Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-01
FIFTY YEARS OF
 MISSIONARY WORK
Eastern Connecticut Branch Interested
 In Coming CeIebration.


 The members of the Eastern Con- necticut Branch are deeply interested in the completion of fifty years of mis- sionary work for the women of non Christian lands which event is be celebrated by the Woman's Board of Missions at a big jubilee meeting in Boston, November 1216. It was in that city, in the chapel of the famous Old South Church. that a group of forty representative women met to organize the Women'S Foreign Mis- sionary Society of New England which later became the Womans Board of Missions of the Congregational church. An historical pageant The Gift of Light" to be given in Jordan Hall Conservatory of Music, the even ings of November 12 and 13 opens the jubilee week. It was written for this occasion. Woman's work for woman from Bible times to the present era is the broad theme developed in thirteen episodes full of dramatic situations with brilliant costuming, strange Hin du and Chinese music, foreign games and folk dances, and realistic pictures of life in mission lands. Such fea ture is an ideal introduction of the boards fiftieth annual meeting which formerly opens November IA. Most of the sessions will be in Park Street church, but Fremont Temple will be used for @ big mass meeting on the evening of November IS.
 Naturally the programme will con- tain much of historical interest, found in graphic reviews of the achievements of half a century, in the presence of veteran workers and pioneers, among them a Christian doctor who has come all the way from Bombay to bring greetings from India's women. Start ing for the Field in '68" is the subject of an address by Mrs. Ursula c. Marsh Sula Clark, was one of the boards pi oneer missionaries to Turkey.
 As a contrast to the veterans will be the fresh young recruits with faces of them will follow Mrs. Marsh on the programme taking for her subject Fifty Years After" This young wo- man, Miss Adelaide Fairbank, not only represents the number of modern col lege girls who are giving themselves to missionary service, but she unites the past and present. as she is the daughter, nd-daughter and great grand d-daughter of missionaries to In- dia. A feature of one of the after vice in which group of young wo-' men will be commissioned as mis- sionarfes under life appointment.
 The list of speakers .-on the pro- Africa. China Japan, Turkey and who have recently come from their fields and have signif- icant stories to tell of world condi- S. G. Bookwalter of Ceylon; Miss Isa- belle Phelps of North China; Mrs. H. J. Bennett of Japan; Mrs. J. S. Porter of Austria; Miss Lucille B. Foreman. Miss GriseH M. McL1aren and Miss Clara c. Richmond and others from Turkey.
 Broader aspects of the missionary outlook will be set forth in addresses by men and women of national fame Mary E. Woolley, Mrs. Helen Pa rr.atf Monfenmerv Rev James L. Barton and Dr. John R. Mott. Our Missionaries, World Citizens" is the subject of an address by a keen obl server, Mrs. Franklin H. Warner of White Plains, N. Y.. who has recently visited mission fields in the Orient.
 The devotional periods will be an in tegral part of the boards meeting, and, have been planned with great care. Special services on two days will be conducted by Rev. Dr. William Allen Knights author of that famous study of the Twenty third salm, 'The Song of Our Syrian Guest; Dr. A. 2. Con-