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Excerpt from Fifth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, for the Year 1885-86
To-day, we have assembled here to extend a cordial greeting to this noble band of eminent Christian ladies, and to welcome them to our homes, to our beautiful house of worship, and to our city, which we think in healthful location and moral status will compare favorably with any city of its size. With open arms and hearts full of love, we give you a happy, loving welcome, trusting that this meeting of Christian ladies will serve to inspire us with new zeal, and thus help us to devise plans that will be the means of bringing increased vigor and usefulness into this branch of Christian work.
Judging from the past I feel assured of a grand, brilliant future for this organization. I trust there will be no withered hands in this Society. In the Word of God we are told that our Savior healed the man with a withered hand, and it only speaks of this one man that was thus healed. I have no doubt that there were more people at that time with the same af?iction, and I often wonder how many withered hands could be found in our Christian Churches at the present day - hands that hang lifeless by their owner's side, and find nothing to do for the Master. In the mission ary field there is something for every Christian to do. We can not all go as missionaries to foreign lands, but we can help those that go and in this Home Missionary Society we can do a grand, noble work here in our own country, among the foreign people that are ?ooding our shores. I am fully impressed that the work of this Society in the future will be very largely with the foreign population in our large towns and cities, where thousands of people live that are never seen in the Churches. A pressing need to-day is for Christian workers among these neglected classes of people.
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