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&33s & J SPECIAL COUNCIL NUMBER By Our missionary news * I &->-, \ . Jm ; - - -•. - - Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2013 http://archive.org/details/ourmissionarynewOOwoma % w' WSjam Qta^ * » VsWw*ft<J X,. ^1 n\ ^Mk^$f .4 To the Auxiliary W^omen of the Hfomans Missionary Society North- Carolina Conference M. E. Church, South This Council Number of Our Missionary News Is Lovingly Dedicated In Grateful Appreciation of Their Loyal Devotion, Their Sacrificial Givin and Their Faithful Service in Promoting the Cause of Missions In Our Church (r MRS. F. F. STEPHENS President Woman's Missionary Council THE NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE WELCOMES THE COMING OF COUNCIL The North Carolina Conference has celebrated its 48th" birthday ! Quite grown-up are we and we are proud to boast ofour years and of the fact that we are one of the Council's oldest daughters. The Western North Carolina Conference shares with us this heritage, for it was not until 36 years ago that N. C. Methodism found itself in two Conferences. About, midway the State a line .appeared running North and South, which said, all of you Methodists on the west side shall belong to the Western North Carolina Conference and all of you on the east side shall belong to the North Carolina Conference. So the twin sister Conferences have grown and devel-oped, inspired by the same faith and love and interests. From Manteo to Murphy, there has flowed the purest Anglo-Saxon blood of America. From the blue of the mountains to the blue of the Atlantic, there has lived a people whose greatest asset has been its religious faith. Methodism has played a conspicuous part in the de-velopment of the State of North Carolina. As North Carolina was first to know of an attempt at a permanent settlement ; first to know of a white child born on the American Continent; first of the 13 Colonies to declare independence and first to have a "Tea-party" —even so North Carolina can claim some first things in the history of the Methodists of the South. Among these was the first Annual Conference of the Methodist Church in America, which was held on April 20, 1785, in the home of Green Hill, near Louisburg, N. C. ; among the first Woman's Missionary Societies be-fore the formal organization was one at Franklin, N. C, in 1877; the first Children's Missionary Society formally organized was the Rosebuds, which was given its consti-tution and by-laws and charter members in Clatesville, N. C, January 1st, 1879. This was done by Mrs. Thomas H. Campbell, a preacher's wife, of the Virginia Con-ference. Loyalty to the plans for missionary work as made by higher authority has ever been true of the N. C. Con-ference. One of the five leading Conferences of the Woman's Missionary Council, the N. C. Conference has poured its thousands of dollars into the General Treasury and not on£. penny have we asked from it for ourselves. We are claiming no credit for that, however—why should we ask for it ? For North Carolina has the smallest per cent foreign population of any state in the Union ; it is a state that is doing more for the education of the negro than any other, that has an excellent rural population ; that has no con-gested city problems; that has a State Welfare program that is attracting the attention of the Nation. For years we listened to the claims of other Confer-ences that had great Mission Institutions and problems, before we expressed our desire for Council meeting out loud. The North Carolina Conference was really happy when this invitation was accepted last year in Tulsa. A welcome from the depths of the great heart of a great Conference awaits the coming of Council at Raleigh. Fifteen thousand of adult, young people and children, that make up the membership of the N. C. Conference would enjoy expressing their welcome to so fine a body of choice spirits as are found in the Woman's Missionary Council. Such visitors will bring to us richest blessings that words and figures cannot estimate and which time alone can ever value. But, the Council members will not visit us as strangers, but as sisters in the great priesthood of God's service. Minds and hearts that think alike and beat together for the one purpose of helping to bring the world to Christ make us one. . Then too, some of the members of Council will be com-ing "back home" for they are daughters of the "Old North State," others will come as grand-daughters and great grand-daughters of this old State that has contributed much through her sons and daughters to other states. Raleigh, our beautiful Capital City, will be but the centralized loving welcome that the entire North Carolina Conference will feel. Raleigh is a small city of beauti-ful homes, of genuine hospitality; a city of schools and colleges and of veal culture; a city small enough to know the Council and large enough .to serve its needs. The folks "away clown home" are so happy that such beloved real "kin folks" are coming to see us. March 10-17th will lie a gala week for the Woman's Missionary Society of the North Carolina Conference. The heartiest (if welcomes is gives to the sessions of the Woman's Missionary Council of 1926. May Edla Smith Early, President N. C. Conference. A Welcome to Edenton St. Church and Raleigh The Woman's Missionary Society of Edenton St. ( lmrch, Raleigh, welcomes most cordially the 1926 Coun-cil meeting. We feel that the presence of these conse-crated women in our midst will prove a blessing to our missionary societies, to our church, and to our community. We know that we will be spiritually enriched and men-tally stimulated. We welcome the Council to our hearts and to our homes. Mary King White, President Woman's Society. Tiro OUR MISSIONARY NEWS REV. W. A. STANBURY Edenton Street Church counts it one of the great privi-leges of her long history to be hostess to the Woman's Missionary Council. She expects that the presence here of hundreds of the most consecrated workers hi our con-nection will be an inspiration to her own life. She looks fiii-ward with joy to the messages which the speakers will bring. She anticipates with a peculiar and tender pleasure the presence of the young women who have laid themselves mi the altar of Christian service, and who will be here publicly dedicated to that service. She opens her heart to the many visitors and says to all that she is glad they are coming. But her chief hope is that she may serve. It is her desire and prayer that her buildings, her homes, and her people, offered freely to the Council, may contribute by ibis service to the growth of (bid's Kingdom in the whole world. She prays the Father's blessings on the Council, ami. in the name of His dear Son, she bids all a Chris-tian welcome. Sincerely, W. A. Stanbury, Pastor. Western North Carolina Conference Welcomes Council Our sister Conference of N'orth Carolina Woman's Mis-sionary Society is to be congratulated on the great privi-lege which is theirs in being hostess to the Woman's Mis-sionary Council, which will meet in Raleigh on March 10-17. We of the Western Xorth Carolina Conference, Woman's Missionary Society are likewise fortunate in be-nest- door neighbors to the Conference in which this great gathering of elect women of Southern Meihodism is to take place. This fact should insure a large attendance of missionary workers from this, and other neighboring Conferences, in addition' to those whose official relation to the Council require their presence; for this is an unusual opportunity, and one that owing to the large ex-tent of territory covered by the activities of this body of consecrated workers in the Master's vineyard does not often present itself to us who dwell so far East of the Mis-sissippi River, since honors must be divided by meeting from time to time in different sections of country occupied by the Southern Methodist Church, of which the Council is one of the chief auxiliaries in carrying forward the work of the Kingdom. Any community in which this organization holds its sessions is greatly blessed through the influence which emanates from these earnest conse-crated workers, and from the inspiration kindled in the hearts of all who are privileged to participate in the up-lifting ideals of service presented from day to day. Surely every worker who attends will return to her home with new zeal and renewed consecration to the advancement of the great missionary cause represented by these our most welcome visitors. Whether those who make long journeys from the west and southwest, or those from homes nearer by—may one and all feel assured of our gladness in their presence among us. Lucy H. Robertson, President, Woman 's Missionary Society W. N. C. Conference. EPENTON STREET CHURCH OUR MISSIONARY NEWS Three THE ROLL OF OUR DISTRICTS Durham District The Durham District is made up of five counties, with 31 adult auxiliaries in these counties. The adult societies raised for all purposes in in 1925, $6,009.68 of -which $638.7.7 is for the Belle Bennett Fund. We have a Person County Federation, this was begun by Mrs. B. G. Thompson, and is now being carried on by Mrs. K. L. Street. To me this is the most effective way of reaching the rural auxiliaries. These busy women can-not go to conference, and not often a District meeting,- but they attend the county meetings, and take great pride in entertaining it when it is held in their own church. Caswell county also had a county meeting last year which was well attended. The Durham District supports a Bible woman, who is Miss Alice Green's helper. Trinity, Memorial, Front St. Burlington, and Roxboro are the societies that contribute to this fund. - Four societies, Oak Grove, Calvary, Concord and Leas-burg, are entitled to have their names in the Belle Bennett Book of Remembrance. The societies have each paid $5.00 per member on this fund. The Lillie Duke Scholarship in Carolina Institute, Seoul, Korea, is paid by Miss Duke's Sunday School Class. Gregson Society has also taken a scholarship in Union Bible Training School. Every Society in the Durham District sent a report this quarter. I am very proud of this, for it shows that they are all at work. In sending reports, so many write such kind letters, and reading between the lines, I know of their consecration and devotion to the work. We have in Roxboro one of the oldest societies in the Conference. It was organized September 25th, 1879. We still 'have the minutes of that first meeting and the roll of its fifteen charter members, only one of which is living today. These charter members are the mothers and grand-mothers of some of our present members. Not once in its history has this Society ever disbanded, or gone to sleep. We have on roll 107 members at the present time. May God bless Durham District, and may 1926 mean much in a missionary way to every society and every in-dividual member, is my prayer. Mrs. Mamie Meiritt. District Secretarv. Elizabeth City District The Elizabeth City District is truly glad to have Coun-cil with us this year, and in behalf of its auxiliaries and members its District Secretarj- extends cordial greetings of welcome to every member of Council. With two new auxiliaries this year we have 32 in all, with four counties organized and doing good work. The district supports two scholarships at Scarritt, and one in Korea. The outgoing missionary, Miss Ruth Merritt, of whom we are all so proud, and whom we love very dearly, is supported by this district. The total amount for 1925 sent to Conference Treasurer was $4,711.66. The Dis-trict was revived and strengthened in every way by the visits of Miss Bess Combs and Miss Daisy Davies in the fall, and as a result, possibly two auxiliaries have pledged to support a special, each, this year. Mrs. George Hawkins, Secretary. Fayetteville District Fayetteville District sends loving greetings and ex-tends a warm welcome to the splendid body of women that compose our "'Missionary Council". We fully appreciate the honor you conferred upon the "Old North State" when yon accepted our invitation. May this be the very best Council meeting ever held and may its influence for lasting and spiritual uplift to our beloved work be far reaching and permanent. Fayetteville has the honor to be the home of the first treasurer of the Woman's Missionary Society of the North Carolina Conference, and our loyal women are still "carrying on" from the seed of stewardship which she so zealously planted. The outstanding feature of the District, in my mind, is the fact that every adult auxiliary has observed the "'Week of Prayer" for eight years. Our slogan. •"Prayer. Power, Progress." has been and is help-ful. I feel that there are only three other words equally as important. ''Come, Tarry. Go." Upon this command rests our missionary success, and we should "think on these things." We have two missionaries now in active service. Miss Alice Green and Deaconess Ellen Gainey. We love them and pray that God may use them mightily. At the meeting of the North Carolina Conference in Fay-etteville in 1921, "Our Missionary News" was born. We are proud of its influence and its wonderful educational value. We can gleam from its pages inspirational as well as much spiritual food. Our Miss Lamb's Bible Lesson each month needs no commendation. It is but her con-secrated life shown in the mirror of God's inspired word. We appreciate Miss Lamb, and are proud to feel that Fay-etteville District through her contributes the greatest asset to the North Carolina Conference. Mrs. Emma. L. Hunter. Secretary. New Bern District Welcome to Raleigh ! To the Secretary of the New Bern District there is personally an added pleasure in having the Council come to North Carolina, It was a rare privilege I had in being a visitor to the Council in Tulsa—and I hope to see many familiar faces, and renew pleasant associations enjoyed there. Four OUR MISSIONARY NEWS I shall miss Mrs. Elza—my companion, Mrs. Reynolds, Secretary of Bluefield District, and I were fortunate enough to secure the same seats, just next the bar, each day, and in that way I met Mrs. Elza who was very patient and kind in answering questions and giving- information as to "Who's Who" of the Council. Mrs. Elza was to have con-ducted the worker's meeting the opening day of Council; nor do I forget Mrs. Carre of New Orleans, who likewise showed kindness to the visiting stranger. The New Bern is a long narrow district, covering five whole counties and parts of four others—New Bern, Golds-boro and Kinston constitute our cities. New Bern, one of the oldest towns in the State, boasts of much that is interest-ing from an historical point, and Methodism is very strongly intrenched there. The Woman's Missionary So-ciety has two strong auxiliaries in Centenary Church—the Elizabeth Hendren and the Jane K. Meadows. A member of the Elizabeth Hendren supported one of our girls at Scarritt last year, and the Society is con-tributing $100.00 towards the scholarship of another at Duke University this year ; while the Jane K. Meadows is supporting our own district girl, Katie Herndon, at Scarritt. Queen Street Auxiliary of Kinston supports Mrs. Ozaka, a Bible woman in Japan. In Goldsboro we have three adult auxiliaries, each doing splendid work. St. Paul is the largest with a membership of 216, perhaps the largest in the Conference. This Auxiliary is doing much in playing the big sister towards the new societies that have been organized this year as a result of the County Federation of Woman's Missionary Societies. They have paid $645.00 to the Institutional Church in Huchow, China, also $100.00 to-wards the Scholarship at Duke University. There is a peculiar