El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-05-14
MISSIONARY UNION
IS STUDYING
AFRICA
Also Discusses Shipping III
Ell Paso and Wants Half
Holiday for Clerks.

| There was a large gathering of wom-
on from the different churches at ST.
| Clements Episcopal church on Thurs
dav afternoon in attendance on the MIS-
| sionary Union meeting. The treasurer,
| Mrs Flora MICA. Jones, presided. Mrs
bradford Hardie, the secretary, was al
| so present.
After devotional exercises, in which
Rev. E. c. Preston. of the Congrega-
tionaI church, and Rev. c. L. Overstreet,
of the First Presbyterian. assisted
solo was beautifully rendered by MISS
Nellie Leighton
The special topic for the afternoon
! was Africa, and Miss Porcher. leader.
assisted by Mrs. s F. King and Mrs
Hale. Standing before a large map.
Miss Porcher explained the geography
OF the country in a very Interesting
manner. Africa, though associated
frcm the early dawn of civilization with
traditions and mysteries of the most
stimulating kind has remained until
recently one of the least known, and
both commercially and politically one
of the least important OF the great d.
visions of the globe owing to Its ply
steal conditions. the great desert of the
country being impossible to cross until
the introduction of the camels by the
Arab Consequently the knowledge OF
Africa was very limited by the ancients-
Facts About Africa.
Miss Porcher spoke OF the great heat.
the discovery of the snow capped noun
tain Kilima- jaro rising on the edge or
the inland plateau, The scarcity OF rail-
roads and the many difficulties which
the missionaries have TO overcome, but
said that they had the pleasure of the
unknown, and the JOY of finding some
thing
The great harvests. the gold and dia-
mond fields, ivory, furbearing animals,
forests, rubber, the competition of Al
RIGA with the southern states in the pro-
duction OF cotton, were dwelt upon and
the speaker said Africa had the finest
roads in the world, tourist having re-
marked that he had travelled in that
country thousands of miles in an auto,
and nowhere mad ne found anything so
bad as Some parts of Pennsylvania
avenue in Washington
Early Mission work.
Mrs. Robert Bruce Smith told of the
early missionaries and explorers, of
Geo. Snietz as first missionary to Cape
Colony, and of the vision of John
Krapf. of a chain of missions around
the continent; of Robert NJ. Moffet's Ia
Dor of So years with his devoted wife.
who was possessed of marvellous faith:
of LivingstOne's % Yeas of work I'M
der the Royal Geographical sO"fet,- al
of his vision of the center of Africa;
=
out by the New York Herald in search
of Livingstone, and of his later labors-
Mrs r. T. Hanks, of Calvary Baptist
church. spoke of the work of their mis-
sionaries
Mrs. Thunt spoke of the missionaries
Of the Christian church, one of whom
was negro. who had been specially
educated in Alabama for the work.
Mrs. McKensey and Mrs KertZ told
of the work of missionaries under the
Presbyterian board; Mrs. Roe of the
work of the Methodists; Mrs. Hodge of
the Baptists, and Mrs. Hardie of the
W estminster Presbyterian church work
Many of these missionaries are negroes,
who are highly educated.
A Negro Bishop.
Mrs Henry Easter made an interest
ing talk of the work of the Episcopal
church This church has done a great
work, having established % schools
and 50 missions. These missions are
under the control of negro bishop,
highly cultured and educated.
Mrs. c. L. Overstreet, of the Pres
byterian church, also gave interesting
information.
Mrs. Palmer and Mrs. Kenneth
Brown told of some noticeable current
events in the missionary world
Mrs. Brown told of a recent event
concerning the prophecy that "Jerusa-
lem shall be>trodden down by the Gen
tiles until the, times of the Gentiles be
fulfilled" and\ Paid that for many CEN