The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-10-01

war cabtHef 10 slstinQ In
Seattle this week.
Z, has grim business ahead.
Win deadly csrrestness II 10
mapping out years campaign
for lts standing army u more
than 100000 soldiers.
And II has issued . call for
800, 900 volunteersi
u 10 engaged In . war which
u has ~aaed reientIessiy for 30
yeara and which promises 20 40
on for many times 20 years.
!, 10 battling for sso causes
American patriotism ard Chris
tianl,y. And Iss enemies arc
numerous; Crime. want. ianor.
sree, heathenisrn, Mormonisn,,
and all other forces which IL
believes oppose lts ideals.
The battlefield ID from Alaska te
Porto Rico. from Maine to san
Francisco and Honolulu. from Can
ada To Florida.
This isn't a big news STORY
Tho cabinet has been here since
Wednesday morning. and ail Seattle
knows about only. Ra usual. the
great bulk Of tho hurrylnK throus
has given Il scant notice.
Its sessions are In the First
Methodist Episcopal church. and r.
why. sea. Of course. we knew you'd
guess u. lts rnme ia
The Wom@n's Home Missionary
society.
Missionary societies have always
been vaguely associated with Can
ton and Thibct and the heather
Chlnce. In our minds. Foreign mis
sionary societies we're organization,
for which the preacher always
dunned you when he knew that 81
cents was the smallest change you
had In your pocket
or the scope OF home missionary
societies. We had not tho nllghtes,
conception.
We supposed II had something "a
do with the heather Chinee in this
country. We rather scoffed at the
earnestness with which our women
folk went about the business OF be
Ing home missionaries.
But we scott no more. We hum
bly, take off our hats to the Won
ans Home Missionary society. fol
we know now what Il all means.
Far up in the cold wastes oil
northern Alaska this society has
missions and schools, and is teach
ing. nursing. feeding and clothing
hundreds OF needy Esklmos and In
dams.
Far ont In the middle OF the Pa
ciflc--on the Hawaiian islands rs
selfsacriflcing workers are strug
Cling 20 save little children from
degradation and want. and are
moulding them into potentially good
citizens.
Far back into the mountain fast
nesssea OF Kentucky. whore dwell
the 'po' mountain white" notorious
for their outlawry. and a hundred
years behind civilization. the Meth
odist missionaries are teaching the
gospel OF better bread and better
babies. clean homes and abandon
ment OF feuds and moonshlne.
Thru the congested negro centers
OF the Southern cities and thC
wretched slums OF tho Northern
metropolises. these angels OF mercy
and love are constantly ut work.
Its emissarles are the first to OK
tend a hand OF welcome to the
frightened immigrants at Ellis IL
land. and TO give a CHEEKY word and
comfortable home 10 orphan girls
struggling with poverty and tempta
tion.
1t is making good Americans!
Thirty.one years ago good
New Orleans. Thousands OF black
people surged past her She studied
them. sadly and thoughtfully. She
looked into the faces OF thousands
OF negro girls and women. and read
there purity and strength. but bit
ter suffering.
The woman-wife OF Bishop Hart
yell. OF the NJ r. church-took an
interest in their lot She saw then
struggling In want and ignorance
and with n number of friends she
went TO work among them. That
was the beginning OF the Woman's
Home Missionary society.
Tho socief was formally or
pnntzed I'm Trinity chureh Ctncin