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RALEIGH CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE.
(.Thursday, July 8, 1909.
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FOREIGN MISSIONS
Please send all communications for this De
partment to Mrs. B. P. Dixon. Raleigh. N. C.
Aunt Lucy Pledge Circle, 6
shares 150.00
SHARES FOR CIRCLE.
Franklinton Auxiliary has paid in
three shares and Memorial, Durham,
has paid one to our Aunt Lucy
Pledge Circle.
We trust all our missionary socie
ties will make a point to raise as
many shares as possible early in our
fiscal year.
STATEMENT.
First Quarter Woman's Foreign Mis
sionary Society, June 1, 1009.
Dues:
Auxiliaries ?570.50
Pledge:
Auxiliaries 28.01
Aunt Lucy Circle 380.07
Scholarships 26.77
Retired Fund 2.75
Total $1,008.10
Remitted to Mrs. McTyeire.. 981.33
School Fund on hand $ 26.77
Conference Expense Fund:
Balance forward $262.39
Collections for quarter . . 153.95
Total $416.34
Expense for Quarter 289.01
Balance on hand $127.33
School Fund on hand 26.77
Balance in bank $154.10
MRS. B. B. ADAMS,
Treasurer.
Four Oaks, N. C.
BRIGHT JEWELS.
Dear Advocate: As a member of
the Bright Jewels of Memorial M. E.
Church, South, I want to inform you
of the achievements of the Band.
We have one of the best and most
faithful Lady Managers, Mrs. E. M.
Stokes, which could be secured any
where. All of the Bright Jewels are
perfectly devoted to her and she to
them. The Board could not help
prospering under her direction, for
she is so much interested in the
work.
The past year was one of our most
prosperous years, and we have al
ready begun this year with willing
hands and hearts, full of love for the
work. I do not think I ever saw the
members take hold of the work with
so much enthusiasm as they have
done this year; and that means sr
great deal.
At the beginning of this year Mrs.
Stokes divided us into three district
Bands, for there were so many that
she could not well manage them all
at the same time.
These Bands were: the Primary,
including the children between one
and ten; the Junior, including those
from ten to fifteen; the Senior, in
cluding those from fifteen to one hun
dred, if they desire to be members
that long. I do not think one ever
gets too old to be a Bright Jewel, al
though we usually think of the small
children as Bright Jewels, and the
older people as Leaguers.
These Bands have all gone to
work earnestly, and we hope that
this will be the most prosperous year
in our history.
Each band hag its own individual
officers and a time set apart in each
month for its meeting. At these
meetings we have a devotional ser
vice, carrying out the program laid
down in the Little Worker. We
then discuss our plans for raising
money and anything which is of in
terest to any of us.
In the Senior Band, especially, our
Lady Manager has got us to take a
more active part in the prayer ser
vice. She used to lead the prayer,
but for the last few meetings we
have been having sentence prayers,
and a good many took part in ft
each time. I am sure this made our
Lady Manager feel as if she were
doing some good in training us.
Although we are divided we work
together to a certain extent. Mrs.
Stokes has charge of all the finances,
and send off the reports of all the
bands combined; so you see that we
are just one large band of Christian
workers.
Each year we have at least one
large ice cream supper on our church
lawn, at which we usually procure
our Pledge. If we do not raise it
in this way we institute other plans
for raising it.
Then we have several entertain
ments during the year, and always
get a good collection, and especially
at our Easter entertainment. The
people seem to be disappointed if
we fail to have one Easter. Our
church is nearly always crowded,
and sometimes we take in as much
as twenty-five dollars. Of course,
this is very encouraging to us, as
well as our Lady Manager.
With our Mite Box collections we
are supporting a little girl in Miss
Elizabeth Davis' school in Rio. This
is the third year that we have sup
ported her. I think it is a good
thing, for it gives us something defi
nite for which to work. We have
also pledged five dollars for Mr.
Moose, which has already been raised
by the Junior Band.
Although we send the greater part
of our money across the ocean to
help the poor heathens learn of
Christ, we do not forget to do Home
Mission work at the same time. We
take flowers to the sick, food to the
needy, and little things to the aged,
which we think will give them pleas
ure. Last year we raised, also, a nice
amount for the erection of our new
church and handed it over to the
treasurer of the building fund to be
used as the church sees fit. It is our
determination to do more this year
in this line of work, as well as in the
foreign lands.
Mrs. Stokes says we have made a
fine beginning; so I will enclose our
report to let you see for yourself
what we have already done.
Quarterly report of Memorial
Bright Jewels, for quarter ending
Juno 1, 1909:
Number of members, 117; number
of new members, 14; life members,
6; subscribers to Little Worker, 34;
amount raised in dues, $13.64;
amount subscribed for Mr. Moose,
$5.00; total, $18.64.
This is the report for the entire
band, but I want to say that the
Senior band, of which I am a mem
ber, is planning to do just lots of
work this year. It has already
planned a social meeting at the home
of one of its members who was kind
enough to throw open her home to
us. At our socials we' usually charge
a small admission fee and get a nice
contribution. These meetings are
thoroughly enjoyed and I think it
arouses a great deal of interest, as
I have told all about our band. I
will close with best wishes for the
Advocate, I am,
ANNIE WEST.
