St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1909-02-20
Missionary Notes.
BY THE SOCIETY.

of our Home and Foreign Missionary
Societies on Saturday last. The in
clement weather prevented many
from coming, but the Lord met with
us and we had a good time. One
new member joined the Home Mission
Society and We had a delightfully."- IN
teresting letter from Miss Mamie
Daniel, to read at the meeting. She
is taking the deaconess course at the
Scarritt Bible and Training Scoool in
Kansas City, Mo. She told of the
sweet happy days of work and Bible
study, and Of the Christmas celebra-
tions in the School, of missionary
work done by the students as they
went out over the city to visit the
poor and needy, and the joy of see
ing them receive with grateful hearts
the good things from their hands.
But better than all to know that
some of the homes they visited were
ready to accept Jesus, who came to
bring peace on earth, good will to
men. She wished that many Of our
young people might be induced to
take this Bible training course and
be with them next Christmas, to en-
JOY the many privileges that come to
the girls in Scarritt. It would IN
deed be a blessing to any church to
have our girls take the two years
course there, not to go as foreign
missionaries to heather lands, but to
come back home and in their own
churches make use Of their trained
powers. We need them in the Sab.
bath Schools, in the Missionary So
cieties and in all Church work. How
nice it would be for our young teach
ers to go and take this two years
training course in Scarritt. May the
Lord raise up many who will be will
ing to go and get this equipment for
service.
Misses Mamie and Ward Ella
Turner added much to the success Of
our Meeting Saturday afternoon by
their sweet music and singing. We
wish all the young ladies would come
in and help us. We need their bright
young voices, their enthusiasm and
their work. 1.-THE world is open to
the missionaries, and the study of
conditions is essential to the progress
of the gospel. Should any intelli-
gent follower Of Christ hesitate to
give time and thought to the study
of the heather world?"
The new year 1909 brings with it
much work and heavy responsibility.
The fiscal year is closing. The last
quarter must meet the deficit of 1903,
and the appropriations for next years
work or disaster will over take us.
The Soochow Woman's Hospital needs
enlargement that the sick and suffer
ing may have medical attention and
surgical skill. To meet such appli-
cants with the sad refusal, mo room
for another one" is he~art-rending tol
the compassionate, and TO the Super
intendent is very discouraging. With
out the necessary assistance, without
adequate equipment, and with lack of
money, who could expect glowing re-
ports Of great success?
Three young women Of great merit
and much enthusiasm are at the
Woman's Medical College in Philadel-
phia preparing for the SoochoW Hos
pital, and ten thousand dollars appro-
priated for additional room there
looks promising; but the money isl
not yet in the treasury, nor have the
medical students completed their
course.
The earth is The Lords and the
fullness thereof" but the people are
his stewards, to them hath he commit
ted the silver and the gold all that is
in this world and said Occupy till I
But how some of us have
that be is coming again
will have a reckoning with his
stewards and is going to demand
with interest that which he has COM
to our hands.
0, dear fellow travellers to Eter-
nifty, let us take heed to our ways,
lest we withhold more than is
meet" and it will tend to our own
poverty in the next world. "Let the
same eager hands that are ready to
take the things that our Father so
freely has given US be ever as ready
to do a kind deed Our time is so
short. Let US work, for the night is