Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-19
WfLLlMANTic CAMP GROUND
 SERVICES OF 1919 BEGIN

At the opening Sunday of the camp ground services for this sea ] filled, at the Missionary service at 10 a. rn. held under the auspices of the camp ground auxiliary of the NorWlcn District Womans Home Missionary society. branch of that of the Meth : edist Episcopal church. Mrs, Walter F. Buck. the conference president be- ing absent, Mrs. Carrie s. Prentice, the district president. of New London, occupied the chair. Prior to the ad- dress of the morning Rev. W. H Bath. the district superintendent, offered
 prayer. A solo, which was an adaptation of the Thirtieth chapter of First Corinthians, was well rendered by Mrs. William Carter. of Ruther- ford. N. J., a daughter of one Of the veterans of the New England South ern conference. Rev. Henry D. Rob inson, once the presiding elder of Norwich district The organist was Mrs C. S. Jackson. of Attleboro, an- other daughter of Mrs. Robinson.
 sic, Arbuckle, superintendent of the Dwight W. Blakeslee Memorial Training School of New Haven. She spoke of her travels in the west, and the power of love to conquor the and other sinners
 On the platform sat several mem bers of the auxiliary. including Mrs. Jane E. Read. of Worcester, Mrs. R. S. Stanley, of Highland Park, and Miss Ella Hanley. Mrs Robert Bitsooa of New London, daughter of Mrs. Prem tice, also on the platform, is secretary of the Young Peoples Home Mission ary work sof, the conference. Others were Miss Flora M Smith,, of Wi1li- mantle. district treasurer. and Miss offering was taken at the close and the people responded generously
 The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society's Camp Ground auxiliary held it's meeting in the tabernacle at ? O. clock, with large attendance- Rev tifuI trio was rendered by Mrs Garter, soprano; Mrs. Jackson, alto. and. E.. NJ Wheeler, tenor, of Norwich Mrs. Costello Lippett. district president, introduced Miss C1ementfna Butler. of. Providence, whose father. pr. Will sions Of the Methodist Episcopal church in India, arriving there in 1857 about the time of the famous Sepoy rebellion. Returning to Amer ica after many years of service he m missions there.
 Miss Buffers brother, the late Rev. J. w Butler. D. D.. was for his en- tire life superintendent of those Mexican missions
 
 good portion of the globe, and gave experiences in India homes, where child widows are regarded as accused. Yet all of the million and a half of India's young men who fought under the British flag in the world war left little girl wives in India. and as these brave sons of the Orient were killed. many child widows were left. There were thousands of Mo hamm edans who set the wonderful ~f f~H4 Erc fish flag against men of their own faith. Then. toe. some 220, 900 China men aided in the great war, build ing roads. and doing various duties that brought them to the front where many were killed. Yet in China girl ba bies are considered unlucky. Miss Butler gave interesting incidents of the rescue of some of these girls and the healing of some even from blind ness. by some of the medical mis- tell of Jesus Christ. the Great Physi- | eian.
 At 4 o'clock the children gathered 1t the tabernacle where an earnest meeting was held under the leader ship of Mrs Jane E. Read, of Wor- sester. Prayer was offered by Miss rhoburn college in Luceknow, India. The twenty third Psalm was repeat d. The children then listened at- | entatively to Miss Butler. who spoke | of customs in the Ori- mt fllustpating her talk with charts-l
 Miss Arbuckle followed telling the | hildren of the children who come toj America from many foreign lands. and | he need of making them Christian | Americans
 The closing address was by Mrs | 3itgood, ~of New London. secretary of he Young Peoples work in the N. E.. southern Conference, who spoke es- ,ecially of the Portuguese work in1 Continued on Page Seven, Col. six)
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