The sun., 1909-06-08
NATALIE BROWN, MISSIONARY
DAUGHTER or PRESIDENT or
INION GOING. TO CHINA
As the wife OF the Rev. James Mcclure
Henry Announcement Made at Pres
byterian Missionary Banquet Advice
In Plenty for New Workers IN the Field

byterian Missionary Banquet Advice
In Plenty for New Workers In the Field
frederick A. Booth, the president OF the
Presbyterian Union, who presided at the
conference and banquet for the newly
amounted and furloughed foreign mis-
sionaries, last night at the Hotel Savoy
10, slip a bit Of news that set them all
cheering from the veteran in foreign
reds that has served twenty-seven years
in Tabriz TO the youngster in the long
frock coat and severe white tie who sets
ont next month for the West coast OF
Africa.
This is perhaps as good time as any.
said MIR. Booth, for the announcemen ent
Of a romance in our missionary work.
am sure that IL will interest all of you.
The Rev. James Mcclure Henry, who
goes TO China by appointment OF the
board, will marry soon Miss Natalie
Brown, the daughter OF the Rev. Francis
Brown, D. D., president Of the Union
theological Seminary. and she will
accompany him to China and beswith him
in his work there"
The Rev. James Mcclure Henry. a
hovish looking minister who was grad
uated recently from, the Union Theologi-
when Mr.. Booth made the announcement.
He said that Miss Brown and he would be
married about next Oct ober and leave for
Canton soon after.
There were nearly three hundred mis-
sionares in the service Of the Foreign
Board OF the Presbyterian Church at the
Hotel Savoy yesterday and last night
In the morning and afternoon the mem-
hers Of the boa rd. the officers Of the Presby-
teriau Union and veteran missionaries,
the Rev. DR.. f. p. Dunlap. who has spent
thirty-four years in SIAM among them.
gave short. plain talks to the sixty-two
newly appointed young men and women
that are to go to all parts OF the world
within few months. They we're in
structed how to take care Of their health.
necessary languages. Most OF them had
heen out OF their own States few times.
At the banquet last night the newly
appointed missionaries were represented
in the speeohmaking by dozen eI-
tremely earnest young men and women
who are assigned to West Aftica. China.
Japan. Persia, Mexico, Syria. Brazil and
other corners OF the earth. Frederick
4. Booth presided and called upon the
new missionaries for Ave minute talks.
The secretary Of the union. the Rev. DIR.
John Bancroft Devins. an old hand at
missionary banquets. stood at the end OF
the main table and whenever he thought
bell, rang il firmly and insistently.
DR.. Devins explained that there was no
way Of stopping a missionary by shaking
a finger at him. You had to din some
thing in his ear.
The Rev. Albert Irwin Scott. whose
father died as a missionary on the West
Coast of Afriac. goes there by the aP-
?ointment of the board to take his fathers
place. DIR. William Magill Schultz,
University of Pennsylvania man. is as
signed to West Shantung, and he told
them how glad he was, Miss Janet
Scott Galbreath. an extremely breezy,
alert and not uncomely young woman.
comes from Wilson College TO go to Japan
Il feel just like the girl in Chicago
she said before the grave board and the
guests on the platform. You know
whenever she slipped on her shoe she
said, This is big thing and I'm glad
10 be in il"
She made them laugh, from President
Browrsof the seminary and the venerable
DR.. Dunlap clear along the rows to the
pink faced young theological students
from the middle " est colleges
Give us some more like that said
DR.. Devins TO President Brown.
Miss Lucy Starting. who has heen as
signed TO Siam said she had made in
uuiries and found that about all Ameri-
cans profess to know about that country
is that the Twins came from it and white
elephants live there. She thought the
work would be hard, but she intended
to keep whistling
And when I can't keep a-whistling
I'll keep a-puckerin'. said Miss Startling:
The Rev William Ernest Weld said it
made boy who started in without much
chance for anything in a little mud town
hack in Arkansas feel pretty fine to be
sent to India for the church. Emma A.
Weidaw, who is to be sent to Mexico.
said she had been a mill girl for ten years
before she got the chance to get an educa-
tion and try TO be a missionary.
Then Mr.. Booth called on Miss Annie
Montgomery to stand up because he
wanted to show the young women among
the new missionaries that it was possible
to live and work twenty-seven years in
Persia and still come back good looking.
Miss Montgomery. who went to Tabriz
IN 1887 and has just returned. got up and
bowed and all Of the young women stood
np TO zee her.
After the newly appointed had their
saw Mr., Booth called on DR.. Dunlap
and the veterans who told OF their work in
queer corners OF the five continents.
Among those at the main table were,
hasides Mr. Booth, the Rev. George W:
Fulton. the Rev. DR.. Albert A. Fulton OF
china, the Rev. DR.. Eugene p. Dunlap
of Siam, Warner Van Norden. the Rev.
p s,onn C. G hs cressssn sss the ssnos Ssy DR. BrowD a.
president OF the Union Theological Semi |
nary; the Rev DIR. A. W. Halsey and the
Rev DR.. d. n. Gibson of London.