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Episcopal Church Women in NC
Category: The Story Goes On
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The death of Miss Kate Cheshire has removed from the contemporary scene a woman of great force of character. Member of a family that has given the church in North Carolina many of its best and most beloved leaders, she herself made a distinct place in the tradition. Endowed with charm of manner, a delightful…
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The parish is soon to lose the services of Deaconess Mitchell … [who] has been giving practically all her time to the work at St. Saviour’s, the parish mission. She finds the heat of our Southern climate too great for her. She has done a good work for us, and we regret to give her…
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The interesting question, which has been before the Convention for several years, concerning the right of women to vote in parochial elections, was finally disposed of by a favorable vote, changing the constitution so as to allow women this right where a majority of the present qualified voters express their approval of it. This was…
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Some time ago an appeal was made through The Church Intelligencer to the wealthy and liberal churchmen of this diocese, imploring them to give of their abundance a small mite, to aid a feeble and struggling congregation of ladies in erecting in a community in which the Church is just being planted, as it were, a plain,…
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At Christmas a handsome memorial chair was presented to the Church by a lady now at Patapsco Institute, whose memory we all hold dear – one of the Church’s women. (Source: The Rev. Gilbert Higgs, Parochial Report, Church of The Saviour, Jackson, 1882 Journal of Convention, 129)
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Miss Horner gave a donation and Mr. J. C. Horner presented a beautiful large Bible to St. Cyprian’s Chapel. Mrs. Graham, Mrs. R. W. Lassiter, and Mrs. Gilliam are true friends of this work, bringing the church before the colored people as often as they can. Last Christmas Miss Catharine W. Hilliard sent a beautiful…
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The following is a quotation from a letter written by a lady who is a member of Holy Innocents, Henderson: “I have taken the map of this [Vance] county, and find that out of the nine townships only four have anything that pertains to an Episcopal Church, and, I believe, Sunday School. After the rush…
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Besides the amount above reported in aid of Thompson Orphanage a Thanksgiving Day Box of household articles valued at $19 was sent by the Parish Guild. (Source: The Rev. William H. Meade, Parochial Report, Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill, 1900 Journal of Convention, 81)
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During our Annual Meeting, a special time was set apart for prayers for the President of the United States, and intercession for the peace of the world. The following telegram was sent to the President: “We, the Woman’s Auxiliary to the Board of Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of North Carolina, in…
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In her persona as “Aunt Becky”, Rebecca Cameron, a member of St. Matthew’s, Hillsborough, wrote her “Messengers of Hope” column beginning sometime in the 1890s until September 1922. The Diocesan newspaper was called The Messenger of Hope between October 1889 and September 1909, when the name changed to The Carolina Churchman. The Diocesan Archives has…