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 AN ACCOUNT OF THE CELEBRATION 
 OF THE 
 
 FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 
 
 OF THE BEGINNING IN THE 
 UNITED STATES OF 
 
 Woman’s Organized Work for 
 Foreign Missions 
 
 1860 1910 
 
 Published by the 
 
 Central Committee on tije (Hniteb ^>tutm of JfltSSions. 
 £0est Jfflebforti, itlassacljusetts, :: :: jtlarcf), 1911 
 
 This booklet may be ordered from M. H. Leavis, West Medford, Mass. 
 Ten cents each. Reduction in quantities. 
 
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 Central Committee on tfje (Hnttel) is>tubp of fflissions 
 
 Mrs. Henry W. Peabody, Chairman 
 
 Miss E. Harriet Stanwood 
 Congregational House, Boston 
 
 Beverly, Mass. 
 
 Miss Rachel Lowrie 
 
 Mrs. Decatur M. Sawyer 
 
 Miss Grace T. Colburn 
 Secretary and Treasurer 
 Newton Centre, Mass. 
 
 Witherspoon Building, Phila., Pa. 
 
 Montclair, N. J. 
 
 Mrs. A. V. Pohlman 
 5143 Race St., Phila., Pa. 
 
 Miss Elizabeth C. Northup 
 Waltham, Mass. 
 
 Miss Olivia H. Lawrence 
 25 East 22d St., N. Y. City 
 
 The Central Committee on the United Study of Missions issues 
 this little booklet prepared in haste to meet the demand for some 
 account of the Jubilee. 
 
 This Committee was organized a decade ago at the time of the 
 Ecumenical Conference in New York, May, 1900. The thought of 
 United Study first came to Miss Abbie B. Child, who was then Sec- 
 retary of the Woman’s Board of Missions of the Congregational 
 Church, and she arranged for the meeting where it was first pre- 
 sented. A group of women gathered in the Calvary Baptist 
 Church, New York, during the Conference, and determined to try 
 the experiment. Later the Central Committee was formed of five 
 women appointed by their respective Boards. Miss Child, Congre- 
 gational : Mrs. Twing, Protestant Episcopal ; Mrs. Gracey, Metho- 
 dist ; Miss Parsons, Presbyterian ; Mrs. Waterbury, Baptist, with Miss 
 Butler, Methodist, as Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer. 
 
 There have been many changes. Miss Child’s death occurred 
 in 1902, and since then Mrs. Peabody, then Mrs. Waterbury, has 
 served as chairman. The Committee has published, through The 
 Macmillan Company, ten study books ; the eleventh is now in press. 
 About seven hundred thousand of these books have been sold. 
 
 The Committee now numbers seven, Lutherans and Dutch Re- 
 formed Boards being represented. Through it summer schools of 
 missions were organized and the Jubilee has been promoted. 
 
 The text-book for the coming year is The Light of the World , 
 a comparative study of Christianity and non-Christian religions, by 
 Robert E. Speer. This is now in press, and will be published earl)' 
 in April. It may be ordered from any Woman’s Board of Foreign 
 Missions or from the headquarters of the Central Committee, West 
 Medford, Mass. The book is written by an expert, as Dr. Speer 
 
has had exceptional opportunities for observation and study. It is 
 admirably adapted for study classes and women’s societies, and is 
 absolutely convincing in its arguments. 
 
 Instead of the small meeting in Calvary Church in 1900, tickets 
 have been issued by the New York Committee for the Jubilee to 
 completely fill Carnegie Hall, with four of the largest churches 
 in its vicinity, Broadway Tabernacle, Fifth Avenue Presbyterian, 
 Calvary Baptist and Zion and St. Timothy. Luncheons will be 
 served to 6,000 women in the four greatest hotels of New York. 
 
 At a meeting in Carnegie Hall the authors of the books will be 
 present and give brief addresses. With only two exceptions they 
 are in this country. 
 
 Four hundred New York women are enlisted in the preparation 
 for this vast undertaking, the greatest meeting ever held by women. 
 Let us rejoice that it is to honor God and hasten the coming of his king- 
 dom as well as to commemorate the beautiful service of those women 
 of faith who fifty years ago began the work in his name. It marks an 
 advance in unity, for all denominations have worked together. It 
 has meant a great revival of prayer. It is leading women to study 
 with deep interest Western Women in Eastern Lands , the book by 
 Mrs. W. A. Montgomery, which laid the foundations of the Jubilee. 
 It has stimulated giving, and though the Jubilee is not yet completed, 
 and we cannot tell the results, it is hoped that a million dollars will 
 be the special offering from Christian women this year, — a memorial 
 to their Lord and a fund for greater work for Christless women. 
 
 Mrs. Henry W. Peabody, Chairman. 
 
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W\)t i£>torj> of tfje Jubilee 
 
 BY RACHEL LOWRIE 
 
 When the spiritual history of the world shall be ex- 
 amined, as we examine the heart of a tree after its circles 
 have been revealed, the year which saw both the Edin- 
 burgh Conference and the Woman’s Foreign Missionary 
 Jubilee will surely show a wide circle of growth. 
 
 The historian, in commenting on the source Jubilee, 
 will say, “ It was a book, and organization did it.” The 
 mystic will say, “ It was a vision, and prayer did it.” Both 
 are right, but the latter supremely so. It was born in the 
 hearts of praying women, and when it grew to such pro- 
 digious proportions it would have daunted any but those of 
 large faith. At the heart of the movement everywhere 
 was the atmosphere of prayer. In many of the centers 
 large numbers of women had been praying for the success 
 of the Jubilee weeks before a committee had been formed 
 or anyone had been asked to do a stroke of work. Some 
 of the largest outlays of money have been in the printing 
 of great numbers of prayer cards, the demand for which 
 seemed to be insatiable. God honored the demands made 
 upon him, and to his name be the glory. 
 
 No better example of the power of history need be 
 given than the inevitableness of the Jubilee celebration, 
 once the history of woman’s' organized work for foreign 
 missions was known. The book, Western Women in Eastern 
 Lands , was no sooner written and read in manuscript than 
 there was vouchsafed to Mrs. Henry W. Peabody, Chair- 
 man of the Central Committee on United Study, a vision 
 to which she was not disobedient, — no less a thing than a 
 celebration which should stretch from shore to shore, and 
 recount God’s goodness through these years since he ad- 
 mitted the women’s societies into partnership with him in 
 his world-wide work. Helen Barrett Montgomery, the 
 gifted author of the book that started the Jubilee, caught 
 fire with the idea, rewrote the last chapter under the influ- 
 
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ence of the vision, and the book became a campaign doc- 
 ument, one edition following another in quick succession, 
 till now nearly 100,000 copies have been sold. 
 
 Given the vision, the book and the leaders — would 
 there be a response from the ranks? Or would history 
 repeat itself, and, just as Mrs. Doremus had been ready to 
 espouse the cause of woman’s work for foreign missions 
 twenty-six years before the American public could endure 
 the idea, would Mrs. Peabody and Mrs. Montgomery see 
 the Jubilee year irrevocably slip by with no celebration to 
 hallow it? One trembles to think how natural that would 
 have been, and what we should have missed had we not 
 also caught lire ! 
 
 Lett to ourselves, we women of the foreign mission- 
 ary societies would probably have held a precise little 
 birthday party, to which only the habitues of missionary 
 societies would have been invited; but such was not at all 
 the idea of the United Study Committee. It contemplated 
 a gigantic reception, with the United States as a drawing- 
 room. The Reception Committee was drawn from thirty- 
 two cities ; the receiving days were at intervals from 
 October 1 2th to March 30th ; refreshments were to be 
 served in the largest halls to be found, and the invited guests 
 were the women of the evangelical churches of the United 
 States ! No fonder of demonstrations, perhaps, than are 
 some of the rest of us, the Central Committee nevertheless 
 believed that, after fatty vears of quiet, effective demonstra- 
 tion in foreign lands, the time had come for a national 
 celebration at home. 
 
 In the spring of 1910 the larger Women’s Boards of 
 Foreign Missions were asked if they would co-operate in a 
 Jubilee celebration. We Board officers remember the day 
 the question was brought to us. We gave it careful con- 
 sideration, decided to answer in the affirmative, and then 
 promptly forgot all about it. In the fall it was upon us 
 before we had time to take off our hats from our summer 
 vacations! We were gently reminded that it was time to 
 organize a Committee on Preparation, and immediately 
 the telegrams began coming in from the West, showing 
 that the Year of Jubilee had indeed come, and was even 
 now being celebrated upon the Pacific Coast. 
 
 They labored against great odds, those Western sisters 
 of ours, with their long distances and their short time tor 
 
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preparation! A Western Extension Committee, with 
 headquarters in Chicago, was needed to do for the West 
 what the Central Committee, with Mrs. Peabody at its 
 head, was to do for the Eastern circuit. Such a committee 
 was formed, with Mrs. Edmund Osbornson as Chairman 
 and Mrs. R. H. Pooley as Secretary, and immediately con- 
 nected itself with the utmost bounds of its territory by 
 means of a wireless message. That is, Airs. Osbornson 
 traveled as far as the Pacific Coast, making herself the 
 message to the newly-formed local committees. 
 
 The Western Extension Committee is now reorgan- 
 ized into a larger committee for continuation work, with 
 presidents and secretaries of Boards added, and in a mas- 
 terly way is conserving the enthusiasm by transmuting it 
 into service. 
 
 Those who questioned if this great thing could be 
 wrought in so short a time saw that the completeness of 
 the women’s organizations provided the only medium nec- 
 essary. Having been faithful through the years in that 
 which was least, they were, without knowing it, fully 
 equal to the great thing when it arrived. 
 
 Von Moltke, in order to start his war machine, had 
 to do only one thing — to pull open Drawer 6 in Cabinet 
 B, and taking from a package of papers a little slip, tele- 
 graph a message to a certain destination, and within ten 
 minutes the legend of the imperial army began to unroll. 
 Every man was at his post, and each knew what to do. 
 
 Fifty years hence, when wars shall be no more, and 
 the ploughshares of peace shall be as perfectly organized 
 as were von Moltke’s swords; when the next Jubilee shall 
 await the elect lady who shall “touch the button,” may it 
 be even more swiftly and easily done than it was in this 
 year of our Lord 1910-1 i ! 
 
 But, leaving the future and peering into the past, we 
 see that this Jubilee movement did not begin on October 
 1 2th in Oakland, Cal., nor ten years ago at the Ecumenical 
 Conference, when the Central Committee on United Study 
 was formed, hut fifty years ago in the parlor of Airs. T. C. 
 Doremus in New York, where was organized the first 
 woman’s society to receive a charter — The Woman’s Union 
 Missionary Society. “Launched on the eve of the Civil 
 War by persons inexperienced in public affairs, without 
 financial backing, this corporate body is now one of forty 
 
Boards, with 57,433 foreign missionary societies and aux- 
 iliaries in the United States and Canada, which last year 
 raised $3,328,840.” In this interdenominational school 
 of missions our mothers and grandmothers learned their 
 first lessons before it occurred to them to form Boards 
 within the limits of their own Christian communions. 
 Th us, while none of our denominational Boards have yet 
 attained to their fiftieth year, we unite to celebrate our 
 alma mater’s jubilee, which is also our own. 
 
 Oakland, Cal., after only three weeks of preparation, 
 was ready on October 1 2th to take the place assigned to 
 her in the very front of this three-thousand-mile jubilee 
 Pageant. Portland, Ore., followed with delegates from 
 twelve cities in attendance. It was at Seattle that for the 
 first time the number of women at the mass meeting 
 reached two thousand. Denver’s plans were so masterly 
 in conception and so precisely formulated that, at the re- 
 quest of other cities, they were tvpewritten and sent on to 
 be a blessing and help to many a local committee in the East. 
 Lincoln, Neb., finding a vacancy in the tour of the jubilee 
 party, telegraphed to engage them, and after three days’ 
 preparation achieved the following: four meetings on 
 Sunday, students’ meeting of one thousand, mass meeting 
 of fifteen hundred, enthusiastic Workers’ Conference, and 
 three impromptu meetings in club, drawing-room and 
 church. 
 