work being done at Mt. Olive ; it is known as the "Summer Circle," and is composed of girls at home from school for vacation. Dues are collected and all funds placed in bank at interest. The fund bears the name of a member who is eagerly looking forward to entering Scarritt. Last year. 1924, the New Bern led the Conference in percentage of increase. We report for 1925 not only a 15 per cent, but a 25 per cent increase. Our quota for the Belle Bennett Memorial for the three years is also in full. Five new adult, one Y. P. and two Jr. Societies have been added this year. Mrs. Flora M. Kendall, Secretary. Raleigh District The Raleigh District is looking forward witli great eagerness to the Council Meeting, which will be held in Raleigh in March. It will not only be near enough for a great many to attend but will be right in our midst, and as a district we should take every advantage of this great opportunity. During the year several Group Meetings have been held in the District, in June the Wake County Missionary meet-ing was held in Jenkins Memorial Church, Raleigh, with practically every Missionary Society in the county repre-sented. Sixty of the smallest girls and boys from the Methodist Orphanage were guests at the dinner served by the women of the church. Vara Herring, County Chair-man, presided over the meeting which was opened with devotional services by the pastor, Rev. W. H. Brown. Mrs. Harvey Boney, Corresponding Secretary of the Wo-man's Missionary Society of the North Carolina Methodist Conference, and Mrs. C. D. Rigsbee, of Durham, Superin-. tendent of the Young People's Work, gave interesting talks. The Granville county meeting was held at Salem Church, June 26th. Rev. W. B. Strickland conducted the devotional services. Mrs. J. G. Shotwell, assisted by Miss Helen White, pre-sided over the meeting. The day's program was taken up with addresses, musical numbers and readings. Several beautiful solos and duets were rendered. The Young People's and Children's part was especi-ally good. We were fortunate in having Miss Vara Her-ring, Mrs. C. D. Rigsbee and Mrs. E. M. Snipes, Confer-ence officers with us. Miss Herring gave a fine and help-ful address on "Social Service Work," Mrs. Rigsbee gave an interesting and inspiring address on "Young People's Work." Mrs. Snipes conducted the noon devotional. The Johnson County meeting was held at Selma in October, several Conference officers attended this meeting, which was presided over by Mrs. E. B. McCullers, Chair-man of the County Work. An interesting and instructive program had been planned. Miss Frances Burkhead ad-dressed the meeting, she confined herself to the city of Sooehow and her work there in the Embroidery Mission. The singing of Mrs. E. W. McCullers was greatly enjoyed. Dr. Z. Hinohara, of Central Church, Kobe, brought greet-ings from his home church to the members of the church here. The Selma Auxiliary provided a delicious luncheon. The Franklin-Vance County meeting was held at Trinity Church near Louisburg the 10th of October. This meeting was presided over by Miss Helen White. The de-votional services were conducted by Rev. J. C. Williams, who also gave a welcome to everyone present. Mrs. J. E. McGill, of the Plank Chapel Auxiliary, gave a short talk "How to Make Our Missionary Meetings Worth While." Mrs. E. B. Ferguson, of Louisburg, gave such an interesting talk on "Children's Work." Miss Mary Rogers, of Plank Chapel, conducted the noon devotional. A bountiful dinner was served by the women of Trinity Church. Miss Mary Pescud gave a talk on "Stewardship." It is always a benediction to have "Miss Mary" with us. Miss Herring gave a talk on "Social Service." Mrs. Ramond Smith told "How to Interest Young People." A round table discussion was held. The meeting was very in- OUR MISSIONARY NEWS Five formal. Problems were discussed generally by everyone present. With these four County Meetings every Auxiliary in the Raleigh District was reached. Through the summer months the district Secretary with Mrs. J. G. Shotwell, Chairman of Granville County Missionary work, visited all churches in the County and enlisted about sixty names in the Gibson Auxiliary. None of the women were mem-bers of an organization and we hope in this way to get them interested in Missionary literature. We had fine cooperation from the ministers in charge. In the district there are several Bible women supported, the Louisburg Auxiliary supports a Bible Woman in Korea, ..Miss Mary Jackson supports a Bible Woman in China. Edenton Street directs pledge to Reavis School in China. The Maiy' Pescud supports a scholarship in Brazil by name of Mary Pescud. The Gary Auxiliary directs pledge to Alice Cobb Bible School in Korea, and to Vashti Indus-trial School, Thomasville, Ga. The Banks Auxiliary sup-ports a scholarship in Brazil. The Oxford Auxiliary feels a great loss in having to give up Mrs. Snipes, she was President two years, and had charge of the Bible Study Class, besides acted as Bureau of Information, being a Conference officer she was so well informed on all Missionary work. Where this dis-trict loses, auother gains. Miss Helen White, District Secretary. Rockingham District The Rockingham District most cordially welcomes the Woman's Missionary Council to our Conference, and we extend also the far-famed hospitality of the splendid cap-ital city of our state. Our. District will lose two Auxiliaries to the Fayette-ville District by a change made at the last Annual Con-ference in the boundary lines of the District. Already we are trying to offset any decrease in the number of Auxiliaries by organizing new ones. Xorman is the first new x\uxiliary added to the list. The district pays the salaries of two missionaries; sup-ports a Bible Woman in Wonsan, Korea; pays the Patty Leak, Lillian Gill and Sallie Mae Teachey scholarships; and supports a teacher in Joy Hardie Bible School, Won-san, Korea. Sallie Lou McKinnon, in China, and Euline Smith, in Korea, are both from this District, and there is another young lady in college now who is a student volunteer and will begin her medical course this fall. The six counties of the District, under their respective Chairmen, are doing splendid work. The long-felt-for some person, or persons, to cultivate the unorganized churches and stimulate interest in the work of the mis-sions seems to have reached a happy solution in the work of the County Federation officers and in years to come we will reap results from their faithful services. Only one of our Memorials has been given any special attention this year. Seven Auxiliaries will have their names enrolled in the Bennett Book of Rememberance for having paid five dol-lars per member to the Bennett Memorial Fund. Two of the Auxiliaries averaged more than ten dollars each per member. The district as a whole has averaged more than four dollars per member in its gifts to this fund. All together auxiliaries, for the long pull in 1926! Let's enroll all the auxiliaries in the Rockingham Dis-trict in the Bennett Book of Remembrance. Its easy to do. We are planning for the best year the District has ever had in 1926. Mrs. B. C. Thompson, Secretary. Washington District Washington District is very glad to have the 1926 meeting of the Woman's Missionary Council held within the territory of its Conference. The women of the District are claiming for themselves a part of the blessing which the meeting will bring to our state. After the Council meeting we shall have strength to go forward more bravely in His work. We have a very definite part in this meeting : our own daughter, Elizabeth Bass, is to be consecrated and assigned to a field for missionary service. Our joy in Elizabeth is exceeded, however, by her joy in the privilege of thus serv-ing her Master, of being allowed to tell of Him to those who have never heard. Funds for her use are easily se-cured at any place in the District. When she is ready to go to a field we shall provide her outfit and more. Results from the work of the adults in the District are generally satisfactory. During 1925 we sent to our Con-ference Treasurer $6,126.33. Our pledge was $6,000.00! Twenty-four of the twenty-seven Airxiliaries observed the Week of Prayer. They are surely more able to carry on the work after this intensive prayer season. The finan-cial results are pleasing also. Some Gibson Auxiliary work is being done here. We plan to do much along this line during 1926. There are many churches in the District in which an organization is not practical but the women want this reading course. They shall have it and also an opportunity to add their gifts to the offering of the Dis-trict. The Woman's Missionary Society of the Xorth Caro-lina Conference met in our District in 1925. Nothing has added more to our spiritual growth than this meeting. We hope they may come again soon. Again we say to each Council member and visitor, ' ' We are glad to have you with us." Mrs. W. C. Vincent, Secretary. Weldon District The Weldon District has more auxiliaries than any of the other Districts, and each one of them with every individual member joins their Secretary in extending heart- Six OUR MISSIONARY NEWS iest welcome to every member of Council singly arid col-lectively. We count it a pleasure, a privilege, and a benediction to have you in our Conference. "We have been asked to tell what we consider the out-standing thing or things contributing to the success of our District work. In the Weldon District this is reckoned by all to be our well developed country organization, now several years old. As is my custom at this time of the year, I have planned for the meeting of my six county chairmen next week (January 25), to map out our work for 1926. This is the fourth year of our County organization (though I have vised it more or less ever since I took the work in 1916), and you can see what it has meant in de-veloping our district. At the close of 1921 we have forty auxiliaries with eight hundred eighteen members, contri-buting $3,600.00 to missions, and my books, just closed for 1925, show fifty-eight auxiliaries with one thousand eighty-six members, contributing more than $5,450.00 to missions, an increase of nearly 50 per cent; for the ten years the increase has been 230 per cent. Our County meetings are held from two to four times for each group. I do not try to attend all as I am not needed. Many of our Conference officers have attended more than one of these meetings and taken all phases of the work into every part of the district. When these are not available they use their own women, pastors, and brethren so they are helping to develop the whole church. Last June we had Dr. Matthews, of Scarritt College, come to Warrenton for one of our meetings before he went to Duke University for the Pastor's School, and introduced him to our Conference officers, Mrs. Boney and Miss Her-ring, who then had him at the Durham District meeting and in Raleigh. He gave us an inspirational address that will continue with us for all time. I made the Circuit of the District in the fall beginning with Mrs. J. L. Midgette, at Scotland Neck, on September 2nd, where we were wonderfully impressed by the mes-sage from our own Scarritt daughter, Lota Leigh Draughon who will be consecrated at our Council Meeting in Raleigh. This gives the Council a double welcome from us. On September 5th, Saturday, Mrs. J. C. Burwell held her Vance-Warren meeting at Middleburg and the special fea-ture of the occasion was the address by Miss Bess Combs. She thrilled her audience and she said she was thrilled by the crowd which filled the church. Miss Combs, the next Saturday, September 12, spoke as delightfully to our peo-ple at Williamston, where Mrs. M. B. Gillam was holding her Bertie-Martin meeting. The crowd was not so large but just as appreciative. On October! 4, Mrs. E. C. Hobbs" held the Hertford meeting at Ahoskie, and again we were rained out, but the meeting was worthwhile. October 15th, Mrs. J. B. Stephenson held her fourth and last meeting for Northampton at Sharon Church. The special work they have taken upon themselves is the college training of one of their own girls who will go to Scarritt next fall and prepare for the mission field. I hope we shall soon have our own representatives on the field and may the number increase and may we be able tocare for all is the prayer of your humble servant. Amma D. Graham, Secretary. Wilmington District Though away down in the Southeastern corner of the State, dear Council member, we want you to know that the Wilmington District is here and shares with the rest of the Conference in welcoming you to our State. Our District extends from the coast inland for over fifty miles and is nearly seventy-five miles from north to south—comprising all of seven counties and corner of two others. Here side by side we find the largest county in the state and the smallest, and strange to say the three larg-est Auxiliaries are in the smallest county. Much of the territory in the two largest counties is undeveloped swamp land and is sparsely populated. There is one city, Wil-mington, ten small towns (with apologies to Clinton) and many villages and rural communities. Two counties, Duplin and New Hanover, have County federations and it is worthy of note that of our twenty-five Auxiliaries, thirteen are in these two counties. The total amount sent the Conference Treasurer from the Wilmington District in 1925 was $3,519.45. While this is small in comparison with other districts it is not" discouraging in the face of the large demands made upon the women's organizations in the Building program on many of our charges. The amount contributed for local purposes was $7,193.21. Methodism has paralleled secular history in our section. While we do not claim that John Wesley was ever here, we do have records of the visit of Prances A.sbury to old Front Street Church (now Grace). We believe his spirit of devotion still shines in the itinerant pastors who travel over some of these hard circuits, having as many as eight churches in one charge—real mission territory. The pastors as a rule are in S3inpathy with our work and our Presiding Elder is our right hand. Mrs. E. R, Clark, Secretary. OUR MISSIONARY NEWS Seven WORDS OF WELCOME FROM SOME OF NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE'S DAUGHTERS ON THE FIRING LINE As you honor the State of North Carolina and particu-larly the City of Raleigh by accepting an invitation to hold your Annual Session there, since I am a North Caro-linian and one sent out by the Council, it would give me great joy to meet each of" you at th'e station and welcome you in person but I am a North Carolinian "far removed," yea, in far off Korea, so my welcome to you must be in spirit rather than in person, but in my thoughts today I am saying to each and every one of you, "A hearty wel-come. ' ' Ida Hankins, Holston Institute and Mary Helen School, Songdo, Korea. # # # It is probable that there was no group in the "con-nection" who received the news that Council would meet in Raleigh in 1926 with more thrills of real happiness and appreciation than North Carolina's daughters scattered about over this country and the other countries of the world ! Daughters who are giving themselves in service trying to do their share in helping this old world to be-come better and brighter; daughters whose labors have been made possible thru the support of those godly women who now are to honor the "Old North State" by their presence. As one of these daughters, I wish to express my happi-ness in the anticipation of the visit of the members of the Council. I know very few, personally, yet I love them all and feel very much delighted that they have