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WOMAN'S WORK
Conducted by Miss Carrie Lee Campbell.
IMtAYElt.
Hezekiah played for them
and llu> Lord harkened to Hezekiah,
and healed the people. (2 Chron.
30: 1 8-20.
YOUR FRIENDSHIP.
I'd like to have you know, dear
friend,
What you have been to me;
What it lias always meant to know
Your ready sympathy.
Your outstretched hand, your cheery
smile
Have lightened many a load,
And helped to smooth the rougher
spots
Along life's toilsome road.
But words are weak and do not tell
The things I fain would say,
Yet life has been a sweeter thing
Since you have come my way.
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JAPAN IX SEPTEMBER.
For your September program, you
will want all the helps you can get.
There are most valuable ones await
ing you at the Foreign Mission Of
fice, Box 330, Nashville, Tenn. Have
you asked for these? Write and see
bow prompt will be the response.
Some of the helps are:
A splendid book of Questions on
Japan.
A map of Japan.
Biographical Sketches of our Mis
sionaries now working there. (Easily
adapted for Impersonations).
Three lessons on our Japan Mis
sion:
1. Japan and the Gospel.
2. Japan Missionaries at Work.
3. Some Missionary Accomplish
ments in Japan.
These will afford splendid material
for reading to be passed around in
your Circles.
Child Stories of Japan. Fourteen
little stories for the little ones, in
which each of the letters F-O-R
E-I-G-N M-I-S-S-I-O-N-S has a story to
tell.
And then there are other things.
Write Mr. E. D. Grant (address given
above) and ask for pageants and
plays.
There Is no price quoted on these
good things; but, of course, you will
send very generous postage.
A DEMONSTRATION FOR JUNIORS.
A future missionary to China, Mr.
Womeldorf, used this very vivid illus
tration, in his talk to the children,
before his regular sermon, at Rook
bridge Maths recently: "He lit a
candle in a holder and set it down,
saying that of course all the children
know that it represented the light we
must all let shine in the world.
"He then held a (ifty-cent piece in
front of it and asked thorn to notice
what money would do, if made the
first object of our lives, but when
placod behind the light, everybody
could see that it only made the light
brighter.
"Next he held the light behind him
to show how Self interfered with its
shining. And last of nil he placed
over it a glass Jar upside down, and
told them to see how quickly it wo
bo smothered as 'under a bushel,' if
we had not the courage to let it be
Been.
"I believe every child there will re
member the illustration, and there is
no telling when tlio lessons inculcated
may return to their memories to help
them in time of need."
E. L. P.
THE JEWS.
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Are You Helping?
Auxiliary workers, do you know
that our Home Mission Committee,
Hurt Building, Atlanta, Ga? has .most
valuable literature on this subject?
Send to them and ask for leaflets, and
25 cents will bring you their monthly
publication, tlie "Hebrew Messenger."
Pass this around among your Circles,
and soon much more will he under
taken for the Jews in our own midst.
Send them, too, the names of any
Jewish friend that you are interested
in and ask to have Christian litera
ture sent direct to them. Remember,
"to the Jew first." Are we doing our
part?
FREE HELPS.
For the Officers of the Auxiliary:
Suggestions for the President.
Duties of the Treasurer.
Duties of the Recording Secretary.
Duties of Secretary of Assembly's
Home Missions.
Duties of Secretary of Foreign Mis
sions.
Duties of Secretary for Christian
Education and Ministerial Relief.
Roys and Girls in Training (for the
Socretnry of Young People's Work.)
Duties of the Secretary of Litera
ture.
Duties of the Secretary of Spiritual
Resources.
Duties of the Secretary of S. P.
and C. Home Missions.
PLAYLETS AND PAGEANTS.
"Montrent." A Playlet. Price 2c.
"Enter the Budget." A Pageant
for the Auxiliary. Price 2c.
"Choose Your College." A Playlet
on Christian Education. Free.
"The Door of Opportunity." A
Foreign Mission Pageant. Free.
"Pageant of Progress." Birthday
celebration of Auxiliary's Tenth An
niversary. 5c.
Order from the Woman's Auxiliary,
256-259 Field Building, St. Louis,
Mo.
FINANCIAL l'T.W FOR THE 1X>CAL
AUXILIARY BUDGET.
As SuRRostec] by (JoTiPral Assembly
of 1901.
The General Assembly of 1921
rpcnmmendod: (Assembly's Minutes
1921. pages 78 and 79).
"That In addition to the subscrip
tions of the individual women to
the Everv Member Canvass a definite
part of each church's quota be as
signed to the Auxiliary, as the basis
of the Auxiliary budget.
"That all funds subscribed for
Reneficence in the Evnry Member
Canvass and paid through the bene
volence side of the envelope, he paid
to the church treasurer and not pAid
to nor reported by the Auxiliary."
The Synods vary in the percentage
of division between the Assembly's
causes and the Synodlcal, Presl>yter?m
and Congrceational causes. The local
Auxiliary, before making up Its an
nual budget, should learn from it:<
pastor the percentages which apply to
their Church Quota and divide ac
cording to these percentages that
part of tjieir budget which is to go
to the Assembly's causes and to S. P.
and C. Home Missions.
Of course, those percentages do not
apply to the funds which the Aux
iliary sets aside for its own expenses,
for the contingent fee, for the upkeep
of the local church, etc.
The percentages apply only to As
sembly's Causes and S. P. and C.
Home Missions.
