… But to estimate the helpfulness of the Auxiliary only on the basis of (financial asset) would be an error. We believe that if the missionary interest, the missionary prayers, the missionary information, the missionary inspiration and all expressions of missionary spirit in the American Church in this day could be taken into account along with finances at least ninety percent would have to be attributed to the Woman’s Auxiliary. The Woman’s Auxiliary has been the leaven of missionary life in our generation. It is the salt that that has preserved the missionary spirit for the Church.

(Source: Editorial in “The Carolina Churchman,” the monthly newspaper of the Diocese of North Carolina, Vol. 3, No. 6, April, 1912)

[Note: The ministry once known as the Woman’s Auxiliary is now known as Episcopal Church Women.]