The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-26

1 so. It was born in the hearts of praying women, and when it grew to such pro- digious proportions it would have daunt- ed any but those of large faith. At the heart of the movement everywhere was the atmosphere of prayer. In many of the centers large numbers of women had been praying for the success of the Jubi- i lee weeks before a committee had been formed or anyone had been asked to do a strdlSe of work. Some of the largest out lays of money have been in the printing of great numbers of prayer cards, the de- m2nd for which seemed to be insatable God honored the demands made upon him, and to his name be the glory.
 No better example of the power of his toly need be given than the inevitableness of the Jubilee celebration, once the history of womans organized work for foreign I Women in Eastern Lands, was no sooner | written and read in manuscript than there wf.s vouchsafed to Mrs. Henry w. Pea | body, Chairman of the Central Commit tee on United Study, vision to which she was not disobedient-no less a thing than a celebration which should stretch | from shore to shore, and recount God S | goodness through these years since he ad- mitted the women's societies into partner ship with him in his world wide work
 Helen Barrett Montgomery, the gifted author of the book that started the Ju- | bilee, caught fire with the idea, rewrote the last chapter under the influence of the vision, and the book became cam lpaign document. one edition following an- other in quick succession, till now nearly 100000 copies have been sold. "Given the vision, the book and the | leaders, would there be a response from | the ranks? Or would history repeat it. self and, just as Mrs. Doremus had been | ready to espouse the cause of woman s work for foreign mission 26 years before the American public could endure the idea, would Mrs. Peabody and Mrs. Mont gomery see the Jubilee year irrevocably ! slip by with ho celebration to hallow it? 1 "One trembles to think how natural that would have been and what we should 1 have missed had we not also caught fire. Left to ourselves, we women of the For eisn Missionary Societies would probably have held precise little birthday party, to which only the habitues of Mission Societies would have been invited; but such was not at all the idea of the United Study Committee. It contemplated a gi- sartic reception, with the United States as a drawing room.
 l 'The Reception Committee was drawn from 32 cities; the receiving days were at intervals from October F to March 30: refreshments were to be served in the largest halls to be found and the invited l guests were the women of the evangelical churches of the United States. l In the Spring of 1910 the larger Wom- ans Boards of Foreign Missions were asSed if they would co-oeerate in Jubi- Ice Celebration.
 ''We board officers remember the day the question was brought before us. We gave it careful consideration, decided to
 answer in the affirmative, and then
 promptly forgot all about it. In the Fall
 it was upon us before we had time to take
 off our hats, from our summer vacations.
 we were gently reminded that it was
 time to organize a Committee on Prepa-
 ration, and immediately the telegrams be- gan coming in from the West, showing that the Year of Jubilee had indeed come,
 and was even now being celebrated upon the Pacific Coast
 "'They labored against great odds, those
 Western sisters of ours, with their long distances and their short time for prepa- ration!
 'The Western Extension Committee is now reusaan.4ad into large committee 1 for con taliat.on work, with presidents and secleiaries of Boards added, and in 2 nasterly Na 5 conserving the eDthusi- as,n by i lting it into service.
 ' Those wla questioned If this great