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Show ficiaries. For over twenty years this continued to be a contributory fund and the vacillations of the prune crop were a real interest to the Board. One of the incidents of this year was the February meeting, which was held on the decks of the Morning Star, the Micronesian Missionary Ship, while she was at anchor in the Alameda Estuary. In 1899 Mrs. Jewett resigned the presidency after nine years of service, and became Branch Secretary carrying on also faithfully the weekly column in The Pacific, which had been a part of the Board Work since 1877. Succeeding Mrs. Jewett as president was Mrs. Albert P. Peck, wife of the medical missionary in Shantung, who had taken up residence in Oakland to put her children in school, and whose interest in the Board had been manifested in many bright helpful addresses on missionary subjects. By 1902 the two thousand dollars raised as a Twentieth Century Fund was completed, the Cradle Roll was receiving more and more enthusiastic support, and definite emphasis was being laid upon the importance of missionary literature and subscriptions to the missionary periodicals. These years also formed a period of increasing contact with workers on the field, due to the visits of our own missionaries, sending out of new workers, and the sight of those whose work we assisted. Miss Gunnison returned from Japan, and Miss Denton came home on furlough; Mj^ss Barker and Miss Perkins from India, Miss Wilson from Micronesia, of those most closely connected with us, returned to our midst, while from the fields the Board assisted came Mrs. Dorward from Africa, Mr. and Mrs. Hall from Shansi, China, and Mrs. William Gulick from San Sebastian, Spain, to put us in closer touch with their stations. The Board's growth in this decade was symbolized by the increased efficiency at home and on the field, and by the widening of its borders, which were extended to take in Foochow, China, and the adoption of ]\Iiss Jean Brown as our Kindergarten missionary there, and Sivas, Turkey, and the sending of Miss Nina Rice of Pomona, Calif., to the Girls' Boarding School. [ 21 ] |