PAfc. wise. ISSS~ Jubilee Series THEN AND NOW IN THE PHILADELPHIA BOARD The Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church 501 Witherspoon Building, Philadelphia ' tions, and the two-year program of the China Campaign asked for an extra gift of $100,000 and for ten young women missionaries. At the close of that period we thanked God for twelve new missionaries and for $101,462. Among the new buildings erected by the China Fund were two memorials in Hunan Province—the Girls’ Boarding School at Changsha in memory of our first President, Mrs. W. E. Schenck, and the Girls’ School at Changteh in memory of Mrs. Z. M. Humphrey, an early member of this Society. But the China Fund refused to be closed when the two years had expired, and at the 1916 Biennial Assembly the amount had grown to $126,869. In spite of this extra gift and in spite of the appalling war which had broken upon the world, our funds for regular work had increased and an extra War Em¬ ergency Fund was started June, 1917. This showed that Presbyterian women, what¬ ever war economies they might practice, would not “retrench in souls.” That 1916 Biennial in Philadelphia ad¬ journed to meet in Nashville in 1918, but on April 6, 1917, our own country threw itself with abandon into the European war, and for patriotic reasons we and Nashville cancelled our engagement. Only once before had an Annual or a Biennial Assembly been omitted —in 1900, on account of the Ecumenical Conference in New York City. The outstanding event in 1916 was the Chicago Conference held by the Woman’s .iimimimmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiNiMimmiiiiiimmiiimiiiiiimmiiimmiimiiiiimiiimiimiiiiimiiiHiiiiiiimiiiiii. 'HI 11111 [ 11 III I It IIIIII 11111 IIIII1II i IM 1111 II 11 II 11 II 111 III 1111 1 111 1 111 III li IIII Itl 1 1 111111 III III 1 1 11 III [| IIIIII 111 1! IIIIIIII I1MII< Boards of Foreign Missions and the Woman’s Board of Home Missions to consider greater uniformity in methods of work. One of the many results of this was the formation of the General Council of the Woman’s Boards of Missions. Even before this there had been co-operation between the Foreign Boards and the Home Board, for in 1912 a Joint Committee on Student Work had been formed. Field secretaries working under this committee visited in one year as many as sixty-seven colleges and schools in seven¬ teen States, and yet reached only 1,000 of our 12,000 Presbyterian girls graduating each year. When, in 1917, the Woman’s Summer School of Missions in Northfield outgrew the almost limitless hospitality of that place, Mr. Moody declared there must be another school started in Pennsylvania to prevent the over¬ crowding. It was largely our responsibility to find the place, the students and the plans. A beautiful spot and kind hosts were found in Wilson College at Chambersburg, and the new summer school started off full-grown with a registration of 533. In 1918, 700 dele¬ gates were reported; and in 1919, 728, of whom 286 were Presbyterians. Co-operative planning g'oes on apace not only between our seven Women’s Boards, but with the Assembly’s Board as well. The Executive Secretary of Central Committee visits yearly each Woman’s Board of Foreign Missions, and in her office at 156 Fifth Ave- .«111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111> -'iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiir nne, New York, helps us to co-ordinate our work. She also represents all six Boards at the meetings of the Executive Council of the Assembly’s Board (composed of the secre¬ taries and treasurers of the men’s Board of Foreign Missions), and from time to time the Executive Committee of Central Committee has been invited to sit in the same Council. At the second such meeting the men invited the Chairman of Central Committee, Mrs. Lee, to preside over the joint meeting. In June, 1919, the six Woman’s Boards unanimously accepted the recommendation of the Board of the Northwest that they unite in one National Board, with headquarters in New York, and plans for this union go on apace. When the men who were planning the New Era Movement came to the women in 1918 to secure their co-operation, behold, we were found to have already upon our hands a little new era of our own called the Jubilee, and the same General Assembly which had en¬ dorsed the New Era had already endorsed the Jubilee. Therefore, the men said, “Your Jubilee gifts for 1919-20 shall be considered your New Era Increase, and shall be sent through your usual channels.” This two-year program of our fiftieth birth¬ day draws to a close, the other five Woman’s Boards celebrating their Jubilee with us. The aim of the celebration has been a four¬ fold enlistment of those who will pray, who will serve, who will give, who will go. Some ■iiiiiiiiMiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiii. '(iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiimimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiH gifted souls can accomplish all four; most of us can do three. The Golden Anniversary Gift asked for (in addition to our regular gifts and the War Emergency Fund) is $500,000, the Philadelphia Board’s share being $200,000. Volunteers for Over Seas Service are needed—evangelists, teachers, doctors. Take this little history with you to the culmination of the Jubilee in Philadelphia in May, 1920, and in it mark the amount of the Golden Anniversary Gift as there re¬ ported, and also the number of volunteers. Record other notable milestones and treas¬ ures that God may reveal to us there. So shall you weave yourself into this history of “Then and Now,” and join in saying, “Hith¬ erto hath the Lord helped us.” “What is the final ending? The issues can we know? Will Christ outlive Mohammed? Will Kali’s altar go? This is our faith tremendous— Our world-hope, who shall scorn !— That in the name of Jesus The world shall be reborn.” Rachel Lowrie. August, 1919. 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