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Episcopal Church Women in NC
Category: The Story Goes On
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A society has been formed in this Parish, by the title of the Thompson Orphanage Guild, consisting at present of forty-seven members. This body has a special aim to further the interest of the Thompson Orphanage, and in other ways to promote the prosperity of the Parish in stirring up an interest in all good…
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The above report has a sad blank as the result of our fatal calamity on the night of March 27th, last, when our beautiful church, with Sunday School books, Pipe organ, all the furniture, and the Parish Register was all consumed by fire, the actual loss to the Parish being not less than seven thousand…
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Our Medical missions in China and Africa need assistance. They find it absolutely necessary in many cases to supply proper nourishment as well as medicines to the destitute sick. I have received several requests for such aid. Suppose each of our thirty branches promises to send something for this purpose this year, according to their…
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The new church was consecrated on the 18th day of April, 1894, ten of the Clergy present. In the death of Mrs. Caroline Burgwin Ashe, who was taken from us March 6th, this parish has sustained a great loss. (Source: The Rev. Charles C. Quin, Parochial Report, Calvary Church, Wadesboro, 1894 Journal of Convention, 136)
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From colonial times to the present, African-Americans have affiliated in various capacities with the Episcopal Church. Saint Ambrose Church was established during the post-Civil War era in 1868. By an act of the North Carolina legislature’s 1868-1869 sessions, a lot was granted on the corner of Lane and Dawson Streets for 99 years to Saint…
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Today, February 28, we honor Anna Julia Haywood Cooper. A native of Raleigh, North Carolina, Mrs. Cooper was born August 10, c1859 and died on February 27, 1964. It was while attending St. Augustine Normal School and Collegiate Institute, a school in Raleigh founded by the Episcopal Church to educate African-American teachers and clergy, that she…
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A day school has been taught at Southern Pines the past winter by Mrs. Wheeler, whose salary has been paid by the Massachusetts Branch of the Woman’s Auxiliary. (Source: The Rev. William Walker, Report of the Archdeacon for Colored Work, 1897 Journal of Convention, 112)
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As an Auxiliary we are asked to think of Christian social service not merely as visiting the sick or prisoners, the sending of flowers or clothes and magazines but as a constructive plan for making a better citizenship, for removing the causes leading to crime, poverty, disease and ignorance and helping others to help themselves.…
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I have written the National Church for information concerning the need for recruits, and have the following from Rev. A. B. Parsons, the Associate Secretary: “The opportunities which are before us on the Mission Field never were greater. Evangelistic workers are needed. These should be young women of unquestioned devotion, winning personality, and those with…
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Besides this property, Mrs. Mary S. Henderson has deeded to Trustees a parcel of land near the Vance Cotton Mills, on which St. John’s Chapel is now being built. The Trustees are to reserve a lot each for the chapel, a rectory and a school-house, and hold the funds arising from the sale of the…