Norwich bulletin., 1914-08-17
WiIlimantic Camp Ground
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Observed Anniversary Sunday
 children's Missionary Meeting at 4
 p. m.

More delightful weather could not | have been found than greeted the | brightly through the trees. but the breeze was cool A large audience gathered at the tabernacle when the Woman's Foreign Missionary society l held their anniversary. The service opened with three hymns sung by the congregation, led by Edward M. Wheeler of Providence.
 Mrs. Costello Lippitt, president of the Woman'S auxiliary of the camp | ground, announced the opening hymn, The Morning Light is Breaking, the audience standing.
 Scripture was read by Mrs. Walter P. Buck of Stafford, president of the Norwich district W. F. M. S., and pray CT was offered by the district superin- tendent, Rev. George G. Scrivener. With Thee, by Lansing, was feelingIy rendered by Mrs. A. T. Anderson of Providence, R. I.
 After notices were given by the dis trict superintendent and Mrs Lippitt, the latter announced the hymn From Greenland's Icy Mountains.
 Mrs. William w. Carter of Ruther- ford, N. J., daughter of Rev. H. D. Rob- inson, was pianist.
 Owing to the absence of the Rev John W. Butler, D. D., of Mexico, on account of illness, his place was ably filled by Dr. Ernest P. Caldwell. a fo--- rner missionary of China He said China has 450, 1000, 900 people. The curse of heather China is not idolatry but the opium of Christian England and the whiskey of Christian America. In a most interesting manner he told how China means business in wiping out the opium traffic, how China is now being educated in the ideals of west ern civilization. Dr. Caldwell had been all through the Boxer rebellion and said the cause was the hatred of the Chinese for the foreign devils, as they called them. In a most eloquent way he described the success of the gospel missionary work which he had seen tions of Pentecost. An offering was taken at the close for the w. F. M. $. work, amounting to $35.
 Woman's Home Missions. At 2 p. m. the anniversary of the Woman's Home Missionary society was held. Again the tabernacle was well filled with several hundred peo- pie. MT. Wheeler led the congrega- l ton in various hymns at the opening, Mrs. Carter being pianist, and the veteran J. w. Rose of South Windham playing his double bass.
 Scripture was read and prayer offer ed by Rev. Henry D. Robinson, who formerly was presiding elder of the Norwich district.
 A well rendered solo was sung by his daughter, Mrs. c. c. Jackson, of | Attleboro Mass, entitled The Ninety and Nine, by Campion, accompani ed by her sister, Mrs. Carter on tine | piano.
 The speaker was Dr. Benjamin s. | Haywood of Washington, D. C., who | for two years has greatly pleased camp ground audiences. The Chal- | lenge of the Worlds Present Situation | to the Christians of America was his | thaTnn T fN n n O -Taxa T. l CT, voices from the negroes and whites | of the south, the Japanese and Chi nese of the Pacific coast, from the | Spanish of the southwest, from Alas ka and the islands of the seas, and the hundreds of thousands of immigrants. The Home Missionary society em- | braces all these. Mistakes are costly. | Napoleon's mistake of selfish ambition | brought him to exile. What will be the l result of the awful mistake of the Ger
 man war lord who in his ambition for
 increased power has plunged all Flu rope into fearful struggle? The only mediatorial power out of heaven who may be able to settle the fearful prob lem of 1914 is America. In the Bosr I war it cost s40,000 to kill a man. Co., onel Goethals says it cost only $40 to
 save each one person by the sanitary efforts in the canal zone. Ohi it is far
 less costly to save life than destroy It. | There are 11.000. 900 negroes in our
 land, more than the population of little Belgium, which has said to great Ger many Stand back" The negroes own
 today square miles of land equal to the area of Vermont, New Hampshire Rhode Island and Massachusetts com
 bined. Think of it. 69 per cent. of the tend church. We must Christianize America. that America may Christian ize the world. An offering of about S2L was taken for the home missionary work.
 Mrs. S. A. Prentice of New London
 is district president of the work, Id
 Mrs. R. N. Stanley of Highland Park
 is secretary and treasurer
 | chiIdren's Missionary Meeting.
 At o'clock. under the direction ot
 Mrs. Jane E. Read of Worcester a
 chfldren's missionary meeting was held in the tabernacle. Mrs. F. H. Bushnell
 of Norwich Town presided at the pi-
 ano Prayer was offered by Rev. " D. Woodward. The children repeated together Psalm g.
 Dr. Haywood then addressed them
 after the presentation of Preston B
 keator and Paul Packard as life mem
 bers by the payment of s10 for each b! the camp Sunday school
 He spoke of the getting well room
 of the hospital at Washington fur.
 nished by the money raised by chiI.
 dren all over the land
 pr. Caldwell told about the frs
 Sunday school he went to in heather
 China, where the children are yer,
 dirty, where they sing out of tune anC
 out of time, where they study at tn.
 top of their voice. We spent s16,0O0. , 900 last year for missions Gall tn.
 churches of all denominations) an< s27.oo0.o00 for chewing gum. Can ", } all not give more for missions? Joint Meeting of Societies. In the evening a union meeting O | the two societies was held and a goo. , audience was present. Both Dr. Cald
 we'll and Dr. Heywood addressed tn,
 gathering. Special songs were inter
 spersed.
 Epworth League Social. , On Saturday evening at the Willi mantle society house on Church circl,
 the Willimantfc Epworth league in vited all the young people upon tn, grounds to a social. About 40 accept ed and a merry time was held. Game were played and light refreshmenti