 But words would fail me to tell of Omaha, Kansas 
 City, St. Louis, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, 
 Chicago, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Detroit, to say 
 nothing of the meetings at Northwestern University and 
 De Pauw University. Their noble history is written else- 
 where. During this whole Western circuit Mrs. Peabody, 
 Chairman of the United Study Committee, sat at home 
 and directed the jubilee. We have seen how at her sug- 
 gestion the nucleus of a committee came together in each 
 of the centers and grew quickly into large bodies of women 
 capable of handling the intricacies of city conventions. A 
 jubilee party of speakers, headed bv Mrs. Montgomery, 
 arrived at each city in time to address the crowds awaiting 
 them. Then at a preconcerted signal, these multitudes 
 drawn from many Christian communions would separate 
 for one session into their distinctive denominations, where 
 would he found at exactly the right moment their own 
 
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Board officers waiting to instruct them in the work needing 
 their aid. Only in these church rallies was there an 
 opportunity given to contribute toward the Million Dollar 
 Love Offering which the Christian women of the United 
 States were planning to make over and above their usual 
 gifts. Thus the money flowed quite naturally through the 
 usual channels into the separate Boards of Missions, to be 
 used by them in their world-wide work. 
 
 From November 21st to January 23d there was a pause 
 in order to celebrate Thanksgiving, Christmas and New 
 Year’s. Those who had been praying that the Jubilee 
 party might, in spite of the strain of continuous travel and 
 public speaking, be kept in perfect health, had the satis- 
 faction of hearing the speakers say that they came out of the 
 Western campaign stronger than when they had entered it. 
 Just here let us count up our riches in that group of 
 speakers who moved from city to city. 
 
 Mrs. Helen Barrett Montgomery, author of Western 
 Women in Eastern Lands. For ten years she served on 
 the Commission of Education in Rochester. At one time 
 President of the Federation of Clubs in New York State 
 she is now and has been for twenty years since its founding, 
 president of an active civic club in Rochester. A trustee 
 of Wellesley College. 
 
 Dr. Mary Riggs Noble: educated in Colorado 
 
 College, studied two years in Europe, graduated from the 
 Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. Has been for 
 five years a missionary at her own charges in India. Vice 
 Principal of the North India School of Medicine in Lud- 
 hianna. Dr. Noble will return to India this year. 
 
 Miss Jennie V. Hughes : educated in Rutgers Woman’s 
 College, New York City. For three years Field Secretary 
 of the New York Branch of the Woman’s Foreign Mis- 
 sionary Society of the Methodist Church. Went to China 
 in 1905 and is now home on furlough. Is head of one of 
 the largest schools in China for training native teachers 
 and Christian workers. 
 
 Miss Florence Miller : born in Louisville, graduated 
 from the Curry School, Boston, and took three years’ post- 
 graduate work in English. For five years Interdenomina- 
 tional Secretary of the Kentucky Missionary Union, and 
 for two years doing active work for the mountaineers of 
 Kentucky. Since then Field Secretary of the Christian 
 
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Woman’s Board of Missions, with its headquarters in 
 Indianapolis. 
 
 Mrs. Etta D. Marden, of Constantinople, in charge of 
 the Congregational mission work of Gedik Pasha in Old 
 Stamboul. Under the new conditions existing in Turkey 
 this center offers wonderful opportunities to enlarge the 
 work for the various nationalities crowded into the old 
 part of the cosmopolitan city. 
 
 Mrs. Kate Boggs Schaffer, graduate of Shepherdson 
 College, Ohio. She was the first single lady missionary of 
 the Lutheran Church of America to be sent to the foreign 
 held — South India, thirty years ago. Married after her 
 return to Rev. J. F. Schaffer, D.D. For ten years Secre- 
 tary of the General Committee of the Woman’s Home 
 and Foreign Missionary Society of the General Synod 
 Lutheran Church. Editor of Lutheran s Woman's Work 
 and Woman’s Department in Lutheran Church Work. 
 
 The Eastern circuit was begun at Cleveland on Jan- 
 uary 23,1911. Although the enthusiastic and flattering 
 Jubilee party found something which they declared to be 
 “ record-breaking ” in each center, it is quite true that the 
 luncheon in Gray’s Armory, Cleveland, was the largest up 
 to that time, 2,150 tickets having been sold. 
 
 Louisville was triumphant in spite of rain. Nashville 
 had the real Jubilee Singers to sing for them. The 
 Jubilee at the Nation’s Capital was unique and must be 
 described elsewhere. Baltimore extended true Southern 
 hospitality. Richmond in two weeks achieved a successful 
 Jubilee. 
 
 Pittsburg set for itself a glorious task in that, among 
 many other aims was that of reaching $100,000 in its 
 offering. Unweariedly it worked and, in the size of its 
 gifts, it far outstrips other centers. Buffalo and Phila- 
 delphia became record cities on luncheons. New England 
 marched triumphantly in the procession. 
 
 All honor to the noble women of the local committees 
 in all these thirty-two cities! And to the unnumbered 
 host of helpers they drew into the work ! It does not 
 subtract from, hut add to the honor due them that they 
 enjoyed the effort. It was in many cases the hardest work 
 
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they had ever done in their lives, but it was done with a 
 swing and a will, and finally with an adoring amazement 
 that the Lord should entrust so great a thing to their weak 
 hands. Representative women from many Christian bodies 
 made up these committees, and in the rapid work which 
 fell to them there was little time to remember that they 
 were named by different names. They only knew that 
 they were doing the most exhilarating work of their lives, 
 and that they found undreamed-of riches of resource within 
 their ranks. There was little chance to talk of unity ; 
 they were united, it seemed most natural and was therefore 
 lost sight of in the multiplicity of demands. 
 
 Must we divide again till the next Jubilee brings us 
 together? No, for in nearly every center has been left a 
 committee representing the evangelical churches, to handle 
 such missionary matters as can be better adjusted by us 
 collectively than by our separate Boards. When the next 
 Jubilee arrives our children will find the “nucleus com- 
 mittees ” ready to their hand, as well as many other helps 
 of which we know nothing. Already some mothers have 
 instructed their daughters to work for the i 960 celebration 
 as they themselves have worked for this, passing on to them 
 scrapbooks of Jubiliana to help them. 
 
 Thus “ one generation shall praise thy works to 
 another,” and we women rejoice to be alive when our 
 generation has been called upon to offer so notable a dem- 
 onstration of praise as is this Woman’s National Foreign 
 Missionary Jubilee. 
 
MRS. WILLIAM A. MONTGOMERY 
 
 ^>nap ls>f)cits of tfje Jubilee ^artp 
 
 “Will you go to the Jubilee meetings if the Central 
 Committee can plan them? ” we asked Mrs. Montgomery. 
 “ I am not sure that I ought to be away from home so 
 long. I will consult my husband, and he must settle it.” 
 We waited anxiously the letter with the decision. 
 “ W. says, ‘ If our missionaries can do what they have to, 
 he has no right to withhold me if I can help . 1 ” And so 
 the way for the Jubilee was opened by an unselfish man 
 with the spirit of a missionary. The little party started at 
 Oakland, October 12th, — Mrs. W. A. Montgomery, Miss 
 Ella D. MacLaurin and Miss Florence Miller. 
 
 Of Mrs. Montgomery there is but one opinion, — a 
 
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MISS MACLAURIN 
 
 woman of great spiritual and equally great mental powers, 
 charming in personality, and as selfless as it is possible for 
 mortal to be. She throws herself with untiring energy into 
 her work, and her gifts as a speaker backed by her sincere 
 devotion convert many to the mission cause. “What this 
 woman has done shall be told as a memo- 
 rial of her.” From the Pacific to the 
 Atlantic in every Jubilee her power has 
 been felt. 
 
 Miss Ella D. MacLaurin, of good old 
 Scotch blood, is Secretary of the Baptist 
 Board of the West, and is well known East 
 and West as a speaker of great power and a 
 mighty and efficient organizer. 
 
 Miss Florence Miller, Secretary of the 
 Woman’s Society of the Christian Church, 
 a strong, apostolic band of women, has 
 unusual ability in presenting the practical 
 side of the work. The party expects her to 
 give plans and policies, which she does in a 
 masterly manner. No one can tell the story 
 of the Jubilee quite as Miss Miller does, for 
 she has been in every meeting. 
 
 Mrs. Etta Doane Marden brings a 
 strong appeal for the Woman’s Board of the 
 Congregational Church. She pleads for the 
 school for girls, Gedik Pasha, Constanti- 
 nople. In spite of all the handicaps in a 
 Moslem land, she is full of optimism, and 
 gives herself here with the same fidelity as 
 in Turkey to her educational work. 
 
 At Denver the party was strengthened 
 by Dr. Mary Riggs Noble, the beloved physician, skillful 
 surgeon and member of the faculty of the Woman’s 
 Medical College of India. Her clinical footnotes are 
 intensely interesting and illuminating. With the tre- 
 mendous needs of her own work pressing heavily on 
 her heart, she makes no appeal for that work, but turns 
 all her force into the larger appeal. She delayed her 
 return to India at the request of the Central Committee, 
 and by the kind permission of the Presbyterian Woman’s 
 Board of Philadelphia, to do this work. Surely in this 
 land of rich women and perfectly equipped hospitals some 
 
 MISS MILLER 
 
 MRS. MARDEN 
 
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one will lift her burden before she leaves. Cholera, plague, 
 smallpox, are not easy to face without isolation wards. 
 
 Miss Jennie V. Hughes, of China, joined the party at 
 Cleveland for the Southern and Eastern tour. Her devo- 
 tion to China leads her to give herself 
 unsparingly. Her descriptions and appeals 
 are irresistible, and her genuine, Methodist 
 fervor makes her always a most touching 
 and effective speaker. 
 
 M rs. Elmore has been with the party 
 at many Jubilees East and West, and does 
 for India what Miss Hughes does for China, 
 giving vivid pictures of need, with lovely 
 little womanly touches that go straight to the heart of 
 women. 
 
 Dr. Carleton joined the group at Pittsburg when the 
 avalanche of meetings threatened to overwhelm the few 
 speakers. She gives a glimpse of physical 
 need and medical relief in China, and has 
 on her heart the special need of a medical 
 college for Chinese women in Pekin to be 
 supported by all denominations. 
 
 Deaconess Phelps, a missionary of the 
 Woman's Auxiliary of the Protestant Epis- 
 copal Church, brings also a beautiful story 
 of help and uplift for girls in China, where 
 she has been for five years. 
 
 In this Eastern circuit plain, ordinary Jubilees of two or 
 three thousand women, with luncheons of 1,000 to 1,500, be- 
 came a thing of the past. “Overflow, simultaneous, parallel” 
 mass meetings, with thousands clamoring for admittance, 
 luncheons of 2,200 in Cleveland, 2,400 in Philadelphia and 
 Buffalo, 4,800 in Pittsburg, with a tidal wave of enthusiasm, 
 demanded more and more of the little party. Three or 
 four audiences, four or five drawing-rooms, denominational 
 meetings, children’s story hour, schoolgirls, nurses, busy 
 women, all demanded immediate attention, and produced 
 the following limerick from Dr. Noble, — 
 
 The Jubilee troupe superfine 
 
 Was asked, “Do you speak and what time?” 
 
 They replied, “ Ten, eleven, 
 
 Three, four, five and seven, 
 
 Six, eight and a quarter to nine.” 
 
