The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-17
Miss Taylor Makes Address
to Young Women
BIG MEETING TODAY
Auxiliaries of Birmingham Churches
Will Have Joint Meeting at First
Methodist at 3 O'Clock Today.
Miss Taylor and Mrs. Pass
more to Speak

| Miss Harriet Taylor. executive of the
| foreign department of the national board
Of Young Womens Christian associations
engaged in the campaign to raise $4,000 Ia
| liquidate a debt on the building and to
carry ON their work was the speaker al
the meeting of young women in the audi
torium of the ssociation yesterday after
noon at O'Clock
! This afternoon at the First Methodist
church at 8 o'clock all the church socie-
| ties, missionary, ladies' aids and auxil-
ares of Birmingham churches will hold
a union service at which Miss Taylor and
Mrs. r. II. Passmore of Minneapolis will
speak. Both women have studied mis-
sions the world over from different
viewpoint and are well qualified to speak
meeting this afternoon is expected to bt
largely attendedj
At sthe mass Injecting yesterday after.
noon Miss Taylor said in part: Il would
like nothing better than to take yol
women on a trip around the world ano
show you what the Young Women;
| Christian association really means II
some il means only a boarding home in
| Birmingham, or a summer conference
| they have attended or other particular
features of association work. ] can say
that 1t means all those things and in.
| hnitely more.
''lf we could take this trip around the
| world | would show you first America
| your own Countrywide association in Los
| Angeles. where more women are enrolled
in educational classes than in any college
in the United States. Next ! would take
| you to London, where there are 100 differ
ent groups of women engaged In associa-
| tiof. work In It's different branches and
then in the country to see the 400 delight
full holiday homes along the shores of its
beautiful rivers, where the young women
spend their vacations. At the annual
meeting in London the women who wish
| to attend had to secure their tickets three
months in advance in order to get in. In
Paris | would show you our student hos
pital, where at one time in its patients
there were 2S nationalities represented.
II would take you to Germany and
show you the difference between the Ger
man i6ea of association work and ours
for there, though they have 1900 associa-
tions. they are more like our church So
cieties and operated under the auspices
of the church and the women, and IN.
stead of attending the general confer
ences themselves usually send their pas
tors TO represent them.
| I'm Sweden / would show you the new
association building in Stockholm, where
the association women We're not allowed
to ask tho business men for money unit
they had raised $1,000 toward i'll them
| selves which they easily did
I'm Bombay | would show you fac
! tory where an association worker wa;
given a shower of whatever missiles cam
at hand the first time she came to tall
| to the girls, and where today seven fac.
tories have active association work goips
on with the girls taking an active and in
terested part
I'm Colombo we would go with the gen.
eral secretary to visit the site of the new
association building that Is soon to bt
erected, but most of all I would like tc
take you to China and Japan, for there
the association is doing so much for the
women of the country In China there
are five great language districts, and sc
the Bible classes and all educational
classes have 10 be given in five Ian
guages Here not only the girls of China
teAh'bh Aht bfSNt''H' " tii' dF9DiiitiOAi
hut the wives of the wealthest men III
China attend because the men have tray
eled ever the world and have noted ths
difference between our women and theirs
and want their wives to keep pace edu-
cationally with the times, as the women
of modern Countries do. A recent lecture
on aviation IN China was attended by
over 400 women
And also. girls, we should cultivate our.
selves no matter who we are. We need
constantly TO grow, physically. education-
ally and spiritually. I point to Hezekiah
as an illustration, for he never neglected
things and was answering In his loyalty
If there is anything that the Young Wom-
ems Christian association stands for IL Is
Tor womanliness with all it's beauty and
purity
At o'clock in the living room there
was vesper service in which great
many women attended. Miss Taylor and
Mrs. Passmore were present and mads
short talks. At 10 O'Clock this morning
there will be the usual meeting Of the
Sunday School union in the associa tion
rooms.
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Pisgah Home Meeting
The following announcement has beer
issued: The Pissah Home association
will hold its semi-annual meeting Mon
day February II, D. M, at 1901 Allen