The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-02-20
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| Inc annual meeJlnR OF Jne w oman
! Home Mission Conference of the North
Georgia Conference will meet in Mari
eta, Ga, April 18th. Open your
homes and hearts to these women of
God. They will bring only good to you
and your home.
The Woman's Home Mission Society
was organized just twenty years ago,
and to-day it has 80, 1T members or,
counting the number of Juvenile socie-
ties, So 1853 members. Towns property
in schools and homes to the amount of
$102, 800. During this time it has raised
1921, 28l for correctional work, and ST.
1875, 1886 for local work, or the splendid
amount for all purposes of 81, 887, 267.
Last year it raised for correctional
1928, 28l and $205, 287 for local. Some
times the criticism is made that the
society has left it's original design of
helping in che building Of parsonages,
and is now giving its funds and labors
to other interests; but it gave out of
it's correctional fund last year $18 ,255
to parsonages, which is the largest
amount ever granted. The auxiliaries
spent last year $72, 221 on their parson-
ages, and 1884 for the erection or
improvements of their churches. In
the membership of the society, 6,826
women are pledged to titning, or one
out of every eight of the members has
promised to set apart one-tenth OF her
income for religious work. What would
it mean to Southern Methodis:n if one
eighth of her men would keep similar
pledge? Many person who now hun
gers for the bread of life would have at
his hand the means of satisfaction. The
societies last year gave assistance to
25, 586 needy persona, and ma 329 $50
calls on the sick. and sent 929 boxes of
supplies, most to ministers families,
which were valued at $25 $50.
These figures Indicate the kind and
the amount of work that is being done
by the women of the Church through
these organizations. They may not
have reached the fullness Of service
such was shown in Dorcas, but they are
following her noble example.
The society is supporting three schools
for mountaineers. One, the Sue Ben.
nett School, at London, KY, has thir-
teen teachers and an enrolment of 357
pupils another, the Brevard Industrial
School, at Brevard, n. c., has eight
teachers and an enrolment of 1877 pu-
pills and the third, Holston Industrial
School, at Greenville, Tenn, has an
enrolment of 1l2 pupils. The society
supports three schools in Florida for
Cubans, which have 553 pupils enrolled,
and an Italian school with 278 pupils.
The four night schools on the Pacific
coast, for Chinese and Japanese, employ
five teachers and have 233 pupils.
In Augusta, Ca, the society has put
$1,000 into the annex to Paine College,
and in supporting the industrial work
which is being done there for the $50
negro girls that are studying in that
institution.
In Thomasville, Ga, the society
has the Vashti Blasingame Homeland
School, (which is caring for and edu-
eating 40 orphan girls.
Surely such an organization that is
engaged in such important work should
not lack for support from any preacher
in the Church.
The Woman's Home Mission Society
is doing almost all that is being done
in our cities in the way of real mission
work. They are endeavoring to carry
on mission work in Is cities, in which
they employ 81 missionaries. They
have trained in Scarritt Bible and Train
ing School and sent forth 20 deacon
esses, who are giving themselves en-
tirely to the mission work to which
they may be assigned by the General
Board of the Society