accepted 'the invitation to be our guests. May God bless them and give them much that is good while they are in the "Land of the Long Leaf Pine." Mary Ella McCall, Paine College, Augusta, Ga. # # * Greetings from one of your "Tar Heel" daughters who according to good old Carolina traditions is stick-ing to her job here in Louisville, Ky. I am so happy that my state is at last to have the wonderful inspiration that a meeting of" the Woman's Missionary Council is sure to bring. I know the welcome you receive will make you want to stay in the "Land of the Long Leaf Pine". As a deaconess I have been under Council appointment ever since there- has been a Woman's Missionary Council, having been consecrated at the last meeting of the Wo-man's Home Missionary Conference in April 1910. My work is again at Wesley House where I served the frrst six years of my deaconess life. The work here is very interesting. We carry out a program of Christian Edu-cation which includes Bible study, training in Clmstian leadership, good fellowship clubs, industrial and cultural classes, clean athletics, wholesome recreation, child welfare, and friendly service of what ever sort may come up in the day's work. My service under Council has. been of real joy. I'd like to recommend it to many other young women of my own loved state. Ellen D. Gainey, Wesley House, Louisville, Ky. # # # It is with pride and pleasure that we look forward to the coming of the members of the Woman's Missionary Council to our state. We feel that no greater honor can come to us than to be allowed the privilege of extending to them our hospitality and any service we may be able to render. For years we have wanted this opportunity and now that it has come to us we rejoice in it and feel that God has at last blessed us. To be able to come in contact with these people who live so close to God and who serve Him so faithfully, we feel will be a blessing indeed. We look forward to the inspiration we will get from them that will help us in trying to serve more faithfully in our own field of labor. We love our state, we are proud of her ; to us she is the fairest in all the Union. We hope you will love her too and that your stay in our midst may be a happy one and a blessed one. We extend to you our love and our greet-ings and pray that God's richest blessings may be upon all as we meet in behalf of His work. Mary E. Nichols, Methodist Institute, Richmond, Va. * * # I would rather be in Korea than anywhere I know, but if I could not be here in March, I would choose to be in Raleigh to greet you when you come. How I wish I could be there in person to welcome each of you to "The Old North State," for Council meeting this time. Still, I send you a hearty welcome. You may say I am too far away to welcome you ; in one sense that is true ; in another my greeting should be all the stronger because of the distance it has traveled. Remembering how much the Council meeting at Tulsa meant, and means still to me, I am glad to bid you welcome to the Conference that is dearest to me. I love the Council because of its vision and inspiration and work. I belong to the Council and to North Carolina. That makes me doubly desirous that this meeting go forward in His work. May God bless each of you and the work you are doing. Euline Smith, Songdo, Korea. Eight OUR MISSIONARY NEWS With open arms we welcome you to the ' ' Good Old North State." and bid you take possession of our best, the State's Capital. We assure you that while we are absent in body, we will be present in spirit. May the choicest blessings of the Heavenly Father rest upon each of you and every session of the Council. (See Ephesians 3:14 21.) Yours in Christian service, Rosa May Lowder, Ivey Hospital, Songdo, Korea. When I learned that my own Conference was to have the privilege and honor of entertaining the Council this Spring, my heart rejoiced. Some of the happiest days of my childhood were spent in Raleigh, in Edeuton Street Church and Sunday School. It was here I gave my heart and life to my Saviour and joined the Church, and though I have been away for a number of years, I feel that I have the right to extend greetings and a welcome to this body, to my State, my Conference and my Church. It has been a great joy to be associated with these de-vout women leaders of our Church, for the past five years. Other fields of religious work have been made very at-tractive to me, but I prefer to continue my relations with this body of women which is such a force in our Church, and consider it a wonderful privilege to serve my Master in the field to which I am sent by the Woman's Missionary Council. My three years as Deaconess in the Frederick Avenue M. E. Church, South, of Baltimore, have been very happy ones, and I feel that God has not only blessed me to the people I serve, but my own spiritual life has been deepened and enriched. I hope to be present to greet you women personally. My prayer is that this may be a graci-ous meeting, and that all who attend may be very con-scious of the Christ Himself in every session, guiding every step taken. Jennie C. Congleton, Frederick Ave.. M. E." Church, South, Baltimore, Md. We welcome you as friends and visitors to our State because of the places you hold in our thoughts and af-fections, because of your consecration and world vision, and because of the impetus you will give to the missionary work in our State, and elsewhere. It is through you our missionary work is made possible, and we belive you stand behind us with your support in every way. God grant that this may be the best meeting yet in your history. Since my graduation after Community House Work in Roberdel, X. C. (a cotton mill village), nine years in similar work in St. Louis, among foreign people where by learning them and their customs I appreciate them more, and another period of service in a cotton mill community, I'm now at Bethlehem House, Augusta, Ga., living in the home of the President of Paine College. I find the work at the school and at the Center very interesting, and am expecting the future to reveal results in aiding the inter-racial work in our land. Yours in Christian service, Sarah K. Lowder, Bethlehem House, Augusta, Ga. # # # To The Woman's Missionary Council of the Methodist Episcopal Church. South, its officers, members, and visitors, greetings ! How wonderful to have you come to our home state, and to Raleigh, just at a time when it is possible for me to be there and have a share in the big welcome that is awaiting you! It has been, and is, a great and glorious privilege to be one of our representatives in the "Far East." The hope of Christianity in China today is bigger and brighter than at any time in its history. The great army of young people whose lives have come into vital personal relation with Jesus Christ are following their Captain in such a true and loyal way that those other young people who do not know Him are uneasy and are gathering their forces. We who are helping to hold up the banner of "Life and Truth" in China are not afraid be-cause He is leading on to victory. Alice Green, Scarritt College, Nashville, Tenn. (At home on furlough.) SOME BITS OF HISTORY The following items—"First Bequest to Our Woman's Missionary Society" and "(Extracts from Correspond-ence)." "Woman's Missionary Convention," "First An-nual Report, 1ST!)." "Hardly Half a Million," and "How to Organize an Auxiliary, December, 1878"—are copied from the historical anniversary number of "Our Mission-ary News," December, 1922. They were published in "The Southern Missionary Herald," the only periodical of its kind at that time in Southern Methodism, except the "Advocate of Missions," published first in Richmond, Va., later in Nashville, Tenn., by Rev. S. A. Steel, month older than the Herald, but which was discontinued in June, 1879, its subscription list being turned over to the Herald by its editor. The Herald was edited by Rev. A. R. Raven, of the North Carolina Conference in whatever town his appointment placed him, Rev. H. T. Hudson, Rev. L. S. Burkhead (father of our Miss Frances Burkhead of the Moka Garden Embroidery Mission. Soochow, China, and Mrs. Joseph G. Brown, Raleigh, N. C.) and later Rev. S. A. Steel, being "corresponding editor." A bound copy OUR MISSIONARY NEWS Nine of "The Southern Missionary Herald," including the years 1877-78-79, owned by Mrs. J. A. Dailey, of our Con-ference, a niece of Rev. A. R. Raven, contains many fasci-natingly interesting items of missionary interest, among them being letters and special articles from men and wo-men whose memory we love and honor, most of whom have long since passed away, and announcements of the organ-ization of Conferences and Auxiliaries throughout our Church. First Bequest to Our Woman' Missionary Society (From Miss Helen M. Finlay, of Greenville, Miss.) Just at the close of the year, seemingly like a smile of benediction from the Father, comes to us a precious gift —not large in amount as some calculated, not to be meas-ured by its intrinsic value, but according to the estimate of Him who weigheth by His own standard. A few will tell the simple, pathetic story. Iu the town of Green-ville, Miss., lived a lovely young girl consecrated in heart and purpose to the Master's will; always abounding in good works, full of energy and zeal for missions, but yet fragile as a tropic plant. During the passage of the fear-ful scourge over portions of the South last autumn, the de-stroying angel lingered over her devoted home until there were not left enough living to bury the dead. This pure young sister fell before Death's sickle. But writes a lov-ing friend, "Before yellow fever had fairly fastened itself upon her, she requested her brother to see that $100.00 of her self-earned money — made by teaching a little school—be given to the Woman's Missionary Society to aid in doing what she would gladly have done, had life been spared. The sum has been duly sent, and thus the W. M. Society of the M. E. Church, South, receives its first bequest—baptized with prayers, sanctified through the surroundings and hallowed by blessed memories. Like the "alabaster box of precious ointment" may its perfume fill the whole church, quickening the hearts of our Southern sisters, and whenever the name of Helen M. Finlay is spoken, "let this be told as a memorial of her." Mrs. D. H. McGavock. Extracts From Correspondence Greenville, Miss., May 5, 1879. . . Our dear Helen was the daughter of Dr. John L. Finlay, a physician of unquestioned skill, and greatly beloved by the people ; also grand-daughter of the Rev John Finlay, of Balti-more, who, for many years, had charge of a Baptist church in that city known as "Roundtop" church. Her mother and a large family of sisters and brothers live here in our midst, loved and respected by all, many of them staunch supporters of our church. She gave her heart to God and joined the Methodist Church early in life. 0, she was a precious jewel ! Long ago she would have gone to China if the way had only been opened. She seemed to have a way peculiarly her own of approaching persons when she wanted money for church purposes — and when "Miss Helen" asked, it was enough and the money was given. I am old enough to be her mother—knew her from her almost infant days—and to me she came when anything troubled or delighted her. When her heart first became moved on the doctrine of entire sanctification and consecra-tion to God's work, I can never forget her look as she said, "I hope you won't think me presumptuous;" her delicate little body quivered in every nerve. I took her in my arms and encouraged her to go forward. I wish our whole church to know something of the sacrifice this dear girl made. She gave to the support of our church here not less than $50.00 every year, and all from the work of her own hands. For 15 years she had been a great sufferer. In physical appearance, frail as the most delicate flower, yet no kind of weather kept her from the House of God if the bells rang. I love to think of her in Heaven ! I have two precious daughters there who were Helen's dearest playmates, and I am only waiting all alone for the sum-mons and I know those dear children will be "waiting for me at the beautiful gate." With love and prayers for our missionary work, 1 am your sister in Christian bonds, Mrs. S. Myra Smith, Corresponding Secretary Greenville Auxiliary. How To Organize An Auxiliary. December, 1878 Whenever ten ladies can lie convened for the purpose, let our work be brought before them, their names secured as members, constitution adopted, officers elected, the char-acter of the monthly meetings determined, and a reading circle arranged. To our helpers who may be willing to work, more publicly, we suggest that, as pastors are respon-sible for the oversight of all church work this ought to be under their hand ; therefore appointments and preliminary arrangements should usually be made with them. Pre-pare to explain to them our purpose, plans, work, and relations to the General Missionary Society, and you will hardly ever fail of their hearty sympathy and co-operation. After an address from the pastor, or yourself, ursine the claims of this work organize by the election of a chairman and secretary pro-tern. Let ladies pass through the aisles to take memberships—papers having been provided and marked—and ladies selected to canvass, in a preliminary meeting. As soon as may bo, have the constitution and by-laws read and adopted. Then nominate and elect the officers, after which nothing remains to be done but to arrange for a further canvass for members and subscribers, by committees anions' the ladies of the congregation, and to plan the program for the monthly meetins. This may be a missionary tea sociable or prayer meetins. always with a reading circle, where practicable. Tins may lie better arranged at a subsequent meetins where more time and thought can be given it. Constitution for Auxiliary Societies. Article 1: This Association shall be called the "Wo-man's Missionary Society of - —, auxiliary to the - Conference Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South." Ten OFR MISSIONARY NEWS 2. The object of this society shall be to aid in inter-esting Christian women in the evangelization of heathen women, and in raising funds for this work. 3. Any person paying a regular subscription of one dollar per year, or ten cents per month, may become a member of this society; and any person contributing five dollars per quarter, for one year, or twenty dollars at one time, shall be constituted a life member. 4. The officers of this society shall be a President, one or more Vice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary, Corres-ponding Secretary and Treasurer, who together shall con-stitute an Executive Committee, to administer the affiairs of the society. 5. Meetings of the society for business and communi-cation of intelligence shall be held on the first Friday of each month. The anniversary meetings shall be held on the first Wednesday of April, when the annual report of the secretary and treasurer shall be read and the officers for the ensuing year elected. 6. This constitution may be changed or amended at any regular meeting of the society by a two-thirds vote of the members present, notice of such intention having been given at a previous meeting. Woman's Missionary Convention The First Annual meeting of the General Executive Association of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the M. E. Church. Smith, met according to official an-nouncement in the city of Loiusville, Friday, 16th of May, 1879. About 20 delegates, representing almost all of the Southern States, were present. The treasurer reported the amount collected for the Woman's Missionary Society through the conference from their organization to this time to be $3,719.93. The association voted to send one missionary to aid Miss Rankin in her work. They also appropriated $1,500 for the establishment of a girl's school in Nantsian, ( "hina. under the control of their own associa-tion. Provisional arrangements were made for aid to schools in Brazil and our Mexican border work. The re-ports showed South Carolina ahead in the organization of societies—has over 1,000 members.