ. Eaton of Washington. Mrs w. L.
H. Giese of Philadelphia and Mrs. F. H.
Sanborn of Westfield. n. j., will make re-
ports Of the work in hand Mrs. Lorin s.
Gates of Sholapur. India. wife of the mis-
sionary pastor Of the First Congregational
Church of this city. whose heaquarters
are in India, will make an address on
the work in that part of the world. A
number of committee reports will be
after which the annual election of
officers will be held.
Lecture on Missions.
In the evening Rev. Mr. Fishburn will
deliver an address and W. H. H. Smith
will give an illustrated lecture on mis-
sions
Mrs. s. H. Woodrow, wife of Rev. s. H.
Woodrow, pastor of the First Congrega-
tional Church. will conduct the devotional
Home Missionary Union Thursday morn
ing Mrs. C. L. Chase of Montclair, n.
j., president of the union, will deliver an
address. The reports Of Mrs. Allen II.
Still of Westfeld. N. j.. secretary; Mrs.
Willard E. Buell. of Washington. treas
urer. and Mrs. 8. A. Swenarton of Mont
clair. n. j., field secretary, will be SUBJ
mitted.
At the conclusion of the reading Of the
reports Mrs. William H. Hoeke. president
airy Society. will talk on Financial
Problems
The solutions will be discussed by Miss
L. B. Holbrook whose subject will be I'm
the Past: Miss Flora Johnson. In the
Present" and Mrs. A. NJ. harrington. In
the Future
Symposium of Ideas.
Mrs. Cornelia Riggs Truesdell will con-
duct a symposium of ideas at the after
noon session; Mrs. c. H. Taintor of Bos-
ton, assistant field secretary Of the Con-
gregational Church Building Society. will
make an address. after which reports will
be heard from Mrs ]. II. Denison of
Newark. N. j.. northern vice president;
Mrs Alice H. Clark of Washington,
southern vice president, land Mrs. F. w.
Wilcox of Upper Montclair, N. j.. and
Mrs. A. W. harrington of Washington,
secretaries of Young Peoples work.
Reports of various committees will be
heard and the annual election of officers
held, after which the session will end.