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Episcopal Church Women in NC
Category: The Story Goes On
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Of the ‘Ladies Working Society,’ I have to make honorable and grateful mention. Their efforts the past year have been more than ever successful; and in addition to a personal kindness to myself, which I thus take pleasure to acknowledge, they purpose making considerable improvements in the appearance and comfort of their Church, in the…
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The “Female School of Industry” pursues, with characteristic silent, yet efficient perseverance, the benevolent object of its organized association. (Source: The Rev. Jarvis B. Buxton, Parochial Report, St. John’s Church, Fayetteville, 1833 Journal of Convention, 22)
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The Sunday School has been continued; and the Ladies’ Working Society has been successful in their commendable exertions for the benefit of the Church. (Source: The Rev. John Avery, Parochial Report, St. Paul’s Church, Edenton, 1833 Journal of Convention, 28)
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Our Sunday School is in a flourishing condition; and the Industrious Society formed some years since by the Ladies of the Congregation, for charitable purposes, still exists. (Source: The Rev. William N. Hawks, Parochial Report, St. Peter’s Church, Washington, 1832 Journal of Convention, 10)
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The Ladies Working Society has labored with its usual diligence; and the Sunday School has not ceased to pour its blessings on the young, and to train up candidates for the full communion of the Church. (Source: The Rev. William M. Green, Parochial Report, St. Matthew’s Church, Hillsborough, 1832 Journal of Convention, 12)
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The Congregation continues to be indebted for no inconsiderable share of its outward prosperity, to the little band of devoted females constituting what is called ‘the Church Society.’ Among their other benefactions, they have generously appropriated one hundred dollars of their earnings to aid in procuring a Bell, although the accomplishment of their favorite object,…
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The benevolent Institutions connected with the Church, are active and efficient. Among them, the ‘Female Industrious School Association,’ is distinguished, not less for its laudable object, than for the zeal and prudence with which that object is pursued. (Source: The Rev. Jarvis B. Buxton, Parochial Report, St. John’s, Fayetteville, 1832 Journal of Convention, 9)
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A Parish and Sunday School Library have been established, and the Working Society have been able to contribute a considerable sum to the advancement of the interests of the Church. (Source: The Rev. John Avery, Parochial Report, St. Paul’s, Edenton, 1831 Journal of Convention, 10)
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Here also, your Committee would beg leave to direct your attention to those benevolent associations of females which exist in all our larger Congregations, and which, by their silent but efficient course, are yearly fertilizing this portion of the garden of the Lord. Were it practicable to calculate the amount of good derived both to…
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The Female Working Association have diligently prosecuted their object – and the avails of the labor, added to the voluntary subscriptions of the Congregation generally have resulted in the building of a Rectory, now nearly completed. (Source: The Rev. William D. Cairns, Parochial Report, St. James, Wilmington, 1830 Journal of Convention, 10)