The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-23
NINTH ANNUAL
 CONVENTION Wonlan's Home Mission Society Conyenes. FINANCIAL AFFAIRS ARE, GOOD After Formal Organization Official
 Reports Are Read. seint Debate Between DeIesates Is Feature Of Afternocn session.
 Delegates Ride Through
 Streets of City.
FINANCIAL AFFAIRS ARE, GOOD

odist Episcopal Church. South met in the Perry Street Methodist Church. of this city yesterday morning..
 In the absence of Mrs. M Koonce. of Columbia, president of the society, the convention was called to order and presided over by Mrs. T. D. Sanford, of Opelika. the first vice president.
 onsner tae of tbs Mrs ss ford led a most impressive devotional service and this was followed by an address of welcome delivered by Mrs. W. M. Cox, of this city, on behalf Societies of Montgomery.
 Mrs. Thomas M. Owen welcomed the delegates to the city on behalf or the Home Mission Societies of Mont
 Mrs. I. W. chalker. of Greensboro. responded to the welcome address by Mrs. Cox and Mrs. Owens. grace fully expressing the pleasure p,aa.s. ana des aSs opportunity of being entertained py Montgomery this session.
 The address of welcome and the re- sponse were exceptionally cordial graceful and altogether charming Tn verbage sentiment and delivery. Tn fact 1t was generally remarkable that it is seldom that such deligntiul anu enjoyable addresses are heard In pus-
 The report of Mrs. w. H Thomas. the conference treasurer. was read and showed a most gratifying condition in the financial affairs of the society.
 As there was some time to spare after the business of the morning ses- sion was completed the report Of the vice president. Mrs. T. D. Sanford, was taken from the afternoon pro- gram, read and discussed. Mrs. sam ford has charge of the branch of the service that looks after the construc- tion. repairs and welfare of parsonages in the conference. The report showed the department to be in a most pros porous condition and well up with its work The collections for parsonage by the report to be $s,7S9.lS.
 Mrs J. T. Dumas. of Mobile, wno was also on the program for the aft ernoon. interestingly discussed How the Aid Society Should Become Con nectionai" Mrs. Dumas had evidently given this important matter tnorougn study and her address was suggestiVe of many improvements that can Dc made in the work of the mission so- cietfeh Mrs Dumas also discussed ''why this should be done: She said that the aid societies should be merged intoustiae Home Mission Societies be- cause the former are local ana mar row in their scope while the latter are broad and broadening.
 Jofnt Debate Between Delegates.
 One of the most interesting teatures of the afternoon session was the joint debate between Mrs. Will Flowers ana Mrs. E. W. Malone. both of Dothan, on the subject ,"Resolved' InaI We CTS. for the affirmative, said that what was meant by the Biblical injunction To give fo the Lord one-tenth or our ln- comes was one-tentn or all we ma maAG ie3t % after we have spent what we desire to. She reversed the case and said tnat i've would indeed be Tn pad way IT tnS Lord should give us only one-fsnth or the benefities and mercies at His dis
 Mrs. Malone for the negative. made
 most interesting sgeecffb st That pS she wantl ed 1t distinctly understood that she old not believe one word she was about to stand sponsor for. ,....... made most entertaining address 3n s'Brigade Work: How to Interest the Children" Mrs Callaway said that " was great duty to train children Tn their duty to their Savior and to the church and how to perform 1t and that if they were not properly taught It was not right to expect efa.,. thsm to grow en .u2 u2 women that God would have them be. She made many practical suggestions on the sub ject of training and handling line great responsibility resting on parents and the church in this direc- tion.
 Adams, read her report for the past year, which showed gratifying progress m eevry feature.
 Rev. I. W. Chalker, in response to a call from the President. delivered an Interesting address on mission work In general, touching the salient features Of the work in many of its branches. Splendid condition of the society as brought out in the tone and figures of the reports read.
 After Mir Chalker had finished his ko1 nA fal fa ho QuF prised to see that he was on the printed program for an address on the sub ject. How the Home Mission. Society BIT. Chalker arose and explained thai he did not know that he was on the program for any particular subject, but to him in a very few words. For in- stance" he said, when was married, 1 had wife and no appointment, and this society got me one. and I think that Is enough for me to say in favor Of help at one time"
 After formally accepting an invita-. ton of the Montgomery Traction Com. pany to take street car ride over tho city this afternoon, the session adjourn Rev. M. H Holt
 There was large attendance at the evening Sessien and the program was intensely interesting and instructive.
 Devotional service was led by Rev. W M Curtis and joined In by dele
 Miss Minnie Remedy of Opelika, made an interesting talk on tithing. Her subject was discussed from the Mas ter'S words: Lift up your eyes and look upon the fields. already they are ripe unto the harvest"
 Miss Kennedy said the fields around for home and foreign mission work are many, varied and ripe for the harvest. She mentioned Christian education for boys and girls of the present and the future, and said this means much to the State, the Church. and especially the home. and offers a fertile field for mission assistance. But, she declared, the slums and the prisons were fields that are suffering even more than any others for the work of the missionafy.
 T used to think" said she. that there was something spectacular about mission work in prisons and some what neglected 1t for that reason. but have found out that was making a serious mistake. Only a short time ago I visited the convict mines near Btrm- ingham, and there gazed in pity and wonder on that great throng of con demned and benighted criminals. And the saddest feature of it all was that nearly all of them were young men scarcely over thirty years of age, there bound disgraced and cut off from the their lives. They first looked at us with a kind of suspicion as if they were wondering what we had to do with them. but as we told them the story of the, God who loves them and the Savior who died for them. tears streamed down their cheeks and sim cere repentance was written on their faces Now. my Christian friends. many of those poor men might have asa A fsh