ECW-NC
Episcopal Church Women in NC
Author: ECW-NC
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During our Annual Meeting, a special time was set apart for prayers for the President of the United States, and intercession for the peace of the world. The following telegram was sent to the President: “We, the Woman’s Auxiliary to the Board of Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of North Carolina, in…
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In her persona as “Aunt Becky”, Rebecca Cameron, a member of St. Matthew’s, Hillsborough, wrote her “Messengers of Hope” column beginning sometime in the 1890s until September 1922. The Diocesan newspaper was called The Messenger of Hope between October 1889 and September 1909, when the name changed to The Carolina Churchman. The Diocesan Archives has…
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The fall has come and with it a deep interest that something shall be done within the year toward uplifting the conditions surrounding this institution. The women of the Thompson Orphanage Guild of Charlotte are taking the first step toward this direction; but they cannot step far without your assistance nor do they wish to.…
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At a recent meeting of the Diocese of Lexington, a commission made a report in answer to a petition to make women eligible to seats in the Diocesan Convention. The commission declined to recommend such a step in absence of similar action on the part of the General Convention. Let those who vote for woman…
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Be ye delegate or simply friend of the Orphanage, Charlotte longs for your presence and wants to give you a royal welcome. If the Charlotte Guild so longs for these good things at the Orphanage it is because her eyes have ever been tormented with the bad. It is not quixotic to say that although…
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In truth, women were critical to the organization of St. Luke’s in 1823 and every stage of its growth thereafter. Ladies working societies had existed at St. Luke’s in its earliest years, and they raised funds for various projects and improvements through the antebellum period. The St. Cecilia Society was composed of those who sought…
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The Woman’s Guild, named St. Elizabeth’s, has done notable work in behalf of the new organization, and it was through their efforts the enterprise was started. It is bending its energies towards raising money for the purchase of a suitable lot on which to build a house of worship. They have abundant enthusiasm and ability,…
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Part III We need the money of our men, but more than their money we need the men themselves – their hearts, their hands, their feet, their tongues! But will our men keep their crowns? Or will they suffer our noble women to take them? Somebody must wear them. If the men will not, the…
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Part II … When our men awake and rush to God’s waiting fields of labor, as soldiers, athirst for glory and victory, fling themselves upon bloody battlements of carnage, the Church will stand erect and gather to herself earth’s millions, clothing them rejoicingly in garments of eternal redemption. It is man, not woman, Christ, not…
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The long and faithful journey of Catharine Cornelia Perry Weston, daughter of an Episcopal priest, wife of an Episcopal priest, mother of an Episcopal priest, and great aunt of an Episcopal priest, began in 1884 and ended in 1965. … (She) was head of the Woman’s Auxiliary and active in many other programs of the…