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MINISTERING WOMEN
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Fix this textMonthly Prayer Meeting every 3rd Thursday in the Month, Church Offices, York Street.
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Fix this textMAY, 1913.
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Fix this textWOMEN’S MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION
Fix this textCONFERENCE.
Fix this textIn St. Stephen’s Church, on Tuesday, 6th May.
Fix this textA large gathering of members of the
Fix this textWomen’s Missionary Association was held in
Fix this textSt. Stephen’s Church on the afternoon of the
Fix this textday on which the General Assembly opened,
Fix this textthis date was chosen in order to ensure the
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Fix this textMrs. Goodlet presided, and on the platform
Fix this textwith her were Mrs. Manson and Mrs. Lamont.
Fix this textThe meeting was called a Conference, and
Fix this textvarious members were asked to prepare
Fix this textpapers, in order to promote discussion. The
Fix this textpapers, however, were so well and fully writ-
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Fix this textdiscuss or controvert any of them, and the
Fix this textfeeling of the entire meeting was one of
Fix this textthankfulness for the work that is being done
Fix this textm every department of the activities of the
Fix this textA omen’s Missionary Association.
Fix this textd he first hour had been allotted to the Girls’
Fix this textAuxiliary, who, after an opening hymn, and
Fix this textprayer by Mrs. Manson. were welcomed by
Fix this textthe President of the W.M.A., Mrs. Goodlet.
Fix this textand introduced by their own president, Miss
Fix this textMacdonald. The speakers were Miss Thom-
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Fix this textParron, the secretary, who took for her sub-
Fix this textject “Scattered Members” ; Miss Henderson,
Fix this textwho spoke about “Mission Study”; and Miss
Fix this textDunlop, on “What We Hope to do.”
Fix this textGreat satisfaction was expressed by the
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Fix this textMrs. Scott West bore testimony to the excel-
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Fix this textAfter a hymn had been sung, the Women’s
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Fix this textlet, upon “Our Present Foreign Outlook.”
Fix this textPapers by Mrs. Carter, of Bourke, upon “Our
Fix this textNorth-West Home Mission," and by “Cousin
Fix this textCharlotte” on the “Australian Inland" Mission”
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Fix this textOther speakers were Mrs. Harper, upon
Fix this text“How to Conduct a Branch Meeting”; Miss
Fix this textViolet Reid upon the work at St. Andrew’s
Fix this textSettlement/ and Mrs. Lamont upon the “Allo-
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Fix this textfor another Missionary, to learn Telugu, and'
Fix this textbe her companion, as all the other Sholinghur
Fix this textMissionaries speak Tamil. A welcome was
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Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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