—(June, 1879.) First Annual Report, 1879 The First Annual Report of the W. F. M. Society of the M. E. Church, South, just published, to which we called attention in last number of this Herald, exhibits the following figures : Conference societies organized, 15 ; Auxiliaries in Conference societies. 207 ; Auxiliaries not in Conference societies, 11—218; number of members, grand total, 5,890. The Foreign work—missionaries : Miss Rankin at Shanghai. China; one boarding school for girls at Shanghai—pupils. 25 ; native Bible women, 6. The total receipts for the year, $4,014.27. Disbursements, $1,- 323.30. Cash on hand. $2,690.97. Appropriations for the ensuing year, $5,040.00; contingent, $1,000.00 more. The payment of $1.00 to the society constitutes a member for one year; the payment of $20.00 constitutes a life member; the payment of $100.00 constitutes an honorary life mem-ber; the payment of $300.00 constitutes an honorary life patron ; the payment of $40.00 supports a girl in school in China one year; the payment of $60.00 supports a Bible woman for one year in China. Copies of this report may be had by addressing Mrs. D. H. McGavock, Cor. Sec, Nashville, Tenn. Nearly Half a Million A careful statistician says that during the past year (1878-79) the various Woman's Foreign Missionary socie-ties of this country have raised for missionary purposes the sum of $438,403.00. To this large sum add $4,014.27, the amount raised by the Woman's Society of the M. E. Church, South, which we think is not included in the general sum-mary. The Presbyterian sisters lead with $87,000; the Northern Methodist sisters come next with $67,000. We know not what sisters occupy the third place. Perhaps our own sisters occupy the last place, but not for long. They have just begun and they have done more than the whole Methodist Church in the United States did the first year of its missionary society. The Christian women of this country will raise half a million next year.—Western Christian Advocate, in Southern Missionary Herald. Sept.. 1879. 11 SOME ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE METHODISTS IN NORTH CAROLINA Methodism came into North Carolina in the early days when the state had little organic life because of the scat-tered settlements over the wide reaches of primeval forests. With few means of communication and little opportunity to know each other the people lived much apart and widely separated from each. The Albemarle country in the north-east was far removed from that of the Cape Fear to the southeast. Both of these had little in common with the settlements in the piedmont section or that over the moun-tains. The Methodists came into each of these sections in a fashion different from the rest. Joseph Pilmoore, an Englishman and a minister in the Anglican church, preached the first Methodist sermon at Currituck Courthouse on September 28. 1772, from the text. ''He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire." However, Robert Williams, another Englishman, known as the Apostle of Methodism in North Carolina and Virginia, introduced organized Methodism in North OUR MISSIONARY NEWS Eleven Carolina two years later. In 1776, the Carolina circuit appears in the minutes covering the Albemarle country and far to the west towards the hill country. This move-ment came in from Virginia. By 1780 the Yadkin circuit was formed. This covered most of the western part of the state and extended over the mountains across the Blue Ridge into Buncombe. The circuit rider had now gone from the east through the pied-mont to the mountains. About 1797, a colored ..preacher, a freedman, trudged south from Virginia with a kit of shoemaker's tools on his back. He was bound for Charleston but stopped at Fay-etteville to preach to the negroes whose degraded moral condition impressed him mightily. This man, Henry Evans, was a powerful exponent of the gospel, and great crowds of the blacks flocked to hear him. The town council, fear-ing insurrectionary fire might flame up in the hearts of the slaves, forbade night assemblies and drove the preacher out of town. He secreted himself across the Cape Fear river in the swamps and slipped over to town in the night in order to preach to hungry hearers. Three times he broke the ice in winter in order to swim the stream to meet his congregation. As a result of his labor, the slaves began to improve in morals and industry—so much so that the town council removed the ban frT»m public preaching and invited the slave evangelist to come back and openly pro-claim his gospel. The final outcome of this effort was the founding of a strong church, which, after the war between the States, was divided and became large congregations of white and colored people, respectively. Methodism came into Wilmington, farther down the Cape Fear, from South Carolina. William Meredeth, in 1798, came as a missionary to the slaves. The large as-semblies of the blacks that flocked to hear him soon aroused the suspicion of the authorities, and the missionary was forbidden to preach to the slaves after sunset. At last the opposition assumed the form of persecution, and the preach-er was put in jail in order to deter him from further effort. But he kept up his preaching. The whites would gather about the jail as well as the blacks, so he was a worse nuisance in jail than on the outside. They gave him his freedom. But the gospel leaven in the hearts of both the whites and the blacks was so wholesome that the one time prisoner was allowed to continue his work and a church resulted. For many years the white and the black mem-bers worshipped in the same building, as was the custom before the Civil War. Early in the Methodist movement in North Carolina, however, the circuit riders were going everywhere and doing much to bring together the widely scattered people in the various sections of the state. By eighteen hundred there were twenty-seven circuit riders and, Jesse Lee estimates, one hundred and fifty local preachers in the state. These wielded an intellectual influence and also influenced the social and moral conditions. At every op-portunity James Meacham, one of the most noted, preached to the slaves; and often they came in larger numbers by night than did the whites by day. He was not silent in the presence of slavery and when he got a chance he argued with the masters about the wrongs of the institution. "If. ever I get rich through slavery, ' ' he writes, ' ' I shall esteem myself a traitor and claim a part in Hell with Judas, and the rich glutton." Again he says, "While the proud whites live in luxury and abomination making a mock of God, and His word, the African upholds him by his sweat and labor of his willing hands—and if they serve the Lord God it must be in the dead of night when they ought to be taking rest of their bodies. 0, blood, blood, how often it crys up before God against my poor, unjust professing brother." Along with the influence of the circuit rider on the institution of slavery in the early days was his continued antagonism to the use of spirituous liquors in a day when there was little sentiment in favor of temperance. In the records of the old Lincoln circuit of August 9, 1828, is this motion : ' ' That no licensed exhorter shall hereafter have his license renewed if he shall continue in the habit of distilling spirituous liquors." The minutes of August 8, 1829, contain this motion: "That no member of this conference, for the future, shall vote for any candidate for any post of honor or trust, who treats before such election." Such resolutions as these put in the records in Lincoln county indicate the nature of the pioneer movements in favor of temperance so largely fostered by the Methodists in the conquests of the past century. The Methodist circuit riders wielded an intellectual influence in North Carolina never yet fully realized. The Discipline of 1786 was prepared for the press by John Dickens on the Bertie circuit, and the first number of the Arminian Magazine was prepared for the press by Coke and Asbury while in North Carolina. When the Methodist publishing house was organized they scattered its books and tracts throughout the state. The first preparatory school in America under Methodist control wTas the Cokes-bury school on the Yadkin, established sometime between 1780 and 1790. The Sunday School came in early. The Conference of 1790 declared: "Let us labor, as the heart and soul of one man, to establish Sunday schools in or near the place of public worship. Let persons be appoint-ed by the bishops, elders, deacons or preachers to teach (gratis) all that will attend and have a capacity to learn; from six o'clock in the morning till ten, and from two o'clock in the afternon till six; where it does not interfere with public worship. The Council shall compile a proper school book, to teach them learning and piety." Gradually the Sunday school came to the front and for many years the old Blueback had a place along with the Bible and other books and papers. In addition to all this who can ever know the intellectual stimulus that came from these men who went everywhere, lodging in the homes of the people. There is no finer illustration of this unsmeared influence than is the testimony of the Duke family as to the mental stimulus that used to come from the circuit riders who came into the home of Mr. Washington Duke. Then and there originated the Duke Foundation that shall Twelve OUR MISSIONARY NEWS continue to bless the world for unnumbered generations. The great revival of 1801 was fostered by the Methodists as by none other. Then the reality of religion was brought home to the people as never before and all the churches profited by this intense and enthusiastic movement. The camp meeting was a most effective means for promoting the movement. "The culmination of the evangelistic wave was reached in a meeting in Raleigh. There the Virginia Conference met in 1811. Its sessions were held in the State House because the small Methodist congregation had no building. Asbury was present; so were McKendree, Jesse Lee and other pioneers of Methodism. Guided by their preaching about fifty professed Christ, among whom was William Hill. Secretary of State from 1S11 to 1859. The immediate result was the construction of a church, the direct antecedent of Edenton Street." (Boyd) It may be interesting to note that Melville Cox, the first Methodist nr'ssionary to go to Africa, was pastor in Raleigh in 1831. The last of 1S32, he sailed from Norfolk for Africa. On his way. just before leaving for his field in the far away land, he visited the Wesleyan University, at Middletown. Conn., and on taking leave of a young-friend there, he said to him. "If I die in Africa, you must come and write my epitaph." "I will." said the youth; "but what shall I write?" "Write," replied Mr. Cox, "Let a thousand fall before Africa be given up!" And thus the way was blazed for Christian effort and for Christian activity in its many ramifications. The itinerant preachers greatly aided by numerous local preachers took up the work of evangelization and the work of Methodism gradually expanded. From the time that Asbury entered the state he was greatly assisted by pious women ; and their zeal has, until the present hour, been a vital factor in the advancement of .the cause of Christ. It was scarcely a decade after Melville Cox sailed for Africa before Ellen Morphis, then a girl in her teens, was dreaming of the privilege of taking the gospel to China. Being left an orphan, she endured hardships inconceivable to the present-day mind for in nothing has the mind of men changed more rapidly than in its attitude toward the orphan-child. Especially has this been verified in our own state during the past twenty-five years. Our people listen a'ladly to an appeal for orphan children; they remember the orphans at the festive seasons of the year and their wills give further testimony to their deep concern. Ellen Morphis graduated at Greensboro Female College in 1856 and afterwards became a member of its faculty. During her college career, she was the recognized leader in the religions life of the college. Many have testified to the wonderful spiritual influ-ence she exerted over the student body. Since her chief desire since childhood had been to go as a missionary to any benighted land, naturally she infused much of her missionary spirit into the student body. Many of the dominant spirits in the missionary cause of our state have traced their interest in the work back to the days when Ellen Morphis led a group of college girls into the "secret places of the Most High." The spirit that yearned to carry abroad the gospel tidings, that went continually up to the throne pleading for the opportunity to go to some foreign field, could but infuse something of the missionary spirit into the daily associates within the college walls. Ellen Morphis gave an impetus then and there to for-eign missions and through the years this influence has been carried throughout the borders of our state. A room mate of hers at college, Mrs. L. L. Hendren, who is now approaching her ninetieth year and a most honored worker among our women, says: "I owe my earliest missionary impressions to the influence of her words and acts and through all the years her memory has been an inspiration and incentive." Others have borne a simi-lar testimony. Ellen Morphis became the wife of Rev. Marcus L. Wood and set sail for China in company with her husband and Rev. and Mrs. Young J. Allen, the latter part of November, 1859. Scarcely four years were allotted to her in China be-fore the summons came to end the brief span of her life but it is not too much to say that the work of our Con-ference society is fulfilling her desires for the coming of the Kingdom. Just as there came into the life of the Hebrew people, certain pious women who served as priestess and prophetess to lead the nation, so unto our own people have come wo-men who have had the courage to bear aloft the standards of Jehovah. Such a woman lived among us in the person of Mary Fleming Black. No sooner had the General Conference authorized the organization of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society than Mrs. Black, whose husband was then stationed at Edenton Street Church, began the work in her own con-gregation, serving as president, of her auxiliary and one of the Vice-Presidents of the Conference society. On January 1, 1879, Mrs. T. II. Campbell organized a missionary society among the children of her husband's congregation at Gatesville. N. C. (This territory was at that time within the bounds of the Virginia Conference.) The daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Campbell was elected presi-dent and in selecting a name for the new organization, the name of Rosebud Missionary Society was chosen, honoring the first president, whose name was Rosebud. The initia-tion fee was 5 cents per member, the dues two cents per month. In an issue of the Raleigh Christian Advocate dated January 25, 1882, there appeared an article entitled : "A Talk to the Children." in which Mrs. Black states that the children of the