The need, still, is for more “laborers in the harvest.” Mrs. William Gordon has written the following challenge to us and has given me permission to quote from her letter: “If the Auxiliary had been able to have the Annual Meeting, I should have offered through your Department, a resolution asking the Auxiliary to make some definite plan for reaching the young people of this Diocese with the challenge of missionary service. In past years, we have had a noble list of missionaries; today we have one priest and two wives active, beyond the limits of the United States. I pay tribute to the splendid work being done by the six women in the domestic field, and I should like to tell you of the expressions of appreciation of the work Inez Middleton is doing among the Negroes in Arkansas, that I heard when I traveled in that diocese last fall. I am not unmindful of the conditions in many of the “foreign” fields, but I am also mindful of the unparalleled opportunities which may be ours a few years hence. So, it seems to me that now, we should be emphasizing in the Church Schools, in all our Youth work, at the Summer Camps and Conferences, the need of the healing gospel of Jesus Christ. Not only efforts for humanitarian betterment, but the Kingship of our Lord Himself.

(Source: Helen W. Brown (Mrs. Craighill), Missionary Correspondent’s Report, 1945 Woman’s Auxiliary Annual Report, 55)