The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-01-29
Great Missionary Gathering
Here February 2 and 3.
MANY PROMINENT SPEAKERS
Workers from Foreign Fields and
Leaders of Movement mt Home
merOus MeetinKs-Luncheou at the
New willard on Friday.

ton February 2 and 8, to take part in the
mammoth rally of the womens national
foreign missionary jubilee.
Mrs. Wallace Radcliffe, wife of the pas
tor of the New York Avenue Presby
terrain Church, and a committee of 100
met yesterday morning in the New York
Avenue Presbyterian Church, and per-
fected the plans which have been under
way for the past two weeks. At the
meeting yesterday morning it was an
nounced that all the money needed to
finance the women's national foreign
missionary jubilee has been raised. Mrs.
Wallace Radcliffe presided. Reports were
received from the committees.
Mrs Henry w. Peabody Mrs. Helen
Barrett Montgomery. DR.. Mary Riggs No
BILE. and Miss Jennie V. Hughes. who
will be the principal speakers during the
conference, are expected to arrive in the
city next Wednesday, and will stop at
the Hotel Hamilton.
Rallies in Many Churches.
Rallies are being planned in nearly
every Washington church for the jubilee,
and prominent women Christian workers,
from almost every denomination. furnish
ed by the central committee of Boston.
will be on hand to make the principal ad-
dresses.
"A pUDlitlly SOuliillteo with the Iiioeto,
Go tell is undertaking not only to
inform every woman of Washington con-
corning the coming jubilee. but to make
her see that she will miss the opportu-
nifty of her life if she does not attend.
Big Undertaking.
Since last October. in the largest cities
beginning at Oakland Cal, and moving
Eastward there has been sounded the
call to which the women of Washington
are responding in prayer.
At the invitation of the central COM
mittee on united study of missions. In
Boston Mrs. Wallace Radcliffe. one OF
the leading missionary workers of the
District. summoned a committee of 100
women to make arrangements for the
jubilee.
Every means available were resorted
to in order to rouse the enthusiasm of
Washington women, and the jubilee this
week is expected to be by all odds the
greatest undertaking OF its kind the city
has ever seen Among the speakers will
be Mrs. Henry w. Peabody, with whom
the idea of the celebration of the fiftieth
anniversary of women's work for for
eign missions originated. who will arrive
here Wednesday, and will be at the Ham,
ilton Hotel
Prominent Speakers.
Other prominent figures will be Mrs.
Helen Barrett Montgomery. the principal
speaker at most of the meetings. and one
of the best known church and club wo-
men in the country to-day. who will stop
at the Hamilton; DR.. Mary Riggs Noble. |
missionary of the Presbyterian board |
and the head of d large hospital in In
dia: Miss Jennie V Hughes. mission |
AIRY from China of the Methodist board: |
Mrs. Eta Doane Marden. OF Constan- |
tinUple, Congregationalist Miss Margaret !
Suman. Philippine Islands. Baptist: Mrs. !
j. p. Campbell. of Korea, Methodist ,
Episcopal South: Mrs. r. w Andrews !
Japan. Protestant Episcopal: Miss NJ. r. |
Johnson. Sararnpur India, and Mrs |
Rockwell Smith. Brazil. Presbyterian !
South. The different mission boards Will |
be represented fully, including Miss Bell. |
Bennett, president of the Woman's Board /
of the NJ. E. Church South. and Mrs |
Charles Hay. president of the Woman's |
Lutheran Board.
The committee has arranged a series of !
meetings. every one of which bears some I
significant part in the jubilee. Not only +;
will religious cerviCeS be held in the !
churches, but there will be meetings for
working women late in the afternoon.
and separate mass meeting for colored .
women. at the Metropolitan a. NJ. f. |
Church. will mark the first night of the
rally.
Careful Preparation.
Preparations for the jubilee have been
going on since December 1, and weekly
meetings for prayer have been held in
many OF the local churches. With the
beginning of the New Year the city was
divided into sections, and four simulta-
neous prayer meetings have been held
weekly
Headquarters have been established at
the First Congregational Church. and
since January ! room has been given
over to the committees at the Hamilton
Hotel, which will be the headquarters for
the Jubilee troupe" and visiting mission
aries
On Thursday morning which will mark
the opening of the jubilee, there will be
three parlor meetings in the prominent
homes. where a special effort will be
made to enlist and enthuse women who
have as yet given little of their ability
to the mission cause. While these par
Tor meetings are in progress the conse-
Grafton service will be held at 10 o'clock
in the New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church. where three of the visiting mis-
sionaries will speak. the services being
led by Mrs. Wilbur P. Thirkield
Meeting for Students
At $50 D. Thursday will occur the
students meeting at the New Masonic
Temple. Two thousand students from
private and high schools Of the city are !
expected to attend. A workers confer
ence. to which all officers of mission
auxiliaries and all women interested in I
missions will be invited, Is scheduled for
$50 o'clock at the First Congregational
Church. when addresses will be made by
Mrs. Montgomery. Mrs. Peabody. and
others.
The teachers of the city will congregate
at o'clock at a mass meeting, which
Will be open to all working women, and
at the Church Of the Epiphany, Bishop
Lloyd will address the people. |,
On that same evening a great mass
meeting for colored women will be held ]
at the Metropolitan A M. E. Church, at
which Mrs. Montgomery and others will :
speak. 1t is hoped by this means to put the !
thousands Of women who are members Of
washington coiored churches in touch !
with the missionary movement {
Luncheon Big Feature.
Under the direction of the entertain.
n,ent committee. Q luncheon, to which 5
60 invitations have been extended, has !
ham aYran9Ad for I o'rlo~lr Er,Asy e<x.. Y