 I)R. CARLETON 
 
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And to speak nine times was a fair day’s work for these 
 busy women. This with night travel and social affairs might 
 have caused the flesh to fail, but the spirit never faltered, 
 and Jubilee grace and strength and voice were given anew. 
 Time fails us to tell of the beloved secretaries and mem- 
 bers of Boards who have traveled with the party West, 
 South and East. Miss Crane, Miss Ellis, Dr. Shaffer, 
 Miss Emery, Miss Lindley, Miss Stanwood, Miss Lamson, 
 Miss Calder, Miss Butler, Miss Milliken, Mrs. Poolev, 
 Mrs. Peabody, Mrs. Silverthorn, Mrs. Weitzel, Mrs. Jones, 
 with others, have been at some of these meetings. 
 
 DR. MARY RIGGS NOBLE 
 
 Not one has been ill or failed to keep her appoint- 
 ments. There has been no accident or delay, the weather 
 has been with very few exceptions real Jubilee weather. 
 There has been a deep conviction in the hearts of the party 
 that an unseen Presence has ever gone before, tenderly 
 preparing the way, and to Him who called them and has 
 spoken through them the members of the Jubilee party offer 
 grateful acknowledgment. As they go back to their work 
 in other lands or among the churches of their own land, 
 we pray from our hearts, “God bless them, everyone.” 
 
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Reports bp Hocal Committees; 
 
 The Jubilee began in Oakland, California, October 12th. 
 There were many delays and changes of date, and not until three 
 weeks before the opening day of the Jubilee was the appointment 
 decided. The committee in Oakland was formed through the efforts 
 of Mrs. Edmund Osbornson, Chairman of the Western Extension 
 Committee, who had come out to the Pacific Coast to complete 
 arrangements for the Western series. The spirit of a pioneer was 
 back of this. In the committee as they talked of the difficulties of 
 organizing committees at so great a distance, Mrs. Moses Smith 
 proposed that an advance agent be sent to further the work. This 
 was done and its wisdom has been fully justified. 
 
 “Why have it in the West first? Do it in the East and show 
 us how,” said some doubters. “ We need your splendid courage and 
 energy as our example and inspiration, and we must cover the North- 
 west in the fall before heavy storms come to impede railroad travel, ’’ 
 were the reasons given. God has surely led all the way. The fol- 
 lowing accounts given by chairmen or secretaries of local Jubilee 
 committees indicate the blessing He has given to the devoted efforts 
 of Christian women. 
 
 ©ablaut) Jubilee 
 
 Only a brief telegraphic report has reached us, but it tells of 
 drawing-room meetings in Oakland and San Francisco, a luncheon 
 for 500 women, a mass meeting of 1,000, the same features that 
 marked the later Jubilees. To Oakland belongs the honor of 
 being the brave pioneer in the Jubilee. 
 
 ®lje iPortlanb, ©re., Jubilee 
 
 The Foreign Mission Jubilee held in Portland October 17th 
 and 1 8th was a grand meeting. The conference leaders were Mrs. 
 Helen Montgomery, Mrs. Teunis Hamlin, Miss Ella MacLaurin 
 and Miss Florence Miller. The attendance was eight hundred, 
 representing twelve denominations. Nine missionaries of various 
 Boards were on the program. The denominational rallies resulted 
 in one life offered and $4,000 extra gifts pledged. There was no 
 luncheon, but on 1'uesday afternoon a reception, after which all 
 voluntarily gathered again to hear Mrs. Montgomery on study 
 classes. The inspiring motto was “ Christ for all,” for Christ 
 was the keynote of the entire meeting. 
 
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Seattle 3Tut)tltc 
 
 Washington State Jubilee meetings were held in Seattle, 
 October 19-20, in First Presbyterian Church, and were the largest 
 and most successful missionary meetings ever held in this city. All 
 denominations worked as one and the spiritual uplift to us all has 
 been very real. We had so little time for preparation that we 
 could not depend upon our own efforts and we just talked every- 
 thing over constantly with God. The First Church is very large, 
 and has so many class rooms, men’s parlors, ladies’ parlors and 
 executive parlors that we were able to have our rallies under the 
 one roof, as well as our Jubilee luncheon in the ample dining room. 
 We had the feeling of one large united family during the entire 
 Jubilee. 
 
 Mrs. Helen Barrett Montgomery, Miss Ella D. Mac- 
 Laurin, Miss Florence Miller, Mrs. Teunis S. Hamlin and Miss 
 Rubie Weyburn were the principal speakers. 
 
 Our Jubilee opened Wednesday afternoon with a workers’ 
 conference, 600 ladies present. That evening Mrs. Teunis 
 Hamlin gave the principal address. Thursday morning there was 
 a parlor conference at the home of Mrs. C. H. Black, where 
 over two hundred ladies listened to Mrs. Montgomery’s address 
 on “Woman’s Debt to the Christian Religion.” 
 
 At noon one thousand and twenty-five ladies sat down to- 
 gether at a luncheon, which was prepared and served by the Ladies’ 
 Aid Society of First Church, assisted by 81 young lady waitresses. 
 Arrangements for the serving were so perfect that in forty-five 
 minutes after seating luncheon was finished. The dining room, 
 as the guests entered, was a beautiful sight. A boutonniere was 
 laid at each plate. Mrs. E. V. Shaylor, wife of the rector of St. 
 Mark’s Church, returned thanks. Following luncheon, toasts were 
 responded to by five ladies on “ Lessons in Unity from the Past 
 Fifty Y ears.” 
 
 Thursday evening service was very precious and inspiring. Two 
 thousand women and three hundred men were in attendance, and 
 listened with intense interest to Mrs. Montgomery’s address. 
 
 Each of the eight committees was composed of members from 
 eight to eleven different denominations. The spirit of unity with 
 which all the preliminary work was accomplished has shown us 
 how truly united we are in our one object of rescuing and saving 
 the round world for Christ. Such harmony among some one 
 
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hundred women was beautiful to behold at every general committee 
 meeting. 
 
 There is already a demand for information upon mission lines. 
 Study classes are being organized and members added to those 
 already at work. The sale of Western Women in Eastern Lands 
 during the meetings was very large. We believe this is the begin- 
 ning of an aroused new interest in missions. 
 
 fEfte Qenbeu jubilee 
 
 [The remarkable organization and work of the Denver Committee 
 has led us to give it a special place in the history. From Denver went out 
 a model of planning which has been of great value to other Committees.] 
 
 The Denver Central Committee of the Woman’s National 
 Foreign Missionary jubilee was organized September 14, 1910. 
 
 Never did a band of women enter upon a work with less self- 
 confidence or a deeper conviction of its fruitlessness unless directed 
 by a Power greater than their own. The appointed dates were 
 barely six weeks away, committees were to be selected and the 
 entire campaign outlined. There were no glad telegrams to cheer 
 the doubting heart or quicken the indifferent, no electric bulletins 
 measuring the cumulative power of a nation-wide movement. 
 They felt themselves pioneers in an uncharted path. Their one 
 human asset was a strong, interdenominational organization in 
 both city and state, where, working together with a total absence 
 of denominationalism or self-seeking, each had learned to sup- 
 plement her own weak points with the strength and experience of 
 the others. 
 
 The entire committee, when constituted, consisted of more 
 than one hundred and fifty women, serving on eleven sub-commit- 
 tees. The diverse character of these committees is shown by the 
 fact that in their ranks were numbered formal representatives of 
 eleven denominations, the wives of many of the leading pastors of 
 the city, the wife of a Methodist Bishop, the daughter of one Epis- 
 copal Bishop and the sister of another, the daughter of the Dean 
 of the Cathedral, the State President of the W. C. 1 '. U., the 
 President of the Board of the local Y. W. C. A., the Chairman 
 of the Territorial Committee, their Student Secretary and two 
 members of their National Board, Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker, the 
 
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honored ex-President of the General Federation of Women’s 
 Clubs, the Vice President of the Woman’s Club of Denver, the 
 President of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, the wife of 
 the Governor and of an ex-Governor, the State Superintendent of 
 Public Instruction, a member of the City’s Board ot Education, 
 officers of the Tuesday Musical Club and the Mothers’ Congress. 
 
 The singleness of purpose with which the Jubilee was given 
 first place by all, during those six weeks of preparation is evidenced 
 by the minutes that record thirty-one meetings of the Executive 
 Committee, fourteen of them, including the chairmen of sub-com- 
 mittees, while six of the latter were all-day sessions. In addition, 
 each sub-committee held frequent independent meetings, at least 
 one in each case being of a social character. 
 
 Four times the entire Committee Membership was entertained 
 in four of Denver’s most beautiful and hospitable homes. Many 
 felt that these social gatherings had a large part in arresting the 
 attention of the city, in fusing many elements into solidarity, and 
 in massing their influence toward a definite end. The spirit of 
 comradeship engendered in those hours of fellowship and in those 
 others when perplexities were shared and burdens lightened, will 
 never lose its magnetic power. Women of widely diverse interests 
 still stop for warm hand clasp at a chance meeting and go on 
 quickened to higher things, because ot the subtle, vivifying 
 influence which their common memory evokes. 
 
 The press of the city and throughout the state was generous 
 and appreciative, and published many columns of matter, profusely 
 illustrated. Space in church bulletins was freely given for weeks. 
 Many pastors preached special sermons on Woman’s Part and 
 Responsibility in Mission Work, one closing with an offer of one 
 hundred copies of Western Women in Eastern Lands to be given 
 to the women of his congregation. 
 
 The Publicity Committee worked with unflagging devotion ; 
 they distributed thousands of printed pages and sent out hundreds 
 of typewritten and personal letters to ministers, to nurses, to 
 physicians and to Women’s Clubs. They report four hundred 
 addresses under their direction, presenting the Jubilee in Sunday 
 morning pulpits, before Sunday schools and church prayer meet- 
 ings, Missionary Societies, Women’s Clubs and conventions of 
 every kind. The hours spent at the telephone and in tedious 
 street car journeys across the city could not be numbered; they 
 seemed to count time, money and service not sacrifice but privi- 
 lege. The Young Women’s Committee conducted its campaign 
 along the same lines and with the same fidelity. The Deputation 
 
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Committee sent speakers in groups of from two to five throughout 
 the state, who presented the Jubilee at luncheons, at receptions 
 and at women’s mass meetings. 
 
 It is needless to say that the real source of power for the 
 hours of service was in those quiet times when hundreds of women 
 pursuant of the topics outlined in the “ Call to Prayer,” issued by 
 the committee, joined in daily petition for strength and guidance 
 in the task; and in the “Upper room” at the church, where 
 before the Jubilee and throughout its sessions a band of women 
 knelt in constant, intercessory prayer. 
 
 The Foreign Mission Mass Meeting on Wednesday evening, 
 attended by 1,800 people, the beautiful drawing-room meeting, 
 where more intimate presentation was possible than at a public 
 service; the luncheon, charming in setting and perfect in detail, 
 limited to 1,000 seats, although 1,131 finally gained admittance by 
 the eloquence of their plea, while hundreds were turned away ; the 
 meeting for graduate nurses, held in one of the stateliest homes in 
 the city, when all of the hospitals sent their entire force, except the 
 most necessary corps; the complimentary dinner given by the 
 Women’s Medical Association to Dr. Mary Noble, where they 
 heard her story with deep interest, and afterward attended the 
 evening session in a group ; the pretty loyalty of the Wellesley 
 Club, who also came in a body armed with a sheaf of roses for 
 Wellesley’s “dear Helen Barrett Montgomery”; the Denomina- 
 tional Rallies, with an attendance of nearly one thousand, where 
 $ 19,000 was pledged, — all of these were salient features in a 
 meeting which press and people united in calling one of the most 
 deeply impressive ever held in Denver. 
 
