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never be omitted. While the object
of the Board meeting is primarily to
make the Auxiliary an efficient ma
chine, the members must never bo
permitted to forget that the machine
is valuable only when the Holy Spirit
works through it.
Adjust injj the Clrclcs.
In no other duty, perhaps, will the
Board need to exercise tact as in the
task of assigning new members to
circles and adjusting such dissatisfied
members as may exis1. after shift
ing the circles. Do not yield too much
to the whim of the dissatisfied mem
ber, yet try not to have any woman
serving for the year where she is so
unhappy that her usefulness is im
paired. Often a quiet talk by the
president with the dissatisfied mem
ber will result in a change of view
point for her and in her going cheer
fully to work where Bhe has been
placed. Again, the exercise of con
sideration is very necessary in deal
ing with officers and chairmen. The
president must be th'e leader and yet
must not unduly emphasize her lead
ership. The wise president wakens in
the heart of her co-workers a sense
of responsibility for the accomplish
ment of their task and of loyalty to
the Auxiliary and to its officers.
The Auxiliary Program.
The president should appoint some
person or committee to be responsible
for the Auxiliary programs. Often
the vice-president undertakes this
work or is chairman of a committee
of three known as the Program Com
Imittee. While this committee is re
sponsible for the program and for see
ing that all members are present to
carry It out, yet the wise president
will not take anything for granted,
but in a quiet way learn before the
day of the meeting arrives that the
committee has done Its work and that
the program will go forward smoothly.
The Social Bide.
The visiting of the church mem
bers is done through committees, and
yet the president has a social side to
her work as president. New comers
in the congregation appreciate a call
from the president; special meetings
of the circles will feel honored by the
presence of the presiding officer: the
social hour of the Auxiliary expects
the grace of her presence, while any
unusual meeting held by the women
during the year is presided over by
the president of the Auxiliary. Per
sonal charm and social grace are God
given talents to any president.
A woman who accepted the Presi
dency of the Woman's Auxiliary of a
large city church withdrew from ac
tive membership of several literary
and social clubs to which she be
longed, saying that for that year her
entire time outside of her family
would be devoted to the work of the
Auxiliary. Needless to say, she made
a faithful president.
Prayer Rands.
No woman should be willing to un
dertake the presidency of an Auxiliary
without the support of an active
Prayer Band. She may request two
or three of the officers to join her in
becoming a Prayer Band for the year,
or she may organize the whole Ex
ecutive Board into a Prayer Band.
The realization that fellow-workers
are praying every day for each other
by name, asking that all may have
strength and wisdom, humility and
consecration, wisdom and tact, will be
a strengthening power in the life of
all officers, and in answer to these
prayers results will come that chal
lenge our lack of faith.
Devotional Life.
The life of the conscientious presi
dent of the Auxiliary Is a busv one.
Every hour will be filled and It will
require a distinct effort not to neglect
her own Bible reading and devotional
life. Such a neglect would be fatal
to the efficiency of the president and
to the advancement of our Auxiliary.
We must live in our own lives the
things we are urging upon others if
we are to succeed in the Master's
work. Therefore, let us urge, that
whatever else is neglected, the daily
prayer and communion with the Mas
ter shall not be overlooked or slighted
by the president.
Perhaps the new president reading
this will become discouraged and cry
out, "Who is equal to these things;"
Be not dismayed! We have set
forth an ideal. Many successful presi
dents lack some of the qualifications
named above. You may lack many
and yet do a wonderful work for the
Master as president of your Auxiliary.
No one was ever a successful officer in
her own strength or because of her
own ability. It is only as God uses
His servants that results acc>ue.
Do you feel you are not wise
enough? "If any lack wisdom, let him
ask of God."
Do you fear you have not the phy
sical strength? "As thy day so shall
thy strength be."
Do you feel you do not understand
the plan and the work of the Church
sufficiently to become a good leader,
"Study to show thyself approved, a
workman that needeth not to be
ashamed."
Remember that we "can do all
things through Christ that strength
eneth" us.
Try to get thia to every president
you know. Order from The Woman's
Auxiliary, 259 Field Building, St.
Louis, Mo.
OUR BIRTHDAY GIFT.
Congratulations to every auxiliary
in the Church for tho splendid Birth
day Offering you have brought. It is
a magnificent gift, worthy of our
great organization.
The following figures give in detail
the amounts received, but mere figures
cannot express the Joyous abandon
with which these gifts were brought
to the birthday partes held all over
the Auxiliary. Never has a gift been
more spontaneous or "cheerful" than
this!
Twenty-three thousand, five hun
dred dollars is the total for Miss
Dowd's School. As soon as this was
known a cable was sent to Miss Dowd
that this amount was at her disposal
for the building.
The original Idea of buying seats
for the Auditorium was abandoned on
finding comfortable rustic benches In
the Auditorium, and the women eag
erly approved the suggestion that a
&um of money be given to our birth
place, oMn treat, to erect as our tenth
anniversary gift an imposing entrance
gateway and lodge. These will be
built on the style of the Auditorium
of stones and cement, and will wel
come all comers to Montreat as well
as "speed the parting guest." It Is
a gift worthy of the organization It
represents.
The gift to Miss Dowd's School is
the Woman's Auxiliary contribution
for this year to the Equipment Fund
of the Chlrch for Foreign Missions.
Mrs. W. C. Winsborough.
DETAIIjKD financial
8TATEMKNT.
Receipts.
Alabama ?
