The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-27


to compile and write the book and de
scribe its theme as showing the con
trast between the conquest for Chris
tianitv and the present earthly contest
between human kings.
She then spoke of the five year
program which closes in 1921, which
Is the wear when the Woman s Foreign.
Mission society celebrates its jubilee.
The five-year program means five
wears of special effort to obtain a 10
per cent increase in all lines of Bap-
fist endeavor. Mrs. Peabody is the ma
tional vice president of the society
and chairman of the central committee
of united study.
The talk on Missions in the Sunday
schools, which was to have been given
next by Miss Elisabeth Arlington Of
Newton Center, Mass, was transferred
to the calendar Of today's events and
Mrs. II. A. Henderson of Burma, spoke
on What Hasseltine House Means
This, she explained, is a home in New
ton Center, where those preparing for
the missionary field may meet return
ing missionaries. Chinese girls, who
are studying in this country in the
East, made their homes there last
summer.
Mrs. Hall then gave her address on
Our Black Pansies. This was a very
much worthwhile tale based on %
years of experience as missionary in
| Africa Mrs. Hall said that she was a
! New Highlander, being a member of
the Warren avenue Baptist church Of
| Boston. In the Congo Free State, that
! part of Africa in which she is station
ed. there are 100000 square miles and
/ ,1o+ Of
| There are 10 mission stations and 10
missionaries. She said that it costs $25
a year to educate a girl there. Ora
atically she told of laboring with the
sick while herself suffering from
fever; of the sufferers from sleeping
sickness, leprosv; of the day school
with 200 pupils in which there are u
native assistants and of MANY incl
dents that 90 to make up the daily
life of the missionary. And she told
them so that her auditors listened with
strict attention. The session closed
with prayer by Mrs. Hugh Ross Hatch
of Fairfield, Me.
Before the evening session Miss
, Izetta Stewart, organist of the Baptist
church, gave a short organ recital.
About 80 young women of Brattleboro
marched in singing a professional hymn
at 7.30 and took seats on the platform
Miss Ada A. Brigham of Bennington
read Scripture and prayer was offered
; by Miss Harriet O. Hunt of Newton
Center.
Miss Marion L. Clapp of Brookline
New England secretary for young PEG
pie s work, told of the World Wide
Guild in the New England district
) saving that ii was almost year old
and was the result Of the correlation
Of young people $ mission work. The
: white rose has been adopted as the
guild flower. There are lis guilds il
= the New England district of which A
70 are in Massachusetts. % in Connect
10 cut, Is III Maine Il in New Hampshire
= 10 in Rhode Island and : in Vermont
Miss Walworth, the chairman, theI
presented the Young women who ar,
t soon to leave as missionaries in foreigI
+ countries, each of whom acknowledged
the introduction and spoke briefly o.
/ their hopes and desires and expressed
S gratitude at being able to 90 to til,
|, mission work.
Miss Clarissa Hovcy, a GRADUATE
T. nurse. is to go to China
r. Miss Ethel Boggs, a graduate Q
e Mortified seminary and of the New
d England Baptist hospital and a daugh
y ter of DR.. Boggs. missionary in In
f dia, is to go to that country to join he
T., family.
e Dr. Clara c. Leach of Fairfax vt
a graduate Of Bellows academy, o
= Wellesley college and Of Temple univel
+ sity of Pennsylvania and who is a res
t istered physician, is to go to China t
+ work as a missionary physician.
- Miss Harriet Marble, whose nam
o was on the list, already has gone to til
isl m
9 Miss Helen W. Munroe of Can
bridge, Mass, who has been the 70
:, eign vice president Of the New En-.
" land district and before that was inte
- ested and active many years in mi
- sionary work, a graduate of Radclifl
y college and for some years a teachC
" in the Cambridge Latin school, is to 9
: to Japan as a self supporting mission
- airy.
ID Miss Elsa Freeze of Philadelphia
~ who has been chief nurse in the Altar
&c tic City hospital and operating nurse
"a other hospitals, is to 60 to China as
I'll nurse.
I'd Miss Ting of China. at present st
ne dent in Mount HoIvoke college and WI
ed is to 90 to Ann Arbor. Mich, to stud
td medicine. was introduced to speak
at China 5 Opportunity for Chinese Your
10 Women.
ne This young woman won the insta1
Ell attention of her audience and presen
ed impressivelv view of conditions
N, China from the viewpoint of natl
TN girl, picture of present conditions
es her home land and a perspective
ct. what the future has III store.
mt She said that one of the honors
al be conferred upon the United States
the awakening of the old China a.
IS the making of the new China direct
st by the students from that country W
he are doing creditable work IN the ms
ad tutions III the western land.
.he The opportunity for education
nd work in her land is tremendous.
mt lowing that one-tenth of the 400 m
lions of population are of school a
err and one teacher for every 40 pupils
,at means that there IS opportunity for o
!. million stmdents to Lecome teache