try to find if there are not some Church people in these five townships

The following is a quotation from a letter written by a lady who is a member of Holy Innocents, Henderson: “I have taken the map of this [Vance] county, and find that out of the nine townships only four have anything that pertains to an Episcopal Church, and, I believe, Sunday School. After the rush of Christmas is over I am going to try to find if there are not some Church people in these five townships, and why, if just a single family, a Sunday School can’t be opened. I notice that the Baptist aim is to put a Baptist Sunday School in reach of every child in North Carolina. Why can’t we do likewise?”

Well, when we have a good half dozen lay-men and lay-women in every existing parish animated by the spirit manifested in that letter, we will do likewise.

(Source: The Ven. N. Collin Hughes, “Notes From the Archdeacon of the Raleigh Convocation,” The Carolina Churchman, February 1911, p. 10)