Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-04
MISSION WORK ON
 OUR WESTERN COAST
Mrs. H. L. Hill, Field Secretary, De- scrihes What Money Contributed by Methodist Women Accomplshes.

At the Trinity Methodist Episcopal church Sunday evening Mrs. H. l.. Hill, national field secretary of the Wom- ems Home Missionary society address ed good siZen audience on the work of the society, speaking at length on what has been accomplished in the past four years, since she spoke here. The Women's Home Missionary soci ety, he said, was the largest and most successful philanthropic institution in the country. In some places wOmen'S societies of other denominations par aIlel or even excel the work of the Womens Home Missionary sOciety,but as a whole cannot compare with it in the scope of work.
 The speaker first described the work in Alaska, where there are three mis- sion stations. The work accomplish ed by these workers, she said, Is the only work for the natives carried on in Alaska There Is a mems board mission there which does much for the white men, but does not touch the na- tives. In Seattle they say that there is no ship big enough to carry relig ion to Alaska, and then when q man leaves Seattle for the north he leaves his religion behind him. She then spoke of the interesting work among
 
 Italians who are pouring into Wash ingtOn.
 In San Francisco there are seven different departments, each aiming at reaching the people from the Orient. The Chinese girls and their hard 4ot in San Francisco. the speaker dwelt upon at some length, and said that there were only two homes in the Unit ed States for their protection. The cause of much of the evil there she lad to the heather ideas and supersti- tiOns brought in by these people of the Orient If the foresight of the govern ment is correct in predicting vast in Aux of people from soutsern Europe on the opening of the Panama canal, one can but imagine the great need which will arise for Christianizing in huences; when all the evil now. in the east will be added to the already de- plora0le conditions of the west and the evils peculiar to the Pacific coast.
 She spoke of the splendid work being accomplished among the hopelessly ig- norant girls of the southwest and of the vastness of the field. Since the troublOus times in old Mexico the Mex jeans have poured into the southwest ern states until there are now about q million of these dull, ignorant, stupid people, and their numbers are so great that they hold the political pow CT in the states They bring with them all the old barbarous customs, the heathenism and organism of old Mexico. There is not a school in all Arizona where a full blooded Mexican boy can secure any education. There are two schools for the Indians, or part Mexicans, but none which admit the fullblood. The only school for the Mexican girl is the missionary society home in Tucson The wonderful re- suits of the educating and Christian izing of these girls were emphasized by Mrs. Hill, and shown to be really worth while. The work, she said, is supported entirely by the women all over the country for there are n9 large gifts to the cause. IL must give US pleasure at the thought that our work and eur influence is growing. Last year the society raised and ex- pended over SS70,000 nearly $100,000 more than in the year previous.