The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-23
Twenty Missionaries From Over
World in Attendance.
CONFERENCE FROM NOV. gil
At Least $50 Delegates Are Ex-
20 pected to Attend.
Sessions To Be Held at Central
t. Congregational Church.

One of the most notable gatherings
or foreign missionaries in the west will
be held in Topeka November 8 to IL
when the Woman's Board of Missions
of the Interior, comprising seventeen
states, meets in the fifty-second an
nual conference at the Central Con-
gregational church. Elaborate plans
have. been made for the entertainment
and the programs of the meeting and
at least $50 delegates are expected to
attend. Twenty missionaries from all
over the world will be here.
The program includes a conference
of board and branch officers, a chill
dren's rally, a fellowship supper, q
conference on children's work and
young women's work, and speeches by
missionaries widely known turnout the
United States.
On Tuesday, November 9. a confer
ence of board ana branch officers will
be held at the Y. w. c. A, morning
and afternoon sessions. At these con-
ferences a full discussion of problems
and plans will be held and the dele
gates are coming with prepared Ques-
lions. Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock
a children's rally will be featured with
a demonstration by Topeka school
children called magic spectac,es."
Tuesday evening a fellowship supper
will be served at the Central Congre-
gational church. Toasts will be re-
sponded to with Mrs. James w. Val
tress- IN the evening the Rev. A.aE.
Gregory. pastor of the First Congrega-
tional church, will conduct the devo-
tional service. Miss Charlotte Willard.
the heroine of Marsovan, and Miss
Lillian Picken of Satara, India, will be
the speakers.
On Children's Work.
The conference reopens at 9:15
O'Clock Wednesday morning. At noon
a conference on children's work will
be held. Wednesday evening at 8
O'Clock a young peoples supper will
be held in the basement of the
church. Wednesday evenings session
will be opened with an organ recital
by Dean Stearns of Washburn college
and the devotional service will be
conducted by the Rev. Wells Rayhill,
pastor of the Central Congregational
church. The speakers of the evening
will be Dr. Cyrus H. Haas of Adana,
Turkey. who is now on an extended
furlo in order that under the student
volunteer movement he may arouse
the interest of university and medical
students in foreign missionary work..
Pow John z. Merrill of .Aintab.
Turkey. president of Central Turkey
college, will give a talk on the future
hopes and possibilities for war-torn
Turkey i~
Women From Over World.
\ The list of-women missionary speak
ors is unusually strong for this confer
c1ce to be entered into by seventeen
central states. Miss Charlotte DeFor-
est. president of Kobe college, Japan,
will speak on that strategic educa-
tional center. From China comes Miss
Helen Tow of Canton. Miss Grace
Funk of Shaown. Miss Aizina Munger
of Taiku. Miss Mabel Higgins of
Tehchow and Miss Ethel Long of Lint
sing. Miss Anna L. Willard comes
from India and Miss Lillian Picken
from Turkey. Also Miss Charlotte
willard of Marsovan. Miss Minnie B.
Mills of Smyrna and Miss Alice K.
Clark, a relief worker under the COM
mittee of the Near East. Miss Edith
Douglass. in Samokov turnout the war,
will speak for Bulgaria.