A history of Methodism in the United States . lections or subscriptions in any promiscuous assem-bly, and they were to raise their moneys in such a way aswould not interfere with the income of the parent society. This society prospered greatly, for the work and itssupervision commanded public confidence. It now hasnearly two hundred thousand members, and publishes the Womans Missionary Friend and the Childrens Mis-sionary Friend, each having a large circulation. Theformer has been so well managed financially that it hascontributed more than $30,000 toward the publication ofmiscellaneous hterat
A history of Methodism in the United States . lections or subscriptions in any promiscuous assem-bly, and they were to raise their moneys in such a way aswould not interfere with the income of the parent society. This society prospered greatly, for the work and itssupervision commanded public confidence. It now hasnearly two hundred thousand members, and publishes the Womans Missionary Friend and the Childrens Mis-sionary Friend, each having a large circulation. Theformer has been so well managed financially that it hascontributed more than $30,000 toward the publication ofmiscellaneous hterature. At the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of theWomans Foreign Missionary Society it appeared that ithad sent 235 missionaries to the foreign field, of whom 34were medical graduates; it was then supporting 146, ofwhom 118 were in the field and 28 at home with impairedhealth, and maintaining 383 day-schools and 41 boarding-schools, 10 orphanages and 8 training-schools, besides 3homes for homeless women, and 13 hospitals and dispen-. ISAAC W. WILEY. WOMANS HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 403 saries. The society raised and disbursed previous to theclose of 1895, $3,740,910. The Womans Home Missionary Society dates fromJune 8, 1880, and was the result of the approval by theGeneral Conference of that year of work which had beendone, auxiliary to the Freedmens Aid Society, by ladieswho had cooperated with it. The society attributes itsorigin to Bishop Wiley. Its success is due in large partto the character, influence, and judgment of its presidents. It has erected cottage homes in connection with thecolleges of the Freedmens Aid Society, provided for thework in Utah a building at a cost of $6000, and nine otherbuildings, besides maintaining mission schools in twelveplaces, and establishing the Lucy Webb Hayes Training-school for deaconesses in Washington, D. C, in honor ofMrs. Rutherford B. Hayes, its president during the firstnine years of its history. It also established missio
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