Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-04-28
MISSIONARY JUBILEE MEETINGS.
Prominent Speakers at 5oth Anniversary
Of Organized Foreign Work by Women
Supper Attended by $780,


The 5Oth anniversary of women's or
ganized work for foreign missions was
observed in Brattleboro Tuesday with
rallies in all the Protestant churches in
addition to special meetings in the Bap-
fist and Congregational churches. The
women of the parishes had fine oppor-
tunity to listen to the discussion of for
eign missionary work by speakers who
are engaged as missionaries in Burma,
China, Turkey and the Shoshone Indian
reservation in Wyoming.
The observance opened with a meeting
at 1890 o'clock in the chapel of the
Baptist church. Mrs. f. s. Knight pre-
siding After a short devotional service
an address was given by Miss Adelne
Ross, a Rutland woman who has been
doing missionary work on the Shoshone
reservation. She told of the difficulty of
teaching the Christian religion to the
Shoahones and the Arapahoe Indians,
who inhabit the reservation. She is To-
Gated at Fort Washable, II miles from
the railroad, and within radius of 10
miles there are only rs white people. The
Arapahoes are susceptible to missionary
influence, but the Shoshones prefer to
follow their own ancient religion, which
in many ways resembles that of the an
cient Hebrews and leads students to
think that in some way the two races in
| the far distant past were one.
At 215 o'clock UNCONVENTIONAL rallies
were held in the different churches. The
meeting in the First Baptist church was
conducted by Mrs. F. S. knight and af
ter devotional exercises Miss Agnes
| Whitehead, of Morton Lane school,
! Maulmein, Burma, talked in interest
| ing way of the work being done in that
country. Miss Ada Bingham, state sec
rotary of the Baptist Womans Foreign
Missionary society, followed and urged
the women to subscribe for "Everyland"
| the woman's missionary paper An Of
| fering was received in all the churches
| for fund to be known as the Jubilee
fund" The women of the Baptist
church contributed $25 In the meeting
in the Centre Congregational church
| Miss Florence Hemenway presided Mrs.
Eta d. Warden of Constantinople spoke
of work in the Turkish field and $65
was contributed to the fund. The rally
in the Episcopal church was in charge
of Mrs NJ. 7. Davis. [Deaconess Ger
trude Stewart of Hankow, China, also a
! Rutland woman, told of the work in that
country and $35 was raised for the fund.
In the Universalist church Mrs. Emily
Edwards presided, Rev. d. +. Trout
spoke on foreign missions and SIT was
pledged to the fund. In the Methodist
church Mrs. w. A. Moore presided.
Women of the churches here and
in Wiliamsvile were present Miss An
nette Lawrence gave an interesting talk
on foreign missions and $25 was raised.
| The Junior auxiliary of the Episcopal
church met Monday afternoon and lis
tened to talks by Deaconess Stewart and
| Miss Ross.
A meeting which was largely attended
was held in the Baptist church at $50.
The subject of the talks was Messages
from the field" After devotional exer-
cses Mrs II. M. Wood of the Univer-
salist church and Mrs. ]. D. Barrows of
the Unitarian church told of the work
nf mi inn inf a
ed to have missionaries from all denomi-
nations at the meetings, but arrange
ments could not be made to include
workers in the Unitarian and Universal
list fields. Miss Ada Bingham spoke to
the women about "Everyland" and was
followed by Miss Whitehead, who told
of the Burmese work. Mrs. Marden
Deaconess Stewart and Miss Ross gave
additional accounts of labors in their
respective fields
A children's story hour began in the
Congregational church at 345 and many
children were present as the meeting
had been announced in all the schools
Mrs. F. e. Perry had charge and the
several missionaries told about the chill
dren of the foreign lands and of the
Indian reservation. Each speaker
showed toys, books and wearing apparel
of the natives of the different countries
which impressed the stories more firmly
on the minds of the listeners. AS a
meeting was in progress in the Baptist
church at the same time the speakers
alternated, which avoided delays.
At O'Clock a jubilee supper was
served in the chapel of the Congrega-
tional church, for women. An excellent
menu was provided and about 15t
were present. At s o'clock the most
largely attended meeting of the day was
held in the First Baptist church, Miss
Florence Hemenway presiding. The
speakers went into greater detail thar
in the afternoon meetings. Miss White
head, Mrs Marden, Miss Ross and
Deaconess Stewart gave addresses.
In the back part of the Baptist church
was an exhibit of missionary literature
of all UNCONVENTIONAL boards. and sub
descriptions were taken for the various
missionary publications. The literature
for the "World in Boston" exhibition
now in progress was in evidence ant
many copies of the booklets were dis.
tributed