Virginia Conference had raised about $1800 for missionary purposes and asks that the children pray that God will put it into the kind heart of some one in North Carolina to lead the children in a similar under-taking. About two months after this letter appeared, sometime during March, Mrs. Black organized the Children's Mis- OUR MISSIONARY NEWS Thirteen sionary Society, giving- the hand the name of Bright Jewels. She became their superintendent and conducted a correspondence column in the Advocate being known to the children as "Aunt Mary." The work grew so rapidly that it was concluded to establish a paper called The Bright Jewel which was con-tinued until there was need for a connectional organ for the juvenile work when it was bought and merged into The Little Worker. In Soochow, China, near our Woman's Hospital stands the Mary Black Memorial Hall, the gift of the two Con-ference societies of North Carolina. The building is used as a children's hospital and contains the "Bright Jewel Sun Room" for convalescent patients. Any historical' sketch of North Carolina Methodism, however brief, would be incomplete without a reference to Prances Moore Bumpass. For seventy-nine years she moved among our people and was a potent influence for holy living. For twenty-two years she edited a religious paper called the Weekly Message. This paper was highly endorsed by the Conference. After the North Carolina Advocate came into existence, she edited the column, "Christian Experience." She was a woman of rare faith and unusual piety. She held the office of Corresponding Secretary of the North Carolina Conference Society for twelve years until the division came ; then she represented the Western North Carolina Conference in the same capacity for eight years until her death on May 8, 1898. She requested that there be no sign of mourning after her death, saying : ' ' Let it all be bright and joyous." Her son, the Reverend Robah F. Bumpass, has been a member of the North Carolina Conference for many years. He possesses the same faith, the same fortitude, the same implicit trust, the same zeal that characterized his mother. Her life and devotion to the cause of missions is also con-tinued in her grand-daughter, Miss Nina W. Troy, of Soo-chow, China. Mary Fleming Black and Ellen Morphis Wood have each a son serving in the itinerant ranks of our Methodism. Rev. Jesse L. Cunninggim comes of a large family of Methodist ministers. Miss Frances Burkhead, of Soochow, China, a daughter of the distinguished Dr. L. S. Burkhead who was at one time pastor of Edenton Street Church, is one of our repre-sentatives in the foreign field. Many others, noble and worthy, who are a product of our North Carolina Methodism, are leading in China, Japan, Korea, Brazil and Poland ; our deaconesses are do-ing their full share on the Home Base. North Carolina Methodism has thousands today who love their Lord and they are ready to serve Him even in the small auxiliaries, where a few women gather near the sounding sea and the shifting sands; there are others in the thrifty communities and the progressive towns who are laying their best on the altar; there are others in the city churches who are ever seeking new channels to ex-press their devotion but all of these would continue in His love and be found faithful unto the end. Mrs. M. T. Plyler, Raleigh, N. C. Conference Superintendent Publicity. WHAT THE MISSIONARY SOCIETY HAS BEEN TO ME My earliest impression of missions is an occasion when a very small child I was taken to a country church by my parents on a Sunday just before an annual conference when the usual agony of raising the Conference collections was in progress. I remember my father placing a silver coin in my baby fingers and telling me to put it in the plate as it was passed through the congregation. I thank God for Christian parents' who thus early led me to have a part in this great work. I thank Him too that I have lived to see the time when the affairs of the church are handled in such a systematic way that a "budget" provides for the finances of the church and these disgraceful scenes to raise the paltry sums assigned each year for the advancement of God's Kingdom in the countries beyond are seen and enacted no more. In those early days circuits were large and preachers poorly paid and these annual appeals were considered ap-propriate and necessary. How wonderfully our views have enlarged, our hearts opened to the call until now with many of us there is no annual call for a small sum with which to finance the work, but men, women and millions are yearly laid at the Master's feet, with the cry: "Lord, here am I: send me," and even the smallest child can have a part, from the fact that when we cannot go we can send and daily and hourly we are working and praying that the once closed doors may be entered and the lines held fast in the advancement of our Master's Kingdom. As a great factor in this wonderful change I think all will admit that the work of the women in the M. E. Church, South, has borne a large part. When I recall even in my own experience the hard, fought battles for a place to work which have been waged by the women and see how God has blessed and led them out into such a large place, I rejoice and am glad that now there is no division and that the petition offered by our Divine Master when he prayed that "they may be one even as we are one," has been answered in my generation. Although the Woman's Missionary Society was organ-ized at the conference in Charlotte by Bishop A. W. Wilson in the year 1878, with Mrs. N. H. D. Wilson as first Presi-dent and her illustrious co-workers, Mrs. Lucy A. Cuning-gim, Mrs. F. M. Bumpas, Miss Blanche Fentress, Mrs. Fourteen OUR MISSIONARY NEWS E. -T. Lilly and Mrs. F. D. Swindell all obeying a special call from God and feeling that to his call they must answer, went out into the field of the great North Carolina Con-ference to establish this new work of the church, at the next annual conference only nine auxiliaries had been organized and only $60.50 paid into the connectional work. Of this amount Rockingham paid $29.35, Greensboro $24.05 and Hickory $7.10. (This was before the division ami there was only one conference in the whole of North Caro-lina.) This was no fault of those who had entered so heartily into the work. The enterprise was new, the workers handi-capped in many ways. The President and Vice-President, both were preachers' wives, already busy women, sharing the cares of the church with their preacher husbands. The Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. R. F. Bumpas, with a body frail and weak but a brain and heart consecrated to such an extent that she was regarded as one whose prayers ascended and were answered with abundant results. It was said that she prayed daily that some one in her im-mediate family might be called to the foreign fields. An accomplished grand-daughter of this honored servant of God is spending her life in China through the auspices of the organization which her grandmother espoused with so much zeal. At Mrs. Wilson's death her mantle fell on "Aunt Lucy" (Mrs. Jesse Cuninggim) known and loved wherever "Uncle Jesse," her strong co-worker in the cause of Missions, had been called as an itinerant Methodist preacher. It was her joy to present the work of the women in such a way that the Foreign Missionary Society grew from a small begin-ning to a strong and influential organization throughout the entire conference. Dr. Cuninggim gave her most hearty support in her efforts to organize the women, attended the annual meet-ings and rendered most efficient aid. At Mrs. Cuninggim 's death at the annual meeting in Warrenton in 1906 Mrs. R. A. Willis was elected President. After Mrs. Bumpas' health failed Mrs. W. S. Black was elected Corresponding Secretary. Later she was ap-pointed to work with the children and the First Vice- President. Mrs. F. 1). Swindell, was elected in her place. Mrs. E. J. Lilly was the efficient Treasurer for many years, when she was succeeded by Mrs. B. B. Adams. These ladies with the Recording Secretary, Miss Blanche Fen-tress, labored well and long, always faithful, earnest and effective. When the Home and Foreign Missionary So-cieties were united in 1913 at the annual conference in Wilson, they all declined re-election, feeling perhaps that a new corps of officers would be better for the work. They were urged most earnestly to serve in their respective places, but feeling as they did, declined. To this, after much urging, the conference regretfully agreed. And these were not alone. Many other faithful women, whose names are nowhere recorded, with hands and heart labored and prayed. In this connection should be men-tioned one item of interest. Soon after the organization in May, 1878, of the Woman's Missionary Society with Mrs. Julianna Hayes as President, Dr. Robert O. Burton of the N. C. Conference was in Baltimore and heard of the new work begun by the women. His home was in the country near Weldon and also near what is known as Smith's Church, of which Mrs. Burton was a member. He organized a Society at this church with three members, Mrs. Burton, Mrs. George Medlin and Mrs. A. M. Inge. The North Carolina Missionary Society was organized in Charlotte the following December, lint these ladies paid dues direct to the Baltimore Society until Mrs. Burton died and after a Society was organized by Mrs. Cuninggim in the church in Weldon they united with this society. Mrs. Inge still lives in Weldon and is a faithful member yet. Missionary work was begun in 1881 among the chil-dren by Mrs. W. S. Black, who organized them into Bands which she called "Bright Jewels," and they became en-thusiastic workers for the Mary Black Hospital in Soo-chow, China, which they were given the honor of naming for their beloved "Aunt Mary." One of these Bands was organized in Weldon by Mrs. Black and as no woman of the church, which at this time was a very small body, would take charge of the children, Mr. II. C. Spiers was appointed "Lady Manager" until some one could be found to take the work. He did not fail them and this Band of Bright Jewels is among the most faithful of Mrs. Wilson's Junior auxiliaries. They form lines, taking their places in the Senior ranks and often their babies supply the re-serve forces of the baby roll and will be advanced in their turn. After Mrs. Black's death Mrs. L. M. Hendren or "Aunt Lizzie" as she is lovingly known, served faithfully until extreme feebleness forced her to relinquish her beloved task, and Mrs. N. II. D. Wilson was appointed to the chil-dren's work. I have not space to speak of those who have grown up from their ranks, given their lives on the altar of service and have been, are now, or are preparing for work at home or in the foreign fields. It would take a book to tell of their experiences, their successes and fail-ures, but a record is faithfully kept and when the Master comes to make up "His Jewels" these will hear his welcome voice and receive the plaudits of his love. The first attempt to organize Home Mission work in our conference was made by Mrs. E. E. Wiley, President of the Central Committee of the Woman's Parsonage and Home Mission Society soon after its organization in 1890, with considerable success. But on account of opposition and certain changes many of these auxiliaries disbanded or declined to do connectional work. In many cases "The Ladies Aid" was the declared enemy of Home Mission work outside of "Jerusalem" or their own church at home. In December, 1897, Bishop R, K. Hargrove, held the X. ('. Conference in Raleigh. Mrs. Hargrove accompanied him and made a fine impression on all who were fortunate enough to meet her. At that time she' was General Cor-responding Secretary of the Home Mission Board. A OUR MISSIONARY NEWS Fifteen meeting was called at Edeuton Street Church to which a pitifully few women responded and there may be others besides this writer who remember her inspired plea for help for the preachers and their families on the frontier in whose interest the idea of the Parsonage and Home Mission Society was born and carried out by the Saintly Miss Lucinda B. Helms. But in spite of Mrs. Hargrove's ap-peals the Home Mission work languished and nearly died in the N. C. Conference. There was still a spark left, however, and in the sum-mer of 1898 three women, Mrs. S. H. Scott, of Newbern, Mrs. Kate P. Black, of Littleton, and Miss Xarcissa Hutch-ings, of Raleigh, met in Edenton Street Church to try to re-organize the Home Mission work in the N. C. Confer-ence. As a result of this meeting Mrs. H. C. Spiers, of Weldon, was elected President, Mrs. Black Recording Sec-retary, Mrs. J. P. Simpson, Corresponding Secretary, and Mrs. S. H. Scott, Treasurer. Mrs. Spiers was not con-sulted and knew nothing of the meeting until it was re-ported in the daily papers. She valiantly took up the "forlorn hope," secured an organizer from the General Board who visited the conference, re-organized many of the old auxiliaries and raised more than enough money to pay the expenses of her itinerary. In November, 1899, when there were comparatively few active auxiliaries and opposition was strong in every quar-ter, the President called a meeting in Littleton to consider ways and means of advancing the work, with the same officers, except the Corresponding Secretary, to which at Mrs. Spiers' request Mrs. Ida AVilkins was elected. The society started out on an arduous campaign for new mem-bers and new auxiliaries. A few preachers, Rev. J. E. Underwood, Rev. J. D. Bundy, Rev. D. II. Tuttle and others were interested and helpful at this trying time. A Home Missionary edition of the Advocate was issued and these brethren gave valuable contributions to the paper. Still the work languished and was so unpopular that the President asked six ministers before she secured one to preach the annual sermon and then the Pastor at whose church the meeting was held kindly consented to do this. In spite of obstacles though an advance was made at the annual meeting in Weldon in May, 190'2. It was de-cided to publish the minutes of the conference and the society felt that again a footing was established and had strong hopes of success. Mrs. Spiers' health failed entire-ly but other women took places of responsibility and work-ed for the cause they had learned to love. To Mrs. S. H. Scott, Mrs. Underwood, Mrs. R. B. John and others belong the credit for the advance made until the union in 1913, which resulted in continued progress and great financial and numerical strength. To the women who have labored since the union is due much praise. Under God they have planned and worked with results that only eternity will declare. But let us pray that with the coming of the Council hosts to our borders, the Missionary Society will on their knees resolve to keep the onward march until the kingdoms of the world have become the kingdoms of our Lord. Mrs. Ida T. AVilkins. Conference Superintendent Supplies.