The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-26
CONVENTION
FOR MISSIONS
Important Gathering of New
England Workers in
Baptist Church
MESSAGES FROM
FOREIGN FIELDS
District Meeting of Woman's Ameri-
can Baptist Foreign Mission Society
Miss Margaret Suman Tells of
Notable Work in Philippines.


Notable Work in Philippines.
The third annual meeting of the New
England district Of the Woman s Amer
lean Baptist Foreign Mission society
opened yesterday afternoon at go
0 clock in the First Baptist church
with a workers conference for state
and association secretaries with circle
presidents and all workers. Many of
them did not arrive i'll town until the
, o clock train, but they We're taken
immediately to the church in auto,oo-
biles and there was a very satisfactory
attendance at this conference
In the evening in the chapel at 100
o clock was reception to missionaries
and state and association secretaries
| While the Sunday school orchestra
| played many were introduced to the
| long line of officers by Miss Charlotte
Barrett Miss Ruby Thurber, Miss
Grace Smith and Mrs Charles Palmer.
! At $50 clock there was presented
in the church an oriental scene, en-
titled Blind Eyes Opened. Several OF
! the characters represented were in
| costume, the scene illustrating the diff
| ficulties encountered by missionaries
and missionary women physicians il
! handling the large problems of the for
1 eign mission fields. The participant
/ were Miss Ada A. Brigham of Ben
/ nington, Miss Harriet O. Hunt of New
ton Center, Mass, Miss Marion l. ClapI
4 of Brookline, Mass, Miss Clariss;
H Hewey of China, Miss Alice Freeze anC
Mrs. Harvey W. Sanders, Miss Susi,
Miner, Miss Maud Thurber and Mis-
Flossie Ober of Brattleboro.
At the conclusion of the entertain
ment it was announced that the Ner
mont Printing company had of
fered to give to each delegate cop,
of The Brattleboro Reformer each la,
!, of the convention if the delegate
would leave their names and addresse
at the registration desk.
The sessions today opeaed at 93
O clock with PRAYER service conducte,
by Mrs. F. S. Knight. Following thi
with prayer by Mrs. f. a Woodbur
and words of welcome to the visitin
delegates by Mrs. f. L. Smith, assictan
, to the pastor.
The report of the treasurer, Mrs. I
L. Anderson of Newton Center, Mass
expressed regret that the apportionmen
had not been met by about 81 900, bu
there had been received a gift of $40
600 for specific purposes and 81 900 ha
been received in legacies, making tn
total from the district over $4,000.
This was followed by the report @
the foreign vice president of the Ne
England district.
c Miss Helen w. Munroe of Cambridg
: Mass, foreign vice president of til
4 New England district, gave her repor
On the foreign field the past year ii
1tew England district has been pawn
the full salaries of 2S missionaries
1 most of whom are New England girl
4 In addition to these the district h;
shared with other districts in the SUI
port of six others and has assumed,
whole or in part, the support of eva
4 gelistic or school work superintendt
for the society by 80 of the missio
aries of the American Baptist FOreig
I Missionary society or their wives.
4 The New England district is entir
ly supporting five splendid high schoo
4 and five boarding schools and the st
4 dents hostel in Tokyo. IN Chin
I Japan, Burma and India there are ov
4 5000 children who attend 300 Sund
] schools. A hospital and dispensary
/ Palmur, India, was equipped with Ne
J England money. Another was esta
I lished at Udayagiri, another at Soor
l petit and another in Assam.
Three young women went from t
district this year, Miss Edith Balla
I to India, Miss Lillian Van Hook a
! Miss Ethel Smith to China Miss H
riet Marble has gone during the We
] and others are ready to go. Miss All
] Bixby Of Vermont has been obliged
! return home, because of illness, for r,
\ and recuperation.
The report referred to the differ6
B yOa+boJu oIo1taI tp lznaD ranoptC of
work before the different societies
means of the Bulletin, through spec
letters when asked for and by address
and conferences. 1t urged that chez
newsy, fun making letters be sent
the missionaries and that several '
men in the different churches beco
3 regular purveyors of missionary
3 formation.
Mrs. Annie Cobb Smith of Saco, n
state secretary for western Mai
I spoke on Bricks; With or With,
Straw. Her talk was descriptive
] the missionary literature of
church and affiliated bodies and V
4 very illuminating. She briefly descril
many of the publications, from m
azines to leaflets, bulletins and str
J books for old and young.
The principal address of the mo
ing was by Miss Margaret Suman
Z Capiz, Philippine Islands, who h
the very closest attention of her AT
ence from the instant she began
speak until she had concluded. Nj
learned facts about the missions
work in the islands that were new
them, especially as to the methods
which the schools there are conduct
She told first of the necessity
rebuilding the home because of
damaging work of the myriads
white ants that had eaten away
big timber supports. Cement posts W
used to replace the wooden posts
~~ the. work cost 1000 pesos or $500
United States money, and required
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