Miss Muriel Lester Leads From carly morning until a late hour on Monday night some 40 Shanghai ladies discussed world problems and what they as Christian women ould do to ameliorate present conditions.
The occasion was the all-day picnic retreat held in the gardens of the "Limit", the Hungjao Road residence of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Hawkings who turned over their home for this religious conference sponsored by the Bible Study and Evangelical Depart ment of the Community Church Women's Auxiliary and attended by earnest international and interdenominational group.
'Miss Muriel Lester, who has been in the Far East for' several months studying conditions here, Jed the de-Votlons and discussions of such subjects as. world peace, child labour, and constitutions.
Although the retreat was to have finished at 530 pin. many of the women became so enthralled the discussion that" they continu ed further into the evening with supper and more talk at the church manse, According {0 Mrs. Richard M, Vanderburgh, chairman of the auxiliary, the group will attempt to take some definite steps and work out a plan which will be presented at the next meeting of the auxiliary on Monday, September 30, Dr. Tdabelle Lewis Main, chairman of the sponsoring department, presided over the meeting and Miss Lester led the discussions, Miss Lester also will speak at the Auxiliary tifin next Monday. She will be tiffin speaker at a meeting sponsored by the J.C.S.W.O. which will take place in B. W. A. headquarters on 'Thursday, and she will speak again Thursday' afternoon at a meeting of the Women's Guild of the Union Church,
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