The Washington times., 1913-10-18
JUB|LATE SERVICE
TO BEGIN FRIDAY
Feature of Occasion Will Be
Music by Choir of Two Hun
dred Voices.

Baptist missions, their extent both in
this country and abroad, and eulogies
OF men and women whose sacrifice and
devotion have made the present-day ef-
hciency possible, will be the general
theme Of the jubilate service in Wash
ington next week, commemorating the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the organi-
Bation Of the Woman's Missionary
Union Of the Southern Baptist conven-
ton.
The services will open at the First
Baptist Church, Avenue OF the Presi-
dents and o street, next Friday, and
will continue Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. c. n. Chapman, vice president Of
the Women's Missionary Union, whose
home 10 in Washington, VIII preside, and
one Of the foremost features of the
celebration will be the music by chcir
OF 200 voices, trained by Percy Foster,
with Miss Darlington ut the organ.
Although the occasion will commenIo-
rate the organization Of the union in
Richmond, Va, in 1855. the mission woI k
OF Baptist women In the South and
throughout the country at large covers
much longer period. Il SO happens
that the twenty-fftn anniversary of
the founding of the union and the cen
tenary of the departure of Adonriam
Judson and his wife, Ann Hazle.on Jud-
son, for Burmah, where they were the
first missionaries to arrive, falls in the
same year, and at next weeks meetings
there will be much said Of the work of
these two, Mrs. Judson being, in fact,
the first woman missionary and the
forerunner Of the thousands now en-
listed under the banner OF the WoTan's
Missionary Union
In $40 Language.
The extent of the work of the Bap-
tist missions is indicated by the fact
that they are teaching the Gospel today
in $40 languages tnd dialects" said Mrs.
Union. 'Our field embraces most of
Africa and Asia, and so far as possible
We enlist native teachers in our work,
and find this procedure most successful.
"One of our most fertile fields in the
home mission work in the mountains OF
Kentucky, where We have thirty-fve
schools now In operation, and where we
are teaching 5000 boys, giving them both
a Gospel and a liberal education"
Representatives from the various Bap
tist training schools will be present the
Baptists having been the originators of
this method Of furnishing trained work
ers for the home and foreign mission
fields.
The Marguerite Mission Home, one of
the largest institutions in Greenville,
s. c., and the Lincoln Memorial Train
ing School, Of this city. will be among
those discussed at the jubilate; and Mrs.
Maude r.. Mcclure. principal Of the
Louisville, KY, training school, will also
be heard.
Two Pageants.
Two paeeants will be a feature Of next
Friday nights program, one of which
will have I2o persons taking part. and
the other eighty persons. They have
been arranged after McGunni pageant,
Darkness and Light" and will portray
the world wide work of the Missionary
Union. Native costumes representing
the peoples Of every continent, will make
the scene a gorgeous one, and the vocal
and instrumental program will be ap-
propriate.
The opening of the jubilate Friday
morning will be signaltZed by the sing
ing OF the anthem, Sing, Ye Women of
the Southland" composed for this oc-
casion by Miss Margaret Dudley Rey-
nolds. Mrs Charles G. Gould will lead
the devotional exercises to follow.
Addresses will follow, the principal
speakers being Miss Kathleen Mallory,
Of Alabama; Miss Fannie E. S. Heck, of
Raleigh, n. c.. president of the Union,
and Mrs. e. B. Matthews. president of
the Maryland State Union.