Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Women's Missionary Conference

New York, 1895

The women's missionary societies of the Reformed church in the North Classis will hold a conference in the church at Newtown on Thursday next. Mrs. C. H. Harris, of Jamaica, is secretary of the society. Mrs. Cornelius Rapelye will preside. The Rev. Mr. Clearwater will deliver an address of welcome. There will be addresses at the afternoon meeting by Mrs. E. B. Horton and Miss C. Anderson, and Miss Kitty Scudder, who has been engaged in mission work in India, will speak of the work in that country. At the evening session Mrs. John S. Bussing will deliver an address on "Work in Our Home Land," Mrs. Clearwater will sing a solo, "Pardoned," and the Rev. John Anderson, late of China, will speak about the work in that country.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 8, 1895, p. 12.

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