 The cosmopolitan character of Colorado’s celebration is shown 
 by the report of the Registration Committee. Fifteen states were 
 represented, while delegates came from 20 towns in Colorado; 
 one city of 10,000, 30 miles distant, sending 100 delegates, and 
 another, 75 miles away, sending 36. 
 
 The committee has issued 6,000 copies of the Policy adopted 
 at the Workers’ Conference and 10,000 of the Call to Prayer, cast in 
 permanent form to cover the needs in interdenominational work. 
 The Post Jubilee Message, which has been freely circulated among 
 the missionary societies of all denominations, calls for a definite, 
 intelligent, effective campaign. 
 
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®l )t ©malja Jubilee 
 
 The report of the Omaha Jubilee has not reached us, hut we 
 have had a brief account of a strong united committee and enthu- 
 siastic meetings. A Woman’s Federation for missionary work is 
 one result, and a chain of smaller Jubilees is planned to cover the 
 state of Nebraska. 
 
 The Chairman, Mrs. George Tilden, writes of the great value 
 of the Jubilee in Omaha, and says, “We have organized a Woman’s 
 Missionary Federation as a result of our Jubilee in Omaha, and 
 shall hold meetings throughout the state.” 
 
 ®tje Lincoln Jubilee 
 
 Des Moines was scheduled for a Jubilee but found itself un- 
 equal to the task owing to other important meetings preceding the 
 Jubilee dates. Three days before, Lincoln, Nebraska, hearing that 
 the Jubilee party might have a day or two to spare, telegraphed on 
 to Denver, secured their consent, made plans with utmost rapidity, 
 and held one of the very best Jubilees in the whole circuit, includ- 
 ing a great mass meeting of students. Nowhere was there more 
 intense interest or more appreciative audiences. We have had 
 no report from Lincoln but feel this word is due them. 
 
 UansaS dtp Jubilee 
 
 [A high tide was reached in Kansas City, due to the spirit of prayer 
 that pervaded all the preparations.] 
 
 Unavoidable delays shortened the time for definite prepara- 
 tion for the Kansas City Jubilee to less than three weeks, but God 
 had prepared hundreds of willing hearts and minds throughout 
 Greater Kansas City, and when the chairman called for a commit- 
 tee in every church, composed of ten women, with the pastor’s 
 wife and president of the Missionary Society as chairmen, the 
 most capable, influential women of the city responded, pledged 
 themselves to serve on any committee, work for the denomina- 
 tional rallies, and make clear in the local church and community 
 the object and great importance of the Jubilee. Thus more than 
 
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one thousand women were set to work simultaneously, each feeling 
 responsible for some definite part of the preparation. There was 
 no assessment made on churches for Jubilee expense. All offer- 
 ings and pledges solicited were reported in the denominational 
 rallies for the cause of missions. Dr. Vinton’s interesting lecture, 
 given four days before the convention, stimulated general interest, 
 and the proceeds, with offerings from the evening Jubilee meet- 
 ings, more than paid all expenses. Eleven denominations, with 
 various kindred organizations, worked in close unity. Circles in 
 every church made definite intercession for the preparations and 
 for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. At the opening service 
 fifteen hundred women — a great company of eager, expectant 
 hearts — gathered to honor their King and welcome his gifted 
 messengers. 
 
 Three large mass meetings were held ; at each two to three 
 thousand were present. A luncheon was served to fifteen hun- 
 dred, with many turned away. There were three large drawing- 
 room conferences. One at the General Hospital, for hospital 
 superintendents and graduate nurses, was conducted by Dr. Mary 
 Noble of India; and two, where Helen Barrett Montgomery was 
 guest of honor and speaker, were attended by large numbers of 
 well-known society and club women. Nine denominational 
 rallies were held. Each had stirring addresses from Board sec- 
 retaries and missionaries, and made splendid offerings. The 
 total amount of Jubilee gifts was $50,967. 
 
 The closing meeting was one of great power. Three thousand 
 in attendance and hundreds turned away. Several hundred young 
 women marched under denominational banners, with a procession 
 of costumed women, who made effective pleas for each nation ; 
 forty-seven student volunteers told in brief sentences why they 
 give their lives to missions. 
 
 Aftermath . — The enthusiasm did not pass away with the Ju- 
 bilee. A Sunday afternoon meeting was afterward held, where the 
 business of all committees was cleared up, and the amount in the 
 treasurer’s hands was appropriated to the expenses of a repre- 
 sentative to the New York meeting. Interdenominational Study 
 Classes, with eighty members, entered into enthusiastic study for 
 ten weeks. Post Jubilee rallies are being planned for fifteen 
 Missouri cities west of the Mississippi. Truly, here, the end of 
 the Conference has been the beginning of the campaign. 
 
®fje is>t. U.ouiS Jubilee 
 
 From the very inception of the plan for our Golden Jubilee, 
 the finest Christian womanhood of our city was enlisted, and all 
 our preparation was a labor of love. 
 
 Our program for the two days consisted of addresses, given 
 in the auditorium of the Third Baptist Church, and in a drawing- 
 room, by the Jubilee party. Large audiences heard their powerful 
 messages with eager expectancy of blessing. Luncheon was served 
 for one thousand enthusiastic women, who listened with delighted 
 interest to the brief but most inspiring after-dinner missionary 
 talks of Jubilee speakers. Pledges for the Jubilee offering 
 amounted to $20,000. 
 
 Among the many later blessed results of our Jubilee is the 
 contribution by the M. E. Church, South, of $50,000, for the ex- 
 tension of their missionary enterprise. 
 
 Also, our Jubilee made possible a three-weeks’ normal 
 mission study course under Mr. B. C. Millikin of New York. 
 About thirty classes, with Mr. Millikin’s pupils for teachers, are 
 now in progress in our city. 
 
 fEljc jUiltoaufcee Jubilee 
 
 The Jubilee was the best thing that has ever come to the 
 women of Milwaukee. Our churches were crowded at all sessions 
 — wonderful interest taken. Sisterhood not only of the city, but 
 of the world felt the effect, very noticeable in the interdenomina- 
 tional Day of Prayer meeting held February 23d. The meeting 
 was held in an Episcopal church, and all met together for the first 
 time. 
 
 Many men and women received their first interest in foreign 
 missions at our Jubilee meetings. We have reason to believe this 
 interest will be permanent. Dr. Vinton’s lecture did much toward 
 winning the interest of the men. Nine hundred sat down to 
 luncheon and many were turned away for lack of room. There 
 were about sixty churches that were touched in preparing for the 
 meetings. There were one hundred and twenty-six women on the 
 various committees, and a committee in each church which made 
 one hundred and eighty more ; in all over three hundred women. 
 
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There was less than $2,500 pledged at the denominational 
 rallies, but that sum has grown to over $6,000, and before we are 
 through with the meetings in the state we hope it will be largely 
 increased. 
 
 As to the plans for following up the work. A Standing In- 
 terdenominational Committee has been appointed. This commit- 
 tee is ready to take up any work that would naturally come under 
 the supervision ot such a committee. 
 
 We plan to have the program carried out in each town as 
 suggested in the General Bulletin, issued by the Central Committee 
 on United Study ot Missions. 
 
 ®ije Chicago futrilee 
 
 The meetings of the Chicago Jubilee began with Mr. Vinton’s 
 lecture, “Western Women in Eastern Lands,” given Wednesday 
 afternoon in Orchestra Hall. Young women in Oriental costume 
 acted as ushers, and sold literature in the toyer and aisles. The 
 house, holding over two thousand, was well filled, and enough 
 money was realized to pay all the expenses of the Chicago Jubilee, 
 and leave a large sum for the Western Extension Committee. 
 In the audience were very many to whom the story of Women’s 
 Work in Foreign Missions w r as quite unknown. 
 
 Wednesday evening Jubilee speakers and missionaries spoke 
 in prayer meetings in different parts of the city, neighboring 
 churches uniting for the purpose. 
 
 Thursday morning were held three parlor conferences in the 
 three great sections of the city. To these were invited many 
 women to whom the great needs and opportunities of the Orient, 
 and the noble work of Christian women in the Homeland, were 
 alike new. The interest roused by these meetings was great. 
 
 The luncheon on Thursday was served to over one thousand 
 women in the banquet hall of the Auditorium Hotel. The num- 
 ber was limited only by the capacity of the hall. This was fol- 
 lowed by the denominational rallies held in a group of churches 
 centering about Moody Institute. A supper was served by 
 Moody Church for those who wished to remain over for the 
 evening grand rally, also held in Moody Church. The church 
 was filled, and the spiritual power of the meeting was great. The 
 gifts announced amounted to $35,000. 
 
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Statement of the Extension Committee 
 The Western Extension Committee in Chicago has issued 
 the following announcement which indicates the hold the Jubilee 
 has taken in the West and the fine management of the Committee. 
 
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 “ The newest movement in the church is the Woman’s Na- 
 tional Foreign Missionary Jubilee, which has been sweeping across 
 the continent from the Pacific toward the Atlantic. 
 
 These meetings have registered a growth in unity of feeling, 
 unity of purpose and unity of effort that we well know is only a 
 prophecy of larger mutual helpfulness to follow. So great, indeed, 
 has been the awakening, so startlingly evident and unmistakable 
 has been God’s voice, that all of the Women’s Foreign Missionary 
 Boards have united in a campaign to cover the whole country by 
 holding twenty or more Jubilee meetings in each state. The 
 purpose is threefold : — 
 
 1. To crystallize the interest alreadv awakened into some 
 definite form of service, and to give every woman an opportunity 
 to become a real, vital factor in giving the glad Gospel of the Son 
 of God to the non-Christian world. 
 
 2. To make this new vision a lasting stimulus to a deeper 
 spiritual life, a call to more fervent prayer, an incentive to more 
 intelligent study of the fields abroad and the problems at home. 
 
 3. To honor the Lord with a Jubilee offering of one million 
 dollars.” 
 
 )t jffltnneapolis Jubilee 
 
 Our Jubilee Meeting was a success, and its influence is still 
 being felt. The meetings were held on Fridav and Saturday. 
 The attendance was all that could be desired on those days, but the 
 meeting Saturday evening was not so well attended, for several 
 reasons which we could not foresee and prevent. 
 
 We are planning extension work in the shape of Missionary 
 Institutes of two days’ duration, to be held as a part of our 
 summer school work in twenty or thirty of our cities and towns, — 
 not for this year only, but are trying to so plan that they shall 
 be a permanent thing. 
 
 We learn that as a result of the Jubilee in one church twenty 
 circles were formed to study Western Women in Eastern Lands. 
 
 An enthusiastic meeting was also held in St. Paul. 
 
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fElje inbtanapolts Jubilee 
 
 No report from the Indianapolis Committee has come to us, 
 but so well known is the history of this most famous Jubilee of 
 the Western circuit that we can tell it without notes. A great 
 committee of 400, emphasizing from first to last the power of 
 prayer ; a wave of enthusiastic effort sweeping over the state ; a 
 splendid group of leaders, women who were statesmen and scorned 
 to plan little things. Here the luncheon was for 1,500. Here 
 was a great processional of young women, and here, too, was the 
 greatest missionary offering — $ 8 1 ,000. Since then J ubilee messages 
 have been flying over the country from the Christian Woman’s 
 Board of Missions, which has its headquarters in Indianapolis, and 
 a chain of Jubilees stretches over the country, while pledges and 
 offerings continue to pour in, nowhere has there been better 
 planning or better deserved results. Indianapolis has inspired us 
 all. 
 
 ®f jc Cincinnati Jubilee 
 
 Two meetings of the small Executive Body, and eight of all 
 the officers and committees, were held in the period of time from 
 September 13, 1910 until the 17th and 1 8 th of November, 1910, 
 the days of the Jubilee. Prayerfully and earnestly the work was 
 planned. 
 
