Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-17
CHURCH WOMEN
| ELECT OFFICERS
Fortieth Annual Convention
Closes With Plans Laid
For New Year

With the election and installation
of officers completed. the fortieth
| annual convention of the Women's
Missionary Society Of East Pennsyl-
vania Synod, Lutheran Church, came
to a close at noon to-day. Reports
occupied the attention of delegates
this morning. Opening services were
in charge of Mrs. George A. Greiss,
and closing exercises were conducted
by Miss Rebecca Gordon. The fol-
lowing officers were elected and in
stalled: .
President, Mrs. C. L. Fleck, Phila-
delphia; vice-presidents. Mrs. e. H.
Bell, philadelphia, Mrs. G. S. Parker,
Harrisburg. Mrs. Charles Ritter,
Mahonoy City, Mrs. George Greiss,
Allentown; recording secretary, Mrs.
d. Burt Smith, Easton; statistical
secretary, Miss Gertrude Heffel-
| finger, Harrisburg; secretary of
Young Women's Missionary Society,
Miss Lille Roberts, Philadelphia. A
new department was created, Life
Member and In Memoriam, and Mrs.
M. Meleher, of Harrisburg, was
elected to take charge.
The Rev. DIR. IL. w. A. Hanson,
pastor of Messiah Lutheran Church.
conveyed the greeting from the West
India Mission Board and the Immi-
grant Mission Board and told of
their work.
Worldwide Work
Mrs. II. w. A. Hanson told of the
Y. NJ. C. A. building at Gettysburg
and said plans were under way for
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the laying of the cornerstone in the
near future.
In the report of the East Penn
sylvania Synodical Society some in
teresting figures were presented.
There are so organizations with to-
tai of 3416 members. The young
people have 20 societies with a total
membership of 1868. There are 35
Baby Roll organizations, with an en-
rollment of 1874 babies.
The work extends around the
world as there are strong mission
stations in India with more than a
score of earnest workers. Also in
Africa and Japan. In the home
field these women help to support
the pastors, in thirty-ive or forty
missions, the work extending from
the Atlantic to the Pacific. They
are interested workers among the
Jews and Italians, principally in
Philadelphia.
Mission Study Glasses are prom
| inent in the work and the goal
aimed at is study class in every
church.
Their public lectures are popular.
For the women they have Lutheran
Women's WorNk with a subscription
list of 2450. A paper for the juniors
is called Lutheran Boys and Girls
and has a circulation of S79. The
finances of the organization figures
large.
The total receipts for the year
were S1,042.57. A feature of the
work is the annual Thank Offering
which in the past year totaled ST.
32S.56, an increase over any previous
year.
The hope of the general society is
to send twelve new missionaries out
to the foreign fields next year. Tt
this end a liberal Offering is urged
at the Christmas season as we'll as
in the Thank Offering.
Mrs. ]. G. Traver, the president
of the general society was presen
during two days of the convention.
The editor of the Lutheran
Woman's Work, was also present
This magizine ranks among the frs
of missionary periodicals, and is the
official organ of the Women's Mis-
sionary Society of the United Luth
. eran Church. The report of the
conventions: