The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1914-05-15
Missionary Meeting Interesting and
Helpful-Large Attendance.


The program arranged for Wednes-
day at the meeting of the Woman's
Foreign Missionary society Of the De-
troit conference, held in the First
NJ. e. church, was successfully car
riod out. There was a larger attend
ance than upon the opening day.
One Of the special features of the
program was the memorial service
conducted by Mrs. d. II. Ramsdell OF
Ann Arbor. This service was open
! ed with singing by Mrs. Howard
Field of Detroit, who rendered
abide With me-" After which Mrs.
A. =. Ferry lead in prayer.
Mrs. Ramsdell said in part: "It is
most fitting at this time, when all
nature is singing the spring song O.
resurrection, Of rebirth and of vic
tory, that we speak of those who
have gone from us.
Throughout the world to day ma
ture is doing her best to tell people
Gods thought for them. But this is
not sufficient God so loved the
world, that He sent His only son in
to the world to tell us of the truth
and life and resurrection from the
death. We sorrow today for our
friends who have gone, but we sor-
row not without hope, for these
knew Him, who said. I am the resur-
rection and life God speaks to us
in these dispensations of His Prov
idence. How manw and varied are
His calls to us!"
In addition to the above, Mrs
Ramsdell read papers of lives and
deaths of Mrs. c. l.. Adams, the first
president of the Houghton district
association, and of Mrs. Harriet e.
Rosenberg, who was present at the
meeting of the Detroit conference
one year ago. Other departed men,
bers of the association were men
toned, and in so doing a carnation
was placed in a vase in memory of
each one mentioned.
The address given by Rev. w. NJ.
Phelps, pastor of the M. e. church
at Battle Creek, was another feature
of the program deserving special
mention. Mr.. Phelps, who possesses
an extremely good platform voice,
| took for his subject, "Driven Back
| to Tithing." His address was most
interesting and kept his audience in
smiles from start to finish. He ex-
| planned methods of raising money
for the churches, declaring that a
| Christian church should be the
greatest finance society in the coun-
try. Mr.. Phelps says that the Sun
| day schools are only institutions in
the United States that hold together
on penny basis.
The treasurer's report read by
Mrs. Rose Bodmer, was adopted and
placed on file.
Music by Earl McGee, organist,
and Mrs. Grace Shirtcliff, Mrs. F. A.
Watts and Miss Frances Jones, solo
lists, was finely rendered and appre-
ciated by all.
The first half hour of the evening
program was given to an organ r/
cital by Earl McGee of Bay City. His
many Owosso friends in the audience
were delighted to have this privilege
of hearing him and every selection
was, finely rendered. He was assist
ed by Mrs. Grace Upham Crew OF
Cleveland. o., who sang to the great
delight of all two very charming con-
tralto solos. The devotional SER
vice was conducted by Mrs. Alex
Steele and Rev. Fl. Cansfield
| The Misses Lillian and Esther
Vogel, Harold Vogel and Mr.. Gibson
sang sacred quartet, this was fol-
lowed by two interesting missionary
exercises by the Kings Heralds un-
der the direction of Mrs. Conant.
Miss Voightlander, missionary from
India, gave short interesting talk
to the children present.
The address Of the evening was
| given by Miss Lizzie Hewett on
South America and the big audience
gave her the closest attention as she
presented interesting facts regard
ing the work of the missionaries in
this land of the south where more
than thirty-five million people live,
Among many startling things she
said that In Argentine alone several
hundred cities had no Christian
workers in them and very few are
found among the more than SOC
tribes of Indians in South America
She said that under the leading reli.
gion of South America images were
worshipped as devoutly as any in So
called heather lands and that the
crying need of this wonderful coun,
try was an open bible and Christian
workers. At the close of her ad
dress a quilt made by Mrs. s. w