The Washington bee., 1909-10-02

Missions as perhaps no OtilSl SPO"N
ers who have appeared before ourNa-
tional gatherings have helped. A cha
tional gatherings have helped. a
cash offering of one hundred and
hfty-three dollars, pledges for for
eign mission. and hundreds of.names
OF those who will pray for the work
that these young women will do in
foreign fields, were laid on the altar
This was the most blessed meeting e
us all.
Saturday morning, the Ohio Su'
Iivered a splendid address on "How
perintendent of children's bands de
to Enlist Children in the Missionary
Enterprise. Those who took par
in the discussion gave Flany practi-
cal suggestions on how to make chill
dren's work effective.
The election of officers took place
early Saturday afternoon. Some. one
remarked that this election sWas more
| like a love feast than an election,
Officers S. w. Layton,A APennsyl-
vania, President
S. c. Bryant, Georgia, Vice-Pres-
ident.
NJ. V. Parrish, Kentucky, Treas
urer.
n. H. Burroughs, Kentucky, Cor
responding Secretary.
Y. w. Broughton, Recording Sec
tetary.
AZ. E. Coins, Assistant Recording
Secretary.
F. Arlington Wilson, Historian.
Rev. a. c. Powell, pastor Abysin-
MIA Baptist Church, New York City
preached the Sunday morning ser
mon. 1t was good TO be there, to hear
him talk on the Transforming Pow
er of the Word of God" The ser
mon was a masterpiece. Christ and
the Cross stood out before us light
ing up and Transforming the entire
human family Men anda women
shouted for JOY, as. he talked with us
by the way, and to all of us who
heard him, the Bible has new place
in our lives, and in our homes.
DR.. A. S. Jackson was programmed
to preach the Sunday evening ser
mon, but could not be present Rev.
A. A. Barbour, of Texas, preached
FOR us. DR.. Jackson sent in his stead
hundred dollars and student for
the Training School. The officers
were installed by the Rev. w. H
Jernagin of Oklahoma. The PieSi-
dent of the National Training School
was presented by Mrs. NJ. Y. Par
rish, Chairman of the Trustee Board,
and the Convention ratified the ac-
ton of the Board at its June meeting
in the selection of Miss Mamie H.
Burroughs to take charge of the
Training School at Washington.
Two distinguished women were the
special guests of the Convention, and
delivered inspiring addresses. One
of them, Mrs. Katherine S. Westfall,
Secretary of the Woman's American
Baptist Home Mission Society, spent
several days in our meeting. She
brought greetings from her organi-
zation, delivered a most helpful ad
dress, expressed her very great. pleas
ire at all that she had seen and heard
and assured us that her society would
be glad to know OF the good work we
are doing.
Mrs. Maggie Walker, the other
guest of honor, President of the St.
Luke's Bank, Richmond, Virginia, de
livered a telling address. She declar-
ed that our convsntion is great
school in which we area doing a most
work.
Professor Jones, Sociologist of
Hampton Institute, delivered an ex-
cellent address and took occasion to
commend the women for their splen-
did program, He said that it was
enc of the best he had ever seen. He
was impressed with the arrangement
and the practical, live questions dis
cussed.
Can we account for the splendid
at Columbus? Yes. Early
in June we sent out a card to the hun
dreds of women, asking them to pray
that this might be the best session in
the history of our organization. These
cards were signed and returned to us.
There were hundreds of women pray