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Episcopal Church Women in NC
Category: The Story Goes On
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[NOTE: In his November 26, 1985 memo to Diocesan Council Lex Mathews attached background information for the “Women’s Issues Task Force’s Diocesan Scholarship for Women 35 and Older.”] At the January 3, 1986 meeting the Task Force had a sad event to discuss. The Rev. Lex Mathews had died in December, victim of a faulty…
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I recently wrote to previous recipients for their comments about how the scholarship has affected their lives. Here is an excerpt from one woman’s letter: When one has been out of school for several years and has been working in a dead-end, low-paying job, depression and self-depreciation find a secure home. The Lex Mathews Scholarship…
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A memory of the early years of board meetings of the Chapel Hill Drug Action Committee: I remember feeling frustrated and discouraged at the monumental task of providing services for homeless runaways or kids on drugs, and having Lex [Mathews] answer me with booming laughter. He had the gift of not taking himself or others…
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Lex was a charismatic man who could have gathered admiring women around himself and used them to carry out social ministries while he personally wielded power in the church’s political structure. Good works would have been done and few women would have complained. But this was not his way. He perceived that the gifts of…
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On the first Sunday in Lent I visited Durham, celebrated the Holy Eucharist in the morning, and in the afternoon said Evensong and catechized the children of the Sunday-school. The next day I visited the day-school taught by Miss Dancey. (Source: The Rev. William Walker, Report of the Archdeacon in Charge of Colored Work, 1891…
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Miss Lillie H. Hill of Pittsboro, after serving three and a half years in this community [Leaksville-Spray, now Eden] has gone to take up a very interesting work at Southern Pines under the direction of Rev. Harry O. Nash. Miss Hill did a very useful and self sacrificing work at Spray for a year and…
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In The Spirit of Missions for October, 1906, there is an interesting article by the late Miss Kate Cheshire in which there appears the following paragraph: “This little log church (Knollhurst) is in the heart of the woods. By the inspiration of the one Churchwoman (Mrs. C. R. Wall) of the community, it was built…
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A notable landmark in the history of the Order of the Daughters of the King will be reached this year – the Jubilee Anniversary of its founding. Fifty years ago, at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, New York City (now the Church of the Resurrection), the members of a small Bible class, led my…
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Since the appointment of a national leader by the Department of Religious Education in 1929 the work among the isolated has become a definite part of the program of nearly every diocese and district. The president of the Woman’s Auxiliary in the Diocese of North Carolina is eager to enlarge and intensify this work in…
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“The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein.” I am awed, almost to the point of paralysis, by the power of that statement and by the urgency and the magnitude of the task – Caring for God’s Creation… . This afternoon we will hear about Christian responsibility…