LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 292, 3 September 1908, Page 4

LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

-v ; '• : "The]annual meetiug'of'tiie London Missionary Society (Wellington Auxiliary) was held in the Terraco Congregational Church Schoolroom on Monday-ovening* Tho Rev. J. Reed Glasson' presided, and there was a good attendant." "V'--"-'. 1 Tho; St&tmfaent' 'of accounts presented by tho treasurer (Mr. Knowlcs) showed that during last year tho sum of £306 14s. 4d. was collected--for mission work,-a slight inereaso on the previous year's total of £303 Is. 2d. Tho total was made up as follows .-—Terraco Church, £153 lis. 4d.; Courtenay Place, £56 lis. Id.; Constable Street, £51 ss. 6d.; Alice--town.ilOs.; Napier, £3G 2s. Id.; Palmorston North, £8 14s. 4d. The) following were appointed officers for the ensuing-'yearV—Chairman, tho Rev. AV. A. Keay.;--secretary,' 'Mr. W. F. Eggers, treasurer, AA': -AV.. Knowles; committee (Terrace), Rev. : J. :11. -Glasson, Mesdames Glasson, Lindsay, C. AV. Smith, AV. G. Holdsworth, ..Mill, .Lankshear, Messrs. Ilott,: HoldswoHh, Lankshear, Mcadowcroft, C. AV. Smith, 'Lindsay ; (Courtenay Place), Rev. |A. M. Aspland," Mosdairies Aspland, Port,: Miller,'-M'eSSrs. L'dwis, -Port, Reynolds, Hunt; Gregory;: -(Newtown), llev. \V. A. Evans, Mesdames Evans,- ■ Barnes, Messrs. Eggers, Hutchison ;. (Alicetown), Rev. AV. A. Keay, Mrs;"'Keav, Mr." Clements; (unattached), Misses Cochin and Barnes. Miss Harband gavo a short address on tho work 'of the mission' Sh'-'MSfilras. In that city they had, sho said, a splendid high school to which girls camo from all parts of southern India i i. /lihere -they wero oducat-ed in all branches bFusefil workV'a'nd in-time became nurses, teasers, c etfl, _ JJiss Harband herself was m charge of'tho Zenana Mission, and had, with herrcolleaguo, to superintend tho work of about sixty "agents," native women engaged , iri s various forms' of mission work. Sho gavatfa; striking account of tho devotion of th§se women, and concluded her address with a descriptipnTOf •tlib'i day's work of tho tcachcrs and missionaries.. The - Rov. .AA'i'j; l Smith hlso addressed tho mooting. Ho spoko.of tho lifo of a missionary situated at Cappudnli,... a., district whoro ho was himself stationed for:a time. After an account of th^wcrrlc ; being dono Mr, Smith made lan eloqiiont appeal L to his hearers to uphold tho splendid tiaditions of-the socioty and ciiablo tho work 'begun by Livingstono J f and others- to -bo carried to a successful ■issue./ — At the icbnclusiou of tho address the Rov. ,AV. A, 5 EVps'-proposed, 'Arid the Rev. A. m! Aspland seconded, hearty votes of thanks to ; tho speakers, &vho ; had "addressed tho meetling. • ,;:z i