Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-18
FOREIGN MISSION WORKERS
 HELD JUBILEE MEETING
Heard Address at Methodist Church |
 by pr. Belle J. Allen.

f
 There were representatives from
 outlying towns at the jubilee meeting
 of Norwich District East of the Wom-
 ans Foreign Missionary society. held
 Tuesday evening in Trinity Methodist
 Episcopal church. Mrs. John Gallup
 of Moosup, corresponding secretary of
 the Norwich District East presided
 uud the devotional exercises were led
 by Mrs E. A. Hytes of New London.
 Mrs. J. H. Briggs of Danielson, jub-
 flee secretary of the Norwich District
 society of the Trinity church was
 awarded a prize of $2.50 in gold for
 gaining the most members during the past year and retaining the largest
 per cent. of old members. Also they
 received the largest subscription for the missionary paper.
 Mrs. William Grove, Jr., and Miss
 Mildred Grove rendered a duet and just before the close a very pretty pantomirle with Mrs. Grove singing the solo part was given by seven young ladies, Misses Gladys and Bes- sic Beardman, Edith Palmer, Mildred MelIor, Miriam Bergstressof, Hazel Purvis aud Gladys Newbury
 The speaker of the evening was pr. Belle J. Alien. medical missionary to India.
 pr. Allen expressed her pleasure at meeting New England friends and said this was her first visit in Norwich. My experiences in India have opened my eyes wider than my experiences in Japan. We are here tonight at the half way point to try to get more re- cruits, more privates. more officers to
 carry on the campaign of Christian warfare. We need the cooperation of every woman and every girl in this church. We want cooperation and we need cooperation. Dr. Allen ex- terested in the church and said if there was so few relatively interested in this country, I don't know what would become of us. Christ said, "Ye are the light of the world" There is need for all of us to get out and get re- cruits for this work. If I could pie ture the results of your work, the schools, the industrial schools, the nurses all from our givings. We need to enlarge our border and when visit schools and see the work that is be- ing done my heart rejofces and after [ came back from Japan found in my old field girls doing the work | that I was engaged in, ministering to their people the way we set out to do.
 Do you know anyone in Norwich who would lay down his business for l the church? If we only could get that vision which Christ means for us, ! sometimes we fail to realize that call, 1 'Go ye into the world and preach the gospel" He says go ye to every na- | ton and every creature.
 I don't believe anyone here knows | how it is to be so hungry that they are compelled to eat the bark and leaves off a tree yet l have seen peo- pie die of hunger.
 Dr. Allen told the routine of the hos pital in India, the training of nurses and the superstition of the natives. In ! one way the medical work which IS 1 being carried on is breaking down the | cast in India, Dr. Allen told of the in 1 human way the natives care for babes l in time of sickness through nothing | but lack of knowledge. She said there 1 are hundreds of thousands of women | who don't know what it is to see have and see sunshine as they are confined | behind walls. We don't begin to re- i alize the freedom we have set by Christ We need as a church to get l down to the commandment, Love thy l neighbor as myself. It is the Father {! bnsiness and it is one means of our l expression of devotion to Him.