 Phe mass meetings, tour in number, held in the Ninth Street 
 Baptist Church, filled the church almost to overflowing, indicating 
 an attendance of 1,500 at each of these meetings. 
 
 The splendidly attended Young Woman’s Rally in Trinity 
 M. E. Church just before the closing mass meeting, was a re- 
 markably fine feature of the Jubilee. 
 
 At the luncheon, served at the Grand Hotel, 1,520 women 
 were seated at the beautifully decorated tables. T his luncheon 
 financed the Jubilee, 25 per cent of the $1 charged for tickets 
 being considered a registration fee. 
 
 Drawing-room meetings were held in several homes. 
 
 A total of $56,000 was reported pledged as a result of the 
 denominational rallies. 
 
 Resulting from the harmonious and helpful association in the 
 Jubilee work, a permanent interdenominational organization has 
 been formed, bearing the name “ The Woman’s Foreign Mission- 
 ary Union of Cincinnati.” The initial meeting was held Feb- 
 
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ruary 28th, with every indication that it was destined for a healthy 
 and useful career. 
 
 Sub-Jubilees, to be held in the southern half of the state of 
 Ohio, have also become a part of the work of the Executive 
 Committee of the Jubilee. 
 
 fEfje Detroit Sfufatlee 
 
 Eight business meetings of Central Committee were held pre- 
 liminary to the Jubilee Meeting; and one special meeting for 
 prayer for the truest success of the meetings. This last was held 
 in the Auditorium of the Y. W. C. A., and had a large attendance. 
 
 The general plan suggested by Western Executive Com- 
 mittee was carried out as far as possible. 
 
 Eleadquarters were established at Y. W. C. A. building. 
 Stationery (with letter head and envelopes with corner printing) 
 was issued. One hundred and fifty-five letters were sent to city 
 pastors asking for co-operation and special sermon. 
 
 The following printed matter was issued and distributed : — 
 
 Two hundred posters, 2,000 local circulars, 15,000 dodgers, 
 8,000 programs, 1,500 souvenir menus and programs, 1,500 hymn 
 sheets, 1,500 copies of Mrs. Elouser’s Jubilee hymn, 2,500 lunch 
 tickets, 500 registration cards, 500 pledge cards, 7 signs for 
 denominational rallies. 
 
 Press notices appeared in five Detroit dailies and 81 state 
 papers, with cuts of speakers. The general chairman presented 
 the subject of Jubilee before the Pastors’ Union. 
 
 Churches of all denominations contributed toward expenses 
 of Jubilee. The sale of literature at Detroit was said to be one 
 of the largest of the Western meetings. 
 
 Luncheon was attended by over twelve hundred women. 
 The souvenir menu program contained a beautiful half-tone 
 picture of Mrs. Doremos. 
 
 On Sunday, November 20th, seventeen pulpits of churches 
 of different denominations were occupied by missionaries and 
 Board members. 
 
 At the mass meeting, November 21st, reports from different 
 denominations showed that $13,000 (thirteen thousand) had been 
 pledged for the Jubilee fund. 
 
A beautiful spirit of unity and fellowship characterized all 
 the meetings. All were “ Workers together with Him.” As a 
 result of this spirit, the meetings were a real blessing to our city, 
 and remain not only a pleasant memory but as an abiding influence 
 in our lives. 
 
 At the present time we are sending out printed matter and 
 personal letters to all the large towns of Michigan, asking that 
 meetings be arranged for. They have already been held in 
 Saginaw and Lansing. Ypsilanti will have one on March 9th. 
 The General Chairman and Secretary of Central Committee of 
 Detroit will attend and help. 
 
 je Clebelanb Jubilee 
 
 [After a pause from November 21st to January 221I, the Jubilee party 
 started out again, holding its first meeting in Cleveland, Ohio. It had been 
 impossible to include Cleveland in the Western circuit, but it would not 
 he denied, and gave a splendid start to the second series.] 
 
 Cleveland, the chief city of Ohio and the heart of the Western 
 Reserve, opened its gates to a splendid Foreign Mission Jubilee 
 celebration, January the 22d, 23d and 24th, 1911. 
 
 It is estimated at its several sessions, that 10,000 to 12,000 
 persons engaged in some part of the exercises. 
 
 The program comprehended morning devotional hours, after- 
 noon conferences, drawing-room convocations, denominational 
 rallies and general mass meetings, which taxed the various audi- 
 toriums to the uttermost. 
 
 Seventy-eight towns of Northern Ohio were represented, as 
 registration testifies. 
 
 Several hostesses issued cards for drawing-rooms. 
 
 Over two thousand were present at the luncheon, served 
 at one time in one auditorium only. 
 
 The entire celebration was characterized bv a certain simplicity 
 of arrangement, which maintained throughout the continuity of 
 thought and purpose which the compelling interest of the occasion 
 demanded. 
 
 The Christian women of the community sought no other object 
 than to declare their obligation to help all peoples, regardless of 
 race, language or color. 
 
 The Jubilee fund is approximately $50,000, and growing 
 lustily. 
 
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The Cleveland Committee resolved itself into a Jubilee Exten- 
 sion Committee, and is now arranging sub-celebrations in as many 
 towns as it can find open doors or doors to open. 
 
 Ten such meetings are under way, with the work but fairly 
 started. 
 
 ®fje Houisbillc Jubilee 
 
 The first intimation of the Jubilee, like a first bird note her- 
 alding the dawn; fell upon senses dulled by slumber. “Who can 
 lead us?” cried the many faint-hearted. From far Boston came the 
 answer when Mrs. Henry W. Peabody, the intrepid, consecrated 
 woman, whose heart and brain gave birth to this greatest of woman’s 
 movements, secured Mrs. J. B. Marvin as leader for our first 
 Southern city on the Jubilee circuit. Insistent, clear, thrilling notes 
 then followed that first call, and our ears were quickened, our dull 
 eyes opened, we bestirred ourselves, we made ready for the dawning 
 of a glorious day. 
 
 A strong organization representing six denominations was 
 formed in the parlors of our chairman, and from October to the last 
 of January we met there each week to pray, to plan, to guide the 
 great undertaking. These women, with sub-chairmen and an in- 
 creasing number of faithful women in all the churches, laid aside as 
 far as possible for the time other duties, other pleasures, and made 
 the preparation for the Jubilee their avocation. 
 
 Prayer meetings were held by the different denominations, then 
 joining forces, all denominations met in great inspiring rallies, which 
 waxed greater week by week in spiritual power and enthusiasm. 
 
 With the dawning of January 26th the heralds ot the day 
 sounded glad, buoyant notes, for all was in readiness. At the hour 
 for the drawing-room meetings, with which we opened, representa- 
 tive women of the city were seen hurrying to and fro about the 
 King’s business. The afternoon with its first general meeting 
 found audiences packed to the doors. The evening sessions were 
 a repetition of the afternoon and hundreds were turned away to 
 crowd an over-flow service. The denominational rallies of next 
 day met staunch support, each from its own constituency, in spite 
 of dismal rain, and then the luncheon at 12 o’clock brought eager, 
 hurrying women from every part of the city and from the state. 
 Tickets were in demand everywhere, and twice the number issued 
 could have been sold, while the beautiful, new De Molay Hall, with 
 
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its spacious auditorium, was crowded with leading women of the city. 
 For hours they sat when the feast of viands was ended, and listened 
 while workers from the foreign field and burden bearers at home 
 told of the work and the needs. Then came the final meeting, and 
 a chorus of hundreds of young women, led by students of a woman’s 
 missionary training school, marched down the aisle of the audi- 
 torium singing, “ Jerusalem the Golden.” So great was the crowd 
 that even after the overflow meeting had taken hundreds from the 
 main audience room, the aisles had to be cleared for safety before 
 the meeting could begin. 
 
 The inspiration, the spiritual power that was generated in this 
 city and state, cannot be measured except in eternity. It was a 
 Pentecost, d owns, villages and rural communities of our own and 
 other states caught the echoes, and many have been stirred to do 
 more for the lost world which needs the Christ. 
 
 The great Jubilee tide which swept in from the Pacific Coast 
 thus enriched us a thousand-fold ere it passed on to break in full 
 splendor upon rhe Atlantic shore, and to the echoing angel chorus 
 of “ Glory to God in the highest,” we send our glad, responsive, 
 “ Amen and Amen ! ” 
 
 Hje idasfUuUc Jubilee 
 
 The Nashville meeting of the Woman’s National Foreign 
 Missionary Jubilee, which took place January 30— 31, was the 
 greatest women’s meeting ever held in this section of our country. 
 We planned for large things, knowing that it was in celebration of 
 a world movement, the missionary cause, and the part women 
 have had in the uplifting of womanhood, and the wholesome and 
 protecting care and training of children in non-Christian lands. 
 Therefore, the largest auditorium with a seating capacity of five 
 thousand was rented for our mass meeting and for the Vinton 
 stereopticon lecture, illustrative of Mrs. Montgomery’s book, 
 Western Women in Eastern Lands. On both nights the attendance 
 was between four and five thousand. At our luncheon, held in 
 the largest hotel, were seated seven hundred, and had space al- 
 lowed, seven hundred more tickets could have been sold. There 
 were between twelve and thirteen hundred women at the Conference 
 of Workers, held in McKendree Methodist Church. 
 
 At the luncheon, Conference of Workers’ mass meeting and 
 parlor conferences, stirring addresses were made which so aroused 
 
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the enthusiasm of the women present that when the denomina- 
 tional rallies were held the sum total of thank-offerings amounted 
 to $ 12,200 . 
 
 Special mention must be made of the interdenominational 
 rally that had been planned for the colored women of our city, 
 held in one of their own churches. The church was well filled by 
 the women of that race, who were addressed by our visiting 
 speakers, and who were much impressed by the accounts given of 
 the pitiable condition of the women in the foreign mission fields. 
 
 As a result of the Nashville Jubilee, the enthusiasm for and 
 interest in missions have spread to all the near-by towns of the 
 state, the chairman and vice chairman having been invited to 
 attend these smaller Jubilee meetings. Many mission study 
 classes have been organized, and it has been decided bv the Ex- 
 ecutive Committee to take the $100 left over in our treasury and 
 make it the nucleus of a fund for the purchase of missionary books 
 to be placed in our Carnegie Circulating Library for use by the 
 women of all the churches. 
 
 U Cfjc ^asljington Jubilee 
 
 Early in November, 1910, Mrs. Wallace Radcliffe, wife of 
 the pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, received 
 a letter from Mrs. Peabody, asking her to call together representa- 
 tive women from the various evangelical churches of the city, and to 
 extend to them the invitation of the Central Committee on United 
 Study to hold a celebration of the Woman’s National Foreign 
 Missionary Jubilee in Washington on February 1 and 3, 1911. 
 With the willingness which characterizes Mrs. Radcliffe in every 
 Christly endeavor, she called together a large number of mission- 
 interested women, and laid before them the invitation. It was 
 accepted unanimously, and Mrs. Radcliffe was made chairman of 
 the committee of one hundred in charge. 
 
 Headquarters for the committee, with a secretary in constant 
 attendance, and where committee meetings were almost continuous, 
 was opened from January 4th, at the First Congregational Church. 
 The coming of the Jubilee was heralded far and wide: at clubs, 
 receptions, teas, as well as at missionary societies and from church 
 pulpits. During December and January the untiring Chairman 
 General, as well as others of the Executive, was in constant 
 demand to speak of the Jubilee at public meetings. In short, no 
 
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stone was left unturned to interest all classes in the coming event. 
 With wise forethought the chairmen placed as many women ac- 
 tively at work on the committees as possible. Through denom- 
 inational chairmen and sub-church chairmen, with innumerable 
 sub-committees, the Publicity Committee had more than a thousand 
 women putting its committee motto, £< Go Tell,” into execution; 
 and in order to secure intelligent newspaper reports, a luncheon 
 was given to reporters from all of the city dailies, when the plans 
 and objects of the Jubilee were explained. The Chairman of 
 Places of Meeting secured the home of Mrs. John Hay for one 
 of the drawing-room meetings and the parlors of the Congressional 
 Club for the other. Mrs. John R. McLean tendered her palatial 
 home for an afternoon reception to Mrs. Peabody and Mrs. 
 Montgomery, where, as at the drawing-room meetings, both the 
 honored guests and Dr. Noble spoke with marked effect before 
 large audiences of distinguished and wealthy women. A beau- 
 tifully appointed luncheon of eight hundred covers, in the ball- 
 room of the New Willard, was another attractive feature. 
 
