The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-11-07
FORCEFUL SERMON
BY REV. Mr.. GRIFFIN
WEEK OF PRAYER BEING OBJ
SERVED BY WOMAN'S MIS-
SIONARY SOCIETY.

Missionary Society OF the Methodist
church the pastor, Rev. Reese Grit
fin. delivered a forceful and inspiring
message Sunday morning from the
text: "She hath done what she could.
Mark 1913. Preceding the sermon Mrs.
lack McNulty rendered very touch
ing as a SOLO MY Heavenly Father
Watches Over Me" with chorus by
ouartette. The communion service tol-
lowed the sermon. The entire service
was deeply impressive and put the
large congregation in a thoughtful
mood. In its broad sweep Mr.. Crit
fms discourse was a revelation to
many OF what Methodism is accom-
pishing in the home land as well as
on the foreign fields. 1t is matter
of regret that the entire message can
not be reproduced but It Is given IN
part, as follows:
In the house of Simon the leper, III
Bethany. six days before the least OF
the Passover a significant occurrence
took place AS Jesus reclined at the
table Mary. the sister OF Lazarus,
came into the room with an alabaster
box OF precious spikenard III her
hands. She broke this box and pour
ed the contents on his head. The hrstt
great principle Illustrated by this deed
is that opportunity Is measure OF
responsibility. The second great prln-
ciple illustrated is that ability IS a
measure of responsibility. Mary did
what she could and thus met the tull
measure OF her responsibility.
These two principles find striking
illustrations in the history and work
of the Woman's Missionary Society
OF the Methodist Episcopal church,
South.
Notice the work OF the society in
the home field The Woman's Horne
Mission Society was organized III
1886 as the parsonage building depart
ment Of the board OF church extension.
Al that time there were 4,404 itinerant
preachers and only 2030 parsonages.
There are now about 5000 parsonages
and the women of the Missionary So
cietv have helped to build more than
200 OF these, expending IN thus build
ing between a third and halt OF a
million of dollars.
The society has many forms OF ser
vice on the home field They send
supply boxes to needy preachers.
MANY preachers are working IN needy
and poverty stricken places, The de.
partment Of supplies learns OF one OF
these whose family is in need OF cloth
ing. etc, reports the case to some So
cietv. and this society sends this tam
ilv a box. Many a preacher whose
family was suffering for The necess1-
ties of life has had his heart gladden.
ed bv the arrival of such box. l he
society has spent considerably more
than a third OF million dollars III this
way.
The home department also carries
on a much needed work among the
immigrants and sailors along the gull
coast. They furnish reading rooms and
a place of entertainment for the sail
ors They greet the immigrants ana
furnish them valuable aid.
Another form of service OF the home
department is its educational work. 1T
maintains schools for the mountain
girls OF the south. 1t also has schools
for the Cubans in Florida, and Tor the
Japanese and Koreans on the Pac1hc
coast. 1t has an industrial school at
Dallas, Tex, and another at Thomas
vile, Ga. 49,,
Another form OF service is through
Wesley houses These are located an
the slums OF the great cities OF the
south. There are in the neighborhood
OF twenty-five Of these houses. The
workers in these houses care Tor the
sick, teach domestic science, operate
dav nurseries and kindergartens, read
ing rooms. night schools, clubs TOR
bows and girls mothers clubs, cot
tage PRAYER meeting and Bible classes
Notice also the work OF the Wo-
mans Missionary Society on the tor
eign field. The foreign work was au--
thorized by the general conference OF
1878. Miss Lochie Rankin was sent
as the first representative doing long
wears OF service in China.
The foreign department has mis-
sionaries in China, Korea, Mexico,
Brazil and Cuba. 1t carries on the
great forms OF service inaugurated by
Christ himself-evangelism, teaching,
healing. Its representatives preach the
gospel TO the unsaved, build and carry
on schools and build and maintain hos
pitfalls.
AS an illustration of how one phase
of the work is carried on in foreign
lands | give the report OF a native
Korean Bible woman for one quarter.
This woman visited $50 Christian
home. She visited 1,214 heather homes.
She visited "a villages. She made 80
visits to Ivey hospital. She held ten
meetings. She exhorted 1922 Korean
women to accept Jesus Christ. Under
these appeals a number were convert
ed.
Surely the same Christ who SO
highly commended Mary can say that
the women OF our church have done
what they could.
We have come once again to the
time for the observance OF another
week OF prayer The object of study,
prayer and offering on the home field
this year is the French mission in
southeastern Louisiana. The people
who live in this section are the de-
scendants OF the Acadians immortal
lied by Longfellow in Evangeline. As
a result Of Roman Catholic DONNA
ton, they are very poor and very lg-
norant The woman's council has pur-
chased twenty acres OF land in the
town of Houma in the center OF that
field. On this property there is res
idence which is being used as COM