- "The Capital City" (By John Livingstone) Thirty-five thousand people call Raleigh home, but two and one-half million North Carolinians claim it as no mean city because it is the Capital of the State. Outsiders from beyond the borders of North Carolina find in Raleigh the quintessence of the Tar Heel spirit, even though the spirit of industry has not gripped the Capital city as it has some of the other cities in the State. for there are a host of traditions here of noble deeds, fine ideals and great aspirations. One hundred and forty years ago the North Carolina General Assembly at Tarboro decided the State needed a permanent capital city. A commission was named to se-lect the place and after careful study the commission bought from Joel Lane enough land to start what since that day has been known as Raleigh. The spirit of Joel Lane still lives in Raleigh, for his great great grandson, Joseph G. Brown, for fifty years has been a leading banker and for nearly as long an out-standing Methodist layman in Raleigh. Within a stone's throw of where Joseph G. Brown does his daily work is the State Capitol building that was built, or rather started, in 1810. This beautiful Capitol building occupies a point of prominence in the seven square miles now included with-in the confines of Raleigh, but which 140 years ago was woodland and old field. The columns and entablature of the Capitol are Gre-cian Doric and copied from the Temple of Minerva, com-monly referred to as the Parthenon, which was erected in Athens 500 B. C. but a most excellent copy, so much so that its architectural design is always hailed by the know-ing ones as an artistic triumph. Upon the eminence on which sits the Capitol, the great Bishop Asbury used to preach more than a century ago in what was then called the State-house which was burned in 1835. Three bloeks away is Edenton Methodist Church, which can trace its history back to the same Asbury. Pounded in 1792, Raleigh is almost in the center of the State and is mid-way between the North and the South. The Capitol and subsidiary State buildings naturally have the center of the stage in the way of attractions, but they do not have more interest for the visitor than the State museum, which is unique in the variety of its collection. Raleigh can take care of most any kind of visitor that comes within its borders. Not far distant is the State hospital for the insane and nearby is the State school for the blind, while across the hill is the State penitentiary. Then there is the Confederate Soldiers' home and Rex hos-pital, the latter established nearly a hundred years ago by - OUR MISSIONARY NEWS an old bachelor, who left it behind as a permanent me-morial. Raleigh is fortunate in being an educational center. It has excellent public sehools and a half dozen colleges. There is State College for men with 1.500 students that for more than a quarter of a century has been sending out trained men for the industrial and agricultural life of North Carolina. There is St. Mary's College, established in 1^40 by the Episcopalians, that has trained a host of wo-men, and then there is Peace Institute, a Presbyterian s1 itution, which was born amidst the privations of the War-Between-The-States. which has done a great work dur-ing the years. •Tu>t now Raleigh is thinking most about the new Mere-dith, a Baptist eollege for women, which has just moved into its million dollar plant near the city. In this college are nearly 500 women students, and its work is worthy of the best that Raleigh has developed during its hundred years of history. Raleigh has two libraries, one the State library and the other the Raney library, which was established as a memorial. It is quite a publication center, two daily newspapers being published here, in addition to a num-ber of weeklies. There are six large printing plants. Raleigh has numerous factories of one sort and an-other but it is not primarily an industrial center. It has eight banks and many mercantile enterprises. Good roads extend in every direction, giving it a fine advantage as a shopping center. There are a half dozen good hotels in-eluding one that cost a million dollars to build. Raleigh is well within the industrial development of waterpower in Xorth Carolina, and electricity is relied upon for much of its power. All of the usual public utilities are to lie found here including gas. Raleigh has a strong civic spirit with all the usual ster clubs, such as the Rotary. Kiwanis. Lions and Civitan. while its Chamber of Commerce is thoroughly alive and alert. There is a handsome Y. M. ('. A. building, and the V. W. ('. A. also has a building, one of the old buildings formerly used by Meredith college. Raleigh has a country club and a golf course and is iugh interested in sports to have a professional base-ball team in the summer time. Thre'- railroads come into Raleigh, these being the rn, the Norfolk Southern and the Seaboard, the ter being the main line of the system. Raleigh is located within a tine agricultural section. ton and tobacco are large while other corn ran be raised to advantage. Altogether Raleigh likes to think it is much like other N'orl ' lina towns and cities with the exception that just ,'i little better opportunity to study the North Carolina spirit ;.s it is brought here from all over } members of the legislature and other State officials, and that for this reason it knows the spirit just a little better than the others. Historical Raleigh The historical view of a thing is seeing it in terms of its development. It sounds self-assertive and boastful to say that Raleigh has the best selected citizenship in North Carolina. But it is true. Raleigh is unique in that it was designated as a city, the capital city, the metropolis of North Carolina before a tree was cut or a stone laid in the woods of Wake County. The General Assembly of North Carolina had been meet-ing about from place to place for over a hundred years, the governors had chosen no fixed place of residence (except Tryon and Martin in Newbern for a while), the people wanted a capital. Therefore in 1792, a commission desig-nated by the General Assembly to choose a site for the capital as near the geographic center of the state as prac-ticable, chose Joel Lane's plantation in "Wake County, marked it oft in lots, sold the lots, applied the proceeds to building the first state house, and Raleigh was under way. Consequently, Raleigh, having no commercial or in-dustrial reasons for existence, as had other towns in North Carolina, grew by the gradual accretion of people trans-acting work of the state, or engaged in educational, re-ligious, or other work of importance to the state. The little village in 1S00 was already a metropolis, peopled by citizens in some way or another leaders in the state. There is hardly a man famous in our state's history who has not been at some time or another a citizen of Raleigh. Ap-proach North Carolina history from any angle you will, the path always leads through Raleigh. The people today illustrate their history. They are " home-folksey " people. There are fewer artificial barri-ers to general, intimate, social intercourse in Raleigh than in any other North Carolina city. Human work is the cri-terion of judgment here. Personality is the one current coin. Raleigh is a good place to live. And it is a center of genuine interest. It is said that everybody in North Carolina comes to Raleigh at least once a year. Aside from this point of distinction, Raleigh is, of course, much like other North Carolina towns. Like them it began small, it has endured through many economic and civic trials to the hope of a richer, more significant future. Like them it is rather startled at its present transition from a village to a city. It does not possess the antiquarian interest of Edenton, Newbern, Wilmington, or Fayette-vxlle. But in the state institutions located here—the beauti-ful capitol, the colleges, hospitaLs, laboratories, museums, for instance, it offers a significant past, present, and future. Christ Church, the Treasury, Haywood house, Casso's Tavern indicate points of local history. Narrative and description are required to display the meaning and beauty of such tilings. They take time and space and hence cannot come within the compass of this article. I refer any one interested in historical Raleigh to the Guide Book of Raleigh, published by the Journalism Class of Raleigh High School, and to the charming text and North Carolina Sraic Library Raleigh OUR MISSIONARY NEWS 8eve rite en illustrations of The History of Wake County, by Mrs. J. R. Chamberlain. E. B. House, See. X. C. Historical Commission. Edenton Street Church of Today-it is Sunday morning. A passer-by stops a moment to listen, for there "s music in the air. It is the music of beautiful chimes calling many worshippers to a place of worship and prayer. And as the passer-by stops again, he sees many people thronging the portals of Edenton Street Church. What an interesting group that is ! College boys and girls, students from the Blind school, high school youth. a great host of business men and women, and then many who are in their declining years. Surely one of its mem-bers, Mr. Josephus Daniels, must have been right when he said that Edenton Street's membership of 1750 is noted for the fact that they all go to church. It is to be added that they go to hear a real message, too, and Reverend W. A. Stanbury, the young and earnest pastor, is so filled with the higher and greater things that he sends each person away fired with a new zeal and pos-sessed with a more dominant desire to make the standards of Jesus Christ the governing ideals of daily life. His is a message of power and life, and it is a message adapted to meet the needs of every soul, young or old, that seeks the truth. In the administrative duties of the church, the pastor is fortunate in having a Board of Stewards of forty-one splendid men and women. Mr. S. Wade Marr, of Durfey and Marr, Investment Brokers, and Vice-President of Caro-lina Mortgage and Indemnity Co., is Chairman, and his ability and success as a business man are being well dem-onstrated in his capable and efficient leadership of the Board. Edenton Street Church can think only with pride and gratitude of its contributions to the causes of missions and Christian service in the lives of several of its sons and daughters, among whom might be mentioned Miss Frances Burkhead, who is now serving in Soochow-, China, and Miss Mary Pescud, for nine years a missionary to Brazil. It is now its privilege to make another contribution in a distant field. Since January 1925 the church has supported Baron T. H. Yun, President of Songdo Higher Common School. Songdo. Korea. It would be impossible to estimate fully the strength of Edenton Street Sunday School, with its well-trained and loyal body of 104 officers and teachers. Who knows what power there may be in that vast body, whose enroll-ment numbers 1670, and whose average attendance for the past twelve months has been more than 1,000 ? At the head of this splendidly organized school stands Mr. Joseph 6. Brown, who for twenty-seven years (and sixteen years consecutively) has guided its activities with an indomi-table zeal and with a love that has endeared him to the heart of every worker and student in the school. Though President of a great banking house and trust company, prominent in the American Bankers' Association, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Duke University, not to mention the many local organizations in which he works, Mr. Brown always has time to consider plans for improving the work of the school, of which he has been a member for seventy years. And this Sunday school is not lacking in missionary spirit. For two years it has had the privilege of supporting Mr. Kuni Kodama. a Japanese student, at Duke Universi-ty, and at present is partially supporting him at Vander-bilt University. An act of the Baraea Class which has as its leader Chief Justice W. P. Stacy, of the Supreme Court of Xorth Carolina, will further illustrate the spirit of the school. When the church decided last year to raise $21,000 to help buy suitable sites for two other Methodist churches in the city, the Baraea class asked the privilege of rais-ing the funds, and in a short time had secured subscriptions to cover most of the amount desired. The work of the Woman's Missionary Society and the Mary Pescud Auxiliary is a source of joy and inspiration to the membership of the church. An account of their activities, however, will be given in detail in another article. The young people of the church are well organized in two Epworth Leagues, a Senior group and an Intermediate group. The membership of the Senior League totals 90. one-half of whom are college students. That the Sunday evening programs are well-planned and carried out is evi-denced by a steadily increasing attendance. In addition to carrying on their local work, these young people raised last year $325 for the African Special. The Walter Lambuth League I Intermediate) is a com-bination of League and young people's missionary society. Eighty-six teen-age boys and girls make up its membership, more than half of whom are boys. With an average at-tendance of sixty interested and loyal boys and girls, there are many fields of activity for this group. But those ac-tivities are the subject of another article. One thing, however, remains to be said. Realizing the value of good reading, the pastor conceived the idea of a book agency in the church office. By means of this agency, more than $200 worth of carefully selected modern reli-gious books have been sold to the membership of the church. It is hoped that through this enterprise there may be con-stantly developed a desire to read and study the best re-ligious books of the day. This is but another of the chan-nels through which Edenton Street Church tries to be a vitalising influence in MethodHm and Xorth Carolina Christianity. Blanche Barringer. Church Secretarv. Eighteen OUR MISSIONARY NEWS THE STORY OF EDENTON STREET CHURCH (By Susan Iden) For more than a century Eclenton Street Methodist Church has been a beacon light of Methodism in North Carolina. The steeple of the old brick church which stands within two blocks of the State capitol building: in Raleigh rises just a little higher than any other church steeple in the city. The late Bishop John C. Kilgo, who often preached there, both as a Bishop and in his earlier years as president of Trinity College (now Duke University) located in the nearby city of Durham, often said that Edenton Street Church was one of the greatest churches in Southern Metho-dism. A church that has made a rich contribution in life and service to the whole denomination in collegiate work, the ministry, and missionary service, and which has projected itself far out into the world. Edenton Street is a church with a rich heritage of history that reaches back to the earlv days of Methodism in North Carolina, that had its beginnings along with American independence. On the 21st day of Mav, 1776 at a conference held in the city of Baltimore, a circuit called Carolina circuit was organized, embracing an indefinite extent of territory and allowing the preacher in charge large libei'tv for his efforts in "spreading Scrintural holiness throughout this hitherto unoccupied field." Three preachers were sent to the Caro-lina circuit from the Baltimore Conference: Edward Drumgoole, Francis Povthress and Tsham Tatum. Methodism with its itineranev came to North Carolina just as the American Revolution was sweeping the country, church spires rising where the smoke of wigwams had scarcely disappeared. The itinerants forded creeks, swam • rivers, and slept in forests, always in the van and in the thickest of the fight. Tt is impossible to say with absolute certainty who was the first Methodist preacher to set foot upon the soil of North Carolina, but there are strong proofs to show that it was he who first introduced Methodism into Virginia, "Rev. Robert Williams. An Englishman, licensed to preach bv John Weslev, Williams landed in Norfolk some time in the vear 1772, and it is believed spent part of his time organizing societies in Eastern North Carolina. There is also everv reason to believe that both Thomas Rankin and Francis Asbury were among the pioneer ministers in the Roanoke and Albemarle