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WOMAN'S WORK.
( Continued from page 7.)
illustration of practical relief work
that we know of." A Greensboro lady
was saying yesterday that a clipping
on the same subject from a paper
away out on the Pacific Coast was
sent to her by a friehd out there.
The church is the Church-by-the-Side
of-the-Road and the cow is its com
munity cow, and it is doubtful if
any of the cows of aristocratic lineage
and wonderful butter-fat performance
has wider fame than this Greensboro
bovine."
The Men's Club turns over each
Sunday to our community nurse,
Mother Dick, one-half of the collec
tions, for use in her community work,
and each Sunday she makes a report
to the club. On a recent Sunday she
reported that community cow No. 1
was conducting herself in a manner
highly satisfactory to the church and
her custodians, as she was furnishing
nearly four gallons of milk per day,
and that another cow was needed for
a family in which there were many
children but no cow. No sooner had
this statement been made than big
hearted Pierce Rucker arose and of
fered to donate to the church com
munity cow No. 2. ? The family with
whom she is placed will feed her,
and Mother Dick on her rounds will
collect from them a weekly rental of
one dollar, which will accumulate for
the purchase of other cows to add to
the community herd. This is the
beautiful way In which It works, anil
the way the children bloom and blos
som who profit by this milk supply is
more beautiful still.
OUR HISTORY.
By Mrs. M. D. Irwine.
"What about our History?" ? was
the ever recurring question at Mon
troat Summer School last week.
An enterprise suggested so long
ago as July, 1920, and definitely
launched in July, 1921, after tho an
nual meeting of the Woman's Aux
iliary at Montreat, surely entitles our
women to a candid answer.
Owing to the confusion of ideas,
(although we felt we had made them
so plain) to the blunders of pro
cedure here and there, as also to some
apathy and indifference, progress has
t>pen hindered.
However, developments are prov
ing the wisdom of the movement.
Not only do we find it was begun none
too soon if we want conserved our
Pioneer facts, but, as well, do wo
congratulate our historians upoa the
rirh finds they are producing.
Treasures, unique and precious,
?ire being revealed with each State
containing its peculiar share. Our
only regret is the necessary condensa
tion and elimination, since books do
not evolve themselves out of slim fl
?ance. This book must be offered to
you at a popular price. So this is
to urge every local church in our As
sembly to look into your early his
tory. Delve, dig and probo" until you
1'ave reached bottom and lose no time
'n giving facts concerning pioneer ac
tivities of your women to your his
torian. Every Presbytery is supposed
to have her historian and she Is to
report to her Synodical historian.
What was the proportion of women
i" the charter membership of your
('l?urch? We find In some 6hurchos
nearly all were women, and too, we
find them obedient to the Scriptural
injunction "Be ye given to hospi
tality" in that their homes were of
ten opened to the local congregations
a?d to Presbyteries. Collect your in
teresting data and report It at once.
Returns must be in by September
15th if we are to be assured of our
book, for the spring Presbyterials
Remember, friends, this is your his
tory and not that of your humble
servant.
Danville, Ky.
A CARD OF APPRECIATION.
May I thus publicly express my sin
cere appreciation and gratitude for
the many hundreds of cards of greet
ing and congratulations which
reached me during the recent "Birth
day Shower" from all quarters of the
church.
These expressions of confidence, af
fection and good-will have filled my
heart to overflowing, and I thank you
most heartily for them.
As many of them are signed by
Auxiliaries and Circles instead of in
dividuals, I can acknowledge them
only in this public way.
Thanking each and every one of
you for your kind remembrances and
praying God's richest blessing upon
your work, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Hallie P. Winsborough.
LAYMEN '8 WORK.
(Continued from page 7)
It was concededly not necessary to
have the missionaries in on*) water
tight compartment and the Japanese
in another; and manifestly better that
they should plan their program to
gether instead of planning it separ
ately and then trying to piece it to
gether. A Council of One Hundred
was finally decided upon, and a com
mittee on organization appointed to
formulate a plan and submit it to the
missions and churches during the com
ing year. The outcome will show
whether the desired reorganization
is practicable.
THE MASSANETTA CONFERENCES.
The opening of the Massanetta
Springs property by the Synod of Vir
ginia as its summer assembly ground:*
for the promotion of Bible study and
church work marks an epoch in the
history of Presbyterian activities in
this State, especially in the line of
Christian education. Dr. W. \V.
Moore, in his sermon at the dedica
tion of the new auditorium, spoke at
large of the educational methods pre
scribed by Moses, dwelling especially
on the educational value of the three
great annual Israelitisli Festivals,
when the people gathered at Jeru
salem from every quarter of the coun*
try, when the mountaineer from Dan
in the North and the shepherd from
Beer-Sheba in the South, and the
farmer from Sharon and the vine
dresser from Judaea all met together
in Jerusalem to worship God and to
learn more fully His will. The recre
ational value of these pilgrimages was
pointed out, affording as they did a
refreshing change in the monotony
of their agricultural lives; the social
and political value of them also in
shaking together the too clanish units
of Israel and developing a sense of
national solidarity, and it was shown
that the Massanetta Conferences
would be similarly promotive of
health and of a proper Synodical
esprit de corps by bringing together
??vr?ry year the Presbyterians of Vir
ginia from Novro:k to Winchester,
from Accomack to Radford, from Bal
timore to Danville, from FroJerlcks
burg to Covington, and giving them a
(linnce to know each other.
