The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-12-17
4 JUBILEE OF MISSIONS.


committee OF 100 Washington church
women has been appointed to arrange for
the local celebration of the fftieth ami
versary of the beginning of woman's or
gained work for foreign missions in
America
1t is often claimed that the New Eng
land Woman's Club of Boston and the
Sorosis of New York are the oldest wom-
ems organizations in the country This
is not quite true These two organiza-
tons were started in 1865. while eight
years earlier. in 1860 a little group of
women. fred with the desire TO send the
message of the Gospel of Jesus to the
lands where it was not known. gathered
at the home of one of their number, Mrs.
T. c. Doremus. of New York City, and
organized themselves into what was
called the Union Missionary Society"
The next year the society secured its
charter from the State of New York and
has maintained its existence ever since.
During this time 81, 433 kindred societies
have been formed i'm the United States
and Canada, which last year raised S.
52S.Si0 for foreign missions
At the Ecumenical Conference held in
New York ia 1900 a committee OF women,
embracing all the evangelical denomina-
lions and termed the Central Committee
on United Study, was inaugurated for the
purpose of developing an interdenomina-
tlOnal mission study course and 20 estab-
lish summer schools Tor mission study
This committee has worked in conjunction
with the various UNCONVENTIONAL women S
mission boards and has been instrument
tot aTr IN, Hi.
ened interest in missions which has
marked the churches during the past ten
years. AT the session of the summer
school at Mortified last July the central
committee. with the approval of the Wo-
mans Foreign Mission board, decided
TO celebrate the fftieth anniversary OF
the beginning of woman's organized work
for foreign missions I'm America by hold
ing series of great jubilee meetings eX-
tending from ocean 20 ocean. They be-
gan in October, 1910, at Oakland, Cal.
are 70 cover thirty of the large cities
East and West, and eliminate 10 great
gathering in New York in April, 1911.
The plan is meeting with undoubted
success. AIRS. Helen Barrett Montgom-
cry, OF Rochester. n. z. a gifted and
scholarly woman. with a number of re-
turned missionaries and other prominent
Christian workers is going from city "a
city conducting these meetings. The Jubi-
lee will be held IN Washington fnr two
days, Thursday and Friday, February
and g. and a committee of 100 Washing
ton women has been appointed to make
it one Of the most telling conferences ever
held in the National Capital. The follow
ing officers and committees have beer
named; Ofieers-Chairman, Mrs. Wal
lace Radcliffe; first vice chairman. Miss
Elizabeth +. Pierce; second vice chair,
man, Mrs. Samuel H Woodrow; third
vice chairman, Mrs. G. II McGreW; re
eording secretary, Mrs. Joseph S. Var
Arsdale; corresponding secretary, Miss
Ruth Lillian Crandal; treasurer, Mrs
Wallace Mex Stowell subcommittee
Publicity. Mrs. W. H. Baker: places OF
meeting. Mrs William Hamilton BayIy
programme, Mrs. d. z. Wiber; finance
Mrs. Frank p. Leetch: literature, Mrs
Frank J. Goodwin; luncheon and hospi
tality, Mrs Frank G. Wilkins; young
women, Miss Florence NJ. Brown.