Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-18

l the home born, and the stranger, and 1 him that soJourneth among you, and ''Sir, we would see Jesus.'~f He ap- l piled these tests to the United States, where every 24th person is a Rus- sian, every 18th a Pole, and every 10th a. Negro. He eloquently portray ed the vast power of our country in the world today. America kept other nations from dividing up China, and our president has made them apolo- gize for recognizing a murderer as chief of a sister republic. He alluded to the fact that too much prejudice existed in the north as well as the south against the Negro. He closed with a powerful appeal for. aid for the only general Protestant hospital in the capital city of our nation. The Roman Catholics have three large hos pitals in Washington. He gave touch ing incidents regarding hospital work for children. His appeal met with in stant response, for at the close of his remarks, gentleman and his wife pledged a hundred dollars to fit up a children's bed in Sibley Memorial Dis- trict Superintendent Scrivener made benediction after an offering had been taken.
 Foreign Missionary Society.
 The Woman's Foreign Missionary society anniversary was held at 2 p. m. The heat reduced the attendance. a little, but still two hundred people or more were highly interested in the address of Mrs. Marcus l.. Taft. for mer missionary in China. She spoke of some of her thrilling experiences in the time of the Boxer rebellion. Mrs. Costello Lippitt, president of the Wo- mans auxiliary. w, F. M. S. intro duced the speaker Miss Alberta Eaton of Stafford Springs rendered a solo previous to the address and the dis trict superintendent read Scripture and offered prayer.
 Mrs, Costello Lippitt, the president of the campground auxiliary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary society, introduced the speaker, Mrs. Marcus L. Taft, formerly of China, She gave several interesting experiences and stated that today the word the Chinese have for Old Glory is ''tf1e beautiful flag" She told of two Englishmen who gave pieces of their flesh to help heal the burns of a Chinese slave girl, who afterwards became a Christian and married medical missionary. A large Chinese banner, red and yellow, hung back of the desk, and Mrs. Taft stated the four characters in the cen- tre gave the Chinese idea of mission ary work, "Beaueath love te men,
 Fec many women lavish eR dogs the mother love that ought to lay hold of some great, winning cause, like mis- siens. Two sacred songs on the graph 
 MT. Scrivener pronounced the benedic- tien,
 chiidren's meeting.
 At o'clock Mrs, Jane E, Read, of Worcester, who is president of the eampgreund auxiliary of the Weman's Foreign society, and has been leader of the childrens meetings fer mere than three decades, presided, and asked E. 4. Cone of Washington to take charge eff the exercises. He read the Sunday school lesson and Miss B. B. Hall of fered prayer. The relieall of the Kings Heralds was called and showed $35 collected in mite boxes last season, for Taft, a returned missionary from China, gave interesting stories about the children of China
 She was followed by Br. Haywood, wfle told the children about the boys and girls of Porto Rico: He told how Gslz fPhilip Gross) ,/led a multitude of others to bring some 6s cartloads of rocks one by one by hand, and eventually money was sent to buy mortar to build those stones into church. DE. Haywood has sent three Porto Rico boys to be educated at East GFeeaWich Academy.
 Notes.
 Fred N. Robinson of Lisbon spent
 
 returning this morning.
 Baby, the Pomeranian dog of Miss Carrie E. Ives, Is attracting a great deal of attention because of her beauty and winning ways. Though 1-2 months old she weighs but six pounds.
 George H. Wilbur, wife and daugh- ter Flora, together with Ira A. Porter, autoed up from Cape Cod where MT. Wilbur is in business. The gentlemen are at the minister's dormitory and the ladies are at Miss Flora Smiths off Prospect avenue.
 Sunrise cottage. corner of Wesley Circle and Simpson avenue, are Mir. and Mrs. Leonard Geer and Miss Flor ence Huntington of Wil1imantic. Their guest for Sunday was Frank P. Geer of Jewett City.
 Captain Henry M. Randall. presi- dent of Montauk bank, Brooklyn, N. Y, spent Saturday and Sunday at ,Beulah his commodious cottage on Foster avenue. He has recently. been elected president of the Douglas camp meeting association.