PRESBYTERIAN WOMEN’S MISSIONARY UNION

Evening Star, Issue 12964, 8 November 1906, Page 7

PRESBYTERIAN WOMEN’S MISSIONARY UNION

T-lje i»nipjal meeting, pf (Ijg Pfegbyfalign pn«n (sak tfimr tfffpwn is vfds fqjrly wpjl filled. / Thp Rev. G. B. Mppro, Modpfalpr pf the; General Assembly, presided, ancT'after 3e' r yotjoual exercises hb’. called pa Miss Glasgow,' scccetaiy of the Union, to 'mqyp tbp adp-ptipn of the annual report The report wgs (hen authorised tp bt (papsipitted In the Foreign AlissionS Gpmipiffnp (Of rion to the General : I ' The prgsicjsnt(!jl >vas then jead bv ‘Mrs Ba'ijnbpnan, “pf the ’fywpien’s Missionary (Jpjqn.' ■ 0n the motion of Airs Biimnejiiian, accorded by Mis' Hewitsohj for tho enduing year wqre elected’ as fob low :—Rreeident, jllrs Mqqre (Wellington); vice-proident, ’ Mrs Gibbs ( Wellington) j secretary, ' Mts Sbemold . (Wellington); I tieaenrer, Atiss M'Gowan (WfUrngtoh); i —Three Missionary Addresses.—■ j Mias .Tessdc Milne, a missionary frqni ■ Ngiina, Near Hebrides," gaye a rtVmne pf the prograss of work" in the Nff HelSflcffrs. On the heathen island«, she said, the' piiinbentt 'pound the niission stations’ are increasing, and mote and more villages are coming under tho influences of the school. On five different islands thorp (s a communion roll pf 50Q. and ppllections ynwp mad,P secure paliy© teacliere, tvliich collectipni average £2OO a 'yewri" A|fpr’'a R-’rip<i pi comparatiye (ijactip|i has cpmp'w'it.fJHL G l ' ■last two years a forward move in t)j.q Hoii of sending teachers tp hpjitheg ifjands quain.' formerly abdyt forty natiyp (mu ried couples were in these heathen inlands, sticking to their posts and doiiig such gpo'' wofk that-the new districts supplied theii own leachpis. There came, a cesattion o ; (his, but novv this.irimk has revived. Aftu iiipntipqing thp reported' murder pf AT Goildeii, of thp Afclaiiesk(i( Mi. sipn, Afi s Mine referred to tbe'kMnika. djilipnHy. A gri-ift" d-jpij’ pf trouble is expepted to ijris' froin the 'kanakas riTliVnirig' tp (fie isljind; from Queensland. Ty a l(pa.t' 15t i returned. Thp liquor question, is another source of pfan'ger.' Traders' Ijayi been ppitring" most affbcibus ruin info ’'{hi jandt:,' but' .a ’ few rabpll(V agqi (he'pip t,ain of H.M.S. I’ega. its took” aetip. Vvherc others had previously only, talkec He gpt the French to sigh an agreement ami the liquor ( affic is to bp put dbwi for now it is illegal to sell liquor, fireijrms. or, ummupifh n tp (h,e Ijatiyes. Miff AlacGrcgor, ffqfn Afadras, India, read' a. meet infciesf’iiig acooqnt pf ipmU-(ip-ns of work' there. She rnentipppd iiiat already some"' of flic’' brightest of AftlJ lleif etiidi cits are tp’rtiing t cypp (p till Indian Civil Service' 'as an pu()tt fp( (heir talents. ’Now sdmo, aho, are beginning missionary work there. Miss AlacGregor Suggested thp astqblirhnicnt of a Eresbvtciian iliisiou Church' in Ipdia.

r j ' Alias Alqpre, 8.A., from lehang, China, jyas the third Bj/ja-ker. Slie eaid that, wheij last jq New Zealand sis ypars ago yery few .represented the 'Brisshytpfis'tn o(ippc(T ip philia. but now The woyk' is qp a firm bads. “ There is a vsjkt diffcr>Vncc the China of to-il.iy 'iutd thp CJhTrut pf ten ypitfi 'kgo,” slie igJ-' EdHCgtipil" is liiiat is making tho change'. InricatJ pf pj)ifltse classitts only ’lxing tcijiigHk iq thp piitiyc 'schools’, China is how crying op (.-for (npderp education," including niathemaiacp, science, aiid languages. Siiid.-ntq are being sp.n{- to Japan to be trained. ' Tlier© arc 17,0C1Q Chinese ctiidensts in Tokio leapping under dapamap inapl.Lis and under tlie Japanese ' system, "wli.ch I sppppßpT addc(i- Miss Jlooie. f‘ is as pcifect as our sypleni here They have alrqa'dy piipiary qqd secpiitjaiy ediieatjon ip .jupan.” 'this teaching, kpwever, is ajj hpatjien, apd M’S* Woptp (pajje an apppaT’(or iiikiiturippal wpik in cojinfctioii witli' Chinese miedprs to cnablp (hem to send out d.rkitiin eed Ch* n f ? 4fi '*!* Hsichcrs. For China j® estabjis-liing an education ,'ys;e!n. ' The Gqvemmcht '((ave set' up ijrbool'i all over ffie cbunt.ry, and in copsdcring the lainis pf teachers to put in elKtege they attach great iinpprtawio '(along W ; i(b bigger salaries) to th-cep teachers' w((h evej) a s|nat(pcing pf Western" learning.’ The mpripnayy societies werp doing what they cpuld to have more Christian pelipols cstablisllid iind Ohrirt-iqii odi)eatipn given to thp people'- Niivs(y-five txir cpiit. pf the .scholars who parsed tbrpugji these sclipidis bvcaihe fluistiais" and C'ijriqtiqp " (ypykcrß. As for the expense of teaching, it ryaj*' pot likely to be much, ae the phincse" put puch a high 1 value on toiioq-tion that t|tey were wiling to pay for it. phe aiiliool paid’ fhp cxp.nres of the native teachers arid’ the upkeep of the ecbopi, which'had 150 ypurig men attending it, and cleared £I,OO C) in twp ygam Roni students’ fees. Schppl work in phina was pup of the mtx-t satisfactory ways of reaching the Ckiposp, apd of doing Uiorhugh wgrk "that Wuld rptufii a, (feu harvest. ORGAN RECITAL. SiiKsequpiitly an organ pecitg] wqs gjvpn by Mr (¥. Pifgpt Gale, organist of Kpox Church, the pipgrannrie pomprisiiig the |pilowiirg itcmß:—''Marchp iMqjwri’ (ppuno<l)''; v ’air. varieel (Wrigley); Dip Fragc and die 'Autwort 1 (Wolstenholiric) ; 'llcve Angclique’" (Ruliiusteiu)'; ' ‘ The curlfew ’ | (Horsnian); iind the ' overfurc to" ‘ pie j ARi tersinger ’' (Wagner). ' Tlie audience i greatly enjoyed Air Gale’s inteTprctafioii pf tills programme, and the Moderator qx : | pn-sted tbq thfinjus of jhe'audipnto to Air j Ga|e. During the aftCrriOOp ilip-i Rule suig * Tlktc is 'i green hill.’ The ladies of Knox Oliurjali tjien en(crtaihed tjlt; fjsjegas«s tp tjie E-W-Af-U- ap’d the members of Akei.'mljh: at tfia Ip the Sppdav fsciioo! Hail.