 On Thursday afternoon President and Mrs. Taft gave an in- 
 formal reception at the White House to the guests and the Jubilee 
 Committee, at which a leather-bound copy of Western Women in 
 Eastern Lands , autographed by Mrs. Montgomery, was presented 
 to Mrs. Taft. That same afternoon a Students’ Meeting was 
 held in the splendid new Masonic Hall with fifteen hundred girl 
 students there, largely from the fashionable boarding schools of 
 the Capital. At the same hour the auditorium of the First Con- 
 gregational Church, seating the same number, was filled to over- 
 flowing with a Workers’ Conference, and an hour or two later the 
 same room was crowded to its utmost with a meeting for Busy 
 Women, — those who were employed during the day. That even- 
 ing an immense mass meeting for colored women, with fully two 
 thousand in attendance, was held at the Metropolitan A. M. E. 
 Church. A young colored woman, Miss Nannie Burroughs, pre- 
 sided admirably. At the regular church prayer meetings of the city 
 that evening, missions were under discussion, and many of the visit- 
 ing speakers were heard. On Friday Mrs. Charles W. Richardson 
 threw open her Connecticut Avenue home for the Nurses’ Meet- 
 ing, following it with a social hour for the three hundred attend- 
 ants. At four o’clock that afternoon nearly two thousand boys 
 and girls under fourteen years gathered at the New York Avenue 
 Church for the Children’s Story Hour. The closing service Fri- 
 day evening, at the Continental Hall of the Daughters of the 
 American Revolution, was packed to its utmost. 
 
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The results? Who can foretell them ? The denominational 
 rallies Friday morning, as splendidly enthusiastic as any meetings 
 of the Jubilee, brought in over seventeen thousand dollars for the 
 Jubilee fund, an amount which has since been increased to over 
 twenty thousand. But money cannot estimate results! Women’s 
 prayer meetings were held in many parts of the city for weeks 
 before the Jubilee occurred, and the coming years must still record 
 the answers to those prayers. The efficient Literature Chairman 
 and her Committee had IV estern Women and Everyland on sale at 
 every meeting, and many copies of both were sold. A number of 
 new study classes have been organized, reaching women before 
 untouched, and whose influence must be far-reaching. Through 
 the Publicity Committee a systematic membership campaign was 
 inaugurated in the majority of all mission societies ; several are re- 
 porting doubled membership, many a very large increase, and to 
 all of them the Jubilee has brought new life and enthusiasm. 
 From this committee also will come a souvenir booklet of the Ju- 
 bilee, which will include a story of what the various churches of 
 the district have done in missions, — to be used as a motive for 
 greater service. 
 
 The wider acquaintance the Jubilee engendered brought a far 
 sweeter Christian fellowship among the church women, — one of 
 the blessed results not to be overlooked. An interest has been 
 awakened in many of the women who were unaware of missions, 
 while to many who were aware, there has come a broader, larger 
 view of the Kingdom of God and the part in it which he has given 
 them to fill. But best of all, through the Jubilee, a number of our 
 young women have been led to give their lives for their Master’s 
 service wherever he may call. 
 
 Kicfjmont) Jubilee 
 
 “Cannot Richmond come into the line of Jubilees ? ” asked 
 Mrs. Stewart, a devoted Presbyterian worker. “ Can you take the 
 one date between Washington and Baltimore? It leaves little 
 time for preparation but you may have it,” was the reply. 
 How they worked and prayed, and what wonderful results were 
 attained ! Even the Executive Mansion was opened to committee 
 and prayer meetings. Luncheons and drawing-rooms and great 
 mass meetings all testified to rare leadership and intense interest on 
 the part of the local committee. 
 
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Wt )t Baltimore Jubilee 
 
 OUR GLAD YEAR 
 
 With prayer and humility of spirit, Baltimore made ready to 
 render back to God in the Jubilee time the precious charge that 
 he had so freely given her for these fifty beautiful years. The 
 burden of responsibility and privilege became glorified by the 
 hope of being able to bring to Him a gift of love, of service, of 
 money, worthy of his acceptance. Asking the Father’s guidance 
 every step of the way in things great and small, the practical 
 preparations went forward. 
 
 Sixteen denominations were enlisted in the active work, and 
 became enthusiastic helpers. The “suggested subjects for prayer” 
 were freely circulated and used by way of preparation. The 
 practical outline given by the general committee was so clear and 
 comprehensive that planning for the meetings was comparatively 
 easy* A Workers’ Conference, two mass meetings, — one for young 
 people, held in a large theatre with overflow meeting in a near-by 
 church, — luncheon for fifteen hundred in one room, three drawing- 
 room meetings designed to reach different circles, — one being for 
 young girls whose chief interest is society, — meetings for nurses at 
 several hospitals, and fourteen denominational conferences, with 
 a fine exhibit of literature, made up a program rich in interest for 
 all classes of women, interested, indifferent or skeptical. The 
 results of these gatherings were beyond the expectations of the 
 sanguine committees. 
 
 The practical results, as apparent at this time are: hundreds 
 of new members enrolled in missionary societies; widespread and 
 intelligent interest in mission study, particularly our Western 
 Women in Eastern Lands ; a new realization of the need and power 
 of prayer, with determination to learn “to pray for the limitless, 
 the impossible, the glorious,” and a reported increase in cash and 
 pledges, to the time of the meeting, of $37,000. T his includes 
 $19,000 in two legacies from two devoted friends of missions who 
 left us just at the Jubilee time, and, being dead, yet spoke in our 
 midst. One of these was to have been Mrs. Montgomery’s hostess 
 during herstay here, and was a beautiful and consecrated missionary 
 spirit. 
 
 To conserve the influences of the meeting the Executive Com- 
 mittee has resolved itself into a Continuation Committee of one 
 member from each denomination with the same officers, whose 
 purpose shall be to meet at stated times to confer upon problems 
 
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and plans mutually interesting; to endeavor to secure missionary 
 candidates for their boards; to stimulate the study of missionary 
 literature, particularly our text-book in study classes; and to en- 
 courage the spirit and practice of prevailing prayer for our work. 
 Young people’s rallies of various denominations have already been 
 held, with gratifying results in interest and new members. 
 
 ®j )t Harrisburg Jubilee 
 
 On learning ^that Harrisburg could be included in the Mis- 
 sionary Jubilee which was to sweep the country from coast to coast, 
 we followed the plan outlined by the Central Committee ; formed 
 an Executive Committee, representing all the evangelical denomina- 
 tions, then sub-divided into working committees, having fully three 
 hundred women on our lists. 
 
 A weekly prayer service was held for eight weeks, the interest 
 spreading as time passed. Harrisburg being centrally located, 
 many smaller towns were reached and the women interested to the 
 extent of coming here as delegates. About one thousand women 
 availed themselves of this opportunity and thus were able to take 
 back to their homes the wonderful things they heard. Circulars 
 and prayer cards were distributed out of town as well as in every 
 one of the fifty churches of our city, heralding the glad news of 
 the coming of Mrs. Montgomery, who was already known and 
 loved here by many who had come under her influence at North- 
 field. 
 
 Interest was broadened by calling for one thousand children, 
 between the ages of ten and fourteen, who were drilled to form a 
 missionary pageant, and filled one of the churches, listening to 
 stories told by the missionaries. We cannot tell the depth of the 
 impression made upon these children and the results in the future. 
 
 Two thousand young women attended a special service held 
 in their behalf, and were thrilled by the stirring address of Mrs. 
 Montgomery, Miss Hughes, Dr. Noble and others. 
 
 The chorus of several hundred trained voices assisted the 
 congregational singing at all these gatherings. 
 
 Simultaneous and overflow meetings were held so as to 
 accommodate the crowds of women who flocked to the Jubilee. 
 It is estimated that ten thousand attended the meetings, all wearing 
 blue and white badges furnished by the Committee. 
 
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A thousand women were served with a buffet luncheon, and 
 were addressed by the Jubilee speakers. 
 
 At the denominational rallies which followed the luncheon, 
 between $7,000 and $8,000 was pledged as Harrisburg’s Jubilee 
 offering. 
 
 The spirit of prayer and unity pervaded the whole move- 
 ment, and to this spirit and the blessing of God, we attribute its 
 wonderful success here, which is really only a beginning of greater 
 things to come. 
 
 An after meeting was called, to which nearly four hundred 
 women responded ; a permanent organization resulted, called the 
 Woman’s Union Missionary Society of Harrisburg. The plans 
 for this include meetings to be held five times a year for prayer 
 and conference, arranging for an attractive program with good 
 speakers and music. 
 
 tEfje ipijtlatielpljta Jubilee 
 
 [This restrained account by the chairman gives little idea of the 
 immense work of the Philadelphia Committee and the wonderful arrange- 
 ment of its details. The great audiences in the Academy of Design, the 
 fine officers presiding and the “team work” of the committee were most 
 effective.] 
 
 The Philadelphia Jubilee meetings opened with Mr. Vinton’s 
 lecture on February iitn and closed with two great meetings on 
 the evening of February 14th. Letters were sent to 1,300 minis- 
 ters, asking them to present the world’s needs at one of their ser- 
 vices on the 1 2th. Children’s story hour was observed in several 
 Sunday schools at the close of their regular services. 
 
 On the last two days of the Jubilee 34 meetings were held, 
 with an estimated attendance of 25,000 women. 
 
 Two hundred and twenty-five women, representing 16 
 denominations, made up the committee on preparation. Twelve 
 denominational rallies were held and about $35,000 pledged. 
 
 A supper was given to 1,200 young women, including 100 
 doctors, with Dr. Everett, Dean of the Philadelphia Medical 
 School, presiding ; and the message to all was — the Jubilee note — 
 a call to service. 
 
 On the closing day a luncheon was served to 2,400 women. 
 
 The Committee on Literature Exhibit decided to sell nothing 
 but the study book (376 copies were disposed of). Free literature 
 was generously distributed, and all Boards had wonderfully sys- 
 
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tematic displays. A large church gymnasium provided abundant 
 space. A gentleman who was seen studying the exhibit closely, 
 said to the chairman that he had attended many conferences where 
 missionary literature was a feature and this was the most scientific- 
 ally arranged display he had ever seen. 
 
 In the preparation for the Jubilee, special emphasis was laid 
 on prayer and consecration. On New Year’s Sunday 60,000 
 prayer cards were distributed in the churches. In addition to 
 these the Publicity Committee issued 40,000 circulars and 
 programs. 
 
 A chorus of 600 women, composed of the best teachers of 
 singing in the city, and of volunteers from the leading choral 
 societies, led the singing at the mass meeting at the Academy of 
 Music. 
 
 Ten drawing-room meetings were held with an attendance of 
 1,000. 
 
 The General Committee intrusted to the Executive Commit- 
 tee the problem of continuation work. This has been started, 
 asking each Woman’s Board represented in the Jubilee to appoint 
 some one person to serve on a Continuation Committee. 
 
 e iPittstourg Jubilee 
 
 [This brief account gives no idea of this remarkable meeting, which 
 marked the highest tide in attendance and offerings. 
 
