Annual Report Volume 61 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ney Scott. Other extracts from letters of Doctor and Mrs. Judd, Dr. Baldwin, and from her grandmother Mrs. Green, were read by Mrs. May Green Wilcox. Mrs. May Atherton Richards read parts of letters from Mr. and Mrs. Forbes, Dr. Chapin, and from her grandfather, Mr. Cooke. The story of sickness and health, encouragement and despondency in the work, with here and there a touch of romance such as the courtship of Mr. Chamberlain and Miss Patten and the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Cooke, held the interest of all. The last letter, written by Mr. Levi Chamberlain, telling of the formation of the first laws of the land, was read by Dr. N. B. Emerson, and though rather long was filled with items of historic interest. This interesting meeting was conducted by President W. F. Dillingham. Rev. O. H. Gulick offered prayer; Mrs. May Richards led in singing "Blest be the Tie that Binds"; the minutes of the last meeting were read; the Board of Managers reported; new officers were elected?F. C. Atherton as president and A. F. Judd as vice-president; a committee of five was appointed to collect data and secure a historian to write up the history of the mission; a collection amounting to $82.55 was taken up; and from the missionary fund $75 was appropriated for Isabella Hulu, $100 for the work of Cousin Fannie Andrews Shepard in Aintab, Turkey, and $50 for the Nauru Mission. The meeting adjourned without the time honored song, "From Greenland's Icy Mountains." THE SECRETARY'S REPORT Introduction. The manuscript of the Annual Report for 1912 was sent to the printer on May 1 and the books were mailed or delivered on or before July 25, 1912. Since then the chief items of interest have been the Gulick Reception held on March 8; the collecting, and framing, by A. L. Gurrey Jr., of ...