Excerpt from Year Book, Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church: Being the Fiftieth Annual Report of the Society, 1919 Oin G into the church the last morning of our Jubilee meeting, I over G heard one woman remark to another, Well, it is almost over! And the other replied quickly, I think it has just begun. This wise woman had a keen understanding of the situation. She had listened as the plans for the coming year were-presented. She had heard the missionaries tell of open doors and abundant opportunities and overwhelming needs. She had seen the young women about to go to the field for the first time. She knew some of the conditions which they would meet and which we at home must meet with them. She had heard the appeal for evangelism and the request that our Society should become responsible for the evangelization of fifty thousand souls within the next few months. She knew that all this meant constant de votion, steady purpose and hard work. N o wonder, then, that she replied with such emphasis, I think it has just begun. And it has begun and begun in earnest. A district officer went home full of enthusiasm and within a week called together all the presidents of all the societies within her district. She named it President's Day. She laid before these women the year's plans. She writes, They, accepted them without a moment's hesitation. They went back to their homes and towns to secure their share of the one million new members immediately. We can get the whole number in a year if we will. And so we can. And we can find the doctors and nurses needed, and the money for the hospital equipment. We can give our missionaries the increased support they must have and we can keep all our work at high efficiency but - there must be no faltering.' This year of our Lord, 1920, is no time for shirkers in any line of Christian work. Our meeting was a celebration and we hope a worthy celebration of the. Founding of our Society. The presence and addresses of Mrs. Parker and our group of veteran missionaries, whom we delighted to honor, made it so It. Was a time of Vision. Our furloughed missionaries made it that. As we listened to them, we had some faint realization of the things which God had wrought with in the last fifty years and much heart-searching because of the obligation which; is upon us just now. It was a time also when we tried to take a long forward. Look to see what place the Master Workman had for us in His world-wide plans. And so it became a time of consecration. After all, that was the outstanding and significant feature of our Jubilee meeting. The one spiritual prerequisite is that we men and women who mean to serve God, either here or abroad, should live in a constant, holy fellowship With God Himself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.