The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-09-13
DISTRICT NJ. {.
CONVENTION
TO BE HELD HERE THIS WEEA
WILL CLIMAX WEEK OF INTEh-
EsT1Hd SERVICES.
Fiftieth Anniversary Of Organization OF
Womau's Foreign Missionary
Society.

| Tn, members uf tho Fourth street
lining actively for several days Oh re-
IlirIous services and entertainment for
the coming week. during which the dis
| trict convention Will take place. ccle-
brating III" nfticth anniversary OF the
organization of IN" WomhnS Foreign
| Missionary society and tho organization
| Of the Fourth Street auxiliary TO the
! Woman'S Foreign Missions.
{ TIL" Fourth Street auxiliary l." the
| Womans Foreign Missionary society
: was organized flfl~ years aG" by Miss
Isabelle Th"burn. who. whIl" not an ac-
1uaI resident Of Wheeling. whS very
well known hero. She was born IN 81.
! Clairsvillr. Ohio. and attended the
| Wheeling Female seminary for several
years later returning after an mtcrNal
Of a few years to tax" course IN the
/ Wheeling F"mal" cnllcE" department.
where she completed her higher cduca-
lion Miss Thoburn was sister TO the
J Venerable Bishop J. NJ. Thoburn. whc
! was for forty years bishop I" INDIA. ana
She lat" colonel Joseph Thoburn OF th'
First West Virginia regiment. VIII" was
kill"d during In" civil war.
+ society here Immediately after The for
nation Of the National Woman's For
;riEn Missionary society at Boston IN inc
year 1862 it hcinE tho third of its klnd
in tho Methodist Episcopal church 10
I organize. She likcws" established the
DcaCo-cSs work in Cincinnati. and was
founder Of tho Elizabeth Gamble hospi-
tai of that city.
Miss Thohurn had most interesting
life. and probably did more for the
! Methodist Missionary society than any
other woman has ever accomplished.
/ She was assisted greatly in the work by
her brother. bishop Thohurn. and to-
g"thcr They established in India the
College If lucknow. which is the first
/ and only collrE" for women in Asia. 1t
is known as tho "I.al BaGhr," meaning
THE Garden Of Roses After life of
! self-saCriiicH devoted To the interests
and love ~ others, Miss Thoburn died
! in India of cholera in 1900.
| The program for tho week will begin
on Wednesday evening at T:45 p. m.
with the mdw"ck service. the Rev.
attendance and giving a helpful cxposi-
attendance and giving n hcplful oNposi-
ton Of passages from Scripture. The
members OF tn" society will be given
the opportunity Of talking AT this meet
ing
, Thursday. the anniversary ~ the Or
Eani2atiun Of the Wnman's Foreign Mis-
! sionary society. will he observed by the
: district convention. beginning at $3.50
o'clock \ box luncheon will hr served
al 1890. and at $50 a friendship supper
will ho served. to which all the young
people Of the church mr." especially jn-
vited. Following this on Thursday
] evening thor" will hr "A special pageant
staged. entitled This is the Missionary
kindergarten" in which all the children
Of the Kindergarten Will participate.
THIS will be- given under the direction
Of Mrs II. e. Clary. assistant supcrin-
t"nd"nt Of the young peoples work or
the Cincinnati branch. and Miss N"tttc
Young. the local instructor. Miss Eliza
beth Russell of NaEaSaki. Japan. VIII
deliver an address on her experiences as
Il missionary in tho Orient.
on Friday at AS p. M. the fourth
quarterly conference will be held In the
parlors OF the church. District Super.
lintendcnt Andrews will read a report OF
the years work.