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Show BAPTISTS HOLD SEGONDJESSiOH Reports Arc Made and Foreign I Missions Work Thoroughly Thorough-ly Discussed. ELECTION OF OFFICERS OF WOMEN'S SOCIETY Morning Session Devoted to Discussion of Sunday-School Sunday-School Matters. The socond day's session of the Utah Daptlst State convention commenced at j the First Daptlst church, this city, at D a. m. with devotional exorcises, conducted conduct-ed by the Rev. J. II. Franklin. At all tho meetings there was a large attendance attend-ance of the delegates and tboir friends. A Sunday-Bchool session was carrlod out under the direction of D. P. Ward of California. At this meeting papers wore read by Miss Mary Berkley on "Tho Cradle Roll;" Mr9. H. W. Pratt, "The Homo Department," H. L. Hcrrlngtou, "Special Days." 13. L. Corum addressed the convention on tho subject, "Organized "Organ-ized Classes;" Mrs. S. A. Hay worth, "Primary Work," D. P. Ward, "Round Tablo." Prof. J. A. Smith submitted 'tho report on "Publication Socloty." and A. G. Sandbloom related "Colportour Experiences," Ex-periences," followed by an address on tho "Publication Society," by D. P. Ward. Words of greeting wero alBO addressed to tho convention by Rev. Wlldman Murphy, president of the Utah Sunday-school Sunday-school union; Rev. W. Howard Bowler, moderator of the Idaho Baptist association, associa-tion, and Rev. Arthur Wordsworth, associate as-sociate editor of tbe Pacific Baptist, San Francisco. Afternoon Session. The afternoon session was devoted to the work of the Women's Baptist Missionary Mis-sionary socloty of Utah. Mrs. 11. W. Pratt presided. The opening address was delivered by Miss Stella J. Ragon. a missionary lately late-ly returned from Burma. She gave a graphic description of the people and their customs, and detailed tbe life of the missionary. The people in that coun- try spoak about sixty different dialects : and there are a great variety of customs and religions. The Karens are tho hill tribes and are more easily Christianized than those living on tho low lands. The 1 other trlheB are very low in the moral scale. They are lazy, liars and thieves, and will steal anything they can get away with. The Burmese are of the yellow race and tho trlbos can be distinguished by the manner In which the hair Is dressed. The women and the men dress vory much alike and one of the difficulties of the missionary at first is to tell the men from the women. When the bubonic plague broke out they could not understand It. They imagined imag-ined It to bo the work of the evil spirit, and asked the Governor to issue a proclamation commanding the evil ones to depart. When they become Christians they have to make a complete departure from all their old beliefs and customs, and lead an entirely new life. Ono of their traditions was that a white man should visit them with a book and teach them new things, and this belief made the Christianizing of tho Karens possible. Miss Mary G. Burdetto, secretary of the Women's Baptist Home Mission society so-ciety of Chicago, spoke especially of the excellent work accomplished In the Baptist Bap-tist Missionary Training school in Chicago, Chi-cago, where young women are trained as missionaries or assistants to pastors. Thero are seven graduates In Utah from tho school, and at the meeting today a resolution will be Introduced urging as many of tho young women of this State who possibly can to tako this training course, which Includes nursing, music, oratory and other departments. The reports from the church societies were highly satisfactory and demonstrated demonstrat-ed that nearly every church had double Its contribution for home and foreign missionary work during the past year, and that the amounts were tho largost ever given from Utah. The officers of the Women's society for the ensuing year were elected as follows: fol-lows: Mrs. H. W. Pratt, Provo, president; presi-dent; MrB. Ruth Kinney, Salt Lake, first vice-president; Mrs. R. T. Mullor, Og-den, Og-den, second vice-president; Mrs. W. W. Randolph, Salt Lake, treasurer; Mrs. S. A. Hayworth, Salt Lake, recording secretary; sec-retary; Mrs. A. J. Gobs and Mrs, C. J. McNItt, Salt Lake, corresponding secretaries. sec-retaries. Evening Session. At the evening session Rev. Bruce Kinney was re-elected Stato missionary of tho American Baptist Home Mission and tho occasion was embraced by Rev. J. H. Franklin, D. P. Ward, Ben L. Corum and Prof. .1. A, Smith to express words of appreciation of the splendid work so ably conducted by Mr. Kinney. The convention also adopted the recommendation recom-mendation of the Stato board to requcBt the Home Missionary society for an appropriation ap-propriation of $6000 for the coming year, with a pledge of 3500 from the workers of tbe State. Miss Daisy Wolfgang rendered tho solo, "Abide With Me," nnd In the absence of Miss Minerva Tallman the report on foreign missions was read by the Rev. A, H. Shattuck. The principal address of the evening was made by Dr. I N. Clark of Kansas City on "Foreign Missions." Dr. Clark Is an interesting lecturer and spoke at considerable length on tho success achieved In the field In Japan, China and India. With the aid of a diagram he showed, In comparison, what tho Christian people peo-ple of America spend for foreign missions mis-sions and for luxuries, the statistics being be-ing as follows: Foreign missions, $7,-500,000; $7,-500,000; chewing gum, $11,000,000; millinery. mil-linery. $80,000,000; confectionery, $178,-000,000; $178,-000,000; church work. 5S50.000.000; Jewelry Jew-elry and plate, $700,000,000; tobacco, $750,000,000: liquor, Sl.243.000,000. The convention will close Its labors today. |