The Ladies Working Society is not yet ‘weary of well doing;’ and the Rector here acknowledges that the congregation is indebted to the untiring labors of this little band, for much of its present prosperity. If similar associations were formed in all our parishes, and made to embrace the whole female population of the Church, the bonds of Christian affection would be drawn closer and closer, unity of purpose and action would prevail among all our members, and the obligation to do good would not only be acknowledged, but followed out in the holding up of our Zion as the praise of the whole earth.

(Source: The Rev. William M. Green, Parochial Report, St. Matthew’s, Hillsborough, 1833 Journal of Convention, p. 23)