History Of Methodist Reform, Volume I - Media Sabda Org
History Of Methodist Reform, Volume I - Media Sabda Org History Of Methodist Reform, Volume I - Media Sabda Org
satisfied with the character, attainments, fitness, and motives for entering the ministry, etc., of the applicant, his recommendation is endorsed, and he is commended to the examining committee at one of the official colleges of the Church who are elected by the General Conference. This committee, if satisfied as to the fitness of the candidate, take him under their care, report to the Board his college standing and the amounts of appropriation desired with their recommendation each term while he remains in college under their care. The experience of those identified with this work in all the denominations demonstrates that, of all the men who believe God has called them to prepare for the work of the ministry, fully one-half must have financial aid to avail themselves of the privileges of the college and seminary. If the conditions of recommendation are faithfully observed by the quarterly and annual conferences, it is believed that the best material of the Church will be secured by these methods. While all the general interests of the Church are vitally important, none can surpass that of giving needed assistance to those carefully selected who are to furnish the working force of the Church, preaching the gospel, and to become wise and devoted leaders; for upon the personnel of the ministry of the Church depends more than any other human factor its success in realizing the end for which it exists. The Board is constituted at present as follows: John F. Cooper, M.D., President; Rev. B. W. Anthony, Recording Secretary; John H. Clancy, J. W. Knott, Rev. J. C. Berrien, Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer. Examining Committee at Adrian: D. C. Thomas, Ph.D., G. B. McElroy, D.D., J. S. Thrap, D.D., Gen. Shaffer, D.D., W. N. Swift. Examining Committee at Westminster: T. H. Lewis, D.D., H. L. Elderdice, A.M., B.D., Rev. W. R. Graham, D.D., J. W. Hering, M.D., Charles Billingslea. *************************************
METHODIST REFORM Edward J. Drinkhouse, M.D., D.D. APPENDIX F THE WOMAN'S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY The data and most of the language of this sketch were furnished by Mrs. Mary A. Miller, except the first and last paragraphs. The initial, though tentative, work in the direction indicated by the women of the Methodist Protestant Church, so far as is known, was made in Baltimore, through the years 1872-78, under the leadership of Mrs. J. T. Murray and Miss Jane R. Roberts. The effort has been sufficiently noticed in the body of this History. For the lack of organization of our own they contributed their funds to the Baltimore Society of the M. E. Church, as the women of Pittsburgh did, in 1879, through the Woman's Union Home Missionary Society of New York for the same reason. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Protestant Church was organized on the fourteenth day of February, 1879. The inspiration which led to the movement was given by Miss Elizabeth M. Guthrie, a missionary from Japan, who had been a teacher in the Woman's Union Home in Yokohama, which Home is under the care of the Woman's Union Home Missionary Society of New York. It was through this society that a few of the ladies of the Pittsburgh and Allegheny M. P. churches did their first foreign missionary work; and it was through it that Rev. Dr. William Collier, stationed then at Connellsville, Pa., sent the first money raised for a scholarship. Afterward the Board of Missions also contributed money, which was sent to sustain scholarships in the Homes of the society in India and Japan; and continued this until after the opening of its mission in Yokohama, in 1880. It was while money was being sent in this way to the Union Society, that the particular help given by the Church was brought to the notice of Miss Guthrie. Money coming at an opportune time enabled her to receive into the Home two little girls who otherwise would have been sold by their parents. The circumstances so impressed Miss Guthrie that she determined, when she should return to America, to find some of our churches to tell the people of the good being done by their help. The opportunity came to her on this wise. While in attendance at the Woman's Christian Association in Pittsburgh, she lingered at the close of the meeting to talk with some of the members, and was introduced to Mrs. H. B. O'Neil by the President, who remarked, "This is one of our Methodist Protestant sisters." Miss Guthrie was rejoiced to thus providentially meet with a member of the Church which had been instrumental in aiding the Home in a time of great need; and she immediately informed Mrs. O'Neil of the circumstances referred to above. Her words fell into a heart already warm with zeal for foreign missions, and it was through Mrs. O'Neil that Miss Guthrie was introduced to the preachers of Pittsburgh and vicinity at their Monday meeting. The result of that interview was a notice read from the pulpits for a meeting of women to consider the practicability of forming a woman's society. The outcome was the permanent organization, on February 14, 1879, with the following officers: Mrs. John Scott, President; Mrs. James F. Bennett, Mrs. F. H. Collier, and Mrs. William Wragg, Vice Presidents; Mrs. J. H. Clancy,
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satisfied with the character, attainments, fitness, and motives for entering the ministry, etc., of the<br />
applicant, his recommendation is endorsed, and he is commended to the examining committee at one<br />
of the official colleges of the Church who are elected by the General Conference. This committee,<br />
if satisfied as to the fitness of the candidate, take him under their care, report to the Board his college<br />
standing and the amounts of appropriation desired with their recommendation each term while he<br />
remains in college under their care.<br />
The experience of those identified with this work in all the denominations demonstrates that, of<br />
all the men who believe God has called them to prepare for the work of the ministry, fully one-half<br />
must have financial aid to avail themselves of the privileges of the college and seminary. If the<br />
conditions of recommendation are faithfully observed by the quarterly and annual conferences, it is<br />
believed that the best material of the Church will be secured by these methods. While all the general<br />
interests of the Church are vitally important, none can surpass that of giving needed assistance to<br />
those carefully selected who are to furnish the working force of the Church, preaching the gospel,<br />
and to become wise and devoted leaders; for upon the personnel of the ministry of the Church<br />
depends more than any other human factor its success in realizing the end for which it exists.<br />
The Board is constituted at present as follows: John F. Cooper, M.D., President; Rev. B. W.<br />
Anthony, Recording Secretary; John H. Clancy, J. W. Knott, Rev. J. C. Berrien, Corresponding<br />
Secretary and Treasurer. Examining Committee at Adrian: D. C. Thomas, Ph.D., G. B. McElroy,<br />
D.D., J. S. Thrap, D.D., Gen. Shaffer, D.D., W. N. Swift. Examining Committee at Westminster: T.<br />
H. Lewis, D.D., H. L. Elderdice, A.M., B.D., Rev. W. R. Graham, D.D., J. W. Hering, M.D., Charles<br />
Billingslea.<br />
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