But the great end of the ancient
assemblies at Jerusalem was religious
and educational. The different com
panies of pedestrians sang together as
they marched the pilgrim psalms that
are still preserved in our Psalter
(Pslams 120-134), and on arrival at
Jerusalem they all mingled In the
great assemblies for instruction and
worship. Certainly the spirit of song
prevails thus far at Massanetta. The
managers seem to have been ex
ceptionally fortunate in their leader,
Mr. Chrystal Brown, who has a fine
voice and a happy disposition and
who seems free from the offensive
egotism and irreverence which car
acterize the song leaders that some
of our summer assemblies are at
times afTlicted with. Certainly the
note of Christian Education was the
note that sounded clear and strong
at Massanetta from the beginning,
not only in Dr. Moore's dedication
sermon on Wednesday, but in both of
his sermons in the auditorium on the
following Sunday, in Governor Trin
kle's address, in the addresses of Dr.
McPaden and Professor Massey, in
the speeches of the visiting college
presidents of other denominations,
and in the quite unusual after-dinner
speeches at the joint banquet of the
Union Seminary and Hampden-Sidney
College alumni. One of the veterans
present said those were the best af
ter-dinner speeches he had ever
heard. The same note was struck in
the admirable remarks of the various
presiding officers, Dr. B. P. Wilson
and Dr. P. M. Wood son Union Semi
nary Day and Dr. A. M. Fraser and
Dr. H. W. McLaughlin on Hampden
Sidney Day. Dr. Wilson, referring to
the remarkable development of Union
Seminary in recent years attributed
it chiefly to the teaching power of its
faculty and the policy of its board in
keeping the Institution strictly up to
date in all its methods and thor
oughly modernized in all its depart
ments. Our people are beginning to
realize what a great institution they
have ? at Richmond. The splendid
service of Hampden-Sidney College in
the past, and after a period ot de
pression, the flourishing conditions of
the present, resulting from its three
years of full control by the Synod,
were fully brought out,
The comfort and convenience of
everything at Massanetta and the ex
cellence of the fare are in sharp con
trast with the conditions that most
summer assemblies have had to con
tend with at the outset. The substan
tial brick hotel in perfect repair, the
well furnished rooms with their con
venient baths, the excellent dining
room furniture and table ware, the
spacious halls and wide verandas, all
afford the most comfortable arrange
ments we have ever seen at any sum
mer assembly encampment; and how
the management can furnish such
fare as they do at the rates they
charge is a mystery. The Executive
?Committee and the active chairman.
Dr. Hudson, and the general propri
etor and manager, Mr. Lupton, are to
be congratulated on the fine start
they have made.
No soul can preserve the bloom and
delicacy of its existence without silent
prayer. ? F. W. Farrar.
? One thing that made so good the
bread that mother used to make was
the apetite the boy had.
One who frankly confesses himself
to be in the wrong when he is, will
be found mostly in the right.
It makes a vast difference to you
whether you manage yourself or
whether yourself manages you.
SCHOLARSHIPS FOR DURANT COLLEGE
Wanted! ? twenty five individuals or Societies who will give Scholarships of $50.00 or
$100.00 each, thus making it possible for some worthy girl this year to attend Durant
College. Crop failure and general depression have played havoc with Eastern Oklahoma.
The school faces a serious crisis. Shall we shut the door of opportunity in the faces of
earnest girls, or shall we help them? Will not YOU answer, Christian friend? Write
W. B. Morrison, President, Durant, Oklahoma.
Get Ready for Fall Business
SUNDAY-SCHOOL SUPPLIES
We nre prepared to furnish promptly from Richmond or Texarkana the best and
most up-to-date supplies for Sunday Schools. Following are some of the principal
articles.
Bible and Testaments
Blackboards, Crayons, Erasers
Bulletin Boards
Card Record Systems
Catechisms and Manuals
Certificates of Promotion
Chairs ? sizes for various grades
Children's Day Supplied .
Christian Endeavor Supplies
CIars Cards, Pins, Ac.
Contest Supplies
Cradle Roll Supplies
Cross A Crown Pins
Flags, Flag Pins, &c.
Hymnals &. Song Books
Invitation Cards
Lessons Helps ? many kinds
Library Supplies
Maps and Charts
Memory Helps
Mite Boxes, Offering Envelopes
Mottoes, Pennants, Ac.
Rally Day Supplies
Record Books
Reward Cards, Tickets, Ac.
Secretary's Supplies
Superintendent's Helps
Teachers Records & Helps
Week Day Church School Supplies
Young People's Society Supplies
Complete Sunday School Supply Catalogue sent on application.
Write for list of books suitable for Sunday School Libraries, arranged by ages.
PRESBYTERIAN COMMITTEE PUBLICATION
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