Mrs. Mary S. Henderson has deeded to Trustees a parcel of land near the Vance Cotton Mills

Besides this property, Mrs. Mary S. Henderson has deeded to Trustees a parcel of land near the Vance Cotton Mills, on which St. John’s Chapel is now being built. The Trustees are to reserve a lot each for the chapel, a rectory and a school-house, and hold the funds arising from the sale of the remainder as an endowment for St. John’s Chapel. The Trustees hope to realize eventually $1,500 or $2,000 for the endowment fund.

(Source: The Rev. F. J. Murdoch, Parochial Report, St. John’s Church, Salisbury, 1892 Journal of Convention, 124)

the church is doing a grand work here

Mrs. J. W. King keeps the Sunday-school in a healthy condition, and in our Parish school, with the assistance of Miss Annie Jacobs and Mrs. P. A. King, the church is doing a grand work here. The school stands high in the community, and it is patronized by all the different denominations around us. The still current of opposition and prejudice is being turned, and we are steadily going forward doing the great work of the Church. Last year we had the largest Church school in the Diocese, and the only reason our number is not as large this year, is that we are not able to do justice to so many with the small force which we have. We very much need the industrial feature connected with our work, and we hope, ere long, we shall have it.

(Source: The Rev. P. P. Alston, Parochial Report, St. Michael’s Chapel, Charlotte, 1892 Journal of Convention, 89)

a very valuable missionary-box from the ladies of St. John's Parish Guild

I desire to acknowledge here the receipt of a very valuable missionary-box from the ladies of St. John’s Parish Guild, Washington City, Mrs. E. C. W. Chubb, Secretary. The box contained, besides many articles of value for my family, a complete outfit for myself, including a handsome surplice and stole, for all of which they have our most cordial thanks.

(Source: The Rev. Israel Harding, Parochial Report, St. Mary’s, Kinston, 1882 Journal of Convention, 124)

paid an old debt

The Ladies’ Aid Society, organized January 1st, 1882, has, through its exertions, paid an old debt upon the church of $104.50; also an old debt upon the organ of $109.

(Source: The Rev. S. P. Watters, Parochial Report, Grace Church, Morganton, 1882 Journal of Convention, 159)

He proposed to them to form a society

In response to a call of the Rector of St. James’s Parish, Rev. Mr. Bush, eight ladies, including one visitor, assembled with him in the Vestry Room. He proposed to them to form a society, which should be a part of the Diocesan Branch of the Woman’s Auxiliary to the Board of Missions. This was agreed to by all present & they proceeded to organize with eight members and Miss L. L. Norwood was made Secretary. On acct. of the smallness of the society, it was suggested that it would probably be best to work in connection with some other society – and the Sec. was directed to correspond with Mrs. Wilkes of Charlotte on the best manner of proceeding. It was agreed that meetings should be held every three months. This much was done after earnest prayers in the church, by the Rector.

(Source: “Minutes of the Ladies Church Aid Society, St. James’s Church, Lenoir, NC, 1882,” in St. James’ Episcopal Church: An Historical Scrapbook, 1849-1979, Elizabeth McConnell Jarratt, 1979, 257)

so will St. Gabriel's Church fulfill its heavenly mission, and carry the glad tidings

Last year I asked the women of the diocese for a special Jubilee Offering of one thousand dollars. I now report one thousand and fifty dollars as the result of that appeal. It has been decided by the Bishop and the Diocesan Officers to give this sum to the Mission at Selma; and with the help of the earnest Church people there we are now building a Chapel. This is to be known as St. Gabriel’s Church, and will be a permanent memorial of our Jubilee. And as the angel Gabriel carried the glad tidings of the Saviour’s coming to the Virgin Mother – so will St. Gabriel’s Church fulfill its heavenly mission, and carry the glad tidings of the Saviour to all who worship within its walls.

(Source: Kate Cheshire, Report of the Secretary, 1908 Woman’s Auxiliary Annual Report, 6)

our treatment of our returned soldiers is without excuse

As an Auxiliary we are asked to think of Christian social service not merely as visiting the sick or prisoners, the sending of flowers or clothes and magazines but as a constructive plan for making a better citizenship, for removing the causes leading to crime, poverty, disease and ignorance and helping others to help themselves. In order that we more effectively work for these things I recommend that the Woman’s Auxiliary have a representative on the Legislative Council for Women. Our prisoners call to us, our inter-racial relations are a reproach to our profession as Christians and our treatment of our returned soldiers is without excuse.

(Source: Fannie N. Bickett (Mrs. Thomas W.), Report of the President, 1923 Woman’s Auxiliary Annual Report, 14)

what earnest lay people may do for the extension of God's true and holy church

Through the activity of Mr. S. S. Nash and Miss Kate Cheshire, from Tarboro, this work has been well kept up, and their influence for good is widely felt in all that neighborhood. Their work there clearly proves what earnest lay people may do for the extension of God’s true and holy church.

(Source: The Rev. Girard W. Phelps, Parochial Report, Grace Memorial Chapel, Lawrence, 1899 Journal of Convention, p. 89)

it was found that we were doing more than twice as much as any other southern diocese

After this service the Bishop [Cheshire] spoke to the women in words of appreciation and gratitude of the work which they are doing for his diocese and for the Church at large. He told how the Church was depending more and more upon the work of its women; and seeing how the sphere of woman’s work had been so greatly widened in business, was training and organizing its own devoted women for more efficient work. He spoke particularly of the importance of the work in our own state and diocese which has sprung up around the great manufacturing centres, and which is the most striking part of our work at present. A great part of this is being done by women who are associated with the missionaries and by contributions from the Woman’s Auxiliary. He felt deeply grateful for our efforts in this direction; for at the Missionary Council held in Montgomery when the subject of work among new communities was brought up, it was found that we were doing more than twice as much as any other southern diocese. We have fourteen Churches and Chapels for people in the manufacturing settlements; five of the best of our young clergymen are devoting themselves especially to them, and many of the parochial clergy are building Chapels for this special purpose. He closed by expressing satisfaction in our efforts in the past and a hope that we might lay out good work for the future.

(Source: Minutes of Business Meeting, 1910 Woman’s Auxiliary Annual Report, p. 11)

She conducts admirably the very large Sunday school, and the large day school of this Mission

We have now at Micadale a very valuable teacher, Miss Mary B. Skellie, who is sustained by kind friends at the north. She conducts admirably the very large Sunday school, and the large day school of this Mission, and she and her friend, Miss Birdsall, are most useful helpers in the church work of this mountain valley.

(Source: The Rev. D. Hillhouse Buel, Parochial Report, Mission Station, Micadale, 1886 Journal of Convention, p. 60)