NBWTA Report 1903-065
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124 Union reports :—Eight Sunday meetings in churches Westrope, the Rev. W. Fullerton, Mrs. Pearsall Smith, and the Rev. W. Hough, late Chaplain of Duxhurst Colony. Solos were sung by Mrs. Chamberlain and Mrs. Priestman. Two hundred new members gained, and two hundred and INDIVIDUAL WORKERS. Mrs. Jennie Walker sends in a wonderful record of work accom- plished both in America and England. She has taken in all 220 meetings, and has secured over 3,000 pledges. ‘The Branches may be glad to know that Mrs. Walker is prepared to give an account of her American tour, and she has a number of very interesting facts to relate. Mrs. Emmett reports :—198 Gospel meetings held, 13 Bible read- ings, 223 new members gained, and go pledges taken. The Misses Vincent and Cummins have made a record year of 91 towns visited, 25 missions held, 107 Gospel Temperance meetings, 62 lectures, 11 drawing-room meetings, and 50 Sunday services. They have taken 2,082 pledges and gained 435 new members. Miss Beatrice Hankey reports:—2 Gospel missions, 30 Bible readings, 36 Sunday meetings, 120 new members gained, 100 pledges taken. Miss Agnes Slack reports 25 Bible readings. The rest of her meetings have not been tabulated, but we all know how incessantly she has been at work. Mrs. Milne records 38 Gospel Temperance meetings, 4 Sunday services, 46 new members gained, and 21 pledges. Mrs. Benjamin Lamb reports a very pleasant and successful visit to Ireland, when she took sixty-four pledges, and sixteen people professed decision for Christ. Her report includes seventy-three meetings held, six Bible readings, three Sunday services, one hundred and ninety-four pledges taken, and one hundred and six new members gained. DEVOTIONAL Day, There were many expressions of thankfulness for the inspiring ' character of our last devotional day. The meeting was held in the Temperance Hall at Birmingham, and addressed by the Rey. Richard SUNDAY ae thirty pledges taken. Staffordshire Union reports :—One mission held by Mrs. Harrison Lee, 16 Gospel Temperance meetings, 23 devotional days, 16 Bible readings, 16 prayer meetings, and 128 pledges taken. Surrey Union reports:—8 9 Gospel Temperance meetings, 10 devotional days, 19 prayer meetings, 211 new members gained, and 75 pledges taken, but adds that this is by no means a complete record as there is no Evangelistic Superintendent. What a difference it would make in this most important department of work if every Union would elect an Evangelistic Superintendent whose business it would be to organize and arrange Sunday services, Bible readings, devotional days, Gospel missions, etc., and to send in a report of the work done. en Durham and halls. 125 SERVICES. These were admirably arranged at our last council, all over Bir- mingham, by Mrs. James, and thousands of people received a straight gospel temperance message. Great praise is also due for the ex- cellent arrangements made for the Sunday services, both at Leicester and Manchester, on the occasion of the visit of the National Executive. FINANCE, As in the past, the Department has been enabled entirely to defray its own expenses, and has given £10 to Central Funds. All financial details will be found in the balance sheet of the Report. Mary C. GoruaM, Hon. National Evangelistic Superintendent. ORGANIZATION DEPARTMENT. The report of the Organization Department again covers practi- cally the full twelve months, the committee having been appointed on June 6th, 1902. Seven committee meetings have been held, at which the attendance has been :—Mrs. Crosfield, 4; Mrs. Reed, 5; Mrs. Griffiths, 1; Mrs. Ward Poole, 1. £x-officio members :—Lady Henry Somerset, 1; Mrs. Price Hughes,o; Miss Agnes Slack, 0; Mrs. Pearsall Smith, 7; Mrs. Osborn, 7; Miss Gorham, 6; Hon. Mrs. B. Russell, o. The new scheme of the County Unions undertaking the responsi- bility of organizing, which was adopted by the last Council, has been put before the Unions. A circular letter, asking for a report, was issued by the committee in December to twenty-four Unions and elicited areply from seven. The formation of branches and information gathered from the Annual Report Forms has since shown the number of Unions actively taking up the question to be thirteen, exclusive of the Durham and Northumberland, and East Anglian Unions, which have since their formation made the organization and strengthening of the branches an important part of their work. There are now, in- clusive of London, 27 Unions. The committee earnestly hope that Unions which have not yet been able to do practical organization work will give the question their earnest consideration. ‘Thirty-one senior and seven ““Y” (total 38) branches have lapsed or withdrawn |