sections of the State. The first preaching bv a Methodist, in or near Raleigh, so far as can be ascertained, was bv Rev. Jesse Lee. a young local preacher from Virginia, who was sojourning with a relative in Halifax eountv and was among the North Carolina militia drafted to form a troop to oppose Cornwallis. Tt was in 1780 while a prisoner in a guard house where he was thrown for refusing to tight on account of conscientious scruples that he conducted a meeting that waked the woods and fields around with the sound of hymns and hallelujahs. In 1780 Bishop Asbury traveled through Wake county of which Raleigh is now the county seat. One may readily imagine that the enterprising itinerants visited homes im-mediately around the. spot where the capital was later located, and that they came and preached in the houses of some of the first settlers. As there was no church build-ing here for more than twelve years after the city was founded ministers of various denominations preached in the court house and the capitol until churches were erected. Under the date of March 6, 1800, Bishop Asbury writes: "We came to Raleigh, the seat of government. I preached in the State House and notwithstanding the day was very cold and snowy, we had many people to hear. I baptized a child and came that evening to Thomas Proctor's." In 1805 or 1806 the first church building was erected in Raleigh by William Glendening, a native of Scotland, who joined the conference at Philadelphia in 1775, and was sent with five others to Brunswick circuit, being among the first to preach Methodism in North Carolina. lie came to Raleigh about 1S05 and resided and kept a grocery store on New Bern Avenue, near Capitol Square. Out of his own means he built a house of worship on Blount Street be-tween Hargett and Morgan, which he called Bethel. He was an intimate friend of James O'Kelley, and joined him in his secession and hence was not a Methodist while in Raleigh. He conducted services in his little chapel, preach-ing to who ever would attend, doubtless always having hearers as it was known that he preached "without fee or reward." Raleigh circuit was formed at the conference held in New Bern in 1807. At this time the population of Raleigh was very small. A census taken in March 1807 gave eighty-five families, comprising 433 whites and 303 colored. The Raleigh district was formed in 1810 and on February 7, 1811 conference met in Raleigh for the first time and was presided over by Bishop Asbury. On Sunday, February 11, Bishop Asbury writes: "I preached in the State House to two thousand souls, I pre-sume. We have had and mean to have whilst conference is in session,, preaching three times a day. Meeting some-times holds till midnight. Bishop McKendree was also there and there were fifty members of conference present." An overwhelming revival broke out and the old State House rang day and night with sermons and songs, cries and shouts. It was Raleigh's first experience with a Meth-odist revival. One of the first results of that conference was the erec- OUR MISSIONARY NEWS Nineteen tion of the first. Methodist church. It was a wooden struc-ture 50 by 60 feet and stood on the site of the Edenton Street Church of. the present. It was the first house of worship built by any denomination in the city (not count-ing the chapel built by William Glendening). It was finished in 1811. The lot on which Edenton Street Church and parson-age are located was donated to the Methodists by "Wiley Jones, a distinguished patriot of the Revolution. The situ-ation was one of the most beautiful in the city at that time and was on the highest point of land within the corporate limits of the town. The only fault that was found with the site at that time was that it was too far from the business center and inconvenient to a majority of the popu-lation— two blocks from Capitol Square ! At the conference of 1811, Raleigh appointment was converted into a station and Canellum H. Hines appointed as pastor. It, was changed back and forth from station to circuit and back again to a station several times until in 1820 it was made a station to continue so ever since. A number of great revivals in Raleigh and at camp meetings held near the city marked the days of early Methodism. Rev. Bennett T. Blake, who was stationed in Raleigh in 1827, says that at that time there were three classes in the church ; the older whites, the more youthful whites, and the colored members. There was a union Sunday school in which Presbyterians, Baptists, and Methodists joined. It was during this first year of his ministry that Edenton Street Methodist Sunday school was organized. For the whole of that year, 1827, Mr. Blake's salary, it is report-ed, was $100. In 1S39 the first church building was consumed by an accidental fire. Steps were taken to erect another and better house of worship at once. The building was com-pleted in 1841. During the two years the congregation was without a church building the meetings were held in the Baptist church on Moores Square. One of the early preachers of Edenton Street, who ac-cording to old reports was one of the strongest preachers of the day, was the Rev. Peter Doub, D. D., 1851-52. Re-ports show that he had charge of Edenton Street Church, the mission chapel and the African mission. The late Rev. A. W. Mangum, writing of early Methodism in Raleigh, says: "While here, Dr. Doub preached a sermon on the sub-ject of baptism and communion, mainly replying to a se-ries preached by a Rev. Mr. Reynolds, a Baptist minister. You know our esteemed Baptist brethren nearly always force these discussions upon us—assailing us or our doc-trines so that we must advance to our own defense. These sermons were regarded as settling the questions in the church and community." It is said that it was a pamphlet of sermons by Dr. Doub that settled the doubts about baptism, of E. M. Mar-vin, who later became one of the greatest bishops of the Methodist church. Mr. Mangum in his account of early Methodism in Raleigh, says: "On through the various stages of the war the old church worked on, .prayed on, struggled on, now and then glowing with revival fervor. During those days of crucial tests—days of tears and blood and death—the whole mem-bership clung together in the warfare for Immanuel. Around the altars, time and again, were seen the gray uni-forms of the soldiers as they bowed and plead for mercy, side by side with the citizens. As a church old Edenton Street emerged from the war cloud with faith \uisubdued and hope undimmed and ardor unchanged, and resolution unbroken. Her members, nearly all, came out of the war comparatively poor, and none of them redeemed their for-tunes, or enlarged them, by speculating on the sad neces-sities of a conquered people." As far back as 1850 the importance of providing a separate room for the school engaged the attention of the authorities of the church and in 1787, a committee ap-pointed to procure a plan for the uses of the children, sub-mitted instead a plan for the building of a whole school; the result being the erection of a Sunday school building which was dedicated in 1881. The Sunday school at that date had 37 officers and teachers and 355 members. Early in July, following the dedication of the school in April the old church building was torn clown to be re-placed by the church which stands today on the same spot as the old building. The cornerstone of the new church was laid September 13, 1881. The dedication of the church on Sunday, May 22, 1887, was a great occasion in the history of both church and Sunday school. Following is an account of the exercise of that day : "On Sunday, May 22, 1887, Edenton Street Church was dedicated by Bishop W. W. Duncan, of South Carolina. The dedication exercises were splendidly arranged and were impressively performed. One of the largest audien-ces ever assembled in a church in this city was present. The services began by singing the doxology, and more than a thousand voices in grand thanksgiving chorus sent up their thanks and praise to Him from whom all blessings flow. "The dedicatory hymn, written by ex-Governor W. W. Holden, was grandly rendered by the vast congregation. "Bishop Duncan preached the dedication sermon, tak-ing his text from Jeremiah 6 :16. For one hour and fifteen minutes on a sultry day he kept the audience of 1,200 peo-ple intensely interested, as he reviewed Methodism from the days of Wesley and Asbury. He alluded to the work of building the church, the anxiety, patience, and waiting-which had attended it during six years. He also alluded to the fact that the building was paid for, that there were no debts hanging over the church to embarrass the joy and thankfulness with which they could worship therein. "At the close of the sermon Judge Walter Clark for the trustees, presented the church, which was formally dedicated by the bishop. Twenty OUR MISSIONARY NEWS "In the afternoon at 4 o'clock a grand Sunday school mass meeting was held at which short and spicy addresses were made by Bishop Duncan, Rev. E. A. Yates. D. D., and Rev. A. W. Mangum, D. D., interspersed with music. At night Rev. John E. Edwards, D. D., of Virginia, who was pastor of the church forty-five years before, preached the sermon." Growth of the Sunday school and church has been steady. Early in 1900 the old Sunday school building became uncomfortably cramped for room. In February, 1909, a movement was started for a modern and up-to-date Sunday school plant and on Monday, May 2, 1910, after a farewell service was held in the old building on Sunday night preceding, it was torn down to make way for the erection of the new and larger building. On Sunday, April 28, 1912, the new Sunday school building was formally opened with exercises extending through the clay, music, short addresses, greetings from representatives of the various departments of the church and Sunday school and from representatives of other churches of the city, marking the occasion. The building when erected cost $31,000. It was built during the pas-torate of Rev. H. M. North. A bit staid and dignified in their heritage of the past, the members of Edenton Street Church a little over six years ago began to rub their eyes and wake up to the fact that something was happening to the church. It was not many months after the coming of Rev. W. W. Peele that it was seen that the church, which had always been adequate to seat the congregation except on the special occasions when conference was in session or the bishop was to preach, was far from large enough. Sunday was a hard day for the ushers who spent most of the time of the services carrying in and out extra chairs until every aisle was lined and every inch of space was taken. So the church auditorium was enlarged from a seating capacity of 800 to a capacity of 1,200 and still the church remained crowded with extra chairs placed wherever there was space. Mr. Peele served as pastor of Edenton Street for five years, breaking all precedents id' the itinerant, system of the church. Rev. Walter Adair Stanbury has been pastor of Eden-ton Street for the past two years. The report of the church at the annual conference held in November showed a mem-bership of 1743 and a total of $54,425 raised for all causes. The Sunday school reported a membership of 1652 and an average attendance of 1,000. Edenton Street supports a foreign missionary, Rev. T. H. Yun. president of the Songdo Higher Common School, of Songdo, Korea. Raleigh is a college city and while there are no Meth-odist schools in the city Edenton Street draws a large number of students from all of the colleges and from the State School for the Blind which is located in the city. The congregations on Sundays are largely made up of young people. Aside from the church services an effort is made to draw these students from out of town into the work of all of the organizations of the church. Inseparably bound up in the history of Edenton Street Church is Edenton Street Sunday School and the man back of the Sunday school, Joseph G. Brown, who for twenty-seven years has been superintendent. For fifty years he has been an active worker in the school as officer, teacher and superintendent. Bank president and one of the leading business men of Raleigh, Mr. Brown's chief interest through the years has been Edenton Street Church and Sunday school. His work and influence there for more than half a century can never be estimated. Edenton Street Sunday School is a well-organized, smooth running body. An annual standard training school is held in connection with the Sunday school in addition to the regular teacher-training class. Adjoining the Cradle Roll Department is a Mothers' Department. While the little folks are having their first Sunday school lessons the mothers can meet nearby in their own class room. The course of study in the Mothers' De-partment does not always follow the International Sunday School lessons, but is arranged to meet the needs of mothers. Physicians, baby specialists and child psychologists often address the class. Raleigh is the capital city of North Carolina and there are many girls and young men employed in the State offices. Close on to two thousand students attend the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering. For all of these young people, temporary residents of the city, special classes are provided in the Sunday school. Among its old members who have gone out for service in the church at large are: Jesse L. Cuninggim, J. Marvin Culbreth, Ed Pell, Miss Mary Pescud, for many years a missionary in Brazil; and Miss Frances Burkhead, of a mission school in China. OUR MISSIONARY NEWS Twenty-one A SHORT HISTORY OF THE CHILDREN'S WORK OF THE NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE After that memorable general conference in Atlanta in 1878, when the women were given permission to or-ganize their own missionary work, organizations began at once to spring up all over Southern Methodism. From the minutes of the very first board meeting we read the following: "There was a pleasant interlude concerning the organization of children's missionary societies." Thus it will be seen that our mothers early had the interest of the children and their missionary training on their hearts. North Carolina was among the first conferences to organ-ize. At Charlotte conference in December, 1878, the North Carolina Conference Woman's Missionary Society was or-ganized with my husband's mother, Mrs. N. H. D. Wilson, as president. Even before this organized work there had been children's missionary societies organized in our con-ference. The Busy Bees, organized by "Aunt Bumpas" in Greensboro, must date back almost to 1870. There were perhaps others before the separate organization of the Wo-man's Work. After that the work among the children in-creased rapidly. In 1880 we find ten Junior Societies at work in our Southern Methodism, while many children's names were enrolled in the adult societies, their mothers paying their dues. Among the Junior Societies of 1880 we find the Weldon Children's Missionary Society with 13 members and paying $3.80. In the minutes of 1881 we find the first Constitution and By-Laws for Young People's and Children's Societies. In that .year we have mentioned from the North Carolina Conference, Greens-boro Children's Missionary Society and the Cary Helpers, with 116 members and money remitted, $45.61. In 1882 and 1883 we see the names of the Wilson Gatherers, Wins-ton Juniors, and the Kinston Young Workers added. These seem to have reported with the adult societies. Not until 188-t do we find mention of a separate organization report-ing separately. By that time, a number of independent