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NUJYBZR THIRTY-NINE
GEORGIA WOMEN IN CONVENTION
Assembly Characterized by Consecration and Expeditious Business Tact-Beautiful Dalvson an Ideal Hostess.
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MRS. E. G. WILLINGHAM,
President of the W. B. M. U.
GLORIOUS in its uplifting power, beautiful in
its direction, and overflowing with inspira
tion in its every detail. These seem very
weak terms as we seek for words to describe the re
cent session of the Woman’s Baptist Missionary Un
ion, which convened with the Baptist Church of
Dawson, Georgia, November Bth to 11th.
The Twenty-eighth Anniversary.
The call of the twenty-eighth anniversary of the
Woman’s Baptist Missionary Union brought together
nearly three hundred of as noble, consecrated, cul
tured women from out the different sections of the
State, as this bounteous age is capable of producing.
Success, progress and newly inspired determination
to accomplish greater things for the Master charac
terized every report and utterance.
Old Fashioned Hand-shaking Reception.
The special feature of the opening session was an
informal, old-fashioned Baptist “hand-shaking” re
ception. The Executive Board and Officers formed
the receiving line, and Mrs. E. G. Willingham, Presi
dent of the Union,—than whom a sweeter spirited,
more tactful presiding officer could not be found
made an especial effort to have every delegate be
come personally acquainted with every officer in the
Convention. She also expressed the hope that such
a reception should be perpetuated throughout the fu
ture sessions of the organization.
ATLANTA. % , NOVEMBER 17, 1910.
9y MRS. G. V. LINDSEY.
“The Promises of Prayer.”
The impressive devotional exercises that followed
immediately after the reception, were led by Mrs. W.
A. Mason, Shellman, Ga., and the whole body was
drawn into a close spiritual fellowship by her superb
discourse on “The Promises of Prayer.” This was
followed by voluntary testimonies giving instances of
direct answers to prayer.
Time and space fail us to give detailed accounts of
each report made, but we can say that taken as a
whole, every one of them was full to the brim with
evidences of enthusiastic work and signs of prog
ress. We must call attention, in this brief report, to
only the rarest gems —the mountain peaks of the
past year’s achievements, and the wisely devised
plans for the future.
The Growth of the W. B. M. U.
An evidence of the rapid growth of the Union as a
body was given in the splendid address of welcome,
delivered by Mrs. N. B. O’Kelly, wife of the pastor
of the Dawson Baptist Church.
“Seventeen years ago the ladies of the Woman s
Baptist Missionary Union met in conjunction with
the Baptist State Convention. The organization was
so small that all the ladies were entertained at tea
in the home of one of the members of the
Dawson church. Now, in less than two decades, the
Union is meeting again in Dawson, this time as an
individual body, and no five homes in the city could
entertain them all at tea with a week’s preparation.”
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WHERE DAWSON MET THE DELEGATES.
MISS EMMA L. AMOS,
Corresponding Secretary of the W. B.
M. U.
And we will add that Dawson is famous for its many
palatial homes.
The President’s Address.
The address of the President, Mrs. E. G. Willing
ham of Atlanta, pulsed and throbbed with an intense
earnestness, a deep consecration and a sweet-spirited
submission to God’s will in her effort to rightly direct
so great a work.
Her anxious plea to the members that each one
of them should be much in prayer for guidance
throughout the entire session, was but another mir
ror of the noble, pure heart of this much-loved hand
maiden of God.
Reports From Home, State and Foreign Missions and
Associational Superintendents.
The reports of the Associational Superintendents,
Home, State and Foreign Missions all manifested a
great increase of work accomplished over last year,
and outlined a limitless increase of opportunity.
The Woman’s Department of the Union exceeded
its apportionment nearly two thousand dollars, but
the young people had fallen short more than that
amount. This shortage on the part of the young peo
ple disclosed the need for redoubled efforts with and
for them in their various organizations, and great
emphasis was placed on this feature of the work in
the Union.
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