The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-16
Butler Vanguards Celebrate.

A large and enthusiastic meeting of
the Butler Nanguards took place Fri.
day evening in the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. F. Mathis, 5 North Bellevue
boulevard.
Mrs. John NJ. Prttchard,, chairman of
the program for the evening, had the
many victories and good services of
Miss Butler Vanguard, a young peo-
Pies missionary society. improvised by
a number of friends present.
Born of Love and Service, Nov. IS,
1901" they declared. Miss Butler Van
guard opened her pretty blue eyes first
to see the immense debt of $50, 900
b%urdening the church into which she
Was VhnroS ohhristened-the First Methodist
Please, let me pay 5000 of our
bonds" she coaxed, until just to please
the child, the older ones said, while
they smiled one on another as they
whispered, ".0f course we will have
them to pay"
Without any throe of agony the lit
tie lady in due time laid at the feet
Of her doubling fathers the sum
pledged, This and the annual dues
was the service of the young maiden
In 1902-the first year of her precious
foreign costume, entered bearing three
large bonds and a tiny basket filled
| with dimes, the latter representing the
dues for that year.
MIS-. -, >. Glauuen INDICATED TO MISS
Vanguard her interest in the lassies of
| Cuba-she longed to free them from
the superstitions that were binding
them.
put one in a Christian school, sug-
| gested Miss Vanguard. An orphan girl
both literary and musical. by the Glad
dens. This girl, after graduating, be-
came the wife of a Cuban Methodist
minister.
Miss Butler Vanguard was the first
young lady Of her family. dn the
missionary to tell other girls and
women of the Prince of Peace. Friday
evening she demonstrated that when
Miss Cordelia Erwin, her missionary,
stood on the deck OF a far e%ast-bound
steamer July, 1905, and wired back
heart is at perfect peace" there left
the shores of America five missionaries
in one, And by coaxing Miss Erwin,
who blest the party with her presence,
sionary had been Evangelical, Educa-
tional, Philanthropic, Industrial and
Medical in one; for she has served
everywhere,
Miss. Bessie Walt brought in a bas-
ket labeled Buy a Brick" and told
Korea to build a school by many OF
Miss Butler Vanguard's friends buying
and paying 81 for a brick in this
building.
Throughout the program it was Nevi-
denced that Miss Butler Vanguard has
ever carried,
THE light that shines farthest
Shining brightest nearest home" 3
Girls and boys have been educated
in Korea, Japan, China, Mexico and
cuba: two rooms have been taken ir
the Methodist hospital in this city; q
sum has been contributed to pay fol
a boat TO ply the rivers of Africa, cor
Meeting with the Presbyterian boat ant
facilitating travel to the benightet
blacks who have not the Good News
land has been bought in Memphis 70,
a church building and on 1t now stand.
DR.. Martins church, Trinity miss Van
guard did not purchase the entire lot
however.) A school building at thu
south gate Of Songdo was built for lit
tie girls-girls. mind you. to attend
and Miss Butler V~anguard's missionary
Miss Cordelia Erwin, filled it with thes'
~outcasts, who first learned that a littlt
girl is somebody and that someon
! loves her. DR.. Hurt of the Baptis
church remarked at he praise meet