The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-03
AUXILIARY ENDS
TWO DAYS SESSION
ACCEPTS INVITATION FROM WIN.
CHESTER TO MEET THERE
NEXT YEAR
OFFICERS REELECTED
SESSION CONCLUDES WITH mis-.
StoNARY RALLY At WHICH
MISSES BARRIER AND NEE
LY MAKE ADDRESSES.

Inc "oman's Auxiliary Of the do
oese OF Virginia adjourned with a mis-
s'ohary rally last night after a two
days session at All Saints church
me auxiliary accepted an invitation
70 meet next year in Winchester.
AT last nights service Misses Barber
ana Nicely, the returned missionaries
Miss Barber to China and Mis-.
Nicely to JApan-made addresse. that
were heard with the closest attention
py congregation that completely
niied the parish house of All Saints'
Frior to the stated addresses OF the
evening Miss Stuart. the president,
called Miss Lucy Gibson to read a
letter from Mrs. Frances Gibson
Woodward. who Is doing Miss BARRIERS
work at Anking. China, while Miss
Barber Is In Virginia on a years' fur
Tough.
Miss BARRIERS address was In the
nature OF a plea for another woman
worker at Arking, China Sho said
the social conditions Of China do not
permit a man to enter into the Chin
ese homo and that the need tor more
women workers. II the work hat has
alrescy been done 10 to be c,nsorved,
- imperative. ShS told of tina work
OF 81. Agnes school at Ankinr, OF
when she Is principal OF the primary
school there with which she Is also
connected. OF the hospital connected
Win the Episcopal missionary post in
thae city. of the station class that IL
regularly conducted for women and OF
the periodical tours to the rural dts
trfcts and when she had rccounted
all these activities the conxreRation
was quite ready to assent to her con-
tention that she needed some help.
Miss Nicely, the missionary to Japan,
made an address on What Christian
ity Has Done For Japan From an
Ethical and Political Standpoint" she
traced the Development OF Japan from
the time 1t vas forced open by Amer
lea in 1884. and showed that its won
derful advance in civilization has been
due to the application Of the .prin-
clplAs or Christianity. She said that
every institutional work In Japan.
such as hospitals, schools for the
blind. deaf and dumb. asylums for
the insane, orphanages and the like,
were established by Christians and
such institutions OF the sort as have
been esta blished by tho japanese are
but the reflection Of tho activities Of
the Christians.
All these splendid results. she said,
flowed from foreign missions, which.
she said were bona OF God for II they
were born OF men they would go to
pieces.
Miss Nicely added that when people
say they don't believe in missions. 1t
means that they don't believe in hui
mainly, they don't believe in the up
lift Of mind. soul and body, they don't
believe in humanity.
At the conclusion OF Miss Neelys
address an Offering for the benefit of
Miss BARRIERS work in China was taken
and the exercises closed with O. short
address and benediction by Bishop
Gibson.
The first service Of the day yester-
day was communion service at 1890
in the morning. when Rev. DIR. J. Y.
bowman administered the holy COM
munion.
During the morning business session
Bishop A. q. Lloyd made an address
on THE Policy Of tho Board Of Mis-
sions and Its New Methods" At the
close OF this address Miss Haliie Stuart.
the preaident Of the auxiliary. was
presented with a beautiful travelling
clock, incased in ltAthar, ~ q token
Of affection from tho Virginia branch.
Old Oflicera H0.Elected.
Practically the entire list Of former
ofiicers were reelected as follows:
Miss Sall!e Stuart. president; Mrs.
George French. secretary: Mrs. B. NJ.
Randolph. custodian OF the united Of
fering: Mrs, M. G. Wallace. secretary
OF the Church Periodical Club; Mrs.
Eleanor Warrington HowsNd. secre-
tary OF the Babies Branch: Miss Lucy
aibson. treasurer Of the emergency
fund. Mrs Robert Barton. Of Win
chester. was reelected secretary Of
the Junior Auxiliary.