Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-05-11

besides this, the women report about
three hundred thousand dollars more
expended on local church work. The
Council supports about one hundred
foreign missionaries in China, Japan,
Korea, Brazil, Cuba, and now Africa
is to be added to the list Of our mis-
sion stations.
Another feature worthy of mention
is the disposition of people of wealth
to make large contributions. Mr.. Asa
Gambler, a brother of Bishop Can
dler, who has given a million dollars
to establish Methodist University in
Atlanta, made an address to the COun-
Gil. Our mission in Africa is to be
opened thru a $4,000 gift from Mrs.
Glide of San Francisco, who previous
ly gave to the Council the splendid
Cooperative Home for Working Girls
in San Francisco. Another Joy of the
Meeting was the appropriation of
s15O,0O0 to establish a School for
Girls, in the great capital of Brazil,
which now has no Protestant School.
New work among the Italians in
New Orleans is to be in charge of
Miss Helen Gibson, who is we'll
known here in Mexico being a niece of
Mrs. Miriam Ross.
We are often asked whether all
this work pays-if the people to
whom we send workers are really ca
pable of receiving this education. Two
of the most brilliant speakers of the
Council are my answer. The first was
DR.. Katherine French, a mountain
girl educated in our Kentucky Noun
tain School at London. who found her
way to Columbia University, New
York, and received a Phi. d. from
that institution. Later she was a
member of the Faculty of Bryn Mawr
and Mount Holyoke land has returned
to be the Dean of the Sue Bennett
Mountain school, where she began
her education.
The other magnetic personality
was DR.. Mary Stone, a Chinese girl,
the product of mission schools, who
received her degree as a physician
from the University of Michigan. and
who has been in the service of medi-
cal missions in China twenty years.
The most impressive service of the
Council Meeting is always the Conse-
Grafton of the Missionaries and the
deacOnesses. The Atlanta people had
requested that the girls tell of the
convictions which were urging them
forward in this work. One girl told
how she had longed to go to China,
but for health reasons, it was not wise
to send her; and 80 she was taking
the work of a deaconess, but would
support substitute worker across
the seas. The three girls who are to
go as pioneer missionaries to Africa
stood as monuments of courage Be-
yond thousands of miles by steamer,
and hundreds by African Rivers, they
must walk for nine days thru the
jungles of Africa, until they shall join
our Missouri missionaries, DR.. and
Mrs. Mumpower.
In very impressive charge, Bishop
Mccoy spoke to them of standing as
representatives of the heroic in wom-
anhOod in an age OF luxury. After
that the girls in black were eonse-
Grated to minister to the needy and
the suffering in America; and the
girls IN white were commissioned to
carry the gospel of Christ to the
ends of the earth"
Our way home brought US in sight
of some OF the great battle-fields of
the Civil War; and we could but
think how much this generation
should do for the uplift of humanity
because Peace has given US its won
derful opportunities.
After the bluegrass region Of Ken
tucky the red hills Of Georgia and the
yellow clay of Tennessee. the black
sOil of Missouri and its wide prairies
seemed to hold the largest promise