Evening journal., 1912-03-15
GREAT WORK
FOR MISSIONS
Wilmington Conference Home
Society Reports $43CO
Spent Last Year
l247 WOMEN ARE
ENGAGED In CAUSE

A congregation, made up largely of
women members. that filled the audi
.torium and Sunday school room Of
the new ST. Pauls Church. attended
the anniversary yesterday afternoon
of the Women's Home Missionary So
ciety of Wilmington Conference. Mrs.
J. Talloy Smith. the conference pres
tdent, was. the chairman. Opening
prayer and benediction were given by
the Rev. r. +. Beauchamp. Mrs. N.
NJ. Brown, the president emeritus, read
the scripture lesson. Preceding the
meeting. the conservation service for
deaconesses was held when accord
ing TO the ritual Miss Emma Kelley,
Deaconess Of Grace Church, was con-
secrated as a deaconess by Bishop
Luther b. Wilson, assisted by District
Superintendent y. l.. Hoffecker.
The address of the afternoon was by
Mrs. Mary Leonard Woodruff. secre-
tary Of the Porto Rican bureau. TAX
ing the parable Of the good Samaritan
as h0 text, Mrs Woodruff spoke of
the negro, Indian. industrial, and Soc
1al problems which the Womans Home
Missionary Society should help In solv-
ing. The Mormon problem. with its
1890 Mormon missionaries in Europe
and 100 in this country was empha-
sized by the speaker. She told of
the help needed by the mountaineers,
and the many problems caused by the
great numbers of immigrants coming
80 America.
Mrs. Woodruff said there would be
IN liquor problem as long as there
was a brewery left She said Amer
ican born citizens were as RESPONSE
lble for breaking the Sabbath as were
1.-The immigrants.
Conservation OF children was con-
sidered one of the most important ma
tional problems by the speaker.
Mrs. Woodruff described a trip 20
Porto Rico's leper colony.
She said as in tho parable, there
were still the three classes of people
who met all these problems, the self
righteous who passed by, those who
gave sympathy but no help, and the
Samaritans.
She said the Woman's Home Mis-
sionary Society we're good Samari-
tans who helped both body and soul;
they have 6S5 deaconesses, 24S mis-
sionaries, and homes, schools and hos
pitals.
Mrs J. H. Huntington, Conference
treasurer. reported receipts OF S23i71
from Salisbury District; S1S5.95 from
Dover; S4i001 from Easton. and ST.
SO6.27 from Wilmington; also Sl.0S3,-
az from the Deaconess Home; making
Ia cash total OF S3.62277, which with
S726.53 In supplies, made total re-
ceipts of S434923, an increase Of
$4,000 over last year. She reported
total receipts i'm the contingent fund
Iof STAG, with a balance on hand Of
$65.59.
Mrs. Wesley weldin. Conference
secretary, I'm her report praised the
fine work done by the city dcaconess-
les. Mrs. Sweet. Miss Gould, Miss Kelly.
and Arnold, who have visited the sick
and taught many classes.
Mrs Wcldin gave a total member
shin of 1247 women In the Confer
ence auxiliares New auXiliaries
were organized at Newark and Wy
oming last year. She praised the
young people highly; they have a ta-
tai membership of 901, which is de
vided among circles, 3 bands, and
10 Mothers Jewels.
IN the Conference are 2ST subscrih-
ers 10 the "Woman's Home Missions
magazine and % 10 the Children's
mission paper.
The mite box collections last year,
said Mrs Weldin, were $273.36
Mrs Weldin reported the temper
ance work seemed TO be advancing
slowly She spoke Of the death dur
ing the year OF Mrs. Jennie Rifle Har-
vey. whose position as Reading Circle
secretary has been taken by Miss An.
ME Woldin.
The society will in the future starl
mission study classes and travelling
libraries for the pastors and auxili
arics.