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Episcopal Church Women in NC
Category: The Story Goes On
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Mrs. J. W. King keeps the Sunday-school in a healthy condition, and in our Parish school, with the assistance of Miss Annie Jacobs and Mrs. P. A. King, the church is doing a grand work here. The school stands high in the community, and it is patronized by all the different denominations around us. The…
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I desire to acknowledge here the receipt of a very valuable missionary-box from the ladies of St. John’s Parish Guild, Washington City, Mrs. E. C. W. Chubb, Secretary. The box contained, besides many articles of value for my family, a complete outfit for myself, including a handsome surplice and stole, for all of which they…
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The Ladies’ Aid Society, organized January 1st, 1882, has, through its exertions, paid an old debt upon the church of $104.50; also an old debt upon the organ of $109. (Source: The Rev. S. P. Watters, Parochial Report, Grace Church, Morganton, 1882 Journal of Convention, 159)
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In response to a call of the Rector of St. James’s Parish, Rev. Mr. Bush, eight ladies, including one visitor, assembled with him in the Vestry Room. He proposed to them to form a society, which should be a part of the Diocesan Branch of the Woman’s Auxiliary to the Board of Missions. This was…
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Last year I asked the women of the diocese for a special Jubilee Offering of one thousand dollars. I now report one thousand and fifty dollars as the result of that appeal. It has been decided by the Bishop and the Diocesan Officers to give this sum to the Mission at Selma; and with the…
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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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Through the activity of Mr. S. S. Nash and Miss Kate Cheshire, from Tarboro, this work has been well kept up, and their influence for good is widely felt in all that neighborhood. Their work there clearly proves what earnest lay people may do for the extension of God’s true and holy church. (Source: The…
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After this service the Bishop [Cheshire] spoke to the women in words of appreciation and gratitude of the work which they are doing for his diocese and for the Church at large. He told how the Church was depending more and more upon the work of its women; and seeing how the sphere of woman’s…
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We have now at Micadale a very valuable teacher, Miss Mary B. Skellie, who is sustained by kind friends at the north. She conducts admirably the very large Sunday school, and the large day school of this Mission, and she and her friend, Miss Birdsall, are most useful helpers in the church work of this…
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A faithful and devoted daughter of the Church has presented this Parish with a handsome Stone Font, and by her unceasing efforts and devotion, is doing much in other respects to promote the welfare of the Parish. I take this opportunity of expressing my thanks to an aged lady member of the Parish for kindnesses…