Show W F 31 S 4 ROCHESTER N Y Oct 30A short devotional service conducted by Mrs S A Wlnchell of Minneapolis prefaced the work to which this mornings session ses-sion of the Womans Foreign Missionary Mission-ary society of the Methodist Episcopal church was devoted Mrs E T Cowen of Cincinnati made a report of the constitutional reference committee showing an increase dur lag the past year both in the number of missionary candidates and in the ability and education of those candi dates Missionaries have been sent to t Mexico Japan India China Thibet central Africa Alaska South America and elsewhere Miss Louise Manning of Boston gave the history of the birth and life of the Womans Missionary Friend of which she Is editor The report re-port of the Childrens Missionary 1 Friend was read by Mrs TV O Scott of Campobello Mass |