The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-13

and vice president of the eastern l district. the garden spot of Alabama, so happy are we to have you within our borders.
 seventeen years ago our W. M, U. held It's sessions help with our general convention, and I had the same honor of making the welcome.
 1 might have given the same wei come, so few are here that were with us them. We had no young peoples leader. for the office had not been
 created then. Little did I ever dream of welcoming my own beloved
 daughter, Hannah. as young peo- ple's leader of Alabama, who was then my little baby child and is still and ever will be. 1 thank our
 union for the honor conferred upon 1 her and pray that she may fulfil l their highest hopes in the service of our King.
 "A special welcome do I bring to
 our president, Mrs. J. NJ. Sanford, ever faithful to our union through years of loving service. All honor to
 her as she presides over her first
 convention. special welcome also 1 have We for our ex-president, Mrs. Charles Stakeley. president of our general union for some years and | president of our state union for F i years, one who mas devoted her life so increasingly and untiringly for
 the upbuilding of the W. NJ. U. All honor to her for the great work she
 has done for the forces.
 "A welcome to Mrs. Hannon, our vice president, a tower Of strength
 in our state work and what a splen- did example of loyalty she is! Well l come to Miss Northington, whose strength of soul, body and mind is | already accomplishing great things for Alabama. Welcome to our cap able and much beloved corresponding secretary, Mrs. w. B. Crumpton, who has given herself to the work so | many years. Mss Leachman, too, from our home board, whose work as city missionary in Louisville, is so wonderful and the inspiration she has brought 10 our Home Beautiful.'
 as the training school is called, is
 untold.
 An honor and a great blessing has been given to Alabama since our last convention, the bringing of our geH- eral headquarters from Baltimore to Birmingham. A loyal welcome do We bring to this brilliant galaxy of i splendid leaders, our beloved Miss
 Kathleen Mallory, whose life and
 work are a benediction all over the oOotHAdIhs anu IO Ter CO-WOEheTS,
 Miss Juliet Walter and Miss Ethel Winfield, and also a welcome to the
 entire board. We are told that in
 Palestine, a guest entering the house l is given little honey or something | sweet, which is to indicate that the 1 home has sweet thoughts for him. 1 So we would give to each of you
 some drops of honey or something sweet to show each one of you how
 sweet our thoughts of you really are. l If some mistakes are ours, if some human errors fall, just look into our hearts and you'll forget them all. Someone has beautifully said that 1 our conventions are feasts of fellow | ship and spiritual power, banquets 1 of missionary information and en- ] thusiasm giving new visions Of i Christ and the worlds needs. Dear
 sisters, you have come to this great least to bring fresh inspiration and | blessings untold to our homes, our
 churches and our town. We would l have you return to your homes from 1 this feast bearing great sheaves of
 this missionary information and love 1 and above all, renewed power with
 it's blessings beyond compare.
 i've are coming to King,
 Large petitions let us bring, .... For His grace and power are such None can ever ask too much"
 Again I bid you welcome. And let ] our hearts be lifted at this moment
 to our King of Kings and Lord of Lords, for He has brought us to His
 banqueting house and His banner
 over us is Love-"
 Mrs. James G. Smith of Birmingham
 responded in a very eloquent way
 to Mrs. Reynolds words of welcome
 and. expressed the beautiful apprecia-
 ton felt on the part of the conven- tion delegates for the opportunity of
 coming to His banquet house to re-
 ceive spiritual fellowship, fresh in- | spiration and renewed power.
 Special music was feature of the convention, this being arranged by
 Mrs French Bell and furnished by the
 capable choir of the Parker Memo
 rial church, which is composed of
 Miss Hanna Crook, sopraho Miss
 Sarah Shaffer alto; MT. Ben Sawyer,
 tenor; Mr. Fred Landt, bass, and Mrs.
 John Stillwell, organist. Among the prominent speakers were Miss Kath- leen Mallory, corresponding secretary
 of the Woman's Mission union of the
 Southern Baptist convention. Mrs. T, G. Bush of Birmingham, who repre-
 sents. Alabama on the executive board
 governing the Louisville Training
 school; Miss Hannah Reynolds. state
 young peoples leader; Miss Martha