Dear Sisters of the Auxiliaries:

Would it not be a good idea if once a month we write a letter to one another through the Carolina Churchman – that is if the editor will allow it? How we should look forward to those letters and enjoy reading them at our meetings. I feel sure it would be helpful. The thought came to me in this way: A lady unknown to me, living in Medina, N. Y., had kindly sent me literature from time to time. In thanking her I told her some things about our Church and Auxiliary work here at Ridgeway. Yesterday I received such an interesting letter from her. It was a touching letter, too. She is over sixty, has no children, and her husband a railroad man – can only get home once a week. She says she can’t see to read or work on account of having had several hemorrhages of the eyes, and yet she writes so happily about everything. It is a lesson to us all. She says she belongs to the Woman’s Auxiliary Sewing Society, and St. Agnes’ Guild – of this she has been president for nineteen years.

[Source: Emma L. Scott (Mrs. J. D. Scott), Church of the Good Shepherd, Ridgeway, The Carolina Churchman, March 1926, p. 13]