what earnest lay people may do for the extension of God's true and holy church

Through the activity of Mr. S. S. Nash and Miss Kate Cheshire, from Tarboro, this work has been well kept up, and their influence for good is widely felt in all that neighborhood. Their work there clearly proves what earnest lay people may do for the extension of God’s true and holy church.

(Source: The Rev. Girard W. Phelps, Parochial Report, Grace Memorial Chapel, Lawrence, 1899 Journal of Convention, p. 89)