mission bands had sprung up in the conference. I myself belonged to one in Chapel Hill organized by my dear old friend, Mrs. J. B. Martin, who still lives with her daughter, Mrs. Frank Page of Aberdeen. Through Dr. Young J. Allen, Mrs. Martin got a young Chinese boy for us to educate. Even now I can remember the thrills which came to me as a small child while we worked to educate that boy. I can never forget how I sat at Mrs. Martin's feet and learned to sew on little garments to be sold to raise money for our Chinese boy and listened to the mis-sionary stories read or told to us. I was also a member of the Woman's Auxiliary at Chapel Hill, and my sainted mother, Mrs. A. W. Mangum, the president, took me with her to the meetings. How can I help being interested in the children's work? In 1882, Mrs. W. S. Black, wife of one of our leading preachers, Dr. Black, organized the children of the North Carolina Conference. She gave our name of Bright Jewels and taught us to call her "Aunt Mary." As her husband was one of the editors of the Raleigh Christian Advocate at that time she conducted a children's column, urging us to write letters which she published in the column. These letters and her loving answers to them became a great joy to all the Bright Jewels. When in 1893, after months of intense suffering our "Aunt Mary" left us for her Heaven-ly Home, our hearts were broken. She had had our Bright Jewels for eleven years and many still live to honor her memory and to carry on the work she started. At her death the children desired to do something to honor her memory, and at the next annual meeting they pledged $2,500 for a memorial to "Aunt Mary." At that time Mrs. L. M. Hendren, "Aunt Lizzie," was made superintendent of the Children's Work. She gave herself untiringly to help the children raise this amount and to increase inter-est in the work of the children. At this time Dr. Annie Walter, afterward Mrs. Fearn, our missionary then in charge of the hospital in Suchow, China, wrote to the Missionary Advocate, telling of the suffering of the little Chinese children, who could not be treated in the hospital because of lack of room, and made a plea for an addition to the hospital. Bishop Galloway added his endorsement to her appeal. This touched the hearts of our Bright Jewels, and through our Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. F. D. Swindell, they asked the Woman's Board to let them build a ward in loving memory of "Aunt Mary Black." At the suggestion of Mrs. McGavock they built a hall in-stead of a ward. It was thus that the Mary Black Memori-al Hospital came into being. The Bright Jewels of the North Carolina Conference raised all the money for this hall except $500.00 given by the Light Bearers of the Western North Carolina Conference. This work was a great source of inspiration to the children of our confer-ence and for many years all of their money went to the expenses of the Mary Black Hospital. Under the care of Mrs. Hendren the work grew steadily as she gave to it the thought and the strength of the best years of her life. Now though the days of her active work are over her prayers are still underneath our work and we are lifted up toward God by them. As Mrs. Hendren 's strength began to fail, I, Mrs. X. H. D. Wilson, was appointed to assist her. I can never be thankful enough for her help and for the influence of her beautiful Jife. When the Home and Foreign Missionary Societies were united, Mrs. Hendren resigned, and I was appointed to carry on her work. Since then a larger life has opened for our children's work and we are steadily going forward, a mighty band of children, united to do the Master's work. The report for 1925 shows 87 Baby Divisions with 1341 names enrolled and 171 Junior Divisions with 4,646 mem- Twenty-two OUR MISSIONARY NEWS bers. The Juniors raised $4,540.56 and the Babies $591.56, a total of $5,132.12, besides $273.11 raised for local work. No small gift from the children to help spread the Gospel story ! But onward, still onward, let us go until children of all nations are won for Jesus Christ. Dear women, we beg you to help us until every child in the North Carolina Conference is a member of the Children's Missionary So-cieties. And may God bless the work of our children. Mrs. N. H. D. Wilson. THE STORY OF OUR MISSIONARIES It is interesting to recall at this time that Melville Gpx, the first American Methodist Missionary to a foreign land, volunteered and was sent out from Raleigh, N. C, to Liberia, in 1S32. In 1859 Ellen Morpliis, a member of the faculty of old Greensboro Female College (now Greens-boro College for Women), was married to Rev. Marcus L. Wood and went with him to China to share his labors there as a missionary from our church. During the years since then, the Conferences of our state have been well repre-sented on the various fields. In 1S67 a little girl baby was born in the parsonage at Snow Hill to Rev. and Mrs. Joseph Bonaparte Martin. It is not strange that in so Godly a home this little girl was converted when quite young, and joined the church in Chapel Hill where her parents were then living in 1879. She went with her uncle to Appleton, Wis., in May, 1881, and attended school at Lawrence University till the sum-mer of 1883. After returning home she taught school two years in Onslow County, and three and a half years in Person County. Earnestly desiring to serve God in a definite way, she felt called to the foreign mission field, so she volunteered and was accepted by the Board in 1894. After a year at the training school, she was appointed to work in China, sailing from San Francisco on the Coptic, August 26, 1896. Assisting Miss Atkinson in Soochow, she had charge also of some of the day schools in Shanghai. In July of 1901 she resigned, came home, was married, and is now Mrs. James Morris, a faithful worker in the missionary society of her home church, near Franklinton, Raleigh District. Before this, however, our conference was recruited in its missionary ranks by the enlistment of Mary Peseud, of Raleigh. She was born in Baltimore in 1857, her parents, Edward Peseud of Virginia and Sarah R. Tucker of Balti-more, living there till in 1872 they came to Raleigh. After being graduated from the public schools in Baltimore, she took a two. years course in the Peabody Normal College in Nashville, Tenn., from which she was graduated in 1884. She volunteered for foreign missionary service, was accepted by the Board for work in Brazil, in June, 1898, sailed from New York July 5th and reached Rio July 27th. Well educated, a cultured gentlewoman, conscientious and consecrated she served her Lord there faithfully and well till for health reasons she was obliged to come home, but He has restored to her a measure of physical strength, and she is actively serving Him through the departments of her missionarv society of her home church in Raleigh, her influence radiating from there throughout our conference. Elizabeth Davis was another little parsonage daughter, whose parents, Godly and consecrated, early led her to fol-low their Lord. As a child she delighted to hear the stories of heathen children, and loved the missionary cause so much that she told "Aunt Mary" (Mrs. W. A. Black, the pioneer in our conference of work for missions among the children whom she called her "Bright Jewels") that she wanted to be a missionary when she grew up. As she grew older this love and desire strengthened into determi-nation, directing much of her preparation for life work. After being graduated from Greensboro College, she taught school for a few months, when she was chosen to take charge of thirty-six orphan children, and she thought for awhile that in this she had found her mission. But she soon re-alized that her call was to foreign service, and in 1897 determined to answer it. After .two years at Scarritt, from which she was graduated in May, 1900, she was appointed by the Board to Brazil, sailing from New York soon after with Miss Glenn. She is still in Brazil, the happy wife of Rev. W. B. Borchers, sharing his missionary labors with him, and making their home a place of rest and retreat, as often as she can, for those tired missionaries who need it. Another Elizabeth Davis joined the ranks of our home workers in 1903, but, for health reasons, retired, and now in her home town, Areola, she is "carrying on" for her Master through the departmental work of church and mis-sionary society. Into a home in Fayetteville, beautifully simple in its appointments, but royal m its gracious hospitality and sanctified by the Spirit of the Christ which from its in-stitution has always pervaded it, God sent some of His chosen ones to a father and mother whose entire consecra-tion and devotion to Him fitted them to be so entrusted. Elizabeth Lamb was born into this home in May 1875, and into the church in 1884. She felt called to definite mis-sionary service for several years, and in 1904, after having taught eight years in the Fayetteville graded school, she volunteered for foreign service, making application to the Woman's Board of Foreign Missions in session at Jackson-ville, Fla., was accepted and after two years at Scarritt was appointed to work in Brazil. The heroic service she gave there under conditions not very favorable, so under-mined her health that it became necessary for her to re-sign in 1915. Broken in bodily vigor, but with her mental ability unimpaired and her spiritual endowment increas- OUE MISSIONARY NEWS Twenty-three ing with every year, God is using her, seemingly, as ef-fectively here in our own conference in our great mission-ary task and for the advancement of His Kingdom, as He could have used her in Brazil where her heart is still. While we deplore their physical weakness and are dis-tressed when they suffer, the Woman's Missionary Society of the North Carolina Conference never ceases to thank God for the presence and influence of His two invalided servants, Miss Mary Pescud and Miss Elizabeth Lamb. "My parents were Christians, for which I have al-ways thanked God," says our dear deaconness, Ellen Gain-ey. She was born and reared on a farm in Cumberland County, near Fayetteville. Because she was a delicate child she could not always enter into the activities and en-joy the games that children, so reared, love, but was rather a quiet, meditative child, and puzzled about things. When she was about twelve years old she used to collect together the little colored children of the farm on a little knoll under a big tree, and teach them the Sunday school les-sons on Sunday afternoons—because "she felt so sorry for them"—in which, she feels now, God was directly lead-ing her. She was graduated from Littleton College, "the maker of missionaries," where her vision of service became clearer and more definite. After a period of service in-cluding a year of teaching in Mr. Rhodes' Boys School and a year in the office of the school, she went, in response to a call for a worker, to the cotton mill village of McCall, S. G, where she worked for two and a half years. But feel-ing the need of more adequate preparation than she had in only her education and her desire to serve when and where she could, she went to Nashville and was graduated from the training school there in 1910, was consecrated deaconness at the last session of the Woman's Home Mis-sion Conference meeting in Nashville in 1910. She was appointed, and served six years, head resident of Louis-ville Wesley House, followed by two years at the Co-opera-tive Home, Houston, Texas, three years at Kingdom House, St. Louis, and three years "leave of absence" to be with her mother on the farm—"I needed those three years on the farm, and am so glad to have had them"— then an urgent call came to her to return to her first appointment, and as her mother moved into Fayetteville to live, she returned to her work and is now busy and happy in it. Grace Church, Wilmington, Wilmington District, has had one of her own girls on the foreign field since 1912. Ida Hankins received her early training in the Bright Jewels, and the Junior and Senior missionary societies of the Church. While attending the North Carolina College for Women, in Greensboro, she had several good courses in Bible and Mission study, and in the Y. W. C. A. received more training in Christian service. Upon her return home after having been graduated from college, she entered heart-ily into the work of the Sunday school and the Epworth League, with no other thought than to serve in the place where she was, which with her work in the public schools seemed to fully satisfy her desire for service. Under the influence, however, of a series of missionary sermons by her pastor, Rev. N. M. Watson, setting forth the great need for trained teachers on the foreign fields, she felt her definite call, and answered it. She applied to the Woman's Board and was accepted. After one year at Scarritt she was sent to Carolina Institute, Seoul, Korea, serving there as Assistant Principal until her furlough five years later. Since that time, with the exception of one year when she was called home by the last illness of her mother, she has been at Mary Helm School, Songdo, Korea, finding happi-ness in the consciousness of God's presence with her in the place to which He called her, and encouragement in seeing the results of her work in the rapid mental and spiritual development of the girls she teaches. She is greatly loved and honored by her District which is justly proud of her. The Durham District is proud to claim for its own, Alice Green, of Graham, though Fayetteville District claims her also by naming one of its auxiliaries "Alice Green" for her, and because this loved missionary spends much of her time with a sister in Jonesboro. She received her college education at Littleton College, over which Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Rhodes presided so splendidly until it was burned several years ago. It was said of this college that no girl dared to enter there, -unless she were willing to risk, under the spiritual influence pervading it, having to make the decision for or against life service as a missionary in either foreign or home fields. Since 1912 it has been her privilege to witness for Christ in China. Her work has been primarily evangelistic with a close touch with the young women of China, especially among the government students. She has been stationed at Changchow, our new-est mission station. She is spending the closing months of her furlough studying at Scarritt, and Peabody, and doing quite a bit of observation work at the different churches and social centers in Nashville, and looking for-ward to her return to her work in China this summer or autumn. The Lowder sisters, Rosa, a registered nurse in Korea, 1916, and Sarah, a deaconness here at home, 1915, are par-sonage daughters, their parents being noted for their de-voted, spiritual lives. They were graduated from Little-ton College where they were both members of the Student Volunteer Band. After their terms at Scarritt, Rosa re-ceived her training to lie a missionary trained nurse at Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville, at Johns Hopkins Hos-pital in Baltimore where she took a post graduate course, and a year at the Methodist Training School in Nashville from which institution she rece
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|Cover title.;Special Feb., 1926, number, published for the sixteenth annual meeting of the Woman's Missionary Council of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, held at Edenton Street Church, Raleigh, N.C., March 10-17, 1926.
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