The Little River news., 1921-10-05
4 COMPLETE REPORT OF
 MISSIONARY CONFERENCE
Mte at AShdOWn Last Week-List of Proceedings and Namse of Dele-
 gates Attending.

blStIlCI, Opeueu at Iue MeluOulSL church, Tuesday evening, Sept 27, 1921 at o'clock, Ashdown, Ark, Mrs. Seth c. Reynolds, district secretary, presiding, with Mrs. F. M Williams, Conference president, as the honor guest.
 The church presented itself in very festive array of ferns and cut flowers, with our slogan, Prayer changes things" in letters of gold, to remind each one of the real spirit of the meeting
 The Ashdown choir opened with a beautiful anthem, Master, the Tem- pest is Raging followed by a fer vent prayer by Mrs. Williams. A man added to the beauty of the ser vice. Mrs. w. N. Pittman welcomed the visitors with well chosen words and the response by Mrs H. M. Harper of Texarkana, expressed the grateful appreciation of the welcome accorded out of town guests.
 Rev. Lindsay, of Ashdown, brought a very inspirational message to the body of women. He had for his sub ject, "The Call of Victory" emphasiz- ing the great need of evangelizing the world, and stressing the point that the ~e xI I,,e .e tlo After a beautiful consecration service the conference was dismissed by Bro. Garrett.
 The morning session opened at o'clock with the devotional by Clem Baker, s. s. Secretary. He brought out in his own very unique and inter- esting manner the first missionary society member, the Shumanite wo- man, who ministered to Elisha over 5000 years ago; comparing her with the wonderful work of the missionary society members of today.
 Later in the day he made a spec ial appeal for the S. s. Institute to be held at TeXarkana, Oct 3-9.
 During the organization hour, Mrs. J. G. Moore of De Queen, was elected secretary of the conference, and the following committees appointed Con- mittee on courtesies. Mesdames Cook, and Briant; committee on resolutions, Mesdames w. C.. Park, I. w. Holmes, and c. w. Mcclure.
 Then followed the delegates hour during which many good reports and new helpful ideas were given.
 The monday devotional was led by Mrs. Williams with "The needy shall not always be forgotten" as the basis for a wonderfully helpful talk.
 A motion made and carried that the following resolution presented by Mrs. conference: Recognizing the need of more adequate furnishings of the Dis trict parsonage for the comfort of our presiding elder, therefore be it resov- ed, first that the district of the w. M s. of the Texarkana District be in structed to appoint District Parson- age Committee of five, the district sec retary shall be a member eX-ofiiciO and chairman. 2nd, that the chair man shall call the committee when appointed to meet at TeXarkana at the earliest possible moment, at which time an inventory of the needs of the district parsonage shall be made and the amount to be raised determined ies of the district by said committee"
 The following committee was ap- pointed, Mrs. Seth Reynolds, Ashdown; Mrs. J. w. Rogers. Lewisville, Mrs. H, M. Harper 1st church, Texarkana; Mrs Bengess, Fairview, TeXarkana; Mrs Geo. Holmes, Stamps.
 Lunch served by the Baptist and Presbyterian ladies not only met material need, but spiritual one as well. showing the splendid coopera tion and sisterhood of the church so- cie:i of Ashdown.
 Tie afternoon session was called to crGer by Mrs J. M. Johnson of Ashdown. Her theme was, Christian and Tithing," making very effective appeal to the members in that behalf. Posters by Mrs. Os- car Sims showed much originality and careful thought. A prayer by our pre- siding elder, Rev. J. F. Simmons stres sed the devotional thought. Mes danes Bishop and Goolsby rendered a beautiful duet
 The young people and children gave what a good work is being carried on their reports which showed just among them, also the vast need of leadership for them.
 The report of the District Secretary covering the first half of the year showed that most of the anxiliaries are making some progress She inn