The Detroit times., 1910-11-19
GREAT MISSION
JUBILEE STARTS
Proceedings Open With Banquet in
Wayne Gardens Attended BY
Over Thousand Women.

Perhaps the largest women's lun III
con ever given In Detroit, was that
in the Wayne Gardens. Saturday noon,
when upwards OF 1000 women from
Detroit, various cities and towns or
Michigan and a group from far dis
tant parts OF the world gathered to
celebrate the fiftieth anniversary OF
the American woman's entrance into
foreign missionary work. The large
gardens where the tables were laid
were handsomely decorated, the
tables having distinctive touches OF
the season OF Thanksgiving In thNr
decorative scheme. Mrs. Frederic Is.
stevens presided at the speakers
table. Mrs. James NJ. Barkley gave
the invocation. Following the lunch
con menu. the following gave brief al
dresses: "Why should this movement
interest the women of Michigan
Mrs. Jared w. Finney; "WPhat our
daughters prophecy" Mrs. A. w. PAT
ton: "The mission station social set
Element" DR.. Mary Noble, lnd'a:
What our mothers have told US
Mrs. w. A. Montgomery, Rochester
N. l..
ing partaof the affair
Mrs. Finey's address was in part as
follows:
Perhaps at this time the feenhg 1na az
Ia rppernost in our minds Is the Joy on
The shirt OF unity that is expressed pE
such a gathering as this, and inc ~
scious infiowing OF strength ana Dow
that IL creates within US. FOR INC ~" IL,
ment. this lays hold upon US ana W
nause IN our festiVity to lift 9rateIul'
though silent THANKSGIVING. Alreaug,
as we have worked together we nav
come into closer sympathy .hrousii
a better knowledge OF one another gu, anS
%, nc another's work and find indeed
our hopes, our fears, our aims are o,Ie'
We can but wonder what II miEht Hica a
TO the glorious cause OF our Loru anS
Master II there were no , n'nv 10
what was in the mind OF Jesus CnrISI
when RE gathered into His thought all
the world. or,sh
,,,ttb Him In the brain OF Paul II be-
came luminous and complete ana ne un.
dertook TO traverse the earth on toot
and alone and annex the theh XIV"
OF the world TO the hlns
nrimItive church, TO those OF the mia
die ages and finally, in the oeglhhins
of the last century, 10 such men 10
Carey, Judson, ana LiVinEstonS.., .ho
eve Of faith and held IL in their hearts
for Him. II was late in time. lndeeu
when 1t penetrated the CONSEQUENCE o.
men and women, but once 1iseei nsu,
sicwly. surely have they toiled, sparlns
nothing, Keeping nothing back, even
INTO death, and how wonderfully mas
God blessed their labor! And SO
befell, that In the mind OF one WoIn ~.
not three generations ago, WIS born w
thought Of what organized EFFORT on gnt
nygan 20 the part women should nave
in the great work, and today we are
called TO keep high festivaI as penis q
golden anniversary,and in humblsness
OF mind and great eXaltation OF splrlt
we say. "see this great thing whlch our
God hath done
Chinese Skeptical.
Saws one. 1.-THE world II not so very
large. The shuttle of travel Is WeaV
ing back and forth and the east s ,aa
west have met We are camping In tne
front Yards Of the Chinaman and the
Hindu. and they are looking over the
fence into our back yards, ana what
they see Of our poverty ana our We
makes them prefer their own mtseries.
They question the missionary and lie
has hard work TO explain some thlhes'
and his task has been ana is dslly rem
dered more difficult by conditions at
Never before has the Christian re-
ligion had so many other so-called re-
Iigions TO contend with as TO-DAY. islsh ,
and Christendom are still warning, ana
truly the religion OF Jesus Christ Is on
the firing line. ana. says DR.. Goss II
We do not capture the world Tor Jesus
Christ now, buddhism and Mohamme
danism and paganism will capture our
little parish and desecrate our little
church"
Religion is no longer n matter OF
latitude. longitude. or geography IL IS
a world problem, like business, poll
tics or art. II is no longer provincial,
IL is cosmopolitan. 1t belongs. not 10
us but to all the world.
Women OF Michigan. Knowing as you
dc. that we have the only religion that
has for a leader a SAY Tor from sin,
who brings forgiveness and restora-
ton. peace, JOY and satisfaction ana
who gives us eternal life through HIS
own giving up OF life. do you realize
that. with Paul. we, too. are debtors to
these people Even " foreign missions
did not pay we still have His command.
Go. We" and we profess to be HIS tol-
lowers whose name and sign we bear.
And. women OF Detroit. do YOU know
why we should be especially responsive
to the vision OF "all the world Be
cause we have failed so long In our
duty that these others are crowdlng to
our shores and our city unIearned and
ursaved, compelling us for the sake or
safety TO ourselves and our nation TO
do foreign missionary work at home
when we have all we can do TO care
for our own. Do you know that the
CITY OF Detroit stands third In the list
OF foreign population in proportion TO
our numbers, and We must race the
fact that these must soon become citi-
zens OF our country. and that II we
had done our duty by them In their ma
tive land they might have come TO us
prepared for the part they VIII take
among us rather than so often as
menace and a burden?
n is a disgrace for any intelligent
man or woman 10 stand aside and let
this prodigious world movement go on
without participating INIT or even COM
pretending IL.
Women ~ Michigan and OF America.
let us awake from our lethargy OF self