Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-12-09
Mrs. Edna Biller Pays
Watertown a Visit

The visit OF Mrs. Edna Biller, wife
tof the late Bishop Biller, to this city
last week was an occasion of more
than passing interest.
postcards had been sent out to all
the women of the parish" says a
member Of the parish supplying this
report, by the president Of the Wo-
men Workers, Mrs. w. V. Monroe.
and her assistants, inviting all to a
MONDAY luncheon preceded by a
communion service and followed by
a missionary meeting with an ad-
dress by Mrs. Biller. The morning
meeting was well attended and at the
hungry hour ~ifty-one adults and sew
eral children were served to a boun-
tiful meal in the guild hall, this fea-
ture Of the day being in charge of the
president Of St. Margaret's Guild,
Miss Madonna Brickell and her as
sistants. The three long tables were
very attractive, adorned as they were
with flowers and other embellish-
ments.
1T was a most successful gather
ing for the church. socially and 9TH
F9rwixe, and the women felt after
hearing Mrs. Biller that we need not
go to the war devastated countries of
Europe to find men and women going
without the comforts and even the
necessities. Incidentally it might be
said that Bishop Biller had pledged
salaries to these missionary preachers
amounting to over $4,000, which as
usual he expected to raise in the east
and elsewhere, and it was to help
make these pledges good that his
loyal wife has undertaken to carry on
the work ever though she walks
alone. Her address abounded in pic
lures Of the privation of these faith
full souls doing the Masters work, of
the Indians 81 loyal and ap%preciative
and so glad to know that the religion
Of Jesus Christ belongs to them as
well as to the white man, OF the long
distances to be traversed in going
from place to place on the reserva-
tons, and OF the poor dear govern
ment that promises hospitals and
medical attendance to its wards, the
red men, all Of which end in disap-
pointment and deceit. notwithstand-
ing the money used belongs to the In
dians themselves.
I'VE hear Of sending boxes to the
missionaries to be distributed to
those in need Of various things, but
Mrs. Biller told of the missionaries
themselves in some cases going with
out underwear, waiting for the box to
be sent. for they had no money to
buy.
THE very finest of manhood go
hence to carry the message, and it
means a life Of sacrifice and hard
ship to be on the reservation doing
the Kings business. The women lis
tening to Mrs. Biller got so enthusi-
astic about wanting to do what they
could to help her to make the bishops
pledges good, that they pledged 1874
then and there privately and collect
lively. Trinity Guild pledged $1.0O
per capita for its AZ members and st.
Margaret's pledged $25. The rest we're
private pledges.
And that was not all. The m
voted to come together once a month
to talk about missions, and thus they
will learn to be more interested and
heed the call when the rector asks
for collections to the missionary sal
aries fund. tbs movement will in
clude not only the women outside of
the guilds. but both guilds will join
in and 1t Is safe to say that the mis-
sionary field in South Dakota and
elsewhere will be better understood.
AS an evidence OF what has been done
by the missionaries, out Of $4,000 In
dams in South Dakota, over IL, 900 or
half of them are Ep~iscopalians.
The day was one OF great satisfac-
ton to Mrs. BiIler, to the rector, to
the president OF the mt workers
and to the women themselves"