M.S.U.W.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8183, 26 July 1912, Page 11

M.S.U.W.

These letters, amplified, read Missionary Settlement University Women,” and it was in order to make us better acquainted with the ends and aims of the M.S.U.W. that Mrs Balcombe-Brown gave a very pleasant At Home yesterday afternoon. '■ Coming from the bitterly cold and dismal outside conditions, heightened tho warmth and cheerfulness of Airs Brown’s pretty rooms. Afternoon tea, too, was a pleasant prelude to Aliss Winifred Griffiths’ interesting valk on the work of the Missionary University Settlements, of which she is a member. Miss Griffiths, who has a very bright and magnetic personality, brimming over with enthusiasm, is one of “our own girls,” a Wellington girl who, after completing her course at Victoria College, went out to India some five or six years ago. The account she gave of tho missionary work carried out in Bombay by university students in connection with the missionary settlement and the

VAV.C.A. was vf-rv interesting. There are hoiiK-s for students and for JJils emploved in shoj»> and oliu.a-*; club.*' tor inin ii;b]e study and tub* simi life; camp- and conlerences for the •study of religion and tho coiih.deiatnm of personal and .-octal problems; and in connection with the settlement there is th n Christian mission womc among tlir Parsecs. Til esc people, who are of Persian extraction, landed in North India in the eighth century of toe Christian ora, and migrated to Bombay for purposes of trade. A very conservative people, the Par.-tcs cling lo their own customs and belicls. Alany of the women are educated and come to the U.S. lectures on the lives of great ami good women or to a series of lectures oa the life of Christ.

M s- Griffiths also spoke of the Lotus Club, to which ladies not yet belonging to the Christian faith belong in order lo study social problems and to work forrlie poor. At tho Lotus Chib thn life of I’andita Kamabai (that wonderful Indian lady whoso keen brave soul and untiring patience are of the same type as our owie Mother Joseph Aubert's) is studied as ani object lesson. While members work for 1 the orphans they learn what a great work is being wrought through an Indian woman who has learnt that tho Christian’s God is the hearer and the answerer of prayer.