Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-13
WOMEN IN COUNCIL
TAKE UP MISSIONS
Organization Representing
M. {. Church South in
18th Annual Session.

| Members of the Woman's Missionary
! Council of the Methodist Episcopal
| Church South. representing the inter-
ests of the church membership in home
and foreign missions met in nineteenth
annual session today at Mount Vernon
| Place Church.
The council is composed of the presi-
| dents and corresponding secretaries of
each of the seven conferences of the
church. and officers of affiliated mis-
| sionary societies. About 100 persons
were expected to attend the series of
meetings, which will continue through
Monday.
| Members and visitors met in prayer
services this morning, and at IL o'clock
communion service was conducted by
Rev J. II. Balthis. presiding elder of
the Washington district. Among the
| pastors assisting in this service was
Rev. W.. A. Lambeth. host to the con-
ference, who is pastor of the Mount
Vernon Place Church.
Missionaries to Attend Session.
More than a score of missionaries in
to attend the meetings and report on
the progress of work in their fields.
Reports of administrative secretaries
for home and foreign work will be made
TO the council tomorrow.
Memorial services honoring members
of the council who have died since the
last meeting were to be held this after
noon at 2 O'Clock followed by meetings
of committees. Mrs. r, w. MacDonell.
formerly resident of Washington, was
honored, as were four missionaries, DR..
Mary Bailey Sloan. medical missionary
to Shanghai: Miss Laura Lee of Nash
Ferguson. missionary to Brazil, and
Mrs. II. S. Morehead of Mississippi, who
served In China.
This evening Rev. Charles Clayton
Morrison. editor of the Christian Gen.
fury, will address the council on THE
New Prospect for World Peace" Rev.
Mr. Balthis will preside.
Delegates to the council meeting will
be received by President and Mrs.
Hoover at 1910 o'clock tomorrow at
the White House, and at o'clock the
presidential couple will be photographed
with the visitors in the south grounds
at the White House.
The council will hear the annual
Stephens of Columbia, Mo, tomorrow
morning. Following report of the
executive committee, of which Mrs. F.
S. Parker Of Nashville. Tenn. Is secre.
tary. the council formally will take up
the various subjects comprehending its
work. In the afternoon reports from
several officers will be heard and In the
evening missionaries to foreign lands
will deliver Jubilee messages"
Future Program Outlined.
Doy NJ Iyarv,.a,% ~ >f nn1x;.>.n~r
editor of the Baltimore Southern
Methodist, will preside at a meeting
Friday afternoon which will center on
discussion of the topic, The Christians
Tas." as relating to the United States
China, Korea and Japan.
A report on the activities at Scarritt
College: an institution of the church at
Nashville, Tenn. will be given Satur-
day morning by DR.. J. l.. Cunningham,
president. In the afternoon members
of the council will visit the Tomb of
the Unknown in Arlington National
Cemetery. A report of the councils
commission on revaluation will be heard
at an evening meeting.
Bishop E. d. Mouzon of Nashville,
one of the outstanding leaders OF South
ern Methodism, will deliver the annual
sermon Sunday morning at IL at the
Mount Vernon Church. His subject
has been announced as Making Amer
lea Christian"
Two addresses are scheduled for Sum-
day evening. Miss Helen B. Calder,
promotion secretary of the American
Board of Foreign Missions. is to speak
on THE Jerusalem Conference" and
Rev. Milton T. Stauffer. secretary of
the committee of reference and counsel
of the Foreign Missions Conference of
North America. will speak on THE
World Mission of Christianity"
Last-Day Services.
Prayer services and special music are
the order Monday, the last day OF the
meeting. One of the outstanding fea-
/ lures of the conference is planned for
| Monday evening. when "a young women,
! seniors at Scarritt College will be con-
secrated to missionary and deaconess
service under the Methodist Episcopal
Church South. The deaconesses will be
assibned to home mission work and the
/ foreign candidates will serve In Brazil,
; Africa. China. Mexico. Cuba. and Japan
| Bishop W. B. Beauchan,p of Atlanta,
president of the church's board of mis-
| sions, will of1ciate at the conservation
! service.
| Officers Of the council. in addition
to Mrs Stephens. president, are: Mrs. J.
! w. Perry Nashville, Tenn, vice presi-
! dent: Mrs. F. S. Parker. Nashville. Sec
! rotary: Mrs. Ina Davis Fulton. NASH
vile. treasurer, and Mrs. j. w. Downs,
! Nashville, secretary of home missions,
! womans department Associated with
these officers in planning the Washing
ton conference were DR.. Lambeth, Rev
Mr. Balthis, Mrs. T. j. Copeland, presi-
dent of the Baltimore conference of the
Womans Missionary Society, and Miss
Emma v. Peppler, corresponding Sec
rotary of the Baltimore society.
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