The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-15
Most Successful Meeting of WOman's Missionary Con-
 ference Brought to Close
ENSLEY PRAISED
 FOR HOSPITALITY
Mrs. Wersel Made Strong Plea for Aid in Extending W. C. T. U.
 Work at Home and Abroad

l The North Alabama Woman's Mission ary conference, which has been in ses- sion at the Ensley Methodist church since last Saturday, came to very suc- cessful close yesterday at noon following an important business session. Gadsden was selected the place for the next conference, which will be held In Feb ruary. The Ensley delegates invited the conference to meet in this city again, but later withdrew their invitation in favor of Gadsden. The conference just closed | was voted the most successful conference ever held by the North Ala bama Womans Missionary societies. | The morning session yesterday opened with devotional exercises by Miss Mar garet RaglanS. Mrs. J. F. Ehrhart brought greetings from the Birmingham Graded unon The institute on social service was conducted by Mrs. Ehrhart | and in turn she presented Mrs. Wersel, president of the Woman's Christian Tenn perance union, who gave very interest," | ing talk. In her talk she told of the | distressing conditions in foreign fields | through import of rum by Christian coun- | tries and she urged all the mission so- cieties to work with the Womans Chris | tian Temperance union, in an effort to spread temperance literature and lnflu- | ence Mrs w. A. Albright Miss Mar garet Ragland, and several others aided much in the institute with splendid sug- gestons as to social work among the ne- groes.
 SPECIAL REPORTS A report of the social service commit | tee was heard and was very favorable and encouraging. Mrs. Albright gave an interesting talk on finance and made the delegation feel that money is indeed a divine gift to be used for the spreading l of Christianity. Mrs. W. K. Simpson, chairman of the chidrens S work commit tee. gave her report of the work which l is being carried on which was very en- couraging The report of the mission study and publicity committee by Mrs. Daniel Harmon, and the report of the finance committee by Miss Mamie Beth ard were heard and were very salsfac- | tory. Committee on extension or Work gave The committee extension Of work gave a very interesting report on the plans l for the coming year. A report or two 1 junior missionary societies by Miss Sadie Mae Speake of New Decatur and by | Miss Hazel Holmes of Tuscumbia, were | very good and showed much progress
 A committee composed of Mrs. Alex ander Greet, Mrs. E. K. Collier and Mrs. Henderson was appointed by the chair as a special committee to look after and advice all young women who volunteered T for foreign missionaries from the North Alabama conference Conservation serv- ices led Mrs. Greet, met with many re- sponses who expressed their appreclatlon of the meeting, and their determination to do better work A letter was read from the First A. M E. mission at Inter- urban Heights of Fairfield sending greet | ine to the conference. The letter also asked the conference to assist them Tn erecting memorial church in honor of Henry McNeal Tuner, D. D., Ph. D., de- | cea sed. A collection of $10 was made and will be forwarded to the committee in charge. The following resolutions were read and adopted by a rising vote of thanks:
 RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED
 The following resolutions are respec' l lively submitted:
 | .'Whereas This, the fifth annual seS- sion of the Womans Missionary societies of the North Alabama conference, closes the best years work in the history of the organization, and
 "Whereas. We are grateful to our Heav- enly Father for his guidance and protec- tive care and to each of our co-workers for their faithful service. and
 "Whereas, This conference has k1ndled anew our zeal and inspires us to do greater things for our Lord; therefore, be it
 Resolved G), That we sing unto the Lord a new song of thanksgiving for the blessings of the past year.
 Resolved @, That we expres our ap- | preciation to all who contributed to the interesting programme, especially men, tioning Mrs. Albright and Miss Head, Miss Sander, Miss Grim and Miss White head.
 Resolved @, That we express our ap- l gratitude to the committee arranging our trip to the Ensley Community House and the Avondale Wesley House; to the mu- sicians who have rendered such sweet music: to the decorating committees to the young ladies who so cheerfully acted as pages; to the Birmingham newspapers and to the Boy Scouts, who directed delegates to Ensley.
 "Resolved (D That we render thanks to the Rev. and Mrs. B. T. Waites, Mrs. Cook, Mrs. Gay, Mrs. Harris. Mrs. Don- ] aldson, Mrs. Sanders, the Rev. A. K
 Wright, Dr. J. F. Sturdivant and others who made our stay in Ensley so delight full
 Resolved (5), That we are indebted to our hostesses for their gracious hospi-
 tality to the citizens of Ensey for their
 many courtesies. including the use ol their automobiles for the trip Tuesday.
 Respectfully submitted,
 MRS. H. c. HAGLER
 MRS. WILLIAM SELF,
 MRS. s. s. CALDWELL, "Commttee" Mrs. Greet. president of the conference
 stated that they had just closed the most
 successful year since the organza tior and that they had planned larger things