Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-25
SOCIAL MEETING BY
 PARK CHURCH SOCIETY.
Pleasing Programms Before Woman's
 Foreign Missionary Organization.

The Womaf1's Foreign Missionary so- ciety of Park church held social meeting on Friday afternoon in the parlors of the Osgood Memorial, with very large attendance and an ex- tremely interesting programme. Mrs William G. Henderson presided. Two musical numbers were much enjoyed, HandePs Gavotte being played with ex- pression by Miss Susie Whittlesey. and Mendelssohn's Oh! For the Wings of a Dove, sung in fine style by Miss Ger trude Young Mrs. Frank A. Roath is always an interesting speaker upon any topic she presents. Out of the wealth of knowledge and impressions gained by her in her journey around the world. she gave a story of her vis- it's to mission fields and missionaries. and picture of pagan lands that was of absorbing interest, and could not but arouse some enthusiasm for mission work dn even the indifferent. In Cali TO she contrasted the great MOhamme- dan university with the Presbyterian mission, which is working all over Egypt as well as in Cairo. Mohamme- danism, Buddhism and Hindooism are mingled In Ceylon. All worship the sacred mountain, each one believing the footprints there to have been made by his particular god. The great tenn pie of Buddha is at Candy and his of ferings are flowers. Ceylon also has it's Young Women's Christian associa- tions.
 At Madeira she described the great Hindu temple and her visit to Mrs. Zun1bro and to the mission school and the Bronze Bull and the tablet to the missionary. Christian Frederick schVartz. erected in 177s At Madras she Spent nearly all her time at the Baptist mission, and gave a more de- tailed account of the work and the people, touching upon the breaking down of caste, zenana work. and little sketches of the students. Bombay was in the midst Of great sMohammedan festival, which gave opportunity t. contrast pagan merry making with ours The Paisees and their customs are strange to us, and the Hindu bur- ial gf1abs, though gfuesome, are possf- bly, hygienic. She also visited Be- naces the hotbed of Hinduism, where all kinds of rites are performed on and in the Ganges river, whose water is infinitely worse than any around Norwich At Darjilins, on the border of Thibet, she found the Salvation Array, and in Calcutta a Sunday ser vice in the theater was aiming to keep the European population up to the standard of Christianity. In Rangoon there was a festival at the great and beautiful temple of Buddha, and Man delay recalled the work of Missionary Judson.
 Mrs, Charles T. Bard then sang with characteristic power and perfection. rendering Parker's Gypsy Maiden and Hawley's Rainbow, much to the delight of the audience.
 Mrs Roath was besieged with re- quests to continue her story, hven if her time was up, and she told them interesting tales of Hong Kong. Gam ton and Chinese life and of missions and missionaries in Kisto and Ypko- hama, Japan.
 Refreshments were then served by the social committee, Mrs. Richard Lewis (chairman), Mrs. Foster Will son, Mrs. George l., Ingalls and Mrs. Job Taylor. Mrs. Leonard W. Recon and Mrs. Henry T. Arnold poured.
 Henry Lewis and son Roswell of Fitchville were recent visitors at Lords Point.