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RALEIGH CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE.
Thursday, October 29, 1914.
Woman's Missionary Society of the N. C. Conference
Contributions for this Department must be sent to Mrs. E. C. Duncan, Editot , Raleigh, N. C.
A WORD TO Till AVOMEN.
In tli is column appears an appeal
to the children to be up and doing
this fourth quarter for the pledges.
Hut the dear little children, willing
though they be, can do but little
without your aid. It would seem that
your love for your Master and your
love for the children at home as well
as for those abroad, for it means as
much to the children who are taught,
to love and labor for the Master in
our hands as for the heathen chil
dren for whom they work, I say it
would seem that love for your chil
dren would lead you to encourage
and help this work. Yet many, many
of the letters which come to me say,
"We could do so much better but the
mothers do not seem to have any in
terest in the work," or "The grown
people show no interest at all." I
want to appeal to you in the name of
your children, in the name of the
heathen children, and in the Name of
the Children's Friend, to rise up and
help. Read the Appeal to the Chil
dren, and then do all in your power
to co-operate with them and their
leader to raise the largest possible
sum for the pledges this last quarter.
Sincerely,
MRS. N. II. D. WILSON.
AN APPEAL FROM MRS. WILSON.
We have, entered upon our fourth
quarter. The reports for the third
quarter showed a sad falling off. Not
only did we fall, below any other
quarter in this year, but we fell far
under the reports for the correspond
ing quarter for last year. We are
still short nearly half on our pledges,
and I am growing anxious. Unless
there is a great rally during the re
maining weeks of the year, we will
fall behind. And oh, dear children,
that must not be.
Our Mary Black Hospital is our
pride, and it is doing for us and for
the Lord a gracious work. We just
must get the $1,000 for our Mary
Black Hospital. And the dear little
Japanese children in California, our
Master's wee ones in this foreign
land, we must not fail to tell them of
Jesus. It would nearly break my
heart, and I know it would be almost
as bad for you, to fail to get our
pledges.
This money must be gotten from
mite boxes and special offerings. The
dues go elsewhere. So during this
fourth quarter, push your mite boxes.
Get as much in them as possible.
Then let every band try to make
some special money for the pledge.
I have prepared and will send out
by the time this is printed, a pro
gram, very simple and easily pre
pared. Let every band use this, or
some other program, and have a spe
cial public meeting and take a col-
Offlcers of Woman's Missionary Society.
President Mrs. R. B, John Fayetteville
1st Vice-President Mrs. N. H. D. Wilson Goldsboro
2nd Vice-President Miss LillieDuke Durham
3rd Vice-President Mrs. Harvey Bouey Rose Hill
4th Vice-President Mrs. W. H. Speight. Raleigh
Corresponding Secretary, Home Miss Sallie Lou McKinnon Maxton
Corresponding Secretary, Foreign Mrs. F. B. McKinne Louisburg
Recording Secretary Mrs. W. A. Stanbury Clinton
Treasurer of Home Department Mrs. N. E. Edgerton Selma
Treasurer of Foreign Department Mrs. B. B. Adams Four Oaks
Superintendent of Supplies Mrs, I. T. Wilkins Weldon
Superintendent of Literature Mrs. C. V. Albright Raleigh
Publicity Superintendent Mrs. E C. Duncan Raleigh
District Secretaries.
Elizabeth City District Mrs. J. N. Winslow Elizabeth City
Durham District Mrs. B. N. Mann Trinity Heights, Durham
Fayetteville District Miss Vara Herring Dunn
New Bern District Mrs. H. J. Faison Faison
Raleigh District Miss Nettie Allen Fairview Farm, Henderson
Rockingham District Miss Georgia Biggs Rockingham
Warrenton District Mrs. R. H. Willis Littleton
Washington District Mrs. W. P. Baugham " Washington
Wilmington District Mrs. W. F. Murphv Wallace
lection for the pledge. It is the time
now for us to work altogether,
working, praying, giving.
LETTER FROM BRAZIL.
