A t Dyan f Me ETE Loi 4 PROGRAMME Cierra is Fiftieth Annual Meeting Woman’s Board of Missions November 14, 15, 16 1917 PARK STREET CHURCH AND TREMONT TEMPLE BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS “A Jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you” WOMAN'S BOARD PRESIDENTS OF THE MRS. JUDSON SMITH MRS. ALBERT BOWKER MRS. CHARLES H. DANIELS 1890-1906 1868-1890 1906- FIFTY YEARS OF THE WOMAN’S BOARD OF MISSIONS Under the leadership of Mrs. Albert Bowker, the Woman’s Board of Missions was organized in Boston, January 2, 1868, with forty charter members. Over 60,000 now own allegiance to its cause. During the first year $5,000 were gathered with much devoted self-sacrifice, and seven missionaries were sent to the field. The half century has multiplied the latter more than fifty fold—their service covering 5,500 years—and the gifts a thousand fold. In active service today are 134 missionaries and over 900 native helpers who carry inspiration far afield in the 73 mission stations. Three hospitals and five dispensaries, 34 boarding schools and over three hundred kindergartens and day schools, together with normal and training schools form the working plant of the organization. Notable in the development of the work at home was the adoption in 1902 of plans for united mission study, originated by Miss Abbie B. Child, able and devoted Secretary of the Board from 1869 to 1902. Theresultant summer assemblies and girls’ camps for mission study have stimulated greatly the growth of missionary education for old and young alike, while the spirit of Christian unity is reflected on the field in the Union Colleges for Women in Madras and Peking, and the Medical College to be established in Vellore. Who can estimate what this world vision may mean in the deeper life of women in America as well as to their sisters in foreign lands? [3] THE Gib .Op sh OUR MISSIONARIES 1868 LOVE? MRS. MARY K. EDWARDS a INANDA, AFRICA MISS MARY E. ANDREWS MRS. URSULA C. MARSH PEKING, CHINA _ BULGARIA Three of the seven pioneer missionaries commissioned in 1868. Two are still in active service on the field. Mrs. Marsh returned to this country but two vears ago. A fourth, Mrs. Olive P. Andrus, died in 1916 in war-stricken Turkey. MISS ADELAIDE FAIRBANK MISS CAROLYN D. SMILEY MISS MARY M. ROGERS A missionary of the fourth First Jubilee Missionary To be commissioned at the generation Ahmednagar, 1916 Jubilee Meeting Three of the twenty-one Jubilee Missionaries who are preparing to go to the field, or are already at work at their stations. [4] THE GIFT OF MONEY FIRST BUILDING MRS. EDWARDS’ ERECTED HOME BY IN THE BOARD INANDA GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY GIFT In 1912 it was decided to celebrate the Jubilee Year of the Woman’s Board, by a gift of $250,000, to be used for land, buildings, and equipment in the various Mission fields, in many of which, as at Inanda, the simple buildings of fifty years ago are still in use. Auxiliaries and individuals have responded generously, realizing that in foreign lands as at home a work is judged by its local habi- tation, and cannot develop within narrow or crumbling walls. The money has been put to immediate use as it has come in, and already schools and hospitals, long so sorely needed, are being built, and improved facilities for evangelistic work have been provided. So far as possible the national or local style of architecture has been employed, as in the recently erected Capron Hall shown below. The plans include hospitals at Madura and Foochow, kinder- gartens at Paotingfu, Foochow and Tientsin, China, and boarding schools at Uduvil, Ceylon, Inanda, Africa, Chihuahua, Mexico, Matsuyama, Japan, and much work in Turkey when the war is over. Thirty-four stations are thus being given modern equipment and a veritable Jubilee for teachers and pupils, for physicians and patients, will be assured by our Golden Anniversary Gift. A MODERN EDUCATIONAL BUILDING. CAPRON HALL, MADURA, INDIA [5] MISS GRISELL M. McLAREN VAN, TURKEY MISS ISABELLE PHELPS PAOTINGFU, CHINA MRS. JOHN E. MERRILL AINTAB, TURKEY MISS FIDELIA PHELPS INANDA, AFRICA ae MRS. HENRY J. BENNETT TOTTORI, JAPAN MRS. JOHN S. PORTER PRAGUE, AUSTRIA MISS LULU