THK PAG KANT OP PIUMJRKSS
This is the name of that very strik
ing pageant written and put on at
Montreat by Mrs. Ona W. Borland. If
you want your women to be thor
oughly informed about the history of
the Woman's Auxiliary, as soon as
possible have the Girls Circle, or the
Young Matrons Circle, put this on for
your home Auxiliary.
The visible understanding of t.he
confusion of the years before organi
zation, and then the perfect order of
these last years, is very illuminating.
The ten little girls who bear the
candles, and fhe appearing of the
Guardian Angel, are deeply impres
sive, while Ridicule and her attend
ants and other like characters en
liven the whole scene.
This pageant is only five cents.
Write to the Woman's Auxiliary,
Field Building, St. Louis, Mo.
THE STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE
WAUL CHART.
With Seals. Price, 25 cents.
Every Auxiliary should keep this
chart before Its members and grade
Its progress month by month.
How to Work the Standard.
The president should be the mov
ing spirit in the Auxiliary and is re
sponsible for explaining the work to
each officer and setting them all to
work as well as guiding and inspir
ing their efforts. She is the key
woman of the Auxiliary.
Stress the spiritual side of the
work as set forth In the Standard.
Magnify the office of the secretary of
spiritual resources (formerly secre
tary of Prayer Bands and Bible
Study). Show her that work is fun
damental to all progress. She is en
tirely responsible for items 1, 2 and
7 of the Standard and also co-operates
with the treasurer in No. 5 and with
secretary of Christian Education in
No. 10. Urge the Auxiliary to sup
port all her plans.
The secretary of Literature (with
the president) is entirely responsible
for directing the two canvasses of No.
6, as well as for the general educa
tional work of the Auxiliary.
Secretaries of Christian Education
and Ministerial Relief and Young Peo
ple's Work co-operate In No. 9 and
10. Secretaries of Foreign Missions
and of Assembly's Home Missions co
operate with the secretary of Litera
ture in responsibility for the. Items of
No. 3.
The secretary of S. P. and C. Home
Missions sees that In gaining No. 8
her responsibilities are not oven
looked.
The treasurer, as promoter of
Stewardship, is especially responsible
for No. 5, while the president, vice
presidents and recording secretary
may all emphasize No. 4.
While the especial officers named
above have definite responsibilitiesr
the work Is so inter-dependent that
to achieve real success In reaching the
Standard of Excellence all the officers
must be mutually helpful to each
other, co-operating with each othor
as opportunity affords, with the
whole program always In mind.
Let the monthly business meeting
of the official hoard be like a family
gathering, to discuss progress in eacli
item and to plan together for greater
efficiency in reaching the common
goal.
H. P. W.
OH U Rf <H - BY-T H K-SI I >I?'-T H E?
KOAI), Ci RE 14 N SIM >1U>, N. i\
Heatj and distractions of summer
have not kept the circles from re
porting over 377 visits made this
month, and they have cheered the sick
with 82 trays and many flowers. Ra
ther unique was the service of a gift
of equipment needed in the Tubercu
losis Home in the way of gauze and
old linen cut into handkerchiefs; also
several hundred paper bags were
given. This Homo is at Glenwood,
where Mrs. Peck cares for many un
fortunate people, who are unable to
go to sanatoriums Htted for the treat
ment of such cases. These ministra
tions have extended to the crippled
.children at St. Leo's Hospital ? known
as "Dr. Cole's Children." Books and
fruits were the gifts here.
One circle has sent this month a
box of little personal gifts to Miss
Mary Porter, and plans for the next
meeting a linen shower for Barium
Springs Orphanage. Also a shower of
good things was given to one who
was sick.
That hustling "Nite" circle reports,
among other things, six new mem
bers and many different plans for ful
filling their $50 foreign mission
pledge.
But the rare distinction enjoyed by
the ladies, this month, was when Dr.
Egbert Smith favored them with the
first of his addresses to such gather
ings since his return to America from
a recent tour of our Congo Mission.
To hear Dr. Smith's delfghtful talk
on Monday, July 24. to the "Auxiliary
of the Church-by-the-Side-of-the
Road, were gathered not only the
women of this organization, but many
men and women, friends from the
other churches. He first talked of the
subject dear to the hearts of this peo
ple. namely, Miss Mary Porter, the
church's missionary to the Congo. Ho
said that he traveled with Miss Por
ter from New York to Belgium, 1,500
miles, and from Belgium to Luebo,
6,000 miles, and in these months had
learned enough of her fine Christian
character to Justify his congratula
tions to this Church in having such a
splendid young woman in the field.
There were many interesting details
of his stay in Africa, which space for
bids our recounting. We will only
add that we gratefully acknowledge
that "the good hand of our God was
upon him" and in answer to the many
prayers, has brought him safely back
to the homeland.
GETTING READY EOR THE
PREACHER.
? By Rev. L. T. Newland.
I can remember as a boy when the
news came, the preacher was coming
to spend the day, that It meant a
great upheavel in our seven-miles
from-town home. The always spick
and span home was gone over for
Imaginary dust, the company room
opened up aijd aired, for he might
?want to take a nap. A11 of us chil
dren were severely scrubbed, and upon
promise of certain whipping were or
dered to keep clean, all of which
perceptibly cooled our Interest In the
event. All that could be done in the
way^of good things to eat and a
specklesa house was done In honor
of the coming guest, for in those not
too far off days a preacher still en
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