Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-04-09
.EARLV|LLE WOMAN
HEADS PRESBYTERY
MISSIONARY UNITS

PRESIDENT OF CONFERENCE,
WHICH COMES TO CLOSE THIS
AFTERNOON.
Mrs. Ella X Dupee of Earlyille was
reelected president of the Womans
of the Ottawa Prebytery at the clos
ing session of their forty-first annual
meeting. held at the First Presby-
erian Church in this city. The other
officers elected for the coming year
were:
Vice presidents--Mrs J. r. +. Craig
head, Oswego; Mrs. II. w Richards
Elgin; Mrs. j. A. Wallace, Mendoza;
Mrs. r. II. Phillips, Pontiac; Miss
Agnes Deffenbaugh, Ottawa.
Secretaries Recording and young
peoples work, Mrs. H. W. Richards,
Elgin; primary work, Mrs A. c.
| Henry, Mendoza; literature and extern
sio nwork, Miss Eta Dunaway, OF
tawa; mission study, Mrs f. w. Peter
son, Grand Ridge; Westminster Guild,
Mrs. Albert Fogel Rochelle.
Secretaries and treasurers-For-
eign. Mrs. A. c. Henry, Mendoza;
home and freedmen, Mrs. J. ID. Gray,
| Aurora.
Many Out Last Night.
| Last evening the church was com
fortably filed for the evening session.
| rbe choir sang an anthem, after
ghich a very beautiful duet was rem
Tered by Miss Ida Chamberlin and
Arnold Gerding. Mrs. w. c. Paisley,
organst for the church, gave a thirty
minute organ recital Never had re-
| citai given on the Presbyterian organ
been so beautiful, or had it been re
| cciyed by such an appreciative aud
| ence as the one last evening was re
| eived.
At the close of the recital, Mrs,
| Chas. Bradley Of Wilmette treasurer
Of the Woman's Mission board of the
northwest gave a very interesting re-
| port, showing the work that is being
| carried on by the Presbyterian Mis-
'Oina"y society in many different parts
# the world. She gave a general re
view OF tie work being carried on in
! he Philippines, and told how Presi-
lent Taft claimed he had been con.
yerted to belief in foreign missionary
work after he had witnessed the bene
fits of the educational work carried
on among the natives.
/ She told of the work carried on il
Mexico, and explained how about two
years ago during the Mexican revolu
ion. the president of Mexico moved
the Presbyterian missionary headquar
ers frcm the northern part of Mexico
70 III" southern part to protect the
station. During the move the good
were so well protected by the govern.
ment that not one single article was
| lost
From Mexico she took her hearers
o Africa and told of the work carried
On there. She described the largest
Presbyterian church in the world
which is located at Flat Africa. Re
| Gently this church became so large it
was necessary to form it into smaller
churches. \ recent report from Flat
'howed that 1900 persons took com
nunion at one service in this church.
She next told of the work carried on
n Korea, and explained the method
lSed there, of not admitting anyone
10 the church, until they had convert
ed another person TO the Christian
Faith, and Of demanding of part of
Zach church members time, for evan
gcliStic work She also reported the
work now being carried on in Japan
and Siam.
Mrs, Sarah Ordway was the last
speaker of the evening. Her address
was one of the most eloquent ones
ever heard in the local church. On
account of the lateness of the hour
her time was limited, hut her talk
was enthusiastically received by the
ieeply interested audience. Mrs. Ord
way brought greetings to the CON
yonton from the people of Porto Rico
She is a sister-in-law of Miss Jennie
Ordway. superintendent of the Pres
Dyterlan WOman's hospital in Porto
Rico which the governor of the island
has declared is the only Porto Rico
hospital worthy of the name of a hos
pital
She went into the geography and
history of the island. and told of the
home life and social life there. Her
description of how the American
planters had gonr into the island
taken modern farm implements there.
and started great plantations for rails
ing native fruits and sugar cane
they have made vast amounts of
wealth. ana turning the island into
a commercial center. Since the Amer
lean men have gone to the island, the
growth of the sugar cane has hoen
increased about ten times what if was