ECW-NC
Episcopal Church Women in NC
Author: ECW-NC
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Today, February 28, we honor Anna Julia Haywood Cooper. A native of Raleigh, North Carolina, Mrs. Cooper was born August 10, c1859 and died on February 27, 1964. It was while attending St. Augustine Normal School and Collegiate Institute, a school in Raleigh founded by the Episcopal Church to educate African-American teachers and clergy, that she…
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A day school has been taught at Southern Pines the past winter by Mrs. Wheeler, whose salary has been paid by the Massachusetts Branch of the Woman’s Auxiliary. (Source: The Rev. William Walker, Report of the Archdeacon for Colored Work, 1897 Journal of Convention, 112)
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As an Auxiliary we are asked to think of Christian social service not merely as visiting the sick or prisoners, the sending of flowers or clothes and magazines but as a constructive plan for making a better citizenship, for removing the causes leading to crime, poverty, disease and ignorance and helping others to help themselves.…
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I have written the National Church for information concerning the need for recruits, and have the following from Rev. A. B. Parsons, the Associate Secretary: “The opportunities which are before us on the Mission Field never were greater. Evangelistic workers are needed. These should be young women of unquestioned devotion, winning personality, and those with…
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Besides this property, Mrs. Mary S. Henderson has deeded to Trustees a parcel of land near the Vance Cotton Mills, on which St. John’s Chapel is now being built. The Trustees are to reserve a lot each for the chapel, a rectory and a school-house, and hold the funds arising from the sale of the…
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Mrs. J. W. King keeps the Sunday-school in a healthy condition, and in our Parish school, with the assistance of Miss Annie Jacobs and Mrs. P. A. King, the church is doing a grand work here. The school stands high in the community, and it is patronized by all the different denominations around us. The…
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I desire to acknowledge here the receipt of a very valuable missionary-box from the ladies of St. John’s Parish Guild, Washington City, Mrs. E. C. W. Chubb, Secretary. The box contained, besides many articles of value for my family, a complete outfit for myself, including a handsome surplice and stole, for all of which they…
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The Ladies’ Aid Society, organized January 1st, 1882, has, through its exertions, paid an old debt upon the church of $104.50; also an old debt upon the organ of $109. (Source: The Rev. S. P. Watters, Parochial Report, Grace Church, Morganton, 1882 Journal of Convention, 159)
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In response to a call of the Rector of St. James’s Parish, Rev. Mr. Bush, eight ladies, including one visitor, assembled with him in the Vestry Room. He proposed to them to form a society, which should be a part of the Diocesan Branch of the Woman’s Auxiliary to the Board of Missions. This was…
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Last year I asked the women of the diocese for a special Jubilee Offering of one thousand dollars. I now report one thousand and fifty dollars as the result of that appeal. It has been decided by the Bishop and the Diocesan Officers to give this sum to the Mission at Selma; and with the…