No minister in this Church in America can afford to neglect or discourage the Woman’s Auxiliary. No parish is in greater danger of losing its missionary spirit than the parish with a weak Auxiliary, and if a congregation loses its missionary spirit it has lost its life. Every parish branch combines in a wonderful way the conservatism and the aggressiveness of women. Let a parish get involved in local debt or excited over some great parochical enterprise and the chances are nine out of ten men will want to cut down on missionary gifts and, sad to say, in a majority of cases the congregation will be delinquent in its gifts to missions.

(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.]