The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-04-25
PresbyteriaI Missionary Convention.

liz w Nliool0i0Ay AS~A~SJ
of the Presbyterian church met
Wednesday afternoon at the home
of Mrs. C. P. Gibson. The devotional
service was conducted by Mrs. Ehr-
stein. The roll call was responded
to with items of missionary news.
The lesson was the third chapter OF
the study book, Western Women
in Eastern Lands" being an inter-
esting account of the missionaries at
work in the countries of the Orient
and was conducted by Mrs. Christen-
sen. There was some special music
by Mrs. Ellis class of little girls,
after which Mrs. Ashford and Mrs.
Schleuder gave reports of the Pres
byterial missionary convention that
was held at Madelia April 18th and
5th. Mrs. Schleuder took a short
hand report of the addresses given
at the convention and gave the re-
port in full. One of the addresses
was, 1.-The Negro Question, From
Our Point of View" by Mrs. S. l..
Neff of Lake Crystal. Mrs. Neff
spoke of the work that has been
done by the Presbyterian mission
aries for the freedmen, and told OF
the progress that has been made by
the negroes since the civil war, in
the way of education, Industrial
training, in the amount of property
held by them, in the better condl-
ton of their homes and their rellg-
ious development. An address was
given by Miss Lincoln of New York,
formerly trs asurer of the Woman
Board of Home Missions. She adj
yocated the taking of missionary
magazines in order to be well III
formed as to what the missionaries
are doing. She spoke of the i'm.
portance of interesting the young
people in the work of missions. On
Tuesday evening Miss Lincoln gave
another address and in it she spoke
of the various places where the mis-,
sionaries of the Presbyterian church
are at work in North America. She
also spoke for some time on the diff
ferent mission stations for Indians
all over the United States. One
good thing about the Indians is that
they are born missionaries, and as
soon as they are converted they car
ry the gospel to some other tribe,
and in this way are great help to
the missionaries.
She spoke of the work the Presby-
terrain church is trying to do among
the Mormons and how the work in
Utah is very slow because when a
Mormon is converted he generally
has to leave Utah and go somewhere
else to make living. as the Mormon
people all turn against him and
make it almost impossible for him to
get along among them.
Mrs. Engstrom of Chicago, Field
Secretary of the Northwest, gave
two very interesting addresses. She
is an eloquent speaker and familiar
with all phases of missionary work.
She said that the doors of the fore
ign countries are all open to the
missionaries and that there is no ex-
cuse for not entering them. She
said we should all be interested in
missions, that the responsibility is
ours whether we recognize it or not.
So much money is spent selfishly in
America, $128,000.000 being spent
on millinery last year. while the
combined efforts of the Protestants
for missions was 100000. Twelve
million dollars were spent last year
for chewing gum. One hundreds
times as much for jewelry as for the
advancement of Christ's kingdom.
Mrs. Engstrom's last address was
on the mission study book, Western
Women in Eastern Lands. and was a
most interesting review.