 The Golden Jubilee of Women’s Foreign Missionary Societies 
 marked an important era in the historv of Pittsburg, Pa., when on 
 February 16, 17, 1911, over twenty-six thousand persons attended 
 the meetings held in the First United Presbyterian and Presbyterian 
 Churches, Carnegie Music and Soldiers’ Memorial Halls. The 
 membership of the committees in charge, numbering 304, represented 
 1 5 denominations. Thewatchword — “Go Tell,” Matthew xxviii. 10 
 — was carried out from the very genesis of the movement. The large 
 number of preparatory rallies, — denominational and interdenomina- 
 tional, — the thousands of circular letters and pledge cards sent out 
 by missionary societies, together with the 225,000 praver cards, 
 seals, letters, information bulletins, posters, placards, dodgers, 
 pageant folders, and 10,000 twentv-four-paged souvenir programs 
 distributed by the Publicity Committee, brought every congrega- 
 tion, every woman’s club, the Y. W. C. A., the W. C. T. U., the 
 
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doctors, nurses, teachers and kindergarten associations and schools 
 into touch with foreign missions. 
 
 The illustrated lecture on Western Women in Eastern Lands, 
 February ioth, by Rev. S. R. Vinton, proved a fitting prologue to 
 the Pittsburg Jubilee. 
 
 The attendance figures will give some idea of the wonderful 
 interest manifested in the two days’ meetings : praise and prayer 
 services 2,500, luncheons 4,700, drawing-room conferences 250, 
 young women’s, doctors’ and nurses’ rallies 1 ,500, open forum 1 ,500, 
 denominational rallies 7,000, noon meetings at factories 250, mass 
 meeting 1,900, overflow meetings 1 ,200, pageant exhibit in two 
 halls 6,000, with thousands turned away. Eight heathen countries 
 were represented by 25 missionaries, chorus choir 250, blind choir 
 50, other musicians 50, taking part in the pageant 300. 
 
 Through the Missionary Jubilee, God has opened to Chris- 
 tian women new opportunities for service, which bring with them 
 new responsibilities. He has put a new song upon our lips, and a 
 new joy in our hearts. He has given us a new vision of church 
 unity, and a new purpose to study more intelligently, to pray 
 more fervently, to serve more faithfully and to give more liberally, 
 in order to hasten the time when every tongue — whatever language 
 it may speak — shall confess Christ to be the King of kings and the 
 Lord of lords. 
 
 [The gifts and pledges of the Pittsburg Jubilee have reached $94,000, 
 which the Committee believes will reach $100,000 before March 30th. Of 
 this, one of the smaller denominations gave $45,000.] 
 
 ^Buffalo JTutiilce 
 
 The active work of planning for the Jubilee was begun im- 
 mediately after January 1st, and carried on unceasingly until the 
 dates of meeting, February 23d and 24th. Every effort was made 
 to inform the women of Buffalo and Western New York of the 
 object and scope of the Jubilee and to arouse their interest and 
 enthusiasm. 
 
 Eleven denominations were included: Baptist, Christian, 
 
 Congregational, Episcopalian, Evangelical Association, Lutheran, 
 Methodist, Presbyterian, Reformed (Dutch), United Brethren 
 and United Presbyterian. A most beautiful spirit of interest and 
 co-operation prevailed, and every woman felt who was in any way 
 connected with the committees that it had been an inspiration and 
 a privilege to be associated in the work. 
 
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The meetings were held in the Central Presbyterian Church, 
 with simultaneous evening meetings in Asbury Methodist Church, 
 and an overflow meeting on Thursday evening. The Young 
 Women’s Committee arranged a choir of three hundred voices. 
 The evening attendance was about three thousand. A meeting 
 for women physicians and nurses was held at the Homeopathic 
 Hospital Thursday afternoon. Friday morning denominational 
 rallies were held in eight different churches with a large attend- 
 ance reported. A meeting for schoolgirls was held on Friday 
 afternoon with an attendance of five hundred. 
 
 The luncheon was held in Convention Hall, the largest audi- 
 torium in the city. Twenty-four hundred tickets were sold, and 
 double that number could have been disposed of had the hall been 
 larger. The tickets were placed at one dollar each. The hall was 
 beautifully decorated in yellow and white bunting, and the great 
 organ, originally in the Temple of Music at the Pan-American 
 Exposition, was played during the luncheon. 
 
 The offering paid in and pledged amounted to $11,000. 
 Money continues to come in and the total will undoubtedly reach 
 $15,000. The results of the Jubilee cannot be estimated by 
 dollars. Its greatest value will be in its educational and inspira- 
 tional effect. Some of the gifts are to be continued beyond the 
 Jubilee year in the form of salaries and scholarships. 
 
 An Interdenominational Committee is being formed to carry 
 on the Post-Jubilee work. 
 
 ®fje SUlhanp Jubilee 
 
 The Jubilee meetings in Albany and Troy, March 2d and 
 3d, were of great spiritual power and inspiration. 
 
 For weeks the Christian women of the two cities had labored 
 and prayed together for the anticipated celebration. 
 
 The presence of members of the Jubilee party, with visiting 
 officers from the different denominational Boards, will abide a cher- 
 ished memory. 
 
 The feast of Jubilee began with a prayer and consecration 
 service led bv Mrs. David O. Mears. Eight inspiring drawing- 
 room meetings were held, by invitation of the hostesses ; a gathering 
 for the Young Women’s Societies from all the churches at St. 
 Agnes School, and a missionary story hour for voung girls. 
 
 A meeting tor doctors and nurses at the Historical and Art 
 Society Building was addressed by Dr. Mary Riggs Noble. 
 
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Luncheon was served to 800 in St. Peter’s Parish House and 
 Hotel Pen Eyck, Mrs. James 'Ferry Gardiner and Mrs. David 
 O. M ears acting as toastmistresses. 
 
 The denominational rallies were remarkable in attendance, 
 interest and enthusiasm. 
 
 The Jubilee offering taken at the denominational rallies 
 amounted to $4,650, with returns still coming in. 
 
 The climax of the day’s rare privileges came in the great 
 interdenominational mass meeting in the evening, where three thou- 
 sand persons thronged All Saints’ Cathedral, hundreds standing 
 throughout the whole impressive service. Mrs. Helen Barrett 
 Montgomery and Mr. J. Campbell White, Secretary of the Laymen’s 
 Missionary Movement, gave addresses, there was singing by a large 
 chorus of young women, and the venerable Bishop Doane gave the 
 vast multitude his benediction, saying that the Cathedral had been 
 reconsecrated by the great gathering held by Christian women in 
 the interest of two things, which were not only very near his heart 
 but were the most pressing questions of the day, — Unity and 
 Missions. 
 
 A letter, written by Bishop Doane for the diocese of Albany 
 urging interest and participation in the proposed Jubilee, was, by 
 vote of the Advisory Board of women, sent to all city pastors, with 
 the request that it be read in their pulpits. 
 
 A feature of interest, possible onlv in the capital of a state, 
 was a charming reception given to 1,500 guests by the wife of the 
 Governor, Mrs. John A. Dix, at the Executive Mansion, in honor 
 of Mrs. Peabody, Mrs. Montgomery and other speakers. 
 
 Wot ls>pringftelti Jubilee 
 
 On Monday afternoon, March 6th, the meeting opened with 
 a consecration service followed by a general meeting. At the same 
 time drawing-room meetings were held in four homes. In the 
 evening there was a Young Women’s Rally, and at the same time 
 in another church a meeting for older women. 
 
 On Tuesday morning eight denominational rallies were held, 
 and were largely attended. At noon came the luncheon, attended by 
 525 women, at which President Woolley of Mount H olyoke College 
 presided. In the afternoon a service for children was held, and 
 also a union service which crowded the largest church in the city 
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to the doors, with many standing. In the evening a union closing 
 service was held. 
 
 Nearly all these services were largely attended. The attend- 
 ance on the second day showed that many had come from the 
 northern part of the state. Most encouraging reports in regard to 
 the interest shown come from the denominational rallies. 
 
 All the Protestant denominations which are carrying on foreign 
 missionary work co-operated in these meetings. In the preliminary 
 work of the Executive Committee, and in the meetings themselves, 
 the greatest mutual sympathy and good will were shown. The 
 spirit of sisterhood thus expressed was one of the important results 
 of the meetings. 
 
 In other ways they were a great benefit. They gave women 
 the opportunity to think more definitely of the wide scope of 
 foreign missions than in denominational work alone is possible ; they 
 quickened the interest and love of all who were present ; they laid 
 upon them to a greater degree than ever before the responsibility 
 resting upon the Christian women of this land to work for their 
 sisters in non-Christian lands, and they brought joy and encourage- 
 ment because of the renewed proof that the infinite need of the soul 
 everywhere is met by the gospel of Christ. 
 
 The contributions in cash and pledges made at the denomina- 
 tional rallies amounted to $3,854.66. In addition a special offering 
 of nearly $300 was made at the closing service for the famine suf- 
 ferers of China. 
 
 All the denominations feel the necessity of conserving the im- 
 pressions of these meetings, and earnest efforts will be made to 
 increase both the interest and the giving among the women of our 
 churches 
 
 ileto fhaben Jubilee 
 
 New Haven has never seen such a gathering of women as 
 assembled in the Auditorium to-day, March 9th, under the in- 
 spiration of union for the cause of foreign missions. It is the 
 second day of the Jubilee, and enthusiasm is at high-water mark. 
 On-lookers and participants who have come from different sections 
 of the state — for it is a Connecticut Jubilee — pronounce the meet- 
 ings wonderful and the speakers incomparable. All committees 
 on preparation have worked with earnestness and in beautiful 
 harmony. I he Committee on Prayer Circles met with most en- 
 
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couraging response everywhere, and such circles were formed in 
 city and town quite generally. 
 
 The Young Women’s Committee, more than seventy in 
 number, have done valiant service, as witnesses the attendance at 
 their evening rally. The largest church was crowded to the doors, 
 one delightful feature being the processional of the large choir 
 singing, “ Publish glad tidings.” This committee arranged pre- 
 liminary parlor meetings, with fine speakers, who commanded an 
 audience of one hundred and fifty or more. Other drawing-rooms, 
 with guests invited to meet the Jubilee speakers, one being espe- 
 cially for college women, were happily informal, but none the less 
 inspiring. The rallies in the various churches were large and en- 
 thusiastic. Pledges of gifts in influence, time and money were 
 made in all ; the amount of money to be reported later when op- 
 portunity has been given for the return of pledges, for which 
 blanks were distributed. The luncheon hour proved immensely 
 popular, and as the number of tickets was limited, many applicants 
 had to be refused ; but even so a small township, to the number 
 of 1,360, was represented, making a most attentive and responsive 
 audience when the speaking began. The story hour for the 
 children was unique, and will be remembered by the little folk for 
 a long time to come, and perhaps be recalled bv them when is cel- 
 ebrated the next Jubilee. The parallel mass meetings but added 
 to the cumulative enthusiasm, and gave emphasis to the universal 
 testimony that the Jubilee is a great success, and promises great 
 results. Plans are in the air, ready to be formulated, which con- 
 template some sort of an organization, in order that the spirit of 
 good-fellowship and unity may be preserved. 
 
 ®f )£ iProtnbence Jubilee 
 
 Providence celebrated the Jubilee on March 10th and 11th. 
 For two months a Central Committee of one hundred representa- 
 tive women were instant in prayer and abundant in labor, giving 
 to their sub-committee work such faithful and untiring service 
 as to guarantee success. 
 
