Norwich bulletin., 1911-05-04
STATE HOME MISSIONARY UNION
of Work Of the Organization and opportunities for
II Throughout the Country.

/ short prayers BY Mrs. Walker, Mrs.
! Carr and Mrs. Howe, closing with one
verse of Coronation, All Hail the Pow
er of Jesus Nome.
A delicious luncheon was served by
the directresses Of the Home Mission
AIRY society of the church. under the
leadership of the president. Young Ia
dies Of the church acted as mattresses
and ushers, The decorations in the
dining room were very attractive
Afterroon Session.
At the afternoon session the pro-.
gramme opened with the singing ofsa
hymn, following which Mrs. j. M.
Huntington offered prayer. There were
about $50 in attendance, many being
from out of town.
Our Foreign Brothers and Skaters.
AZ the first speaker Mrs. Benjamin
w. Labaree, city missionary of New
Britain, which position she has held
for two years. spoke on Our Foreign
Brothers and Sisters, referring in par
tienlar to her work in New Britain
One Armenian who had been converts
ed in his homeland said after being
here some time that he thought the
American people were trying to get
out of the foreigners all they can and
give as little In return as possible
After being there a time he looked up
church and Sunday school, the infiu-
ence of which helped him, but where
We're the Christian men in the fac
tories? He had been converted in
Harpoot, The foreigners have feelings
and sensibilities and they feel sights
and inattentions.
She has an assistant who has been
on the foreign mission field and in
theirscase there can be no distinction
between home and foreign mission
work, for with those two from abroad
working in a city of 10000 foreigners
in Connecticut there can be no line
of that kind. There has been a hard
task to build UP the city mission work
but the churches are responding finely.
About every nationality can be found
in that city, there being $50 Persian
Assyrians there coming from the for
eign district where she was located as
! missionary.
She told of the opening of a sewing
school in "a chapel for the children of
one district. where eleven nationalities
are taught. the mothers having a spe-
cfal day now and then. The women of
j a Methodist church-are looking after
this work and Congregational church
has taken UP work among the Armeni-
ans.
The foreisners are very attentive and
are watching us much more than We
are watching them. 1t is only as we
try to live before them and do that
we can show them that there is a
Christ and that we are all brethren.
J
cellent voice by Miss Clara Worth and
was heard with much pleasure. It was
Ethel Nevin's Jesu. Jesu. Misarere. The
collection was taken by the young la
dies of the church.
The American of Our Great West.
Rev. F. l. Hale of Nebraska. mis-
sionary under the Sunday School Pub
| fishing society, spoke upon The Amer
lean of Our Great West and gave a
graphic description of the work there,
particularly in Nebra ska sandhilis The
greater part of the people we. are
working for he said, are American.
The vastness of the west is little real
ized.s Though the chances and oppor-
tunities of the east are great yet all
thought cannot be turned there to the
neglect of the other sections The
west is developing daily and wilI~givs
back to the east many times what it
has received therafrom.
Two great things are under way
there, conservation and reclamation.
The conservation policy is laying the
broad and deep foundations of a
strong err nation for tomorrow and the
reclamation policy is that by which the
government is reaching out to the arid
sections and bringing them into use.
The modern problem is to make safe
the road to Jericho and not put police-
men on it.
We are engaged in keeping men
Sdfeu anu bringing them I'D IN tfldt
work. He referred to the vastness of
the Nebraska sandhills and told how
easy it is to fall back in religious ways
because there are no churches or Sun
day schools to attend. He told of COW
ering the state in his work, holding
meetings in large tents, and urged
that the neglect of the people of that
state should not be tolerated and they
should not be allowed to get so unfa-
miliar with church services that they
lose interest. The work of eonserya-
ton is what the missionary society
strives for in the west. Helping the
religious societies to keep pace with
the growth Of the west is the effort OF
the workers. Sunday school societies
go wherever men go, be ii to con-
strEiction camp. a new mine or a new
town. Until such places are certain
of remaining churches rarely spring
up, but grow out of the Sunday school
in time. The missionary work is what
the people are yearning for.
Upon what those people are today
depends what they will pc tomorrow.
We are trying to hold that field for
Christ by keeping tilosae saved who
go in there. So secluded are many
that there is no minister for weddings
or funerals. Fife referred to many of
| the prominent workers there.
The afternoon programme closed
with the singing of America after a
vote of thanks had been extended to
the church for dts hospitality through
out the day.