G. BOOK WALTER UDUVIL, CEYLON REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE FIELD [6] Programme ‘s PARK STREET CHURCH Mrs. CHARLES H. DANIELS, Presiding Wednesday Morning, 9.30 o'clock Doxology Opening Service Mrs. Charles H. Daniels Hymn 63: “Faith of our fathers, living still’’ Report of Committee on Charter and By-Laws: Organi- zation A Half Century of Giving Miss Sarah Louise Day Treasurer Hymn 47: “Thou Lord of life, our saving health” Pictures of the Past Miss E. Harriet Stanwood Introduction of Early Members of the Board Starting for the Field in ’68 Mrs. Ursula Clarke Marsh Pioneer Missionary Fifty Years After Miss Adelaide B. Fairbank Jubilee Missionary Hymn 15: “Spirit of God, descend upon my heart”’ Service of Intercession Rev. William Allen Knight, D.D. [7] Wednesday Afternoon, 2.15 o'clock THE WORK IN RETROSPECT Hymnets =. ord Ged of hosts” Scripture and Prayer Rey. AZ. @onrad, pels Hymn 74: “Christ for the world, we sing”’ The Years That are Told Miss Kate G. Lamson Foreign Secretary Hymn 60: “Glorious things of thee are spoken”’ Greetings A Noble Army of Martyrs Mrs. John E. Merrill Aintab, Turkey Offering India’s Christian Host Gurubai Karmarkar, M.D. Bombay, India Hymn 59: ‘‘Onward, Christian soldiers”’ Woman’s Share in World Missions President Mary E. Woolley Mount Holyoke College Hymn 48: “Saviour, who thy life didst give”’ [8] Wednesday Evening, 8.00 0’clock Harvard Church, Brookline, Mass. RECEPTION Sse Gears OBPIGERS sOr) THES BOARD MISSIONARIES, DELEGATES aN DOU Vleet Dam G Lesa _ Native songs and greetings from the Missionaries and from Dr. Karmarkar [9] Thursday Morning, 9.30 o'clock GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY GIFT Mrs. W. L. ApaAm, Presiding - Hymn 399: “Hail to the brightness’’ What New Buildings Mean At Inanda: Secretary C. H. Patton, Miss Fidelia Phelps At Uduvil: Miss Lulu G. Bookwalter At Paotingfu: Miss Isabelle Phelps At Madura: Mrs. Edward Lincoln Smith At Smyrna: Rev. S. Ralph Harlow The Body of the Missionary Soul Secretary James L. Barton Service of Intercession Rev. William Allen Knight, D.D A PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING Our Father who art in heaven, gratefully do we acknowledge before Thee Thy care in all our ways, whether the path be smooth or rough, winding or straight, in shadow or in sunshine. We confess to Thee our shoricomings, our follies, our vanities, our self-indulgences but we also humbly thank Thee for the response in our hearts, however small the measure, to Thy love for us. We know Thou art our Father. Thou knowest that we love Thee. We thank Thee that Thou teachest us how we may express our love, that by expression tt shall grow. Grate- fully we bring to Thee this day our gifts. All that 1s amtss in these offerings, forgive. Make clean and sweet our innermost purpose and let Thy blessing consecrate the buildings we now present. Save them from harm in: the world’s tumult af 1t may be. Watch over the sick in hospitals and those who tend them, sustain and fill with Thy spirit the missionaries who are carrying the water of life to thirsting souls. Let Thy blessing abide upon the homes in which they live, the schools in which they work, the places in which they go apart and rest awhile. Bless with the knowledge of Thyself all the nations of the world. Show us and all Thy children how we may do Thy will and make of earth a heaven. Let Thy kingdom come. This we ask for Jesus’ sake. Amen. | 10] Thursday Afternoon, 2.15 o'clock JUBILEE INCREASE CAMPAIGN Miss HELEN B. CALDER, Presiding Hymn 80: “O Zion, haste, thy mission high fulfilling” Our Offering of Life Miss Calder Jubilee Returns from the Branches Our Younger Recruits Miss Mary Preston Secretary for Young People’s Work The Jubilee Trumpet Call Mrs. H. J. Bennett Tottori, Japan Introduction of Jubilee Missionaries COMMISSION SERVICE FOR JUBILEE MISSIONARIES Miss Mary M. Rogers, Miss Martha M. Van Allen Under appointment to Madura, India Miss Helen Constance Barker Under appointment to Turkey Hymn 48: ‘Saviour, who thy life didst give”’ The Commission Presented by Secretary J. L. Barton The Home Fellowship Miss Edna H. Mason Hartford Branch Welcome to the Field Dr. Mary E. Scott Inuvil, Ceylon