HOIVfE MISSIONS
Please send all communications for this De
partment to Mrs. R. O. Burton, Raleigh, N. C
Officers of the W. H. M. 8M of the
N. O. Conference, 1008-1009.
President Mrs. R. B. John, Raleigh, N. C.
First Vice-President Mrs. T. W. Costen,
Sunbury, N. C.
Second Vice-President Mrs. J. C. Angler,
Durham, N. C.
Third Vice-President Mrs. J. A. Spiers,
Selma, N. C.
Recording Secretary Mrs. B, N. Mann, Dur
ham, N. C.
Corresponding Secretary Mrs. S. H. Scott,
New Bern, N. C.
Treasurer Mis. N. E. Edgerton, Selma, N. G.
Superintendent of Supplies Mrs. I. T Wil
kins, Weldon, N. C.
Superintendent of Press Work Mrs. R. C.
Craven, Henderson, N. C.
Editor of Column in Raleigh Christian Advo
cateMrs. R. O. Burton.
District Secretaries.
Raleigh District Mrs. W. H. Call, Selma,
N.C.
Durham District Miss Lillie Duke, Durham,
N. C.
Fayetteville District Miss Florence Parker,
Salemburg, N. C.
Rockingham District Mrs. J. E. Underwood,
Rockingham, N. C.
Wilmington District Mrs. Edgar L. Hart,
Wilmington, N. C.
New Bern District Mrs. W. H. Trueman,
New Bern. N. C.
Warrenton District Mrs. Lee Johnson, Wel
don. N. C.
Elizabeth City District Mrs. Lee Morgan,
Corapeake, N. C.
Washington District Mrs. J. W. Parker.
Farmville. N. C.
ABSENT FOR AWHILE LONGER.
A note from Mrs. Burton states
that she must remain away for
awhile longer. Her son needs his
mother's presence while he under
goes a perhaps slow recovery from
nervous break-down. Let us hope he
may become strong speedily and that
in the meantime the mountain
heights may add some of their
strength to the mother also.
While Mrs. Burton is away, all
matter for the column may be sent
to me. Once before this column was
in my care for a few months and
I didn't say anything about it then
but I wondered if our women had
not yet learned that all matter for
the printer must be written on one
side only of the paper! On long, hot
days the extra work of copying ma
terial and editing it adds something
to the task. Perhaps Mrs. Burton is
just too sweet and good to say any
thing about this, so I shall speak
now for myself, hoping the habit may
become fixed in all correspondents, so
that when she returns all matter for
the Home Mission Column shall be
ever so neatly written on one side of
the paper.
I shall be glad to have any news
items or reports of interest from the
Auxiliaries.
Trusting that the summer days
may not be too severe for the
strength of some, and that the work
may continue to prosper in our
hands, I am, Sincerely,
MRS. R. B. JOHN.
Raleigh, N. C, July 1, 1909.
SUMMARY OF REPORT.
The leaflet giving the Summary of
the Annual Report is now in the
Auxiliary Presidents. It is a budget
of such notable facts and figures that
every member of our Conference
ought to read it. Gains have been
made in every branch of the work.
The local work has been most effi
ciently handled this year.
The Week of Prayer collection,
amounting to $12,927 insures the
new building at Ann Browder Mis
sion Home and School. All the
schools report good work done. I
am sure we all want to read Miss
Helm's book, "From Darkness to
Light. It Is the sixth book in the
Interdenominational Reading Course,
and has met the hearty approval of
the committee from our Church.
Which Auxiliary will be the first to
get and read this book, the work of
our new editor?
The Reading Course was used the
past year by 3,441 of our women.
Not so many as should have used it;
yet an increase of 1,407 over past
years. I should be glad if North
Carolina might become known as
"The Reading Conference." Can't
we make it so? Then we should
also be come known as "The Work
ing Conference," for knowledge must
certainly give us energy.
O God, the Father of the forsaken,
the Help of the weak, the Supplier
of the needy, who hast diffused and
proportioned Thy gifts to body and
soul, in such sort that all may ac
knowledge and perform the joyous
duty of mutual service; who teachest
us that love towards the race of man
is the bond of perfectness, and the
imitation of Thy blessed self; open
our eyes and touch our hearts, that
we may see and do, both for this
world and for that which is to come,
the things which belong unto our
peace. Strengthen me in the work
I have undertaken; give me counsel
and wisdom, perseverance, faith and
zeal, and in Thine own good time,
and according to Thy pleasure, pros
per the issue. Pour into me a spirit
of humility; let nothing be done but
in devout obedience to Thy will,
thankfulness for Thine unspeakable
mercies, and love to Thine adorable
Son Christ Jesus. Amen.
For friendship is not ours to lock
away
In stiflling chests, for fear of thiev
ish hands;
It is a generous sun-warmth, that
expands
The soul it flows through, turning
night to day;
Light given to us to give abroad
again,
Till none in unblessed darkness
shall remain.
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