 The Finance Committee collected $750 for local expenses. 
 The Press and Publicity Committee distributed hundreds of copies 
 of the General Bulletin; printed thousands of prayer and invitation 
 cards which accompanied advance fliers ; sent a personal letter to 
 each clergyman in the state, asking his interest and co-operation, 
 
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and a pulpit notice for the Sunday previous; and printed a twelve- 
 page program, giving details ot each session, hymns used, and the 
 names of officers and chairmen of the various committees. Three 
 hundred attractive Posters were displayed in churches and public 
 places. Several reporters served on the Committee, and advance 
 notices as well as reports of the sessions were printed in city and 
 state newspapers in such a manner as to give the public a most 
 favorable impression of the Jubilee. 
 
 The celebration commenced with three drawing-room meet- 
 ings, at which the attendance was 250. The first public session 
 was a “ Busy Woman’s Hour” in a down town church, at which 
 Canon Douglass of New York struck the keynote ot the mission- 
 ary movement in calling it “ The culmination ot man’s response 
 to the will of God.” A conference ot 125 phvsicians and nurses 
 was held Friday afternoon, and a general meeting tor the consider- 
 ation of Methods and Motives, attended by 900 women, and fol- 
 lowed by a reception given for the Jubilee speakers. Fridays even- 
 ing two mass meetings called out an attendance of 1,400. 
 
 The chairmen of the denominational rallies held preparatory 
 meetings for a month before the Jubilee, districted the whole state 
 and planned interdenominational neighborhood rallies, in the 
 attempt to make the women ot every church cognizant of the mean- 
 ing and purpose of the Jubilee. Meetings for pray r er were held in 
 each district, and a canvass for new members of each local society 
 urged. Saturdav morning proved a rather inopportune time for 
 many housewives and business women, but the attendance at the 
 six denominational rallies ranged from 125 to 600, and the gifts 
 and pledges of money for the Jubilee Fund were over $4,000, with 
 the hope of more to come. 
 
 Luncheon was served Saturday noon in three places to 900 
 women, who lingered late at table to listen to reports and addresses. 
 One of the most successful features of the meetings was the “chil- 
 dren’s story hour” Saturday afternoon, where an audience of 500, 
 most of whom were children in y^ears as well as spirit, enjoyed the 
 tales told by the missionaries. 
 
 At the young women’s meeting Saturdav evening, the atten- 
 dance and enthusiasm reached its highest point. A chorus of 40 
 Pembroke girls in Oriental costumes lead the singing; 900 seats 
 were reserved for young women who had signified their intention of 
 being present, and the balance of the large church was crowded with 
 older women. A supper was served in the vestry for 300 girls, at 
 which a fine spirit of fellowship and common sympathy for world- 
 wide missions was manifested. 
 
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Plans for conserving the results of the two days, and for turn- 
 ing their inspiration into the consecration of new life and money to 
 missionary service, are being considered, and it is hoped that in 
 Providence the end of the Jubilee will most truly prove to be the 
 beginning of a forward movement in the history of women’s mis- 
 sionarv work. 
 
 ®l )c Worcester Jubilee 
 
 Though not announced as a Jubilee city, Worcester claimed 
 the privilege, and between Providence the iith and Boston the 
 14th worked up a very creditable meeting. Large attendance, an 
 offering of several thousand dollars and a profound impression for 
 our work are reported. 
 
 ®lje JloSton Jubilee 
 
 The Jubilee has passed over Boston and is gone, but the place 
 thereof shall know it forevermore. The Boston that participated 
 in the Jubilee can never be the same again, for, through the inspi- 
 ration of the meetings, and the fellowship developed by their prep- 
 aration, we have had a new vision of our oneness in the Master’s 
 service. 
 
 Following preparatory devotional meetings the preceding 
 week, the Jubilee opened in Boston on Tuesday afternoon, March 
 14th, when a service of devotion and workers’ conference were held, 
 with an attendance of 400, and four drawing-room meetings ; and 
 a reception was given by the physicians and nurses of greater 
 Boston to Dr. Noble and Dr. Carleton, with an attendance of 275. 
 Plans are being made to educate a Chinese or Indian woman. 
 
 The Young People’s Rally followed in the evening, with an 
 attendance of 2,000. An inspiring feature was the chorus of 400 
 which led in the familiar Jubilee hymns. At this meeting the 
 responsibility of the individual was the main theme : “ The 
 Master has come and calleth for you." 
 
 On Wednesday morning, rallies were held by nine denomina- 
 tions, with a combined attendance of 3,100 and a gift of $23,621, 
 and further gifts are expected. Plans for future work are not 
 definitelv developed, but interdenominational meetings have been 
 suggested as effective, carried out in the same spirit of unity which 
 has characterized the Jubilee. 
 
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At noon luncheons were held in four places, at which 1,450 
 were present, and many, unable to secure luncheon tickets, availed 
 themselves of the opportunitv offered to hear the after-luncheon 
 speeches. As the sun, with its promise of spring, shone over the 
 tables with their golden flowers, and touched with glory the heads 
 of the few left to us to whom the vision came fifty years ago, we 
 felt afresh the force of the appeal to fill up the broken ranks and 
 to press forward together in Christian unitv in the service of our 
 far -away sisters. 
 
 The Jubilee celebration closed with a mass meeting, which 
 was attended by 3,000. After the singing of Jubilee hymns led 
 by the chorus, a brief devotional service was conducted by Mrs. 
 Peabody. The Chairman of the Boston Jubilee, Mrs. S. Van 
 Rensselaer Thayer, then called for reports from the rallies, to 
 which nine responded. Again the sense of fellowship was deepened 
 as we listened to the accounts of the celebrations in other cities from 
 the Pacific to our own Atlantic, and felt the bond with those whom 
 we have never seen, who are yet working with us to bring to the 
 hearts of the nations a Christ. And we knew that we should never 
 be the same again, that the spirit of the Jubilee must abide with us 
 through the vears to come, and that we “ must take this world and 
 make it over until the words come true, c The earth shall be filled 
 with the glory of God as the waters cover the sea.’ ” 
 
 iportlanb, jlle., Jubilee 
 
 From Portland, Oregon, to Portland, Maine, and here the 
 Jubilees end. Portland greeted us with a snowstorm, but her skies 
 brightened and the city by the blue sea with Mount Washington’s 
 snowy shape in the distance is surelv as lovely as her sister Port- 
 land on the Western slope with Mount Hood to watch over her. 
 Though not so large as some of our Jubilee cities there was no 
 lack of planning and prayer and publicity ; and the beautiful recep- 
 tion, the quiet impressive drawing-rooms, the exquisite luncheon, 
 with the sprig of pine at each plate, the honored names of Payson 
 and Longfellow and Hamlin, are some of the distinctive features of 
 our last Jubilee city as scheduled five months ago. 
 
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®f)£ ^practise Jubilee 
 
 Syracuse was on the first Eastern schedule but feared it could 
 not carry out the Jubilee plan, and dropped out. Later a de- 
 voted and able professor in Syracuse University decided that it 
 could be done, and at a late day, with many difficulties, secured 
 speakers and carried the Jubilee to a successful finish. A night 
 letter just received as this report is in press says: — 
 
 “ Syracuse meeting most successful. The German Evangel- 
 ical Church, hitherto without any missionary society, organized to- 
 day. This action will affect 1,100 churches. We are truly jubi- 
 lant. Offering over $4,000. Continuation Committee planned for 
 future work. City deeply stirred.” 
 
 Smaller Jubilees! 
 
 Pittsfield, Fall River, Newport, Elmira and Wilkesbarre, Al- 
 toona, Atlantic City, Binghamton, Scranton and scores of other cities 
 have roused to the Jubilee call in the East, while in the West “like 
 a mighty army ” moves the host of women, all on fire with Jubilee 
 enthusiasm, and eager to conserve the best results. This hasty 
 bulletin can give only a small idea of the movement which widens 
 out in increasing circles of influence. The quickening of interest 
 here must result in greater work abroad. May we not hope for a 
 corresponding Jubilee movement in India and China and Japan ? 
 
 And now comes New York. As we write, the vast 
 preparations are going on. The busy committee of 400 
 has already done its work — the programs have gone to the 
 printers. The Young Women’s Committee, numbering 
 75, has arranged for a pageant to he given in Metropolitan 
 Opera House, where the Musical Art Club will assist them. 
 
 Forty drawing-room meetings have been held. A 
 pioneers’ meeting is arranged for March 28th, where we 
 expect the presence of Miss Doremus and other noted 
 women. The authors’ meet that evening. The drawing- 
 rooms luncheons and many parallel mass meetings have 
 every detail arranged, and the New York Committee is 
 building up a satisfactory climax to the wonderful series. 
 
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One of the Committee writes : — 
 
 “ It is only a glimpse, and a vista into the future of what women’s 
 combined efforts can do. It has been a vision and a revelation to 
 many of us. We spoke in our large committee yesterday of not 
 letting the great lesson of the Jubilee pass without practical results 
 beyond the mere gift of money at the time. 
 
 “ As fifty years ago that little circle of women started all the great 
 work of to-day, we hope this opportunity of the present will lead to 
 an organization with at least two meetings a year at which all 
 the churches will report, so that we may feel, as now, the inspiration 
 from our fellow-workers on the mission fields and at home. I am 
 one of thousands here in New York who feel the same. May I add 
 that it has been an experience of my life? Now that I have put my 
 hand to the plough I shall never look back.” 
 
 As we sit in the quiet of the midnight completing 
 this record which, like those early bulletins from the West, 
 must be hastened to printer and on to greet the pilgrims 
 who will flock to our greatest city March 27-30, the 
 words of the hymn so often sung in Edinburgh comes to us 
 almost as though the angels were singing it as they sang 
 once before in the quiet night the song of Redemption. 
 
 “ God is working His purpose out 
 As year succeeds to year ; 
 
 God is working Ilis purpose out and the time is drawing near. 
 Nearer and nearer draws the time, the time that shall surely be, 
 When the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of God 
 As the waters cover the sea.’’ 
 
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Chairmen of Western Jubilees; 
 
 Mrs. L. A. Kelly, Oakland, Cal. 
 
 Mrs. E. P. Mossman, Portland, Ore. 
 
 Mrs. C. L. White, Seattle, Wash. 
 
 Mrs. Paul Raymond, Denver, Colo. 
 
 Mrs. George Tilden, Omaha, Neb. 
 
 Mrs. George Simonds, Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 Mrs. W. R. Chivis, St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 Mrs. E. W. Bond, Milwaukee, Wis. 
 
 Mrs. Andrew MacLeish, Chicago, 111. 
 
 Mrs. George Young, Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 Mrs. Frank Mills, Indianapolis, Ind. 
 
 Mrs. R. L. Thomas, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 , Detroit, Mich. 
 
 Chairmen of Castern Jubilees; 
 
 Mrs. Levi Scofield, Cleveland, Ohio. 
 
 Mrs. J. B. Marvin, Louisville, Kv. 
 
 Mrs. W. E. Norvell, Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 Mrs. Wallace Radcliffe, Washington, D. C. 
 Mrs. John T. King, Baltimore, Md. 
 
 Mrs. Wm. Jennings, Harrisburg, Pa. 
 
 Miss Susan Lodge, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 Mrs. Mary Clokey Porter, Pittsburg, Pa. 
 Mrs. John Miller, Edgewood, Pa. 
 
 Miss Harriet M. Buck, Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 Mrs. Wm. Gurley, Troy, N. Y. 
 
 Mrs. C. H. Burnham, Springfield, Mass. 
 
 Mrs. W. B. Phipps, Waterbury, Conn. 
 
 Mrs. George Fowler, Pawtucket, R. I. 
 
 Mrs. Van Rensselaer Thayer, Boston, Mass. 
 Mrs. John Thompson, Portland, Me. 
 
 Mrs. John Legg, Worcester, Mass. 
 
 Mrs. John Calvin Stewart, Richmond, Va. 
 Prof. M. M. Beebe, Syracuse, N. Y. 
 
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 Frank Wood. Printer, Boston 
 
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