Dear Mrs. Duncan: Since my ar
rival in March, 1914, I have received
a number of letters asking for in
formation about our work, and if
inspiration depends entirely upon in
formation, I am sure they are much
more interested in some other sta
tion. A pouring rain makes it possible
for me to be reasonably sure of three
hours today, and I am going to spend
them trying to give you some idea of
conditions here.
We have an eleven-room building
and our appropriation from the Coun
cil has been:
E. Lamb, salary $ 900
For teachers 1,000
Rent 850
Incidentals and Woman's
Work 300
$3,050
And beginning with January we
will receive $300 a year less. If you
read the Council report you will see
that the appropriation for Porto
Alegre is $5,050, but that includes:
Day School $ S00
Miss Kenney 900
Miss Kenny's room rent 300
$ 2,000
And Miss Kenny boards with Rev.
and Mrs. C. L. Smith, next door to
her work, two miles from the col
lege. D. Amalia Delacoste, who has
helped me since 1909, asked for
year at home. She was worn out.
tins year I have been entirelv alone
Usually a woman who has six or
seven children and a house to look
after thinks her hands are full, even
though her husband pays all ac
counts! Well, I have housekeeping.
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l'orto Alogre, Rrazil.
fourteen boarders, day school pupils,
special English pupils, teachers, vis
itors .monthly accounts to collect,
monthly reports to parents, forty-one
to forty-three hours a week class
work, stay up nights with 'the chil
dren when they are ill, all discipline
for boarders and day pupils to main
tain and three-fifths of all expenses
to arrange. We receive two-fifths of
the expenses, including my salary,
from the Council.
Porto Alegre is the capital of Rio
Grande, do Sue, and claims from
135 to 140 thousand inhabitants.
There are many fine school buildings
in the city, spendidly furnished and
Aith well prepared teachers. We
have a small, poorly furnished house
one resident American, and call ours
an "American College"! We are not
only supposed to be a representative
American but a representative Prot
estant school, and I am quite sure
that in any city in North Carolina we
would be put out of business in short
order. None of you would send your
daughters to such a college, you
would be ashamed to have it called a
"Methodist" school at home, and yet
in this large Roman Catholic city
you expect to make an impression
sufficient to, at least, call attention
to Protestantism. One fact you may
face, the Roman Catholics are able
and willing to pay. They have built
two large, expensive colleges since I
came here in v 1908, thus adding to
their already strong hold upon the
people.
If we are to go forward we must
have a good building and well pre
pared workers.
God has blessed us. Two of our
girls have joined the Church this
year and eight have taken the first
step.
We have had to refuse boarders,
day pupils and special English pu
pils this year.
This letter has taken spare min
utes since August 27, as my pupils
came in the rain. Today is Septem
ber 5, and Conference is over. Miss
Morgan, a new missionary, comes to
us. We shall be glad to welcome
her, but for one year she will study
Portuguese, as the Council passed
very strict laws in regard to first
year workers. So for a year after
her arrival I am still to be very busy,
and if I don't write often please don't,
think that I have forgotten my
friends or lost interest in the work
at home, but pray even more earn
estly that I may be faithful.
Cordially yours,
ELIZABETH LAMB.
Til 15 CHINESE PRESIDENT'S SONS
Rev. A. Somerby, of the Baptist
mission in Shansi, has been ap
pointed tutor to the sons of the pres
ident of the Chinese Republic, Yuan
Shi Kai, and will shortly take up his
residence in Peking, for the purpose
of his new duties. The arrangements
made are entirely honorable to Mr.
Somerby's long career as a mission
ary in China, and he will still be free
to serve the missionary cause to a
considerable extent in a literary ca
pacity. Yuan Shi Kai's three sons
are at present at a college in Chel
tenham, and a portrait in one of the
papers showed them wearing mortarboards.
This is God's world, not the devil's.
It is ruled by One who is the Lord
of our Righteouness, the same yes
terday and today, yea, and forever.
Ours is not a forlorn hope. We may,
out of the gloom of our perplexed
hearts, cry: "Watchman, what of the
night?" But faith answers, "The
morning cometh." Bishop Whipple.
PORTO A LEG 1 1 E, BRAZIL.
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