Fast Alabama .$306.46
Mobile . . . ... 258.31
North Alabama . 632.52
Tuscaloosa .... 216.49 $ 1.413.78
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Laymen and Their Work
\VAI,T MASON ON- DARWIN VS.
BUY A if.
Oh, good-bye, Father Darwin! You
seemed a wise old chap; you had your
day, now William J. has wipud you
off the map. You almost had con
vinced us that we were sprung from
apes: but William cries, "Men do not
rise from such unseemly shapes." You
bunked us, Father Darwin, you led
us all to think that if we'd seok, week
after week, we'd lind the Missing Link
You dug up skulls and shinbones of
monkey and of man, and cried, full
tilt, that they were built upon the
same old plan. And we as marks were
easy, we fell for this cheap plant, ab
sorbed your bunk, and thought the
monk might well be niece or aunt. 1
watched the tierce gorilla and thought
my great-grand-dad, on some oast day
roared just that way, and doubtless
looked as bad. 1 of tun paused to pic
ture my forbears In the trees; they
warbled tunes with cheap babboons
and tin-horn chimpanzees. And think
ing, I was humbled, for no man can
be proud if he can trace his tifibe or
race to such a measly crowd. But
William J. has saved us, restored our
self-respect; our 'pedigree Is fine to
see, and everything's correct. So
farewell. Father Darwin! You put
your graft across: you've had your
day, now William J. shows you're a
total loss. ? Exchange.
FAMILY PRAYERS.
By Cally Ryland.
If you were a member of what
used to be known aa "a Godly family,"
do you remember how you were sum
moned at 8 o'clock every morning to
the library where, with all the other
members of the family, you1 sat and
heard "a portion of the scriptures"
read and then knelt with the rest to
commend yourself to the wisdom and
mercy of the Almighty during the en
suing day?
If you were young, the solemnity
of this every day occurrence may have
palled on you. Nevertheless, there
was sowed in your heart some seed
that took root, some memory that be
came precious to you, no matter how
far you have wandered from the home
circle and the custom of family
prayers,.
Does anybody in Richmond follow
that custom today. Is there "a family
circle" left? Has anybody time to
give half an hour of a busy day to a
custom ihat was almost universal in
Richmond and throughout Virginia in
the older, wiser days than these?
The Joint commission on home and
family life, which is to make Its re
port to the triennial convention of
the Episcopal Church in Portland,
Ore., in September, has issued a pre
conventlon warning to the men and
women of America that "this nation
will decay and finally perish when
American homes ceas? to revere God."
"It is paralyzing,'.' says the Com
mission, "to think of the average
American family going on from the
rising to the retiring hour as if God
had no existence.
"If American children are not to
be taught of God In the schools and
He is unnamed in the home, what
can we expect but at this moment the
United States Is actually developing
into a non-Christian nation? Where
family life is dishonored, parental re
sponsibility neglected, filial respect
and obedience slighted, there we may
be sure, society is rotten at the core.
We touch^the root of our family prob
lem when wo point to the luck of re
ligion in the home."
When Lady Astor spoke in Rich
mond some months ago, there were
some who said portions of her
speeches "had the appeal of ser
mons." She was not afraid nor
ashamed to say that within her family
life and her own life God was the
moving spirit. What she had accom
plished she had accomplished "by the
grace of God." Such pronouncements
brought a little shiver of surprise to
Bome of her hearers. To make ac
knowledgment in public that God had
any part in one's family or influence
in one's personal life was ? a little,
well, a little banale. It isn't done,
nowadays.
Perhaps not, but she did it. Eng
land may be a little more old-fash
ioned in this respect than we are, a
little more staunch in its relations to
old customs, old ideas and hopes and
faiths.
Some of our oldest inhabitants say
they can remember the time when a
large "family Bible" occupied a con
spicuous position "on the center table
in the library of every simple home in
the country." The Gideons are begin
ning to put the Bibles back, not on
the home center table, but in every
hotel bedroom, with the hope that
some day some transient guest may
find a grain of comfort or an awak
ened memory of the day 'wSien the
book of books was read and honored
among his own people.
Would Richmond be a better city
if every family spent half an hour
each morning or evening "around the
family altar"? Is tliero any reason
why Richmond families should not
make a test case of it, for six months
or a year?
There used to be something very
beautiful about the religious life of
the family. Has ev*.ry family grown
so far away from it that It would be
a matter of embarrassment to make
an attempt to revive it?
Busy as every one is, with hun
dreds of interests and pursuits and
pleasures of which their forefathers
never dreamed, the half hour devoted
to the good old-fashioned custom of
family prayers would be a half hour
gained, not wasted, in the rush of
modern life. ? Cally Ryland in News
Leader.
THE CONVERSION OF MR. RYO.
By Rev. L. C. M. Smythe.
Mr. Ryo came to the school as an
enquirer and was personally taught
Christianity by Mr. Ichlmura. At that
time some of the younger ministers
of Nagoya were in the habit of hold
ing all-night prayer meetings in the
hills outside of the ctty. On this par
ticular occasion 1 was invited to go
with them and did so. Mr. Ichimura
was expecting to go too and take Mr.
Ryo with him, but he was prevented
by illness, so Mr. Ryo fame without
him. There were five or six of uS
In the party led by Mr. Toida of the
Kinjo Kyokwai. We left home about
eleven o'clock at night and walked
about five miles into the country. By
that time we were in the foothills of
the mountains, away from any house.
Finally we stopped and, lighting some
candles, sang some hymns and read
pome Bible verses. It was the even
ing of the Day of Pentecost and our
thoughts were especially directed to
that event. Then the candles were
blown out and in the darkness we
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