Prayer of Consecration Miss Alice M. Kyle Editorial Secretary ) Hymn 82: ‘‘ Ye Christian heralds, go, proclaim’ [11] Thursday Evening, 7.30 o'clock TREMONT TEMPLE REv. Epwarp C. Moore, D.D., Presiding Special music from 7.15 to 7.30 by the Malden Festival Chorus H. Augustine Smith, Director Marshall S. Bidwell, Organist Anthem: ‘‘Lovely appear over the mountains’ Gounod Scripture and Prayer Rev. Hubert C. Herring, D.D. Secretary of National Council Hymn 108: “‘O beautiful for spacious skies”’ Our Missionaries, World Citizens Mrs. Franklin H. Warner The Doctor in India Gurubai Karmarkar, M.D. Bombay Offertory The Victory of Faith in Turkey Miss Lucile B. Foreman, Aintab Miss Grisell M. McLaren, Van Miss Clara C. Richmond, Talas Mrs. Luther R. Fowle, Constantinople Hymn 78: “Lift up your heads, ye gates of brass”’ What the Present Momentous Hour Demands of Us John R. Mott, LL.D. Hymn 115: “God the all-merciful”’ [12] Friday Morning, 9.30 o'clock PARK STREET CHURCH THE FORWARD LOOK Hymn 111: “Mine eyes have seen the glory of the com- ing of the Lord”’ Devotional Service Mrs. E. L. McLaughlin Election of Officers At the Storm Centre of Europe Mrs. John S. Porter Prague, Austria Hymn 104: “Crown Him with many crowns” The Widening Circumference Mrs. Helen Barrett Montgomery President of the Woman’s American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society The Appeal of a Waiting World 7 Secretary C. H. Patton The Call of Tomorrow Mrs. Charles H. Daniels Hymn 57: “Lead on, O king eternal”’ Communion Service | 12.00-12.30 o’clock Rev. F. E. Emrich, D.D., in charge [ 13] THE GIFT OF LIGHT A MIsSIONARY PAGEANT BY ANITA B. FERRIS BART elie Wice5 PUL Episodes. 1. The Service of Womanhood. Presented by Second Church, Dorchester 2. The Winning of Ruth. Mt. Vernon Church, Boston 3. Historic Pantomime: Dorcas, Nunia, Abbess Hilda, Gertrude Egede. Cambridge Churches A. Founding the Southampton Female Charitable Association. First Church, Newton Centre 5. Womanhood’s Need, Africa, China, India. Eliot Church, Newton First Church, Waltham Part II. The Flame Episodes. 6. Founding the Woman’s Board. Auburndale Church 7. Inanda Seminary Today. First Church, Cambridge 8. A Visit to Uduvil, Ceylon. Harvard Church, Brookline 9g. The Children’s Missionary in China. Phillips Church, Watertown 10. School Children from Many Lands. Union and Shawmut Churches, Boston 11. A Doctor’s Day in Madura. | West Somerville and other Churches 12. The Exiles of Van. The School of Expression, Boston Part III. The Radiance Finale. Procession, Tableau, Jubilee Hymn. Given in Jordan Hall, Conservatory of Music, Boston Monday and Tuesday evenings, at eight o'clock, November 12 and 13, 1917. [14] DR. GURUBAI KARMARKAR One of the most distinguished Oriental women connected with the Woman’s Board of Missions is Dr. Gurubai Karmarkar, for over twenty years medical missionary at Bombay, who has come to this country for the cele- bration of the Jubilee. Her parents were Christians and as a girl she was educated in mission schools. With her husband she came to America for study, taking her degree at the Woman’s Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1892. Onher return to India she was for a time resident physician at a Parsee hospi- tal for women at Bassein but she desired to ally herself with Christian work and found her place in the staff of the Marathi Mission at Bombay. Dr. Karmarkar’s professional activities are many and varied, She is in charge of a dispensary for women and children on the Mission Compound and for several years conducted a branch dis- pensary giving free help to poor mill people from the ‘“‘chawls”’ or city tenement houses. The rich call upon her as well as the poor and she has a considerable private practice, entering even Moham- medan homes. In all she treated some 8,000 cases in the past year. Courses of lectures in Hygiene to teachers and the medical care of pupils in girls’ schools occupy much of her time. For fifteen years she has been on the National Committee of the Y. W. C. A. in India and has twice been sent to Europe as its official delegate. She represents the highest type of Oriental womanhood. 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