During our Annual Meeting, a special time was set apart for prayers for the President of the United States, and intercession for the peace of the world. The following telegram was sent to the President: “We, the Woman’s Auxiliary to the Board of Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of North Carolina, in convention assembled, send you our hearty sympathy, and pray that you may be divinely guided to a peaceful solution of the crisis that now confronts our country.” Miss Kate Cheshire, President; Mrs. Marie Pope and Mrs. Henry London, Committee

On the same day the answer was sent by the President [The White House, Washington, May 20, 1915]: “My Dear Miss Cheshire: The President has requested me to acknowledge the receipt of your very kind message of May 20, and to thank you most heartily for it. He asks me to assure you and the members of your Auxiliary that he deeply appreciates your sympathetic interest and good-will.” J. P. Tumulty, Secretary to the President

(Source: “A Message from the Auxiliary to President Wilson,” The Carolina Churchman, June 1915, p. 11)