The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-06-12
MRS. FREELAND IS
CHOSEN PRESIDENT


boxes, Miss Grace Johnson, Lewisville;
temperance, Mrs. ]. d. Rathfon, Red
key; supplies, Mrs. M. c. Price, Rich
mond; literature and mission study,
Mrs. J. B. Mills, Newcastle; church
work, Mrs. o. e. Coleman, Richmond;
young people, Mrs. Ward Painter, Mid
dletown.
Unfinished business and the install
lation of officers came up first this
afternoon. Mrs. L. II. Bunyan, of this
city, as the presiding officer, had
charge of the installation.
In her second and last talk before
this conferentSSt this afternoon, Miss
Carrie Barge discussed the mission
airy society and it's meaning to the
church. the nation and the world. The
Home Missionary society has charge
of all the evangelistic work in Alaska,
Utah and the Oriental possessions of
the United States.
Forty-one Deaconess Homes.
She said that the society is main
tanning forty-one deaconess homes and
has charge of the immigrant homes
for girls at all the ports of entry to
the United States. Last year the in
dividual subscriptions of all the mem
bers in the country amounted to $780,
O0O but still more could have been
used.
She concluded with a personal ap-
peal to each of the women for a larger
service to the home mission cause.
Report of Y. p. Society.
Opening the meeting last night, Mrs.
Ward Painter of Middletown, gave
the report of the Young Peoples Soci
cites for the Richmond District She
said that those interested in missions
could not hope for large numbers to
carry on the work unless the young
people were interested. In this district
there are but three Young Peoples
Societies, with a membership of eighty
four.
Mrs. Nora Kennedy of Dunkirk had
charge of the devotional exercises.
In her address which was the fea-
ture of the meeting, Mrs. Carrie Barge
of Delaware, Ohio set forth reasons
why home missionary work was i'm
portant, and revealed some of the op-
portunities offered to the workers.
Mrs. Barge said that she agreed
with one of the cOuntry's great minis
ters who had said, "The American
Home Missionary Society is the big
gest, bravest, broadcast movement in
the United States, because it stands
for the physical, intellectual, economic
and religious development of all the
nnOn1n 10 Of hn Unit
States. All the conditions which the
missionaries meet in the foreign field
are reproduced under this flag
Home Work Two Fold.
THE call to home missionary work
is two fold CALL" she said. 1t is a call
from God to individuals to carry the
gospel not to one part of the world or
race but to all the people. 1t is a ques-
ton of condition not of location.
'It is a call to a nation with a most
remarkable origin. The mission is that
of an evangelistic force among the ma
lions of the earth, but our life at home
must be as good as the loud proclama-
tons of Christianity which we send
abroad
The life of the republic depends on
certain principles imbedded deep in
the country's foundations. Little
groups of people from many different
countries were called. They crossed
an unknown sea to an unknown land
to find an unknown nation. They laid
the foundations in liberty and Chris
tianity.
Thousands of boys and girls are
meeting Sunday after Sunday in Sun
day Schools where there are no bibles
or hymns. Under the guise of Sunday
Schools they are being taught the
most outrageous infidelity, and are be-
ing taught to laugh at the church as
humbug
Leads World in Crime.
With it's profession of Christianity
our nation leads the world in crime
and murder. / woH< Sr if the foreign
nations ever stop tosssk what the con-
nection is between our christianity and
crime. We give as the reason that our
population comes from the ends of the
earth. But the foreign born person is a
worse criminal after ten years in this
country than when he came.
I'VE are not Christian nation or we
would not have these vice centers into
which these people are thrust as soon
as they land in this country
Miss Barge described the conditions
in the larger cities and discussed Ia
Dor problems.
I'VE sit calmly by and see our chill
dren destroyed in the mills of greed as