In noticing the various institutions which hold out promise of good to the Church, we cannot omit to mention those female associations of industry, which, in many of our congregations are laboring with their own hands to build up the cause of God. It appears from several Parochial Reports, that much good has already been effected by them and that the example of their industry, their close Christian intercourse, and their devotion to the welfare of the Church, independently of the proceeds of their labour, produces a most salutary effect on each congregation respectively.

(Source: Report of the Committee on the State of the Church, 1828 Journal of Convention, p. 27)