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Episcopal Church Women in NC
Category: The Story Goes On
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The fall has come and with it a deep interest that something shall be done within the year toward uplifting the conditions surrounding this institution. The women of the Thompson Orphanage Guild of Charlotte are taking the first step toward this direction; but they cannot step far without your assistance nor do they wish to.…
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At a recent meeting of the Diocese of Lexington, a commission made a report in answer to a petition to make women eligible to seats in the Diocesan Convention. The commission declined to recommend such a step in absence of similar action on the part of the General Convention. Let those who vote for woman…
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Be ye delegate or simply friend of the Orphanage, Charlotte longs for your presence and wants to give you a royal welcome. If the Charlotte Guild so longs for these good things at the Orphanage it is because her eyes have ever been tormented with the bad. It is not quixotic to say that although…
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In truth, women were critical to the organization of St. Luke’s in 1823 and every stage of its growth thereafter. Ladies working societies had existed at St. Luke’s in its earliest years, and they raised funds for various projects and improvements through the antebellum period. The St. Cecilia Society was composed of those who sought…
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The Woman’s Guild, named St. Elizabeth’s, has done notable work in behalf of the new organization, and it was through their efforts the enterprise was started. It is bending its energies towards raising money for the purchase of a suitable lot on which to build a house of worship. They have abundant enthusiasm and ability,…
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Part III We need the money of our men, but more than their money we need the men themselves – their hearts, their hands, their feet, their tongues! But will our men keep their crowns? Or will they suffer our noble women to take them? Somebody must wear them. If the men will not, the…
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Part II … When our men awake and rush to God’s waiting fields of labor, as soldiers, athirst for glory and victory, fling themselves upon bloody battlements of carnage, the Church will stand erect and gather to herself earth’s millions, clothing them rejoicingly in garments of eternal redemption. It is man, not woman, Christ, not…
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The long and faithful journey of Catharine Cornelia Perry Weston, daughter of an Episcopal priest, wife of an Episcopal priest, mother of an Episcopal priest, and great aunt of an Episcopal priest, began in 1884 and ended in 1965. … (She) was head of the Woman’s Auxiliary and active in many other programs of the…
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Part I I regret to be compelled to report that the Men’s Missionary movement, upon which were laid strong hopes for the future, has not fulfilled the purpose and promise of its creation. No new leagues, so far as I know, have been organized, and those formerly begun have not made themselves felt in any…
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The Mission school which we were able to open last October has been very successful under the direction of our Mission teacher Miss Cornie S. Young, a most devoted and Christian young woman. The community is small and sparsely settled, but the school is destined to do much good if it can only be continued.…